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Thought-forms & Affirmations:

What we think and say is manifested in our environment and our bodies

My thought-form theories of co-creation & illness are based loosely on Huna. I will eventually post more articles on Huna. If you are interested, read The Secret Science Behind Miracles by Max Freedom Long.

Basically, thoughts are real and have weight. Spoken words have even more weight, and words spoken with intent have still more weight. Actions are the weightiest of all. This is the “science” behind affirmations. Thinking them versus saying them versus saying them with intent. Why don’t they always work? Because your mouth is saying them, but your brain is thinking, ‘What a load of malarkey.”

Imagine that every thought is a small soap bubble. Eventually, a soap bubble pops and is gone--same thing with a thought. A thought that is not repeated “pops” and goes away. We have hundreds of thousands of thoughts every day; many of them are fleeting and thus dissipate quickly. Others are “repeat” thoughts that we have often. Some are expectations: traffic will be bad on the way to work, the line will be long at the donut shop, etc. (Notice that most expectations are for “bad” things. Many people believe that if they only think of bad things they’ll never be disappointed. Well, they’re right!)

Then there are the thoughts that run all the time in the backs of our minds. Again, many of them are bad; these are the thoughts we beat ourselves up with. “I’m fat/stupid/a failure.”

Honestly, how many of you walk around all day thinking about how great you are, how you’re going to get a prime parking spot, and how great your lunch is going to taste? You’re laughing at me. I can hear you.

Think of the Saturday Night Live character, Stuart Smalley, sitting in front of his mirror saying, “I’m smart enough, I’m good enough, and gosh-darn it, people like me!” I used to think he was ridiculous. Now I know that he’s absolutely correct, and when I see an SNL re-run with him in it, I don’t laugh at him anymore. If you need some encouragement to feel like Stuart, visit this site

What we think and say is manifested in our environment and our bodies.

If that’s true, and I believe it is, than Stuart isn’t so silly anymore, is he? The example I use with my classes is that of an insecure girl who thinks her boyfriend’s cheating on her. Most people have been on one side of this fence or another and can relate to the example. Let’s call our girl Sally and her boyfriend Ed (because I know no one with those names). One day, for whatever reason, Ed doesn’t return one of Sally’s calls. She thinks, I wonder where he is/I wonder what happened?

The next time she speaks to him, she could simply ask “Hey why didn’t you call me back the other day?” or just think nothing of it, assume he was busy or the message got erased or whatever. However, Sally is a bit insecure, and her next thought is, I hope he’s not with another girl. Above her head is a little “soap bubble” thought called “another girl.”

The next day, she calls her best friend and says, “Ed didn’t call me back last night, I’m worried that he’s

cheating on me.” Another bubble appears, attached to the first one: Cheating on me. Now Sally and her best friend are involved in drama, which is so very….dramatic. Lots of emotion and excitement. The conversation continues and more bubbles get added. The original bubble of Another Girl is strengthened and grows larger. None of these bubbles are grounded in reality.

We all know how hard it is NOT to think of something. Don’t think of pink elephants or green sheep. Think of anything else. Now those thoughts have been spoken aloud to Sally’s friend. The bubbles (which are thought-forms) have formed above Sally’s head. They are etheric, but they are also influencing her.

Finally Sally sees Ed again. She is worried and neurotic by this point (even if it’s only been two days). Maybe she goes overboard on her

make-up or outfit. Ed, who by the way is NOT cheating on her, thinks what’s up with her hair/ clothes /make-up tonight and later on, thinks, why is she so clingy? Now Ed has a pair of thought forms. By the end of the evening, their ethereal space is filled with thought-forms.

The forms over their heads are linked, since the formation of the original thought form “Another Girl” snowballed to create the other forms, which in turn created the ACTIONS that Ed interpreted as clingy behavior and bizarre dressing habits. You can see how big and globular the form over Sally’s head is.

Over the next few days, Sally’s worries increase. She indulges in drama with her best friend. She calls Ed and asks if he loves her. She freaks out if he’s not there when she calls. The thought-forms increase on both

sides of the relationship. They get stronger, larger, and heavier as they are fed with more drama and emotion from Sally.

Eventually the thought-forms reach critical mass. They are too large/heavy to stay in the ethereal plane anymore. They fall into the physical plane. What do you think happens when they hit the physical plane?

Ed cheats on her, or leaves her for another girl. Her suspicious thoughts with no basis in fact have influenced her behavior to such a point that she causes the very thing she was afraid of. Ed feels completely justified, since Sally’s been acting funny and he’s no longer happy with her.

Now we can get into an off-topic discussion on conditional versus unconditional love here and how Ed should have been a more caring boyfriend and Sally not such a dramatic nutcase but THIS IS FICTION. I am simply illustrating a point that I think most people can relate to. This is a clear example of cause-and-effect.

However, it could have gone a different way. Instead of manifesting as Ed cheating on Sally, it could have manifested as an illness (dis-ease) in Sally’s physical body. Or, her constant worries about being fat could have attracted extra pounds to her body.

Thought-forms are the basis behind what’s been called “a self-fulfilling prophecy.” If everyone around you has the same thought about you, it sticks to you like glue. It’s up to YOU to change your thinking to overcome that. (Those sticky threads are a form of karma.) If everyone around you says, “he comes from a bad family, he’ll never amount to anything,” you have to have strong thoughts, words, intent and action to overcome that. If you just feel that they’re right, then they are. If you say and think “I am a success” and act as if you were already a success, you can overcome other’s bad thoughts. Best of all is to remove yourself from the area of those negative people. Their thoughts can still stick to you from a distance, but if you aren’t around to trigger their thoughts, they’ll stop thinking about you. Thought-forms that are not fed atrophy and die. And what feeds a thought-form? Thoughts, of course.

Here’s a parable that I believe is about thought-forms. Please don’t ask me where I first heard it/read it because I don’t remember. If you know the source, let me know.

Two monks are walking down a trail, an older monk and a young, new monk. The order the monks belong to forbids them from any association with women. They cannot speak to, touch, or even look at women. The men come to a flooded river and find a woman on the bank who is unable to cross. Seeing her plight, the older monk, without speaking, picks up the woman and carries her across the river. He puts her down and the two monks continue their journey. At the end of that day’s journey, the young monk turns to the older monk and says with anger, “you know our order forbids contact with women, yet you carried that woman across the river!” The older monk says “our order does not forbid compassion, and besides, I put her down a long time ago.”

I could not understand that parable for a long time. I will tell you what I think it means now, go ahead and with what you think about it. The older monk felt that helping a human in need was more important than the vows of his order. He simply helped her and did not dwell on that fact that she was a woman. The other monk held inside his anger and bewilderment. Although he did not touch the woman or interact with her in any way, he was more damaged by the encounter than the older, wiser monk. The younger man had created a pack of thought-forms regarding the woman and the experience, which moved into the physical, causing his angry outburst at his superior.

The correct way to “pray” or, how to harness your thought-forms

As you can see, thought-forms are powerful. We all have thoughts, we all have thought-forms. If you have an ugly or negative thought, simply try not to repeat it. Follow up any thoughts which upset you with an affirmation similar to “it’s ok for me to have a upsetting thought as long as I don’t dwell on it” and then think a better thought. If you swear at someone who cut you off in traffic, let it go. Don’t tell everyone you meet for the rest of the day what a jerk this person was; you are just feeding that thought form and causing more people to cut you off in traffic. If you can, try something like you “You jerk, you almost hit me…obviously you’re in a hurry. I hope you get where you’re going safely.” And drive on serenely. It’s possible that the person honestly didn’t see you. It’s also possible that YOU have unknowingly cut people off and been a jerk to them!

The best thoughts, or affirmations, have five key parts.

They express gratitude.
They have some form of I AM in them.
They are phrased positively.
They are backed up by actions.
They are said with intent.

Here are a few affirmations I have around me:

I AM grateful for the material abundance and prosperity which flows through me. And so it is.
I AM grateful to be healthy, sleek and strong. And so it is.
I AM grateful to work in my passion. And so it is.

No matter what energy you put out to the universe, the answer is always “and so it is.” I add that to the end of my affirmations like an “amen” at the end of a prayer. (Quick aside on prayers: most people were taught to pray according to this formula: “God, I am not worthy of your attention. But if you are listening, please [do this thing] for me. If you do I will [do that thing] for you.” If you are so unworthy, God’s not listening to you. If He is, He’s not going to do anything for you. Especially not for whatever “favor” you think to grant Him, since you’re so unworthy what can you possibly offer that God would care about?)

How do I back up my affirmations? I don’t hoard my money. If I place myself into the flow of abundance and receive material gain from it, if I store that material gain in a bank or in a jar in the back yard, the abundance STOPS. As I write this, the economy is lousy and I’m technically unemployed. My spending is curtailed, but not completely. If I don’t spend any money, the companies I would have spend money at go out of business or downsize. Thus more people are out of work, and if they hoard their money, it becomes a vicious cycle.

I back up my second affirmation by exercising. Some people are perhaps naturally “healthy, sleek and strong,” but I need my Bowflex. Purchasing my Bowflex was part of affirmation one (and it happened when I had a job). As far as working in my passion, in my way of thinking, unemployment paid me to stay home and work on my website, update my class manuals, design new classes, re-write Jaguar Nights and think about my Cthulhu Mythos novel.

Affirmations must be positive and should not contain words such as “want” or “need”. “My boyfriend is not cheating on me” to the universe is “my boyfriend is cheating on me” because all negatives are stripped out. The answer, as we saw above, is “and so it is” and was illustrated by Sally’s story. Better to say, “I am secure and confident in my relationships.” Add an “I am grateful that…” to the beginning, even better.

Using the term want or need also doesn’t work. To say “I want $50 million dollars” or “I need $50 million dollars” causes you to forever want and need the money, not to receive it!

Affirmations should use the phrase “I AM” because those are the most powerful words you can say. Everything after “I am” is an affirmation. How often do you use “I am/I’m” every day, and how often is what follows it negative? I’m tired. I’m sad. I’m angry. I’m sick. And so it is. Many people have a little voice in their heads which beats them up all day with negative I am thoughts. Most of them don’t get verbalized but they are there nonetheless. I’m stupid, I’m lazy, I’m fat, I’m incompetent, I’m a bad mother, I’m slow, I’m clumsy. Compliment some people today and see how many of them respond with an automatic, negative, “I am” statement, which implies that those thoughts are constantly in that person’s head. Think about yourself. If someone says you’re pretty, do you smile and say thank you or do you instantly put yourself down: “pretty? Me? Are you blind? I’m fat.”

Less powerful than “I Am” is “I have”. I personally don’t work much with “I have;” that doesn’t make it bad. I just like “I Am” better. “I am grateful to have material abundance,” “I am grateful to have a beautiful home.”

There are two schools of thought about asking for specific items. Some believe that you should detail EXACTLY what you want and leave nothing out. A friend of mine tells two stories to illustrate this. One, she described her dream man and put energy toward finding him. She did…and she’d forgotten to specify that he be faithful. The second is that she was looking for an apartment. She found her dream apartment, but it had no shower because that wasn’t on her list.

I have a parable to illustrate the other option, of letting the gods send what’s best. Again, don’t remember the source so feel free to enlighten me.

A tinker’s horse died. He didn’t make a very good living, so he had to pull his cart himself. Every day, he pulled his cart by a pasture where lived an old mule no one cared about. The tinker prayed, “Please, god, just give me that old mule to pull my cart.” God heard his prayer and said to one of his angels, “I had a nice, strong, young horse picked out for him, but if he only wants that old mule, make it so.”

So what do you do? I can’t tell you. I can see the wisdom of both ways. Many will say to ask for everything for the highest good of all. If I ask the gods for a job where I can work in my passion and have abundance, and in return I’m on unemployment BUT I can do whatever I want, is that the answer to my plea or not?

How thought-forms bind us to others

This is back to Huna philosophy. Every person you’ve ever met (in every life time) is connected to you. This includes the guy who asked you what time it was when you were on vacation five years ago. Like thought-forms, these connections are ethereal, and also like thought forms, they have various weights.

You smile at someone. Your eyes meet. A tiny “string” of sticky matter (called “aka”) binds you together. If you never see this person again, all you have joining you is this thin string of aka. You see that person again, another string is added. Maybe you get to be friends, and soon there’s a virtual web of aka connecting you.

I equate this aka with karma and I believe that most of it should be severed. I told the gentleman what time it was. No need for us to be connected for all time. I sever that connection with intent. It’s a small connection and it snaps with my intent and verbalization. I have read that these connections may atrophy naturally over a long period of time, especially the very casual ones. Since I have no way to test that theory, I simply do a ritual a few times a year and ask that any that don’t serve me be severed cleanly and painlessly.

Bound up in these aka threads are emotions and memories. If I remembered fondly the vacation where the man asked for the time, he may symbolize for me that experience. However, if I had an awful time, my luggage was lost and my purse snatched and my hotel caught on fire, that emotion would also be attached to that thread.

These threads allow us to have empathy, telepathy, and telemetry. Empathy means you feel other people’s emotions. You feel them through the thread that binds you. Telepathy indicates a non-verbal exchange of thoughts, again, through the aka. Telemetry is the ability to pick up information on a person based on something they owned. We have aka threads to our possessions as well.

Since I am a Reiki Master, I know a symbol that allows me to send distant healing to a person who is not present. That symbol creates an aka cord from me to the recipient. I always, at the end of a healing, physically reach out and make a twist/pull motion as if I am breaking the connection. Even after a regular hands-on healing I do this, as I don’t want a permanent attachment to my clients. It’s not healthy for either of us and serves no purpose. The ONLY time I allow an aka cord to stay in place is when I set up a crystal grid. The nature of the grid causes an aka cord from the layout to the person. I empower the grid to keep sending energy, and I am the conduit for that energy. It is not my personal energy, but it’s filtered through me and I am still involved. Part of the responsibility of being a healer is to have those types of connections to others. That does not stop me from severing them periodically because I just create new ones with my next interaction, and those new ones are fresh and clean, not built on old stagnant energies that might have an unhappy past.

Aka is also how divination works. I do Mayan Astrology readings with the Mayan Oracle cards. As part of the reading, my client handles and looks at every card and I tell them it’s to “get their energy on the cards.” This “energy” is aka, and it allows me to connect with them in a way that makes my readings more meaningful. At the end of the reading I sever the connection discretely and cleanse the cards with energy for the next client.

The thought-forms illustrated at the beginning of this article were bound to each other and to Sally and Ed by aka cords. Each thought either sent energy up the aka cord to an existing thought-form or created a new one. Imagine a bunch of grapes—that’s what a complex of thought-forms looks like. I had a client once who had blinding headaches. Ethereally, I looked into her head for the cause and found black triangular energy growths, like sharp teeth. I looked deeper at them and found they were made up of negative thoughts. I asked her if she beat herself up mentally and she agreed that she did. She also had a job where she was not liked by her coworkers, which contributed to those black teeth-like thought-forms.

I have seen how my own thought-forms have influenced my life. I created a job and 3 years later, uncreated it. I have created relationships and drawn people to me who I could help and/or who could help me. Creation can be a time of upheaval as old worn-out thoughts are replaced by fresh new ones. Change is difficult. We secretly like the groove our needle is stuck in or we wouldn’t be here. It’s hard to climb out with no guarantee that the next place you land will be any better. But if you use these techniques for creating good affirmations, and try not to dwell on unpleasant or unhappy thoughts, you’ll find that you are “good enough, smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like you!”

(c) Gevera Bert Piedmont (02-24-2003 4 Eb)

Written on 4 Eb. Eb translates as “grass” as well as “road” and I often find this means “karma” when I see it in a reading, and I use the image of aka threads woven like a grass basket, tying us to our past, to illustrate.

Creation Date: 12.19.13.5.8 10 Lamat 1 Zip May 15, 2006