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Welcome to Tuesday Tips, the best ways to feel good on the Internet. This week’s edition totally stressed me out because I thought I was going to write about things I learned from my job. But then I thought about it too much and started freaking out about how to be funny, what to include, how personal can I get, etc. So I had a mild panic attack, started resisting writing these hoes, and then woke up late this morning because I was dreading writing this post so much.
But life is supposed to be fun, and I’m just here to play. So anytime I get stressed out, I just remind myself that I shouldn’t do something unless it’s fun, and if it’s not fun I have to make it fun.
So when I’m freaked out, under pressure, want something really badly, AND want it to be fun, I remind myself to stop thinking, because thoughts are the only thing that can block the flow of well-being that makes life so fun and magickal. Then I do everything I can to stop thinking. Here’s what works.
1. Stay busy.
Start immediately. Chip away at your projects. Just keep going. Whether you’re inspired or not, just keep moving. If you have a deadline, just start stream-of-consciousness creating. Just DO IT. You only have to take one step in the right direction for the flow to pick you up.
2. Make a magick wand.
Use it. It might take a while to get used to, but you’ll figure it out.
3. Stop talking.
Omg, stop talking. If you’re talking, you’re definitely thinking, and you can’t hear what life is whispering to you. Just shush up. Shh. Zip it.
4. Write.
If you aren’t talking, but you’re still thinking, those thoughts are like unflushed turds in a toilet. Flush them out. Get rid of them, stat! I like to use prompts to keep me focused on the good thoughts. These always work for me:
- “I’m so grateful…”
- “I appreciate…”
- “I am…”
- “Dear Jessica…”
- “I intend…”
5. Keep your cool.
Tell yourself that if you fail, if that person leaves you, if you lose a limb, if your pet dies, if your house burns down, if you write a shitty Tuesday Tips, if your head falls off, no matter what happens, YOU’LL BE OK. Life is just a game. Whatever you’re stressed about, just let it go. If it happens, you’ll survive. Let go. It’s not scary. There’s nothing to be afraid of. Anything that happens is trying to help you. It’s a solution. Promise.
6. Just breathe.
Focus on your breath. Focus on your breath. Focus on your breath. There are no thoughts in the present, because thoughts are physical things, and the present is just a line between past and future. You can’t have a physical object in a line. There is no space. Focus on your breath, keep your focus on the line between past and future, and wake up in this crazy dream called life. Look around, and you’ll find your answer. You can listen to this song while you do it:
You may have noticed things are changing. You are aware of your thoughts. You are aware of your hand in this. You are aware that your thoughts create.
It was scary at first, getting over the guilt and fear of looking conceited or powerful or delusional. But thanks to the experiences shared on the Internet, it has become common knowledge that feeling good feels good and leads to good things. As a society, we’ve collectively begun to understand that the meaning of life has a lot more to do with having fun than making money or repenting for sins.
Congratulations my friend! We have made it to the next level of life experience. We are aware. We have woken up from the trance of being mind-identified. We have stepped into our role as conscious creators, with a permanent hotline to infinite intelligence.
Some call this transition period entering the “fifth density“, which is a vibrational frequency of consciousness. In this density, we operate from the standpoint of unconditional love and unity with all-that-is. We can zoom out and see a bigger picture of life. The fifth density is where we become aware of our own vibration and our creative power. In fifth density, you exist in flow, or in sync with the universal rhythm or pulse of life. Learning to live in flow marks the transition from fourth to fifth density.
Divine inspiration. Knowing. Confidence. Tripping. Thought-free focus. Letting life live you. Walking the tightrope, trusting the big picture of life to care for you. By choosing to tune ourselves and our moods into the vibration of unconditional love, we access an awareness of flow. Access to the fifth density depends on your mood. Are you in the mood for love?
There is nothing weird or scary about this transition. It’s what we have been collectively striving for. We are entering a period of joy, of fun, of play, and of unconditional love. You don’t have to do anything to be part of the process. You only have to choose it. However, below are a few general principles that may ease that head-exploding feeling of “holy shit, life is deep.”
5 Useful Rules to Live by in the Fifth Density
1. Listen for the flow.
To live in flow, your mind must be quiet enough to hear it. As you make your decisions throughout the day, ask yourself if the choice is a “fuck yeah”. If you have to think about it, it’s not. You can always feel the right decision, which the flow provides, because it will feel good and you will have zero doubt.
2. Up your tolerance for feeling good.
There’s nothing to be embarrassed about feeling good. Everyone gets it. Stay conscious and aware of your mood and thoughts, listen to your body and the indicators in your reality. Find your balance. Keep your cool. Life is like a 360º tightrope. If you were on a tightrope, would you give your attention to what you’re giving it to currently? Choose what you focus on. Choose to ignore everything you don’t want. Let the negative go. Your awareness creates it. What you resist, persists.
Notice particularly when you start reaching your upper limits of feeling good. In The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks explains there are four ways in which we prevent ourselves from reaching our ideal conscious state: feeling fundamentally flawed (how could someone as imperfect as me achieve unconditional love?), feeling disloyal to our roots (how could I choose success without abandoning those who made me who I am?), feeling like a burden (if I reach my highest potential, I’ll be an even bigger burden than I am now), or fear of outshining (how can I allow my perfection when it might make those around me feel bad?). If you start feeling bad, ask yourself if something really good just happened. If so, you’re upper-limiting yourself.
You don’t have to perfect your mood in one day. You don’t have to clean up all your thoughts at once. It’s an iterative process that happens with each new thought. Just practice observing your thoughts and watch as the light of your consciousness evaporates the illusion of darkness. In fifth density, your mood is your only work. Do the work. Feel the feeling you want to feel right now, and you have instant access to the vibration where your manifestation resides. It feels almost like shapeshifting, or teleporting.
3. Up your tolerance to other people feeling good.
If you want to live at a higher vibration, you have to be ok with the people around you being on your level. Choose to appreciate the success of the people around you, instead of fearing their success will give you less access to them. You can only perceive their success because you are projecting success.
4. Focus on the feeling of what you really want.
Being able to desire and then manifest anything you want is part of the fun of this density. If you know exactly what you want, you don’t have to think about your desire anymore, because the moment you had the desire, it was created. You don’t water your seed by thinking about it every day, you do it by paying attention to your mood. It will come when you feel as good as you would if you had received the manifestation. Basically, it will come when you don’t care about it anymore, because you found another way to feel good.
The only thing you can actively do to manifest your desire is to focus your energy on feeling good, regardless of whether you receive what you want or not. Tell yourself you have it, and live as if you do. You must become it before you see it. You must believe that it already is, and when you look for it, you’ll see everything already is reflecting that truth.
5. Practice feeling good even though you don’t have everything you want.
Feel good anyway. Act as if. Distract yourself from thoughts that keep you away from what you want. By saying “I want” you are vibrating “I don’t have.” Instead, say “I am.” There are infinite ways to feel good right now, without ever receiving that which you perceive to be lacking. You can exercise, meditate, do mood-boosting worksheets, read Tuesday Tips, or play with flow toys. But the easiest, fastest, and most reliable method for feeling good right now is your breath.
Our breath connects us to each other, to the world, and to the flow of life. Focusing on one’s breath is an instant connection to source energy and can be used at any time to stop thought and feel good. To practice conscious breathing, you can join others in the DoAsOne.org universal breathing room online (thanks Katharine!), or download the Prana Yama breathing app. For fantastic instructions on breath and meditation, read The Practice (thanks Sunny!).
Breath is the holy grail of feeling good. It’s the tool that will always work. It’s the secret ingredient we all have instant, easy access to.
Join in World Liberation Day!
At 10:30pm central time tonight, at the time of the biggest full moon of 2012, we’re all going to meditate for an hour, visualizing the world we want to live in. (See here for your timezone and more detailed instructions).
If you’re in the flow, you have the power that creates worlds in your hands. Life design is consciously directing that flow to create whatever you want. What happens is your decision. Do you want world peace? Do you want alien contact? Do you want all debts canceled? Do you want eternal life? Do you want to fly? What happens next for the world is up to you, and everyone gets to choose the version they want to live.
And y’all? Just remember this is all just for fun. None of this serious, and none of it matters. Enjoy the ride! I love you, and you’re doing great.
Tuesday Tips is a May Day basket full of helpful hints I gather throughout each week. When I notice something working in my own life, I add it to my list of gems to share with you. There are infinite ways to feel good; below you will find 17 that work for me.
1. You know when to act. Listen.
The other day Kelly gave me the best advice I’ve ever heard. “You know when action is being pulled through you because you ain’t thinking about whether you should be doin’ it or not.”
2. Read other lifestreamers.
Katja has a major epiphany: she realizes she actually does know how to make herself happy. Lynn encourages herself to give what she perceives to be missing. For more, check out this list of lifestreams in the School of Life Design Facebook group.
3. Count, especially if you think you don’t need to.
Feeling really good and want to stay there? Milk your good feelings by stopping thought to stay in the Now.
4. Lifestream!
The more people lifestreaming about how good their lives are, the more people get to see it and believe it, the more they see evidence in their own lives. Make the choice to share first, and be amazed by what people begin to share with you.
5. Notice it, get more of it.
Look for the tiniest speck of evidence, a grain of sand, that represents evidence that you have what you want. You have to be in the flow of looking to get the bigger, better manifestations. You have to expect them. You can twist the tiniest things to look like evidence. It’s all a matter of shifting your perspective intentionally.
6. Meditate before you medicate.
Do you believe you need someone outside of you to fix you, or do you believe you can heal yourself?
7. Cast spells on your life.
Spellcasting is a fun way to think about what you want and trust it’s coming. You are a magickal being who can be or do or have anything you want. Spellcasting is one way to practice believing that. Bonus points for using a magick wand, lighting candles, or brewing elixirs.
8. Read Osho.
Osho provides a fantastic perspective on time, space, past and future. If you want to be in the Now, let your thoughts go.
The present is just a dividing line, that’s all. It has no space. It divides the past and the future; just a dividing line. You can be in the present but you cannot think; for thinking, space is needed. Thoughts need space, they are just like things — remember it. Thoughts are subtle things, they are material; thoughts are not spiritual, because the dimension of the spiritual starts only when there are no thoughts. Thoughts are material things, very subtle, and every material thing needs space. You cannot be thinking in the present; the moment you start thinking it is already the past.
9. Ask yourself what you want as often as you can.
Sometimes I get what I want then have no idea what to do because the old things that used to make me feel good just don’t work anymore. Every day I want new things. Every day I want to feel something slightly different to become a match to what I’ve expanded to. Every day I want a new mantra, a new method, a new thought, a new perspective that helps me feel good. That’s the work: to wake up every single day and find the perspective that feels good.
10. Ask yourself how you want to feel.
Ask yourself in the morning. I usually want to feel light, confident and playful. Ask yourself again after work. I want to feel energized and inspired. Ask yourself again before bed. I want to feel exhilarated. The only way to get from here to what you want is to feel the way you want to feel, now. Read Danielle Laporte for more detailed instructions.
11. Play Astrojax!
Astrojax is like an invisible friend that encourages you to lighten up and have a good time. Allow yourself to play along and the flow will surprise, delight, and inspire you.
12. Feel the flow with drawing.
Let the pen tell you a story about how everything is connected.
13. Love every Now equally like your children or pets.
Just because one kid is a star athlete doesn’t mean you love the reclusive loner any less. Like children, each Now has something uniquely divine to offer. Look for it.
14. Look for evidence that you’re receiving what you wanted.
If you’re unhappy in the Now, you’re avoiding receiving something that you wanted. Let yourself be in the moment and know that this moment was created to give you something you wanted. Just be in the Now for five minutes, try to do whatever is there for you for five minutes, just say yes for a few minutes. You only have to take one step in the right direction and the flow will carry you away.
15. Surrender.
Life lives you whether you let it or not. You either struggle, or enjoy. Let go! You can’t be any more enlightened than you are right now. Accept that. Enjoy where you are. You truly are in the right place at the right time. It can be no other way.
16. Live a high-contrast life, get bright solutions.
My creative output is only good when I go through contrast. I only have new things to share when I experience what I don’t want, because that’s the only way to find new things to want, new ways to expand, and new things to learn. Be willing to explore more of what you don’t want to see more of what you do want.
17. Choose change, or change will choose you.
You know what you need to do. You always have life on your side. You’re not alone in this. Listen to your heart, feel for the instructions your gut is giving you. Take the leap you know you need to make. Just face the way you want to go, dip your toe in the water, and let that which made you carry you downstream.
Welcome to Tuesday Tips, a weekly breath of fresh air for your mind. This week we keep it simple and remember that none of this is serious. Just let go of those things that bother you and keep your focus on your dreams. You’re already living the life you want; all that’s left to do is play!
1. Keep busy.
It’s a lot easier to avoid negative thoughts when you’re too busy to think. When you have downtime, read a book (here are my suggestions), create, exercise or socialize. Plus, the more time I spend working on my projects, the more money flows in.
2. Die with $2.
Enjoy what you have now.
3. Embrace change.
Change is always good. When you know the universe is always trying to bring you what you want, you learn not to resist when things aren’t exactly as you expect them to be. If something breaks, or goes wrong, it is always a solution. It’s like shuffling the deck—you can never get a new hand if you don’t let go of the cards you’re holding.
4. Get a Rabbit Hole reading.
Rabbit Hole is a life design tarot deck Kelly and I are making. When you go to the site, a card is randomly selected and displayed for you. Since you can only see what you are a vibrational match to, whatever card you draw will give you a little piece of advice that is relevant to you right now. Click on the card to find more answers.
5. Write yourself a welcome-back letter to read when you wake up.
Remind yourself that this life is just a dream, it’s not serious, and it’s all for fun. Kelly has a wonderful version:
welcome back
you are experiencing a simulation
you are the creator of the simulationyou are, in essence, the dreamer
you chose to be here
you chose this creative experience
because it’s the most
creative experience imaginableyou chose to be here and create
you are safe here
any desire you are able to conjure
is created in the moment you have that
desireyour creative power is in your thoughts
what you think about
in that little mind of yours
is what you createit’s totally up to you
6. Ask yourself: Is your dream yours or inherited?
Is it your wish or your father’s? Would you still wish it in 14 years? Mia Astral changed my life forever when she posed that question. I realized that my dream to be skinny and rich is just a dream of conditioned society, and not something I actually care about. Of course the two areas in life I struggle with the most are not my true desires, because if they were, they would be easy and fun to work towards, not torturous. If you want something and you hate working towards it, ask if it’s really you who wants it, or is it your parents’ wish?
7. Make peace with the pain of contrast.
My new friend Donna gave me a brilliant view on the creation process: “I love catching up and lagging behind mustering up more goodies to catch up with.” She went on to remind me of an awesome Abraham concept: I’m either contributing to my vortex, or I’m in it. This means that when you feel bad, your desire for something different is creating a new reality for you to enjoy. You simply can’t create anything new if you don’t experience the contrast that makes you ask for something different. Abraham reminds us that if we didn’t have contrast, we would die:
As you diminish contrast, you diminish your ability to decide, and as you diminish your ability to decide, you diminish your ability to focus, and as you diminish your ability to focus, you do away with your reason for existing.
8. Be here.
As I learn to stop obsessing over weight and money and things that don’t matter, I find myself with a lot of empty space in my head. It seems like it’s getting easier for everyone to just enjoy being alive. To stay anchored in the Now, I’ve been using a simple mantra that keeps it all in perspective: “I’m here.” What a miracle. I’m so grateful you’re here too.
Lately in my lifestream I’ve been switching the focus from talking about what I want, to talking about what I already have. Since time is an illusion and every possibility already exists, I can choose to perceive I already have what I want at any given moment. If you believe your thoughts create, then whatever you are thinking is true until you think a contradicting thought.
The theory is simple enough, but how do we go about perceiving we already have what we want, especially when there is clear proof in physical reality that it’s not true? All it takes is consistent practice and a little faith in your own creative power.
Telling your new story, step by step
1. Decide what you want.
Instead of thinking about what you don’t want, or what you don’t like, just take 5 minutes to ask yourself what you want. It could be a lifelong goal, or it could be what you want to have for dinner. If you don’t know what you want, you’ll never get it.
2. Deliberately practice the thoughts you would think if it was true.
Imagine you have what you want. What would you think? How would your thoughts be different from what they are currently? Take the time to train yourself into those thought patterns. I like to write about how grateful I am that I have what I want already. For an extremely detailed view of my thought direction practice, read my lifestream. This post is a good example.
3. If you’re not thinking in alignment with your new story, stop thinking with silent counting.
I try to count to 10,000 every day. If I’m idle or involved in an activity that allows my thoughts to wander, I simply count to prevent thoughts that contradict my new story from popping up. It’s the only truly effective way I’ve found to stop thinking when I’m not actively directing my thoughts.
4. Be in the present moment, vigilantly looking for evidence.
Whatever you notice, you get more of. So be ready to see evidence that your new story is true. The only way your new story will snowball into actual reality is if you are in the present, paying attention to each sign that you’re getting what you want.
5. Repeat every single day, multiple times a day.
Thought direction only works with practice. We’ve trained ourselves into realities we don’t want simply by thinking about them. All it takes to live the reality you desire is consistently thinking you already do. Your reality is created by your expectations. Your expectations are formed by your beliefs. And your beliefs are just thoughts you think a lot. Whatever you believe is true, so you can just train yourself to believe what you want to be true. Trust in your own power! You can be or do or have anything you want.
Stay inspired with the new Earcandy audio lesson
Last night Kelly and I published a new audio discussion about consciously choosing new thoughts and seeing them manifest. Our adorable second edition of Earcandy life design lessons, Thinky Thoughty Creations: How to Sugar-Sand Your Thoughts, is teeming with practical examples and our own experiences in thought direction. You can download the $2, 31 minute mp3 to hear our own methods and solutions for telling the stories we wanted to be true, and that we’re now living.
Click here to continue to the Earcandy website.
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!
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.
This is an interview with an ex-Navy SEAL who apparently worked on a government technology called the “looking glass”, some sort of device that can “see the future”. Bill Wood is tied to a lot of conspiracy theory/whistleblower stuff but this video is about the evolution of consciousness and how he came to know truth through his work with the government. The beginning 8 minutes are about how the spiritual info has been suppressed in previous interviews, but this interview is all about the spiritual side of this technology, and how it can be used to “talk to god”. If you have an hour or so to watch this, I HIGHLY recommend it. To hear about the “looking glass” technology, start watching around 8:40.
If you don’t feel like watching the whole thing, these are the most important points:
- Keep bringing things to light. The truth movement is growing exponentially stronger.
- Our consciousness is a caterpillar, about to become a butterfly. The whole galaxy is watching, waiting for us to bloom.
- The evolution of consciousness is inevitable, and it is good. Nothing we do can stop it, so sit back, relax and enjoy!
A big thank you to Stephen for introducing me to this information!
Traditionally, Tuesday Tips is a collection of ideas that make living life easier and more fun. But that makes a pretty silly assumption—that we need to think or work at all to make life easy and fun. Let’s go straight to the truth: life already is easy and fun. Now what? What do Tuesday Tips look like when we’re already enjoying our lives to the hilt? We celebrate them!
1. Celebrate yourself.
You’re already perfect. You’re already doing everything right. You’re right on time. You’re so loved. You are connected to everyone and you have infinite power. You’re a glorious individual perspective who won the lottery the day you were born. Put that shit online! Take pictures of yourself! Go hard! Express yourself! Let it all out! Be loud and be proud! Start a lifestream! Write a book! Make some art! Show the world your perfection. It flows out of you effortlessly!
2. Give yourself positive feedback.
Write yourself a love letter. Give yourself the positive feedback you crave. Once you do, it will start pouring from everywhere.
3. Pay yourself.
Don’t feel like thinking? Make money in your head. Practice silently counting as high as you can go, and then imagine you just effortlessly made that much money. How does that change your day? Do you approach your job and errands the same way, knowing you made that much money so easily? It really can come that easily with a little practice. Be it, see it!
4. Feel the way you want to feel.
Danielle Laporte’s post on “how do you want it all to feel?” really made an impact on me last week. It’s the most effective way I’ve found to attract experiences that make me feel the way I want to feel. I want today to feel like a sunny camping trip in southern Illinois with all my best friends!
5. Breathe.
If you ever get caught up in thoughts and forget about your inherent perfection, you can instantly tether yourself back into the Now by breathing consciously. (Try practicing with Pranayama.) Observe the flow of your breath and allow yourself to return to the present moment. Life really is easy. Let go of everything and let life love you. We all love you! Happy Valentine’s Day!
