Part I – Opening Song followed by
Energy Cycle
Part II – Reading POSITIVE GOAL-PICTURING
What You “See” Is What You Get
In caves near Altamira, Spain, an astonishing array of strange wall drawings was discovered deep inside the earth in 1879. They soon became the focus of controversy and mystery. Their origin could not be explained by either the science or the religion of the time, due to the unexpected subjects portrayed in the sketches and the skill with which they were drawn.
The puzzling paintings depicted with bold, masterly strokes strange prehistoric animals of a kind no human had seen in the flesh for more than 15,000 years. Whoever had so skillfully painted these extinct animals clearly did it from experience, not imagination, and must have seen the creatures often enough in the bright outside world to reproduce them in vivid detail far inside a dark, sunless cave by torchlight.
While the debate raged, other caves in northern Spain and southern France started to yield similar treasures of prehistoric art. Most remarkable were drawings discovered in Lascaux, France, in 1942. By this time a consensus had been reached: the art –whatever its exact meaning – was probably the product of Cro-Magnon hunters who visited the deep recesses of these caves for the specific purpose of making these visualizations of things important to them.
If so, it would seem that primitive cave men had developed this high human skill in response to a specific need.
What was that need? Perhaps the very one we are discussing, the
need to make clear pictures of our
most intensely sought goals, to hold them clearly in mind to pursue and win.
Rather, they appear to be what we might call wish-pictures, symbols of the hopes and goals of the imaginative people who made them.
Where you and I might use imagination ( and a handy notebook ) for the purpose of visualizing the goals that motivate us, the skin-clad hunters of this early Ice Age culture found it useful to make precise drawings of the objects of their desire: fat, healthy bison for meat and hide; fleet, pregnant deer whose bellies promised more good hunting next season.
To these earliest goal-picturing ancestors of ours the animals sketched represented their goals and hopes for the future – food, clothing , and some surplus to let them enjoy a few days respite from the relentless pressure of survival.
I ask, what do we picture for ourselves today that is so
very different ?
It is interesting and exciting for us to see that our early ancestors pictured and drew what they wanted in life
This goal picturing is something we are good at, as human beings. So good in fact, we often overdo it and waste our visualizing powers on our worries, not our goals. Since our subconscious minds work eagerly and constantly to help us achieve whatever goals we fill our minds with, you can see why worrisome people tend to bring upon themselves the very calamities they fear.
Without intending, they treat their fears like goals.. and receive in real life the feared , negative things their minds are filled with. Which should not surprise them.
(Page 2)
They have grabbed the gun by the barrel, not the stock, and shot themselves in the foot.
So strong is our inborn ability to visualize what is not present before our eyes, we are the only creatures on earth that have to be reminded, “Live for today. Stop to smell the flowers. Take time to live now, for tomorrow never gets here.” Images of what we see coming at us (rightly or wrongly) can block out what is apparent in front of us. Our ability to picture things that MAY come to pass can keep us from observing those that HAVE come to pass. Improperly focused wish-pictures can overpower the senses and keep reality from registering on our behavior.
The good side to this innate trait is that with thought and practice you can channel its power into picturing your most strongly desired goals and help them become substantial realities the rest of the world must deal with. To this extent, at least, we are born with ability to determine our destiny and to alter the course of everything around us by the goals we picture into existence and leave behind us.
From “ARE YOU POSITIVE”
By Richard Gaylord
Briley
Part III - DISCUSSION
- Were the pictures found in the caves of Spain and France based on real life or imagination?
- What special need prompted these cave-men to draw these pictures on the walls?
- Does our goal-picturing of today differ from that of the cave-men ?
- How do we often misuse this goal-picturing ability to give us undesirable results ?
- The author says we all have an inborn ability to visualize what is not present before our eyes.
What is the good side of this trait ?
- In this sense do you agree that we are able to determine our destiny and to change the course of everything around us ?
YES / NO
ACTION FOR
THE MONTH
The Reading says, ‘Our
ability to picture things that MAY come to pass can keep us from observing
those that HAVE come to pass.’
For this month, let us
practice the skill of ‘mindfulness’ by trying to be mindful of :
- the beauty of nature and the environment around us
- the goodness of people around us
- the
things that we are blessed with
( already have ) – family, friends,
possessions, job/career, good health,
wealth etc……
ONE of our Affirmations for this month should be:
“ I love and appreciate all that I am and have
at present and thank the Universe for this “
Part IV – HEALING CYCLE
Leader to collect cases for “projecting” during the cycle ( name of person, age and location – type of problem )
PART V – “READ & SHARE “ Session.
PART
VI – PESONAL SHARINGS,
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
