"Ask and it is Given" Process Seven & Eight

For the last week are so, I’ve been familiarizing myself with the 22 processes that are listed in Jerry and Esther Hicks book “Ask and It Is Given.” Yesterday, I studied process seven and eight.

Number seven is about evaluating dreams. I’ve always been incredibly fascinated by dreams, but I’ve never been particularly good at deciphering their meaning. There are a couple of interesting suggestions in this process number seven. One, is that it’s important to pay attention how you feel in a dream. Something that I’ve never thought about before which is mentioned in this process is that a dream never has more than one feeling. Interesting. There may be multiple people and situations but the feeling is the same throughout. I haven’t yet put this to the test, but I shall be paying close attention to whether not this I find this to be true. Nearly every morning I seem to recall parts of dreams I’ve had the previous night. I’ve always been very curious about why they seemed to fade away so quickly upon waking. I shall be paying much closer attention to the emotional feeling, rather than the particulars of this situation as its occurring.

Process number eight is called “The Book of Positive Aspects.” This is a process that also sounds quite interesting. It’s rather simple really, you take a little notebook and on the cover you write “My Book of Positive Aspects.” It says that you should use about twenty minutes to do this exercise.

You start by simply opening to the first page, and at the top write a brief description of something or someone that you always feel good about. Then you simply ask yourself a series of questions such as, “What do I like about you?” “Why do I love you so much?” etc. And as you ask yourself this series of questions, you let the answers come to you and you write them down as the ideas and thoughts flow.

I think this sounds like a fun little idea, though I’m not quite sure this will be one of the processes that I find most valuable for me. I do think it would be an interesting little exercise however, I may try is just for fun.

"Ask and it is Given"

I’m currently reading the second half of Jerry and Esther Hicks book called “Ask and it is Given. Learning to Manifest your Desire.”

I first heard about this book from Dr. Wayne Dyer. I believe he mentioned it in his latest book about inspiration and know that I've also I heard him speak about it on several occasions on his radio program on Hay House Radio. It sounded like an intriguing title and since I have a great respect for Dr. Dyer I thought it would be worth buying a copy to have a look for myself.

The first half of the book is a description of how intention works in the universe. As I was reading the book, these ideas resonated quite deeply with me and I could hardly get myself to put it down. The second half of the book which I have just begun is a description of 22 processes for actually moving your emotional “set-point” to higher levels. I’ve read several of the descriptions of these processes and it’s interesting that I find myself naturally and instinctively using some of these methods, without having never really thought much about them. The way this book describes these processes seems to be so very logical – they just seem to make sense. I’m going to make a point to familiarize myself with all 22 and throughout the day be able to call upon them as necessary. I think it’s a fantastic way to analyze and process exactly where your emotional “set-point” happens to be, and how to intentionally change it to another level.

This book is quite a fascinating read and has inspired me to seek out some of the other writings of this husband and wife team.

"Can You Imagine?"

On Saturday I took a drive up to Santa Barbara to attend the small workshop on “happiness” facilitated on by Dr. Robert Mueller and his lovely wife Barbara. It was wonderful to see and meet them in person and hear in their own words the stories that I’ve read on a number of occasions. It was a wonderfully inspiring couple of hours and well worth the crack-of-dawn drive up there on Saturday morning.

It was a beautiful and crisp morning, with bright blue skies and just whisper mist around the hilltops. I recall thinking that I wished I’d brought a camera along with me because there were several magnificent views on the hour or so drive up from Los Angeles.

I can certainly understand why the Muller’s have chosen to live in Santa Barbara. If there’s any place in the world that one can be happy certainly it is there. It’s a spot that feels almost magical, like anything in the world that you could imagine could happen here.

It’s no wonder why Dr. Robert Mueller is called “the happiest man on earth.” I was thoroughly inspired by his infectious optimism. This is a man who has had some incredible experiences in his lifetime and I feel so fortunate that he is so willing to share all of his amazing life stories.

Something interesting that I hadn’t particularly noticed before, that was strikingly apparent to me, is how often Dr. Mueller punctuates his stories with “Can you imagine?”

I love that phrase which makes me feel that anything I can possibly imagine, I can make reality.

Arianna Huffington's "On Becoming Fearless"

I had an opportunity to go to a book signing at Borders Books in Westwood last night. Arianna Huffington gave a talk and was signing her new book; “On Becoming Fearless.” I think that Arianna is a tremendous woman, though I don't necessarily agree with all of her policy opinions, I think she’s absolutely terrific; strong, confident, articulate, an exceedingly bright. She included some very personal stories from the book and discussed the fact that of all the previous ten books that she has written, this one makes her the most emotionally vulnerable.

I wanted to ask her last night, though I unfortunately didn’t have an opportunity, what is it that’s going on in her personal life right now that compelled her to write this book about fearlessness? Perhaps I’ll send her an e-mail and pose the question.

As I was waiting for Arianna to start last evening, I read the introduction to the book. Though it seems primarily geared toward a female audience, I could certainly relate to a number of the fears that she discusses in the opening. I initially was going to buy this book for my mother and send her this copy (that I had signed for her), but now I think I’m going to read myself as well. I get a sense that there will be some interesting lessons for me contained within some of her stories.

One of the topics that Arianna discussed last evening was the internal “critical voice” that we each have somewhere deep inside our mind. Her opinion is such that women have a much louder and harsher voice than men. I’m not sure on what she bases this opinion, but I found it a rather intriguing and provoking thought. She refers to her internal voice as “my obnoxious roommate,” which I thought was a rather hysterical way to think about this internal voice, to which I all too often find myself the subject of its criticism.