Seeking Good Vibrations

Book Review: Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe by Robert Lanza and Bob Berman

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2011-04-11T12:49:38-05:00

An "external" reality, if it existed, would by definition have to exist in space. But this is meaningless, because space and time are not absolute realities but rather tools of the human and animal mind. ... 3 The behavior of subatomic particles, indeed all particles and objects, is inextricably linked to the presence of an observer. Without the presence of a conscious observer, they at best exist in an undetermined state of probability waves. ...The universe is fine-tuned for life, which makes perfect sense as life creates the universe, not the other way around. ...Space is another form of our animal understanding and does not have an independent reality. ...I couldn’t help but ponder the question whether our physicists of today are the like the church in Galileo’s time. ... Just as physicists have extended their field of study to the cosmos to further their knowledge and understanding of the universe, it would also behoove them to include biology in this mix. After all it is through the apparatus of our body and its various sensors we are able to experience the universe. Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe by Robert Lanza and Bob Berman

Kill the Interpreter

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2011-04-11T12:43:37-05:00

Another scene: You are walking to your desk at the office and see a fellow employee. ...These are just two scenarios where our thoughts start to ‘interpret’ a situation and we believe these thoughts as true. Without questioning these thoughts, we begin to suffer in the body and Mind. Contemporary neuroscience identifies a particular part of the brain, sometimes called “The Interpreter” as a source of the familiar internal narrative that gives us our sense of self. ...A professor of Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, Antonio Damasio says it this way: “Perhaps the most important revelation is precisely this: that the left cerebral hemisphere of humans is prone to fabricating verbal narratives that do not necessarily accord with the truth.” ...Michael Gazzaniga is a Professor of Psychology and the Director for the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California writes: “The left brain weaves its story in order to convince itself and you that it is in full control…. ...To end this type of suffering that we bring upon ourselves is to ‘kill the Interpreter’. Well, we can’t literally kill this part of ourselves, but when we have these thoughts, notice where these thoughts are coming from. ...You can feel ‘The Interpreter’ making up its story of what could be wrong. ...Noticing when ‘The Interpreter’ starts to take over by making up a story and becoming aware of how your body responds is a step toward awakening and letting go of the suffering that we cause within ourselves.

How Did I Get Here, the four part series

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2011-04-11T11:10:54-05:00

These creations stories that I call the history of skin and bone don’t explain anything really because in the moment that you ask the question, you believe that the answer comes from outside of you. ...When you love (which is all you can ever really do in truth),you need to realize that there is no way you or anyone else can make a mistake. ...You can get an idea of what eternity might be like when you have experiences that completely capture your attention to the point that you don’t even remember being in your body. ...So you might be asking yourself now, if God is perfect, and heaven is perfect and actually we are even perfect, how could you have ended up in this place with so much pain, war, suffering and madness? ...Just like swimming, when our collective spirit had this stray thought of its own existence, it was sort of thinking of a thought outside of itself (which is impossible) about its eternal and creative ability was able to materialize an experience of it. ...Yet, a question was only raised about what an experience feels like in the mind of the collective spirit also known as the son of God or Christ. ...This guilt is so huge with this decision of being separate that the ego does not know what to do with it all. ...As you have already learned in this series, since God is the experience of oneness, the fact that you can experience yourself as an individual, autonomous and independent thing or being, means that you have denied yourself of the experience of this oneness. ...We all seem to be separate beings, but in our true nature God has created you in perfection and thus has left nothing outside of itself, which is THE experience of oneness. ...Beyond the guilt of having thought itself outside of the nature state of oneness, the ego is now afraid that it is going to be punished by God for its “action.”

There’s Nothing Out There

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2011-03-14T15:06:33-05:00

There is no division between you and anything else, so that there is no way that anything outside of your control can happen to you. ...This aspect of true power coming from the part of you that is beyond destruction, death and loss is a core aspect of “A Course In Miracles.” The power of who you are is not separate from the power that you see in other things or people. ... It is sort of a vague concept that people would like to believe, but then there is a belief in “the universe,” crystals, crucifixes, the devil, angels, etc. ...Everything that seems to be happening to you, is put there by you to keep you “bought into” the illusion that you really are here. ...It enables you to be cut off from God, and make your own little universe, in which you get to be God. When you make a judgment, you get to decide what things are right and wrong, good and bad, ugly and beautiful, rich and poor, and happy and sad. ...When circumstances (people, events, things) occur, that seem to put me in “receipt” of what appears externally, more often I tend to question the validity of my assumptions about what is happening. More often than not, whatever seems to be happening to me, is actually occurring as a result of belief that is so closely held by me, that it occurs as an automatic reaction…because in fact, it is created by my longstanding emotional or psychological investment in it. ...If you don’t listen to the voice that reflects back to you the “facts,” opinions, judgments, lack, and sickness, then all you will hear is the voice that will tell you that you are safe and there is nothing to worry about.

Quality

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2011-03-14T15:09:55-05:00

So, as I use the term forgiveness here, it means a total dismissal, dissolving, releasing and forgetting of anything that could be foolish enough to be considered a stain or blemish of who you are. ...In this and all steps of forgiveness, you will be invoking the Holy Spirit, Jesus, or whatever you like to call the universal intelligence of which you are part. ...The quality aspect that I would like to contribute to this is to make sure that when you recognize this upset that you not only name it, but feel it completely. ...Notice that you are not asking for the removal of an external condition (or person or thing), because that contributes to the existing situation in which you already think that that the problem is “out there.” ...If I can isolate one single feeling or thought and ask that it be removed, it helps in shining the light in the dark corners of the mind. ...At the end of this step, I say “thank you” because I now know that something is going to be done with this. ... This aspect is important, because without this you might not have the confidence or belief that things will be worked on in your behalf. ...As strange as it sounds, I never felt much of a kinship with Jesus in my earlier days, but it helps me talk to him because it is a real name. ...Think about it, when you experience something that is really fine or exquisite, there is no way of applying reason, intellect or measurements to why it is so exquisite. ...The reason I talk about Quality is because, when I am doing forgiveness (and I do it all day long), there is an opening that occurs that allows me to start seeing things like they really are.

The Year of the Cat

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2011-03-14T15:10:09-05:00

She had put food out for him; some left over chicken we had from our late dinner the night before. ...First thing the lady at the shelter tells me is to bring him in and they would adopt him out. ...Whether he is fighting off the stray cats that come around the house or chasing a rabbit at full speed as I watch through three back yards. ...Later that day after the deed was done, I was told by the vet to make sure to keep The Blizz inside for 24 hours as he was still woozy from the drugs. ...And to top it all off I saw where one of the plastic light bulb cages I had put around the lights in the garage to protect them from breakage, had been melted onto the bulb. ...He had become our cat and we decided to put a collar on him, so people would know he wasn’t a feral cat. ...Or my neighbor, Mark across the street telling me he saw Izzy chase a squirrel up a tree and Izzy was about to grab the squirrel and pull him down. ...Later Mark went home and Izzy decided to take a siesta in the cool green grass of what was a warm July day in the neighbors yard next door. ...Eventually the trade off of being in a warm stable climate of a house attracted Izzy and he decided he would take advantage of sleeping during the various parts of the day or night, be a lap cat for a while then go back to the outdoor world he truly loved. ...Because his jaw was separated at the front clavicle, we were told that they didn’t know how long we would have to feed him this way.

Cut! Let's Do That Part Over

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2011-03-14T15:10:04-05:00

“What a change in how you used to be” she emphasizes, while beaming a smile at me. ...It is beneficial if you can look at this life you have as a dream. ...Look I just made some people appear to sit across from me at the airport. ...This director smiles and says, “my friend, that’s your movie, you wrote your own lines. ...This quiet director advises gently, putting a light touch on your shoulder, “how about next time, take a moment and don’t directly react to the scene. ...“Just be careful, says this director, there are things out to get you?” ...The second part is to acknowledge that it is only a movie of your own making. Apologize to yourself for reacting to something that is of your own making and thinking it is real. ...When a scene is playing out and you are not satisfied with your part, get quiet for a moment and ask director number two for a new interpretation of that scene. ...And sometimes this director will appear in your dreams, playing the role of your mother and letting you know what good job your doing.

Seeking Good Vibrations Podcast #7, Similarities of A Course in Miracles & Ho Oponopono

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2011-02-04T16:55:24-06:00

Seeking Good Vibrations Podcast #7 Bill Hartford and I discuss the similarities of A Course in Miracles and Ho Oponopono Also on iTunes. Click link below: Podcast

The Game

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2011-02-04T16:49:08-06:00

For his birthday his brother (played by Sean Penn) shows up after not seeing him for 3 years, and gives him a certificate for a “game” offered by a company. ... After talking with a business associate claiming that the game was THE significant event in his life also, the guy also provides Van Orton with a quote from the Bible (John 9:25 – “I was blind but now I see!”) ...When you talk about all of these other physical things, you are defining yourself as a cut-off being from everything else. You might feel at times, like you, your friends and your family are all one, but in fact by defining them as what you see, you are cut-off. ...I won’t tell you the ending of the movie, but there is an even more significant level about the idea of separation. ... For instance, if you lost all of your possessions at this very moment, what is the real problem? ...It states that not only are we experiencing fear from the idea of being separate, but we are actually causing literal separation from our thoughts. ...At this stage, you realize that not only are you separate from your thoughts, but that who you are is indeed independent from this noise. ...If you do not get to this state, you end up in some form of bliss and peace while you are meditating, but the state soon wears off shortly thereafter. ... A Course In Miracles recognizes the You (the person that can witness your thoughts while your meditating) could never really cause an offense.

The 30 Day LOA Workbook (Free Download) - A New Beginning

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2011-02-04T16:32:56-06:00

I re-read “Ask and It Is Given” and while watching some Abraham-Hicks’ YouTube videos, I kept coming across the 30 day workshop which included some of the processes mentioned in the book. I took that as a message and cracked open the workbook a friend of mine had given to me a few months ago. I really wanted to achieve Phase Five level of consciousness (described below) and feel like I was moving forward which was my inspiration to do this 30 day workshop. ...“In Phase Five, an individual's consciousness is directed toward the good at least fifty-one percent of the time, i.e. the positive thoughts and feelings outweigh the negative. ... There is more harmony, money is more plentiful, those old aches and pains are not as frequent, and things seem to be "right" in your life. ...The beginning was a little difficult for me, but I kept reminding myself why I was doing it and that I had to rewire my brain to make this an ongoing practice (habit). ... I’ve noticed resources coming to me left and right to the point that I just amuse myself to see how the universe is going to deliver the next thing. ...Though we may be intent on the magnificent journey ahead, all things are contained in this first moment of our optimism, our faith, our resolution, our innocence. ...In the same way, once we choose to commit ourselves to spiritual practice, even the mountains and valleys will reverberate to the sound of our purpose. ...“If I would look for something to appreciate and make that my dominant vibration, I would live happily ever after and fulfill my reason for being.”

Profit v. Usefulness

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2011-02-04T16:18:12-06:00

When I talk about useful, I mean how much inner value does it give you for long extended periods of time? As time goes by, things just don’t impress me very much and for many people I know, they feel the same way. ... So it is very possible, that the people I know are not like most people. ...The following is chapter 11 from the Tao Te Ching and is a very good explanation of exactly what I am trying to say. ...The above passage is a very clean way of saying that all of the stuff that we want, all the things you “need”, and all of the activities that you “must” do are what keeps you busy. But the question is, does all of that contain the peace of mind that it is intended to contain. ...Decide what are the things, people, events, activities, projects, jobs, money that are going to surround it. ...I used to run around, and try to grab the things I want by working my ass off or trying to learn something or another. ... Actually, the truth is that the cost of peace to me is way too much of an expense for the gain of some junk. The new way for me is to make sure that Usefulness is always greater than Profit.

I Go Back To School With Stephen Colbert

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2011-01-03T18:13:59-06:00

The ego’s need to separate is in your dreams, creating another world. ... So why not give your dream world over to your HS? At night before you go to bed, just ask your HS to take over your dream state. ... I’ll give you an example of a dream I had recently after I asked my HS to guide my dreams. ...Since it’s my dream, we were going to the University of Iowa. ... The first apartment was very small, so Stephen makes a bulldozer appear. ... I remember part of the dream was worrying about how I was going to pay for the apartment. All of a sudden this little guy appears next to Stephen who talks in a very weird accent distracting me from my lack of money thought. We go on looking at apartments and each one Stephen and I are laughing our way through until Stephen finds just the right one. On top of that I find a way to pay for everything.

Love & Intelligence – Together Again

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2011-01-02T18:09:55-06:00

Based on experiences of people that have undergone near death experience or personal clearing of consciousness, there seems to be some common pieces reported by all of these people – 1) absolute peace and cessation of all pain, and 2) being absolutely connected and unified with all that exists. One particular book I read recently is entitled “Pathways Through To Space – An Experiential Journal” by Franklin Merrell-Wolf. ... I particularly chose this book because this type of book and experience pre-dates all of the trendy “new age” books and insulates the experiences captured in the book from a lot of Oprah-like hype. ...Generally I stay away from the Sanskrit language or anyone that tells me that that they cannot explain an experience or concept in English. ...If you are largely intellectual (your path is CHIT), you can gain access to ultimate awakening, but your experience will be lacking in joy. ... Alternatively, if you access through your heart (ANANDA), your experience will be lacking in structure as to how to retrace your steps to the goal (you will be without a trail of bead crumbs, so to speak). This is for people that like to talk in a sort of mushy way a lot of spiritual subjects. ...With SAT at the apex of a triangle as a goal, you can approach this grand awakening through the two divergent mindsets- CHIT or ANANDA. I guess it is for this reason that I stick very closely to A Course In Miracles, because is a practice (read as CHIT) that incorporates a comprehensive metaphysical explanation of this illusion we call the universe and also draws the heart in (ANANDA) like a carrot through its poetry and togetherness as one. This information helped me understand why I have made the choice to pursue this specific practice of A Course In Miracles and also how I relate it to everything and everyone that has diverging interests to me.

I See The Truth Everywhere

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2011-01-03T18:02:19-06:00

Truth, as the only think that you are, will be seen now everywhere. ... The whole universe is changed now and although still being your own, is one that does not involve death. ...On one side of the new coin is the face of Christ with a blessing of truth, and the flip side is you. ... As you circulate your new currency, it arrives in the mind store of people, events and places, but so far beyond your physical eyes. ...When they roll the stone away and word gets out, lilies are the feast as you bask in the light of the world. ... It is your own, because you hold it closely in your decision, at the expense of thoughts of life. ...Although you have chosen your special ones from among the litter, it will likely be the rejected one that will be the last chosen just before time ends. An ugly duckling can be turned into a beautiful swan, but you are nothing that space or time could ever dream of creating. ...Seeing is a two way street which involves making a choice of vision, as opposed to watching a painful drama. ... Although you think you can shut off your mind, you but relinquish it to a brigand that claims to work in your interest, but empties the store when you are known to be distracted.

Seeking Good Vibrations #6 Meditation Discussion

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-12-17T17:00:09-06:00

Seeking Good Vibrations Podcast #6 Bill Hartford and I discuss meditation techniques and what benefits we see in meditating. And I rerun Denise Van Vliet’s discussion on a new meditation she has put together. Also on iTunes. Click link below: Bill adds his Ho ‘Oponopono meditation on the Downloads section of the Resource Page

The Journey to Your Manifestation Matters More Than the Manifestation

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-12-17T16:47:44-06:00

"What's tripping you up mostly is the feeling that whatever you are manifesting, you gotta get it ..."You are not accepting that you can get another house every single year, you're thinking this is ..."The fastest way to loosen up and allow what's in your vibrational escrow is to appreciate what ...In your appreciation of what is you stop resistance, and when you stop resistance what's in ... ...

Seeking Good Vibrations Podcast #5

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-12-02T15:35:56-06:00

Seeking Good Vibrations Podcast #5 I talk to Joe Wolfe about his A Course in Miracles work with prison inmates. And Denise Van Vliet discuss a new meditation she has put together. ...Please note on this podcast with Joe, there is some distortion due to the phone connection we had. Joe Wolfe’s Books The End of Reincarnation with the Five Signs ...Joe’s Website Check out Denise’s Meditation Below

Grateful for a Birth Defect?

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-12-01T15:23:33-06:00

Many years ago, when friends would come to me and want to talk about their problems, I would sit and listen. ...Sometimes I would say to friends “don’t think it can’t get any worse, because it can.” ... Because from my life’s experience, that was what I knew to be the truth and my friends deserved the truth, not some BS like “oh don’t worry, it’ll be ok” or “look at the bright side.” I felt that if they took their eye off off the problem, it would grow larger and stronger and overtake them completely and then they would never trust me to give them sound advice again. ...The doctors came into my room and said that my son had a serious birth defect and he would need surgery, he would be underweight, he would have hearing loss and speach impediments, increased respiratory illnesses, etc. ...As you can imagine, I went through the gamut of emotions and the legendary mother’s guilt I’d heard so much about kicked in as if on cue. ...The kid had no idea he was anything but perfect and in that gift, I listened to him deeply, carefully and with undivided attention. He allowed me to be grateful for everything that was going right with him and from there, I began to shift, for good. Ryan spoke clearly and early, he grew plump and happy and healthy, without any complications due to his cleft palett or surgeries. This is my personal story of how gratitude truly took hold in my life and how my baby boy introduced me to “the friendly Universe” I am so humbled to live in now.

Souvenirs

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-12-01T15:23:40-06:00

More and more, I tend to look at these people and try to restore what I know is their truth in spirit. ... It is easy to think that what someone did or didn’t do is the truth. ...Rather than looking at all the loss and wreckage, it is better to restore your mind to the wholeness of what was originally intended rather than what appeared to happen through your body’s senses. ...You might think that when you remember someone or something that they did as negative, you may think you are giving them the pain. ...One of the things that I do, is to remember to look at these relationships as souvenirs. ... Most of the time, there is always something good to be remembered, by just about everyone that was in your life. ...You might not get it completely right, but my guess is that you know much more about their Self than you would like to admit. I suggest you spend some time and collect souvenirs of these people from your past and hold them in the light of truth that they see in themselves. ...Even if they bad-mouthed you to the entire school district, stabbed or even raped you, they were just trying to fill something inside of them that was aching for some deeper need. ...fs=1&hl=en_US">

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Seeking Good Vibrations Podcast #4

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-11-10T15:59:26-06:00

Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard Mind Movies 2.0 Three apps for the iPhone Music interlude by Robert Graff Or go to iTunes here Want to take a test drive of Mind Movies 2.0? ...

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Carl Jung and The Course – Part 2

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-10-29T08:58:28-05:00

Similarly in this case, the quality of your experience is completely determined by your ability to train your mind to remove perception and see what is truly not there. ...Most useful of all, Jung saw that in the wholeness of our nature, that everything we do, think, feel or experience has purpose and meaning. ...It was only after the creation of this very complex structure, did Jung ultimately realize that the totality of the building and the components actually symbolized his own personal psychic wholeness. ...Very consistent with The Course, is the concept that from the ego’s standpoint, Jung saw how very easy it is for the ego to downgrade aspects of our experience that are inconsistent with limited egoic fixations. ...When you watch these scenes that have some simulated violence, don’t look at it as more external violence “out there” in form – space ships, jet fighters, the world, universe, etc… There is no “out there,” it’s all really “in here” – of you. Rather, attempt to look at these scenes as symbols of an internal battle you are fighting for the only truth that is the experience of the only thing worthy of struggle – your being. ... ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2F2610e05d-3c5b-420a-a161-598c5126f1a1&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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Carl Jung and The Course – Part 1

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-10-25T17:27:46-05:00

At the heart of all of Jung’s work, was his belief that it is essential to discover our innate individual potential as human beings. ...At 12 years old, he noticed that he was actually two people – the first, an inferior schoolboy and a second “personality,” an old wise man that existed close to all beings and God. ...He eventually realized that the recognition of these two personalities was not a “split” or disassociation in a pathological sense, but rather a natural and healthy aspect of every human being. ...The work on typology was intended to provide the insight, that every aspect of personal judgment that is conditioned by an individual’s personality type. ...It is essential to remember that Jung’s personality types were intended to provide guidance as to how you undermine your being, by unconsciously associating with your dominant personality type. ... This usage of Myers Briggs indicators are fine if you want to learn how to stay in the world of effects, but it will not help you be at cause. ... ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2F2610e05d-3c5b-420a-a161-598c5126f1a1&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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Run {Insert Your Name Here} Run!! – My musings on the subject of action in our daily lives

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-10-25T17:33:23-05:00

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Seeking Good Vibrations Podcast #2

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-10-06T11:41:45-05:00

by Dan Doviddio I talk to Denise Van Vliet about Runda 3. Runda 3 is Denise’s interpretation of how our conscious, subconscious and Higher Self work together. This is very informative and I hope you give it a listen. Seeking Good Vibrations Podcast #2 Or go to iTunes here Here is Denise’s Runda 3 illustration. You can read Denise’s article here and at the Runda 3 Website

The Law of Distraction

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-09-26T12:59:31-05:00

My family and I took a train trip vacation to Los Angeles where we saw all kinds of highly cool stuff – Universal Studios (where they were still filming Gilligan’s Island and McHale’s Navy), Disneyland, Catalina Island and the Chinese Theater. ... This was Los Angeles summer of 1965, the summer when The Doors would architect musical anarchy….and there I was in Venice Beach, probably yards from where they were doing drugs and dreaming dreams of music at the moment. ...Until I actually landed in California in 1980, I finally realized, while sitting by myself in those early days, drinking a beer in some extinct Market Street cafe, that this was of my inspired making. ...I wouldn’t want to say that there is a lot of misleading going on intentionally, but I think much of the law of attraction tends to play into what people would like to believe, rather than the way that LOA really works. These days you hear people telling other people that all you have to do it to put stuff on your vision board, think positive and highly emotional thoughts, in words using the present tense, and your dreams will be manifested. ...So….the idea is that when you are able to scrub the emotional crust from this perfect sphere that you are, you will be given inspiration of whatever it is that you will be, do or have. ...fs=1&hl=en_US">

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Did my past life save my life?

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-09-26T12:59:35-05:00

I was just a kid and really had no business getting married at such a young age but things were confusing for me back then and all I thought about was living in the moment and experiencing everything I could, as quickly as I could since I was convinced I was going to die young. ...As a newlywed, I felt a sense of hope and excitement about the future but we were always broke, so there was an underlying doubt that any of our dreams would ever actually come true. ... I found comfort in the structure and discipline the church demanded, and frankly, I was tired of the psychic spiritual energy humming around me all the time and saying a “Hail Mary” seemed to really help ground me, not to mention asking my new best friend St. ...They were being “converted” too, just like me, so I felt connected and tried to send a little extra love to those buildings when I walked past since I could sense the spirits of all of those who lived there before. ...I don’t remember exactly when or where I was when I heard about the poisoned Tylenol and how Paula Prince died because she was in the same Walgreen’s, on the same day, and, who knows, perhaps purchased the same bottle of Tylenol I couldn’t afford and had to put back on the shelf. I do remember my husband being fairly unaffected by the whole thing and not making a big deal out of it, while I on the other hand, felt an enormous flood of emotions for several months afterward. ...I just knew that if my life was spared, it had to mean that I was supposed to go out and do something really big and important with my life! ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2F7f107853-2e27-42be-8761-20951e82e8bb&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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Child To Man, Soul To Soul

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-09-26T12:59:39-05:00

As I looked up, I noticed that while his mother appeared as if she didn't even see me, he on the other hand seemed fixated upon my antics as I was rolling back and forth up the street toward him. ... I felt as if he had sensed my joy and he felt my presence – even at his young age. ...I was then focused on the thought that my care-free demonstration had potentially affected this young mind in a profound way. This moment may have been indelibly stamped on his human experience, and he may have been put on a path to look for fun in his life everywhere he goes. ... He was as close to his purely-positive Inner-Being energy as anybody I might ever meet or know. ... The lesson for me was this: If you are looking for connection to your own inner-being then you will find it. ...

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The Sacred Personality

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-09-20T10:12:07-05:00

For the most part though, these tests are rarely put to their best use because they are really suggesting that you change your world by what you do, rather than by gaining the real leverage of changing your interior world first. ...In the last few years, I became aware of another system that is really intended to help map out the personality “field” that sort of covers up the real you. ...The significant aspect of this system that is particularly useful is that it helps to understand how you are strongly blocked from your divine essence by a primary personality type. ...In this movie Jeff Bridges plays Jack Lucas, a heady radio talk show personality in New York that spits out in-your-face advice to callers with personal issues. ...This character had a hard time being close to people and is a very confrontational figure because 8′s feel like it is not okay to be vulnerable or to trust anyone. ...Feeling vindicated, Jack gains back his original radio job and starts to live the same empty life of high rise luxury apartments and limo’s that he was living at the beginning of the movie. Only this time, in the middle of negotiating a new sit-com deal, he catches himself going back to his old ways, and suddenly it feels familiarly uncomfortable due to his recent brush with true essence in helping Perry. ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2Fa6cf2e91-a508-4814-8c59-274d25b51f83&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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God Doesn’t Call The Qualified But Rather Qualifies The Called.

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-09-20T09:56:48-05:00

If you’re like me you will doubt yourself at some point and wonder if you’re crazy for even considering a huge career change or a cross-country relocation or some other status quo killer… you’ll be scared that it might all be for nothing because you just aren’t qualified. Radical faith will be needed, believe me, but know that if you are being called, then you are qualified. Having a heart’s desire to share yourself in a way that comes from deep within you is all the credential you need to begin. We live in a friendly Universe, and I know from experience that the resources like money, mentors, classes, experiences, clients will be there for you if you have faith. One of my favorite teachers, Sonia Choquette told me many years ago that a life of living your heart’s desire isn’t for cowards, it takes courage. ...I believe in you and I’m cheering you on! ...

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Connecting The Dots

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-09-13T16:52:47-05:00

The Course talks about the real world as a state of knowing everything and being everywhere at once, non-stop unconditional love, cessation of separation and being one with everything, and a complete and instantaneous knowledge of how every little detail is essentially a part of and within all that exists. ...Recently I read a book “Consciousness Beyond Life – The Science of Near-Death Experience” by Dr Pim van Lommel, M.D. – a cardiologist in The Netherlands. This book establishes the fact that Near-Death Experience (NDE) is not a medical condition, but in fact a taste of mind beyond the body. ...I want to think that we are now in an era of ever increasing awareness to something in us that is greater than we “think” we are already. Even if we blow up the planet before we become aware enough to appreciate it, this other thing we are, will still be there waiting for us to return. Obviously if we blow up the whole planet before we get enlightened enough, we are all going to be in that other place earlier than we want to be. ...It beats me how to get in and stay there, but I really would like to think that this is the last life that I must make on earth to learn how to do this. ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2Fe715d931-3926-44e7-931e-2457a9b6f185&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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Paying Attention - Receive Gifts

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-09-13T16:52:55-05:00

I walked over for a closer look. It was a squash plant that grown with it’s vines climbing a blue spruce tree. It was was growing out of someone’s compost bin. The squash vines had grown way up in the tree And the beauty of the squash plant was really appealing upon closer examination. From the flowers it put out To the squash itself. Since we create our own world, why not look for the best. Because if the world is a reflection of ourselves. Let’s look good and receive the gifts just waiting for us.

Podcast # 1 Bill Hartford and I discuss Ho'ponopono

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-09-11T12:29:44-05:00

by Dan Doviddio This is our first Podcast. I’ll hope you’ll join me in welcoming Bill Hartford as we discuss Ho’oponopono. Podcast # 1

…..On Surviving Death

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-09-09T09:59:57-05:00

One guy named Laleet, told me that from where he comes from in India, that if you live a bad life, you end up being reincarnated as a mud fish, a weasel or a desert hare. ...Yet, we come into this world with predispositions… directly from the womb, we come screaming into this world (literally), we have immediate personalities, our lives seems to be a personal passion play of making the same mistakes over and over again from playground, to classroom, to bedroom, to boardroom. Can you think of a time in your life when you or someone else’s action may have caused you an embarrassment or it resulted in a damning decision about yourself that you suffered at that time AND has been played out time and time again in your life? ...Maybe you have spent your whole life trying to recover from this one isolated incident but it has really no objective meaning to anyone else, nor can they even remember it ever happening. ...I think that we think that only “pure souls” can enter into the world and that stained souls are barred from entry. ... Is it so hard to believe that if souls can be condemned to hell, that some of these same souls can’t be let back into life again? ...As a matter of fact, Jesus went out of his way to die on the cross to show you that you don’t have any sins and never did. ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2F10fd726d-3222-44cb-be7b-d0b6bdfce829&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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Praying For Learning Without Pain

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-09-08T07:47:34-05:00

There are some that have just awakened to that voice within that offers a higher perspective of why they are here and it’s very unsettling. ... We know it when we see it because we have “been there, done that” and we also struggle right along with them, but for different reasons. ...We ourselves have experienced tremendous karmic lessons in this lifetime on our Way, and one of the most potent gifts we take away from those lessons is that we now know that we can, through divine grace, pray a prayer of unconditional love so powerfully that it serves as a healing tool that keeps energy moving and ascension unfolding. This prayer of healing for our clients, our students, our friends and families is that their eyes open to their potential, and that they can learn to love themselves enough to learn without pain. ...This is what my own little corner of the Universe looks like this morning and as always, I love you all! ...v=250&username=xa-4b54fbc831e0db32"> ...

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Cruel To Be Kind

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-09-06T14:52:08-05:00

Suddenly, I realize what the vocals are saying….”you’ve got to be cruel to be kind.” I thought how strange it is how such a beautiful package this song is, but the message is a little tainted (actually really messed up!). ...If you are of a consistent age bracket to me, you will have certainly heard this song and tapped your foot to it, as well. ...I am not trying pick this song to death, but sometimes, you’ve got shake yourself up and realize what songs your singing, or listening to or the thoughtless things you hear everyday in the news that is really messed up. I certainly hope that I am wrong and that one does not need to be cruel to be kind. ... I hoping that this post has at least made you laugh a little bit, if not made you think a little more. ...v=250&username=xa-4b54fbc831e0db32"> ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2F10fd726d-3222-44cb-be7b-d0b6bdfce829&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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Constipation Of The Mind

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-09-06T14:52:14-05:00

When we quiet ourselves before we sit down and focus on anything, we can quiet that Constipated Mind so that we can get things from the heart rather than from ‘intention’ or the Mind. ...It inspires us to move forward and the Universe literally opens up the way for whatever we’ve been inspired to do and it will unfold completely naturally. ...But if you sit back and clear the Mind, this is when your heart opens up and the Universe opens up and you are inspired. ...In that very popular movie that made Law of Attraction a household name, they said if you think positively that you will get a red car, then the Universe will give you a red car. ...When you are inspired for example, Universe, I want a reliable car that is environmentally friendly, easy to maintain, comfortable for the family and it gets me to and from work reliably. ...I’ve learned to get myself and my Constipated Mind out of the way so that the Universe can flow through me. ...v=250&username=xa-4b54fbc831e0db32"> ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2Fd28c4673-3a88-48ca-b054-6ecb7b9788a3&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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Feeling Sideways

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-08-30T09:20:39-05:00

Then I was reading in The Course that when you are in the process of “the undoing,” that this is a phase of great unease. When I face these final disappointments, built upon a life time of learning to cope with fears and conflicts that just don’t work anymore, I am left with suffering. ... Nothing made sense because I had dislodged a bunch of stuff and it was still floating around in the newer machine that is replacing it. I am reading this book now called Take Me To Truth by Nouk Sanchez and Tomas Vieira. ... “A word of caution: Many if not most, spiritual seekers and teachers have not yet taken the first step. They have, perhaps, accumulated an astonishing amount of spiritual knowledge, however their egos are still intact…..taking the first step initiates the unlearning and undoing of the ego. ...In fact, although I have been studying this stuff for many years now, I can see where I am still wrapped in bullshit. ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2F10fd726d-3222-44cb-be7b-d0b6bdfce829&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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Forget the News, I Have a Life to Create

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-08-30T08:36:08-05:00

I was sitting on the porch with a nice frosty beer, reading the Marketplace section of the WSJ (I don’t read the front section). ... We had some discussions about the White Sox and then turned over the coyote situation that was happening in our town of Wheaton. ... He told me how he saw a coyote last evening walk by our driveway and I told him about my varied sightings also. We had recently adopted Izzy earlier this year when he had wandered up to us in February looking for food. ...So Mark leaves and Izzy decides to go out in the neighbors yard and bask in the cool grass, watching flying insects and pawing at them in the air. ... I no sooner get back in the screened in porch and a coyote walks by exactly where Izzy was pawing bugs in the grass. ...At that point I decided that Izzy has his own good thing going and that I won’t interrupt it with my own thoughts. ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2Fd11f5e4e-73ca-4f89-a190-2171dbe3c71f&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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Let Go and Let God... are You &@#! Kidding Me?

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-08-23T12:48:46-05:00

Even if we know intellectually the teachings of whatever philosophy you may follow, if you don’t change what you do and then expect new results is ridiculous. ...I got a life to lead and if this crap doesn’t work I’ve wasted another day - month - year on this and I’m still where I was. ...I saw him in our backyard when he was homeless back in January (yes we adopted him), and he would just bask in the sun or let the old garden growth scratch his back. ...You want to establish a relationship with your Higher Self because as you advance, this will be your “Go To Guy” when you are moving energy forward and you are seeking advice from this great partner of yours. ...To Pono (as I call it because I don’t care to type the whole spelling) is when you have a thought that is even mildly disturbing you say: ...So instead of letting the powers that be in this instance control the situation, I let the power that be’s me, my Higher Self take over. I just said ‘you know the situation, let me know the best way to handle it, in the meantime I’ll just go work out’. ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2F940dc276-3b05-44de-8c8c-62d457cd72f4&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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Are You Really Making Your Own Decisions?

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-08-19T17:18:51-05:00

For me, this experiment confirmed that the way we think is somewhat “hard wired” into our brain and it takes conscious effort / awareness to change our default way of thinking (beliefs) in ...So in Abe speak, if our desire is to move up our emotional set point on the emotional scale we need to create new neural path ways and that ...Abraham-Hicks’ video on the 30 Day Process: ...http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/m-udi041408.php ...

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You May Be Looking, But Are You Seeing?

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-08-15T19:03:10-05:00

I got my default favorite perch, window seat, high table and bar stool, that’s right, I live the good life. ... What we normally do is watch people and make snap judgements about them. In an instance, usually with little thought involved, we do a quick sort of stored information we have and voila’ we have judgement. It happens so fast and so often, this becomes our normal walking state. So I decided to stop that judgement state and go with the ‘Higher Self’ state of being. ... There is a state where the ego gear that judges is disengaged. When you use your ego to look at the world in the way it is intended, take charge of your thoughts, it becomes a useful instrument. As I munched on tacos and gazed out at the sidewalk on 5th Avenue, I saw people for who they are. ... From your Higher Self perspective there is love and appreciation for who they are. It’s quite remarkable and a step in seeing the world in the way you intended when you became a physical form.

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-08-09T14:46:28-05:00

I believed it then, and still now, that so much of what is said in this music, is but one statement repeated in 14 studio albums and 26 well-played singles. ...I don’t generally like to quote other people’s lyrics, but they just popped into my head today when I was out for a walk. ...When you continually become aware of all of the little judgments and bitches about yourself, the ho’oponopono system allows you recognize them, neutralize them and create an opening that allows you to experience a state that is naturally you….a brilliant diamond. ...This is an acknowledgment that some thought (without you knowing about it) has entered into your mind and body and is causing havoc. ...You are not asking the greater source to forgive you, because no real power can even acknowledge that you can be anything but perfect. So don’t bother asking God for forgiveness, because he or she does not know what you’re talking about. ...Have you ever been around someone that is really angry (without them even speaking a word to you), and you can just feel it? ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2F10fd726d-3222-44cb-be7b-d0b6bdfce829&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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Thinking About Security

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-08-07T15:40:39-05:00

With the energy shift that has already happened, the result was exposing the veil of security that was placed in the institutions that gave a false sense of security. ... Play the game for the joy of it, but as soon as you place your security in something other than your own Source, you have chosen to give your power away. ...The governments and other institutions will have you believe that your security is in their hands. ... The way to future possibilities will be shown to you as long as you stop looking at how things once were. ...Some were working for the corporate institution for all of their life only to be let go as if they were a used garment. ...It's a cycle that is now breaking with the shift in energy. ...You can either take your power back and only put your security in your source, or keep looking for places or institutions to place your security in and keep repeating the cycle. ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2F15f615c2-e044-4a89-8582-18170e63972a&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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NPS or the Need to Please Syndrome

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-07-29T10:34:29-05:00

When we look to someone else to make us feel good or worthy or important or loved, we are actually giving our power away. ...Getting dressed for school one day, Mom shows her disapproval by saying, “What will the neighbors think if they see you wearing that?” I could be wearing something that makes me feel good in the moment and Mom is all worried about what the neighbors would think? ...Our relationships are based on the idea that a man or our knight in shining armor comes and he is going to carry us away and we will live happily ever after. ...We are so brain washed that we must look, behave, and buy certain things in order for others to love us. But deep inside, from the hundreds of women I've talked to, more than 90% do not even know how to love themselves. ... In order to take our power back and to learn to love unconditionally, we MUST start from the inside out. ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2F1f53adc8-2a7e-4219-ba08-a82105720845&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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Clinging To Life

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-07-19T10:38:07-05:00

It is hard to imagine how a consciousness like this tree, could have “figured out” how to direct its roots to the only place that could support its need for water, nutrients and physical support. ...By its very existence, the Universe needs this tree and is going to see to it that it remains in this world for now. And this decision has been made apparently for reasons that have nothing to do with me (what I can see, feel, hear, taste, or touch). In Aldous Huxley’s book “The Doors of Perception” he states that “Man’s highly developed color sense is a biological luxury – inestimably precious to him as an intellectual and spiritual being, but unnecessary to his survival as an animal.” For a guy like me that has had the universe defined for me in strict Newtonian and Cartesian rules, color would appear to have no place here. ...Huxley writes “All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all” and “as man proposes, God disposes.” ...I guess you can define life in either way…..form (your body, the world you see) or experience (pain, peace, joy, war, happiness). ...Maybe you are imagining that you will look like an idiot if you make a mistake or maybe you are imagining that you will lose a big account because your trip over a few words. ... If you do not know what the thought is, then the thought is “that you just don’t know what the thought is” and start from there. ...Just this morning, I asked myself a series of questions as to why do I want my son to make his own mistakes, rather than me just fixing them for him.

Stuff and Happiness

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-07-21T10:38:46-05:00

The best thing for me about a real vacation is being away from home. ... You can’t feel a little guilty not doing things if you’re not there to do them, right. If you feel guilty because you’re away and not doing things around the house, well, I can’t help you there. ...We see something we want and we can picture ourselves using the object of our desire in a happy way. Think about it, we don’t buy a new car thinking that it will depress us to drive it. ...And I have nice stuff around me, but it’s just along for the ride. ...Let’s face it, sometimes being happy takes a little work depending where you are on the emotional scale chart. ...ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fseekgoodvibr-20%2F8010%2F912d480a-976d-4437-928c-9b126e5f3e74&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate">

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We Are All Just Victims of Victims – Or Are We?

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-07-08T11:57:53-05:00

If your mother or father did not know how to love themselves unconditionally they couldn’t possibly have taught you how to love yourself. ... Once you get to the point where you consciously realize this, you will then understand that our parents did not do anything to us. ...All experiences that you have had up to this point in your life all started with the thoughts and words that you used a decade ago, last year, last month or even earlier today. ...I believe that one of the best ways to start breaking the cycle of victimhood is through practicing Ho’oponopono. ... Ho’oponopono also says that we are all 100% responsible for everything that happens to us and that no person, place or thing has any control over what or how we choose to think. In order to find that peace, harmony, love, gratitude and bliss in our lives we need to first have it in our thoughts. ...- “People are out to get me, Life just isn’t fair, How do you expect me to love myself, I’m just not good enough”. ...Or, when was the last time you went by a mirror, stopped, looked at yourself in the eyes and said, “I Love you, Thank you”. ...However, which statements do you think are more empowering and give you the ability to bring joy, peace, love and happiness to your life? ...And, the sooner you will start to claim back your god given power back and stop blaming your parents – because they were just victims of victims of victims, etc.

The Three Levels of Consciousness

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-07-05T14:59:12-05:00

While my husband and I were in Ireland in April of 2010, we were on a spiritual quest. ... I’ll save the details for a later date, but 3 days after that experience I had a vision during a meditation of the totem. I want to say that they are my animal spirit guides, but they tell me that they are all of our animal spirit guides. I told my daughter, the artist of the family, what I saw and she drew the picture for me. ...Well 3 days later, again while in meditation, all of a sudden I had to start writing. ...So ask your inner Wolf; are you a slave to your Wolf, or do you train your conscious self to serve your highest good? ...It’s amazing what the Universe will reveal to you when you ask and then open yourself up for the answers. ... Because this whole process started in Ireland with my personal experience, I decided to look up the word secret in Irish or Gaelic. ...Rúnda 3™ is a complete system for those in the healing arts to heal themselves and others, and to connect with their individual psychic gifts. When we learn how to use the 3 levels and how they communicate, we open ourselves up to healing ourselves and others and opening up our individual intuitive/psychic gifts.

The 12 Phases of Consciousness

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-07-08T15:18:23-05:00

One of the chapters in the book describes the 12 Phases of Consciousness which is a result of Price’s research after conducting interviews with people at different levels of consciousness. This chapter intrigued me because I saw the description of my own journey in the first four phases. It felt similar to looking at a map you see in the malls with the “You Are Here” marker. The book helped me calibrate myself on this “scale” to figure out where I was on my consciousness journey and provided a glimpse into what it is like to experience higher phases and what I can do to move to the next phase. ... For example here’s a quote for what is feels to be in phase 5. “In Phase Five, an individual's consciousness is directed toward the good at least fifty-one percent of the time, i.e. the positive thoughts and feelings outweigh the negative. Now the clouds seem to part and more sunshine than ever comes into your life. There is more harmony, money is more plentiful, those old aches and pains are not as frequent, and things seem to be "right" in your life.” The above quote inspired me to be more mindful of the thoughts I attract and to practice focusing on positive things and to establish a routine when I get up in the morning and go to bed at night. This way I get the day started on a positive note and end the day on a positive note as well.

Dark Energy, Dark Matter And The Larger Part Of Ourselves

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-07-02T11:50:39-05:00

There have been observations about the universe that can become more clearly understood only if these theoretical forces truly exist. One can experience the effects of the wind without seeing it, and this is much like the evidence for the existence of dark energy and dark matter. ...Dark matter is a way to explain gravitational effects on both light and matter, bending light and affecting the path of travel of matter. ... What we can see as observable matter only accounts for 3 to 4% of the energy-mass of the universe! ...The non-physical, larger part of ourselves is analogous to the dark energy and dark matter of the universe. The larger part (by far) of who we are is non-physical, but overwhelming evidence suggests that this larger part, (our inner-being, soul, god-force, higher-self, etc.) is more who we are than the flesh & bones we normally consider to be “us.” ...It would only make sense that what we sense mostly would be the effects of energy of which there is the most: dark energy and dark matter. ...Our emotions provide us with the overwhelming evidence that there is more to our existence than what we know as 'reality.' However, our emotions are more than just sensors, they are guides, lighting the way to joy, step by step. Pay attention to your emotions, and the bigger part of yourself and you will be in alignment with the most powerful forces in the Universe.

Living From The Inside Out

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-06-21T07:03:22-05:00

I stopped when I noticed a stretch of the path where the surface of the asphalt was getting punctured by plants growing from underneath. ... This seemed to be a stretch of the path where the asphalt was new or maybe the plants very hearty, but apparently chosen carefully. All my life, I have been amazed at the miracle of a “frail” plant punching through 3 or 4 inches of stubborn asphalt just to find the sky. ...A lot of times, we think that we do things because it is the thing to do, for financial gain, to impress someone, or maybe do the American way. ...Like a gazelle out on the savanah that can process thousands of blades of moving grass and can detect immediately that a specific type of movement is indeed a lion in tall grass and not just the wind blowing. The problem with feeling for us is that our emotions are the product of a long evolutionary progression that has not yet caught up with our situation yet. ...Your emotions are treating the situation of a cold call as a synthetic stimulus that mimics a true and present danger that was true at one point in history, but is now, long gone. ...It is both in thinking and feeling that we have a direct active and conscious part to play in our own individual evolution. I say evolution because your life on earth is just a segment of the life that just is and does not die, as we say here. ... When you encounter beliefs that are not in accordance with who you are, you will feel something vaguely dull and incorrect (just like Neo).

How Ho’oponopono Made Me a Better Listener

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-06-28T08:41:55-05:00

I have to admit I’m not good at hearing people vent without providing solutions. So usually our conversations end up with me giving her suggestions and my wife getting pissed for not just listening. A few months ago I had read the book “Zero Limits” which described the Ho’oponono technique. ...I thought these statements while my wife was describing her day at work. The next day, while we were walking our dog she mentioned that I did an amazing job listening to her ven and that she noticed the change. I shared with her that I was clearing myself using Ho’oponono while she was talking. The following week she told me that the kids who were usually non-responsive really got involved in the group therapy session and that the session was one of the best she’d experienced at this place in while. She mentioned that she said the four statements before starting the session. I often use Ho’oponono when I am aware of the tense feelings and I’ve seen it work a large percentage of the time. The trick is to remember to say the four statements when unwanted emotions arise.

If My Ego is a Bad Thing, Does That Make My Digital Camera Bad if I Don't Know How to Use It.

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2009-06-29T16:19:35-05:00

From my take of listening to 7 of the 16 tracks so far, it seems the ego is a bad thing. ...Say I have this really nice digital SLR camera (I do) and since I don't know how to use it (I finally did), does this make the camera a bad thing? ... Thing was, I was coming from a nice film SLR and realized I really didn't know how to use my new camera as effectively. I'd forget to set the white balance (OK, I forgot I had to) or any number of things to get superior results. ... I now know how to use about 50% of it's capability, but that's enough to let me get great shots. In the latest Abraham-Hicks audio set in Los Angeles, Abraham talks briefly of the ego as our way to focus in our physical environment. ...So our ego is just our way to interpret all the things we encounter with all our senses. ...But most of the time we let the ego go on it's merry way, as we lazily interpret what it sees. ... Paying attention to your ego can mean you don't always have to judge what it is bringing you. ...If you can limit judgment on a number of topics, it allows you to better focus on what you really want in life.

Welcome to the World You Created...Your Beliefs Effect Your World

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-07-01T08:37:53-05:00

This is the second part is about our belief system and how it is formulated. ...But unlike assholes, according to Pam Ragland of radicalthoughtshift.com each person has over five million opinions set by age 5. This represents 90% of your total thoughts or opinions you will have in a lifetime. ... I mean at that age I liked oreo cookies and hated vegetables (I’m guessing a lot of you out there still like oreo cookies and secretly hate vegetables). ...Your ego, which was never supposed to be more than your interpreter of the physical world, developed a sense where it takes what is seen, heard or smelled and compares it with a belief you have. ... Since your ego has a built in, don’t die program, it will protect this belief at all costs. ...When you have a thought or opinion of a situation, it can bring a positive or negative feeling. If its positive, you feel good, your Higher Self is usually going there with you. ... But if you have a thought or opinion and you don’t feel so good about it, your Higher Self isn’t walking that path with you. ...We let a lot of what we think go by as a ransom thought, automatically having a feeling attached to it and moving on to the next thought.

Welcome to the World You Created

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-06-24T10:37:16-05:00

'Envision, create and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.' This is a quote from Zappos.com founder Tony Hsieh in his new book 'Delivering Happiness'. ...Look at that quote, digest it for a moment It's as simple as that, yet elusive. 'Envision, create and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.' Lately I’ve been working to erase programming that I feel does not serve me anymore. Since I do create my own universe, I decided to seriously look at what I’m creating. ...But the real key here is...what world do I really want? If you could have any world you wanted for yourself, what would it be? What is your over-riding deliberate creation of the world you want? In the next few articles, I will be looking at creating the world I want.

The Art of Being

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-02-15T17:28:06-06:00

What inspired me to write this today was an article that caught my attention in the Chicago Sun Times as I was waiting for my buddy Rob at a distinguished drinking establishment. ...‘Says Mark, "I'm the type of man who believes that sex should be the ultimate expression of love between a man and a woman, and as such, should be one of the later steps in a relationship, not the first. ... I've never had a problem catching a girl's eye, but women don't want to take the time to get to know me. With most women I've ever met or known, if things don't progress toward sex in a rapid fashion, they quickly lose interest and move on.” ...Even though beliefs are just thoughts we keep thinking, we can see there is usually a system of thoughts that support the belief. There’s a point where one needs to look at the results they’re attracting in their lives and say to themselves ‘how’s that working out for me’? ...If it’s 95° outside, do you wear your down coat because you’ve always worn that coat and dammit I’m not going to change now for some silly reason such as heat. ...As you put your intentions going forward in life and don’t see the results you’re looking for, you may want to ask yourself, who am I being? ...What was true in the past for you doesn’t have to be true for you now and going forward. ... Just this break in your thinking, can over time with practice, get your mind into a pattern of creating who you really want to be.

Welcome to the World You Created - The Pause that Refreshes

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-07-12T11:37:43-05:00

Quoting from the movies website: Closer than Close is spiritual cinema at its finest -- a documentary that investigates the spiritual search; the search for the essential questions of human life: is there an eternal part of ourselves? ... Rather than philosophical discussion, it explores the possibility of living a life devoted to a search for answers, and the radical possibility that answers exist, closer than we can imagine, within our selves. ...So what I found was your mind can get instant relief from deciding to reduce the ego’s need to always bringing up issues. ...In my case, this meant sitting down and letting the ego know that I was going to help it be more effective in our everyday life. ... This is the set point to make the words ‘I give up, I surrender, I let you go’ have real meaning when they are spoken. ...If there is an issue that you keep responding to and keep getting the sanme results, it might be good to take some quiet time, maybe during meditation and seeing where this issue comes from. ...The Power Point Punch: This is when you’ve done the Power Point and want to take advantage of the pause and turn it around. This is where you pivot from the thought that isn’t wanted and turn it around into what you do want. ...If you’ve done your other work, the work of feeling good (the most important work), you will turn this moment around due to the fact you remember what good feels like. ...

Conscious Choices - Good Morning!

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2009-12-26T15:16:05-06:00

The idea of The Morning Process was to have a way I could use to change my old habit and start a new one. So instead of just getting up and hitting the coffee pot, I divided up my morning to best set my mind for the day ahead. ...As I was in the process of setting up my morning, I found an even earlier starting point to my morning. ... Your mind is also in a state of hypnogogia when you first wake up. I used this state to repeat my Superbeings Truths and then I add my ‘Awareness of My Higher Self Meditation’. ...So if my thoughts wander before I get up with the ‘to do list’ in my mind, I demand to feel good and then repeat my ‘Superbeings Truths’ and ‘Awareness of My Higher Self Meditation’. ...This will trigger the mind that meditation is starting and when you blow the candle out, it’s the end. ...As I feel the light go through me from top to bottom, I relax that part of my body. ...Sometimes if my mind is clear, I stop counting and just breathe in and out and pay attention to my senses, such as hearing the clock tick or outside noises. ...If you can rise 15 to 25 minutes earlier in the morning, you’ll find that your morning routine will reward you all day.

Goin' For a Ride

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2009-11-17T10:51:41-06:00

I was thinking this morning about the planet we call earth. ...However it is the remaining 1%, a mixture of carbon dioxide, water vapour and ozone, that not only produces important weather features such as cloud and rain, but also has considerable influence on the overall climate of the Earth. Every year as it orbits around this fiery ball of hydrogen and helium we call the sun, the earth actually wobbles. As your Higher Self consciousness, you actually made a decision to come down to this planet and experience it. ... You knew all of above about the earth and what it poses in it’s grand potential. ...You decided from the lofty knowledge of your Higher Self to go for a ride. And why go for a ride on this mess of a planet? ... What a great place to use the power of who you are to move forward and add to the greater part of you. ...You wanted it this way...because, you know you are in charge of how you look at everything. ...There is no past, there is no future, just the moment you are in RIGHT NOW.

Conscious Choices: Part 2, The Rules of You

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2009-11-03T12:45:10-06:00

I discussed that you need to be aware of the story you tell if you want to change what comes into your life. ...In Law of Attraction when it's said that you are moving your energy faster, but your not keeping up, this is what they are talking about. ...Ann looks at the relationship she has with her mother and decides she would like to improve it. ...One afternoon Ann and her mother have lunch at the Russian Tea Room (well it is Ann’s story and this is where they go). ...Ann had decided she wants a good relationship with her mom, but doesn’t understand why her mother always has to criticize. ...After a run one day soon after, Ann is taking off her blue running jacket and all of a sudden remembers an incident when she was a little girl, she had wanted this blue top to wear to school. ... Ann’s mother had been in the fashion industry before she had kids and always liked to express herself when possible now that she wasn’t in that business anymore. ...Ann went farther and told herself she was a confident person and was able to see past someone else’s foibles and maybe even forge a stronger bond with the understanding she now had. The thing is, once you tell a new story, it will be time to deal with the inner software programming you’re running. ... But if you have a new story, there may be underlying thought patterns that needs to be looked at under the light that you currently make your decisions.

Conscious Choices: Part 1, That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It...or not

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2009-10-27T12:11:01-05:00

I remember in a psychology class I took years ago in college (go Hawks ) it was found that most people won’t read an editorial piece that doesn’t already support their position. When we have the story of ourselves, we usually look for things that support our story with the belief and judgement that comes with it. ...Ann’s story of her mother is that she is bossy and always thinks that she knows how Ann should live her life. Ann’s story continues that her mother would really rather spend more time with Ann’s sister and not with Ann, which is ok with Ann. ...Jane’s story continues that she adores her mother’s life and strength in making decisions. ...So Ann and Jane, to support their stories, will make judgements sometimes based on the story they tell themselves of their mothers. ...So two people with the same mother have different stories about their mother and make different choices based on their stories. ...But what is unusual is the fact we really don’t pay attention to the story we tell ourselves on any given subject. Once we start becoming aware of our emotions we are emitting at any given time, it’s not just good to pivot to what we want in that instance, but maybe become aware of the story we are telling if the emotion seems to be a repeat offender. ...Even if it’s something that doesn’t match at all, ask your Higher Self where the good is?

Skating the Thin Edge or is my Mind Just Wandering

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2010-01-17T13:41:23-06:00

There was an ice storm going on and it made me think how we can be on the edge of feeling good or bad about any given situation. ...Thinking of ice and skating my mind wandered off to a Jethro Tull song, ‘Skating Away’. So I pulled out the record, yeah an LP for those that remember the old lingo. ...Skating away on the thin ice of the new day. ...And as you cross the wilderness, spinning in your emptiness: ...Skating away on the thin ice of the new day. And as you cross the circle line, the ice-wall creaks behind --- ...And the silver splinters fly in the corner of your eye --- ...Or that everybodys on the stage, and it seems like ...Skating away on the thin ice of the new day.

Vibration and the Higher Self Conciousness

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2009-07-24T15:21:51-05:00

I started out with a 'bong' from the mallet and then playing it around the rim. ... Then eventually moving to a higher harmonic vibration as you play the rim. I noticed that the bowl, as it moves to the higher harmonic vibration, doesn't play the lower harmonic vibration. ...But allowing your Higher Self, a higher vibration, usually in the appreciation to joy level on the emotional scale chart, cancels out the lower vibrations you may be feeling. One way that I've found to facilitate this moving up the vibrational scale is to get to know my Higher Self. ...You can't see your Higher Self as in 'yo Higher Self can you get me another beer'. ...As you get to know your Higher Self, you'll find when you are feeling a lower vibration, you learn remember to ask how your Higher Self would react and then to feel it. With practice your Higher Self vibration will cancel out the lower vibration you may be feeling. As you learn to feel your Higher Self, it then becomes easier to let go of control and trust that this Higher Self you are starting to work with will make it happen for you. Then it becomes 'yo Higher self I'm feeling that new career move I want, let's do it'.

How Hard is it to Become a Superbeing

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2009-08-11T15:20:20-05:00

It was a site that branded itself as: Comprehensive Web-Site Promoting Spiritual Consciousness. ... It covered so many different topics and was a wealth of knowledge to the would be seeker. ...So yesterday I went to the archived Spiritweb.org site and read an article from Omni channeled by John Payne. ...Choosing to live as the Master does not mean that you have to be perfect from day one. ... That you are willing to keep your heart open in situations that you may normally close it, and withdraw into emotional pain, anger or resentment. ... Life was meant to be joyful, and joy is a divine quality, a soul quality, so you can choose to bring that quality of joy into everything you do. ... Are you ready to be playful, laugh at yourself and to have a giggle at life and its playful challenges? I like it because it shows that being a Superbeing is in the intent. Once you have the intention intoned from the above paragraph, you can only grow in that direction. ... But being a Superbeing is allowing your Higher Self through, at least enough in the beginning, to not take things so hard.

Feeling It Real

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2009-08-19T15:16:53-05:00

I was quaffing a few black and tans with my disk golf buddies, Alon and Rob, last Friday after 18 (is it holes or baskets?). ...We got talking about how so many people get the law of attraction information on an intellectual level. ...You start take note what emotion you're feeling and know intellectually that you can change it. ...Another way is to start thinking how your Higher Self would feel about a mundane task, like washing the dishes or mowing the grass. ...Once you can feel your Higher Self as yourself, you can start letting tasks go to this larger part of you. Knowing that your Higher Self has your back so to speak, you can bask in the glow that is you. ... After a hand is dealt you discard and then a card is turned up out of the deck. I would put out what card I wanted to turn up that I thought would help me. ... I when I do lose it's by less than 10 points out of 121 to win. ...Starting small and feeling your Higher Self work through you, gives you the confidence that there actually is a Higher Self.

Contrast, the Fuel of Creators

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2009-09-21T13:59:21-05:00

If you pour gasoline on a car and ignite it, well not such a good idea, unless that was intended. But if you pour gasoline in the car's gas tank and it is ignited by the engine, well you get the idea here. ...You could pivot and put out to the universe that you would prefer free flowing traffic in the future. You could add to that moment to look for what the good is in that moment for you. ...In the moment choose to be the joyous (pick one) being that you are and bask. Being in the moment is what you do until the fuel of contrast comes to energize you. ...I was mowing my grass in late spring and saw a thistle plant growing in the rocks around our compost bin. ...As my friend Rob says, a weed is just a plant you don't want in your yard. Being a totally dedicated in truth writer, I looked it up in the Apple dictionary on the computer, he's correct. ...As I was finishing up and taking the camera off the tripod, I glanced around for the first time in an hour and saw a couple of rabbits and squirrels in very close proximity to me.

What's Good Out There?

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2009-09-28T13:56:56-05:00

Not only does our current belief system present itself for us to look at, but a current situation or someone else's belief system can draw our attention. Being a conscious creator in the present moment is for you to guide yourself through each situation or moment that comes up. ...Now once the situation is judged we then pivot and offer to our Higher Self what we would prefer for ourselves. Then we let it go and have full knowledge our Higher Self will be taking care of things for us, so then we go back and bask in who we are. ...A great way to break this mode of thinking is to start looking for the good immediately when an unwanted situation takes place. ... If you allow it, some new thoughts will start to come to you that pulls you away from the picture/judgement your ego just took. ...I felt the annoyance come up (yeah I was actually paying attention, meditation does pay off) and I did pivot to free flow driving in my mind and looked for the good in that moment. An idea then came to me about a part of a book I'm writing that I was getting stuck on. ...In photography I like to find a situation that doesn't look so good and find the beauty of it. ...But the contrast with the red berry bush in full growth mode vs the red barn being swallowed back to the earth is readily apparent.

You are sooo....Becoming

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2009-10-05T13:50:05-05:00

But if you can picture yourself as in a perpetual state of creation, it may be easier to see how life works for you. ...Let's use this leaf blossom below to represent a new idea that has blossomed (pun intended) for you to pursue. So, as you pursue this idea you now have become a part of this idea. ... Now this idea, because of what you added to yourself in knowledge, contrast, appreciation and general joy of living evolves and becomes this: ...So you're rolling with 'who you are' and feeling accomplished, then there will be new experiences that have a slight effect. ...What was once you now has been cast aside and so you have collected this part of you and cast it in the recycle bin (or compost bin in this example), so to speak. Now you have a new idea of who you want to be. You utilize what you've learned like taking the compost from the compost bin and use it as fertilizer for the garden of your mind. ...The idea for today seems pretty simple, but when everyday life is coming at you, it's good to remember to look at the big picture of your life. ... If you don't like it, plant a new seed with your Higher Self and watch it grow as you bask and receive inspiration.

Awareness of my Higher Self Meditation

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2009-10-13T13:36:00-05:00

I was reading in John Randolph Price's book 'A Spiritual Philosophy for the New World'. There was a daily meditation he had that one can use as they go about their day. I liked it a lot and I thought I'd share it here. If this is something you like, you can find Mr. Price's book here. By the way, I did adjust one meditation that I felt would be more advantageous to those who read my blog. But the inspiration is all Mr. Price's.

Hey, What are You Looking At!

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2009-10-21T16:16:00-05:00

At our Law of Attraction Meet Up a couple of weeks ago, Frank brought up a topic of how there was a study that showed there was a high instance of cars hitting telephone poles when they veer off the road. ...Usually the setting takes place at a track or a track set up with lots of good corners to test each of the different car's limits. ... One time as I was pressing a BMW 5 Series through it's paces the professional driver told me to just look where I wanted to go and the steering would follow. ...As in a car you fly through time (if your lucky in Chicagoland to have that kind of flow through traffic). ...But I think they found that a lot of people were lax about what their intentions really were. ... I think A-H felt that we are so distracted with the sidelights of life that this is best where we can hear the message. Yet driving ourselves through life with deliberate intention and not letting the sidelights of life distract us is really where life can have the most meaning. ... Where some people may think of the difficulty John goes through to get the photograph, he just does it. Just as in a car, we like to get off the road and check out some highlights that our journey can provide. ... But the the best part is to remember to keep your eyes on where you're going and what you really want and not to let the distractions of life knock you off the road.

Reflections of a Larger Part of You

Dan@seekinggoodvibrations.com — 2009-10-22T16:16:10-05:00

I was meditating this morning and a thought came to me associated with a picture I took this last weekend when I was in Door County, Wisconsin. Most of us know we have a larger part of ourselves that is available to us. I thought this pic showed a nice reflection of the bigger part that we are. Do you see it? The leaves in the foreground is our current self representing the different aspects of our lives. Reflected in the background is the tree(s) where the leaves dropped from. The tree has many leaf incarnations. The rest I'll leave up to your imagination. Picture Info: The reflection is from the hood of my car. ... Nikon D300, 35mm lens, aperture f11, shutter speed 1/25.

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