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Easiest way to be happy?
The easiest way to be happy – stop complaining! Remember, you are either looking at the black dot and missing the whole whiteboard or you are so engaged with your whole life that whatever isn’t right or working well moves into perspective. Overly focusing on what’s not working, complaining, or reacting to what we don’t like, simply creates more of the same. Looking for what is working, shifts our perspective completely. The ancients may have truly been on to something when they wrote: “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things.” Philippians 4:8
A new day…
So you decided to meditate, eat right, or exercise…and you did for a bit…and then you didn’t. Now what? Every day is a new day. Every day is an opportunity to begin again. Rather than focusing on what you didn’t do yesterday, which is utterly unmotivating, simply start again today. Don’t wait until tomorrow. Recall your decision, remember that you are at choice, and do it, now. No matter how many times you fall down or fall off your discipline, all that’s important is that you get up one more time than you fall down. Today is a new day!
Peace of Mind
Stress-free living is absolutely available! Stress-free living is based on the fundamental assumptions you make about life, the universe, and your purpose in it. Once you understand how your underlying assumptions about reality are creating stress, it’s time to seek a new paradigm. That paradigm is found in the confluence of mysticism, neuroscience and quantum physics. Understanding the ONENESS, learning to use the creative process, and discovering your unique purpose provides an entirely different ground on which to stand in your life. Now you move without stress because you know what is going on and what you are doing with it!
EARTH DAY 2018 – End Plastic Pollution
Plastic pollution and litter are not inevitable, unalterable conditions for they have no alignment with the Nature of Love and Beauty nor with Spiritual Truth. Therefore it CAN be changed! We do our part with our intention and attention, making choices to reduce the use of plastic and help clean it up.
Facts about plastic bottles that end up in the new Gulf of Mexico Garbage Patch:
- Last year, the average American used 167 disposable bottles, but only recycled 38.
- In the US, 38 billion water bottles – more than $1 billion worth of plastic – are wasted each year.
Facts about plastic bags that end up in the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch:
- 160,000 plastic bags are used globally every second!
- 5 trillion plastic bags are produced yearly. That can encircle the world 7 times.
- Plastic will only start degrading after 700 years and will only fully degrade in 1000 years. This means that all the plastic that has ever been produced has not degraded yet.
For the Beauty of the Earth
Creation, the physical universe, if the manifest body of God and our earth is the home of our creation. Just like our own homes that need to be cared for, kept clean, and regularly repaired, so our earthly home requires the same attention. Imagine teaching a kindergartener how to treat his toys, her schoolroom, or the home. Actions and choices based on convenience are a bit like that kindergartener not cleaning up after herself because she’s too busy playing. What part of your life needs some attention? Reusable bags, less plastic bottles, watching water waste or carbon emissions? Every choice and every action makes a difference.
Treat and Move Your Feet
“It would not be correct practice to spend one’s whole time in contemplating or meditating. There should be a balance between the inner and the outer states; from an inner communion of the soul with the Spirit there comes inspiration and guidance; this inner state would remain an idle dream unless heaven were brought to earth, and spiritual perception woven into the fabric of everyday experience.” Ernest Holmes
Do your spiritual work for yourself and the world, then get up and out, doing what seems in alignment with the results you expect to demonstrate. Doing your work in the world convinced of the power of the treatment creates a cheerful expectancy, replacing frustration or overwhelm. Thus not only does your prayer work create, and your activity help manifest, but your presence lifts the hearts of those around you, making the work itself a joy!
Look for the Good
There is so much good happening in the world! In spite of everything or anything that you see as scary or harmful, there are loving acts and powerful creation for good going on everywhere. Every time you see something that is not in alignment with your highest ideal of humanity, look for ways and places where that ideal IS being expressed. In this way you focus on what you want to grow in the world. Not by denial or turning your back on what needs to be changed, but by continually giving your attention and intention to the Truth of Life being revealed. Think Globally, even Universally, and Focus locally, individually. Look for the Good and Praise It into greater and greater reality.
Power of Prayer
True prayer is communion with the deepest and highest Good of Life that you can imagine. It is the realization that this Good is inherent in Life. It is the declaration that you, and every person, is worthy of all the Good Life has to offer. It is a profound deepening in your acceptance of how much Good, Beauty, Love, Health, Joy, Oneness, and Truth you can embody. True prayer is praise for the magnificence of Life in it’s highest possibility. And as you steep your mind in this reality, the Universal Law conspires with Life to create exactly what you have focused on as your life now. Prayer moves you from surviving to thriving. Prayer is a joyous life, lived for all!
Expecting Good
“I enter into a deeper understanding of Life. I recognize my union with all people and all events. I expect everything I do to prosper. I enthusiastically expect success. I let good flow into my experience. I seek good in every direction I look. I look forward to more good. ” Affirmation by Ernest Holmes
Art & Creativity
You are an artist creating with the medium of your life. Explore the materials in your “studio of possibility” that are provided for free. Try out different forms of expression, so along with poetry, painting or dance create with relationships, work, and service. As you try your hand with paints, words, or pencils also practice using positivity, intention, and new ideas about the Universe. Your life is your canvas. You are an artist. Let your creativity express the deepest parts of you and watch your joy overflow!
Illumination is the Light of Creation
“Let there be Light”….”The Light of the Big Bang”….”Photons of Light as packets of information”….”You are the Light of the World!”
From saints and sages to plants and science, light plays a starring role. There is something cosmically real and true about LIGHT – its essentialness to life and its power to illuminate physically and spiritually. Light has an expansive feel and a higher frequency. This light is within you, as you. It is the illumination of intuition and the presence of love. Let the Light shine through you and as it grows you, you are evolving consciousness for everyone.
Plan and Unfold Your Dreams
Life unfolds as you align with your sense of purpose. The more you align, the more opportunities you attract you want to say YES to. Now what? If your plate feels full it’s time to decide which you will accomplish first. Yes, you can do it all, just not necessarily all at the same time. Set your priorities and then choose deadlines for completion. Work on them may overlap, but by providing staggered deadlines, what you should be focusing on will rise to the top. Discipline yourself to remember the rest you focus on when their time comes. As you focus on what is right in front of you-you can be sure you are attracting everything needed for it but you can also be sure you are already attracting what you need for the rest. The discipline of a plan truly supports your dreams to unfold!
Silence is Golden
Turn off the devices. Turn off the media. Turn off the music. Turn off the guided meditation. Turn off the mantra. Sit. Just sit and breath. Move into the stillness. Here in the silence is where awareness becomes aware of itself. Consciousness reveals itself as the expansive, universal reality which is the Truth of YOU. It may take time, but you WILL experience Oneness the more you are willing to sit in the Silence. Silence is golden on your spiritual journey!
Shifting to Positive
When you feel stressed, overwhelmed, or that things aren’t going right, it can be challenging to imagine a positive outcome. The best spiritual tool for shifting consciousness in these situations is true gratitude. Not gratitude for the problems (although there may be good in them), and not a rote list without feeling to it, but actually noticing and feeling grateful for all the ways your life works, all the support you do have, and all the things that have or are working out in your life. This shifts what you are focusing on, and we know that what we focus on grows. Gratitude – a powerful tool to shift consciousness, from negative to positive, every time. What are your truly grateful for today?
God Is, I am
Universal – Individual; Macrocosm – Microcosm; Parent – Offspring
This is what is meant when it is said that you are a “child of God”. Not that God is some parental father figure, but rather that you have the same DNA as the Infinite One. Different in degree but identical in nature. Thus the Infinite is Transcendent as the Universe and Immanent (incarnate) as YOU. This is who you are. Different in degree from the Infinite Divine Presence but identical in nature. The I AM that I AM that is YOU!