Living Abundance

Control your mind

Master your Life

The royal secret of volition

Achieve freedom from fear.

Do beliefs really create our reality, the lives we live, who and where we are, our wealth and happiness, or lack of these things? If there's something in your life that you don't like or wish to change, can it really be linked to a belief, and will changing this truely transform your life?

To answer this we have to look at exactly how 'beliefs create reality', by seperating the process into four parts:

• Possibility
• Belief
• Focus
• Emotion

Anything is possible. A multitude of events and circumstances occur to billions of very different people every day. Therefore, we all live with infinite possibility, yet we limit this with our beliefs of what could possibly happen (or not happen).

As well as our beliefs in what is possible, we have focus and emotion. Think of the millions of beliefs in your mind: how old you look, how much you earn, how lucky you are, how it always rains when you begin to do the garden. Yet they all remain in the subconscious, i.e. hidden until each one is occasionally recalled; it's one thing to have beliefs and another to keep on repeatedly believing them. At any time only one belief is focused on, and this inspires an associated emotion.

Imagine that you're driving to the supermarket and worrying that you won't find a parking space. That's a belief, but how, exactly, is it going to create reality?

On the way there you are driving and mental pictures of various possibilities come into your mind - a crammed car park, going round in circles for hours, getting stuck in a queue that you can't back out of.

Look deeply, these mental pictures aren't constant, they keep popping in and out of the mind. Each time one does there's an associated emotion, which you might label dread, worry, annoyance etc. Yet looking even deeper, this is an energy. Forget the label, separate the feeling from the mental picture that inspired it, and you will find its 'basic' existence is a very vague experience of energy in the mind and an associated bodily sensation, maybe a heaviness in the stomach or a tingling around your lower back - or whatever.

THAT is a belief, a focused on belief, or a Habitually Repeated Knowing. Separate the flashing mental pictures (or possibilities you choose to focus on) from the associated emotion (or the way you feel when you believe a certain thing is going to happen). Then separate the labels and concepts of the emotion from the 'basic experience' of it. Watching this basic experience, you can begin to see how the beliefs we repeatedly focus on - or rather their basic 'energy' - creates our life experience. Then, when you end up driving round for two hours looking for a parking space, you'll stop saying silly things like, 'I just knew this would happen.'

Do you believe anything is possible? Out of all the beliefs stored in your mind, which ones do you repeatedly focus on? Do you keep living in the same kind of energy? Do these Habitually Repeated Knowings correspond to the life you have created around you?

The first step towards genuine transformation is watching this process on a moment-to-moment basis. Every time you find yourself saying, 'This always happens to me,' or complaining about your life, feeling hopeless or negative, stop and try this:

1. Watch the mental pictures coming and going.
2. Separate them from the emotion, and notice the natural tendency to label this emotion.
3. Separate the label from the emotion.
4. Focus on the energy of the emotion alone.
5. Feel the energy of the emotion, touch it gently without wishing it wasn't there or was something else. Just experience it for what it is.

Thought is Karma

Is everything fated, or do we have free will. Imagine of when a comet from outer space hits a certain point on the earth. If you think about it, the time and location of the impact were fated at the creation of the universe, the big bang, in the same way the end position of every ball in a game of pool is fated the moment the cue ball is struck.

However, if you were standing at the exact point where the comet was due to fall, watching it hurtle towards you, then you have free will as to weather you run away or stand still. The comet is fated; your reaction is not.

This also applies to the thoughts in our minds. Go sit at the beach and look at the sea, with all the bills paid and nothing to worry about - and keep your mind completely blank. Even though there isn't anything in the environment to stimulate any thoughts (you could even have your eyes closed), you'll very quickly find that thoughts, with their associated emotions, keep on coming and going all by themselves.

Now imagine that you've just bought a new house and are trying to decide how to decorate. You go to the park specifically to think it over, visualizing new wall-paper, imagining how various color schemes would look, and so on.

So in the first instance, thoughts come and go without your volition, simply randomly, in the second, you chose to think certain thoughts.

We can think of the mind as a huge repository of possible thoughts, beliefs, mental pictures and emotions. Sometimes (most of the time) they just come up and then leave by themselves. Other times they are inspired by the environment. Lastly, you can choose to focus on certain ones by volition, by your own decision.

Now, as your watchfulness over the mind improves on a moment-to-moment basis throughout the day, you can use your volition to inspire a certain belief. You imagine that you are successful and happy, believe it (or keep affirming it until you believe it) and then experience the positive mental emotion in its raw, bare form, separate from the mental picture that inspired it. Good, now we're getting somewhere.

But then a mental picture comes up, without your volition, of the bill that arrived this morning that there's no money for. You think, 'Who are you kidding? You're as broke as ever.' and feel an associated emotion labelled 'hopelessness'. So what should you do, change it all back to positivity?

You'd think so wouldn't you? Once you start this practice you'll find that it's like weaving a large tapestry that is your future, but at the same time you're also in charge of a naughty child. So there you sit weaving (your future) but then the child starts tugging at it and being naughty. The more you ignore it or push it away, the harder it will strive for your attention.

The trick is (again) in separation. Focus on and feel the emotion of positive beliefs. When the mental states you've created with your volition are interrupted by doubts or fears, separate the mental pictures from the concept of emotion to the power of the emotion itself - and just watch the basic, raw energy with an attitude of detached love. It won't last forever, nothing ever does, simply watch it until it begins to disperse. The moment it quietens down, back to the weaving!

So now you return to the practice of inspiring thoughts, or creating them even. What in essence is that? Say you've lost your car keys and are trying to remember where you put them. You sit down and try to think, and all the possible places start to pop up in your mind. How did you pull out those specific thoughts, exactly how? You sat down, blanked your mind, and waited with expectancy. Try it now. Can you name three breeds of dog? How do you use your volition to pull out those specific three thoughts? You just expect, or will them, and they come. This 'expectancy' is a belief (in something that's going to happen) and expectancy doesn't just pull out desired thoughts, but life experiences and events as well.

Everything we experience in life can only be felt inside of us. So when you feel the energy of a positive belief, that some cherished dream has already come to pass, you already own as much as it's possible to own - you're rich right now!

Touch your doubts and fears, live your hopes and dreams - and then any possibility can become just a matter of time.

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