Calm Your Inner Chatter

If you're interested in either qigong or tai chi, find a class near you and give it a try. You can also find videos on YouTube for home practice. Tai chi takes a lot of practice before the flow of it becomes normal, so keep working with it. Many people know that massages can help them relax. One individual at level 400 counterbalances 400,000 individuals below level 200. One individual at level 300 counterbalances 90,000 individuals below level 200. Twelve individuals at level 700 equal one Avatar at 1,000. Were it not for these counterbalances, humankind would self-destruct out of the sheer mass of its unopposed negativity. However, the difference in power between a loving thought and a fearful thought is so enormous as to be beyond the capacity of the human imagination to even comprehend. We can see from the analysis above that even a few loving thoughts during the course of the day more than counterbalance all our negative thoughts by their sheer power. The only way to enhance one's power in the world is by increasing one's integrity, understanding, and capacity for compassion. If the diverse populations of humankind can be brought to this realization, the survival of human society and the happiness of its members are more secure. Simply knowing that an increase in one's level of consciousness reduces negativity in the world motivates the intention to evolve up the scale. INTENTION: EVOLVING BEYOND CAUSALITY Disapproving questions such as this worried Linda's sensitive nature and began to undermine her eager motivation. Linda vividly remembered the day when she began to give up. As she poignantly expressed, I started slipping and stopped practicing to avoid confrontation with her. Instead of persisting on her own path, Linda slowly withdrew and soon allowed herself to become emotionally dependent on a domineering boyfriend whose constant criticisms precipitated a serious depression in her. By the time this bright and talented young woman was in college, she was totally confused about who she was meant to be. She dropped and added majors in fits of anxious indecision.

When Linda's lack of educational commitment began to seem peculiar to her parents, they grilled her about what she was going to do with her life. If she took the bait and tentatively shared her latest career choice, her mother pointedly asked, `'Are you sure? If Linda momentarily forgot herself and expressed enthusiasm about a new direction she had found, her mother asked dubiously, Do you really enjoy it? Absorption in our own motivation, especially if it's in the realm of creativity, can make our loved ones nervous, because the very act of our motivation always threatens to move us out of the familiar world we share with our family. There's just something so soothing about putting pressure on a point in your body that's painful or tight. There's some research that supports that massages create a physiological response that reduces stress, blood pressure, and heart rate. This then results in an increase in vagal tone. In fact, the vagus remains activated even after a massage has ended. To gain the benefit of a massage, it has to be a moderate pressure massage, not a light massage. This means that you can get a decent massage from a masseuse and gain the benefit of an activated vagus nerve, as well as feeling like you're relaxed enough to sleep on the table. You could also get a massage from a chiropractor, who is there to help you heal. A chiropractor knows exactly how much pressure to apply to your neck, shoulders, and back to gain you the most benefit from the massage. It can be a little painful at first, but the results are always worth it. If you don't want to see a masseuse or chiropractor, consider giving yourself a massage at home. The sincere seeker needs to know only a few things. Merely to hear or read them already begins the process. The most important thing to know is that everything is happening of its own. Nothing is being caused by anything. All phenomena are the automatic consequence of the infinite field. The field is one of infinite invisible omnipotent power.

It is all-encompassing, like a giant electromagnetic field, with no beginning and no end, in space or in time, forever and always present. Its presence is exquisitely gentle and exquisitely powerful. Its power is such that all potentiality is activated to become an actuality. From a state of pure consciousness, one witnesses that all things are happening spontaneously by virtue of the infinite power of the field of Divinity. It was not surprising that Linda learned to have self-doubt and to fear that there was something pathologically flighty about herself every time she felt a new surge of motivation. Instead of naturally following her evolving interests, she began to hate herself for changing her mind so often. However, as we looked back on her development, Linda began to realize at a deep emotional level how she unwittingly had taken in her mother's doubt and ambivalence. Linda began to see that the helplessness and indecision she chronically felt were not totally her own. It became clearer to her that these doubts were the reflections of her mother's uneasiness over seeing her daughter no longer need her in the same way. Her mother's concerned questions effectively kept Linda in a dependent child role. As I have seen with my clients, the stifling attitudes exhibited by Linda's mother are unfortunately all too common. While Linda's mother actively discouraged her activities, many parents discourage their children through a simple lack of interest or encouragement. Think back to your own parents and family when you were growing up. Did your parents hold expectations for you, encouraging you to do your best? To get some good pressure, you'll need to use your body weight to help aid the massage. You can use a foam roller that you can lay on to help give yourself a back massage. Take the roller, place it on the floor, and lie down on top of the roller with it positioned at your shoulders. Using your feet to propel you, roll back and forth on the roller. Your body weight will push your back into the roller, giving you a significant amount of pressure. You can also use it on your lower back, thighs, legs, chest, etc

A foam roller or massage roller are great options for giving yourself a massage at home. If you don't have a foam roller, that's okay. Try using a tennis ball if you have one. A tennis ball will give you some resistance, while also give you a strong pressure point. Everything is happening in and of its own nature as a consequence of that which it is, not as a consequence of that which it does, which implies the duality of a doer in the action. What the world considers evolution is actually the witnessing of creation, which is continuous. The Unmanifest becomes Manifest by Divine Providence as the Totality of Creation, which emerges effortlessly. Within the field, potentiality is actualized by intention. Therefore, each thing comes forth, manifesting its karmic inheritance; The field is so powerful that if one continuously holds a thought, it will emerge; Therefore, intention is all-powerful. The ego is very clever. As a potentiality begins to manifest, it takes credit for it. If one takes a pair of scissors and cuts the stem of the apple, the ego thinks it made the apple drop to the ground! Quite a number of my therapy clients tell me that their parents never expected them to go to college, never asked them what they wanted to be, and never urged them toward any kind of achievement. One of my clients exemplified this lack of parental involvement. Sophie's Story One day in my office, Sophia, an intelligent but depressed young woman, was berating herself for being lazy. She told me how, as a young gymnast, she had lacked the competitive drive and ambition of her adolescent peers. She cited those teen years in gymnastics as proof of how little motivation she had ever had in her life.

But there was a stunned look on her face when I asked her how many times her parents had attended her practices and meets. I wanted to know how enthusiastic and involved her parents had been about her gymnastic success. You could see from the sad look that followed that there had been a void there. For Sophia, unlike many of her more ambitious peers, there were no cheering parents in the stands, no dad coaching her through the anxieties of higher competition. If you want to massage your shoulders, place the tennis ball against your shoulder and then lean back against a wall. The tennis ball should be between your shoulder and the wall. Then move your body like Baloo from The Jungle article does; You can also move side to side as necessary. The tennis ball will give you a lot of pressure, so be prepared for that and keep going until you feel your muscles relax. Then move to the next shoulder. When using a tennis ball, it's important that you don't put it over your spine. This can cause you significant pain. Make sure that it's just on your shoulders on either side of your spine. You can also use a tennis ball on your feet, hands, thighs, or legs. The ego ignores gravity, but that is how all things are happening--automatically, like gravity. There's no inner separate personal self causing anything to happen. Just like people are not aware of gravity, without which we would all fall off the globe, similarly people are not aware of Divinity as an infinite field of power without which existence is not possible. Intentions come out of the etheric body--not from the ego mind, which the Newtonian paradigm of causality would have you believe. The movement has already happened by the time you decide you are going to move. I discovered that reality at age 16 when a rabbit ran in front of the car.