A Weighted Matter (part 2)
What is “normal?” Whatever we may perceive “normal” to be, it would seem that most people tend to spend the majority of their time trying to “be” it. We formulate our own perceptions of what is ‘unacceptable’ on one end of the spectrum, and what is ‘impossible’ (or ridiculous) on the other end. Then we gravitate toward what we perceive to be the comfortable realm that exists somewhere between these two extremes (as in somewhere we view as “normal”).
When used as a description of human behavior and circumstance, the term ‘normal’ applies not only to our relative view on how we compare ourselves to others, but more significantly, how we personally define our own realm of “usual” experiences. When we say that something seems “out of balance” or “out of whack,” we automatically make the necessary adjustments to bring us back to a place where we feel stable again. Spending any amount of time in what we would define as our “extreme” versions of any possible human experience is viewed as so unusual, impossible, or unacceptable that we do not allow ourselves to ‘go there’ very often.
Our perception of ‘normal’ is a personal choice that we are making every single minute of our lives, whether we are aware of it or not. Being aware of these ongoing choices can change your life’s experiences!
Being a practical witch, I find it useful to develop visual images to illustrate the process of extreme creation. In a recent post titled “A Weighted Matter (part 1)” I described the property of polarity that exists within any possible human experience that you can imagine. Every conceivable experience provides us with an inherent contrast that allows us to determine our preferences. For example, the concept of wealth would be located along a perceptual spectrum, in which an experience of extreme “lack” (or absence) would exist on one end, and the exact counterpart, as in an experience of extreme “abundance” of wealth, would exist on the other end.
Each extreme notion of your personal concept of wealth is represented by a “pile” or a bowl full of accompanying thoughts and emotions. These thoughts and emotions comprise a level of understanding that is derived from your observations of others, your own experience, or both. The purpose of evaluating the contents of each bowl full of extreme versions is to gauge the perceptual vibrational energy of each in terms of weight.
If a bowl full of rocks were a visual image of the emotions and thought patterns that you associate with the ‘lack’ of any human experience, how heavy would it be? Regardless of its perceived weight, know that if you were to consistently practice the thought patterns and the emotions that you view as a lack of something (such as wealth), then this particular human experience would become your dominant vibration, and therefore, your reality.
Whatever our own particular formula for a consistent vibration of ‘lack’ may be (such as despair and hunger), most of us might find it objectionable. We would instinctively try to move toward the other end of the spectrum, where our version of extreme abundance exists, in order to achieve some sense of “balance” on our virtual see-saw.
So what do we find in our bowl of extreme abundance? Perhaps you might view the thought patterns and emotions associated with your understanding of an abundance of wealth (like high-risk ventures and perpetual bliss) to be represented by a mound of oranges (coins, stacks of bills, or anything you envision). Whatever components that you have accumulated throughout your lifetime, know that this is your current formula for abundance, as it is presently perceived by you. If you were to practice the thought patterns and specific emotions that you have placed in this bowl consistently, this formula would become your dominant vibration, and would eventually create your reality. There is no exception to this rule.
What would be the perceived weight of this formula-for-abundance? Is it just enough to balance out the rocks of lack that you have accumulated on the opposite end? Does the virtual weight of it keep your “wealth experience” teetering somewhere along the middle of your virtual see-saw, well enough away from your extreme version of lack to remain in a place that feels most “reasonable” to you? Or does your mound of oranges consistently receive so much of your attention, that it grows into a truckload, overpowers the bowl of rocks, tips the see-saw, becomes your dominant vibration, and becomes your inevitable reality?
Who wants to stop trying to achieve balance now?!?!?
Let me see if I can guess what you might be thinking:
“This is all fine, Jillian. If oranges were money.”
Well, they can be. Or rocks, too. Or grains of sand, marbles, gold coins (!), or whatever you envision as a representation of your accumulation of the thoughts and emotions that you are CHOOSING every moment in time. The ridiculous, the unobtainable, and the impossible can transform into the plausible, the reachable, and the possible when mindful and heartfelt attention is given to your choices. All of them. Every single moment of every day.
It is one thing to comprehend the process of creation on an intellectual level, and quite another to live it in your heart and soul. Let’s visit the subject of extreme creation the next time (part 3!) to discuss some practical applications of the virtual teeter-totter theory:)
