Try using this for example if you’re having difficulty sleeping because of thoughts racing through your mind, or even during the day if you need to calm and destress.
It’s probably best to close your eyes as you imagine each setting.
Perhaps read through the whole thing a couple of times and then try to follow the path in your mind with your eyes closed.
I was just reading an article about Heath Ledger (The class actor playing “The Joker” in the new Dark Knight movie) and it got me to thinking.
Initially when Heath was cast in the role of the Joker there was a lot of controversy about it. A lot of people thought he couldn’t do it or the part wasn’t him etc. (He wasn’t another Jack N… playing himself).
I, for one, was delighted with the choice and couldn’t wait to see what he’d do in the role.
Sadly, as most of us know Heath passed away some months ago not long after the movie was completed.
Since then, and especially recently there’s been a lot of praise for what he’s done in the movie, with several people suggesting he should be nominated for an Oscar.
Anyway, where am I going with all this!
I was chatting with my friend the other day and he asked the question
“But would Heath be getting all this praise, or be considered for an Oscar if he hadn’t died”.
Ok, the truth is that Heath has been getting this praise since the movie started filming, most people just didn’t hear it.
That’s not what I’m getting at though.
What my friend said didn’t surprise me, because it’s something you always hear in such circumstances.
Like if someone you know dies, people always praise, and compliment that person, and you hear people remarking what a lovely person he/she was.
There seems to be a common belief that this stuff is not sincere, and is only said because the person in question has passed away.
I think the opposite is true.
I think that it is in such situations that we only actually tend to speak a real truth about the person.
In situations such as this it’s more acceptable to be honest.
I think that many people fear to speak positively in such an emotional fashion about a person who is still living for a number of reasons, such as:
These are just a few, but I’m sure there are many other reasons.
When a person has passed away, you have nothing to lose in speaking positively about them in an emotional manner. The person is not a threat, and society allows you to be that way about the deceased. A lot of your inhibitions are lifted.
What’s my point?
Well, simply, my point is that when a person speaks positively like this of someone that has passed away, it is in most cases real, and nice, and positive.
It should be respected for what it is and not judged.
The world would be a better place if we all tried to feel, and speak like that about the living more often.
Although, we all know some BS’ers too!
Enjoy it all!
Ok, most people agree that smoking is bad for you. A lot of people think that smoking is bad for the people around you.
A lot of smokers would like to give up for these reasons.
Then, there are some smokers who just don’t care one way or the other and just like to smoke anyway.
And there are smokers who convince themselves there’s nothing wrong with smoking even though they believe deep down that there is.
And there are smokers that believe there’s nothing wrong with smoking at all (or do all of these fall into the last category???)
For the record, I don’t smoke.
I have friends who smoke. I’ve went out with girls who smoked. Most of these tried to give up at some point or another. They usually did give up for a while, but then went back. Anyway…
I’m not really here to talk about smoking at all, I’m more interested in the whole concept of giving things up.
I think that you shouldn’t give things up…or possibly even that you can’t give up, unless you have tremendous willpower of course!
Now before I start I want to make it clear I’m not talking about serious drug addictions here.
I’m talking about habits, or little comforts in life (drinking, smoking, watching too much tv, coffee, etc…) that maybe you think you do too much of, and you would like to give up.
Everybody knows somebody who’s trying to give something up. And, we all know how it ends up for most people.
I myself had a particular thing (I’d rather not name it) that was a sort of a comfort zone for me. I tried several times in my life to give it up and was consistently drawn back to it. I consulted friends, and read about it and all my conclusions led me to believe that for one reason or another I needed it. I think a lot of us feel like that about something (especially drink, or cigarettes in my experience).
I think this is true.
You do actually need your vice. (I’m not sure if vice is the right word here because I don’t think that all “bad” habits are necessarily bad, but your life would be better without it, or at least with less of it)
But you do need it.
Why?
Ok, Let’s say you smoke…
Smoking gives you something. it does something for you. Does it relax you? Does it make you feel better? Does it make social situations easier? The trick is that it does something for you. It provides some positive support for you in your life.
There are two problems here.
1. A lot of these “habits” are at the very least unhealthy.
2. As long as you use your “habit” as a crutch, as long as you run back and hide in it when you need this particular support, you are not developing as a person. You don’t have to.
Say for example, you smoke for stress relief. Obviously, there is something in how you think, or lead your life that is causing you stress. Smoking provides you with comfort. As long as you smoke to deal with your stress then you will always have stress to deal with because you are not learning how to change your life to deal with it. So, you need to smoke.
Forget about giving up smoking!
Don’t even think about it at all.
I do strongly suggest though that you look at smoking (or whatever “habit” you have that you feel maybe you overindulge in, or is bad for you) and ask yourself:
Make a list. Write those questions at the top of a page and list every answer you can possibly think of. The list should be long. I had about a hundred entries in mine. You’ll be surprised what you come up with!
Keep going for as exhaustive a list as you can think of. Try to do it all in one sitting, but come back to it with a fresh mind if you need to.
Next, re-examine your list and yourself, where else in life can I get all these things? What can I do to have all these things in my life? Again make a list of answers and ideas, as many as you can come up with.
The answers should be things that excite you, things you would love to do or be (I expect that a lot of them are things you always wanted to do but never got around to doing).
Now, go and do those things!
Develop new habits!
But while you are developing these habits you shouldn’t smoke.
When you feel like smoking, say “Why do I need to smoke now, What can I do to satisfy my need?”
Then do that.
You see, if you smoke now then you won’t need to do the new more positive thing.
So what you’re doing is replacing smoking with something more positive.
If after you’ve developed all these new habits and you’re life is now more exciting and you’ve grown in yourself and you still feel like a smoke now and again, then do! But try and be more healthy about it.
If you feel sad, or you miss smoking, or you feel sad about giving it up, remind yourself that you’re not actually giving it up.
“I’m not giving up anything, I’m just doing wonderful exciting new things with my life, and I just won’t smoke while I’m developing these new habits and ideas, but if after all this I still feel like a smoke, then I will!”
By the way, When I’ve talked about smoking what I’m really talking about any such habit. I know that in relation to smoking and most of these things there is a chemical, and psycological craving, but my plan still holds true. Find something else more positive and healthier to fill the gap. The new habits should greatly increase the quality of your life. Even, trying to come up with new habits and ideas alone should increase your life quality!
If you’re having difficulty ask a friend or loved one to help you. I’m sure loads of people would love to support you. Think of it as a project, but the best project you’ll ever do. The project is you!
A better happier you!
Enjoy it all!
It’s strange these lines of long and short,
These little symbols back and forth,
Can bring such meaning to your brain,
They run along just like a train.
In your head they join like dots,
Making pictures filled with lots,
Of faces, places, thoughts and times,
New worlds are made inside your mind.
Magic dwells inside each book,
And in you, if you chance to look.
Peruse these reams of black and white,
And your thoughts will fill with streams of light.
A book’s not just a thing you read,
It plants in you a magic seed,
And when the seed begins to grow,
Ideas, dreams and thoughts will flow!
I want
to get out
of this dirty old skin.
I’m sure
there’s a heart
nestled within.
Fear will
no longer
fence in the truth.
Fear
is a barrier
to thoughts
running smooth.
Sum it all up
with
one single word,
Fear
makes living
an empty
world.
I
will not fornicate
with fear anymore.
Fear
we are over
I’ll see you no more.
But
when fear
is gone,
inside there’s a gap
fill it up
quickly
or fall back in fear’s trap.
Just a few thoughts on The Lord’s Prayer, or the “Our Father”…
I’m still processing my thoughts on this one so please bear with me
If we start with the assumption that we believe we all come from, and are part of a single universal soul, which through the power of intention/the law of attraction/the power of subconscious/what ever you want to call it, can manifest desires or thoughts, then the prayer takes on new meaning.
Is it possible that taking what Jesus said in too literal a sense that we lost the true meaning of the prayer?
Ok, the prayer…
Our Father, who art in heaven (Everything is the physical manifestation of a single soul or spirit. It makes sense then to see this as a parent figure. Why a male parent…don’t know yet!)
Hallowed be thy name (We revere the name of our creator/seed/originator…Why wouldn’t we!)
Thy Kingdom come (To be at one with the universal soul/infinite intelligence/God/whatever name you wish to give it is the desire of many (if not all perhaps…more on this later)
Thy will be done (Ok, this is interesting. The idea of the law of attraction basically means that if you think and believe it, then it will become real. So if you truly desire something, then the universe makes it real. Originally the sentence “Thy will be done” was taken to mean that we should do what God says, but in this case it can mean that whatever the universal soul, or infinite intelligence (which we are all a part of) desires will come to pass
on earth, as it is in heaven (Things thought of or created in the subconscious/soul/infinite intelligence, are made manifest in the material world/conscious reality)
Give us this day our daily bread (Is this just an intention of desire…”Daily bread” representing whatever we desire)
and forgive us our trespasses (If negative thoughts enter our subconscious then we manifest negative desires, so to create what we actually want in a positive sense we need to forgive ourselves/love ourselves)
as we forgive those who trespass against us (As above if we harbour ill intent toward toward ourselves or others we will manifest negative effects, so we need to carry only positive thoughts and intentions for both ourselves and others)
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (I need to think on this more, but again as we can see, at the very least it is encouraging us toward positive thoughts and intentions rather than the opposite)
Looking at the prayer from this perspective it would appear to me that it is a form of intention manifestation. I need to think on this some more but I thought I’d put the idea out there anyway…
What are your thoughts?
No heart ever breaks
It just falls and falls and falls,
because you didn’t take care of it
because you became so complacent and selfish,
you expected someone else to take care of it for you.
And then, when your heart did fall,
you sit and cry that that other person is not there anymore to take care of your heart,
and all the while,
your heart is fallen and alone in the dark…
I am feeling like a lost,
Like a lonely lonely lost.
I am hoping for a truth,
An easy, clear, and shattering truth.
I am told I want a chair,
But when I look there’s nothing there.
My mind is just not me,
I know there’s more but I can’t see.
I want to open up the door,
Release all this and numb no more.
Let it flow till I run dry,
Is all I need to do to cry?
Trapped in your realm of pain and fear,
You reflect it back on all who are near.
The closer we come, the more you fret,
If you can’t look in, you’ll lose us all yet.
You are so loved, more than you know,
But you can’t ever let your pain go.
Lay down your stick, open your fences,
See what is real, look with your senses.
You are so young, yet you feel old,
You keep locked away, your heart of gold.
Time to wake up, it’s not the end,
There’s still time yet for your life to mend.
So, I’ve been practising the law of attraction
My thought processes tend to be naturally negative. This I believe is mainly due to nurture
I grew up in an environment where you were encouraged to worry, encouraged to think the worst, encouraged to prepare for it
I’ve been working on changing that…working on changing my thought processes
My income for the past number of years has been at the level of barely surviving and I’ve been living in fear of the day it’ll all blow up in my face and I’ll end up in jail or something
Recently (about the last few weeks mostly) I’ve created an intention to make enough money to pay all my bills etc, and have a little more for myself to survive on
I’ve worked very hard on manifesting this intention
I’ve seen little signals from the universe that it’s working. Little winks from the universe as I’ve seen someone say
Wednesday of this week I decided to destroy a part of my life that I use to hide in
Habits I use when I’m scared or upset. Places in my psyche that I run and hide. I’m sure we all have them. For some people it’s probably drugs or drink, for others sex. They’re just easy to illustrate examples. Mine was none of those but I realised that as long as I have this place to hide I will never go forward so I destroyed it. As I told some of my friends I’ve “burned all my ships”. In other words there’s no going back
It was not just a place I hid, but also a very special part of my life, and something that’s been with me since I’ve been a child
So I was excited.
There’s no going back
I’m heading out into a new world
Things are going to change
What happens today?
I get a letter from Taxman that I have overdue taxes and I have 7 days to pay it off or other wise there will be action taken against me
I have nothing like the money that I need to pay it off
When was the letter sent? …14 days ago!!!
What time do I receive the letter? …6pm on Friday evening!!!
So now I can do nothing about this all weekend
Just when I make a decision to move on with my life!
Just when I’ve made the biggest personal sacrifice of my life in order to grow and move on I’m hit with this huge and horrible challenge
This reminds me of the end of “The Alchemist” by Paolo Coelho. (If you haven’t read it, it’s well worth it)
I believe the answers to most of, if not all of, life’s questions are hidden in that book
It’s about a boy who abandons all to follow his dreams
Anyway, at the end of the book, just when the boy reaches the place he’s been searching for something bad happens to him. Something very bad
But he’s been told that just before you achieve your dreams the universe will challenge you greatly to see how badly you want it
So in the end he…well I won’t spoil it for you
Is that’s what’s happening to me
Am I being challenged by the universe just because I cut all my ties and destroyed all my safe places so I could head out on the road to my dreams?
I know that to some people what happened to me is small, but it’s all perspective. To me it’s big…huge
So maybe I just gotta work true this to prove how badly I want it
Prove to who though? God? …The Universe? …Myself?
Only one way to find out…
So what do I do next…
