LOTUS VI(i): Mitigating Turbulence

Audio Version: (in process)

This is Part 1 of 2 in the LOTUS VI Lesson, Mitigating Turbulence.  This lesson is what most people think of as the meat of the matter, where the rubber meets the road, so to speak.  It embodies what most people think of as the ‘creation process’ or ‘daily practice.’  Because of its length, it is presented in two parts. 

This lesson was withheld until now for a very important reason.  It is only a piece of a larger picture, but most of us assume it IS the whole picture.  It should be emphasized that by itself, this step may not produce the desired results if not employed with the other two steps in the process: Circumventing the Stress Response and Overwhelming the Creatrix.  Having said this, let’s proceed with laying out the pathway to Mitigating Turbulence: 

1. Develop a Vision of your Ideal Life.  This is not nearly as easy as it sounds, and it should take about two weeks to a month to get a good working Vision. 
2. Develop a core set of Affirmations.  These are derived directly from your Ideal Life Vision. 
3. Create a Daily Visioning Process based on your Ideal Life Vision and your core set of Affirmations.  This process utilizes a personal, customized protocol that you will develop in the second part of this lesson.

Step 1:  Develop a Vision of Your Ideal Life

The first and most important guideline is that your Ideal Life is your Ideal Life.  It does not belong to your friends, your family, or anyone else.  It is uniquely yours.  This lesson presents a method to help you develop your own personal Ideal Life Vision that leaves you in the driver’s seat.

When you first attempt to create a Vision of your Ideal Life you might realize you have been influenced by other people, circumstances, institutions, or belief systems.  These are called External influences.  They represent energies and ideas that originated outside of yourself, and at some point in your life, influenced you.  If you are an accountant, for example, your profession may influence what you think you want out of life.  Your Ideal Life might, in fact, be more in line with a career as a painter or singer, but the fact your current profession is Accountancy influences you.  Parents, spouses, and even ideologies such as religious beliefs, national loyalties, or political party affiliations affect all of us.  The key here isn’t whether these ‘externals’ are good or bad, or right or wrong, but whether, they are in fact, external in nature, versus feelings, attitudes, and tendencies that are internal and arise from your core nature. 

To develop your Ideal Life Vision, notions, opinions, and beliefs that you acquired externally during your lifetime need to be evaluated.  Why?  Because to find out who you are on the inside, you must do your best to identify the part of you that originated from the outside.  How many of your beliefs are really your parents, or your friends, or your church’s or your country’s, or even the predominant view of a particular school you attended? 

It is very important to engage in this activity with the understanding that external influences are not to be judged as good or bad.  This is NOT an exercise to rid yourself of external beliefs.  But, rather, to get to your spiritual, Internal core Self.  Until we get there, we can’t possibly know what Ideal Life works for us because our vision can be clouded by outside influences. 

An example might help.  John is a doctor who wants to heal and help people.  He takes great pride in being a doctor: people admire him, the money is good, and his parents are proud.  He is also a talented musician who jams sometimes with a local blues band though his schedule seldom allows it.  In high school, he wrote a song that was picked up by an emerging rock band and the single briefly reached the Top 40.  

Now, it would be natural for John to develop an Ideal Life Vision that incorporates the medical profession, since that is what he does.   Most of us would admire this as a goal – there is nothing wrong with being a doctor.  As John develops his Ideal Life Vision, he remembers that his mother was a doctor and pushed him to become one (an External Influence), which is one of the reasons she is so proud of him.  Although John enjoys being a doctor, he loves music.  And he is talented at both.  In examining his Ideal Life Vision, he must try to imagine that he can be or do anything he wants.  If that is to be a doctor, then wonderful.  If it is to be a successful musician – there’s nothing wrong with that either.  But it’s not always easy figuring it which it should be.  

John must evaluate whether he truly wants to be a doctor – whether he became a doctor because of his mother, or whether being a doctor satisfies part of his basic nature.  The same is true of his love for music.  It may not actually be about the music, but instead, his jam sessions may have begun as and still are, a way to hang out with close friends.  There is no way for anyone to know, except for John, what resonates with his core being.  Of course, an Ideal Life Vision incorporates far more than just what we do for a living, but this example serves to illustrate how External Influences can cloud our vision of what we truly want out of life. 

Fortunately, formulating your Ideal Life Vision isn’t a one-time process, and you’ve got some time for self-analysis.  Over several weeks, you will create and revise your Ideal Life Vision, and this brings us to the second guideline:  Your Ideal Life Vision will elicit positive emotions.  Emotions give it energy.  This is obvious if we reflect back to the last lesson on Gratitude.  Emotions are the driving force in the universe, and for us to effectively create a life that makes us happy, we must create in alignment with our emotions – with our core being. 

Each of us has a unique, individual nature.  Mine is different than yours.  Said another way, my fundamental vibratory frequency is different than yours, and each of our frequencies is as unique as our fingerprints.  Any Vision related to our unique core energy (internally derived) has great creative power.   Visions that are derived from another’s core energy (externally derived) provide no power for us, because they aren’t really us at all. 

So, take out a pen and some paper (preferably a Journal or a Notebook).   Now, without any thought, simply write out what your perfect life would look like.  Do not worry if it is comprehensive, or if you have left anything out.  Just go with the flow.  When do you get up?  What does your day look like?  What do you do?  How do you dress?  What do you eat?  Where do you live?  Who are you with?  How do you feel?  For this exercise, forget whatever hurdles or challenges you currently face in your life.  Forget money, relationships, or health concerns.  Just let it flow from the heart.  Do not worry what someone else might think or say if they read it.  This belongs to you and only to you.   It’s fun.  Let it be. 

Now sit back and read what you wrote.  Dwell on it for a while.  Do you like it?  Does it resonate with you?  Don’t change anything about it yet.  Just think about what you’ve written.  Read over it several times and once more before you go to bed. 

Evaluate your Ideal Life Vision over the next several weeks.  Each day, read it over at least once, and make notes or changes to it.  Revise, revise, and revise again.  If you aren’t ready to commit to changing the Vision itself, write down new comments that come to mind in your journal: words to change, things to add, things to delete, thoughts about the influences of others, etc.   Reflect long on whether your Vision reflects external influences, or whether they are derived internally, from your core Self.  It’s okay if something in your vision represents an external influence, as long as it is also resonant with you.  Ask yourself if the idea excites you?  Remember, you are seeking the real you, not what someone else thinks you should be. 

It is important that you consider and dwell on your Vision every day for at least a few weeks.  At some point, you will feel that your Vision is finished, and, at that point, you’ll almost be.  There’s one last step. 

Put aside your Vision and think as little about your Ideal Life as you can for several days (at least three days, but not more than a week).  Try to put it completely out of your mind.  After several days, get out a blank sheet of paper and re-write your Ideal Life from scratch.  Do not try to recall what you wrote before; do not review your last draft before you start – just write what comes to mind and what makes you feel good.   Now, compare this new draft to your last draft.  What changed?  What was added; what was left out?  If you left something out – ask yourself why?  Was it really important?  Was it an external influence?  If it was external, is it really you?  It may resonant with who you are, even if it is external – you just have to find out if it does or doesn’t.  If you added something to your vision you hadn’t thought of before, ask yourself why?  Is it important?  Should you leave it in? 

Once you’ve done this, revise again as YOU deem necessary.  There is one last guideline.  When you envision your Ideal Life, it should create excitement in you.   This is to be differentiated from fear or apprehension.  It’s the kind of feeling that keeps you up at night because you are so excited thinking about it.  It’s a thrill you feel at the core of your being.  When your Vision elicits that kind of feeling, you know that is YOUR Vision.  So go with it!  Prepare a final version in such a way that you can review it every day.   A journal works great, but there is no magic in a journal.  Just put your vision into a form that would available to you for a daily review and works with your life and schedule. 

The final version of your Vision is yours to modify at any time you like, but I strongly suggest you only modify it after careful and long consideration.  Always ask how the revision makes you feel.  Does it excite you?  If not, you are probably trying to fit in some externally based belief, which although it may be a part of a sound and important belief system, it may not be resonant with what and who you are. 

Remember that the Universe is energy.  Everything is energy.  By aligning our Vision with our core self, we align our core energies with our most fundamental desires and goals.  We are turbo-charging our efforts.  Essentially, we stack the cards in our favor.   Conversely, if we align our Vision with something we really do not resonate with, but feel we should be pursuing because of some external influence, we would have very little creative power, because the source of our Vision isn’t us.   In this case, the cards would be stacked against us. 

Developing an Ideal Life Vision is a technique that helps put the most power behind your Daily Visioning Process, and therefore produces more effective results. 

Step 2:  Develop a core set of Affirmations

Once you have your Vision in place, the next step is to break it down into Affirmations.   The first guideline is to develop Affirmations regarding ‘what’ you want in your life, not ‘how’ you want it to happen.  For example, a part of your Vision might suggest that you want to help others in need.  From this, you might write the following affirmation: “Each week, I spend several hours of my time volunteering to help others have a better life.”  You might also want financial independence, so from this, you might add, “Money flows to me effortlessly from many sources.”  Affirmations express ‘what’ you want ‘to have’, ‘to do’, or ‘to be’. 

Affirmations should not say anything about the “How.”  For example I did not say that your wealth is coming from winning the lottery.  This added prepositional phrase represents the ‘how’, not the ‘what’.  If we designate the ’how’, we limit the Creatrix, and although we think we know the best way for something to happen, the Creatrix has the entire Universe and unlimited potential at its disposal, and so by designating the ‘how’ we may not be (and probably aren’t) allowing the Creatrix the most flexible and fastest way to manifest our true desires. 

Affirmations are used in our Daily Visioning Process, and allow us to create the exact ‘whats’ that will make our Ideal Life manifest.  Typically, most teachers of the Law of Attraction (as well as most Personal Coaches) like to categorize people’s lives into several basic areas as a tool to develop Affirmations.  There is never 100% agreement on what these categories should be.  That’s because you can slice a pie many different ways.  You might consider (but do NOT feel you MUST produce) Affirmations in the following areas:

1. Financial
2. Personal
3. Relationships
4. Spiritual / Religious
5. Physical / Health / Athletic
6. Education
7. Social
8. Career
9. Mental

The above list is NOT meant to be authoritative.  Again – there are many ways to slice a pie.  If you have anything that you feel represents an area of your life not represented above, please add it.   Remove areas that aren’t that important, or that are not really represented in your Ideal Life Vision.  Do NOT let this list influence your Ideal Life Vision in any way.  Think of it as a tool to help spur your creative juices.  Using it, and / or adding anything that YOU feel relevant, develop a list of positive Affirmations that relate to your Ideal Life Vision.  Here are a few guidelines:

• Always state an affirmation as positive.  The Creatrix only understands images and emotions, so the thought of debt, for example, sends a communication of debt to the Universe.  Is this what you want?  Do not create an affirmation, for example, like this: “I want to be debt-free.”  Just don’t do this!  The only thing the Creatrix would recognize from this affirmation is the concept of debt, and that’s what it would give you.   Try to always state your Affirmations in terms of what your Ideal Life Vision is: “I want to have an abundant source of income, providing me ample funds to have any lifestyle that I choose,” as an example.  This implies you aren’t debt-ridden, AND avoids the concept of debt.   And isn’t that really what you want?  You want abundance; not a lack of the absence of abundance.   Go straight to the point with your Affirmations.  State what you want; not what you do NOT want. 
• Generally state your affirmation in the first person.  Say “I _________”.   In this regard, there are three basic groups of Affirmations: You can 1) have, 2) do or 3) be. 
  • I have: “I have abundant health.” 
  • I do: “I work out three times a week.” 
  • I am: “I am recognized as a successful teacher (doctor, actor, singer, etc.)” 
• Affirmations should be about you, not someone else.   We co-create the Universe with others, but not for others.  You can try to change another person, but if you want to avoid some very unpleasant Turbulence, just don’t try it.  Stick to changing your life.  This doesn’t mean that you can’t attract people into your life that might help you meet your goals.  Just don’t try to change other people.  Affirmations are most effective when about you. 
• Your Affirmations should reflect your Ideal Life Vision.  Recall that emotion is the primary energy behind the creative process.  If your Affirmations do not reflect your Ideal Life Vision, they will have little energy, and your results will be minimal.  I cannot stress how important this is to your success.   The entire point of this exercise is to align the core energy/frequency of your consciousness with your Affirmations.  When you energize your Daily Visioning Process this way, it has great power. 

Try to produce somewhere between three and twenty Affirmations.  You will eventually pare these down to 3 to 6 Affirmations.  Once you have created your Ideal Life Vision and your associated Affirmations, you can begin to develop your Daily Visioning Process.  This activity uses both your Ideal Life Vision and your Affirmations to focus your thoughts and emotions into a clear and understandable communication to the Creatrix.   By doing this, you clarify and energize your intent to the Universe, thus helping to manifest exactly what you want in life. 

Your Daily Visioning Practice should take about 20 minutes per day, and involves two important concepts we have yet to discuss: Emotional Anchoring and the use of appropriate Verb Tenses (or submodalities).   Both of these will be introduced in the next part of this lesson, along with a method of customizing a Daily Visioning Practice for yourself. 

(Due to its length, this Lesson will be continued in LOTUS VI(ii).)

LOTUS V: Gratitude

This lesson is an introduction to the way the Universe sees Gratitude.  The power of Gratitude underlies so much of the Law of Attraction, it is helpful if we pause for moment to develop a deeper grasp of it

We’ve learned that thoughts and emotions are the nouns and verbs of the Creatrix.  Within this context, Gratitude is the language itself.   The use of thoughts and emotions produce Gratitude in the same way that using nouns and verbs help to produce a Language.   Our definition of Gratitude is a little different than you might be familiar with, so I’ll define it here as a good starting point. 

Gratitude is the energy we give to a memory.  This bears some explanation. 

As humans we have the ability to direct many forms of energy.  For example, when we think, we use energy.  When we get angry, we use energy.  When we wash dishes, we use energy.  We can use so much energy, we become drained.  We can become emotionally drained.  We can become mentally fatigued.  We can become physically spent.  Taken in the aggregate, our thoughts, emotions, and actions comprise most of human energy.  They comprise the things that we do to express or direct our energy.   

Now let’s see how this might apply to Gratitude.  Josie’s car breaks down on the highway and her cell phone goes dead while she tries to call for help.  This causes her to miss a very important meeting, lose a client, and basically ruins her day.  Afterwards, she might direct her energy to the event.  She might tell her spouse about it, her friends, or her boss – this would be fairly common, and in many cases, even necessary.  But she might go further and let this event ruin her entire day, even her entire week.  She might dwell on it, feel frustrated, and even have difficulty falling asleep thinking about it. She might chastise herself for not having charged her cell phone before she left home that afternoon, or for not having renewed her auto club membership last month, or that she should have gotten her car into the shop the first time she heard that strange knocking noise in the engine.  She might worry about how she will pay for the repairs, and wonder how she will manage over the next few days with one less automobile. 

Oddly enough, the Universe sees this outpouring of thoughts, emotions, and actions as Gratitude for this event. 

Gratitude is the energy we give to a memory. 

Why is negative energy considered gratitude?  Recall that we are here to experience the spectrum of all of life’s experience – from the heights of euphoria to the depths of sadness.  Emotion adds color to our life, and without emotion, our life would be a banal existence.  The Universe does not label emotions as good or bad.  It does not label thoughts as good or bad.  Remember that the Creatrix is analogous to a machine.  It is a natural law, and as a natural law has no more ability to judge a situation than gravity has.  It’s incapable of judging whether an energy we are experiencing is desirable or not.  The only action of the Creatrix, its only function in fact, is to monitor the energy we give to something, and then re-direct that energy back to us, in kind.  This re-directed, returned energy takes the form of events in our lives that mirror back to us our outpouring energies, or as the universe sees it – as the gratitude we give to something. 

Ask a coach, a parent, a teacher, a friend – it really doesn’t matter – all of them will tell you that if you put your energy into something, you will get results.  Whatever you direct your energy at, expands.  If you practice playing your guitar, you will become a better guitar player; if you practice hitting more serves, your tennis game will improve; if you study harder, your grades will go up.  Conversely, if you direct most of your energies to playing video games or surfing the net, neither your tennis game nor your grades will improve.  This principle is obvious and basic.  And yet we fail to realize that it extends far beyond studying or hitting serves.  It is the basis of the Law of Attraction.   Focusing our energies on something yields results in the very thing we are focusing on. 

Gratitude is energy given to a memory.   Whether the energy produces good feelings or bad feelings is inconsequential to the universe.  It’s like putting different brands of batteries into a flashlight.  As long as the battery has a charge (energy), the flashlight will light up.  It’s doesn’t care what you think about the brand of the battery, or whether you hold some grievance toward the company that manufactured it.  It is the energy it produces that’s important to the flashlight.  And this is how the Universe works.   

When the Creatrix produces events in our lives, the more of our energy we give in the form of thoughts, emotions, and actions to the memory of these events, the more of those types of events will manifest in our lives.  This is the Law of Attraction in action.  It is no more mystical than saying that if we were to start working out every day, then we would start to get in better shape and to feel better.  Whatever you direct your energy at, expands.  This is the effect of Gratitude on the Law of Attraction, which could as easily be called the Law of Gratitude, because it is our Gratitude, our outgoing energy, that literally attracts back to us incoming energy in the form of manifested events in our lives.  Gratitude and Attraction are two sides of the same coin.  They’re the Yin and Yang of the Universe. 

Gratitude is our communication to the universe, directing it to give us what we want.  The events that are being produced in our lives are the Universe’s communication back to us, the attraction side of the coin.  We ask for what we want in our lives, and the Universe creates it. 

Gratitude is to the Universe exactly what Feedback is to the communication sciences, and this is true both in personal communications and in data communications.  Ask any systems designer and they will tell you the importance of feedback when transmitting data.  Ask anyone who studies human communication, and they will tell you the same thing.  Feedback is essential to the communication process.  It is essential to language.  And Gratitude is the feedback of the Language of the Universe.  It is the way to tell the Universe what we really want – the way to confirm that the events happening in our lives matches our desires. 

I found it odd that The Secret, as powerful and as motivational as that movie was, did not focus on this subject any more than it did.  It is so important, and so fundamental to the Law of Attraction.  It was left out of the movie’s three step process.  Yet Gratitude is EVERYTHING.  It is the core of the Law.  If you did nothing more than maintain a constant state of gratitude for the positive events in your life (as opposed to the negative ones), you would soon have everything you wanted in life.  This sounds easy, but in practice it’s very difficult.  LOTUS Lesson II explains how inertia, in the form of habitual thoughts, feelings, and actions, poses a major hurdle for us to overcome.  Regardless of the difficulties, knowing that Gratitude holds the key to the Law of Attraction and that it is the Force that powers the Law, allows us to construct methods and techniques that use this knowledge to our advantage. 

Always remember, Gratitude is energy given to a memory. It doesn’t matter whether that energy is comprised of negative thoughts and emotions or positive ones, the Universe simply sees it as energy. 

Once this idea is firmly rooted in your mind, then the next few lessons will take on a greater meaning for you.  This understanding provides us a springboard to jump into the practice of Mitigating Turbulence, our next LOTUS Lesson.

LOTUS IV: Circumventing the Stress Response

Audio Version: LOTUS IV

Introduction

Part III of the LOTUS Series discussed the many challenges we face when trying to ‘Create our Life’ and introduced three broad approaches that may be used to overcome these challenges.  These approaches were 1) Circumventing the Stress Response, 2) Mitigating Turbulence, and 3) Overwhelming the Creatrix.

This Series, Part IV, will discuss in detail, methods and techniques to attack the FIRST challenge: Circumventing the Stress Response.  The next two challenges will be discussed in the following LOTUS Series posts. 

Circumventing the Stress Response primarily works on decreasing and to the extent possible, eliminating, our habitual self-destructive thoughts and feelings.  There are many ways to do this, but I am going to present the three most powerful techniques of which I am aware:

1. Exercise
2. emWave Technology
3. Hemi-sync Technology

Of all the techniques we will discuss during the LOTUS Lessons, these involve the only ones that could get pricey.  Most of the techniques and methods we will be learning about are free to use and to implement.   I mention this now, because I do not want readers to get the impression that there is a price tag for all the techniques we will be discussing.  This simply isn’t true.   But it is true in dealing with the Stress Response.  For those with the funds, the cost of these technologies is well worth it.  For those who haven’t created a financially abundant life (… yet), there is never anything wrong with a little exercise.  It’s free, and it does work magic on stress. 

Before I get into specifics, I want to point out something.  Nearly anything that 1) lowers blood pressure, 2) lowers blood sugar levels, and 3) decreases joint pain is usually working, directly or indirectly, to circumvent the stress response.  This is because, quite simply, the stress response CAUSES these symptoms.  Therefore, anything that circumvents the stress response must improve these symptoms.  Each of the three methods will we discuss today has been known to improve or eliminate them.  

Exercise 

This may not comes as a great surprise, but physical activity lowers our cortisol levels, thus weakening its power over us.  There is no great mystery here.  Our body was designed to ‘fight or flee’ and the bio-chemicals produced to ready us for this action are meant to be used.  The simplest method of bringing our body back into balance is to simply fulfill the original intent of the body – by undertaking physical exercise. 

What type?  I suggest either aerobic activity or strenuous weight training.  Circuit training is a good way to approximate both, but any physical activity, if reasonably strenuous, from weight lifting to advanced Pilates and Yoga or Tai Chi, to jogging or a stationary bike will suffice.  Martial Arts are also wonderful.  Remember, you are trying to simulate fighting, or fleeing (running, climbing, etc).  So anything that does that, works. 

There are hundreds of documented cases where individuals who stuck to a plan of exercise have lowered their blood pressure, lowered their blood glucose levels, and reduced or eliminated muscle and joint pain in their body.  This doesn’t happen overnight, and, in fact, can take months to even a year or more to max out the results, but adding physical exercise to your life is one of the greatest, most productive activities you can undertake. 

Best of all, it’s free.  And completely natural. 

Exercise attacks one facet of the Stress Response – after the cycle is initiated.  It is a reactive weapon, not a preventative one.  It does not stop stress from starting, nor does it help us to eliminate our addiction to it.  It is one weapon (and a good one) in our arsenal.  But we need to add a few pre-emptive weapons so that we may put together a more robust battle plan. 

Two Invaluable Technologies

There are two other proven technologies to wage the battle against stress.  I personally use both myself, and I cannot give any processes or technologies a higher recommendation.  The first is EmWave technology developed by the HeartMath Institute, and the second is HemiSync Technology developed by the Monroe Institute. 

HeartMath and EmWave Technology

Unlike exercise, EmWave Technology is a pre-emptive weapon.  It teaches us how to induce stress-free states at will, and it produces a longer-term more coherent vibratory rate or ‘pitch’ in our bodies that buffers us against entering a fight-or-flight physiological response as often as we do today. 

Personally, I find this technology fascinating.  It turns upside down the way we think about our body, something we’ll discuss in a minute.  I also like it because it lends itself to precise measurement.  You can quantify and see your progress.  It’s not just an opinion – it’s entirely provable.  And most importantly, it produces amazing changes in your internal bio-chemistry if used consistently over time. 

The EmWave Technology uses a bio-feedback system that measures the difference in length between heartbeats.  The time between each heartbeat is never exactly the same, and the duration between beats can be plotted.  One might think that extremely consistent beats are the desired state, but this is not true.  In a ‘coherent’ state plotting the time between heartbeats will create clear wave-like rhythmic pattern.  This means that the difference between beats is NOT consistent, but they do follow a predictable pattern of increasing and decreasing durations between beats.   The more consistent this rhythm, the more Coherent is the heart and, therefore, the body.

Most of the time our heart beats in a chaotic pattern, not a coherent one.  Plotting this pattern, we would see no consistent rising and falling; no wave–like pattern would form.  What we would see instead would be a chaotic, non-repeating formation. 

Coherent heart patterns send signals to the brain to lessen the production of cortisol and to increase to production of serotonin, the chemical that produces a ‘runner’s high.’  Chaotic patterns do the exact opposite – they stimulate the stress response and suppress the production of serotonin.

Why I find this technology fascinating is that is turns upside down many of our pre-conceived notions of what processes govern our body.  Most of us are aware that the Brain produces an electromagnetic field.  Anyone who has seen The Secret, or read anything about the Law of Attraction, is aware that the brain produces Electromagnetic Waves that can be measured by scientific devices.  It has been argued that these frequencies interact with our environment and is, at least, one of the ways we interact with and ‘create our reality.’   These frequencies resonant with the ‘potential frequencies’ (quantum possibilities) that exist around us, and manifest those potentials that are harmonic to those frequencies we emit. 

This seems quite plausible to us because we maintain an unspoken, unwritten underlying belief – that the brain is the master organ of our body, and therefore, brainwaves are the basic operating force that ‘creates’ our reality.  The brain, we believe, is the CEO, and it is in charge. 

A quick review of available research, however, reveals that the brain really doesn’t run the show – not exactly what we thought.  It certainly does not run the electromagnetic show.  The heart does.  And it is not a close contest.  The heart’s electromagnetic force is 50-5000 times greater than that produced by the brain, and it has been proven that the brain’s frequencies ‘entrain’ to those produced by the heart.  Put another way, the heart leads and the brain follows. 

This conclusion is supported by the percentage and types of nerves that connect the brain and the heart.  Both the number and type of nerve cells connecting the heart and the brain primarily establishes the heart as the controller of the brain’s activities.  And this turns topsy-turvy our notions of what really controls our body. 

It is our heart, the center of our emotions, that controls our brain, the center of our thoughts.  And therefore, emotions are the driving force of the universe, not thoughts.  The point is simple and straightforward – emotions are the key to the Language of the Universe, and thoughts only serve to ‘limit’ an emotion to a particular area of our life.  Emotions are primary.  Thoughts are secondary. 

Put another way, thoughts don’t become things.  Emotions do.   Thoughts, in fact, are more the by-product of our emotions. 

And this primacy of emotions is reflected throughout the body.  We tend to think of the Brain as the controller of everything in the body, but what we are discovering is that the Heart is both literally and practically at the center of control. 

Therefore, by learning to focus on emotions and on the heart using the EmWave technology, we in effect, learn to establish direct and conscious control over the stress responses of the body.  I know of no other technology that allows us to do this. 

HeartMath’s two primary products using emWave Technology are the emWave PSR and the emWave PC (or emWave MAC, depending on your platform).  Both products are state-of-the-art, and each has its own unique strengths.  The emWave PSR is portable, and it requires no wires or other connections.  It can be used almost anywhere and at anytime – before critical business meetings, presentations, sporting events, and generally in situations that could cause (or may have just caused) a stress response.  It is about the size of a large cell phone, and can fit into your pocket or your purse.  Its portability and self-containment are its primary strengths and makes it a very valuable tool to circumvent stress all day just about anywhere.

The EmWave PC (or EmWave MAC) loads onto your computer and uses an ear contact to monitor your heart beat.  It isn’t portable (unless you have a laptop), but it can track and graph results over time by different users.  It contains games that help teach Coherence as well as online tutorials, and provides real time graphics and statistics.  It also provides both visual and audio response which allows you to use whatever mode of monitoring is the most effective for you.  Its strength lies in its useful (and encouraging information) about your success through both real-time and historical graphs and charts. 

I recommend both of these products.  If you had to start with one, I would go with the EmWave PC, just because of its tracking data.  It provides better feedback which helps you learn to create Coherence more quickly – at first.  However, once you have a better mastery of how to enter into a coherent state, the EmWave PSR becomes the more effective tool.  Both tools, if used in conjunction, are optimal, and if you take this technology seriously, you will find yourself frequently switching between the two products. 

EmWave technology is used for many things, but it has documented success in reducing stress, lowering blood pressure, overcoming insomnia, overcoming emotional eating, and treating anxiety, anger, and depression.   It is now being used by athletics around the world to enhance Sports Performance.

Here are some helpful links (hyperlinks to be added soon):

• HeartMath Main Website
• Research and Articles
• EmWave PSR
• EmWave PC or MAC
• Reducing Hypertension
• Overcoming Insomnia
• Overcoming Emotional Eating
• Meditation, Prayer, and Self-Help
• Books
• Courses taught by Licensed HeartMath 1:1 Provider
• Free Newsletter
• Products For Children

 The Monroe Institute and Hemi-Sync Technologies

Scientists have known for many years that the two hemispheres of the brain will talk to each other to reconcile different audio frequencies heard in each ear.  For example, using headphones, if a sound wave of 495 hz was placed into the left ear, and another of 505 hz was placed into the right ear, the brain would produce a frequency of 10 hz between the two hemispheres.  This is called a binaural beat.  More amazingly, this frequency can be heard as though it is an actual sound coming through the headphones (it sounds like a vibrato or a wave).  However, this vibrato stops the second you remove either of the headphones.  If you replace the headphone back again, in a few moments, the vibrato will begin again.  These sounds, which seem 100% external in nature, are actual 100% generated by your brain. 

By altering the frequencies entering each ear, we can force the brain to produce various electromagnetic signals with a specific desired frequency.   In the previous example, the 10 hz frequency would have placed the listener into a Alpha state (a relaxed state). 

The Monroe Institute has been studying this technology, specifically with a view of achieving various states of consciousness, for years.  I know of no other organization that has done more work in this area.  They have developed a comprehensive  product line of audio CDs and programs designed to help people in their physical, emotional, and spiritual growth.   Their primary technology is called Hemi-Sync, and it fundamental to all their products.   The technology lends itself to an almost endless spectrum of applications.  Here are a few:

• Emotional health and control
• Enhancing creativity
• Improving self-esteem
• Productivity and mental performance
• Improving sleep and dream recall

It has been subject to hundreds of medical and scientific studies, and it is nearly impossible to explain to another person how life-changing the technology can be.  For those interested, I strongly recommend beginning with the Gateway Experience Series.  This can be a little pricey, but worth it.  If your budget stands in the way, I recommend the Mind Food series to familiarize yourself with the process before expanding into the Metamusic or Human Plus series.   

There is another facet of the Monroe Institute that bears mentioning: their Online Community is second to none.  There isn’t nearly as much traffic as MySpace or Facebook, but the resources there are unparalleled, and it’s free.   You might check it out. 

Used in tandem, emWave and Hemi-Sync technologies can literally transform your life in a very short period of time.   With exercise and practice, they effectively allow us to circumvent the Stress Response, and thus, reduce the ‘accidental and habitual’ creation of negative events as we try to create a better life. 

 I recommend the following protocol:

1. Use emWave technology for 20 minutes every day. 
2. Listen to a Hemi-Sync CD 3 times per week.
3. Exercise 20 minutes, at least 3 days a week (skipping every other day). 

Continue this protocol until you feel positive and calm during the day more often than not.  Once the stress cycle begins to break (a minimum of three weeks), you can begin to use both the emWave and Hemi-Sync technologies less often, as you see fit.  However, it is okay to continue their use as long and as often as you like. 

If your time is limited, then I recommend (unfortunately) cutting out the Hemi-Sync tapes (since most run about 40 minutes, and they can be hard to fit into a demanding schedule).  Use your emWave daily and work out 3 days per week. 

This ends LOTUS IV: Circumventing the Stress Response, with its focus on techniques to eliminate habitual, self-defeating thoughts and feelings.  The next lesson in the LOTUS series will discuss  Mitigating Turbulence, or techniques we can use to stay in a positive mental and emotional state as often as possible.

Question…

While I am working away to finalize LOTUS IV: Circumventing the Stress Response, I wanted to ask for some feedback on the Law of Attraction.  Many people I speak with talk about the problems and frustrations they have had using the Law of Attraction.  I’ve talk to others that have been wonderfully successful.  What is your experience?  How did you apply the Law?  What activities did you undertake (visualization, gratitude rock, emotional anchoring, etc.)?  What was the outcome? 

Please respond with a comment.  I’d like to open this up for all to share. 

Thanks, Scott.

Intro to the LOTUS Lessons

The Language Of The Universe Series (LOTUS) lessons is a progressive set of lessons designed to take a practitioner of the Law of Attraction into a deeper understanding and clearer intent of the design of the Law. The LOTUS Series applies the Theory of the Language of the Universe and uses its own concepts and nomenclature, not found in other teachings. It is highly recommend that the lessons be read in order to facilitate understanding.

List of Lessons:

1. Post:  LOTUS Lesson I:  The Theory  (Audio: LOTUS I)
2. Post:  LOTUS Lesson II:  The Problem  (Audio: LOTUS II)
3. Post:  LOTUS Lesson III:  The Practice  (Audio: LOTUS III)
4. Post:  LOTUS Lesson IV: Circumventing the Stress Response  (Audio: LOTUS IV)
5. Post:  LOTUS Lesson V: Gratitude (Audio: in process)

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Fear, Truth, and Spiritual Awakening

Audio Version: Fear, Truth, and Spiritual Awakening

Never before in history has mankind faced a greater crisis than the one we face today.  I am not talking about famine, or war, or hunger, or disease.  I am talking about a spiritual crisis.  A crisis of identity, of understanding, of planetary emergence.  We, as a species, are in our teenage years.  We are not adults, nor are we wise beyond our years.  We are between childhood and adulthood, and there is no older, wiser grandparent guiding us along our path.  We are alone, and yet, at the very core of our being, we are one. 

And it is at this juncture, at this very realization coming at us from religion, from philosophy, and from science, that we realize this great truth – that we are one. 

We are one. 

Imagine that.

Or, as someone infinitely more talented than I once said…

Imagine.

So please do that…

Imagine.

Imagine a world of unity.  Imagine of world of one.  Imagine a world where all the resources are shared, because it makes no sense not to share.  Imagine bridges, not borders. 

Imagine a world without fear. 

And then you will have a world of Truth.

Not truth, but Truth with a capital “T”.

Fear is born of separation, and fear engenders control.  It is the primary mechanism of control.  It is, at its core, the means of the adolescent, of the young as they struggle for the wisdom of maturity.  Fear is not Truth.  Never was.  Never will be.  Those seeking control use truth, but they do not understand Truth.  And many even reject the idea, and thus embrace the way of the adolescent. 

Any set of ideas which is based on fear is not founded in Truth.  It is, from a spiritual perspective, not real.  Mankind has indoctrinated himself in the unreal.  Examine our institutions, our beliefs, and see which of them, at their core, are founded on fear. 

It is time for mankind to evaluate our institutions and our “-isms” – from religions, to governments, to monetary systems, to foreign policies, to diplomatic relations.  Humanity, all of Humanity – not just the currently dominant slice of the Western World – must transcend the fear-based dogma that holds back our evolution.  This is True not for just the general populace, but for corporate leaders, for government officials, for politicians, for military leaders, for the power elite as well as for those institutions promoting hatred and terrorism in the name of a greater good.  Hatred and terrorism, whether issued by covert resistance to imperialism or by the corporate and military interests of the dominant, are never great nor good. 

These institutions and those lurking behind them believe that fear can control and maintain a grip on humanity.  This belief is founded on the fundamental assumption that fear is eternal and mankind cannot rise above it.  This has, until now, proven true throughout history.  It is easy to assume that fear will continue its dominance over us.  Entire models of social control are based on this, and their predictive success is contingent upon it.  However, if this dominance ends, the entire fear-based control structure – corporate, government, religious, military, family – falls apart like a house of cards.  For it has never been fear that we needed, but rather peace.

For humanity to survive this crisis, we must understand that all institutions were built by us – we control them, they don’t control us.  We gave them their power, because, at their core, these institutions are comprised of people.  They are us.  The ultimate irony is that we, ourselves, created the institutions that control us with fear, and that we run these same institutions. 

The eventual collapse of fear through the force of evolution is not a maybe, but rather, a certainty.  Anyone, from the power elite of the world to the common man, anyone who hitches their wagon to a set of beliefs founded in fear will end up in a ditch – a ditch they never saw coming.  But those who abandon the shackles of fear, who rise above it, will save both themselves and mankind. 

It is time that humanity grows up and stops playing out its adolescent dramas on a world stage.  Imagine a world free of fear.  Imagine living as adults…

Together, in peace.

Problems with the Law of Attraction

The Law of Attraction works!  That’s the good news.  But the bad news is that it works 24/7/365, not just for the 20 minutes a day that we try to create something new.  This presents problems as the status quo the Universe has created becomes disturbed.  If our thoughts and feelings to date have created a lack in our life, a scarcity of some type, trying to change it for a brief period every day, and then reverting back to the habitual thoughts and feelings that created our lack to begin with results in turbulence in our life, as the Universe trys to create both desired and undesired results. 

A quick review of the blogosphere clearly helps us see that this Turbulence is the most common result of trying to use the Law of Attraction.  Most practictioners do not want to hear this.  But this does not mean the Law of Attraction cannot be mastered.  It can. 

Clearly a deeper understanding of the process, of how the Universe actually communicates, is required to master this Universal Law and to use for our benefit.  This is not a simplistic issue, and it requires a great deal of background and framework to address even the fundamentals. 

But – the Law of Attraction works.  It is not a fairy tale.  It is a very powerful natural law – as real and as absolute as gravity.  If you walk off of the top of a 40 story, you will fall and, in all likelihood, die.  Gravity doesn’t judge whether or not you deserve to die.  It just operates by law.  The Law of Attraction is no less powerful, no more judgemenntal, and just as dangerous if not understood before using. 

But if we do understand its intracacies, we can use it to our benefit.  If you have been struggling with the Law of Attraction, but the concept strikes a knowing chord inside of you, then I invite you to refer to the LOTUS Lessons to learn more.  You can change your life.  Learn how here.

LOTUS III: The Language of the Universe – The Practice

Audio Version:  LOTUS III – The Practice

In Part II of this Series, we discussed how the act of Conscious Creation frequently produces the opposite of the desired result.  This begs the question – if the most common result of ‘creating’ our life is to produce the opposite effect of what we desire, is there a way we can change this result? 

Essentially, our brain and body has a wonderful built-in mechanism that creates habits out of routine thoughts, actions, and feelings.  This mechanism allows us to talk, play musical instruments, type on a keyboard, tie our shoes, and it even controls our breathing, heartbeat, immune system functions, assimilation of food, hormone production, metabolism, etc.  Without this mechanism, life as we know it would be impossible.  Humans simply could not exist, nor could any higher-level form of life. 

The habitual nature of our thoughts is not due to our weak will power to change them or to a flaw in our personality.  It is due to the powerful forces of evolution as they take over routine activities freeing up our mind to focus on higher and higher levels of thought.  That is far from a weakness.  Our habitual thoughts and feelings are driven by a highly sophisticated, interlocking, self-supporting, natural physical cycle that connects neural networks in our brain directly to our cellular bio-chemistry.  And this cycle is 100% supported and maintained by ‘physical addiction’ –an addiction, in fact, to the most powerful drugs on the planet – the body’s own neurochemicals.

In the distant past, this system served mankind quite well.  However, today we face a world-wide addiction to cortisol, a natural hormone produced by the brain.  Cortisol is THE stress hormone, and it controls the ‘fight or flight’ response produced by threatening situations.  To the caveman, a threat from a sabre-tooth tiger initiated a hormonal cascade that prepared the body to fight the tiger or to flee from it.  This physiological response heightened certain physical abilities by re-directing blood flow away from vital areas to muscles and the heart and lungs.  It also directed internal energies away from immediate needs.  For example, immune system function decreased and digestion slowed.  These energies didn’t dissipate, but were redirected elsewhere in the body as blood pressure went up, breathing increased, blood sugar increased to provide fuel to muscles, and reflex responses accelerated, among many other changes.  The body generally prepared itself to fight or to flee.  The fight or the fleeing that was certain to follow reduced the cortisol in the body, thus helping the body return to a more normal function.

Things are different in today’s world.  We don’t fight tigers today.  But we do fight customers, spouses, bosses, parents, children, and the guy in the car next to us.  Of course, we don’t really fight them, but threats from them are treated just the same as if that tiger was about to eat you.  Your cortisol levels increase, and you physiologically prepare to fight or flee, whether or not you consciously realize it.  Unfortunately, in the board room, at the water cooler, or in our car, we can’t fight or flee, so our cortisol levels don’t return to normal very quickly.  Instead they stay elevated.  In time, our cells become addicted to the neurochemicals that cortisol controls, and when our cells do not get their chemical fix often enough, the brain initiates stressful thoughts and feelings and memories designed to produce more cortisol, locking us — all of us — into a permanent, chemically dependent state of stress. 

As a result, in our world, what was meant to be a short-term, one-time biological adjustment becomes chronic: our blood pressure stays elevated, our blood sugar levels stay elevated, our immune response stays chronically weakened, the blood flow to our brain stays diminished and it becomes difficult to concentrate, and our muscles feel tense and start to hurt (cortisol also controls inflammation).  High blood pressure (heart disease), elevated blood sugar levels (diabetes), lack of concentration, and joint pain – do any of these sound familiar.  These IS the world we live in.  It is brought on by stress.  Chronic stress.   When homeostasis, the desired physiological condition, becomes an unrealized state, we start to suffer mentally, emotionally, and physically.  Chronic stress affects our thoughts, emotions, and our bodies.  If you are into holistic medicine, then you realize that stress is THE Holistic Disease. 

And it, stress, controls the state of humanity at the present moment.  Unfortunately, this state of being, with its associated dependencies, thoughts, feelings, and memories creates the very reality around us through the action of the Creatrix.  A reality which many most of us want to change. 

It is very hard to break the stress cycle that is so prevalent in today’s world.  There is a lot working against us. 

Can we overcome this cycle?  Is it possible?  Yes.  Definitely. 

Is it worth it?  Absolutely. 

It really isn’t hard.  But it DOES take commitment, time, and effort.  This is NOT a ‘only 20 minutes a day and change your life forever’ online infomercial.  This isn’t a scam, and I am not selling snake oil.  There is no magic bullet here, nor do I believe in magic bullets.   This is, however, reality – the way things really work.  I’d love to tell you that ‘In only five minutes a day, you too can be a billionaire, marry a super-model, and have the body of a super-hero.”  I’d love to tell you that, but it isn’t true.   

However, what is true is that our life, our world, and our reality is totally within our control – completely.  The only thing stopping you from having everything you’ve ever dreamed of is simply the right knowledge.   We can divide this in to three areas:  1) how the Creatrix speaks to us, 2) how we communicate to it, and 3) how the mechanism of Inertia works in our lives.  Once we fully grasp the nuances of these things, it is just a matter of building a plan of action and executing it.  When we do this, when we make this commitment and put forth the effort, life stops being hard, and life…

… yes…  I’ll go so far as to say it…

… life becomes magical. 

Creating a New Life

To create a magical life, a fairy-tale existence, there are several approaches we can take.  We can 1) learn ways to circumvent the stress response and the resultant hormonal cascade that rampages through our body, 2) employ methods and techniques to mitigate the Turbulence produced by the Creatrix, and 3) overwhelm the Creatrix with consciously directed thoughts and feelings superseding the subconsciously produced ones. 

Circumventing the Stress Response

Medical science and recent discoveries related to the both the human brain and heart have provided us technological ways to circumvent the stress response.  Most of these work to turn off the part of the brain that produces cortisol and activate the parts of the brain that produce serotonin and other needed bio-chemicals.  In addition to providing a needed rest from the chronic overproduction of cortisol, it also allows our body to start to produce new, healthier and happier internal chemical addictions.  Most importantly, it breaks the cycle of negative thoughts and emotions that confuse the Creatrix.  In short, it clarifies our intent and communication to the Universe, and produces more consistent, desirable events in our lives. 

Mitigating Turbulence

By further dissecting the Language of the Universe, we find simple techniques that we can employ throughout the day to mitigate the Turbulence from the Creatrix.  These techniques are, in essence, the other side of the coin.  While technologies can be used to break the stress cycle and eliminate negative thoughts and feelings, these techniques provide ways for us to maintain more positive thoughts and emotions throughout the day. 

Overwhelming the Creatrix

Simple modifications to our daily visualizations can also help us overwhelm the Creatrix through careful use of appropriate sub-modalities, emotional anchors, affirmations, and other techniques.  These techniques are really nothing more than learning to speak the Language of the Universe more powerfully. 

Each of these approaches – 1) Circumventing the Stress Response, 2) Mitigating Turbulence, and 3) Overwhelming the Creatrix – and their applied techniques will be presented in greater detail in future LOTUS series posts.

LOTUS II: The Language of the Universe – The Problem

Audio Version: LOTUS II – The Problem

You walk up to a bank teller.  The teller asks, “May I help you?’  You reply, “Money.”  The teller scrunches her eyebrows together and asks, “Money?’  You nod your head, and repeat, “Money.”

Now, what does the teller think?  Does she have any idea what you want?  She might think you want to steal money.  If someone comes up to a teller and say’s money, it does come across like that.  But you do nothing more than say the word, ‘money’, so she doesn’t really know.  You might want to borrow money, or to withdraw or deposit money.  You might even want to pay back money you borrowed from the bank.  In and of itself, this single word, this concept, this idea of ‘money’ gives the teller no idea of what you actually want. 

Now imagine that this isn’t just any teller.  This teller is THE Teller of the Creatrix, working for the Bank of the Universe, and this teller MUST provide you service.  She must give you exactly what you desire.  In fact, it’s the Law, and she can no more break that law than an apple can fall upward when it breaks free from the tree. 

So, in accordance with the Law and in order to determine what you want, the teller hands you a $20 bill… and then she wrestles you to the floor and tries to take money from your wallet… and then… to your amazement… she calmly gets up, grabs a loan application and hands it to you!  A little frustrated at this point, you remind yourself that she must, by Law, take action, because she must give you what you want.  Unfortunately, since she doesn’t know what you want, her actions can be quite Turbulent.  And that is exactly how the Universe responds to you when it is confused – with Turbulence. 

I know that many of you have heard the idea that thoughts become things, or something to this effect.  This idea, as controversial as it is, has a powerful basis in truth, but, unfortunately this particular statement is woefully incomplete.  There is more to it, and although most teachers point this out, I believe many people who embrace this idea completely miss the point.  So let me take a shot at it…

I ask you to imagine a beach full of people.  The sun is shining, people are sunbathing, some are in the ocean, some are having a picnic.  It is a beautiful day.  In your mind’s eye, you see people… you see places… you see things.  Hmmm…  You see people, places, and things.  Isn’t that the very definition of a Noun? Well, that’s how the universe sees your images – as nouns. 

Of course, these people are ‘doing something’ in your vision, and, therefore, your vision includes ‘verbs’.  But to the Universe, such actions are not relevant.  ‘Verbs’, to the Universe, are very relevant, but actions are not considered verbs by the Universe.  We’ll talk more about in a moment. 

Until then, let’s revisit the Teller of the Creatrix.  If money is a noun, and a verb is required to for a complete sentence, what can you do to clarify yourself?  Very simple.  Right?  Just add a verb.  Instead of saying “Money”, say “Withdraw money.”  Now the teller knows what you want.  Unfortunately, as just pointed out, the Universe does not recognize action verbs.  It would be like to trying to speak Popsicle to an Eskimo.  They might know what a Popsicle is but they certainly don’t speak it. 

The Language of the universe only considers one type of verb – to feel or, we might say, to emote.  We are here to experience the richness of life, and therefore, the only relevant ‘action’ the universe considers important are our feelings and emotions.  These are the verbs of the Universe, and these are the only verbs. 

Given this, it would be more logical to go to the Teller of the Creatrix and say, “I want to feel good about money.”  Hearing this, she will create events in your financial life that cause you to feel good.  It that’s simple.  On paper, anyway.  However, in practice, there are some serious complications. 

Enter Inertia. 

If you want to have more of something, it means that you have been entertaining thoughts and feelings that created the reality you live in – a reality where you are lacking the very thing you want more of.  Moreover, it is very likely that these thoughts and feelings that have created scarcity for you have become habitual.  When thoughts and feelings become habitual for long enough, a status quo is created that rarely changes.  The fabric of your reality becomes relatively smooth.  You may not like the texture, but the fabric becomes as smooth as a geometric plane. 

Given your dislike of your current situation, you ask the universe, using the most proper language that you can, using images and emotions, for more of the thing you don’t have enough of.  You do this for a total of twenty minutes, and then go about your merry way.  Unfortunately, your thoughts and feelings habitually revert back to the same thoughts and feelings that created the world you are trying to change to start with.  Said differently, inertia kicks in. 

In these situations, the Teller of the Creatrix becomes confused.  Hmmm… she thinks.  What does this person really want?  I am getting mixed signals.  I am required, by Law, to help them, so I will communicate back to them.  I will create events in their lives, many events related to the thing they want to change, and I will monitor their feelings about these events.  I will watch and whatever events elicit the most feelings, those are the events they must want, so I will give them more of those. 

You might want to read that last sentence a few more times.  I repeat it here just in case it didn’t really sink in: I will watch and whatever events elicit the most feelings, those are the events they must want, AND I WILL GIVE THEM MORE OF THOSE. 

This action on the part of the universe, resulting from its confusion, results in Turbulence in your life.  You communicate mixed signals to the universe, and it communicates back in terms of an increased number of events related to your desire in your life.  It produces wrinkles in your smooth financial reality.  And these events will be both good and bad, because the universe is trying to determine what you really want.  Creating various events is its way of asking you what you want. 

The universe’s purpose is to give you whatever emotional experience that you tell it you want – good or bad.  So… here is what happens to most practitioners of the Law of Attraction.  We will use money as the example here.  It works for anything however, from relationships, to spiritual growth, to athletic or academic success – you fill in the blank with whatever you want to change.

Lucy, a new practitioner of the Law of Attraction, wants to turn around her financial situation, which has eroded over the years into an unbearable amount of debt.  She has just lost her job, and her creditors are about to start carrying everything she owns away.  It’s time for a major change, and it’s time she got serious about this LOA stuff.

She begins to consciously create – twice a day in fact, morning and evening, and within a week, she receives a large check for $650 from her mortgage company for an overfunded escrow account.  She is elated, and wonders if this LOA thing just might really work.  Two days later her car won’t start, and she is shocked to discover that it will cost $1,200 to get it fixed.  She starts to worry about her finances and how she is going to pay for the repairs, and she wonders if maybe she is doing something wrong.  She doesn’t quite give up on her twice-a-day creating activity, however, because she tells herself it is just a matter of time… okay, well she hopes so anyway. 

The next week, her refrigerator stops running, and it costs her $800 to replace. 

Now she is really worried and very confused.  And she is frustrated and even a little angry.  This is exactly the opposite of what was supposed to happen!  She can’t believe that in only one week’s time, two unexpected, major expenses hit her, and she is out $2,000,and she really can’t believe it happened while she was TRYING TO CREATE MORE MONEY!  Intensely frustrated, she stops creating and the new financial events affecting her life slow down to a crawl.  The Turbulence in her life winds back down to a status quo.  Lucy finds a new job making exactly what she did before and continues to struggle financially, just as she always has. 

Has this happened to you?  I know from personal experience, as well as from talking to others, that this not only happens, but it is the most common initial result of applying the Law of Attraction.  Why is this?  What has happened here? 

Lucy clearly communicated to the Creatrix what she desired, but the moment she stopped with the ‘good’ feelings and thoughts, the old ones, the habitual ones, kicked back in, sending multiple mixed communications to the Universe.  The Creatrix, like the machine that it is, immediately sensed a change, a wrinkle if you will, in Lucy’s smooth, but financially challenged life.  The Creatrix knew that Lucy was trying to change something about her financial life, since she was spending so much time focusing on it.  But it was receiving mixed communications, and it had to, by Law, respond.  It had to communicate back. 

So the Creatrix began creating an abnormally large number of financial events in Lucy’s life, creating Turbulence in her previously smooth financial life.  And not knowing whether Lucy’s wanted to experience more pain in her financial life or more good feelings about it, the Creatrix created both, and (here is a very important point), it monitored her emotional reactions to see which she really wanted.  It wanted feedback.  It defined feedback as the amount of emotional energy, good or bad, that Lucy gave to the events in her life. 

And Lucy gave it the feedback she wanted; initially she gave it worry, fear and confusion, but soon that expanded into frustration and anger.  All of these emotions Lucy mentally ‘anchored’ to the idea of money.  So the universe began to give her more negative events than positive ones.  This would have continued, but ironically and fortunately, Lucy gave up trying to create a better financial life, and the events created by the Creatrix in her life slowed down to a more normal frequency.  In fact, her life settled back down to the way it had always been.  It slowed down to her previous vibratory rate, to her previous inertia, and there it settled into a smooth status quo. 

Can this result be avoided?  Can it be circumvented?  The answer is a resounding ‘yes.’  Armed with the knowledge of the Language of the Universe, certain protocols and practices can be implemented that are specifically designed to alleviate and mitigate the negative events related to Turbulence. 

That is the Topic of Part III.