Just Words - Part 5 - Living Within Bubbles

We all live within our own perspective bubbles. Our own little comfort zones.

My bubble is all I know. My entire existence (past, present, & future) has always been realized inside this bubble. How I have remembered & presently perceive life is within this bubble. My bubble is exactly how I want it, otherwise it'd be different. I like it here. It's cozy and set up precisely to my tastes. My favorite colors are on the walls & texture of carpet is below my feet. All of my habits, the way I react to situations, my routines, my priorities... everything that is me. Even if some aspects of my life are displeasing, obviously it's how I'd prefer; otherwise I would make different choices... choose different words to say, hear, and understand. Right?

Given not only the fact that the current world population is roughly seven billion people, but also the hopes that God has plans for not only me but some of you too, a willingness to exist among other bubbles is paramount.

You live inside of a bubble too. Your bubble is all you know. Your entire existence (past, present, & future) has always been realized inside your bubble. How you have remembered & presently perceive life is within your bubble. You like it there. It holds everything that is you. =)

Most of us aren't very comfortable outside of our perspective bubbles. We have all become very content acting on habit and routine to assure our bubbles stay warm and cozy. When we are forced outside of our bubbles we tend to get agitated, angry, or scared. We react with frustration, disappointment, & fear when others let us down or make us question, or break outside of our bubbles. Why? Your comfort zone is not in jeopardy! It is meant to conform and adapt. Remember, God intends a willingness to exist among others. I have come to realize that maybe it's not about breaking your bubble to change... but rather expanding it to grow.

I have lost many relationships throughout my life because of my stubbornness in not allowing my bubble to expand. In retrospect, when someone I cared about made a choice I didn't agree with or they didn't go along with what I wanted, I took it as my bubble breaking. I chose to let it hurt me & subsequently I reacted in ways that ultimately pushed them completely out of my life.

Growing into Faith

I am thankful to understand myself more everyday, in that my happiness, along with my comfort zone, is completely up to me. Hindsight is 20/20, and I am regretful. Some of those people lived within the best bubbles I have ever known. I wish I would have chosen not to react the way I did being hurt and try to empathize in the fact that they were only dealing with their own life and bubbles. I could have reacted outside my own bubble.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, huh?

Let's all continue to keep expanding our bubbles. Grow into Faith!

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Need an Unpredictable Miracle Within 24 Hrs?

Here's what you must do. Until you can transcend your "inner known reality," what you deeply desire cannot manifest into your life. Your heart's desires can only be manifested through new possibilities that live in your imagination.

While I have subscribed to Albert Einstein's quote,

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

... for a very long time, after all, he was a very smart guy, I haven't always lived as if I really believed it.

Unfortunately, in difficult and stressful situations, my old survival thoughts and feelings have blind-sided me and taken me over. My life has never been pretty when this happens, NEVER!

Once I'm hijacked by my fight/flight emotions and behaviors, I'm no longer being the designer of my life. Instead, I fall prey to being a puppet that is controlled by a forceful and seductive puppeteer.

(The puppeteer is a metaphor to describe my old survival beliefs, habits, and survival emotions from the past.)

Have you ever felt this way, like you couldn't stop yourself from your old habits of defensiveness, protection, or escape and avoidance? You just couldn't make yourself change to make your situation better.

It's very easy to get hijacked by your fight/flight/freeze survival patterns of thinking and emotions. When you are overtaken by your survival mode, your imagination becomes EXTREMELY limited, negative, and habitual. Unfortunately, you are thrown into this fearful place fast, and everything becomes urgent. You'll become pushy and controlling or you'll withdraw from what you're afraid of.

The truth is, my difficult situations and desires never manifest into what I want until I sit down and release myself from being overtaken by my survival patterns of thinking and feeling.

This requires a vigilant action of mind. Only then do I get my power back. I experience unpredictable miracles and unprecedented manifestations! Believe me, this is so worth it!

To access your own personal Divine FLOW and Power, you must increase your faith and trust in the power that lies within your imagination. You cannot become free from the 'puppeteer's control just by gathering information in your mind. While that is a start, it most certainly is not the end. Ultimately, you must have the proficiency to "see" what you want in your mind from a state of peace, certainty, and centeredness.

To help you exercise your imagination muscle so it is easier to access when challenges and conflicts show up, I invite you to do this simple process this week with a challenging situation you're having.

The Aikido Method For Change™

Spend each day becoming aware of people and things in your environment that trigger you to feel disempowered, angry, or not good enough.Patiently observe and feel your survival reactions without judgment and without acting them out externally, like telling someone they made your angry or telling them how to act. Just become consciously aware of what wants to happen internally without externally doing what wants to happen. You'll likely feel very right(eous), defensive, or you'll want to run away.Close your eyes and peacefully access your imagination by asking yourself, "What good is possible in this situation? What else is possible?"Identify how you want to feel (freedom, joy, satisfaction, etc.)See and feel your preferred outcome as if it is REAL and your experience is happening now.

Remember, this 5-step process MUST become a repeated practice. Actually, it will become a lifestyle and an identity change. Your imagination is the Divine realm of unlimited, unconditional loving possibilities. You are blessed to have this creative power within you.

Use it wisely!

Doing this practice is a MUST if you ever want to get beyond your unwanted current circumstances.

Judy K. Katz, MCC RScP Business Prosperity and Attraction Mentor at http://wealthtransformations.com/. If you would like to learn how you can accelerate your ability to breakthrough your resistance to change which is stopping you from having what you want, please send an email to judy@wealthtransformations.com. You may qualify for a free breakthrough session with me.

I promise this will be of great value to you!

Relationships are my specialty. It's my desire to have a powerful and trusting one with you. I'm eager to hear from you and to come to know your desires and your challenges! You do matter, and I do care!

Roadmap To Freedom - A Simple Guide to Awaken and Access Your Natural State of Choice and Power This guide is designed to help you bridge the gap simply and easily from fear and survival into power, prosperity, and love.

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Peace and Quiet Within

When all is noisy about,
Yet all is quiet within,
Any thought for doubt,
Doesn't even begin.

Peering out the window,
Rain pouring down,
Oh, what a show!
No sign of a frown.

When we're at peace to see,
Thunder and lightning about,
Inside and safe is glee,
Gatherings of praise to shout.

***

How wonderful it is to be inside during a thunderstorm, as we peer through our windows at the awesome display that God's creation can unleash.

It is as if there is even more peace available during dangerous times when we feel especially safe. Positioned to safely observe, where no one else is at threat, because if they were we would not feel safe, we are able to delight at the wonder unfolding before our eyes.

And the power of such images flood back into our minds, and well-up pleasantly warm feelings in the heart, of times past when we were blessed with such safety.

When we feel peace and quiet within, time tends to stop. When we feel so safe the ever-threatening world seems more irrelevant than ever. When we feel so safe, rare as it might occur, we may have the gift of God - to replay the image again whenever we feel unsafe.

Coiling up in front of the fire or resting on the bench watching the sun set over the ocean, or anywhere where life unfolds before us in beauty, we have this gift.

The gift of feeling peace and quiet within is no ordinary gift - it is God's sure and comforting Presence in the world that we too often find scary.

The value of such a memory packs double power. We recall it by memory and we attain a memory for it. In the latter situation, what we are saying is we tend to unconsciously seek the space to create more and more peace and quiet within. And that is very good. The more we desire peace, the more effort we put in to achieve peace, the more we are bound to experience peace.

When we experience peace and quiet within we are sold.

Never is there a better experience for a human being than peace and quiet within.

Once it has been enjoyed, this sense of holy Shalom in the world, we are converted. When we are so convinced that goodness-of-soul is possible we want more and more of it. Sometimes the trick is impatience for the troubling times we have to deal with. We cannot have peace and quiet within at all times, which is frustrating.

But we can plan to have times of peace and quiet within. Having experienced such times all we can do is manufacture the circumstances and let God do the rest.

© 2012 S. J. Wickham.

Steve Wickham is a Registered Safety Practitioner (BSc, FSIA, RSP[Australia]) and a qualified, unordained Christian minister (GradDipBib&Min). His blogs are at: http://epitemnein-epitomic.blogspot.com/ and http://inspiringbetterlife.blogspot.com/

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Need an Unpredictable Miracle Within 24 Hrs?

Here's what you must do. Until you can transcend your "inner known reality," what you deeply desire cannot manifest into your life. Your heart's desires can only be manifested through new possibilities that live in your imagination.

While I have subscribed to Albert Einstein's quote,

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

... for a very long time, after all, he was a very smart guy, I haven't always lived as if I really believed it.

Unfortunately, in difficult and stressful situations, my old survival thoughts and feelings have blind-sided me and taken me over. My life has never been pretty when this happens, NEVER!

Once I'm hijacked by my fight/flight emotions and behaviors, I'm no longer being the designer of my life. Instead, I fall prey to being a puppet that is controlled by a forceful and seductive puppeteer.

(The puppeteer is a metaphor to describe my old survival beliefs, habits, and survival emotions from the past.)

Have you ever felt this way, like you couldn't stop yourself from your old habits of defensiveness, protection, or escape and avoidance? You just couldn't make yourself change to make your situation better.

It's very easy to get hijacked by your fight/flight/freeze survival patterns of thinking and emotions. When you are overtaken by your survival mode, your imagination becomes EXTREMELY limited, negative, and habitual. Unfortunately, you are thrown into this fearful place fast, and everything becomes urgent. You'll become pushy and controlling or you'll withdraw from what you're afraid of.

The truth is, my difficult situations and desires never manifest into what I want until I sit down and release myself from being overtaken by my survival patterns of thinking and feeling.

This requires a vigilant action of mind. Only then do I get my power back. I experience unpredictable miracles and unprecedented manifestations! Believe me, this is so worth it!

To access your own personal Divine FLOW and Power, you must increase your faith and trust in the power that lies within your imagination. You cannot become free from the 'puppeteer's control just by gathering information in your mind. While that is a start, it most certainly is not the end. Ultimately, you must have the proficiency to "see" what you want in your mind from a state of peace, certainty, and centeredness.

To help you exercise your imagination muscle so it is easier to access when challenges and conflicts show up, I invite you to do this simple process this week with a challenging situation you're having.

The Aikido Method For Change™

Spend each day becoming aware of people and things in your environment that trigger you to feel disempowered, angry, or not good enough.Patiently observe and feel your survival reactions without judgment and without acting them out externally, like telling someone they made your angry or telling them how to act. Just become consciously aware of what wants to happen internally without externally doing what wants to happen. You'll likely feel very right(eous), defensive, or you'll want to run away.Close your eyes and peacefully access your imagination by asking yourself, "What good is possible in this situation? What else is possible?"Identify how you want to feel (freedom, joy, satisfaction, etc.)See and feel your preferred outcome as if it is REAL and your experience is happening now.

Remember, this 5-step process MUST become a repeated practice. Actually, it will become a lifestyle and an identity change. Your imagination is the Divine realm of unlimited, unconditional loving possibilities. You are blessed to have this creative power within you.

Use it wisely!

Doing this practice is a MUST if you ever want to get beyond your unwanted current circumstances.

Judy K. Katz, MCC RScP Business Prosperity and Attraction Mentor at http://wealthtransformations.com/. If you would like to learn how you can accelerate your ability to breakthrough your resistance to change which is stopping you from having what you want, please send an email to judy@wealthtransformations.com. You may qualify for a free breakthrough session with me.

I promise this will be of great value to you!

Relationships are my specialty. It's my desire to have a powerful and trusting one with you. I'm eager to hear from you and to come to know your desires and your challenges! You do matter, and I do care!

Roadmap To Freedom - A Simple Guide to Awaken and Access Your Natural State of Choice and Power This guide is designed to help you bridge the gap simply and easily from fear and survival into power, prosperity, and love.

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