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Blueprints & Our State of Health

Part 3 of 4

About migraines, Metaphysics reminded me that the root cause of this condition is the thoughts I have with feeling that are in accord with the "Dislike of being driven. Resisting the flow of life. Sexual fears." It also says, see headaches which states, "Invalidating the self. Self-criticism. Fear."*

As mentioned in the previous posts, I believe that all conditions are produced in correspondence with the thoughts I have with feeling that are consolidated, validated and reinforced by the words I speak and the actions I take. Every thought, feeling, word and action takes me toward or away from my ideal.

In my contemplation of the content of these posts, it occurred to me just recently that I learnt about migraines from a neighbour. She used to get them to the extreme that would render her incapacitated for up to three days at a time. The only time she left her darkened room or bed in these moments was to violently throw up/vomit.

On reflection, and from a place of uncritical observation about the past thinking that produced this condition in me, I can see that I learnt early the dislike of being driven, pushed or coerced into doing anything that didn't sit well with me. I didn't know there was a "flow to life" so it's no wonder I resisted - I didn't like what I was experiencing, so I certainly didn't want to flow with it.

I began early to endeavour to control life given it often seemed out of control to me. Particularly as a small child, my parents, in an attempt to protect my brother and I, would argue throughout the night turning my little stomach into knots of dread and fear.

The parents I mention here are of a version dating back approximately 38 years. We have all morphed into a very different version of who we were at the time these conditions and experiences took place. That being said, it was from my parents that I first observed this dislike of being driven.

My father, displayed what I might refer to as a severe case of emotional instability. I recall him on occasions threatening to end his life and I am, to this day, unaware of the beliefs that drove this style of personality and behaviour. I am however aware of the ones that eventually caused this same condition to prevail in me. Mum was the other character in this play, taking on the role of victim/rescuer of this challenging emotional expression.

I tolerated few people, especially teachers (whom I generally liked and who liked me), telling me what to do and how to do it. I absolutely disliked being driven in the direction of someone else's agenda and learnt well how to invalidate my self and be highly critical of myself which I masked by becoming critical of others. I judged and found most folks as being highly incompetent.

These days, through the study, coaching and conversation, I am aware that what I speak and observe in others is what, at some level (consciously or unconsciously), I like or dislike about my self.

In life there cannot be an abuser without a victim, a carer without a patient, or a rescuer without an endangered one. We are all playing roles in this existence we call humanity. Additional knowledge I found useful when it came to playing a different role, a more "ideal' role, is that in any moment, even right now, I am free to choose again.

As well as the victim/rescuer, to me mum was the rock, the stabiliser, and the main influencer in developing an intense personality of independence and justice in me. These traits have served me both well and not so well and which I spent much time refining. While there were things about my parents I didn't admire, today, there are also ones I do and this list grows longer. Through the understanding and practice of grace and forgiveness (A Course in Miracles being one of the influential sources in this process), I have completely embraced that everything that has happened in my life has brought me to this place. Once upon a time this place didn't feel ideal, for many reasons, and now - because life has become so delectable, my feelings of gratitude grow ever deeper.

The first step to overcoming migraines was again Awareness. I felt is was possible and made the choice to end this cycle - I recall reaching the point of "This is enough! No more!" Initially, Metaphysics provided the new thought program which I read and affirmed often, "I relax into the flow of life and let life provide all that I need easily and comfortably. Life is for me." And, "I love and approve of myself. I see myself and what I do with eyes of love. I am safe."*

In conjunction with Metaphysics I was introduced to and adopted the practise of EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) - an ancient asian technique of tapping on the body's meridians, or pressure points, to relieve undesirable conditions of all sorts, including limiting beliefs and deicisions. It was highly effective for me, enabling me to return my compromised vision that indicated the onset of a migraine from 20 minutes to under 5, and reduce the throbbing headache from anywhere up to 16 hours, and copius amounts of medication, to under 10 minutes.

Being the work in progress that I am, again it takes great vigilance to monitor my thoughts and emotions to avoid the undesirable health condition that manifests or shows up in the form of a headache or migraine. However, the evidence that my health Blueprint for this condition has been permanently altered and continually improving is again unquestionable.

I'll wrap up the health Blueprint series in the next part. I will set the knee problem aside, momentarily at least, and share some thoughts on the subject of depression before moving on to the next topic of the work Blueprint.

I welcome any queries about any of the health conditions listed in Part 1 of this health series or any other that may be of interest to you.

Here are some questions to contemplate if you feel inclined to do so:

1. Are you still holing on to events that occurred in the past? How much longer are you willing to live there giving that the laws that govern life say that what we think about with feeling produces the conditions of our future that are coming to greet us?
    
2. What act/role are you playing and is it serving you well? Does this role assist or keep others and yourself in an undesirable place or is it empowering and encouraging change and growth?
    
3. Are you being observant of the thoughts and emotions that are producing your health conditions - the good ones and the not so good one?

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

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

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

Entering into the Spirit of It

Now back to the matter of a complimentary abode in the city...

It was in Judge Thomas Troward's Dore Lectures that I first read about Entering into the Spirit of a thing.  Below are a variety of extracts from the Lecture of the same name.  Before reading them I would like to give you a tip that may assist you experience the true value of this material written in the first decade of the 1900s.  As this blog suggests, when you read these lines do so when you have a moment of quiet to read the words with care, and feel the feeling that is at the back of each word.  Imagine what the author felt as he wrote and spoke these words; and - from a place of uncritical observation - I invite you to notice what feelings they elicit within you:

"The Spirit is that which gives life and movement to anything, in fact it is that which causes it to exist at all.”

“The creative process in the first instance is purely a matter of feeling.”

“Since the Spirit is Life-in-itself, its feeling can only be for the fuller expression of Life.”

“It is this original feeling that we need to enter into, because it is the fons et origo [source and origin] of the whole chain of causation which subsequently follows.”

“...since the desire to bestow the greater fullness of joyous life can only be described as Love, we can sum up the whole of the feeling which is the original moving impulse in the Spirit as Love and Beauty -

...the Spirit finding expression through forms of beauty in centres of life, in harmonious reciprocal relation to itself."

"If we could only so enter into the Spirit as to make it personally IN OURSELVES what it evidently is in ITSELF, the magnum opus [the great work] would be accomplished.”

“This is a generalised statement of the broad principle by which Spirit expands from the innermost to the outermost, in accordance with a Law of tendency [natural Law of Growth] inherent in itself."

So far, so great right!? While there is a WHOLE lot more to what Troward has to say on this subject, the more I read the more I see patterns of wisdom and instructions guiding me toward the manner in which we turn thought forms and our imaginings into matter and that is - through the recognition that Spirit is creating the conditions through me as an Individual Placeholder in the Great Plan of Life [a form of beauty and centre of life]. 

We are each fully equipped and integral vehicles through which Spirit/Life evolves!  However, for us to become demonstrations of this Truth and utilise the Loving Might and Ability of Life's potential, which can only operate in this physical/third dimension through us, we must first recognise and believe this to be a Truth. 

Now, if this “living an ideal life” business was easy, every man and his dog would be doing it!  However the only reason it isn’t easy is because of our prior conditioning – that is beliefs and decisions about Life and how It operates that are incomplete and limiting.  How’s it going for you so far?  Are your current beliefs about yourself and Life serving you, and all your affairs, well?

The reason Anthony and I looked for what else people were writing, saying, and doing to live a more ‘ideal’ life was because the information we had wasn’t cutting it – in any area of our life (home, work, relationships).  And it certainly wasn’t bestowing upon us the greater fullness of joyous living that can only be described as Love and Beauty. 

I am delighted to share however that these days Life is expressing itself more lovingly and beautifully through us…and it is certainly becoming easier and easier to Be this way.

“This means realising our life as drawn direct from the Originating Spirit; and if we now understand that the Thought or Imagination of the Spirit is the great reality of Being, and that all material facts are only correspondences, then it logically follows that what we have to do is to maintain our individual place in the Thought of the Parent Mind."

On the Universal Truths Facebook Page this week I shared another of a number of quotes that come up as reminders/affirmations on my phone daily – some of which have been coming up for in excess of 110 days.  This one reads, "I give thanks for already having received on the invisible, and make active preparation for receiving on the visible."

Over this weekend, and in my upcoming posts, I'll be developing ways to share exactly what I'm thinking and doing to actively prepare to receive our additional dwelling in Brisbane – well, to the extent that I can in 700-1000 words at a time.  Perhaps I’ll add some video blogging along the way..?  I'll also be writing a whole lot more in the coming weeks as I acquire a tool of the trade to support this overwhelming desire to write, write, write and share, share, share.

until my next post
Live the Life you Love
J.  x

source: The Dore Lectures