posted January 01, 2005 12:24 AM              

Have you ever thought about that? That absolutely everything that you have in your life at this moment is a result of your thoughts (both conscious and unconscious) that you have had in the past. When I first came across this idea it took me quite a while to let it sink it, then accept. It sparked lots of questions too. Did I therefore choose the things that I don't like as well as those that I do? Did I choose to create my illnesses? Did I create my own "bad luck". The more I thought about all of this the more it made sense. Yes, it made perfect sense. Everything that I read from the great spiritual masters and teachers always comes down to the same message.

Individual consciousness
You are creator. You do it all the time, whether you are conscious of it or not. You cannot stop it even if you try. You are one great big creation machine. When we create deliberately, consciously, then we call this manifestation. How to manifest what you want? There are three basic steps:

With the thoughts we think
With the words we speak
With the actions we take
I will expand upon these three steps in a future article on manifestation. For now, however, lets stay with step one. The thoughts that we think.

With our thoughts we sow the seeds of everything that we create in our lives. and everything that exists in our lives. In our reality, everything, has been created by us, beginning with our thoughts. Everything. If you can accept this and take responsibility for it, then you have taken a major step towards raising your awareness and consciousness. Once you accept this, then you inevitably, naturally stop blaming outside influences (including other people) for what happens in your life. It is also empowering. Because, if with your own personal power you have created what exists in your life, then you also have the power to change whatever you don't like, whatever no longer serves you, whatever no longer reflects who you are.

So you cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought. Negative thoughts create negative things and attract negative experiences into your reality. Indeed it is true to say that you cannot experience anything, that it can not be part of your reality if you do not think about it. Think about that. This is the power that we all have. To create and control our own reality by the power of our own thoughts.

You are what you think. You experience what you think you will experience. You create precisely what you expect. If you are filled with worry and fear, then you bring about exactly the things that you fear because by holding them in your awareness, you give them energy. You give them power. You create them.

I always say to my parents, "The worst thing you can possibly do for me is to worry about me. You are in fact helping to create for me the things you worry about on my behalf. No, when you think of me, think joyful thoughts. Instead of worrying, think "Oh, I am grateful for all the wonderful things Michael has in his life. I appreciate all the blessings that have been bestowed upon him, and give thanks for the life of total abundance that he enjoys." Now, what are those thoughts creating? Isn't that better than worry and fear?

When my seven year-old son is riding his bike along the roadside, and there is traffic, instead of worrying about all the ways that an accident might happen, instead of telling him to be careful not to have an accident . . (and therefore filling him also with negative thoughts of the bad things which might happen to him) . I think positive. I see him in my mind joyfully riding his bike, carefree, completely safe. And just for good measure, I send two angels, one either side of him to keep him company, and keep him upright. Then I enjoy the sunshine, the fresh air, and his company. He cannot have an accident as that is simply not a possibility in my, nor his, reality. It cannot happen. Do you see the power of this?

When I park my car, I always find a parking space. I think ahead and prepare a parking space for myself. I also have my parking angel to help me. I tell my parking angel to prepare a parking space for me, then drive to my destination in complete confidence (that is without ANY doubt) that a space is available for me. It always is. No matter what the conditions. My family now treat this as normal. So with three or four of us all SURE that we will have a parking place, then the manifestation is quicker and surer. Not only do we find a place, we usually find the best place in the parking lot, the most convenient. Try it. It works.

What do you want in your life. Do you know? Good. Now, can you think about it, visualise yourself there, having it, enjoying it, feeling good. Yes? Good. Now comes the hard part. Can you stop thinking negative, doubtful thoughts about this thing that you want. Stop thinking, "Oh, I'm not good enough", "I don't deserve it", "What if it doesn't work". and all the other destructive thoughts of this ilk. Every time you allow a negative thought into your awareness, every time you give it energy, you push away from you the very thing that you are wanting.

All thoughts create. Think about this. ALL THOUGHTS CREATE. Not just the positive ones. What it means is that having thought about what you want, you have in fact succeeded in creating it. You have done it. It exists already as a creation. Bravo! If it does not, however, yet exist as a part of your reality, the reason is that there is some doubt associated with this thought creation. Some negativity. It is the degree of negativity and doubt that determines when, if ever, you will actually experience your thought creation in your physical reality. When someone gets to a level where there is absolutely no doubt, where there is utter and complete faith in his power of creation, then his manifestation in reality is instantaneous. This, all of the great Masters understood, and were able to do.

Mass Consciousness
So far we have discussed only creation on a personal level and we have seen how powerful is its potential. Now imagine if you will, this power magnified thousands of times. Now we are talking about the awesome power of thought creation when this thought is held, and given life energy by many thousands, perhaps even millions of people. This can be thought creation on a planetary, even cosmic scale. It is normally associated with creation by fear. Most people live in constant fear, most of their decisions are motivated by fear, and most of their thoughts are about what they do not want to happen, ie what they fear. If enough people fear for example, a plane crash, then that is what they create. Most of the worlds so called "natural disasters" are brought about in this way. The energy that manifests itself as a disaster is created by the millions of negative thoughts which make up mass fear, perhaps over a considerable period of time. This negative energy associated with the mass fear builds, and builds, until eventually, it must be realised as a physical reality. It expresses itself as a violent disaster. Many people are killed, and then we say "Why did this happen. Who did this to us". We seek someone to blame. God, Mother Nature, whatever. Never, never do we take responsibility for these creations ourselves.

To get caught up in mass consciousness is to be in a dangerous place indeed. Here you lose the power of your own individual thought creations, subjugated to the more powerful group thoughts of the mass, which are almost always predominantly negative in nature. To step outside of mass beliefs and consciousness, to begin to walk your own path, to think your own thoughts, is to begin your own true spiritual growth.

Group Consciousness
In the much vaunted New Age, there is a growing awareness that the way forward, the way to improve our creations is to form groups, to harness group energy. When twelve people are gathered together unified in a common purpose, intent on creating the same thing, and those people understand thought creation, manifestation, then the power that they wield is not that of twelve but far, far greater, exponentially greater. This is the way to effect real change.

These groups are now forming all over the planet. Some call themselves World Servers, others call themselves Light Workers. No matter the name. Their purpose is the same. To return the earth and its inhabitants to living the way God always intended us to live. In harmony with one another, sharing with each other the abundant resources of this paradise in which we live. Peace, cooperation and respect for one another. For whatever our apparent differences, somewhere deep inside of each of us, we already know the Truth. That we are all related, interconnected. That we are all one. Harm another and you harm yourself.

How are these groups going to achieve this? How will they effect and bring about these changes on a global level? They do not try to convert people. They have little money and no powerful, influential contacts. How will they achieve their aims? They have no political or religious aspirations. They will do this by raising group, then mass consciousness to a higher level. It is not necessary that every person on the planet understands what is going on and seeks change. No, it is sufficient to effect the change in a small percentage of the population (some say as little as 2%) for this to be echoed in the mass consciousness of the entire planet. At some time in the near future, this change will take place (it has already started) and we will witness a shift in human motivation. No more personal greed, protecting our accumulated material assets, with no concern for anyone else. Thus attitude will give way to one of caring, sharing and helping others, whist at the same time protecting and cherishing our Mother Earth.

The time is near when people will be less concerned with material wealth and more concerned with spiritual wealth. The earth is changing beneath our very feet. What some call the Earth Changes have already begun, and are increasing in frequency. No amount of money or political manipulation can stop them. The power in our thoughts can. With our thoughts we can create a different reality. A different future. Nothing is written in stone. We can have whatever future we choose.

Conclusion
Now that you know how powerful you are, will you still think the same? Your thoughts contain the energy to manifest physical reality. What will you do with them? You have the power. The power to make real changes. This is the power to change the world. And it starts with you.
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posted January 01, 2005 05:42 AM              

One thing about negative thoughts: I think the more we try to oppress them, the more power they also have. We need to feel free to express the worry, the fear, explore the lesson in caution it teaches us. I would be a neurotic mess if I could really believe that every negative thought that naturally sprang to mind was going to manifest; we need to pay attention to them to show us what direction to travel to heal, much as pain works on the physical body. The trick I believe is to keep the balance more to the positive side, I simply can't play watchdog to my thoughts every second... where would the conflict be, the ying yang of forces?

On the global level, I can't wrap my mind around the fact that all of those people with their fear "created" the Tsunami, these are elemental forces of nature at work that were set in motion when our planet was formed, making such a beautiful place for us to live. Those tetonic plates have been slip-sliding away since we were salamanders, and I believe that if there is any lesson to be learned from all this for humans is that we have gotten way too cocky about our domination over nature, wherever we build our homes to be careful, be by ocean, mt., flood plains, tornado alleys etc., etc,....

Natural "disasters" as such are all part of our planet's evolution, (granted we hasten this along with global warming) a heritage of a cataclysmically formed piece of matter floating in space. The wonder is that we are here at all! Mother earth is once again trying to teach us that WE ARE NOT IN CONTROL to work in harmony with the forces around us......

So my question in this new year is why did we as a mass conscience create such a brutal and wondrously beautiful reality?.... What is it our spirits are supposed to, needing/wanting to be learning here?.... Survival of the fittest? over and over again it plays out - how can we return to the one with such strictures binding our interactions? It's so hard.. and it's meant to be. I still find it such a miracle that so many of us do seem to coexist (let's not let the sensationalist news get us discouraged) millions of acts of kindness go on every moment!

posted January 01, 2005 09:18 AM              

Thank you 26Taurus!

posted January 01, 2005 05:43 PM              

SAWSAN,
Thank you! That's very sweet.

delerious,

Yes, yes, yes. I try not to let it bother me, but I also get very sick of the "poor me's". If they only knew that they are only victims of circuimstances because of their own doing.....err thinking. The strangest part is that they are the ones who dont read these kind of articles. They want help or answers but they want it the easy way. They want to be told what to do, and only hear what they want to hear. And they dont want to do something that might take a little work. They give their power away to others and wonder why life sucks. Okay, I'll stop now.

I hear you on the negative thinking. Once you start to realize that your thoughts really are creating your reality, you can get a little scared when you do notice yourself thinking negatively. You notice that your thoughts seem to have a life of their own and it's hard to control them. But you are right, these should be looked at as perfect times to catch the thought and change it. Learn from it. It is not to be feared, we are human and will have negative thoughts - how would we know positive thoughts w/o them? They are actually blessings if you are looking for awareness and to take control of your life. And they are blessings because they are there to make you aware that your thinking is off and you are going to be creating something negative in your life unless you change them.

You are exactly right that the trick is to try to keep the thoughts more to the positive side. You would LOVE the book I just read called, "Ask and it is Given, by Jerry and Esther Hicks". It has had a powerful impact on me. I've always known the power that thoughts have but felt a little lost about how to take control and switch the negative to positive. I've manifested many things in life, but couldnt understand why I couldnt do it consistantly and life still seemed to dip up and down. This book has helped out tremendously. Your emotions, negative and positive are indicators to the track your thoughts are on. I could go on and on but I wont.

Yeah, I thought the same thing at first while reading the part on the global consciousness. Then I thought maybe he meant that the accumulated negative energy generated over time from people all over the world is what creates disaters where many lives are taken. I dont think all of those people who died were all in fear of a tsunami exactly. We are so connected to the earth that I do think that "natural disasters" might not be so natural. I've read of people meditating and praying for rain drought ridden areas, where rain was not expected for some time and suddenly a rainstorm rolls in. Mother earth is our friend but we treat her so badly. I think she is on our side, here to help us, we just havent tapped into that power yet. I also think there is a bigger picture to these natural disasters that take so many people with them. I think these people have made a decision before they were born to be a part of it, to raise the consciousness of a lost human race. To bring us together and make us stop and think about everything. I think there is a much bigger picture that we arent very aware of.

I'm with you, there are so many acts of kindness that go on every moment that we never hear of (especially not from the media ) Indeed what a difference it would make to change just a small percentage of our thinking. It starts with one. We are so connected, that by changing yourself, your thoughts, bettering yourself, you are doing a great service to the rest of the world. Other minds respond and awaken to that.

Great speaking to you. It's nice to know when others are on the same page as you. Makes you feel a little less alone this game of life.

Dynamic_Stillness,
Lovely to know that you hEAR it too.

Awesome quote merlinesque!

posted January 01, 2005 08:38 PM              

To get to the point (at last! ) Now I do feel a great many still trying to "find their way home" so to speak. (of course multitudes more are there... I like to think that their energies will be joining ours to comfort their loved ones....

Also I was wondering if any culture-specific rituals to add to our meditation might be called for? Does anyone out there know native death practices for the areas hardest hit? If we could be "speaking in their language" to some extent. I know that in many cultures around the globe they set very specific time-frames for guiding the spirits to the next realm....

My inner voice is telling me that although our primary concern should be for the living striving to rebuild and grieve, at this particular time some attention needs paid to those who, having left so abruptly and traumatically, simply hang on to unfinished business or some intense karmic debt. Light I feel should also be sent their way, to help speed them on to the next level. I do sense such a need there, something (sadly something more quickly passed than the travails of the living left behind)

posted January 02, 2005 02:41 PM              

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My inner voice is telling me that although our primary concern should be for the living striving to rebuild and grieve, at this particular time some attention needs paid to those who, having left so abruptly and traumatically, simply hang on to unfinished business or some intense karmic debt. Light I feel should also be sent their way, to help speed them on to the next level. I do sense such a need there, something (sadly something more quickly passed than the travails of the living left behind)

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I completely agree.

posted January 03, 2005 03:52 AM              

i feel the negative manifestations are a warning from 'life', 'god', whatever you choose to call it, that what is real can never be destroyed.

posted January 18, 2005 09:27 PM              

The focal point in my spiritual growth at the moment is understanding and improving thoughts and taking responsibility for my own reality.

I think if something bad happens to you (in your perception) I've found when you suddenly awaken and take responsibility even if it's virtually not your fault, you'll soon see how everything turns around. Just like that!