One of my most popular YouTube video's I posted this video was a ton of fun to make. I really enjoy talking about how the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy that psychology recongnizes is the same as the Law of Attraction. For spiritual people interested in the topic this is a bit of revelation. That a concept they see as a bit Woowoo is documented is huge. This really shows that we create our our perception of reality by such as as the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
In this video I explain how beliefs create what we perceive. If we belive in ghosts, as a friend of mine said, we will see ghosts. What we set in our mind is very powerful. All of the information that we perceive of the world around us gets filtered through our beliefs.
This is the big boy. I've been working up to this subject with everything I've done so far. This is one of my Foundational Ideas finally made into video. Now that I have some established references I can go back to I can go forward with the more complex subjects. This one is by far one of the most important concepts I ever grasped coming from a combination of my Spiritual Seeking and the culmination of my education in Psychology. Plus it depicts my original artwork, "Trapped In My World."
What Does The Future Hold? I will be covering more Foundational Concepts and more of the fun/weird topics like numerical sequences and a buch of other topics I've covered in this blog. Aiming for short videos is a bit of a challenge because it limits how much I can present at once but I think the small bite size bits of information and being able to watch the video's in the order in which people wish is really good. A lot of people might not want to see the videos in the order I made them. More then likely mike next video is going to be on Discernment, followed by explaining how the economy is an intangible construct we have made and how that can empower us, and that will probably be followed by a video of Redefining Abundance. The inspiration is just not stopping and the sheer amount of topics I want to discuss and share is staggering.
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I had to break down my belief system, after my last blog, and make it as simple as possible. My husband wanted to understand where I was coming from and how I could defend it. Is it possible to have a belief system that doesn't involve God? Can I leave out the bigger metaphysical pieces of the puzzle that have made a more complete picture for me?
Well, yes. There is a very simple approach from life that lies at the core of my value and belief system. That core principal rests on the idea of personal responsibility. In fact, it makes me more responsible for my own reality then The Creator. While the Creator and the idea of reincarnation, life after death, ghosts, karma, and chakras definitely play a key role in all of this and have their place in it at the heart of all good spiritual practices is a basic system. I believe this system was created by a more intelligent force in creation. Whether it came directly from the Creator, or was a product of Shamanic Dream Quests, or it came from some other interaction...it does not matter. That system is very simple and even when you remove The Creator and all of the rest from it can you use it to approach life. Life is Subjective I have explained this one many times. This is scientifically proven as well and promoted by psychology! Life is subjective...it is basically neutral data that you encounter...then based on your belief system you create how you respond to the stimulus. Life is 100% what you make of it. No one forces you to watch the news and become mad. You choose to do that...and someone with a slightly different perspective might find the entire thing absolutely hilarious. (I often have a surreal feeling watching the news after years of not watching it because...it seems really fake from the people who are reporters to the biased way they tell stories all of it almost seems like satire...especially on a slow news day). Two people can experience the same exact situation and have two totally different responses. I went to Knotts Scary Farm on Thursday. The Tricksters came up to me and sniffed really deeply. I asked if I smelt good...because I knew it was an illusion. I knew it was fake. I knew they couldn't touch me and even if they did...well, I'd probably walk away. So, I'm friendly. One time I even offered one a piece of churro when he asked in a creepy voice. His unadulterated shock made my night (he then went around chasing people asking them if he wanted his churro which could be interpreted in interesting ways). Yet, there are people who freak out. They scream, they run, and the Tricksters encouraged by this behavior and the attention run after them...squeaking or sparking their way through the fog. Someone dressed up as a clown can look menacing...and so we have a clown epidemic in our country (wake up to the illusion). People who think about sex all of the time see sexual symbols all over the place. Something that might not look like a penis suddenly does. Yet, I'm getting ahead of myself so let's go on to the next topic. This is basic psychology. When at the end of my capstone psychology class I read that there were too many varieties of people who reacted too many ways to safely categorize or predict behavior in a definitive manner...I went, "Ah ha!" and I was really disappointed because I'd been hoping psychology would give me a glimpse of the motivations behind people's actions. Yet, the answer is that there are just too many ways to react...and the only way to really predict that is based on a person's internal beliefs. The mind is always at your command...if you think it...it will happen eventually. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy This one is proven by science. Guaranteed to make the hardiest skeptic gag on their bloated anti-god rhetoric. In this, basically, a person latches onto a belief or idea. Then their subconscious makes it happen. This explains how affirmations and even positive thinking can work. The brain is trained to expect positive things so your subconscious is going to work for you ensuring that you are extra aware and expecting the parking space near the front of the store. Is it destiny or is it the power of the brain that really own you feeds you a small percentage of the data that it's taken in through the various forms of stimulus? In the end does it matter? With simple Affirmations, a Goal Board, daily positive meditation and working on being a positive person (fake it until you make it...if someone asks how you are say fantastic even if you're not...and somehow just with that reinforcement...even if you know it's a lie it will soon be true because everyone you encounter will be happier to see you!)...you too can train your mind to work for you! Fear Based or Love Based Similar to the Force we have the choice to approach love from Fear or Love. Fear based approaches cause us to hate people and resent them. Usually because we make certain assumptions that lead to a Self-Fulfilling prophecy. Someone will hate us if we act a certain way...so we do and then we're in hot water and hating them. Fear just leads down a dark path....the opposite of the positive path. People who are working on fear try to turn the world into the image they want. Through manipulation of the environment and other people they create their own world. They work against the natural order of things. Naturally, this causes a lot of other problems in their life and like a spider web they weave the trap for themselves. I could go in to why there is no reason to fear. There is good fear, it does let you know when things are not right in your life. Fear will even give you a little guidance as to what needs to be jettisoned or adjusted. If you're afraid of meeting people...usually you have to ask yourself why. Then you realize that you have a belief that was constructed by fear...just knowing that can free you or start to free you depending on how badly you think you need that belief to survive. The love based person trusts themselves above all else. That means not depending on the universe to provide for them but to simply allow for things to happen naturally. When meeting resistance there is an understanding that door is not meant to be opened (unlike a fear based person who will keep working at it until it does open and something bad happens). Being open minded they will give anything consideration for a time but trusting in their ability to know when their boundaries are crossed they will defend themselves as needed. That simple trust is love in a way because there is no love when trust is gone. There is no need when there is love for completion or turning to anything else for answers. This isn't spiritual in any way. We are experts on ourselves, we read endless personality information (Myers Briggs for example) to try to get a perception of ourselves. For some it is elusive...some people take on a defined role and image...and for others it is completely flexible because they can be one person one minute and a totally different one the next. Accepting The Natural Order This, again, has been scientifically proven. In our universe there is order even in chaos. There are patterns...almost as though life is a transmission of some sort from some unknown source. This has lead a lot of scientists to propose we live in a holographic universe (which is not so proven). Yet, the Natural Order is not hard to identify and track. The Earth has a natural rhythm and has dealt with global catastrophes only to adjust and then allow life to thrive again. Some Scientists say we are in the fifth or sixth mass level extinction event...yet Joe and Jane off to their job hardly notice the difference from day to day. The very idea that Humanity thinks it can control nature is such a folly it's laughable and depicted in such movies as Jurassic Park as general knowledge. We can have a slight impact but on a universal level there is a natural order, there are physical processes in place that occur in response to variables and life finds a way. The only problem is that Humanity likes to work against that natural order- massive farms, massive raising of life stock...that can have negative effects. Working against the natural order always causes negative effects. Whether it's the loss of human life because a building was created somewhere that is vulnerable to different issues (frequent flooding or land slides)...it is a failure to really understand the natural order of the universe that causes them. There is a delicate balance that needs to be maintained. Conclusion There really isn't a need to identify the Creator as having a major role in your life. There isn't even a need to make everything complicated. Personal responsibility is the firm foundation of every approach to life. We are not mere bits of straw on the ocean of life being tossed about helplessly in a storm...unless we mentally choose to be based on our beliefs about reality and life in general. That being said, the idea of a Creator does help. That we are part of the Creator, as well as the Created, that we are made in that spiritual image and that is why we can Create and reformat the world based on our will. That there is a divine will or Order to the universe. That the reason we came here is to experience the ability to create and tame the will that makes us desire to work against the Creation by formatting it into our own image. Yet, my very simple set of beliefs don't require it...it just requires a commitment to wholesome healthy psychological living and responsibility which are principals that anyone can put into place within their own life. |
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