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27 ene 2014
Dr. Wayne Dyer and Skye Dyer with a song by Alex Woodard
Dad,
Today I sat behind you in Ephesus, Turkey, while you gave a lecture to a few hundred people who had traveled from all over the world to hear you speak. I was overcome with emotion as I saw you standing there, fulfilling your dharma while touching the lives of so many. I know you as my father, but you have always been a teacher to me as well. You have taught me that the solutions to all of life’s problems are inside of me, and that I only had to go within, be silent and present, and know that all is well.
You never told me how to live or what to think or what to believe in. Instead, you showed me how to make each step a prayer and each word a word of love. You taught me to believe in magic and miracles, and you showed me how to be in awe of the awesome world we live in.
Since the time I was brought into this world, I knew that I was safe to be exactly as I was, and that whoever I was, I was a perfect creation of God. You told me that I was God, and that it was God that looks out from behind my eyes. I learned from you that I was master of my own fate, the creator of my destiny.
Of all the lessons I have learned, the thing that hit me hardest was when you said that I am God. Could I really be a spark of God, a perfect creation put here on Earth with a purpose? You say this all the time, but I have always struggled with it, especially since school and society were telling me otherwise. I doubted myself, felt inferior, and worried that I needed to apologize to someone for even contemplating this idea. I have felt unworthy, undeserved, and unsure. Although you gave me great tools, I still had to figure out how to use them on my own. Now I understand that God is love, God is beauty, and God is truth. You told me I came from an infinite space of perfection and that I will return to it one day, too. Slowly I am beginning to understand.
People love you so much and yet to me you have always been Dad. You drove me to school each morning, you taught me how to swim and ride a bike, you read me stories, and you came to all my plays. As I have grown, you have encouraged me to follow my dharma and go after whatever it is that excites me. You believe in me, Dad, and I love you so much for that.
What do you say to someone who gave you life and then showed you how to live it?
You say thank you, thank you, thank you.
Serena
this gift
By Alex Woodard
first steps walking
first words talking
those times i don't recall
every stage at
every play i know
you were there for them all
and i know sometimes
people thank you
for God's gift you showed they had
but this time
i want to thank you
for this gift of being my dad
as i got older
if dreams would smolder
you helped bring back the fire
to warm my cold night
through the firelight
my spark of God flew higher
i know sometimes
people thank you
for God's gift you showed they had
but this time
i want to thank you
for this gift of being my dad
i know as time goes by
you will be watching
from my first steps
to my last
but they won't be our last
because we together
walk forever
now from future into past
so i love that
people thank you
for God's gift you showed they had
but this time
i want to thank you
i want to thank you
i love you dad
6 nov 2013
Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream
Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a KEEP OUT sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
Stay in a state of grace and gratitude for this resplendent gift that is always yours to do with as you choose.
As Ernest Holmes has said, True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.
Wayne Dyer
Stay in a state of grace and gratitude for this resplendent gift that is always yours to do with as you choose.
As Ernest Holmes has said, True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.
Wayne Dyer
28 oct 2013
When I chased after money, I never had enough.
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
—Wayne Dyer
—Wayne Dyer
23 oct 2013
All of the great teachers have left us with a similar message...
All of the great teachers have left us with a similar message: Go
within, discover your invisible higher self, and know God as the love
that is within you.
Wayne Dyer,
Wayne Dyer,
19 oct 2013
20 jul 2013
The Secret Garden
When I was 10 years old, my mother remarried and
she was able to reunite our family for the first time since I was a
baby. My slightly older brother Dave and I had lived in foster homes
together all those years. There we were at last, all under the same
roof again, my wonderful mother, my not-so-wonderful alcoholic
stepfather, my oldest brother, Jim, whom I barely knew, Dave and me. We
lived in a tiny duplex that year that I entered the 4th grade at Chester
Arthur School. My teacher Mrs. Engel had a rule that if the class was
quiet and well-behaved, she would read aloud to us from 2:45 until 3:10
when it was time to go home. I took it upon myself to be the classroom
enforcer and keep the other kids in line because I really wanted to hear
that story. (Here’s where I first learned that I could influence people
when coming from a positive place.)
Mrs. Engel was reading to us from The Secret Garden. Does anyone remember that classic children’s book? It was written by British author Frances Hodgson Burnett and first published in 1911. I loved being read to and I really loved this story about a little orphan girl named Mary. Mary goes to live with her uncle in the English countryside and, with two new friends, she discovers a lost rose garden that magically heals their lives. The Secret Garden is really about a secret place in each one of us—a place that we can escape to, a place where we can do anything, create anything we want for ourselves. We can make the world come alive, we can create miracles. I, too, had a secret garden that enabled me to deal with the instability of my life, all the places and people I had had to adjust to. I had some crazy experiences as a little boy, some of it abusive and nasty—some of it wonderful and great. I just kept getting new experiences all the time, but somehow I always knew that I could go within and get quiet and be and do anything. I think that knowing had something to do with the way my life has gone—writing 41 books, all about the power of the mind to enable us to be and do, to create anything we want for ourselves.
Whatever the divine power is that is moving the checkers of life around, it all fits together. That divine power saw someone who wanted to teach self-reliance and gave him a life as an orphan. I was also given a brother, older but smaller and weaker, who needed to be taken care of. This is how I’ve come to look at my life—the way all the pieces seem to fit together. I’m asking you to look at your life like this, too. Instead of looking with regret, instead of looking with fear, anger, pain, and sadness, try looking at your life from a perspective that the whole thing is divinely orchestrated. It’s the most amazing shift. -Wayne Dyer-
http://www.drwaynedyer.com/blog/
Mrs. Engel was reading to us from The Secret Garden. Does anyone remember that classic children’s book? It was written by British author Frances Hodgson Burnett and first published in 1911. I loved being read to and I really loved this story about a little orphan girl named Mary. Mary goes to live with her uncle in the English countryside and, with two new friends, she discovers a lost rose garden that magically heals their lives. The Secret Garden is really about a secret place in each one of us—a place that we can escape to, a place where we can do anything, create anything we want for ourselves. We can make the world come alive, we can create miracles. I, too, had a secret garden that enabled me to deal with the instability of my life, all the places and people I had had to adjust to. I had some crazy experiences as a little boy, some of it abusive and nasty—some of it wonderful and great. I just kept getting new experiences all the time, but somehow I always knew that I could go within and get quiet and be and do anything. I think that knowing had something to do with the way my life has gone—writing 41 books, all about the power of the mind to enable us to be and do, to create anything we want for ourselves.
Whatever the divine power is that is moving the checkers of life around, it all fits together. That divine power saw someone who wanted to teach self-reliance and gave him a life as an orphan. I was also given a brother, older but smaller and weaker, who needed to be taken care of. This is how I’ve come to look at my life—the way all the pieces seem to fit together. I’m asking you to look at your life like this, too. Instead of looking with regret, instead of looking with fear, anger, pain, and sadness, try looking at your life from a perspective that the whole thing is divinely orchestrated. It’s the most amazing shift. -Wayne Dyer-
http://www.drwaynedyer.com/blog/
22 may 2013
Libro recomendado: Morir para ser yo: Mi viaje a través del cáncer y la muerte hasta el despertar y la verdadera curación
http://campomorfico.com/anitamoorjani.htm
Sinopsis
Un relato esclarecedor de lo que nos aguarda tras la muerte y el despertar final. Uno de los testimonios espirituales más lúcidos y poderosos de nuestro tiempo.
BESTSELLER DEL NEW YORK TIMES
«Es esta una historia de amor, un amor inmenso e incondicional con una visión revolucionaria de lo que somos en realidad, de por qué estamos aquí y de cómo podemos superar cualquier miedo o impulso negativo que esté marcando nuestras vidas.
A lo largo de más de cuatro años, el avance implacable de un cáncer llevó a Anita a las puertas de la muerte y hasta lo más profundo de la propia morada de la muerte. Ella describe todo ese proceso minuciosamente en este libro, un libro escrito para conmover el alma. Finalmente, logró curar su cuerpo gracias a todo lo que vivió y comprendió en el más allá, y me ha comentado que siente que ha vuelto para enseñar a todo el mundo esta sencilla pero poderosa lección que no solo puede curarnos a todos, sino también transformar el mundo entero.
Yo, personalmente, no tengo ninguna duda de que la misión de su vida está plasmada en la crónica de esta experiencia suya que estás a punto de leer, y de que en alguna parte estaba escrito que yo tenía que ayudarla a que este mensaje crucial llegara a todo el mundo.»
Wayne W. Dyer (extraído del prólogo)
Presentación
Para los que estamos sumergidos en el estudio e investigación del trasfondo que mueve los hilos sutiles del proceso de nuestra Humanidad terrena, es de gran satisfacción el conocer que por fin pueda disponerse en habla hispana de la historia de Anita Moorjani, por cuanto la misma aporta un conocimiento más allá de lo que toda Ciencia tiene en sus posibilidades ofrecernos de la realidad vivencial en la que estamos inmersos.
El propio lenguaje de Anita, con una dialéctica sencilla, surgida desde el sentir natural que guía el recuerdo de sus vivencias, hace muy asequible el entendimiento de cuanto trata de transmitirnos en este tan preciado libro.
Anita nos cuenta en su libro cómo fue dando lugar en su organismo a un proceso de cáncer (Linfoma de Hodgkin) que le condujo a una degradación casi completa de aquel, en cuyo proceso final pasó por una experiencia cercana a la muerte (ECM), de la que nos informa con detalles lo vivenciado en ese "otro plano" y cómo esto le sirve para retornar a su cuerpo y llevar a éste a una recuperación fuera de todo lo que se podría esperar de su situación.
En esa ECM percibió algunos aspectos de lo que podría ser su vida futura, comprendiendo que una de las razones por las que decidió regresar a su vida en el cuerpo fue por el aporte que significaría a nivel humano el dar a conocer su experiencia en tal estado, y que esta labor no requeriría de hacer nada especial, sino ser sólo ella misma y permitir ser instrumento para aquello que tuviera que suceder a su través.
Comienza la historia con su niñez y el marco social donde la desarrolla, mezcla de oriente y occidente, donde convergían diversas culturas y religiones, con creencias a veces contradictorias, y en la que en ocasiones tiene que negarse a sí misma para no contradecir las expectativas que sobre ella sus padres esperaban desde su tradición hinduista, sintiendo que no tendría la oportunidad de cumplir ninguno de sus sueños, esperanzas y deseos. Al mismo tiempo, se sentía marginada por sus compañeros de escuela al ser su región colonia británica, hasta el punto de que en ocasiones se hacía las siguientes preguntas: "¿Por qué soy siempre la diferente dondequiera que vaya? ¿A dónde pertenezco? ¿Por qué siento que no pertenezco a ningún lugar?". O bien esto otro ante situaciones familiares: "¿Por qué estoy siempre disculpándome? ¿Por qué tengo que disculparme sólo por ser yo?".
En el verano de 2001 se entera de que una amiga ha sido diagnosticada de cáncer, y dos meses más tarde ocurre otro tanto a un cuñado de su marido. A partir de entonces y tras lo que fue en su inicio una búsqueda de conocimientos sobre el cáncer para poder ayudar a su amiga, mientras más leía sobre ello más miedo fue desarrollando sobre todo lo que pudiera causarlo. Hasta el punto de que creía que todo producía cáncer, por lo que empezó a tenerle miedo a la vida misma.
El 26 de abril del siguiente año, 2002, en que acudió a una consulta médica para saber del diagnóstico de una protuberancia surgida en su hombro derecho, le fue informado de lo siguiente: “Usted tiene un linfoma lo cual es una forma de cáncer del sistema linfático”. A partir de entonces comenzó un amplio peregrinaje en busca de criterios de salud donde encontrar ayuda, incluyendo terapias orientales y muy diferentes modalidades de sanación, e incluso viajando a la India por un periodo de 6 meses donde pareció que había recuperado la salud.
Mas cuando regresó a casa su contento duró poco. Al contar a aquellos que querían saber de su estado lo que había hecho en la India, comenzaron a manifestar su desconfianza y a sumergirla en un mar de dudas, sembrando de nuevo el miedo en su interior. En tal situación, recurrió a terapias alternativas de occidente, donde percibiría contradicciones entre unas y otras, y esto no solamente aumentó su confusión sino sus miedos, y su salud se deterioró rápidamente.
Por su tradición hinduista creía en el karma, creyendo ser merecedora de tal situación, y ante tal idea se percibía impotente. De esta forma se sintió encerrada en su propia jaula de temor y desesperación, donde su salud se deterioraba por día, hasta que la mañana del 2 de febrero de 20006 tuvo que ser llevada rápidamente al hospital, donde comenzó todo el proceso en el cual surge su ECM, y del cual ella extrae como lo más esencial la importancia de tratar de percibir nuestra magnificencia, la que trasciende todos nuestros condicionantes generadores de sufrimientos y limitaciones de la felicidad que ansiamos.
Angel Baña
PRÓLOGO del Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Todo lo que se cuenta en este libro me llega directamente al corazón. Y más aún lo hace mi relación personal con Anita Moorjani, que entró en mi vida gracias a una serie de coincidencias que sólo puede calificarse de divina y providencial. A lo largo de más de cuatro años el avance implacable de un cáncer llevó a Anita a las puertas de la muerte e incluso más allá, ya pasado el umbral y el vestíbulo por así decirlo, a lo más profundo de la propia morada de la muerte. Anita describe todo ese proceso minuciosamente en este libro, un libro escrito para conmover el alma. Animo encarecidamente a todo el mundo a que lo lea con atención y con la mente absolutamente abierta, aunque en él encuentre cosas que pongan en cuestión algunas de sus más arraigadas creencias sobre lo que hay después de este mundo, en eso que solemos llamar «más allá».
Rodeada de sus seres queridos y del equipo médico que la trataba, que esperaban que exhalara su último aliento en cualquier instante, Anita permanecía sumida en un coma profundo. Entonces se le dio la oportunidad de volver a su cuerpo arrasado por el cáncer, desafiando todas las probabilidades, para después protagonizar una curación increíble propiciada únicamente por el amor incondicional. Más que eso: volvió desde la antesala de la muerte para poder contarnos a todos cómo es la vida más allá del mundo corpóreo y, lo que es más importante, qué sensaciones se tienen allí.
Esto es una historia de amor, de un amor enorme e incondicional, con una visión revolucionaria de lo que somos en realidad, de por qué estamos aquí y de cómo podemos superar cualquier miedo o impulso negativo que esté marcando nuestras vidas. Anita nos habla del cáncer con una franqueza poco habitual y cuenta por qué cree que se ha visto sometida a la dura prueba que supone la enfermedad, por qué se ha curado y por qué ha vuelto a este mundo desde la antesala del que hay más allá. Yo personalmente no tengo ninguna duda de que la misión de su vida está plasmada en la crónica de su experiencia que están a punto de leer y de que en alguna parte estaba escrito que yo tenía que ayudarla a que este mensaje crucial llegara a todo el mundo.
Lo que Anita descubrió durante esas 24 horas en las que estuvo en coma y cruzó el umbral hacia lo desconocido está en extraordinaria consonancia con todo lo que yo he percibido en diversos momentos de inspiración mientras escribía mis libros o daba charlas. Ambos estamos convencidos de que la intervención divina ha movido las piezas necesarias para que esta mujer, que vivía al otro lado del mundo, en una cultura totalmente distinta a la mía, llegara hasta mí y conectara a la perfección con mi experiencia y con mi vida.
La primera vez que oí hablar de Anita fue cuando, a través de Mira Kelly (una mujer de Nueva York que más tarde se convirtió en mi amiga y que fue quien me hizo la regresión a una vida pasada de la que hablo en mi libro Wishes Fulfilled) me llegó una copia de una entrevista que le habían hecho sobre su experiencia cercana a la muerte (ECM). Tras leer la entrevista de Anita sentí una necesidad irresistible de hacer todo lo que estuviera en mi mano para que el mensaje cautivador que encerraban sus palabras se difundiera y llegara a todo el mundo. Llamé a Reid Tracy, el presidente de Hay House, y le pedí que encontrara a Anita Moorjani y la convenciera para que escribiera un libro en el que narrara su experiencia con todo lujo de detalles. Y añadí que me encantaría, no, que me sentiría honrado, de escribir un prólogo para el libro si ella quería comprometerse con el proyecto. Gracias a una serie de esos increíbles y maravillosos caprichos del universo (entre ellos una llamada de Anita desde Hong Kong a mi programa de radio semanal que se emite en www.hayhouseradio.com, que me dio la oportunidad de hacerle una entrevista que se retransmitió a todo el planeta) ambos conectamos a nivel profesional y personal.
Anita me contó que ella siente que todos nosotros somos puro amor; que no sólo estamos conectados de alguna forma con todos los demás seres humanos y con Dios, sino que a un nivel más profundo todos somos Dios; que hemos permitido que nuestros miedos y nuestro ego dejen a Dios fuera de nuestras vidas y eso tiene una relación directa no sólo con las enfermedades de nuestro cuerpo sino también con las de nuestro mundo. Me habló de aprender a apreciar nuestra grandeza y vivir como seres de luz y amor y también de las propiedades curativas inherentes a la mente humana. Anita describió cómo fue experimentar la ausencia de tiempo y espacio y sentir por primera vez que la unicidad es más que un concepto intelectual, que verdaderamente todo está ocurriendo a la vez. Me dijo que se sentía bañada por un aura de amor puro y feliz y que ese sentimiento ha demostrado tener un ilimitado potencial para curar. Ella vio hacerse realidad en su vida las palabras de Jesús: «Con Dios todo es posible», y entendió su verdadero significado, que lo engloba todo y no deja nada al margen, ni siquiera el pasado. Anita comprobó personalmente lo que yo había escrito en Wishes Fulfilled: que ante la auténtica presencia de Dios no son aplicables las leyes de lo material (incluidas las de la medicina).
Tenía que conocer a esa mujer. A partir de nuestras conversaciones telefónicas empecé a sentir vivamente la esencia espiritual de Anita y su mensaje de esperanza, que había llegado para sustituir al miedo. La animé no sólo a que escribiera este libro, sino también a que apareciera conmigo en la cadena PBS y contara su historia de amor, esperanza y curación a todo el mundo.
Le envié la entrevista sobre la ECM de Anita a mi madre, que tiene 95 años y vive en una residencia de ancianos. Mi madre ve la muerte con bastante frecuencia, ya que muchos de sus nuevos amigos de avanzada edad fallecen mientras duermen o se van para siempre de alguna otra forma. He tenido muchas conversaciones con ella sobre lo que piensa del gran misterio que llamamos muerte, que es el destino de todos los seres vivos: todo lo material debe en algún momento perder ese estado. Todos conocemos racionalmente esta verdad, pero lo que nos espera al abandonar este estado sigue siendo un gran misterio.
Después de leer la entrevista de Anita mi madre dijo que la había embargado una gran sensación de paz que había acabado con todo su miedo, ansiedad y estrés por lo que podía traer esa gran desconocida que es la muerte. De hecho todos los que han leído lo que Anita cuenta de su experiencia cercana a la muerte, incluidos mis hijos, han sentido una esperanza renovada y han decidido que, por encima de todo, se van a amar a sí mismos, que intentarán apreciar su grandeza y eliminar todos los pensamientos que puedan atraer la enfermedad a su vida diaria. Mientras yo escribía sobre estas ideas, Anita las demostraba a través de su propia experiencia.
Anita logró curar su cuerpo gracias a todo ello y me ha comentado en muchas ocasiones que siente que ha vuelto para enseñar a todo el mundo esta sencilla pero poderosa lección que no sólo puede curarnos a todos, sino también transformar el mundo entero. Y por eso, estoy seguro, es por lo que Dios nos unió a Anita y a mí. Siempre he sentido que es mi dharma mostrarle a todo el mundo su propia divinidad, para que sepan que lo más importante que hay en ellos es Dios. Nosotros no somos estos cuerpos, ni tampoco nuestros logros ni nuestras posesiones; nosotros somos uno con la fuente de toda la vida que es Dios. Mientras escribía todo esto en Wishes Fulfilled, Anita Moorjani llegaba a mi vida, la culminación de todo lo que yo estaba sintiendo y escribiendo automáticamente. Ella lo había vivido y lo contaba con tanta belleza… Y ahora podemos disfrutar de la bendición de leer todo lo que Anita llegó a aprender en su furiosa lucha contra un cáncer muy avanzado y su sereno viaje de vuelta gracias a la experiencia directa de la curación divina, lo que nos brinda la oportunidad de aplicarlo en nuestras vidas.
Y yo tengo el honor de representar un pequeño papel en la gran misión de trasmitir este esperanzador mensaje de que el amor es la cura definitiva. Espero que las palabras de Anita se conviertan en un instrumento para eliminar todas y cada una de las enfermedades de nuestro cuerpo, de nuestras relaciones, de nuestro país, sea el que sea, y de nuestro mundo. Como dijo muy poéticamente una vez Elizabeth Barrett Browning: «La Tierra está llena de Cielo y Dios arde en cada arbusto». La curación y el cielo en la tierra están en nuestras manos y en manos del amor.
Disfruten de este valioso e increíble libro de Anita. Todo mi amor está con este libro y con ella.
—Doctor Wayne W. Dyer
Maui, Hawaii, Estados Unidos
Sinopsis
Un relato esclarecedor de lo que nos aguarda tras la muerte y el despertar final. Uno de los testimonios espirituales más lúcidos y poderosos de nuestro tiempo.
BESTSELLER DEL NEW YORK TIMES
«Es esta una historia de amor, un amor inmenso e incondicional con una visión revolucionaria de lo que somos en realidad, de por qué estamos aquí y de cómo podemos superar cualquier miedo o impulso negativo que esté marcando nuestras vidas.
A lo largo de más de cuatro años, el avance implacable de un cáncer llevó a Anita a las puertas de la muerte y hasta lo más profundo de la propia morada de la muerte. Ella describe todo ese proceso minuciosamente en este libro, un libro escrito para conmover el alma. Finalmente, logró curar su cuerpo gracias a todo lo que vivió y comprendió en el más allá, y me ha comentado que siente que ha vuelto para enseñar a todo el mundo esta sencilla pero poderosa lección que no solo puede curarnos a todos, sino también transformar el mundo entero.
Yo, personalmente, no tengo ninguna duda de que la misión de su vida está plasmada en la crónica de esta experiencia suya que estás a punto de leer, y de que en alguna parte estaba escrito que yo tenía que ayudarla a que este mensaje crucial llegara a todo el mundo.»
Wayne W. Dyer (extraído del prólogo)
Presentación
Para los que estamos sumergidos en el estudio e investigación del trasfondo que mueve los hilos sutiles del proceso de nuestra Humanidad terrena, es de gran satisfacción el conocer que por fin pueda disponerse en habla hispana de la historia de Anita Moorjani, por cuanto la misma aporta un conocimiento más allá de lo que toda Ciencia tiene en sus posibilidades ofrecernos de la realidad vivencial en la que estamos inmersos.
El propio lenguaje de Anita, con una dialéctica sencilla, surgida desde el sentir natural que guía el recuerdo de sus vivencias, hace muy asequible el entendimiento de cuanto trata de transmitirnos en este tan preciado libro.
Anita nos cuenta en su libro cómo fue dando lugar en su organismo a un proceso de cáncer (Linfoma de Hodgkin) que le condujo a una degradación casi completa de aquel, en cuyo proceso final pasó por una experiencia cercana a la muerte (ECM), de la que nos informa con detalles lo vivenciado en ese "otro plano" y cómo esto le sirve para retornar a su cuerpo y llevar a éste a una recuperación fuera de todo lo que se podría esperar de su situación.
En esa ECM percibió algunos aspectos de lo que podría ser su vida futura, comprendiendo que una de las razones por las que decidió regresar a su vida en el cuerpo fue por el aporte que significaría a nivel humano el dar a conocer su experiencia en tal estado, y que esta labor no requeriría de hacer nada especial, sino ser sólo ella misma y permitir ser instrumento para aquello que tuviera que suceder a su través.
Comienza la historia con su niñez y el marco social donde la desarrolla, mezcla de oriente y occidente, donde convergían diversas culturas y religiones, con creencias a veces contradictorias, y en la que en ocasiones tiene que negarse a sí misma para no contradecir las expectativas que sobre ella sus padres esperaban desde su tradición hinduista, sintiendo que no tendría la oportunidad de cumplir ninguno de sus sueños, esperanzas y deseos. Al mismo tiempo, se sentía marginada por sus compañeros de escuela al ser su región colonia británica, hasta el punto de que en ocasiones se hacía las siguientes preguntas: "¿Por qué soy siempre la diferente dondequiera que vaya? ¿A dónde pertenezco? ¿Por qué siento que no pertenezco a ningún lugar?". O bien esto otro ante situaciones familiares: "¿Por qué estoy siempre disculpándome? ¿Por qué tengo que disculparme sólo por ser yo?".
En el verano de 2001 se entera de que una amiga ha sido diagnosticada de cáncer, y dos meses más tarde ocurre otro tanto a un cuñado de su marido. A partir de entonces y tras lo que fue en su inicio una búsqueda de conocimientos sobre el cáncer para poder ayudar a su amiga, mientras más leía sobre ello más miedo fue desarrollando sobre todo lo que pudiera causarlo. Hasta el punto de que creía que todo producía cáncer, por lo que empezó a tenerle miedo a la vida misma.
El 26 de abril del siguiente año, 2002, en que acudió a una consulta médica para saber del diagnóstico de una protuberancia surgida en su hombro derecho, le fue informado de lo siguiente: “Usted tiene un linfoma lo cual es una forma de cáncer del sistema linfático”. A partir de entonces comenzó un amplio peregrinaje en busca de criterios de salud donde encontrar ayuda, incluyendo terapias orientales y muy diferentes modalidades de sanación, e incluso viajando a la India por un periodo de 6 meses donde pareció que había recuperado la salud.
Mas cuando regresó a casa su contento duró poco. Al contar a aquellos que querían saber de su estado lo que había hecho en la India, comenzaron a manifestar su desconfianza y a sumergirla en un mar de dudas, sembrando de nuevo el miedo en su interior. En tal situación, recurrió a terapias alternativas de occidente, donde percibiría contradicciones entre unas y otras, y esto no solamente aumentó su confusión sino sus miedos, y su salud se deterioró rápidamente.
Por su tradición hinduista creía en el karma, creyendo ser merecedora de tal situación, y ante tal idea se percibía impotente. De esta forma se sintió encerrada en su propia jaula de temor y desesperación, donde su salud se deterioraba por día, hasta que la mañana del 2 de febrero de 20006 tuvo que ser llevada rápidamente al hospital, donde comenzó todo el proceso en el cual surge su ECM, y del cual ella extrae como lo más esencial la importancia de tratar de percibir nuestra magnificencia, la que trasciende todos nuestros condicionantes generadores de sufrimientos y limitaciones de la felicidad que ansiamos.
Angel Baña
PRÓLOGO del Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Todo lo que se cuenta en este libro me llega directamente al corazón. Y más aún lo hace mi relación personal con Anita Moorjani, que entró en mi vida gracias a una serie de coincidencias que sólo puede calificarse de divina y providencial. A lo largo de más de cuatro años el avance implacable de un cáncer llevó a Anita a las puertas de la muerte e incluso más allá, ya pasado el umbral y el vestíbulo por así decirlo, a lo más profundo de la propia morada de la muerte. Anita describe todo ese proceso minuciosamente en este libro, un libro escrito para conmover el alma. Animo encarecidamente a todo el mundo a que lo lea con atención y con la mente absolutamente abierta, aunque en él encuentre cosas que pongan en cuestión algunas de sus más arraigadas creencias sobre lo que hay después de este mundo, en eso que solemos llamar «más allá».
Rodeada de sus seres queridos y del equipo médico que la trataba, que esperaban que exhalara su último aliento en cualquier instante, Anita permanecía sumida en un coma profundo. Entonces se le dio la oportunidad de volver a su cuerpo arrasado por el cáncer, desafiando todas las probabilidades, para después protagonizar una curación increíble propiciada únicamente por el amor incondicional. Más que eso: volvió desde la antesala de la muerte para poder contarnos a todos cómo es la vida más allá del mundo corpóreo y, lo que es más importante, qué sensaciones se tienen allí.
Esto es una historia de amor, de un amor enorme e incondicional, con una visión revolucionaria de lo que somos en realidad, de por qué estamos aquí y de cómo podemos superar cualquier miedo o impulso negativo que esté marcando nuestras vidas. Anita nos habla del cáncer con una franqueza poco habitual y cuenta por qué cree que se ha visto sometida a la dura prueba que supone la enfermedad, por qué se ha curado y por qué ha vuelto a este mundo desde la antesala del que hay más allá. Yo personalmente no tengo ninguna duda de que la misión de su vida está plasmada en la crónica de su experiencia que están a punto de leer y de que en alguna parte estaba escrito que yo tenía que ayudarla a que este mensaje crucial llegara a todo el mundo.
Lo que Anita descubrió durante esas 24 horas en las que estuvo en coma y cruzó el umbral hacia lo desconocido está en extraordinaria consonancia con todo lo que yo he percibido en diversos momentos de inspiración mientras escribía mis libros o daba charlas. Ambos estamos convencidos de que la intervención divina ha movido las piezas necesarias para que esta mujer, que vivía al otro lado del mundo, en una cultura totalmente distinta a la mía, llegara hasta mí y conectara a la perfección con mi experiencia y con mi vida.
La primera vez que oí hablar de Anita fue cuando, a través de Mira Kelly (una mujer de Nueva York que más tarde se convirtió en mi amiga y que fue quien me hizo la regresión a una vida pasada de la que hablo en mi libro Wishes Fulfilled) me llegó una copia de una entrevista que le habían hecho sobre su experiencia cercana a la muerte (ECM). Tras leer la entrevista de Anita sentí una necesidad irresistible de hacer todo lo que estuviera en mi mano para que el mensaje cautivador que encerraban sus palabras se difundiera y llegara a todo el mundo. Llamé a Reid Tracy, el presidente de Hay House, y le pedí que encontrara a Anita Moorjani y la convenciera para que escribiera un libro en el que narrara su experiencia con todo lujo de detalles. Y añadí que me encantaría, no, que me sentiría honrado, de escribir un prólogo para el libro si ella quería comprometerse con el proyecto. Gracias a una serie de esos increíbles y maravillosos caprichos del universo (entre ellos una llamada de Anita desde Hong Kong a mi programa de radio semanal que se emite en www.hayhouseradio.com, que me dio la oportunidad de hacerle una entrevista que se retransmitió a todo el planeta) ambos conectamos a nivel profesional y personal.
Anita me contó que ella siente que todos nosotros somos puro amor; que no sólo estamos conectados de alguna forma con todos los demás seres humanos y con Dios, sino que a un nivel más profundo todos somos Dios; que hemos permitido que nuestros miedos y nuestro ego dejen a Dios fuera de nuestras vidas y eso tiene una relación directa no sólo con las enfermedades de nuestro cuerpo sino también con las de nuestro mundo. Me habló de aprender a apreciar nuestra grandeza y vivir como seres de luz y amor y también de las propiedades curativas inherentes a la mente humana. Anita describió cómo fue experimentar la ausencia de tiempo y espacio y sentir por primera vez que la unicidad es más que un concepto intelectual, que verdaderamente todo está ocurriendo a la vez. Me dijo que se sentía bañada por un aura de amor puro y feliz y que ese sentimiento ha demostrado tener un ilimitado potencial para curar. Ella vio hacerse realidad en su vida las palabras de Jesús: «Con Dios todo es posible», y entendió su verdadero significado, que lo engloba todo y no deja nada al margen, ni siquiera el pasado. Anita comprobó personalmente lo que yo había escrito en Wishes Fulfilled: que ante la auténtica presencia de Dios no son aplicables las leyes de lo material (incluidas las de la medicina).
Tenía que conocer a esa mujer. A partir de nuestras conversaciones telefónicas empecé a sentir vivamente la esencia espiritual de Anita y su mensaje de esperanza, que había llegado para sustituir al miedo. La animé no sólo a que escribiera este libro, sino también a que apareciera conmigo en la cadena PBS y contara su historia de amor, esperanza y curación a todo el mundo.
Le envié la entrevista sobre la ECM de Anita a mi madre, que tiene 95 años y vive en una residencia de ancianos. Mi madre ve la muerte con bastante frecuencia, ya que muchos de sus nuevos amigos de avanzada edad fallecen mientras duermen o se van para siempre de alguna otra forma. He tenido muchas conversaciones con ella sobre lo que piensa del gran misterio que llamamos muerte, que es el destino de todos los seres vivos: todo lo material debe en algún momento perder ese estado. Todos conocemos racionalmente esta verdad, pero lo que nos espera al abandonar este estado sigue siendo un gran misterio.
Después de leer la entrevista de Anita mi madre dijo que la había embargado una gran sensación de paz que había acabado con todo su miedo, ansiedad y estrés por lo que podía traer esa gran desconocida que es la muerte. De hecho todos los que han leído lo que Anita cuenta de su experiencia cercana a la muerte, incluidos mis hijos, han sentido una esperanza renovada y han decidido que, por encima de todo, se van a amar a sí mismos, que intentarán apreciar su grandeza y eliminar todos los pensamientos que puedan atraer la enfermedad a su vida diaria. Mientras yo escribía sobre estas ideas, Anita las demostraba a través de su propia experiencia.
Anita logró curar su cuerpo gracias a todo ello y me ha comentado en muchas ocasiones que siente que ha vuelto para enseñar a todo el mundo esta sencilla pero poderosa lección que no sólo puede curarnos a todos, sino también transformar el mundo entero. Y por eso, estoy seguro, es por lo que Dios nos unió a Anita y a mí. Siempre he sentido que es mi dharma mostrarle a todo el mundo su propia divinidad, para que sepan que lo más importante que hay en ellos es Dios. Nosotros no somos estos cuerpos, ni tampoco nuestros logros ni nuestras posesiones; nosotros somos uno con la fuente de toda la vida que es Dios. Mientras escribía todo esto en Wishes Fulfilled, Anita Moorjani llegaba a mi vida, la culminación de todo lo que yo estaba sintiendo y escribiendo automáticamente. Ella lo había vivido y lo contaba con tanta belleza… Y ahora podemos disfrutar de la bendición de leer todo lo que Anita llegó a aprender en su furiosa lucha contra un cáncer muy avanzado y su sereno viaje de vuelta gracias a la experiencia directa de la curación divina, lo que nos brinda la oportunidad de aplicarlo en nuestras vidas.
Y yo tengo el honor de representar un pequeño papel en la gran misión de trasmitir este esperanzador mensaje de que el amor es la cura definitiva. Espero que las palabras de Anita se conviertan en un instrumento para eliminar todas y cada una de las enfermedades de nuestro cuerpo, de nuestras relaciones, de nuestro país, sea el que sea, y de nuestro mundo. Como dijo muy poéticamente una vez Elizabeth Barrett Browning: «La Tierra está llena de Cielo y Dios arde en cada arbusto». La curación y el cielo en la tierra están en nuestras manos y en manos del amor.
Disfruten de este valioso e increíble libro de Anita. Todo mi amor está con este libro y con ella.
—Doctor Wayne W. Dyer
Maui, Hawaii, Estados Unidos
29 may 2012
10 abr 2012
Faith Affirming
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Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt. When you affirm that things might not work out, that your troubles continue to mount, that your problems are insoluble, that God has not been listening, or that you are powerless in the face of so many struggles, you are affirming doubt rather than faith. The ability to know faith and affirm it allows it to manifest in your life.
In John 14:27, Jesus said, “My peace I give to you.” This is an affirmation of faith. He certainly wasn’t suggesting that peace is very difficult to have and you must struggle for it. Jesus brought peace to everyone by affirming it. Likewise, in his healing work, he didn’t imply that we haven’t been having a great deal of success lately with leprosy, but if you listen to me you have a thirty percent chance of surviving over the next five years. Instead, he declared, “You are well,” affirming faith at the highest spiritual level, and healing took place.
You too must learn to affirm your faith in the face of doubt with thoughts that things will work out, things will improve. Think, write, and say affirmations like these:
I intend to create prosperity.
I’ll do what is necessary to eradicate this problem.
I know I am not alone.
I have faith that all is for good.
I give no energy to the negative because I know all is in divine order.
I will consult with God and know that I will be guided to do what is needed.
These are all affirmations of faith, which, when practiced, will permit you to say “no” to doubt and “yes” to life.
17 feb 2012
Wishes Fulfilled- Wayne Dyer
Wayne Dyer's newest book, Wishes Fulfilled is dedicated to your mastery of the art of realizing all your desires. The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination. Everything that now exists was once imagined. And everything that will ever exist must first be imagined.
Changing Your Concept of Yourself
"Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind—that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true."
—NEVILLE
There's a level of awareness available to you that you are probably unfamiliar with. It extends upward and transcends the ordinary level of consciousness that you're most accustomed to. At this higher plane of existence, which you and every human being who has ever lived can access at will, the fulfillment of wishes is not only probable—it is guaranteed.
After 18 months in relative seclusion, studying, meditating, and literally experiencing what it's like to live in this miraculous plane of existence beyond anything that might be labeled "ordinary" or "normal," I've undertaken this joyous task of writing about having wishes fulfilled. I've seen firsthand how virtually every wish or desire I've placed my attention on has transformed from a mental thought into an objective fact.
However, I'm not proposing memorizing an esoteric formula leading to a theoretical nirvana. My emphasis throughout this book is that manifestation is real and that it occurs when you make a specific decision to change your mind about who you are and what is possible for you to achieve within these parentheses in eternity called your life.
I'm inviting you to be receptive to a radical new idea about yourself. It's radical because ever since you left your mother's womb, you've been subjected to cultural conditioning designed to help you be content with living a "normal life" at the level of ordinary consciousness, which generally means accepting whatever life hands you. In many ways you've been programmed to believe that you do not possess the wisdom or ability to manifest the fulfillment of your wishes and desires.
I am saying as clearly as I know how to say it in these opening pages: There's a plane of awareness that you can opt to live at, wherein you can, if you are willing to change your concept of yourself as an ordinary being, find yourself fulfilling any and all wishes that you have for yourself. Throughout this book I'll explore with you what I've studied, learned, internalized, practiced, and, yes, lived regarding the powers of manifestation. It begins with changing your concept of yourself.
I would like to offer a few words on these two concepts of ordinary and extraordinary.
Ordinary is, well, so ordinary. It means that you do all of the things that your culture and your family have programmed you to do. It implies that you fit in, study hard, follow the rules, take care of your obligations, fill out the forms, pay your taxes, get a job, and do what every law-abiding citizen does; and then you retire, play with your grandchildren, and ultimately die. I want to emphasize that there is absolutely nothing wrong with this scenario—it is perfectly fine—but if it were completely acceptable for you, you wouldn't be reading this book.
Extraordinary encompasses most of ordinary, since we all live in the same physical world. There will be forms to fill out, rules that demand our obedience, bills to pay, and family obligations to attend to. But extraordinary consciousness is associated with your soul, that invisible, boundaryless energy that looks out from behind your eyeballs and has very different interests than your ordinary self does.
The ideal of your soul, the thing that it yearns for, is not more knowledge. It is not interested in comparison, nor winning, nor light, nor ownership, nor even happiness. The ideal of your soul is space, expansion, and immensity, and the one thing it needs more than anything else is to be free to expand, to reach out and to embrace the infinite. Why? Because your soul is infinity itself. It has no restrictions or limitations—it resists being fenced in—and when you attempt to contain it with rules and obligations, it is miserable.
Your invisible self is extraordinary because it is a fragment of the universal soul, which is infinite. The part of you that knows you have greatness, and is stirred by the idea of you expanding and removing any and all limitations, is what I am addressing in Wishes Fulfilled. This is your new self-concept, one that is inspired by your soul.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
—ALBERT EINSTEIN
While walking down a crowded street in London many years ago, I noticed a window display devoted to the English poet William Blake. There was a quotation on a sign in the window that I read over and over. The words seemed to touch my soul, and I was prompted by an internal calling to write those words on the back of an envelope. Blake's 200-year-old words resonated strongly with me. I had a curious knowing that I'd one day be writing about what he'd had to say.
Fast-forward some ten years later to the day I began writing this chapter about that most mysterious function of our human lives—our imagination. During the morning before settling in to write, I was searching for some tax records in a desk drawer. Unsought, the Blake quote scribbled on the back of an envelope, which had long ago been misplaced, appeared. As I grabbed the ten-year-old envelope, I pondered for a moment how Divine synchronicity is always working, moving the pieces around while our ego believes we are in charge. Here I was, ready to begin writing a chapter on how to use your imagination, and today of all days, these scribbles reappeared after a decade of being "lost." How could I ignore this synchronicity?
So I share these words with you from my spiritual mentor back in the 18th century:
The essence of this great gift is found within another observation made by William Blake, the intuitive poet who lived at the time of the American Revolution. Writing in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, he made this wry comment that is the great secret for living a life of creative manifestation: "What is now proved was once only imagin'd." Allow yourself to contemplate this. As this one line of great wisdom sinks into your consciousness, your imagination will then begin to take over.
Look around you. Everything that you can experience with your senses was once in someone's imagination. This is the great truth that you must come to realize for yourself. In order for something to get into this world where things exist and are proved, as Blake says, they must first be placed firmly into your imagination. Without your imagination as the reason for future creations, the process of creativity is halted. You have this great power within you. It is a power that is virtually unlimited, and it has been given to you as your birthright.
Before putting this gift to work, it is crucial for you to know that virtually all spiritual teachings have spoken of the power that Blake comments on in that insightful sentence, "What is now proved was once only imagin'd." In the year that I spent researching and living the Tao for my book Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life, this truth jumped out at me in the lines of the 40th verse of the Tao Te Ching. "Being is born of nonbeing" was Lao-tzu's observation 2,500 years ago. The visible world of being originates in nonbeing. Some 500 years later Jesus would tell his followers, "It is the Spirit who gives life" (John 6:63). I could go on through all of the great spiritual traditions and offer you quote upon quote that states that it is in the invisible formless realm that the originating spark of life begins.
Today, the world of quantum physics confirms that the universe is made of formless (spirit) energy, and that particles (that is, things) do not originate from particles (things). Everything springs from something that is akin to your imagination. You can't touch, taste, see, hear, or smell it. It has no boundaries. You can't prove it with mathematical formulas or scientific verification. Yet we all know that it exists. These invisible thoughts that you have—these ideas that continue to percolate within you, these fanciful images that are always with you—are beyond the scope of science to prove or disprove.
I love this observation made by Max Planck, the father of quantum theory: "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and, therefore, part of the mystery that we are trying to solve." You simply know that you have an imagination, and that this imagination is the Source of all being. It is up to you to channel and use this magnificent endowment to work in the creation of all that you choose to place in that imagination.
Your wishes—all of them—can indeed be fulfilled. By using your imagination and practicing the art of assuming the feeling of your wishes being fulfilled, and steadfastly refusing to allow any evidence of the outer world to distract you from your intentions, you will discover that you, by virtue of your spiritual awareness, possess the ability to become the person you were destined to be.
The Power of Your Imagination
Figuratively tattoo these words of Neville onto your forehead. In other words, memorize them, and repeat them to yourself every time you look into the mirror:
A new self-concept begins with you placing it in your imagination and living from this new perspective. You can count on your five senses to attempt to convince you that you should pay homage only to them and treat your imagination as unimportant and illusory. But that doesn't mean that you have to allow them to usurp your new concept of yourself.
Right now, in this moment, you can practice this. Say aloud or to yourself, By placing new I ams into my imagination, my future dream is a present fact. Repeat the statement a few times. Can you feel your ego resisting? Which of your five senses is most adamantly annoyed? Notice and repeat. This new concept of yourself as God, or at least as a spark of God, asks you to think like God, Who "calls those things which do not exist as though they did."
Here, you are creating an ideal of what you want to be and assuming that you already are that person. This is what Neville calls the Law of Assumption, and he states emphatically, "If this assumption is persisted in until it becomes your dominant feeling, the attainment of your ideal is inevitable."
Remind yourself that your imagination is yours to use as you decide, and that everything you wish to manifest into your physical world must first be placed firmly in your imagination in order to grow. Let Neville's words guide you:
Within your imagination, you can conceive thoughts of what you want as already here—prior to their birth in form in the sensory world. This means that your thoughts aren't along the lines of: I will be. I hope it works out. I'm praying for good results. Instead, you say to yourself: I am—acknowledging the I am presence as God dwelling in me. Then your mind as that I am presence will become the dominant creative feature in your life. This generative force will gently assert its authentic creativity and power as you conceive it, and in the process replace a dependency on your physical and intellectual abilities. Your renewed reality does not rely exclusively on those five senses that keep you attached to the false beliefs that you are your body or its possessions, achievements, and reputation.
You've already discovered that the different bodies you've occupied throughout your life so far no longer exist for your senses to experience. Now you can choose to consciously participate in this nonsensory supreme reality—your imagination—where you assume your future dream to be a present fact and live from this new awareness. This isn't pretending or fooling yourself, it is inviting your spirit rather than your physical form to generate the creative essence of your reality. It's what it means to transform your life.
The word transformation has the word form right smack in the middle, preceded by trans—meaning going beyond form. Live from the place that will indeed take you way beyond the limits of your seemingly limited life. Explore imagination, which is the Source of all being or physical reality.
Throughout my life I've often been called excessively persistent and even obsessive in going after what I wish to fulfill. The truth is that I have within me a very powerful knowing that when I place something into my imagination, it is already a fact for me. I just don't seem to have the capacity to erase from my mind what it is that is already my reality. For instance, earlier in my life when I applied to a doctoral program, I already saw myself with a doctorate, although I hadn't taken even one course toward that degree. When I was told that nine out of ten doctoral students do not receive their degree because they cannot complete the vigorous requirements of writing a dissertation, I knew that this did not apply to me, because I was already a doctor in my imagination. I persistently acted as if my dream were a present fact.
I've had this same kind of "thinking from the end" in every phase of my professional career. As a young boy I saw myself on television shows and vehemently held this inner picture in my imagination, ignoring a lot of naysayers! And these imaginings ultimately were taken from my mind, where they were real, to the material world, where my senses finally caught up and confirmed them as truths.
The facts are, for me, that a picture in my imagination is already my reality. I live from this perspective, and nothing can dissuade me from this stance because I am not hoping to get someplace else. I am already there. I just don't know how to erase what I am living in my imagination, even if the whole world attempts to persuade me of the folly of my dreams. This is a mind-set you can choose to embrace.
Let go of all doubt, forget about the when. It will develop into a material fact on Divine time. Forget about the how. Live it inwardly. This is a great power that you possess if you are willing to claim it as your own.
I cannot emphasize strongly enough how vital it is for you to claim this inherent power of God and use it for manifesting the life you desire. Be obstinate regarding this idea. Hold your vision relentlessly, and more than that—live each day as if that idea you have in your imagination is in fact your reality. In The "I AM" Discourses, Saint Germain repeatedly reminds us that we are the master and have dominion in our lives; once this is part of your awareness, you can access the energy, power, and intelligence of the mighty I am presence, which is your very birthright. This I am presence is always with you.
Changing Your Concept of Yourself
"Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind—that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true."
—NEVILLE
There's a level of awareness available to you that you are probably unfamiliar with. It extends upward and transcends the ordinary level of consciousness that you're most accustomed to. At this higher plane of existence, which you and every human being who has ever lived can access at will, the fulfillment of wishes is not only probable—it is guaranteed.
After 18 months in relative seclusion, studying, meditating, and literally experiencing what it's like to live in this miraculous plane of existence beyond anything that might be labeled "ordinary" or "normal," I've undertaken this joyous task of writing about having wishes fulfilled. I've seen firsthand how virtually every wish or desire I've placed my attention on has transformed from a mental thought into an objective fact.
However, I'm not proposing memorizing an esoteric formula leading to a theoretical nirvana. My emphasis throughout this book is that manifestation is real and that it occurs when you make a specific decision to change your mind about who you are and what is possible for you to achieve within these parentheses in eternity called your life.
I'm inviting you to be receptive to a radical new idea about yourself. It's radical because ever since you left your mother's womb, you've been subjected to cultural conditioning designed to help you be content with living a "normal life" at the level of ordinary consciousness, which generally means accepting whatever life hands you. In many ways you've been programmed to believe that you do not possess the wisdom or ability to manifest the fulfillment of your wishes and desires.
I am saying as clearly as I know how to say it in these opening pages: There's a plane of awareness that you can opt to live at, wherein you can, if you are willing to change your concept of yourself as an ordinary being, find yourself fulfilling any and all wishes that you have for yourself. Throughout this book I'll explore with you what I've studied, learned, internalized, practiced, and, yes, lived regarding the powers of manifestation. It begins with changing your concept of yourself.
I would like to offer a few words on these two concepts of ordinary and extraordinary.
Ordinary is, well, so ordinary. It means that you do all of the things that your culture and your family have programmed you to do. It implies that you fit in, study hard, follow the rules, take care of your obligations, fill out the forms, pay your taxes, get a job, and do what every law-abiding citizen does; and then you retire, play with your grandchildren, and ultimately die. I want to emphasize that there is absolutely nothing wrong with this scenario—it is perfectly fine—but if it were completely acceptable for you, you wouldn't be reading this book.
Extraordinary encompasses most of ordinary, since we all live in the same physical world. There will be forms to fill out, rules that demand our obedience, bills to pay, and family obligations to attend to. But extraordinary consciousness is associated with your soul, that invisible, boundaryless energy that looks out from behind your eyeballs and has very different interests than your ordinary self does.
The ideal of your soul, the thing that it yearns for, is not more knowledge. It is not interested in comparison, nor winning, nor light, nor ownership, nor even happiness. The ideal of your soul is space, expansion, and immensity, and the one thing it needs more than anything else is to be free to expand, to reach out and to embrace the infinite. Why? Because your soul is infinity itself. It has no restrictions or limitations—it resists being fenced in—and when you attempt to contain it with rules and obligations, it is miserable.
Your invisible self is extraordinary because it is a fragment of the universal soul, which is infinite. The part of you that knows you have greatness, and is stirred by the idea of you expanding and removing any and all limitations, is what I am addressing in Wishes Fulfilled. This is your new self-concept, one that is inspired by your soul.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
—ALBERT EINSTEIN
While walking down a crowded street in London many years ago, I noticed a window display devoted to the English poet William Blake. There was a quotation on a sign in the window that I read over and over. The words seemed to touch my soul, and I was prompted by an internal calling to write those words on the back of an envelope. Blake's 200-year-old words resonated strongly with me. I had a curious knowing that I'd one day be writing about what he'd had to say.
Fast-forward some ten years later to the day I began writing this chapter about that most mysterious function of our human lives—our imagination. During the morning before settling in to write, I was searching for some tax records in a desk drawer. Unsought, the Blake quote scribbled on the back of an envelope, which had long ago been misplaced, appeared. As I grabbed the ten-year-old envelope, I pondered for a moment how Divine synchronicity is always working, moving the pieces around while our ego believes we are in charge. Here I was, ready to begin writing a chapter on how to use your imagination, and today of all days, these scribbles reappeared after a decade of being "lost." How could I ignore this synchronicity?
So I share these words with you from my spiritual mentor back in the 18th century:
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a Green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all Ridicule and Deformity... and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.The greatest gift you were ever given was the gift of your imagination. Within your magical inner realm is the capacity to have all of your wishes fulfilled. Here in your imagination lies the greatest power you will ever know. It is your domain for creating the life that you desire, and the best part of it is that you are the monarch with all of the inherent powers to rule your world as you desire.
The essence of this great gift is found within another observation made by William Blake, the intuitive poet who lived at the time of the American Revolution. Writing in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, he made this wry comment that is the great secret for living a life of creative manifestation: "What is now proved was once only imagin'd." Allow yourself to contemplate this. As this one line of great wisdom sinks into your consciousness, your imagination will then begin to take over.
Look around you. Everything that you can experience with your senses was once in someone's imagination. This is the great truth that you must come to realize for yourself. In order for something to get into this world where things exist and are proved, as Blake says, they must first be placed firmly into your imagination. Without your imagination as the reason for future creations, the process of creativity is halted. You have this great power within you. It is a power that is virtually unlimited, and it has been given to you as your birthright.
Before putting this gift to work, it is crucial for you to know that virtually all spiritual teachings have spoken of the power that Blake comments on in that insightful sentence, "What is now proved was once only imagin'd." In the year that I spent researching and living the Tao for my book Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life, this truth jumped out at me in the lines of the 40th verse of the Tao Te Ching. "Being is born of nonbeing" was Lao-tzu's observation 2,500 years ago. The visible world of being originates in nonbeing. Some 500 years later Jesus would tell his followers, "It is the Spirit who gives life" (John 6:63). I could go on through all of the great spiritual traditions and offer you quote upon quote that states that it is in the invisible formless realm that the originating spark of life begins.
Today, the world of quantum physics confirms that the universe is made of formless (spirit) energy, and that particles (that is, things) do not originate from particles (things). Everything springs from something that is akin to your imagination. You can't touch, taste, see, hear, or smell it. It has no boundaries. You can't prove it with mathematical formulas or scientific verification. Yet we all know that it exists. These invisible thoughts that you have—these ideas that continue to percolate within you, these fanciful images that are always with you—are beyond the scope of science to prove or disprove.
I love this observation made by Max Planck, the father of quantum theory: "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and, therefore, part of the mystery that we are trying to solve." You simply know that you have an imagination, and that this imagination is the Source of all being. It is up to you to channel and use this magnificent endowment to work in the creation of all that you choose to place in that imagination.
Your wishes—all of them—can indeed be fulfilled. By using your imagination and practicing the art of assuming the feeling of your wishes being fulfilled, and steadfastly refusing to allow any evidence of the outer world to distract you from your intentions, you will discover that you, by virtue of your spiritual awareness, possess the ability to become the person you were destined to be.
The Power of Your Imagination
Figuratively tattoo these words of Neville onto your forehead. In other words, memorize them, and repeat them to yourself every time you look into the mirror:
Disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire. Rest in the assumption that you are already what you want to be, for in that determined assumption you and your Infinite Being are merged in creative unity, and with your Infinite Being (God) all things are possible. God never fails.Your concept of yourself is being replaced by a new concept of yourself.
A new self-concept begins with you placing it in your imagination and living from this new perspective. You can count on your five senses to attempt to convince you that you should pay homage only to them and treat your imagination as unimportant and illusory. But that doesn't mean that you have to allow them to usurp your new concept of yourself.
Right now, in this moment, you can practice this. Say aloud or to yourself, By placing new I ams into my imagination, my future dream is a present fact. Repeat the statement a few times. Can you feel your ego resisting? Which of your five senses is most adamantly annoyed? Notice and repeat. This new concept of yourself as God, or at least as a spark of God, asks you to think like God, Who "calls those things which do not exist as though they did."
Here, you are creating an ideal of what you want to be and assuming that you already are that person. This is what Neville calls the Law of Assumption, and he states emphatically, "If this assumption is persisted in until it becomes your dominant feeling, the attainment of your ideal is inevitable."
Remind yourself that your imagination is yours to use as you decide, and that everything you wish to manifest into your physical world must first be placed firmly in your imagination in order to grow. Let Neville's words guide you:
Therefore, to incarnate a new and greater value of yourself, you must assume that you already are what you want to be and then live by faith in this assumption—which is not yet incarnate in the body of your life—in confidence that this new value or state of consciousness will become incarnated through your absolute fidelity to the assumption that you are that which you desire to be.This is a total transformation of your entire being.
Within your imagination, you can conceive thoughts of what you want as already here—prior to their birth in form in the sensory world. This means that your thoughts aren't along the lines of: I will be. I hope it works out. I'm praying for good results. Instead, you say to yourself: I am—acknowledging the I am presence as God dwelling in me. Then your mind as that I am presence will become the dominant creative feature in your life. This generative force will gently assert its authentic creativity and power as you conceive it, and in the process replace a dependency on your physical and intellectual abilities. Your renewed reality does not rely exclusively on those five senses that keep you attached to the false beliefs that you are your body or its possessions, achievements, and reputation.
You've already discovered that the different bodies you've occupied throughout your life so far no longer exist for your senses to experience. Now you can choose to consciously participate in this nonsensory supreme reality—your imagination—where you assume your future dream to be a present fact and live from this new awareness. This isn't pretending or fooling yourself, it is inviting your spirit rather than your physical form to generate the creative essence of your reality. It's what it means to transform your life.
The word transformation has the word form right smack in the middle, preceded by trans—meaning going beyond form. Live from the place that will indeed take you way beyond the limits of your seemingly limited life. Explore imagination, which is the Source of all being or physical reality.
Throughout my life I've often been called excessively persistent and even obsessive in going after what I wish to fulfill. The truth is that I have within me a very powerful knowing that when I place something into my imagination, it is already a fact for me. I just don't seem to have the capacity to erase from my mind what it is that is already my reality. For instance, earlier in my life when I applied to a doctoral program, I already saw myself with a doctorate, although I hadn't taken even one course toward that degree. When I was told that nine out of ten doctoral students do not receive their degree because they cannot complete the vigorous requirements of writing a dissertation, I knew that this did not apply to me, because I was already a doctor in my imagination. I persistently acted as if my dream were a present fact.
I've had this same kind of "thinking from the end" in every phase of my professional career. As a young boy I saw myself on television shows and vehemently held this inner picture in my imagination, ignoring a lot of naysayers! And these imaginings ultimately were taken from my mind, where they were real, to the material world, where my senses finally caught up and confirmed them as truths.
The facts are, for me, that a picture in my imagination is already my reality. I live from this perspective, and nothing can dissuade me from this stance because I am not hoping to get someplace else. I am already there. I just don't know how to erase what I am living in my imagination, even if the whole world attempts to persuade me of the folly of my dreams. This is a mind-set you can choose to embrace.
Let go of all doubt, forget about the when. It will develop into a material fact on Divine time. Forget about the how. Live it inwardly. This is a great power that you possess if you are willing to claim it as your own.
I cannot emphasize strongly enough how vital it is for you to claim this inherent power of God and use it for manifesting the life you desire. Be obstinate regarding this idea. Hold your vision relentlessly, and more than that—live each day as if that idea you have in your imagination is in fact your reality. In The "I AM" Discourses, Saint Germain repeatedly reminds us that we are the master and have dominion in our lives; once this is part of your awareness, you can access the energy, power, and intelligence of the mighty I am presence, which is your very birthright. This I am presence is always with you.
27 nov 2011
Notice the acts of kindness other people do rather than their shortcomings
Notice the acts of kindness other people do rather than their shortcomings. This is how the loving presence views you. We are all good, decent, loving souls who occasionally get lost. When you can focus on the good in another and hold that in your mind, you are acting from your higher self. This can help dissipate fear and anger.
Wayne Dyer
Wayne Dyer
21 nov 2010
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