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Value is what you decide it is and “All that is” agrees

We started first considering the beliefs behind our fears because surprisingly, it is much easier to discover what threatens than to know the beliefs behind our desires and the beliefs behind what we think we desire.

Desires can be elusive because most of what we think we desire is NOT desired for what it is, rather for how it can be used to get something else desired. Why do we want a lover, a car, a house or money? Does anyone truly desire a job? Most think they do. But few desire a job for what it is; the place we spend time usually pursuing what someone else desires.

Of all the things people desire, money is the most common and probably has the least intrinsic value of all things we think we desire.  Between one and hundred dollar bills, there is really very little difference. The same is true comparing a $1,000,000 check. Each of these has near identical intrinsic value. Any one of them can be used to start a fire or when folded and placed under the leg of an uneven table, works to remove the wobble.

However, even in both these instances, money was actually only useful as a means to something else; lighting a fire or stabilizing the table. 

 Value is determined by belief

The true value of money however is found in our belief about money; believing it can be exchanged for something else we value.

All desirables are valuable because we decided to believe them valuable. All other revelations merely reveal the details describing what we have decided to believe we prefer.  Most valuables are desired because we see them as a means to obtaining something else we believe desirable. Many of our desires originate in our observing others finding value in them.  What do we value? It’s a purely subjective question.

Each possible reply is subject to the belief of the questioned. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Why we value is less subjective; We develope preferences from the perspective of our previous experiences. It doesn’t matter what events are experienced, from all events we derive and identify preferences and decide one more valuable and desirable than the other. It is the nature of consciousness and awareness to identify preference.  It may simply be true:  all awareness is identification of preference. Awareness is: the distinquishing of differences within contrast.

We have detailed preferences even with limited awareness

Ever watch those commercials around 9 pm and get inspired to go to Wendy’s or Pizza Hut?  Ever spend more than 10 minutes looking for your keys? We act on desires. We expend our precious valuable time trying to satisfy those desires.  But why do we value finding our keys?  Why do we value our jobs?

We see the keys as the means of starting the car,  the car as a means of driving down town, the one-way street that goes beyond Pizza hut as a means of reaching the corner, the u-turn corner allows us to get on the one-way street that arrives the restaurant. Arriving the Hut, are we satisfied? No!  We stand in line to talk to a clerk. We really see no value in finding the keys, driving in the car, reaching the u-turn corner or talking to the clerk, except to get the pizza. But do we really value the pizza? NO! we take the perfectly good pie and mush it up in our mouth and turn it into fuel.  So, is it fuel that we truly value? Disappointedly NO!

We need fuel and put petro in our car so the car will work.  We put fuel in our bodies so they will work!  The million dollar question is: What do we value about making things work? Does anyone really understand?

Actions reveal beliefs

Previously we realized: we can tell what we believe by looking at the actions we take. Does this analysis of action tell us anything about what we believe we value? It certainly does. It is obvious we believed the keys would start the car and that they were valuable toward that end. We believed talking to the clerk was required to get the pie and valuable toward that end.  So, what belief is obvious about fueling the body? 

I have beliefs about my Body

I fuel my body because I believe it will satisfy the calls for fuel that I was hearing while watching TV at 8:55 pm.  My actions show I believe I can satisfy my biological requirements by eating the pie. My actions show I value satisfying my biological requirements.  

We develope beliefs about our body through discerning the contrast of satisfying and NOT satisfying fueling requests.  We all have preferences that drive us toward satisfaction. We have a preference for keeping our bodies fueled.  In what ever we have experienced, we have learned and decided preferences. The realization of preferences is the natural result of observing, the natural result of awareness, the natural result of all consciousness. Ultimately, desire is just the drive for satisfaction of perceived preferences; preferences we have discerned within the experiences of contrast observed within our recognized reality.

Our bodies needs and all other objective requirements are desired because we think of those objects as preferred and therefore valued. Because we decide beliefs of preference, we naturally enjoy satisfaction in realizing the receipt of those preferences over less preferred alternatives.  All values are desired because in the receiving of preferenced objects, we find enjoyment.  Enjoyment is experienced in the realization of  discerned preferences followed with physical having.  All values are desired as means to the creation and receiving of whatsoever we decide to identify as desirable.  We decide what to value from perceived preference and then we find value in beholding them as objects of fulfillment. Ultimate value comes in the receiving of what we identify as preferred! Believe it! Realize it!

The body like a car is just a means to an end

If fueling the engine is so much fun, why isn’t the highest paid job the train engineer feeding the coal, or working at the gas station filling cars, or work at the electric company or possibly grocery store?  Because value enhancement once accomplished, diminshes as value fulfillment. We don’t really value fueling our creations except to the degree that they were valued and fueling brings value fulfillment. While we certainly enjoy filling up the tank (and it is obvious I have been successful at this more than once), we appear to want more once we have the first.

Value fulfillment

If our actions show what we value, then it is obvious we value many things. We spend a lot of action in pursuit of valables.  Regarding value, we appear to focus on  small sections of reality at a time and the discerning of preferences with limited perspective.  Having decided what improves (a belief), we pursue that improvement and find satisfaction in the pursuit. When looking from the narrow perspective, we find ways to improve value and feel near ecstasy anticipating the achievement of it.  In our example, we find value fulfillment in designing an organizer at home where we organize our keys.  We find value fulfillment in obtaining a better car.  We find value fulfillment in coordinating the traffic lights so traffic is NOT disrupted. We find value fulfillment in using the Internet to order our pizza so it is ready precisely upon our arrival to pick it up. The list goes on and on.  The point is: we find life purpose in fueling and sheltering our bodies and improving every preference we discover along the way.

Focus

Our preferences are identified as we focus on a limited scope within the universe of possibilities. From our experience within that limited domain, we identify relative degrees of preference as we contrast all within that domain.  If we had the fuller view of all that is, we’d realize finding the keys is unimportant.  A better car, who needs it? A body, relatively insignificant. Fueling the body that lives just a short few years, why waste the time?

Narrow mindedness brings clarity  

All values represent decisions of belief; beliefs about value or our perception of preference for one object or characteristic contrasted with another.  The surprise is; It is precisely the fact that we have our limited view that makes us so valuable in discerning the preferences for improving that which is within that limited view.  Narrow mindedness allows us to focus on details and discern minor distinctions. Can you see why I call you the eyes of God for deciding universal improvement? 

In believing we receive whatsoever we desire, we have it.

We seem to find a purpose in life just improving all the objects we have within our domain.  That nature appears to be inately a part of our being. We hold a perspective unique to our field of focus and from that bias of focus we perceive preferences like no other. That nature appears to be a part of every consciousness.  But the truly exciting realization comes with recognition: If in our identification we find sufficient value so as to become intent upon receiving it, “All that is” intensifies the perceived preference until so pronounced it is visible physically. In knowing our true realiity goes beyond the physical and in believing we receive whatsoever we desire within that reality, we eventually experience or have it physically as well.

Beliefs are our own – We form our own reality

How do we determine we value anything we believe we desire?  In all instances, our thinking determines what we believe, even what we believe we desire. Ultimately everything comes back to what we have decided is true of reality. These decisions are in response to the events we experience and whether in our view or perspective the event was pleasurable or not preferred. If we associate it with something we previously decided was pleasurable, we will likely hold a continuing perspective of pleasure. On the other hand, if we did not experience the event as pleasurable, we will likely continue to hold the perspective or biased that such is undesirable. Since we all have biases in viewing things, we each have a unique perspective and realize things differently.

Realize, within the domain of our perspective, we continually observe preferences from the contrast of our unique experiences. The identification of these preferences determine what we uniquely value. As we have different beliefs of what is preferred,  we also have different beliefs about what we value. Values represent our decisions as to what we prefer within the domain of what we believe real.

Creativity

Since it is ourselves that decide what to believe we prefer and what to believe we value, we can also decide we believe we will see those identifications intensified by “All that is” and experienced as physical events.  We can decide we believe thoughts of creativity follow values discerned, desires identified and intentions to receive creativity in their regard. 

In identifying the desire, you have identified the problem of how.  In forming a desire, you identify the problem “all that is” asked us to identify.  All that is is waiting for us to do our parts!

Creativity is the solution the problem solver brings to the problems we identify.  Believe it! Realize it!

Once you decide this, you will recognize that you truely receive whatsoever you ask for in faith believing you shall have it. Believe that! Realize it!