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Blocks to joy

May 29th, 2011 · Joy

Here we mention a few killjoys. You’ll probably recognize them right away. We just don’t want to let them hide. When brought to the light of day, or the light of joy, their influence quickly begins to fade.

Attitude

Nothing brings down the party like a bad attitude. You know the kind. This attitude won’t rest until everyone in the room buys into it. It may be loud and angry, or subdued and depressed. Like a virus it infects everyone it touches. It wears at even the most joyful, challenging them again and again, looking for a weakness. It revels in spreading and multiplying itself.

Joy is an attitude too. It works the same way but to a different end. By now you know how to see joy, so you’ll recognize the opposite attitude right away. Label it. Call it what it is. Put up your deflector shield and load your joy rays. Then accept that bad attitude as it is and get to work choosing joy.

“Oh, it looks like you’re angry.” “You seem kinda sad today.” You may as well say “Drop your attitude,” because bad attitudes act surprised when they are called out. They’re disarmed.

If calling them by name doesn’t disarm them, try this one: “So, how come you decided to be angry this morning?” This causes a separation between the attitude virus and the host, who now has to step outside his attitude to answer the question. Accept the answer and fire another round of joy rays.

We just can’t afford to allow the bad attitude virus to succeed. It’s too big a threat to joy when that joy is in a fragile state.

By the way, these tactics work quite well on yourself if you’re the one with the bad attitude.

Stories

In the absence of information, people make stuff up. And we always exist in a state of the absence of information. Thus, practically everything we think and say is a story. Obviously our thoughts and words are not the thing or situation they describe. By using the word “story,” I mean to clarify that our thoughts and words do not describe the thing or situation completely or accurately. All we can tell is our version of the truth, colored by our beliefs and perceptions. Gandhi said that if we are to have the slightest hope of finding the truth about a situation, we must gather and understand at least seven versions of it. When was the last time you assembled seven stories to try to get to the bottom of a situation?

It’s bad enough that we’re always and only telling stories about what happened. It gets crazy when take action based on those stories. And we do it all the time.

Judgments are based on stories. Judgments always get us into trouble. Be aware of the distinction between judgment and observation: observation seeks only to describe what’s so; judgment puts a spin on it. Observation excludes language with values attached to it; judgment is soaking in value-laden words.

So, if we’re always in our stories, what do we do about that? On what do we base our actions?

First, call a spade a spade. When you call your thoughts a story, when you label your co-workers’ words a story, you’ll begin seeing them as only part of the truth. You’ll wonder “What is the rest of the story?” You’ll look again before you leap. That will give you a moment to choose joy. Joy, after all, is real. Find the joy. Base your action on that. Choose again.

Beliefs

Beliefs can kill. Here’s an interesting story: in some primitive societies where the word of the spiritual leader is deeply help to be absolute law, when your spiritual leader says you’re going to die, you die. No discernable physical cause of death. Just an absolute knowing that you must die, and that’s enough to end your life.

If I believe my boss will fire me if I don’t cheat our customers, and I believe I need this job to survive, I will cheat those customers. My beliefs don’t have to be true. I take action based on my beliefs.

You may find your joy getting you into trouble whenever such-and-such a situation occurs. You may notice your joy-o-meter dropping whenever so-and-so enters the room. You may believe Mondays are always bad days. You may believe that you’ll lose your power if you smile too much or are too nice.

Whenever you find yourself consistently running aground, check your beliefs. Use The Five Whys to help get to the bottom of hidden beliefs. Ask “Why do I think this keeps happening in this situation?” When you answer, ask again: “Why do I think that keeps happening?” Each time you get an answer, probe deeper by asking “What do I believe about that?” “What belief is leading to that?” Asking these questions five times gets you into interesting territory.

They say it’s difficult to change your beliefs. Many of our beliefs were formed when we were very young and we’ve been piling stories up for years to verify and strengthen them.

Again, bring your beliefs to the light of day. Maybe you can’t change them, but when you know what they are, you can begin cutting down on their effect on your joy. You can experiment with work-arounds in situations where you know your beliefs are blocking your desire to choose joy. In the short term, desire can trump beliefs. That’s my belief!

Interruptions

Sometimes it feels as though my whole life is an interruption. One after another until there’s no time between them. Nothing left of my intentions.

Of course some interruptions can by joyful. “Can Roger come out and play?” Mostly though, I’d rather choose what I’m doing and an interruption takes away my choice.

Or does it? I’ve been writing all along that nothing takes away my choice. I may have to deal with the interruption when it appears without warning. My next move is my choice.

I choose a next move that preserves my joy. I accept the fact that the interruption happened, rather than letting it divert me from joy. And then I choose joy again.

Ignore the interruption, deal with it quickly and efficiently, or ride it to joy.

In the meantime, I’m noticing the kinds of interruptions which tend to most negatively impact my joy. And I’m designing them out of my life.

Control

When someone is controlling you, they’re taking away your choice. Fortunately, control is a myth.

In a famous self-dialog, the ancient Greek sophist Epictetus asked himself what he could control. He started with the very large, the heavens, and worked his way smaller from there. He realized he couldn’t control the stars, the weather, or things in nature. He decided he couldn’t control other people or his own health. The only thing in the universe he could possibly control, with a lot of work, was his mind.

By the way, your mind is where choice lives.

Sometimes neither option in the choice looks very joyful. They both carry consequences we’d rather avoid. What then?

Look again. Look for the joy. Look for the third option. Keep looking. Postpone the lousy choice until you can frame a better one.

Never give up your choice. Never buy into the myth of control. Never.

Victims

Because if you give up your choice, you’ve chosen to be a victim. That’s when you feel that the world is doing unto you. It may seem like a sweet place because you’re not responsible for anything going down. After all, you didn’t get us into this mess – someone else did. That would be the person to blame. The one in control. The boss. The one who did have a choice.

Blaming sometimes seems joyful, but what you’re feeling when you point that finger is not joy. It’s righteous indignation. A very powerful emotion. One we love to feel. That’s because it’s really thinly disguised anger. Anger with justification.

Your heart speeds up, your fist clenches, you want to shout at that SOB who made that stupid decision you’re paying for. May bolts of lightning rain down on him!

Doesn’t sound very joyful to me.

Knock it off. Acting like someone took your power isn’t very attractive. We all know control is a myth. You own your life, and it looks an awful lot like the decisions you’ve made.

It’s not fun being a victim. There’s no joy in it. Choose again.

Scoreboard

If you insist on being a victim, a tool you must develop is your scoreboard. This is where you track every wonderful thing you’ve done for others, and a few not-so-wonderful things perhaps, and assign points to each. You also track every miserable thing others have done to you, and a few wonderful things they could have done but didn’t, and assign points to those. You keep a running tally of the scores for everyone in your life. Then you can use those scores whenever you want to prove the world is getting over on you. You’ve got the data to prove life is not fair. You can demonstrate clearly to anyone that they owe you one. Pretty handy.

It sounds silly, but we do this ALL THE TIME. Life is a game, right? Somebody has to keep score. May as well be me.

I don’t want to play this game. I never know what your rules are because you keep changing them and you hardly ever write them down. When I play, I always lose. You rarely come to me and say “I owe you one – I’m way behind in points.” You never pull out your scoreboard unless you want to prove I’m not good enough. And then it’s a trial and I’m the defendant. You keep dragging me out of the now and into the past, running a replay of the situation that always seems different than how I remember it.

Stop. There’s no joy here. Whenever scoreboard appears in the conversation, take immediate notice. Change the conversation. Focus on now. Aim for the joy. Choose again.

FEAR

There’s a lot of goofy behavior going on in this section, and it all leads away from joy. Whenever I see goofy behavior I don’t understand, I ask this question: “Where’s the fear?” There’s really only one thing in this world strong enough to bump us away from our natural state of joy, and that’s fear. That’s why FEAR earned capital letters in the title and caboose position in this section.

Your life is a moment-to-moment choice between joy and fear. That’s the bottom line. Both joy and fear wear a lot of costumes, but under all of life’s emotions, decisions, and games, there they are, just the two of them, staring at you, presenting their case to win your choice.

Whenever something feels strange or wrong, ask yourself “What am I afraid of?” “What story am I telling myself about this situation and where’s the fear in there?” Get a little leverage on your fear by stepping back for a moment, looking at that fear for a moment, and calling it by name. Know in that instant that you have a choice. And then choose again.

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Healing

May 29th, 2011 · Insight

We are one
Alone
Your pain
Is my pain
Is our pain
Known by each
As one
I heal you
To heal us
And to urge you
To heal yourself
Joining me
In healing us
Thus spoke Jesus
Our brother
One of us
If there is
Something out there
It cannot cause
Anything in here
But perhaps
Show the way
To what lies deep
Inside
And thus
Open the way
To healing
The endless cycle
Of seeing and doing
Of being and having
Begins and ends
In our mind
Guiding that cycle back
Back to the garden
Begins and ends
In our mind
And the healing
Moves forward
Only in our mind

- Roger Wyer, 01.16.08

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Dowsing perfection…

May 29th, 2011 · Tools and Techniques

… would be nice, but there are a few things that may get in the way.

If we think of dowsing as a connection to answers, it’s easier to understand what might tend to lower our batting average for truth.

Imagine the connection as a sort of pipeline to truth – little “t” or BIG “T.” On one end is you and your dowsing tool. On the other end is truth.

At your end, what goes amiss is what I call the filter. We’d like truth to pour cleanly though the pipeline to us, but we have a little thing on the end called “perception.” My dowsing tells me there are five filters-in-a-filter on our end:

• Beliefs
• Intent
• Memory
• Climate of mind
• Etheric energy blockages

We sometimes call beliefs “programming.” Beliefs not only color every incoming message, they often obliterate the truth altogether.

Our intent further shapes what we allow through the pipeline and what we reject as irrelevant to our needs and wants – our intent.

Messages that make it this far are subjected to memory as our brain tries to find similar patterns from the past to help explain what’s coming through, and to set up choices and actions around this data.

Our filter applies one of two angles to all messages: either we’re using our “love” filter or our “fear” filter. One way has us squarely centered in Spirit; the other in ego. It’s easy to see how looking from one set of eyes is pretty much opposite to looking from the other. We call this climate of mind – almost like mind weather.

Etheric energy blockages are physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual hairballs that bugger up incoming transmissions. “Static” might be a better descriptor.

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Dowsing

May 29th, 2011 · Tools and Techniques

How do you know the truth?

Who do you believe? Why?

When have you felt absolutely certain? What happened to make you feel that way?

When I was drawn into healing, first as the guy being healed, then as the student healer, and later as the practitioner and teacher, I learned to rely on dowsing. I’m a researcher and a reader, but unfortunately, it’s very seldom that I come across something that’s entirely true. I’m glad to have a way to sort through the information overload so I can focus on what’s important.
It turns out there are many ways to know the truth. Certainty is much more difficult. That’s the big-T Truth.

It’s one of those how-far-down-the-rabbit-hole-do-you-want-to-go issues.

How it Works

Everything is energy, including thoughts. Because there is no time, no space, every thing that ever happened, every thought that ever was thought, is here now. That means everything we need to know – can know – is available to us in the form of energy.

The question is, how do we tap into it?

Basically, we ask.

Imagine talking on your phone. You’re sending information. Information is being delivered to you. It’s in the form of energy. You don’t know how it works. You just know you’re talking with your friend.

Now, is it possible you could exchange information with your friend without using a phone? Probably, but hold that thought for now. At any rate, the phone is pretty helpful in making the information accessible. It turns a bunch of something-we-can’t-see into the voice of your friend. That’s the kind of help we need in accessing the information-in-energy we need.

We use a simple pendulum. We’ve also worked with a German dowsing tool and kinesiology. Through the ages, seekers have developed very interesting, very creative, and very effective methods for knowing the truth.
The idea of this section is to delve deeper into dowsing as a tool to support your healing experiments. That includes techniques, and more important, exploring the lost art of asking right questions.

The reason you’re here is because things aren’t working for you – important things. You need to know why and what to do about it. Connecting with the universal storehouse of knowledge definitely helps the research along!

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Commands

May 29th, 2011 · Tools and Techniques

What is the power of your intention?

You know your words have power – just how far does that power extend?

What is the power of your intention to heal? It only makes sense that we humans came equipped with a built-in ability to heal – just how far does that ability extend?

What is the power of your intention to cause disease? We humans get plenty out of being sick – from skipping school or work, to accessing powerful drugs, to receiving that most powerful drug – attention. Just how far does our power to cause our own disease extend?

If disease is a disruption of divine energy, then surely healing involves the applying of energy to correct the disruption.

Since words are energy, could we use words to apply the energy needed to correct disruptions?

In the beginning was the word. Words are symbols for everything we experience. Everything we experience is manifest through the spoken word.
History is filled with stories and messages about “speaking the word” in order to manifest desired change – from “prayer,” right up to today’s ever-present “affirmations.” Nothing new here.

But how would you use words for healing?

In this section, we’ll provide tools to help you claim your healing power and find the right words to address your situations.

How it Works

Let’s begin with a four-part generic format for a custom wellness command. The intention could be most anything – from clearing toxins to eliminating a bone spur.

• The first part of the command involves stating our intention. The idea is to be clear about our intention – that comes with learning about causes of symptoms and ways to use energy to address those causes.
• The second part of the command involves stating the authority from which we speak the word. We develop authority through practice and tightening our connection with Spirit.
• The third part of the command initiates the action. Ready, set, go – or something to that effect.
• The final part of the command expresses our gratitude. We say thank-you knowing our intention has been fulfilled. Expressing gratitude adds power and authority to our healing.

Commands may be simple or complex, short or long, eloquent or sloppy. The important points are:

• You’re the experimenter – you keep evolving and growing as your needs, abilities, and commitment change.
• You make them up in ways that makes sense and are pleasing to you.
• You learning by doing.
• Your power grows through practice.
• You charge your word with faith.

Commands aren’t the only way to move energy around, but they’re practical and serve as an important tool in growing into your healing gift.

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Healing a breach in your peace

May 29th, 2011 · Suffering, Tools and Techniques

“If you had diarrhea you would break with almost anything. Is your happiness as important as diarrhea? What are you willing to do to bring peace to your life? If you had diarrhea you would let the phone ring, you would give up your place in the eight-item check-out line, you would not answer the front door, you would miss the end of “General Hospital,” you would interrupt your breakfast and let your toast return to room temperature. But what are you prepared to do if you lose your peace?” Hugh Prather

In the moment, when you discover a breach in your peace, stop what you’re doing – you’ve just given yourself an opportunity for a forgiveness lesson. The breach can be felt in your body. It can be noticed in your thoughts. I affects your emotions. Often, all at once.

If the law of attraction is true, and many of you believe it is, then you’ve just attracted this breach in your peace. And you’ve done it for a reason. Now go ahead and heal it!

Try this:

• I forgive myself for making this situation.
• I forgive myself for all of my expectations around this situation.
• I forgive myself for the judgments I made based on my expectations.
• I forgive myself for the stories I made up around this.
• I forgive myself for actions I took based on the stories I made up.
• And I turn it over to Holy Spirit to be healed!

Then take a deep, relaxing breath and get back in the game!

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Healing knowledge

May 29th, 2011 · Insight

1. Every physical disease carries emotional and spiritual messages.
2. Belief precedes and filters all perception.
3. Ultimately, all disease is caused by the belief in disease; this is an error.
4. There is no disease; a disease is a name for a cluster of symptoms.
5. Challenging beliefs raises awareness.
6. Awareness with intention heals.
7. Loving our self is the most important part of healing.
8. Forgiveness heals our soul.
9. It is in healing others that we are healed.
10. Communication and creation are identical.
11. Both healer and patient are assisted by all heaven and earth, for they are inseparably connected to these conditions of life.
12. The healing power Jesus passed to the apostles is still alive in the world.
13. It is not necessary to understand the whys and wherefores.
14. Healing is an educational process; healing of the body is in reality healing of thought.
15. Patients can be relieved only at the level of their own understanding at the subconscious level.
16. Our single goal in healing is to realize the perfect health and harmony we are given by God.
17. The body cannot resist healing because it is not intelligent; only the mind can resist healing.

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Henry David Thoreau

May 29th, 2011 · Quotes

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put something behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him, or the old laws be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense; and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”

“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.”

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

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Emmet Fox

May 29th, 2011 · Quotes

“What is physical healing but an outer evidence that a step inspiritual development has been taken?”

“A human soul may be thought of as an opening through which Infinite Energy is seeking a creative outlet. If that outlet be a clear, open channel, all is well. If, on the other hand, it should become obstructed by any means, then the Infinite Energy, the Life Force, is frustrated, dammed back – and all sorts of local stresses are set up in that soul; and these we see as sickness, poverty, fear, anger, sin, and every kind of difficulty. Now we are in a position to understand what the real art of living must be. It must be to make this channel clear, and to keep it clear; and if only we will do this, shall find that health, prosperity, full self-expression – true happiness, in short – will then follow automatically.”

“If you can REALIZE the Presence of God where previously you were thinking of a damaged organ, the organ in question will heal.”

“We should never be willing to accept less than health, harmony, and happiness.”

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J.R. Newton

May 29th, 2011 · Quotes

“At least 19 persons out of 20 are injured by taking medicine.”

“A large portion of surgical operations are wicked and useless torture.”

“We do not ignore the old process of treating disease, for we are aware that there are many thousands who can be healed in no other way, whose electrical forces can never be approached, because of their non-susceptible natures. Thus they live in themselves, and feed upon their own powers; and if those electrical forces lose their vitality, and disease settles upon the human frame, it can be removed – if indeed it is removed at all – only through the old and practical mode of treatment.”

“In place of a caviling, skeptical spirit, let there be faith and hope, and unquestioning confidence – a bond of love and sympathy between healer and people – and in nearly every case the effect is marvelous. When all are ready to receive the gift, it comes with power.”

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