Unblock energy to facilitate positive thinking

Ever wonder how to you could grow to control you thoughts more effectively? If your mind often thinks about food and criticism of your weight, you may find it hard to focus your mind on anything else.  If your mind often reprimands you for what you're not doing or what you haven't done, you may sense its a challenge to turn things around.  If you tell yourself you're in  a rut, you may ask how to get out.  What it would take?  Its time to explore strategies to develop more positive thinking.

The key is to learn to grasp the energy at your core and realize how  and when you use it.  We all have conscious and unconscious intentions.  Some people are very aware of how they think and how this translates into their actions.  Other people do not consciously connect their behavior to thoughts and don't realize the links. How are you using your energy to further your most sacred or heart-felt intentions?

While you're in the state you are right now, reflect on what kinds of choices you have made in an area of special importance to you.  Which choices did you assume you did or didn't have?  Reflect on your conditioning.  Who told you to believe certain options were open or closed to you?  As you open your mind, do you see many choices now that you weren't aware of before? What could you do differently?

The key to unblocking energy is to realize how you think and why. If you believe your too fat, too skinny, to tall, too short or, have some other issue with self-image, this results from people you have known, experiences you have had, and how you have reacted and adopted the values and attitudes of others. The nature of positive energy flow inside you is directly related to how much you love and accept yourself.

3 Steps to magnify the intensity of your calling

What is it that draws clients and students to people who offer “readings?” Some see this as a way to satiate curiosity or, as the opportunity to obtain answers to serious or nagging questions. Law enforcement sometimes consult crime psychics as an unconventional way to sollicit assistance to solve baffling crimes. Maybe you simply seek guidance to grasp the nature of your own profound spiritual awakening?

You may wonder what it would be like to have access to past life information that could help others. Spirits can teach you to overcome fear and expand your horizons beyond ego-based motives. With whom will you connect and why? The methods spirit use to communicate with this dimension vary and change as you progress into realms of higher learning. Three steps to magnify the intensity of your calling are:

1) Develop discipline. The art of shifting awareness requires discipline and a specific sense of control. As humans, we have access to different states of consciousness, and can determine which states we’re in and when. If you seem to lose control of your focus or emotions, that is also a choice. You have the power to work through techniques and learn how to move in and out of different states at will.

2) Detect the vibrations.  Energy underlies every intention. To evolve to focusing on states of awareness is to understand that everything is energy, its alive and changing constantly. To get quiet and learn to hear voices is like a way to recognize and sense the rhythm and movement of energies. When was the last time you were distracted by external noise and ignored the signs as well as your gut?

3) Expect to uncover hidden talents. Your intuition is a connection to your spirit. Your own subconscious is how your ‘true’ self speaks. When you desire to explore this very intuitive guide within, you can always tap into it, provided you have the courage to listen. Your curiosity and a conscious decision to develop talents you hadn’t recognized before can actually be stepping stones to appealing discoveries.

Savor more than puppy love

Analysis of the week on dream submitted by Anonymous of Melbourne, Australia.

Dream: I found a mopsy-looking puppy in the park and felt drawn to him. He took to me and loved to lick my face. We went to a gas station. I bought a long cardboard tube. I opened one end and dumped out a small bottle and also a carton of white milk. The puppy pranced along with the unopened plastic milk bottle in its teeth. We arrived at the home of parents of friends. These people sat back in lazy-boy lounge chairs and sighed. They sat beside a wall of windows on an angle leaning in. The house was moving. They grumbled about my clean, white dog. Their bulldogs wore spiked collars and stampeded along the light carpet with muddy feet like a herd of elephants. I poured milk in a glass while my companions drank alcohol.

Predominant Emotions: loneliness, detachment, rejuvenation, empowerment

Interpretation: You may have been feeling lonely. If a puppy projects your mood, feeling lost won’t last. Whatever your struggles with work, relationships, or other issues, you don’t have to allow yourself to feel alienated by society. Amidst your fear and uncertainty, you can reconnect with the pure Source or sense reasons to feel loved and appreciated. Remind yourself ‘like attracts like.’ You must love yourself in order to attract love and experience gratitude. Conscience is the teacher. Love is always a lesson. It can be superficial and short-lived or, grow, intensify and deepen.

As you refuel with love, you feel reassured and renewed. Its no coincidence dogs symbolize ‘a best friend.’ Puppies are playful and being carefree comes from stepping outside of your conditioning. Meeting people in a timely way will lead to blossoming friendship or special friendships you have will grow stronger. Apparent synchronicity may also be Higher Forces’ way of acting anonymously. Your healing process will continue as you nurture enriching relationships your own way.

Of course, your entourage may be uncomfortable with your new choices or ongoing transition. Your own ego also shows aversion to your assertive decisions of what you think is best. You grow to transcend your previous limitations. Milk draws attention to maternal instincts, kindness, generosity and compassion. Due to the law of attraction, as you give freely, similar gestures will come back in unexpected ways.

A house reflects your soul and self-view. Room details reveal parts of your psyche. Since the house is shifting, it suggests you’re shaking your foundations and evolving your values and beliefs. Windows represent perspective and your outlook. It’s up to you to raise your awareness and trust in your intuition. You may be reflecting on a decision and seeking guidance. Contemplation is desirable, but only for so long.

Examine where you focus attention

As you go about your day-to-day activities and contemplate dreams, its useful to recognize where you focus your attention. You will come to realize you're attracted to certain people and environments, as well as selected dramas that may repeatedly rev you up. You may ask "how do I break those undesirable habits and patterns?"

Notice how often you get angry or frustrated and the nature of the triggers. Make an effort to become especially attuned to your thoughts and physical body. To what degree you listen and comprehend your judgment and discomfort offers clues to where and how you desire to improve. What do you notice? As you learn to focus on the tempo of your breathing, this also guides you to refocus your attention.

1) Open your senses. Truly observe and absorb your experiences. Its a question of learning to decipher the messages from your mental and physical body. What do things like yawning, kinks or physical stiffness reveal? When you catch a cold or the flu, how do you read your symptoms? Do you disregard various signs your body has been sending? How could you turn situations around to strengthen your immune system? How would you consciously choose to behave differently?

2) Rethink how you perceive. Whenever you identify problems, take a closer look. Every action and reaction has an underlying meaning you can uncover beneath the surface. Consider your thought process. Are you focused on limitations, obstacles or lack? Do you ever view yourself as a victim? Evolve to recognize your physiological reactions to people and conditions. When do you tense up? Are there instances when you repress feelings and bottle them up inside? Learn to let go and release them.

3) Reflect on the why. If you come to a point where you desire to improve some aspect of yourself or some situation, then you are unconsciously acknowledging a level of dissatisfaction. Examine the real reasons for your focus on goals or aspirations. To establish plans can be a source of motivation. Yet, goals can also mask insecurities and fear that help explain why you don't accept yourself as you are. You can change your mindset and attitude to create new kinds of happiness.

5 Ideas to progress into heightened realms

If one of your dreams happens to be to develop or sharpen paranormal skills (i.e., psychokinesis, extra-sensory perception, telepathy or others), you may wonder if you're in the right place.  This isn't exactly Hogwort's School of Magic, but even if you're not a wizard, a divination professor, a martial arts master or a PhD in parapsychology, you'll get out of this what you decide you will.  People may prompt you to reflect on whether you're in your "right mind."  That's only for you to say.

You may have heard people suddenly discover innate skills they never tapped into.  Some people recognize the supernatural significance of hearing voices from a young age.  Other adults only begin to sense heightened vibrations later, as part of a journey where they learn to listen to themselves and rediscover what they've always knew.  Whatever point you may be on your path, the timing might not have been right before.  Your level of self-knowledge and understanding may not have been where it had to be, until now.  Its not simply curiosity that gets people to learn. There must be more. Consider these five ideas to progress into heightened realms:

1) Faith won't deliver you from lessons to learn, but it will carry you through.  Identify habits and beliefs that agitate or trigger negative vibes inside you.  As you discern and replace those negative behaviors with more positive thoughts and action, you will simultaneously nurture faith that can carry over and strengthen your confidence in more esoteric pursuits.  Everything you think, feel and do is inter-connected.  That includes what appears to you to be visible or invisible.

2) Rather than focus on an obstacles, become solutions-oriented.  You need to learn to trust in what seems to go on around you and accept its part of a puzzle.  You project images and feel sensations to give you opportunities to learn.  Accept and embrace events whether or not you seem to get your way.  Assume that every situation is preparing you for promotions you may not even begin to imagine.  Stretching yourself may make you feel uneasy, but as you eliminate negative vibes and keep the right attitude, you'll emerge far better off than before.

3) Celebrate other people's victories and evolve into your own.  Whatever your goal, you can always learn valuable wisdom from people who've experienced similar things before.  Some of their stories are written in books.  To seek diverse sources of wisdom is always in your interest.  Other stories are shared during seminars, audio CDs, on DVDs, local meetings, during interviews or informal discussions.  Internet forums and audio podcasts also offer insight.  How and where will you seek out what you believe that you would like to learn next? Whom will you approach?

4) Instead of consciously seeking approval, choose to follow your path.  You arrived where you are because you truly want to be here.  You may wish to prove something to yourself.  You may wish to defy stereotypes or win the approval of others.  People may want you to feel that you're making a mistake, that you're not going to make it, that your efforts will serve no meaningful purpose.  Your circumstances and mindset only change as you open up and surmount fear.  So long as you listen to and follow your source of passion, you will always be motivated.   

5) As you're guided by things beyond, realize you're where you're meant to be.  Your steps are being directed.  You have the strength to be here and the foresight to expect positive and uplifting ways to serve.  You can choose to exert a positive influence and to get a handle on your own situation.   As you learn to be sensitive and pay attention during meditation and everyday life, you realize you can make choices to be guided and to make your life more fulfilling.  Look for the good.  Focus on what you're doing that feels right.  You'll know when you get confirmation.