We Are Not Stupid Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Saturday, November 13, 2010

I am a believer that we are all born with some form of intelligence.  We are not really stupid.  Our mind is a naturalist.  No matter what circumstances and of no matter the potentiality of the thoughts, we are gifted with life force.  The life force body is the flow of God, the Creator, in us.  It gives life to our physical body. It channels the life force energy to our mental, emotional and spiritual minds.

Alright, there is a degree of difference in each of us.  We as humans are not very specialized.  We, in general, do not do much of anything well.  But, that does not warrant us to be labelled 'no brainer'.  Despite the big role that genetic plays in determining intelligence, social and environmnetal factors can have an important influence too.

It is believed, through research, that genetics can account for 75% of our adult intelligence, with the environment being responsible for the remaining 25%.  Our social environment plays an important role in the development of our intelligence.  Geniuses are not only born but they can be made too.  Spiritual masters are not instant Buddha at birth but fully developed through realization of their intellectual abilities towards consciousness

Each of us is unique.  We have a set of finger prints that are unique, even for identical twins.  I understand that no two people can have the exact same prints; no two people can have an exact replica of each other's DNA too.

For the least, all of us can think.  And, we think we can think.  We are the ultimate generalists.  We can do a little of everything.  However, we are vastly varied but we can train ourselves to anything.

With training, we develop knowledge.  With training, we stretch our full potential, in our genes, to become a better person.  We take advantage of our skills.  Intelligence is an obvious successful evolutionary adaptation and survival strategy for humans.  We learn more about ourselves.   Connecting with our higher self provides a sense of knowing as we attune to a higher dimension.  Ideally, we should always reclaim our brain for further growth in life.

There's a common saying "a person is known by the company he keeps."  It sets the path for our IQ and EQ.  The 'Just Is' life easily absorbs vibrations emanating from the thoughts and activities of the events and people it associates with.  The company of thieves could make one think and act like a thief.  Whereas, the company of saintly and spiritual people could well influence the mind to emulate their awareness and consious thoughts and activities.

Learning can be fun only if we have the learning objective.  But when one's mind is already half filled with negativity, not wanting to improve, the learning process takes a little longer to accomplish.

Currently, I am in this situation.  It truly makes me to reflect the attitude of some of my recent students in my healing seminar.  Together, we are in a situation where we half closed the door to address for our onward personal growth.  We are too embroil with our past.  The past that has comforted us to be what and who we are today.

I must admit, after about two weeks with Apple's Macintosh, I am still struggling in the dark.  A lot of frustration comes at me every day as I sit down infront of this wonderful 27" iMac LCD.  The Apple support Switch 101 does not help much either.  Perhaps, I am too much a Microsoft person.

My students and me, obviously, have some bearing to accept something new.  Change, indeed, takes a little resistance.  For them, it is about breaking through towards living with their Higher Self.  About separating the body, mind and spirit and reaching for liberation from the self.  About constantly to bring forth consciousness with the daily experiences of self.

For me, it is about fighting a good fight to acquaint myself with Macintosh stuffs.  It is about shifting into a paradigm "when in Rome, be a Roman".  Truth is, it is kinda hard when I am already a hardcore PC enthusiast.  For the record, it is not so much that I am a PC loyalist.

The good thing about us, however, we take it, like the saying, "one failure is just a test away from being success".  Fact is, the energy that creates great ideas also creates errors.  Such should be the philosophy to all of us - when we think we are reasonable enough, we should adapt ourselves to the world.  Afterall, the only thing that is certain in life is that there are no certainties.  There are no boundaries.

For now, let me voice a little of my frustrations.  It will make me feel better.

The Hardware

With PC, I am in control of the DVD rom with its eject button.  I appreciate  Apple for its aesthetic but it leaves me with nightmare to eject the DVD during the Boot Camp's Windows 7 installation.  Eject is not manual but software driven.

Boot Camp is Apple.  It is a utility used for Windows installation in Mac operating system making it a dual boot operating system.  The only reason I am doing it is software driven.  There are just too many softwares written for windows than for Mac.

Dual Boot on Start-up

Mac hardware is robust for beauty.  Everthing about it, the built-in LCD, processor and memory and storage devices, webcam and mic, USB and Ethernet, is trimly fitted.  However, PC hardware can be a personal triumph.  With PC, you can pick and choose to fit your needs, and budget.

And just look at its wireless keyboard and the Magic mouse - Stylish and fashionable. For S$98 each, the keyboard lacks ergonomics. And, it short off some significant keys. There are no Home, End, PgUp, PgDown buttons. Well, I am fine without the PgUp or PgDown, but to do away with Home and End drive me crazy typing a simple document.

The mouse is somehow small for my big fat hand! Though it is kinda cool, it tires my whole hand after awhile.

What a stylish gadget but lack ergonomics

Sidetrack a little -- Geez, have just found out that the color of BootCamp on start-up is identical to the background color of my blog.  Synchronicity!, Watch My Thought?!  The power of Law of Attractions and Vibrations has had been planted sometime back without my realization.

The Software

The one thing that I notice about Mac OS, and in my own opinion, it just does not trust end users.  Mac acts like a parent that wants to protect the child, forever.  With Windows, you are allowed to Cut and Paste the whole folder and move it to where you want it to be.  Windows makes this task very easy.

With Mac, you can't just do that.  You need to Copy and Paste instead.  To Cut and Paste is not an option.  In another word, you are actually duplicating and utilizing more storage space for having a second identical folder.  Mac, as I found out, is protecting users for losing data.  Mac suggests, for such task, to delete the original folder only when Paste is done.

Like a good parent, Mac does not show the progress of your downloads.  Perhaps, it is better for end users not to know?  Unlike Windows, it always shows the download bar and its progress.

Another thing that kinda annoys me is the 'Mac trailers'.  Mac leaves all kinds of computing files after I plugged out my thumbdrive, or my external hard drive.  I wonder at the rational for such thing?

The annoying "Mac Trailers" that will just leave the marks everywhere it wants!

Mac is not made for torrents.  For the same machine,  the (almost) same settings, the same torrent file, Windows will leap and bound.  Mac, on  contrary, crawls!



It is going to take sometime for me to become productive and progressive.  Personally, that goal makes a huge deal.  Why so?  Obviously, it has to do with my attitude for knowledge.  For computing is something that I enjoy doing most.  The internet has provided me the broad range of interests which invoke much of my mental, physical, social and emotional.

Computers and computing are stimulating environmental conditions with great capacity to allow an individual to change.  They enhance the brain's ability to visualize and transform objects in space and time.

Apple Macintosh is keeping me up with challenges.  It is affecting my predisposition to learn and develop.  Afterall, computers will likely remain a necessity for most of us.

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Watch Your Thoughts Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Sunday, November 07, 2010

I become what I think about.



There's a long quote to what I am about to write.  And, for those who believe in the Law of Repetition, internalize it.  Here, the Law of Repetition is about citing these power phrases, to be affirmed, so that they 'become' us.

"Watch my thoughts, for they become words.

Watch my words, for they become actions.

Watch my actions, for they become habits.

Watch my habits, for they become character.

Watch my character, for it becomes MY destiny."

(How To Use the Law of Repetition :-  You just have to keep repeating the phrases and feel them in your heart)

It is just so true that all our thoughts lead on to purposes.  It is just a matter of realizing, and be conscious of, the results.  I believe such is the moral construction of the world.  That whatever we think in our mind, giving the idea into a dominant thought, will soon materialize.  The seed of what we sow produces the fruits in time.

The Law of Dominant Thought creates who we are from the way we think.  We become what we think about.  When we want to be positive, we have to plant positive seeds in our mind and make it into a structured cluster of dominant thoughts.  We have to internalize it deep and permanently ingrained the energy into our sub conscious mind.

Our mind cannot discern between reality and fiction.  It will simply just act on it.  Whether our thoughts are positive or negative, our mind will act on them.   When too much negative thought processes are being stored, we just tend to become negative.  Likewise, a positive person is an individual that is usually happy and successful.  When we think positive, we become positive.  When we think negative, we become negative.

Fundamentally, what we put into our sub-conscious will ultimately become our personality, our character, our attitude.  What we focus on expands.  We are the sum total of all our thoughts.  Our dominant thoughts create the life we have lived up to this point and will create our futures as well.

All of us grew up creating dominant thoughts, whether we realized it or not.  We formed a belief system.  Unfortunately, this system consumes too much in us that we resigned our life to fate.  Thing is, half hearted or fleeting thoughts will not bring about the desired intent.  Only a thought that consumes us, that dominates our waking moments, is strong enough to make it become a reality.

Words are energy; thoughts are things.  They carry powerful vibrations.  When we pass out a thought, an energy is being transmitted to effect us and transform the Universe.  Simply, it is just the Law of Attractions and Vibrations at work.  A thought captures one's intention and the dictionary.net defines it so appropriately.  It says, "intention is conception of a thing formed first by the direct application of the mind to the individual object, idea or image.  It is a stretching or bending of the mind toward an object."

I have seen how such a 'destiny' is being created; how thoughts manifest themselves and shape the results.  We are actually creating our world through actively internalizing every thought patterns.

It is good, at this point, to understand that life is 'Just Is'.  We are made to make it good.  There are reasons for everything and everything lies from what we believe in.  It is our thought process that separates good from evil.  He who loves love progresses, he who hates it declines.

Thoughts are electrical impulses and if a thought is strong enough, it can reach out into the quantum field which is also made up of various light vibrations.  Again, I am just going to repeat myself - it is just a matter of realizing the outcome.  I am a believer that our thoughts shape our reality.

I have friends that take this concept negatively and literally take it as a joke.  Perhaps, they have not come to connect their thoughts with their reality.  Perhaps, they often dismiss the results of their 'destiny' as an act of God and fate but not from their own thought processes.

Fundamentally, everything in the Universe is somehow connected even though we cannot see that connection.  Like attracts like and this is a fact.  It takes our higher awareness to realize it.  We tend to think that life is just a series of co-incidences.  We want to think that life events are pre-destined.

Weirdly, this is not another mambo jumbo.  It is not another New Age hocus pocus.  This principle has been around for ages.  Perhaps, understanding the works of Dr Masaru Emoto might bring light here.

Dr Emoto did a series of studies with water and intentions (thoughts).  He took pictures of water before and after with people passing a either positive or negative thought.  Water that received positive thoughts morphed into beautiful crystalline structures.

You, my readers, may want to read more -  Message From Water

Imagine, if our thoughts can do such things to water, what shall be the impact of our thoughts on our lives?

Thing is, when we want to think a thought can work, it just works.  Likewise, when we want to think that a thought won't work, it just simply does not work.  It lies with how we want to think; do we see a glass as half full or half empty.

Perhaps, I am open to receiving.  I believe that I am worthy and deserving of receiving my thoughts.  In my recent post, Evolution I decided on a thought to transform my PC Windows 7 into a Mac Operating System, which I eventually did. 

It started with a visit to an Apple Store.  First, I felt for iMac 27-inch large LCD.  Then, as I played with the display set, I liked the overall hardware - from the hardware compact devices and keyboard to the wireless mouse.  Slowly, an idea kept playing in my mind how tidy the system was.  I thought how neat my desktop shall be without all the electrical wires and my existing big CPU casing.

The Universe has just a way to connect with us.  It never abandons us.  What we focus on in our mind is ultimately reflected in our reality.  What transpired my visit to the Apple Store was a subtle energy that eventually unblocked and manifested itself.  No, I was not obsessed to own an iMac but I really won't mind to own a large 27-inch LCD monitor.

The other day, the Universe came to deliver my reality.  It allowed my desires to unfold in the perfect time and manner.  Next to the Law of Attractions and Vibrations, energetically it set off the Law of Process to the timeline.  Suddenly, one of our PC was giving problem.  The same day, and out of the blue, a friend was asking me about iMac.

The Universe had spoken.  It made me to think about synchronicity.  It probably tested me to wake my higher consciousness.  It was asking for my acceptance whether to believe in our co-creation of thoughts and reality.  I could either set empowering and positive thoughts or let the negative influences of the world shape it for me.

The new gadget in Reiki Sanctuary

I guess I have chosen to get connected with my wishful desire.  I am now a Mac user.  It is another evolution.  For the last few days, I am back to learning something new.  Learning to think 'Apple'.  And that is what life is all about.  We are to go on to learn new things to far widen our knowledge.  For us to be kept in harmony with the world around.  For abundance to open every doors.

Will I give up Windows 7 and forsake PC?  The answer is no.  While learning is lifelong, I would balance my timeline to install Windows 7 in iMac.  For now, I am filled with gratitude for new opportunity, for embracing the 'Just Is'.

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