Anything you do requires energy. And everything you do creates energy. Anything. Even reading this article. You’re spending energy by focusing on the text, processing the info in your brain and matching it against what you already know. At the end of this process, you get some energy back in the form of new ideas, new approaches or possibly some answers. Hopefully, you’ll get some positive energy by reading this :- ).
Have you ever thought what happens with this energy you get back? How much of it you really use? How much of it you discard unconsciously? We’re usually thinking in spending patterns rather than in receiving patterns. We think: how much it will cost me to do this, or how much I will have to give to make this happen. But we almost never think in terms of: what’s the reward of doing this?
“Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth — that the moment one definately commits oneself, then, Providence moves, too.”
There are many facets of guided imagery. Much of it comes from how much you surround yourself with your art. That is, doing your morning pages each day, doing your artist date each week and taking your creative walks three times a week. When you constantly do this, all of a sudden, you start to hear whispers in your heart (no, not the schizo type of voices) and all of these inspirations start to naturally come to you. These are the things that will make you pick up your camera simply for the pure joy of clicking the shutter.
Get something that is near and dear to your heart: A teacup from your grandmother, a clay artpiece from your kid’s secong grade class, anything. Grasp it in your hands and sit in a quiet space in your home. Close your eyes and relax. Things will go through your mind, things not even related to what you are holding. Let all things pass through your consciousness. What you will be searching for are the stories that come in relation to that piece you are holding. The stories may not be necessarily true! It could be a story from a far off place.
The key is to write down what you saw when you are done (it only takes about 5-10 minutes, but if you can go longer… You want to remember those fantasies and then the magic begins. You start creating what’s in your heart, not someone else’s.
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What are you defending?
An illusory identity, an image in your mind, a fictitious entity.
By making this pattern conscious, by witnessing it, you dis-identify from it.
In the light of your conscious, the unconscious pattern will quickly dissolve. This is the end of all arguments and power games which are so corrosive to relationships. Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and is available to you NOW.
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So anyone who is identified with their mind, and therefore disconnected from their true power their deeper self rooted in being will have fear as their constant companion. The number of people who have gone beyond mind is as yet extremely small, so you can assume that virtually everyone you meet or know lives in a state of fear. Only the intensity of it varies. It fluctuates between anxiety and dread at one end of the scale and a vague unease and distant sense of threat at the other. Most people only become conscious of it when it takes on one of it’s more acute forms. Another aspect of the emotional pain that is an intrinsic part of the egoic mind is a deep seeded sense of lack, or incompleteness – of not being whole. In some people this is conscious, in others unconscious. If it is conscious, it manifests as the unsettling and constant feeling of not being worthy or good enough. …..often enter into a compulsive pursuit of ego gratification and things to identify with, in order to fill this hole they feel within. And so they strive after possessions, money, success, power, recognition, or a special relationship. Basically so they can feel better about themselves, feel more complete. But even when they attain all these things, they find that the hole is still there. That it is bottomless, then they are really in trouble – because they cannot elude themselves anymore……
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