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Tuesday Tips is a weekly roundup of ways to act, think, feel and be like the god(dess) you already are. Imagine that we’re all playing a game of life together and just now discovering our superpowers. How do you access your divinity?
1. Read The Fool’s Journey.
The story uses tarot cards as a metaphor for the journey through life. “Each major arcana card stands for a stage on that journey – an experience that a person must incorporate to realize his wholeness.” Where are you on your journey?
2. Ignore everything you don’t want.
Abraham says, “Anything you do to overcome or prevent, causes a spotlight on the very thing you are wanting to overcome and prevent.” Just pretend it’s the way you want it to be already. Anything else perpetuates what you don’t want.
3. Take up an abandoned hobby.
Think of all the things you wanted to be good at or liked to do, but gave up because you could never really be great at them. Ask yourself if thoughts like “I don’t know if I can do this” got in the way. With what you know now about managing thought and getting in the flow, could you be a great guitar player? Or programmer? Or athlete? Now that you have awareness of your thoughts, you can pwn anything you want. Just say “I don’t care” to the resistant thoughts that get in the way.
4. Find a mantra that works for you every day.
It’s a lot easier to manage my thoughts when I have a mantra to pivot away from negative thoughts. I usually have to find a new mantra every few days, but what’s working for me today is I don’t care, I’m in the Now.
5. Look at the people in your life as design projects.
You’re designing your version of their lives, so think whatever you want to think about them. Focus on the things you like about them. Decide what parts of them to amplify. They are characters in your story, so tell the story the way you want it to be.
6. Take time to write about your epiphanies and you’ll always find more.
When things click into place and you feel like you “get it” a little more, try writing about it. I used to think I wrote articles to attract an audience of readers, but now I know the point is only to appreciate what I learn, so I’m always attracting new lessons.
7. Appreciate exactly where you are, right now.
Those moments when you are getting what you want but you already want something else make up every moment of your life. You always have the choice in each moment to feel good because you’re getting what you wanted, or you can feel bad because you still want more. You will always want more. That’s the point of being alive. So instead of thinking “duh, of course I’m getting this right now, it makes sense, that’s great. But now I want something else,” try thinking “I’m getting what I wanted! Holy crap, this really works! Let me take a minute to enjoy having what I want, knowing that I deliberately created it and allowed it to flow into my life experience!”
8. Go to bed feeling good.
Every day, I groom my mood like a show pony. It’s a lot easier to maintain a consistent vibration when I pay attention to my mood all day, instead of getting lazy in the evening. If I go to bed feeling good, I wake up feeling good, allowing myself to feel better and better every day, instead of working to get out of a bad mood each morning.
9. Pretend you are god.
You know you are god, but sometimes it can be hard to remember. Imagine yourself as god stepping into your body. If god is animating your body, you have access to perfect health, ease of movement, and feats of unimaginable strength. Let god live through you and your body will thank you. If it helps, imagine the feeling of god stepping into you like a wave in the ocean pushing you towards shore.
10. If you crave sex, practice the feeling of “oneness”.
Why do I always want to have sex with everyone I like?! Because I want to feel connected to and in harmony with my reality. If I practice the feeling of being one with my experience, I feel harmony with my world without having to take physical action. Then the sex comes naturally.
11. Literally practice being in the Now.
My goal is to enjoy being alive right this second. All I have to do to accomplish that is stop thinking. My current working methods are to reply to each thought with I don’t care, I’m in the Now (this works because I know that the Now is perfect the way it is) and silent counting (it’s like measuring the seconds I’m in the Now).
12. See yourself how you want to be seen.
Envision the person you want to be and embody that person right now. Here’s my vision of hotness:
I am deeply tanned, toned, and in a bikini top with denim cutoffs. I have a leather pouch of essentials, with feathers and jewels adorning my body. My eyes are fiery, blue and brown and orange. I am smiling but look hungry, like I’m looking for something to devour in each moment. Like a hunter of joy. I am a warrior. I have Astrojax in my hands, and I can stop time with them. I am at the springs in late afternoon, engaged in the Now. Everything is just so funny. I am free. I am a spark. I reflect the light like a diamond. When you look away, you can see me flying out of the corner of your eye.
13. Know you are god.
You are infinitely powerful. You can have whatever you want. Step into the Now and claim your power.
Here’s a new game for you to try. It’s called the I Don’t Care game. As you go about your day, observe what you think about. Any time you are aware of a thought, say to it, “I don’t care.” Say it to any thought, positive or negative. Bonus points for actually feeling like you don’t care.
The next level of the game is to say “I don’t care” to anything you observe in your reality that you don’t want. If something is annoying, angering, or scaring you, think, “I don’t care.” Again, bonus points if you actually feel like you don’t care.
This game will train you to remove emotional attachment from form. When you think a thought that feels bad, saying “I don’t care” to it helps you let the thought go. When you think a thought that feels good, saying “I don’t care” helps you avoid getting attached to that idea and using it as your reason to feel good. Ruminating on good experiences will cause you to feel worse and worse as you move away from them in time, because you aren’t in the Now, allowing even better experiences in. When you say “I don’t care” to something bothering you in your Now reality, it helps you remove your attention from it, so you stop creating it.
The only time you should ever “care” about anything is when you are caring about how you feel. And you can only care in the Now. When you remove your “caring” or emotional attachment from all thought and negative experience, you free your attention to be placed on the only thing worth caring about: appreciating the good things in the present moment.
The difference between apathy and knowing
When you say “I don’t care” to thoughts and negative experiences, the point is to feel “I don’t care, because everything is great,” instead of “I don’t care, because everything sucks.”
An example of the game
Picture yourself taking a walk.
Thought: I still have so far to go.
Response: I don’t care.
Thought: Did I lock the door?
Response: I don’t care.
Negative experience: Tripped on a crack and skinned your knee.
Response: I don’t care.
Thought: Did I look stupid?
Response: I don’t care.
Positive experience: Find $100 on the sidewalk.
Response: I’m getting what I want! I appreciate this so much! I am so blessed to be alive! (This is the only time you will ever get to enjoy getting what you want—if you are in the Now, paying attention to the good you have right now.
Thought: $100! What a manifestation!
Response: I don’t care. (This opens you up to more manifestations if you stay in the Now instead of keeping on thinking about the experience, even though it was good.)
Tuesday Tips is a weekly collection of ways to embrace the power of thought. Just the simple act of seeing life from a new perspective gives your mind new pathways for creation. The following suggestions can help you accomplish more with less work, think with less pain, feel with more purpose, and be at more peace.
1. Set up passive income streams.
When you forget about them, they’ll start making money. Some that have paid out big for me are digital downloads (which are easy to fulfill with EasyKiss), donations, Clips4Sale, affiliate products like Bluehost, Amazon Associates affiliate links, advertising on video sites like Blip, and publishing on Lulu.
2. Don’t fight.
It’s like putting a dent in a car. You can try to get the dent out, but you’ll always know it’s there.
3. Do it for fun, not to get it done!
If it isn’t fun to begin with, make it fun. If you can’t make it fun, don’t do it.
4. Know your upper limits so you can move past them.
In The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks tells us that there are four hidden barriers to greater success. They are: feeling fundamentally flawed, feeling disloyal and subsequently abandoned, fearing more success will bring more burden, and fear of outshining others. Any of these sound familiar? Then this book will really help.
5. Write a list of things that define you.
Then add to it all the things that you WANT to define you. Mix them in. Print it out. Bask in your greatness.
6. Remember how much you’ve already achieved.
Aurora has an awesome idea: when life gets you down, ask yourself, “Would twelve-year-old me think my life is awesome?” The answer’s generally yes.
7. Laugh off your “flaws”.
Also in The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks writes, “If you’re willing to adopt a playful attitude toward yourself and your shortcomings, you can make extraordinarily rapid progress.” The less serious you are about the things you don’t like about yourself, the faster they go away.
8. If you’re missing someone, pay more attention to yourself.
In the School of Life Design group, Katharine asks how to avoid feeling depressed when she misses her boyfriend.
9. If you think too much and can’t seem to stop, start training yourself into new thoughts.
When you’re hit with a mysterious depression, remember that you thought your way into that feeling, and you can think yourself out of it. More advice on dealing with depression in the group.
10. See everything in your life as a reflection of you.
If there is something you don’t like, it’s something you don’t like about yourself. If someone says hurtful things to you, you have been thinking hurtful thoughts about yourself. It’s scary to take responsibility for your reality, but much easier to navigate if you understand you are creating everything you experience.
11. When good things happen, say thank you and let them pass.
Just like negative experiences, there’s no need to dwell on the positive either. Because if you’re outside of the Now, thinking about the past, you’re blocking the things that want to get to you right Now. Allow the abundance to keep flowing.
12. Believe you’re in the right place at the right time.
The best advice on Twitter this week comes from Mia Astral: “You may not see it, but life gives you what you need exactly when you need it. Pushing for more, pushes away. Stay out of your way.”
The other day I felt creatively stifled because I had no idea what I should work on. I have a lot of things I know I could do to feel good, but had no plan or priorities. I used to be an obsessive to-do list maker, but I purposely let go of that habit over the last year. But without a to-do list, how do I know what to do?!
I spent some time thinking about what I want, and found that my desires could be broken into four categories: what I want to do in each Now, what I want to do every day, what I want to accomplish every week, and what I’d like to achieve this month. I’ve tried making lists of things I should do every day before, to no avail. But this is less about feeling like I need to do things, and more of a list of options to try because I know they always work.
I created this worksheet to remind me of the things that help me feel good, whether in this moment, in this day, in this week, or in this month. I’ve kept up with it for a whole two days now, but it’s not really supposed to be a lifestyle time management system. It’s just something that reminds me what I want and that helps me focus on those things, instead of aimlessly clicking through Facebook or sleeping in too late.
This worksheet also helps me think less—I don’t have to ask myself “what should I work on?” every morning. I have a list of things I know will keep me in the flow. If I can’t deal with any of the Daily items, I just look at the Now list. I can always breathe. I can always smile. And I can always think about what I want. By having a list of things to do now, I open myself up to the more in-depth Daily items, and then the weekly and monthly items just seem to do themselves. Focus on the Now first, and the rest starts to seem easier.
The Daily list becomes a sort of scavenger hunt. Once I’ve done five of the eight on the list, it’s hard for me to ignore the remaining three. Thus I spend more time focusing on the activities I know I really want to do, and less time dicking around.
What do you want to do in each Now moment? What would you like to do every day? Every week? This month? Focus on those things, hang them on your wall, make them your phone wallpaper, and stay in the flow where you want to be.
Download the 8.5×11 PDF worksheet here
Tuesday Tips is a weekly roundup of suggestions for harmonizing with the natural flow of life. Whether you access the flow with action, thought, emotion or stillness, it gets easier every day. The more you practice, the more fun it becomes, and the more you’ll find you had the knack for it all along.
1. Hang out with your friends.
That’s when all the good stuff happens in the background. You forget about whatever it is you want but don’t have, and you feel good because you’re with people you love. It creates the perfect weather for manifestation.
2. Speak only of things in the Now.
Talk only in present tense. Try “I like bowling,” which is about a feeling of “I have this” versus “bowling was fun,” which is about “I now lack and miss that and want the memory to make me feel good.” If you talk about the past, make it because you’re telling a funny story. You only get to tell it once!
3. Look for evidence that life is good.
Look for people kissing, hugging, laughing, and playing. Look for flowers and animals and ice cream and music. The more you look, the more you see; love actually is all around!
4. Take pictures of everything.
The more photos you take, especially of things you take for granted and the mundane, the more practice you get at looking at things from a different perspective. If you turn the camera around enough, you’ll find just the right angle to make your boring coffee cup look exciting. That’s the whole idea behind positive thinking—keep looking for the good until you find it.
5. Think of technology in a positive light.
We’re in a pivotal time in human history. Things are speeding up and more is becoming possible. Guide this transition with your thoughts. Instead of lazily reacting in fear or skepticism, think about what you want. For example, do robot car intersections scare you? Figure out why and what you might want instead. Alternatively, remember that the things we fear are usually the things we need most.
6. Stop trying to understand.
The mind can’t quite keep up with the evolution of consciousness, and it wasn’t designed to. Have you ever found yourself creating in flow (i.e., playing music, exercising, making art, or playing with flow toys) and then stopping your own flow because you’re trying to figure out how you did it? I do this all the time when playing guitar. I’ll mesmerize myself with my own fingers then stumble because I don’t understand how the flow works. But the mind will never understand. All we can do is gratefully experience the gift.
7. Use your stable reality as an opportunity for constant iteration.
Just as each day is a chance to start fresh, each moment in your home, with your partner, or at your job is a chance to iterate. The most stable parts of your reality are the easiest to take for granted, but also the easiest to improve with iteration since you’re around them all the time. Practice appreciating all the tiny details you like about your partner, home and job and you’ll find new things to appreciate every day. You never have to experience boredom or ennui if you’re always looking to expand what you like that you already have. It’s just like having a fully-grown garden, then choosing which plants to grow more of. Collect the seeds of your favorites and plant more.
8. Count to stop negative thoughts.
I have posted about this so many times, and I will continue to do so because every week it works better and better. When I first started silent counting, I wouldn’t do it very often because it seemed boring. I realized that was just my mind telling me thinking negative thoughts is more productive. Then one day I asked Kelly what to do when I was trapped in a negative thought pattern. She told me to count, because it always, always works. I asked, “What if I can’t count?” and she replied, “If you can’t count, you’re retarded.” Enough said.
9. Walk the tightrope of life.
As I learn to live in harmony with the flow of life, I become more aware of the feeling it produces in my body. It literally feels like walking on a tightrope. It’s the feeling of perfect balance, of being in the right place at the right time, and of trusting something outside of my mind to help me across. Walking a tightrope is a leap of faith. The more I practice, the more I think the rope is made out of “saying yes”. The more I say yes, the longer I walk the rope, the higher I go, the better I feel.
10. Practice feeling like you’re the shit.
You are. You’re the best. No one can replace you. You are amazing. You are perfect. You are in the right place at the right time. You are brave and beautiful and nothing can stop you but yourself. Feel the way you want to feel! Feel like you are the best! YOU ARE!
11. Use the Force.
I had no idea George Lucas and my ex-boyfriends were so right. The Force is the same as flow, the same as god, and the same as you. You have access to it at all times. It truly is magick beyond comprehension. How you use it is something only you can know, and something you must practice. But I bet watching Star Wars would give you a few pointers!
12. Just SMILE!
If you force yourself to do it for long enough, your vibration will raise. Fast. It works so well. It may tire your face but it’s way easier than feeling bad. You may think you look weird, but I know that personally, I look my best when I smile!
Tuesday Tips is a weekly collection of ideas that make me feel better about being alive. There are things to do, thoughts to think, emotions to feel and people to be. Whatever you believe is true, and these tips are designed to help convince your mind what your soul already knows.
1. Watch Rainbow Brite and love being alive.
“Everybody’s got a part to play to start each day in a beautiful way.”
2. Bulk delete photos from your iPhone!
Speed up your lifestreaming and help your phone run faster by trashing all your saved pix. No more importing to iPhoto necessary!
3. Don’t care about what anyone else thinks.
Whenever I find myself feeling bad around other people, I ask myself if it’s because I’m caring about what they think. Usually it’s a yes.
4. Rewrite your About page.
Define who you want to be and it’s a lot easier to get what you want. Check out the School of Life Design Lesson 1: Introduction to Life Design if you want help getting started.
5. Don’t feel scared.
Bashar says, “The only thing any of you will ever discover in the unknown is more of you, so what’s to fear?” The Now can feel scary, like an emergency, because often the only time we allow ourselves to experience the Now is during an emergency.
6. Practice the feeling of how you would feel when you weigh what you want.
Do you have some weightloss goal? Why? What is the reason you want to lose weight? Usually it’s because you want to feel light, flexible, free, playful, or confident. Practice feeling those feelings now and your weight will reflect that. Be it, see it!
7. Pretend you’re waking up in someone else’s body.
“Being in the Now” is a mysterious topic, but every day I find new ways to do it. One trick is to look around as if inhabiting your body for the first time. It’s alien as hell!
8. Be home, so the things you want can find you.
Another Bashar gem: “If you’re not living in the present by being who you are, then how can anything that is representative of the vibrations of the things you prefer find you if you’re not home?”
9. Trust the Now.
Trust that it’s perfect, that it’s what you wanted, and that it contains exactly what you need. This moment is a gift, handcrafted specifically for you. Don’t take it for granted.
10. Savor.
The best Twitter advice I read all week was “Savor whatever is in your Now Moment, and you will experience the Flow State.” If I remind myself in each moment to look for something to savor, I find so much that it’s overwhelming. So many of us fear the Now because if we were to all sit around appreciating the beauty of life all day, we’d pretty much all be crying tears of joy and hugging each other. It’s scary to feel such strong love for life, because what happens when the moment is gone? If you’re afraid to savor because it’ll hurt when it’s over, just remember that the next moment will be even better.
Welcome to this week’s edition of Tuesday Tips, a collection of the best-feeling ideas in the world. You don’t have to actually do anything to apply these suggestions to your own life, you only have to consider them with an open mind. Then whenever you need a little nudge in the right direction, the most resonant thoughts will be there to help you.
1. Sit up straight.
Push your shoulders back, tighten your core and be the boss that you are. The flow can’t get through very easily when you’re hunched over.
2. Fill your tank.
Pay attention. When you start noticing your vibration drop, you’ll notice it reflected in all of your reality. Your gas tank will be low. You’ll need to go grocery shopping. Your home will be messy. You’ll be tired. Even if you don’t want to deal with all the lack, even if you start getting nervous about how to pay for everything, just FILL YOUR TANK. Buy the groceries. Clean the house. Keep the momentum going. Don’t wait to run out of gas before you tend to your mood.
3. Stop trying too hard.
Let it come to you. Give up. Let go. If there is something you want to happen in this moment, stop thinking about it by counting in your head.
4. Tell a different story.
Listen to what you’re saying, in your thoughts or out loud. Are you telling it how it is, or how you want it to be?
5. Say yes.
Then look for evidence that saying yes will pay off. Try it as a game. Say yes to something you wouldn’t normally say yes to, then be on the lookout for surprisingly awesome situations. For more inspiration, watch Yes Man!
6. Get life design tips from other people.
Emma Wilson asks the SoLD group, “what is the most valuable lesson you have learned this week?”
7. Program your thoughts.
Make it easier to think the thoughts you want to think by taking time each day to write down the thoughts you want to be thinking. I like to think of lifestreaming as my programming language. It’s my source code—the code I use to talk to source energy.
8. Think of the best praise and highest compliment you’ve ever received.
Alyssa reminds us in the School of Life Design group that praise is especially important when we have trouble believing in ourselves.
9. What’s the most memorable piece of advice you’ve ever received?
If it’s still with you, it’s probably still relevant. I always remember my dad telling me “pay attention!” which I now realize to be integral to maintaining my mood. And every time I get stressed out, I hear him saying “relax!” What words have always stayed with you?
10. Aim to count to 10,000 every day.
Your ability to focus on counting is a litmus test of how much your thoughts are controlling you. If you can count to 10,000 in a day, I promise it will be the best day of your life! Apparently the founder of Second Life tries to count to 10,000 every day too.
11. Don’t make a decision if you’re feeling bad.
Often people will ask you to do things when you aren’t in the best mood. Instead of answering “no” on the spot, just tell them you’ll think about it. Then go get in a good mood and the right decision will come to you.
12. Don’t feel bad for wanting what you want.
Let yourself have it. Don’t deny your Self. Even if you don’t think you should have it, go for it. Saying yes to your most exciting desires is how to walk your optimal path.
13. Project certainty and others will listen.
When you know what you want with 100% certainty, don’t ask someone if it’s a good idea or if they want to do it. TELL THEM what you are doing and they’ll be more likely to join. When you ask someone “do you want to do this?” you’re saying, “am I sure I want to do this?”
14. Stop feeling paranoid by understanding that you can change the past.
You never have to worry if you blew out the candle or turned off the stove if you can change the past by changing your present.
15. Be impulsive.
Take risks and trust your gut. If you’re nervous or scared, remember anxiety is excitement with the brakes on! As Bashar says, “If you always act on the thing that contains the most excitement at every given moment to the best of your ability with zero expectation as to what the outcome ought to be, you will be walking the optimal path no matter how it looks.”
16. Lighten up.
None of this is serious. We’re just here to have fun. Smile, take a deep breath and say “fuck it!”
17. Know that everything is working out for everyone.
Love actually is all around!
I love remembering that the meaning of life as I currently know it is simple: ask and it is given. We’re here to enjoy being alive, not struggle with endless, painful, secret desires and overwhelming, nagging, illogical worries. Life experience causes us to have desires, and when those desires are launched, source energy creates them. Anything you can imagine is not only possible, but already exists. Have the desire, and the desire becomes real.
Accessing the manifestation of those desires is a learning process. Finding the formula for living the lives we want to live is the eternal task of the living. Through the filter of “ask and it is given,” the formula is simple. Think about what you want, and then believe it will be given to you.
What does it mean to believe it will be given to you? It means to have 100% certainty that your desired manifestation is on the way, so you act like you already have it. For example, you may have 100% certainty that you’ll get a paycheck every two weeks, so you behave accordingly. You might not have the money to spend right this instant, but you can still spend the money you already have, because you trust there is more coming.
How do we act “as if” when we don’t yet have 100% certainty? We figure out how it feels, otherwise known as “practicing the feeling.” If you don’t know the feeling of riding a bike, you keep practicing riding until you get it. Learning to ride a bike is the same exact thing as learning to practice the feeling of having what you want.
An exercise I love to do every few weeks is to redefine my desires. I ask myself, “what do I truly want?” And then I ponder the desires behind the physical manifestations I want. I want money, but why? I want success, but why? I want those things because they will produce a specific feeling.
Exercise: What Do I Truly Want?
To practice the feeling of having what you want, try this simple exercise. Write about what you want in each major life category, and then ponder the feeling you want behind the physical manifestation. Afterwards, collect the “feelings” and turn them into affirmations. Focus all of your energy on feeling those feelings, day and night. Forget about the physical manifestations, and don’t take action to try to make them happen. Just feel the way you think you’ll feel when you get them, and you’ll have what you want without the manifestation. This is how you “act as if” or train yourself into believing what you ask for is already yours.
My example is below.
What Do I Truly Want?
Body/health
To be thin and svelte and look smokin in a bikini while playing at the Springs. I want to feel free and light and playful.
Money
To never worry about money. To have enough to buy anything I want. To trust I will always have what I need. To feel secure and like I’m taken care of. Like I’m loved. I want to be a millionaire because I want to feel loved.
Relationships
To be part of a family in a deep, sensual and thrilling way. I want to feel invested in and committed to my reality. I want to feel like I’m part of something bigger. I want to feel like every day is filled with excitement and thrills. Going boldly where no one has gone before. Exploring. Taking risks. Taking the risk of being vulnerable and reaching out with love. Taking the risk of giving love. Feeling the flow with multiple people at once. Like playing on a team.
Work
To be the best lifestreamer in the world and to lead by example. I want to feel with 100% certainty that the work I do is the work I came to this reality to do. I want to feel 100% confidence in myself.
Love
To love and support my partner in every way possible. To give my all to those closest to me. To find new ways to show my love. To open up more and more. To see the perfection in my partner. To see the best in my partner. To create new worlds with my partner. To be one with my partner and yet retain my uniqueness and independence. To let my partner give to me. To let myself receive. To help my partner receive the gifts I give her. I want to feel supportive and supported. I want to feel generous and receptive.
Affirm that you feel the way you want to feel already.
- I feel free and light and playful.
- I feel loved.
- I feel the flow with everyone around me.
- I feel like I’m on the same team as everyone else, part of something bigger than myself.
- I feel excited and thrilled.
- I feel bold, confident and spontaneous.
- I feel 100% certainty about every decision.
- I feel love and generosity towards those around me.
- I feel open, receptive, and uplifting.
The kaleidoscope is a metaphor for reality. The mind is the center point on the ‘scope, and the mind chooses what passes through that center. Whatever passes through the center is then reflected through the entire available view, just as whatever thought passes through your mind is reflected through your entire reality.
The mind will never see the big picture, because it has a very limited perspective of a single point. Whatever shape it chooses, it chooses based on a linear perspective of time. It wants so bad to create the big picture pattern, but it can never see the pattern. So it chooses shapes to the best of it’s ability with limited perspective.
Consciousness sees the bigger picture, the entire kaleidoscope view. When you zoom out to become consciousness, instead of just your mind, you get a sense of the overall pattern of things, how they’re all connected. But if you stay mind-identified, you will try and try and try to pick the right shape to make the big-picture pattern you want, but with a time-based linear perspective, you will never be able to see the patterns you’re creating.
The mind wants to choose the right shape to make the big picture pattern, but mostly it just wants to keep passing through shapes. The trick is to zoom out and see the big picture and know that the mind cannot logically select the proper shape to create the big-picture pattern. Only broader consciousness can do that.
The mind may try to force the shapes it thinks will create the pattern. It will select the same shape over and over, trying to make it work, but forcing a logically selected shape (i.e., experience) will only cloud and dim the big picture. We must surrender the task of choosing experiences to the broader perspective of consciousness. We must surrender our need to logically decide what’s best for us and let the flow provide us with the shapes or experiences we need to create the big picture pattern we want.
When a shape passes through the center of the kaleidoscope, it happens Now. But shapes that have previously passed through the center are still being reflected through the big picture view. What shape passes through the center Now affects the shapes that have already passed through the center. This is a way to understand how what thoughts or experiences the mind chooses right now affect the past and future. The current shape moves the other shapes not currently passing through the center. Our present thoughts affect our past and future.
Using your mind to decide what to do will always produce weak results because the mind cannot see the big picture. The mind is the single point of perspective that allows us to experience reality in the way we do, but it is just a single point. Our lives are the big picture kaleidoscope view, which we are capable of seeing when we step outside of our minds to the perspective of broader consciousness.
My point is this: allow the flow to determine what shapes pass through your mind. Whatever desires, experiences, or thoughts come to you, say yes to them. The flow is giving them to you because the flow sees the bigger picture pattern, and knows exactly what shape to give you next to create the pattern you want to live. Don’t let your mind trick you into believing it knows what’s best for you. Your rules, limiting beliefs and resolutions are only resisting the gifts the flow provides. Say yes to whatever passes through the center of your kaleidoscope and watch the exact pattern you desire unfold, more perfect and beautiful than you ever imagined.
If I were to stop and care about what you think
I would shrivel up and combust
If I were to pause and consider the outcome of my actions
I would be paralyzed
If I were to judge my own actions,
I would start a 30 day trial
If I were to overthink my behavior
I would lose the fun that comes so naturally to me
I say yes. I can do whatever I want, whenever I want to do it.
If it causes me consequences,
see, there I go thinking outside of the Now
I have no problems, only thoughts
I will not question whether I turned off the stove
blew out the candle
let Pwny out of the bathroom.
I will be who I want to be and the past will adjust accordingly.
I will not wonder what you thought of me
What you’d think of me
Whether you think of me
I will be who I want to be and people will adjust accordingly.
I am the present to you. My present self,
my Now Self,
determines who I am.
Past. Present. Future.
Every possibility exists Now.
I change the future, I write the past
Just like everyone else
did before me.
I am the girl who has always been perfect.
I’ve always been a terminal.
And I always say yes.
Want to take some pictures together?
