We have completed a day of peace. We are now adding to that peace a day of love. Without fear and in that still place where the peace of God resides, we are face to face with his love. We dedicate this day to seeing and hearing with clarity. Let this day belong to love. Let this day belong to God in a wonderful surrender.
Today belongs to love. Let me not fear.
Father, today I would let all things be as You created them, and give Your Son the honor due his sinlessness; the love of brother to his brother and his Friend. Through this I am redeemed. Through this as well the truth will enter where illusions were, light will replace all darkness, and Your Son will know he is as You created him.
A special blessing comes to us today, from Him Who is our Father. Give this day to Him, and there will be no fear today, because the day is given unto love.
Quote of the Day
"There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves."
— Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
Tuesday, September 30
Mysteries of the Universe
Mysteries of the Universe
by Owen Waters
The metaphysics of today is the physics of tomorrow. By studying spiritual metaphysics, you get a head start in understanding the mysteries of the universe.
For example, two hundred years ago, electricity was still a huge mystery. Back then, a few visionaries uncovered more and more information about the nature of electricity. Once it became possible to generate electricity, it powered the Industrial Revolution and then went on to produce the Electronics Era, which soon morphed into today's Information Revolution.
This enormous chain reaction of technological evolution was made possible by the original curiosity of just a handful of visionary mystics. Now, imagine what the mystic insights of today's world could do for tomorrow's world. For example, the next energy to be understood is etheric energy. A more subtle cousin to electricity, etheric energy is the life force that streams towards us from the Sun, energizing and motivating all forms of life.
The mastery of etheric energy will lead to far more wide-ranging advances than electricity ever did. Within etheric energy, lie the keys to powerful healing modalities, pollution-free energy, and many other valuable innovations. Just the advent of abundant, inexpensive energy will transform the world, eliminating poverty and much of today's third world suffering.Etheric energy is life energy. It is the energy that passes from spiritual healer to patient. It is the vitality or life force contained within air, water and food. It is the mystery energy which powers the endless orbit of electrons in their atoms and planets around their suns.
Etheric energy has been known by many other names - prana, life energy, vital life force, chi or qi, orgone, universal life force, odic force, cold electricity, tachyon energy; the list goes on.
Cosmologists - scientists who study the structure of the universe - are actually already on the trail of etheric energy. They have detected its presence in the cosmos through its gravitational side-effects, but they haven't been able to see it, so they call it 'dark energy.' The existence of dark energy - and its related dark matter - is one of the great, unanswered mysteries of science today. According to the observed movements of galaxies, it is calculated that 23% of the universe consists of dark matter and 73% of the universe consists of dark energy.The universe, it would seem, is filled with unseens. At least, to the limited capabilities of physical eyes. When a cosmologist stares at a clear, night sky, wondering where all the missing energy and matter is in the inky blackness of the depths of space, it would come as a surprise to them if they knew that a clairvoyant - a person who has developed the ability to see subtle energies - sees the same night sky very differently.
It may sound unconventional, even rebellious to tradition, to suggest that a scientist should ask a clairvoyant what they perceive, but it has been done before, and with breakthrough results. For example, in the mid 1800s, one of the top scientists of all time did exactly this. Carl von Reichenbach had heard that clairvoyants can see a subtle energy of which science was unaware. The fact that he, like most people, lacked clairvoyant vision did not deter him. Such a minor complication was not to be an obstacle to his curiosity and his desire to understand this new form of energy.
So, for his experiments, he hired a group of skilled clairvoyants to describe to him what they could see. He cataloged the appearance and behavior of etheric energy, which he called the 'odic force,' around substances such as magnets, crystals, wood and metals.
Today, a cosmologist could, if they dared to be that adventurous, ask a skilled clairvoyant what they see in the clear, night sky. The clairvoyant would report that they see the etheric energies that surge through the universe. To their subtle perception, etheric energy does not appear in the least bit dark. In fact, it glows brightly with the light of its own life energy. To them, the night sky is filled with a brilliant interplay of pure and magical, etheric light.Etheric energy is one of the three fundamental types of energy in the universe. These three energies are electric, magnetic and etheric. Electric energy operates at a right angle to magnetic energy. The third energy of Creation, etheric energy, operates at yet another right angle to the other two.
Physical matter is made from electromagnetism, which is the interplay of electric and magnetic energies. Etheric matter is quasi-physical, i.e. solid only to the subtle senses, and it is made from etheromagnetism, which is the interplay of etheric and magnetic energies.
Etheric energy and etheric matter are the missing components in today's cosmology. Etheric energy is the mysterious 'dark energy' and etheric matter is the mysterious 'dark matter.' Knowing that it can be seen by the subtle senses certainly makes it a more immediate candidate for study and research.Just the fact that 'dark' or etheric energy reveals its presence through its gravitational effects implies that its understanding could lead to control over gravity, and the introduction of weightless, high-speed flying vehicles.
The possibilities for research into this fledgling field are almost unlimited. For example, many of Nikola Tesla's experiments involved a strange new form of energy that he called 'cold electricity.' When his experiments are reviewed in the light that cold electricity is none other than etheric energy, then they begin to make a lot more sense. Etheric energy is the third energy of Creation. It is not a form of electricity. Etheric energy and electric energy share the common bond of interacting with magnetic energy. They bring to life the magnetic fabric of space when they intertwine with it to invoke physical electromagnetic energy and quasi-physical etheromagnetic energy.Spiritual metaphysics provides a head start in understanding the mysteries of the universe. The sooner today's scientists search within for understanding, the sooner the world will see them emerge as the modern-day visionaries of science.
When a deeper understanding of etheric energy is achieved, society will reap many benefits, ranging from powerful healing machines and precise weather control to clean, unlimited energy and travel to the stars.source - infinitebeing.com
Lightworkers
Sunday, September 28
Will Smith on the Power we all Have within.
Hey if Will Smith can believe in his dreams and conquer why cant we.
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Changing Your Outer Reality
Changing Your Outer Reality
by Egan Sanders
THINK OF THE UNIVERSE AS A CIRCLE and that you are in the middle of it. Imagine that the vibrations of your consciousness move outward from you – like waves - and then return back to you as experiences and events. Our BETA - beliefs, emotions, thoughts and actions - are the vibrations that are moving out from us - the center of our circle - and then coming back. They are the literal mechanism of creation.
Until you are aware – consciously aware – of your beliefs, emotions, thoughts, and actions, your ability to shape your experience can be limited. The good news is that it is very easy to become aware. You simply observe yourself for nothing is hidden – unless you believe it is hidden.
Two people can be standing right next to each other and experience a completely different reality depending on their beliefs, emotions, and thoughts.
A belief is like a blueprint. It is the plan or pattern to which all the materials needed to flesh it out are drawn. The architect is you. All vibrations are self-perpetuating. Your beliefs are self-perpetuating. An optimist will see the positive and create those circumstances, while a pessimist will naturally vibrate with a critical viewpoint and see the negative in every situation. Two people can be standing right next to each other and experience a completely different reality depending on their beliefs, emotions, and thoughts.
This is the great power that each of us has been given. How are you using it? The universe is impartial. It does not tell you what to believe, think, or feel. If you have a negative thought or feeling, you have the choice to give yourself a positive alternative. In this age of transformation, many people are espousing the idea that we create our reality just with our thoughts. While this idea is valid, we also have to recognize that as human beings we are a package deal of beliefs, emotions, thoughts and actions.
If the goal of many people is to grow, expand, and express their unique potential, it inevitably compels us to work holistically – integrating all the aspects together to rediscover wholeness once again. Although it may seem a contradiction – the higher we reach in consciousness, the more we may encounter unresolved issues, feelings, or thoughts. Things come up to be healed – to reestablish wholeness.
Does it serve us to deny that which we truly feel or think? If we affirm something with a smile, but do not fully feel that it is possible, then the outward result will be mixed. Covering up feelings with positive thoughts may not get to the root of the issue. In fact, it may just build up a stronger charge, which may show up later in a more dramatic form.
Here is a conscious, holistic approach to changing your outer reality by observing and changing your inner reality. These questions are an easy way to first examine what you are putting out into the universe, and then giving yourself a positive alternative. Begin by taking something that is bothering you; a negative thought, an experience or a situation and use the following questions to gain more awareness of how you are using your creative power."What would I need to believe in order to be feeling this/experiencing this?"
"What emotion(s) does this belief generate within me? How does the belief make me feel physically? How does it affect my breath?"
"What thought(s) does this emotion(s) generate? What ideas, perspectives and viewpoints come up?"
"What action(s) would these thoughts generate? If I were a person believing, feeling and thinking in this particular way, how would this cause me to act?"
This is owning the belief. This is really looking at the effects it creates. All emotions, thoughts, and feelings are the effect of a belief. These questions may get you in touch with something you have hidden from yourself or bring up emotions that you may not even realize you had. This is step one – seeing what is.
Step two - give yourself a new choice. Ask yourself what would you truly prefer to experience? What is the positive alternative? Take the negative thought, experience, or situation that you used for the above questions, and change the belief to a positive one. Now ask yourself the following questions to align yourself with the positive reality.
"What would I need to believe in order to be experiencing this positive alternative?"
"What emotion(s) does this positive belief generate within me? How does the positive belief make me now feel - physically?"
"What thought(s) does this positive emotion(s) generate? What new ideas, perspectives and viewpoints come up?"
"What action(s) would these positive thoughts generate? If I were a person believing, feeling and thinking in this particular way, how would I act?" Who would you be?"
More than likely you will feel lighter and a greater sense of well being from looking at the positive alternative. If you then focus on the positive alternative, and consistently act the way a person would if they had that positive belief, you will then step into that version of reality.
Too often people do not even question reality or give themselves other possibilities. You hear a negative voice in your mind and surrender to it. Voices are really choices. The truth is you create yourself anew in each and every moment. In each moment you choose who you are and the universe automatically supports you in whatever choice you choose. When you believe - you are choosing your reality, and you always have a choice.source - egansanders.com
Lightworkers
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 272
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 272
In yesterday's lesson, we vowed to see. We made a choice to see with the forgiving, redemptive eyes of Christ. Now, without being tempted to turn away, to be distracted by illusions, we strengthen our resolve. We know that if we look at the illusion, we will not live in reality. In reality, we are choosing to see differently so that we can choose heaven instead of hell in any situation or circumstance. This choice of love over fear becomes our holy view.
How can illusions satisfy God's Son?
Father, the truth belongs to me. My home is set in Heaven by Your Will and mine. Can dreams content me? Can illusions bring me happiness? What but Your memory can satisfy Your Son? I will accept no less than You have given me. I am surrounded by Your Love, forever still, forever gentle and forever safe. God's Son must be as You created him.
Today we pass illusions by. And if we hear temptation call to us to stay and linger in a dream, we turn aside and ask ourselves if we, the Sons of God, could be content with dreams, when Heaven can be chosen just as easily as hell, and love will happily replace all fear.
Quote of the Day
"In the world of bodies, we are all separate. In the world of spirit, we are all one. Citing the Course, we heal the separation between the two by shifting our awareness from 'body identification' to 'spirit identification.' This heals the body as well as the mind."
— Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
How can illusions satisfy God's Son?
Father, the truth belongs to me. My home is set in Heaven by Your Will and mine. Can dreams content me? Can illusions bring me happiness? What but Your memory can satisfy Your Son? I will accept no less than You have given me. I am surrounded by Your Love, forever still, forever gentle and forever safe. God's Son must be as You created him.
Today we pass illusions by. And if we hear temptation call to us to stay and linger in a dream, we turn aside and ask ourselves if we, the Sons of God, could be content with dreams, when Heaven can be chosen just as easily as hell, and love will happily replace all fear.
Quote of the Day
"In the world of bodies, we are all separate. In the world of spirit, we are all one. Citing the Course, we heal the separation between the two by shifting our awareness from 'body identification' to 'spirit identification.' This heals the body as well as the mind."
— Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
Hope ; Your Soul's Divine Purpose
~ TREYYA ~
From: ~♥Inspire Me♥~Amy~I ♥ U~
Lightworkers
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Hope ; Your Soul's Divine Purpose
by Mashubi Rochell
worldblessings. net
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Dearest Beloved Ones, A trying time is ahead on the Earth, as the old economic and social structures which supported the development of individualized ego based consciousness are now rapidly becoming obsolete. The transformation of the physical Earth is happening in tandem with the transformation of humanity's collective consciousness, and with the transformation of the physical structures which support consciousness.
At this time all aid and assistance is being sent to the Earth to help all of her inhabitants to awaken spiritually and to empower those lightworkers and teachers who are present on the Earth to move into their next level of empowered service to the One. Some souls are able to perceive this increased level of spiritual support, and other souls are not yet able to because of the increased levels of fear present within so many who do not know how their physical lives will be sustained.
Your unique contribution to this global spiritual awakening process can be discovered by going deeply within to find the source of your heart's longing. What activities, energies and people do you naturally gravitate towards? What gives you the most joy? What does your heart hunger for? Many open hearted souls who see the suffering on the Earth are asking "what can I do to help?" The answer lies here, in the longing of your heart, which will guide you towards the arenas of service and learning that you need to fulfill your soul's divine purpose.
Beloved ones, at this time the energies of light are strengthening more quickly on the Earth, which is once again accelerating in a more dramatic fashion the process of purification. What this means is that long held and long entrenched patterns that have been in need of healing can now be more easily released and transformed into light.
Some souls have already given up in despair, feeling that that things cannot change, and that they will always be stuck with the burdens they have bravely carried for eons. We say to you who labor under the heavy weight of darkness that you WILL be freed, and that the living presence of God's light WILL shift even those things that feel impossible, un-redeemable and unbearable.
The purification process of the Earth is reaching a new level now, one that will begin to finally manifest the light of God physically and tangibly on the Earth. For this to happen most completely, it is necessary to pass through the release of the old pains, to endure the previously unbearable thoughts and feelings, and to let go and allow what needs to end to end completely. Free yourself from the past, and focus your attention here and now with God, in God and as God.
You are God's divine and holy creation, one with all that is and one with yourself, even now when you may feel incomplete, afraid or alone. This Oneness and completeness that you are is revealing itself to you more fully each day, as God's light strengthens on the Earth and makes possible the new and expanded perceptions of spiritual reality. Invite this divine and holy presence into your life, into your consciousness and into your heart. Make room for all that is holy and sacred to reveal itself, which will reveal to you your own divine self. With all love and blessings, Amen.
Treyya
Lightworkers
From: ~♥Inspire Me♥~Amy~I ♥ U~
Lightworkers
___________________________________
Hope ; Your Soul's Divine Purpose
by Mashubi Rochell
worldblessings. net
___________________________________
Dearest Beloved Ones, A trying time is ahead on the Earth, as the old economic and social structures which supported the development of individualized ego based consciousness are now rapidly becoming obsolete. The transformation of the physical Earth is happening in tandem with the transformation of humanity's collective consciousness, and with the transformation of the physical structures which support consciousness.
At this time all aid and assistance is being sent to the Earth to help all of her inhabitants to awaken spiritually and to empower those lightworkers and teachers who are present on the Earth to move into their next level of empowered service to the One. Some souls are able to perceive this increased level of spiritual support, and other souls are not yet able to because of the increased levels of fear present within so many who do not know how their physical lives will be sustained.
Your unique contribution to this global spiritual awakening process can be discovered by going deeply within to find the source of your heart's longing. What activities, energies and people do you naturally gravitate towards? What gives you the most joy? What does your heart hunger for? Many open hearted souls who see the suffering on the Earth are asking "what can I do to help?" The answer lies here, in the longing of your heart, which will guide you towards the arenas of service and learning that you need to fulfill your soul's divine purpose.
Beloved ones, at this time the energies of light are strengthening more quickly on the Earth, which is once again accelerating in a more dramatic fashion the process of purification. What this means is that long held and long entrenched patterns that have been in need of healing can now be more easily released and transformed into light.
Some souls have already given up in despair, feeling that that things cannot change, and that they will always be stuck with the burdens they have bravely carried for eons. We say to you who labor under the heavy weight of darkness that you WILL be freed, and that the living presence of God's light WILL shift even those things that feel impossible, un-redeemable and unbearable.
The purification process of the Earth is reaching a new level now, one that will begin to finally manifest the light of God physically and tangibly on the Earth. For this to happen most completely, it is necessary to pass through the release of the old pains, to endure the previously unbearable thoughts and feelings, and to let go and allow what needs to end to end completely. Free yourself from the past, and focus your attention here and now with God, in God and as God.
You are God's divine and holy creation, one with all that is and one with yourself, even now when you may feel incomplete, afraid or alone. This Oneness and completeness that you are is revealing itself to you more fully each day, as God's light strengthens on the Earth and makes possible the new and expanded perceptions of spiritual reality. Invite this divine and holy presence into your life, into your consciousness and into your heart. Make room for all that is holy and sacred to reveal itself, which will reveal to you your own divine self. With all love and blessings, Amen.
Treyya
Lightworkers
Thursday, September 25
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 269
http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahandfriends/mwilliamson/20080925_oaf_mwilliamson
Wednesday, September 24
I AM
by Vickens Moscova
I am divine and know my future
Because my future, past is NOW in me.
I am great and its my turn to realize my love
For I am Love within.
I am Helping many as you read and
You too can help as you sleep
Wake up from this dream world materialized
WAKE UP to really positively dream
Dream big dreams and don't stop
Cause I wont stop co-creating for OUR goodness
This world is divine and infinite
When you realize you are too then we can NOW begin
A new chapter
Until then God Bless and One Love
While I create my chapters and chapters...
Here and forever after...
I am divine and know my future
Because my future, past is NOW in me.
I am great and its my turn to realize my love
For I am Love within.
I am Helping many as you read and
You too can help as you sleep
Wake up from this dream world materialized
WAKE UP to really positively dream
Dream big dreams and don't stop
Cause I wont stop co-creating for OUR goodness
This world is divine and infinite
When you realize you are too then we can NOW begin
A new chapter
Until then God Bless and One Love
While I create my chapters and chapters...
Here and forever after...
I AM
I A M
by Sandy Stevenson
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"Out Beyond Ideas of Right doing
and Wrong doing, there is A Field
-I Will Meet You There.
"
~Rumi
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I am the wind and the rain. I am the sun and all that shines. I am that which holds the heavens and all that does not shine. I am the all of all-ness and the no-thing of nothingness. I am you - the very source of your being. That which breathes you as you breathe me. I am that which creates through my breath and the sounding forth of my words.
I am that which uses care in making myself known to you, for unto man comes a mighty resistance to claiming me as I Am That I Am. For in so doing, one claims the self as I Am That I Am. I reside in your heart and in your mind. I reside in the all of you, your fingers and toes, your organs, your emotions, your thoughts and indeed in your actions. For good or for naught matters not for I do not judge myself.
I am love, so great and so vast, that I reside in a state of namelessness and formlessness for no-thing can I create can contain me, for I Am That I Am. To limit myself by these very words diminishes my being by encapsulating my breath, my words into the world of form.
Each word I speak, in this moment, is creating for I am that which manifests myself without definition or containment. As the rock creates a ripple in the pond, I create ripples with my breath. Upon each exhale, I send myself forth to materialize in the world of man through action, through inspiration, through the very beingness of the hearts of my heart.
If you, who is me, visualize me, I am not containable in a single form, or any form for I am un-ending - the alpha and omega. I have no face or body. I have no religious right or left. I have no direction. I possess no correctness and know not the concept of wrong, of judging, of being evil or of being good. If you welcome me into your thinking, feeling, acting body, you may find that as I am unleashed in the power of one, who is you, creation is everflowing, unstoppable.
I surround you now in fields and flowers, stars and comets, rain and thunder. I surround you now in the suit of skin that cloaks your bodyworks, your organs and cells and arteries. I am all that and more. Yet, oftentimes, you see me not in the workings, the appearance of all things for you understand not the mind of god, which is no mind at all, for I Am Love.
A love so vast it responds immediately to the smallest cry, the tiniest of whimpers of desire. If one wishes to experience the thrill of terror, one will surely find terror on the doorstep. If one holds the smallest particle of doubt, doubt will surely appear. For I hold no limit in my expression. I Am That I Am.
You have seen me in your lover's eyes and the tiny fist of a newborn child. You have seen me in the warships and in the bloom of a flowering plant. You have witnessed my phenomenal appearance with every breath you take, in the all of which you are surrounded. You live, move and have your being in me as I, in you. We are not separate. I am you. I am divine perfection. I am known to you. I live in you. I express in you. I am creator and creation in one. I am unity.
Love lies in Service. Only that which is done, not for fame or name and not for appreciation or thanks, is Love's Service.
source - lightascension.com
Lightworkers
by Sandy Stevenson
_________________________________
"Out Beyond Ideas of Right doing
and Wrong doing, there is A Field
-I Will Meet You There.
"
~Rumi
_________________________________
I am the wind and the rain. I am the sun and all that shines. I am that which holds the heavens and all that does not shine. I am the all of all-ness and the no-thing of nothingness. I am you - the very source of your being. That which breathes you as you breathe me. I am that which creates through my breath and the sounding forth of my words.
I am that which uses care in making myself known to you, for unto man comes a mighty resistance to claiming me as I Am That I Am. For in so doing, one claims the self as I Am That I Am. I reside in your heart and in your mind. I reside in the all of you, your fingers and toes, your organs, your emotions, your thoughts and indeed in your actions. For good or for naught matters not for I do not judge myself.
I am love, so great and so vast, that I reside in a state of namelessness and formlessness for no-thing can I create can contain me, for I Am That I Am. To limit myself by these very words diminishes my being by encapsulating my breath, my words into the world of form.
Each word I speak, in this moment, is creating for I am that which manifests myself without definition or containment. As the rock creates a ripple in the pond, I create ripples with my breath. Upon each exhale, I send myself forth to materialize in the world of man through action, through inspiration, through the very beingness of the hearts of my heart.
If you, who is me, visualize me, I am not containable in a single form, or any form for I am un-ending - the alpha and omega. I have no face or body. I have no religious right or left. I have no direction. I possess no correctness and know not the concept of wrong, of judging, of being evil or of being good. If you welcome me into your thinking, feeling, acting body, you may find that as I am unleashed in the power of one, who is you, creation is everflowing, unstoppable.
I surround you now in fields and flowers, stars and comets, rain and thunder. I surround you now in the suit of skin that cloaks your bodyworks, your organs and cells and arteries. I am all that and more. Yet, oftentimes, you see me not in the workings, the appearance of all things for you understand not the mind of god, which is no mind at all, for I Am Love.
A love so vast it responds immediately to the smallest cry, the tiniest of whimpers of desire. If one wishes to experience the thrill of terror, one will surely find terror on the doorstep. If one holds the smallest particle of doubt, doubt will surely appear. For I hold no limit in my expression. I Am That I Am.
You have seen me in your lover's eyes and the tiny fist of a newborn child. You have seen me in the warships and in the bloom of a flowering plant. You have witnessed my phenomenal appearance with every breath you take, in the all of which you are surrounded. You live, move and have your being in me as I, in you. We are not separate. I am you. I am divine perfection. I am known to you. I live in you. I express in you. I am creator and creation in one. I am unity.
Love lies in Service. Only that which is done, not for fame or name and not for appreciation or thanks, is Love's Service.
source - lightascension.com
Lightworkers
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 268
Listen In
As we continue to retrain our minds to live a life based in love and not fear, we realize that a love-based life is letting "all things be exactly as they are." We have no criticism for the world God created when we see it in light and truth. We are not judging God or his creation. We are accepting the truth of God.
Let all things be exactly as they are.
Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You. Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and distort it into sickly forms. Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity, and thus to let it be as You created it. For thus will I be able, too, to recognize my Self as You created me. In love was I created, and in love will I remain forever. What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?
Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to lying tongues. Only reality is free of pain. Only reality is free of loss. Only reality is wholly safe. And it is only this we seek today.
Quote of the Day
"No one can escape from illusions unless he looks at them, for not looking is the way they are protected."
— Excerpted from A Course in Miracles
As we continue to retrain our minds to live a life based in love and not fear, we realize that a love-based life is letting "all things be exactly as they are." We have no criticism for the world God created when we see it in light and truth. We are not judging God or his creation. We are accepting the truth of God.
Let all things be exactly as they are.
Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You. Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and distort it into sickly forms. Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity, and thus to let it be as You created it. For thus will I be able, too, to recognize my Self as You created me. In love was I created, and in love will I remain forever. What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?
Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to lying tongues. Only reality is free of pain. Only reality is free of loss. Only reality is wholly safe. And it is only this we seek today.
Quote of the Day
"No one can escape from illusions unless he looks at them, for not looking is the way they are protected."
— Excerpted from A Course in Miracles
Tuesday, September 23
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 267
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 267
Listen In 
This is a lesson of gratitude and peace. When you realize all that God continually prepares for your strength and for your every breath, you acknowledge his presence and cannot help but be grateful and forgiving. In the space and light you create in your heart that is at once filled with gratitude and peace, you realize you hear the very voice of God.
My heart is beating in the peace of God.
Surrounding me is all the life that God created in His Love. It calls to me in every heartbeat and in every breath; in every action and in every thought. Peace fills my heart, and floods my body with the purpose of forgiveness. Now my mind is healed, and all I need to save the world is given me. Each heartbeat brings me peace; each breath infuses me with strength. I am a messenger of God, directed by His Voice, sustained by Him in love, and held forever quiet and at peace within His loving Arms. Each heartbeat calls His Name, and every one is answered by His Voice, assuring me I am at home in Him.
Let me attend Your Answer, not my own. Father, my heart is beating in the peace the Heart of Love created. It is there and only there that I can be at home.
Quote of the Day
"Our goal is God. Nothing short of that goal will bring us joy. And it is joy to which we are entitled."
— Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
Thursday, September 18
Benefits of Becoming More Conscious
by Steve Pavlina
What are the actual benefits of becoming more conscious? Why would anyone care to do this? And what the heck does it even mean to raise your consciousness anyway? While raising your consciousness can certainly enhance your spiritual development, this isn't really a spiritual issue at its core. It's really about hardcore mental development.What does it mean to become more conscious? I define it as the progressive realization of conscious mastery over your mind. This includes all of the following:
-making careful, intelligent and deliberate decisions-maintaining a positive emotional state regardless of circumstances -developing empowering beliefs while purging disempowering ones -understanding your own thought processes, emotions and behaviors -staying focused on what's most important while tuning out distractions -building an accurate and effective model of reality.
All of these are skills that we develop across a wide spectrum. Traditional education teaches us basic skills and basic knowledge, but it does little to show us how to develop our conscious minds. We aren't taught how to intelligently make the biggest decisions of our lives, how to cultivate a burning desire for what we want, how to know if our beliefs are inaccurate and need to be changed, how to concentrate, etc. But over the course of your lifetime, these skills will prove far more significant than anything you learned in school.People whose conscious minds remain underdeveloped often suffer from cluttered and unfocused thinking. Needless worries, trivial distractions, inaccurate observations, false beliefs, and negative emotions run rampant through their thoughts, and most of the time they aren't even aware of it. It's like being stuck in a mental fog. When you talk to such people, you can sense they aren't fully there. The lights are on, but no one's home. Ask them an important question like, "What overall purpose have you chosen for your life?" and you'll likely get a blank stare in response. Because they don't really have control of their minds, they live reactively instead of proactively. Such people are virtually powerless. They essentially do what they're told and try to stay out of trouble, mistakenly assuming this condition is the best they can expect of themselves.
In contrast highly conscious people own their minds. Their thinking is clear and focused, and they select and direct their thoughts deliberately. They retain conscious control over their emotions, and they don't easily succumb to distractions. When you talk to such people, you can detect depth and clarity. Ask them, "What's the purpose of your life?" and you'll likely get an intelligent and thoughtful response. These people live proactively and are emotionally resilient, rising above their circumstances instead of being victimized by them. They possess an inner strength that is undeniable. They exhibit both courage and compassion, and they know that this level of being is how humans were truly meant to live.The difference between these two groups is that the first group has settled for the default mental operating system installed by their upbringing and social conditioning. Call it Human OS 1.0. They accepted whatever programming they initially received. The second group, however, challenges themselves to continuously improve upon that initial programming, embarking on a lifelong quest to design a more intelligent mental operating system. And they succeed. So while group one is stuck with a shabby and outdated mental OS, group two continues to upgrade its version, enjoying compounding benefits year after year. It doesn't matter whether they're currently using Human OS 1.1 or Human OS 7.0 — it's the process of frequent upgrading that matters most, not the particular version number being used. The main reason I devote so much verbiage to the idea of raising your consciousness is that there are some serious practical benefits to this pursuit. Specifically, here are 14 notable benefits of developing your conscious mind:
NOTABLE BENEFITS
1.Increased Sensory Awareness - As you become more conscious, your perceptual awareness expands. You start noticing things you never noticed before. You're more attuned to sights, sounds, smells, and other input. It's like getting a sensory bandwidth boost. Your environment seems richer because you're noticing more than you used to. It's not that your sensory hardware gets any better — rather it's that more useful data flows into your conscious awareness. You just seem to have more mental RAM available for consciously observing the information coming from your senses. Being able to extract more useful information from your sensory input is a huge benefit. I've found this benefit most helpful when communicating with people. For example, when I give a speech, I'm starting to notice subtle body language from the audience that tells me I should speed up, slow down, add more humor, or make other on-the-fly adaptations. Even though I'm actively running through my presentation, I'm still able to remain conscious of what I'm observing in the room. Again, it's as if there's more mental bandwidth and RAM available than there used to be.2.Increased Self-Awareness - Your internal senses become more finely tuned as well. You begin to see yourself more objectively. You become more aware of your strengths and weaknesses. This enhanced self-understanding makes it easier to understand other people as well. Human behavior (your own as well as that of others) begins to make more sense. You succeed more often in your undertakings because you understand your capabilities more accurately than ever before. Becoming aware of your own blind spots is very important for your personal growth. When you're struggling and you don't even know why, you're stuck. But when you become aware of your weaknesses, you move from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence. That's a very key step on the way to conscious competence. Sometimes you will choose to overcome your weaknesses, while other times you may simply accept and work around them. For example, I decided to overcome my fear of public speaking, but I chose to accept and work around my colorblindness. I think it's more important to be aware of your weaknesses, even if you choose not to overcome them, than to pretend to be perfect. Highly conscious people learn to accept their imperfections with no loss of self-esteem.3.Enhanced Mental Clarity - As you raise your consciousness, you'll experience periods of confusion as you take the next "quantum leap" in front of you, followed by periods of deepening mental clarity. Another term for these periods of confusion is the Dark Night of the Soul. This is when your whole reality makes very little sense to you, and you become uncertain of everything. It is a time of massive cognitive restructuring. Your mind is refactoring its code to complete the jump to the next level. It has to scramble the old patterns in order to make room for the new. However, once you complete one of these leaps, you enter a period of incredible clarity. Everything in your life starts to make sense on a whole new level. It's like someone adjusted a focusing dial on your mind. You'll find a full article on this process here: Raising Your Consciousness.4.Enhanced Problem-Solving - Raising your consciousness is like getting a RAM upgrade for your mind. It will feel like your conscious mind can hold more content at once. This can make you significantly better at problem solving, especially where there's a large set of relevant information to consider. Designing a complex computer algorithm is a good example. The more conscious you are, the better you can understand all the details of the problem, and the more mental horsepower you can throw at the problem. For me the most important problems I was able to solve were personal ones, like figuring out what kind of person I should strive to become and what I should do with the rest of my life. The challenge was finding an answer that made sense on all four levels: physical, mental, social, and spiritual.5.Emotional Mastery - Consciousness and emotional intelligence go hand-in-hand. First, you gain a deeper understanding of your emotional constitution. You begin to clearly understand why you feel the way you do. Secondly, you develop the ability to control your emotional state. With practice you can learn to maintain a positive emotional state regardless of external circumstances. By feeling good and acting from within that framework, you'll gradually release the sources of negativity from your life and replace them with positive ones. Not only will you feel great, but you'll start to generate positive results that resonate with those feelings. Your life will be an expression of joy instead of the pursuit of it. Thirdly, you'll develop empathy. By mastering your own emotions, you'll better more understand the emotions of others.6.Trustworthiness - You'll find people opening up to you more and more. You may even notice strangers trusting you with intimate details about their lives during the first few minutes of conversation. They'll often say to you, "I don't know why I'm telling you this, but I just felt I could trust you." It may initially surprise you to notice people trusting you so openly, but this will happen because you've become a person who will honor that trust. A good way to know whether or not you're trustworthy is to observe how well you trust yourself right now. What level of responsibility are you comfortable with? Do you trust yourself enough to tackle a grand purpose, or do you stick with menial labor only? As your consciousness expands, you'll begin to trust yourself to handle more meaningful responsibilities. And this in turn will build your trustworthiness and thereby attract the trust of others. A side effect of trustworthiness is the ability to influence others, not because you hold a position of power over them but because they know they can trust you. You'll also feel good about your power of influence because you know you'd only use it for honorable purposes. Erin is an absolute master at this. People are frequently drawn to tell her their deepest secrets even if they've only known her for a few minutes. Often such people don't even understand why they're doing it — they can't seem to help it. But I think it's because people really crave deep, soulful connections with each other, and trust is the enabler that makes it safe to proceed.7.Better Relationships - As a result of your enhanced perception, self-knowledge, empathy, and trustworthiness, you'll become better at relating to other people. This can have a dramatic effect on the quality of your relationships. Instead of feeling you must comprehend a baffling set of complex social dynamics, you'll begin communicating naturally and effortlessly, whether with strangers or old friends. People will seem less threatening and will want to connect with you. Human interaction will just seem to make a lot more sense. Your deeper understanding of people will boost your confidence in social situations as well. I used to be very introverted, but I gradually became more extroverted as I worked on my conscious development. On the Myers-Briggs test, I actually shifted from an INTJ (I = introvert) to an ENTJ (E = extrovert). Old family and friends have a hard time believing some of the things I've done, such as performing in a couple comedy improv shows – these actions are totally incongruent with my old introverted personality. But now I feel like I'm an extroverted introvert. I can draw energy from spending time alone or with others; neither activity drains me.8.Self-Discipline - The ability to consciously control your thoughts is the ability to discipline your mind. Many problems that seem very challenging can be easily overcome with sufficient self discipline. Can you get yourself out of bed each morning at a time of your choosing? Can you keep your physical environment in good order? Can you get yourself to do what needs to be done without procrastinating? For the disciplined mind, these problems are almost trivially easy to solve. But without sufficient self-discipline, frustration and failure is the more likely outcome. If you're interested in developing your self-discipline, you may enjoy reading the six-part Self-Discipline Series.9.Better Health and Fitness - After improving your awareness, problem-solving, and self-discipline, you may turn your attention to your physical body and decide to take better care of it. You'll develop more conscious eating, exercise, and health habits, experimenting to discover what works best for you rather than mindlessly accepting the advice of overweight doctors (especially those who write diet books, cough cough). You may not wish to become an Olympic athlete, but you'll find an equilibrium that feels right for you. It's important to accept that you aren't just a disembodied consciousness floating through the ether. You do in fact have a physical body, and its health will have a significant impact your life. So accept that fact, and take good care of it.10.Financial Abundance - If you so desire, you can apply your consciousness to the creation and enjoyment of financial abundance. By keeping your thoughts focused on what you want and by conditioning empowering financial beliefs, you can attract more money into your life. Nearly all of the benefits of expanding your consciousness can become powerful assets in the business world. They'll enhance your ability to create value for others, which is the core of business success. One of the key financial goals was to put myself in a position where I wouldn't have to do any work I didn't enjoy just to make money. It took many years to reach this point, but I'm able to do what I love and enjoy abundant income (more than double my expenses). The great challenge here was unlearning all the crippling financial beliefs that were socially installed. I had to learn that I don't need a job, I don't need a boss, I don't need an office, etc. All I really needed was a computer, my mind, and $9 to buy a domain name.11.Heart-Centered Power - As your consciousness expands, you'll strengthen and balance your courage and your compassion. You won't become a wimpus maximus who always runs away from conflict (too yin), nor will you become a jerkus obnoxio who runs roughshod over others for personal gain (too yang). Building your courage will help you to avoid living like a wimpy coward. Insults will bounce off you like bullets off Superman's eyeball. You'll be drawn to do things you previously feared. First, you'll develop the courage to gradually face your fears, and eventually you'll reach the level of fearlessness where courage is no longer required. For example, you may move from being afraid of communicating with the opposite sex, to courageously summoning the nerve to do it, to doing it comfortably with no nervousness. Building your compassion means you'll avoid living like an insensitive jerk. You'll have a clear conscience and a genuine concern for the well-being of others. You'll start treating people the way they should be treated. As your consciousness continues to expand, you may begin to feel compassion for animals and the environment as well. You care about things you previously dismissed as "someone else's problem." You'll become a true citizen of the world. Courage and compassion must develop synergistically. You cannot maximize one without the other. If you only develop your compassion, you'll begin notice a lot of things you could do to improve the world, but you'll be too much of a wuss to do anything about it. This is turn will make you want to tone down your compassion to avoid feeling so powerless. On the other hand, if you only develop your courage, you'll behave like a self-centered dufus most of the time, and your relationships will become shallow and competitive. You'll lose the support of others, which can drive you towards loneliness and hardness (which will only lower your consciousness).However, the combo of courage and compassion, working together harmoniously, means that your conscience will show you what needs to be done, and you'll have the inner strength to do something about it. Because your heart's in the right place and you're bold enough to take action, others will be drawn to help and support you. The courage-compassion balance is the essence of true leadership. Erin and I have helped each other tremendously in this area. When we first met, I was all courage, and she was all compassion. Over the past 12 years of our relationship, we've both become much more balanced.12.Inner Peace - A feeling of centeredness is a natural byproduct of raising your consciousness. You'll feel well-grounded and comfortable with the realities of your life situation. Meditation can help you achieve this state temporarily at first, but eventually it will become your natural state of being.13.Psychic Development - As your basic five-sensory awareness improves, your sixth sense will begin to develop as well. Initially this may take the form of enhanced intuition. You'll start noticing that your gut feeling is becoming more accurate, which will encourage you to pay more attention to it.As you continue on this path, you may experience occasional flickers of your latent psychic abilities. Perhaps you have a premonition about the future that turns out to be accurate… or you have an irreconcilable explosion of highly improbably synchronicities one day… or you experience your first (probably terrifying) astral projection. Things start happening that lie well outside your normal everyday experience – things your previous framework of reality cannot adequately explain. This is your mind's way of letting you know that your consciousness has expanded to the point where you now have access to new abilities. From this point on, it's up to you to decide whether or not you wish to develop them. Many people try to deny these experiences, but I think that's a mistake that will only lower your consciousness. I recommend you seek guidance and advice from others who've already gone down this path. You may be shocked but then comforted to meet others who consider your unexplainable experiences routine. But old friends who haven't yet reached this point will be of little or no help to you. They just won't be able to relate to what you're going through. They may become excessively demanding that you prove your experiences to them. But how do you prove to a deaf person that you can hear, especially when you can't hear that well yet? Depending on your previous beliefs, you may need to do some soul-searching to decide whether you want to cling to your old beliefs or update them to be able to take fuller advantage of your new abilities. If you wish to progress in this area, be open-minded in your explorations, but don't be so gullible as to blindly swallow others' ideas without careful consideration.14.Lucid Dreaming - Lucid dreaming is when you have a dream and become conscious and aware that you're dreaming. You know who you are and that your physical body is asleep on your bed. This awareness gives you the ability to do anything you want in the dream world, including flying, psychokinesis, walking through walls, summoning dream characters, etc. Lucid dreaming is a skill that can take many years to develop, but it's one of the most enjoyable benefits of developing your consciousness. Nighttime becomes a fantasy playground for your mind. When you're fully lucid, your dream world will seem just as real as your waking world, except that you'll know it's a dream and that you can control all of it with your thoughts. This is a pretty serious benefits package, wouldn't you say? None of these benefits are binary either — they all develop gradually across a wide spectrum. Every step makes a difference.
Now you may be wondering… OK, these are great benefits, but HOW do I become more conscious? The first thing you can do is to intend to become more conscious and aware. Just decide to upgrade, and your subconscious will begin the process for you.
This decision is the key that opens the door.
source - stevepavlina.com
Lightworkers
What are the actual benefits of becoming more conscious? Why would anyone care to do this? And what the heck does it even mean to raise your consciousness anyway? While raising your consciousness can certainly enhance your spiritual development, this isn't really a spiritual issue at its core. It's really about hardcore mental development.What does it mean to become more conscious? I define it as the progressive realization of conscious mastery over your mind. This includes all of the following:
-making careful, intelligent and deliberate decisions-maintaining a positive emotional state regardless of circumstances -developing empowering beliefs while purging disempowering ones -understanding your own thought processes, emotions and behaviors -staying focused on what's most important while tuning out distractions -building an accurate and effective model of reality.
All of these are skills that we develop across a wide spectrum. Traditional education teaches us basic skills and basic knowledge, but it does little to show us how to develop our conscious minds. We aren't taught how to intelligently make the biggest decisions of our lives, how to cultivate a burning desire for what we want, how to know if our beliefs are inaccurate and need to be changed, how to concentrate, etc. But over the course of your lifetime, these skills will prove far more significant than anything you learned in school.People whose conscious minds remain underdeveloped often suffer from cluttered and unfocused thinking. Needless worries, trivial distractions, inaccurate observations, false beliefs, and negative emotions run rampant through their thoughts, and most of the time they aren't even aware of it. It's like being stuck in a mental fog. When you talk to such people, you can sense they aren't fully there. The lights are on, but no one's home. Ask them an important question like, "What overall purpose have you chosen for your life?" and you'll likely get a blank stare in response. Because they don't really have control of their minds, they live reactively instead of proactively. Such people are virtually powerless. They essentially do what they're told and try to stay out of trouble, mistakenly assuming this condition is the best they can expect of themselves.
In contrast highly conscious people own their minds. Their thinking is clear and focused, and they select and direct their thoughts deliberately. They retain conscious control over their emotions, and they don't easily succumb to distractions. When you talk to such people, you can detect depth and clarity. Ask them, "What's the purpose of your life?" and you'll likely get an intelligent and thoughtful response. These people live proactively and are emotionally resilient, rising above their circumstances instead of being victimized by them. They possess an inner strength that is undeniable. They exhibit both courage and compassion, and they know that this level of being is how humans were truly meant to live.The difference between these two groups is that the first group has settled for the default mental operating system installed by their upbringing and social conditioning. Call it Human OS 1.0. They accepted whatever programming they initially received. The second group, however, challenges themselves to continuously improve upon that initial programming, embarking on a lifelong quest to design a more intelligent mental operating system. And they succeed. So while group one is stuck with a shabby and outdated mental OS, group two continues to upgrade its version, enjoying compounding benefits year after year. It doesn't matter whether they're currently using Human OS 1.1 or Human OS 7.0 — it's the process of frequent upgrading that matters most, not the particular version number being used. The main reason I devote so much verbiage to the idea of raising your consciousness is that there are some serious practical benefits to this pursuit. Specifically, here are 14 notable benefits of developing your conscious mind:
NOTABLE BENEFITS
1.Increased Sensory Awareness - As you become more conscious, your perceptual awareness expands. You start noticing things you never noticed before. You're more attuned to sights, sounds, smells, and other input. It's like getting a sensory bandwidth boost. Your environment seems richer because you're noticing more than you used to. It's not that your sensory hardware gets any better — rather it's that more useful data flows into your conscious awareness. You just seem to have more mental RAM available for consciously observing the information coming from your senses. Being able to extract more useful information from your sensory input is a huge benefit. I've found this benefit most helpful when communicating with people. For example, when I give a speech, I'm starting to notice subtle body language from the audience that tells me I should speed up, slow down, add more humor, or make other on-the-fly adaptations. Even though I'm actively running through my presentation, I'm still able to remain conscious of what I'm observing in the room. Again, it's as if there's more mental bandwidth and RAM available than there used to be.2.Increased Self-Awareness - Your internal senses become more finely tuned as well. You begin to see yourself more objectively. You become more aware of your strengths and weaknesses. This enhanced self-understanding makes it easier to understand other people as well. Human behavior (your own as well as that of others) begins to make more sense. You succeed more often in your undertakings because you understand your capabilities more accurately than ever before. Becoming aware of your own blind spots is very important for your personal growth. When you're struggling and you don't even know why, you're stuck. But when you become aware of your weaknesses, you move from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence. That's a very key step on the way to conscious competence. Sometimes you will choose to overcome your weaknesses, while other times you may simply accept and work around them. For example, I decided to overcome my fear of public speaking, but I chose to accept and work around my colorblindness. I think it's more important to be aware of your weaknesses, even if you choose not to overcome them, than to pretend to be perfect. Highly conscious people learn to accept their imperfections with no loss of self-esteem.3.Enhanced Mental Clarity - As you raise your consciousness, you'll experience periods of confusion as you take the next "quantum leap" in front of you, followed by periods of deepening mental clarity. Another term for these periods of confusion is the Dark Night of the Soul. This is when your whole reality makes very little sense to you, and you become uncertain of everything. It is a time of massive cognitive restructuring. Your mind is refactoring its code to complete the jump to the next level. It has to scramble the old patterns in order to make room for the new. However, once you complete one of these leaps, you enter a period of incredible clarity. Everything in your life starts to make sense on a whole new level. It's like someone adjusted a focusing dial on your mind. You'll find a full article on this process here: Raising Your Consciousness.4.Enhanced Problem-Solving - Raising your consciousness is like getting a RAM upgrade for your mind. It will feel like your conscious mind can hold more content at once. This can make you significantly better at problem solving, especially where there's a large set of relevant information to consider. Designing a complex computer algorithm is a good example. The more conscious you are, the better you can understand all the details of the problem, and the more mental horsepower you can throw at the problem. For me the most important problems I was able to solve were personal ones, like figuring out what kind of person I should strive to become and what I should do with the rest of my life. The challenge was finding an answer that made sense on all four levels: physical, mental, social, and spiritual.5.Emotional Mastery - Consciousness and emotional intelligence go hand-in-hand. First, you gain a deeper understanding of your emotional constitution. You begin to clearly understand why you feel the way you do. Secondly, you develop the ability to control your emotional state. With practice you can learn to maintain a positive emotional state regardless of external circumstances. By feeling good and acting from within that framework, you'll gradually release the sources of negativity from your life and replace them with positive ones. Not only will you feel great, but you'll start to generate positive results that resonate with those feelings. Your life will be an expression of joy instead of the pursuit of it. Thirdly, you'll develop empathy. By mastering your own emotions, you'll better more understand the emotions of others.6.Trustworthiness - You'll find people opening up to you more and more. You may even notice strangers trusting you with intimate details about their lives during the first few minutes of conversation. They'll often say to you, "I don't know why I'm telling you this, but I just felt I could trust you." It may initially surprise you to notice people trusting you so openly, but this will happen because you've become a person who will honor that trust. A good way to know whether or not you're trustworthy is to observe how well you trust yourself right now. What level of responsibility are you comfortable with? Do you trust yourself enough to tackle a grand purpose, or do you stick with menial labor only? As your consciousness expands, you'll begin to trust yourself to handle more meaningful responsibilities. And this in turn will build your trustworthiness and thereby attract the trust of others. A side effect of trustworthiness is the ability to influence others, not because you hold a position of power over them but because they know they can trust you. You'll also feel good about your power of influence because you know you'd only use it for honorable purposes. Erin is an absolute master at this. People are frequently drawn to tell her their deepest secrets even if they've only known her for a few minutes. Often such people don't even understand why they're doing it — they can't seem to help it. But I think it's because people really crave deep, soulful connections with each other, and trust is the enabler that makes it safe to proceed.7.Better Relationships - As a result of your enhanced perception, self-knowledge, empathy, and trustworthiness, you'll become better at relating to other people. This can have a dramatic effect on the quality of your relationships. Instead of feeling you must comprehend a baffling set of complex social dynamics, you'll begin communicating naturally and effortlessly, whether with strangers or old friends. People will seem less threatening and will want to connect with you. Human interaction will just seem to make a lot more sense. Your deeper understanding of people will boost your confidence in social situations as well. I used to be very introverted, but I gradually became more extroverted as I worked on my conscious development. On the Myers-Briggs test, I actually shifted from an INTJ (I = introvert) to an ENTJ (E = extrovert). Old family and friends have a hard time believing some of the things I've done, such as performing in a couple comedy improv shows – these actions are totally incongruent with my old introverted personality. But now I feel like I'm an extroverted introvert. I can draw energy from spending time alone or with others; neither activity drains me.8.Self-Discipline - The ability to consciously control your thoughts is the ability to discipline your mind. Many problems that seem very challenging can be easily overcome with sufficient self discipline. Can you get yourself out of bed each morning at a time of your choosing? Can you keep your physical environment in good order? Can you get yourself to do what needs to be done without procrastinating? For the disciplined mind, these problems are almost trivially easy to solve. But without sufficient self-discipline, frustration and failure is the more likely outcome. If you're interested in developing your self-discipline, you may enjoy reading the six-part Self-Discipline Series.9.Better Health and Fitness - After improving your awareness, problem-solving, and self-discipline, you may turn your attention to your physical body and decide to take better care of it. You'll develop more conscious eating, exercise, and health habits, experimenting to discover what works best for you rather than mindlessly accepting the advice of overweight doctors (especially those who write diet books, cough cough). You may not wish to become an Olympic athlete, but you'll find an equilibrium that feels right for you. It's important to accept that you aren't just a disembodied consciousness floating through the ether. You do in fact have a physical body, and its health will have a significant impact your life. So accept that fact, and take good care of it.10.Financial Abundance - If you so desire, you can apply your consciousness to the creation and enjoyment of financial abundance. By keeping your thoughts focused on what you want and by conditioning empowering financial beliefs, you can attract more money into your life. Nearly all of the benefits of expanding your consciousness can become powerful assets in the business world. They'll enhance your ability to create value for others, which is the core of business success. One of the key financial goals was to put myself in a position where I wouldn't have to do any work I didn't enjoy just to make money. It took many years to reach this point, but I'm able to do what I love and enjoy abundant income (more than double my expenses). The great challenge here was unlearning all the crippling financial beliefs that were socially installed. I had to learn that I don't need a job, I don't need a boss, I don't need an office, etc. All I really needed was a computer, my mind, and $9 to buy a domain name.11.Heart-Centered Power - As your consciousness expands, you'll strengthen and balance your courage and your compassion. You won't become a wimpus maximus who always runs away from conflict (too yin), nor will you become a jerkus obnoxio who runs roughshod over others for personal gain (too yang). Building your courage will help you to avoid living like a wimpy coward. Insults will bounce off you like bullets off Superman's eyeball. You'll be drawn to do things you previously feared. First, you'll develop the courage to gradually face your fears, and eventually you'll reach the level of fearlessness where courage is no longer required. For example, you may move from being afraid of communicating with the opposite sex, to courageously summoning the nerve to do it, to doing it comfortably with no nervousness. Building your compassion means you'll avoid living like an insensitive jerk. You'll have a clear conscience and a genuine concern for the well-being of others. You'll start treating people the way they should be treated. As your consciousness continues to expand, you may begin to feel compassion for animals and the environment as well. You care about things you previously dismissed as "someone else's problem." You'll become a true citizen of the world. Courage and compassion must develop synergistically. You cannot maximize one without the other. If you only develop your compassion, you'll begin notice a lot of things you could do to improve the world, but you'll be too much of a wuss to do anything about it. This is turn will make you want to tone down your compassion to avoid feeling so powerless. On the other hand, if you only develop your courage, you'll behave like a self-centered dufus most of the time, and your relationships will become shallow and competitive. You'll lose the support of others, which can drive you towards loneliness and hardness (which will only lower your consciousness).However, the combo of courage and compassion, working together harmoniously, means that your conscience will show you what needs to be done, and you'll have the inner strength to do something about it. Because your heart's in the right place and you're bold enough to take action, others will be drawn to help and support you. The courage-compassion balance is the essence of true leadership. Erin and I have helped each other tremendously in this area. When we first met, I was all courage, and she was all compassion. Over the past 12 years of our relationship, we've both become much more balanced.12.Inner Peace - A feeling of centeredness is a natural byproduct of raising your consciousness. You'll feel well-grounded and comfortable with the realities of your life situation. Meditation can help you achieve this state temporarily at first, but eventually it will become your natural state of being.13.Psychic Development - As your basic five-sensory awareness improves, your sixth sense will begin to develop as well. Initially this may take the form of enhanced intuition. You'll start noticing that your gut feeling is becoming more accurate, which will encourage you to pay more attention to it.As you continue on this path, you may experience occasional flickers of your latent psychic abilities. Perhaps you have a premonition about the future that turns out to be accurate… or you have an irreconcilable explosion of highly improbably synchronicities one day… or you experience your first (probably terrifying) astral projection. Things start happening that lie well outside your normal everyday experience – things your previous framework of reality cannot adequately explain. This is your mind's way of letting you know that your consciousness has expanded to the point where you now have access to new abilities. From this point on, it's up to you to decide whether or not you wish to develop them. Many people try to deny these experiences, but I think that's a mistake that will only lower your consciousness. I recommend you seek guidance and advice from others who've already gone down this path. You may be shocked but then comforted to meet others who consider your unexplainable experiences routine. But old friends who haven't yet reached this point will be of little or no help to you. They just won't be able to relate to what you're going through. They may become excessively demanding that you prove your experiences to them. But how do you prove to a deaf person that you can hear, especially when you can't hear that well yet? Depending on your previous beliefs, you may need to do some soul-searching to decide whether you want to cling to your old beliefs or update them to be able to take fuller advantage of your new abilities. If you wish to progress in this area, be open-minded in your explorations, but don't be so gullible as to blindly swallow others' ideas without careful consideration.14.Lucid Dreaming - Lucid dreaming is when you have a dream and become conscious and aware that you're dreaming. You know who you are and that your physical body is asleep on your bed. This awareness gives you the ability to do anything you want in the dream world, including flying, psychokinesis, walking through walls, summoning dream characters, etc. Lucid dreaming is a skill that can take many years to develop, but it's one of the most enjoyable benefits of developing your consciousness. Nighttime becomes a fantasy playground for your mind. When you're fully lucid, your dream world will seem just as real as your waking world, except that you'll know it's a dream and that you can control all of it with your thoughts. This is a pretty serious benefits package, wouldn't you say? None of these benefits are binary either — they all develop gradually across a wide spectrum. Every step makes a difference.
Now you may be wondering… OK, these are great benefits, but HOW do I become more conscious? The first thing you can do is to intend to become more conscious and aware. Just decide to upgrade, and your subconscious will begin the process for you.
This decision is the key that opens the door.
source - stevepavlina.com
Lightworkers
Another truly blessed day
Fast Fact
Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people." He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated.
This week's recommended reading is by Dale Carnegie, check it out here: How to Win Friends & Influence People
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 262
Listen In
When we understand that we are created by God, just as his son was created by God, we understand that God is our source and that we bear his name. This is where our peace can be found.
Let me perceive no differences today.
Father, You have one Son. And it is he that I would look upon today. He is Your one creation. Why should I perceive a thousand forms in what remains as one? Why should I give this one a thousand names, when only one suffices? For Your Son must bear Your Name, for You created him. Let me not see him as a stranger to his Father, nor as stranger to myself. For he is part of me and I of him, and we are part of You Who are our Source, eternally united in Your Love; eternally the holy Son of God.
We who are one would recognize this day the truth about ourselves. We would come home, and rest in unity. For there is peace, and nowhere else can peace be sought and found.
Quote of the Day
"Child or light, you know not that the light is in you."
— Excerpted from A Course in Miracles
The opinions expressed by the hosts, guests and callers to Oprah & Friends are strictly their own.
Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people." He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated.
This week's recommended reading is by Dale Carnegie, check it out here: How to Win Friends & Influence People
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 262
Listen In
When we understand that we are created by God, just as his son was created by God, we understand that God is our source and that we bear his name. This is where our peace can be found.
Let me perceive no differences today.
Father, You have one Son. And it is he that I would look upon today. He is Your one creation. Why should I perceive a thousand forms in what remains as one? Why should I give this one a thousand names, when only one suffices? For Your Son must bear Your Name, for You created him. Let me not see him as a stranger to his Father, nor as stranger to myself. For he is part of me and I of him, and we are part of You Who are our Source, eternally united in Your Love; eternally the holy Son of God.
We who are one would recognize this day the truth about ourselves. We would come home, and rest in unity. For there is peace, and nowhere else can peace be sought and found.
Quote of the Day
"Child or light, you know not that the light is in you."
— Excerpted from A Course in Miracles
The opinions expressed by the hosts, guests and callers to Oprah & Friends are strictly their own.
Tuesday, September 16
Thought for Today"Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself."
—Oprah
—Oprah
Mary McCarthy - "We are the hero of our own story."
Wendell Willkie - "Free men are the strongest men."
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 260
Listen In
Often, we act as though we are solely autonomous beings, connected to nothing and no one beyond ourselves. In this lesson, we are taught to remember our divine source. And with that memory, inner peace returns.Let me remember God created me.Father, I did not make myself, although in my insanity I thought I did. Yet, as Your Thought, I have not left my Source, remaining part of Who created me. Your Son, my Father, calls on You today. Let me remember You created me. Let me remember my Identity. And let my sinlessness arise again before Christ's vision, through which I would look upon my brothers and myself today.Now is our Source remembered, and Therein we find our true Identity at last. Holy indeed are we, because our Source can know no sin. And we who are His Sons are like each other, and alike to Him.
Quote of the Day"Spiritual practice supports the development of personal power. Spiritually powerful people are not necessarily people who do so much, as they are people around whom things get done."— Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
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Monday, September 15
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 259
Listen In
A Course in Miracles tells us we are innocent in God. "Sin" is an archery term meaning that someone missed the mark. With this lesson, we learn that while we make mistakes, we cannot sin.Let me remember that there is no sin.Sin is the only thought that makes the goal of God seem unattainable. What else could blind us to the obvious, and make the strange and the distorted seem more clear? What else but sin engenders our attacks? What else but sin could be the source of guilt, demanding punishment and suffering? And what but sin could be the source of fear, obscuring God's creation; giving love the attributes of fear and of attack?Father, I would not be insane today. I would not be afraid of love, nor seek for refuge in its opposite. For love can have no opposite. You are the Source of everything there is. And everything that is remains with You, and You with it.Quote of the Day"What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God. Their genius then, is actually expression and not creation. That's why great art strikes us with the shock of recognition, the wish that we had said that. The soul thrills at the reminder of what we all already know."—Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
The opinions expressed by the hosts, guests and callers to Oprah & Friends are strictly their own.
A Course in Miracles tells us we are innocent in God. "Sin" is an archery term meaning that someone missed the mark. With this lesson, we learn that while we make mistakes, we cannot sin.Let me remember that there is no sin.Sin is the only thought that makes the goal of God seem unattainable. What else could blind us to the obvious, and make the strange and the distorted seem more clear? What else but sin engenders our attacks? What else but sin could be the source of guilt, demanding punishment and suffering? And what but sin could be the source of fear, obscuring God's creation; giving love the attributes of fear and of attack?Father, I would not be insane today. I would not be afraid of love, nor seek for refuge in its opposite. For love can have no opposite. You are the Source of everything there is. And everything that is remains with You, and You with it.Quote of the Day"What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God. Their genius then, is actually expression and not creation. That's why great art strikes us with the shock of recognition, the wish that we had said that. The soul thrills at the reminder of what we all already know."—Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
The opinions expressed by the hosts, guests and callers to Oprah & Friends are strictly their own.
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 258
Listen In
We have so many goals, but at certain points we often feel that none of them have brought us the satisfaction we were longing for. With this lesson, we remember to make God our highest goal.Let me remember that my goal is God.All that is needful is to train our minds to overlook all little senseless aims, and to remember that our goal is God. His memory is hidden in our minds, obscured but by our pointless little goals which offer nothing, and do not exist. Shall we continue to allow God's grace to shine in unawareness, while the toys and trinkets of the world are sought instead? God is our only goal, our only Love. We have no aim but to remember Him.Our goal is but to follow in the way that leads to You. We have no goal but this. What could we want but to remember You? What could we seek but our Identity?Quote of the Day"We don't get our lives together and then give them to God, but rather we give our lives to God and then things start coming together. As our hearts open, our talents and gifts begin to blossom. Many people have told me that once they're successful and have made a lot of money, they will use that success to help the world. But that's a delay technique by which the ego tries to keep us from showing up fully in our own lives. Even if we don't yet consider ourselves successful, we can devote our work now to being used in the service of the healing of the world. From that point of power our careers will take off."—Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
The opinions expressed by the hosts, guests and callers to Oprah & Friends are strictly their own.
We have so many goals, but at certain points we often feel that none of them have brought us the satisfaction we were longing for. With this lesson, we remember to make God our highest goal.Let me remember that my goal is God.All that is needful is to train our minds to overlook all little senseless aims, and to remember that our goal is God. His memory is hidden in our minds, obscured but by our pointless little goals which offer nothing, and do not exist. Shall we continue to allow God's grace to shine in unawareness, while the toys and trinkets of the world are sought instead? God is our only goal, our only Love. We have no aim but to remember Him.Our goal is but to follow in the way that leads to You. We have no goal but this. What could we want but to remember You? What could we seek but our Identity?Quote of the Day"We don't get our lives together and then give them to God, but rather we give our lives to God and then things start coming together. As our hearts open, our talents and gifts begin to blossom. Many people have told me that once they're successful and have made a lot of money, they will use that success to help the world. But that's a delay technique by which the ego tries to keep us from showing up fully in our own lives. Even if we don't yet consider ourselves successful, we can devote our work now to being used in the service of the healing of the world. From that point of power our careers will take off."—Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
The opinions expressed by the hosts, guests and callers to Oprah & Friends are strictly their own.
Saturday, September 13
Some incite and thanks
Ghandi once said if we are to have true peace in the world it must start w/ the children.
So my blog is always going to be kid-friendly.
I wanted to also share something I was watching today from my main man Dr. Wayne Dyer.
I think he calls it the dyer dirty dozen..but its clean to me hahahahahahahah lol...ok.
Start: Want more for others than for yourself.
Think from the end.
Be an appreciator.
Stay in rapport with source energy.
Resistance
Contemplate surrounded by what one wants.
Understand allowing taking path of least resistance.
Practice radical humility.
Be in constant gratitiude. Easily be generous and grateful.
Keep in mind...One can never solve problems by condeming it. Shame out the door and out the mind.
Play match game. Am I matched up with field of intention.
MEDITATION.
He ended it with this quote...When you change the way you look at things, The things you look at change.
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 257
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 257
We have one purpose on this earth, and that is to love one another. With this lesson, we direct the mind to remember that learning to forgive is the purpose for every situation.
Let me remember what my purpose is.
If I forget my goal I can be but confused, unsure of what I am, and thus conflicted in my actions. No one can serve contradicting goals and serve them well. Nor can he function without deep distress and great depression. Let us therefore be determined to remember what we want today, that we may unify our thoughts and actions meaningfully, and achieve only what God would have us do this day.
Father, forgiveness is Your chosen means for our salvation. Let us not forget today that we can have no will but Yours. And thus our purpose must be Yours as well, if we would reach the peace You will for us.
Quote of the Day
"Stable, meaningful external effects don't occur until we've experienced an internal stirring. Once an internal stirring has occurred, external effects cannot fail to happen. We're all capable of an internal stirring, and are in fact coded for it. It is our potential for greatness. Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality."
—Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
Let me remember what my purpose is.
If I forget my goal I can be but confused, unsure of what I am, and thus conflicted in my actions. No one can serve contradicting goals and serve them well. Nor can he function without deep distress and great depression. Let us therefore be determined to remember what we want today, that we may unify our thoughts and actions meaningfully, and achieve only what God would have us do this day.
Father, forgiveness is Your chosen means for our salvation. Let us not forget today that we can have no will but Yours. And thus our purpose must be Yours as well, if we would reach the peace You will for us.
Quote of the Day
"Stable, meaningful external effects don't occur until we've experienced an internal stirring. Once an internal stirring has occurred, external effects cannot fail to happen. We're all capable of an internal stirring, and are in fact coded for it. It is our potential for greatness. Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality."
—Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
The opinions expressed by the hosts, guests and callers to Oprah & Friends are strictly their own.
Friday, September 12
Thursday, September 11
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 255
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 255
While it seems that we are constantly at the effect of worldly dramas, in fact we can choose to live in peace. This lesson teaches us that a peaceful life is a choice we make, regardless of what goes on around us.
This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.
It does not seem to me that I can choose to have but peace today. And yet, my God assures me that His Son is like Himself. Let me this day have faith in Him Who says I am God's Son. And let the peace I choose be mine today bear witness to the truth of what He says. God's Son can have no cares, and must remain forever in the peace of Heaven. In His Name, I give today to finding what my Father wills for me, accepting it as mine, and giving it to all my Father's Sons, along with me.
And so, my Father, would I pass this day with You. Your Son has not forgotten You. The peace You gave him still is in his mind, and it is there I choose to spend today.
Quote of the Day
"We might not know how or where our talents would best be put to use, but the Holy Spirit does. A Course in Miracles teaches us to 'avoid self-initiated plans, and to instead surrender our plans to God.'"
—Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.
It does not seem to me that I can choose to have but peace today. And yet, my God assures me that His Son is like Himself. Let me this day have faith in Him Who says I am God's Son. And let the peace I choose be mine today bear witness to the truth of what He says. God's Son can have no cares, and must remain forever in the peace of Heaven. In His Name, I give today to finding what my Father wills for me, accepting it as mine, and giving it to all my Father's Sons, along with me.
And so, my Father, would I pass this day with You. Your Son has not forgotten You. The peace You gave him still is in his mind, and it is there I choose to spend today.
Quote of the Day
"We might not know how or where our talents would best be put to use, but the Holy Spirit does. A Course in Miracles teaches us to 'avoid self-initiated plans, and to instead surrender our plans to God.'"
—Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
The opinions expressed by the hosts, guests and callers to Oprah & Friends are strictly their own.
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Wednesday, September 10
The Universe
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeUniverse is so grand
And to think All was made with his slight of mindhand.
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Takin' some time off to really turn on.
Hey friends rather than separately send messages I thought I might as well write in my blog since I have one anyways.
I decided to take some time off again from school. The ways things seem to be going I would only be digging a ditch with more loans. I am taking some time to invest within and really get a hold of what my passions are and start living them out. To tell you the truth I kind of felt at ease when I was doing the exit interview and good about the decision I was guided to make. I am going to start living with my intuition rather then against it because it never steered me wrong the times I went with it and not with what I heard. So stay blessed and Live Out Your Life.
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Friday, September 5
Tuesday, September 2
Abundance and Power
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Abundance and Power
by Jennifer Hoffman
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Abundance is part of the world we live in and we have examples of it all around us. For example, a tomato needs to produce only one seed to ensure that another tomato plant can grow. But each tomato contains hundreds of seeds. This kind of abundance exists in our personal reality, where we have an abundance of many things and the possibility to create much more. Some of them may be things we are not very happy with, but they are the abundance we are creating. To understand how to create an abundance of what we want and what brings us joy we have to know how abundance and power are related.
We often associate abundance with wealth and the 'good' things in life but abundance is not judgmental. It is present in everything we have in quantity, whether that is money or lack of it, love or loneliness, joy or sorrow, peace or chaos. And it is when we are at the lowest point in our lives that our ability to create transformation in the kind abundance we have been manifesting is at its peak-because we no longer have the luxury of being powerless. At that moment we must become powerful and can no longer be afraid. That is when can turn things around and then we understand how power and abundance are related.
We can believe that it is the powerful people in the world who have learned the art of manifesting abundance. But they haven't, they just know how to make a lot of money. The most powerful people are those who know and accept themselves, have a strong inner knowing of their Source connection and know how to use their power in a powerful way. If your abundance is not satisfactory it's not because you are not powerful. You are infinitely powerful, you are simply being powerless about your power. If you knew, for example, that every thought had energy and manifested in your life in some way, would you have the thought you are thinking at this moment?
Our abundance is continuously manifesting-and is being created every moment of each day of our life. If we are being powerful, the results are powerful. If we are being powerless, that is reflected in our abundance too. We cannot expect the Universe to give us more than what we are willing to create for ourselves. It is up to us to use our power in a powerful way, to step into the flow of joy, peace, prosperity and unconditional love that are ours for the asking. Believe in yourself, know that you deserve the very best of whatever you wish for, use your power in a powerful way to create the kind of abundance you want to enjoy. It is yours for the asking.
Abundance and Power
by Jennifer Hoffman
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Abundance is part of the world we live in and we have examples of it all around us. For example, a tomato needs to produce only one seed to ensure that another tomato plant can grow. But each tomato contains hundreds of seeds. This kind of abundance exists in our personal reality, where we have an abundance of many things and the possibility to create much more. Some of them may be things we are not very happy with, but they are the abundance we are creating. To understand how to create an abundance of what we want and what brings us joy we have to know how abundance and power are related.
We often associate abundance with wealth and the 'good' things in life but abundance is not judgmental. It is present in everything we have in quantity, whether that is money or lack of it, love or loneliness, joy or sorrow, peace or chaos. And it is when we are at the lowest point in our lives that our ability to create transformation in the kind abundance we have been manifesting is at its peak-because we no longer have the luxury of being powerless. At that moment we must become powerful and can no longer be afraid. That is when can turn things around and then we understand how power and abundance are related.
We can believe that it is the powerful people in the world who have learned the art of manifesting abundance. But they haven't, they just know how to make a lot of money. The most powerful people are those who know and accept themselves, have a strong inner knowing of their Source connection and know how to use their power in a powerful way. If your abundance is not satisfactory it's not because you are not powerful. You are infinitely powerful, you are simply being powerless about your power. If you knew, for example, that every thought had energy and manifested in your life in some way, would you have the thought you are thinking at this moment?
Our abundance is continuously manifesting-and is being created every moment of each day of our life. If we are being powerful, the results are powerful. If we are being powerless, that is reflected in our abundance too. We cannot expect the Universe to give us more than what we are willing to create for ourselves. It is up to us to use our power in a powerful way, to step into the flow of joy, peace, prosperity and unconditional love that are ours for the asking. Believe in yourself, know that you deserve the very best of whatever you wish for, use your power in a powerful way to create the kind of abundance you want to enjoy. It is yours for the asking.
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