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Social Conditioning

Thoughts

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According to Robert Sardello,” we divide, separate, analyze, scrutinize, take things apart, break them down into smaller and smaller pieces, rationalize. What we know in this way are abstractions, not the fullness of reality. This way of thinking loses sight of the whole and makes the world of concepts cold and devoid of a healthy feeling component.”

But this was exactly how I went through school, from grade school to the doctoral lvel. And I believe I had my share of success.

However, after reading Martha Beck and especially after watching “The Secret” several times the purely rational way of thinking makes me feel inadequate in the 21st century.

So much of technology can’t be tamed through rational thinking especially as the supporting structures fail to allow the latest technology to perform its promises.

There are several, make that many, disruptive occurrences that make life harder in spite of the many conveniences related to banking, communication, transportation etc. Even the simple procedure of claiming one’s ID from the security guards of buildings can be hazardous especially if one suffers from hypertension!

How can the Law of Attraction or the Energy Paradigm explain why I get a texted message at !:15 am in the morning by somebody from FACEBOOK INVITING ME TO JOIN? But I have an account! Or what about utterly exasperating agents from a certain bank calling our landline at various times of the day for months, trying desperately to locate a very bad debtor?

One explanation for my disasters with technology is that I still see the world in the Newtonian way. What I fail to consider is that “solid particles are mere energetic patterns until observed by consciousness.” so Martha Beck explained.

For almost 2 months now I have been practising the Ho’oponopono process that uses “entrainment”. This paradigm is the best for me because apparently it can be applied to all issues. The beauty is that I do the changing of myself and let the world be.

Sometimes it works; but it takes time. There is another solution. Martha Beck recommends going into WORDLESSNESS and ONENESS. This is even harder than the Ho’oponopono because I believe it requires going into ASC or altered state of consciousness.

The Book of Awakening

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     According to Mark Nepo, “More than anything, fear blinds, and only by stepping without hesitation into the next inch of the unknown can we build confidence in the life we are about to live.”
     Had I listened to my fears I wouldn’t have ventured walking around our condo without a cane a month after my mild stroke.
     At first I hesitated; I calculated. I rehearsed which pieces of furniture to hold on to. I even counted the steps from the bedroom to the bathroom. I pictured in my mind how a normal person would walk. Was it heel, toe first? Or was it toes and then heels?
     When I finally dared I forgot completely about the counting and the style of steppings. It was a liberation, not to think at all.

Entrainment

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According to Martha Beck, “You can increase your ability to connect with other people ( in ways that you can call quantum-mechanical or mystical…) This is made possible through “entangled particles”: bits of matter that have been in close contact with one another. These bits of matter purportedly communicate over any distance, faster than the speed of light.

According to the remote-connection experiments, the linkage that occurs is determined by the brain which has the most coherent wave patterns. The brain associated with calm, relaxation and peace is believed to “pull” the less coherent brains into synchrony with it. The process is called “entrainment”.

Along with the processes of wordlessness and oneness explained by Beck, I experienced a kind of entrainment with a misplaced book. The occurrence was assisted by Ho’oponopono which I have been practicing for at least one month now. Ho’oponopono is a Hawaiian healing system popularized by Joe Vitale in his book “Zero Limits”

After my initial fixation towards retrieving my book “Real Energy” I consciously decided to surrender. I felt as though the book had fallen from the horizon into another realm. I calmly accepted the loss; then I drifted into a dreamlike statw where I visualized myself as magnetizing the book back into my world. Of course I repeated the Ho’oponopono litany many times daily.

After two days, while sitting at the edge of the bed of my husband who was dozing off his afternoon nap, I sensed the abnormal position of several dissertation proposals on one of his many open shelves. I suspected there was a book caught in the heap. Even before I completely pulled out the book, I already knew it was my missing book.

I rejoiced because I had broken my obsessive pattern to use logical reasoning coupled with laborious manual labor to put order in the study room of my husband. Using metaphysical solutions does not only make mundane tasks easier it honors our spark of divinity.

Please note I have a special, personal relationship with my books. I know my books and my books know me!

Answered Prayers

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I have fond memories of answered prayers through the Tuesday devotion to St Anne during my years in Assumption, Iloilo both as a teacher and as a student.I used to be a devotee of the Infant Jesus of Prague. For a short while I depended on Our Lady of Remedies for my share of miracles Eventually I simply got tired of formula prayers and resorted to personal prayers from the heart.

     In the 1990s I read Dr Mann’s “Sacred Healing where he wrote:
“The spiritually wise and awakened being knows that subtle spiritual forces control and direct all of creation. Thought, when conceived in a spiritually conscious state, emanates subtle energy that draws experience into manifestation.”
     Ironically by the time one becomes spiritually wise and awakened his manifestation won’t be centered on worldly goods for their own sake.
     Thought conceived in a spiritually conscious state is what is manifested. This, I believe is what is lacking in the exercises popularized by “The Secret”. This is not to say that “The Secret” is useless. It is a stepping stone to spiritual wisdom and awakening.

The Old Worldview

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    The old worldview was characterized by struggle and conflict. I choose the Buddhist discipline of acceptance rather than struggle. This is not martyrdom; this is a voluntary decision to flow with circumstances. While doing everything in one’s power to better the situation, one does not focus on escape strategies. Eventually with lots of practice one enters into the difficulties with a relaxed attitude, a quaint oneness with the situation and one comes out definitely wiser than before.
     I used to agonize because with management principles learned in school along with the many five-year development plans I have in one way or the other been involved with I got into the fix-it state of mind.
     “Any suffering is caused by misdirected energy which we must learn to use more positively.” This is the teaching of Seth as quoted by Gill Edwards. “True spirituality is a sense of joy that makes all creativity probable”