The Energy of Miracles

Creating miracles in our lives is no more complicated than understanding the metaphysics of the Universal Law. And because that law is indestructible and therefore infinite, we know that the power used by miracle makers in the past is still available today. Yet, in our modern society, we're brought up to believe only in those things we can logically understand. Neither are we taught that the Universal Law has limitless potential or that this power is at our disposal and can be used to work miracles in our own lives.

Understanding the Universal Law

To understand miracles, we have to look at two aspects of the Universal Law. First, there lies deep within all humankind an immense power; and second, the power is impartial and unemotional. Call it the Universal Mind, Christ Consciousness, Conscious Energy, or what you will, but it is this power that allows human beings a recognition of the universal life force that we call "God".

 The life force is eternal, and, because of its limitless capacity, it is a part of all things. Moreover, it's a major part of each of us. Consequently, we all have within us an unlimited power. Creating miracles in our own lives becomes a matter of identifying with the power, understanding its characteristics, and learning to use it effectively. This identification is achieved by knowing that the power is within us and acknowledging that fact by saying, "I am eternal, immortal, universal and infinite and therefore I am beautiful." By doing this, and believing it, we lock into the power source and are poised for the next step, which involves looking at its characteristics.

The Universal Law is impartial and unemotional. It has no way of knowing what you want, nor does it discriminate between your hopes and aspirations, likes and dislikes - it is pure energy. It accepts whatever thoughts, feelings, and actions you project and reflects them back to you unemotionally in the form of events that you experience day to day.

In much much the same wayas electricity illuminates both a brothel and your grandmother's tea party, The Universal Law doesn't differentiate between different types of energy in your life. It will give you anything you believe in - no more and no less. Therefore, the key to understanding miracles is to examine closely the beliefs you express as thoughts and feelings. 

Photo: Rachel Hulan "Fying Baby"

When you were born, your thoughts and feelings are limitless because your mind is a clean slate. What a small child projects to the Universal Law is a natural purity unbounded by the constraints of beliefs. Children often attempt the seemingly impossible: they drive off in the family car or walk on a high ledge. It's only later, through education, that they learn the confines of human expectancy.

But these confines or boundaries are illusions. They're formed by belief patterns - most of them born of ignorance - handed down from generation to generation. This pool of belief patterns, or the "collective unconscious," as Carl Jung called it gains validity as it moves through time, and eventually the concepts that later generations experience as physical reality become rigid and domineering. It's as if the billions of people who preceded you have determined what you're going to experience on this Earth plane, and that's all there is to it.

This rigidity doesn't allow for genius or for the understanding that we're now in an era of rapid unfoldment. Fundamental structures are being swept away in an avalanche of awareness, and we're no longer prepared just to read about great miracle makers; we want to have the same experience. For most people, this isn't possible because they're locked within the limitations of the body and mind; their upbringing is so dominant that it encases their entire evolution, and they experience little spiritual growth.

Understanding Life's Mission 

We are not our bodies or our emotions or our minds or any of the structures and restrictions we experience around us. We are an infinite part of the God-Force, using the physical form to experience spiritual development through a special teaching called "daily life."

When you entered the Earth plane or dimension, the energy that is the real you left isa abode in the higher dimensions of pure light, and entered, by choice, the body you're now in. You chose the circumstances of this life because it was the next step in your infinite evolution, and because this life would allow you to expand what you are spiritually so that you could become an even greater expression of the infinite life force or Living Spirit.

Now you may say: "That's nuts! Why would I choose these circumstances of my life - this family, this society, and this neighborhood? Why didn't I choose a more affluent environment or a prettier body or more intellectual capacity?" The answer lies in a dimension beyond the physical plane. As you entered this dimension through birth, you has within your consciousness a heroic mission - a goal. The nature of that goal is firmly written in the very deepest recesses of the inner you; and what you are today, no matter what you feel about yourself, is actually a part of that goal in various stages of completion.

Your mind began recording events, thoughts, and feelings only at birth. It doesn't know of your heroic mission nor does it understand the Universal Law that interacts with your limitless potential. Why? Two reasons: First, if your mind, feelings and emotions knew the nature of your heroic mission in life, there would be no challenge or quest, and your evolution would suffer. Second, most understanding of metaphysics is based on tribal or religious beliefs that do not totally reflect an accurate perception of the delicacy of energy and the way its ebb and flow affects daily life; no real understanding of the Universal Law has ever been incorporated into the various belief patterns of the world's collective unconscious. 

For example, let's say your heroic mission in life is to learn to love yourself and to accept full cosmic responsibility for what you are. And, let's say, you have had a number of previous experiences on the Earth plane in which you were weak and indulged yourself metaphysically by leaning on others rather than contributing to your own energy or support. If you knew this in advance, you'd begin to favour one course of action over another, You'd intellectualize yourself into positions or feelings that you wanted to achieve, and your mind would dominate your every move.

Evolution doesn't work that way. You can't overcome weakness by fighting it or thinking your way out of it. You overcome weakness by leaving it behind you. This means that you become aware of the inner tendencies that bring you down, that don't support a belief in self, and that don't endorse a love of self, and you say, "I don't want to be that anymore." You then move yourself out of the slovenly ways of the collective unconscious, into a discipline of power. From time to time, you may drift back, but once you decide on the side of strength, the power of the Universal Law will always be with you to varying degrees.

It may be a battle at first because your mind doesn't understand these laws or the nature of your mission on Earth, nor does it understand the laws that govern your potential. It will have a tendency to "advise" you logically from its own experience, and logic is death to that part of you that is the miracle maker.

Understanding the Nature of Beliefs

The next step in creating your own miracles is to look at the nature of beliefs. By reviewing beliefs and feelings, you begin to understand how to use the Universal Law effectively. It's natural to yearn for the impossible, and in so doing, you establish strong beliefs about what can be done and what cannot. You can jump a certain height and no higher, run at a certain speed and no faster, accept a certain position and no better.

Because most commercial aircraft fly at about 600 miles an hour, the shortest time in which you can get from New York to Paris is about six hours. Those are facts in the collective unconscious. But what if we told you of a man who could move his body many thousands of miles in just a few seconds? Your mind would scan its memory banks and draw a blank, whereupon you might think impossible! Then perhaps you might review all the scientific data available and conclude that this feat is unachievable. All scientific knowledge and current thinking are products of the same collective unconscious, and just the fact that a billion people have no concept of a man moving 3,000 miles in a few seconds makes it seem impossible. But the billions of people are wrong.

There is a dimension, right here on the Earth plane, in which such a feat is possible, and there are a few people alive today who know of this dimension and use it. It's a matter of perception and belief. Your ability to work miracles is predicated entirely on how easily and quickly you can give the collective unconscious the slip. It's your attachment to the collective unconscious, or world belief patterns, that holds you back.
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Conscious Energy 071 - The Energy of Giving

Many years ago, I had a business friend and associate, a British woman who was older and wiser than I was at the time. As our friendship grew, we would often exchange ideas about life and one day she turned to me and said, "Remember to give until it feels good, not until it hurts." If you are motivated to give to others, the greatest thing you can do to perpetuate your ability to give and be your best in doing so, is to first take care of your own needs. When we give from a place of low energy we deplete ourselves even more and this is not honouring to ourselves or to others. Giving to others can never make up for what you are not giving to yourself. If you want to be an exceptional giver, you will search for ways to maintain your own energy and sense of well-being because from this place of feeling whole your giving will actually replenish your energy and ability to continue to give in great abundance.

We can hold ourselves together and strengthen our day-to-day ability to meet life's challenges. This is done by maintaining balance. Balance is all about connecting at every moment with our Authentic Self. It is not enough to know intellectually what healing, awakening or self-actualization is all about if you are not practicing it yourself. It does however, take time and patience.

In the words of Edgar Cayce, "There are no shortcuts to knowledge or wisdom or understanding - these must be lived and experienced by every soul."

Through daily self-care you take the time to consciously hold a loving connection with yourself. All giving, without tending the preciousness within yourself can quickly transform into non-acceptance of self. So, the more you self-nurture the greater your ability is to sustain an authentic connection with yourself and others throughout your day. For example, If you made the self-honouring decision to meditate at least once a day, you would infuse your being with loving energy. The more you do it, the more you become it. When it comes to 'becoming'  there is always a starting point. It's a choice made to do something which will empower your Authentic Self, sustain you and make you stronger, more confident and more loving. From this point, you begin to have a stronger foundation from which to support your giving nature.

I recommend meditation early in the morning when you are rested and your mind is at its most quiet and calm phase of the day; before life's daily 'massage' begins, before all the distractions of the onrushing day begin to challenge your energy and balance. In the same way that a person learns to play a musical instrument by spending a portion of each day in practice, meditation too can be mastered. The benefits to your overall health and wellness are remarkable and numerous. I highly recommend reading 'Creative Visualization' by Shakti Gawain if you are new to the idea of meditation and wish to explore it further.

Meditation is one way I self-honour myself and replenishing my energy so that I come from a more balanced and authentic place as I interact with the world around me. By looking after my personal needs first, I have the energy to give of myself and to others without feeling exhausted or depleted in any way. By putting my self-care first, everyone with whom I come in contact feels the benefits in the way I relate to them. Think about what activities strengthen your connection with your Authentic Self.

Conscious Energy 023 - The Energy of Contentment

The Tao Te Ching says:

To understand others is to have knowledge;

To understand oneself is to be illuminated.

To conquer others needs strength;

To conquer oneself is harder still.

To be content with what one has

is to be rich...

When we begin to constantly lean into the future, always looking for what could or should be, instead of cultivating a reality of contentment with what we have, we degrade our energy much like adding water to wine. We have more wine but the intensity and flavour suffers.

Take some time today to live in the moment. This may be as simple as closing your eyes and feeling your breath move in and out. Or it may be looking at a loved one as he or she sleeps and marveling at the intense beauty that is animated life. Find a way to draw yourself from the past or the future and experience now.

Here's a good exercise; Sit in a chair. Now, experience the chair. Feel it. Be aware of your body as it is pulled into the chair by gravity. Experience your feet on the ground in front of the chair. Feel yourself as your consciousness increases and begins to experience the 'now' of the chair. You will become weightless. You will realize the chair, the floor, your body, the wall...they are all one experience at one moment. They are all one thing. Try it! Weightless is fun.

As you begin to practice this over and over, you may find the floor and walls around you beginning to take on a sort of soft, elastic, spongy appearance. That's normal. By coming to grips with the now of this dimension, you begin to see glimpses into other mirror universes that co-exist with the dimension that we call reality. You will begin to realize just how easy it is to experience happiness and contentment by being aware of this dimension and you will want to experience it over and over again, just like any pleasurable experience.

Remember these words as you practice being present in the now moment;

Breathe. Relax. Feel. Watch. Allow.

We'll explore those wonderful ideas soon. Now, go find a chair to sit in. And really sit in it!