I was reading SOGR last night & Wally was talking about the 'use of will'. He said we don't have to compel Formless to do anything for us, our job is to keep our thoughts/sctions along the 'certain way' and leave the rest to the Formless....

He also said that we're not to tell Formless what we desire and then sit down and wait for it to materialize.

Right now I have many dreams but no inspiration on what actions to take to move towards them. Is it time for me to just sit & wait?

Megan

Megan, I suggest rereading carefully. He never says just to sit and wait. In fact, he gives specific instructions on what to do when you're in doubt as to what actions to take.

(I could just tell you, but I think there's more value in finding it for yourself.)

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Is it time for me to just sit & wait?

Megan,

In my opinion,… no.

Sitting and waiting is not the only other option you have.

I think you will start to make headway if you take specific areas of your life and notice how you presently FEEL about them. And if you notice you don’t feel good, recognize you might have some kind of internal belief issue to work on and resolve.

Self
Finances
Circumstances
Chances for a wonderful future
Relationships

To me, the lack of passion, inspiration or enthusiasm is a sign you’re ‘blocked’ somehow, somewhere.

For instance, maybe you’re still not convinced that you are a wonderful, creative, powerful person with mostly vast, untapped potential. Maybe when you think of yourself you’re not a little in awe. Well, to me, we ALL would be experiencing some sense of awe and wonder about ourselves – if we’re at all in touch with who/what we really are.

I suggest you don’t just sit around. Instead, try to uncover and resolve or release the beliefs that are holding you back from feeling inspired, enthusiastic, powerfully optimistic, etc.

"Imagine a cork, floating on a body of water. It's up here on the surface in this high, pure, fast place. Hear that: high pure fast, they all mean the same thing don't they? High, because there is no resistance, pure, because there is no resistance, fast, because there is no resistance. So, here this cork is bobbing. Now take hold of it and hold it under the water. That's what negative emotion is.

The high vibration is the natural vibration for you and if you weren't giving your attention to something that was including a lower, slower vibration, your cork would float.” Abraham-Hicks

I suggest, if you’re not feeling enthused or inspired, somehow you’re ‘holding your cork under water’ and not letting it float.

For example, answer this question: How would you feel, if somehow you KNEW you could have exactly the kind of life and lifestyle you really want?

Phil

Well, I agree with Phil wholeheartedly.

I found the article on efficient action really good. If you don't know what action to take then an action is to refine your CMI and make sure it does bring feelings of joy like Phil says - the action will spring from that - well that's been my experience anyway.

cheers
pauline

Hi Pauline:

So far, I still haven't been inspired to anything. Hope it will come to me soon.

Megan

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So far, I still haven't been inspired to anything. Hope it will come to me soon.

Megan,

Can you identify any thoughts, beliefs, ideas or notions that are holding you back or holding your mood down?

Even if you're not sure, just play with it. Sometimes 'sentence completion' will reveal something. A trick to using this is, don't edit yourself. Just finish some 'exploratory' sentence as many times as you can in a couple minutes, and see if anything gets revealed. For example,...

I'm not sure if I have thoughts holding me back, but it could be I'm thinking ______ .

You just might get an idea of some limiting beliefs or thoughts. And once you do, it's fairly easy to work with these to resolve them. (EFT, Byron Katie's 'the work', cognitive thinking or therapy, the 'One Command,' prayer or meditation, etc.) It's the not knowing that often trips us up. Like trying to hit a target in the dark.

Now, it could be a little scary, facing your 'unknown', but I believe the possible rewards would make it worth it.

I believe it’s our natural state to feel good, so it seems to me that anything less is a sign we’re holding ourselves down or holding ourselves back somehow.

If you look around and observe people, most seem to have less than good feelings as their norm, but this doesn’t mean it’s healthy or what’s possible.

Phil

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Can you identify any thoughts, beliefs, ideas or notions that are holding you back or holding your mood down?

Hi Phil:

Boy, do I ever have limiting thoughts/beliefs about myself! Taking your suggestion & playing the game with myself, I found that I don't have a very high opinion of myself. Losing my business, house, car, etc. has left me feeling like a 'loser' that's only kidding herself thinking it can ever be good again.

I have my 'work' cu out for me,

Megan

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Losing my business, house, car, etc. has left me feeling like a 'loser' that's only kidding herself thinking it can ever be good again.

And yet there are so MANY extremely wealthy people -- perhaps most -- who have been through "losing everything." It almost seems like instead of causing anyone to feel like a loser, it should be cause for celebration: Now I've gone through that rite of passage and the REALLY good stuff is on the way!

Like I say in the Practical Geniuses course, when it feels like everything's going wrong, it's usually just GOING. Making way for the new and better. If we let it in.

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Boy, do I ever have limiting thoughts/beliefs about myself! Taking your suggestion & playing the game with myself, I found that I don't have a very high opinion of myself. Losing my business, house, car, etc. has left me feeling like a 'loser' that's only kidding herself thinking it can ever be good again.

I have my 'work' cu out for me,

Megan,

Right now it may seem like a ‘big deal’ to change how you think and believe so that you ‘naturally’ (e.g., effortlessly and easily) feel good about yourself, and thus effortlessly think constructively and creatively, effortlessly act effectively and thus, effortlessly, peacefully and happily attract and manifest better conditions, outcomes, experiences, etc.

The sensation of change or improvement being a ‘big deal’ is deceptive and misleading.

Consider this: When you were born you were born with magnificence. You had then, and still have, magnificent infinite creative potential. So, you might ask, “What happened? If I was born with and still have magnificent potential, how’d I come to experience what I’m now experiencing?”

Although I believe there’s more to it than what follows, a large part of the ‘less than magnificent results’ is due to the lackful limiting beliefs unwittingly picked up. And, as has been studied and proven, for better or worse, we pretty much will conform to whatever we believe.

But now, this is good news. Why is it good news now? Because, now you have the wherewithal to understand the power of your beliefs and you can now make the conscious intelligent choice to ferret out and resolve the beliefs that are limiting and not serving you.

To make this more practical, let me suggest you narrow your focus for a moment, and instead of focusing on your whole life – your circumstances, relationships, aspirations, finances, etc., etc. – just focus on your opinion of yourself.

Just think of yourself and notice how you feel. As a guideline, you can make the assumption that practically anytime you DON’T get a good feeling when you think of yourself, you are experiencing an erroneous, unnecessarily limiting belief about yourself. You are NOT experience what you are truly capable of. You are NOT experiencing your true worth. You are simply experiencing a Limited or Limiting Belief about yourself.

(Ok, now I can imagine your curiosity will get the best of you and you’ll ask, “But why did I ever pick up these limiting beliefs in the first place?” This question can lead you down a path that just branches into endless more questions. You can pursue it. It’s interesting and fascinating. But I suggest you keep your main focus on just acquiring and building beliefs that support your infinite potential and worth. Otherwise, your ‘efforts’ may just get dissipated and it will likely take you longer to experience the better results you want.)

One other thing I think worth mentioning: From what I understand, getting a wonderful, worthwhile idea of yourself is a great place to start, because it affects every other area of your life and what you will come to experience.

And one more thing: Watch out for creating an idea of yourself that implies you are ‘better than’ or ‘more worthy’ or ‘superior’ to anyone else. This kind of self idea will eventually backfire on you because, from what I understand, it’s based on a false premise. It will also tend to put you out of alignment with the very persons you’d love to have relationships with.

As has been said, an attitude of superiority just hides a belief in one’s inferiority. And either attitude will just put you at odds with people.

On the other hand, a healthy idea of self will do perfectly fine to open you up to your true potential, happiness and peace of mind.

“You must learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment.” from The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra

"Magic, mystery, and enchantment." When you get the right idea of yourself, it really often does seem like there's some kind of mystery and magic going on, because 'good things' will often seem to 'just happen.'

(Conversely though, when you DON'T have the right idea of yourself crappy kinds of things will sometimes 'just seem to happen.')

One more note: In the world there are, of course, people with superior talents, skills or knowledge in some specialty – art, music, sports, science, business, etc., etc., etc. But these do not make them more worthy (of life, happiness, peace, joy, etc.) than others. Talents, skills and knowledge are just ‘icing on the cake.’ But if the ‘cake’ isn’t right – if a person’s idea of self is askewed – their accomplishments based on talents, skills and knowledge will not fulfill them.

Ok, I think I’m straying. Just work to gain a healthy, worthwhile idea of yourself. Do that and you create the foundation for everything to ‘fall into place.’

Do you want a guideline? Here’s one:

“Be your own best friend.” Oprah Winfrey

Phil

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.. better. If we let it in.

I'm ready, willing to 'let it in'!

Thanks,
Megan

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Originally posted by Megan on the Journey:
I found that I don't have a very high opinion of myself. Losing my business, house, car, etc. has left me feeling like a 'loser' that's only kidding herself thinking it can ever be good again. Megan

Megan, I used to have pretty low thoughts about myself. Logically, I knew I was of worth, emotionally, I was not internalizing it. You know the method I used for that for specific situations that contributed to it. EFT. But, I also began a mental exercise to specifically help change the way I thought about myself.

I call it erase and replace. When I was going through my day, and I might do something, say like, drop a glass of water and it spills everywhere. My usual response would be self talk something like, "I am so stupid. What an idiot!" FIrst I just started noticing how often I told myself that and many other similar thoughts. I found, it was a lot! Then I decided to change it. So you can either actually say, "I erase you." And then replace with a positive thought. Or just erase by replacing with a positive thought.

In the above example it would go something like this. "I am so stupid, why did I do that?" Then the realization of the negative. Then, "I am smart, everyone makes mistakes." I began doing that every day, every time I caught a negative mistake. It took several months, but eventually I stopped having so many. On occasion, one still comes up and I just replace with positive. It has helped immensely.

The final thing that really helped me was a realization. I believe I am a child of God. And one day, while doing EFT I was using a script from an RET manual. As I tapped in the positive I came to the following phrase, "I am God's gift to the world." The truth of it absolutely overwhelmed me. I realized it was true for me and true for every other person. That became a frequent replacing thought for me. "I am God's gift to the world." And I added, "and I came here to do something no one else can do."

That thought has brought me great happiness and I am excited to live my life so that I bless the lives of others. I don't know yet exactly what it entails. And even if you don't have a religious or spiritual leaning, you can still say, "I am a gift to the world."

It's true Megan. YOU ARE A GIFT TO THE WORLD!