SHAZAM!!!

SHAZAM SELF-MASTERY

In the comic, Captain Marvel's power figues invoked with the acronym SHAZAM were Solomon=Wisdom, Hercules=Strength, Atlas=Stamina, Zeus=Power, Achilles=Courage, and Mercury=Speed.  His female counterpart Mary Marvel relied on Selena=Grace, Hippolyta=Strength, Ariadne=Skill, Zephyrus=Speed, Aphrodite=Beauty, Minerva=Wisdom. 

Both men and women can benefit by identifying with this pantheon of qualities and abilities.  We each have masculine and feminine components, which are often balanced out by our partners.  We can learn to carry those qualities for ourselves, coming closer to our own wholeness.  Then we are even better partners because we are calm and balanced.

If your aim is self-mastery, how should you direct your attention toward that goal?  Attention divides and re-attributes consciousness and energy for purposeful creation. Attention defines what can be made. Focus on your states of consciousness and learn how to modulate them deliberately, creatively.  You are a frameless work of art in the act of becoming.

You can widen your spectrum of available states, enhancing your quality of life.  Attention flows into action, purified by passion, assisted by language, fitting appropriately with what it must act on, in the trance necessary for the action and reflection on that manifestation. Through CONSCIOUS ALCHEMY you can retrieve the psychophysical biochemistry of your balanced and peak performance states. This essentially regresses your body chemistry to a more youthful you, and minimizes the toxic chemistry of stress.

We may or may not achieve our desires in terms of self-mastery, but we can move consistently toward them by applying discipline and establishing creative routines.  We can structure our lives so positive changes have room to grow and bloom.

All states of consciousnes are trances.  They can be externally as well as internally directed.  What trances have you been reinforcing in your life and how do you do it?  Language, and therefore self-talk, is a powerful trance inducer.  So are physical cues - certain sights, sounds, touch, smells. 

If you find yourself automatically trancing in a negative way, you can change that by simply directing your attention systematically. You intend to change that state and you simply do it, and do it now.  Why now?  Because this present moment - the eternal NOW - is all there ever is.  Besides. if not NOW, when?  Now it is possible; and now you can do it. You can make tangible changes toward actualizing your potential.

SHAZAM SUCCESS

1. GOAL SETTING: Know your outcome.

2. PROACTIVE: Move yourself by deciding to act now.

3. FEEDBACK: Notice the effects of your actions.

4. MODULATE: If your chosen action is not working, change your approach and do something different.

EMULATE SELF-REALIZERS

1. Find a role models enjoying results you desire.

2. Find out that person's patterns and behaviors.

3. Emulate that behavior until you achieve your results.

BENCHMARK ACTION=SUCCESS:

Write down two decisions you are procrastinating on that could change your life if you take action.  Decide to do so and take action immediately on these two decisions.

SHAZAM SELF-SCULPTING

In the original comic book 'Billy Batson', becomes superhero 'Captain Marvel' when he says the magic word 'Shazam!', an acronym for six gods and heroes of the ancient world.  You too can call upon your own pantheon of transpersonal forces to transform and support you in the transformation process. By doing this you practice and learn to incorporate a part of their archetypal powers.

PARTICIPATORY WISDOM: You can create a better you, starting with personifiying an image of your resourceful, super-functioning WHOLE SELF. Jung suggested personification as a way of dialoguing and building a relationship with the higher self, our genius or Daemon, who represents our potential powers...our inner superhero.

The SIX BUILDING BLOCKS are: attention, language, passion, fitting or resonance, trance and making.  The EIGHT POWERS developed include communication, neuroplasticity, transformation, transmission, beauty, understanding, balance and opening. Together, they clear the path to a more fulfilling future as well as immediate reinforcing rewards.

We already have images and shapes and feelings about WHO this as-yet-unrealized being is.  And, we can learn to embody that more and more without bringing egocentric or narcissistic baggage into the picture.  The more this entity is congruent with our intended purpose, the better he or she will help us actualize.  Passion is the measure of congruence.  Your passion is what you are wholly involved in, engrossed and fulfilled by. 

When embodied as self-expression, you are of one mind and one will toward specific aims.  Every thought, word, action, expression, and attitude support the directed attention.  We become the embodiment of our will, instilling us with even more compelling passion to drive the cycle of transformation further. States and experiences chosen become specific to your ends. 

The flow of passion motivates and empowers.  Congruence of beliefs, desires, thoughts, feelings and behavior adds power and energy to attention. This enhances your appreciation of beauty, increases enjoyment of life, and inflames the senses and body toward action.  Automatically, this dissolves the outmoded structures of habits and reconditions us with flows of transformative attention forming new brain and behavioral pathways.

Passion flows through the body and is expressed in language.  Passion with rapport is charisma; passion with trance and transport is ecstasy. Dynamic, flowing passion is the creative essence of emotion itself which drives interaction. Passion can be built with ecstatic breathing, trance dance and other rhythmic movements, as well as sensual and spiritual delights.

BENCHMARK POWER:

Realize that the psychophysical state you are in conditions your behavior and performance.  You alone are always responsible for your own states. You can modify your state by modifying your physiology.  You can move into your power postures, and your power voice, change your breathing and facial expression to confident mode. Get absolutely passionate, energized and enthusiastic.  Practice moving from neutral to passionate states from negative ones. Focus. Eliminate "endless loop" questions from your self-talk. Ask yourself leading questions each morning. Pose empowering questions to yourself to amplify your personal power and self-esteem. Counter with compelling reasons to drive you forward.

CREATE LEVERAGE:

Something must change.
You must change it.
You can change it.

INTERVENTIONS:

The TAO models the flowing lifestyle and can be a living spring or resource for our renewal.  When you are out of balance, you need to go DOWN BY RIVERSIDE to your safe place and regain your serenity by identifying with that peaceful flowing state. Imagine all your negativity flowing on down the stream back into the ocean of awareness, dissolving like drops in that ocean.  Imagine all the resources from beyond the MYSTIC VEIL flowing toward and into you as you make room for them by letting go of negativity.

ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE: Interrupt you present pattern of association. Do something different with your body and mind. Imagine, anchor and embody a new empowering association until it becomes stabilized. Concentrate on what you DO want; feel it and link pleasure with it.

ELIMINATE THE NEGATIVE: Imagine a painful or distateful experience you've had.  Turn that scene into a black and white image and begin shrinking it smaller and smaller until it becomes insignificant.