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How To Navigate the Great Shift in Consciousness
1. How To Navigate the Great Shift in Consciousness Fatima Bacot
We are living during extraordinary times. The air is rife with possibility and consciousness is exploding. Everyday people are waking up as if from a deep, deep sleep, questioning to what values and systems they have given their power, energy, and attention–and wondering what lies beyond their present reality. Wondering if perhaps there is something “more” beyond what we are being told or have been taught … Interestingly, I was re-visiting Carlos Castaneda’s writings recently … Castaneda was an American anthropologist who met a powerful shaman–or medicine man–called Don Juan Matus in 1960 while conducting anthropological field work along the US-Mexico border. He subsequently became Don Juan’s pupil and later went on to write a number of bestselling books based on Don Juan’s teachings that have since been translated into seventeen languages. Under the tutelage of Don Juan, Castaneda learned about Three Forms of Attention. The First Attention is culturally conditioned and confined to the world of our five senses. The Second Attention orders the world of the unknown–that is, that which is beyond the limitations of our five senses. The Third Attention integrates the first two, empowering us to access that which is otherwise unknowable. Reviewing these teachings, it struck me how relevant such definitions were with respect to Transformation and the growing quest for Freedom these days. If we are paying attention, it is very easy to see that we are living during transformational, exhilarating times. Floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and weather pattern reversals are escalating; prescriptions for anti-depressants are at an all-time high; and long-term drought, water shortages, pollution and species extinction are all too common. The sun, too, is demonstrating all manner of unusual activity, affecting not only weather, but also human behavioral patterns. Yes, the Energies of Transformation are intense at this time. And amid the chaos and mismanagement of our resources, the Earth and each other, the US$70B worldwide Personal Development Industry is growing exponentially. Interest grows daily in mysticism, alternative healing, personal development, corporate spirituality, prosperity consciousness, angels, crop circles, and sacred sites. Indigenous peoples such as the Hopis, Aztecs, Maoris and Incas, ancient calendars of the Mayas, Egyptians, Tibetans and Hindus, and leading-edge visionaries and mystics, all say we are moving towards an end-time in or around 2012. This is truly the end of the world as we know it. It is insisted that we have the potential to move into a Golden Age of multidimensional consciousness, if we so choose, one well beyond the limitations of our current, dominant First Attention focus. This is a time filled with possibility. Correspondingly, we are in the midst of a major housecleaning of all the thoughts, emotions and identities that have limited us. We are required to let go of that which no longer serves us or the evolutionary dynamic. We are quite literally witnesses and participants in the crossing from an old order into a new one. We are part of the new Emerging Consciousness, and the signs are everywhere. Quantum physicists are making major contributions at this time, telling us that the subatomic energy fields which surround us respond to our feelings, thoughts, and focus. Moreover, numerous possible realities exist in any one moment. This is exhilarating information! It means that we contain, within us, immense power to become conscious, deliberate Architects of Reality. Russian DNA researchers have discovered that DNA not only constructs our bodies, but actually follows the syntax, semantics and rules of all human language. By using the correct language, thoughts and emotions, we can affect DNA waves and therefore genetic data itself. These findings have been corroborated at the Institute of HeartMath, where tests revealed that DNA strands changed shape according to the feelings of the researchers. Energy healers worldwide talk about activating DNA. Many say we are moving away from being only two-DNA-stranded human beings–obsessed with survival and accumulation of material goods–into multidimensional beings of limitless expression. In a nutshell, we are powerful. Our thoughts and feelings have documentable effects on the subatomic world, including our DNA. Whether we have two DNA strands or twelve or more (as some say), and whether we understand the subatomic world, each of us can alter reality–radically, if we choose–by changing our focus, thoughts, and emotions. Scientists are also saying that although 400 billion bits of information per second are carried through frequencies around us, our brains are decoding only 2,000 bits. We perceive with our senses only a fraction (less than one percent) of that which is available to be perceived and experienced. To me, this indicates that we have been boxed into the world of First Attention. So how do we move into Third Attention? How do we navigate the current changes–and the larger ones yet to come as systems and infrastructures alter–and embrace the potential of 2012? How do we decode more than just 2,000 bits per second so that we can choose our thoughts wisely and create realities for our highest good and the highest good of others? Here are seven imporant keys: 1. Take total personal responsibility. Playing the victim in any area of life leads to abdication and powerlessness. You create reality. Your reality is the perfect, exact mirror of your thoughts and what you consistently focus on. 2. Ask yourself key questions. “Why have I drawn this circumstance? What can I learn from it? What do I need to change about myself?” In so doing, you exit the “2,000-bits-box” and tap into the multidimensional potential of the other 400 billion bits per second, or the realm of Third Attention. 3. Be fully conscious of your focus. Eight percent of our self-talk is negative! Stop what you are doing often and check in with yourself. Change your focus if need be. 4. Learn to maintain sustained focus and cultivate the Presence that exists in the Now. Scientists also tell us that we are able to sustain focus for only six-eight seconds per minute. We lose focus up to ten times per minute. This is definitely a scatter-gun approach to creating reality! Spend time each day focusing consistently on being present so that all your decisions and actions come from a clear space, and so that you can masterfully focus on a result or feeling you would like to have more of. 5. Learn how to generate feelings of appreciation, gratitude, ecstasy, joy and happiness at will. These are very powerful states and have corresponding effects on your DNA, the subatomic field, and–therefore–your reality. Regularly bring to mind memories or people or circumstances that induce those particular feelings. Hold the feelings, then focus on what you want to experience. 6. Take consistent action in the form of books, CDs, seminars, coaching, healing, affirmation, meditation and visualization to reprogram what may be a mindset based on limitation. Learn to find your Center. Operate and create reality from your Center. 7. Finally, get out of the way and allow the Universe to move the chess pieces around … Often, we set intentions in motion, then with our doubts we sabotage the process. Remember: doubts create reality, too–if not exactly the reality we want! This is an exciting time to be present on Earth, a time long-prophesied and -anticipated. The power is truly within you as to how you experience this moment’s potential. Choose wisely! Every thought you think, every emotion you feel is creating your reality. Right here, right now.Copyright (c) 2008 by Fatima Bacot. All Rights Reserved.[Fatima Bacot is a futurist dedicated to personal and planetary transformation and peace. She has been involved in personal and spiritual development for twenty-five years and believes that we are at a critical time in our evolutionary journey, with humanity in the driver’s seat as to the realities we will collectively choose to create. She is passionately committed to the acceleration of a “critical mass” focused on the co-creation of universal peace. She contributes to this process as a 
