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I am trying something new, a podcast!  This new format will enable me to share more of my teachings and thoughts with all of you.  In this first podcast episode, I talk with one of my students about how we can manifest our desires.  It is a 10 minute audio question and answer session.  I hope that it is helpful to all of you on your path towards joy.

-Bear

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Welcome to Evolving Consciousness: Today I thought I would blog on intention, and the use of intention in co creating reality. The question what is intention, would need to be both asked and answered in order to understand how it might be used in creating reality, and there are deeper truths to be explored.

Intention: alignment of thought, energy, and focus that leads to a certain event. Seems simple, yet what does that really mean? Let’s look at this as a game of darts, 1. I focus on the target, 2. My whole body, mind and spirit are present and aligned with my thoughts 3. I know that when I release the dart it will move through the air in the direction I have thrown it.

My knowing about what the dart will do, helps to inform and strengthen my intention. As my intention becomes stronger, my focus becomes clearer the dart will hit the board more often the more I practice the more informed my intention the more often I will hit the target.

Intention is both a knowing about an outcome and a focused desire.

The same is true when using intention to co-create reality. I need to set my intention

What is it I want to happen (focus) Can I see, know feel it can and will happen.

Here are the steps I take when I want to manifests with intention.

1. I take a few breaths clear my mind.

2. Think of something I have done in the past successfully.

3. Take a moment to focus on joy or gratitude.

4. Then think clearly about what I want, bring in all my senses smell, touch,

and sight, as I imagine and focus my attention on the desired outcome.

5. Then I focus on joy or gratitude, moving my attention on.

Say I want $100.00

I take a few breaths clear my mind. Then I think about how great my life is,

I’m grateful for my, home, car computer health, love, joy friendships, until I feel a change inside. Then I think about the money how it will feel in hand, I see myself putting it in the bank and I pull out the receipt with the new balance showing. I feel myself smiling.

Now I go back to gratitude, I’m grateful for my love, for my life, for my pillow, for fun, for my bed, for water and air the ocean, trees.

Then I go about my day letting go of all thought about the money know that it will come.

When the money comes I’ll write down that I did receive what I was intending to manifest.

Tool: Gratitude, one of the best tools I have found is gratitude, it can change your mood, your focus and your vibration. Make a gratitude list, add to it everyday, repeat over and over in your mind with feeling. When you observe yourself thinking about things that are causing you discomfort simply focus on gratitude. Automatically you will have changed your focus placing your attention on what is working thus creating more of what is working and placing your feelings and or vibration in a more pleasant state

“Find a better job” –Hafiz (as translated by Daniel Ladinsky)

Now

That

All Your Worry

Has Proved

Such An Unlucrative Business,

Why Not Find

A Better Job.

Change is a process. Often when people come to me seeking change in their lives, the first thing that arises is resistance. We can choose to become aware that the impulse to resist keeps us stagnant and suspended from personal growth. But we must remember that stagnation equals death. If we are conscious we will question our resistance. Through questioning resistance we create an opening. We can then decide what we will choose to do; we can discern what is motivating our resistance. We may then choose to ask whether it is in our true best interest to change or not. If real growth is to take place, we must be open enough to discern this.

Resistance often takes the form of fear. Fear is often a story you tell yourself about the future which has not yet happened. These stories (beliefs) are self-imposed limits about what is possible in your life. Fear is a story that things will be bad; won’t work, are not possible. Fear, when questioned, often doesn’t stand up to truth.

All things that live on this planet grow, are in the process of growing, or becoming dormant, and dying. We too must grow in spirit in order to stay conscious and pliable. If we are willing to question the habits of our day-to-day life and habits of thought, we can open ourselves to a wondrous world; we can challenge our fears and our stories about who we are that keep us from stretching to be our best possible self.

Tool: Impeccability with your word.

The four agreements (by Don Miguel Ruiz) are a foundation that helps support you through change. They can be your guide when questioning your beliefs, fears and stories.

Impeccability with your word means speaking with love and truth both inside your mind and in the outside world. How many times a day do we say things that we do not mean, or that hurt others, and ourselves? How many times a day do you judge yourself? The process of change is one step at a time. Just for now, become aware of what you are saying without judgment. And maybe, as you become aware of your thoughts, you can begin to change what you have just said to yourself or to another to a more truthful statement. For example, I might slip on the sidewalk and then hear myself say “that was stupid!” Becoming aware, I might soften the statement to say “wow, that was scary!” Without judgment, I can look for solution and release blame.

Impeccability means becoming willing to love yourself without judgment. Practice saying exactly what you mean. Practice speaking with love and compassion.

Is it possible that we are evolving in more ways than one? Is it possible that not only our physical forms are adapting and growing over time, but also the nature of our consciousness? In my opinion, we are doing just that. As a species, the ways in which we think about and understand our realities are changing; are seeing new horizons. We are changing the way we use our minds.

Historically, in the human search for power, we have taken to a “power-over” paradigm. A “power over” paradigm is reflected in the ways we’ve tried to impose control over our natural environment, over our relationships, and over our own lives. A power-over mindset seeks to dominate and control. Conversely a paradigm of “power-within” aims to foster and cultivate our personal power and be at peace with our world.

Throughout my lifelong observation and counseling of people who struggle with the “power-over” mindset, it is my belief that we have been and are now changing from a paradigm of power-over to one of power-within. When I think about what true global change might look like, I see a world where we are learning how to manifest our own reality consciously, a world where we learn how to harness our internal power to meet our desires, and a world where we focus our intention so that what we desire is created.

According to popular news sources, many people now are searching for work. This is a reality for many, but it can be changed. To find work, people look through want ads and Internet postings. They spend countless hours of personal energy setting up interviews and sending resumes. People compromise their personal power with the struggle to gain power over their desires. Here at Evolving Consciousness, we instead ask the question: what would happen if we understood how to use our clear personal power to make the job come to us? By evolving our consciousness to realize that our desires are met through clear and focused attention to our truths and the truth about what we desire, we can create the world we want. This is not “magical thinking”; this is how life can work when you’re aligned with it. My students, my clients, and myself have all seen real results through a changed way of thinking, an understanding of power-within. Suddenly as if out of nowhere, my students are doing what they wanted, with whomever they want and so on. It feels magical and even sounds magical yet it’s simply moving into another plane of existence, a new paradigm.

I see it like this: energy flows into form, and consciousness directs energy. We are consciousness in form; we direct energy into any form we focus on. So why would this lead to a power within rather then a power over dynamic? The answer is because energy is infinitely abundant. Drawing from this infinite source, there is no limit to what we can create for ourselves. I don’t live in need or in fear when I learn to create from a place of consciousness. I have no need to steal, no need to repent, no need for war. Like any practice or discipline, it may take awhile to learn the tools to direct your consciousness. Though, with time these tools become the foundation a lifetime of practice in evolving consciousness. With this practice you do see the rewards fairly soon, at first in small ways then in bigger and bigger ones.

All this great stuff about creating your own reality increases internal freedom and a reality of abundance, which then adds to greater global peace, love and joy. What would the world look like if we all felt abundant?

Tool: Focus

Meditate for a moment on the difference between attention and focus? One’s ability to intentionally direct one’s focus can become an invaluable tool. Learn to focus your mind to place it on what you want. For practice, sit before a lit candle focus only on the flame. Every time your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the flame. Start with one minute of clear focus on the flame. With continued practice, attempt to move up to five minutes of clear focus at a time. Do this daily or as many days as you can. Make it easy for yourself, and be sure to praise yourself every time you sit down to do this.

Affirmation:  I am a spark of divine energy in a physical form.

Blessings ‘til next time.

-Bear

Now is the Time to know
That all that you do is sacred.

Now why not consider
a lasting Truce with yourself and God/Goddess

Now is the Time for you to understand
That all your Ideas of right and wrong
were just a child’s training wheels
To be laid aside
When you finally live
with veracity and love.

My Dear please tell me why do you still throw sticks at your heart and god?

what is it in that sweet voice inside that incites you to fear?

Now is the Time for the world to know
That every thought and action is sacred.
This is the Time for you to Deeply compute the Impossibility
That there is anything
BUT GRACE
Now is the season to know That everything you do
Is Sacred.

Hafiz.

In 1380 Hafiz (1315-1390), a Persian Mystic poet, asked us to quit throwing stones at our hearts and our deities. He asked his followers, to begin this work now. He said this, through his poems, and more than 600 years later, the time is still NOW!  We can learn to  speak lovingly to ourselves, to be impeccable with our words, to truly listen to what stories we tell ourselves.

Now is the time to break negative thinking patterns, to open your heart and mind to possibility, and to join this movement that has begun evolving our planet through evolving ourselves. The time is now to trust the world that you live in.

Twice a month this blog will post a tool for changing your thinking, behaviors and attitudes. Join us, help create love peace and joy in your life, thus adding to the love, peace and joy in the world; on the planet.

Many years ago a woman who spent many days of her life in protest of our goverment, Sonia Johnson, encouraged her readers to stop fighting and resisting the powers that be. Instead put their energy into creating what it is that they wanted. I would like to second that sentiment.

Tool:

Don’t make assumptions. Watch your mind how many assumptions do you make in a day. Just begin to become aware without judgment. Do you think your assumptions are real?

Evolving Consciousness is a class series I have developed to provide you with the tools to begin the work.  The most important work on the planet, the work of evolving consciousness, your consciousness.

Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation (Crossing Press, 1987) Sonia Johnson

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz