Archive for the ‘Universe’ Category
Friday, August 13th, 2010
Last night I took the opportunity to watch the meteor shower. It was a very cool experience, something that I will definitely do again next time. Being under the bright starry sky, watching rocks burn up as they travel through the Earth’s atmosphere just reminded me how tiny and insignificant humans are in the grand scheme of things. How arrogant it is to think that all that was ‘created’ for us to enjoy?! We are such a tiny spec of existence that the Universe wouldn’t even know if we were gone.
Trying to picture all that space, those astronomically huge distances, and how most of it is emptiness gives my brain a cramp. It’s not easy to imagine infinity. I can see how people develop fascination with the sky. It is so beautiful and so surreal that it is highly intoxicating. And today, most people will never experience this. People clump together in cities that are full of bright lights that make it impossible to see the sky at its full glory. And let’s be honest, how many of us leave our cities far enough to escape the lights of the civilization? Very few do it on the regular basis. Most hardly leave at all.
Until Monday,
V
Tags: Happiness, Human Behavior, Inspiration, Meditation, Universe
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
There is this really neat video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q_GQqUg6Ts
that explains the 11 dimensions. It took me quite a few viewings to somewhat understand what the heck they are talking about, but to this day I don’t quite get it. In either case the video is quite interesting!
For those of you wondering why I am talking about the 11 dimensions while the video title is about understanding the 10th dimension, it’s because dimensions start at 0, being a point. So 11 dimensions go from 0 to 10.
Enjoy the brain cramp!
Until next time,
V
Tags: Energy, Law Of Attraction, Meditation, Neo-Spirituality, Science Of Mind, Success, Universe
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
If you have been following the World Cup, you may have heard about Paul the Octopus living in the Oberhausen Sea Life centre in Germany, who predicts the outcomes of the German soccer matches. To get a match prediction, two mini tanks are set up with the octopus treats inside, marked with the flags of Germany and their respective opponent. When Paul the Octopus goes for the treats, the country represented on the mini tank is the predicted winner. So far he is been able to predict the outcomes of all five German matches in this World Cup. In the Euro 2008, Paul the Octopus was 80% accurate. So what is going on here?
As per usual, there are two possible explanations. First is that Paul the Octopus can actually predict the outcomes of soccer matches. If everything in the Universe is Energy, and everything is connected, and the concept of time is actually an illusion, then quite possibly Paul the Octopus may have ‘a gift’. On the other side there are skeptics who explain that statistically predicting outcomes of games with such accuracy it is not that improbable – and there is no need to involve anything ‘supernatural’. Picking 5 out 5 correct matches by chance is 3%. So if there were 100 animals picking outcomes of games, 3 of them would get all 5 right. The challenge is, we don’t hear about all the times that the match outcome was not consistent with the foresight.
Whatever the case may be, there is another prediction and another test for it later today. Paul the Octopus picked Spain to defeat Germany. I am cheering for Germany, so I hope that the damn octopus is wrong. If he is right however, I’ll be inviting people over for a Polpi in Umido.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Energy, Neo-Spirituality, Paul the Octopus, Science Of Mind, Soccer, Universe, World Cup 2010
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
This is one of those phrases that sounds nice and playful, yet contains a lot of power and wisdom. I’ve talked in the past about the vital role that expectations play in our lives, and this phrase, which I heard in a Bob Proctor program, puts it rather eloquently. The idea is pretty simple – your true expectations will create your experience. It’s not what you want, not what you wish for, but what you truly expect that becomes your experience. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had countless situations that reflect that very principle at work.
So, ‘never expect what you don’t desire’! Pretty simple, right? In theory yes…in application it can be more difficult. If it wasn’t we’d never get what we don’t desire. But seriously, if you don’t desire something, why in the world would you expect it? It’s a logical statement, but we are not very logical beings. The same holds for the other side of the equation – ‘never desire what you don’t expect’. If you desire what you don’t expect, you simply will not be able to bring that into your experience. If there is something that you desire, work on expecting it in your life.
Now I’ve got to go work on the lesson in this phrase myself…
Until next time,
V
Tags: Bob Proctor, Energy, goals, Irrational Behavior, Law Of Attraction, Neo-Spirituality, Success, The Secret, Universe
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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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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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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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