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Prickles

We all have rocks and prickles in our lives in one form or another.  It’s our little insecurities that either take us upwards on the road to success or take us downward into failure.  Me, I prefer success.

I’ve shared with you dozens of times that I made lemonade out of obesity. I used it as the main catalyst for my success both spiritually and in business. I believe it is the dish I got handed, so why not use it to it’s fullest advantage?

What have you been handed?  If you’re reading this blog, I’m going to hazard a guess that you have weight and size issues as I did.  Or maybe you’re one of the lucky readers who just love what I write and can see it’s application in your life aside from bodily size issues.  Whichever, let’s talk about using spiritual healing techniques for any problem and how I did just that over the last three weeks.

I took close to three weeks off in July.  I’d planned this time off long before I took a 50% decrease in income.  I’m afraid I let myself think too much about the so-called recession and badda bing! My thoughts manifested in my experience.  I knew I had to turn this around.

Beginning on July 27th, I began to do one hour of mental work from 7 am to 8 am daily.  I then studied my metaphysics materials for an additional hour at the end of my work day.  That’s two weeks ago.  Since then, I’ve got four potential clients in the wings and my sense of confidence that “All is Mental and that All is Good” has been firmly re-implanted in my mentality and in my experience.

I do my mental work from the basis that since all is good, and since all is mental, the Primal Element in life - the stuff from which everything is made - is mental and good, in fact, is goodness itself and so am I. What I do is with my thinking, I “ex-press” this goodness as new clients in my practice.  “Ex-Pression” means taking what exists inside me right now (I call it consciousness - the main substance from which everything else is formed using my thinking) and pressing it out from inside of me. I find this a very effective use of the Law of Cause and Effect.

Are you worth two hours effort a day to correct whatever your current challenge is? I think you are.

Love,

Pat

Last night, I taught a teleclass about Individuality.  I adore the concept of Individuality because it truly bores in on the innermost aspect of you - the core of who you really are.  Whenever I let myself go there and think about that, I always get a bit misty eyed over the beauty that is intrinsic to that topic.

Role Reversal

I remember holding the daddy in that picture and looking at him, my first son, with the same misty eyed majesty that I experience when I think about Individuality.  This is a picture of Thad and his son, Hieronymous.  (Seth, dude,  you too.)  Whenever I looked at either of my babies, all I could see was their perfection, their sweetness, the joy I had about their very Be-ing, and how much they had to look forward to beyond that point.

Were you adulated and respected and loved like that?  Yes?  Good!  No? Then it’s time for you to learn how to love and adulate and respect your very own self.  Times a’wastin, woman!

Think about your own Individuality.  Wrapped up in there is the fact that you are a mental, thinking unit.  And wrapped up in there is the fact that from the beginning (I spit on the concept of Original Sin!) you were goodness itself.  All that in one wee bairn.

So few of us knew that along the way.  Well, there is no time like the present to stand in front of a mirror, look deeply into your own eyes, and say “I love you.  You’re good.  You can think, so you must be Mind. I think you’re perfect.”  Notice I didn’t say ….perfect just as soon as you lose that weight? Oh no!  Perfect right now.  Wrap your arms around yourself, look back into your eyes, and repeat again “I love you.  You’re good. I think you’re perfect right now as is.”

The first time I did that, my knees gave out from beneath me and as is my wont, I got sweaty eyeballs.

So, who’s in there??????  Huh?????

Love ya,

Pat

There seem to be many things, people, occasions - I’m not sure just what to call them - in my life where forgiveness is required, practically mandated.  I am beginning to see the connection that  holding on to hurts, grudges, offenses, sensitivities might just have something to do with the concept of weight we are all holding on to as well that serves as protection.

I have a history of feeling offended.  I operate my own life from a place of “no intentional malice” so when things come my way that seem “less than,” I have a tendency to act like a deer in the headlights.  I go into a state of shock that someone can have done, said, or pointed in my direction something that appears less than good.  This lesson has been a very difficult one for me to learn and a few years back, I shined an especially bright light onto it for myself.  I think I am now filing away at the ragged edges and working to complete the job.

The light that dawned on me some years back is that while I don’t operate from a place of malice, the intention to hurt another, there are folks who do.  This was unfathomable to me, and the light that got shone on it was this: I am too good for that kind of behavior.  When something evil comes at me, because of my own goodness, it throws me for a loop. There was a time when I felt the need to argue, to go hide away and suck my thumb feeling hurt, deflect via argument their barbs, and like behaviors.  Now, because I understand my own goodness, I simply step aside and let it go by.

I once heard that when someone offers you a gift, and you do not accept the gift, they are left holding the bag.  I work hard to do that: not accept the gift.  There is an individual in my life who has just recently offered me a gift.  It looked all pretty, but I’m afraid it contained, basically, dog poo.  I am working hard these days to forgive her, to let it go and permit her to own it, and to move on to more mental weight loss for me.  Why hold on to something like that?  I am too good to kvetch over dog poo.

I recently read “Forgive everyone for everything.”  I would give the author credit but for the life of me, I can’t recall where I read it, dang it all.  That idea jumped off the page for me and I have it on a sticky note on my monitor.  I use it all the time, so thanks to that anonymous author from the bottom of my heart. It’s amazing to me how frequently I have to exercise forgiveness.  I think that I have developed a hyper-sensitivity and that sensitivity is frequently offended.  So I have to drag out my forgiverer and put it into play.

No links, no pictures, no marketing today - just a generous gift that I hope will help you forgive everyone for everything and augment your own mental weight loss.

Love ya,

Pat