2 Tiny Mind Tweaks That Produce Big Changes In Your Life

May 15, 2014 by Simona Rich. 10 Comments.

  

It’s natural for people to get upset in response to something happening and as a result completely merging with that emotion. When you do such a thing, you straight away put your body in a low vibration and thus become a match to negative events. Let me tell you some simple ways that I’ve found to be effective in avoiding this, to help you gain full control of your emotions and ultimately your life.

It’s such a freedom to not be affected by low moods, and it’s entirely possible to do so. I’ll tell you how I did it, and if I can do it – you surely can too.

The first thing that helped me was a realization that if I allow my moods to take control of me, I become a slave to them and lose grip over my life. Chaos then starts ruling, as the driver of the car of life (your self) is not present.  I really don’t want that to happen, so I try to make sure I’m always steering the wheel.

Another thing that helped me to be in charge of my feelings was analyzing what caused me to be upset, the moment that it happened. That’s a small but powerful way to control your feelings, because what you usually discover by analyzing the causes is that they’re laughable.

Let me give you some examples. Because of this philosophy of mine, usually my mood is very even. It’s slightly uplifted, which is completely fulfilling. But at one point today I noticed my mood going slightly down. The mood threshold trigger went off since the mood was going more down than usual, and so I became aware of the fact.

Straight away I started analyzing what just caused my lowering mood. It turned out it was a small mental observation – getting no comments on the book review I posted. When I knew exactly the cause, I could see how insignificant and silly it was to get upset about such a thing. Yet if I wouldn’t have analyzed this, I would think that this emotion is significant, leading to something truly bad within. It almost never does. Not the surface emotions anyway.

Every time I applied this investigation in my life I arrived at similar causes. Someone not responding to an email in a way I expected. A person saying some negative word to me. Having too many tasks to do. All of these causes are small and therefore can be easily turned into positive feelings. But without analysis that’s impossible. Only if you take this little cause and look at it, and then decide how to view it, can the change of emotion take place.

So let’s say my post didn’t get much attention. I can now choose to view it as an indicator of what my readers consider less relevant, and thus it’s a great lesson for me not to publish such content again. Without this post I wouldn’t have known. So it’s good that now I do. Reasoning this way makes me happy; without such analysis I would still feel upset.

Let’s say that someone said something negative. I can reason that the person probably had a bad day and that their words weren’t really directed at me; their words were just projections of how they felt about themselves at that time. Again, now I feel better by such thinking and actually hold a level of compassion towards the person; without such analysis I would keep feeling upset.

So try these two tiny shifts in your own life. Firstly, realize that by allowing your emotions to rule you, you abandon the driver seat of the car of life, allowing the car to self-steer in any direction it wants and leading it to crash at any time.

Secondly, whenever you start feeling upset, take a look at what you just did, or what thought visited your mind. Capture that cause and analyze it with the light of your attention. See how you can turn it around, how you can make it more positive. Then dwell on that positive aspect.

I can assure you that these two mind tweaks will brighten your life.

I Won’t Back Down

May 18, 2014 | By WakingTimes | Reply

                         

Julie Henderson, Contributor
Waking Times 

Imagine that you found the doorway that leads out of here. You woke up and bolted out of the film house and suddenly found yourself standing square-shouldered, bright-eyed, and reenergized as an outside observer looking back at a simulated construct. The newsstands, the gym, the church, the school, the cafe, the university, the car, the bedroom, the stores, and the highways suddenly showed themselves for what they truly are: a series of matrix overlays, force fields, illusions, lines, grids, and electromagnetic pulses firing in different directions and flashing before your vision.

It donned on you that each of these spaces overlap so that the systems and institutions which govern them can attempt to control your behavior. By controlling only one individual, they thought that they could control everyone. However, they failed to do so, because the one they tried to control was the first to wake up and escape their simulated dream. Where the Tao and God exist (which is everywhere) there is no control; there is only pure freedom and liberation. The Human Spirit rises time and again to override the systems, networks, webs, and matrixes of control in infinite directions of space and time throughout the epic hyper-verse. The Spirit–[Your Spirit]–cannot and will not be held down, but rather, it lives, moves, breathes, and creates by perpetuating its beauty and grace in the spaces between the atoms and molecules of our shared reality.

Beyond the scare tactics and torture treatment, you arrived in those spaces where nothing could tarnish or tamper with your newfound awareness. Instead, you remembered that there is no limit to what any of us can dream, imagine, achieve, manifest, or become the moment that we recognize and embrace our infinite nature, our celestial heritage, and our true face. We are the ones that we have been waiting for, because the ones we would have otherwise waited on are too marred by the things that they try to control to ever see outside the matrix that we inevitably successfully escaped. The moment you realized that no one was coming for you was the instant that you woke up from the dream, took on the shape and nature of your personal escape route, and glided safely through the wormhole to a safe haven of your own making.

The key is to recognize that no one is coming for you, and the crucial choice each of us has to make is to wake up and bolt out of the synthetic dream in pursuit of our soul’s freedom and restoration in another realm. After that, we fight to remain awake and never fall back into ignorance again. Our level of awareness at any given moment, with each step that we take, determines the degree to which we successfully escape the matrix of control that confronts us each day. There exist infinite, eternal dimensions completely free of matrixes of control and each one of us has the chance of finding one. Every time you think a creative thought, pump out a creative endeavor, sing a song, quilt or weave, provide another soul with a warm meal, dance without a care, or agree to believe in miracles you are moving through one of those realms where anything is possible.There is life thriving there beyond the grasp of anyone or anything that is bent on control. Your life is likely already thriving there.

In attempting to control us in this dimension, [they] try to plug certain simulations into a person’s consciousness to make them enact or carry out tasks ranging from menial to momentous. There are times when I find myself walking or stretching casually, jogging slowly or climbing stairs, and I actually feel and experience myself at the gym as if I were winding down from a long work-out. It is very interesting to note that in these moments when I experience the overlay of dimensions, I am 100% conscious and aware of my body, mind, and spirit being in a particular space-time frame wherever I am standing. I am entirely inside my body, and yet at the same time, I experience myself in another realm side by side. This aberration in the grid seeks to influence your mental evaluation and examination of your life experience moment to moment, and its purpose is to control you mentally, physically, and emotionally. However, it fails to control your spirit, and since it is your spirit that is eternal, the best tactic seems to be to fight to reclaim your soul.

You can use their overlays to your advantage. Anytime you have a similar experience of feeling that work, school, a pub, the gym, shopping, dining out, or making love all seem to be occurring at the same exact moment, you can simply shift your awareness through the paper-thin veil. You create a time tunnel or wormhole of escape that carries you safely to the realms beyond [their] reach. Stuart Wilde called it “Smiley Country”: those places in your mind and spirit where you cultivate kindness, love, laughter, and you find yourself shining with a gleaming grin beyond force fields of illusion and control.

There are wormholes, time tunnels, parallel universes, and infinite possibilities for each of us to come upon and discover. It is through these tunnels that we ultimately emerge to a new freedom, again and again and again. Every time we fall and get back up, every time we rise again and triumph over unimaginable circumstances, and any time we refuse to quit but instead carry on with an ancient endurance, we dismantle another veil or brane that separates truth from fiction. We reclaim our pen, our power, and our purpose, and fashion our rewrite. This time, the story ends only so that it can begin again, and the new beginning marks the rebirth, regeneration, and restoration of Gaia, the Goddess, Mother Earth, the Celestial Force, the protection and safety of our children, and the revolution of the Human Spirit that cannot and will not be held down.

About the Author

Julie Henderson is a native to the San Francisco Bay Area whose journey and writing has appeared in anthologies, literary magazines, and online journals including In5d.com. In addition to writing, she is a 3-D installation artist, photographer, singer/songwriter, metalsmith, and urban Taoist. Find her on the web here, http://www.myspace.com/juliehendersonmusic, and here, http://www.shewrites.com/profile/juliehenderson.

This is an Actual Quote From our Government

"The privacy rights of US persons in international communications are significantly diminished, if not completely eliminated, when those communications have been transmitted to or obtained from non-US persons located outside the United States."

Lawyers before the supreme court are under an ethical obligation to correct the record if they make false statements to the Court – even if they are unintentional – yet the Justice Department has so far refused. As ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer explained, the Justice Department has corrected the record in other cases where it was much less clear-cut whether it had misled the court.

The government's response, instead, has been to explain why it doesn't think these statements are lies. In a letter to Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall that only surfaced this week, the government made the incredible argument that the "about" surveillance was classified at the time of the case, so it was under no obligation to tell the supreme court about it. And the Justice Department completely sidestepped the question of whether it lied about notifying defendants, basically by saying that it started to do so after the case, and so this was somehow no longer an issue.

But there's another reason the government wanted any challenge to the Fisa Amendments Act dismissed without being forced to argue that it doesn't violate the Fourth Amendment: it has an extremely controversial view about your (lack of) privacy rights, and probably doesn't want anyone to know. As Jaffer wrote here at the Guardian earlier this week, the government has since been forced to defend the Fisa Amendments Act, and it's pretty shocking how they've done it. Here's what the government said in a recent legal brief: