Religion and Reality: It IS What You Believe

People who believe in one particular religion (and all its ideology and dogma and baggage) are often  convinced that their God is the right God, the correct God, the Highest and Best God.

And they are right and wrong at the same time.  They are right for themselves because this is the reality they create; it’s what they believe more than anything else on Earth.  It becomes a self fulfilling prophesy.

On the other hand, they are wrong in the broader sense of things because they cannot justly impose that reality on someone else: we have to come up with our own version of what we each individually believe.  Your version/vision of Higher Power will always be more real and meaningful than when someone else is trying to shove their belief system down your throat.

Not going to happen unless you let them do it.

Creating Your Own Reality - A Placebo For the Good Life

I get these random ideas all the time.  Some juxtaposition of facts, current events, old school learnings that I have from way back, lead to some kind of epiphany that lends itself to my current philosophy of life.

Much of which ends up in here.  This is today’s version of exactly that ….

It is most often the case that when someone is discussing or describing the test results for a new drug (or process or whatever … I’ll use a drug in my example), that they focus on the number of subjects that reacted positively or “recovered” from whatever the drug was designed to address.  This makes sense as the reason for having developed the drug in the first place was to cure the condition, disease, etc.

The number of people who reacted positively to the drug are quite often compared to a control group that was given a placebo or something to give them the impression that there was nothing different between what they were given and what those receiving the actual drug were given. Read more

The Quantum Edge

I talk a lot about cause and effect because the “real” world, the one typically known to our 5 senses, is governed by the mechanistic laws of Newtonian physics.  You know, the ‘every action having an equal and opposite reaction’ type of stuff. I stick to this principle in my speaking and training programs because way too many people are a) either unclear on just what they have to do (cause) to get what they want (effect) or (and much more concerning by the way) b) have got into the idea that they should get something for nothing, or at least for the least amount of effort possible.

I am also a firm believer that cause and effect extends into how you think as well. Read more

Resistance is Futile

You many know this line from Star Trek The Next Generation, uttered by The Borg to inform some soon to be conquered individual that they might as well give up because ‘resistance is futile.’

I agree, in principle but for a far different reason. I dont believe in giving in to a hostile force trying to bend my will to their way of thinking (Microsoft has been referred to as a corporate version of the Borg … sort of fits if you think about it in a monopolistic sort of way). I have a quote in my book that explains my perspective a little bit better:

“The root cause of anything that diminishes our wellbeing can be found in resistance.”
-Abraham-Hicks

This is from the teachings of Abraham, provided to us by Jerry and Esther Hicks, a couple of very leading edge thinkers and teachers in the area of the Law of Attraction and other metaphysics. The point is that when you are resisting, the universe is trying to tell you something: you should not be doing this, it is not the right time to be doing this, you are doing this for the wrong reasons, etc.

You emotions are how your subconscious communicates with the real world and your conscious mind. If you are pissed off about something, angry, sad … whatever … resistance is rearing it’s head. Listen to your feelings, explore all the possible sources of why you may be resisting the situation, activity, or person that is causing you to not go with the flow.

An example: I am in the process of writing news releases for my book coming out on May 9th (The Wealth Manifesto). I have been struggling with getting this done for the better part of a day and a half. I MUST send these out to all the major reviewers (everything from the New York Times to any magazine that has anything to do with my subject material) as this is free publicity and an essential part of my marketing campaign. I wont get into the reasons I uncovered for WHY I was resisting this (unless someone asks me to) but I finally figured out that it was not the right time to be writing these news releases, the flow was not there.

It’s not like I dont have plenty of other things to do in getting the promotion together for my book (dozens of things, many of which I really enjoy) - I was essentially wasting my time beating my head against the monitor trying to crank these out.

If you are having a hard time with something and it is causing you grief (”diminishing your wellbeing”), leave it and move on to something else that feels better for the time being. Your mood and your productivity will increase dramatically if you dont resist the subliminal messages you are getting from the superconscious mind.� There is great power there … we must learn to listen to it.

Cheers.