The Power of Belief

“Some men seem to attract success, power, wealth, attainment with very little conscious effort; others conquer with great difficulty; still others fail to altogether to reach their ambitions, desires and ideals. Why is this so?…The difference…must be in the mind, therefore, which overcomes environment and every other obstacle in the path of men. When the creative power of thought is fully understood, its effect will be seen to be marvelous…the laws governing in the mental and spiritual world are as fixed and infallible as in the material world…mind creates negative conditions just as readily as favorable conditions, and when we consciously or unconsciously visualize every kind of lack, limitation and discord, we create these conditions’ this is what many are unconsciously doing all the time…This law as well as every other law is no respecter of persons, but is in constant operation and is relentlessly bringing to each individual exactly what he has created;”

Mind over matter. The creative power of thought creates negative conditions as readily as it does positive conditions. Are you creating the environment around you and bringing into your life things you don’t desire or are you a victim of circumstance? What is the truth of this?

Can you create whatever the mind can conceive?

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Belief. Knowing with certainty. Certainty brings something into BEing. It materializes matter from the universal field of energy.

You can hope for something, yet it will not come into BEing. Hope is not certain; it is too ephemeral.

Matter is certain, it has form. It takes on form through knowing with certainty that it is there.

Belief is synonymous with conviction. Conviction is proof. Proof is substantive, tangible. Belief brings energy into matter.

Beliefs are important in health, relationships, perceptions, how we function physically.

Are Beliefs and Will-Power the same? No, they are not the same. A Belief just is until motion is given to it. Motion is given to it through the Will. Energy is constantly in motion. Certainty provides forward motion. Uncertainty provides the opposite, backward motion. A certain knowing that something WILL BE, moves it forward into BEING.

We as people are packed down with beliefs. Things that we were told as children, things that we learned as we grew up, things we came to think through processes or experiences.

Do your beliefs serve you? Beliefs can be cast away if they don’t serve you. They can be replaced by beliefs that do serve you. Beliefs can change over time. As we grow and develop, our beliefs can change to accommodate that growth and development.

Take some time to examine what you believe and why you believe it. Ask yourself questions that bring you to look at your beliefs in a different light. Be open to looking at things from a different perspective. It’s amazing how changing the angle the slightest little bit on something yields a totally different view. Change your perspective and the world changes with you.

You can create the life of your dreams.

Worldwide Peace Is Coming

You may have been hearing about a great universal shift that is coming.

Some are talking about it as a shift back towards the Divine Feminine, a balancing of universal energy away from the dominant male Yang back to the feminine Yin.

Along with that shift is a long anticipated prospect of worldwide peace.

But peace will not come the way some are envisioning.

There is a great social upheaval occurring globally as man crafts a global social economy. Peace does not come from men imposing will and design of peace upon the rest of mankind. Peace is a state of BEing that comes from within each and everyone of us. When each individual comes to realize Peace from within, then the world truly will be at peace.

This hearkens back to my earlier question of Development or Evolution?

Are we as humans developing into the fullness of spirit potential through the development of sound moral character and total outgoing unconditional love for others or are we evolving? Nature speaks the truth. It teaches development is the way offspring grow and mature to reach a similar identity as the adults from which they sprung. We are growing creative beings created by the Source of all that IS. We are to grow up into the fullness of Source. Just as human parents teach and guide their children to grow up to be responsible adults, our spiritual parent is waiting and watching, teaching and guiding each and every child to grow up to reach the fullness of our spirit potential to be responsible spiritual beings.

If every person in the world would simply make a personal commitment to love unconditionally everything and everyone that exists, peace would suddenly exist.

There are a number of prominent individuals promoting Peace Projects. Two such individuals are Deepak Chopra through his Alliance for a New Humanityand Masaru Emoto through his Emoto Peace Project.

So let me ask the question, “Are YOU at PEACE?” Is Peace a State of BEing that you reside in perpetually? Are you at peace when events occur in your daily life that could trigger upset and emotional discontent? What is your perspective and mindset about events as they occur? Have you developed a state of Conscious Awareness? Do you practice Letting Go?

When you can see events as they occur in your day-to-day life as an observer and not become attached to any emotions or outcome from those events, you are existing in a state of Conscious Awareness.

By not attaching to outcomes, whatever outcome occurs is okay. There is an acceptance that everything that IS has a reason for BEing. There is no emotional negativity attached to the event. Not attaching emotion helps to clear your emotional body; you begin paving the way to BEing in a state of continual Peace.

Peace is a mindset. The mind affects the body’s responses to stress. The body’s response releases chemicals that affect the mind and body. So, here too, we have the mind-body-spirit all working in cohesion.

What emotions elicit a peaceful mindset and state of BEing? Gratitude, joy, love, contentment, happiness are some of these high vibrational emotions that lead to peace. Can you list any others?

By keeping these emotions in the forefront of your thoughts, you create the cellular vibration that matches up with universal vibration. These emotions drive your WILL. As you exist in this higher vibrational state, your body will begin to crave to BE in this higher state continually. You create a state of peace.

Peace will come to the world. It will not come by the craftiness of man, by social engineering or the expunging of anti-peaceful or nonconforming individuals. Peace will finally come when each and every one – every person – embraces unconditional love and chooses to be at peace from within.

 

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Evolution vs. Development, You Decide…

I would like to pose a question. Are we evolving into spirit beings or are we growing spiritual beings?

In the metaphysical world, I see a lot of references about evolving into spirit beings or evolving into full potential. Let’s stop and think about this for a minute. The natural world around us is the example created for us to look to. There is growth, aging, sleep, and re-growth all around us.

“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead;”
Rom 1:20

“Verily, in the creation of the heavens and of the earth, and the succession of night and day: and in the ships that speed through the sea with what is useful to man: and in the waters which God sends down from the sky, giving life thereby to the earth after it had, been lifeless, and causing all manner of living creatures to multiply thereon: and in the change of the winds, and the clouds that run their appointed courses between sky and earth: [in all this] there are messages indeed for people who use their reason.”
The Qur’an (Koran), The Cow 2:164

Let’s use a tree as an example. Were you aware that trees have energy meridians and pressure points just like people? Did you know that trees have a central nervous system of sorts and a circulatory system too? Trees shudder in violent weather. When it is going to rain, they turn their leaves bottom side up. The sap and water running throughout the tree is the circulatory system. Trees and plants take raw energy – light – and convert it into usable energy – for people. They convert light to sugar through the process of photosynthesis.

Trees start out as little seeds – just like people. They grow into a sprout, then a shoot, then a sapling, before they reach young maturity. Then as they grow, they become fully mature and then there are the great elders of trees – the ones that have been around many hundreds of years.

In the winter, in colder climates, trees enter a dormant period which can be likened to death in people. It is a sleep period and then the tree is re-awakened. The fact that trees go through this process every year and not at the end of their life cycle (like people) is the only aberration from people in this comparison.

When an oak tree sprouts forth and begins to grow, it doesn’t decide it’s going to evolve into a pine tree and then a birch tree and then an elder tree, etc. It grows into an oak tree. It knows what it is and what it is to become.

People start out as seeds; they are born and become an infant, then a toddler, a child, a teen, a young adult, a middle-aged adult, an elder, sleep and then spirit.

Did you notice there are eight phases of development?

In Indian Numerology, the number 7 is masculine and 8 feminine. (In Biblical Numerology, the number 7 comes from the Hebrew root meaning “complete” or “full” and has been interpreted to mean “spiritual perfection.”) The number 8 also has the masculine qualities of direction and execution. It is Karmic and Mystic. The even number 8 carries out the plan of the odd number 7 (numbers are paired in Indian Numerology); they are complimentary – two halves of a whole. Even numbers are sociable, responsible and emotional.

Do you remember what the 8th developmental phase is? It is Spirit.

Even numbers depend on others for their growth, i.e. all of creation being one, one vast cosmic organism. Even numbers are not initiators (as an odd number would be, yang being the masculine equivalent to odd – yang initiates), even numbers are humanitarian – seeking the welfare of all humanity and also creation. Even numbers are spiritually inclined – Spirit seeking Spirit.

Numbers are a Universal Language. This is why computer programs are written in binary code; it is a universal numerical language.

In Chinese Numerology, the number 8 is equated to sudden good fortune and prosperity. The number 888 is triple good fortune.

The energy of numbers is also significant. The energy of the number 8 holds within it abundance, authority, leadership, cosmic awareness, self-motivation, prosperity and infinity.

I could make an interesting observation here that the year we are in – 2008 – appears to be a year of great spiritual awakening on the planet. It is also in the cusp of changing astrologic eras; we are moving from Pisces into Aquarius. Baby boomers will remember a popular song that was released in 1969 by The 5th Dimension; it was the title song to their fourth album, The Age of Aquarius. (click the link to hear a clip from the song) It is also interesting to note that the spirit dimension is often referred to as the fifth dimension – how aptly appropriate that a musical group called The 5th Dimension created this song.

In Biblical Numerology, the number 10 denotes ordinal perfection. A method called digit summing would add 2+0+0+8 = 10.

In numerology of the Tarot, the number 8 is a number of power, manifestation and accomplishment. Indeed, you will manifest into your full growth, that of spirit when you reach the eighth stage of development.

Again, I would ask you, are you evolving or growing?

You were created by the Creator of ALL things. However you choose to view or name that Source from which you were created, you were still created in that image. That from which you were created is greater than you. The ego (remember that monkey mind?) would have you think that there is nothing greater than you.

“so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.”
Rom 1:20-21

Bear in mind, if everything is part of creation, you are part of a greater whole – you are like a cell in a greater cosmology of the universe.

Are you evolving into something else? Evolution implies change by adaptation which is sometimes seen in the natural world, but is not the norm.

“Real creativity is an organized process and creative thinking is a skill, to be learned, cultivated, practiced, and applied; not some freak of genetics beyond the reach of most.”
Mike Vance, former Dean of Disney University

I would challenge you to think about how freely and easily “evolve” is used and examine your own beliefs and where they stand. What do you think? Start from a brand new fresh perspective, no past history or influence, and examine every thought. Why do you think as you do? Have you proven it to be so or have you just accepted it because someone said so? I would admonish you to, “Prove all things; hold fast to that which is good.” (1 Thess 5:21)

We were born to be creators – we are from the Creator. Just as you resemble your physical father, so too you resemble your Spirit Father. It’s time to grow into the fullness of your potential. Are you ready?

Lyrics to The Age of Aquarius by The 5th Dimension

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
The Age of Aquarius
Aquarius! Aquarius!

Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind’s true liberation
Aquarius! Aquarius!

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
The Age of Aquarius
Aquarius! Aquarius!

Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in…….