And how in the heck with “The Secret” now being common knowledge among so many people that we are seeing one of the biggest global depressions that has ever been recorded?!?

Now more than ever if you talk about “The Secret” people say that it is complete BS, Hogwash, it doesn’t work it’s a scam!

Funny thing is… “The Secret” is perfectly working on a GRAND scale!!!

It hit me like a train being derailed at 200 miles an hour! I said “Oh my God!!!” The Law of attraction isn’t the only universal law. Duh! There are several more and one very important one that may not be a universal law but is Newtons Third Law:

Newtons Third Law States:

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Well now that explains ALOT!!! With the secret going global there was bound to be a reaction that a lot of us didn’t foresee. The opposite is happening or so it appears. Is it all just illusion or just a mirror?

Now I do believe that this law mostly relates to the physical realm of appearances but we have for years been programmed to believe in this law, it is part of our lives our very own nature. We don’t even really have to think long and hard where we learned this law.

Now for another very important law a universal law:

The Law Of Cause And Effect states that any action produces or returns a result or outcome in exact proportion to the act or cause which initiated it.

This brings me to mass media… with so many people now armed with knowledge of “The Secret” the law of attraction, we need to be more careful than ever on what it is we allow into our minds and our subconscious minds. We are CREATORS and we DO have to accept some responsibility to the reality we help to co-create if even unintentional as most of our creations are, or rather unconscious.

Mass Media is in fact programming us. Maybe intentionally maybe not, but what we see in the news and everywhere is affecting how we create. Some people will work on creating the opposite of what we see, for others we say “Oh my God it’s so horrible, and we are powerless to do anything about it” *sigh *Despair - we create more lack and fear just by agreeing to what we see on the news as what is real and what is happening everywhere.

Mass media, our friends and family may just be unintentionally hurting us.

As we watch, read or listen to the negative events from friends and family or on the news and then even pass the negativity on to others by sharing the story, like…

“Can you believe the price of fuel these days? It’s driving the price of everything up! It’s putting us in a depression. Our leaders our only out for themselves!”

yadda yadda yadda.

Oops… Now we have a problem because the following Law works perfectly in every moment.

The Law of Attraction:

This Universal Law demonstrates how we create the things, events, and people that come into our lives. Our thoughts, feelings, and actions produce energies or frequencies which, in turn, attract like energies or frequencies. Negative energies attract negative energies and positive energies attract positive energies. That which is like itself unto it is drawn.

Here is a very important factor in using the law of attraction.

The Law of Expectation:

Energy follows thought; we move toward but not beyond what we can imagine. What we assume, expect or believe colors and creates our experience. By changing our expectations, we change our experience of every aspect of life.

Oh no!!! I’ve been duped into thinking it’s getting worse… and the Law of Expectation comes into effect.

I’m guilty… It’s hard NOT to share the negativity. It’s almost impossible to Not succumb to the overwhelming amount of information being directed at us from almost every source.

What can we do?

First start watching what it is you are thinking… EVERY moment. If we could be instant creators it would be total catastrophic.

Spend time in mediation or just be aware and observe what thoughts are wandering through your head.

Awareness is the key. Awaken, Be aware, Breath deeply.

Stay tuned for part 2 of this post and I’ll share some of my own personal insights, some insights of others and some practical information on how to be more present so that you don’t succumb to the Mass Media Intervention Project.

For now enjoy the movie clip, change the global vibration!

Secretivly Yours,

Jody

P.s. OH!!! please share this with your friends that may be interested let’s work on spreading mass positivity it’s time for the pendulum to swing back. I’ve made it extremely easy to share, just click the “Share This” link below the video and you will have several options to share it.

If you have not seen the first one do that first, I must warn you though, this may turn into a 2 hour journey but a very enjoyable one.

First video is HERE

Here is another very enlightening story that goes with the title “Change it’s what we are”. After this short story I have one of my own to share and a very special link to share for those that would like to learn some advanced mediation techniques to use along with Mystic Mindpower Audios… it’s Free

On with the story.

Rabia and the riddle of the lost needle

We are born to be blissful, it is our birthright. But people are so foolish, they don’t even claim their birthright. They become more interested in what others possess and they start running after those things. They never look within, they never search in their own house.

The intelligent person will begin his search from his inner being–that will be his first exploration–because unless I know what is within me how can I go on searching all over the world?–it is such a vast world. And those who have looked within have found it instantly, immediately. It is not a question of gradual progress, it is a sudden phenomenon, a sudden enlightenment.

I have heard about a very great Sufi mystic woman, Rabia al-Adawia. One evening, people found her sitting on the road searching for something. She was an old woman, her eyes were weak, and it was difficult for her to see. So the neighbors came to help her. They asked, “What are you searching for?”

Rabia said, “That question is irrelevant, I am searching. If you can help me, help.”

They laughed and said, “Rabia, have you gone mad? You say our question is irrelevant, but if we don’t know what you are searching for, how can we help?”

Rabia said, “Okay. Just to satisfy you, I am searching for my needle, I have lost my needle.” They started helping her–but immediately they became aware of the fact that the road was very big and a needle was a very tiny thing. So they asked Rabia, “Please tell us where you lost it–the exact, precise place. Otherwise it is difficult. The road is big and we can go on searching and searching forever. Where did you lose it?”

Rabia said, “Again you ask an irrelevant question. How is it concerned with my search?”

They stopped. They said, “You have certainly gone crazy!”

Rabia said, “Okay. Just to satisfy you, I have lost it in my house.”

They asked, “Then why are you searching here?” And Rabia is reported to have said, “Because here there is light and there is no light inside.” The sun was setting and there was a little light still left on the road.

This parable is very significant. Have you ever asked yourself what you are searching for? Have you ever made it a point of deep meditation to know what you are searching for? No. Even if in some vague moments, dreaming moments, you have some inkling of what you are searching for, it is never precise, it is never exact. You have not yet defined it.

If you try to define it, the more it becomes defined the more you will feel that there is no need to search for it. The search can continue only in a state of vagueness, in a state of dreaming; when things are not clear you simply go on searching. Pulled by some inner urge, pushed by some inner urgency, one thing you do know: you need to search. This is an inner need. But you don’t know what you are seeking. And unless you know what you are seeking, how can you find it?

It is vague–you think it is in money, power, prestige, respectability. But then you see people who are respectable, people who are powerful–they are also seeking. Then you see people who are tremendously rich–they are also seeking. To the very end of their life they are seeking. So richness is not going to help, power is not going to help. The search continues in spite of what you have.

The search must be for something else. These names, these labels–money, power, prestige–these are just to satisfy your mind. They are just to help you feel that you are searching for something. That something is still undefined, a very vague feeling. The first thing for the real seeker, for the seeker who has become a little alert, aware, is to define the search; to formulate a clear-cut concept of it, what it is; to bring it out of the dreaming consciousness; to look into it directly; to face it.

Immediately a transformation starts happening. If you start defining your search, you will start losing your interest in the search. The more defined it becomes, the less it is there. Once it is clearly known what it is, suddenly it disappears. It exists only when you are not attentive.

Let it be repeated: the search exists only when you are sleepy; the search exists only when you are not aware. The unawareness creates the search.

Yes, Rabia is right. Inside there is no light. And because there is no light and no consciousness inside, of course you go on searching outside–because outside it seems more clear. Our senses are all extroverted. The eyes open outwards, the hands move, spread outwards, the legs move into the outside, the ears listen to the outside noises, sounds. Whatsoever is available to you is all opening towards the outside; all the five senses move in an extrovert way.

You start searching there where you see, feel, touch–the light of the senses falls outside. And the seeker is inside. This dichotomy has to be understood. The seeker is inside but because the light is outside, the seeker starts moving in an ambitious way, trying to find something outside which will be fulfilling. It is never going to happen. It has never happened. It cannot happen in the nature of things–because, unless you have sought the seeker, all your search is meaningless. Unless you come to know who you are, all that you seek is futile, because you don’t know the seeker. Without knowing the seeker how can you move in the right dimension, in the right direction? It is impossible.

The first things should be considered first. If all seeking has stopped and you have suddenly become aware that now there is only one thing to know–”Who is this seeker in me? What is this energy that wants to seek? Who am I?”–then there is a transformation. All values change suddenly. You start moving inwards. Then Rabia is no longer sitting on the road searching for a needle that is lost somewhere in the darkness of one’s own inner soul. Once you have started moving inwards….

In the beginning it is very dark–Rabia is right. It is very, very dark because for lives together you have never been inside–your eyes have been focussed on the outside world. Have you watched it? Sometimes when you come in from the road where it is very sunny and there is bright light–when you suddenly come into the house it is very dark because the eyes are focussed for the outside light. When there is much light, the pupils of the eyes shrink. In darkness the eyes have to relax. But if you sit a little while, by and by the darkness disappears. There is more light; your eyes are settling.

For many lives you have been outside in the hot sun, in the world, so when you go in you have completely forgotten how to re-adjust your eyes. Meditation is nothing but a re-adjustment of your vision, of your eyes. And if you go on looking inside–it takes time–gradually, slowly, you start feeling a beautiful light inside. But it is not aggressive light; it is not like the sun, it is more like the moon. It is not glaring, it is not dazzling, it is very cool; it is not hot, it is very compassionate, it is very soothing, it is a balm.

By and by, when you have adjusted to the inside light, you will see that you are the very source. The seeker is the sought. Then you will see that the treasure is within you and the whole problem was that you were seeking for it outside. You were seeking for it somewhere outside and it has always been here within you. You were seeking in a wrong direction, that’s all.

~Osho

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The first time I experienced a scenerio like this going within to the darkness, it scared the living hell out of me. I was young and on the verge of sleep but still fully aware. I found myself floating in a sense but not free floating and everything was dark, I couldn’t make out my own limbs nor when I screamed was there a sound. No light No sound just complete and utter darkness and the only thing that existed was my own thoughts. For what seemed like an eternity (maybe a few minutes) my thoughts raced, “Am I dead?” “Am I in hell?” “What has happened for me to be here” on and on my thoughts raced. Finally at some point I just gave up struggling to find anything, any way out of this darkness, listening for any sound, I just gave up. I accepted this darkness it was mine and truly mine alone.

Soon I began to feel a slight vibration, no sound no sight so the only thing that was real was this new vibration, it was slow but welcoming and reassuring that I could again sense something. Peacefulness washed over me as I began to not only feel this vibration but also BE the vibration. As the vibration grew and grew in intensity sound began to form, light began to form. The more I concentrated on this vibration the faster it grew in intensity accelerating faster and faster with each moment soon the sound was so loud so high pitched and the light so bright I could hardly keep any sense of myself at all. At some point it all became so intense I lost myself, I lost my own consciousness in a bliss I cannot describe and for a time I do not know. But when I did regain a form of consciousness I felt as if I was sitting cross-legged as a child giggling and with each giggle I pulsed wave after wave of light.

Darkness never ever frightened me again, for somewhere deep down I knew I am the light or the light is me as well as the darkness forever intertwined in playful experience. I believe I was around 8 years old when this happened and again it happened at 19.

I have only told a few close people this story and I am not exactly sure why I’m sharing it now, just seemed like the thing to do, words I don’t believe can ever express what really happened. Soon I will tell the story of a most amazing inner journey I had how I found out truly frequency is everything and how light and sound are intertwined in all of visible creation.

Here is a link that if you are interested has very good techniques to deepen your mediation practice.

Mindfulness Meditation Course Wk 1 - Homework

Until next I wish you amazing adventures of experience.

Namaste,
Jody Sachse

Namaste

Below is a short story that may cause a shift or sudden awakening in you, but I warn you… there is no way back to who you are right now.

Change is what we are, it is inevitable, it is unrelenting and is the only one thing I know of to be constant.

Please click the read more link to continue in the spirit of adventure and change.

The man with a garland of fingers

Either you make your energy creative, or it will turn sour and become destructive. Energy is a dangerous thing–if you have it, you have to use it creatively, otherwise sooner or later you will find it has become destructive. So find something–whatsoever you like–to put your energy into. If you want, painting; or if you want, dancing or singing; or if you want to play an instrument…. Whatsoever you want, find a way in which you can become completely lost. If you can be lost playing a guitar–good! In those moments when you are lost, your energy will be released in a creative way.

If you cannot be lost in painting, in singing, in dancing, in playing guitar or a flute, then you will find lower ways of being lost: anger, rage, aggression; these are lower ways to be lost.

Gautam Buddha initiated a murderer into sannyas–and the murderer was no ordinary murderer. Rudolf Hess is nothing compared to him. His name was Angulimal. Angulimal means a man who wears a garland of human fingers. He had taken a vow that he would kill one thousand people; from each single person he would take one finger so that he could remember how many he had killed and he will make a garland of all those fingers.

In his garland of fingers he had nine hundred and ninety-nine fingers–only one was missing. And that one was missing because his road was closed; nobody was coming that way. But Gautam Buddha entered that closed road. The king had put guards on the road to prevent people, particularly strangers who didn’t know that a dangerous man lived behind the hills. The guards told Gautam Buddha, “That is not the road to be used. This is the place where Angulimal lives. Even the king has not the guts to go on this road. That man is simply mad.

“His mother used to go to him. She was the only person who used to go, once in a while, to see him, but even she stopped. The last time she went there he told her, ‘Now only one finger is missing, and just because you happen to be my mother… I want to warn you that if you come another time you will not go back. I need one finger desperately. Up to now I have not killed you because other people were available, but now nobody passes on this road except you. So I want to make you aware that next time if you come it will be your responsibility, not mine.’ Since that time his mother has not come.”

The guards said to Buddha, “Don’t unnecessarily take the risk.” And do you know what Buddha said to them? Buddha said, “If I don’t go then who will go? Only two things are possible: either I will change him, and I cannot miss this challenge; or I will provide him with one finger so that his desire is fulfilled. Anyway I am going to die one day. Giving my head to Angulimal will be at least of some use; otherwise one day I will die and you will put me on the funeral pyre. I think that it is better to fulfill somebody’s desire and give him peace of mind. Either he will kill me or I will kill him, but this encounter is going to happen; you just lead the way.”

The people who used to follow Gautam Buddha, his close companions who were always in competition to be closer to him, started slowing down. Soon there were miles between Gautam Buddha and his disciples. They all wanted to see what happened, but they didn’t want to be too close. Angulimal was sitting on his rock watching. He could not believe his eyes. A very beautiful man of such immense charisma was coming towards him. Who could this man be?

He had never heard of Gautam Buddha, but even this hard heart of Angulimal started feeling a certain softness towards the man. He was looking so beautiful, coming towards him. It was early morning… a cool breeze, and the sun was rising… and the birds were singing and the flowers had opened; and Buddha was coming closer and closer. Finally Angulimal, with his naked sword in his hand, shouted, “Stop!” Gautam Buddha was just a few feet away, and Angulimal said, “Don’t take another step because then the responsibility will not be mine. Perhaps you don’t know who I am!”

Buddha said, “Do you know who you are?”
Angulimal said, “This is not the point. Neither is it the place nor the time to discuss such things. Your life is in danger!”
Buddha said, “I think otherwise–your life is in danger.”
That man said, “I used to think I was mad–you are really mad! And you go on moving closer. Then don’t say that I killed an innocent man. You look so innocent and so beautiful that I want you to go back. I will find somebody else. I can wait; there is no hurry. If I can manage nine hundred and ninety-nine… it is only a question of one more, but don’t force me to kill you.”

Buddha came very close, and Angulimal’s hands were trembling. The man was so beautiful, so innocent, so childlike. He had already fallen in love. He had killed so many people… He had never felt this weakness; he had never known what love is. For the first time he was full of love. So there was a contradiction: the hand was holding the sword to kill the person, and his heart was saying, “Put the sword back in the sheath.”

Buddha said, “I am ready, but why is your hand shaking?–you are such a great warrior, even kings are afraid of you, and I am just a poor beggar. Except the begging bowl, I don’t have anything. You can kill me, and I will feel immensely satisfied that at least my death fulfills somebody’s desire; my life has been useful, my death has also been useful. But before you cut my head I have a small desire, and I think you will grant me a small desire before killing me.”

Before death, even the hardest enemy is willing to fulfill any desire. Angulimal said, “What do you want?”
Buddha said, “I want you just to cut from the tree a branch which is full of flowers. I will never see these flowers again; I want to see those flowers closely, feel their fragrance and their beauty in this morning sun, their glory.”

So Angulimal cut with his sword a whole branch full of flowers. And before he could give it to Buddha, Buddha said, “This was only half the desire; the other half is, please put the branch back on the tree.”

Angulimal said, “I was thinking from the very beginning that you are crazy. Now this is the craziest desire. How can I put this branch back?”

Buddha said, “If you cannot create, you have no right to destroy. If you cannot give life, you don’t have the right to give death to any living thing.”

A moment of silence and a moment of transformation… the sword fell down from his hands. Angulimal fell down at the feet of Gautam Buddha, and he said, “I don’t know who you are, but whoever you are, take me to the same space in which you are; initiate me.”

By that time the followers of Gautam Buddha had come closer and closer. They were all around and when he fell at Buddha’s feet they immediately came close. Somebody raised the question, “Don’t initiate this man, he is a murderer!”

Buddha said again, “If I don’t initiate him, who will initiate him? And I love the man, I love his courage. And I can see tremendous possibility in him: a single man fighting against the whole world. I want this kind of people, who can stand against the whole world. Up to now he was standing against the world with a sword; now he will stand against the world with a consciousness, which is far sharper than any sword. I told you that murder was going to happen, but it was not certain who was going to be murdered–either I was going to be murdered, or Angulimal. Now you can see Angulimal is murdered. And who I am to judge?”

~Osho

The very first time I read this story, I was humbled and tears did flow at the overwhelming compassion and great wisdom. Far sharper than any sword is consciousness and it easily sliced through my ego, my judgments that I have been guilty of for I too have been Angulimal in a sense. Maybe we all have at some point in our lives been Anjulimal, not in the sense of actual murders but in the judgement and rightouesness of our own ideals and beliefs carrying the garland of fingers around for each debate or battle we think we have won. May we come to love each other as the Gautam Buddha loved Angulimal.

Enligheneningly Yours,
Jody

Here is a great description of Metta

Mettā (Pāli) or maitrī (Sanskrit) has been translated as “loving-kindness, friendliness, benevolence, amity, friendship, good will, kindness, love, sympathy, and active interest in others. It is one of the ten pāramitās of the Theravāda school of Buddhism, and the first of the four Brahmavihāras. The mettā bhāvanā (”cultivation of mettā”) is a popular form of meditation in Buddhism.

The object of mettā meditation is loving kindness (love without attachment). Traditionally, the practice begins with the meditator cultivating loving kindness towards themselves, then their loved ones, friends, teachers, strangers, enemies, and finally towards all sentient beings.

Buddhists believe that those who cultivate mettā will be at ease because they see no need to harbour ill will or hostility. Buddhist teachers may even recommend meditation on mettā as an antidote to insomnia and nightmares. It is generally felt that those around a mettā-ful person will feel more comfortable and happy too. Radiating mettā is thought to contribute to a world of love, peace and happiness.

Mettā meditation is considered a good way to calm down a distraught mind by people who consider it to be an antidote to anger. According to them, someone who has cultivated mettā will not be easily angered and can quickly subdue anger that arises, being more caring, more loving, and more likely to love unconditionally.

More info about Metta and it’s practice can be found HERE

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Independence is an amazing thing, I believe you best find your indepence by learning and becoming friends with your inner world. Meditation is a great way to achieve REAL and lasting indepedence, it makes a statement to the world that says, I am aware, I am free and I choose to take the time to be at one with my inner world. The inner world has proven to effect the outer that we experience on a daily basis, so if you can find your inner bliss, it will soon reflect in all things in your outer world.

Here is a great look at True freedom, best explained by an exerpt from Osho

The Fool

A fool is one who goes on trusting; a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience. You deceive him, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you. Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn. His trust is tremendous; his trust is so pure that nobody can corrupt it.

Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense. Don´t try to create a wall of knowledge around you. Whatsoever experience comes to you, let it happen, and then go on dropping it. Go on cleaning your mind continuously; go on dying to the past so you remain in the present, herenow, as if just born, just a babe.

In the beginning it is going to be very difficult. The world will start taking advantage of you…let them. They are poor fellows. Even if you are cheated and deceived and robbed, let it happen, because that which is really yours cannot be robbed from you, that which is really yours nobody can steal from you.

And each time you don´t allow situations to corrupt you, that opportunity will become an integration inside. Your soul will become more crystallized.

Moment to moment, and with every step, the Fool leaves the past behind. He carries nothing more than his purity, innocence and trust. He is in harmony with all that surrounds him. His intuition is functioning at its peak. At this moment the Fool has the support of the universe to make this jump into the unknown. Adventures await him in the river of life.

~Osho

Also if you are looking for some GREAT free audio exersises to enjoy more freedom and indepence check out this blog post made a few days ago:

http://www.mysticmindpower.com/blog/2008/the-freedom-exercises/

Oh and one last thing… Be sure to check out the new Mystic MindPower Community

Wishing you an amazing blissful and wonderful Independence day!!!

Jody

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On July 4th 2008 Mystic Mindpower Community will be holding it’s first group intention meditation.

The subject of intention is “Forgiveness, breaking the chains that bind us”

If you would like to join or learn more about the event please wander over and check out http://mysticmindpower.ning.com 

Here is a great video on forgiveness.

Enjoy!

http://limitlessness.com <– scroll down about middle way in the page and you will find the free exercises.

The Freedom Exercises is a journey into the energy of awakening, leading you through five healing stages - Release, Trust, Open, Receive and Awaken.

Created and presented by Lee Harris and Story Waters, this was the Limitlessness Best Selling Audio Recording of 2007, costing $50/£25. This valuable recording is now free to download below. This gift of freedom through self-empowerment is given unconditionally and in freedom; please value it.

The Freedom Exercises is a guided journey through more than six hours of inspirational listening. The guided exercises and visualizations throughout are all aimed at helping you awaken the power of your energy - the power of your Self.

Here is an overview of the exercises in case you need more info on The Freedom Exercises.

Freedom Exercises Track list and Timings

CD1 Release
0.30 Introduction
3.50 How to Visualize
8.10 The Importance of Grounding
9.45 Grounding Exercise
14.15 Releasing Everything
40.20 The Alchemy of Change
49.15 Releasing Attachment
66.50 Soul Freedom

CD2 Trust
0.30 Introduction
2.25 Trusting What Is
24.25 Your Relationship with Trust
34.05 Trust is a Being
47.15 Expanding your Trust
65.00 Releasing Trust

CD3 Open
0.30 Introduction
3.35 The Opening of the Mind
13.45 Opening the Mind Exercise
42.00 Limitless Experience
60.00 Releasing Open

CD4 Receive 1
0.30 Introduction
2.15 Opening your Heart to Receive
20.10 Receiving your Power
31.30 Receiving the gift of yourself

CD5 Receive 2
0.30 Receiving Abundance
41.15 Receiving the New You
62.30 Releasing Receive

CD6 Awaken
0.30 Introduction
3.30 Know Thyself
32.35 Awakening Pathways
46.25 Your Awakening to Light
57.15 Release Awaken
60.55 Closing Words

You will be absolutely GLOWING after this video, lot’s of humor towards the end.. you may just catch a glimse of the humor in life and all of it’s “get r done” seriousness.