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.

Tackle the dogma & rise above it

"At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes—an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counter-intuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new."

~Carl Sagan (1987)

Professor David Meyers (Hope College, Michigan, USA) invites us to reflect on the basis for our faith or skepticism in extra-sensory perception (ESP).  His research notes that five key British universities have parapsychology units staffed by Ph.D. grads of Edinburgh University’s parapsychology program (Turpin, 2005). Sweden’s Lund University, the Netherlands’ Utrecht University, and Australia’s University of Adelaide are other examples which have added faculty chairs or research units for parapsychology (covering areas of telepathy, clairvoyance and pre-cognition).

However, Meyers also notes widespread research psychologists and scientists, including 96% of the scientists in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, are very skeptical (McConnell, 1991).  Traditional authority groups and organisations tend to resist change because it threatens their power and control, and sense of grounding. 

If ESP is to gain more widespread credibility, we would need to overturn the scientific belief that human minds are grounded in and shaped by the physical world.  Do you perceive your own world based only on physical sensations? Or, do you sense something else?, something deeper?  Preconceptions can be proven invalid.

Consider dreams. Do you think your own predict your future or, maybe keep you tied to the past? Perhaps they only seem to guide you because you believe they do?  You may recall or reconstruct dreams that explain why events have already unfolded.  Some people assume events only seem to happen by chance.  Do human beings only refer to serendipity because their minds are naturally in search of causes?  Tackle the dogma instilled in your mind.  Find ways to transcend it so as to penetrate truth.

When the pupil is ready, teachers will appear

It may be unconvincing to tell people the world they think they perceive isn't real. This approach may be construed as your judgment.  If you've done this, you may have discovered how everyone doesn't agree. When you're ready to learn more about life in this world and other dimensions, you will naturally attract people who offer much to teach you. As they say, 'when the pupil is ready, teachers will appear.'

As you learn, digest and apply information you absorb, you will find you sense you're being passed from teacher to teacher. As you're ready to expand your horizons, new people will enter your life in a timely fashion. As you stay open to possibilities, you will grasp how an idea or thought is the same in any language. Only the words or gestures used to express it will differ. You can begin to realize thoughts are the universal form of communication. How you transmit thoughts can also evolve.

If you grow to see your physical body as a vehicle, then you can grow to understand that your consciousness can also travel and communicate without your body. Its not so far-fetched. After all, as someone watches you sleep, your mind is succeeding in convincing you that you are in a dreamworld. You will be receptive to whatever mental states and visions you're ready to handle.  How do you feel right now?

As your faith in your intuition strengthens, you'll sense you're on the right path as a teacher. You help yourself and other people who benefit from sharing your journey.

Discern the truth in your dreams

Everybody fears something in this world. The good news is that you can get a handle on it and reframe your life with renewed strength. All fear can be traced to the level of the unconscious mind and the guilt you create from making undesirable choices. Dreams help you gain insight into how and why you can improve yourself. What matters isn't what you learn, but what you actually do with what you learn.

Consider the idea that you're connected to everyone and everything. If your unconscious mind knows this, then why is it you choose to judge and condemn others while awake or asleep? Mistreating others simply means we think we deserve this kind of treatment ourselves. How we behave is like projecting a message about ourselves so that we can heighten our own awareness. What will you do about it?

You may be surprised to realize improving yourself requires learning to discern and break repeated cycles. The way you will experience and feel about yourself isn't determined by how other people perceive and think about you. So, seeking approval isn't the way to go. In actuality, the way you will experience life and feel about yourself is determined by how you choose to perceive and think about others. As you criticize or reject, you only really reject you. Emotions are clues to heal your soul.

Self-improvement then, is all about deciding you'll forgive yourself for reacting with anything other than forgiveness. The kind of truth you need to learn can be heard in your dreams, but what you need to do to evolve isn't a dream. Your sleeping and waking dreams take different forms, but the content and what they aim to teach is the same. Open your mind. Opportunities to grow lie outside your comfort zone.

Success just beyond your scope

Success begins as a decision inside you. It may be time to re-evaluate the rules that guide your life. A sense of success grows from your awareness of inner energy and potential. Where you think you are or what you have done to reach this moment doesn't mean you have tapped into thoughts and feelings that truly sustain you. You become what you think about. How you live today results from your vision, your old desires. Do they work for you? How would you like to expand on the life you know?

Now, you only live in a physical body. You have a job and interact with people in different ways based on what you imagine you will do. You choose how you wish to see yourself and how you will experience your life. Stop there. You are the architect, the draftsperson and designer, the choreographer and scriptwriter. Ever heard the phrase, "all the word's a stage?" Well, you're up there in the light. It's your show. Success unfolds like a choose-your-own adventure. After all, "It's your life!

In a nutshell, everything about the life you lead, the roles you perform, reflect your unconscious view of success. If you sense failure, or mistakes, they may also represent levels of experience and success.  New kinds of success are always around the corner for you.  You build on what yuou think you know.  As you evolve in your skin, your choices of roles and initiatives change. Your sense of success can evolve with you if you make decisions that are compatible with your sense of self.

On another level, you can sense your mind dictates the vibrations which determine what your physical body does and will do. These vibrations influence what you choose to perceive, what you see and don't see.  This translates into your grasp of available opportunities, the kinds of people who enter your life and show you ideas and options beyond your original scope of success. Nothing is beyond your reach so long as you desire, ask, visualize and act.  As they say, "the world is your oyster!"

The more you realize that success is connected to your source of bliss, the more you will find you add value to this world. Imagine what you will do from this day forward! What will you do? How will you seize and make the most of each moment?