I recommend you read this article from The New York Times

With our brilliant western brains that always believe it knows better, we managed to go to the core of the ancient yoga’s DNA and change it to accommodate our ways. What I mean by “genetically modifying Yoga,” is the manner in which we have modified it to suit our egos and to fit it into the business world by mixing trends and fashion with spirituality.

Photo credit: Danielle Levitt for The New York Times

If originally yoga practice was meant for going deeper, bringing stillness, finding our inner silence and connecting with our higher self, genetically modified Yoga changed the practice to a fast, restless, physical and aggressive practice, where the main modus operandi for “gaining”  is through physical strain and pain, we are all familiar with the expression “no pain no gain”.

When we genetically modify food, by manipulating the natural order of the earth, we pay with our wellbeing. The same happens with the practice of yoga in the modern world. Change it to be a sport or form of performance and you will pay the price in physical injuries and more so by gaining even bigger egos.

You may find, after reading this article, that the descriptions in the article are quite extreme. Trust me, they are not. The only difference is that now the truth of what is happening in the yoga world is starting to surface and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Often I sit with a group of yoga students that are floating from one yoga center to another, from one style of yoga to another and they describe to me the different injuries they collected along the way, since they started their yoga practice. Shoulder, knees, neck, lower back, sciatica, hips, wrists…and the list goes on and on. What amazes me the most is that they do not find it awkward at all that their “spiritual practice” is actually adding more suffering to their being, rather than ease. Look around and you will find more and more balms and other aids for yoga injuries. The New York Times reported that yoga is the second sport that is currently creating most injuries.

The reason for this is first a large number of yoga teachers who, instead of passing on the ancient teachings to their students, mostly approach yoga as performance and they themselves are restless and pushy.

Next are the students who want to change their life but without changing their ways. They bring the same attitude and manners they have towards life, themselves, and others, to the yoga mat, yet they are hoping to experience something different.

I call upon all the hatha yoga teachers who teach the asanas with the understanding that the yoga postures are only a means for higher consciousness and who understand the postures are not intended to be a circus performance, to keep up their very good work. I urge them not to sacrifice the teaching to be trendy, for fame, or to further their business interests.

Lastly, avoid applying external pressure to a student’s body with your hands as you never know what is underneath the skin. Hands are meant to direct, without using force, and intended to transmit love and energy.

Love shakti

In a church in Spain

While visiting Seville in Spain we went to see a beautiful cathedral. I was walking around in silence, my eyes making the effort to capture all the beauty around and above me. Beautiful Gregorian chant filled up the space with a serene energy. Pepe was standing still, in the center of the cathedral. When I walked by him he said to me “I used to feel very different in places such as these, but I don’t any more. Not because I do not find them special, but because it doesn’t make a difference where I am anymore… it is all special.”

Pepe’s words at once transported me to those moments of my life where I keenly searched for the right spiritual formula. In those moments, I felt that so many forms and shapes were between me and the state of enlightenment I wanted to reach. I was convinced that eliminating these barriers was the only way to reach realization- my highest state as a spiritual person. I went through different phases of obstacle eliminations, trying to find the ultimate recipe for spirituality.

Over time, I developed conceptions regarding how a spiritual person should dress up. In my mind, clothes and fabrics where THE obstacle between me and realization. So I made sure I dressed up in a very specific way, wearing what I considered to be spiritual clothes and fabrics. Now when I look back at those days, and to the spiritual insecurity I suffered from, I smile. In retrospect, the main role for my spiritual uniform was to announce to the world, and to myself,that I am a spiritual seeker.

In the market in Spain

Later on I felt that all the colors in the color spectrum were standing between me and realization. So I eliminated all of them, and for years I wore only white. White was pure, white was spiritual and I felt that by wearing white I was one inch closer to realization ;-) When I realized that the colourful rainbow cannot be declared as non-spiritual phenomena, and that white is as wonderful to wear as the rest, all colors gradually found their way back into my wardrobe.

A time arrived when I felt that my beautiful long hair (I was twenty years old ;-) was standing between me and my higher self. In my mind, the long thick dark hair of my twenties represented beauty, seduction and temptation, so I shaved my hair- with a bold head I felt closer to my essence.

Then I discovered that greatest obstacle of all, standing between me and being an enlightened yogini: the obstacle of “making love.” So I chose celibacy to speed up my arrival into Nirvana.

Needless to say, none of the above restrictions I applied to myself brought me nearer to the ultimate state I was striving for.

However, the self-image I created for myself had its own benefits:

1. It helped me to focus my mind around my practice and center myself.
2. Making these choices made me feel that I belonged to a different “tribe,” which eventually helped me attract like-minded people into my life.
3. Following my spiritual convictions gave me the assurance that I am doing something for my spiritual evolution.
4. I was able to forge a new ‘me’, a self-concept beyond what I had inherited from my family and tribe.

In the quiet mountains in Spain

This self-image was definitely helpful and comforting most of the time, but it was never the “solution” for my inner state.

For some years I managed to combine all the above, creating the ultimate spiritual persona: a celibate bold yogini in a white sari chanting Om Namha Shivaya!… However, I was still struggling with a huge question: had I arrived at my destination?

As long as there is a question… any question… as long as we dwell in doubt… any doubt… the answer is: not yet!

It is known through science as well as direct experience that different places, colors, shapes, sounds, and even fabrics or clothes ;-) have different frequencies. Everything is energy and energy is frequency. Some places, shapes, sounds or colors may have higher frequencies… others have lower frequencies… and it is all vibrating us in different ways. We can choose the right places for us, the right people to be with, the clothes that we feel most comfortable wearing and the colors we like around us. Even so, these are external circumstances.

The greatest practice, which the mind would evaluate as the hardest one, is to find peace and stillness no matter where we are, what we wear, and how we look.

True spirituality has nothing to do with time, space, form or shapes…. This does not mean we cannot enjoy and play with the endless forms and energies that create our physical world. All spiritual practices and disciplines use shapes, forms, colours and sounds for enhancing the state of awareness.

Finally, you arrive at the ultimate state of emptiness that encompasses all.

So be it.

And have fun.

But avoid any identification with the package you are wrapped in…

Namaste,

Shakti

The Dao of Honesty and Truth - Fine Art Print - Laree Alexander

Most people have high expectations that their lovers will always be honest with them. Most people rate honesty as a high priority in their lovers’ desired virtues.

The usual perception about honesty is that it is the responsibility of “the other” to always tell us the truth. In fact honesty starts with the one that receives it and not with the one that delivers it. On the spiritual path if someone lies to you, you cannot blame them for it.  On the contrary, you are the one that needs to check where and when you set up the ground for the other person not to be truthful with you.  On this path, each of us is the center of our own galaxy of reality.

Imagine honesty as a stream of water that runs towards a dam. If the dam does not have the capacity to take the water in, the water will flood everything outside of the dam. If you would like people around you to stream honesty in your direction, you have to have the capacity to take it in- otherwise it will overwhelm you.

It is one thing to demand truth from others and another to have the capacity to face the truth.  In other words, simply because we demand the truth does not mean we can handle it and often our lovers can sense it in our actions and energy.

Scenario:

Linda and Bob are just in the beginning of their new relationship. Being fed-up of messy relationships that involved lies and dishonesty, they promise to always be honest with each other, and they both mean it and want it.

Not long after…

Linda just bought an expensive sexy dress she was dreaming about for long time. Linda can’t wait to show it to Bob.  When he comes home from work Linda asks Bob to sit down, she runs to the bedroom with excitement, to try on the new dress.

When she is back to the living room, she is asking Bob with a sexy voice:

“Do you like my new dress”?

Bob replies casually, “It is a beautiful dress but you don’t think it makes you look fat?”

The unexpected honest words stop Linda’s breath, her lips frost in a middle of a word that is now hanging down from her bottom lip like an icicle. Even though she tries to keep her facial muscles pulled up to form a smile, they are all collapsing down with gravity projecting painful expression.

Bob misses nothing in the situation, he immediately understands the impact of his honest words but it is too late, the damage has been done.

An hour later dinner carries on in piercing silence, there is no lovemaking for 10 days and Linda’s communication with Bob during the week is terse.

The traumatic event registered in Bob’s mind as “don’t repeat this mistake again, ever!!! If you want peace, keep what you think or feel to yourself!”

This event, where Linda demonstrated the opposite of what she declared as her true wish for honesty, will affect Bob’s honesty in their relationship forever.

So when you ask your lover to be honest with you, you have to ask yourself first if you can handle honesty, as often our energy and actions deliver opposite messages to what we say or demand.

People lie when they need to survive a situation.

People cannot handle the truth when the truth threatens aspects within them that they identify with.

Often relationships become a battle for survival and as a result lovers keep juggling the above mentioned extremes.

If you would like your lover to treat you as a master, you need to become that master!

Instead of demanding honesty, create space so that honesty may flow in naturally.

Lies sprout from fears. So the first step towards a spiritual honest relationship is to remove all fears.

If you do face dishonesty in your present relationship, instead of indulging in accusations, sit down and replay the dishonesty sequence of events backwards.  You will find the seeds you sowed which brought about the undesirable outcome. By taking responsibility for the consequences, you empower yourself, your lover and the relationship you both have.

Yes, it is a definite possibility that your lover may already have arrived into the relationship programmed by previous life experiences. In this case it can take some time until she or he will put down their defenses which take the form of not sharing the truth with you. It is up to you to bring honesty and truthfulness into your love relationship, not by demanding but by inspiring.

Shakti Mhi

In folk festivals you often do the predictable fun things, such as buy crazy-looking pants from India, eat fried whale tails and maybe pay $25 to the Tarot person who will reveal to you everything you need to know about yourself but somehow haven’t discovered on your own.

And that’s what I did at the Vancouver folk festival! After consuming the fried whale tail, yummy, I decided for once to see what the Tarot man in the orange tent had to say …. about my existence. I shuffled the cards, felt them energetically, divided them and chose the significant ones. The Tarot master looked at the cards, nodding his head lightly, then lifted his blue eyes and looked at me with a serious /concerned look on his face. I smiled, thinking to myself, “I can still hear my breath so it cannot be that bad.” ;-)

Then he started to release words such as painful past … challenging time … uncertain future … hesitation … fears … doubts … being overwhelmed … and other descriptive words that deal with our surviving state of existence. The sentences that were flowing out of his mouth were flying towards me like shooting stars but somehow couldn’t reach me. My mind was whispering to me “I have no clue what he’s talking about” and I whispered back “I don’t either.”

I couldn’t relate to anything he said, as he used words that I had fired from my vocabulary long ago, and as a result of that my whole reality shifted to be very different from what my parents tried to convince me life was all about…

We manifest reality with our perceptions and assumptions. His assumption that “living” is made of various forms of suffering is not how I perceive reality.

He pointed to a card saying “this card represents the challenges in your life.” For me the card represented the assumption that challenge was a mandatory element in everyone’s reality and if you removed that element, life or you yourself would vanish. ;-)

Challenges lose their meaning when the mind does not identify with the perceptions of good and bad or hard and easy. If we remove our expectations from “how thing should turn out” and stop evaluating our moments as an absolute good or bad, suddenly all moments become the same.

In our primal existence we are programmed to see reality from the point of surviving, so the moment something is not serving the purpose of our survival, it becomes “challenging”. Our perceptions shape our realities.

Then he pointed to a card that represents how the (painful) past affects our lives.

If you do not hold onto your past, as if it was a beam of light, how can it be painful?

If you fully immerse yourself in your present moment, how can your past keep haunting you?

The next one to surface was the card of doubt. If you do whatever needs to be done in each moment, if you follow your bliss and tune into your intuition, there’s no space left for doubt.

So maybe the question is not what comes first, the chicken or the egg, but what comes first, the perception or the reality?

I paid for his time (and for the material he provided me for my next article ;-) and left, wondering if his cards were projecting the common human reality that manifests itself in our fear of the unknown (future) and the identification with our traumas (past) as who we are.

Just like no matter how much water you pour into a funnel, at any given moment it will convey only what it can pass through its volume, one cannot experience reality beyond his/her perception’s capacity.

On the small scale, Tarot cards are the mirrors of our perceptions that consist of past, present, future, fear of death, and challenges, and they are often interpreted in the same manner we are perceiving life. This is why the reality of most people is so predictable.

One cannot grasp reality beyond his/her vocabulary of perceptions and assumptions. If we wish to change our reality, we should do it by expanding our perceptions beyond surviving in the physical world, and disable some of our definitions that are limiting our reality.

On the larger scale, the universe around us is the reflection of our perceptions and beliefs. When some people expand their perception beyond the common state of consciousness and form “uncommon” realities that do not fit in our ordinary set of beliefs, we are in awe.

Enjoy this beautiful video (link below) that represents expansion in our relationship with the universe around us that is often based on fear and separation from everything around us. If watching this video makes your heart expand, it is because it may connect you with your essence which is one with all.

shakti

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=WK2LpUoqX6A&vq=medium

True Masters

True masters never add titles to their own name to enhance their power.
True masters share their insights without needing to convince.
True masters never elevate themselves higher than anyone.
True masters never claim to hold on to the absolute truth.
True masters never declare their own realization.
True masters convey wisdom with no ownership.
True masters know we are all masters within.
True masters never encourage dependency.
True masters never encourage idolization.
True masters never fear others who know.
True masters simply radiate their state.
True masters set people free.

shakti mhi

Intimacy and passion are what most people wish to keep throughout their relationship. However, intimacy and passion are the first things we let slip between our fingertips because it takes a conscious effort to nourish them. Intimacy and passion demand attention and awareness, the same two disciplines required for practising meditation. Spiritual people will often put so much effort into the practice and discipline of daily meditation, so why not have your love relationship practised with the same care? Make your relationship your meditation and your lover the focus of your concentration.

The nature of the mind is to get excited with a new stimulation. Shortly after, it gets used to it. Next, it gets bored with it and as a result it does not give it attention anymore and no longer sees what was so exciting in the first place.

This is how we usually function with our lovers. Our lovers who used to occupy our senses and thoughts with intensity become part of our daily routine, therefore we do not see them anymore, and consequently we stop telling our lovers how much they enhance our moments. When we do acknowledge their presence, it is usually a calendar- acknowledgment. There are five days in the year when lovers, partners and spouses make an extra effort, searching for creative ways to show their beloved one how much they appreciate having them in their life:

Birthdays
Valentine’s Day
Christmas
Anniversary
And when feeling guilty about something ;-)

Unfortunately, the rest of the 365 days of the year are consumed by routine that is nibbling into the passion, the intimacy and the love expressions that were flowing so spontaneously through us when we first engaged with our beloved one. The spontaneity is slowly fading into automatic affection gestures we make while our mind is often somewhere else. (A quick kiss before we leave the house in the morning, while we are wondering where we are going to stop for a quick coffee before work). This is when our moments with our beloved one turn from extraordinary to ordinary.

Ordinaritus is the virus that kills lovers’ passion and intimacy. The natural remedy that keeps the immune system of an intimate relationship strong enough to stop this virus from penetrating is intentional creativity. The idea beyond intentional creativity is to demonstrate to your lover, in a creative way, on a daily basis, that you see them.

It is intentional as it may not always flow with ease when you are dealing with mundane demands. Ask any artist, no matter if they are a writer, a painter or an actor, and you will find out that their creativity is not always available on hand and still they need to get into the studio and spin the wheels of their creative instrument.

See your love relationship as an infinite canvas and your lover as the subject of your creativity.

Make an ongoing list of ideas to express your love and passion for your lover.

Play her/him a special song

Write her/him a few words

Leave her/him a flower on the pillow

Call unexpectedly and say how you feel about her/him

Place a surprise into her/his bag

Prepare your lover a bath

Read her/him something special or interesting

Send a special email

Leave a loving note on the entrance door, in their shoe or on their car’s windshield

Chocolate?

Ask her/him how they feel and be there fully to listen

Go for a walk together

Creativity is the seed for a spiritual love to sprout from on a daily basis. Implementing your creative attention daily is like watering a seed so it grows to become a beautiful flower.

shakti mhi

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(I love who you are as long as you become me)

The common pattern is that we fall in love with people as we get attracted to their energy, personality, physical attributes and their characteristic qualities. But once the relationship “takes off”, we start working on converting the subject of our love to become as identical as possible to who we are, since ourselves is all we know. As a result we expect our lovers to think like us, feel like us, desire like us and perceive reality exactly the way we do.

We can say that what was first attractive later becomes repellent.

Even if we win the battle by imposing our ways on our lovers and change them to be who we need them to be for our own sake, we don’t really gain anything. Forcing people to be who they are not creates resentment, as they feel they lose themselves in the relationship.

And this is how it goes:

Imagine this scenario: Mary is a Virgo, a very organized and efficient woman, who irons her towels and arranges her clean T-shirts in an ascending order from light to dark shades. In her tidy apartment even the air does not move so her organized existence doesn’t get disturbed. Our tidy and uptight Mary is describing the new guy she is dating to her best girlfriend over a cup of coffee. She says while beaming with excitement: “He is adorable, he is a journalist and a writer and very artistic in his personality. His apartment is filled with books and magazines; they are all over the place, on the floor, beside the bed, in the washroom. He is so intelligent and creative that his head is in the clouds most of the time. The sink is always full of dishes, as there is always a deadline for him to meet. I always laugh when we leave his apartment because he never knows where his keys are. Yesterday I arranged his closet so he could find his underwear in the morning. He is so sweet, I am so in love with him!”

A year later Mary and Mr. Creative are living together in her no more tidy flawless apartment (because of him, of course, not because of her).

Scenario: Same best girlfriend over a cup of coffee in the same café a year later. This time, a distressed Mary is complaining to her girlfriend about her relationship with Mr. Creative: “I can’t stand his messiness anymore. Why can’t he keep all his books in one place? How many times have I told him washrooms are not libraries? And why can’t he wash his cup of coffee the same day he drinks it? We are always late when we go out because he never remembers where he put his stupid keys, he drives me crazy. We can’t stop fighting; I ask him to be tidier but it doesn’t seem like he cares about my feelings anymore.” End of Scenario.

When we enter into a relationship, feeling and experiencing self-content, we naturally give space to our loved one to be who they are. If you don’t like who they are or cannot accept them the way they are, don’t be with them; but avoid imposing your ways on your lovers. People should change only if this is their own choice. We often give an ultimatum to our lovers; we threaten them emotionally, we manipulate them to fulfill our expectations, we blackmail them so they change according to our comfort zone. We create an invisible jail around them as we take their freedom to be who they are or who they want to be.

Love comes from an infinite ocean of abundance, but as it flows through us, it gets trapped in our internal net woven with fears, insecurity and limitations. As a result, the flow of love gets stagnant, rigid and firm and starts to shape the bars for the cage we are about to place our beloved in.

To be able to allow your lover to be who he/she is, you need to free yourself from the idea that your internal fulfillment lies in his/her being.

So if you are a spiritual lover, you will avoid demanding from your lover
To become a yogi or a hockey fan
To be a vegetarian or to love bloody rare steaks
To stop smoking and drinking or to love wheatgrass juice
To wear high-heeled shoes or sexy clothes
To make the bed in the morning
To visit your mother every Friday
To love the same type of movies you like
To have the same political views as you do
To go with you to church on Sundays
To love reading or going dancing
To want the same frequency of making love that you do
To like outdoor activities or indoors tranquilities

You also cannot force your lover to give you the freedom to be who you are like you do with him/her. Simply let him/her be.

On the path of spirituality we do not change the world, we change ourselves. The same way if you like any of the above but your partner doesn’t, do it yourself and leave your partner alone or don’t be in this relationship.

Free love is when fulfilled and content people allow each other to be who they are and not who they need them to be.

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An allergy is an exaggerated immune response or reaction to substances that are generally not harmful.

If you don’t suffer from an allergy yourself, you probably know people who do. When people have allergies, they feel it has something to do with their personal condition or their personal health state. This is only partially true. Fifty years ago, one in thirty people were affected by allergies, but in Britain today it is closer to one in three!!! 40% of all children suffer from allergies and the numbers just keep increasing. So when we talk allergy, we do not deal with an individual condition only, we deal with an epidemic disease that attacks the human race in endless forms, conditions and symptoms.

People are allergic to pollen, to seafood, to peanuts, to house dust, to pets, to grass, etc. People suffer from hay fever and from asthma… The list is endless, and the truth is that we are becoming allergic to Mother Earth. What used to be our home is now becoming an environmental trap.

The reason for our collective poor health situation as a race is that our body, nervous system and immune system were designed to deal with Mother Earth in the state she was before we polluted her. Although our bodies haven’t changed in the last 100,000 years, our environment changed rapidly without giving us time to adapt to the new conditions (if such a thing is possible at all). Our bodies were not designed to live in an environment full of chemicals and pollution while eating modified foods. We are designed to get up at sunrise and go to sleep at sunset without being over stimulated by noise and artificial lights.

We’ve arrived at a point where most of the population’s immune system cannot deal anymore with the burden of chemicals and over stimulation of the senses/nervous system. As a metaphor, imagine a person who lives in a house that is constantly being flooded by dirty water. All day and night he needs to keep removing the dirty water out of the house so he won’t drown. Sooner or later this person will reach physical exhaustion as well as mental fatigue. He won’t be able to think straight anymore and as a result will start to make wrong choices that will be harmful to his house and himself. The same happens with our immune system. It gets overworked by constantly trying to remove unfamiliar chemicals and toxins from the different organs and systems until it collapses and loses its judgment and starts to attack harmless substances such as pollen and peanuts.

The yogis were aware of the fact that if the body deals with constant health issues, the ongoing symptoms will consume most of the person’s energy and will leave him/her depleted of energy to fully experience existence. This is why so many holistic techniques and methods were developed in yoga to help remove toxins from the body and ease the general process of physical maintenance.

If you are facing allergy symptoms, do not settle into it as if nothing could be done. Take action… change your lifestyle… find holistic solutions and apply them… and be patient.

I am inviting you to a day of practical seminars where you will learn various useful methods to clean and balance your body. Please see details below.

Workshops with shakti mhi

When: Sunday April 17^th

• 5 Tibetans 10am – 12pm
• Urine Therapy 1pm – 3pm
• Liver Cleanse 3:30 – 6:30pm

The Five Tibetan Exercises ($60)

The Five Tibetan Exercises are a rejuvenating series of movements that will keep you young, healthy, and energetic throughout your life. This series can be performed by yourself in the morning in as little as 12 minutes with no equipment required. By balancing the hormonal systems, improving circulation, and increasing bone density, these exercises can halt or reverse the negative effects of aging.

Shivambu (Urine Therapy) ($60)

Shivambu (Urine Therapy) is an ancient yogic practice known for many centuries that has lapsed into obscurity. shakti mhi is Vancouver’s foremost authority on this powerful healing technique.

Urine therapy is a very ancient and drugless form of intrinsic medicine. Its application is so simple that it can be done anywhere and at any time. Urine has been used as a healing agent in many cultures. Often it is called the Water of Life or Living Water Within. In many religions it is believed that this water will enhance one’s spiritual growth and even give one everlasting life. Learn to heal yourself of: skin disorders, ear and eye infections, fungal infections, and immune system disorders.

Liver Cleanse ($80)

You will learn a simple, step-by-step procedure for cleaning the liver and the gall bladder. Since liver is the main filter of blood, if the liver is full of toxins – as a result of taking medication, consuming alcohol, unhealthy eating, being under stress etc. – then the blood is not clean anymore. As a consequence, the blood carries toxins to the whole body. Symptoms of toxins in the liver are: allergies, low energy, anger, mood swings, skin problems, digestive problems and much more.

During the course you will learn how to do liver cleanse. The actual cleanse is something you do on your own; it takes a day and a half and it’s not painful.

Registration:

• Register and pay by Friday April 15^th and receive a discount of $15 on each workshop
• Register and pay for all three before Friday April 15^th for total price $140
• You’re welcome to simply come to the workshop of your choice on Sunday – no discount applies
• Please visit Prana office at 293 East 2nd Avenue or call 604-682-2121 to register
• Payment by cash or credit card

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Great TED talk – enjoy!

http://www.ted.com/talks/nigel_marsh_how_to_make_work_life_balance_work.html

A few days ago we changed all the locks in our house. The next day we were expecting a visit from a friend of ours arriving from Nelson. When she called, we were out of the house so we asked her where she was, and she said “I just arrived and I am in your house”. We were very surprised she was inside our house, as no one had got a copy of our new key yet. When we asked her how she opened the door, she said “with the key I always open with” and she added that strangely enough, she had a hard time opening the door but finally she managed. We got into the car and rushed home, curious to see how it was possible that the old key opened the new lock. We were complaining to each other about paying for changing the locks and not getting the service. We were ranting about our locksmith and planned to get home, call the company and let them know what we thought about their service.

When we got home, we did what most of humanity would do in such a worrisome situation: we took the old key and ran to the door to see if it worked – and it didn’t!  Now the mystery grew even bigger. First our friend opens our door with a key that should not work, and then the same key does not work anymore – which is what it was supposed to do (or rather not do) in the first place, how strange?

The mind immediately classifies such an event as “this is crazy” but once we relaxed and considered the facts, everything made sense in the most paradoxical way. It wasn’t the key that opened the door; it was our friend’s certainty that she was using the right key.

Often what we know and believe outlines our reality, and as a consequence either limits our experiences or expands our reality.

Knowing that we cannot fly is what keeps us on the ground; not gravity or our physiology mechanism.

If a person who is paralyzed knows or believes strongly that the touch of a holy person can heal him or her, he or she may instantly stand up and start walking.

If a person free of all illness believes strongly that he or she has got cancer, the person will get cancer, and vice versa.

As long as you know and believe that walking on fire will burn your feet, that is what you will experience; but if you change your beliefs and knowing to “I can walk on fire with no harm,” you will be able to do so. And I guess it is the same with walking on water ;-)

Our friend didn’t know that we had changed the key, what she “knew” and believed was that the key she was using was the right key. The fact the key wasn’t the right one created difficulty for her to open the door, but her strong sense of knowing that this was the right key, free of hesitation, was the force that vibrated the key to fit in the “wrong” lock. By the time we arrived in the house, we all knew the key was not the right one and that conviction vibrated the key back from being the “right key” to being the “wrong key”.

The physical word that we project through our perceptions has no absolute meaning, form or shape. We keep forming and reforming this world with our knowing and beliefs. That doesn’t mean that you can all come to my house with your own keys and try to open the door…. ;-)

shakti

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