Universal Truths

Blueprints & Our State of Health

Part 2 of 4

By considering the messages I received about health as a child, especially the first vital, impressionable 10 years, I invoke the first of the Universal Truths - "Keys to a Better Life" being Awareness. I cannot change anything I do not first acknowledge as being either something I desire more or less of.

I was programmed with a health Blueprint that was predominantly focused on the limited and undesirable half of the health spectrum. Not too far along the negative side in most instances, but certainly not on the half that continually expresses the seven characteristics of the Spirit of Life, as taught by Judge Thomas Troward, being love, light, power, peace, beauty and joy. This occurred not because my parents, carers and educators wanted to harm, hurt, or damage me but because they did the best they could with the information they acquired.

This being so, in my adult years from my early 20s through to my mid 30s in particular, I unconsciously reproduced conditions that were extremely undesirable. These included cold sores that appeared from early primary school years and became a regular occurrence including getting a couple a month, ongoing, towards the end of this cycle of belief, just a few years ago. The migraines I experienced began at age 19 and lasted up to 16 hours. I recalled only recently that I had a neighbour I liked a lot that used to get them in a highly debilitating way. Inflammation/Fluid around my knees rendered me unable to walk around many Friday evenings, and my biggest health challenge, depression, began as mild and undiagnosed episodes since childhood becoming manic in my early thirties.  The day I was diagnosed with manic depression I was provided with a doctor's certificate for three months of sick leave and enough drugs for the same period...in under eight minutes. Within three days of commencing this leave and medication, I felt so disorientated in my life and in my body that I didn't want to be there anymore.

It was at this cross road, that a beloved friend handed me a book that she hadn't read at the time but came recommended by one of her trusted friend, and it turned my every thought about Life on its head. Do you know the type?

It was the impetus to reaching the conclusion or rather the commencement of a thought process that went, "If I am willing to check-out of life, why don't I just change all the things I don't like about it."  Within six months I had changed pretty much everything external to me - my relationship of 19 years came to a relatively amicable conclusion, I changed my job, the state I lived in, and my friends - not all for my immediate betterment but all of which contributed to my recognition some five years later, and with the ongoing assitance of my most incredible mirror, change agent/coach and life partner Anthony Harvey, that the one and only thing that constantly requires direct, focussed attention for change is me. By me, I don't mean more of the things around me, like my partner, my body, my friends, my home, or my clothes, I mean my beliefs.

When I changed my beliefs about my health I changed my world.

According to the thefreedictionary.com Metaphysics is branch of philosophy that deals with first principles, especially of being and knowing. It examines the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact and value. In summary, I describe Metaphysics as a branch of philosophy that recognises that for each and every physical condition there is a mental thought process as its cause. To me Metaphysics is the understanding of the body's Cause and Effect.

Through the application of Metaphysics I gained a new understanding about all of the undesirable conditions listed in the previous post Part 1.  In particular, regarding cold sores, migraines, knee problems, and depression the understandings I gained, the actions I took, and the outcomes I produced were as follows:

Of cold sores, Metaphysics says that the old thought process (root cause) of this condition is, "Festering angry words and fear of expressing them." And, the extension of this condition, Herpes Simplex (Herpes Labialis), is "Burning to bitch. Bitter words left unspoken."* 

Every member of my family got cold sores and in my recollection we had them regularly and frequently. As the ancients say, "Like Attracts Like" and it was certainly true again of this condition. In the "communication" arena, I learnt what I saw, heard and felt which consisted predominantly of arguments, condemnation, criticism and impatience. As I became more and more aware of the particular thoughts, feelings, words and actions that brought with them the condition called cold sores, I began to impress upon my sub-conscious mind, with my conscious mind, a different belief. I wrote down and repeated often, "I only create peaceful experiences because I love myself. All is well." And, " I think and speak only words of love. I am at peace with life."*

So simple, don't you think…? Simple it is, but it's not always easy. Seven years on and I must remain ever vigilant with my thoughts, feelings, words and actions to maintain a cold sore free complexion. It is not that I no longer feel my emotions, including upset, sorrow, annoyance and anger but I am ever working my mental and emotional muscles to ensure they are fit and focussed and my aim is to feel my feelings from an uncritical place of observation to the best of my current ability. I feel the feeling and ask the question in parallel, "what is this condition telling me about myself?"

and this is how parts are born… stay tuned for part 3 of 3 or perhaps 4... :D

until I post again
Live the Life you Love
J. x

source: You Can Heal Your Life, by Louise L Hay. 

Change for Goodness Sake (Part 2 of 2)

While the concepts I shared in the previous post (Part 1) are simple and purposely repetitive, i.e. that thoughts, feelings, words and actions (TFW&A) produce our desirable and undesirable experiences, we are prone to dismiss the simple things in life to our detriment.  However, while indeed they are simple, they are not always easy...

Our pre-programed beliefs and values, which are continually reinforced by our conditions, have a tendency to govern our experiences.  This is why my body developed an undesirable condition in the form of muscle pain and tightness between my shoulder blades last Wednesday afternoon (29/8/2012).  Knowing what I now know, I was able to begin the releasing process immediately by recognising the old program that caused it. These were to do with not feeling supported and "getting stuck in [thinking about] all that stuff back there".  I was focussing on what I haven't done or achieved rather than focussing on what it feels like to be living my ideal life now.  Through the love and skill of my world class change agent/coach Anthony, I was reminded that "Life always supports me and I am free to move forward with love in my heart".  In shifting my attention and again monitoring my TFW&A, by Friday morning (31 Aug) I was free of that condition.

It seems remarkable to me that once upon a time I would have dealt with this undesirable condition for weeks, if not months.  I may have had another bout of depression, swallowed umpteenth anti-inflammatories, additional pain relief for the headaches and migraines, been so annoyed I would have undoubtedly come up with a cold sore and attended numerous Osteopath treatments as well.  SUCH DRAMA!!

One of the reasons I have come to understand why change is not considered or experienced as easy or elegant initially is because our conscious mind tells us continually that what we desire is not yet so - which, by the way, is part of its function.  It also tells us when things are so.  The fact that our ideal conditions are not current is not the cause of the conscious mind so much as part of the guidance system for where we are up to.  It operates from our five physical senses, but that's not all there is.

The sub-conscious mind, the realm of feeling, when not engaged independently and with intention, supports the conscious mind attracting like conditions that we then experience consciously.  So, when I run the story that a thing is not so, over and over, by giving any aspect of it my attention via my TFW&A, I make it more so.  Simply put, what I focus on expands.

By engaging the sub-conscious mind independently and with intention it does not need the ideal conditions to be present to believe them possible or true now.  The way I engage the sub-conscious mind is by feeling the feelings of my wishes fulfilled!  I focus my TFW&A on the desired condition being true for me now.

This sets the cogs in motion for the manifestation of my desire into form and, by the natural Law of Growth, I became the person I need to be in order to do and to have my ideal outcomes.

By releasing my addiction to how something must play out, even in the minutest way, I concur that I don't know the intricacies of Creation and that I am part of something Greater than myself.  We are told in scripture that "all things we ask in prayer, believing, we will receive”, and that "His ways are past finding out".  I believe these statements to be so because I also believe that creation is complete - meaning there are no circumstances, desires, objects, or conditions that I can think of that do not have the ways and the means to manifest.  There are many things I enjoy in life that I cannot fathom the workings or production of and enjoy them anyway like electricity, gravity, and oxygen to name a few…

So, I can come to see and rest assured that anything I give my attention to, feel deeply about, AND believe to be true, in the now, is guaranteed to evolve into matter in this time-space existence.  This is the training (the perfect practice), the reprogramming (the necessity to obtain new information and fake it till I make it), and the Faith (the honest belief) required to experience good, joyful change/evolution.

It doesn't happen this way because I say so.  It happens this way because it has been written about for millennia.  It happens this way because science confirms the physical aspects of this process (such as thoughts are energy), as do all the sacred scriptures of the world, and because some seven billion human inhabitants of which I proudly call myself one are living proof of it every moment of their/our existence. 

We are all at Cause for the conditions before us, individually and collectively, and we are and can continue to Change for Goodness Sake ;)

until I post again...
Live the Life you Love
J. x

Change for Goodness Sake (1 of 2)

I've been referring to change a lot lately and it's no coincidence - not that I believe in coincidences but that's another post.

As a race or species we are told by numerous sources that we are undergoing monumental change on every level of our existence.  Change that is beyond the detection of physical science because these changes are not only of a physical nature...they are predominantly of the Universal kind.  How do I know for sure whether or not this change is happening?  Because I am experiencing great change, in some shape or form, first hand, everyday.

Further, change is one of the main ingredients for producing our highest expression as human beings (human excellence) and human excellence is a subject of great interest to us here at Universal Truths.  We have come to believe, with everything in us, that change means evolution and evolution means Life. And Life lived in excellence, as the Sages of the Ages have taught us, is a Life truly worth living!

Whenever I entertain any doubt about whether change is good or bad, I remind myself that it is absolutely great because whatever is happening, regardless of its appearance, is happening for my highest good.  I can say this with conviction because I have begun reaping the rewards of years of training to refocus my attention toward my good and now recognise more and more that in reality there is nothing but this Goodness – it just so happens to include a vast array of contrast from which I can differentiate and select.

Like billions of others getting around on this extraordinary planet we call Earth, I wasn't always so sure or so clear about this concept.  Then, AND in the occasional now moments of living life, my doubt becomes apparent when I again function from the place of limited information and beliefs.  In doing so I reap the consequences of that limited thinking by producing undesirable conditions.

Through study, implementation and experience I have come to know that my conditions are not only a direct response to my thoughts, feelings, words, and actions, but they are 100% accurate, although not 100% exact - here's what I mean...

A reason why I haven't to-date instantly received millions of dollars in lottery prizes, engaged specific companies to share our services with, hooked up with people that look like this and act like that, cured ailments and illnesses this way by this time, or occupied a CBD abode in that building with this address, is because these are all a matter of how.   What I have learnt to do instead is open channels and receive big, happy, financial surprises, engage with large iconic Australian and global companies, meet and know many lovely and interesting folks, and focus on health and other desirable conditions.  And, how Life played out the details of these experiences through me, was not in ways I could have expected nor requested.

I’ve since learnt that how is the desire/Will of Life Itself and thank goodness this is so because it certainly makes things easier, more elegant, and far quicker than anything I could have produced myself.  Life has the means and the ways for how to manifest what we desire that is beyond finding out.

My role, as I now understand it, in the change/evolution process is to contemplate what and not deviate until what next activities (what we also refer to as Divinely Inspired Actions) appear in my consciousness.

To continue the process that starts with a thought, idea, inkling, or desire, I contemplate and hold my thoughts and feelings on what it actually feels like to be, do and have the details of that condition now.  I am continually becoming more and more disciplined in what thoughts I entertain and what I’m feeling because I now know this is part of the creative process; for the production of desirable and undesirable conditions.

An example of what thinking in order to change my condition of not enough money was to contemplate instead what it actually felt like now that I have (note: not "going to have" meaning its coming, but "now have") more than enough of the substance called money or currency to do what I want, when I want, where I want, and with who I want?  And, yes indeed, wealth includes much more than money!  No matter what stage of wealth we are demonstrating or expressing today, there is always more available...and for very good reason.

Regarding an ideal job, an example of this what thinking to manifest a change in my conditions is to feel deeply who I am being, what I am doing, and what I have, now that I am providing a service that contributes to my joy, and that is good for many.  When I thought about, and took action towards, providing a particular service because of what I could earn, and the money dilemmas this could solve, I earned little and often found the related activities arduous.  Now that I'm focused on providing a service because of the value I am and can yet provide, my income streams have opened up and money has arrived from a variety of unexpected channels.  A key here was to recognise the true Source of my supply – yet another topic for another time.

Regarding what thinking and an ideal relationship, I changed this by replacing my thoughts of being single and the looming doom of failure, distrust, and disappointment in any shape or form with my fairytale outcomes.  Today, I continue to change/evolve it by changing my own thoughts and feelings and by becoming the person I wish to be with, thereby attracting my perfect mirror as my reflection.  In my opinion, intimate relationships are most telling of where we are up to in our personality and its expression  - physically, mentally and spiritually, when viewed and conducted in an enlightened manner.  Anthony reveals to me areas to be healed and refined and the more I did and continue to do this, the more beautiful my mirror image becomes, literally and metaphorically.

My role, as I've come to understand and live it in the game of life, is to differentiate and select from the array of available life experiences.  In other words it is to decide what I desire to be, do, and have by contemplating what those conditions and experiences would feel like if they were true for me right now.  By holding these visions and imaginary experiences as true, I am breathing Life into them and playing my perfect part.  The fake it till you make it phrase and perfect practice are vital concepts when playing the change game.  Even scripture tells us to "call things that are not as though they were." 

Let's keep changing for Goodness sake...

until I post again...
Love the Life you Live
J x

Times they are a changing...

I have learnt to embrace change. I don't always love it but I certainly have made change my friend.

In my "past life", prior to the last seven years :o), I loathed change.  In my unconscious attempt to control everyone and everything, not in a conscious neurotic sort of way but from an unconscious place of deep fears, change represented uncertainty.  I found it scary, unpredictable and not always in my best interest.

These days I know that change is certain and
I view it as an ever ready portal
through which all my undesirable conditions can be transformed.

During my recent years of great personal transformation, it was a surprise to me just how many aspects of my life and myself I didn't like. The more I chose to shine the light on areas of myself and my life, the more I found I was less than content with.

Learning what we've learnt along the way, I got to change much about myself.  As I did I found that when I achieved the next version of "me" in an area I considered to be ideal, I would realise yet more was available, if I so desired.  I came to understand that not only can I continually and endlessly imagine other, grander versions of ideal, for ever aspect of my life, but that it is in harmony with Life Itself to do so.

It has become known to me at a cellular level that my number one purpose for existing at all is to partake in the Great Plan of Life/Evolution which by definition is "a gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form." *

Last weekend marked the "next step" of significant change for Anthony and I yet again. While most weekends do, the difference this time is that I wish to share the planning, the process, and the progress via this space.

The areas upon which the Light is currently being shone includes: our body composition (or personal physical expression), our expression via our home, and the manner and roles through which we express ourself in areas of service.

As I have blogged and posted in the past, planning precedes performance.  So, last weekend was when I put keyboard to screen and produced my latest "What" document. From a place of uncritical observation, I listed "What" conditions I am currently producing/receiving (Keys: Awareness + 1).  I then asked and noted, "What do I now desire?" (Key No. 2), and this elegantly led me too, "What" my new focus needs to be on (Key No. 3).

I also took some current stats in terms of my height, weight and measurements. To accompany these I took some now photos which I'm also doing with the cabin (our home). I intend to upload these on weekends or when the tools of the trade permit me to do so more regularly with ease. Whilst the body shots will be conservative for professional purposes they will reveal enough to document my progress.

And what does this have to do with manifesting an inner city abode or becoming a company culture change agent, you might ask? Everything of course! Absolutely everything as we'll come to see...

until I post again...
Love the Life you Live
J x

* source: meaning of evolution

One thing is for Certain

 
The company with whom I'm currently engaged is in the throes of massive transformation. No surprises there given my belief that everything and everyone, in my unique perspecitve of the world, is in some form or another a reflection of my Self. : )

The greatest corporate transformation I've experienced to-date was when the Melbourne aviation office I was engaged with from 1998 to 2004 outsourced its products and services resulting in the office's closer and redundancy of all team members.

During the closure period, around August to December, my business success and human potential studies were in their infancy.  They had progressed enough however to gain an intellectual understanding that, in Truth, "Life is happening through me, not to me".

That small family of 10, part of a global company employing in excess of 25,000, united by consciously or unconsciously agreeing on a couple of key concepts including;

• One Thing for Certain is...Change; and
  
  
• Thoughts and Attitudes play a big part in our current change experiences and in our next professional engagement, our home life, our health, and goodness knows what else, now and in the future...

The outcome: every member of that family stayed until the final day and immediately transitioned to roles we considered to be an advancement for one reason or another.

Another major factor I believe contributed to that outcome was the leadership capabilities and competencies of our Managing Director. More about these another time - they're important!

On my newest stage, I find myself surrounded by more lovely people.  In my immediate vicinity there are 26 of them. My experience is that they are warm, friendly, professional, fun loving, family oriented, and highly intelligent people in their fields.

Late last week, following an office group function, five guys (amongst them leaders from our team) were chatting. Not too long after joining them to say hello, I asked the group a question... It went something like;

So, who here thinks they'll still have a job in 6 to 12 months? :|

My conscious mind, the one that operates in conjunction with my five physical senses, wants to dedicate the next couple of paragraphs to justifying why I asked the question in this manner, just as it briefly attempted to do at the time. Yet, when I invite my sub-conscious mind to contribute a perspective it offers something quite different...

My sub-conscious mind, the part that operates in conjunction with my feelings enables me to have an emotional attachment with the people I'm around, in fact people in general these days, that springs from a base of Love.  From that place my question resembles something more like;

"This is a big time for you guys, most of you are husbands and fathers, with homes and bills to pay, children to educate, lives to plan, relationships to be enjoyed. What are you making of this time and job security?" : )

Some of these guys have been with the company for a decade or more.  Fortunately, they are sharp and fast and got my intent real quick so we went on to have a candid conversation for the last few minutes of the gathering.

It was great to discover that these guys are not just colleagues, they're mates.  I loved they're honest sharing.  One colleague expressed it was Certainty he desired.  A knowing which way things are going to go - one way or the other.  They were frank in their understanding that new blood often brings known blood with them to the table - people they have worked with in the past.  So they most want to know where they stand.

When I asked if it really was Certainty they sought, another colleague suggested that it's Transparency in terms of simply being kept informed.

I agreed, I believe Transparency is paramount when people do not yet have the understanding and experience that we are creating our own reality and that in truth job security is not up to anyone or anything outside our self.  In this interim, Transparency forms part of the foundation of basic respect and is a two way street.

By the end, our conversation left me contemplating two Certainties...the first is as this post implies, Change is Certain. The second certainty is that we are always in transition and there is an easy and elegant manner for this transition to occur.

I believe company culture and company success, like individual personalities and our ability to prosper, are external expressions of our internal beliefs and values.

The significant Change that will determine this company
and individual's outcomes are the changes that are going on within.

Now, regarding Getting into the Spirit of my city abode...

until I post again...
Live the Life you Love
J. x

The Waiting Game

A blog about Manifestation

The greatest fascination I have currently, regarding the Law of Attraction, New Thought, or Mental Science, is the speed at which it takes to manifest our desired objects, relationships and conditions.

Is there a way to determine or influence how long it takes for our "stuff" to show up?

I honestly believe there is, and one of the ways I am applying and improving this process is by gaining a greater understanding of the Natural Law of Growth as well as getting into the Spirit of a Thing.

Allow me to explain my interpretation of the Natural Law of Growth concept with these examples...

Simply put, if my desire is to draw to myself an ideal role, optimum health, a gazillion dollars, or a fabulous relationship, I must first become this person in my imagination.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. ~ Proverbs 23:7

In doing so I will Grow into these roles naturally by attracting or drawing to me the right and perfect resources (people, places, information, funds etc.) and conditions (objects, opportunities, roles, learings, timing etc.) required to Be this person, Do these activities, and Have these experiences.

While today marks day four of my "ideal role" (a stepping stone to my grander aspirations of service), I rehearsed the role on and off (a significant inhibitor to speedy manifestation) for about six months in my imagination prior to it showing up in our three dimensional existence. I have been practicing on stage for three more months and only now beginning to gain some real clarity about how this is contributing to what my version of highest personality and "ideal" is.

During this time I have been observing a variety of feelings, especially in the past few weeks, and the ones I am specifically interested in right now are in regard to the three hours of travel required to get to and from my place of service.

When I consider "what's ideal" for the next phase of this journey, it is evident after 12 weeks that three hours travel, even though I utilise these moments productively, is not "ideal" for five days straigt, week in week out.

This part of the process we call Awareness. I am Aware that I would rather a different travel schedule.

My desired outcome in this role is to provide exceptional service. In doing so, I believe it will generate feelings of appreciation for my knowledge, skills and talents and also reflect desirable conditions of being highly valued - a reflection of the amount and style of value I am and will continue offering and delivering.

In Being and Doing what I next desire...what would be really ideal...is to Have access to an inner city abode, as well as the haven and expanse that the mountain cabin provides. This way, I can achieve greater flexibility in relation to office hours enabling me to perform my duties and provide the Executive I support with even greater service and value.

My first tendency when I thought of this was still to consider "how" this was going to happen. Although I know "how" is not my responsibility, I am now recognising that there are degrees of "how". Recognising and surrendering all attempts to control or dictate "how" a desired condition objectifies itself is what I'm addressing right now.

My role in this glorious, delectable Play called "Life" is to contemplate my undesirable condition from an uncritical place of observation.

Instead of thinking and saying things like, "we may not be able to afford it" and "it's not like someone is going to just give us a place", instead I clearly define "what". What's ideal? What do I now desire?

Here's what I am doing at present to surrender and release "how", in all its disguises.

An initial thought that came to me about a city abode was, "I desire a fully furnished apartment, on a top floor, free of charge."

By the natural Law of Growth this has evolved into, "My Loving Father/Mother willing provides me with the perfect abode, in the perfect place, in the perfect way, under grace, knowing that my deepest desires include:

• To be in walking distance to the office
• To have access to a large private balcony or private rooftop space
• That the premises is new and fresh or aged and funky (warehouse style)
• Lots of natural lighting
• Reliable hot water, heating and cooling
• Reliable Internet access
• Easy access; and
• A car space

That or Better!

And, in a way I do not know, you do not know, no man knows,
it will harden into fact!

In my next post I'll share what I do to get into the Spirit of this thing called "My ideal city abode!"

until I post again...
Live a Life you Love
J. x

Turning the mundane into the magical

Administration is my professional game. It's where I started my professional career in 1987 and something that has remained my career focus for in excess of 25 years.

Having spent five years full time and a portion of everyday since, another two years so far, dedicated to the study and implementation of human potential and business success, administration was the last role I thought I would return to during or following the attainment of such powerful, life altering information and experiences. Yet...at this very moment...I am in discussion regarding a permanent role as an executive assistant to a senior group executive within the banking and finance sector.

Why is it happening this way? Well, I believe it's due to two fundamental concepts; one being that 'how' is not my responsibility, and the other is due to the natural Law of Growth - which I've touched on in earlier posts and will surely touch on again in future ones.

Over the years I have gained an understanding of what I believe is "my higher purpose for being here", and this has without doubt been key to experiencing more and more moments of peace, contentment and joy in my journey to 'evolve' my body, mind and soul. Prior to this recognition, sustainability of these desirable states of consciousness were few and far between, regardless of what I was doing.

Now, to the best of my ability, I spend as many moments of my day in recognition that more important than what I'm doing is the way I'm doing it, aka who I Am being. By this I mean awareness on the thoughts I'm having, what I'm feeling, the relationships I'm developing, and the way I move around etc. This along with the firm belief that these things are taking me closer and closer, moment by moment, thought by thought, word by word, and step by step towards yet a higher concept of myself, is absolutely what turns the ordinary into the extraordinary and the mundane into the magical for me on a daily and weekly basis.

With the understanding that my greatest desires are attained not through what I am doing, but rather through who I am being, I practice being a Company Culture Change Agent everyday now - and have been for the past nine weeks. A daily and weekly focus on an interim professional goal towards my bigger, breathtaking, most inspirational goal for which I continue to be on this planet and in this realm to experience.

For the most part I'm absolutely loving what I'm doing because of who it gives me the opportunity to be and where I believe it is taking me. In regards to those not so enjoyable moments...well, I use them as part of my contextual field from which to reflect and revise using our Universal Truths - Awareness + 1, 2, 3 process. By doing so, I believe I am continually transmuting my undesirable conditions and experiences into my future extraordinary and magical moments of now.

until next time...
Live the Life you Love
J. x

Too Cool For You

"Keys to a Better Life" 

How do I get rid of an old thought?

 
During the week, a friend of Universal Truths said and asked the following:

"I’ve been thinking about something and have a question. I realised that ever since growing up, I carry with me a standard that was past on to me which hasn’t served me any good then and now. It's a process that I recognise is getting in the way of my ability to be appreciative of others.

Growing up, I would take one look at a person and 'measure' their coolness. 

“I got teased when I was younger,
so I go out of my way to make sure I ‘fit in’.”

I have these categories where I put people in certain types of groups: 'people that are way too cool for me'; 'people that are cool enough'; 'people that aren’t so cool but I would still hang out with'; 'people that aren’t cool at all'.

I don’t just do that to others, I do it to myself as well. I put myself in one category as if that’s where I belong.

Today, I know it's getting in the way of feeling free to be me with others I encounter.

“How do I get rid of an old thought?”

Whilst there are a number of discussion points around this undesirable condition, this post has been primarily written to address the question: How do I get rid of an old thought?

The first Universal Truths Key to a Better Life is Awareness. Only by acknowledging or becoming aware that something or someone may no longer be serving our expansion towards living our highest expression, can we do something about it.

Further, the problem is never the problem! The problem here is not that this person had limiting beliefs passed on to them, or that they are unable to fully appreciate others, or that they got teased growing up, or that they categorise themself and others. These are all conditions and whilst many conditions from our past need acknowledgement and forgiveness, they are not today's problem. In fact, I would go so far as to say, there is no problem. Rather, what we have here is another opportunity to ‘feel free to be me’.

A distinction between what we do and what other personal development and psychological approaches do is that the latter often addresses the conditions and asks ‘why’ a lot. Why don’t you appreciate others? Why do you think you got teased? Why don’t you feel cool? And so on… Upon delving into these questions there is often an element of criticism that emerges for one self and others. Also, in our experience ‘why’, in this context, is useless because it is endless…

Instead, at Universal Truths, we turn Key 2 and suggest that once our awareness toward desirable or undesirable conditions has been identified, we become The Great Observer. That is, from a place of uncritical observation we consider ‘what’ impact has this style of thinking had? ‘What’ style of thinking is this? e.g. is it physical or spiritual, contracting or expanding, regressive or progressive?  ‘What’ feelings does this thinking generate? And, ‘what’ conditions did it produce?

Making uncritical observations broadens our awareness enabling us to become better equipped to contain situations, welcome them by understanding there are new gifts about to revealed, address them from the present moment, and progress in an easier, more elegant, and rapid manner.

Key 3 is to Refine our Imagination and is a real key in the ‘how to’ process. The masters tell us that ‘how’ is not our role to play. Rather, our role in the co-creation of our ideal life is to define and refine the ‘what’. 

We change old thoughts, word, actions and conditions by asking questions like, “What do I now desire?  e.g. my desire is to feel free to be me and to appreciate others. What feelings would the accomplishment of these new desires produce? e.g. feelings of freedom and liberty, respect and appreciation, oneness, worthiness etc. Who will this allow me to be? e.g. loving, friendly, fun to be with, relaxed, uniquely expressive. What new conditions will this new way of thinking produce? e.g. I’ll get to meet new and interesting people, enjoy beautiful interaction, and appreciate a variety of personal expressions. I get to express myself freely.

The more consideration and aliveness we give to Key 3 the faster we move from where we are to where and what we next desire to be, to do, and to have. You may wish to review the Phases of Change post for more detail about this process (a link has been provided at the end).

Once we have refined our imagination and given definition and life to the next greatest version of who we wish to be, the fourth and final key in the process is to be Grateful for the inevitable and joyous experiences that are already present, but which we haven’t been able to notice, as well as the new ones now rushing towards us through the natural Law of Growth and Cause of Life.

The moment we imagine what we now desire, the greater part of us, our eternal essence or the Spirit of Life becomes it immediately and through our focussed attention on what we want and how that feels now, we attract from Spirit its correlating matter or form. That is, we attract the like conditions.

So, in summary, my answer to the question, 'how do I get rid of an old thought?' is; by replacing it with a better one. And a process to do so is through the application of the four Universal Truths “Keys to a Better Life”.

1. Become aware of it (the undesirable thought and/or correlating condition(s)).
2. Contemplate it from a place of uncritical observation.
3. Refine your imagination by defining what you now desire.
4. Be grateful for its completion by detaching from anything unlike your new desire, focussing on like thoughts, and feeling the feelings of your wishes fulfilled.

Try it for yourself and let us know how you go…

until next time…
Live the Life you Love
J. x

Helpful Posts: What Vs Why; Phases of Change – A 6 Step Process

Assumptions Harden Info Fact

"Keys to a Better Life"


A Psychological Interpretation of "the Passover"
An Extract from Neville Goddard - Lesson 2
ASSUMPTIONS HARDEN INTO FACT

Neville says: "This Bible of ours has nothing to do with history. Some of you may yet be inclined tonight to believe that, although we can give it a psychological interpretation, it still could be left in its present form and be interpreted literally. You cannot do it. The Bible has no reference at all to people or to events as you have been taught to believe. The sooner you begin to rub out that picture the better.

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Our first story for tonight is found in the Gospel of John. This is a very familiar story, the story of the trial of Jesus. In this Gospel of John it is recorded that Jesus was brought before Pontius Pilate, and the crowd clamored for his life, they wanted Jesus. Pilate turned to them and said:

"But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the Passover;
will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews? Then cried they
all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber."
John 18:39, 40

You are told that Pilate had no choice in the matter, he was only a judge interpreting law, and this was the law. The people had to be given that which they requested. Pilate could not release Jesus against the wishes of the crowd, and so he released Barabbas and gave unto them Jesus to be crucified.

Now bear in mind that your consciousness is God. There is no other God. And you are told that God has a son whose name is Jesus. If you will take the trouble to look up the word Barabbas in your concordance, you will see that it is a contraction of two Hebraic words: BAR, which means a daughter or son - or child, and ABBA, which means father. Barabbas is the son of the great father. And Jesus in the story is called the Saviour, the Son of the Father.

We have two sons in this story. And we have two sons in the story of Esau and Jacob. Bear in mind that Isaac was blind, and justice to be true must be blind folded. Although in this case Pilate is not physically blind, the part given to Pilate implies that he is blind because he is a judge. On all the great law buildings of the world we see the lady or the man who represents justice as being blindfolded.

"Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. " John 7:24.

Here we find Pilate is playing the same part as Isaac. There are two sons. All the characters as they appear in this story can apply to your own life. You have a son that is robbing you this very moment of that which you could be.

If you came to this meeting tonight conscious of wanting something, desiring something, you walked in the company of Barabbas. For to desire is to confess that you do not now possess what you desire, and because all things are yours, you rob yourself by living in the state of desire. My saviour is my desire. As I want something I am looking into the eyes of my saviour. But if I continue wanting it, I deny my Jesus, my saviour, for as I want I confess I am not and "except ye believe that I AM He ye die in your sins." I cannot have and still continue to desire what I have. I may enjoy it, but I cannot continue wanting it.

Here is the story. This is the feast of the Passover. Something is going to change right now, something is going to passover. Man is incapable of passing over from one state of consciousness into another unless he releases from consciousness that which he now entertains, for it anchors him where he is.

You and I may go to physical feasts year after year as the sun enters the great sign of Aries, but it means nothing to the true mystical Passover. To keep the feast of the Passover, the psychological feast, I pass from one state of consciousness into another. I do it by releasing Barabbas, the thief and robber that robs me of that state which I could embody within my world.

The state I seek to embody is personified in the story as Jesus the Saviour. If I become what I want to be then I am saved from what I was. If I do not become it, I continue to keep locked within me a thief who robs me of being that which I could be.

These stories have no reference to any persons who lived nor to any event that ever occurred upon earth. These characters are everlasting characters in the mind of every man in the world. You and I perpetually keep alive either Barabbas or Jesus. You know at every moment of time who you are entertaining.

Do not condemn a crowd for clamoring that they should release Barabbas and crucify Jesus. It is not a crowd of people called Jews. They had nothing to do with it.

If we are wise, we too should clamor for the release of that state of mind that limits us from being what we want to be, that restricts us, that does not permit us to become the ideal that we seek and strive to attain in this world.

I am not saying that you are not tonight embodying Jesus. I only remind you, that if at this very moment you have an unfulfilled ambition, then you are entertaining that which denies the fulfillment of the ambition, and that which denies it is Barabbas.

To explain the mystical, psychological transformation known as the Passover, or the crossing over, you must now become identified with the ideal that you would serve, and you must remain faithful to the ideal. If you remain faithful to it, you not only crucify it by your faithfulness, but you resurrect it unaided by a man.

As the story goes, no man could rise early enough to roll away the stone. Unaided by a man the stone was removed, and what seemingly was dead and buried was resurrected unassisted by a man.

You walk in the consciousness of being that which you want to be, no one sees it as yet, but you do not need a man to roll away the problems and the obstacles of life in order to express that which you are conscious of being. That state has its own unique way of becoming embodied in this world, of becoming flesh that the whole world may touch it.

Now you can see the relationship between the story of Jesus and the story of Isaac and his two sons, where one transplanted the other, where one was called the Supplanter of the other. Why do you think those who compiled the sixty odd books of our Bible made Jacob the forefather of Jesus?

They took Jacob, who was called the Supplanter, and made him father of twelve, then they took Judah or praise, the fifth son and made him the forefather of Joseph, who is supposed to have fathered in some strange way this one called Jesus. Jesus must supplant Barabbas as Jacob must supplant and take the place of Esau.

Tonight you can sit right here and conduct the trial of your two sons, one of whom you want released. You can become the crowd who clamors for the release of the thief, and the judge who willingly releases Barabbas, and sentences Jesus to fill his place. He was crucified on Golgotha, the place of the skull, the seat of the imagination.

To experience the Passover or passage from the old to the new concept of self, you must release Barabbas, your present concept of self, which robs you of being that which you could be, and you must assume the new concept which you desire to express.

The best way to do this is to concentrate your attention upon the idea of identifying yourself with your ideal. Assume you are already that which you seek and your assumption, though false, if sustained, will harden into fact.

You will know when you have succeeded in releasing Barabbas, your old concept of self, and when you have successfully crucified Jesus, or fixed the new concept of self, by simply looking MENTALLY at the people you know. If you see them as you formerly saw them, you have not changed your concept of self, for all changes of concepts of self result in a changed relationship to your world.

We always seem to others an embodiment of the ideal we inspire. Therefore, in meditation, we must imagine that others see us as they would see us were we what we desire to be.

You can release Barabbas and crucify and resurrect Jesus if you will first define your ideal. Then relax in a comfortable arm chair, induce a state of consciousness akin to sleep and experience in imagination what you would experience in reality were you already that which you desire to be.

By this simple method of experiencing in imagination what you would experience in the flesh were you the embodiment of the ideal you serve, you release Barabbas who robbed you of your greatness, and you crucify and resurrect your saviour, or the ideal you desired to express."

unitl next time...
Live the Life you Love
J. x

Have you been sucked into a Vortex lately?

"Keys to a Better Life"

Over the past couple of weeks two Facebook (FB) occurrences captured my attention more than others. One was to do with local politics and the other KONY2012.

When the KONY2012 film swarmed FB, I took the time to watch it. I was deeply moved by its contents in a number of internal and external ways. It moved me into action by reviewing related posts on FB by the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Anthony Robbins, Louise L. Hay, Wayne Dyer and others. I visited the Invisible Children and related websites. I reviewed a number of related FB pages, including videos and YouTubes posted and, by my internal response to what I viewed, I was lead to ‘Like’ Pages and repost the KONY2012 film as well as the Invisible Children’s LRA Defection Flier video.

My contact with this FB occurrence made me feel uplifted, not by the atrocities the film reveals of course but by the commitment, passion, devotion, focus, determination, courage, unity, compassion, and generally progressive manner these individuals are demonstrating themselves.

The other event that occurred last week was that I came across a FB discussion between a local council candidate and local media representative.  Their dialogue also moved me however it didn’t generate any of the feelings the KONY2012 film did.  From this representation I wanted to distance myself, was deflated, disheartened, and saw no signs of how this style of self representation and discourse did any good for the individuals, or the community.

Since then, I have seen posts and a video contradicting the Invisible Children cause and all of the ones I have seen are again what I consider to be a contracted version of our highest representation.  The stance taken is to attack, belittle, put down, make demands of, and generally discredit another while in one manner or another promote self.  Not to mention the angry, attacking, often profane, ignorant comments individuals post with the intent to also judge and discredit.  Given we are all doing the best we can with the information we have, perhaps this is their way of feeling better about themselves and to continue using those outside of them as a distraction from looking within.

Regardless of the situation, we each have our own process for discerning whether a thing is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ as well as the ability to exercise our intuition on such matters; both of which are more easily accomplished when our personal values and personality are being progressively refined. The negative folk amongst us always find negative evidence to support ones views while the positive amongst us the positive views - for the axioms “birds of a feather flock together” and “like attracts like” are truisms for a reason.

Regardless of what we bring to our attention, what matters most is how we choose to respond to it. This is the difference between being an observer for the purpose of defining and refining our self, or getting sucked into the vortex and making a judgement about what others are doing and who they are being.  Instead of getting sucked into the vortex of disharmony and chaos, another option is to ask our self, “What can I learn from this situation?” and “What does this situation teach/tell me about myself.”

By doing so we go from Awareness to Uncritical Observation and from a place of uncritical observation, we can choose and Desire what we perceive to be a better definition of personal expression. Once defined, by Focussing our attention on what we now want, and expressing Gratitude for its inevitable fulfilment, in time that desire refines our personality and comes into expression.

Do not imagine anything but good,
because under the law of thought combined with substance
it will sooner or later come into expression,
unless you head it off, eliminate it by denial.
~ Charles Fillmore

All events, situations and conditions are merely temporary occurrences in our grand contextual field for the purpose of providing us with an opportunity to further define and refine our highest personality.

Awareness is the Key and all the rest is 1, 2, 3.

until next time…
Live the Life you Love
J. x

Cause & Effect…

"Keys to a Better Life"

When we feel certain frustrations, we have a tendency to think that making changes to the conditions will fix everything. This is attempting to live by the law of effect & cause which is a reverse of the actual Law.

Using any law back-to-front produces back-to-front results. While it is true that changing our actions can generate changes to our conditions (effects)…our actions are not the First Cause of our experiences.

Acting better is as long term effective as thinking better;
both are surface level changes that produce temporary improvement.

First Cause consists of nouns and adjectives such as Being and Knowing so, when we change the reason (Cause) that attracted the undesirable conditions to us in the first place, we are sure to experience different conditions that ultimately generate more and lasting desirable results and feelings.

To change our unwanted conditions and outcomes, easily and elegantly and with lasting change, it is imperative we use the Law correctly. As it is the Law of Cause & Effect, we are to first contemplate the thoughts we have with feelings about the topic in hand, be it at home, at work, or in relationship. Following this key step we call 'Awareness', the rest is 1, 2, 3 * - all of which, in turn, cause us to take different actions which, in turn attract different conditions, and result in ongoing improved experiences and feelings.

Cause > Effect

Thoughts with feeling drive our words and actions
which attract, produce or reflect like conditions - (people, places and events).

Make 2012 about you, because we can't give what we haven't got and,
until next time...
Live the Life you Love!
J. x


* to read Posts about the Universal Truths "Keys to a Better Life" - Awareness + 1, 2, 3 click on Awareness (Part 2 of 5) or My Ideal Week, type Awareness in the Search field, or click on the Awareness Category from any page.

My Ideal Week

"Keys to a Better Life"

I use the Universal Truths - Four "Keys to a Better Life" (Awareness + 1, 2, 3), to plan and prepare my ideal week.

I also take inspired action to get there... Where's there? The feeling of the wish fulfilled.

Key 1: Awareness + 1: from a place of Uncritical Observation

I have reviewed my previous week's conditions to recognise what moments were not ideal. My feelings are my guidance system.

I know I'm observing my past experiences critically when I get sucked into the drama; and I know I'm observing them uncritically when they inform me how I felt when that person and those conditions presented them-self.

Key 2: What's ideal?

Knowing what I don't want, I then contemplate and discuss (only ever with myself or Anthony) what I would rather feel. What would I feel were I to have a great week?

Key 3: Desire / Imagination

I design a single scene that would imply fulfilment of my desire and I attach a short phrase (up to 3 words) to it, like, “This is great!”, “I love it”, “Perfect”.

Having clearly established what it would feel like to experience an ideal outcome in any area of my life, I hold my will here (to the thought + feeling most predominantly generated in the above activity).

In my meditations, I make there-here and then-now until my picture is so alive with feeling as to make it Believable. Then I desire it no more. I can never experience in form anything I keep separate from me. To continually desire something implies that I don't yet have it.

Key 4: Detach

Throughout the week, in my mind, I will continue to Be the person who has had a great week and I’ll frequently, throughout each day, feel that feeling and repeat that phrase.

I’ll spend many moments in gratitude that all that I require is already available and keeps 'showing up' at the right and perfect time, in the right and perfect form.

Until next time…
Live the Life you Love
J. x

You Are The Person You Are Waiting For

 
"Keys to a Better Life"

"I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the
only way things are going to change for me is when I change." - Jim Rohn

Often in life, when the conditions around our relationships, health, wealth and so on are not as we desire, we place the power to heal them outside ourselves. We think, say and do things that indicate when that other something changes, e.g. that person realises what they’re doing, we get that job, we find a doctor who can treat us correctly etc., then our unwanted conditions will change and everything will be OK.

However, when we truly understand that there is not a single anyone or anything outside of ourselves that needs to change for us to Be, Do and Have all that we require and desire, the power to change is back in the hands of the one and only person co-creating their involvement in the first place – our self! And how are we doing this? By our thoughts of who we are and the value we place on our existence!

"Don’t wish it was easier; wish you were better.
Don’t wish for less problems; wish for more skills.
Don’t wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom." - Jim Rohn

In this moment now we have all the talent, skills, intellect, ability, characteristics, resources, wisdom, and any other quality required to take the very next step towards Being the person, and living the ideal life, we imagine for our self.

The reason this is true, is because of our uniqueness. There is no other ‘you’ who is coming to take your place and be the person only you can be called to be, do the things only you desire to do, and have the things only you can desire and have.

We are here to Live a Life we Love and Love the Life we Live.

Until next time…
Live a Life you Love!
J. x

The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back

 
"Keys to a Better Life"

Identifying our values is a key to designing a ‘better life’.  So why is it that identifying what’s important to us can sometimes deliver challenges before delivering the peace, contentment and happiness we seek to achieve?

In my experience this occurs when:

a) the values we establish are truly our own, making them more important to us and worthy of greater investment than the ones we’ve adopted or inherited from others through life; and

b) we haven’t considered new boundaries and implemented a plan for inviting others to recognise and value what’s important to us.

For an explanation about establishing our own values you may find “What’s Important to You?” worthy of visiting or revisiting.

This Blog Post is dedicated to part b):

Developing boundaries and a plan for inviting others,
primarily our partner and children, to recognise and honour our values. 

I’ll use an example to deliver my point. I identify that one thing that’s important to me at home is that the place is kept clean and tidy.  This is the first step from the Universal Truths “Keys to a Better Life” – Awareness. 

The next step is to make an Uncritical Observation of what is.  For example, when activities required in the kitchen are not attended to i.e. the dishwasher isn't stacked and emptied, other dishes aren't washed up, bench tops aren't wiped down, the rubbish isn't taken out etc., or are left to me to attend to, it conflicts with what I have identified as important to me.

Another example could be that dirty clothes are left on the bathroom or bedroom floor instead of being placed in a dirty clothes basket again conflicting with what may have been identified as being important for maintaining, as a minimum, a clean and orderly home.

Our homes, cars, careers/vocations, partners, and everything else in our life are extensions of our personality. They represent who we are and the orderliness or chaos of our thinking which create our conditions.

As a next step, identify, “what do I now desire?”  An example here could be that I desire, for this season in my life at least, that each capable member of the household takes joint responsibility for the various kitchen activities and attending to and keeping their own clothes in a tidy and orderly manner.  By holding a picture in my mind and recognising the feelings that these conditions provide is certainly a critical part of the process.  Taking inspired action is another. So what is meant by the latter part?

My definition of inspired action is taking steps that produce my desired results in a joyful manner.  Namely, for these examples, this may include those actions that enable me to feel the preferred feelings and live in my preferred environment.  When I’ve identified clearly what I now desire, I expect new ideas to flow and I take action that feels uplifting, expanding, congruent, authentic, and joyful in place of those that feel uneasy, contracting, like a struggle, uphill, or against the current.

Some examples of inspired action related to these examples may include installing hooks, erecting shelves, purchasing a clothes valet or baskets, or perhaps placing clothes baskets in bedrooms or bathrooms to more easily accommodate.

It may involve having new conversations with family members to communicate my new desire and invite them to acknowledge and accept and/or provide them with an opportunity to present their ideal of what makes for a more pleasant relationship and living environment.

At some point, everyone needs to agree on at least one law. The natural Law of Cause & Effect whereby family members unwilling to play their part must accept the effects of their non compliance. And, everyone must clearly understand what will happen (the effect) if they don’t play their part.

In my early days in partnership, before I was in a relationship where both parties were committed to living a peace filled and joyful life, continually looking for ways to meet each other’s values without compromising their own, the effect I clearly communicated for clothes that were left lying around on the floor was that I would throw them into the backyard as a first step and into the rubbish bin as a follow up. 

Whatever effects you identify and communicate, be sure that you are willing to follow through.  I did!  I threw them into backyard once and clothes not longer littered our floors. Instead they were dealt with in an orderly fashion.

If spending time in the kitchen cooking and using lots of utensils and crockery doesn't work for you in this season of your life, think about what would minimise kitchen time.  During various seasons in our life, Anthony and I find that the slow cooker concept provides excellent time freedom and minimises the amount of time we spend in the kitchen. 

Instead of focussing on a problems, focus on the solution.

When all is said and done, and members capable of participating have committed to upholding one party's value as a unified one, whatever effects are established, they have to be ones you are willing to carry through and because the intention is to produce greater order and harmony, they must first be clearly communicated so that everyone understands what will happen if a team member doesn’t honour their commitment to their loved ones.

Anyone serious about living a “better life” always has clearly established values and boundaries in place as well as clearly established consequences if those values are encroached upon.  The effects or outcomes of having these boundaries crossed vary for person to person however, it’s important that they are established, communicated, and honoured by our self and others.

Relationships, especially partnerships are about what we can bring to the table, they are about enriching our experience as an individual, a couple and a family rather than looking for what we can take. If someone is unwilling to play their part in honouring what’s important to their loved ones and expanding their own life and environment in the process, perhaps the focus of the relationship is on taking rather than giving. 

Are you currently being a taker or a giver? And, what’s your limit before the straw breaks the camel’s back?

Another Euphoric Day

 
"Keys to a Better Life"

I’m grateful that the sun shone brightly today....on every area of my Life.  My desire is for more of these experiences that give me cause to feel Euphoric.

If you’re reading this Blog Post, it's because you are significant in my life. You can be assured of that because a) we are somehow connected; and b) by my concept of you, you provide a contextual field of my available choices in this Buffet of Life.  And, this occurs regardless of how near or far we think we are in time and space.

I fall more and more in Love when I think from the place of; it's not about whether or not we like each other, it’s about Loving each other for assisting us become clearer about who we now wish to Be, what we imagine that Being will enable us to Do, and what that Doing allows us to Have and to Express – as an individual, a partner, a parent, a family member, a friend, a colleague, a business owner, a resident of a state, a citizen or visitor in someone’s home or country, and as a representative of humanity.

Depening on how you choose to express yourself today and my interpretation of that personality, based on my current beliefs and values, you play your part in providing me with immense choice. For that, I have only Love for You.

If we're not contemplating and expressing our personal personality
in every moment, then we are expressing learnt behaviours,
inherited beliefs or adopted values.

Our personal version of Planet Beautiful is possible when we become responsible for, and ordered in, our every thought and feeling. Those not living an ideal life, and wish to with every cell in their body, will know they are ready to do so when they realise they are already living it. 'Now' is part of it.

Becoming aware of, observing, and choosing our every thought and feeling causes us to truly experience this ‘Now’ and enables us to design the next version with purpose, clarity, accuracy and pure intent. Our journey is not haphazard it is always precise, on purpose and valuable right now.

We are always being a demonstration and expression of Life.

By ordering our thoughts and feelings it becomes possible to be still enough to hear what initially is the soft angelic voice of Divine Guidance’s whisper, beckoning us Gently and Lovingly forward. Soon enough it becomes the same volume as the sound of our voice in our head. 

We all desire Order and “Order is Heaven’s First Law”.

There is no one else to show us how to know Love (Life), for knowing Love is a unique, personal journey that we alone are to enjoy with the Source of Life. There is no other you on the planet that is coming to play your part.

We’re always telling others what Love is. We’re always showing others.

Everyday we’re consistently Being our best individual expression of Love!

Flat out like a lizard drinking

 
"Keys to a Better Life"

A query from a Client/Friend came in along these lines, “I know we have discussed this in the past, but can you briefly nudge my memory as to why we don't do busy..."time is irrelevant"...am I on the right track? :)"

My response (version 2) was, "we make every endeavour to avoid being and doing ‘busy’, at a conscious and sub-conscious level, because along with the actions related to my connotation of ‘busy’ (or rush), generally the emotion of fear is present. Fear that there is not enough time, fear of being late, fear of missing out, fear of what someone might think and so on.

When I remember that “time is an illusion” – and by this I mean personal more so than irrelevant, because when we attend an appointment or catch a plane for example, time is very relevant - I release the need to be fearful. Without fear, there’s always enough time, Life isn’t a race, I can’t compete with another; because there is no another - there is only one individual expression of me therefore, there is no right way, or right time, or right place. There is only my preferred way, my personal expression of time, and the place I’m at right now.

‘Busy’, to me, reflects inverted thinking.  Thinking that goes against what someone might say they want and what they are actually experiencing. We see many people wheel spinning in life because they have busy physical or mental lives, or both.  They think a lot and they do a lot, but they don’t seem to be achieving their desires.  Anthony and I remember being like this, and doing this, ourselves; in fact I think our pace was more like frenetic :D, especially mentally. Anthony used to carry two mobile phones and it felt like they both rang constantly.

I found that when I used my time instead to think, to plan, to feel and to act from the place of Awareness + 1, 2, 3, about my health, my finances, my relationships, my life purpose, and so on, I experience the reciprocal conditions - in the exact same way my inverted thinking brought me what I didn’t want.

Our game is to choose affirmative thoughts,
feelings and actions in place of any and all inverted ones.

 



Transitioning with Awareness + 1, 2, 3

 
"Keys to a Better Life"

This Post is a practical piece and a follow on from the previous Post “Killing with Kindness”.

One way to turn this, or any situation around, is to use the Universal Truths “Keys to a Better Life” (Awareness + 1, 2, 3) by experimenting with the following steps:


1.   Firstly, become AWARE of the undesired condition.  For example, “I don’t want to see my child hanging around not working or earning an income and a decent standard of living.”

Perhaps they are dating a partner you don’t approve of, or mixing with peers that you don’t feel are in your child’s best interest.  Whatever it is, write down the undesirable condition as you currently perceive it.


2.   Recollecting from previous Posts and from what many of us have no doubt read, heard and experienced for our Selves at various times, we cannot change anyone but our Self. 

All undesirable outward conditions change
when we change something within us. 

So, from a place of UNCRITICAL OBSERVATION, that’s right – without criticism or condemnation, identify and write down any thoughts, words and actions that may have contributed to these current conditions.  Do your utmost not to edit what comes forth, just observe it from a “that’s interesting” point-of-view.

Some questions to ask your Self may include:

• What do I think about work?  Therefore, what beliefs have I inherited about working?
• What do I recall my parents saying about work?
• What do I perceive their attitude to work and earning a living was/is?
• Did I perceive my parents as having enjoyed the work they did?
• Did I perceive my parents earning sufficient income to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle?
• Do I enjoy what I do?
• What may I have said or demonstrated about work to my children? You may even ask them what they recall you saying about work or what they perceive your attitude to work and earnings might be.

It’s also most beneficial to jot down how we feel when we observe this outward condition our child, or whoever, is displaying.  Some examples again may include:

Frustration, anxiety, anger, fear, sadness…

What other words come to mind when you make these observations.  Do you have thoughts of them being:

Lazy, expecting the right job to land in their lap, having a poor attitude,
being negative, expecting too much…

Remember, we’re doing this from a place of UNCRITICAL OBSERVATION, so just notice!


3.   Next, CLEARLY identify what you now DESIRE?

The idea, as a starting point, is to identify the minimum requirement and some, to comfortably meet our desires. Turn each of the inverted statements noted in steps 1. and 2. to affirmative ones:

For example:  “I desire to see my child happily working and earning an income and enjoying a wonderful standard of living.”

Often, by this step, we can identify that the undesirable observations we make of others pertains in some way to our Self.  After all, everyone is our perfect mirror!

“I desire to work in an environment and in a job that I do happily,
earning an income and enjoying a wonderful standard of living for myself.”

It’s always about us!  Everything we project, judge, condemn of another is a temporary indicator of a part of our Self that we have a distorted perspective about (often an inherited or limiting belief).  When we identify and begin to think differently, i.e. affirmatively about that area of our life, our conditions must reflect that and the undesirable expression currently being observed of another will also fall away.

Write down what you would prefer to feel: e.g. relaxed, supportive, confident, joyful, valuable etc.

I think of him/her OR myself as being:  energetic, enthusiastic, positive, motivated etc.

Dispose of the notes captured in point 2. and make multiple copies of the ones captured here in point 3.  In other words, take whatever steps feel natural to ensure these desired states of awareness/consciousness are at the forefront of your thoughts.

The key is to think about, visualise and focus our attention on how we feel and what we will have and/or do when we, or the other person expressing the undesired conditions, are expressing a desirable one instead.  What will this do for me?

For example: I can meet my needs with peace and ease.  I can gift my family and loved ones in the most beautiful and joyful manner.  I can experience happiness every day doing what I take great pleasure in doing with people I admire and respect and who admire, appreciate and respect me in return etc. etc. etc.

Only when this becomes our sustained thought, i.e. our thinking is persistent, continuous, unrelenting and constantly on what we desire, will our conditions change to mirror that. 

Conditions ALWAYS mirror our thinking.

 

4.   The fourth key to turn in Awareness, 1, 2, 3 is detachment.  DETACH from any thought you notice that is unlike what you desire.  Employ a mental Gatekeeper to keep a watchful eye on your thoughts and emotions.

The thoughts and emotions we experience towards others
directly effects our life and the conditions we produce/experience.

Deny your senses (anything you see and hear etc. about a condition that is not what you want) and refocus on the thoughts and feelings captured in step 3. that evoke the images and feelings you do want.

FAKE IT TIL YOU MAKE IT!

Whilst it may feel difficult and unbelievable initially, the more we implement and repeat this process the more natural it will feel and the quicker the results will be attained.

If you have any queries about this process drop me a comment or email at unitruths@gmail.com

Financial Blueprints

 
"Keys to a Better Life"

Recently I was chatting with the father of two young boys aged approximately seven and nine.

While tucking his boys into bed one night dad asked his boys what makes them happy?

The nine year old responded that money makes him happy and his father asked him why? The boy didn’t have a response right away so dad asked him to think about it and told him he would ask again the next night.

When he asked his seven year old the same question, his response was “I don't know”, so dad asked him to think about it and told he would ask again the next night.

The following night, the nine year old informed dad that money made him happy because he could buy fun things. With the intention of "pulling him back a couple of cogs" dad said "but you know mate, things don't make you happy, so have a another think and I'll ask you again tomorrow night."

The seven year old told dad that spending time with his family makes him happy and dad was pleased with his response.

Notice firstly, that people, including little people, always tell us what they want and what's currently important to them. Are we listening carefully?  And, what messages are we giving them in return?

According to sociologist Morris Massey and others, we inherit our values or blueprints regarding finance, health, relationships and spirituality by age ten.

What if then, instead of pulling children back a couple of cogs by impressing our own financial blueprint upon them, which may be limited by the beliefs and attitudes we inherited from our parents and other carers, we encourage our children to obtain a healthy financial blueprint and support their grand and achievable imaginings?

For example, another response could have been along the lines of "you sure can buy fun things with money, for yourself and others, that’s so true. In fact, the more money you have the more you can buy.  What would you buy with a lot of money?"

From an uncritical place of observation you can enquire what else they would buy?...and what else?” And after a few nights of this perhaps you could share with him/her what you would buy and then chat with them about what you could both do with a lot of money. 

Money, in and of itself, has no power to generate positive or negative
conditions, greed or destruction, or generosity and benevolence.
These conditions are always dependent on who the user of this commodity
is Being.

Individual expression occurs in and through the unlimited States of Consciousness we are choosing, from moment to moment, to express.

The rich man, the poor man, the beggar man, the thief are all made of the same substance.  The only difference being that this substance, our blueprint or beliefs and value of our Self in relation to a particular subject e.g. money, is reordered. 

When we revalue our Self, the world confirms the change – Neville

Then, our external expression of form (i.e. the money) simply becomes another tool or instrument to aid our fullest expression of our true nature being Freedom, Liberty and Life.

Wanting more...

Love’s Secret is Expansion – Neville

When my marriage ended, a relationship that spanned almost 20 years, no one was expecting it…in a sense, not even me.  Oh sure, I was aware that my relationship was becoming increasingly strained with greater emphasis on separate activity and general dissatisfaction and unhappiness, however, I thought our problems were all relatively recent and easy enough to overcome – if only my husband, my in-laws, family, friends, colleagues and everyone else I encountered in life were willing to change.

What I didn’t understand then, that I understand now, is that there is not a single person, thing or power outside of myself that has the ability to impact my happiness, wealth, health and other desirable conditions within me, unless I so choose.  As the master of this domain all changes to any areas and conditions of my life, are my responsibility.

One of my greatest obstacles in my quest for a ‘better life’, along the way, was my lack of understanding as to why I experienced such unhappiness.  In comparison to my family and circle of friends, I was convinced I had it pretty good.  I had all the evidence around me to assure me I was comfortable financially, in a good relationship, in a good job, living in a lovely home and in the ‘lucky country’.  So why was I yearning for so much more…

Feelings are the language of the Soul

In a period of great change, especially with my career presenting me with an opportunity to live and work interstate, what seemed initially like a perfect opportunity for my husband and I to have a fresh start proved instead to be the easiest and most elegant option to go our separate ways.

At age 35, the period that followed came with a sense of freedom and independence (for the first time in my life) at the surface, however below I was dealing with heavy clouds of self loathing, sabotage, guilt, despair and depression.

Six years later, and what seems like many lifetimes in this ongoing existence, things are so much clearer.  Each day I achieve greater levels of immense peace and happiness as well as greater levels of breathtaking enthusiasm and excitement about my life now and ongoing.

Throughout these posts I’ll be sharing how my life has evolved dramatically as an individual, in relationship, and in business through the application of a simple four step approach.  I’ll share what I did and how I did it in the hope that readers will see correlations with their own experiences and know that to desire more, in and of Life, is a natural state of being.  Also, because there is more than one way to Be, Do and Have all that we desire, I invite readers to comment and share their experiences along the way.

Those who are familiar with the work Anthony & I have been progressing over the past few years will recognise Universal Truths as an extension, or next version, to our previous work.  The only difference between Universal Truths and our previous representations is that all the information, suggestions, coaching and any other services are offered free of charge (wherever possible) on this Universal Truths site.  Individual and commercial constulations, workshops, courses etc., while constantly evolving, continue to be delivered as a fee for service.

Either way, a key to becoming the person you desire and living the life you desire is to take action. You cannot read yourself to an experience.

Until I post again…
Live the Life you Love
J x