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Source: Book "Journeys in Spectral Consciousness", to be published in September 2012 by Frederick Dodson. 

Miracle Story 12: "Till the End of Time"

This story was sent by an email-coaching student who wishes to remain anonymous. Thanks for the great story!

"The last weeks have been tough because a lot of things have been going wrong in my Business. When I went to bed I was feeling restless and burdened. I closed my eyes and tried to calm down but couldnt. There was a weight on my chest. So I tried one of your exercises; I concentrated on friends and foes, wishing them well and sending them love and peace. Tears welled up in my eyes and some of the weight was released off my chest. I then did something uncharacteristic of me - I prayed. You write that I dont have to be religious to get prayers answered, so I thanked God for the people in my life and requested to be sent a nice dream for the night. Then I fell asleep and had one of the best dreams I can remember in a long time. The dream took me to my early teenage days and happy times I was having with a good friend. After that I somehow dreamed that I was meeting him in present time (our ways parted 15 years ago) and I ask him: "Remember our favorite song?" And we did remember it. We were around 13 or 14 when he bought an album called "Faith" by George Michael. Our favorite song from it was called "Father Figure" and together we sangt it in the dream. It went something like "I would be your Father Figure, put your tiny hand in mine, I would be your preacher, teacher, anything you had in mind, I would be your Father Figure, I have seen enough of crime, I would be the one who loves you, till the end of time." We kept singing it and I woke up with the song in my head. Suddenly it became clear to me that the song was an answer to my prayer. I had not prayed in years and had not dreamed that nicely in a long time and the dream was telling me that I not only have a good friend that I had forgotten about but that he was also a "Father Figure", a Preacher and Teacher and that he would love me until the end of time. Today I feel more awake. I havent felt like this in a long time. Stuff in my job seems to be sorting itself out. And if this wasnt miracle enough - get this - the song played in the Radio while I was getting groceries. How likely is that? I think its a song from the 80s and today, in 2011 it just happens to be playing after I turn on the radio. The instant it started playing I knew I had to write it down and send it in for your miracle-story collection.

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Willpower Works 9: Free Will vs. Destiny

Is your life pre-destined or created by free-will? 20 years of psycho-spiritual counseling, intense research and dedication have lead me to believe that much of your life can be created by yourself and then some of it is pre-destined. There are those who believe everything is free will and those who believe everything is pre-destined and then there are those who believe everything is random. My own research agrees with neither of these stances and the reason there is so much ongoing debate and controversy around the subject is because each is true to some extent. I have summarized my own view of the influence of "Destiny", "Free Will" and "Randomness" in this pie chart:

I believe you can shape at least 65% of your reality through the choices you make and what you focus on in thought, word and deed. This however is the potential you have. Realistically, most people use their free will for around 10% of their reality and leave the rest up to destiny, karma and randomness. About 30% of life on earth seems not to be in your power but influenced by higher forces. Perhaps these 30% are your karma at work (positive or negative past life karma that you have accumulated). Maybe it is your soul/higher self at work, that has pre-defined a certain path in life that you cannot stray from. These pre-defined soul paths are usually very general though. They pre-define that you will not become a famous basketball player because your body is simply too short, or that you will grow up in a well-off household, etc. What you make of the pre-defined path is up to your free will. The remaining 30% may also be due to pre-programming by Source/Creator/God, as if to say "OK, the purpose of this soul is X, what this soul makes of it is their free choice". About 5% of events in ones reality appear to be random or of unknown causes. This is as if the creative intelligence behind realility introduced some randomness "just for fun".

This is reflected in many of the games (boardgames, sports games, computer games) we play on earth. A part of those games are pre-determined (such as the game rules, the field size, the skills), a small part seems random and a large part is determined by ones own choices, moves, imagination and willpower.

Please keep in mind that I may be wrong about the ratio of the three factors and also that very many bright minds will disagree with me one way or the other. There are scientists out there trying to prove that we have zero free will. There are also metaphysicians out there trying to prove that everything is 100% created by you. I publish this pie chart so that you can start thinking about the ratio yourself and check for yourself what is true.

My view is that, of your own power, you can fix around 65% of all issues in your life. For the remaining 35% it is not certain whether they will be fixed or not. In this case you either accept them (play the cards you were dealt) or request higher-source (divine will) support.

See Also: The Reality Creation Course

Willpower Works 8: The pro-active mindset

Having or lacking energy can be observed in how pro-active people are. The fact that most people lack a sense of self-determination can be witnessed in any scenario:

Example 1: Language Learning

In Language Courses you can see how 80% of language-learners prefer the teacher to give examples of using new vocabulary, to make sentences with new vocabulary and to put them to use. Only around 20% try to create their own phrases and sentences and examples of newly learned words. Doing so does require energy of course. Once students are prompted by the teacher to create their own examples, at least 60% start pro-actively making sentences with 40% still "waiting for something to happen". If they have a teacher that has too much Ego and exerts too much of their own will (a teacher that does too much of the talking), this may further reduce the students efforts. It is not really possible to learn a full language without your own speaking and sentence-making efforts and yet plenty hope it is. They hope a language can be learned without any effort at all. While there are methods to reduce effort, such as deep relaxation, picture-learning and intuitive learning, you cannot really learn a language without some energy coming from yourself.

Example 2: Maintaining Relationships


Its easy to be kind and friendly when your partner is also kind and friendly. But it could require a little pro-active willpower or at least a deliberate intention to stay kind and friendly when your partner is in a really bad mood. And it could require a little more deliberate awareness to stay kind and friendly when your partner is openly criticizing you. Most relationships break up due to energy-exhaustion of the two involved.
Most fights that happen, only happen because one or both of the partners are tired. If you have the energy and have built positive momentum, you can literally maintain a relationship forever. If you have been in a relationship for a long time, it may take some effort not to take the other person for granted but perceive them with fresh eyes, be there for them, and generate some interest. But once you have invested just a little pro-active effort your relationship can go on effortlessly for another few years. The point I am making is: Every time things begin to slide downwards, its time to regain some self-determination and control over your life again, before going back to the effortlessness of auto-pilot. And I`ll share a little secret here: Any relationship, with anyone at all, can be positively maintained with your loving attention to it and them and yourself. If you are clear and cleaned-up within yourself, almost any partner is the right one and any relationship carries the potential for mutual growth.

Example 3: Professional Life

Anytime you find yourself waiting for something to happen or waiting for better times to come or waiting for an offer or a customer or money, you are in reactive mode. Self-determination, fueled by personal will, does not wait for something better to happen. It goes into focused and inspired action today, making dozens of decisions in a day, finishing dozens of instances of procrastination, initiating new ideas and approaches. If you feel unable to do that, review previous articles on how to accumulate more energy and willpower. Life is on hold as long as you are on hold. Life starts moving again, once you start moving. Nothing happens to you, everything happens through you. In a previous article we have already seen how making decisions can deplete energy. But once you get into the habit of it, it no longer depletes willpower but rather gives you energy. You are then in a state of Flow regarding decision-making and action. If things seem to be on hold in your life, I recommend you go on a "Rampage of Action" by getting done more in one day than you got done the entire previous month. After such a Rampage you will be tired when going to bed. But it will be the kind of tiredness that feels really, really good and creates a deep and restful sleep.

Example 4: This website


Through my own energy and will, I have been able to write a thousand articles in a fairly short time and publish them here and elsewhere. Frequently people ask me how I do it and I tell them its just "Flow", something I have invested so much willpower into, that it is now completely effortless to write. I sometimes forget that its not that easy for most people to write. This was brought home to me recently, while asking for people to write and submit "Miracle Stories" for this website. Of the 5000 visitors this website gets each month, I only received about half a dozen submissions of "Miracle Stories". And while reading and consuming information (especially spiritually helpful information) is well and good, and also requires some concentration (willpower), its a little more powerful to write articles of your own. Granted, it requires more energy, but what you put out is what you get back. The idea that if you invest energy into something it is energy (time, money or attention) spent, may seem accurate, but from a metaphysical standpoint it is flawed. Everything you give actually comes back to you and usually manyfold.

New Book: Soccer Magic

I wrote this book for the very narrow target-group of professional soccer players and coaches because I am a fan of European Soccer/Football, love to play soccer in my free time and once had the honor to coach a professional soccer team over a period of one Season to higher success. This book summarizes my view of the spiritual and psychological components of high-performance in sports. While it is aimed at soccer players, athletes in general and people in general may also gain interesting and uniquely effective insights from it. Click Here to see it at Amazon.

Willpower Works 7: Personal Will and Divine Will

In The Reality Creation Technique I differentiate between Personal Will and Divine Will, saying that when one has reached the limits of Personal Will, one should surrender to Divine Will. Divine Will is the force behind the many Miracle Stories posted on this website.

Recognizing only personal will without the larger context of Divine Will leads to arrogance and ultimately to humiliation once you realize you are powerful but not all-powerful. One of the people who gave Willpower a really bad name in the 20th Century was Adolf Hitler and also Fascism in general. The Nazis most famous propaganda movie was called "Triumph of the Will". Fascists and Nazis were aware of the power of Will and they displayed it in grandiose architecture, military machinery and athletic superiority. The Nazis strove for a superhuman state, a kind of yogic purity, which included supposedly "cultural, ethnical and racial purity". Fascism is what happens when personal Will is aggrandized and put above Divine Will. Divine Source is then replaced with a political figure to worship, such as Adolf Hitler. Hitlers arrogance was further fueled by drug abuse as well as the influence of negative-vibe discarnate entities, in my opinion.

Because of the horrifying disasters that human Willpower has caused throughout History, all the way from the destruction of Atlantis to World War II, humans have become afraid of their power. They are afraid of their power because of the harm and damage it can cause. This is why hundreds of textbooks throughout History contain reference to "thy Will be done" rather than "my Will be done". Once the Ego-Self finds out how it can create its own reality its not much longer until it finds out how it can create mass-reality through willpower. If that Ego-Self is not grounded in love, humility and kindness, its raw willpower is often destructive instead of creative.

The information contained in the RC Course and on this website gradually increase your powers over time.
Your personal will is capable of much, much, much more than most of you assume. But this personal will also has limits and can also have adverse effects if not balanced out with the idea of Surrender to a Higher Context. So train your will to its outermost limits, use it for the good but dont forget to request higher guidance in all your endeavors.

Deep Silence of Mind

I teach Meditation because Deep silence of Mind is the basis of many different states of well-being. But even if you are too lazy to meditate (which most people are), there are a few facts I can tell you which will calm even the mind of the non-Meditator. These facts are:

* You actually know nothing. You need presume no reliable knowledge of anything at all. The "know-nothing" state is an attitude you can enter, from which the mind naturally calms down and you come from a space of spontaneity. Many times one is able to help people effectively, because you know nothing about their issues and do not share their History and Beliefs. If I know nothing, I can allow Intuition to guide things. Or I can say "I have no clue what any of this means, dear Higher Self/God, please reveal what it means to me". This kind of surrender and letting go has a calming effect (if it is not misused to give up self-reliance).

* Resist nothing. Another way to say this is "Say Yes to Everything". No, I don't mean externally and verbally. I mean inwardly. Inside, embrace and welcome anything and everything that happens in the here/now. Even if you are saying "No" to someone externally/verbally, say "Yes" to them inside. You see, most people say "Yes" outside while they really mean "No" inside. I am recommending you say "Yes" inside, no matter what. As you embrace everything that happens you live from the implication that everything that happens is supposed to happen...that the Universe is perfect. And for you it will turn perfect. Say "Yes" to the here-now, the present moment. Know that every time you lose the here-now, you are already back in the here-now. Every time you realize you lost Awareness, you are back to Awareness. To resist nothing does not mean to no longer discern between positive and negative, but to welcome the positive as your souls joy and the negative as a stepping stone on the path of life.

* Realize that the content of the mind is just not that important. The mind is like a TV-set that just babbles on whatever it was told throughout life. Its a phantasmagoria. Its a recording-device. If you dont believe that its not-you, try this: Right after waking up, in that very split second, ask what your name is. Or have someone ask you. You will notice a completely blank mind, without a clue of what your name is. Only then does the mind begin to switch on, creating all types of definitions of who you are. You are not your memories either. Memories are mind-content. In lower and higher states of consciousness and energy, a human experiences memory gaps and memory loss...proving that ones "memory" is only valid in a limited strata of being. Your entire thinking-apparatus is impersonal, like hair growing. Do not give it more importance than that, and it will calm down naturally. You juice it by thinking its "you" and its "important". If you stop flooding it with stimuli and importance and misemotion, it calms down.

* Heed the recommendations of the London Subway system that keeps saying "Mind the Gap", to draw attention to the empty space between the subway train and the platform. That is actually a great Mantra because Mind is indeed a Gap. If you look carefully you will notice that Mind is mostly silent, except when you pay attention to it. It may be more silent if you dont try to silence it in the first place. Maybe all these Meditation-Manuals are actually achieving the opposite of silencing the mind.

* Concentration calms the mind. You cannot control all thoughts all of the time. But you can concentrate on something, by which all mind-noise recedes. If you are laden with problems, check if you lack concentration...concentration for your work, for friends, for projects, for whatever. Deep silence of the mind can also be experienced when something grabs your attention in great fascination...such as beauty. Beauty can actually make the mind go still for awhile.

Here's an exercise: Take a walk through town or the countryside. Notice something. Keep your awareness there for half a minute or a minute, feeling and perceiving that thing, place, object, person, space, idea or plant. Then move on to the next thing, place, object, person, space, plant, idea. Continue for hours and start experiencing deep silence of mind. It will have you feel more high than any earthly substance.

See Also: The Bliss Course

The Power of Courage

Courage is not the opposite of fear but to move forward despite fear. Courage is a level of Consciousness that precedes any breakthrough or energizing. If you want to move higher and upwards in life, chose something that you'd like to do that would require Courage, and go for it. Trying something new may require Courage. Putting yourself into certain social situations may require Courage. Coming out of the closet regarding your true Visions and Personality may require Courage. Leaving something negative behind may require Courage. Right beyond the comfort-zone you come alive.

The Reality Creation Materials are not meant to help you avoid going out into real life. Do not try to solve your issues in your head while sitting on your Sofa. Psycho-spiritual techniques are not a substitute for real life but meant to enhance it. This is comparable to using the Internet not to enhance real life by gaining knowledge, getting to know people you will later meet or doing Business but as a means to avoid those things. The Internet can be misued as a convenient hiding place which creates supposedly anonymous safety with no danger of getting hurt or seeing something other than one was looking for. The same goes for reading books, meditation, visualization, prayer, mantras and various substances and foods: They can either boost your real-life-action or be used to avoid action. It takes Courage to go out and show up.

Where could you have had Courage but backed down?

Where could you have shown up but were hiding?

What are 5 actions that require some Courage but would speed up your life within only a few days?

The ball is in your court. 

How to excel at Communication

Love replaces all books and workshops on Communication. If you are interested in others you appear to be interesting. Its smarter to give interest than to demand it. By being fully giving  (without detriment to yourself and your time) you demonstrate that you are not captive of ego-concerns.  Interest is especially important when dealing with people you do not naturally like. People like you, like you. So be sure to keep eye-contact and stay in a heart-to-heart connection with others. That should solve almost all communication issues.  Communication also means expanding attention not only to another person but also to other fields of interest. If you can understand and talk about others fields of interest, then you have established flow with that person. If you are looking to improve your Communication with customers it might also be advisable to list their particular interests when you file their name in an address book to remember to bring them up in conversation.


Shyness in social situations is caused by too much attention/interest to yourself in an attempt to "look good". You can deliberately practice not needing to "make a good impression"...and then you will feel more natural and calm and paradoxically make a better impression. 

If, by your interest, you can help others feel better about life, you have excelled at Communication. Normally, once we get something or someone, the exclusivity fades and we begin taking things and people for granted. If, by the power of your will, you can still treat people and things as special, your Communication flow with the world skyrockets.  Let go of all past memories and judgements of the person and treat them well, looking at them with fresh here-and-now eyes. Make others a little more important while understating your own importance.


Of course all this assumes that you have the energy to give. If you lack energy, your interactions with others will be disharmonious. So it is important to retreat to your own silent space and relaxation regularly, to recharge, before venturing out into the world to "excel at Communication".

If you are selling something (and most humans are either selling a product, a service or themselves, no matter what their profession is ), your Communication must also include the demonstration of value of whatever you are selling. Make it real by demonstrating its use, listing as many reasons why your product, service, viewpoint is worth something.  If you combine this with genuine interest in the person and first understanding their position, their product, their view, you have further boosted the flow of affinity. 

Good Communication also involves saying what people often do not have the Courage to say. Many problems could have been avoided by simply communicating them.  I recently coached someone who has been fired from all the jobs he has ever had and we discovered the primary reason for his being fired was a lack of communication. He saw problems but did not have the courage to stand up and point them out. Thus he was not contributing to the betterment of the companies he worked for. The natural consequence  was that he got fired. Courage and Communication are primary factors of prosperity. Statistical Research indicates, for example, that more than 65% of all people who ask for a pay raise get a pay raise. If you never ask, it cannot be given.

Face-to-face connections are significantly more effective than phone and internet connections.  Whether you are selling something or simply want to socialize, it is always better to put yourself out there and meet people in person. In a society of people hiding behind internet-monikers that can be quite a challenge. But in a world where people have become accustomed to emails over personal contact, showing up personally can give you the "market-advantage" you are looking for. To become a better communicator, work on the expressiveness of your voice, your eyes and your facial movements. Talking to yourself or higher self in the mirror or car can warm up your speech before important meetings. 


To exercise your Courage, see if you can speak to at least one stranger a day for a 100 days in a row. That should overcome issues of awkwardness in social situations. If you look at the statistics of hospitals, statistics of illness and death-rates you will notice that lonely people tend to be worse off than people who connect (this applies to those who are not lonely deliberately, as in hermits or meditators). Connecting therefore, boosts your health and that of others. 

Remember that people are easy to enchant. And you enchant them not by seeing them the way soul sees them: with fascination. 


Last but not least, whenever you are in doubt or uncertainty with someone, communicate and connect. Don't let lack of communication denigrate the quality of your life. There are no "stupid questions" and there are no "stupid comments". Every human being is full of surprising answers to anything and everything. 

Related Article: How to excel at Public Speaking

Death as an Ally

"If you are in bad times, realize the wave will go back up. If you are in good times, realize the wave will go back down. But most importantly, realize that you are not and never were the wave; you are the Ocean".  - Fred Dodson, Live Course January 2012 

Death is your ally. There is nothing morbid about saying that. Realizing that you could die any time and those close to you could die anytime deepens your sense of appreciation for life. Society is in denial about death because they are afraid of it. But you are spirit and there is a personal afterlife (according to Near-Death-Research, Numerous Afterlife Reports, according to Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and countless other studies that have spanned thousands of years, according to numerous out-of-body reports). Research into Levels of Energy shows that most of the afterlife scenarios are positive, that earth is in fact one of the "lower regions" of the overall Multiverse. So for many of you, it can only get better after death.

Have you ever thought about how life is too short to travel and visit all the fascinating places there are? In my experience, it's even more so in afterlife, astral and spiritual realms. Those realms are so vast and diverse you couldnt see them all in a Trillion years. The ones described in Lives of the Soul and my works on Astral-Travel are only minute fractions of what else is out there. New realms of exploration lie just beyond the familiar.

When you lose the exaggerated fear of death, your Courage to live and pro-actively move forward will awaken and you will begin feeling more alive. For example, if you are afraid to skin your knees while playing soccer, you won't be playing soccer and thus will not enjoy its many benefits which include socializing, team-work, goal-achievement, sun, fun, inspiration, nature and playful competitiveness. Many people behave very much like the child or the childs mother that want to avoid him getting hurt at all costs...including the cost of aliveness. So they say "Its better not to go out and play at all but to stay safe at home in your comfort-zone". But in a safe environment that is always positive and harmonious, nobody will grow, thrive or learn. That is not to suggest that one should play recklessly or violently. Violence is a pathological version of Sports. Someday in the distant future all Wars will be fought on sports fields.

All fears can be traced back to the fear of death. Once you overcome that big fear all the lesser fears start fading away. How can you start overcoming some the fear of death? By considering death, putting some thought into it, reading about it, or remembering your actual self and overall context beyond the immediate body-mind environment. 

Willpower Works 6: Decisions

One of the traits of your Will is the ability to make Decisions. Life offers Millions of options from which you chose what to focus on. Deciding is the process to focus on one thing and not another. If you do not like deciding that's because you are reluctant to sacrifice one option over another. Decision-reluctance also comes from knowing that too much deciding can lead to Fatigue (exhausted attention, exhausted willpower). This type of Fatigue is well known to every reader. Have you ever felt exhausted after shopping for clothes, where you tried on several dozen skirts or were asked to chose between dozens of shirts? Did you know that sweets and gossip magazines fill the check-out areas of Supermarkets because advertisers know that your impulse-control is most fatigued after you have walked through the the Supermarket and made dozens of decisions? Did you know that, according to scientific studies, prisoners that get parole are usually (65% of the time) the ones that are presented to judges early in the morning after breakfast, before they have become fatigued by making decisions all day? Have you ever gone to a restaurant and, being too tired to decide, said to the waiter "Can you recommend something?".

Lack of energy causes people to say "I want others to decide for me". We then ask people perceived as authorities to make decisions for us. Sometimes that is the most relaxing thing to do, but if you do it too often you give away your power. That is the opposite of Reality Creation. You can exercise both your energy-muscle and your willpower muscle by becoming used to making more decisions pro-actively, by letting go of stuff that is not good for you (which requires a decision), by being less concerned with how you look in front of others, by prioritizing and by intending to stay fresh and awake despite the many decisions to make. 

Who am I? I`m a champion

This is a legendary motivational speech by a football coach. It displays two lessons taught in the Reality Creation Course:

a) Energy and Excitement are not generated from "out there" but from within

b) The power of word can influence physical reality

Accepting what-is but being eager for more

I receive quite a lot of correspondences in which people set out to achieve something, did not achieve it and then tell me they are "OK" with it or have "found peace" with it or have "accepted" it.

Acceptance-of-what-is as-it-is is important and a sign of maturity and a path to serenity. But it does not have to be practiced at the expense of achievements. Always "accepting" is just as folly as always trying to achieve. That's why my official coaching and teaching on this is:

"Accept what-is but be eager for more"


The two concepts are no contradictions. Being at peace with the present leads to inner peace, eagerness for more leads to growth. Both play an important part in life. Having a little edge of dissatisfaction is a good engine for creating and experiencing more. It you're life is in turmoil it can be good to go to that lonesome mountain peak until you are at peace. But stay there too long and it can get really boring without new challenges.

Buddha, Krishna and Jesus warned of Desire causing suffering, each in their own words. But it is significantly easier to let go of your desires after you have actually achieved some of them! Letting go of stuff you would have wanted to achieve because you lack the Courage have them is not really "letting go". This stuff continues to create tension at a subconscious level.

If you really wanted to achieve something and then a year later say "Well, I havent achieved it, but I have found peace, I am OK with that", in many cases (not all cases) you are not telling yourself the truth. If you do this too often you soon replace Experience with Thinkingness. If you wanted to have certain Relationships but havent achieved, if you wanted to have a certain Job but havent achieved, if you wanted to have a certain body weight but havent achieved, if you wanted a certain skill but havent achieved, you can either keep on moving in that direction or you can give up. And sometimes there is merit to giving up, for example if you'd rather reach for something closer to you or some new priority. But if too many dreams are given up and replaced by "peace", it is not really "peace" you are talking about, it is apathy...which is fake peace. Real peace is the feeling that settles in after you have really achieved a number of things and no longer depend on worldly items for your well-being. Therefore:

Accept-what-is, but be eager for more.

The Reality Creation Course

The secret to handling difficult people

Depending on the level of consciousness, there are different ways to handle difficult people. 

Difficult people can be handled if you know to manage your attention and state. You can concentrate on the persons behavior and words or you can concentrate on the persons spiritual self, on Presence, on the spark of light within him or on the energy that is coming from you (rather than the energy, words and actions coming from the person). Such a shift in attention must be deliberate but it is the ultimate secret to handling difficult people. 

By concentrating on the persons eternal spiritual self rather than the narcissistic ego-self, you not only change your own viewpoint but also radiate a different kind of appreciation that will be felt by the person. When forgiving the person you then do not excuse their behavior, words or actions but forgive them as a human being. Two people fighting is usually two hurt Egos interlocked in their mind-stories. For the fighting to stop, one of the people involved has to let go of their story, at least temporarily let go of "being right". 

Another alternative is to concentrate on Presence. Rather than zooming in on the content of the conversation or on their face or on the content of the problem, you broaden your attention to include the context of the conversation the general air and aura of the surroundings, so that your attention is not zoomed but open. You can observe without fixation. This will immediately calm and clear the air. 

Another way to handle difficult people is by looking what words, actions and emotions are coming from you and retrieving your attention on what is coming from them. The whole "difficulty" is created within you by you focusing too much on what is coming from them. But if you were to radiate higher energy (love, humor, enthusiasm, ease), their state would improve as well. Changing your reaction to a person literally changes the person. The method never fails and it is often amusing to see how well it works. 

If a troublemaker enters your space it is in your power to do something about it, to change the atmosphere. You are not a victim of the whims of other peoples moods. Of course going an "eye for an eye" by giving other people back what they dumped on you is a higher level than being their victim. But there is a higher level than "eye for an eye": It's called Forgiving and then Shifting Attention. And sometimes it may be necessary to leave the room. 

Willpower Works 5: Free Your Mind from Unfinished Tasks

The mind does not like unfinished tasks. It keeps nagging at you as you, compelling you to run it in your mind over and over again. The only ways to free yourself from this are to

a) Finish the task already
b) Decide to abort the task
c) Delegate the task
d) Decide what you will do with it and when

One of these four frees your mind from the unfinished tasks. The mind also treats goals and problems as unfinished tasks. .The more goals and problems as well as unfinished tasks you carry around with you, the more your energy and willpower are scattered instead of focused, depleted instead of stored. You will experience a marked increase in well-being and power by writing down all unfinished things, tasks, errands, emails, phone-calls, projects, problems, goals, desires, hopes, fears and then applying one of the 4 abovementioned decisions to them.

If you finish everything on your list you reach a place I call "free attention" or "zero point" or "freedom of mind". It is recommended that you stay close to zero for the rest of your life. But first you have to get to zero. Because once you have gotten to zero physically, you can get to zero mentally, thus having a completely clear mind. For instance if you have a a tray at your desk where you put all unfinished stuff and letters and you completely take care of everything that is in there, you will have reached a physical zero point in that regard. From there it will be easier to do an inner inventory of inner unfinished stuff and reach a zero point there too.

So am I saying that the "peace of mind" state so many Meditation-Practitioners try to achieve can be facilitated by cleaning up the stuff on your desk? Yes, that's what I'm saying! The unfinished saps attention (energy) from your overall state. It's very subtle and not much energy that is sapped, but in accumulation it makes a difference.

Have you ever had a piece of music you just can't get out of your mind? You have such earworms usually, because the song was turned off before it was finished. This may sound strange, but test it out for yourself. Unfinished songs are repeated in the mind again and again, whereas songs that have reached completion, are forgotten. That's why many of the earworms are often of songs you don't really like. You turned them off.

The cause of too much thinking-ness is the lifetime accumulation of unfinished tasks. Incomplete relationships that were aborted. Incomplete jobs. Incomplete plans. Incomplete goals. It is they that torture you, it is they that make you tense. That's why it is good to leave people in a state of peace. If you break your relationship to your parents or boy/girlfriend, do so in peace. If you do so in a negative atmosphere, you will be thinking about them for years to come.. And then when you get tired of thinking of them, you suppress them into the subconscious. But they don't leave, they are just suppressed, depleting your energy even more.

In some rare cases you won't be able or willing to finish the task yourself at this time. In this case you can still finish it "for your mind" by applying one of the other three decisions: Abort, Delegate or Decide/Write down how you will handle it. You abort a task when you realize its not for you, its not good for you or it does not interest you. You then simply decide no longer to invest time, energy, attention in that direction. This is easier when you list all unfinished tasks and prioritize them by numbers and then realize which ones are not really important. Then, there is always the option to delegate. Overwhelm saps willpower, priorization and delegation stores willpower. So if cleaning the apartment starts getting really tedious and you do not use cleanliness as a meditation-exercise or while listening to your favorite programs, then delegate it to a cleaning-person who is happy to do the job for money. Or if there is some disturbance in your life that you seem not to be able to get rid of, then delegate it to God or the Universe. Say: "Please take care of this for me. I delegate this thing to you". The third option is to simply write down what you will do about the thing and by when you will do it. Some tasks cannot be taken care of today, the await you at a later date. If you can put them on some schedule or calendar, your mind will not have to preoccupy itself with them until that date. More energy is saved.

What to do with all this energy saved by coming to zero-point? Well, those ideas will come to you much more easily when your mind is clear. Free your mind.

Related: The Reality Creation Course

Miracle Story 11: Intuition averts an Accident

This story was sent with the request to keep its source anonymous.

We were on our way to Florida for vacation when I had the urge to drive back to our house and move my laptop to another room. It sounded silly at the time and my wife and me got into a fight over it because we were already 80 miles down the road. My entire Business is stored on my laptop and I had this feeling that there was something wrong with it being in the office room . I wasn't taking any chances. We arrived back home and I brought the laptop to the bedroom. When we returned two weeks later, a storm had caused a tree to collapse into the glass roof above my office right around the area where the laptop was. Since I hadn't backed up any of the files (big mistake!) all my work would have been gone. My wife was making fun of me about the laptop on our way back home, but when we arrived she fell silent. I wasn't too shocked about it because I've often had these premonitions about things. The roof and the desk were broken but insurance covered the damage. I'm grateful for having this gift of intuition that is just there when really needed.

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Willpower Works 4: The Self-Control of Human Statues

If you've gone walking in any European city before, you have probably seen "human statues", people who are dressed up in some costume and do not move for hours (unless someone puts a coin in their hat by which they make one movement). No matter what happens or who ridicules them, no matter if a bird takes seat on their head or a drunkard tries to get them out of their poise, no matter how many attractions and interesting things are happening in their surroundings, they remain poised. Some human statues report that they would have loved to turn around sometimes to check out something interesting going on behind them, or to take a break or to respond to rude passerbys, but that is against their self-imposed discipline. 

I have always been fascinated by human statues because they exemplify what I try to teach in reality creation coaching: To maintain poise, no matter what is going on around them. "But my wife said X, and I just had to respond!", "But my Boss did this, and I just had to respond!", "But reality delivered this and I cant possibly stay relaxed!" they tell me. However, human statues prove that it is possible to remain poised and calm, no matter what is going on. And they gather the awe and applause of passerbys many of who wouldnt even have enough self-control to focus their attention for only a minute. 

From interviews with human statues I have gleaned an important principle of willpower. Most of them report that the job is utterly exhausting at first, but becomes natural and easy over time. This is why I teach that effort is a good thing...whatever you are investing your effort into, really does become easier over time. I also teach that if you wish to control your circumstances, you must control yourself first. Poise lies at the core of reality creation. Once you set an intention, simply dont respond to circumstances that try to veer you away from your intention. And if someone talks harshly to you, why not just remain silent, or say "OK" and leave it at that?

It is a  matter of willpower. It is difficult at first and becomes easier with practice. 

See Also: The Reality Creation Course

The 10 Unwholesome Actions of Buddhism

Reality Creation Coaching teaches that by "law of attraction" "what you put out, you will get back". Remember this does not only apply to the positive but also to the negative. Its been universally taught in every Religion and ancient Tradition available on the planet, is time-proven and universal. Here's an example of the idea from Buddhisms "10 Unwholesome Actions" which are:

1. taking life
2. taking what is not given
3. sexual misconduct
4. lying
5. sowing discord
6. harsh speech
7. idle gossip (or worthless chatter)
8. covetousness
9. ill will (or wishing harm on others)
10. wrong views

According to Buddhist advice...

By taking life, we will be short lived.
Violence will bring us lots of harm.
Through stealing, we will lack possessions.
Through adultery, we will face rivals.
Through speaking falsely, we`ll face slander.
Harsh speech will mean hearing unpleasant words.
Gossip will cause our speech to lack nobility.
Covetousness will destroy our hopes.
Malice will bring us many fears.
And wrong views will bring inferior beliefs

Source

Related: The power of trans-religious study

Test your ability to read Vibration

I have posted two pictures here that are not visible to the eyes because I have increased their brightness to 100%. One of the pictures is very negative, the other very positive. It is up to you to sense their "energy levels" without seeing them. Go with the first intuitive impression you have. One of the pictures will feel "mucky", another will feel pleasant. Once you have determined which is which, scroll down and read the solution.

Image 1:

Image 2:

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Please do not read on before determining the vibration of the pictures.

One way to train your ability to read levels of energy is by having a number of negative and positive pictures
and turning them around and mixing them, or, if you are doing it on a computer, whitening out the pictures and then determining which ones are negative and which ones are positive. My own rate of accuracy with this experiment has been 90%, which indicates my familiarity with the subject and that I conducted the test in a relaxed and open state.

The solution:

Image 1 shows a brutally slaughtered body sitting in a chair. It was taken from a horror movie.

Image 2 shows a woman hugging her elderly mother.

Most regular readers of this Blog will have "picked up" the vibe accurately. If not, I recommend you repeat the experiment with your own selection of pictures until you improve your sense of high and low energy. You should be able to get at least 80% accuracy for it to be significant in building your confidence.  This is a useful ability because what you see and what you hear is not always what something is. Intuition that comes from a calm and loving space however, cannot be deceived. 

Custom Made Meditations

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1. The problem, goal or purpose of the Audio Meditation

2. What you have tried up to now to overcome the problem or achieve the goal

3. Whether you would like your custom Meditation to be 10, 15 or 20 Minutes

Allow 7 days for your Custom Meditation / Coaching Audio to be created. 

I may have some questions that I will ask by email. 

I will spend a few hours crafting your unique Meditation tailored to your special situation.

I will record it with a strong intention for your betterment, using the best possible tools I can source for the situation. You can use the Meditation again and again. You will receive your audio as a downloadable mp3-file which you can either burn to CD or put on your smartphone, i-phone or mp3-player.

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The Secret of Rainbows

"Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream, really do come true". - L.F. Baum


Legend has it that at the end of the rainbow there is a "golden pot" that will make you rich. Variations of this legend can be found in Ireland and in Norse as well as Slavic Mythology. Is this just some fairy tale or could there be a deeper metaphysical meaning behind it, one that might contribute to your prosperity?

Interestingly, the "end of a rainbow" cannot be seen by the observer who is standing at that precise spot, it can only be seen from afar. That shows that you cannot rely only on your eyes to find the elusive pot of gold but need to "feel yourself to it". Another interesting phenomenon is that rainbows look and appear differently and even shaped and located differently to each observer. This makes it more ethereal than normal physical matter which looks pretty much the same to anyone, and even more ethereal than water and light alone (of which rainbows are a mix).

There many be more to rainbows than meets the eye because every ancient tradition seems to link it to something mystical. You can see the Rainbow being described as a link from Heaven to Earth or as a sacred symbol in the ancient Mythologies of Greece, China, Japan, Persia and Sumeria. Arabic, Germanic and Judaic legends say that no more rainbows will appear when the end of the world is near. In Genesis it is said that there were no rainbows in pre-flood times and that rainbows symbolize that the earth will not again be destroyed by floods. Rainbows come about through the interplay of water and light, rude physical matter need not be involved. In this context it is interesting that the original Hebrew scripture of the Old Testament uses the same word for River and for Light, indicating the energy-stream-like qualities of both. In Hinduism the colors of the rainbow represent the colors of the 7 chakras ascending from the red root chakra to the highest violet one and thus also reminds us of the world-as-energy.

The most obvious connection to higher states of Consciousness is that Rainbows are simply a beautiful sight to behold, and as you behold beauty, your vibration increases. The qualities of light and the qualities of water reflect the qualities of that invisible energy. The principle of non-resistance is best reflected by water that resists nothing and therefore flows to its destination without effort. Elsewhere I have described the principle of reality creation as the "Light of Source" breaking up into a prismatic spectrum of colors representing various frequencies and levels of energy. Maybe this is why so many like to spend their vacation in light and near water. By being close to both you learn from them. Maybe then you give up your search for Gold and instead become the luminous rainbow that itself points to Gold.

Willpower Works 3: Factors that Increase Willpower

These are some methods with which you can increase your energy and willpower:

1. Limit sugar and carbs

Foods that are high on the “glycemic index” can lower your overall energy and willpower by giving you a quick boost at the expense of your overall state. Sugar is best used at times when you really do need an extra boost, such as when you are trying to quit smoking or going through post menstrual challenges ;-). Carbs are best limited after 6 p.m. because that is the time your body is winding down and does not really require the surplus energy.  You`ll lose weight if you limit carbs to the morning and afternoon.  I normally do not give any chemical advice, but these are time-proven:  sugar, carbs, caffeine, alcohol and nicotine are best taken in in limited quantities., when a boost is really needed.  By adhering to this advice you will certainly experience a boost in energy.

2. Take naps. 

The reason you get tired is so that you go to sleep and regenerate. If you ignore tiredness and keep on pushing yourself, you overstrain and deplete willpower and energy. Even a very short nap of a few minutes can reawaken your sense of alertness and freshness. If your lifestyle allows it, check if you can distribute your sleeping time through the day a little more rather than taking it all in one chunk at night. This also applies if you're a teenager or in your twenties. 

3. Do one thing at a time. 

Many people claim that they can “Multi-Task” or that multi-tasking is somehow an indicator of superior willpower. I disagree with this notion because I know how split-attention can subtly lessen willpower and energy in both men and women. See if your power does not increase if you follow one goal at a time. If you are trying to quit smoking, build a new company, save your relationship, take care of your kids and get an athletic body at the same time, you may be overstraining your willpower. By preserving power and focusing it on one thing and doing that properly, more is achieved overall. 

Related: 11 Articles on Willpower

See Also: Reality Creation Course

Miracle Stories 1-10

Thanks to all who sent in their Miracle Stories. These are the first 10. Please keep sending them in and serve as an Inspiration to thousands.

The nightmare that prevented death

Wake Up Calls

The SMS from Beyond

Invisible Rescue

True Intuition

The Big Relief

Flashing Lights

Sudden Relocation

Intuitively Locating People

Miracle Story 10: Intuitively Locating People

Sometimes, when on travels with people, I like to experiment with meeting them without the use of a location, time and pre-arrangement. I was walking through Milan, Italy with a girlfriend and we had arranged to part ways for 2 hours so that she could do some private shopping. When she asked where we will meet again I explained the concept of finding each other telepathically to her and she reluctantly agreed. No place was agreed on, only a rough time-frame of two to three hours. I said: "Just trust fully that we will meet, and we will". As I did not have a phone with me at the time, it made the exercise even more interesting. Sure enough, we did meet almost three hours later, after she had given up looking for me at the place we had originally parted. We met in a store about half a mile further away. The likelihood of that, in a city of Millions, is slim. How does it occur? Through inner/energy attraction only. I held her in mind throughout, and that's how we found each other.

I have attempted this experiment several times. It has not always worked, but the times it has worked goes beyond any statistical probability...into the miraculous.
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Self-Therapy Workshop 7: Healing Anything

Any reality you'd like to get rid of or create is composed of one or several of the following: 

* Psychological

* Spiritual

* Biological or Chemical

* Sociological or External

To consider only one of these sources is a limitation.


When I work as a coach with people they are often surprised that I ask about other factors than the workings of ones thoughts and emotions. A spiritual cause of trouble might be having lost ones connection to a higher source. A chemical source of trouble might be eating too much sugar, which can cause lack of energy. I've met plenty of coachees where just saying "cut down on the sugar" solved many of their "emotional issues". A sociological cause might be living in a dangerous part of town where sitting back and relaxing could be dangerous.

All these factors usually support each other and are the consequence of an overall context...an energy-level, a level of consciousness. The overall context is what attracts certain thoughts, sociological, biological and chemical conditions, a certain environment, and a spiritual/karmic destiny. As you shift the energy-level, the other factors gradually start to change too. One condition does not cause another, but correlates to another as being indicative of an overall field one is in. A negative inner attitude could drive one to make bad dietary choices or to be too inert to move away from a bad part of town. But vice-versa, negative dietary choices could also propell a bad inner attitude and growing up in negative circumstances could also make one feel habituated to staying in that bad part of town. The point I am trying to make is that all four areas must be factored in when practicing self-therapy or creating a reality you prefer. An improvement in one area will improve all others.

Many claim to be taking a "holistic" approach toward things but ignore entire dimensions of solution. They might subscribe to "faith healing" but ignore going to see a doctor, or they might go see a doctor but completely ignore the negative thought-forms of the patient. Modern sociologists tend to ignore personal Will as a causative factor. A drug-addict might try to use affirmations to get out of his issue but ignore the chemical slavery he is subjecting himself to. So indeed all problems are psycho-socio-bio-spiritual, as are all solutions. As a life coach I have helped people solve issues in many unexpected ways, by relying on intuition rather than formulaic responses. Use your Intuition and stay open toward many different type of approaches.

This completes the Workshop. Read the whole Self Therapy Workshop.

See Also: The Bliss Course

Miracle Story 9: Sudden Relocation

Another Story sent by Mike (naturo_94@msn.com). Thank you for the interesting account!

It happened during a summer when I was about four or five and I was at the lake with my family. There was also a play area with a big house from which you could slide down a play ground slide. I decided to not climb on the house by the normal ladder but go right up by the handrails of each floor. When I reached the last floor, which was about five to six meters (19 feet) high someone stepped on my fingers so that I lost grip and fell. I just remember that I had started to fall and the next thing I remember was that I was sitting in the grass in front of the building. Until today I don't have any memories of the "falling process". I often asked myself if it really happened but I am 100% sure I climbed up that building and I knew for sure I was sitting on the grass.

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Willpower Works 2

I once read of a scientific study (I do not recall where I read it) that worked as follows: The scientists gathered three groups of people (A, B, C) and showed each of them a very sad movie scene involving the death of animals due to some environmental contamination. Group A was asked to suppress their Emotions, not to show any emotional reaction at all. Group B was asked to express their Emotions and if they wanted, exaggerate them a little too, so that anyone could see how sad they were. Of Group C nothing in particular was asked. The groups were not told that they would be watched and they were not told what the Experiment is about. Watching the three groups, group A remained stoically unimpressed, while in group B many tears were seen whereas in Group C some looked sad and somber and some not.

Right after the viewing all participants were asked to use a Hand-Trainer for as long as their muscle strength would allow. After a series of repetitions of the Experiment it was found and concluded that both Group A and Group B had significantly less strength and Willpower left than Group C. Group C had plenty of energy left.

As I read this article I was delighted to say the least, because I have been teaching since 15 years that neither the Suppression nor the Expression of misemotion leads to a surplus in Energy. Hence in the Bliss Course I teach Emotional Releasing (rather than Suppressing or Expressing), which is merely feeling what you feel when you feel it, and not feeling what you do not feel when you do not feel it. It is the natural acceptance of what is that allows Emotions to transform and leave a surplus of energy.

In the above example, the Willpower (Attention, Energy) of Group A and B were depleted by suPRESSing or ExPRESSing Emotions, whereas the Group that had no command to do either, naturally felt what they felt when they felt it, with no specific intention or exercise behind it. The above Experiment (and as I learned later, many other Experiments) also shows that Energy/Willpower can be depleted. It then follows that all problems...be it problems with your spouse, problems at work, or anything else...are caused by lack of energy or attention-exhaustion when Willpower has been over-strained. Thats why the Reality Creation Course teaches only two Modes of Existence: Relax/Refresh or Train your Willpower.

Related Article: Willpower Works 1

Miracle Story 8: The visitor from Beyond

When I was a young boy I was in the hospital for two weeks. I don’t remember the exact illness I had back then, I only remember that I enjoyed my time there and that the following incident occurred: There was another boy in the room who was much worse off than me. He would die in the middle of the night in a few days.  Sometimes his parents came to visit and someone I thought was his grandfather also came to visit. The reason I thought it was his grandfather is because the boy said so.  Two days before the kid died, his parents gave their last visit where they told the boy that his grandfather had died ten years ago and that the boy is “making things up”. They then looked over at me quizzically, wondering whether I had seen an old man come visit. Had they bothered to ask me, I’d have told them I saw the old man.  The parents seemed to lack curiosity and did not follow up on it, also dismissing their sons tale of a daily visitor. He seemed a warm-hearted old man who interacted with the nurses, with me and most especially with what really appeared to be his grandson. Once the boy died he was silently removed from my room and I never saw any of these people again. However, I later read that it is not uncommon for someone about to die to be visited by people nobody else in physical reality seems to be aware of. Some of them seem to be strangers, some seem to be relatives.  The whole event, including the death of someone lying nearby, and the kindness of the old man (as opposed to the strange coldness of his parents) made an impression on my young mind.

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