JANE CHIN, PH.D. ∞

Our society is a Seeking Society because we live in a Goal-Oriented Society.

In the course of our social conditioning, we each have given “happiness” many brands, all of which prove false when closely examined. For example, some of us have branded happiness with concrete concepts like “an executive job title with corner office” or “getting the promotion I applied for.” Some of us have branded happiness with abstract concepts like “success”, “a lot of money” or “finding my soul mate.”

I was a Master Seeker. My whole life was about seeking. If there were a Ph.D. program in seeking, I would graduate early with as a double-major. I sought success, prestige, promotions, money, impressive job titles, recognition, love, acceptance, answer to the meaning of life. Above all, I sought happiness.

There is value in the motivation behind seeking. This motivation can be one for personal development and professional progress. If you believe as I believe, when you’re really advanced, everything you do personally or professionally becomes a part of your “creative play” in life.

You probably already have intimate experiences with a danger in seeking.

A danger in seeking is that your ego begins to assume your identity as a seeker. The more you seek, the more you can seek, and the more you must seek. What you may not realize is that your ego becomes reluctant – nay – reactively threatened – when you are close to finding that which you seek.

This is when you seem to self sabotage, but in ways that are so subtle, you are led to believe that external circumstances have given you a warning. You walk away, deceived, and continue seeking.

Seek and Ye Shall Keep Seeking.

The solution? Claim everything in your reality as already yours, and here, and now.

Then, do something fun with your gifts.