by Roy Posner
"Life Response"
is the way life suddenly, abundantly, and miraculously responds positively
on the outside to a corresponding change of your consciousness inside,
apparently defying notions of cause and effect, and space
and time. E.g. you change an attitude and suddenly
a moment later someone who you never knew before contacts you from half
way round the world with news of a big contract, of monetary gain, or
other success for you. We can learn to invoke such response from life all of the
time, enabling vast accomplishment, success, and happiness in our lives.
In life response
what might have taken considerable time occurs rapidly, as events, people,
and place “conspire” to overcome normally perceived limitations and
constraints, enabling unexpected circumstances to arise that render new,
creative possibilities, overcoming the slow, meandering workings and
unfoldings of Nature.
Over time we have analyzed
life responses and have discovered a number of human behaviors that seem to
have a particular ability to generate these responses. In the listing
below we describe a number of these levers, give simple examples of life
responses that are triggered by these levers, and refer you to a topic
where you can get more detailed information about this level.
TIP: If an individual can review
life responses he or she has experienced, and then trace it back to the
corresponding behavior listed below, he now can continually trigger life
responses by taking actions that relates to that behavior.
To see
the behaviors with explanation and examples either scroll down, or click
one of the behavior link below to go directly to its explanation with
examples.
Increasing
One's Energy Level
Anything in life that increases energy is more likely to invoke
a positive life response. The reverse for a negative life
response. Examples of what can increase energy are:
getting the proper rest, learning a new
skill, having a generally positive attitude, overcoming negative
attitudes, giving up an opinion,
changing a habit, and giving
your attention to others.
LIFE RESPONSE EXAMPLES
-Getting
proper rest -- A man was very weary and tired. During that time work got
cancelled. He finally began to get more sleep, and began to
recover his energies somewhat. Corresponding to the level of rest,
he got more work. Even work that had been previously cancelled by
his weariness was recovered.
-Learn a new skill -- An
instructor learns a new program to teach. He is not only feels a
surge of new mental energy, stimulated
there by what he has learned, but feels additional energy in his
being as a result of the possibility that
he could extend this new knowledge into new possibilities in his
career.
-Changing a habit -- An instructor had been
conducting a particular class the same way for months on end. The
results were flat; the students only mildly involved. He decided to take
a completely different approach in his training technique and
methodology. Now when the teacher uses this new approach for the course
the students are energized and enthusiastic, leading to far higher class
evaluations for the instructor.
-Give
attention to others -- A manager decided to train his illiterate workers. They and the
company thereafter became
very happy and energized. Even the machines
started working better!
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Greater
Cleanliness, Orderliness
If you make the effort to increase your level of cleanliness or orderliness one level
higher than it is now, life has a great tendency to respond
positively in
kind.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A
consultant cleaned a rarely cleaned part of his refrigerator, and
instantly got a call for a great deal of more work. That same man a man
had not cleaned an area in the back of a bureau in a bathroom for years.
He cleaned that area and within five minutes he got a big client for a
considerable amount of work.
-A software
manager decided to improve his daily wardrobe. Upon putting on nicer
clothes for his daily activities he suddenly received an order from
out of nowhere after not having received an order for quite a while.
-The
Spirit is universal in its action, which means what one man does
[rooted in spirit] benefits all such men in his emotional world.
E.g. one individual dedicated to spirit applied
that ideal through extreme cleanliness of
her surroundings. As a result of this value,
events transpired that not only benefited
her, but expanded out,
multiplied to benefit many others
surrounding her.
-A wine seller had poor sales. He decided to
clean the stocks in the
dusty basement that had been sitting for
six months.
As a result he suddenly sold
all the old
stocks, plus six months of sales for his other products.
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Greater
Organization and Systemization
Efforts to organize or systematize things at a greater level
brings about positive responses from life.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A
company had just launched a new product, yet did not yet have any
sales on the product, despite considerable effort. One day the
manager decided to go through the operations manual to update it
to the latest information, including procedures related to the new
product. He did this late in the work day. Early the very next
morning he saw the first order for the product come in through the
company's web site.
-An individual goes through his books thoroughly, and suddenly
gets $5000 from out of nowhere.
-An individual organizes his web site for greater clarity and
organization, and receives a sudden positive life response.
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Info, Examples)
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Perfecting a Work
Efforts to perfect a work attract enormous
positive responses from life.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A
company had just launched a new product, yet did not yet have any
sales on the product, despite considerable effort. One day the
manager decided to go through the operations manual to update it
to the latest information
[i.e. to perfect at the letter of details], including procedures related to the new
product. He did this late in the work day. Early the very next
morning he saw the first order for the product come in through the
company's web site.
-An individual organizes his web site for greater clarity and
organization, and gets a positive life response.
-An individual decides to begin the long process of eliminating
spelling mistakes and other grammatical problems throughout
the organization's
1000 page web site. Immediately he gets a number of positive life
responses.
[When he completes the work, he will open the doors to infinite
possibilities, such as great viewer or financial response to the
site.]-When an individual becomes aware of the fact that he has not paid
attention to the details in a work, and then makes the effort to
correct it, the result is that acts related to that detail unfold
in life with miraculous precision and perfection; e.g. in their
timing and right unfolding down to the millisecond!
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Right
Actions Related to Money
One attracts money by giving it greater attention
(e.g. keep all accounts up to date); by paying off all debts as soon as
one can possibly do it; by circulating it, rather than hording it; by
increasing the level of orderliness and cleanliness around one; by
speaking softly in a low voice and with few words; by changing a negative
attitude that is in opposition to one's success; by moving from
tightness to generosity; by making the necessary and required physical and
psychological effort; and by refraining
from engaging in activities that deplete one's energies, amongst other
methods.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-One small business owner decided to give
attention to his accounts, balanced eight months of back bank statements, and miraculously
received $5000 from nowhere the next day. (Power of
attention)
-One individual owed a friend money for
over twenty years. As soon as he committed to paying one particular
old debt within a few minutes he was told that he had found a new
place to live, after having being stuck in the same place for twenty
years! (Taking care of old debts)
-A web site owner
was hesitant to move up to a better web site because of the added
expense, even though the required funds were available. The web host
provider had suggested the better site a number of times. When the web
site owner finally overcame his reluctance to spend, he discovered to
his surprise that the web host provider had suddenly the day before
begun offering this better site at a cost almost the same as his current
site. (Circulating money)
-An instructor had not been contacted for
new work for weeks, and was in desperate straits. He decided to apply the idea of
cleanliness. His apartment was normally quite clean, but he wanted to take
cleanliness a step further. He decided to clean his refrigerator, something he was
reluctant to do. At the exact moment he finished putting things back into the refrigerator
after cleaning, he heard a message on his answering machine from the his training company
offering him new work. The response from life was instantaneous!
(Cleanliness and orderliness)
-A 39 year old wealthy American
businessman lost all 60 employees and was prepared to file bankruptcy. He and his
wife practiced attention, cleanliness, harmony, and soft speech. Two years later he
was in a position to retire for life in prosperity.
(Soft speech)
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Giving
Things, People Greater
Attention
Giving more attention to anything,
including objects and people, attract rapid
positive responses from life.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-One small business owner decided to give
attention to his accounts, balanced eight months of back bank statements, and miraculously
received $5000 from nowhere the next day.
-A wine seller had poor sales. He decided to
clean the stocks in the dusty basement
that had been sitting for six months.
As a result he suddenly sold
all the old
stocks, plus six months of sales for his other products.
-A company had just launched
a new product, yet did not yet have any sales on the product, despite considerable effort.
One day the manager decided to go through the operations manual to update it to the latest
information, including procedures related to the new product. He did this late in the work
day. Early the very next morning he saw the first order for the product come in through
the company's web site.
-An instructor noticed that whenever he
gave a little added attention and encouragement to a slower student, the student
brightened, became more enthusiastic about what was being learned, and gave the instructor
a perfect score at the end of the day.
-Out of concern for the success of his people, a manager decided
to train his illiterate workers. As a result of this they became so
happy and energized. It permeated the business. Even the machines
they were trained to work with on started to suddenly work better
even though no improvements were made to their operation!
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Greater
Knowledge, Skills
Any major attempt to raise one's level of skills and knowledge
can evoke positive life response.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A man tried to improve his
professional condition by learning some new, higher level skills. He made a determined
effort to see it through. Within a few days from out of nowhere he was contacted by a major industrial firm in
the central valley of California to do his first major consulting
project in years. Also, the new skill he acquired was
exactly what was required
for the new project!
-Out of concern for the success of
his people, a manager decided to train his illiterate workers. As
a result of this they became so happy and energized. It permeated
the business. Even the machines
they were trained to work with on
started to suddenly work better even though no improvements were
made to their operation!
-A man went through
some difficult materials for his upcoming
training classes. He must learn a number
of difficult, new ideas. As the he gains a grasp of the
concepts, especially the new concepts he
never knew about, fathomed, or understood before, he notices that
suddenly positive life responses occur
thereafter.
-A man tried to improve his professional
condition by learning some new higher level skills. He made a
determined effort to see it through. Within a few days he was
contacted by a major industrial firm in the central valley of
California to do a large consulting project. (He hadn't had a
consulting project of any substantial order in over half a year, and
saw the connection between his effort for improvement with
life's great response to the effort.)
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Applying
Higher
Attitudes, Overcoming Negative Ones
Key
One
can always develop better
personal attitudes; towards one's self, towards others,
towards things, and towards life. Any
effort to improve one's attitude invariably invokes sudden positive
responses from life. This is perhaps the most frequently seen cause
of positive life response. (Likewise, we
see similar results for shedding limiting habits, opinions, prejudices, etc.)
When
you reverse your emotions, attitudes, opinions, the response is very rapid, even
instantaneous.
Organizing
one's impulses, silent thoughts, sensations, etc. elicit great
life responses.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A part-time employed woman stops her distain for certain
other people in her work group. Thereafter, she suddenly gets a full time
job, her job in a decade.
Moreover, her career
develops steadily thereafter. She also
notices that those around her,
including her close family members, are also suddenly
having very positive life experiences.
-A salesperson was intimidated about
meeting a huge client. He felt that the effort was a waste of time, and as it turned out
he didn't get the sale. A number of months later he changed his attitude about approaching
large customers. The very day that he changed his attitude the very same customer who he
originally went to visit gave a huge order!
-A man met his uncle every few years, and each time it turned
contentious or tense when discussing politics and family matters.
Before the next time they met he decided to withdraw any expectation or negative
feeling (and consecrated, i.e. offered it to the spirit the event). Everything went
perfectly in
the meeting; without any hostility or tenseness. In fact, there
was a sense of pervasive joy and harmony. There were also a number
of sub-life responses as well!
-A
woman had visited the Mesa Verde national park in the US 30 years
ago when pregnant with her only child. There she saw an ancient
Pueblo Indian spiralling symbol of Infinity chiselled into a wall.
She is motivated 30 years hence to return to the vast park. When
she gets there she looks hither and fro through many areas of park
for this symbol, but finds nothing. Now she is in a special area
of ruins that is particularly compelling. She looks everywhere for
the symbol, and again has found nothing. She has now gotten
totally frustrated in her attempt to find it. She decides to give
up the quest. She then walks a few feet, turns around, and there
sees the symbol that has eluded her and been on her mind for 30
years. It gave her enormous pleasure and happiness. (When one
gives up an intense desire, one enables it to occur.
So long as she intensely desired it in frustration, it
eluded her. She gave up her negative attitude about the
situation.)
-An individual who does much photography of nature notices that whenever
he has a hasty, overly impulsive desire to take a photo, it
inevitably comes out poorly. (negative response)
(There
are endless examples of how higher attitudes brought about very
rapid responses from life. Click here
for more examples.)
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Overcoming Reluctances/Accepting What Life Gives
Often in life people are offered opportunities, possibilities
that one rejects. If one reverses and overcomes these, life
responds in kind. Putting that in a positive way, take what life
presents to you; do the work that you are assigned happily, and
with full effort. (This is an example of a more positive
attitude.)
A corollary to this is having an interest
in something and taking it up, whereas before one was unwilling or
indifferent.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-(hypothetical)
An individual is offered a big opportunity to be involved with a
project, but he does not perceive it that way. Later on down the
line, he realizes his earlier folly and goes after that which he
had earlier rejected. While he may or may not gain the project he
once rejected, he could invoke a positive life response elsewhere
because of his change of heart.
-Examples in other topics of this area demonstrate this.
-An individual
was studying the cause of
the phenomenon of life response. He says at
one point that he doesn't usually read fiction, thus he is
unconsciously shutting himself from the understandings of life
response that could come from
such works
of fiction. So he reverses himself
and shows interest in a work of fiction
that can help him understand life response. He reads over one hundred
pages of a suggested novel
that could be useful for this topic. Along the way he notices that he hasn't the
deeper insight
to derive great understanding
from the novel. The next day he receives
unsolicited from an associate an
email with a very detailed line by line(!)
explanation of life
response
in the book.
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Taking
Responsibility
Those who take responsibility for their misdeeds, actions,
attitudes, etc. and act to reverse this, attract positive results
from life. (This is an example of a more positive attitude.)
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A man realizes that his arrogance and pride are responsible for
negative circumstances. He makes a conscious
decision to reverse these characteristics and act in a diametrically
opposite direction. Having taken this inner
and outer initiative to improve himself ... life brings two magnificent
responses.
-A man
realized that an earlier negative insistence invoke a negative life
response in a related area shortly thereafter. He became aware of
and took responsibility for invoking this negativity, which had the
effect of reversing the negative result in the first place!
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Becoming
More Giving
Whenever you shift your perspective from yourself to others, your energy increases,
conditions for success reveal themselves (including positive life
responses), and joy is released. (This topic is an
example of a more positive attitude toward others.)
(This response to givingness also applies to a
company that is more giving by being responsive to the needs of its
customers, or the development of its staff.)
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A tried to
fix the computer keyboard of B. A did not succeed. However B felt
a degree of gratitude for his effort and offered to compensate A
for his efforts. Though thankful for A's thought, A wouldn't
accept money from B.
A
few days later B’s computer went dead and it would not start. So
the next morning B called A and asking him
for urgent help to repair the computer again. A took it and very
quickly was able to discover that the problem was the electrical adapter, which A managed
to replace very quickly within 24 hours. B was very happy
about this quick solution to his computer.
-Out of concern for the success of his people, a manager
decided to train his illiterate workers. As a result of this they
became so happy and energized. It permeated the business. Even the
machines they were trained to work with on started to suddenly
work better even though no improvements were made to their
operation!
-A sales
representative was having trouble getting an electronic payment
for a product that was purchased from a client because the client
had problem using the web-based payment system. The rep decided to
give the individual the product before payment anyway. The client
was grateful. The client then pointed out the dramatic fact that
the phone number at the site was wrong on the main web page! The
sales rep was very happy that the client caught this error,
potentially preventing the loss of considerable business in the
future. The client's finding of this error was a life response to
the earlier givingness of the rep to the client.
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Increasing
Goodwill
Perhaps the greatest way to attract money is having goodwill
to others around us as well as the situation and circumstance
around us. Better still if there is goodwill in one's work.
That will attract the greatest response for money to flow in. Floods
of money enter your life if your goodwill flows out in
floods.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A contract instructor who puts his heart and soul into a class,
will see thereafter, perhaps the next day, a sudden rush in his
good fortune in the form of more work, more money, more
opportunities, etc.
-An individual concentrated, felt, and inwardly projected good
will to people he worked with. Within days if not hours he got
extraordinary good news about their situations, as to their
health, good business fortune, etc.
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Greater
Psychological
Strength
Life responds to an effort to increase one's
(psychological) strength. This is especially true for those
who lack it. Any effort to increase one's strength will meet with positive results in
life.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-There was a businessperson who had a
partner. The partner was outspoken, crude, and not very easy to like. The
"good" partner was conscientious, well-mannered, and civilized. One day the
good partner realized that what he himself lacked, the crude partner had in abundance.
That was strength. Strength to act, strength to stand up to adversity, and strength
to take control. When the well-mannered partner exercised his strength everything began to go right in his
company. Orders suddenly came in, and energy increased all around him. Moreover, the
crude partner stopped his crude behavior, and even cowered before his partner.
-A
man had a sever pain in his upper neck for six months. Also
shortly thereafter he began working on a project that was in a state
of much confusion. He mistakenly worked on the project, even
though he and his manager had not come to any proper agreement. He
was doing much work without any pay on it. He finally confronted
the manager on this. At the end of the meeting he noticed
that the pain he had for six months had completely disappeared.
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One's
Great Efforts/Hard Work
are Fulfilled by Life
-By making the full effort and expending all
of one's energy, life takes over and fulfills what one could not fulfill
on one's own. In other words, life supports your extra effort
and takes up where you left off.
-If you work harder, a pressing problem(s) that is already there
will dissolve on its own; plus the current work will be enhanced
well beyond its earlier scope.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A salesperson at a computer center was relatively new to
the sales force, and in his first few months his sales were modest compared to the
veterans who were already there awhile. Each month when sales were tallied he seemed to
come up just short of the veterans results (for example, they would get $50000 in sales;
he would get $40000). A few times he was asked to come in on weekends to work, which he
did. During one period just after the end of year holiday rush he was asked to come
in a weekend after he had already worked five days straight during the week. In the past
he wouldn't have agreed to such a request for need of rest, and other reasons.
Reluctantly, he accepted the invitation to come in on that
weekend. After five minutes in the store a customer walked in and ordered $30000 in
sales, nearly equal to a months worth of sales for him in the past. In addition, in
the next few weeks even higher than usual sales accumulated for the remainder of that
month. At the end of the month most of the veterans sales tallied around $50-60000.
Our salesperson, however, accumulated $110000 in sales, the highest total monthly
sales in the computer center's history. He ended up making more money in that month
than in any month previous in his life. He created immediate prosperity in life
by changing an attitude. He also had more energy than before because just because he
made the extra effort. In addition, as a result of that effort he became more confident,
prosperous, and happy, which in of itself made him feel even more energetic.
-In Dee Hock's book Birth of the
Chaordic Age, he describes an extraordinary situation where he is
trying to get the visa credit card scheme under way. At one point things
apparently are not going well in most aspects of his life. He is reduced
to learning franchise banking at a branch. At one point while working in
the bank he and his assistant were unable to balance the books at the end
of the day. His assistant suggests that the missing deposit is in the
basement in the garbage. He is humiliated by this turn of fortune in his
life, considering his previous position, but shakes that off is pride, and
goes through 10 barrels of garbage to find it. At one point his co-worker
says she has found it. Hock then narrates that only a few days later an
official told him that Bank of America decided to go ahead and franchise
the BankAmericard credit card scheme he had worked to develop, and needed
his help in the implementation This was a great moment in his life, and in
the history of credit card use.
-A
man who was reluctant to clean a swimming pool made the decision
to over come his reluctance, and began to make the mental effort
to figure out what compounds would be needed to clean the pool. As
a result of this a professional pool cleaner suddenly appears on
the scene to take up where he left off.
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Examples)
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One's
True Desire Determines Results
Life responds to what one really wants in life.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-An
individual never really had the burning desire to be prosperous in
life; he valued
his freedom more. He decided to really want more money, and immediately
contracts of a kind he never experience before suddenly arrived.
-An owner never really wanted to be in charge of the company; he
was happy just to be involved in sales; and so life continually
reflected this.
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One's
Decisions, Choices Attract Key
When one makes the decision and choice
to do something, life tends to respond in kind. In fact,
virtually all life responses involve a decision of some sort that
leads to a life response.
"When considering a new endeavor or direction in
life it is the decision that is all important, that enables results
to manifest. Such results can occur even before the necessary action
to support the decision are taken up. The decision must be true,
fully endorsed by the emotions, for such substantial results to
ensue. We see the close correlation between decision and life
response."
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A
man who was reluctant to clean a swimming pool made the decision
to over come his reluctance, and began to make the mental effort
to figure out what compounds would be needed to clean the pool. As
a result of this a professional pool cleaner suddenly appears on
the scene to take up where he left off.
-A manager decided to train his illiterate workers. They and the
company thereafter were so happy and energized. Even the machines
started working better!
-A
company had just launched a new product, yet did not yet have any
sales on the product, despite considerable effort. One day the
manager decided to go through the operations manual to update it
to the latest information, including procedures related to the new
product. He did this late in the work day. Early the very next
morning he saw the first order for the product come in through the
company's web site.
-An
instructor saw that certain training never got to the level he
wanted. H e decided to make a major improvement in his approach.
From thereon in students responded much better to his approach,
and he was later known as an expert instructor of that subject.
-A
man had a sever pain in his upper neck for six months. Also
shortly thereafter he began working on a project that was in a state
of much confusion. He mistakenly worked on the project, even
though he and his manager had not come to any proper agreement. He
was doing much work without any pay on it. He finally confronted
the manager on this. At the end of the meeting he noticed
that the pain he had for six months had completely disappeared.
-Related
Info on Human Choice for Individual, Society
-Related
information on Unfailing Success
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Overcoming
Limiting Personal, Socially-Accepted Beliefs
Individual's have limiting beliefs that
may be partial or fully untrue. Any effort to understand and
overcome the limiting belief attracts positive responses form
life. The limiting belief may be one's own, or one accepted by
society. Ultimately it is what one believes that determines. That
being the case if one does not accept that there has to be cycles
of recession after boom, or that there must inevitable be inflation,
or that the sales of one's products is not determined by exchange
rates and prices, or that if a failure in that industry such as
technology or the Internet means he has to fail when he is in that
industry, then one becomes one's own determinant of the reality;
and life responds positively in kind. "You become you believe
you can become" Bhagavad-Gita.
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Greater
Formulations
of Thought
When one's area of interest or work is formulated from an
organized mass into a formed thought or an idea or an
understanding or other
framework, life responses tend to be invoked (especially when the
idea is perfected).
(At the subtle plane things can be accomplished with very little
expenditure of energy, compared to (e.g.) the greater efforts
required at the gross plane. Thought has this capacity for being
subtle. Formulating thought out of something that is unorganized,
not understood, etc. has the tendency elicits life responses at
the subtle (occult) plane.)
-Organization
of one's impulses, silent thoughts, sensations, etc. elicit even
greater life responses.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A man goes through difficult materials for his teaching
profession. He must learn new ideas. As the he gains a grasp of
the concepts, especially new concepts he never knew about,
fathomed, or understood before, he notices that positive life
responses occur thereafter.
-A writer developing ideas for his audience on the web notices
that when he takes ideas and notes and formulates them into a
easy-to-understand concepts for his audience, positive life
responses start occurring (such as more work).
-A
colleague took up an initiative to explain in a book line-by-line
significant meaning. He then gets an email from an associate on
the project saying that he has also [suddenly] taken upon the reading of that
book (which in turn makes the colleague happy when he finds this
out).
-A man made the effort to figure out the nature of a complex
metaphysical issue.
The next morning he received a note from his teacher, who had no
knowledge he was making such an effort, perfectly explaining that
which he tried to understand.
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Moving to a
Higher Plane
When an individual makes a growth however small from their current
plane to a higher plane, it can attract a life response from a
likewise individual going through the same change to their mutual
benefit.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-In Pride and
Prejudice Eliza moves from a physical/material view of another
person (Darcy) to an idea
(i.e. a mental thought) of a possibility to be with that person, while
Darcy himself moves from a limited physical view of his
life to a more idealistic, i.e. mental view
of his relationship with Eliza. As a result they
coincidentally meet in the middle of
nowhere to continue the relationship that will end in
their marriage. "Her physical consciousness releasing an idea
of approving Pemberley readily meets with his vibration of mental
consciousness of idealism of one whose wealth and status are in his
blood."
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Believing
In, Implementing Personal Values
Bringing a higher personal value to a situation (which can
translate as a higher attitude) brings positive responses from
life. Examples of higher values are honesty, integrity, commitment
to truth, gratitude,
concern for others, maximum utilization of resources, continuous
improvement, openness, tolerance, organization, systemization,
service to the community, etc. etc.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A man's Internet system was starting up for the day, he was
consumed by egotistic feelings
about the attention he was receiving on a project. The system
would not start. He tried to start it again. This time as it
started he decided to change his
attitude on the project from ego to one of his ability to
understand and learn as the chief benefit of the project. This
time the system started properly. Also he received an email
discussing the great benefit of learning on the project! (The
value changed from self-aggrandizement to acquiring knowledge and
wisdom.)
(More Info on Values, Examples)
Sample Values--
1. Continuous
Improvement
Any attempt to improve a situation will invoke a positive
response from life. ( his is also an example of a value.)
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-An
instructor saw that certain training never got to the level he
wanted. He decided to make a major improvement in his approach.
From thereon in students responded much better to his approach,
and he was later known as an expert instructor of that subject.
-A
woman performing examinations of people for a recruiting company
intensely felt and believed that the use of computes could improve
the whole process. From out of nowhere her boss informed her of a
program which she later found out to be ideal for what she was hoping
for.
(More Info
on Continuous Improvement, Examples)
2. Maximum Utilization of Resources
Fully utilizing one's current resources in terms of
efficiency, productivity, organization, cleanliness, etc. ( This is also an example of a value.)
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-An individual noticed an idle machine that was run down, and
decided to clean it and fix it. Within a few days a new work was
started up where this particular machine was needed. the
undertaking fully utilizing the machine became a cash cow.
-A wine
seller had poor sales. He decided to sell stocks that had been
sitting for a long time and weren't moving. He sold the stocks,
plus six months of sales for his other products.
3. Honesty, Integrity
True honesty and integrity attracts positive responses from
life
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A woman in college was to take a test to be admitted to a
company. her fellow students knew the answers in advance. her
chances were thus slim. She decided not get the answers and
instead be honest. On the day of the test, the test was cancelled.
She later was accepted to her complete surprise.
(More
Info on Honesty, Examples)
4. Organization and Cleanliness
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
The Spirit is
universal in its action, which means what one man does [rooted in
spirit] benefits all such men in his emotional world. E.g. one
individual dedicated to spirit applied
that ideal through extreme cleanliness
of her surroundings. As a result of this value,
events transpired that not only benefited
her, but expanded out,
multiplied to benefit many others
surrounding her.
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Intense
Interest in Work Attracts
Finally we have seen that one attracts infinitely greater amounts of money
when one takes a great interest in one's work, rather than do it as a work
of necessity or obligation. The greater the interest, the greater the
propensity to attract much greater financial result from life. This is
exceedingly important in attracting money through one's work.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-An instructor put great interest in a class he was performing in a
database program. The class was full of intense exchange of
knowledge and information. It was vibrant. Right
after he finished the class he heard from a client who he hadn't
heard from a few years who asked him to revive a database program
that he had written for them previously, not had been used, but
which he had been paid well for. The revival offered the
possibility for a lot more money. Also, interestingly, the work
involved working with the very same program he had been training
in that day.
-One
man who was diverted with other things, rekindled an interest in
dealing with his clients, when suddenly a client that he was
having trouble getting in contact with, and whom he was going to
try to contact again, called on his own
much to the first person's surprise.
-An individual in the field of
home electronics. He sees that it is difficult to send audio sound
to speakers around the house without wires. This interest in the
issue and how to solve this problem causes a solution to the problem
to come his way the next day when he sees an article describing just
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Silent
Will
When we restrain ourselves from expressing a
thought and withhold it from the conversation, the thought seems to gathers a
power in the atmosphere, and actually gets expressed by the other person,
or otherwise invokes positive life responses.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A
researcher could not make any headway to get an executive in a
major company to allow interviewing principles in company. He
practiced silent will, and the other person suddenly changed his
mind.
-A manager witnessed a great dispute and agitation between the
workers and other managers with the owner. Instead of reacting the
manager remained very calm. A bit later the owner had a great
problem with a little child who was ill. The manager helped
arrange financing for an operations, which had a successful
result. That led to excellent relations among all the
parties, and great gratitude by the owner for the manager.
-One man did not press a conversation
with an important contact in a crowd of people having discussions,
only to find 10 minutes later that the man was standing alone next
to him very conveniently making it possible to now have the
conversation he originally longed for. The result was an excellent
discussion.
(More Info, Examples)
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Soft
Speech
If you decrease the volume of speech or the quantity of words
you can invoke positive life responses.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-Individuals
in a company who were going bankrupt began to practice soft
speech. Thereafter, there entire situation turned around for the better.
(More Info, Examples)
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Remaining
Calm, Equal in Difficult Situation
Often we have seen situations where people
have been handed a difficult situation in their lives, and yet
because they remained equal and calm, did not react intensely in the
face of the situation, life overcame the problem by canceling it, or
bringing a response in another areas, and or other great fortune and
luck.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-"While going
through a financial crisis, I was planning my budget very carefully.
Certain people, one of them unreasonably, presented me with extra
bills of Rs 35,000, a big blow to my shoestring budget. Some people
also faced with these higher charges protested. I thought I would
let it pass as these guys were basically good guys. When payment
came due, one of my clients paid me exactly Rs 35,000 extra."
-A calm response and action to a "negative" situation will reveal a
plethora of positive events related to the original
circumstance thereafter. It is a subtle miracle of life currently
lost to our outer perceptions.
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Token
Effort
Sometimes life presents situations which may not be perfect or
seem limited,
but if one takes an initiative to see them through, life will respond
positively from other fields in one's life.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A temporary type
employee had been out of work for awhile. She was finally offered
a temp position in a far out of the way location requiring a
difficult commute. Rather than turn the temp job down, she
accepted. At the end of the day she found out that the job would
only last a one day or two. The next day, however, her temp agency
called her for a new temp job, which turned out to be not only
nearby but lasted for over six months.
(More Info,
Examples)
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Hidden
Patterns of Life
There are a number of hidden patterns of life that mostly go
unnoticed. If we learn to master these we can continually evoke
positive responses from life. Examples are: The more one wants a
thing, the more it gets delayed; Silent Will; Soft Speech; Token
Effort; the way Acts in Life repeat, and many others.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-Overly Wanting a Thing Delays It
An individual wants a check to arrive, and waits for the mail.
The more he anticipates it, the longer it gets delayed. When he
moves away from it and gives up his thoughts and desires for the
thing, it arrives.
(More Info,
Examples)
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Right
Action in Crossroad Situations
In any situation or circumstance at which point there is a crossroad
decision to be made or enjoined, opt for
necessity over convenience, activity over inactivity, involvement
over uninvolvement, success over security, real benefit over
superficial benefit, utility over frivolity, etc.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A man was watching a sports event, and wanted his team to win.
However he had other things to attend to. He decided to take the
more important path and did the necessary work. After completion
he found out that
his team easily won.(More Info,
Examples)
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Following
Energy Conversion Process to Completion
Consciously following the energy conversion process, the
process of creation and accomplishment (i.e. direction, organization, implementation/results) inevitably leads to positive life
response. For more on this process, click here.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-An individual envisioned that he wanted to do photography of a bay
region, and then made the decision to do so. He organized the
vision/decision by planning out where to go. He then carried out
his plan, which ended in everything working itself out perfectly;
i.e. positive life response.
-A man who had avoided working on a project now felt he should
resume it. He had a vision of what he wanted and now made the
decision to carry it out. (This has the effect of converting his
initial energy into a more powerful force for accomplishment.) He
then organized how he was going to perform the piece of the
project. (This has the effect of further energizing the force into
a power for accomplishment.) He made the determined effort,
applying his skills and knowledge to carry it out, which ended in
completion of his vision and the corresponding results. (Thus
energy as power for accomplishment is converted into perfected
results.) A moment after he emailed someone the finished product,
he got a returning email offering him work for the next three
months. (In addition he had additional energy to see through the
rest of the project, and had new insights into the subject matter
that the project addressed.) (More Info,
Examples)
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Influence of
Social Forces
There are many forces related to the social environment that
effect life response. For example, there may be a social
environment in which change and evolution is going on, and
therefore one may (or may not) be supported in one's initiatives
by the environment. Or one in a lower position is depending on one
of a higher position of relative strength, which is not good to
do, and one overcomes this. Or one mistakenly gets involved with
someone on a project who is secretly bad will to bear, and
overcomes this. There are many of these forces.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A
consultant depends on the actions and initiative of a superior. As
a result nothing gets done. He then reverses and requests her
involvement, and then there is a sudden result, where before there
was little action.
-A
woman collaborates on the next stage of a project with an
individual who is angry with the first partner's first stage
actions, even though the woman's actions were the right ones. The
result is a negative outcome to the next stage of the project.
When the woman reverses undoes her collaboration in this second
stage of the project with the angry person, a positive life
response instantly occurs.
(More Info,
Examples)
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Understand
Inner-Outer
Correspondence to Create Positive Response
(1) View whatever is happening around you, whether it be positive
or negative, as a reflection of what is inside you or what you are
doing. If you reverse the negative or limiting quality within, you reverse the
negative without. (Likewise you can increase the positive by
increasing the positive association within you.)
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A
man’s computer system is suddenly not working properly. He takes
the approach that he is going to associate the outer problem, with
some inner attitude on his part. He notices that he has been
irritable in the last few minutes dues to fatigues, etc. He
decides to stop that behavior. He even mildly consecrates the
situation. Thereafter the computer starts functioning properly,
even better than it normally should at that point in its daily
use.
-A woman's child is acting irritable. She associates the behavior
with her own attitude toward the child at that moment. The child's
behavior reverses, and becomes subdued.
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(2)
Learn to live in the depths of your being, and from that
inner poise you can will something to come about, which the
inner spiritual power will manifest in the world. Thus, from the
inner you are creating a life response in the outer.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-At the
height of an energy crisis a man went deep within to his inner being, and
thought, willed, called, and prayed from there that the crisis should end.
There seemed little possibility of it; all of society was up in arms about
this emerging tragedy. The problem looked dire for years to come. Within
two weeks the entire crisis evaporated, and there was not a single day of
energy loss resulting from the problem. The inner had moved the outer.
(More Info,
Examples)
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Accepting the
Given; the Negative as Positive
If you accept what is given to you in life,
including the point where you accept anything you perceive as a
negative as not being a negative, but an unperceived positive, life
will respond positively to you in kind shortly thereafter.
(More Info,
Examples)
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All
Acts Have Consequences Sooner or Later
Every act that is done has a consequence sooner or later.
Often negative things occur to us because of an action taken a
while ago. This can account for a negative situation occurring
for no particular reason. The same for positive outcomes.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-In Pride and Prejudice Mrs. Bennet, the mother of five daughters,
is trying to get them married off. She takes initiatives into
arranging for potential suitors to meet her daughters, without
consulting the daughters about their interest. Her meddling
actions lead to continuously negative reactions, i.e. life
responses, in the days that followed her self-centered, shameless initiatives.
Events occurred that prevented and were against the very possibility
of her daughters being approached in a positive way.
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Make
Situation More Positive
Any attempt to make things more positive in any situation
attracts positive responses from life.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A man was having getting poor pictures in bright light with his
new camera. His friend suggested they go to the nearby Sony center
to get a lens for bright light. He was so frustrated with his
pictures, that he barely heard her. When he settled down, he
decided to move from his ego sense, and listen to her. He
immediately went to get the lens. He found it very quickly, tried
it out, and was amazed with the results. As a results of that thousands
of pictures he took thereafter came out so much better!
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Overcoming
Ego
Any attempt to move from one's sense of self, egotism, sense
of separateness to unity with others or the environment attracts
positive responses from life.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A man was having getting poor pictures in bright light with his
new camera. His friend suggested they go to the nearby Sony center
to get a lens for bright light. He was so frustrated with his
pictures, that he barely heard her. When he settled down, he
decided to move from his ego sense, and listen to her. He
immediately went to get the lens. He found it very quickly, tried
it out, and was amazed with the results. As a results of that thousands
of pictures he took thereafter came out so much better!
Notes: One way to more
permanently overcome one's ego sense is to go through the process
of inner psychic
transformation.
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Utilizing
Inner, Higher Powers Key
(most far reaching
results)
There are many powers of life that go beyond the normal
functionings. These are the powers of higher mind and the
spiritual domain. When utilized they can trigger life response.
For example, if someone inwardly were able to project goodwill or
gratitude to others, life responds in kind. Or if one learn to
connect inward to someone else or some other object, life can
respond. Or if someone utilizes the spiritual Force. There are many powers in this domain that one can
learn and utilize to attracts great responses from life.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-An individual concentrated, felt, and inwardly projected good
will to people he worked with. Within days if not hours he got
extraordinary good news about their situations, as to their
health, good business fortune, etc.
-An individual had problems with his computer. He decided that
rather than wait stoically for the machine to come back from
repair in who knows how many days, he decided to communicate
inwardly directly with the computer. Five minutes later the
machine is suddenly delivered repaired at his door step. (This
happened to him again shortly thereafter.)
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Consecration,
Opening to the Force Key
(most far reaching
results)
If we open ourselves to the Force, to the Divine before
commencing an activity, when we have a problem, and in other
situations, we invoke extraordinary positive responses from
life, responses that go beyond the gross or subtle responses at
the physical, vital, or mental plane; and also invoke
spiritual responses, such as a feeling of deep peace, harmony,
faith, or
bliss.
LIFE RESPONSE
EXAMPLES
-A man was trying to figure out a complex
computer programming problem. He stopped racking his brain, opened to the higher power,
and forgot about his problem. A minute later not only did solution to his problem appear
to him, but the solution indicated a solution to a number of other related problems.
-An instructor's class was
going very poorly in the morning. He consecrated the afternoon
session; and every conceivable thing went right in the afternoon
session; plus there was a calming peace that could be felt
throughout the remainder of the day
-A woman had an x-ray done
indicating a possible growth in her chest. She consecrated the
return visit to the doctor. The doctor as completely baffled
when this time the same x-ray (not a new one!) revealed a completely
normal condition.
-A woman did not know what her future was in life, and was
confused. She opened herself to the higher power. The next day she
met with someone while doing some work where she was offered a
work opportunity in the field she wanted and in the area she
wanted.
-A
man met his uncle every few years, and each time it turned
contentious or tense when discussing politics and family matters.
This time he decided to withdraw any expectation or negative
feeling, and consecrated the event deeply. Everything went
perfectly in the meeting, without any hostility, tenseness; with
joy, harmony, including many positive sub life responses. Wherever
we went people cooperated, places cooperated, everything was
joyous, smooth, with perfect execution.Other
Points:
-The stronger the emotions when consecrating, the greater the
results. The emotions however should be positive, intense, and
with faith. One should have a great aspiration, but after the
consecration forget it, and fully accept the results. If there are
no results, understand your own personal weakness as it relates to
the item, and correct that; then reconsecrate to create the
response if the response has not already come.
-Creating Universal Reponses
We have forgotten that we are not only an
individual being, who can find his individual Self, but a universal being
who can find his universal Self. So just as we
can change our immediate outer world from the inner movements, we can
change the environment, things going on in society, on earth, in the
universe as well, through an intense aspiration directed to the truth
consciousness. It is powerful and perhaps startling for one to have such
experiences. It is a whole new domain of life response, making one aware
of our ability to marshal our vast inner resources to affect the
non-personal world outside us.
Through an intense aspiration and
opening to the higher powers, to the Force, an individual suddenly ended
the California energy crisis; while one very uncomfortable woman invoked a
sudden cooling rain storm.
(More Info,
Examples)
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| Key Item
-- Though we have
marked certain items in the list above as Key Items, whether or
not an item is key for an individual depends on the individual.
For example, a person with little psychological strength will
greatly benefit from exercising greater strength which will invoke
positive life responses. For another who already has great
strength, acts of compassion, or greater effort may be the keys to
invoking more life response. Wherever a person is wanting in an item
above will surely be a key item for that particular individual if
they make the effort to improve themselves in that area, which in turn
will invoke whole new tendencies to invoke positive responses from life.
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Additional Reading
-There
are many behaviors in life that invoke
negative life response.
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The Life Response Project
-There
are many hidden patterns of life, an understanding of which, can
help us further understand the subtle workings of life response. Click
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