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Welcome to an Update Article Newsletter and words of Wisdom shared from the Awakening Intuition Network for 31st August 2010
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CONTENTS IN THIS CURRENT ISSUE UPDATE:
( 1 ). Quotes shared to inspire....
( 2 ). Words of Wisdom & Inspiration - By Eckhart Tolle
BEING and ENLIGHTENMENT
( 3 ). Article: The Nature of Imagination
By Tim Brunson
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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1). Quote shared to inspire....
Being conscious is cutting through your own melodrama and being right here. Exist in no mind, be empty, here now, and trust that as a situation arises, out you will come what is necessary to deal with that situation including the use of your intellect when appropriate. Your intellect need not be constantly held on to to keep reassuring you that you know where you’re at, out of fear of loss of control. Ultimately, when you stop identifying so much with your physical body and with your psychological entity, that anxiety starts to disintegrate. And your start to define yourself as in flow with the universe; and whatever comes along ~ death, life joy, sadness ~ is grist for the mill of awakening. Not this versus that but whatever.
~ By Ram Dass, Grist for the Mill
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Enlighten your mind…
Light the lamp within you.
~ By Silvanus
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Spiritual life is like living water
that springs up from the very depths
of our own spiritual experience.
In spiritual life everyone has to drink
from his or her own well.
~ By St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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( 2 ). Words of Wisdom & Inspiration - By Eckhart Tolle
BEING and ENLIGHTENMENT
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Being and Enlightenment
There is an eternal, ever-present, One Life beyond the myriad forms
of life that are subject to birth and death. Many people use the word
God to describe it; [others call it the Tao, or Emptiness] I often
call it Being. The word Being explains nothing, but nor does 'God.'
Being, however, has the advantage that it is an open concept. It
does not reduce the infinite invisible to a finite entity. It is not
impossible to form a mental image of it. Nobody can claim exclusive
possession of Being. It is your very presence, and it is immediately
accessible to you as the feeling of your own presence.
Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its
innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is
accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But
don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it.
You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present,
when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be
felt, but it can never be understood mentally. To regain awareness of
Being and to abide in that state of 'feeling-realization' is
enlightenment.
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some super human
accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is
simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state
of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible,
something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is
much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.
The inability to feel this connectedness gives rise to the illusion
of separation, from yourself and from the world around you. You then
perceive yourself, consciously or unconsciously, as an isolated
fragment. Fear arises, and conflicts within and without become the norm.
The greatest obstacle to experiencing the reality of your
connectedness is identification with your mind, which causes thought
to become compulsive. Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful
affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is
suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental
noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is
inseparable from Being. It also creates a false mind-made self that
casts a shadow of fear and suffering.
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts,
labels, images, words, judgements, and definitions that blocks all
true relationship. It comes between you and yourself, between you and
your fellow man and woman, between you and nature, between you and
God. It is this screen of thought that creates the illusion of
separateness, the illusion that there is you and a totally
separate 'other'. You then forget the essential fact that, underneath
the level of physical appearances and separate forms, you are one
with all that is.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly,
however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it
is not so much that you use your mind wrongly -- you usually don't
use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that
you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you
over. It's almost as if you are possessed without knowing it, and so
you take the possessing entity to be yourself.
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the
possessing entity -- the thinker. Knowing this enables you to observe
the entity. The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level
of consciousness becomes activated.
You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence
beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that
intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter -
- beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace -- arise from beyond the mind.
You begin to awaken.
- By Eckhart Tolle
Practicing the Power of Now
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( 3 ). Article: The Nature of Imagination
By Tim Brunson
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Few words in the English language garner the level of mystic, misunderstanding, and misuse as the word imagination. Used by bards, song writers, and self-help gurus to represent an expansion of the mind beyond the limits created by perception and programming, it is bantered around both as a complement and criticism. While Albert Einstein proclaimed that it is more important than knowledge, still scientists - to include those of a medical ilk - continue to cast suspicion on the value of a vivid imagination. Yet, as it is in many ways the centerpiece of the clinical hypnotherapy, it deserves a serious explanation and exploration.
All animals are capable of misperceiving a threat. However, it is the primate who seems to be the most capable of using the frontal lobes' ability to anticipate and simulate. This faculty of imagining helps us form mental visual, auditory, and kinesthetic illusions that are the direct creation of our abilities to convert perceptions into understanding. Our greatly enhanced capability to create an imagined "reality" merely by our thoughts is indeed a unique human characteristic.
I consider anticipation and simulation to be synonymous with imagination. We simply create an alternate reality by expecting something to happen and then understanding a process to unfold. When this is done reactively - as in the case of phobias and anxieties - the power of imagination can seem like a curse. On the other hand, once we learn to direct it through conscious thought - a process that I call "selective thinking" - it opens up doors to possibilities of self-directed control of our mind and body. When the inertia represented by a patterns resistance to change is mitigated and selective thought is enhanced, a hypnotic state is achieved. Much of what we do in the profession of hypnotherapy is to move a subject from the realm of reactive imagination - with all of its negative side effects - and develop their ability to purposefully direct their imagination so that they can resolve mental pathologies, improve physical well-being, and enhance their performance and achieve increased self-actualization.
The power of imagination resides in the reactive capacity of the human brain and body. For instance, consider the role of the bimodal and mirror neurons that are distributed throughout the brain. Essentially when sensory perception is considered, they play a critical role in the development of understanding. When we see an object, they help us quickly establish the meaning in regards to the item's historical and potential functions. As one primary function of our neurological capabilities is to assess threat, whether a perception begets safety or danger has an immediate manifestation throughout our physiology.
On the other hand, when anticipation and simulation are afforded by such substrates which include the right prefrontal cortex, these same neurons facilitate the same neurophysiological reaction. When we anticipate that an item such as a squiggly stick might just be a snake and then simulate the potential danger that may ensue, our body reacts just the same as if the perception had actually been that of a rather ominous reptile. However, if we were to use these same abilities to imagine Mom's apple pie, the same faculties would create a corresponding physiological reaction.
So, if we realize that our neurophysiology is primarily a reactive system awaiting input and that we have the ability - and responsibility - to choose our direction, then we quickly realize that our imaginative capacity is a blessing. While many of my colleagues focus on the "wonders of the subconscious mind" - a term that I have grave scientific and academic misgivings about - I rather focus on the power of the conscious mind to direct our imaginative abilities.
The potential results posed by the deliberate use of suggestion and imagination to direct our mind and body appear to be rooted in a very strong mind/body relationship. Going beyond merely considering the relation between the association and motor cortices and the body, modern neuroimaging also seems to show a relationship between the maps contained in our cranial cavity and the rest of our neurology and the territory of our body. When our brain function and energetic organization change - such as when perceptions or imagination triggers a sympathetic or parasympathetic response - our body is affected. Another example of this is the relatively recent exploration of site-specific somatic healing being enhanced by vivid imagery under hypnotic conditions. So while we understand that psychosomatic illnesses are caused and maintained by misdirected imagination, we are increasingly becoming aware that much of our health has a relationship to our mental functioning. Therefore, the possibilities and probabilities that consciously directed thoughts can become integral with human health and transformation is becoming increasingly realized in scientific realm in addition to the self-help and more spiritual arenas.
Another interesting aspect of imagination is its relationship with thought and creativity. Rene Descartes once declared that our ability to think defines us as humans. (His original statement was Je pense donc je suis, which roughly translates in English to "I think, therefore I am.") But, if you really consider the nature of thoughts and memory, one would quickly realize that they are essentially historical in nature. Indeed, our ability to participate in thought processes is a characteristic that we share with the entire animal kingdom. Rather, it is our imaginative capacity - a characteristic that I previously described as being the general ability to anticipate and simulate - more accurately describes our human nature. Therefore, I would humbly disagree with Mr. Descartes by stating that it would be much more accurate to say, "I imagine, therefore I am." (Of course, this presumes that extrinsic and intrinsic identity are a given - which could very well be the topic for a later article.)
Finally, the relationship between creativity and imagination should be considered. A strict definition of creativity involves the creation of new meaning and understanding stimulated by either perception of imaginary perception. The later factor then implies that when we perceive mental imagery we inspire a situation where the natural reactive abilities of the mind will take novel input and derive a new purpose or potential use. Seeing a coffee cup, which may previously have been understood as a device used to facilitate drinking hot beverages, as something else, such as a paper weight, a pen holder, or some other purpose, represents a creative process. Most certainly, by deliberately producing imagery, the opportunity for creativity may very well occur.
The beauty of imagination can be found in its limitlessness. Quantum physicists state very boldly that possibilities are infinite. Therefore, each can be perceived not only by mathematics, but also by the power of imagination. Like storytellers and other artists, clinical hypnotherapists are rather unique in that their profession is centered foremost on the use of purposefully imagined realities designed to inspire specific reactions.
About the author
Tim Brunson, PhD, is a doctor of clinical hypnotherapy, clinician, author, and a sought-after professional speaker. As a contemporary futurist Tim is regarded as one of the most innovative mind/body thinkers available. Although his interests have led him to study the esoteric arts found in twenty centuries old transformational theories, his extensive review of modern research, which spans topics such as Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology, hypnosis, NLP, Reiki, neurology, and quantum physics, give him a unique perspective of what is to come. Over the years he has been active with several organizations involving medical doctors and psychologists as well as those promoting the study of humanistic psychology and subtle energies. Among his many teachers he includes Ernest Rossi, Ph.D., Daniel Amen, MD, Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., and the Tibetan Dalai Lama. Additionally, he continues to develop the fields and theories of Advanced Neuro-Noetic Hypnosis and the Unified Transformation Theory. He is also the founder of The International Hypnosis Research Institute. His unique, content-rich presentations entertain and transform audiences ranging from medical professionals to business leaders. http://www.timbrunson.com/
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