Spirit Rhythms

Did You Get a Raw Deal?

2005-12-18T16:50:00.000-08:00

Did you get a raw deal too? I know I did.
My father died when I was young.
My brother got all the academic talent.
I’ve got the middle child syndrome,
My sister got all the good looks.
Or my parents were unloving and abusive.

We all have similar stories.
Abraham Lincoln, Madonna, Shania Twain,
Bill Clinton, Sigmund Freud, C. S. Lewis,
Alfred Hitchcock, Ernest Hemingway,
Friedrich Nietzsche, Socrates,
Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus Christ,
most of our multimillionaires, (except Bill Gates)
and some of our most richest and most famous talents,
and especially some of our brightest minds of the century
including Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein,
all have all gotten raw deals in their lives.

The point is that it doesn’t matter.
All that matters is how we think.
How we think about ourselves,
how we think about others, and the world around us.
The way we've interpreted our lives determines our self esteem,
which influences how we think and interpret
and that influences the vibrations we send out into the world.

And guess what.
the universe responds to those vibrations.
If we learn to love ourselves, if we love life
and look at the positive side of life,
think positive, we can create our future through our positive energy.

Whatever cards we were dealt,
or whatever the genetic script, archetype, or sacred contracts
all we need to know is that we are magic,
and we can do anything, and create our own future.
So instead of wasting your energy on complaining,
invest it in your future.

Here is the leading age thinking that can change your life for the better.

When you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at change. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

The universe responds to your attitude, the way you feel.
The Teachings of Abraham, Jerry & Esther Hicks.

Revised May 2007

Why Some Religious Beliefs Differ

2005-12-04T09:05:00.000-08:00

Here is an interesting reason why, with one God,
there are so many different religious beliefs.

At this time in our evolution, we are trying to identify spiritual reality
using our material understanding.
If God, or spirits are asexual,
we still have a need to asociate them as male or female, or father,
or something that is familiar to what we know.

Different cultures interpret God in different ways.
I have no doubt that any monotheistic religion originates from Source Spirit,
but we are understanding from different personal,
cultural understandings, and points of view.
Troubles have traditionaly arisen when we have interpreted it's roots
with our own agenda rather than finding it's true essence.

Studying Eastern philosophy, I gained a very high respect
for the intelligent interpretations of the philosophers of India.
Here two examples of how Hindus would explain these phenomenonae.

We are all of one Source. We are all connected.
Quantum Scientific "Strings of Energy" theory confirms this.
We are connedted in spiritual energy.

Understanding “The One and the Many Principal.”
Although we Westerners have trouble seeing it this way,
a material something can be one and many at the same time.
I know that I have 5 fingers,
but you are insisting that I am holding up only one hand.
We are likened individually to fingers of God's hand.
We are all one and we are many at the same time.

The following Indian story of the six blind men
offers a metophorical analogy:
A group of six blind men are permitted to approach an elephant.
The first blind man walks right into the side of the elephant
and proclaims “The elephant is so very like a wall.”
The second feels a sharp end of the tusk and says,
"oh, no, I can feel that the elephant is very like a spear."
A third grabs the trunk and says
"I understand the elephant is very like a snake."
The fourth feels the knee and says it is very like a tree.
A fifth has both hands on each side of the elephant’s ear
and proclaims that "elephants are very like a fan".
The sixth grabs its tail and says
"Ah ha, the elephant is very like a rope."

Analogies aside, we may not actually "see" God as a Spirit,
but what we get are sensations of the manifestations of God.
With quiet meditation, we can hear that still small voice,
and tuning in, we can be guided toward happiness.

Using Psychology to Develop Writing Talent

2005-09-29T18:48:00.000-07:00

Having a fascination with interdisciplinary courses in college,
I have always had an interest in seeing how other disciplines
relate to Psychology. This helps to empower my understanding.
My revived interest in creative writing proved no exception.
A powerful method of releasing dormant talents within us,
called "writing from within" is a good example.

Here's how it works. First, we start with your own autobiography.
I know, I know, but there is an important catch.
We are going to make our past a lot more positive and exciting.
Because we are going to re-interpret it
as intelligent, more positive thinking, and enlightened adults.

Why? Because we have all mistakenly misinterpreted our past,
and that has led to suppressed memories and repressed energies.
We want to use this misspent energy to empower ourselves.

I started by setting up my computer with a special folder
with with word files about different aspects of my life.
Let's call it "My Autobiography" for now.
and we may get ideas for a more creative title later on.

Mine has plenty of categorical word files
entitled with important events of eras that I can add to,
and it also has some handy "catch all"? files
that are chronologically labeled.
The first is entitled Age 0-4, another 5-9, then 10-14.
I'm not sure how that 15-19 category is gonna avoid an X rating.

The main idea is that, once we reach
some critical or painful memories,
we'll need to get brave, dig up the dirt/I mean our past,
and re-interpretation in a much more reasonable,
positive, and enlightened way.

When we uproot our old memories -
where our emotions are tied to a childish way of understanding,
and we re-understand and re-write them as enlightened adults,
they become more "okay", and we, ourselves become more okay.

There is a lot less right or wrong,
good or bad, and that only thinking makes it so
when we realize that our parents, schoolmates, friends,
and adversaries were not Wayne Dyers or Maryanne Williamsons,
and that their mistakes were based on their misunderstandings
of themselves and of their own lives.
Can you blame them? Forgive them. and retake that energy.
Do it for yourself.

IF it comes ip again, reinforce the decision, forgive, and let it go,
and the negativity will soon dissipate completely.

Soon the repressed anger will become more available as creative energy.
Like anything else worthwhile,
be persistant and be patient with yourself.
You're all we've got.

Does this resonate with you?
We welcome questions or your comments

Spirit Rhythms

Four Powerful Concepts for Life from Yoga

2005-09-16T09:31:00.000-07:00

The Philosophy of Yoga is a balanced system that can empower
our physical, mental, and spiritual being.
Understanding the concepts of Yoga
can help us greatly with our personal evolution.
Here are some of my favorites:

1. The cause of our suffering is ignorance.
What we don't know can hurt us and cause future difficulties.
Spiritual laws create our future, and so
knowledge of our spiritual side can solve, create, and heal.
by enriching the mind, problem solving, and better decisions become easier.
It is said that diseases are psychosomatic in origins, and can be reversed.

2. There is no physics without metaphysics.
The metaphysical laws – Laws of Spirit can be
more powerful than the currently known laws of physics.
That is why synchronicity, manifeatation, and miracles can happen,
and this is important knowledge that mankind is currently lacking.

3 Yoga is learning to experience a higher vibrational energy of life,
by mastering of your most powerful organ – your mind.
One of the more powerful tools in empowering one's mind is meditation.
In the state of meditation, the mind is tremendously brighter,
stronger, and it possesses a far greater command of your organs,
hormones, and senses, and healing abilities.

4. The most important practice of Yoga is suggestion.
These are also known as autosuggestions, or affirmations.
They are a most powerful force that affects your subconscious.
Visualizations will help to empower suggestions.
They will work. Be persistant and patient.
Develop confidence, expectation, and faith
by positive suggestions, at least three times daily,
morning noon and night.

Many of these laws of metaphysics are starting to be used
by Councilors, Cognitive Therapists, Angel Practitioners,
Healers, Mystics, and New Age Religions,
and self empowerment authors.

For some of you this is all you'll need.
For others like myself who need greater understanding or depth,
here is more about how it works.

Your subconscious holds the sum total of your life’s experiences
as interpreted by you – right or wrong.
Many are negative or wrongly interpreted, and
this is why positive thinking, re-evaluation,
and affirmations can be a tremendous help.
The sum total of all your interpretations determine your ego.
(The “superego” is that which you choose to display to the world.)

Here is one analogy of the subconscious, and how affirmations work:
Look at the subconscious as a bucket of water,
and look at the affirmations as stones.
Each affirmation that you drop in the bucket
seems to do very little,
and you may not, at first, believe what you are saying.
Keep it up, because after a time, as the stones start to add up,
the “no”, or your mental resistance - begins to get smaller and smaller.

When your water bucket is at about 1/4th full of stones,
the mind starts to show signs of saying yes,
and soon you will be, and you will see
people reacting different to you.
As the bucket adds up, and more and more water is displaced,
You will be very likely be encouraged by things
that are working for you - like never before.
This recognition bolsters your confidence and faith,
and that can empower the process exponentially.
By the time you get towards half way, you will be very encouraged,
and well on your way to manifesting a new life.

As we are primarily creatures of feelings and thinking,
when we build our egos,
we find ourselves feeling better about ourselves,
our lives, and others.
When we feel better and become happier,
and our success rates improve, and
we begin to achieve things we never thought possible.

For Further Reading about Yoga, I recommend
“Fundamentals of Yoga” by Rammurti S. Mishra, MD

We welcome your comments.

Spirit Rhythms

Feelers vs. Thinkers - A Classic Example

2005-09-05T09:31:00.000-07:00

When Psychology, Self Help, or Astrology books
talk about compatibility between the sexes,
one of the primary classifications they use
is that we are primarily either thinkers, or feelers.
Sure, many of us do both... We have to.
But we are still either primarily one or the other.
Or we naturally start with one, and mediate with the opposite,
and some warn that feelers are incompatible with thinkers.

I myself used to be a typical Libra thinker,
and not enough of a feeler.
But so many women that I had hooked up with
were feelers, (feelers being so much fun),
that I had to understand more about them,
and in addition, to create the "in love with love",
hopeless romantic life I idealized and wanted,
I had to develop more of those "feeler talents" for myself.

One of the definitive statements of "thinkers vs. feelers"
is a play called Antigone (pronounced Antigonie.)
The original is by the famous 5th century BC
Greek Philosopher and playwrite Sophocles,
but my favorite interpretation is
by the modern adaptation by Jean Anouilh.

Antigone is a story of a brilliant King and logician, Creon,
and his impassioned arguments with his nineteen year old niece,
the model feeler and idealist, Antigone.
In order for Creon to quell the revolution in Thebes,
he needed to use his rationalization abilities
to mandate the peace that his city desperately needed.
Whereas his adversary niece,
the young "thinking from the heart" Antigone
was as equally and eloquently passionate
about her natural and ideal humanitarian beliefs,
in opposition to Creon's edicts.

It is fascinating to watch this clever King
who feels that he must explain to his young neice
how he arrives at his decisions.
And you'll understand why he must do -
what he does not really want to do -
in order to prevent "all hell from breaking loose"
in a restless city on the edge of ruin and revolution.

Through Jean Anouilh's magic, Antigone's
sensuous and idealistic naturewill win your heart,
both arguments are bound to open up
and strengthen your understanding of each side,
and pave the way to compatibility.

You won't be the same person after experiencing this book or DVD.
The book is inexpensive, but if you like great acting,
the Broadway Theatre Archive DVD version of Antigone
stars Genevieve Bujold as the young Antigone,
in one of the most fiery performances I have ever seen.
I watched in awe as Genevieve, in her impassioned fury
became so animated that she began to foam at the mouth...
as each side played out to their extremes.