Hi Lovers
I received this from one of us. Thanx Bill
In this and the following newsletter, I will go over some common stumbling blocks that many people experience when working with the power of the mind.
Most people who have read books on self-hypnosis and the power of the mind and who have been working with the power of the mind for some time are well aware of the fact that “your consciousness creates your experience of reality”.
At any moment in time, you are experiencing nothing more or less than the contents of your consciousness reflected back to you in some way.
One of the challenges that most people have is that they have no control over what goes on in their minds. Many are not even aware of the thoughts they habitually entertain.
Often when people work with the power of the mind, they briefly contemplate what they would like to experience in their lives, either by working with self-hypnosis recordings, or by listening to recordings that contain subliminal suggestions or affirmations, or they engage in meditation – but then when the recordings or the meditations are over and they return to their normal daily activities, they begin to kill the seeds they have just planted in their minds, by entertaining thoughts of everything that is the opposite of what they’d like to experience.
Sometimes people “pray” and while they are praying – instead of getting into a state of mind where they are imagining and feeling already having what they desire and expressing gratitude for what they desire as if it were already theirs, they get into a state where they are wholeheartedly immersed in feeling the lack of what they desire to experience and in this way, they are ensuring that they’ll enjoy more lack. Then they say “it didn’t work”. Of course it worked. They programmed their minds with more lack, by indulging in the feelings of lack, and that’s exactly what they manifested more of in their lives.
Working with subconscious mind is very simple. All you need to do is imagine what you desire to experience and feel what it would feel like if you already had it. It is that feeling of already having your desire realized that sets the forces in motion to manifest what you desire in your outer world. Feeling of lack manifests lack. Feeling of abundance, manifests abundance.
Some people will then ask “How can I feel a feeling of abundance, when I have no money in my pocket?” By practicing feeling what you would feel if your problem was solved; by realizing that what you are experiencing right now in your outer world is the effect of your past mental programming; and by realizing that right now, by choosing your thoughts and feelings, you are planting the seed of what you are going to experience in times to come.
You can predict your own future by paying attention to the thoughts and emotions you are feeding yourself moment to moment every day of your life.
Many years ago, a cousin of mine who lived in Paris told me a story about her friend. The friend feared to go anywhere by public transportation because she was convinced that she’d get mugged and assaulted in different ways. Any time she thought of going anywhere by pubilc transportation, she imagined and felt herself being mugged and assaulted. She always took a cab to go from one place to another in Paris.
One day, she decided to take a metro instead. And sure enough, she got mugged. She got to my cousin’s place rather distressed and before leaving my cousin asked the woman if she’s feeling good enough to go home by herself and the woman said she’ll manage. Just as she got home, another mugger was waiting for her there and as she told him that she was just robbed and didn’t have anything, this one beat her up.
I’ve told the above story because many people contemplate all kinds of disasters on daily basis. Some of those mental images may be fed to their minds by watching news, reading newspapers, watching movies, and some deliberately go looking for information of disasters that might have happened and those that have not even happened, like is the world going to end in december 2012. Most of dismal situations that people keep on conteplating and imagining how would they feel if they happened to them, have never even happened to them, but by contemplating what they’d rather not experience, sooner or later they may just manifest similar circumstances in their experience, because life is a stream of consciousness.
When you experience something that you prefer you didn’t, look for a cause of it somewhere in your mind. The clues to your experiences are not in who did what in the outer world, but in what kind of thoughts, desires and fears did you contemplate about yourself, about other people, about your life. Maybe you were curious how would something feel like way back when and now it manifested in your life. Maybe you were upset at someone or you thought you know what’s best for someone, and now you found yourself in the situation of that someone.
Maybe like Stephen King you contemplated or wrote scary stories and found yourself experiencing first-hand one of those stories. Years ago I read an article in which a news reporter was surprised that Stephen King had an accident that played out almost exactly like a scene from one of his horror movies.
You can contemplate or write stories about your life that turn out exactly the way you’d like your life to be. You don’t have to be the victim of circumstances. You can choose to take control of your mind and of experiences in your life. Taking control of the thoughts that go through your mind may seem challenging at first, but with a little bit of practice, you can develop a new habit. The first step is to be aware of what you are thinking throughout the day.
If you knew that you are constantly planting seeds of your future experiences with the thoughts you think and with the feelings you feel, what would you be thinking and feeling throughout the day?
How would you feel if all your heart-felt desires were realized now? Hold onto that feeling.