What if it is working out?

What if everything going on, the economy issues, the war issues, peace issues, health issues, and on and on, is how it looks while it's working? What if this is our access to abundant thinking, abundant living, and joy? What if we could realize this is it and laugh as we move through life?

I notice I can breathe more when I think this way, that there is nothing to get to, nothing to worry about, this is how we are doing it. We are fixing the economy, the global warming, the hunger, the peace talks, health care, the security of our lives.

This is how it looks, and I don't agree with all of it, but I'm not meant to agree 100%. I'm meant to live with contrast, diversity, growth, and find joy in that.

It just looks different than I think it should, or that my memory tells me it should look like.

That poses a freedom of thought, an acceptance of being and of how the divine works.

Slipping in Between The Cracks!

It's the day after Thanksgiving. Black Friday , as the stores have called it. That means the day will be in the black, in the flow of abundance, not in the red, or in debt.
We all put positive hopeful thoughts on today, it will be a 'sign' of the worlds shifting to prosperity thinking.
It's funny I've been taught to only trust what I can see, taste, touch and smell. But there are bigger things in this world. And those are untouchable, un-smellable, and invisible.
That is what I choose to focus on today, the important things that we cannot see with our naked eyes. Like the stars in the daytime, or the emotional connections between great friends.
That's what I call slipping in between the cracks. The things unknowlable from our current perspective.
Have a wonderful and prosperous day!

I just wish I wouldn't get upset

I can remember sitting in French class and , as I saw it, failing my French test, thinking; "I just wish I wouldn't get so upset about things why do I always get so upset?".
Somehow I decided that to get upset was one of the worst things I could do. Don't know where I got that from, no incident special, probably just life itself. But I've carried that one around for years.
Every once in a while I think I have room to get cranky or speak up, and it doesn't turn out as I think it should, and wham, I'm back to suppressing, giving up and giving in.
As far as I can tell, that's not really life, that's my conforming to a set pattern of how I've been taught to be, not being itself.
I was once told; "It's not what you say, it's who you are being, that has you be heard or not".
Sounds good but I can see I made that one more opportunity to suppress myself even more, cause obviously if you are being the right way, you will get heard, right?
Mark Joyner from Simpleology says what we need to do in this climate is get stronger. But what does getting stronger look like? More stubborn? More fierce?
Personally, I just wish I wouldn't get upset. I wish I could view all circumstances as opportunities, and joyfully embrace each one. Yeah, not quite there yet. :)

You get what you expect

I keep reading and hearing that our world is a feeling based universe. Makes sense, as before language, we were just communicating feelings, much like animals.

And I've read, ask for what you want with the feeling of already having received it. So you thank for what you want as if you have it in your hands.

I can see my flawed thinking. I've lived as if what I want is out of reach, the feelings I have on a regular basis are; not yet, or it won't really happen, or oh well, I'd better take what I can get, cause the 'real' thing ain't coming.

Now I can see my 'job' is to catch myself inside of those feelings and chang them to one of prosperity, or 'I have it already and I am grateful".

It's a harder job than I ever thought to catch myself thinking inside scarcity, lack, doubt and worry. That is so common, that's the normal way of thinking. I risk looking foolish, and like a kind of dunderhead with my mind in the clouds. I didn't realize I was so influenced by what others thought of me. Must be something I learned as I've aged, cause I certainly never cared before. Like a gentle snowfall, my worry of what others think of me has crept silently into my thoughts, indistinguishable.

So the phrase "You don't get what you want, you get what you expect" now makes more sense than ever.

Vision and Focus

I had a Great Aunt that was a concert pianist, she 'practiced' her scales on the piano everyday for at least an hour. Then she would begin to really work. She would practice the pieces she was preparing to perform, or challenge herself in playing old pieces. But she was focused on her craft.
I was wondering if we have that kind of focus these days? And can we produce the same results if we don't?
Needless to say my Great Aunt grew up in a time of no TV, or computer or Internet games, so her experience of time was different. But she also grew up in a time of having to work very hard, manual labor was how most people earned their living, and she was an expense for the family being a musician.
So how did she keep focused, and play each day when all around her the pressure to bring in money for the family, and to get married, settle down, stop all this dreaming of being a piano player must have felt insurmountable?
That really is the question each of us must ask each day of ourselves.
Oprah Winfrey has said she asks each night : "Please allow me to provide what you want from me God"
Not just one night a week, every night.
That is a million dollar prayer. A clear focus to provide what is wanted and needed, and you are the vessel through which your vision becomes a reality.
A million dollar prayer will result in a million dollar answer. But like my Aunt it takes practice, persistence, dedication.
I think dedication is something many of us fear. To really dedicate oneself to something, for no apparent reason, or if you will make money at it, just because it fulfills you.
that is true dedication.