Experiencing one tiny sliver of the Infinite at a time
I’ve been thinking a lot about thinking recently. 🙂
I think that when I think a thought I’m basically choosing one frequency — the frequency of that thought. While I am focused on that thought, that is the frequency that is active within me. Sure, I’ll get other thoughts, but they’ll be vibrationally related to the active thought.
Continue reading “Thought Frequencies and Trains of Thought”
It has become more and more clear to me that I have been holding myself an arm’s length away from life. I was so worried and fearful of having a bad experience that I often maneuvered myself into having no experience, whether it was by shrinking into a corner or avoiding social situations all together.
I used knowledge and facts as my safety blanket. I gathered info about “the right way” to act and react in different situations from books and movies the same way I would try to fill my head with the right answers for a history test. The more reading I did, the more movies I watched, the more facts I was ableto rattle off in conversation, the more secure I felt.
Continue reading “Keeping Life At Bay”
I just wanted to share a small excerpt from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. A wonderful little book, if you haven’t read it.
The books is set up as a series of questions and answers from the towns people to the prophet before he leaves their city. This excerpt is from page 24 of the book.
I’ve come to realize that fear of need or lack is one of my biggest areas of resistance — like a lot of people, I’m sure. This passage really resonated with me.
Then said a rich man, Speak to us of Giving.
And he answered:
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them to-morrow?
And to-morrow, what shall to-morrow bring to the over-prudent dog burying bones in the trackless sand as he follows the pilgrims to the holy city?
And what is fear of need but need itself?
Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?
There are those who give little of the much which they have—and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.
And there are those who have little and give it all.
These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty.
🙂
I’ve been a busy little bee recently. I decided to start practicing Reiki professionally. I’m really happy with my choice, and getting happier by the minute.
Aside from the obvious positive of being of service to others, I’ve found that this new path on my journey is actually helping me enormously as it brings me face to face with a number of my own limiting beliefs, providing me with the opportunity to release them.
It’s also provided me with some new ideas and insights into how reality works, which I’ll share here soon.
I can’t believe that it has only been two weeks. 🙂
I’ve been thinking about the colour black recently. We associate it with darkness, the lack of light, but I have a feeling that they aren’t the same thing at all. In our reality, with the senses that are available to us, they certainly look the same. I’m not arguing that. But I had the idea that maybe we are only seeing a limited aspect of those two things —aspects that happen to look the same to us from our perspective.
As an analogy consider if we had a cube and a square pyramid and that the base of the pyramid had the same dimensions as the sides of the cubes — 10 cm by 10 cm, for example. In our reality with our three dimensions of space, if you showed someone these two forms, it would be easy to tell them apart. But if you painted one side of the cube and the base of the pyramid and then pressed those wet sides on a piece of paper, they would both leave the shape of a square, and both squares would be 10 cm by 10 cm. If you then asked the same person to identify which one of those squares was made by the cube and which one was made by the pyramid, they wouldn’t be able to tell you. They would only see two squares that were the same size. The information that makes a cube and a pyramid two obviously different forms can’t be expressed by the 2-dimensional surface of the paper. They would seem to be identical.
So, maybe this is the case with the colour black and darkness. To us they look the same, but maybe from a higher dimension, or different perspective, they are as different as a cube and a pyramid.
“It’s about joyous expansion.”
~~Abraham Hicks
Many wise people have likened life to a journey. We move along our trails from birth to death, picking up experiences and, hopefully, growing along the way. Recently I’ve been thinking about this and starting to understand it a bit more. For me, it’s even more helpful to think of each of our lives not as a single journey but as a collection of journeys.
One of things I’ve decided to change is the way I interact with people throughout the day. I’ve decided to stop simply reacting to the way other people are behaving and make a choice as to how I want to behave and interact with others. I see situations fairly often in public of people reacting to the other person. If someone smiles and is friendly, people smile back. If the cashier is a bit rude, people are often a bit short, if not downright rude, back.
I have to admit, when I first had this idea, the thought of continuing to be warm and kind to someone who was being less than kind to me sort of irked me. Shouldn’t I stand up for myself? But then I asked myself, is being rude back to a rude person standing up for myself or is it retaliating?
It’s a new year. Many people see this time as a fresh beginning. A time to start putting everything in our lives right. This year we will stick to our resolutions!
I thought about resolutions today and wondered at the reason behind this tradition. How and why did it get started? If someone decides in May that they want to get out of debt or decides in October that they want to spend more time with their children, most people, I think, go ahead and start at that time. I can’t imagine that there are too many people who delay on something they truly want to do because of the calendar.
So why the New Year resolution? Is it because the new year feels like a clean slate? A chance for us to leave the mistakes of the previous year behind? Do our cultural beliefs about the new year bringing new beginnings change our state of mind and, as a result, our energy state? Does this belief allow us to temporarily let go of some of our baggage? Do we feel the surge of positivity from this new, higher vibrational energy level, which then fills us with hopefulness, self-belief, and encouragement?
It struck me today that life is like an infinite number of TV channels and our beliefs and thoughts are the controller. These channels, instead of being something we just watch, are an immersive experience. This is TV that you live, breath, and feel.
And the wonderful thing is that just because you were born on one channel or spent all of last year on another doesn’t mean you can’t switch to a different channel right now. Nothing keeps you bound to a particular life experience anymore than you are bound to one channel on your TV.
Looking at my old belief system, I’m often amazed at just how many assumptions I made. The were so many things that I just considered to be facts, but they were based on absolutely nothing. The biggest idea that I assumed was a given was that thoughts have no impact outside of our heads.
It’s an interesting assumption. In nature we see weather patterns, the food chain, systems moving towards equilibrium. We know that a serious imbalance in the insect population could eventually trickle up and affect even the largest carnivores. We know that the moon, despite the great distance, affects our oceans. We look around and see connections everywhere. Size and distance are not limiting factors.
And really, what else but thoughts do we believe exist in such total isolation from their environment? Is there anything else that we think has no effect on anything around it?