LA was indeed pivotal in my development as it afforded me the opportunity to meet a number of remarkable people including one of the most renowned authors and experts in the field of self-realization and self understanding in the world.

Benefiting from this new connection and friendship I began investigating a completely new body of work when it came to the mind, with the emphasis on internal understanding, including principles such as self-realization, mindfulness, Inner stillness, self-awareness, the inner voice and meditation.

My true purpose has always been investigating and studying the mind.  For more than two decades I have dedicated the vast majority of my life into this exploration, always remaining open to new discoveries, whilst questioning and examining everything possible about the way the human mind really works.

I have researched the wisest and most enlightened scholars, the most acclaimed psychologists, teachers, guru’s and philosophers, always seeking a more complete understanding of the mind and in particular how this can be simplified and implemented into the field of high level performance, especially into sports where an athletes performance can drastically improve by using their mind in a more effective way.

During this time I’ve worked with and along side some of the best in the world, crossing multiple platforms. Having spent the previous 7 years in particular studying and learning with some of the most recognized and renowned teachers in the field of:

• Self-realization
• Mindfulness
• Inner stillness
• Self-awareness
• The inner voice
• Meditation

Studying these ancient teachings truly gave me an opportunity to understand the incredible benefits of using specific practices and exercises to help in particular world class athletes to better understand the advantages of developing skills like inner silence and stillness both in and out of competition.

It quickly became apparent that I needed to take some time to research all of the greatest teachers of this body of work. The more I studied the incredible teachings the more people I became connected to, helping me to further develop my knowledge in this area. I knew it was imperative to familiarize myself with the intricacies of this work from a personal perspective not just from an intellectual level.

Integrating this understanding and actually practicing these ideas was like rocket fuel for my development, filling in many of the gaps in how the mind actually works in practice and not just theory. It was like flying up in a helicopter coming out of a forest, suddenly I could see the whole landscape, I could clearly see the entire territory, I really could see the forest from the trees.

LIVE A NEW WAY

I walk into the wilderness, away from the light

My world turns to darkness, as I enter the fight

Faculties stolen, thoughts handed to me

Getting ready for battle, here comes the false me

 

Obsessed by desire, I must get what I want

I’ll stop at nothing, to be way out in front

Can’t tell pain from the victory, so confused is the pleasure

Handed over my life, all the time for false treasure

 

If the journey seems hard, I’m on the wrong trail

No need to continue, if I win still I fail

The lies and the heartache, run deep through my blood

False thoughts and false feelings, carried off like a flood

 

Combat riddled with sensation, again feeding the fake

Like I’m back in the garden, alone with the snake

Took a bite from the apple, now I’m ‪lost in the trees

My own lies do they punish, again fall to my knees

 

Resistance disturbance, the problems nonstop

The punishing feelings, all around me on top

Aspirations and yearning, are at first my best friend

Only pain in the suffering, will be felt in the end

 

The pain if i hide it, will remain as my own

The king was dismantled, the knowledge unknown

To pray for awareness, to see in the dark

If I’d only stop running, I can’t miss the mark

 

No wisdom to find, in a world lost at best

Started out as an angel, now I’m missing my quest

The war inside bolstered, won’t prevail in the end

The voice that is talking, is no longer my friend

 

Like a monster swimming deep, on the great ocean floor

I remember the power, the belief and the call

The command to end punishing, unrelenting make believe

Something wants to hold on, demanding I grieve

 

Emotional anarchy, the restlessness grows

Semblance the long winter, the truth remains froze

The remnant of gospel, to embrace the divine

As I turned to the light, in the haze now I’m flying

 

As I break through the surface, the pressure was tight

My brawn it’s not needed, but a new kind of might

No one knows of the twilight, the soft glow from on high

When the light is beneath me, my horizons the sky

 

All this light now within me, self remembrance a glow

The hurts getting clear now, the pain free to go

What I went through was needed, a sacrifice I must pay

Finally have been woken, to live a new way

 

By Dave Marsh

THE SWORD

Temptation within me, to trust what is false

Manipulation it’s ally, the creature the wolf

Ripped limb from limb, not the physical but in mind

Total miss-understanding, the voice at first kind

 

It snarls and it growls, so ferocious the beast

Hungry the willing, unaware I’m the feast

The tricks and deception, betrayal its supreme

Deceit and the cunning, still locked in the dream

 

Anxiety worry, the delusion builds stronger

The nerves and the doubt, I won’t last any longer

The whole of my life, tormented by fear

Emotions pour down, has me locked inside here

 

It’s working me over, unable to breathe

The feelings dishonest, just like a thief

Upside down forever, it’s turning me over

Every step that I take, looking over my shoulder

 

Won’t live with the turmoil, get crushed in the stampede

The cut it’s not real, the wound it can’t bleed

Time it moves quickly, when I’m under attack

My essence been stolen, the shirt from my back

 

Wake up, wake up, in illusion immersed

The dream it’s not real, can’t get any worse

Emotional darkness, psychological laceration

Correspondence infected, time to end conversation

 

Heartbeat grows faster, the pulse it explodes

The truth getting nearer, the lies they are shown

Can’t fall any further, it’s best shot my reward

The touch of the truth, cuts me free like the sword

 

By Dave Marsh

I knew that I’d come back to you, I’m glad I braved the rain

But now its time, forget the storm and let go of the pain

The rain it surely feels like me, but it was never really real

I spent my life inside the storm, now at last comes the reveal

 

To come out from behind the clouds, to see at last the sun

A life of darkness disappears, freedom now to run

To see so clearly that I listen to it, I thought I knew the voice

To access truer knowledge now, I finally earned a choice

 

When the winds gathers force just remember myself, a look up to the sky

Take back my freedom take back my heart, its time to say goodbye

The truth remains I was never lost, just forgotten my orientation

Every time the train arrived in life, got off at the wrong station

 

A mistaken purpose of my life, what is false and what is good

My new task now to remember myself, no longer misunderstood

This true remembrance a gift from high, a blessing from divine

When the storm hits next and the rain pours down, i’ll just take it as a sign

 

Whether thunder or lightning or tidal waves, the storm it came for me

These storms that were against, are now my chance to see

So the next time, in the eye of the storm no need to be brave

There’s nothing set against me,  the truth is there to save

 

A chance to taste the pour of spirit, the evidence I was blind

Incredible persistence of the truth, so much peace to find

A chance proclaimed to find true love, a type of reincarnation

And if i work to know myself, so comes illumination

 

I’m ready to see the whole of it, its appearance no surprise

The angelic wisdom as the truth gets clearer, the dawning of new eyes

So all at once the past undone, the suffering ends at last

My time best spent remembering truth, let the false be in the past

 

By Dave Marsh

It lies in wait, hidden from the eye

Seems who I am, a familiar cry

Revenge and judgment, it fails to see

All of the harm, it does to me

 

Life out of control, the bounce the roll

It’ll damage anyone, it has no soul

Thoughts emotions, feelings too

All set against me, I never knew

 

Steals my soul and my true being

Sets out to punish, to block the seeing

Its pain on me, the kiss of death

Leaves you and I without our breath

 

It suggests it blames, lives in the dark

A wild animal, a killer shark

Will stop at nothing to get its way

It hurts it steals has lots to say

 

Pressures and pokes a relentless call

It’s always suggesting I take the fall

I listen I act, starting to see

The massive harm its done to me

 

So now I know I ask I yelp

The truth divine I need some help

This thing that has taken over my life

To pray for freedom, to drop the strife

 

But in its punishment on my true being

It’s getting evident now, bring on the seeing

I no longer have to live under this false self

I feel the light, an eternal wealth

 

This can take time, it matters not

My own true soul I had forgot

Take back my life, the time is here

Finally the false can disappear

 

By Dave Marsh

I walk in to the jungle of my mind,

thoughts not on my side

The familiar pattern we all know,

as I step on to the ride

 

Convincing me to listen to them

I’ve done that all my life

We both know the outcome of that,

the endless pain and strife

 

I didn’t always know the way,

but my heart lead me to search

Then one day something fresh arrived

a new way to see the earth

 

At first I didn’t understand its plan,

but I stayed on this new course

After days and nights of prays,

I felt at last the verse

 

There is a price to pay for truth,

a special kind of cost

So I’ll just say this to you,

I know right now you’re lost

 

You might be able to fake it good,

but you and I know the deal

So don’t be afraid of what you’ll see,

the times arrived for real

 

So take the step, remember this,

just let go of the past

Because when you work to know yourself

the truth returns at last

 

By Dave Marsh

Step aside and don’t you fear

From misty eyes comes the reveal

Was asleep and lost in a shadow fight

Wake up wake up and see the light

 

Enticing and creeping it’s taken over

Thrust down on me my powerless soldier

Instructions come to use the fist

Release is possible must not resist

 

Identification consumes us all

To give up that life not eternal fall

It took me over doesn’t matter how

It’s not for me I see that now

 

I don’t need power I just need light

I don’t need fighting I just need sight

I don’t need voices I just need proof

I don’t need you I just need truth

By Dave Marsh

It stirs and haunts me, just like a dream

The negativity strengthens, the desire to scream

If I do that, it’ll have its way

So I’ll stay quiet, nothing to say

It can’t stand silence, it hates the peace

My life is mine, won’t sign the lease

 

No more payments, not to it

I’ve seen the price, it’s time to quit

Engulfed submerged, under it’s alluring spell

My life on earth, can feel like hell

 

It’s why there’s conflict, miss-trust and war 

Always pushing me, to settle a score

It thrives on blindness won’t let me see

The non-stop harm, to you and me

Physical strength is useless here

Cause if I fight, I’ll disappear

 

With useless fighting, doomed to its trap

To remain in darkness, a perpetual nap

As you walk in sleep, the false it grows

The pain inside, that no one knows

An elaborate hoax, a hidden key

But as you work, you will break free

 

The price to pay, to give it up

To ask for help, an empty cup

Belief means nothing, this is divine

Give up the false, give back not mine

The light is coming, your time is now

As you stand before it, no need to bow

 

Instead you turn to face the beast

You’ve been consumed, you were the feast

Go in to it, as it’s done to you

Explore and study, you will break through

The false the fear, clenched by its grip

Man overboard, jump from the ship

 

With one right action, step to the light

End it’s persuasion, learn not to fight

Its scales and levels, above the line

Its truth It’s love, this is divine

 

By Dave Marsh