My most recent step toward creating a kin domain was to attend the Colorado Kin Domain group meeting last night (October 14). It was very nice to have a young man named Yuri, join us. He shared his experiences and suggestions which were very interesting and valuable.

He bought the first Ringing Cedars book in Russian while living in Kasakstan over ten years ago. The first book had just been published. Yuri spoke of the Russian kin domain settlements that have been established. In the beginning many people quit their jobs and moved onto a hectare of land to begin living the “good” life as described by Anastasia but it didn’t work for them.

As Yuri put it, “They took their problems with them onto the kin domain and continued creating the same kinds of problems they were having before.” Most of those early kin domain settlers returned to the city life because they didn’t know how to make it work.

That has been the experience of most (if not all) intentional communities established here in America as well. They aren’t very effective at accomplishing what they intended and many people leave and return to their previous lives.

I’ve thought a lot about this problem and applied my creative language skills to finding both understanding and a solution. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far.

When people move into new situations they take their problems with them, carried silently in their habitual thinking and language patterns. The solution is, of course, to change their thinking and language patterns to support the new life they envision. Easy to see. Perhaps, less easy to do.

What are these habitual thinking and language patterns? Well, first of all, the very concept of “going to a new life,” when it is based on “escaping” unwanted old life experiences, will carry the unwanted old life experiences into the new life. That’s because the images in the individual’s mind are substantially peppered with the old life experiences he wants to escape.

Mental images create - regardless of whether they are images of what you want or images of what you don’t want. Therefore, solution number one is to “make sure you are focused on the results you desire rather than the ones you want to escape.”

Next. The habitual thinking patterns that a pioneer takes with him will re-create what they created originally in his previous places of living, i.e., conflict, lack, emptiness, fear, anger, struggle, etc. In other words, all the negative thoughts we automatically and unconsciously allow into our minds and conversations can only create one thing – negative experiences we don’t want.

What makes these negative thoughts so difficult to identify, is our habit of automatically and even unconsciously assigning blame for our unwanted experiences. We blame other people, circumstances, nature, errors, etc. In order to find your inner activity that is creating your unwanted experiences you will have to accept that you are indeed the creator of all those experiences.

As long a one blames another, one can never find the true source – in the mind of self. Therefore, solution number two is “Accept the fundamental truth that you alone are the creator of ALL your experiences,” and then you will be able to find yourself creating them. That will free you to consciously and purposefully create a different thought with a different result.

Solution number three may be the most challenging of all. One cannot end blaming if one is determined to see some experiences as “mistakes, errors in judgment, lack of sufficient understanding, sin, etc.” Keeping in mind that images in the mind are the source of experiences in the outer life, then the images of “error” must be released unless one wishes to continue creating the experiences of “error.”

Most people, when deciding to end blaming of others, will then just begin blaming themselves instead. It makes no difference who or what you blame, the result of assigning blame can only be more experiences of “error,” because blame cannot exist with a judgment of “error.”

Therefore, solution number three is to “end the habit of seeing ANY events as “bad” in any way.” It seems nearly impossible to do at first but it is really just a matter of practice and determination to develop a new habitual pattern of thinking.

It begins with choosing to see every experience as fundamentally good and exactly what you wanted to happen, if only you’d been able to see the whole picture. Think about it. If you want your life to be exactly what you know you want it to be as if you had seen the whole picture, then you MUST begin accepting and creating only that image in your mind. Anything else creates…other than what you want.

So, for those of us creating kin domains or any other kind of good life in America or elsewhere, we must manage the images in our minds more effectively. Now is the time to begin doing that, before we actually move onto our kin domain. It’s not so much about deciding the specific experiences you want, as it is about deciding that all your experiences are ALREADY and ONLY the kinds of experiences you would choose for yourself if you could only see the big picture of your life.

And then begin calling every experience a gift that is given you by a loving Universe to create the very kinds of experiences you will most LOVE – no matter what your mind thinks is real apart from that!

Your mind is your tool to create with. It is not a power over you. It cannot dictate reality to you when you claim the full power of your creator nature. You insert the reality of your choosing into the mind, and then it will duplicate itself in your outer experience.

Practice, practice, practice.

In my own practice of those steps I often find myself face to face with my own “stuff.” My “stuff” is in reference to my alignment (or lack of) with my belief that I am the creator of my experience. I do choose to believe and create that, although I’m definitely not fully aligned with it yet because I don’t always choose to recognize that everyone and every event in my life is fulfilling me in Love and Joy.

But I have too much proof that I am indeed the creator of my experience. It’s too late for me to go back to that blissful state of ignorance. Besides, I don’t want to. I want to know myself as I really am. I want to develop the mental muscles to wield the creator power I and all humans are born with.

Wishing us all the fullest success in creating our personal versions of Heaven On Earth,
JoyceM