The art of thinking and the universe

When we are alone, it is easy to have bad thoughts. It is that time that we reflect on our lives. We know that there are billions of people on the earth. Each one has a different mind set and a different look. Sometimes I think about someone else's life. What would it be life to live that life? Would I like my house? Would I like the car or the wife? Truth is, when we do that we are confirming that something is wrong with our own lives. For our minds, it is easier to imagine a better life than it is to make your life right.

So what is in your life that isn’t right? Is it the house, car, wife, or money? What makes you happy? These are the questions that you have to ask so that you know what to go after to make it happen. What we think and dream, we make reality. It is a two edge sword. When we think bad thoughts and have bad feeling, we manifest those feeling into reality. When you’re in a bad mood, you want others to be sympathetic and feel the same way as you do. So you make your environment stressful for others and bring them down. It is just us being humans and not wanting to be alone. It is normal and natural to bring others on our journey, even if that journey is not a good one.

The first big step to thinking like an ancient is to be grateful. Being grateful will shift your perceptions of life. I am grateful for my kids, house, wife, eyes, love, and life and so on. You do this each and every morning first thing. With this you can begin to focus and think about things in your life that you want. If you are not happy, then you cannot share love and happiness with others.

The second step is to imagine your life the exact way that you want it to be. Do you want to a journeyman, or do you want to own a big house and fancy car? These things will help guide you to getting what you want. Admittedly, I do not go after the fancy house or car because my dreams are different. I go after helping others. I want to teach though knowledge and experiences. I want to show people the secret to “their” universe and how to change it. Hence, you are reading this.

The last step is to focus one what you want and go and get it. Nothing can stop you if you believe hard enough. Remember, the mind will not like big changes right off the bat. So it may take some time to straiten out your thought. It took my about six months to turn my life around and now it’s exactly where I want to be. I will continue to grow and teach and learn and love. My life is becoming my dream.

Now you saying, as I did, “Wait, you didn’t tell me what to do in order to make that money!” This is true. I can not tell you how. The universe has a funny way of making options available when you want something. Think of it like this. When you want a new car, do you look for one or just think about it? When you go after that car, you have to figure out if you can afford it. You hand a picture of it on the wall. Imagine that you’re driving it. Look in the classifieds for a cheaper one. This is focusing on what you want and eventually you will find the deal for the right price. Now apply this to everything that you want. Sooner or later, it will find a way to find you. You can find more writings at www.ancientminds.com

The art of beating depression

The art of beating depression

A new beginning

Depression is one of the toughest things in life to overcome. It is generally caused by stress and unwanted thoughts. I know from experience that it is no fun. I am 31 and just now came out of the worst depression of my life. The biggest part of my depression was that I felt like a failure. I started a business and it wasn’t going so good. I wasn’t hitting my goals, and life was getting hard. It was causing my wife and me with a lot of undo stress. It’s hard to explain the thoughts that go though your head during depression. You know what is wrong with your life, and you know how to fix it. It’s just that you don’t care. When you don’t care about anything, you’re not able to be rational about anything. That is the mind set that I had at the low point. However, I found the light at the end of the tunnel.

I was lying in bed when the most amazing thought crossed my mind. I was thinking about my life and all the things that I didn’t do. It was then that I realized that I have not accomplished any of the things I wanted to do in life. Moreover, I didn’t even know who I was any more. I had tried to change my whole life to fit that of others. I had molded myself to a life that was not mine and my mind could not handle it. It knew better. Too bad the conscious and the sub-conscious could not have had better communication!

I know that you can’t just change your life in minutes. However, you can make that realization that you have made a mistake and at that moment, the changes can begin to be made. I watched a movie called “The Secret”. Now this movie talks about life and our perceptions of it. What we think, be manifest. I thought about this for days and decided that I would no longer manifest thoughts of failure, but success. Even though I had not found it, I still had the feeling that I was a success. Then I got out a piece of paper and began to write down all the things that I was great full for. As they say, once you hit the bottom, there is nowhere to go but up. And so I go up!

Step 1: Understand and love yourself.

I cannot stress this enough. You must love being you. There is no one like you and you have to accept and love who you are or you will never be happy. That is the simple truth. There is no other way to put it. This was my first and biggest mistake. I didn’t love me and so I could not love life or others.

Step 2: You cannot change people

The only way that a person can change is through their own actions. It has to be a choice that they make. You cannot make it for them. When you will your mind on others, you create resistance. The human mind hates resistance. It fights it like a disease. You don’t have to accept or even condone the actions of others, but understand that you cannot change them. You can help guide and influence them but that is all. In the end, they must make the choice.

Step 3: Follow your heart.

You heart is your guide. When you are not doing what you know is right, your heart tells you. When you ignore it, your heart tells your mind and your mind begins to break down the body. It’s not to punish you. Rather, it is to show you that something is wrong with your life. It is trying to get your attention. Cancer, disease, sickness, and stress are all causes of your mind trying to tell you something. You have to be willing to listen and make the changes in your life to cure the body.

Step 4: Go forth and repair your life.

This, by far, is the hardest step to take. This is the step that has all the cost. If it is your job that is wrong, you have to get a different one. If it is your spouse that is wrong, you have to do something about it. For me, it was more than one thing. It was my spouse, my job, my house, my this, my that and all of these things had to change. It was my entire mindset. I felt as though nothing in my life was right. When you have kids, you have to be strong for them. How can you be strong when everything is wrong? So I changed the way I looked at life.

First I changed the way I thought about myself. Instead of being unworthy, I started thinking that I was more than worthy of anything this life could offer. Second, I started believing and feeling that I was successful. I started feeling as though money would come frequently and easily. Third, I began to focus on the things in life that I was grateful for. When I started to do all of this, I began to see those things manifest in my life. I started making more money. I was spending more quality time with the kids. I began to fix up the house and take pride in what I had earned. As I continued to do this, the feeling of success and love began to grow like a virus. No matter what happens in life, there is always and answer. That answer is perception. For what you believe, so it is true. The universe has a funny way of answering you even when you’re not paying attention.

Step 5: Continue to be grateful.

I cannot stress this enough. When things in our life are good, it is easy to forget to be grateful. That is one of the corks of life. We neglect the little things so often that they become big things. We must continue to focus on the good of life and never the negative. I keep a gratitude rock in my pocket at all times. When I watched the movie “The Secret”, a man kept a rock with him. This rock would remind him to be thankful for everything he had. Every morning, he would hold the rock and list the things that he was thankful for. Then in the evening when he pulled out the rock, again he would list the things he was thankful for. It was such a good idea that I adopted it and use it each and every day. It does not have to be a rock. It can be anything that is special to you. A ring or a button also work fine.

Step 6: Bless others as you are blessed.

You have to share your success with others. It is one of the fundamental rules of humanity. List one person in the world that shares their wealth with others freely and without repayment. Wealth is not just having a lot of money. It is money, love, happiness, success and the like. If your wealth is writing, then share it with the world. This is what I like to do. I don’t have a ton of money, but I have a ton of knowledge. This knowledge is worth much more to me that any amount of money can ever be. So I share it freely with the world. I do not expect to change the world. I would like to think that I could help change the perception of just one person. If I can do that, then I am far more successful than a rich man that hordes his money.

In summery, you are who you believe yourself to be and nothing more. Remember to be grateful and love yourself. Once you do that, the world is your playground. Share your wealth with everyone that you run across.

The art of beating depression

The art of beating depression

Life after the beginning

Once you have decided to begin a new, now it is time to focus on what you want. Want seems like a selfish word, but it is the key to living a full life. Human beings have to have three things in order to live.

1. Goal
2. Reward for getting the goal.
3. Punishment for missing the goal.

It’s the universal law of man that we have to have a purpose. We have free will, so we choose our goals. A goal usually has some reward when achieved. It can be a new car, a better job, or the perfect soul mate. No matter what goal we choose, there has to be a reward and a punishment. Generally those things come with reward and punishment but you can make it more fun by setting rewards and punishments yourself. Let’s say I want to get an A in a college class. I would set my reward as a new computer for myself. Then I set the punishment as giving away my television to good will. Now I don’t want to loose my tv so I am going to make sure to hit my goal. Not only that, but I can get a new laptop for myself if I do it. Now I have a purpose and a goal. It can be as rewarding as I make it. I don’t want to miss it because it will cost me. So now I have motivation to do the work and get the A. You can use this technique with your children too. It works great.

The fifth insight and the great connection to the divine

The fifth insight and the great connection to the divine.

Lets start with a quick recap of the first four insights are as follows. First and second insights are to understand that there are coincidences in life. You have to notice them and once you do, you will begin to see your life’s purposes. The third insight is to understand that everything in this universe is made of energy. We have to think in terms of energy to understand the Earth and our own purposes. The forth insight is to practice seeing the coincidences and intuit of everyday life.

The fifth insight is to recognize the divine energy within you and become aware of it. We have to treat everything as though it is precious. The following is the fifth insight as fond on www.celestinevision.com (Not my website J )

THE FIFTH INSIGHT . . . THE MESSAGE OF THE MYSTICS

Insecurity and violence ends when we experience an inner connection with divine energy within, a connection described by mystics of all traditions. It is a sense of lightness--buoyancy--along with the constant sensation of love are measures of this connection. If these measures are present, the connection is real. If not, it is only pretended.

So it is saying that the more that your connected to everything, the more emotion you should have with it. It doesn’t matter if it’s a tree or a person. You should feel the love and energy from all things. This is what I believe that God wanted us to understand and do. Keep in mind that it is easy to forget due to the lifestyles that we lead. You have to find something that will remind you daily of the connection.

Humanity and its never ending battle for domination

What is it that makes mankind the way that it is? Is the free will? What makes our kind so violent? Are we really a race of thieving, killing, savages? If you were to look into the history books, you would find that we are exactly that. A waring race. Is it so hard to love one another?

I consider myself to be an old soul. I have the intuition and the mindset of a race that once was at peace. A time when religion didn't determine the value of a human life. I can imagine a world were we are all at peace and living with one another with without trials or tribulations. Its hard to think that we can be like that. I know that we can. I also know how to do it.

It is preception that makes out reality. Its the way that we think about the world and the way we live it. Think outside the box for just a moment. What if there wasn't a need for cars? What if we could stay close to home and eliminate the use of gasoline? What if we could power our houses with magnets? What if we could teach our children what the world should be like so that they could live it?

It is so hard for me to conform to this life. I have felt on many ocassions that I just do not belong here. I know that most everything that we are doing as sentient beings is wrong. Yet, I like you, do the same things day after day and never for a moment stop and say enough. When is going to be enough for us? When will we learn our lesson? Its bad enough that we treat this planet like a waste dump. Its really bad that we teach our children to do the same thing. What does that say about us? I know that I am NOT innoscent. I am as guilty as anyone.

The true question that we must ask ourselves, is when are we going to change. Or better yet, when are we going to change our preception of how we live and why we are here. I know that change is hard. Its much more painfull to undo a bad habit than it is to start one. We have to make that choice. We have to engage our free will and change the world. The next question would be, what preception should we have of the world?

Here is the truth. Your preception should be that men were not and are not suppost to lead men! Mankind has freewill, hence there can be no leaders. For if there is a leader, if makes all free will invalid. What we are suppost to do is act by example. Not lead by example, but act. Action is a very powerful word. An example is showing your children love and not saying it or demanding it. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to make good decisions. Don't ground them for a bad grade, teach them what they didn't understand. Simple things that we just do not see. Don't put them on a diet, feed them the right food and exercise with them. Love them without punishment and they will be good people. They will make mistakes, but if you were to show them by action that what they did is not the right way, they will follow that action and become better for it.

Our mission on this earth is to learn to love everyone unconditionally. When you are not recognized as neither male nor famale, your eyes see no color, and you are not ashamed of your skin, then and only then can we change the world. Until we reach that type of preception we are doomed to our own ignorance.