This week the Mindshifters group watched the first half of the lecture by Dr. Michael Ryce titled: Getting the Stress You Need. The essence of this lecture is that the human mind functions as a stress management system. The simple definition for stress in this instance is "the tension which is produced within me, by the difference between the way I want things to be, and the way things are, or appear to me to be". When there is a difference between these two things, it creates a discomfort within me, and I experience it as stress. Then, whether I realize it or not, I create a goal based on the way I want things to be and this goal determines my behavior.
Dr. Ryce cites research from ancient texts which discuss the fact that there is a filter in the mind over intention which can be set to Fear, Hostility, or Love. Whenever the filter is set to fear or hostility it distorts my perception and I do not see actuality clearly. Whenever the filter is set to Love I see actual events more clearly and I have the best evidence for how to proceed in the world. If I have the filter over intention in my mind set to Love, this allows only intentions keyed to Love to be used as the raw materials for forming my goals. This means that my goals will be Loving.
If the filter in my mind over intention is set to hostility or fear, then my intentions will be keyed to hostility or fear, and my mind will create a picture -("reality") - of the world as being a hostile or fearful place. Then my goals will be formulated by the raw material of those hostile or fearful intentions, and my goals will be based in fear or hostility.
The first exercise in the first part of the lecture focused on creating different emotions and letting yourself experience them. After doing this we are asked to examine how we were able to call-up the various emotions and feel them. The conclusion is that in order to feel the different emotions, we had to think different thoughts which produced those emotional feelings within us. So we were led to discover that as we choose our thoughts, they create our emotions and the physical sensations which accompany them. We are then asked to watch this process in our daily lives and to actively choose the thoughts which leave us feeling pleasant emotions.
The second exercise is the process of generating a strong feeling of Love and then to imagine sending that Love out through our eyes to a partner. Our partner then works to feel and experience the effect of that energy coming toward them. We then traded roles and let our partner generate a strong feeling of Love and imagine sending it out their eyes to us as we attempt to focus on whatever sensations it stirs in us, to be on the receiving end of that energy.
This exercise is crucial in this work because the active force for healing in this work is Love. The key is the ability to hold my awareness on the energy of Love and keep that awareness present and active in my conscious mind when something unlike Love comes up. The more familiar I am with how I feel when I am able to focus my conscious attention on my actual nature as Love, the easier it is for me to shift my conscious awareness to that actuality. The more I practice this, the easier it becomes and eventually it develops into a habit, which I can strengthen to higher levels. The more I do this the easier it is to shift the focus of my conscious awareness to Love whenever something unlike Love gets resonated within me. Each time I do this, healing takes place. Love is the true healing force. Love is the energy of creation, that which reconciles opposites and creates anew.
We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love. Everything else is false.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Purpose, Personal Power and Commitment Part 2
This week the Mindshifters group watched the second half of the lecture by Dr. Michael Ryce titled Purpose, Personal Power and Commitment. In this half of the lecture Dr. Ryce traces out a predictable path of discomfort, disease and death which results when one's natural enthusiasm for life is denied and suppressed. This process of denial and suppression leads to increased tension, frustration, projection, externalization and conflict which has us focusing outside of ourselves for the solution to our pain.
This pathway makes clear how the denial and suppression of mental/emotional energy begins to interfere with the functioning of the physical organs, and eventually shuts down such important systems as the endocrine system of the human body. When the endocrine system is not working properly it leads to fatigue and eventually a complete shut-down of the mind/body energy system.
This is just more detail and more confirmation about how the mind/body energy system works and about how we each create our own internal reality, both physically and mentally. This also helps to explain the phenomenal success of The Reality Management Worksheet process. The reason for the power and effectiveness of The Reality Management Worksheet is that it clearly helps us focus on what we are doing to create our thoughts, which produce our emotions and thereby either build up our energy system, or tear it down.
We are made of the energy of Love and designed to contain and extend that energy and that energy alone. Anytime we engage in thoughts which produce an energy unlike Love, we begin to degrade the mind/body energy system and create dis-ease, which eventually results in break down of the physical energy system we call the body.
If we want a different experience of life, we must choose a different reason for living. Once we are clear about our reason for living and our purpose in life, that purpose can be the focusing lens with which we choose our goals. When we are paying attention and choose to let only Loving intentions be used as the building blocks of our goals, then only Loving goals and Loving behaviors will result.
We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love. Everything else is false.
This pathway makes clear how the denial and suppression of mental/emotional energy begins to interfere with the functioning of the physical organs, and eventually shuts down such important systems as the endocrine system of the human body. When the endocrine system is not working properly it leads to fatigue and eventually a complete shut-down of the mind/body energy system.
This is just more detail and more confirmation about how the mind/body energy system works and about how we each create our own internal reality, both physically and mentally. This also helps to explain the phenomenal success of The Reality Management Worksheet process. The reason for the power and effectiveness of The Reality Management Worksheet is that it clearly helps us focus on what we are doing to create our thoughts, which produce our emotions and thereby either build up our energy system, or tear it down.
We are made of the energy of Love and designed to contain and extend that energy and that energy alone. Anytime we engage in thoughts which produce an energy unlike Love, we begin to degrade the mind/body energy system and create dis-ease, which eventually results in break down of the physical energy system we call the body.
If we want a different experience of life, we must choose a different reason for living. Once we are clear about our reason for living and our purpose in life, that purpose can be the focusing lens with which we choose our goals. When we are paying attention and choose to let only Loving intentions be used as the building blocks of our goals, then only Loving goals and Loving behaviors will result.
We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love. Everything else is false.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Purpose, Personal Power, and Commitment
Last night the Mindshifters group watched the first half of the lecture by Dr. Michael Ryce titled, Purpose, Personal Power, and Commitment. In this lecture Dr. Ryce highlights the fact that when we are not clear about our purpose, we scatter our energy and dissipate our power. When we are clear about our purpose, we focus our energy and magnify our power and effectiveness. Dr. Ryce details a process for creating a personal purpose which can then be used daily to focus our energy and increase our effectiveness.
Dr. Ryce recently posted an audio file on his website which I think is one of the most clear and precise summaries of the work he does in all of his seminars and intensives. You can listen to it here or find it on his web site under the heading of Media.
http://www.whyagain.com/media/YshuasAramaicWisdom.mp3
I won't try to summarize the talk here. I just strongly encourage you to invest the 33 minutes it takes to listen to this audio, to hear a master teacher/student summarize the work he has been living for the past 30 plus years.
I wish to thank all of those who have been contributing to the group and using the tools provided by Dr. Ryce to help themselves act in a more loving and compassionate manner in their daily lives and thereby making this world a better place to live.
We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love. Everything else is false.
Dr. Ryce recently posted an audio file on his website which I think is one of the most clear and precise summaries of the work he does in all of his seminars and intensives. You can listen to it here or find it on his web site under the heading of Media.
http://www.whyagain.com/media/YshuasAramaicWisdom.mp3
I won't try to summarize the talk here. I just strongly encourage you to invest the 33 minutes it takes to listen to this audio, to hear a master teacher/student summarize the work he has been living for the past 30 plus years.
I wish to thank all of those who have been contributing to the group and using the tools provided by Dr. Ryce to help themselves act in a more loving and compassionate manner in their daily lives and thereby making this world a better place to live.
We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love. Everything else is false.
Friday, December 17, 2010
The Laws of Living Part 1
This week the Mindshifters group watched the first part of the lecture by Dr. Michael Ryce titled, The Laws of Living. In this lecture Dr. Ryce makes the distinction between the many rules that man creates, which are arbitrary and constantly changing, and The Law which governs our existence as human beings in the physical and spiritual realms. The Law is something which cannot be broken, it is simply the description of the way things work. For a simple example one can observe the Law of gravity. If I lift a pen from the desk and then let it go, it will always fall toward the desk or the floor, or whatever is directly below it. It will not float off to the left or up to the corner of the room on some days, or at different times of the day, it will always fall straight down, unless something or someone acts on it to change its course.
The Laws of Living as described by Dr. Ryce in this lecture are not arbitrary rules set out by some group, government agency, or religion in order to establish a pattern of behavior between people, it is simply a statement of the observation of the way the world works. These Laws have been known by the great spiritual teachers for all of recorded history. They have not changed and there is no reason to believe they will change with the passing of time. If we learn to live our lives in harmony with these laws, we will be assured of happiness and contentment. If we live our lives without regard to these Laws, we will be assured of frustration, anger, bitterness, disappointment and resentment.
If this is seen clearly then the choice seems obvious, to learn of the Law and live our lives in harmony with the Law. However, we have been conditioned to think that there are no absolute laws, and that the rules which men have constructed to help them gain power and authority over others, are the same as The Law. We have been taught that thinking and talking about absolute Law is a bad thing, since it often conflicts with the desires of those who would have us focus completely on the physical world. It has long been said that The Law, and the knowledge of how to live in harmony with it, will set one free. Setting the people free is not in the best interest of those who wish to accumulate wealth and power, using the labor and servitude of others. This being the case, it is seen by some as risky to even talk about The Law, and about setting people free to live the life they were born to live on all levels. People were not born to live lives of servitude and to be controlled by others for the accumulation of wealth and power. People are born to learn, and grow, and expand the possibility of what they can be, by learning to take responsibility for all that they think, feel, say and do.
Another key portion of the lecture focuses on the idea that words do not have meaning. Words are simply vibrations and those vibrations trigger memories, beliefs and sensations within the person who is touched by those vibrations. The word itself has no meaning other than that which is held by the person who receives the vibration created by the word when it is spoken. The simple truth of this can be seen by observing a room full of people who speak only English, when someone who speaks Greek comes into the room to make an announcement in Greek. While the person speaking Greek has an important message to impart, and while the room full of people who speak only English are able to hear the sounds being made, they are completely "deaf" to the message. Only those who have been trained to interpret the sounds made by the person speaking Greek will be able to receive and understand the message. This is because the sounds being received by their ears, will trigger the memory of meaning stored in their brains and then those people will be able to attach meaning to the sounds they hear.
This is what was meant in the scriptures when they talked about how people did not have the eyes to see, or the ears to hear the message being given. It is fairly certain that everyone in the audience, at that time, had physical eyes and ears. However, they did not have the past experience or the frame of reference which would allow them to understand the message which was being taught. Therefore the messages were given in multiple ways, as in a parable, which means a story with parallel meanings. Then with repetition and intervening life experience, people were able to build their own internal understanding of things which could only be hinted at in the words which were being used. True spiritual teachings and stories and parables are not designed to get someone to believe in anything. They are designed to point an individual toward an experience which will open that person to new levels of understanding which can only be achieved through direct contact with a new level of being.
We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love. Everything else is false.
The Laws of Living as described by Dr. Ryce in this lecture are not arbitrary rules set out by some group, government agency, or religion in order to establish a pattern of behavior between people, it is simply a statement of the observation of the way the world works. These Laws have been known by the great spiritual teachers for all of recorded history. They have not changed and there is no reason to believe they will change with the passing of time. If we learn to live our lives in harmony with these laws, we will be assured of happiness and contentment. If we live our lives without regard to these Laws, we will be assured of frustration, anger, bitterness, disappointment and resentment.
If this is seen clearly then the choice seems obvious, to learn of the Law and live our lives in harmony with the Law. However, we have been conditioned to think that there are no absolute laws, and that the rules which men have constructed to help them gain power and authority over others, are the same as The Law. We have been taught that thinking and talking about absolute Law is a bad thing, since it often conflicts with the desires of those who would have us focus completely on the physical world. It has long been said that The Law, and the knowledge of how to live in harmony with it, will set one free. Setting the people free is not in the best interest of those who wish to accumulate wealth and power, using the labor and servitude of others. This being the case, it is seen by some as risky to even talk about The Law, and about setting people free to live the life they were born to live on all levels. People were not born to live lives of servitude and to be controlled by others for the accumulation of wealth and power. People are born to learn, and grow, and expand the possibility of what they can be, by learning to take responsibility for all that they think, feel, say and do.
Another key portion of the lecture focuses on the idea that words do not have meaning. Words are simply vibrations and those vibrations trigger memories, beliefs and sensations within the person who is touched by those vibrations. The word itself has no meaning other than that which is held by the person who receives the vibration created by the word when it is spoken. The simple truth of this can be seen by observing a room full of people who speak only English, when someone who speaks Greek comes into the room to make an announcement in Greek. While the person speaking Greek has an important message to impart, and while the room full of people who speak only English are able to hear the sounds being made, they are completely "deaf" to the message. Only those who have been trained to interpret the sounds made by the person speaking Greek will be able to receive and understand the message. This is because the sounds being received by their ears, will trigger the memory of meaning stored in their brains and then those people will be able to attach meaning to the sounds they hear.
This is what was meant in the scriptures when they talked about how people did not have the eyes to see, or the ears to hear the message being given. It is fairly certain that everyone in the audience, at that time, had physical eyes and ears. However, they did not have the past experience or the frame of reference which would allow them to understand the message which was being taught. Therefore the messages were given in multiple ways, as in a parable, which means a story with parallel meanings. Then with repetition and intervening life experience, people were able to build their own internal understanding of things which could only be hinted at in the words which were being used. True spiritual teachings and stories and parables are not designed to get someone to believe in anything. They are designed to point an individual toward an experience which will open that person to new levels of understanding which can only be achieved through direct contact with a new level of being.
We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love. Everything else is false.
Monday, December 06, 2010
The Existence of The Field and Emotional Cure of Cancer
I recently came across a fifteen minute video of Gregg Braden talking about the very thing that Dr. Michael Ryce talks about each week in the lectures we watch in the Mindshifters group. In this lecture Gregg Braden shows a video of a woman being treated in a medicine-less hospital, for a three minute procedure which eliminates her bladder cancer tumor.
He then goes on to explain the "technology" behind this experience and at the end of the video he reports on a scientific study which demonstrates the presence of the field of energy which connects all things. I highly recommend this short video as an introduction to the larger field of work which can transform lives, both physically and emotionally and which is the foundation of the work we do each week in the Mindshifters group.
Gregg Braden wrote the book The Divine Matrix in 2007 and the video clip in this link, refers to just one story he tells in that book. See the clip here
Gregg Braden is just one of the many people who are lecturing about the existence of a different Actuality which gives each of us the power to control the way we experience our lives. The work that Gregg Braden cites in many of his books is the blending of ancient knowledge with modern technology. Modern science is only now, slowly, catching up to what has been known to spiritual teachers for thousands of years.
Dr. Ryce's work gives simple, practical tools for applying this knowledge to the task of creating a different experience of life for each person who is willing to apply those tools. It does not take great intelligence, strength or power to remake one's experience of their life. It takes some simple tools and the Willingness to apply them daily.
We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love. Everything else is false!
He then goes on to explain the "technology" behind this experience and at the end of the video he reports on a scientific study which demonstrates the presence of the field of energy which connects all things. I highly recommend this short video as an introduction to the larger field of work which can transform lives, both physically and emotionally and which is the foundation of the work we do each week in the Mindshifters group.
Gregg Braden wrote the book The Divine Matrix in 2007 and the video clip in this link, refers to just one story he tells in that book. See the clip here
Gregg Braden is just one of the many people who are lecturing about the existence of a different Actuality which gives each of us the power to control the way we experience our lives. The work that Gregg Braden cites in many of his books is the blending of ancient knowledge with modern technology. Modern science is only now, slowly, catching up to what has been known to spiritual teachers for thousands of years.
Dr. Ryce's work gives simple, practical tools for applying this knowledge to the task of creating a different experience of life for each person who is willing to apply those tools. It does not take great intelligence, strength or power to remake one's experience of their life. It takes some simple tools and the Willingness to apply them daily.
We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love. Everything else is false!
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