#20 Mind part 2 -Separating from your emotions.

#20 - Mind Part 2 -Separating from your emotions.

Quote from #19
"I have mentioned [...] that I consider emotions themselves NOT to be us.
But.
I think I might do a whole posting on this subject. It's a bit of a big 'ask' perhaps and would take quite a lot of really spooky spiritual stuff to download my ideas."


#20 - Separating yourself from your emotions.

First of all let me say I cannot explain it :)   LOL

By which I mean I am not sure that language can exactly communicate this -but I will have a go -and try to point you at it!

.Signposts>> are placed in what follows.
I've put in these Signposts>> to help keep us all on target.

Please don't look at my words for too long but look to where they point.


.Finding out who we really are.
As I said in #19 - if we cannot do that we can find out what we are not.

And in #19 I went into how we are not our thoughts.
I like to think I established that the mind and all thoughts are just things...like cars zooming by on the motorway (freeway -autobahn etc).
To expand on this...The car/motorway analogy works well -

I (whatever that is) ...I am the thingy that watches the thoughts.


Hmmm
Meanwhile there is my personality - your personality -who, for most of the time, we think we are.

Cars have many colours (all the colours of the rainbow: red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and blue)
People have many emotions.

But people change their emotions and cars don't change colour...not very often -
so forget about cars completely.
Consider the matter at hand  - thoughts zooming by and watching them.

So being a person necessarily entails being in an emotion.
But am I a person? LOL
Signpost>> - She is struggling to explain now -keep reading!

But I (the watcher of thoughts) - do I have emotions?
You (the watcher of thoughts) - do you have emotions?

My most useful answer is: 
Do you?

Tip:- Perceive these things only.
Once you fall back into the mind and deductive reasoning you're just another car on the motorway (I said forget about cars) - - -you might well as be - because thoughts and cars are the same .....they are all things!!!

Big Signpost >>Look,see,perceive.

The next step is apparent.
Watch your emotions!

But to do that I have to go to the really spooky spiritual metaphysical stuff.



.The really spooky spiritual metaphysical stuff.

The personality you have is just a point of view.
The person you think you are is just your creation in something...erm...bigger.
Signpost >> She's struggling again -keep reading!

Are you the same person (mentally) that you were when you were 12 years old?
Mostly not - I would hope.
But to an outsider these two personalities (not bodies) could they be talked to at the same time... would be seem as two different people. Right? ...
You know -maybe if it were possible for someone to talk to both on the phone and compare the two personalities.
The 12-year-old-you thinks different thoughts to the grown-up-you... they have different characteristics in their emotions too.


So you changed your entire (almost) personality -you became a different person over the years.
Who did that?
hehe
Whatever did that  -wasn't a personality. Wasn't a person!!!

Who did that?
What are you?

When you remove the personality from the ..erm... equation(!)..what is left.
Well it is still you - but what's that?

If you feel 'circumstances' , your environment and/or  'Life' changed you over the years then what is the area where all this change took place?
What is 'behind' the personality you find yourself with?
Is this a more basic -or real you?
Signpost >> Now is the time to perceive and look and NOT to think

What does this ...entity......feel like?
Familiarise yourself(!) with this aspect or core of yourself.
Watch a few thoughts zoom by. ..."I need to clean my teeth..."I must read that book again"...
You can see plenty of other stuff around you both physical and mental - but not yourself -your 'core'.
You may find that you cannot really see what you are!!!
Signpost>> DON'T THINK - JUST LOOK!


You should now see my problem - this doesn't exist in the mind -how can I explain it?
In fact once one drops back into the mind and thinks  -it sort of disappears from view.

So much for deductive reasoning (bathing in thoughts like it's some sort of nectar or something LOL)

The Enlightened Ones (!) live in this place.
I am not saying one should become Enlightened - but one should be able to 'visit' -in my humble opinion.
Signpost>> She doesn't exactly mean 'visit' because you are already there -it's who you are. Keep reading!
However when you hear some of the rubbish they speak (as judgements mostly) - one wonders where some of these Enlightened Ones really are!
I have retained my personality - I can have judgements... so there...ner,ner,ner - I never claimed to have dissolved my personality.
Having said that -I like to think that when I make a judgement - at least I know it is a judgement!

So this Core me or Real Me somehow has the possibilities of different personalities on it or within it (whatever).
But the Real me isn't the person -me (Mini-Me!)
The Real Me has a different viewpoint than the Mini-Me.




.More spooky stuff.
.We are Creators.

It's about Creation.
My 12 year old self and my adult self were created by the Core Me or Real Me (whatever that is).
...Created by me...

Well I like to think so - that's how it feels to me. - It wasn't my mother that made me (!) that's for sure.
When I agree to something - I create it also.
Only I can create my world
eg
"LOOK AT THIS MESS - YOU FILTHY BEAST!!"
I think to myself "Yes I agree [!!!!!] do leave a mess everywhere".
...and lo! in her 17th year, she was still messy.



I create my world
I create my personality

But what we COULD agree on and MAKE TRUE is that we are NOT the cause of our lives.
I could create that I am NOT the creator of my world
and further more:
I could create things bigger than "myself" (bigger than my personality)
...like an addiction...or 'outside controlling factors'.

Some people seem to have created a personality like that.

The point is: we are creators.
I've covered this in loads of blog postings - The manifestation of beliefs in the physical and mental realms. Beliefs and how they create the world is old spiritual news and really got going with the "New Thought" Movement over a hundred years ago , went through Napoleon Hill with his book "Think And Grow Rich"(1937) and is widely demonstrated nowadays in a zillion places for your own research.  Including the Law Of Attraction (from 1906 onwards), Hypnosis (!), The Placebo Effect (!), NLP, "The Secret" and "What The Bleep Do We Know" DVDs, and modern science which contrary to popular belief has moved on since Newton and even Einstein (though his spiritual ponderings are very modern) ...'modern science' in Quantum Physics.
Of the whole lot -I still like the old writing of the New Thought pioneers the best - it has no 'send money here' rider and seems the most hard hitting and undiluted. But it is diluted by references to the Bible presumably to related to a then more 'God-fearing' society and also out of fear -fear of The Church. Fifty years earlier saw Charles Darwin's The Origin Of Species (1859) inflaming Christians into loud protests and probably got him banned from the Vicarage -a century or two earlier still and he may have been executed as a heretic.


"The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts."
'As A Man Thinketh' essay by James Allen (1902)  [ it's a free pdf...]

I am not a fully paid up member of the New Thought Movement. Though very groovy stuff all the authors see a healthy body, and an uplifted happy personality as desirable.

Personally I don't care how miserable you are or whether you live or die -I don't think it matters.Ooops!
But that's the Big Me -the Mini Me feels your pain - I guess I live a double life!!!
"Namaste", the greeting, in the West means " The Divine in me greets the Divine in you" ; and thus I see your Divinity, I see your Vastness, and I love you no matter what you think you are, or do to others, or yourself, and should you convince yourself that you are a person and should you have that person experience sadness then I see that as perhaps only something I may hold as upsetting for me, in the same manner one regards a child crying over a broken toy - the longer she weeps the more likely I will too!

There's a mini-Paloma technology here -
when everything goes pear shaped and emotions and judgements are ablaze - step back and feel the Divinity in the 'enemy'.  Feel their Hugeness. And you will see your own Splendidness also - and you will smile and you will be in the Promised Land :)

We are creators - you get what you believe !



.Creating emotions. + Dealing with unwanted emotions.

Well emotions are there.
And I am saying that we created them.

But rather than go there I would like to jump to 'dealing with unwanted emotions' because that's easier to explain. It's a technology of sorts.

I suppose an emotion could be represented as a film covering what we see.
Perhaps a happy layer. Or an angry layer . Or a bored layer.
Different objects may have different emotions enveloping them - but the concept seems to work.

Try to look at what your emotions look like - do they look like a film over things or appear as a veil before the world or perhaps follow the 'rose tinted spectacles' idea?

The main concept here is to be looking at emotions rather than imagining them as something inherent to who we are.

So if I find an unwanted emotion appearing -I don't concern myself with why or how or anything.
My interest is to dissolve it.

This is done -spookily or metaphysically - ie  ..just like that! Poof or ping -or whoosh - Gone.
I suppose my power to dissolve unwanted emotions stems from who I think I really am.
Like you -I cannot define myself - my core -because it's the ineffable ,indefinable me.
But
Whatever I am -it is something that can also dissolve emotions - it's that simple.

Signpost >> Don't think -just try that dissolving emotions thing..
Again -to try to figure this out with the mind is just a waste of time.

In fact anything in the mind is erasable! A thought, a belief, a judgement , label , an emotion - whatever you find that your attention is on.
I find I don't need to know where or when or how this mental manifestation arrived.
All I know is that I can erase or dissolve it if I choose.

These actions are done in 'The Now' - there's no mental excursion into the recorded past or any mental mind computations at all.
'The Now' implies time -but it is used, so I used it, but I don't like using it.
 Where is time,linear time,tick-tock in the Real You?
(These actions,dissolving things in the mind are done in "This").

The mind has things or objects in it - like cars are things (I said forget about cars).

The whole point is - the Real-Me-whatever-that-is-thingy - is looking at the mind and playing with it.



.Some recapping.

I create my world
I create my personality

What you really are is a ..erm...the thing that you couldn't define when you look !!!
The thing that sits as author and creator of the mind - The "Whatever That Is"

The Real You -  The 'Whatever That Is' is looking at the mind.

The mind is the target not the method.
The mind is the target not the method. (yes indeed).
Dropping back into the mind and trying the old habit of deductive reasoning just goes nowhere.

Thus we can 'fix', erase, dissolve anything that comes from the mind including
Any unwanted thought or incoming stream of thoughts
Any unwanted judgement that pops up
Any unwanted emotion that appears.
Any unwanted desire - that could be something you like the sound of?

We are taking as given -that we have made all these.
BUT...
We are not concerned with when why or how we made them -only that they are here now and unwanted.

I've been doing this sort of thing for a while -many years.
And when one thing appears in your face and you dissolve it -often other stuff arises.
This maybe related issues -or insights into the origin of it all.
But my focus remains on the sort of mind I want to have and not on idle archaeology!!

I have tried digging around in the mind - it can be interesting but it has only been an excursion. It's up to you but remember that the mind is the target and not to start adding thinking to the things you find.

This is a technology of sorts and is results orientated.




.Desires regarding this - Desires regarding clearing 'unwanteds' from the mind.
(I put this towards the end because Desire is a big deal these days).

Desire perhaps is deeply ingrained in the western mind - ambitions and all that.

For desires -remember they reside in the mind!
Desire resides in the mind. (yes indeed).
And the mind is the target !

No need to want to get this done - that's a mind computation
No need to be successful at it - that's mental also.

Just erase stuff as and when they pop up.

You are already THAT- the Whatever-you-really-are-thing !!!

Signpost >> Don't think about this -just deal with what arises.
Thinking just doesn't work here! (yawn -as I keep saying).

Chill Girl -It's all okay!!!
Be cool Dude - !!!

we
are
groovy.


.More recapping.

Its worth me repeating:
The mind is the target not the method -
Dropping back into the mind and trying the old habit of deductive reasoning just goes nowhere.

If I now say - I hope this article (blog #20) makes you happy -you may see the joke.
But it may add happiness and take away unwanted stuff when living as a person.
(It's a good job I didn't begin with that sentence! ).


.Viewpoint shift. Shifting to the Real Me to look at the mind.

Signpost >> I am Really Struggling now so LOOK >>
Because language is from the mind and thus is limited.

The Person - the personality and the 'Whatever-That-Is' -Real-Me now may seem as points of view.
The Person mostly is the mind or at least seems defined by it.
The Person is made with the mind - perhaps -doesn't matter -these are just thoughts LOL
The Real-Me isn't ! And just sees the mind as another thing.
I've called them Mini-Me and Real-Me in earlier writings.

So a shift of viewpoint occurs when we pop out of a the mind and the person we normally think we are.
The better I can point you at the Real-You -the better you can 'go there' and do the
Viewpoint shift.
And with the viewpoint shift  -you can clear unwanteds in the mind and have a happier Person -viewpoint for when you return to it.





.If you just cannot get into the Real-Me Spooky Concept - try this...

Okay.
Go with a proper new viewpoint
This is solid and can be seen by the mind.

Create a Higher Self.
Shift 'up' to that.

From 'up here' you can see the 'snail trail' of the person you have been.
"Oooooo look how unhappy she is about THAT!!!!!"

Step out of your personality.
The viewpoint shift.

From here you can do the same thing, clearing unwanteds from the Person- Mini-Me's mind that you now see laid out before you.

But chill !! All is well.

Don't worry about slipping back into the old you.
Forget about that.
It's just thought.

There may be clouds but The Sun is always shining
There may be unwanteds but you must feel somewhere that behind all that is a Real You or this Higher self that is not bothered about anything :))


.Okay enough.
.Final spooky comments.

Using the 'Real Me'  we create a person and personality -with - the mind -  and only here do we start "I am".


You may discover - that even the bestest wildest emotions like joy or ecstasy, do not rival not having an emotion at all !!!  (Don't even THINK about calling that 'Bliss' -haha).
.
Now that is spooky!


.Imagine.

Imagine your are sitting at your desk one Saturday afternoon perhaps following something of interest on the internet.
When suddenly
Whoooosh
You are transported to a vast vast infinite sea or ocean of light.
And you look and there seem to be all the pretty colours there
And the feeling is just overwhelming
It's love but no!
It is more than love
And you loose yourself in it

And you begin to realise that this infinite beauty of light and love and everything is you.
And you just float there bathing in everything that you are
And you know that some where some part of you is probably weeping tears of joy
And because you are British and because you are nicely educated and went to a respectable university and because Mummy and Daddy were middle class and because you like to use words like uncouth and unseemly in long complicated sentences. Because of all these things you say to yourself
"Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!"


Love,
The Very Spooky
Paloma Porta
31st March 2012

#19 Mind part 1 - What's Your Mind Telling You?

 DRAFT
 I keep adding and subtracting - it has content but it lacks continuity maybe..
Maybe just read each bit as it comes for now.


#19 - What's Your Mind Telling You?


.Defintions.
Definitions I am a big fan of using the ones already in the dictionary -having said that existing defintions for 'mind' are very varied.

Mind
 ...I suppose I mean #3 below - rather than #2 which I would label as mind+consciousness.

Mind:- per dictionary.com
noun
1.
(in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
2.
Psychology . the totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes and activities.
3.
intellect or understanding, as distinguished from the faculties of feeling and willing; intelligence.
4.
a particular instance of the intellect or intelligence, as in a person.
5.
a person considered with reference to intellectual power: the greatest minds of the twentieth century.

I am defining 'thought' here as the judgements and opinions we have in our minds.
I do not include perceptions (the 5 senses) here as thoughts in our mind.
This is the framework of definitions I am using.
So I see the 'mind' as that bit of me that has opinions and judgements and puts labels on the world. ..and by a 'label' I am talking about attributes we add to things in our minds which are not physically present - Like a wonderful movie - when it's just a movie.

I am not really redefining the word 'mind' but rather putting it into my belief system - a belief system that you do not have to agree with.

You may not have judgements popping into your head and neither need they be 'negative' or 'self -sabotaging'' or anything like some of the self help books might have us believe!
But I would say that we are in control of our minds because we created them!
(see earlier stuff  I wrote here)

Creative thought -  a different type of thought - they can be spotted as they arrive as the Imperative or Command Line.   I am this -I am that  - I am lonely - I am happy today - Let's build a huge sandcastle!
I have put it to you in earlier articles that these are the fabric of creation - they make your world.

.Western Society lives in the mind.
You have seen this idea before -but it's worth repeating here.
What do you think? What do I think? What are they thinking?

I have even found myself analysing why I was having such a great time -eek.
In American slang "You think?" can sometimes mean a comedic or sarcastic sort of "You agree?" - it's cool sounding actually  -and I love using it. ..but you get the point.
Society seems to give us the idea that to resolve problems one must think them through and that depends on how clever you are.
And children 'must think' also...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a common disorder in adolescent children, with symptoms of inattention, and/or impulsiveness and hyperactivity. These symptoms should have been present before the age of seven, must be present in two or more different settings (school and home, for example), and should be causing some impairment in the child's functioning, including causing difficulty in school, or in social situations. If your child has the symptoms of attention deficit disorder, but it isn't causing any impairment in his functioning, then he doesn't have ADHD. 

...I am thinking you are thinking maybe children don't want to think as much as we think they should think?

All this focus on thinking means that whenever something happens we often tend to think about it.
Many of us "spiritual types" are beginning to wonder if this is mankind's greatest folly -over thinking.


What is your mind telling you?

A lot of people might automatically see this question as the same as:
What am I telling myself?

But I wish to separate those people from their minds! ...muhahahaha!


.Separating you from your mind and emotions.

This is something some of the Great Philosophers seemed unable to do. In my humble opinion.
Bertrand Russell himself in his famous essay -Why I Am Not A Christian(1927) - waffles on and on analysing the existence of God and so forth (bouncing around in his mind) when all one has to do is perceive God (be himself and simply look) - I've said this idea before... [it's a free pdf and there's a wikipedia article on it].

I do however subscribe to Russell's anti-biblical sentiments, my position being that anyone who actually read the bible would find the "sins" against man in the name of "Almighty God", ironically for Christians make the bible one of the greatest works of "blasphemy" ever written. But this is only to counter Christian judgement of me (it happens) with a judgement of my own.
[As a reincarnated Witch once said to me "Fuck Christianity -The longest conversation I ever had with a Christian was with the fellow who was lighting a fire at my feet."]

But my main thrust - is to question the Bertrand Russell essay's "devastating in its use of cold logic"[from the Wiki] - because logic resides in the mind. The world just is - and to judge it or Christianity or Bertrand Russell is just an added mental thing we do.
You will note that the mental processes continue for ever - Russell's essay is probably answered by a Christian text somewhere and my comments can be easily refuted.

The mind and thoughts and the conclusions of deductive reasoning go round and round and round and round and round. More likely - these conclusions dont mean anything for certain.
eg : You are tired and deduce you should sit and rest. You sit and the door bell rings. So much for logic -you should have saved energy and remained standing - there is not the certainty of data in deduction, in thought. in the mind.
eg : I was exhausted at work and deduced I needed sleep. I got home and felt wide awake and alert!
 - Ironically you could argue that this is wrong and there is cetainty -haha - see? It just all goes round and round?




Thus I will ask you to perceive here the physical nature of thought and thus the limits of the mind.
I hope you see thoughts as things and the mind as a thing.
To look at thoughts in the mind for 'The Truth' might be as effective as rummaging in your handbag!
Once we view the mind and thoughts as things -in the same manner we view the physical - revelations abound!




The belief I am pushing on you here is:-
Whatever you are (maybe you're not sure)  - you are not your thoughts.


So there is You and Your Mind - 
a. Can you see your mind and all thoughts as things,mere objects like you perceive objects in the physical realm? 
b. Can you imagine all emotions also -as NOT YOU ?

You feel content, sad, angry, bored - Is that you? Are the joys or tears actually you ? Or are all emotions things you have made?

Find out who you really are - and if you get lots of confusing thoughts realise that these are things ,your mind is a thing - this may help...and emotions are not you either!




.One entrance point to this is to look at the physical world and our 'Labels'.
There are physical objects (a table) and the mental labels we attach to them (it needs cleaning).
Also we have judgements opinions and I am calling all of these 'labels'. -
A judgement is only my opinion -it's not true or false , it is just a label - this may not be self evident -I will address this later.

I hope to tempt you rather to see the world as just 'in existance' first without any mental modifiers. 
From here mental judgements seem more visible - thoughts seem more visible as something else to look at along with the physical world.
eg "The table needs cleaning"...."oh"...."it's just a table with some dust on it...that's all it is - my thought of cleaning it is merely my mental addition."...."I can now see the idea of cleaning it separate from the table -so that's two things I am perceiving here -the table and my judgement or thoughts about it"

Do we not see the physical object (or physical event) and the Label we attach to it?

Kindly consider:-
The point is the 'you-ness' of the thinking separates out from the thinking itself when thoughts become clear as just things.
You create thoughts. Or have set up mechanisms to generate them.





The more one is immersed in thought the more it can feel like who we are

The more one is immersed in emotion the more it can feel like who we are


For someone grounded in the 'Mundane World' it may seem hard to separate the self from the mind.
..and harder to separate self from emotions.It is commonplace perhaps to fall into a thought process in the hopes of finding truth.

...eg: 'Good' people make modern medicine -but modern medicine makes more people -do we need more people on this little planet? ...Thinking just goes round and round!

Some things may seem to automatically come with a label.
'Murder is wrong'.
One must concede this is just our judgement. We are not suddenly in favour of murder -one can have values -but these values are just our opinion on how we wish to live. To allow 'Murder is wrong' is to entertain 'Cats are cruel to mice' and all sorts of human nonsense.

Step into our spiritual world and let go of the human side! Humanity's goal seems to be to survive no matter what the cost to nature and to concrete the world!!!

- What is so specially absolutely correct about the human viewpoint on anything?


Suddenly it can seem that truth is to be found not by thinking but by perception!!!



I highly recommend that you look at life without thinking about it - you have tried thinking! and some of you have 40,50,60 adult years of thinking!
If you are looking for "The Truth" then consider there's plenty of new exciting data to find - by not thinking and just perceiving.


There are ways to stop thinking. You may know of some. It's quite a rush!!
Meanwhile read on !


I suppose I would say one uses the mind to think and one uses 'oneself' - the bit that doesn't think - to perceive and create.

For those folks that consider perception and thinking as the same - I would say  -you haven't lived until you stopped thinking!  Normally mental overwhelm stops thinking like a sudden stunning view or suddenly facing great danger. ...Some people don't think at all or rarely.

It would be soooo easy for me to carry on the much spread idea that the mind chatters uncontrollably all the time - and indeed that meditation can address this.
I consider this to be crap.
Stated repeatedly in earlier articles -I think the mind is ours to control as we made it.
Perhaps the premise of NLP which contrasts psychology in that it actually cures people of unwanted issues(!) - the NLP premise is perhaps that we are in control of our minds.


.Controlling the mind ...changing our minds...
.A lesson from hypnosis.
I've watching youtube again!

The command "Sleep!" is well known but there also is
"Blank!"
The hypnotists explains that with the command "Blank!" the person's mind will go blank and thus they might experience no thoughts -especially no current worries.

"Blank!"
 - it's a cool idea isn't it? Automatic relaxation I suppose.

The hypnotist then would introduce the person to the matter at hand, be it stopping smoking cigarettes or jumping around like a puppy!!!

I don't want to swallow all the explanations (accept all the belief systems) offered for hypnosis here. They vary but include 'the conscious mind programming the subconscious mind' - personally I don't have a subconscious mind -but if you want to create one  -go for it! LOL (not recommended!). I might add that some  people feel they use this subconscious mind to create things metaphysically using the law of attraction etc -but I just see it as creation.
[The subconscious mind - why would I want to make a part of 'myself' that I cannot control or perceive? Or, why would I want to agree to (to make) something that is "just there" and that my 'conscious mind' considers to be not of my manufacture and controls me?
In the physical world we might call an example of this type of thing "the reason for the car accident".LOL
PS: I believe that I make my Entire world - What else are you making that controls you - that you think you didn't make? If this feels true then that's groovy - but don't think about it (trust me- - see the 'spooky stuff' I write about later on here)!! ]

BUT if you want proof of what you can do with your mind (and via a hypnotist at least) and that you are in control of your mind - have a look at the various hypnotist video demonstrations!

From what I've seen and read:
Hypnotism works to the extent a person believes in it.
Often for example , those most fearful of being hypnotised 'go-under' the most quickly, the deepest and are the most suggestible.

It comes down to a belief in what is possible -(yawn)  - like I've been saying for ages !!!

.Do you believe you can control your mind?
If not -why not?
You will find the answer comes back to the above line -that you just don't feel you can - all other explanations I would suggest to you are rooted here.

.What power do you feel you have over your mind - your thoughts?
Indeed ! What do you believe?
Do you feel a thousand hours of recall on childhood memories will stop a reoccurring unwanted thought pattern? Or do you believe you can just stop them? hehe.
Patient : Doctor, Doctor  - It hurts when I do this!
Doctor : Stop doing that!

Kindly consider:-
I propose a thought IS NOT YOU.
I propose that one can just let old unwanted thought patterns go. You made them -you agreed to them - they're yours --- Let gooooo.
You are not your thoughts.
Your thoughts are your creation.
Find out who you really are !
The answers are within you -not me - and are not written here - follow your truth not mine.


.What is your mind telling you?

"Blank!" !!!  hehe why not use that?
Then just perceive your world, your reality  - without mentally adding all the judgements and opinions.

..a red chair
..a grey car
..a blue dress
..a yellow book
..a green tree
..a square mirror
..a gold ring

You may have some insights into how you make your thoughts and whether you like all of those that you have created.
You may also discover the world is a very different place than you had imagined :))

.The Spooky part  - Advaita or Non-Duality.
But for myself when I do this  -separate myself from more and more things; from the physical world, from my mind, from thoughts, from emotions,from judgements from ideas and concepts and everything -something strange happens.
I find my self sort of expanding.
I feel that these things are all somehow part of me and that I can find no boundary where I stop and anything else starts. Even other 'separate' people seem to be somehow included within me - spiritually I cannot find where I stop and my friend begins.
More and more I feel there is no separation.
More and more I feel like I am everything.
And the mind and thoughts get pushed aside.
Thoughts about me having limits and not being this or that suddenly are just merely thoughts and have no meaning.
The significances of thought processes that might question this are also merely included in what I am.
Which is Everything.

The moment I follow perhaps old patterns and return to the mind and rational thought for understanding - the journey just begins again! There is no understanding in a thought -it's an object, a thing - what understanding of Life is in an object?

There's nothing to think about.
Nothing to understand.
Nothing there to explain.
How can I explain all this with objects (thoughts expressed as language)?
"I am Everything" - is just an addition - an added thing!

Even "I am" is just an addition!

..and the funny thing is there is nothing I need to do to attain this or be this. I already am this. There can be thoughts that (or I can think that) it's all rubbish or there may be issues crises or drama or joy or whatever - it makes no difference.
The world is.
Thoughts are.
Emotions are.
Things are.
Life is.


Spooky :)

Do yourself a favour - have a look at it :)
It's called Advaita or Non-Duality.


(Repeated)...The answers are within you -not me - and are not written here -follow your truth not mine.





Thought are objects simply of your own manufacture -try to dig yourself out from the seductive meaning of things.!


.Labels or judgements that seem so TRUE!
This is the classic mind bender
"But it's TRUE !!!!!!"
..I discussed this a little with 'murder is wrong' above.

Look that the Judgement or thought that you consider true.
Pull back from the physical world -the possible complaint you have -eg I am poor.

A thought or judgement exists - that's all -it's neither true or false.
eg: "She should never wear blue "
But sometimes a Creative Thought - makes things true!
eg  "Being poor makes me miserable". -This is true inasmuch as poverty has given you upset.
But the truth of it - it's true-ness - lies only within it ..There are some happy poor people.
So thus it doesn't really qualify as true to that extent.
More importantly -you can change your mind - 
You can make a judgement that is true for you -  false or just vanish.


Sometimes I feel the incredible meaning and weighty significance of a thought stream sucks me in.
Sometimes I have to step waaaaaay back from the life I have to see it all as mere thought.
Then I can just stop creating it.

As a tip I would say  -trying to remedy an unwanted thought stream immediately from within it can just bounce you round and round and round within it. Pull back to some sort of detached view. See it all as just more stuff of your manufacture. Then just let it all gooooo.

Find out who you really are.
You may decide you are not your mind or your thoughts.
In which case thoughts probably will be perceived as things and as things  -they can be changed.

.SO WHAT?
.How can this make me a happy bouncy bunny?
.Is there a technology that's actually useful here?

Try this:
If you get an emotion or a thought or chain of thought you don't like:
a. See it as an object of your creation
b. Recognise you can change your mind!
c. Decide that it's unwanted
d. Ask yourself questions like :-
"Why would I create this ?
"If I bought a new car (created a thought) would I try and drive it over my toes (make the whole creation unwanted)?
e. Stop doing that! 
f.  See any troubling thought arising as a thing, just a thing , a self created meaning... and it should evaporate.

You will be amazed what you can 'fix'.
All that "I am never really happy" bullshit will just poof.
"My life is too complicated to make better -it's probably all buried in my past"
etc

.Separating yourself from your emotions.
I have mentioned above that I consider emotions themelves NOT to be us.
But.

I think I might do a whole posting on this subject. It's a bit of a big 'ask' perhaps and would take quite a lot of really spooky spiritual stuff to download my ideas.


.An overview.
Another self-help author (is that what I am?)...might advise you to look at all of your Mind -all the thoughts you ever had or ever will have about everything -..and re-label them as total BS ..or having no meaning.

Indeed years ago a psychiatrist once advised me to imagine (label) my mind as "poisonous" and like a parrot sitting on my shoulder that wouldn't shut up - how about that for a creation? Eeeek -OMG words fail.

But I would say just look at your Mind in Total, all of it, the lot -  as a thing -something you have made and thus as your creation, it is something you can change.

Hopefully by now you will agree - the mind isn't good or bad or a friend or an enemy or merit any judgement - it just is.


.Final Thought.
What do I perceive?


If one is looking for answers  -that is probably the only thought that's worth anything - and that probably isn't in the mind anyway -hehe -this is just looking!



Love you,

The Blank and Thoughtful
Paloma Porta
28 March 2012.

#17 Spirituality -The use of language

#17 Spirituality -The use of language


To study my words is to not understand.
To feel my words is to complete the communication from me to you.
I have a concept - you read my words - you feel the concept - the communication cycle is complete -  you may have to read the paragraph or entire article again to do this.
That's how language should work  -imho.
To tear apart one of my sentences, indeed any sentence from any author, removed from the whole is to become the worst academic.

And in my determination to get the concept across I tend to take liberties with the language partly from a lack of expertise and also because I don't think 'conversational' english is a sin !!!

My words point to the idea I wish to impart - and by the time the article or sub-section within it is finished hopefully the summation of words somehow merges with the idea.
Sometimes it's a few concepts strung together under a general heading with a conclusion.
Some times it's one idea.

My hope is you can piece things together thus.
To get my idea and fill in the things I should have mentioned and omitted to write!
To tie up loose ends..or add links to a succession of ideas that I forgot put in.
And in addition I hope to spawn you taking things further.

"Oh I see what she's doing -she's contrasting this with the earlier one,
or maybe that's my idea and Paloma might agree - that's groovy :)) "


I suppose I am calling for some compassion when we read what people write.
'Badly written' works may yet have great truth in them and many, many insights for us.
Often people are writing in english as a second language (I am not).
I try to feel what they're going on about before I discard stuff.
I tend to 'power-read' or 'skim-read'  the whole thing to get an overall idea first -then read it. -or for a book -I might 'dip into' bits of it along it's full course or read chapter headings.
This can be 'dangerous' so I hold my quickie overall view only as a hypothesis for the actually reading.

My point is - because of the way I think language functions best - I am trying to integrate and author's writings into the fullest body of her work I can get or feel like reading.
I don't like to differentiate sentences and pieces of it for 'fear' of loosing her big picture.

And I watch out for spiritual types -redefining words...lol
"Consciousness means knowing" etc...It doesn't...it means being aware of being aware -that's what it says in my dictionary !!!
But again ..maybe he was trying to say "Consciousness leads to knowing"..but sometimes they don't ...lol

Analogies. I tend not to employ them - I find myself discussing the thing itself.
An analogy is the poor cousin of talking about the thing itself...lol. (that was almost an analogy). I don't find myself holding the centre like a 'graceful ballerina' or finding the stillness of a 'still lake'.  Ballerinas probably have bad ankles and gymnastically tensed muscles and lakes have all sorts of associations like being flat maybe...lol. It's confusing.
However, I have read some wonderful spiritual analogies but one must withdraw from them asap - or else we find ourselves in the analogy and not feeling the actual thing.


.For my stuff:-
Going deeper  -try to feel me.
Try to feel what I am saying.
You can access me any time you like -I am here, I was always here  - I will always be here :)




To study the subject an author puts forward is to dwell on it for the time of the read and later in subsequent ponderings.
Indeed,one can disagree ,dislike or battle with an author all the way through her work and emerge yet with insights and blessings!
Thus I write of feelings and spirituality and am happy to point you that way and feel these things, 'the spiritual dimensions' are something I consider very much worth the exploration whether you concur with my thoughts or not.

It doesn't matter what I believe -it's all about you -feel your way -feel your own truth - follow your bliss and all that !!! :))


Love you,
The Totally Huggable Concept
Paloma Porta
5th December 2011

#16 Spirituality - What is Love ?

 #16 Spirituality  - What is Love ?


'What is love' seems to deserve it's own article/blog posting here: though it is short.


I can define love and settle several thousand years of philosophical debate !!
Ready?

'Love is what you feel when you love.'




The Loving
Paloma Porta
5th Dec 2011

#15 Spirituality -Can anyone be really helped? v.2

#15 Spirituality -Can anyone be really helped?  Version 2  -much added

In #14 , I discussed :-
 Everything is Perfect.
 There is nothing to fix.
 There is nothing to do.

.Preamble
I suggested that the answer depends on from which viewpoint ,from which angle, that you look at it.
I also suggested that from 'our view ' here among the cars and 3 bedroom houses that things do not seem perfect,there's plenty to fix and a lot to do  -like perhaps fix Global Warming.

I offered other suggestions from what I might imagine an 'Awakened/Enlightened View' and perhaps a Divine View. Namely that Life just is, and it's only our judgements that we criticise!
I pointed out that a Perfect Infinite Creator wouldn't by definition create a perfect world necessarily - but that's how it feels to me !!!
Though Life just is - it may well be perfect !

And also that there is really nothing to do to improve the Creation -but one can take the opportunity we have been given  -to have fun with it or perhaps impose our own set of values upon it thus to enjoy our individuality, express ourselves in groups of like minded people and even change the whole world.
I could expand this to say that perhaps we could Create some thing Wonderful and Decent and then offer it to the Creator and say "What do you think of that? -Isn't it totally groovy?" hehe.

Restated (again!):-
I see things as just things and not needing improving.
My opinions,concepts ,labels and judgements on things are just mine when these things themselves clearly are just things without these labels.
...and more than that -they are all created by God,the Divine,the Infinite Awareness so who am I to caste judgement upon them?
But everything does feel perfect to me.!


Substituting people for things in the above - gives us the questions:-
 Are people perfect (as they are)?
 There is no one to 'fix'?...There is no one to help?
 There's nothing to do to help people?..There's no reason to help people?

more succinctly:-
People are perfect?
No one to help?
No reason to help?


.There's no reason to help people -people just are -why caste judgement up on them?
and
.There's no reason to help the already perfect people?

Ouch -that seems a bit harsh !
Using my refusal as ever to entertain reasoned debate straight from my highly developed powers of deductive reasoning...lol
Refusing to to that - because I seek a spiritual path and use my awareness and feelings:-
What do I feel?
How does this feel?

Well it feels horrible -eeek- I want to help people and make less suffering for them I suppose.
I could see myself eating a burger in a detached way watching someone drown at the sea side...eek2 "Noooooooo"
I see myself not bothering to help an injured animal if i could -eek3 "Noooooooo"
I see myself not concerned with Humanities' spiritual growth..eek4 "Noooooooo"


If you struggled through my preceding posting #14 Everything is perfect? using that methodology the answers drop out:-

Yup, people just are - to help them is to label them as imperfect and needing fixing.
Yup,people do feeeeel to me however -perfect as they are!
Yup, I choose to help people because I want to live in a world where people are happier and show better care for this blue planet and everything on it.
I want this not to improve on the Creation, the God-created people, the Divinely-created people - but just to satisfy my desires for the people of the world.

.So that's it then? Sorted? We can all go back to Second Life and go shopping?
Hmmmm.



Clearly I and others hold sentient beings (people and animals) as more valuable than things like wooden posts and make-up.
We're putting the horse before the cart!
People (and fluffy animals) seem somehow more precious?

Not to wash the car (not fix it) seems fine -but to watch another suffer (not fix them) seems harder.

So is this just a judgement?
People are more valuable than things?
"Time not important. Only life important." from the movie The Fifth Element.(lol)

The Shamans tell us 'consciousness is in everything -the people,the animals,the plants,the rocks,the lakes,the sky,the planets,the stars..everything'.
"Consciousness sleeps in the rocks,dreams in the plants,stirs in the animals and awakens in Man" The Secret DVD...
(..maybe? - ever chatted to a crystal or the Moon or Gaia...lol)

When I type this -I am on your vibration and you perceive it.
When a Shaman talks to a lake -perhaps he feels it just as sentient -I will have to ask.
Does the crystal,or lake, or thing have the rest of it's identity in another dimension ?
Do we see just the tips of the metaphysical icebergs with things?
I feel there's something going on like this  -you might think I am nuts but the crystals and trees and so forth feel sentient to me; even a pentagram ring I had didn't like me!
Maybe this is my creation?
Am I making things this way?
But others do perceive these things,,hundreds of thousands of us ,planet wide.

So to tune into the correct vibration is the ability to talk to ...anything.
This is what I feel

This is not mathematics.(I have no Q.E.D.quod erat demonstrandum)
This is what I feel.

This is using those perceptions that us spiritual types go on and on about - why just see with your eyes - when you can get a cart load more data by feeeel ???

okay so if we go from this viewpoint:
Things are just as sentient as the people in our lives.
...we still have the situation where people suffer !! Rocks don't seem to suffer here  -maybe a polluted lake could feel distress but lakes are BIG...(maybe that's part of it).
But things appear not to show the distress that a weeping child does.


So that makes people:-
a. More important than things?
b. Needing more urgency to help?

c. Or is it just that the 'people channel' is familiar vibration that we tune into. We hear the our friend's distress transmission (they speak) but don't pick up the transmitted vibration from the nearby fresh water stream (the way it feels).

Hmmmmm...lol

Well it depends on one's position I suppose - I am sure there are many that hold the life of a chimpanzee (awww blesss) higher than that of almost any human. And others who would do nasty things to the employees of drug companies that do live animal testing. And there's the anti-human folks who presumably calculate Nature is better off without us.
But there's not a lot of love in some of these types of computations!
But all are points of view.



I suppose that's it really -what's your position ,your angle,your view,your concern with helping people?
Do you cry and worry and help?
Or do you find yourself detached?
Or does it depend on how 'good' you feel the person is?
Or whether they are an 'innocent victim'?
Or your family and friends?

'God made us' 
'God made us perfect'
-if you subscribe to one or both of these or feel them, this may be a way to let go of  'things you cannot control', people you are unable to help.

Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching has been translated as saying "Hold the centre"
One can be neutral with people not in a lack of love but only in neither reaching out to them or withdrawing from them.
I feel from the center, neutrality, surrender, acceptance and from detachment one still can love -this position is not 'cold'. (One is accepting things as they are <they just exist> - not accepting one's judgements -not accepting 'bad' things).
In life this is a valuable tool as well for failures to help and failures generally -all of which of course are more judgements...lol...yawn...lol.


Personal struggle and misfortune spawns growth as we know. The recovered cancer patient and their new way of viewing the world -often they bless the cancer and wouldn't have had their lives go any other way.

If I had rushed in with some reiki healing and cured them,denying this spiritual growth time line -would I have really helped them?
Or just sated my desire not to see them suffer? Just acted on my judgement of them?


 
.Love and Help
.Let me offer even another viewpoint  - and ask to reconsider priorities.


Many spheres of educated people will tell us that Survival is our true motivator and urge.
This they hold is higher in us than duty or love or decency or fairness or any of the intangible(?) spiritual values.
They position us as scared cornered animals that will tear anything apart merely to live another second.
But this has not been our history has it?
Individuals time and time and time again have put their lives second to higher causes.
Indeed they are our champions and heroes - rather than some sucker who didn't live!
Many died from an instant decision .."No - I would rather die"
And others 'killed themselves' slowly there entire life or had a longer period to contemplate death's inevitability - ! The Christian Missionaries,some Monks,the Saints,some inventors,personnel at war in the armed forces,- all offered their lives for a higher cause than bodily survival.

What intrigues me are the Agnostics among them - that a person who knows he will disappear forever when his bodily life is over -for him or her to give that up for a higher cause. Words fail.
What common thread in their consciousness motivated them to perform this "supreme sacrifice"?

But there was this urge -a higher motivation that I feel is deep within all of us.

I am not asking you to think about it!
I am asking you to feel it in yourself !!!

Mothers will gladly (British english) stand in front of the bullet to save their children.
For Behavioural Psychology to degrade this to some genetic species survival trait feels incorrect to me!
How does it feel for you?
Is this a 'soul' thing or a 'meat body' thing?

Some call it Duty . I shall call it Decency -but it's the feeling not the words.
Words only point to feelings and concepts.


Pure Love. Maybe this is supreme and rises yet again above duty and decency?
I think so.
Love is pure you say...lol...let's not go there - you know what I mean!
Just loving -only love ...love...that one !! Please just feel it :)

(.back to helping)
So with this feeling of duty or decency and Pure Love as the higher motivators than mere body survival where do we stand with helping others?
If one can assume the highest vibration possible at any given moment - then spiritually I feel what follows are one's 'highest' decisions.

From this high vibration then let's consider this lovely blue planet and all the creatures great an small!
Suddenly we recycle old cans out of love and not because the neighbours do it.
We feed a stray cat with love.
We give to charity with love.
We promote causes of nature preservation ,not for mankind's future or our children's future so much as, out of Love.

Feel the whole world from here  -from Love.
It should offer a different approach!

Importantly -we also feel some stray cats we meet should not be fed.
Some charities don't feel right to give to -at that time.
And sometimes Nature must come before Mankind !!!

Things we "should do" now seem clear. Or clearer.

Consider "tough love" where one denies a person of something as an act of love - actions that mimic lower vibrations , or are 'higher harmonics' of cruelty perhaps.
It seems unfair but it is love.
To feel these things from Love is vastly different than reasoning one should do this to your child because a child care book has said so.
Rise above your thoughts and the endless calculations and extrapolations of the future and just feel.
Life is not chess -there are not moves to try to predict.
If I help this person they will get a better job -these thoughts to me seems too material -too much in the mind,too calculating,too much like chess.

Should I help this person? - From Love - How does that feel?
There's your answer !

Should I work at this factory that does that to the nearby lake?
(should I help the lake?)
maybe yes
maybe no
How does it feel?

From Love : Must we as a species and individually act more in harmony with nature - even though we may be inconvenienced by today's standards?
Is there a win-win scenario?

Is humanity, any one life, so precious as to save it no matter what happens to our environment?


These are what are called 'leading questions' please consider(feel) the opposites of their inferences.

With helping anyone or anything  - just love - and there is our way forward!




.Conclusion -to this idea  -Does anyone need help?

I think one must feels one's way.
'Should I help?'.. These decisions will not think through.

I would say if you feel motivated to help -do so.
If it succeeds  -that's cool :)
If you fail despite your best efforts to help, or limited efforts to help or get rejected by the person -that's cool also.

The thing is we are all parts of God.
It's been said by many that we are parts of God to help God experience things from as many different viewpoints as possible.

"Every act reveals God and expands His being.
I know that may be hard
to comprehend.

All creatures are doing their best
to help God in His birth
of Himself."

Meister Eckhart
[Quoted by someone to me...may not be verbatim correct -doesn't matter]

Sooooo... you got an identity made from the Infinite Awareness of the Creator.
That identity is what we think of as me and you.
If that identity feels motivated to something -go for it!

Help them , help people when you feel it's right.
But everything is perfect.
People are perfect.
People are just parts of God and don't really need fixing.
People are Divine.
Don't worry about it.



.My final thoughts on helping

My ultimate conclusion is to love.
Let us ascend to the high vibration and dwell in Pure Love!
With helping anyone or anything  - just love - and there is our way forward! ...(repeated)

When sure about helping another - love.
When unsure - love.
When successful in help - love them
When unsuccessful in help - love them and yourself.
When frustrated with another  - love them
When rejected by another - love them
When happy - love
In despair - love
In life - love
Just love and the vibration will spread like the warm glow of summer and touch all that you meet and many you never meet. Often we forget this is more powerful than we imagine - we are all connected :))


Let us make a decent wonderful world.
It's not that we want to solve the Creator's mistakes!
We just want to make something glorious filled with love and compassion.
And help people so as to make an awakened world where humanity is totally gerooovy.
We have a blank canvas, an opportunity.
One day we can turn to The Divinity and say:-
  "Look at what we have created - Isn't it delightful?
   Look at the people now ! See how we have helped them to love?
   It just an expression of our love that we hold for You and everyone and everything.
   Here -have some chocolate :)) "



Love to all
The Helper
Paloma Porta
4th Dec 2011

#14 Spirituality - Everything is Perfect?

#14 Spirituality - Everything is Perfect?
Life is perfect?

.Preamble

"Oh yes, life is perfect" and I just smile and go all pink and fluffy. lol
"But last Tuesday, when I was in the dentist's chair and a cold sweat, praying for the novocaine to fully kick in - life was far from prefect!"

I don't want to give example's of life's less than perfect funny little imperfections, as some them are not funny and not little and I feel it would be needlessly uncouth to mention them here. You know what I am talking about....[the dentist scene above is a comedic lie - I put it in quotes?]

The thing is -some people feel Everything is made by the Divinity,The Creator.
And the Divinity is Perfect.
Hence:
 "All is perfect"
"There's nothing to fix"
"There's nothing to do"

Here's my two cents worth on this:-



.Everything is Perfect?

Can a Perfect,Infinite Being make imperfections?
Yes.
But are not those 'imperfections' actually perfect imperfections?
Maybe these imperfections are there for a reason or something and just perfect unto themselves?
Which would mean the Creator with His Infinite Power cannot make an imperfection because it's perfect!..?
A God-made perfect imperfection?

Well this is all intellectual mumbo jumbo and has little to do with my world...what do I feel?
(If you want to go further down this route try Socrates (Historic or Platonic) - he is realllly good at it...lol)

But I can descend further (!) into mind games and 'philosophy' thus:
Can an Infinite Being make mistakes -is this something It cannot do? ...lol
Maybe on the 7th day He said:
"Whooops!!! What a foul up!  Hmmm.... let's leave that one and build another one over here. I mustn't build worlds after eating lentils."
But the fact that this Reality is here means She(!) must have been okay with leaving it as it is.
Otherwise it would have been 'right click-delete'.
Whether this Mistakes-Were-Made Scenario is actually still a Perfect World or not is data perhaps unavailable to us.

This is all silliness and more intellectual mumbo jumbo because I was trying to figure out with the reasoning mind what the Creator did at the Dawn of Creation!!!
...It's just another Big Bang Hypothesis !


My point is to deduce with the reasoning mind that the Perfect Creator could only have made a perfect world is fine but nothing to do with spirituality.
It's almost Newtonian physics - a good machine will make good products -yet some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs were from accidents. The excellently prepared experiment faltered and wow penicillin !! I feel it was Pasteur's intention and thought that drove his discovery to manifest in the physical world -he was looking for something and this was the true cause.

For spirituality we have to feel our way  -we spiritual types maintain that the Divine can be percieved but not with our eyes perhaps -just felt.



.Is Everything perfect?
It's pretty simple:
It depends how you look at it -from which viewpoint one assumes and how one judges these things.
'Good' things are just good for us - I win the lottery-"Hooray"; and I build a huge house in the forest -all the trees and animals go "Booooo"!

And there's the Divine View  - maybe on the seventh day God also said:
 "Yuppers -it's all Perfect and I put in some you-will-call-them Imperfections, for reasons only a few of you may discover"

I've opened the subject for you to feel your way.
As I have said before in earlier scriptures in this blog - one cannot often think these things through with deductive reasoning alone -it just goes around and around. I again implore you to feel with your 'soul' (you) - feel these things.


.There's our view and the Creator's View.

What do you feel?
Is the World Perfect?

-- From our view:
I feeeel (lol) that "Perfect" is just a judgement - it's like "good" thing / "bad" thing - it's just a label on something that otherwise just is.

For me it boils down to this:-
I perceive a World,a reality which exists -it is.
I perceive that this World was made by the Creator.

-- And in moments of clarity and stillness I perceive that the world is perfect.
By which I mean that's as close as I have been to the Divine View !!!


.Is Everything perfect?
.What do you feel?

How does it look if you let go of as many judgements as possible?
Don't forget all your judgements seem "true" -that's how it works -they are your creation.
And I see these beliefs as manifesting in our lives so the 'evidence' of their truth follows.
"Life is a bitch",
"Life is a beach"!
It depends on your view of life doesn't it?
Suffering, for example, may have blessings for you -it may feel needed for growth and offer a greater appreciation of the 'little things' later.
Some things may feel deeply true which just reflects who you are  -your core.
It's okay - enjoy this identity within the oneness -and change bits of your persona you don't like when you can.

But does Everything all feel somehow perfect?
That's your truth - my truth may vary - but perhaps so long as I don't put a horrible vibration out there my ideas are not so important.
What do you feel?


Is Life Perfect?



.The 'practical view.'..Is Everything perfect?

Some people feel that bad things are just bad and that's that.
"I am sorry  -you weren't there - it was awful -if there is a God, I have an enemy"
and
"I am a spiritual person, a psychic , there is love in the world and there is it's opposite fear. Fear in people causes them to do bad things and hurt others"

I don't want to offer a logical argument opposing these views per the above, I think it's not valid, not spiritual.
But to me they still feel like beliefs and belief systems layered on top of what is.
I don't feel these bad thing are really good things either - I just don't think anything has any innate in-built badness, wrongness or evil in it.
That's what I feel.
Sometimes in horror I do instantly judge things as bad -or do I? It's more like I label things as 'wanted by me' and 'unwanted by me'.
From my view as an identity  - for things I didn't make happen - I hesitate to question the wisdom in them -I feeeeeel like I am criticising God!  This is because I feel God made Everything.






.The Awakened view? - of  'Is Life perfect'?

We've looked at our view and considered the Divine view -let me introduce the 'Awakened' view.

I feel the people we call the "Awakened" or possibly "Enlightened" see everything as a kind of unreal fabrication sort of in the mind of God.
They see handbags, traffic,our bodies and sea shores as kind of make-up.
Suffering ,pain and pleasure as created layer put on the top of things.
Emotions as a creation within a construct of beliefs and ideas that create an individual out of a soup of Infinite Awareness called the Divine.

Nothing seems real to them .
There's nothing to take too seriously
Everything seems to have a comedy aspect to it.
The fat smiling Buddha -he's not too bothered about high cholesterol is he? I bet he thinks that's funny.

All bad things seem to have that British indomitable humour to it :
"Your father has passed?"
"Yes as long as I live I will never forget his last words:
     "Oh Fu*k -It's a bus!"
Nobody dies do they?
I mean my mother died and I cried..but she hasn't gone ..I feel sometimes she still communicates to me ...it's like she's moved to Australia.

And there's 'letting go'.
The Awakened Gurus and so forth talk of letting go of a clinging desire for the outcome of something. Try something and it works; that's cool -if it fails; then that's okay also.
They don't offer resistance to what happens.
It's "Why bother?" I suppose - nothing is so important to get stressed out about.
They're the person reading a newspaper and playing chess in the park - the other guy is hunched over the board tense and frowning and not daring to look up for fear of loosing. It's not that the Awakened newspaper reader is a chess master confident in victory under all circumstances and against all opponents - she just isn't worried about it. But ironically she thus plays a better game and would win mostly.

It would appear that to have something , anything, money,happiness, enlightenment one has to fully and totally let go of it first.
It's the resistance to not having the thing that seems to push it away -and the Gurus etc get into that by not seeing anything the world has to offer as vitally needed. The mechanism for this, we are told, is that 'thoughts creates things' and that what we hold as visualisations or concepts (not having it) manifest.

So if we step back from the world and our deadly serious lack of money in it (lol) for a second and see things in a bigger picture, Life looks different -we have a different view.
It's all slightly comical.

And this view ,the big picture approaches the View of oneness and the Divine.
 
From the Awakened/Enlightened view is Everything perfect? I imagine it would be pretty cool  -yes !




.There's nothing to fix

I can go with that.
The world just is.
The world is.
To 'fix' it is just to change the world to reflect my judgements.



.There's nothing to do.

Hmmmm.
God went to a lot of ruddy trouble to make this lovelly Creation.
And He made us too.
And we find ourselves blessed with Her power to create (make things).
And some of us feel we have an infinite capacity as we are all one with each other and the Divinity.

So why waste it?

The Game or Opportunity or Fun Times or Spiritual Awakening are available if we make them happen (create).
Why not have a go at it?

But we are not trying to fix things or improve on imperfections.
Suffering is not bad - Suffering just exists...etc
The world just is -the labels (good,corrupt,wrong,delightful) are our own.
We can even have judgements about things and change the world to fit them - that's okay. So long as we remember they are just our judgements.
"I like chocolate -places without decent chocolate are no good - thus I will bring quality chocolate to those places"...etc



.Is life perfect?

Well if I could relax about it -it feels like it probably is!
But I don't really care if I am stressed or not these days - It all seems to pass.
And I am not bothered about being enlightened either -I sort of gave up on it.
Maybe that's half way?

Yes- I feel Everything is perfect!
What do you feel?



.and there's a thing I want to change in the world, it's not a fix for where God went wrong but it's something I would like to see in the Creation :-

'I would like a spiritually awakened world. A world where humanity takes responsibility for this blue planet and the fluffy animals and lovely trees and plants and stuffs...Seriously :))
And if I help that manifest through my lifestyle and example and these writings then that alone would give me a tearful happiness.
I ask for nothing else from the Creation; save only the power of my will to accomplish the task, with the good fortune and serendipity to bring this about.
I will keep 'coming back' until this is done.
Be very very afraid Lord (lol) ; you have made many of us who also have this desire and some of them are giants and all are filled with a great resolve.
 
Amen'




Love you,
The Perfect
Paloma Porta
2nd December 2011

Paloma Porta Quotes -various subjects (I will keep adding to it)

Paloma Porta Quotes -various subjects (I will keep adding to it)

It looks like I have the big ego here - my quotes ...lol ...but I don't.
I almost humbly include these for your consideration!

LOOK LATER FOR MORE EXCITING QUOTES ADDED AS I GO ALONG :)) lol
 ...new ones added to the top...



[2011/11/28 21:45]  Paloma Porta:I went to a sort of self help meeting today in SL...The instructor found herself trying to fix me..my identity..but I felt it slightly comical...what is there to fix? I feel a part of the Divine...and my suffering when it happens is a manifestation of Life. I feel that no mater how happy or sad I am (due to my judgements on what actually is the Perfectness of the Creation!) that there is no 'enlightenment' for me.  All is well. :)
...Yes. I find it runs deeply within me - even those things that I feel I must learn -or discover...what of them? I am a little bit of the Divine experiencing!  A am Life.
...Perhaps the paradox (that only the soul and not the mind can master) is to feel happy with the unhappiness -and then obviously the happiness we feel we should be seeking, occurs.

[2011/11/15 17:20]  Paloma Porta:I felt from this -that all feelings or beliefs of sickness and lack of wellness are one of the dubious functions of our minds..Wherever these ideas come from, the thoughts arising might be considered amusingly illogical and not perhaps something we would agree with - to imagine a body part as less than perfect seems the loving approach to one's body and to dwell on sickness and worry about sickness suddenly to me seems comical and to be ignored as like the wining of a spoilt child.

It's a bit of a shame that currently old is bad and ,young is good..Wisdom with age seems not to be as important as springing around like a gazelle and looking young.
For myself I feel the same mental energy as I get older -but physically I am aware of some sloth perhaps-I don't feel like running around.as much.
Metaphysically we are not the same person as when we are younger if one defines the individual as a compound belief system and presume we create and dissolve beliefs as we go along (change our minds)
...So mentally then, I like ageing for the wisdom, insights that come with time in this game - I just like this 'time game'  //  physically I just accept any changes .
I have been reincarnating for a long time and each phase of life I like to embrace for it's advantages - to see a particular age as not as good as another -presumes the Creator made a mistake!!--- and one is left wondering whether 'good' or 'bad' ages or.. anything.. are just our judgement of the situation.

Final piece of dogma..lol...To think with the mind is to see life through the human view. To feel life as something bigger maybe a higher self or even the Divine  -is too really relax in the face of suffering ..as i said .The view changes - the problems go.

  Paloma Porta: one can have an old looking body and be groovy --i hate to say this..but the wizard Gandalf the Grey ..Tolkien describes his race as "old yet vigorous"

[2011/11/10 17:42]  Paloma Porta:
Imagine everyone and every spec of creation as having a magnificence,a greatness, and an infinite intelligence and wisdom. Things proceed immaculately as they are all part of the Tao...meanwhile one could laugh at one's judgement.!!


"Miss Universe Question": (posed by Princess Aquila in SL)
 If a visitor from another world came and ask U, "I don't understand your humanity, can U explain it 2 me? How can U be so nice and so mean 2 each other at the same time?" How will U answer that?
My answer:
Humanity displays a spectrum of emotions towards different things or each other - to assume our species has a certain quality is to presume we are not spiritual beings! 
Spiritual beings display a wide range of emotion - one could imagine "depraved dimensions or hells" and "realms of the Gods and demi-gods" as well as Earth.
Any species seems to have inherent biological characteristics  -the pet snake cannot be completely trusted and so forth.
But a Human differs from the animals  -he has a mind,she is aware of being aware.
Thus to look for an innate drive in Humanity, save body-survival, is fruitless - we are spiritual beings - And thus we can  be "so nice and so mean 2 each other at the same time" imho.

[2011/09/15 17:54]  Paloma Porta: On acceptance and individuality : speaking to a Muslim today -he said "his will, was Divine Will" -which is hard to argue against! - so when things go "wrong" [ or are "good" or "bad"] one is left wondering if that is only our judgement of the situation.

Defending my stated position that nothing is bad:
[2011/11/13 21:08]  Paloma Porta: Some see it as polarities - there is no good with out bad which seems logical in the spectrum of judgement - but i see it as different viewpoints :eg if 75% of humanity was wiped out by plague - nature might recover etc which might be good and bad from different angles/viewpoints.
[I added the following now:]
From my imagined Divine View of The Creator of all things, surely things are just things. All of life could be regarded as (a 'dream') in the mind of the Creator . Are things that happen in our dreams or imagination good or bad ?
Some see things (murder) as inherently and innately bad when regarded from *any* viewpoint.
But I would only say this : we are Creators -what shall we create? Shall we create life as a horror movie or something wonderful and something Decent.
For me , having considered all the viewpoints I feel I can access -  murder still isn't bad by definition - it's just like creating a world that has: no chocolate,slow traffic,poor lipstick, a dull painting and a lack of Decency -something I do not want myself or others to experience.
My best analogy is the Blank Canvas- one can paint a murder ,love and a chocolate factory - One can paint Decency onto our lives - but there is no good and bad in the images we draw.
I don't see murder and the worst possible things as bad or wrong - and I don't see love,compassion,joy, and not suffering etc as good either -  but the 'bad' things are something I would rather myself or others did not create and the 'good' and Decent things are something I would prefer!
It's a personal choice,my preference of experiences available to me in the world -one doesn't buy a broken microwave and one doesn't murder -but these options exist.
It's a fine or nice differentiation. I am relabelling bad things as 'not wanted by me' - that the Creator should embrace them is Her business and offer no judgement upon Him !!!.
Yet I still cry.

[2011/11/09 08:15]  Paloma Porta: We can also bless the water already in our bodies - and fill it with love -a love that shines to others and all of Creation -as we follow that love outwards, slowly we see that everything is a part of us -we are all one and yet individual. Let us just love.


Love.
The almost humble
Paloma Porta
14th Nov 2011

#12 Spirituality - 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card

#12 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card
FIRST DRAFT [ -add italics]

..How to 'Get Out of Jail' from a really bad set of emotions..

The title is a reference to the board game Monopoly ...where this card if drawn gets you out of the board game 'Jail' square and you can carry on :)

Ideally you have studied my other postings here.
But let me catch you up fast if you have not


.This is my method

I want to introduce you to someone:
Paloma Porta ---The Mighty - The Invincible - The  Creator of Worlds.

How can she be like this?
It's because we all are part of the Divine..the Infinite Awareness and define ourselves with a set of beliefs within that. Beliefs about the "Game" , The Illusion, The Matrix, ...limiting beliefs if you like -but it's not a negative thing -all is well :)
Mini-me , our persona is a creation within Big Me.

-but you may not feel these things - it doesn't matter read on !!

Imagine now or recall that "special time" when life really DIDN'T work out the bloody way you bloody wanted it :-

Consider from this place of anger/despair/grief... how Paloma feels when Paloma plus human or second life avatar has something 'bad' happen to her.
Normal people (lol) would feel an emotion - "Ohhh nooo- my car"  [Weeping]  - etc

Paloma does NOT require anything is this STUPID Reality to make her feel happy.
Paloma feels it is nice to be loved BUT does NOT require love from others to be happy.
Paloma feels it is nice to be approved of BUT does NOT require approval from others to be happy.
Paloma feels it is nice to be wealthy and rich BUT does not require any physical object to be happy.

Paloma has no peculiar set of requirements to be happy.

Paloma does not assign people or things as the source of her emotions.
Paloma is Source.
...Why assign people or things as the source of emotions?
...Why not be Source?


.Let me talk about you.
There you are in life's "Jail" with all the horrible stuff going on -you feel emotions you don't want to feel -right?

...Why assign people or things as the source of emotions?
...Why not be Source?

Who is controlling the emotions you are making?:-
Your husband?
Your daughter?
Your failure?
Your success?
Your lack of something?
Your possession of something?
Your stolen or damaged something?
Your hunger?
Your homelessness?
Your illness or body condition?
or worse - your lost mobile phone (cell phone) ?...LOL

The world out there - is in many ways, not you !
But it is your Creation.
And there is the oneness you may feel with it -like Everything is really part of a Big Me.

-but you may not feel these things -doesn't matter.

Who or what is controlling you??
In the Physical World stuff happens -this I understand - and things sometimes appear to be out of your control.
But how you react to events,incidents and conditions in your world is under your control.
Your emotions are under your control.

If you don't believe that contact me immediately and you can be my slave - I could use you [a joke, to make the point] -lol


What is controlling you? - more to the list:-

Beliefs systems?
Indoctrination by society?
Lack of enlightenment
Poor progress in meditation practice
Your Guru says you're not there yet?
Subliminal advertising?
Self doubt?
Because you don't have all the answers?
Because past experience shows me that when things happen I have emotions that are not under my control?

Because you believe [ put your idea in here for why you don't control your emotions -how you feel]

Every idea you have is your creation -life just isn't 'that way' !
Life is 'that way' because that is what you have created !
Life is 'that way' for others because that is what they have created !

Your conclusions of your life experience is not controlling your emotions - or is it?


.Now what?
.How to live.

Seeing that my emotions are sort of a bi-product of concepts I hold of the world, the whole emotions game seems a bit false - emotions really are just something of my own manufacture.

As I have grown into this, emotions have become creations and thus things.

And I feel my identity -the Paloma thing - as a creation also...
"oooo look I feel enthusiastic" really feels like "Paloma feels an emotion".



.Neutrality - being neutral.

With emotions as things ,and things associated mostly with the physical world they become less valid.
Behind any emotion seems to be lurking the "Watcher" or "Witness",the Infinite Awareness.

Judgment of others or situations seem to fall into the same category  as they seem to produce emotions.
"This is bad  -I feel bad".

By remaining neutral one can thus pop out of an assessment or judgment or label one has put on something and also pop out of the [negative?] emotion.
"This is bad - I feel bad ---->Wait -- I can be neutral here - 'bad' is only my judgment from the view of my persona - if all is Divine (The Really Big Me)  what is bad? - so why feel bad over something that isn't bad ---cool I feel okay now ---maybe even happy ! "





We are Source.
We do not assign people or things as the source of our emotions.
We can be neutral.

And from Source we can create happiness - no matter what!

.note
Once we become increasingly neutral , let go of judgment and see things as they are -just things - life seems to respond to our will much better.


Well that's my theory anyway - have a go at it - we're all doing our best here, are we not? !



The Saucy
Paloma Porta
14th October 2011
posted 17th October 2011

#11 Spirituality - How To Live!

#11 Spirituality - How To Live!

FIRST DRAFT [ -put the italics in]

So how does a spiritual person live from day to day in their reality?
Like everyone else - she has to create those things she wants and mentally reconcile those things she cannot seem to change.
The most materially ambitious people will state that their true goal is not wealth but "peace", "happiness" or "tranquility".
These things should be easily available to the spiritual person who has become 'aware'.

How does one attain a happy life?


.How to live?.

The first most important thing to do is to get out of your mind !!!

Preamble.
In this culture we are encouraged to think .There is plenty to think about these days. What the exact time is,what to eat,traffic,the government,bills,education,ambition etc.
In earlier cultures; time was where the sun is, eating was whatever was available, no cars, no complex government, no bills just food and shelter, no education except maybe a bit of shamanism, and no real and complicated ambition.
Spiritually it's probably a better way to live with a lot less to think about. Time was spent admiring trees and sunsets along with only simple demands on thinking for human necessities.

But thinking now is not a real solution to problems and having fun. The thoughts come from a series of belief systems installed by us in the mind and thoughts arrive mostly as judgement , past musings and future predictions.
And thoughts bring emotions and some of these emotions are not the peace we are looking for.
The contents of the mind echo our lifestyle and habitual thinking. It's based on linear time and the idea that to create something we have to change objects in the reality.
However, I have suggested linear time is only a concept and to change our reality one needs to form the idea in one's consciousness first. To create the future we need to feel the new creation within -not think,get upset and worry about it!

So the mind has a culturally programmed habitual method. It's crap basically...lol.
It supposes half the time that one needs a good lottery win to be happy...I mean really...is this you?...is this your genius manifesting? (Say No).

To step behind the mind and observe thoughts with any attitude one wishes is a revelation.
"Nobody likes me".... Pfffffffft wow ..Look at that thought Mother it's a corker!!!
"I hope my new job works out okay".

Personally I have downgraded the importance of my thoughts. I see them not all as negative and bad -but something generated from an old way of thinking.
I have had years when unhappy - and now I am clearing my mind somewhat and upgrading the quality of it's products...lol.

But I feel people need a trigger -an alert
WARNING! WARNING! -- NEGATIVE THOUGHTS--NEGATIVE EMOTIONS---STOP CREATING NOW !!!
hehe

What is creating your experience,your reality?
Luck?
Your ability to fix problems?
Your drive?

The 'Watcher' or your Higher Self  is source of the 'human experience' and source of the mind.
When one can abandon thinking in the mind even for a few seconds, we can create with a thought and change our worlds.

For thoughts and emotions that seem less than helpful
"This is not me
I release these thoughts
I am neutral and without judgment.
I am the Watcher.
If I want something I just need to create it.
I let go more and more of these types of thoughts from the mind.
I am still
I am the Observer
I am the Witness
I am source."



.Alignment.

Thinking out solutions first is hit and miss - maybe one tries to create something that doesn't fit in with the Whole , the Oneness Everything.

But there seems to be a Flow -from "Go with the flow"

And one can align,line up with it in the Direction of Creation(?)
BUT to do this one must feel. Feel not think, as thinking seems to be separate from the Divinity and alignment sometimes.

If one has a belief and starts to worry around a subject the worry itself, to me , feels not aligned.
If one feels the way through the worry suddenly a solution appears that seems to relax me - and i feel this is the way

What is the Universal Direction that I am feeling?
Is it Divine Will?
Or some general flow that all the others elements of creation are providing as the average collective thought?

Aha...

To make something happen as the Ultimate Creator of one's life, one must align the proposed creation !

'Go with the flow' normally suggests this :
One has an idea maybe to move house and it feels all wrong.
So one feels one shouldn't move there and goes with the flow and waits for a different  thing to pop up.

But why not get the moving idea and align it oneself?
Change the idea into alignment?
The house is nice and otherwise perfect -and thinking about it -  it seems to be right.
The more one feels it is right ,the more one sees it as a great thing to do - the one feels it is in the flow -suddenly or slowly it is!
Perhaps some aspect of the move has to be physically or mentally adjusted to align the creation with Creation.
But I feel it can be done.
But feeling is the key.
Feeling is the key.
Feeling.
Feel.
To think about the house and look at maps and use ones calculator and so forth is not feeling the thing here.
I am differentiating between feeling and thinking -  I wonder if i will ever be able to adequately describe this within the english language !

.More on alignment
If a proposed creation or idea one has feels sticky or seems to lower the mind into worry or thinking or offer problems -this isn't aligned.

In mis-alignment we may think of counter arguments, imagined counter intentions from others or counter intentions from oneself.

In alignment a way emerges that seems to offer no such resistances.

We are creators.


.Is it really alignment after all ?...lol

Consider "No resistance".

To create something I have experienced counter-creations.
I want a partner for my life, relationship but "I am probably better off on my own" or "Never going to find anyone now"

To create we must (?) see it through with cheerful expectation. - this seems to be the winning formula.

So in what way can I successfully create ( a new husband)?

I have spoken of changing ones mind -changing the beliefs we hold and also of changing one's point of view to do this and, and-' having faith'.

So doing this - from my earlier articles - one can create.
But there was no 'getting aligned with the Universe' computation !
What happened to alignment ?

To follow this method of no resistance is 'pure creation' in that one creates the thing and doesn't create a load of other stuff also that gets in the way.
I have a new partner and it's all groovy -rather than "I got a new partner -it's not going as badly as the last one!"

Maybe this 'no resistance' is alignment -maybe its the same thing.
This does feel correct.
And if I do think about it - I get the idea that The Divinity created all this with no resistance and that we as part of the creation, and in possession of a blessed ability to create, ...and we can follow His path.
The Divinity created with no resistance -this is the way to go!

Alignment is no resistance.
Go with the flow
Create with the flow.


.Going with the flow and Acceptance
This is a sort of engine idling mode -we are not creating some big plan..
We can use acceptance for what pops up and all is well.

But acceptance, Acceptance is useful for failures to create also.
"Oh -look at this mess -all I wanted was a partner as a companion - how did I create this?"
Hopefully one can smile and see it as earlier resistance manifesting as buggered creations (!) within our planned creations.
Here I have created the wanted and the unwanted both together!
Acceptance is vital to break the cycle.

But everything everywhere is in the mind of the Creator.
All this "mess" is the Creator's mess -so it's not a mess at all -our judgment of it is the 'mess ' . We label it "a mess"!
So the 'mess' is a creation from God Almighty (whatever) and isn't bad is it?

With Acceptance suddenly everything is Divine. Some say "All is perfect"- but that's another label thus "All is Divine" feels more accurate to me.

There is no mess or bad or wrong or good or right, not really; these are just judgments we make 'locally' from the human perspective.
So Accept what is and smile .

But to drift along can be 'going with the flow'.
But we are always creating -I don't feel I ever really drifted, even when I had no plans at all.
This reality offers choices -and we say yes or no.
"You want to buy my car?" ..."No -my neighbour is fixing mine"
"More soup,more bread?" - "More soup please".
Are we not always giving the direction of our lives little pushes one way or another?
So we create all the time.

So "Going with the flow" is this act of no resistance and alignment in the little things ,the little choices of direction ,little creations as we go along.

For me -to Go With The Flow one must feel one's way.
What feels natural and easy.


.No pain  -no gain?
What about doing things we don't want to do for the future benefit?
Isn't this a temporary resistance overcome for a long term result?

I think it depends on one's attitude.
I have bicycled every day without much enjoyment because I thought I should.
Eventually I got saddle sore, stopped and never restarted!
I did quite like the increase in fitness and do sometimes wish for it without the cycling necessity!
But I feel I would have been better doing another form of exercise or non at all.
There were other issues -cycling at odd times in a big city rarely filled me with the romantic notion of bicycling fun -I found myself studying individuals in my path closely when in isolated spots!

I chose a career I didn't feel drawn to that offered a good lifestyle. It required some years of training and now have not reaped the benefit. I don't enjoy it and work only a few hours per week only to pay my bills.- Where was the gain in those painful years of study?
The unforeseen gain has been an awful lot of free time and an excursion into spirituality and metaphysics - but that's another story! :))

But to exercise and push oneself or study hard I think could be aligned and actually be no-resistance.
IF one is not actually doing something one doesn't want to do - the person feels this path is best for them and is comfortable with it.
"Another two years of this and I will have [whatever] which is perfect for me"
"The gym work does hurt, but you get used to it -and I look in the mirror now and think 'Wow' :)) "

'No pain-no gain' does imply and follow the popular belief that to 'grow' one must get out of one's comfort zone.
This is a belief and is true for you if you believe it.
For someone to force themselves out of their comfort zone is to drag the identity into another viewpoint  -which itself is interesting and allows all problems to be regarded in this new light.
But there are easier ways to shift one's viewpoint!

Personally I like to create with no inherent suffering!
Just use the Magick -easy peasy.

Btw - the virtual gyms - the ones one plays out in the imagination do work to some extent -this is science :))



.Emotions.

So we want to go with the flow in alignment and with no self generated resistance.

Much has been developed from the Law of Attraction which all happened 10 or so years ago.
The emotions seem to be a key. Feeling good about something seems to be aligned. Feeling bad doesn't.

That works for me. It's useful :)



.Messages from our Higher Self or the Divine.

Serendipity and messages could be seen as a belief one puts into one's world to help the journey.
(Serendipity here is where you find yourself in the right place at the right time)
I can switch serendipity on and off
I can switch the messages on and off
This is my experience.

"Everything has a meaning" is not an absolute truth for me -it's a creation -a belief.

Currently there's a heat wave in London .It's earlier October and we are having those bright and famous english summer days.
Of all the places in this Universe  I could be, I am here. It's something I have attracted.
What does this mean?
If I switch the 'all has meaning' belief on: it means the future is bright in the face of some actually quite troublesome issues at the moment.
If I switch this belief off: the sunny weather means nothing.
This is my experience.

But this sunny weather does mean a bright future for me doesn't it?
Advanced students will be able to feel this.
It's cos we are plugged into the Higher Self and the Divine.
...'Advanced Students''..hehehehe...oh dear :))

So for me it's "Messages On" -why not?

And "Serendipity On" too -how much fun is that !



.How to Live

Firstly cheer up a bit. !!!
Get into some of these groovy higher states.
Maybe by meditating on the Divine.
And do this sometime somewhere before you really get your day started.Before you start creating.

Lower emotions can be a bloody disaster. The things one creates for oneself down there can be horrible. All that lack of self confidence and 'nothing works for me' stuff starts there  -imho.

Do something, almost anything to get into a higher wavelength or vibration or emotional state in your daily life.
I have said before -you are in control of your mind -you can do this.

The mind is a key player here. It's not always the groovy tool it could be.
The mind is a thing.It's like a car -it's a creation.
Thoughts are things
Emotions are things.
They all feel very close and seem part of us but I encourage you to feel the separation between ones self and the mind, self from thoughts, and self from emotions.
The person you are , the identity sits largely in the mind. But behind the mind is another You  -have a feel for it . It's nice.

Separating from thoughts  -seeing them as cars on the motorway perhaps, is a great step into a groovy level of existence.
Actually you pop right into a Higher Self.
Try to watch thoughts and emotions with neutrality all the time.

After you do this, you will return to thinking and may have some curious thoughts such as:
Nothing matters
Everything is funny
Everything is perfect
..and problems that seemed huge will seem fixable and less deadly.

That's it really.
Do this and everything will seem obvious.

There is a book "Called F*ck It" written by John C. Parkin  (The title is 'F*ck It' not 'Fuck It'-LOL)

If all else fails and you feel hopelessly totally terrible my extrapolation of the book would be to say "Fuck It" to yourself for a good 10 minutes.
If your in the United Kingdom say "Bollocks to all of it" -It's more powerful for us.LOL
This doesn't lower responsibility so much as eradicate the crazy emotional mind labelling of Importance that's going on.

You got to separate out from the negative mind set when it floods your world.

The good news is you made your mind and you can change it.(see earlier scriptures from myself here).

By the way; saying the negatives to pull yourself out of troublesome emotions doesn't screw up your life , it doesn't create loads of bad stuff, because when you pop out of the mind and the unpleasant emotions the tiniest, weeniest thought there in the Higher Self dissolves HUGE HUGE vast tracks of negativity.
But especially if your feeling good when you wake up, I wouldn't always start every day with "Fuck everybody and the horse they rode in on" !!!  (Gosh that's really is crude -oh my-the perils of adult conversation).

This world is all just consciousness or energy per the latest Quantum Physicists.
So really nothing matters -it's all good - everything is 'in the mind of God'.
Everything can be regarded as a dream -what is serious? there is no good or bad ,no pollution, no extinction of animals, and though we may feel suffering  -so what? It's all just a fabrication. So....chill Dude !!!

This is a viewpoint - that works to relax the mind and have fun - If I see things as deadly seriously important for periods of time eventually something pops and I find myself rebelling. I find this is a better way to live and doesn't lower my responsibility level, integrity honesty or anything- in fact I feel a higher level of 'participational' ethics -something from a base of Decency -as I have discussed in earlier postings.



.Meditation Techniques to get into the Gerooovy vibrations :)

Have no expectation of result with these. Just chill -do them -see what happens.

Do these on the daily comute to work or ANYWHERE even for a few seconds  - especially if you hear this:-
WARNING! WARNING! -- NEGATIVE THOUGHTS--NEGATIVE EMOTIONS---STOP CREATING NOW !!!

/Daily ongoing
For thoughts and emotions that seem less than helpful
"This is not me
I release these thoughts
I am neutral and without judgment.
I am the Watcher.
If I want something I just need to create it.
I let go more and more of these types of thoughts from the mind.
I am still
I am the Observer
I am the Witness
I am source."


/ Think only about now
Think as much as you like!
But refuse to follow a thought pattern that considers the past or the future.!
eg "Nice tree in the garden....i should sweep the leaves BUZZZZZ nope...ok....nice tree - pretty leaf colours....reminds me of ...BUZZZZZ nope...."
But one is being gentle with oneself - just bring thoughts back to things happening now.



/Find the centre/center! (UK/USA)
Stand or sit up. Rock or sway physically left, right, forward, backwards until your body finds the floating middle point of balance.
Let your mind follow and sit in this central place where thoughts subside.
Good for about 10 seconds or so .its nice.
Tao Te Ching : "Hold the centre"

/Listening.
Eyes closed. Listen intensely.Every little sound. What was it?
Focus on sound types,volumes origin,every aspect. Focus and don't let the tiniest sound go past un-analysed
Try this somewhere that offer a variety of sounds -open the windows.
Do it for one or two minutes or until you feel something happen or get bored.

/ Watching the sky
This is my personal favourite.
In England if the sky is interesting I can loose my mind for ages watching little puffy clouds forming and moving around and dissolving way up there in the blue.
Actually I have got pretty good at dissolving little clouds and can even change an overcast sky to quite clear in a few hours.
So I disappear into the Witness,feel my power then amuse myself dissolving rain clouds and frustrating the farmers in their dry fields!
But normally I just watch the sky with that stupid happy expression on my face!
Big Fun
Watch the sky! :))


/Sit quietly and...start the day and anytime use this:
Just consider everything you have read and go for the Groooviestest Happeningest Vibration you can.
Try:
Putting on pair of sunglasses !
Chewing gum for that cool look.
Standing on some furniture.
...and zen-out a little.
START THE DAY LIKE THIS (caps)

/ Drugs and alcohol??
I never got an increased awareness from alcohol or marijuana (in Holland where it is legal).
Certainly alcoholics don't come across as amazingly spiritually aware.
Cocaine is mixed with large amounts of speed apparently so I never bothered.
I never tried LSD or DMT.
These last two are supposed to show you truth. But I don't understand how hallucinating could do that.
I have been intrigued by conversations with people that have taken them -but I never learnt anything much -I never expanded.
I know I am separate from my body and my mind is a thing of my own manufacture and I can step into my Higher Self at will to relax and to create and to create pure magick and miracles too! I got a shed load of past life memories also. For me I think with LSD and DMT I would just be resisting the experience.
Someone gave me a funny cigarette once- it was tobacco but it tasted strange. I had an accelerated mind function going on and estimated I was reading at about 1000 words per minute. So what? I have done similar things by accident -I have added up 40 numbers instantly once or twice and once learnt 200 new french words in 10 minutes when at school. So what? I know it's possible and I can feel the self limiting belief.
Besides from the placebo effect I feel the material world follows our expectation -I have stated earlier that chemicals in the body only work because we create the expectation of them to do so.
If someone took DMT thinking it was vitamin C due to a factory mix up I am sure they would not have a trip. But if hoodwinked by another to take it thus- the expectation of the con man does have an effect -this is science. Don't get confused with bad science and the movies -you can eat cyanide all day long if you,those around you and possibly those who made the food also are completely confident it is not present and are not even thinking about it. But tell someone later of the discovered error and they get seriously ill. Doctors know this and have this crisis of disclosure with regards to medical ethics.But some people of goodwill don't, and they rush around knocking on the doors of perfectly healthy people and tell them what they have ingested and these suddenly become sick !!! It even goes deeper than that- prove to a heathy person he has swallowed vast amounts of poison it becomes inconceivable to him that he hasn't been ill for some time -thus he may have to recreate his past or memory of it to make it fit...suddenly he and his wife have the new time line of him being very very ill for some time and maybe even a Doctor has been called out!! And the deliverer of the bad news is expecting a corpse anyway so it all fits...It's metaphysical. Reality, our reality HAS to fit within our expectation. You can see how it appears that suddenly the man has been poisoned by accident and nobody knew -but it didn't work like that -trust me. This is why people call it an illusion...lol....droning on... -this is why I am not a nutrition or health food fan - eat food you believe is healthy and don't eat food you believe is not! And a warning about forgetting the metaphysics - ppl that don't eat 'heathily' or who don't take 'omega4719a'' tablets, to your eyes will look ill or you may successfully convince them they should be ill ! Nice :/  If you want to kill off your friends go ahead  -but if you feel overwhelming compulsion to sort your friends' nutrition better is to gently encourage them to eat what they feel is healthy and even better is to say nothing unless they ask you -otherwise you may just putting your judgment on them -see how it feels at the time - sometimes it feels right to help without being asked -sometimes it doesn't.
For drugs : I wouldn't dissuade anyone from taking anything. It's Taoism.

.Finally :_ How to live

Determination and perseverance to succeed translate into spiritual jargon as Intention or Will.
Us this to spend more and more time being the Watcher and less time bouncing around thoughts.
Be determined and persevere and ramp up the Intention to separate out the mind from one's true self.
Work at it.
Then work at it some more.
The more one can separate and be Groovy the better and happier people become.
It just all comes together.
I find myself with this self talk:-
"I got this problem...I can fix it by creating in lots of ways -which one shall I pick?"
This you must concede is better than my old pattern of worrying about it!

For Alerts try this one
WARNING WARNING :::WORRY WORRY WORRRRY!!! STOP THIS NOW!!! -TIME TO BE GROOOVY!!!

Even psychics and very very aware spiritual people still fall into the thinking trap. They just think about spirituality which is better than the 'price of fish' I suppose but it's still thinking.
The spiritual "successes" seem to be the meditators.
When they reread one of their books it's all new revelations and new insights because they have moved on.
Some of us know all about the Divine and oneness and the limitless of creation but still spend loads of time in the mind.
The depressed psychic or overweight one is not uncommon. She needs to meditate more or 'practice' rather than worrying about stuff.
(I am not depressed or overweight).





If you've read this or anything on this blog thingie -I write these for myself.
You have manifested this in your world.
But my Intention is for some to realise something and research proper authors and create more decent cool stuff in their realities.

Meanwhile.
Let's create something wonderful.
I am asking.
Will you help me do that?




"Go with the flow and be happy"- Bodhi Aura (in Second Life)
Love
Paloma Porta
written 10th Septenber 2011
posted 17th October 2011