Author: Jean

Week 19 – Fodder for a Sit

I recommended the class to a friend earlier this week. He responded he’d looked into the class but didn’t think it was right for him. No problem. I can accept that. It isn’t right for everybody. (Well, I think it is, but I can understand why someone else might not think so.) He went on to say he was interested in the results for me, adding he did think it was only making internal changes for me, because he hadn’t seen anything external yet, and he was looking forward to the external impact.

Hmm. Okay. Part of my DMP should be externally represented as it’s manifested, and, as written, I agree there should be external results at this point. Those are the areas I’m rethinking now, because that has not happened yet. The most important part is manifesting, and it’s mostly internal work, and it’s been, to put it indelicately, hard as hell for me.

I devoted my Sit to that subject on the day I read the comment (we don’t live near one another, and like most of my friends, our interaction is largely electronic). I believe my other DMP manifestations have been delayed because I’m placing so much energy on this most important aspect of my DMP. The other aspects are important, but this first one is critical to me. Since the Sit, I’ve given it additional consideration, and the fact that internal work has not been visible is a positive sign in and of itself, because, as you know, Law of Growth.

The Recognition for Creative Expression personal pivotal need (PPN), which would be most outwardly visible, will manifest, or maybe I’ll realize it isn’t as important as I once thought and re-evaluate for the correct PPN, rewriting my DMP to reflect that. For now, I’m sticking with this one. The physical aspect of my True Health has not manifested either, and I’m devoting time to finding better baby steps to help with that manifestation. Meanwhile, the top half of my DMP is manifesting, albeit slowly, I know it’s happening. And, yes, for 99.99% of the world, that’s an internal manifestation with outward implications for only one other person. Upon reflection, I’m good with that, so, thank you, my friend, for helping me achieve that clarity in my own mind.

Week 18 – Captain, May I?

Captain, May I take three baby steps?* As I was reading Keri’s stunning blog post this week about breaking glass ceilings with her new HULK persona (so in tune with this week’s class video, by the way), I was reminded of the childhood game, Captain, May I. In this game, one person is the captain. The other players stand across the yard and call out, in turn, to the captain, “Captain, May I take one giant step?” (or some certain combination of steps and numbers) The captain responds with “Yes, you may” or “No, you may not.” (Or something like that. It’s been nearly fifty years since I’ve played or even thought about playing, so the rules are bit fuzzy.) But if you’re not worrying about the competition of the game, baby steps, giant steps, and even scissor steps will all get you to the other side of the yard. Give yourself permission, and celebrate along the way.

Are you despairing on your journey, because you think you aren’t getting there fast enough? Maybe, like Arielle, you should remember it’s your last day on earth and stop to play with the Lincoln Logs (because that’s really fun!). Or take a few minutes to converse with a family member even if it isn’t earth-shatteringly important. It’s the little things that make a difference in people’s lives. Those baby steps. They turn out to be the most important steps of all.

  • Upon further reflection, I think this game was called “Mother, May I?” I suppose you can use any authority figure you want. The concept is similar. As one might expect, Wikipedia has an entry.

Week 18 – I Am

I plan to watch both recommended videos, but I was able to rent I AM, so I’m able to pull together some thoughts for this week. I have been fascinated by the quantum aspects of this course, and the quantum aspects discussed in this video also fascinate me. I found the discussion about aboriginal cultures valuing cooperation at the highest value and holding competition as a very low value enlightening. Especially that competition beyond certain boundaries is considered mental illness. Decades ago, I lost most interest in intense competition. I always thought that meant something was wrong with me. The revelation that that intense competition might be considered mental illness amuses me. I believe too much of any one thing is considered mental illness, with a balanced approach being considered the healthier approach to most things in life.

The message our culture sends that to be happy we must buy stuff is flawed. The truth is, we need a certain amount of stuff to survive, and that makes us happy. The lie is that more stuff equals more happy. But how many of us engage in “retail therapy?”  George Carlin’s “A Place for my Stuff” piece is always a great way to call attention to this tendency to relate to our “stuff.”

I liked the discussion about democracy in nature and how that’s coded into our DNA. But the part that really got me thinking was Marc Ian Barasch and Rollin McCraty say, in essence, “The heart is the boss of us.” Love, care, gratitude are healthy and renew our physiology. Our heart sends a stressful or emotional pattern, it literally inhibits our brain. The heart’s electromagnetic field is huge and can be felt outside the body. It can be measured and have a physiological effect. The discussions in this area are stunning. They hypothesize that the heart is the access point to the spirit. Thoughts and emotions affect more than we think. The discussion about the effect of emotions on random number generators in cities around the world and the effect of 9-11 on those numbers was astounding, lending support to the theory that what we do on an individual level does affect the world. Dean Radin admits it sounds way too close to the New Age concepts that so many people poo-poo, yet it has a basis in quantum physics.

Thom Hartmann’s analogy about disassembling a car and reassembling it, and disassembling our dog and reassembling it (not a good idea, by the way) proving there is something fundamentally different between machines and life. Note: Your doctor generally gets you are not a machine. Your insurance company? You’re a machine to them.

I am adjusting to the idea of connectedness. I think I can accept that. I’m not certain their approach is the most correct one for that; however, the discussion is valuable. Changing of perceptions. True. That can make all the difference.

Tom Shady’s questions he sought to answer in this documentary, and the answers he came up with (spoiler):

What is wrong with the world? I am.

What is right with the world? I am.

Week 17HJ – Dominating Thoughts

Second. I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality.

When I read this at the beginning of the course, I mentally gasped in horror. No wonder I was always snapping at my husband. Over the years, my thoughts had become focused on his more annoying traits and not his more endearing ones. I was witnessing the outward manifestation of those inward thoughts far too often. And so was he.

At the beginning of the course, he thought it sounded like brainwashing. I couldn’t disagree, except that the techniques were being used for good — in my case, to improve our relationship (among other things). I’ve resenting having to “brainwash” myself to love my husband; however, the Blueprint Builder drove home in agonizing clarity that I’d slowly done that to myself through the years by focusing on the traits that annoyed me instead of those that endeared me. The principles taught in this course have enabled me to reverse that awful trend.

He hasn’t said if he’s noticed any improvement in me or not. At Week 6, in an unsolicited conversation, he said he hadn’t. He’s been pretty neutral about the course requirements since then, which may be as close as I get to an acknowledgement that I’m improving. I know I have a ways to go, but I’m employing the Laws of the Mind as appropriate when those negative thoughts intrude.

I have so much more I’m working on in this course, but this is my top priority. Other things are fitting in as I am able.

Why did I gasp in horror? My husband was very ill at the time. We later learned he had bilateral pneumonia, and we suspect he had it from October until he was diagnosed and treated in early January. He is improving, but my mind spent a lot of time dwelling on what my old blueprint may have been manifesting, and that wasn’t a pleasant thought.

Week 17HJ – Crypto Change Time?

I expect 99.9% of you to be baffled by crypto change time. I know you associate HJ with The Hero’s Journey. For me, it means a different kind of Hero’s Journey. Early in my military career, I was a secure communications technician. This was back in the days when we had to perform manual crypto key changes. Well, I didn’t. I was the technician not the operator. But the widely-used acronym for the process of changing the cryptographic key was HJ. As in, “It’s HJ time” I think I heard what the term meant, but I don’t remember it, and with modern digital cryptographic gear and over-the-air keying, the need to manually change a card or a paper tape or punch blocks is ancient history. If you want to learn more about that kind of stuff, go to the National Cryptologic Museum site or visit the museum if you’re in the Baltimore-Washington area of the US.

But does it tie in with this course or the Hero’s Journey? I think so. We’re changing our key material as a result of this course. We came to the course with most of us looking without for the keys to life, and we’re finding this new-fangled technology that reveals the key is within. We had it all the time. We’re learning to do over-the-air rekeying and system resets. We all have our individual codes, but the common key is the Universal Mind.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be tapping into our newfound abilities. We’re learning to execute without an operator, and we’ll be testing our circuits. Have we completed them? Do we know how? You bet we do. Will we do so imperfectly? Of course. Practice and improvement is a lifelong process, but we won’t be stumbling as much as we were when we started the course.

Week 17 – Vibrations

Haanel’s mention of vibrations reminded me of an interesting juxtaposition within my life. I saw a chart posted about various frequencies of life.  See how well this chart fits in with this course?

vibrations
My husband is recovering from a three month bout with pneumonia (once we realized what it was and got treatment, he’s feeling much better). I’ve had pneumonia, so I understand what that frequency feels like. Had my husband not had another (still ongoing) health issue we’d attributed the pneumonia symptoms to, he would have been treated much earlier. He’s still at the 57-58 MHz level symptom-wise. I have symptoms that could put me at that level as well. But look at what can raise our body frequency to above normal? Positive thoughts and meditation. Isn’t that magnificent!

I can’t help but think of this chart everytime I read 17-2. “The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence. To those who perceive the nature and transcendence of mental force, all physical power sinks to insignificance.”

It certainly gives new meaning to increasing your frequency.

Week 17 – Intuition

Haanel talks about intuition this week. What a powerful subject. I have a fictional character who uses intuition to seemingly work magic. This week, Haanel reveals all. In 17-23, we learn

Intuition arrives as conclusions without the aid of experience or memory. Intuition often solves problems that are beyond the grasp of reasoning power. Intuition often comes with a suddenness that is startling; it reveals the truth for which we are searching, so directly that it seems to come from a higher power. Intuition can be cultivated and developed; in order to do this it must be recognized and appreciated; if the intuitive visitor is given a royal welcome when he comes, he will come again; the more cordial the welcome the more frequent his visits will become; but if he is ignored or neglected he will make his visits few and far apart.

Goosebumps. I love this stuff.

Use the silence to coax intuition out. The subconscious is omnipotent. It knows no limits when given permission to act. Your degree of success is determined by the nature of your desire. If the nature of your desire is within Natural Law or the Universal Mind, it will gradually emancipate the mind and give you invincible courage. With each obstacle conquered, your faith grows. Then we get to paragraph 27.

By keeping the thought in mind, it will gradually take tangible form. A definite purpose sets causes in motion which go out in the invisible world and find the material necessary to serve your purpose.

Always concentrate on the ideal as an already existing fact. Some basic tips to ensure you get what you want:

  • If you wish to eliminate fear, concentrate on courage.
  • If you wish to eliminate lack, concentrate on abundance.
  • If you wish to eliminate disease, concentrate on health.

That’s it. Focus on the positive image opposite of what you don’t want to allow you to develop your intuition in those areas.

 

Week 17 – Twitter Tip

Here’s a Twitter Tip. I know everyone tells you to spend some time engaging on Twitter, but consider what you engagement looks like in the timeline of someone who follows you. Trust me, thirty-give or more individual @ somebody Thanks for following/retweeting/engaging emails in a row from the same person is a near guarantee I’m going to unfollow you. That’s not engagement, it’s follower abuse. This may sound unkind, but it’s not engagement. It’s filling a square for in a rote and repetitious manner.

I have a friend who schedules a repeating round of tweets advertising something she’s selling. No engagement, but the same tweets over and over and over. The only reason I still follow her is because she’s a friend. Were she anyone else, I’d have unfollowed years ago. Og says, “I place my uniqueness on display in the market place. I proclaim it, yea, I sell it. I begin now to accent my differences; hide my similarities. So too I apply this principle to the good I sell. Salesman and goods, different from all others, and proud of the difference.”

Spread your thank you’s out throughout the day or do them in a PM (possible to annoy there, too, so be careful). If you’re retweeting with a personalized comment relevant to the tweet your retweeting? Go for it. Be your unique you.

Week 17 – Gal In the Glass Puzzle

The Gal in the Glass troubles me. I know the essence — in the end, it comes down to can you look yourself in the eye and know you did the right things. No short cuts. No deceiving the world, but more importantly, no deceiving yourself. Sure. It’s easy to be swayed by the people supposedly closest to you — parents, spouses, significant others, but how do you feel about yourself? Are you satisfied. Did you do what was right for you?

I know I need to use the Law of Dual Thought on this one, but I haven’t found the best way to do it. I have not been able to read this poem without coming to the end and thinking “Joe Paterno.” I am not pleased by this thought. I read “You may be like Jack Horner and ‘chisel’ a plum, And think you’re a wonderful gal.” and wind up wondering why it’s accusing me of wrongdoing.

I can look the gal in the glass straight in the eye. I have no problem doing this. I have no problem saying, “I love you, Jean Schara.” Yeah, it sort of feels weird, but I can say it, and I can look myself in the eye when I do it. Yes, there are areas of continuous improvement where I believe I’m not up to snuff  (make healthy choices 24-7, anyone?), but are those the reasons why these thoughts come across my mind as I read this poem, or it is something else?

What is wrong with me that this poem annoys me? Why have I not been able to find a mechanism to come to whatever terms are necessary for it not to annoy me?  I find it more and more annoying to have to read it every night. Is it just me? As I mentioned in a comment on another post, I know I’m unique, but I’m not that unique.

Everything about this course has worked very well. After my initial resistance, when I had it, I got into the flow. I liked the idea of this poem when it was introduced, but it has become a burden, and I’m not understanding why. Does anyone have any insight to share?

Week 16 – Attentiveness

Attentiveness has been on my mind lately. Attention. When I’m not paying attention, I get caught by surprise, and I tend to respond poorly. Most of the disagreements my husband and I have are a result of inattention. Either he’s thinking of something else when I say something, and I get upset because something perfectly obvious to me catches him off guard and he doesn’t have a clue where I’m coming from or vice versa. This has always bugged me, and over the last day or so I’ve figured it out. Well, at least the cause. I’m not sure I have the solution yet, but we’ve been made aware of it in the class weeks ago with the Laws of Giving card.

I promise to be a grateful receiver of the gifts that surround me, noticing nature, kindnesses, smiles and compliments, which I gladly receive with a “thank you.”

Yes, we’re supposed to have been noticing. I’ve been attentive to all those things for months now. Am I the only one who has been waiting for that knowledge to apply itself? I don’t think so, because I saw a post in the Kindnesses area tonight that said something similar. And I haven’t been entirely passive in this. I have been paying closer attention to nature.

My husband was serving dinner tonight when 7 pm rolled around.  TNT’s broadcast of the Spurs – Cavaliers game was coming on, but I was thinking about something else (The Spurs is about the only thing I watch on television), and he said, “245.” Startled, I asked, “What does that mean?” He seemed angry, and he said something to the effect of, “Forget about it, then.” I had to sit there and think for several minutes trying to figure out what 245 meant that I should know. Finally, it dawned on me that must be the channel number for TNT on DirecTV.

I wasn’t thinking about what he was thinking about, but he thought I would be, because he detests sports and only tunes to the games for my benefit. Naturally, when I wasn’t on the same wavelength, he was upset. And, of course, he was doing me a kindness, and I didn’t recognize it. (I’m not a mind reader, but I do try.) I also get upset when he isn’t reading my mind either, but it’s not so much mind reading, it’s paying attention to what the other person is doing before we speak and expect them to know where we’re coming from in our conversation.

I’d love to be able to have a spontaneous and harmonious conversation with my husband, but, like the Sit, the Blueprint, and so many other things we’re working on, spontaneity takes practice to carry off harmoniously. I’m going to have to train myself to pause before speaking and make sure the elements of communication are in place before I do so. After some practice with this, perhaps it will become second nature.