The past few months have been scary for me and many others I know. In my case, it seemed like everything was put on hold including money. My habitual response is to panic when something like this happens but with all I know about the power of the mind, I realize I
Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought. Sometimes that's easier to say than do.
When I need powerful reassurance that everything is gonna be okay, I go to
Rev. Ahman. He is excellent at tying in concepts from The Bible with
A Course in Miracles and bringing them down to earth so that anyone can understand them and use them. I will post a blog with Ahman's Mental Fast presentation within the next couple of days so you can see why I like him so much.
Ahman has given me a vision to ponder for the past few weeks. It's me, as a tree. As I stand still and tall like a warrior, filled with faith everything I need is provided for me. The sun is absorbed by my leaves, feeding me. My roots suck in nutrients from the soil and an entire swirling mass of activity is all around me. Bugs, flies, ladybugs, butterflies, ants, wind, pollen. The constantly changing atmosphere is gradually contributing to my growth.
Yet, to look at me, it would be easy to say I look exactly the same from day to day. You cannot see growth but it is happening. It will happen faster if I let it flow, if I don't block it with my thoughts of "not good enough", "I'll never make it" and "what difference does it make" and yadda, yadda, yadda. So, that's my job, don't allow the thoughts of resistance to block the flow that is trying to happen within me.
I can do that job pretty easily lately because I've been getting hypnotized by
Jessica Bergvist just about once a week for the past 4 weeks. I am going with the flow more and more all the time. I have also connected with some amazing people in the past year or so. I am constantly inspired by my surroundings. Examples include
hiphopphilosophy.com, working out with Your
Next Victory and
LA Derby Dolls, attending
Agape Toastmasters and meeting with
my Master Mind partners. So many wonderful people have continuted to reflect my potential back to me every day, patiently, over a period of years. They gently coaxed and nurtured me out of my state of complete self-loathing. Prior to their arrival, I was literally trapped in a shell. I could barely see out of the crudely cut holes in the cardboard box that contained me. These supportive people, in addition to my husband, have shown me a pretty cool person with a lot of potential. Believe it or not, they showed me a person I actually wanted to be but didn't think I could be.
This blog is a great example of how rapidly the "force" has been moving through me. If you look at the date on my first entry, it was May 3, 2008 (the very DAY
I attended Kathe Shaff's workshop and
met Sierra and read The Ray). I have posted 27 blogs since then. I even have some pre-written blogs I haven't published yet. I am brimming with ideas. I am unstoppable (that's one of the suggestions Jessica put in my CD, she had me imagine I was a stream running down the side of a mountain, unstoppable, and so relaxing!)
Ahman's son drew an outline of the tree for us to use. Each of the big leaves represents a goal you want to acheive or a vision for your life. I wrote my goals in my leaves and then colored it all in and tried to communicate some of the energy floating around this tree of me. When I focus on this image I feel happy, calm, content and satisfied. When I think of my fears and "what if" I am anxious and uptight. It doesn't help me get anything done.
I hope you enjoy the tree. If you click on it you can see an enlarged version. If you want to support my financial unfoldment, please click on the donation button on this blog or go shopping at
donateyourweight.com.
About two years ago, I was asked by a group of previous workshop attendees if I would come to their home and talk about the movie The Secret. All members of the group are Christians and they know I am sensitive to their beliefs. Because of my own Bible-based upbringing, I am able to discuss "new age" concepts and Christian concepts simultaneously.
Regardless, one of the members of the group decided to drop out based on a warning from her minister. He believed that what I was teaching was harmful to her impressionable 21-year-old mind.
This experience never left me. I always wondered, what was it she told him about my class or what did he know about what I was teaching that caused him to be so alarmed? I knew for a fact that Christian writers like Norman Vincent Peale and many Christians of corporate and government agencies in America use select passages of the Bible to keep themselves and their entire organization motivated and focused. Christians will tell everyone who will listen that it's their "Faith" (being in alignment, receptive and trusting God/Source/Energy) that delivered them to success and triumph.
I might not ever know what type of conversation transpired between that young woman and her minister but I do know this. The next time someone wants to know if living in the power of God (aka living in line with The Secret, aka "aligning your energies") is anti-Christian, I'm going to refer them to the book my Dad (a born-again Christian) gave to me. It's titled Victory Over Darkness by Neil T. Anderson.
Here's a quote I pulled from the book: "I believe I am a saint by the grace of God and I intend to live my life as His child in the way He intended me to live by faith in the power of the Holy Spirit."
If you read these words VERY SLOOOOWLY and let them sink in, you are using The Secret. (For added umph, you could pretend like you're Xena the Warrior Princess or Abraham as you read authoritatively).
The man who wrote these words is the "founder and president emeritus of Freedom in Christ Ministries. He has 30 years of pastoral and teaching experience and was formerly chairman of the Practical Theology Department at Talbot School of Theology." At least that's what the bio on the back of his book, Victory Over Darkness says and that sounds pretty darn Christian to me.
P.S. Anderson's book is filled with lists of scriptures that you can refer to such as the "Who I Am in Christ" list, the "What Is True of Christ is True of You" list and the "Who Am I"? list.
