BillyG, Sounds to me like you're trying to find a way to make samyama an operative dynamic of daily life.
When it comes to "thinking oneself out of a problem," how about this as a rule of thumb: imagine-up a daydream of a scenario in which the problem is solved. Do this on purpose while awake but with eyes closed -- in this dream you see your problem resolved for your dream self. Now, however faintly or clearly you get this dream manifested in your mind, put your attention on the FEELINGS that you get when the dream character's resolution occurs. They will be more subtle than the imagery and plot, but they'll amplify with practice. This is a powerful way to re-wire the brain. Example: you want to stop smoking. Practice: imagine yourself in some scene in which you are a person who has achieved enough clarity to give up smoking, and pay attention to the emotion that underlies/goes-with/attends/fits-well this dream character's clarity. How it feels to be something is more important than how the intellect describes something. If you can get jiggy with a feeling, you're far more invested in making that emotion an all time "background dynamic." Doing this is practicing the art of World Class mood making, and by doing so, the brain gets more and more able to "go there." Where that is is the POV of the person you're aiming to become, and if you can bring the emotions to mind, the intellect will be helplessly involved in creating a real-life situation in which this emotion can find a "proper setting." If you get the emotion, you'll find the intellect is addicted to trying to arrange things such that harmony "with the soundtrack of the mind" is realized. It is the heart that sings, right? I can resolve to do things all day long and never do a thing, but if I can target the emotion I'll have upon success, then I've got my radar locked onto a passion that can become, as if, the basis for a Wiccan invocation. Yeah, I'm an ooogabooooganist. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <wg...@...> wrote: > > By practicing a form of meditation like TM one can 'spiritualize' > their will, and only when the will has the power of the Spirit coming > from, and in, the heart will success be ensured. > > A mere mental acknowledgment that one must change or an idealistic > thought that losing weight would be nice or whatever, is not enough, > it must come from the desire which resides in the heart, the essence > of who you truly are, not some mental idealism. > > Whatever your Maya (devil) induced weakness leads you to do, perhaps > you have a eating disorder, or are prone to lust and pornography, the > prescription is the same. > > By Spiritualizing the Will we mean contacting the source of all power > in your inner SELF or Soul, combining that with the sincerity which > comes from the heart (desire) and one is invincible. > > But contacting Spirit, alone, is not enough, one must also attach > their *will* and their *effort* to the power one experiences during > either meditation or even prayer, *sincerity* is the operative word > here. Sincerity comes from the heart, the seat of the soul. > > So, idealism, conjoined with Soul power, and supported by sincere > effort, creates the chemistry leading to success, for whatever goal > you may have. > > As it says in the bible: > > Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with > God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26 (Today's sermon :-) >
