Meaningful miscreations

Many people dream of having a healthier body than the one they believe they already have.  What if any kind of healing you seek is directly related to learning to release the mind from fear?  That's right.  What if its a question of exploring the reasons for your own self-created doubt?  Mind-blowing, is it not!

Some people focus on lack or issues the associate with self-image. Rather than see what they are, they tend to focus more profoundly on what they're not.  They assume conjured fear and lack are justified.  Consider the implications on esteem and self-worth.

Some people forget the body seems to act wrongly or produces curious physical symptoms when responding to misthought. When people say you look sick, do you evolve to feel that way? If someone says you look like you have a fever, do you then physiologically produce one? Consider the human mind can't create beyond itself.

Some people sense the body and its functions are open to mis-interpretation.  Some humans are diagnosed with serious or even fatal illnesses and yet, they go on defy the diagnosis and survive.  Consider whether the physical body generates its own interpretation of illness and produces symptoms as an offshoot of something unrelated. What would you say? Is healing mostly based or even all in the mind?

Self-examination contest by Jenny & Erin

Under my blog roll, you'll note "Jenny & Erin's Blog."  These fabulous gals have launched a contest.It continues until the end of September 2007.  The topic prompts reflection about  personal habits.  Feel free to enter.  I post their question and my own entry below afterwards.

"How big of a role do habits play in your daily life? Do your habits typically form intentionally or unconsciously? What approaches have you found successful in shaping them?"

Jenny and Erin have inspired reflection about habits. In my own quest for greater self-understanding, I suppose habits reinforce the systems of belief that determine how I live. As I learn why I form unconscious, destructive habits, and uncover the fear that causes me to perpetuate them, I'm more likely to escape from the mental prison I have created.

For example, when people ask me how I am, my automatic response used to be "not bad." A friend brought to my attention that I had developed a habit of voicing tentative answers to questions, even when my intention was to be positive. Rather than continue to project uncertainty and condition a lack of self-confidence, I have learned to intentionally respond with the state of mind that reinforces faith in myself. How do I do that? I take time to intuit when I speak from the spirit and when I speak from my ego.  The ego is misguided and forges self-destructive journeys. Anyone can learn to foresee, heal and avoid this.

Increasingly, I understand habits as opportunities for lessons that help prepare me for the future. As I examine and share my perception on blogs, I become a more effective teacher and empower people to rethink their own habits. Each of us has the power to help enlighten one and other. Realize you can overcome anything. Your mind creates the thoughts that become your behavior. Just learn to work backwards. Simply read your lessons carefully. Change is only feared so long as you are unwilling to face the sources of your fear. Habits often result from fearing what you aren't doing. Once you discover what that is, and do it, and you can prove your ego wrong. Listen instead to your spirit.

Revelations worth attention

Any situation that feels like a problem isn't what you think it is.  Impossible situations only appear to be impossible.  Perceived obstacles only exist as long as you decide they will.  Since you can develop abilities to get out of any situation, you can realize self-defeating beliefs are illusions.  How are you denying yourself the ability to participate more fully in your own life? What would this mean anyway?

Some people think illusions are limited to tricks that a magician will perform for an audience.  Now, think about this for a minute.  When the magician seems to cut a woman in a box in half or, seems to pull a rabbit out of a black top hat on a table, part of you realizes this guy is pulling a fast one over you.  You may laugh, but sense the magician has guarded secrets.  You may wonder, what's the truth?  How does he do it?  Ask yourself why you decide knowing one way or the other matters.

In other areas of life, most people are fond of the truth.  If someone lies to you and you figure this out, it hurts you inside.  You don't like it.  So, why would you react differently to what you tell yourself? Is it a question of intentionally overlooking the real feelings underneath a reaction? You are totally responsible for your experience. 

Resisting anything you anticipate will be painful can feel more painful than the experience would be.   What is the pain about? Think action- reaction.  Nothing that you interpet on any level has anything to do with external reality.  Are you indulgent enough to let yourself feel?  Just because you feel genuinely doesn't mean it comes from the real you.  Your ego may project it.  What is your awarness level and where would you like it to be? 

Realize the power of positive thought

You can decide to view the world differently than other people.  You evolve to define who they are.  As you grow to identify opportunities quickly, you may view yourself as a non-conformist, and thrive on challenges.  If you feel this way, you realize the power of positive thought:

1) Recognize a need in yourself to find your own way.

2) Desire to abandon predictability and what you think you know.

3) Assume you can sustain yourself out of what you love.

4) Realize you can take control of your destiny.

5) Are drawn to a vision of choice, independence, and freedom

6) Seek to be a pioneer and transform vision into reality.

Real thinking is for anyone who listens

What is positive thinking? Its the view what you choose to get out of life will be good for you. Being in touch with yourself means sensing your thoughts create your feelings. Expressing them enables you to realize what's unjustified. Denying feelings just magnifies them. As you ignore fear and anger, they grow. If you don't express discomfort as you go along and work through it, you don't permit yourself to master it. Real commitment is being honest with yourself about motives for your feelings.

The Course of Miracles teaches you don't have to purify your thoughts to get rid of anger, guilt or other disturbing feelings. Pretending your positive without sorting through the other stuff isn't helpful. People don't attack you with words. You only imagine they attack as a reminder that you're not dealing with emotions you put aside. You made past decisions yourself, and you can decide differently this time.  It gets easier to think positively as you take responsibility for what you believe.

Real situations are those where it doesn't matter how things turn out.  It doesn't matter what happened in your past, or what you thought before.  The time comes where you realize that all your perceived problems are your own projections and hallucinations. These issues come up repeatedly as second, third, fourth or whatever chances, simply to give you opportunities to learn and rise above them.

People will say they aren't in your life to change you. You may think you don't enter the lives of others to change them. Yet, relationships and others situations come up because you're meant to learn from them.  Are you optimistic about each one? You have been drawn to conditions because you have decided wrongly before and you aren't yet on a level of inner peace. Develop gratitude. You need your own appreciation to move ahead. Real positive thinking comes from listening to yourself.