Imagine
Success in life begins in the imagination, with clear, detailed mental images of the intentions and steps to take in achieving our goals.
The motivational writer, William Arthur Ward, encouraged:
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.”
When we want our puzzle pieces to fit together, we have to practice active imagining with our energetic mind. Whatever we image – think – picture – is what we put out into the world. Bad or good, we create, in our thoughts and imagination, and it does come back to us like a boomerang.
Fitting Together
How many times do we hear people say that they are probably going to get this or that disease? Or they’ll never travel anywhere? Or that they will never succeed? Their words become a habit. And those very words eventually manifest in their lives.
It works the other way around, too. People say, “I’m always healthy!” And they are. Or some have great “parking karma” and get a great parking spot. Those who say things like, “This is easy!” – achieve effortlessly. They are using their words to pre-pave their experience. Their puzzle pieces fit together, just as their imaging thoughts instruct. Their very ideas spring to life in their brain and body.
Solving the Puzzle of Life
To solve the puzzle of life we must train our brains with thoughts and images to electrify the Light, especially in patterns of success that lead to our “GOOD”. This is the light of our mind, lighting our way day by day, shining on the images, which we “see” in our mind.
Our Brain Puzzles
We can think of mind – our brain – as three big puzzles:
Automatic Brain
This is the brain puzzle piece that directs all our spontaneous, physical responses, such as standing up, walking, pointing a finger, swallowing, digesting, etc. We do not need to think about any of these bodily functions.
Automatic Brain is always there, streaming, awaiting direction. It is also plugged in to our emotions, especially those felt clearly or sharply. These feelings are etched deeply into the Automatic Brain with detailed visions, that can cause us to react instantly… without thinking.
Queen Victoria is a good example of the Automatic Brain at work. When she lost her husband, Albert, she felt bereft and alone. Her emotions were black with grief. Her Automatic brain felt it so deeply, it translated into her behavior as a widow: alone, draping her surroundings in black, always wearing mourning-black. She gave it out. She got it back – in spades.
Human Brain
We call this the puzzle piece of the “thinking interpreter”. It looks out at the physical world and sees all manifestations: good or bad, success or failure, health or illness, wealth or poverty. It looks at the glass as half full or half empty.
This interpreter is powerful because it has the ability to change direction, to “see” the opposite. Thus, if it is seeing bad, it can pivot to ignore bad, and focus on good.
There are many true stories of people who were down-and-out failures, and yet they found a way to become a success. Thomas Edison was a master of trial and error who was not afraid to make a mistake so that he could eventually succeed. Failure began the careers of others, like Michael Jordan, Elvis Presley, Stephen King, Abraham Lincoln, JK Rowling, Albert Einstein. George Lucas, and Walt Disney. Yet we all know their names and accomplishments today.
The Human Brain can imagine and speak, write and journal, always finding new ways to put the puzzle pieces together.
Intuitive Brain
This is the puzzle piece of non-physical, ethereal power. It is often experienced as a lightning bolt that sparks us with a new thought or idea. We sometimes feel it as the perfect answer or solution to a problem. The Greeks called it a Eureka. Plato called it the Divine Intervention or the Divine Design.
My father told me stories of his ethereal experiences during World War II as captain of a ship in the Pacific. Whether it was a typhoon mercilessly battering the vessel, or saving a downed pilot in enemy territory, or the screech of bombarding enemy rockets, each time his ship was in danger, he prayed to God and the Virgin Mary to intercede. Each time, his ship was miraculously saved. He believed… and his faith gave him a knowing trust… in Divine Intervention.
Pre-requisite
There is a prerequisite for this Divine Intervention puzzle piece. For it to fit, the Automatic Brain and especially the Human Brain must be OPEN. The automatic response and the thinking response, so natural to our puzzling brains, must let go and allow a calm stillness. We know this as our faith.
The famous dancer and choreographer, Martha Graham spoke of this:
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening
that is translated through you into action…
and you must keep your channel open to it.”
Our Best Puzzle Piece
This Divine Design – Intuitive Brain – is our highest and best puzzle piece. It is the piece that transforms our lives into all its possibilities. Plato spoke of this intuition to his “Dear Students” in his discourse on Divine Intervention:
“God himself is the speaker, and he is conversing with us…
as one of the greatest energetic forces.
This is the key to unlock the magic within.
This is the secret of the Divine union.”
Plato went on to say that, when the human energetic mind is united with the divine ethereal aspect, it creates the Divine Union we know as enlightment. We may call it revelations or miracles… or our everyday magic; which the Greeks called “thaum” – a marvel. Within Divine Union that is what we are – a marvel.
Our Brain puzzle pieces each have their own power. But it is our Divine Design that makes the seemingly impossible – perfectly possible… with your
LIGHT ON!
