Do Not Face Reality

Do not face reality unless it is a reality you want to create---for any “reality” only exists because someone has focused it into being.

Someone will say, “But this is a true thing, and therefore it deserves my attention.” And we say that you make whatever you give your attention to…your Truth. And so, it is extremely beneficial for you to focus primarily on the way you feel while giving only scant attention to the manifestations as they are unfolding, for whenever you are giving your primary attention to things as they are, you are hindering the expansion of what-is.

All those statistics that are gathered about your own experiences and about others---are only about how somebody has already flowed Energy. They are not about any hard-and-fast now reality.

Within your current society, there are many who gather the statistics of human experience. Their lives have become more about labeling the behavior or experiences of those with whom they share their planet than about their own creating.


And so, they find themselves in a very uncomfortable position as they come to believe that their happiness or Well-Being depends upon the behavior of others. They point to people, behaviors, or beliefs and call them inappropriate, saying no to them, without realizing that they are including into their experience the vibration of the very thing they do not want. And so without the knowledge of how it is that those unwanted things are making their way into their experience, they become increasingly guarded and fearful.


Freedom from the fear of unwanted experiences will never be achieved by trying to control the behavior or desires of others. Your freedom can only be allowed by adjusting your own vibrational point of attraction.

Abraham-Hicks

New Conclusions

Most of you are creating your own reality by observing anything and everything that comes along, because most of you are not keenly aware that everything is about attraction.

There is no assertion.


Everything is about Law of Attraction, which means,
“Whatever I, as a perceiver, perceive, by my attention to it,
I am including it in my vibration.”














Everything is vibrating.
So when you observe it or remember it or ponder it or imagine it,
whenever you focus upon it, by your focused attention,
whatever its vibration is, becomes a part of your vibration.
And so, the more often you visit it,
the more a part of your habit of vibration it is.



Everything is vibrating and so, whenever you give attention to anything—it then becomes a part of your Vibration.

When you see something you want, by your attention to it, you are including it and inviting it.
When you see something you don’t want, by your attention to it, you are including it and inviting it.
So the key is to examine with an eye to choosing what you do want.


Little by little, be one who consistently finds what is most pleasing,
to be most familiar, to you.
Make a decision that nothing is more important than the way you feel,
since the way you feel is the indicator of what you are including in your vibration.



You have creative control.
When you begin to notice the correlation between what you’re thinking and what you are feeling,
and then what the consequential corresponding absolute matching manifestation is, then you finally get it that you do have control over your own experience.


There is nothing that we are wanting to guide you toward or away from.
It is not our job or anyone else’s to choose for you.
Our work, as we see it, is to assist you in understanding that you are Creators
and to help you in aligning your Energy
so that you may attract unto you anything that you choose,
and that it is not possible for you to choose outside of the realm
of that which is intended as you come forth.
You said, “Let’s go forth into this balanced environment,
bang around together,
come to eternally new conclusions,
and have a very good time in the process.

-Abraham-Hicks-

Nature's Price

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated.

She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

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(Napoleon Hill)

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painting by
Marc Moss
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Sand Rubies are a band from Tucson, AZ

Reacting to You

If you change the way
you look at things,
...
the things you look at change.

-Wayne W. Dyer-

The Shamanic Journey: Spirit Helpers

Cross-culturally, there is a common belief in spiritual help that is witnessed as an intervention from a non-physical realm into the physical realm that transcends, changes, or heals. This non-physical realm is where the spirits dwell.

I was taught that the Lakota people believe there are 405 helping spirits that you are born with that are literally assigned to you: A small army of helpers whose main function is to be of service to you and your human experience. You may choose to use this help throughout your life, or not. There is no judgment if you don't. But why wouldn't you? Whether it's 405 or 1, their help can bring sensational results---magical, miraculous, profound, guiding, transformative, informative, and fun.

You can use your spirit helpers for minor things or gain insight and direction for the major decisions of your life. You can heal yourself and your loved ones. You can learn to direct energy in such a way that you can change the past and look into the future. The non-physical doesn't follow the same physical laws that you have been taught. There are no limits to this realm except those from your own perspective.

One of the most effective ways to access help from the spirit helpers is the shamanic journey. The shamanic journey is filled with mystery, and despite its ancient history, is little understood in Western culture. The altered state of consciousness achieved in a journey allows you to transcend the limitations of the rational world and connect with a non-ordinary reality. The shamanic journey is common to all cultures (even European) and the nature of the journey is remarkably similar, even in cultures widely separated by era and geography. In the spirit world, both time and place are illusions. The lessons from the other worlds are universally true, drawing from a collective consciousness that is accessible to all.

Learning how to journey successfully takes time and practice. Journeying requires you to tune in to all of your senses. It is vital to activate as many of the senses as possible to stimulate your powers of observation beyond the visual. Many people depend too much on the visual in journeying, and fail to access the total information contained in the journey. Often, the information will come through a sense of "knowingness," a kind of sixth sense that is beyond seeing or any of the other single senses.

To practice stimulating your senses, try this simple exercise:

Close your eyes and imagine a red rubber ball. Bounce the ball and hear its bounce. Throw the ball up against the wall. Squeeze the ball; feel its texture. Bring the ball up to your nose and smell it. Stick your tongue out and taste it.

Now open your eyes. Could you see the ball? Could you hear the ball and notice the difference in sound qualities from bouncing the ball close to your feet and throwing it against a distant wall? Could you feel the elasticity of the ball and its texture? Could you smell it and taste it? Notice which of your senses was the strongest. If you close your eyes and it is totally black, then tune into your knowingness and "see" with that sense. Many people have absolutely no visual sense in a journey, yet the detail of the journey is exceptional.

This exercise will help you become more attuned to your senses and discover which ones are more vivid for you. The goal of the ball exercise is to literally activate your senses to a reality (the ball) that is not currently in your ordinary reality. In a journey, you will do the same thing. Through your senses you will activate a non-ordinary reality and journey through a place unfamiliar to your ordinary reality.

I have taught several hundreds of people how to journey, most with remarkable success. The journey method empowers and enriches their lives. They develop a modality through journeying that is useful to everyday life. They can reach and communicate with their spirit helpers in a constructive and accurate way.

Remember that your spirit helpers and power animals are magical and they can do anything, they do not follow physical law. Birds can swim under water, whales can fly, and tigers can talk. They are your protectors and guardians. They do not lie, that is only a human trait-you can trust them.

Each journey will be different; some will be more powerfully realized than others. There is much to learn about the spiritual realm. In each journey I gather information concerning my intention, but I also listen openly for what the spirits may want to tell me. I have found the shamanic journey to be one of my most profound ways of connecting with the spirits and one of the richest sources of understanding and awareness. It has literally healed me and keeps my mind curious and reaching.

To me, imagination is the gateway into the spiritual realm. It is not the spiritual realm; the spiritual realm is real, not imaginary. However, imagination can be used as the way in to the realm.

Imagination is a tool that we are given as children, but often forget how to use. Children usually have a profound awareness of the spiritual realm; they have wonderful vivid imaginations, and many have imaginary friends. Children become completely entranced with other realities; they easily talk to trees, sing to flowers, see magical kingdoms in sparkling sand, and physically "see" spirits. Kids see and communicate with spirit beings quite naturally.

Unfortunately, these fabulous encounters with the spirit realm are categorized as imaginations and are often stifled as children grow up and conform to society. Family, school, church, and other external forces of the culture shape their beliefs and responses. Mothers lovingly but with authority, say, "Now honey, you should not lie. There really is not anyone sitting next to you. Rocks do not have mouths and they cannot really talk." The fabulous, magical, fun, mystical connections are lost or blocked. What the spirits have taught me about imagination is that it is actually a gift from Spirit, it is how we as humans create and that Spirit is providing us with an avenue to creation and connection that our psyche will accept.

Imagination connects you back into the magical, mystical worlds of Spirit you once knew as a child. When I work with people in journeying they will often say, "I feel like I am making the whole thing up, like it is just my imagination."

And I say, "Good." Trust it and let's see what happens.

Imagination is the portal in. It gives permission to the psyche (your limited mind) to experience something that is out of the realm of what you would call an ordinary experience, or real. Because of conditioning, you are extremely limited by your own perception of what you define as real. If the imagination can travel further into the realm of the unknown than your belief system allows, then by all means travel on the imagination. What you will find is that you are not making it up at all. The spirits are alive and well, existing in other realities that you probably cannot see with your physical eyes, but are real just the same. The imagination provides the avenue to get there.

So use your imagination, develop it, and allow it to expand, create, grow, and become. Open the door and get out of the box that society has placed around you. You will find that the shamanic journey and your spirit helpers continually provide you with ideas, information, possibilities, and potentials for your own growth and development.


Article Source:

http://www.articlesbase.com/self-improvement-articles/the-shamanic-journey-spirit-helpers-228309.html

About the Author:

Jan Engels-Smith promotes self-healing, empowerment, better communities, a healthy world and conducts workshops in shamanism & journeying.

Her book, Becoming Yourself is at http://www.lightsong.net/

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The Seed of an Equivalent Benefit

The Bigger Picture

Your desires are eternally yours,
and they will come to you at the very best time.


You can influence the very best time
by saying things like,
"The Universe knows the bigger picture."

"I'm going to let it deal with the timing of this.
Meanwhile, I'll just do everything I can
to keep moving happily along."

Abraham-Hicks