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Mind Power

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In 2006 I was living in Santa Rosa DR Mcconnellwith my daughter and jack russell terrier.  We had a lovely, funky house that I dreamed of getting old in.  How I had come by this house is another story and a miracle.  I felt very blessed and looked forward to many years of bliss in my neighborhood.

After several years of habitation there, I woke up one morning with a persistent thought going through my mind.  It was really just background noise and at first I didn’t pay any attention to it.  However, after several hours, I stopped to give it some attention.

What I had been repeating over and over to myself was, “I am not moving to Petaluma. I am not moving to Petaluma.  I am not moving to Petaluma.”

Family 3At first it seemed completely bizarre and made no sense.  I mean, I was not moving to Petaluma and was not even considering it.  Sure, my daughter had decided that the local high school was not for her and she was transferring to a private school in Petaluma, but that was only a half hour from us and there was good bus service.  The idea of moving from my dream home was never an option on the table.

Yet, here I was arguing to myself that I was not moving.  What was the meaning of that?  Then it struck me.  If I was arguing with myself it could only mean one thing:  Part of me knew I was moving to Petaluma.

I never got the thought, “I should move to Petaluma” instead I was reacting to that by retorting, “I am not moving to Petaluma”.  Since I live a spirit driven life it seemed clear to me that “spirit” (whatever that is) was moving me to Petaluma.  Since the move turned out to be all about my daughter, perhaps she was the “spirit” that did the moving.

I am contemplating this story today, because I recently started a four week Mind Power training.  One of the contemplations assigned as homework this week is:

My power to think thoughts is my power to create my life.  I have the power to think whatever thoughts I choose.

I was struck by the idea that I have the power to think whatever thoughts I choose in light of my “I am not moving to Petaluma” story.  While thoughts may be real forces (Law #1)  and I can either entertain thoughts or dismiss thoughts (Law #3), I am wondering if I really have the power to create my life by controlling my thoughts.  I mean, my decision to move to Petaluma was totally done on a subconscious/unconscious level.  And the only conscious thought was the reactionary, “I am not moving to Petaluma.”

The Mind Power system is based on six laws regarding how the mind and thoughts work.  Law #6 is the law of connection that states that the outer world of our circumstances and situations and the inner world of our thoughts and reactions are connected.  This is obvious when we think about how someone saying bad things about us (outer world) makes us feel bad (inner world).  It is less obvious, or at least not conventionally recognized, how feeling bad (inner world) might make bad things happen to us (outer world).

Going into the Mind Power training I would have agreed with John Kehoe’s idea that our thoughts and beliefs determine our circumstances and beliefs.  Yet, now after contemplating, I am wondering about the effectiveness of his method.  His methods seemed to be focused on acting in the conscious realm, while ThetaHealing and Access Consciousness are designed to bypass the conscious and remove beliefs from the subconscious.

Further, I am wondering how effective changing beliefs and thoughts can be in creating my desired future in situations where I receive a “knowing of right action” that supersedes the planned life I have consciously chosen?  What would have happened if I would have clung to my thought “I am not moving to Petaluma?”

 

The choice of possibilities

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This morning I talked with an old friend who is in her 90’s. She was talking about how she was working with her body to heal an issue with rectal prolapse.  You could tell by her words and attitude that she was not buying into the idea that this was “age related”.  She told me that when she has some pain, she just says, “Darling body, you don’t have to feel that way.  You can relax and completely heal.”

I was very pleased to hear her approach.  This was in contrast to several years earlier when she was having strange activity with her heart, was scared for her life, and fretting quite a bit.  I asked her about that and she said, “I do not pay any attention to my heart now.”  I got the sense that her heart may or may not be doing the same weird things, but she no longer frets about it.

She also remarked that she was reversing the aging process.  I applauded this.  So many people buy into the aging myth.  I personally am learning how not to age and how not to die.  It is simply a choice and I am interested in doing that.  Most of the people I know choose to age and die.  Some of them even celebrate it.  Different choices for different people.  what will you choose?
This afternoon, I was listening to Gary Douglas on Access Consciousness Radio.  He was facilitating a woman that was struggling with her misbeliefs about money.  He suggested she make this choice:  “I am going to learn how to have money”.

I liked that choice.  I seems like it could create more possibility than deciding that one cannot have money.  This got me to thinking about what else I could choose that I had never chosen before or that I imagined was impossible for me.  And this reminded me that three years ago a friend suggested I make of list of 100 things I’d like to have happen before I die.  I got the list out and read it.

Five of the items had been realized:  two of the books on the list had been published, I had a smart phone, an IR sauna, and a spiritual partner.  There were 95 items left to go.  The bucket list includes spending time with a chimpanzee or gorilla, being bilingual, giving a house to a family in need, being elected to a public office, and being able to live without food. Some of the items I don’t really care about, but listing 100 things was a challenge.  When I did the process, I just kept asking myself, “What else would be fun?”

I recommend you make a similar list for yourself.  The power of writing it down, will naturally begin to attract the things and situations you desire.  And then maybe pick one to three “impossible” things that you desire and ask:

What would it take for this to happen or for me to have this?

 

What invention am I choosing to create the lack of this that I am choosing?

 

What energy, space and consciousness can my body and I be to be this?

And remember a choice is just a choice, not a contract.  You can always choose something different.

Creating our lives

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Does it seem like life just happens to you?  Or are you consciously choosing to create your life?  What would it take to have a life that is completely different?  And what if the change could be effortless?  What if you could make a choice today that would simply change everything?

For me, many changes have occurred in the last six months: new partnerships, new surroundings and a blank slate for creation.  Expansive energy fills and moves me as I live the question: What can I create that is beyond my imagination?  And who would like to play with me in this creative process? And what is possible?

I have moved out of my comfort zone to experience more.

With my move back to the Bay Area, which was my home for thirty years, I have seized the opportunity to connect with old friends.  I am open to attracting partners, people with shared values and a desire to create something more. In the past I thought that I had to have a vision and invite people to that, but now I know that I can just be willing to create beyond what I have already created and not restrict the possibilities with “vision”.energyI feel so blessed in many ways, yet I know that what I am enjoying is just the fruits of the choices I have made.  I used to wait for opportunities to open up.  I was waiting to find the right mate, the right job, the right friends.  I knew I was amazing, just as we all are, and I was waiting to be discovered.

Now I know that the fuel for forcing opportunities to show up is choice.  If I want opportunities, all I have to do is choose and ward off any thoughts and feelings that limit me and the possibilities.  I also know that some choices naturally limit other choices.  For instance my choice to be meditative naturally limited how much time I spent with people.

If I choose to paint the house white than I can not simultaneously have a blue house.

When I move out of form and structure, more possibilities become available.  I do not have to figure out how to create success and opportunities, they naturally flow towards me when I am effortlessly being.  In addition, I can ask:  “What is my objective for choosing to do a particular activity?  And is it possible to achieve that objective by another means?”  In the case of meditation, I choose to meditate because I was keen on enlightenment.  Now I am just keen on enlightenment, without forcing my ideas on how I can make that come about.  I am open to meditating, and I am open to the divine moving me by other means.

Many years I lived in judgments that limited me.  I had ideas about what a good relationship was like, what type of partner would suit me, what type of work I wanted to do, and what the “highest and best” activities were.  One of my most limiting beliefs was that success in business and relationships took effort.  I am still working at totally realizing the ideas that Easy does it and that all of life can come to me with ease and joy and glory.

What can I choose today that will create a world beyond my wildest dreams?create