The other day I was looking through my Google Docs for an image I thought I saved a long time ago. In the process I stopped to read things I wrote years ago, mostly notes I took while reading various books, like The Secret, and Psycho-psybernetics, etc. It's kind of amazing to look back and see the progression of life. Many of the things I wrote out as "wish lists" are now reality. Some goals have been achieved and some have changed. One of the documents I found was entitled, "picture of the future". I was all ready to see the evidence of the power of intention, but when I opened it, it was entirely blank - just the title. That blank page made me laugh.
And then it made me think. Our future is not predetermined. It is not written on a page somewhere, waiting for time to pass as each thing on that page is fulfilled. Our futures are blank, until we live them. It is up to us each day to create our future, shape our lives, and bring our dreams into being. The picture of my future is blank, until I choose to write upon it and call my dreams into reality by my thoughts and my actions.
The future is ours to create each day. The page is blank. How will you fill your page today?
Showing posts with label The Secret. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
By Leaps and Bounds
In the movie, "What About Bob?" Bob is directed to take baby steps towards the change he wants in his life. Most of the time that's how it is. We take small steps in the right direction, and over time we make noticeable progress. At other times, we find ourselves in a position to take a leap of faith. No baby step, a great big, giant leap - often off a cliff. When the big moments of our life arrive, and we are called upon to make dramatic changes, we grow by leaps and bounds. We take large strides and soar onto the next level.
I've always read a lot of books, fiction and otherwise. Years ago I read a great book that helped Carl and I meet some pretty enthusiastic goals in our life. It was during one of those leap of faith moments that we discovered "Living by the Power of Faith" by Gene R. Cook. The message is powerful, and at the end of each chapter is a worksheet to help you implement the concepts you are learning. We worked through the book together and changed the course of our life dramatically.
Somehow, we got a bit off track. We became comfortable on our plateau and stopped setting new goals. Aiming each day just to hold on to what we had, we rather quickly began to dwindle. The momentum was effectively dead. It took a few years, but reality began to catch up with our attitude, and we ended up pretty close to square one, except now we were older, and less resilient. Since then it has been a series of leaps into the unknown followed by baby steps into the dark.
A few years ago the book, "The Secret" came out. I read it, Carl read it, our friends and family read it. It was a breath of fresh air, a spark of energy, a reminder, and a wake up call. I knew from personal experience that the principles worked. At the core, it is the same message as "Living by the Power of Faith". My quest to know more resumed. I wanted to understand why I could implement and succeed for while, but was unable to sustain the momentum necessary for lasting success. Why did worry, fear, and doubt always return? I began searching for a way to clear the stumbling blocks from my path, so that I could fully embrace a life of faith and trust, rather than falling back into fear and doubt.
Since then I have read and studied the subject from many angles. I have learned a lot and I am grateful to all the authors who wrote those books, sharing their wisdom and knowledge. I made a lot of baby steps while reading all of those books. There is a difference between knowing how to do something, and actually doing it. Sometimes it was as if there were a literal wall in my mind that I just could not get over. I believed, I hoped, I wanted, I visualized, I focused, I set goals, I acted - so why was I stuck?
Eventually my studying lead me to take a 5 week tele-course on energy healing basics. The announcement that I read for the class mentioned the Law of Attraction, and how to clear the blocks that were holding you back from really living it. I saved that email for weeks in my inbox. Something about it spoke to me, and drew me in. I just couldn't delete it. The day before the class was to start, I signed up. Paying that fee felt like a pretty big leap of faith. I knew instinctively that I was getting really close to what I was searching for.
The class was amazing, enlightening, and everything the ad had promised. Included in the handouts for each class was a reading list. Some of which I had already read, and many more that I had not. These reading lists were both a confirmation that I was still on the same path, and a wealth of new ideas. Since then I have continued to study and implement the concepts of energy healing into my life. Many of the invisible boulders in my life have been rolled away, or even blown to pieces.
As my understanding has increased, so has my desire to help others with these methods. Everywhere I look there is needless suffering - colicky babies, depression, addiction, heart disease, cancer, fear, anger, frustration, and pain. The healing methods of energy medicine address all of these and more. How can I keep all of this goodness to myself? I want to share the light I have found with everyone.
Next month I am taking my next giant leap into the void. I will be attending intensive training classes to become a certified practitioner of Calyco Healing. I am so excited to learn even more, especially how to help others with these methods. I have recently started a new blog dedicated to the subject of energy healing. It will become a resource for others, who are searching to understand this subject. Eventually I will post reviews of the best, and worst, books on the subject, as well as links to other resources. There is no reason for everyone to dig through the weeds to find the flowers.
The lights are on, the darkness has fled. It's onward, and upward by leaps and bounds.
I've always read a lot of books, fiction and otherwise. Years ago I read a great book that helped Carl and I meet some pretty enthusiastic goals in our life. It was during one of those leap of faith moments that we discovered "Living by the Power of Faith" by Gene R. Cook. The message is powerful, and at the end of each chapter is a worksheet to help you implement the concepts you are learning. We worked through the book together and changed the course of our life dramatically.
Somehow, we got a bit off track. We became comfortable on our plateau and stopped setting new goals. Aiming each day just to hold on to what we had, we rather quickly began to dwindle. The momentum was effectively dead. It took a few years, but reality began to catch up with our attitude, and we ended up pretty close to square one, except now we were older, and less resilient. Since then it has been a series of leaps into the unknown followed by baby steps into the dark.
A few years ago the book, "The Secret" came out. I read it, Carl read it, our friends and family read it. It was a breath of fresh air, a spark of energy, a reminder, and a wake up call. I knew from personal experience that the principles worked. At the core, it is the same message as "Living by the Power of Faith". My quest to know more resumed. I wanted to understand why I could implement and succeed for while, but was unable to sustain the momentum necessary for lasting success. Why did worry, fear, and doubt always return? I began searching for a way to clear the stumbling blocks from my path, so that I could fully embrace a life of faith and trust, rather than falling back into fear and doubt.
Since then I have read and studied the subject from many angles. I have learned a lot and I am grateful to all the authors who wrote those books, sharing their wisdom and knowledge. I made a lot of baby steps while reading all of those books. There is a difference between knowing how to do something, and actually doing it. Sometimes it was as if there were a literal wall in my mind that I just could not get over. I believed, I hoped, I wanted, I visualized, I focused, I set goals, I acted - so why was I stuck?
Eventually my studying lead me to take a 5 week tele-course on energy healing basics. The announcement that I read for the class mentioned the Law of Attraction, and how to clear the blocks that were holding you back from really living it. I saved that email for weeks in my inbox. Something about it spoke to me, and drew me in. I just couldn't delete it. The day before the class was to start, I signed up. Paying that fee felt like a pretty big leap of faith. I knew instinctively that I was getting really close to what I was searching for.
The class was amazing, enlightening, and everything the ad had promised. Included in the handouts for each class was a reading list. Some of which I had already read, and many more that I had not. These reading lists were both a confirmation that I was still on the same path, and a wealth of new ideas. Since then I have continued to study and implement the concepts of energy healing into my life. Many of the invisible boulders in my life have been rolled away, or even blown to pieces.
As my understanding has increased, so has my desire to help others with these methods. Everywhere I look there is needless suffering - colicky babies, depression, addiction, heart disease, cancer, fear, anger, frustration, and pain. The healing methods of energy medicine address all of these and more. How can I keep all of this goodness to myself? I want to share the light I have found with everyone.
Next month I am taking my next giant leap into the void. I will be attending intensive training classes to become a certified practitioner of Calyco Healing. I am so excited to learn even more, especially how to help others with these methods. I have recently started a new blog dedicated to the subject of energy healing. It will become a resource for others, who are searching to understand this subject. Eventually I will post reviews of the best, and worst, books on the subject, as well as links to other resources. There is no reason for everyone to dig through the weeds to find the flowers.
The lights are on, the darkness has fled. It's onward, and upward by leaps and bounds.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The Quest
A few years ago I read The Secret. I had several months of great parking spots, which is nothing short of a miracle here on Oahu. Parking is a daily issue and having good luck with it is a BIG deal. The Secret works.
The concepts taught in The Secret rang true to me, but the book seemed over simplified. I wanted more than just good parking spots. I wanted to improve the quality of my life. I wanted to acheive my dreams. I prefer to take the AP class, rather than remedial reading, or maybe I expect life to be hard? Either way, I went on a quest for the details, the science, the meat of the mater. I wanted to know how it worked, why it worked, and just exactly how I should go about making it work in my life. I wanted facts and I wanted homework.
I read several books by the authors quoted in The Secret - Joe Vitale, Christiane Turner, Dr. Maxwell Maltz, Dale Carnegie, Charles Haanel, Benjamin Franklin, etc. These authors led me to others, and related topics, like the fascinating concepts of quantum physics and the nature of time. I learned a lot of cool stuff, and enjoyed myself thoroughly.
Somewhere along the line I ended up on a daily newsletter written by Matt Furey. He is associated with the Psycho-cybernetics foundation, and the work of Dr. Maxwell Maltz. I love most of his stuff, and purchased his DVD about how to get rid of headaches. His particular flavor of this whole concept centers around fitness and internet marketing.
I am pretty interested in the internet marketing, but fitness? Well, slimness has always come naturally to me so I haven't given it a whole lot of thought. If an activity is fun or neadful, I do it. But just walking or running, or anything, for the sake of fitness - BORING~ I think reading those daily emails about how to lose weight and how to get fit might be making me fat. I'd read an email with a tip about what to do to exercise more effectively, etc. and I would think, "Oh crap, I'm not doing that, maybe I should be." Seriously! I never thought it of it before, and I stayed perfectly healthy and slim. I ate and did what I wanted. In the last year I have gained a few pounds, maybe 10 at the most. I know, I know, what am I complaining about, but I don't like it! I want MY body back, the one that I know, that acts the way I am used to, and fits clothes like I am used to. I feel strange in this slightly softer, rounder version of myself. I have thought about buying one of the fitness books Furey is selling.
It's all my brother-in-law's fault that I even know how much I weigh. When he moved back to the mainland about a year and a half ago he left his bathroom scale at our house. I was shipping him boxes a few at a time that he left here. I needed the scale to weigh them. After a few months of it hanging out in the living room, I put it in the bathroom. In all my adult life I had never owned a scale. I never thought about how much I weighed. I started weighing myself often, just cause it was there. Pretty soon it was every day. I'm not going to step on that scale again for at least a week. Maybe I will just ship it to it's rightful owner, he can have the dang thing back.
When I was reading all those books, I fairly devoured them. I would go through each one as quickly as I could, searching for the gems. Most of them had mental exercises you were supposed to go through at the end of each chapter. I was much too impatient for any of that. I remember thinking, "Ya, ya, I know, tell me what's next!". Generally these exercises involve deep breathing and meditation. I discovered that I was not very good at either. So, I skipped through them and on to more information, and then the next book, and the next.
Other than the daily emails, I haven't read anything new on the subject for the last few months. My mind has been processing all that data. Here is what I think:
1. It is really important to know what you want before you go about trying to get it.
2. The human mind is very powerful. Respect that power.
3. Be careful about what messages you send yourself. Look around your life and see what you are telling yourself. (ie the bathroom scale)
4. Knowledge is not enough for true success.
I have determined to slow down and actually DO the exercises in those books I read. I am starting with Charles Haanel's The Master Key System. This is the one that irritated me the most, so it's probably the one I need to do. He suggests you take a week between each chapter to master each exercise before moving on to the next. The first week you are supposed to sit perfectly still in a chair for 15 minutes. You are supposed to do this every day for a week. Simple - but surprisingly difficult for me. Each chapter builds on the previous and now in chapter 3 I am sitting perfectly still for 15 minutes daily with my body completely relaxed and my mind completely relaxed. I have dozed off a few times. Hopefully by the time the week is up I will have this one mastered.
The books I have read are included in the list on the right side of this page. My personal favorites are The New Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz, How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, and The Biography of Benjamin Franklin. Come, join me on The Quest!
The concepts taught in The Secret rang true to me, but the book seemed over simplified. I wanted more than just good parking spots. I wanted to improve the quality of my life. I wanted to acheive my dreams. I prefer to take the AP class, rather than remedial reading, or maybe I expect life to be hard? Either way, I went on a quest for the details, the science, the meat of the mater. I wanted to know how it worked, why it worked, and just exactly how I should go about making it work in my life. I wanted facts and I wanted homework.
I read several books by the authors quoted in The Secret - Joe Vitale, Christiane Turner, Dr. Maxwell Maltz, Dale Carnegie, Charles Haanel, Benjamin Franklin, etc. These authors led me to others, and related topics, like the fascinating concepts of quantum physics and the nature of time. I learned a lot of cool stuff, and enjoyed myself thoroughly.
Somewhere along the line I ended up on a daily newsletter written by Matt Furey. He is associated with the Psycho-cybernetics foundation, and the work of Dr. Maxwell Maltz. I love most of his stuff, and purchased his DVD about how to get rid of headaches. His particular flavor of this whole concept centers around fitness and internet marketing.
I am pretty interested in the internet marketing, but fitness? Well, slimness has always come naturally to me so I haven't given it a whole lot of thought. If an activity is fun or neadful, I do it. But just walking or running, or anything, for the sake of fitness - BORING~ I think reading those daily emails about how to lose weight and how to get fit might be making me fat. I'd read an email with a tip about what to do to exercise more effectively, etc. and I would think, "Oh crap, I'm not doing that, maybe I should be." Seriously! I never thought it of it before, and I stayed perfectly healthy and slim. I ate and did what I wanted. In the last year I have gained a few pounds, maybe 10 at the most. I know, I know, what am I complaining about, but I don't like it! I want MY body back, the one that I know, that acts the way I am used to, and fits clothes like I am used to. I feel strange in this slightly softer, rounder version of myself. I have thought about buying one of the fitness books Furey is selling.
It's all my brother-in-law's fault that I even know how much I weigh. When he moved back to the mainland about a year and a half ago he left his bathroom scale at our house. I was shipping him boxes a few at a time that he left here. I needed the scale to weigh them. After a few months of it hanging out in the living room, I put it in the bathroom. In all my adult life I had never owned a scale. I never thought about how much I weighed. I started weighing myself often, just cause it was there. Pretty soon it was every day. I'm not going to step on that scale again for at least a week. Maybe I will just ship it to it's rightful owner, he can have the dang thing back.
When I was reading all those books, I fairly devoured them. I would go through each one as quickly as I could, searching for the gems. Most of them had mental exercises you were supposed to go through at the end of each chapter. I was much too impatient for any of that. I remember thinking, "Ya, ya, I know, tell me what's next!". Generally these exercises involve deep breathing and meditation. I discovered that I was not very good at either. So, I skipped through them and on to more information, and then the next book, and the next.
Other than the daily emails, I haven't read anything new on the subject for the last few months. My mind has been processing all that data. Here is what I think:
1. It is really important to know what you want before you go about trying to get it.
2. The human mind is very powerful. Respect that power.
3. Be careful about what messages you send yourself. Look around your life and see what you are telling yourself. (ie the bathroom scale)
4. Knowledge is not enough for true success.
I have determined to slow down and actually DO the exercises in those books I read. I am starting with Charles Haanel's The Master Key System. This is the one that irritated me the most, so it's probably the one I need to do. He suggests you take a week between each chapter to master each exercise before moving on to the next. The first week you are supposed to sit perfectly still in a chair for 15 minutes. You are supposed to do this every day for a week. Simple - but surprisingly difficult for me. Each chapter builds on the previous and now in chapter 3 I am sitting perfectly still for 15 minutes daily with my body completely relaxed and my mind completely relaxed. I have dozed off a few times. Hopefully by the time the week is up I will have this one mastered.
The books I have read are included in the list on the right side of this page. My personal favorites are The New Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz, How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, and The Biography of Benjamin Franklin. Come, join me on The Quest!
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