588Accentuate the Positive and You Will Manifest that
posted on October 15th, 2009
So, we’re applying my victimization paradigm, my victimization superstructure, to relatively benign happenings during my day. This is where we would say that we’re imposing limiting structures on our perceptions so that we don’t see things. We don’t experience things that are not in line with the theory of a victimizing universe.
So that’s really a self-hypnosis. When I think about it this is pretty gnarly. It’s pretty nasty that we do this to ourselves. And yet there is a beauty when we recognize that we have such power. We are doing this to ourselves.
If I can do this, I can do something else. This ’something else’ that we’re suggesting is: do a Deity Yoga Practice. Find ways to sing, to imagine, to write about the kind of positive motivation that you want to have in your life. Find ways to integrate that positive motivation into your life. One can say that you are trading one set of behavior for another set of behavior. Well, I can say that in the beginning, yes. You are. On one level, that’s exactly what you are doing. But we are doing it with very specific images, very specific motivations.
In other words, a very focused intent. That’s why I have you say out loud, a strongly stated direction. Those objects that we are focusing on are not objects that will put us more to sleep, but in fact, they are objects that will open us up to greater possibility, to greater abilities of dancing, singing, and experiencing life. When I’m not looking at the circumstances of my life, when I’m not looking at what’s happening right now, outside, with the view that says I’m concerned about all the leaves that will be blown off the trees in this wind that I will have to sweep up. Which is in essence, once more, an inimical universe. When I’m not seeing the universe as inimical, I’m watching the branches and everything begin to move, and I begin to feel within myself that each branch is moving in its own way! There are 30 different directions going on in that moment. I am now perceiving multi-dimensionally.
Yogi Sean is the student of Swami Ramananda and the author of Dancing in the Fire of Transformation and The Everyday Sanyasin.