Can Your Thoughts Affect Everyone on the Planet?

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Have you ever noticed how many people believe that their consciousness is theirs alone Â�" that they are separate and cut off from othersÂ' consciousness?

This is called, "ignorance." One thing that becomes completely obvious by ascending (going within) is that my consciousness is affected by your consciousness and vice-versa. For example, when youÂ're in a roomful of people, your consciousness is affected by everyoneÂ'sÂ" through feedback. For the most part, it happens at a subtle level that most people donÂ't choose to be aware of. ItÂ's possible to become aware of this, but it requires new choices.

Have you ever experienced "feedback?" Understanding feedback can help to get a good handle on consciousness. The most obvious example of feedback is a microphone placed next to its own speaker. The speaker amplifies whatever little noise is picked up by the microphone, which the microphone then "hears" and puts out on the speaker again. This cycle can create an enormous screech from the smallest input.

Our weather is another example of a feedback system. Elements of the weather do not exist independently of one another, no matter how it appears that a local breeze off of a stream in Zambia could not possibly affect a traveler in Missouri. Not only is it possible, but thatÂ's actually what happens every day. Just like the weather, everything we do affects everyone else and vice-versa. WouldnÂ't it be nice to actually see and experience this happening? Actually you can and itÂ's easy. But first, letÂ's look at the weatherÂ"

Back in the 70Â's, a weather researcher was attempting to make a forecast (using the newly developed computer systems.) The idea was that he could plug hundreds more factors into his model than ever before. Thus, they ought to get a superb long-range forecast. What he found was something quite amazing, something scientists had never suspectedÂ"

First, he took a factor that was computed to be 11.98 and made the forecast. Then he rounded the factor off to be 12.00 and ran the forecast again. A little bit shouldnÂ't make much difference, right? Well, what he found was that the two forecasts were nowhere near similar. In fact, they were wildly divergent. Why?

It turns out that our weather is an incredibly sensitive feedback system. All the little parts are capable of having a dramatic affect on the whole system. If you donÂ't include every single bit of data which affects the weather, you cannot get an accurate prediction. The only way possible to get accurate long-range forecasts is to begin with every single piece of data which affects the forecast.

But what they found is (incredibly) that even the flapping of a butterflyÂ's wings in Africa has the potential to affect the warm air mass heading west that can turn into a hurricane over Florida. (ItÂ's not that every flapping of any butterflyÂ's wings do this Â�" but it CAN have that affect.) This means that it will always be impossible to make a truly accurate long-range forecast because there is simply too much data that affects the system.

WhatÂ's This Got To Do With Consciousness?
Simple. What you are thinking, feeling, and being affects what everyone else on the planet is thinking, feeling, and being Â�" through feedback. And vice-versa. What others are thinking affects you!

When the ability to focus clearly in the moment, at every moment, is developed (which the IshayasÂ' Ascension brings automatically), these subtleties become plain.

When a feeling comes to you (who knows from where), the mind tends to associate that feeling with past impressions. It goes back to the last time you experienced this feeling. What was happening then becomes what the mind believes is the reason for the feeling now. It tells itself a "story" instead of simply being in the NOW, experiencing the feeling as it is, without judgement. When you are thinking about the last time this feeling came up, you feel more of what you felt then, which stimulates your mind again. And around and around it goes in what is called a "downward spiral." ThatÂ's an example of feedback.

These past impressions are also called "grooves." Feelings become associated with grooves in the mind. This causes experience to become limited to what we "know" from past experience. But by focusing on the Ascension Attitudes as much as possible, we begin to witness when our thoughts arise. When we see clearly that some thoughts arise due to feelings, and these thoughts are about "old stories," then we see our grooves. When you know what your grooves are, then it becomes easier to make a choice of whether to keep them or release them. Or you can choose to live in the NOW and experience everything as it is right now, without bringing in past experiences.

By introducing an Ascension attitude of praise, gratitude or love, when any feelings arise (or at every moment), the possibility of downward spirals is negated. Instead, you start becoming more familiar with upward spirals (because thoughts of praise lead to feelings of praise, and so on.) When this happens under any and all circumstances, this has the effect of completely shifting your life, freeing you of all stress, bringing you peace and joy.

And then what you discover is that what you are thinking, feeling, and being affects what I am thinking, feeling, and being. And everyone else Â�" by feedback. Thus, your thoughts of praise, joy and love affect everyone on the planet.

To experience this happening is truly magnificent!

Vidya Ishaya is the webmaster for Awakening Path.

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