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Old 08-04-2010, 03:32 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I thought I'd start a thread for those who have decided to join Steve's avatar() in the Subjective Reality experiment/trial. Living from inspiration also seemed perfect for me and at this point I can't tell the difference.

I thought it would be nice to have a central thread where we can share our experiences, if your avatar so feels inclined.

I started doing this on Sunday, and by the following day I had already dreamed one other person in my personal life to join me in this.

I know that Ssandra was also going to be doing this as well.

So far, only 3 days into it, I've been having really deep insights in some areas of my life, mainly money and relationships. Some of it has been deeply painful. Nothing like taking full responsibility for all that you're creating.
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Old 08-09-2010, 03:05 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I thought I'd start a thread for those who have decided to join Steve's avatar() in the Subjective Reality experiment/trial. Living from inspiration also seemed perfect for me and at this point I can't tell the difference.

I thought it would be nice to have a central thread where we can share our experiences, if your avatar so feels inclined.

I started doing this on Sunday, and by the following day I had already dreamed one other person in my personal life to join me in this.

I know that Ssandra was also going to be doing this as well.

So far, only 3 days into it, I've been having really deep insights in some areas of my life, mainly money and relationships. Some of it has been deeply painful. Nothing like taking full responsibility for all that you're creating.
How do you decide what's inspiration and what isn't?

For example, say if I felt like playing the xbox, I'm pretty sure that isn't inspiration lol
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Old 08-09-2010, 05:51 PM   #3 (permalink)
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How do you decide what's inspiration and what isn't?

For example, say if I felt like playing the xbox, I'm pretty sure that isn't inspiration lol
Why isn't playing xbox inspiration?
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How do you decide what's inspiration and what isn't?
Does it breathe life into your life? Does it breathe life into the lives of others? Do you feel moved? If you're not sure, then it's not inspiration.
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Why isn't playing xbox inspiration?
Because I can't see how it can do any good in my life

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Does it breathe life into your life? Does it breathe life into the lives of others? Do you feel moved? If you're not sure, then it's not inspiration.
Nicely put

Only problem is that I don't get that feeling too often

Sorry about this MidasGirl, I feel like I'm hijacking your thread
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Only problem is that I don't get that feeling too often
Could that be because you are waiting for inspiration to happen to you, or perhaps looking to find it? You can also generate it, do inspiration on purpose, if you want to.
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Could that be because you are waiting for inspiration to happen to you, or perhaps looking to find it? You can also generate it, do inspiration on purpose, if you want to.
Yeah I was kinda waiting for it to happen.. How do you generate it?
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Because I can't see how it can do any good in my life
It's not about seeing how something can do any good in your life. That's operating from a SR. You could start by stopping doing anything that does not feel inspired. Even I find myself, when I'm not inspired, doing things as fillers. If you find yourself playing xbox and it doesn't feel inspired, just stop. And do nothing. Just like most people can't stand silence, most people also can't stand being in a doing-nothing vacuum. But sometimes that is exactly what you need to do to create inspiration.

Something I've been doing lately is simply to invite the thought, "I invite inspiration in my life today, moment to moment" and I let that thought go. Then I just go about my day as I would.
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You're ok. In my world there is no such thing as a thread being "hijacked".
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I thought I'd start a thread for those who have decided to join Steve's avatar() in the Subjective Reality experiment/trial. Living from inspiration also seemed perfect for me and at this point I can't tell the difference.

I thought it would be nice to have a central thread where we can share our experiences, if your avatar so feels inclined.
I'm really glad you made this!

I'm on day 4 right now, and I must say it's been mostly an uplifting experience so far. I had a lovely conversation with a homeless man at the bus stop this afternoon, and where normally I'd be uncomfortable and try to get away as quickly as possible, I had a genuine chat with him and held hands and was told repeatedly not to take hard drugs. Got it, self. No heroin.

Changing my perspective to one of oneness has made me so unbelievably happy! I didn't know that it could be such an empowering thing. When I'm nice to others it isn't just to be polite anymore. I've never felt so connected. And I've had this almost spaced out.. high feeling, too. Like I'm not quite so grounded anymore. Things are starting to feel much more possible. I've had some pretty freaky synchronicities and manifestations too. Two days ago I was on the phone with my friend thinking to myself that if I didn't get ride to her place I'd have to ride my bike in the rain, and when I looked out the window there was a guy on a bike riding past my window. Maybe that one is stretching it a bit, but I laughed pretty hard at seeing it.

I've been trying to keep myself constantly thinking in "this is a dream" and "there is no spoon" and "we are one consciousness" terms, and have actually found it's pretty tiring. At night my sleep is broken and most of my dreams have to do with me convincing myself and other dream characters that subjective reality is real. XD

I'm excited to see how this unfolds! I'd also like to know what experiences everyone else is having.
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Thanks for sharing your experiences Vayy.

I'm on Day 10 today. One of the reasons I haven't posted on this thread since I started it is because taking on this SR lens has led to insights and breakthroughs that just leave me raw and amazed. It's like doing the Landmark forum everyday (for those that know how raw it can leave you if you immerse yourself fully). And since the breakthroughs involve people that (could) log in here and see them, I'm not very comfortable sharing them, for everyone's sake.

But in general, for me SR has really opened up things that had been buried so deep inside me, yet so obvious that it's a surprise I never saw them before.

My experience is that making the shift into SR is literally a decision to get into the mind of your Higher Self and have things revealed to you on a daily basis. You'll be surprised stuff that's buried in our subconscious!

All I can say is, don't try this unless you're ready for your life to be shaken up a little. Yet nothing will feel more profound!
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Ok, so it's day 14 of this and I'm so thankful to Steve for starting the SR trial because this stuff is completely life changing (or is it life saving?). This reminds me of when I decided to do my vegan trial, halfway through it I knew I had shifted into becoming a vegan and it was not much of a 30-day trial anymore. I feel the same about SR.

What I've experienced so far is that just actually shifting into SR and inviting the answers causes the breakthroughs to start occurring. It's like the difference between conducting an experiment in a lab for years trying to learn answers, versus just letting the answers flow through you. In any case, the answers are always there, it's just that we're pretty good at blocking them.

So my major breakthroughs so far have been in relationships.......even my relationship with my daughter which was already great has been magically transformed into this completely loving and magical relationship. I used to stress out about how much time she was playing video games, that I had to remind her to do simple things, and all that is gone *poof* and now she tells me she loves me so many times in the day I found myself wondering if there is something wrong with her The bad news is when I try to play 'dream daughter' with her she takes advantage of it and goes, "well since you're just dreaming, you should buy me whatever I want! After all it's just a dream" tee hee.

Hope everyone is having fun!
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I have discovered the character "I don't love you, I don't need you". I have been hiding this character for years simply because I did not know what to do with her. The meeting with this character was painful, but not as painful as it would have been some time ago.

As I understood, the idea here is just notice these people appearing and playing their part, but not oppose them or try to do anything about it. Am I right? For example, if I come across this place in me that does not like me, should I attempt to heal that place or just acknowledge it?
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I somehow missed this thread completely

I've been doing it mainly related to my existing relationships. And funny thing.. my f-i-l who normally annoys me a LOT, doesn't do that anymore

The last few phone calls were just normal, nice, no teasing, no weird things, and once even just to thank me for having done a wonderful job....



I'm going into this slowly. I have no patience (and don't want to have the patience right now) to see things blowing up in my face...

As for living inspirational.. I do try to do that, except that I have to deal with my laziness. Sometimes laziness is inspirational, and sometimes it is simply laziness
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I understood, the idea here is just notice these people appearing and playing their part, but not oppose them or try to do anything about it. Am I right? For example, if I come across this place in me that does not like me, should I attempt to heal that place or just acknowledge it?
I've been wondering this also.

On another note. I was at a Mongolian restaurant last night with some friends (saying goodbye to one who's going to the Philippines to build houses for the poor) and at the end of dinner we got fortune cookies. I asked to receive one that would have to do with subjective reality and inspiration and the fortune I got was: "Follow the advice of your heart."

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As I understood, the idea here is just notice these people appearing and playing their part, but not oppose them or try to do anything about it. Am I right? For example, if I come across this place in me that does not like me, should I attempt to heal that place or just acknowledge it?
You can also start to dream them as a supportive character, instead of as an adversary. This is your dream. You can change your dream, or dream your characters differently. Or recoding/reprogramming your characters --as Steve is calling it.

Read Matrix Energetics book if you get a chance. Although it centers on healing diseases, you can apply it to anything else. The premise is that you can re-arrange something simply by observing it differently.
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