Hello, and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host Samantha Faye and I'm
Dab Bowen, and today we're going to be discussing how to tell the difference
between your imagination and your intuition. Now I don't know about you, Dab,
but I used to think these two were very separate things, But now
I'm not so sure. If we know that in order to manifest anything,
we have to first think it into existence, then something very real is happening
when we're just imagining. And yet we also know that much of intuition happens
in the mind's eye. So is the mind's eye the same as imagination?
And if intuition and imagination do indeed occur in the same liminal space, then
how can we tell the difference between the two. This is what we're hoping
to discuss today. What are your thoughts on that before we dive into some
of our notes. Well, you know, later on in the podcast,
I'll be talking about the notion of visualizing. Just as you're saying, we
manifest into existence what we want to be, and some of the steps and
processes to make that happen include being able to see or hear or feel,
or use your senses in some way to bring something into being. And if
that's not imagination, I don't know what is, right, So it can
get complicated and kind of confusing, right, I mean the word itself.
Imagination is fraught with so many complicated definitions in terms, and Neville Goodard's The
Power of Imagination, he writes the word imagination has no status nor fixed significance.
For example, we ask someone to use their imagination, meaning that the
present outlook is too restricted and therefore not equal to the task. But in
the next breath, we tell this person that their ideas are pure imagination,
implying that their ideas are unsound. We speak of a jealous or a suspicious
person as a victim of their imagination, meaning that this person's thoughts are untrue.
A minute later, we pay someone the highest tribute by describing them as
a person of imagination. Goddard goes on to say, even the dictionary is
no help. It defines imagination as the picturing power or act of the mind,
the constructive or creative principle if phantasm in irrational notion or belief, and
finally, planning a mental construction ultimately Goddard believes that imagination is the gateway of
reality. I really like that phrase, the gateway of reality. You know,
there's a Chinese proverb that says thought is the ancestor of action, and
I've always really liked that too, because everything does to begin with our thoughts,
and really, what are our thoughts other than things that are happening in
our mind, in our mind's eye, in our imagination. I can't imagine
a pardon the bun here. I can't imagine not having imagination. You know,
when I was a little girl, I had imaginary friends. I had
an imaginary horse, and they were as real to me as you are,
to the point that my mother never quite knew what was quote true and what
was not in my life. And there were days that I would go out
for a walk in our neighborhood and I was very little, I mean under
five, before school, and I would come home with bouquets of flowers,
and she thought I was stealing them from neighbor's yards. And I would say,
Miss Fanny gave them to me, and she thought I had made miss
Fanny up. Well, Miss Fanny was very real. It was a lovely,
elderly neighbor who lived down the way, who really did send flowers home
to my mom through me. But Mama didn't know what was true with what
was not, and I'm not sure that I did either, So there you
go. Well, I had a similar problem with imagination and intuition because when
I was a kid, my parents make such fun of me because they said
I started every sentence with imagine if you know, like we'd be driving and
I'd say, imagine if you saw a giant on top of that mountain over
there, Like I was constantly saying things like that. But then when I
remember one day I ran downstairs to the playroom and I saw a woman and
she was sitting on this table against the window. She was dressed in this
beautiful, beautiful gown, but I could see the table and the window in
my backyard through her and through the dress, and she looked at me and
smiled. She was very kind and beautiful, but I was terrified, and
I remember running up the stairs screaming, there's like, oh, stay in
our house. And I remember my mom saying, oh, honey, you
and your imagination. So for me, it was always very very tricky,
because yeah, I did have this very vivid imagination. However, Comma,
I also had, you know, this very strong intuition, and I knew.
I knew as a kid that what I was seeing was real, and
I knew the difference between my imagination and my intuition. And yet very often
the two are put together, or were told intuition is imagination or vice versa.
And I think as especially if you're a budding intuitive and you're just learning
to trust your intuition, and you get a thought or an idea or a
picture in your mind's eye, you might think, well, is that my
imagination, my making that up? Or is that my intuition? And it
can be really, really hard. Well, am, but if you go
back to the story you just told, you knew you didn't imagine that woman,
You knew she was really there. Yes, Well, the same was
true with me and my spirit God. I knew he was real. Mama
thought I was making him up. He is really there. He still is
really there. Okay, But let's say you get this thought, there's just
this feeling like I remember before COVID that was March, and I remember,
starting in January, every time I would meditate, I kept hearing this phrase.
You know, that old Bradberry title something Wicked this Way Comes. Yes,
I kept hearing that. Every time I would meditate, I would I
don't know, that title would just drop in my head and I remember talking
to my friend Denise about it and I was like, I don't know what
that means, and she was like, well, you know, try to
explore and go deeper and is it something bad coming to you? Is it
something bad coming to the world? And I was like, no, it
feels more generalized, like you know everywhere something wicked this way comes. And
I remember when the lockdowns happened, that message stopped. But for those few
months, I didn't know was that my imagination was that intuition and I didn't
know what to do with it. Really, does that ever happen to you?
Yes, it does happen to me. It happens to me with song
lyrics being predictive of something coming their mornings that I wake up with lyrics in
my head. I do that most mornings, but sometimes when they repeat themselves
day after day, I know that that's some kind of a message that my
imagination, my subconscious is trying to get through to me, and I do
it often with song lyrics I've learned to trust it. I have to,
but I do understand people who have a hard time with it. We got
an email from a listener and she's a young mom and she has young kids,
and she said she often gets this feeling that something bad is going to
happen to one of her kids. And she said, you know, how
do I tell the difference between is this my imagination just mom worry or is
this my intuition? And I totally understand that, because sometimes you just worry
on something and it's like a cold store, like you just can't stop,
you know, bothering it, and then you wonder, like, oh,
am I gonna make this happen if I keep thinking about it? And so
one thing I told her is that intuition is never scary, right Like,
even though I kept hearing that something wicked this way comes, I wasn't like
terrified or scared. I just knew it was kind of like a warning,
because when my intuition speaks to me, there's really not a lot of emotion
with it. It's just very factual and it's kind of dropped in and it's
repetitive and it doesn't change. And I remember asking her, does the message
change, and she said sometimes it does. Like sometimes she'll have a feeling
like, oh, something's gonna happen to one of her kids, and then
it's another kid. That lets you know, that's your imagination. If it's
jumping around, flitting around, that's just worry. Well, let's look at
the difference. As you have just explained to us some of the definitions and
ways of looking at the word imagination. Take us now into looking at intuition.
Well, the word intuition means to intuit, feel, and sense things,
and the Dicky defines intuition as the ability to understand something immediately without conscious
reasoning. So think about that word immediately, because this is how intuition works.
It's an instant knowing, an instant feeling, or an instant sensation,
where you know or feel something to be true without understanding how you know or
feel this way, whereas imagination takes more time you have to think about something,
build a picture, hold it in your mind's eye. Yet both imagination
and intuition happen in the right brain, the creative side. They also feel
the same. When you're imagining or intuiting, you feel as though you're in
the flow in the zone, and this is why it can be really confusing
to discern the difference between the two. Take this example from a letter the
famous eighteenth century mystic painter and poet William Blake wrote to his friend. When
the friend was grieving the loss of a family member, he consoled him in
a letter by sharing his his own experiences after his brother's death. He wrote,
I know that our deceased friends are more really with us than when they
were apparent to our mortal part. Thirteen years ago I lost my brother,
and with his spirit I conversed daily and hourly, and see him and my
remembrance in the region of my imagination. I hear his advice, and even
now right from his dictate, he talks to his brother every day in the
region of his imagination. And yet I want to point out that William Blake
had this really powerful dream when his deceased brother visited him, and it was
at a time when Blake and his wife were really struggling. He had a
printing business and trying to be an artist and poet wasn't working, and his
brother in this dream showed him a way to make cheaper copies of the printings
that he was trying to do to support his artwork, and Blake said he
never could have come up with that idea on his own. It came from
his brother. Did it come from brother? Did it come from his imagination?
Did it come from the collective unconscious? I don't know. I think
it came from his brother. What do you think? I absolutely do.
He also said, the world of imagination is the world of eternity. I
love that idea. It's true. In our imagination, everything is eternal,
everything is now, and we can tap that creative space not only to enhance
our intuition, but also to enhance our manifesting capacities. Nothing really begins and
nothing really is exactly. Napoleon Hill, author of the best selling books such
as Think and Grow Rich, often described his technique of consulting the Invisible Council.
He chose nine deceased men that he greatly admired, and every night,
when he was falling asleep, he would just imagine talking with these men to
seek their advice and input. He called these visualization techniques his nightly meetings,
and he would not write a word or prepare a speech without first consulting this
group. It was so successful that Napoe and Hill became afraid he was indulging
his imagination too much, so he put a stop to his nightly meetings.
But soon after that, he dreamt that President Lincoln visited him in a dream
and told him to restart the nightly meetings because they missed them and they had
important work to do together. Navoleon did just that and went on depend over
a dozen best selling books that are still in print today. So what's happening
here. Are Blake and Hill confusing imagination with intuition or vice versa, or
is there a bridge between the two. I think there's a bridge between the
two personally, I do. And I love this suggestion that Napoleon Hill gives
us about creating that dream team. And I've seen other writers since then build
on his idea of doing that, other writers, other folks who want to
manifest whatever. And I think that's a great thing for our listeners to think
about, is that you don't have to do this alone when you're looking.
And we're going to talk more about this later as we talk about manifesting in
other ways. But I think it's a great idea to build that dream team
and to work with both imagination and intuition well. In dream Work for the
Soul, Rosemary Ellen Guiley writes, the land of dreams is part of the
mundus imagionalists or imaginal world, a real place recognized by cultures around the world
since ancient times. We can access this liminal world through petition, meditation,
and dreams. I think the main difference is this, When we use our
imagination, we are in charge of the visualization, sensations, and pictures.
We are the driver, the cruise director of our imagination. When we use
our intuition, the universe, the collective conscious, our guides, ancestors,
and angels are driving the bus. So does that make sense to like,
when you're imagining something, you are the movie director, the costume designer,
the producer, the actor and actress. You are the one who's doing all
of the work. But when into wition is in charge, it's just comes
to you. It's like a download, It's just there without you soliciting it.
Let me play with that a minute, Amatha, because I hear what
you're saying. I understand the intent of what you just said. But you
know me, I can be kind of a control freak about things, and
so so the thought that that that my intuition comes to me from somewhere else,
that I don't have some kind of internal connection to it, Like,
for example, when I think of intuition, I think of work from the
solar plexus chakra. So I think of that as being me and my understanding
and ability to participate in the intuitive process in addition to it being downloaded from
somewhere else. That makes to me when you're doing intuitive work. I'm talking
about when you've already awakened your intuition and you're learning to work with it and
trust it, and you're driving down the road, or you're from one meeting
to the next, or you're sitting at your office answering fifty five emails and
you keep getting this unsolicited thought in your head. Call my friend Hillary,
I need to call Hillary. Call Hillary. Call Hillary. And you finally
find some time in your day to call Hillary, and she says, oh
my gosh, I'm so glad you called. I'm having the worst day,
A B and C happened. I've been meaning to reach out to you.
I just need to process this and talk about it. What do you think
you were feeling that need of your friend who really needed someone to talk to.
You weren't soliciting that, you weren't actually focusing on your solar plexus chakra
or your throat chakra. To hear Claire audiently, it just came to you.
I hear what you're saying. I'm not sure I agree with you,
but I hear what you're saying. You don't agree with me. Haven't you
ever had a thought or idea pop into your head, You follow it and
it ends up being exactly what you needed to do? Of course, what
do you saw that? I'm not only sure it comes from external source,
it always comes from deb No, I didn't say that, dope, what
words. What I said was, I'm not sure it always comes from an
external source. No, I agree with that. I mean, sometimes it
is an internal source. But I think too. I remember when my friend
George passed and he was telling me that, you know, he's working on
music and composing and they had to find the right open minded, creative person
who was receptive to the compositions they were working at on to drop it in
if that makes sense, and did you? Oh? He did? Yeah,
But I feel like that's how it is with m Going back to my
Bradberry reference. He has that wonderful essay called Inviting the Muse or Invoking the
Muse, and he talks about how he thinks there are creatives on the other
side, or muses on the mountains. However you want to look at it,
who come up with all these wonderful ideas and they look for people who
are uniquely receptive to that idea and they drop it in. Like if you're
on the other side, deb and you want to write a book, and
you have this idea for this wonderful, wonderful Hallmarky romance, which I know
you would never write, but just go with me here, and you want
to drop it into someone, would you drop it into Stephen King's head?
No, No, you'd have to find someone who is into that type of
Hallmarky romance and drop it into their head. That's what I mean about an
external source. Okay, all right, for sake of for sake of I'm
here, I'll go with you here, go ahead, Okay. Well,
I found when I was doing some research on the difference between intuition and imagination,
there's a website called the Sage method dot com, and she has an
exercise on there to help you discern the difference between your imagination and your intuition.
She says a simple practice of acknowledging the information that comes through. You
can try erasing it, wiping it away, and then waiting so you kind
of you get the information and then you try to like just delete it.
She says, follow these three steps. When something pops into your head and
you're unsure if it was your imagination intuition, bring it back to the forefront
of your mind by recreating it, and spend ten seconds intently focusing on it.
After ten seconds, wipe it away, erase it from your mind like
you're using an eraser on a chalkboard, and then finally spend the next ten
seconds focusing your effort on not recreating it in your mind. Focus only on
holding your mind still now. She says, if you were able to easily
recreate it in step one and it did not come back to you after you
erased it in step three, then it's your imagination. If you struggle to
recreate it in step one and it came back to you after you erased it
in step three, then it's your intuition. And I think that's interesting because
those intuitive messages that do pop in. They are often very strong, and
they're repetitive, and they don't go away, and like I said before,
they don't change. She says. In this practice, you are slowing down
that split second of creation and paying closer attention. You are standing there saying,
Okay, let's replay this and see if this time it's easier to recreate
it meaning imagine it, or witness it, meaning it's coming from your intuition.
This quick practice, she says, when done again and again, will
produce a few results. You will start to feel what creating something with your
imagination feels like. It will become easier to feel the witnessing action of intuition.
You will be able to delineate more and more between the two feelings,
and in the future, when something pops into your head, you'll finally know
if it was intuition or imagination. So instead of sitting in frustration of not
knowing if you made something up or not, you start to see your imagination
as a process of creating and your intuition as a process of witnessing. Once
you do, you'll be more able to rely on your intuition and feel more
confident that you didn't make something up. I like that differentation of creating and
witnessing. That makes a lot of sense. Well it does. I think
that's an interesting thing to try. Have you tried that. I have,
and it is kind of confusing to erase it away and then do that that
step of calming your mind down. And I have noticed that when it is
intuition, it's just there, like no matter what you do, it's there.
It's not going away, whereas with imagination you might struggle to recreate the
exact image or the exact words. Really does help you delineate between creating and
witnessing. And I think that calming your mind down helps a lot too,
if you're having those anxious imagination thoughts that are more from a place of worry
than intuition or even imagination. I think it's an interesting thing to try.
I'll try it and see what happens. Let's take a quick break and talk
about some things we have coming up, and then when we get back deb
you'll share with us some techniques for creative visualization. But before we do that,
I just want to let everyone know that I have a really exciting class
coming up at the end of April. If you're looking to dive into your
intuition by learning more about psychic tools. I hope you check out my upcoming
webinar where I'm going to teach everyone how to work with psychometry and pendulums to
enhance your intuition. The classes taught live over Zoom on April twentieth from seven
to eight thirty pm Eastern, but it will be recorded an email to you
the next day, so if you can't make it live, no worries.
Also, don't forget I have autograph copies of my book The Awake Dreamer available
on my website and if you sign up for my newsletter, the theme this
month is Okay You're intuitive? Now what all of that? And more?
It can be found at Samantha Fay dot com. How about you, deb
Samantha, I'm so decided to tell folks. First of all, a huge
thank you to all of our listeners who have read my newest creative nonfiction piece
in Salvation South Literary Magazine. It's called a Talisman for Poseidon. Of course,
that you all have asked me for a long time to teach is coming
in May, and that is a course on working with arrow in terms of
symbolism and art types not as a divination tool, so watch my newsletter and
website for that. You can get all of this information in details and so
much more on my website debboin dot com. Okay, let's get back to
the show. Deb Do you want to talk to us about using our imagination
to help us manifest? Absolutely? Shack Gawaine, who was just absolutely a
brilliant writer and metaphysician back in nineteen seventy eight, wrote a groundbreaking book titled
Creative Visualization. So this idea, the notion of quotes seeing something into existence
comes from her, who is the mother of the concept. Basically, this
idea uses mental imagery and affirmations to bring about positive changes in your life.
This book paved the way for the use of visualization in sports, in business,
the arts, health care, almost everywhere in using meditations, exercises such
as the one Samantha mentioned earlier, and of course of visualization, you can
achieve what you want in life, said Shaky. You can change habits,
you can change patterns, improve self esteem, meet career goals, become more
creative, and so much more. According to her work. So, for
example, scientists have shown that the brain processes a day dream the way it
does a memory. This means that when you daydream, your subconscious is storing
this as a memory a fact. Once you get an idea or a belief
into your subconscious, you can bring your goals from the dream state into real
time. So one of the ways that this creative visualization began to work and
manifest itself was in sports, where athletes would go into a daydream kind of
liminal kind of space and see themselves running at a certain speed or doing whatever
the sport was they needed to do, so that they truly embodied that dream
into a physical reality in terms of muscle memory, so that later they were
able to actually act out what they had been dreaming about. When the brain
is allowed to freely daydream, it activates an area of the brain called the
default mode network or d m N. What I even consciously aware of this
activation happening. We can't control when the DMN is activated, but we can
control the thoughts and the daydreams. We have that program our d N with
positive images and goals. We're working on science writer and I'm not sure I'm
pronouncing his name correct, Josie Gallia says, says quote daydreams are an inner
world where we can rehearse the future. I lost that idea of rehearsing our
future because, like you were saying, with the sports study, not only
did they show that that helped them have a better run or whatever their athletic
choice was, but their actual muscles fired when they were just imagining going through
their their racecourse, which is absolutely intriguing. And so if we can and
take a hold of our imagination through our day dreams, we can rehearse the
future for a better or more positive outcome. Because something I've talked about a
lot on this show, and it's something I'm really fascinated by, is this
idea that we're manifesting all the time and we're not aware of it. We're
manifesting positively and negatively. And we've got to take control of our thoughts more
and more and more and more. One of my friends, her mom was
in a pretty bad car accident and she's okay, thankfully. The car is
totaled, but she's okay and that's what matters, and no one else was
hurt. But she said to me, she said, you know, my
mom has been saying for a year, I need a new car, but
I can't really afford one. And she's been saying it over and over and
over again, and she said, what if she manifested this as a way,
because now the insurance is going to pay for a new car? What
do you think about that? I think that's exactly what happened. It's kind
of scary to think about, though, isn't it. It is? You
know, our words have power. I thought of our I so believe that
we can manifest into being that which we think. I truly believe that.
I know. I have learned over the years that I feel like I have
to be very careful with what I say because it will come into fruition if
I'm not Yeah, exactly, which is why affirmations can be helpful, but
also just taking time throughout your day to really focus on some positive daydreams.
This default mode network or DMN, it's where we get our sense of self.
How else can we become a co creator with the universe if we don't
first understand ourselves as the source. Psychologist Susan Nolan Hoaxma define daydreaming as imagining
situations in the future that are positive in tone. What you imagine most frequently
is what you create we're manifesting all the time. The only problem is that
many of us are so caught up with worries and fears that this is what
we manifest rather than the positive life we're striving for. And so you must
learn to harness this power with positive images and emotions or your life will continue
to be a rollercoaster of positive and negative experiences. And I think deb this
is where fake it till you make it does come into play, because a
lot of times you'll be in a situation you're worried about it, You're fretting
over something and I can't afford this car, or I hate my job and
there's no other jobs out there right now. You know, you get in
those yeah butt moments, right and when you say an affirmation or you create
a positive daydream, there's always that part of you that's like, m that's
not going to happen, or that's a nice daydream. That's a nice affirmation,
but never worked out for me in the past. I think if you
just say yeah, maybe that's so, I'm just going to fake it,
I make it and keep visualizing this happening, I think it still works.
One thing that I do is I will create a playlist of happy, positive,
uplifting music to go along with my daydreams. So when I'm working out
at the gym or walking my dog, I play that music and I go
over and over the daydream. I think that's really important. I've been doing
that for years. It worked. It doesn't it, It does work.
It absolutely does work. I have used music and playlist back of the days
where we made playlist on cassette tapes. So that's a long time ago,
I know, but but I would do that with to evoke a certain emotion,
to process thoughts or feelings, and I used it to be encouraging to
myself. You know. For example, I have playlists now even still now
on my computer where I play songs that are there to evoke relaxation, or
pieces for meditation, or pieces for peace, or some that are just you
know, really happy, Thank goodness, it's Friday afternoon music. But they
all evoke that sense of who I am and what I want my world to
look like at that moment, you know. I mean, it's Friday afternoon,
I'm gonna be listening to Jimmy Buffett. There you go. What would
you say to people who are like well, I don't know what to day
about because I don't even know what I want. Oh, then that's where
you have to start at. That's where you have to start. Yeah,
it is asking yourself that question. And a lot of times where folks start
with that is being able to listen what they don't want. That's often where
folks go with that. Well, I don't want to do this, and
I don't want to live here, and I don't want to blah blah blah
blah blah. Well, okay, so what's the opposite of that? Would
that look like? If you could have if you could have anything in the
world, you want it right this minute, what would that be? And
you have to be very careful about what you want. And I've done this
in classes that I have taught about manifesting symanthem. So some folks may have
heard this, But I remember for years I would when I lived in Suburbia,
would I would say, I want to live on a particular island and
be able to see the ocean every day. Well, and I want to
buy a house on that island. Well, finally it got through to me
that that's not what I wanted at all. I didn't want the burden of
home ownership or the responsibility or the terror of having a hurricane come along on
that island. I just wanted to go, want it to be able to
go and enjoy it and do whatever I want it when I wanted to.
And once I figured that out, then my whole approach to visualizing and manifesting
what I wanted my time on that space to look like dramatically changed and I
was able to then be clear about what I did want and have indeed been
able to manifest that. Yeah, And sometimes I think you can start with
how do you want to feel? Yes, you know, rather than what
do you want your life to look like? How do you want your life
to feel? And go from there, well, what will make you feel
happy, what will make you feel at peace, what will make you feel
calm and centered and whole? And I think that's a good place to start
as well. And the other thing I like to do is come up with
an end result image. So if for example, you're trying to manifest a
new job, just picture yourself shaking hands over a desk with a contract on
the table that you've just signed for that employment, right, Or if you
are hoping to get a new car. Just visualize yourself, you know,
signing the loan on the car and someone handing you the keys. Get to
the end result of what it is you're trying to manifest, and leave the
house up to the universe, and don't be small with yourself, you know.
Wayn Dyer used to always a the universe is an ocean of abundance,
and we all go to it with a teaspoon, remember, and used to
say we should be bringing buckets. I do remember than saying that I miss
Wayne Dyer. Me too. Now we've all heard that expression thoughts or things.
But luckily science has now proven this thoughts can be measured electromagnetically. The
protein basis of DNA look like syntax and language, which has led scientists to
speculate that our words truly can influence our DNA. Rudolf Steiner wrote that intuitives
must understand that feelings and thoughts, things happening in our imagination are just as
real as tables and chairs in the world of the physical senses. He wrote
in the Soul and Thought World, feelings and thoughts react upon each other just
as do physical objects in the physical world. There can be no progress on
the path to higher knowledge. Unless we guard our thoughts and feelings in the
same way we guard our steps in the physical world, it's pretty powerful.
Well, it really is. I'm thinking about that because I love Rudolf Steiner's
work, and so I think about that notion of what is real, which
takes me back to the idea. Really, because what he's talking about here
is quantum physics, and that everything is just energy, and so how we
feel, how we think, what we see, what we're able to touch,
is just a matter of vibrations and the way in which the molecules coalepse.
And that's really what he's saying. You know, feelings are no different
than stuff, it's just how we perceive them. I do too. But
I think a lot of people, especially when we're in those times of stress
us and the hamster wheel cycle of life, right, I think a lot
of us aren't even aware of our thoughts and feelings throughout the day, or
if we are, we stuff them down because we don't have time to pull
them out and honor them. Yeah, push it down exactly, which is
why we always come back to meditation, journaling moments of silence in your day
so that you can get in touch with those thoughts and feelings. The happy
thoughts and feelings, they're right there, they're bubbling up. You know,
You're like your own little champagne bottle. They just bubble right up. But
the scary, negative, worriesome thoughts, we do tend to push those down.
And I think if we want to guard ourselves, as Steiner is saying,
against those types of thoughts and feelings, we do need to allow them
to come to the surface and then try our best through daydreaming, creative visualization,
imagining, and affirmations to shift those thoughts and feelings into the positive.
As you were talking, I'm thinking, sometimes I think it's hard for folks
to let the good stuff bubba uh. I think we as a society get
so conditioned to fear and doubt and negativity that to be able to just stop
and say, Wow, it is a beautiful day, and I am grateful.
It's hard sometimes to find joy. So I think that too, is
a matter of learning to condition ourselves to see the world in a different way.
Well, especially when you're raised in a family that tends to be more
cautious or negative. Or remember my former mother in law saying don't trade the
devil you know for the devil you don't know, right, you know,
or those I hate all those things like you can't have your cake and eat
it too. But you know, like in Shock dey Goeen's book, like
you mentioned, she says, we always attract into our lives whatever we think
about the most, believe most strongly, and expect on the deepest level,
and imagine most vividly. Well, what if as a kid you were told,
Oh, you're not the smart one in the family, or you're not
the pretty one, or you're not the favorite, or life is hard,
or you've you've got to work all the time. Life is work. You
know what if you were told that over and over and over again, it's
going to be hard, you've got to do extra work to then shift that
so that you're not attracting more of that, absolutely true. You know.
My sweet little daddy, when I would say something one was wonderful happening or
going to happen or whatever, his response almost always was yeah, honeybuddet,
just one thing is And what he meant by that was yeah, but there's
all this blist of bad stuff that could happen instead, And he always almost
always went there. It was always this negative stuff. And I still hear
it. If I could hear it in what I just said to you all
in my dad us voice, I can, I can hear it. And
that was a hurdle I've really struggled to get over. And sometimes I had
default to his way of thinking. And I try to catch myself and say,
yes, but it's what if something wonderful happens? Yeah, And then
I try to hold on to all the times when something wonderful did happen.
But you know, even as a parent, deb I find myself doing crop
like that. My daughter's stressing out because she's trying to find this paid internship.
I did not know. This is a new thing. Like when I
was in college, internships were not paid. Now they pay you. So
she's trying to find this paid internship and I gotta work this summer I got
and I said to her, honey, you have your entire life, like
the rest of your life when you leave college is just work and paying bills
and getting up and doing it all over again. Enjoy your summer. And
she kind of looked at me, and she goes as adulting that bad,
And I thought, I thought, Oh my gosh, what did I just
put in her head? You know so, I think sometimes as parents we
do that and we don't mean to. I was trying to be positive,
like, don't worry about getting this huge eight to five, you know,
big job, You got the rest of your life to do that. Have
fun. But I think inadvertently I sent a message of adulting is hard.
Well, yes, let's do a couple of other quotes from Gawaine's Creative Visualization
book because she had some great things to say. She says, every moment
of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put
forth a clear request and everything your heart truly desires must come to you.
Oh that's powerful, and I want to believe it. I really do.
I think the thing the key there is a clear request, meaning, going
back to our discussion, if you have to know what you want and you
have to know how you want to feel a you get what you want,
and then I think the second step in that is surrendering it, leaving the
house up to the universe. She also writes, let us imagine that life
is a river. Most people are clinging to the bank afraid to let go
and risk being carried along by the current of the river. At a certain
point, each of us must be willing to simply let go and trust the
river to carry us along safely. At this point, we learn to go
with the flow, and it feels wonderful. Once we've become accustomed to being
in the flow of the river, we can begin to look ahead and guide
our course onward, deciding where the course looks best, steering the way around
boulders and snags, and choosing which of the many channels and branches of the
river we prefer to follow, all while still going with the flow. I
love that section of her book because it's not only about surrendering, it's also
about trusting. And I feel like it's also including our intuition because she's seeing,
once you learn to go at the flow, then you can help guide
the course onward and look at do I want to go around this boulder or
avoid this nag. So it kind of combines the two imagination and intuition,
which I think is great. And she says the process of change does not
occur on superficial levels through mere positive thinking. It involves exploring, discovering,
and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes towards life. And I think the
key there is changing how we see the world around us. You know,
I have this lovely friend and my you know, over the year's folks,
if you listen to this podcast for in length of time, you know my
nickname for Samantha's Pollyanna Well, Samantha's pollyanna ishness. Cannot hold a candle to
my friend An and I watched and go through. We've been friends for many
years, and I've watched her go through lots of transitions in her life,
some of which would to me be absolutely devastating. And I have watched her
do those changes with grace and dignity and with cheerfulness, and with excitement and
expectation of what's next. This is a wonderful adventure. And here I go.
And I've watched and talk to her about her attitude a lot because I
want what she's gone. I don't always have that ability to be as expectant
and exciting and as willing to change as she is. And I'm happy for
her, and I would love to see us all have more of that.
Me too, And I think that that change is It's scary and it's not
overnight, but it can happen. I have seen very good friends in my
life who when they came into my life fifteen twenty years ago, we're kind
of negative. Nellie's right, not negat of meaning mean or mean spirited,
just negative towards themselves and how they thought life would work out. And I've
seen them through the years of work on this and change it and reap amazing
benefits in their own lives, and then I've seen that echo out to people
around them. That's the thing with all of this, whether it's your imagination
or your intuition, when you're coming from a place of positivity and hope and
expectation, not only does it change your life, and as we mentioned before,
science is showing it changes your DNA, but it also helps influence the
people around you. You know, there's I think it's to Lula bank Yard.
Yo, I'm getting ready to say a sort of a dirty word here.
I think it's to Lula bank Yard who made the statement life is a
banquet and most fobs are starving to death. Oh that's Auntiemame, it isn't
Antimaine. Oh yeahl Then, okay, all right, I love that quote.
So true, because we really can manifest whatever we want. I think
that's what we're most afraid of, though in some ways, I think people
are more comfortable just wanting other people to fix things for them, or maybe
blaming other people. I think this idea that we really are in most you
know, percentage wise a larger percentage, we are in charge of our destiny
and our fate in our outcome. I think that's scary to a lot of
people. If we really tap this idea that the majority of stuff that has
happened in my life I have helped co create. I think that's I think
that can frighten some people, don't you. Yeah, that's a lot of
responsibility, isn't Yeah, it really is. And yet again Pauline on a
here talking. But if you can flip that on its head, you can
see how incredibly empowering and impactful that is. That if you are a co
creator of your life through your thoughts and imagining and being able to surrender trust
and follow your intuition, you can create anything you want for your life.
That's I think that's miraculous. All right, let's finish up. Tell us
what Shakti Kueen said we should we should say when we're trying to creatively imagine
ourselves into a better chapter of our life. This is going to sound really
familiar to most of you, and yet you may not have realized where it
came from. So here it is this or something better now manifest for me
and totally satisfying and harmonious ways for the highest good of all concerned. That
covers it, doesn't it? It does? I love that. So basically
what I need, what I want is coming to me gently and kindly,
without hurting another soul. Something else that needs to be highlighted this or something
better, because sometimes we think we want this, but something better is actually
out there waiting for us. Absolutely. I can't tell you how many times
that has happened in my life. Yeah. Same, And you don't get
to this and you think, oh, this manifesting stuff sucks. My imagination
isn't working for me, This isn't happening, and then the better comes along
and you're like, oh, that's what it means to go with the flow
of the river. I have enjoyed this episode with you, Samantha. This
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