Perceptual Shift

The laughing Buddha popped into my awareness this morning.  

Maybe it is time for you to be a little less serious.  Put your life in the Buddha’s perspective and laugh about it.  Why be so serious.  Life is a short term stint.

Place in your awareness that there is a laughing, dancing, Buddha in the center of your heart.  Notice that when you place your awareness on the laughing Buddha that this his joy radiates out to all of the cells and energy fields of your being. 

Practice the laughing Buddha heart in meditation.  Then see if you can bring the awareness and feeling of being the laughing dancing Buddha in your daily life.

When you choose what is choosing you, you are choosing to make your decisions based on love.  Every decision we make comes from fear or love…  Eric Pearl.

When you look at your life and the interests that repeatedly grab your attention you know that life is telling you your purpose and your choosing.

Most all of us are stuck playing roles that contradict with our choosing, our life’s purpose.

We are not progressing in our lives because we are making our decisions based on fear.  Fear is stopping our evolutionary flow.  “I have to do this to support my family”.  “I have to work here or I will have no money.”  “I have to keep this job or I will have no retirement.”  ”If I don’t behave this way no one will like me.”……  Your life becomes blocked by fear rather than opened by love.  Major and minor decision in your life come from fear.

The way out of this quagmire of fear  is to make the conscious decision to choose what is choosing you.  Choose to make your choices based on love rather than fear.  Choose to follow your heart fearlessly.

• Document your purpose, ie …. (It could be to bring light, joy, understanding, healing or love into the world.)
• Act fearlessly on purpose, adhering to the standards of light and love irregardless of  ”opinions or baggage”.

It is time to throw away the masks you have used to hide your true self.  Stop running away from the role of your own life.  Choose to love what is choosing you.  Fearlessly accept being yourself.  …  When you unconditionally choose what is choosing you, you step into the flow of life.  Things start to happen that were blocked by fear.

“The thing you fear most has no power.  Your fear of it is what has the power.  Facing the truth really will set you free.”  Oprah Winfrey

I encourage all who can help the survivors in Japan to lend their assistance in whatever way they can. 

Petra Nemcova, who lost her fiance to the Tsunami in Thailand said…..   you can feel that all the human race is one body, that when the little finger hurts on one part of the body the whole body hurts.

The human body is hurting now and it is our responsibility to take care of it.  Extend your heart.

I have covered this concept before, but it is worth reviewing again.  Even while gaining wisdom it is possible to get stuck in angry abusive situations.

The perception is to not to return anger to those who hurt you, but to move to compassion.  When you can pause for a moment with the eagle’s view and perceive the baggage others are carrying you can understand why they act to provoke you.  You can understand the pain that they live in.  You can understand why they hurt you and others, even without reason.

Once you have walked that proverbial mile in their shoes, feel what happens inside.  Allow the warmth and openness of compassion to spread through your heart and soul.  Now you are whole…….  By Penelpe Andrea from March Life Connection magazine.

Walk a mile in their shoes in compassion and understanding and if necessary defend yourself and walk away with a happy heart.

addendum: Find something about the other that you can admire, even if it is very hard to find, and hold the focus of your attention there.  Then your feeling about the interaction will shift.

You can use a similar technique to magnify joy in your life that we used to remove anger in the previous post.  You  use your perceptual creativity.

• Recognize and make a list of the things that give you joy.
• Take the time to really feel what each joyful situation and thing feels like.
• Breathe that feeling into your heart center.
• Breathe that feeling out to all of the cells of your body and get familiar with that feeling.
• Make it your intent to magnify this feeling of joy.

This post concerns techniques to recognize and remove the anger that you carry about as part of your “baggage”.  I woke up in this morning with this idea about how to remove anger baggage.

• First make a list of the situations that have made you angry.  Observe how thinking about each of these situations makes you feel. (I was surprised how big my list was.)  You may want to start a journal.
• Second use your creative intent to remove the anger from your field.  You can create your own technique.  The technique that came to my mind this morning is that ….. I put each “anger’ into a brown paper bag in my imagination.  Then I fill the bag with helium and send it away up into the universe like a party balloon floating away with my emotional baggage.
• Third, is to observe again how you feel about the situations that made you angry before.  For me… the anger seems to have dissipated and I find it more difficult to recall the situations.
•  Try to use your creativity and intent to remove anger from your personal energy field.  The intent and the creativity seem to be the key.

After you do this exercise to dissolve your anger responses you will realize that you can do something similar to remove fears, magnify joy, increase love, even increase creativity.

For no reason accept the dimming of your expression of the real beauty of yourself.

The old adage is “Clean up your own backyard before you start on the one next door.”

The perception of this modern parable is that if you want to have a positive impact on the world you should dig through your own personal garden and remove the weeds before you move on to help the neighbors with theirs.

In the next few posts I will be focusing on my self improvement.  You can interpret this for your own use.  I will be posting on removing negative energies and magnifying positive energies from my own personal energy field.

I read of an interesting concept, that the subconscious mind is a filter like a sieve.  It filters through the almost infinite information flowing through the field of information that is everywhere and only allows into your conscious mind what it feels is appropriate.

The inner judge is part of this filtering apparatus.  The filter lets in what the judge’s package expects and intends.

As we can open up the inner judge by placing our attention on him, we can open up the filtering apparatus by placing our attention there.  Energy follows attention.