Hello Fellow Earth Visitors,

It's been a a while since my last communication here but that is merely a sign that it has been a very active and full summer - albeit a rather quick and drippy one.  I trust you all have had a very fulfilling summer in many ways. 

As fall approaches it often makes us think and reflect on the past:  what we have done over the past year, what we were doing or hoping to do at this same time last year, what we want to do over the course of the next year.  These reflections are actually a useful thing - a way to clean house as it were and start fresh.  However we may often get our thoughts stuck in the past and in the future and then we get that old stuck feeling "Oh why wasn't I more motivated last year.  Oh why did I ever waste those 10 years of my life?  Oh why did so and so ever say that to me?  Oh how am I ever going to pay this mortgage?  Oh what next few years bring me?  etc. etc.  And then we forget where we really are.

Thus again, I want to remind you that you have unlimited power and that power is available to you NOW.  The past is gone and the future never happened.  You have NOW and that is more power than you could ever need.  In the moment of NOW, what will you choose?  I can offer you limitless suggestions if you wish - but the best suggestion I can make is - you are free to choose at any moment what you think, feel, believe, say, do - and how you do it.  You have power over every aspect of your existence - your financial status, your health, your family and personal relationships, you home, your career.  Everything!  Focus on the moment and know how powerful you are. 

Here to help inspire you with this concept is part 6 of Louise's Hay's presentation of  "You Can Heal Your Life": 

It occured to me (again) that music is such an important tool of expression for us in so many ways.  But it is also a powerful tool to REMIND us of how powerful we are.  Here are the words to a wonderful song called "Sweepin' The Clouds Away" written by Sam Coslow in 1930.  I feel the message of the song - essentially that joy or sorrow is up to us to choose - is the wisdom of the ages.  See what you think:

Don't go round mopin' hopin' happiness will come.

That's not the way.  It doesn't pay.

It you want happiness, then help yourself to some.

Why don't you try to

Take life the way I do.

I don't care what's down below

Let it rain, let it snow.

I'll be up on a rainbow, sweepin' the clouds away.

Let' the whole world sigh or cry

I'll be high

in the sky

Up on top of a rainbow

sweepin' the clouds away.

I have learned life's lesson-

The fighters who always win

are those who can take it right on the chin

and grin

And so I shout to everyone

find your place in the sun

High on top of a rainbow

sweepin' the clouds away.

And to help you sweep the clouds away, please watch part 5 of Louise Hays presentation of "You Can Heal Your Life" and share your thoughts with us.

Sometimes we just feel really tired.  With all the things to think about and all the obligations we are faced with constantly, we just want to "stop the world and get off" as it were.  When choice is equated with "obligation" this may serve to make our heads spin and we become all too eager to relinquish our decision making to others - feeling that this is ultimately easier than perpetually carrying the burden of responsibility for ourselves.  We often put this burden on teachers, our parents, our lovers, our friends, our doctors, our bosses, our government officials, law enforcers.  But by doing that what we are saying is:  I cannot choose for myself.  I need others to do it for me.  I'm not smart enough, articulate enough, patient enough, powerful enough.  I cannot make clear decisions for myself involving health, safety, making money, how to live etc. so much better to give that responsibility to those who are "more powerful".  However in truth - I feel no one is any more or less powerful than anyone else.  The more we rely on some perceived outside force or entity for our wellbeing, our peace, our freedom, our security, our health etc. - the more we will spin in the rutt of not having and trying to get these things - and the subsequent anger, frustration and weariness.  HINT:  It's much easier to be fully responsible for your own self than not.   Today, celebrate that you are a being of pure limitless power and that at each moment you can make any choice you desire.  The more aware you are of this, the more your choices will serve you and those around you. 

Please watch part 4 of Louise Hay's wonderful presentation "You Can Heal Your Life".  Share your thoughts with us!

Does the idea of having limitless power and infinite choices seem scary to you in any way?  If so, what is it about having no limits that is scary?  Fear of running amok?  Fear of having "too much freedom" and not knowing what to do with it all?  Fear of becoming wanton and wasteful?  Hedonistic?  I think fear is really the only thing that can stop us from experiencing our limitlessness on earth.  That is fear's only purpose - to afford us the experience of that which we are not - including the experiences of wantonness, hedonism and wastefulness.  But the TRUTH never ceases to be the TRUTH - even when we are not focusing on it, does it?  Today you are invited to see fear for what it is.  Today focus on making choices based upon joy rather than fear.  See what you experience!

And please watch part 3 of Louise Hay's wonderful presentation "You Can Heal Your Life" which is full of great thoughts and suggestions regarding making personal choices:

I truly feel that everything in our existences is the result of choice.  From my experience I have found that nothing "just happens" to us - that in fact we cause everything to happen at each moment.  Many may express aggitation at this statement:  "But - why would anyone choose to be sick or impoverished or to be a victim of an disaster?"  My answer to that is - you'd have to ask those who have experienced those things for your answer.  It is is up to them.  On the highest level of consciousness we know everything as we ARE everyting.  But that does not mean we are aware of this.  In fact we are largely UNaware of this.  Therefore on earth most of our choices are made UNconsciously.  Many may say:  "But then you're argreeing with bigoted people who insist that things such as sexual preference are a choice".  Yes, I guess I am agreeing with that.  My question is - why would it be "bad" to choose to be gay or straight or bi-sexual?  Why would it be "bad" to choose to be black or white or hispanic or Italian or short or tall male or female?  As Shakespeare said -

"It is neither good nor bad - but thinking makes it so." 

So, rather than spin in the rutt of  regret or the fear of the future - why not choose this moment now to be aware that EVERYTHING is the result of our choices.  Then we will begin the habit of making conscious choices that will manifest the experiences we truly desire.

Here is part 2 of Louise Hay's presentation of "You Can Heal Your Life".  Please take time to watch this informative program.

Hello everyone.  I would like to have a discussion now about CHOICE.  After all, as far as I'm concerned, everything we do and think and feel and experience on this earth is the result of CHOICE.  Do you agree with this?  Or do you feel that everything in your life is just "happening" to you somehow without your knowing or controlling it - that all of your experiences are just the result of some power seperate and apart from "you" and that "you" are, at least in part, a victim of circumstance?  Either way, express your thoughts on the idea of free CHOICE with us.  The purpose of this online sanctuary is to question and ponder and to share our thoughts and feelings.

The way I look at it is that there is no "right" or "wrong" CHOICE so I'm not saying we are to "blame" for any "bad" things that happen to us.  We are however, RESPONSIBLE at every moment for everything we experience.  There is a difference.  For the more aware we are that we are free to make CHOICES at each moment of our existences, the more we make CHOICES which manifest experiences that reflect our hearts truth.  Is all of this sounding very familiar to you now?  I do hope so!  I'm going to keep reminding you that you are limitless - and that means at every moment you always have CHOICE.  You may not understand what I'm expressing here.  You may not be ready to consider it or accept it.  That is ok.  My goal is not conversion but to encourage questioning and conscious thought.

Again, I want to bring to you the wisdom of one of our great teachers, Louise Hay.  She has much to say on the subject of CHOICE.  Below please watch part one of her wonderful presentation "You Can Heal Your Life" which is based upon her breakthrough bestselling book. 

Easter is coming up and I want to reflect on what this holiday implies to many - including myself.  Many people view Easter as the most important day of the Christian callendar for it marks the resurrection of the man called Jesus, referred to as the Christ, after he died cross - in order to save humanity from their sins and offer eternal life. 

I embrace the philosophy that Yashua (Jesus) did die and resurrect himself for a Divine purpose.  He did come here to deliver us but  instead of using the word "sins" I use the specific word "illusions".  He was CONSCIOUS enough to know that he was limitless and that "death" was an illusion for life is indeed eternal.  Neither matter nor energy can be created or destroyed.  It is always HERE and NOW!  Yashua was also CONSCIOUS enough to see this in ALL people.  He is quoted as saying:  "As I have done, so you too shall do" and "Have I not said you are gods?"

You see - we are not lacking in anything - ever.  It is only our illusions which tell us that we are.  We are mostly convinced that we are finite, fallible beings destined to break down and "die".   Yet, as Yashua reminded us while on earth, no we are not.  "We" are one with the infinite, eternal Light of Divine Love, or God, and we can never be anything less than that.  It is only our illusions which afford us the experience of that which we are not.

What do you want?  Think about this.  What do you truly want in your life without question?

A safe, loving home?

A fulfilling livelyhood?

Enough money to have those pertinent material items you desire?

To be physically attractive?

To be smart and articulate?

To be loved by someone special?

To be fully and freelly healthy?

To have a clean, safe town or city?

To have a joyful, unified world?

To see peace reign on earth?

To see the earth flourish as a clean, vibrant, lushly healthy planet?

To live as long and as happily as you desire to?

To have all of these things for those you love?

If you are like most people, I think you'd say yes to all of those things.  And then perhaps you chuckle ruefully and say "Yeah, if only...".  Well, I have another question for you?  Who or what is stopping you from experiencing those things?  I suggest it is only you stopping you from creating these realities in your life.  Just as it is you creating the realities of poverty, want, crime, pollution, destruction, war, illness, economic ruin etc.  What is the magic ingredient to change all this around?  CONSCIOUNESS.  Today, right this moment, you are invited to be CONSCIOUS that you  limitless power and that all you want and more is right here now to be experienced.  And what's more - you deserve it!

Please watch part 11 and the final part of the documentary "Earthlings" (parts 1 - 10 are available in the previous blogs here).  Share your thoughts with us!

I think we when do things that are truly good for ourselves - we are doing good things for everyone everywhere - including for all those beings that share the planet with us.  Doing good for ourselves is not, as it may seem, shallow and self-centered etc. for if we cannot truly treat ourselves well and make choices that will benefit ourselves, how can we really do so for others?  Author John Robbins makes this point wonderfully in his new book "THE FOOD REVOLUTION".  Below are some excerpts from  this taken from a recent article in Creations Magazine:

"My father, Irv Robbins, founded and ran...the worlds largest ice cream company:  Baskin-Robbins...Not surprisingly,  many people in the family struggled with weight problems; my uncle died of a heart attack in his early fifties, my fther developed serious diabetes and high blood pressure and I was sick mor often than not....

I chose to leave behind the ice cream company and the money it represented in order to make my own rocky road...

I hoped I might be able to be true to my values and learn to make a contribution to the well-being and happiness of others...

In my book DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA, I illustrated the immense toll exacted by the standara American diet - and the benefits that might be gained by a shift in a healthier direction...in the five years immediately following the book's publication, beef consumption in the United States dropped nearly 20 percent...

The U.S. meat industry has managed to divert attention away from teh fact that the animals raised in modern factory famrs are forced to endure conditions of almost unimagineable cruelty and deprivation.  The USDA irradiates an increasing number of foods to combat the deadly food-borne diseases such as ecoli...the chemical industry has mounted a campaign to discredit organ food...

two-thirds of the products on our supermarket shelves now contain genetically engineered ingredients...

There is still a strong belief in our socieyt that animals and the natural world have value only insofar as they can be converted into revenue...

there are many of us who believe that animals and the natural world have value by virtue of being alive...the truth,  as has been said countless times, will set you free.  But what is said far less often is that sometimes it first will make you confront habits of behavior and thought that might be limiting you...

not long ago the average American mother would have been more concerned to learn that her son or daughter was becoming a vegetarian than to learn that he or she was taking up smoking.  Patients in hospital coronary care units were fed bacon and eggs, and white toast with margarine and jam for breakfast.  People who ate food that was healthy, environmentally friendly and caused no  animals to suffer were considered  "health nuts".  But all this is changing...

one hundred fifty years ago, slavery was legal in the United States.  One Hundred years ago,  women could not vote...Eighty years ago, there were no laws in the United States against any form of child abuse.  Fifty years ago, we had no Civit Rights Act...

John Robbins' new book THE FOOD REVOLUTION is available at book stores or from the publisher:  1-800-423-7087.

Please take time to watch part 10 of the documentary "Earthlings".  Do check out parts 1-9 too if you haven't already done so.  Share your thoughts with us!

Whenever I'm conerned or bothered by something I often play a little game with my self.  As soon as I feel that angry or fearful or annoyed sensation surging up in me, I remind myself to act as though all is well.  I know it seems easier said than done - however with practice I've gotten better at it.  I simply remind myself that freaking out over any situation, no matter how big or small, will not contribute anything constructive to it so why not just take a breath and behave as though all is in order?  I've played this game whenver I'm late and can't find my shoes as well as with more "serious" things and it works like a charm.  As Johnny Mercer reminds us in his great song "Dream": 

"Things never are as bad as they seem.

So Dream, Dream, Dream"

Indeed!

Today you are invited to be CONSCIOUS of the fact that YOU control the shots with your life, not the other way around. 

Please take the time to watch part 9 of the documentary "Earthlings" below.  And do check out parts 1-8 in the blogs below if you have not already done so.  Share your thoughts with us here!

Happy Spring! Ok, it's official. We're there! But - as the great teachers say - "there is no there there".  So, as I suggested in the last entry - focus on what is here now and embrace the Spring that is always there (or here or...well, you get me, right?).  Anyway, I just wanted to say again (have I ever said it?) that I'm happy to be here now.  Just remember, no matter who you are, where you are or what you are up to - we are ALL here now and all is well.  Focus on what you want.  Raise your Consciousness and be aware that we are one with that which is limitless, infinite and eternal.

Please take the time to watch part 8 of the documentary "Earthlings".  Just copy/paste the link to your browser.  Do take the time to watch parts 1-7 if you have not done so.  Please Share your thoughts with us!

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