We don’t have magnetic swipes on our cards yet. And when you get right down to it we don’t have cards. Don’t need them. No co-pay. Nor are there deductions on your paycheck.
“But Chip,” you ask, “how can this be?”
Well, for one thing, it’s not that kind of HMO. In the case of Light Tapping, HMO stands for Human Material Optimization. The human material is the body you provided when you entered the physical world. Optimization occurs when you make the most of it.
“Like how?”
Okay, I suppose it had to come out sooner or later. I’m a computer-game nerd. On and off for the last 25 years I have been playing Forgotten RealmsTM, a computer game loosely based on the Lord of the Rings. They are like a series of books that build upon one another, and each game takes weeks to play. Since I only indulge in this passion every five years or so, I’m a mere decade behind. Baldur’s Gate, the one I am playing now, came out in the late 1990’s.
At the beginning of the game you choose the basic form of the body you will take. You can be a human, an elf, a dwarf, or a halfling. Once that is done, you choose your characteristics. These consist of:
Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma.
In the game you kinda roll the dice. The computer randomly generates a number from 1-20 for each of the characteristics at once. You can choose to accept or reject the roll. When you get one that meets your criteria, you keep that body, which you will use throughout the game. The relative score will determine how your character will do in different situations. High dexterity enables a fighter to avoid damage in a conflict. Intelligence helps a mage cast a spell. Wisdom helps a cleric heal the injured.
Similarly, as humans, before we are born we choose our body type – as well as brain chemistry, talents, etc. (See Michael Newton, Journey of Souls.) We know going into it which of our body choices has what size, constitution, coordination, looks, et cetera. We make our choice based upon the spiritual goals we are attempting to master in this lifetime.
Once we are born, we forget everything and are left do the best we can with the body and circumstance we have chosen. We may have a body that can do whatever we ask of it, or we may have a body that gets sick every time the word epidemic is mentioned.
But you know what? We don’t necessarily have to stick with the characteristics we dealt ourselves. When we start to learn the Law of Attraction, we find that we have control over how our life is going to play out. If we want to be healthy and well-functioning, we can take steps – “align with what we are wanting” as Abraham would say – and mold our experience.
When it comes to health, Light Tapping is a great Human Material Optimization tool, because it works with the underlying vibration that shapes the nature of our experience. Any pain we experience exists first as vibration. From this vibration flows thought, emotion and physical manifestation. Adjust the vibration of the pain, and its flow towards manifestation collapses.
Find out more about Light TappingSM at my website.
(c)2010 Chip Engelmann
Last week I spent several days weeding my vegetable garden. I had neglected the garden while remodeling my office and it had become overgrown. I handled the plants as I pulled the weeds around them, silently talking with them, and apologizing when I accidentally broke one of their leaves. I noticed that when I finished, the plants seemed somehow happier.
Today, it felt like the thing to do to take my portable phone and do my appointments outside. My wife saw me and snapped this picture – she thought you would enjoy seeing my “satellite office.” Sitting outside, my eyes played across my vegetable garden that had been ravaged by deer last summer and fall. Into the back of my mind popped a simple and inexpensive solution of how to keep the deer away this year, by hanging CD disks off the fence.
