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Pounding around and checking out old feeds, I found a link from finerminds.com where they pulled up an old (2003) article about lucky and unlucky people.

Of course I commented on how to make your own luck earlier, and was surprised to see in this old write up how my observations tended to explain what he had found.  Richard Wiseman original article here.

And here’s what Wiseman said of note:

Unlucky people often fail to follow their intuition when making a choice, whereas lucky people tend to respect hunches. Lucky people are interested in how they both think and feel about the various options, rather than simply looking at the rational side of the situation. I think this helps them because gut feelings act as an alarm bell – a reason to consider a decision carefully.

Unlucky people tend to be creatures of routine. They tend to take the same route to and from work and talk to the same types of people at parties. In contrast, many lucky people try to introduce variety into their lives. For example, one person described how he thought of a colour before arriving at a party and then introduced himself to people wearing that colour. This kind of behaviour boosts the likelihood of chance opportunities by introducing variety.

Lucky people tend to see the positive side of their ill fortune. They imagine how things could have been worse. In one interview, a lucky volunteer arrived with his leg in a plaster cast and described how he had fallen down a flight of stairs. I asked him whether he still felt lucky and he cheerfully explained that he felt luckier than before. As he pointed out, he could have broken his neck.

All this thinking about how their lives are rolling unlucky or lucky are really just additives. It won’t allow you to release your native freedom, happiness, or peace that’s already there inside you.  You have to really start living within your intuition – which is a very broad world, actually.

And you can see that Sedona Method releasing technique will actually take you right out of any “unlucky” scene you are involved in. Because when you take the control, approval, and security desires out of the Wiseman paragraphs, then you can’t really be anything but lucky – unless, of course, you want to play the “unlucky” game for awhile…

What are dreams? How are they different from thoughts?

Levenson covered dreams with a rather Eastern approach, that perhaps our dreams are a different Universe than the one we are in during the waking hours.

I don’t know this to be true or not.

All I know right now is that I’m left thinking when I wake – meaning that I have more releasing to do to achieve that state of a truly calm mind.

My line of reasoning is that a person is trying to achieve a calm mind will should be able to determine between true intuitional inspiration and general, run-of-the-mill thinking.

Thinking will be rather uncontrolled and more than a bit non-sequitur and random. As well, any feeling besides a calm, deep peace with a simple happiness or joy – these would then be non-intuitional, but rather habitual.

(Or the AGFLAP vs. CAP – as Levenson would describe it.)*

So the utter lack of negative feeling, a completely calm knowing should accompany real intuitional inspiration. And would lead to true intuitional living.

I have a few dependable lines of intuition, being that I’ve always been blessed with a very imaginative and creative life. Working in these lines has shown me where the writing or artwork is forced, or requires too much effort – I might as well quit it, or take a break at least.

When I’ve taken up writing, this has opened up an new line – it’s one approach that the simplest line works. Just ask, the next sentence is there – or a phrase that needs to be applied.

One learns not to force or rush it. It’s always there, unless you try to force or rush it.

So that, I suppose, answers the question.

And now, extend that to all living – and your completely calm mind will then finally allow you to answer the question, “What Am I?”

* AGFLAP – CAP is a shorthand emotional scale one comes up through releasing

Apathy
Grief
Fear
Lust
Anger
Pride
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Courageousness
Acceptance
Peace

The CAP are top-end states which aren’t really emotions at all – these more describe a state of being which becomes more or less persistent as you work at releasing in general.

There’s something that’s coming up which I have to somehow communicate. No, it’s nothing deathly or dreary or even mildly catastrophic – so you can put down the tabloid journalism thoughts.

It’s this intuitional living stuff. A lifestyle choice, if you will.

For me, it’s been major. While I’ve spend most of my life just finding out how to find out – some 40+ years following religion, spirituality, self-help, personality/corporate cults – now I find that I simply don’t have to do that anymore.

Sure, I’ll still tell people what books and references I used as my path down this line. But laying out and writing/podcasting/videoing this path will be more intuitional than intellectual – no production demands to get it all done.

There is a trick to Levenson’s work – when you really get down to the basics of what he’s saying, it’s an approach that is only found in our oldest philosophies. But not really stated clearly anywhere. Mostly because it only appears when you are ready.

My point about everyone having the potential to become a Kahuna, or my idea that Masters already live among us – these are ideas that are rare in our society. But the come from the approach that we are all in this together, that when we recognize each others’ perfection – we’ll see more of that perfection showing up around us (and from within us.)

My approach with the Sedona Method was by getting a copy of Hale Dwoskin’s free materials and then going deep to look up Lester Levenson on the web, finding some .torrents of his older tapes (and then finding just recently that Larry Crane sells these things on his site.)

But that was due to my work in and around Scientology for 20+ years and having studied and counseled others on nearly every piece of data they have available.  (While I’ve made my peace with that corporation, it was obviously not my path – or I’d still be in there pitching.) So I dived in deep to the Sedona basics  to find out all the goodies.

Never found Levenson lacking. And there is so much more to cover, to explore – but it’s all in how to let this inner light shine more.

This is the point of living life large while living it small at the same time. Practically, living simply at the basics is the way to have it all – and more. This comes, of course, back to the point that the mountain might not be what you are looking for – but again, there I go, all metaphysical again.

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The next trick is distinguishing between the intuitional inspirations I get and thinking that goes on. Got some more research to do along this line and finding it hard to get rid of a great deal of this other activity which takes the rest of my day.

Because I simply want to pursue this idea of wanting Freedom more than the world. But it’s more like turning a high-powered jet around at top speed – takes about 4 states to do it.

So – I’ll keep you posted….

Hard to believe you already know this – it’s just going to take someone point it out for you…

This secret route has been known since the early 1950’s. It didn’t really show up in “The Secret”, although one of its proponents and teachers (Hale Dwoskin) was in that DVD/movie.

Lester Levenson discovered in in 1952, after being sent home to die by his doctor – told not to get out of bed or make any physical effort of any kind. (But the doctor didn’t tell him he couldn’t use his mind to sort out his life from the inside out.)

The breakthrough was in learning to let go of all the self-limiting thinking he was doing and just learn to live life simply. He found that all the Happiness he had ever been searching for was already in side of him – and he had been keeping it from showing up through all these habitual thoughts he had kept around during the earlier 42 years of his life.

Of course, it took something like another 16 years before he could figure out what he had done and how to teach it to others so they could learn it, too.

I’m still studying Levenson and his Sedona Method, although the tapes seem hard to find these days. Hale Dwoskin and Larry Crane, among others, have picked up this banner. Of course, they are bringing it to people in the way they want, which is to solve the material needs first.

And that’s where people consider that Sedona Method is a scam, because it doesn’t immediately give them everything they want. Hale Dwoskin covers this in several recordings – that by working on your Health, you might get Success or Prosperity showing up – or some other feature of your health being improved.

But I’m getting way beyond the scope of this little post. If you’re interested, you’re going to have to do some more homework on your own. (See links above, or other posts on this site.)

In studying more of Levenson, what he revealed as the cause of his near-death experience was his own attitude toward the world. And by sitting quietly and using his own mind, he was able to reverse these effects in just a few months – and also climb into states of high bliss which few humankind have ever experienced, even briefly.

And along the way, he found the underlying explanations and techniques that enable a person to get anything and everything they want from this world. Anything and everything.

Doesn’t mean it comes to you instantly, although it can. It’s going to take some work on your part. It all depends on how much you are completely willing to give up everything first. And of course, that seems contradictory. But I’m not going to try to explain why it works that way.

Here’s a video where Levenson, in his classic New York accent and approach, lays it out for a small class of students in Arizona:

Lester Levenson Fireside Chat 1

Why I bring this to you is simple – I care about your future and that of the world around you.

I’ve been covering the Golden Rule here for a long time – many, many posts. The short hand version is thsi: You have to give before you can get.

Now some have this down to just, only, and exactly how much money do they have to pay to get a CD set that will help them get the pay raise or new car or cash bonus they want to show up in their lives. And some are simply working at visualizing every day to get things to show up.

And while these will work, most don’t find they can get them to work just by reading a book or listening to a tape or DVD. (Although “The Secret” is a good introduction to this approach.)

As the intro to that above recording goes – you have to listen with your heart. Put your thinking aside.

Because all your thinking has gotten you into any particular situation you are in right now – any lack you are experienceing.

What the Sedona Method does is to calm the mind so that your native Self can show up and start working.

And there is a built-in trap mechanism that will ultimately give you a huge loss, a catastrophy if you don’t really give it all up. That’s what Levenson said in the video above. Because, yes, you can get every single thing you ever wanted in this world – and they will all show up for you. But if you don’t move beyond that bliss point where you have the entire universe at your feet, then it will all come crashing down around you.

You have to be able to give it all up.

Because that is the way we’ve set this Universe up to operate. Like death, as Patrick Swayze would quote from one of his movies – you only take the love you hold within you. All these material things around you aren’t worth a tinker’s damn in the final reckoning.

And as you get this idea into your life right now, you can have an incredible life of unlimited Happiness, Joy, and everything you need to accomplish your basic purpose, your passion, your unending bliss on this planet.

It’s been there, really all the time, just waiting for you. As Jesus said, you already have Heaven within you.

But the way to find it isn’t within any particular religion or spiritual philosophy, but is in all of them.Check their basic books and you’ll see this to be true.

The trick is in how much you want to find it.

Now, right off the bat I have to remind you to not believe anything I say – always, always test everything for yourself.

There is more stuff from Levenson I’ve been working with (although I need to make more time to study him carefully and at length). And a friend pointed this out to me yesterday.

Some background is needed before I get into today’s excitement: Levenson wound up in a very interesting state when he was about 42. While a complete material success, his body was literally dying around him. And Hale Dwoskin talks about this in his intro lectures (free on his site) briefly.

What Lester had to do at that point was to solve this so he could keep on living. And the way he did that brought him in just three months to a form of personal enlightenment so intense that he couldn’t understand it – even as a trained physicist – so he spent several more years studying all the great religions and spiritual philosophies so that he could get his wits around what just happened to him.

And so there is a great deal of Eastern studies (as well as Western) in his references – where you listen to tapes  he recorded directly.

OK, now about this mental fiction we carry around -  well, at least our version of it is fiction.

Lester said that essentially, there is only one Mind and we are all just keeping ourselves separate from it by our individual and collected thoughts.

No, it’s not easy for me to get at this point, either – because it raises a whole lot more questions. But the main point is not to try to figure out how that could be, but just to first test to see if it works as described.

How this lines up is these quantum physicists which we encountered in “The Secret” and “What the (Bleep) do we know?” Fred Alan Wolfe was one (and I really need to look up the other guys) and they mentioned that the next real final frontier to explore is Mind – this is what they found in their studies, that Mind was present in all their experiments and would actually affect the outcome regardless.

And these guys had to also go back to Eastern studies to understand what they had discovered.

So the basic, in American English, is that there is one Mind and we have elected to separate ourselves from it for various reasons. That crazy mind you know isn’t the Mind that is all around us, just your personal little version of it. All those thoughts you have streaming around is what you think are your mind, but actually, they are just a tangled ball of yarn in a whole bag of yarn balls.

The great thing is that any ball of yarn can be unrolled (no matter how badly a playful kitten has snarled it up…)

The best way to do this that I’ve found is the Sedona Method of releasing. This quiets your mind like nothing else.

And allows you to do that “Intuitional Living” I’ve been talking about. Once you get your own individual thinking calmed down, then all manner of solutions start coming to you.

Just the way it works.

(Of course this explains insanity, and provides a method to help those who are “losing it”.)

Let me know what you think on this one. It seems to be a real doosey.

While it may not always seem this happy, just sticking with the tides of Intuitional Living brings more peace than consternation.

I was all excited (so to speak) about following my bliss with this Intuitional Living stuff and then hit a rant that kept coming up. You see, I thought that this type of lifestyle was simply going to be peaceful and joyous and all that.

Forgot about the baggage we are all carrying around – all those mental habits of thinking all the time for a lifetime. Don’t figure that these will go away overnight.

But the trick and cure with the Sedona Method is to simply look at what is coming up and then release it as it does.

Intuitionally, the best way to get it released is to bring it to the surface.  It’s that old phrase “God’s Will” or “Moving with the Spirit” or some such.

What you get with Intuitional Living is a completely independent and mutually interacting lifestyle. Intuition flows through all of us. We are all interconnected, but not interdependent.  So several people acting on Intuition can show up to help someone in need – same time, same place, all there “accidentally”. Like that “Miracle on the Hudson” – a pilot who had trained his entire life just for that one particular situation. Post-grad degrees and extra studies, etc. All lives saved. Same river a few months later and you see a small plane blind-siding a copter while the supposed air traffic controller was on the phone with someone else.  All lives lost. Same river.

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It came to me this morning (which is why I’m up early blogging) – Government is the Will of the People, but when that Will gets sufficiently strong, there is no longer any need for Government.

On a small scale, I’m checking this out on our farm. We get a few hundred bucks every year because we tell the FSA what crops we put in and they tell us if there is a Loan Deficiency Payment. And in return, we agree not to sell anything directly off that land (like planting sweet corn instead of commodity yellow corn.) Every time you agree with the government for anything, you give something else up.

Now sure, with Katrina, the Coast Guard was doing great plucking people out. But if those people were truly following their Intuition, they wouldn’t have been in trouble, would they? Or they would have been able to rescue themselves. You don’t hear about the people who got out ahead of the storm or simply rode it out and rebuilt their homes without anyone else’s assistance.

All Government (and Mainstream Media) talks about are the few who can’t do anything for themselves. But that’s the wrong approach. Of course they are going to do that – those are people who need government to survive.

But does that give them any right to rip off others, take their money away by duress (what happens if you don’t pay taxes?) – when those people have never educated themselves to deal with life? Instead of running some training programs so people can get out of the poor mental habits which keep them poor – they start Welfare. And everyone else pays while they have children out of wedlock.

OK, this is turning into another deal altogether. Back to the farm. When we looked over the programs we could get into, we found that more and more we were being told we could do this or that and not the other. We were actually being given the choice of giving up our own independence in order to get the “security” and approval of these government people.  (And a little bit of money to sweeten the pot.)

I had a guy out to give me some advice about how to improve drainage on my farm. He said that because these low areas flooded once a year, they were “wetlands” and so I couldn’t do so-and-so with them – that he had to check his books for the statutes. All I wanted to do was to trim some trees so it would get back into it’s normal drainage patterns rather than start new ones.

Not like I’m draining a swamp where extremely rare and exotic wildlife live.

That’s government. Non-intuitional. Very much over-thought.

But is my life improved by getting out of government programs? Sure. Less payroll taxes if you work for yourself or as a contractor. Save up if you want to replace your own Social Security program. Like Insurance – if you have the money to pay directly, you’ll actually save money by not paying all those premiums.

Life insurance is for what – pay off your bills and funeral costs when you are dead, plus leave a little for those you left.  How about setting up what you own as an LLC or corporation and including them as stockholders, and deeding over your controlling stock to them when you are gone? Means no real estate tax if  you set it up right. Have that corporation pay for your funeral.

Taxes, as I’ve often said, just get the stupid rich, not the smart ones. Smart ones don’t “own” anything and so aren’t worth being sued or taxed. (And high taxes on millionaires just makes them move out of state – ask California.)

Government needs you, you don’t need it. Check out TOLFA.us for the theory behind this.  I’m into philosophy and can’t easily be bothered with this stuff (just bothered by it, as you can tell – need to do more releasing…)

There’s an old phrase for dealing with coyotes – the three S’s: Shoot ‘em, Shovel ‘em, and Shut up. I can harvest all the deer I want on my own property if 1) I wanted to hunt them, 2) No one saw me, 3) I didn’t tell anyone. (Plus, I’d have to process my own meat.)  Deer are a runaway nuisance, but you have to get a permit to hunt them. We are their only predators, but are only allowed to hunt them in certain times of the year and only so many at a time.  (Heck, I usually pick up several a year that other hunters throw out on the sides of the back roads because they don’t have enough tickets. Wasted – and smelly.)

The argument against this is like the buffalo – but independent ranchers saved that species, not any amount of government intervention. There are domesticated deer now.  But I’m way off the beat here. (And I’ll have the wacko enviro-extremists camped out here any minute now… “Save Bambi!”)

Look, just live your life the way it makes sense to you. Get rid of all these negative emotions hanging around and quit chasing the thrill-ride adrenaline rushes of the top end as well. Live that normal, calm, peaceful existence you know is within you.

Doesn’t mean you trip to that state will be like floating down a sedate river on a balmy afternoon – sometimes you’ll hit the rapids. But just ride them out, enjoy the trip, don’t freak out. Release all the time.

And you’ll make it.

Geese actually do a great job mowing...

Came to me while mowing the lawn and watching/listening to/experiencing my thoughts rattle around. Not so much a unique experience for anyone familiar with Levensons’ Sedona Method. (I mean being distanced from your own thoughts – not mowing. I’d rather geese do my mowing almost any day.)

In my life I’ve been very busy following all sorts of leads which put all sorts of stuff in front of what I really should be doing.

I should have been listening to my intuition the whole time.

Intuitional living isn’t an easy thing to move over to. It’s not like you just ask the driver to stop at the next corner so you can get off. It’s a transformational thing.

At this point, I know these key points:

• You have to learn to listen.
• It requires working constantly for the most optimal solution around you.
• It means working in abundance in everything you do and more often open-handed giving.

There may be other key points (they’ll come to me if I need to tell you), but let’s go over these individually. While books have been written on each one (and I’ll reference those I know of as we go) you don’t have to get these books to understand and start applying these right now to your own life.

1. You have to learn to listen.

This is listening within as well as without. Most of the time we are so busy thinking that we are tripping over our own thoughts constantly. Our minds run away with our lives.

Several authors, such as Charles Haanel (in his “Master Key System”) said to seek the Silence. His 24-lesson course the book was based on had you practicing sitting still for some time every day and simply learning to control what you were thinking. Others call for meditation as a way to discipline the mind. My favorite is Lester Levenson, who simply said to release the thoughts and feelings which welled up – this quieted the mind and eventually removed its “thinking” influence entirely.

The point is like someone who is talking all the time and doesn’t let a word in edge-wise. Until that person learns to be quiet and listen to others, they can’t learn anything. While Levenson and others tell how a person develops that problem, it’s easier to simply “let go” of that impulse than to figure it out (which involves more thinking, doesn’t it?)

So intuitional thinking requires simply sitting down in a comfortable spot where you won’t be disturbed – several times a day if possible, but at least once daily – and learn to be still and just listen. Don’t contribute to anything that comes in, just allow it and then let it go. Eventually, with practice, you can sit for 5 – 10 – 15 minutes or more and just listen to the world around you. This skill starts to carry forward with you in life and you’ll find yourself taking in and enjoying more life around you.

Until you listen, you won’t be able to have the inspirational, motivational, and intuitional thoughts arrive (they actually are arriving all the time, but we have to get all this noise out of the way in order to begin to see them.)

2. You need to work constantly for the most optimal solution around you.

Now, “work” might not be the best term – it only seems like that at first. Later it becomes fun, a game. But you are changing some life-long mental habits at the outset. So start looking for better solutions, the best possible solution to everything you encounter. Just see if you can’t work out how to live more abundantly and install this abundance in everything you do.

All your situations should result not just in win-win, but in win-win-win. Everyone involved wins from the solution you help evolve – and they then take that to help others live abundantly as well. You really need to not just pay it back, but pay it forward, and then pay it forward in advance.  Wallace Wattles covered this in his classic, “Science of Getting Rich”. He laid out a whole chapter devoted to the idea of doing always more than you are asked to do, taking care with each detail to create the most professional product you can.

3. Work in abundance  – start giving open-handedly.

In nature, there really is no competition. That is a humankind-invented view of things. The oldest writings and teachings on this planet confirm just one thing – we are all connected, there are no limits. Sure, there are the apparency of limits and restrictions, but you’ll find that they are arbitrary and imposed, not occurring naturally.

Look at the things in life which are giving you the most problems – taxes, government, political parties, mass media – these things don’t exist except for us “highly evolved” humanoid-type peoples. And if you look at more “primitive” peoples who don’t have health care, insurance, lawyers – the same sun still lights up their day with warmth and causes things to grow for them. They still enjoy their family, they eat and live with much less stress than we face in our “modern” world. A recent article about some of the oldest-living people found this village where they still went out into the fields every day and harvested their own food, even into their hundreds of years living on this planet.

Competition is only a limiting apparency. Creative action and resolution is unlimited.

And I could really go on and on about open-handed giving – it’s where commerce started out and where online marketing is going again. People don’t want to be consumers, they want to be part of the experience and community that any given product represents.  Online vendors know that they have to give away tons of really valuable stuff before anyone will invest their own hard-earned income with them. It’s a matter of trust. But that trust is built best through open-handed value-giving, not tons of “promotional give-aways” (although the two are related.)

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None of these concepts are new – even Intuitional Living isn’t a new concept. Emerson talked about it in his own way, as did his student, Thoreau. Even Shakespeare touches on it here and there.

It’s just come the time now, in our Internet information age, that we can move anyone who wants to right on up this line and out. Because Intuitional Living is just the next logical step, but it isn’t the final one (if there is one). It’s the next thing after having everything you need and want in life, being whatever you want to be, doing, achieving, acquiring all that you ever really wanted. You’ll get all that on your road to Intuitional Living. All of it. And you’ll find that once you do, you don’t really have to have all that. (Like owning a candy store – you find that you don’t want to eat candy all the time, but are really interested how to improve others diets so they can enjoy candy as a treat – not an have-to-have.)

Try some Intuitional Living for yourself. Just those three simple steps. See how you can work on each one a little bit each day – and see if your world and the worlds of others around you don’t improve just to the degree you work on these. It really only helps improve things. And as you give to others, you will receive. So this is an invitation to immensely improve your life forever.

Don’t take my word for it, don’t believe what I say here. Try it for yourself and see if it’s true for you.