"Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food."
~ Hippocrates

SAVE OUR PLANET
HOW TO CREATE LOVE

By Robin Greenslade

Love is all things. Anything is possible. By turning around situations and looking at them from a different perspective we can change our lives. By changing our beliefs about our lives and using proper visualization techniques we can create love in our lives. We can choose a different path at any given moment. We have free will and we always have choice. Make it a path of love and service and watch roadblocks dissolve within your own life. Open the doors to new possibilities for yourself and fly through the roadblocks!

We create our lives through our thoughts. If our thoughts are loving we create love in our lives. If our thoughts are fearful and negative we create fear and negativity. Life says "YES!" to our thoughts and beliefs. Beliefs are simply repeated thoughts. Most of us have a mixture of loving and fearful thoughts and beliefs, so that is exactly what we create in our lives; a mixture of love and fear. Our lives are a roller coaster of ups and downs.

We can strengthen our ability to create love in our lives by using visualization techniques. The best results are obtained by using a combination of good visualization technique and changing our beliefs about how we create our reality. It does not work to carefully visualize what we want in our lives and then counteract the visualization with beliefs that the visualization "won't work", or "nobody loves me and nobody ever will".

Begin by visualizing something that does not have strong fears attached to it. I started using visualization techniques at a time in my life when I hadn't done much exercise for months and was physically unfit. For my goal I chose to be able to run a flat-out quarter mile easily and without being out of breath at the finish. I began by writing a detailed description of what it would be like to run a fast quarter mile without breathing hard.

Twice a day I read my detailed description and visualized an imaginary picture of myself in my out-of-condition state and simultaneously another imaginary picture of myself after running a fast quarter-mile, breathing just as if I'd not run at all.
A month after I began the visualization process I was walking home past a nearby park with a running track. I felt an inner urge to run. So I went home, changed into my running gear and headed straight out to the track. I ran a fast quarter-mile and at no time during or after the run was I breathing hard. I was amazed. After that, I created all sorts of changes in my life. I learned that reality does not work the way most of us think. I learned that we create what we consistently think, believe and visualize happening.

Being a curious soul, I researched some of the science and teachings about the 'real' nature of reality. Some scientists talk of reality as being a 'frequency domain' of intersecting wave-forms. Physicist David Bohm proposes "implicate" and "explicate'' realities. I also found out that only 20% of what we see comes from visual input. The other 80% is constructed by our brains. Paramahansa Yogananda summed it all up as "The world is nothing more than an objectivized dream". My experience of creating seemingly impossible events in my life became more understandable.

Yogananda further said "Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm." He also said "Whatever your powerful mind believes very intensely comes to pass." The Buddha said "With our thoughts we make the world." All these quotes tell us that our thoughts create our personal and global realities. Quantum mechanics supports the proposition that thought creates reality. Such creation-potential works at the personal, group, national and global levels. We directly create our personal and global realities.

Be careful not to try to change specific other people's lives, even if you think they would like the changes. Their life is theirs to live. Our trying to change specific others' lives probably would not work and in any case might not bring the results we ultimately want. Instead of visualizing others' lives, show them these techniques so they can use them to create whatever they want in their own lives.

Why is our world faced with so many seemingly insurmountable problems? Because our minds are frequently filled with fearful and contradictory thoughts. By changing our thoughts we can change not only our own lives but, as others join us in creating love in their lives, also our world. "With our thoughts we make the world."