Be Abundant…Set a New Mental Equivalent
Posted on October 26, 2008 - Filed Under women\'s eye care | Leave a Comment
Limiting beliefs, just like positive, empowering thoughts, provide a foundation for our experiences and what we demonstrate. Old beliefs can leave us behind - and are often stale, lingering ideas left-over from our childhood experiences or from other areas of life that no longer carry any useful meaning. Abandoning negative assumptions about lack opens room to develop an abundant mindset. We can do that by setting a new mental equivalent that resets the dial on our trust channel - the channel we listen to that tells us to trust that we already have everything. A belief system must change in order to create a new reality.
Emmet Fox, a 1940’s New Thought minister and author, stressed the importance of setting a mental equivalent to create an abundant life, borrowing the term from chemistry and physics. For example, engineers must work out the equivalent of heat in order to determine how much energy it represents in the form of another energy. They can determine how much fuel it takes to drive an engine and how much processing energy it takes to produce the fuel. A mental equivalent is a wonderful metaphor for how we are perfectly capable of instituting positive change in our lives and world. Like engineers, we can create the equivalent of every experience or object in the physical world by changing the thought to which it corresponds.
Scientifically, we’ve accepted that one kind of energy translates into another to produce that same effect. Everything on earth is energy anyway. All matter, when it’s broken down into sub-atomic particles, is energy. This article is energy, the dog is energy, you are energy. The same is true for the energy of thought. To attract goodness, you must set a mental equivalent of goodness by accepting you are worthy of receiving good, visualizing it, and feeling the goodness coming to you. If you want prosperity, wealth, happiness, that is where you must spend time mentally, not once a week, but all the time.
Emmet taught that whatever you want in life - a satisfying job, healthy body, friends, or opportunities, you must first set a mental equivalent to attract it. If you have something you want to get rid of - ill health, strife or poverty - then first get rid of the mental equivalent by striking the belief that those ideas and experiences must be part of your world and the world at large. Shed your old mental equivalent skin. Then you will begin to make change, not just for yourself but for others around you.
Feel what you want with tremendous emotion, be grateful, rejoice in the abundance of everything. Notice joy and prosperity everywhere, be thankful to be part of an incredible, spiritual universal equation of such magnificent complexity that you are humbled by its awe. Think gigantic. Set the bar as high as you want - there is no reason to feel limited because your true nature makes that impossible anyway. Don’t be fearful of living, of failure, of the future - you already know how unproductive fear can be, as our collective consciousness has translated fear over the millennium into a belief in lack, poverty, and illness.
Emmet’s concept of mastery included two key principles he called clarity and interest. An abundant life is derived from the ability to mentally straddle the line between clarity, or knowing exactly what you want and believing you are already in receipt of it, and interest, or the emotional feelings you have about what you want. People generally have a problem with clarity. There’s an old saying, “If you don’t know where you’re going any road will get you there.” In other words, by not knowing exactly what you want, or how you define your success and dreams, you can take any path and wander indefinitely. You’ll receive exactly what you’ve asked for, and that is a nebulous vision of success and dreams. First homework assignment in Manifestation 101: ask for what you want. Visualize it clearly and revisit the idea often.
An error people frequently make is articulating what they want in great detail, but they lack the passion or belief in the idea. If you want to use part two of Emmet’s abundance formula, then you must be sincerely interested in what you want, and emotional about seeing yourself within the idea. You must absolutely love what you want, love your vision passionately, feel it deeply, embrace it, live and breathe it. That is how something becomes part of you. It’s how you claim it as your own.
Your experiences, as well as what physical objects you manifest, are effects of your thinking because they are all tempered by your belief system. Greed, selfishness, war, lack, bad economic conditions, or struggle can be manifested because they flow through a belief system, or your outer layers. We are always told not to judge by appearances. Why? Because the appearance has no value in itself. Nothing is what it seems on the outside, meaning, the effect has those attributes that you give it and nothing else. When we look behind an appearance, we look through it to the truth that lies behind it. As soon as the spiritual truth is evident to us, the appearance changes. This is the mental world that Fox spoke of, not the material world.
Abundance is a deeply spiritual lesson because it is about knowing that the presence within you constitutes your supply, which is your true source of power. Attune to your true self and channel the energies you need to create the life you desire. You can do it!
Charlene M. Proctor, Ph.D., author of Let Your Goddess Grow! 7 Spiritual Lessons on Female Power and Positive Thinking and The Women’s Book of Empowerment: 323 Affirmations that Change Everyday Problems into Moments of Potential (2005) provides guidance through everyday complexity with female imagery and positive thinking. Focusing on the Divine Self, and setting a mental equivalent to institute positive change on earth, has always provided the infrastructure to Charlene’s work as a researcher and simulation architect. She is deeply committed to helping others along their soul journey. Please visit http://www.thegoddessnetwork.net and register for her many self-help and inspirational programs, which include The Divine Woman, a free monthly newsletter!
Tags: positive thinking, self empowerment, spirituality, womens issuesHaving Affirmative Power Self Worth
Posted on September 13, 2008 - Filed Under women\'s eye care | Leave a Comment
I believe using affirmations as contemplative reminders of who we are helps keep us balanced. It is a first step in claiming your self-worth which is the foundation of true self value.
Your true self is not defined by any external circumstances - it is the power within you to create the life you choose. It is the part of you that is one with the Divine. It’s non-negotiable and the one, great equalizer between all men and women. We’re all made from the same soul substance, equally valued and divine. It makes sense to think of our entire universal operating system as the All.
Identifying with imagery of our source makes us feel more connected within a world filled with disappointments, distractions, and strife and many who choose to negate their true self. We need to see ourselves reflected in images of the Divine we can relate to - it reminds us of who we are. Remember, you came here to learn, evolve your soul, and grow your ability to demonstrate your nature through a physical experience.
We are in charge of manifesting a world which is a product of our collective thought processes. If we don’t value ourselves, we’re going to demonstrate a devalued world. We will create a world that is less than worthy of what we can be, our creations won’t serve the greater good. Lacking self-worth is faulty thinking and is reflected in our relationships, workplaces, and even communities. Consequently, we do not realize our power, and feel powerless and continue to live within experiences that diminish our power because that is where we decided to mentally reside.
Life is a soul journey filled with both intellect (what is in our minds) and our emotion (our expression and physical presence). Our job is to use the power that is in our minds and our bodies as a vehicle of expression for what we think! It is the very reason we are here. So, be sure to value yourself and joyously appreciate this lifetime. It is a wonderful opportunity to express your nature, here and now. You are evolving your soul, and the intellect of the Divine, through your human experience - the joys as well as pains. It’s our greatest challenge, our soul work, our very reason for signing on for this ride. So, how can knowing the Goddess help?
Among Her many facets, She symbolizes our experience in the physical world as a cyclical, sacred, and transformative journey. It’s a way we complete our self-development. When we integrate both aspects of our existence, we are not just valuing our transcendent aspect. We are deeply valuing our immanent aspect, our time spent on earth to demonstrate the Divine through what we do. She is represented as Emotion, or Mother God, as Her counterpart is the Intellect, or Father God.
The true self has both elements, yin and yang, or the masculine and feminine. You are also a composite of the physical, and the mental as a total experience of who you are. You are matter and you matter. You are worthy when you believe you have self-worth. And, you have an opportunity to harness your already wonderful capabilities, which is the God/Goddess force within you. It is searching to demonstrate itself through you.
We all have our own individual channel the Divine operates onit just a matter of how we choose to think. So, to affirm this image of co-creation of the life force we all share:
I am conscious of who I am, I am my true self. I am both Mother and Father. I am loved and beloved, and I am in love with my true self. My self-worth is a reflection of my true power, which reaches everywhere at once. I am a marvelous spark of the Divine and celebrate my remarkable learning journey. I am timeless, living without boundary, and full of my beautiful, unique, and divine self.
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Charlene M. Proctor, Ph.D., author of Let Your Goddess Grow! 7 Spiritual Lessons on Female Power and Positive Thinking and The Women’s Book of Empowerment: 323 Affirmations that Change Everyday Problems into Moments of Potential (2005) provides guidance through everyday complexity with female imagery and positive thinking. Focusing on the Divine Self, and setting a mental equivalent to institute positive change on earth, has always provided the infrastructure to Charlene’s work as a researcher and simulation architect. She is deeply committed to helping others along their soul journey. Please visit http://www.thegoddessnetwork.net and register for her many self-help and inspirational programs, which include The Divine Woman, a free monthly newsletter! |
The Women At The Cross (Reflections On The Death And Resurrection Of Jesus)
Posted on July 31, 2008 - Filed Under women\'s eye care | Leave a Comment
The women at the cross. Have you ever thought about them?
Why not drift into a comfortable - and meditative - position
on a coach or in a chair and read verses 40 and 41 in Mark,
chapter 15?
When I read those words, one of my first thoughts was
“Gutsy!” I would not have wanted to watch.
Some folks that day watched because they were cruel and
insensitive people.
Not these women. They were there because they cared.
They did not know the answer to his cry, “My God, my God,
why have you forsaken me?”
* They were “just there.” There…
Watching.
Caring.
Grieving.
And probably wondering “Why?” along with Jesus.
Another thought I had as I reflected on this passage was
this: it is good to spend time “being there” with these
women.
It is an ugly scene. Brutality. Hatred. Sounds of
suffering.
Death.
Yet, in the midst of the horror, hatred and cruelty there is
a great deal of beauty.
It is the beauty of God’s love. God’s love for me.
And the love of these women for Jesus.
Yes, it is hard - but good - to spend time there and “watch”
with this caring group of women.
It is good to stop and reflect.
I WONDER WHAT THEY WOULD SAY TO ME?
While meditating on the entire scene, I wrote down the
following question:
“I wonder what they would say to me now as I sit in my
office and reflect on this?
What would Mary Magdalene say? And Mary, the mother of
Jesus - what would she tell me?”
The following is what I wrote down in answer to the question
I posed. I imagined that these women - the women at the
scene of the cross - would say something like this to me:
“Lee…
You can’t imagine the agony. You just can’t imagine. We
could hardly look.
Unbelievable. It was too awful for words. We felt so
helpless and hopeless.
But, we are on ‘this side’ of the cross now.
Like you.
And we say to you: ‘Spend some time here, Lee.’ Don’t
breeze past these few short lines in your Bible.
He suffered for a purpose. Never let your heart stray too
far from that one great truth.
You see, we heard him.
We heard him cry “Why?” We also heard him ask the Father to
forgive those in front of him.
Take strength in his love.
Take strength in the Father’s love.
To be sure, you should allow the pain of those moments to
bring pain to your heart.
But be quick to pray to him and ask him to guide you through
the process of seeing him there.
Then, ask him to give you a deep, abiding sense of his being
with you here…
In your world.
In your heart.
On this side of the cross.
And pray for your world, Lee. Don’t forget that. Let our
Savior’s agony be your motivation to pray for people.
People like us.
We needed him - more than we realized at the moment.
More than a person we loved. More than the one we called
“the Messiah.”
We needed him as our Savior.
Just like the world does.
The people of the world need him, Lee.
Where you were raised.
The city where you received your education.
Where you were in Viet Nam.
They *all* need him.
Think about that - and embrace him. Embrace him with all
your heart.
Believe us. You will never regret that.
You see, Lee, we’re with him now. We see him in a much
different light. We cannot even begin to describe him to
you as we see him now.
But you will know - someday.
You will know.
So hold on. Come here often to take a look.
But also look beyond the agony of the cross, his death, and
his burial. Be sure you see something else we saw: the
empty tomb.
We’ll look forward to ’seeing’ you there with us.
Standing in awe.
Worshipping.
And growing to love him more there before the empty
grave.
May our wonderful, living Savior bless your day, brother.
Saved by his love,
The women at the cross.”
YOUR TURN…
May I encourage you to read Mark 15 and 16 — stopping long
enough at the cross to think about what happened on that sad
day? But, please don’t stay there. Move on from the cross
to the resurrection.
And your reflections are…? Maybe a few key words?
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Yours for a day filled with hope in Jesus,
Lee
(John 15:16)
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