Working with our thoughts and the energy in the mind

A Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity discussion topic

Copyright 2008 by K. Ferlic,   All Rights Reserved

We can look at our mind in a variety of ways. One way we can see mind is to see the mind as a fertile field that grows thought seeds as they are planted by us, the gardener, intentionally through our intentions. Or, they are dropped by the cosmic winds as they blow through our consciousness. Some of the thoughts take root and grow depending on the nature of the soil and the climate. The climate and nature of the mind is determined by how and what we think and believe.

Alternatively, we can look at the mind like a radio. At any given instant, there are numerous radio signals passing through the radio antenna (our body/being), but we only pick up those signals for the frequency we have selected. There may be some stray signals and noise, but in general the radio signal will be concentrated on the signal we select by tuning our radio and we will hear a particular broadcast. Sometimes we only get static because there is no signal to receive, we are too far from the signal to receive it, or there is some interference that masks the signal.

The mind is similar to both these forms simultaneously. But what needs to be understood, what thoughts we have are a result of everything we sense and receive. The structure of our body is like an antenna. It is especially designed for sensing and amplifying a particular type and kind of energy and ultimately determines our receptiveness to the energy of Creation. What we think and believe and the experiences we have had determines the particular thoughts we have. Because of our body, the energy we sense tends to hold our awareness to remain localized in the physical experience as a human being. Alternatively said, our body causes us to interpret the energy we sense into thoughts about being a human being as opposed to being an infinite creator.

Although we may be limited in focus to what the body emphasized we can tune ourselves to the thoughts we have. That is, what we think and believe ultimately determines the energy we sense and how we characterize what we sense into thoughts. Our body just senses the energy that tends to be more readily created into thoughts about being a human being.

Our mind is a very fertile and flexible field that can be made capable of growing any thought of the universe if the soil and climate is properly prepared. We control the conditions of both the soil and climate by how we set our intentions, discipline our mind and work to ferret out all the weeds and unwanted vegetation that is clogging the field. We may not like the fruits of the thought once they grow and manifest in our life, but only we can pull them out and dispose of them. We are the gardener.

In the same way a field may be seen to have a variety of vegetation and we can only look closely at one plant at a time, our conscious mind will only focus on one thought at time out of all the thoughts that are available to it. The question is, how often does the same kind of thought return to the mind. Is the field of our mind growing a consistent crop of thoughts or is it producing a wide mixture of broadly differing types and kinds of thoughts, such that there seems to be no consistency in the thoughts? In this latter case, why would we be surprised if our life is full of chaos, confusion and disorganization, if that is what the mind is growing. Similarly, if the mind is very consistent and only one crop of thoughts is planted, why would one be surprised if our life is very routine, predictable, with very little change. It should be noted that, as in nature, where there are seasons and when the winter comes everything dies or a blight can come and wipe out a field of uniform plants, the seasons come into our lives and the equivalent of blights can come and wipe out our consistent life. In each case, the field can become bare for new vegetation of a new type resulting in new life experiences.

In the same way, if we like the radio analogy, all the thoughts or radio signals of the universe are open to us. We are the one who decides if we are going to listen to the AM, FM, short wave or other radio frequency. We also are the one for selecting the channel and turning up the gain (volume) so that we can hear that signal. We may not like the music or the broadcast after we select the station, but only we can change the station. We must be mindful of what we are hearing. In the same way a station changes it programming or plays different songs interspersed with broadcast announcements, advertisements and the like, our mind will see a series of changing thoughts. However, there will be a consistency in our thoughts. As with a given radio station through all the different programming we know if we are listening to country western, rock, classical or a news-talk station. Similarly our mind will have a consistency about it and we can come to know where our mind is tuned and what intentionality has been set for receiving thoughts.

In this way at any instant in time, our mind is growing and unfolding certain thoughts, beliefs and intentions or receiving and picking up a particular type of broadcast based on where we have set our intention. We must allow the thoughts to arise and work with them. We must look at the thoughts that are coming into our mind to know what it is we are pulling into our life. The feelings and bodily sensations we have let us know how consistently we are living the life we believe we should live. By being aware of the our thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations we can work at what manifests in our life at the easiest level. It is much easier to work at the thought and energy level than it is in the level of physical form. Building a house or a building from the blueprints and starting from the ground up is a lot easier that remodeling and back fitting an old house or building with modern conveniences.

What we capture and hold in our mind is that on which we focus our attention. In focusing our attention on those thoughts we hold, that is where we send our energy. With that energy focused on those thoughts, then comes the desire for that on which we focus and we get propelled through life, pulling into life that which we desire. But it is our intention that sets the conditions of the mind for the thoughts that we pull into ourselves. Our intention is what sets the conditions of the soil and climate or tunes the radio. The thoughts that can be grown in the mind then take root and begin to grow. We then only need hold them and the whole process begins to work. There is power in our thoughts. The images, symbols, and ideas in our mind tell us where our energy is and what energy is coming into form. We need to become aware of what is residing in our mind. But what we need to understand is that there are two levels to our intentions. There are conscious and nonconscious intentions.

There is an active and passive role the mind plays. The active role is thinking, contemplating and visualizing. It is about consciously choosing what we are doing - pumping energy into it and allowing it to come into form. The esoteric literature all tends to say, what we focus on in our minds, we become. We can consciously or nonconsciously do this.

To actively wish, desire or visualize something is to consciously put the energy into the thought. To fear something nonconsciously is actively putting the energy into pulling and experience of that fear as supported by our environment to us. To worry is to consciously put that energy into the fear. Any fear that has energy consciously or nonconsciously pumped into it projects and creates a situation in which that which is feared can manifest. That is why we can talk about crossing an obstacle when it is like a small stream rather than wait till it becomes a river, a lake and then an ocean. If you don't deal with the fear when it can be crossed as a stream, it will grow because we are nonconsciously putting energy into it - and it grows until that energy is released and allowed to flow on. The size of the limits and boundaries we place around the situation determines how much energy it is going to hold before it comes into form. The limits and boundaries are created consciously or nonconsciously based on our beliefs about the situation. Depending on these limits and boundaries, the energy may be released while it is still in the mind, or it may have to come out as a rage of anger, or it may have to manifest in an actual physical shape or event. The key is to become aware of what arises in the mind and to see how thoughts are evolving. Everything can be worked at an energy level and it is the easiest level to work.

The passive role of thoughts, images and symbols is something that is not normally consciously used or used in awareness by the average person. Although it is available to all of us, most of us just don’t know about it and don’t know how to use it. It is available and routinely used by psychics or highly intuitive individuals.

As a result of the oneness of nature, if we focus our awareness and attention on a topic, we can get information on that topic. It is available to us, whether or not we have beliefs that interfere with us getting the information or which determines if the information becomes available to us. Psychic and highly intuitive individuals normally focus their attention on a name or situation and get the information (obviously filtered through their own references) because they believe they can get the information or they never have been taught they can't get the information. What they frequently see are symbols. They then learn to interpret intuitively what the symbols mean based on what they know, think and believe. We all can do the same thing and learning to use our connection with oneness can be extremely useful for understanding how energy is manifesting into form and how the energy should be manipulated.

The normal person who has not developed a disciplined practice may not be able to focus and get information on any topic that they choose, but they can get information on what energy is forming around them. The mind seeks a place of comfort and will actively seek where it wants repose. No matter how much we try and control our mind, it will seek its own place of rest. It is a technique the author routinely uses and noticed in his own practice. There are times when the mind is naturally calm and there are times when it seems to be a raging storm. Rather than trying to calm the mind, all one needs to do is go where it wants to go and follow it and it will take you where it is calm. In doing so, thought, images, symbols, ideas and the like, will surface on a given topic or area that characterize the energy of the raging mind. Once these are recognized and acknowledged, the mind becomes calm. In many cases, the information that surfaces is information that needs to be acted upon in the physical world in order for our actions to be consistent with our truth. Alternatively said, the lack of calmness we experience is often because we are actions are not consistent with our truth.

In watching the mind to see where it wants to go, and what is brought up into mind are all the thoughts, symbols, and the like, that are actively seeking to "come into" the mind, because energy is present in these thoughts and the energy needs to be dissipated. Once we decide how to deal with the thoughts or the situation around which the thoughts are directed, if the energy is not dissipated, either the energy is diverted into the new approach or it continues to stay since it has not been effectively dealt with and will rise again. It will keep rising in some form until the energy is effectively dissipated.

Depending on the issue which is giving rise to the energy, it may be growing in energy. For example, as a fear that is not acted on but we keep think about. The energy will keep giving rise to thoughts and will keep coming back periodically and warning us the energy is there. Frequently the energy is contained in the strange images or symbols we get about a situation, but we discard them because we don't pay attention to what the thoughts are really are trying to tell us. It is something like active dreaming. For example, it may be like the thought or image you keep having of a conversation with a person that makes us think "I would like to bop him on the head." The energy is there and is presenting itself in the form of saying, this person is annoying and we don't like what he is doing, to the extent that bopping him on the head is what it would take to disperse the energy and defuse the situation. If we don't act on that energy in some way, not necessarily bopping them on the head, it stays there and continues to build unless released. If there are routine conversations with this person in the physical world and the energy is not acted on but continues to build because the person continues to be annoying, eventually the energy comes out in some form, usually of its own choosing based on our nonconscious beliefs about the situation in an argument, an accident or an illness. However, if the energy is acted on early, and the person in question is told about how annoying they are and the cause of the annoyance, then there is a constructive releasing of the energy and a feeling of accomplishment.

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