by Sandra Anne Taylor

Balancing the activity of the heart and mind is a very important factor in your energy projection and an important step in changing what you attract to your life.  So many people live their whole life in their mind, always analyzing, thinking about their problems, and worrying too much.  If this is the type of energy your mind engages in most, it’s time to make a shift to a heart-centered consciousness.

The function of the mind is to contemplate and analyze what is or could be valuable in one’s life, yet the function of the heart is to experience value and appreciate all the value that’s already present.  The heart feels joy while the mind spends much of its time searching for it, and wondering why it always seems so elusive.  This is the constant schism in which we find ourselves.  We’re always so busy worrying about how to be happy that we’re dismissing our power to find happiness in our heart right now.

But you can break this pattern and start to develop a joyous, heart-centered consciousness, one that will create a much more positive and magnetic vibration in your life.  An easy technique can shift your negative mental focus almost immediately.  Try this process and you’ll see a real difference in how you feel – and soon you’ll find a real difference in the results you’re attracting, too.

When you catch yourself worrying about something or when you’re annoyed or dissatisfied, use your power of choice to shift your consciousness from the anxiety of your head to the peace of your heart.  Take a deep breath, close your eyes, and relax your muscles.  Visualize your problem lifting up and floating away like a cloud on the horizon.

Take another deep breath, and as you inhale, sense the energy of your mind quieting down; feel your awareness slowly dropping down into your heart center. Just relax, keep letting go of all concerns, and focus your consciousness on your heart.

Then, as you continue to loosen up, let yourself think about something that makes you happy, that you appreciate.  Whether it’s a bright memory, a person you love, or a beautiful place that you’ve visited, let yourself picture that now.  Visualize all the details, and put yourself right in the center of the picture.  Bring it up close, and make it vivid and colorful, immersing yourself in that happy situation.

Feel the joy and let yourself smile.  You’re so relaxed, happy and peaceful.  This is the state of heartfelt appreciation, the warm feeling of grateful acceptance.  Hold on to it.  Know that its ultimate form is loving your life, and when you go back to your daily activities, choose to find gladness and peace in all that you do.

Joyous appreciation is the heart’s most magnetic vibration.  It is such an important energy that it can’t be overemphasized.  It brings serenity in the release of striving and allows you to rejoice in what you already have – opening your heart to receiving even more.  Every moment spent in this resonance creates a highly attractive vibration and a powerfully creative consciousness.  Along with self-honoring, it’s one of the most life-changing things that you can do!

I often tell my clients that there’s more than one meaning to the word appreciate.  The one we’re talking about here is in the present moment – in your heart right now.  But when referring to commodities such as real estate, the term means “to increase in value” – which is an absolute energetic truth.  Your life will have greater worth when you choose to appreciate it.  When you create a real consciousness of the quality of your days, you bring more value there.  And choosing to experience joy in the present moment means that your jubilant energy will magnetize much more to enjoy in the future.

Affirmations for Heartfelt Appreciation:

• I have so much to be grateful for!  I look around myself and am satisfied.
• I live with joyous and heartfelt gratitude.  As I appreciate my life, I attract more and more to appreciate.
• I value my life and myself more and more each day. I deserve my own self-appreciation.
• I always take responsibility for my own happiness.  I find many wonderful things to be happy about each day.
• I am choosing to increase my focus on appreciation and self-acknowledgment.  I become more and more conscious of all that I have to be thankful for, and I take time to acknowledge it each day.

Sandra Anne Taylor is one of the experts featured in the documentary Beyond Belief.  Get the DVD at:www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

by Amit Goswami

There was a revolution in physics at the beginning of the last century, consisting of the discovery of quantum physics. The message of quantum physics is this: the world is not made of matter neither is it determined entirely by material causation.

To be sure, the mathematics of quantum physics predicts objects and their movements not as determined events (as in Newtonian physics) but as possibilities.   And yet when we look at a quantum object, we don’t experience it as a bundle of possibilities, but as actual localized event much like a Newtonian particle.  How do the possibilities become actualities of experience simply by our looking at them?  This is the mysterious “observer effect.”

In quantum language, the model translates like this. Possible movements of elementary particle make up possible movements of atoms, make up possible movements of molecules, make up possible movements of cells, make up possible brain states, make up consciousness. Consciousness itself then is a conglomerate of possibilities, called a wave of possibility.

We Create Our Own Reality, But . . .

It was in the nineteen seventies that the physicist Fred Alan Wolf created the evocative phrase “we create our own reality.” The images the phrase evoked led, however, to many disappointments. Some people tried to manifest personal automobiles, others vegetable gardens in desert environments, and still others at least a parking space for their cars in busy downtown areas. Everybody was inspired by the theory of quantum creation, no doubt, but the results of their efforts were a mixed bag because they were unaware some subtleties.

We create our own reality, but there is a subtlety in consciousness. We do not create reality in our ordinary state of consciousness, but in a non-ordinary state of consciousness. This becomes clear when you ponder the paradox of Wigner’s friend. Eugene Wigner was the Nobel laureate physicist who first thought of the paradox.

Imagine that Wigner is approaching a quantum traffic light with two possibilities, red and green; at the same time his friend is approaching the same light from the perpendicular road. Being busy Americans, they both choose green. Unfortunately, their choices are contradictory; if both choices materialize at the same time, there would be pandemonium. Obviously, only one of their choices counts, but whose?

After many decades, three physicists at different places and times (Ludwig Bass in Australia, myself at Oregon, and Casey Blood at Rutgers, New Jersey), independently discovered the solution of the paradox: consciousness is one, nonlocal and cosmic, behind the two people’s local individuality. They both choose but from this nonordinary state of one consciousness (which I call the quantum self) where there is no local individuality or selfishness so contradiction can be avoided. This allows the common sense result that in many such crossings, Wigner and his friend each would get green fifty percent of the time; yet for any individual crossing, a creative opportunity for getting green is left open for each.

So the new paradigm of reality based on the rediscovery of consciousness within science is not only giving us back our free will, but also is identifying the source of that free will as the spirit within us, the oneness that spiritual and healing traditions have always propounded. The new paradigm is showing us great promise for integrating science and spirit. It is also promising a breakthrough integral approach to medicine that integrates conventional and alternative medicine. Read my book,  The Quantum Doctor, for the latest development on this.

Amit Goswami appeared in What The Bleep Do We Know, and is one of 24 experts featured in the powerful film Beyond Belief.  To see the trailer and get the DVD go to: www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

by Sandra Anne Taylor

The Truth about Attraction:  Sorting Out the Lies from the Laws—and Getting Your Power Back

Can you manifest your favorite author via the Law of Attraction?

Among the seven Laws of Attraction is The Law of Manifestation. This natural law of the Universe says that your consciousness creates your reality. This is projected in your self-view, worldview, and expectations, which send a holographic image of yourself and your life force out into the world. This holistic understanding is very powerful. Even a small shift in consciousness can create a dramatic change in results.

Success in practicing the Law of Manifestation in your own life isn’t just specific thoughts bringing about specific results. It’s a matter of projecting a life force that’s filled with positive images and conclusions of confidence, optimism, and self-love. Since your consciousness relies heavily on your view of yourself and your personal expectations, it will be very difficult to create success if you consistently engage in self-judgment and pessimism about your future. But you can intentionally lift your awareness to a more positive perception of yourself, your environment, and the day ahead. This will transform your consciousness and help shift the reality you create.

Your greatest power for change can be found in your awareness. Even if you can’t change the situation you’re in, you can still shift how you perceive it. It’s your interpretation of what’s around you—and not the circumstances themselves—that will ultimately determine the quality of your experience and the power of your life force.

I’ve seen the law of consciousness-created reality at work many times in my life. One particular story involves Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, who’s a wonderful author and inspiring motivational speaker.

About 20 years ago, I attended a conference where Wayne and a few other authors spoke. In his lecture, Wayne talked about a discussion that he and the other authors had over dinner the night before. I thought, Someday I’d like to speak at a conference with Wayne and have dinner with him and the other authors. I even took a moment to visualize it, but not having any idea how it would happen, I let it go.

I didn’t think about it much after that, largely because my whole life force had become about something that was far more important to me—teaching genuine self-love and the principles of personal consciousness and energy. I was publishing my own book back then and even doing lectures for free. I was passionate about the information, and I really wanted to share it with others and help people make their lives better.

I did attend more of Wayne’s lectures, and when I did, I would remember that old intention. There were times when I could feel it happening and other times when it just didn’t resonate. It didn’t matter either way, however, because my entire life was now driven by a consciousness of purpose and enthusiasm.

My career hit many delays and roadblocks along the way, but I maintained an optimistic attitude, and I was so inspired by the process and the information that I was able to keep moving forward. About ten years after that original intention about Wayne had come to mind, my wonderful publisher, Hay House, picked up my first book. Shortly before that, Wayne had switched publishers and gone to Hay House, also.

In a few more years, I found myself speaking at the Hay House I Can Do It!® conference along with Wayne and many other fantastic people. At the authors’ dinner on one Saturday night, I told him about my old intention.

I said, “A long time ago, I visualized us speaking together and having dinner . . .” He jumped up, gave me a hug, and ended my sentence by saying, “ . . and here we are.” This is just one of the many fun experiences that have come my way. But it goes to show how your entire consciousness creates your reality. One fleeting intention—backed by a purpose-driven life force—can make something happen.

So formulate your own consciousness based on a positive self-perception and a purposeful and optimistic worldview. Gently let go of any pessimistic thoughts, and remember that you get to decide what you want to be true for you. Prioritize your whole life over any individual outcome; and fill your days with passion, enthusiasm, and self-love.

Sandra Anne Taylor was inspired to write The Truth about Attraction when a close friend—recently diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease—was so overcome with guilt that she had “attracted” this condition. Sandra set out to write a book that would approach the Law of Attraction with balanced understanding and help others let go of the extremes and the faultfinding. She has been a counselor in private psychological practice for more than 20 years. Sandra’s latest book The Truth about Attraction will be released on March 15th. To learn more about Sandra’s wisdom, visit her Website at www.sandrataylor.net.

Sandra Anne Taylor is one of twenty four experts featured in the documentary Beyond Belief: www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

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