Is there enough of everything you would like in your life?  Enough love, enough sex, enough money, enough fun?

Do you find yourself saying, “Of course not, where do you think I live, in some fairy tale or something?”  Isn’t it obvious that we live in a limited world?  Isn’t having enough of what we’d like, let alone an abundance or enough to waste, just a pipedream?

What if it weren’t?

Does your point of view that there’s a limitation to what you can actually have reflect a reality?  Or is reality just reflecting your point of view?

Your reality reflecting your point of view is actually how it works here!

You could escalate your rate of beating yourself up for not having everything you desire right now, if you like.

Or, you could go “Yippee!  My point of view creates my reality!  Since I create my point of view I can change that right now!”  You could even ask a question, such as, “What would it take?”

Would you be willing to change your reality by changing your point of view?  Is it possible it could be the easiest change you’ve made yet, a lot less work than the eternal struggle to get whatever you’ve decided you want or lack?

If you decide to become radical enough to actually use the tools presented here to change your point of view and your reality, there are a couple of things it could be helpful to you to know.

One of these is that it can take time for the universe to arrange everything you’ve asked for.  Sometimes things you ask for can take years to show up.  If you exclaim, “It’s not working!” guess what?  It won’t!  “It’s not working” is a conclusion.  Every conclusion you make stops the universe from sending you anything you’ve previously asked for.  It’s not your best choice.

Perhaps unfortunately, you are not the only one involved.  There are other people on the planet.  It takes the universe some time to arrange all those other folks in the correct positions to deliver to you what you’ve asked for.

It can also be helpful to recognize that what you ask for will always look different than you thought it would look.  Yes, “always!” says Dr. Dain Heer, author of Being You: Changing the World and co-developer of Access Consciousness^®.

Heer continues, “The way you thought it was going to look was based on all your judgments of what it should look like, not based on awareness of what it could look like.  Your judgments of what it should look like kept you from being aware of what it could look like.  And all those points of view about what it should look like are precisely why it could not show up before now!”

In case that sounds like the most unsolvable zen koan yet, here’s an example.  Gary Douglas, the founder of Access Consciousness^® and best-selling author, recalls a woman who did a class on money and prosperity with him. Several weeks later she called him up, demanding her money back because in her view, “nothing had changed.”  On interviewing her, he found out she had been given an entire designer wardrobe and a car, both worth thousands of dollars.  Douglas suggested the problem was not with a change in her ability to create wealth, but in her inability to see the value of what she had received.

Another way of looking at the abundance or the lack thereof in your life is to recognize that everything you consider a problem or limitation in your life is an area where you have chosen to be less than fully conscious.  If you were fully conscious, the problem could not exist.  So when you ask for something to change that lack, you are asking for more consciousness.  From the place of more limited consciousness, is it even possible to see what the more conscious place would be like?

Fortunately, there are some simple tools out of this conundrum.  One of the easiest is to ask questions and, better yet, to live as the question.  Every conclusion locks you back into the very limitation you’re looking to get out of, and every question creates more possibilities.  Which one would you like to choose?

Questions, by the way, are not about getting an answer.  Questions are about creating awareness.  That awareness may come instantly, or it may come some time later.  So you don’t have to hesitate in asking a question because you have no idea what “the answer” is.  What you’re really looking for is awareness, and the universe has that.  The whole reason for asking the question is to invite the universe to share that awareness with you, which you do by stepping beyond conclusion into question.

Some great questions to use are:

How does it get even better than that?

What else is possible here?

What are the infinite possibilities?

What’s right about this I’m not getting?

What if changing whatever lack you are experiencing could be as easy as all this?  What if you were willing to give these tools a try?  You could just have nothing to lose but your lack of receiving everything you’d really like to have.

Many of the concepts here and so many more come from Dr. Dain Heer’s book, Being You, Changing the World, available from the accessconsciousness.com site as well as amazon.com.  He also presents 3.5 day workshops in several locations globally that expand on this and so many other life-changing tools.  These classes are available either by attending live or by live-streaming them via the Internet from your own home.  Information about these classes is available at www.accessconsciousness.com where you can search for Dr. Dain Heer’s classes.

Access Consciousness^® is often described as a set of tools and processes that can change anything in your life that isn’t working. In a previous series of articles, some ways that the Access “Ten Commandments” can be used to change your money situation were discussed.  Now some of the ways that the Ten Commandments can affect your body are being discussed.

The Ten Commandments are the subject of the newest Access Consciousness^® book titled Ten Keys to Freedom, by best selling author and Access Consciousness^® founder Gary Douglas and Dr. Dain Heer.

In case you’ve forgotten, here’s the full list of all Ten Commandments.  This article is the fourth in a series that will explain more fully how every single one of them can apply to your body.  This article focuses on the third commandment: Live as the Question, Not as the Answer.

1. Would an infinite being really choose this?
2. Everything is just an interesting point of view.
3. Live in 10-second increments.
4. Live as the question, not as the answer.
5. No form, no structure, no significance.
6. No judgment, no discrimination, no discernment
7. No drugs of any kind
8. No competition.
9. Do not listen to, tell, or buy the story
10. No exclusion

Have you noticed how much we look for answers for what’s occurring in our bodies?  When it really bothers or puzzles us, we go to medical doctors or others to find out what their answer is.  Does this create more possibility for us healing our bodies, or less?  Medical doctors in particular are experts in answers.  Isn’t a “diagnosis” a label that defines what’s going wrong with your body?

This is not to say that a diagnosis is never useful.  If it’s something you require, what if you were to consider it just an interesting point of view, rather than something handed down by God in a white coat?  What if you used the diagnosis to ask more questions about what’s going on and what your body requires, instead of looking at your body as a problem to be solved?

What if you were to approach your body from the point of view that there’s nothing wrong with it?  One great question you could use is, “Body, what’s right about this I’m not getting?”

As Douglas points out, truly using this commandment means not just putting a question mark at the end of a statement, but living as the question.  If you were willing to live as the question at all times with your body, you could even consult your medical doctor, naturopath, or chiropractor, listen to the “answer” they will most likely give you, and then ask if that’s true for your body, if what they recommend is what your body really requires, and if there’s something else you require to know about what’s going on.

Science expects everyone’s body to be the same and have the same requirements for drugs and supplements every day.  Is that really true?  What if we were as different on the inside as we are on the outside?

One man Douglas worked with saved his own life by being in the question with his body.  His medical doctor prescribed a blood pressure medication.  The man used the Access technique (see below) of asking his body a question about it. His body gave him such a strong “NO!” that he said it almost slammed him against the wall behind him.

Douglas suggested he consult another medical doctor, who told him that if he’d taken the medication prescribed by the first doctor, it would have killed him.

How do you ask your body a question?  If muscle testing of yourself is something you can easily do, that is one method.  This never worked for Gary so he developed the following method.  Hold the substance in question out in front of you, at your solar plexus.  Ask, “Body would you like to ingest this?”  If your body leans forward, that’s a yes.  If it leans backwards, that’s a no.  (Extreme leaning backwards was what occurred for the man in the above example.)  If your body does neither or moves sideways, most likely you are not asking the right question.

Additional questions you could ask are, “Body, would you like to ingest this sometime in the next week?”  (If yes you could save yourself another trip to the grocery or supplement store by buying it now….)  “Body would you like this to be next to you?”  A yes to that question indicates your body would like to have the substance in your pocket so it can extract what it requires without your having to actually swallow it.  Weird, yes, but if you ask that question and get a yes, doesn’t it make you feel light?

A woman who used this method of asking her body questions ate whatever her body asked for and lost 75 kilos without leaving sagging skin or wrinkles from the excess weight.  When she was looking at her arm and wishing it to be thinner, she just asked, “Body what would it take for this to be firm and thin?” and then followed the energy of what her body revealed to her.

You might find living as the question with your body will give you more awareness.  For instance, do all of those magazine and television recommendations about the latest and greatest supplement come from answer or question? What if you were to ask your body if the recommendation du jour was something it would enjoy and benefit from before investing in the latest exercise equipment or supplements?

If you’re willing to live in the question, your body can then give you information in curious ways.  One woman who went from a size 18 to a size 4 in a period of months had been asking her body what it would take to lose weight.  One day she was walking through the park and her body practically catapulted her over a park bench to find out what diet book the women sitting there were talking about.  She bought the book and followed its recommendations with great success.  Did it work because it was the greatest diet book ever, or because she was able to identify what would work for her by asking and living in the question?

Does it seem strange to you to be addressing your questions to your body?  Have you considered that you and your body might have different points of view?  Many things that you think you are doing are actually done by your body.

As Dr. Dain Heer, author of Embodiment, the Manual You Should Have Been Given when You Were Born, points out, “You don’t eat, your body eats.  You don’t exercise, your body does.  You don’t wear clothes, your body does.  You don’t have sex, your body does.  Doesn’t it make sense to consult your body about what effects it?”

It’s quite easy to find out what your body would like to eat if you’re eating in a restaurant.  Usually it’s the first thing to pops out at you on the menu, whether you think you like it or not.  Or you could close your eyes and run you finger down the list of entrees and ask your body to show you which one it would like.

It may sound weird, but those who have tried it report that ordering what your body would like can bring you food that’s more orgasmic than you imagined possible.  How much fun would that be?

If you were willing to be really daring, you could give up comparing yourself to those airbrushed models in the magazine and ask your body what it would like to look like. “Not every body wants to look like Twiggy,” Gary points out.  “There isn’t a single body type that hasn’t been seen as desirable in some time or some culture.”  What if you were to be grateful to your body instead of judging it?  What else could it create for you?

What creative questions could you come up with to ask your body?  How much fun could you have doing it?

More information on the Ten Commandments of Access Consciousness^® can be found in the form of the new book, Ten Keys to Total Freedom, as well as a 10 call series on the Ten Commandments.  Each commandment is explored in depth for 90 minutes.  All of these are available from www.accessconsciousness.com shop.

What’s MTVSS?  Is it MTV on steroids?  No, not exactly!

MTVSS is one of the oldest of the many amazing Access Consciousness^® Body Processes.  Like all the Access Consciousness^® Body Processes, it is very gentle and requires only light touch, without pressure or manipulation of any kind.  It feels deeply relaxing, creating a sense of spaciousness in the body that’s often not experienced elsewhere.

In keeping with Gary Douglas’s philosophy of giving people as many tools as he can as soon as they can use them, it’s included in Level 1, the third of the Access Consciousness^® Core Classes.

It stands for Molecular Terminal Valence Sloughing System.  Fortunately, you don’t have to understand that, pronounce it, or remember it to use it.  All you have to do is ask it to turn on, as taught in the Level 1 classes offered around the globe.

What’s MTVSS good for?  It can change all kinds of things in the body that you might not consider possible, especially for those of us steeped in the Western mind and Western medicine.

For example, many participants in Access Consciousness^® classes have used it to reverse and change conditions in the body including stage 3 bone cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer, various arthritic conditions, sports injuries and much more.

It can be used in many ways, such as getting the results of a 90 minute workout with only 20 minutes in the gym, to ease and heal malfunction in different systems of the body, achieving relaxation, and experiencing an overall ease at being in your body in the first place.  It also seems to work dynamically on the immune system.

MTVSS is actually a compilation of nearly 30 different energies that turn on in the body while running this process.  Gary discovered these energies in the early days of Access, while asking questions, as usual, to unlock problems people were having in their bodies.

Even though it has a complex name, anyone can learn to do MTVSS. Not only is not required that you have formal training in disciplines such as medicine or massage therapy, but children can learn to do it too.  Despite adults’ reservations, kids can actually be more potent doing these processes than adults because they don’t have all the pre-conceived notions and fixed points of view that adults have about what’s possible and not possible when it comes to healing the body.

The more you do MTVSS, the better it gets!  The more you gift and receive it, the more your body can receive, and the more potent healing you can invite in others.  MTVSS is one of the earliest body processes in Access Consciousness^®, and it’s consistent with Douglas and Heer’s assertion that being in a body on planet earth should be a greatness, not a limitation.

“If being in a body were a limitation, why would we as infinite beings choose to come back in bodies again and again?” they ask.  They are proponents of finding the greatness of embodiment, which includes all aspects of this reality.  When you have discovered the greatness of embodiment, only then are you free to choose whether or not to come back in a body again.

This point of view is very different from the viewpoints of many spiritual and metaphysical approaches, which see your body as a limitation.  Most of us have followed those gurus and teachers for many lifetimes and taken on many of their points of view.  These are locked in our bodies as points of view and solidity we might not even be aware of.  These viewpoints limiting us and our bodies are one of the things that MTVSS unlocks.

“MTVSS unlocks the blueprint that’s been forced upon your body.  Doing it 20-30 times allows your body to show up as it was designed to, not as other’s points of view and implants have forced it to show up,” says Douglas.

Undoing this blueprint can lead to results you might not expect.  This process creates so much change when you receive it that your friends, not familiar with the dynamic change that MTVSS and other Access Consciousness^® Body Processes can create, may ask what’s different about you, how much weight you’ve lost, if you got your hair done or had a makeover.

When you receive MTVSS, you do get a makeover—MTVSS gives you a makeover from the inside out; to become the greatness of being you and your body were meant to be.

“What do you do in a 7 day?” is something often asked by participants fresh from the mind and body blowing experience of Levels 2 & 3, the 3-Day Body Class, or an Energetic Synthesis of Being. It seems it can be hard for them to imagine something even greater can be possible.

One of the big differences between the more structured Levels 2 & 3 and the advanced 7-day events is the depth into which Gary is able to go on the topics covered. While the 2 & 3 is a broad sweep of processes and information to change limitations in every area of your life, the extended time of the 7-day makes it possible for him to spend an entire day or even more on a particular topic which limits us. The clarity that can be achieved through Gar
Two 7-Day events are currently in the cards and on the calendar. Celebration of Life and Living is in a new venue near the tourist center of Fortuna in Costa Rica, October 21-29, and next y’s in-depth focus is truly amazing.
One short article cannot possibly convey all the changes that occurred in this most recent 7 Day, but it can give you a sample of the breadth of what is included.April, back at the Chateau Tongariro in New Zealand.

Day 1—

It’s all about family. Gary Douglas can tell the entire family dynamics of the individual sitting in front of him to a phenomenal degree. He ranks up there with Virginia Satir and Milton Erikson, truly one of the greats at untangling the ties that bind.

This is an advanced class. As one participant said, “We’ve all done 2 & 3, we’ve gone through all this relationship stuff. You mean there’s more?”

At this deep level, oh yes! How did we get so lucky?

Day 2—

The idea of being crazy or stupid is starting to lose its charge. The title of the class was From Crazy Stupid to Crazy Possible…which may have contributed to the class’s being smaller than the venue could accommodate. Gary noticed people’s faces twitching when the clearing statement was read about crazy or stupid, even when the people themselves did not know they were reacting. By morning of the second day, that’s begun to change. What else is possible?

Day 3—

Fabulous morning with hours of question, discussion, and clearing about what boldness and aggression is required to create your life.

In the afternoon the conversation veered into money, as well as looking at how the fixed points of view of others can override our projects, and how to deal with that in family and business situations.

Day 4—

Quote for the day: “Your points of view do not create your reality, your questions do.”

Day 5–

Today we got an amazing demonstration of how someone with a fixed point of view can actually stop the progress of someone else, even when that other person is more interested in consciousness and more powerful to boot. Even more valuable, we got some tools about how to get around this kind of situation. One such situation about which a question was asked actually turned 180 degrees while the 7-day itself was occurred. How does it get more magical than that?

Day 6—

Finally we got to peek beyond what’s crazy stupid into what’s crazy possible. This took the form of some of the most in-depth and eye-opening information on handling business conflicts, including how changing a business email by one word can create dramatic results.

Creating what’s so possible for you that it seems crazy to this reality includes aggressively pursuing what you want in your life. “You’ve got to look at what’s going to create the result. When you’re aggressively needless, you don’t need anyone or anything to get what you want. You’ve got to be willing without force to force people into choosing.”

Some of the amazing creators that were present revealed how to create a marketing team you don’t have to pay.

Gary was willing to double the cost of a huge project and the time it required….being aggressively needless makes you not become a slave to the money.

Gary revealed that he starts each day with, “What do I need to accomplish? What can I do or be today that would create what I would like even if I don’t know what it is?”

Day 7—

Amazing changes occurred throughout the world as we wrestled with what’s kept us from being as conscious as we could be. One woman who came to terms with her husband developing Alzheimer’s noticed a huge change in his being present with her when she spoke with him by phone. Another seemingly unchangeable business situation half a world away shifted by the person asking questions about it changing—without even speaking to anyone involved. What other magic is possible?

The hotel threw a party for us that was truly a beyond, complete with ice sculptures, raw oysters, a dozen cooked dishes as well as a spread of all kinds of salmon, sushi, prawns, and desserts. There was so much food that you couldn’t even take a bite of each without being way too full—and that was without the dessert. Wow!

As always with the 7-Day events, the most amazing part of all is what happens afterwards in the lives of those lucky enough to have attended. Changes large and small that we never imagined were possible seem to happen with ease and magic.

Which 7-Day would you like to attend? What would it take?

Please Note: Attending a 7-day class is by invitation only and there are pre-requisites required prior to invitation.

Do you wake up in the morning feeling like something the cat dragged in?

Have you ever considered there might be another possibility?

What might happen if you started your day with a question?  No, “How much do I have to do today?” might not be your best choice.

First of all, does that dragged-through-the-mud feeling actually belong to you?  There’s an easy way to find out.  You could ask, “Who does this belong to?”  If you feel lighter in your body or in the space around your body when you ask that question, you’re acting like the neighborhood garbage collector and taking on garbage that isn’t even yours, but acting like it is.  What if you were to ask all of those feelings to return to sender?

Now that your head is a bit clearer, you could ask an even more creative question, such as, “Who am I and what grand and glorious adventures await me today?”  Wouldn’t that make your life more fun than your usual contemplation of the to-do list that’s a never-ending story?  Who knows, it could even turn your life into an adventure!  How much fun could that be?

You can invite that adventure to keep improving by asking another question for everything that happens:  “How does it get even better than this?”  This is a multi-purpose question.  Of course, if something you don’t like shows up, you would love to transform it into something better, right?  But if something you DO like shows up, do you want it to stop, or would you like it to show up with an ever-improving array of friends?  What would happen if you applied this to the money you received during the day?

When the cool stuff shows up, there are several other questions you can ask.  “How did I get so lucky?” invites you to look at how YOU created that cool stuff.

There’s another question you can use for those less desirable events.   “That question is, ‘What’s right about this I’m not getting?’ Instead of wondering what’s wrong with you that the garbage is showing up, you could turn things 180 degrees and ask, “What’s right about this I’m not getting?”

In case you’re tempted to go somewhere else, like to “What’s wrong with me?” you could recognize that is NOT your best question!  In fact, “What’s wrong with me?” is not even a question—it’s a statement and a judgment (there’s something wrong with me) with a question mark attached to the end.  Questions that are truly questions, that don’t have judgments, decisions, or conclusions underneath them, actually work much better than statements masquerading as questions.

Another question that can turn around undesirable situations as well as make the good ones even greater is this:  “What else is possible?”

And just for grins, whether things are going well or not, you could remind yourself that you’re not wrong by asking, “What’s right about me that I’m not getting?”

If you find yourself creating more of those unwanted events than you’d like to admit, you may be functioning as an “OCCC,” or what Access Consciousness^® founder and best-selling author Gary Douglas calls an “obsessive-compulsive creator of crap.”  The most creative people in the world—which most likely includes you if you’re still reading this article—HAVE to create.  If they (you!) don’t have enough going on, you will tend to create trauma and drama and problems to solve.  Another choice that’s not your best.

What’s the alternative?  You could ask, “What can I add to my life today that will make me lots of money now and in the future?”

Are you tired of questions yet?  There is one great Access Consciousness^® tool that is not a question.  It’s the mantra:  “All of life comes to me with ease and joy and glory^® .”  Saying this 10 times in the morning and 10 times at night will change your life, even if you don’t change anything else.  It will not guarantee that only “good” things will happen to you—no one or no thing can do that.  How would you like the less than good things to show up—with ease and joy and glory, or would you prefer pain, suffering and gory?

“All of life comes to me with ease and joy and glory^® ” is not an affirmation, either.  Do affirmations work?  Have you noticed that they tend to have judgment in them? Did you know that very judgment guarantees that exactly the opposite of what you’re asking for has to show up?  That’s the difference with the Access mantra—it invites everything to show up with ease and without judgment.  How does it get even better than that?

Gary Shares New Info on Fame That Could Bring the Success You’ve Been Looking for.

What does fame and fortune mean to you?  Does it bring up visions of being hounded by paparazzi to within an inch of your life?  Have you considered that this point of view might be limiting your success in any area of your life where you’ve been asking for and desiring it?

Gary Douglas, founder of Access Consciousness^® and best-selling author, revealed this previously obscure connection to participants at the recent Levels 2 & 3 in Copenhagen.

What is fame, anyway?  Douglas defines it as “doing, being, or creating something that exists long after you no longer occupy this body.”  Fame and abundance are natural accompaniments to having the potency that many who wish to change the world seek.

Douglas has discovered that many seeking awareness, through Access Consciousness^®, are more willing to have that potency than they are to have the fame and fortune that should accompany it.

When he introduced the subject in class and asked what mis-identifications and mis-applications the class had about what fame was, the energy that came up nearly knocked him out of his chair.

You do have to be controversial to have fame and fortune.  “Only if you do something against what others consider the status quo will you achieve fame and fortune,” he says.

Being hounded by paparazzi is not an inevitable result of fame, though that was what came up for many in the class.  Douglas cited Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams and others as examples of famous people who can walk down the street unaccosted.

The assault-by-the-press version of fame is a creation of those who simultaneously desire fame while also refusing it.  It’s a “look at me, look at me, look at me, don’t look at me!” energy.  It’s the push-pull that creates the undesirable effects of fame that many in the class thought had to accompany fame.

Others have been killed for fame, in this lifetime or others—including most of those in the class. Being killed for your points of view does not have to accompany fame, either, Douglas points out.  If you follow the Access recommendation of speaking only what people can hear, to people who can hear it, rather than forcing “your truth” on others who cannot hear it, persecution does not occur.

Why do people who desire success avoid fame?  The number one reason is their unwillingness to receive others’ judgment.  Receiving judgment means only that you acknowledge it as the judgment it is as it passes through your energy field, nothing more than that, but most people are not willing to receive judgment.  This alone costs them a lot of fortune, as every judgment you refuse to receive costs you $10,000 a year, says Douglas, whereas everyone you receive brings you an additional $5000 in income.

What’s the purpose of a judgment? Douglas asks.  “It’s for you to look at you and see the wrongness of you.  That’s the only purpose of a judgment.  Judgment is to keep you from seeing the gift you are.”  He acknowledges, “that’s not an easy place to go. I’ve seen people take 5 years or more before they’re willing to step into it.”

To be famous, as well as a success, “you have to get to the place where you have the courage to actually be you no matter what anybody else thinks, when you know what you’re doing is working and you want to keep it.”  Until you get to that place, he notes, you’ll always be hiding some part of you.

Another reason we resist fame is “we don’t want to know what we actually know about us.  I guarantee every one of you has had at least 25 lifetimes in which you were famous and life changing for other people.  You don’t want to see that because it would make the limited life you’re currently living look ridiculous.”
Others resist fame because they’re not willing to have everything get out of control.  If that’s your fear, you might ask yourself, “Is it really fear or is it excitement?”

Some people won’t start creating what they say they’d like in their lives, because if they don’t start, they can’t fail. Douglas is a bit different.  “I’ll start, and if I fail, I go in a different direction and start again.  Starting is fun!”

Yet the willingness to be famous is required for us to have everything we’ve been asking for in life.  “If you’re willing to have fame or fortune you’ll be willing to have or do or be anything to get what works for you.  It’s pragmatic.”

If you’re willing to consider becoming famous and successful, you could ask yourself what you’re unwilling to be famous for.  Most likely that’s a point of view from some other lifetime.  “The only reason you’re not having fame and fortune is that you have all these points of view about what you can’t have based on an energy that you have no memory of or idea of what it is.  It’s something you have concluded or decided was so in some other lifetime.”

If you ask yourself, “What are you unwilling to be famous for?” it could bring up an energy in your body.  That energy has different meanings, depending on where you feel it.

If asking the question brings up an energy in the solar plexus, that’s an indication that you may not be willing to be famous for being as powerful as you are.  If the energy is a little lower, it can mean you’re not willing to be famous enough to do more than survive.  If the energy is in the crotch, it can mean you’re not willing to be famous for anything other than a sexual concubine.  Energy in the throat can indicate you’re not willing to be famous for what you say, as it could get you hung or beheaded.  If it brings up energy in the kidneys, it can mean you’re not willing to know you can stab anybody in the back and still get what you want.

Whatever comes up when you ask yourself that question, remind yourself it’s just a point of view and destroy and uncreate it, accompanied by the Access Consciousness^® clearing statement if you like.

Another reason to go for the fame and fortune is that you may require it to have the life you came here to have.  “You’ve got to go after what’s not enough for you,” says Douglas.  “You’ve got to go after life and living until you get to the point where you’re happy enough and where it’s enough for you.  If it’s not enough, keep on going.”

“That’s the difference between someone who creates and generates a life and someone who doesn’t.  The difference between success and failure is your opinion of yourself.”

If being famous would mean having everything you’ve been asking for your whole life and you still had the freedom to walk down the street, would you have it?  Then get to work!

One of the reasons you can’t ever repeat an Access Consciousness^® class is that every one is different.  If each clearing statement we do changes 350,000 other people for each person in the room, then everything is constantly changing,” says Douglas.  “How could any class be like the one before, even if the one before was last week?” (as was the case with this Copenhagen class).

Some of the concepts discussed above are introduced in the beginning Core Classes, such as Foundation and Level 1, whereas others are discussed when the energy demands.  There’s always something new to learn at every Access Consciousness^® class!

Have you been relying on your feelings to guide you through life?  They’ll take you onto the roller coaster for sure, but have you ever noticed there’s always another down after that up, and all the unexpected turns are not necessarily enjoyable?  What if there was another way to live?

There is!  Access Consciousness^® looks at you as if you are an infinite being, one who should primarily experience joy, bliss and ecstasy.  If that does not sound like your life right now, you might read on and see how you could change it by looking at your feelings differently.  Why are your feelings not necessarily your friends?

1.The majority of them aren’t yours in the first place. Access Consciousness^® founder and best selling author Gary Douglas tells the participants of his classes that at least 98% of their thoughts, feelings, and emotions don’t belong to them.  “You’re a bunch of Sponge Bobs and Sponge Bobettes,” he says, “picking up the feelings of others as if they’re yours.  They’re not!”

That doesn’t stop us from letting them run our lives, however.  How smart is that, to let the thoughts feelings and emotions of others determine our choices and our lives?

How do you know if a feeling or emotion is yours or not?  It’s quite simple.  Ask “Who does this belong to?”  If you feel lighter, or the space around your body seems to expand when you ask the question, it’s not yours.  No matter how intense the feeling is, no matter how much the emotion feels like yours, if it gets lighter when you ask the question—it isn’t yours!

Even if it’s a problem—try as you may, you won’t be able to solve it when it’s not yours in the first place.  Only the creator of it can truly solve it.  So if it gets light when you ask the question, return that feeling to its sender.

Even if you find the feeling or emotion returning, that also doesn’t mean it’s yours.  It indicates you’ve bought it. You decided it was yours.  If it got light when you asked the question, however, it’s not yours, no matter what.  So return it to sender so they can learn what they need to learn from it.  You’re actually doing them a favor.

2. Your feelings could be a nasty animal referred to as a “distractor implant.” A distractor implant is like a dog chasing its tail—there’s a lot of activity, but the tail is never caught and nothing worthwhile can occur. The whole purpose of a distractor implant is to distract you from the infinite being you really are by keeping you stuck in trying to solve the unsolvable.

How do you know if your feeling or emotion is a distractor implant?  Here’s the list:  anger, rage, fury, hate; blame, shame, regret, guilt; obsessive, compulsive, addictive, perverted points of view (any emotions you return to again and again); fear, doubt and jealousy.  If you’re feeling any of those, you’re stuck in a distractor implant.  What do you do with them?  They are NEVER the issue, no matter how real and important they seem.  Destroy and uncreate all the secret stuff underneath them.  Or even simpler, Douglas says, when he finds himself in one, he just says, “I’m in a distractor implant, never mind!” and moves on.

The only exception to being a distractor implant is when the feeling is anger.  An infinite being may experience anger when someone is lying to them.  If you experience anger, you can ask, “Is this a distractor implant, or is there a lie here?”  Whichever feels lighter is what’s true.

If it’s a lie, then ask, “Where is the lie here, spoken or unspoken?”  Lies are more often unspoken. You do not have to confront someone who is lying.  They are often lying to themselves as well as to you.  But if you observe that someone you associate with is lying, you can be aware that they lie and be very aware of what you believe from them in the future.

One way to find out if someone’s telling you the truth is to think “truth!” before you ask him or her a question.  If you do, they will either tell you the truth whether they intended to or not, or you’ll be quite clear that they’re lying, and so will everyone else in the room.

3. You may have confused feeling with sensing.  What if you were much more aware and much more psychic than you have ever acknowledged?  Chances are good that you are.

Unfortunately, in English, when we are aware of something or perceive it, we tend to say, “I feel thus and so.”  That actually acts like a command to our body: feel nauseous, feel upset, feel tired or sick.  Our body thinks we’re asking it to develop those sensations, so that is what gets created.  Our bodies want to help and support us, but we make it difficult when we stick our bodies with other people’s garbage!

What’s the way out of this?  When you have a “feeling,” ask, “What awareness am I having that I’m not acknowledging?” or “What am I perceiving?”

One woman walked into an Access Consciousness^® class and found herself “feeling nauseous,” so much so that she had to go outside for fresh air.  That class was being held in a meeting room where a wedding had been held the night before.  No one ever drinks too much at a wedding reception, right?  And the bride is never pregnant with morning sickness! Yet by saying “I feel nauseous” the woman actually made herself feel physically sick.  She could have asked, “Who does this belong to?” or “What am I perceiving here that I’m not acknowledging?” and her body would not have been stuck with those feelings.

4. Thoughts, feelings, emotions, and sex or no-sex are the lower harmonic of what you as an infinite being should be and do.  Thoughts are the lower harmonic of knowing, feelings are the lower harmonic of perceiving, emotions are the lower harmonic of being, and sex/no-sex are the lower harmonic of receiving.  All of these lock you into this reality and all the limitations it imposes on you as an infinite being.  Is that really your best choice?

When you find yourself having thoughts feelings and emotions, you could ask, “Would an infinite being really choose this?”  If they wouldn’t, why are you?  The answer to this question is most often that it creates your life as the disaster you’re used to, or that it proves that you really are a victim.  Is that really what you wish to create?

5. Depending on feelings makes you dependent on input from outside of yourself.

During the recent class “Being You With Your Body” in Amsterdam, Dr. Dain Heer discovered that by depending on your feelings you keep yourself dependent on input from outside of you.  This applies even to input that makes you feel joyful and expanded.  “Feeling keeps you always looking ‘out there’ to feel it,” Heer observed.  “If you’re willing to be the space that you are without feeling it, then you can just be it” without requiring input from outside of you.

How much joy and being is there in the input from the world outside of you, anyway?  What if you could just be as an infinite being, without having to have input from outside, or having to do anything?  Wouldn’t that be easier and much more fun?

It could just blast you off the roller coaster into being the fun and expansiveness of being space.

The information in this article and many many more tools designed to make your life easier and more fun are included in all of the Access Consciousness^® core classes, offered all over the world.  Classes near you can be found on the accessconsciousness.com website by searching for a class by country.

Do you know you live with someone who’s an addict, but feel at a loss about how to deal with them?  Have you tried conventional approaches but can’t make them work for you?

Marilyn Bradford, a licensed Access Consciousness^® facilitator with decades of experience in working with addictions in her social work practice in Austin, TX, has some tips for you.  She has identified how people living around an addict are likely to feel, as well as some observations about “what works and what doesn’t” that could bring some ease to your life.

If you are around an addict, you are likely to feel and act in the following ways:

Questioning what you know to be true

1. Agreeing to and with things you wouldn’t normally agree to
2. Helping others out of jams or difficulties they have clearly created for themselves.  This can extend to lying for them or doing other behaviors you would not normally engage in.
3. Sensing that you don’t matter, no matter what comes out of their mouth
4. Tolerating abuse
5. Putting up with emergencies as if that were normal.  You find yourself dropping everything to help them, or being criticized for not doing so.
6. Sacrificing yourself, sometimes to the extreme, such as mortgaging your house for bail money, for example.
7. Being the responsible one for you AND the addict; handling all the responsibility for both of you.
8. A general sense that everything about the situation is crazy, but you can’t put your finger on what it is exactly, and it’s all your fault anyway

If these behaviors feel familiar to you, chances are good you’re dealing with an addict.  Is there anyone reading this that hasn’t dealt with someone who evokes these feelings at some point in their life?  Here’s how Bradford recommends you deal with the situation.

1. “Remember, people CHOOSE addiction,” she says.  “It is not something that ‘happens’ to them.”

Addiction is generally the result of the “culmination of choices that began in childhood, often the result of misinformation and misinterpretation of events, resulting in a place which seems to offer no choice.”

“Despite what you may have heard,” Bradford says, “addiction is not a permanent state.”  However, ending it can only come from a choice of the addicted person.  “Because addiction is the result of an individual’s choices, they must choose to being the process to let it go.  They must be the ones to choose to take action.”

2. Never try to fix, rescue, change or cure someone who is choosing an addiction.

“It is their choice, it is their life, and you will lose YOU if you attempt to get them to change.  Not only that, but you will fail miserably and then probably blame yourself.”

What can you do?  “You can offer to get them to someone who can help them if that is something they desire.  If they don’t take you up on the offer after a time or two, quit.  It’s up to them,” says Bradford.

3. Recognize that you don’t owe it to them to have them around or associate with them.  Although this may difficult, you do have choices.

You can say: “I’m sorry, this doesn’t work for me.  I realize that you don’t think you have a problem and I’m not here to argue with you.  If you continue drinking, putting work first, being judgmental, then we cannot be together. It just doesn’t work for me.”

Difficult as this may be, especially if it’s a spouse, Bradford reminds you,
“This is taking care of you.”

She tells the story of a friend whose adult son was an obnoxious drunk.  The friend told his son he was no longer welcome to visit him when he was drunk.  The son was angry, but he complied and the father no longer had to put up with the son insulting everyone around him because he was drunk.

4. Never try to use logic with someone who is choosing addiction.  “They aren’t interested, they won’t hear you, and you will end up feeling crazy,” says Bradford.

“They may have 8 DUIs, or have lost their job, or have been neglectful/abusive to friends and family, but they will always have a reason and justification for it.

“Being reasonable and realistic is not something an addict can even comprehend.  Not only that, but the more you point things out to them, the more they will resent you.

5. Make a demand of yourself that you become the creator of your life, not the effect of others.  Many people who have grown up with a parent who is an addict feel that they are always at the effect of others.  This is true whether the parent’s addiction is something obvious like alcohol or drugs, or whether it’s something less recognized like religion, spending, neatness, sports, or perfectionism.  Being the effect of others creates a sense of waiting to see what happens so you can know what to do and how to react, rather than being the leader of your own life.

6. When you start to feel crazy around an addict, ask yourself:  “Is this my universe or their universe?”

“It’s easy to get sucked down the rabbit hole!” observes Bradford.

7. Go with the energy of what the addict is saying—not their words.  If they are telling you that things will change or letting you know how sorry they are, ask yourself if the energy of what they’re saying matches the words.

“It’s also helpful to look at what someone actually does, as opposed to what they say,” Bradford reminds us.

Bradford adds, “Addicts are not bad people, they are people who have chosen a coping skill that is destructive and keeps them separate from themselves and others. The absolute best thing you can do if you have an addict in your life is to be the best you can possibly be!

“Don’t change you for them, don’t allow them to manipulate you, and don’t judge. By being all you can be, you become an example of what else is possible. That may be just the thing the addict needs to begin to question what he/she is doing and to begin to make different choices.”

More information about Bradford’s work is available at www.rightrecoveryforyou.com.  Many of the tools she mentions are covered in the beginning Access Consciousness^® core classes, Bars, Foundation and Level 1.

She also adds that everyone involved in addiction, the addict and those around them, can benefit from having their Bars run. Information about Access Bars^® is available at www.bars.accessconsciousness.com

Access Consciousness^® is full of incredibly brilliant people who are taking their expertise in a multitude of areas, using the Access Consciousness^® tools, and creating new paradigms and approaches that far surpass “the state of the art” in many areas and professions.

One of these is Marilyn Bradford, MSSW, who has decades of experience in working with issues of addiction and recovery.  She added the tools of Access Consciousness^® to her psychotherapy practice in Austin, TX, and has found her results have improved dramatically.  She is co-creator, with Access Founder Gary Douglas, of Right Recovery for You, which uses the Access Consciousness^® tools to put an end to addictions of all kinds.

Access Consciousness^® has a different point of view on just about everything, and addiction and recovery is no exception.

Here is some wisdom from Bradford on what addiction really is, as well as some tips to assist you in dealing with it.

While many people look at the addictive substance—the drugs, the alcohol, the gambling—as the problem, Bradford has a different take on what addiction really is.  “I look at addiction as a place where people can go to disappear,” she says.  “It’s never about what the target of the addiction is, it’s about how the person uses the substance or behavior.”

Addiction, in Bradford’s experience, is “a place where people can get relief from feelings of being overwhelmed, from the pain of judging themselves, from the feelings of not fitting in and of not knowing how to handle the awarenesses they don’t want to have.  This flight from self and awareness is really the core of addiction and is more important than how the addiction shows up.”

The qualities of addiction, according to Bradford, include:

1. A sense that the person is not really present with you.  They always seem a bit distracted, often because they’re thinking about their addiction and when they can justify doing it again.
2. There’s a compulsive, “I-have-no-choice” component to their behavior. Essentially, they have denied who they truly are (infinite being) and have made someone or something outside of themselves more powerful and an absolute necessity in their lives.
3. There is always a reason or justification, no matter how insane, for their behavior.  This looks like, “I drank because,” “I had to work on Christmas because,” “I just criticize you because…”
4. They will always choose their behavior over you.  “Addicts live in their own encapsulated universes.  They have their own reality, their own rules, and you are not actually included.  No one and nothing else actually matters.  You only exist to an addict as an object in their fantasy world.”

The above is “one of the hardest concepts for people to grasp,” Bradford notes. “Addicts can seem like caring people, and they may be if and when they let go of their addiction, but until then, it is them and their drug of choice against the world.”

1. Addicts do not know how to receive, except from their drug of choice.

“I’ve had clients tell me that the only thing that gives them comfort is when they are feeling ‘wrong,’ when they have a cigarette, or when they are spending money.

“When you try to give to an addict, it is either rejected with anger or it is taken in, more is asked for, and no matter what you give it is never enough.”

1. Addicts have a sense or belief that they are inherently wrong.  This may be part of what they’re escaping from.  It may show up as extreme defensiveness or an adamant insistence that they are right.
2. Some lack of social and/or coping skills.  While feeling uncomfortable around other people is not enough to say someone has an addiction, the feeling of not fitting in and their differentness being wrong often fuels that desire to escape.

“Addicts are rarely ‘easy’ in this world.  Spontaneity, real relaxation, joy (not mania) are rarely present for addicts,” Bradford has observed.

Is some of this is starting to look familiar, even though you don’t have a problem with alcohol, drugs, tobacco, or anything else commonly labeled as an addiction?  Awareness is the first step in changing anything, and Access Consciousness^® has lots of tools that can change anything in your life that you’d like to change.

Sometimes the behavior of addiction can be present even without drug or alcohol problems.  If that applies to you, you might consider some addictions Bradford has identified that are often over-looked.  They include perfectionism, being right, being wrong, judgment or criticism, being a victim, being addicted to polarity and to this reality.

How would you identify these less common kinds of addiction?  Bradford has suggestions about what they would look like.  Perfectionism is the addiction to being perfect, which can never be achieved.  You can’t leave for the party because your hair isn’t exactly right, for example, and your hair is never exactly right.

Someone addicted to being right is unable to tolerate criticism of any kind.  Bradford worked with a child who was having trouble in school because she couldn’t tolerate hearing that she was inaccurate about anything.  This creates confusion in those around the person because they are so convincing about being right, that the others begin to doubt themselves.

Someone addicted to being wrong can be frustrating to those around them because nothing you do or say can convince them otherwise.  Nothing you can do or say about anything they’ve accomplished or been has any effect on them.

The addiction to criticism or judgment shows up as the addict only being okay if they are judging someone.  The person they judge can be others, or it can be themselves.  The addiction to judgment shows up both ways.  The insanity in dealing with this kind of addict is that there is nothing you can do to overcome their judgment or criticism because it’s not about what they’re criticizing or judging—it’s about their addiction to the process of judging.

The addiction to being a workaholic often goes unnoticed in our society, where working and making money are valued as a good thing.  If you live with someone who meets the characteristics of addiction as listed above, you might ask yourself if their addiction is to work.

If you find yourself living with any kind of addict, you could also ask yourself if you’re addicted to “helping” others.  Bradford has a caution just for you:  “Remember,” she says, “You are not helping others if you are keeping them from having the consequences of what they have chosen or created.”

The Access Consciousness^® hands-on body process called Access Bars^® can be extremely helpful to both those suffering from addiction and those around them also suffering from the addict’s addiction.

More information about Bradford’s work in facilitating others to recover from addictions, obvious and otherwise, is available at www.marilynbradford.accessconsciousness.com

by Dr. Kacie Crisp

The crash course of all time in creating your life starts this month, and there’s still time for you to join us.  I’m referring, of course, to the Advanced 7 Day class that starts in New Zealand April 20.

(For those of you Americans not familiar with flying down under, they’re a day ahead of us and you ‘lose’ a day in flying.  To arrive on April 19th, you actually have to leave North America on April 17 –  That’s in case some of you are as perpetually perplexed by the international date line as I am!)

In case you have some distractor implants or little demons telling you why you shouldn’t go, here’s some of the voices I heard, and why I chose not to listen to them…

“New Zealand’s never been on my bucket list.”  Mine either!  And that’s even though I know it’s a stunningly beautiful country. (Did you see Lord of the Rings?  It was filmed there.)

We flew through Auckland en route to Brisbane last year and the scenery flying in and out of the capital was breathtaking.  If that’s what the capital looks like, what’s it like when you get out in the countryside?  Wow!

And probably the kicker for me, if you don’t find New Zealand inviting on its own, you could ask yourself, how many lifetimes have you been a Maori?  Wouldn’t you like to clear that?

“New Zealand’s a long way away.”  Don’t have an answer for that one!  At facilitators’ in Rome Gary did say that the 9 trannies are the very tip of the iceberg, the minimal “skill set” (not his words!) we should be functioning from at all times.  What magic could we create to make the trip ease, joy and glory if we were willing?

And for those of you coming from the northern hemisphere, remember the tool of asking your body to reverse the relevant energy flows as you cross the equator.

Drinking lots of water (planes are quite dehydrating), acting like it’s the time it will be when you arrive the minute you get on the plane, and using those “no jet lag” homepathic pills can be helpful as well, I’ve found.

Because New Zealand is a long way away, it invites people from nearer-by Australia to come to this 7-day event. Many of these people don’t necessarily make it all the way to Costa Rica so this could be a possibility for you to interact with the dynamic down under crowd.  Life is different there—what new points of view and possibility can they invite you to?

I’ve attended every single 7-day event in Costa Rica and several in Mission Beach. They are my favorite classes.  They’re where I really “got” Access (after spending two 2 & 3s on the floor with a pillow over my head cause I had a migraine headache).  I know these are the classes of all classes where everything can change and more is possible.

When I heard that this venue is the nicest venue yet—a chateau (that’s French for castle) with nice rooms and great beds, how does it get even better? I knew this was the year!

“I can’t get the time off/money/etc.”  David is the family expert on this one.  But you know what we’ve found?  Every time he delays/shortens/or misses a trip “because of work” the work tends to evaporate anyway!  Or he finds out the job he’s been planning his life around was a nightmare and paid a garbage rate anyway!  And every time we’ve stretched to do a class, we find the money turns up.

And a year from now, will any of that matter?  And a year from now—we’ll still have the change and consciousness that this class will create.

“The title just doesn’t grab me!”  It didn’t grab me, either.  Then Gary said it’s really about how to create our lives.  That was it for me!  What could be more important and valuable for my life than that?

“What’s more important than creating our lives?”  Doesn’t it continue to amaze you that creating our lives and knowing what we’d like our lives to be is the hardest darn thing for humanoids to figure out?  The Access tools are great for this (thank God!).  And wouldn’t you like more?

And you could read the description of the class, which clarifies it. Crazy stupid is what we do when we try to fit into this reality.  Crazy possible is what is possible for us when we step beyond this reality and create our own.  Do you wish to continue to be limited by this reality, or would you like to step beyond it forever?  The choice is yours!

Register now if your choosing it by clicking here.