When you think in pictures, instead of words, you make a strong right-left brain connection.

It’s really true that sometimes words get in the way, so I like to get them out of the way a lot of the time!

Each of your brain hemisphere’s do have specific functions but, the hemisphere also support each other in very important ways. Your brain functions optimally when both hemisphere’s are being used cooperatively. (I’m talking about a healthy, non-injured brain here).

Here’s what you can do to use both sides of your brain – your complete power. Quickly go over the details of what you want, or what you appreciate, then think about it, express it to yourself in words, then, let the words go; let them form into a picture of what you’re saying to yourself.  With an imagined pop or thrust, send your picture off to the atmosphere, leaving the words behind. The words just get in the way and can easily be misinterpreted.

This is a short version of what you do when you meditate to program a particular outcome. The thing to remember is to do this kind of thinking in all kinds of every day moments.

Make your pictures simple, easy to remember and ones that you enjoy,

•  Do you see a tree that you appreciate? Say that to yourself and then picture yourself hugging it or caressing it, see it growing in strength as you touch it.
• Do you see a group of people doing something that pleases you? Say that to yourself and then picture a beautiful cloud above them spreading blessings on them.
• Do you see something that displeases you? Say to yourself what you’d prefer and picture the situation changing – without intervention from you.
• Are you approaching an event that you want to go well? Say to yourself what you want and then picture that.

Oh, there’s a lot more that can be said about this, but for now, give it a try & maybe let me know how it is working for you.

Something in your life is going to change, or you will have a clear, intense ‘vision’ of what you need to and want to change.
Change can mean going from good to better!

The anchor can be a word or a physical gesture or touch, whatever you’re comfortable with and is sort of inconspicuous (so you can use it in public). It’s important to keep in mind that the anchor you choose needs to be reserved for a particular desired state, so it should be a gesture, touch or word that you do’nt usually use.

When you set up an anchor, it needs to be reinforced, so make sure to repeat the process described below a number times over the day or even for several days.

1. Decide upon the anchor you will be using: either a physical sign or gesture or a word or short phrase.
2. Choose a situation or mindset that you want help with. It can be anything, as long as it’s important to you and your success. It needs to be something for which you want to behave in a certain way or one that you want to have a particular emotional focus for. Just decide what state or situation you want to set your pro-active anchor for.
3. Create an excellent state in yourself, one that would make you feel as if you are successful in what you are wanting to do or be.
4. Next recall any and all times you felt some aspect or aspects of that state, amplify it/them ; feel really powerful, really confident or excited or calm.  Keep doing that till you feel as strong a state as you can.
5. Each time you think of a time in which you felt some aspect of that state, see what is most visually positive & compelling. (either use memory or imagination)
6. Hear what is most positive & compelling. Hear any words that others said or that you could say that are most mentally positive & compelling. (either use memory or imagination)
7. Feel whatever internal sensations and emotions are most positive & compelling, are you feeling confident or happy or super calm?
8. Now, see yourself standing in a nice place, fully feeling that state and see how you look in that state, your facial expression, your posture, you can even add energy of just the right color streaming into your aura.
9. Now, once you are in that positive state, fully feeling it and feeling oh so successful with it that state, use the anchor you selected – - while remaining in that state. Hold your focus, hold the anchor gesture or repeat the word while you savor that state.
10. When you are ready, let the anchor go and relax into your normal daily activity.
11. Use this anchor in any situation where you need that state. You can even use it before the situation arises – as you are thinking about it.

*Remember to do this a number of times over the next couple of days to help strengthen this anchor.
*Make sure that the anchor you use is unique for the state you are going to establish in yourself.
*Make sure that when you create the anchor, that the state you are in is as intense as you can get it.
*Be sure to use your intention to amplify the state when you use an anchor. Don’t just do it passively.

Om shrim maha lakshmiyei swaha
(om shreem ma-ha lahk-shmee-yay swah-hah)

So, just repeat this mantra 108 times each day for 40 days. The thing is, though, keep your emotional state happy and grateful as you do this. There is no need to be envisioning, or thinking about what you want, as a matter of fact, that would be counter-productive!
To keep from thinking, focus on the words; every time a thought comes let it pass and re-focus on the words and sounds of the mantra.

What you are doing is aligning your entire vibration with one of abundance, with the abundance of all good. You’ve already defined your good a million or more times, now you’re ready to align with it.

A memory is no different from an imagination.
You can remember something any way you want. You can recall something as having been delightful, entertaining, educational, freeing or stressful. You can bring the incident forward and have it positively influence your present.

You can appreciate that it is in your memory and appreciate everyone involved in that memory for what they ultimately helped give you. You can look deeply into the memory and see what energy was trying to surface (and that has now surfaced in your consciousness): order out of chaos, hope from despair, self-love from insecurity. You can look deeply into the eyes of everyone involved and see the Infinite within them and then stop yourself from judging them. Look to yourself; can you remain ‘in love’ no matter what things appear to be? Can you accept diversity – all points of diversity on the life continuum? Can you see that all points of diversity are attempting to move towards their greatest form? Can you recognize diversity to be different aspects of One Idea?

1. AUTOMATED ARIES
Attachment: Sovereignty
The automated Aries part of us is addicted to perceiving, evoking and overcoming resistance as a means of propping up an unnaturally sovereign, hard-edged sense of identity.

Aversion: Impotence
Automated Aries is repelled its own and others’ impotence, dependency and the personality-dissolving awareness of the one, undivided self.

Indifference: Self-Conscious Humility
Automated Aries substitutes genuine equanimity with attitude-tinged claims of no preference that are subtly dismissive and outgassing one-upmanship.

Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to sovereignty, aversion to impotence and propensity for self-conscious humility: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times — through everyone.

For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.

2. AUTOMATED TAURUS
Attachment: Material Security

The automated Taurus part of us works day and night to harden our naturally fluid, emergent sense of self by hardening our material and relational “assets” against insecurity-arousing transformation and change.

Aversion: Asset Loss
Automated Taurus butts hard against anyone or anything that threatens to graze on their identity-rich pasture by delivering — in a litigiously menacing, matter-of-fact way — the soft, animal advantages of climbing back through the fence.

Indifference: Narrow-minded Conservatism
When physical security and comfort stop satisfying and the fear of ruin seems as bad or worse than the actual fact, Automated Taurus descends into a faux nonattachment: a soul-numbing obedience to tradition and the status quo, no matter how deadening or unfulfilling.

Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to material security, aversion to asset loss, and propensity to narrow-minded conservatism: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times — through everyone.

For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.

3. AUTOMATED GEMINI

Attachment: Options
The automated Gemini part of us is addicted to the springtime phase of relationships, projects and ideas — the cresting, brainstormingly perfect moments untainted by those claustrophobic, house-bound concerns: the principles and disciplines required for follow-through.

Aversion: Routine
Immune to the subtle freshness blooming everywhere, Automated Gemini’s mind restlessly flees whoever, wherever and whatever appears stultifying, repetitive and depressingly reminiscent of his/her own merry-go-round mind.

Indifference: Mind-spray
Automated Gemini fakes restful enjoyment of what is through subtle forms of squirminess, coating each excruciatingly ordinary moment with mind-spray: spiritual interpretations that keep the mirror of silence safely clouded.

Prayer for Liberation:
This  attachment to options, aversion to routine and propensity for mind-spray: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times — through everyone.

For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.

4. AUTOMATED CANCER

Attachment: Clan
Incestuously loyal, automated Cancer pledges allegiance to a fretfully caring,  emotionally battle-scarred self-story while going AWOL to the greater Being outside its coldly drawn perimeters.

Aversion: Orphanedness
Desperate for a sense of belonging, Automated Cancer oozes an irresistibly seductive empathy, prematurely locking in a friendship, partner or family, then plunging into long spells of hard-shelled mourning when their tender caring is unappreciated and misplaced.

Indifference: Melancholia
Blanketing over the preciousness of the One Being and calling it “the vast, impersonal public,” Automated Cancer retreats into an inconsolably private, institutionalized melancholy born of losing its familial niche in the dream of separation.

Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to clan, aversion to orphanedness and propensity to melancholia: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times – through everyone.

For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.

5. AUTOMATED LEO 

Attachment: Charisma
The automated Leo part of us overcompensates for (rather than meditatively meets) our insecurities by generating a theatrically convincing self-confidence that, much to our heart’s dismay, successfully inducts others into states of reactive enlivenment and ennobled display.

Aversion: Invisibility
Feeling unseen and unappreciated, Automated Leo experiences a nightmarish loss of identity, grabbing hard at a perversely effective kind of affirmation: the shame-arousing histrionics of one who has been famously betrayed.

Indifference: Haughtiness
When outward affirmation no longer inflates and theatrics no longer seduce, the Automated Leo part of us fancies itself “humble” by proudly strutting its indifference for the audience.

Prayer for Liberation:
This  attachment to charisma, aversion to invisibility and propensity for haughtiness: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times – through everyone.

For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.

6. AUTOMATED VIRGO

Attachment: Protocol

Confronted by the unimprovable mystery of what is, the Automated Virgo identity is virtually unemployed, setting off a busy, well-behaved anxiety that turns our talent for efficiency and gentle admonishments to “go green” into grey, presence-killing distraction.

Aversion: Chaos
No amount of fixing and ordering will assuage Automated Virgo’s distrust in the benevolent, microbial madness that both sickens and makes digestible this feast of evolving incarnations.

Indifference: Criticalness
Disillusioned by the reinventing wheel of consciousness and the incurable herpes outbreaks of everyday life, our Automated Virgo me-story feigns transcendence, sublimating its fault-finding habit into an intimidating, clinical eye.

Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to protocol, aversion to chaos and propensity for criticalness: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times – through everyone.

For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.

7. AUTOMATED LIBRA

Attachment: Harmony
Repelled by the brutish, ego-outing mirror of authentic relationship, the Automated Libra part of us elegantly obfuscates, preferring cultured collusion to becoming true allies in awakening.

Aversion: Inelegance
Can the settling of differences always be civilized? Automated Libra insists on it. Does this style of individuating create honest contact and truly clear the air? No; this part of our mind considers a beauty-compromised world more tragic than a truth-compromised one.

Indifference: Tepidity
When conflict-avoidance creates more tension than tranquility, and peace-on-the-other-side-of-sparring is inconceivable, the Automated Libra ego collapses into a tender, disembodied malaise.

Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to harmony, aversion to inelegance and propensity for tepidity: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times — through everyone.

For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.

8. AUTOMATED SCORPIO

Attachment: Darkness
Automated Scorpio prides itself on its ability to stare calmly at the face of dark truths other’s would find withering. This Vampiric, shadow-sucking me-story makes them feel solid, invulnerable to crisis and catastrophically alienated from the fangless majority.

Aversion: Superficiality
When you show up squeamish about realities Automated Scorpio has spent years numbing to, the lack of potential intimacy stings them and so, according to the brutal, Old Testament logic that shaped and toughened them, you deserve a sting in return.

Indifference: Intimidation
Stung by the irrepressible truth of their mortal sameness, Automated Scorpio egos are forced to continually resurrect, distinguish and protect themselves through desperate displays of  intrusive, laser-like perception.

Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to darkness, aversion to superficiality and propensity for intimidation: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times — through everyone.

For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.

9. AUTOMATED SAGITTARIUS

Attachment: Prospect
Verbs like “searching” require bounding, big-thighed nouns with high foreheads and lips that overflow with discursive expat philosophies. Automated Sagittarius weaves identity with itinerary, and the backyard of being is left untrod.

Aversion: Provincialism
It takes a narrow-canyon’d mind to judge another canyon narrow. Out of principle, Automated Sagittarius tries hard not to do this, but since “knowing” is how this part of our ego defines its worth and edges, the temptation is irresistible.

Indifference: Preachiness
When priceless, life-changing truths are strained through buoyant self-absorption, no one listens. This is the painful plight of Automated Sagittarius. Why does this part of us keep talking? Because silence makes us instantly equal with all the illiterate, uneducated facets of the jewel of creation.

Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to prospect, aversion to provincialism and propensity for preachiness: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times — through everyone.

For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.

10. AUTOMATED CAPRICORN

Attachment: Status
Reputation and survival are linked at the hip. The Automated Capricorn part of us knows this. What it misses is that only personal warmth attracts steady clients and it can’t be faked. Strategic caring erodes our self-respect and surrounds us with folks who share the same affliction. Success? Broken-hearted competency.

Aversion: Vulnerability
There is nothing inherently respectful about discipline. So what: you made an agreement and kept it. Automated Capricorn confuses the seasoning (delivered goods or service) for the main course (communion).

Indifference: Opportunism
It took an extra hour but it was mostly due to our bad mood. Do we charge for it? The Automated Capricorn part of us doesn’t even ask the question. Why? Because no amount of compensation could alleviate the trauma of our spirit-numbing, survival-of-the-fittest worldview.

Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to status, aversion of vulnerability and propensity for opportunism: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times – through everyone.

For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.

11. AUTOMATED AQUARIUS

Attachment: Iconoclasm
On the back of genuine injustice, our Automated Aquarius ego rides piggyback and proud, railing against (but secretly praising) flawed authorities for distracting us from the futility of rearranging mind’s evidence of separation.

Aversion: Flawed Authority
There is a dysfunctional and indispensable aspect of resisting what is. When the motive is propping up a psychological piece of cardboard so ego can feel solid, separate and real, we go numb to the Tao of protest and inadvertently join forces with the flawed authority we despise.

Indifference: Disenfranchisement
When it is seen that freedom and oppression will never stop flip-flopping and even the enlightened ones gradually grow sleepy — grazing on propaganda like lobotomized sheep — our world-saving Aquarian ego delays death by taking up a more achievable cause: being different.

Prayer for liberation:
This attachment to iconoclasm, aversion to flawed authority and propensity for disenfranchisement: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times – through everyone.

For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.

12. AUTOMATED PISCES

Attachment: Self-sacrifice
The Automated Pisces part of us makes an identity out of self-sacrifice,  preferring emotional and physical depletion (via chronic “helping” and idiot compassion) to the final wrecking-ball swing: watching me-towers collapse in their own footprint.

Aversion: Transcendence
Being sewn into the veil between the two worlds is not a typical thing to feel proud about. Ephemeral folks, one would think, are too busy getting by to get haughty. The Automated Pisces part of us would heartily agree, but would be lying. Being thin-skinned is, at its best, foreplay for revelation, but “going all the way” would mean losing something truly virginal: our alpha-sensitive me-story.

Indifference: Addiction
One thing’s for sure: we all need to find some way to dull our empathic overwhelm. When mystical sunglasses, seclusion, and self-extinguishing martyrdom stop delivering, Automated Pisces reaches past the hard stuff (Buddha, dharma, sangha) for some cheap sex, suicide or wine.

Prayer for liberation:
This attachment to self-sacrifice, aversion to transcendence and propensity to addiction: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times – through everyone.

For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.

Focus for meditation and intent:
“Warrior I am and from the battle I emerge triumphant.”

The energy builds from Nov. 7, it is the most intense on the 10th and then continues with gradually reducing strength through the 11th, 12th, & 13th.

The most common sigil consists of a group of letters that are arranged in an uncommon way, in a design that catches your interest.

Choose letters that represent what you want, or spell what you want. You can even compose a sentence describing your desire and use the first letter in each word to form your sigil.
You need to remember, what the sigil stands for, so don’t make the description too complicated, a few words should be sufficient to proclaim your intention. Your mind will remember what the sigil stands for and as soon as you see the symbol, it will entrain upon your mind. What’s on your mind becomes real, unless something displaces it.

Doodle your sigil, place copies of it around your home, visualize it quickly in free moments or even in a meditation.
The key is to feel the reality of what the sigil represents. It’s to remind you essentially what you are, it’s probably not all of what you are, but a portion of what you are.

For example:

Suppose a person has had difficulty keeping keeping an optimistic mindset. They may want to remind themselves that they have the power to control their mind.
They may want to Train their mind and Tame their ego.

• Take the first two letter of their intent: T (for train) and T (for tame)
• They now are working with the letters T and T; easy to remember; easy to say or visualize whenever thoughts stray to negative possibilities or memories.
• Now they form the two letters into a picture of some sort:

TT 

Simply putting them together like this could remind them of the two T words, it also may look like a doorway, could it be a doorway leading to a new life?

Sigil Examples:
O,F,W:
                     A,V,S,T,K,K,O,I

All the techniques in this little blog are designed to do just that, in one way or another. They each can help to heal us and in healing us, we’re letting go of some ego control. As that control diminishes, our true self emerges.

I asked about the Law of Attraction. Did all the people here attract earthquakes? It seems to me that most of those around me concentrate on attracting beneficial, evolutionary experiences. But then I began to actually see some underlying things like resentments, anger, fear and sadness. They looked like living energies forming a structured being: the ego. And the ego was marching ahead, and literally doing all the creating. It wasn’t the beautiful visions of the people that were about to be objectified. What was set to manifest in the future was going to  reflect, in some form, all these energies of anger, resentment, fear and sadness.

It has been a very interesting week!

**(see my Love Guides Blog & my Numerology Blog for a bit more on this subject)

When we want to have our experiences improved, well, the particular experiences cannot be improved beyond their own inherent quality.
What we actually need to do is create a brand new experience.

We are new each day. That newness can appear as anything we want. We can have a sudden change or step-by step changes.
It’s like this: you are asleep at night & just before awakening, you take a moment to reflect upon what you want to live out.
You look at the experience that is closest to you – the one you were living yesterday – and make a judgment & then a decision.
Most often, you decide to go on and live what is already in play in your experience or perhaps, you decide upon something else – a different experience.

When the experience is uncomfortable or painful:

• People often don’t realize or believe that it’s possible to change an entire experience.
• Very often people decide they are too attached to that close, personal experience to abandon it. This is usually an unconscious activity.
• They decide to continue with the situation as it is, affirming that they will find a way to improve it.
• Perhaps there is an emotional attachment that they consciously or unconsciously associate with the situation and for some reason  they want to stay in touch with that attachment.
• Perhaps it is an uncomfortable situation, one they want to be free of, yet they, on some level, believe that being in the situation keeps them involved with a particular person, place or thing that they want to stay in touch with.
• Perhaps it is a situation that they feel is unfinished, one they feel a responsibility to complete.
• Perhaps it is a situation they feel responsible for and have the desire to fix it or help it along.

Most often, people do not even realize that they are making a choice in what they are creating every day. They let the past or non-beneficial beliefs rule their whole self and so they simply keep going along the same path as before.

Picture it this way: it’s like every day being a brand new person, taking on the characteristics of an old creation/person.

 Usually people don’t realize that the attachments they have are to a feeling rather than to an actual person, to an actual life. They believe that they will have to sever loving ties when creating something new..
They don’t remember that the spirit of love follows them wherever they go, whatever they do. Loving relationships will follow into new creations.
They also have a lot they realistically enjoy about the old creation and want those aspects to continue.

There is a way that people can live anew while still enjoying the pleasurable aspects of the old creation.

• They plant themselves in the midst of the old picture – as a new person. Intending to, every day, be even ‘newer’.
• Every day they review the results and experiences of being the newly created self and build upon them, they go further with the new creation.
• They do this every time their waking consciousness is set aside, or is about to be set aside: like during meditation or sleep. This review is intentional as is each new self creation.
• They continuously and consciously affirm how grateful they are for the enjoyable life relationships and circumstances that followed them into the newness and also for all the new ones that showed up.

How this new creation ability is maintained is: by keeping the human mind in tune with Creative Mind. Creative Mind appreciates what It has created. It’s full of appreciation.It allows it’s creations to live; It’s creations live by intention.

**An example: Our home survives because we intend it to; this intention compels us to physically care for it.

In order to co-create with Creative Mind, we use intention.
We decide who we are now and we see and live that person.
We intend appreciation, we appreciate. The more we appreciate, the more we are in line with Creative Mind. The more in line with Creative Mind we are, the more we are speaking into it. What we speak is created.

So, we state what we want. We remain in the state of appreciation and the state of acknowledging who we are. Now we are in line with Creative Intelligent Force. It is created.

But – what is created anew is not an attachment to the old. It is completely new! We have co-created a new self. We have not co-created a new car for Sally-Jo.

We have co-created a Sally-Jo with a new car.

*See the 1/27/11 post on my Numerology Blog: Person-Choosing-Divine