What is Conditioning?

A great article from Paul Lowe sent to his mailing list today:

What is conditioning? This is a big subject. Conditioning is much easier to see in others than in ourselves. If you go to some parts of the world it will appear obvious. In some countries, women are not allowed out of the house. In other countries, they are allowed out with a chaperone, but only if their entire body is covered and their eyes veiled. What is “wrong” with showing their eyes? Good question, eh? At least it’s a good question in your part of the world. Read more »

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The brain in love

In yesterdays’ Sharing Group questions around love came up – universal love, romantic love, lust? This is a great video on the nature of romantic love. Helen Fisher, PhD, Biological Anthropologist has conducted extensive research and written five books on the evolution and future of human sex, love, marriage, gender differences in the brain and how your personality type shapes who you are and who you love.

For more information about Helen Fisher and for more videos see her website.

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How Mindfulness can add to your Well Being

A New Dimensions Media interview with Diana Winston.

About this 1 hour programme: One thing that shows up in the research across the board is that people who practice mindfulness report being happier. What doesn’t show up in the findings is that their lives automatically get better. They don’t necessarily stop getting sick or stop having difficulties, or challenges, or losing their jobs. They lead normal lives, like all of us do. But, the quality of their mind and their ability to be happy in the face of it is different. What mindfulness does is to shift and change our attitude, and create a way of being in the world with more peace and balance instead of being at the mercy of these ups and downs of life.  Read more »

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Our Creative Universe – Eckart Tolle

Question: What kind of guidance would you offer to people to remember, or be aware that we are a creative force in a creative Universe?

Eckart Tolle: The awakening process has two aspects, or two dimensions, to it. One is thefinding the Source within, as yourself. Then, [there is] bringing that into your life more and more – so that your daily life becomes interspersed with that Stillness. As your life becomes interspersed with that Stillness, the ego then begins to fade. You embody a different energy field – as if something from another dimension were coming through you into this world.  Read more »

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Every action, every word, every thought

Today’s email from Paul Lowe touched me once again very deeply. It rings so true for me.

We are all transmitting/radiating all the time – through our actions, words, and thoughts.

It is not easy to grasp is it – that all our thoughts are interconnected – throughout the universes. And not only in our personal lives, but collectively we are creating what we call reality – on every level. Once you fully connect with how much your every thought creates your reality, please believe me, you become very much more aware of your every thought. Every single one you can catch. Read more »

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Anger – a major subject

Excerpt from an email from Paul Lowe to his list today.

A broad description of one aspect is that anger masks fear. Almost everyone has fear, so almost everyone has anger.

Anger is a poison to the whole body/mind/emotional system, and as the body is a self-healing system it tries to get the anger out and away anyway it can, as soon as it can. As the ego feels humiliated if it has anger, it does not like to admit it has the residual anger — so it looks for circumstances where it feels as though it is justified for discharging the anger — usually at someone or something else. The other person/thing is seen as the cause of the anger. Not so.  Read more »

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Unlimited!

Excerpt from an email from Paul Lowe to his list today.

We have been programmed to believe that once we have attained our goals we will be happy. We continue to believe in that belief even though there is no proof that it is so. To the contrary in fact. But we do not want to admit this, otherwise, we are not in control — plus, what is there to live for! This is the way it is.

We do not feel fulfilled with anything on the outside because — they do not bring us what we really would like — the feeling of safety, security, and predictability. Even although no one we know feels safe and secure we continue to believe it is possible. The reason we do not feel safe and secure is because these states do not exist in this dimension with our present level of consciousness. Nothing is safe, nothing is secure and nothing is predictable. That is the way this dimension is. And we have designed it that way.  Read more »

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Visit from my former self

I have had a visit from my former self, the self of my youth. He has touched me and bestowed upon me some of his benevolent attributes that have for one reason or another waned a bit in the last few years, his zest for life, his uncompromising idealism, his intuitive sense of Goodness, his trust in Life. He reminded me that I have a dream and a life-purpose. He reminded me that my joy is realizing this dream. He reminded me that he is still very much alive and present now. He playfully mocked my growing older, the solidifying of my thoughts and beliefs, my cherished cynicism and skepticism. He poked at the idea that I was an adult and that I knew something of the world. Ha! We both had to laugh. He told me that it was okay that I had gone away for awhile. He was happy to wait for me and overjoyed at my return.  Read more »

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