Misc Dreams Question

Wow, something must be brewing.My dreams are typically far from mundane. Last night was no exception. Everything from an airline job interview to an evil witch carjacking. Do you keep a dream journal? They can be very entertaining and revealing.

A State of Allowing when Co-creating with the Universe

What follows is a response I offered in a discussion forum on PositiveAtmosphere.com. A question had come up regarding emotions, "living as if" and co-creating your future. Thought some of you may find this helpful.

Hi XXXX, I'm not sure but maybe this will help. My interpretation of "Living as if" is to live as if what you are co-creating has been present for many years. It's been with you for so long it is old news to you. Nothing exciting about it, it is a comfortable pair of shoes you've had forever.

The key here is that conscious creation is constrained once you attempt to measure, judge or are attached to the form or manner of fulfillment of your desire or intention. Your positive and negative emotions/attachments limit Universe's options in co-creation. Instead, adopting a curiosity and playful appreciation can be very productive in the conscious creation process. A state of Allowing is one of the keys to this type of process.

As far as emotions go, I've noticed the non-heart based emotions are very useful to the ego when it wants to build a sense of importance. Heart based feeling OTOH do not inflate ego and raise (vibration) energy levels. After a time, I've found by putting my attention on my physical heart and projecting appreciation/gratitude etc.... I've been able to raise my energy (vibration) levels significantly. This has started an reinforcing process of growth energetically. Higher energy levels open doors opportunities to increase energy levels.

Hope this helps.
Peace

What Do I Mean By Energy?

First, Merry Christmas!

Next,
In a Law of Attraction discussion on http://www.PositiveAtmosphere.com related to Energy and Manifesting, the site's founder, Dan O'Donnell, asked me about the physical sensations related to "Energy." I felt my response might be helpful to some of you who are exploring the Law of Attraction and the life force. Here's my response:

The feeling I experience is quite detached from expectation. No feelings of excitement, anticipation or nervousness are felt on my part. My experience of sensation is kind of like flowing pins and needles. Like one gets when a foot falls asleep minus numbness or pain. Typically, the energy flow comes in waves depending on my level of focus and openness and can be "managed" with focused intention. At its most intense the sensation feels like my hands are surrounded by a think (6-12 inches) glove of sensation. The first time it happened, which was quite an experience, one person saw rainbows shooting off my finger tips in their peripheral vision.

Is Your "From" Thinking Causing You Problems in Attracting Your Goals?

A couple of weeks ago I was having a discussion with a friend about achieving goals via inner work or manifesting. We were discussing about the concept of "thinking from" your goals. As we were talking I realized there is a subtlety to the concept that is easy to miss.

The common advice I see being given is to think, feel, visualize about what it would be like to have achieved an end goal. How does it feel to final have your goal realized?

Unfortunately, this bit of advise is incomplete. The missing piece can make all the difference in your manifesting success. The question isn't really what does it feel like to have successfully manifested the goal.

Your question really needs to be along the lines of, "What does it feel like to have realized your goal as a common everyday part of your life?" In other words, ten years after your goal is realized how do you feel? What is your life like when the initial excitement is gone?

The reason is when you're using an inner action approach to goals your feelings of having achieved the goal can interfere with the process. In other words, it's very easy to create an attachment state in your mind. Attachment during an inner approach pushes goals away. Detachment and an allowing state are very important for your manifesting to be successful. The usual advice runs the risk of creating just the opposite.

Heart & Emotion II

A reader asked for "a more detailed discussion of emotion and your concept of heart motive" in the Thoughts on Heart, Emotions and Manifesting post.

Emotion

It's my belief that life is about learning. My feelings and emotions are reflected back to me as part of a learning experience. They often show up in my life as situations, interactions or experiences which may elicit the same feeling or emotion. In that moment of having the experience I also have the opportunity to choose another perspective or feeling. After enough cycles of feeling-reflected experience-choice-feeling I may learn the lesson and make a permanent internal shift. With that lesson learned I move onto the next.

So far, my lessons have been about dropping the ego inflating or supporting emotions. Emotions like neediness, jealousy, control and fear all get in the way of the bigger lesson. The bigger lesson being to Just Be. Whatever stands between myself and just being is the lesson of the day.

Thankfully, I've got an eternity to learn these things. I've been through many years (lifetimes?) of this cycling. Luckily, I have come across techniques that help speed up the learning process. All it takes is a simple shift in perspective. And that is where the heart comes into the picture.

Heart

The heart is definitely much more than a pump. In fact, Researchers are discovering the heart directly influences the brain, our emotions, perceptions and intuition.

I access the power and intelligence of the heart by placing my attention in it with a sense of appreciation. Specifically, I use a method called heart breathing. It connects my awareness of my breathing with attention in my heart. Coupling heart breathing with a feeling of appreciation has been very effective for getting a handle on the ego related emotions. The shift in perspective also helps dissolve the barriers to Just Being.

Why did I write about emotion and heart in the previous post? The heart is a practical "tool" humans can access as part of their life on Earth. As I've been practicing this perspective over the years, synchronicity has become the norm in my daily life. Life tends to flow easier. I've been able to be present in the moment more often. Intuitions are getting stronger. Just Being even happens on occasion. I believe it's how we are designed to live. It feels right.

Thoughts on Heart, Emotions and Manifesting

Some thoughts, lightly edited, on emotion versus feelings and co-creating your life/manifesting from an email conversation this afternoon:

I define emotion as an ego-based motive force. Being happy, inspired, whatever about your goal is fine. Probably, activates the reticular system. Great for the physical world approach.

My experience to date is that emotion interferes with "manifestation." Needing or even wanting a thing is fine from a 3-d motive perspective. It doesn't work for me in manifesting or co-creation.

Heart based motive force is what I experience as feeling. It is completely detached from ego-based results, needs or wants. Love in the non-emotional Universal sense is the core. Acceptance, appreciation, gratitude and joy all without ego-based attachment.

The closer I get to heart-based the more effective I am.

Playful, child-like curiosity without regards to wants, needs or desired outcomes. The world as my laboratory or school.

Nothing needs to change in this moment. All is perfect. I accept all aspects of my experience as perfect. Only at that point is the manifesting, as I define it, working effectively.

Spiritually Sleeping

I am thankful for the people I have met during this life. This evening I decided to look for one I had lost track of. Google popped up a speech he gave to a meeting of Aleut (Alaskan) elders in October 2007. I felt some of you may find it interesting:
http://ourworldinbalance.blogspot.com/2007/10/story-of-larry-merculieff.html