Ramblings of an Urban Mystic
Our thoughts create our reality - Choice produces results.
I would like to help you start on a journey that will lead you to happiness.
Lead you, to your own personal happiness, and what ever that might
mean to you. That could be joy, inner peace, success, prosperity,
abundance, health, loving relationships, greater creativity and a
deeper connection to the Divine. Happiness and living a successful
life are different for us all.
I have been on a personal growth journey for over 35 years. In that
time I’ve
had many successes and many failures. I have been rich and broke. I have been
healthy and I have been sick. I have been in love and had my heart broken and
in love again. So when I talk about what works and what doesn’t I am coming
from my own personal experience. When I started there weren’t
any life coaches. People who wanted to change their lives using the
power of their mind where looked on as a bit new age, a little weird,
maybe dare I say it, even hippies.
But as I read more books and attended every workshop or seminar I could,
I began to see and feel how important it was to align my mind and my
heart to what I truly desired. You see none of what I will tell you
will work if you only go at it half-heartedly. You have to be clear
within yourself to discover what it is that you truly want. If you
have any doubts regarding what you want, then the doubt will be a brake
on what you are attempting to manifest.
I have no affiliation with any religious group. I have studied them
all. I do take time each day to sit still and open to the quietness,
the stillness and the peace of the cosmos. I do believe in a higher
power, a great, wise, loving Presence, that is the glue of the Universe.
I do believe we are all one at the cosmic level. That the macrocosm
of the Universe is reflected within the microcosm of the body’s
cells.
Right now you are 100% successful, you are hundred percent successful
because your mind, your brain, is doing its best to fulfil your programming.
Your nervous system, your organs, your brain, (in fact your three brains)
are doing their best to fulfil your beliefs and the thoughts that you
are constantly filling your mind with.
So the 1st truth we need to be willing to open to is that ‘our
thoughts create our reality.’ And the 2nd
truth is that ‘our choices will
determine our reality.’ “Choice produces results”.
Let’s look at the first truth, that our thoughts create our reality.
What is reality? Do you see the world around you as real? Do you believe
what your senses tell you? Do you believe that the outer world is real?
Do you trust the newspapers, internet, TV, radio etc., to give you
an honest balanced evaluation of the world around you?
To believe in the world around you is to believe in an illusion of
mind. You create the world around you by what you choose to focus on.
Are you someone who walks down a street looking at the flowers in the
trees or looking at the rubbish in the gutter? Same street, different
focus.
If I sent five people down the same street, each one would come back
with a different street. Some might focus on similar things but each
person’s interpretation
of what they saw would be different. Ask five people to go to a shopping
centre and come back and tell you what they saw. The person into clothes
would tell you of all the clothes shops, the person into food or money
or books or sex would tell you of what they have focused on. Each person
would tell you of a different shopping centre, same place, different
focus and different reality.
The human brain has approximately 15 billion brain cells called neurons.
All these neurons are created by the 30th week of pregnancy. You don’t get
any more and in fact poor nutrition in the mother during pregnancy can even lower
brain cells by up to 40%. You don’t get any more brain cells than what
you’re born with. So why do people have different levels of intelligence?
Well it depends on how that person was mentally stimulated, how they
were taught, whether they had a rich environment or a deprived environment
to grow up in.
Psychologists say that we learned about 50% of our habits, attitudes
and beliefs by the time we are for 4 years of age, that we learn another
30% by the age of 8 and another 10% by the time we are 14 years of
age. That means we have learned 90% of our basic attitudes and beliefs
by the time we are 14 years of age. It seems we spend the rest of our
lives dealing with those first 14 years of programming.
Can we change the program? Yes we can, but we first need to realise
that we are experiencing the world through how we have been programmed.
The way you know you are in the world, in this body, is through your
senses - smell, touch, taste, hearing & sight.
Each one of these senses sends millions of messages a second to tell
your brain whether you are lying down or sitting up, outside the house
or in your bed, if you are hot or cold, ...well you get the picture.
That is right, you get the picture of your world and therefore you
think it’s real.
Scientists have worked out that our brain and nervous system receiveds
about 400 billion thoughts a second and out of 400 billion thoughts,
only a few thousand thoughts a second come up into the conscious mind
and then we choose only one or two per second to be fully conscious
and focused on.
This leads to our second truth, that choice produces results. What
I choose to think about creates my world. It’s simple to find out what you focus on.
What television programs do you choose to watch? What are your favourite sports,
hobbies, likes and dislikes, what books do you choose to read? What are things
in the world that draw you and repulse you? Because remember with each choice
you have to also focus on what you don’t like. What do I mean? Well say
you like chocolate ice cream. When you look at all the favours you have to quickly
scan what you don’t like to be able to pick out what you do like.
By choosing, you are using one of the fundamental laws of the world
we live in, the third dimension. You see the world through your senses
and depending on your beliefs, you world will be created by what you
choose to experience; I could say, you choose what you taste, touch,
smell, hear and see. For example you choose your music, your food,
your partner, your work, your level of fitness, and your clothes. So
all your choices depend upon what you like. But that’s only
half the picture, your choices are also dependent on what you don’t like
or don’t want. Success and failure are feedback loops that teach
our brains and our nervous system how to choose the world we live in.
Now I can hear you say I haven’t chosen my poverty, my ill health, my loneliness,
my sickness. Maybe not, but I bet you have chosen what you think about them and
how you deal with them and what you expect will happen from them. We are creating
ourselves from moment to moment. The past will
dictate the future if you don’t
redirect the present.
We have the gift of creativity. We have opposing thumbs on our hands;
we can make and use tools. We have a higher brain (a neuro-cortex)
bigger than most living creatures. Our neuro-cortex brain has the ability
create new things and new thoughts. Have you ever looked down a busy
street and realize that everything you are looking at has been created
by someone’s brain. Every car moving
along a road was made by a brain and is now being driven by a brain.
The secret of happiness and success lies within your mind, within your
nervous system, your heart/mind complex, not in changing your outside
world. Your unhappy feelings aren’t the result of a miserable world. The outer world isn’t
the cause of what you feel inside. It is actually the other way around.
You are the cause and what you experience in the world, is the result
or effect of your thinking.
So how do we change?
Well, the process begins by giving up your internal stuggle with your
self. Let go and practice surrendering to what is. Sit still and breathe.
Let the pain and the suffering flow through you, you become the witness,
the observer. Yes it takes great courage to invite the negative ‘in for a cup of tea’.
By practising forgiveness of self and others you get out of your head
and into your Heart. Breathe into your suffering, breathe into the
pain and begin to create a place of acceptance for all the parts of
you. Love you, hold you in love, embrace yourself with unconditional
love and feel a loving Presence that ies within your heart.
Now I know that is easier said than done. I have been there many times
and I can honestly say, with practice it does get easier. In fact the
acceptance of self is the spring water within the desert. Stop fighting
against yourself. Create a heart space within yourself of total acceptance
of who you are, the good and the bad. Embrace all of you, warts and
all.
Next, once you have experienced a deeper sense of relief and peace,
start to begin to create on the inner the life you have always dreamed
of, dream about it until it becomes reality.
Don’t try to work out how to get there, just create the end result and
in as much detail as you can dream it. And remember it is okay to make mistakes
and it is okay to keep making mistakes, they are your feed back system. It doesn’t
matter how many times you fall down, what is really important is how
many times you pick yourself up.
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This is where I discuss two of the most fundamental and
important Laws of our Universe. These Universal Laws are the backbone
of all reality as we know it -The Law of the Opposites and
The Law of Change.
Also discover the Sacred Art of India and Tibet and how to
create your own Sacred Symbols.
The Sacred Art of Mandalas
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