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29 Aug 2003 @ 19:31, by Craig Lang
Ming's article on "Doing Things That Work" struck a chord in me. I, like many baby boomers, am at a crossroads of life - that time of transition called midlife crisis. The career and life path of the last 20 years may have been pretty successful, but there is the sense that it is time to move on. So the question: where to go from here?
In the hypnotherapy world, it is said that experience brings empathy. So perhaps my search for the next breadcrumb has made me all the more sensitive to this same issue in others. And recently I have had a number of hypnotherapy clients dealing with just that issue:
- What should I do next?
- I don't like where I am in life...
- But I don't know what my life path should really be, instead
- What is my calling in life?
- And how can I make money doing that which I am called to do?
Since thoughts are things, and thoughts create reality through action, perhaps there are some ways in which working with the subconscious can help us to manifest the reality we seek.
This search for a meaningful life path seems to have several key questions:
- Exactly what am I passionate about?
- What life path will help me realize that passion?
- What do I need to do to travel that path?
- How can I make a living while doing what I love?
Some of us find that we can work at what we love and make money at it - the best of both worlds. Others have to strike a balance between the day job and pursuing their passion outside of work hours. It is a balance that is often precarious, but very very real.
Ming makes a very interesting point in his post "Doing Things That Work" which I roughly paraphrase as "Wishing doesn't make it so." Yet, a wish is a beginning, and few if any goals are achieved without this desire and vision. So, where does one begin? And can we proceed from the starting point of the wish.
Several very good books on career/life planning begin with brainstorming and visualization. One classic is Barbara Sher's book "Wishcraft". It guides the reader through a multi-step approach of brainstorming, visualizing, structuring the resulting ideas, following-up on the most promising ones, and finally making your move. While there are countless books on career/life planning, career change, etc. - I have found Barbara's to be one of the best.
Thoughts are things, and thoughts create reality. So one place to begin is by envisioning in the mind just what that desired reality is. An interesting book on creating your own reality is written by Victor Gibbons, entitled "Metacreation". This book deals with creating new personal realities in the subconscious. Perhaps this is where the connection lurks betwen mind and world. Because very often, at a deep level within each of us is the answer we seek - deep in one's subconscious are the keys to one's future. The trick is to find them, and then let them help us to construct a new future reality. So here is one process that I have used with several hypnosis clients, that seems to have helped considerably.
Often, the first step is to invite the subconscious mind (while in deep trance) to envision that perfect job or life scenario. We can then project ahead to a future in which one has reached that point. This can then be examined in detail, associating to it while in deep trance, as a present-moment reality. We can then fix this future reality into the subconscious. The trick is to really believe that this new reality is the future - an achievable destiny on the life-path.
Once this new conceptual reality is anchored within the subconscious, it then takes on a life of its own. It becomes part of the personal paradigm, incorporated into the deeper material from which the conscious mind builds thoughts and makes plans.
As Ming said, the trick is to do the things to get you to your goal. But to do that, we need to be in the mind-frame that we CAN and WILL reach the desired future. Once that belief is in place, then motivation and action follow - where there's a will there's a way. The gears turn, and at some point the mind finds a way to turn that future reality into a present one. A way to reach this goal is achieved.
Thoughts create reality, so we have to have vision and belief which then give rise to motivation, preparation and action - leading us to the next step on the path of life.
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2 comments
31 Aug 2003 @ 06:15 by spiritseek : very good Craig
Ask and you shall recieve seems to fit quite nicely with, where theres a will theres a way. Having a focus to what you want to happen is very important for the design,steps and process.This talk is going on all around me lately, and most of them are coming from my age group. But don't sell out the younger generation they are tired of this system of things too.
31 Aug 2003 @ 22:51 by : I hear ya/see ya Craig!
Craig, I say trust the heart path. I find that the trickiest thing really is simply about trusting what we are up to and what is!! --Having faith that it will take us to where we need to go. We will naturally move as inspired (By Source) when we open to listening to and trusting our heart...And...opening more to Love, opens new doors. Yes, I see you at a crossroads -- Keep on truckin bro! I see a BIG Heart-opening --a new door...and Surprises in store...
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Thanks for the comments, Alana.
I think your note captured a big piece of what I said above, but in fewer words... :-)
You have a great gift of insight.
Thank you.
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***You're welcome Craig! In the past 24 hrs, I too have been involved in an expansion of heart. Woke up at 4:30am and wrote a few poems. Then just awhile ago a friend read me some passages from an amazing book: The I that is We, by Richard Moss. Looks like he has written some other really good ones as well. In the title above, he talks about the experience of travel throughout the world, and the impact this has on identity and the deep self. Finally connecting with someone who knows what I am going through in a broader and deeper sense. Definitely looking forward to reading it soon. This guy sounds like one wise heart warrior. I am feeling the Light of Spirit now, since getting off of the phone and talking with Gina. She is the most conscious and loving woman I have met here - yet wish she lived closer. So we email and talk occasionally. I have been lifted up to another level of heart through the past 24 hrs. Thinking of you, and sending Light. Love, Alana
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