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Week 17 Trading in My Graven Images For Just Being

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The Images And Being Me


The Master Key Chapter 17

Graven Images Or Being Me
Graven Images Or Being Me

Graven Images

We of the twentieth century worship a God of Love in theory, but in practice we make for ourselves “graven images” of Wealth,” “Power,” “Fashion,” “Custom” and “Conventionality.” We “fall down” before them and worship them. We concentrate on them and they are thereby externalized in our lives. The Master Key Pt. 17 Intro.

Any person of intelligence must have checked on himself to be sure they are worshiping the correct thing. In the 17th chapter of The Master Key, we’re cautioned as students not to mistake the symbols for the reality. We’re to be interested in the causes, rather than effects, concentrating on the realities of life, and then not be disappointed in the results.

Images of dominion over life
Images of dominion over life

What Images Are You Focusing On?

As we who have dominion of all things, it makes sense that our mental world is the keeper of that dominion. The kinds of images I focused on this week varied. I do believe most of them were in keeping with my definite chief aim. Focusing on love in all things, I wrote “Brincely The Brave”, a story about the courageous life of a newborn baby. In previous posts, I shared that part of my DMP was realized on a Christmas visit with my family.

Concentration, we’re told is much misunderstood. There seems to be an idea of effort or activity associated with it. Haanel says it’s in forgetting our self and instead embracing the character we are playing. As I wrote the story, I concentrated on words that in the future those reading it would be inspired by. Was it work? Well, I was inspired by much of it. The work came in the activity of adding photos. Creating a book uses time. I enjoyed the vision of Brincely looking at pictures of himself in the book, as his Mommy read the words aloud. The story is meant to inspire all of us.

Family Images And Just Being Me
Family Images And Just Being Me

The Images of Brincely

I reflected on my grandson to check to see if he was a graven image I worship. I decided that he is a darling boy and that I worship the love I receive from his smile, from his movements. I am so excited that one day very soon, he’ll gain his freedom and run around the house chasing kitty cats!

Images Of A Beautiful Mind
Images Of A Beautiful Mind

Images We Cry For

“There is always the cry “to have” but never the cry “to be”. We’re taught that we cannot have one with out the other, that we must first find the “kingdom” before we have the “things added.” A little boy cries to have his needs met. I know I have whined at times to God to have my needs met too! However, I am learning to see myself as one who already attained those things I desire. I am practicing “being” that person. Then there is only the demand (the having attained) and the surplus (the manifestation).

Here is the PDF file of “Brincely the Brave” for you to read. It’s 31 pages with lots of large pictures. Please give me feedback on it in the comment section. It’s always appreciated. The story is simple and there is a moral. Brincely is born brave. In order for him to accomplish all he has in his first year, he must see himself (the kingdom) as already having attained it. Let’s learn to be brave and give ourselves permission to “be” who we desire. Then all of what we want will be added unto us. If a newborn can do it, then it should be easy for us! Right?

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I had a nun in high school who gave me a poster before I graduated that said “Don’t just stand there! BE”. Though the images of her are vague, the reality of her words have echoed in me for many years and I believe she knew something I had yet to learn.

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Week 13 Creative Thought and the Unaccountable

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Creative or Supernatural

According to Haanel, “as we esteem most highly those useful qualities of men which are of the rarest occurrence, so does natural philosophy sift the facts and attach a preeminent importance to that striking class which cannot be accounted for by the usual and daily observation of life.”

As one who has seen what is known as miracles of healing, for many years, I could not tell you how a person was healed other than that something unaccountable happened. I just figured that we were to do as Jesus did. “Go, lay hands on the sick and they will be healed”.  As part of a prayer ministry on the streets of NY and NJ, we had “miracles of healing” happen.

But now, what I have learned from Haanel is the scientific understanding of “demand and surplus”, or cause and effect. The following is an explanation of a spiritual game of a sort called “Treasure hunt”.

About 8-12 of us got together in a church setting. We’d listen to worship music by a music minister of the healing kind. We’d raise our hands and openly say things like “We praise you Lord”, “Thank you Lord, Thank you Father”. “You are the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end.” Some times we’d knee down or lay face down on the floor for an hour. Other times, we might carry a banner and walk up and down the isle with faith that the flag and the gesture carried in it some form of faith and praise to the Father. Our faith was so aroused during the worship time that we’d feel a strong desire to say something to another person in the group. This something many times was an encouragement to bless them.

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Creative thought and the Unaccountable

What I did not realize until this class was that this group was actually a “mastermind group.” Our minds became a greater mind and we’d know things that we may not know without coming together like we did. So after 30 minutes or more of praise and worship, we’d find a quiet place and believe we’d receive “clues” for our treasure hunt. If I were to state it according to Haanel’s explanation, we were setting an intention and then “sitting”.  We’d allow these clues to light upon us. We’d see visions of “things” like a wrought iron railing, a peace sign, a purple flowered shirt, a red suit, a statue, the name Mark, a basketball player, a person who got migranes, the word “love”. We’d gather afterward and compare lists; make note of “like” clues and then decide where we’d go for our treasure hunt.

The intention was right out of Haanel’s “The Master Key”. Our burning desire was follow God’s will to pray for the sick so they will be healed. Our game of choice was Treasure Hunt. We took the clues, decided on the location and park the car or get off the bus or train. We’d all be “in the zone” and ready to see the miracles happen. And they did! We’d sight one of the clues and get excited. We’d see a purple flowered shirt on a person. We’d see the wrought iron railing. We’d see the red cap  and the peace sign. With each sighting, we’d go with boldness to individuals either right their or nearby and begin chatting asking them some questions. Most often, we’d have an opportunity to pray for them. Many times they were at least encouraged. However, on many many occasions, we prayed (put a demand on the universe) and command the healing on their foot, their hands, their back, on arthritis and more.

Creative Law of Attraction

What we called “miracles” were actually the law of attraction at work. The energy in the height of our faith brought a change in the person immediately. If this interests you, you can view the video “The Finger of God” in this post above. This is one ministry using “creative thought” to influence a change in a person’s faith, mind, and body.

Haanel states in #12 of chapter 13: “every honest investigator admits that there are many strange and previously unaccountable phenomena constantly taking place. Those, however, who become acquainted with the creative power of thought, will no longer consider them unaccountable.”

This is now my understanding. What I did in ignorance is actually the science of the law of attraction at it best. This cause and effect, this demand and surplus principle raises my faith to new levels because I understand it from knowledge rather than “mystery”.

“Every phenomenon is the result of an accurate definite cause, and the cause is an immutable law or principle, which operates with invariable precision, whether the law is put into operation consciously or unconsciously.” The Master Key

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Creative Thought, Gratitude and Wealth

Now it is understandable how to bring into manifestation persons, places and things. God assists me in bringing into operation the law of attraction. The vibration of praise and worship (gratitude) are the forces which make for success and brings about conditions of power and affluence. Power and affluence are in direct proportion with the character and purpose of the affirmation.

Creative Intention and Feelings

This is what we are reading, writing, recording, singing, and feeling with our DMP (Definite major purpose). Creative thought begins by intention. We ask the question “What do I want?” The intention is the demand. How powerful that it’s okay to place a demand on the universe, without guilt or shame. When we take out the superstition or worry that we’ll offend God by being selfish or whatever nonsense our ignorance kept us handicapped by, the power, courage, kindliness and sympathy come naturally.

My goal is to live naturally; that all I do comes to me with ease, quickly, as the subconscious mind draws it up and I say it. There is more to all of this and I affirm the statement at the end of Chapter 13:

“God – Increase in me wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform that which wisdom dictates. “Franklin

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Week 12 Educated Desire

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Desire Brings Us Into High Vibration

How can our desire be educated?

Haanel says in The Master Key “Educated desire is the most potent means of bringing into action the law of attraction. If you are in our MKMMA course, you will have learned that God assists us in bringing into operation the law of attraction, which brings us into vibration with forces which make for success and brings about conditions of power and affluence. This power and affluence is in direct proportion with the character and purpose of our affirmation.

So what educated desire do you have?

It’s been suggested that a very large percentage of people have weak desire. In years past, while I was young and immature, I has some strong desires but they were few and far between. They were strong for a short time and then shifted to something else I wanted. Knowing what I know now, I suggest you take a serious look at what you desire and how persistent you are at seeing it through to completion.

Persistence and Desire

These 2  principles go hand and hand but one comes before the other.  What I was missing in my youth was a strong desire that I persistently held until I succeeded. In school.  I loved art and did persist in it.  Being creative, I stumbled upon talents in many areas of art.  I was encouraged to pursue it in college.  What I remember from my childhood,  was my love for teaching and that desire stayed with me, though primarily on the inside, until I felt mature enough to have something to teach. I loved teaching children and knew I had enough knowledge to do that. I pursued a Montessori certificate and knew I was in sync with my teaching gift!

Good habits create greater freedom
Strong desire creates greater freedom

Strong Desire

When I moved out of state due to a traumatic experience, I decided to pursue teaching Montessori in NJ while living with my parents.  The requirements differed from Florida and I was expected to create whole books of exercises I was not required to do in Florida. I decided to take an easier route and look for another job.  My weak desire and a feeling of financial pressure carried me into a billing office job. Before long, I knew my job but it was nothing like teaching those little children how to read.

Many years have passed. I married, had children and home-schooled them using the stills I’d been taught in my Montessori training.  My love for teaching persisted. Of late, I teach leadership skills to the teachable, moldable plastic minds of individuals on the lookout for coaching in relationship marketing. Teaching has turned to coaching and my desire has grown more focused.

Focused Desire

Old or young, we all have a great opportunity to turn our dreams into reality.  Yet, a weak desire for these dreams will take us down the stream to poverty. Do you want to know the secret to riches? To wealth? To success? STRONG BURNING DESIRE!

How do we get a burning desire?

Begin now to create the necessary brain cells which will enable you to comprehend the unlimited powers which may be yours by cooperating with natural law.  This is done by concentration or attention.

Haanel writes “The intention governs the attention.”  Power comes through repose (a state of rest, sleep, or tranquility). It’s by concentration that deep thoughts , wise speech, and all forces of high potentiality are accomplished.”

God's way to imagine
God’s way to imagine is  with desire

My Burning Desire

In plain English, we’re taught that this part of the process, which means “sitting” still for 15-30 minutes a day in quiet contemplation and even in quieting the mind. As we adjust our self to the deeper forces at work inside us and giving ourselves over to this “infinite intelligence”,  we begin to allow the unfolding of creative ideas. Using our creative imagination, we may enjoy a pretty scene where a dear friend sits with us and we chat about life. We may take a walk or a run with Jesus or a mentor we have learned from in the past.  Later, our concentration on this deep rest will reveal ideas to us. It will most definitely affirm us in some way.

Recently in my sit,  I was encouraged to take on the name “Caryn The Courageous”. This triggered for me an idea for a book.  It is burning desire and concentration on observing and listening  that helps us control and direct our thoughts toward prosperous directions.

Demand and Desire

Science speaks of demand and surplus. Our burning desire is like “demand” in science. When there is a demand placed out there in the universe and burning inside us, our subconscious mind has no other course than to find the surplus to meet that demand. Natural law is set up to do this.

Today, realize that God assists us in bringing into operation the law of attraction  bringing us into vibration with forces which make for success and brings about conditions of power and affluence. These will be in direction proportion with the character and purpose of the affirmation.

So what is your affirmation? If it’s a strong desire, it means you will be passionate about it. This passion is a feeling the subconscious mind recognizes as a high vibration. High vibrations get met first! So find a strong desire (your definite major purpose) , affirm it out loud over and over, daily, and the manifestation of it will sneak up behind you, chase you down and run you over!

“See if I will not pour out a blessing too numerous for you to contain.”  The Bible

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Week 5 – How Your Mind Shapes What Matters To You

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What is on your mind?


“The Master Key, Part 5”

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Charles Haanel states this about mind:

Exerpt from “The Master Key, Part 5” on the power of the mind

What is on your mind?
What is on your mind?

Therefore, this is a creative age, and the world is awarding its richest prizes to the thinkers. Matter is powerless, passive, inert. Mind is force, energy, power. Mind shapes and controls matter. Every form which matter takes is but the expression of some pre-existing thought. But thought works no magic transformations; it obeys natural laws; it sets in motion natural forces; it releases natural energies; it manifests in your conduct and actions, and these in turn react upon your friends and acquaintances, and eventually upon the whole of your environment. You can originate thought, and, since thoughts are creative, you can create for yourself the things you desire.

What’s on my mind matters!

I have looked to the world without too long. What I found was everyone else’s idea of what I should do after I got divorced. I looked to God in my room and sat by the window on my wicker rocking chair. Part of me became engaged in an intense conversation with God. Part of me saw my circumstances and trembled at the idea of living with the “D” across my chest. As a christian, I had this idea that I must not have been trusting God and that’s why I was in this predicament. My view was skewed by my past beliefs and I was very mixed up.

How was it that I felt so empowered on the streets of NYC praying for healing and them getting the results of my prayer; while in my room, I felt crippled to heal myself? This uncertainty became tiring and I would come away from those conversations thinking that I had no power.

 

What are your habits of thoughts?
What are your habits of thoughts?

What was the matter with my mind?

What mattered was that something inside me would not give up trying. Yes, at that time I knew to “try”… not being certain, since I did not trust myself to hear correctly or have good habits of thinking in place.  Many in my MKMMA class can testify to this, I’m sure. But I didn’t know that to try meant I lacked certainty. In the bible it means, I could not expect to receive anything if I were to think that trying in prayer was believing. Actually, I believed God but didn’t make the connection that God in me and me in Him meant that what I wanted was mine because he gives to us liberally. Somehow, I missed that part! haha!

Still scattered without soundness of mind and good habits, I continued stumbling forward and backward. Like a child learning to walk without holding on, I fell down so many times.  Later, I learned to believe with more “certainty”.  Nature and instinct had a better plan and I am prompted to admit that I have come so far that I can now “RUN”.

Matters of the mind

Reading self growth books, listening to podcasts and watching videos, I gathered quite a quiver of arrows. My target is in sight. Creative effort has taken the place of competition. I discovered messages like this one from “The Master Key, part 5, number 2

2. The subconscious can and will solve any problem for us if we know how to direct it. The subconscious processes are always at work; the only question is, are we to be simply passive recipients of this activity, or are we to consciously direct the work? Shall we have a vision of the destination to be reached, the dangers to be avoided, or shall we simply drift?

My subconscious mind has the answers

I am learning how the subconscious mind is working. The only part I still need to embrace is how to work with the “I” in me to assist creating the change I desire for my life. The processes are always at work and I know I must be active to reach my destination.

I have come to believe so far that my action steps are:

1. Choose habits of good feeling thoughts to avoid discord
2. Approach my circumstances with belief that my purpose is being realized NOW.
3. Neglect not the truth that the subconscious mind is always at work promoting good to all.
4. Practice being the observer: envision in my mind what I am thinking.

Do you have control of your mind?
Do you have control of your mind?

Mind over Matter

What I think about I bring about. Wow! What a responsibility! If you feel overwhelmed by that, you’re not without  friends.  So let’s look at “responsibility” another way; the “ability” to “respond. ”  We have been given what “The Greatest Salesman in the World” by Og Mandino says. ‘Nature and instinct are already inside us’. Yes, all we need is within us NOW.  What’s needed is orderly control.  Being scattered about abundance, I came to realize all the past beliefs I held we in conflict with God, who is all about advancement for all. These false beliefs came from absorbing  the generational beliefs about wealth, poverty,  sin and  righteousness.

I had two grandmothers. My financially poor grandma lived a block from school and because she was always home, she was always there for me. She gave me quality time and  tea and toast after school when I was too tired to walk the mile home.   My wealthy grandma  lived three towns away and  in my mind too busy for me. In my mind, my sister, the oldest of seven children,  was the only one  she gave quality time to.   Because my poor gram lived nearby and was always home,  I associated that with love. This added ammo to  by belief in her love for me. What I believed was not entirely true. Yet, until I exposed this belief as an adult, my inside created circumstances to support my false claim.

What my Mind thought about Wealth

With stories mom told me about my wealthy Grandma and her dislike of mom, I gathered more evidence against my supposed wealthy Grandmother. And as you can guess, I formed beliefs about  wealth  as well as love, from that. Glad for the knowledge of the truth, I can see  the truth about abundance without the scattered confusion over love as it is connected with  a wealthy lifestyle. Wow.. it’s a challenge. I am careful to use my most supportive  words to share this with you because I choose to form good feeling thoughts and habits about love and abundance.  I am finally the observer, being deliberate to change my minds’ vocabulary. I also am using index cards with confidence builder statements on them to reinforce that “I always keep my promises”. This promise statement is connected to other statements I read to reinforce that God loves me and desires me to be wealthy so I can spread this  love and abundance message. This is truth!

Will you become a lighthouse for your mind?
Will you become a lighthouse for your mind?

Poverty of the Mind

No longer is man in the dark, but by human discovery of the power of mind thought, he may come out into the sunshine and be the light of the world. Let my words shine some light into the dark spots in you and together we may help each other  stand up on that hill and shine our lights so all may see where the rocks and shoreline are, as we navigate to the safety of the harbor.

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