Life on earth is like a dream. Birth is the moment when the dream begins, and physical death is the awakening. The time in-between – the dream of life – is totally under your control, whether you believe it to be so or not.
Let’s talk about dreams a little, because this is a metaphor which can be very useful.
When you are dreaming, anything can happen. You can be rich or poor, old or young, thin or fat. You can experience anything and everything. You can date celebrities, dine on the world’s most exotic foods, enjoy unlimited financial wealth and even fly through the air like a bird. On the other hand, you could be the victim of a bug-eyed monster, be chased by giant insects or wrestle with crocodiles in a sewer.
The dream is created by you, and no-one else. What you experience in the dream is determined by your frame of mind, your beliefs and your expectations. If, during a dream where you are flying, you suddenly realise that it is ‘impossible’ to fly, you would soon come down to earth with a crash! If, on the other hand, you believe that flight is natural, you would continue to soar until the dream came to an end.
So it is with the physical life, which is but an extended dream of around seventy years – sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. What you experience here in this dream is governed solely by your frame of mind, your beliefs and your expectations. If you think you need to work hard and long in order to make money, then that is what you will be forced to do. If, on the other hand, you believe that money comes to you automatically, then it will!
We realise that this sounds a little simplistic, but it is an essential truth. As a man thinketh, so he is. What your mind can conceive and believe, your mind can achieve. Ask, and you shall receive. These are all ways of saying the same thing:
Limitations in life are created by limitations in the way you think.
Do away with mental limitations and your life can be anything you want it to be!
Of course, breaking through the barrier of mental limitations is not easy. If it were then everyone would be doing it automatically, and there would be no need for a website such as this.
Breaking free from limitations may mean that you have to discard something that you were brought up to believe as being ultimate truth. For example, if you were brought up to believe that your way of thinking was the only correct way of thinking, you will need to get rid of this idea so that you can truly appreciate the customs, beliefs and essences of other people. This is by no means easy, but if you go with the flow and discard everything except that which you know intuitively, your life will become altogether simpler and more enjoyable. Life will lose any nightmarish quality and will instead become a wonderful, exhilarating dream.
So where does all of this talk about life and death and dreams bring us? Well, let us summarise the principles that have arisen from our discussion in this series:
- Our physical lives are finite. Death is inevitable, but not to be feared. Death is a gateway – a gateway home to the place where you truly belong.
- Because our physical lives are finite, we should make sure that we use every minute wisely. We should, when the time comes, be able to greet death with a smile and say, ‘I have accomplished and experienced all that I wanted to accomplish and experience. I am ready to go home now.’
- Our life experiences are determined by our beliefs and expectations. Just as a dream is created solely through our own consciousness, so are the experiences of our physical lives.
These principles form the cornerstone of all forms of advanced spiritual knowledge, and so it should come as no surprise that we here at Create Good Things view them as being vitally important.
Changing The Dream
You visited Create Good Things because you want to change some aspect – or perhaps a few aspects – of the dream we call physical life. You want to enjoy a greater level of material success and prosperity, or you want to experience a better level of health, or you want to improve your relationships, or you simply want to increase your spiritual knowledge and power.
All of this is perfectly possible. All you need to do is recognise that change comes from within, and that you hold the key to your own success. We can show you different ways of turning that key, as it were, but it is you who must actually turn it. Just as you must follow a recipe in order to make a cake, so you must apply what you read here at Create Good Things if you actually want to get tangible results.
With that new understanding in mind, why not visit our Archive page and explore the information that we have made freely available for your benefit? Diligently apply what you learn and you will be able to start changing the dream of life as you desire.
Last time we discovered how Life and Death are intimately linked, and we said that it is very important for us to live life to the full. If you don’t know what it means to squeeze every ounce of living out of your life, set some time aside to carry out the following exercise:
The Last Day
Imagine that you knew you were going to die in exactly 24 hours. Let that scenario sink in, then ask yourself the following questions…
- What would you do in the next 24 hours that you hadn’t previously planned to do?
- What plans have you already made for the next 24 hours that you would now cancel?
- Which people would you make every effort to spend time with?
- What specific things would you say to these people which you wouldn’t otherwise have said?
Once you have answered these questions, you will soon realise whether or not you are living life to the full.
If you are then you probably wouldn’t do anything different over the next 24 hours – you would continue with your present plans and see the people you have arranged to see.
If you are not living life to the full, however, the chances are that you would totally rearrange the next 24 hours so that you can ditch the trivial plans and spend time doing something more meaningful.
Now, imagine once again that you have just 24 hours left, and write down a list of ten things you wish you had done during your lifetime but never actually got around to. Here are a few examples to start the ball rolling:
I Wish I Had…
Visited the Grand Canyon
Prepared for the financial well-being of my loved ones
Climbed a mountain
Taken my partner on a second honeymoon
Been less judgmental
Helped people less fortunate than myself
You get the idea. Once you have a list of ten or more of these things which you would have liked to have done (and not before), you may continue…
Now that you have decided exactly what you would have like to have achieved during your lifetime, you have a perfect list of goals which you can now pursue with enthusiasm.
At this point, some of you will scoff. ‘Life is not that easy!’ many of you will exclaim. ‘You can’t just make a list of goals and then expect to achieve them. You need money to achieve some of these goals, and money takes work, and work takes time!’
We too used to think along similar lines. We used to think that life was difficult – that the only way to survive, let alone thrive, was to work hard and long. We used to think that you needed luck to be happy and do all the things you wanted to do.
But we were wrong, and in the final part of this series we will explain why.
Life and death are always intertwined. It is a paradox, but to truly understand and master life, we must first take a close look at death. This might sound morbid to some people, but really it is not, as I hope to explain in this short series on Life and Death.
Death is one of the few things that we know is going to happen with absolute certainty. The only thing we don’t know is when it will happen. Since the event is inevitable, it makes sense that the worst thing we can do is avoid thinking about it in the foolish hope that it will go away. It is far better to face the fact of death square in the face, for in doing so, the mystery of life itself becomes dramatically clearer.
The majority of people – including many ‘enlightened’ individuals – have a fear of death. They see it as the end of something beautiful – as something that should be postponed for as long as is humanly possible. Thus modern society is endlessly concerned with prolonging life on this world. One thousand and one diets are launched onto an unsuspecting public, new exercise fads appear every week and scores of scare-mongers advise us not to eat eggs, or cheese, or beef… the list goes on and on and on.
Of course, life is precious and should be sensibly preserved if at all possible. But no diet, no exercise routine, no abstinence from cigarettes or alcohol is ever going to alter the fact that one day, every individual on earth must face death.
So let us face the facts. You were born alone, and eventually you will die alone. Of course, you may be in the company of others when the time comes, but from a spiritual point of view both birth and death are solitary journeys from one plane of existence to another.
This should not frighten you, but it should make you see that your preparation for this event cannot be passed on to someone else. Whatever your religious beliefs, you cannot rely on others to make the journey for you. For example, if you have Christian beliefs then you cannot rely on the faith of your minister to help you through death.
Likewise, this series itself cannot help you except in the form of guidance. You must face the event alone – like a warrior passing from the safe haven of his home into a gloriously new, unexplored territory. The amount of preparation you make in this life, in terms of spiritual progress, is entirely up to you.
Many people talk about life after death. They believe in something called eternal life, and assume that their human birth was the beginning of this life. This is incorrect. Eternal life has no end, but it also has no beginning. You existed before you were born, and will continue to exist after your physical death.
So if you look at the situation from another perspective, you have already gone through a ‘death’ experience when you were born. Before birth you existed in another form on another plane of reality. Then you ‘died’ on that plane and passed onto the physical plane through birth. When your physical body dies on this plane, all you are doing is going back to the plane you came from.
So what is the point of all this talk about death?
Well, the main point is to help you realise in a conscious manner that your life on earth will not go on forever. You do, of course, already know this – but how many people actually let that fact sink in? Not many. If they did they would see the futility of becoming too engrossed in material pleasures, or in wasting the time they do have here in shallow or even pointless pursuits.
Now that you realise that your time on earth is but a blip on the scale of your whole eternal existence, the question arises as to what you are here for. We believe that before physical birth, the spirit that is you actually decided where and when it was to be born. We believe that you chose your parents, your social status and even your neighbourhood because those people and situations would give you the best possible chance of achieving your life goal.
If you have experienced what you might refer to as a ‘hard life’ then you will know that this life has already taught you plenty. You may know what it feels like to suffer poverty, sickness or physical disability. Yet through these things you have learned more about yourself and the universe. However, you have not yet learned all there is to learn. If you had, your physical body would have died so that your essence may return to the other plane and ‘report back’ as it were.
Consider the old American television series Mork and Mindy, which starred Robin Williams as Mork – the alien from the planet Orc. His mission was to visit earth, spend some time here and report back to Orson – his superior – on a regular basis. Each episode had Mork experiencing something different – be it love, anger, jealousy, kindness, honesty and so forth – and then reporting about what he had learned.
If you see yourself as a spiritual ‘alien visitor’ who is here to experience life in all of its fullness and then ‘report back’ to your origin when you physically die, death holds little to fear. It will be seen as nothing more than ‘going home’ to the place where you truly belong.
Since you have so little time here and are meant to be experiencing everything which life has to offer, you can’t afford to waste a moment of it. You should treasure each week, day and hour of life as a precious gift – as another segment of time which has been given to you to use wisely.
Pendulum Power is only useful if you know how to use it, so at this point it is fitting that I explain exactly how a pendulum works. As I have already said, a pendulum is used to help you access the source of all knowledge within you. The way you do this is to hold the pendulum in your hand and ask a question which can be answered either ‘YES’ or ‘NO’. The answer is obtained by interpreting the direction in which the pendulum swings in response to your question.
To keep your pendulum use as simple as possible, you can draw a Pendulum Power Chart on a piece of paper to make such directional interpretation automatic. An example chart is shown below:
Using Your Pendulum
Actually using your pendulum to access the source of all knowledge within you is incredibly easy. In fact there are just three simple steps which you need to follow:
Step One – Preparation
You should ensure that you have your pendulum and your pendulum chart with you, then go to a quiet place where you will not be disturbed.
Sit down and place the Pendulum Power Chart in front of you.
Now take your pendulum in your dominant hand (the hand you write with) and hold the pendulum still so that it hovers about an inch or two above the centre of the pendulum chart.
Step Two – Ask A Question
Now you are ready to ask a question. The question can be anything, but should be asked in such a way that the answer can be yes or no. For example, you might ask, ‘Will this book help me to become more successful in life?’ because this can be answered either yes or no. But you can’t ask something like, ‘How can this book help me to become more successful in life?’ because the answer to this question can’t be answered with a yes or no.
It is important that you think about your question very clearly when using the pendulum so that you aren’t sending conflicting messages to the source of all knowledge. For example, if you ask a question about your job but you are actually thinking about something else, the answer you get could apply to either.
For best results, you should ask one question at a time and think only about that question until you have obtained an answer.
Step Three – Obtain The Answer
Once you have asked your question, concentrate on the weight of the pendulum. Do not move it physically, but just watch the weight of the pendulum. After a few seconds it will begin to sway in one direction or the other. This swaying will usually become more prominent and before long the pendulum will either be swinging clearly from NO to NO on your pendulum chart, or from YES to YES.
Obviously if the pendulum swings from NO to NO then the answer to your question is NO. If it swings from YES to YES then the answer to your question is YES.
On some occasions the pendulum will refuse to swing or it will go round in circles. This means that your question cannot be answered at this time. Either re-phrase the question, try again later, or ask another question on a different subject.
The more you practice with your pendulum, the better the results will be. However, you can’t expect the answers you get to be one hundred per cent accurate from day one. The pendulum is simply a tool which enables your subconscious mind to ‘tune in’ to the source of all knowledge and relay any resulting information through your physical nervous system and out to the pendulum itself where you can see it.
As with any tool, the more you practice using it, the better the end results will be.
Example Questions To Ask
Surprisingly, once some people have discovered how easy it is to access the source of all knowledge within them, they have a difficult time coming up with questions to ask! To ensure that this doesn’t happen to you, I will now list a selection of questions that you might like to use as you practice using your pendulum on a regular basis. Read them, use them, and enjoy!
Is this my first life-time on earth?
Will my current actions take me to wealth?
Will my current habits result in good health?
Am I currently fulfilling my life’s purpose?
Am I making the most of my potential?
Should I think about changing jobs?
Should I think about moving home?
Is my spiritual growth on target?
Do I need to spend more time developing my spiritual awareness?
Should I be more intuitive?
Should I be more considerate of other people?
Should I be less judgmental?
Conclusion
One of the things that almost everyone wants is a set of answers to life’s questions. We want to know what we are, who we are, and where we are heading. We want to know how our current actions, habits and beliefs are shaping our destinies. We also want to know what to do or change so that we can reach our full potential.
Pendulum Power can help us to get those answers. Not because a pendulum is a magical item in and of itself, but because it is a divination tool which we can learn to use to tap into the source of all knowledge which lies deep within our beings.
As we ask our questions and use our pendulums to get the answers, our spiritual growth can flourish from the inside out. As we begin to rely on the voice within rather than on the words of others, we finally begin to discover what spiritual enlightenment is really all about.
According to the dictionary a pendulum is, ‘a body suspended from a fixed point so as to swing periodically under the action of gravity.’ As far as this series on Pendulum Power is concerned, a pendulum is a divination tool. Specifically, it consists of a weight attached to a thin cord which is used by the owner to help them obtain information from the source of knowledge within.
A pendulum is an excellent tool for communicating with the power within you for two major reasons:
- A pendulum is truly portable and can be carried with you anywhere and everywhere in either pocket or purse.
- Using a pendulum requires no detailed knowledge – just the ability to follow a few ‘operating instructions’ which will be given later in this series.
Some people are under the impression that a pendulum is something of a ‘magical’ tool in and of itself. This is not the case at all. A pendulum is a divination tool and nothing more. Any ‘magic’ that takes place comes from the user, not from the tool itself.
Consider a carpenter’s hammer. It is useless in and of itself. No matter how long it is left on a bench, it will not pick itself up and hammer a nail into a piece of wood. But combine the tool of the hammer with the knowledge of the carpenter and hammering a nail into a piece of wood is simplicity itself.
So it is with the pendulum. On its own it can do nothing, but when it is used correctly by the owner, seemingly magical results can take place.
Another myth is that a pendulum is only useful if it is of a certain size or if the weight is made of a certain material. Again, this is not so. You can make your own pendulum from materials you probably already have in your home in a matter of minutes and get just as good results as you would by using one which has been professionally crafted. Of course, it may not be as visually pleasing as a professionally manufactured model, but as far as results are concerned all pendulums are equal.
Making Your Own Pendulum
Having dispelled the common myths that a pendulum has magical properties of its own and that it should be manufactured in a specific way to be beneficial, it is now time for you to take some action. The first step is for you to make your own pendulum.
To make your own pendulum, you only need two things: a length of thin cord and a weight. The cord could be a piece of string and the weight a simple ring or hex nut, but don’t be confined to these suggestions. One man that I know of was so desperate to make a pendulum that he used a thin shoe lace and a ball of poster putty for the weight – and his pendulum worked wonders!
I recommend that the cord should be approximately eight to twelve inches in length, and all you need to do is secure the weight of your choice to one end. When you have done that your pendulum is ready to use, and I will discuss how to do that in my next post.
Pendulum Power has fascinated people for centuries, and in this new series of articles I will discuss the power of the pendulum in detail. Over the next few posts you will learn:
- Why the power within you knows the answers to all questions and is even able to help you foretell the future.
- Why a pendulum is an excellent tool to help you communicate quickly and easily with the power within you.
- How to make a pendulum of your own.
- How to use a pendulum to tap into the unlimited source of knowledge within you.
At the appropriate point I will also provide a special chart which you can start using immediately to help reveal what the future has in store for you!
Let’s start by discussing…
The Source Of All Knowledge
If I told you that the power within you was the source of all knowledge and could provide you with information not obtainable elsewhere, you might be a little sceptical. Your scepticism, however, would not invalidate the fact that this is the truth. The power within you – as regular readers of Create Good Things will already be aware – has the answer to any question, the solution to any problem and the key to unlock any door which you may face.
Think about this for a few moments and it will be obvious that we shouldn’t expect anything less from the power which created and sustains the universe we live in. Since we and everything around us is energy what the energy does in one place or time is intuitively known in every other place and time.
Consider a lake. Drop a pebble at one end of a lake and the effects of this small action will be registered throughout the whole. Ripples expand from the point where the pebble hit the water and continue expanding until the whole of the surface knows that the event has taken place. Of course, the ripple might not be visible to the human eye for more than a few metres, but on a microscopic level it continues far wider. On a quantum level the act of dropping a small pebble into a lake causes major reactions which any scientist can measure.
So it is with the energy in and around you. But because the power within you is divine and is not limited to time, it knows how events will unfold in the future as well as what has happened in the past.
This is not to say that the future is fixed, because that isn’t the case. But it is the case that for every action there is a reaction. If you ask the source of all knowledge within you what your future holds, it will answer according to the actions which you are currently taking. You can then choose to change this future by changing your current actions.
For example, if you ask if you are going to be healthy in five years time and the source says no, this does not mean that health is not possible for you.
On the contrary, if you look at your current lifestyle and you make changes such as quitting smoking, taking up exercise on a regular basis and begin eating a more balanced diet, you will automatically change the state of your health in the future.
It is important to realise that the future can be changed by changing your daily actions because so many people believe falsely that destiny is written on tablets of stone. They don’t even bother to try to improve their lives and so – like a self-fulfilling prophecy – their lives continue to head towards the future that they believe is already fixed.
So much for the theory – how can one access the source of all knowledge for oneself? Well, you have probably accessed this source of all knowledge quite accidentally in the past.
- You may have heard the telephone ring and known instinctively who was calling you.
- You may have had a dream which foretold a future event.
- You may have ‘known’ what someone was going to say even before they had said a word.
- You may have found yourself experiencing Déjà Vu, knowing on a very deep inner level that the situation or place you were in was strangely familiar to you.
All of these incidents are examples of how the source of all knowledge is tapped ‘accidentally’ from time to time. Unfortunately, accidents are random events and so if we want to access this kind of knowledge on a regular basis to help us live our lives more effectively, we need to find a method of divination which can be relied upon at all times to provide answers to our questions as and when we need them.
The search for such a method is not new. Many have tried and a few have succeeded, but most of the divination methods discovered are complex and require a lot of self-education.
The Tarot is a wonderful example. Its effectiveness is hard to dispute, but mastering Tarot cards on your own can take a long time, and that might not be good enough if you need a quick answer to a quick question. The I-Ching and casting of Runes are similar methods which require at least a working knowledge of how the symbols are to be interpreted, and so on.
But what if there was a method of accessing inner knowledge which didn’t require anything great in the way of self-education? What if you could find a method of gaining the answer to any question within minutes? Even better, what if this method was truly portable and could be used anywhere?
Welcome to the world of Pendulum Power!
The power of the mind is enormous, if not genuinely infinite. For millennia philosophers, spiritual leaders and in recent years even psychologists and scientists have said that the attitude or mind-set of a person can often have a direct effect on what that person experiences. In my opinion this relationship between attitude and winning is so important that I believe everyone who wants to win at life should invest some time in developing their latent Mind Power as fully as possible.
When it comes to Mind Power, there are only two kinds of people: those who use it, and those who abuse it. Those who use it deliberately develop their Mind Power in an effort to gain every possible edge in life. Those who abuse it often do so unconsciously, but nevertheless suffer as a result.
If you want to win at life, you must first of all ensure that you have developed and are using your inner Mind Power to its best effect. Fortunately, this isn’t difficult. It may, however, require that you change some of your core beliefs and attitudes.
To begin with, you should eliminate all negativity from your thinking. This is easier said than done, I know, but it is vital.
In this day and age it is easy to be negative about your life and your circumstances, but unfortunately, being negative never helps to turn your life or circumstances around. In fact, it only makes you feel worse and continue attracting negative circumstances! Being positive, on the other hand, can and does help to change both your life and your circumstances.
It is a fact of life that we all get what we expect. If we expect good things to happen then they invariably do. If we expect bad things to happen then they invariably do. In short, it can therefore be said that we always tend to get what we expect.
If you want to succeed and win at life, you must start expecting to succeed and win at life. It’s no good studying the Law of Attraction or simply going through the motions if you expect to fail deep down, because that hidden expectancy will still cause you to fail and your efforts would be fruitless.
The good news is that there are some very simple Mind Power development exercises which virtually anyone can use to start winning at life on a more consistent basis. There are three exercises in all, and using them daily will result in you developing your Mind Power with ease. All you have to do is carry out the following three exercises in the order given:
Exercise 1 – Affirm Success
Your subconscious mind is like a magical servant because it will do whatever it is told to do. Unfortunately, the conscious mind, which gives this servant its orders, often tells it to fail in life.
Affirmations have been proven by many people to help replace negative commands with positive ones, which obviously lead to more positive results. Our first exercise is therefore designed to bombard your subconscious mind with positive thoughts or affirmations.
Simply take five minutes each day (use a stop-watch if you want to be precise) and read the following affirmations out loud over and over again until the five minutes is up. You might feel a little self-conscious at first, but this is just because you are changing a pattern of negativity. Within a few days of practising the exercise the affirmations will become more and more believable as far as you are concerned and when this happens the positive effect will start to be seen in your external circumstances.
The affirmations to use are as follows:
I am a natural winner.
Whatever I touch becomes successful.
I am automatically guided towards success.
My positive mental attitude helps me to win at life.
Every day something good happens to me.
I am successful, victorious and happy.
Winning is automatic for me.
Exercise 2 – Picture Success
Images have just as much of an effect on our subconscious minds as our words do. It is therefore important to deliberately picture success and all that it means to you for five minutes each day if you want to become a genuinely consistent winner.
Now there are two ways of picturing success – one for those among you who can mentally visualize images (see Creative Visualization) and the other for those who cannot visualize so easily.
For those who can visualize, sit down quietly and imagine yourself living as a consistent winner. How would your life be different? Would you live in a larger home, drive a better car or enjoy more holidays? Whatever success means to you, imagine it now as though it has already happened. Enjoy this visualization completely. Actually work on convincing yourself that you are already enjoying the success you desire. This will ensure that the exercise is as beneficial as possible.
For those who cannot visualize with ease, do not worry. An equally effective way of picturing success is to collect a few pictures which symbolise what success means to you. Clip out a picture of the car you would like to drive, or the kind of house you would like to live in, or the holiday destinations you would like to visit. When you have a suitable collection of pictures, spend five minutes each day enjoying them, and just think how it will feel to have these things in your life.
Exercise 3 – Decide to Succeed
The third exercise calls for you to make a deliberate decision every single day to succeed and win at life. This might sound like a crazy idea, but it isn’t really. This is because when we make deliberate decisions, our subconscious mind automatically starts looking through its memory to find information, ideas and other items of data that will help you to follow through on your decision.
If you deliberately decide each day to win at life, your subconscious mind will immediately start working with you, rather than against you. It will start reminding you of books that you should read, steps that you should take and other things that you should do to help ensure that your goals are achieved as quickly as possible.
Making your daily decision to succeed is not difficult. You just decide! Some people like to profess their daily decision out loud, something like this:
‘Today I am committed to becoming more successful in every area of my life! I deliberately decide right now to focus 100% of my energy and concentration on taking more steps towards total success! Today I will win!’
How you phrase your own decision to succeed and win at life is up to you. Feel free to adopt the statement above, or invent your own. The way you phrase your decision is not important, all that is really important is that you:
a) Make a daily decision to succeed, and;
b) Stick to your decision by doing all you can to succeed today.
Like the previous two exercises, this one isn’t at all difficult, but it is still vitally important.
These three simple Mind Power exercises are simple enough for anyone to follow – even those who have no previous understanding of the Law of Attraction – yet they are still powerful enough to transform your life if you will allow them to. After you have been using them for a while you will feel good as a matter of course. You will habitually expect good things to happen – and they will! You will spend more and more time each day focusing on the things that can help you to succeed and as a result your whole life will become richer and more satisfying. In other words, you will be using the Power of the Mind to win at life!
