Author: The Muse Be Willing

Practice pivoting your mind on the idea, that the thoughts you think, the words you speak, what you write, will determine who and what you will be.
Deepening our commitment to reshaping our thinking processes, paradigms, patterns, and perceptions, will take our awareness much deeper, and empower us to withstand the negative stultifying influence of societal and cultural group think.
Many of us have become enamored of mindless entertainment, becoming totally engrossed in fictional scenarios that offer some intellectual, and emotional satisfaction yet fail to actually make us better and happier human beings. It could be argued that occasionally we need some relief from constant work, especially if we are workaholics. We feel the need, to veg out, put the mind on neutral, stop thinking, analyzing, and shaping our world, and become passive witnesses. As long as we know when we’re being passive, and when we’re not, and we don’t totally lose sight of more important goals, escape can be a good thing.

The onion analogy is useful in the introspection conversation. Anyone who has peeled an onion knows that it has layers. So does our consciousness. Most of us live in the superficial layer. We are caught up in the humdrum of daily life, survival, and entertainment. Cut through those consciousness layers with mindful rigor and give your customary inner conversation a revision notice.

What will you find when you can’t define what you are looking for?
When you write down your thoughts, you may find that they aren’t anything new. You may find your mind coming back to the same ideas and stories over and over. If so, it’s obviously in a loop, like a broken record. When you see these recurring patterns or ideas, you could ask yourself, how could this be different. For instance, if you find your mind repeating to itself: “I can’t do that, I’ve never been able to do that, I’ll never be able to do that.” Merely changing the words that don’t empower you to those words that do empower you will make a crucial difference in how you feel. Deeply and repeatedly employ “will”, “can”, “must” and “able” into your self talk and you will experience a noticeable increase in your possibility creating confidence.
Your new personally empowering mantra can be: “I will do that, I can do that, I’ll be able to do that, I must do that.”

Elaborating on the ideal life story, with relentless imaging will turn a dream into a reality, and with a clear delineation, the universe will eventually manifest exactly as you envision. It does take hard work, peeling back the layers of behavior mechanisms that govern our actions with relentless and compassionate self-analysis.
Why not put in the time and effort? It’s like putting money into an interest accruing account.
What if you could refashion your mental landscape as if you were writing a movie script, a story, or a poem?
What if anything were possible with faith, energy, and focus, and you could begin the process of transformation, through alternative thinking and affirming, at any moment, especially now.

What if one had the power to change their state of being, just by recording their dominant thoughts, and rewriting them.
What if in that writing process one could rewrite their life program or script?
What if one could substitute a new more attractive idea for an old one?
Of course, most things won’t change instantly, but if one had eternity, one could resolve to spend a few moments, seconds, minutes, or hours working on the inner dialogue?
There was a movie called “GroundHog Day”? Imagining how that one’s life could be a recurring nightmare, yet coupled with the freedom to learn from one’s mistakes, and live differently and better.
Magic and miracles are possible if sufficient long-term efforts of energy and focus have been applied?
What if one could embrace and be happy with the daily task of refashioning their dream life?

Often times, when we sit down to write, we may feel inclined to think, that we have nothing to write, or we believe that we can’t think of anything to write. Right then and there, we can write down those thoughts, and get ourselves out of that malaise. Then we may ask, what then? Exactly, write that down? Keep writing, especially if we begin to think: what value is this, or this is stupid, or this is getting me nowhere. Whatever we think, we’re right, but if we want to make some progress, we’ll write down questions to further the conversation and anything else that crosses our minds.
As we write, despite our persistently stifling thoughts, we’ll begin to get a sense of our mental landscape. We can think of ourselves as documenting or reporting on the thoughts that cross our minds. We can be a witness to those thoughts as they come and go, or we can embrace them, whether they be good or bad, and make them a part of our life, without any critical evaluation. It’s been said that thoughts are universally rooted. Meaning, I suppose, thoughts are rooted in the universal fabric of this yin-yang universe. If a thought doesn’t serve us, we can pull it out, logically defend ourselves against, elaborate on it, or drown it with positive contradictions.
We can change or devise new thoughts that will get us up in the morning. We can design new ideas or use someone else’s ideas to invigorate our enthusiasm. We can actually decide to have empowering dreams that fulfill our wildest hopes.

The six aides or servants as Rudyard Kipling calls them are the words of inquiry we need to ask all the questions that we could possibly want to come up with. Except for implied questions. Right?
What other words are there in the question department that would provide the interrogatory power that these words provide?
How else could you ask a question?
Where would you get any better words to delve into distant or immediate motives, moments, or minds?
Why would you care whether there were any more questions to ask if you couldn’t ask why?
When will you give up looking for a better way to ask a question?
Who could you be if you used these words on a regular basis to delve deep into your mind and heart for the resources that would help you manufacture happiness, success and the possibility of an inspiring and creative life

There’s you, your mind and your intuition.
You’ve probably heard it said, “get out of your own way”. Is that confusing? How can you get out of your own way, unless, you are in essence two people, or you have two natures or two sides to your nature?
It could be said that we have a compliant self, that is willing to cooperate with the best in the world. It’s the positive aspect, that lives in an ideal heavenly space. And then there’s the other aspect, the dark side, that is usually not willing to acknowledge the best, the greatest, the highest, better qualities that make us truly happy.
The dark-self loves to denounce the possibilities of the other greater half and is willing to complain and grouse, instead of taking the time to change.
An ancient theory declares we are a transcendent self, and when we are identified with our limited mind, it gets in the way of our intuition, or inner guidance.

Perhaps you’ve heard the story of an Indian mahout, keeper or driver of an elephant and his nine blind sons, who all experienced a different part of the elephant when they washed it.
Each son had a different conception of the elephant based on the part of the elephant he was washing.

Here’s the story direct from http://joytoyou.com/elephant_story.htm

Six Blind Boys and an Elephant

In India legends and stories about elephants abound. Even philosophers used the example of the elephant to illustrate a great moral precept.
One well-known legend tells how an Indian mahout (elephant driver) ordered his six sons–all of whom were blind–to wash the family elephant. Each boy was given a certain portion of the elephant’s body to wash. Delighted to have this chance to learn something about elephants, the sightless boys took great pride in the opportunity given them by their good father and were all extremely careful in the diagnosis of their first experience with the elephant.
About an hour later, when the elephant washing was over, the six blind boys simultaneously shouted, “Now I know what an elephant is like!” Then the first son addressed the second son: “Well, what is the elephant like?” The second brother, who had been washing the sides of the animal, promptly declared: “It is just like a huge wall.” The first son, who had been washing the elephant’s trunk, retorted scornfully: “You are talking nonsense. The elephant is just like a bamboo pole.”
Listening to the quarrel between his two brothers, the third son, who had washed the elephant’s ears, laughed and interrupted: “You fools, you don’t know anything. The elephant is like two big banana leaves.”
Hearing what he thought to be absurd remarks from his brothers, the fourth son, who had been washing the four legs of the elephant, stated firmly: “You are all wrong. It is ridiculous for you to fight about something you evidently know nothing about. The elephant is only a large roof of flesh supported by four fleshly pillars.”
The fifth son, who had been washing the tusks of the elephant, was by this time shaking with laughter, but he managed to speak up: “My blundering brothers, listen to me. I declare, as a result of personal experience, that the elephant is nothing but a pair of bones.”
This was too much for the sixth son, who had washed the tail of the elephant. “All of you must be crazy,” he exclaimed, “or under the spell of hallucinations. The elephant is only a piece of rope hanging from heaven.”
This boy, being the youngest and quite short, could not reach the top of the elephant’s tail, and so thought that the animal was a heavenly rope suspended just above the earth by the gods.
The father, who had been nearby, cooking some rice for the elephant, heard in great merriment all this squabble about the animal, but he came running to his children when their argument waxed into a free-for-all fight. “You assorted young fools, stop this fighting!” he commanded. “All of you are right and yet all of you are wrong.”
The boys cried in unison: “How can that be?” To which the father replied: “It is I who have seen the whole elephant, and I know that all of you are right because you have each one described a part of the elephant. But all of you are wrong because the whole elephant is neither a pair of tusks, nor four legs, nor one trunk, nor a huge wall of flesh, nor a tail, but he is an aggregate of all of these. The tail or the trunk separated from the elephant, could not be termed an elephant.”
The story very well illustrates the condition of modern theoretical religions or “isms.” Most religious denominations possess only partial knowledge of the elephant of truth. Zealous followers argue with one another like the six blind brothers, each claiming to know the whole truth.

Anyone in for a healthy bout of writing?
Let’s have a write-a-thon
Let’s write all day and night
(In 20-minute sprints, with a five-minute break of exercise: walking in place, sit-ups, deep breathing, tai chi, stretching)
For twelve hours straight
Play your best inspirational music
Sitting at a keyboard
Or pen or pencil in hand and a thick pad of paper
Stop to think if you have to, but spend most of your time writing.
Craft a sentence, sentences, paragraph or story.
Make it better, more beautiful, marvelous, spectacular, or incredible with each successive word.
Patiently use whatever superlative adverbs or adjectives you desire to craft a perfect description of your perfect experience, life, or future.
Get something on paper even if it’s only the word ‘something’, over and over again, until the something becomes someone, somewhere, some time, whoa-ha, soon you’ll have the makings of a story.
Anything can, will, and must happen to that “something”. Nothing remains the same, if one works with it, and one has faith in a possible metamorphosis. The only constant in the universe is “change”. Everything is in a state of flux, change, transformation, metamorphoses, and deliberation.
So let’s deliberately alter something in our reality. First write something dear, or deadly from your life experience, then change the wording. If your original statement was negative, create its logical positive opposite.
If your original statement was positive, make it even better.
Enlarge its scope, refine its nature, ground it into your reality with personal references, permeate it with potential for your own life, as if anything were possible. In other words, dare to dream. Give your dream structure, context and texture with your imagination. Define its’ details, taste, touch, smell, and see it happening, in all, it’s myriad rainbow hues. Work your vocabulary muscles to create a multi-sensory, multi-dimensional experience of your wildest hopes and dreams.
We can create practical palaces of perfection that will increase the inspirational aspects of our life, and energize the hidden powers of manifestation that lie slumbering within us.