We all create

Ask and It is Given by Esther an Jerry Hicks. The following is what the authors with share with someone on their first day of their life.

Welcome, Little One, to Planet Earth. There is nothing that you cannot be, do or have. You are a magnificent creator, and you are here by your powerful and deliberate desire to be here. You have specifically applied the wondrous law of Deliberate Creation, and by your ability to do that you are here.

Go forth and attract life experience to help you decide what you want. And one you have decided, give thought only to that. Most of your time will be spent collecting data that will help you decide what it is you want, but your real work is to decide what you want and then focus upon it, for it is through focusing upon what you want that you will attract it. That is the process of creating.

I know this quote sounds somewhat contrived, but follow my thought process for a moment. In every volume of scripture from any religion that I have read there are a few universal truths. One of the most powerful that is expressed most frequently is the idea of "Ask and it is given. Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you." I have found that we talk to people about what they believe we really are talking from two different vocabularies and two completely different frames of experience and understanding. But even then there are aspect that just ring true. I can share something with someone that is so foreign from anything they have heard in this life yet they would nod in agreement because they had heard it before they entered this life. We all know that these principles are true and their power resonates within us when we hear them.
Our little ones that come to this world have infinite capacity and if we teach these principles they will grow in truth creating what they want and need in this world. Although we are not on our first day of life it is still important to remember that we are here because of our spectacular capacity to create. That ability is innate within us. If we use it to create challenges or disaster in life, we are still using our creative ability. However, if we use our power to create joy, then that joy will affect and impact those around us.
What do you see in your life? What are you focusing on? What do you want out of life? How are you changing your focus to draw more of what you really want and leave behind what you don't?

If life is a test who is the test for?

Maharishi Vedic University WebPages 1996

Within every human being is the natural tendency and capacity to live wholeness of life -- to be fully awake and aware of the holistic qualities of life while applying all the specific laws of nature to accomplish one's goals.

It is incomplete development of the mind that has produced the conception of a normal person as one who makes mistakes, has problems, falls sick, and is at the mercy of circumstances. When the total potential fo Natural Law is awakened in human awareness, life can be lived in fulfillment, free from mistakes, problems, and illness. Higher states of consiousness and a state of wholeness are characterized by complete alertness and spontaneous use of one's full potential; command over one's destiny, with the organizing power to accomplish any worthy goal without strain; a spontaneously nourishing, life-supporting effect on everyone and everything; and the quality of bliss and wholeness pervading one's existence.

I have heard many times in my life people talk about how we are placed in this life so that God can find out what kind of person we are or will be. That perspective never set right with me. If God is all knowing (and He is), then He doesn't need anything proved to Him because He knows it. We are not an experiment. This life is not a tensile test to determine at what amount of pressure we will break.
I think that in this life we are learning what kind of person we are and learning to stand within our true state despite whatever other influences we might encounter. We are spiritual beings having an earthly experience not earthly beings having spiritual experiences. We are learning more and more to be One. Being One means standing independent of worldly influence unified with Deity in true principles and universal law.
If spiritual death is separation from God and Eternal Life is living with God, then I believe when we have the Spirit with us we are experiencing a taste of Heaven.
Therefore what? When we feel unhappy feelings they are indicative that our thought processes are not in harmony. Our emotions are a strong indication of whether our thoughts are directed appropriately. If your thoughts bring you joy continue in that vein. If your thoughts bring sorrow or unhappiness, then change them.

Change Your Brain

“How Thinking Can Change the Brain” Science Journal by Sharon Begley

The Dalai Lama, who had watched a brain operation during a visit to an American medical school, asked the surgeons a startling question: Can the mind shape brain matter?

Over the years, neuroscientists had explained to him that mental experiences reflect chemical and electrical changes in the brain. When electrical impulses zip through our visual cortex, for instance, we see; when neurochemicals course through the limbic system we feel.

But something had always bothered him about this explanation, the Dalai Lama said. Could it work the other way around? That is, in addition to the brain giving rise to thoughts and hopes and beliefs and emotions that add up to this thing we call the mind, maybe the mind also acts back on the brain to cause physical changes in the very matter that created it. If so, then pure thought would change the brain's activity, its circuits or even its structure.

One brain surgeon hardly paused. Physical states give rise to mental states, he asserted; "downward" causation from the mental to the physical is not possible...
The Dalai Lama had put his finger on an emerging revolution in brain research. In the last decade of the 20th century, neuroscientists overthrew the dogma that the adult brain can't change.

The kind of change the Dalai Lama asked about ... would come from inside. Something as intangible and insubstantial as a thought would rewire the brain. To the mandarins of neuroscience, the very idea seemed as likely as the wings of a butterfly leaving a dent on an armored tank. Neuroscientist Helen Mayberg had not endeared herself to the pharmaceutical industry by discovering, in 2002, that inert pills -- placebos -- work the same way on the brains of depressed people as antidepressants do...
Attention, for instance, seems like one of those ephemeral things that comes and goes in the mind but has no real physical presence. Yet attention can alter the layout of the brain as powerfully as a sculptor's knife can alter a slab of stone… "This positive state is a skill that can be trained," Prof. Davidson says. "Our findings clearly indicate that meditation can change the function of the brain in an enduring way."

The article goes on to say that they studied changes to the brain that occurred during meditation and how the brain changed after meditation. The grand epiphany was that after meditation changes to the brain lingered and remained. The brain was physically different after meditation
The butterfly of positive thoughts and attention could dent the armored tank of our minds.

Things previously thought impossible are quite common. This has two key messages for us.
First, expand your imagination of the possibilities. Things in your life that you have always considered impossible could be quite common. All you have to do is change the way you look at it.

Second, this knowledge is a powerful tool to change the chemistry of your mind. Changing your thought processes to a positive perspective will change the way your brain is wired, bring better health and also open your mind and add power to your processing possibilities. You will begin to have more capabilities to change your life and to change the world.