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Inspiring Creativity

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

“I am not creative!”

You may have heard that phrase uttered by different people; I have no problem admitting that I have said that many times in the past, and maybe you have too.

We are taught that creativity comes from the right side of the brain and that logic comes from the left, and that people are somehow strong in one and not in the other. I was always good at the sciences, so I figured that I was not supposed to be good creatively, and thus I never pursued anything in that field. On top of that, add loving parents, who kept saying that I was tone deaf every time I expressed any interest in music. The picture paints itself.

The interesting thing is, exploring childhood memories, I remember really enjoying drawing, painting, sculpting with play-do, and building things out of LEGO. Somehow, over time, I did not focus any energy on developing those interests, and so, as expected, they dissipated into thin air. I think there are quite a lot of people who had a similar experiences, and what does not help is our school system that rewards sciences a lot more than arts.

These days I find that I have periods of creativity, so the fire is not out yet. I am trying to pay attention to what is going on when I get into the creative mode so that I can develop it some more. It is something that I recommend you also pay attention to if you find yourself in a similar situation.

Until next time,

V

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Container Of Certainty

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

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The Thermostat

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

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Don’t Focus On What You Don’t Want

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

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Be Clear About What You Want

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

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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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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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