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July 30, 2007

Are you talking to your inner child?

One of my readers just told me that it was so difficult for her to talk to her inner child because she felt that she was such a failure... and my heart cried out when I heard this.  And I thought dearest friends... how can any of us be failures when we are the perfect children of God, the Good? So I wrote back to her and said:

"I really really think you should talk to your inner child – that sweet little girl – because you see, God made you perfect, whole and complete no matter what the outer world is saying, doing or thinking. You are God’s amazing daughter and you need do nothing to deserve the Grace of God!

The other surprising thing I discovered is that when I talk to my inner child – she often comforts me! So give it a try. And be gentle with yourself… all the love that you need is already there is your very own heart!"

July 19, 2007

A really powerful affirmation....

I used to say this affirmation every day out loud with arms spread wide open... especially if I was at the beach facing the great wide ocean... so I remembered it yesterday when I was at the beach, facing the great wide ocean and thought, gee, I think I am going to start saying it again every day... it's such a powerful experience. The affirmation is by Jon Speller from his book "The Tenfold Return" which I can't seem to find but which I once owned...

Here it is:

  " I know WHO I AM.

   I AM the Selector, the Director, the Guide, the Pattern Maker, the Blueprinter of that Unlimited, Unformed yet All-Powerful, Completely Obeying, Infinite Energy which every instant of my Life flows through my mind.

   I AM the Eyes, the fingertips, the Consciousness of that Infinite Energy.

   I AM the Sole Ruler and Absolute Monarch of that Infinite Energy which flows through my mind.

   That Infinite Energy is my Omnipotent and Willing Servant, follows exactly my every order.

   My words and thoughts and emotions FORM that Infinite Energy into the conditions and circumstances of my Life and environment. That All-Powerful Infinite Energy is constantly and precisely fulfilling – transforming – my words and thoughts and emotions into their physical counterparts.

   No words or thoughts or emotions of mine ever return to me unfilled. Therefore, I am always exceedingly careful that all my words and thoughts and emotions are beneficial, positive, constructive and specific in all of their aspects.

   By Guiding and Directing that Infinite Energy forever flowing through my mind with words and thoughts and emotions which ARE beneficial, positive, constructive and specific, I bless myself with Perfect Health, with Ever-renewing Life, with Inexhaustible Vitality, with Everlasting Youthfulness, with Wisdom and Understanding, with Wealth, Prosperity, Happiness and an Overflowing Abundance of All Good things of Life.

   I bless my fellow beings with beneficial, positive, constructive and specific words and thoughts and emotions and also with gifts of money, services, aid, help, love, praise and encouragement and claim my tenfold return on all of these from the Infinite as is both my privilege and my duty as a Conscious Expression of the Source of that Infinite Energy.

   That Always Obedient, All-Powerful Infinite Energy which flows constantly through my mind ALWAYS brings my tenfold return to me. Daily my capacity to receive increases, expands and magnifies.

   All Good completely fills my Life and environment and the Lives and environments of all of my fellow beings.

   All Good is formed from All-Powerful, All-Present, All-Knowing Infinite Energy  which is MINE TO USE HERE AND NOW and is from God, All-Power, All-Presence, All-Knowledge.

   And I AM One with God.

   So I AM.

   So it is."

July 16, 2007

A great way to raise your energy and improve your life

A great way to raise your energy, increase your power, and improve your life is to practice what I call ”right seeing”.

   By ”right seeing”, I mean focusing your attention on the Good that is already present in all people and situations. When you focus on the Good that is inherent in everyone, everywhere—you bring it forth. Then wondrous things happen and it’s as if you become a magician.

   Your life will take on a new glow.

   People will start asking you what’s your secret.

See Loveliness

Take a half an hour and sit down by yourself and focus your attention on the loveliness that is all around you. When you make up your mind to do so, you will find loveliness everywhere. Be it in the vase of yellow flowers on the table next to you or in the smile on your daughter’s face or in the excitement on the face of the little boy you passed in the supermarket… or in the kindness of your doctor or the helpfulness of your bank manager or your sister’s unexpected warmth yesterday or the fine, fine feeling of satisfaction you experienced after the presentation you just gave… The list is endless once you begin. But it’s an exercise well worth undertaking because how can you expect to savor the Good you are dreaming of—if you believe it’s somewhere far, far away? If you believe it’s far, far away, it will probably stay far, far away because Life has a way of becoming for us exactly what we believe it will be.

See Strength

If you feel weak or tired or in any way despondent or disappointed with yourself or with Life, I suggest you focus your attention on “seeing strength” for a week or two. I guarantee it will revive you. Here’s what to do.

   Again take a half an hour a day and sit down with yourself, close your eyes—and focus your attention on the strength of Life. See the strength that is everywhere present—the strength of the Universe—the strength of this thing we call Life. Go for an imaginary walk and focus your attention on the strength of Nature. See the strength of the Earth, the strength of a great tree, the strength of the ocean pounding against the shore, the strength of the wind, the rivers; look mentally at whatever brings strength to mind. Then focus on the strength in the people around you. See the vitality of your neighbors. See their energy, their aliveness—the very same aliveness that is animating you. Remind yourself how this strength feels. Let your body thrill at the thought of this strength. Feel the strength of Life pulsating through you.

   For again, how can you expect to feel strong, how can you expect to experience strength if you do not allow yourself to enjoy it?

   The secret is to enjoy the strength you already have—the Life that is already given to you—because what you focus on grows.

See Goodness

No matter who you are or where you are, there is untold Goodness in your Life right now. Because you have Life itself. This means that all the Goodness of the Universe is already yours. You may find this hard to believe, but that is only because you have covered your true nature and your true power with a veil. You have forgotten that you—the Choice-Maker in your Life—are endowed with the power of focus. And that by choosing the focus of your attention, you are already bringing forth from the invisible the Life you are presently living. If this Life is less than the Good you desire, it is only because you have forgotten your true power. And because you did not understand the mechanism, you may have thought that this less than perfect Life was something that was happening to you—that you were a victim. But this is not so. The life you are presently living is the life you are choosing.

   Thus when you understand the mechanism, you will see that the Goodness you seek is waiting for you to choose it.

   This is the secret that the Wise have long known. That the Goodness you seek is here now.  But that you—and you alone—are the only one who can bring it forth in your Life. Until you do, this Goodness will lie dormant like Sleeping Beauty—awaiting your praiseful kiss to bring it to Life.

See the Wisdom

And what about intelligence? Does there seem to be a lack of intelligent behavior around you? If so, you are again seeing the outer world mirroring your inner focus back to you.

   Focusing on what you may perceive as the ignorance of others is just as devastating as focusing on poverty and lack. In fact they are the same.

   If this is the case with you, perhaps it is time you sit down with yourself and practice seeing the wisdom and intelligence that is everywhere present—working in and through everyone all around you right now. This type of seeing is more than just focusing on the genius of Nature, which is relatively easy to do. This is a higher focus—a higher seeing—because it means focusing on the intelligence in your neighbors and in all the people you meet. This is a focus on the wisdom they are all expressing through their daily actions and activities. If you look carefully, you will see clearly that this intelligence is there. Fully present and that it was there all along, but you—perhaps in undo haste—forgot to recognize it for what it is. Now I suggest you take the time and do so. If you feel there is a lack of intelligence around you, I suggest you sit down with yourself—for at least a half an hour a day—and focus your attention on the intelligence of all whom you meet.

   Once again, to experience intelligence, you must first recognize it.

Right Seeing

Thus right seeing is the bringing forth from the invisible into beautiful manifestation the true Goodness of Life. If it is Love you wish to see, then focus on seeing the Love that everyone is expressing and that everywhere surrounds you. Again, sit down with yourself and see it in your friends, in your family, in your neighbors, in your colleagues. Is it beauty you wish to see? Then look for beauty and recognize it. Is it prosperity you feel you are lacking? Then focus your attention on the bounty that is everywhere present—both in your own Life and in the Life of others.

   It is an important turn of the inner wheel to understand that a praiseful feeling towards bounty or beauty—whether you think you own it or not—is the quickest way to call forth and experience bounty and beauty in your own life.

   This is because whenever you allow yourself to see rightly—Goodness springs forth at every turn. And quite soon, you will magically find Goodness everywhere.

July 14, 2007

One of my great heros

Gandhi is one of my great heros. According to his biographers, Gandhi’s spiritual reference book was the Bhagavad Gita and the end of Chapter Two summed up Gandhi’s life philosophy. According to historians, he meditated on this verse every single day of his life. I quote it here for your inspiration:

From the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2: The Illumined Man

“Sri Krishna says:

They live in wisdom

Who see themselves in all and all in them,

Whose love for the Lord of Love has consumed

Every selfish desire and sense craving

Tormenting the heart. Not agitated

By grief nor hankering after pleasure,

They live free from lust and fear and anger.

Fettered no more by selfish attachments,

They are not elated by good fortune

Nor depressed by bad. Such are the seers...

When you keep thinking about sense objects,

Attachment comes. Attachment breeds desire,

The lust of possession, which when thwarted,

Burns to anger. Anger clouds the judgment

And robs you of the power to learn from past

Mistakes. Lost is the discriminative

Faculty, and your life is utter waste.

But when you move amidst the world of sense,

From attachment and aversion freed,

There comes the peace in which all sorrow ends,

And you live in the wisdom of the Self.

The disunited mind is far from wise;

How can it meditate? How be at peace?

When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

When you let your mind follow the siren

Call of the senses, they carry away

Your better judgment as a cyclone drives

A boat off the charted course to its doom…

They are forever free who have broken

Out of the ego-cage of I and mine

To be united with the Lord of Love.

This is the supreme state. Attain thou this

And pass from death to immortality.”

From the book, “Gandhi The Man – The Story of His Transformation” by Eknath Easwaran.

July 03, 2007

Your assertive rights

How does the list below sound to you? Is it shocking or just something you know and live by? It's certainly been an ongoing learning process for me... The list is from a wonderful book by Manuel J. Smith called “When I say no, I feel guilty”. I highly recommend the book... even though I first read it years ago - I keep going back to it again and again.

Assertive Rights      

  1. You have the right to judge your own behavior, thoughts, and emotions, and to take the responsibility for their initiation and consequences upon yourself.
  2. You have the right to offer no reasons or excuses to justify your behavior.
  3. You have the right to judge whether you are responsible for finding solutions to other people’s problems.
  4. You have the right to change your mind.
  5. You have the right to make mistakes – and be responsible for them.
  6. You have the right to say ‘I don’t know’.
  7. You have the right to be independent of the goodwill of others before coping with them.
  8. You have the right to be illogical in making decisions.
  9. You have the right to say, ‘I don’t understand’.
  10. You have the right to say, ‘I don’t care’.

You have the right to say no, without feeling guilty.”