Affirmation Success Newsletter

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Issue Three/Part Two
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IN THIS ISSUE...
Issue #3 part two: Guardian Angels/The art of visual prayer/Lonely
Lawyer and the Single Girl

1. Success Stories:
a. Lonely Lawyer and the Single Girl
b. Hearing a little whisper

2. Do-it-yourself Techniques: The art of visual prayer/The pink bubble
technique

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Ram Dass recommends picturing God as an imaginary friend you speak to,
and that, after a time, you come to appreciate God as the real being
and YOU are the imaginary friend.

Some people think of prayer like Angels listening to you personally
and helping you out whenever possible.

In 1992, following an NLP Master Practitioner training in Colorado, I
was meeting numbers of people who had extraordinary experiences.

A 'feeling' of a loving presence. "Coincidences" that were downright
miraculous. The stories were amazing. Even outright skeptics had
stories to tell. My girlfriend at the time, whose posture was that
such talk was a lot of new age crap, said that SHE even had one experience
beyond explaining, of a feeling of a loving being comforting her while
she was (physically) alone in a room.

I learned quickly that you can mention the word Angels to people
pretty much anyplace, yes even at an NLP training, and you'll hear either a
personal experience, or a friend's personal experience, in no time at
all.

People would take me aside and privately tell me of things that
sounded like an episode of "Touched by an Angel." Whether I was in North
Carolina, Colorado, Florida, the stories were quite similar.

True Story #1:
My home in 1992 was being fumigated (tented), and for one night I
stayed at a friend's house. He is a successful attorney in Miami.

That night he mentioned to me that he had a problem. He had a
contract to work at a law firm and that contract had recently ended. A young
woman he worked with at that firm also was under contract and her
contract also ended. The problem was that he wanted to call her but
had no reason to. He said that he felt silly calling her just to say
hello.

Knowing that I had been accumulating an extraordinary number of
stories about Guardian Angels, he asked me: If there are such things as
Guardian Angels, would they help, and if so, how? (I found it
extraordinary that he would ask me such a question!)

I said that I am not an expert on the subject, but from what I had
learned it seemed you need only ask aloud, as if they are around you
and can hear you, and that's pretty much it.

He said thank you and that was the end of the conversation.

That was on Sunday night. On Thursday afternoon I saw him again. I
asked if any new developments had happened with that woman. He said
that a funny thing had happened: A stranger had called him on the
phone to tell him that he (the stranger) had found a purse belonging
to a woman (the woman from the law firm!). The stranger looked inside
the purse and found a wallet and other things, including my friend's name
and phone number on a piece of paper. He called my friend to ask him
if he would please contact the owner of the purse to let her know the
purse had been found.

This was amazing to me. I pointed out to my friend what he had asked
me just four nights prior. He had forgotten! "Oh my God, I forgot about
that!" he said. (What happened next was also startling: he and I were
having the conversation at my parents' house, and that VERY minute my
mother walked in the front door holding a bakery box. She said that
she bought something that she'd not gotten in years, a favorite dessert of
mine when I was younger. She opened the box and it was...chocolate
covered Angelfood cake!)

Maybe it is all the NLP training, but my curiosity was instantly
aroused as to the STRUCTURE of what happened:
1. Notice Problem.
2. Think of a solution.
3. Ask aloud for help in reaching the solution. (Very important to
ask
outloud.)
4. Forget about the problem.

Is there something about brain structure that makes this process
work?

Picturing things involves certain regions of your brain,
creating/speaking/hearing words involve still other regions, feeling
emotion involves still another region. Is there some combined effect
when calling ALL these regions into play? A future issue of this
newsletter will go into much more detail on this topic as it relates
to Image Streaming and "bridging" regions of the brain, but for now the
question is this: Are there infinitely wise/capable elements of OUR
psyches so out of awareness that their form is only perceivable to
conscious selves as Guardian Angels or some form of Divine
Intervention?

True Story #2
I was in traffic in downtown Miami, and it was hot. My car's air
conditioner was broken so I sat with the windows open, in traffic,
feeling hot, sticky and irritable. It was the middle of the afternoon,
I had a frustrating day, and nothing was going right.

So I sat.

I heard what sounded like a whisper behind my right ear. "Put on the
radio station, 103."

Oh great, I'm insane.

The voice really was like a whisper, NOT like me talking to myself. I
say this with some degree of certainty, because I had JUST returned
from NLP Comprehensive's month-long Master Practitioner Program, in
which we explored EXTENSIVELY the qualities of inner sounds and
pictures. This gentle whisper was NOT the same as the inner sounds you
can move about in your imagination. It just had a totally different
quality to it.

So I sat in my car, sweating, considering this gentle suggestion to
change the station. At the time, 103 was a hard rock station, so I
literally said aloud (people in cars nearby may have thought I was
bonkers), "It's hot and I'm uncomfortable, and I don't usually listen
to that station, and I especially don't want to hear that kind of
music right now."

"Put on 103."

So I did. It was a loud hard-rock song. It sounds a little weird to
admit, but I actually said aloud in the car, "THIS is what you wanted
me to hear?"

The whisper said: "The next song." (Again, the voice was especially
noticeable to me for its gentleness, considering how irritated I
felt.)

So I sat, in 90-plus degrees, in a downtown Miami Summertime
mid-afternoon traffic jam, waiting for the next song on the radio
because I heard a gentle whisper suggesting I do so. (I made a mental
note to have a CAT scan soon.)

The next song was a song by Aerosmith, "You're my Angel." I laughed
outloud. My mood, which had been irritated and uncomfortable, had
shifted to joy instantly.

Was that a voice of an angel, or my brain being clever enough to
orchestrate this experience? Intuition is a real thing, even
scientists have proven the time-traveling ability of attention, so it
is not beyond imagining that my brain could have accessed the future
playlist of that station, then created what seemed like an external
voice telling me to put on that station. This is possible.

The Huna psychology of Hawaii and Polynesia, mentioned in a previous
newsletter, includes a facet of the mind which is all-knowing. Some
call it a super-consciousness, some call it a higher self, some
(perhaps) call it a Guardian Angel. The theory is that there is a
Divine element within your mind which has an infinite, all-knowing
quality to it.

Perhaps speaking aloud -- as if to one's Guardian Angel -- gets the
attention of the Omniscient part of oneself and THAT's what generates
seemingly miraculous results.

NOTE: This is a quick intro to Huna Model. Furthermore, it is ONE
interpretation of Huna, and mentioned very quickly to set up the
Do-it-Yourself experiment to follow.

In the Huna model, there are three parts to your mind
1. Conscious: everyday sense of self, decider/chooser, very little
memory
2. Subconscious: keeper of all memory, seat of all emotion and
gut-instincts, creator of dream and trance imagery
3. Superconscious: seemingly infinite, all-knowing, timeless,
limitless.

According to ONE understanding of Huna, prayer works like this:
Your conscious mind has no direct access to the Superconscious portion
but can only speak to it through the Subconscious.

Like this:
conscious ---> subconscious ---> Superconscious

Recall the idea of votes in your mind from newsletter #1? That each
thought has a vote and then the majority wins? According to the Huna
model, the Superconscious ALWAYS says yes to the subconscious. So if
you want a relationship, and you're lonesome, and no part of your
subconscious has any blocks to having a relationship, then your
request from conscious to subconscious to Superconscious will go right through
and you will meet someone at 7-11 the next time you stop for a Yoo-
Hoo.

If you have some contrary thoughts kicking around, from back when your
stepmother told you at age 5 to never ever get married (and you
believed her), then your superconscious is getting mixed signals from
your subconscious mind. You want a relationship, you swear, but
something in your mind is a little anxious about it, thanks to a
thought/belief/memory about this.

(NLP provides many ways to be congruent again, and this newsletter in
future issues will also deal specifically with becoming congruent in
pleasurable ways.)

The important thing to notice, for now, is that prayer may be the
communication between one area of your unconscious mind to ANOTHER
area of your unconscious mind in a way that changes your life's
circumstances.

The degree to which you have rapport and communication with your
SUBconscious is the degree to which you will be clearer in your
manifestation.

According to the Huna Model, one very unmistakeable way to get your
message from your conscious self to the subconscious part of your mind
is through imagery.

Think of how much clarity is necessary in getting a message to a young
child, and you'll know what kind of specificity I mean. (A friend of
mine was setting a table, and a young child was helping him. "Here,
put this where daddy sits," the child was told, so she carefully put the
plate on the seat!)

Realizing that this part of your mind will take language so literally,
you want to be very specific in your requests. Since it is this
literal and childlike part of your mind which will be taking the request to
your Superconscious, then what you are desiring must be understood by
your subconscious if it is to be manifested.

That is why mental pictures are very good for programming events to
happen.

Do-it-yourself Experiment #1: Visual Prayer with the pink bubble
technique...

Imagine something you deeply and truly desire. It could be a new job,
a new relationship (or a new way of relating in a current relationship),
a new car, a resolution of some health challenge, you name it. Create
an image in your mind of that end result. (If you are unaware of your
mental pictures, you can just "sense" the image and that will work
just as well.) Picture the outcome just the way you want it, in a way that
is of course harmless and a pleasure for all concerned. (If the
intention is a relationship, keep in mind that someone even better
than the one you're thinking of may come along instead, so be willing to
have the "someone even more wonderful" instead as a default.) Also,
there is the fact that the universe can be a smart-aleck. Pretend that
you will get EXACTLY what you picture.

Allow pink to surround the image entirely, symbolic of the Love behind
this intention. You are surrendering this thought, with the full
knowledge that this or something better will happen in a way that is a
harmonious blessing to all concerned.

Keep the image in your mind for a moment, and then let it go and see
it rising higher away, farther and farther away from the earth, See the
image traveling farther and farther away from the earth all the way to
the edge of the universe. Then put the thought out of your mind
entirely. That's the whole process. This is best done lightly,
matter of factly, with willingness to HAVE the outcome and yet no attachment
to having the outcome.

It will literally take you less time to do it once than to read the
steps. Allow an image to be surrounded with pink and a feeling of
love and surrender. Let the image go farther and farther and farther.

Trust that the result, or something better, will happen in a
harmonious way.

If you have any questions about this, please e-mail me.
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For more detail on Huna, check one or both of the following
1. http://www.huna.org
(especially the section called "The Aloha Spirit" at www.huna.org)
2. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hunahq/

Pink Bubble technique is taught in Shakti Gawain's Creative Visualization a book which will make every area of your life easier,
more pleasurable and more productive if you read and act on its
contents. Another book on Creative Visualization worth checking out is
"Visualization: Directing the Movies of your Mind" by Bry.
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