Recently I began a program of brain muscle exercises. The point? To start using the incredible power of my brain by focusing consciously in more effective ways, of course. Just like doing curls to build the biceps, we can do exercises to build the brain for greater skill, flexibility and possibility thinking.
Oddly the first exercise describes eliminating the use of the word “IS” from language to encourage the brain to search for other possibilities. The instructions outline doing this for one hour a day for the first week, 2 hours a day the second week, 3 hours a day the third week and 4 hours a day the fourth week. Additionally you can practice this new skill by writing as well as language. I’m finding it helpful to do both. You’ll notice that I am doing it in this post except for the word “is” in describing the exercise.
Eliminating the word “is” takes the “absolute” out of what “is”…and expands the mind into possibility thinking, sending it searching for “more”. I’ve only been doing this for a few days, but I can tell you that I am find it challenging.
For example, instead of saying, “The car is blue.”You might rephrase it and say, “The car appears blue in the daylight.”
When we refrain from assigning absolutes values to things, we use our conscious mind to reprogram the unconscious mind so it has to acknowledge that there are other possibilities. Our minds become more receptive to new ideas and ways of thinking. We become innovative, more flexible and engage our creativity.
I would love it if you would do this exercise along with me for a month. If you are game, you have to do the exercises daily as outline above which means you need to consciously pay attention to what you’re saying in a very focused manner during that time. I found it helpful to confide in others who seemed eager to join in the game.
On a neurological level we are encouraging new neuropathways (new habits of thought) and increased communications between the left and right brain. The right brain is conceptual; the left literal to over simplify. For a really wonderful story about what lies in store for us in the right brain, read Jill Bolte Taylor’s book, My Stroke of Insight.
And if you haven’t heard Dr. Taylor’s talk at Ted.com…please enjoy it right now and be inspired. Your brain, your focus of Source Energy to be the Creator of your reality intentionally. Use it or loose it.
We as a society have been trained out of feeling. We haven’t been trained to understand how useful and important they are. Neither have we been properly school as to what to do with them when we’re having them and most importantly what they’re telling us. Emotions are the most important and useful navigation system we EACH HAVE. This, dear people, is how we are all created equal. We have equal access to Source Energy through our EMOTIONS. In the moment that you are feeling something unwanted and unpleasant to any degree, you have the opportunity to know right now what it is that you really do want. This is an unusual moment of clarity. What you do want is now perfectly clear and obvious.
Recently in working with my private coaching clients I have noticed that the primary work is getting folks to feel. Seems the campaign over the years has been to NOT FEEL – especially negative emotion. This is counter productive. You see if you devise ways to cut off feeling the negative emotions, you simultaneously cut off feeling the positive ones, too. Even worse, you’re cutting off access to your own Wisdom – your Inner Guidance System. You can’t trust your gut if you can’t feel it’s guidance.
You came in with your own Inner Guidance System – you are personally hard-wired into Source Energy, which by the way is the highest, fastest and purist frequency and always feels GOOD to you. It’s telling you that you’ve got your human mind in alignment with your Source Self; and when you’re in alignment, you are allowing every good thing and all Well Being. You’re alive and well in every sense and radiating that Well Being (personal power) out into the physical world. Not only that, everything you’ve ever wished for whether consciously in “prayer” or subconsciously in desires…is on it’s way to you.
Now, let’s understand what negative emotions are telling you: you’re NOT in alignment with Source. In relationship to the physical drama or situation that you’re experiencing in your physical life, it’s telling you that something’s not right. You must understand this very important distinction: this is a feeling in your gut, not a doubt in your mind. You cannot use your Internal Guidance System with your mind. It doesn’t operate in your mind. You experience your Inner Guidance System with your EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS. Thus, you must allow yourself to feel and open up that area of the solar plexus otherwise known as your
So every time you take measures to not feel something via medications, drugs, alcohol, or a practiced response to cutting off your feelings, you are denying yourself access to your IGS.
Manipura or manipurakais symbolised by a downward pointing triangle with ten petals. The seed syllable is Ram, and the presiding deity is Braddha Rudra, with Lakini as the Shakti.Manipura is related to the metabolic and digestive systems. Manipura is believed to correspond to Islets of Langerhans,[29] which are groups of cells in the pancreas, as well as the outer adrenal glands and the adrenal cortex. These play a valuable role in digestion, the conversion of food matter into energy for the body. The colour that corresponds to Manipura is yellow. Key issues governed by Manipura are issues of personal power, fear, anxiety, opinion-formation, introversion, and transition from simple or base emotions to complex. Physically, Manipura governs digestion, mentally it governs personal power, emotionally it governs expansiveness, and spiritually, all matters of growth.[30]
You must open this area up and allow Light, Breath, Expansion and Source Energy to flow opening in this area. The best way to accomplish this is through breathing exercises. My favorite is in breath 3 counts and out breath 5 counts. Doing this is quieting the mind, allowing Source, relaxing and expanding for a minimum of 3-5 minutes; at least 5 times a day.
Don’t you find it interesting that Celiac’s Disease is on the rise, especially if you think of it terms of blocking the energy of Source from flowing freely through the Solar Plexus – the center of Light in the body? Open this center up and you can then trust your gut.
"Gratitude" vs "I kill/hate you" Crystals of Water
Dr. Masuru Emoto, Messenger of Water and author of the book, The Hidden Messages in Water has issued a request from each of us as a citizen of planet Earth to focus our Source Energy of Love and Gratitude towards the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Water. If you really want to help, this is the most effective and efficient method as a vibrational being to focus and direct your Energy right now. He has asked that at noon in your time zone that you pause in your day in a prayerful attitude and send this prayer:
“The water of Fukushima Nuclear Plant, we are sorry to make you suffer. Please forgive us. We thank you, and we love you.”
Please say it aloud or in your mind. Repeat it three times as you put your hands together in a prayer position.
Please offer your sincere prayer. Thank you very much from my heart. With love and gratitude, Masaru Emoto, Messenger of Water
We all co-created this event through human-ego mind, we are that powerful. Let us become now that which we really are: powerful Deliberate and Intentional Creators with our focus of Source Energy, which is Love.
Years ago when I first began my own transformation, I was told to “let go”. I wanted to strangle that person. Certainly, if I knew how to do that I would do it, right? Why would I hang onto something that caused me pain and suffering making happiness impossible? As the years went on, that question loomed bigger and bigger for me. How many times did I ask, “Oh, for Pete’s sake, won’t someone show me how to let go of what was, what is and this old, pitiful story?” I was sick of it; I was sick of recreating it…yet, the way to do that wasn’t clear until NOW.
The years went on and I learned more about human mind: it’s complexity, it’s incessant yammering, it’s falsity. I realized that the human mind was like the tail that wagged the dog. It ruled me and each person I knew. In fact, ego mind ruled the world. We suffer from the biggest illusion – the first illusion – Separation from Source, so therefore, human mind has become our false god.
If we think it, it must be so. If I can think, therefore I am…bosh. Yet, when you’re undertaking to write the opus of how it all works (the Universe, the World and the individual), there are many paths all leading you to the same Truth. After the Buddha wandered the planet suffering and witnessing all the suffering, he finally sat down beneath the Bodi tree and …LET GO. He surrendered. He gave up (his questioning and ego mind). Then it happened. He realized his Oneness – he realized the Presence of Awareness – he realized Who He Really Was.
Sounds like most of us, doesn’t it? Wandering the world, suffering within the drama of the human mind stories we make up about everything. The ego mind is the ultimate master of illusion, which is necessary to play the game on earth. But to be free is to realize you are not the story, the fear, the sickness, the mind – but the Awareness that is funding all the forms.
In walks Lester Levinson in the 1960′s and more recently the Sedona Method via Hale Dwoskin. My years of wandering in the desert to find the answer to my question of how to LET GO are over! You stop resisting it and welcome it in. Then you simply notice that you are not the story, the sensation, or the memory (idea, thought or belief). Then you notice what IS Present…Awareness. Oh sweet relief. Asked and answered!
Allow me to introduce you to Lester who figured all this out. Then we’ll explore the Triple Welcome Method tomorrow.
I want so much for us all to be free from the lie of separation. We are One with our Source, Awareness, always have been and always will be into eternity…and even right here, right now. Remember these…
“Yeah though I walk through the valley….Thou art With ME!” That Me is the Awareness. “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee?” That I is the Awareness. “I and my Father are One.” That I is the Awareness. “I will keep thee in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on ME.” I and Me is the IAM Awareness…You.
Notice today, if you will, that Awareness is breathing you; seeing through you; hearing through you; enlivening you – not your human ego mind.
What’s love got to do with…money, relationships, health, your experience of life? Everything. Anything or anyone who feels unloved isn’t presenting in the world in a nice way. In fact, evil is simply the absence of love. Illness is the absence of Love. Poverty is the absence of love. Why? Because Love is Source Energy, the Fullness of all that is Good, which is the True Self of all of us.
We all have “stories” about our lives. My folks didn’t love me; my spouse abused me; my family didn’t do this or that…and we carry these stories around like badges, recreating them over and over again…living the same experiences over and over again with different faces; but it’s the same old story. I didn’t get enough Love. In every act of everyday we are trying to “get” more Love. What’s weird about that is that we ARE Love and the place where we aren’t getting enough love is from our Self. We are Love; yet, we don’t know it; we don’t realize it, therefore we don’t have the EXPERIENCE OF IT, because we keep playing the same old tunes repeatedly searching for Love in all the wrong places: out there when it’s in here.
There is nothing you cannot let go of if you know how to “drop it”. You want a better relationship here and now, stop telling the story of how “unloved” you were as a kid. You want more Quality Life experiences right here and now; then stop telling the stories of your miserable low quality experiences back when. It’s history. It’s long gone. It was never Real; merely real.
Most of all, start loving yourself. Gather together all those unloved parts of you and bring them into your fold. They are like long lost children waiting to be heard, loved and honored in your inner world. When your mind is racing negative thoughts of doom and gloom, it’s those unloved, unrecognized and abandoned parts of you that are clamoring to be LOVED. And here’s the really Good News: once you love them, their stories dissolve. There is nothing on Earth that more Love won’t fix or cure. Nothing. For Love is the stuff, the glue, the common denominator of us all.
Love yourself first; then watch everything in your personal experience change.
Applied Spirituality offers a self-study audio course that will guide you back home to yourSelf where Love is right here, right now; it’s called You Are Enough...and you already Are.
Enjoy the song, Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places and imagine that the song is about you finding You.
Just when I think a certain way, something or someone comes along to dispel my “traditional thinking” and examine where I might be inflicting limits on myself. Take Ida Keeling, for example. If I could, I’d hug her. Ida is a competitive runner at age 95. She began her running career at age 67.
I’ve always suspected that aging was optional, but when I look around for examples, they are few. Most people begin the slow, downhill decline around age 50. You hear them say, “I’m old.” or “At our age, ….” They have worked all their lives and now are buying one of those ubiquitous mobile homes traveling the country. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course; but what if there’s more? What if “retirement” is the beginning of something new and wonderful instead of step one towards decline and death? What if life could look like happy/healthy, happy/healthy, happy/healthy…dead? We are alive and vibrant until we step on over at a time and date of our conscious choice with a big party?
I love the story of Ida Keeling, because she’s living whilst she’s alive and on the planet. She refuses others’ limitations as hers. She has chosen thoughts and ideas of her own and is living them out. She inspires me greatly. If Ida can begin running at age 67, then the path is wide open for me and everyone else to design a Quality Life into the triple digits of our own imagining. This is applied spirituality: allowing Infinite Intelligence to flow through our minds unobstructed by limiting beliefs, into our bodies and out into our physical creations.
The key? Drawing Life Force through you everyday. Allowing It to Flow fully through you (your mind and body) unobstructed by thoughts and beliefs of human mind that say you can’t do this, be this or have that. We are 96% Source Energy, Infinite Intelligence, God, Awareness call it what you will, and 4% physical body and human mind. Let the dog wag the tail, not the other way around.
Thank you Ida. I am grateful for your presence on the planet; and I am truly, deeply inspired to live fully all my days…my way. I’m going to help Ida write the new book on gerontology. How about you?
Going through life without being able to trust or respect yourself is living a fearful, unfulfilled life characterized by living small, without the necessary confidence to express your needs, wants and desires and move towards realizing them. This is playing it safe, living under the radar, and feeling despair. Low self esteem is a prison of one’s own construction and can be changed, grown and expanded. A healthy self esteem is a balance of self love and self trust which are the two sides of the Whole being.
Self respect (self love or self appreciation) is about valuing Who You Are. Aside from being valuable just because you are a living breathing expression of Source Energy, you must be able to see and appreciate your uniqueness, which is your gift to the rest of us. Without the requisite self appreciation, we never bring our gifts and talents to the world. And this is what you came to do: be You in all your delicious, beautiful, smart, clever and unique expression.
Self trust is feeling safe with yourself. It means you feel confidant in your ability to process the world and the information you’re receiving, and then confidant in making appropriate decisions for your highest and best good. If you don’t feel good at “decision” making and trust your internal process, you will shy away from decisions, actions and therefore stay right where you are, recreating your life the same over and over. This isn’t what a Light Being came to Earth to do. We have come to create; feel the results of our creations; and then choose again…much like the old Etch-A-Sketch. This is Applied Spirituality.
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At the root of every personal dilemma is the belief that we are isolated, alone, ineffectual and small. Nothing could be further from the truth. We are, each of us, Well Being, Perfection, Conscious Awareness. The Life that breathes us, enlivens us and every living thing. We are immense, but have suffered from the false belief in our separation from Source.
Jesus said, “I and my Father are One.” This was his statement of his realization of Oneness. We are each the same; one with the I AM.
“I AM is the Way, the Truth and the Life.”
The I AM is the Sea of Conscious Awareness in which we live, breathe and ARE. Notice. Who breathes you? What knows how to turn your food into new cells? What keeps the planets in their orbits? What? The same Conscious Awareness that is us; that is Who We Really Are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said it this way: Trust Thyself; It is the I AM.
Every day in the world we are bombarded with some one’s version of the truth. This one says this, that one says that. People go to war over the human mind version of the truth. There’s not enough; you’re doomed to this illness; my way is right and yours in wrong. This is the content of human mind…the sense of separation. This is the great illusion under which we all labor – that I am separate from you, alone on the planet and that whatever happens to me is personal. The great lie that began with the first telling of the story of Adam and Eve and their adventure in the Garden of Eden. Suddenly they were aware of “something other than paradise – oneness”.
In order to reclaim Paradise, our realization of Oneness, the human mind which is infinitely clever with its smoke and mirrors, has to be stilled. Or we must focus our attention on what IS PRESENT. Do you really notice a you that is feeling angry? Or are you the Awareness that notices anger come and go? We keep looking at the waves, when we are the ocean.
One way to disconnect from group human think is to examine the premise. Whose premise is it? What is it? How far back in human history does it go? Does it even feel correct? Thinking for yourself is a worthy endeavor which gives rise to inspired thought and ah-ha’s. The human mind is a tool that is meant for us to use in navigating this physical world. The human mind is to execute the desires of the heart, not the other way round which is what the human mind does. We force our heart to be still and execute the false premises of human mind.
Here’s an excerpt from the Earthling’s Quick Start Guide: Master Operating Your Unit on Earth (A Short Refresher Course in Applied Spirituality). Think about it.
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Breathing: the any time, any place, any where meditation technique
Another piece of scientific data that shows the positive benefits of quietening your mind. Mindfulness Meditation Training Changes Brain Structure in Eight Weeks, an article in Science Daily not just suggests but shows the benefits of quietening your mind. Seems it is true after all that to be more effective and efficient, never mind feeling good, we really do need to be still inside. Wouldn’t it be fun to realize after all the years of making fun of the spiritual types to find out they were on to something all along?
There’s an old story that I am reminded of that tells of two men in a wood chopping contest. At the start of the competition both men began with sharp axes. Throughout the day the men steadily worked at turning out their piles of chopped wood. One man refused to stop and rest; whilst the other stopped periodically to rest and sharpen his axe with much derision from the crowd. But at the end of the day, the man with the most chopped wood was the one who stopped to rest and sharpen his axe.
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or you might want to listen to Forest Meditations by Rita Desnoyer Garcia. It seems pretty clear to me that we can’t afford NOT to quiet our minds.