Losing your mables or discovering more?

Its common to misplace things, from your favorite sunglasses to a single glove, a lone shoe or even a wooly sock. Yet, how often do you mysteriously find things? Not only those things you thought you'd lost, but also things you never knew you had? Its often empowering to find things, especially during those 'eureka' moments where it seems like magic. But, did you ever wonder how they appeared? Why is it you just happened to notice them? Do you think anything or anyone helped somehow?

As a child, you may have heard stories about the pixies walking off with the kitchen scissors or, whatever items children and adults sought to find.  You may have imagined what happened and told whoppers.  I liked the myth of the bottomless, hollow tree trunk. This was where all lost items were supposedly stored by magical creatures for their use in due time. After all, I thought, aren't we meant to share?

In present day, have you ever found marbles in the garden or backyard? On separate occasions, I awoke to discover glass marbles on my back deck. They seemed too heavy to blow in from nowhere.  We often take it for granted that much of our adult world has been explained by logic or science. The best remedy for rigid views is to take a closer look at remaining mysteries from the perspective of a child. The deepest challenges to our understanding of this world may require reverting back to our innocent, and deconditioned past, in order to embrace the truth.

Your adult instinct may assume a feedback loop. Believe in energy flow and laws of attraction? Since you create what you perceive, you may will such glass marbles into being. Your own humor may project, take this physical form to remind yourself that you're not 'losing your marbles.' Yet what if it was magic, and you were conjuring something up? This would prove you that you have more marbles than you thought!

Angels and fairies also work in their own mysterious ways. They draw our attention to situations with their own playful logic. Angels are known to remind us humans when we've been working too hard or not spending enough time on fun, leisure or amusement. They urge us to create more free moments to savor simple pleasures. They guide our choices toward greater balance and happiness. Do you read the signs?

Recreation nourishes the soul and enables us to step outside rigid mindsets of deadlines and competition. Remembering how to have fun brings back an incredible lightness of being and energizes us to reach goals refreshed with a more focused mind. Do you sense you have more than enough marbles or, plan to discover more?

Recognize value in alternative paths

I recently read an article about a school of alternative approaches to learning for children with heightened sensitivities, such as empaths, telephaths sand psychic intuitives. You might imagine that standard tests would be inappropriate.  Test takers would have the ability to ‘hear answers’ in the mind of informed test-givers.  Standard curricula would seem inapplicable.   Students might regularly challenge authority beleiving they knew more or "what is right". Yet, how would topics seldom covered in most classes become a focus of learning methods in this unique school?

The founder and developer of this pioneering school based her structure and approach on psychologist Abraham Maslow’s 8 characteristics of the self-actualized person. Only teaching methods that supported Maslow’s 8 primary goals were chosen and applied for the period this school was open. You might also assume the teachers involved themselves would need to have a keen sense of mind games themselves, in order to work around the thinking of their pupils.

It’s interesting that such approaches may also be useful for different kinds of students who are traditionally labeled with specific abilities or disabilities. Consider your own formal and informal training and learning processes. Connect the emotional and other intelligence you have since chosen to adopt for your own reasons:

1) Capable of self-absorption. Students were permitted to pursue activities of study alongside traditional subjects. When they became consumed by something, they had freedom to focus at the exclusion of all else, as the child deemed necessary. This proved very effective as it promoted problem-solving and excelling at one’s own pace, in subjects as diverse as reading, algebra and divination.

2) Choices toward growth. Teachers devoted time discussing how to make choices toward life or destruction with manifold consequences.   Pupils learned to think about inter-connectedness among beings, how choices influenced everyone and everything.  This taught taking responsibility, being accountable and overcoming learned helplessness.

3) Believing in one’s judgment. “Substantiate your claim” often echoed in class . Children’s views were highly-respected, yet they were required to explain and prove their views based on logic or credible evidence. Debates were promoted, as were moots (mock trials) so children could learn to present ideas and beliefs with clarity.

4) Being honest & shedding defense mechanisms. Punishment didn’t exist at this school (except for extreme behavior where kids were sent home) . Instead, youngsters were taught to sit down to resolve difficulties. There was no option to escape or run away from tempers or anger.  They had no choice but to work it out.

5) Building courage to state one’s views publicly. Children were taught how to listen to their internal dialogue and feelings, so as to recognize the value of their own thoughts. Implicit in the ability promoted to share beliefs publicly, was the idea of listening to views without judgment. This bred tolerance and understanding.

6) Working to the best of one’s chosen goals. Each child was encouraged to set personal goals . Older children’s schedule was a mix of class and self-directed study time. Independent study projects were required. Younger children often preferred hands-on building or creating.  They sensed and learned in multiple dimensions.

7) Awareness of peak experiences. To discern what learning felt like was a key goal recognized only by each individual. It was the teacher’s role to meet each child where he or she was. This released the burden of having to sense what ‘game’ to play to be seen as successful. Grades weren’t given which alleviated stress. No child was taught shame or embarrassment by being made to feel better or worse.

Jack Canfield's test can work for you

In Rhonda Byrne's book, The Secret, Jack Canfield describes how when struggling to earn $8,000 per year, he decided to set the goal of earning $100,000. At the time, this goal seemed like a pipedream. Yet, Jack chose to humour himself and focus on making it happen. He wasn't sure how. Instinctively, he wrote himself a check for $100,000 and stuck it on his bedroom ceiling. This became the first thing he would see when he awoke and the last thing he would see when he went to sleep at night.

Every day, he thought about realizing his dream. He was initially unaware of real reasons behind it. He went about the life as before. Then, one morning, while in the shower, he recalled he had written a book nad put it away. He thought if he sold 400,000 copies, he would realize his goal of $100,000. Suddenly, renewed faith in his book made perfect sense. He desired to publish the book to improve lives of others perhaps more than his original goal of earning money. Both results were still desirable. Why hadn't he acknowledged the dream before? Timing wasn't right.

Not long after that revelation, he was in the grocery store and noticed The Enquirer. It had always been in the check-out rack, but he hadn't really been aware. Not long after that, after one of his public lectures, he was approached by a woman to be interviewed for a magazine article. Turned out, the woman sold most of her writing to The Enquirer. Jack wondered if that encounter and what ensued, wasn't directly out of The Twilight Zone. The Universe was intervening in its own particular way.

Now, Jack didn't earn $100,000 that year as a writer. He earned just over $92,000. Jack realized that nurturing a dream, and thinking about it regularly is how you can work with the Universe to make it happen. You learn to align your energy. Te Universe will send you the right people and circumstances to make things happen. Jack and his wife thought that if positive thinking and discerning the power of energy alignment with the Universe worked to make $100,000, it should work for a million. They learned that it did and never looked back.

So, if you have ideas for a book, or have complete manuscripts in the wings, just waiting for the right publisher, the right editor or the appropriate launching platform to get it into the wider market, then you would benefit from applying concepts in The Secret. You probably already have these ideas in your soul. Yet, you might just get wrapped up with the "what if it doesn't work?" syndrome. Or assume that you have to figure out all the details. Rest assured, the Universe will help. Your job is to believe in your writing abilities and have faith that your actions will lead to great things. Recognize your problems have been solved.

Tap into what you've already got

You may perceive healing as a kind of magic. Yet, how to initiate or facilitate it? Just tap into abilities you've already got. As you sense certain kinds of healing are like a mystical service you could offer by tuning into the flow of the mind, then the positive you envision and bring about has the potential to be widespread.

Some people you meet naturally emit good vibes. Being around them noticeably makes you feel better. You instinctively smile, laugh or, feel warm inside. This results from simple transference of invisible, positive energy your way. You don't even have to see the person to know they're nearby because of uplifting effects. They inspire positive thoughts and feelings. You can evoke those in others too.

If you would like to assist someone by helping generate positive thoughts or healing, then you'll benefit from nurturing a receptive state of mind. You need to believe you can help. Underneath that, you need to hold the unwavering belief that you also help yourself. To learn to tune into yourself and your own energy and emotions is like a stepping stone to better understanding these subtle energies in other people. What kinds of reasons do you have for getting in better touch with yourself?

What about achieving greater overall focus in a particular area of your life? Healing can be grasped and understood as achieving balance. This touches on all areas of health and well-being. You will find that as you raise your awareness of reasons behind your thoughts and feelings, you will be better prepared to anticipate and seize life opportunities. How does that relate to psychic experiences and healing?

The ability to become more aware of feelings and emotions can lead to greater understanding of others as well as of yourself.  Just think, if you were to become more honest and better read your vibes, it would become more straightforward to discern and pursue your own dreams.  Realize your destiny sooner rather than later.

4 Steps to initiate your comeback

You may measure success according to your perceived level of happiness. Which steps are you taking already to clarify exactly what this means to you? What kinds of abundance are you creating with your thoughts, you feelings, and your actions? From this moment, your life is beginning to transform in more appealing directions. How are you using your senses and mind to bring new views of your success into being?

As you choose to believe in your potential to redefine success, you can decide now is the time for you to focus on healthier habits and relationships. Your thoughts create conditions which will unfold in your life. To initiate your comeback to a better life, clear your mind or anything undesirable. Concentrate instead on these 4 steps. Decide you will hear what you need to hear, you will heighten your sensitivity to what matters and experience the good things you initially only dream:

1) Prepare a vision board. Cut out images and words that reflect the experiences you desire. If you want to travel, include images and maps of places you desire to visit. If you wish to own a house or a car, or other things, cut out images that reflect your hopes in these areas.  If you desire particular types of opportunities or people to enter your life, then include symbols to reinforce it. Look at this vision board often. Say aloud what you plan. Invite and attract it all right to you.

2) Sense favor is on its way.  Whatever your health is right now, envision that something better is in store.  Whatever the state of your business, the state of your bank account, your backyard or emotions, don't just look at what you can see. Whatever the state of your current relationships, whatever negative things people tell you to expect, whatever your previous experience in other areas of life, believe in what you desire to create and intend it to happen.

3) Utter words to create power. Saying what you want to happen reinforces dreams that begin as images in your mind. Feelings of discomfort or insecurity may poke you from inside. Yet, you can say aloud how life is better, is getting better is redefining success. Nothing is out of reach if you believe and say that you know your circumstances are going to change. There are no such thing as accidents. You sense when good things will happen. Facilitate it with words. Repeat it loud and clear.

4) Allow hope to take root in your soul. Go beyond belieiving in what your senses tell you in the present. Remind yourself your present conditions are based on your thoughts from the past.  Connect with Forces beyond you, the supernatural levels, and allow them to nurture hope in senses beyond what you typically think about. To sense faith is to allow seeds to plant themselves in your soul and influence amazing things to happen. The appropriate breaks and opportunities are already knocking on your door. The question is, are you ready to truly listen?