A reason for a Sabbath and Grace

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Taking a Day of Grace when it comes - or when you can schedule it...

The older religions all have a great deal of respect for the human spirit, as well as others. So much so, that they say to take a regular day off just to salute and recognize that spiritual base. 

Powering a body for 6 days was followed by a 7th of rest and reflection, meditation.

Too often in our lives, that 7th day was just another one where other things could be done. To often, our busy lifestyles have us only taking some time to mow the lawn or do house repairs, rather than actually resting and seeing the world for what it is - instead of our constant efforts to remake it into what we want it to be.

In our modern version of Snow White, there were 7 dwarfs. Little is known of their lives other than they worked in the mine to make their living - and had lives changed forever by the entrance of that singular girl. Logically, it would make sense that there was someone else operating that mine, and a larger community of miners at work.

This would also suggest that they had scheduled down time to rest and recuperate. 

In symbology, that story can have all sorts of meanings. I would suggest that these miners actually represented the 7 principles of Huna. (You could plug any set of 7's in here - but as Huna is the most basic explanation of living and life, this is my favorite.

Consider that these miners are then named appropriately: 

1. IKE - our ideas cre­ate our re­al­ity.
2. KALA - there are no lim­its.
3. MAKIA - en­ergy flows where at­ten­tion goes.
4. MAN­AWA - now is the mo­ment of power.
5. ALOHA - to love is to be happy with.
6. MANA - all power comes from within.
7. PONO - ef­fec­tive­ness is the mea­sure of truth.

(from "The Secret Science Behind Miracles" by Max Freedom Long)

Any one of these would be aligned to a day of reflection, but I would suggest that it be IKE - as our creation comes from the focused vision we hold to. (And if you have a calendar, I'd suggest you rename the days of the week as above, so that you can then reflect for a bit on each of these as you go through the day, month, and year. Lots of understandings to achieve...)

Compare:

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.

(from Traditions, Legends, Superstitions, and Sketches of Devonshire - Vol 2)

Of course, this would make a very different scene in that small house which the girl happens upon. Might have even changed the outcome. And gives another complete set of stories which could be told as sequels and prequels. 

The point, as usual, is to give you another inspiration you can use to improve your life with.

Maybe you should consider changing what you do on a Sunday, or a Saturday. Give yourself a real day of rest. Connect up with yourself for awhile, instead of running a frantic, busy life all week long.

Could be an interesting concept.

Cheers!

Tetrad Releasing - Making Life More Fun

(Disclaimer: all this is rather advanced and won't make any sense unless you've followed my other stuff somewhat. Get my Freedom Is book for a simple grounding, but really you should get and study the whole "Go Thunk Yourself" series. Otherwise, just consider me a crazy scammer and move on.)

You can take releasing and release far more than most consider possible. Usually, they leave off with just releasing thoughts, emotions, desires, and fears. And this takes you to a very nice state of release. Even enlightenment - total personal freedom.

But you can also take this a lot further. Essentially, as this universe is your own creation, you can start releasing the universe itself.

What this does is rather interesting. Of course, you get all sorts of calm and peace coming in -  that's a given. The point is to take responsibility for all you've created and experienced, then simply see what's beyond that.

Now this takes you beyond your normal physical senses. What you are left with is your own concepts - what you created your universe with to begin with.

The underlying basics I found there were two interactive dichotomies - a tetrad of four interlocking points:

• Self
• Now
• Purpose
• Choices

If you went into your Silva Method meditation, or (Burt Goldman approach) every day, you'd then simply and quickly be able to apply a releasing technique such as Larry Crane or Stephen Seretan in order to rapidly achieve an unflappable calm and endless peace to deal with life.

The approach beyond what you are told with any of these is then to combine them -

Get into alpha or theta level meditative state. Then simply release until you are free from any thoughts, emotions, and deep-seated fears like death (and all other of the 7 basic fears Napoleon Hill lays out).

Once you are to that point, then you can simply release all your creations. Realize that you've been "mocking them up" all along and simply let them go.

This takes some discipline. It's far too easy to simply put them all back in place. But the steps you will be taking at this point is to review your basic purpose and then look at the choices you've made. Again, as you look over your choices and take responsibility for them - you can simply let them go or polish them up if you consider they are still valuable.

You aren't trying to change the past. Can't be done. However you can release any that you are still holding onto. Yes, this should have happened before, but the key point is that you simply release what you find.

The point is that you are building a new world around you - just as you actually do every moment of every day you live. This simple technique just puts you at cause over the process.

You should release at the end of every day. Review your choices that day and release any and all of them which still have "should have" or "could have" connected with them. You should see that all the decisions or choices you made were the best possible at the time - they always are. The next step is to simply see what you've learned from those choices.

Then program yourself (using Silva Method) to get the answer to anything you haven't been able to resolve - while you are at the delta level during sleep.

In the morning, simply do this again to release right off. You'll have the solution you were looking for (or another part of it). Release any emotion or reactions to implementing that solution. Review your goal and also how this might help implement your planning. Consider that this step has already occurred and release anything that comes up as limiting or adversely affecting its outcome.

Then let it go for the Universe to deliver it to you.

Open your eyes and feel the gratitude for it showing up. Then assume your normal calm and cheeful expectancy of all the opportunities now coming your way.

Simple.

Makes life a lot more fun, too.

Ultimate Empathy

It's simpler than you think.

And possible to know everything about anything, to have/do/be all you could ever need or want.

Of course this takes practice. (Nothing in life is truly free, until you find it was all along...)

Essentially, you just need to let go of any idea of separateness from anyone or anything else out there. That's just simple releasing (Seretan or Crane versions will do). And it's simpler to just get into an alpha level state (Silva).

You also let go of any necessity for time or space - since these are just arbitrary as well, since we are all connected in the Now.

What you are contacting is that primal force called Love (best explanation is in Haanel).

The formula is: Just Be => Love.

Of course, this is a higher level meditation than just concentrating on your goal every day. But it's a lot of fun. Very refreshing. And when you're there, you'll see all sorts of connections where people actually want to give you the things you want. Yes, your Millionaire Mind is there, even though this sounds a bit like Goldman.

Now I could go on with this for hours, telling you all about the specifics of this, but I'm told you only need the simplicities of it so you can invest yourself in it.

So - have fun. See you around.

The universe is a team activity

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Yes, the Universe is a Team Activity -
but you knew this all along...

That old Benjamin Franklin phrase comes to mind, "We must all hang together or surely, we shall all hang separately."

And it's not just the "greenies" or "enviro's" that have a point here. I'm speaking far more pragmatically here.

There's a Universal connection in/with/around all of us. If you want to refer to it as God, that would be fine. This is one concept of the Western Christian view. However, Buddhists and Hindu and even older religions and philosophies essentialy hold the same view, just by different names.

And those who hold this thought and follow it (where do you think genius and inspiration come from?) have the world rise up to them and give them everything they want. True. Read the biographies of the outrageously successful - or books by people who have studied them (like Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich or Law of Success). You'll find that there are just a handful of people who didn't have to study and learn esoteric concepts in order to succeed in anything they wanted. But they did follow a few basic principles regardless.

Dale Carnegie tapped into these same principles when he studied the average, ordinary person who came into his public speaking courses (Ripley's noted that he had critiqued over 150,000 speeches, which I think is also in the Guiness record book.) And his books became bestsellers when he wrote about the basic concepts he tapped into.

That Hill and Carnegie continue to be successes are due more to the caliber of their thinking than the quality of their writing or the foundations which took over their works after they passed.

They both did extensive studies of humankind in the raw. And found that there were simple underlying basics to any person's success.

Teamwork is one of these. We have it in all of us. And all the corporate magnates Hill studied, or the small business entrepreneurs who came to study with Carnegie - they all knew this to be a fact. When people cooperate, they get more done than the same amount of people can do individually.

This is due to an inherent common connection we all share - the Universe.

And while I can go further into tools and approaches and ways to improve your abilities in this area, I'll leave you with this simple beginning approach:

1. Pray or meditate or simply sit in relaxed silence at least once daily. (3 times is better.)
2. Just listen when you're in that mode - to your heartbeat, your breathing, the wind. Just listen. Banish all thoughts simply by letting these go - simply relax and let the world fall away. Listen.
3. Come out of that (after 15 minutes or an hour or however long you can keep it up) and revisit your own purpose - what is it that brings a smile to your face, quickens your step, really sponsors your action on a daily basis. Your purpose is what you would love to do if you didn't have to "work" for a living.
4. Get the concept of your own ideal scene and really visualize it - get the feelings of having that all around you. These will be calm, cheerful, expectant feelings - because you'll know that this is possible.
   
5. Release this to the Universe.
   
6. Right about then, or shortly after, you'll get an idea about what you can do to bring this into existence - a small step or a series of them. Write these down somewhere so you can keep track of what you need to do.
   
7. And then incorporate those inspired steps into your life somehow. Start acting on them.

When you do these steps daily (like I said 3 times a day is best for our Western world) - you'll start making the improvements in your life that align your own purpose with the Universe around you. You'll be "doing your own thing" and the Universe will be helping you accomplish it. Because we are all in this together and the more we work together, the more we can get done.

Yes, this means real world peace is just around the corner - and an end to any serious food, housing, clothing and security problems currently in this world.

All we each have to do is outlines above (and it will only take about 3 percent of this planet actively doing those 7 steps listed to make major changes).

So: Good Hunting!