The Law of Attraction is still acting like a sneaky little devil, because I am…ACTING. Funny thing, I was just journaling about what is happening today and why I am seeing a lot of negative things taking place and this went through my mind:
“I am looking for the missing link. If I continue to look for the link, I will never find it, I will just create more ways to look for it. I am so grateful to have the missing link, God. Thank you. With All My Love, Thank you, God.
LOL, God (LOVE OUT LOUD).
When we go looking for something, we will only find more of what we are looking for. Like when someone says, “ Hey man, I am just trying to find myself”. What they are saying is they do not know who they are. But if they “realize” that they do not know who they are…THEY ARE IN THE PRESENT for that moment. “Believe it is in your future and live in the present, you already have everything you need.”
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
EVERYONE'S LIFE PURPOSE
I spent some time today watching a video of Eckhart Tolle’s The Flowering of Human Consciousness, Everyone’s Life Purpose.” It has led to an interesting day. I have been watching him with Oprah doing the book club online. What he talks about in his books has been confusing to me, but today I believe I found clarity. I guess my AHA moment was realized today. I heard this:
“The dash between your date of birth and date of death is the accumulation of your entire life.”
All the dramas, including my two marriages and the other dramatic experiences in my life are only a dash on my gravestone. It was after hearing that that I realized the expectancy I feel, a great deal of the the time, is fear…fear that I will not become who I am supposed to be before my life ends. Afraid the flower will not bloom until death. It is close to death when a lot of us experience the release of the “ego”and the light begins to shine or the flower blooms. Well, like others I’m sure, I do not want to have that burden. The solution is to let go of the “ego” now. By looking for myself, I will just attract more stress, trying to find myself.
I do not want the accumulation of my life to be reduced to a dash, so the rest of my life will be lived by experiencing the beauty of every day, the beauty of every moment. We all get caught up in the collective mind set, that keeps us suffering. We believe that we are looking for peace in the world, and collectively we are saying we want peace, but the whole time we are looking for it, armies are still being formed and weapons are still being made. We are looking for peace, while peace is already within us, in the stillness. When we are in the stillness there is the peace. More of us need to want the same thing, so collectively, we will find stillness, so instead of looking for peace recognize and be grateful for already having it and enjoy the stillness. Peace is stillness now, not in the future. While recognizing these things today, I was in the present, in the stillness. We can only be there for such short periods of time, so I want as many moments of that as I can find.
I am not looking for myself any longer, I am here, and soon I will discover, or it will be shown to me, what the purpose of my life really is. I know it is to help others, the way has not been shown to me yet, but it will. Had I not already been awakened by “The Secret,” again, I may have missed this.
The Law of Attraction tells us, what we think about we will attract. The world is full of unhappy people, who, while thinking that they are looking for ways to be happy, find more unhappiness. Recognize the happiness in your life and you will find more happiness. Do not go looking for anything. You already have happiness, be grateful for it first and foremost, and the universe will reward you with joy beyond compare. You can be in“now here”or “nowhere.”
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
“The dash between your date of birth and date of death is the accumulation of your entire life.”
All the dramas, including my two marriages and the other dramatic experiences in my life are only a dash on my gravestone. It was after hearing that that I realized the expectancy I feel, a great deal of the the time, is fear…fear that I will not become who I am supposed to be before my life ends. Afraid the flower will not bloom until death. It is close to death when a lot of us experience the release of the “ego”and the light begins to shine or the flower blooms. Well, like others I’m sure, I do not want to have that burden. The solution is to let go of the “ego” now. By looking for myself, I will just attract more stress, trying to find myself.
I do not want the accumulation of my life to be reduced to a dash, so the rest of my life will be lived by experiencing the beauty of every day, the beauty of every moment. We all get caught up in the collective mind set, that keeps us suffering. We believe that we are looking for peace in the world, and collectively we are saying we want peace, but the whole time we are looking for it, armies are still being formed and weapons are still being made. We are looking for peace, while peace is already within us, in the stillness. When we are in the stillness there is the peace. More of us need to want the same thing, so collectively, we will find stillness, so instead of looking for peace recognize and be grateful for already having it and enjoy the stillness. Peace is stillness now, not in the future. While recognizing these things today, I was in the present, in the stillness. We can only be there for such short periods of time, so I want as many moments of that as I can find.
I am not looking for myself any longer, I am here, and soon I will discover, or it will be shown to me, what the purpose of my life really is. I know it is to help others, the way has not been shown to me yet, but it will. Had I not already been awakened by “The Secret,” again, I may have missed this.
The Law of Attraction tells us, what we think about we will attract. The world is full of unhappy people, who, while thinking that they are looking for ways to be happy, find more unhappiness. Recognize the happiness in your life and you will find more happiness. Do not go looking for anything. You already have happiness, be grateful for it first and foremost, and the universe will reward you with joy beyond compare. You can be in“now here”or “nowhere.”
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
Friday, March 28, 2008
SNEAKY LITTLE DEVIL!
The Law of Attraction is a sneaky little devil. I was trolling blog sites today looking for the missing link to the monetary part of my quest and I ran across a couple of sites run by parents, families and friends of Autisim and Aspergers. Naturally I felt compelled to offer service and made a point of putting it on my ODD website.
Funny thing is, it is exactly what I was looking for, who knew?
That is exactly how it works. What you are putting out to the Universe comes to you. I thought I was looking for the solution to a problem I was having and by finding those sites, I realized...I do not have a problem. I have everything I need in my joyous and grateful life. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to help others and the Universe knows that about me.
These people need our help so lets give it to them.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET.
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe, and you will receive
It all begins with baby steps.
Funny thing is, it is exactly what I was looking for, who knew?
That is exactly how it works. What you are putting out to the Universe comes to you. I thought I was looking for the solution to a problem I was having and by finding those sites, I realized...I do not have a problem. I have everything I need in my joyous and grateful life. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to help others and the Universe knows that about me.
These people need our help so lets give it to them.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET.
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe, and you will receive
It all begins with baby steps.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
NEED A LIFT FROM THE STRESS OF TODAY!
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If you want to share this with friends, family or groups it is available for the cost of shipping and handling. ENJOY THE MOVIE.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
EASTER SUNDAY FOUR YEARS LATER!
I was sitting in my kitchen last night with two of my children and my daughter’s boyfriend. I was trying to just be there….I watched each of my children as they spoke and realized how amazing they were. I mean, I listen when they talk…but when you quiet your mind and just be…it is amazing what the experience becomes.
I noticed that there is a shelf in my kitchen that I hand painted 4 years ago. I sat there after awhile thinking that I just couldn’t read the date right from the distance I was from the shelf. After a while I got up, and went over to it, and realized I was right, 4 years. The thoughts in my mind at the time were “where did four years go? What had I been doing for four years?” The concept of time was so far from reach. I had nothing to answer the questions with. I know I was here, but I seriously can not put any information into answering those two questions. It was at that moment I realized, that I have been journaling for at least that long, and it was time to collect them and see where I was and what I have been doing. It did not come with a sense of urgency, just a mental note to begin.
In amongst my journals are the answers to the questions and most likely will contain the content that will tell me that I was on my way here.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
I noticed that there is a shelf in my kitchen that I hand painted 4 years ago. I sat there after awhile thinking that I just couldn’t read the date right from the distance I was from the shelf. After a while I got up, and went over to it, and realized I was right, 4 years. The thoughts in my mind at the time were “where did four years go? What had I been doing for four years?” The concept of time was so far from reach. I had nothing to answer the questions with. I know I was here, but I seriously can not put any information into answering those two questions. It was at that moment I realized, that I have been journaling for at least that long, and it was time to collect them and see where I was and what I have been doing. It did not come with a sense of urgency, just a mental note to begin.
In amongst my journals are the answers to the questions and most likely will contain the content that will tell me that I was on my way here.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
EXIT HERE
I am on information overload today and enjoying every moment of it. I just got finished watching the third week of the Oprah Book Club with Eckhart Tolle and I am just brimming with AHA, and OMG…I have been saying that all of my life… moments
As I started to write this post, I looked back to the first page of the notebook I was writing in thinking it began with this class. Well, I realize, that in an attempt to understand why I already had a connection with the “NOW,” I grabbed my DVD of “The Secret” back from my friend Michele last night and took some notes from the movie. The notes I refer to are from one of the extras of the movie, where Bob Proctor is talking and he says, and this is not a direct quote, but if it is, here are the quotation marks, “Belief system is based on our evaluation. Re-evaluate your belief. You can only attract what you are
IN HARMONY WITH.
On page 78 of “A New Earth” Awaken to Your Life’s Purpose”, Eckhart Tolle says “Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment…That is why we call it Presence. The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose is to bring that power into this world.” “Our purpose is to bring awareness to life. If you don’t have a good relationship with “Now,” you don’t have a good relationship with life, because “LIFE IS NOW.”
“You can only attract what you are in harmony with.” You must be in harmony with “PRESENCE.”
I have been saying since I began reading this book that these things are so déjà vu and now I know why. Again, the book to me, is an extension of “The Secret.” I suppose Oprah already knows that, which is why she is Oprah. But, for me, this is just wonderful. My mind which has been labeled as clinically depressed for most of my life, has never been depressed, it has just connected to the wrong “PRESENCE.”
I have had so many AHA moments from the first time I saw ”The Secret” on Oprah and now she has segued into this “awakening.” As I was taking notes through the replay of this class, I wrote this “We need to elect a president that “HAS BEEN AWAKENED”. to help this EVALUATION OF PEACE. We need to raise the percentages of people that are willing to challenge WAR. We should never again be subjected to war. There should never be circumstances which lead us there. More people need to awaken to this thought and begin to practice “Pro Peace”. In the class with Oprah and Eckhart they referred to the Vietnam War and the so called hippies that opposed the war and stood up for peace and fought against the war with demonstrations. The only thing I can see wrong with that entire issue is the number of people that had never experienced this “awakening” in their life. Those that never recognized the tiny little space between the ego and within. This is where we begin to evolve to a higher dimension, which is where we should have been 30 plus years ago.
There is too much material resounding this awareness for us to ignore any longer. Those that recognize this need to stand up and say…”War is never a solution, we never have to be right or wrong we just have to be kind.” I realize that that is simplistic, but the thought is there.
Accepting this moment as it is can connect us with the dimension of depth in ourselves.
This is how we learn to quiet the Ego (mind), by being more fully present NOW. The Now is the hidden exit of the “ego”, because the “ego” does not want you to know that the “Now” is the exit out. From somewhere this comes to mind from the seventies, like I would remember anything form then…”There is no Exit”. I believe it was a play. I just remember coming home one night from a movie and seeing it painted in red on the walkway to our house on campus. I realize this is my mind threading, but the thread leads me to “EXIT HERE.”
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
As I started to write this post, I looked back to the first page of the notebook I was writing in thinking it began with this class. Well, I realize, that in an attempt to understand why I already had a connection with the “NOW,” I grabbed my DVD of “The Secret” back from my friend Michele last night and took some notes from the movie. The notes I refer to are from one of the extras of the movie, where Bob Proctor is talking and he says, and this is not a direct quote, but if it is, here are the quotation marks, “Belief system is based on our evaluation. Re-evaluate your belief. You can only attract what you are
IN HARMONY WITH.
On page 78 of “A New Earth” Awaken to Your Life’s Purpose”, Eckhart Tolle says “Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment…That is why we call it Presence. The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose is to bring that power into this world.” “Our purpose is to bring awareness to life. If you don’t have a good relationship with “Now,” you don’t have a good relationship with life, because “LIFE IS NOW.”
“You can only attract what you are in harmony with.” You must be in harmony with “PRESENCE.”
I have been saying since I began reading this book that these things are so déjà vu and now I know why. Again, the book to me, is an extension of “The Secret.” I suppose Oprah already knows that, which is why she is Oprah. But, for me, this is just wonderful. My mind which has been labeled as clinically depressed for most of my life, has never been depressed, it has just connected to the wrong “PRESENCE.”
I have had so many AHA moments from the first time I saw ”The Secret” on Oprah and now she has segued into this “awakening.” As I was taking notes through the replay of this class, I wrote this “We need to elect a president that “HAS BEEN AWAKENED”. to help this EVALUATION OF PEACE. We need to raise the percentages of people that are willing to challenge WAR. We should never again be subjected to war. There should never be circumstances which lead us there. More people need to awaken to this thought and begin to practice “Pro Peace”. In the class with Oprah and Eckhart they referred to the Vietnam War and the so called hippies that opposed the war and stood up for peace and fought against the war with demonstrations. The only thing I can see wrong with that entire issue is the number of people that had never experienced this “awakening” in their life. Those that never recognized the tiny little space between the ego and within. This is where we begin to evolve to a higher dimension, which is where we should have been 30 plus years ago.
There is too much material resounding this awareness for us to ignore any longer. Those that recognize this need to stand up and say…”War is never a solution, we never have to be right or wrong we just have to be kind.” I realize that that is simplistic, but the thought is there.
Accepting this moment as it is can connect us with the dimension of depth in ourselves.
This is how we learn to quiet the Ego (mind), by being more fully present NOW. The Now is the hidden exit of the “ego”, because the “ego” does not want you to know that the “Now” is the exit out. From somewhere this comes to mind from the seventies, like I would remember anything form then…”There is no Exit”. I believe it was a play. I just remember coming home one night from a movie and seeing it painted in red on the walkway to our house on campus. I realize this is my mind threading, but the thread leads me to “EXIT HERE.”
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
THIS ONE IS FOR ME!
Tomorrow signifies the 1st anniversary of the 1st day of the rest of my life. It was 1 year ago tomorrow that I quit smoking and if I have accomplished one thing it is that. I am so glad to have been able to share that with my Aunt last year. Remembering our final 2 conversations, and the message she sent to me, has made me feel blessed to have known she was proud of me. What I have in my life right now, is all anyone could want, although there are things I know I will complete that will bring a sense of peace to myself and to others.
I am glad to have spent this past year looking within and finding the secrets that were always with me. The messages that I had to find, the journeys I had to take, the feelings I had to work through and suffer through only to be blessed on the other side. God has given me a lot of challenges in my life and I am most grateful for each and every one of them, because the other side of all of them, left me with so much more than I could have imagined, as the little girl, living in the sadness that was our life. I am so grateful to have been chosen to live this life and I am spending the rest of it showing my gratitude through OUR GRATITUDE in every way I can.
I will write my blog each day and share my experiences with others and I will complete the cookbook for my family and complete school to be able to help others find the blessings in their life, as I have in mine. I Thank God for the chance to do it all.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this: The Secret.
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
AAsk, Believe and you will receive.
It all beings with baby steps.
I am glad to have spent this past year looking within and finding the secrets that were always with me. The messages that I had to find, the journeys I had to take, the feelings I had to work through and suffer through only to be blessed on the other side. God has given me a lot of challenges in my life and I am most grateful for each and every one of them, because the other side of all of them, left me with so much more than I could have imagined, as the little girl, living in the sadness that was our life. I am so grateful to have been chosen to live this life and I am spending the rest of it showing my gratitude through OUR GRATITUDE in every way I can.
I will write my blog each day and share my experiences with others and I will complete the cookbook for my family and complete school to be able to help others find the blessings in their life, as I have in mine. I Thank God for the chance to do it all.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this: The Secret.
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
AAsk, Believe and you will receive.
It all beings with baby steps.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
IT'S ALL IN THE VISION
When I first began to apply The Law of Attraction to my life, I made my first vision board. I took all the magazines I had around the house and started clipping pictures out and taping them to a poster board. It hung in my living room and everyone that came through wanted to know what that mess was on my wall. I didn’t care how it looked and I actually didn’t take a lot of time making it. I just found all kinds of things I thought I would like in my life and pasted them on there.
The beauty of the vision board is that it continues to change, but remember to always keep the first one you make. That’s the one that will bring your real dreams to you. The ones that you made and only half believed. Those are the ones that you will see come true because you are not focused on them, you are focused on the next ones already. As soon as you put that on the board and begin to attract it, begin adding more and more. This becomes an endless process, always changing, because you are an endless process, always changing, and it is your message to the Universe that is coming back to you.
The first ones are the ones you will be most surprised and excited about and when you find you are not, then change them, make them bigger and begin to focus bigger.
Several of the cast of “The Secret” the movie have their own Vision boards now, and they are all in different formats. I still like my first one and since I moved, it is in a room I am not using, it just sits on the bed in there and occasionally my cat Pogo sits on it. I let him, because for some reason it is really indestructible. I still want a lot of those things but they are not as important to me as the ones I put on there for others and I realize that some of them have come true and the joy I feel from that is just so overwhelming, one of those dreams was for Pogo and I’ll be making that come true for him very soon.
LUCKY CAT!
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
OURGRATITUDE
OUR GRATITUDE IN BUSINESS
OUR GRATITUDE IN BOOKS
OUR GRATITUDE BLOG
POWERFUL INTENTIONS
CRAFTY 1’S BLOG
OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER
MASTER BOOKS
The beauty of the vision board is that it continues to change, but remember to always keep the first one you make. That’s the one that will bring your real dreams to you. The ones that you made and only half believed. Those are the ones that you will see come true because you are not focused on them, you are focused on the next ones already. As soon as you put that on the board and begin to attract it, begin adding more and more. This becomes an endless process, always changing, because you are an endless process, always changing, and it is your message to the Universe that is coming back to you.
The first ones are the ones you will be most surprised and excited about and when you find you are not, then change them, make them bigger and begin to focus bigger.
Several of the cast of “The Secret” the movie have their own Vision boards now, and they are all in different formats. I still like my first one and since I moved, it is in a room I am not using, it just sits on the bed in there and occasionally my cat Pogo sits on it. I let him, because for some reason it is really indestructible. I still want a lot of those things but they are not as important to me as the ones I put on there for others and I realize that some of them have come true and the joy I feel from that is just so overwhelming, one of those dreams was for Pogo and I’ll be making that come true for him very soon.
LUCKY CAT!
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
OURGRATITUDE
OUR GRATITUDE IN BUSINESS
OUR GRATITUDE IN BOOKS
OUR GRATITUDE BLOG
POWERFUL INTENTIONS
CRAFTY 1’S BLOG
OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER
MASTER BOOKS
Monday, March 17, 2008
LIVE IN THE NOW!
I send a newsletter to my family everyday that has a joke for the day and some words of inspiration. While collecting material for it, I ran across this joke:
The End Is Near!
A local priest and a pastor were fishing on the side of the road. They thoughtfully made a sign saying, "The End is Near! Turn yourself around now before it's too late!" and showed it to each passing car. One driver who drove by didn't appreciate the sign and shouted at them, "Leave us alone, you religious nuts!"
All of a sudden they heard a big splash, looked at each other, and the priest said to the pastor, "You think maybe we should have just said 'Bridge Out' instead?"
I have been thinking all day about the way things are expressed to us and by us. It reminded me that there are so many interpretations of the bible, philosophies on life , opinions, judgments. They are all just words. I came to the conclusion at the end of my day after checking out different sources, that all there is or should be, is the present. What we think, feel and do right now is what matters. Only the NOW matters. Everything else is old, used, and not working, usually, so rather than change how we think, feel or see things, we should just BE, I think Dr. Phil puts it best when he says, “How’s that workin for ya?” When things aren’t working, change your mind…TRY LIVING IN THE NOW!
THIS COMES TO MIND ALSO:
From The Masters newsletter 2-21-2008
SELF-CONCEPT/SELF-CONFIDENCE
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm Forbes
Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.
Steven H. Coogler
"What you see is what you get, and who you feel like is who you really are."
Denis Waitley
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
The Secret
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
OUR GRATITUDE
OUR GRATITUDE IN BUSINESS
OUR GRATITUDE IN BOOKS
OUR GRATITUDE BLOG
CRAFTY 1'S CORNER
OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER
MASTER BOOKS
The End Is Near!
A local priest and a pastor were fishing on the side of the road. They thoughtfully made a sign saying, "The End is Near! Turn yourself around now before it's too late!" and showed it to each passing car. One driver who drove by didn't appreciate the sign and shouted at them, "Leave us alone, you religious nuts!"
All of a sudden they heard a big splash, looked at each other, and the priest said to the pastor, "You think maybe we should have just said 'Bridge Out' instead?"
I have been thinking all day about the way things are expressed to us and by us. It reminded me that there are so many interpretations of the bible, philosophies on life , opinions, judgments. They are all just words. I came to the conclusion at the end of my day after checking out different sources, that all there is or should be, is the present. What we think, feel and do right now is what matters. Only the NOW matters. Everything else is old, used, and not working, usually, so rather than change how we think, feel or see things, we should just BE, I think Dr. Phil puts it best when he says, “How’s that workin for ya?” When things aren’t working, change your mind…TRY LIVING IN THE NOW!
THIS COMES TO MIND ALSO:
From The Masters newsletter 2-21-2008
SELF-CONCEPT/SELF-CONFIDENCE
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm Forbes
Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.
Steven H. Coogler
"What you see is what you get, and who you feel like is who you really are."
Denis Waitley
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
The Secret
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
OUR GRATITUDE
OUR GRATITUDE IN BUSINESS
OUR GRATITUDE IN BOOKS
OUR GRATITUDE BLOG
CRAFTY 1'S CORNER
OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER
MASTER BOOKS
Sunday, March 16, 2008
I'M A RIOT, AREN'T I?
Seriously, I wrote my last blog and talked about the insignificance of money and then I deluge my next post with business ads. Well, the bills have to get paid, despite the value I place on money.
It is unfortunate, but true, that you cannot live without money. Actually people do, but they are usually homeless, without jobs, or disabled, and unable to earn income from home, or survive on disability or retirement. What I was referring to was the necessity to be rich. Being rich provides the ability to help a great deal more people, but even on a steady income, there should always be enough money for helping others.
A friend once taught me that when you lend money...don't lend...GIVE. So I have adopted that policy. That doesn't mean you should come running to me for money...I am still in the process of earning enough to make what i do for others much greater than it is right now.
When I was younger I still remember thinking "Why can't we just run the government with monopoly money? What is the point of money? Why can't the government just print more? Well, I learned that everything is off balance when the economy is off balance, which is the same for the Universe.
Faith is believing that the universe
is on our side, and that the universe
knows what it’s doing.
Author Unknown From an excerpt of Jack Canfield’s book 2-21-2008
When we are out of align with The Universe, our life is not running on a steady course, we are having a hard time, we are dealing with life issues and crises. God never meant for us to go through hard times, but he is actually pleased when we do, and we find the blessing on the other side. So the next time you are in the middle of something really difficult, remember "FOOTPRINTS"....God is carrying us through the hard times...and when we are past them we have gotten a huge blessing.
"My son, my precious child,
I love you and I would never leave you.
During your times of trial and suffering,
when you see only one set of footprints,
it was then that I carried you."
Mary Stevenson
So try to always remember to find the blessing, because there absolutely is one for every life issue. Make a list off the top of your head...name as many crises as you can and then look for what would not contain a blessing. You will come up with issues like World Wars and 911 and many others but I promise you, if you look from WITHIN... you will find the blessing. It is always there.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
BE GRATEFUL
RUN AN HONEST BUSINESS
READ SOMETHING EVERYDAY
THANK GOD
HAVE GOOD INTENTIONS
A HANDMADE GIFT IS MADE WITH LOVE
LOVE OUR CHILDREN
IF YOU CAN'T READ A BOOK LISTEN TO ONE
It is unfortunate, but true, that you cannot live without money. Actually people do, but they are usually homeless, without jobs, or disabled, and unable to earn income from home, or survive on disability or retirement. What I was referring to was the necessity to be rich. Being rich provides the ability to help a great deal more people, but even on a steady income, there should always be enough money for helping others.
A friend once taught me that when you lend money...don't lend...GIVE. So I have adopted that policy. That doesn't mean you should come running to me for money...I am still in the process of earning enough to make what i do for others much greater than it is right now.
When I was younger I still remember thinking "Why can't we just run the government with monopoly money? What is the point of money? Why can't the government just print more? Well, I learned that everything is off balance when the economy is off balance, which is the same for the Universe.
Faith is believing that the universe
is on our side, and that the universe
knows what it’s doing.
Author Unknown From an excerpt of Jack Canfield’s book 2-21-2008
When we are out of align with The Universe, our life is not running on a steady course, we are having a hard time, we are dealing with life issues and crises. God never meant for us to go through hard times, but he is actually pleased when we do, and we find the blessing on the other side. So the next time you are in the middle of something really difficult, remember "FOOTPRINTS"....God is carrying us through the hard times...and when we are past them we have gotten a huge blessing.
"My son, my precious child,
I love you and I would never leave you.
During your times of trial and suffering,
when you see only one set of footprints,
it was then that I carried you."
Mary Stevenson
So try to always remember to find the blessing, because there absolutely is one for every life issue. Make a list off the top of your head...name as many crises as you can and then look for what would not contain a blessing. You will come up with issues like World Wars and 911 and many others but I promise you, if you look from WITHIN... you will find the blessing. It is always there.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
BE GRATEFUL
RUN AN HONEST BUSINESS
READ SOMETHING EVERYDAY
THANK GOD
HAVE GOOD INTENTIONS
A HANDMADE GIFT IS MADE WITH LOVE
LOVE OUR CHILDREN
IF YOU CAN'T READ A BOOK LISTEN TO ONE
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2. You do not have to do any recruiting, to earn money, you
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Leisure Audio is working for me as I write!
ONLY recently I became a member of Leisure Audiobooks,
and I want to share my opinion with you.
This is a totally new and different program. I have never experienced one like this before.
Most programs I have worked with never give you all the information so you can go right out and implement it.
This is totally different.
1. There is a huge selection of topics on any niche you can think of and it is all delivered in licensed .wma or Real format, so you can use it immediately with a computer, iPod, or mp3 player and enjoy them in your spare time.
2. You do not have to do any recruiting, to earn money, you
simply sell the products and people are glad to have them to listen to...so quickly.
3. Commissions are much higher and who does not want that?
4. Enjoy an easy to set up a website, and dominate your niche immediately with the great training.
5. NO order filling problems, offer real products. Leisure Audiobooks has them all and handles it all for me.
With Leisure Audiobooks, I am at ease offering everyone quality hi-fidelity products and they have over 6000 titles in
160 categories all in a feature-packed store.
I had no idea there were 50,000 or more identifiable
niche markets. You can find them easily in the search engines for audio books! I am out there selling...and for the first time it is working!!!
It's a huge relief to have Rod and Kevin helping me succeed, I feel like I am cheating, because I'm a part of an organization and team that really coach, train, and want me, and others, to succeed, no matter what skill level you are at.
So, if you are tired of the endless line of hype, smoke and mirrors, and you'd like to start making a financial difference in your lifestyle, by using a legitimate, honest, real way to make money online...you owe it to yourself to check OUT AUDIO BOOKS NOW! If you do not believe me check out Ron and Kevin and see how reputable they are. Go RIGHT NOW AND CHECK IT OUT.
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
ARE YOU SUCCESSFUL?
Is it a false sense of security to believe, although you cannot see it, that you have enough faith in your ability to overcome any obstacles, and that you are financially successful? If you do not believe, does that make you a failure?
It is only by putting yourself out there that you can, even remotely, begin to believe in yourself. Anyone can sit in front of a computer and appear to be successful, but to actually feel it, is to walk into a store and change how you think about money. I did that two days ago and again today, and for the first time, I did not overdraw my checking account. Does that make me successful? No, what makes me successful, is the fact that I am no longer afraid of money, whether I have it or not. I am successful when I have found what is important in life and money really has nothing to with it…or everything to do with it.
Success is a mind set that naturally, begins first with a thought like everything else. When you think you are successful, and believe you are successful….YOU ARE. You cannot be successful until you have thought it.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember:
THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
It is only by putting yourself out there that you can, even remotely, begin to believe in yourself. Anyone can sit in front of a computer and appear to be successful, but to actually feel it, is to walk into a store and change how you think about money. I did that two days ago and again today, and for the first time, I did not overdraw my checking account. Does that make me successful? No, what makes me successful, is the fact that I am no longer afraid of money, whether I have it or not. I am successful when I have found what is important in life and money really has nothing to with it…or everything to do with it.
Success is a mind set that naturally, begins first with a thought like everything else. When you think you are successful, and believe you are successful….YOU ARE. You cannot be successful until you have thought it.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember:
THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
What You Think of Me is None of My Business!
I recently wrote about how I feel when my mind is open. I am like a sponge, and whatever is being said or done around me is being taken in. That is The Law of Attraction. When the people I love are dealing with their own personal life issues and they come to me for advice or help, I try to be there, always. But what should be seen is that not all of us, are ready to fight our demons, at the same time. All in good time, should be our mantra, one day at a time, it takes baby steps are the messages we should play in our mind. We only experience what we have first “thought”to experience. When situations in our life are not working for us, taking on someone else’s issues is not where we should be. We should be in our thoughts, moving at our own pace, changing what we need to change. Choosing how we want to live our lives, and who we want to be. Being led by anyone or anything short of God himself, may not be right for some of us.
We make our own decisions, yes, but when we take the time to quiet our mind and allow,we are being led by within. I believe that when we are trying to lead others, when we have not completely found ourselves, we lose sight of our own issues. Seeing our own issues through the eyes of others is one thing, but defining ourselves by the opinion or reaction of others is not the direction I want to go. How about You? I love the line from Eckhart Tolle“What you think of me is none of my business”. I prefer to find my answers within. The people around me are free to take from me whatever works for them, but my purpose is not to change who they are, it is to accept them from within. This is a judgment free zone here. Transitioning from “The Secret”to “A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose,“has been the perfect segue for me. I hope others will follow my lead to get there.
I am sorry to say, I do not know where I got this, but it is something that I have recently adopted:
Today's Quote
Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?
-A Course in Miracles
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this,
THE SECRET:
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
We make our own decisions, yes, but when we take the time to quiet our mind and allow,we are being led by within. I believe that when we are trying to lead others, when we have not completely found ourselves, we lose sight of our own issues. Seeing our own issues through the eyes of others is one thing, but defining ourselves by the opinion or reaction of others is not the direction I want to go. How about You? I love the line from Eckhart Tolle“What you think of me is none of my business”. I prefer to find my answers within. The people around me are free to take from me whatever works for them, but my purpose is not to change who they are, it is to accept them from within. This is a judgment free zone here. Transitioning from “The Secret”to “A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose,“has been the perfect segue for me. I hope others will follow my lead to get there.
I am sorry to say, I do not know where I got this, but it is something that I have recently adopted:
Today's Quote
Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?
-A Course in Miracles
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this,
THE SECRET:
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
IT'S NO "SECRET", IT IS THE ANSWER!
I find that as each day goes by, more and more people are finding it difficult to cope in their everyday life. There are many views on how to handle daily life issues, but for me the solution to change is in the mind set that one wakes up in everyday.
Having suffered most of my life with clinical depression, manifesting to Agoraphobia, I feel qualified by my experiences with mental health issues to suggest the solution that worked for me.
I was always looking for a reason for the way my life was turning out, and the only thing I ever found, were the excuses for my behavior. The worst thing about that is that mental health workers and everyone around me were letting me get away with that. I believe now, once you recognize that you suffer from any one of thousands of mental health issues, you cannot just go back to ignoring it. You must stay focused and on track with recovery, at all times.
I found my way back from this last brush with depression by way of "The Secret". There is a soothingly, relaxing recovery, sitting embedded in the movie. I know that most people that read the book did not get the same results that I did from the movie, but what I got (along with help from my mental health worker) was a life altering experience.
I do not wake up everyday now, with the same old mind set. I wake up, Thank God for every bit of my life and begin to move through my day. At the end of the day, I again Thank God for my recovery and everything I have in my life. The material things to me are not so significant in my life, but I still Thank God for them. I mainly Thank him for the new way I process what takes place in my life. I m on a journey that is filled with mind awakening adventures and waking up everyday now is not a dreaded experience.
I have a blog about mental illnesses and because of The Law of Attraction I am gathering more resources daily to help others find the necessary tools to change their minds to change their life, but the very first I suggest that anyone do is:
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this: THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
Having suffered most of my life with clinical depression, manifesting to Agoraphobia, I feel qualified by my experiences with mental health issues to suggest the solution that worked for me.
I was always looking for a reason for the way my life was turning out, and the only thing I ever found, were the excuses for my behavior. The worst thing about that is that mental health workers and everyone around me were letting me get away with that. I believe now, once you recognize that you suffer from any one of thousands of mental health issues, you cannot just go back to ignoring it. You must stay focused and on track with recovery, at all times.
I found my way back from this last brush with depression by way of "The Secret". There is a soothingly, relaxing recovery, sitting embedded in the movie. I know that most people that read the book did not get the same results that I did from the movie, but what I got (along with help from my mental health worker) was a life altering experience.
I do not wake up everyday now, with the same old mind set. I wake up, Thank God for every bit of my life and begin to move through my day. At the end of the day, I again Thank God for my recovery and everything I have in my life. The material things to me are not so significant in my life, but I still Thank God for them. I mainly Thank him for the new way I process what takes place in my life. I m on a journey that is filled with mind awakening adventures and waking up everyday now is not a dreaded experience.
I have a blog about mental illnesses and because of The Law of Attraction I am gathering more resources daily to help others find the necessary tools to change their minds to change their life, but the very first I suggest that anyone do is:
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this: THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
I REMEMBER I TESTED GOD!
"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."
William Feather
1889-1981, Writer
A few days ago I was talking with a friend and this thought went through my mind.
“I remember that I tested God.”
I was around 13 or 14 years old and I was in junior high school. Everyday after school I would stop at the five and dime (I know, I’m aging myself here) Woolworth’s. It was in the center of town located near the school. I would window shop there.
Having been raised in a Christian home, we were taught to believe that God was a vengeful God, and if we sinned, we would be punished for it. Well, one day I decided to test that theory. I went into the store everyday and this one day I did not window shop, I stole. I wanted to have things that others had, not because I was jealous, but because I had low self esteem, I did not feel worthy of anything, and I believe that a part of me, had no self preservation. Corporal punishment was the mode of discipline in our home, and I challenged that all the time. Just because we were disciplined that way, did not keep us from breaking the rules. The rules in our home were far more rigid than any of my friends. However, the day that I first stole from the five and dime, was a record day for me. I remember walking home and thinking to myself, how will God punish me? What does smite mean anyway? Will I know when it happens? Will I go to Hell today? At the end of the day I got into bed and said my prayers, “Please God, forgive me for stealing and God bless, yadda, yadda, yadda.” In the morning I woke up relieved to realize I was still alive and went about getting ready for school. I don’t know how long it was before I stopped waiting for the punishment that never came, but I remember that when it did not come after awhile, I did it again. I went back to the store and stole something a little more expensive. Nothing I stole was important, significant, or expensive, it was just a test. Eventually I stopped stealing and I also stopped waiting for God to smite me down.
I know that it was around that time that I began to think differently about what I was being taught in church. I am in no way saying that what was being taught was right or wrong, I just did not believe the things I was being taught. It was not presented in a way that I understood. I thought differently about it, and I actually developed a kind of peacefulness with that, and still continued to disobey my parents, despite the virtual threat of physical punishment, but I did stop testing God. I had a better understanding about what my relationship with God was. I had a very close and private relationship with him that I still to this day, claim as my own.
I have spent the last year looking within for the true me, and have been fortunate enough to have the awareness I have always maintained, and as a result, I have refined my relationship with God, and it is clearer and stronger than ever. I know it began with “The Secret” and is being expanded by The Law of Attraction, and recently, by the writing of Eckhart Tolle and the Oprah Book Club, which for me, is an extension of the teachings of The Laws of The Universe.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this: THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
WOW, I AM PROUD OF MYSELF!
I have been on the Internet now, for just about a year, and the whole time I believed that I was trying to make money. It came to me today as I was meditating, that quieting my mind is not an option when I have this need for “financial abundance” I remember watching “The Secret” one day and then going online to find out who knew about it and what I could do with it? How much could it change my life? And I have spent this year buying into, and being deluged with unnecessary distractions, MONEY MAKING SCHEMES. It should never have been my objective, but when I filled out my first profile and it asked what my goals were I wrote this….?
WOW…I just realized that a while back I changed my original goals and intentions but I never changed my “mind set.” This is what they say now:
MY CURRENT INTENTIONS:
My powerful intentions are to be inspirational and truthful to all and to ultimately possess kindness and generosity.
MY LIFE’S PURPOSE:
My life’s purpose is to INSPIRE others, to leave a legacy of that to my children and begin a thread long enough to generate all of these things. And to NEVER stop until I have realized all of my dreams and those of so many, many others!
MY VALUES:
My values are Kindness ,Generosity, Philanthropy, love and my desire to provide for those that have not yet found their way here!
I am no longer looking to make money on the internet, because money is not what is important to me. Oh, I know, of course it is, but not in the sense that I would think about it today. Today, the only reason I would want to make money, is to be able to help others. That is why I have been floundering about my education, my disability, and my JOB. I do not have a “JOB”, I have a dream, and I can already see my dream taking place. I see the people around me that are influenced by my life, I see the changes in others, that are there, as a direct result of my introducing them to “The Secret.” I feel blessed.
The last two nights I have made phone calls to a friend and a relative and I realized that I have said the same thing to each of them. Money is not important to “me“, my “purpose” is. “I” have everything “I” need , but many, many, others do not. So “I” am taking “ME” out of the equation and will only be focusing on “them." So if anyone was waiting to make money from me, that is no longer an option. Making money for “others” is where I’ll be, and it’s is actually where I have been the whole time. It has always been in my subconscious that, when I reached financial abundance, it would be to make the dreams of others come true and by doing that, my own would be realized, and it does not stop today, as I wrote above:
And to NEVER stop until I have realized all of my dreams and those of so many, many others!
So, my goal is still “financial abundance,” but it is to make the dreams of others come true with it.
My oldest son said to me one time, not too long ago, “If you ever win the lottery, we’ll have to take it away from you, because you will give it all away.” He said that with humor, because I know, my three children, are kind and generous beings, and that is one of the many things I love so much about them.
This is a good day. This is a day of “awakening” to my life’s purpose. I think Eckhart Tolle and Oprah would be proud of me, I certainly am. WOW! I AM. I AM ACTUALLY PROUD OF MYSELF!
Just a note…When I went to Amazon. Com to collect the link for Eckhart Tolle’s name, and I clicked instead of highlighting it, I ended up on the Amazon page for his book, I clicked on the ”surprise me” option that publishers use, and it gave me the excerpt above. So click on Tolle’s name above and read the excerpt, you will immediately see what an experience of “The Law of Attraction” feels like.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, “THE SECRET“ and remember this::
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
WOW…I just realized that a while back I changed my original goals and intentions but I never changed my “mind set.” This is what they say now:
MY CURRENT INTENTIONS:
My powerful intentions are to be inspirational and truthful to all and to ultimately possess kindness and generosity.
MY LIFE’S PURPOSE:
My life’s purpose is to INSPIRE others, to leave a legacy of that to my children and begin a thread long enough to generate all of these things. And to NEVER stop until I have realized all of my dreams and those of so many, many others!
MY VALUES:
My values are Kindness ,Generosity, Philanthropy, love and my desire to provide for those that have not yet found their way here!
I am no longer looking to make money on the internet, because money is not what is important to me. Oh, I know, of course it is, but not in the sense that I would think about it today. Today, the only reason I would want to make money, is to be able to help others. That is why I have been floundering about my education, my disability, and my JOB. I do not have a “JOB”, I have a dream, and I can already see my dream taking place. I see the people around me that are influenced by my life, I see the changes in others, that are there, as a direct result of my introducing them to “The Secret.” I feel blessed.
The last two nights I have made phone calls to a friend and a relative and I realized that I have said the same thing to each of them. Money is not important to “me“, my “purpose” is. “I” have everything “I” need , but many, many, others do not. So “I” am taking “ME” out of the equation and will only be focusing on “them." So if anyone was waiting to make money from me, that is no longer an option. Making money for “others” is where I’ll be, and it’s is actually where I have been the whole time. It has always been in my subconscious that, when I reached financial abundance, it would be to make the dreams of others come true and by doing that, my own would be realized, and it does not stop today, as I wrote above:
And to NEVER stop until I have realized all of my dreams and those of so many, many others!
So, my goal is still “financial abundance,” but it is to make the dreams of others come true with it.
My oldest son said to me one time, not too long ago, “If you ever win the lottery, we’ll have to take it away from you, because you will give it all away.” He said that with humor, because I know, my three children, are kind and generous beings, and that is one of the many things I love so much about them.
This is a good day. This is a day of “awakening” to my life’s purpose. I think Eckhart Tolle and Oprah would be proud of me, I certainly am. WOW! I AM. I AM ACTUALLY PROUD OF MYSELF!
Just a note…When I went to Amazon. Com to collect the link for Eckhart Tolle’s name, and I clicked instead of highlighting it, I ended up on the Amazon page for his book, I clicked on the ”surprise me” option that publishers use, and it gave me the excerpt above. So click on Tolle’s name above and read the excerpt, you will immediately see what an experience of “The Law of Attraction” feels like.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, “THE SECRET“ and remember this::
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
Friday, March 7, 2008
I STILL LOVE YOU!
In my journey with The Law of Attraction, I have found it necessary to separate from people I have been extremely close to for a long time, some family and some friends. Lately I have been asked if I would re-visit the possibility of resolving the issues that forms those distances. My response has been the same in every asking, yet, I am not sure if it is the TRUE thing to do.
My life has transformed so much that I am not sure that these people belong in it, in the same capacity, I will always love them, and I am saddened by the loss, but my quest to find the truth in myself is just too important to go back. I find that people that can only bring negativity to me are not who I want to be around right now.
The Law of Attraction teaches us that we attract more of what we are thinking about. Each time that someone asks me to re-visit the possibility of this reconciliation, I find that all I attract from it is sadness, so I have resolved to accept that I have learned enough about forgiveness to let this go and move on so I am not attracting more sadness.
I am still reading Eckhart Tolle’s book “A New Earth, Awakening to your Life’s Purpose”, and with every page I take time to read it, then reread it, highlight each line, and tab the line for quick access. I am using post it flags and if like me, you are reading more than one book at a time, these are life savers. It takes organization to a new height. I know…it is silly that something as simple as a posit it notes gives me great joy. I have shrunk my world down a bit for focus, and although post its excite me, I am finding more relative things to fill my world with, and reading is a big one. I have stopped reading fiction because fiction will again, attract what I think about, so I am careful to read positive books with TRUE life experiences, and messages that others have found in their journey for TRUTH of their being. The new Oprah Book Club online is so great, I love the interaction with the actual author and Oprah’s opinion on matters of spirituality are usually so in sync with my own…no I am not thinking I’m Oprah. Anyway, if you can you should join in on the Monday night calls, they are so rewarding. Make sure you get a copy of the book and print out the weeks lesson.
If you want to focus on books of inspiration and change the things you are attracting into your life, visit my blog OUR GRATITUDE IN BOOKS, and find inspirational material on life skills.
In the meantime,. Make a point to watch it, read it, or live it but begin with
“THE SECRET”
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
My life has transformed so much that I am not sure that these people belong in it, in the same capacity, I will always love them, and I am saddened by the loss, but my quest to find the truth in myself is just too important to go back. I find that people that can only bring negativity to me are not who I want to be around right now.
The Law of Attraction teaches us that we attract more of what we are thinking about. Each time that someone asks me to re-visit the possibility of this reconciliation, I find that all I attract from it is sadness, so I have resolved to accept that I have learned enough about forgiveness to let this go and move on so I am not attracting more sadness.
I am still reading Eckhart Tolle’s book “A New Earth, Awakening to your Life’s Purpose”, and with every page I take time to read it, then reread it, highlight each line, and tab the line for quick access. I am using post it flags and if like me, you are reading more than one book at a time, these are life savers. It takes organization to a new height. I know…it is silly that something as simple as a posit it notes gives me great joy. I have shrunk my world down a bit for focus, and although post its excite me, I am finding more relative things to fill my world with, and reading is a big one. I have stopped reading fiction because fiction will again, attract what I think about, so I am careful to read positive books with TRUE life experiences, and messages that others have found in their journey for TRUTH of their being. The new Oprah Book Club online is so great, I love the interaction with the actual author and Oprah’s opinion on matters of spirituality are usually so in sync with my own…no I am not thinking I’m Oprah. Anyway, if you can you should join in on the Monday night calls, they are so rewarding. Make sure you get a copy of the book and print out the weeks lesson.
If you want to focus on books of inspiration and change the things you are attracting into your life, visit my blog OUR GRATITUDE IN BOOKS, and find inspirational material on life skills.
In the meantime,. Make a point to watch it, read it, or live it but begin with
“THE SECRET”
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
"I HAVE NO COMPLAINTS."
I was posting an excerpt for a new release from HCI Books, on my OUR GRATITUDE IN BOOKS Blog Site, when I began to read a couple of lines that reminded me of how overwhelming (yet beautiful) the acknowledgment of “The Law of Attraction” can be, in the course of a single day. The excerpt (Life Lessons, Loving the Life You Live by, Jennifer Read Hawthorne, Jack Canfield, and Mark Victor Hansen) suggests that, even though you see these wonderful things going on around you, when a friend asks how you are, you immediately begin to relate the negative things that took place in your day.
I was talking to my friend Michele, about this last week, and I suggested that we take a lesson from Oprah who said, when people ask how she is, she says “I have no complaints”. So now when Michele and I see each other, we ask, “How are you” and if one of us forgets to answer with “I have no complaints”, the other one points it out, and we find a source of humor in our day, and begin to remember the tiny miraculous little things we noticed during the day, instead of burdening each other with the negative. One thing that gives Michele great pleasure is her daily post from Mike Dooley’s Daily Notes of the Universe. She tells me everyday what her email said and she gets great strength and pleasure from it.
We should all pay more attention to the little, firebug like messages which flit past us everyday. Those are the things that should take our attention, because those are the unnoticed signals that we are getting within. The Law of Attraction is all around us and the more we find of it without, the more we will get from within. The more we share it with others, the more it will come back to us, ten fold every time.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
QUIETING THE MIND!
Eckhart Tolle and Oprah discussed "quieting the mind" during their first of ten classes online, Monday nights for 10 weeks. During the conversation he said "just make sure you check to see if you are breathing". I found that odd, and it has been running through my mind a great deal since then. Tonight I discovered what they were talking about. It's the method of breathing you use to quiet the mind.
When I meditate there are seconds in time when an old cartoon runs through my mind. I picture a table with just talking heads on it. It was probably in a "Three Stooges show". That is the kind of humor they had. The feeling of detachment from the body is so surreal (of course), in the sense that although my hands are touching my thighs as I sit cross legged, I begin to lose contact with the feeling of my hands on my thighs. At one point I felt something touch the tops of both hands, as if someone was trying to reassure me.
Eckhart Tolle offered the fact that someone compared the experience of "quieting the mind" to "dropping acid", only the acid experience was more violent in nature. I was intrigued enough to spend more time finding the experience, and I did. There is no experience that I can compare it to. There is no greater peace, ever. It helps me to understand separating from the "ego."
It is a concept I was having difficulty understanding, but feeling it makes it real for me now.
If you are taking this class, getting in touch with this experience is something that I recommend, it is beginning to show in my daily reaction to the normal events that take place in our lives, everyday.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this: THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
When I meditate there are seconds in time when an old cartoon runs through my mind. I picture a table with just talking heads on it. It was probably in a "Three Stooges show". That is the kind of humor they had. The feeling of detachment from the body is so surreal (of course), in the sense that although my hands are touching my thighs as I sit cross legged, I begin to lose contact with the feeling of my hands on my thighs. At one point I felt something touch the tops of both hands, as if someone was trying to reassure me.
Eckhart Tolle offered the fact that someone compared the experience of "quieting the mind" to "dropping acid", only the acid experience was more violent in nature. I was intrigued enough to spend more time finding the experience, and I did. There is no experience that I can compare it to. There is no greater peace, ever. It helps me to understand separating from the "ego."
It is a concept I was having difficulty understanding, but feeling it makes it real for me now.
If you are taking this class, getting in touch with this experience is something that I recommend, it is beginning to show in my daily reaction to the normal events that take place in our lives, everyday.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this: THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
Monday, March 3, 2008
I GOT KICKED OUT OF THE BOOK CLUB!
I was watching the Oprah Book Club and started to take a few notes on my computer and I suddenly lost the feed. Seeing that over 700,000 people were in this class via internet, I am not surprised. In the few minutes I had until I lost the feed, I was in awe of the messages that were in my mind. The messages I have been getting since I was first introduced to “The Secret.” Eckhart Tolle has taken the principal of “The Secret” to new heights for me. Some experienced it differently, by reading his book and then discovering the movie “The Secret.”
In preparation for this viewing I had in front of me, a note book with questions in it, and the outline that I printed from the class preparation materials, the book, and my mother’s bible.
My mother passed away 25 years ago, and I lived believing that she left after spending time with her minister everyday, preparing herself, I suppose, for her journey to heaven, and saying goodbye and I love you to all family and friends…except me. I was the person who turned their life upside down, gave up the business I was opening, and just packed up and went to live with my mother so she could be released from the hospital. I took her for her radiation and chemotherapy treatments until she chose to stop them. I then took over her nursing care, learning to take care of all her needs, because she was very private about her body. I would never have done these things for anyone in my lifetime, but I did this for my mother, and yet she left the earth without even saying, Thank you or I Love You to me.
I wrestled with these thoughts for so many years until shortly after my sister’s passing, when I saw the cast of “The Secret” on Oprah one day and immediately began to absorb “The Secret” and live the Law of Attraction. One of the days I was watching the movie on my television, which is on an entertainment center in my living room; I glanced around for a moment and noticed that my mother’s bible was on the shelf in front of me. I had not put it there and my children certainly did not, they would not have known what it was. I was still mad at God for my mother’s passing and for so many things that took place in my life after that. I still prayed every night and tried to be a good person and raise my children teaching them the right things to do. I just didn’t focus on my spiritual relationship with God anymore. But I got up off the couch, picked up the bible and opened to the first page, and inside it said:
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.
And then this:
Acts 17:28
For in him we live and move, and have our being; for we are also his offspring.
My mother had said good bye…. but she left my message in her bible, which is why she wrote in her notebook, the things she specifically wanted each person to have to remember her by. I was so lost in my hurt and anger that I didn’t look for the message. I believed it was too late. She was gone. But there was the message 25 years later. How did I not look in the bible? How did I not treasure it as something that was hers? I was too lost in the pain of her leaving without ever…saying, I love you to me, my whole life. I heard her tell the grandchildren when they were young. I heard her tell every family member and friend that came to see her before she passed, but I never heard her say it to me.
About 6 months before my mother died, I buried my six mo nth old daughter Gillian. Most of my family did not even know I had her. My mother was embarrassed that I had a child out of wedlock. She got a leave from the hospital to come and see Gillian before she (Gillian) went in for surgery. My mother left that day with these words. “Well, I guess if Gillian makes it I will too.” Well, Gillian did not make it and I had to go to the hospital to tell my mother. When I called to talk to my Uncle, who was a Funeral Director, my Aunt got on the phone and said to me, “Ann-Marie, I didn’t even know you had a baby.” I’m sure the fact that my mother was embarrassed by me just added to my hurt. She was in the hospital the day that my daughter died. I went from the hospital my daughter died in, to the hospital my mother was in, to tell her the news. When I got there, she already knew, someone had already told her. I was upset that I had to actually go there and tell her, then to find out that she already knew, was even more painful.
I buried my daughter and then packed up to go and live with my mother until she passed away. I didn’t really even think about these losses for quite a few years later. When I did, the other issues in my life were just too much to even think about these things. I married an abusive man that cheated on me for ten years and I allowed myself to be victimized by his abuse and by turning a deaf ear to his philandering, even when it was with, what I considered, my best friend.
Five years into the marriage I was finally strong enough to put my ex husband out and get on with raising my children. I worked three jobs and did whatever it took to make sure my children never knew we were poor. We moved, by the grace of God, into subsidized housing in a beautiful rural town and I was finally able to pay all of the bills and manage to not work so many jobs all of the time. I took a job driving a school bus for special needs children so I could be home when the children were. When I first started I would take them with me and we always had the same days off so it was the perfect solution. I did that for 10 years.
When I started to obsess over “The Secret”, everyone around me began to think there was something wrong with me, that I was having a nervous breakdown. I began to have issues with just about everyone around me. Despite all of the disappointments and anger, I was feeling stronger, because none of the things that were upsetting me, were anywhere close to the pain I felt for all those years, thinking my mother never loved me. I quit smoking after 40 plus years, I lost 47 pounds and stopped using the excuse that I needed to drink alcohol every night to sleep. I found for awhile, that I had little tolerance for people with drug and alcohol issues, and severed some very difficult relationships. One of those relationships was my youngest son.
I believed that when I began to change that my children would follow me, but I found that not to be true. My youngest son seemed to get worse and it seems now, like it got worse as I got better. Maybe it was the same, but I just never saw it until I stopped abusing myself. My mind was clearer than ever and I began to get over the illness that was keeping me trapped in the house. I started walking again and I would walk and listen to James Taylor, with tears in my eyes, just for the beauty of walking. Just for the beauty of breathing, how energetic and happy I felt. I could see people around me starting to see me change, some resented it, and others wanted to have it themselves. It still is that way. Not everyone will see things the way I do, I would now, never expect them to.
When I began reading “A New Earth”, I immediately felt that I was attracted to it, and understood Eckhart Tolle’s purpose in writing the book. There are many more people in the world, just like me that are seeing things this way. Some people call it new age religion. A woman asked Oprah about that tonight on the show. Oprah’s response was perfect; she said “A true path of spirituality enhances what your religion already is. Jesus came to earth to teach us the Christ Consciousness. The kingdom of heaven is here within you.” I have said that to myself since I first started to apply the principles of “The Secret” to my life. God is within me. I have always believed that my relationship was with God not so much the church.
When Eckhart Tolle talked about whether this book was waiting for him to write it or asked himself what life wants from him, I already had that in my mind. I have been asking God for the past year what my purpose is, and I am still waiting for the answer. I’m not sure if this is the answer but I am learning to quiet my mind so I can hear the answer. Everything in my life is The Law of Attraction in action. I can see it all around me, in everything I say, do, see or hear. I am learning to live within, so what I see without will be me.
This to me is the most amazing part of this whole experience, when I heard about this book and Oprah having the book club online, I was actually doing a search for a new business idea to see if people were doing online book clubs. So I was definitely attracted here. I will just have to keep quieting my mind until God speaks to me, or I discover it by Law of Attraction. I feel such a genuine attraction to everything, and the expectancy I feel, waiting for the answer, is both frightening, but also exhilarating, neither of which I plan to give up, until I know the answer. What my purpose is. I know this much, my purpose is in service, and I will soon be shown the way.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
IT IS JUST A CHOICE!
I’m writing my blog now on Microsoft Office 2007. I never really saw the need to upgrade, I mean I know that a lot of technology is changing and I will have to go to High Definition soon, but when it comes to word programs, how much more could there be? Well, I was wrong, this is pretty nice. I realize it means learning new technology but I like a good challenge, so I am trying it out. The look alone is less ominous than I thought it would be. I’m one of those people that were not afraid to open the VCR when a tape got jammed in it, or open a computer and learned how to install RAM. I will admit, I do have to hold myself back from fixing things or putting my fingers where no woman’s fingers should go…technology wise. I can not tell anyone how to fix a broken toaster, because I never tried to fix one. The reason is simple, they are cheap, and so I just buy a new one. And the same with VCRs and DVD players, they are so inexpensive that we just replace them. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could say that about poverty and homelessness? It is so cheap, we can just buy everyone a house, or we can just fill their freezer. Why can’t we say that? And if we do, will it make it happen? I believe it will. I believe that if we all try to make sure that houses and food are cheap enough to make sure everyone has them, then that is how it will be.
We have to all try to get on the same page about issues like this. We have to believe more in our ability to accomplish change. I admit to being a procrastinator, but if you stand in front of me and tell or ask me to do something, I will. How many people do we know that will say that? I can think of a lot. I think we should all try that. Let’s try to believe that these changes are in our power, and because they are, we will be moving people out of hunger, poverty and everyone will have a place to live. Now how hard is that? To just believe that it can happen. I believe it and I need everyone to believe it, so let’s all make it our business to make others believe it.
I was having a conversation today with my oldest son and I said some thing similar to him. He still believes that things are more improved if we spend time worrying about them, or trying to fix them when they do not need fixing. Or to make it clearer, why spend all day worrying about someone that does not want help. Why not just offer love and believe in the ability to fix them self, and see them fixing themselves. I believe in that. I see my friend having faith in her ability to have provided her child with the ability to heal HERSELF. I see my children and family members healing themselves, fixing themselves and I believe that they have the ability to do that. The power to change is in every one of us, we have to just allow it.
While I was surfing the internet today I ran across an article about Abraham Lincoln. This is what I got from it:
It said that Abraham Lincoln suggested that the government pay each state $400 for each slave, and in return the states would abolish slavery within 20 years. He referred to it as gradual emancipation, and suggested that it would cost the same to do that as it would to fight a war over it.
The suggestion is sound but the time would have been a huge issue to me. The mere fact that there was another solution to the issue of slavery is a huge thought. There are solutions like that available to all situations and when WE ALL begin to think differently, but realize the same results; we will have made the world a better place. We have to learn to separate from our “ego” and think of peaceful solutions instead of resolving issues of war. We can make war non-existent; it is a matter of CHOICE to accomplish that. We just have to CHOOSE. I know it sounds too good to be true or too simple, but it really is, once WE ALL THINK THE RIGHT WAY. It has worked NEGATIVELY this way for centuries. All we have to do is take those thoughts and use them for GOOD instead of EVIL. Hitler managed to convince massive numbers of people to believe in his theory. The Rise of Hitler as explained began as thoughts. How is it possible for someone as evil as Hitler to manage to convince enough countrymen to torture and murder millions of Jewish men, women and children, and impossible for us to take the same thoughts and turn them all into positive actions. Most of the original points of Hitler’s 25 point plan can easily be implemented positively to change the way the world works, or at least The United sates.
I hope that enough people read this and CHOOSE to change the way they think so the number of positive minded individuals increases by passing this message along to others.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
THE SECRET
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
END WAR AND PREJUDICE!
I have spent today, off and on studying, “The New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose” by Eckhart Tolle. Since I heard Wayne Dyer speak on Ellen yesterday, the philosophy they share( Tolle and Dyer) is keeping me focused on understanding more. When I was introduced to “The Secret,” I found a new language, and many thoughts to modify behavior, already planted in my mind. The philosophy, that Tolle and Dyer share is another step in the Laws of the Universe that is so intriguing, but I find, have also already been planted in my mind just in different words. I have recently read the "Science of Getting Rich", by Wallace Wattles and am still reading “Think and Grow Rich”, by Napoleon Hill. Having been labeled a great deal of my life for my unique view of things, I am both happy and relieved to hear these ideas. I feel validated and assured that my awareness is exactly that…awareness.
We should all take a look at eastern philosophies that people have studied for centuries, and learn to apply them to our everyday life. By doing this, maybe instead of trying to end wars or prejudice, eventually there will be no wars or prejudice. It will take a strong voice and a lot of reading but we should all continue to educate ourselves about the mind and the abilities we have overlooked or misunderstood for centuries. I know that when I began this journey my focus was different, and now that I have changed direction, I feel that my purpose is in service of others, and I have begun that with “The Secret”and will continue through The Law of Attraction, and directly to the other Laws of The Universe.
I hope that as many as possible will be on the Oprah Book Club Class Monday night. I’ll see you there! And please join me here or on any of my blog sites to hear more on The Law of Attraction, especially how you can help to spread the word.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
“The Secret”
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
We should all take a look at eastern philosophies that people have studied for centuries, and learn to apply them to our everyday life. By doing this, maybe instead of trying to end wars or prejudice, eventually there will be no wars or prejudice. It will take a strong voice and a lot of reading but we should all continue to educate ourselves about the mind and the abilities we have overlooked or misunderstood for centuries. I know that when I began this journey my focus was different, and now that I have changed direction, I feel that my purpose is in service of others, and I have begun that with “The Secret”and will continue through The Law of Attraction, and directly to the other Laws of The Universe.
I hope that as many as possible will be on the Oprah Book Club Class Monday night. I’ll see you there! And please join me here or on any of my blog sites to hear more on The Law of Attraction, especially how you can help to spread the word.
Make a choice to watch it, read it or live it…but at least try it, and remember this:
“The Secret”
Thoughts do become things.
There are no coincidences.
Miracles are all around us.
Ask, Believe and you will receive.
It all begins with baby steps.
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