Thanks for letting me know. I'll do what I can to help you with that...

There's a point which people mostly don't get, although Quantum Physicists are recently starting to find out: It's an always on, always interconnected universe.

Gregg Braden told of experiements they did with tissue, flying it hundreds and thousands of miles away from it's owner - and finding that it would react to any influence as if it were still physically connected.

It really stems from the point made clear by our planet's most ancient surviving philosophy as represented by Huna in the Polynesian islands, "There are no limits." Just to take this to its fullest phrasing - (the mind as NLP tells us, sees no "no") - we are all connected to everyone and everything around us.

And you should play with this idea to develop your skills in this. Because when you are thinking of someone, they can feel it - and are probably thinking of you. Same for pets, plants, and so on.

Sure, it's a weird idea. We've been carefully trained to ignore those influences all our Western lives. And this is what gives us politics, the CIA, Weapons of Mass Destruction, North Korea, etc. You name any ill we have in our societies and you can trace it back to closed minds.

The idea of scarcity goes this way. While the Universe operates in abundance, humans manage to set themselves up to starve right in the middle of it. Buckminster Fuller proved that we have had the capacity to feed, clothe, and house every single person on this planet since at least World War II, if not before. And that is actually the mechanical definition of it.

On a spiritual plane, this datum both explains and explores fascinating new realms. Here is all they psychic stuff of intuition, remote sensing. And actually then brings a practical hard-wired explanation to the Golden Rule and even Druidic concepts that what you give out comes back to you several times more.

Criminals (and politicians) are often on the dirty end of this stick. Because they think they can act (and think and feel) with impunity. But any downfall of the "rich and famous" can be traced back to how they treated people.

Here's the actual point - it's an always-on Universe. Your dreams, your random thoughts, your hopes and fears - these are all thoughts which you are sharing with those around you.

2nd point - you can control your thoughts by self-discipline. (And perhaps you've noticed the calm that seems to exude from some people when they enter a room...)

And so we have the power of prayer. How to pray, the most effective way I've found, is to simply get into the feeling you want to have in your life or toward someone else or on their behalf. If you want healing, you get the feeling of how a perfectly healed body. If you want rain, get the idea of happy children playing in that rain, of people's relief, even of the plant's reduced stress.

Words, of course, help you get into that feeling and maintain it. So we have the chants of Amerindians and ancient tribal societies, the mantra's of Eastern religions, the Latin prayers in the Catholic rituals.

Oldest has been simply entering "the Silence", as found in our New Thought books and our oldest traditions. Arm wrestling champions in Japan, some of them in their 80's and 90's were beating challengers a quarter their age and their secret: think of nothing.

A last point before I go this morning: This universe we live in actually stores all thought. Like a massive battery. Anyone potentially has access to any information they need to improve their life. And they can get this simply by being still, relaxed in body and mind, and get the idea that they have the solution to whatever problem is in front of them. Then inspiration will come in a flash.

So put good thoughts out, OK? Live a happy life.

Because what you think affects everyone and everything around you. There are no limits.

Pass it on.

;)

The universe is a team activity

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Yes, the Universe is a Team Activity -
but you knew this all along...

That old Benjamin Franklin phrase comes to mind, "We must all hang together or surely, we shall all hang separately."

And it's not just the "greenies" or "enviro's" that have a point here. I'm speaking far more pragmatically here.

There's a Universal connection in/with/around all of us. If you want to refer to it as God, that would be fine. This is one concept of the Western Christian view. However, Buddhists and Hindu and even older religions and philosophies essentialy hold the same view, just by different names.

And those who hold this thought and follow it (where do you think genius and inspiration come from?) have the world rise up to them and give them everything they want. True. Read the biographies of the outrageously successful - or books by people who have studied them (like Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich or Law of Success). You'll find that there are just a handful of people who didn't have to study and learn esoteric concepts in order to succeed in anything they wanted. But they did follow a few basic principles regardless.

Dale Carnegie tapped into these same principles when he studied the average, ordinary person who came into his public speaking courses (Ripley's noted that he had critiqued over 150,000 speeches, which I think is also in the Guiness record book.) And his books became bestsellers when he wrote about the basic concepts he tapped into.

That Hill and Carnegie continue to be successes are due more to the caliber of their thinking than the quality of their writing or the foundations which took over their works after they passed.

They both did extensive studies of humankind in the raw. And found that there were simple underlying basics to any person's success.

Teamwork is one of these. We have it in all of us. And all the corporate magnates Hill studied, or the small business entrepreneurs who came to study with Carnegie - they all knew this to be a fact. When people cooperate, they get more done than the same amount of people can do individually.

This is due to an inherent common connection we all share - the Universe.

And while I can go further into tools and approaches and ways to improve your abilities in this area, I'll leave you with this simple beginning approach:

1. Pray or meditate or simply sit in relaxed silence at least once daily. (3 times is better.)
2. Just listen when you're in that mode - to your heartbeat, your breathing, the wind. Just listen. Banish all thoughts simply by letting these go - simply relax and let the world fall away. Listen.
3. Come out of that (after 15 minutes or an hour or however long you can keep it up) and revisit your own purpose - what is it that brings a smile to your face, quickens your step, really sponsors your action on a daily basis. Your purpose is what you would love to do if you didn't have to "work" for a living.
4. Get the concept of your own ideal scene and really visualize it - get the feelings of having that all around you. These will be calm, cheerful, expectant feelings - because you'll know that this is possible.
   
5. Release this to the Universe.
   
6. Right about then, or shortly after, you'll get an idea about what you can do to bring this into existence - a small step or a series of them. Write these down somewhere so you can keep track of what you need to do.
   
7. And then incorporate those inspired steps into your life somehow. Start acting on them.

When you do these steps daily (like I said 3 times a day is best for our Western world) - you'll start making the improvements in your life that align your own purpose with the Universe around you. You'll be "doing your own thing" and the Universe will be helping you accomplish it. Because we are all in this together and the more we work together, the more we can get done.

Yes, this means real world peace is just around the corner - and an end to any serious food, housing, clothing and security problems currently in this world.

All we each have to do is outlines above (and it will only take about 3 percent of this planet actively doing those 7 steps listed to make major changes).

So: Good Hunting!

New message - we're all in this together, far more than we ever thought...

I've covered a great deal of ground since I started these blogs. And I'm sure-positive that there is a far greater set of ground to cover in front of me...

And I don't know that single blog post will convey all that I've just experienced.

You'd have to check out Go Thunk Yourself, S'More! to get a great deal of what I'm about to say, since that is the jumping-off point for much of this.

Per Serge King, we dream all the time. And one of the best uses for dreams is to help you figure out how to accomplish your vision. Now "The Secret" tells you to leave the "Hows" up to the universe, just concentrate on the endpoint, what you want.

However, when this is vague, you can ask for guidance.

I usually do it when I drift off to sleep. Review my visions, review my day's progress, ask for help or decided what to concentrate on during that night's sojourn. You see, while the body rests, I know that the mind keeps going. And the delta-wave-state is where most of your really great mental work is done - but most of the time, we can't recall what we did there (maybe because it's beyond having to have thoughts at all...)

So I ask before I sleep, then recall the dream when I wake - analyze this through the 4 methods (subjective, objective, symbolic, holistic).

This am, it was a resolution of the greatest job in the world - the one perfect for me.

What that is isn't germane at this point - but I just wanted to let you know that there is a simple way to access the wealth of data that surrounds you and enfolds you.

The secret is told over and over in all these books I talk about and publish: Spend some time daily just relaxed and quiet, seeking peace.

What method you use - prayer, meditation, affirmations, "seeking your level" - doesn't matter. Use the one most effective for you. The important part is that you make this part of your daily routine - several times each day if you can.

Cheers.