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     Physiker - unter ihnen viele Nobelpreisträger - haben längst eindeutig bewiesen, daß unsere materielle Welt ein großes Meer aus Energie ist, das sich andauernd in winzigen Sekunden-Bruchteilen erneuert.

     Die Quantenphysik sagt uns, daß erst der Akt der Beobachtung das Objekt da erschafft, wo wir es beobachten – Materie existiert nicht ohne einen Beobachter!

     Wenn wir noch über die kleinsten uns bekannten, subatomaren Partikel hinaus in die Mikrowelt sehen, dann stellen wir fest, daß wir alle aus Energie in unglaublich intelligenter Zusammensetzung bestehen – einer Energie, die sich unter der Oberfläche andauernd ändert und die wir mit unseren Gedanken, Wünschen und Absichten steuern.  

     Das klingt unglaublich und ist für uns als Laien schwierig zu verstehen, da wir mit einem vollkommen gegensätzlichen Weltbild aufgewachsen sind.

     Ich fand dieses Konzept aber schon vor ein paar Jahren so faszinierend, daß ich mich mal etwas damit beschäftigt habe – selbst das Buch ‚The Dancing Wu Li Masters’ von Gary Zukav z.B. ist jedoch immer noch sehr komplex und so ließ ich das Thema vorerst ruhen. 

     Als ich daher gestern den Artikel ‚Why You Should be Aware of Quantum Physics’ auf John Assaraf’s Blog fand, den ich hier auf Deutsch zusammenfasse, war ich begeistert über seine knappe und klare Darstellung der Zusammenhänge zwischen Quantenphysik und dem Gesetz der Anziehung.

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     Den ‘Toten Winkel’ gibts nicht nur beim Autofahren.

     Gestern hab’ ich nach einer Mitgliedskarte gesucht, Kreditkarten-Größe. Ich wußte, daß sie gelb aussieht - und die wichtigsten sind bei mir immer in der Brieftasche. 

     Also sehe ich dort nach : nicht da. Komisch. Ich bin ein relativ ordentlicher Mensch, dann muß sie wohl bei den unwichtigen liegen, da gibts nur zwei Möglichkeiten : auch nicht. Ich suche das ganze Büro durch, mache alle Schubladen auf - 10 Minuten lang. Nix.

     Dann eben nicht. Ich gebe auf, obwohl ich genau weiß, daß ich sie nicht weggeworfen habe.

     Ratlos frage ich meine weitaus bessere Hälfte, ob sie eine gute Idee hat - das führt fast immer zum Erfolg.

     “Die Karte ist gelb, und du hast sie in deiner Brieftasche.”

     Das klingt sehr entschieden, also sehe ich dort nochmal nach - tatsächlich : “Da ist sie ja!”

     Warum habe ich die Karte beim ersten mal da, wo sie sein sollte, übersehen?

     Ganz einfach : als ich zu suchen anfing hatte ich unbewußt schon entschieden, daß sie nicht in der Brieftasche sein kann : ‘Das ist eine von den unwichtigen.’

     Sobald wir so eine Entscheidung fällen, schaffen wir uns einen ‘Toten Winkel’ im Bewußtsein.

     Wenn wir solche einfachen Sachen wie Autoschlüssel, Brillen oder Mitgliedskarten nicht finden, obwohl sie ganz offen herumliegen - gibt’s dann vielleicht noch andere Dinge, die wir einfach nicht wahrnehmen, nur weil wir entschieden haben, daß sie nicht da sind?

     Was liegt bei dir im ‘Toten Winkel’? 

     Ist das eigentlich wahr?

• Viren verursachen Krankeiten
• Kalorien beeinflussen unser Körpergewicht
• Inflation ist unvermeidlich
• Gefängnisse reduzieren Kriminalität
• Waffen bringen uns Sicherheit

     Die meisten glauben das - und was wir glauben, das ist wahr für uns. So stellen wir uns die Welt heute vor.

     Wir glauben auch, daß die Welt wirklich so ist, wie wir sie uns vorstellen. Unsere Vorstellung von der Welt prägt unser tägliches Verhalten und bestimmt damit die Realität, in der wir leben.

     Vor ein paar hundert Jahren glaubte man, daß die Erde flach sei und man herunterfallen würde, wenn man nur weit genug segelt. Ist die Welt wirklich so, wie wir sie uns heute vorstellen?

     Glaube ist ja eigentlich Illusion und ändert sich mit den Jahren - was wir heute glauben ist nicht unbedingt ‘wahrer’ als das, was man früher glaubte.

“Was wir zu wissen glauben
hält uns häufig davon ab,
zu lernen.”
Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)

Glaube birgt also auch Gefahren.

Was glaubst du zu wissen? 

     Wenn es ein Zitat gibt, das mir mehr als alle anderen hilft, auf Erfolgskurs zu bleiben, dann ist es dieses von Paul J. Meyer :

“Alles was Du …

• dir klar vorstellen,

• leidenschaftlich wünschen,

• aufrichtig glauben,

• und wonach Du begeistert handeln kannst …

  … muss unweigerlich geschehen.”

     In wenigen Worten hat er hier ein universelles Gesetz formuliert, das uralt ist, lange verschüttet war, jetzt aber wieder häufig diskutiert und in vielen Variationen beschrieben wird : das Gesetz der Anziehung.

     Es ist ja auch unglaublich, daß es nur vier Voraus-setzungen gibt, die nötig sind, um alles zu erreichen, was man will. Unweigerlich. Alle vier gleichzeitig, natürlich.

     Das klingt zu einfach. Trotzdem ist es so : nicht leicht, aber einfach.

     Schade, daß wir so oft nicht alle vier zusammen auf die Reihe kriegen, oder?

     Wenn es ums Wünschen geht sind wir alle groß dabei, aber dann die anderen drei?

     Was wünschst Du dir denn nun wirklich?

     Im Ernst, denk mal drüber nach.

“Die Tanzenden wurden für total verrückt gehalten -
von denen, die die Musik nicht hören konnten.”

     Dieses Zitat von Angela Monet gefällt mir.

     Das gleiche sagt Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) :

“Warum sollten wir uns so verzweifelt beeilen, erfolgreich zu sein, und in so dringenden Geschäften?

Wenn jemand nicht Schritt hält, dann hört er vielleicht eine andere Trommel. Lasst ihn doch im Takt mit der Musik bleiben, die er selbst hört - egal wie gemessen und fern sie sein mag.”

     Es gibt nie nur eine einzige Perspektive von den Dingen, die wir sehen. Alleine wissen wir einfach nicht genug, um die gesamte Wahrheit zu erkennen.

     Ich habe mir deshalb abgewöhnt, die Dinge, die um mich herum passieren, dauernd als ‘gut’ oder ’schlecht’ einzustufen. Meine eigene Sichtweise ist ja nur eine von vielen, und ich würde mit dieser Scheuklappe soviel Neues und Interessantes verpassen.

     ‘Leben und leben lassen’ ist für mich schon lange eine gute Devise, auch im Geschäft - vielleicht sollten wir Andere einfach öfter mal nur gelten lassen, während wir nach unserer eigenen Pfeife tanzen.

Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Himmel und Hölle? 

IM HIMMEL :

• Ist die Polizei British,
• Die Köche sind Franzosen,
• Die Mechaniker sind Deutsch,
• Die Liebhaber sind Italienisch
• und alles wird von Schweizern organisiert!

IN DER HÖLLE :

• Sind die Köche British,
• Die Mechaniker sind Franzosen,
• Die Polizisten sind Deutsch,
• Die Liebhaber sind Schweizer 
• und alles wird von Italienern organisiert!

     When was the last time you couldn’t believe your eyes?

     For me that was Tuesday 11 September 2001, six years ago today, when I saw airplanes crashing into the World Trade Centre in New York on TV, collapsing the twin towers within two hours.

     This simply cannot be happening, I thought. Is this a movie? It was just too outrageous to be real - and yet, as the tragedy unfolded before our very eyes live on TV, I had to accept it as true - seeing is believing, isn’t it?

     As incredible as the 9/11 events were at the time, they are part of our reality today and we see the world with different eyes - life as we know it has changed, not only in the USA.

     Although I haven’t been visiting New York myself since then, it never occurred to me that 9/11 might be a gigantic, cruel show. Of course is wasn’t. However, we can believably show anything on screen these days with special effects technology.

     After all, in 1997 a movie called ‘Wag the Dog’ with Dustin Hoffman and Robert de Niro won two Oscars : a clever Hollywood producer and an American politician fabricate a war in Albania for TV, only to divert the public’s attention from a sex-scandal which threatens the re-election of the country’s president. Is it ironic that this whole scenario is very believable these days?

     Film producers and politicians know that perception, not reality, is paramount to influence people. We tend to believe what we see with our own eyes, and yet our eyes betray us all the time : the long lines in the first picture here for example are parallel, but the clever positioning of the short lines creates the illusion that they are not.

     The second, rather famous image on the left here illustrates that what you see depends on you, not the picture - do you see the young woman or the old woman? Change your focus and you can see them both - there are always at least two sides to every story.

     Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - what we believe is true for us. There is no objective reality because we all see the world through different glasses. We can choose the pink or the dark variety at any time, even view life through the bottom of a wine-bottle if we find that appealing.

     We forget that we can choose though, only to take the same habitual viewpoints all the time, no matter what we observe - and miss a great opportunity to consciously create our own reality, to live in a world as we want it.

     Life is a subjective experience, a projection : you tailor-make it to your own individual specifications. Life is an illusion, like a movie or a play on stage, although it appears to be real at the time of viewing because you immerse in it to feel the excitement, drama and joy of the action.

     Why would you want to see a horror movie then?

     Because you also love the terror and suspense - it is exhilarating and makes you feel alive. In a cinema, you are conscious of the fact that you are watching an illusion, that you have a temporary experience and will leave the theatre to return to ‘real’ life afterwards.

     But life as a whole is the same way. Once we realise that we constantly create our pain as well as our happiness because we want or need to experience it, we’ll take responsibility for everything that happens to us and accept the power to change it.

     If we did it, we can undo it.

     There is nothing in your life that you have not created or attracted. You are the producer, director, scriptwriter and main character in this play. As long as you believe that there is someone else out there setting the stage, you dis-empower yourself to do anything about the performance.

     But still, all sensations portrayed in the show are temporary and we can choose to either label them as painful or enjoyable - nothing is painful, unless you think it is. Let’s not forget that there are people who are jubilant about what happened on 9/11 in New York.

     Six years down the line, have we learnt anything? Let’s just say that what I see today only confirms my resolve to stay out of politics and create my own world.

     And some people still need their eyes tested, I think.

     Would you like to know what activities work out best for you on certain days of the week?

     Surely you have noticed that on some days of the week, certain endeavours seem to work out better than on other days. You probably never told anyone about your suspicions, but this is not weird at all - in fact this phenomenon has been known for thousands of years.

I call it “The Quality of Time”

     Most of us have largely forgotten about it - we know the other aspect, the “Quantity of Time” much better, mainly because we think that we never have enough of it. It would go too far to explain the whole background here, but I wrote a chapter about it in my eBook “The REAL Facts of Life”.

     What I am telling you is that each day of the week definitely has a certain unique quality to it, and the days are even named for this quality, although we don’t always see the correlation in modern-day English or German. In astrology, the Greeks and ancient Romans assigned the same characteristics to the planets of our solar system which represent the same qualities.

How does this knowledge benefit us in the 21st century?

     Simply, some days are more conducive to certain activities than others - find out below why you should schedule important meetings for Wednesdays if you can, be careful at parties on Thursdays and why things often don’t go your way on Saturdays.

     I have consciously applied this “Quality of the Day” - system for a long time. The days of the week are marked accordingly on my calendar in the computer and I plan conducive activities whenever I can. Here we go : 

Monday : Emotion
     Monday is easily recognizable as Moon-day. As the ruler of the tides, the moon represents our emotions which have long been portrayed in terms of the sea. Do still waters run deep? Are you making waves? Mood-swings, instinct, how we feel about things and the way our feelings affect others are all highlighted on Mondays. They also help us see intuitively what we wish for in life. We are up and down, naughty or nice, laugh or cry - moods change as swiftly as the moon circles our planet.

Tuesday : Action
     Tuesday is ‘Mardi’ in French - Mars was the Roman god of war, and the Red Planet can be fiery and violent, daring and fearless. This energy wants the powerful and confident expression of the individual. Passion, determination, ambition, competition, achievement, courage, honour, stamina, accidents - Tuesdays forcefully command you to stand up, be noticed and get things done in an either constructive or destructive way.

Wednesday : Communication
     Wednesday is ‘Mercredi’ in French. Mercury was the Roman god of trade, commerce and profit - and the winged messenger from the gods. Whether the news was good or bad, he needed a quick wit, think logically on the run and weigh possibilities after hearing opinions and reasons. Rationalize and communicate, perceive, speak up, negotiate and get answers - our intellect, awareness and logic is needed here. Move from one thing to the next in short trips - Wednesdays prompt us to express ourselves often and well. Visiting neighbours, the workday commute and a weekend getaway are all in Mercury’s realm, as well as writing, books, eMail and learning.

Thursday : Growth
     In German mythology, Thor was the red-haired and bearded god of thunder, much like Jupiter in Roman times. His lightning bolts remind us of his supreme power, but besides being judge and jury he was mostly a kind and benevolent helper to keep mankind on the right path. Thursdays lord over ideology and philosophy and compel us to assess our ethical and moral values. Everything about Jupiter is larger than life. Grand ideas, luck and great fortune are associated with Thursdays who want us to grow and flourish. Optimism, success, accomplishments and prosperity symbolize this magnanimous energy - but we easily tend to overdo things on Thursdays : work too long, party too much, even spend too much time on going the extra mile.

Friday : Pleasure
     Venus, or Freya, is the symbol of beauty, love, romance, harmony and pleasure for us. Socializing and relating to others in friendship, marriage and business partnership is important today. Fridays invite us to indulge our senses in aesthetic circumstances like the arts and seek the beauty of our world, teaching us to appreciate others and the things we possess. We take an interest in luxuries, good food and drink, a beautiful home and generally in spreading happiness through refinement, culture, charm and grace. A good day to be attractive and attract others by rewarding them, and yourself.

Saturday : Discipline
     Saturn was the god of time, and he didn’t make things easy. The big teacher demands discipline and responsibility in learning life’s lessons and wants us to work hard at managing them. Limitations, delays and restrictions play a big role on Saturdays - is there enough time to do everything we want to do? The majesty of older age also brings with it a sense of tradition, conventionality and wisdom - it challenges habits that have stood the test of time. Structure, experience and authority are important concerns on Saturdays, and perseverance is applauded.

Sunday : Your-Self 
     The sun is the centre of our world, its energy is forceful and gives us light and life. Everything revolves around it and therefore it represents the Self, as well as our personality, ego, spirit and everything that makes us unique as individuals. Our true identity and our face to the world both speak of creativity, the will to manifest our ideas and the strength to successfully meet our challenges in life. Our sense of health and well-being is closest to us on Sundays, so do what you really feel like doing.

     Try it out, you’ll be surprised how well it works!

“Life is not about finding yourself,
it is about creating yourself.”

     Did you know that? George Bernhard Shaw said this, and many other great philosophers know it, too. You and I, we create all the time - but most of it is unconscious : we literally don’t know what we are doing.

     The irony is that most of us think we do know how to create what we want : we set goals, work hard towards them and sometimes achieve them. Not always, but sometimes. We think we can get what we want if we are lucky, born with certain talents or have a lot of money.

     What we believe is that our circumstances dictate our actions and feelings, whilst in reality we create our circumstances with our thoughts. Your environment is a mirror image of yourself, says the Universal Law of Correspondences - I also wrote a chapter about it in my essay “The REAL Facts of Life”.

     This principle of correspondences is also called the Law of Attraction these days, and there is a lot of discussion about it on the Internet at the moment.

     The Law of Attraction is probably the single most important principle for every human being to understand in this day and age. The Law of Attraction simply says that you attract into your life whatever you think about. Your dominant thoughts will find a way to manifest - in Steve Pavlina’s words.

     I have introduced Steve Pavlina to you in June last year and the best I can do to bring the Law of Attraction closer to you is direct you to some of his articles on his Blog - they have substance and are brilliantly written.

     The first one you should read is The Law of Attraction which answers some tough questions around how this principle works, and when.

     Very closely related to this topic is his article Creative Observation if you want to know why the manifestation of intentions sometimes does not seem to work at first.

     Excellent background information on manifesting can be found in How Intentions Manifest.

     And then there is his article Cause-Effect versus Intention-Manifestation - essential reading because you need to know what the first crucial step is for creating what you want that most people forget, and because you have to recognise how you sabotage yourself once you are working your way towards the achievement of your goals.

     There is of course much more to learn about the way life works, but the Law of Attraction is the core without which all the rest doesn’t make much sense.

     When you have read Steve Pavlina’s articles above, and some more you’ll find in the process, go to a good bookstore over the weekend and get “Ask and It Is Given” - ‘Learning To Manifest Your Desires’ by Esther Hicks, the book on which the film ‘The Secret’ is based - Steve reviews the film here.

     Yes, all this is quite an eyefull of reading, but I assume that subscribers to KOMPASS are serious about improving themselves and their lives. I am absolutely convinced that once you understand the material offered in this single eMail alone and start practicing the principles suggested, you can fundamentally turn your life around, if that is your intention.

     I was sitting at one of our gorgeous beaches in Cape Town’s False Bay with a friend when we saw a school of dolphins in the bay.

     Not far away, they were swimming close to the surface, leaping forward half way out of the water and heading towards an unknown destination in their peculiar determined way, like they often do.

     One thing was different this time, though : the leading dolphin and a few others behind him in the group were jumping far out of the water, straight up, doing summersaults backwards and forwards in all sorts of twisted ways.

     It was absolutely spectacular! Other people had noticed their unusual behaviour as well and stopped whatever they were doing to watch.

     I always thought that dolphins collectively chase a shoal of fish when they swim in a group close to the surface, but they were clearly jumping for pure joy here! What’s more, this exuberant display of fun and happiness was contagious, since more and more dolphins started to breach and all the spectators had a big smile on their faces, too.

     Dolphins are well known for their playful behaviour, and this reminded me that joy is an essential part of our life as human beings.

     Most of us have buried it under layers of boredom, frustration and responsibility, though - when have you last felt the urge to jump for joy? I enjoy life most when I allow myself to be free of all that, to hold on to nothing and to have no restrictions.

     I am free when I look at the sea from my office window, when I forget my own self-importance and the pressure to perform, when I am no longer offended by the actions of others, nor in need of their approval.

     My best creative work is done when I can be myself, often by myself, not distracted from the source of human inspiration and uninterrupted by daily chores or phonecalls. Freedom and joy are inseparable - they are a state of mind, I think, most easily found in children uninhibited by the burdens of our competitive lifestyle, lost in play with no intent to do harm.

     If we agree that feelings of hatred, violence and envy make joy impossible, we have found a way to uncover it - yet our culture does not always facilitate this notion.

     “There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way”, Eykis says in Wayne Dyer’s book “Gifts from Eykis” : allow yourself to be free of doubt, gloom, bitterness and fear as often as you can, every day. This freedom will allow joy to breach the surface and give you new ideas to do more productive work, be a better husband, mother or writer and help you pass it on to anyone who is ready to accept it.

     Happiness must be the default state of being for anything that lives - the only thing that can prevent joy from ruling our lives is the human mind interfering with it.

     That means that we don’t have to create joy for ourselves, we just have to allow it to happen - isn’t it ironic that we find that difficult to do? After all, I have never met anyone who doesn’t want to enjoy himself, and yet so few do - even here in the careless Cape of Good Hope.

     Where else do we see more of the glorious guidance of nature around us? Make up your mind to do something wonderfully joyous at least once a day, whatever tickles your fancy : play with your cat, eat a cookie, tell a joke - or do summersaults like the dolphins.