Perhaps it is because so much ener gy is focused on material power in the
form of money , leadership, status, and prestige. In the pursuit of material
power you will find virtually all the problems that surface in your life,
including disease. If you are willing to solicit spiritual guidance, then be willing to accept and
implement that help even if it doesn’ t correspond exactly to your picture of
what life should be like. Otherwise, you are seeking spiritual ener gy to help
you remain the same, which means problems continue at the lower ener gy
frequencies. Don’ t dismiss as implausible spiritual answers that don’ t
correspond to the way you want your life to be structured. In order to be able to commune with the divine you must be tuned into that
frequency! Y ou cannot tune into an FM radio station while you have the
setting on AM. Certainly , the higher frequencies of FM are out thereplaying away . But if you’re not tuned to them, you will conclude they are
unavailable. Y ou must therefore be more God-like and less materialistic in
order to access and use spiritual ener gy to nullify and eliminate your
problems. Our institutions are built and or ganized around the idea of facilitating,
regulating, and guiding human behavior . You cannot go to schools,
businesses, governments, or even churches, mosques, or synagogues to
negotiate the presence of this ener gy. These institutions exist to deal with
the material world and to keep human beings in line. They vibrate to the
lower ener gies of the material world and often are the source of, rather than
the solution to, your problems. Eventually , enough people will reach a higher state of spiritual vibration
and form a critical mass. Then you will see institutions emer ge that are not
designed to regulate, facilitate, or guide human behavior , but to access,
implement, and teach a spiritual approach to life. In short, the purpose of
our institutions will shift from controlling to promoting bliss. But you need
not wait for that critical mass. In fact you very likely don’ t have enough
time to do so. Instead you can become an ingredient of that new critical
mass by living from your field of divine ener gy each day . The poets express this so perfectly with an economy of words. Here is one
of my favorites, speaking to the way to negotiate this higher ener gy into
your life. I ask for a moment’ s indulgence to sit by Thy side. The works that I have in hand
I will finish afterwards. Away from the sight of Thy face
My heart knows no rest or respite,And my work becomes an endless toil
In a shoreless sea of toil. Today the summer has come at my window
With its sighs and murmurs;
And the bees are plying their minstrelsy
At the court of the flowering grove. Now it is time to sit quiet
Face to face with Thee,
And to sing dedication of life
In this silent and overflowing leisure. —Rabindranath T agore
Those “works that I have in hand,” T agore suggests you can put aside. These are the material concerns that bring your problems to the surface. He
describes the presence of problems as “A way from the sight of Thy face,
my heart knows no rest or respite.”
When you concentrate on these five simplified ways of being in your life,
you begin the process of changing from one ener gy form to another . And
you discontinue giving ener gy to the things you don’ t want or believe in
your own heart. Examine this thought carefully as you go toward a faster ,
higher awareness. A spiritual solution truly awaits everything you will ever
think of as a problem. OceanofPDF .com4
STOP GIVING ENERGY  
TO THE THINGS YOU  
DON’T BELIEVE IN
I began to understand that the promises of the world are for the most part vain phantoms, and that
to have faith in oneself and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. —MICHELANGELO
In this chapter I would like you to imagine your thoughts and inner feelings
as flowing ener gy that you can control because you are the source of those
thoughts and feelings. That source can be used to get both what you want in
life as well as what you don’ t want. Let’ s begin with the ener gy system for
getting what you want  which I’ll summarize here briefly before moving to
the central focus of this chapter which is the removal of ener gy that you
expend on getting what you don’ t want . GETTING WHA T YOU W ANT
Keep in mind the central principle that guides your lifetime in this material
universe— as you think so shall you be —seven little words that form the
basis for transforming your life. Everything begins with a thought. Thoughts are invisible, so the source of your material world is in theinvisible realm of ener gy, which as you now know can be a very fast
vibration or quite the opposite. Once you understand fully that what you
think about is what expands, you start to get very careful about what you
think about. Look around you. Notice that everything you observe has its origins in the
invisible world of ener gy. I have heard it said that “a rock pile ceases to be a
rock pile the moment a person contemplates it, bearing within them the
image of a cathedral.” Similarly , a block of marble ceases to be a block of
marble the moment one visionary looks upon it as David. How you look
upon the world and the images you have within you determine what you
will get in your life. And make no mistake about it, all your thoughts form a
bastion of ener gy that you radiate outward to create the circumstances of
your life. People who we deem to be successful or happy or fully functioning are
those who are able to attract into their lives what they would like to have. And the reverse is true as well. People who are unsuccessful, unhappy , or
laden with problems are essentially unable to attract into their lives what
they would like to have. Let’ s deal with those two groups here in order . To me it is all a question of where you place your ener gy, and at what
frequency you are ener gizing your inner world. The successful people in the
first group (this is very general here, I will be more specific in later
chapters) have a tendency to do the following four things. 1. They expr ess their desir es. Successful, problem-free people have no
hesitancy to say out loud what it is they would like to manifest into their
lives. They are, first of all, able to wish for a solution as the beginning state
of eradicating so-called problems. “I wish I could quit drinking. I would
love to get the raise. I would really like to lose this excess weight. I really
want to get along better with my children.” This is the beginning phase. I
call it the wish phase, and it is in the expression of a desire that highly
successful people are led to the second phase. 2. They ar e willing to ask. This involves an awareness that they are not
alone, that a divine source is something they are at all times connected to,and that this source will provide them with sustenance and answers if they
will only ask. “Ask and you shall receive,” is not an empty phrase, it is an
admonition from the Scriptures to elicit divine support in removing
obstacles to your highest good. Personally , whenever I find myself stuck in a problem area I go to a quiet
place, away from all distractions, and I ask God to guide me in the direction
of a solution. I do not ask God to do it for me, since I know that I am never
separate from this divine source. The act of asking  is a form of letting go of
the ego and accessing that highest spiritual guidance. I have found that
asking out loud is even more powerful. I came across this little poem while
speaking in South Africa. I include it here as a wonderful reminder that you
will get whatever you ask for , including a meager life. I bargained with Life for a penny ,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;
For Life is a just employer ,
And gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why , you must bear the task. I worked for a menial’ s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid.—Jessie B. Rittenhouse
I speak to you here from my experience. Every time I move into a place of
asking, some synchronistic event occurs to put me on the path to problem
resolution. If I am stuck in my writing, after asking, the phone will ring and
someone will give me the missing piece of the puzzle, or I will be “guided”
to a book, open it, and there will be the answer to precisely what I was so
befuddled by only a few moments earlier . It seems as though the process of
asking is one in which we surrender our own sense of self-importance, and
it is this very surrendering process itself that I described earlier that leads us
to the next way that successful people act. 3. They state an intention. In this phase they begin the process of taking full
responsibility for creating their world the way they really want it to be. They have expressed their desire, asked for guidance, and now all of their
energy is speeded up because they will not entertain any doubts about their
ability to solve any problem. “I will absolutely lose the weight. I will not
have arthritis move into my body . I intend to manifest prosperity into my
life. I will not be pushed around by him any longer .” Highly successful
people are those who have a knowing about resolving problems, and they
are not focused on proving their point to anyone. In fact, they are most
often silent on the subject. An intention is almost a bonding with the divine in which there is an
absence of arrogance or demand, and a powerful sense that “I cannot allow
any doubt to reside in me or I will then act upon that doubt and
consequently manifest precisely what I am doubting.” This word intention
is synonymous with the supreme confidence that they can put the right
energy into the resolution of a problem, and it will materialize. I do not wish to further embellish this point, since I wrote an entire book on
the subject titled Manifest Y our Destiny , and I want to get on with the
subject matter of this chapter , which is how to stop giving ener gy to things
you don’ t want and don’ t believe in. Hence, the final quality of the inner
energy system of those whom we perceive as problem solvers or successful
is:4. They have a har dening of the will. I often refer to this as having passion
for what you would like to attract into your life to resolve your problems. I
recall a famous teacher in India telling his devotees that any attempt to
manifest what you want in life without passion is akin to dressing up a
corpse. The body might look the part and have a sensational appearance but
it will ultimately fail because it is dead inside. T o be dead inside is to be
without passion. When successful people harden their will they become immune to outside
forces which might attempt to dissuade them from their inner passion. In
fact, they actually use the negative external pressures to remind themselves
of their commitments. Perhaps the single most powerful force that you can master is a burning
desire to achieve your inner objective. Now a desire is one thing, and
everyone has a desire to rid themselves of their problems and reach a higher
state of happiness and fulfillment. If you don’ t believe me, just ask the first
ten people you encounter if they want to live a problem-free life. They’ll all
say, “Absolutely!” The desire is there. But a burning desire is something
quite dif ferent. This is like having an inner candle flame that never even
flickers, though the very worst goes before you. This is an inner desire that
can never be extinguished by outside forces. It burns within you and it must
be satisfied. I can personally attest to the presence of a burning desire or a hardening of
the will in virtually all the undertakings of my life. When I published my
first book, Your Err oneous Zones , back in 1976, it was my burning desire to
tell the world about those ideas. I bought up entire printings, and I toured
the country visiting every radio/TV show that would have me, doing
fourteen or fifteen interviews every day , paying my own expenses as I went. Not because I wanted to be on a best-seller list, or to make a fortune, but
because I couldn’ t extinguish that burning desire to tell anyone who would
listen what I believed in so strongly . That hardened will is still present
today . And I truly don’ t even know how to soften it. Recently I produced two lecture shows for public television in the United
States. These shows were used as pledge drives to encourage people to
contribute to commercial-free public television. I feel very strongly aboutthe kinds of images that we access into our homes in the form of TV
signals. These signals are ener gy vibrations that are transmitted into the
atmosphere, and we use our receiver to access this ener gy into our homes. If
we allow signals that carry the ener gy images of violence, sexual
promiscuity , disrespect, vulgarity , and the like to come into our homes to
poison the minds of our children, then they will resonate with that ener gy
and emulate it in their everyday lives. Public television does not send out
energy signals tainted with vulgar or violent images. When I put the two shows together , they were titled Impr ove Y our Life
Using the W isdom of the Ages  and How to Get What Y ou Really , Really ,
Really , Really W ant. And that hardened will that manifests itself as a
burning desire was immediately ignited within me. If we have a spiritual
deficit in our country in which violence and vulgarity have become a way
of life, particularly as it impacts our young people, perhaps it is related to
the kinds of ener gy signals that we access in our homes. If the average child
has seen over twelve thousand murders on commercial and cable television
by the time he has reached his fourteenth birthday , maybe, just maybe, this
is a collective influence on the high incidence of violence and mass school
killings. So, out I went, to raise money for public television, which is committed to
an absence of violence and vulgarity in its programming, while relying on
the public to support it financially . That burning desire to see a collective
solution to the spiritual deficit that causes such violent actions kicked in. I
made sixty-eight station visits, traversing the country back and forth, and
helped to raise millions of dollars. I couldn’ t just visit a few cities and then
rest; it was that hardened will, that burning desire that continued to push me
to stay the course. I recall reading about President Carter ’s agreement between the two bitter
rivals, Israel and Egypt, at Camp David in 1978. Carter had a vision that he
would not allow to be blurred though the obstacles were seemingly
insurmountable. President Carter himself, night after night, went back and
forth between the lodgings of Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin,
sometimes at three and four in the morning in order to reach an agreement. There is a glorious photograph of Sadat, Carter , and Begin shaking handsand celebrating the Camp David Accords when these formerly entrenched
enemies whose soldiers had been fighting and killing each other in bloody
wars were also uniting in peace. A spiritual solution to this massive social
problem was brought about because of the burning desire of President
Carter that could not and would not be doused until it had been realized. This same hardening of the will, when applied to the resolution of any
problem you can envision in your own life will result in a spiritual solution
as well. You may have wondered why there were four reallys in the public
television show titled How to Get What Y ou Really , Really , Really , Really
Want. I used four reallys because each one symbolizes these four
ingredients in the mind-set of spiritual problem solvers and hence highly
functioning successful people. The four reallys in summation are: Desir e,
Asking, Intention, Passion . And the good news is, what you really , really ,
really , really intend, you will get. Now for the bad news. The reason most people are unable to manifest their
heart’ s desire and remove problems from their lives is this—pay close
attention because this will explain in simple language why you have not
been successful in resolving all problems—what you really , really , really ,
really don’t want, you will also get. Avoiding Getting What Y ou Don’t W ant
The same four reallys apply here. For the remainder of this chapter I am
going to focus on how you can stop giving ener gy to the things you don’ t
want and the things you don’ t believe in, which, surprisingly , is where most
people keep and maintain with fervor their ener gy supply . But why would
anyone, let alone you, ever for even a moment want to give ener gy to what
you don’ t want and don’ t believe in? Let’s go back briefly to those seven little magic words: as you think, so
shall you be . This universal law applies both ways. When you put your
thought ener gy on your intentions with passion you ultimately will act upon
those thoughts and you are bound to attract what you are thinking about into
your life. As always, the ancestor to every action is a thought. This law alsoworks to keep you from attracting solutions for your problems into your life
as well. Here are the four subgroupings that you typically employ in giving ener gy
to what you don’ t believe in. These four categories explain why most
people are not very good at solving their problems and getting what they
want in life. Sending your ener gy to what you don’ t want. Imagine this scene. I give you
one million dollars and tell you to go out and spend this money to purchase
what you want, no restrictions. Y ou take the cash and of f you go to the mall
to use this currency to get what you want. The first store you enter you see
furniture that you find appalling and hideous and you spend $100,000
buying it all up. The second store you enter is loaded with jewelry that you
find distasteful and overpriced. Again, you spend another $100,000 on
jewelry that you don’ t want. This pattern continues throughout your
shopping spree. You have currency to spend on what you want, and every time you see
something that you don’ t want, you use up your currency to purchase it. When you get home, and all your purchases are delivered, you ask yourself,
“Why is my house filled with all this stuf f that I don’ t want?” The answer:
“Because you are insane! Here you had all this money to buy what you
wanted, and you spent it instead on what you didn’ t want.” This is just plain
crazy . Now keeping the above scene in mind, remind yourself that your thoughts
are the currency for getting what you want in your life. Remember , your
desires, requests, intentions, and passions are all thoughts, and when you
place those thoughts on what you don’ t want, regardless of how negatively
you feel about it, you will act upon what you don’ t want, and more of what
you don’ t want will show up in your life. Just like the hideous furniture and
distasteful jewelry . They are there in your house because you foolishly
spent that precious currency on what you didn’ t want. How does this work and why would you give your precious life ener gy in
the form of your thoughts to something you didn’ t want? Y our mind isactive all day long with some sixty thousand separate thoughts each and
every day . Examine those thoughts. How many of them are on what you
don’t want? “W ith my luck it will never work out. This cold is getting
worse each day . I know those stocks will devalue, it’ s just the way things
always seem to work out for me. The deal will probably fall through. There
will not be very good seats left when we get to the theater . These meals will
add twenty pounds to my waist alone. Quitting smoking is so hard. It’ll
probably rain and ruin the outing.”
This list could go on for a thousand pages. Y ou begin to get the idea. Y our
thoughts are the ener gy that you act upon. If your thoughts are on what you
don’t want, no matter how much you abhor the thought of what you don’ t
want materializing into your life, you will act upon those thoughts and more
of what you don’ t want will keep showing up. When you stop giving ener gy
to what you don’ t want, you will see yourself changing to a faster and
consequently more spiritual ener gy. Here’ s how to change this old habit. When you find yourself thinking a thought that focuses on what you don’ t
want, no matter how insignificant it might be, remind yourself that you will
ultimately act upon that thought and it will materialize into your life. Stop
yourself right there, and silently ask yourself, “What do I want?” That is,
instead  of thinking that your arthritis is going to get worse, which is
precisely what you don’ t want, change the thought to an intention . “This
arthritis is going to disappear from my life completely .” Eventually , slowly ,
but surely , you will begin to act upon this new intention, which is a faster
energy, and this new intention will become your reality . You will do
whatever you have to do to avoid suf fering with your arthritis. Y ou will not
complain about it, because you are no longer thinking of it as a problem, so
you can’ t complain. And miracle of miracles your body , which is a system
of ener gy, will react to your thoughts as well. As has been said many times,
“Your biography becomes your biology .”
But more important, you will be putting your ener gy on solutions by
removing the problem first from your mind and then your body as well. For
instance in a parking situation, your thoughts shift from “There will
probably be no place to park” to “I’m looking for my parking place.”Suddenly you’ve stopped looking for no place to park, and the ener gy
changes to accommodate you. I am using the word intention  here quite intentionally . I am not suggesting
you keep your thoughts on what you want, because if you do, you will
manifest a state of wanting for yourself. I am suggesting you move up the
ladder from wishing to asking, to intending, and finally to passion. What
you intend in your thoughts with passion, you will act upon and ultimately
create. The secret lies in the continuous reminder to yourself to first stop the
outward verbal expression of what you don’ t want; second, catch yourself
and examine the thought behind that expression; and finally , shift to an
intention of what you will be creating for yourself, even if you don’ t know
how you will create it, because ultimately you will act upon it, or you will
access higher , and faster , universal powers to provide you with the
solutions. Here is an example of how I had to recently employ the above suggestions. On returning from a speaking engagement in Puerto Rico I arrived in my
hotel room in Chicago at 2:03 P.M. I was extremely hungry and telephoned
room service to order a sandwich and some juice. I was informed that room
service closed at 2:00 P.M., and would reopen at 5:00, so there was no way I
could get anything to eat for three hours. I pleaded with the woman on the
telephone, reminding her that it was only three minutes past two, couldn’ t
she just send up a sandwich. She wouldn’ t budge. T wo o’clock meant just
that; 2:00, not 2:03. My first conditioned impulse was to get upset. “How
can they treat me this way , I’m a paying customer . I haven’ t eaten all day , I
don’t deserve this.” I headed out the door for the elevator to find the
manager and tell him how disappointed I was by this kind of treatment. As I closed my hotel room door I remembered what I had just spoken about
to one thousand people in Puerto Rico the day before. “Don’ t put your
thoughts and life ener gy on what you don’ t want.” Which was precisely
what I was doing. I was thinking about how stupid this was, how upset I
was, and most absurdly , not getting something to eat. I immediately went
through the three steps I outlined above, and I decided to put all of my
thinking ener gy into what I wanted and what I intended to create.All I wanted was a sandwich, and I started seeing myself getting a sandwich
and let go of my anger and thoughts about being outraged and mistreated. “I
will get a sandwich,” I said to myself, and I hardened my will. As I emer ged from the elevator with a new resolve and spiritual ener gy
dancing in my head, I noticed that straight across the lobby there was an
entire buf fet of food being cleared by a waiter . I calmly walked across the
lobby and began chatting with the man clearing the food. W ithout realizing
it I had the program from Puerto Rico in my hand. The man said to me in a
pronounced Spanish accent, “Y ou’ve been to Puerto Rico, I’m from Puerto
Rico.” I told him I had just arrived and had spoken to a lar ge crowd just
yesterday . We talked some more and then I asked him the key question
which was the basis of my inner intention, “Could I possibly make a
sandwich from this buf fet and char ge it to my room?”
His response was immediate and definitive. “Y ou spoke in my hometown. I’ll make you the best sandwich you’ve ever tasted.” A few minutes later he
emer ged with a huge sandwich wrapped in napkins and two glasses of fresh
orange juice that he refused to let me pay for . “It was so nice talking to
someone who was just in Puerto Rico. It reminded me of home. Enjoy your
lunch on me.”
The moment I took my ener gy of f what I didn’ t want, and put it into what I
intended to create, the universe conspired with me in a synchronistic
fashion and I was able to create the result of my higher/faster inner ener gy. I
recommend that you employ this technique at even the most dif ficult of
times around things that you may have become conditioned to believe you
have no control over . Recently my brother was telling me about all the people he was meeting
who had prostate cancer . “It’s like an epidemic,” he said. “Three guys down
the street, two at work, all in the past week or so.” My immediate response
to him was, “I will not think thoughts of prostate cancer .” When a friend
who had recently had a hip replacement due to rheumatoid arthritis told me
that with all my running I was a perfect candidate for a hip replacement, my
immediate response was, “I will not have a hip replacement. I don’ t do
rheumatoid arthritis.”When you make these internal intentions you will not only act upon them,
but you will put your body into a state of prevention and health as well. Y ou
move up from 20,000 cycles per second to the faster spiritual frequencies
by keeping your ener gy of f what you don’ t want, and on what you intend to
create. If you think about what you don’ t want, and you act upon your
thoughts, then you will attract what you don’ t want into your life, like it or
not! Sending your ener gy to what is. Here is another reason why it is so dif ficult
for people to become problem eliminators and attract into their lives what
they want. It is very easy to spend your ener gy on the circumstances of your
life, or as it is put here, on what is . Again, back to our theme, what you
think about expands. If you place your ener gy on what is, you will see more
of what is continuing to show up in your life because you will act upon your
thoughts of what is. Even if you detest the circumstances of your life, and
you hate the conditions that you are experiencing, if you place your ener gy
on what it is that you despise, you will act on those thoughts and those
conditions which you despise will continue to manifest into your life. This is one of the most troubling ener gy areas to change lar gely because
you have very likely been surrounded by people who complain and whine
about their life circumstances all of the time. Let’ s say you have very little
money , as an example, and you label yourself as poor , underprivileged,
unlucky , unfortunate, or lower middle class. Any such label will do. How
much time do you spend thinking and talking about being poor ,
complaining about the circumstances under which you are forced to live,
whining about the shortage of money , finding fault with the politicians who
are responsible for your life of scarcity? All of this is ener gy, slow/low
energy, but nevertheless it is the precious currency of your life that you are
expending on what is. Keep this statement in mind if you are in this
category of scarcity consciousness: You cannot manifest pr osperity fr om
thoughts of I hate being poor . You will act upon this thought and you will
create more and more of hating being poor in your life. Saint Paul reminded us that “God is able to provide you with every blessing
in abundance.” What is required of you is a shift from the ener gy of what is,
onto the ener gy of what you want, and what you intend to create. Everytime your thoughts are on the circumstances of your life which you dislike,
make a mental note to shift to what you would like to experience as your
present circumstances, and then make the big leap to higher spiritual ener gy
by visualizing what you intend to create. If you keep the vision of what you
want, you will not be able to do anything but act upon that ener gy. One of the biggest benefits of no longer giving ener gy to the things you
don’t believe in is the discovery that the universe is unlimited abundance. You can go to the inexhaustible ocean with a thimble or a bucket, and take
out of that source whatever amount you ask for . If you have enough faith
you can take away as many buckets full as you choose and it will make no
difference to the ocean. And even better , you can go and fetch from that
unlimited supply as often as you like. And so it is when you are dissatisfied
with what is, or when what is, is filled with so many problems. Y ou have
taken an eyedropper to the infinite ocean, and then set about complaining
about how little you have! True abundance is an absolute knowing that everything you need will be
supplied. As the Scriptures remind us, “Everything I have is yours” (Luke
15:31). However , if your ener gy is on what is, and this seems to be
unsatisfactory you can do nothing but continue to manifest unsatisfactory ,
largely because you keep asking why . I’ve always loved the Geor ge
Bernard Shaw observation that Robert Kennedy used in eulogizing his
brother . “Some men see things as they are and say why , I dream things that
never were and say why not.”
This subsection is in no means restricted to any absence of abundance in
your life. It applies to everything  in your present daily life that you call a
problem, and which you continue to give low ener gy to at the same time. You cannot manifest thin fr om thoughts of I hate being fat. You cannot manifest purity fr om I despise being an addict. You cannot manifest health fr om I abhor being sick. In each of the above assertions of what you dislike, you are giving of your
thoughts to creating more and more of the same. Since you become what
you think about all day long, once again, the solutions involve a dif ferent
level of ener gy to any of these and similar circumstances.If you think about hating being overweight you will have to act upon what
you are thinking and more hating being overweight will continue to show
up in your life. On the other hand, if you put your inner ener gy on your
preferred self-picture, hold that vision as an intention, post your perfect
weight by number in as many places as possible, and send love to yourself,
surrendering to higher and higher divine guidance to walk with you on your
path to your ideal weight, you will have to act upon the new intentions and
you will have stopped giving ener gy to what you don’ t believe in (or want)
and instead brought a higher -ener gy spiritual solution to your weight status. Furthermore, addicts have been described as never getting enough of what
they despise. Here again it is placing life ener gy on what you don’ t want, in
fact what you hate, and then going after it in a vicious cycle of self-
destruction. T o become free of any addiction you must no longer give
energy to what you are addicted to including labeling yourself as an addict,
and instead cultivate the higher/faster ener gy of yourself as a pure healthy
being. Whenever the temptation to place your ener gy on what you don’ t
want (the craving) arises, you shift to what you intend to create. Slowly ,
deliberately , and surely , you will bring a spiritual presence to the thoughts
of what you don’ t want and assuredly the addictions will dissipate. While entire books are written on the subject of mind/body medicine, I find
most helpful what my close friend and colleague, Deepak Chopra, M.D.,
always reminds me: “Happy thoughts create happy molecules, and healthy
thoughts create healthy molecules.” I would add that the reverse is also true:
“Unhealthy thoughts create unhealthy molecules.” If your ener gy in the
form of your thoughts is on the illnesses or discomforts of your body , your
body itself will react to those thoughts. As Norman Cousins put it, “The
greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal
itself, but that force is not independent of the belief system . . . everything
begins with belief.”
Your body will follow the same principle. It will manifest sickness for you. Health is not something that you need to acquire, it is something that you
already have. Don’ t interfere with it, particularly with your beliefs. It is
important to recognize that this applies to all your relationships as well.If the nature of any human relationship you are in is unsatisfactory in any
way, be certain that you are compounding the problem by continuing to
give ener gy to the aspects that you dislike or don’ t want. For example,
when someone says they don’ t get along with their parent or spouse, they
are defining the relationship in terms of what they dislike. “It’ s impossible
to live with her , there is always ar guing, there is no respect for me,” and so
on. Their thoughts are on what they don’ t want and they continue to act
upon those thoughts, and more discomfort and dissatisfaction continues to
be the story of the relationship. If you find you do this, begin to raise your ener gy level and remind yourself
that relationships are exclusively experienced in your thoughts. Shift those
thoughts upward in frequency to the level of spiritual consciousness and
bring that to the relationship. For you, the person doing the upgrade in
vibration, the relationship will change regardless of how anyone else acts or
reacts, and also the problem in the relationship will disappear . If you think about what is wrong or what you hate in another person, that
will be your experience of the relationship inside of you, which is where
you experience everything. When you stop giving ener gy to what you don’ t
believe in, you put an end to those problems in your life almost
immediately . Your highest vision is what I am asking you to access here, as
was so succinctly pointed out by James Allen. “The greatest achievement
was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird
waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities . . .”
Go for your highest vision of the soul and you will never again place your
energy on circumstances of your life which you don’ t want or believe in. Sending your ener gy to what always has been. How many times have you
heard the words, “But we’ve always done it that way ,” or, “I can’ t help it,
this is the way I was taught to do this.” Or words to this ef fect? Once again,
the all-important reminder of the seven precious words, “as you think, so
shall you be.”If your thoughts are on what always has been, even if you truly dislike the
way things always have been, then you will act upon those thoughts and
what always has been will continue to be part of your life, even though you
resent and dislike it. Many of the problems that we face are due to our being
attached to the way we’ve always done things. W e simply don’ t know how
to put our ener gy onto what we intend to create. I’ve heard insanity defined
as doing things the way you’ve always done them, but expecting dif ferent
results. Suppose you have a mind-set that has produced a host of failures and all the
attendant problems that go with that way of acting. These problems might
involve a series of failed relationships in which you end up continuing to
feel victimized. Or they might be the result of addictive behavior that
persists despite having changed the substances you’ve craved over the
years. Or you may have a pattern of being wasteful with your finances time
and time again, even though the circumstances have varied over the years. Or perhaps you’ve experienced one chronic illness after another , even
though the places in your body take turns being the particularly troublesome
spots. Y ou may even have said, “This is the way it’ s always been for me.”
In this case you are giving ener gy to what you don’ t believe in by placing
your inner attention on what you have become accustomed to. But as you
know from the title of this book, there is a spiritual solution to every
problem. Begin the process of increasing your frequency of vibration and
leaving behind the slower and lower material ener gies you have been
implementing and justifying by saying, “This is the way I’ve always been.”
What is it that keeps you stuck on using your inner ener gy to produce
problems that you don’ t want? It boils down to two factors, both of which
can be changed almost immediately if you decide to upgrade your ener gy
vibrations and approach the world of the spirit. I call these two factors “the
Greatest Illusion” and “Getting Rid of Y our Personal History .”
The Greatest Illusion
We are subjected to many illusions in our daily life. The greatest one is the
one that keeps us trapped in giving our ener gy to what always has been. This illusion is characterized by the belief that “The past is the reason why Iam continuing to believe in these ways.” In some of my earlier writing, I
have referred to the wake of a fast moving boat. The wake is the trail that is
left behind and nothing more, just a trail that is in back of the boat. Y ou
don’t need to be a nuclear physicist to understand that the wake does not
drive the boat. Nor does the wake of your life. It is simply the trail that is
left behind. The greatest illusion is the one in which you look into your past (wake) and
put your ener gy on what is there, even if you find it reprehensible, and then
you act upon those thoughts and continue to produce more and more of
what has always been. T o transcend this illusion you must see what it is that
makes it an illusion in the first place. The wake cannot drive the boat. The
wake of your life does not drive you today . But the present moment ener gy
that you put into the events and actions of your past, explaining or excusing
your continuing problems does af fect your life today . That is the source of
those problems, and absolutely nothing more. Just like it is the present
moment ener gy being generated by the engine that makes the boat go
forward. The trail that you’ve left behind cannot drive your life today ,
unless you convince yourself that this is the case, and that is why I call it
the greatest illusion. Getting Rid of Y our Personal History
The second factor that keeps us producing those unwanted problems is our
love of wallowing around in the dramas of our past, and using our inner
energy to remind ourselves (and anyone who will listen) of all that
transpired in our stories that created the problems we experience today . No
one said it better or more succinctly than Shakespeare when he reminded
us, “What’ s done is done.”
Recently , a woman approached me in a bookstore while I was autographing
some books for a lar ge floor display . The woman’ s name was Erikka and
she was visiting America. T wo years before, Erikka had heard me speak in
Amsterdam and she related to me how much my words had meant to her in
sustaining her through a series of problems in her life. About a year after
my Amsterdam appearance the biggest bombshell of her life dropped on her
out of the blue. Her husband of twenty-five years informed her that he nolonger loved her , was seeking a divorce, and he was going to marry his
thirty-year -old secretary . Erikka and her husband had four children and he
just summarily moved out of their lives altogether . This came as a complete shock to Erikka and she said the next year was like
being immersed in Dante’ s Inferno . She went into therapy , began taking
antidepressants, couldn’ t eat or sleep, lost over twenty-five pounds, and was
generally dysfunctional. At this point of desperation she had actually flown
to America to look me up in hopes that some of the positive spiritual ener gy
that she had felt at my seminar two years earlier would help to pull her out
of her depression and rage over her ex-husband’ s actions. As she approached me in the bookstore she was filled with excitement
because it appeared to be a coincidence that I was standing there signing
books, and she was actually in America to see if she could locate me. She
hugged me sobbing and pleading with me to please say something to her
that would restore a sense of peace and harmony to her life. I asked her to
take out a piece of paper and to write down something that Carlos
Castaneda’ s teacher , the Nagual Don Juan, had told him about what it takes
to reach the highest level of impeccability . Erikka trembled and jotted down
these words from the mystical teacher to his student. “One day ,” he said, “I
finally realized that I no longer needed a personal history , and just like
drinking I gave it up, and that, and only that, has made all the dif ference.”
Erikka left with some hope for finding a spiritual solution. I encouraged her
to realize that all those years with her ex-husband, her rage at his deception,
all of it was in this amorphous, formless world of her thoughts that
constituted a personal history . In reality , she only had now , this present
moment, and that is precisely where God is and only can be. Now . Give up your personal history which is nothing more than low ener gy
thoughts that you carry around about the way things used to be and why
you are upset today because they no longer are that way . Many of your so-
called problems are present today because you are either in the wake and
blaming it for your dif ficulties, or because you are caught up in your
personal history and refuse to give it up. Know in your heart that everything
in your wake and your personal history had to take place in order for you to
be where you are today . And what is my evidence for making such astatement? Everything did take place, period. Rather than curse it, bless it,
and bring love and acceptance to it. Perhaps the best advice I can give you in of fering up a spiritual solution to
this inclination to place your ener gy on what always has been, comes from
Jesus of Nazareth. “No man having put his hand to the plow and looking
back is fit for the Kingdom of Heaven.” So there you have it. Look back
and your life will be hell. Indeed, remind yourself over and over: If I don’ t
have a story , I won’ t have to live up to it. Sending your ener gy to what they want for you. There is no shortage of
folks out there who will let you know how they expect you to think, feel,
and behave. Now suppose that you are filled with deep resentment about
how those people are continually reminding you of their expectations for
you. If you have absorbed this chapter , you realize that despite your
resentment you will continue to attract into your life what they want for
you. This may be a sizable problem for you, but, nevertheless, you will still
attract what you think about, as long as you give ener gy to what they want
for you. The antidote for resolving this so-called problem of your resentment over
having others telling you what you should be is of course a spiritual one. You must learn to increase your ener gy vibrations from the low range of
anger , bitterness, and resentment to the higher ranges of kindness, love, and
forgiveness. The moment that you no longer react with that low ener gy, the
illusion of your problem will disappear . I observed an eighteen-year -old friend of one of our daughters talking to his
mother on the telephone. As he hung up the phone in frustration he said,
“She makes me so angry , she’ s always telling me what to think and where
to go and how to do things.” He was obviously upset and filled with anger . I
told him he had one of two choices. He could either continue to practice
being right, or practice being kind. If you insist on being right you will ar gue, get frustrated, angry , and your
problem will persist with your mom, I explained. If you simply practice
being kind, you can remind yourself that this is your mom, she’ s alwaysbeen that way , she will very likely stay that way , but you are going to send
her love instead of anger when she starts in with her routine. A simple
statement of kindness such as, “That’ s a good point, Mom, I’ll think about
it,” and you have a spiritual solution to your problem. When you need to be right you stay invested in the world of low ener gy. When you practice being kind, you bring a spiritual essence to the presence
of the illusion of a problem and, amazingly , it disappears. I recall a highly evolved spiritual teacher of mine saying to me, “Stop
taking your life so personally .” I was shocked and responded with
something like, “What do you mean by that? This is my life, it’ s very
personal.” He was alluding to the idea that we are not our bodies, our
personalities, or any of our material world possessions. W e are eternal,
spiritual beings disguised as fathers, spouses, managers, proprietors, and
owners. When we know our true divine nature, we stop taking everything
personally , including our own lives. While you may not be ready for my teacher ’s advice (nor am I much of the
time!) I recommend that you stop taking the opinions of others personally . Remind yourself that you are not going to give any ener gy to what they
want for you if it conflicts with what you intend to create for yourself,
unless the ener gy you give is kindness, understanding, and love. By sending love, compassion, and kindness to confront the problems of
anger , resentment, and bitterness as always they simply dematerialize. Why? Because they were illusions to begin with. Because they never
existed except in your mind. Stop taking your life so personally is great
advice, but stop taking other people’ s lives so personally that are directed at
you, is another way of reminding yourself that you are no longer going to
give ener gy to what they want for you. There you have the four most common ways you can employ the folly of
giving ener gy to the things you don’ t believe in. W ork each day at
reminding yourself to halt that mental ener gy when it focuses on what you
don’t want, on the circumstances of your life, on what always has been, or
on what they want for you. Shift to a higher frequency of spiritual ener gy to
focus on what you do want, and what circumstances you intend to create.Remember , you get what you really want , and you get what you really don’t
want . The choice is yours. OceanofPDF .com5
KEEPING YOUR ENERGY  
FIELD UNCONT AMINA TED
At certain moments, always unforeseen, I become happy. . . . I look at the strangers near as if I
had known them all my life . . . everything fills me with affection . . . It may be an hour before the
mood passes, but latterly I seem to understand that I enter upon it the moment I cease to hate. —WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
In this chapter you will read about three ener gy fields and ways of keeping
them clear or uncontaminated. The first ener gy field is your immediate
energy body , which I also refer to as etheric or faster . From a standing position, extend your arm forward and mentally note the
most distant point where your fingers extend. Now imagine your arm
extending straight above your head to a point over your body and then
behind and beneath you as well. Y ou now have an image of a field of
energy that continuously surrounds your body . I call this field your fast
energy body , which is inseparable from your solid and visible slower ener gy
body . Using your imagination, take a moment now to visualize this field of
faster ener gy with its edges or boundaries around you. When another person, particularly a stranger , crosses your boundary and
begins talking to you, you immediately feel as if you have been invaded.You move back instinctively to create a safer distance. Why? Because your
energy body feels the invasive force and alerts you with a state of
discomfort whenever those imaginary boundaries are violated. If someone
remains in your ener gy body field for an extended period of time, they
begin to af fect your entire being with their ener gy, bringing you down if
you feel out of sync with them, and raising you up if they resonate to a
higher ener gy vibration than you. I refer to the second ener gy field as your broader envir onmental ener gy
field. To get a sense of this physical ener gy field think about your ener gy
field extending into your home, your workplace, the street where you live,
your family , your community . Be aware that you are immersed in a field of
energy everywhere you go that extends not only as far as your arm can
reach, but as far as your eyes can see, your ears can hear , and your nose can
smell. The vibrational pattern of this ener gy field is your broader
envir onmental ener gy field. Thus, you are an ener gy form within a field of
larger ener gy mixing with a broader field of ener gy, which is impacted by
frequencies and ener gy fields of others and all the activities in the gross
field of environmental ener gy. This ener gy field in which your solid body
walks, talks, sleeps, works, and plays is impacted by the ener gy frequency
of whoever enters it. Now I want you to think of a field of ener gy that goes even beyond your
body and the physical environment where you move about. This ener gy
field is so immense that you cannot even create imaginary boundaries for it. I call this the mind field ener gy. Your thoughts and the thoughts of others
interact in your mind field in such a way as to raise or lower your frequency
of vibration. I love this observation of David Hawkins in Power V ersus
Force. “Every thought, action, decision or feeling creates an eddy in the
interlocking, interbalancing, ener gy fields of life.”
When the thoughts and feelings of others impinge upon your mind ener gy
field there will be one of two results. Either your ener gy field will be
increased, as is said to have happened when Buddha and Jesus entered a
village. Just their presence in the village and nothing more would raise the
consciousness of those around them. Or your ener gy field will be decreased
and consequently become contaminated. The way others think and howthey radiate out their thought ener gy can impact you. And the reverse is true
as Hawkins reveals. “In this interconnected universe, every improvement
we make in our private world improves the world at lar ge for everyone.”
But it is not only people who impact your ener gy fields. Noise levels, air
quality , and food purity all touch and af fect your fields of ener gy. What you
may not realize is that you play a potent role in keeping your ener gy fields
clean and uncontaminated and that you also can have a salubrious and
cleansing ef fect on the ener gy field of those around you. For this reason,
I’m asking you to make an agreement with yourself to become conscious of
what you allow into your fields of ener gy. When you do, you will recognize
how easily you can be dragged down by lower/slower ener gy. Hopefully ,
you will be motivated to begin implementing a new approach that will clear
all your ener gy fields and maintain a state of clarity , free of ener gy patterns
that contaminate your life in any way . Cleaning Up Y our Energy Fields
Your invisible ener gy fields are electrical in nature. The scientific
community refers to these fields of ener gy surrounding all living things as
electromagnetic invisible waves. These fields of ener gy are becoming
measurable as we develop more sophisticated computer -driven measuring
devices. Your body , the food you eat, the water you drink, and everything in this
universe has a blueprint for its original matrix of ener gy. The
electromagnetic field of everything created by nature is pure and in a state
of cooperation and love,  for want of a better word, with all other ener gy
fields. As Rumi put it, “Love is the ener gizing elixir of the universe, the
cause and ef fect of all harmonies.” A contaminated ener gy field is out of
balance with its original electromagnetic harmony created by nature. Or as
the metaphysicians say , God is love, and where love is absent God cannot
exist. In a profound sense, keeping your ener gy field clean and harmonious
is your agreement to stay in conscious contact with God
Since God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, it is
imperative that you keep love uppermost in your consciousness as you
examine this idea of keeping your ener gy fields uncontaminated. Anythingpenetrating a field of ener gy that you are experiencing, that isn’ t
harmonious love, is an agent of contamination and will keep you trapped in
the world of problems. Your ener gy field cleanup project encompasses the three ener gy field
categories that I enumerated above. I make no claim to scientific
verifiability for these three descriptions of fields of ener gy. They represent
my personal understanding of the ener gies and how to keep them
uncontaminated by the slowed down frequencies, which seem to me to be
characterized by an absence of love. The first field is your personal or
immediate one. Decontaminating Our Immediate Body Energy Fields
Keep in mind the extension of your arm’ s length ener gy body that is all
around you. This field of ener gy radiates outward and is impacted by two
factors. One factor is the relative harmony of your body fr om within  and the
other factor is what you allow to impact your body fr om without. For an
examination of the first factor you need to answer these questions. How do you treat this body , which is the living or ganism that sends out the
waves of electromagnetic ener gy? What foods do you use to replenish and
replace it with? Do you drink pure, uncontaminated water on a regular basis
throughout the day? What toxins do you absorb? How much peaceful rest
do you provide for it? Do you keep it balanced with nutritional
supplements? Do you exercise it regularly? Is your breathing harmonious
and unstrained? Is your emotional state calm? Do you meditate to bring
yourself into harmony with God? In short, are you a great friend to your
body? Your body must be loved; it is your home and must be cleansed of all junk. Your body is in your service continually . Even while you sleep it works for
you, digesting, removing dead cells, bringing fresh oxygen, converting
nutrients into blood. All for your survival. Y our body is not your enemy . You do not need to get free of your body in order to access spiritual
guidance. Love and compassion are absolute necessities. Y our body is just
as sacred as your soul. In the world of existence, everything is sacred; it all
throbs with the heartbeat of the divine. When you remove the frequencies ofthe divine through the introduction of nonloving ener gy you bring
contamination to your immediate ener gy body field. There are literally thousands of books written on the subject of how to keep
yourself fit. Diet books, meditation guides, nutritional tomes, addiction
treatment manuals, all designed to help you maintain a positive balance of
the natural ener gy that allows your body to make your bones, blood, skin,
brain, and everything else out of the fuel you put into it. This perfectly
functioning machine knows what is needed, where it is needed, and how to
prioritize those needs in times of crisis. If the brain needs oxygen it can put
the rest of your body on hold while it supplies that most important or gan. If
you are wounded, immediately the body directs white cells to the injured
area. It is an awesome work of mystery . By respecting its needs, your body ,
and its ener gy field are maintained at a high vibrational level. This includes
not bloating it with poisons, or allowing it to become lethar gic by not
exercising, or filling it with a higher percentage of alkaline rather than
acidic foods. These are the obvious ways to keep your personal body ener gy
uncontaminated. Y ou control this marvelously complex and mysterious
instrument that is your home through your thoughts. Our seven-year -old
daughter , Saje, has experienced this. For almost three years Saje had a serious skin disorder , called flat warts, on
her face. Medical treatment only seemed to make the disfiguring warts
grow until they covered a lar ge portion of her beautiful face. Saje healed
herself of these warts in a matter of a few days, after listening to a spiritual
lesson from a close friend of mine named Kenny Malott who is a practicing
dermatologist on Maui. When Saje was given a writing assignment in
school on the subject of overcoming obstacles, she wrote about the warts. Here is what happened in Saje’ s own handwriting and words. To this day , Saje will not reveal what she said. But I know that in her
precious little mind, she brought a spiritual presence to those bumps and
raised her ener gy field suf ficiently to remove the illusion of that disease. Her conclusion is so powerful: “If you believe in yourself, you can do
whatever you wish.”
The second factor that impacts your immediate field of ener gy is what you
allow to impact your body fr om without. What kinds of people do you allow
into your immediate space? When you allow toxic people into your
immediate ener gy field, you will find that your feelings of well-being
diminish. Just as if you allow someone with a cold to sneeze in your face,
you increase your chances of getting sick, you must be careful about whom
you elect to associate with to avoid contaminating your life ener gy. I
struggled to learn this lesson many years ago in the following situation. Years ago I was ready to leave alcohol behind me permanently . But before
that time I allowed people who loved to party all night to be in my life
space. I would for get my resolve and be right back in the addiction groove. When I was authentically ready to clean up my act as well as my ener gy
field, I removed myself from the contaminating influences of that
destructive environment. My body had to say good-bye to those influences
of contamination. I changed my phone number , literally moved out of the
neighborhood, and stayed completely away from anyone who used
addictive substances. When I refrained from entering that kind of ener gy
field my body was no longer subjected to that kind of pollution.You must say good-bye, albeit with unconditional love, to anyone who
pollutes your life space with slowed down ener gy. Or you must be prepared
to stave of f the intrusion of lower ener gy people first by recognizing it, and
then neutralizing it by radiating stronger ener gy. The problem with
attempting to continually be a neutralizer is that the ef fort required often
exhausts you and that level of fatigue makes you susceptible to the lower
energies. Keeping your body ener gy field clean by being resolute in your
commitment to stay away from those who bring negativity to your life is an
important strategy . This is true for any negativity or low ener gy that
regularly invades your body space. If someone brings anxiety , shame, depression, fear , whining, complaining,
apathy , stress, worry , anger , guilt, or any of the multitude of what I call
lower ener gy patterns, they are inviting you to join in their misery and load
your life up with the problems that they live with every day . Become aware
of what kinds of ener gy fields are impacting your ener gy body boundaries,
and resolve to remove yourself from any toxicity that threatens the purity of
your life space. When you feel yourself being breached, take immediate
action, first by recognizing what is happening, and then moving in counter
action. W atch your breathing, being careful to take long, slow intakes of
oxygen. Then consciously send out thoughts of kindness and love. Remove
yourself in a conflict-free way from the invading ener getic forces. I have found this strategy works beautifully when my children launch into
an ef fort to drag me down with loud ar guments and irrational pitches. When
I’ve listened and responded politely and the lower frequencies of loud
carping and shouting are their responses, I observe what is happening
within me. I watch my breath, remind myself not to let my ener gy field
become contaminated, and decide to remove myself from the immediate
scene. I find this useful when I am around those who talk loudly and rudely
due to excessive alcohol consumption. My rule is to politely remove myself
as quickly as possible, rather than stick around and feel myself deteriorating
into those lower ener gy fields. Anyone you allow to be a regular visitor in your body ener gy field must
come with love, peace, and the higher spiritual ener gies. Otherwise, vow toimplement your silent strategy of removing yourself as quickly as possible
from the debilitating ener gies. This is why those who reach levels of
spiritual consciousness have a select small group of friends. They treasure
their privacy and guard themselves from the marauding forces of lower
energy people. Furthermore, they value silence and a pure environment,
moving away from loud people, loud noises, poisonous intrusions, and toxic
environments. Now , let’s move on to decontaminating the second ener gy field. Decontaminating Y our Broader Environmental Energy Field
As you read the section that follows keep in mind this advice from Mother
Teresa of Calcutta. “Y ou see, in the final analysis, it is all between you and
God; it was never between you and them anyway .” I find this very helpful
as I work to keep my ener gy fields clean. Resolving conflicts, solving
problems, or cleansing contaminants from the broader ener gy fields of your
life is not something that is between you and those you are in conflict with;
it is between you and God. This means seeking a higher spiritual ener gy and
radiating it when you are encountering lower/slower enfeebling ener gy. This is exactly what took place in the following situation. A friend who has teenage children told me about trying to deal with a
disturbing conflict with one of his teenage daughters. She was staying out
all night, hanging out with people of questionable character , and under the
influence of drugs and alcohol. He said that the ener gy field of their home
was being contaminated regularly . He and his wife would spend hours
debating what course to take, and the other children suf fered when
arguments ensued. In this physical environment of low ener gy, the
disrespect, angry outbursts, alcohol/drug consumption, worry , and sadness
were contaminating the whole family . Then, he said there was a moment
when he realized that this was between him and God. In the midst of a
confrontation in which his daughter was obviously distraught and also
ashamed at having stayed out late again, she suddenly stopped her angry
outburst and said, “Could I have a hug from you?”
He immediately stretched his arms out and held her and that entire
relationship and her conduct began to move into the higher frequencies ofspirit. He said he realized in that moment that it was not only about him and
his daughter; it was between him and God. Could he extend love in the face
of anger and disrespect? Could he be loving to someone who was defying
him? W as there a place within him that could be reached by the higher
energies of love and compassion even when he felt the contaminating
effects of those lower/slower vibrations? “ It was not about me and my
daughter ,” he said, “it was between me and God.” This lesson is the most
important one you can learn in keeping your broader environmental ener gy
field free of contaminants. Your broader environmental ener gy field includes the entire range of where
you are on a daily basis, your home, neighborhood, place of work,
entertainment venues, even where you walk, run, and drive. Look around
you at any given moment and recognize that what you see in your broader
surroundings is a component of your ener gy field. So how can you, one
person, do anything to maintain an ener gy field in which all contamination
is minimized or even eliminated? Go back to chapter two and review
Patanjali’ s observations on spiritual consciousness. When you are steadfast
in your abstention from falsehood and thoughts of harming others, you
impact every living creature and the entire ener gy pattern in your
surroundings. My friend Deepak Chopra describes this impact in a set of tapes he and I
recently created, titled Creating Y our W orld the W ay You Really W ant It to
Be. Deepak tells of an experiment in which several thousand people
gathered for the purpose of meditating in a group setting. Each person in the
meditation group had their serotonin levels measured prior to the long
meditation session. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter in the brain.
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        Perhaps it is because so much ener gy is focused on material power in the
form of money, leadership, status, and prestige. In the pursuit of material
power you will find virtually all the problems that surface in your life,
including disease. If you are willing to solicit spiritual guidance, then be willing to accept and
implement that help even if it doesn’ t correspond exactly to your picture of
what life should be like. Otherwise, you are seeking spiritual ener gy to help
you remain the same, which means problems continue at the lower ener gy
frequencies. Don’ t dismiss as implausible spiritual answers that don’ t
correspond to the way you want your life to be structured. In order to be able to commune with the divine you must be tuned into that
frequency. Y ou cannot tune into an FM radio station while you have the
setting on AM. Certainly, the higher frequencies of FM are out thereplaying away. But if you’re not tuned to them, you will conclude they are
unavailable. Y ou must therefore be more God-like and less materialistic in
order to access and use spiritual ener gy to nullify and eliminate your
problems. Our institutions are built and or ganized around the idea of facilitating,
regulating, and guiding human behavior. You cannot go to schools,
businesses, governments, or even churches, mosques, or synagogues to
negotiate the presence of this ener gy. These institutions exist to deal with
the material world and to keep human beings in line. They vibrate to the
lower ener gies of the material world and often are the source of, rather than
the solution to, your problems. Eventually, enough people will reach a higher state of spiritual vibration
and form a critical mass. Then you will see institutions emer ge that are not
designed to regulate, facilitate, or guide human behavior, but to access,
implement, and teach a spiritual approach to life. In short, the purpose of
our institutions will shift from controlling to promoting bliss. But you need
not wait for that critical mass. In fact you very likely don’ t have enough
time to do so. Instead you can become an ingredient of that new critical
mass by living from your field of divine ener gy each day. The poets express this so perfectly with an economy of words. Here is one
of my favorites, speaking to the way to negotiate this higher ener gy into
your life. I ask for a moment’ s indulgence to sit by Thy side. The works that I have in hand
I will finish afterwards. Away from the sight of Thy face
My heart knows no rest or respite,And my work becomes an endless toil
In a shoreless sea of toil. Today the summer has come at my window
With its sighs and murmurs;
And the bees are plying their minstrelsy
At the court of the flowering grove. Now it is time to sit quiet
Face to face with Thee,
And to sing dedication of life
In this silent and overflowing leisure. —Rabindranath T agore
Those “works that I have in hand,” T agore suggests you can put aside. These are the material concerns that bring your problems to the surface. He
describes the presence of problems as “A way from the sight of Thy face,
my heart knows no rest or respite. ”
When you concentrate on these five simplified ways of being in your life,
you begin the process of changing from one ener gy form to another. And
you discontinue giving ener gy to the things you don’ t want or believe in
your own heart. Examine this thought carefully as you go toward a faster,
higher awareness. A spiritual solution truly awaits everything you will ever
think of as a problem. OceanofPDF. com4
STOP GIVING ENERGY  
TO THE THINGS YOU  
DON’T BELIEVE IN
I began to understand that the promises of the world are for the most part vain phantoms, and that
to have faith in oneself and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. —MICHELANGELO
In this chapter I would like you to imagine your thoughts and inner feelings
as flowing ener gy that you can control because you are the source of those
thoughts and feelings. That source can be used to get both what you want in
life as well as what you don’ t want. Let’ s begin with the ener gy system for
getting what you want  which I’ll summarize here briefly before moving to
the central focus of this chapter which is the removal of ener gy that you
expend on getting what you don’ t want. GETTING WHA T YOU W ANT
Keep in mind the central principle that guides your lifetime in this material
universe— as you think so shall you be —seven little words that form the
basis for transforming your life. Everything begins with a thought. Thoughts are invisible, so the source of your material world is in theinvisible realm of ener gy, which as you now know can be a very fast
vibration or quite the opposite. Once you understand fully that what you
think about is what expands, you start to get very careful about what you
think about. Look around you. Notice that everything you observe has its origins in the
invisible world of ener gy. I have heard it said that “a rock pile ceases to be a
rock pile the moment a person contemplates it, bearing within them the
image of a cathedral. ” Similarly, a block of marble ceases to be a block of
marble the moment one visionary looks upon it as David. How you look
upon the world and the images you have within you determine what you
will get in your life. And make no mistake about it, all your thoughts form a
bastion of ener gy that you radiate outward to create the circumstances of
your life. People who we deem to be successful or happy or fully functioning are
those who are able to attract into their lives what they would like to have. And the reverse is true as well. People who are unsuccessful, unhappy, or
laden with problems are essentially unable to attract into their lives what
they would like to have. Let’ s deal with those two groups here in order. To me it is all a question of where you place your ener gy, and at what
frequency you are ener gizing your inner world. The successful people in the
first group (this is very general here, I will be more specific in later
chapters) have a tendency to do the following four things. 1. They expr ess their desir es. Successful, problem-free people have no
hesitancy to say out loud what it is they would like to manifest into their
lives. They are, first of all, able to wish for a solution as the beginning state
of eradicating so-called problems. “I wish I could quit drinking. I would
love to get the raise. I would really like to lose this excess weight. I really
want to get along better with my children. ” This is the beginning phase. I
call it the wish phase, and it is in the expression of a desire that highly
successful people are led to the second phase. 2. They ar e willing to ask. This involves an awareness that they are not
alone, that a divine source is something they are at all times connected to,and that this source will provide them with sustenance and answers if they
will only ask. “Ask and you shall receive,” is not an empty phrase, it is an
admonition from the Scriptures to elicit divine support in removing
obstacles to your highest good. Personally, whenever I find myself stuck in a problem area I go to a quiet
place, away from all distractions, and I ask God to guide me in the direction
of a solution. I do not ask God to do it for me, since I know that I am never
separate from this divine source. The act of asking  is a form of letting go of
the ego and accessing that highest spiritual guidance. I have found that
asking out loud is even more powerful. I came across this little poem while
speaking in South Africa. I include it here as a wonderful reminder that you
will get whatever you ask for, including a meager life. I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;
For Life is a just employer,
And gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial’ s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid. —Jessie B. Rittenhouse
I speak to you here from my experience. Every time I move into a place of
asking, some synchronistic event occurs to put me on the path to problem
resolution. If I am stuck in my writing, after asking, the phone will ring and
someone will give me the missing piece of the puzzle, or I will be “guided”
to a book, open it, and there will be the answer to precisely what I was so
befuddled by only a few moments earlier. It seems as though the process of
asking is one in which we surrender our own sense of self-importance, and
it is this very surrendering process itself that I described earlier that leads us
to the next way that successful people act. 3. They state an intention. In this phase they begin the process of taking full
responsibility for creating their world the way they really want it to be. They have expressed their desire, asked for guidance, and now all of their
energy is speeded up because they will not entertain any doubts about their
ability to solve any problem. “I will absolutely lose the weight. I will not
have arthritis move into my body. I intend to manifest prosperity into my
life. I will not be pushed around by him any longer. ” Highly successful
people are those who have a knowing about resolving problems, and they
are not focused on proving their point to anyone. In fact, they are most
often silent on the subject. An intention is almost a bonding with the divine in which there is an
absence of arrogance or demand, and a powerful sense that “I cannot allow
any doubt to reside in me or I will then act upon that doubt and
consequently manifest precisely what I am doubting. ” This word intention
is synonymous with the supreme confidence that they can put the right
energy into the resolution of a problem, and it will materialize. I do not wish to further embellish this point, since I wrote an entire book on
the subject titled Manifest Y our Destiny, and I want to get on with the
subject matter of this chapter, which is how to stop giving ener gy to things
you don’ t want and don’ t believe in. Hence, the final quality of the inner
energy system of those whom we perceive as problem solvers or successful
is:4. They have a har dening of the will. I often refer to this as having passion
for what you would like to attract into your life to resolve your problems. I
recall a famous teacher in India telling his devotees that any attempt to
manifest what you want in life without passion is akin to dressing up a
corpse. The body might look the part and have a sensational appearance but
it will ultimately fail because it is dead inside. T o be dead inside is to be
without passion. When successful people harden their will they become immune to outside
forces which might attempt to dissuade them from their inner passion. In
fact, they actually use the negative external pressures to remind themselves
of their commitments. Perhaps the single most powerful force that you can master is a burning
desire to achieve your inner objective. Now a desire is one thing, and
everyone has a desire to rid themselves of their problems and reach a higher
state of happiness and fulfillment. If you don’ t believe me, just ask the first
ten people you encounter if they want to live a problem-free life. They’ll all
say, “Absolutely. ” The desire is there. But a burning desire is something
quite dif ferent. This is like having an inner candle flame that never even
flickers, though the very worst goes before you. This is an inner desire that
can never be extinguished by outside forces. It burns within you and it must
be satisfied. I can personally attest to the presence of a burning desire or a hardening of
the will in virtually all the undertakings of my life. When I published my
first book, Your Err oneous Zones, back in 1976, it was my burning desire to
tell the world about those ideas. I bought up entire printings, and I toured
the country visiting every radio/TV show that would have me, doing
fourteen or fifteen interviews every day, paying my own expenses as I went. Not because I wanted to be on a best-seller list, or to make a fortune, but
because I couldn’ t extinguish that burning desire to tell anyone who would
listen what I believed in so strongly. That hardened will is still present
today. And I truly don’ t even know how to soften it. Recently I produced two lecture shows for public television in the United
States. These shows were used as pledge drives to encourage people to
contribute to commercial-free public television. I feel very strongly aboutthe kinds of images that we access into our homes in the form of TV
signals. These signals are ener gy vibrations that are transmitted into the
atmosphere, and we use our receiver to access this ener gy into our homes. If
we allow signals that carry the ener gy images of violence, sexual
promiscuity, disrespect, vulgarity, and the like to come into our homes to
poison the minds of our children, then they will resonate with that ener gy
and emulate it in their everyday lives. Public television does not send out
energy signals tainted with vulgar or violent images. When I put the two shows together, they were titled Impr ove Y our Life
Using the W isdom of the Ages  and How to Get What Y ou Really, Really,
Really, Really W ant. And that hardened will that manifests itself as a
burning desire was immediately ignited within me. If we have a spiritual
deficit in our country in which violence and vulgarity have become a way
of life, particularly as it impacts our young people, perhaps it is related to
the kinds of ener gy signals that we access in our homes. If the average child
has seen over twelve thousand murders on commercial and cable television
by the time he has reached his fourteenth birthday, maybe, just maybe, this
is a collective influence on the high incidence of violence and mass school
killings. So, out I went, to raise money for public television, which is committed to
an absence of violence and vulgarity in its programming, while relying on
the public to support it financially. That burning desire to see a collective
solution to the spiritual deficit that causes such violent actions kicked in. I
made sixty-eight station visits, traversing the country back and forth, and
helped to raise millions of dollars. I couldn’ t just visit a few cities and then
rest; it was that hardened will, that burning desire that continued to push me
to stay the course. I recall reading about President Carter ’s agreement between the two bitter
rivals, Israel and Egypt, at Camp David in 1978. Carter had a vision that he
would not allow to be blurred though the obstacles were seemingly
insurmountable. President Carter himself, night after night, went back and
forth between the lodgings of Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin,
sometimes at three and four in the morning in order to reach an agreement. There is a glorious photograph of Sadat, Carter, and Begin shaking handsand celebrating the Camp David Accords when these formerly entrenched
enemies whose soldiers had been fighting and killing each other in bloody
wars were also uniting in peace. A spiritual solution to this massive social
problem was brought about because of the burning desire of President
Carter that could not and would not be doused until it had been realized. This same hardening of the will, when applied to the resolution of any
problem you can envision in your own life will result in a spiritual solution
as well. You may have wondered why there were four reallys in the public
television show titled How to Get What Y ou Really, Really, Really, Really
Want. I used four reallys because each one symbolizes these four
ingredients in the mind-set of spiritual problem solvers and hence highly
functioning successful people. The four reallys in summation are: Desir e,
Asking, Intention, Passion. And the good news is, what you really, really,
really, really intend, you will get. Now for the bad news. The reason most people are unable to manifest their
heart’ s desire and remove problems from their lives is this—pay close
attention because this will explain in simple language why you have not
been successful in resolving all problems—what you really, really, really,
really don’t want, you will also get. Avoiding Getting What Y ou Don’t W ant
The same four reallys apply here. For the remainder of this chapter I am
going to focus on how you can stop giving ener gy to the things you don’ t
want and the things you don’ t believe in, which, surprisingly, is where most
people keep and maintain with fervor their ener gy supply. But why would
anyone, let alone you, ever for even a moment want to give ener gy to what
you don’ t want and don’ t believe in. Let’s go back briefly to those seven little magic words: as you think, so
shall you be. This universal law applies both ways. When you put your
thought ener gy on your intentions with passion you ultimately will act upon
those thoughts and you are bound to attract what you are thinking about into
your life. As always, the ancestor to every action is a thought. This law alsoworks to keep you from attracting solutions for your problems into your life
as well. Here are the four subgroupings that you typically employ in giving ener gy
to what you don’ t believe in. These four categories explain why most
people are not very good at solving their problems and getting what they
want in life. Sending your ener gy to what you don’ t want. Imagine this scene. I give you
one million dollars and tell you to go out and spend this money to purchase
what you want, no restrictions. Y ou take the cash and of f you go to the mall
to use this currency to get what you want. The first store you enter you see
furniture that you find appalling and hideous and you spend $100,000
buying it all up. The second store you enter is loaded with jewelry that you
find distasteful and overpriced. Again, you spend another $100,000 on
jewelry that you don’ t want. This pattern continues throughout your
shopping spree. You have currency to spend on what you want, and every time you see
something that you don’ t want, you use up your currency to purchase it. When you get home, and all your purchases are delivered, you ask yourself,
“Why is my house filled with all this stuf f that I don’ t want. ” The answer:
“Because you are insane. Here you had all this money to buy what you
wanted, and you spent it instead on what you didn’ t want. ” This is just plain
crazy. Now keeping the above scene in mind, remind yourself that your thoughts
are the currency for getting what you want in your life. Remember, your
desires, requests, intentions, and passions are all thoughts, and when you
place those thoughts on what you don’ t want, regardless of how negatively
you feel about it, you will act upon what you don’ t want, and more of what
you don’ t want will show up in your life. Just like the hideous furniture and
distasteful jewelry. They are there in your house because you foolishly
spent that precious currency on what you didn’ t want. How does this work and why would you give your precious life ener gy in
the form of your thoughts to something you didn’ t want. Y our mind isactive all day long with some sixty thousand separate thoughts each and
every day. Examine those thoughts. How many of them are on what you
don’t want. “W ith my luck it will never work out. This cold is getting
worse each day. I know those stocks will devalue, it’ s just the way things
always seem to work out for me. The deal will probably fall through. There
will not be very good seats left when we get to the theater. These meals will
add twenty pounds to my waist alone. Quitting smoking is so hard. It’ll
probably rain and ruin the outing. ”
This list could go on for a thousand pages. Y ou begin to get the idea. Y our
thoughts are the ener gy that you act upon. If your thoughts are on what you
don’t want, no matter how much you abhor the thought of what you don’ t
want materializing into your life, you will act upon those thoughts and more
of what you don’ t want will keep showing up. When you stop giving ener gy
to what you don’ t want, you will see yourself changing to a faster and
consequently more spiritual ener gy. Here’ s how to change this old habit. When you find yourself thinking a thought that focuses on what you don’ t
want, no matter how insignificant it might be, remind yourself that you will
ultimately act upon that thought and it will materialize into your life. Stop
yourself right there, and silently ask yourself, “What do I want. ” That is,
instead  of thinking that your arthritis is going to get worse, which is
precisely what you don’ t want, change the thought to an intention. “This
arthritis is going to disappear from my life completely. ” Eventually, slowly,
but surely, you will begin to act upon this new intention, which is a faster
energy, and this new intention will become your reality. You will do
whatever you have to do to avoid suf fering with your arthritis. Y ou will not
complain about it, because you are no longer thinking of it as a problem, so
you can’ t complain. And miracle of miracles your body, which is a system
of ener gy, will react to your thoughts as well. As has been said many times,
“Your biography becomes your biology. ”
But more important, you will be putting your ener gy on solutions by
removing the problem first from your mind and then your body as well. For
instance in a parking situation, your thoughts shift from “There will
probably be no place to park” to “I’m looking for my parking place. ”Suddenly you’ve stopped looking for no place to park, and the ener gy
changes to accommodate you. I am using the word intention  here quite intentionally. I am not suggesting
you keep your thoughts on what you want, because if you do, you will
manifest a state of wanting for yourself. I am suggesting you move up the
ladder from wishing to asking, to intending, and finally to passion. What
you intend in your thoughts with passion, you will act upon and ultimately
create. The secret lies in the continuous reminder to yourself to first stop the
outward verbal expression of what you don’ t want; second, catch yourself
and examine the thought behind that expression; and finally, shift to an
intention of what you will be creating for yourself, even if you don’ t know
how you will create it, because ultimately you will act upon it, or you will
access higher, and faster, universal powers to provide you with the
solutions. Here is an example of how I had to recently employ the above suggestions. On returning from a speaking engagement in Puerto Rico I arrived in my
hotel room in Chicago at 2:03 P. M. I was extremely hungry and telephoned
room service to order a sandwich and some juice. I was informed that room
service closed at 2:00 P.
Because they are focused on material power and status, and are not willing to accept and implement spiritual guidance.
What is the main reason why people are not able to manifest their desires and solve their problems?
You must be more God-like and less materialistic.
What is the key to accessing and using spiritual energy to eliminate problems?
They are giving their energy to the things they don't want and don't believe in, and are not willing to change their behavior.
What is the main issue with people who are not successful in their lives?
Remove yourself from the situation, and radiate higher spiritual energies.
What is the author's advice for dealing with toxic people in one's life?
Be mindful of the people you surround yourself with, and take steps to remove yourself from negative influences and radiate love and compassion.
What is the author's advice for keeping one's energy fields clean?