Recently I have been re-introduced to an extremely effective life tool, one that I had conveniently, but temporarily, misplaced in my inner box of invisible gadget goodies that help me get through challenging times. The tool has to do with letting go of resistance. (See http://www.sedona.com/ for more information.)
We all experience resistance from time to time in our lives, some more than others. We resist joy. We resist abundance. We resist peace of mind. We resist hearing or telling the truth. We resist creating our unique art. We resist reaching out to others in times of need, either theirs or ours. It's not the issues that are the problems in our lives––it’s the resistance to them. The issues are simply a few picket fences along our path that require scaling, digging under, or mowing down, if necessary.
When we learn to overcome resistance, our lives begin to move with the flow of life, rather than against it, as The Sedona Method teaches. Author Robert Conklin said, “Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.”
Hmmm. Just change the thought, eh? Often easier said than done, Mr. Conklin. What happens if we change the thought and, whoops, here it comes back again?
What if we let go of needing to change the thoughts that create resistance, and spread them out on the dining room table for a closer look-see? In other words, what if we actually allowed ourselves to feel the resistance completely by putting it under a make-believe microscope for a minute or two? You’ll be amazed how quickly that which you were resisting is transformed into just a bunch of dust on the dining room table.
For over a decade I have encouraged people who have been in a grieving state for many years, to go and grieve some more, but this time, do it passionately, with intent to get to the other side of the grieving process. What is under our grief, pain, and fear is our peace of mind waiting to be discovered.
What have you been resisting? Is it time to look at it?
If so, then releasing it is the next step.
You have nothing to lose.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Properties of Light
A dear friend brought up the subject of optics the other day. He was referring to something he had heard where optics was used in a non-traditional way, i.e. “the optics of a situation.”
Optics is the science that describes the behavior and properties of light and the interaction of light with matter.
I must confess to only having a cursory knowledge of optics, and in that, only of the generally known variety, aka spectacles, micro/telescopes, x-rays, fiber optics, and lasers, etc. I'd never actually thought about optics being a study of light. More than any other application––through the psychological perspective––relating to the role of light in vision, is fascinating to me.
The only reason I've been a mini-student of quantum physics is because of the thinner-than-thin veil distinguishing this realm from other realms. There's something abstruse about living in a totally illusory world, while trusting that if my body comes between a well-shot bullet and its intended target, I'll bleed red, fall to the ground and die. How does one hold both realities––we’re here and nowhere––simultaneously?
I found these equally intriguing, non-scientific quotes from an interesting array of fellow earth travelers from the past... deep past, as from the poet, Alexander Pope. I thought they might add to the fuel your brain must need right about now.
Paul Cezanne, artist (died 1906)- Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
Claude Debussy, composer (died 1918) - Music is the arthmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
John Trumbull, artist (died 1843) - But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.
Richard Whately, archbishop (died 1863) - In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
Alexander Pope, poet (died 1744) - The difference is as great between the optics seeing as the objects seen.
So, that got me to thinkin’, as an old friend used to say, what if we began right now to see ourselves differently, through the prism of light from within, where deep Truths lay, in fields of exciting electromagnetism?
In other words, what if you saw you the way God sees you?
You have nothing to lose.
Optics is the science that describes the behavior and properties of light and the interaction of light with matter.
I must confess to only having a cursory knowledge of optics, and in that, only of the generally known variety, aka spectacles, micro/telescopes, x-rays, fiber optics, and lasers, etc. I'd never actually thought about optics being a study of light. More than any other application––through the psychological perspective––relating to the role of light in vision, is fascinating to me.
The only reason I've been a mini-student of quantum physics is because of the thinner-than-thin veil distinguishing this realm from other realms. There's something abstruse about living in a totally illusory world, while trusting that if my body comes between a well-shot bullet and its intended target, I'll bleed red, fall to the ground and die. How does one hold both realities––we’re here and nowhere––simultaneously?
I found these equally intriguing, non-scientific quotes from an interesting array of fellow earth travelers from the past... deep past, as from the poet, Alexander Pope. I thought they might add to the fuel your brain must need right about now.
Paul Cezanne, artist (died 1906)- Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
Claude Debussy, composer (died 1918) - Music is the arthmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
John Trumbull, artist (died 1843) - But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.
Richard Whately, archbishop (died 1863) - In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
Alexander Pope, poet (died 1744) - The difference is as great between the optics seeing as the objects seen.
So, that got me to thinkin’, as an old friend used to say, what if we began right now to see ourselves differently, through the prism of light from within, where deep Truths lay, in fields of exciting electromagnetism?
In other words, what if you saw you the way God sees you?
You have nothing to lose.
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