QUOTES FROM THE FIRST PART OF THE JOURNEY- WHERE WE EXPAND FROM A CURRENT SELF THROWN ABOUT BY LIFE EVENTS INTO AN EMPOWERED CREATOR MANIFESTING LIFE! THEREAFTER WE MOVE - EVEN FROM BEING CREATOR - WE DISSOLVE INTO THE COSMIC PLAY & ITS SURRENDER! HOWEVER THE FIRMER THE FORMER PART OF THE JOURNEY, THE MORE NATURAL THE LATTER PART!

Thoughts matter...and that they literally become the ‘matter’ of your lives is the awareness that can change your life

We have all heard and read that we are Creators; that the Creator is within us; but where, really where is this Creator within you? The answer of course is that the Creator within you ...is in your belief system. As you believe… so do you create! As per your frequency …does it manifest externally!

There is big difference in your thoughts & your beliefs! Thoughts are your current focus which impact energy into taking shape- thus as you change your thoughts you change what you are creating. Beliefs are your subconscious 24/7 focus- your frequencies- always impacting your reality! Thus thoughts are like energy signatures; beliefs are like a long standing power of attorney!

‘The future’ is only rearrangement, a repeat, a rehash of what you call the past, unless you change within you that which causes your outside! Trying to fix or manipulate the outside is as futile applying your makeup on the reflection in the mirror, and wondering why it hasn’t stayed on when you reach the party!

Miracles are usually viewed as providential events, orchestrated by a source outside & higher than us & made possible through some circumvention of the natural laws! However in every seeming miracle you are the source, not an outside higher power! It’s your focus that is their life force not divine decree! Indeed miracles are not some divine suspension of universal laws -but our optimization of the same!

We often think it is ‘we’ who choose our after lives and rebirths... but more accurately it is not we the personality, but our energy field –our frequencies and vibrations, that 'choose'/attract/create the experiences!

Focus is a life force bringing to life that which you place your attention on! Thus focus on whom which you choose to become and choose to experience- not on whom or what choose to move away from.

Recurring thoughts manifest our life events by default- as that’s the vibration we hold in our energy field- and it becomes our default the energy signature to attract like wise!

Abundance is not something you create; it is something you tune into.

Thoughts: Instead of resisting and fighting our 'negative/depleting' thoughts...and giving them more power... allow them to pass away like clouds on a windy day! Don’t open your window to them and they cant 'rain' into your house/life...

Abundance is to be tapped within (rather than fret how to address it on the outside)....then you open for first time to its constant flow.... and it pours forth from you... rather than into you!  You are its source! And then you witness it all around! 

By creating awareness of an advanced consciousness within your present moment, you open pathways that bring you into resonance with vaster aspects of self and its advanced understandings… and even as you play with this, allow it to tease your mind, as you flirt with this future self…it increasingly & automatically becomes a part of current you!

We live in what is called a vibrational universe… everything you see and don’t see is energy vibrating at different frequencies. So yes, stone, animal, this table, your chairs, you and me and our thoughts and feelings are energy vibrating at different frequencies- and what you can’t see is what we will call pure energy- the same energy, but as yet not imprinted by you- And thus it is raw material awaiting your instructions- through your thinking! So if you can visualize this, you are surrounded in a field of energy- and your thoughts are impinging on it-ping ping ping every moment. And this is why the NOW is so important!

If we understand the universal laws of energy we can better understand and manifest life! a) Like attracts like! Which means- what you think- you attract! Energy is neutral- which means it knows no difference in what we want and don’t want thus both positive or negative attention are instructions-what I call energy signatures to energy to manifest likewise! This is important to understand dearest friends, because whether we are ‘aware’ of this or not, your thoughts, feelings, beliefs and frequencies are even now shaping & impacting, the day-to-day stuff in your lives. b) Energy resists its opposite: so think about this- if you are loving and accepting of self, then anger, hatred, critique and the like pass you by (due to the resistance your loving aura offers!) If you are full of self-hate and anger- love is what sidesteps you instead! Over time, if you develop a positive energy field then it becomes an automatic shield deterring any negative from coming into your life! c) Energy only knows the now: We create instantly (I am told it takes 15 human seconds) on the inner realms! But yes it  takes ‘time’ to become physical because we have chosen a time lag in the human experience to be able to hone our thoughts before manifesting/experiencing them as the events, people things we call life! So with this in mind become more aware that yes your thoughts go ping, yes your feelings go ping, yes your affirmations and positive thinking and meditations go ping ping ping…but your beliefs are 24/7 long standing instructions to energy! They are what i call your power of attorney and why they are what i have called your very Creator hood! It is because you believe you are woman that you remain steadily so, it is because you believe this is a chair it remains so…if you ‘felt’ it on and off, ‘thought’ it, ‘hoped’ for it…it would keep changing as per your thoughts and feelings! We do not ‘believe; in our abundance, we think of it, we sometimes feel it, we hope for it, we focus on it and thus it fluctuates in tandem…

Energy is the raw material towards any manifestation and your beliefs/frequencies are the ‘boss’ that commands energy! Understand energy and beliefs and produce an abundant life.

True abundance is in understanding manifestation! For there is no greater abundance than knowing how to manifest what you choose. In this do you also move away from greed or hoarding!

Think, feel, speak and act from that end of the continuum that you seek to manifest…and the path will be made much easier for you

Patterns and recurring situations need to be addressed within; otherwise the future is only a mishmash of the past, which you present to self in different ways so that you may handle the cause within.

Focus on what you choose to experience. Practice being that which you wish to receive.

Steel bars, become a magnet, not by introducing some thing new but simply by realigning their molecules- similarly realign your beliefs in sync with what you choose to experience, and magnetize it into your life!

Life is like your mirror. Smile and it will smile back at you! No outer manipulation will work: if you apply your make up to the mirror, it will not remain on your face when you reach the party!

The lens you view life through, will view you back as life

Don’t wait for passion to call and fix a date with you! Find it within self! How? Find something that inspires you; a hobby, a class or a group of like minded people and make a start. Allow it to snowball into a life filled with things to be passionate about

Appreciation is a powerful means to maintain a positive focus and indeed breathe more of it onto life! Make a game of it if you will- how many people, events, things and aspects within you can you find to appreciate every day? Discover new aspects to appreciate in the usual and customary around you. This is true value addition!

Goals always come first, and then you come into the past of that projected future, and put in the required steps! You target to excel in your exams (the effect) and thus you study (the cause.)


CREATOR HOOD-SELF EMPOWERMENT

Cause and effect simply outlines that we are the cause; not some 'outside' ...'other', 'fate' or' god'. We can call this ‘cause’ our thinking, feeling, focus, which reflects as outer effects; or we can view it as our energy field which attracts like-wise effects; or we can call it karma - what we have chosen to explore ,experience and expand and thus met as outer ‘ effects’! Thus it all comes back full circle back to us!

‘Creator hood’ is the current buzzword and become synonymous with the power to manifest- indeed the complete power to shape your life and even world. Yet at its deepest ... what do they really mean? What is an inherent aspect of ‘complete’ power? Complete power only comes with complete responsibility! When you claim responsibility for your life (events, people therein,) environment (yes that political system you find corrupt) and world ...can you shape it. Without claming responsibility you do not really reclaim your Creatorhood... and it remains but an intellectual concept you have picked up...

Complete self-empowerment = complete self- responsibility! True Self-empowerment is in the profound understanding that there is no other! There is no one other than you. And this has many implications in your day-to-day life- life! At first -when you real-ize this experientially there can be great consternation- because there is no one to blame -no person, event or thing; nor fate or God that you can now hold responsible- everything and I mean everything comes full circle to you!   But it soon dawns on you that if you are wholly responsible for creating your life then you are completely empowered to enhance it too! You are not hostage to situations, people, and things outside your self; the point of power is within you and in the now!

We can understand this through karma, or mirrors or universal laws of energy- these only being different ways of looking at the same thing!  So if we view this through karma: we can say the cause is within me or I am the cause (of what I have chosen to learn or experience or expanding, or disempower) and the outside is only my effect! If we view it through mirror analogy we can say what is within (what I have chosen to learn or experience or expanding, or disempower) is what is reflected outside for me to view and learn from! If we view it through our understanding of the universal laws of energy we can understand that whatever we are (towards what I have chosen to learn or experience or expanding, or disempower) is what I attract around me on the so called outside. This is also important to know so that we may accordingly choose the interpretation that the person you speak with understands! If they speak the karma language, reach them through that, instead of laws of energy!

What does the grandiose sounding concept of self-empowerment really mean? To start with, self-empowerment is a claiming of your Creator hood- a state of being where you realize that you shape your reality moment-to-moment through your thoughts and feelings. A deeper understanding shows us that this power of manifestation is only it’s by-product, much like producing alcohol while manufacturing sugar, and that true self-empowerment lays in the acknowledgment that your life plans or what you call karma and destiny are willfully chosen by ‘you’ for your highest good and growth. And at its deepest level complete self- empowerment means complete self responsibility- whereby  you comprehend that everything outside of you, which you call your life or world is but a reflection of the inner you; there is nothing in your exterior without it being in your interior; you are the cause and the outer is only its effect!

Self-responsibility unravels: we all begin by placing responsibility outside self, feeling and saying: “You are responsible”. Then at some point in life, this sense of responsibility expands to an acceptance that we too play a part- that both the other and self are responsible and we move to feeling or saying: “We are responsible.” Authentic spiritual growth however begins from the turning point “I am responsible”! In this we move from ‘you’ are responsible, to ‘we’ are responsible to complete self- responsibility. Once we have truly imbibed this it expands to the deeper understanding that ‘No one is responsible’! This deeper truth is yet intellectual for most humanity, and yet, where anyone on the journey to Self is headed. And as this becomes increasingly apparent- we take one more leap - to the eureka that there is nothing to be responsible for! Eastern and western concepts like Maya- the play of creation, Shakespeare’s ‘the world is but a stage’ and even quantum physics theory of the ‘Now moment’ have tried to ‘describe’ this deepest of understandings but truly, can only point towards it. In analogy, it is like getting up fro a dream of your house being burgled. Who would you hold responsible for what?

Self empowerment or creator hood are not about external power…nor arrogance or the need to control the external…because when you are truly self empowered there is neither need, nor desire for that because you real-ize the switch is within! External power is seeked when there is disempowerment. And through this we may better understand Christ’s words when he says: “The meek shall inherit the world”. The meek he refers to is the truly self-empowered who may appear meek, because he wields no outer power! He uses no outer words or labels of being God or Master… he doesn’t need to …it is his natural state of being! Finally it won’t matter what words you use! We come back full circle as we go through the process- and now when I say “ Gods Grace’ I use the word knowing it embraces my divyaa self

We are creators at a tripartite level- personal realities (relationships, careers) environment and the world! Seth says: you create your reality, not some of it or part of it but all of it! This is also a big one and has many ramifications when you real-ize that it is not only your personal realties but also the environment (society, political, judicial systems you find faulty) and that World (peace or terrorism or tsunami or Hitler etc…) that you can change or enhance from within! Of course Mahatma Gandhi’s quote:  “Be the change you want to see in the world” brings this alive! You reali-ize they are not pretty words but to be taken literally!! Indeed it is the most effective way for all those who wish to change or transform the world or politics or any area outside them. In this context another quote: “The best you can do for the poor is not be one of them” also takes on meaning. More so to really understand the outside we need to address the source within us of why it exists in your life? What it reflects?  Why are you attracting it? What do you need to learn, what you have chosen to experience, what do you need to expand and/or what have you chosen to disempower? There is a line of questioning which we follow in order to understand any situation which we have dubbed as: ‘Why why why till you reach the “I”.

Through authentic Creator hood, self empowerment and  self-responsibility you automatically move away from judgment, oscillating blame and victim modes, non-forgiveness…because you are always brought back to self as cause, mirror, energy…as Creator… of your ‘outside’! It is also a powerful 24/7 meditation, because meditation means going within -which you do every time you turn within to see the cause!  Meditation means touching self -which you do every time you turn within as creator! Thus moment to moment you are turning within and connecting with or establishing in your creator hood!

Mirroring! We are all familiar with the concept of mirroring, but if you use its visual imagery it will not only enable our understanding but enable us to move increasingly into Self empowered state of being. We all know that if I am wearing a red t-shirt and blue scarf that is what the mirror will reflect, it cannot do otherwise! Also all of us present here know that if we feel love and abundant that is what will reflect in our lives;  if we are doubt and lack then that is what will reflect in our lives- so I will not go into that today! So, become aware that your world and its people, events and things- is a reflection in a mirror- reflecting the inner you! And just like you cannot change a reflection in a mirror without changing self, you cannot manipulate the outside and the other (the husband, the government, and the in laws, the terrorists) …! You cannot make changes from outside!  And all recurring patterns of thought or action or situations occur because you try to change the outside while the cause, the root within you has not been dealt with! And as long as you only focus on changing the outside effect, another (more lethal and closer ‘home’ every time) will come along   till you address source within! So use this visual imagery to take self-responsibility and stop trying to fix the reflection- indeed your attempt to change the outside is like trying to change the reflection in the mirror without changing what is being reflected!

This actually is another major reversal in our life- -what we have thought as real:  the physical, tangible outer life people, events things is actually the reflection in the mirror! And what we have thought as nebulous, not really real: our thoughts, feelings and beliefs… is real! By literally standing in front of a mirror- become aware that the ‘real you’ who stands in front of the mirror –is actually your intangible energy field- your thoughts, feelings , beliefs- your frequencies! And the seeming ‘not real’ reflection in the mirror is your seemingly tangible life and its people and events!
So its quite a turn about to know that what seems intangible (thoughts feelings beliefs) is the true reality; and what seems solid and tangible (the outer so called reality) is only the reflection....!!!!

To really understand the concept of mirrors you must know where it comes from! The world is Gods mirror! In the larger picture we as spirit, consciousness, god (call it what you may) choose to experience, explore and expand Self. And humanity or the physical earth experience is but a medium to view and expand this Self! Thus we choose a human vehicle and physical realm…to view aspects of Self… outside us, so that through this image we may more easily expand within! That’s all! It’s literally like using a mirror to better do your eyebrows! Thus we learn and expand though external events… when we view relationships or careers in trouble we go within and make changes! When we view them as beautiful we know we are on the right track!

SELF LOVE=LOVE ON THE OUTSIDE!

Your relationship with self is your primary relationship and very vital to how you will experience life. If you are self critical, you will find others to criticize you! If you feel insignificant, you will experience that in your relationships. Indeed the more you accept self the more you let others off the hook! In self-recrimination do you impose negative judgments on others. Take a deep appreciative look inside! And watch as the world falls in love with you.

Self-love is simply acceptance of self in all its nuances. It is not turning a blind eye to perceived areas of growth, or parts you wish to enhance or disempower- but the attitude you view these with! If you render them ugly, dislike parts or allow guilt to creep in - you move from self-acceptance to blame and judgment. Instead know deep in your heart how utterly unique a being you are and how valiant an expedition you have chosen towards exploration of this self, and in this positive awareness, sure you can choose to incorporate change and extend current self.

To the many who ask me “How do we love self”? And to those who volunteer “Well we think we love self…do we”? My response is always the same: “How comfortable are you with self? Truly”? How do you fall in love with self? Exactly the way you feel for another in the first flush of love: a headlong acceptance of self. Viewing your different facets, as the different colors of a diamond- none good or bad, right or wrong!

Beloved fellow traveler, the best way to improve you external life it to expand your inter life! Become aware of what is God, life, universe, energy, you etc etc....and as you expand within...automatically all areas of life improve!

ABUNDANCE

Fulfillment is   a mighty magnet drawing to it even more to be fulfilled about

Let’s explrore the paradox that abundance is what leads to abundance! You may well question this catch 22 position; it may well appear the chicken or egg situation –how to start from abundance when it is what you seek! But be comforted that this starting point refers to an inner wealth easy to come by - simply through awareness!  For at its deepest, true abundance is a heart overflowing with the sweetness of life as it is; true wealth is contentment with all that you have…and are; true plentitude  is in that old country song “Ah everyday should be like this”!  And yes seeking ‘more’ is fine, indeed inherent in mankind but ironically this ‘more’ comes to you when it’s starting point stems from an inner fullness rather than from feelings of lack and need.

The Unmanifest – Spirit, God or Consciousness- is part of the manifest material world’. Yes dwell on this nugget for a while for only in embracing its truth can you truly welcome living abundantly! Become aware that the ‘physical’ is not separate from the ‘spiritual’; know that matter is consciousness experiencing itself at different frequencies; recognize that God as ‘All That Is’, literally pervades all that is more tangibly around  you too. If you find yourself subliminally justifying your physical needs and desires; if you sense a nagging guilt in its pleasures; if you feel the treasures of comfort and luxury take you away from the divine; if you believe divinity cannot be experienced amidst the physically oriented day- to -day world but only beyond it then use this awareness to dissolve this hidden hurdle to both- abundant living- and its wholesome divine experience! For indeed the hallmark of true spirituality is when the physical and the spiritual aspects of life are not viewed as two disparate parts in conflict with one another but as one sacred whole.

Let’s Rumi’s words take you beyond words “Whenever you come across a beautiful object, it is God saying “Ah you found me”!” Allow this to awaken your soul memory and remember that God is the unmanifest centre of all that is manifest! You cannot reject the physical world without rejecting its very core – spirit; and if you embrace everything around you as the divine choosing to experience Itself- you enter into true worship; into sacred and abundant living; into your life’s’ wholesome reason to be. So come beloveds and discover the unmanifest that imbues all that is manifest; view how ‘this’ world and ‘That’ world are synonymous; choose not one or the other but the whole; recognize that within the flower is pure spirit and realize that within all that you see, taste, touch or hear is pure consciousness; know that nothing in your physical world- none if its myriad forms be it natures’ flora fauna or mankind’s material world are separate from the spirit that chooses to be them.

Let’s become aware that abundance in all its aspects is our birthright! Yes, allow this to deeply fill you; rest in this sacred grove; feel its very richness permeate and wash away any feelings of scarcity and paucity of spirit that may reside within. For today’s golden key of awareness is in this knowing that we are born to enjoy all that fulfills each of us individually.  Know that as creators   each, we plan our so called ‘destiny’ with complete free will towards this exploration; we encode into it all that is required for us to learn, grow and touch fulfillment in personal ways.  Know that if you desire something it can be yours for you encode desires into your life as triggers towards their experience! Allow this awareness to dissolve the core stumbling block, that lurking belief, that life means problems and pain and having it all is an impossible ideal. Move into its deep gnosis that you choose your time of birth as that perfect entry point into what you wish to experience; you fashion a birth environment as that perfect soil, whether seemingly arid or fertile, from which the unique plant ‘you’ can best rise; you become a part of  existence and existence looks after itself in myriad ways!

Lets understand abundance through a joke! A young monk who has been assigned to study the monasteries original archives comes rushing out in consternation; and when questioned by the head abbot he literally rolls his r’s to exclaim “The R…all along the ‘R’ has been forgotten… everyone forgot the ‘R’!  The word in the original document is celebRate- not celibate." And yes this sums up a key awareness: Life is a celebration! This is the life affirmative approach of project abundance: the approach of the aesthetic instead of an ascetic; the stand of a lover rather than a renunciate; the prayer of rejoicing in the divine all around you in day-to-day ways rather than somber entreaties towards some inexplicable goal!

Abundance speaks to you of the glory and splendor of creation; it describes existence as the joyful exploration of divine abundance; it asks you to revel and revere not renounce your participation ; it invites you to enter wholly into whatever aspect of it you have chosen to experience for the whole;. Look around you- your current life is the canvas to paint on it what only you can of this infinite richness! In homage to this divine purpose to exist - enter purposefully into the present moment and enjoy all that makes up your day to day life!  Use this awareness to know that through the totality of a life fully embraced do you rise to its finer expression; not through escape from all it offers!

Abundance is your very nature and not something to acquire but simply rest into; and as you remove the blocks within (rather than fret how to address them outside) you open for first time to its constant flow and it pours forth from you.

Participate in the joy and wonder of life’s richness and watch as it waltzes merrily with you! Seek not to know as much as to enjoy the divine all around! Make your feel good factors your inner guidance system! Your inner joy is your measure of abundance

15.5.2011