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ut imagination and how we can activate it through becoming an empty vessel. There is something else we can activate through becoming an empty vessel and that is inspiration. If the noggin is the seat of imagination then what is the seat of inspiration? It is the human heart.So what is inspiration? Let’s first check the dictionary…..<blockquote id="24b0">Inspiration — 1. an inhaling, 2. being inspired mentally or emotionally, 3. any stimulus to creative thought or action.</blockquote><blockquote id="8bdb">Inspire — 1. to inhale, 2. to stimulate or impel, as to some creative effort, 3. to motivate as by divine influence, 4. to arouse a thought or feeling in someone, 5. to occasion or cause.</blockquote>First let me say that my word usage does not exactly coincide with the dictionary but it is very close. It is important to understand that we are constantly generating mental and emotional loop patterns. Mental activity takes place in the noggin and emotional activity takes place in the body. They go hand-in-hand. Every emotion is accompanied by a corresponding thought and every thought is accompanied by a corresponding emotion. Emotions are our body’s biochemical reaction to thoughts and thoughts are our noggin’s biochemical reaction to emotions. It’s hard to tell which comes first. They loop in an ongoing circular pattern. Our noggins and our bodies are constantly generating these mental/emotional reactions.I’ve said this a million times but I’ll say it once more: Emotions and feeling are two very different things. Emotions are biochemical reactions within our body (in response to thought). Feeling is NOT generated from within us but rather from outside of us. Feeling is consciousness/energy flowing from our Source through us. Feeling is the universal language. Feeling is unconditional love. Feeling is the substance spewing out from the Source of All That Is and flowing through All That Is. Feeling is the Source consciousness/energy that we are made of. It is what we were before we took on bodies, it is what gives life to these bodies and it is what we will continue to be after we lay the bodies down. When I use the word Source in the mantra above this is what I am talking about. It is feeling flowing through us.Sadly, we are for the most part unaware of this feeling energy flowing through us. Why? Because we are stuck in the aforementioned mental and emotional loop patterns. That is where our awareness is and that is what we identify with. Those mental and emotional loop patterns are so pervasive that we have lost awareness of the Source feeling energy flowing through us.To regain awareness of that Source consciousness/energy flowing through us we must turn off that mental and emotional activity and become an empty vessel. In the thoughtless yet keenly alert observer mode of the empty vessel we become aware of that feeling flowing through us and we can then utilize it to create reality with through imagination and inspiration. With the mental and emotional activity turned off, imagination and inspiration gets turned on. It is this feeling energy that activates imagination and inspiration and instead of operating out o

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f mental/emotional loops we can operate out of an imagination/inspiration loop. Our noggins and our bodies will still be working together but in a whole new way. Instead of biochemical circuitry we will be using electrical feeling circuitry.So when we become that empty vessel imagination is activated in the noggin and inspiration is activated in the heart center. It happens simultaneously.Surely everyone is familiar with those novelty plastic pinwheels that kids will play with. A plastic pinwheel is tacked onto a stick. As you hold the stick you blow into the pinwheel and it furiously spins around. Surely everyone has experienced this, right? Well, the game I came up with involves visualizing two of these pinwheels; one in your noggin and one in your heart. To make a pinwheel turn you need wind so let’s pretend that the Source consciousness/energy flowing through us is wind. So the object of the game is to shut down the mental and emotional loops and become an empty vessel so that we can become aware of that feeling flowing through us which we are going to pretend is wind. As we do this that wind spins the two pinwheels we are visualizing in our noggin and heart.But every time a thought or emotion is generated we close off to that wind and the pinwheels stop spinning. The only way we can keep the pinwheels spinning is to remain an empty vessel, free of mental and emotional loop patterns. The pinwheels represent imagination and inspiration. The wind of Source flowing through us will spin them as long as we remain an empty vessel. Mental and emotional patterns shut down the empty vessel and block the wind.It’s just a silly game but try playing with it. See how long you can keep those pinwheels spinning. It takes some alert attention in order to maintain a dual visualization of the two separate pinwheels but you can’t really think about it much because that shuts off the wind. Playing the game can help build our ability to maintain alert attention without thinking. This is the observer mode of the empty vessel. It goes against our conditioning so it takes practice and perseverance to build that ability back up. The more we practice, the longer we will be able to maintain that state of alert attention and it will also become easier to visualize at the same time. And the more we do this, the more our imagination is activated and the more inspired we become.You might want to first try the game while sitting still in quietude. Then try playing it while taking a walk in nature. Then try playing it while walking through a crowded shopping mall or busy city street. I guarantee you that it will be easier to play the game in nature. Like most games, it can be fun but remember it’s just a game. It is what the game is pointing towards and getting you to do that is important. Utilizing the above mantra in conjunction with the game can only help.Have fun with it.Copyright by <a href="https://readmedium.com/white-feather-archive-index-c95167f7dbaf">White Feather</a>. All Rights Reserved. This piece is excerpted with permission from my book, Walking Through the River Without Getting Wet.</article></body>

The Fountain of Youth

And the empty vessel

The Fountain of Youth

Have you ever noticed how young kids have a seemingly endless imagination? That is because they have not yet fully developed the entraining autopilot mind loops that adults have constantly running through their noggins. They are still at least partially open vessels through which Source consciousness can flow through. Their noggins are not yet contaminated by conditioned habitual thought patterns. They are still connected with Source. Their imaginations are still active.

But as they grow up and “mature” their conditioned habitual thought patterns increase and eventually become dominant and eventually take over their noggins. In the process their imagination decreases and eventually almost disappears. The process of maturation in a human is a conditioned mind process of shutting down the imagination and establishing “accepted” egoic mental conditioned and habitual thought patterns. That is what we call growing up. It is a process of shutting down to the divine Source consciousness flowing through us and giving us life.

Is this the cause of ‘aging?’ Just wondering.

Is our ever-elusive quest for the “fountain of youth” really a process of breaking down all those mental thought patterns that we have accumulated in our lives in order to, once again, become an empty vessel like a young child? Is this the process of rejuvenation? Is aging caused by the atrophying of our imagination? Is our imagination the “fountain of youth?” If it is then we cannot find it anywhere outside of our selves. We can only find it when we become an empty vessel and allow that Source consciousness to flow through us unimpeded, thus reactivating our divine gift of imagination.

Empty Vessel Mantra

I am an empty vessel through which Source may flow into this world.

Are you tired of hearing me say that yet? Don’t be. It is actually an extremely powerful mantra. If you utilize mantras and affirmations I would suggest giving this one a try. Before saying it, make sure your noggin is emptied of all thought. Then touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth as you take a deep breath in through your nose. Then release your tongue from the roof of your mouth as you exhale through your mouth while saying the mantra in your head. Do it three times (always in threes). Do this at least three times a day for one lunar cycle (28 days). Do not alter the words in any way and always be sure that your noggin is free of all thought and your body is free of all emotion as you do this.

The Pinwheel Game

Mantras and affirmations are delightful tweaking tools. But so are visualizations and games. I recently made up a fun visualization game that I want to share with everyone. But first I need to blabber some more…..

I have been talking about imagination and how we can activate it through becoming an empty vessel. There is something else we can activate through becoming an empty vessel and that is inspiration. If the noggin is the seat of imagination then what is the seat of inspiration? It is the human heart.

So what is inspiration? Let’s first check the dictionary…..

Inspiration — 1. an inhaling, 2. being inspired mentally or emotionally, 3. any stimulus to creative thought or action.

Inspire — 1. to inhale, 2. to stimulate or impel, as to some creative effort, 3. to motivate as by divine influence, 4. to arouse a thought or feeling in someone, 5. to occasion or cause.

First let me say that my word usage does not exactly coincide with the dictionary but it is very close. It is important to understand that we are constantly generating mental and emotional loop patterns. Mental activity takes place in the noggin and emotional activity takes place in the body. They go hand-in-hand. Every emotion is accompanied by a corresponding thought and every thought is accompanied by a corresponding emotion. Emotions are our body’s biochemical reaction to thoughts and thoughts are our noggin’s biochemical reaction to emotions. It’s hard to tell which comes first. They loop in an ongoing circular pattern. Our noggins and our bodies are constantly generating these mental/emotional reactions.

I’ve said this a million times but I’ll say it once more: Emotions and feeling are two very different things. Emotions are biochemical reactions within our body (in response to thought). Feeling is NOT generated from within us but rather from outside of us. Feeling is consciousness/energy flowing from our Source through us. Feeling is the universal language. Feeling is unconditional love. Feeling is the substance spewing out from the Source of All That Is and flowing through All That Is. Feeling is the Source consciousness/energy that we are made of. It is what we were before we took on bodies, it is what gives life to these bodies and it is what we will continue to be after we lay the bodies down. When I use the word Source in the mantra above this is what I am talking about. It is feeling flowing through us.

Sadly, we are for the most part unaware of this feeling energy flowing through us. Why? Because we are stuck in the aforementioned mental and emotional loop patterns. That is where our awareness is and that is what we identify with. Those mental and emotional loop patterns are so pervasive that we have lost awareness of the Source feeling energy flowing through us.

To regain awareness of that Source consciousness/energy flowing through us we must turn off that mental and emotional activity and become an empty vessel. In the thoughtless yet keenly alert observer mode of the empty vessel we become aware of that feeling flowing through us and we can then utilize it to create reality with through imagination and inspiration. With the mental and emotional activity turned off, imagination and inspiration gets turned on. It is this feeling energy that activates imagination and inspiration and instead of operating out of mental/emotional loops we can operate out of an imagination/inspiration loop. Our noggins and our bodies will still be working together but in a whole new way. Instead of biochemical circuitry we will be using electrical feeling circuitry.

So when we become that empty vessel imagination is activated in the noggin and inspiration is activated in the heart center. It happens simultaneously.

Surely everyone is familiar with those novelty plastic pinwheels that kids will play with. A plastic pinwheel is tacked onto a stick. As you hold the stick you blow into the pinwheel and it furiously spins around. Surely everyone has experienced this, right? Well, the game I came up with involves visualizing two of these pinwheels; one in your noggin and one in your heart. To make a pinwheel turn you need wind so let’s pretend that the Source consciousness/energy flowing through us is wind. So the object of the game is to shut down the mental and emotional loops and become an empty vessel so that we can become aware of that feeling flowing through us which we are going to pretend is wind. As we do this that wind spins the two pinwheels we are visualizing in our noggin and heart.

But every time a thought or emotion is generated we close off to that wind and the pinwheels stop spinning. The only way we can keep the pinwheels spinning is to remain an empty vessel, free of mental and emotional loop patterns. The pinwheels represent imagination and inspiration. The wind of Source flowing through us will spin them as long as we remain an empty vessel. Mental and emotional patterns shut down the empty vessel and block the wind.

It’s just a silly game but try playing with it. See how long you can keep those pinwheels spinning. It takes some alert attention in order to maintain a dual visualization of the two separate pinwheels but you can’t really think about it much because that shuts off the wind. Playing the game can help build our ability to maintain alert attention without thinking. This is the observer mode of the empty vessel. It goes against our conditioning so it takes practice and perseverance to build that ability back up. The more we practice, the longer we will be able to maintain that state of alert attention and it will also become easier to visualize at the same time. And the more we do this, the more our imagination is activated and the more inspired we become.

You might want to first try the game while sitting still in quietude. Then try playing it while taking a walk in nature. Then try playing it while walking through a crowded shopping mall or busy city street. I guarantee you that it will be easier to play the game in nature. Like most games, it can be fun but remember it’s just a game. It is what the game is pointing towards and getting you to do that is important. Utilizing the above mantra in conjunction with the game can only help.

Have fun with it.