Gaia Community: Mi Ka El's Blog

Greetings from Tamera

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:45:30 GMT

Dear friends,

it's been a long time of consideration, work, and orientation, but finally things are fallingin in place and suspect that soon I will be back with Gaia.

I am in Tamera in south Portugal checking out a community of about 200 people who are working on building a model village and researching the best practices in all areas of human life for the future of human development. It is still in an early stage, but quite impressive in the way they put community building, personal interaction and learning to be peaceful and loving on the top of their list of priorities. Self healing goes together with healing the land, the social relations, the energy supply, and making peace in the whole world.

For me the experience was a reconnection with my roots of 25 years ago when I was involved in similar projects in Germany, which mostly failed, however, because we were too much focused on being against the system rather than for the love and peaceful cooperation we were really missing.

We all have come a long way through centuries of war and domination of one group of people over the other, but maybe finally the time is ripe to come together in a spirit of oneness, living the love and wisdom, and cooperating in creating a peaceful world which supports the life of everyone.

Tamera is a model from which we all can learn a lot and which raises the hope that peace is possible.

At www.tamera.org you will find the details.

Best greetings and much love to all Gaians,

Mikael

Tags: Tamera, intentional communities, peace village, ecological village, peace movement

Yes we can

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:58:58 GMT

Yes we can

Since I used to be a radical leftist who always tried to change the world it took me about ten years of recovery and spiritual studies to accept the fact that the only thing I have control over in life is my own mind. Now I finally come to simplify the process:

We can only change our own minds.

Our thoughts determine our feelings and actions.

We cannot have a new experience if we don't develop new interpretations.

Our problems are only problems as long as we insist on maintaining our previous interpretations, our old perspective and judgments. As long as we insist on our old views we get more of the old feelings and experiences.

As long as we insist on focusing on the problem instead of the solution we intensify the problem. As long as we insist on being right instead of being happy we are insisting on the views that caused our suffering, addiction, or aggression.

That's why all recovery starts with the question:

"Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?"

If you still keep suffering the advice is:

"If you do what you always did, you get what you always got."

And if you are really getting ready to make the change and work for peace, health and happiness in your world Ghandi reminds you that the only way is to be the change you want to see.

In my view the tools of change must be an organization without leaders, a philosophy without dogma, a spirit of freedom and happiness, and a practice of livng as friends with full respect for everyone. And it is time to begin today. Are you ready?

For details on how to change our minds and on healing our attitudes see :
"Change Your Mind, Change Your Life" by Gerald Jampolsky and Diane Cirincione.

The following story is supposed to inspire you to join me and set it all up.
(Wonder if I get some feedback this time?)

Felicitas

"Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?"
Anonymous

Once upon a time there was a little girl called Felicitas who was always happy. Bigger boys were annoyed with her happy smile and constantly bullied her, but Felicitas always maintained her happiness. She got into a lot of trouble, because whenever children were angry or sad she would say to them: "You want to be right or you want to be happy?" Others would make jokes about her and wherever she went she became a center of mischief and aggressions. Eventually her parents got worried that she was not a normal girl and took her to a psychologist.

When she was asked what the problem was and why she would always provoke the big boys with her "you want to be right or be happy," she said: "I found that whenever I was feeling bad and unhappy I was thinking of something bad or fearful, and when I changed my mind and thought of something happy or beautiful, I would always feel happy. So I decided to change my mind and keep it changed." "Well," said the psychologist, "there is also a lot of bad in the world that we have to look at and think about." "Yes," she answered, "but only in a positive way by looking for solutions. When I focus on the problems too much I become fearful or angry and then I can't do anything about them."

"Well, said the psychologist, "that might be true, but you can't ignore reality and pretend it's all good." "Maybe," she answered, "but why don't you teach people to change their minds, to let go of their anger and fears, and think nice thoughts? Good thoughts always make me feel good and when I feel good I want to help people to feel good, too. I think it's only anger and fears that make people bad. And that's a choice of what we focus on, isn't it?"

The psychologist didn't know what to say and sent the girl to a scientist who was famous for his critical mind. When the scientist heard the girl's story he said: "That is totally irrational and unscientific." "No," the girl replied, "every time you try it, you get the same result. That's how science works, isn't it." "That maybe so," said the scientist, "but you will go crazy if you leave out half of reality. People are half good and half bad, everybody knows that. You will not know how to tell right from wrong any more if you only focus on the good."

The girl wasn't scared. "I am not sure about that; maybe nobody is really right, or everybody is only right in his own way, but I feel good and clear in my mind, and more at peace than anyone I know."

The scientist was upset. "You are a victim of self-deception," the scientist exclaimed, "society will declare you insane, and you will be all alone with your happy thinking. What we call sane is determined by what the majority of the people believe, and no little girl like you can change that."

Now the girl did get a little frightened. She really didn't want to be all alone and without friends in the world. But quickly she reminded herself to change her mind and she said: "Maybe you can control what scientists say and what the newspapers write, but the thinking is free and you can never control that."

The scientist turned red with anger and screamed at the little girl because he didn't know what to say anymore. The girl, however, went home to her parents and began to warn all her friends that the scientists would try to confuse them in order to gain influence over their minds. The friends, however, joined together in a "Fellowship of Friends" in order to keep reminding each other that it was o.k. to think only of good things and to be happy, joyous, and free.

Soon the scientists became worried that the whole world might go insane if they let this Fellowship of Friends get away with their weird teachings on happiness. They wrote articles in scientific magazines and in newspapers and declared the fellowship a dangerous cult. They even talked to the churches, because they sensed that the priests and bishops would loose their influence, too, if this kind of nonsense spread.

The friends of the fellowship, however, were not impressed. The more they observed themselves and how their thoughts created their feelings the more they became convinced that they were doing just the right thing.
Soon they discovered, that by forgiving the bullies as well as the scientists or anyone else who tried to trouble them they would keep their minds at peace. They found that they could even let go of their life stories by forgiving themselves and everyone who they thought had harmed them, and thereby be free from all bad events of the past, which would make them feel even more peaceful and happy. They kept reminding each other to forgive everyone who disturbed their peace of mind or who did not understand what they were doing.

By this practice of self awareness the friends of the fellowship found that whenever they had difficulties with finding a good thought in a bad situation all they needed to do was to give thanks to the universe and to their minds for being positive, and they would feel happy again. They recognized that they choose their experiences by what they focus on and that the attitude with which they approach their experiences would color the feelings their bodies would mirror. They learned to direct their thoughts and choose a positive attitude so that every new thought would support positive expectations and lead to good feelings.

The "Society of Friends" grew fast and the scientists began to feel threatened. but the more the scientists attacked the Fellowship the more people heard about it. Many tried their methods and everyone who really tried them came to the same results. Soon large parts of the world were practicing "New Thought", as it was called, and the Fellowship of Friends turned into a Fellowship of Man, because all these people thinking good thoughts wanted also to do good deeds in order to express and experience their happiness.

Eventually, young scientists took up the practice of positive living and began to prove that there was actually nothing new in New Thought, but that Jesus, Buddha, Shankara, Mohammed, Meister Eckardt, and all wise men of the ages had always said the same thing. It only had been said in ways that could not be understood by many people of the 21. century.

It was found that it was only the level of consciousness that people identified with that determined if they could realize their freedom of changing their minds. As soon as people recognized that the spirit of man is their original goodness, their "good will or will for good", and that this will is identical with their true Self and their original nature, so that they only had to align their will with the purposes of nature, they would be happy, joyous and free. Only when they were overwhelmed by fears, usually related to memories of traumatic experiences from their childhood, they would identify with the old, false self of the fearful personality, or the traumatized ego, as scientists called it. Then they would identify with resentments and fears and forget to change their minds back to the goodness of their spirit.

It didn't take long until some young scientists became open minded enough to find that it was science itself which had excluded spirit from the concept of mind because science had no tools to measure experiences of a spiritual nature. After practicing more self-awareness with conscious deep breathing, mindfulness and insight meditation, however, scientists began to look deeper into the relationships between emotional trauma, negative thinking, and self-destructive behavior. It was found that it was emotional trauma which caused an internal split between thought and spirit, so that people kept insisting on being identified with anger and fears, which would cause them to disrespect themselves and others with all kind of destructive or self destructive behaviors. But when they learned to forgive their trauma and change their minds they would remember their true Selves and become happy and respectful again.

It was found that the trauma therapy EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) was able to neutralize negative memories and emotions and thereby heal mental obsessions based on fears from the past as well as medical illness. It was discovered that physical diseases could be healed through a mind change from fearful thinking with negative expectations to trust in the healing power of nature and the intelligence of the universe.

It was recognized that life is a process of consciousness unfolding continuously into creative manifestation, a force of unity which can have no opposition, since the essence of the universe cannot be working against itself. It became clear that just as darkness is not real, but a name for the lack of light, and just as cold is only an absence of energy, that evil had no reality of its own, but that evil was only a name for destructive emotional forces in human beings, based on the habitual emotional reactions of fear, anger, envy, or revenge. As soon as the negative feelings were experienced and released with EFT they could be easily forgiven and thereby dissolved.

Researchers found that EFT could free the healing powers of nature by releasing the fears and negative emotions that were underlying the symptoms of illness. Hypertension was treated by releasing the repressed anger from the times when it had started to be come a medical problem, and asthma could be stopped by treating the fear of the first remembered attack. Multiple sclerosis vanished by freeing the traumatic experiences that caused it and lower back pain was released by letting go of feelings of guilt and shame causing the need to try to carry the world for, others. Through expanded research more and more emotional conflicts were identified as the causes of most disease and self healing and spiritual mind healing became the most eminent resources of medical treatment.

The origins of religious teachings which said that God was another word for goodness and love was rediscovered and the phrase: "Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy," became a symbol for the ignorance of the old times when people were unaware that opinions are only temporary concepts of limited human thinking and that people must trust in the goodness of the universe and be grateful for the abundance they enjoy if they want to live in peace of mind, health and happiness.

Soon the Fellowship of Friends became renowned for their wisdom and they became teachers for one another and to the world. They showed people how to let go of fears, shame, guilt, anger, and resentments, and how to rediscover their original spirits of goodness, their true Selves. They taught each other how to use EFT to dissolve their medical problems and how to stay in their centers of self-awareness, trust, and spiritual wisdom, through the practice of the new life skills of Tai Chi, yoga, mindful breathing, visualizations and affirmations.

The fellowship developed a mentoring program teaching these life skills called "Each One Teach One" (E1T1, also standing for each one is the one), and helped people realize that their feelings were created by what they thought and talked to themselves, by their attitudes and intentions, and that they always had the choice to focus on good thoughts and good deeds, so that they would feel good. People learned to take responsibility for their thoughts and actions and found that there was nothing outside of themselves that could disturb their peace, love and happiness, if they wouldn't let it. More and more people discovered that life, love, peace, power, truth, wisdom, happiness, freedom, abundance, friendship and whatever people called their highest good, are really inner qualities of all people, which need to be expressed and lived in order to be experienced, rather than social values which have to be enforced.

Over time more and more people woke up from their slumber of absorption in self-centered fears and began to make friends with everyone they met. People realized how thinking expands the underlying assumptions and became determined to put peace, health and happiness for all over the will of being right and dominating others. It was recognized that deep down every person wants the same peace, love and happiness and to secure the best intentions for the next generation, and that the constant political struggles were about how to realize that good and not about good people fighting bad people as it appeared in political propaganda.

Movements to create peaceful, sane and happy societies were organized and eventually a World Peace Party was founded in every country and people learned how to create healthy communities and political structures which would enable the distribution of food and other resources in ways so that there was enough for all. The new life skills of emotional self management, such as mindful breathing, emotional clearing with EFT, yoga, Tai Chi, meditating, visualizing , positive focusing, and many others were taught in high schools so that children grew up knowing how to live self-responsibly and remain peaceful, happy and healthy. The old teaching that our original goodness, our true Self is identical with the essence, intelligence and powwer of the universe, which in earlier times had been called God, Christ consciousness, bhudda nature, Allah or Atman, was reconfirmed, and the world religions made peace based on the principles they could all agree upon. The world grew into a place of conscious, positive living and peaceful cooperation, and while the people kept practicing the new found skills by expressing joy and living love in, as and through their creative power inside, Felicitas and her friends lived happily ever after.

Copyright Michael S.

Tags: Yes We Can, Felicitas, mindchange, society of friends, solution to all the worlds problems, E1T1

We all need recovery from the past

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:32:03 GMT

I posted this on the "healing through mindchange" pod this week, but it seems so important to me that I repeat it here and expand it a little.

Researchers are catching up with what we thought a long time ago:
that most of modern illness, crime, violence, addictions and other destructive and self-destructive behaviors are caused by our anger and fears based on mistreatment through parents and society.

In fact by now it seems to me to be total common sense to say that all human problems are emotional problems, because if we had no anger or fear we could just cooperate peacefully and organize life on the planet to the best for everybody. That's how simple it really is, only who dares to say so?

Many are so deeply stuck in his/her lifestory and fearful projections or angry resentents that the simplicity escapes most of us.

Researchers have come to see, however, that emotional trauma can be linked to most self-destructive and destructive behaviors, from killing oneself with cigarettes or heartattacks or AIDS to acting out in anger with abusive behavior, violent thoughts or fighting the insanity of Republicans. (Ooops, I guess that wasn't on the list).

Anyway, the researchers are talking about "Adverse Childhood Experiences" (ACE) when they mean the traumatic experiences we suffered through, our experiences of child abuse, neglect, deceipt,and other disrespectful behavior.

Here is a summary of what they could piece together. Check especially the table on page 6 of this report for an overview over the consequences of emotional trauma.

So how do we avoid these kinds of sickness and how can we recover from the past?

By letting go of the story, releasing the negative emotions with EFT, forgiving ourselves and everyone involved in the drama, releasing all judgments and by raising our consciouness to the point that we realize that it was only our negative attitude, caused by our traumas which tied us to the past.

Once we learn to let go and choose what we think we will recognize that we are creative spirits, not victims of our thoughts, emotions or experiences, - the way to freedom, peace, and joyful living in supportive cooperation.

Simple -or what ? - but not as easy as it sounds.

The amazing thing is that EFT actually can heal these health and behavior issues if we treat the fear and the underlying trauma.

None but ourselves can free our minds
Bob Marley, Redemption Song

P.S.:

So what does this have to do with Gaia, where we have no child abusers, addicts or homeless?

Consider this:
We cannot change the world; the only thing we can influence is our thoughts, our beliefs. And that will change our emotions and behaviors, so that we might become able to help others to free themselves.

Fighting the bad only makes them stronger.

The past has only as much power as we let it.

And: I have been involved in child abuse, addiction, homelessness, and violent thinking, so maybe i am only reminding myself to stay in recovery.

Tags: recovery, freedom, mindchange, healing trauma, world change

and then my mother died

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:50:41 GMT

I can't do much more at this time except to apologize to everybody who had raised his expectations of me qand my page.

I had just started to work on my professional page and planned to make a commitment to daily writing, when my mother died. I had to go to Germany where I still am and had no internet connection until yesterday, and now it's all about taking care of my father and sorting out a lot of other things.

Please forgive me for being out of touch, everybody,

until soon,

Michael

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The revelation of all revelations

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:54:15 GMT

It's funny how the mind works.

I've been watching my mind for quite a while now and found that no mater how much I try to be in charge, the most important insights come over night. My mother used to say cynically, when she wanted to express her disaproval of my laziness: "To His people God gives it in their sleep."("Den Seinen gibt's der Herr im Schlaf.")

Well, it's true. This morning I woke up early seeing my "Latest insights" from the bottom of my profile (first three verses of the poem below), in front of me, expanded by the last two lines, the logical consequence of the first three.

And it's the end of the mind change, the revelation of all revelations.

Here is the whole thing:

Letting go

The only obstacle to love
is the fear of letting go of the judgments.

The only obstacle to peace
is the fear of letting go of the conflicts.

The only obstacle to enlightenment
is the fear of letting go of the concepts.

Love, peace, enlightenment are what I am
before I disturb them with thinking.

Tags: Letting go, finding God, love, peace, enlightenment, I Am What I Am

So what is the Mind Change?

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:23:30 GMT

Change your mind and keep it changed, says Emmet Fox

The mind change is the recognition that your life is only playing out in your mind and body and that you are insane if you don't make it good.

It is the recognition that you are as free as you can imagine and that the only obstacle to your health, peace, abundance and happiness is your thinking.

It is the acceptance that life is the way it is and that you are the way you are and that it is all good, if you let it.

It is the recognition that the world is wonderful, beautiful, full of joyous expression of life, rich and abundant with everything everyone ever needs, and that the only problem is human ignorance and your resistance to make proper use of what you've got.

The mind change is the realization that there is no problem, but what humans make it, and that all human problems are emotional problems; it is the realization that evil does not exist except as a thought to manifest anger, resentments,and fear, which arise when goodness is repeatedly frustrated. It is the realization that it is your own thinking that makes the world appear to be a problem, not what others do or think.

The mind change is the recognition that everyone always wants to express love and goodness, which is the nature of our true Self, our Spirit, but gets frightened through the ignorant behavior of others, just like you.

The mind change is the recognition that you are in charge of your mind and that every time you use your mind you create your reality , so that you know you better use it good to make it good.

The mind change is to see the ignorance in others, but mostly in yourself, and to forgive it continuously so that you may find your true Self, and live out of the original will for the good of all, continously happy, joyous and free, no matter what.

......and that's what I am trying to do today., and if I remember, tomorrow, and tomorrow...

Tags: mind change, true Self, goodness, ignorance

Free yourself from fear with open heart

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:49:47 GMT

After two days of self searching and treating myself with EFT I remember that I am only doing it to myself. That it's only my thoughts that create my feelings and that peace lies in right thinking and letting go of the fear.

And then I found some resources in my files which say it much better than I can,
For example :"Free Yourself From Fear," a free download article at Openheart Press

P.S.:
I still want you for my Society of Friends Network (tagged SOFN) to teach peaceful living to one another and help each other to stay out of the fears.

One Mind, One Love,

Mikael

Tags: freedom from fear, open heart

Relapse

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:35:28 GMT

Today I see that what I wrote yesterday about my fears of the expansion of war is a relapse, a relapse into old ideologies from the seventies, a relapse into thinking that was based on fear and the dialectices of fighting for good aginst evil. Which requires something to fight against in order to feel good about my own struggles, of course. So that thing I am fighting must be evil, or how can I be good and right?

After a few years of studying Science of Mind and preaching Oneness, I should have known that seeing the forces that strive for control of the world as the problem only gives them power, and that I need to let go of the past and the negatives to find a better way to live. But i also knew that I still have difficulties (speak: resistance) to the teaching that we always need to deny the negative.

Ernest Holmes says it all the time: don't think about the problem, only think of the solution. Affirm the positve, deny the negative. And when I stop to look at it I know he is right and that the negative is never real. It is always an invention of my fantasy based on fear.

Like when I am sick and get worried about getting sicker. I go into fear, project pain, suffering and death into my future and if i get myself scared enough my immune system will be so compromised that i actually might die. That way I prove to myself that it was real, that my fears were justified and never have the opportunity to find out that it works the other way too. If I deny the sickness, convince myself that i am filled with life energy and nothing can harm me, i have a good chance to recover in the shortest time. And prove that i am right again.

That's how we always prove to be right in what we think. Except that we exclude the other half of the possibilities and the world. And forget that whatever we fight we make stronger.

And that's what i forgot in my fear yesterday. The war is only real if most people live in fear and call it real, because if they weren't in fear they wouldn't show up. They would laugh about a small group of people trying to take over a future world government and talk to their neighbors and get rid of the power addicts. Then they would talk to the other side who really wants peace too, but who are too afraid so that they respond with weapons rather than with laughter,make a peace agreement and work things out. Bombs and guns never worked out anything, they only keep peole in fear and away from talking things through.
So all iIneed to do is to get out of the fearful fantasies and trust that we can work it out..

So, sorry for the alarm.

Let's stay positive, and affirm that all fear is unreal.

How did that go in the "Course in Miracles":

Only love is real.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Therein lies the peace of Mind.
(Well, i guess it was God, wasn't it.? But that's one and the same anyway.)

Thanks for listening.

Mikael

Tags: relapse, ideologies, reality, peace of mind, recovery of spirit

Help, I'm getting depressed again

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:06:12 GMT

Dear Friends,

please, help me out.
I wanted to open a vision cafe myself here in Jamaica and hoped to go to Uganda this summer, too. Due to largely personal and technical problems I was kind of left behind though, because I only have a slow cell phone gprs-connection and can never get the patience to download videoclips (it seems to take two days for a 5 minute clip) and on vision force evrything seemed to be in video clips.

So I drifted away from vision force waiting for better times with ADSL or satellite internet.

Nevertheless I created phantasies about producing video clips myself in order to spread my message of recovering the spirit with mindfulness, EFT, and New Thought practices as my blog decribes.
,
Now Michael actually brings out or rather advertizes a shoppingcart program that is supposed to make video-ebooks easy to market and promises to ease the colllection of thousands of email adresses.

So, everything super, isn't it?
I am in business and short of becoming an email millionaire.

Too bad I changed my mind again. In the mean time I have been reading to many news while I have been searching the net. And I am tired of trying to become rich and the top spiritual marketeer. Besides that I don't know what to sell through all these emails, and I rather give away what I have to offer anyway.

So my problem is this:

Uganda is under water,and I don't want to market wonderful ideas (and little booklets and postcards on the side) just in order to get rich. And I don't see how the effective marketing of my spiritual self healing program does one bit for Uganda and for equal opportunity in the world.

At the same time stock market specualtion is taking over the world, while the American ruling elite is getting ready to expand it's war into Iran in order to scare everybody into one line of American nationalism behind "the great president" and the western world. When that takes off in a few months, all we need is a smart New Age power addict and ideologist who knows how to sell an idea of a New World order installed by "the grand American people" to get enough backing and expand the war into a movement that suppresses all opposition to American hegemony and let sus end up with a development as the world experienced under Hitler. Do you see what I mean?

The war in Irak is not about the oil, oil can be bought with cash. And it's not a war of Christians versus moslems, that's the cover for the future maybe, it is about who is the strongest and who controls the largest areas in a future world government, America or China?

It seems to me we better stop sitting at the sidelines too long without speaking up if we want a democratic world resulting out of current politics.

Peace is now.

And if there is no peace now , there is conflict.

There is nothing in between, only ideologies which serve to blame the other side.

Don't we need to start mobilizing the democratic forces for peace in the world now?

How about a World Peace Party with chapters in every country?

I am ready to start it right now. Just to get out of the depression.

Or how do you see that - zaadzsters?

Is this a relapse into the ideologies of the seventies or is this really happening?

Please help me out.

And give me a vote by signing up as friend of a United Peace Party, now.

mikael

Tags: Help, United Peace Party, peace is now, stop all war

The Truth That Sets Me Free, 2

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:28:08 GMT

This version is from my diary last week, in form of a "spiritual mind treatment," for treating my own mind.

The Truth That Sets Me Free

There is one life in the universe which cannot be divided against Itself. This life expands and expresses Itself as all life forms, as plants, animals, humans and consciousness. It's intelligence is in me and I am aware of It as It is aware through me and as my perceptions of life now. There is one mind, one intelligence, one consciousness, and humans are taking part in It and making use of It. As It supports life and nature, and as It supplies everything we need for our lives from food and shelter to self awareness, peace and love, we call it goodness itself, or God, "de goode man" (in old Gerrman).

As I experience love when I express love and as I feel good when I act out of a sincere desire for goodness, harmony and peace, I know that the goodness is flowing through me as me. I am aware that this power for good runs in and through my life and I am immersed in It. I feel It as the vibrations in my body and as the feelings in my guts. I cannot be separated from It nor work against It. I realize that bad thought or evil actions are only reactions out of anger and fear.

As I recognize the truth that my life is It's life, and that my true Self is the Goodness Itself I am set free from all worries, fears and resentments and I feel the joy of being set free to express my Self uninhibitedly knowing that only good can come from me as long as I reject acting out of resentment or fear.

I recognize my true desire for peace, love and harmony between people and know that my decision to live freely as my true Self is my best contribution to the well being of all. I know that deep inside I am love, I am peace, I am harmony, and in gratitude I let it be so.

And so it is.

For info on spiritual mind treatment check Ernest Holmes, "The Science of Mind" and for many examples there is the "Creative Thought Journal."

Tags: the truth that sets me free, the mindchange, how to teach, spiritual mind treatment

The Truth That Sets Me Free

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:57:17 GMT

All anybody has to say is his truth, but even if it's The Truth, it still doesn't set me free.
Only if I know the truth it sets me free.

I need to know that I know, otherwise it is only hearsay, and not my truth, and I won't be able to act on It.

So the only problem to knowing the truth which gives me freedom, peace, health, and happiness is my willingness or ability to hear the truth, which means to understand it and to believe it. I have to think it through for myself. And test it out.

However, when I check to see what I know I find, I know nothing, really. I only go along making up beliefs as they fit into my life story or my past indoctrinations. Or isn't that true?

To me it seems that the real obstacle to knowing the truth is the fact that I know nothing, that it is all make-believe. Except what I know without believing. But all I know without believing is that "I AM." The rest is a story of my life full of mixed feelings and confused interpretations, a story that changes every time i want to tell it.

But then through mindfulness meditation I learned that I don't have to identify with the story, and found that if I refrain from adding any story or belief to that "I AM," I know that there is only open consciousness, ready to recieve my thoughts and imagination.

And if you look at your mind, you know it, too. That that's what you are, the great "I Am," and that's what some used to call God, the great "I Am."
No separation before the first thought. And the thought that I allow into that open screen in my mind is what I get. It's what I decide to focus on and that's what will create my next thought, and the next, until it is a whole story and my experience.

When I accept that, I know that I am source, and that I have the freedom to decide what I believe and what I think. and how I design my story line. I am free to think peace, love, health, prosperity, friendship all the time, and that will determine what I do and how I feel and what I call "my life."

The freedom is to make it my dream life, and my dream world, and my dream moment, right now, by focusing and imagining my dream and claiming the right to live it. There is nothing else. Only my mind deciding on my thoughts and imagining my dream; and the freedom to make life good, the way I love it, - to think love, peace, and unity so that that's all I experience all the time.

And you have that choice, too.

Simple, eh?

Too bad I usually forget the next morning. I get back into the old story they taught me in kindergarten, full of anger, hate, and fear. Especially when they call to war, or to fight evil. It seems so right to fight evil, even though I know that what you fight only grows stronger.

That's why I want a Society of Friends Network, to have friends who remind me how wonderful it is as long as we remember to make it so.

And I hope you join me and help me tell the others, until the whole planet gets it.
It is the way we make it. So let's make it a dream world.
Free, peaceful, healthy, and happy.
Now.

P.S.: Now I remember. I read the book "The Power of Decision" by Raymond Charles Barker last week. That explains the whole thing very clearly. - Funny, i forgot. Obviously it did reach my subconscious though. And it feels good to be so free. Maybe you should ckeck it, too.

Tags: the truth that sets me free, society of friends network, what am I, life story

Crying for Joy

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:27:03 GMT

Yesterday morning I had to cry for joy. After the first two chapters of the book "The Promise of Energy Psychology" (which is EFT) I was overwhelmed by the perspective of how the world will be when most people are using EFT to deal with their problems. How people will learn to neutralize their emotional upheavals from the past, let go and realize that they can be happy all the time, no matter what (If they maintain happy, positive thoughts, of course, by liberating the "pain body"" as Tolle calls it.).

I don't know if there are better books on EFT, because I just practiced it without much reading about it, but this is certainly a good one which , together with the website www.emofree.com, should give you all the info you need to start freeing yourself from negative emotions and beliefs.

Today I read "Creating A Healing Society" by Susan Lawrence. A quick look into emotional trauma and the consequences for society. Crime, violence, addiction and AIDS. It is short, not quite sufficient in my eyes, but an introduction, and since the topic is painful, maybe just what one can manage in one session. I think the topic is more important than anything else right now, because most societies are living in re-enactments of trauma and cultures are traumatizing in their insanity of pretending that everything is all right (even though, of course, on a spiritual level everyting is all right).

Anyway, calling up the suffering, while seeing the solution in EFT and spirituality, in going into the NOW (Tolle) or witness consciousness, gave me a push upwards so that I ended up in a state of mind where I was so distanced from my thinking mind that I was seeing very clearly that I don't need to let anything uncomforting run around in my head. It felt so great that I decided to stay up there for the reat of the day.

But then, I had to come down and share it with you. Life goes on after all, and in the end I need some people who I can talk to, don't I?

One Mind, One Love,

Michael

Tags: joy, EFT, energy psychology, essential books, healing society

Wake up call! True change coming!

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:23:11 GMT

Sorry I am brief, but i am still annoyed that you can't copy and paste in Firefox.

Anyway, i have to let you know about the site "Soul Medicine Institute" at http://www.soulmedicineinstitute.org

Here are the people who see the true requirements for change: changing the way we deal with our own minds and bodies and how we can heal our souls.

The problem is us, not them. And healing our souls will heal the planet. No less.

I ordered two of the books: Soul Medicine" and "The Promise of Energy Psychology", which are a must.

But there is more. Check the bookshelf of the institue. Especially:

Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves;

Creating a Healing Society, about emotional trauma and the consequences.

and The Biology of Belief, by Bruce Lipton.

As mentioned before the articles on the website of Bruce Lipton are worth studying as well.

Tags: It's us, not them, energy psychology, EFT, healing self, healing planet, healing society, soul medicine

Emotional traumas are the root cause of most illness

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:53:54 GMT

For ten years I have been studying the conections between emotional trauma and medical ilness, and today I can say that over 80 % of all ilness is related to emotnal traumas..

For emotional problems, from psychiatric "diseases", to eating disorders, substance abuse, and crime and violence the connection has been accepted in interested circles.

The medical profession is still so caught up in their "scientific" ivory tower, that they are mostly ignoring the facts, which psychoneuroimmunology has presented.

Through EFT treatments, however, we have a shortcut to prove the connection:
EFT heals trauma based illness, so we might conclude that a trauma was at the root of the symptoms when EFT helps. And it does help in most casaes.

Here is an article by a medical doctor, actually a urologist, who is useing EFT and other energy therapies, which could help to convince ourselves to try EFT before considering more serious medical procedures, also if no trauma is apparent in our mind.

Tags: EFT. emotional trauma and disease, freedom from suffering, medical problems, self treatment

Letting Go

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:08:33 GMT

Letting Go

The only obstacle to love
is the fear of letting go of the judgments.

The only obstacle to peace
is the fear of letting go of the conflict.

The only obstacle to health
is the fear of letting go of the disease.

Mikael Mindchanger

Tags: letting go, love, peace, health, mindchange

The truth that sets me free

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:06:41 GMT

The only problem in my world is me

I finally reached the top, or at least it appears as some top. I feel free. Free to look back and say: "Wow, what a climb, and what a view." All this difficulty and straining, this sweating and despairing, now I can see that it was only preparation for the freedom and joy I perceive now."

I can see that my only problem on the trip was me; my fears, worries and resistance; my negative expectations and projections of difficulties were all only in my mind. Focusing on one day at a time without concern about the difficulties tomorrow might bring would have made it a walk in the park, if I had allowed myself to take a break when I needed one and a nap when I felt like it.

So, Good Spirit up there in my higher Self, please help me remember to keep it this way, to remember the mountain top and the fact that the only difficulty in getting there and staying there are the impatience, the fearful projections, and worrisome expectations of my flickering ego mind. So that I may learn to trust in the big mind, the law, and the goodness of All That Is.

Tags: truth that sets me free, freedom, science of mind, trust in mind

EFT and Science of Mind

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:55:50 GMT

Science of Mind and EFT

If you have any resistance to realizing that

this is a perfect day

and that

this is a perfect life

and that

you have perfect health

and that

you are a loving spirit,

always happy, joyous and free,

write down your objections

and treat them with EFT

so they may vanish into the nothingness

from whence they came.

Mikael

You think I am going insane now?

Well, there is no point in suffering once you realize that all your suffering is only an expression of your resistance to do the work to getting better.

Here are two articles about EFT cases, one on Multiple Sclerosis (http:/www.emofree.com/Press-Releases/ms-eft.htm) and one om emotional trauma and abuse in a family with a life of suffering from migraine and other pains. (http:/www.emofree.com/Articles2/pain-headache-efficiency.htm)

Tags: EFT, Science of Mind, free spirit

Mind over matter

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:01:04 GMT

Claiming Health

When I was a medical student I used to wear rubber thongs in the snow to prove to my fellow Germans that cold feet wouldn't give you a cold, as many believed. I was upset with being told all the time to wear a sweater, close the window or whatever people told me to do so I wouldn't catch a cold. And I was convinced that getting a cold happened because you subconsciously allowed it.

After over twenty years as a doctor I am convinced that doctors don't catch colds and other infectious diseases from their patients simply because they tell themselves: "I can't afford that cold. I would loose too much money if I got sick now."

And I believe by now that most diseases are caused by an emotional trauma; that emotional upheavals throw the immune system or other chemical balances off so much that we get sick.

EFT produces health in minutes just by neutralizing emotional traumas and negative attitudes and fears.

Science of Mind teaches that the affirmation of perfect health and the conscious realization that on the level of spirit we are always perfectly healthy is sufficient to produce that health also on the emotional and the physical levels.

Now Bruce Lipton, in his book "The Biology of Belief," confirms all these claims with his research in cell biology and suggests that every cell has a kind of intelligence and is subject to the messages of the mind or spirit which maintains health by claiming health.

His book: "The Biology of Belief" summs it all up, but the articles on his website give sufficient insight to change your mind and life right now.

Interestingly he mentions EFT, Psych-K, and Body Talk as the tools for healing your life.

http://www.brucelipton.com/articles

Enjoy.

Tags: mind over matter, Bruce Lipton, biology of belief, EFT, Psych-K, mind healing, claiming health

Society of Friends Network. SOFN

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:24:28 GMT

Society of Friends Network, Part 3

Please read the following two parts first, and maybe the posts on the solution to the worlds problems too.

Tools for healing and recovering the true Self

I start with a list of tools which hopefully expands and improves through various contributions and discussions until we develop a list of basic ideas that everybody can agree upon.

Mindful breathing

Keeps me centered in Self at all times, mindful and aware, relaxes me, keeps my blood free from acidity, an important prerequisite for physical health.

Mindfulness or insight meditation

Awakes me to awareness of spirit or Self, realizing that I am not identical with my thoughts and emotions, awareness that thoughts create emotions, realizing that we are not hurt by other peoples actions but by what we think about them, by our own attitudes.

Activating the witness consciousness, recognizing that I am awareness and will beyond thoughts and feelings.

Acceptance of the now

Letting go of past and future through acceptance of All that is. Only when I accept I can develop ideas on how to improve. Criticizing only locks me into the past.

Open mind

Beginners mind, recognize that we know nothing through thinking, but everything through open minded awareness

Focusing

We choose our experience by what we focus on. Focus deliberately on positives, - on what we want, not what we don't want, -expressing goodness makes us feel good. Focusing on love, compassion, generosity, giving, serving all, right thinking, eightfold noble path. Focusing as a practice teaches us to connect to our "felt sense" and develop what and how we think by how it feels.

Change of mind, change of attitude

Letting go of negatives, realizing that negative thinking hurts us, not them. Letting go of dependencies on experiences that are not chosen by Self and hinder Self awareness, such as substances, personalities, power, thinking, or emotions. Realizing that the fear of not getting enough is the root of all dependence. Knowing that we are always living in our own minds and feelings and can learn to manage them.

Separating what we have control over and what not.
Realizing that we cannot change other peoples minds or behaviors.

Experiencing that a change of mind changes and heals our life.

Recognizing that mind is a quality of the universe, not only humans. Intelligence/consciousness is part of the universe as we are part of it.

Emotional Clearing

Uprooting subconscious fears and misbeliefs.

Healing trauma, shame and guilt. Emotional trauma has been found to be the source of emotional, mental and physical illness as well as of crime and violence. Recovering from trauma is recovery of the true Self. The tools of healing trauma and dependencies are tools for healing Self.

Discreating physical symptoms and psychosomatic causes of illness by reclaiming our power of Self. Enhancing life by replacing negative beliefs with positive attitudes which penetrate into the subconscious through Emotional Freedom Technique, Polarity Therapy, Rebirthing, Avatar Course, Trauma Recovery, Twelve Step Program of AA, spiritual awakening, letting go, and many other techniques.

Recognizing our mental framework as a thought field which is in constant exchange with other thought fields, local as well as regional, national and the world thought field, called the Zeitgeist.

Ecology of mind consists of keeping our thought field clear by clearing negative emotions, focusing on positive, life-enhancing ideas and by choosing and creating loving and supportive relationships with other "thought fields" in the awareness that they will influence our field no matter if we recognize it or not. Maintaining a sustainable peace of mind enables peaceful cooperation on all levels.

For the views on these concepts by Gary Craig, the inventor of EFT, see his article "The solution to all the world's problems" on the EFT Blog at http://eftcommunity.emofree.com/blogs/eft_blog/default.aspx

Forgiveness

Recognizing that forgiving serves me, not the one I forgive. Forgiving frees my thought field from entanglement with others, past, future and my false self.
Sustaining freedom and peace of mind by forgiving the past, self and others, forgiving the ignorance we are leaving behind, realizing that I am o.k. beyond story and conditioning, because I am spirit, not thoughts.

Liberating the soul

Choosing happiness and peace of mind as the top priority of life. Letting go of being right. Let go let God. Recognizing that we know nothing, but our spirit/Self knows everything and guides us by making us feel good and joyous if we contemplate doing the right thing and bad if we contemplate the wrong. Joy and happiness appear as I get out of the way. Practicing the constant presence of "God" = good-ness, spirit, intelligence, love, truth, and integrity expressing in, as and through me. The presence of my true Self as an expression of the life-energy-consciousness-of-goodness-love-and-peace assures me that I am always on the right track as long as I am aware and feel good, honest, integer and joyful.

Gratitude, appreciation

The direct way to happiness are gratitude and humility. Spirit/universal intelligence/goodness/nature is in charge, not the ego.

Service, Creativity, Envisioning

Helping others onto the path towards peace and happiness reminds me and clarifies for me how to stay on the path. "You cannot keep it if you don't give it away". Each one teach one.

Develop and support projects for peace and spiritual awareness

Envision life as you desire and manifest it by following your bliss

Build a Society of Friends, my, his, and her bliss.

Essential Books and Resources:

Mindfulness:

Thich Nhat Hahn, The Miracle of Mindfulness
The Heart of The Buddha's Teaching
Joseph Goldstein: Insight Meditation
Mikael Mindchanger: Awareness in the Now @ www.learnoutloud.com

Acceptance of Now:

Eckardt Tolle, The Power of Now
Hale Dwoskin: The Sedona Method

Open Mind:

Shunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginners Mind

Focusing:

Gendlin: Focusing

http://www.focusing.org/
http://www.focusing.org/spirituality.html
http://www.focusing.org/buddhism_rlevin.html
Esther Hicks: Ask And It Is Given
Mikael Mindchanger: A Change of Mind @ www.learnoutloud.com

Change of mind, attitude:

Epictetus: The Art of Living

Will Harmann: The Global Mind Change
Richard Carlson: You Can Be Happy No Matter What
Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin: Happiness Is Free
Hale Dwoskin: The Sedona Method
Harry Palmer: Living Deliberately, Avatar Course, www.avatarepc.com
Gerald Jampolsky, Diane Cirincione: Love Is The Answer,
Change Your Mind Change Your Life

Emotional Clearing:

Gary Craig, Emotional Freedom Technique website http://www.emofree.com
John Ruskan: Emotional Clearing
Louise Hay: You Can Heal Your Life

Michael Picucci: The Journey TowardComplete Recovery

Recovery: Authentic Process Healing, at www.theinstitue.org

Trauma Recovery: Peter Levine: Waking The Tiger

Forgiveness

http://www.withforgiveness.com

Liberating The Soul or true Self:

Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
Paul Brunton, The Wisdom of the Overself
Vernon Howard: Psycho-Pictography
Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood: How To Know God, The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
Harry Palmer, Living Deliberately

Etc,etc,etc,etc

Comment, comment, comment,

pretty please!!!

Tags: True Self, self healing, recovery, Solution to the worlds problems, tools for healing, world peace

Society of Friends Network. SOFN

http://MiKaEl.gaia.com — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:17:36 GMT

Society of Friends Network, SOFN

Part 2, The Concept

Suggestions for the foundation of a fellowship of friends

Peace is Now

The World Is Safe

We only need

To save our souls

And Be Friends

The Practice

Be happy, live in joy, help others.

Love your Self and life.

"Be the change you want to see." Gandhi

Teach peace and happiness

Find your true Self/Spirit, which is always happy, joyous and free.

Fulfill your soul purpose through helping others to find peace of mind, health and happiness, anyway you think is fun and brings you joy.

"Service can have no meaning unless you take pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."

Gandhi

SOFN Projects

Life skill training

In workshops and group meetings we share new ideas and techniques of self management of thoughts and emotions and life itself. No dogma or ideology which has to be internalized, but open minded studying and sharing of experiences and insights.

Our beliefs are shaped by the beliefs of our ancestors, but those beliefs are based on concepts of survival, scarcity and lack due to a history of trauma through wars and poverty. To create peace and to live up to our human potential we need to replace these negative attitudes with positive, life enhancing beliefs, as all wisdom teachers used to teach. The essence of traditional wisdoms combined with modern recognitions of psychology lead to a philosophy along the lines of New Thought and Science of Mind as taught by Ernest Holmes and result in a change of mind, a new perspective of seeing oneself as part of the intelligence of the universe, rather than as a victim of circumstances and of one's own thoughts and emotions.

You cannot be happy and angry or fearful at the same time. So learn to let go of anger, resentment and fears. Freedom from depression, listlessness and resistance. Recognize that your thoughts create your life and they can be changed. Learn to use conscious breathing, focusing, EFT, forgiveness, non judgmental awareness, acceptance, appreciation, gratitude, and positive affirmations to free your soul.

Develop a School Curriculum for self management and awareness, for an awakening to the true Self.

The Each One Teach One (E1T1) Program

The E1T1 consciousness: Each One is The One

Each is always dealing with him/herself. We are what we think and get what we believe. Life is a practice of self management. Through emotional traumas, pain and dysfunctional conditioning most of us develop a false self which lives out of fear and anger. The true Self is part of the universal Self, the oneness or All that is usually called God. As individual manifestations of the life force and of universal consciousness each one is an individual expression of God, a soul with a life purpose God is an old word for the goodness of life, of the universe and for the goodness within our consciousness. Everyone wants good, but is deceived by a focus on anger and the will to fight for good, but fighting makes the opposition only stronger. We are a creative consciousness which desires to express as love and expand life along the laws of creation. We study the laws of life and learn how to proceed on the path of growth in mind and spirit towards our true Self which is always happy, joyous and free.

The E1T1 practice: Each One Teach One.

Each one is a personal friend to another, who teaches of his experiences and mistakes on the path to self awareness and peace of mind.

Once we understand the joy of being and expressing as spirit we know that there is nothing more joyful than being a friend to another and a teacher to the world. Each 1 teach 1 is our commitment to help at least one other to let go of fears, resentments and negative thought patterns, thereby improving our own understanding and well being.

Tools of healing:

Mindfulness: conscious breathing, self awareness, observing thoughts and emotions, relation of belief and experience, focusing, peace is the way

EFT: let go of all negative thoughts, anger and resentments, treat psychosomatic aspects of illness, strengthen life enhancing qualities, talents, and ideas, education of public about EFT could replace 50 % of private doctors and 80% of medications

New Thought: learn to identify Self as spirit, practice affirmations and thought patterns which free from fears and limitations, practice the creativity of Self, live deliberately in peace, harmony, love, and abundance

Meetings: sharing of stories, positive experiences, success with the tools, etc

Communal living: intentional communities which develop tools for sustainable peace of mind

For more details see the following post: Tools for healing, in part 3

Society of Friends Membership

Membership activities:

a) supporting the organization and its intentions financially and materially

b) confirming the commitment to be the change you want to see and to teach another as a friend

c) joining the life skill training program

d) taking part in supportive activities, such as retailing of self help materials, teaching tools and art, organizing workshops, managing retreats,

e) sharing life in communities which work together for improving the understanding, goals and means of the society for the purpose of maintaining a sustainable peace of mind.
etc, etc, etc

A friend is someone who realizes that his/her greatest joy lies in being true to his true self and a friend to others, living in reliance on his/her intuition and best intention and helping others to liberate their own original spirit of love and joy. That is everybody. In the society we meet, share and support each other in growing towards living as friends of life and of all human beings. A true friend is not someone who only gives out financial support, which makes the recipient dependent, but someone who shows a fellow "sufferer" that suffering is only a state of mind, which can be discarded, so that he recognizes how to help himself to develop a peaceful, joyful and abundant life by working for the good of all.

Research of Tools for Healing Self and the World

The society supports research into self healing techniques such as energy psychology, yoga, meditation, Quantum Touch and other self help tools for healing. A data base on successful approaches to self healing of body, mind and spirit is developed. Research into psychosomatic causes of diseases.

For example:

A collection of individual success stories along the question "What worked for you?"

If 80%(?) of breast cancers, for example, are found to be related to an emotional trauma and appear about 2 years after a separation from or the death of a husband, trauma treatment can become an important part of grieving a relationship trauma. (In fact most diseases can probably be prevented by appropriate trauma treatment and emotional clearing once their psycho-energetic origins are recognized. The EFT website http://www.emofree.com/ is an example for this kind of experience based research and a source for healing trauma and disease.

Also medical and herbal treatments need this kind of "peer review."

For more information on psychological connections to disease see:

Handbooks of Psychosomatic Medicine

Louise Hay, You Can Heal Yourself

Ruediger Dahlke, Krankheit als Symbol

Michael Lincoln, Messages from the Body

Norman Shealy

Candice Peart, Molecules of Emotion

Best ways of financing?
Financial activities

Life skill training, workshops, vacation retreats

Retailing of educational materials, books, CDs, articles, videos,

Communal activities, house exchanges,

Problems to be discussed

Should SOFN be a non-profit org., a church, a fellowship or a business?

Why should we not have each of them?

What is the difference to zaadz, if any?What's missing at zaadz?

What are the real needs of our members?

How can we do the work of spreading the consciousness and get paid for it?

"When you do things from your soul, a river moves through you. Freshness and a deep joy are the signs." ~ Rumi ~

(Thanks for the quote, Joybringer)

Tags: SOFN, Society Of Friends Network, Solution to the worlds problems, tools for healing, world peace

Gaia Community: Mi Ka El's Blog

Greetings from Tamera

Yes we can

Yes we can

We all need recovery from the past

and then my mother died

The revelation of all revelations

So what is the Mind Change?

Free yourself from fear with open heart

Relapse

Help, I'm getting depressed again

The Truth That Sets Me Free, 2

The Truth That Sets Me Free

Crying for Joy

Wake up call! True change coming!

Emotional traumas are the root cause of most illness

Letting Go

The truth that sets me free

EFT and Science of Mind

Mind over matter

Society of Friends Network. SOFN

Society of Friends Network. SOFN

Society of Friends Network, SOFN

Peace is Now

The World Is SafeWe only need To save our soulsAnd Be FriendsThe Practice

SOFN Projects

Life skill training

The World Is Safe

We only need

To save our souls

And Be Friends

The Practice