Discover the Unseen. T.J. Wagoner
choice in awareness, and a choice in lifestyle. Making the choice to remove yourself from the distractions of the day-to-day world which are not in alignment with your Desire will allow you to begin focusing on living the life you are intended for.
Using the Discover the Unseen… ideas, concepts and processes to connect with your authentic self, you’ll discover the essence of the life you Desire. Just as your perception is the foundation of your current reality, the basis of what you perceive with your senses is the foundation of physical science. The five senses sight, sound, touch, taste and scent transmit signals to the brain. These are interpreted by your thoughts, and they influence how you interpret your experiences, your beliefs, and your model for living. The Advent5 Process allows you to reinterpret what you perceive and apply it in a new way, which allows you to reach a better understanding of your beliefs, and then align your actions with your Desire. This provides a path to achieving what you really want from life, yourself, and those around you.
Discover the Unseen…Life is full of insignificant noise and distraction. So many people live in a state of reaction, living as if on auto-pilot, with set routines and even methods for interacting with people, rather than focusing with consciousness and intent on the few key things that are really important to them. Our passions are often pushed aside to make room for society’s ideas of “success,” but these suppressed passions and the God-given gifts at our core make up the foundation of our purpose. You may ask yourself at this point, what is it that we don’t see?
Looking for what you don’t see is:
Focusing on your Desire
Believing in the unseen
Going beyond the obvious
Observing from the background
Awareness of thought
Searching within
The true meaning of your wants
Seeking for what is already here
Looking past the foreground
Understanding the Divine
Feeling the emotion
Moving past the situation
Authentic truth
Your essence
Your Righteous Cause
The Background vs . the Foreground
Welcome to the background, the space of awareness itself. This is the place where your authentic self resides. You have nothing to fix, nothing to improve, just your Desire to discover. Here, no answers, feelings, or ideas are wrong. It is just you at your purest: a spiritual being within a human body. Your Desire awaits your focus and intention to engage. When this happens, your life begins to transform. This is when you detach from society’s prescribed path for success and begin to participate in the design of your own journey. Every experience, decision, and event in your life has led you to this point. These events aren’t necessarily good or bad but they are just things that have happened on your path. And everything and anybody that is needed along the way will cross your path. These are the events and people that contribute to who you are.
The foreground of the physical presence is where most of us spend the majority of our time, this daily space where temporary forms and situations come and go. They represent movement - waves that pass through this time and space, our surrounding environment. You can feel the disconnection from the background. You could say that these are elements of the distraction.
It’s the background that becomes our reality. The background is what we seek: the essence of silence, the stillness, the observer of the authentic you. This is known by a lot of names, and it’s not my intent to define this for you. The important thing is that you become aware of the background where your true self resides. This still, calm center is where the acceptance is found and where transformation begins.
This is the essence of the message, “Discover the Unseen…” Contained within it is the idea that as an individual, you don’t need any fixing. You’re not broken. You have been brought to this place by the events in your life, and everything has happened just as it should. You are exactly where and who you need to be.
You already have the answers, and everything you need is available for you. It’s your perceptions, beliefs, fears and judgments that keep you from seeing the answers you seek. Everything you need, everything you’re looking for is here; it’s present in the here and now. The Advent5 Process will guide you along your journey on the path of your Desire.
This is exactly what I tell myself and others: that all we need is here and now, and within us, waiting in the background. It’s the searching outside for approval, acceptance, and even love that leaves us wanting, and with that sense of lack in our lives. When we seek purpose and meaning externally, we always come up empty – always! It’s an emptiness that is dark and endless. Simply turn your focus, energy and seeking to the stillness within and emptiness will begin to disappear. It is the stillness that you can’t name, can’t create, and can’t become… because it is you! That is the essence of who you truly are. This is where you find your Righteous Cause, the one thing that matters most in your life. When you do find it, all else seems to fall in place and life becomes simple, even magical.
An Effective, Simple, Workable Process
We might say that using this process is a bit like climbing a mountain. Many give up along the way, but there are those who succeed who provide the example for those who follow. A common failure with the process occurs when people try to climb the whole mountain or tackle the entire challenge all at once. They get overwhelmed and quit before they’ve even reached the half-way point. Sometimes people give up when significant progress could be seen with just a few more steps because they see the task in its entirety, and not what it is: a steady series of steps along the journey. They could be mere inches away from obtaining their true Desires, but they just don’t see it through the sea of noise and distraction.
What they lack is what you have in your hands right now: an effective, simple, workable process. A good Sherpa wouldn’t overload you with a year’s supply of food, a dozen tents, tons of extra maps, and too many blankets. But so often people who teach problem solving skills for the life path are guilty of doing exactly that, overloading the very people they’re trying to help. They give them more than they will ever need, and it bogs down progress. It’s fair to say that stuff does not equal value. Overloaded preparation creates the path to being overwhelmed, and people give up before they get started.
Maybe you’ve encountered this already in other programs or other attempts to reach your desired outcome. If so, don’t worry about it. That’s over now, and you don’t need to give it another thought. Whatever you’ve encountered in the past might make up part of who you are, but it doesn’t have to determine where you are going.
Instead, what we’re going to focus on is a 5-step process for optimizing strategy, creating excellence in your personal results, and living life with sustainable passion. The beauty of it is that you can apply this strategy not only to your own life, but also to your circle of influence in your professional life. You can use this and teach this in your community and in your work environment.
In fact, the corporate sector is precisely where this process was born - in my decades as a consultant to some of the largest, most successful manufacturing corporations on the planet. Whether it’s making pencils, building jet engines, or planning the details of your best life, the process has surprising similarities.