“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
—- Anais Nin
We all put our own spin on what we hear and see and then we don’t understand why every one else does not agree with our opinion. If we all could experience events from the same perspective, we would all have the same opinions: how dull.
Most of the time we imagine what is going on with the other person. We reason in our mind what is going on and in doing this we create stories. Usually these stories and assumptions have a negative bent to them. For example if someone does not agree with your opinion you may be quick to say “they are just stupid” or “how can they miss this obvious point”. We are quick to make these negative assumptions. Why is that?
If we are making things up anyway, why not make something up that is positive or at least something that would make sense for the situation. You see someone speeding and your first impulse is to get in front of them and go slow. Second impulse is to wish the police would stop them for reckless driving. But would your opinion change if you knew that they just got a call from the hospital and were told if you wanted to see their child alive they better get there quick. I have actually known someone in that position.
In my experience, people do the best they can in their situation. People do not wake up and say “I wonder what dumb things I can do today?” Yes some people are smarter than others but each is doing what he/she thinks is best at each moment no matter what the IQ.
Live your life with forgiveness and compassion; you don’t know when you will need that from someone else for your dumb decisions.
The Celestine Prophecy – Book Review Sunday
Posted by: Ann
March 7th, 2010 >> Change, Energy, Life, Relationship
I am venturing into the fiction department for today’s book review. Although this book is fiction, there is a lot of truth in the book. James Redfield has a lot of insight into human nature and where humanity is going and in The Celestine Prophecy
he puts this insight to use through ‘insights’. The book goes into the coincidences that help shape our lives. But the main thrust of the book is the 9 insights, each one building on the other. I won’t tell you what they are here but I will tell you of the one that made the most impression on me.
The fifth insight talks about clearing the past. This involves looking at your childhood and how your parents acted and reacted. By looking at what each of your parents stood for you can determine your own life work. The Celestine Prophecy states “Every human being, whether they are conscious of it or not illustrates with their lives how he or she thinks a human being is supposed to live”. In the book the main character’s father believed that life was for fun and enjoyment but he had not been able to actually succeed in that area. The character’s mother stood for Christian principles. He was then asked what he would change about his mother and father. This is an important question as that ends up being what he is here to accomplish. To quote the book again, “That’s why you were born there: to take a higher perspective on what they stood for. Your path is about discovering a truth that is a higher synthesis of what these two people believed.” This led the main character to realize he would find real meaning in his life through combining the two approaches to life.
This got me thinking about my life and my parents. Now I feel much clearer on what I am to do in this life. It was a very interesting exercise. The whole book is like this. It introduces different insights into where we are individually and as a world society but it tells it through a fun read as a fiction story.
What would happen if your Children were just like you? What would the world be like if every one acted just like you? They say that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
Think about it a little bit. Would the world be a good place or an unpleasant one if every one acted like you did? Are you helpful, kind thoughtful or just in it for yourself?
Here is another way to look at it. Are you a friend to yourself or your own worst enemy?
Just something to think about for today.
Have you noticed that when you have bought a new car all of a sudden you see hundreds of that same car and color on the road? Or when you are expecting, every woman you see looks pregnant. Well the same thing is happening to me. No I am not pregnant nor have I bought a new car, but a new idea has been introduced to me and I am seeing it every where. I have heard that when an idea presents itself to you in 3 different ways that you need to sit up and take notice because it is the truth.
What is this great truth? It is living in the now. It has really been brought home to me through Eckhart Tolle’s book The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
If you live in the now, even in your misery, you have the chance to feel the river of life, that life giving force that runs through all things. If you can feel that flow of contentment and energy, you will feel hope. If you feel hope, you will be more positive. If you become more positive, the law of attraction will accommodate and things will get better.
The alternative is to dwell in your misery and your “poor me” attitude and live on the surface, never feeling the flow of life that is always there. If you live in the misery at the surface you are actually stifling the flow. If the flow is stifled you will attract more that will stifle the flow. The law of attraction works both ways.
I have some EFT events I wanted to mention.
Are you looking for your soul mate? March 27, 2010, 9:00am – 3:00pm I am holding a workshop to help you clear the energy and allow the law of attraction to work in attracting your soul mate. Lunch and snacks will be provided. I am nailing down all the logistics and cost this week. If you are interested in attending, keep watching this site or better yet sign up for my monthly tapping routine at www.naturallyresilient.com and stay informed on all the events and special offers I will be presenting.
March 11, 2010 I will be doing a free EFT demonstration at the Belton Senior Center. I have had a lot of success with removing and reducing pain and I hope to show some of these people a way they can manage their pain.
If any one reading this is in the Belton TX area, drop by the Belton Senior Center March 11, I will be there from 10 to 11 am. I hope to make this into a weekly or every other week event.
Callie was one smart cat. My husband says she had the intelligence of a 3-4 year old child. I have to agree.
Several weeks ago, I mentioned how quickly she learned but she also took the initiative. She saw me opening doors and quickly learned how to jump at the knobs and slide one paw down faster than the other making the door unlatch. She would then either push the door open or reach under the door with a paw and pull it open. The only doors that were safe from her were the heavier latched exterior doors.
Another test of intelligence is the fear factor: very little scared Callie. Most cats run from a vacuum cleaner. Callie would just act annoyed. I remember vacuuming the curtains behind the bed while Callie was on the bed trying to sleep. She kept giving me dirty looks and finally moved when the hose nozzle fell off landing next to her for the second time.
But one event really stands out highlighting her intelligence. I had two closet plants that were not thriving in their new location. Two weeks before I had cleaned out all the dead leaves from one of the plants and I had finally gotten around to cleaning out the second one. I was sitting there pulling dried dead growth from the plant when Callie came in and sat down watching me. She then walked over to the plant that I had worked on two weeks before. She stuck her front paws on the rim and started rustling around in the plant. I was starting to get worried. Had she decided to give up the litter box for more natural surrounding? But no, soon she came up with a dead leaf in her mouth and laid it on the floor close to me. She was either saying “I can do that” or “you missed one,” both fit her personality.
Yesterday was the first of the month. That can imply all kinds of things. First there is the start of a new month, a new beginning, a new try at things. Then there is the first of the month when all the bills are due and all the paperwork must be done or other words to be dreaded.
The start of every week is kind of like a mini month. Monday I pay the weeks worth of bills that were not paid with the horde at the 1st of the month. Monday also gives me a new start. If last week was not that great I get a new chance.
Well I could break this down even farther. Every day is a new beginning and at this daily rate, I may not even have any bills to pay. It is just getting better. What about every hour. That can be a new beginning a new try at things. Thinking that every hour is a new beginning I would never have bad day again as I would have a new try, a new start every hour.
Why limit it to that what about every minute, every second, NOW.
Now you are living in the now. This is where you can feel the energy flow and can really start to experience life.
Enjoy your now, over and over and over and over and over again.
Have you ever thought about how one person can change the world or at least their portion of it. All it takes is one person with a dream, one person with a passion, one person saying ‘someone ought to do something’ then realizing that person will have to be them.
My local newspaper often runs a local interest story about a senior citizen and what they have accomplished.
There was the woman who saw a neighbor in need of groceries and she started handing out groceries to people in need. One thing led to another and “Helping Hands” was created. This organization now has a large building with a clothing section and is organizing a free clinic. All this because a woman saw a neighbor in need and wanted to do something about it.
I have also learned of another woman who wanted to help children who were starting a new year of school. Most parents will buy their children new clothes, shoes and school supplies to start the New Year, but then there are those parents who can’t afford to buy new clothes or shoes and the school supplies left over from last year will have to do. This woman believed that all children should start the school year on an even footing with each other. No child should feel embarrassed with old worn out stuff for their 1st day of school. Her little project has grown to the point where all the larger local churches and a few other groups are actively involved. Each child is provided with a new shirt, pants, shoes and school supplies to start the year.
This is just two examples and they were both in the same small Podunk town in the middle of Texas. There are many others in this small town that I will not mention and there are probably several more I do not know about.
If they can make a difference, so can you and so can I.
This Sunday’s book review is a classic: Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking
The idea of positive thinking is not new. It was not new when Norman Peale wrote his book in 1952. I may mention some of the earlier books at some point. But this book put the whole notion that you can control your life by your attitude into the limelight. Mr. and Mrs. Peale both realized that you had to be positive in whatever situation you were in or you ran the risk of never rising above that situation.
Can you think of anyone who seems to be stuck in their life? Are they positive people? You may counter that they were positive until they ran into a string of ‘bad luck’. But how long did they hold on to that positive attitude when the ‘bad luck’ hit? I bet they soon let it go and became disillusioned, disappointed, humiliated, frustrated, and angry and started showing any number of negative traits. Mr. Peale addresses what to do when you are in personal problems and how to overcome the negative thoughts that abound at such times. We all have runs of hard times but that doesn’t mean you throw out the positive.
I must warn you that Mr. Peale does have a strong faith and talks much about the use of prayer. I have used prayer myself and had great results.
Even though this book was written almost 60 years ago (all of a sudden I feel old) it still contains great advice. This is the forerunner to the Law of Attraction craze and I highly recommend it for its down to earth methods of dealing with attracting happiness and abundance into your life.
The Flowing River of Life
Posted by: Ann
February 27th, 2010 >> Energy, Manifesting, Spirituality, Vibration
I have heard so many connections between rivers, the spirit and energy lately that I wanted to write something about it.
In dream symbology, flowing water symbolizes the spirit moving.
In the Bible Jesus spoke of living water several times and in John 7:39 it says “When he said ‘living water,’ he was speaking of the Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him…” (New Living Translation). (I am not going to get into what ‘believing in him’ means that is a whole different theological treatise.)
My Feb. 18, 2010 blog speaks of the energy in all things that ‘flows’ through all things connecting all things.
All of these are talking about the same thing: the energy of life, the life force.
To be in your true spirit, your true self, the energy of life must be flowing through you.
You may think you have the energy of life in you but most of us are only living partial lives. We are stagnate ponds not fresh flowing rivers. As a stagnate pond we have no outlet and little inlet. We have the possibility of drying up or as I like to say “having been dead before you die”.
When the river of life flows through you, your energy level is high and you are free to be all you can be. With all that energy behind you nothing can hold you back and you can manifest abundance.
I have been practicing feeling the flow and I found that I am usually constricted or stagnant. But I am working on it and I know that the more open state will eventually become my normal state. Let the energy come!