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"Seeing
the Miracle"©
Chosing the right time for positive visualization.!
by Indigo Irwin Kennedy
Based on Theories from
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Seeing the Miracle -
Yes, you have likely heard it before ... Believe
the Miracle, See the Miracle, Be the Miracle. You create what
you think!
"The Secret", "The Law of Attraction"
and many of the current popular motivational and inspirational
offerings have people changing how they see the universe around
them. What they are saying is this...that everything was once
thought and that you can "manifest" whatever you
want with your thoughts.
This is not a new concept but
and old belief repackaged. I do believe that our thoughts
manifest internally and externally the world that surrounds
us but I have a concern that we are setting people up for
failure and self-loathing.
The concept is "What you
can believe in 100% you can create", but how many of
us can stay in 100% belief all the time? How many of us will
have moments of doubt?
...If you doubt you will manifest the thing that you doubt..
(Wayne Dyer)
One of my favorite words these
days is "Congruency" (con·gru·en·cy)
which is defined as
" the
quality or state of agreeing or corresponding".
American Psychological
Association (APA):
congruence. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary
of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved March 29,
2009, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/congruence
We have congruency when we act
and think in the same manner; when my thoughts match my actions
then I am acting in a "congruent" manner.
For example:
I want to be fit and so I eat
wisely and exercise regularly.
vs
I want to be fit but I eat junk
food all the time and lay on the couch doing nothing. Am I
lazy, or is something more going on?
Congruent thought is necessary
if you want to create the life that you desire. You must fully
believe in the certainty of your future creation.
In 2008 researchers found that
depressed people are in conflict - meaning that they actually
do not just experience positive feelings when thinking of
something positive but something negative appears at the same
time.
First let me add somethingthat
the article did not:
They say "depressed people" as if we are always
that way.
What they should have said
in "people in a depressed state". For us
this mean - the low wave.
Here is the more on the findings.
In 2008, *Stanford University
researchers recruited both depressed and non-depressed volunteers
to undergo brain scans, via functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI), while they participated in an activity where
they won and lost money. Dr. Brian Knutson, first author on
this article, explains their findings: “When they anticipated
winning money, both depressed and nondepressed individuals
showed neural activation in the nucleus accumbens, a region
implicated in the anticipation of reward. Only the depressed
participants, however, additionally showed increased activation
in the anterior cingulate, a region of the brain that has
been implicated in conflict.”
John H. Krystal, M.D., Editor
of Biological Psychiatry and affiliated with both Yale University
School of Medicine and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System,
notes that this finding indicates that “this complex
mixture of findings suggests that depression is not simply
the absence of reward, but rather a contamination of neural
processing of rewards with features of neural processing of
punishments.” Dr. Knutson agrees, commenting that “these
findings are consistent with formulations that depression
involves difficulties in the processing of positive information,
and suggest more specifically that depressed people actually
experience conflict when they are faced with the likelihood
of receiving a reward.”
MLA Elsevier
(2008, March 27). The Conflict Of Reward In Depression. ScienceDaily.
Retrieved March 29, 2009, from http://www.sciencedaily.com
/releases/2008/03/080325111754.htm
Loosly translated these findings
mean to me, that in a depressed state we can force
ourselves to visualize a positive world but that this positive
world visualization will create conflict within us...something
holds us back from a full pleasure thought.
Let's translate that again into
"Wave Riders theory". This would mean that in the
low wave after we have exhausted ourselves is not the time
for us to try our positive thinking to "manifest our
world". It is not that it is wrong to do but that it
is setting us up for defeat. We may start to believe that
we are not good enough; that the world can manifest but that
we cannot. These thoughts are already with us when we are
depressed and we do not need one more thing to add to our
negativity during our time in the low wave.
In the Wave Riders' book we
teach that the low end of the energy wave is not the place
"to think". Why would we choose then as we frequently
do, to analyze our lives when we do not have positive brain
chemicals. We cannot in the depths of depression think positively
- why? Because our brains do not have the happy chemicals
left (Serotonin) to do so. Your "happy chemical carriers"
disappear quickly when we undergo stress and burn out.
Why are we burning out?
For some of us it is our daily routines that are stressing
us out and burning us out and for some of us we are still
in the overachieving mode of "creating wealth" or
"attending events" until we are too tired to continue.
I am all for positive thinking
and for training our brains to see life differently. But let's
do that at the right time on the right portion of our energy
wave.
If you have recently overextended
yourself - then make sure that you allow yourself time to
get rest, and begin to work your way back to the middle. It
is not the time for "heavy thinking"; it is the
time for rest and balance. It is the time for you to shower
that hardworking mind and the body that serves you daily with
healthy choices and tender loving care. for Get excersizing....hard
enough or with such great music that it distracts your brain
from negative thinking.
If you are on the "high
wave" and feeling that life is soooooo good - it couldn't
possibly get better, then be cautious as your optimistic state
(the adrenaline drugged optimistic state) may have you spending
money in investments that you do not really want. This is
not the time for meditation on future creation It is likely,
in this high state, that you cannot "sit still"
to visualize or meditate. This is the time to still your mind,
with deep and slow breathing.
If your spouse, family memeber
or friend is working too hard...then give them time to rest
without guilt.
Stay in for a quiet night - before they use all their "happy
brain chemicals", then
together, mid-wave you can begin to co-create your new world.
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we welcome your thoughts and comments.
take care
Indigo
Indigo Irwin Kennedy
Author: The Wave Riders
http://www.thewaveriders.com
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