Tag Archive 'conscious choice'

May 24 2008

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Barbara Pellegrino

What You Resist You Persist- Understanding Attraction and Resistance

Filed under Law of Attraction

Have you heard the saying what you resist, persists? When you understand how the law of attraction works you will realize that what you resist and how you resist will only cause it to continue in your life. If you push against something, by the natural law, it will push back against you.

If you choose to resist, you are choosing for it to persist. Whatever energy you put out into the Universe, will come back to you, in fact some disciplines say that what you put out you will get back multifold - multiplied or expanded many times.

The law of attraction states “Like attracts like” and the Universal Genie, as referred to in the DVD, The Secret, can only give you the experiences of your life; events, places people and things, according to your resonance, your vibration, your energy, which all stem from your predominant thoughts and feelings.

If situations, circumstances and people start to appear in your life, that you don’t want, what do you do? Our natural tendency is to resist, to say no, fight against it and get upset about it. If you can grasp the concept that these things are residual, like stars that burnt out many years ago, yet we still see their light shine, then you will have the power to create and not react.

Deepak Chopra explains this in his 7 Spiritual Laws to Success; “The law of least resistance”, to judge nothing and be grateful for everything. This is easier said than done, especially when things just aren’t going the way you had planned, hoped for or envisioned.

How do you judge nothing, and be grateful when you feel bad, things aren’t working the way you had planned or imagined? Firstly it is a conscious choice and then it becomes a learned skill and eventually a habit.

1. Choose, to create what you want in that moment.

When you understand that this situation you are currently experiencing is like a burnt out star whose light is still shining and the energy that attracted this to you was released some time in the past. You will have power to not feel helpless, or like a victim and be able to consciously choose how you will think and feel from this moment on.

2. Learn a new skill - What can I be grateful for in this moment?

Ask yourself the question and listen for the answer. Some people ask God, or the Universe or their own subconscious mind or higher self. Ask whatever you believe the universal consciousness to be, the magic is in the asking. Its a distraction technique for the mind and allows your intuition to give you the answer and it instantly changes your resonance, your energy, as the focus changes from reaction to creation and gratitude. What goes out must come back, so isn’t it better to send out a vibration of gratitude rather than anger, frustration or disappointment which are highly charged, emotional and powerful vibrations.

If you practice it and eventually master it as a skill, it will become a habit and second nature.

3. No such thing as problems, only opportunities.

Jim Edwards, Internet Marketing Guru, said the one question that has made him the most money is “What’s the opportunity?”

You may say, there’s no opportunity, this is a disaster! Everything is ruined!

Yet, all the motivational speakers say that this is the time that you can dig deep down inside and get in touch with your immense inner power. This is the power that is referred to when a Grandmother has the strength to lift a car of a child.

When you ask for the benefit, the blessing, the opportunity in this situation, it firstly changes your energy to that of curiosity rather than negativity and sets your powerful subconscious mind off in the direction of seeking out any potential benefit or opportunity.

The difference between a lucky and unlucky person is that “lucky people are “skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self fulfilling prophecies via positive expectations and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.” Excerpt from All the Money in the World - Bernstein & Swan

When you choose to resist nothing, be grateful for everything and be curious as to where the opportunities lie, you will be amazed at how quickly a negative thought, feeling or situation changes.

© 2008 Barbara Pellegrino - All Rights Reserved.

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Mar 21 2008

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Margo Knox

7 Keys to Staying Peaceful

Filed under Life

1. When someone says to you “it’s your fault” and the finger is pointed in your direction with accusation. Look carefully at their hand and you will see the other 4 fingers pointing at the accuser. Relinquishing responsibility and playing the blame game is a common human trait.

This usually happens during a time of psychological pain as the feelings get more uncomfortable, we find taking responsibility difficult and therefore blame someone else. It is often hard for us to understand the pain we cause ourselves.

Your world can take the blame, however it will not help you to awaken to your full potential to know yourself as whole and full of self worth

2. This is the first step in standing back from debilitating dramas, and unnecessary conflict, all of which lowers your vibration and leaves you with outcomes that are often not what you had wished.

3. Responsibility is a 100% commitment. It is a commitment to yourself, to knowing what is creating the dramas and conflict because the truth is the 4 fingers are pointing at the owner and in a certain sense one owner is all owners. And you will want to know yourself as not separate from your creations, knowing how your thinking works for you. You are a creator and you must take responsibility for your creations

4. The law of perception, which is an immutable Universal Law says that the degree to which you value guilt will be the degree to which you defend your world and make attack upon someone else. This is where a conscious choice can be made to always choose for self responsibility, no matter the degree of difficulty felt. Standing quiet within the drama you have created feeling the feelings; owning the thoughts as being about you and not the other person and asking for help/guidance from your higher mind or universal connection

However true knowledge has no choice and no opposite

So what will you choose? What will you choose to create?

5. You can choose to continue with the old dramas, over and over creating the same old insanities that you play out with family friends and colleagues, or to ask what the possibilities are of releasing to new and higher vibration thinking.

6. A new way to think that will release those fear based reactions and let you have an honest and peaceful life by shifting your attention to your higher mind and away from the concerns of the limited or lower mind. This peace, you so deserve is your natural right

7. There are practical things that you can do also.

The first of these may be approached through the daily practice of meditation. I simply cannot emphasize enough the importance and extreme value of meditation on many levels. Many people claim that they have no “time” to meditate, which, in and of itself is both at once ironic and symptomatic of the state most people find themselves in today. Not finding “time” for meditation is like not finding “time” for eating, sleeping and the other necessities of life, while at the same time “finding time” to watch soap operas and other such diversions such things on the TV - it is all a matter of priority, the choices being between peace, harmony and Spiritual evolution on the one hand, and uncertainty, fear and often misery on the other. What I suggest is arising 1 hour earlier each and every day, making it a habit that the Subconscious Mind will urge you to maintain, take a warm bath or shower and then meditate properly for at least 20 minutes. This will set you up for a perfect day, while putting everything, including “time” in to a proper perspective. And I wish you a perfect and wonderful day!

All the Love in the Universe

Margo

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Aug 25 2007

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Kristin S Kopp

Indulge In Prosperity

Filed under Manifesting Abundance

How do you feel about the word “indulge”? Does it get your back up a little bit, cause a twinge, or remind you of words you’ve heard about the indulgent and spoiled rich?

In your mind, does there seem to be a connection between arrogance and the indulged few? Does it seem that you don’t fit in the lifestyle of the rich and famous? And even if you did, you’re not sure you’d want to be in the company of those who indulge in their wasteful whims.

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Even some dictionaries suggest that indulgence implies wasteful excessiveness when actually it means to partake of something wholly, freely, without abandon or restraint. Experiencing without limits or constraint. If you go on vacation, do so without guilt. If you are taking a few minutes for yourself engage completely in your favorite activity, not some mindless TV show. Indulge in making your life full of quality experiences.

It’s amazing what convoluted paths our busy minds can lead us on. Too often we think of those with larger lives than our own and our minds lead us down the rut of discouragement and disdain or outright fear.

Most of us don’t know that our mind leads us to or away from our goals all day, every day. Everything that we observe goes through the filter of our beliefs and preconceived notions. Our mind already has a default opinion that tells us what to do and what to think without making a conscious choice. The automatic response is based on old information, processed and put on automatic when we first encountered the stimulus. It’s based on who and what we were then.

Many of our decisions are in default mode and this simplifies our life. Previous experience allows us to cross the street without having to decide if we should wait for the oncoming freight truck to pass. Mom said to look both ways and that advise is still good. We patiently wait and avoid chaos or worse.

Some of the decisions we made in the past don’t serve us as well. If we ever spent time with others who thought the rich were somehow responsible for some social ill and if their companionship and approval was important to us, we are going to have a tough time indulging in our own prosperity. Unless we make a new decision and replace that automatic thought process with intention, we base our future on decisions we made in the past.

What would it feel like if you allowed yourself to live your life fully and without reservation or restraint? What would it feel like to allow your wealth and life to expand to its fullest potential? What would your life be like if you fully and freely indulged in prosperity? What if you allowed yourself to experience prosperity without limits?

Until you take the time to watch your mind as an outside, non-reactive observer, your old programming will quickly override any plans you have to change your life. When you start to watch the path your head automatically goes you notice that your mind takes you to beliefs you have been operating from that you don’t even believe!

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As you develop the habit of watching your thoughts, reevaluating the core beliefs and making new choices you will gain the power to direct your life in new and more expansive directions.

Nothing can stop you from manifesting your dreams other than your own beliefs about who you are and why you can’t. Discover who you really are and why you really can. Isn’t it time to get out of your own way? Open the path to an expansive new life and indulge in prosperity.

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