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Responsibility Gives You Back Your Power

Friday, February 26th, 2010

This week I talked about taking responsibility for how you react to your environment and for creating that environment in the first place. “What’s the point?”, you may ask. I think that when you take responsibility for your life, you take back your power. It is one of the most liberating and inspiring realizations that I have ever made!

As soon as you realize that you are responsible, you stop being a victim of circumstances and become an architect for your life. You take back the power and begin to exercise that power to, hopefully, go in the direction that you want to go. If you think about it, for you to be able to change anything, you must know that you have some power to do so. Otherwise, you won’t even try. This is, I believe, one of the reasons why so few people vote in North America – they do not think that their vote will change anything, so they don’t even bother. Do you think it is any different in other aspects of your life?

For you to make more money, you need to believe that you are capable of doing so. For you to be fit and healthy, you need to believe that you can do it. For an athlete to win the gold medal, he or she needs to believe in their ability to perform at that level. It is interesting that with the Olympic games, Canadians are constantly asked, ‘Do you believe?’.

So take responsibility for your life and take your power back so that you can use it!

Until Monday,

V

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How A Child Is Also Responsible

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

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You Always Have A Choice

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Yesterday I talked about how it is vital to take responsibility for your life. Often people who have not given this idea a lot of thought will say that they do not have a choice in how they react to a given situation. A few years ago I was in that very same position. The thing is, you always have a choice, it’s just that sometimes you have responded the same way so many times, that it becomes automatic.

After you run a certain pattern a whole bunch of times, you become conditioned to running that pattern again and again. It is much like Pavlov’s dogs that were conditioned to the sound of the bell as a signal that it was time to eat, and began to salivate every time the bell went off, even when there was no sign of food. Humans are no different – after we respond a certain way to that traffic jam, for example, chances are we’ll continue to respond that same way until something in our environment is considerably different or until we make a conscious effort to change our habitual response.

And it is when we are conditioned to a given response that we feel like we do not have a choice in the matter. I say that there is always a choice and always an alternative to any response you may have chosen thus far. In fact, I’ll challenge to you find a single exception. If you find one, please let me know, because I have not been able to find one for years.

Until next time,

V

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Take Responsibility For Your Life

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

This is one of those concepts that is so deep and so life changing that whole books can be written about it. Stephen R. Covey talks about ‘being responsible’ as the first habit of highly effective people. By the way, if you have not read Covey’s ‘The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People’ I would highly recommend it. So what does taking responsibility mean?

Well, at its core, it means to get to a point where you feel, understand, and internalize that you are responsible for your experience of life – the bad, the good, and the ugly. I would personally argue that you are responsible for all of the circumstances, events, and conditions in your life. This can be a difficult concept to explain, and much more difficult to internalize, and it also raises good questions, such as, ‘Is the child in Africa responsible for the conditions she is born into?’. But that’s a whole other discussion, which I will tackle later. For now, however, even if I say that you are not responsible for the circumstances, events, and conditions in your life, you are definitely responsible for how you perceive all those experiences and how you react to them.

Stephen Covey talks about responsibility as really being ‘response-ability’, or an ability to choose your response to whatever happens. Say you are in a traffic jam; you can be angry and frustrated, or you can be calm and relaxed. Chances are you have had both responses at one time or another, and in both scenarios your experience of that same traffic jam is very different. In other words, your ‘reality’ changes according to how you choose to respond to the situation. And this applies to every situation you may find yourself in.

Pretty powerful stuff, don’t you think?

Until next time,

V

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Spiritual Mind Treatment (2010.02.22)

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Join me in knowing that, at the fundamental level, Energy is the only thing in existence. Energy cannot be created or destroyed and it is everywhere at all times. The flow of Energy is governed by the precise Law that is impartial, impersonal, and lacks judgment; it can only take the input of vibration and mirror it back into the physical realm, and it does so immediately, each and every time. Knowing that I am Energy, I also know that all are that very same Energy. Being made, at the very basic level, of the same Energy as everyone else, I know that what is available to one is available to all and is also available to me. As I recognize that very Truth, I know that my results are limited only by my beliefs and actions, and not by my potential which is, for all intents and purposes, unlimited. Being one with all, I expect my consciousness to grow in order to encompass this reality more and more and I also expect my results to follow suit. I feel unconditional gratitude for my life, my consciousness, and for my ability to create. I release my amped vibrations into the Universe and into the Law knowing that it is already done. And so it is!

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Yoga

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Keeping with the spiritual theme of the week, I’d like to go into the weekend with a brief talk about yoga. Much like with meditation, there are numerous different yoga practices, with postures ranging from light and easy ones, to very advanced ones where I wonder how people can bend that way. I personally do yoga pretty much every day. On some days I go through a lengthy yoga program, thought on the days where I do other forms of exercise, like a gym workout, I simply start my day with ’sun salutations’ to stretch out and get my body moving.

I personally enjoy more challenging yoga, where I feel like my body is getting a nice workout and a good stretch. However there are huge benefits to just doing some yoga stretches that don’t get your heart rate up that much. It’s nice that there is variety for everyone – you can always find what you are looking for.

And if you didn’t know that, yoga can be a meditative practice as well. Like with many forms of physical exercise, when you in the middle of it, it’s easier to stay in the present moment and focus on what you are doing, which is one form of meditation.

Until Monday,

V

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Group Meditation

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

For quite a long time I have considered mediation a very private practice and would always do it in the peace and quiet of my home. As time passed, I have head a few interesting things about the power of meditating in groups, so I decided to try it out. People experience different things, but I can only speak for myself when I talk about the ways that the experience of a group meditation is different from the one done in solitude. There are two main differences that I find.

The first difference that stands out is how much easier it is to meditate for longer periods when I am in a group. It is like you feed off the energy of other people. By myself, 20 minutes is roughly the longest time I can meditate for. In a group, however, 40 minutes passes by very quickly and almost unnoticeably. That aspect of it is very neat.

The second difference is that it can be more distracting in a group. At this point in my meditative practice, noise is a distraction, although more experienced meditators say that they feed off the noise to go deeper. So at home things tend to be a lot quieter, while in a group someone is coughing or moving around or whatnot. That makes it more difficult for me to get into it.

Group meditation is a neat experience, and if you have a chance, try it out. These days I do a mix of the two, so that I can feed off the energy and still enjoy the solitude.

Until next time,

V

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Meditation vs Treatment

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

If you have been reading my blog for a little while, you’ll know that I start every week off with a Spiritual Mind Treatment. It is taught in the Science of Mind philosophy as the best, thought not the only, tool for recognizing the magnificence of the Universe, our bond with It, and aligning ourselves with the Universe so that we can live in harmony.

Meditation is another tool that is taught in this philosophy and it becomes part of a daily practice. There are many studies documenting the benefits of meditation, so it is nice to have some science behind it. Meditation, however, serves a very different purpose.

In this philosophy, treatment and meditation form a line of communication, for lack of a better word, with the Universal Subconscious. In treatment you essentially declare what you want to manifest in life; you create a mold for the Universe to fill. In meditation, on the other hand, you listen for any feedback that may come in the form of feelings, inspirations, or something else that can give you a clue as to what you may need to do in order to accomplish your goal. So to put it in a form of an analogy, treatment is talking and is active in nature while meditation is listening and is passive in nature.

I do realize that there are many different types of meditation. There are many active meditations that can be considered treatments, like when you visualize your ideal life. The meditation that I am talking about here is the type of meditation where you try to quiet your mind and get rid of your thoughts. And, of course, there are a number of meditations in between.

Until next time,

V

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Meditation

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Last week I started exploring the conscious and subconscious thoughts and how dominant subconscious thoughts really are. I also presented a couple of strategies on how to empower your conscious thoughts. Today I want to talk about meditation as another tool for giving your conscious thoughts a little more power. Meditation will help by doing two things:

1. Bringing some subconscious thoughts into your conscious mind, and by
2. Quieting down your mind so you have fewer thoughts.

Both things will empower your conscious mind a little bit. By helping some of the subconscious thoughts surface into your consciousness, you can take a closer look at what is going on under the hood. This will also help if you want to mess around with your subconscious programming.

By observing your thoughts you make them dissipate at the same time. As you get better at meditating, you will be able to experience larger gaps between your thoughts where your mind is quiet and you just ‘are’. By reducing the number of thoughts that you have in the day, you are empowering your conscious mind more and more because there are fewer subconscious thoughts. I’m not saying that this will flip your life around, although it may, but it is definitely another tool for you to add to your arsenal.

Until next time,

V

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Spiritual Mind Treatment (2010.02.15)

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Join me in knowing that there is only one thing happening – the eternal flow of Energy that is behind all things visible and invisible, an Energetic flow that is guided by Intelligence and governed by the Universal Law. This Energy is the only thing that was, is, and ever will be, it is everywhere at all times, and it is more abundant than I can even comprehend. The Law is impersonal, always at work, and always responding to the vibrations of thought and feeling, irrespective of the source of those vibrations and not preoccupied with the outcome. I know that since Energy is all that is, then I too must be that Energy and in Principle am linked with the entire Energetic field of the Universe, in spite of objectively living as a separate individualization. Since I am linked to the whole Energetic field, and since I am intelligent, I know I can guide the flow of Energy by planting thoughts and feelings into Law. So here and now, in this very moment, I create a blue-print for my life by releasing the vibrational equivalent of happiness, joy, health, abundance, prosperity, and love. I know that as I release these wonderful vibrations, I can only, by Law, attract into my experience the circumstances, people, and events that are congruent with my blue-print. Anything and anyone that seemingly stands in the way is automatically dissolved and dissipated by the very same Law, so that all that is left is a clear, unobstructed path for me to take. I am deeply grateful for my recognition, understanding, and internalization of the Truth and of the Universal Principles. I release my blue-print into that Energetic field and am thankful for knowing that it is already so in the Absolute and is already in the process of physically manifesting in the most harmonious way possible. I accept and expect it to be so. And so it is.

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