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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!

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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.

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.