The Engine of Personal Creation August 23, 2008
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In choosing to take responsibility for my experience and create the reality that I desire I’ve studied quite a bit of material on manifestation and how our external world reflects our internal experience. I fully believe that I have created everything that I experience in my life so its been a process of trying to understand how I’ve done it and with that understanding be able to do it more consciously. Needless to say its been a frustrating process at times and at other times quite incredible. From this point of view our external world is a reflection of what we think, imagine, feel and believe. If we want a mirror of the beliefs and thought patterns we have held in the past we need only look at our life as it is right now. If we don’t like what we see we can change it by illuminating the inner processes that created what we don’t want and put our energy into imagining and embodying what we do want to see in our outer world.
So how do we take something we wish to create from an idea into a physical reality? For me it starts with knowing what I want to create and making an intention out of it. This is the first step that makes the declaration to the universe that I’m engaging in an act of creation and this is what I want to create whether it be a relationship, money, a new computer, health, peace or whatever. From here I begin to create a vision, a mental picture of just what my creation looks like with as many details as possible including what it looks like visually, what it sounds like, smells like, feels like etc. This may just be happening in the mind but if external experience reflects internal as I believe then we are engaging in a process of giving external reality something new to reflect. The imagination is powerful and with it we can experience almost any quality of what we want to create.
The mental image or vision is not enough however because a vision alone lacks the power to create a physical form. This is where it can get challenging due to our habitual patterns, fears and doubts. What we need to do is infuse our vision with emotional energy. We take all the details we imagined when we created our image and feel that our creation is already manifested, that it is here now, its already complete. This would definitely feel a certain way. If I wanted to create a relationship it would involve a lot of feeling to actually have that relationship, to be in it and experiencing it. We have the power to imagine this. This is the process of fully stepping into our vision and making it a reality for us. If it is a reality at all levels inside then our external experience will have to reflect that. We focus on the end result and feel that it is completely real and present in our life now. We don’t focus on how it will come to pass, we focus on it as already present. This allows us to be open to the unlimited channels that something can come to us through rather than limiting it to just the ones we know or can imagine. The process of creation has the potential to be infinite if we allow it to be. If I can only imagine creating money through a job then my experience will reflect that by only bringing money into my life through a job rather than it being open to infinite sources of wealth that I may not be able to imagine at the moment.
The challenge here is often that we don’t really believe in our vision at a deeper level and so aren’t able to fully feel and experience its presence. Therefore we aren’t able to infuse it with sufficient energy to complete the creative process. It can help here to illuminate the doubts and fears that get in the way and allow ourselves to look at them and release them. It can also be helpful to study the creative manifestation process in depth so we can build confidence in it and understand how it works. We can then find examples in our lives of how we have already manifested things, both things we wanted and did not want because we are creating our experience all the time its just usually unconscious and haphazard. The process works whether it is conscious or not and we can equally bring positive healthy forms into being as we can negative destructive forms. The motivation behind our vision and the quality of energy that we infuse it with will determine the quality and effect of the resulting creation.
If your intention is to create money in your life it is helpful to look into where that intention is coming from. What part of your consciousness the vision comes from also determines what quality of emotional energy will be needed to activate and empower it. If I build a vision of more money in my life to acquire possessions, buy a car as a status symbol and impress women the quality of energy that will be compatible with this vision is going to be a denser emotional energy such as greed or a visceral form of pleasure. If I envision money to help my friends, meet my basic needs and support charitable causes it will likely be compatible with a lighter vibration of energy such as joy and peace. There is no judgement in this in terms of what ones motivation should be or what is right to create and what is not. It is simply necessary to know where ones desires originate from and the emotional energy that is most appropriate to empower them. This is where people can feel that the process doesn’t work because the energy infusing the vision is insufficient or not compatible with it so it does not produce the desired result. The kind of emotional energy we need to manifest a vision is the same kind of emotional energy that is present when we experience that vision as a physical reality. The key in this process is the ability to step into the vision of what one wants to create fully and experience all elements of it in the present moment. When you embody your vision fully in this way your outer world must reflect it because it becomes what you are projecting “out there”.
Dear Mr. president August 18, 2008
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Dear Mr. president
I’m writing to let you know that I’m taking back my power. For a long time I believed that I was helpless to do anything to change this world. Then I believed I was helpless to stop you and those like you from destroying it. But more recently I realized that it was I who was destroying this world by giving my power away and unconsciously playing the role of a victim. You see I now know that you have no power to rule this world, you only have the power that people have unconsciously given to you. They of course do not know they are doing this but I have realized it and so I’m taking my power back.
I’m taking my power back by taking back my attention. No longer will I allow my attention to be focused on the stories of the past, current distractions or the fear of a dismal future. Instead I will choose where I put my attention. I won’t watch your TV or listen to your radio or any other propaganda. I won’t fill my mind with your unconscious mass media or buy your garbage products. I won’t pollute my planet with your toxins or my body with your poisonous drugs and genetically modified food. I won’t fight in your wars or hate my fellow man because he believes differently than I do. I won’t vote in your fraudulent elections or fall for your illusions of freedom. I won’t pay your illegal taxes or help you take away our remaining freedoms. I won’t put my money into your corporations or give it to your banks. Like I said before I’m taking back my power, all of it. You won’t be able to prevent this because no amount of darkness and repression can stop the illumination of light and consciousness.
I’m putting my attention on the now, the present moment and tapping into the power of life. I’m assuming my role as the creator of my reality and no longer playing the victim. I’m spending my time expanding my consciousness and helping my fellow man. I will nurture my body with local organic healthy foods and natural medicines. I will promote and support local business and green technologies. I will be aware of what I put into my mind and get my entertainment from sources that truly educate and empower me. I will embody peace and cooperation and build community. And I will help and encourage others to do these things too and take their power back.
I don’t blame you for trying to destroy this world and enslave us because you are a part of me and I gave you my power. We are interconnected and when we take back our power you will no longer be able to do the things you have been doing but in losing that you will also gain your true power, the power of life. I will no longer create separation because I know its an illusion. We are all interconnected and so what we do to each other we do to ourselves and all creation.
I’m taking back my power and taking responsibility for changing myself and my world.
Just thought you should know.
Be in peace
Colin
Personal Power: Beyond Hope and Hopelessness August 3, 2008
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I’ve thought a lot about hope and hopelessness lately in light of my process of inner growth and also with respect to what is going on in the world. I know many people feel hopeless about the direction the world is taking as well as with their own life situation. They feel helpless to do anything to change it and frustrated that they can’t seem to create what they want and I know how they feel. On the other hand, I know people who feel a sense of hope that things will be ok and will be transformed. I see this especially with spiritually minded people and people who are into things like 2012 and other viewpoints that see a positive future.
For me however, both hope and hopelessness are two poles of the same continuum of powerlessness. In looking at this in my own experience and those around me I see two common elements of both hope and hopelessness. The first is giving away ones power and the second is focusing on the future at the expense of the present. When we feel hopeless we usually feel powerless to change an experience we do not want. We basically don’t want what the present moment consists of and we extend that into the future feeling as if we have no power to create something different. A hopeful feeling is similar in the sense that hope usually focuses on the future. We have hope that things will get better or change , in the future, because if they were the way we wanted right now there would be nothing to hope for. By hoping for a positive future outcome we are saying we are powerless to create this desired outcome now and so need to hope that it occurs in some imagined future by some unknown means. Hope and hopelessness are the same from this viewpoint expect in imagined quality of their outcome.
The future, whether we fear it or hope for it in a positive way does not exist. It is simply a thought mixed with various emotions in the present. Putting our hopes or fears into the future results in us giving away our power because our power, the essence of who we are exists only in the present. Nothing is ever accomplished except in the present. If you put something off until tomorrow you will still have to accomplish it in the present if it is to be accomplished. What I’m working on in my practice is letting go of the past and the future and putting as much of my attention and energy as possible into right now. I find it incredibly empowering and when I am able to be fully present there is no hope or hopelessness, there is only now and all the power and possibility that it contains. The present moment is not always pleasurable but it is always powerful and alive. If we can accept the natural suffering of life when it is present instead of fighting or avoiding it we have the opportunity in that acceptance to go deeper and experience real peace and power. To be free of pain and pleasure, good and bad, right and wrong and the whole dualistic delusion. If something needs to be done we know exactly what to do and when to do it because we function from a place of clarity and power. We are fully alive and a participant in life.