MASTERFUL LIVING

Will America Be An Enabler Through Health Care?

During these times of campaigning and debates I hear so much talk about universal health care for all Americans. While I agree that those who desire and treasure a happy  and healthy lifestyle should have an opportunity to pursue such an objective, I wonder if it can be offered without stipulations or certain conditions. Considering the current lifestyles of most people in our culture if universal health care would be offered, in my view it would be abused and consequently, futile.

Let us consider possible abuses. At the top of the list of abuses are unprotected sex, drugs and smoking cigarettes; conditions that have been proven to be harmful to the health of an individual. Next, consider diet. So many Americans either over eat or eat the wrong foods on a regular basis. Parents condition their kids to fast, unhealthy foods by taking them to a fast food restaurant as a reward for good behavior or good grades. They grow up eating that stuff as a matter of habit. Next, Americans are, for the most part, sedentary and inactive, getting no exercise for their bodies, which contributes to various diseases. In that sedentary condition they watch all manner of violence on the TV that poisons their minds and render them excessively negative, causing all manner of diseases, including stress and high blood pressure. These are a few examples of the abuses we inflict on ourselves. In light of these few examples of unhealthy lifestyles I believe it is ludicrous to offer universal health care. Hospitals and doctors' offices would be flooded by people who's lifestyles are so unhealthy.

I will share with you an extremely painful personal experience that will hopefully, explain what I mean. My youngest of four sons at the age of fifteen decided he would experiment with drugs. As a result of that experiment he was never to be free of drugs again. I became an enabling parent because I used my influence in the communities in which we lived to bail him out of his many, many transgressions. I invested thousands of dollars getting him out all manner of difficulties. Though personally stricken with cancer and being very weak I never missed a day visiting him in jail. I always had the hope that this next deed would get him over his addiction and restore him to the life I hoped he could live. I wont go on and on citing examples of the enabling I afforded him. Suffice it to say that I spent nearly all I had in terms of money, emotion and energy to try to save him. Nothing worked.

In the end I was nearly bankrupt and he was no better. At my wits end I had to turn him into the streets where he lived for another ten years, getting no better, while at the same time using government resources in city after city trying to recover and survive. nothing worked and at the rich age of 36 he overdosed.

Please understand that I am not a doom sayer and the last thing I would want to do is to cast a negative pall over the good we should seek to do for each other in this culture. But I have to believe that if we don't require people to change their lifestyles, America will suffer the same fate that I cite in my one example. I waited too long to set conditions for my son and in the end I was nearly broke and he was in  the street living off of the government. I conclude by saying that I was an enabler of the worst kind but I learned one great lesson: we must be held accountable for our actions and no amount of enabling will help if there are no established, firm conditions.

I believe that universal health care without conditions will bankrupt America. There will be immeasurable abuses such as hospital and doctors visits for the least of reasons. Commercials will continue to beckon us to unhealthy ways of life while the government covers the tab. The right hand will see what the left hand is doing while it pays for it.

Please share your thoughts with me.

The Law of Growth and Expansion

The Law of Growth and Expansion

That much gathers more is true on every plane of existence and that loss leads to greater loss is equally true.

Mind is creative, and conditions, environment and all experiences in life are the result of our habitual or predominant mental attitude. Charles Haanel—The Master Key System

There is actually a Universal Law of growth and expansion and we perpetuate that growth and expansion in our lives by our thoughts. This law is as dependable as the law of gravity, electricity, ether, attraction or other laws of nature. Growth is inherent in the Universe and cannot be stopped. By this law the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer, because each has a mind set that perpetuates itself and continues on in the direction begun. In order to reverse the pattern there must be some form of interruption that causes the individual to change his/her attitude, and thereby change his/ her condition.

All laws of nature are perfect and infallibly responsive to our consistent pattern of thought. They don’t work some of the time but rather all of the time. When we see a beautiful rose we don’t conjecture that the rose causes a seed but rather a seed causes the rose. What is in the seed must be expressed and in the season of roses, the bush grows and sprouts more roses. When we see a mighty oak tree, although it grows acorns in season, that oak tree was once in the acorn. We witness such massive growth in the tree and for many, many years it just grows. Because of the perfect law of growth and expansion it must continue.

Because nature does not make judgments, its law is that everything in nature grows. Within every human being the same identical thing is happening in our minds. In light of our higher intelligence we have the full authority to make choices. Whether we know the law or we are ignorant of it, it works perfectly. We continue to reap the harvest from the seeds we are planting in our minds. When the rich gets richer they are likely to say, “I told you so.” As the poor gets poorer, they utter the same.

In earlier times I loved to work in my yard. I learned so many lessons from the grass, weeds and the plants. Wanting a beautifully manicured lawn, was one of the more challenging experiences of my life. No matter how hard I tried to keep weeds and grass out of my flower beds they would just grow through any barriers I placed over them. Weeds would actually move sidewalks and grow between the dividers in the driveway and between the openings in the steps. It was sometimes very frustrating but I knew I had to live with the forces of nature by spending much time counteracting the force called growth. Even some of my plants had to be continually trimmed and pruned because of this law. I simply couldn’t find any measure that would inhibit it.

The crowning realization came when my wife, now deceased, gave me an assignment that I thought was ridiculous and, impossible. For years she was a serious rock collector and from her high school and our college days, every time she saw an interesting rock she would pick it up and add it to her collection. By the time we purchased our home she had hundreds of interesting rocks. The assignment was to build a rock garden in the corner of our front yard. That was easy, but when she explained how she wanted it done I was blown away. She said: “Take that large boulder from the backyard and place it in the center of the garden. Then I want you to plant tulips throughout the garden. Next purchase small rocks and spread them throughout the garden. Place larger rocks on top of the small rocks, then spread my collection over the larger rocks.”

I had a lot of respect for my wife but at those instructions I thought she had lost something. Those tulips were smothered with rocks and for the life of me, I thought I had wasted a lot of money on tulips. When Spring arrived I went to that garden every day. In a short time I was amazed to see rocks being moved and tulips growing around them. What a beautiful garden in the corner of our yard. At least one neighbor complimented us every day about the beauty of the garden.

Everyone reading this must bear in mind that the law works perfectly and our challenge in responding to this or any law is to think. Although I hope you will think prosperity, health and wealth, I will not attempt to tell you how to orient your thinking, but I will tell you this, no matter what your thoughts are, they will manifest and grow in kind, with the same or greater power of those tulips. Asking your thoughts not to grow and manifest is tantamount to stepping off the roof of a building and asking not to hit the ground. You will hit the ground, gravity is perfect and it insists that you go down.  Similarly, whatever you think will grow. It’s the law.

The next time some seemingly uncaring and unsympathetic person says to you, “You are responsible for the negative conditions in your life”, take them seriously and check your thought patterns. The beauty is that growth is only for a season. You have the power to change seasons at any time. Aren’t you happy that the law is perfect and gives you what you seek, negative or otherwise, knowingly or unknowingly. We have not been dealt a bad hand; we have simply been given a power that we are using incorrectly.

Tadpole Or A Frog: A Wish Or A Command

                                                                           

There is a world within – a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and life and beauty and, although invisible, its forces are mighty.  Charles Haanel

Often we speak our desires with little more strength than a wish. When our wishes don’t happen we wonder why. Well let me tell you what I have discovered in my own experience. In the past I have made statements and affirmations about what I wanted to have, do or be and they sounded like tingling brass, something that was shallow and void.

When we express a desire and an intention, we must do it with conviction. That means attaching much faith, conviction, will and expectation to it. In other words, feel it in the depth of our souls. Anything in the invisible soul is sure to be a reality and will be enjoyed or detested according to our positive or nrgative thoughts. In my own experience that which I merely wished for seldom came about.

I have always had this vision of my real desires having a flair of certainty as opposed to a wish which I would affirm but it didn’t go anywhere. Like a balloon without helium, it just wouldn’t go up at all. It was like there was a trailer on my affirmation with a tail of wishing that would not fly. The affirmation was a good one but it had a tail of wish rather than a command.

When I was a young boy my friend “Bubba” Hiller and I would go to this pond and sit for periods of time just studying the tadpoles. We simply thought that a tadpole was just that, a tadpole; a small fish with a tail.

Then one day this old man passed by as we were watching the many tadpoles flurrying along and he asked us what we were watching. We responded by telling him that we were just watching the tadpoles swim. He posed a question to us that we could not answer. He asked, “ Do you know what those tadpoles are gonna be?” Our innocent reply was: “Naw suh.” “Someday they’re become Frogs”, he said. We were amazed because we had seen frogs jumping around at night all over the place. That was a big “Wow” for us.

From that day on, “Bubba” and I developed a prophecy about the tadpoles. As we watched them swim in the past, we noticed that some tadpoles swam with much grace and strength, while others were less graceful and appeared weaker as they wiggled their tails and moved through the water. From that observation we developed a boyhood prophesy that the ones that seemed weaker and lacking in the power of wagging their tails would not make it to be frogs. The wagging of their tails was too weak and so we made this prophesy, unscientific of course, but in our young minds anything was possible. So at night we expected to see the frogs who had wagged their tails with power and grace.

Yes, a silly boyhood story, but it occurred to me recently that some of my desires had weak tails on them just like the tadpoles that we predicted would never become frogs. They were great desires but they had only weak tails like some of the tadpoles. They swam, but in our judgment they were too weak to be frogs.

Ask yourself are your desires swimming with a tail of wishes or are they strong like the tadpoles who swam with power? Be assured that a desire with a tail of weakness we call wishing will never bring you to the point of realizing your desire. Attach power, will and commands to your desires and you will, like our prediction about the tadpoles, become what you desire, have what you want and live the life you want. Just remove the weak tail of wishing from your desire and you will become the real thing.

Wishing doesn’t build strong people and, in the prophesy of Bubba and me, it doesn’t make tadpoles into frogs.

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There is a world within – a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and life and beauty and, although invisible, its forces are mighty.  Charles Haanel

Often we speak our desires with little more strength than a wish. When our wishes don’t happen we wonder why. Well let me tell you what I have discovered in my own experience. In the past I have made statements and affirmations about what I wanted to have, do or be and they sounded like tingling brass, something that was shallow and void.

When we express a desire and an intention, we must do it with conviction. That means attaching much faith, conviction, will and expectation to it. In other words, feel it in the depth of our souls. Anything in the invisible soul is sure to be a reality and will be enjoyed or detested according to our positive or nrgative thoughts. In my own experience that which I merely wished for seldom came about.

I have always had this vision of my real desires having a flair of certainty as opposed to a wish which I would affirm but it didn’t go anywhere. Like a balloon without helium, it just wouldn’t go up at all. It was like there was a trailer on my affirmation with a tail of wishing that would not fly. The affirmation was a good one but it had a tail of wish rather than a command.

When I was a young boy my friend “Bubba” Hiller and I would go to this pond and sit for periods of time just studying the tadpoles. We simply thought that a tadpole was just that, a tadpole; a small fish with a tail.

Then one day this old man passed by as we were watching the many tadpoles flurrying along and he asked us what we were watching. We responded by telling him that we were just watching the tadpoles swim. He posed a question to us that we could not answer. He asked, “ Do you know what those tadpoles are gonna be?” Our innocent reply was: “Naw suh.” “Someday they’re become Frogs”, he said. We were amazed because we had seen frogs jumping around at night all over the place. That was a big “Wow” for us.

From that day on, “Bubba” and I developed a prophecy about the tadpoles. As we watched them swim in the past, we noticed that some tadpoles swam with much grace and strength, while others were less graceful and appeared weaker as they wiggled their tails and moved through the water. From that observation we developed a boyhood prophesy that the ones that seemed weaker and lacking in the power of wagging their tails would not make it to be frogs. The wagging of their tails was too weak and so we made this prophesy, unscientific of course, but in our young minds anything was possible. So at night we expected to see the frogs who had wagged their tails with power and grace.

Yes, a silly boyhood story, but it occurred to me recently that some of my desires had weak tails on them just like the tadpoles that we predicted would never become frogs. They were great desires but they had only weak tails like some of the tadpoles. They swam, but in our judgment they were too weak to be frogs.

Ask yourself are your desires swimming with a tail of wishes or are they strong like the tadpoles who swam with power? Be assured that a desire with a tail of weakness we call wishing will never bring you to the point of realizing your desire. Attach power, will and commands to your desires and you will, like our prediction about the tadpoles, become what you desire, have what you want and live the life you want. Just remove the weak tail of wishing from your desire and you will become the real thing.

Wishing doesn’t build strong people and, in the prophesy of Bubba and me, it doesn’t make tadpoles into frogs.

Revelation or Revolution

For a number of years I have perceived the American culture had within it certain inconsistencies and misconceptions that were very harmful and, as a result, deserved to be branded a culture of lies. Today it is becoming so clear that the myths we have lived by for so long should require us to repent and really question ourselves in every aspect of our American culture.

I have long observed and personally proven that the color of one’s skin made no difference in the performance of an individual. When I first entered the military as a young officer I was so frightened of having to go to officers’ basic training competing against White officers from some of the major “White colleges.” Why did I feel this way? Because all of my life up to that time I lived in an environment in Columbia, South Carolina that drilled into African-Americans that they were inferior in intelligence and ability. In fact, there were pseudo-scientists who claimed to have evidence of this “fact”

This was so prevalent that I thought my education at a Black College, North Carolina A&T, was inferior to that of the men who I now had to compete against for a position in the military. There were seventy-seven Whites and three Blacks in my officers’ basic class. I must confess that I thought the three of us had no chance. At graduation time I was thoroughly confused when ten white officers failed and were dismissed from the service. The three blacks, including myself, all finished in the top 29.

At my first permanent duty station I commanded a platoon of 22 men, mostly white. After two years in various assignments I received a commendation for excellence in leadership and performance. For the next eleven years I excelled in every assignment. The American lie about the color of one’s skin rendered him or her inferior and lacking in intelligence completely unfolded before my eyes. There can be no greater proof to anyone than his ability to disprove something to himself. America lied to me and tried to enforce it in my early years.

Also, growing up it was a part of our religious culture that women were inferior to men and their places were in the home doing domestic chores and carrying out the commands of the men. My mother was one of the most strong- willed persons I’ve ever known. She never accepted this status and, as a result I feared for her because, to my mind, she would get into trouble. She was very bright, strong willed and she stood her ground at all times in church and in the community. Now, the inferiority and subordinate lie about women is being disproved in every walk of life. Hence, lie number two. Someone should tell the Southern Baptists that women are leading in all walks of life.

Today, the lies are being put to rest right before our eyes in a very explicit and conclusive way. An African American male and a White woman are the front running, very well qualified candidates for the leading position in the world, the presidency of the United States.

Interestingly, the species once considered the superior being among us all, the White male (John Edwards), is lagging far behind. What could be more profound and conclusive than this? If this doesn’t cause us to look closely at ourselves then we are decidedly in a coma.

There is another lie that has been disgracefully perpetrated on the American people that I am disproving and I challenge others to follow me in disproving. That is the lie of uselessness as you age beyond 65. Our entire culture is predicated on this lie. Let’s defy this waste of human capital.

Tragically, each of these lies is interpreted from the Bible. But then I conclude that the Ku Klux Klan justified its existence on the Bible. Apparently the Bible can be used to support any claim.

What we are revealing right before our eyes should bring about a revolution as we search for truth. If not, the coma continues. What will you do?

The Three "R's": One of Life's Great Mysteries

In my life time I have had numerous exciting experiences, some with life and death implications and I learned a great deal from them. But one that stands out in my mind as a remarkable experience and mystery happened in 1975. After a "mysterious event" occurs and you stop and reflect on it, it seems simple, but even until this day it is still tough to live by the principle I am about to mention. However, it does wonders.

In that year I had been in business for only three years and money was very tight. In spite of the lack of money, I longed for a nice comfortable home for my wife and four sons. We had been renting and moving around for quite some time and now it was time to settle down and give our sons a good home.

I knew we were out looking at homes prematurely, because we had no money for down payment. I felt it wise to save our money and get my credit rating in order. Each time we went out to look, I observed the agony and disappointment in my wife's face.

One Saturday we went to this brand new housing development to look at the new homes and we came across one that my wife really loved. It grieved me to see the excitement on her face, knowing I had no means of fulfilling her dream of home ownership. I simply could not bear it anymore and on the following Sunday afternoon I made a decision. I said to myself I will not put my wife through this anymore; enough is enough. We will not go looking at homes until we have the money to buy one.

On Monday, before noon the Realtor who had been showing us homes called to inform me that she had observed how badly we wanted a home, so she talked with her boss, the builder, about our situation. This builder had been taking a few homes as trade-ins and the inventory was getting rather large. Her next words floored me as she said,"My builder cannot let you have the new home you have been looking at but we do have an identical home that is only three years old over on another street." She continued with more amazing words: "He says if you can come up with $2500.00 he will carry the mortgage for eighteen months until you can get your affairs in order." I rushed out to see the home being offered and it was immaculate and, indeed, the exact same floor plan.

Even though I knew I was "maxed" out on my line of credit, I rushed to my bank to tell the president the good news and ask for an exception. First he reminded me that I was at the limit but because of my story he would make an exception. By the close of business on that Monday the Builder had received my deposit and all was clear to move into our wonderful home in three weeks.

In three weeks we moved into that home and there we raised our four sons in comfort and style.  Three of the four went off to college from that home as we enjoyed ten glorious years there.

So what is the lesson? In our culture we tend to look in one direction for answers to our problems and our goals. Personally, I thought at the time that money was the answer to nearly every need. I certainly had no idea that builders took homes in trade. Most of us being unaware of the infinite possibilities of our great Universal Mind we tend to seek answers to our goals and problems on a conscious level based on what we know, when, at the same time, our Universal Mind has an infinite number of ways of leading us to achieve our goals and solving our problems. While our conscious minds are rigidly focused on the one way we know, we fail to open ourselves to limitless other possibilities. I refer to them as 360 degree possibilities because they are all around us. Answers are all around us and if we would do three simple things, Relax and Release, we would Receive (The Three "R's). We would experience many more wonders in our lives.

On that Sunday when I thought I was giving up, I was actually relaxing and releasing. The next day I received. I have done this many times since and it works each time I have the presence of mind to let it work. I hasten to point out, however, that it does not always happen as rapidly as on this ocassion. Moreover, there are times when we receive instructions to perform certain acts to achieve what we seek, but even then it works in wondrous ways.

We are awash in an ocean of possibilities, yet we are in that ocean hanging on to an old worn out raft that is no longer useful and is getting us nowhere. My swimming instructor used to tell me to relax and let the water carry me. That was just as difficult but I know it works. Relax in the ocean of possibilities and let the tides of good fortune carry you to your destiny, sometimes stroking and sometimes riding the waves.

My mother often used a biblical quote: "The Lord works in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform." In the current language I would say, Universal Mind has as many wonders for us as we can handle but to most of us it is mysterious. For Universal Mind, its just another day at the office, if we would Relax, Release, we will Receive.

Let's Live The Good News

"If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.” Mahatma Ghandi.

As a young boy I was required to go to church and exhorted to believe the gospel as presented in the bible. For many years I secretly had many questions that were never answered to my satisfaction. I was taught that the meaning of the word gospel as presented in the bible was "good news". To me, there was little good new associated with the lifestyle of our culture.

Because the news didn't seem to be so good to me I studied and restudied the scriptures searching for the good news as presented and nurtured into us by our Christian churches and our American culture as a whole. It appeared that what we were calling good news was replete with guilt, fear, defeat and hope for a better life at another time, in another place.

Why did I come to this conclusion? There are numerous answers that could fill several books but I will address only one here.

We live in a culture that is supposedly based on the bible, yet there is a generally accepted pattern of life which denigrates us. We proclaims ourselves to be a Christian nation ( questionable) based, in part on the "good news" as stated in the gospels of the bible.

The common scenario of life in this culture is that we are reared to go to school and get an education, get a job, work for thirty or forty years in a job that, heretofore the majority of us have hated; retire and enjoy a few years of retirement, if we can afford it. If we can't afford it we scratch for a mere existence.

Further, at a certain age, again if we can afford it, we go to a nursing facility or some such home, destined to sit and stare at walls, being useless until we die. What is the good news in this scenario? Yet, that is the general scenario that describes the fate of the majority of the people in the American society. 

Clearly, if this is all there is, by our proclamation we have a culture that is truly denigrating. This is far removed from gospel as taught by Jesus Christ.

Will someone please explain to me what is good news about becoming helpless and infirm at a certain age; about being here on earth with all of our divine potential and capabilities waiting 2000+ years for the return of a man, much like ourselves--Jesus-- to save us from ourselves and empower us. If he was as great as we proclaim, why could he not do it the first time. In my view he did.

Jesus was a great teacher and not only did he teach, but he demonstrated to us our capabilities. Our culture has instilled in us such fear and guilt that we fail to actualize the great power that is in each of us. Jesus performed his purpose very well but most of us are self-proclaimed poor students. To my knowledge, he claimed that we could do what he did and even greater. If we must wait 2000 or more years for him to return to teach us again, our fate is pathetic. For many of us, it is clear we will never learn.

I am excited to join the Baby Boomers in their tenacity and courage to change the mind set and landscape of this archaic culture. Here I lay down a challenge to each one in this American, "Christian" culture, to follow the example of Jesus and many other great explorers and leaders throughout history and live now!

Jesus was indeed an example of our capabilities. He taught all we needed to learn. I learned it and now I proclaim myself to be the same as he. If he returns, fine. If he does not return I will, as long as I live, continue in the quest to get the best from life and master it. I have learned that what he taught is sufficient for me to face any challenge, overcome any obstacle, live any way I want-- abundantly.

The Boomers appear to get this message also. And so it is for all.

Accept the challenge to live now. Let me make it clear, I believe that any one of us, regardless of religious persuasion, can live the life Jesus taught. Christians have no monopoly on what our Creator has designed into us. There can be no walls between mankind and the Spirit. As it is written: "I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh." Jesus knew this and so can we. 

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Your Resolution: Myth or Farce

Normally I don’t make resolutions on January 1^st of any year because for me any day I awaken is a new year. If something comes to me that needs attention or a resolution for change I do it on that date or I reject it if I'm not ready to commit; sometimes to my peril. There are many myths and farces in our culture, among them is the new years resolution.

As an example: I have been going to the gym an average of five days per week for the last 28 years. During the first 15 days of each new year it is a problem getting through the crowd. The equipment that I usually exercise on is crowded and thus my workout periods takes twice as much time as a normal day in the year. After experiencing this for all these years I take courage in knowing the crowd will begin to dwindle in seven days and in fourteen days all will be normal again. I will begin to see the regulars who have been lost in the crowd.

Pardon me if I sound a little critical but I have to wonder why resolve if you don’t intend to do it. In my research I find that resolution is a derivative of the word resolve, which is defined as the mental or moral strength to venture, persevere and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.

Interestingly, resolve is a synonym of courage, mettle, spirit and tenacity. Further, courage implies firmness of mind and will in the face of danger or extreme difficulty.

It is important and, to my mind, a service to each reader of my blogs to ask if you take all of the factors of resolve and courage into account before you make a resolution of any type at any time of the year, regarding any issue?

It should be borne in mind that each time we fail in our resolves, the more we feel as a failure. The more the failure account builds up, the more we brand ourselves, consciously or unconsciously, a failure.

I advise you to think through each resolution and be analytical and decisive before resolving to do it. It is better not to resolve at all than to “resolve” and not follow through.

During the coming blogs I will be addressing numerous other myths of our culture that render us weaker and less productive than we are capable of being. The time is here that we explore life and live as God intended.

MAY YOU RESOLVE TO PROSPER AND RESOLUTELY DO IT DURING THE COMING MONTHS.

There is Only Now

My world renown surgeon told me that I had a three percent chance of living beyond six months due to a rare kidney cancer called Renal Cell Carcinoma. That was nearly twenty years ago. I held on to the following thoughts as I exercised daily:

The Universal Mind only knows Now. To say tomorrow
> does not compute in Universality, therefore, to it
> tomorrow is the same as not even expecting. The old
> cliche, "tomorrow never comes" is extremely
> accurate.  We must understand that there is no space
> or time in Omnipresence. So when we say "tomorrow"
> that means we are not in harmony with Universal
> Mind, so it does not know that we even want
> anything. What we are seeking is as nothing.
   
> It may seem very silly to proclaim that
> you have that house on the ocean right now (or whatever it is that you seek) when all
> the while you are living far inland. People are
> committed to mental institutions for such as this. Whenever
> you get what you seek, to the universal mind it will
> be Now and so it must be to you as well. The more
> you cling to NOW! believing you are achieving what
> you seek, it will be yours.
>   
>   Here is a suggested way of achieving this:
>         Develop the courage to say it is mine now.
>         Have the faith that it is happening
>         Act as if.
>         Earnestly expect
>         Release it. Relax(Verrrrrrry important)
>         Take the prescribed actions that are sure to
>         come from your creative mind.
>         Affirm the following until you memorize it
>         and sincerely believe it:
>         In my unlimited Universal Mind I
>          already have and am being all that I can ever want 
>          and be. It is bringing it to pass in this and every
>          succeeding moment. In each moment I am actualizing
>          and living my full potential in It. Because of this,
>          I am overcoming every obstacle; with confidence, I
>          am facing and solving every problem as I enjoy
>          bountiful success in my purpose and abundance in my
>          life. Now unto Him (It) who is able to do
>          exceedingly, abundantly above all we ask or think,
>         according to the power that works in us, I am
>         completely attached.

          Repeat these words often.

>   No matter what is going on around you stick to the
> above as you practice mental discipline and focus..
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Our Thoughts Make Us What We Are

For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. Hamlet

                                                                                                      William Shakespeare

An event happens in your life. The event is just that, an event; it has no connotations of severity, positive or negative. The feelings about it is a decision from within. We alone decide whether it is good or bad, positive or negative, painful or joyful. Once the decision is made in response to the event, the brain takes over and provides the proper emotion to accompany the decision.

Although many of our responses have now become conditioned to reoccurring events, it is necessary to become aware of the fact that it is all happening by choice and we can consciously choose to change the conditioning and enjoy a more responsible and joyous life of mastery.

We all need to accept the fact that anything relating to and happening in our lives is our responsibility and can be controlled by us. It is somehow comforting to blame conditions in our lives on others, circumstances,upbringing, DNA; and often, even God. Do this little exercise: decide to take action and follow a plan and you will overcome whatever it is in your life that is undesirable. By the same means you can bring about the desirable. Do this regularly and you will see that others may have caused it but you must take responsibility for changing it. After a few times of successfully changing conditions, notice the power surge and the expansion of confidence in your mind.

Life is all about thought. It has the power to move energy and create whatever circumstances we want but we must first accept full responsibility. To get a more thorough understanding of how this works, go to my website: charles-king-masterful-living .com and read the free e-book: Lifelong Lessons From a Schoolyard Bully. I believe this will make it all clear.

Make thanks giving a daily event----Happy Thanksgiving