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, Ph.D.(c), 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, Ph.D.(c), 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, Ph.D.(c)

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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 Ph.D.(c) 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, Ph.D.

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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, Ph.D.(c) CCHt., RMT

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