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May this find you well and happy. ********************************* This is Part 6 of your 12 segment weekly email course which you requested on "MIRACLES OF LOVE AND WISDOM based on a Course in Miracles" We are presenting you an number of chapters of this book. If you like the material you are receiving, you will want to get the whole book by Robert Elias Najemy which can be found as a pdf ebook at http://HolisticHarmony.com/ebooks/index.asp May you enjoy and benefit from it. ********************************** CHAPTER XV WE ARE NOT ALONE IN EXPERIENCING THE EFFECTS OF OUR THOUGHTS Our thoughts are like waves, which flow out into our environment and create a physical, emotional, mental and psychic atmosphere, which affects all who are near us, especially those who are emotionally connected to us. For this reason, it is especially important to exercise discrimination in the types of thoughts that we allow to flow through our minds. Our thoughts create our reality. Our thoughts are like the film through which the creative spiritual power of our soul flows, impinging on the screen of life, creating the situations which we encounter on a daily basis. Positive thoughts create a positive reality, and negative thoughts create a negative reality. Those who live and work with us, or belong to the same social circle, are affected by our thoughts, (unless they have evolved enough spiritually, to have developed contact with their inner self, and are unaffected by the thoughts and vibrations around them). Thus we must consider two basic questions. How do our thoughts affect those around us, and how can we purify our thoughts so as to be a positive influence on our environment? And secondly, how do other people¹s thoughts affect us and how can we develop immunity from their negative thoughts? HOW WE AFFECT OTHERS We affect others through our actions, words, emotions, thoughts, beliefs and our general attitude. When our actions are based on competition, aggressiveness, or are ego-centered, then we create an environment in which others are forced to resort to the same type of behavior. These types of actions mirror back to us and we wonder why people treat us without love or compassion. When we act out of real love, co-operation and sincere desire to be of service to others, this loving vibration comes back to us and we feel unity and love. Our actions are the manifestations of our thoughts. We must check that they are in harmony with our desire for unity and love. The more we give, the more we will receive. Our words have a great effect on those around us, even when they do not hear them. Most of us do not examine what we say carefully enough. Our words should be like flowers, like a pleasant-smelling aroma that fills the air with peace, optimism, love, happiness and goodness. Our words should help others to feel good about themselves, to have faith in themselves. We should be sure that whatever we say about any person, we would also readily say it in their presence. When we gossip, complain or express negative thoughts about ourselves or others, we are polluting the atmosphere with emotional toxins. This is a point that many people need to work on. Our words must be positive, useful and helpful and full of the joy of life. Otherwise, silence would be better. If we have some problem we would like help in solving, it would be better to visit an expert in this field, and discuss it with him, rather than continually burdening our family and friends with our melodramas. Our thoughts have an extremely powerful effect on all those who are sensitive to the power of thought. Our thoughts, words and actions are like vibrations that impinge on the physical, emotional, mental and psychic receivers of others, and stimulate the corresponding mental states within them. This is a process that is called sympathetic vibration. If the other has any tendency towards fear, our fear (whether expressed or not) will stimulate and increase his fear. This is obvious in mob panic scenes at soccer games or fires. In the same way, if an individual has any tendency towards feeling peaceful or happy, his inner peace and happiness will stimulate and increase the peace and happiness of others; his greed will stimulate their greed; his anger, their anger; his competitiveness, their competitiveness; his selfishness, their selfishness; his love, their love. This might also be called the mirror effect in which life mirrors back to us our thoughts, words and actions. We may also find that we are mirroring back to others their thoughts and feelings. If this is true concerning negative thoughts or attitudes, we will need to learn to transform this negativity both for our sake and for the sake of the others. There are some cases in which there is no mirroring or sympathetic vibration. One case would be when that particular tendency is extremely dormant in the other or in us. For example, if one has progressed considerably on the spiritual path and has enough self-confidence, self- affirmation and self- love, it would be difficult for him to get caught up and respond to others¹ ego games, aggressiveness, anger, fear or pessimism. He may, however, have not yet transcended an attachment to the pleasure of sex or food and may be affected by others¹ vibrations in relationship to these tendencies. We each have our specific weak point, or vulnerability, which we have come to work on. Another case in which a certain tendency or vibration may not find response in us, or another, is when it has not yet been cultivated. For example, the feeling of love and devotion for God may find little sympathetic vibration in those who have not yet developed it to some extent. The same may be true for peace or universal love. This does not mean that we are wasting our time in expressing these qualities to such people. Seeds that are planted today may sprout in some years. It is worth planting them and leaving the results to God. ATTRACTION OF LIKE AND OPPOSITE There are two basic laws of attraction in the universe which most people are familiar with. One is the law of attraction of likes, such as gravity, in which two objects are attracted to each other depending on their mass. The other is the attraction of opposites, such as between the electron and the proton, or the male and female. We attract in our life people and situations based on both of these laws. Life brings to us exactly what we need to continue our evolutionary process, thus we attract people who have the same vibrations and tendencies. With them we tend to form relationships and groups for sharing common interests. We also attract those who have opposite tendencies. These often take the form of a sibling, spouse, or other family member or co-worker. We attract those with similar tendencies, so that together we may support each other in the development of those qualities or interests. We attract those with opposite tendencies sometimes because we have something to learn from them. Often we need to develop a little of what they manifest. I have seen many couples who manifest opposite tendencies, each needing to learn to be a little more like the other. Often, however, each in his or her insecurity refuses to learn from the other, and becomes even more entrenched in his or her unbalanced way of living and thinking. Both would do well in such situations to realize that the question is not Œwho is right and who is wrong¹, but what can each learn from the other so as to be more balanced and harmonious. We attract in life both those who manifest qualities that we have incarnated to develop and those who manifest qualities that we have come to transcend. When we see that we do not like some particular trait that another person has, we would do well not to criticize them, but to ask ourselves why that particular trait is so unacceptable to us. We may find that it is something which exists within us (independent of whether we allow ourselves to express it or not), and which we do not accept in ourselves. It may also be because we are jealous of that quality in the person. We might envy the freedom or self-confidence that they have and reject it as egotistical or as lack of seriousness, in order to justify our own lack of inner freedom or self-confidence. We may find unacceptable in others exactly that which we came to learn to incorporate into our own personality in this life. For example, we may be annoyed by the other¹s tendency to speak continually. In fact his tendency may be exaggerated, but we may have attracted this person so as to open up and communicate a little more ourselves. At the same time, he may be attracted to us so as to learn to speak less. Thus, life gives us at each moment the players, which we need to create the drama, which will teach us the next lesson. This reminds me of a situation I saw created at a monastery in India, where we had gone as a group for more intense spiritual practices. `By chance¹, three completely different characters found themselves in the same room that they¹d been allotted. One was very disciplined and intent on carrying out all the rules of the monastery in detail, concerning the hours of waking, attendance at functions and hours for sleeping. The second was completely undisciplined and unable to abide by the hours regulated by the monastery. The third was disciplined but had a great fear of conflict and a tendency to resist authority and support the oppressed. You can imagine the drama that ensued. The disciplined one started to get upset and complain to the undisciplined one that her life rhythm was not allowing her to get to sleep and function in the way for which she had come to the monastery to live. The undisciplined one started to get apologetic but also defensive. The third one was upset by the conflict that was taking place in her room and was unable to concentrate. At the same time her feelings of suppression were causing her to identify with the undisciplined one, who was being accused and asked to change her ways of functioning. Through this melodrama each learned perhaps even more than they did through the various meditations and lectures. The disciplined one had the opportunity to learn that undisciplined people are not inherently bad. She also had the opportunity to learn patience and understanding. At the same time she may have learned that the same need for a different type of co-habitation could be expressed as a complaint, as an accusation, or as a simple message stating calmly and firmly one¹s needs and wishes. The undisciplined one had the opportunity to learn that she could overcome her usual life style and adapt to a new one if that was required by the environment, and especially if her way of functioning was creating a problem for the others. She had the opportunity to recognize a weakness in her character and correct it without feeling upset or guilty about the problem that was created. The third woman had the opportunity to face her fear of conflict and express her feelings. She also had the chance to recognize her tendency to identify with the accused and the rejected, and to analyze her own experiences that caused her to do so. She may even have discovered that her identification may have caused her to do injustice to another who is simply trying to fulfil needs. Life is constantly putting us into such situations, especially at home, work and in social circles. Nothing is by chance. We would do well to let go of all feelings of injustice, hurt, fear, jealousy, anger etc., and look at why we are attracting and creating this situation and what we can learn from it. We are all co-creators of the realities, which we experience together. When we are able to get free from our previous mechanical programming and way of thinking, feeling and functioning and see the situation from a different, more spiritual point of view, we will be able to help all involved to see it differently. We can affect those around us very positively in this way. They may fear, resist and reject at first, because we refuse to play the same emotional games that we have played together with them for so many years. Even though these games are often unpleasant to all involved, they are familiar and many people prefer them to remain rather than change, even if change means more love and happiness. It may take time for others to trust this new way of seeing things and reacting to them. Eventually (that could mean from a few weeks to a number of years) they will see and realize that this is a much more harmonious way of living and interacting. This time period will also depend on our own ability to free ourselves completely from old ways of thinking and interacting. We may superficially change some ideas, but our subconscious may still be programmed with old negative thought patterns. In this case, we will need the others¹ negative attitude until we have rooted out every remainder of our own negative tendencies. Until then, their negative attitude is exactly what we need as a stimulus, which will show us whether or not we have actually gotten free. When we can receive anger, fear, rejection, or accusation from others, and not be affected by these emotions, then we know that we have purified our emotional body. If we were to live permanently in a monastery or on a mountaintop without such stimuli, then we would not have the same opportunity to test our inner strength, love and wisdom. FREEING OURSELVES FROM OTHERS¹ NEGATIVITY Not all people experience all the vibrations and emotional games which are going on in a room or home. At this moment there are hundreds of radio and TV waves vibrating in the room where you are sitting. You are not experiencing them however, because you are not tuned in to them (unless the radio or TV are turned on). In the same way, we can tune in, or not, to the various melodramas which are going on around us. We can get lost in them and become seriously disturbed by them, or we can recognize them as opportunities for evolution for all involved and offer whatever help we can without getting lost emotionally in them. If someone is drowning, we cannot offer much help if we jump in and are unable to swim and thus drown with them. We can offer more help by standing on the shore and throwing a lifesaver. If we are sure that we are capable swimmers in the sea of emotions, then we may jump in and keep our head above water while helping the other to shore. We will be able to do this when we have transcended the particular emotions that are polluting the atmosphere, such as hurt, fear, anger etc. There is a great difference, however, between transcendence and suppression. Some people simply suppress their emotions and believe that they have transcended them. Suppression means that we are still susceptible to the emotion, and do feel it on a subconscious level, but we do not allow ourselves to feel it consciously. Transcendence is a process in which, through love and wisdom, we develop enough inner peace and security so as not to be affected by the events around us. When we are free internally of various emotions, these same emotions, when expressed by others, do not affect our minds and emotions. Thus, the greatest protection is purity and love. When we are pure and loving enough, we will be safe from the negative thoughts of others. It is also important not to give any thought whatsoever to concepts like the evil eye or black magic. When we fear or discuss such subjects, we open ourselves even more to the influence of the negative energies around us. We would do well not to read books on such subjects, not to visit mediums, not to discuss or think about such subjects. There is no power greater than God. We are the power of God, living in these physical bodies. We are not vulnerable to any such harm, unless we ourselves create such a situation with our belief in such things. I have met people on the spiritual path who think more about the devil, and avoiding him, than about God, and uniting with Him. This is a great mistake. Our thoughts create their own reality. If we constantly fear the influence of demons or the devil, we will create our own drama based on this belief. There is no devil; there is no evil. There is only God everywhere and in everything. Is it possible to exist a being, object or event which is not a creation of the one God who is omnipresent and the one source of all things? Nothing exists which is not a creation of God. Thus we have nothing to fear and nothing to protect ourselves from, except our own ignorance and negative thinking. All would do well to avoid people who associate with such subjects as magic or the evil eye and various other shadowy aspects of the spiritual world. AN AURA OF WHITE LIGHT Our greatest security and assurance of health, happiness and harmony is our own love, purity and faith in ourselves and God. We can start each day by relaxing our minds with our eyes closed, imagining ourselves surrounded by a white light, a protective aura that surrounds us wherever we may go. Imagine this protective white shield to be a permanent force field, which exists around your body and mind, protecting you from any form of physical, or mental negativity. Bless your negative thoughts, rather than fight or reject them. Send them light and let them realize that they are born out of ignorance. Let them accept the light of your spiritual nature, and they will have little need to maintain their existence. Bless all beings who come into your surroundings. Bless equally those who help you and those who hinder or hurt you. Bless all beings, those who give you pleasure and those who annoy you. Bless yourself, your food and all objects and beings which come in your path. GROUP EVOLUTION We are evolving both as individuals and as a group. Our evolution depends to a great extent on the evolution of those around us. Few souls have arrived at the stage of development where their surroundings do not affect them. You are affecting the evolution of the whole. When you transcend a certain weakness or negativity, you make it a little easier for those around you to do the same. When you choose to remain stagnant in your growth process, you hold the others back also. When you are happy, you add to the happiness of the world. When you are sad, discontent, pessimistic, you add to the negativity of the world around you. You have a great responsibility as a human being in the process of evolution. You are not only creating negative situations for yourself by your refusal to proceed, but you are adding to the unhappiness and discontent of humanity. In this way you are "voting", through your thoughts, words and actions, without knowing it, for antagonism, conflict, war and even various natural catastrophes such as floods, fire, and earthquakes. Your every action is a "vote" for unity or separateness, evolution or stagnation, weakness or strength, fear or love, peace or war, poverty or affluence, for all of us. There are no neutral thoughts, there are no neutral words. There are no neutral actions. Every word, thought and action is based on either the truth of our spiritual unity and immortal nature, or on the ignorance that leads to feelings of separateness and vulnerability. WE ARE NOT ALONE IN EXPERIENCING THE EFFECTS OF OUR THOUGHTS They affect all those around us. We have a responsibility to our family, friends, co-workers, society, nation and the whole of humanity to move forward, out of ignorance and negativity, into the light of love and joy. Otherwise we are adding a little more sorrow to the world. We would do well to seek out the company of those who have similar positive thoughts and desires for self-improvement, love and unity. In such groups we will find emotional support, as well as techniques, which will aid us in progressing more rapidly and safely. We will take energy from the positive group consciousness, which will help us to confront positively those who are still negative and with whom we still must have contact, such as family members or co-workers. In most cases, it would be wiser not to change family situations but rather to heal them with love, learning whatever we can from conflicts that exist. Social contacts and, in some cases, work situations can be changed. We have the right to choose the social and work situations, which are conducive to the new positive life style that we want to adopt. Many would do well to allow their social contacts to gradually change, as they socialize more and more with those who have the same positive beliefs and desires for love and unity. This is a gradual process that should not be forced. Neither should it be hindered by fears of change, or of being alone for a period of time during the transition from one way of life to another. TECHNIQUE Meditation, prayer, reflection on spiritual truths, caring for the body and mind through exercise, breathing, relaxation and pure food will all help us move steadily along this evolutionary path. The following technique will also help you manifest the truth of the above in your daily life. Sit with the spine straight and with your eyes open. Look around at the various beings and objects which meet your eyes. Do not give any special importance to any particular person or object. Do not avoid looking at anything in particular. As you look around, letting your eyes randomly fall on whatever is before you, repeat in your mind over and over, "I AM NOT ALONE IN EXPERIENCING THE EFFECTS OF MY THOUGHTS ABOUT _______________ ". Then close your eyes and bring various emotional and mental matters that have been occupying your mind into focus. Concentrate on them while repeating, "I AM NOT ALONE IN EXPERIENCING THE EFFECTS OF MY THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS MATTER." This can be done for one minute with the eyes open and two minutes with the eyes closed about 4 or 5 times a day. I would suggest that you do this for about one week before going on to the next chapter. 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