To create the kind of change you want to see in yourself, and the world, you must first figure out what that change is. Start by asking yourself: what do I want more than anything else in All That Is? Use “All That Is” because you don’t know if material reality is all there is. What if there is Life After Life?
When I asked myself this question during a frustration moment in 1983, the answer, in the form of a voice six inches in front of my forehead, said, “love.” That’s it, I shouted; more than anything else in All That Is, I want to love and be loved, unconditionally!
It wasn’t money, it wasn’t power, it wasn’t food, it wasn’t sex and it wasn’t status or privilege; it was love and appreciation for the magic and wonder of All That Is. Buried in the rubble of my difficult and failure-ridden life, knowledge of this truth lived on quietly, until I found the wisdom or felt the irresistible urge to look for it. And there it was, glowing with the brilliance only love can create! Two years later, I actually had an Encounter with Unconditional Love. Click on the link and read it! It was a profound experience that is still unfolding in my life.
Here are more questions to ask yourself. Remember that the reason you ask them is to create the kind of change you want to see in yourself, and the world.
- what is the best way for me to treat me?
- what is the best way for me to treat you?
- what is the best way for me to treat us (our relationship)?
Remember the following two things:
- We are both One and Separate.
- We are not only products of creation; we are creation itself!
Since birth, we’ve been told by word and example how to treat ourselves, and each other. Isn’t it time to decide those questions for ourselves? When we assume we know the answers to life, we stop asking questions, we stop using our imaginations and we stop changing behaviorally. By asking questions like those above, we throw open the door to creativity and imagination. We give our inner selves permission to express themselves. More than that, we encourage them to express themselves!
Make each question the subject of a paper. Don’t consider it finished until you’re completely satisfied with the answers. Even then, it’s a good idea to keep the door open for even better answers in the future. Improvement is never ending.
Before falling asleep at night, ask the universe or All That Is for the best answers to these questions. Use all your available resources and accept nothing less than the best answers. Keep a notebook by the bedside to write them down.
Ask Value Questions and Listen for Intuitive Answers. (Click on the link and see how it works for me.)
Live by Value Fulfillment and Practice Idealism
Excerpt from The Hope of Audacity:
The Natural Law of Consciousness and Creation
From a spiritual persective, there is no right or wrong, good or bad, guilt or punishment – there just IS. There is what works for us, and what doesn’t; what makes us happy and what doesn’t.
By paying attention to what works for us and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t, not only do we discover our true selves, we actively develop powers of observation and discernment. In furthering our dreams of self-fulfillment and understanding, we learn use our imaginative and intellectual skills, as well as our inner and outer senses. When we pay attention to what works for us, and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t, we honor and acknowledge the desire to be the best selves we can be, not because we have to but because we can. In doing so, we replace confusion with clarity, weakness with confidence and fear with love.
To live by value fulfillment and practice idealism is a two-step process. The first is to determine the qualities of life and being we value most – our ideals.
The next step is to fulfill or actualize our ideals to the best of our ability over time. That’s what “practice” is all about. When it’s done with natural passion, it’s not work; it’s play. This process is the SOURCE of our power! It is CHANGE! It is Growth! It is CREATIVITY! It is FREEDOM! It is doing it MY WAY and learning from it as a way of life! We’re already doing this unconsciously. Why not do it consciously and more effectively?
It doesn’t matter that we come up with the same answers. What does matter is that we come up with them ourselves – that we do things for our own reasons. Allowing ourselves to become receptacles for information given to us from other sources without question or examination, no matter how much we love, fear or respect those sources, is not power, creativity or freedom; it is laziness and passivity. It usually results in subjugation, which breeds resentment and conflict. Failing to question beliefs that cause harm or make us unhappy reflects poorly on us. It does not honor the source from which we come nor the creative selves we are.
A Project-Centered Life
To live by value fulfillment and practice idealism is to live a Project-Centered Life in which we are the project. Who are we? What’s reality? What’s the purpose of life? Who do we love to be? What do we love to do? What works for us, and what doesn’t? What makes us happy and what doesn’t? These are questions we must always ask if we want to fulfill our own unique potential.
If an idea in the form of a belief, attitude, value or expectation does not work for us or make us happy, we have the power to replace it with an idea that does work for us, one that does make us happy. This creative ability is our means for self-determination, for becoming self-directing and self-motivating. It is the key to self-fulfillment, honest collaboration and true democracy.
There is no greater show of love than the acknowledgment of power and worth in yourself and others. Conversely, there is no greater show of fear than the denial of power and worth in yourself and others. By taking responsibility for who we are and what we do, by putting ourselves in the driver’s seat of our own lives, we celebrate all being as having value, including our own. This is love!
To ask questions, make suggestions and share your successful strategies with others, go to the Reality Creation Project Yahoo Discussion Board. The website address is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/create_reality.
I also encourage you to form local groups for fun, experimentation, mutual support and discussion. The antidote for fear is love. The antidote for distrust is trust. The antidote for contempt is appreciation. The antidote for violence is forgiveness. The antidote for the belief that we are unlovable and unworthy is the belief that we are lovable and worthy. Instead of thinking about how bad we are, how little we do and how poorly we do it; why not remember how good we are, how much we do and how well we do it? Isn’t it better to count our blessings than our sorrows?
For reference, read:
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
The self (the “decider” in you) is your seat of power and the moment (now) is your point of power.
Roger A. “Pete” Peterson – http://realtalkworld.com
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth
We create our reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world.
If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.
If we must live with the consequences of our beliefs, can we afford NOT to question them?
Nothing you can ever think, say or do can keep you from being loved unconditionally. – Voice of Unconditional Love
The more we love and appreciate ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.
Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.
The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the shadows of your experience. Look for them!
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