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I wrote the original post 16 years ago and it became my most active post. I did not realize it was such a hot topic. But just the other day I came across some more information on the topic that I wanted to share.
In my February 2016 issue of Mechanical Engineering magazine that the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) publishes, there was an article titled “By the Numbers: Fewer Miles For American Cars.” This article states that Americans have consistently increased the number of miles driven through the years the only exceptions were the oil crises of 1974 and 1979, that is until 2007; At that point the number of miles driven stalled. That is not all; starting in 2008 the percentage of licensed drivers failed to keep up with population growth and during the recent recession the number of registered vehicles actually declined and still has not passed the 2007 peak.
The article goes on to say that one of the factors at work may be “the apparent disdain of the so-called Millennial generation – those born since 1983- who seem more attracted to compact, walkable cities than are older Americans.” These younger Americans are also “taking fewer trips, shorter trips and a larger share of trips via public transportation.” This article also quotes a report by the United States Public Interest Research Group, a non-profit based in Boston that said “Today’s young people drive less than previous generations of young Americans… even when economic and other factors linked to vehicle ownership or driving are taken into account.”
This is interesting information when you realize that Millennials are the largest generation in the nation.
I wonder if there may be other factors involved. A number of teens responding to the original post expressed fear of driving. Considering that 92 people were killed in roadway accidents in the US on average every day in 2012, these teens may have a legitimate point. Information from Wikipedia shows that from 1899 to 2013 there have been 3,601,732 fatalities from motor vehicle accidents in the US.
My view is that a lot of these souls who met such an end are coming back through in the millennial generation. On the soul level, they remember their previous violent deaths and are seeking to avoid the same fate this time round. I remember years ago walking through a preschool yard and passing a line of small children and hearing one of them commenting to a teacher that they were hit by a car once. The teacher was quick to say “No you weren’t”. Maybe we need to stop, listen and explore what small children are saying.
Many fears and phobias can be linked to past life experiences so why not car deaths.
I love to meditate. When I do, my day goes so much better, I am calmer and more at peace with what is going on around me. Once when meditating I asked about life plans and purpose. This is what I heard back. Everyone (or most) have more than one life plan before they come here. In living their life they make choices that send them down one plan’s path instead of the other. But for the most part, we are here to experience. To experience emotions and experience living in a linear plane where we don’t know the future.
Before we come here we know the general gist of what is going to happen. It is like going to a movie, you know what the movie is about but you still want to go and experience it for yourself. I have even rated lives as to what kind of movie it is. When I was younger my life was a musical comedy, after I got married it became more of a love story/drama.
Sometimes we come to this plane out of duty, obligation or love for someone else to help them. But even when we do that, we still intertwine personal benefits and growth for ourselves into the plan. We intend to make good use of the time spent on this plane.
Some people are here just to have fun and relax. Their experience can be compared to a vacation in a foreign country. When I was in High School I so hoped that I was just here to have fun this time. I think I had an inkling that this was going to be a difficult life, full of growth opportunities and I was dreading it a little. Well no such luck. I am here to work and work hard. I just hope that I did plan some relaxation in so I can relax and see the sites before I leave this plane.
What are your life experiences?
What are you here to experience?
Think of it as an emotion. What emotion do you tend to experience over and over, often in different ways? This may be why you are here on this plane.
I believe we all come from a spiritual realm where we can not experience certain emotions so we come here for the experience. It is like going to an amusement park and riding the scary rides. We are terrified and the adrenalin is pumping as we ride and we are glad it is over but then we run to stand in line at the next one.
Think about your experiences in your life. What emotion do the experiences seem to have in common? It is not the experience that is important but the emotion behind the experience. That is why we are here, for the emotion not the doing.
I have a theme in my life of fear. I have seen how I have had it in many situations in my life. I have had fear for my health, fear for some one else health, fear for my safety, for the safety of others. I have been on my knees sobbing in intense prayer concerning some fear in my life. Fears have concerned jobs, relationships, money and the unknown. (Not all at once). What I fear changes, maybe so I can experience a different aspect of the fear.
As I thought about this I realized there wasn’t much left that I had not been afraid of at some point in my life. That was when I decided it was time to change the theme in my life. I am ready to experience something different. I started thinking; what should I experience next in all its various forms? I decided I wanted something more positive for a nice change. I could not just knock fear out, it had to be replaced.
It was hard to not start thinking of goals to accomplish. No, I had to dig deeper and ask what emotion was behind the goals. What experience was I trying to bring about? What was the emotion I wanted to feel and what exactly did that feel like. If you can feel it you can obtain it. What emotion did I settle on?
Success!
Now this needs to be a gut feeling. How does success feel in the gut? To me I feel an energy rising from my stomach into my chest or heart area and then I feel an energy emerging from the 3rd eye. Interesting that the heart is involved; the traditional seat of love and longing. The 3rd eye to me indicates a reaching out to manifest.
The night I thought all this through, I dreamed that I was pregnant. I believe this new idea was what was manifesting in the dream.
I will have to see if this new feeling comes to fruition. I know that the fear is a habit by now and to break it will take a few weeks of concentration. When ever I start feeling the energy of fear (which resides in my shoulders) I will consciously replace it with the energy of success.
I have been thinking a lot about free will lately. That term has always confused me in the way it is used in theology but I think I am finally making sense of the term with my investigation of the ‘law of attraction’ and manifesting.
Let’s review; we are spiritual beings who are basically made of energy. If you look at the smallest physical particle of matter then look deeper past the atom past the electron you will finally get to pure energy and that is what everything is including you and me.
Since the only thing that truly exist is energy what are our thoughts? Energy of course.
Our thoughts go out and solidify into substance. The more energy (passion, effort or even continual thought) you put into something the faster it will solidify and materialize.
How does this relate to free will? You are free to think what you want, free to experience the emotions you want. You are free to send out your thoughts and create whatever you wish. This free will perpetuates itself because what you think the most about will draw those experiences and things to you to reinforce those thoughts. So you create your life through your thoughts and your free will. God wants you to use your free will otherwise God would not have given it to you.
This is a case of be careful what you wish for (or think about). When you dwell on the negative in your life you create more of it.
This is where free will gets sticky and the theological idea of “Your will not mine” comes into play. I firmly believe that God wants us to live a passionate life, one that is true to who we really are. If we are in alignment with who we truly are, then we are in alignment with God’s will. We often get sidetracked about who we are. We often insist that we are helpless, or a victim, or miserable because we have bought into what someone in the past told us or you have let a past experience tell you that is who you are now. No that was who you were then. Each moment is a different choice and you get to choose.
I am reading Earnest Hemingway’s book The Old Man and the Sea.
Is his life really that different from our daily lives? We get up and usually have a more elaborate morning routine than just drinking coffee. Then we go to work and wrestle with problems and people (usually not fish). Every once in a while we have a major event in our lives, a dark day of the soul if you like, that we have to wrestle with and either come out victorious or it kills us; it may not kill us literally but it may kill our spirit.
Usually these types of events end up changing the person involved. The involved person, evolves. This is where Hemingway lost his chance at a more in depth character development. How did this experience change the old man?
This idea of character change is very interesting to me. Jane Austin does a good job of showing the evolution of her characters in her book Sense & Sensibility.
Don’t think of the hardships in your life as limiting you. Think of them as changing you so you will be better equipped to change your world.
Shakti Gawain has a couple of workbooks that I have used in the past and continue to use even now. I bought Living in the Light Workbook (which is actually a supplement to her Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation
In Living in the Light Workbook: Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation
The Creative Visualization Workbook: Second Edition (Gawain, Shakti)
If you are searching for answers in your life, these are some great workbooks to use.
Five Ways to Prevent Worry
Posted by: Ann
July 27th, 2010 >> Energy, God, Guides, Life, Relationship, Spirituality
OK worry is bad for you. This is the general worry that freezes your mind and sends you in a panic. Some worry is helpful. Helpful worry like helpful fear is that which spurs you to action; such as a child falls in the pool and can’t swim, the fear and worry causes you to dive in after them.
No the worry I am talking about is that which limits your view; you can’t see a positive future in fact you may not see any future at all. This is the worry that stifles and prevents action. This type of worry often feeds off of itself; one worry leads to another, snowballing to the point that you give up.
How do you drag yourself out of such a place without spending a fortune on therapy? I have some suggestions.
1. Start every day by reading something positive. You can even read the same book or chapter or poem everyday. The prime requirement is that it is uplifting. No downers. Some suggested reading material is listed at the end of this article. If you are not into reading, there are many audio tapes out there with uplifting material.
2. Reaffirm you faith and belief. If you affiliate yourself with a spiritual belief, remember it. When I was going through a rough time of worry I realized I was not practicing my faith. If I truly believed what I said I believed then I had to exercise that faith. The belief that I exercised was that all things work toward good and that God would take care of me. I also believed that God wants to give you good things. When ever I start to feel down or start to worry about bills or finances I turn back to that belief and feeling that I will be taken care of, and guess what, I have been taken care of. Have hope in the future.
3. Go for a walk. The exercise will do you good, but don’t just walk, look around you. Look at the trees, the clouds, the animals and feel gratitude for each of them. In sending the gratitude you are reinitiating the energy flow that worry has choked off. Keep the energy flowing through out the day by looking up and being grateful for what ever your eyes see. Try and really feel the gratitude.
4. Talk to your spirit guides. We all have them and they really want to help but they cannot help if you don’t give them permission. Just talk to them like you would a friend you are telling your troubles to, or you could just think the conversation. Ask for their help in what is troubling you or ask for them to help you be more positive. Just having some one else to talk to can help (even if you can’t see them). You can talk to a trustworthy friend but you run the risk of that becoming a pity party or one-up-manship competition on who has the worst life. This is not the kind of thing you want to dwell on and your spirit guides will not join in your pity.
5. Be open to solutions. As soon as you start letting go of the worry and replacing it with gratitude and hope for a better future, solutions will start to come to you. You may still be in a slightly negative bent and may be tempted to automatically negate any solution that pops up but try to realize what you are doing when that happens. Pay attention to the solution and give it a legitimate look. A true solution may seem weird but as you think about it, doors will start to open to allow it to happen.
There is a way to a better, worry-free life. You can do it!
Suggested reading material:
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles down load for free from www.thesecret.tv
The Power of Positive Thinking
Moments of Grace 
Chicken Soup for the Soul
We all want to be healthy, or at least feel healthy. But why can two people do the same exercises, eat the same foods, have similar lifestyles and one be healthy and the other not? Some would say it is their genes and that has something to do with it but there is another major contributor; the persons blood type. In Dr. Peter J D’Adamo’s book Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight,
Have you heard all the success so many people have with the low carbohydrate, high protein diet, but when you try the diet you don’t lose much weight? That is because a low-carb, high-protein diet is the optimal diet for Type O blood (which is the most common blood type) and if you happen to have Type A blood that high protein diet will kill you. Type A does great with a vegetarian diet.
According to Dr. D’Adamo, Type O is the oldest blood type. It is the blood type of the hunter-gatherer and what did they eat and thrive on? Meat, poultry and fish along with nuts, berries and any wild edible plants they could find. The hunter-gatherer did not have dairy products or much in the way of grains.
Type A evolved out of Type O. These ancestors were less warlike and more settled than their Type O predecessors. Theses are the first farmers so Type A’s do well with a vegetarian diet. If you are a Type A, sticking to a diet high in vegetables, soy and pineapple but low- or no-meat, dairy, wheat and beans will cause the weight to slide off. If you grow it in your home garden, you can most likely eat it whereas a Type O could only eat the items that would naturally grow wild.
The next blood type to develop was Type B. These were the nomads and thrive on a more balanced diet. Type B is a balancing of the A and O types. Corn, buckwheat, lentils, peanuts and sesame seeds will cause a Type B to gain weight. Gee, I wish I was Type B it is a lot easier to avoid those items than all the grains a type O can’t eat. If you are a Type B and have trouble with your blood sugar levels – USE THIS DIET!
The last blood type is Type AB. This type has been around for less than a thousand years! It is the rarest of the blood types with only about 2 to 5 percent of the population having it. This is a complicated blood type. Type AB needs to avoid the foods that are bad for both Type A and Type B with a few exceptions such as tomatoes.
The book has a section for each blood type; explaining the best diet, with suggested meal plans and recipes. I have tried a number of the recipes and they have been excellent! Each blood type has a listing of foods that are categorized into meats, seafood, dairy, oils, etc. and then the foods in each category are divided into highly beneficial, neutral and “avoids”.
Being a Type O, I have found that when I stick with my high protein, low carb diet, it is easier to keep the weight off — and I feel better.
I am a member of a group called “Mindful Happiness”. We meet in Morgan’s Point Resort City every Wednesday evening. It is a great group. We talk about the Law of Attraction, Manifesting, Spirituality, all types of interesting topics. Last week we decided to try group manifesting over the next six months and the topic chosen was weight reduction. (I purposefully did not use the term weight loss because when you use the term loss your mind goes into panic that it lost something and starts looking for it and before long you weigh more than you started with.)
At our meeting tomorrow we will look at different techniques to help with this manifestation. Maybe I will invite everyone to come to my house just down the street. I have a mirror in my bathroom that makes you look thinner. I love that mirror and will miss it when we redo the bathroom (I am manifesting that right now). Some people just can’t see themselves thinner and this mirror can help them visualize. One of the keys to manifesting is to visualize exactly what you want.
We will also discuss what prevents us from believing we can weigh less and ways to overcome that limiting belief system.
We do have one person in the group that seems to manifest easily. I can hardly believe all that he has manifesting in the last two years! He will probably come in the following week 50 pounds lighter.
If you live in the Temple, Belton, Killeen area check us out on Yahoo groups and come to a meeting. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mindful-Happiness/
Manifesting and the Law of Attraction have become big topics lately. You know how you start thinking about something and then more information about it starts coming your way. This is along the lines of buying a new white Honda Civic and all of a sudden every other car you see is a white Honda Civic. I guess that is the Law of Attraction at work.
I have been bombarded with info from various areas about manifesting. One piece of information was about a woman who won almost every contest she ever entered. The one thing that this woman and all the other people I have read about have in common is Faith, the unshakable belief that something specific was going to happen. I remember having that feeling a few times when I saw a door prize and I knew that it was mine, and it was. This was a feeling as if my heart leaped out and grabbed it.
This reminds me of a woman in the town where I grew up, she was mentally retarded and lived with her mother. But this woman would find out about a contest and enter it. Having the child-like mind she had, she believed that she would receive the prize, and she often did. She and her mother had been around the world on free trips that the daughter had won! Maybe this is what Jesus meant when he said that “anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it” (Mark 10:13).
We are capable of having the kingdom of God right here and right now if we have faith. This takes this whole business of having faith and believing to a new level and since my fear left three months ago, I have been concentrating on the business of faith and I have to tell you, things are changing! It is very interesting.