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Exert Less Effort!
You assume that you have to work to make your dreams come true, when in fact most of the work you run around doing is preventing your dreams from coming true.
The less effort expended, the better. To think in a more orderly, conscious, efficient manner you first have to eliminate habits of thinking that obstruct the universe’s ability to carry out your desires.
Imagine that your mind is a radio transmitter, bombarding the field with messages. If you sit quietly and observe your mind, you will see that it is full of mixed signals. The things we want to accomplish we also have doubts about; the person we want to turn into is also someone we aren’t quite sure about.
The mind is similarly full of pointless repetition. It has been estimated that 90 percent of the thoughts anyone thinks on any given day are the same as those of the day before. This is because we are all creatures of habit, worry, and obsession.
Finally, the mind is full of unconscious static, tracking back to the very depths of infant memory. You may not be paying attention only to your conscious, willed thoughts, but in the background your unconscious mind is churning with its unfulfilled hopes, its old fears and wishes – in short, all the things that didn’t seem to come true in the past.
Intentions are simply desires, and desires are linked to what you need. Therefore all this activity of the mind that isn’t being fulfilled consists of old needs that didn’t get fulfilled.
The first step towards change is recognition. Recognize that you have had at least a few hopes and wishes come true. When you have an intention and send it into the universal awareness, you are actually talking to yourself in another form. As the sender of the message, you are an individual living here in time and space.
But you are also the receiver of the message, in your guise as a higher self presiding over your space-time identity. And even more than this, you are the medium of the message, pure awareness itself.
Adapted from Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 1995).
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add your comment »I admit that I am not a Christian but my spirituality is intact and well. I recently went to a Bible Prayer session with a fundamentalist friend of mine and they all prayed for forgiveness of their sins and to be better Christians. It seemed all of them felt they were not for all their good works they never felt they were doing enough. I do pray in my way but not for redemption or forgiveness. I do my best every day to live a good life full of kindness, love and I try to do more good then harm to the world and all it's creatures. These are simple things and easily done when you seek no reward for what you do. Deepak Chopra has a gift for telling us what we should already know. Life is easy when you give up wanting for doing what is simple. But then I live a life with a loving family and with enough money to have always had a life where we always have had what we need even if it wasn't always want we may have wanted but we understood from childhood as I have tried to teach my children and grandchildren that having what you need is a true blessing and the getting of some of the things you want is a gift. Such a life is a wonder on to itself.
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Dixon it's obvious that the reason why no-one's guru would do that is because it serves no purpose in the grand scheme of things. If everyone in their soul wished for healing it would be so but there are many lessons to be learned from sickness suffering and death and the ability to transcend them on the mortal plane is just one of them. It is up to the high self, previously defined and discussed to will what it wants for it's sojourn here and so it does and cannot be contravened. It's the same about war which people choose and their high selves use for personal growth. No one can choose for all. If mass miracles are performed it's because the high-selves of all participants will it and choose it's value in the moment. When magic is wrought it leaves no trace. Only the one who invoked it knows; to all else it seems as if all is as has always been.
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I don't know why you read DC if you don't want to understand his message. Anyway, I tried. God bless you! I still hope you realize your inner potential but it's all perfect.
Love and many blessings!
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Sylvia --- Once again, I know that you mean well and I sincerely appreciate that. Please do not be offended but my guru says just the opposite of what you believe. IF and I emphasize the IF, we are here to discover how powerful we are then why doesn't one of us ever demonstrate by going to hospital and healing everyone there or putting an end to the war in Afganistan or whatever. They haven't done that because they do NOT have that power. To discover how powerful one is is so very self-cented and self serving - no thanks. My guru (God of the Bible) says we are here to fellowship with Him and learn to depend on His power and not mine. He loves us and wants us to learn how to love like He does.
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Dixon, please take a look at this video. It is about what DC and have been talking about.
http://tinyurl.com/brucelipton1 I don't know about EFT but the rest of what Bruce
lipton is talking about might be illuminating to you about your thoughts.
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Dixon, God doesn't have to discover anything. I am suggesting you get in touch with your magnificance-your true self or the God within so you can realize your full potential. You obviously are operating from only your logical limited small self instead of your infinite spirit. Our real reason for this human experience is to realize how truly powerful we are-which is our divinity and true power. This has nothing to do with human effort like hard work, etc. We can find our true self by quiet reflection, meditation and by serving others who are needy. My guru says if you want to know God, feed a hungry person and looks at their eyes.
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What a beautiful lesson to turn your worries over to spirit and find peace and fulfillment inside.
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Thanks Dixon: thats good to think about, being math challenged left me without some good stuff that comes along with it and science in education.
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Uma,
Strictly speaking "logic" is "the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference." Please notice the "correct or reliable inference" statement. Logic is much more than sequential.
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I think it's the people with the most money who have the worst 'poverty consciousness'. That's why they horde it and exploit others to get it and make up all sorts of excuses not to let it 'trickle down'. Money can't help anyone if it's not circulating. I mean, how many millions of dollors does someone need at any given time? Starving people think they won't have enough food. Rich people think they won't have enough money.
That's my 2 cents.
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