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Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.

It's presence is an indication of ripened experience,
and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws
and operations of thought.



A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself
as a thought-evolved being, for such knowledge necessitates
the understanding of others as the result of thought.



As he develops a right understanding,
and sees more and more clearly
the internal relations of things
by the action of cause and effect,
he ceases to fuss and fume and worry and grieve,
and remains poised, steadfast, serene.


The more tranquil a man becomes,
the greater is his success, his influence,
his power for good.

The strong calm man is always loved and revered.

He is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land,
or a sheltering rock in a storm.

...

How insignificant mere money-seeking looks
in comparison with a serene life -
a life that dwells in the ocean of Truth,
beneath the waves,
beyond the reach of tempests,
in the Eternal Calm.

How many people we know who sour their lives,
who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful.

...

It is a question whether the great majority of people
do not ruin their lives and mar their happiness
by lack of self control.

...

Only the wise man, only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified,

makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.

...



Self-control is strength.

Right Thought is mastery.

Calmness is power.

Say unto your heart, "Peace, be still."


Thomas Troward

Serenity Now..

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Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.

It's presence is an indication of ripened experience,
and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws
and operations of thought.




A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself
as a thought-evolved being, for such knowledge necessitates
the understanding of others as the result of thought.




...

As he develops a right understanding,
and sees more and more clearly
the internal relations of things
by the action of cause and effect,
he ceases to fuss and fume and worry and grieve,
and remains poised, steadfast, serene.

...














...

The more tranquil a man becomes,
the greater is his success, his influence,
his power for good.

...

The strong calm man is always loved and revered.

He is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land,
or a sheltering rock in a storm.

...

How insignificant mere money-seeking looks
in comparison with a serene life -
a life that dwells in the ocean of Truth,
beneath the waves,
beyond the reach of tempests,
in the Eternal Calm.

How many people we know who sour their lives,
who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful.

...

It is a question whether the great majority of people
do not ruin their lives and mar their happiness
by lack of self control.


...

Only the wise man, only he whose thoughts are controlled
and purified,
makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.

...



Self-control is strength.

Right Thought is mastery.

Calmness is power.


Say unto your heart, "Peace, be still."


Thomas Troward

There is No Out There

by Joe Vitale

Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii
who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients
--without ever seeing any of them.

The psychologist would study an inmate's chart
and then look within himself
 to see how he created that person's illness.

As he improved himself, the patient improved.

When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend.
 How could anyone heal anyone else by healing himself?

How could even the best self-improvement master
cure the criminally insane?

 It didn't make any sense.

It wasn't logical, so I dismissed the story.

However, I heard it again a year later.

I heard that the therapist had used a Hawaiian healing process
called Ho'oponopono.

 I had never heard of it,
yet I couldn't let it leave my mind.

 If the story was at all true,
I had to know more.


I had always understood "total responsibility" to mean that
I am responsible for what I think and do.
 Beyond that, it's out of my hands.

I think that most people think of total responsibility that way.

We're responsible for what we do,
 not what anyone else does--
but that's wrong.

The Hawaiian therapist who healed those mentally ill people
would teach me an advanced new perspective
about total responsibility
.
His name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len.

We probably spent an hour talking on our first phone call.
I asked him to tell me the complete story of his work as a therapist.

He explained that he worked at Hawaii State Hospital for four years.

That ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous. Psychologists quit on a monthly basis.

 The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit.

People would walk through that ward
with their backs against the wall,
 afraid of being attacked by patients.

 It was not a pleasant place to live, work, or visit.

Dr. Len told me that he never saw patients.
He agreed to have an office and to review their files.
While he looked at those files, he would work on himself.

As he worked on himself, patients began to heal.

"'After a few months, patients that had to be shackled
were being allowed to walk freely,' he told me.

 'Others who had to be heavily medicated were getting off their medications.
And those who had no chance of ever being released were being freed.'

I was in awe.

'Not only that,' he went on, 'but the staff began to enjoy coming to work.
Absenteeism and turnover disappeared.

We ended up with more staff than we needed
 because patients were being released,
and all the staff was showing up to work.

Today, that ward is closed.'

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Just found a boat load of fucks. Buzz me if you're a little short.

This is where I had to ask the million dollar question:

 'What were you doing within yourself that caused those people to change?'

'I was simply healing the part of me that created them,' he said.
I didn't understand.

Dr. Len explained that total responsibility for your life
means that everything in your life -
 simply because it is in your life
--
is your responsibility.

In a literal sense, the entire world is your creation.

Whew. This is tough to swallow.
Being responsible for what I say or do is one thing.

Being responsible for what everyone in my life says or does is quite another.

Yet, the truth is this: if you take complete responsibility for your life,
then everything you see, hear, taste, touch,
or in any way experience is your responsibility
because it is in your life.

 This means that terrorist activity, the president, the economy
or anything you experience and don't like--
is up for you to heal.

They don't exist, in a manner of speaking,
 except as projections from inside you.

The problem isn't with them, it's with you,
 and to change them, you have to change you.

 "I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live.

 Blame is far easier than total responsibility,
but as I spoke with Dr. Len, I began to realize
that healing for him, and in ho'oponopono,
means loving yourself.

If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life.

 If you want to cure anyone, even a mentally ill criminal,
 you do it by healing you.

 I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself.
What was he doing, exactly, when he looked at those patients' files?

'"I just kept saying, 'I'm sorry' and 'I love you'
over and over again," he explained.

 "That's it?"

 That's it.

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself,
and as you improve yourself, you improve your world.

Let me give you a quick example of how this works:

One day, someone sent me an email that upset me.

In the past I would have handled it by working on my emotional hot buttons
or by trying to reason with the person who sent the nasty message.

This time, I decided to try Dr. Len's method.

I kept silently saying, 'I'm sorry' and 'I love you.'

 I didn't say it to anyone in particular.

 I was simply evoking the spirit of love to heal within me
what was creating the outer circumstance.

 Within an hour I got an e-mail from the same person.
 He apologized for his previous message.

 Keep in mind that I didn't take any outward action to get that apology.
I didn't even write him back.

Yet, by saying 'I love you,' I somehow healed within me
what was creating him.

I later attended a ho'oponopono workshop run by Dr. Len.

He's now 70 years old, considered a grandfatherly shaman,
and is somewhat reclusive.

He praised my book, The Attractor Factor.

He told me that as I improve myself, my book's vibration will raise,
and everyone will feel it when they read it.

 In short, as I improve, my readers will improve.

 "What about the books that are already sold and out there?" I asked.

"'They aren't out there," he explained,
once again blowing my mind with his mystic wisdom.

 "They are still in you".

In short, there is no out there.

 It would take a whole book to explain this advanced technique
with the depth it deserves.

Suffice it to say that whenever you want to improve anything in your life,
 there's only one place to look:

Inside you.


When you look, do it with love.


“Forgiveness is the fragrance left by the violet
..on the heel that crushed it.”~Mark Twain

The Perfect Universe

THE ONE WHO DESIRES TO HEAL
must stop seeing, reading about, discussing,

or listening to conversation about sickness.

There is no other way under the sun
except as we let go of that which we do not desire,

and take that which we wish to have.

There is too much of this deceiving 

ourselves into thinking that 

we can do two ways at once. 

We may deceive ourselves and possibly other people,
but the law remains the same,

a Law of mental correspondences,
and nothing else.

We cannot go beyond our ability to realize the truth,

 water rises only to its own level. 

In our patients, 
as well as in ourselves
 and our environment,

we will reflect what we are,

not at our best in the few moments of silence, but...

...in the long run of 
ordinary life and thought.

To acquire the larger consciousness is no easy task.

All that we have believed in which contradicts the perfect whole
must be dropped from our thought, and we must come to realize
that we are now living in a perfect universe,
peopled with perfect spiritual beings, each of which
coupled with the Great Divinity is complete within himself.

We must see that we are one in the great one,
...and then we will not separate or divide, but unite and add to,
until in time we will find that we are living in an entirely different world
from that in which we had once thought we were living.

Of course, this will meet with much opposition
from those unenlightened souls
whom we must contact in the world.

But what of that?

Remember, the great man is the one who can keep in the crowd,

...the calm, even thought,...the deep divine reliance on principle.

And more, this is the only way to help or to save the world.

In time all people will come to the same understanding. 

You are lifting up the standard of life, and those who are ready will follow. 

You have no responsibility to save the world except by exemplifying the truth. 

The world must save itself. 

All are alike; there is no difference between one person and another.

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Come to see all as a divine idea;
stop all negative thought;
 think only about what you want,
and never about what you do not want,
as that would cause a false creation.

Too much cannot be said about the fact that all are dealing with only one power,
making and unmaking for man through the creative power of his own thought.

If there is something in your life that you not want there,

stop fighting it---forget it!

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Ernest Holmes

Basic Field Theory

Introduction

As self-aware beings, we're not just some blind accident of evolution, thrown here to struggle and die. There is a Source in Consciousness, and we can learn to align ourselves with Its brilliant efficiency, boundless resources, and ingenious organizing intelligence. This intelligence turns the planets, directs the seasons and the tides, and sustains each particle in the Creation, everywhere, all at once, effortlessly.

Why should we find it so hard to believe that this intelligence could be relied upon to bring us the fulfillment of perfect work, prosperity, vibrant health, a wonderful partner, or whatever else has been given to us to desire?

What comes to us in life is not merely a matter of chance; it follows from who we believe we are and what we take to be real. Since we can change these beliefs at any time, we aren’t condemned to repeat the past unless we believe we are. A better reality is always available to us. Willingness, being still, receptive imagination, love for the ideal—these are the keys to the next better version of self and world.


Particle and Field

The idea that we create our reality is at least as old as the Vedas, which state that “Atman” [the individual soul] is Brahman [the Cosmos].” This suggests that the whole of experience somehow resides in consciousness, and that our consciousness actually shapes, informs, and organizes what seem to be random events. Field theory recognizes that our consciousness has the same multiple nature we see in electrons, indeed, all quanta, so our consciousness has “Particle” and “Field” aspects.

Most of the popular New Age material on reality-creating fails because it presumes, mistakenly, that the self that does the creating is the Particle self—our most local identity, the one that says “I” all day, that experiences itself as in the physical body, and so, separate from other “I’s." The Particle self is extremely limited in knowledge, resources, and efficiency, and by nature identifies with things and conditions, e.g., “I am a person,” “I am sorry,” “I am here,” and so on. As Particles, we tend to experience world as cause and the self as effect, and so live in continual reaction to outer conditions; as these conditions appear to be separate from us, we naturally exert our will to improve or avoid them. Our Field identity, on the other hand, is nonlocal; not bound by time or space; unlimited in knowledge, vision, and efficiency; and aware of itself as the cause of worldly experience. Its most fundamental expression is not "I am this or that," but simply, "I AM."

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Intention and Correspondence

Intention includes what we take to be real, which ultimately comes down to what we identify with. So, for example, the belief, “There isn’t enough money” is rooted in the belief, “I am poor.” This turns out to be a crucial point in Field theory, since our creating follows necessarily from identity, from who we believe we are. This is all we can change, and all we need to change.

The Self that creates reality is not the Particle self, a point that hardly can be overstated. Many people, caught up in popular oversimplifications of “we create our reality” thinking have tried affirmation, visualization, and other consciousness techniques to change their experience in the world, only to find themselves running into walls, because they were unwittingly believing in (intending) the very condition they wanted to change. As long as the I strives to change conditions rather than simply changing its self-definition, conditions have no choice but to persist. The I that would create reality deliberately cannot stand apart from its creation. Paradoxically, this means that we can’t change reality through an act of will, because the very attempt confers the status of reality on the thing it seeks to change. In trying to make real something that it regards as not real, it casts its vote wrongly and secures the very outcome it would overcome. When we try to create conditions, the results are likely to backfire and lead to disappointment. On the other hand, when we recast our identity, conditions change spontaneously and effortlessly as required by the law of correspondence. So, our work is only on ourselves. This is why in Field practice, the aim is alignment, and not manifestation.

Creation is the operating of the law of correspondence between Particle and Field. The Particle, by nature, must intend; the Field must correspond. Following the principles of chaos theory, intentions exert a nonlocal organizing effect, fulfilling themselves whether or not we’re aware of what we’re intending. As we start intending deliberately, this nonlocal effect shows up as happy coincidences, miraculous timing, and other synchronicities, As Field training deals directly with the most fundamental structures of Particle consciousness (identity and reality), conditions tend to improve quickly and dramatically, having no choice but to correspond to who we believe we are. When this changes for the better, everything changes accordingly.

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Is the Field the same as God?

Some students use these terms interchangeably, but the word God can be loaded with associations that may not be helpful. The Field is the totality and ground of Being, comprising all objects, events, conditions, and Particle identities in the same way that the ocean comprises waves. In expression, the Field demonstrates qualities of vast creativity, intelligence, and Self-giving attributed by most spiritual traditions to a Supreme Being. Still, Field training isn’t a religion or religious; one may belong to any spiritual tradition or none and gain much from its study.

How is Field training different from other models that deal with consciousness-as-cause?

Field training acknowledges certain paradoxes of consciousness that other models do not, the most significant being that if we attempt to create conditions to fulfill desire, whether through acting on the world directly or through consciousness techniques such as visualization or affirmation, we’re immediately caught in a contradiction that interferes with the desired manifestation. Field training sidesteps this paradox by teaching that “the aim of intending is alignment, not manifestation.” The factual fulfillment of Particle desire arises spontaneously out of Field correspondence; it doesn’t have to be contrived. We simply remain aligned, and the facts take care of themselves. Rather than attempting to create a desired condition, we simply allow the version of the self that corresponds to that condition to come to the fore. The method is based solely on the creative power of identity, and on consciously recasting the Particle self.

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What is a “counterintention?”

Field training holds that we don’t get what we want; we get what we intend. Intentions comprise what we take to be real, and what we identify with. Often, these intentions are unwitting; we are not aware that we are embodying them. When an intention runs contrary to (or contradicts) what we consciously desire, it’s a “counterintention.” To the extent that we counterintend, we suffer. Releasing counterintentions frees us from suffering and allows us to embody the consciously chosen version of self with a sense of joy and relief. Field training provides many ways to clear counterintentions. It’s not necessary to know what a counterintention is to clear it.

What does the term “versions of the self” mean?

Field training borrows the Many-Worlds model from physics to provide a theoretical basis for believing that a desired condition is “already done.” As long as one believes otherwise (e.g., tries to create the condition, sees it as possible, etc.), one is not, strictly speaking, intending it. Television broadcast provides a good metaphor: All the channels exist now, in the air; they don’t have to be created. Because they’re already real, any of them can manifest (incarnate). One simply needs to be tuned to the right channel (version of self).

How do you know that these concepts about consciousness and reality are true?

The best approach for a student to take is to assume that the truth of these principles remains to be seen. Nothing should be accepted solely on the strength of another's authority. We invite all who are willing to make the great experiment to find out for themselves if Field training's ontological claims are true or not. An open mind and heart balanced by careful reasoning soon reveal the profound value of our unique approach.

Why did the Field manifest Itself as separate Particles?

We generally find "why" to be a distraction from the far more fruitful direction of attending to practice. Field training, while providing a thorough and precise ttheoretical model, is ultimately about practical experience, which is rarely improved by grand questions or metaphysical speculating..

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