Awakening Together, Relaxing into Happiness with William Cooper, Master of Theology, Licensed Professional Counselor
Experience Awakening....Relaxing into your Being and, therefore, Happiness. William earned a 4 year on campus Master of Theology from Harding Theological Seminary. He was a Unity board president and, later, a Oneness trainer. In 1994 he went into private practice as a Licensed Psychotherapist. He has been to India 14 times averaging 3 months per visit to explore awakening with gurus and awakened beings. Also, Bhutan, Nepal, Thailand, Brazil, etc. In this series, William attempts to encapsulate and convey what he feels to be most important in his 50 plus years of direct experience on the path of Awakening. This series explores the hows of awakening and encourages the direct experiencing of the flow of your Being, (love, peace, happiness, fulfillment and joy). A practical blending of East and West. Meditation, yoga and Energy meet psychotherapy and awakened Beings...and beyond All. For more info and writings on the subject, www.williamecooper.wordpress.com
Awakening Together, Relaxing into Happiness with William Cooper, Master of Theology, Licensed Professional Counselor
38 - Laws of Attraction and Complimentary Vibrations for Manifesting (part 2)
In this podcast we discuss manifestation through the law of attraction and law of complimentary vibrations. This is the second part of this 3-part series on manifesting. If you like this podcast you may want to check out the podcast before and after which include other paths to manifestation. For more, read "Ramana, prayer and the law of attraction?" under the "writings" tab at www.williamecooper.wordpress.com
These podcasts are here to support your personal path of awakening whatever that might be. I feel they are most powerful when listened to in sequence from podcast one forward because each is built on the last. Though they, also, all stand on their own. If anything does not resonate, please disregard it and follow your heart. All my podcasts and website are free. Enjoy!
Though I am a psychotherapist, and these podcasts are offered to be spiritually helpful, they are not psychotherapy. If psychotherapy is ever needed, please reach out to a psychotherapist.
www.williamecooper.wordpress.com for more support. You may, especially, enjoy the short contemplations and the resource page which gives you some supportive material.
Hello, this is William Cooper. Welcome to Awakening Together, Relaxing into Happiness. All good? I trust it is. Today, let's continue our talk on manifestation. In our last podcast, we talked about manifesting through physical powers, which are simply activated by following your bliss and doing the things that are congruent to following your bliss. They might be physical labor or mental planning or whatever it takes to accomplish your goal. Secondly, we looked at how to manifest through prayer and how that bypass some internal resistances and connects you to a great power in order to manifest your desires. What we see as common to all forms of manifestation is a clear intent and clear power flowing through you, going through the lens of your intent and manifesting on the screen of your life, the external reflecting the internal. Continuing with that theme, we're now going to look at the law of attraction as a way to manifest. With the law of attraction, you hold a clear intent. You put in the effort to achieve that intent and grace flows in. The power of the universe flows in to manifest your desires intent. That's the clear lens effort because you're working towards your intent, your congruent, and that opens up your energy to flow in a laser-like congruent manner. Grace, the universe supports your efforts. So your efforts might amount to 1% and the universe power might amount to 99%. So it's actually your intent and effort that mobilizes the universe and has it move in the direction that you would like. That's the law of attraction and creating through it. As we talked about in the last podcast, when you move forward in your manifestation, you'll bump up against internal blocks and internal unclarities, and you will want to resolve those as you move forward in your life so that you can become clearer and therefore more powerful in your manifesting. So manifestation in itself is a process of becoming clearer and therefore more powerful and therefore more effective in creating what it is that you would like to see in your life and in the world. Let me tell you a story. So I was in India and my friend Bhagavan was with me. We were talking. He has millions of followers and I got the opportunity to talk to him for a little while on this particular visit. And after our conversation, he said, I'm going to give you a gift. I'm going to help you manifest whatever it is that you would like to manifest in the world. It can't be awakening or something like that, because that's a spiritual manifestation. Instead, what I'm going to bless you with is any kind of thing that you would like in the world. He said, picture in your mind very vividly, like you're watching a video, what it is that you would like. And I'm going to make that happen. Right as he finished that sentence, he started heading towards me and putting his hands on my head. I had no time to figure anything out. I had no warning. I didn't know he was going to do this. I'd never seen him do this before. He just said it, came towards my head, and I had to quickly visualize clearly what it was that I wanted. Frankly, I was a bit panicked. I was stunned. I was in such shock that by the time his hands reached my head, which was just seconds, something involuntarily popped vividly into my head. And it was the picture of a Brazilian actress that I was enamored with. I was at this ashram. And in my group, there were about 350 people from all over the world. And I saw this beautiful woman that had quite a charisma and aura around her. And it turns out that she was a prominent actress in Brazil. I tried to communicate with her, but I was tongue tied and very shy. And even though I tried, she showed no interest in me. I was just a guy trying to talk to her. And I didn't do it that much because I didn't know what to say. Well, she pops into my mind. He puts his hands on my head as I'm picturing her involuntarily, very vividly in my mind. And the next thing I know, in real life, she's making an effort to talk to me and asking me to do things. And she invites me to Brazil to live with her. Now, I didn't do anything. This manifested, it was a 180 degree turn. I know it was all orchestrated by Bhagavan. He put her picture in my head. He shined his brilliantly clear power through me. So I had a clear intent and powerful clear energy going through the lens of that intent. And he showed me manifestation. He showed me how you create in this world. So very quickly, I did end up down in Brazil, Sao Paulo, and I stayed there for a month or so. It didn't work out, but I sure did learn a lot. I learned and began to understand some of the way that these gurus perform the miracles that they do. If you go to my website and read my writing on miracles, www.williamecooper.wordpress.com, you'll see some of the miracles that I've seen directly with my own eyes and experienced. It's very relevant to manifestation. We all can do this. It's our natural ability. The problem is that we've blocked ourselves and we're not used to manifesting in a clear and powerful way, but we can actually, we're always manifesting. But as I mentioned in the last podcast, the external reflects the internal. And because we're so muddy and blocked and diffused on the inside, that's what our life looks like. We manifest some good things and bad things. There are all these cross currents. And in another podcast on karma, I spoke about how we have the effects of our city karma, our state karma, our national karma, and all of these cross currents, all the people around us are influencing us as well. So we have to have a very powerful, clear intent and a powerful energy running through us. In truth, the universe is us and all the power of the universe is flowing through us. And that's what we realize bit by bit in our awakening process. That's what we experience. The clearer we become, the more powerful and precise our manifestations also become. So manifesting through the law of attraction, clear intent, and that's not just a visualization. It's the kind of intent that's more akin to following your bliss. It's got passion involved because it's something that comes from down deep, something you really want, something that really resonates with you. That's what I mean by intent, have that kind of intent, follow it up by effort. Your body and actions are aligned with what it is that you want, which makes sense because if you're passionate about something, you can't stop yourself. You want to work, you want to do whatever it takes to accomplish your goal. And when you do that, the power of the universe flows through that alignment. And that's often called grace. So intent, effort, and grace, the law of attraction. What about manifesting through the power of the spoken word? This is often called conscious languaging or in India, it's also might be called mantras, creating through mantras. This is one of the key ways of creation in India and other parts of the world where you use mantras or vibrations to manifest things. How does that work? Well, it works in two different ways. If you speak something or have a mantra that has a certain vibration, it will manifest something that has the exact same vibration. So if there's something that you want to create, you would go through a known set of mantras or vibrations that are understood to create the effect that you're looking for. And I suppose there are various practices all over the world, various religions, spiritual practices that have their form of calling something into existence from the unformed. This also has some basis in science. An observer can change the properties of light from a wave to a particle simply because it's observed. The Heisenberg effect is another way of describing that the experimenter or observer affects that which he's looking at or the experiment. Electrons are not in a specific location until an observer looks for them in a certain place. Then they collapse down into that position. Before that, they're just probability clusters. So the observer affects the observed or creation. Vibrations affect the universe as well. So mantras can create things. And that's one of the ways that gurus and other powerful spiritual people such as shamans create things and do so-called miracles. I say so-called because these are things that all of us can do at any time once we're clear. So that's one way to create through the spoken word. Conscious languaging is related but a little bit different. Remember we were talking about clear power and clear intent focuses that power into existence and manifests things. Well, conscious languaging works on that principle. So what you would do in conscious languaging is let's say you're in touch with the part of you that's awakening but you have many cross currents within you. You've got different parts of you that feel cloudy or muddy or you don't have confidence or doubts and so on and so forth. Instead of focusing and speaking from that place, the place of doubt, you connect to the place of light inside of you. Something that you can feel and be in touch with. The place of being, the place of peace, love or joy. And you might say something like, I am awake. That's your truth and it's clear. I'm awake. You connect to that part of you that's awake and you say I'm awake. Now all of you really is awake. There's just the illusion that you're not because you have these delusions. I have a separation. That's a delusion. So you're not feeding that delusion. You're sticking with what you know and you're coming from that place. I am awake. That's a clear non-resistant avenue into creation declaring what you really are. That's conscious languaging and it begins to manifest and reverberate in your world. Your world begins to support you because you're speaking from a place of power rather than coming from a place of fear or separation. Let's say you have another task at hand and you know that you can do it but you have a lot of cross currents. Rather than feed the cross currents, you'll say I am successful. I am learning from this task. I am completing my task easily. I'm finding refreshment. I'm enjoying myself. I'm relaxing. I'm manifesting powerfully. I'm learning. I am successful. I am powerful. These things that you're saying are not a lie. They're not an untruth. You're coming from the most truthful whole part of yourself and you're affirming it. You're not giving energy to other cross currents, other voices that would say otherwise. So in the power of your declaration, your declaration of your truth, you create your life in the way that you want it. Conscious languaging is very powerful and we may have a different podcast on that specifically. But for now, I'm just mentioning that's a way to manifest. You can google conscious languaging and you'll see some very good material on that that will fill in the gaps that I haven't covered here. It's a very good tool for your last steps of awakening because often you are one with all things. You're one with all things and then suddenly you're captured by a thought or an emotion and next thing you know you're back into some delusions. And then after a while you become re-centered and you're one with all things again. But one way to keep yourself connected to who you are is you could periodically say, I'm awake. I'm awake. Or I'm light. I'm light. I'm light. You could say that once a minute, once an hour, once every five seconds. You would pick the phrase that resonates with you, whatever that might be. I am love. I am peace. And your language, when you feel connection, when you experience connection, it's not rote repetition. So it's a focus tool to keep your focus on your connection. It doesn't create your connection. It just keeps your focus and attention on your connection that you're an infinite being, whatever that is. It's not just a positive thinking chant, you know, like, wouldn't it be great? And so I'm going to chant what I wish I were. Now that is also powerful, but different. What I'm talking about is connecting to what you're already experiencing to some degree. And you know it's true for you. And you keep your focus there. You stay connected because you're stating it out loud. It might be that you're stating it out loud to yourself. You're not even saying it out loud to the world. It's just to yourself silently. I am love or I am awareness or light, light, light. You could just say a word over and over again, but that continues to support your awakening because why it's a powerful way of manifesting. And what are you manifesting? You're manifesting, you're completing, you're continuing your awakening. Not that awakening ever is complete because how deep can you drop into the infinite and then beyond. And paradoxically, there's nothing you have to do in your awakening. I have to be very careful with my wording because all these things are happening simultaneously and are already complete. You could even say that I'm complete. Connect to the part of you that knows that I'm complete. I'm complete. And that will support you. Now, just a little earlier, I said this was not positive thinking. And it was manifesting through connection to who you truly are. Well, what if you don't feel who you truly are? What if you're just feeling bad and you're not connected and you're fogged up and you're not clear? Now what? Well, if you do chant something that you don't feel, but it's a good thing. I am awake. I am whole. I am clearing and clarifying. I am happy. I'm joyful. Even if these things aren't quote unquote true, but you connect to them as much as you can and say them, they often will have the effect of manifesting the next level up for you. They will raise your vibration. These are the things I might call positive thinking. Somebody who's more in tune with the science of positive thinking would probably argue with me and that's fine. I admit it. But for our purposes, I'm going to call it positive thinking and say that if you chant something over and over that you don't initially feel, it can have a positive and beneficial effect. So I would do that if that's where you are and it works, do it. If it moves you forward, do it. And then another door will open and another door will open and you'll get to where you want to go. You'll always get to where you want to go. If you keep going and just do baby steps, just do what you can do every day and that's enough. Okay. Now what about manifesting through vibration? Ultimately, all we are and all anything is in existence, anything that exists is vibrating. All it is, is consciousness or awareness or light. And as it slows down, it slows down into a vibration of bliss, joy, and love. And then it condenses even further into atoms and molecules and flowers and chocolate and physical things. But these things are vibrating. And the reason a presence or awareness turns into chocolate versus a flower, they have different vibrations. But ultimately, if you feel them deep enough, it's all the same vibration. But as we've talked about before, we exist on many different realms. And so on the gross physical realm, that vibration would be one of a flower versus chocolate. So your physical presence also vibrates and vibration brings to it a like vibration. Low vibrations, the vibrations of hurt, fear, and anger attract more hurt, fear, and anger. High vibrations, love, peace, and well-being attract more love, peace, and well-being. Abundance attracts abundance. Lack attracts lack. So manifestation in your life, what's surrounding you, remember the external reflects the internal, is your vibration is creating the world around you and attracting all the things that are around you because of the way that you're vibrating. If you're at a low vibration, a vibration of separation, what can start to heal that? Well, we exist like a rainbow. There are many different colors in our existence. We have emotional issues, mental issues. We have different clarities up and down the line. We have spiritual clarities. We have mental clarities, emotional clarities. We have physical clarities or issues. We have a rainbow of things going on. So we can address some of these vibrations on the levels that they exist with different tools. Sometimes therapy is good. Sometimes meditation is good. Meditation is good for most all of the levels. Sometimes exercise is good. Nutrition. We work with whatever we're called to work with, depending on what it is that we are looking to bring up the vibration. However, if we meditate, we as the infinite are watching everything as it manifests. So we're watching our thoughts. We're watching our habits. We're watching our emotions and the powerful, clear light of our awareness melts those things. If we don't reactivate them, get involved in them and perpetuate them. So sitting and watching without getting in the middle of our stories, but rather watching them happen and shining the light that we are on them, melts them. As they melt, our vibration goes up. And as our vibration goes up, that high vibration goes all through our body, through our emotional body, through our mental body, and it heals us on all levels. So that's why I say meditation is very, very helpful on all the colors of the rainbow. And they all begin to melt into a very nurturing, powerful healing source that we are the oneness of all things of the universe and beyond runs through our body and becomes very clear. As it becomes very clear, our vibration goes up. And as our vibration goes up, we attract high vibration, people, happy people, loving people, high vibration circumstances, abundance, flow, energy, money, abundance. We attract these things in our life. Now, we can't just sit there and meditate. You know, the old saying, nobody becomes an astronaut by just sitting on the couch and praying to just meditate and not put things into action is a delusion. Because when we're passionate about things, as our vibration really does move up, we find ourselves becoming very clear with what we want to do with our life. And so we move forward physically, we get up off of that couch, and we do things with passion, not through positive thinking, but through sincere energy that's flowing through our body. And so we manifest things in our lives. So as we bring our vibration up, we manifest similar vibrations in our lives. I mentioned before that our city karma, our state karma, national karma, all affects us, the people around us, our family karma, our friend karma. These are all vibrations that affect us. So in Buddhism, for instance, they might say, Sangha is very important. Be with people that are following a spiritual path and their vibration is coming up. You're surrounded with high vibration people. So you're likely to raise your vibrations, aside from all the good teachings and actions that happen in the Sangha. Friends of any good vibration are helpful. It doesn't have to be Buddhist, it could be Christian, it could be Hindu, but surround yourself with good karma, with a good karmic vibration. You might remember that we talked about that in a recent podcast on karma. If you're in a bad city and you can move, move. If you're in a bad job and you can change jobs, then do. But it's all a balance, of course, and you have to weigh one thing against the other. Usually things are mixed. A job has pluses and minuses, a relationship has pluses and minuses. So listen to yourself, listen to your intuition, because I'm not necessarily saying leave your job or your relationship, because as your vibration moves up, even if you don't move out of your job or relationship or whatever your immediate surroundings are, your higher vibration will begin to heal the job, the work, the relationship. So it works both ways. So that's a look at manifesting through the law of attraction and manifesting through the spoken word and manifesting through the law of vibrations, you might say. In our next podcast, I'd like to look at manifesting through oneness. And since we're on the path of awakening together, I think that last one is very appropriate. But all these methods of manifesting will bring you closer and deeper into clarity as you move through them. So manifestation is a good thing. It's something that life has involved in it to move you forward. Okay, I've enjoyed talking with you and I look forward to talking with you soon. Take care. Bye.