Look at yourself. Really, where are you? What country do you live in? What neighborhood do you live in? Where do you go for recreation, and who are your friends? If any of the answers to these questions seem really unlike you or seem out of place then they are. This principle of assessing the balance or symmetry of life is one of the most powerful tools of self-appraisal. The basis of this principle is that everything has to make sense all of the time. If your credit cards are maxed out and you have a luxury car parked in your garage then you are not doing something right. Let’s say that you run a really efficient and respectable business and one of your best employees is always in trouble with the law, that individual does not belong in your company. Your image should not be associated with anything of an illegal nature. Sometimes you can clear the clutter in your life by just taking a look around at the items that are just lying around. Let's do this together right now. Look at the room that you are sitting in. That pile of unopened magazines that you were sure that you were going to read but never got around to opening can be discarded. There is no need to open them, just throw them away. The principle extends to all aspects of life, even your thoughts and your state of mind. If you apply it carefully you can clear your surroundings, your acquaintances and your very thought and this in short order will change your life. You will also to learn very quickly how to identify incongruity in aspects of life that you are unfamiliar with. In short order you will begin to understand all things
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Follow advice its meant for you
Have you noticed that after something bad happens you can always in retrospect find a little piece ( or sometimes large ) bit of advice that was given casually, sometimes by a complete stranger that would have prevented the event from taking place. It's true. Look back at your life.Someone may have told you to fix your fence because you could loose your dog and in a few days time you come home and your dog is missing because it strayed by escaping through the very same hole that you were advised to correct. There are several other events including major enterprises such as a house purchase, a career choice, a marriage, an investment and the list could go on. It seems that decisions that are ill-fated or completely wrong are surrounded by an energy (thought?) that impels one to change course. It's easy to understand this principle when you apply it to mechanical tasks like threading a needle, or using a wrench or screwdriver. The incorrect tool just won't work regardless of how hard you try. There are a number of unpleasant world events taking place right now. If you do a little research you will find the evidence of that bit of advice which was there for all to see. The signs are always there,sometimes not loud, but clear enough for you to see. Just be observant and you will realize that the little bit of advice you heard about was meant for you.
look into my eyes
Look into my eyes and what do you see? Well? You see yourself. We all have a unique way of looking at things but this is very limiting. The next time we look at something try this. Try to see using another's eyes. Use a different perspective and you will see that you don't have to be limited by your point of view or your perspective. This little experiment helps you to realize that your perspective is never really right or wrong. It is just a snapshot in time and space as you look through your little window of reality. Here's an example. Imagine taking a flight. The pilot tells you that the skies are clear and there is perfect visibility for 10 miles.
In the distance you see a large cloud with heavy weather hovering over an island. As you fly past the cloud you imagine (use the eyes) of the people on the ground in that island and wonder how they are fearing with the bad weather. Switch places now. Those on the ground are having a hard time .Floods are raging,there is lightning and thunder, houses being washed away, lives are being altered and desolation and despair abound.
Now if those experiencing the devastation and despair were to use your eyes as they look up and see your plane passing by, they would simply say that their experience is transitory,and no more a reflection of loss and devastation than your comfortable experience in flight. They would put it all into perspective. They would realize that this is the way of the world neither bad or good. Just a changing kaleidoscope of events which we interpret through our eyes. Look into my eyes and you will see only good.
The group theory
Well guess what? Good things come in bunches and bad things come in bunches. Everyone knows this. But why is this so? There is no bad sunrise and there is no bad sunset. All things seem to have several levels of symmetry associated with them. This is a common theme that accompanies every aspect of life. All the colours in the sunrise and in the sunset are always complimentary.So when things seem to go bad (and it periodically happens to all of us)look out. There are other very similar events just around the corner. It is as if you had passed under a cloud, figuratively that is; and all the events are of a similar nature. In fact you can examine the first event and say to yourself yes! there is more to come. This also happens with good luck.Just about the same time that you get commendation at work or for a project, your get called for a TV interview and some assignment that you have been working on gets critical acclaim etc. The events are all symmetrical. They fit into their own space and time and almost seem to be related.People who are said to have timing and have made a success of starting projects that go on to become spectacular, instinctively understand this and so can you. They wait and ride the tide when it comes in because they are alerted by the arrival of new promising items that the tide has also brought.
mistakes
You get on a train to go somewhere and then change your mind. What happens? Nothing very much. You may have wasted some time or you may end up at a destination which was unplanned. But in relation to your plans nothing really bad happend. Well, life seems to function just like that. The way in which your thought is transferred into an action is a process that takes place immediately. By thinking of something you have created the train and the tracks all at the same time. This means that your thought can have only one destination. Yes, only one. All our thoughts seem to have this characteristic. They have a potential consequence and only one. Because of this it is not possible for anything bad to happen by taking the wrong route, or by making a genuine mistake.When you make an mistake you have stepped on to a train that is not really going anywhere.At least no where familiar to you. So that tells you something doesn't it. What this tells you is that all the bad consequences in the world (and some that have happened in your life) were of your making. They were deliberately taken actions (thoughts), done or taken I might say with great difficulty. The reason behind this is that there was no train and there were no tracks. You thought there were and stepped on to a platform that wasn't there and fell and hurt yourself.You see, life only works by being creative. You can't actually set out to create nothing.And that's exactly what bad consequences are. So don't worry about life's genuine mistakes. Nothing bad ever happened by making a genuine mistake. Just don't go out of your way and intentionally go counter to the natural order. And what is this? Follow what comes naturally. Bad things are very hard to do.
The man in the mirror
People behave like their lives and their lives behave like them. Sounds sensible? Well it's quite true.If you are ever in a tough spot, you know, you got yourself in trouble or in debt or you are just sick, really ill and in hospital. Always remember this piece of advice. Even the docs have recognized this phenomenon, at least some of them.Calm relaxed patients who take the bad news in stride always respond much better. The same thing happens when you loose your job or you have lost a friend. Never view a loss as such. View it as a change. Nothing more nothing less. When the tide comes in the water is temporarily lost to the wave but it immediately rejoins it when the tide goes out. If you could rationalize all situations like that you would achieve a very unique position; that of sitting on both sides of the fence at the same time. You would have the current event facing you and you would be appreciating the solution at the same time. Remember the tide comes in and the tide goes out. It is never static.
Don't turn back
Never turn back and decide to do something that you forgot. The way thought works, to put it simply is that each thought is generated in relation to a specific outcome. This outcome is not in the future but exists the moment the thought is generated.So when the phone rings just as you decided to leave, don't turn back and answer that call. Whatever is taking place on the other end of that call cannot occupy the same time and space as the event that you are currently engaged in. You can call this the law of possibilities. There is only one event that can be associated with each intention. Even though it appears that there are always several choices and options available to you,that is certainly not the case. Two contending possibilities cannot occupy the same place and time. One is always wrong.One way of testing this hypothesis is to see what happens when you intentionally turn back.Let's do it.When the next situation arises follow up on that alternate situation, take that message on your call waiting and see what happens. What you will notice is that those contending events are always,not sometimes, always irrelevant.You can experiment a bit.Look at several examples. Look at your past for examples and you will be able to draw your own conclusions. You will have some interesting results. Remember two things(thoughts)cannot occupy the same place and time and neither can their intended outcomes.
The Mirror
You just had a spot of luck. You could consider it good or bad depending on the way you looked at it. Nevertheless it is luck.It is your event. How do you put it in perspective? What does it mean? Well here's some help. All events have a parallel event which accompanies the epoch changing event. All you need to do is carefully look at other things taking place in your life at the time and you will see that other smaller events are also taking place with the same pattern and with the same level of outcome and consequence as the event that is of concern to you. If nothing is happening in your life at the present time you can verify this principle by going back in time and by looking at some past events and their parallels. When you get good at this you can look at the parallels only and figure out just how the major event will turn out. Are there any similarities in nature? Sure there are lot's of them. Next time you see a rainbow look for the double rainbow.
Back to basics
Collision theory, Call it what you may. How do you know what is right and what is wrong? Simple do what comes naturally. The right thing is always the easiest to do. Go back. Look over all your mistakes and you will see. All the mistakes you made, those with bad consequences had bad written all over them from the beginning. They were difficult to do. They were, well let's say unusual, convoluted. They took deliberate effort and they always seemed odd. There are a lot of examples in world history at the present time. Without singling out a particular event, those, which have resulted in colossal failure and hardship, were difficult.
Let us be frank, few of us write with our toes. It is not impossible but incredibly hard to walk on our feet and write at the same time. Remember all the right things are easy i.e. at a fundamental level.
You really have to go out of your way to make errors and you have to go very far out of your way to make egregious errors. If only some of our world leaders were aware of this.
So what if you make an attempt at something and make a mistake?
Don't worry about it. Mistakes are part of the natural order and never result in anything bad.
sitting at the back of the bus
Have you ever thought that life is like sitting at the back of the bus. Everything we encounter in life has already happened. When you look at a star in the sky that is 5 light years away the light you see left that star exactly five years ago. Similarly the light from a star 1000 light years away left that star 1000 years ago. The event seems current but it is not.This suggests that there is no past, present or future as we know it.Our current state of mind and thought is part of our future or may be said to create our future. Our "present" happened some time ago. It is just that our limited senses are just catching up with it. We are really sitting at the back of the bus. The people at the front of the bus could have told us what was coming. This gives us a golden opportunity to keep creating the present we want by concentrating on what we would like to see happen.The future begins with thought and is complete from the inception of the thought carrying the image right into the present just like the light from the star 1000 light years away.
The virtual world we live in
Just to let you know. We live in a virtual world. How so? Well. All man made objects are the products of thought, those already in existence and those to come. The difference between the thought and the object is time (as we understand time). So if thoughts are things, then it should follow that things are thoughts. So all the relics of history (including our own) are what the people of the time thought about. Let's look at it another way. Suppose you were to have taken a fairly homogeneous group of humans and placed them on several (hospitable) planets 5000 years ago and reviewed their progress today, what you would find is that they would have all evolved differently. They would all have different things (i.e thoughts) as part of their environment and their technologies would all be different. If this is so the big question is : what is thought? If we (humans) can decide now that we want to build pyramids or go to the moon, or into another dimension for that matter we have already begun to create those things just by thinking about them. That raises an obvious question. What about ourselves? If all the material things are products of thoughts then all that we see in nature including ourselves are products of thought. We are entirely virtual phenomena. We humans are very limited physically and to a great extent intellectually. What we do have is thought. It is the strongest talent that we have.It allows us to create anything that we think about. All we need to do is think clearly and we can do anything. All thoughts create



