How do you manifest your heart’s desire? How do you open the floodgates of heaven’s help? How do you grow and evolve in elegance and grace? How do you insure the best for you, your family, and your home during chaotic times? These questions are at the heart of my personal search of over two decades, and I am sure that you have asked these questions yourself. This is my current understanding:
One of the foundations to making a Success Breakthrough is using Law of Attraction principles to shift our thinking in order to shift our emotions. In some ways, most Law of Attraction teachers have watered down the Ancient’s understanding of the Eight, Nine or Eleven (depending on the system) Natural Laws on which this Universe operates. While I’ve been teaching on ACIM Gather , I’ve developed a way to look at these principles that makes them simple to use by anyone. Scientific support for this model can be found in the work of Dr. David Hawkins.
I call my model, “The Awareness Scale.” The basis for this teaching is profound, “Everything is One Thing (God, Source, Creator, Great Mysterious, Allah, The Matrix, The One Mind, The Field, the Unlimited Light, whatever term you use) and that One Thing is Everything.” Therefore, we are all unique expressions of the One Thing and are always connected. Are we always aware of that never-ending connection? That is the real challenge.
The quality of our lives is directly proportionate to the amount of awareness we have of that connection. So, how do we know when we are aware, in the flow of the energy that awareness brings? That’s where the Awareness Scale comes in. Let’s make a comparison of the two extremes on the scale: Complete Awareness vs. No Awareness. (Apologies to those readers who prefer a side by side comparison; I spent over an hour looking in the WordPress Codex for instructions on how to do that and decided there were better ways to find delight in writing.)
Complete Awareness
Time Focus: NOW
Thought Pattern: Acceptance, Allowance, Observation of What Is
Emotions: Love-Based Emotions (Begins with gratitude.)
Energetic: Completely aligned; Floodgates of Heaven Open for you.
Role Models: Jesus, Buddha, Mohammad, Quan Yin
Evidence: What You Do in This State Always Works for Your Highest Good.
No Awareness
Time Focus: Past or Distant Future
Thought Pattern: Comparison, Judgments
Emotions: Fear-Based
Energetic: Unaligned (random manifestation, no repetition)
Role Models: Hitler, Idi Amin, John Wayne Gacy
Evidence: No Matter How Hard You Try, This Is Never Going to Produce the Desired Result.
As you can see, not many people gravitate to the extremes on the scale. Most of us live in between the ends of the scale and move, on a daily basis, between becoming more aware or less aware, depending on whether our choices are consistent with what connects us. In fact, it is the energetic tension created by moving from less awareness to more awareness that creates growth and evolution.
We live in a choice-driven Universe. In this dimension of reality, we have polar opposites – light and dark, good and evil, hot and cold, male and female. We continually make decisions for ourselves, our families, and our homes based on our awareness on any given topic. If we are less aware of our connection on a topic, we will often make choices based on deciding, “I don’t want that.” If we are more aware of our connection on a topic, we will make choices that are founded in what gives us joy, peace, love, delight. Either way, the Universe expands, and Universal Energy (life force, chi, healing energy) is released. We can either enjoy the journey, be energized, and expand with the Universe or experience pain, death, and stuckness.
There are no rights and wrongs in this environment. There is only learning. Even focusing on what we don’t want for awhile, will point us to what we do want. Even the most lost person eventually gets sick and tired of being sick and tired and will open the doorway to awareness. That is what the unconditional love of God provides for us — a never-ending connection and the knowledge that all paths lead to one place, and that place is Home!

