Ever Felt Like This?

Ever feel as if there is no purpose to your life and each day is just the same as yesterday?  Do you feel as if you struggle through life while others have it so easy?  Ever ask yourself why am I trying so hard and nothing seems to go right for me?  What about that empty feeling you have and nothing you do seems to satisfy it?  Ever watch the news and think that if God is real why is the world so messed up?

If you’ve ever felt any of those things above you are not alone.  Everyone struggles at times to find meaning in their lives.  If you’ve ever felt like you are on a journey and you have no idea of where it will end then read on.

Some people seem to breeze through life as if they have a guide that’s always showing them the easy way.  There is such a guide and a way of living that will bring you peace and harmony in all aspects of your life, for there is a Loving Intelligent Life Force that permeates all life.  It is the Invisible Force that animates and governs all we see from the movement of the heavenly bodies, to the changing of the seasons, to the beating of your heart.  Some call this Life Force God, some call it Spirit, and others call it Universal Life.  No matter what you call it, you must realize that it is Everywhere Present, All Knowing, and All Powerful in order to fully benefit from It in your life.  This Life Force animates, maintains, and sustains you.  It’s the intelligence that orchestrates the billions of interactions that happen in your body each day that keeps you alive..

You have unlimited access to this awesome Life Force through your consciousness.  As a matter of fact, this Life Force beacons for your recognition of it.  It stands always ready to come to your aid, but it won’t come unless invited.  It knows how to guide you easily and harmoniously in accomplishing all your task, great and small.

You exist as an expression of this great Life Force as spirit, mind, and body and in order to live a fulfilled and joyful life you must recognize and balance these three aspects of your life.  For, there is a rhythm to life that once entered and maintained in makes things flow easily and harmoniously with little stress and strain.  The object of this book is to help you find and remain in that rhythm of life.

“All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.  In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.”  John 1:3-4.

You are Designed for Success

Have you ever thought about all the wonderful things that happen within your body to sustain your life?  In every breath you take there is an exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in your lungs, in every beat of your heart blood is circulated throughout your entire body, in just the movement of your fingers millions of nerve impulses happen instantaneously.   All the billions of interactions that take place within your body each minute of every day is mind blowing and they all happen without your conscious effort.

Now think about this, would a God that took the time to design such a complex and wonderful creation as you ever want you to live an ordinary life?  No, you are God's gift to the world, designed by It's hand to live an extraordinary life.  You are made for success, why else are you so magnificently created?

In What Do You Trust

Recently, I was sitting outside and enjoying a beautiful sunrise,  I could feel the warmth of the sun rays on my face bathing me in a spirit of peace and harmony.  All was good with the world in that moment.  Then, it occurred to me that I didn't have to put forth any effort to make the sun to rise and enjoy it's warmth.

Ever think about how the sun rises and sets without your effort and if for only one day the sun did not rise all life on earth would die.  There is an universal Loving Intelligence which governs the rising and the setting of the sun without any help from you and I.  This same Loving Intelligence created you and I out of Itself and will govern our lives just as It causes the sun to rise and set if we trust in It.

But, being human you and I think that we know best how to run our lives, so we struggle and strain to force our way in the world while there is a Loving Intelligence that patiently awaits to guide us effortlessly through life.  All we have to do is to totally trust in It, just as we trust the sun to rise each day.

Be Still

This morning I awoke with that anxious feeling.  My mind was full of chatter, "what am I doing in life?, where am I going with my life?, am I good enough?...."  Then I picked up one of my favorite books on meditation, went outside, and set in one of my favorite quiet places to read.  As I read I became conscious of my union with God and the more I focused on that unity the quieter the mind chatter became and the less anxious I felt.

Finally, I came to a place of complete quietness and my anxiety, and the mind chatter ceased.  Then I could hear the voice of God reassure me that all was okay and His grace was always sufficient for me.  Just as this revelation came to me I saw a robin land from above and pickup a worm for it's breakfast and I knew if God provided for a bird, He surly had provisions for me.

I was completely at peace now, filled with the consciousness of God's love and protection which can only be found in that quiet place within, which says "be still and know that I am God."  So, when you are filled with anxiety and your mind is racing with all kinds of fear, just go to that quiet place, meditate on your unity with God and be still.

The Answer is in Letting Go

Do you often you find yourself struggling to maintain something in your life whether it be your income, your health, or a relationship.  This means you are trying to do things through your own human effort.  You grit our teeth and try to plow right through the situation.  There is an easier way to live, it's called letting go and letting God.

Even Jesus, the Master Teacher said, "of myself I can do nothing, it is the Father in me that does the work."  You see Jesus knew just as all great spiritual masters know, the Power that created the Universe, and causes the sun to rise and set also created you and I.  This Loving Intelligence we call God will maintain and sustain us if we but let It do so.

Have you ever struggled with an issue for so long that it wore you down and you threw up you hands and gave up, and shortly thereafter the problem was magically solved.  That's because you gave up on solving the problem through your own human effort and you let it go and the moment you let go, God revealed the perfect answer.

You see God is your loving Father who will govern, guard, and guide you in all you do when you let go of the need to do things your way.  So, when you find yourself struggling with the problems of life, just let go and let God.

Truth Heals All

Many people struggle with a feeling that something in their lives needs fixing and they go here and there looking for the solution when all they need do is look inside themselves for the answer.  For, all healing is nothing more than the realization of your unity with God.  Seek this union in your prayers and all things in your life will be made whole, and you will lose that feeling of something needing to be fixed in your life.

One of my favorite mantras is, there is nothing to be healed, only Truth be revealed.

Thoughts are Things

Out of your mental world of thought are born the conditions and circumstances that populate your life.  Entry to the spiritual realm of harmonious living can only be attained through conscious control of your thoughts.  Until you realize that thoughts are things that you give life and you are the thinker and thus, can select the thoughts you allow to dwell in your mind and consequently direct the conditions and circumstances that appear in your life, you will live under the false idea that you are a victim of circumstance with very little control over what happens in your life.

To master your mental plane of existence is to gain control over the circumstances and conditions of your life.  In order to master your mind you have to realize three very important things.  First, you are the thinker before the thought, and thus, you are the gate keeper to the thoughts you allow to enter and dwell in your mind.  Second, you are a creative being and you are always creating something via the thoughts you allow to take root in your mind.  Third, you are never and have never been a victim of any circumstance or condition in your life.

You Are the Thinker

This is the first truth you must realize in your quest to control your mind.  Most people feel powerless as to the thoughts they entertain.  However, you are the thinker before the thought and you have the power to scan every thought and choose whether or not you will allow it into your mind.  Another way to look at it is, you are the gatekeeper to you mind and thus you choose which thoughts you let in and which thoughts you keep out.

This is not an easy task, but it is necessary if you want to change your life.  Not only are you the gatekeeper for the thoughts you allow in your mind, you have to examine your mind for the false ideas that have already taken root and are producing fruit in your life now.  Some of these false ideas you got from your parents, grandparent, and other loved ones who taught you the things about life that they have learned.  While well meaning, some of the things they taught you may now be causing some of your biggest limitations in life.  These ideas are hard to uproot because you have trusted and believed them to be true for so long

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If you are having any reoccurring problems or conditions you can’t seem to overcome it maybe that you have a deep rooted belief you are unconsciously aware of in your mental garden.  This belief was probably planted in your childhood by some well meaning people in your life, or could be a result of some deep hurt you experienced sometime in your life.  However, you must uproot this false idea if you are to change the condition.  For example, when I was a child my older brother was very out-going and I was completely the opposite.  Consequently, my brother got all the attention at my expense I thought, and I was deeply hurt.  As a result I learned to guard my heart and not to let people get very close to me.  This belief carried over into my relationships as an adult and I could never let anyone get really close to me no matter how hard I tried.  It wasn’t until I realized that unconsciously I was still carrying the same belief from my childhood that I could change my relationships.  I had to uproot that old belief before I could let people get close to me.

You also allow false ideas to unconsciously enter your mind through conversation with friends, things you read, and what you hear in the news.  You have to be vigilant of what you consciously allow to be planted in your mental garden for a thought will always produce fruit in the form of condition after its kind.

You are a Creative Being

You are always creating the circumstances and conditions of your life via your thoughts and beliefs.  What you believe to be true will always manifest in your life as a condition or circumstance.  Behind every condition and circumstance in your life is an underlying thought and belief.  If you want to know the sum total of your thoughts and beliefs, just look at the conditions and circumstances presently in your life.  This is very sobering but, must be accepted if you want to create the life that you desire.

As previously mentioned, thoughts are things and when you give a thought your attention you give it energy by allowing it to be planted in your mind.  The more attention you give the thought the more you nurture and energize it until it becomes a belief and blossoms into a condition in your life.  You are always thinking, and thus, always creating something and herein lies the problems and the solutions in your life.

Most people allow their minds to aimlessly wonder and thus, they allow random thoughts to be planted in their mental garden.  Some of these thoughts are constructive and they bloom into constructive conditions, while others are destructive and they blossom into undesirable conditions.  Consequently, most people believe the conditions and circumstances of their lives just randomly happen.  They get some things that they want and other things they don’t want.

Look at like this, you are the architect of your life and the thoughts you allow to take root in your mind is the blueprint by which your life is built.  If you don’t like the house you built you can remodel it or completely tear it down and build one you like but, you can only do this by changing your thoughts.

You Are Not a Victim of Circumstance

If you have read this far you should now realize that you are not and never have been a victim of circumstance.  No circumstance or condition can ever hold you powerless because you created the circumstance or condition through the thoughts you allowed to germinate in your mental garden. And, you can pluck out the condition causing thoughts from your mental garden just as you would pull weeds out of a physical garden.  Then, the condition or circumstance must change accordingly.

You have the inner power to create the life of your dreams.  The key to accessing this power is mastery of your mental activity.  Always remember you are the thinker before the thought and thus the gatekeeper of the thoughts you allow to be planted in your mental garden.

The Spiritual Law of Unconditional Love

The spiritual law of Unconditional Love says that there is a Loving Divine Presence at the center of your life that created you for a purpose, and loves you beyond human comprehension.   You were born with a gift, something that you can do in a special way that no one else can do.  When you trust in the Divine completely to unfold this talent in your life you will be supported and your every need will be met easily and harmoniously.

This Law supersedes all the other spiritual laws for it rests in the energy of Unconditional Love which is the highest energy there is.  Nothing is greater than the Divine’s unconditional love for Its creation and you are the Divine’s creation.  When you become conscious of this truth you know that all things are possible, for you realize that there is nothing that Divine Love cannot overcome.

The Divine wants you to be healthy, happy, and fulfilled, and in order to realize this in your life you must come to an understanding that you are the Divine expressing Itself as you.  You are united with the Divine and all of creation and nothing can dissolve this union and when you are conscious of this all things take their proper place in your life.  The Divine is always working for good on your behalf but you must be open to receive this goodness in your life; this is the point of trust.  If you could come to a place of complete trust in the Divine for your every need, your life would flow easily and harmoniously with very little stress and strain.  You would have no thought of how your needs would be met tomorrow and you could live fully each day completely pouring yourself into your life’s purpose.  How good would it feel not worry about the future and know that all your future needs would be met?  How much anxiety and stress would be alleviated from your life if you could live each day fully knowing that you would always have enough for all your tomorrows?  Trusting in the Divine’s unconditional love for you is where you will find this.

The Divine created you to express Itself in and through your life.  It knows how and will provide for your every need but, in order to do so, you must trust in the Divine completely.  The problem is most people don’t trust in the Divine to meet their daily needs.  Instead of letting their Divine gift unfold in their lives they seek things they think will satisfy their needs and once accomplished they are not fulfilled.  That unfulfilled feeling is always your soul seeking its true purpose.

Through the Law of Cause and Effect mentioned previously the Divine has given you the power to create anything in your life that you desire.   Thus, using this law intelligently to create what you want in life is the beginning of taking charge of your life.  However, most people are not fulfilled by the things they manifest in their lives because they think that material things can satisfy their desires.

Real lasting satisfaction in your life can only come in fulfilling the purpose for which you were created.  As I mentioned earlier, the Divine made you to express Itself in and through your life.  You have a Divine seed planted within you that is begging to born and this is your life’s purpose.  You can only bring this seed to fruition through Trusting the Divine and letting It govern, guard, and guide you daily. 

How do I know my life’s purpose you ask?  You can only find your life’s purpose in surrender of personal will to Divine will.  This is done by earnestly seeking Divine guidance in your life daily.

Heaven is not some place in the sky you go to when you die. Heaven is a state of consciousness of your unity with the Divine.  When you are in this state of consciousness you can materialize heavenly things right here on earth.  In your unity with the Divine you have access to all that you will ever need in life.  For the much sought after Kingdom of God is a state of consciousness of the Presence of God and when realized all your needs are met easily and harmoniously.

Practicing the Law of Non-Attachment

In my last post I spoke of the Spiritual Law of Non-Attachment.  You put the Law of Non-Attachment to work in your life by realizing that you are the creator of all your life experiences via your belief system (consciousness).  Therefore, the only way to change your experience is by changing your consciousness. When you rigidly onto to anything in your life you keep your consciousness at the level of the thing, and you stifle your growth.

The only lasting security in your life is your connection with your Inner-Self, which is where your life merges with the Divine.  This is the place of unlimited possibility and from this place you create everything that is necessary in your life.  So, you see there can never be any lasting security in material things because they are always changing.  Your connection with the Divine is eternal and is always ready to meet you at your place of need, and that is where your security is.

Daily practice the following in your quiet time.

• Give thanks for all you have and release all you have to the Divine, knowing that if something is lost in your life a way is always opened for something greater.

• Know that the Divine always provides for your every need, but It can only give you what you are conscious of receiving.

•  Know that there is unlimited possibility in uncertainty and non-attachment and this is where your security lies.

The Spiritual Law of Detachment

The Law of Detachment says not to be attached to the material things in your life, be it person, place or thing.  For you give your power to whatever it is you are attached to.  When you are attached to anything you spend your efforts trying to hold onto the thing you are attached to.  You place your trust and security in a thing and not in your Inner-Self which is the only place lasting security can be found.

Real security is in your connection with your Inner-Self which knows how to manifest and provide for your every need.  As previously stated in the Law of Cause and Effect, the things that surround your life are manifestations of your thoughts and beliefs.  Thus as you change your thought patterns and beliefs the things in your life change accordingly.  Therefore, things are temporal, corresponding to your level of consciousness of the Divine’s limitless substance and supply.

The Divine is always ready, willing and able to meet your every need in life, but It can only give you what you are ready to receive.  Thus, when you become attached to something, you keep your consciousness at the level of the thing you are attached to and you stifle your growth.  You see, when you place your security in a person, place, or thing you limit your access to Divine substance and supply because you hold your consciousness in a static place.

For example, some people are attached to money and they spend most of their time and effort trying to keep it and to accumulate more of it.  But no matter how much money they accumulate they are not secure because they are always afraid of losing it.  They place their faith in the amount of money they have in their financial investments and spend their time worrying about every fluctuation in the financial markets.  They become a prisoner of their attachment to money.

Another example is people who are attached to a luxurious lifestyle.  These are the people who live in the huge beautiful homes, drive the luxury cars, and send their children to the best private schools.   They have accumulated everything that should make for a happy life, but most of them not.  They are unhappy in their marriages, unhappy in their careers, or unhappy with the business they have created and they are unwilling to change anything for fear of losing the lifestyle they have created.  They are prisoners of a false sense of security and have traded their happiness for the symbols of material success.

I’m not advocating that you should not enjoy having money, and the luxuries of life.  I’m saying that you can have the money, the lifestyle, and happiness too if you practice the Law of Detachment.  Happiness is found in the right relationship to things in your life.  The Divine wants you to have a happy, healthy, and fulfilled life.  However, you can never find these qualities in material things, for these qualities come from an inner knowing that you have access to a Divine Power that fulfills and meets your every need.

I believe you are born with a special gift inside of you.  There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the world and when you reach inside yourself and give that special gift to the world you are happy and fulfilled.  The security you are looking for is contained in the giving of your gift and you cannot release your talents while being attached to temporal things because you will spend all your energy trying to keep things as they are.

As crazy as this may sound, the only security you will find in life is in uncertainty and non-attachment.   When you are certain that a thing is your salvation, you lock your consciousness at that level and you live your life within the limited boundaries you have created for yourself.  On the other hand, there is unlimited possibility in uncertainty and non-attachment, for the Divine in you is saying all that I have is yours and you can have all that you are conscious of receiving.