Who are you really?
Here is an excerpt from a lecture given by Alan Watts,
a British philosopher, writer and speaker. He has written over 25 books
and numerous articles on subjects such as personal identity, the true
nature of reality, higher consciousness, meaning of life.
here are four levels of consciousness:
1. Unconscious unconsciousness
At this stage you are not even aware
that you are unconscious. You attract negative things into your life at a
rapid pace, as if you have developed a negative ball of energy rolling
downhill. Nothing is ever your fault and you are always looking for
someone to blame.
2. Conscious unconsciousness
Here you become aware of your negative
thinking and the consequences that it might bring. You might see your
negative pattern and what it is that you are attracting. You may not
like what you are attracting, but you have taken responsibility for it.
3. Conscious consciousness
You deliberately decide to focus pure
and positive thought on something and remove all resistance to its
arrival. And, sure enough, it arrives. Your creation might be something
as simple as visualizing a parking space opening up for you at the mall.
You deliberately intended it, allowed it to come to you and
acknowledged it when it arrives.
4. Unconscious consciousness
When you get to this point, you do not
have to work so hard to create things in your life. You are a believer
in how the mind game is played and you spend conscious time each day
making your mind important. New creations come to you easily and
quickly. You have built a positive ball of energy that continues to roll
forward in your favour.
Using your mind to attract your reality is actually very simple.
Make your thoughts important
Most people randomly shrug off their
thoughts as not being important. They often get stuck thinking the same
old negative thoughts all day long and cannot see the relationship
between what they are thinking and what is happening in their life.
Three ways of attracting
1. Direct asking
You are angry that you have a beat up
old car and every day you proclaim how much you despise this car and
wish someone would just come along and crash into it to get rid of it.
Lo and behold, you are involved in a traffic accident and your car is
destroyed. You act surprised when this event transpires and you move
into blame and anger. You believe wholeheartedly that it must be the
other driver’s fault for not paying closer attention.
2. Fear
You might have heard stories of how wild
animals are attracted to fear so if you are approached by one do not
run or act afraid. The Law of Attraction works the very same way. If you
are afraid of catching some dreaded disease you are attracting it to
you. If you are afraid of financial failure you are attracting it.
Whatever you are afraid of has a good chance of coming closer to you
because your thoughts—both positive and negative—are like magnets.
3. Vibrational alignment
Emotional alignment is important when
attracting. Imagine leaving the house feeling like a victim. Why does it
surprise you when you spill coffee on yourself? This only matches a
vibration that you were already experiencing. Like attracts more of the
same. A vibration of negativity will bring more negativity your way,
whereas a vibrational attitude of positivity will attract positive
results.
Mental obesity
Imagine what life would be like if you
were physically 300 pounds overweight? What would it be like to travel
on an airplane, to walk up and down stairs and even go to the bathroom?
Most people’s minds are 300 pounds
overweight, out of shape and their life is filled with struggle and
blame. They are in denial that there is a problem (as are many
physically obese people) and they do nothing to try to change the
situation. If you were physically obese you might start slowly making
small changes—dietary adjustments, beginning a walking program, etc.
Mental shaping up is no different. Begin
by imagining all the lights turning green when you are driving down the
road or the perfect parking space is waiting for you at the grocery
store. Small steps add up to big changes.
Blame
If there are two words that should be
eliminated from the English language they are “victim” and “survivor.”
You hear these powerful words over and over again, in the media, through
so-called “support” groups and from the people in the street. There are
no victims and there are no survivors. There are only conscious
choosers or unconscious choosers. When you become an unconscious chooser
you often remain in a state of blame. It is always somebody else’s
fault that your life isn’t perfect. People will blame the poor economy
for their own lack of financial success. Yet, there are many who are
thriving in this same “poor economy.” Most of these thrivers will tell
you that they are not interested in listening to the scarcity-minded
pundits on television, but choose their own path to prosperity. They are
consciously choosing their thinking.
Sabotage
Why would someone deliberately choose to
develop a horrible disease or have bad things happen to them? The
answer is simple. We all have a part of ourselves that is frozen in
sabotage. Not everyone wants to feel well or to be wealthy. We invest a
great amount of time and thought on sabotage and it manifests. You have
heard the expression, “if you go looking for trouble, trouble will find
you.”
At one time or another children will
“develop” a cold or sickness to avoid a situation, like going to school
or visiting a relative. The child’s thoughts are powerful enough to
change the physical body so the child can escape a situation that he or
she does not know how to handle (e.g. a test, a bully, etc.).
As adults, our thoughts continue to
sabotage our lives—from putting on weight to financial hardships. If you
are not thriving then your thoughts are actively involved in sabotaging
your success. You have invested in sabotage just as the sick child
feels a benefit by not having to attend school.
Many people create illnesses to rest,
take a break from life, to be taken care of by others, or to avoid an
uneasy situation. Instead of learning to find the tools to resolve these
conflicts, becoming sick is the easiest way out. One could make the
argument that hospitals are filled with people who are choosing illness
as a way of escape from a mental conflict that they are unable to
resolve. Yes, your mind is that powerful and there are no exceptions.
Children and illnesses
It might be difficult to understand why a
child would choose to get sick and die. What we do not realize is that
children too are thinking and creating their reality. And they are
learning their thought patterns from those of their parents and peers.
A story appeared in a local newspaper of
a fourteen-year-old boy who mysteriously and “accidentally” hung
himself while playing on a makeshift backyard rope course that he had
built. Many people assumed this to be a horrible accident, but they did
not know the story behind this.
Two days before his death the teenager
was kicked off the freshman football team at school. He was devastated.
He felt his life was over. The expulsion from the team caused him so
much despair that he didn’t believe he could go on. He felt trapped and
helpless and wanted relief from his suffering. His mind created a
situation where he would find relief and still save face, as his death
would look like an accident.
Conclusion
We are all looking for relief from
conflict. If we do not believe that we can resolve the conflict
externally, we frequently create a situation that resolves itself
internally. This is often seen in sports. When an athlete is not
performing well or has an off-the-field conflict, he frequently suffers
an injury. While the injury might be real (a pulled hamstring or a stiff
back), the mind was busily at work creating the situation. Fans would
more likely support a player if he were injured than if he were having
marital problems at home. After all, an athlete is expected to leave his
personal issues off the field or court.
You do not have to believe in the Law of Attraction for it to be at work.
Just like you do not have to understand
or have knowledge of gravity, it is still working. Step off a balcony of
a two-storey building and whether you believe in gravity or not, you
will come crashing to the ground. Most people create by default, meaning
that they are not aware of what their thoughts are and hence take no
responsibility when their thoughts manifest.
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”—Albert Einstein.
If you do not learn how to play the game then the game will play you.
We are talking about the mind game going
on inside of you. When you are an unconscious attractor of your reality
you often become a victim and are stuck in blame. This is when the game
is playing you.
A mind in a state of appreciation is a
mind creating positive results. A mind looking for someone or something
to blame is a mind creating more sabotage and chaos. It doesn’t matter
whether you believe in the Law of Attraction or not; the power of the
mind is still at work and the results will be felt.
Wouldn’t it be better to learn to focus your thoughts and realize all the dreams you have dreamed for so long
