Regurgitating our Yesterdays

All of us have developed our own set of parameters (rules, belief systems, habits, paradigms, etc)  through which we mold and shape external information. Some we are born with (usually called survival instincts) and many more we create as we grow.

When we are infants, other than the basic operating systems (eat, sleep, poop, and cry <g>) we are pretty much a blank slate. However, from the moment we are born we start to experience our world, identify patterns, and begin to develop the “rules” through which we structure our world.

Once a rule is established we will often use phrases like “That makes sense” or “That is correct” or “That is good or right” to relate to  day to day experiences we encounter that fit within our rule(s).  We will use the opposite phrases (such as “That doesn’t make sense” in relation to experiences that don’t fit.

The “That makes sense” phrase validates an internal rule.

Experiences that don’t fit present us an opportunity.

We can either outright ignore them, judge them, ridicule them and sometimes in extreme cases attempt to obliterate the one(s) responsible for them.

The second is to allow ourselves the flexibility of simply contemplating them. Neither blessing or condemming them at first glance but simply contemplating them because it is within these experience lie the treasures of growth.

I’m not suggesting we allow ourselves to be thrown hither and dither by every passing fancy, a healthy dose of skeptisim is very appropriate. However there’s a very big difference between skeptisim and a closed mind.

Living life exlusively through our existing rules truly validates everything we believe today and very effectively seals us into living tomorrow just as we do today.

Contemplating new ideas and experiences gives us the opportunity to choose. To allow our mind to expand, grow and evolve thus opening the very real potential of having tomorrow be truly a brand new creative day and not a regurgitation of yesterday.

Miles and miles of heart

I’ve just finished up a Reiki workshop in Austin and am relaxing and catching a little television. One of my favorite movies is on called “The Replacements” starring Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman. It’s about a rag tag group of “poor nobodies” that form a replacement professional football team while the original players are on strike.

They’re unconventional, in-experienced, and un-disciplined. But they had heart. As coach Magintee says “Miles and miles of heart”.

As they approached the football stadium the striking professional players called them “scabs” and ridiculed these “losers” as they leaned on their expensive sports cars paid for through their lucrative endorsement deals.

In the beginning these replacement players tended to live up to their reputation. Rough around the edges, their performance was undisciplined and  they lost. Badly.

But they didn’t quit. They knew they weren’t conventional so rather than try and comply with the way things were “supposed be” they choose to leap far outside convention and develop their own style.

Fast, loose,  gutsy, but as it turns out effective.

When conventional wisdom indicated caution and they faced hopeless odds on a particular play they always replied with “Go for it anyway”.

Slowly but shirley they began to gel together as a team. Unified, committed, and defiant. They choose not to listen to the press releases, jeers from the professionals, and most of all the inner dialog inside each of their heads telling them they could never make it. That they could never change their stars.

They stood face to face with their fears and simply would not back down.

Nobody thought they could ever win a game. Even them in the beginning.

But then something changed. They began to believe in themselves. They began to believe they could change their stars.

Maybe they were unconventional, maybe they didn’t have the “flair” or the expensive watches or million dollar contracts.

But they had heart. Miles and miles of heart.

They began to win. As a matter of fact they made it all the way to the final game before play offs. If they won this game their team would be in.

On the day of the game it was announced the strike was over and the “pros” would be returning to play the first play off game. That is if the replacements could win it for them.

So there they were. Playing for the right of the same people that called them scabs to continue into the play offs. The rewards from  the game they were about to sweat and bleed for would only be cleaning out their lockers and catching a bus ride home.

But they had heart. Miles and miles of heart.

So they played. They pulled out all the stops and went for broke.

They didn’t care that they were unconventional, not politically correct, rebellious, and rough around the edges. That maybe they didn’t play by the accepted rules.

And they won the game.

They had miles and miles of heart. They chose to believe against all odds that they could change their stars.

And they did.

There’s probably been times when we’ve all felt like “replacement” players.

In those times I encourage you to remember that even though you maybe feel like you don’t have the finesse, don’t play by conventional rules, feel like an “amateur” among a horde of professionals.

It may be the opportune time to throw caution to the wind and just “go for it”.

Because, just like those players, who “all” they had was miles and miles of heart, changed their stars.

So can you.

What about Bob?

The process of taking our internal desires and dreams and flowing them through a predictable, repeatable process into manifestation in our real world experience is a relatively simple formula.  Notice I said simple not easy. <g> Often the biggest challenges we face are what to do with the resistances that show up as a natural byproduct of applying this process.

I found a tele-seminar I downloaded some time ago the other day and have very much enjoyed listening to it. I was first was introduced to Bob Doyle from the movie The Secret. Bob’s down to earth approach on the manifesting (Law of Attraction) process is very refreshing and resonates with the approach we teach and apply ourselves.

It turns out the webpage containing the recording is still available so I thought I would share it here with you. He addresses some common questions and wonderings that often crop up when we embark upon the journey of Creating our World from the Inside Out.

Here’s the link: www.wealthbeyondreason.com/askbobcall.html

PS. In this recording he often refers to a technique called EFT. This is a fascinating energy healing technique and if anyone in the Central Alberta area wants to learn more about it check out a very good friend of mine Ladonn GoodKey at her website www.begreat.ca  She is a superb practitioner who truly walks the talk.

Hard day today but better days ahead

Have you ever noticed that everything flows in cycles? There’s either one hundred people in the line up or none, you’re trying to cross the street and the traffic seems endless then all of a sudden it’s deserted. Your favorite sports team is either on a red hot winning streak or can’t seem to put back to back victories together.

One of the first companies I worked for had a very good understanding of cycles. The markets for their products followed a regular ebb and flow. Often, when the market would switch could be unpredictable, but they knew that when it did it was only a matter of time before it would once again reverse direction.  Knowing this helped them to take advantage of “slow times”. When sales were strong and the cash rolling in they ran their facilities to the max pumping out as much product as possible. They paid down debt, established a good solid balance sheet, and waited. Not with fear or trepidation but anticipation. What were they anticipating? Calamity and scarcity? Nope, they waited for opportunity.

When the tide switched and demand for the product softened they went into action. Expansion plans that had been prepared during the “up cycle” were launched into action increasing their production capacity. Because demand  was light they were able to shut down sections of their manufacturing facilities with very impact to their business while they streamlined efficiency. They expanded and improved and waited. Waited for what they knew would arrive. They may not have known exactly when it would switch but they knew that it would. And when it did, they saw the results of all their hard work during the slow time manifest with each order that went out to a hungry market. One that now through the drastically increased capacity they now possessed allowed them to exponentially improve their bottom line.

All because they understood the nature of cycles.

If you are currently in a “down turn” remember the nature of cycles. Resist the urge to look back and wonder where you “went wrong” or desperately look under every rock and in every cranny trying to find where the “good times” are hiding. Remember the nature of cycles and know things will switch and head the other way. Rather than waste your energies in fruitless activities; take advantage of this time to nurture yourself, learn something new, take a mini-vacation, maybe visit an old friend or make new ones. Rather than looking over your shoulder to the past or gazing into the future focus your attention on today.

You might be amazed at what you will find.

Maybe even take a page from the CEO of a multi-national public company who when he was asked about his sagging stock prices said “We have cash in the bank, are developing new growth plans for the future, know the market will change,  and although we had a hard day today there are better days ahead.”

I figure what the heck if it works for them it should work for us.

Listen to the Predicates

Most of you that know me are well aware I think about the weirdest things. That’s why you are all so often in my thoughts. <g>

So today I was thinking about Predicates. You know, the kind in sentences. Each sentence has a subject (what we are talking about) and a predicate (what we’re saying about the thing we are talking about)

Lost you yet? Stick with me, it gets better.

I was contemplating how we create our external experience that we call life and more importantly how we think about it and then project that thought into future experiences. For those of you who practice the variety of manifesting processes, the most well know being The Secret) you are well versed in visualizing, affirmations, intentions, etc.

You are also undoubtedly aware of the importance of whether you are looking at things from a place of lack (less than) or abundance (more than). Within the previous sentence is a really cool learning I experienced today about how to simply discern which side of the fence you are on at any given moment.

As you listen to your thoughts and internal dialog pay attention not so much to what you are thinking about but what you are thinking about what you are thinking about. Read that sentence fast three times! <g>

Maybe an example will clarify.

If you are looking at the number on the bottom of your bank statement, what  are you thinking about it? When you are looking at yourself in the mirror and measuring the size of your middle, what you thinking about it? If you wish you could take a vacation to Egypt pay attention to the dialog detailing what you are thinking about Egypt.

The Law of Attraction does not so much see the Subject of a sentence or thought.(Egypt) as it does with what you are thinking about it; the Predicate of a sentence or thought.

Is the Predicate thought about your bank account balance one that says “Wow, look how much money I have saved in this last month”. Or is it “I have saved and saved and still can’t seem to get ahead.” The first is a statement of more than enough the latter one of less than enough. Those are the action words of the universe, not what you are thinking about but what you are thinking; about what you are thinking about.

Transforming our thought processes is most assuredly a life long adventure that begins with awareness. Listen to the Predicates of your life. They are the action words. As your awareness increases so does your ability to choose something different.

And that’s when everything changes.

The curse of the illusion of permanence

I know it’s a crazy title but you have to admit after seeing it you just HAD to read this right? <grin>

It is, however, an accurate statement.

Think about the last time you had a cold,  flu, toothache or headache or some other physical uncomfortableness. Was there a moment, usually right in the middle, where it felt like you would never get better? It was like “Oh Gawd I feel so gross. It’s like I’ve had this forever and it feels like it will never leave!”  And then, in due course in time our body heals itself and the pain and discomfort is gone. As a matter of fact while we can remember what it felt like we literary cannot recreate the physical pain. Thank goodness for that!

That same impermanence marinates our entire physical world. Everything is changing. All the time. There are never two identical moments. Our bodies are recreating multitudes of new cells and discarding old ones. The earth is in a slightly different position in it’s orbit. A tree grows. An insect that was alive in the morning is gone by nightfall. And on and on.

Everything in our physical world is in the constant process of change and evolution.

But sometimes we forget and we fall under the curse of the illusion of permanence.

We look at our temporal physical circumstances. Especially those aspects which we don’t like, and in the deep recesses of our powerful creative mind we choose to attempt to change a hard core law of physics that states that everything changes.

Everything.

We often believe, and rely on it, when we have an ache or pain and at the same time choose to slip into the belief that other aspects will never change.

In the end I think all we really need to know at times is that everything is going to be okay. That even though it may look and feel pretty crappy right now it will not last forever and things will work out. And they will. However when we decide they will always be this way, or more accurately we are afraid they will always be this way, we can make the journey from limited to limitless more arduous than it has to be.

So, no matter what your external world looks like in this moment. Know that it is always changing and things will get better.

Trust in the process; which is so much easier said than done. But it is possible. Little by little. Step by step.

It’s not where you’re looking to, it’s where you’re looking from.

In my last post I talked about essentially taking your power back from those people, places, things, and events that we often blame for creating disturbances in our present moment experience.

Like most of the internal power tools we can use to manage our experience of life it rides upon choosing to change our perspective.

Turns out it was a very convenient segue into this posting of an Internet Radio show I did back in December of 2009.