- The feeling is the prayer by bluestar
18 y
3,868 7 Messages Shown
Blog: beyond the rainbow ...
An ancient teaching interpreted for us by Gregg Braden says that when prayer creates a "feeling within our hearts as if the prayer has already been answered and giving thanks and appreciation for that prayer having been answered" it taps a energy which permeates the universe. This energy is within us and surrounds us. He further explains that "quantum physicists tell us that it's the quality of feeling that sets up the quantum process that allows the feeling in our bodies to affect the physical matter beyond our bodies." But, as he puts it "we dont have to know that -- all we have to do is feel the feeling."
"The feeling is the prayer." -- Tibetan abbot.
"... When we find ourselves in situations in our jobs, in our office place -- we find ourselves surrounded by negative people, for example, -- or at the family dinner table where we seem to bicker with those we love and hold most dear -- when we find ourselves going thru patterns of abundance and lack, abundance and lack ... all of these from the perspective of the way this field works -- these are mirrors of thoughts, feelings, beliefs, emotions, perceptions, that we harbour inside of our bodies as an energetic form that is being mirrored, being reflected back to us in the world around us."
In my experience if we can manage not to engage in these negative episodes -- they will fall flat and eventually fade away. Regardless of whether the relflection in the mirror that one experiences is a reflection of oneself or one's world ... the key to handling it is not to engage with it -- dont return hatred and jealousy with the like but with love and understanding or at least a calm and gentle demeanor (that is sincere and not simply masking a smug interior).
"What is key in all of these traditions is how we feel about our lives and about what's happened to us in our lives ... because that feeling we know is a language that's speaking to this field that's mirroring back to us all of the love, compassion, understanding, forgiveness OR all of the hate, and the rage, and the jealously, and the darkness that you could ever imagine. And, its doing it as individuals in our families and its doing it collectively as nations. It's only a matter of scale. So to the degree that we can understand our past -- not to change the past but change what the past means to us -- to that degree we have the ability to change what's happening in our lives today." --Gregg Braden
Whitley Strieber -- Dreamland
"Beautiful Forces Within Us"
March 25, 2006
"A series of groundbreaking experiments in the last decade of the Twentieth Century unveil dramatic and undeniable evidence of a previously unrecognized form of energy, a Divine Matrix, that appears to link each member of our global family, creation, and the events of our lives in unexpected and empowering ways."
" During the Israeli-Lebanese war of the early 1980s, researchers trained a group of people to "feel" peace in their bodies rather than simply to think about peace in their minds or pray "for" peace to occur.
On specific days of the month, at specific times of each day, these people were positioned throughout the war-torn areas of the Middle East. During the window of time that they were feeling peace, terrorist activities stopped, crimes against people declined, emergency room visits declined, and traffic accidents dropped.
When the people stopped their feelings, the statistics reversed. These studies confirmed the earlier findings; when a small percentage of the population achieved peace within themselves, that peace was reflected in the world around them. "
-- From "The Lost Mode of Prayer"
-- by Gregg Braden
A few comments of my own:
I have found this ability to affect change thru positive "feeling" to be true in my own experience. I feel intensely and regardless of how I have been ridiculed for it or how people have tried to suppress that feeling in me, I have never considered it a negative quality. I think passion is one of the best things about being human -- about being alive. That this energy field exists to utilize the passion within us has certainly vindicated my stubborness in clinging to my feelings.
While positive prayer is only one application of the use of this field but in these times -- it is certainly an important one.
I find it interesting that it wld seem that, based on this theory, when exercising the power of will -- focusing the mind is perhaps less important that the focusing of one's feeling. I can't tell you how relieved this makes me feel ;-) Altho more likely -- the focused effect of both together is what separates the would-be healers and/or magicians from the really effective ones.
It brings to my mind sadness of all those people who are on drugs which tend to supress their emotions.
God speed to all of you. My mind is reeling these dayz with all the reading I am doing which gives words to the knowledge which I have been experiencing over the last twenty-five years and thus the words to communicate it. It is so rewarding to see the scientists verifying what the metaphysicists and ancient peoples have known for all time. While it is sad that this knowledge was lost to us for a long time, I am happy that it is surfacing in the "nick of time" for all to be able to benefit.
A few parting quotes from Gregg Braden from Whitley Streiber's Dreamland program:
"The war is being fought in our minds -- but it can only be won in our hearts." -- GB
"As the changes occur ... its less about the numbers of people and more about the quality of feelings that are being created." -- GB
|
|
|
bluestar
|
|
- to become calm by #27054
18 y
3,932
bluestar,
very interesting reading, ref. collective thinking.
it reminds me of the times when for one reason or another i've watched a sporting
event, to a dislike to a player for instance and have been really annoyed. that would happen every time i see this player, i would be annoyed at him.
then for no reason whilst watching this player at it again i would think he's not that bad really, i would then think something positive about him, then find find myself feeling so calm and actually like the player.
those two feelings had completely opposite effects on me physically, it is amazing.
i would like to know how i can prevent my negativity in the beginning, but i understand your story for i've felt it. Tom.
|
|
|
|
- Re: to become calm by bluestar
18 y
2,255
I enjoyed reading your insightful example, Tom. It reminds of something I once read or heard to the effect that "one is not responsible for the thoughts that come into one's head -- only the ones that go out."
There is so much negativity going on around us that it is often difficult to rise above it. I think each person needs to find their own way. For me, much of the path is simply knowing that there is a way and place "far from the maddening crowd" and that I can find it. Sometimes I pray, sometimes I breathe deeply and slowly, seek out some fresh air, or just visualize washing away all the negative thoughts and replace it with the idea of myself as being in a good place with good people surrounding me trying their best to do the right thing. and I somehow find myself with the best that people can be. I have setbacks, to be sure, but having experienced the reality that I create my own reality it becomes easier and easier to keep myself up where I belong :-)
I am definitely a believer in the parallel universes, many dimensions theories -- only I dont believe we need any kind of special machine or energies to travel from one to another. I think its in the very nature of our being and that we are continually forming and reforming our own individual world within the larger paradigm in which we live. If we wish to live toin a clean, healthy, loving, free, peaceful world -- we must form that world within our hearts. We must do everything we can to create that world within and around us.
It cant be done all at once. Just baby steps are needed to begin -- along with a willing heart. Respect the world with all its things, its creatures, our fellow human beings. Instead of anger towards those who harm others, I strive to feel only sadness that these individuals are so trapped within themselves, so cut off from spirit that they spread their solitariness and unhappiness around like plague. and deep within my heart I know that someday their light will shine -- that they also serve as my teachers and I as theirs. I know that only each individual can truly save oneself, make those choices, choose its time ... I am thankful to have learned many lessons thru other's mistakes.
and back to your question -- how can I prevent my negativity in the beginning? My answer would be that you probably cant. But you can choose not to feed that negativity with more negativity. How you do that is up to you. You can remove yourself from the situation and/or you can change your thought pattern and put your mind on a more positive path. Being aware of how and what you are thinking/feeling is most important and sometimes the hardest part. Knowing that you can alter your thoughts, feelings, perceptions, consciously is step 2. Taking steps to do step 2 and making it a habit takes practice and persistence -- but it pays off heartily in the end (pun intended :-) The good news is that the energy coming into earth to help us do steps 2 and 3 is abundant at this time. We can all experience and benefit from, in record time, the lessons that it took lifetimes for our teachers to learn.
|
|
|
bluestar
|
|
- At first I thought "GB" meant George Bush! by Deradune
18 y
1,920
Yes, the calm thing is a biggie! I just read a quote from a man who supposedly lived to be 200 years old. Just before dying when he was asked the secret of his longevity he said, "Inner calm."
|
|
|
Deradune
|
|
- Re: At first I thought "GB" meant George Bush! by #27054
18 y
2,051
deradune,
it sounds odd to become calm, for i know it would be great asset for the self, but to put everything aside to achieve it seems as though i must accept all the negativy
that is around us and put it aside.
in a way 'copping out'- 'sitting on the fence'- 'disregarding'. perhaps that's negative in itself, i dont know. of course one could do yoga etc. but i'm just not into things like that, so it leaves me to find a solution for that 'inner peace'.
i made a discovery about how consuming chicken had affected me which i posted in the "hypertension" forum just recently. at least i'd got on the starting blocks to
become calm.
now i've dispersed anger i think perhaps just 'letting go' would be an answer, i just dont know. it's a field that i thought that i'd never contemplate let alone
'find the road', to begin the journey.
i must read eveything on 'beyond the rainbow........' perhaps more answers lie here.
well deradune thanks for your observance and interest i believe that you might hear from me again very shortly for i will find the answer somehow, Tom.
|
|
|
|
- achieving calm by bluestar
18 y
2,399
I know how you feel, Deradune. Your remarks that "to put everything aside to achieve it seems as though i must accept all the negativy that is around us and put it aside." And that "'copping out'- 'sitting on the fence'- 'disregarding' [is] perhaps ... negative in itself" I can totally relate. and I do believe it is a paradox. I still care about all the things going on, I still feel the turmoil at times -- the rage, the helplessness. But I have learned to accept that I can only do so much -- and I do what I can. I try to make my world a good one by being the best I can be at any given moment. and when the best that I can be is horrible, I forgive myself -- and move on.
Each person has their gifts, their priorities. For some it might be health food, others may work for a cleaner environement, still others engage in politics trying to work within a political system. I try to do my part -- I havent dropped out or society or off the grid. But I refuse to get all worked up about it and spend my precious time raging about "How could he do that?" or "What's wrong with her?" or "Oh my god, the world is gonna blow up any minute!" or "Ya know, its not a matter of if, just when ...." NOT! not in my world because that is where I learned to draw the line. NOT IN MY WORLD! I thought to myself ... even I have to create my own world and be the only one living in it. But as it turned out -- I'm not alone ;-)
Life is rather curious in that it seems to make you most responsible only for those things that you know. If you know how you should act or what you should do -- but you do not even try to do it for whatever reasons -- well, life can be downright threatening. Ultimately, growth makes demands on one.
We must return midsunderstanding w/understanding or at least the attempt to understand. We have got to stop playing "king of the hill" and realize there's room for all of us. Sometimes, we must be willing to play the fool or appear to be the fool to those who find the need to criticise, or take extra care never to be caught off guard or by surprise. For exampke, I have worked in a very emotionally volatile workplace over the past two years. Occasionally, I have had an innocently made remark -- such as "Have a nice weekend" returned with a terse remark or even a tirade. If I remain calm, listen to the person direct their venom towards me and then pretty much say "Well okay" or "I'm sorry you feel that way. I really just meant -- have a nice day." or whatever and I say it without trace of superiority or smugness or sarcasm ... I rarely get into any further negativity with that person. It makes for a much nicer ending than when I respond to someone's feeling bad with anger. Why mirror back someone's rage -- especially when I really dont have any problem with that person other than what they JUST said or did which I realize had absolutely nothing to do with me. If you react calmly, the entire situation tends to dissolve and dissipate rather than escalate.
When one feels the love that comes from within, your heart becomes stronger, you feel more happy and secure about yourself and you can share this with others. You become like water falling upon rock or the rock tumbling within the waterly womb of a river or ocean. Love is healing. It is a path worth pursuing.
|
|
|
bluestar
|
|
- some beautiful thought by belarius
18 y
2,115 Reply FCK TinyMCE
|
|
CureZone