Be carefull what you wish for… I got it all and then some!

It is a new year, a time for reflection and creating new direction.  How was your 2009? After chewing over this question for a time I decided that I was glad that 2009 happened as long as it never happens again… ever!

Have you ever heard the saying be careful what you wish for? Well that was my 2009, the year of getting what I asked for and then some.

It all started December 2008 when I attended the first SyncCreation Workshop in Utah (traditionally they are done internationally).  Technically it started when I was asked to join the SyncCreation team and met Dr. Joe Gallenberger. From my first exposure with SyncCreation I have been on my seats edge…

… I tend to be a very left brain, facts, tangible, down to earth kind of guy. I have also had many spiritual experiences that defied definition. These spiritual experiences were put in the gray space of my mind under quantum physics (once again a left brain approach to spirituality). I didn’t try to duplicate these experiences and instead, spent more time trying to explain them using the beliefs I had all ready subscribed to.

That is when SyncCreation shook it up. SyncCreation has science backing it up; they use brain patterns and sound frequencies through headphones to create/duplicate intense, deep, stages of meditation. They then use these stages as the platform to manifest from while using the sea of humanity (people, Mentor, community, etc) to aid in the manifestation. They have conducted double blind tests; have a focus on results and have more then 20 years of research backing it up. I was hooked. Here was a window into the spiritual that had been laid out in such a way that it made it through my no Woo Woo filters.

Now before SyncCreation I was no stranger to Manifesting, the Law of Attraction and Psychokinesis. I went to the Great Life Foundation, read the Secret, saw What the Bleep Do We Know and the Matrix, and have spent many a years contemplating the universe. I thought that was a pretty solid foundation to understand the powers that be.

Understanding them, maybe, actually playing with them and using them in my life, not even close.

Okay I know I am getting a little off course. Let’s go back to the workshop in December 2008. It was Wednesday morning and I was in a room with some familiar faces, the people I work with, my wife Mimi, my business partner Justin and his wife Angie and a few other friends and acquaintances.

Then it began, 4 days of meditation, manifestation and awakening to the power that I hold, that we all hold…

…Can you meditate and completely clear your mind (cut out the brain chatter)?

After you cut out the brain chatter can you then expand your mind to receive messages and intuition?

Then, can you create a clear intention and a detailed pattern of it happening in your life all while, acknowledging, understanding and clearing the beliefs, fears, doubts and habits that prohibit it from coming into existence?

I couldn’t even get my mind clear let alone all of the other stuff before SyncCreation and it wasn’t from a lack of trying. But that is exactly what I did in that first workshop. No I didn’t do this with out some speculation. I had my fair share of doubt creep back up as I went away from the weekend. But I also had some solid experiences that I couldn’t deny (there is something about lighting a light bulb with your energy that makes theory reality!!!).

I put my notes, my experiences and my intentions on a shelf. I took them down from time to time to see where they were but it wasn’t until this December that it smacked me in the face. Here it was, exactly one year later and I was swimming in the manifestations of my intention.

I had my dream house, a room I could turn into a recording studio, a man shed, a huge cigar selection and some awesome vacations. It even got to the point were I was manifesting little things on a weekly basis like a new HD computer monitor, a mini fridge, finally figuring out a recording program, clothes, etc.

Yes these are all very material things, but my intention list had a tone of material things on it. But I also got the non material parts of my list, confidence in my business knowledge and skills, knowing what I am exceptional at, connecting with my son through things we both enjoy, connecting with my ancestry, creating new friends that expand my view of the universe and most importantly a beautiful, happy, healthy baby girl!!!

Sounds like a great year right? And it was. But it had a very high price. The universe listened and it came fast and hard. I have been sick more times this year then I have been in the past 8 years. I have had more stress then I can ever remember.  I have had more challenges that pulled at my soul then should happen in a year.

Some might say the adversary stood up to challenge me and/or detour me from creating such a miraculous year. I however, do not believe that is the case. I do not believe there is any force trying to stop my progression. I instead believe that I asked for a ton of things and in order for them all to happen I had to clear out a ton of things to make room (beliefs, doubts, fears, energetic blocks, etc). I spent long hours accomplishing this and it took its toll on my health.  I wanted a deeper connection with my family and ancestors and my grandfather died, not what I had in mind but it did create a deeper connection with my ancestry.

Yes 2009 was an epic year. Yes my list was accomplished both physical and spiritual. I am grateful for 2009 and it’s lessons and the results that I have to show from them. And I go into 2010 having learned that it is a horrible idea to buy a huge house that needs to be rehabilitated from top to bottom, while having a pregnant wife, working on 3 different companies as well as my own and with a whole list of intentions coming into fruition.

Once again, be careful what you wish for. You just might get it… and all at once!

During this recent SyncCreation workshop that happened last week. I decided that this year I am focusing only on a few manifestations; a super human immune system, a very peaceful, calm, complete household, a deeper spiritual and physical connection with my wife, spending time every day with my daughter and son, catching more fish, deepening my connections with my friends and family, making music and providing more value to others and receiving abundance in return.

You might notice there are a lot less material things this year. No it isn’t because I became more enlightened, it is because I got most of my material list done last year. Go ahead manifest the material, get the list of things that you desire in your life. That way you can join me in manifesting some of the finer things in life like health, connections with friends and family and creating art all from the comfort of the material things you have all ready manifested… I will be J

Bring it on 2010… nice and easy.

Quantum Reflection – I am me because of the reflection I see off of you.

Have you ever heard the Theory that ‘we are all one’ ? That we are all connected, I am you and you are me? We are all manifestations of energy and when traced to the root, even on a molecular level, we are all one. If not this post might be a really far stretch but I invite you to come on this journey with me anyway as I, not only delve into a new way of looking at the theory, but also explore it myself.

Now before I go further I want to acknowledge that this article grew from a seed that was planted during a conversation with Cathy Patillo over at the Web of Life Wellness Center. I am sure Cathy’s thoughts grew from other conversations and so on. I do not presume to be the creator of any of this, only and explorer of it.

I am you and you are me… we are all one… right? But, what if I am me because you (all people) exist and you are you because I (all people) exist? If there were no people on this planet would I be me? Maybe my energy would exist but I would not be me. I would have nothing to define myself off of.

I am John Rogers? With out others there would be no need for a name, language, words, etc. I identify myself as smart, tall, clean, business minded, kind, etc, but without someone short I would not be tall, with out dirty I would not be clean. Right, right, right… the whole yin yang thing.

I would like to go one step further, instead of I am me because you exist, what if I am me because of the reflection of myself I see off of you. I am me because of the reflection I see off of you.

Have you every heard the “we are the creators of our universe” theory? That life is a sea of perceptions and we create our reality, our universe, by the perceptions we subscribe to? That being said, I don’t see myself through your eyes, I do not exist because of the way you see me.

You do not need to acknowledge my existence to exist. I acknowledge me off of you, to exist. I know it sounds like word games but bear with me. I am me because of the reflection I see off of you, I define myself through what I think you see. I read to my son not so that he thinks I am a good dad but so I think he thinks I am a good dad.

How many times have we thought we were a good friend, or employee only to find out for months that we pissed of our friend or boss? Many times my definition of my self, for example, as your friend is not what you see. But still in my universe I am your friend.

Now have you heard that the smallest particle in a cell is energy, it is a vibration and that by even looking at it with different intentions we can affect what we see? The example has been given that as I type with my arms on this table, I am not actually connecting, that the energies are just pushing off of each other.

What if that is what we are doing as people as our definitions of our self act as that energetic buffer. As I define myself off of what I think you see me as and you define yourself as what you think I see you as, never knowing what the other person really sees, never truly connecting universes, only our version of their universe.

Right some might say I do not define myself off of others but even that is a definition that took others to create. Some might also say that we can put down our definitions and truly connect energetically. Great, maybe so; or maybe we are just deeply connecting with the part of us we see in our reflection off of them.

Maybe we are just connecting with the part of us we see in our reflection off of them. If we are like the connection between my arms and this table, never truly connecting, maybe I am not really getting to know you better; I am getting to know me better. As I open up and see the strong, kind person you are I am really seeing me. As I open up to see more of you I am really opening up to see more of me.

Here is what I mean. After discussing parts of this with Cathy, I was driving down the road. I was at a light when I saw a gorgeous tall blond walking the crosswalk in front of me. I did what I normally do, notice and then have scripts come up like; “dang she is hot, I should look away” and even going right into the ways I define myself as a happily married man who loves his wife.

This usually happens in split seconds (yes some of us men are well trained). However, this time, with this concept fresh on my mind I found myself thinking that I was not seeing her. I was seeing my reflection off of her. Immediately my energy on the situation disappeared (some might say that the part of me I define as my libido got benched) and I saw as clear as day.

I saw my definition as a fit person, as a tall person, as a person that maintains themselves, someone who manages their appearance, etc.  I saw all the parts of me that I was reflecting off her.

As I drove down the street I passed a short, overweight, elderly, gentlemen and again I saw my definitions reflecting. I saw my fear of being over weight. I saw my fear of being immobile.

These same people could conjure up millions of different, possible, reflections for the people that come across them.

Once again, I was seeing myself. I was looking at them and validating my existence! As I drove down the road I found that, in light speed, every where I looked I was validating; that I was indeed alive.

Now one step further. If we are the creators of our universe by the perceptions we subscribe to. What if we all conjured up this life, this world, each other, to validate our existence? What if we, as nothingness, wanted to exist so bad that we created an environment, with mirrors and reflections, to validate that we are indeed in existence?

What if this table is solid not because I haven’t reached the level, mentally/spiritually, that would enable me to pass through it but because if I passed through this table, it would invalidate my existence. This table is solid, I am solid, this table exists, I exist…

We could have even created death to fill our need to define life. If I die, I lived.

The world has exponentially become more complex. As each year passes we have even more ways to define ourselves. Instead of being a farmer or a baker.  I am a computer geek, business consultant, blogger, straight, drinker, anarchist, U of U fan, snowboarder, Lyricist etc… Most of these didn’t even exist 50 years ago!

No conspiracy driving this ship out of control, only our hunger to define our selves?

What if our need to exist is the only thing keeping this together?

Okay, bringing it back a bit, how does this apply to my life? I believe in the power of being neutral. Being neutral allows me to come from a space of choice rather then reacting. When I saw that woman walk in front of my car I reacted. Seeing the definitions of myself allowed me to choose. It allowed me to understand my choices. It allowed me to get to know more about myself, how I define myself and what I was creating.

What if our leaders did this?

What if, when faced with confrontation we noticed our definitions. Especially the definitions we are holding onto tightly! Or as we reach for what we want, the new client or great relationship, instead of the anxiety of how they might view us, noticing that it is actually our view ourselves that is scaring us. Then instead of reacting, explore these views and why they are there.

I see this as a way to practice the conscious creation of my universe and understanding the universe I have all ready created.

What do you define yourself as and who are you defining it off of?

p.s. I know I refer to a lot of different theories with out a reference. I don’t have the time (right now) to find them and link to them. If you read this and know where I might find the a reference then please post it in the comments below. Thanks!  definition