Self Realization

Spirituality
For the last 6 months I have been taking classes concerning the New Thought Movement. I have to say it has enhanced my feelings about God. I always have had a strong faith in God. I guess it has been disturbed by the dogmatic principles of the Catholic Church. Through my years of worship, I’ve gained a conscience that exists outside of this theology. It’s not that I feel I will obtain my heart’s desires by using the principles of books such as The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.
The classes I have taken have given me a more humanistic view of the Lord and his intentions for mankind. If you know about me, you realize I have been through a tremendous amount of stressful changes this year. I broke up with one of the soul mates in my life, and have been downsized from a job two times. Now, before you think I am writing this to “play a violin” and “shed a tear” for Christine, it’s really not that way.
Through my coping process I have discovered the research of Dr. David Hawkins. Dr. David Hawkins is a spiritual teacher that has done scientifically based research on spirituality. In his map of consciousness, he regards the truly enlightened people on a level of 1,000, Peace being 900 and Joy being 800. Dr. Hawkins took the idea that our moods and our current state of feelings affect our muscle movements. He used the science of Kinesiology, muscle testing to see what level people calibrate at. People such as Gandhi, Mother Theresa, and Jesus Christ would calibrate at 1,000, a totally enlightened level.
I now am aware that the thoughts and feelings I process have a direct result of my own vibrational frequencies. Whenever a negative thought appears in my head, I have the habit of cancelling it out and replacing it with a positive one. In “Destructive Emotions” by Daniel Goleman, the author has a conversation with Dalai Lama about how our thoughts actually create our reality. In “You can Heal Your Life” by Louise Hay, the author asserts that self-love is one of the most powerful philosophies we can adopt for ourselves. A persons’ thoughts and feelings create the life they want to live.
Now, mind you, there are bad days, where I might meet a disagreeable person and then have a bad thought about the person. It is impossible not to have some negative thoughts during your day. However, awareness of how these thoughts bring down your vibrational energy and your own muscle strength, will help keep your moods in check. This research in the New Thought Movement has had a positive impact in my life. I can express gratitude for things not normally appreciated. It has been a great survival technique for me.