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Friday, April 30th, 2010
It’s nice to feel nice. Actually, what I am trying to say is that it is very useful to feel the way you want to feel – and this is not just a play on words. We talked many times about the importance of feeling in a way that is conducive to creating the experiences you want to have more of. So if you want to bring about more happiness you need to feel happy, to experience more abundance you need to feel more abundant, to experience more love you need to feel loved, etc, etc. So pay attention to the things you do and the little cues in your environment that make you feel a certain way that would be useful to you. Let me give you some examples.
If you find that you feel really connected and appreciated when you hang out with a certain person, make an effort to hang out with them more often (this is of course assuming that you want to experience feelings of connectedness and appreciation more often). If you find that buying lunch for a friend makes you feel abundant, start inviting more people to lunch. If you discover that driving a clean vehicle makes you feel on top of you game, go wash your car more often. If you…you get the idea.
Have fun with this!
Until Monday,
V
Tags: Action, Energy, goals, Law Of Attraction, Success, The Secret
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
In class last night we had a lengthy discussion on how emotions differ from feelings; people had ideas, but no one seemed to be able to effectively get their point across to the rest of the class where they agreed. Often people use these words interchangeably, but when you study this in a little more detail, there is a difference between the two. And the most peculiar thing is that the difference is not very well defined. I’ll give you my understanding of the difference between the two, but I’d really like it if you could add your thoughts through the comments.
My understanding is that feelings are physiological responses to stimuli, where a physiological response involves the chemistry of your body, and a stimuli can be a thought, a external event or occurrence, someone’s words or touch, etc. Feelings are physical and chemical changes in your physiology – you feel love, anger, frustration, stress, and joy as a very real sensations in your body. Emotions, on the other hand, are the labels that we put on those sensations (happiness, love, anger, etc). So the two are closely related – no doubt – but they are not the same. First you have a stimulus, which creates a physical change in your body (a feeling), which we label with a name of a certain emotion.
Feelings are ‘absolute’, while emotions are ‘relative’. What I mean by that is that a given feeling is always the same (a feeling, again, being a certain physiological state of your body), but that same feeling can get a variety of labels from different people (called a number of different emotions). When I push on my desk, the desk pushes back (that would be equivalent to the feeling), but I can use several phrases to describe that behaviour (call it a number of emotions), like “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” or the “Newton’s Third Law of Motion”. They are different words describing the same overall idea.
Who knows, I may be out to lunch with this… what do you think?
Until next time,
V
Tags: Emotions, Energy, Feelings, Kenn Gordon, Science Of Mind, Universe
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Pretty much every book that talks about the concept that we are responsible for what we create and attract into our own lives, says that it is the feelings that get the creative process rolling. Sure, everything begins with a thought, but though by itself will not create much – you need to be emotionally involved in the idea – that means that you need to have corresponding feelings about that idea. More importantly, those feelings need to be supportive of you experiencing and achieving whatever it is that you are after; if you feel like you are incapable or unworthy of the given goal, it’s counter productive and will keep you away from what you desire.
We talked about how vital our subconscious mind is to the creative process. So how do you know what you mind is doing? A great way to check that is to check your feeling. This idea came to a friend of mine who shared it with me, and I thought it was a very insightful observation. If at any point in time you want to get an idea of what you are brining into your experience, ask yourself how do you feel. Feelings are like a temperature gage for your consciousness, that is your conscious and subconscious minds put together. Do you feel happy, loved, joyful, and abundant? Or do you feel sick, lost, confused, and generally pitiful? That is what you are bringing more of into your life.
I think that “How do I feel?” is a great question to ask yourself throughout the day. It will likely provide you with some very interesting insights into what is going on in your mind.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Energy, goals, Law Of Attraction, Neo-Spirituality, Success, The Secret, Universe
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
This relates a lot to the yesterday’s post on self-image. I’ve heard this question asked, “what is in your container of certainty?” I thought that ‘the container of certainty’ was a really cool way of expressing the idea.
The concept is pretty simple and straight forward – you will always get whatever is in your container of certainty – no more, no less. You will not get what you want nor what you wish for, but rather what you truly expect. Every time I write something related to this concept, I am in awe from the power that comes once you understand and internalize that idea. Personally I’m starting to get there after all these years, but I’m a slow learner.
So what is in your ‘container of certainty’? What kind of life are you expecting? What kind of relationships are you expecting to have? What kind of work do you expect to be doing? What is your expectation when it comes to health and fitness? Just some food for thought…
Until Monday,
V
Tags: Energy, goals, Human Behavior, Law Of Attraction, Marriage, Money, Neo-Spirituality, Relationships, Success, Universe
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
You have probably heard the comparison between the psycho-cybernetic mechanism in our minds and the thermostat. My understanding that the term has been coined by Dr. Maxwell Maltz in his book called Psycho-Cybernetics (’psycho’ being the mind; ‘cybernetics’ being the study of control and communication). It is a fascinating read and if you have not read it, I highly recommend it. I will shine some light on a lot of questions that you may have.
The book talks about the idea of a ’self-image’ and how it guides everything in your life. This is where the thermostat analogy is used – when the temperature falls below the set value, the heaters turn on until the temperature returns to ‘normal’; when the temperature rises above, the air conditioning turns on and again brings it back to ‘normal’. Our psycho-cybernetic mechanism is a blessing and a curse at the same time and applies to all areas of life – fitness, health, relationships, finances, etc.
It is a blessing because there is no way that you will allow yourself to remain below the ’set value’ for an extended period of time. The reverse is also true – you will not remain above the ’set value’ for an extended period of time as well. Say your target weight is 150 lb. If you step on the scale and see yourself at 160 lb, you’ll likely go on a diet, get a gym membership, and get a running buddy, until you go back to 150 lb. The only way you’ll stay at 160 is if you make it OK and change your self image to correspond to that.
There are huge implications when you understand this, and while ‘truth will set you free’, be prepared for A LOT of work once you start messing with the thermostat.
Until next time,
V
Tags: goals, Human Behavior, Maxwell Maltz, Neo-Spirituality, Psycho-Cybernetcs, Relationships, Success
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
I had a lengthy discussion with friend of mine the other week after he made a statement that “there are no bad ideas – only good ones”. His argument was that it is our beliefs, judgments, and conditioning that makes us see an idea as ‘bad’. Still, though, nothing about that statement felt right. If our beliefs, judgments, and conditioning makes an idea ‘bad’, then surely those same things would go into making an idea ‘good’. And I don’t think I’ll get too many people to disagree when I say that experience shows that there are a lot of ‘bad’ ideas – drinking too much the night before, getting into a fight, being involved in a certain relationship, jumping out of an airplane without a parachute…
And then it hit me…
Jumping out of an airplane without a parachute is a great idea if you want to kill yourself; not so great if you want to live to see another day. At that point, we actually came a conclusion rather quickly. Ideas are not good or bad – they just are. Ideas are either effective or ineffective at getting you to a certain result. Now that statement resonates with me.
Your thoughts?
Until next time,
V
Tags: Communication, goals, Ideas
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
And as a spin-off from yesterday’s post, I also want to make sure that you don’t focus your energy and attention on knowing what you don’t want. Sure, there are things that you don’t want to have and experience in your life, but don’t focus on that – instead focus on the opposite of that. So if you don’t want to be alone, focus on having friends; if you don’t want to be broke, focus on abundance.
As you may have heard, the Universe cannot interpret the negative of anything. Not wanting something and wanting something is vibrationally identical because you are still energized about that something. Essentially the Universe takes the absolute value of the things you are talking about. Another concept to note is that your subconscious cannot tell the difference between the energy directed at yourself and energy directed at someone else. So if you are calling someone an idiot, it is the ‘idiot’ that is perceived, and not that it is someone else that you are actually talking about. Maybe this is why many wise people have said that you should send love out to everyone else – maybe it is so that you interpret it as love for yourself?
Now you may find this concept rather obvious, but I still hear a lot of people tell me with much greater ease what they do not want instead of what they do want. You’ll ask them what they want next year to be, and they say “I don’t know…I know that I don’t want to lose my job though”. Umm…OK. With that attitude, you just might…
So what do you want? Take the weekend to ponder that question!
Until Monday,
V
Tags: Energy, Human Behavior, Neo-Spirituality, Science Of Mind, Success, Universe
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
I believe that we sculpt our experiences with our feelings, which are often a result of our thoughts. That is why you will hear from all the different sources that if you change your thinking, you will change your life. So if thoughts are the starting point, then you need to be very clear about what you want. Clarity gives you power.
I like to compare this to a process of going to a professional designer, tailor, architect, or someone similar. If you are very clear about what it is that you want them to do and create, you will get exactly what you envisioned. If, however, you are unclear and hazy in your description, then you are inviting imagination and creativity from those people, and there is a good chance that what they will come up with will not be exactly what you wanted.
So, get as clear as possible on the life you want to live, the experiences you want to go through, and things you want to have. Clarity will make it a lot easier to bring those ideas in to your reality.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Clarity, Energy, goals, Neo-Spirituality, Success, Universe
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Prior and during the Olympic games there were a number of commercials running asking Canadians if we ‘believe’ in winning the Olympic games. The theme song of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, ‘I Believe’ by Nikki Yanofski, talks about the belief and the power of the nation as one. As you can see, belief has helped Canada win the Olympic games.
And yes, Canada did win the Olympic games. It’s the gold medals that count – the number of events that the country has won, and not reached second or third place. Sure, silver or bronze is a great achievement, but then getting to the Olympics in the first place is an achievement. In any case, counting the total medals seems to be a North American thing and if you go on the BBC website, Canada is in the first place as it should be!
And what a great accomplishment it is! Canada has never really been a power house in the Olympics, and here we are winning the most gold medals ever won in the Winter Olympic Games, the most gold medals ever won by a Canadian Olympic Team, and all that done on the home soil!
I am very impressed by and proud of what the Canadian athletes, and all the people who have supported the games, have accomplished and am grateful to live in this amazing country and this beautiful province.
So, what do you believe about yourself? Your environment? Your country? Your world?
Until next time,
V
Tags: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Belief, Energy, Success
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Earlier this week I made a claim that we are responsible for absolutely everything that happens in our lives. For you to understand that, you first need to understand the concept of the Law of Attraction and how, through the vibrations that you release as a result of your thoughts and feelings, you attract the people, events, circumstances, and the environment that resonates with your predominant vibration. For people who understand the Law of Attraction, it is easier to understand how adults attract things, but it can still be difficult to see how an infant born to certain conditions is responsible for those conditions.
This comes back to the whole notion of your entire consciousness being attractive, which includes your subconscious mind, and not just your conscious mind. An infant does not have anything in their conscious mind – not anything they can make sense of anyways. When a child is born, they are, however, born with a subconscious mind that is wide open for programming, and although is wide open, it does not mean that it is empty.
Since we are all really Energy, I believe we are linked, in a way, through our subconscious minds. And the infant is subconsciously linked to his or her parents, community, country, and world as a whole, with parents having the strongest influence. If you have trouble with this, think of DNA. Child’s DNA carries programming from his parents, his larger community, and the human species as a whole, with the parental influence being the strongest. In a similar manner, the same child take on the subconscious programming from their parents. And it is this subconscious programming that a child starts out with that is attractive.
I hope that this explanation makes some sense.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Energy, Law Of Attraction, Neo-Spirituality, Responsibility, Universe
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