5 GOLD KEYS

FOR PRACTICAL LIFE MAGIC

SHAFIN DE ZANE

What Are All These People

Talking About?
From Pam Lang
Certi/ied Holistic Health Coach/Hypnotherapist. San Francisco, California
Thank you Sha+in, I really enjoyed the 5 Gold Keys.
As a long-time student of yours, I feel blessed to have you
there to help guide me through each of these steps when I (so
frequently) forget my way.
This ebook very clearly outlines the steps required to +ind-
ing what we're all looking for - freedom.
The challenge along the way for most of us is remember-
ing, then observing and learning when to be patient and
when to take action. Most of us have spent so much of our
lives in a state of sleepwalking, it can be hard to stay focused
when the "dragons" cross our paths.
The only thing missing from this article is a BIG HUGE reminder to us all that we don't
have to go through it alone. Help is there, we just need to reach out and ask for it in the form
of a coach that can help us see things we're not able to see on our own because we're too in-
volved or too close to the situation.
I want to thank you Sha+in. Not only for this e-book and all the other tools you've cre-
ated through the years to help us along this path, but for being there to personally help
guide me when I lose site. You've helped me achieve things that I never would have been
able to SEE on my own, let alone ACHIEVE.
When I originally signed on to your VIP program for a year, you helped me through one
of the most dif+icult times of my life. I didn't only survive, I achieved some seemingly impos-
sible things. It's a comfort knowing you are there when I need help REMEMBERING...
...this moment is perfect.
I can't thank you enough for all you do.

Pam
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From Janice Halton

Hattiesburg, MS, USA
My name is Janice Halton, I am a born again Christian, a single mom, a mother-in-
law, and a grandmother who loves to uplift people in positive ways, in spite of their circum-
stances. My desire is to know and ful+ill God's ordained plan for life to help heal the world.
The "5 Gold Keys" was so helpful for me that my mind began to transform as I was read-
ing the e-book. I actually feel a shift has taken place in my life. This is a miracle. I feel so en-
lightened in mind, body, soul, and spirit. This is one e-book that I will continue to re-
read and put into practice.
I know this "5 Gold Key" e-book will transform the mind and life of all who invest the
time to read it and put them on their journey of complete freedom.
"You are a God sent messenger"
Grateful Sha+in.

Janice Halton

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From Dr Divyesh Gajera

Gujrat, India
Hallo Sha+in!
I am Dr Divyesh Gajera from Gujrat (India),
working as a HIV specialist. Sha+in its a pleasure
to have this spiritual journey with you,
I +irst read your rede+ine your reality book,
then this 5 gold keys. And believe me it has
cleared some of complex doubts I had in my
mind since last +ive years.
I am currently member of Brahmakumaris
world spiritual university and practicing
Rajyoga last 5 years in your explanation
about the scienti+ic mentality of 2500 years
changed my whole idea of believing modern
world and at the end understood that after all
everything is metaphysical manifestation of
what you create in your mind, and after that
this 5 gold keys are really the essence of all ups and downs and how to handle intelligently
our spiritual journey.
This is about the spiritual intelligence one requires the most while going to do any sa-
cred act for the Universe. Both books are helpful for each and every person living on this
earth, because human race is sleeping and 21st century is the time to awaken them and your
book might give them rays of hope that, yes there is an honest way to create anything you
want without buying liabilities.
This book taught me how to be real +ighter. As sometimes we feel very sad in a spiritual
journey as if it feels like we trapped in a place where both ways (going back and going for-
ward) are closed, we have to wait there with patience as when time will come something
will happen which takes us forward and we grow and become pure gold.
Thank you so much Sha+in!

Dr Divyesh Gajera,
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From Yen:
Hi Sha+in
Thank you for your ebook Five Gold
Keys As I have felt some changes in me
after reading your book in less than a
week, I am writing to say thank you for
your work and the enormous impact it
has on people, like me.
I am a stay at home mom with 2 children,
one is 10 years old and the other is 10
months old. In general I am contented
with my life, but still have feeling of being
more and want to search for it, also my
health was stagnant, I got exhausted eas-
ily.
I have read lots of book, followed lots of
more enlightened people, I read most in-
formation that is available to me and they
all have made me hungry for more until
I read your book.
For the +irst 3 keys, I read one by one, meaning, I wont continue until I do something
that is required and I leave the whole day practicing it. I cant believe my life can change so
quickly. In less than a week, I +ind that:
1. I am more healthy, vibrant, energized: I love my work and even can help my husband
with his work in the house without complaining. I have more time for myself too.
2. I am aware of the present and of what is happening in my body: I love playing hide and
seek with whatever is in my mind, its such a fun game and now I know myself more than
ever before.
3. I no longer hunger for more (spiritual, personal development etc) information. I still
read for fun, not because If I dont read, Ill miss out something. The key stop +idgeting men-
tally is a waking call for me.
I think the book really keeps the promise of its goal, which is inner freedom for those
who read it. For me, it has given even more and I can not say what it is as it must be experi-
enced and felt inside.
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I will continue applying the keys for the journey ahead until they are in my +lesh and
bones. I highly recommend the book for those who are searching for peace of mind and in-
ner freedom by practicing only what is written there.
Thanks again and look forward to more communication from you.

Yen
From Patrizia:
Hi Sha+in.
Just +inished reading Five Gold Keys.
I came into this world on the 6th day of February, many
many moons ago. An administrative professional, Im a
well-rounded individual, or so I thought until I read Five
Gold Keys and realized that it is my life story written by
someone else always seem to choose the greater of
the two evils, and ending up against a brick wall.
Five Gold Keys was helpful in showing me the right way
to go about lifes little annoyances and come out being
the better for each experience.
It can help others too because there are many persons, like myself, who will read it and
see themselves in the pages and learn how to undo the negative traits they have accumu-
lated over the years.

Patrizia

From Erin R:
Hi, I am Erin R.
I am married with two kids, kind of an introvert inter-
ested in nature, building a better world through healing
and understanding, and working on my own shortcom-
ings.
The Gold Keys by Sha+in was wonderful as it served to be
a REMINDER of my goals. It is so easy to get distracted, to
not see the forest for the trees! Also it gives very practical
ways to keep focused and ways to actually attain the goal
of freedom from 'human insanity!'
Every person falls prey to the things outlined in this long article/short book by Sha+in,
and every person can bene+it by knowing and applying these +ive gold keys of wisdom.
I would highly recommend reading it; it is not too long and the +irst page HOOKS you and
cuts to the quick! Very potent straightforward truth.
I loved it!

Erin R.

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From Danny Chisala

Lusaka, Zambia (Africa)
Hi Sha+in,
You never cease to amaze me and whenever I read
your materials you always leave me thirsty for more.
There is so much wisdom in your writings and I am so
sure from the contents of your writings, you must be
walking your talk because such depth of knowledge can
only be achievable if one has unquenchable passion for
he/she is doing.
I have read your Rede+ine Your Reality book and sev-
eral other of your writings together with your emails you sent to me, but commenting on the
contents of this book, '5 Gold Keys' I can only say that this is amongst the greatest articu-
lated guides on our spiritual journey - short, to the point but very rich.
I will keep reading it every other month.
Warm regards.

Danny Chisala

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From Liviu
Romania
I just +inished reading the 5 Gold Keys ebook and
I can say that it's another fantastic work that only
Sha+in de Zane can make. This ebook really in-
spired me.
I'm 28 years old now and in this period I'm going
through a spiritual crisis, or the the quarter life
crisis. I don't know who I am, what my meaning is
and I want to discover myself more.
This ebook helped me understand more about me
and my life and how to just be present in the here and now, and enjoy more of what life has
to offer.
Others can bene+it from this insightful ebook as myself did.
May we all live meaningful lives and discover how to live with presence.
Thank you Sha+in!

Liviu

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And now...

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SHAFIN DE ZANE

5 GOLD KEYS
For Practical Life Magic

"Life is full of dissatisfaction" - Buddha said that, and the reason for this dissat-
isfaction is our ignorance about our own animalistic instincts and not know-
ing how to transcend them; the path to liberation begins with making an ef-
fort to overcome these animalistic instincts. Good observation... but what
does that mean?
When we look around without our usual ?ilters of fears, fantasies, desires or
preprogrammed prejudices, we see that we are living in a world that is care-
fully structured to perpetuate various forms of slavery, some easy to see and
some not so easy at all. More importantly we see a world ?illed with people
who are more than willing to commit to slavery of all kinds. This is strange,
but true. Why is that?
The philosopher Nietzsche wrote that humans in their current state of evo-
lution are stuck between two states: animal and superman. We have latent
within us the power to go beyond almost all limitations imposed by biology
and yet we are also helplessly controlled by our animalistic instincts of vio-
lence, rage, fear, craving, and addictions that de?ine our destinies. The prob-
lem is further complicated by the pressures of exponentially fast growing
technologies, as well the fast expanding gap between the vast majority who
are stuck in their thought based worlds of "Me and My story" and those who
have broken free from this very common psychological dysfunction that
causes people mistake their thought worlds for actual reality.
Add to that humans are multiplying faster than ever before and children
are being born to parents who have no clear understanding whatsoever about
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how to live in this super fast changing world designed by other humans who
posses a level of intelligence that is literally beyond their normal abilities of
comprehension. Entire lives pass by without ever suspecting that one is living
the insane life of a slave who isn't even aware that he or she is a slave inside
and outside.
So what is the solution? That is what this message is about. The solution is
simple; in fact it is so simple, Im afraid you might fail to appreciate the as-
tounding amount of freedom and power that comes with it. What follows is a
formula that took me nearly twenty years to ?ine tune. During these twenty
years, I started off my own journey of self-discovery fueled by a total and com-
plete dissatisfaction of the life I was born into, spent my every last dollar try-
ing to ?ind a solution, eventually went through a process of radical healing
with hypnotherapy, then established myself as a professional hypnotherapist,
then gained some fame and respect in about 100 countries across the planet
through a book I wrote called Rede6ine Your Reality, touched over 100,000
lives directly and virtually as a teacher of practical spirituality, and today still
continuing my journey in search of the endless secrets that lay hidden and
pervade our everyday reality.
The reason I shared with you this nutshell of an autobiography is to tell
you this: I have some experience in training people and in my experience its
very easy to get people excited about a life changing idea (especially if you
know a thing or two about how the mind works), but devilishly dif?icult to
make them continue to remember and follow it consistently. (Remember all
the new years resolutions you didn't follow, all the promises about jogging
three times a week, and to meditate?)
Generally speaking, people love shortcuts and quick ?ixes, especially ones
that hint at solving all of ones life problems without having to do any hard
work about it. The idea that most people just cannot grasp is that doing the
same things over and over expecting different results is a sign of insanity - this
is especially true if you are trying to bring about a radical change in your life
situation. Again and again people fall for the illusion that there exists some
magic pill that can change their life experience without any need to change
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their behavior patterns. It's silly, downright juvenile, but its so predictable
that nearly every advertisement and marketing campaigns in the world re-
volve around it. What I am reminding you, before I go on to introduce my own
"magic formula", is that there is no magic that works unless you practice, prac-
tice, and practice some more. Even Harry Potter needed years of dedicated
practice before he could do some interesting magic.
In other words: the secret is not in the formula, but what happens to your
consciousness when you keep using the formula. When you upgrade your
mental models by reading a book like this (or learning from a teacher), what
happens is your neural patterns (literally how your brain is wired) begin to
change, this then triggers a series of changes which causes your subconscious
?ilters of beliefs to rearrange, and when that happens, your life changes - this
is the great secret. So the magic formula is a speci?ically designed pattern
of behavior you follow to speed up that process of transformation and cement
that change. However, please remember that like any roads our neural path-
ways also take time to change. The secret is repetition and practice, practice
and repeat, repeat and practice. If you are willing to do that, what follows
here will teach you how to gain the most elusive privilege of all in this over-
crowded and superbly predatory human society: total freedom.
Ready?
Here goes
The very ?irst thing you need to decide before you can unleash any magic
is what do you want? Simple right? Its not. Everyone says they want a better
life, but if you ask them what do you want speci?ically, they have no idea. Or
they say something like I want a million dollars!, without realizing another
mind numbing obvious:
Dollars are agreements between people, they come to you when you offer
something of value to someone else; they are a replacement for our old sys-
tem of barter: Ill give you my goat in exchange of ten pairs of those nice shoes
you made. Since carrying goats and ?iguring out who wants your goat in the
?irst place got very cumbersome in our large societies, now we use dollars,
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which are simply agreements that if you ?lash one or two of them in your near-
est grocery store, they will give you a bag of cookies. Everyone wants dollars,
not everyone wants goats, so now we use dollars instead of goats. But the
idea is same: you get it in exchange of something else. You dont get it because
you visualize dollars in your head all day.
So let me ask you again, what do you want speci?ically? Give it couple of
minutes to consider the question, and then read the rest of this.

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Got it? Good. Now throw it out the window. Unfortunately that was a trick
question. It really doesn't matter what little fantasy goodie you have on mind
because ultimately what you are looking for is freedom, inner and outer, total
and complete. And if you are not, you should be, because without freedom,
nothing else matters. (You could also say love, but love is impossible for some-
one without freedom, at best it is a self-deluding fantasy.)
So if there is one goal that is truly worthy of your human existence, it is
freedom, primarily for yourself, which the only way you can ever offer it to
others. Only a free being can respect, celebrate and share freedom; all else is
some perpetuation of madness.
Freedom, however, is not an easy thing to handle. First of all and most im-
portantly, embracing freedom necessitates healing of the mind. Only after
healing can one embrace and sustain total freedom. Without healing the mag-
netic wounds of our unconscious, everything is a trap. Freedom is not some-
thing you can hope for or get lucky with; its attainment requires strategic,
careful, fearless, single minded and above all systematic intervention for heal-
ing the unconscious insanity of the animalistic body and mind.
So now we have something to begin our training. Our goal is freedom. Spe-
ci?ically inner freedom: which means freedom from our unconscious repetitive
patterns of self-limiting behavior.
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Why is inner freedom our speci?ic goal, instead of outer freedom? Be-
cause outer freedom is a meaningless concept for someone who has no inner
freedom. In fact unless you have inner freedom ?irst, outer freedom is a per-
fectly good formula for disaster. Look at the lives of countless Hollywood ce-
lebrities and people who suddenly inherit a lot of money, and you will see
what happens when you get a lot of outer freedom without inner freedom:
what you get is endless trips to divorce lawyers and rehabs, and occasionally
a self-in?licted drug overdose or a bullet in the head.
So the freedom we are interested in primarily is freedom from the myriad
psychological prisons we ?ind ourselves living in: the prison of physical addic-
tions and mental cravings that keep us bound to certain lifestyles, the prison
of marriage without love, the prison of a job without heart, prison of a family
without growth each of which are examples and symptoms of our own uncon-
scious patterns of behavior that require healing. In other words, they are pris-
ons of our own mind; some of us were born into a prison then helped expand
it further, some of us have built our own prisons one brick at a time over the
years.
The good news is when you have inner freedom, outer freedom always fol-
lows. The inside always changes the outside. The outside is always a re?lec-
tion of the inside. And changing the inside is purely a matter of choice and de-
termination. This is the big magic component here. You can ?ight with it, run
away from it, try to forget it, convince yourself that its not true, try to device
ever cleverer shortcuts to dollars and happiness until the cows come home,
but the fact remains this:
Until you have healed your animalistic instincts, the congenital madness
that comes with being human, you will not ?ind happiness. At best you can be-
come like what the Chinese people call hungry ghosts: you can be sur-
rounded by more dollars than you can count and you will only drown in it
without ever experiencing the authentic freedom and ful?illment that you
were hungry and thirsty for.

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With that in mind, here is your magic formula. Its simple. Its easy to re-
member. Its easy to practice, well easier that many other things at least.

First Gold Key: Remember

This is the very ?irst component of our magic formula. Its so simple most
people never follow it. Remember your goal. What is it? What do you want?
Unless you remember your goal, you will be like a ?loating boat, drifting from
this whirlpool to that whirlpool, in river of life. Your goal is your radar, it is
your navigation system, it is your guiding light, it is your northern star, and
your goal is INNER FREEDOM.
Hopefully, one day, when you have already achieved the level of freedom
you want, you can use this formula for anything else in life. But until you have
inner freedom, everything else is a snare, a trap, a distraction that will only de-
lay the one thing that truly matters: freedom.)
So once again, remember to remember. Remember your goal. Do whatever
is necessary to attain a single minded focus on your chosen goal. If you can-
not do this, nothing else will work. Your goal should be on the foreground of
your consciousness at all times and in every single decision you make in life.
Whatever you do, or consider doing, or plan on pursuing, or spend time focus-
ing upon, ask yourself this ?irst:
Is this going to take me closer or away from my chosen goal?
The answer will always bring you clarity and save you days, years or even
decades of meaningless pursuit of chasing your own tail.
If you ?ind yourself not remembering your goal however, or if you ?ind that
remembering it has become some sort of a chore, it is simply a signal that
there are con?licting desires at play within. If you want to enjoy the fruit of
this magic formula, you have to ?ind a way to to clarify to yourself why you
want what you want without inner con?licts. Yeahhh I want it but... is just not
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going to do. You cannot want it and not want it at the same time (which the
human mind is surprisingly good at). The solution? Find clarity. Write down
why you absolutely must have what you are focusing upon, ?ind out why its
simply inconceivable not having it, why not having it is as good as not living -
if you can come to that level of clarity, you are ready for the second gold key.

Second Gold Key: Observe

The second part of the formula is the dif?icult part. Its also subtle, so pay
close attention.
Whenever you will decide to radically change your life, or follow your in-
ner calling, or bring your true dreams to reality, you will embark upon what
the mythologist Joseph Campbell used to call the heros journey. In a nut-
shell, the heros journey involves awakening the hero archetype within you,
which then compels you to embark upon a journey of total transformation to-
wards wholeness: towards reaching your full potential as a being capable of
in6inite expansion. All the great stories, mythologies, movies, biographies of
the great people invariably re?lect this same theme over and over: an ordi-
nary everyday man or woman becomes dissatis?ied by status quo, answers
his or her inner calling towards that ineffable something beyond the boundary
of the ordinary life, is compelled to undertake a journey that challenges the
very fabric of his being, often faces death, sometimes literally and sometimes
metaphorically, then eventually gains some wisdom that they bring back as a
gift for the entire society.
Mans search for freedom is really another name of the heros journey. It is
the great archetypal story of awakening. If you wish to attain the powers to re-
de?ine your reality, radically change your life and experience total and com-
plete freedom from slavery, you, too, will have to embark upon this journey.
There are no shortcuts on the road to awakening.

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So what do you have to do? Nothing really, except make a genuine commit-
ment within the depths of your heart to follow your chosen goal no matter
what. The moment you make that de?inite decision, a whole web of in?initely
connected events will begin to unfold your moment of de?inite commitment
is the beginning of your journey.
...
One of the very ?irst signs that your journey has begun is the encounter
with the dragon; the dragon is the guardian of the inner secrets; it can be an
inner dragon or outer dragon. This is the ?irst obstacle.
The outer dragon says: Turn back innocent one, go back to your village
where each day is the same as every other day, that is where you belong, this
path is not for you! In more everyday modern life words, what you encounter
is some obstacle or limitation in the form of ?ire-breathing authority ?igure, or
boss or parents or business partners who will try to turn you away from your
chosen path.
The inner dragon comes in the form of a physical addiction or mental
craving. Addictions and cravings can be drugs, alcohol, money, power, atten-
tion, fame and of course most powerful of them all: our psychological attach-
ment to the illusion of certainty, AKA our comfort zone. The inner dragon says
almost the same things as the outer dragon except now the drama plays out
in our own head, in thoughts and dreams.
Whether you encounter the inner dragon or outer dragon, you will have to
overcome this obstacle to continue your journey. I will use the example of
outer dragons in this text for the sake of brevity and simplicity, but the tech-
nique to deal with them is more or less same whether they are inner or outer.
The dragons will keep coming and coming and coming, again and again, in
many forms and ?lavors with ever clever ways to keep you from going for-
ward. Sometimes they will try to kill you, sometimes scare you, sometimes
coax you, and sometimes fall in love with you (and then try to kill you meta-
phorically speaking of course). The idea is the same: the dragon is here to
weed out the unworthy from the worthy. And until all your insecurities, impu-
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rities, self-deceiving patterns of behavior are weeded out, the dragons will
keep coming at you; its just part of the game. And its for your own bene?it,
thats the important part to remember.
So how do you deal with the dragon? That is what this golden key is all
about.
Usually, what people do is either quickly give up their high hopes immedi-
ately upon encountering the dragon (because that was the last thing they
were ready to encounter, everyone thinks the road to freedom should be
easy), or they try to ?ight the dragon with brute force, which is a terrible idea,
to say the very least. Even if you are able to subdue the dragon with pure
force, you have robbed yourself the lesson that the dragon was carrying, and
therefore on the way to an even more powerful dragon somewhere very soon
down the road.
What you do is this: you observe, especially when the dragon is pounding
on your face. Read the last line again. However dif?icult it is, you train yourself
to look directly, you train yourself to observe.
What do you observe? Two things:
First you observe the dragon itself, which helps you to gather very valu-
able information about how the dragon operates, its psychology, its strengths,
weaknesses and strategies. Most people get so blinded by rage and fear that
they learn nothing about the dragon and come out sorely defeated giving
away all sorts of clues about their own weaknesses.
But more importantly, and this is the most important and valuable exer-
cise out of this entire formula: you train yourself to observe your own brain re-
sponse, your automatic patterns of behavior, especially when the dragon is
breathing 6ire on your face. Read the last line as many times as necessary until
you really get it.
What you will ?ind is this: everyone feels like the Buddha when things are
going right, when you are in the arms of your beloved, when you just got a
truckload of money, when you are full of energy, when you have no problems.
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But since life never remains that way forever, only when the dragon is threat-
ening to kill you is when you ?ind out what you truly are.
You discover what is your dominant self-limiting pattern of behavior:
The child? (I cannot take responsibility)
The victim? (Its their fault, entirely; I am helpless, clueless, and innocent)
The prostitute? (When the price is right, Ill abandon my chosen goal; and
unconsciously I am always waiting for the right offer)
The saboteur? (Ill ruin my own game because I dont believe I deserve it)
The dragon? (You turn to violence and tyranny yourself: You try to hurt
me, I hurt you back a hundred times, this is the only way that works in the
real world)
In other words, when you learn to observe the dragon (especially when its
pounding on your face) you ?ind out which archetypal patterns of behavior
are dominant in your brain, which ones take you over when stress is high and
there is no time to think (sometimes called neural hijacking).
This is the core of this initiation: Training your self to observe your own
behavior.
In a little more technical term (skip to the next paragraph if you are scared
of scienti?ic terms): training the executive center of your brain (the prefrontal
cortex) to observe the workings of the emotional brain (the activation of
amygdala and its associated drama).
With the power of observation comes power to take control. In other
words, you can control and reprogram your behavior only if you are aware of
it. Whatever patterns of behavior you are unaware of is what will control
your life from the shadows and you will forever remain a slave to its auto-
matic reactive activation processes.
When you train yourself to observe your unconscious reactive patterns
of behavior, you discover one of the most powerful insights that both ancient
spirituality and modern neurosciences agree upon...
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This insight is something that we as a race have known for thousands of

years now, yet something that most of us ?ind terribly dif?icult to accept: who
you think you are, the ego, the me thought-stream in the head, is a synergis-
tic effect of many brain components functioning; its a dynamically arising,
constantly changing phenomenon. And its not you, anymore than you are
hair you grow and shed off all the time.
The illusion of me, the permanent individual entity that somehow lives in
the body is just that an illusion of brain. In reality what we call as me is
more like a dynamic dance in in our greater consciousness that changes mo-
ment by moment, and it arises with the help of the entire web of life: people,
seasons, the biosphere, atmosphere, the cosmos, all In?inity. The ancient
Hindu texts of India, the Upanishads, writes clearly about this. The Buddha
two and a half thousand years back spoke in detail on this topic. The Taoists
of China, also from 2500 years ago knew this. The Su?is know this. Our pre-
sent day neurosciences understand this with a clarity that never existed be-
fore with the powerful scanning technologies and precisely controlled scien-
ti?ic experiments. The bottom line is this: who we are is not inherently self-
existent, as if standing apart in some vacuum space existing all on our own, no
man is an island, but interconnected with everything in the cosmos, interde-
pendently arising moment by moment, every moment.
This discovery of course has profound implications that can turn your life
upside down (if it doesnt, you really didnt think about it deeply), but for this
context here is the most important part:
You are not a static permanent thing but rather a dance, a whirlpool in the
river of life, an ever changing and evolving being, and you have the power to
reprogram your self into whatever you want. You have the power to rede-
?ine your reality, to choose your evolutionary destiny. It all begins with the
ability to observe the patterns that combine to make you moment by mo-
ment; especially those patterns that lay hidden below ordinary waking con-
sciousness, only to surface when there is con?lict. (Read the last line again.)
This ability to observe is the beginning of freedom: the freedom to rede?ine
your reality.
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If this sounds intimidating or complicated already, well... thats because it

is a bit complicated. The ability to observe the dragon and gathering informa-
tion while its trampling your face takes time to master; training yourself to ob-
serve your own behavior under stress takes even more diligent training; dis-
covering the profound truth of the nature of your being as something that is
dynamically evolving in tandem with the whole cosmos changes our entire un-
derstanding of cause and effect. But if you think about it, there is nothing
more important in life if you want to be free, or ?ind out who you really are.
Nobody said it was going to be easy, its simple as simple gets, but not
easy; yet all that is necessary is your willingness to look no matter how tempt-
ing it is to look away. Thats all there is to it: train yourself to look! Train your-
self to observe the patterns that make you, especially when there is con/lict.

Third Gold Key: Be Patient

Be patient these two simple words carry so much weight that many
books have been written and entire religions have been founded around it. Be-
ing patient in its essence means: stop /idgeting mentally! Stop craving for
something else in some other future moment. Learn to be fully present in this
moment as it is, because this is the ONLY point of contact with reality you will
ever have. If you cannot master this skill, no matter how ef?icient you get in
making money, or raising children, or seducing women, or controlling your
family, or discovering miraculous cures for incurable diseases, you personally
will never ?ind ful?illment because you never learned the most important skill
of all in this reality: learning to be present; which is the same as learning to
be patient.
Being patient is intimately connected with the ability to observe and re-
membering your goal. Unless you can remember your goal (inner freedom),
you cannot understand the signi?icance of your reactions and behaviors
which you begin to see when you start observing; and if you cannot observe
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your own emotional patterns, you cannot be patient and present because the
very meaning of emotion is to move (from Latin emotere, which means en-
ergy in motion). Emotions make you move, makes you not still, which makes
you unable to observe.
As you practice the previous gold key and increase your power of observa-
tion, you increase with it your ability to be still. As you learn to be still and ob-
serve your own inner states, you begin to realize another profound truth...
Our emotions are always in /lux: they are always changing, no matter
what we do, what we have, what happens to us, or what we achieve. An anal-
ogy sometimes used is that our level of ful?illment and happiness is like an air
conditioner set at a certain point, lets say 25 degrees Celsius. No matter what
we do externally, our brain is programmed to keep it at that set temperature.
We can startle it to a cool 19 degrees by earning a million dollars but soon
enough it will climb back to 25 degrees. Or we can suddenly lose all our
money and experience a sweating 40 degrees, but even then after some time
we will come back to experiencing 25 degrees. This doesnt intuitively ?it very
well with what we want to believe about life, but many studies in psychology
and neurology shows this to be correct. This explains why people who win
the big million dollar lottery essentially remains the same people as who they
were before they won the lottery; (after the initial excitement) if they were
sunny and happy they remain still sunny and happy, if they were lonely and
gloomy, they remain still lonely and gloomy. (Is there a way to change our ba-
sic neural network, sure there is, but thats another story and the journey re-
quires careful long term training. In a word, here is the ?irst step: meditate.)
So what does that mean for us in search of freedom? It means no matter
what you do externally, there is no such thing as permanently one emotion:
happiness. What there is, ironically, is one permanent state you can imprison
yourself in: craving happiness.
This is why the very ?irst line of the Buddhist scripture is: Life is full of dis-
satisfaction. Life is full of dissatisfaction because we are forever chasing the il-
lusion of trying to retain something that cannot be retained. This is what the
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Lords prayer teaches us too saying lead us not to temptation. The temptation
is forever chasing that illusion of I want to be happy all the time! - which in
essence means a steady dose of happy chemicals in the brain: serotonin, dopa-
mine and oxytocin. Our entire lives go by as we keep groping, and chasing one
temptation after the other, forever hoping the next thing is what will ?inally
make us happy forever. Learning to observe teaches us to look directly at this
craving, this mental ?idgeting, and learn about the myriad ways we go about
trying to alleviate this permanent psychological itch.
Patience teaches us to remain quiet and calm when inevitably the stress
hormones are released; bored, lonely, angry, hungry, frustrated, sleepy, tired,
pessimistic these are all the states we all go through no matter what our life
circumstance is. Everyone experiences these states periodically in greater or
lesser degrees; even if you are married to your soulmate, billionaire, world fa-
mous pop star, owner of a villa in Tuscany, travel twice monthly it doesnt
matter, you will still feel all of those things. And depending on your pre-set
brain chemistry, you will also experience periodically the same level of happi-
ness and ful?illment that you generally feel, with some ?luctuations of up and
down, here and there.
Inner freedom is the freedom to act rationally, with clarity and wisdom,
even when these inevitable down states come to pass through your conscious-
ness. Inner freedom is the freedom from forever being dissatis?ied because
nothing you ever do brings you that illusion of permanent happiness into real-
ity. Inner freedom is freedom from attachment to the illusion of permanent
happiness or up state. And that, Buddha says, is the beginning of enlighten-
ment.
Which brings us to the deeper wisdom of being patient: surrender.
Stop +idgeting mentally! This means you allow the present moment to be
as it is, how it is, because it is perfect (even when the dragon is pounding
your face). This means you surrender your pre-programmed prejudices, your
preconceived ideas about how things should be, your fantasies about what
will make you happy, and you live this present moment with acceptance and
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serenity. You remind yourself that there is an intelligent force that is beating
your heart, controlling your breath when you are not thinking about it, execut-
ing liver functions and ?iring the 100 billion neurons of your brain that is al-
lowing you to think. None of this is within your control right now, and your
worrying ego mind, the me thought-stream, didnt control any of it while the
universe evolved for about 13.8 billion years before becoming you.
Patience is another name for surrender. But since surrender is an illusion
(surrender to what? That which is already you?), I use the term patience. But
I like to use the expression stop 6idgeting mentally even more. Patience is the
high wisdom usually gained after spending a lot of the most expensive cur-
rency in the world: time. It teaches us one of the most profound secrets of life:
this moment is perfect.
If you can only stop to ?idget, if you can stop ?ighting, if you can stop saying
all those clever or hurtful things that you are saying, one day you will look
back and realize with profound gratitude how perfectly this moment was
weaved, personally for you, from the eternal fabric of space and time, cause
and effect. In the depth and heart of existence there is sublime perfection, pa-
tience allows you to see this.
Patience also means waiting without waiting for the inevitable to occur. If
you remember your ultimate goal, if you have dedicated yourself to healing
your human madness, if you have committed yourself to the heros journey,
the guiding force of life will bring you exactly those situations, people and
challenges that will help you achieve your goal in the shortest possible time.
Patience means trusting that the intelligence that knows how to beat your
heart and synchronize trillions of cells of your body, keeps the sun and moon
and galaxies in perfect order for you to exist, also knows what is best for you
at this present moment. When you are able to accept this, you can relax with-
out fear, no matter what is happening, and when you relax, you can begin to
pay attention (Gold Key #2), and when you pay attention, you learn, you
evolve to the next stage of your personal evolution.

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Idiots ?ight; remember that, for all things are One. When you ?ight, you are
?ighting against the very fabric of life itself, only profound ignorance, stupid-
ity or pure greed and willful cancer like behavior can explain the craving to
?ight.
Finally, when you embark upon an adventure that has no end, when you
align yourself with the heartbeat of life, which is evolution, when you commit
yourself to the heros journey, patience is the critical ingredient for maintain-
ing sanity.
This journey dissolves all the way to in?inity and even contemplating such
a prospect is enough make a human brain unstable. Looking at in?inity is the
similar to looking at the sun, only in?initely more powerful. To accommodate
such a vision, and you will encounter the vision once in a while on the jour-
ney towards total freedom, you will need strength, courage, and patience. The
journey to in?inity involves all eternity.
In practical everyday circumstances, patience is the magic that you use to
transform obstacles and grievances into miracles. You simply allow things to
be; more than that, you learn the art of ?lowing with whatever that arises. You
suspend judgment and prejudice.
If what is arising is bringing you pain, you have two choices:
a. Take action, only if you are full energy.
b. Be patient, observe, learn and realize that this discomfort has been de-
signed precisely and personally for you, so you can overcome your laziness
and move ahead in full speed. You discover that maybe, just maybe, its
really not about them, its entirely about you, because somewhere along
the way you made a commitment, a commitment to become completely
free. This discomfort is just part of that training.

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Fourth Gold Key: Feel Time

When you are truly clear about what is your chosen goal (for us, for now,
its full inner freedom), when you have developed the ability to observe your-
self in con?lict (observe your automatic patterns of behavior) and also ob-
serve the dragon in the middle of the con?lict (paying attention to what the
source of the con?lict is requesting of you), and when you have developed the
wisdom of being patient without mentally ?idgeting you gather enough en-
ergy to sense the movement of providence, the way the river of life ?lows,
which is another way of saying you begin to feel time.
Feeling time means, above all, you are able to surf the ocean of life, and
have lost all interest in even entertaining the hilarious notion of ?ighting with
life. What does that mean? Well, how do you learn to surf? The ?irst thing is,
of course, you have to stop ?ighting with the ocean, stop struggling with your
body, and start paying attention to the movement of the waves, forget about
how you want the ocean to behave and start preparing for the next wave you
want to ride. As you can probably sense, in everyday affairs this is a subtle art
of living, but more than that let me assure you this is a very down to earth
practical decision that requires full sanity.
Our brains are full of behavior patterns that we inherited from the animal
kingdom: our aggressive behaviors, instinctive love for only that which we
can accommodate within our circle of me and my, total indifference towards
everything else that doesnt interest us, and our impulses to ?ight are all pat-
terns of behavior we are hardwired with. These patterns are part of what
make us the top predators of planet earth, the godlike rulers on top of the
food chain; they worked very well for us till now. But they wont help us very
much if we want to graduate to the next level of evolution. When beings capa-
ble of in?inite magic act like monkeys, we get the world we are living in today:
we are more comfortable, prosperous and powerful than ever before, yet we
are also more worried, unhappy and suicidal than ever before.

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So what is the solution? The solution is being truly sick and tired of mind-
lessly suffering, of doing the same things over and over and expecting different
results, of making the same mistakes over and over again. In other words, the
solution is truly stop playing games with yourself and making a real decision
to heal yourself from these ancient animal instincts that are no longer serve
us in this new world that is changing faster than ever before. The solution is
following the previous three gold keys: know your ultimate goal (inner free-
dom), pay attention to your stored neurological patterns of behavior, stop ?idg-
eting mentally and be patient when you do that, you can practice this fourth
gold key: feel time.
Feeling time means knowing what to do, and when to do it. It means being
so attuned with the dance of life that your entire being merges with it, your
consciousness becomes at one with the ?low of the present moment. When
you are One with the ?low of life, you begin to sense the information network
that connects all things and beings; then you begin to move with it... then
when the time is right, you begin to move it - this is the essence of life
magic. Timing is key. But more importantly than that, a completely lack of
sel?ishness is absolute prerequisite for anyone whose ultimate goal is free-
dom. Feeling time is a subtle art that has no room for the sel?ish me and my
story stream of thought.
Here is another way of understanding the magical art that is feeling time:
It is willingness to follow the deepest truth of the present moment no matter
how dif6icult it may seem. Like all magic, this too requires a keyword to acti-
vate its awesome powers, remember this carefully: love. When you use this
magic, the structure of reality itself will change, causing a rupture in the fab-
ric of cause and effect by transcending time, making this the most powerful
magic imaginable. In that sense, this is not really magic, but a miracle. Like all
miracles, this, too, is not subject to orders of dif?iculty. But remember the key-
word: love, for without it, the magic can destroy the one who unleashes it.
Feeling time means knowing when to be still and when to take effortless
action with absolute elegance. This only becomes possible when you have
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gained substantial energy by practicing the previous three gold keys and har-
bor within you not even a thread of sel?ishness. Without enough energy, you
will never be able to tell time. Without transcending sel?ish desires, all that is
visible are mirages and scenes from ones own stored patterns of nightmares.

Fifth Gold Key: Silent Will

This is where the circle closes upon itself. Life is of course meaningless if
you have no desires, no dreams, no hopes, no overwhelming urge to attempt
the impossible. But there is a right way of going about it and a dysfunctional
way of going about it. Once you have mastered the previous four keys, you are
ready to learn the most coveted secret of all: how to rede?ine your reality and
live in a sort of wonderland... where miracles follow miracles and wonders
never cease.
Once again, the secret is quite simple really all you have to do is remem-
ber what you want and actually truly want it. You dont start talking about it,
you dont start jumping up and down, you dont run around pushing things to
hurry up, you do nothing but simply remember at all times what is it that you
want. This is silent will.
When you are not divided, when you are not sel?ish, when you have truly
decided what it is that you want, the great wheel of providence immediately
begins to move and all things unforeseen start to come together. Usually, how-
ever, when we make our decision initially, we are far from ready, and further
transformation is necessary.
As it says in the Bible
Figs do not grow on thistles, nor grapes on thorns.
We have to be ready to receive that which we so desire in our reality. And
that usually involves a journey of transformation, the heros journey, of meet-
ing the dragons and slaying our inner demons, unreal fears that breed sel?ish
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patterns of behavior. In other words, we have to learn to observe: our own be-
havior patterns primarily, and how the dragon (life itself) moves secondarily,
especially in moments of con?lict.
Next we have to remember that (in the words of King Solomon)
For everything there is a time and season for all occasions under the heaven.
This means being patient and having absolute conviction (faith if you like
that word more) that when you follow this formula, it is inevitable that what
you seek will come to reality. But there is a time and a season for all things un-
der the heaven. You remain calm and wait without waiting. You gain energy.
When you have enough energy, the time will soon be ripe enough to act,
and it will be time to do what needs to be done. This is the time to take that
step, make that move, and do what is necessary to do.
It seems like after all the preparation, this step should be easy, but its not.
Usually we are terri?ied when that moment of truth arrives and we hesitate to
take action, because its one thing to fantasize great things and quite another
thing to seize the moment and actually make those great things happen by
making that leap into the unknown. And if in our hesitation that moment
passes us by, everything is lost.
The great bird of freedom comes to us all but it has no patience for hesita-
tion. This is why it is important to prepare diligently with these ?ive gold keys.
The oft quoted saying Be careful what you wish for is especially applicable
when you practice this. We truly are magical beings but we are only begin-
ning to discover the tremendous extent of our magic. Our deepest fear is not
that we are inadequate but that we are powerful beyond measure (a quote
that is usually credited to Nelson Mandela). In my experience it requires tre-
mendous strength of character and compassion for all beings before we are
ready to awaken to our own powers and magic. Awaken too soon and your
own powers will destroy you. So we practice in the right way, and in the right
order, and trust that when the time is right the ?lower will surely bloom.

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In the end, believe it or not, Silent Will is all you need. The other four are
here to ensure that you are strong enough to handle the effects of it. Only
with diligent practice will you realize how true this is.

So, to summarize, here is the entire formula for you in a nutshell:
First Gold Key: Remember your goal, be very clear about it. Keep it in the
foreground of your consciousness.
Second Gold Key: Observe your own patterns of behavior, especially in
moments of con?lict. Only when you are facing a con?lict will you know what
dysfunctional patterns of behavior are stored within you.
Third Gold Key: Be Patient and stop ?idgeting mentally. Wait without
without waiting for the inevitable to occur.
Fourth Gold Key: Feel Time to know when to act and when not to.
Fifth Gold Key: Silent Will is the single minded focus on that which is
your goal. You do not have to run around pushing or pulling. Simply allow
things to occur in the path of least resistance.

When you use this simple ?ive step formula again and again, in the order it
has been presented to you, you will experience the astounding power and ele-
gance that comes through it, and begin to live life as the magical being that
you really are.
I look forward to hearing your own story of making the impossible not
only possible but part of your everyday life.

Till then...

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Last Words
Thank you for reading. Please share this eBook freely with your friends,
family and people in your work place. Even if one person changes their usual
ways of thinking by reading this, there is no telling how many lives you might
end up changing through the ripple effect of kindness.

If you have more questions or comments,

send it to sha?indezane@gmail.com
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If you want to work with me one on one, or sponsor a seminar

visit my website at www.rede?ineyourreality.com or just send an email.

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Wishing you clarity, strength and passion.

Shafin de Zane

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