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”
“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?
She thinks outside the box.
High praise. Someone who thinks outside the box is seen as being a maverick, an independent thinker. They are someone who can connect seemingly unconnected dots. Leonardo DaVinci, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs. They create and can conceive of things that draw praise and awe from the rest of us who are, supposedly, stuck in the box.
I have a slightly different take on this. I don’t think you can think outside the box. I don’t believe that you have the ability to think beyond the current limits of your comprehension. But I do think that you can get a bigger box.
I recently had to go and renew my provincial health card. I got there late in the morning, and there was a line with about 10 people in it. I was happy. Why? Because it meant I could do some of my fun little mental exercises.
Meditating for 15 minutes or so every day is wonderful, and it has had a great impact on my life. But you don’t have to wait until you have a chunk of time to practice quieting your mind, achieving a positive vibration, being in the now, or any other positive mental exercise you’d like to do.
Limiting beliefs are actually pretty interesting to me. A lot of the ones I’ve unearthed within myself have been so illogical and silly that I’m actually startled when I come across them. Bashar (check out the Resources page for links) says that limiting beliefs make so little sense that often just uncovering them and bringing them into conscious awareness is enough to release them.
I’ve found that to be true with quite a few of them, but some of them — maybe the really crafty ones — present themselves as more than beliefs. They project a solidity that makes them seem like inalterable facts of reality.
One of the things that has surprised me since I started paying more attention to my internal world is that I can feel thoughts. Of course, I knew that thoughts go hand in hand with emotions. Thoughts have a corresponding emotional feel, even if it’s indifference or neutrality.
No, what surprised me is that below the accompanying emotion, or even when there is no discernible positive or negative emotional reaction, I can now feel thoughts as if they were actually in my body. And they have different feels to them. I don’t feel every single thought I have in this way, but quite a few. I suppose it depends on how much momentum I have around that thought.
There isn’t anything that you can’t be or do or have.
~~Abraham Hicks
In our society here in Canada, and many others, there is such a emphasis on the external. What your job is, how you talk, where you live, what degree you have. I think that one of the main reasons we focus so much on things like this is that these are the things that others can easily see, judge, evaluate, and compare.