What the Bleep Do We Know?

I saw a very interesting movie on Thursday night, "What the Bleep Do We Know?" starring Marlee Matlin.

The movie is a mixture of neuroscience, Buddhism, physics, and humor. Matlin plays a frustrated photographer who who is stuck seeing the world through her own negative previous experiences. Her story is interwoven with interviews with scientists and spiritual leaders and scholars.

One of the main ideas of the movie is that our intentions actually have an impact on the world around us. This was illustrated especially by an art project in which bottles of water were labeled with things like "love," "thank you," and "you make me sick and I’m going to kill you." The next day the water was photographed through a molecular level microscope, and the tiny particles looked different from one another, with the "negative" water looking warped and damaged somehow.

One of the most interesting ideas in the movie came from Dr. Joe Dispenza. He indicated that every day, he creates how the day will be, and asks the universe to provide some kind of surprising confirmation of that intention.

I thought about all of the things that Jill and I have intentionally created, against "reasonable" expectations.

About a year ago, or maybe a little less, we were feeling stressed about money. I decided to create more room for abundance in our lives by decorating a "Big Old Box of Money." The outcome I wanted was to double our household income. A couple of months later, Jill’s started her investigator job, and later that month, EarthLink called. Within 6 months of my arts and crafts afternoon to create abundance in our lives, our household income was doubled.

Incidentally, I only decorated part of the box that day — the cover and the interior. Not too long after I got to Atlanta, I decorated the rest of the box with images of an abundance of family and children.

And then on Monday, Jill and I sat down to talk about Atlanta theater, her possible options down here, and how to get energized and enthusiastic about creating more opportunities. Among other disappointments (Jill would rather I not say more about what they were) she hadn’t heard anything back a week after she had an audition that she felt really good about.

Half an hour into our conversation, the director called. He’d been on vacation since the audition, and very much wanted Jill in his show.

Thinking about all of those experiences in the context of the movie, I decided that I wanted to try creating my day. On Thursday night, I created Friday as a day of tremendous productivity and outstanding results. Like Dispenza, I also asked the universe to provide some kind of surprising confirmation that my intention was working.

Friday was wild:

All went well at the DMV when I registered my car — a change from Thursday, when I tried to register my car.
I had a meeting that I’d been trying to schedule, unsuccessfully, for a week. It went phenomenally well, and I think it will provide some surprising results in the future.
My boss asked me to take a look at a new type of product EarthLink is probably going to offer, with the intention that if I’m excited about it, I may be invited to take ownership of the product line.
AND
I was declared the winner, out of a tie, in my department’s quarterly product adoption contest. Next week I’ll be the proud owner of a new iPod mini, my prize for winning.