Month: September 2016

When it comes to your imagination is it best to expect the unexpected? By Val Green

(After each question, you might want to pause and reflect.)

Among other things, is imagination a viewing screen for what you believe?

How about the times when you really don’t know what you believe? Is this an opportunity?

When you call what you believe a fact, do you set images in stone? Do you create lenses that can only focus on limited things? Do you create idols to keep your focus on and for you to worship? If you see that you have done this what is your opportunity?

Is it possible that you yourself have become an idol? Have you made what is bound to change into something that you believe is beyond change? What is the opportunity when things change? Continue reading “When it comes to your imagination is it best to expect the unexpected? By Val Green”

Are you not being held prisoner by one of your perceptions? By Val Green (metaphysical)

(After each question, you might want to pause and reflect.)

Does your imagination follow any instruction that you assign it? What happens when you assign your imagination the job of creating something that scares you to death…so to speak? How about when you ask it to create something fun and meaningful?

“Ok imagination imagine the worst that can happen and make me believe it.  Thank you imagination…I can feel it… Ok now imagination show me how to avoid the worst that can happen.” Some people actually enjoy this. It is called a horror movie. Continue reading “Are you not being held prisoner by one of your perceptions? By Val Green (metaphysical)”

What does forgiveness really mean? By Steven Bunnell

Often times we think that forgiveness means letting the sinner off of the hook for no good reason. But does it really mean that?

When Jesus was on the cross he was quoted as saying: “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” How could Jesus say this?

Let’s role play. Continue reading “What does forgiveness really mean? By Steven Bunnell”

Is it an art to change your perspective of other’s behavior? By Val Green

(After each question, you might want to pause and reflect.)

First question:  What if changing your perspective of someone’s behavior required you to change your perception of yourself? Could you do it?

If someone’s behavior appears to be costing you something, what happens to your behavior? Do you become defensive? Do you internalize their behavior and believe your weakness is costing you? Have you fallen victim and believe you have to play a role that you had no intentions of playing?  Does the role you are playing lead you to believe you have to choose between the lesser of two evils? Does it appear that there is no longer a win-win option available to you?

Continue reading “Is it an art to change your perspective of other’s behavior? By Val Green”

Can you round out the hard edges of life? By Val Green

(After each question, you might want to pause and reflect.)

Could the power of mind, thought, belief and perception be more powerful than you give them credit for? Is it in the mind that with the tools of thought and belief that you have built a self-concept that appears separate from everything else in the Universe? What maintains this appearance if it is in fact just an appearance?  How can something that seems so real be just an appearance?

If you prefer to hang out in a separation identity what else could you see?  To realize something greater than this separation identity, with tools such as quantum physics you could examine yourself and the world and the different forms that energy can become transferred to or configured in. – Or you could take another approach.  Another approach could be a personal self-exploration in allowing yourself to melt into the energy of all things.

Continue reading “Can you round out the hard edges of life? By Val Green”

Can questions become the bridge from no-where to here? By Val Green

(After each question, you might want to pause and reflect.)

What is your relationship to your ideas? Have you ever taken the time to consider this question?

First off, is your idea of you, you, or is the you in this case just an idea? Secondly, when it comes to knowing who you are, what is the source of your ideas? For example: Are your ideas of the table the table? Or is the table, a physical object and your idea of the table something that is metaphysical? Do you recognize two different levels of existence that have become blended as one? If the source of your ideas is metaphysical, what would that imply about you and your source? 

If you could peel back the levels and layers of perception, what would you expect to find at the core, the source? Continue reading “Can questions become the bridge from no-where to here? By Val Green”

The Mental Blessing. By Steven Bunnell

Some 25 years ago I came across an exercise that brought some long lasting and interesting results. The challenge was to pick something that I wanted and mentally bless the first 7 people I saw for the next 21 days with this whatever it was (object, talent or characteristic.) This challenge was made with the promise that at the end of the 21 days the object of the blessing or the avenue or challenge to achieve it would present itself.

I picked “the ability to play the piano by ear.” It was something that I had always wanted to be able to do. I thought this would be a good test for the challenge because I considered the challenge impossible. The impossibility of the possibility of playing the piano by ear didn’t stop me. I went right ahead with the challenge. Continue reading “The Mental Blessing. By Steven Bunnell”

Killing the it. By Steven Bunnell

Do you find yourself making commitments only to get caught in your old habits and patterns of behavior again and again? As Albert Einstein said when observing human behavior, “The thinking that got us into this mess is not sufficient to get us out.” Continue reading “Killing the it. By Steven Bunnell”

Is there serenity in non-judgment? By Val Green

(After each question, you might want to pause and reflect.)

In the movie Forest Gump, Forest’s mother shared her favorite metaphor about life with Forest: “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.” Why do you think that on her death bed this metaphor was so important for her to share with Forest?

Perhaps your abilities and your beliefs are also like a box of chocolates – and how you react to what you believe – are your abilities, and what makes all the meaningful differences in your experience. Continue reading “Is there serenity in non-judgment? By Val Green”