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Your Words Create Your Vibe

In addition to choosing your perspective wisely, you also will want to choose wisely the words you use to describe your outcome, or perspective or whatever you are focusing on.

From a Law of Attraction standpoint, what matters is the feeling you have about any subject. And, the way you think of or talk about the subject will have a lot to do with creating that feeling.

Here is an example:

“I am easily able to lose 20 pounds and reach my ideal weight goal.”

It would depend on the individual, but to me this statement has a negative vibe to it. Mainly because it talks about “losing” something, which deep down feels like a bad thing for most people.

A better statement might be:

“I easily reach and maintain my ideal weight.”

Or, even stronger:

“I am now at my ideal weight.”

Or, if that feels too strong:

“I am now in the process of becoming as thin as I want to be!”

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Pay attention to how you feel when you speak or think your intention statements, goals, desired outcomes, etc. You will have either a positive vibe or a negative vibe based on the way the statement is worded. The words create the vibe!

If you don’t feel very positive when you think about a certain statement, play with the wording until it feels really good to you.

Phrases like,

“I’m in the process of…”

“The universe is now bringing to me…”

“I love knowing that…”

can be useful to improve your vibe.

It is always best to have what you are asking for in the present tense, spoken as if you already have it now. However, sometimes that can create a negative vibe because it just doesn’t feel true and some part of you goes, “yeah, right!”

How you feel about your statements and thoughts is extremely important. Just make sure it’s a positive feeling and not a negative one. If it feels negative, tweak the wording until it feels positive.

If you know how to muscle test, you can actually just test any statement to see if it is positive or negative. If you don’t have that ability, you can go by how it feels to you.

The Most Powerful Choice You Can Make

You have the power to choose your perspective, point of view, story that you are telling yourself about every subject, circumstance, person and situation in your life.

The choice you make (as to which perspective you choose) will directly impact your emotional state and “vibration” because certain perspectives have a positive vibe and others have a negative vibe.

Choose your perspectives wisely, with this awareness.

In the places where you notice that your perspective is not serving you or is taking you into low vibration… Change your perspective.

Remember this always: “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

It may be more accurately that things “appear” to change because you have lined up with a different “slice” of that reality. But for all intents and purposes, the appearance is your reality experience, therefore, it IS your reality.

You can hold a true perspective from any point on the Scale of Emotions. Try to always have perspectives that are rooted in the top end of the scale.

Demos of CORE and SEE Techniques

Here is a recording from a recent demo session which has some good conceptual understanding of how these techniques work. As you’ll hear in the recording, I need only 3 techniques to shift every possible emotional energy block (or “sandbag” as I call them) that I’ve ever encountered.

You’ll hear 2 of the techniques demonstrated in this recording. For a demo of the 3rd technique, go here

Choosing the Right Perspective

Do you have any circumstances, situations or relationships in your life where you have a hard time holding a high vibration when you think about them?

Examples:

- The Gulf oil spill

- Your money situation

- Your work situation

- Your health / weight / well-being

- Some relationship that is difficult for you

We all have “thorns” in our lives. Those problematic, vibration-lowering things or people that seem to mess up our happiness. We may think, “If only that were different, I would be able to be happy so easily!”

Well, the thorns are there for a reason. And, you’ll probably always have at least one in your life until you learn how to be happy (in high vibration state) despite whatever thorns are present.

Focusing on getting rid of the thorns, or longing for the day when the thorns will leave us is not the best way to deal with them. Once one thorn leaves, another will soon take it’s place. It just seems to be how life works, we always have a challenge or two to deal with.

Which is a good thing really. Life would be way to easy and boring without the challenges. It is only through dealing with adversity that we can grow and evolve. The key is to be able to deal with the adversity from a happy place. Then it doesn’t feel like such a big deal.

In fact, the one way to get rid of the thorns completely for the rest of your life is to learn how to deal with them while being happy. Then the thorns can transform into roses (maybe taking that metaphor too far but you get the idea). You’ll still have them, but when you are holding them in acceptance, peace, love and joy (as examples of high states), you will feel totally different about them, and even be grateful (another high state) to have them in your life because you recognize their value as spiritual teachers.

At this point, in my experience of playing with this, the thorns kind of disappear. They only stay invisible however, as long as I stay in high state in relationship to them. If I drop into a negative state again, they become “activated” or visible again.

This comes back to the idea that your perspective determines your reality. (btw – that’s a quote from Star Wars, Episode 1 when Qui-Gon is teaching young Anakin. There are many great manifesting and reality-shifting quotes in the Star Wars movies. The Jedi’s are masters of this stuff).

All we experience is our perspective. It’s just one slice of the true reality. You can never experience more than that one slice at a time (at least not until you have developed that ability and are living fully as a multi-dimensional being). But you can experience a different slice by choosing a new perspective. This is why the reality seems to change when we change our perspective. Our experience of the reality changes, and as far as we are concerned, from our vantage point, the reality has changed. But all of the slices are still there and other people are still experiencing that same reality from all of the other perspectives.

The BP oil spill is a good example of this. You can imagine all the different perspectives that people are in right now. Most are probably negative and resistant.

So, your job is to identify the topics, subjects or areas of your life where you notice you have a negative perspective. The way you can tell is by how you feel when you think about that topic, subject or area. If you immediately start to feel lower feeling states (anything in the low end of the Scale of Emotions), then you’ve found one.

Once you’ve identified a thorn, you now need to find a new positive perspective to take. You’ll need to make this your new home on this topic. You can look at the Scale of Emotions and choose a perspective that aligns with anything on the top section of positive vibrations. Peace, Acceptance, Love, and Hope are good examples, but anything positive will work.

When you have fully shifted your perspective, you may notice that the reality begins to shift too. That person who was so problematic for you is now showing up different, more friendly or cooperative. You’re feeling better and better about this topic. Just keep the train moving in that direction and you’ll experience the transformation of a thorn into a rose.

Materializing Reality

As I continue to live the Ultimate Manifestation in my own life, it is fascinating to watch how things show as the result of me staying in a high vibration positive state.

Problems get solved very quickly. Synchronicities abound everywhere. Answers show up before I even realize I have a question. It’s just amazing how the Universe works!

We had a guest speaker at our Unity Church this weekend (July 4th). Her name is Esther Nicholson and she is an extremely accomplished singer, songwriter and minister of Science of Mind, which is very similar to Unity Church principles and which I have studied quite a bit over the years.

I felt very aligned with what she was sharing. At one point, my wife turned to me and said, “Is she your alter-ego?” because the words she was using and the concepts she was discussing were the same things I talk about and try to live all of the time in my coaching practice and in my personal life. It’s so nice to hear the same message spoken from a different point of view.

I wrote down one quote which will exemplify this:

“It’s not what you do that matters. It’s the consciousness from which you do it.” — Esther Nicholson

Sounds very similar to one of my favorite Bashar teachings:

“Circumstances don’t matter. Only state of being matters.”

In all of these quotes, it’s important to think about what the word “matters” means. It means “materializes reality.”

So, it’s not what you do that “materializes reality.” It’s not your circumstances that “materialize reality.”

What “materializes reality” is your state of consciousness, your state of being, your vibration, where you are on the Scale of Emotions.

To learn more about how to live this way, please contact me directly. I am now leading a monthly Manifestation Lab at The Consciousness Playground and we’ll be working with applying this concept a lot.

Recent Radio Interview

Back in early May, I was interviewed by Dan Hanneman with Spiritual Rockstar Radio and the topic was “Breaking Free from the Emotional Prison.” This conversation covered a lot of territory including the planetary shift in consciousness, the scale of emotions and some description of how I work with clients.

The Biggest Game in Town

I’ve been working on an ecourse entitled, “Living the Ultimate Manifestation.” The course isn’t finished, but I wanted to post some excerpts of it to my blog in the meantime. Here is the first segment…

Living the Ultimate Manifestation – Part 1

I came up with the term, The Ultimate Manifestation, after spending several years coaching people on how to manifest, attract and create their intentions, dreams and desires in life.

I honestly felt that being good at manifesting and attracting was the biggest game in town. I thought that was what everyone really wanted (deep down). What skill could be better than knowing how to easily and quickly bring into existence the things, situations and circumstances that you most desire?

More time, more money, better relationships, a better job, a bigger house, better health… All of these areas can improve significantly when you understand and work effectively with the mechanics of how reality is created.

I celebrated many successful manifestations with my clients, and I got to be a witness to some pretty extraordinary events over the past several years. But, over time, I began to notice something that made me feel a bit uncomfortable.

I remember being on a trip to California in August of 2009 when I felt something had shifted in my relationship to how I coach people and how I was living my own life.

The realization hit me that being great at manifesting, attracting and creating your life isn’t worth a whole lot if you still aren’t able to experience lasting happiness along the way. And, I was seeing this pattern with my clients: They’d focus on what they wanted to bring into reality, they’d do the work, take the actions and it would show up! They’d be happy and excited for a few weeks, and then they’d be shifting their attention to some new thing to manifest. Which all seemed fine at the time.

But, what I noticed was their happiness and excitement usually waned after a couple weeks, and it was as if they needed to now manifest something new in order to feel that level of happiness and excitement again.

What was getting lost in the midst of all of this manifesting, was what I recognized as “The Ultimate Manifestation.”

As I searched for the meaning behind what I was seeing, it gradually became very clear to me.

What we all really want is not more stuff, better this and bigger that.

What we all really want is a feeling. It’s the feeling of lasting happiness.

I realized that we could make living that state the priority and discover how to live a life of lasting happiness regardless of what is manifesting in our life circumstances. And, when we do this, we unlock the door to living a life of extraordinary peace, joy, freedom, love, gratitude and excitement.

We can still continue to manifest all kinds of wonderful things, situations and circumstances, but we can do it from a place of already having what we most want: the feeling of lasting happiness.

I have shifted my coaching practice to be all about helping people to live the Ultimate Manifestation. It’s the most worthwhile goal I’ve ever found, and it brings me great joy to see my clients becoming steadily happier in their lives regardless of what is going on around them.

I still believe that the skill of deliberately and intentionally manifesting your reality is the coolest ability you can learn in this lifetime. And, I still coach people to help them improve their abilities and skills in this area. But I now see that the art and practice of living a truly happy life regardless of your circumstances is the biggest, most important game in town.
It may be the most important lesson for each and every one of us to learn in this lifetime. (Doesn’t it seem like life is trying to teach us this when it throws us the occasional curveball?)

So, I hope you enjoy this eCourse, and I hope that as a result you will make Living the Ultimate Manifestation the top goal on your list. It will truly change your life and the lives of everyone around you.

Removing Energetic Attachments – Examples

I’ve been thinking for awhile now that I wanted to post some recordings of examples showing what it’s like to remove an energetic attachment. So, yesterday, Alice and I were working with a client and we had the opportunity to remove three separate energies and I realized those examples would be good to use.

Here is Example 1, in which you’ll hear Alice describing what the attachment looks like (this one was an object) and the process of it being removed by guides and angels on the spiritual level.

In Example 2, we have an object and an entity present with some very interesting details involved. Both of these examples are pretty typical of what this process is like. The details are always a little different and there are varying degrees of negativity around the energies, but overall the process tends to go like this most of the time.

Here are the steps of the removal process. You’ll hear most of these as you listen to the recordings. FYI – The recordings were edited a bit to cut out unnecessary dialogue and the client gave me permission to post these on my blog.

1. Identify that there is an energetic attachment present. Often we are looking around a very specific context or issue that the client is dealing with.

2. Locate precisely where the attachment is located in the client’s body or aura.

3. When Alice is present, we get some details about what the attachment looks like and it’s apparent purpose of emotional frequency. These energies are typically negative, and can be pulling the client into various negative emotional states like anger, frustration, sadness, bitterness, worry, guilt, unworthiness, etc.

4. Ask for the optimal guides and/or angels to step forward and remove the energy. The request has to be made. Nothing happens until we ask.

5. Verify when the process is complete. Often there is some healing work done on the spiritual level after the energy has been removed. The whole process takes anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes in my experience.

For more information about energetic attachment removal, please contact me.

Does Your Brain Need a Good Washing?

We’ve all heard the saying, “Change your mind (or thoughts), change your life.” That is a 100% true statement.

When we change our thoughts, we change our perspectives, our beliefs, what we expect in the future, how we relate to things and people, and the actions we take. EVERYTHING changes when you change your way of thinking. You basically line up with a different version of reality.

Since most people on the planet have at least one area of their life they’d like to improve (health, relationships, money, career, happiness, spiritual connection, etc), and most of us know that if we just change our mind and thinking patterns we can change our life experience, then it seems like we should all be able to have exactly what we want in life.

However, everyone who has ever tried to make changes to their life knows this is not an easy process most of the time. The reason for this is that the mind is very resistant to change. It resists you trying to think differently and insert new and improved thoughts. Mind and ego want to keep things the way they are and the way they have always been in the past because, historically, that has been the best way for human ego to ensure it’s survival. Yes, it is the primal survival instinct that holds us in place. Resisting change, even when the change will be for the better.

What is needed is a way to get underneath the dynamic of resisting change, so that we can make adjustments in the fundamental thought patterns (core beliefs) that are controlling our way of thinking and direction our life is going. There are a few ways to do this that I am aware of.

One is through WaveMaker Coaching, which utilizes the WaveMaker device to disempower the resistant thought patterns and allow you to install new ways of thinking and more easily move in a new direction.

Another great accessible way to change your deep thought patterns is through what I call “positive brain-washing.” Now, brain-washing has gotten a really bad rap over the years because we think of it as something that happens when you join a cult or extreme religious or political group. What comes to your mind when you think of brain-washing? Probably all negative examples like Jim Jones in Guyana, Charles Manson and his followers, Wako Texas, etc.

Consider the brain-washing capacity of your television. If you watch a lot of tv, I guarantee you that you are being brain-washed. And, in this case you have very little choice about what messages you are allowing into your conscious and subconscious mind. Advertisers take full advantage of brain-washing to get you to begin thinking that you need the things they are selling. With the huge spectrum of channels available now, you could be taking in all kinds of detrimental messages and content disguised as entertainment. It’s really something to be aware of and notice. I recommend being very selective about what channels you watch most and steer toward the more positive uplifting content.

Brain-washing is actually a very useful tool when used with a positive intent. The easiest way to wash your own brain is through repeated exposure to specific content that is aligned with the thoughts you want to be thinking. How do we take in content? Through books, video and audio primarily. What is the easiest way to positively brain-wash yourself? I believe the best way to change your thinking patterns gradually and fairly effortlessly is by listening to audio programs.

I listen to audio recordings of my favorite teachers and mentors when I’m in the car and when I’m outside doing yardwork. It’s such a great way to be doubly productive. I have a few different programs that I like to listen to over and over, and I rotate through them, listening to one for a couple months, then switching to the next one when I’m ready for a change. When I go back and listen to one of the programs after having a long break from it, it’s amazing to me how much I have internalized and integrated into my thinking. And, it’s also amazing how many things I hear as if for the first time.

So, if you’d like to make solid progress in changing your life, I recommend you try some positive brain-washing and find a few good audio programs that cover the ideas and concepts that you want to be grounded in and living from. You can check out my favorites at: http://www.optimalifecoach.com/RecommendedPrograms.html

Energetic Attachments – A Basic Understanding

My good friend, Alice Brewer gave a talk this week at the Center for Spiritual Growth in South Bend, Indiana. The topic was “What’s Gotten Into You (An Expanded View of Reality)” and it was about the concept of energetic attachments.

This is something that Alice and I have worked with a lot over the past 16 months. Alice often sits in on my coaching sessions and shares her gifts with my clients. By gifts, I mean her ability to see, hear and interact with the non-physical (or spiritual) realm of reality. She has some extraordinary abilities, and together we’ve had some profound experiences with helping clients to shift very big issues in their lives.

I wanted to post something that was useful, brief and to the point around this energy attachment subject. This is how I see things based on my own personal experience in this field. The conclusions I’ve come to have been confirmed and echoed in a few books I’ve read on this subject (however, I read the books AFTER having most of the experiences that led me to the conclusions).

For those who are very new to this subject, some of this may sound pretty far out. However, I am 100% convinced that this phenomenon is real and something that each one of us deals with in life here on planet earth (whether we are aware of it or not). I feel an understanding of what is going on “behind the scenes” and what you can do about it is very helpful.

1. Energy attachments can be thought of as a range (or spectrum) of types of energetic patterns that can become attached to a person’s energetic field or aura. The spectrum includes earthbound spirit attachments on one end down to small fragments of energy that are barely detectable on the other end. Attachments are like energetic parasites. The effect on a person caused by an attachment can be hugely significant to totally insignificant. It is the situations where the effect is significant that I am most interested in removing attachments.

2. Basically, we are talking about energy that just doesn’t belong in you. It’s not energy that you created in your life experience. It’s energy that somehow got attached to you during your life. Usually there is some resonance point of attraction that draws it to you. For example: If you struggled with depression at some point in your life, you could attract attachments that resonate with low vibration depressed emotions. Energetically, “like attracts like” so a negative feeling state that you are stuck in can open the door for negative energetic attachments to be drawn to you. Once an attachment has “moved in,” it can pull you into specific feeling states or thought patterns when it is activated or triggered. So, a negative attachment associated with depression could cause you to drop into depression when you would normally be feeling good (if there were no attachment present). Attachments can influence your thinking and the way you feel.

3. Energy attachments are part of the human condition and they are extremely common. I believe everyone has energetic attachments, so you might as well get over the fear that you may have one (if that fear is present). The question is, “Are they affecting you in a negative way?” We live in a very polluted energetic environment here on planet earth. It’s pretty impossible to not pick up things here and there as you live your life. It’s like walking through a wild field. When you get to the other side you’re going to have some of those little prickly things stuck to your clothes.

4. The upside of this subject is that I’ve found that by removing energetic attachments that ARE causing some detrimental effect, a person can experience very immediate and positive shifts in their life. The most dramatic and immediate changes I’ve ever witnessed in all of my coaching years have been the result of removing energy attachments that were exerting a significant influence or “pull” on the client. Once the attachment is gone, the client often feels very differently and that is usually a permanent shift. An example: We worked with a young man who had panic attacks whenever he had to travel. This condition had been present for several years and it was getting worse as more time went by. It was interfering significantly with his work and personal life. Alice and I spent a couple hours with him during which we removed four attachments and worked through a past life issue that was related. After that one session, his panic attacks completely disappeared and they have never returned. He recently went on a trip to Mexico and reported that he felt no significant feelings of panic or concern before or during the trip.

5. So, if you have some issue in your life that isn’t resolving the way you want it to, this is a place to look to see if there is something pulling you in an unwanted direction. It has become the first thing I check when working with any client on any issue. If there is some energy attachment involved in the issue, we want to get that out of the way before we doing anything else. Then we can deal with whatever causes are present within the client’s own energy, or their own thought patterns. My overall coaching results have improved significantly since I started checking for and removing energy attachments. I find issues can shift much more easily and quickly. And, by the way, I always make sure it is optimal to remove the attachment before removing it (determined through muscle testing). Rarely do I find that it is not optimal for the client to have it be taken away.

6. Most of the time, it is very easy to remove attachments, but they have to be detected and their location identified in order for them to be removed. I use muscle testing to determine if an attachment is present and if it is, where exactly it is located in the client’s energy field. Once we have that information, I simply engage the spiritual level (guides and angels specifically) and ask them to remove the attachment. When Alice is present for the session, she can give a vivid detailed “play by play” of what is happening during this process. The details are fascinating and while there is a common pathway or protocol that occurs as these energies are removed, the specifics are always unique and quite interesting. Fortunately, we have digitally recorded almost all of our sessions in which we do this type of work. Alice and I are now talking about writing a book and sharing many of the stories around this subject.

7. The reason I got into this area is because I am always looking for “what is the root cause?” when trying to help someone shift an issue. If you don’t address the root cause, you probably won’t be successful in the long run. Attachments can be the root cause of many physical, mental and emotional well-being issues. Another meta-physical place that I look (usually the second thing I check for) is past life conflicts. If there is some unresolved issue from a past life, that alone can keep you stuck for your whole lifetime. Again, I had to keep digging to find the root of the problem, and I eventually realized the root of the problem sometimes is deeper than anything that has happened in this lifetime. Whether you believe in past lives or not, it can be an effective “theory” to use as a tool to access unresolved emotional energy that is keeping you stuck. Alice’s abilities are very helpful when dealing with past life issues as well. She typically sees the past life like a movie playing in her mind’s eye. She can easily go to the parts of the movie that hold the keys to resolving the conflict and then we typically use a couple emotion resolution techniques to resolve (or dissolve) the energy that has been stuck.

Once a person has a basic understanding of attachments, the two questions they usually ask are:

- How do I get rid of an attachment?
- How do I protect myself from getting attachments?

Both Alice and I can help you with removing attachments. There are others out there who provide this type of service, check them out thoroughly before proceeding. Once you gain some experience around this, it can be fairly easy in most cases to remove them yourself. But, you have to understand the basics and know what you’re doing in order to be effective. So, I recommend working with someone who is experienced and has a good track record with attachment removal. Being able to be aware of the attachment and locating it are the two biggest challenges.

As for the second question, one of the easiest ways to avoid attachments is to learn to live in high vibration (positive emotional state or positive mood). The more you are up in a high emotional state (feeling states of peace, joy, freedom, love, gratitude and excitement are good examples), the more protected you are. Attachments are low vibration, negative energy. Because “like attracts like” you would need to be in a low vibration state in order to pick up an attachment. There are some exceptions to this, like being under anesthesia, but generally, as long as you are feeling good and in a positive state, you’re impenetrable energetically. It’s very similar to how your immune system works. When your immune system is strong, you can fend off virtually any virus or bacteria that comes at you. Your immune system is like a protective force field. The same is true of high vibration. When you are in high vibration your aura acts like a protective force field and can repel negative energies.

As part of my coaching support, I help people shift into being able to live in very high states. I’ve found some shortcuts that make this much easier than you may expect. Refer to other articles in this blog in the Living the Ultimate Manifestation category.

There are other ways to protect yourself, and I plan to write a followup article that will cover that. In the meantime, for more information on this, please feel free to post comments below or contact me directly.

I hope this article has helped to explain the concept of energy attachments and set you at ease about the possibility of their presence in your life. I find that most people are unaware of this idea, or they have fearful ideas about it. I feel it is important to understand this aspect of reality and not be afraid of it. But, rather educate yourself a bit and gain some experience in how to effectively address it in your own life.