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Listening to your gut feeling, assessing how comfortable you feel is not difficult. What is difficult however, is remembering soon enough to listen to your heart, for the mind reasons with authority with no inclination
listening to anyone else.
if you have to convince yourself and talk yourself into saying “yes”, then your soul is really saying “no.” When your soul says “yes”, you do not have to talk yourself round.
The only sign particularly worth focusing on when you are making a decision is your gut feeling and intuition. It really is worth listening to the rustle of the morning stars.
When you let go of the situation and relax your controlling grip you allow the world around you more freedom and the flow can take its own course. You already know that it is futile and even dangerous to try to pressure the world and yet when the mind loses a sense of harmonious flow it creates excess potential, which in turn creates obstacles.
Transurfing demonstrates a different way of being. Firstly, if you reduce the importance you attribute to an obstacle it will fade of its own accord. Secondly, if the obstacle does not respond to your efforts to overcome it, move around it and guiding signs will appear to assist you.
The mind’s greatest error is that it strives to control
the flow itself rather than its own movement within the flow.
The purposeful stream that takes the path of least resistance is incapable of generating problems and obstacles. These are created by the madness of the mind.
Someone bothers you and it makes you angry. Something contradicts your script and you go for the jugular to force the flow into the right channel.
Do not be in a hurry to fob someone off, object, argue, prove yourself, get involved, manage or criticise. Give situations a chance to resolve themselves of their own accord without active involvement or resistance.
By being willing to release control you will acquire more control over a situation than you had before.
exercise detachment.
When you let go problems resolve themselves quite satisfactorily without you having to know how; the things that happen that do not fit with your plan turn out not to be so bad after all; chance phrases can actually have quite powerful meaning; your gut feeling and instincts are there to warn you; you do not waste the same amount of energy as you did before and find that you are quite happy.
Never criticize anything that happened in the past and cannot
be changed. In everything else, go with the flow, not in a literal sense by agreeing with everything and everybody, but by moving the centre of gravity from control to observation.
SUMMARY The mind interprets information using a set of established designations. The heart does not think or speak. It feels and knows. The mind is only capable of building a relatively new version of a house from old bricks. Fundamentally new discoveries originate in unrealised sectors of the alternatives space. The heart serves as a medium between new information and the mind. The heart perceives unrealised information as knowledge beyond interpretation. A discovery is made when the mind is able to interpret information accessed by the heart. The mind is capable of perfectly assessing one’s
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Learn to pay attention to your inner state. By foregoing the projection of importance you are free to choose your destiny. Freedom of choice means being free not to ask, demand or fight for what you want but simply to go out and get it. The information structure is organised in chains of cause and effect. Chains of cause and effect generate the alternatives flow. Paths of least resistance are organised into separate streams. Streams in the alternatives flow contain the solutions to all our problems. Inner and outer importance jolts the mind out of the optimal stream. In the alternatives flow
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Signs are characterised by their tendency to evoke the feeling that something is not right. Spontaneous phrases can be perceived as instructions. The level of inner peace one feels represents a clear sign. If you have to talk yourself into something it means that the heart is saying ‘no’. If it is possible to change a decision that causes you to feel uncomfortable in your gut, do so. Soften your grip on things and allow unforeseen events into the script. Projected importance hinders the mind from accepting a deviation from the script. The mind strives to control the flow itself rather than its
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To ‘wake up’ in a dream you have to train your mind to ask the question: “Is this real?”
Over the course of a day you need to ask yourself whether what you are seeing is real at least ten times.
The secret of the intellect in any living being lies in the harmonious connection between heart and mind.
Your gut feeling will tell you whether something is risky for you personally or not. The heart is better than the mind at sensing impending danger and so dreaming without the active intrusion of the rational mind is far safer.
if you set several goals at the same time that are not connected your thought energy will be spread too thin and dissipate into emptiness. The alternatives flow will not allow you to swim in different directions at the same time. Attuning to a targeted sector is most effective when focused on one specific goal.
The secret is that realization is brought about not by desire but by one’s attitude to that which is desired.
Desire of itself leads to nothing. On the contrary, the more intensely you desire something the more active the backlash of balanced forces. Desire focuses on the goal whereas intention focuses on the process of achieving the goal.
Intention is realized via action. Intention does not intellectualize about whether the goal is achievable or not.
When a person experiences feelings of sincere gratitude they radiate creative energy.
The excess potential created by a request, on the contrary, delays action leading to a concentration of energy. Complaints, requests and demands are the invention of pendulums aimed at harvesting energy.
If you need to solve a problem, act.
Contemplating the complexity of the problem simply creates excess potential and feeds the pendulum your energy.
When you take action you realize the energy b...
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Because the dynamics of outer intention function independently of our will, we do not necessarily realize what is happening. It is much harder to work with the force of outer intention than it is to work with personal inner intention.
It is not so much that in the case of working with outer intention you solidly believe in the possibility. It is more that you simply claim the possibility of what you deem necessary, dispassionately and unconditionally.
Outer intention is born of improvisation, like insight. You cannot prepare for outer intention.
Desire is the concentration of attention on the goal itself. As you can see, desire has no power.
Inner intention is the concentration of attention on the process of moving towards the goal. This can work but demands a lot of effort. Outer intention is the concentration of attention on how the goal is realized of its own accord. Outer intention simply allows the goal to realize itself. Outer intention presupposes the firm belief that the alternative of the goal’s realization already exists and only remains to be chosen. Inner intention achieves the goal, outer intention chooses it.
In the first case you actively exert pressure on the world making it obey your wish. In the second case you take the position of an outside observer where everything happens according to your will but without the slightest coercion.
When you battle for something it is like you are trying to push your realization into the alternatives space, whereas when you choose something the space comes to you.
In order to fly you have to have absolute faith in the idea that it is possible to do so.
In place of some targeted exercise however, I would recommend simply practising conscious living in the sphere of physical reality;
As we have said before, people usually have an excellent idea of the things they do not wish to experience and only have a vague sense of what they desire with a passion. To subject outer intention to your will you have to wipe all negative thought from your mind and establish harmony between the heart and mind in your positive striving.
When you express resentment and dissatisfaction
As you can see, outer intention arises not as a result of will but as a consequence of harmony between the heart and mind. Outer
intention acts independently of personal will and so inner intention (personal will) should only be directed towards achieving a harmonious connection between heart and mind.
To gain control both in dreaming and in real life it is essential to switch from the role of immersed participant to the role of witness.
Even without taking outer intention into account, a person’s ability to control a situation is directly proportionate to their level of conscious awareness.
There simply are no complex problems on the ‘vaudeville’ life line.
Do not forget to trust the alternatives flow as well. If the level of unity between heart and mind in the vaudeville attitude to the problem is sufficiently high you will receive mind boggling results that you could only have dreamed of.
I should warn you though to be careful of the temptation of considering yourself the puppeteer. You understand that this would
