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Experiments & Processes "We cannot advance without new experiments in living..." James Truslow Adams

Experiments and Processes

Since experience is the most wonderful teacher of all, I have created a series of little experiments and processes that will allow you to experience the ideas offered. I invite you to "run the experiment" and see if what I suggest works for you.

 

The Paradise Mind Experiment

The Great Deliberate Focus & Feeling Experiment

The Great Thought Replacement Experiment

The Belief Extension Process

The Feeling Linkage Process

The Practicing Love and Appreciation Experiment

The Talking Yourself Back Into Harmony Experiment

The Celebrating Your Heart's Desire Experiment

The Patchwork Creating Process

The Creation Catalyst Process

 

The Paradise Mind Experiment

1. Take stock of how you feel in this moment. What word would you use to describe how you feel right now?

2. Now close your eyes and imagine being in your favorite place- a beach, a forest, a garden or somewhere else that you love and really enjoy being. Allow your mind to focus on that experience. Expand and enjoy the daydream by adding more and more detail or replacing one great scene with another as soon as the first one begins to fade. Do your best to hold a positive focus for at least one minute.

3. Now open your eyes gently and notice how you feel.

4. How do you feel now?

5. Most likely, you will notice that you feel better now than you did before you closed your eyes.

How did it work for you?

 

The Great Deliberate Focus & Feeling Experiment

If you live in a volatile or dangerous community with unsafe grocery stores, please skip this experiment.

1. Go to a nearby grocery store.

2. While sitting in your parked car or a bench outsise the store, begin to focus on something that makes you angry. Allow the anger to build by continuing to talk to yourself in a way that gets you really bent out of shape.

3. Enter the grocery store and notice what transpires.

4. Have the full experience. Shop, enter the checkout line (even if you only buy a pack of gum) and then exit the store.

5. What happened? Was it a pleasant experience for you? Most likely you noticed that your experience in the store was very much a match with the feeling state you had when you entered the store.

6. While back outside, focus on something that feels really good to you. Allow the feeling of love and appreciation for whatever you have chosen to focus upon to build and grow. Allow yourself to fully experience an elevated feeling state.

7. Re-enter the same grocery store. Notice what transpires.

8. Have the full experience. Shop, enter the checkout line (even if you only buy a pack of gum) and then exit the store.

9. What happened? Was it a pleasant experience for you? Most likely you noticed that your experience in the store was very much a match with the feeling state you had when you entered the store.

On another day, reverse the experiences just to prove to yourself that it nothing to do with the temporal flow of things.

How did it work for you?

 

The Great Thought Replacement Experiment

Note: Please skip this experiment if you are allergic to pets.

1. Think "pink elephant".

2. Now try not to think "pink elephant" - not pink elephant, no pink elephant, stop pink elephant, no pink elephant, etc.

3. Does it work for you? Can you not think "pink elephant"?

4. Now replace the thought of pink elephant with another thought- say "soft, furry, cute little puppy dog".

5. Focus on "soft, furry, cute little puppy dog".

6. ...soft, furry, cute little puppy dog...

7. ...soft, furry, cute little puppy dog...

8. Did you think of you know what? (OOPS... I probably triggered that thought again.)

How did it work for you?

 

The Belief Extension Process

1. Make a list of the beliefs that you'd like to have about your heart's desire.

2. When you can be apart from the outer world for a few minutes, pick one belief to focus upon.

3. Close your eyes, relax and allow yourself to imagine what your life would look like if the belief you've chosen were actually true. In other words, imagine life "as if" the belief you'd like to hold were actually true.

4. Allow your mind to fully flesh out the details of your experience assuming that the selected belief is true.

5. Now open your eyes.

6. Whenever you can safely close your eyes and be apart from the outer world, re-imagine this experience.

How did it work for you?

 

The Feeling Linkage Process

1. Make a list of the feelings you'd like to have about your heart's desire.

2. When you can be apart from the outer world for a new minutes, pick one feeling to focus upon.

3. Close your eyes, relax and allow yourself to imagine or remember an image or experience that evokes the feeling you have selected. Your previous experience of that feeling does not have to be associated with your heart's desire. Simply find a time when you experienced that feeling and play it up by re-imagining the original experience.

4. Allow yourself to expand the vision. Add detail or select another image or experience to increase the intensity of the feeling you have selected.

5. Stay focused on the feeling until you actually experience it very clearly.

6. Now gradually bring your heart's desire into the picture.

7. Blanket or infuse your heart's desire with the feeling you have brought forth.

8. In your mind's eye, allow the feeling and the desire to become linked and merge into one. Sit with this for a short time.

9. Now open your eyes.

10. Whenever you feel prompted and can safely do so, close your eyes for a moment and re-imagine this experience of your heart's desire enveloped, infused and/or merged with the feeling that you have chosen.

How did it work for you?

 

The Love and Appreciation Experiment

You can run this experiment any time you choose and have 2-10 minutes to focus on whatever topic feels appropriate to you. It is particularly useful to engage in this process when you feel irritated, powerless or even venomous about something.

1. Pick a topic to love and appreciate- someone, some thing, or some place. (Yes, you can and would be greatly benefited by choosing a topic, say prosperity, that feels challenging to you in this moment. However, many people benefit by first picking something easy and then building up to a topic that is more challenging. You decide what works for you.)

2. Notice how you feel about whatever you have chosen to love and appreciate.

3. Now just begin to notice what you love and appreciate about that topic. Write it down if it feels good to you.

4. Notice all of the things that you love and appreciate about that topic.

5. Keep going.

6. Keep going.

7. Keep going.

8. Notice that it gets easier and easier to find something to appreciate about that topic. Notice also that the love and appreciation you feel for that topic begins to extend to other things.

9. Now, notice how you feel about the original topic.

10. If you so desire, continue the practice for a number of days or weeks or whatever works for you.

11. Notice how your perception of and your interaction with that topic change for the better.

How did it work for you?

 

Celebrating Your Heart's Desire

1. Once you have identified your heart's desire and have decided who will be in your circle of trust (a group of highly trusted supporters), speak aloud of your desire "as if" it has already come to pass. In your mind's eye, fast forward to the end result you desire and describe it just as you'd like it to be.

2. Find your well of inspiration and speak with enthusiasm using highly rich sensory language. Feel free to talk with your hands or even get your whole body into the experience.

3. Keep it up for 5-10" or for as long as it feels good to you.

How did it work for you?

 

The Talking Yourself Back Into Harmony Experiment

If you are so inclined, go ahead and try talking yourself up a little about some topic of interest (e.g. money).

1. Notice where you are with respect to money in this particular moment.

2. Starting wherever you are, make a statement that reflects the essence of thought and feelings you have right now about your topic of interest.

3. Now simply begin to talk to yourself in such a way that you expand and uplift your focus on that topic just enough to feel a little better. The first step may seem awkward but just utter words that feel slightly better than the ones of the original statement.

4. Continue to talk to yourself about your topic of interest. Ensure that the statements you make are believable to you and that each statement feels at least as good as and perhaps even better than the last. Many people find that using non-resistant language like "I love the idea of...", "What if...", "Wouldn't it be nice if..." or "I wonder..." really helps.

5. Gently and gradually talk yourself up and ratchet up your feeling state until you feel better.

6. How do you feel now on that topic now?

How did it work for you?

 

The Patchwork Creating Process

1. Identify and make a list of the qualities or attributes you'd like your topic of interest to possess.

2. State your desire. "I'd like X with the following qualities and attributes- a, b, c, d, e, etc."

3. Now focus on each of the qualities or attributes one at a time and think of one or more people, examples, experiences that you know or have seen that embodies that particular quality or attribute. You can pick anyone- someone you've dated, someone you barely know, a friend, a movie star, a character from a book (real or imagined), someone who is no longer living or even someone of the "wrong sex" based on your ultimately desired creation. You an pickanyone or anything- real or imagined that embodies the quality.

4. Repeat the same process with each of the qualities or attributes you'd like in your desired creation.

5. Now begin to notice and play up those qualities and attributes you desire as you witness them in your day to day life.

How did it work for you?

The Creation Catalyst Process

Note: Please skip this process if you are allergic to flowers.

Have someone read this to you or read it first and then try it.

1. Notice how you feel.

2. Gently close your eyes and focus on something (it can be anything) that you love. Let's use flowers as an example.

3. Begin to imagine what you love- say a beautiful rose. Make it any color, size or shape that you choose. Now add more roses to the picture- as many as you like in any color, size, shape or form that feels good to you. Add a vase that is any size, made of any material and looks any way that you choose. Lean into the buds and notice how the rose(s) smell. Enjoy the fragrance fully and completely. Touch one of the petals. Notice how soft and delicate they are. Notice how it reminds you of the softness of a baby's skin.

4. Continue adding as much sensory detail to the scene as you can. If you find your mind beginning to drift, bring forth another scene of flowers or something that gives your the same or a similar feeling and flesh it out in as much detail as possible.

5. Now shift your focus to your heart's desire. Allow it to be bathed in good feelings.

6. Open your eyes and notice how you feel now.

7. You've held a positive focus on roses (a sweet topic) for more than one minute and all thoughts and ideas that follow will naturally be of a more positive nature.

How did it work for you?

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