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Observer Challenges

Sunday, January 1st, 2012

In my recent post titled The Creation Conundrum, I ended with one of the challenges of  Observer Mode, the difficulty of staying in neutral.  As with a car, when you shift out of gear you take away one of your means for control.  When the transmission’s disengaged, the car will easily follow the path of least resistance.

To stay in neutral emotionally, you must maintain equanimity.  You can use your breaks – refuse to let momentum pull you into Interpreter Mode.  You can use your gas pedal – consciously chose an emotion from Partner Mode.  Or you can use the transmission – hold steady with the emotions of Observer Mode.  Which one you choose depends on where you are parked, how hard it was to get there, how urgent you are to go somewhere else, and how full your gas tank is.

First Challenge – Stay in Neutral

To be in neutral emotionally is to have reached a relatively flat surface.  It doesn’t take much of a shove to start coasting back down the hill again.  However, your response to a shove will depend not on the steepness of the hill but the difficulty of the climb.  Very likely, in some areas of your life you can stride up a steep slope with ease, while in other areas you struggle to surmount a slight incline.  The energy required to go backward is inverse to the energy it took to go forward.  If you achieved the plateau of neutrality with little effort, it will probably take a huge effort to push you back down into judgment.  If it took a concerted effort to become neutral, a little tap might send you sliding down.

There’s an emotional position in Observer Mode I haven’t mentioned yet.  It’s the state of healthy discontent.  Often, discontent takes the form of judgment, much like consternation or discomfort or irritation.  It can also be the soul’s yearning for best good.  You possess a basic instinct to be the best person you can be, to serve the world and mankind to the best of your ability, and to gain mastery, empowerment and enlightenment.  In Victim or Interpreter Mode, it’s easy to loose touch with that instinct, but the spark will never die out completely.  When you reach Observer Mode, you essentially add energy to the spark, and it flames into life.  The resulting sense of healthy discontent will pull you toward Partner Mode.

Whether you can put yourself in gear and step on the gas will depend on your reserves.  Staying in neutral a while gives you a chance to refuel, to get to know yourself better, to enjoy the view, to study your road map, to take stock of your options.  In Observer Mode you have 100 times the personal power you had in Interpreter Mode, and it may take some time to discover the full range of your new capabilities.

When you are free of judgment, your possibilities include: child-like levels of enjoyment and delight, security as in a mother’s arms, clarity like rain-fresh air, the hope of a new day, and in-the-now acceptance.  It may take practice to fully make use of your expanded ability to marvel, to savor, to give thanks, to enjoy, to relax, to be.

Eventually, you will know your emotions are secure, you will know it would take more than a nudge (or a shove, or a blast) to knock you into a state of less power.  Refueled, your innate desire for growth, for maximizing yourself, will propel you up the next slope.

Second Challenge – Accept the Possibilities

Another new challenge of Observer Mode is that of dealing with infinite possibilities.

Interpreter Mode makes things difficult, while Observer makes things possible.

When you leave Interpreter Mode for Observer Mode, the sudden vista of what’s possible can be both overwhelming and confusing.  If you could see the spectrum of possibilities as a continuum, everything you don’t want would stretch off to the left and everything you do want would stretch off to the right.  You could easily pivot to the right and march straight in the direction of what you want.

In actuality, the landscape is not flat or even.  It spreads out in every direction, with hills and dales, broad avenues and dead-ends, successes and failures, comfort and discomfort, security and danger.

In Interpreter Mode your options seemed mostly “bad,” and you could count it a win if you made the best of a bad situation.  In Observer Mode the possibility certainly exists that you could make a mistake.  Except as soon as you fear choosing badly, you slide back into judgment.  And this presents another conundrum for the Observer:  How do you remain neutral in this landscape in which everything (good and bad) is possible?

The answer can be found within the personal power you access when you become the observer.

As with all modes, the power that becomes available to you exists in the emotions of that mode.  Mastering the power you’ve accessed is yet another challenge of Observer Mode.

Third Challenge – Master the Emotion

Each of the emotions of Observer Mode has its own power, its own energy.  When you experience one of these emotions, you tap into the energy and embody its power.  If you want to experiment with this a bit, try the following:  Sit quietly.  Get into the now by letting go of all judgments and becoming neutral.  Then pick an Observer emotion and think of something that will evoke that emotion within you.  Spend a moment or two observing the way your body responds to that emotion.  Then pick another and repeat the process.  Take note of the shifts of energy in your body.

As I tried the experiment myself, when I evoked compassion I felt my heart swell.  When I evoked curiosity, my face and forehead relaxed.  And when I evoked amusement, I chuckled.

No two people experience emotional energy in exactly the same way, so pay attention to how it feels to you.  And if you can’t sense the energy immediately, no worries.  You wouldn’t expect to play the piano the first time you sat at the keyboard.

Here’s something you can do – sort of like a first finger piano exercise:  Find a quiet place and seclude yourself for ten or fifteen minutes.  Choose any Observer emotion and let it fill your consciousness.  The following guide might help:

  • Think about what that emotion means to you.
  • Thing about times when you’ve experienced that emotion.
  • Remember what generated that emotion within you.
  • Identify any current aspect of your life that might benefit from receiving that emotion.

Take admiration for instance.  You could begin by mentally cataloguing things you admire (sunsets, great art, beautiful bodies, skyscrapers, thick hair, a good book, a job well done).  Then bring any one of these things to mind and recall your admiration.  Next let your body recall the sensations of admiration.  And when your thoughts and your body are connected to the emotion of admiration, recall something that’s going on in your life right now (frustration at work, an interest you want to pursue, tight money, the times you spend with your best friend).  Now send admiration toward that aspect of your life (something you admire in a co-worker, what you admire most about what interests you, the good things money will buy, the way your friend listens to you).  Enjoy the calm produced by the admiration you first evoke, then feel, then send out.

Consider the time spent engaged in this sort of practice as holding sacred space.  Let it become sacred by honoring it and giving it high priority.  Do not profane it with Interpreter or Victim emotions.  When you schedule the time and dedicate yourself to feeling the energy of Observer emotions, being the energy of Observer emotions, you will discover you can:

  • Neutralize your conflict.
  • Ease your pain.
  • Smooth your way.
  • Send others encouragement.
  • Open doors.

When you use the power of Observer Mode emotions for these purposes, you will look out over the landscape of possibilities more objectively.

When you review any downside, you will do so with patience and courage.  Just because you can observe the possibilities on the left side of the continuum doesn’t mean you’ll head in that direction.

When you explore the possibilities on the right side of the continuum, you will do so with curiosity and excitement.  You’ll see them as real options.

Fourth Challenge – Serve Through Neutrality

Have you ever noticed the calming effect of some rooms or buildings?  Researchers are studying the impact on mood and productivity of such things as color, ceiling height, the sharpness or roundness of corners and the placement of furnishings.  Sometimes the calm space you enter will have structural elements that contribute to that energy.  Other times the calm will be generated by the emotional energy of the person or group that uses the space.

When you are firmly in Observer Mode, your personal power includes the ability to calm others.  The calming energy of your neutrality will touch everything within your immediate vicinity.  It will also reach across time and space when you think of someone or something and focus your  emotions in that direction.

In my previous blog, I mentioned my client who said, in reference to moving out of Interpreter Mode, “But that wouldn’t be any fun!”  In reply, I said to him, “It’s a different kind of fun.”

Observer Mode presents many challenges, perhaps more than I’ve mentioned today.  Conflict is not one of them.  In addition to calm, I expect you will find meeting these challenges to be agreeable, confidence building, constructive, liberating, and healing.

(If you would like more information about personal life coaching, or would like a free introductory session, please contact me:  kathy@kathyjacobson.com)

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From Soul to Mind

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

In Alcoholics Anonymous they call the tendency to think too much “the paralysis of analysis.”  In his book Courage–The Joy of Living Dangerously, Osho says, “You were born as a no-mind. . . . If you were born as a no-mind, then the mind is just a social product. It is nothing natural, it is cultivated.”

I run across this theme all the time. According to many, the mind confuses the issue. The mind gets stuck in the story. The mind believes lies as easily as it believes truths. The mind manipulates the facts. Get out of your mind and into your heart. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

Except human beings have this incredible brain. We think, we talk, we tell stories, we reason, we perform proofs, we translate, we write, we create works of art, we build buildings and roads and machines.

Everywhere we look we can see positive evidence of the mind in action. And yet, most of us have gotten stuck on an idea, or a concept, or a story, or a belief, and that sticking point immobilizes us, or points us in the wrong direction, or complicates a simple problem, or fuels a conflict. So, is the mind a liability or an asset?

Clearly, it’s both.

Sure, the mind gets confused, gets fixated, gets distracted, has obsessions, has blind spots, and can be unduly influenced by misinformation and misconceptions. The mind is also one of the primary means by which the soul communicates with the conscious self.  The ability of the mind to hear the messages of the soul seems directly related to personal power. The more attuned you are to your power, the more clearly the soul can communicate. Consider the following:

The Ability to Listen

The Victim mode of personal power is characterized by helplessness. The emotions that keep a person in Victim mode include fear, anger, hate, resentment and anxiety. These emotions are so strong they wrest power from those experiencing them. They create so much internal noise they overwhelm communications from the soul, making the message inaudible.

The Interpreter mode of personal power is characterized by struggle and difficulty. Emotions of this mode include frustration, irritation, envy, certainty, defensiveness and self-doubt. These emotions leach power from those experiencing them.  While not so blaringly invasive as Victim emotions, they still obscure communications from the soul, making the message almost inaudible.

Observer mode is the gateway to personal power. Characterized by neutrality, the emotions of this mode include a wide range of non-judgment–from indifference through amusement, curiosity and flexibility to gentleness and tolerance. When you’re in Observer mode the messages of your soul become fully audible, although you may not fully recognize them.

Partner mode is characterized by cooperation and includes such emotions as acceptance, respect, empathy, excitement, gratitude and cheerfulness. At this level the messages from your soul become meaningful.

The Creator level of personal power is characterized by oneness. The emotions of this mode include love, happiness, peace, delight, and joy. When experiencing such emotions, the messages of your soul become resonant.

On a continuum of sound, Victim Mode would be Inaudible, Interpreter Mode would be Barely Audible, Observer Mode would be Audible, Partner Mode would be Meaningful, Creator Mode would be Resonant

It’s important to remember that the various modes are not static. You can be in Creator mode at work, in Interpreter mode with your spouse, in Victim mode during a conflict with your neighbor, and in Partner mode when you cook. History is full of stories of tortured artists who experienced amazingly high levels of personal power in their creative endeavors but could barely function in “real life.”

If you want to gain insight into your personal ability to hear messages from within, you can graph your personal power with the following exercise:

  • List the various areas of your life or the different activities you perform daily. (Areas:  career, health, family, creativity, service, adventure, money, etc. Activities:  commuting, working, cooking, exercising, volunteering, caring for others, practicing.)
  • Consider the emotions you experience while immersed in the different areas or while performing the activities on your list. (Working–frustration, isolation, endurance. Health–resilience, appreciation.  Family–love, peace.
  • Find those emotions on the emotions list to discover your mode of power while in that activity.

The communications of the soul never cease or let up. They are always active, and when they are ignored, they become more and more imperative. Generally, the purpose of such messages is to help you move from wherever you are into your creator power. The more aware you are of the ways the soul communicates, the more open you will be to hearing those messages.

As we saw last week, communications through the body often take the form of ailments. Communications through the mind usually come in the form of ideas.

Two-track Communication

Most of us are aware the mind operates on both a conscious and a subconscious level. The soul uses each of these aspects of the mind as vehicles for communication, but in entirely different ways. Consciously, the soul uses ideas; subconsciously, messages come mostly through dreams.

Since I am not a dream scholar (and I rarely have dreams that survive waking), I’m going to skim over this one pretty quickly. Carl Jung was the first psychologist to see the correlation between dream images and myths. Because dreams seem to correspond with myths and legends, regardless of a person’s knowledge of the stories, Jung originated the phrase “collective unconscious.”  I suspect that when the soul communicates through dreams, it uses a language common to all souls. If you have vivid dreams, there are dozens of books available to help you interpret this language.

I am much more familiar with the messages that come through the conscious mind, using the language of ideas.

The active human mind generates thoughts, stories, and explanations almost constantly. The quality of this activity depends rather heavily on your emotional state. Emotions from Victim or Interpreter modes keep the focus on why me or how come, and these circular, self-absorbed questions block out soul-level communications. When in those modes, there is a tendency to look for salvation from without and reject the possibility of achieving it from within.

When you become the Observer, your perspective broadens and you see beyond previous limitations. The ideas generated by your mind are informed by the infinite nature of your soul. As you adopt and experience more emotions from partner mode and hold them for longer periods, you begin to recognize your ideas as true messages from your inner being-ness.

Let’s look at some of the forms these messages take,

Open Doors

Victim and Interpreter emotions impose limitations. When in the throes of such emotions, you may feel walled in, shrouded in darkness, beset from every side, tied down, chained, etc. The doors of possibility are always open, but they become invisible to you. As you access more and more of your own power, the barriers fall away, the sun comes out, obstacles dissolve, and you enjoy more freedom of movement. Your ideas start to feel like porch lights illuminating those doors of possibility. And you’re free to walk through any door you choose.

The walls of limitation consist of old events, old interpretations of those events, old reactions, old beliefs, old habits, and the burden of expectations–both your own and those of other people. New possibilities appear when you realize the old events don’t bind you any more, when you stop judging past experiences, when you choose new responses, when you revise your beliefs, when you adopt new habits, and when you release expectations.

Your soul wants to help you in these new endeavors. The more you listen, the more opportunities will present themselves. You can find the message of the soul using the reasoning power of the conscious mind.

Here’s a strategy you might try:

  • Consciously identify an area of limitation. (Money is scarce; health is elusive, you’re in a train-wreck relationship, etc.)
  • Describe the limitation and your experiences with it. As your tell your story, record it in some way. You might share it orally with another person, make a recording of it or write it out.
  • Find the emotions, the judgments and your behaviors embedded in your story. If you choose to share it with someone else, have your listener look for these aspects of it and take notes.
  • Review these emotions, judgments and behaviors and recognize them as indicators of limitation. Imagine them as the sides of a box that hold you in.
  • Think through them and find one or more you’re willing and ready to change. Choose what you want instead. Your new choice becomes an opening in the box you can step through any time you want.

Creative Bursts

Your soul is your primary creative partner. All your talents, abilities, skills, and instincts are well and strong within your soul–and they want to come out and play. Just as you can direct your mind to notice possibilities and take advantage of opportunities, you can open your mind to creative ideas.

Some people receive ideas as naturally as breathing. Some of us have to consciously stop staying, “I can’t.”

As a society, we tend to associate creativity with the arts and culture:  music, painting, poetry, dance, sculpture, photography, fiction, etc. Sometimes we hear of it in terms of creative problem solving, invention or entrepreneurship. I challenge you to consider that your soul communicates with you via creative bursts all day, every day. For instance.

  • You have something to say to someone, and the words come out of your mouth just right.
  • You’re seasoning a soup, and you reach for the basil instead of the dill.
  • You wear a blue shirt instead of a green one.
  • You rearrange your suitcase to make room for an extra pair of shoes.

At a deeper, more intuitive level:

  • You call a friend, and your friend says, “I was just thinking about you.”
  • You’re writing an article or a business paper and you sense what to add or delete.
  • You can tell whether your child needs to be challenged or reassured.
  • You know it’s time to leave a job, even though the financial data suggest holding on three more years.

You may read these last items and think, “That stuff doesn’t come from my mind, it comes from my gut.”  You may be right; it might come from your gut. Recent research is revealing neurotransmitters originate in the intestine. Some scientists are calling the gut the “second brain.”  Whether they come from your gut or your soul, they work through the mind when you are operating in the higher levels of personal power.

The Call to Serve

By way of the mind, the soul inspires us to serve. As the mind observes suffering and need, the soul triggers the ideas. We experience creative bursts of how to ease suffering and resolve problems. Even people deeply immersed in their own helplessness and struggle occasionally receive the nudge to serve–to rescue a hurt animal or soothe a crying baby.

As with all communications from the soul, your ability to hear increases as you access greater levels of your own power. In the areas of your life where you are strongest, your desire to serve will be strongest. In the areas where you experience the most difficulty, your soul will be more focused on helping you grow past your barriers and limitations.

However, because service always furthers growth, your personal growth and the call to serve can be closely intertwined. If some area of your life feels limited or stifled or stagnant, open your mind to the possibility of service, listen, and welcome the ideas that come to you. The communication channel is always open–like a 24-hour radio station. All you have to do is tune in.

These three ways the soul communicates through the mind tend to blend together. As soon as you become receptive to opportunities and possibilities, every open door seems to open fresh veins of creativity, and you gain a deeper desire to apply those ideas in ways that make the world a better place.

Welcome the workings of your mind. Your mind is an essential part of your infinite whole. Celebrate your ability to think, to reason, to solve, or be logical. By the same token, never be afraid of flights of fancy, of dreams, of strange thoughts, or of coming up with answers that don’t follow a clear logic trail. The soul communicates through both inspiration and reason.

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Recognize Your Truth

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

A while ago, I wrote an article called “What’s true for you?” Today I’d like to expand on that topic by exploring some of the aspects that comprise personal truth.

Your Life

Quite a number of facets comprise your physical life experience. You have biographical data:  name, age. parents’ names, place of birth, place of residence, etc. You have biological data:  height, weight, hair color, and all the other factors governed by your DNA. You have educational experience with accumulated academic knowledge, and you have a job history with acquired professional knowledge.

You have a personal history that includes the places you’ve lived, the people you’ve loved, the illnesses you’ve endured, the accidents you’ve survived, etc. And you also have a personal history that didn’t happen, such as the places you haven’t lived, the schools you didn’t attend, the people you didn’t love, the jobs you didn’t take.

So how many of these facts, figures, choices and experiences are true for you?  How many of them may not necessarily have been true for you, but helped illuminate what is true for you?

Perhaps you’ve worked jobs you weren’t suited for. They helped you learn how important it is to employ your skills, talents and preferences in your work.

Perhaps you’ve loved people who weren’t a good match for you, whether it was the boy in third grade who chased you around the playground every recess, or the cheerleader girlfriend who liked you because you were on the football team, or an emotionally unavailable spouse. They helped you understand yourself, recognize your vulnerable areas, realize what matters to you in a relationship.

You may or may not have grown up in a home that recognized your worth. Either way, what did you learn from the experience?

You may or may not have been given a name that fits you. Have you learned to like it?  Have you changed it?  Either way, what have you learned about self-labeling?

You may or may not be living in an environment that nurtures you. What inner power are you finding in that environment?   What would you like instead?  Why?

There’s an old adage that advises you to bloom where you’re planted.  The wisdom of this advice lies in the opportunities for personal growth provided by the circumstances of your life. Regardless of location, you can make the most of any situation. When you’ve gained all there is to gain, or when you feel the call of another place, you can choose to transplant yourself.

If, however, you uproot yourself before you’ve learned what that situation has to teach, you’ll just take yourself with you. Pretty soon the new situation will provide the same frustrations, challenges, disappointments and pain as the old one.

An exploration of the situations of your life can help you discover ever-deeper levels of who you are. You become clearer about what you want and why you want it. You gain understanding about yourself within relationships.  And you understand the service you can offer to the world.

When your life is true for you, you resonate with it. You experience more peace, better health, greater abundance, and deep inner joy. Choose a life that is true for you, and be true to the life you have chosen.

Your Value System

Many religious apologists claim moral and ethical behaviors derive from a belief in a deity. Atheists who choose the high road believe morality motivates simply because it produces better results than immorality.

Whether you acquired your moral sense from the teachings of your church or from an observance of natural consequences, the results are the same. Some behaviors and qualities of character work better in society and inspire you to better choices, some create conflict in society and lead to personal chaos.

There have been many teachers throughout history, some religious, some not, who have offered advice about which behaviors and character traits produce the best results. A search on the Internet will produce myriad lists, systems, discussion boards, and advice columns.

These lists of values, virtues, ethics, and qualities are more likely to illuminate what’s out there, what’s possible and what others believe than expand your own self-understanding.

The virtues and qualities that are true for you will pass your own personal tests. Consider the following challenges:

  • You understand what the virtue or quality means to you. For instance, what does honesty mean, or compassion, or temperance, or humility?
  • You observe the value it adds. In what situations does it add value?  Are there situations when it might confuse rather than enlighten?  Is it ever neutral?
  • You decide if it’s worth the effort. To what extent does it come easily to you?  Are you already living it?  Is it difficult for you?  Is some aspect of it is not true for you?
  • You recognize its value to you. Does it strengthen you?   Or do you feel disempowered by it.

No one is born with a fully developed values system – not even the saints; we all have to develop our own. Your personal value system does not include every trait or quality someone at some time has considered a virtue. Very likely it does not even include every quality you’ve been taught to believe is a virtue.

You have a values system, whether you have been conscious of it or not. However, if you’ve adopted one that is not true for you, you will experience confusion and self-doubt. If it is true for you, it will enhance and empower your life.

Your Intuition

You have an inner voice that speaks truth to you. It’s been called many names at various times including:  your conscience, the holy spirit, your spirit guides, an angel, your spirit animal, the ancestors, etc.

This voice obeys several rules in its communication with you, including:

  • It responds to and with whatever emotional energy you’re emitting.
  • It speaks in the languages you are most familiar with – your spoken languages, of course, but also the languages of your thoughts. It arises from your frame(s) of reference and uses your metaphors, your analogies, your symbolism, etc.
  • It works from within your worldview. If your worldview is narrow and specific, so is your inner voice. If your worldview is curious and expansive, so is your inner voice.
  • It is limited or not-limited by your sense of your own self. The truer you are to yourself, the truer the messages you receive from your inner voice. If you are confused, conflicted, or specifically focused, your inner voice must speak from wherever you are at a given moment.

Let’s consider each of these rules.

Your energy. When your emotions are positive, you open a clear channel and the messages come through without interference. Negative energy acts like static, interrupting and distorting the messages of your soul, sometimes making it difficult for you to discern them, sometimes obscuring them completely.

Your language. Sometimes you may hear your inner voice as an actual voice speaking verbal words. More often, you will get an idea, or feel the need for caution, or know it’s time to act, or just know one choice is better than another. Sometimes your inner voice uses something you’ve already focused your attention upon to give you a message to yourself. Your work or your avocation may be the metaphorical structure for the lessons of your life. For instance, a doctor who explores caves will think in different images and use different metaphors than a landscaper who knits.

Your worldview. If you think the world is flat, your inner voice will work within that framework in providing you with truth. If you believe people are out to get you, your inner voice must work within that context. If you see the universe as your partner, you inner voice will be able to speak to you with the wisdom of the ages.

Your self. You intuition can communicate only within the scope of how well you know yourself and how much you trust yourself. The truer you are to yourself, the better you know yourself, and the more open you are to knowledge and growth, the more straightforwardly your inner voice will be able to speak to you.

Your Desires

We live in a time and a society where more choices are more available than ever in the history of mankind. From almost every angle, we are encouraged to imagine, to dream big, to acquire. While this kind of encouragement helps us explore what’s possible, it rarely includes the disclaimer:  “You can achieve anything you want, as long as what you want is true for you.”

Not everything you might put on a Dream List would necessarily be something you truly want, or would work for, or would pay the price for. Your true desires, however, are not only within your reach; they want you as much as you want them.

Here are some of the ways you can differentiate a true desire from one that is not:

  • A true desire will not have a “should” attached to it.
  • A true desire comes from your heart.
  • You already have the talents (if not the skills) to achieve a true desire.
  • A true desire will fit within your value system.
  • Your intuition will always inform a true desire.
  • The universe is always your eager partner when you pursue a true desire.

One of the ways you can recognize a less-than-true desire is to examine why you want it.

Reasons that often indicate a need for re-alignment with a desire include:

  • If someone else thinks it’s a good thing for you to want.
  • Only to make money or to acquire fame or power.
  • Because it’s tradition.

Such reasons are not stop signs, more like yellow flags. If your desire meets the go qualifications listed above, and you can make someone else happy, or make money, or get famous, or conform to tradition, terrific. Such motivations can easily be within your value system and be true desires of your heart. The important thing is this:  Make sure what you want is true for you, and make sure you can be true to it.

A true desire is not necessarily easy. It might be damn challenging. Pursuing a true desire with your whole heart will always bring rewards greater than you imagined when you began. You might not get exactly what you thought you wanted, but whatever you achieve will exceed your wildest imagination.

Your Service

You serve your world, your community, your fellow human beings, and yourself in many ways. You serve with your attitudes, with your energy, with your talents, with your efforts, and with your intentions. Sometimes you give your time, sometimes your money, sometimes your emotional support.

However, not all of the kinds of service the world needs will be true for you. The world needs doctors, and you might be a musician. The world needs musicians, and you might be tone deaf. The world needs both warriors and peacemakers. Humankind needs both scientists and mystics. Communities need adventurers as well as homebodies. Families need nurturers and breadwinners. You need to give the service that is true for you.

Some forms of service are particularly well marked as “service,” such as volunteer work, donations to charities, ministering to the poor, and anything identified as charity. Other kinds of service are much less noted, but of equal value:  spreading good cheer through a smile or a touch, laughing together, staying connected, showing respect and appreciation, receiving gracefully, extending unconditional acceptance, etc. By such actions and attitudes, you raise the energy level of wherever you are, of whatever you are doing. When you lift someone’s spirits, their energy expands, and together you send more goodness into the world than either one of you could alone. This expansion of good energy becomes exponential, as each person carries it from the starting place to the next person, the next activity.

In this way, being the truest person you can be becomes the greatest service you can give. Being true to yourself expands you energetically, and as your energy expands, your goodness reaches more people, and goodness embraces people in love, which frees their good energy. Good energy always has more power than negative energy, so in this way you expand peace and love in the world. In this way, you serve yourself, your neighbors, your community, your country, and the world itself.

Choose Congruence

Each of these factors – your life, your value system, your intuition, your desires and your service – can reveal the truth of you to you.

Observe them. Become mindful of yourself. Recognize your emotions, and acknowledge the results those emotions bring into your life. Do some emotions bring your closer to your truth?  Do some put distance between you and who you have the capacity to be?

Quite likely, if you are in misery or struggle, you are not aligned with what’s true for you. Conversely, the emotions that produce calm, cooperation and/or oneness, increase your congruence with your own truth.

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Empower Your Miracles

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

In the article Clarify Your Intention, I invited you to set an intention and formalize it as a statement. Part of the exercise was to identify those whom your intention would serve and to imagine how it would serve them. I believe when you add service to others, your intentions grow wings. Suddenly what you want is no longer grounded, no longer plodding along. Once in flight, it soars swiftly and easily into the miracle.

Service, at this miracle-level, is given without conditions, carries no judgment, and holds no expectations. You reach out to others, simply to help them along their way, to enrich their experiences, to empower them.

Giving and Receiving

One of the biggest obstacles to such simple service is thinking that what someone else wants conflicts with or obstructs what you want.

Say, for instance, you love the city life you’ve created, and your significant other wants to move into a cabin in the mountains. Or you want your daughter to go to college, and she wants to be a ski bum in the winter and write during the summer. Or you want to implement a new process at work and your boss doesn’t want anything to change. Or your neighbor supports gun control and you want to carry.

When your values, ideals, preferences and desires conflict with those of someone else, where does service come in?  You can’t even understand what they want; let alone support it.

It is, of course, important to stay true to your integrity, which may make such situations seem non-negotiable. Perhaps they are. How can you compromise on the second amendment, or not give your best at work, or let your daughter ruin her life, or uproot and leave friends and family for the sake of some mid-life crisis?

On the other hand – assuming miracle-making service is given without conditions, carries no judgment, and holds no expectations – what would happen if you removed any conditions you’ve imposed, stopped judging, and released your expectations?  What if you stepped outside your own agenda and chose to truly understand the other person’s position?

So, your husband wants to simplify and move to a cabin. You’ll have to set your own preferences aside in order to recognize his underlying motivations. Some of those reasons will be more obvious (and perhaps more acceptable to you) than others. It may be easy to understand the need to simplify, but can you empathize enough to actually feel the urge to live closer to nature, to detach from past paradigms, to go looking for something that’s been missing?

So, your daughter wants to ski and write. If you can set your agenda aside, you’ll have a better chance of recognizing her hunger for freedom, her creativity, her love of adventure, her determination to listen to her heart and find her own way. Where you see a college education as a good way to both knowledge and security, she may see it as a good way to erode her soul.

So, you want to innovate and your boss wants to stagnate. Do you know anything about his obligations?  Are you privy to the pressures from his investors, his board of directors, or his family’s traditions?   Can you appreciate his efforts to do the best he can with what he’s got?

So, you think your neighbor wants to ban all guns, wants stern laws and stiff penalties. Have you ever asked him what gun control means to him?  Have you ever listened to the reasons supporting his concerns?

Becoming neutral – exercising acceptance, empathy and compassion – is the first step toward service at the Creator level. (See The Power of Emotion.)

Mastering Your Emotions

The second step is to become the master of your own emotions

When you’re in conflict with someone else, you see your reasoning as logical and your arguments as valid. You are steadied by your facts and supported by your common sense. Naturally, you’re passionate about what’s right.

But what if your passion – and that of the other person – creates and maintains the conflict?  What if the factors of the situation are actually secondary?

When you deem your position to be right (or even just mostly right) and the other person’s position to be wrong, you are in Interpreter mode.

Consider again the above examples.

Perhaps you resist the idea of moving to the mountains because: the whole idea is scary and overwhelming, you resent that your feelings don’t get more consideration, you deplore the prospect of roughing it, you want to protect what you’ve already built, you believe your spouse is immersed in a temporary and unrealistic fantasy.

Perhaps you resist your daughter’s plan for her life because you’re anxious for her, you’re disappointed in her choices, you’re certain a college education is necessary. Maybe deep down you envy and resent her free-wheeling ways.

Perhaps you resist your boss’s inertia because you’re certain you know a better way, you’re frustrated your suggestions aren’t given more consideration, you’re irritated by his attitudes and fears, you long for more responsibility and recognition, you’re afraid at this rate you’ll soon be out of a job.

Perhaps your differences with your neighbor are only partly about guns. Sure you believe in the right to carry, and you think he’s naïve, his dog barks half the night and poops on your lawn, and half of his front yard is an unsightly, poorly-tended vegetable garden.

Such underlying emotions are all from Interpreter mode, and Interpreter emotions always produce struggle. And the more you struggle, the stronger the conflict grows.

If you’ve already dropped your conditions and released your expectation, if you’ve already chosen neutrality, you’re halfway there. From that place of calm it’s fairly easy to release any remaining Interpreter emotions. And when you refuse to indulge in interpreter mode habits, you access more of your own power.

You also ease others away from their Interpreter tendencies by not adding the fuel of your so-called “passion” to their fires.

Mastery comes as you practice consciously choosing Partner mode emotions instead. When you operate from Partner mode, you create cooperation instead of conflict. For instance:

Imagine how discussions of whether or not to move to the mountains would be different if you replaced fear with trust, resentment with affection, aversion with tranquility, frustration with harmony, and suspicion with respect.

Imagine how your relationship with your daughter would improve if you replaced anxiety with confidence, disappointment with admiration, certainty with respect, envy with contentment, and impatience with gratitude.

Imagine how your dissatisfactions at work would abate if you replaced frustration with eagerness, ambition with willingness, longing with tenacity, and fear with confidence.

Imagine how the tension between you and your neighbor would ease up if you replaced arrogance with friendliness, helplessness with amusement, hostility with patience, and vexation with recognition.

The higher you move on the scale of emotions, the more personal power you access and the more you become the master of your emotions. The more you master your emotions, the more wisdom and empowerment you bring to the situations of your life.

Whenever you bring wisdom and empowerment into any situation, you serve others as well as yourself. You serve by releasing tension, by shedding fresh and clear light on situations, by making some of your enlightenment available to others.

When you empower others through your understanding, acceptance, encouragement, cooperation, and love, you expand your influence, gain credibility, form alliances, broaden your base, and roll out the welcome mat. What you give to others comes back to you.

Partner emotions always result in cooperation. When you free yourself from conditions, judgments and expectation, you open the door to a far wider range of possibilities than exist in Interpreter mode. When you are in full mastery of Partner emotions, best good becomes probable. You become an agent in bringing about the best good of others. You provide extraordinary service when you take yourself out of someone else’s picture.

The Universal Whole

This expansive energy you now experience and generate also strengthens your connection, partnership and oneness with the universe. In Partner mode, it’s easy to trust the universe will support you and others at the same time. Conflicts dissolve in best good because almost always the best good of others is also your best good.

Consider these ways in which the universe partners with you:

1.    The universe never judges. Your outcomes result directly and inevitably from the energies you generate – your thoughts, your actions and your emotions. There is no score-keeper-in-the-sky recording on a tally sheet whether you’re good or bad, marking you down for “bad” choices and rewarding you for “good” ones.

2.    On the universal level there are no arbitrary or unstated conditions. The rulebook never changes. You get out according to what you put in, and that’s that.

3.    The universe is never disappointed in you, because the universe holds no expectations. You do what you do, and you experience the results of your choices. If the universe has any desires for you, they are for your growth, your joy, your well-being and your best good. There may be hope that you will receive these miracles, and there may be rejoicing when you do; nevertheless, there will always be love and encouragement when you don’t.

Does this partnership with the universe support you, empower you, serve you?

What if you supported, empowered, and served others, following this model?

When you extend to others what the universe extends to you, you help strengthen the universal whole. The more you serve in this way, the stronger you become. The more you expand your Partner and Creator influence, the more others will move to higher levels of calm, cooperation and oneness.

Service and The Modes of Power

As a quick review, consider that the way you serve reveals your mode of power.

If you subjugate yourself, you are in Victim mode. This subjugation can occur in two ways. You can cede your power to someone else. Or you can submit to the emotions themselves. Whether you let others control you or you let your emotions dominate you, you relinquish your self.

If you serve reluctantly, you are in Interpreter mode. Almost all emotions in this mode have a sub-context of reluctance. You give because you must, or should, or have ulterior motives. Sometimes you want to avoid pain; sometimes you strive to come out ahead through  manipulation. Often, if you could see another option, you’d take it.

If you detach your emotions from your service you are in Observer mode. Neutral service takes little energy on your part, feels optional, and promises no particular benefit – and not offering it carries no penalty. Such gentle service can be as simple as offering a smile to a stranger, making a joke to ease tension, or holding the door for someone.

If you cooperate, you are in Partner mode. Overt generosity requires an emotional investment. You consciously and mindfully open your heart and help the other person in a pro-active way. Your service might be physical, but it can as easily be thoughtful or emotional. You want the other person’s success, the other person’s growth, the other person’s happiness and wellness, without putting it in the context of your own success or happiness.

If you bless, empower and trust, you are in Creator mode. At this level you become one with the other person – even if you remain in disagreement. You become one with the universe in sustaining and facilitating. You easily and effortlessly invest peace, love and joy in their efforts. You trust the other person’s best good as you trust your own.

Serve and Soar

Every worthy intention benefits someone else. As you align yourself with the miracle you have chosen to manifest, incorporate service into your efforts and watch those efforts take flight.

Service always imbues intention with greater power and swifter attainment.

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Wholeness and Enlightenment

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

Several months ago, I posted an article titled What’s True for You.  I presented ways you could identify what’s true for you or not true.  Basically, the pursuit of something that’s not true for you is usually motivated by Interpreter mode emotions.  Since Interpreter mode results in struggle, if you are experiencing struggle, you are in some way out of alignment with your own truth.

Today I’m going to expand on that theme, focusing more on what is true for you.

Imagine a circle divided into three wedges.  Imagine the wedges represent your thoughts, actions and emotions, and the circle represents your wholeness.  When the wedges are intact and united, the circle is complete and you are congruent.  This congruent circle represents your wholeness.  When you are congruent, you are complete.  You are also  the captain of your soul and connected to the infinite.

While I designated the three aspects of wholeness as thoughts, actions and emotions, they can as easily be called:

  • Empowerment: Using the infinite power within you.
  • Mastery: Mastering yourself, your purpose and your intentions.
  • Enlightenment: Listening to the truth of your heart.

Today, I’m focusing on enlightenment.  Only by listening to the truth of your own heart can you be true to yourself, and only by mastering yourself and your purpose can you access the infinity of your inner power.

Enlightenment

I first heard the term “enlightenment,” in high school in reference to The Age of Enlightenment, a period during the eighteenth century when Western philosophy focused on reason as the stronger legitimacy for authority than inheritance.  Seemed pretty enlightened to me.

When I began to hear the term used in connection with spirituality, my sense of it grew foggier.  It seemed to mean an esoteric connectedness, achieved only by a few and only through intense meditation and after years of practice.  I puzzled over that one for years.  It seemed to deny the enlightenment that comes through the process of gaining wisdom.

When you consider listening to the truth of your heart, do dozens of questions arise for you, such as:  How do I listen?  How do I distinguish my voice from all the other voices in my head?  How do I know if what I’m hearing is true?  What exactly am I supposed to listen for?  Do your questions continue to pile on from here?

The following factors may help sort through the mix and find more of what’s true for you.

Your Values System

Many religious apologists claim moral and ethical behaviors derive from a belief in a deity.  Most atheists and agnostics who live according to a moral or ethical code, claim morality produces better results than immorality, so a values system is simply logical.

Whether you acquired your moral sense from the teachings of your church or from an observance of cause and effect, the results are the same:  some behaviors and qualities of character work better in society and inspire you to better choices; some create conflict in society and lead to personal chaos.

All human beings are strong in some areas and weak in others, and your true values system will not include every trait or quality someone at some time has considered a virtue.

If you find a certain quality to have value yet believe you do not currently possess it, you have the power to choose it.  Decide firmly that it is something you want to incorporate into your life, and visualize what it represents to you.  Say, for instance, you want flexibility.  What would more flexibility bring into your life?  Less stress?  More peace?  More room to maneuver?  Focus on the results of flexibility – the peace, the room, the freedom, the lightness.  Feel  those qualities in your meditations and practice them in your life until they become a done deal.

Similarly, if a certain quality is not true for you, or if you are not aligned with it, you will experience confusion and self-doubt.  You have the power to un-choose it, to stop trying to force fit it into your life, and thus see yourself and your true values more clearly.

When something is true for you, and you are aligned with it, it will enhance and empower your life.  Your task, then, is to become more aware of what is true for you and become more attuned to it.

I encourage you to make a list of the qualities or virtues you believe you possess  – or would like to adopt.  Journal about each one and what it adds to your life.  Observe the emotions that flow within you as you write about each one.  Any that are not true for you will probably evoke emotions of judgment and struggle.  Those true for you will likely evoke Partner or Creator emotions.

Your Intuition

You have an inner voice that speaks truth to you.  It’s been called many names at various times including, your conscience, the holy spirit, your spirit guides, an angel, your spirit animal, the ancestors, the still small voice, etc.

This voice obeys several rules in its communication with you, including

  • It responds to and with whatever energy you’re emitting.
  • It speaks in the language you use.  Your spoken language, of course, but also the language of your thoughts.  It uses your metaphors, your analogies, and your symbolism.
  • It works from within your worldview.  If your worldview is narrow and specific, so is your inner voice.  If your worldview is curious and expansive, so is your inner voice.
  • It is limited or not-limited by your sense of your own self.  The truer you are to yourself, the truer the messages you receive from your inner voice.  If you are confused, conflicted, or specifically focused, your inner voice must speak from wherever you are at a given moment.

Let’s consider each of these rules.

First, your energy.  When your energy is positive, you open a clear channel and the messages come through without interference.  Negative energy acts like static, interrupting and distorting the messages, sometimes making it difficult for you to discern them, sometimes obscuring them completely.

Second, your language.  Sometimes you may hear your inner voice as an actual voice speaking verbal words.  More often, you will get an idea, or feel the need for caution, or know it’s time to act, or just know one choice is better than another.  Sometimes your inner voice uses something you’re already focusing you attention upon to give you a message to yourself.  Your work or your avocation may be the metaphorical structure for the lessons of your life.

Third, your worldview.  Your inner voice wants to speak to you in expansive ways, to encourage partnership and creativity.  The less you judge the world, the more you release your intuition to speak truth to you.

Fourth, your self.  You intuition can communicate only within the scope of how well you know yourself and how much you trust yourself.  The truer you are to yourself, the better you know yourself, and the more open you are to knowledge and growth, the more straightforwardly your inner voice will be able to speak to you.

If there is an area of your life where you don’t fully trust your own judgment, I encourage you to choose to become more attuned to your inner voice in that area.  Practice pausing to listen before any decision.  Stop.  Become calm (see Clarify Your Intention).  Review the possibilities as you know them.  Listen to your inner voice.  Proceed without haste.  At first you may not recognize the difference between instinct and impulse, so simply watch what happens.  You will begin to notice when your instinct speaks truly, and as you trust it, it will speak more often.

Your Desires

Your true desires are not only within your reach, they want you as much as you want them.

Here are some of the ways you can differentiate a true desire from one that is not:

  • A true desire will not have a “should” attached to it.
  • A true desire comes from your heart.
  • You already have the talents (if not the skills) to achieve a true desire.
  • The universe is always your ready partner when you pursue a true desire.

A true desire is not necessarily easy. It might be damn challenging.  Pursuing a true desire with your whole heart will always bring rewards greater than you imagined when you began.  You might not get exactly what you thought you wanted, but whatever you achieve will exceed your wildest imagination.   (See Expand Your Possibilities.)

Your Service

Some forms of service are well-marked as “service,” such as volunteer work, donations to non-profit organizations, ministering to the poor, and anything identified as charity.  Other kinds of service are much less noted, but of equal value:  spreading good cheer through a smile or a touch, laughing together, staying connected, showing respect and appreciation, receiving gracefully, extending unconditional acceptance, etc.  By these actions and attitudes, you raise the energy level of wherever you are, of whatever you are doing.  When you lift someone’s spirits, their energy expands, and together you send more goodness into the world than either one of you could alone.  This expansion of good energy becomes exponential, as each person carries it from the starting place to the next person, the next activity.

In this way, being the truest person you can be becomes the greatest service you can give.  Being true to yourself expands you energetically, and as your energy expands, your goodness reaches more people.  Your goodness embraces people with love, which frees their good energy.  Good energy always has more power than negative energy, so in this way you expand peace and love in the world.  In this way, you serve yourself, your neighbors, your community, your country, and the world itself.

You can of course, continue your forms of traditional service, donating money, volunteering, and ministering to those in need, especially if they are true for you.  To multiply the service you provide with your hands and your wallet, bring your good energy, your joy, and your love into the doing and the giving.

These are a few of the ways you can listen to the truth of your heart and bring your emotions into congruence with your thoughts and actions.  I believe enlightenment follows congruence.

For personal guidance in bringing your thoughts, actions, and emotions into congruence, please contact me directly by emailing me at kathy@kathyjacobson.com

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Expand Your Energy

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE who can choose what you want. You are the only one who can create what you want. You are the only one with power over your life. When it comes to choice, you determine your itinerary and you hold the keys. You are the deciding vote, the commander-in-chief, the leader of the pack, the beginning and the end. The creator.

You’ve been deciding what all your life, and the results you currently enjoy – or don’t enjoy – are the consequences of your choices. The universe must – and does – support every choice you align with.

It behooves you to make choices wisely and mindfully. Wisdom in choosing generally encompasses choices that are true for you, choices you support with thoughts, actions and emotions. Once you make a conscientious choice and align with it, energies from beyond yourself will gather with supportive power. Such as:

Energies of the earth. You are one with humanity, with nature, with every aspect of life on earth, and with the earth itself, and all these energies want best good. At this level best good means, of course, best good for the earth. And best good for the whole rises most easily from the best good of the individual parts. Imagine yourself as an agent for good on earth. Open your mind to the energies of the earth; they will support what’s true for you. When you merge with these energies, you are likely to feel great happiness.

Energies of the heavens. The energies holding our solar system together flow through you. The laws that govern the relationships between the sun and its planets, between the planets and their moons, are the same laws that govern your relationships with the results of your life. Nothing occurs that doesn’t conform to these stellar laws, but these laws empower more than you can imagine. Open your body to the energy of the solar system. When you are connected, you are likely to feel great enthusiasm.

Energies of the universe. These powers are so vast you might find them a bit overwhelming to even contemplate, but every speck in the universe contributes to them and is influenced by them. They flow through every atom, every particle, every wave of energy – including you. The atoms of your body were present at the origin of the universe, and in that sense you were present at the beginning. You have the power of creation within you. You can create anything you can imagine. Anything you can imagine, you can create. When you are connected, you are likely to feel great love.

When you want something that is true for you, it automatically connects with these amazing energies. Let them empower your choice. Let what you choose become real for you, in your mind, in your body, in your heart. Let your connection with your choice be so strong that it chooses you.

If you can imagine it and bring it to life with belief, you are already on your way to alignment with it. Following are a few ways you can continue to strengthen your connection with energies greater than yourself.

Choose Your Words

In folklore and fairy tales, words have power. To put power into sufficient motion to receive the desired result, the words have to be exactly right. Mis-speaking an incantation produces catastrophic results – sometimes the very opposite of the desired magic.

In real life, words have power, not as incantations or magic formulas but through their effect both within and without.

From within, words impact your subconscious. The subconscious is very literal, and unless restrained by other factors it believes everything it hears. It can hear, “I’m a mess,” and believe “I’m M.S.” (multiple sclerosis). It can hear, “I’m knee-deep in trouble,” and trouble your knees. When rephrasing beliefs, find words that say what is rather than what is not. Evidence suggests the subconscious skips right over the not and reinforces what is. For instance, “I am pain free,” rather than, “I have no pain.”

Your words impact what is outside of you in two different ways. First, by the reactions of other people to what you say and the tone in which you say it. You have probably observed the ways words affect relationships – kind words induce kind feelings; harsh words provoke harsh feelings.

Second, your words and the beliefs behind them affect the world. If you repeatedly say such things as, “I’m afraid to go out after dark,” not only does your subconscious supply symptoms of fear as soon the sun sets, your fear emits energy that attracts danger. Depending on the intensity of your fear and whether others in your neighborhood share that fear, the danger might show up as more stay dogs running around your neighborhood, street lights burning out at a faster than normal rate, teenagers cruising the local streets, increased burglaries, etc.

You, as the speaker of your words, are the generator of their power. When you choose words, you also, perhaps subconsciously, choose the energy embedded in them, the emotion they carry, the impact they will have, and the results you want to create with them. The more consciously you choose your words, the more you contribute purposeful power.

You can become more familiar with the power of your own words by paying attention to the power of other people’s words. Notice how the moods of others affect you. Someone else’s happy attitude can lift your spirit. The complaints of others can reinforce any feelings of powerlessness you might have. Someone else’s enjoyment of something can infect you with enthusiasm. And someone else’s fears might evoke anxiety in you.

Words have power. When you acknowledge that power and recognize yourself as a power source, you will become more adept at using words for positive creation.

Evoke Happiness

When listening to music, you can easily tell the difference between a lilt and a dirge. Executed with the same diatonic scale, they use different keys, different chords, different tempos, etc., and they evoke different emotions. A lilt lifts the spirits, gets the toe tapping, and brings lightness. If a dirge doesn’t specifically evoke sadness, it reflects it.

In the same way a lilt lightens a mood, happiness will bring light, quick energy to an intention. Happiness adds buoyancy, enthusiasm, optimism, trust, and speeds the pace of fulfillment. In this way, happiness is the most creative energy. Because happiness is a very light emotion, it lifts your desires off the ground. Intentions fueled by happiness require less of other kinds of energy, they require less work and they run into fewer complications.

You will experience greatest happiness when you are most connected to the energies of the earth. Your happiness then channels universal power to you and through you, and on into your intention. Happiness aligns with best good. And the very second (the very nano-second) you choose best good and open the happiness channel between you and best good, best good will pour out upon you, because your best good supports the greater good.

Add Service

There are many levels at which we relate and respond to each other. Blood ties may be the strongest, as socio-biologists have been proposing for years. In almost every species, an individual first gives assistance to the relative with the most shared genes. After family, ties expand to clan, tribe, village, town, race, country, and species, with life itself as a distant last. Such strata of caring reflect our ability to identify with others. We identify most closely with those we know best and those most like us. The more foreign or alien someone or something is, the less their needs and/or plight resonate with us.

This may be the way of humankind, but it is not the way of the universe. The universe has no “chosen people,” – nor even any chosen life forms. Everything is creation and everything has worth. As the “rulers” of this planet, we human beings have assumed our sentience somehow makes us blessed. We tend to be egoistic, selfish, and acquisitive; we tend to focus on our own survival and our own success.

Mystics, prophets and sages through the ages have taught the importance of transcending this aspect of our humanness. They teach love, compassion, charity, and cooperation. They teach, “love one another,” “do unto others,” “turn the other cheek,” etc. They teach that every choice has a consequence and that human beings acquire karma.

You do not operate in a vacuum. Every choice you make and every emotion you feel emits energy. That energy does not travel in a straight line, nor does it fade off into nothingness. It radiates in all directions and it expands outward. As it expands, it may grow less dense but it does not grow less potent. Whenever your energy meets another bit of energy, there is an energy exchange. You have some kind of impact on everyone you meet (and everything you encounter or use).

When you emit kind, loving, happy energy, you create and serve. When you emit dour, mean, or hateful energy, you destroy. The kind of energy you attach to your desires and intentions attracts that kind of energy from the pool of available energy. The pool of what’s available might be filled by the universe itself, but more likely it’s filled by the billions of living creatures who have and are contributing their thoughts, emotions and actions.

Since like attracts like, if you want to draw loving, happy energy from the pool, you must emit loving happy energy. If you want to draw benefit, give benefit. If you want abundance, love, success, health, and joy, give abundance, love, success, health, and joy to others. Infuse your choices with a sense of service, generosity, magnanimity, graciousness and love.

Love and service channel the wisdom of the universe to you and through you, and on into your intention.

Choose and Use

Choose what you want. Empower it with congruent thoughts (words) and emotions. Enlist the powerful happiness energy of the earth, the enthusiastic energy of the heavens and the loving energy of the universe. Hold best good for yourself and others. Let your positive energy work for you, for humanity, and for all life.

Be the good you want to see in the world.

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