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Emotional Thoughts Transform us to the Same Vibratory Frequency
A basic Principle
of the mind is that it doesn’t know how to process a negative command.
What this means is that it doesn’t work by way of being told what “not”
to do, but rather by suggesting what “to” do. It simply holds an idea
as a suggestion within the mind’s eye, and begins developing it by
thinking about it. We then have an emotional response to the thoughts,
which becomes the determining factor of how the thought is developed to
create meaning through a story. The emotional component is one of the
most important features because it forms the meaning the idea takes on
which becomes the nature of the experience we have, which subliminally
drives our behavior as an expression of the idea, as well as spawning
other ideas of a similar nature with the connecting point being the
emotional quality itself.
The mind as
energetic essence is exquisitely sophisticated. The greater aspect of
the mind, the subconscious and Higher-Conscious, as two-thirds of the
mind, is slippery, elusive and impressionistic making it hard to fully
realize. This is because not only is it primarily unconscious
(functions outside our awareness), but it also perceives and
communicates by different means and by using a different language than
the conscious mind. It works out of feelings, ideas, emotions, images
and symbolic metaphors that intuitively invoke a whole chain of
associations. It exists in a state of unity and synthesis as a fully
synchronized relationship with our environment. It doesn’t perceive
itself as separate and apart from everything like the conscious mind
does, but rather senses itself as the same thing. The true meaning of
the Quintessence isn’t mind over matter necessarily, but rather matter
as existing within the mind, of the same essence as the mind.
The conscious
mind, which is what most of us are aware of, is the perceptual,
conceptualizing mind that creates separation as the necessary means of
self-perception. The conscious mind is the aspect of the mind that
thinks in terms of words as internal dialogue. The word as a conceptual
form calls forth life by breathing and vibrating it, by speaking it.
All of life was brought forth by the word which moved across the living
waters. Emotions give rise to thoughts by motivating them through
animation. The spark as an inspired idea, heats the water creating a
vapor as a cloud-like formation, creating thought-forms as ghost-like
images. The more we think about them with strong emotions, the more
defined they become. The more passionately we speak them as a means of
expression, the quicker they manifest as a living reality.
When an idea as a
thought-process is introduced into the mind as a form of suggestion by
willingly allowing it in through a passive state, or magnetizing it
through curiosity that draws it in through an active state, our mind
begins developing it by thinking about it. Our emotional response to
our own thoughts infuses the idea with meaning that fashions it as a
personal reality. We personalize the idea making it our own, by how we
develop it. Because all personal development is from the inside out,
what we lend our thoughts to serve to develop us accordingly. We first
choose them by allowing them in, and then use our will by imagining
them, which floods our system with corresponding chemistry called
hormones, that we experience as emotion that aligns and unifies our
whole-being to the vibratory quality of the feeling idea. The idea that
we imagine literally affects us at the molecular level because it forms
a systemized process of correspondences that changes our chemical
composition.
Just as our
conscious mind serves to program our subconscious mind by how it chooses
to use the imagination to create a virtual memory as a surrogate
reality, which translates conscious thought into the language of the
subconscious as experience, it simultaneously alters the memory of our
cells, or our DNA by altering its memory through its indigenous language
of chemistry. The body functions at the molecular level as energetic
intelligence that formulates corresponding chemistry.
Alchemy, the
Sacred Art of personal transformation from lower states to higher states
of moral perfection that is self-induced and maintained, is the mastery
of the mind to direct its own thoughts married to positive emotions that
completely reprogram the entire system as an organic correspondence.
The key faculty of the mind that codes, decodes and forms a unified
interpretation in a variety of languages as analogies and
correspondences, is the imagination. How we use our imagination to
think about things is intimately creating us at the same time. The
imagination as the primary function of the mind that spans the full
range of consciousness “is” our personal power of choice and free will.
We choose what we think about and it restructures us as a modified
state-of-mind that aligns our whole being with the vibratory quality of
the idea itself as transformed into personal experience. The internal
experience birthed in the imagination becomes the memory that serves as
a re-patterning that gives the subconscious a new program to operate out
of.
Linda Gadbois, DES., CCHt.
"Transcendence"
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The Art of Living – “Perfecting
Yourself”
The gods of Myth
were people of great focus, purpose and devotion to cultivating higher
character. They lived their life with an attitude of self-perfection
that naturally spawned greatness. They knew their birthright, never
questioned or doubted it, and completely devoted every minute, every act
to develop and refine themselves by embodying their character and
calling. They were being themselves in their own life which they
clearly realized was of their own making. They were not giving
themselves to someone else’s ideas about them which they valued more
than their own, but rather devoted their life to their own divinity.
They never even contemplated something else.
The war of the
gods was not one of greed and lust for power that led to constant
indignity and self- compromise, it was born out of absolute integrity of
their moral character and what that implied. Their devotion was to God,
not the god of religion that teaches indignation as sinful by nature and
requiring us to conform to outside forces in the hopes of being
corrected, but to the God of moral beauty that expresses power
eloquently as moral fortitude devoted to Itself. Power that commands
attention because it provocative and inspiring. The God of Life that is
only committed to expressing ideas as ideals, transforming vice to
virtue, artistic and dynamic. Flowing, immediate and spontaneous. We
are God in physical form. We are the possibility aching to be born. We
are born as a seed of potential, ripe to create by aligning and
allowing. By recognizing who we are, and stepping fully into that
without distraction or compromise.
The gods of great
Myths did not create a sense of themselves out of their personal
belongings, station in life or job title, they created it based on who
they were by bringing that to every situation and infusing it with a
passionate attitude. They imposed an influence by the sheer power of
focused intention as self-knowledge that they acquired in each moment
based on how they expressed themselves. Self-knowledge, like all
knowledge is only obtained through experience. The more consistent we
are with our sense of self obtained through experience, the more defined
and precise it becomes. All expression requires limitation, a singular
focus. Not on a task, but as a quality that expresses as a way of
Being.
Our path becomes
apparent when we align ourselves fully with who we are and don’t
entertain anything else. Doubt distracts, fragments our focus causing
us to lose power. It breeds confusion. When we doubt ourselves we
begin wandering aimlessly in search of something outside of ourselves
that only exists within us. Yet, only we can choose to believe in
ourselves. No one else can do it for us. We have to choose to become
the type of person that we admire, respect and feel inspired by. It is
not based on what we look like or what we own, but who and how we choose
to be in the most ordinary moments that we ignite and transform with the
power of a superior attitude awaken to itself.
True power, is
self-knowledge. The expression of that power is self-perfection. It
comes by cultivating yourself to be the best you can be as an attitude
that you bring to everything that you do that transforms it into an
ideal of itself.
Every idea that we turn
into an ideal, awakens our soul’s potential, requiring us to stretch
into it. Every idea left undeveloped, requiring little to achieve it,
robs our soul of its potential to know higher worlds. Mediocrity is for
those who choose to die unto themselves, surrendering to a lifeless
existence of mundane mentality. Truth exists as beauty. To stand in
our truth is to create a life that is worth the telling.
Linda Gadbois, DES., CCHt.
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Imagining –
“Turning Goals into Experiences”
They say that
goals that are written down have a far greater chance of being
actualized than goals that are not. While this is probably true, the
most natural way that our mind creates is through our ability to imagine
desired experiences. In order to produce something, we have to take an
attitude of working holistically with our mind instead of taking a
fragmented approach. All real change is produced by the conscious mind
programming the subconscious mind with a new behavioral pattern that
will create a brand new experience. But, there is a language barrier
between the conscious mind which thinks conceptually through language,
and the subconscious which thinks through sensory experience of an
emotional nature.
In order for the
conscious mind to program the subconscious mind, it needs to take a
desired idea, form a concept of it, then imagine it as a living
experience by enhancing it with sensory qualities and attributes.
Imagine it “as if” it’s real and you are having the experience of it
right now, like a form of memory or movie being relived and ran through
your mind with strong emotional content. The mind doesn’t know the
difference between a real experience and an imagined one. This is
because not only is all experience created in the imagination through
indigenous patterns of perception and mental attitudes, but all memory
actually exists as imagined experiences that have been interpreted to
mean something. Our true power to create personal realities lie in our
ability to imagine scenarios with strong emotions and feelings
associated with them.
Goals that are
not fueled by strong desire or emotions seldom become realized. Emotion
is the volatile force that first arouses then motivates all of life.
Positive emotions are expansive and move us “towards” our dreams and
visions. Negative emotions cause us to contract and move “away from” our
imagined scenario. The ability to cultivate and direct positive emotions
is one of the greatest powers we have.
To
turn a goal into an experience:
1.
All goals must be of a
believable nature. They must be a natural and logical progressions that
can readily emerge in a evolutionary manner from your current life
circumstances. If they are too far fetched or extreme, they are not
realistic.
2.
Write or state the goal in positive terms, with great precision
and clarity.
3.
All imaginings should only be 5-10 minutes at a time, and
maintained only as long as positive emotions can be maintained in
association with them.
4.
They can be done with your eyes open or closed, yet closing your
eyes naturally eliminates visual distractions. The key here is
concentration.
5.
Sit in a comfortable position, in a private environment where you
won’t be disturbed.
6.
Create the fulfillment of your goals as happening within the
context of your current life circumstances.
7.
Ask yourself a series of
questions, fully imagining the answers to each one. If you were living
your goal or dream . . . what would be happening? What are you
perceiving?
8.
What are you seeing?
9.
What are you hearing?
10.
What are you feeling?
11.
Smelling or tasting?
12.
What are you telling yourself about the
experience?
13.
Make it as vivid and life-like as
possible giving it rich sensory detail while cultivating positive
feelings around it.
Do this 2-3
times a day during opportune times, preferably first thing in the
morning, mid-day, and just before going to sleep at night. Only maintain
the exercise as long as you are able to maintain positive emotions in
association with it. Practice this until you find yourself having the
experience of your goal as fulfilled. Work on one goal at a time. Only
progress to the next goal once the current goal has been achieved.
Dr. Linda Gadbois
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Identity – “Shaping Personal Reality”
Our identity in the
ultimate sense is how we create a sense of ourselves in relationship
with the world around us. Our identity is what we choose to associate
ourselves to in order to give our life meaning that forms the basis for
an overall theme that becomes our primary story-line in terms of our
life’s story by how we live our daily lives. Our ego is a very natural
part of our soul-mind that serves the purpose of bridging our inner
domain with our outer environment. It’s the natural faculty for role
playing in group situations that allow for a thematic interaction as the
basis for building relationships at various levels. It’s the means for
creating a self-image based on our status, station, material possessions
or worldly accomplishments, which, if not kept in check, becomes the
basis for creating a facade as a false identity dependent on other
people, external circumstances and specific conditions. We can then
place so much value on this “image” of ourselves, that we fall in love
with it, and ultimately don’t know how to be outside of it. The false
image becomes our defining mechanism.
When people lose
their identity in terms of their roles, status or economic standing,
they can feel completely lost in their own live. Suddenly overwhelmed
by a sense of chaos in a world that endlessly spins in random motion out
of a lack of continuity. Their life has no meaning, central theme,
point of reference or overall purpose. Nothing ties it together in a
way that makes sense by giving it meaning. Without meaning, we perish.
Our Soul’s starve from a lack of vitality that diminishes us like an
energetic cancer that steadily eats away at our insides. We feel tired,
drained, unmotivated and have no drive towards anything specific. We
can’t seem to gain our balance and revive our life through purpose and
meaning. There is no directive for behavior as life loses it’s meaning
and we begin aimlessly floundering.
The ego identity
is attached to outer means of what we associate ourselves to that give
us a sense of our self “as” something specific. It forms a theme that
becomes the basis for our movie, our life story written page-by-page,
day-in, and day-out. Like all external things, they are temporal at
best and waver even when seemingly stabilized, they not only come and
go, rise and fall away, but can also be taken away, manipulated, used to
control, and intentionally removed. We are vulnerable to the exact
degree that we place our value and self-realization outside of our self
as a mortal projection. Anytime we are basing our identity on the
things of the world, we are co-creating an illusion of our own making,
that we can lose in the blink of an eye.
We build our
identity, not out of what we own or what we do, but rather who we are as
a person that we bring to every moment as a means of influencing and
defining it with our fingerprint, rather than allowing it to define us.
When we base our sense of self out of our Soul, our character, the
qualities we chose to express as part of our higher ideal, we are
consistent in nature and operate more like a Principle rather than a
stagnate rule of limited application and redundant repetition.
Our identity in the
ultimate sense is created from within based on self-realization of our
innate qualities and potential that we embody consistently and use to
step fully into our ability to create our experiences that serve to
simultaneously create our identity as our sense of self in relationship
to others and all of life, regardless of what situation we’re in, what
role we are playing or what conditions are serving to influence us.
It’s not what life brings to us that determine who we are, but what we
bring to life that forms our self-expression. The continuity lies in
our inner sense of self, not the conditions and circumstances that we
find ourselves in, or that shape us through reaction. Life is lived
from the inside out, not the other way around.
Our true identity
is created internally as the kind of person we choose to be in terms of
virtuous qualities, moral standards, personal values and ethics that
remains consistent in every situation we find ourselves in and never
becomes determined or seriously influenced by our circumstances. It’s
the core theme that we use as our creative ability to determine the
nature of our experiences. It’s our primary perceptual filter that we
use to perceive and conceive of everything around us. What happens
outside of us is beyond our control, but how we choose to experience it,
is absolutely within our control. We have only to realize it, and relax
into it, and spontaneously express ourselves in every moment as we truly
are without editing, censoring or holding back.
Linda Gadbois, DES, CCHt.
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Awakening – “Shift in
Consciousness”
The great awakening
of the planet, of humanity, is symbolized at the personal level by the
Kundalini energy that awakens, arouses and stimulates the energy
centers of the body by flooding them with Life-Force energy that serves
to animate them into an eventual state of equilibrium. The vibration
of our body is determined by the morality of our mind. Earthly passions
called “vices”, which are cravings of our physical life as the ultimate
reality which is commonly referred to as the ego, our belief in and
obsession with our bodies, roles in life, self-made image that’s based
on external factors, pleasures of the flesh devoid of moral integrity,
flesh eating, addictions, mindless actions, and the constant need for
self-gratification without regard for the consequences. These are
qualities of a lower, slower vibration that keeps us attached to our
lower, animalistic nature in which man-made concepts of domestication
and civilization ultimately serve to train and control through
suggestion and endless addictions. They train, encourage and require
ignorance and a weak will. They train our system (body) and habituate
it to only being able to handle a low vibration.
In order to handle
a higher vibration, we are required to develop our bodies to be able to
handle higher and more intense forms of energy. An electric cord and
socket design for 110 volts, will blow if we run a 220 volt through it.
The container, conduit, must be capable of handling the higher voltage.
The human body is the same way. Our body as a channel must be prepared
to handle higher forms of energy, of vibratory expression, or it will
collapse, become overwhelmed and driven to madness.
To increase the
bodies ability to handle higher vibration requires full use of the mind
to consciously activate the Life-force energy, and re-balance the
vibration in each chakra by aligning it with spiritual virtues through
choice and personal will which transform it to a higher state and
vibration. Alchemy must be performed repeatedly in each chakra until it
exists in a purified state of exaltation. A purified vessel and conduit
is necessary to accommodate higher frequencies without overload. We have
to develop and hone ourselves through conscious action into a higher and
more aware state of being where new perceptions replace old ones and we
can see the world through new eyes.
Purification and
spiritualization of the body/mind is done through the basic process of
Alchemy that ultimately results in Metamorphosis. Alchemy is where the
conscious mind transforms the chemistry of the body through the
Endocrine glands which secrete hormones into our bloodstream altering
our state of mind into corresponding states of increased vibration as a
higher frequency of light. Vibration flows in currents of certain ranges
that form frequencies. Frequency is experienced as feeling qualities
within the body that naturally give rise to certain types of indigenous
thought-forms. Qualities form human characteristics by influencing and
shaping our identity through our experiences.
In order to create
new paradigms, form new ways of perceiving and become more conscious of
the consequences of our actions, we have to work to awaken our own Soul
within our body through our energy centers by awakening the life-force
within us, purifying each center as a way of reformulating it, changing
the chemistry of our body and state-of-mind, to be able to express a
higher form through a higher vibration. The reason awakening the
Kundalini life-force within the body can have a tendency to overwhelm
people driving them to madness through extreme anxiety, is because our
bodies have been trained to lower vibratory frequencies through Earthly
attachments, and so we have to consciously awaken higher forms of
energy, cleanse our body and mind of low frequency toxins and train our
body to be able to handle higher frequencies without overloading it. We
have to build stamina, endurance and mental fortitude.
Linda Gadbois, DES, CCHt.
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Self-Knowledge – “The Process of Self-Actualizing”
Myth and legends
are designed to take the process of human Alchemy and express it through
a real-life drama as a way of creating an experience of it. Experiences
engage the full-mind. Intellectual dialogue and simply talking about
stuff, only stimulates the intellectual, theoretical mind of no-action.
The Process of Alchemy is about human transformation by overcoming our
lower, animalistic, weak-willed nature, and choosing instead our higher,
divine and incorruptible nature. All processes of transformation are
from lower to higher, inferior is developed into superior. It is a
process of self-development that is undertaken as a life-story, a
mission that serves a purpose which reveals our destiny.
The truer meaning
behind what has been called our “birthright”, is not a form of privilege
or role-playing, but rather the realization through pursuit of what our
soul is perfectly designed (meant) to do, and the series of challenges
that bring us face-to-face with what we could call defining moments that
reveal to us in very intimate terms, our true nature and what fears and
beliefs we hold that prevent us from self-actualizing as our true
potential. Latent, dormant potential can only become realized in the
true sense by being stimulated and called forth through pressure. When
we need it to maneuver a situation, or come to terms with everything
that has kept us unaware of our true possibilities. If it is not
provoked through an act of antagonism, it won’t come to the surface,
because it is dark and hidden (unrealized) within us. We have so many
things covering it, that even though we sense it, we’re not really sure
if it’s there or not. And because it will require sacrifice and the
experience of suffering, we keep it down as long as possible, because we
have this pervading fear that if we do believe in ourselves in a greater
more meaningful way, that we will somehow realize in our greatest moment
of need, that we don’t actually have the ability that we imagined we
did.
This tendency to
cling to our comfort zone, not be willing to step outside of security
and domestication, often keeps us locked into life-time patterns of
stagnation. Systemized rituals that offer no real growth or sense of
ourselves as greater than our common experience. We become so closed
down to fear, self-doubt, and a failure to trust ourselves, that we
ultimately succumb to subliminal training and covert bullying which
subdues us by domesticating us with the illusion of security that lures
us through safety.
Our ultimate
purpose that we are all born into is the path of self-knowledge. Our
destiny is revealed to us through our life-story as our daily
experiences and the choices we make moment-by-moment as to how we are
going to tell our story as a passionate drama that requires our very
best and greatest strength of will to live. The path of Initiation used
to be under-taken by all people who felt a distinct “calling” in life
that stimulated an intense desire as a relentless longing in their
hearts for self-perfection through outer challenges that would bring out
their true nature in a very clear and immediate way. They would meet
temptation full-on, step into the challenges with moral courage, and
engage fully in the opportunity to overcome it. They sought to champion
their own weakness and exercise their strength of will by choosing the
higher path in the moments when it matters the most (truth is at stake).
How we show up, shows who we really are.
In this age of
“positive thinking” and poetic pleasantness, we have become mindless,
weak and enter into endless forms of compromise and moral negotiation.
Life calls us to meet the reality with a sense of courage that forces
us to make decisions that steadily reveal deeper and deeper aspects of
our nature that can only be uncovered in moments of sheer anguish,
terror, suffering, disappointment, and emotional devastation. When our
fears are ripped from our gut and held in front of our face. The moments
of vivid truth where we stand in the midst of our gut-wrenching fears
and realizations of hopelessness, and a strange kind of new feeling
overcomes us, and for the first time we are able to clearly see what
really matters, what life’s all about and we make a choice that
demonstrates our integrity as human beings. Challenges are meant to not
only trigger fear as a means of calling forth latent potential and
undiscovered abilities, but it is the moments when are integrity is
created. We define ourselves by our ability to stay true to what we
believe no matter what. We are always choosing who we are going to be,
how we are going to show up, and what it means about us, and what we
stand for as a result.
We have to be able
to look life straight in the face, without needing to make it pleasant
so we won’t feel afraid, see it as it is without changing it, and feel
no-fear in response to it. We have to be able to stay fully conscious
in the worst of moments while maintaining our inner calm, relaxed
clarity and infallible mental fortitude. What we react to is controlling
us, whatever we don’t react to, we control. Life is like a Millhouse –
you can either be the miller, or the grain. The choice is yours. These
moments that seemingly terrify us and depress us to think about or
realize, are designed to bring us face-to-face with our moral courage
and ability to strengthen our will by exercising complete control over
our inner domain. It’s not about what happens in life, but rather how
we choose to respond to what happens. We can’t control the outer world
and the unfolding of natural forces bringing about consequences to our
thoughtless actions, but we CAN control our own mind and body, choose
how to perceive it, and how we will respond and interact as a result.
Linda Gadbois, DES, CCHt.,
RMT
"Transcendence" by: Linda Gadbois
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Creating a New Vision for Life
We know that in order to
create a new paradigm for our lives we have to shift our basic perceptual
orientation from reacting to initiating. From being locked into an existing
paradigm that we then support and sustain through our trained habitual routines
for creating our daily lifestyle. If we do no want to fall victim to
unconsciousness, and be prey to controlling forces, we have to not only be able
to take action, but create a vision for what we do desire, and gear all of our
thoughts and actions towards producing and sustaining the new model.
Once we have acknowledged
what we don’t want, or what clearly is not working, we have to ask ourselves a
different question . . . what do we desire instead? What is it that if we
created a vision of it, would work and produce the desired affect or outcome?
When growth is desired, we have to create an ideal that employs our virtues and
highest potential that will require us to stretch and move outside of our
comfort zones as we aspire towards it. An ideal as a vision of our highest
potential is necessary for creating because it requires us to self-explore and
identify our latent potential as traits, talents and gifts that are available
for developing through self-expression. Just as we are all born with a soul
that is comprised of specific patterning as archetypal qualities that serve to
shape and determine our character, all artistic ability exists “in us”, as our
personal style. As our fingerprint. Our style is what forms consistency in all
of our creations that can be used to identify us by the trained mind.
By creating an ideal, we
explore our inner nature, recognizing aspects of ourselves that we desire to
know more intimately. By shifting our focus to different qualities within
ourselves, we have to simultaneously create new behaviors that will create new
experiences that will allow us to sense ourselves in new ways. We can
consciously determine which aspects of ourselves we use to shape our identity by
intentionally developing our character. Our character and the identity it
naturally births are ideal for creating certain type of experiences that form
consistency over a period of time. Our character is ideally suited for certain
roles within certain types of stories. We are telling a certain type of story,
with a common theme all of the time, whether we realize it or not. Without
awareness we simply continue telling the same type of story that is first
produced by our identity as an expression that then validates and gives us more
of the same feeling quality about our self. As we tell stories that give things
meaning by infusing them with emotional values, we first reveal our character,
and then identify with our own thoughts. Often we fail to recognize that we are
actually in control of the very perceptions that are forming a consistent
reality that renders us either empowered as creator, or disempowered as effect.
Linda Gadbois,
Ph.D.(c), CCHt.
"Creative
Transformations"
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Identity – “The
Character of Our Life’s Story”
Our mind can be perceived
as the molded aspect of our personality and identity. Our Self, as our Soul or
core essence is an energetic substance that is shapeable and naturally unfolds
in an organic series of correspondences. It unfolds as aspects of itself at
different stages of development by way of different roles as a means of
functioning. Soul is the substance as an indigenous pattern; spirit is the
living force that fashions it. Spirit fills and animates the soul’s energetic
patterning by growing and expanding it into full expression. Our Soul is
comprised of a constellation of archetypal potential, which when realized can be
brought into higher forms of expression.
Our Soul as our inner
essence forms our basic nature as our personality, which then shapes our
identity. Our identity becomes our character and is ideal for telling a certain
type of story. Our destiny is revealed and set into motion through the
actualization of our soul’s potential in an ongoing story-line. Once we
identify our inherent potential as our Spiritual DNA as a kind of energetic
encoding, we can grasp our destiny based on the highest possible expression of
our potential. In this way our destiny is somewhat predetermined by the nature
of our soul and its capacity for growth and self-actualization. Spirit as a
living force, can only grow and expand what’s there is to grow. Just like a
seed that has the perfect DNA encoding to become a certain type of plant, our
soul has the energetic DNA to become a certain type of experience. Our soul
comes into the world perfectly designed to tell a certain type of story. We are
fully equipped with all the qualities, talents, gifts, tendencies and traits to
fashion the character ideal for telling that story. In this, life is not only
by design, but it is perfect in its composition. Our challenge becomes
recognizing what we are perfectly designed to express, then devote ourselves to
that expression.
During the first half of
our life, we are conditioned by how inherent aspects of ourselves are stimulated
and brought forth into expression by other energies in our environment. Our
initial development is largely unconscious, even though it still follows a
general idea. Our initial identity forms organically from our personality within
our life circumstances and conditions as a form of natural adaptation. The type
of experiences we have as a teenager, and the story we tell about them as a way
of making sense of the world, becomes the basis for our lifetime story about
ourselves. We have an experience, and in an attempt to make sense out of it, we
think about it, have an emotional reaction to our own thoughts, which creates an
experience of it that gives us a sense of ourselves in relationship to our own
story about it. Though we perceive ourselves as being shaped by circumstances
beyond our control, or clearly not of our choosing, what is our own doing, is
how we interpret our experiences to give them meaning. The meaning our
experiences have form beliefs about ourselves, others and the world in general.
Those self made beliefs become the initial patterning for the type of stories we
tell as a means of interpreting experiences in general that give us a consistent
feeling about ourselves. The stories we tell to create meaning, simultaneously
create us based on that meaning.
By the time we become
young adults, our potential has been only partially stimulated and brought into
expression based on others and our environment. Other aspects of our self
remain latent, untapped and often unrecognized. Because we haven’t had an
experience of those aspects of ourselves, we don’t know how to use them to tell
new kinds of stories that we can then identify with. Unless they are activated
through new conditions, outer circumstances and relationships, they will often
remain unconscious and unutilized. Because our ability to create experiences
relies on our identity, how our identity is developed in our formative years
becomes our most primary limitation. We will often simply repeat patterns as
themes over and over throughout our life without realizing that we are actually
the ones creating the “story of our life” as a repetition of our initial
conditioning.
In spiritual practices,
what we refer to as the “second birth”, or awakening, is when we choose to
consciously engage in facilitating our own soul’s evolution by recognizing
latent potential and consciously bringing it forth into expression through the
use of our will. This act of creative empowerment, allows us to gain an
intimate knowledge of our own nature and be able to determine what type of story
is in us to tell, and then engage in the necessary means to tell that story. We
begin shaping our identity with a sense of intention and desire to fulfill our
purpose and actualize our destiny as the full expression of our potential in
this lifetime.
Birth charts of various
Divination, originally served the purpose of helping people to realize what
their archetypal patterning was so that they could participate fully in their
own development and evolution. Once we understand that all qualities have not
only a positive and negative expression, but also an entire range of
possibilities based on degrees of potency and the opposing force that served to
shape them originally, we can not only activate latent potential and bring new
ways of being into our experience, but we can also correct qualities that has
been expressed negatively or in a way that maintains unproductive patterns.
Because so much of ourselves remain unconscious to us, birth charts give us a
neutral glimpse of the full aspects that make up our most intimate and yet
illusive parts.
Linda Gadbois,
Ph.D.(c), CCHt.
"Vision"
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Power of Identity –
“Style for Creating”
The inherent creative
power of our mind is to co-create experiences that we then use as a creative
tool to define us. While our body naturally forms union with an experience by
performing it, or creating the behavior of the experience, the conscious mind
identifies itself as the person having the experience. The nature of the
experience gives us a sense of ourselves that form our very core which becomes
the story-teller in our lives as a consistent and congruent idea. While
behavior can be modified or directly changed, identity is permanent.
Our identity - id (ego) –
entity (exists as real, distinct and self-contained) – is primarily created
through external influences. The ego is the aspect of the mind that causes us
to seek ourselves through external means. We look outside of ourselves as a way
of gaining a sense of ourselves. We have an experience, which activates and
calls forth certain aspects of our inner being that we use to interact, which
exercises and strengthens those qualities while at the same time we begin
identifying with them. Every situation causes an internal response that
provokes certain thoughts and emotions, and we then form a reaction to our own
emotional thoughts. Our identity first births the very thoughts that we have an
emotional reaction to, then we get a sense of our self as our emotional
reactions and identify with them “as if” they are real. Through this constant
process of our outer experience determining our inner experience we get a sense
of who we are in relationship to the external world. With this orientation, we
are subject to and shaped by other people, situations, circumstances, and
conditions that seem beyond our control.
Our identity, which
initially is developed without our awareness or direct participation through our
conditioning, becomes our character as the very core of determining what kind of
stories we are capable of telling. Just like in a story, myth or movie, our
character becomes the story-teller of our life. All of our stories about our
experiences, other people, and the way things are is based on what our character
naturally produces. It’s the primary filter through which we perceive reality
itself as a congruent and ongoing theme of a particular genre’.
This is an eternal
psychological Principle that few truly understand. Whenever we come into new
situation or relationships, and we notice immediately how we feel, what is being
stimulated in us, or what part of us it’s calling forth, this is revealing to us
the natural ability for personal development that that situation, environment or
relationship has to offer. If we stay in it, continue with the relationship or
placing ourselves in that environment, we not only bring those qualities right
to the foreground and begin developing them through the nature of our
interaction, but also begin identifying with how we feel and express ourselves
as a result. If we’re in a situation that makes us feel bad, stimulates
negative emotions, and we stay in it for a period of time, it will literally
reshape our identity based on the emotions we experience. We will become the
type of person who has those emotions. Those emotions will become filters for
how we perceive the world around us and the nature of the experiences we have as
a result.
All transformation requires
a shift in our identity. How we sense ourselves in relationship with, or
contrast to the external, material world. We must cultivate the ability to
create new situations and experiences, that when we identify with them, changes
how we sense our self, how we feel about our self as an interaction with them.
Knowing this, we can use it as a tool for affecting our identity in a desirable
manner. Our identity has the natural tendency to show up the same way in every
situation and simply express the same identity over and over. Instead of
allowing a situation to transform us, we act subconsciously to transform the
situation to conform to our habitual ways of perceiving ourselves. Our primary
identity as our key mental model forms our comfort zone. Once comfortable with
a particular identity, we are extremely reluctant to change, not because we
don’t want to per say, but because we literally don’t know how to. Our
conditioned identity becomes the main pattern for how we create experiences as a
general rule of thumb.
Many times, even when we are
given a new situation that we could use to create a new experience of ourselves,
we instead just bring the same attitude and story with us and retell it in the
new environment. This happens because we remain unaware of how to actually
promote a transformative experience. In order to consciously create, we must
create an ideal of ourselves based on the qualities, traits and characteristics
that we desire to develop in ourselves. Our ideal becomes the creative vision
or composition for us to aspire towards. We can notice what people and
situations speak to those qualities in us, and we can increase those
relationships. Once we decide who, how and what kind of person we desire to be,
we can engage in consciously embodying those new qualities in more expressive
ways. We can begin telling new stories about our self that fashion us in new
and inspiring ways. We can determine who we want to become and consciously act
to orchestrate our life in such a way that it serves to naturally stimulate new
and more desirable qualities making them available for new levels of expression.
"Many Paths, One
Destination"
Linda Gadbois, DES, CCHt.
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Initiation
–
“The Alchemy of Personal
Transformation”
Alchemy was the process of
Initiation formulated through Hermetic Sciences. It describes the process of
Self-development by purifying your character to become a sacred vessel for
Divine energy as non-personal and neutral to flow into the world unimpeded.
Alchemy as a secret formula was transcribed on what was referred to as the
“Philosopher’s Stone”. It defined mind over matter as the power of projection
symbolically portrayed as transmuting the “appearance” of base metals into gold.
This was the actual transmutation of our lower animalistic nature into our
highest divine nature.
This was done primarily
by purifying the personal character of the Initiate as the “quality” of their
state that serves energetically as the organizing and acquiring factor. This was
done by transmuting base metals as primal personality traits that formed our
basic character in an unconscious manner, into a pure metal of gold as an
expression of our higher nature pursued through choice and free will. Our
personality as a natural unconscious process is developed by our own volition
into higher form by purifying the emotional aspects that keep us tied to
personal dramas. The unconscious programs activated by emotional reactions
prevent us from being conduits for objective, undistorted consciousness to
spontaneously stream forth into physical expression through us.
We purify our own
character by transmuting our distorted “problematic” areas into undistorted
creative powers of greater potency. The distortion takes place through the
emotional components that form the basis of unconscious reactions and self-made
delusions must be healed by releasing them as an energetic discharge. Emotions
must be expressed in order to be released.
We keep things alive by
giving them our attention. Attention directs energy into images animating them
to tell a story that expresses the emotion as a sequence of thought processes.
By unplugging from the personal drama of emotions we become free to develop the
quality in a pre-determined and thoughtful manner that serves to intentionally
condition our character. We do this by taking the same core as a cluster of
qualities that form a kind of system, and remove attention from one aspect and
place it on another. What we emphasize becomes expressed. As we express it we
develop it and strengthen it. What is in us as our dominate quality of energy
creates our vibratory frequency which determines what we see as fundamental
perceptions, activate bringing the same quality out in others and then apprehend
for ourselves through the interaction. This forms the fundamental basis for
using your own mind to consciously create with purpose and intention.
What we give power to
increases and become dominant. What we remove attention from, subside and become
latent. Inactive. We keep the emotional dramas alive in our lives by focusing on
them, giving our energy to them, talking about them, telling stories out of them
that simultaneously give us a sense of ourselves that forms our identity. It
shapes our character by how we identify with our own emotional thoughts about
our self, others and life in general. If we simply let it go, quit thinking
about it, and start thinking about other things, we literally act to transform
one kind of quality and corresponding experience into another by first choosing
to, focusing on and emphasizing something else.
To transmute qualities
is done primarily through degrees of potency. What and how much we emphasize
something. We don’t have to resolve issues of negative, unproductive or
sabotaging expressions, we simply have to discipline ourselves to manage the
reaction when we are emotionally triggered, allow it to run its course without
acting on it until it subsides, then choose something different instead. We have
to discipline our mind to quit reacting to emotional charges that run
unconscious programs that create and sustain personal dramas formulated out of
memories. So the primary qualities required for Personal Transformation are
commitment, discipline, determination and devotion. These are developed into
courage, self-confidence and fearlessness.
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D.(c), CCHt.
"Transcendence"
by: Linda Gadbois
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Choice & Free Will –
“Personal Power”
Choice is only
meaningful or relevant to the extent that we are able to perceive it. In
order to perceive it through empowerment we have to realize how we act to
consciously create choices. We can easily do this by recognizing how our mind
works to create situations in which choices naturally arise and become apparent.
When we have a desire for something, the desire births a
natural intention, and the desired intention produces a range of
possible choices. When we either choose or contemplate choices we imagine
the choice as an actual reality or what type of experience we will have while
acting out or bringing that choice about as an actual experience in which we
will produce direct effects. Our imagination takes a desired intention and
creates thought as concepts of the choice “as if” we are actually living
it. Having the experience of it. As we imagine it conceptually, we have an
emotional reaction to our own thoughts or the experience that we create
by thinking about it.
Emotions arise naturally in response to our own thoughts
about things. An emotion is energy field that exists as polarity.
So an emotional response is the movement that takes place between a range of
possibilities as extremes that either opposes the idea and serves to counteract
it, or agrees with it, serving to support it. This movement, as energy in
motion, has the effect of either expanding or contracting. Moving into
the idea by expanding and growing it, or moving away from the idea serving to
deflate or restrict it. This is the experience of, and the basic behavior of
electro-magnetic energy flow that is formed in relationship with (union), or
comparison to (separation) the possible reality being imagined and
contemplated.
When the emotion aligns with and forms unison with the desired
intention as a previewed experience, harmony is formed, and thought-forms are
created as mental constructs that create pathways as possibilities for
expression. With a detailed construct that is motivated with positive expansive
emotion, manifestation becomes spontaneous and quickened, time is literally
collapsed.
The emotional reaction is powerful because unlike the thought-process,
it is an actual experience as a physical sensation. We feel the movement
in our body. These physical sensations produce chemistry that saturates our
entire system altering it’s state, simultaneously producing neurons that
influence and stimulate a certain type of thinking that can produce an immediate
opposition to the spiritual aspect (desired intention being imagined), and
because it is more immediate as a physical experience tends to flip the
orientation (reaching a chemical threshold) and the mind as imagined intention
fulfilling the souls desire begins serving the body instead, which is pleading,
whining, and having a form of temper-tantrum as an emotional reaction to a
command.
When the desired intention becomes an imagined thought shaping a
living concept that is married to positive emotion, it creates harmony
which begins an immediate and natural expansion and readily unfolds as a reality
that the body naturally and automatically acts out without contest or
resistance. When the four bodies are aligned (spirit, thought, emotion, and
body), manifestation is automatic – the desired manifestation must take
place. It must take place because it is the only possibility for
creation. The entire pattern or process is aligned as the same idea which
forms resonance. The resonance forms coherence. Just as an apple seed only has
the potential to be an apple tree inherent within it, it can only produce
an apple tree. It can’t produce or grow into a peach tree. In this the will
can be understood as a natural force of a higher nature that commands all other
natural forces by engaging them in a state of cooperation that aligns all levels
with the same form or design for creating a physical correspondence.
The will is exercised as a matter of focus, concentration and
imagination, as opposed to determination, commitment and discipline. While these
are necessary often times in the beginning when a habitual pattern is beginning
restructured as the means of breaking bad habits and replacing them with
healthier, life-affirming habits, once the initial shift takes place, it becomes
a matter of automation and synchronistic unfoldment of a consistent and
indigenous idea that is faithfully and predictably produced without the need of
actual thought-processes. It becomes an inherent part of our fundamental
perception that serves to birth and support all the ones that naturally arise
out of them as correspondences or fractal patterns (smaller patterns of the same
thing applied to different situations or circumstances)
Exercising Choice and Personal Will:
Here is a very basic example of how to begin exercising your ability to make
personal choices that are life-affirming and allow a greater range of
self-expression and fulfillment. Always keep in mind that creation initiates and
produces, so it must be stated in the positive. It must be what
you desire, not what you don’t. The mind can’t process a negative,
it defies Universal Law. It creates by holding an image in it, then
thinking about it, imagining it and building it into an actual experience.
· Identify
a desire and hold it in your mind. (example) “I desire to create a
greater state of physical health and have a healthier body”.
· The
desire sets the intention, which engages the imagination
with an actual idea that it can develop. “I intend to do this by making
healthier, smarter choices in how and what I eat and drink”.
· The
desired intention creates the basic formula to produce a natural effect
that will result in a healthier body. “I will create greater health and vitality
by making distinct choices in what I eat and drink”.
· At
first discipline, commitment and determination are necessary because the reason
you are setting this as a goal is because you are not doing it currently.
You will be tempted to give-up on this, or constantly negotiate and compromise
it based on all the reasons you haven’t been able to do it up to this point. The
first thing that arises in response to a decision is all the reasons you
developed and continued to accommodate the bad habit in the first place. The
reasons for the previous choices that you are used to making have a form of
compulsiveness to act them out without thinking or even having a conscious
awareness of them.
· The
imagined thought – concept of the desired intention – forms a basic
pattern or concept as an action or behavior. “I now choose to no longer drink
soda pop”. You then imagine all the other things there are to drink besides soda
pop – water, lemonade, tea, fruit juice, milk, etc., creating an array of
possible choices to replace the old one. You then picture yourself in various
situations making new choices about what to drink.
· Emotional
response – you will have an emotional response to this imagined reality.
It will both like it and cooperate, or it doesn’t and it sets out to oppose it
by arguing. In order to tame the emotion and get it to cooperate you attach
positive feelings to the reality of the new choice. You imagine your body
feeling light, energetic and good as result of your new choice.
· Integrate
creating a holistic reality out of the choice that gives it pathways to actually
express. You imagine it as an actual experience where you put yourself in a
possible situation, then see, hear, feel, taste, smell, and tell yourself
(internal dialogue) how good you feel as a result. Tell yourself positive things
about the experience.
·
Run this through
your mind over and over, in a variety of situations where you imagine yourself
making new choices and then associating positive feelings to those choices.
Create mental rehearsals that tell the body (subconscious) what to do, or how to
act from now on. The subconscious needs an imagined experience that it can act
out. Behavior is the result, the end product of an imagined scenario motivated
by positive feelings.
Start with small ideas
and choices, until you get good at it and it starts becoming easy, and then
slowly graduate to larger and more important decisions. Also, always keep the
compulsive effects of deprivation in mind. Saying and deciding not to drink soda
pop, doesn’t mean you never can, it simply means it won’t be a common event, or
a frequent act. You may even set guidelines that say for example, I will only
drink pop when I go to a movie, or participate in an outdoor festival, or . . .
. allow yourself to periodically have it, so you don’t fall into the neurosis
that arises from fixation brought on by feelings of permanent loss.
This of course only applies to things that we do not have
actual addictions to. This will not work with actual addictive substances,
in which abstinence is critical and absolutely necessary for an extended period
of time.
"Choice
- Splitting Universe's"
Linda Gadbois, DES, CCHt.
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Personal Will – The Power to Change Your Life
Our willpower
is the real basis for self-empowerment in terms of our true creative ability to
first reference our self, make a decision, imagine it, and bring about unique
and purposeful ideas that are actually self-produced. In our society we have
not been taught how to use or strengthen or will, because giving up our will
to others is necessary for control. People who possess a lot of personal power
tend to be self-contained, self-referencing, and self-directed. They usually
appear as a form of Maverick or natural leader in their own right. They don’t
look to follow, conform to convention or imitate others but rather form
empowered perceptions that allow them to be self-directed with a great sense of
purpose and precision.
The will in its rightful function can be thought of as the soul’s
essence which is oriented to command the system, and serves to direct thoughts
and emotions, through alignment with it that ultimately forms self-expression.
The soul is the creator directing its own experiences. The will
motivated by desire, forms a sense of purpose that indicates a natural pathway
for the purpose to shape the experience through the meaning it creates as an
expression of itself. Meaning is the shaping factor of all experience. It
forms the moral of the story.
This is a basic description of the orientation of spirit descending
into form. Ascension is not the body directing the rest of the system to
be self-serving of our physical form, but rather the breaking down and letting
go of physical attachments and returning to a purer state of spiritual essence
which creates ultimate freedom to express without inhibitions.
In today’s society we
have been trained to flip this orientation where the primary focus is on the
body, which serves to direct the thoughts and desire for fulfillment, which
often fails to even recognize or include the soul in their everyday perceptions
of themselves. The soul often remains mysterious and illusive. We often fail to
see our daily lifestyle as a means of serving our soul. We are trained instead
to endless forms of addiction, whether physical through chemical substances, or
electro-magnetic entrainment which engages the mind in meaningless activities
that serve absolutely no purpose at all.
Because we have weak
wills, poor or no soul recognition, we feel powerless in the face of our own
addictions, and are reduced to a spiritually weaken state where we become usable
and trainable by those who are still conscious and serving to command our will
through various means of keeping us in an unconscious state where mind
programming becomes a multi-billion dollar business. Mind control is a modern
phenomenon that we gladly support with consumer power and mindlessly engage in
with a sense pleasure and eagerness.
To take back control of our self is to first gain a sense of whom we
are at a fundamental level of soul recognition. In this, we can detach
ourselves and take back our power from anything that does not serve the purpose
of expressing who we are, disengage intentionally from electro-magnetic
addictions and begin making decisions for our self by exercising
self-discipline and a sense of determination in bringing them about not only in
our experiences, but as a form of true self-expression. In this our life serves
and fulfills a higher purpose, giving our life deeper meaning and rich substance
which ultimately reveals our destiny.
Linda Gadbois, DES.,
CCHt.
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Attachments -
"Letting go and Taking Back our Power"
Whenever we hit a point in our lives where we are either forced to, or choose to
let go of material possessions and various forms of imagined security, we are
able to gain a very clear idea of not only what fear we have around them as an
association, but how that fear serves to control us. We are not only struck with
and briefly consumed with feelings of anxiety around the idea of losing what up
to that point has represented safety, security and survival in some way, but
also the thought processes and imagined scenario’s that simultaneously arise out
of the fear as the expression of possible perceived realities that will result
from the loss.
It is not the actual
reality that consumes us, but rather the fear itself that works to create our
perceived reality. We are controlled by material ideas to the same extent that
we are attached to them. The nature of our attachment creates the fearful
thoughts that keep us “hanging onto them” for dear life. Our thoughts are
magnetized to and controlled by whatever we imagine we are losing. The loss
itself is not of the material item, but rather what false idea we have attached
to it in terms of perceived fulfillment of needs and desires.
When our survival is
threatened in some way, whether real or imagined, the fear that arises and
consumes us is from our reptilian, instinctual brain which kicks into survival
mode. This initiates the “fight or flight” response which alerts the body to
react by redirecting blood flow away from the brain and into the muscles and the
extremities. We literally can’t think clearly and go into reactive mode. If this
state becomes chronic, it not only produces stress that greatly weakens our
immune system, but literally prevents us from being able to think in a calm and
productive manner. We become a servant to our material possessions instead of
them serving us.
If however, we can sit
through the reactive stage of our initial response to feeling threatened in some
way, and allow the fearful thoughts to run their course and begin subsiding,
what we find is that new thoughts will begin arising that are of an adaptive
nature and not being driven by fear or emotional stress. By accepting our
situation and letting go of resistance and opposition to it, not only is our
peace of mind restored, but our thoughts become run by more expansive, positive
emotions that restore blood-flow to the brain. We begin thinking productively
instead of haphazardly. We take back control of our own mind, instead of being
controlled by and outside force.
Our Minds have a
remarkable ability to adjust to any environmental circumstances and conditions.
We have only to become aware of what the experience of letting go is
about, and understand how it will proceed and stay with it long enough,
without reacting and making decisions based on the fear, until our clear and
relaxed thinking is restored and we can begin to see new possibilities for
creating new experiences.
When we can take this a
step further, and realize that what is happening beneath the surface that is
serving to shape our experiences at a personal level is also the same
thematic energy that is operating at the greater level, we can realize that
when we see a problem or covert idea forming at the global level, we can make
the necessary adjustments in our personal life by letting go of whatever is
acting as the controlling idea. The controlling idea that is being played out at
the greater level, requires us to participate by remaining unconscious of it and
being distracted by whatever reality if offers us as a diversion.
Whenever we let go of
something, the first thing that arises creating our experience is all the things
that were in play that served to stabilize it and maintain it in the first
place. We experience the very ideas that reveal our attachments. Our attachments
in terms of why we have not been able to let it go up to this point. This is the
activation of fearful ideas that have caused us to stay in dynamics faithfully
serving to act them out by fully cooperating without even realizing the
underlying idea that is being played out through us, by us. This attachment, as
the value we give things that makes them meaningful, is what forms our
perception as the reality we build around them in relationship with them, which
serves to control us. The nature of our attachment and what it seems to be
about, or represent reveals the nature and to what extent we are controlled by
the fear of losing it or having to survive without it. This attachment can be
literal or pure imagination. But either way it is powerful to us at an emotional
level which acts to regulate and control our thought processes and what type of
emotional realities we create as a result.
The interesting part
about this, is that to the extent that we can first identify, then release
things, people and ideas that we have a strong attachment to or emotional
investment in, the freer we become. This promotes feeling of inner calm and
allows us to restore our peace of mind. We loose the tendency to react and
simply witness the events instead, unmoved by them. This is the liberation of
the mind that offers tree freedom because it becomes self-directed and not
other-directed.
Linda Gadbois DES., CCHt.
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The Art of Personal Transformation
– “Alchemy of the Soul”
In all
Personal transformation, we don’t actually change in the real sense, but rather
remove what has prevented us from being our true self up to this point. We
literally burn away the residue that has dimmed our inner light, preventing it
from shining fully. We are all born into this world as souls with two basic
forms of DNA – physical and spiritual. Our spiritual DNA is our energetic
qualities that represent our capacity for self-expression. We are born as a form
of “seed” which has all the intelligence and energetic information to become
something specific and specialized. We are born as a kind of “perfect design”
for a specific type of expression.
The way to tell what
kind of seed we are, what our design is perfect for is by recapturing our
“dream” or vision for our life’s story. Our soul’s purpose is naturally revealed
to us through our dreams which live in us as our imagination. Our dreams are
designed to give us the larger pattern in which fractal patterns emerge
naturally. All of our stories about our self and life are an expression of our
greater story, the one we are telling with our life. We have within us the
archetypal qualities, talents and gifts to ideally fulfill our destiny by living
our purpose with a sense of devotion and passion. What makes a story great is
not so much the story itself, but rather “how” it is told.
Our destiny is the
vision as our greater desire expressed within our current reality as a scenario,
drama or lifestyle – our way of living and being in the world. Our purpose is
the desire that motivates the dream – it’s the reason for the dream. So all
transformation begins by identifying our soul’s capacity for expression as a
cluster of archetypes that are imprinted with potential that when called forth,
fashions our character making it ideal for telling a certain type of story.
Everything we need to fulfill and express our destiny is within us waiting to be
discovered, intentionally chosen and called forth through the story that we
first tell about ourselves, then about the world in relationship with, or in
contrast to us.
So to transform our
current expression, is to explore inward and rediscover our true nature.
Recapture our original dream; give it life by placing our attention on it, and
imbuing it with rich feelings of love, wonder and anticipation that create a
natural devotion to its reality. Fall in love with the life we were born to live
and “act it out” making it an actual experience. All art brings an inspired idea
into form by how it interprets it. In order to reform our life, we must learn
how to take the same inherent qualities and re-interpret them in such a way that
they serve to reshape our character, creating a sense of our self that will
allow a new story to spontaneously emerge and flow effortlessly with affluence.
Linda Gadbois, DES.
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Personal Transformation –
"Birthing our True Self"
Personal transformation becomes a natural process when we pursue our passion,
it's not so much about changing, but rather discovering how we have deviated
from our original path and become surrounded with personal illusions of our own
making. We have to go through a kind of the purification process where we
shed the delusions that have concealed our true essence. As we move
through life, through the primary conditioning of our formative years and
various life circumstances we get diverted from our true self and go off into
what can be endless variations of hypnotic trances.
Personal
transformation is a form of spiritual healing that is spontaneously produced by
removing conflicts, blocks and contradictions that naturally restores our system
to a state of harmony, an alignment that re-instills balance through a form of
inner peace. We experience it when we are no longer conflicted, restrained or
holding back but rather find a sense of true purpose that forms feelings of
enthusiasm.
The very feelings
that cause us to deviate from our original path, offer us the ideal opportunity
for realignment. Feelings are whole patterns that once activated run whole
programs that create certain types of experiences. Experiences that have strong
emotions attached to them, can be thought of as whole patterns that produces
corresponding thoughts and emotions that motivate self-fulfilling behavior. The
experience the feeling creates can be recognized by the story it naturally lends
itself to which is associated with various compositions of past memories that
when acted out will give you the same feeling that motivated it. This is the
true meaning of “self-expression”.
When these feeling
states are activated or triggered in us they cause us to go into a form of
trance, they entrain our mind to a specific brain wave pattern that literally
causes us to fall asleep or go unconscious and imagine it as if it were real.
The pattern is complete in the sense that it is based on a natural assumption,
which sets our intention, which then determines our focus that then
spontaneously unfolds in a predictable manner that ultimately produces a
pre-conceived conclusion our expectation as a specific type of outcome. Because
it contains strong emotions and vivid sensory details, it hypnotizes us and we
perceive it as real and unavoidable. It can seem so real that some literally
refer to it as destiny.
Yet if we identify
our own tendencies as habitual perceptions based on intense experiences as
reenacting living memory we can see the real opportunity to change how we
respond to the same stimulus. We can exercise our will to resist our own
tendencies and choose a different response by resisting the temptation to revert
back to the habitual emotional responses long enough to change the patterns to
produce a different outcome. But the whole time we're doing this we experience
a kind of anxiety or pervading feeling of dread where new thoughts and emotions
seem more like fantasy than reality. We have to commit to our passion and
discipline ourselves to act it out even when we are filled with self-doubt and
constant feelings of apprehension.
The process of
alchemy which is geared towards human transformation starts through purifying or
burning off residue that has modified the chemical structure and therefore
changed the appearance of the base metal, making it visible as pure and
tangible. So in this sense we are not changing our self but rather engaging in
the process in which all of our self-delusions fall away and we can sense our
true self as we really are. We never really change our souls essence as our
true nature, we simply shed what has prevented us from expressing it. We
dissolve the illusions that have kept us from experiencing our self by way of
our natural passion which is designed to keep us steadily moving towards it
through a form of compulsion. All true goals are not mental constructs but
rather feelings of enthusiasm for certain states, types of experiences, or means
of self-expression. To find our passion and intimately commit to expressing it
as fully as possible is the real definition of personal transformation that
reveals our true nature as our ultimate destiny.
Linda Gadbois, DES., CCHt., RMT
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