POWER of the SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

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I have been reflecting back on my childhood and when I first became aware of the power of thoughts.
 
When in my teens I lived in a small city in the middle of a rural area in the mid 70s. The local radio station announced the arrival of a guy who would hold lectures on Mind Power.  There was to be a free introductory night and I convinced my mother to take me.  My older brother and his girl friend also came along.

The guy giving the talk was John Kehoe and what he had to say sounded very interesting but the price of attending the lecture was beyond my budget of my mother.

My brother and his girl friend did attend the lectures and were given audio cassette tapes of the 3 days of lectures they attended.   He let me make copies of the tapes.

I listened to these once or twice and then left him in my draw with dozens of other tapes.  A few years later I found them again and played them this time absorbing the content.

My approach to learning has always been very intellectual as opposed to practical by which I mean I thought about and pondered the information at a philosophical level but never attempted to put any of it in practice.  It did however impart on me a more positive outlook and attitude.
 
The ideas and concepts were digested and laid dormant for a decade or so while I struggled with life, getting married and raising kids like most people do.  I continued to ponder the meaning of life and explored other things that I will probably talk about in future posts.

I then discovered the tapes again when I was cleaning out my no longer used cassette collection and put them aside to listen too again.  I then searched John Kehoe up on the internet curious about what he was doing and found he had an active website and was still touring and selling books and tapes.
 
I purchased a few books and tapes online and picked up a copy of his book the Practice of happiness as well as listening again to the now 20 year old tapes.  The information they contained had not dated in any way.
 
I was a believer in most of what he said but still only intellectualized it not putting any of it into practice by doing the exercises.  The one benefit I did derive was to substantially reduce my own negativity and became a far more positive person.
 
After being introduced to The secret I have again revisited the original tapes of John from 30 years ago and in his teachings way back then are all the key components and ideas found in the The Secret and the law of attraction.  Rhonda Byrne never claimed that the ideas in the secret are new.

If you are not familiar with John Kehoe then visit his Learn Mind Power website  http://www.learnmindpower.com/   There is lots of good information there and if you do see a book or tape of interest do not hesitate to buy it.  It’s all good.

Last year has proven to me that the law of attraction works as I experienced success beyond my wildest expectations in manifesting what I was thinking about.

If you read my last entry you might be wondering what I could be talking about as I have already stated that it was the worst year of my life. 

I spent most of last year in negative thought and sure enough the Universe responded by giving me heaps of what I was thinking about.  I spent a lot of time in fear and obediently the universe responded with creating more situations to be fearful of.  I spent a lot of time in anger and the universe gave me even more to be angry about.   I could go on but I think you get the point.

So yes I was exceedingly successful in manifesting what I was thinking about.  I can now see very clearly the direct correlation between my thinking and my life experience.  

I have also had ample life experiencing in manifesting good results in the past.  In fact I have done so all my life long before learning about the Secret and Law of attraction.

So it’s time to start creating my life experience and that means letting go of feelings of hurt, anger and even revenge.  I could have let go a long time ago but for the existence of my child.

I told myself that what I was doing was necessary to try to rescue him.  The thing is none of what I have done so far has worked and it would seem has made things worse.  

Now I have to work with the universe instead.  Let’s see how quickly it can deliver.

This leaves me wondering what is the best way to ask and receive with regard to my child.  Should I just visualize him being in my care again?  

I would like to ask readers for their ideas about this but at this time I have only given the site address to one other person so I should not expect too much response.  

As I said this blog is for my own self development and focus.  If others read it and find it interesting or helpful in some way that is great.

The one thing I have noticed time and time again is that when I allocate time to my own personal development everything is better.  I am happier and life seems to give me what I ask for.  Then I become complacent again and fall back into the day to day rut being reactive again.  Then life returns to it normal ebb of ups and downs.

I am often inspired by something and on a high for a few months.  This happened when my son brought me a copy of The Secret.   I was highly motivated by it for a few months and everything around me started to improve.   In virtually every aspect of my life there was a measurable and significant improvement.

I then decided I would continue to work with the some of the things suggested as well as other things on a daily basis but again I always had an excuse to put them off for another day until I they were almost forgotten.  I am sure many others have the same problem as this.

That was almost a year ago and I have just experienced the worst year of my entire life in terms of personal relationships.  I was introduced to a psychopath and he had a field day playing around with my life.  I am almost 50 and had no experience with such people and there for did not even have inkling as to what was going on.

I will spare you the long sordid details but he took away my girl friend and our baby.  The girl friend is now addicted to drugs (crystal meth) like the guy and he is on the run with arrest warrants to two countries.  Sadly the girlfriend is in hiding with him along with my child.
 
Until this happened I have lead a relatively simple life in that it was peaceful without any drama and intrigue.  I want this simple life again now.  I have been through the emotional wringer feeling extreme depression, hurt, anger, frustration and defeat.  

There was a time when I actually thought about working with my thoughts but I was holding on to hatred and revenge, and did not want to let those feelings go.  I knew that if I did work with my thoughts the only logical conclusion would be to let those go and embrace feelings of love.

I knew that to get what I want I must work with the universe and not against it.  I knew that the negativity I was immersed in would not get me what I wanted but I just could not let go. 

I have finally decided that it is time to get my life back on track.  I have pulled out the secret and played it again along with some other materials I have and can see the futility of what I was doing and how I was just bringing more anger, pain and frustration into my life.

This blog is an attempt to focus my thoughts and develop daily routine for personal development and realignment with the universe.   The mere act of thinking about this stuff on a daily basis will help me break one out of the reactive mode and give the mind constructive things to work with.

I am not sure the direction this blog with take.  Will it be a self indulgence that I put up like a personal journal or a useful resource for others?  

To some extent I know it will be a journey of exploration and discovery.   I also envisage it as a focal point for my own Personal Development.

Thus begins my blog about the power of thoughts.