Manifesting Through the Law of Attraction

Date: May 25, 2012 Author: admin Comments: 4 Replies

Manifest Joy and Contentment in Your Life

by Curt Remington

So, what’s the big Secret to The Law of Attraction? I’ll briefly share my take on that, along with giving you a great example of this working in my life. The Law of Attraction says that we tend to manifest into our lives that which we think about. If we think about negative things, we’ll manifest more misery into our lives, and if we focus our thoughts on the positive, we’ll manifest more joy and good stuff into our lives.

Curt holding new kayak

Many people think events in their life are completely random, nothing more than dumb luck. What difference could it possibly make what we think about? It matters a lot what we think. Most of us have a viewpoint of the world based on Newtonian physics, created back in 1687. Quantum physics has been around for over a hundred years, but scientists are far from fully understanding it. They have discovered that everything is made of energy. I know a lot of the things in our world seem pretty solid, like a rock. Well, a rock is made of molecules, which are made of atoms. When you look more closely at an atom, it’s made of even smaller things, like quarks, leptons and electrons.

Through experiments, like the Thomas Young Double Slit Experiment, scientists have concluded that these tiny subatomic particles are actually energy. These tiny things (like quarks, leptons, and electrons) behave as energy in their natural state, then behaves as a particle when they’re observed. In other words, this energy/particle stuff that everything is made of responds to our thoughts.

I’ve been trained in clairvoyance and energy healing, where we learned that through thoughts or conscious intention, you can do all kinds of thing with energy, like move energy, heal and create things out of energy on higher dimension planes. These things we create on higher dimension planes can eventually manifest into our physical life. For instance, you might visualize a new television, creating one through your visualization on a higher dimension plane and eventually manifesting one into your physical life. This doesn’t typically happen immediately. That’s probably a good thing, because we don’t always want to manifest what we’re thinking about. We could end up manifesting some terrible things into our lives. For example, every time you heard one of those pharmaceutical company ads, you’d be in danger of manifesting some new illness into your life.

To manifest good things, through the law of attraction, you need to:

Decide on what you want in life.
Focus your thoughts on what you do what, rather than on what you don’t want. Imagine already having it, and feel the feelings that would go with that.
Raise your vibration, to bring it more in alignment with the higher vibration spiritual planes.

These steps aren’t as easy as they sound, or everyone would be living in a mansion. There are three tools that will help us think more positively and raise our vibration.

Gratitude- In a study by Dr. Robert Emmons, he discovered that people who focus on gratitude for what they have in their lives are 25% happier, are more optimistic about their lives and future. They even slept better at night. This is an easy way to create positive thoughts, raise your vibration, and manifest more wonderful things to be grateful for.
Affirmations- In Louise Hay’s book, You Can Heal Your Life, she emphasizes affirmations as a way to bring about change in your life. When I first read the book, I was skeptical about how much difference affirmations could make. After surgery for prostate cancer, I discovered that affirmations can be a very powerful tool for moving your thoughts in a positive direction.
Meditation- In my own book, Simple Meditation, I emphasize the importance of grounding and running your energies, as key exercises for letting go of stress, releasing energy blocks, and raising your vibration.

I’ve read a variety of good books on The Law of Attraction, but my favorite is Ask and It is Given, by Esther and Jerry Hicks. The information in the book is really from Abraham, as channeled through Esther Hicks. They’ve also got a variety of cd’s DVD’s and other books. The movie, The Secret, will give you a brief overview, but it doesn’t really provide enough substance, oversimplifying things a bit.

One of my personal examples of the law of attraction in action started with my interest in wood kayaks. I’d sold my powerboat and wanted a substantial kayak for getting out to the San Juan Islands. Polyethylene or fiberglass are the usual material choices, but I came across a website that talked about hand-made fiberglass over wood kayaks. Not only are they beautiful, but they are as strong as fiberglass and 25% lighter. The creator of this website had started with a kit and did beautiful wood inlays on his first two kayaks, I decided that if I ever built one, I’d like to do that too. Over the course of a year, I concluded that I didn’t have the time to build one, but I visited a variety of websites, looking at lots of wood kayaks, many with inlays.

Spring came, and I found an appealing sounding kayak on Craigslist. I took it for a test paddle and bought it. Later that day, I found the builder’s name inside, so I did a Google search. My search brought me right back to the website that got me interested in wood kayaks in the first place. On the website, I found a picture of the builder standing and holding my kayak. I realized it was the kayak I’d seen in that first article I’d read. All my thinking about wood kayaks with inlays managed to manifest the kayak that had got me interested in wood kayaks in the first place. It’s beautiful and an absolute dream to paddle.

What would you like the law of attraction to manifest into your life? Keep in mind that this doesn’t just apply to physical things. You can use these techniques to manifest good relationships, health, or happiness.

An Excerpt From The Passage

Date: May 18, 2012 Author: admin Comments: Leave a reply

The Passage

by Curt Remington

A chartered yacht, en route from Alaska to Seattle, struck a rock and sank, leaving seven people stranded in a remote part of British Columbia. Jenny, one of the passengers, and Trent, the yacht’s captain, set out for help in a hand-carved cedar canoe. A catastrophe that they’re not aware of has left almost no boat traffic in the Inside Passage.

Whitecaps with Canadian Peaks in the Background

Jenny dropped another log on the fire, sat back down on the picnic table’s seat and watched flames engulf the new piece of wood, dancing and flickering as it too caught fire. This camp, at Safety Cove, sat only nine miles south of their previous night’s camp, but it was the last resting-place for miles. Trent had explained that it’s a well-known shelter for mariners waiting to cross Queen Charlotte Sound or recovering from having crossed it. Once past Queen Charlotte Sound, they’d be in the more protected waters between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia coast.

Upon arrival at Safety Cove they had found an empty twenty-foot Boston Whaler, sitting cockeyed on the sand and mud flats, just out of reach of the high tide. Public mooring buoys in the middle of the cove sat empty, as did a shed on a bluff overlooking the cove.

Their campsite, on the south side of the bay, was one Trent had stopped at on a number of earlier trips. It was much brighter than their previous night’s site, since many of the trees had been thinned out. A wooden picnic table and concrete firepit made the site relatively comfortable.

In spite of the pleasant surroundings, Jenny couldn’t stop worrying about the lack of people and boats. What’s going on out there?

Walking back into camp with an armload of firewood, Trent barely noticed her as he dropped the wood and sat next to her on the picnic table bench. He stirred the fire with a piece of wood then dropped it in.

“What’s up?” Jenny asked. His concerned expression wasn’t helping her worries any.

He looked up slowly. “Just stirring the fire.”

“I mean what are you so deep in thought about? You’re worried too, aren’t you?”

“Probably just tired.” Trent feigned a yawn, but his face looked strained.

Jenny laid her head against his chest, closed her eyes and let the bright colors from the fire flicker before her eyes. They both stared into the fire for some time then talked quietly until dusk.

In the middle of the night, Jenny was awakened by Trent crawling out of their double sleeping bag. “What’s up?” Jenny asked, watching as Trent unzipped the tent and crawled halfway out the door, in his underwear.

“Checking the weather.”

“I can hear it’s raining. Why are you doing this in the middle of the night?”

“Actually it’s three am, and I’m more interested in what the wind is doing.”

“How’s it look?” she asked.

“There’s less movement in the trees tonight. I’d rather wait for calmer weather, but we can’t afford much more time. What do you want to do?”

“I’m game whenever you are.”

“Let’s do it then.” Trent crawled over to his bag and started pulling clothes out.

“Do we really have to get up this early?”

“The wind’ll get worse by afternoon. We need all the morning we can get. If you’ve got a solid stomach, eat a good breakfast too. There may not be much time to eat later.”

After a hurried breakfast, they loaded their cedar canoe and walked slowly through the dark camp again, looking carefully for anything they might have missed.

The water on the bay was smooth as glass, as they paddled out toward the mouth. Once out into the passage, there was only a minor chop, less than a foot high. They closely followed the steep, rocky shoreline of Calvert Island, which made navigating in the dark much easier.

Trent had told her it was roughly seven miles to Cape Calvert and the start of the big waters. By the time they reached it, the first light of dawn was starting to glow in the east. As they got closer to the end of Calvert Island, standing three hundred feet high, the size of the waves gradually increased. Soon Jenny spotted the undiminished waves that rolled past the island’s point. Oh my God! He did have reason to be worried. The waves were long, so they weren’t that steep, but they looked roughly eight feet high from trough to top, and they undoubtedly would get bigger as the wind picked up. Most of Jenny’s boating had been on Lake Washington or the Puget Sound. It wasn’t like this.

“Trent, do you have any Dramamine?” she asked, only half kidding. She hadn’t been seasick since she was a kid but had heard anyone can get it if conditions are bad enough.

“Sorry.”

Entering the big waves, Trent kept the bow aimed nearly straight into them. At the peak of the first wave, the bow was lifted out of the water, until the wave swept farther back and it dropped down, with a splash. Paddling through the next few waves, Trent gradually turned the canoe more to the south, sliding crosswise down the backside of a wave, then paddling hard to climb the next. As they reached the crest, they would turn the canoe into the wave, avoiding getting knocked over sideways by the crest. Along with the waves, a stiff breeze blew out of the west, carrying the damp smell of the sea.

After the first fifteen minutes, Jenny wondered how she could tolerate a whole day of the roller coaster motion, climbing up and riding down these waves. She glanced back and saw Trent paddling with a determined look on his face, showing no sign of apprehension. He smiled at her, in a forced manner. Jenny turned back around and paddled an efficient steady pace, remembering she had to keep it up for many hours.

Half an hour later, Jenny began to feel dizzy. She breathed deeply and tried to ignore it. A few minutes after that, she started sweating profusely. She pulled off her wool sweater but felt little relief. Soon the back of her throat began to tingle. Although she wanted to think otherwise, the signs were clear. Seasickness was setting in. She turned around again and saw the same determined look on Trent’s face.

Fresh air was supposed to help, but air doesn’t get much fresher than what she was already breathing. Looking out at the distant horizon was also supposed to help, but she couldn’t see it most of the time. What she could see were walls of water in constant motion, listing and rolling, rolling and rising, sinking and splashing, crashing and churning. She closed her eyes, but then her head reeled with dizziness. Fifteen minutes later, the inevitable nausea started to settle in.

Jenny turned around to face Trent. “I’m not feeling well.”

“You do look pale. Honey, I’m sorry. I just don’t have anything that would help. You want to head back?”

“I know we can’t. We’ve got to do this sometime. I’ll just have to tough it out.”

Jenny continued paddling, but quit thinking about the canoe, the ocean and the waves. She tried to imagine herself walking peacefully up the inlet trail with Trent, toward the mountains. It calmed her for a moment, then the trail started heaving and rocking. As nonchalantly as possible, Jenny leaned over the side and vomited, painfully aware of the stomach acid passing through her nostrils. She leaned over and vomited again, then she leaned over once more and blew hard through her nose, pushing out the remnants there.

“Jenny, take a break,” Trent yelled. “I can handle it myself awhile.”

She nodded, not wanting to face him, then set her paddle down and slumped down into the bottom of the canoe. Jenny sat there for fifteen minutes, then realized resting wasn’t making her feel any better, and sitting on the bottom of the canoe was probably making her feel worse. She also realized Trent wasn’t likely to make it across the Sound by himself, so she climbed back into her seat, picked up her paddle and resumed the tedious stroke, stroke, stroke.

The hours dragged on, and Jenny pushed herself to keep paddling, knowing that even with two of them, it would be hard to make it across to Vancouver Island. As Trent had predicted, the wind picked up as the day wore on. Much of their energy was expended, just bucking the wind and waves. Whitecaps had also formed, adding spray to the rain and stinging their eyes. Along with paddling, Trent would pause to bail with his pot, after each half dozen waves.

By late afternoon, Jenny’s arms ached more than she had known possible, and she began to wonder if her attempts at paddling were really doing much good. Waves of nausea still flooded over her, and now her arms felt like lead weights. Open sores on her hands stung each time salty spray reached them, and the rain kept coming down.

As the daylight started to dim, it became apparent they’d never make it to Vancouver Island. The wind and waves had pushed them off course to the east, so the steep, rocky mainland shore was close enough to hear the breakers pounding into the rocks. When Jenny looked over at the force of those waves, smashing and sending up plumes of spray, it scared her enough to paddle harder than she thought possible.

“Jenny,” Trent shouted. “There’s an inlet along here somewhere, in about a mile, if I remember right. It’s going to be tough to get into, but it’s our best chance.”

He means our only chance. She turned and nodded, feeling too weak to shout.

Half an hour later, the inlet came into sight, and it was a frightening sight. As the waves rolled into the shallower water of the inlet, they slowed down and piled up into tall, steep breakers that curled over, then smashed down hard. She realized that was a better alternative than approaching the steep, rock shoreline to the left of the inlet, where being smashed against the rocks would be inevitable. On the right side of the inlet was a large island that rose more gently from the water but still had a rocky, boulder-strewn shore that the waves pounded against.

Soon, they were even with the inlet, facing the rollers which the canoe climbed up and over.

“Jenny, why don’t you rest a few minutes. I’ll watch for a let-up in the waves, then turn the canoe around and we’ll paddle hard for the inlet.”

Jenny knew the waves never really let-up, but some series of waves were smaller than others. That was the best they could hope for. Turning around, she saw Trent was alternately paddling, to keep them in place, and bailing with the pot he kept under his seat. Trent set the pot down and started swinging the canoe around with powerful sweep strokes. Jenny dug her paddle in, using draw strokes to help turn more quickly.

“Let’s go,” he yelled, and they paddled forcefully forward.

Jenny could see another large wave right behind them, which carried them considerably before sliding underneath them. It was followed by another big wave. Jenny paddled hard, riding the front of the wave. She hadn’t realized a canoe could go so fast. A hundred feet ahead, she could see waves curling over and breaking.

“Let this one go,” Trent shouted.

Jenny held her paddle up and felt the stern of the canoe rise steeply behind her, until she had to grab the gunwales to keep from sliding out of her seat. She glanced back and watched the crest reach the middle of the canoe, washing great quantities of water over the side. Trent swore, threw down his paddle, and bailed frantically for only seconds.

“This is it. Let’s go,” he shouted, picking his paddle back up and driving the canoe forward. Jenny paddled as hard as she could, temporarily forgetting all her pain. They gained momentum, but the first smaller wave passed under them. She could feel the canoe surge forward as Trent stroked.

With the canoe tipped down, Jenny’s feet were covered with six inches of water. Another of the smaller waves passed under them, lifting the stern high and washing more water into the canoe. The small waves seemed to come in a series of three, so the next one was their last chance to ride it past the breaking point.

Again, she paddled as hard as she could, gaining more momentum as they rode the front of the wave. The wave was so steep and slow now, that it had no intention of sliding under them. They rode the front of the wave like a surfer, with Trent ruddering to keep them straight.

Glancing back, she saw a wall of water towering over them. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and braced for the impact. As the water hit, she was knocked out of her seat and onto the floor, covered and driven down by a mass of frothy water. One hand stayed tightly clenched around the paddle, while the other searched through the churning water for the seat. She knew she had to stay with the canoe. Seconds later her head came to the surface, and she wiped the saltwater out of her eyes. The canoe bobbed up, thanks to the buoyancy in the cedar and the gear lashed to the crossbars.

“Keep paddling,” Trent yelled, to be heard over the roaring breakers.

“Are you okay?” would’ve been nice. Jenny climbed back into her underwater seat, sitting waist deep in the water, and stroked, momentarily wondering why they were paddling a sunken canoe. Then, she glanced back and saw a larger wall of water building up behind them. Wedging her legs against the sides of the canoe, she pulled her paddle through the water again and again. The immense wave broke behind them, carrying them forward in a torrent of foam. She kept paddling, knowing that wave would be followed by another and another.

“Nice job,” Trent yelled. “We made it through the breakers in one piece.”

Their situation wasn’t great, but Jenny realized they could’ve been caught in the midst of the breakers and pounded to pieces. Now, on top of being sick and exhausted, she was also cold and wet. Although she felt miserable, she was thankful to be alive.

When they reached the rocky shore, Jenny sat on a boulder with her head down, listening to Trent moving slowly and steadily back and forth with loads of gear. By the time he had the gear hauled inland, Jenny realized her seasickness had diminished some.

“I suppose it’s too wet and windy for a fire?” Jenny asked, feeling deeply chilled from the cold water.

“Unfortunately, I think you’re right.”

They soon had the tent set up and the sleeping bags thrown inside. Trent also grabbed the smoked venison and a canteen, then followed Jenny into the tent. Jenny quickly stripped all her wet clothes off and climbed into the sleeping bags, moving against Trent and shivering. He didn’t feel much warmer than she did, and the sleeping bags felt damp.

She stared at the damp ceiling of the tent, knowing that in the next few days, they would have to face the waves again. Maybe the seas would diminish. The shelter of Hope Island was within a half-day’s paddle. The town of Port Hardy, and help, wasn’t far beyond that, but first they had to make it through the breakers. Jenny rolled over and tucked the sleeping bag around her shoulders. Exhaustion soon outweighed her anxieties, and she fell fast asleep.

Are Aliens Coming?

Date: April 16, 2012 Author: admin Comments: 4 Replies

Advanced Alien Species May Visit Us

by Curt Remington

Imagine aliens, with technology far more advanced than ours, coming to earth and introducing themselves. In the movies, this doesn’t seem to work out well. In “V,” “Independence Day,” “Battle: Los Angeles,” and countless others, they seem pretty intent on destroying us. Isn’t it possible that some of these aliens may be more spiritually advanced than us, along with being more technologically advanced, and have only good intentions. I guess that doesn’t make for as exciting a movie.

Unusual Sky Over Italy

If these advanced beings were to share their technology and help us reshape our civilization, our lives would never be the same. There are a number of websites that say this is just what’s going to happen. The Golden Age of Gaia has links to many of them.

The History channel’s series, Ancient Aliens, consists of 42 episodes, full of evidence that aliens have helped many of earth’s prior civilizations. There are stories and writings of people from the stars. There is artwork that appears to be planes, spaceships, and space suits. There is also evidence of advanced ancient technology, an amazing understanding of astronomy, advanced mathematics, and there are ancient structures like the pyramids, that would be hard to replicate even with our current technology.

More recently, we have countless UFO sightings around the globe, crop circles, and a variety of people that claim they’ve been in communication with aliens. According to alienshift.com, there are many races of aliens that visit earth, some with better intentions than others.

Even if the information on the websites I’ve mentioned isn’t all accurate, a 2010 study by astronomers estimated that there are 300 sextillion stars out there (sextillion is a thousand trillion), with an awful lot of planets orbiting around them. It would be very self-centered to think that we’re the only intelligent life in the Universe. Instead of asking “are aliens coming?” I think a better question is “when are aliens coming?”

Meditation Can Improve Your Relationships

Date: March 9, 2012 Author: admin Comments: 1 Reply

Create Quality Relationships Through Meditation

by Curt Remington

Our relationships may be the most important aspect of our lives. If we’re battling with our spouse, can’t get along with coworkers, or are desperately lonely, our lives can be miserable. On the other hand, if we have a loving partner, close friends, and a supportive family, life can be blissful.

Meditation can vastly improve the quality of our relationships, as we let go of stress, anger judgment, all of which can get in the way of good relationships. The meditation exercises you’ll find below will also increase your positive feelings towards others, and their positive feelings towards you. The second exercise can help you overcome loneliness. The third exercise can attract new relationships into your life, possibly even the love or your life.

Improving Relationships (Heart Chakra) Meditation

Curt, Mary & Riva at Cutthroat Pass

This meditation will increase your positive feelings towards those around you. Once you’ve reached your quiet and comfortable place, take a few deep breaths and relax. With your thoughts quieted, visualize a very important person in your life. This could be a spouse, child, parent or close friend. Holding their image, contemplate one or two traits that are unique and positive about them. Maybe they’re very generous, creative, funny or loving. If positive characteristics are not coming up, remember that person is only human and move through their traits until you find a positive one. Everyone has some. As you’re contemplating that trait, feel your fondness for that person. The feeling is probably coming from the area of your heart or fourth chakra. After feeling the warmth for that person, find someone else important in your life and do the same thing.

As you move from person to person, sense a growing golden glow radiating from your heart, like sunshine. Let the rays of this warmth shine for as long as you like, touching the important people in your life. If you want, you can then expand it farther so it reaches others, like those in your neighborhood, town or even expand it to the world. If everyone did this, we could make the world a brighter, more loving place. When you’re done, take a few more deep breaths and realize that you can continue to radiate that caring light as you go on about your day.

Overcoming Loneliness

Although lonely people may feel like it, they are not alone in their loneliness. A recent national survey found that one fourth of all adults goes through painful loneliness at least once every four weeks.

Often, lonely people are reluctant to get out and connect with others. They may become critical of themselves, seeing their loneliness as their fault. They may also become critical of others, often blaming them for their situation. If you’re lonely, the heart chakra exercise will help by increasing positive feeling towards others and by moving your focus outward.

In doing the heart chakra meditation, you can start by visualizing your loneliness as a dark cloak covering you. As bright, golden energy radiates out from your heart center, let it fill your body with loving energy. It’s hard to love others until you love yourself. Then, see this energy radiating out and melting away the cloak of loneliness. Instead of that dark cloak, bright light now surrounds you.

The next step is to visualize yourself meeting people that are kind and appreciate you.

The final step, after you’re done meditating, is to actually go to events that interest you, where you will meet these people. This could be classes, clubs, or any of a variety of organizations. Personally, I’m very fond of Toastmasters.

Attracting a New Relationship

By regularly using the heart chakra meditation, you will begin to radiate more positive energy, which is definitely attractive to others. While you are doing the heart chakra meditation, hold the intention that a stronger beam of positive energy will reach the ideal person for you. This might mean the love of your life or maybe someone that will become a close friend. That person will feel the connection you’re establishing, on a subconscious, psychic level, and be drawn towards you.

Like the final step in overcoming loneliness, you need to follow this up by getting out into the world where you can meet nice people, by joining organizations or going to fun places.

Author’s Bio: Curt Remington is the author of Simple Meditation: A Spiritual Connection for Transforming Your Life, creator of this website and of meditationresources.net.

Skiing, Snowboarding or Scuba Meditation

Date: February 14, 2012 Author: admin Comments: 1 Reply

Visualizing Outdoor Activities is a Great Way to Meditate

by Curt Remington

In self-hypnosis, a common deepening exercise is to visualize walking down a flight of stairs. During meditation, you can use this same technique and reach a deeper alpha or theta (trance) state.

Walking down a flight of steps might work well, but skiing down a mountain or diving down to a vibrant coral reef is a lot more fun. Visualizing these activities while you’re meditating will sharpen your visualization skills, deepen your meditative state, and make your experience really enjoyable.

For either of these meditations, find a comfortable, quiet place to sit. Take a few deep, clearing breaths. Close your eyes and relax.

Mt Baker Ski Area, Washingon

Skiing or Snowboarding Visualization

For a skiing or snowboarding meditation, I’d visualize rhythmic carved turns through deep, soft powder. Feel yourself gently rising and sinking into the snow, as you make your way down the mountain. See and feel the details around you. Is the sun shining on your face? Is there a cool breeze against your cheeks? Can you smell the freshness of the mountain air?

If you like, visualize coming over a slight rise to find what’s on the other side. As I did this, a rustic cabin came into view. I went inside and found a warm fire and friends drinking hot cocoa.

Scuba Visualization

Tropical Fish at a Coral Reef

As you may already know, SCUBA stands for self-contained underwater breath apparatus. Since this is a visualization exercise, you don’t need scuba gear to breathe underwater, so leave it at home if you like.

Start your dive in clear, blue water, with depths to explore below. Propel yourself forward and down with smooth, strong kicks. What you find below is up to you. Can you see the bottom, or does it disappear into darkness? You might follow a coral reef with countless fish, or you might follow a gradual sand bottom down. Can you hear any sounds? The song of a whale? The bubbles of your gear, if you brought it? Are there fish? A shipwreck?

Like with the skiing visualization, you might come over a rise to see what comes into view. For me, an underwater city appeared, with glass domes over the dwellings. On my next visualization meditation, I may explore that city.

Releasing Old Fears

Date: January 10, 2012 Author: admin Comments: 1 Reply

Let Go of Fears Through Meditation

by Curt Remington

Maybe you’ve heard, 2012 will be a big year of change and growth for all of us. A lot of people are expecting a shift in consciousness as the planet, and the people on it, raise their energy vibration rate. I am now free of cancer and anxiety, ready for a fresh start. I’d like to share with you a meditation that helped me let go of some old fears. This meditation can help you let go of a variety of emotional blocks that might be holding you back. It can help you feel more confident, ready to face life’s challenges, and it can help raise your energy vibration rate too.

P-51 Mustang

Last year (2011) held some difficult lessons for me. In April, I had a biopsy that turned up positive for prostate cancer. I was shocked! My health had been fine for years. After the shock, fear set in. Cancer is a scary word. My dad died of prostate cancer, and I pictured him the day he died, heavily sedated and moaning in pain. I did not want to die like that.

With surgery scheduled for the end of the summer, my wife and I worked on healing meditations to reduce the cancer. A family road trip to Minnesota served as another excuse to put off my prostatectomy. Shortly after returning from the trip, I checked in for surgery at the U of W Medical Center, on August 29^th. The surgery went smoothly, and they only found one cc of cancer. It appeared contained within my prostate, and they took the whole prostate. The most frightening aspect of my experience seemed to be over.

For some reason, it wasn’t. I had gone into surgery unafraid, and I made it through surgery fine. A few days after surgery, they sent me home with a catheter bag and a long list of symptoms or problems to watch out for, including signs of infection. I came home from the hospital feeling weak and vulnerable, afraid that I’d tear something open. I especially worried that in my weakened state, I’d get an infection or pick up some other illness. Once the catheter was out, I found myself dealing with a bad case of incontinence.

The whole experience triggered an enormous amount of anxiety, something I don’t usually have. I don’t even remember what all of my fears were about. Some seemed to be from childhood, and some were related to past lives. For example, being strapped to the operating table triggered a past-life memory of an ancient torture chamber.

My prospects were always good. Stage II prostate cancer is very treatable, but having a disease brought up past-life memories of miserable deaths from one illness or another. Having this old stuff dredged up led to a lot of irrational fear and some long, miserable anxiety attacks. Having this stuff dredged up also gave me an opportunity to work on letting go of it. Releasing old fears, anxieties and other emotional blocks is a powerful way to clean out your energy system, raise your vibration and advance your spiritual growth. I believe this is one of the reasons I got cancer, so I’d have the opportunity to clear out old stuck energy. An even more important benefit I received was some very valuable spiritual lessons that I’ll cover in another blog.

To let go of the stuck energy, I used a very effective meditation technique that clears blocks from your aura and chakras. As author of Simple Meditation, I admit that you may find this meditation to be a little complex. It is well worth your time and could lead to significant spiritual growth.

Meditation for Releasing Old Fears

Sitting in a comfortable chair will make this exercise easier, although you could even do this in bed. Grounding and Running Your Energies is important. I highly recommend that you read up on those exercises. If you don’t have the time, at least be sure to ground yourself by visualizing a beam of light extending from the base of your spine to the center of the earth. This will act as your grounding cord and give you a place to release any blocks you’ll be letting go of.

Once you’re done running your energies, you should be in a calm, meditative state. If you only have a vague idea of what you want to release, you can simply hold the intention to bring up images of what needs releasing. For instance, you might think to yourself, I’d like to release the energy from old experiences that make me afraid to speak out in a group setting. You might see an image appear of a bully making fun of you during elementary school. As you hold that image in your mind, see it as a picture in front of you. Attach a grounding cord to it by visualizing a cord that extends from the bottom of the image down to the center of the earth, like the grounding cord you created for yourself. This cord will allow the energy from the picture to drain out, releasing the energy of this old memory. After you’ve drained the energy from a picture, you can even blow it up, to further release energy. Your intention (visualization) to do these things is all you need to create results on an energy level.

When you’re done with the first picture, work on finding another and another, draining the energy from each of these old memories. When you’re done grounding these old pictures, the next step is to bring some very high vibration energy into your chakras and aura, to burn out the remaining remnants of troublesome energy from these pictures. You can do this in a very similar fashion to the exercise I used to Target Cancer with High Vibration Energy. Visualize a beam of very high vibration energy coming down through the top of your head and targeting any old fears or other emotional baggage that you want to release. Let this high vibration energy burn up the lower vibration blocks, with the remnants running down your grounding cord. The first, second or third chakras are likely places for these energy blocks to be residing. Becoming familiar with the chakras is helpful.

The first (root) chakra relates to security and survival, so fear pictures are likely to be here. The second (sacral) chakra relates to emotions, and the third (solar plexus) chakra relates to issues like self-esteem.

When you feel that you’ve cleared out enough old emotional baggage or low vibration energy for the day, take a deep clearing breath and move onto more meditating or finish up and go on about your day. You might feel a bit out of sorts for a day or two, as your body continues to release old stuff.

During my recovery, I had plenty of fears and blocks to release, so I used these meditations quite a few times. They helped me get my life back on track quickly.

Although much of what I went through was an awful experience at the time, I’m grateful for what I’ve learned and for the growth I’ve experienced. I’m now back to being calm and confident, but I now have an even greater appreciation for life and am more compassionate and understanding toward others that may be going through their own difficulties. Releasing old fears or other emotional blocks is a wonderful way to start the New Year. This may be especially important this year, with potentially big changes coming in 2012.