tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78469251734499631402024-03-13T06:58:27.273-07:00New Thought GuyThe thoughts, letters, recordings, videos and philosophy of Rev. Jay Willick, an Ordained Minister in the New Thought Movement. Spiritual Leader at New Thought Spiritual Center in Los Angeles (North Hollywood). Podcast available at your fave distributor. Video on New Thought Guy YouTube channel.New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-4417669413847447882021-09-06T13:40:00.011-07:002021-09-06T13:40:54.450-07:00BE, DO, Then HAVE Right Now<p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hrr5fCbnKAc/YTZzuNpNXoI/AAAAAAAAGv8/gGmLFYNpds0DSLggGbZGXwwhhARxUOg0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/BE%2BDO%2BHAVE%2B%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hrr5fCbnKAc/YTZzuNpNXoI/AAAAAAAAGv8/gGmLFYNpds0DSLggGbZGXwwhhARxUOg0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/BE%2BDO%2BHAVE%2B%25281%2529.png" width="320" /></a></p><p>“I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Spirit!”</p><p><br /></p><p>When we keep our attention focused on our relationship with and as Divine Intelligence throughout the day, our perspectives and perceptions of life are filtered through the lens of Truth, Love, and Oneness, giving us the resilience and perseverance to meet whatever may come our way.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;">W</span>e are called to a higher state of consciousness that informs us of our best next steps in thought, feeling, and action. </p><p>But we got to get ourselves in the flow of Spirit where we can give up striving, being fearful, and being attached to outcomes, especially success. If we start our day knowing the Source of All and connecting to this energy we can tap into at any time and is always available to work through us as Divine Perfection, and remind ourselves of this powerful, pervasive constructive, and loving Presence, we can begin working through the channels of that Good - that Good of good ideas and bring it into our everyday experiences. </p><p>We can then look at any challenges or conditions, any circumstances, anything happening in the world - positive or negative- and know that nothing is more powerful than the Divine source within.</p><p>We are each powerful creators and when we consistently claim that power, only Good can come to and from us. That Good can come as something wonderful and positive or a lesson that leads us to the wonderful and positive. It's a mindset; it's not a religious thing, though it could be, it's not even necessarily a spiritual thing, though it really is whether you call it that or not. This is a mindset of being the person who achieves, not just doing the doings to achieve their goal. It's about authenticity and power, as well as talent and skill. In other words, <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>we are to first BE the one that can DO what it takes to reach the HAVE (the goal).</p><p>You gotta BE before you DO in order to HAVE what you want. So the first question we ask ourselves each day is:</p><p>Who do I need to be in order to accomplish this goal? What do I need to embody?</p><p>This establishes your state of being. That's why I wake up each morning with my mind on Spirit, the Power and Presence within me, the Divine urge that outflows wisdom through me, the direct authority I am right now -without adding a title, degree, etc.- to be the authentic me, sharing my time, talent, and treasure powerfully, boldly, meaningfully, and full-heartedly whether it is for a day of rest, work, or play.</p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>We are in the Water of Infinite Life as the fish is in the ocean…The Spirit of Life is all around us. It flows through us. It permeates everything.</i> ~<b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-Thing-Called-Ernest-Holmes/dp/1578989957" target="_blank">This Thing Called Life</a></b></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>So we start the day knowing:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>I am Being the channel and expression of the best me; here to deliver my gifts, my talents, </i><i>and my skills with confidence and inner authority, withholding nothing.</i></p><p>Now, I answer the question, "What do I need to do in order to accomplish this goal that I have today?" </p><p>Well, since I am the channel of the Divine Flow:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>I can dial up the talents required</li><li>I can dial up the allies required</li><li>I can make sure I and/or my team takes the path of least resistance mentally and physically</li><li>I can strategically choose the best course whether that's further education, getting coaching, joining an accountability group, even stepping back and regrouping to prevent burn-out or feeling stuck, figuring out how to optimize my time.</li></ul><p></p><p>This DO-time is when we get clear on the right actions, the best strategies, and even develop the best behaviors to have the goal....to have the Have.</p><p>It is a time to take action, like in this story:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xCxQWdr3qCA/YTZ7GFNWMmI/AAAAAAAAGwM/7bfqYKeL1Hs2_vxD79fKXR5vFv6EBf8DgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/seeds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xCxQWdr3qCA/YTZ7GFNWMmI/AAAAAAAAGwM/7bfqYKeL1Hs2_vxD79fKXR5vFv6EBf8DgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/seeds.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">There were two seeds laying side by side in the fertile soil. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The first seed said, "I want to grow! I want to send my roots deep into the soil beneath me, and thrust my sprouts through the earth´s crust above me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I want to unfurl my tender buds like banners to announce the arrival of spring. I want to feel the warmth of the sun on my face and the blessing of the morning dew on my petals!" </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And so she grew... </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">On the other hand, the second seed said, "Hmmmm. If I send my roots into the ground below, I don´t know what I will encounter in the dark. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If I push my way through the hard soil above me I may damage my delicate sprouts. What if I let my buds open and a snail tries to eat them? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And if I were to open my blossoms, a small child may pull me from the ground. No, no, no, no, no it is much better for me to wait until it is safe." And so she waited. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Then, one day, a yard hen scratching around in the early spring ground for food found the waiting seed...and promptly ate it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Moral of The Story: Those who DREAM BIG and THINK from knowing who they are will grow and prosper. Those who think negatively and refuse to BE before they DO, risk getting swallowed up by life. </span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>What would the best of You do? That could be the ideas and actions a mentor might take, but your version of it. Either way:</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1fokJSMZZKw/YTZ6c4-Cs-I/AAAAAAAAGwE/55KYTSap1HoZUqljXsb_TEbnZnhAq-lsACLcBGAsYHQ/s500/9780911336955-us.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="387" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1fokJSMZZKw/YTZ6c4-Cs-I/AAAAAAAAGwE/55KYTSap1HoZUqljXsb_TEbnZnhAq-lsACLcBGAsYHQ/w155-h200/9780911336955-us.jpg" width="155" /></a></div></i></span></blockquote><p><i style="font-family: arial;">There is a Center in you that already knows. Develop the consciousness that flows from this Center, for It is the Secret Place of the Most High within you. </i><span style="font-family: arial;">~</span><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/Change-Thinking-Life-Volume-Practical-Course/30842129814/bd?cm_mmc=ggl-_-US_Shopp_Trade-_-product_id=COM9780911336955USED-_-keyword=&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-NaJBhDsARIsAAja6dNvY7kfNym8y4XPLA0NALa6GQBcAMlAT9d1fYJtww6U2ahq_SlnU8IaAlROEALw_wcB#&gid=1&pid=1" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">Ernest Holmes</a></p><p></p><p>Finally, with our minds on Spirit, embodying the personal power of that within you and as you, and the process thought through, strategies set up, and clarity on the actions to take, it's time to Have.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have at it:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>lean into the flow</li><li>express your gifts</li><li>trust the process</li><li>listen to the voice of your vision</li><li>answer the next calls, if any</li><li>and most importantly, enjoy the journey as well as the results<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></li></ul><p></p><p>Trust yourself in the process and trust the Divine in you for guidance. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his essay, <b>Heroism</b>, <span style="font-family: inherit;">"Self-trust is the essence of heroism."</span></p><p>Be heroic by embodying the power in you. What is the Divine Urge seeking to express through you today, tomorrow...the next day?</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">To BE, DO, then HAVE that expression happen for you Right Now</div><span style="white-space: pre;"><div style="text-align: center;">...you got this!!!!</div></span></h3><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u><b>Affirmative Incantation</b></u></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Knowing that the Divine Presence is closer to me than my very breath, I have complete faith in the outcome of my day.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I feel Divine Love surrounding me and Its protection uplifting me.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">And I hear It's Song of Joy forever chanting Its empowering voice at the center of my being. </span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I direct my thought to Be the powerful badass that I am with efficiency and humor, Do my best every moment of the day, and thus Have what I seek as I work with and through the rock-solid presence of the radiant Spirit within me. Divine Intelligence informs me of the best actions to take, therefore I focus only on positive and constructive thoughts and ideas.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Joyfully, I expect greater abundance, the highest level of fulfillment, superlative success, and a deeper peace all through my day.</span></i></p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-74170431593796186682021-08-24T13:05:00.002-07:002021-08-24T13:07:28.579-07:00 STAMP IT CONFIRMED<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G-4vtR6IMnQ/YSVDnb-wn8I/AAAAAAAAGe4/OECHhfxNBBcLiMyq0hHAbIPzYnlvrymSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/red-grunge-confirmed-stamp-isolated-white-background-176808413.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G-4vtR6IMnQ/YSVDnb-wn8I/AAAAAAAAGe4/OECHhfxNBBcLiMyq0hHAbIPzYnlvrymSwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/red-grunge-confirmed-stamp-isolated-white-background-176808413.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>All month we talked about authenticating IT - God, the Divine, the Power and Presence Within. It's what we are awakening ourselves to all year.</p><p>We started off talking about that there is no secret being kept from any of us about the Universe or how the Law works. You may not have been taught this philosophy, but the Universe isn't keeping information on how IT works for members only. The secret is there is no secret! There are only tools to be discovered that enhance what you naturally know, even if you don't know that you know. Don't get sucked into the clickbait titles or descriptions claiming a big secret is being revealed for the first time b.s. And don't begin your day, week, month, or year pining on thinking you're starting in a deficit. That is not a good way to set yourself up to learning.</p><p>I also reminded you this month to look around, use your senses as proof of the existence and the workings of divine intention, grace, power, and wisdom. We can learn most if not all we need to learn from Mother Nature.</p><p>And last week, I asked you to decide which do you prefer,<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>or which do you work your innermost education transformation and transcendence through<span style="white-space: pre;">.</span>...nature or nurture? Actually, there was no choosing...it was both</p><p>This week I want to stamp this month of Authentication...CONFIRMED. Not only confirming that:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Power of Presence of Universal Creative Energy is working within you right now</li><li>The knowledge to succeed and prosper is innate and discover-able through our senses</li><li>We don't have to go to the top of the mountain or the bottom of the sea to discover God and our Godness</li><li>Nurturing our True nature leads us to manifestations of health, wealth, love, and peace. </li></ul>This week we confirm our authentic selves. We stamp our passports to self-definition and self-determination. We stamp our decree of being an expression of the divine. And we attest, verify, and certify as Michael Singer said in “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Untethered-Soul-Journey-Beyond-Yourself/dp/1572245379/ref=asc_df_1572245379/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=245369089410&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5933305643620455637&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031003&hvtargid=pla-406163948633&psc=1" target="_blank">The Untethered Soul</a>”:<p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The prerequisite to true freedom is to decide that you do not want to suffer anymore. You must decide that you want to enjoy your life and that there is no reason for stress, inner pain, or fear.</i></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>How often do <b>you</b> show up authentically?</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>We are to see that Spirit creates all things by the power of Its own word, and that we are spiritual beings. We are to hear that inner voice of Truth, which is ever proclaiming the freedom of all life, the eternal unity of God with [all]. </i>~Ernest Holmes</span></blockquote><p></p><p>No matter your profession, who you love, how you pray, where you live, how much formal education you have, how much money you have, what gender you identify with, how old you are, etc., you weren’t born to fit in....you were born to stand out.</p><p>God makes no mistakes - people do. And yet mistakes are a great teaching tool if you let them be. Regardless of what anyone says, your unique gifts have a purpose and individually it's our responsibility to be our authentic selves, to live and express that purpose. That might be annoying or unappetizing to some, but the more we express ourselves authentically, the more we inspire others to do the same, even if they find us annoying</p><p>Unconditional love and acceptance for others who are expressing themselves authentically doesn't mean we have to hang out with them, vote for them, or like them. Appreciating one's authenticity and that of others brings spiritual maturity into play and practice, and emotional maturity into life.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>As the inner light dawns, it delivers the outer life from bondage. This is in line with the teaching that everything is from within, out. When the soul knows freedom, the law will free the body, and the outer life will express health, happiness and success. All things work for our good. Even that which we call evil is salutary, leading us to the Way, the Truth and the Life. Suffering should teach us a lesson which would cause us to refrain from making more mistakes; it carries a blessing with it when we learn how to garner knowledge from experience. </i>~<b>Science of Mind</b></span></blockquote><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">If you were living a life of freedom, how would your life look?</h3><p>Don't be depressed about the answer because it seems like a wish unfulfilled. Be encouraged, impassioned, inspired, motivated, and awakened by the answer as the first step to fulfillment. That is your authentic self calling....answer the call - your soul's desire is ringing.</p><p>Say this with me right now:</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I consciously and confidently live as my authentic self.<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Solid in self-respect and joy.<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Firm in my respect and kindness to others.<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Centered, grounded, and stable in my connection to Nature and Spirit.<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>And bold and brave in my self-expression. <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></h4><p>Don't be what the world wants you to be. Find and be the definition of <b>your </b>authentic self. It's never too late. Look at these two womyn:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/american-chef-julia-child-stands-in-front-of-a-countertop-news-photo-3206546-1565221778.jpg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&resize=480:*" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/american-chef-julia-child-stands-in-front-of-a-countertop-news-photo-3206546-1565221778.jpg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&resize=480:*" width="141" /></a></div><p>Julia Child</p><p>...worked in advertising, media, and secret intelligence before stepping into her passionate self and writing her first cookbook when she was 50, launching her career as a celebrity chef.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/fit-in/416x416/filters%3Aformat(jpg)/https%3A%2F%2Fspecials-images.forbesimg.com%2Fimageserve%2F9a7290f7ccc917dcfc2c43355df21f5a%2F0x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="335" height="200" src="https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/fit-in/416x416/filters%3Aformat(jpg)/https%3A%2F%2Fspecials-images.forbesimg.com%2Fimageserve%2F9a7290f7ccc917dcfc2c43355df21f5a%2F0x0.jpg" width="161" /></a><span style="white-space: pre;"></span></p><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="white-space: pre;"><span> </span><span style="text-align: right;">Martha Stewart</span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: right;">...a full-time model, then a 25-year-old mother before working a five-year stint as a Wall Street stockbroker; then finding her true purpose through her love of gourmet cooking and creative presentation to create the empire, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.</p><p><br /></p><p>How about these two:</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="white-space: pre;"><a href="https://corporate.kohls.com/content/dam/kohlscorp/news/2021/may/vera-wang/Vera%20Wang%20Hero%203x2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="598" height="134" src="https://corporate.kohls.com/content/dam/kohlscorp/news/2021/may/vera-wang/Vera%20Wang%20Hero%203x2.png" width="200" /></a></span></div><p></p><p>...was a figure skater and journalist before entering the fashion industry at age 40 and became one of the world's premier women's designers.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="white-space: pre;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81jNppYbRVL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="564" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81jNppYbRVL.jpg" width="141" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...Anna Mary Robertson Moses began her prolific painting career at 78. In 2006, one of her paintings sold for $1.2 million. Previously, she was a housekeeper and farm laborer.</p><p><br /></p><p>And finally these two/three people:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://res.heraldm.com/content/image/2012/03/13/20120313000491_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="330" height="133" src="http://res.heraldm.com/content/image/2012/03/13/20120313000491_0.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taikichiro Moris...was an academic<br />who became a real-estate investor<br />at age 51, which made him<br />the richest person in the world in<br />1992, worth $13B.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://alchetron.com/cdn/tim-and-nina-zagat-5cdfeb71-1f00-430d-83b8-d9ab1250d41-resize-750.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="750" height="115" src="https://alchetron.com/cdn/tim-and-nina-zagat-5cdfeb71-1f00-430d-83b8-d9ab1250d41-resize-750.jpeg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tim and Nina Zagat...were corporate<br />lawyers in their late 30s when they<br />turned their personal, passionate list<br />of favorite restaurants in Paris and<br />New York into a published collection<br />of restaurant reviews which eventually<br />became a mark of culinary authority.</td></tr></tbody></table> <br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">So what hidden or not so hidden passion is waiting for your authenticity to emerge?</h4><p>You know I know you know, even if you say you don't....you do. We all get caught up in the box of our degrees, our jobs, what the family expected, what we expected, and even the word “retiree.” So now is the time to commit to showing up -authentically- and choose to live the life we’ve always dreamed of. </p><p>A bonus to all this is that doing so in your life also inspires others to follow. By you being an example of unconditional love & acceptance of a life of Spirit expressing Itself as you, that makes for a better world of unity, peace, love, and joy. And that authenticates the Divine in us all!</p><p>Stamp your authentic life confirmed and fly my friends, fly!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Affirmative Incantation</u></b></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">I answer the call from Spirit to awaken to the beauty and power within</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">With this Divine intention, I have the courage to think only clear, productive, and empowering thoughts, no matter what's going on.</span></i></p><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></i></div><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">I certify that since I am the master of my thoughts</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I am the healer of my body</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>And the designer of my life.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The Truth confirms my wholeness</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The Truth attests to my spiritual perfection</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The Truth guarantees my success</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>And I verify this Truth today.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Ta-ta negativity</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Goodbye old stories</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Adieu junk thinking</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">I am my authentic True Divine Self right now!</span></i></p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-81832030429922177542021-08-14T11:38:00.008-07:002021-08-14T11:38:58.744-07:00Let's Have A Little Treat<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qSp0-BI-VFk/YRbVfRI3NSI/AAAAAAAAGdE/cKcGpuCULFk3KjTpVnn9nYBhKgmw1dnrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/pasted%252Bimage%252B0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qSp0-BI-VFk/YRbVfRI3NSI/AAAAAAAAGdE/cKcGpuCULFk3KjTpVnn9nYBhKgmw1dnrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/pasted%252Bimage%252B0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Have a little faith in me...</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p>The Universe is singing that to all of us. I know it's telling me that about some things. Lately, I've been studying the history and usage of prayer for my Doctorate dissertation. This has inspired today's talk title: Let's Have A Treat.</p><p>Some of you may have taken my workshop of the same name and will recognize what I am talking about. However, if your declarations haven't demonstrated like you thought...or better, take this as a needed review...I am.</p><p>By "treat," I mean both the idea of a goody and this definition of Spiritual Mind Treatment from Ernest Holmes:</p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The art and act, time and process, and method and science of consciously changing and inducing thought within our subconscious belief system for the purpose of demonstrating a new idea into our experience. </i></span></blockquote><p></p><p>You might have heard me or others make a call to “treat.” Spiritual mind treatment is what that is calling; to pray by realigning our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs to the ideas we express in our Statements of Principles:</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reveal the Divinity in You<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Vibrate at the Speed of the Divine<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bust Through, Soar, and Zoom <span style="font-size: small;">into the greatest expression of your life</span></h3><p>...which is the fulfillment of love, health, creativity, and prosperity in all the spaces, all the times, all the nooks and crannies of your life. Dr. Holmes continues in his definition of treatment:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>We are surrounded by a Creative Medium which responds to us through a law of correspondence. Treatment is clearing the thought of negation, of doubt and fear, and causing it to perceive the ever-presence of God.</i></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>What we perceive, we become aware of. What we are aware of, we can awaken to. And as we awaken, we can embody this perception in all we think, feel, and do. </p><p>Our minds are full of clutter:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>the clutter of memories, good and not so good</li><li>the clutter of opinions and judgments, wise and not so wise</li><li>the clutter and noise of lies, and decisions, both traumatic and disturbing, and the biases we have accepted which are usually not so good</li></ul><p></p><p>All of these clutters and biases get in the way! </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>They get in the way of the new, shiny trinket you're eyeing. </li><li>They get in the way of re-igniting your relationship or having any love in your life. </li><li>They get in the way of a bigger audience. </li><li>They get in the way of <span style="font-size: x-small;">(</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">fill in the blank)</span>.</span></li></ul><p></p><p>But these clutters and biases are not signs of a lost battle. They are not powered by evil. And they are not the result of being left alone to our own devices by the Universe with no potential or no tools or the any influence to change. On the contrary:</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0uOL42h9_NI/YRgMdA-NKGI/AAAAAAAAGdU/WCdCH_F0sMcYJE9mYgSlEttfqOxIzl7ngCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/9780399150166-us.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="375" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0uOL42h9_NI/YRgMdA-NKGI/AAAAAAAAGdU/WCdCH_F0sMcYJE9mYgSlEttfqOxIzl7ngCLcBGAsYHQ/w150-h200/9780399150166-us.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>You have been left alone to discover your real nature, that as an individual you may consciously unite with the Law of Life and the Presence of Good…Just keep right on knocking at the doorway of your consciousness until every ‘no’ becomes a ‘yes’, every negation an affirmation, every fear a faith. You cannot fail if you remain steadfast. Finally, the fetters of bondage will drop from you. You will walk out of your self-imposed prison only to discover that the door was never really locked and the windows were not actually barred. You were bound merely by chains of unbelief. </i>~<b>This Thing Called You</b></span></blockquote><p></p><p>So how do we get out of those chains of unbelief? Patricia Diane Cota-Robles wrote in, “Raising Consciousness: The Shift from Separation to Oneness”:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Trying to change physical conditions without changing my consciousness is like trying to change the reflection in a mirror without changing the object causing the reflection.</i></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>We change our consciousness...we change the reflection we are giving. We treat...the...mind and thus the subconscious, and thus the belief system. Having a treat has specific purposes. Treatment unclogs and frees your mind. <span style="white-space: pre;">I</span>t's the roto-rooter<sup>[1]</sup> of mental clarity and spiritual maturity:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Instead of removing tree roots and other debris the roto-rooter technician does, it eliminates the b.s. out of your Belief system</li><li>Instead of cleaning your drain,<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>it cleans your brain</li><li>Instead of snaking your pipes and other plumbing gripes, it snakes through your mental aches and pains to leave you wide awake</li></ul><p></p><p>It is said that people are attracted to this teaching and form of prayer with the hope of manifesting conditions and stuff in our material lives. Well, lose the hope - it has little to nothing to do with it. Affirmative prayer or spiritual mind treatment is actually for the purpose of freeing us from our own limited ideas and beliefs...not to just get stuff. Treatment provides a pause to remember who we are and commune with our own consciousness.</p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Let there be an opening into the quiet that lies beneath the chaos, where you find the peace you did not think possible and see what shimmers within the storm. </i>~John O’Donahue, Rebel Thriver, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bless-Space-Between-Us-Blessings/dp/0385522274/ref=asc_df_0385522274/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=509271538023&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4907734209602893263&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031003&hvtargid=pla-434672158054&psc=1" target="_blank">To Bless the Space Between Us</a>”</span></blockquote><p></p><p>So <b>first</b>, recognize that God is the All of all! </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">You don't have to call It God - call it IT - God doesn't care what you call it! Just recognize the energy and frequency of all creation is here, right now - the Bahagavan, the qi, the life force.</p></blockquote><p><b>Then</b> unify yourself with that Power (whatever you're going to call it). </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">You and that Power are One already, you might as well give in to that truth. It acts through you, as you, in you, and in all life - so, revel in it...it's not going away.</p></blockquote><p><b>Thirdly</b>, accept and affirm that what you are declaring and revealing in this treatment is happening right now. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">Confirm it with clarity and specificity. Since you've already established and known that you are part of that Big Universal Power thing, you can speak your word without doubt or reservation that the good you desire to experience is now taking form. When you decide to have a treat, your awareness shifts; you become aware of what is actually true and use this process to substitute what was happening in your mind to what you believe now. We focus on the feelings and senses of having this idea or thing in our life. Prayer frees us from the wrong thinking/ideas of the past. Remember, the Universe has your back so you know your desire is complete as you speak it.</p></blockquote><p><b>Next</b>, have appreciation and gratitude for this acceptance.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">Having clearly stated and affirmed what you want to experience, it's time to do what you always do when you have accepted a treat - give thanks. The good you desire is yours right now. So, accept it and give thanks for this good right here and now. </p></blockquote><p><b>Finally</b>, release the words, the thoughts, the feelings, the acceptance,<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and affirm your good as already accomplished.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">When you release your prayer to the activity of the Universal Law of Mind, you can completely free yourself of any concern. “I let go and let God. I release this truth in total belief that it is done.”</p></blockquote><p>When we use this incredible tool to treat our minds, freeing us and being led into the freedom that is our birthright, we can break the “chains of unbelief, disbelief, and disapproving logic. Disapproving logic is that monkey mind that says some version of “no” or “impossible.” It most probably will rear its doubting-Thomas- head when a new idea shows up - you just gotta tell it to "shut up." And keep saying so till you mean it and this doubting-Thomas thing lets up.</p><p>Get tough, get clear, get connected, and get manifesting!</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #fcff01;">Come on....let's have a treat!!</span></h3><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u><b>Affirmative Incantation</b></u></p><p><i>I allow Spirit to overflow me with the Divine Truth.</i></p><p><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thus I am propelled by the Power and Presence of this Truth to free my Mind and receive Its wisdom and reveal Its best ideas.</i></p><p><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Today I consciously use this wisdom and these wonderful ideas for the following definite purpose: (reveal your goal for today).</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>I know my Mind is an outlet through which the Creative Intelligence of the Universe seeks fulfillment.</i></p><p><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>And so every thought and feeling I have, and any actions I take today, comes through a deep inner perception and the application of my Divine power, and the conviction to my stated goal.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Today I shall be fulfilled and, so too, the Creative Intelligence of the Universe shall be fulfilled.</i></p><p><i>I am a success!</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1. <span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;">Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Water Cleanup is a Cincinnati-based company providing plumbing repair, sewer & drain services, and water damage cleanup services to residential and commercial customers. </span></span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;">Note: </span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">The fair use doctrine, consistent with the First Amendment, </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">allows a person to use another's trademark either in its non-trademark</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">, descriptive sense to describe the user's own products (classic, or descriptive, fair use).</span></span></span></p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-31629465874993449192021-08-13T12:56:00.000-07:002021-08-13T12:56:08.539-07:00 STOP LYING TO YOURSELF<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5JQQX5itTv8/YRNm4lfb-hI/AAAAAAAAGcY/K_Y2QNYHBFoYODcvTZGu4Oh_Z1gv20TOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/stop%2Blying%2Bto%2Byourself.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5JQQX5itTv8/YRNm4lfb-hI/AAAAAAAAGcY/K_Y2QNYHBFoYODcvTZGu4Oh_Z1gv20TOgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/stop%2Blying%2Bto%2Byourself.png" width="320" /></a></div><p>If you tell yourself the Universe is against you</p><p>...you must stop lying to yourself</p><p>If you tell yourself you were born in sin, a mistake, dumb, weak, without power or abilities</p><p>...you must stop lying to yourself</p><p>If you tell yourself your DNA is your destiny</p><p>...you must stop lying to yourself!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4YSuXsx3eK8/YRYSaF18IVI/AAAAAAAAGc8/8OCf5it5lI4q6QfHvzPUy4ioBN2COAHuQCLcBGAsYHQ/s252/David%2BWalker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="252" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4YSuXsx3eK8/YRYSaF18IVI/AAAAAAAAGc8/8OCf5it5lI4q6QfHvzPUy4ioBN2COAHuQCLcBGAsYHQ/w159-h200/David%2BWalker.jpg" width="159" /></a></p><p>Dr. David Walker, one of my mentors wrote in his book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HIN2OW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1" target="_blank">You Are Enough</a>”</p><p></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Excuses are deadly. They don't injure our desires, they kill them, because they replace them. If you have an excuse as to why you are not demonstrating greater good in your life, that's the reason you haven't. You have an excuse.</span></i></blockquote><p></p><p>What's your excuse? What lie have you told yourself about yourself? Let me tell you the Truth.</p><h3 style="text-align: center;">You are sacred.</h3><p>Do you see yourself as that?</p><p>Sacred is defined as something that is from the divine...an idea or condition that is inviolable and sacrosanct. You were sacred before you started using this body you're in, you are during the time you use this body you're in, and will continue to be when you're done with this body you are in. You're sacred because every thing is sacred. Not just in a religious sense, but in a "what-a-crazy-miraculous-thing-this-universe-is" sense...the very essence of you is of the divine</p><p>Trees, flowers, and birds – sacred.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;">T</span>he wind, the stars, the sunlight falling upon our face - sacred.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;">H</span>ow our bodies work, how we became us [remember out of 200M sperm, only 1 takes the cake or makes the cake, as it were] ...all of that is divine, miraculous, and sacred.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>If we only knew how the Universe really works, we wouldn't just believe in miracles, we would expect, respect, and collect them in our hearts a million times a day. Life is a wonder. Love is magic. You are a miracle. </i>~<a href="https://twitter.com/MyPowertalk" target="_blank">Gordana Bierat</a> [tweet]</span></blockquote><p></p><p>When we see something as sacred:</p><p> • it's no longer taken for granted... appreciation/gratitude comes into play</p><p> • you treat it with respect and love, grateful for your connection and communion with he/she/it/them.</p><p> • it doesn’t get tossed into the actual or proverbial trash or put just any old place - it's handled with care.</p><p> • you no longer feel it’s a burden, but a gift. Devotion and love are bestowed upon it, and there's no struggle to get through the experience.</p><p> • you start to see the goodness and treat it, them, or yourself better...with nutritional food, sunlight, laughter, love, exercise, constructive self-talk, positive energy, etc.</p><p> • you move through/around it with awe and wonder...applauding the magical creation of which you are part.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>We can't make ourselves sacred, and we can't keep ourselves from being sacred. We can only become aware that we are sacred. </i>~Dr. Walker, “Discovering the Sacred”</span></blockquote><p></p><p>Everything is sacred...and yet nothing is sacred...unless you make it so. You see, you are automatically enough...spiritually perfect, whole, and complete right now. And you are born with a superpower. And your superpower is choice. The choice to lose what at one time seemed sacred or was practiced as sacred, but no longer serves you. Like the following lies... </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“If I could just X, then my life would be amazing.”</span></p><p>What's your X....to get married, get laid, get a raise, buy a new car, a new house, a new pet, floss more often? You’re smart enough to know that no one single goal will ever solve your delays in having or calling happiness in your life. Or do you use the excuse:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“I'm a very busy person”</span></p><p>Sorry, I have to call b.s. on that B.S. If you want to start a business or get six-pack abs, become an expert at this or that, don't lie and say you don't have the time. You make time and commit or understand you aren't ready to commit and stop making excuses. Or what about this oldie:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“If I say or do such and such, people will think I’m stupid.” </span></p><p>I know that one, I've had that go through my head. And when I do, I remember the title of Terry Cole Whitaker's book: “What You Think of Me Is None of My Business”. Or maybe you're thinking:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“If I just say or do this or that, then he/she/it/they will finally change.”</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;">N</span>ot impossible, but...</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a. it's not your job to fix "them"</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>b. it usually never works that way...people only change when they are ready</p><p>Possibly you've got the:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Everything is great or everything sucks”</span> blues.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;">B</span>oth are lies. Obviously, everything does not suck, but if you constantly think everything is great, you might be hiding behind the spiritual bypass that no matter what is happening, good or bad, it is the perfect manifestation of your beliefs. And though that is true, it is no reason to just let things happen to or at you. You have control of your imagination, feelings, thoughts, and beliefs and thus what manifests around you...take it and manifest what you want. Then there's the:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“There’s something inherently wrong or different about me”</span></p><p style="text-align: left;">or </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;">“I would change, but (</span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">fill in your rationalization here</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;">)”</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;">or the</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;">“I can’t live without X, Y, or Z”</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;">kind of stuff. And, of course, the famous stance:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;">“I know what I’m doing”</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="white-space: pre;">Li</span>e, lie, lie....b.s., b.s., b.s.</p><p>There's nothing inherently wrong with you. You are not your addictions, habits, DNA, or history. You can and will be able to live without him, her, they, them, or it. And yet don't get so cocky about your knowledge of this teaching or any other subject to the degree that you aren't open to learning more or healing from or evolving to your best. Those head-trip mechanisms including projections, denials, and other deceptions<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>are all escape routes for the lies.</p><p>Now you can use those lies as motivation; a divine urge to be more, live more, express more deeply, to transform and transcend your present circumstances, education, and success. Great, have at it. It's okay to want and have more. The lie is that your present circumstances make you less than.</p><p>Learn to enjoy where you are and enjoy the challenge of the pursuit of the next adventure. Relish what might seem like the chase and enjoy the journey, seeing it as a sacred adventure - as the Divine revealing Itself in you. To paraphrase Thomas Troward in "The Creative Process in the Individual" and Ernest Holmes in "The Science of Mind":</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Principle is never bound by precedent. </span></p><p>We have a tendency to slip into statistics and probability theories even when we think we have clarity about our vision or purpose. We view the vision through the past. It's okay, learning is good, not repeating mistakes is great, however, don't let a past-heavy perspective limit you from stepping into a whole new experience of possibility. Add to your vision work, your imagination/feeling/action work with a mystical glimpse of the Infinite Possibilities - see them, feel them, allow them to urge you into expression. What you focus on now is what the Universe will read.</p><p>If it is a destructive thought that comes to you, it's a lie from ego, stupidity, meanness, or ignorance. If it is a constructive thought, it comes from the Universal Power and we should awaken to Its wisdom and allow It to speak through and as us. </p><p>To embody the Divine we must stop lying to ourselves about being less than, not capable of, and other such nonsense. As Dr. Walker taught:</p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></i></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: arial;">We're not trying to cause something to happen to make us feel like we're enough. Quite the opposite. We're using our enoughness as the foundation upon which we satisfy our own creativity.</span></i></blockquote><p></p><p>That quote is highlighted, arrow-ed, and starred in my copy of his book. </p><p>So, stop the excuses, stop the lies. Stop the deceptions, the inaccuracies, and the 'justify's'. Stop resisting with insisting on a falsehood.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Resistance is Hell, for it places man in a “state of torment.” </i>~Florence Scovel Shinn, “The Game of Life & How to Play It”</span></blockquote><p></p><p>You are enough<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>right here, right now. Always have been, always will be. </p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01; font-size: medium;">So get crackin'...you've got new adventures to unfold!</span></h4><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u><b>Affirmative Incantation</b></u></p><p><i>I embody the body of the Divine Presence</i></p><p><i>I embody the chassis of Truth</i></p><p><i>I recognize and personify my Universal essence</i></p><p><i>And listen to its wisdom through my internal Bluetooth</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>I am powerful, I can choose</i></p><p><i>I anoint me my own guru</i></p><p><i>And as my own teacher and guide</i></p><p><i>I tap fully and completely into the ancient, modern, and infinite of the wise</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Venerable, admirable; receiving the best advice</i></p><p><i>Constructive actions are all I materialize</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>This day I embody the heaven within</i></p><p><i>And fill my day with joy and all of its synonyms.</i></p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-22040721498764266402021-08-10T19:40:00.001-07:002021-08-10T19:40:37.495-07:00 AREN'T YOU FREE YET?<p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="text-align: left;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-buYAEukM-w0/YRM0LTMiLjI/AAAAAAAAGcM/EdI_1oOEX0wOdweVqwueKDn7rQF9JPRjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/hanna-zhyhar-XzsSg0hdXpQ-unsplash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-buYAEukM-w0/YRM0LTMiLjI/AAAAAAAAGcM/EdI_1oOEX0wOdweVqwueKDn7rQF9JPRjwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/hanna-zhyhar-XzsSg0hdXpQ-unsplash.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #757575; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 10px;">Photo by </span><a href="https://unsplash.com/@zhyharhanna?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #007c89; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 10px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Hanna Zhyhar</a><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #757575; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 10px;"> on </span><a href="https://unsplash.com/s/photos/freedom?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #007c89; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 10px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Unsplash</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><i style="font-family: arial;">True freedom—true liberty—has something cosmic behind it. </i><span style="font-family: arial;">~Ernest Holmes</span></p><p></p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>Freedom to believe what we want is not given through human law, but by Universal Law<br /><br />Freedom to speak what we feel is not given to us by a human source, but by the Source and Substance of All. <div><br /></div><div>So too, the freedom to choose those words we speak, the thoughts we think, and the beliefs we hold onto are not because of a legal principle, but as our birthright...given to us by the Creative Principle that is the Universe. </div><div><br /></div><div>And freedom from tyranny, strife, lack, limitation, ignorance, hate, junk thinking, and old stories that no longer serve us is a choice of our mind. Viktor Frankel, whose vivid account of his experience as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp wrote in “Man's Search for Meaning”<p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="font-family: arial;">Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.</i></p><p></p>The first and last human freedom is choice:<br /><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;">Choice to have...independence from the control of others</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"> Choice to be...independent of the ideas that hurting or taking from others is okay</div></blockquote><div><br /> Independent from the ideas of suffering for something equals a greater worth of that something<br /><br />Liberty and justice is something handed down from the Universe; not by a Supreme Being that doles out good or bad experiences like a Santa Claus figure, but by a Universal Law that reflects back into our lives experiences equal to the belief of the one or the many. That is the immutable law of the irrevocable principle of cause and effect, the use of the unifying law we each individualize, the unifying law that we all are free to use for our liberty, justice, health, happiness, and prosperity. That is possibly the greatest lesson to learn. As Dr. Holmes spoke on this day in 1947 at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles:<br /><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: arial;">If our nature is one, if God is one—and we know that God must be one, for the universe cannot be divided against itself—then we are all tied into an indivisible unity. We shall have to get back to this unity to find the meaning of freedom. Nothing in any part of this cosmic whole could be considered freedom that would destroy the liberty of some other part of it. That would be self-destruction, would it not?</span></i></blockquote><span style="white-space: pre;"></span><p></p>He reminds us on this day, July 4th, in this country of the United States of America, that it is more important we celebrate & honor our being part of the United Individuals of the Universe, an indivisible unity of shared origin...bound by good for good. Our pledge is not to a nation, but to a shared energy of origin called by many names:<br /><h4 style="text-align: center;">God, Spirit, Holy One, Love, the Thing Itself</h4>IT is that stuff from which our physical bodies were made; the same stuff of which the planets are made. So we declare our independence as a nation, as a people, but most importantly as E Pluribus Unum...out of the many, one.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ltBX_AhuaWc" width="320" youtube-src-id="ltBX_AhuaWc"></iframe></div><br />As is my tradition on the Fourth of July, I give you the New Thought Declaration of Independence to codify and declare our freedom, our independence, with liberty and justice for all.<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eh_1RY03jx8" width="320" youtube-src-id="eh_1RY03jx8"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">PLAY the above as you read the below New Thought Declaration of Independence</span></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="text-align: justify;"></i></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><span style="font-family: courier;"><i><blockquote>When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one person to dissolve the bands and bonds of struggle, strife, lack, and faithlessness, which has connected them with a life that does not serve their greatest good, and to assume among the Power of the Universe, the station of Prosperity to which the Laws of Nature entitle them, a decent respect to the opinion of one who speaks in Truth requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.</blockquote></i></span></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><blockquote><blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">I hold this Truth to be self-evident, that I am created equal, that I am endowed by my Creator, that which is within me, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and Happiness. </span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">To secure these rights in my life, beliefs shall be instituted by me, deriving their just powers from Divine consent of the great Intelligence, my Mind and the Law of Cause and Effect. Whenever any Form of My Beliefs become destructive of these ends, it is the Right of Me to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new thoughts, new feelings, new perspectives, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing Its powers in such form, as to most likely effect my Safety, Prosperity, Health and Happiness.</span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Prudence, indeed, dictates that Beliefs, long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience has shown, that many times I am more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right myself by abolishing the beliefs to which I am accustomed that brought on the suffering. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations of my Good reveals a design to reduce Me to absolute or partial lack, it is my right, it is my duty, to throw off such Beliefs, and to provide new thoughts and feelings, new perspectives and beliefs, for my future security, prosperity, health and happiness. </span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Such has been my patient sufferance; and such is now the necessity which constrains me to alter my thinking and my Beliefs from the history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having a part of the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over my happiness.</span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: courier;">And so I now declare, with full knowledge and embodying of the One Power within, that One indestructible, absolute and self-existent Cause. With that Spirit expressing through me, which is the Unity of all life, I claim and swear to use my creative thoughts to think from that eternal goodness, that eternal loving kindness, and that eternal givingness of Divine Intelligence. To act, be, and surround myself with love, abundance, vitality and vibrancy. To think, reason, and live without the bondage of any negativity from my past, </span></i><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">without the consciousness of “no” or the shoulda/woulda/coulda of “not yet;” without fear of a future I will create, and without any water cooler gossip or the news and opinions of CNN, MSNBC, FOX NEWS, NPR or any government or religion that may be running around in my mind like a rat in a cage, like squirrels in a whirling dervish, like chattering monkeys – invading my consciousness.</span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">I, therefore, do, in the Name, and by Authority of my birthright as an individualization of the Source and Substance of All, solemnly publish and declare, that I Am that I AM, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent of destructive thoughts and beliefs; and that I Am that I AM, is absolved from all allegiance to negativity, and that all connection between me and the State of Lack and Limitation, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as a Free and Independent personalization of God, I engage my full Power to levy Peace, Prosperity, and Love in my life from this day, forward. </span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection and Power of the Divine Intelligence within, I pledge to my Life and sacred Honor.</span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"></p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"></p></blockquote>Similar to how John Hancock and the other Founding Fathers did in 1776, sign your name in the air, and proclaim your independence.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And now please join me in our Affirmative Incantation for the week as we know together:</div><div><br /><h4 style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: courier;">Freedom is not a question, </span><span style="font-family: courier;">Freedom is an answer!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>I answer, “why can I have prosperity in my life?” </i></span></div></h4></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><h4 style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>With, “Because I am free!”</i></span></div></h4></div></blockquote><div><h4 style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>I answer, “why will I have vitality and vibrancy in my body?” </i></span></div></h4></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><h4 style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>With, “Because I am unbound!” </i></span></div></h4></div></blockquote><div><h4 style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>I answer, “Why will I have love, kindness, and respect in my life?”</i></span></div></h4></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><h4 style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>With, “Because I have freedom!”</i></span></div></h4></div></blockquote><div><h4 style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>I have the freedom to choose my thoughts, choose my beliefs, and choose my actions. </i></span><i style="font-family: courier;">And today I choose to have the feelings and imagination to support my prosperity, health, and love with powerful, full-bodied, full-hearted, clear, and fearless actions.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>Oh say I can see, by the dawn's early light,</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><i>My gifts and talents manifesting into fabulous experiences.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div></h4></div>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-70787679388586052492021-08-10T16:47:00.000-07:002021-08-10T16:47:46.579-07:00 NATURE OR NURTURE...WHICH DO YOU?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S4OjhKg679s/YRLR1WbvglI/AAAAAAAAGcE/-Q3jK5nhbl0f5BVuKilr7pPlMNG9j6JXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s754/nature-nurture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="754" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S4OjhKg679s/YRLR1WbvglI/AAAAAAAAGcE/-Q3jK5nhbl0f5BVuKilr7pPlMNG9j6JXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/nature-nurture.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">And God says what's it gonna take to make you understand</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Can't you see I am everywhere</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I am everyone </span></i><i style="font-family: arial;">and you don't have to go so far to find me</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">~<a href="https://www.lauracoyle.com/" target="_blank">Laura Coyle</a>, "Woman She Goes"</span></p><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Nature tells us that life is a dance of balance and harmony - gaining it, keeping it, adapting or changing it. Each part of the whole receives what it needs for its sustenance, and gives, with its abilities and talents, for the benefit of the whole. A good example is when the carbon dioxide humans exhale feeds the trees and the oxygen they release sustains human life.</p><p>We are interconnected, interdependent, and yet independent - connected with Nature...God...to discover, embody, be, have, do and flourish nature’s work. Nature teaches us many powerful ideas, like these:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>All Good Things Do Not Require Money and Bigger is Not Necessarily Better</li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money. </i>~Plautus </span></blockquote><p></p><p>And have you ever seen a snowflake in close-up - delicate, powerful, and very small?</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Nature Is Not Only Able to Heal Itself After A Storm of Wind, Rain, or Fire but All Living Things In and Around It</li></ul><p></p><p>Bad times or bad weather rolls in and rolls out and yet in due course, with perseverance, nature and humanity continue to reign.</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Silence and Patience is Powerful and Wise</li></ul><p></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>God is the friend of the silence. Trees, flowers, grass grow in silence. See the stars, moon and sun, how they move in silence. </i>~Mother Teresa</span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Nature is Our Muse, It is an Endless Source of Inspiration...Beauty Exists Within</li></ul><p></p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. </i>~Claude Monet</span></p></blockquote><p>We must carry those things with us, allowing Nature to remind us of our original programming. Not what was taught, but what was our birthright. Nature reminds us that what authenticates that Thing called Spirit, God, or the Power and Presence of the Divine is indeed Nature itself - you, me, the animals, plants, and minerals...all-natural and organic. All those qualities found in nature are found in each of us by intelligent design and we are free to use these qualities to make a quality life as we choose.</p><p>But what is nurtured, then? Better question....what have we allowed to be nurtured? Everything that happens in the baby's environment goes directly into its subconscious mind, including attitudes, phobias, etc. But because of perception, choice, imagination, memory, intuition, and reason; that nurturing -positive or negative- can be changed. Quantum Mechanics experiments have proved that reality is what you choose it to be and choice is probably the greatest gift we have been given by the Universe.</p><p>You are the thermostat for your thinking, reactions, perceptions, attitudes, responses. You are the power to nurture the nature in you....or what you have learned. We don't have to find it by going to the top of the mountain or the bottom of the ocean, but by doing the inner work. When we don't, we nurture the habits of lack and limitation,<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>whatever they look like in your life. It doesn't matter whether it's missing or ignoring the red flags or blaming things on others or age or history, etc. By not treating your mind and heart to empowering ideas, you keep your self-image where it is, no matter who or what put it there. </p><p>Self-image is why diets usually don't work or children's grades and attitudes don't improve or do so only temporarily...we don't nurture the nature. We look for answers where they are not, asking the questions that don't pertain. Using our imagination and feelings to experience the change in mind adjusts the vibration, paradigm, and habit,<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>resulting in a greater self-image, optimizing the questions we ask and the actions we take, and the thinking we have.</p><p>It is said:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><i>If you can live without caffeine,</i></p><p><i>If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,</i></p><p><i>If you can resist complaining,</i></p><p><i>If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,</i></p><p><i>If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,</i></p><p><i>If you can ignore a friend's limited education and never correct him or her,</i></p><p><i>If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,</i></p><p><i>If you can face the world without lies and deceit,</i></p><p><i>If you can conquer tension without medical help,</i></p><p><i>If you can relax without liquor,</i></p><p><i>If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,</i></p><p><i>If you can honestly say that deep in your heart you have no prejudice against creed, color, religion, gender preference, or politics,</i></p><p><i>Then you have almost reached the same level of spiritual development as your dog!</i></p></blockquote><p>Our self-image and thus our beliefs and thus our thoughts and thus our actions is a cybernetic instrument, an automatic control system. As you nurture the idea of love, peace, and prosperity in your subconscious and beliefs;<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>over and over, this repetition leads to habit and it frees you to explore what Nature teaches. Nurture your natural powers:</p><h4 style="text-align: center;">What do you want? What do you want to be like?</h4><p>Think about it, then write it out:</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I AM so happy and grateful now that ….”</h3><p><span style="white-space: pre;">A</span>s you get in touch with the feelings of being that “I Am...” answer, get emotionally involved with it. You will change your belief, self-image, paradigm, and results. Principle, God, the Universe, the spiritual laws are not bound by precedent, whether it's supposedly in your DNA or taught and accepted.</p><p>You might say, “Jay, I've heard this before.” Yes, I know I've said it before and I will say it again in as many ways as I can think of until we all get it and use it...until this repetition of hearing will lead us all to the being and doing. It will either inspire you or piss you off into working this idea or start to offend you so you don't do the work and see the negative results from not doing the work<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and then, after joining the pity party or the grudge gathering, until you get sick of that. Or go climbing to that top of the mountain or swimming to the bottom of the sea to find the answers, and then remember this talk.</p><p>You were born to be happy, succeed, prosper, and love. You may not have been nurtured in your upbringing to do that or be that, but how you were brought up and the junk ideas you may have learned can be unlearned.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/411zKO0BCRL._SL350_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="213" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/411zKO0BCRL._SL350_.jpg" width="122" /></a></div></i></span></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs. </i>~<a href="https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/psycho-cybernetics-a-new-way-to-get-more-living-out-of-life-by-maxwell-maltz-bobbe-sommer/246315/item/1860509/?gclid=CjwKCAjwx8iIBhBwEiwA2quaq7w9C1k0swoptV-H9ufbNL2g9gx3jJAoeCfd9jRsa1bkBoN6ugsEwRoCm5EQAvD_BwE#idiq=1860509&edition=2257485" target="_blank">Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics</a></span></blockquote><p></p><p>We are authentic when we use our True selves when we nurture the wisdom of Nature and that of the dog (as indicated above).</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p> <i><span style="font-family: arial;">And God says, </span></i></p></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Why do you people think you need to climb so many mountains ...</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>swim so many oceans </i>~Laura Coyle</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p></p></blockquote><h4 style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>When you are here, you're nurturing your nature</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>When you do the affirmative incantations, you're nurturing your nature.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>When you read, listen to Truth talks or books or podcasts or lectures, you're nurturing your nature</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>When you consistently work your spiritual practice, you are nurturing your nature.</li></ul></h4><p></p><p>It's not nature over nurture or nature vs. nurture...it's nature and nurture!</p><p>Nurture your nature and upgrade your knowledge, wisdom, self-image, imagination into a fabulous, succulent, prosperous, and vibrant life.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u><b>Affirmative Incantation</b></u></p><p><i>This is the day I certify my place in the Universe:</i></p><p><i>I am all that I require to Be, Have, and Do for my best day</i></p><p><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>And that which I don't know that I know is revealed to me at the ideal time</i></p><p><i>In the mirror, I see a reflection of one of the Universe's unique creations.</i></p><p><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Today, I declare myself completely and perfectly prepared to face whatever shows up</i></p><p><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>And able to express the whole enchilada of glorious wisdom and power</i></p><p><i>I appreciate all that the Universe has given to me and all that it provides for me, no matter the circumstances</i></p><p><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>For this is the day I certify my place in the Universe</i></p><p><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...a place where I am grateful to be in the ever-loving arms of the brightest Light to illuminate my way,</i></p><p><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...the most enduring Love to support my talents, ideas, and courageousness,</i></p><p><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...and the greatest Beauty to embody the harmony between me and the powers of the Infinite from which I spring.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>I choose to be ready and certified to be a spiritual badass and kick some prosperous butt.</i></p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-2991886321125218002021-08-03T14:39:00.007-07:002021-08-03T14:39:56.251-07:00 LOOK AROUND<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4lC4iXyQam8/YQmwJCsnD1I/AAAAAAAAGbk/f_iT48oRSvodF9l-Mp1V287RlhLpQzIKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/Where-to-see-wild-monkeys-in-Japan-e1576272777101.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4lC4iXyQam8/YQmwJCsnD1I/AAAAAAAAGbk/f_iT48oRSvodF9l-Mp1V287RlhLpQzIKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Where-to-see-wild-monkeys-in-Japan-e1576272777101.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">"I think, therefore I am....Cogito, ergo sum," said René Descartes.</p><p style="text-align: center;">"I AM THAT I AM,"<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>spoke the Burning Bush to Moses</p><p>Both are authentications of the Divine Presence.</p><p>Our thinking, thoughts, consciousness are paramount in manifestation, perception, and our connection to the Universal, but is it the only way to authenticate the Divine?</p><p></p><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">my mind is</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">chipping with sharp fatal tools</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">chrome and execute strides of cobalt</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">nevertheless i</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">becoming something a little different, in fact</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">myself</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">bellowings. </span></i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings" target="_blank">~ e. e. cummings, <b>Portraits VII</b></a></p></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>What do you feel when you see hear, touch, smell, taste something so fantastic your whole life seems to make sense? It brings words to mind you never thought you had, descriptions and adjectives you’ve never used, memories you had long misplaced? There's a book I love called “<a href="http://www.dianeackerman.com/a-natural-history-of-the-senses-by-diane-ackerman" target="_blank">A Natural History of the Senses</a>” by Diane Ackerman. She is quite the prolific author of two dozen highly-acclaimed works of poetry and nonfiction, many New York Times bestsellers, The Zookeeper's Wife (a 2017 movie starring Jessica Chastain), and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for "One Hundred Names for Love." Ackerman is the epitome of curiosity and imagination. Her thrilling observations urge us to live in the moment and to wake up to nature's everyday miracles and her work is addictive. Today I'm using some of her quotes and readings to authenticate the Divine in all – our June theme.</p><p></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/A_Natural_History_of_the_Senses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="255" height="390" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/A_Natural_History_of_the_Senses.jpg" width="255" /></a></div>In a mere ounce of air, there are 1,00 billion trillion gyrating atoms made up of oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen, each a menagerie of electrons, quarks, and ghostly neutrinos. ... Sometimes we marvel at how “calm” the day is, or how “still” the night. Yet there is no stillness in the sky, or anywhere else where life and matter meet. They are always vibrant and aglow, full of volatile gases, staggering spores, dust, viruses, fungi, and animals, all stirred by a swirling and relentless wind. ~"Vision" chapter</span></i></blockquote><p></p><p>When you look at the stars, the moon, the expansiveness of the sky / the universe, a flower, a child, your loved one, or a sweet treat, you may stare in amazement of its power and beauty – your emotions soar, yes?You may think, “A higher intelligence must be present!”</p><p>Each of us are a unique beholder of creation, an authenticator of a design that is both super natural and metaphysical beyond our present comprehension, even<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>though science and scientific theory attempts to explain it all.</p><p>When you look in a mirror, you will see the face of a predator; not to capture or eat other animals though that ability is there as well, but to gather light, pick out important images, focus on novel sites, and pinpoint them in space and time to follow them, we have the ability to be a walking stereoscopic binocular<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p>What we see are prey, not in order to feed our bellies, but our minds, that's the power of our sense of vision. If that is not from a Divine intelligence, I don't know what is. Helen Keller wrote:</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.womenshistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/images/2018-07/Keller_Helen%20square.jpg?itok=mSV8IAcB" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="299" data-original-width="300" height="299" src="https://www.womenshistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/images/2018-07/Keller_Helen%20square.jpg?itok=mSV8IAcB" width="300" /></a></div>Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start and awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p>In 2014, researchers in a Science magazine article concluded that the human nose can distinguish at least 1 trillion different odors, way beyond the previous estimate of 10,000. Whether it's your favorite fruit pie or flower, fresh cut grass, sea or mountain air, or the pheromones of your mate; a human nose has around 400 scent receptors. For example, when the smell of coffee wafts through a room, specific receptors in the nose detect molecular components of the odor. That elicits a series of neural responses, translating into inward or outward cry's like “Thank God” or “Where is it?”. Or it engages the action of the salivary glands and creates a GPS-like hunt for its location. Smell brings out both the imaginary and the memorial in the brain. It can act as an informant of a person's profession or hobby, habits or previous locale; and with food – the sense of taste attaches itself. Rev. Kelly Isola, a Unity minister,<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>wrote some tips for increasing your spiritual sense of smell. Here's two:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>When you connect with God's presence, what scents or fragrances come to mind?</li><li>With every deep breath in today, let it be a reminder of being more open and alive, to knowing God as real, authentic, and attentive</li></ul><p></p><p>If the sense of smell is not from a Divine intelligence, I don't know what is.</p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>If you want to find the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration. </i>~Nikola Tesla</span></p></blockquote><p>What happens when you hear Mozart or Miles Davis, Dolly Parton or Dean Martin, Bach or the Beatles (depending on your taste). How about<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a baby laughing, a light rain at your window, a crackling fire, the sigh of your lover, or the purr of your cat? For me, a Debussy composition delights all of my senses - when I hear them, I feel enlightened, open and ready for expansion and transformation. The sounds of nature, both pleasant and not, are a symphony of proof that Spirit wants to be heard; in all the languages for all Its creation - animal, mineral, vegetable, aviary, reptile, mammal, and plants...yes, even plants.</p><p>Using highly expensive and sensitive acoustic sensors, similar to the ones use to detect cracks in bridges, researchers are able to catch the ultrasonic blips and pops of a plant. They may not sing like the one in “Little Shop of Horrors,”<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>but it has been proven that their vibrations are a language to each other and the insects that feed upon them</p><p>The Universe's sound, translates closely to the "Aum" chant you may hear at an Ashram or the beginnings of a Yoga class. Though we cannot truly create the sound of the universe by a chanting; we can produce a vibration sympathetic with the electro-magnetic ones of the cosmic hum. Listen to this:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/84VIZ6d0nUk" width="320" youtube-src-id="84VIZ6d0nUk"></iframe></div><p>If sound is not from a Divine intelligence, I don't know what is</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Touch, by clarifying and adding to the shorthand of the eyes, teaches us that we live in a three-dimensional world. </i>~”Touch”</span></blockquote><p></p><p>When we touch silk, velvet, grass, or each other, we can miraculously heal hurt, ease pain, save premmie infants, and change the circumstances of health and well-being. Touch informs, touch educates, and touch loves. Touch is not only by skin, but what we do when we pray or commune with the power and presence of the Universe.</p><p>If touch is not from a Divine intelligence, I don't know what is.</p><p>More from Diane Ackerman:</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>A creamy blur of succulent blue sound smells like week-old strawberries dropped onto a tin sieve as mother approaches in a halo of color chatter, and a perfume like thick golden butterscotch.</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p>Isn't that beautiful? All of that is a description of Nature saying “hi...” in the synesthesia of life. Only 2 - 4% of people have the neurological condition called synesthesia in which information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates several of your senses, but in many ways, all of us are synesthetes.</p><p>Sacred rituals use the senses to connect to their very being and essence. The Torah (Exodus 20:18) describes the Hebrews gathering to receive the scrolls with Moses at Mt. Sinai to hear visions and see the voice of God. Dr. William Bushell of MIT's Department of Anthropology and Columbia University's American Institute of Buddhist Studies tells us, "In fact, synesthesia may not only be associated with the highest spiritual states, it may be necessary for them." </p><p>Dr. Eben Alexander wrote in "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008TTPQXA/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1" target="_blank">Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey Into the Afterlife</a>" about the blending of his senses during his near-death experience in a 2008 coma when he wrote,<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Seeing and hearing were not separate in this place where I now was ...I could see the surging, joyful perfection of what they sang.” After months of analysis and discussion with other scientists about his experience, Eban Alexander concluded, “It is crucial to remember that my ultra-real experience deep in coma, in the realms of the Gateway and the Core that I describe in my book, did not happen in my brain, or in the physical universe, but they really happened in a more fundamental reality – the dwelling-place of Divine consciousness, spirit and soul.”</p><p>What more proof do you need to authenticate the Divine in all and through all? Just use your senses. Stay aware and awake, and allow your senses to inform you, inspire you. All you gotta do is look around</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u><b>Affirmative Incantation</b></u></p><p>Today I put in place a guarantee for a great day:</p><p><span> </span>I promise to be centered and grounded</p><p><span> </span>And if I slip, I pledge to stop and get grounded and centered once again</p><p><br /></p><p>I commit to being clear and concise with my intentions</p><p><span> </span>And I shall use the lifetime warranty from the Universe </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>To assure me of my bodily vitality, </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>To vouch for my heightened mental and creative abilities, </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>And to confirm my absolute willingness to awaken to all inspiration around me.</p><p><br /></p><p>This pledge deposits gobs of Peace, Power, Beauty, Joy, Love, Light, Life, and Wisdom in my mind and heart, <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>All I require for a wonderful experience at work, play, and love throughout the day </p><p><br /></p><p>I amplify, clarify, and intensify my best self today with this guarantee </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>That will fill me, thrill me, and stay with me morning, noon, and night.</p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-79483999773043693892021-07-12T14:22:00.000-07:002021-07-12T14:22:49.644-07:00 I HAVE ARRIVED<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gNo00vNPnWw/YOyhhns7TkI/AAAAAAAAGaQ/-huPgVKrItITHdpSKNKoOq32kOIU6AeewCLcBGAsYHQ/s1390/young-woman-winning-trail-race-smile_ELYRJPV.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="1390" height="187" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gNo00vNPnWw/YOyhhns7TkI/AAAAAAAAGaQ/-huPgVKrItITHdpSKNKoOq32kOIU6AeewCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h187/young-woman-winning-trail-race-smile_ELYRJPV.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">photo "young woman winning trail race" by David Pereiras licensed by EnvatoElements</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div>June was about connecting with the Divine within. In sleep and prayer, turning ourselves on to the infinite possibilities in the Universe, and affirming who we really are and our place in the scheme of things Universal. I've used June to remind us to step away from doing, so we can BE, and in the being:<p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...refresh, reboot, reconnect to our power</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...and reframe the stories that have emerged, re-emerged, or are stubborn and slow us down, triggering old habits.</p><p>Boy those old stories can sneak up on ya. Even when you have done the forgiveness work, the shadow work, and/or the trauma work. When the junk shows up, the work must go on<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to lessen, neutralize, and eliminate those old beliefs by first connecting to the Divine Power, Intelligence, Love, Light, and Law.</p><p>Earlier in the month, I compared the Oscar Wilde novel, DORIAN GRAY, to our self-image. I compared how our beliefs, perspectives, perceptions, etc. show up in our lives like the portrait illustrated in the book. However, in real life, we are the painter and the Universe is the store where we get the turpentine to remove paint mistakes and clean our brushes, where we find the best easel to center and balance our canvas, and where we discover new mediums and colors to express the art and creativity of this thing called You.</p><p>There's a great moment in the novel <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grapes-of-wrath-john-steinbeck/1002084358" target="_blank">GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck</a> where Tom Joad talks about his next steps in life. He says:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I been thinking about us, too, about our people living like pigs and good rich land layin’ fallow. Or maybe one guy with a million acres and a hundred thousand farmers starvin’. And I been wonderin’ if all our folks got together and yelled…</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"> … maybe I can just find out somethin’, just scrounge around and maybe find out what it is that’s wrong and see if they ain’t somethin’ that can be done about it. …</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Well, maybe like [the Preacher] says, a fella ain't got a soul of his own, but on'y a piece of a big one —an' then—"</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">"Then it don' matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be ever'where—wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. ... I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'—I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. </span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build—why, I'll be there. </span></i></p></blockquote><p></p><p>Tom's story is not just about activism in his own life and those around him to right the wrongs he talks about. He's digging into the idea of Oneness. Not only are we in this together, but we are also all made from the same cloth. Like Walt Whitman in <a href="https://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/27" target="_blank">LEAVES OF GRASS</a>,</p><p></p><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I celebrate myself, and sing myself,</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">And what I assume you shall assume,</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.</span></i></p><p></p></blockquote><p>Or like Emerson termed it in THE OVER-SOUL, </p><p></p><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. By the same fire, serene, impersonal, perfect, which burns until it shall dissolve all things in the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each other, and what spirit each is of.</span></i></p><p></p></blockquote><p>We are all part of the one...</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE ONE POWER</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE ONE CREATIVE FORCE</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE ENERGY OF THE BIG BANG</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE FREQUENCY OF LOVE AND WISDOM</p><p></p><blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodlifeproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Mark-Nepo-Being-Faithful-to-the-Truth-of-the-Journey.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="68" src="https://www.goodlifeproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Mark-Nepo-Being-Faithful-to-the-Truth-of-the-Journey.png" width="135" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>In many ways, our stories are part of one story. Our pain is part of one pain. Our surprise at the beauty and fragility of life is part of one chorus of awe. </i>~Mark Nepo, <a href="https://marknepo.com/">Seven Thousand Ways to Listen<br /></a></span><p></p><p></p></blockquote><p>In our intentional connection to IT, we can decide if in our story we are the hero, the victim, the wrongdoer, the innocent bystander, or the observer. We can paint those pictures for ourselves. Too often we get caught up in our day-to-day struggles and forget who we are. We forget to be appreciative and in gratitude for the gift of life, for our past, good and not-so-good, <span style="white-space: pre;">and </span>for our old stories and the new ones we are making. </p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>This is the story of your life. Just keep right on knocking at the doorway of your consciousness until every “no” become a “yes”, every negation an affirmation, every fear a faith. </i>~Ernest Holmes, THIS THING CALLED YOU</span></blockquote><p></p><p>This doorway is in your prayer, in your meditations, in your visualizations, in your visioning, and in your connection with Spirit. As poet Robert Frost said in SERVANT OF SERVANTS:</p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The best way out is always through.</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p>Through the Truth.</p><p>Through your best Self.</p><p>Through the great intelligence and the wisdom of the ages.</p><p>Through your Divine Matrix.</p><p>Through connecting to IT and knowing your inclusion with and as IT, the Power and Presence of Divine Intelligence places you in the center and the circumference of your very being - your essence.</p><p>Don't allow ego (edging God out), errors, the mortal mind, or the crazy news to have any influence. Their effect only arrives through our cause, when we believe in it or accept it.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Today you are going to take your life in your own hands, realizing God is ever with you. </i>~Ernest Holmes, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-Thing-Called-Ernest-Holmes/dp/1585426075/ref=asc_df_1585426075/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312371602209&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5657550010252884994&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031003&hvtargid=pla-568250813019&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=61011965686&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312371602209&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5657550010252884994&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031003&hvtargid=pla-568250813019" target="_blank">THIS THING CALLED YOU</a></span></blockquote><p></p><p>Be vigilant in your refusal to endorse or accept suggestions that do not embrace your greater self.</p><p>Be watchful for those who want to dupe you all those ideas are impotent unless you empower them.</p><p>So...</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reject the lies!</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reject the I am what I do's!</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reject the I am what I have's!</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reject the "what other people think of me's!</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reject the separation feeling from others, what you want, and God!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/c7t2LuIPpeiw8MBZc7fihpGoYNWoKfXJG7tyVCLPJuNJgePV0GcXftQowkne29UB4QXFYUvEkeZD7a_E4wCrOKv0eg=s222" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>If you can view your mind as your house, it can teach you to control how much space you rent to your wounds and grievances. You are the proprietor, and you set the rent. </i>~Fred Luskin, <a href="https://learningtoforgive.com/about/" target="_blank">FORGIVE FOR GOOD</a><br /></span></blockquote><p></p><p>Let us embrace and go through any ordeal with an open heart, a deep inquiry, and a desire for allowing ourselves to stay awake and aware and connected to the Divine. And when you do, go through it with and as the Divine in you...</p><p> where you will awaken to your best practices</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>where you will take the inspired wise action</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and where you will be able to stand tall, brave, and bold, and sing loud and proud:</p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">I have arrived!</span></h3><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Affirmative Incantation</u></b></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Today I rise above 30,000 feet </span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...to see the overview of my great ride on this journey</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I see fields of green, red roses too</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I see myself arriving and thriving</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">See me breaking on through</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">As I reach for the stars, wherever I roam</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I know I'm supported by my thoughts</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...in the following syndrome:</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I Am the beloved with all rights and privileges</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...constantly beaming at my highest frequency</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I Am stepping up, leaning in, bold and brave, </span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>….sometimes going out on a limb and starting a new wave</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I Am surrounded by Light and surrounded by Love, </span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...and wisdom lands sweetly right into my glove.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I will carry this through my day, the week, and more</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Affirming, awakening</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">All my opulence showing up here and accounted for!</span></i></p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-32674719908549892982021-07-12T14:02:00.000-07:002021-07-12T14:02:08.634-07:00The Greatest Secret Is There Is No Secret<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w3GUSZh2rnU/YOyrx_8LBjI/AAAAAAAAGaY/5qhX-U-wpHsgrI6NoB-rVBAci53f2m88ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/kristina-flour-BcjdbyKWquw-unsplash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1228" data-original-width="1920" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w3GUSZh2rnU/YOyrx_8LBjI/AAAAAAAAGaY/5qhX-U-wpHsgrI6NoB-rVBAci53f2m88ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/kristina-flour-BcjdbyKWquw-unsplash.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">photo by Kristina Flour on unsplash.com</span></div><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm sick of all the insincere...</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">This time</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Don't need another perfect lie</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Don't care if critics ever jump in line</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I'm gonna give all my secrets away</i> </span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">~Ryan Tedder, lead vocalist – <a href="https://onerepublic.com/" target="_blank">One Republic</a></span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p>The greatest secret of them all is there is no secret:</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> ...</span>there is no secret way to manifest</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> ...</span>there is no secret way to stay healthy</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> ...</span>there is no secret to healthy relationships</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> ...</span>there is no secret to any of that or more</p><p>There is no secret because, by definition, nothing is being kept from you. And it's not just because there are books to read for these tools and ideas, the best teachers are out there to teach you these tools and ideas, or even because the internet has these tools and ideas readily available to search for. Your mindfulness, imagination, curiosity, open-heartedness, sense of wonder, and being present is all the education you require.</p><p>Your senses are your teacher. Your willingness to explore is your teacher. <span style="white-space: pre;">T</span>he power and presence that is innate in you is your teacher. No one and no thing is keeping a secret from you.</p><p>Exploration isn't just about hiking the Andes, diving into the Mariana Trench,<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>or experimenting with hallucinogens. Exploration is living with eyes wide open. Exploration is having your heart and brain awake. Exploration is hearing, listening, and comprehending. Exploration is allowing, connecting, and receiving inspiration, information, and motivation.</p><p>All of that is already a part of you. All of that is given to you at birth, even if some biology of the senses are not working like others, another takes over with added sensitivity...it's not a secret.</p><p>There is no need for a dark night of the soul to have a breakthrough. You are not more deserving of enlightenment if you have:</p><p> ...felt isolated from any or everything and abandoned by God or the Universe</p><p> ...felt lost and confused about your direction</p><p> ...felt despair and horror with what's going on in the world</p><p> ...felt a sense of overwhelming dread or deep tiredness in your bones</p><p> ...felt your motivation shot to hell and a loss of interest in most things</p><p>Keep pondering your purpose or who you are and feel like you don’t belong on this planet<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>or trauma, sadness, hurt, etc.</p><p>You also don't have to go through:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Unhappiness, despondency, and feeling loss...then</li><li>Shifting perspectives...then</li><li>Seeking answers and meaning...then</li><li>Finding answers and experiencing breakthroughs...then</li><li>Disillusionment and feeling lost again...then</li><li>Deeper inner work...before</li><li>Integration, expansion, and joy shows up in your life</li></ul><p></p><p>I'm not saying it is wrong to go through those things; the point is...you don't have to.</p><p>Believing there's some secret(s) that is kept from us that we have to seek out “or else,” puts us in a lack/victim mode. Why start there?!? - behind, catching up or even middle there or end there?</p><p>I didn't have to have kidney stones to tap into some anger that was lurking in me, except that I wasn't open to learning and dealing with it without the 4-day pain event - evidently. But there was no secret kept from me. I didn't have to go through the whole pre-divorce marriage junk events to see the red flags, I chose to ignore them. Some reasons for that were noble and some were because of wearing a blindfold, but there was no secret kept from me.</p><p>We should start in the empowered mode, and expand from there. We don't need to go through a long process to authenticate the Divine in us. Authentication is not just about proof, but about acknowledgment, awakening and allowing, knowing and believing, and sitting in a pool of faith. There's no hypothesis that has to be proved unless you're starting in disbelief. There's no empirical evidence that you have to generate to answer the big questions; your wonderment, curiosity, imagination, and insight generate those answers.</p><p>Oh, I could give you tricks and hacks, reminders, and philosophy. And I do – every week. I could quote you to an inspired frenzy, motivate, lead, and teach you ideas and tools. And I do – every week. But it isn't a secret. You don't have to belong to a club or society, there's no dues required or fees involved, not even a book you must read or guru you must follow ...except me :)</p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>There is no great and no small</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>To the Soul that maketh all:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>And where it cometh, all things are</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>And it cometh everywhere.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I am owner of the sphere,</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Of the seven stars and the solar year,</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Of [Yeshua's] heart, and Shakespeare's strain.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>There is one mind common to all [individuals]. Every[one] is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. [One] that is once admitted to the right of reason is made [free] of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, [you] may think; what a saint has felt, [you] may feel; what at any time has befallen any[one], [all] can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. </i>~Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>We see multiplicity and we experience multiplicity, but the Truth is there is One Mind. And we are a sovereign agent of that One Mind. Because of that, we have access to the Universal Mind and all its information, wisdom, and infinite possibilities.</p><p>And if there is one mind, there is no secret to hold...no secret to be had. There is only education, enlightenment, and awakening, and we authenticate that by living it.</p><p></p><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.3616977.1535988729!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_620_330/image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="620" height="108" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.3616977.1535988729!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_620_330/image.jpg" width="202" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The doctrine of identity can claim that it is clinched by the empirical fact that<br /> consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. </i> ~Erwin Schroedinger<span style="font-size: x-small;">, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and noted expert in quantum theory, statistical and electro mechanics, colour theory, thermodynamics, general relativity, and cosmology – considered one of the fathers of quantum mechanics</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p>We are going to discuss some quantum mechanics later this month. Till then, let us remember the greatest secret of them all is that there is no secret. There is only learning, remembering, awakening, and allowing.</p><p>You have already been stamped - certified</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">you are confirmed</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> you have been </span>given full access</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> you are </span>endorsed, validated, licensed, approved, and ratified.</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: medium;"> you are the sovereign agent of all information, everywhere. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">All you have to do is put the authentic You into practice!</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Affirmative Incantation</u></p><p>I attest that Spirit empowers me to be my authenticate self</p><p>I attest to the freedom of choice that I always have to embody the best ideas.</p><p>I attest that any pain in my life is merely the compost to my next triumph.</p><p>I attest that I don't strive, I thrive</p><p>I attest to the Truth of my Being:</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I am a bold, brave, succulent spiritual being having a vibrant, successful, and loving human experience. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>And I go through anything and everything with that idea always supporting and guiding me.</p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-78106296039606276442021-06-07T21:39:00.007-07:002021-06-07T21:39:54.328-07:00REMOVING OUR HUMAN CLOTHING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MSlZDpFHLrw/YL6b9cf2U8I/AAAAAAAAGYI/SWhOV30MPuYZsc2y6hPabf_-1hafJEt-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s450/Innner-Life-1142967.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="347" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MSlZDpFHLrw/YL6b9cf2U8I/AAAAAAAAGYI/SWhOV30MPuYZsc2y6hPabf_-1hafJEt-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Innner-Life-1142967.jpg" /></a></div><p>When you take your clothes off, what is left? Your naked body...your birthday suit?</p><p>When you take your human clothing off -not just the clothes- the skin, the bones, hair, teeth, organs, along with your mental stuff, your practicalities, your actions; down to the very cells of this vehicle called the physical body...what is left?</p><p>Some would say “nothing.” Some would be wrong. What is left... </p><h3 style="text-align: left;"> is everything</h3><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. </i>~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin</span></blockquote><p></p><p>When all else seems to be failing, when nothing seems to be going my way, when my life seems to have been wasted, I know it's time to remove my human clothing. I'm not talking about ending it all, returning to pure Spirit, because I don't have to end it all to connect to and live as pure Spirit.</p><p>We've seen that proved in many NDE stories. </p><p>Read: "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Proof-Heaven-Neurosurgeons-Journey-Afterlife/dp/1451695195" target="_blank">Proof of Heaven</a>" by Eben Alexander</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...a neurosurgeon who had a week-long coma brought on by meningitis and was incapable of brain activity yet he remembers this experience of pure Spirit.</p><p>Read: "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Back-Doctors-Extraordinary-Account/dp/0307731715/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=To+Heaven+and+Back&qid=1623120522&s=books&sr=1-1" target="_blank">To Heaven and Back</a>" by Mary C. Neal</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...former director of spinal surgery at the University of Southern California was submerged in a river after a kayaking accident.</p><p>Read: "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Be-Me-Journey-Healing/dp/1401937535/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Dying+to+Be+Me&qid=1623120553&s=books&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Dying to Be Me</a>" by Anita Moorjani</p><p>Read: "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/After-Doctor-Explores-Near-Death-Experiences/dp/1250263034/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=After%3A+A+Doctor+Explores+What+Near-Death+Experiences+Reveal+about+Life+and+Beyond&qid=1623120580&s=books&sr=1-1" target="_blank">After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond</a>" by Dr. Bruce Grayson</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia </p><p>In these stories, we learn that we aren't our successes or failures, or our brains or our bodies, we are spiritual beings.</p><p>You might remember that story I've told about the 5-year-old boy who kept asking his parents to spend some time alone with his new sister. When his parents asked him why he wanted this alone time with the new baby, the 5-year-old said that he needed to talk to her because he was starting to forget God. </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Have you forgotten how you are connected with Divine Intelligence?</h3><p>Like God or the concept that is referred to as God, we are infinite beings. That creative energy that makes and made all, we are part of that. That is our essence - our Alpha and Zeta, our beginning and ending, from"womb to tomb," "birth to earth," our before and beyond...no time, no space.</p><p>Leslie Caron is quoted as saying:</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p>No offense to Ms. Caron, a nice person whose voice lessons followed mine many years ago. And others who have said something similar...I totally disagree. I don't believe you need a comparison to know or appreciate happiness, health, or success. To me, that idea is an ignorance of the learned, from one who is out-of-touch with one's Greater Self. Too many of us on too many occasions are not present in our bodies or minds. Marcus Aurelius, philosophical Emperor of Rome in the second century said:</p><p></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: arial;">The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable...</span></i></blockquote><p></p><p>And Margaret Lee Runbeck, author of 16 books and famous for her quotes, wrote:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.</span></i></p><p></p></blockquote><p>How are you traveling and where are you traveling from? I can't answer that for you, that's your perspective to decide upon. But I can tell you that when you strip away your human clothing and awaken to your spiritual magnificence, intelligence, and creativity, you tap into an infinite storehouse of information, intuited ideas, wisdom, a foundation for clarity, and calm. When you remove your human clothing, you don't talk at the Universe...you talk to It, with It, and as It. You talk to that Power and Presence of Nature, that Infinite Wisdom. You connect to and converse with the Light and Power of God.</p><p>It is a sensation, a feeling like love. You don't see that Light, you experience IT. You don't see that Power, you live IT. Your goals may be powerful, but unless you connect with them like you do with Spirit, they are merely words and wishes, hopes and possibilities.</p><p>Remove the ego of lack, maybe, someday, tomorrow, before, victim-hood, bills, bosses, news, dis-ease of body, brain, relationships or situations, and even successes, acclaim, talents, victories, or any prosperity. Remove them from your head for now and what is left? Not emptiness, but the most full of all! </p><p>You are left with the Prime. Do you remember what prime is? It is a number that can only be divided by itself and one, just like Spirit, the Divine Mind, the Creative Power, First Cause, the Absolute, the energy and frequency of the Big Bang, the Formless, the Radiance. Prime = One.</p><p>Remove our human clothing and we are at our Prime, our very essence / our very worth our headquarters / our factory settings, the basis of our existence, the dawn of our being, the birth of our humanity, the Genesis, the starting point.</p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1Dc2SB_Lmr0/YL7zjHjKZ-I/AAAAAAAAGYQ/f_Yd4DDFq9YREmolZWJZrYZLscdvsy2CwCLcBGAsYHQ/s273/beyonce%2Blion%2Bking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="184" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1Dc2SB_Lmr0/YL7zjHjKZ-I/AAAAAAAAGYQ/f_Yd4DDFq9YREmolZWJZrYZLscdvsy2CwCLcBGAsYHQ/w216-h320/beyonce%2Blion%2Bking.jpg" width="216" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Yeah, yeah, </i>[Beyonce wrote]<i> and the wind is talkin'</i></span><p></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">...With a melody that pulls you towards it</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Paintin' pictures of paradise</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Sayin', rise up </span></i><i><span style="font-family: arial;">...light in the sky...</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Watch the light lift your heart up</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Burn your flame through the night</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">...Watch the heavens open</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Yeah, Spirit </span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Can you hear it callin'? </span></i></p></blockquote><p></p><p>Connect to, commune with, and awaken as the divine within you. Always start there and end there, no matter where you are or what's going on. It is there, without your human clothing, where you enhance, support, ground, center, expand, love, and transform your spiritual experience into your human experience...</p><h3 style="text-align: center;">...now, tomorrow, and forever.</h3><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Affirmative Incantation</u></p><p>I disrobe from my human clothing</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...taking off the worries, disgust, judgments, and disappointments</p><p>I peel off the sludge of that which does not serve my greatest good</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...stripping down to my very soul </p><p>I divest of my ego</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...and undress to my very essence</p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><p>Today, Spirit speaks through me</p><p>Today, intuition from the wisdom of the ages guides me</p><p>Today, I am emboldened by my True Self to be bold and brave</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Revealing the Divinity within me</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Vibrating at the speed of that Divine Power</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>And busting through to soar and zoom into my best day.</p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-53902102824764513002021-05-29T11:33:00.005-07:002021-05-29T11:33:32.913-07:00 Infinite Possibilities<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VMcqL3RFPQM/YLKExasp7KI/AAAAAAAAGWM/8FOgpPX-7R4DsB9pr6ThseakU_XDvzkOACLcBGAsYHQ/s1300/infinite%2Bpossibilities%2BII.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="1300" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VMcqL3RFPQM/YLKExasp7KI/AAAAAAAAGWM/8FOgpPX-7R4DsB9pr6ThseakU_XDvzkOACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/infinite%2Bpossibilities%2BII.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Ever read “Dorian Grey?” The main characters show three aspects of <a href="https://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/" target="_blank">Oscar Wilde</a>:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://assets.telegraphindia.com/telegraph/8ec7ac2e-fe91-42fe-9ce0-1a1fc5c25ef4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="800" height="293" src="https://assets.telegraphindia.com/telegraph/8ec7ac2e-fe91-42fe-9ce0-1a1fc5c25ef4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Basil Hallward is what I think I am."<p></p><p> ...conventionally minded (Basil is the painter of the portrait of Dorian, who becomes his muse in art and life).</p><p>"Lord Henry is what the world thinks of me."</p><p> ...a charming famous wit and brilliant intellect, possessed of “wrong, fascinating, poisonous, delightful theories.” </p><p>"Dorian what I would like to be."</p><p> ...the archetype of male youth/beauty, though exceptionally vain and narcissistic, convinced that his youth/physical attractiveness is his most salient characteristic, which leads to his death as the painting absorbs and reveals his narcissistic and unethical ways.</p><p>Our lives, similar to Dorian's picture in the attic, are a reflection of our self-image. This begs the questions:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><b>How does self-image impact my life?</b></p><p><b>How is self-image formed?</b></p><p><b>How do I change my self-image?</b></p></blockquote><p>Self-image lives in the subconscious mind. Your attitudes, perspective, perception, opinions all sit in your subconscious mind and all your reactions to events are triggers from memory and emotion. These triggers and reactions are dependent on how we see ourselves and our place in the Universe and the opportunities we feel we can grab onto.</p><p>Our self-image sitting in our subconscious is like the auto-pilot on a plane. The minute we go off-course in any area of our lives that doesn't match the self-image we have set up, then our course is corrected by the perspectives and attitudes embedded in our subconscious.</p><p>Say you want to lose weight – so you go on a diet. But how do you see yourself – your self-image? Has this weight become the new norm? Do you see yourself as this norm? Without accepting yourself as the new weight in your self-image, the weight will return, the eating habits will return — the auto-pilot in your subconscious will insist. It's not just a habit of eating practices, you've got to change your thinking about it.</p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.</i> <a href="https://www.bfi.org/" target="_blank">~Buckminster Fuller</a></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>Is a million dollars a large amount of money to you? Ten million? How about $50? It's all just a bunch of paper we trade for goods or services. However, it's also energy. When we are wowed by the bigger numbers or pooh-pooh the lower amounts, we are giving money a fear and lack energy. </p><h3 style="text-align: center;">Change your thoughts, change the energy about money.</h3><p>Say with me:</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>I am so happy and grateful now that money comes to me in increasing amounts through continuous multiple sources.</i></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I am so happy and appreciative that health and wellness show up in my life as vitality and vibrancy at every moment.</i></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I am so happy and thankful that love, kindness, compassion, affection, and respect surround me all of my days from morning to night and back to morning again.</i></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I am so happy and in deep gratitude for the peace and grace that constantly envelopes my every experience.</i></h4><p>You could go on and on with this in every single part of your life. With consistency, within thirty – ninety days, you will start buying into those ideas. And they will start to live in your subconscious and inform your every reaction, action, and perspective.</p><p>You see, your subconscious is like a plant you continue to feed and nourish every moment. Like your body, what are you feeding it? Does that feeding nourish and flourish the system? or starve, struggle or stress it?</p><p>We live in a universe of infinite frequencies. In fact, had they had the technology to build a smartphone in the '30s, they could have used those same frequencies as we do today. The frequencies were already there, we just didn't know how to utilize them. The same is true for your frequency of success, wealth, health, etc. - it's all there and there's an infinite way to use them. We just have to learn to connect to those opulent frequencies. When we connect and awaken our awareness like science and technology did for the phone, we can use those infinite frequencies/possibilities to strengthen our knowledge and beliefs.</p><p>Our consciousness dictates the frequency we ride in life. If it's a low frequency of fear, dis-ease, anger, frustration, victimhood, and shame — all things seem to be done at or to me.</p><p>If it's a high frequency of passion, ease, love, peace, empowerment, success, and joy — things are done as and through me... and on purpose.</p><p>What are you consenting to in your life? The few things you have? or the unlimited things available to you? We get to choose.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>God is infinite, God is eternal</h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>And you are the God of your thoughts</h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the God of your feelings<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the God of your imagination<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the God of your subconscious</h4><p>The subconscious always says “Yes.” It doesn't decide – your conscious mind decides...it accepts. It doesn't think...your conscious mind thinks and the subconscious acts.</p><p>Now any change can take some time. That paradigm in your subconscious, oh, it will put up a fight. But our job isn't to fight it - it's to change it by taking conscious control over it and focusing it in a new direction.</p><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Gjz8siyKvs/YLKG-xbAaDI/AAAAAAAAGWU/jOZPw-XRLTInGwpVmJipKw3nvZsCyjv7gCLcBGAsYHQ/s300/nap-collage-forhomepage-small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="300" height="167" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Gjz8siyKvs/YLKG-xbAaDI/AAAAAAAAGWU/jOZPw-XRLTInGwpVmJipKw3nvZsCyjv7gCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h167/nap-collage-forhomepage-small.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></i></div><i><span style="font-family: arial;">There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Close minds will not inspire faith, courage, and belief.</span></i> <span style="font-family: arial;">~Napoleon Hill, <b>Think and Grow Rich</b></span><p></p></blockquote><p> Are you open-minded to the possibility of infinite possibilities? Better question - do you have faith in limited possibilities or infinite possibilities? If you don't have faith in infinite possibilities, you have faith in limited possibilities. And if you have faith in limited possibilities, <span style="white-space: pre;">when </span>do you think you'll run through them? </p><p>If you said your faith lies in the limited...you are wrong. Well, you are right in that your decision makes it so in <u>your</u> life, however, you are wrong in that the idea of limited possibilities is not a Universal Truth. </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">You cannot limit the ever-expanding Universe, you cannot limit the energy exuded in that expansion, and you cannot limit the frequencies of light and matter created by the energy of the expanding Universe...which we will never catch up with.</h3><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The proper distance … between Earth and the edge of the observable universe is 46 billion light-years. … but this does not represent the distance at any given time because the edge of the observable universe and the Earth have since moved further apart.</i> ~<b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Extra-Dimensions-Space-Multiversal-Journeys/dp/0387776370" target="_blank">Extra Dimensions in Space and Time</a></b> by Itzhak Bars (Professor of Physics at the University of Southern CA, L. A.) and John Terning (Professor of Physics at University of CA, Davis)</span></blockquote><p></p><p>American astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered in the 1920s that the Universe is expanding by showing that most galaxies are receding from the Milky Way. The Hubble Constant tells us that for each additional megaparsec (around 3.26 million light-years) of distance, galaxies recede 500 kilometres per second faster — so the Hubble constant was 500 in units of kilometres per second per megaparsec. </p><p>Yeah, I don't get the numbers much either, they are mind-boggling, but that is the science of the expanding Universe. With expanded possibilities, there are mind-boggling possibilities. Fuel your mind and imagination with that.</p><p>How does self-image impact my life?</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It is the frequency by which my subconscious talks to me and the Law</p><p>How is self-image formed?</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>By our awareness to the Truth and by the use of these principles in our conscious mind. Yes, upbringing and environment play their part, but more by our continuous self-talk and connection to Spirit.</p><p>How do I change my self-image?</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Accepting I have the power</li><li>Awakening to the Truth</li><li>Putting that Truth into action with words, prayer, action, centering, grounding, deciding, knowing, awakening, connecting, using the affirmative incantations - in general, by working your Mind over and over again</li></ul><p></p><p>Say with me again:</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i><b>I am so happy and grateful now that money comes to me in increasing amounts through continuous multiple sources.</b></i></p><p><i><b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I am so happy and appreciative that health and wellness show up in my life as vitality and vibrancy at every moment.</b></i></p><p><i><b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I am so happy and thankful that love, kindness, compassion, affection, and respect surround me all of my days from morning to night and back to morning again.</b></i></p><p><i><b><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I am so happy and in deep gratitude for the peace and grace that constantly envelopes my every moment.</b></i></p><p>You go to the mirror and tell yourself that...no one else will. I can tell you till I'm blue in the face, and yes, I am here to remind you – and that's okay. But <b>you</b> gotta tell <u>you</u>! You have to tap into that frequency of infinite possibilities and place it into your life...and I do too.</p><p>Join me in tapping into the infinite possibilities of the Universe!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>And make this second half of 2021 our most fabulous!</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Affirmative Incantation</u></p><p>Today I use my Word to open up to new possibilities.</p><p>These new possibilities inform me of the best next steps to take.</p><p>And those best next steps I take activate the Universe to deliver more opportunities to achieve multiple streams of opulence in my life.</p><p>With all these opportunities showing up from the Universe, I make myself available to use my expertise as an irreplaceable asset to all those who need what I do.</p><p>I am so happy and grateful that the river of prosperity is flowing to me right now. I am drenched in an abundance of love, wealth, and vitality. The possibilities are infinite and I grab them all.</p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-19146340947321456002021-05-25T16:36:00.001-07:002021-05-25T16:37:45.221-07:00TURN IT ON<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LK4Bv7miSZQ/YK2C-VV04LI/AAAAAAAAGUg/Wf_D0hEMbFcOay6eugHLzel2LDBngvepwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/jono-H180ZSU-SXc-unsplash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1442" data-original-width="1920" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LK4Bv7miSZQ/YK2C-VV04LI/AAAAAAAAGUg/Wf_D0hEMbFcOay6eugHLzel2LDBngvepwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/jono-H180ZSU-SXc-unsplash.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jono at Unsplash.com</td></tr></tbody></table><p>It is said: "Necessity...is the mother of invention.” Do you think that's true? Is it "necessity"?</p><p>No matter your gender, your organs, or your relation to children...you are a mother. You may not be called that, or maybe you have; I'm sure I have once or twice. And you have an invention...it's your life.</p><p>"Necessity is the mother of invention." I'm not talking about urgency, although you may feel urgent. I'm not talking about difficulty, although you may be in difficulty. I'm not talking about hardships either, though you may have some. The mother of invention I'm talking about is your primary driving force for your life. Not just a need or requirement...your purpose. Aesop wrote a fable called THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. In it, he tells...</p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>In a spell of dry weather, when the Birds could find very little to drink, a thirsty Crow found a pitcher with a little water in it. But the pitcher was high and had a narrow neck, and no matter how he tried, the Crow could not reach the water. The poor thing felt he might die of thirst.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Then an idea came to him. Picking up some small pebbles, he dropped them into the pitcher one by one. With each pebble, the water rose a little higher until at last, it was near enough so he could drink.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Moral: In a pinch, good use of our wits may help us out.</i></span></p><p>Do we have to wait to be in a pinch or in urgency, difficulty, or hardship to turn on our wits? Know that it never takes adversary, difficulty, or hardship for you to turn It on. Know that it never has to come to you only after feeling stuck, useless, or "hitting bottom," to turn It on.</p><p>The power to create ...to mother a life of living your magnificence... is available right now. The power and process given to you from Spirit are available right now. That power and process are...</p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">feeling and imagination. </span></h3><p>That's what it takes to create the mental equivalent, to mother the idea and give it birth. The creative process embedded in each of us is the mother of invention.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The mechanism of creation is hidden in the very depth of the subconscious, the female aspect or womb of creation. </i> ~<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Lancelot_Goddard" target="_blank">Neville Goddard</a></span></blockquote><p></p><p>When you are able to imagine the event and feel the feelings of experiencing the event, then the event shows up or the actions you must take to facilitate the event are revealed to you.</p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Feeling is the one and only medium through which ideas are conveyed to the subconscious. </i> ~Neville Goddard</span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>You want money to buy a plane ticket somewhere? Well, then why not just imagine and feel the result of that plane ticket, with your name on it, in your hand. Who needs the middleman called money. You're not imagining stealing the ticket or getting it nefariously somehow, so let the Universe figure out the means. You just know the end of the imagined story, the plane ticket to your next wonderful adventure in your pocket.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Your feelings create the pattern from which your world is fashioned, and a change of feeling is a change of pattern. </i>~Neville Goddard</span></blockquote><p></p><p>As you stick with this imagination and feeling practice for your desire, you mother the belief in your subconscious and thus send off clear instructions to the Law. Francis Scovel Shinn tells a related story in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Game-Life-How-Play-Florence-ebook/dp/B0080LOWE6" target="_blank">THE GAME OF LIFE AND HOW TO PLAY IT</a>:</p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I knew a man who wanted to buy a fur-lined overcoat. He and his wife went to various shops, but there was none he wanted. He said they were all too cheap-looking. At last, he was shown one, the salesman said was valued at a thousand dollars, but which the manager would sell him for five-hundred dollars, as it was late in the season.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">His financial possessions amounted to about seven hundred dollars. The reasoning mind would have said, “You can’t afford to spend nearly all you have on a coat,” but he was very intuitive and never reasoned.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">He turned to his wife and said, “If I get this coat, I’ll make a ton of money!” So his wife consented, weakly.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">About a month later, he received a ten-thousand-dollar commission. The coat made him feel so rich, it linked him with success and prosperity; without the coat, he would not have received the commission. It was an investment paying large dividends!</span></i></p><p>I'm not telling you to go out and spend beyond your financial abilities, nor am I condoning buying fur-lined clothing. It really wasn't about the coat itself. It was the feeling the coat gave him.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>You have to <span style="color: #04ff00;">Feel</span> Rich to be Rich</h3><h4 style="text-align: right;">...and I'm not just talking about money.</h4><p>Assume the feeling that would be yours when you realized or revealed that which you desire. That impresses the subconscious and puts you and your mothering system in a state. Not just a state of mind, but a state of being, having, and living. Here are the two gateways into the subconscious:</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1) SLEEP</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>One-third of our life is sleeping, it is a natural door into the subconscious. In the state of sleep, the conscious and subconscious meet - like lovers touching.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>As you feel, so do you impress her; and she, the perfect lover, gives form to these impressions and out-pictures them as the children of her beloved. </i>~Neville Goddard</span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p>Feeling a function produces that state. That's why I recommend you to state and feel the affirmative incantations twice a day. They are not merely affirmations, they are cleansings, 'rebootings,' motherings, ....'creatings.' They are an imagining of a story that builds, inspires, motivates, and impresses upon your subconscious and belief system.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">Our volition or choice of reaction or response</div><div style="text-align: center;">Our decision on perspective and perception</div><div style="text-align: center;">Our turning on our connection to Spirit or not</div></h3><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">are our truest of freedoms!</span></h4><p>Not speech or assembly, but choice, decision, and flipping It on.</p><p>The second gateway is <span style="font-size: large;">prayer</span>. This is where you really turn IT on, connect to IT, and reveal IT on purpose. Prayer is not just the act of affirmative words to the Universe or using spiritual mind treatment or other modalities. Prayer is in the words you say in conversation, your self-talk or inner dialogue, the meditations you have, and the thoughts you bear and hold. When you assume and affirm the feeling, declare the possession of that idea or thing, and reveal the Divine Power, Love, and Intelligence in you, through patience, persistence, allowing, listening, letting go and surrendering, and speaking your appreciative and grateful word…you are turning It on.</p><h3 style="text-align: center;">IT - that Divine in you</h3><p>These are the processes going on in sleep and prayer:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Imagination is the key</li><li><span style="white-space: pre;">F</span>eeling is the secret weapon</li><li>Declaring is the gavel hitting the table</li><li>Connecting to the love and wisdom of the Universe is the power</li></ul><p></p><p>You can do all the shadow work or other modalities to have unconditional self-acceptance, other-acceptance, and life-acceptance. You can</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Identify Irrational Thought Patterns and Beliefs</li><li>Challenge Irrational Beliefs</li><li>Gain Insight and Change Behavior</li></ol><p></p><p>But without the commitment to Turn IT on<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>with your mind and heart, and listening from your gut...your foundation is rocky; as in unstable, without a foundation.</p><p>Turn IT on...your connection to the Divine Mother in you.</p><p>Turn IT on...and watch your life change exponentially for good!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Affirmative Incantation</u></b></p><p>I am flipping the switch to position...ON!</p><p>On, to embodying confidence.</p><p>On, to embodying vitality.</p><p>On, to embodying opulence.</p><p>I am anchored to the Source and Substance of my supply with the on-switch active. My brain and heart are energized and focused. And any actions required are being taken with grace,ease, and wisdom.</p><p>I own my future. So, here I go to create excellence and live my life with abundance turned on.</p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-80058636892881457922021-05-18T15:02:00.002-07:002021-05-18T15:04:30.020-07:00AFFIRM<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GKmPQfTw1Po/YKQfsQTTiRI/AAAAAAAAGTk/Z7j6ZV66yMUca32P9xev-vUH63VjwK8zgCLcBGAsYHQ/s794/KimVanHornDesigns_Etsy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="794" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GKmPQfTw1Po/YKQfsQTTiRI/AAAAAAAAGTk/Z7j6ZV66yMUca32P9xev-vUH63VjwK8zgCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h320/KimVanHornDesigns_Etsy.jpg" title="KimVanHornDesigns_Etsy" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">by KimVanHornDesigns on Etsy</td></tr></tbody></table><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">When I affirm that I am alone, my crap shows up.</h3><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">When I affirm no one is on my side, yesterday's junk shows up.</h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div>When I affirm I've been forgotten or never known, I feel alone.</h3><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What I forget in those pity parties is that in Truth, all those ideas are a lie. The facts may bear those emotions, my edging God out ego may experience those false assertions, my B.S. may believe that b. s. for now, but that doesn't make it True </p><h3 style="text-align: center;">...facts aren't Truth</h3><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Christ is here. It is your very own consciousness when human thought is stilled… Where human effort ends, the activity of the Christ begins. </i>~<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_S._Goldsmith" target="_blank">Joel S. Goldsmith</a>, <b>Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture</b></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>The “Christ” Goldsmith speaks of is that awareness in you of the higher self as part of a universal system, a state of consciousness in which a person has found self-realization and unity with the Divine. Like the Hindu concept of samadhi, it is a deep spiritual bliss, an enlightening, an awakening, a revealing of the Divine within.</p><p>Many of you know I am an actor as well as a Minister. People ask me what the most important thing is about the craft of acting – in auditions, rehearsals, or performance. And I always say "tell the story," your job is to tell the story. Actually, that isn't enough. My job as an actor, our job in this adventure called life, is to...</p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> ...</span><span style="font-size: large;">connect.</span></p><p>Having an adventure in life is not just about the trips to the Grand Canyon, zip-lining, a safari, or climbing Everest, though those are adventurous. It's our spiritual connection to those things. The journey of a spiritual being having a human experience is a daily adventure of connection; communing with the Divine in all of Nature and vibrating at the speed of the Divine in all events.</p><p>The etymology of the word “adventure” as both a noun and verb includes terms like “event,” “risk,” and phrases like “take a chance,” “to come to,” “to reach for,” or “arrive at.” Connection is defined as a “bind,” “a fastening together,” “a joining,” “an intimate relationship.” And communion is about a “mutual participation,'' “sharing,” “being with oneness,” or “a union together.”</p><p>I invite you to look at how you are allowing this spiritual life to show up, where are you taking holy risks to evolve or seeking out opportunities to have an intimate relation to and a union together with your Spiritual Magnificence. It's not just a journey or a risk, it is a consciousness and a perspective to come to or arrive at...an awakening.</p><p>God is our adventure. Our active participation in It, both spiritual and three-dimensional, unfolds through affirming the Divine Urge that is inherently and eternally calling us into our greater selves. There's no risk in this adventure, there’s only a Divine Intelligence -<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the One Creative and loving Source & Substance found in everything ...coming into form as you.</p><p>We are of that Intelligence.</p><p>We are of that Source.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"> So, what’s to fear?</span></h3><p>Where’s the real risk in living a life, affirming this connection? </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fear of failure?</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> F</span>ear of success?</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> F</span>ear of facing the yesterdays?</p><p>Truly the biggest risk (if there is one at all) is in not opening to our Infinite Possibilities...</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> ...</span>not affirming our Power</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> ...</span>not affirming our capabilities</p><h3 style="text-align: center;">Find God. That’s the adventure!</h3><p>So many people turn away this philosophy or other similar teachings because of the "God" word. Okay, use the word Universe, the Power, the Divine, the Great Accountant, Phil...call it Mind. It matters not what you call it...just take the call.</p><p>Since before the Vedic sages proclaimed, “I am the universe” or Ernest Holmes' Declaration of Principles or the Fillmore's Five Principles or the Buddha's Four Precepts, or the Tao, or any progressive philosophy/psychology of love and success; the universe, and thus each of us, has been creatively and intelligently evolving and expanding, even before the Big Bang or the Genesis. The most significant process for us now is our alignment, receptivity, awakening, and participation in the adventure of our Divine selves working in this physical universe and affirming our ever-evolving expression while engaging, intercoursing, experiencing, and transcending whatever conditions show up.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"> Ask yourself: How does Life wish to express through me? </h4><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>In the midst of plenty humanity lives in want, because of fear. To overcome fear is the greatest adventure of the mind of man. </i>~<b>Science of Mind</b></span></blockquote><p></p><p>Investigate ways you hold yourself back from Life. Uncover your fears. Reorient yourself to your divine heritage. If you find yourself shrinking or withering from your path and purpose, spend time in silence and listen. Step into your adventure every day. Reconcile your spiritual checkbook with enthusiastic participation in the Divine Unfoldment as your magnificent self </p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>There is an inner urge in our minds to grow, to expand, to break down the barriers of previous limitations and to ever widen our experience. This persistent urge is a Divine influence, and irresistible force, and constitutes the greatest impulse in human experience. </i>~Ernest Holmes, <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040GJ70Y/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1" target="_blank">Living Without Fear</a></b></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>Let us say “yes” to this Divine opportunity and, by the way, every opportunity is a Divine opportunity. Affirm your connection with It: </p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>the Power and Presence of All that is in you</li><li>the luminous essence of Creation that is available to you</li><li>the energy of the actual Big Bang that was the Genesis that made us all and that you are</li></ul></h3><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">Affirm you are individualizing God!<br />Affirm that you have the power and presence to bust through, soar, and zoom...no matter what!<br />Affirm, like Raymond Charles Barker said in <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Power-Decision-Step-Step-Indecision-ebook/dp/B004DI7I6E/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=power+of+decision&qid=1621369310&s=digital-text&sr=1-2" target="_blank">The Power of Decision</a></b>,<br /><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>You are the present becoming the future!</i></span></h3><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p>We arrive at our Oneness through our Conscious Participation. In that oneness, in the connection and communion with Spirit, remember: you are not alone</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i><span style="color: #fcff01;">...no one is alone!</span></i></h3><p>So let us begin to affirm that right now!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Affirmative Incantation </u></p><p><i>With unshakable confidence, I participate fully and freely in the adventure of an opulent, succulent, and peaceful life. I affirm my dependable connection and communion with the great I Am that I am. </i></p><p><i>And so I face this day with Divine Love, Divine Intelligence, and the Power and Presence, vitality and creativity of Spirit at my back, my forward, as my foundation, and on all sides of me. I am busting through, soaring, and zooming into today affirmed and empowered.</i></p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-69489798890603404722021-04-28T23:37:00.001-07:002021-04-28T23:37:45.549-07:00Cleaned Up, Now What?<h3 style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nSqG1YJWhic/YIolyUCtKEI/AAAAAAAAGSM/4KX4tfyUJsIwkeQdxU6uvlgmRAp_6J7kQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/v2osk-In4XVKhYaiI-unsplash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1309" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nSqG1YJWhic/YIolyUCtKEI/AAAAAAAAGSM/4KX4tfyUJsIwkeQdxU6uvlgmRAp_6J7kQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/v2osk-In4XVKhYaiI-unsplash.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by v2osk on Unsplash.com<br /></span><h2>I want to invoke a Wholly Holy Uprising</h2></td></tr></tbody></table></h3>We stand poised, with the ability to use this teaching and other tools to take ourselves and all of humanity into a new paradigm of consciousness. <br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;">A paradigm of prosperity, happiness, health, and loving relationships </span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> A model of miracles, aha moments, and infinite possibilities </span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> A pattern of connection, communion, and joy </span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> A habit of right thinking and Truth </span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"> A mirror of opulence and opportunities </span></li></ul></blockquote>We are invited every single day to demonstrate all of this and more in our lives, our communities, and the world.<div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">To do so, we must rise up!</h3><div>Like we rise up for social injustice, we must rise up to a consciousness of equality and unity – Oneness revealing the Divinity within.<br /><br />Like we rise up to save our family and friends from dangerous conditions, we must rise up to a consciousness of protection, security, and peace.<br /><br />Like we rise up to move away from addiction and depression, we must rise up to a consciousness of joy.<br /><br />Like we rise up to move away from negative thinking, we must rise up to this consciousness that we are being supported by Divine Love and the Law of Cause and Effect at all times.<br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"> We need not place limits on Spirit, It has none.</h3>Once we have the consciousness of what it is we require and as we align with the great power that created all, we avail ourselves to the infinite possibilities and give ourselves the permission (already granted by the Universe) to put our hands in the biggest cookie jar and pull out all the goodies we can grab – including peace and prosperity for all. Then we can increase the size of the bucket inside our minds knowing that God's bucket is the one we get to fill ours from.<br /><br />With limitless prosperity available and ready to be served, our mental equivalent is the mirror to our external circumstances. Our inner life, our consciousness, is Truth-based and the experiences imagined, Earth-bound.<br /><br />We have spent the month decluttering our minds and freeing our hearts and connecting with Divine wisdom from our gut's intuitions. Now it's time we allow it all to flow...getting into the flow of joy <br /> of our communion with Spirit.<br /><br /> Imagine a garden hose that is attached to a water spigot. The spigot is Source. The water is turned on and is flowing. How much water comes out of the end of that garden hose depends on whether or not the hose is obstructed. The water is flowing fully and yet, at the other end of the hose, water may be dribbling out. Our spiritual work removes the obstructions in the garden hose to allow the full flow of water. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /> God is the water that's flowing. The degree to which we experience that flow which is the giving-ness of Spirit in our lives is determined by the degree to which we able that water to flow through unobstructed. Our work, our Word, is “unkinking the hose” so that Spirit can flow through fully. <br /><br />We don’t need to do anything about the flow of water; that's spigot's on full already. Our job is to allow the water to flow through us.<br /><br />Let's not be confused or deterred over the appearances we see, but don't want. Let's face the fear. Let's face the disappointment. Let's face the bag of cookies or the next cigarette or drink. Name the condition and then know the Truth of it... <br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><h4><div style="text-align: left;">...it's old news</div></h4></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><h4><div style="text-align: left;">...it's an old story</div></h4></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><h4><div style="text-align: left;">...it is yesterday's thoughts, opinion, perspective, or perception</div></h4></div></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The fact is, the energy you invest in knowing, using, and being the Truth -the spiritual practice you invest in speaking, embodying and illuminating the Truth, and the focusing of your mind and heart to the frequency of the Truth- the more yesterday's thoughts and beliefs become neutered, null, and void.<br />This happens not only in your life, but it also affects all of life.<br /><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2015/108/145237138_1429477546.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="257" data-original-width="200" src="https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2015/108/145237138_1429477546.jpg" /></a></div>In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone… Simple kindness to one’s self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all.</span></i> <span style="font-family: arial;">~<a href="https://veritaspub.com/" target="_blank">David R. Hawkins</a>, <b>Power vs. Force </b></span></blockquote>According to Hawkins, who was a nationally renowned psychiatrist, physician, researcher, and spiritual teacher, and who calibrated human consciousness from its lowest “vibration” (shame) to its highest (enlightenment), higher consciousness radiates a beneficial and healing effect on the world. Using kinesthetic testing (muscle resistance to a word), Hawkins created a chart to explain, in detail, what the mystics have always known: love is more powerful than hatred, and the truth sets us free. <br /><br />The Truth is when you increase your integrity, understanding, and capacity for compassion, you also change the world. <br /><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>In God-awareness, problems dissolve because there are no “real” problems; in the mind of God, there are only perfect patterns of existence and divine ideas.</i> ~Michael Beckwith, <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B0X18UW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1" target="_blank">Spiritual Liberation</a></b></span></blockquote>So, you've been cleaning up all month, all year...now what? What perfect patterns are you creating? Ask yourself:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><h3>Are there any areas in my life where I am “playing small” or working patterns of lack? <br /><br />What limiting beliefs can I let go of to expand my consciousness and fill that bigger bucket? </h3><span style="font-family: arial;"><blockquote><i>...our belief sets the limit to our demonstration of a Principle which, of itself, is without limit. It is ready to fill everything, because It is Infinite...It is entirely a question of our own receptivity. </i> ~Ernest Holmes, <b>Science of Mind </b></blockquote></span>When appearances suggest an absence of the Divine:<br /><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>start decluttering</li><li>face these appearances with the courage and power that is innate in you</li><li>neutralize them with conviction, purpose, spiritual practice, therapy, counseling, and/or coaching</li><li>take action to lessen or remove these appearances' grip on your beliefs and life</li></ol></div><div style="text-align: left;">I am not asking you to ignore or gloss over genuine issues in your life or the world at large and hide behind platitudes the bypass life until the storms pass. In times of social unrest and personal tragedy, apply the principles of this teaching and all the other philosophical and psychological tools there are to find what is yours to do.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">I am invoking a Wholly Holy Uprising </h3>Using the principles of Oneness, love, joy, and Truth, we allow any uncomfortable topics, situations, and stories to help us deepen our spiritual practices, grow our compassion, and take divinely inspired action to transcend, transform and inspire our best life! <br /><br />So, cleaned up – now what?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Live an absolutely fabulous, opulent, and love-filled life</span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">...that's what! </span></h3><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><u>Affirmative Incantion<br /></u><br /><i>I have a big intelligence system: my mind <br /><br />I have a big feeling system: my heart <br /><br />I have a big wisdom system: my gut <br /><br />This Divine Matrix is abundant with all the tools, ideas, feelings, imagination, and power I require to live my life fabulously. I have decluttered my world and exclusively energize thoughts of prosperity, vitality, and love. I am relishing this miracle called ME!</i></div><br /></div>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-92060982847536419092021-04-24T14:47:00.003-07:002021-04-24T14:47:50.845-07:00Letting Go of Yesterday<p></p><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jWX2QEASEYs/YIR9ddt3aMI/AAAAAAAAGRM/thyVNKQMop0qffuIage6Nn7Xkz9AxK6cgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/flower-thrive.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jWX2QEASEYs/YIR9ddt3aMI/AAAAAAAAGRM/thyVNKQMop0qffuIage6Nn7Xkz9AxK6cgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/flower-thrive.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></i></div><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Every night I lie in bed</span></i><p></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">The brightest colours fill my head</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">A million dreams are keeping me awake</span></i></p><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></i></div><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I think of what the world could be</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">A vision of the one I see</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">A million dreams is all it's gonna take</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">A million dreams for the world we're gonna make</span></i></p></blockquote><p> <span style="font-family: arial;"> ~Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, "<a href="https://youtu.be/pSQk-4fddDI" target="_blank">A Million Dreams</a>" from <b>The Greatest Showman </b></span></p><p>I wanted to remind you of a few things about your yesterdays. This isn't to get you off the hook of the work of acknowledging, releasing, and letting go of the old stories that are cluttering your consciousness and getting in the way of manifesting your dreams. Our past experiences, stories, yesterdays can have a significant impact on our beliefs, and many times we don't even realize it's happening. Sometimes we have to dive deep to even realize they are there<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>just so we can acknowledge them, even before we face them, forgive them, neutralize them, release them, and replace them.</p><p>I've talked about radical self-forgiveness that has nothing to do with the other party. And even if it does have something to do with another person - as Oscar Wilde said:</p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Always forgive your enemies—nothing annoys them so much.</span></i></p><p></p></blockquote><p>I've given you the tool called PLACE (see <a href="https://newthoughtguy.blogspot.com/2021/04/whats-your-response.html" target="_blank">"What's Your Response?"</a>): Pause, Label, Ask, Choose, Express. So you respond vs. react to situations because reactions come from yesterday's stories.</p><p>There's the 4-step shame and regret process I shared (see <a href="https://newthoughtguy.blogspot.com/2021/04/what-are-you-looking-at.html" target="_blank">"What Are You Looking At?"</a>)to get squeaky clean with our ethics and integrity and neutralize the power yesterday's story has a hold on us.</p><p>Or you could follow Tony Robbins' (and others) advice to:</p><p>1. <b>Turn "letting go" of the past into a “must”</b></p><p>Gaining a clear sense of purpose to move beyond the hold of yesterday and serve as your emotional drive when you feel like raging, hiding, etc. </p><p>2. <b>Identify your emotional habits</b></p><p>Emotions are like a muscle. The trauma or challenging incident can train us to feel frustrated, sad, stressed, untrusting. However, you can train yourself to stay passionate, joyful, and strong, even when something bad happens in your life or reminds you of your yesterdays. When you catch yourself falling into a negative emotional habit, try to cut off the thought and switch gears immediately. This new conditioning will re-wire those emotions to have less or no effect as a trigger.</p><p>3. <b>Condition your mind and work on personal growth</b></p><p>Feed your mind and soul with empowering stories instead of limiting ones. Surround yourself with people who make you better and put yourself in a peak state of mind and action. Focus on learning and improving your mind and heart, and thus your self-respect and perception.</p><p>4. <b>Create empowering rituals</b></p><p>Build momentum by practicing gratitude, meditation, affirmative prayer, journaling, etc. All the spiritual practices we talk about and work.</p><p>5. <b>Focus on what you can control</b></p><p>You can’t take back an unhealthy relationship, but you can learn from it. You can’t go back in time and fix a bad childhood, but you can realize that “Your past does not equal your future.” From the minute you wake up, you make choices. In fact, that could be your greatest birthrights - volition and choice. Learning how to let go of the past means breaking the pattern and focusing on creating the life you deserve, not dwelling on the one you used to have.</p><p>7. <b>Give back</b></p><p>No matter how broke you may be or how broken you feel, you have something to offer others – even if it’s something as common as a smile or a listening ear. Realize that the secret to living is giving.</p><p>Not a Tony Robbins or NLP fan? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Morse_Earle" target="_blank">Alice Morse Earle</a> put it very plainly in the early 1900s:</p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present. </span></i></p><p>Here is the most important thing happening in the present that I want you to grasp onto, awaken to and allow Its transformative abilities to take hold:</p><h3 style="text-align: center;">If God is all there is, then EVERYTHING in our life is God speaking.</h3><p>Doubt, pain, resistance, and misery are a calling for reconnecting our humanness with our spiritual essence. It holds <b>no</b> judgment or opinion of the experience! When you begin to see yesterdays that pop up in our 'todays' as a blessing, you tap into an opportunity to remember the fundamental truth that God is all-in in your life and ready to wave the flag and hold your hand, if need be, and point us to the Truth to:</p><h3 style="text-align: center;">REALIZE ACCEPT KNOW</h3><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Realize your feelings are valid</li><li>Accept that God has given you all that is needed to step through yesterday's junk</li><li>Know you have the power of choosing and then choosing again and again and again</li></ul><p></p><p>I would like to conclude with a poem I heard about and found on this subject.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><u><b>She Let Go</b></u></p><p style="text-align: left;">by <a href="https://safire-rose.com/" target="_blank">Safire Rose</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L_9szKoEQaU/YIR-KfuYi0I/AAAAAAAAGRU/Q0Y2x2w_w2kxzxEyzsSoKXPx5vvL91LTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s751/About-Safire-Rose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L_9szKoEQaU/YIR-KfuYi0I/AAAAAAAAGRU/Q0Y2x2w_w2kxzxEyzsSoKXPx5vvL91LTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/About-Safire-Rose.jpg" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She let go.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She let go of the fear.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She let go of the judgments.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She let go of the committee of indecision within her.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just let go.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She didn’t ask anyone for advice.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She didn’t read a book on how to let go.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She didn’t search the scriptures.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She just let go.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She let go of all of the memories that held her back.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She let go of the planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She didn’t promise to let go.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She didn’t journal about it.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She didn’t write the projected date in her Day-Timer.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She didn’t check the weather report or read her daily horoscope.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She just let go.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She didn’t analyze whether she should let go.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She didn’t call her friends to discuss the matter.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She didn’t do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She didn’t call the prayer line.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She didn’t utter one word.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She just let go.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">No one was around when it happened.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There was no applause or congratulations.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">No one thanked her or praised her.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">No one noticed a thing.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There was no effort.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There was no struggle.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It wasn’t good and it wasn’t bad.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It was what it was, and it is just that.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the space of letting go, she let it all be.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A small smile came over her face.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A light breeze blew through her.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And the sun and the moon shone forevermore…</span></p><p>You will probably face setbacks and challenges, I have. But with conviction and a purpose that drives you, you will stay focused and dedicated when those yesterdays show up. Then you can acknowledge, release, and let go. Don’t beat yourself up for what has happened in the past - all god's children's got stuff. Beyond your own self-work, please seek out spiritual counseling - I do, cognitive therapy - I have, and know that you can and will let go of your yesterdays and manifest your million dreams.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">I know you can!</h3><div><br /></div><div>p.s. I am available for spiritual counseling. Contact my office at ntsc@newthoughtsc.org</div><div>Peace and blessings to you!</div><p><br /></p><p><u>Affirmative Incantation</u></p><p>I welcome my new stories. </p><p>My todays are filled with wonderment, excitement, imagination, and the best of infinite possibilities. I am moving forward with everything in my life. I am energized, authorized, crystallized, concretized, exercised, harmonized, and recognized as the Divine Light that I Am born to be.</p><p>I now forgive, release, and neutralize the blocks, triggers, and walls of indecision, victimhood, and strife. And I welcome the new stories of strength, wisdom, plenty, and love. I am rockin' it from this day forward.</p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-10427475249104320392021-04-18T12:52:00.003-07:002021-04-18T12:52:31.555-07:00Losing My To-Do List<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cVNlM0rD974/YHs89f3Hi9I/AAAAAAAAGQM/21_FvxBiuGURHnyqdzAvHPeBysO6XOkTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/To%2BDo%2BList.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cVNlM0rD974/YHs89f3Hi9I/AAAAAAAAGQM/21_FvxBiuGURHnyqdzAvHPeBysO6XOkTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/To%2BDo%2BList.png" /></a></div><p>Are you a list person? </p><p>Do you get a thrill when you look at a long page full of activities and tasks that you plan to accomplish? </p><p>Are they categorized, color-coded with little boxes drawn beside each one so you can check them off? Or maybe you highlight them or cross them out as you complete them.</p><p>At the end of a productive day, do you smile at your accomplished long list, seeing it as a trophy or a badge of honor, knowing you had done well?</p><p>How long do you spend making that list you may or may not complete? And if you don't get through it, is there a roll-over and a bit of depression – not a fun day, huh?</p><p>I am here to advise you to throw away your to-do lists. I know, I know....it's a time management thing. And I get it, you want to make sure things get done you might forget about. I also understand the intention to have productivity, making sure tasks don't get lost in the shuffle. However, lists and deadlines can also be potent procrastination tools and act as an addiction.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The satisfaction of ticking off a small task is linked with a flood of dopamine. Each time your brain gets a whiff of this rewarding neurotransmitter, it will want you to repeat the associated behavior. </i>~<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/ralph-ryback-md" target="_blank">Ralph Ryback, <b>Psychology Today</b></a></span></blockquote><p></p><p>It's like sugar, an almost never-ending merry-go-round of ups and downs in mood, a cycle of reward and emptiness. </p><p>Too many times we crave another feel-good moment, our brains often encourage us to complete a low-level task instead of something that really matters, just to get more dopamine and a false sense of joy and satisfaction. Too often we are avoiding the projects that are often the true game-changers. </p><p>I have post-it notes on my computer and hard copy ones on my desk, and I get quite a thrill in their completion, especially the crumbling it up to toss it in the trash can or deleting it from my computer screen.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>It’s not that keeping a list of things that you need to get done is a bad idea. It’s the fact that people run their days on their to-do lists. That’s what’s very harmful. </i>~Nir Eyal, behavior design/productivity expert</span></blockquote><p></p><p>Experiencing flow in your day-to-day work, no matter what that particular day is like, is an integral component of creativity and mental/physical health. And surrendering to the moment will usually boost innovation, meaning, engagement, and productivity. </p><p>As we declutter this month, I want to encourage something more important than doing...and that is being...getting into the flow of our highest state of mind, beginning our day, not with lists, but with listening. In the blog The Blissful Mind, Catherine Beard ends her article on HOW TO ORGANIZE & DECLUTTER YOUR TO-DO LIST with this recap:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>When it comes to your never-ending to-do list, stick with the three principles:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Get it out of your head</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Let go of “should-s”</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Prioritize mindfully</i></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>Ph.D. Christi Hegstad, a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, agrees in her article, <a href="https://christihegstad.com/blog/productive-power-daily-top-3/" target="_blank">“The Productive Power of Your Daily Top 3”</a>: <b><i>prioritize</i></b></p><p>Getting out of your head is probably the best priority to get things done, manifest your best experiences, and get in the flow of successful living. When we prioritize focusing on the now, distractions are minimized and flow is optimized. In the Mahabharata, there is a story about Master Dronacharya teaching archery to his many students.</p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Dronacharya hung a wooded crow, from a tree branch and then summoned his students. Telling the students they were to hit the arrow in the crow's eye, he lined them up and told them they must answer a question before firing. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>First, Duryodhana took up his stance. “What can you see?” asked Dronacharya. The student says "I see the bird, the garden, the tree, the flowers, everything!" The teacher told him to put his bow down and step aside. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The next student, Yudhishtra, stepped up, but his answers were similar, "I see the air and leaves blowing in the wind." Dronacharya told the student that he too must put his bow down and go back to his place. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>On and on the master teacher asked the same question to the other students, most giving the same or similar answer. Some added that they could see the teacher, their cousins, and people standing around. None were allowed to continue, they were all sent back to their place without being allowed to shoot. Even Dronacharya’s son, could not understand what his father wanted. Finally, Arjuna was the only one left.</i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t-Zjlm4luTc/YHyNhf1a0WI/AAAAAAAAGQo/TDVQkqfbfmgnDUU6CdRt5yVLes-Stxl4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s457/arjunabird%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="457" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t-Zjlm4luTc/YHyNhf1a0WI/AAAAAAAAGQo/TDVQkqfbfmgnDUU6CdRt5yVLes-Stxl4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/arjunabird%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Dronacharya asked Arjuna to come up and take his stance. When Arjuna picked up his bow, set the arrow, and drew the string, his teacher asked, “What do you see?”</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Arjuna replied, “The eye of the bird.”</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>“Can you see the tree?” asked Dronacharya.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>“No, only the eye of the bird,” was the answer. Dronacharya then went through a list: tree, bark, leaves, flowers, fruits, his brothers, cousins, even the teacher himself.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>To everything Arjuna’s answer was the same: “No, I can only see the eye of the bird.” With a smile, Guru Dronacharya gave him the order, "Release your bow." Arjuna released the arrow and it sped straight to the target and the bird came tumbling down. Dronacharya embraced the boy and then told the others, “When you want to achieve something, you must focus on it. Closeout all other distractions and concentrate only on your target.”</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">What is your target?</h3><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Is it the things on the list or the list itself?</h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Or is it what the list represents?</h4><p>In order to declutter a life of doing, we must focus on being who we are, what is our purpose, and what is our intention. Consider DCCAR.</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Decide what your priorities are. The priorities of your heart and soul, not your mind's goals or lists</li><li>Calm your mind down. Teach it to follow instead of lead and put the Divine Matrix in play.</li><li>Connect with, listen to, and trust your Higher Self .</li><li>Act on the Guidance from your Higher Self.</li><li>Relax and allow what you desire to come to you, to reveal itself to you.</li></ul><p></p><p>When we begin our day focused on intention and purpose rather than tasks and lists, we get ourselves in the flow of being rather than doing.</p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>To be is to do. </i>~Socrates</span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>Being is what we want our focus to lie so that the doing –the bird in the tree- is easily accomplished because it is what is in our sights. In the 47th chapter of the Tao te Ching, it teaches:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Without going out the door, know the world</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Without peering out the window, see the Way of Heaven</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The farther one goes, the less one knows.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Therefore the sage</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Knows without traveling,</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Sees without looking,</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>And achieves without acting, doing, or striving.</i></span></p></blockquote><p> </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">You don't have to go to the holy land to become enlightened or use a to-do list to become successful</h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br />You don't have to look outside of yourself for accomplishments and wisdom - it is all within</h3><p>Before you go anywhere or look at anything, complete the connection to your True Self in your heart, gut, and brain, without acting...just being. With that as your focus, all else will fall into place.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Affirmative Incantation</u></p><p>Since I am free to choose and create every experience of my life, I now awaken the power to stand on my own, no matter what. I bravely step into any wilderness knowing I am supported by the Universe, directed by Divine Wisdom and enveloped in the hands of grace. My heart is profoundly marked by the wild and I love that I am bold, brave, and ready to succeed. I think only of all the great things that will happen on this road.</p><p>As I lay out my blueprint, I vibrate energetically that things are going perfectly where they need to go for me to be abundantly prosperous. I have changed my standard to excellence. Excellence is my watchword in the kindness and respect around me, and the creativity and health in me. The power of my word is clear which makes only good manifest. It is done, right here....right now!</p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-61201654071354333802021-04-17T11:34:00.008-07:002021-04-17T11:35:23.105-07:00Let's Get Some Joy<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ashleyperez.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/k2_items_src_358873fad4914931314b94f2036b503a.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="500" height="199" src="https://ashleyperez.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/k2_items_src_358873fad4914931314b94f2036b503a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Reflections on Easter 2021:<p></p><p>Stepping into the unknown, the silence, we get on the path less traveled, the road not always taken - to paraphrase Robert Frost. In our year of Awakening, we have stepped into believing It and loving It. Then we observed It, and now it's time to Declutter It...with joy.</p><p>We believe in the eternality, the immortality, and the continuity of the individual soul forever expanding.</p><p>We believe that we experience this expansion to the degree that we become conscious of it, awakening to it wisdom and allowing ourselves to be free from discord of every nature. <span style="white-space: pre;">A</span>nd if we step away from that awareness, it's always there to resurrect Itself in our lives. </p><p>Easter celebrates the presence, power, love, and wisdom of one who believed this. He is called the great exception, Yeshua ben Yosef (Joshua son of Joseph - a common name for the times). He grew up to become a radical evolutionary who dared go against the grain of the Jewish religion and establishment</p><p>In Matthew 5:17, Yeshua was quoted as saying, </p><p></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose.</span></i></blockquote><p></p><p>Did he walk on water? I don't know.</p><p>Did he raise Lazarus from the dead? I don't know.</p><p>Did he heal the sick and diseased and multiply the loaves and fishes? I don't know and I don't really care....at least it doesn't matter to me in order to appreciate him. What matters is the lessons the Gospels spoke about that came from him. All the Gospels, not just the New Testament.</p><p>Here's a guy who taught joy. To me, joy is not about happiness, which is a state of mind, a mood that comes and goes per an experience or the anticipation of an experience. Joy is a state of belief and being. Joy is found in a deep connection to God, the true source and substance of the experiences you may or may not be happy about. This man called Jesus lived his life...on purpose and in joy.</p><p>Who was this long-haired Jew that most of the world commemorates on Easter? And why is the story of this simple guy is so important as an example to us all? Yeshua was:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>A Way Shower living a life teaching what Ezekial spoke of in 36:26: <i>A new heart will I give you, a new spirit will I put within you, and I will remove the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.</i> Which means a consciousness full of feeling, in rhythm with and vibrating at the speed of the Divine.</li><li>A radical nonviolent revolutionary who hung out with lepers, prostitutes, rich man, poor man, young and old.</li><li>Forgiveness was his game and he taught us to forgive 70 times 7, as often and as long as it takes to reach the resurrection of the daily use of our highest self. </li><li>A brown-skinned middle-eastern Jew that didn't speak English, Greek, or Latin.</li><li>A homeless community organizer.</li><li>A healer that never asked for a co-pay, only that you believed in your healing.</li></ul><p></p><p>He didn't teach:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Against birth control or abortion</li><li>The death penalty or torture as being acceptable</li><li>Baptism - see John 4</li><li>Holy Communion as a sacred ritual</li><li>Anything about sexuality</li><li>Wealth made you a more successful person or lack of wealth made you a less successful person</li><li>The concept of hell or that heaven was an afterlife location or somewhere out beyond the skies</li><li>The concept of Original Sin, nor did he speak of man’s fall from God’s Grace. </li></ul><p></p><p>He DID teach:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Oneness - respect for each other, no matter the social standing.</li><li>Love was the only way.</li><li>Purifying the soul was capable through forgiveness.</li><li>That the Power and Presence of the Divine is within: <i>The Kingdom of God is within you. </i> ~Luke 18:21</li><li>Manifesting was through belief or faith or consciousness (right thinking or righteousness), and the power of our perceptions is key to our life's experiences: <i> Your Faith has healed you... and If you have Faith the size of a mustard seed... and Let it be to you according to your Belief..</i>. ~Luke 17:19, Mark 5:34, Matthew 17:20, Matthew 9:29</li><li>You speak a gospel (a joyous word) when you pray, revealing the Divine Council which is available at all times. ~Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4 (Lord's Prayer)</li><li>God is like a beloved parent, the ever-present counsel that created all and is in all and does the heavy-lifting, through the Law of Cause and Effect. ~Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4 (Lord's Prayer)</li><li>Prayer is a personal communion between oneself and the Divine: <i>Go into your inner room and lock the door... and ...do not pray to be seen or that others can hear…</i> ~Matthew 6:5-6</li><li>The Divine Light and the Inner Light are the same: <i>You are the Light of the World …give light to all who are in the house! and Let your Light so shine before men that they may see your good works.</i> ~Matthew 5:14 – 16 (also in “Godspell”)</li><li>Non-Judgment, Nonresistance, Detachment & Release in The Parables of the Rich Man & Young Man & The Parable of the Woman caught in adultery & the Pharisees in the Temple.</li><li>The Laws of Abundance: <i>I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly</i>. ~John 10:10</li><li>The way of overcoming obstacles is through surrendering to a Higher Power which comes through communing with our Highest Self.</li></ul><p></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/RichardRohrOFM.jpg/1200px-RichardRohrOFM.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="658" height="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/RichardRohrOFM.jpg/1200px-RichardRohrOFM.jpg" width="164" /></a></div></i></span></blockquote><p><i style="font-family: arial;">...Jesus’s many parables of the Kingdom ...lean heavily on the language of growth and development. His common metaphors for growth are the seed, the growing ear of corn, weeds and wheat growing together, and the rising of yeast. His parable of the “reign of God” are …about finding, discovering, being surprised, experiencing reversals of expectations, changing roles and status. None of these notions are static; they are always about something new and good coming into being. </i><span style="font-family: arial;">~Richard Rohr, </span><b style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NPGJ2NB/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1" target="_blank">Universal Christ </a></b></p><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Let the evil pass over you by sacrificing your lack and limitation, hate and judgment, and have an exodus from that kind of bondage. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Pagels" target="_blank">Elaine Pagels</a> reminds us that...</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>...the Gospel of Thomas talks about how you must go in a sort of a spiritual quest of your own to discover who you are, and to discover really that you are the child of God just like Jesus.</i></span></blockquote><p></p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">You are the child of God...</span></h2><h3 style="text-align: center;">-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a perfect idea to blossom this Spring - </h3><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">...the Light of the world</span></h2><p>Actively resurrect your greatest self by tapping into the Truth every day and take action on what you hear in the silence. Let's get some joy by communing with our innermost and highest Light. And not only know our Truth but live it!</p><p style="text-align: center;">...just like Yeshua taught!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Affirmative Incantation</u></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">As I observe the Power and Presence that is within, I focus on Its unconditional love and tap into Its infinite wisdom. I look at the world through my Divine Matrix, melding the intelligence, feelings, and inspiration that await me.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I look at my world as one in unity with all Nature, expecting kindness, respect, and love to illuminate every experience. My responses are heartfelt, thoughtful, and speak only to my values and purpose.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">It is now that I heed the call to commune with the Universe and activate my highest self. I embrace this joyous transformation and allow me to enter the land of milk and honey, abundant with prosperity in all facets of this creative life.</span></i></p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-52172260515188003532021-04-15T21:10:00.007-07:002021-04-15T21:10:49.875-07:00 SEEN IT, HEARD IT, BEEN THERE... NOW WHAT?<p><u></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fyi0tprh0Ac/YHeJgSOu2NI/AAAAAAAAGP8/-6VNTaJMfA0shHGE2m8oFOgx0MNZqtfkgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/Now%2BWhat_.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fyi0tprh0Ac/YHeJgSOu2NI/AAAAAAAAGP8/-6VNTaJMfA0shHGE2m8oFOgx0MNZqtfkgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Now%2BWhat_.png" /></a></u></div><u>Reflections on this Spring's Holy Week</u><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Just 8 days into Spring and we're entering one heck of a holy week:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Last Saturday was Nowruz (No-Rooz) - the Persian new year celebration</li><li>And we wished a good journey from suffering into enlightenment for the Buddhists on Higan</li><li>And also Ostara was celebrated - the<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Norse Goddess 6-day spring harvest fest</li><li>Pesach Semeach to all my mishpocha - <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>started last night (Happy Passover)</li><li>Tonight is the first full moon of Spring - it is referred to as the Worm Moon, Crust Moon, or Sugar Moon, depending on your tribe.</li><li>Maundy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper</li><li>Good Friday is on the 2nd - a not so good for one guy 2000 years ago</li><li>Followed by Holy, Black, or Glorious Saturday, depending on where you're from, which is the prep day for next Sunday – Easter!</li><li>Passover retells the story of the Exodus, which is the basis of the Passover holiday. At the dinner (seder), the youngest of the family asks the four questions, basically inquiring what's so special about this holiday. </li></ul><p></p><p>You're probably thinking: Seen it, heard it, been there.....Now What? Today I want to talk about the Now What.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The dream not interpreted is like a letter from God not read. </i>~The Talmud </span></blockquote><p></p><p>So, imagine with me – step into the dream of the Hebrews of 3300 years ago...</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...please listen with your mind and absorb with your heart:</p><p>T<span style="font-family: arial;">here was once an orphan, a husband, father of two, shepherd, defector, murderer, and possibly a stutterer named Moses (= out of water).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">On a Thursday afternoon, Moses was taking his flock of sheep for a walk in the desert, when suddenly he came upon this bush on fire – a burning bush, you might say. In fact, it was a talking burning bush that insisted you take your sandals off on its property. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This flaming bush told our hero, “look, I see what’s happening to the people, the Hebrews. I don’t like it and I need you to fix it. Go tell the Pharaoh, ‘let my people go!’” </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Well, Moses freaked – this was a task that was definitely out of his comfort zone. “Nobody is gonna believe me.” he told the fiery bramble, “Who could I possibly say sent me to insist on such a thing from Pharaoh?” </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And the bush said, in a very commanding voice, I might say, “tell them ehyeh asher ehyeh, I AM that I AM, sent you.” </span></p><p>Basically, Spirit was saying, “I see what’s going on, I’m not here to magically fix your problems for you, but I am totally here to support you with all the Power you need. Go get 'em, tiger!” </p><p>Nonetheless, our hero was still in doubt, not believing the Universe had his back. </p><p>Who hasn’t felt that at times? You see a burning bush, it talks to you, you don’t believe it. ”It's not possible, that's not how the Universe is going to converse with me.” <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Anyway...</p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Moses says, “Have you met this guy? Pharaoh is not gonna care that “I AM that I Am” sent me to tell him to ‘let my people go.’ Come on now!” </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">“Well, doh-doh head,” replied the bush, “you don’t actually say it, you know it and thus show it. At least act as if, Moz. Jeez!” </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Then the Infinite Being showed Moses a few talents that he didn’t know he had at his disposal, to prove that the Divine was within him and that he could confidently be a representative of that Power. In this case, it was the stick into a serpent trick….very impressive - great with the ladies. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Still not convinced though, our little 80-year-old rascal brought up another one of his limiting beliefs, thinking it surely is a detriment to this whole affair....his speech impediment. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">“Look,” said the bush, “have a little faith, dude. I am giving you this job because of that. If I sent some big handsome guy like…Charlton Heston, everyone would be wowed. But it's better that they are wowed by the energy of my Presence in you. Moses, you are a unique expression of me! I created you and will always be there for you – in you. Remember, ‘just call my name and I’ll be there’. Still, Moses wasn’t convinced.</span></p><p>Have you ever had that? In retrospect, can you see the signs from the Universe showing you the next step on your journey and you didn’t listen? I know I have.</p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So, the Universe, in its Cause and Effect splendor, says, “Geez, okay, it doesn't matter to me so if you want to do it the hard way, great... fine, believe whatever you want. Think it's practically impossible? Well, then I'll just harden Pharaoh’s heart and make it that much more difficult for you. You ask you get. Go, have a blast, be happy and get your people free.” </span></p><p>The lesson here is if you think something is going to be difficult, the Universe is happy to oblige your limiting belief. That’s how the Law works. However, as Rumi reminds us: “The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.” Continuing with the rest of the tale: </p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Moshe goes to Egypt, gets an audience with the Pharaoh who says no, no, and no again, over and over and over. He wasn't impressed by the stick to serpent thing. Even Moz's brother Aaron, a good speaker, wasn't any help. Then, the ten plagues.</span></p><p>It's important to note: The Hebrews were in bondage, not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually. They accepted their strife was their truth and not just a fact about their present circumstances, thus making it harder for them, and many of us in a similar limited belief, to leave this constricted place, which in our story is Egypt. They weren’t getting It - they were the Power, the boss, the Pharaoh of their experience. With the Hebrew's perspective on life, they gave that Power away. </p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So after the first nine plagues; oi, what a mess – bloody Nile River (probably red algae), frogs, lice, flies, dead livestock (a spreading virus), boils (a smallpox pandemic?), fiery hail (volcanic eruption anyone?), locusts (ash fallout = higher precipitations and humidity = locusts), and 3-day long darkness (the eclipse of 1223 B.C., maybe?) - it was time for number ten, the big kahuna, which is where the holiday gets its name...the killing of the firstborn Egyptian sons. Except the Angel of Death passed over the houses where lamb or goat's blood was splashed on the sides and tops of the door-frames (there were other preparatory rules, but that was the last step). Only the Hebrews knew about this, so that did the trick and Pharaoh told the Hebrews to hit the road.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And that brings us to the big segment of the tale where we have the parting of the Red Sea. So these millions of people who have been in bondage for 430 years…</span></p><p>Doesn’t some of your limiting beliefs seem like they have been around that long? Anyway...</p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">…they've come all this way, out of bondage, out of slavery, out of misery, survived the plagues, and finally on their way to the Promised Land. And suddenly they hit a wall…a wall of water: impassable, wide, and they didn't have any boats…</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Scouts warned that the Pharaoh and his army (i.e. the Hebrews past B.S.) were on their tails. And what do the Hebrews do? …they plead for help. They whine and bitch & moan & cry about the obstacle, the setback... </span></p><p>They are still in the mindset that there is always something in the way and, of course, boom, it shows up ...from both ends. They are not sitting in the Truth. Like the old joke, "I sent you a boat, a helicopter..." <span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is an opportunity for growth and progress and leaping past previous junk thinking by connecting with the Divine within and transcending into declaring and revealing, with gratitude and acceptance for what is to be and they just piss and moan and forget who they truly are.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">But Moses, the activist, steps up. He’s pretty confident now. He evolved by involving – reaching out with the Power of Divine Intelligence, the Creative Loving Energy of the Universe – the I Am that I AM – that is within him.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">He stretched out his hands and the sea went back by a strong east wind all that night and made the sea into dry land. The Red Sea parted, allowing the Hebrews to move forward on their journey to their greatness, and leaving behind – eventually drowned, dead, and buried – a huge chunk of their limiting beliefs and old stories called Pharoah and the Egyptian army.</span></p><p>That is only the beginning. There's still the whole wandering in the desert, the Ten Commandments, the other Burning Bush convo, the golden calf, etc. - you can watch the movie.</p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>All spiritual growth, 100 percent of it, is about releasing or eliminating rather than attaining something, because we’re already it spiritually. </i>~Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith</span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>You know what you're looking from - your Divine Matrix – week one.</p><p>And what you're looking at - the essence of the Divine in all – week two.</p><p>When you ask the right questions to get the best answers and you've learned to respond instead of reacting to situations at hand – week three.</p><p>We cannot solve a problem at the same level of consciousness that created it. Like Moses and the Hebrew people, we are being called to a higher level of consciousness to go beyond our head and tap into the Infinite nature of Spirit's wisdom and align ourselves with our divine purpose. It takes commitment and the willingness to do the spiritual work to release and replace that which does not serve the Highest Idea of ourselves, allowing and embracing the new ways which unfold organically through Divine Wisdom. </p><p>Don’t allow yourself to become bitter because of the past and harden your heart like Pharaoh. Be an activist, like Moses. Despite your upbringing, checkbook, education, your stories, and despite your willfulness or whatever you allow to get in your way, activate your communion with the Universe and activate the highest ideas into your belief.</p><p> </p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>We are taking, I trust, a vision… something beyond a hope and a longing, that the living Spirit shall through us walk anew into Its own creation and a new glory come with the dawn. </i>~Ernest Holmes, <b>The Sermon By The Sea</b>, Aug 15, 1959</span></p><p></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Live the Truth of your Divine birthright and free yourself, like the children of Israel, of the bondage of limited consciousness. Enter your land of milk and honey.</p><h3 style="text-align: center;">All are welcome!</h3><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Affirmative Incantation </u></p><p>Today, I arise to the awakening of my Divine Intelligence, removing all blocks to my success. I enter the city of peace within me and behold God’s grace unfolding in and as my life. Taking dominion over my thoughts and feelings, I clean the temple of my mind, persistently purifying, attuning, and expanding myself to the Highest ideas.</p><p>All is in Divine Order, so I know that no situation, circumstance, or external authority has any power over me. Everything I see and hear this week is constructive, inspiring, and useful. I ascend into my most opulent ways, approaching everything illuminated with the Presence of love wisdom, and compassion.</p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-53294268206006366272021-04-14T17:00:00.010-07:002021-04-14T17:00:46.260-07:00What's Your Response?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b7/3e/bd/b73ebd016e4b313006226a6aa494f021.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b7/3e/bd/b73ebd016e4b313006226a6aa494f021.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Three men are traveling on a ship when they are accosted by the Devil. The Devil proposes that if each man drops something into the sea and he cannot find it, he will be that man's slave. If the Devil does find it, however, he will eat that man up. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The first man reacts by immediately slipping off his Rolex watch and dropping in the ocean, confident of his choice. Poof, he disappears, eaten by Satan. The second man quickly drops a pure, clear diamond into the ocean, sure this cannot be found; and poof, he's gone, eaten up by the evil horned essence. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The third man, not one to react quickly, thinks a moment, contemplating the situation and his life. He then fills a bottle with water and calmly pours it into the sea. Smiling, he turns to the Devil and says, “Try finding that!" </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Did you ever wish you would have responded versus reacted to a situation, comment, or condition? Or be able to take back the snark or yell or cursing or worse? Some people think that the words "react" and "respond" are synonyms, but to me, they are practically antonyms.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">When I react to something, it's instantaneous, without thought, usually driven by lingering biases or fueled by some defense mechanism projecting my old stories or insecurities. It is subconsciously full of blame and I end up taking it out on the other person. This reaction has some unconscious survival theme to it using words or actions I come to regret.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">A reaction usually comes from a short-sighted, sometimes aggressive, or out-of-control impulse. We might freeze, flinch, run away, or even want to physically fight someone - i.e. a Fight or Flight Reaction! Our stress is high, cortisol is running rampant, and you might shake or sweat as your hackles are up. You may have been triggered by the conversation to expose things you are in denial about or things you have repressed or regressed, stuff you have put away and rationalized. For example, say your boss yells at you, but you don't yell back, and later take it out on your partner by yelling at them over something stupid. Or you may blurt stuff out because you have intellectualized or compartmentalized a past hurt and the conversation triggered that memory. Reacting can be a dangerous answer to a situation.</span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i></i></span></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. </i>~Victor Frankl</span></blockquote><p></p><p></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Responding, on the other hand, is a conscious, intentional, purposeful answer where we utilize our mindfulness skills before speaking or acting. Here, we are able to get beyond the emotion and into the information; more likely producing a calm, value-centered, and connected solution. It’s important to acknowledge that this is a skill that requires repeated practice. And that’s okay! Our journey in these bodies is always going to be an adventure, unfolding. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I understand that it's doesn't always seem possible to respond versus react when in a stressful event full of triggers. If you feel threatened or hurt, your brain and body have what I call unnatural natural reactions that are coming from your stories, perspective, opinions that too often are hiding, waiting for the opportunity to get triggered and lash out from.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is the goal of this philosophy to move towards interacting with ourselves, others, and the world from a more centered and peaceful place. That's part of the job of the guided meditations, affirmative incantations, and prayer; by becoming grounded, centered, mindful through spiritual practices, and remembering who we truly are. In fact, in these reactive-prone situations, your spiritual and mindfulness practices become the precursor to your use of responsive answers and actions in a situation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Before I give you some tools to use, I want to say that we can use our reactions to observe what the heck is in our way from our skills in manifesting, moving forward, or getting healthy. They are an insight into the junk ideas, old stories, and perspectives that are blocking our bliss. So don't get down on yourself, use your reactions as a learning tool, along with the following:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">This responding tool is called <b>PLACE</b>.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wo_I_cFaZtY/YHeBh3-EfaI/AAAAAAAAGP0/3tklLngd93YrVk6tttroDuwIJTdHadH_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s600/marketing-mix-place.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wo_I_cFaZtY/YHeBh3-EfaI/AAAAAAAAGP0/3tklLngd93YrVk6tttroDuwIJTdHadH_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/marketing-mix-place.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pause, Label, Ask, Choose, Express</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">1. <b>P</b>ause</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">You know the MAD TV sketch with Bob Newhart as the psychiatrist who uses his fancy education to tell his patient, after her victim-filled rant, to just "STOP IT." Though the sketch is funny, especially to fans of The Bob Newhart Show, it's a reactive answer to her situation and yet, in the end, not a bad response. Of course, the more proper course would be to take her through the stories, asking questions, guiding her to come up with realizations and answers herself.. All of which would lead her and most of us to "stop it." Maybe it was a cry for that fictional psychiatrist to take a vacation and get refreshed in order for him to "stop it," stop reacting and begin responding again to his patients. At the very least, he needed to remember to <b>PAUSE</b>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The moment you notice you are triggered and that your energy has changed, take a moment to pause and breathe.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">2. <b>L</b>abel Your Emotions</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Name it. What you’re feeling? is it anger, frustration, sadness, grief? Identifying how we feel helps us process our emotions. After all, it's our emotions that are getting in our way. So, label them, realize what's going on with you. It will take the heat off the matter.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">3. <b>A</b>sk Yourself: Why?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">You've paused and labeled, now ask yourself, "Why was I triggered? What was it that triggered me?" This can bring awareness to what is under the surface for you. It might not be what the person said that upset you (probably wasn't at all), but that it was a reminder of a different memory that sparks an unresolved emotion in you. Or perhaps you're just more sensitive today than yesterday, feeling unwell, or had a bad day, etc. The big question for yourself is "how can you best communicate what will best serve the discussion all are involved in at this moment?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">4. <b>C</b>hoose A Mindful Response</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is the big one! Consider the labeled emotion(s) and discover the trigger before you choose what’s important to share about your experience. Choose to communicate the answer which is connected to the situation at hand, not your old stories. A response is not harmful or unproductive. A reaction most probably will be.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">5. <b>E</b>xpress</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">When we think big picture, we put the situation in context. When we blend logic with our emotions and balance those immediate emotional responses with thoughts and facts, we fill in the blanks of what's reactive and what is responsive. Recognize your choices, and create a 20/20 vision (an imagined 20/20 vision, yes) to determine your best response to the current situation. We answer with thought rather than emotion, care versus haphazardness, mindfulness instead of fear, and all with love, not hate or anger.</span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><blockquote><i>The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response is out of freedom, hence it brings more freedom. Reaction is out of the past; you act according to your memories, built-in by your experiences, conditionings. You react not to the present, not in the present. You don`t reflect the real situation as it is; you go on interpreting it according to your past, your past experiences. The man who is awake is like a mirror: he reflects that which is the case. HE IS AWAKE. </i>~Osho Rajneesh</blockquote></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Our best prayers, our most powerful meditations, and our greatest manifestations come from an absence of fear, chaos, desperation, and destructive emotions. Let us take away our old stories from the conversations with ourselves, others, and ultimately Spirit and replace them with thoughtful intentions, awakened purpose, and the energetic frequency of fulfillment. Move the energy of your conversations with a love of life and the Light of the Divine. Then watch your experiences glow with peace, prosperity, and ease.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Affirmative Incantation</u></b></p><p>I look from my deepest Source</p><p>I look at infinite and prosperous possibilities</p><p>And I look to a world where peace, Oneness, love, freedom, and appreciation reign.</p><p>Today I declare these ideas as the way I experience my life. And attract others who live this same divine, succulent, lovely, and sane vitality. I celebrate grace, ease, and gratitude as I sing the body electric and I dance the Song of Songs.</p><p>From the morning's dew till the night's slumber gongs, Spirit guides me to my best. </p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-23645323326028208862021-04-13T17:01:00.004-07:002021-04-13T17:01:28.463-07:00What Are You Looking At?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tmDZDLaptDI/YHYtDhnMqGI/AAAAAAAAGPc/_44o1CiRMBIU_Uh5Gu_QL_-irtcfbsWeQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/tachina-lee--wjk_SSqCE4-unsplash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tmDZDLaptDI/YHYtDhnMqGI/AAAAAAAAGPc/_44o1CiRMBIU_Uh5Gu_QL_-irtcfbsWeQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/tachina-lee--wjk_SSqCE4-unsplash.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo by Tachina Lee at <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/-wjk_SSqCE4" target="_blank">Unsplash</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Last week we talked about where it is best to look from. The Divine Matrix is the synergetic alchemy of using the head, heart, and gut-brain systems to use Divine Intelligence, our feelings, and Divine Wisdom and inspiration to reveal, transcend, and achieve in life.</p><p>Today, I want to talk about what we are looking at? What are we observing? Are we looking at trouble - with a capital T, and that rhymes with P, which makes you a fool? Are we looking at limitations or infinite possibilities?</p><p>Spiritual growth is the act of letting go of any ideas, beliefs, and attachments that no longer serve us, like shoulda/woulda/coulda's, yeah-but's, and “I don't deserve it” junk thinking. When we are consistently focused on those kinds of ideas, we are not only not letting go of them, we are seeing everything through the lens or the perspective of that junk thinking.</p><p>New job interview? Thoughts surrounding you may be “they won't like me," or "I shoulda gotten that degree.”</p><p>New love relationship? Thoughts popping up could be “yeah, but something's gotta be wrong with him/her/they, it always is.”</p><p>New idea in your career, for the world, or creatively? Thoughts swirling in your head may include “Why bother, I never follow through.”</p><p>Those words and phrases are red flags about your belief system, your perspective on that activity, and what is getting in your way. So let's first look at letting go.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Forgiveness for errors, injustices, or debts</h4><p>This is something that has gotta happen to allow space in the head and the energy you exude. Remember forgiving is not condoning. Forgiving is the release of those limiting ideas' hold on your perspective. When we practice radical forgiveness, we are awakening ourselves to our highest, most capable self. It emancipates us from discord, making room for a greater good to be expressed or received, for change to take place, and for healing.</p><p>Spiritual Law tells us that spiritual growth cannot take place until we are open to learning, till we awaken to catching Spirit’s ideas about what we need to let go, and allowing the removal of obstacles and impediments which fog our way of living. As we let go, so too will Spirit’s highest ideas then be able to reveal themselves more frequently and powerfully. We forgive and let go to create openness and spaciousness so the Universe can release into our consciousness the greater idea, the best perspective.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G96BbMcTXpQ/YHYuIcUKe9I/AAAAAAAAGPk/7eZZ0i7Bp2wFxgUXsb1uNlrVewpP_B8fgCLcBGAsYHQ/s638/3-brains.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="613" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G96BbMcTXpQ/YHYuIcUKe9I/AAAAAAAAGPk/7eZZ0i7Bp2wFxgUXsb1uNlrVewpP_B8fgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/3-brains.png" /></a></div>When we look from our Divine Matrix, and embrace Spirit’s highest ideas and let go of the untruths and release the Truth, we automatically make room for being lifted out of wrong tendencies, discord, and illness. <p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Our job is to ask Spirit what needs to be revealed to us and our work is to be still, listen to the voice within, and follow its guidance. </h4><p>Can we successfully release and let go of beliefs, ideas, and limitations without embracing their replacement? While we may see what to let go of and sometimes dig into it a bit for clarity, what we want to look at is the replacement of that belief.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Where your attention goes, energy flows, and manifestation then follows.</h4><p>When we:</p><p>1) Put our conscious attention on asking for Spirit’s highest vision of what needs to be let go;</p><p>2) Keep our attention on this question long enough to receive the visionary insight on what needs to be allowed in and what we must awaken to; we then </p><p>3) Manifest our vision by committing to embrace the conscious and creative stages, in mind and action, of this intuited information.</p><p>When your attention goes to the possibilities, your energy flows from the intuited Divine nature, and your manifestations then come pure and clean.</p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Ignorance stays with us until the day of enlightenment, until our vision toward the Spirit broadens and casts out the image of a no longer useful littleness…. The will should hold it in place until the creative genius of the inner life transforms the image of limitation and transmutes it into liberty under law. </i>~Ernest Holmes</span></p><p></p></blockquote><h4 style="text-align: left;">Are you looking at the possibilities or the limitations? </h4><p>Have you heard of <a href="https://bethanyhamilton.com/" target="_blank">Bethany Hamilton</a>'s story? At the age of 13 as a rising surf star, Bethany lost her left arm to a 14-foot tiger shark, seemingly ending her dream career. However, through a foundation of faith, determination, and passion, one month after the attack, Bethany returned to surfing and within two years had won her first national title. At 17 years old, she realized her dream of surfing professionally and is an active surf competitor to this day, currently competing in the World Surf League tour events and other special events. In 2016, Bethany beat a six-time world champion and the top-ranked surfer in the world. In 2017, she was inducted into the Surfer’s Hall of Fame. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/06/01/sports/01surfing-web1/01surfing-web1-superJumbo-v2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="800" height="182" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/06/01/sports/01surfing-web1/01surfing-web1-superJumbo-v2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Bethany sees her passion for surfing as a gift from God and is what compelled her to go back to the sport against all odds. She is constantly re-writing the supposed rules of logic, what's possible, and living her greatest life. Her story is dramatized in the movie ”Soul Surfer” based on her book of the same title, and her perspective of the incident is shown in the docs “Heart of Soul Surfer,” and “Unstoppable” along with her many other books like “Be Unstoppable” and the children's tale, “Unstoppable Me.” Bethany reminds us: <i>I don't need easy, I just need possible.</i><p></p><p>While it is not always easy to let go of our troubles or give up the things we resent and regret, when we connect what we are looking through with what we are looking at, we listen to Spirit’s highest ideas on what needs to be released and forgiven. And we:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Live to be present</li><li>Look for things to be grateful for each day</li><li>Set boundaries to protect the important things</li><li>Say no to the excess stuff or doing too much</li><li>Aim to use time wisely to include sweet moments and see a world of possibilities.</li><li>It's our daily choices that determine our outcomes.</li></ul><p></p><p>With repetition, we’ll catch more insights and habitually expand our vision/mission/purpose. There’s a spiritual solution to every problem/condition. Stress, illness, or trauma might crack us, but it doesn't have to end us.</p><p>There is an ancient Japanese art called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi" target="_blank">Kintsugi</a> or golden joinery. It is a technique using a lacquered or resin-based gold dust for repairing broken pottery with seams of gold. We can use a spiritual version of this practice through our Divine Matrix to repair any damage.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Are you looking at old stories or creating new ones?</h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">Are you having a vision or dream that just floats around or are you envisioning and embodying it in the Divine Matrix?</h3><p>Here is a process to see what shame and/or regret you may have that is fogging up everything you are looking at in mind and body, family and love relationships, community, friends, money and work, and in your connection to Higher Self and Source. Each piece of shame and regret story has 4 steps:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Summary of the shame and/or regret story</li><li>When did it happen (beginning and ending time)</li><li>Where did it happen</li><li>What were the deeper consequences of what you did and how did this affect your relationship with yourself and your life now? This step is the one to dig deep into.</li></ol><p></p><p>When you have finished writing down (best with pen and paper) your Shame and Regret list, keep it safe from anyone else except a trusted friend, counselor, therapist, spiritual practitioner, or spiritual leader to who you will later read this. When you do choose the one person you will share the list with, please remind yourself to not allow any justifications to arise and to not solicit or allow any judgment, good or bad from the one you are reading this to. This process is only about communication with a trusted other and the openness to let it go. The release comes through the non-judged venting, to get it out of our heads both as a story and the energy it carried. When we have our ethics and integrity 'squeaky clean, we open up to receiving in a huge way and step into living our life large and free and powerful! </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Declare what your new story is NOW. </h3><div>When you look around you, what are you looking at?</div><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Are you looking at agitation or serenity? What you expect, you'll receive.</li><li>Are you looking at a “woe is me” life or a “wow is me” life? Living life with wonderment and creativity is remembering that the power of You is essential no matter your age.</li><li>Are you looking at the reflection of a victim or victor? The pain of any sort of trauma is not necessarily eliminated in this work, it is neutralized and replaced. To release and let go is to neutralize the pain from the old event and its hold on your perspective of life.</li><li>Are you looking at practicalities or possibilities? Living with an attitude of being practical may feel safe, but understanding the infinite possibilities the Universe has available will expand your outlook, opportunities, success, and happiness.</li></ul><p></p><p>Remove “impossible” from your vocabulary. The art of the possible tells us that we take our options and make the best of them. And our options are limited only by how we look at things. So become a wiser, stronger, more evolved human being by filling your cup / your mind with what you want to attract. Focus on that, not the old stories.</p><p>Then what are you looking at is...</p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><i>a joyous, rich, succulent, fun, loving, peaceful, happy, and vibrant life.</i></h3><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><b><u>Affirmative Incantation: </u></b></p><p><i>I release.</i></p><p><i>I let go.</i></p><p><i>And I let the Divine in me inform, inspire, regulate and interpret all my dreams and desires.</i></p><p><i>Through the eye of any storm, I stand steady and nimble like the olive tree, in the zone of awakened awareness, and with Spirit-empowered readiness to take on all that steps into my life with ease and grace. My intellect, compassion, and instincts are handy and ripe with the smartest and most loving choices...the best choices for this day.</i></p><p><i>In this moment, and the next ones hereafter, I rise to my highest Self, confident of my fitness, goodwill, and willingness to be in my prime, vibrating at the speed of the Divine.</i></p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-65662617305117582442021-03-23T08:10:00.008-07:002021-03-23T08:10:42.982-07:00Where Are You Looking From?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fEXKLTnAXtc/YFfTT5w0eII/AAAAAAAAGNo/gD0wMjIuJ3wGLvYviHuLx41N0ontrTVMACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/james-lee-qrOZhUu5_u0-unsplash.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fEXKLTnAXtc/YFfTT5w0eII/AAAAAAAAGNo/gD0wMjIuJ3wGLvYviHuLx41N0ontrTVMACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/james-lee-qrOZhUu5_u0-unsplash.jpg" /></a></div> I want to start out with two questions:<div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">What does living a life of curiosity every day look like whether things are going smoothly or not?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">How do you differentiate between your personal biased agenda and that of Spirit?</span><p></p><p>Centers for Spiritual Living's Global Vision states:</p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: arial;">We see a world in which every person lives in alignment with their highest spiritual principle, emphasizing unity with God and connection with each other; a world in which individually and collectively we are called to a higher state of consciousness and action.</span></i></blockquote><p>Where do we see that world from, though? Well, it all depends on where you are looking from <span style="white-space: pre;">.</span>...or is it through?</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Is it from the five senses?</h4><p style="text-align: left;">Sight, sound, taste, smell, touch? Eyes, ears, nose, mouth, or skin?</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Our brain?</h4><p style="text-align: left;">The seat of the intellect, language, cognition, consciousness, creativity, logic, and knowledge? Where<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the electrochemical workings of 86 billion neurons and their synapses fire, and recognize, give meaning, and create narratives?</p><p style="text-align: left;">Most have the brain/head thing down, pronouncing to the world things like:</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> "</span>I think...”</p><p> “I understand...”</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I declare this in my life!”</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I reveal that in my life!”</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Maybe the answers are in our hearts? </h4><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.heart.org/-/media/images/news/2019/february-2019/0225heartcancer_sc.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://www.heart.org/-/media/images/news/2019/february-2019/0225heartcancer_sc.png" width="400" /></a></div>That's the first organ that reveals itself in the body's development. It's not merely a muscle to pump blood, it has a complex intrinsic nervous system of over 40,000 sensory neurites firing off independently from those in the brain. The heart has been labeled by researchers in neurocardiology (defined by BH Nattelson as "the study of the neurophysiological, neuro- <span style="color: black;">logical, and neuroanatomical</span> aspects of cardiology, including especially the neurological origins of cardiac disorders")<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span>as a functional “brain.” This "brain" can learn independently, have its own memories, and feel and sense information. It also creates an energetic field to tell our brains whether we feel safe or not and acts as a regulator of our perceptions. <p></p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>We can think, pray or speak words until we are blue in the face and not a thing will manifest, at least not in the clearest way, unless we have feeling behind it. While we admire the intellect, we must realize that the intellect is not the creative factor in the Universe. Rather, it is feeling that is creative.</i> ~Ernest Homes </span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>As Neville wrote in his book, <b>Feeling is the Secret</b>:</p><p></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Ideas are impressed on the subconscious through the medium of feeling. No idea can be impressed on the subconscious until it is felt, but once felt –be it good, bad or indifferent- it must be expressed. Feeling is the one and only medium through which ideas are conveyed to the subconscious.</span></i></blockquote><p></p><p>Well, now we have got the heart-brain connecting. Is that the ticket on where we are looking from?</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Maybe the answers are actually in our gut?</h4><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.bulletproof.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Brain-Health-The-Ultimate-Guide-to-Keeping-Your-Brain-Young-and-Strong-_Heal-your-gut-752x401.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="752" height="213" src="https://www.bulletproof.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Brain-Health-The-Ultimate-Guide-to-Keeping-Your-Brain-Young-and-Strong-_Heal-your-gut-752x401.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>The enteric nervous system (ENS) consists of sheaths of neurons embedded in the walls of our gut. From the esophagus to the anus, the gut contains some 100 million neurons, more than in the spinal cord or the peripheral nervous system. It uses more than 30 neurotransmitters, just like the brain, and carries 95% of the body's serotonin and other hormones and neurotransmitters that regulate mood, appetite, sleep, memory, and sexual desire and function. The vagus nerve carries information from the gut to the brain - mostly one way....up. But, as smart as it might sound, the ENS can’t balance your checkbook or compose a symphony, it mostly controls digestion from swallowing to the release of enzymes to break down food to the control of blood flow for nutrient absorption to elimination. However, the gut also controls self-preservation and mobilization<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and responds to challenges, opposition, and danger. It also helps determine our core sense of self through its reactions to our thoughts. The seat of inspiration seems to speak from there. Notice how in life we use phrases like:<p></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“It takes guts to...” </p><p> “My gut tells me...”</p><p>Some have the gut stuff/intuition thing going. The thoughts, feelings, and intuitive messages analyzed by the gut awaken us to a direct infusion of Divine Wisdom. But which one is fueling the life of curiosity from day-to-day, understanding, analyzing, and solving whether things are going smoothly? Which one is discerning between your biases, perceptions, and opinions and that of the wisdom of Spirit? What is driving your desires, revelations, and communing with the Universe? Is it ego or Spirit? </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.capturehighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Principles-of-Success.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://www.capturehighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Principles-of-Success.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>When we Edge God Out, our ego’s desires can come from a place of scarcity, lack or fear, and the insatiable desire for more (which is a hint to a belief in scarcity), or to prove a sense of self-worth. When we are Entertaining God Only, Spirit’s call is one of Wholeness, Oneness, Infinite possibilities, Creativity, Freedom, and Truth. We are taking cues from the Infinite Wisdom of the Universe, beyond time and space. The spiritual practices of visioning, affirmative prayer (Spiritual Mind Treatment), and meditation assist us in letting go of those personal agendas which ultimately just get in our way or slow us down, and align with Divine Intelligence to experience a life of flow and ease, and manifesting our desires for ourselves and the world. That includes manifesting ideas, solutions, intuitions, as well as stuff<span style="white-space: pre;">.</span><p></p><p>As individualized expressions of the One Universal Energy, we have access to the infinite wisdom and intelligence of all space and time. It flows through us, as us, and for us as an individualized expression of this energy. However, it only does so to the degree that we set our previous ideas aside and tune in to its frequency, awakening to the impress of Universal Spirit. This direct revelation is available to us through our intuition, intelligence, and feelings working together; which places us smack in the middle of Heaven - the state of awareness of our True Nature.</p><p>Though we experience our True Nature to the degree we become conscious of it, we can use our built-in toolbox, the Divine Matrix, to be where we are looking from. The Divine Matrix is a structure that combines the simultaneous use of the Cephalic (head), cardiac (heart), and enteric (gut) systems. When we are looking from The Divine Matrix, the head, heart, and gut brains are communicating with each other, sussing up the situation as a unit, and coming up with the solutions as an integrated system of our consciousness, values, and beliefs. The Mind is an ever-expansive individualized essence of Universal Energy. This is how we experience life to the fullest. And in doing so, we habitually, and as second-nature (though actually, it's our original-nature) we answer all instances, experiences, conditions, happenings, etc. with:</p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Playfair Display;">What is Spirit's Highest Idea of Itself in this moment?</span></h4><p><span style="white-space: pre;">Yes, the question and the answer in one sentence: </span>What is Spirit’s Highest Idea of Itself in this moment, this situation? Living in this question invites us to listen to and from a different place, beyond the egoistic mind to that connection with the Universal Presence Mind, which is seeking to express in, as, and through us. </p><p>Sometimes we require adjustments and repairs to our systems. Maybe our state of mind/being or belief is off-kilter and the following are not showing up:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>love for life</li><li>joy for existence</li><li>motivation to be alive</li><li>state of gratitude</li></ul><p></p><p>In essence, then, we are not in the groove of our Godness.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">So, what do we do?</h4><p>Ask questions to our most inner self. Questions open us to something new. Questions invite curiosity as a way of being. Questions break us away from what we think we know and desire and invites something greater within to guide us. It's time to re-awaken our heart intelligence and connect it to our brain intelligence, and simultaneously be open and ready for intuitive intelligence. As Ramana Maharshi (Hindu sage, early-mid 20thC) reminds us: </p><p></p><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></i></p></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">...when the mind stays in the Heart, the ‘I’ which is the source of all thoughts will go, and the Self which ever exists will shine. </span></i></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p></blockquote><p>There is a Cherokee word - ‘shante ishta’. It means "the single eye of the heart," the single eye that sees what’s true, without judgment. Here's a spiritual practice that will put you on a direct path to heart-brain harmony, celebrating the shante ishta and awakening the intuited wisdom:</p><p><b>1. Close your eyes</b></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> It </span>brings your awareness within</p><p><b>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Put your hand on your heart!</b></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> The heart</span> is at the center of the body, the center chakra or energy point in your body. It is the gateway to an Intelligence both harmonious and holistic. And the touch brings a powerful awareness to this gateway.</p><p><b>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Now be aware of your breathing and allow it to slow down</b></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> Count </span>5 secs in through your nose and 5 secs out from your mouth. Do this a few times to get used to that rhythm. Allow it to take root in the cadence of your breath. This signals to the body that you are safe, freeing you from any stresses and opening the body and brain to healing.</p><p><b>4. Think or imagine someone or something that you care about, appreciate, or have gratitude or compassion for.</b></p><p> Allow yourself to feel it. It could be for any person, this community, your puppy, something you received, or an insight you had.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;">Care, Appreciation, Gratitude, or Compassion!</h4><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zAcDPAJPaWI/YFk1aToKM7I/AAAAAAAAGNw/T2HqvkMpJCsBzw7bCk0_ASWf2kHGQEmqwCLcBGAsYHQ/s638/3-brains.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="613" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zAcDPAJPaWI/YFk1aToKM7I/AAAAAAAAGNw/T2HqvkMpJCsBzw7bCk0_ASWf2kHGQEmqwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/3-brains.png" /></a></div>This spiritual practice connects all three brains - the intuition from the gut, the feelings and intelligence of the heart, and the logic and knowledge of the brain. It harmonizes them for optimal decision making, creative discovery, learning, transcending, and manifesting. It gives one resilience in this ever-changing and too often turbulent world, inspiring one from the chaotic to the cosmos, and releasing one from the unformed destructive whirling dervishes to the lovingly controlled constructive creation. This practice also releases 1300 biochemical reactions that promote immunity and anti-aging.<p></p><p>Another way to bring the Divine Matrix in line is with what I call an Affirmative Incantation. An A. I. is similar to an affirmation, but is more thorough and goes deeper. Taking a logical and heartfelt path to your best self, it is a formula for consciously transcending success. It is alchemistic versus the repeated one or two-sentence affirmation which too often becomes a mish-mash of words that lose their power and begin to sound like the teacher from the Charlie Brown comics - "wah-wah-wah-wah-waaaah."</p><p>Here is an affirmative incantation for you to use right now: </p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">In this moment, I recognize that my life is the embodiment of Spirit’s highest idea of Itself as me. I see my Highest Self as my daily self, embodying every thought, feeling, and belief with the inspiration, love, and intelligence of the Universal Presence.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">In an abundance of affluence:</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I seek and I find.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I sow and I reap.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I discover and I engage.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I reveal and I utilize.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I Am experiencing my life through the best ideas in health, wealth, relationships, and creativity to bust through, soar, and zoom into a fabulous day.</span></i></p></blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></i></p><p>Let us remember that there is only One Power and Presence, the One Source back of all things. And knowing there is only One Life, this Life must be who I am; who you are. Therefore each of us has the ability to allow the Infinite Wisdom of this Power and Presence to express through them, by living in the question: “What is Spirit’s highest vision of Itself as me in this moment?” <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p>Living from a place of curiosity, and remaining open and willing to receive Spirit’s highest vision of Itself expressing through any situation in our lives, allows us to live and act from a place of Divine Guidance in order to create our Heaven, right here and now. </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Are you willing to be surprised by what you discover about yourself?</li><li>Everything is for our learning and growth, are you open? </li><li>Are you willing to be more interested in your spiritual growth than advocating for your limitations? </li></ul><p></p><p>We learn through curiosity. Remaining open to experience a shift of perspective, a new awareness, and a heightened experience of life is the key to an abundance of prosperity in all parts of our life.</p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Are you willing?</span></h2></div>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-72044353025551048112021-03-18T17:42:00.000-07:002021-03-18T17:42:20.971-07:00Resistance is Futile<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b1Z6imRqmt4/YFFOVw8UBVI/AAAAAAAAGM0/urzRrsNgeSARAP6Kan4ARUoPdttDN_IswCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/sisyphi21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b1Z6imRqmt4/YFFOVw8UBVI/AAAAAAAAGM0/urzRrsNgeSARAP6Kan4ARUoPdttDN_IswCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/sisyphi21.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Our theme for January was "Love It." February brought us:<p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Black History Month and part of the Season of Non-Violence</li><li>Groundhog Day, Tater Tot, and Ukelele Day is also in February</li><li>So is Washington, Lincoln, Bob Marley, and Frederick Douglass' Birthdays</li><li>The Periodic Table has a day in February and so does doggy bones and toothaches</li><li>The Chinese New Year was on the 12th – of the Ox</li><li>The Jewish holiday, Purim was on the 26th, commemorating the victory of Queen Esther of Persia in saving the Jewish people from execution by Haman, the advisor to the king</li><li>And Lent began on the 17th, reminding Christians of Yeshua's 40-day sacrifice in the desert</li></ul><p></p><p>Lives to remember, foods to enjoy, events to commemorate, rituals in which to partake, ideas to contemplate, and of course, love to celebrate - so much in 28 days. But all of that is man-made. I say so not to lessen its significance, but to show its exquisiteness and uniqueness. A uniqueness only possible through the loving expression of God.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>In going within, we do not turn to our own spirituality or our own goodness or our own strength or our own knowledge; but we go within to unleash the Infinite Invisible.</i> ~Joel S. Goldsmith, The Art of Meditation </span></blockquote><p></p><p>We are individuations of the One Universal Power & Presence and we each act in this Oneness to unleash that Infinite Invisible from within. We don't have to spend days in the desert or atop a mountain or live in a cave. Each is their own mystics able to live the mystical experience by letting God be God in them and as them.</p><p>You are Divine now...it is your birthright. Your uniqueness, talents, and dreams are all waiting for you to WAKE UP and accept your divinity! It is only our resistance to this Truth that gets in our way. When we resist, we strive against or oppose something, the polar opposite of working a resolution. Changing things in our life begins with not wanting to experience this or that anymore; to set up a barrier to reliving that idea. But that is where resistance should quickly end.</p><p>One of the most notorious creatures from the Star Trek universe is the <a href="https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Borg" target="_blank">Borg</a>. In the 1990 third-season finale of The Next Generation series, the evil Borg sent an audio message to those whom their collective would absorb (imagine ominous robotic voice): “We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.”</p><p>“Wow,” you may think, “Rev. Jay is comparing our Oneness and connection to Spirit to the Borg?” In a way, yes. I don't claim we are all some sort of spiritual cyborgs roaming the earth. But take away your biology and technology and what is left? ...your etiology – your causation and origination ... your most basic self - your Godness!</p><p>We are in a collective of sorts, not evil like the Borg, but one that is available through the conscious activity of embodying Spirit; a complete emancipation from discord that no one can truly take away without our permission.</p><p>On July 9, 1868, the <a href="https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_States_of_America_1992" target="_blank">14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution</a> was ratified. Garrett Epps, Professor of constitutional law at the University of Baltimore, wrote this about the 14th amendment:</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Its centerpiece is the idea that citizenship in the United States is universal—that we are one nation, with one class of citizens, and that citizenship extends to everyone born here. Citizens have rights that neither the federal government nor any state can revoke at will; even undocumented immigrants—"persons", in the language of the amendment—have rights to due process and equal protection of the law.</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p>Yet, the road to freedom does not truly lay in amendments to a constitution or any set of man-made laws again, not to lessen the efforts of Federick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thaddeus Stephens, and other abolitionists or 13th/14th amendment proponents. However, freedom must be made first in the minds and hearts of those whose values and beliefs equaled that pronouncement. It may have started as a resistance to hate, inequality, and unjust actions and ideas, but accepting it first -remember this is not about permission- acceptance allows us to transform those ideas from the resistance of the negative into working for something that is positive and a part of Nature's Laws. Before emancipation could be a fact in the United States, the Truth of our equality and Oneness within the creations of the Universe had to be recognized and accepted to set man free. In other words, our minds had to echo through our communion with the eternal Thing Itself.</p><p>The sooner we awaken to Truth and live it holistically, and not just in our heads, the sooner we shall become factually free & happy, no matter the conditions we experience or the laws or amendments to any constitution. Viktor E. Frankl, Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor - founder of logotherapy, a search for a life meaning as the central human motivational force - wrote:</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.wien.info/media/images/viktor-e-frankl-19to1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="800" height="168" src="https://www.wien.info/media/images/viktor-e-frankl-19to1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance. ...Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. </i></span></blockquote><p></p><p>Yes, we are obligated to enact laws to codify our understanding of Truth. God does not condone enslaving or mistreating anyone<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and we cannot be free in our spirit nor free in our mind when we withhold human liberty from another; neither can we be truly free when we kill, maim, cage, strike, spit upon, tear gas or shoot another. We can only be completely free when we respect and honor all of life. Those not participating in the Divine collective of Oneness, peace, and Universal love are bound to suffer the consequences of having a void in their heart filled with more hate, fear, shame helplessness, powerlessness, injustice, and inadequacy....all learned feelings one decides to embrace.</p><p>But when you fill that void, no matter the size, with Spirit, you gain a foundation to build upon. You step into a world where kinship with all life connects and prospers in you, guides you with spiritual wisdom...a world that will show up without police brutality, white privilege, or any cultural beliefs of superiority and its inherent arrogance and delusions</p><p>I am not telling you to bypass what may be lurking inside - confusing you, irritating you. The resolution, however, must begin with who you are. Looking for approval outside of yourself is futile - it will never fill any void. Remember you are worthy NOW and you're pre-approved for your highest good now, as well.</p><p> <i style="font-family: arial;">Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God. </i><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;">~</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin" target="_blank">Teilhard de Chardin</a></span></p><p>Are there areas of joy in your life that could support you in remembering that God is always everywhere equally present? <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Find them...Nurture them. <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;">Incorporate them where the joy isn't as strong</h4><p>It’s foolish and futile, to dedicate your time and attention to resisting what you don’t want. Reapply your energy toward what you do want and plan a prudent spiritual practice, then a wise practical course of action. When we choose to love the awakening to our highest self, we ease the effects of the negative and ease the inclusion of the positive, and we reveal the wisdom of the ages and disclose the best we have to offer to the world and beyond. Believing and loving who you are is a powerful antidote for lack and limitation, depression and distress, dis-harmony and dis-ease.</p><p>Allow the Divine's Love and Wisdom into your life</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: red;">Resistance is futile!</span></h3><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Affirmative Incantation</u></b></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>Divine Love acts through me and the Law of Love frees me to be my best. Today I offer myself to loving this loved life. </i></p><p><i>I am dedicated to being my best today, declaring superlative thoughts, revealing my highest ideas, best practices, the deepest empowering beliefs, and the most succulent experiences.</i></p><p><i>This day is my day and I express it with joy in my heart, a twinkle in my eye, and a spring in my step.</i></p><p><i>Watch out world, here I Am!</i></p><p></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Tax Deductible Love Offerings:
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</p><p><br /></p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-28214838386901595702021-03-16T16:00:00.000-07:002021-03-16T16:00:33.703-07:00Going With the Flow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i4O9KW2_WrY/YFE3Yyo794I/AAAAAAAAGMs/UbDUsz6rQuMfszbQnRGTx8A_N_E3T5kDACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/GOING%2BWITH%2BTHE%2BFLOW_A%2BJ%2BCASS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i4O9KW2_WrY/YFE3Yyo794I/AAAAAAAAGMs/UbDUsz6rQuMfszbQnRGTx8A_N_E3T5kDACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/GOING%2BWITH%2BTHE%2BFLOW_A%2BJ%2BCASS.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius encouraged people not to waste energy by fighting against society. He called it..."Going with the flow." Now, going with the flow has come to mean having a relaxed attitude, letting life carry you along. After all - “what you resist persists,” right?</p><p>I've been described as someone who goes with the flow; easy-going, keeping my neutrality in conflicts. Yet I have found that the practice of going with the flow can also lead to laziness or playing the spiritual bypass game or having a reluctance to taking life seriously or deeply or by the collar, when necessary.</p><p>Today, I want to about the power and depth in going with the flow in a spiritually conscious & mindful way by going with the flow on the River of the Divine You. </p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. </i>~Lao-Tzu</span></blockquote><p></p><p>Going with the flow doesn't have to be a cop-out, accepting life's lemons as the end of the story. You and I create the flow by getting in the Flow on the River of Love and Law. It may not be all peaches and cream and may involve some tough relaxing into the chaos, learning not to stress, and responding versus reacting. The main action behind going with the flow is not just laying back, it's taking hold of the consciousness cord that connects us to the Power of Manifestation where we can get guidance. We cannot practice the love of life in isolation or in a vacuum. Every spiritual path and all the mystics have described that each of us in nature is connected to that single Divine River where the wellspring of infinite possibilities flows. </p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Within this Infinite Mind, each individual exists. We are not separated from Life, and neither is It separated from us. We are separate entities in It — individualized centers of God Consciousness. </i>~Dr. Holmes, The Science of Mind</span></blockquote><p></p><p>When we awaken to the Truth, we become open to the impulse & guidance of Spirit, inspired by imagination and wisdom, directed by our values, committed to our core principles, and dedicated to transformation and transcendence - no matter the circumstances. Leo Babauta, in the blog, Zen Habits, says:</p><p></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: arial;">No matter how much structure we create in our lives, no matter how many good habits we build, there will always be things that we cannot control — and if we let them, these things can be a huge source of anger, frustration, and stress. </span></i></blockquote><p></p><p>This conflict or condition has already happened; we can't go back to make it not have happened at least not yet. So what do we do when we step in it when junk shows up in our lives - big or small? I had a kidney stone journey in 2013:</p><p>4 days of cramps</p><p>4 days of feeling like Sisyphus...invoking powerful names = Jesus, Iron Man ...and phrases I cannot repeat...jumping up and down to rattle the stone around and break it up. I noticed the usual go with the flow idea went out of my mind as quickly as the cursing came out of my mouth. Then I became focused on not resolving the pain but remembering who I was. I had plenty of moments of health worries, possible financial concerns, and just the agonizing pain but it was my consciousness work that brought relief. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQmjuxSEnW7PHuLvIC2A7mtHbSDZDonV6DTLQ&usqp=CAU" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQmjuxSEnW7PHuLvIC2A7mtHbSDZDonV6DTLQ&usqp=CAU" /></a></div>Kamal Ravikant wrote:<p></p><p></p><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Most of our pain, most of our suffering comes</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">from resistance to what Life is. And when we</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">resist what life is, we suffer. When you can say</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">yes to life, surrender to life and say: “Okay, what</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">should I be now?” That’s where power comes from.</span></i></p></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>There is a story about a young martial arts student was under the tutelage of a famous master. One day, the master was watching a practice session in the courtyard.</p><p>He realized that the presence of the other students was interfering with the young man’s attempts to perfect his technique. The master could sense the young man’s frustration. He went up to the young man and tapped him on his shoulder. “What’s the problem?” he inquired.</p><p>“I don’t know,” said the youth with a strained expression. “No matter how much I try, I am unable to execute the moves properly”.</p><p>“Before you can master technique, you must understand harmony, my son. Come with me, I will explain,” replied the master.</p><p>The teacher and student left the building and walked some distance into the woods until they came upon a stream. The master stood silently on the bank for several moments before he said, “Look at the stream. There are rocks in its way. Does it slam into them out of frustration? Watch it simply flow over and around them and move on! Be like the water and you will know what harmony is.”</p><p>Whether its COVID or a broken pipe, don’t dig in your heels, push, shove, and struggle until the veins pop out on your head. Stop saying no. Say yes and accept whatever it is.</p><p>Now the act of accepting doesn't mean giving permission ...accepting lets us stop thinking we must swim upstream or wish we could go back in time somehow ...accepting turns the dial to tune into and allow the nourishing Flow of the River of Divine Intelligence to carry us over and around the rocks. Here are a few daily practice tips from <a href="https://www.bevjanisch.com/" target="_blank">Bev Janisch</a>:</p><p>1. Learn to distinguish between thoughts and feelings that arise from the condition or event – is it</p><p>bringing in your small self or your [highest self]?</p><p>2. Ask yourself: What is my heart’s desire? What inspired action arising from my soul am I meant to</p><p>take today or in this situation?</p><p>3. Create a daily habit of communicating with Source through meditation, prayer or “divine chats.”</p><p>Going with the Flow is about creating awareness, space, and practices that enable us to tune in to what Divine wisdom is intuiting and then honoring what we hear.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">• Commit to participating in the awakening of your spiritual magnificence and personal power</h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">• Commit to catching the spark of Divine ideas</h3><p>You may be in pain or in fear of a prognosis or consequence, uncomfortable with making some changes in your habits of thought and action. It may be messy, chaotic, sad, or dirty, but as we understand that any yuckiness is the perfect outcome of the flow of the river of life we decided to float upon, we become open to and ready for the ideas, practices, & solutions to incorporate into our boat. Going with the flow doesn't mean you just sit there, hoping to become dislodged. By going with the Flow using your spiritual tools, you will rise up from the hurricane of discomfort. So go ahead and rage and weep for a few minutes, then take a breath and tap into the River of Divine Wisdom and allow your intuition to inform you of your options and find your best practices from a place of “yes” and acceptance. There is beauty in everything around us if we look at it as perfect.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Go with the flow of your life</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Go with the flow of your community</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Go with the flow of your health</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Go with the flow of this time of COVID</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">Go with the flow of your relationships</span></div></h3><p>It doesn't mean you don't take action. It means you go with the flow on the River of Divine Intelligence and Love to take action with the wisdom of the ages, the power of the mighty Mississippi, the best advice available from the Universe and Its creations.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Affirmative Incantation</u></p><p></p><blockquote><p><i>I am stepping into the Circle of Love which surrounds me with ever-expanding energy that vibrates at the speed</i></p><p><i>of the Divine, awakening me to my best self.</i></p><p><i>In this Circle of Love, I lift up my mind to the highest thoughts and ideas.</i></p><p><i>In this Circle of Love, I lift up my heart to the highest frequencies of joy, passion, enthusiasm, and purpose.</i></p><p><i>In this Circle of Love, I honor that which binds us all together in everlasting Unity. I work the Universal Law to</i></p><p><i>cause and effect my dreams into an experience.</i></p><p><i>It is beautiful in this Circle.</i></p><p><i>It is calm in this Circle.</i></p><p><i>It is powerful in this Circle.</i></p><p><i>In this Circle of love, I am living Life to Its most abundant, highest, and prosperous; allowing the best of me to flow.</i></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Tax Deductible Love Offerings:
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</p><p></p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-18069983863723576062021-03-16T14:50:00.000-07:002021-03-16T14:50:27.563-07:00A Festival of Love<blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span><i></i></span></span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eZQ9fxOr2DI/YFEZrMZSgKI/AAAAAAAAGMk/dxQshkt3peg79BJ4p-4ecSrF45TpO_t0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s940/Red%2BRose%2BPhoto%2BValentine%25E2%2580%2599s%2BDay%2BFacebook%2BPost%2B%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eZQ9fxOr2DI/YFEZrMZSgKI/AAAAAAAAGMk/dxQshkt3peg79BJ4p-4ecSrF45TpO_t0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Red%2BRose%2BPhoto%2BValentine%25E2%2580%2599s%2BDay%2BFacebook%2BPost%2B%25281%2529.png" width="320" /></a></div><blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><blockquote><blockquote><i>Let me not to the marriage of true minds</i></blockquote></blockquote></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Admit impediments. Love is not love</i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Which alters when it alteration finds,</i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Or bends with the remover to remove:</i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, </i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;</i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>It is the star to every wandering bark,</i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.</i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks </i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Within his bending sickle's compass come; </i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, </i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>But bears it out even to the edge of doom.</i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>If this be error and upon me proved,</i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I never writ, nor no man or woman ever loved.</i></span></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p>Most think of Shakespeare's SONNET 116 as a tome to romantic love, but when you listen carefully, dig deeply, he speaks as well to the love of living and experiencing life to the fullest, no matter what shows up or what your age may be. He speaks as well to how the Universe, from the Big Bang through eternity, is the energy of creation everlasting – the very essence of love.</p><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><blockquote style="line-height: 150%; margin-right: 0.3in;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i></span></span></blockquote></blockquote><p>Our awakening is a love-fest of depth, passion, enlightenment, Spirit, and...</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Philia — Affectionate / Authentic Friendship Love</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pragma — Enduring Love</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Storge (storjay) — Unconditional / Familial Love</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Eros — Romantic / Passionate Love</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ludus — Playful / Flirtatious Love</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Philautia — Self Love</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Agape — Selfless / Universal Love </p><p>Our festival of love shall illuminate them all. </p><p>First is the love of Spirit – AGAPE. As defined by Ernest Holmes, love is the "Self-givingness of Spirit through the desire of Life to express Itself in terms of creation. It is a synonym for God, says Emerson. It is a cosmic force whose sweep is irresistible."</p><p>God is unconditional love. Many confuse that with only the positive things happening in our lives, however, the unconditional love from the Universe, the Highest of One, the Divine Source, Spirit, whatever you want to call It, knows only giving, not good or bad, positive or negative. There is a “Divine yes” that will never be denied to us. This “yes” may announce Itself through joy and peace, or pain and loss. Yet It awaits our acknowledgment and response. It is a “yes” that leads to joy, love, challenge, growth, and the on-going “yet-to-be” of infinite possibilities. It is that soul’s calling of our “heart‘s desire” which first appears as a curiosity or an interest, a nudge from the Universe growing to be a pull to know more. </p><p>Learning to listen through regular spiritual practice brings trust, hope, awakening, and finally, a vision that we can embrace and embody and envision into our belief and life. Agape Love, Self Love – Divine Love is All Love. The capital 'L' love that shines in our Oneness as humans and all living beings reminds us of who we are...what Self is.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>That boundless power, source of every power, manifesting itself as life, entering every heart, living there among the elements, that is Self.</i> ~Upanishads</span></blockquote><p></p><p>That is YOU...found in the countenance which is you. Enoch (great grandfather of Noah) recounts: </p><p></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: arial;">I saw the view of the face of the Lord, like iron made burning hot in a fire and brought out, and it emits sparks and is incandescent. Thus even I saw the face of the Lord. </span></i></blockquote><p></p><p>It is not just a burning bush or the face of Moses or Jesus or Mary or Muhammad or the Buddha, the likeness and image of the Divine is in all those things - the likeness and image is in you. So much is resolved, loosened up, and empowered when we remember this. Take it to heart, live it, embody it, think from it, and be it in mind, body, heart, and soul.</p><p>That was an example of Philautia – self-love, a practice of meditation and prayer is the ultimate of self-love, giving you healthy self-esteem, insight into the highest you, a calm, centeredness – an opening for wisdom. Now we shall step into the realm of Eros – romantic love</p><p>In Madame Bovary (1856), Gustave Flaubert tells us about Emma Bovary's ideas about romantic love from "the refuse of old lending libraries," which...</p><p></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-family: arial;">...were all about love and lovers, damsels in distress swooning in lonely lodges, postillions slaughtered all along the road, horses ridden to death on every page, gloomy forests, troubles of the heart, vows, sobs, tears, kisses, rowing-boats in the moonlight, nightingales in the grove, gentlemen brave as lions and gentle as lambs, too virtuous to be true, invariably well-dressed, and weeping like fountains.</span></i></blockquote><p></p><p>Is that how you see romantic love?</p><p>I am in love! Not just romantic love – though she's here. I am in love with my friends, my job, my ministry, my family, Southern California. I am in love with the taste of peach cobbler w/thick doughy, chewy crust and crumbles topping (gluten-free, of course), french fries, pumpkin pie, dense rich flour-less chocolate cake. I am in love with the smell of cut grass, a blazing fireplace or fire pit...the air after it rains. I am in love with the music of Debussy and the sound of crickets at night.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.heavenlyembodiment.com/uploads/1/0/8/5/108506649/eros_orig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://www.heavenlyembodiment.com/uploads/1/0/8/5/108506649/eros_orig.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>Eros...romantic love...is celebrated on February 14th. St. Valentines Day has many stories:<p></p><p>One was begun by Pope Gelasius I in the 5th century to combine the honoring of a temple priest who was beheaded by the emperor Claudius II for helping Christian couples wed and the Roman feast of Lupercalia, a naked, drunken Pagan fertility festival of goat sacrifices, misogyny, and a matchmaking lottery. Other St. Valentine's are celebrated at different times:</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St. Valentine of Viterbo on November 3</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St. Valentine of Raetia on January 7</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>St. Valentine (Valentina), a virgin martyred in Palestine in 308AD on July 25</p><p>Now, thanks to the industrious threesome in 1920's Loveland, Colorado of Joyce Clyde Hall (Hallmark Cards, K.C. MO), Mary See (candy maker, L. A.) and John Valentine (FTD), Downer's Grove Ill), who colluded and captured the market for this holiday, it's why we believe that without a combo of candy, card, and flowers - Valentines Day is ruined.</p><p>Let's now talk about what the Greeks call Storge - familial love…not just the love of our blood relatives, but our relatives in any and all of the individuation of the Divine. And the type of love called Philia, which describes the friendship and shared goodwill of Oneness. I have a couple of questions for you:</p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What are the ways we let ourselves be distracted from remembering and living from our worthiness as divine, unique, and radiant creations of Spirit?</h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;">How can we “let God be God in us” in our daily lives...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="white-space: pre;">with our family, in our jobs, at the grocery store?</span></div></h3><div><div><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>When we have broken our god of tradition and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with [Its] presence.</i> ~<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2944/2944-h/2944-h.htm" target="_blank">Emerson’s Essays: <b>The Over Soul</b></a></span></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>God as Source is everywhere, equally present, and always fully active. God as Presence is an innate connection full of wondrous creativity, limitless possibility, radiant inspiration, and perfect order, always available to commune with...but we must do our part. Today, I celebrate the glory & divinity of that which I AM and honor my Self, I honor nature, and I dignify the creation and creator that I am. I am the believer, not the belief, and I am in love with and grateful to that Infinite Invisible for which I am a part; the loving energy that soars within me, through me, and around me. To the degree that we are willing, open, and receptive participants and agreeing partners with Divine Love, on this and all other days, our lives can and will correspond to and demonstrate that Divine Love. </div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div>Be a spectator no longer<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and ask yourself what brings you joy and what rises a feeling of passion and possibility in you. Radiate love, intention, and passion allow It to guide you to your next step<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and then your next and your next. Though some of the histories around Valentine's Day may not be so pure, I will still be flowering, candying and card writing to my special loved one, but also to myself, in appreciation of the God in me for the love It has for me, the love It gives to me and the love It is in me, as me. </div><div><br /></div><div>Plato taught that love aims at beautiful and good things; the possession of which he called happiness. And happiness is an end-in-itself. Of all the good and beautiful things, the best, most fabulous, the richest, and most dependable is the wisdom of Truth which is why Plato called love not a god, but a philosopher. Today, I have the philosophy, the awakening, the perspective, and the good sense to create a happy, prosperous, vibrant life and that is what I celebrate on this Valentine's Day<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and all the days around it.</div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>…who's joining me?</h2></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><u>Affirmative Incantation</u></div><div><div><i>Love is what I am and I love ALL that I am!</i></div><div><i>I am one with the infinite possibilities of the unconditional love of Spirit.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>I celebrate my body expressing in health, intimacy, work, and play.</i></div><div><i>I celebrate the beloveds in my life whether romantic, family, or friends.</i></div><div><i>I celebrate my talents, my creativity, and that divine way I express my powers and abilities.</i></div><div><i>I celebrate my bank account, knowing that no matter what numbers it shows this day, I will reveal the better on the next.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>With trust, joy, appreciation, and delight, I let God be God in me, through me, for me, and as me.</i></div><div><i>The ultimate Love supports me right here and right now.</i></div></div><div><u><br /></u></div><div><u><br /></u></div><div><u><br /></u></div><div><div>Tax Deductible Love Offerings: PayPal.me/newthoughtsc</div><div>or on your Givelify app</div><div>Venmo: NewThought-SpiritualCenter</div><div>Support us as your AmazonSmile and at iGive.com</div><div>Facebook: @newthoughtsc</div><div>Twitter: @newthoughtsc</div><div>Instagram: @newthoughtsc</div><div>Website: https://www.newthoughtsc.org</div><div><br /></div><div>2021 New Thought Spiritual Center. All rights reserved.</div></div>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846925173449963140.post-72473146998602447762021-02-23T19:00:00.004-08:002021-02-23T19:00:36.589-08:00PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nXgUiOH2BBw/YCtpF8roeBI/AAAAAAAAFB0/qaIAs1x6bO4bJXY1eOfI56RPsSdmfjyKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/Practice%2BPractice%2BPractice.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nXgUiOH2BBw/YCtpF8roeBI/AAAAAAAAFB0/qaIAs1x6bO4bJXY1eOfI56RPsSdmfjyKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Practice%2BPractice%2BPractice.png" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><div><br /></div><div><i><span style="font-size: large;">Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. </span></i><span style="font-size: medium;"> ~Adyashanti</span></div></i></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Those who have heard me before know that I am focused on construction, not destruction</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>replacing, not displacing</li><li>application vs annihilation</li><li>eliminating by activating</li><li>losing bad habits through the creation of new ones to inhabit</li><li>constituting the positive to decommission the negative</li><li>leaving the school of hard knocks and enrolling in the university of Universal opportunities </li></ul><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">We are not victims....we are victors!<br />We do not survive...we thrive!<br />We do not struggle...we ascend!</h3><p>I've encouraged you to move from thinking about the Divine idea to feeling It and experiencing It using spiritual practices and mystical experiences to rise above and beyond any one path, religion, or tradition; like a mountain with many trails, a tree with branches aplenty, or a river with numerous tributaries, deltas & wells.</p><p>We are not bound by the precedent of our habitual thoughts - they can be changed. We are not bound by the precedent of our beliefs or our actions, statements, or positions, they can all be changed, replaced, reconfigured, adapted, alternated, dissipated, elevated, updated, refreshed, or traded-in. We are freed by Principle - to surrender to the Truth, step around & past the mere facts in our life or the temporary diversions, deviations, detours, and roundabouts, and put them in the rearview mirror</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">How? </h3><p>By falling in love with the process. From centering and grounding through prayer and meditation, embodying Spirit directly, communing with the Divine with intention and purpose, and by practicing the ancient wisdom, New Thought, neuroscience, mysticism, metaphysics, love, peace, powerful grounding, centering, and the affirmative prayer aspects of clean slate spirituality</p><p>You don't have to have engaged in anything nefarious to join the clean-slate movement. You don't have to have immersed yourself in a series of addictions to have a do-over. You don't have to have committed a crime to get a second chance. It matters not if we welcome that clean slate or it is thrust upon us. Take the time to love and practice the opportunity for greater clarity, creativity, and new possibilities to emerge. </p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTIwNjA4NjMzODA1NzY4MjA0/ralph-waldo-emerson-9287153-1-402.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTIwNjA4NjMzODA1NzY4MjA0/ralph-waldo-emerson-9287153-1-402.jpg" width="200" /></a></i></span></div><p></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. </i></span> ~Ralph Waldo Emerson</p><blockquote><p></p></blockquote><p>Sometimes, maybe most of the time, it isn't easy. Just start with the decision to practice some mindful spiritual activity, love the decision, and get passionate about the decision. Your willingness to embrace the moment, confront any pain is a powerful Practice of the Presence of the Divine. It is a practice of Oneness, Love, and Creation<span style="white-space: pre;">, </span>a practice of engaging in quieting the mind & body and awakening the heart and soul, and a practice of living in alignment with our Science of Mind Principles and being congruent in thought, word, and behavior.</p><p>Loving a spiritual practice can be exhilarating or terrifying...usually both. I have faced a blank page, illness, an instant family, divorce, career changes, major moves, losses, successes - just like most of you. Many I have liked / many, not so much...clean slates both wanted and unwanted. Too often I find myself with a lot of 'doing' going on, however, the bigger answers always came from tapping the Source of Creation and Infinite Potentiality that is within me, using the heart instead of the brain, and the vibration of the Divine instead of the logic in the head. I know I have talked about it before...</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"> Cultivating self-awareness and self-reflection</h3><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...looking after and loving yourself<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <b> </b><b>Establishing a routine of examining your beliefs, behaviors, and fears</b></h3><p></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...and asking your heart whether or not they still serve you</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Focusing on what you WANT</h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Not worrying about what other people think </h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Following your passion and taking action</h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Surrounding yourself with allies, mentors, and like-minded people</h3><p>But I get it. The birth of anything new may be full of pain and messiness, emotions may emerge...that's okay because they act as an inner GPS, letting you know if your thoughts are moving you further from or closer to Source. And any new or renewed spiritual practice can be sloppy or uninspiring:</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Have you ever sat on your floor in the quiet, your hands placed on your knees, and you tell your brain to be still?</h4><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I have...it was anything and everything but...and that's okay.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Have you ever wondered if it is wrong to scratch during meditation or prayer?</h4><p> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It's not...scratching an itch is self-care. Give it its moment and scratch.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">I remember thinking it was smart to time myself in meditation. Have you?</h4><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Very quickly you think it's been forever, so you look at your phone and you can swear you hear it laughing at you. You see the timer reads 2:42 (two minutes and 42 seconds) and you set it for 10. It's okay - go ahead, have a stretch and try again. But first, stick your tongue out at your phone – I'm sure the timer was wrong (lol).</p><p>Here's an idea: when you have to remind yourself to meditate, pray, do your vision board, etc.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...tell yourself you're practicing self-care<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...just be sure to leave out the “f-ing” part<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>... self-care is more zen without the swear words....usually.</h4><h4 style="text-align: left;">While in spiritual practice, have you ever wondered about the quiet? if it’s okay to NOT be quiet?</h4><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I have....so I put my phone timer on pause and asked Siri about it. She didn't know and cursed at me for pausing my meditation.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Or have you ever thought, “Did I pay the credit card this month?”</h4><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> ...</span>and then chastise yourself with, “Shhhhh, relax.” And a few minutes later, “Wait, DID I?” I have...this morning</p><p>Sometimes I decide that sitting on the floor trying to meditate isn’t what self-care looks like today so I put on some clothes (pandemic lock-down and all) and go sit outside or walk or watch a bird at the feeder or listen to <a href="https://www.laurabermanmusic.com/" target="_blank">Laura Berman</a> on this evil contraption that times my meditations. Soon enough, sitting on the ground, my eyes closed, listening to the talent and wisdom and just being, not paying attention to the seconds or the weather or goals or duties or bills or the news...just remembering, I Am enough. By the time the song ends, I take a deep breath, stand, and know that I have just done some self-care.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Meditation and prayer?</h4><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Keep at it!</h3><p><span style="white-space: pre;">I</span>f that Treatment or prayer didn't feel good - start over. If you think your vision board is too rule-following - start over. </p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>To live from the space of clarity and possibility, we are called to Practice the Presence regularly</li><li>To release thoughts of past or future and ground ourselves in the present, we are called to Practice the Presence regularly </li><li>To experience whatever understanding or gift the moment has for us, we are called to Practice the Presence regularly</li></ul></h4><p style="text-align: left;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>But seek first the kingdom of God and Its righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.</i> ~Matthew 6:33</span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>It doesn't mean you don't plan or set goals or ignore the future...you create the future by your practices today. </p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not. </i><i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho" target="_blank">~</a></i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho" target="_blank">Paulo Coelho </a></span></blockquote><p></p><p>If crying in the shower is part of your spiritual practice, especially in the frustrations of lockdown, closed schools, work-at-home, unemployment, and everything else many of us are going through this last year - have at it.....love it....use it!</p><p>Spiritual practice is a personal, ever-evolving transformational tool. Just...Practice, Practice, Practice and</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> ...</span>make it to your own Carnegie Hall to get to!<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> ...</span>your own healthy body....your own happiness!<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> ...</span>your own lovefest....to create your own fabulous life!</h3><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Affirmative Incantation</u></p><p>I welcome the promise of a clean slate that every moment holds. And so, in this moment and the next and the next...</p><p>I have a renewed energy to get things done.</p><p>I do things that are fulfilling and gratifying.</p><p>I communicate clearly, specifically, and lovingly with myself and all around me.</p><p>I am focused on a habit of happiness and health.</p><p>I have the courage to step out of my comfort zone and be victorious.</p><p>I revel in the Truth that I am backed by the Universe in every solution that is required.</p><p>I protect and care for all that I love.</p><p>As I feel this love of all I Am, I Am being this Love of all I Am. With this feeling and beingness alive in the deepest part of me, I live this Love of all I Am in all I do right here, right now, and forevermore.</p>New Thought Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160495480801890260noreply@blogger.com0