If you have been thinking of creating a wealth vision board, how about incorporating feng shui elements and pictures into it? There are many feng shui symbols for wealth, luck and prosperity. We can see them in huge display at shopping centers and stores this time of the year.

(A feng shui wealth vision board featuring images of a laughing Buddha, the word “fu” for prosperity and koi fish.)

If you don’t already know, Chinese New Year celebrations start this weekend and last for a period of fifteen days. Decorations in red, gold and yellow and sweet delicacies that promise to melt prosperity in your mouth are being sold aplenty!

While I am no feng shui expert, I do have some very basic knowledge of the symbols used. After all, I was brought up in an environment decorated with Chinese antique furniture, auspicious paintings and mythical statues for wealth and well-being. Just this morning, I decided to make use of what I know, plus some research and creative skills, to demonstrate how we can create a feng shui vision board.

What is Feng Shui?

According to About.com, “Feng shui is an ancient art and science developed over 3,000 years ago in China. It is a complex body of knowledge that reveals how to balance the energies of any given space to assure the health and good fortune for people inhabiting it.”

Feng means wind and shui means water. Good feng shui means good luck and bad Feng shui means bad luck. Feng shui is based on a Taoist understanding of nature and qi (energy), and the harmony between yin and yang.

8 Feng Shui Symbols for Wealth Vision Board

(A pot of money plant and statue of Laughing Buddha sits on a table in my home)

Here are some symbols or images to represent good fortune that you can use for your wealth vision board….

1. Laughing Buddha. The laughing Buddha (see picture above) is my all-time favorite symbol. I cannot help smiling whenever I look at it! Its chubby looks and large earlobes (to represent wealth) is absolutely endearing! The laughing Buddha is sold in many Chinese antique or feng shui shops. Apparently, you receive extra wealth points if you get one featured with gold ingots!

2. Prosperity. The chinese word for wealth or “fu” is often posted upside down on the front door of a home. The upside down fu when spoken in Chinese is “fu dau” which also means wealth arrived.

3. Fish. The word “fish” (or yu) in chinese represent excess. Choose the koi fish as a symbol of abundance. I enjoy watching koi swim. There is much grace and fluidity in the fish’s movements. And every koi is unique in its color, shape and size. The gold or bright orange ones are a hot favorite to represent wealth. A picture alternative to the koi is the goldfish. Select images of three gold fish in a bowl or eight koi carp to invite good fortune into your home of business.

4. Flowing Water. Waterfalls represent flowing energy of abundance. My parents have a large Chinese painting of a beautiful waterfall in their living room. If you cannot find pictures of waterfalls that you like, images of moving water will also do!

5. Money Plant. Consider having money plant indoors! Money plants are very easy to grow. At least in tropical climate. They flourish with little care! Be sure to trim away brown leaves. Any signs of death or ill health is considered bad luck! If you do not have money plants, then find pictures of them to paste into your vision board!

(Feng shui wealth vision board with words “prosperity growth” or “fan rong”, water symbols, a chest of gold coins and pot of lucky bamboo)

6. Gold Coins. Nothing beats a picture focus of a treasure chest overflowing with gold coins! During the Chinese New Year period, when you give three gold coins tied with red ribbon, positive feng shui is created for both the receiver and giver! Six gold coins is also considered lucky!

7. Lucky Bamboo. I like the appearance of the soft green leaves of the bamboo plant. Bamboo plants represent wealth and prosperity as well as longevity and good health. They are easily available nowadays. You can consider having a pot of lucky bamboo on your office desk even! Lucky bamboo enjoy warmer temperatures of between 65ºF and 90ºF. Do not place the plants in front of air conditioning or heating vents, however.

8. Fu Lu Shou. The Fuk Lu Shou (also known as Three Star Gods) is a well favored symbol with businessmen, executives and high ranking government officials. They also appear in many chinese holdholds as they represent the integration of: Happiness/Descendants Luck, Power/Success/Prosperity and Longevity/Health. The picture I have is a wood carving of the Fu Lu Shou I have at home. Most Chinese prefer them in ornate statues though.

Colors For Feng Shui Wealth Vision Board

Pick rich colors to represent wealth. These include bright yellow, gold, red, purple and green.

Digital or Cut-and-Paste Vision Board

The vision boards I created here are all made with my photoshop software for illustration purposes. However, you can just as easily spend some time flipping through magazines for pictures to cut and paste.

Where to Place Your Feng Shui Vision Board

The following 4 feng shui placement tips came from Marie Diamond and are featured from the Vision Board book:

1. Always place your feng shui vision board somewhere where you can see it, in your office, your bedroom or your living room.

2. Place your feng shui vision board where there is beautiful energy; definitely not in your cupboard or bathroom.

3. Have your feng shui wealth vision board in a place where there is life and action.

4. Be sure to place your feng shui wealth vision board at eye level so that you can focus on it.

Another 4 extra tips:

1. Hang your feng shui board at the entrance of your house, to usher in wealth.

2. Be sure to choose pictures of incoming wealth rather than outflowing abundance.

3. Place indoor plants at south east corners to up your wealth quotient!

4. Never put your wealth symbols in the toilet! Avoid having the representation of flushing away your good fortune!

4-plus-4 tips bring us to the number eight, once again! The number eight when pronounced sounds very similar to “strike” in chinese. As with “strike lottery”, eight is considered an auspicious number to attract good fortune.

Free Image Sources

If you do not already have the feng shui items physically, I recommend sourcing for images to have them on your wealth vision board. Some of the pictures I have used here are free from Dreamstime, while others are photos that I have taken (feel free to download them for your own use)!

Final Note

As shared in the previous year, the Chinese has a habit of clearing out the clutter before ushering in the new year. So this has been a rather busy period for me, not just with clearing physical clutter but subconscious ones! Well, I am not the only one hoping to start the chinese calendar year on an auspicious note. I have been getting requests from clients with energy clearing work as well. So if you have not already done so, consider spending some time on emotional release (read the posts I published last year on 101 Negative Money Beliefs and Cultivate Positive Money Beliefs by Busting 10 Myths). Thereafter, create your feng shui vision board

The coming weekend is extra special!! It starts with a double celebration – Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day – on February 14!! Let us toast to a year of prosperity, love and peace!

Abundance always,

Nature provides us with several wise insights about creation, if we only bother to stop and contemplate. The problem is that we have become so busy in our individual lives that we have failed to interact with nature.

(Water Lily Lake)

We overlook or disregard how connected we are as One not just amongst the human species but including all of nature (the realm of various types of living plants and animals). We take little care about our environment even while it provides resources that sustain us.

First of all, let us recognize that there is an Intelligence that creates and governs all of nature. Intelligence is a creative and abundant force. Think of the reproductive process of all living species. There is an Intelligence that brought about the changing of seasons, the migration of birds, the pollination of flowers, singing of the birds, the morphing of a butterfly from a caterpillar, the miraculous birth of a child; to name a few.

All of nature comes together in a synchronistic dance. There is constant renewal and rejuvenation. Every piece is perfect in its creation. Every piece has its place. Each piece fits into a complex yet connected tapestry of life.

Therefore, the process of creation is not random as it may first appear to be. In fact, creation is really a product initiated by the mind. Quantum physics has already proven that everything in the Universe is energy. We are all made of consciousness or thought. All of existence come about as a result of a belief, thought or an idea.

Intention

(Wild flowers on the sidewalk)

There can be a zillion thoughts that run through our minds every day but what we give energy to, we manifest. We create consciously through the power of our intent. Intention dictates how our creative thoughts unfold. The Universe simply complies with our requests – without exception – every single time! Our beliefs are bound to manifest in something.

Hence, the less conflicting signals you send out, the more singular your intents will be. The more focused your intents are, the stronger is the creative force. There is really no need or cause for worry if you have already sent out your intents. Patience is needed on your part, as energies are denser in the physical world and require time to take shape.

Then again, the process does not mean that you sit on your butt either. You back your intents up with affirming actions. Mere wishing is not the same as intents. With wishing, you do not have belief that it can come true. With intents, you have every belief and trust that you are already in possession of what is coming!

Consciousness

(Photo taken in Indonesia in June this year)

We can choose to create our reality consciously or we can go about life unaware about how our choices are affecting our reality. When we are ruled by the ego, we allow our life to be run by external forces. We manifest the exact life situation that our thoughts are about – chaos, conflict, negativity, trauma or sickness.

Our emotions are indicators of the thoughts behind them. They form our guiding system. With conscious awareness of how we are feeling, we recognize if we are in alignment or out of alignment in our thoughts, ideas and beliefs to our true essence. Hence, when we move in alignment with our feelings, we bring about congruence in terms of our thoughts. We recognize that we really wish to move away from feeling fear to peace, sadness to joy, envy to hope, etc.

Awakened consciousness is when we are in continuous awareness of who we really are. We are Source. Since Source is expansive, abundant and infinite, it simply means that our intents can bring the expressions of these qualities into physical forms. It happens when our intents are clear, sharp and focused. Energy takes shape in the physical realm to match our desires. Including all of nature.

Your Comments Please

(Photo taken at Singapore Botanic Gardens)

Do share your poetry about the beauty in nature and what insights we can gather from them about creation.

Abundance always,

P.S. Photos published on this post are all my own. They were taken while I stood awestruck by the beauty in front of me. Be it a scene on the vastness of the sea or a singular flower from the earthy ground. Every now and then, I’d review my photos with fond memories of how each captured moment has felt complete for me.

(Min dancing in joy – a great state to BE!!! Photo: limevelyn on flickr)

I’ve got a question for you today: Do you live your life according to HAVE-DO-BE or BE-DO-HAVE?

“Huh…what???” you may reply. I can almost imagine you looking baffled at this point.

Well, let me explain.

Most of us are living our lives according to HAVE-DO-BE. It’s not a great way to live, I’m afraid. We are, in actual fact, getting things reversed.

The secret to abundance (having all-there-is such as happiness, love, peace, joy, success, etc) is to BE-DO-HAVE. The BE-DO-HAVE order as very much aligned to how we can apply Universal laws (including the Law of Attraction) in the process of creation i.e. the creation of our external reality.

HAVE-DO-BE

I first encountered the idea of our HAVE-TO-BEs in the Conversations with God series. The paradox is that most of us believe that we must HAVE something first before we can DO something and then we can BE abundant or whatever we define our desired end state to be. The HAVE-DO-BE pervades almost every aspect of our lives. I must confess that I have been largely guilty of buying into the “HAVE-DO-BE” paradigm for a long time. A clearer perspective now allows me to see how HAVE-DO-BE is little aligned to abundance. Following are some examples.

We define our dreams mostly by material things. A big house. A flaming red sports car. A million -dollar online business. We need to HAVE what our neighbors are having, so that we can DO the things they enjoy and then we will BE successful. Or, we need to HAVE all these material possessions, then we can DO all the various things (like travel the world, lead the high life, or sip champagne on our yacht) and then we will BE happy.

In the area of beauty, the same formula is being used. Beauty is often treasured based on outward appearances. Most certainly, we are not helped by the constant bombardment of media ads that continue to prey on our insecurities. Consequently, we think we have to HAVE the looks first (and if we don’t, we can solve our lack of one by breast implants, plastic surgery or Botox) before we DO attract the dream partner and then we can BE happily married ever after!

In the practice of spirituality, it is also easy to fall prey to assuming the same HAVE-DO-BE paradigm. We tell ourselves that we HAVE to experience blissful states in our meditation before we can BE contented. I remember a time when I used to get frustrated because I failed to experience jhanas in my meditation at each quiet sitting. I had, during that period, tasted the low fruits of bliss a few times and started to crave for them at every meal. I also longed for bigger feasts. No surprises that I got very disappointed!!!!

Then, if you have been hoping to become a best selling book author, have you been adopting the same HAVE-DO-BE fallacy yourself? Your thinking goes: I need to HAVE more time and then I can write my book and then I will be so happy because I can live off the royalties that I earn from it. If you have been studying materials from the law of attraction, then you must know that worrying over the “hows” and needing the “haves” right up front can create blockages to the creative process.

All in all, the problem with HAVE-DO-BE is that it is very much based on living in the future. We are not happy in the present moment. We do not realize that underneath all that motivation in working hard to HAVE what we want, are thought patterns based on lack. Craving fuels us to work harder and harder. We desire what we do not have intensely and lament that despite all our struggles, we are still very far from our dreams.

The BEs that we are in is hardly a state of abundance. Emotionally, we tie our happiness to our desired outcomes. We have little no or awareness about how we are letting external events dictate our inner state. Our lives have been pretty much an open door to emotional upheaval!! We become trapped in a constant cycle of yearning and not feeling fulfilled.

BE-DO-HAVE

The way the Universe works is that we BE happy, peaceful or contented and we take (or DO) the necessary actions from this state of BEing. Creatively, we then bring forth the outcome we desired to have in the first place.

The next question you may ask is how do you BE when you are not there yet? Do you fake it? The answer is no. You can’t fake something and have a higher state of energy resonance show up in your auric field. It is just not possible. The best way from how I’m understanding things to be is to work the process out in incremental steps.

You need to determine what you need to BE to HAVE what you want to have. You begin to BE, even in whatever small ways, from your current position. When you start to BE, you choose to be happy, appreciative, peaceful, contented or whatever it is that you ultimately desire right now. You can do so by being appreciative, counting your blessings and viewing things in perspective. Your focus is on the “present moment”, cultivating joy for what you already have.

Your emotion-backed thoughts immediately put you at a higher level of energy vibration. Your aura shines somewhat brighter. Like a magnet, you also begin to attract frequencies that correspond to better outcomes. As you move up the scale in happiness, peace or contentment, you eventually get to the vibrational level that matches your desired dream of abundance.

“In life, you do not have to do anything. It is all a question of what you are being”.
— Neale Donald Walsch in Conversations with God

BE-DO-HAVE or HAVE-DO-BE?

How are you living your life today? Share your comments/story/ideas in today’s food-for-thought post.

(Photo by jhritz on Flickr)

According to the Law of Attraction, a powerful intent made up of clear, pure and focused thoughts will start to attract the very essence of your desires. Hence, the clearer, more specific and untainted you are in your thoughts, the more likely you can be in bringing them into physical reality. However, what happens if you do not have a clear idea of what you really want yet? Or what happens if it is a question of readiness?

It may be the case that you need more information to make a decision on your desires or that you want to feel your way a little more before making a decision. It will be useful to think of the process of coming to a powerful intent by the metaphor of a jigsaw puzzle, where you take time gathering each relevant piece to see how the pieces all fit in together into a coherent, beautiful and complete picture.

Case Studies of Intents That Are Not Powerful Enough

My last post was a good example of how I would like to publish a best seller but because my intent was not clear, I ended up with getting a picture of my vision board published in Joyce Schwarz’s best selling The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life book instead. Not that I minded, I simply love her book!!

Another excellent example which many of you can probably relate to is if you are interested to set up your own business but do not know which area to go into. You have various interests but do not know which to pursue. (Anyone still wondering at this question can get extra help from Tom Volkar’s Business Of Your Dreams Program.

So you create an intent to have your own business but are unable to make the intent clear or specific enough. It is possible that while your thoughts are fuzzy (due to insufficient information) or chaotic (due to too many options), you face great difficulty bringing a specific and successful business into fruition. It is also no surprise that most of your business ventures fail miserably at this stage!

Steps To Making A Powerful Intention

1. Make an Intent “I want to Know What I Want”.

To start off with, you can make an intent saying “I want to know what I want”. This is a suggestion provided by Abraham Hicks in The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense to admit that you do not really know what you want yet and need some help. Don’t we often turn to our friends for some assistance if we find ourselves in a bind? Well, it works the same way with The Universe/Source/God.

You make the intention to attract all sorts of examples and cases to help you make a decision. You allow your dominant intent to be looking for things you want. You can also look at the people around you for traits and characteristics that you desire in a companion, mate or friend if this is what you are hoping to attract.

2. Collect Useful Data.

Sometimes, the examples around you may not all that perfect. For instance, you may say that you would like more wealth; however, you experience some resistance in your thoughts due to having a friend who is wealthy but in poor health. Abraham Hicks suggests that you just collect the prosperity data and leave out the rest of the undesirable parts. Each piece of information must be scrutinized so that it can contribute healthily and meaningfully to your entire dream or picture.

3. Put The Jigsaw Pieces Together Mentally.

Then, you start to visualize by piecing together all the desired characteristics of what you want. The pieces are about what you now feel you want to experience. This is where Vision Boards or Mind Movies come in particularly useful!!

You may find that what you put together may be nothing like what already exists. No one else has had it. This is perfectly fine!! You are the creator of a new experience or a physical reality never before manifested! Do not for a second believe that just because it has not happened to anyone yet, it cannot happen to you!!

4. Set The Intention At The Right Time.

Due to having to put the puzzle pieces together, it may require you some time. You only know when you are clear enough as soon as you get all excited. Back to the same example, your thoughts have been mostly on the business you would like to set up but none of the options you have been exploring have a strong appeal. However, one fine day, an inspired idea may just drop in and you have the “Aha” moment! When you hit that sweet spot, you get an instant inner knowing. That is when you set a clear and powerful intention by saying “this is what I want”!

5. Keep The Intent Pure.

Well, according to the Law of Attraction, when you have been purely visualizing your intention, it should come pretty quickly.

“The purity of the visualization is key and by that we mean purely offering thoughts only in the direction of what you want.”
— Abraham Hicks in The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham

However, the problem comes in you we start to have our “buts”. It is when you say “I want this but” Here is what Abraham Hicks say….

“If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be only for one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence”.

Hence, get your eyes, words and thoughts on what-is. The more often you practice this, the faster your wants will manifest.

Learn From The Frog Get Your Intents Clear & Pure

Recently, the Psychic Friends Network launched a hotline for frogs. Here is the story of one frog, which decided to call into the hotline to ask to speak to a psychic.

The psychic told the frog, “You are going to meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know everything about you.”

The frog was elated, “This is great! I have been wishing for exactly that.”

However, secretly inside, it felt unsure that a beautiful girl would seriously fall in love with an ugly looking creature like a frog.

Filled with doubt, it decided to ask for more information. “Will I meet her at a party, or what?”

“No,” replied the psychic. “Next semester in her biology class.”

Your Thoughts Please

Do you make the asking “I want to know what I want” if you are not already clear about the intent that you wish to create? How is the process like for you in finding out what you really want? What has been a helpful strategy for you in feeling good about the experience you wish to have, although in reality you are not there yet?

(Photo by spacemonkey on flickr)

Be Careful What You Wish For or You Just May Get it so the saying goes!

Seated quietly in a romantic corner of a dimly lit restaurant was a married couple in their 60s. They brought their glasses of champagne together in a toast. There was every reason to celebrate. It was their 30th wedding anniversary that day.

In a whiff of smoke, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared before them, hovering over the table. She said, “For being such an exemplary married couple and for being loving to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish.”

The wife clapped her hands in delight. She answered first, “Oh, I would like to travel the world with my darling husband.”

The fairy waved her magic wand over the elderly woman, who instantly found two round-the-world air tickets in her hands.

It was now the husband’s turn. He reflected for a moment and then said “Well, this is all very romantic, but an opportunity like this will never come again.”

He decided to bare his innermost desires.

He said, “My wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than me.”

The fairy answered, “Your wish is my command.”

She waved her magic wand over the man.

Puff! The husband became 90 years old.

Some Background to “Be Careful What You Wish For”

The joke above is also one of many that can be found, illustrating the phrase “Be Careful What You Wish For”. A little research on the web reveals that this phrase is used in a number of sources such as in the story the Monkey’s Paw; a classic horror story written by W.W. Jacobs, which first appeared in Harpers Monthly in 1902. The story begins with the quote “Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it” – attributed by the author to Anonymous. Thus, there is no telling who the originator of the phrase is.

Now, for the purposes of discussion on this site, let us examine this phrase in relation to intention and manifestation, as follows:

1. The Importance Of Finding Out Your Real Desire
2. Why You Get What You Do Not Wish For
3. You Have No Idea What To Wish For
4. Going For A Wish That Merely Satisfies The Selfish Ego.

1. The Importance Of Finding Out Your Real Desire

Through the many posts previously discussed, we already know about the power of our thoughts. Thoughts are creative. If we want to manifest something, we do so with intention and sustained focus.

However, on the flip side, it also means that we have to be very clear in what we wish for. We may end up with something that we actually do not want. While our manifestation can become a reality, it may also bring with it other problems and headaches.

Say for example, you see having lots of money, as a ticket out of your miserable and stressful job. You set an intention to start a successful business. Applying the principles of the Law of Attraction, you end up attracting truckloads of customers. But because you mistakenly thought that money is your primary aim, you do not choose a business that you are truly passionate in. You end up in a situation that you can barely cope in terms of hours spent at work, doubly stressed than before.

But what if you have set the higher intention of finding fulfilling work, something that you are keen or passionate in? Because you are good in what you do, you start to attract lots of customers who appreciate your work. You no longer see the hours you spent as work but rather as an extension of yourself.

Hence, it is important to spend time having a clear understanding of your real desire, before starting to make an intention. More about how to find an alignment will be discussed later down this article.

2. Why You Get What You Do Not Wish For

Far too often, we experience things and situations that we do not want. It is important to know why this is the case: what we align ourselves with emotionally are the outcomes we manifest.

Hence, if your thoughts tend to be negative and you back them up emotionally, you are more likely to attract negative situations. For instance, if you have been unconsciously been focusing on lack and worrying over your finances, your physical reality is not going to be one of abundance.

You can also observe if your thoughts have been negative by the words that you say. If you utter “I wish ______ ” in anger consistently, you may just get what you wish for.

3. You wanted Blue and Yellow But Got Green

In the book, The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks, it is stated that you will get all the results that you want, if you are clear about everything that you want. But it can be the case that you have no clear idea of what is it that you really desire. In your confusion, you are not able to determine what your underlying intents are.

Here is the example cited in the book. You say, “I want the color yellow, and I want the color blue”. But what you ultimately end up with is green. And then you ask, “How did I get green? I did not intend that at all.” But what actually happened was due to the blending of your various intentions. (Blending the color yellow blue gives you the color green).

The solution that is offered by Abraham in the book? Check with your inner Being. Only your inner Being can sort out the complexities of your thoughts. It does this by guiding your emotions. Hence, pay close attention to the way you feel, and let yourself be drawn to the things that feel good or right to you. At the same time, let yourself move away from those things that do not.

Allow me to share how I have been making some of my decisions lately. In considering my options, I ask myself: Is my intent/desire for the fulfillment of my ego or is it one that is for the growth of my Soul (love, light and peace)? Having a guideline keeps me from getting distracted and making a poor choice. I have every intent to elevating myself (or my Being) energetically and making decisions that align with my Highest Path and Purpose.

4. A Possible Scenario: Going For A Wish That Merely Satisfies The Selfish Ego

Ambition is a Dead Sea Fruit
And the greatest peril to the soul is that
one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
— By Edward Dahlberg

You cannot get it off your mind. A longing that hovers in your thoughts, day and night. You toy with your options. You try to figure out how to get the prize. At first, just a gentle idea, the longing soon becomes an obsession, a craving.

In your desperate moments, you consider selling your soul for it. Yet, deep down inside, you suspect that guilt will creep in if you take a drastic measure.

You finally make a decision. You cannot bear it any longer! The wait is just too much to bear. You are willing to take a chance.

You taste the pleasure, the thrill of the moment, the pinnacle of your human experience; the means gotten through the betrayal of your friends, the loss of your conscience, and the hurt that you inflict. Your ego is satiated.

You are happy. Then, you decide that you would like to share your happiness. Let others know. You go around with your prized catch. Your ego needs to know that others will be struck with envy.

But you find no one now. All of whom you have held dear before. They shut you out, just like how and what you have done to them.

It’s okay, your ego says. You have got me and you have got the prize.

So, you sit. At first, happy and then, dismay by the loneliness that now engulfs.

In the quietness, you finally hear a soft whisper: Is the sacrifice worth it?

Knowing arises: the gain of the ego but the loss of love and the shrinking of your Soul. Emptiness ensues. The prize has now become meaningless.

Your Thoughts Please

Do share your thoughts to the phrase “Be Careful What You Wish For”. Do you know what you really want out of your life? How do you determine these things for sure?

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Jesus is known for being able to walk on water. Apparently Buddhist monks too. Read this story contributed by a Byrd Chong to a few Buddhist sites…

Three monks decided to practise meditation together. they sat by the side of a lake and closed their eyes in concentration. Then suddenly, the first one stood up and said, “I forgot my mat.” He steeped miraculously onto the water in front of him and walked across the lake to their hut on the other side.

When he returned, the second monk stood up and said, “I forgot to put my the other underwear to dry.” He too walked calmly across the water and returned the same way.

The third monk watched the first two carefully in what he decided must be the test of his own abilities. “Is your learning so superior to mine? I too can match any feat you two can perform,” he declared loudly and rushed to the water’s edge to walk across it.

He promptly fell into the deep water.

Undeterred, the yogi climbed out of the water and tried again, only to sink into the water. Yet again he climbed out and yet again he tried, each time sinking into the water. This went on for some time as the other two monks watched.

After a while, the second monk turned to the first and said, “Do you think we should tell him where the stones are?”

What Is Walking on Water

The term “walk on water” or “walking on water”, undoubtedly, refers to a miraculous act. Because we naturally sink in water, the term is now taken to mean achieving the impossible. What is being achieved defies logic and beyond Science or rational thought. When you are able to walk on water, you may well be conferred a “hero” status.

The most famous of all, Jesus was said to walk over a lake to meet his disciples. Walking on water is also described in a number of folklore. There are a number of Egyptian stories based on this miracle. Chinese wuxia films often depict martial arts fighters carry out their duels while grazing on the water. A movie that comes to mind is Zhang Yi Mou’s Hero movie. If you have not watched this show, do catch it on DVD. It is the stuff of legends when men could fly through the air ,walk on water, slice and dice their opponent into a thousand slivers.

Let’s Create A Miracle

So how about having some fun today? While it may not be walking on water for us, perhaps we have a dream that we think it impossible. Let us indulge in a creative process and imagine that it is within reach. That we can be superhuman. That we can be great. Or that we can bring forth an idea into fruition that shuts our worst critics up.

Then, if we should decide to go for it and as we stand before the water’s edge, let 7 stones magically appear, paving the way to “walking on water” just like how the two Buddhist monks did it. Before you lay foot on each stone, imagine each stone starting to speak and sharing its secret to a smooth journey in creating miracles:

Stone Pebble #1: Walk With Open Arms

Nothing is going to happen if we do not open ourselves to vast possibilities. We would not have landed on the moon, say, if we did not allow ourselves to dream it in the first place.

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’”
— George Bernard Shaw (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)

Dreams can be big or small. And if you reflect on it, there is nothing to stop you from making it really HUGE. So go ahead and stretch your imagination. Use your creativity to think up what will be grand vision. Dream beyond borders.

Stone Pebble #2: Walk with Unwavering Faith

“Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality.”

There must be every bit of trust that your prayers will be answered. Do not get fixated about how you are going to achieve the impossible. Be open to options as they come to you. Be flexible in your approach. The end is the attainment of your dream.

So walk with unwavering faith. Never give in to doubt, as it cast shadows on your journey and prevents you from moving forward. Walk with every faith and confidence that your dreams can happen!

Stone Pebble #3: Walking Starts With A Single Purposeful Step

You cannot achieve the impossible if you do not start to take action. You must be willing to take risks, to go beyond your comfort zone, to explore what you previously thought not possible.

You can decide not to have dreams and stay where you are. Or you can be a dreamer and stay a dreamer. Or better yet, you can be a dreamer and take action. The successful usually belongs in the latter group.

In fact, I would propose that you create a vision. A vision is a dream powered with purpose. Make this vision one that is in alignment with your Highest Purpose. (Refer to Stone Pebble #7 for more clues on how to know what this is).

Stone Pebble #4: Walk With Courage

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

Admittedly, walking on water will require a great deal of courage. You test boundaries. You step into a space that is really risky.

While action can bring about success, there is also the possibility of failure. Your fears may even act up, even before you begin your first step. Your mind starts to limit you in going forth, with largely untrue stories. You imagine that you are going to sink and the fear of death becomes real.

Hence, choose to keep your dream in focus and walk courageously. Do not give up even when times are difficult or challenging. Nothing holds you back. Each time you fall or appear to sink, you pick yourself up again!

Stone Pebble #5: Walk With Awareness

Take each step with every awareness. There is no past or tomorrow. Give fully to each step. Take in the scenery as you walk. Every step becomes a joyful one.

Walking with awareness makes you fully aware of any danger that comes by. Perhaps it is a crocodile cruising by. Or a shark lurking from underneath. You do not miss the warning signals. In a world of cluttered thoughts or a busy lifestyle, we often miss out on alarm bells. A breakdown in health is often one consequence when we do not pay close attention to the limitations of our physical body.

On the plus side, when you walk with awareness, you are able to seize every opportunity that comes along. Your antenna is up. The opportunity comes and you spring into inspired action. How often have you sighed about missed chances, because you are one or a few steps too late? Try walking with awareness.

Stone Pebble #6: Gain Speed With The Flow

As you gain more confidence, you may find yourself springing into a run. Well, why not? When you call upon the resources of the Universe, they may just come all at once. You go with the flow. You go with the momentum. You reach your destination faster.

Imagine as if you are on a thread mill, you first begin to walk. But when the momentum of the belt below your feet picks up, you find that you naturally start to jog and then run.

However, if there is no flow, do not begin to run. Not just yet. The flow of water cannot be hurried. So fretting about what is next does not help either.

You are in this for the long haul, so pace yourself. You do not want to channel energy unproductively. Just imagine yourself back at the thread mill again and running when the conveyor belt is slow. There is no need for all that extra push. Only pick up speed when it is necessary to.

Stone Pebble #7: Get Spiritual Intervention

This is my most favorite of all! It always helps if you are guided spiritually. There are unforeseen forces out there and it will be a sheer waste if you do not choose to utilise the resources that are meant to help you in your journey on this Earth.

What has been an interesting revelation for me, over the past few weeks, is that my Spirit Guide/God/Higher Self, when called upon, will walk every step with me. If I am drowning, I would want them to come to my shout for aid. To walk on water sounds like a superhuman feat; so why not ask for divine intervention to help create a miraculous act?

I would like to think that if your request for a miracle is in alignment with your Soul Purpose, you will get the help you need. Your Spirit Guide/God/Higher Being will assist if it is in your best interest to so. So it is important to discover what your divine purpose is. Usually, it involves looking inward. Using the gifts that you have been blessed with since birth, you are more likely to meet with great success.

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Summary

Magic happens when you believe and act. You can make lots of things happen, only if you choose to believe. Any limitations of the mind are best removed. Invite spiritual guides or God to bless your journey. Remember what each of the 7 stone has to say.

You are always in the act of creation. The creation of thought that leads to the seeding of an idea. The idea blossoms, in response to every bit of persistence, faith and courage you have to grow it.

Can anyone really “Walking on Water”?

As I reviewed what I wrote for today’s post, I began to wonder if the Power of Intention can really enable anyone from this century, to walk on water (minus the metaphors). Well…I was pleasantly surprised….I found something…watch this video which has already garnered 18 million visitors since it first got published….

What do you think? Real, Magic or Miracle?

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In metaphysical terms, if you focus on thoughts of lack and worry, then outcomes that vibrate with scarcity will be what you are likely to attract. Want to lead an abundant life? Then, you need to move away from such thoughts and towards cultivating wealth consciousness. Again, you may find that this easier said than done. After all, many of your thoughts have been pretty much inculcated since young; they lie inside your subconscious mind and you have no real awareness of what these are.

However, since thoughts translate to actions, you can look to your actions as a guide to what you are really thinking. I’ve identified 7 examples of everyday actions that you need to put a stop to:

1. Taking For “Free”.

I know! I know! It sure is tempting: the tiny soaps and bottles of shampoo, bubble bath and moisturizer that lined up neatly in the bathroom of your hotel room. You call housekeeping services, asking for more supplies, each day of your hotel stay. When you check out of the room, half of your luggage is stuffed with free soaps and bottles.

Another scenerio. Do you sneak home from your office, stationary items like paper clips, stacks of blank paper or pens? Your thoughts run like this: “Who is going to notice the small amounts that I take anyway? This is a big organization I am working for; they can more than afford to pay for office supplies.”

Stop! Abundance experts like Louis Hay, author of You can Heal Your Life, and wealth mentors say that little acts like these count towards a feeling of lack. If you take things for what you have not paid for, you are basically implying that you do not have the means to afford them.

Money is a form of energy exchange. If you stop free flow at its track, you are creating an obstruction for more abundance coming into your life. In short, use and pay only for what you need.

2. Hoarding Supplies.

Overstocking is a form of behavior which is pretty common. Check to determine why you are stocking your pantry with a six months advanced supply of food. Is it because you are fearful of going hungry? Do you feel comfort when you have got more possessions than you ever need? At what point do your survival instincts kick in?

Hoarding is a sign of unease. You do not trust that you will have enough and that is why you hoard. It may be really that you have not had enough food to eat during your lean years. However, if being poor is no longer the case for you now, then there is no need to continue having a habit that is born out of a struggle for survival. It is time to let go of these thoughts of insecurity. Holding on to them reflects poverty thinking!

3. Refusal to Help the Less Fortunate.

Do you avoid every donation request that is made to you? See a disabled person needing help on the streets and you run away? An insecure person is one who feels that he or she has not enough; that is why it is impossible to share or do more for others. Insecurity is seeped in lack and scarcity.

Hoarding money in your bank account and not circulating it is also not a good idea. As mentioned in point #1 above, money is a form of energy exchange. If you use money as an act to serve and help others, it carries with it a vibration of love and abundance. More prosperity comes back to you eventually.

Try doing a random act of kindness for a stranger, to expand wealth consciousness. However, also note that you should not be expecting anything back in return. A random act of kindness should come from the goodness of an overflowing heart.

4. Not Taking Good Care of Yourself .

Those who suffer from low self esteem are often guilty of not taking good care of themselves. They choose to stay in battered relationships, jobs that rob their lives or are contented with poor health. They do not take much needed vacations, spend time alone or nurture themselves in any way.

Having low self esteem is about the lack of self love. Loving yourself is not about boosting your ego. It is about valuing your inner Self. If you do not have enough love for yourself, you will tend to attract situations of scarcity. You will find yourself often in situations where you do not receive love.

Forgiveness is an act of love that comes from the generosity of your heart. So make sure that you also forgive yourself. Hence, spend time creating inner spaces. Learn to love yourself unconditionally.

5. Not Saying “Thank You”.

When someone gives you a compliment, are you gracious or are you too embarrassed to accept it? If someone wants to give you a gift, are you afraid of accepting it because you think you do not have the means to give anything in return?

Be sure not to reject abundance when it is given to you. It is always a good idea to concentrate on receiving increases like more compliments, gifts and prosperity; rather than on thoughts of lack or undeserving. Keep the energy flowing freely through you. Simply smile and say “thank you”. Even if you do not like to gift, accept it and pass it on to someone else who does. In this way, you are saying that you are grateful for all that you have and are ready to receive more.

6. Complaints Of Bad Luck, Success and Fortune.

Often whine about your lack of good luck, fortune or success? Or sigh over and over again about your lack of prosperity? Do you look at your successful friend or colleague and ask yourself “Oh..why don’t I ever get that?”

“No complaint … is more common than that of a scarcity of money.”
— Adam Smith (Scottish philosopher and economist, 1723-1790)

If you find yourself always lamenting about the gaps in your life, then it is easy to determine that your mind has pretty much been focusing on not having enough. When you are beset with envy and jealousy, you are thinking that you are not entitled to the same abundance that your friend or colleague is enjoying.

Perhaps if you choose to believe that there is enough abundance in the world for all to share, then it becomes possible to overcome your constant complaints. Here is what Stephen Covey has to say

“People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to…rather than detracts from…our lives.”

7. Addicted to Your Stats.

As a blogger, do you check your stats several times a day? You start with looking at your site’s performance first thing in the morning and end the day with another round of analysis. In between, you check your stats counter more times than you go to the bathroom. You fret on end if the last post you published failed to bring in the traffic that you expected. While it is a good idea to track your results, your constant checking has become an obsession.

The same can also apply in the offline world. In the office, you may find yourself monitoring your sales records like a hawk. At home, you are always on the line. You call other parents to compare your child’s school results against theirs. You get all nervous and jittery when some other child does better than yours.

Most Buddhists know this: Attachment to results brings about suffering. Your emotions practically follow the numbers game. You have no control over how you feel; it is dictated by the figures that you clock.

Such signs of anxiety are based on no trust or the lack of it. You worry that the seeds you planted and the effort that you put in for the planting of a tree, will not grow tall. This is no way to live! Anxiety breeds stress and stress can manifest in several ways such as deterioration in physical health. Instead, much like gardening, just focus on the process of what is needed to be done and let the Universe make it happen for you!

Actions As Indicators

There is probably a ton of everyday actions that reflect lack-laden thoughts. However, the above 7 points is a good list to start off with. If you have not been consciously aware about your thoughts, then it is time to look towards your actions. Your actions tell a lot about what you think and feel. Awareness is key to making a change in thoughts. It is very possible to change thought patterns using a variety of NLP techniques. Always choose to align your thoughts to the vibrational frequency of abundance. You may just be pleasantly surprised!

One of the best techniques I have learned is about how to program ourselves for positive changes with water. Having just written an article on 7 jazzy ideas to making affirmations fun, I thought it will be nice to add to this list with the Glass of Water technique.

The use of water for healing is nothing new. For instance, in churches, for centuries, blessings of water have often done for the purpose of baptism or for the blessing of persons, places or things. Hence, programming through water can be used for just about anything that you wish for. As such, I am going to propose, with the writing of my article today, the use of water to carry messages of affirmations on success, health, relationships, love, happiness and abundance, to every single cell of our body.

Why Water?

You can program any object that you want to. By programming, you send thoughts of focused positive energy into the object on hand, so that it will emit the same energy vibration back to its environment or in essence, the Universe. For instance, you can program a crystal to emit love energy every time someone passes it in your living room.

However, it cannot be denied that that water is one of the best mediums, if not the best, for transmitting information and energy inside us. After all, we drink water every day and our human body is comprised of 70 percent water. The properties of water allow it to reach every cell and subatomic particle to deliver the information. Hence, by changing the molecular structure of water through the use of energy or vibrations, it is possible to transmit any message that you want at the miniscule subatomic particle level.

These findings were revealed by the very famous Dr Masaru Emoto in his best selling books “The Hidden Messages in Water” and and “The True Power of Water”. My husband first sat for a lecture presentation by Dr Emoto himself some years ago and even got our book copies autographed.

In The Silva Class during last weekend, I also found out that the late Jose Silva had also conducted experiments using water. What would be useful for us, therefore, is to combine both Jose Silva’s mind power techniques and Dr Emoto’s findings to programming affirmations with the use of water.

Basic Programming of Water The Silva Way

1. Get a glass of water. In the original experiments, Jose Silva used glass, But later experiments have shown that just about any container such as plastic bottles, Styrofoam cups work. However, I would still recommend that you use glass since most of the tests involved glass, with good results.
2. Sit in a comfortable position.
3. Clasp the glass with both hands and try to spread your fingers while grasping it. However, do not allow your fingertips from touching the fingertips of the other hand. Hence the thumb of your left hand will be close to the thumb of your right hand but they are not touching each other.
4. Look into the water, using it as a mental screen.
5. State your affirmation and visualize the end result. Do this for 15 minutes. Here, you are using focused thought to communicate the pure intention that you wish the water to carry.
6. Once you have finished, drink it. As you are drinking it, say this “this is all I need to achieve ________ (your affirmation)”.

4 Ways To Programming Positive Affirmations With Water

1. Use the Power of Words

In his books, Dr Emoto had been visually documenting molecular changes in water in a variety of situations using photographic techniques. It was clear that water easily took on the vibrations and energy of its environment, whether toxic and polluted or naturally pristine. What was perhaps most revealing was the effect of water when positive and negative words were typed on pieces of paper and stuck to its container overnight.

It was shown that water absorbed the hado, the subtle energy of the word or thought. Where water was exposed to positive words, the photographs showed beautiful crystalline structures (see picture on left). Where it was shown negative words, the crystalline structures were ugly and distorted. Emoto’s photographs provided proof that water was highly alive and highly responsive to every one of our thoughts and emotions.

Based on the findings, it would not be unreasonable for us to consider using water to carry the affirmations that we want to make down to our cellular level. Since you are water, your body will surely respond to the information carried by it. Hence, to program yourself for positive changes, absorb words of positive affirmations by sending messages in the water that you consume.

Hence, after step 5 above, instead of drinking the water right away, how about programming it with a stronger energy vibration or hado? Dr Emoto’s recommendation: write the words on paper and paste it onto the container with the words facing in so that water inside can read it. Keep this water at least overnight.

Talk to the water from time to time and occasionally shake the bottle, which helps to activate the water and contributes to its vibrations. Drink 5 glasses of this water every day.

What words should you use? Whatever you want to affirm. But state it positively. If you do not have any specific affirmations, “love and gratitude” is a good phrase to show to the water.

Quoted from Emoto….

They were all beautiful, but the most beautiful one to me was the crystal that formed after the water was exposed to the words “love and gratitude”.

“Love” is absolute and “gratitude” is relative. Absoluteness is an active energy and relativeness is a passive energy. Only when we have a receiver can we be involved in the act of giving. No matter how hard you try to give your love, without a receiver, you won’t be able to do so. It is Nature’s providence. Splendidly, the water crystals present us Nature providence and the concept of life’s phenomena. Not just love. Not just gratitude. Only when the two are together can they manifest the workings of Nature.

If you are working on canceling some negative emotion through your affirmations, use its antonym. For instance, if you are feeling stress, then use the word “relax”. For irritability, use “calmness”. For anger, use “happy”. In short, use various healing words to override what you are currently feeling.

In Emoto’s experiments, I’m not sure if he used anything longer than 2 words for the pieces of paper to be stuck onto the container. Still, I do not see it a problem if you want to use a longer phrase or sentence.

2. Heal With The Power of Prayer

Instead of just stating an affirmation for Step 5 above, consider making a prayer. In Emoto’s findings, you can send a stronger hado by offering prayers in the past tense than in the future tense. “I hope my mother’s cancer will be cured”has been found to be less effective than “My mother’s cancer was cured”.

Ideally, you may want to recite your prayers continuously for the 15 minutes. To make the process easier, search in advance for verses that you can recite for various affirmations or check up religious text for appropriate spiritual verses. Of course, it is best if you can write prayer affirmations yourself to make them more relevant to your needs. Recite your prayers emphatically, while imaging your success, and in the past tense.

3. Use The Power of Imaging

Imaging is also very important. It represents your hope, dreams and wishes. As you repeat your affirmations, visualize the end result that you desire. Visualization is a way of giving stronger energy. You add movement and emotion when you visualize. Make it as vivid as you can.

3. Heal With The Power of Music

You may also choose to play music to the water, since Emoto’s photographs have shown that water responds to music. Of course, the music that you select will have to be appropriate to the message that you want the water to transmit.

When all vibrations go well at your cellular and subatomic particle level, your body as a composite, works beautifully like a grand orchestra. If a disturbance occurs in a vibration, a discord is created. Translated to physical terms, sickness can happen as a result of disharmony in your energy vibrations within. If you know music therapy, you can incorporate healing by playing beautiful classical pieces to water. For health affirmations that you need to make, also visualize water coming from an undiscovered mountain spring cleansing and pure.

Affirmations In A Glass

The lessons above have profound implications on possibilities:

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1. Affirmations of Self Love. You can transmit positive words or thoughts to every part of your body by simply drinking water that has been programmed with an affirmation. Emoto’s work provides undisputed evidence that it is possible to heal and transform yourself by the positive thoughts you choose and send. Affirmations of self love can be wonderfully made through water.

2. Affirmations of Success. You can drink to affirmations of success at work, improving your golf score (see picture), fulfilling your dreams or becoming a top expert in your field. Here’s to Empowerment Through Water!

3. Affirmations of Health. Other than for self healing purposes, you can also help others with any existing health issues. I witnessed two monks using this technique sometime early this year, for my friend who was struck with cancer. For cancer or other tumor issues, simply meditate and visualize a body that has normal and healthy growing cells. What is important is the pure intention and well wishes that you sent through the water.

4. Affirmations of Love and Gratitude. Here is additional idea for a Random Act of Kindness:

Consider also giving bottles of “Love and Gratitude” water to your friends, loved ones and strangers. Give as Christmas presents, birthday wishes, as a token of appreciation or even for no specific reasons whatsoever.

Need an idea for a positive affirmation to say to the water? This beautiful verse from Louis Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life, will be a great one for anyone to drink to

In the infinity of life where I am,
all is perfect, whole and complete.
I support myself and life supports me.
I see evidence of the Law working all around me
And in every area of my life.
I reinforce that which I learn in joyous ways.
My day begins with gratitude and joy.
I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day,
Knowing that in my life, “All is good.”
I love who I am and all that I do.
I am the living, loving, joyous expression of life.
All is well in my world.

Let’s toast to Your Affirmations on Good Health, Love and Joy Always!

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Be One with The Spoon, we were told in an Advanced Silva Workshop, which took place just the weekend, by our instructor Ms Nancy Ho.

Sounds like mambo jumbo? I thought so too.

How do you BE One with a Spoon, for crying out loud???

The weekend culminated with an exercise that required us to bend a metal spoon, not by brute force but by the mental focus of thought. Nancy shared that we, be it spoon or human, are made up of energy and therefore, instead of viewing ourselves as seperate from another matter, we are One. And BEing One, it is possible to alter the appearance of the spoon.

The focus of the Workshop that I was attending was on BEing, with a course outline of helping participants improve on creative, intuitive and spiritual abilities. I had signed up for it some weeks back, knowing that my husband would be free to take care of the kids, while I attend the workshop.

The Spoon Test

So it was….during the last hour of the workshop yesterday, that we were handed ordinary metal spoons that were bought from the supermarket. I tested the spoons to check if it was possible to bend them. Nope….no way it would be easy for that…..the spoons were made of solid stainless steel and thick at the handle. Urrgh…..I felt a lump in my throat, in nervous anticipation about the whole exercise.

Although I could theoretically agree with the concepts of energy and focused thought, I was sceptical at what Nancy was suggesting – that it was possible to bend anything made of thick solid metal.

However, in about 15 minutes or so into the exercise, a number of my classmates managed to bend their metal spoons. Some not only bend their spoons but twisted them out of shape.

Great job!!

The other half of the class was still in deep concentration, holding on their spoons, as if “willing” them to bend.

Sigh….Including myself.

Another 10 minutes lapsed.

My spoon refused to budge.

Damn!!…not even for less than a millimeter, could I attempt to bend it.

A Battle In The Mind

I could barely keep myself from launching into a stream of expletives!

It became clear to me that I was stuck in a s****hole of disbeliefs – I just could not do it!!!

It was no longer just a battle with “willing” the spoon but one I sought to wrestle in my mind. Now that some of my classmates have proven that it was possible to bend a solid matter out of shape, it was more about how much I believed in my own abilities….

Was I capable of focused thought?

What would become of me, if I found out that I have no ability to effect any changes in the physical world through the power of thought?

What would become of this blog, the very essence of which is on taking charge of the mind and in creating the life that one desires?

Doubt clouded my mind. I began to feel as if my whole life would now depend on whether I could bend spoons with mental focus or not.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. — William Hazlitt

Nancy suggested that it would be helpful to visualise a flame that was burning the handle of the spoon, enough for it to melt and making it easy for us to bend it. Also, while focused attention is needed, BEing one with the spoon also required us not to “force” things to happen nor try too hard.

So I imagined a candle flame burning a part of the handle and focused my attention on it. In the end, I had to give up. We were running out of time in class.

Despite feeling exhausted after a long tiring weekend of lectures and exercises, I swore that I would not sleep last night until I got my spoons bent. I had lots of emails to attend to, when I got home, but nothing was as important to me as the battle that was going on in my mind. I barely looked at my inbox, before shutting down my PC early.

From Doubt To Elation

I told my husband deftly that he would not be allowed to sleep until I finished Mission Impossible!! Luckily for him, lest he would lose sleep, he had already bent and twisted metal spoons himself in an Energy Conference some years back. He offered me some useful suggestions. Visualise the spoon as red hot, he said. Only if it was red hot enough, could the molecules in the spoon part enough for its structure to be altered.

That was when I realised that perhaps imagining a candle flame was not good enough to “melt” the spoon. My intention was just not strong enough!!

So instead of a candle flame, I visualised the spoon over my kitchen stove fire at full blast. My visualisation was so vivid that I almost dropped the spoon a couple of times because it felt burning hot in my hands!!

And instead of taking things the easy way out as some would by focusing on the nape of the spoon at the weakest point between the handle and curved end, I placed my concentration on the thickest part of the spoon handle. I held on to my focus, pushing away thoughts of doubt. In steady focus, I continued.

In about 15 minutes or so, I could feel as if the molecules in the handle of the spoon were parting and not as tightly packed. The metal was softening? I went in for the “kill”.

In an instant, I managed to bend the handle. At another go, the handle got twisted very easily. See the first spoon ifrom the bottom of the picture (my first attempt) on the left.

The fire of my imagination must be so hot that another spoon, which I tried after the first piece, broke into two! By the time I got to the third spoon, I was tired mentally and only managed to bend it at the nape.

Yippee!!! I went to bed on a high, happy with my latest collection of “art” pieces!

“Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. ” —Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

Lessons From The Spoon

A test in mental skills? Not just that! The purpose of the exercise cover many key lessons on Universal Laws:

1. BEing One

You are made up of the same energy subatomic particles, as much as the spoon, your dog or the trees. Of course, what differentiates you from the rest mentioned is that you are a bundle of intelligent energy that is able to process information, and in the human form.

You are not a seperate BEing but part of the whole Universe. You are more connected to the next human being, than you realise. Through your connection with others, you are able to subconsciously pick up the energy of others in their intentions, even before they verbalise them. When you realise how connected you are with others, you will be on your way to BEing more loving and kinder to others, as how you would to yourself. Wars will end, strife will cease, in the understanding that you are really One.

2. Cause and Effect

When you are One with the Spoon, it is possible to change its molecular structure, and hence its appearance. This supports the Universal Law that you are the cause and effect of yourself. You are all that you see, feel and done because of the thoughts in your mind.

By the same token, you are able to effect physical events by channelling your energies on your desires. Energy follows focused thought. This makes you a co-Creator of the Universe. For what you choose to focus on, can manifest in physical reality.

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
— Buddha

That you are co-Creator of the Universe is a powerful and liberating realisation. Your energy field changes constantly, based on your thoughts and feelings. If your intention is not strong enough, you will not create anything. You can see that in the example of my initial problems with trying to bend the spoon. On the other hand, if you focus your thoughts with pure and uninterrupted intent, you can create almost anything you desire.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. — Sheilah Graham

3. The Expansion of All Possibilities

The limits to all possibilities lie in the blockages that exist in our mind. No more playing the victim for this role has not proven to yield good results. Instead, choose to free yourself of negative beliefs that are holding you back.

“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.”
— V. S. Naipaul (Trinidadian writer of Indian descent,Won the Nobel Literature Prize in 2001, 1932)

If you are imaginative enough, you can even think up and manifest whole new worlds for yourself. Just think about the number of innovative ideas that were born because great minds decided to explore new frontiers in improving humanity?

In conclusion, give serious consideration to following your dreams and attract the resources to make possibilities happen. Believe in your own capabilities (a key lesson for me)! Be an active Co-creater of the Universe and revel in its Abundance!

Interested To Prove The Power of Focused Thought?

Metal spoon bending is not a party trick. Neither do you need psychic powers to do it.

There is no use of illusion. As some would have you believe. At least, not in my case.

I can also assure you that the spoons are not the thin ones either. Definitely, no trickery involved here.

If you are interested to learn how to test out the power of focused thought, here’s a video demonstration that is pretty close to how I did it…..with first going into the Alpha meditative state and then using focused concentration….

Be A Hero

If you can bend metal spoons, it feels as if you can do almost anything! Walk on water, scale blank walls with your bare hands, levitate yourself…Anything! You can easily be one of the characters in Heroes, except that this is not for TV but for Real.

It sure feels good to be empowered. And All with the aid of Spoons!

Signed,
Superwoman – One of Steel!

It was meant to be a time of connecting with old friends during Chinese New Year but nothing quite prepare me yesterday for the sight of a friend whom I have not seen in about two years. Kay was actually an ex-colleague of my husband. Previously in remission, his cancer is now in full force again.

He looked gaunt and did not bother to get up from the bed in his bedroom. Definitely not the person I remembered him to be – a pretty big guy with a slight tummy. He spotted a bald top yesterday; his hair must have fallen with all the chemotherapy that he was going through.

I have not known him well and was admittedly at a loss of words, because I had not expected to see him in this state. We were visiting a relative who stays in his neighbourhood and although it was not planned, we had decided to drop by Kay’s home.

Kay was finding the pain on his nerves unbearable and had to take morphine every 4 hours. I could see that he was in mental torture as the pain was intense moment to moment while we were there.

My husband tried to distract him from his pain with stories from work. (We have learnt previously that when we visit someone who is sick, it is far better to tell jokes or entertaining stories. The last you want is for your sick friend or relative to be focusing on his suffering when you ask him one too many question about how he is feeling. In answering you, it is likely he will be talking about his depression or how sick he is. But what you want for him is not to be thinking negative thoughts or to exude negative vibrations. )

Although I have hardly spoken to Kay previously, as he was more like an acquaintance, I decided to help him from afar. There was no opportunity to tell him yesterday about self healing as he was in too much pain to be interested in anything new.

So before I went to bed last night, I recalled what I knew about healing using the Silva Method. One of the techniques taught was how to perform healing for anyone in pain, whether physically or mentally. The technique involved a mental screen procedure.

In the alpha meditative state, I brought an image of Kay into my mind. I acknowledged that he was in great pain and proceeded to send him an energy of love throughout his body. For his pain, I “massaged” his lower back and spine. I did this for a long time. In the final screen, I visualized Kay as his old self, with his tummy back, smiling and free from pain. The organs in his body are whole and perfect.

Whether healing can happen or not will also depend on Kay’s desire and determination to fight his cancer. Nevertheless , I will do what I can by continuing to send him positive energy everyday. Hopefully, he can be free of his pain and suffering soon.

My guess is that all his previously well thought-out plans for his career are no longer as important to him as the battle that he has now. I’ve been thoughtful ever since visiting him yesterday. To be in good health is also to be in abundance. Let’s not forget that by taking it for granted!