Mind Magic for Change

A talk given by David Truman on 4/12/09

"I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
and stops my mind from wandering
where it will go"

-- The Beatles

Today we're going to talk about change, and how we use our minds to create either positive or negative change in our lives. And I'll be using some ideas from Jose Silva, the man who developed Silva Mind Training.

How change happens

Silva says, "Life does not happen to us, it happens through us." Our lives are first composed by us in our minds -- in our thoughts, visions, and beliefs. Then, we simply enact the script we've written for ourselves, and that creates our experience.

Silva further explains that there are three steps by which we create our lives:

Invision (as in inner vision, or envision): the thoughts and dreams that we formulate in our minds. It's like creating a blueprint for a house on paper before it is built.

Decision: the choice to either build or not build (do or not do) what one has conceived in the mind.

And finally,

Go-To: to go to manifest what that blueprint said, bring it to life.

So you have Invision (design in preview mode); Decision (yes or no; go or no-go); and Go-To (manifest, bring into life, implement, do).

Where positive and negative change come from

Of course, changes can be for the better or for the worse. We all know that. How many people have you heard say they wish they could be the same loving, trusting person they were ten years ago? Our lives can be a stairway to heaven, a slippery slope into pain and disappointment, or anything in between. It's all a matter of choice. And choice starts in the mind.

Changes for the better. Upward changes come from your heart, and from your soul. Your soul knows what is good and true, and what is truly best for you and for everyone. Therefore, upward changes come from following the natural inclinations, desires, and visions of your heart and soul. These natural inclinations keep bubbling inside you, no matter what course you follow in your life. Because of that, choices that grate against your soul nature will always bother you, however long you stick with them.

Your soul is constantly trying to manifest. It is impressing upon you from within your desires, visions, and fantasies. It is "nudging you to greatness," as Silva would say. In other words, your soul would have you be great, and manifest great things. Your soul would have you be beautiful. And its visions are about that. They are visions of loveliness -- your loveliness, to be exact. Your goodness, your beauty, your love, your native intelligence, etc. This is what yoursoul has in mind for you.

Changes for the worse. Downward changes come from egomind. Egomind is a reaction against the true beauty and intelligence that God created in human beings. Egomind opposes your soul's true desires, squelches your loving impulses, argues against your selfless inspirations, dims your intelligence, and mocks your spiritual wisdom. It calls love and risk dangerous, generosity unwise, and rightness hypocritical. When you heed the egomind, the result is downward changes. Downward changes are the manifestation of egomind's reactions to your own beauty.

Consider the source

When people want to make a major life decision, they will normally consult with someone, but they will choose their consultants according to what they wish to do. They already know who will approve their plan and who will disapprove it. If they want it disapproved, of course they will choose the consultant who will do that. And if they want it approved, they will choose the opposite type of consultant.

In our lives, we have to consult either egomind or spirit about our decisions. In either case, it's easy to predict what the answer will be.

If you asked McDonald's if they were in favor of building a Kentucky Fried Chicken on the same street, their answer would be no. And of course, that is a perfectly predictable answer. Consider the source. What else could McDonald's say, when the new KFC restaurant would directly compete with them?

Similarly, if we consult egomind, it will put the kibosh on all good things, and give approval to all bad things. Egomind will neverapprove of the spirit's plans and desires. It is inherently against the beauty that the soul would create. Therefore, to the extent that you allow egomind to rule, your spirit will be suppressed. Just as McDonald's will not build a Kentucky Fried Chicken, your ego will notbuild the beautiful world, life, and relationships that your heart and soul envision. Not ever. Only the spirit will do that.

There will never be a time when you can consult with your ordinary egomind, and get its permission to do what you truly need as a soul to be free and happy.

The only exception is when it's setting you up for a trick -- when it knows that it can send you in with sufficient unpreparedness and resistance to create a disaster out of your beloved dream. click here to read more