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The Magic of Belief

24 Tuesday Apr 2012

Posted by sufilight in consciousness, positive thinking, Spirituality, Uncategorized

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“You see, everything is about belief. Whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life. The belief system we create is like a little box we put ourselves inside of; we cannot escape because we believe we cannot escape. That is our situation. Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us.” Don Miguel Ruiz in The Mastery of Love  
 

 

I am always fascinated by the potential that the power of belief can have in one’s life. I have read of  cases where patients with multiple personalities will develop an illness such as gout, allergies, asthma and other illnesses under one personality and when switching to another, the second personality may not have those illnesses whatsoever.  All because of the power of belief. I say the brain in this case has enormous power over our bodies based on the thoughts we feed it.

The power of belief further extends into other areas of our lives.  The direction of our focus generally tends to attract energetically what we think. When we see the world as an unfriendly place, we attract experiences that support this notion.

I do not think that the “power of belief” is like an Aladdin’s lamp bringing  all that we desire into our lives, as we don’t know what our destiny holds for us, but having a healthy belief system where we see life as an adventure with potential for growth and happiness no matter what age group or the conditions of our lives, allows for  us to get into a space where life becomes more of a source of wonder.

My Four Agreements

17 Thursday Nov 2011

Posted by sufilight in Spirituality

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Once in a while I like to stop and take a break from managing our business, cooking, doing household chores, answering emails, writing or whatever comes up at the moment, and reflect on where I am in my journey in life, not necessarily on the outside, but where I am in relationship to myself. Recently, I asked myself after remembering Don Miguel Ruiz’s four codes of living (Youtube presentation which I share at the end of this article), what is important to me? What guides me in my day-to-day living from the inside out? And this is what I came up with:

1. Integrity. Being true to myself and being truthful with others; once one has integrity as the foundation of one’s life, everything flows from that foundation.

2. Letting go of attachments, leads to having the ability to remain cool, calm and collected, or “C.C.C.”, as a co-worker tried to teach me over 20 years ago which were my volatile years, and I would often react without thinking first and fly off the handle. Problem was, I didn’t understand then, that in order to have a state of equanimity, I had to let go of attachments or expectations. It is our attachments, such as the attachment of being right in a petty argument, or wanting a loved one to behave in a certain way, or cling to what is no longer working for us, such as a dead-end or stressful job, is what causes suffering. My partner and I get along beautifully, but we are different: he is a nature loving man and I am a city girl; oh, how I love the city and its lights, diverse cultures, fine cuisine, while he loves the critters, the trees and his cabin in the woods. Yet neither one tries to change the other, and without this pressure on each other, we have merged both our worlds. The wonderful result is I have learned to be attuned to nature, to be inspired, without pressure or attachments from my mate, however, my mate does not do well in the city, so no pressure from me!

3. Going with the flow… there are goals and experiences in life we may have an influence on (or think we do), but in general I am starting to learn that trusting and stepping out-of-the-way allows for me to live from inspiration as opposed to handling my life only from the logical side of my brain, which often keeps one’s mind going in circles trying to figure out solutions that sometimes can keep one trapped. When I want to make a change or carry out a goal, I give it plenty of thought if it calls for it, but then I usually release it to the Source/God/Divine, whatever we may wish to call this Consciousness, and when the answer comes, I act on it, well most of the time. I am still a work in progress. Hey, no attachment, I am doing the best I can.

4. And above all, be Love… and harm no one. In a planet filled with humans with ego dramas running amok which Eckart Tolle often points out, there may be the human being who will cross our path and test us, but living in a world within that is a daily expression of love, for self and for life, pretty much balances out the challenges that may come now and then into our space. Every experience we have is an opportunity to ask ourselves, why it’s there. I am not a Gandhi or Mother Theresa, when someone crosses me, I still may get annoyed and may be direct, but the need to get even or put the person down is not there, so the memory or attachment pretty much fades away for me.

It’s simple...we each have our unique codes for living without having to pause and ponder, but once we take the time to introspect, it’s interesting to know what drives us in life, as it gives us a snapshot of our inner world, not to judge but to understand why we have the life we are experiencing and where we are now in understanding.

What are your agreements?

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