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Lallymac · 01-09-2007, 09:52 AM

This same issue has come up for debate around my dining room with friends since 'The Secret' has been passed around because the appears a wee bit contradictory on this point. I don't think there is one single answer to it. It appears to me that the more in 'zone' we are and the more closely our intentions are aligned with your own truth, the more rapidly you're able to manifest. Passion appears to a be a major key.
In saying that though we are also able to reprogram the part of our mind that stores emotional responses and reactions.
Let me give you an example.
15 yrs ago I did a day course ( the Miracle of Metaphysics) with a man called Robert Stone who wrote 'You the Healer.' Bob must have been in his early 70's and I remember him shuffling through the 150 plus (mainly business) people in the hotel conference room, wearing scruffy cords and tweed jacket with leather patches on the elbows. My Dad had dragged me along and I had no idea what it was about. I groaned thinking 'This is going to be a looong day.'
How wrong I was. Bob took us through a series of exercises (roaring at each other like lions) to break down barriers, then, in and out of meditative states. He had us think of an issue in our lives that was creating a problems for us. I was newly separated, living on a tight budget and it was a few weeks before xmas. My three kids had expectations of gifts outside my ability to deliver. I was feeling vulnerable and not wanting to dissapoint them. He had us experience (associate into) that negative feeling. Then he used time line therapy to take us to a time in our lives when we felt the exact opposite and associate fully into that feeling. In meditation, he had us create a symbol for the new positive feelings/sensations. Mine was my kids leaping in the air with excitement as they unwrapped their presents. Everytime we felt the negative feeling we were to bring up the symbol and it would unleash all the senations. Simple...?? I can honestly tell you that I didn't believe it could change anything but I played the game for next couple of weeks because it felt a heck of lot better than the awful feelings I'd had before.

01-09-2007, 09:52 AM	#26 (permalink)
Lallymac Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Auckland NZ Posts: 375	This same issue has come up for debate around my dining room with friends since 'The Secret' has been passed around because the appears a wee bit contradictory on this point. I don't think there is one single answer to it. It appears to me that the more in 'zone' we are and the more closely our intentions are aligned with your own truth, the more rapidly you're able to manifest. Passion appears to a be a major key. In saying that though we are also able to reprogram the part of our mind that stores emotional responses and reactions. Let me give you an example. 15 yrs ago I did a day course ( the Miracle of Metaphysics) with a man called Robert Stone who wrote 'You the Healer.' Bob must have been in his early 70's and I remember him shuffling through the 150 plus (mainly business) people in the hotel conference room, wearing scruffy cords and tweed jacket with leather patches on the elbows. My Dad had dragged me along and I had no idea what it was about. I groaned thinking 'This is going to be a looong day.' How wrong I was. Bob took us through a series of exercises (roaring at each other like lions) to break down barriers, then, in and out of meditative states. He had us think of an issue in our lives that was creating a problems for us. I was newly separated, living on a tight budget and it was a few weeks before xmas. My three kids had expectations of gifts outside my ability to deliver. I was feeling vulnerable and not wanting to dissapoint them. He had us experience (associate into) that negative feeling. Then he used time line therapy to take us to a time in our lives when we felt the exact opposite and associate fully into that feeling. In meditation, he had us create a symbol for the new positive feelings/sensations. Mine was my kids leaping in the air with excitement as they unwrapped their presents. Everytime we felt the negative feeling we were to bring up the symbol and it would unleash all the senations. Simple...?? I can honestly tell you that I didn't believe it could change anything but I played the game for next couple of weeks because it felt a heck of lot better than the awful feelings I'd had before.