- How Your Attention Turns Possibilities Into Reality
Surprising things happen every day. They not only happen in secret faraway places, they happen all around you. Beyond the physical world that you can see, beyond your thoughts and emotions, there exists another world. A world of pure potential, a place where anything and everything are possible.
Diving Into Matter, Mind & Spirit
As children we see the future as always bright, an empty screen upon which we paint whatever we wish. Everything around us cries out to be explored, and it is exciting to dive into this fascinating world. Once we grow older this fascination turns into dead knowledge, leaving us with no free attention to explore anything further. Our pioneering spirit is gone. Everything seems to be limited and constricted. We believe everything has been explored already.
We have lost the capacity for joy in experiencing our unlimited potential.
In order to gain back what we once had as children but somehow lost as adults, it is necessary that we understand the three levels, or domains, of existence. Adapted from the book The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra.
1. The Physical Domain
This is the world that we can see, smell and hear. It is the world of the material and the visible, and it is bound by the laws of physics. Every event has a beginning, a present and an end. Everything happens for a reason and is determined by cause and effect. It is Newton's predictable clockwork universe operating with supreme regularity and according to universal principles.
2. The Quantum Domain
On this level everything consists of information and energy. The material world is a subset of this quantum world, and is demonstrated in Einstein's remarkable equation E=MC2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light, squared. Matter is made up of molecules, which in turn are comprised of smaller units called atoms.
The latest research now shows that even atoms are made up of smaller particles called quarks, and that these quarks have no solidity at all. Scientists, in their unceasing exploration of ever finer and subtler states of energy, are even beginning to speculate about 'unveiling' the so-called God particle!
It turns out that the more physicists explore smaller and smaller units of mass/energy, the more relative space there is between the things that make up the basic stuff of the universe. It now appears that the universe is almost entirely empty space, punctuated here and there by bits of things we call quanta, and the collections of quanta that go on to make up atoms and molecules.
If it is all empty space, how is it possible to sit on a chair?
Imagine a fan sitting on the floor in front of you. When the fan is on, you see a solid disk and you cannot put your hand through it. However you know that this is an illusion created by the motion of the fan’s blades. In reality, what makes up the ‘disk’ of ‘solid’ matter is mostly just space. It is the frequency of motion that gives us the illusion of things being solid. On a quantum level, where we deal with the speed of light, the effect is easily explained.
Our senses are much too slow to notice the infinite slices of space the fan blades occupy as they rotate, just as we fail no notice that motion pictures are just separate still frames arranged and shown at a particular frequency. Movies are, in reality, just pictures, and when you run them at a certain speed they give you the illusion of moving.
In reality these two domains—the physical domain and the quantum domain—are not different at all, they are just perceived differently by us. It is our consciousness that creates the illusion of a solid world. If you had quantum eyes you could actually see that everything merges into everything. Everything interacts with everything else in this floating world of quantum reality.
3. The Nonlocal Domain
The last level or domain consists of nothing less than consciousness itself. It is the spiritual domain, the unlimited field of infinite possibility and potential. At this level, time and space do not exist. It is nonlocal because there is no way of telling where and when it exists. It is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. This tends to be a hard concept for our dualistic mind to grasp.
This is the organizing force behind all things in the universe. As you read these lines, your mind is busy decoding and understanding this universe and taking some stabs at localizing itself within the larger framework that is essentially nonlocal in nature.
- Who is doing the reading?
- Where does your attention come from?
Your Presence is Seperate From Your Thought
If you explore this phenomenon further, you will come to understand that there is a presence in you that is always experiencing. It is a presence that is separate from your thoughts, from your feelings and from everything else.
This presence is the nonlocal domain from which everything originates. It is the infinite source of possibility and potential. It is you, without name, without concepts, without beliefs, without anything your mind could think of.
When you learn to live from this level of existence you are the one manifesting everything. You are the wizard - and remarkable revelations at this level become almost ordinary and normal.
Take a closer look at the atomic level and you will see that every particle is also a wave. This is called partial wave duality, or as some physicists like to call it, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. It turns out that just at the exact moment that something is observed, this wave-particle is in a state of pure potential. When observed, the potential 'collapses' into a single entity—either as a particle or a wave.
The Act of Observing
For now, let’s shift to a more practical level. It is the act of observation—your attention—that turns possibilities into reality. Without consciousness, everything would only exist as undefined potential or raw energy. Whatever you observe—place your attention on—turns into reality. Literally! You can also call this the essence of manifesting.
Now you understand why it is so important where you put your attention, and it is even more important what intentions you have. You are the designer, you create the blueprint that turns your thoughts into reality.
- The #1 Reason Why Most Goals Never Manifest
I am sure you understand the idea of setting goals in life to empower yourself. Perhaps what you don't know is that goals require a constant stream of force behind them to keep them alive. In other words, you need to push them all the time to make them come true.
Constantly pushing of your goals, while necessary, is also detrimental to the effective manifestation of the goals themselves. Goals are artificially created by the mind and backed up by the concepts and beliefs that allow them to work.
Take away the concepts and beliefs that give them the foundation to live and your goals will evaporate in no time at all.
How Does This Look Like in Practice?
Let’s assume you've set a goal to lose weight. As you may already know, it is important to set each goal precisely. So losing weight, like any goal, should include exact particulars of what you want to accomplish. Let’s say you want to lose 25 pounds over the next three months, starting today. This goal needs a foundation to work. You need to have some sort of motivation that encourages you to accomplish this goal.
Perhaps one or more of the following acts as your motivation to lose the weight:
· You want to look attractive to others
· You want to look attractive to your partner
· You believe that you are overweight
· You want to fit into your favorite dress or pants again
You need a reason to lose the weight, something that can motivate you to achieve your goal. Whatever the reason behind the goal, you absolutely need to have one, otherwise you won’t have the motivation to even start.
Think of the reason as the decision to change something in your life and the motivation as the energy that affects that change.
The mere act of starting on any goal can be incredibly challenging as it involves being willing to change some of your usual behaviors and concepts in life. We all know what a challenge changing your behavior and concepts can be!
Behavior is changed in the physical domain while concepts are changed in the mental domain. This double whammy of both the physical and the mental is what makes a simple life change like weight loss such a challenge to bring off successfully.
Successful goals always come from a corresponding change in the mental domain.
Why is This?
Simply put, it is because your mind and your thoughts are what create your reality. If you change only your behavior, you will have only short-term success. In time, you will fall back into your old patterns of behavior – the very thing you tried to change in the first place!
So let's assume you are in the second month of your weight loss goal and your partner leaves you. What happens to your goal about losing weight? It doesn’t matter anymore, it diminishes and evaporates into thin air. You just took away both the foundation and the energy for accomplishing your goal. You no longer have a reason and you've lost your motivation.
The problem with goals is that they depend on life circumstances – and they are always forced by mental concepts.
How About Dreams?
Your dreams are powered by Source, by the ultimate power of consciousness. Your dreams are the recognition of what you can do with the unique gifts and talents you have brought into this life. Every person exists with a unique set of talents. These talents lead to a unique way of expressing themselves through various forms of creativity. Universal creativity is really what powers everything behind all manifestation.
With this creativity you are able to serve other people, and in return, you get rewarded with a form of energy. In Western civilization, the most common reward is often money, but creative rewards often come in many other energetic forms like status and recognition, authority, greater outreach to others and more.
In Summary:
You discover your strengths, gifts and talents. You find ways to use them that enrich and support society in practical ways. You are in service to others for serving others in this way is truly life’s ultimate purpose.
Your dreams are powered by your unique creative abilities. These abilities are like a never-ending fountain, the wellspring of your life. They will always be with you, in good times and bad. They are completely apart from and independent of mental concepts. They are powered by your true nature. You can deny them, but you can’t get rid of them.
Even on the worst day of your life, your dreams still exist. If you don’t live your dreams, you must constantly suppress them by engaging in mental concepts like:
· I am too old to start
· I don’t know how to do it
· Nobody will be interested in it
· My friends will hate me when I do it
· You name it!
I have used the words force and power in association with goals and dreams. To understand the concepts behind these words, I highly recommend David Hawkins' book Power Versus Force. Here are a few definitions from the book that help explain the idea of power versus force:
· Force is associated with the partial, power with the whole
· Force must always be justified, power requires no justification
· Force always creates counter-force and its effect is limited by definition
· Force is a movement, power is a skill
· Force always moves against something, power doesn’t move against anything at all
· Force is incomplete and therefore has to be fed energy constantly
· Power is total and complete in itself and requires nothing from outside
· Force constantly consumes while power energizes, supplies and supports
· Pow er gives life and energy, force takes these away
· Power is associated with compassion, force is associated with judgment
· Force requires proof and support, power is inarguable and not subject to proof
People who fulfill their dreams are the happiest people on earth.
They do what’s in their nature. In the end, it is completely irrelevant to them what kind of dreams they have. Dreams don’t need to fit into anything. They don’t need any approval. They don’t need any money to start.
Goals are temporary fixes of your mental desires that do not provide you with lasting happiness. The new car will get old and rusty, the new house will lose its charm over time, and if your goal is to create the perfect partner, you will begin to see your partner’s imperfections over time as well.
Your dreams are a recognition of what you truly are and how you can contribute to this world. You will never do anything else in life more important than this. In fact, in a very real sense there is nothing else in life but this. There is no true retirement from the contributions you can make in this life. You literally live the dream that is your life to your very last breath.
Why not start today to live your dreams in earnest?
Thomas Herold
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