“Human beings would rather go through life being right doing the wrong thing that to go through life being wrong doing the right thing…Why is it so difficult to change your habits, your comfort zones? It is because nearly all of your brain cell patterns are baesd on right and wrong. You see, if you change your comfot zone, you are admitting that something must have been wrong with it or there would be no reason to change it, would there? Because of this programming, people have the feeling that if they change they are admitting to the whole world that what they were doing was wrong or that the chnage may be wrong. It is because of this programming with right and wrong that we hang onto our problems. We don’t want to let go of them. You’ve all experienced this.”
How attached are you to your version of RIGHT and WRONG?
Spiritual Inspiration
A taste of advice that can solve ANY problem – Midlife or otherwise
Minto wrote, in The Results Book: Your brain operates under the law, as you believe so shall it be done. Your brain is a computer-like guidance mechanism and it guides you according to the beliefs you have programmed it with. However, there are different degrees of belief.
What are some of the things you believe in? You might answer God, gravity, myself, night and day. These are things we might all believe in, but there are things we believe in stronger than any of these. The simple truth is that the things we believe in stronger than anything else are the things that we fear.
I will guarantee you, if you are walking down a narrow path through the woods and you come face to face with a grizzly bear, you are going to believe in that grizzly bear stronger than you ever believed in God or gravity or yourself or anything else. If you believed in God that strongly, you would be getting answers to all your prayers, but you’ve probably never prayed with that much energy and emotion. You see, fear is the same thing as belief except that you put more energy and emotion into something you fear and so it becomes a stronger belief.
You believe in God, gravity, yourself. That is believing. Then there is really believing, and really believing is worrying about something. And then there is really, really believing. And the things in life you really, really believe in are the things you fear. Realize that you use the same faculties of your brain-mind functioning to believe in God as you use to fear the dentist, except that when your believing reaches the degree of fear, you are putting more energy and more emotion into it so it becomes a stronger belief.
If you can grasp the fact that worry and fear are the strongest forms of believing, and as you believe so shall it be done unto you, then you will understand how allowing your problems to be O.K. will solve 90% of your problems in life without even directing any attention to the problem.
The simplicity that makes this work is this: Have you ever worried about something or feared something if you knew it was O.K.? No! If something’s O.K., you don’t worry about it or fear it.
The reason you have failed to reach many of your goals in life is because you have not been aware that worry and fear are the strongest forms of belief. There is an ancient message, ‘That which I feared the most came upon me.’ What the message is really saying is, ‘that which I really, really believed in happened to me.’
If you will allow your problems to be O.K. just the way they are, then your subconscious mind will stop worrying about them or stop fearing them. This allows your subconscious mind to stop really, really believing in your problems. Then the conscious desire or answer has a chance to become a reality. In other words, by eliminating worry and fear you allow your mind to see answers instead of problems.
Your brain is designed in a computer-like manner to seek answers, but through worry and fear you have taught it to see the problems instead. If all of your attention is focused on the problem, you will not see the answer. Worry simply develops a habit of having or doing or being what you are worrying about. When you worry, you create a predominant brain cell pattern of the problem. When you say it’s O.K. you are creating a new pattern that releases the worry and thereby releases the problem.
Service is Key to Feeling Good
Solace In Service
Doing For Others
When we feel bad, often our first instinct is to isolate ourselves and focus on what’s upsetting us. Sometimes we really do need some downtime, but many times the best way to get out of the blues quickly is to turn our attention to other people. In being of service to others, paradoxically, we often find answers to our own questions and solutions to our own problems. We also end up feeling more connected to the people around us, as well as empowered by the experience of helping someone.
When we reach out to people we can help, we confirm that we are not alone in our own need for support and inspiration, and we also remind ourselves that we are powerful and capable in certain ways. Even as our own problems or moods get the better of us sometimes, there is always someone else who can use our particular gifts and energy to help them out. They, in turn, remind us that we are not the only people in the world with difficulties or issues. We all struggle with the problems of life, and we all feel overwhelmed from time to time, but we can almost always find solace in service.
In the most ideal situation, the person we are helping sheds light on our own dilemma, sometimes with a direct piece of advice, and sometimes without saying anything at all. Sometimes just the act of getting our minds out of the obsessive mode of trying to figure out what to do about our own life does the trick. Many great inventors and artists have found that the inspiration they need to get to the next level in their work comes not when they’re working but when they’re walking around the block or doing dishes. We do ourselves and everyone else a great service when we take a break from our sorrows and extend ourselves to someone in need.
REFLECTIONS on the Our Father — part 4
Let bread be present IN THIS MOMENT – daily bread
LIVE in the moment – ask again and again
I have two cats and Cats live in moment. They see a bird – chase and miss it – They fume and fuss to get it out of their system & then move on.
Cats have:
NO REGRET
I wish I had sharpened my claws more this morning.
NO SHAME
What kind of cat am I
No BLAME
If only my parents had taught….
NO GUILT
I’m really not up to par as a cat.
We are invited to be like Cats – to Live in the moment. REACT in moment. GET DAILY BREAD
To have our feelings when they happen; get at beliefs as they are formed so as not to be storing them for future….
We are also being invited to “Finish today’s task today.”
Bread – metaphysically.- all that is required for a healthy, happy, free and harmonious life. Bread is known as the STAFF OF LIFE.WE HAVE TO CLAIM it. And recognize GOD and God alone as the Source of all our Good. Lack of any kind – we’ve sought supply from some secondary source .
Our daily bread – signifies the realization of the Presence of God – God exists and so we have nothing to fear; we can rely on God
- to take every care of us;
- to supply all that we need;
- to teach us all we need to know
- to guide our steps so we don’t make mistakes
Not just thinking about GOD – but the ACTUAL EXPERIENCE Just because you may go to Church every week doesn’t mean anything. Looking at food is not the same as actually eating a meal. Realization guarantees demonstration. How do you come to Realization – by DAILY PRAYER – not efforting or willing.
Food or bread symbolizes presence of God – ACT of eating – essentially must be done for oneself No one can PRAY for you – but YOU alone can have the realization. DAILY bread – not just occasionally – how are you living the Principles today.
“Behold NOW is the acceptable time. Today is the day of Salvation.”
Manna in desert of Old Testament – came every day.
Release me as I release myself and others from the negative energy that has tied me up in knots, which creates stress and tension in my life, thus blocking me from reaching my full potential.
Forgiveness – being tied up in knots – rigid place in our being. Release others and release ME… When you are tied up, you are not a channel. You begin to die.
Deliver me from the error of judging by appearance. This activity creates a barrier through which I cannot see you through and feel your love for me. Amen.
I invite you to begin each day by slowly saying the OUR FATHER– come to realize that just like you fantasized and believed when you were young – YOUR FATHER is GOD!! Act like you believe it..
REFLECTIONS on the Our Father — part 3
Let your I Can energy flow through me now.
Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, once said, “I am a conduit for God -means- I CAN DO IT…”
LET there be – is a Decree prayer – God is saying I CAN. Discover where you are saying I Can’t and replace it by God CAN! – and the God in You CAN…
Let your vision of empowerment really, really come through me, effecting my life and the life of others in a powerfully, positive way now.
God is not poor, not sick, has no lack. I CAN heal myself. I can improve my health. I can do all things through the consciousness of the Christ who strengthens me.
Let your passionate desire for life flow through me, guiding me to my full potential as a being made in your likeness, experiencing your passionate desire for my life. Your plan for me is what brings heaven to earth.
What’s your full potential? How are YOU being called to make a difference in the world… THINK BIG…
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Let this bread that feeds all the areas of my existence be present now in this moment of my life.
Lachma – bread – all the energy I need in all areas. It’s already there.
When we say GIVE US – we EXPECT and we don’t get what we deserve in life; we get what we expect. Have you heard yourself say, “Well, what did you expect?”God is amazed that we’re amazed at all the amazing things it does.
What Father among you if your child asks for a fish would give him a stone or if she asks for an egg would give her a scorpion. If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more you’re heavenly father give good to those who ASK
If we don’t have what we need, it’s because we haven’t ASKED… or ASKED consistently.
How does one ask? Not – Hey God out there.. You wouldn’t really want to give this to me..or – LORD, I am not worthy… This is a contradiction – we are asked to… Speak but the Word. – Father, I knowest that thou hear all things.
ASK – KNOWING – that’s it’s the Father’s good pleasure to give us the kingdom. What can’t you ask for —- Why?
