Master of Life for January 1, 2003

Master of Life - Strategies for Creating Your Own Reality
Issue: 01/01/03

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IN THIS ISSUE:

-> Featured Article: Everything that Surrounds You
-> Featured Article: Balancing Balance
-> Featured Article: If Only


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FEATURED ARTICLE

Everything that Surrounds You
by Dick Sutphen

Here's a concept to consider:

Everything that surrounds you is an extension of you. Your mate, children, home, furniture, car, pets, yard, office, and career are all physical expressions of your belief system and attitudes. Your environment is a manifestation of your energy and core beliefs, expressing your self-image and cultural overview.

And what mind has created, mind can change.

Change begins with the acceptance of new beliefs. Beliefs generate your thoughts and emotions, which create your experiences. If you aren't happy with your current life and want to change it, you need to change your core beliefs about allowing yourself to experience what you desire.

Your disharmonious beliefs are like a cage, restricting your potential and your life. But if you want to escape from the cage, you must first recognize that it exists and you're not free. YOU CANNOT CHANGE WHAT YOU DO NOT RECOGNIZE.

Sadly, most people are unaware they exist in a self-created prison.

What can you learn about yourself by examining your key life areas as an extension of you -- a manifestation of your energy and core beliefs:
Your mate?
Your children?
Your home?
Your furniture?
Your car?
Your pets?
Your yard?
Your office?
Your career?

Let's say, as an example, your yard and office are a mess. This may be a manifestation of a lack of control in your life. You would be served by cleaning up these areas as first steps of taking control of your life. Explore how this lack of control is reflected in other areas. What do you want? Begin mind programming with techniques that follow in the next example.

If your primary relationship no longer reflects who you are, explore your part in creating the way it is. Who have you become? Then consider what you desire to happen -- be honest. Once you have clarity of intent, you can begin to program new beliefs in keeping with your desires.

Programming: Behavior wags the tail of feelings, so act in keeping with your desires and new feelings will follow. Visualize what you desire as if it were already so. Create vivid mental movies in which you're living the life you desire you to live. Leave personalities out of the visualizations. If you visualize your mate doing something you want them to do, but it isn't in keeping with who they are, you're using black power and creating karma. Instead, visualize yourself living the life you desire with a loving (faceless) spouse. That way, if it's your karma to bond with someone new, you're not programming yourself into a corner.

Also, in meditation or self-hypnosis, give yourself positive suggestions worded as if what you desire were already accomplished. Self-talk -- positive affirmations spoken out loud while you're driving or home alone, is also powerful programming.




FEATURED ARTICLE

Balancing Balance
by Dick Sutphen

Within the last 24 hours, two of my female e-mail buddies have written me about needing to find more balance in their lives. Both are in their forties and are highly motivated and successful women. That kind of synchronicity always gets my attention. A little voice in my head said, "Write about it."

BALANCE. What images does the word "balance" invoke for you? For me, it's the yin/yang symbol, followed by the image of a tightrope walker, carrying a pole.

The Universe functions as a yin/yang balance, resulting in a tension between opposites (yin is negative and yang positive). We all contain the energy of these dual aspects: love/hate, harmony/chaos, good/evil. Tension is necessary for structure to exist. Human beings are energy structures, and without tension we don't exist. As a result, there is always yin balance in our lives. Typical examples would be, self-denial, over-committing to the point of feeling frazzled, excess hard work, gambling, dwelling upon negativity, dangerous activities, sexual affairs, arguing, fighting, drugs, drinking, and illness.

In my seminars I talk about replacing yin energy expressions with positive challenges. But for this column, I want to stick with the general perception of balance.

As for the tightrope walker, he's never in perfect balance. He continually moves the pole up and down and shifts weight from the right to the left. A little too much movement in one direction is quickly balanced by shifting weight in the other direction. The walker is never really in perfect balance for more than a moment. If he were, he would fall.

Life is a tightrope and like the tightrope walker you'll never be in balance for long. If you were to strive to avoid all extremes you'd limit your life and would certainly generate anxiety. Don't use this thinking as an excuse to be overindulgent, but if that's what you need to do, you'll soon generate an opposite pull of the forces.

One of the friends I mentioned has been working seven days a week in a hostile environment -- pushing herself to the point of being unable to sleep. And guess who just ended up sick in bed for several days?

If you know you're badly out of balance, take action before your body/mind finds a way of doing it for you. But stop worrying about finding perfect balance. If you can replace yin behavior with positive challenge, do it. Instead of endangering your mental or physical health, find a way to generate the needed experience, but in a way that can serve you.

From the perspective of reincarnation, we swing back and forth through our lifetimes in an ongoing quest to attain balance. And from this overview, good really isn't good and bad isn't bad. They're not opposites in conflict, but two harmonious aspects of the same thing. An automobile battery offers a good analogy. Within the battery are charged metal plates. One is charged positive, the next negative, the next positive, and so on. The positive plate is not "good" anymore than the negative plate is "bad." The interaction resulting from this alternating charge is what creates the energy you experience when you twist the key your car's ignition.

In the book, "The Tao of Love" by Ivan Hoffman (Prima Publishing), the author discusses balance: "Everything in the world is in a state of balance with everything else. Such is the nature of the yin and yang, of the Tao itself. There cannot be winter without spring; there cannot be life without death, there cannot be happiness without sadness.

"Whenever one component of that relationship changes, by definition the other component or components must also change to maintain the equilibrium. There can never be a state of disequilibrium in the natural scheme of things, for out-of-balance situations, both in nature and in the lives of human beings, will always attempt to right themselves, much like water seeking to find its own level once the pressures are turned off."




FEATURED ARTICLE

If Only
by Dick Sutphen

A friend has repeated his soap opera to me dozens of times over the last few years: "If only I had money, I could enjoy my life."

A recent business venture has finally provided him with monetary abundance ... and a new soap opera: "If only I had a little free time, I could enjoy my money." The new business is consuming his life.

And I suspect if he had the money and free time, his soap opera would be, "If only I had a loving relationship, I could really enjoy what I have."

IF ONLY ... IF ONLY ... IF ONLY! Each "if only" generates another "if only."

"If only I could find a soulmate, life would work."

"If only my lover gave me more sex, I wouldn't be frustrated."

"If only I could lose some weight, I'd feel good about myself."

"If only I could sell my novel, my career would get going."

"If only the stock market would come back, I could think about retiring."

"If only I could attain enlightenment, I'd be peaceful."

A QUICK "IF ONLY" PROCESS:

1. Explore your relationship "if onlies." (If you don't have a primary relationship, explore from the perspective of your quest for a relationship.)

2. Explore your "if onlies" with friends.

3. Explore your "if onlies" in regard to what you really want out of life.

4. What are your job/career "if onlies?"

5. Do you have any health "if onlies?"

6. Do any of your "if onlies" require another person to be the way you want them to be?

"If onlies" are about ME, ME, ME! What I want, so I can feel better and avoid pain. But they generate anxiety. And when we feel anxiety, we seek out "AVOIDS"--places to hide such as, overeating, drinking, drugs, working excessive hours, or watching too much TV. The more we buy into our "if only" viewpoints, the worse it gets, because this mind-set generates negative mental programming.

We need to WAKE UP. Instead of trying to get something, we need to get rid of something. Enlightenment is an absence--an absence of "if onlies" and all the other fear-based programming from dependencies and addictions to jealousy, greed, envy, blame, resentment, repression and prejudice ... and the list goes on and on.

Become an OBSERVER of your thought processes. Catch yourself the next time your "if-only" tape starts to play. If it's your standard soap opera, remind yourself of the negative programming and GET OFF IT.

On the other hand, if you're ready to act to create your own reality ... DO IT.

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