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Most all cultures have something similar to the 10 commandments. What is so interesting is how theses commands and the law of attraction go hand-in-hand.

The first three pertain to what you value the most in your life. This is where you rest your hopes and your faith when you are out of options; although this should be the first place we go it is often the last. (Then again even if it is the first it will still be the last because it is our end of the road, faith stops here option.)

To really have life abundantly, you have to rely on something outside of yourself, something that is bigger than yourself. Some people call this God others call it Universal power, others may have different names but I think they are all the same. God is too big for any one person to truly know. The analogy of the blind men and the elephant fits here. We all see or feel a different part of God and may call it different things but the main thing is that God is all good and is bigger than you. Have faith in the abundance that God or the universe has for you, rely on it.

God is good, no matter that some religions try to tell you otherwise. Unfortunately, religion has given God a bad name. Don’t be burned out on God, if you have to call this power by a different name, do so. Just allow there to be something bigger out there than your mere, mortal flesh and blood body. This gives you something to rely on.

Another technique I use is to talk to my Angels and Guides. You can do the same. Tell them what you need; they can only act if you ask them to.

Thursday I will get into the rest of the commandments.

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I am big on symbolism. Many of the inconveniences and problems in life are symbols of other things that are going on in our emotional life. Our emotions have a tendency of coming out in physical form. This is what the ‘law of attraction’ is all about. In fact the more intense the emotion the faster something will manifest.

I have heard that the prayers of mothers are answered the quickest and I believe that is due to the intense nature of a mother’s prayer for her child.

However, to our dismay we often materialize the negative things in life quicker than the positive. This is because we can quickly bring up the negative emotions with more intensity that we can bring up the positive emotions. Try it right now, think of something bad and see how fast and how intense you can bring up the fear, the worry or the anger. Now think of something happy or good and see how long it takes to bring the intensity of that emotion to the same level as the negative emotion.

Some people are good with the positive emotions. I am not – yet. I am working on it. As they say, the first step is recognition of the problem.

There are techniques that can help. Vision boards give you something to focus on. Meditation can help calm a person. Prayer or talking with your spirit guides can help you realize you are not alone and it gives you someone to hand your hard problems to. But all of these are difficult when you are in the middle of the trauma that is bringing on the emotions. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow and let it wash over you and when you come out on the other side you will finally see the sun shining.

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Why do we grumble in the midst of our prosperity?

We have been doing this for thousands of years. Exodus 15-17 tells of the Israelites grumbling when they were getting low on supplies and when they could not see where the water and food would be coming from. I do the same thing except instead of grumbling I panic.

Maybe this is a human tendency. In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, food is right up there with oxygen, water and constant body temperature. These physiological needs must be met before you can move to the next level of needs which concerns safety.

When our basic needs are threatened we panic. If we are in a position where we have some but (we think) not enough, we grumble. Back to the Israelite story; God was taking care of them. Water was provided in a miraculous way and then later they forgot that and started living in scarcity mindset and started grumbling again. When manna was provided there were still some who did not trust that it would come every day and tried to save for the next day but it rotted.

I keep going through this same trust/distrust in my life. Last year, I did an experiment. All year I noted my emotional outlook: was I being positive or slipping into a scarcity mentality. What was interesting was that I would sometimes slip into the scarcity, panic mode, when everything was OK and the physical would follow the mental/emotional state, money would start to get tight and I would be barely scraping by, having to live on credit cards. I would then give myself a talking to and change my outlook. With the more positive outlook, even when there was no reason for it, the physical world around me started changing. The flow of money would open up and my needs would be met.

In Late September I decided to have a talk with my Guides and Angels. I said I wanted proof that I would be taken care of and everything would be OK. The following week, about October 7, I received a check for $115.12 from a credit card company saying they had charged too much interest. That was strange, have you ever heard of a card company doing that? Then a couple of weeks later, about October 16, I received another check from this same company saying they had not given me all the rebate money I was entitled to. This was weird.

I decided to have another talk with my guides. I told them a hundred dollars here and two hundred there was all well and good but it wasn’t going to pay the rent. I needed thousands.

Well on October 26, our local paper printed a supplement listing people for whom the state was holding unclaimed money. My husbands name was on it! Monday morning we found that we had $3692.16 available to us from some property we had sold 12 years before!

Now whenever I start to feel nervous, I remember that incident and decide to trust the process. There is help on the other side if we will just ask and trust.

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A Cry from the Womb: Healing the Heart of the World: A Guide to Healing and Helping Souls Return to the Light After Sudden Death, Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Abortion by Gwendolyn Awen Jones, is a great book for those (including men) who have lost a child through sudden death, miscarriage, stillbirth or abortion. Gwen is totally nonjudgmental but is writing from her heart in an effort to provide hope and help to those involved. This is a very private matter and Gwen handles it with in-depth understanding having had losses herself.

I know the author and knew about one of her losses but had no idea about the other traumatic events. But in this book she opens up and tells of all the anguish and heart ache that she has held hidden inside.

Gwen is a medical intuitive, spiritual teacher and healer. In her work she strives to bring peace and healing and in this book she strives for the same thing. She is very concerned with the Soul: the soul of the child involved and the soul of the adults affected.

If you are in pain and hurting due to the loss of a child, this book can be a great comfort.

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I slipped this week I had mentioned on Feb. 22, 2010 that I was giving up Excedrin for Lent. Well I lasted 21 days.

I came down with a headache that I could not shake on Monday and by Wed. morning I had enough of it. I took 2 Excedrin. It lightened the headache enough for me to be able to help at the college lunch our church does every Wednesday for the local college students. The headache was back by the afternoon, but I resisted the urge to take more Excedrin and settled for IB instead.

Excedrin may not seem like a big thing for you, but I have run into others who were addicted to it. I guess there could be worse addictions. But I am back on track and off the Excedrin again. The coffee every morning has helped keep the headaches at bay.

My husband went to a get a blood test today and I went along. In the lobby was one of those TV’s that run the medical propaganda – infomercials. They had a segment on migraines and mentioned that a little caffeine can help a migraine because it affects the blood vessels in the brain. Excedrin has caffeine so it is really the caffeine I am addicted to not the Excedrin. But the Excedrin does provide a nice little buzz and I can even feel it tingling on my tongue before I even take one.

But I am determined. The 21 days was a very long stretch for me. I am not sure I have been clear of Excedrin for that long of a time since my twenties (which was a long time ago).

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Remember the Simon and Garfunkel song “The Sounds of Silence”? They approached the ‘sounds’ of silence. I am going deeper. What about the emotions behind silence. How do you handle silence?

I have known people who seemed uncomfortable in silence. When I was little, every time I visited one of my friends, their TV was always on. No one was listening to it or even in the same room as it, but it was always on. Then there were the times I went some where with my dad and there would be total silence in the car. Neither of us spoke, but I was totally comfortable.

Some people just can’t deal with silence. They have to have noise to invade their mind. Maybe they are afraid of what their mind will come up with. I have heard some one say that they were afraid of getting lost in their thoughts and not be able to find their way out. Is that for real? What kind of a person are you? Are you totally comfortable in silence? Or do you have to speak to break the silence?

At my church we have a silent prayer time which only last about 30 seconds. I get the feeling that some people are uncomfortable with that short 30 seconds, while others like me would like to have a longer time. Gee, 30 seconds is barely enough time to quiet my mind. I have heard that Norman Vincent Peale had a 5 minute silent prayer time in his Sunday sermons. That is enough time to get centered and actually commune with a higher being.

Just being silent is not enough because even when we are silent, our mind is noisy. Meditation is learning to quiet the mind. I love to meditate. Meditation has a calming effect to prepare me for the hectic day to come. Meditation gets me in touch with my inner self. Give it a try for yourself, you may get to know yourself better.

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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. But I keep bumping into the concept. Just last Sunday I ran into this reading Job. Job is a character who loses everything but his nagging wife. He has even lost his health. Three friends come to commiserate with him and give their ill advice. A 4th person pops in and puts his 2 cents in (I think he had the best advice) then God interrupts and says to be content and to basically live in the now. That is what I read. Read it yourself, it’s in the Bible.

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.

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I was raised Southern Baptist and never knew much about Lent. To me it was something weird the Catholics down the street did. Then when I was on my own, I joined the Methodist Church: it seemed to fit my beliefs better. All of a sudden I was confronted with all of these terms that I had always associated with Catholics, one of which was Lent.

Every year I would hear discussions of what some one was giving up for Lent. I always thought it was strange. Why would I give something up? I was struggling as it was, trying to believe that God wanted us to live in abundance!
Here is my train of thought. God is all powerful (check, I have always believed that). God is all knowing (check again). God is abundance (not as strong of a check, but hey I’ll go with it). God wants us to live in abundance (ok, this is where the struggle begins).

I have come a long way from when I thought that God wanted us to give everything away and live under a bridge but it was still a struggle. I knew that giving anything up for Lent would just set me back in my struggle. To me giving anything up was more of a slap in the face of God than a honoring of God. How do you feel when you try to give something to someone and they won’t take it? Think about the last time you gave someone a compliment and instead of saying ‘thank you’ they negated it by not accepting it or by making light of it. How did that make you feel? Did you want to give them another compliment any time soon? I am not saying that God has human emotions and motives but that is what I have to work with.

This year I am looking at it a little different. I am going to honor God and myself by giving something up. The reason this is going to honor God and myself is because I do not need this and it is really hurting me in the long run. What I am giving up is Excedrin!

You were expecting something a little grander weren’t you?

I admit, I am addicted to Excedrin and I know that many of the daily headaches I get are Excedrin induced. I got addicted to it when I was in college (30 years ago) and came home with a bad headache and tried Excedrin and was amazed that my headache was actually gone in 20 minutes! Nothing ever took my headaches away before! Then every time I started to get a light headache I would take an Excedrin because I was afraid the headache would grow into a migraine if I did not do something.

Every once in a while I will get off the Excedrin then a migraine would occur and I couldn’t stand it and would take an Excedrin and finally get rid of it. But then I would be back on taking Excedrin everyday.

This time will be the longest stretch that I would have given Excedrin up (that is if I make it). I survived without Excedrin before I can survive without it again. I have a headache.

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It’s book review Sunday!

This is a book I have read several times. Every once in a while I need a pick-me-up and this book is the ticket. Neale Donald Walsch the author of Conversations with God did a great job with Moments of Grace: When God Touches Our Lives Unexpectedly
. Actually he did very little writing in this book, he is relaying stories others sent him about their personal experiences.
In Neale’s own words “This book is about moments in our lives when God steps in and gives us a great big hug….. These are stories about real life and real people. Folks sent them to me. Because I asked them to. I wanted to know if my experience of God was really so different from everyone else’s, or if, as I suspected, we all are having pretty much the same experience, but I’m the only one who’s talking about it. Or one of the very few.”

I have read stories out of this book to people who come to me questioning the meaning of life and those who wonder if miracles happen. I also tell them a few of my own stories. Yes there is purpose to all this! Yes there is a guiding light or energy out there!

If you don’t want to buy it, at least check it out of the library. But I bet you will want to own it after you read it.

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I was thinking about the Garden of Eden story today. There are two points I wish to make.

The 1st is a rather simple statement. If you have no knowledge of good or evil, then you would not understand that eating what you are told not to eat is evil and not good?

The 2nd is viewing the whole story as allegorical. I got this idea from my dear husband.

The Garden can be viewed as Abundance. Adam and Eve were living in abundance, they had everything they could want or need. The eating of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil is the awakening of the idea of scarcity into their lives. If you live with the mindset of scarcity you can no longer live in abundance. The two cannot coexist in the same mind. You are either living out of scarcity or living out of abundance. When they shifted to scarcity, they saw they were lacking, they hid because they were naked (lacking). So they had to leave the Garden – abundance.

God is abundance, God is the energy of the universe and so God is all things. When Adam and Eve experienced scarcity they also experienced a loss of the intimate relationship with God because abundance and scarcity cannot coexist.

This Garden of Eden is actually a mindset. We can go (and are going) back there but we must first release this concept of scarcity so we are free to embrace the abundance. It is very hard to release scarcity. We see it every time we pay bills at the beginning of the month. We see it every time we go to the grocery store and see a limited amount of cans on the shelves. We experience scarcity every time we turn on the TV news. As long as we see scarcity we are still in scarcity.

How can we overcome this mindset?

Express gratitude in all you see and experience. Be grateful even for the “problems” in your life, as you don’t know what benefits they will provide you.

Use affirmations about the future but phrase it in current terms such as “I have plenty to share”.

See abundance in your life where you have it. Is it friends, is it love, is it money, is it time? What ever it is, rejoice in it.

Use EFT or Meridian Tapping to help you get rid of the negative emotional obstacles in your life. If you don’t know about this check into www.naturallyresilient.com

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