Living Affirmatively...

I AM surrounded and I AM part of an infinite intelligence which reacts to my thoughts.

I realize that the creative power of this Divine intelligence is with me now and always, and know that I AM using this Power through my thoughts and words, and operating through It will cause It (ME) to bring into my experience the good which I desire.....

Believing in Divine guidance, I know that my mind is continuously impressed with images of right action.

I know that everything in my life is directed by the action of Truth and Love.

I AM led, guided and inspired by living Spirit, that which I AM.

I AM compelled to move in the right direction always to know what to do and how to do it.

I know that at my essence, I AM perfect in complete happiness and I experience an abundance of good.  Love, Joy, perfection and abundance are what I AM.

I am success in all endeavors.

If you can get behind even a portion of the affirmations, get yourself into the feeling of IT....and remember I AM are the two most powerful and creative words you can utter......do not take that for granted!!!!  We either embrace the infinite intelligence and creative power that we are or we deny ourselves of it, and we choose to embrace or deny every moment of every day.

CHOOSE WELL!!!

Habitual ways of Thinking.....

Physicist David Bohm used to say "Normally our thoughts have us rather than we having them".  How true is that?  Better yet, How scary is that?  

And why is our thinking habitual?  Well, two reasons, one is biological.....yep, biological!!!  your thoughts create the emotional state that is determined by the neuro-peptides that create the feelings you have.  And you are addicted to those states and most of the time, you are not even conscious of those thoughts......because they are having you rather than you having them.  The second reason is conditioning.  An analogy of what I mean is a meeting in a business environment, or even a social environment, but a meeting is better for the example.  Most meetings have an agenda which is efficient because it keeps the meeting on task and the participants focussed, or should I say "conditioned".  

Now most people tell me, "well yeah, we need to keep focus, otherwise nothing would ever get done!"  Okay, I'll entertain that......but what is lost?  Creativity?  Innovation? Self Awareness?  To a degree alot, and we are not even aware of it.  Here is one of my favorite stories, and a true one as well about self awareness and how far sideways we can get without even knowing it.

A Jamaican man named Fred that worked for the World Bank was diagnosed with a terminal disease.  He went through the typical stage of denial for several weeks, but gradually with the help of friends came to grips with the "idea" that he was going to only live for a few more months.  At that point, he decided to stop doing everything that was not essential, or that did not matter.  He started working on projects with kids which he had always wanted to do, he stopped arguing with his mother, and started spending more time with his family.  He didn't get upset with things like getting cut off in traffic, because he knew he did not have the time to waste being in those states that were not bringing him joy and meaning.  

As he did this, of course, those things that took him to states of being he did not want to waste time in, stopped coming into his experience, and he met a wonderful woman that a relationship just blossomed with.  She suggested that he get some other medical opinions about his disease and he came to the states and met with doctors who conducted a series of tests.  Several days went by when he received a call from one of the doctors who told him they had a different diagnosis.  The doctor told him that he had a rare but very curable disease.  When he heard this, Fred said he cried like a baby---because he was afraid his life would go back to the way it used to be.  Of course it did not, because he had changed, but it took the idea that he would live only a few months to decide to live the life he wanted to live.

So how Self Aware are you and are you living the life you want to.  Think about it!!!  and the next meeting you attend that has an agenda, just for grins, direct the discussion away from the agenda just to see what emerges.    

What is your potential?

When I ask that question, for the most part the response I get is "What I am capable of....or the performance level I am able to attain".  So, I then ask, "what it is it you are capable of?"......to which I get two responses, 1.  I'm not really sure.  and  2.  A very specific, defined outcome.

The second response is much better than the first with respect to actually achieving or creating something, but the interesting thing is that the defined specific outcome is generally woefully short of the person's true potential.  So, I usually ask the person, do you believe that you can be, do or have anything you want......and the vast majority answer with a yes.....and a BUT!!!  So in essence, they don't really believe that they can be, do or have anything........but why?

Because of a belief that we are separate individuals made of flesh and bone, an individual personality......oh and an ego!!!  This is who I am, because everything else is clearly different and separate from me.  And in my desire to be liked, loved and accepted, I adapt to the perceived expectations of who and what are in "my life"........and we use words like life as a noun, as a thing or place.....which creates a perspective of being separate.....ie; "My Life" and "Your Life".

What if you WERE Life?  You! Me, and everything else for that matter!!  We are not our bodies, or our personalities, or our EGO's, or our material accumulations.  We are Life force, Spirit, Source Energy manifested in the physical world of matter.  And where did matter come from?  From us, from our ultimate state of consciousness......actually words are not able to accurately describe our essence, but we know it.......you tap into it every time you listen to your intuition, or you are inspired from the heart.  And you move away from it every time you operate from the EGO and judge or fear something.

IT is how a mother can lift a two ton car to save her child.  IT, YOU is in this world, but not of it!!!  It's what Jesus taught, that life force, source, spirit, or God is within you, me and every one of us, not to mention everything.  

This is exactly what this Blog is about......using every moment as a moment to re-create or reconnect or tap into your true essence and divine spirit.........going way past any contrived labels from this physical experience.......ie; christian, muslim, catholic, atheist or agnostic.  

Try this to reiterate to yourself that you are much more than the "You" we operate as most of the time.  Think about something that brings you a sense of Joy, or utter enjoyment!!  Maybe it's a two month old baby smiling, maybe its a five year old giggling uncontrollably, or maybe its squirrel's in the yard.  Maybe it's strangers on the street smiling at you as you pass each other.......whatever it is, think about it and get into the feeling it brings you when you experience this thing for you........try to experience this feeling for a minute or maybe two, then smile and release it.......go about you daily activities...........and watch not only how quickly that thing comes into your experience, but how often.........and realize that YOU, just showed YOU what you what your potential is.........INFINITE!!!!

For four months I have been basking in fabulous feeling of the Harley Davidson that I ordered in April....

It shipped from the factory on the 31st. I began getting anxious about it arriving last Tuesday and I let that anxiousness build until Thursday when it dawned on me that "this does not feel good" so I let it go.........let go of the attachment to a specific outcome.

Well, what do you think happened then? Yep, Friday afternoon my phone rang and it was Les at the Harley dealer letting me know the truck just came and they were unloading my bike. He said it probably would not be ready for me to pick up until late in the week for a number of reasons.............none of which bothered me one bit. I was just basking in the awesome feeling of having my Harley Davidson in such close proximity to me.

So I sent texts to some friends that know I have been expecting my bike to arrive and I was amazed at the consistent reaction to the bike being here, yet not picking it up until Wed. at the earliest.........."That blows" "That sucks".....or some other derivative...........one friend even expressed that they would be so pissed off they would camp out at the dealership until they got the bike to them.

As I reflected on the experience, I got this big ass smile on my face.......knowing what my favorite mentor means when they say "It's not about the stuff!!! It's about the feeling!!! The only meaning of your physical reality, The only meaning that it has is........the degree to which you are connected with your True Self.....Your Source!!" If you feel good and good things are coming into your experience, then your in better alignment.........and if you don't feel good and things are not working in your experience, your out of alignment......pretty simple!!!!

So on Saturday, I took my boys over to the Harley Dealer to take a peak at my bike. I had seen the model I bought, but not in the color that I ordered it in.........Black Pearl!!! OMG!!! It is ridiculous how beautiful it is!!! My 11 year old son, who has been as excited about getting it as I have been, was standing next to me sharing the feeling when he asked me, "How come you never got one before this Dad?" I looked at him and just said, "because this one wasn't built"...........The Universe conspired perfectly on my behalf with this one!!!

So how do you deliberately get into that feeling? Let me tell you a story. One of my favorite and dear friends called me in tears Friday. She was sobbing to the point I could hardly understand her.........I got her to calm down enough that I could understand her. She said that her brother was getting married today and because she was not active in the church (LDS) she was not allowed to be in the temple during the service. She vacillated between crying and being pissed off. So I let her go off a little and she said, "it's so stupid, and it pisses me off!!!!....they piss me off!!!!" I had to jump in and tell her "Whats stupid, and you know this......is that you let other people piss you off and make you upset. Trust me they are not upset, just you!!"

She agreed, and asked "so how do I get out of this ugly feeling?" my reply, "Get a paper and pen and start writing about what you appreciate about the church, like while you don't agree with some of the philosophies, your grateful for the peace it provides your family and the direction that it provides in their lives and the meaning and purpose that they receive by being a part of the organization.........whatever, just write about the appreciation you can feel for its existence in your families lives. You don't agree with it, but you don't have to, and you don't have to let it's rules bother you or upset you!!!! Write for 60 seconds or better yet for 90 seconds, that's all it takes, then let me know how you feel"

She did, and she was back to the mystical friend I adore.........I could feel the Love that she is. At the end of the day, who cares about a particular room you were allowed to stand in, or if you are part of the club!............At the end of the day, or this physical experience, there are no rooms, and definitely no clubs!!!..........Choose your thoughts, change your perceptions and live the life and experience you choose........don't defer to external circumstances!!!

Ponder this!!!

To think that we can direct our lives misses the essence of who we are..........by directing our lives, by definition does not allow for the life, the universal wisdom, universal creativity......who we are to manifest. By thinking we can direct our lives to gain success or happiness works to alleviate the universe embracing us and allowing our realities that will serve us best to manifest. Taking charge of our life, taking charge of a situation is what our culture, our economy, our government are dependent upon and expect. We react to life's circumstances and situations...........unwittingly, we believe that by taking charge and acting by design, that is how the best result will come about. The problem is that our "acting by design" is derived from our conditioning by society. "Should's and should not's" are based upon reacting to life's circumstances in a minimalist approach. Minimalist from the standpoint that we don't fully understand our own human nature, which for most people has not emerged as of yet.

Society professes "Be yourself within the prescribed assumption (society's belief) to become successful"..............which in itself is a contradiction. Success is different for everyone, you don't become successful, you are successful, that is the human nature that has yet to emerge for most people. If you believe you are one with the universe, and you align with the universe, life itself, you are success. When you believe that "hard work" or "acting by design" or "taking charge" contribute to your success, you have eliminated the opportunity for life to embrace you........you are not allowing you to embrace yourself. You are not YOU, you are what you think you should be based upon some prescribed belief.

By necessity, if you are in control of your life and acting by design and applying a strong work ethic........you have likely removed the opportunity for being embraced.........writers block is a perfect example. When writers are at their best, they release themselves to the universal wisdom and creativity that each of us has within ourselves. They release their talents..........they release the essence of who they are and who they are is manifested. What is manifested has always existed, it has always been real....(it's human nature).....it has been waiting for the individual to allow it to embrace them in the physical world. Writers block is really the universal wisdom and creativity being blocked by the need (incessant thought patterns) or want to create something............and the more time that goes by in the "block", the more the need grows, and on and on.

Releasing your talents is really allowing yourself to be embraced by what you naturally have the potential to be. The challenge is not realizing that by letting go, you become YOU. The challenge is overcoming the belief that letting go is irresponsible. Letting go does not mean you are not responsible in the meaning of achievement or that you become complacent...........its actually the opposite. By truly letting go and being YOU unimpeded by the should and should not's, you can't help but be responsible and anything but complacent..........that's when things happen. You don't need to know what you will do in certain situations, you do the right thing. You don't need to know what possible problems may arise, in the unlikely event that they do arise, you will know the best resolution.........you have access to the wisdom and knowledge and power that is you, that is the universe, that is life............that is when life gets really FUN!!!

Do you know exactly what you are at liberty to do, be or have?

I mean with without question or reservation, have you ever asked yourself that question let alone answered it?  The key word in the question is "Liberty"......Liberty identifies the condition in which an individual has the ability to act according to his or her own will.   Now, we all have the ability to act according to our own will.......but how often during the day do we?  Considering the fact that every moment is an opportunity to choose our actions, that can be a daunting task.  

Think about it, if you are only processing one billionth of the stimuli available to you in a given moment, and you are, and the determining factor of which one billionth you actually process out of the infinite amount of stimuli available to you is based upon your beliefs......you process that which supports what you already believe, and your beliefs are based upon your perceptions of past experience and knowledge learned, which could be wrong........what are the chances that you are acting according to your will?   I'm going to go out on a limb here and say, you likely have better chances in Las Vegas.........but hey, people win huge jackpots every year!!!

Okay, but there is really good news!!!  First, lets talk about will......I'm not talking about will power, or even free will......most people's notion of will is associated with dedication, or intestinal fortitude, or even motivation..........but if your operating from beliefs that may be wrong and are further supported by your interpretation of your every experience, that deliberate dedication, or motivation is being directed to efforts that are not necessarily congruent with your heart or soul.........which is why it is so important to know your self.  

If you do not go within, you go without!!!

Your heart is where your truth is and what I like to refer to as Divine Will.....the will that is aligned with your soul, and source......not contrived based upon external circumstances.......its where inspiration comes from, intuition as well............but not motivation.  Motivation is derived from reacting to external circumstances.........inspiration is never reactive, it is always proactive and your actions are easy and efficient when coming from inspiration.......actions from motivation are rarely easy and efficient.......that's why you hear phrases like "he is so motivated, look how hard he is working".

Inspiration comes from the heart based on unity and wholeness.......there is no greater power for us in the physical than the higher consciousness of the heart's knowing.  So how do we tap into this innate power more frequently.........well, stop doing and start spending more time being.  And what is doing?  The vast majority of the time its reacting based upon external circumstances.

For instance, a mother is getting ready for her day, which includes getting her four year old up, dressed, fed breakfast, and ready to go to pre-school.  Normally the four year old is pretty good and goes with the flow, and obviously this makes the mother feel good.  Occasionally, the four year old is just not cooperative and fights the mother's direction for him to be ready.  It just seems that everything the mother wants the child to do, he wants nothing to do with......so the mothers natural reaction is frustration and perhaps a degree of stress.......who knows, but its not a good feeling for either the mother or the child and pretty soon the mother and the child are reacting to the other's actions.......and not in the most positive way.  To some degree we have all been in a similar situation, maybe even in both the child's and mother's role.

What would happen if the mother, had the inspiration, or more accurately tuned into the innate inspiration within her heart and went with it?  Rather than reacting, she chose to be proactive following her inspiration, and stopped what she was doing and saying, and showered the four year old with her love.  Just moved her feelings from frustration to the pure Love that she is, and began emanating her Love to her child.  

Okay, a number of things are taking place, one, she is taking the liberty to "be" what her essence is, pure positive Love.  She is living proactively rather than reactively.......which is not only much more natural, but much more effective in feeling life.  But, how difficult do you think it will be for the child to be in the presence of his mother's pure Love and continue to struggle and resist her?  One, she has stopped making requests of him.....she is just being her essence, pure Love, and two from a vibrational resonance standpoint, it is just going to get really weird for him to be frustrated and acting out in proximity to her Love.  He will either run out of the room or just drop his ill feelings and walk or run to be close to her.

What kind of day do you think the Mother and child will have after spending time in presence? Presence being the essence of who we are, pure positive Love demonstrated proactively experienced through inspiration.  Yeah, pretty freaking great!!!  Who knows what other inspiration she and the child might experience.

Be at liberty to be, do or have all that you are inspired to be, do or have.  Be proactive in interpreting your every moment as an opportunity for you to recreate yourself in the greatest version of yourself you have yet to even imagine..........Surprise yourself with just how good it can be, the possibilities are endless.........you know that, right?

What's the vibrational essence of your thoughts?

You develop patterns of thought which cause you to offer patterns of vibration, which equal what you are living. What manifests is always an accurate reflection of the thoughts that you’ve been thinking. And so, hopefully you see how beneficial it is to think in terms of the vibrational essence of the thought that you are thinking.

If you are focused upon the absence of Well-Being in some area of your life, and you focus your attention on that, at some point you develop a vibrational essence; it’s where your thoughts easily go; it’s where your conversations easily turn; it’s just the way you feel about this or about that….…those practiced, conscious or unconscious, vibrations, then become your point of attraction. And what you’re getting matches that perfectly, every single time.

Your emotions are exact indicators that let you know what your vibrational resonance is. And your emotions feel the way they do because of two important vibrational factors: The factor of desire, which is the summoning power. And the factor of allowing— which is the letting, or the not letting what you’ve summoned to flow. So, the two factors that your emotions are always letting you know are: how focused the Energy is by virtue of your desire, and how your normal thoughts around the subject resonate or don’t resonate with that desire. Easier way to say it is, “what’s my attitude or what’s my mood about such-and-such?

For instance, “When I think about my body, do I love it? Am I grateful? Does it annoy me? Does it embarrass me? Do I praise it? Do I condemn it? Do I adore it? Do I compliment it? Do I criticize it?” In other words, what kinds of things do you say about your body?

When you think about money, do you feel joyful? Does the idea of money make you feel free? Do you feel eager and enthusiastic about money? Do you feel afraid when you think about money? Are you angry about money? Are you embarrassed about money? Do you dread even thinking about it? Are you worried about it, eager about it, happy about it? Notice the question was how you “Feel about Money”, not how you feel when you have it or don’t have it.  

If your like most people, what's most important is the feelings you associate with Money.  It’s not about having or not having something, it’s about the feeling you have about the notion of the thing, the energy of the thing.  Having it is the residual effect of having a feeling that is resonant with the thing.....(remember those people that always ask me "where's my stuff?....what is that thought resonant with?....yep, not having their stuff)....in other words, if you have positive feelings about the notion of money, your vibration is one of allowing, and more money will come to you...........and for God's sake, don't even think about how its going to come to you.......that's not a good place to be vibrationally for more money to come into your experience.  This is usually where some people say, "So if I just feel good, money will fall into my lap"?......In short, by being in a good place, having a good vibe going, essentially being in an allowing stance, your actions will then be inspired, and are congruent with recognizing a good opportunity, or any number of infinite possibilities for more money to come into your experience. 

When you think about the overall economy, are you grateful for the economy? Do you love it when someone else is abundant and prosperous? Are you jealous when someone is thriving? Do you feel happy for a friend that is succeeding? Do you feel unhappy about your not succeeding when you see your friends succeeding? Do you blame the government? Do you blame your job or the work you do? How do you feel?

You know that there are people that are hugely successful in the worst of times just like there are people that fail at everything in the best of times. Why? It’s how they feel about success or their potential, or their focus on the lack of whatever and the feeling associated with that lack.

All day, every day, you have opinions and attitudes. Most of them you didn’t even figure out on your own. You hung around or listened to somebody else who hung around or listened to somebody else who hung around or listened to somebody else… And often, you’ve developed an attitude or belief, a belief about money, a belief about relationships, a belief about your body, a belief about your job............a belief about what makes you happy, or what needs to take place in order for you to be happy.........and so how are those beliefs working for you?

If you are not sure what your vibrational essence is, that’s understandable because most people do not notice the emotional correlation between thoughts that just feel normal. In other words, you want to do what’s socially acceptable, so that you don't feel like an outcast. And you want to do what’s politically correct, because you don't want to be an outcast. And you want to do what your family expects of you, because you don’t want to let them down, and some people do what their religion says, because they don’t want to be disavowed or go to hell. So essentially, your concern is adapting in order to fit in, or in order to “not” be what “you don’t want”.

Most people, including you have been using standards or measures of success that are outside of them and that have no supportive basis for what they want. These norms, if you thought about it from an attraction standpoint, would have nothing to do with you determining your thoughts or opinions or attitudes, let alone your actions.........but you let them. So as this is taking place, what has happened is, you have developed an array (a quagmire really) of beliefs, some of which serve you and some that don't. But, most people feel powerless in what comes to them because they’ve been emanating this vibration (through their thoughts) and emanating that vibration, and emanating that vibration, and attracting more thoughts and beliefs of like vibration. Then, low and behold based upon attraction, they see evidence to support those same thoughts and beliefs. And so now, they find themselves wallowing in a bunch of beliefs that are not serving them.

Self fulfilling prophecy? Okay, or Universal Law, very exact, never wavering, always 100% accurate........Law of Attraction. How many times have you heard something like this...."They warned me about that, and sure enough, it happened.” Well, this is not a warning, this is the way it is: What anyone is living, our culture, our environment, our society, our city, our family, yourself, what anybody is living, the truth, or the evidence that you are producing is only the truth that manifests in response to the habit of thought and vibration that you put forth.

So, say you decided to join the "fight against Drugs", what is the truth in the fight?, where are you giving your energy? War on Terrorism? Okay, how is that working out? Noble and well intentioned as it appears, "The Race to find a Cure for Cancer" might work better if we just focused on well being and less on stress and chaos…….cancer would just not exist. All of these efforts are like saying, “There’s something out there that I do not want, but because somebody else created it in their experience and it became their truth, now I feel obligated to beat the drum of it, and make it my truth, too.” Fortunately, there are a variety of truths for you to pick from.

Fortunately, you are the creator of your own truth. No one can write a book, or start a movement, or organize a religion, or say, “These are the things that are important for you to do, and these are the things that you must not do,” and you have to believe it or buy into it, unless you choose to...........which so many of us do. You get to choose all of it. So use the Guidance System that is within you. How you feel about it and if does not feel good............For goodness sake, re-create yourself to the greatest version of yourself you have yet to imagine.