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• Why Different Layers of Consciousness?

  Different Layers of Consciousness Hypnosis is a fascinating topic and I am full of it because I am just finishing an eight week course in becoming a certified hypnotherapist. The average person [should we ever find her] is fairly ignorant of the actual qualities of hypnotic states. My own way of describing it is in the context of ‘mobility of consciousness’. The idea is that we can move around in our own consciousness to various different layers. And each layer has different strengths and weaknesses. Each layer has access to different resources and opportunities. In casual conversation we have figured out about four different layers of consciousness that every human visits almost every day. The sleep state, the normal waking state, meditation, and self-induced alpha states (hypnosis). There are undoubtedly many more and a whole discipline could be devoted to investigating this. The reason I took this course is that I believe that hypnosis is the discipline that focuses most directly on consciously changing the state of consciousness you are in for particular purposes. Where else do we find this expertise in our society? [everywhere actually, I am thinking of barbers, dentists and entertainers for a start, not to mention a much older profession ;] We have the ability to move in our state of consciousness to the location that is most suitable for what we want to accomplish. For instance, there is nothing like the normal waking state for noticing and appreciating the richness of our experiences in this physical dimension. On the other hand the dream state is extraordinary in the range of realities and experiences we can access. The possibilities go way beyond physical reality because in our dreams we are not nearly so attached to the limitations we have chosen for this dimension. The downside is that dreams do not seem to have any dependable relationship with what’s happening in our outer lives. Dreams are so free of structural restrictions that they are pretty far removed from the everyday realities we face when we are awake. Meditation is a wonderful trance state we can all learn to enter at will. It is typified by very healing acceptance of self and at least temporary release of many unnecessary tensions and attachments. The issue here is that this is not a place to exert one’s decisiveness in service of one’s intentions. Meditation is all about acceptance and allowance, not choices and action. A profoundly powerful layer of consciousness accessible to us all, is a self-induced hypnotic trance. The power of this state is that we are able to talk directly to the sub- or neo-conscious. Suggestions we make to ourselves in these states are gobbled up by the subjective awareness and transferred to our reality creation mechanisms immediately. The only downside here is 'do not operate heavy machinery' while in these states. - - - - - What this means is that if we want to say affirmations to ourselves in the normal waking state, that may produce some results eventually. But if we want to really mainline a suggestion into the neo-conscious, we should put ourselves into an auto-hypnotic state. Likewise if we want to relax and allow stuff and rejuvenate ourselves, a meditative state is ideal. Whereas if we want to assess a situation, make some careful observations and then some choices, we should be in the normal waking state. This is where our ego is most focused on the outer experience of life in this dimension. Eventually I see a time when every family will have not only a healer, but also a specialist in the mobility of consciousness, perhaps one and the same. The potential that is revealed when we discover that different energetic expressions at different layers of consciousness produce different results in our reality, is quite ‘beyond the beyond’. [when will mathematicians and physicists allow consciousness into their equations?] Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:55 PM from Your Faithful Reporter | 0 Comments Filed under: Rant, Commentary, reality creation, layers of consciousness

• Gullibility is Our Genius

  Gullibility is Our Genius Our genius is in devising and telling ourselves such compelling and plausible stories about life that we start believing them. [Never mind Pollyanna, we’re all Alfred E. Neuman!] That’s it really, but when you combine this idea with the understanding that what we believe has the ‘ear’ of our reality creation mechanisms, you realize that the stories we tell ourselves will eventually become our outward reality. So by believing our own stories, we manipulate our concentration within consciousness in such a way that we literally construct our own potential futures. [Such is our power.] I say ‘potential' futures because no matter what story we have been telling ourselves, in any moment we are free to choose something else. We have the power to deviate from our plot at any moment, in any way we might wish, but few of us ever do this. [I prefer to think of this as the result of good choices about beliefs, rather than faintness of heart about changing them later.] Kris said recently that we are what we believe ourselves to be. This seemingly straightforward comment started to burrow into my mind. If this turns out to be true, what we believe about ourselves becomes really, really important! When you think about it, this means we're all pretty good story tellers, right? But you have to admit, we’ve all told ourselves some whoppers too. Beliefs we bought into that ended up being just silly. [How can you tell the difference? Going in actually you can’t, because of free will, but coming out of an experience you often get another, perhaps wider perspective on the beliefs involved. That’s actually why we materialize beliefs as experiences, to get a real good look at them, so we know what adjustments we might want to make.] So anyway, keeping in mind all this stuff, I’ve been busily making friends with my most gullible and believing aspects. In general, I have put out the call for any aspect that is cheerful about accepting new ideas, especially about who we are and how the world works. [The attitude we're looking for here? The snuffling enthusiasm of hungry puppies does not overstate the level of acceptance we’re going for.] Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:56 PM from Your Faithful Reporter ~ Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Rant, Commentary, gullibility is genius, gullible, gullibility

• ‘Yes, and…’ Lessons from Improv

  “Yes, and...” - Life Lessons from Improv I was struck the other day while watching The View when Canadian Mike Myers, was talking to Whoopi about his movie, “The Love Guru”. He mentioned that being a good collaborator was about always saying “Yes, and...” to whatever was being offered by a colleague. Intrigued by how this related to recent insights I have been having about the importance of allowance and acceptance, I found this description on Wikipedia... [please bear with me through this lengthy quote, note the emphasis, and be attuned to parallels to Conscious Creation...] - - - - - “In order for an improvised scene to be successful, the actors involved must work together responsively to define the parameters and action of the scene, in a process of co-creation. With each spoken word or action in the scene, an actor makes an offer, meaning that he or she defines some element of the reality of the scene. This might include giving another character a name, identifying a relationship, location, or using mime to define the physical environment. These activities are also known as endowment. It is the responsibility of the other actors to accept the offers that their fellow performers make; to not do so is known as blocking, or negation, which usually prevents the scene from developing. Some performers may deliberately block (or otherwise break out of character) for comedic effect -- this is known as gagging -- but this generally prevents the scene from advancing and is frowned upon by many improvisers. Accepting an offer is usually accompanied by adding a new offer, often building on the earlier one; this is a process improvisers refer to as "Yes, And..." and is considered the cornerstone of improvisational technique. Every new piece of information added helps the actors to refine their characters and progress the action of the scene.” [all emphasis mine] - - - - - These improv techniques are startlingly similar to what I have been learning about improvising my own everyday life - surely this is what ‘creating your own reality’ is all about. So many of us respond, to so many of life’s moments, with “No, but...” instead of “Yes, and...”, and thereby block the development of whatever our issues might be. [It’s not that any position or situation is right or wrong, but that was the situation a year ago wasn’t it?, and the rest of us have moved on!] The ‘yes’ part is accepting whatever Life offers us. This is allowance and accepting whatever reality we find ourselves in, as the first step to orienting ourselves, and understanding how we are expressing our energies. The ‘and’ part is expressing ourSelves and taking the next step in this particular ‘morality play' - in the best possible sense of that phrase - as we act nobly in the world, make choices, and otherwise express our feelings and ideas to advance our plans by exploring and engaging the astonishing new prospects we see just around the corner... [like a friend once said, the Internet [and life] is not about where you are, it’s about where you’re going!] We recall that, while the motive for these wonderfully insightful improv players, is entertainment, and there may be a lesson here too!, perhaps our own lofty goals of ‘wisdom, love and freedom’ could be best served by faithfully responding to everything life offers with, “Yes, and...” - - - - - I think these improv guys better watch out though, because what they are doing is creating actual probabilities. And one night... perhaps we are up late and have a couple too many, various conditions may contribute, but suddenly it becomes possible to slip between probabilities... Spooky! This may be where the old saying ‘watch what you ask for’ comes from. Posted Sunday, July 13, 2008 12:27 PM from Your Faithful Reporter ~ Daily Blog | 2 Comments Filed under: Rant, Commentary

• Top Ten Tips for Easy Shifting

  I have been using these lazy, hazy days of summer to update my website. So today I find myself writing the Page that a few months back I originally entitled, in a moment of whimsy one assumes, “Top Ten Tips for Easy Shifting”. After a number of years reading and digesting the information being offered by various channeled sources, I have come up with the top ten things I have learned, over the last thirty years. This stuff really works, for me anyway, and here I offer you my condensed version, suitable for both novices and aficionados. Top Ten Tips for Easy Shifting 1 - Acknowledge that you exist and have a place in the world - that you are ‘amongst those present’ as the lovely old English phrase goes. So, be present, to yourself and to the moment. [It’s not as hard as it might seem, and the rewards are, well... Whatever they are!] 2 - Accept - and appreciate wherever possible - the world as it presents itself to you. And accept the various aspects of yourself in the same way. Oppose nothing outwardly or inwardly. [Expressing opposing energy results in... experiencing opposing conditions and circumstances. That’s what physical reality is... an outer reflection and confirmation of our inner representations.] 3 - Celebrate joy, pleasure, loving feelings, communion, giving and receiving, and all of this without boundaries or limitations. Don’t just smell that rose 'sweet thang', grab it and get up close and personal with it! [Have your way with that rose, and take the rest home for rosehip tea!] 4 - Create and share ideas freely and express whatever you are moved to. [Nothing is lost and everything is gained when you express yourself in ANY circumstance!] 5 - Allow regenerative change as indicated, while honoring memory and history [You can’t go anywhere unless you’re coming from somewhere!] Learn to act with the strength of your intentions as well as your convictions. [When in doubt though, just do it!] 5b - Let’s not be so darn quick sometimes, to label these changing things and judge them and react to things, simply as they may appear in any given moment, or series of moments. [A good question to ask is how we feel about the direction of these changes.] The Now is not always such a bad thing that we need to deny it and look elsewhere! Let's allow ourselves to change our mind sometimes - without comment! - and sometimes even open a door to compromise, allowance and cooperation! Why not expand our understanding, and reverse the probabilities around an unpromising course of action. [Freedom is not about choice, it's about choosing again!] The tone of the game changes dramatically when we learn to be gentle with ourselves, because soon we find ourselves being more allowing and compassionate with all the whole world around us. [...and shortly after that the Whole World starts being more gentle and accommodating with us! Go figure!] Let’s accept ourselves as we try one thing and then choose something else, and then change our minds again to something else entirely! [This is freedom! Who cares what we choose? What’s it matter anyway? We can choose again and again, and everybody else is free to make their own choices too!] 6 - Within every fleeting moment of this Now, when we pause for a moment’s reflection about something, anything... In this slightly detached and observational moment, lie extraordinarily rich and fertile opportunities, rolling out before us in all directions and times, fruitful and ripe with choices deliciously aligned with our personal preferences. We only have to take a moment to look, to see all this. 7 - And let’s be clear! We can choose to be anything in such a moment! And often do! 8 - There is always MORE than whatever the current ‘container’ for consciousness might be, be it thoughts, ideas, beliefs, choices, behavior, concepts, or whatever physical actions or perceived circumstances might be making up our present conception of ourselves and the world [that is to say, our current Worldview expressed through our current Ego Construction]. 9 - Feelings are our most meaningful guide through this fantastic labyrinth of our selves as expressed in our daily adventures. Follow the feelings of spine tingling, thrilling delight, and you won’t ever be far off. 10 - All the other people in our lives are ‘comrades in arms’ who are joining us in this endeavor we call physical reality for one reason, and one reason only. They love to be with us, in any and all capacities, and we love to be with them! Thus everyone we meet is a much loved ancestor, sibling and/or descendant to whom we owe the deepest gratitude and appreciation. We’re all in this together... for a reason! Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 5:32 PM from Your Faithful Reporter ~ Daily Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Rant, Commentary