Our Children Are Our Best Teachers - Part 2

There were many responses to an article previously published on The Secret Bank Blog entitled: “Our Children Are Our Best Teacher’s.” Through the questions and comments received we felt our message was not fully understood. As a result we decided to give it another shot.

For the purpose of staying true to our teachings let me say that perhaps it was me that didn’t fully get what I was teaching in that article. I know that as I teach is as I learn and my world validates for me how clear I am with what I teach, as well as how unclear I may be in relation to my intent. If questions come up through my world/reflection, then ultimately it is me questioning me and my teachings. For this reason, we offer Part 2 - Our Children are Our Best Teachers.

In the first article we said,

“Our children are our best teacher’s and, since all in our world are products of our very own mind, all in our world are our children. Those that appear in our world through out our day are showing us what lies within us. As you are, is as your children/world is. All in our world is a mirror for us.”

To illustrate my point more clearly I would like to use the body - my body, your body…it matters not, as a method to illustrate that our children are our best teacher’s. In my understanding, the first descendent of the mind is my body. As I am, is as my body reflects.

A mind that is in fear inevitably will reflect a body with some sort of imbalance - whether it is overweight, sick or ailing slightly… imbalance will appear somewhere as the direct descendant of the mind that has dis-ease as it’s foundation. Fear, being the culprit, which manifests as some sort of malady in the body they will appear as offspring that are not congruent with love, peace and joy. For the purpose of this article we will call these maladies ‘wayward children’.

The sins of the father, that are often addressed in spiritual circles, could be better understood if we could grasp the concept that the entire world we see is actually the affect of the sins or more correctly, errors of the mother or female principle. In the perfect union of love, comes the out-manifestation or child of perfection. It is cause extending itself it’s love , and reflecting only the lovely.

The Father gives the Mother the right to decide, to become what she aspires to become. Anything she wants, He gives. She decides either from a place of love or of fear. Love gives birth to Itself, as does fear.

Imbalance in the body comes from fear. The mother’s fear thoughts are her children. Fear gives birth to fear. The mother is in some sense of dis-ease and as she is, is as her body becomes. Fear becomes painful and her children appear wayward. The body becomes as the mother unbalanced. The mother’s pain becomes a witness to the fear that was once love, for the pure state of the Father and the Mother is Love.

Pain, what we will call the wayward child, feels separate from its mother and its father. It has gone astray. In pain, the child or body seeks to find what it feels it has lost. It seeks and seeks but does not find it’s mother’s love. Eventually the pain that comes from fear of being separate from its True Source becomes desperate and appears more unlike itself. Lost, it now appears as dis-ease and apparently not related to the mother’s love at all. The Wayward child or body of the mother becomes so desperate that it will do almost anything to reunite with the mother and the father’s love.

Pain, being it’s only hope for acknowledgement, becomes it’s expression. The body or child of the mother will remain unhealed until the pain is unbearable and awakens the mother’s love. When that occurs she becomes conscious and sees the child for who he is - her son. She then takes steps towards reuniting with the child in peace and unconditional love making right what was wronged in her very own mind. She sees him as a thought she gave birth to, frightened and lost and in need of her attention, her encouragement and her love.

What does your body look like?
How does it feel?
Are you accepting it or rejecting it?

The answer to these questions will determine what your future world will look like.

As you feel about it, is as it will become. A child never wants to let her parents down.

Take a good look at your body. Feel the pain it feels and know that you can transform your child by accepting where it is, communicating your willingness to spend more time loving it and ultimately being it’s loving parent.

Our children are our best teacher’s. What is your body - your child teaching you about you?

Set It Free

A sweet angel of a girl I know, Laura, is a bird lover. She has such a beautiful relationship with birds. She speaks to them and they respond to her as if she is speaking their language. We were exchanging emails about a local exotic bird business for sale that I felt would be of interest to her, and she told me that she didn’t feel that is was a lucrative enterprise for her to invest in presently. My response to her was,  “passion is always lucrative.”

She said, “How true! I once sold birds from my home, a species of lovebird that is known to be almost impossible to tame. I just loved the little creatures and felt sad every time one was sold. Many people have expectations of birds that the birds just can’t fulfill because it is not in their nature. As a result their owners grow tired of them. I wanted my babies to be as special to their owner as they were to me.”

After reading her reply I got a vision of a caged bird set free and I thought ideas are like birds caged in our very own minds. Unless they are set free they cannot bring us what it is we want them to bring. Worry, doubt and fear actually keep our ideas caged in internal conflict. This is not a healthy breeding ground for our creative expression. As I pondered this idea I liked the metaphor more and more. Ideas that are repressed are liked caged birds. They have potential or in the case of birds, they are wings to fly with. But what good are wings in a cage?

Thoughts are things. Thoughts caged in fear do nothing but fester within the mind of the thinker and eventually die. Laura’s birds are free. She lets them fly free as they were meant to. She gives them the freedom to be.

There is an old saying that, “when you love something, set it free and if it is meant to be with you it will return. If not the love you sent with it will bless another.”

Imagine if just for a moment, what kind of life we could live if we would allow our dreams the freedom to become what they were meant to be?

Imagine what would happen if we sent out our ideas - our dreams, in love without fear, doubt or worry…just sent them out freely to be what they were meant to be. What kind of a world it would be? Can you see it?

Do you have a dream that you have been keeping in your mind for fear that it will not come true? Set it free. Give it wings to fly and we know it with fly home to you fulfilled.

Set it free…

Our Children Are Our Best Teachers

In a recent email a woman asked,

“I know we all have our struggles with our children. I was wondering what thoughts others have on helping our children. Here’s my situation. I have a 10 year old boy who is extremely shy. I am wondering how I can use the Law of Attraction to help him open up and feel more confident in himself. Also, I have an 8 year-old daughter. She is an angry little girl. I could really use some help trying to bring out the best in my children, when talking and ‘showing’ isn’t working.”

Our children are our best teacher’s and since all in our world are products of our very own mind, then all in our world are our children. Those that appear in our world most of the day are showing us what is within us. As you are, IS as your children are. All are a mirror for us.

My questions for this mother would be:

1- How do you feel about your boy being shy?
2- How do you feel about your girl being angry?

These answers will show her why her children are acting the way they are. The messengers that appear in our world - our children - represent for us something about us. So what messages could we suppose this son and daughter are bringing to their mom?

Our children are our best teachers. We cannot change another nor can we expect our children to change us. We need to change our minds by changing our thoughts and the feelings that empower them if we expect to see change in our children - our world.

As you change so does your world. Your world is a shadow, a reflection of what you feel and what you think. Your attitude will determine the conditions that appear to be outside of you.

In A Course in Miracles is says, “all in our world is of us.”

Quantum theory says, what we put our attention on we identify and as we identify, is as we see. The more we put our attention on an idea, the more the idea forms into a thing. And the more attention, the more concrete it becomes.

Deepak Chopra says, “we cannot have a relationship with anything we don’t pay attention to.”

In Ho’ponopono, a concept that comes from the Huna Tradition, Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, a therapist, healed an entire ward of criminally insane patients by simply reviewing charts and forgiving himself for being in error.

He repeated

“Forgive me, I’m sorry, I Love you, Thank You” as he reviewed these charts. He never saw the patients, yet they healed and were released. The hospital was closed short time later.

The problem and the solution resides in the mind of the perceiver.

What do we do to teach our children the Law of Attraction?
We simply ‘be the change that we wish to see in them’.

Vibration is Self Evident

An article on the Law of Attraction entitled, “Raising your Vibration” said,

“Stay away from negative or pessimistic people. These types of people are running a very low vibration and their low vibration can have a negative impact on your vibration level.”

We say,

The basic premise of Law of Attraction is,

“As we ask - It is Given.”

Asking isn’t about verbalizing necessarily. Our very own being is asking 24/7 to be given something. How is this possible many people ask?

Our answer would be,

“We are the power, the thought and the manifestation.
We are it! The maker of all we see in our perceptual realities.”

In A Course in Miracles we are told that ‘we get what we want in every moment’.

When we raise our vibration by aligning with the highest within us, which we call Love, the lovely becomes our experience.

We need do no-thing but simply allow ‘what we are’ to become us.

Awareness gives us the opportunity to re-define our choices. In this place of infinite power we re-design in our very own mind what it is we wish to see. Then we align with this intent, staying with it and knowing that ‘as you/we ask - it is given’.

What do we need to do? Be aware that we are the ‘makers of our world’. If someone shows up in low vibration, it is not about them, it’s about us. What we are is validated in every moment in our world.

When one becomes aware and aligns with highest intent in every moment he will begin to see his thought and it’s manifestation in the very same moment. Time stops and all that is within the mind of the perceiver is in that moment and in every moment to follow this thought-vibration becomes self evident in our world.

We are making all what it is in our world. The only missing factor to our dreams becoming a reality is awareness and choice.

Today, take a few moments to actually watch…a moment at a time. Watch and see just what it is that you are asking to see in the world you are master of. You will be surprised just how powerful you are.

Do you like what it is you are making appear? If not

The Moses Code

The Moses Code - Book

The Moses Code - Audio

Is it possible that nearly 3,500 years ago, Moses was given the secret for attracting everything you’ve ever desired? The Moses Code was first used to create some of the greatest miracles in the history of the world, but then it was hidden away, and only the highest initiates were allowed to practice it. In this book, James F. Twyman reveals the Code for the first time, showing how it can be used to create miracles in your life . . . and in the world. By practicing the principles presented within these pages, you’ll discover how you can integrate the most powerful manifestation tool in the history of the world into your own life.

At the very heart of the Moses Code is the true function and practice of the Law of Attraction. You may have been told that this Law is all about “getting” the things you want—things that you think will make your life more satisfying. But what if that’s just the first step, and cracking the Moses Code depends more on what you’re willing to “give” rather than “get.” That would mean that you have the power to create miracles in your life right now! It would also mean that you have the ability, even the responsibility, to use that power for more than just attracting money, a better car, or the perfect relationship. You’re here to use the power of Divinity itself to create a world based on the laws of compassion and peace. That’s the task that lies before us.

Ananda and John’s Comment:

We highly recommend  this book as yet another refinement of The Law of Attraction.

The Third Jesus

The Third Jesus - Book

The Third Jesus - Audio

Adapted from “The Third Jesus,” by Deepak Chopra

No matter where you look, a cloud of confusion hangs over the message of Jesus. To cut through it we have to be specific about who we mean when we refer to Jesus. One Jesus is historical, and we know next to nothing about him. Another Jesus is the one appropriated by Christianity. He was created by the church to fulfill its agenda. The third Jesus, the one this book is about, is as yet so unknown that even the most devout Christians don’t suspect that he exists. Yet he is the Christ we cannot—and must not—ignore.

SIMPLE SOLUTION: The first Jesus was a rabbi who wandered the shores of northern Galilee many centuries ago. This Jesus still feels close enough to touch. He appears in our mind’s eye dressed in homespun but haloed in glory. He was kind, serene, peaceful, loving, and yet he was the keeper of deep mysteries.The first Jesus is less than consistent, as a closer reading of the gospels will show. If Jesus was perfectly peaceful, why did he declare, “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword”? (Matthew 10:34) If he was perfectly loving, why did he say, “Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth”? (Matthew 25:30)If Jesus was humble, why did he claim to rule the earth beyond the power of any king? At the very least, the living Jesus was a man of baffling contradictions.Millions of people worship another Jesus, however, who never existed, who doesn’t even lay claim to the fleeting substance of the first Jesus. This is the Jesus built up over thousands of years by theologians and other scholars. He is the Holy Ghost, the Three-in- One Christ, the source of sacraments and prayers that were unknown to the rabbi Jesus when he walked the earth. He is also the Prince of Peace over whom bloody wars have been fought. This second Jesus cannot be embraced without embracing theology first.The second Jesus leads us into the wilderness without a clear path out. He became the foundation of a religion that has proliferated into some twenty thousand sects. They argue endlessly over every thread in the garments of a ghost. But can any authority, however exalted, really inform us about what Jesus would have thought?These two versions of Jesus—the sketchy historical figure and the abstract theological creation—hold a tragic aspect for me, because I blame them for stealing something precious: The Jesus who taught his followers how to reach God-consciousness.I want to offer the possibility that Jesus was truly, as he proclaimed, a savior. Not the savior, not the one and only Son of God. Rather, Jesus embodied the highest level of enlightenment. He spent his brief adult life describing it, teaching it, and passing it on to future generations.Jesus intended to save the world by showing others the path to God-consciousness.

The idea of the Second Coming has been especially destructive to Jesus’s intentions, because it postpones what needs to happen now. The Third Coming—finding God-consciousness through your own efforts—happens in the present. I’m using the term as a metaphor for a shift in consciousness that makes Jesus’s teachings totally real and vital.

When Jesus Comes Again
Imagine for a moment that you are at the top of the hill where Jesus is and he delivers a sermon, and you are deeply struck, to the heart, in fact. He promises that God loves you, a statement he makes directly, without asking you to follow the duties of your sect or to respect the ancient, complex laws of the prophets. Further, he says that God loves you best. In the world to come, you and your kind will get the richest rewards, everything you have been denied in this world.

As the son of Adam, your sins have brought you a wretched existence, full of misery and endless toil. But Jesus doesn’t mention sin. He expands God’s love to unbelievable lengths. Did you really hear him right?

You are the light of the world. Let your light shine before all men. He compares you to a city set upon a hill that can’t be hidden because its lights are so bright. You’ve never been told anything remotely like this or ever seen yourself this way.

Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and the door will open.

Consider the lilies, how they grow: They neither toil nor spin, but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. Consider the crows, for they neither sow nor reap, they have no storeroom or barn, and yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!

When he preached, “If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer him the other also” (Luke 6:29), Jesus wasn’t preaching masochism or martyrdom. He was speaking of a quality of consciousness that is known in Sanskrit as Ahimsa. The word is usually translated as “harmlessness” or “non-violence,” and in modern times it became the watchword of Gandhi’s movement of peaceful resistance. Gandhi himself was often seen as Christ-like, but Ahimsa has roots in India going back thousands of years.

In the Indian tradition several things are understood about non-violence, and all of them apply to Jesus’s version of turning the other cheek. First, the aim of non-violence is ultimately to bring peace to yourself, to quell your own violence; the enemy outside serves only to mirror the enemy within. Second, your ability to be non-violent depends on a shift in consciousness. Last, if you are successful in changing yourself, reality will mirror the change back to you.

Without these conditions, Ahimsa isn’t spiritual or even effective. If someone full of desire for retaliation turns the other cheek to someone equally enraged, the only thing that will occur is more violence. Playing the part of a saint won’t make a difference. But if a person in God-consciousness turns the other cheek, his enemy will be disarmed.

Ananda and John’s Comment:

Deepak Chopra has a way of taking highly complex subjects and synthesizing them down to their basic essence. This complex issue, that has occupied the central core of billions of people for 2,000 years, has been laid out in a fashion that allows everyone to experience a deeper, richer experience with Jesus…whether they are fundamentalists, rationalists, mystical, or skeptical Christians or even students of other religions.

Allowing More

When we decide on an intention to bring into our reality many teach that writing down that intention, then adding a target date for its completion helps to bring structure to our focus. This is true and we can assure you from personal experience, this does work.

We can also state without hesitation that manifesting is a marvelous adventure once we really understand and believe that it is we who are captaining the ship of our dreams. But there is a tiny adjustment that makes the journey even more fun and frequently far more rewarding. This involves what some Law of Attraction teachers call “Embracing The Unknown.”

The technique involves a sort of ‘letting go’ process in which we choose what we want to come into our life, as specific as we desire, then hand it over to the Universal Subconscious Mind with a ‘twist’. We add a ‘trailer’ to our intention that goes something like this: “Nevertheless, according to my highest purpose.” It kind of like putting the ship of dreams on autopilot once the destination is set.

Now, why would we want to leave what might appear to some people as a wishy-washy tag line to our precious dreams? We do this because the universe knows all there is to know about what is best for us, for our highest purpose. Could it be that a dream come true could turn out to be a nightmare? We’re sure you’ve heard of someone winning the lottery only to be broke 12 months later - even worse off they may have been before the win.

Or what about the young pop singer who makes it big only to end up in rehab due to the inability to balance their new life with their youthful life experience? Does this mean we shouldn’t go after our dreams? Absolutely not! But it does mean that the universe knows the best way for them to come into our lives.

What if the hapless pop singer had added the ‘trailer’ to their dream? What may have occurred was the arrival of a trusted mentor on the scene at exactly the moment when they needed them the most, before destructive behavior began to erode their dream and their life. This is how the universe works when we allow it to.

It’s worth considering, especially if your dreams are lofty.

What is Your Motive

What are the “motives” behind your intentions? If you have put The Law of Attraction into practice by now you know, at least in part, about the enormous power you have at your disposal - and have always had. As we have said in previous posts, the Universal Subjective Mind, that aspect of the universe, which brings thoughts into manifestation, is “no respecter of persons” - it obeys commands and delivers.

This power, in the hands (thoughts) of a person, will bring about manifestations of things and experiences that match those thoughts. Often these manifestations will not bring about true happiness, even though the things themselves still appear, something is still missing for once the intention manifests, the thrill is gone. We have discussed the responsibility of the thinker - of each of us to be clear and direct in our intent, but let us go a step further and discuss motive.

Why are you intending what you are intending? What is it that you really want out of the fruition of your intentions? This is the first thing we should be considering before we consciously consider what to create. Why? Because as we also discussed before, it is the essence of what we are intending that we are really after from what we manifest.

The desire for a new home is far more than a need for shelter. That home might mean security for someone or self value for someone else. Your intention isn’t the only factor in bringing that desire for a home about. Underneath all of the practical reasons, there lies the true motive. The essence of why you really desire that home. For example, are you looking for recognition, attention or acceptance when you intend to bring that house forth? If so, you need to be honest with yourself and state it clearly,

“I deserve to live in a beautiful new home.” or perhaps, “I desire to bring forth a new home so that I can feel secure in my own home.”

While things are temporary and will never bring the depth of happiness or security we seek -because these things can be taken away - stating your true motives assists in aligning you with your true intent. This in turn assists in the manifesting process. When your intent and feelings are aligned, you can be certain there will be very little time between your intention and it’s manifestation.

When you state clearly what your intention is and attach to it your true motive the universe immediately conspires to bring it forth. As you see the fruits of you’re labor (thoughts and motives) come into being, you will also feel the peace that comes from honestly aligning your desire with your motive. This comes from a mind and heart focused in balance and this is the key to happiness.

Letting Go

What does it mean to “let go?” We hear this phrase a lot these days as more and more people become acquainted with the principles in “The Secret” or The Law of Attraction.

To understand this we need to realize that the part of us that is “holding on” so to speak is not really who we are. It’s just a bundle of characteristics we generally refer to as our ego - its not the real us. This bundle of characteristics is a construct of identities we have taken on like so many layers of clothing. Stripped down, we are much different from how we see ourselves or how we think others may see us.

The “letting go process” in part, involves allowing these layers to fall away…not that we need to lose ourselves in nothingness, but that we need to “let go” of our identification with these layers.

We are not the credentials we have attained, the houses we live in, the cars we drive, the careers we have, the abilities we have, the people we know, the experiences - good and bad (so called) - that we have had…we are none of these things. And, we are not the bodies we are wearing temporarily. Our focus is temporarily directed at and in these things but our essence, what we really are is non-local - everywhere and every-when.

This may feel a little uncomfortable to accept at first, but when we realize that every one of these things has one thing in common - limitation - it becomes a lot easier to abandon these invisible shackles. The real us is unlimited, unbounded and eternal, capable of creating anything and any experience. Think about that for a moment. How close are you right this moment to that state of awareness?

To take on your true identity as a co-creator of the universe, you need to fully accept this truth. When you do this The Law of Attraction reveals the incredible possibilities - which are without limits - inherent within it.

“Letting go” is a process of unveiling the layers of limitation that have hidden this great truth about us - from us. At first it may feel a little scary to let the masks go that have hidden this false identity, but the lightness that follows each veil is a clear and present validation that we are leaning toward our true Self as a master creator.

Harmonic Resonance

This evening Ananda and I were chatting with some friends about our new book connected with “The Secret” teachings: “I Know The Secret.” We were discussing how “the universe conspires” - immediately to bring our thoughts (desires) into objective manifestation as long as we don’t send out other thoughts, which contradict the original desire-thought.

We were sitting at a corner table in Barnes and Noble directly across from a similar table where several other friends of ours were laughing up a storm. One of those friends was probably telling one of his humorous anecdotes from his world travels as a well-known jazz pianist. He’s a gentle and jovial fellow with a story that fits almost any topic of conversation, and when he speaks he resonates the very essence of musical passion.

We often discuss with him how certain types of music, particularly the sort that slips easily into the intuitive connection with the universe, floats in the ether’s often referred to as “the zone” by athletes. That mystical zone vibrates at a particular frequency and attracts to it energy that resonates harmonically with it.

Just then we noticed a young girl -perhaps 11 or 12 years old - walk past our jazz friend to a table directly beside his where her parents were seated. What struck us was the blouse she was wearing. It was covered with musical notes as if copied from a giant page of sheet music.

Neither our friend nor the young lady connected with each other directly during the next half-hour before she left with her parents. What we couldn’t help noticing however, was how animated she was around our jazz friend’s energy. It was almost as if she were playing an instrument in her mind, due only to the blending of her musical passion vibrating in harmony with the frequency of the space the two occupied at the moment.

This is an aspect of harmonic resonance and its how the universe conspires through The Law of Attraction to bring like frequencies (of thought) to like frequencies. There are no accidents in the universe, everything that comes into our lives is invited there by our thoughts. How great is that?