DON'T SEEK YOURSELF IN THE MIND

                                                THE SECRETS OF NOW

       I FEEL THAT THERE IS STILL A GREAT DEAL I NEED TO LEARN ABOUT THE WORKINGS OF MY MIND BEFORE I CAN GET ANYTWHERE NEAR FULL CONSCIOUSNESS OR SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT.

      NO, YOU DON'T. THE PROBLEMS OF THE MIND CANNOT BE SOLVED ON THE LEVEL OF THE MIND. ONCE YOU HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE BASIC DYSFUNCTION, THERE ISN'T REALLY MUCH ELSE THAT YOU NEED TO LEARN OR UNDERSTAND. STUDYING THE COMPLEXITIES OF THE MIND MAKE YOU A GOOD PSYCHOLOGIST, BUT DOING SO WON'T TAKE YOU BEYOND THE MIND, JUST AS THE STUDY OF MADNESS ISN'T ENOUGH TO CREATE SANITY. YOU HAVE ALREADY UNDERSTOOD THE BASIC MECHANICS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS STATE; IDENTIFICATION WITH THE MIND, WHICH CREATES A FALSE SELF, THE EGO, AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR YOUR TRUE SELF ROOTED IN BEING. YOU BECOME AS A "BRANCH CUT OFF FROM THE VINE" AS JESUS PUTS IT.

       THE EGO'S NEEDS ARE ENDLESS. IT FEELS VULNERABLE AND THREATEND AND SO LIVES IN A STATE OF FEAR AND WANT. ONCE YOU KNOW HOW THE BASIC DYSFUNCTION, OPERATES, THERE IS NO NEED TO EXPLORE ALL ITS COUNTLESS MANIFESTATIONS, NO NEED TO MAKE IT INTO A COMPLEX PERSONAL PROBLEM. THE EGO, OF COURSE, LOVES THAT. IT IS ALWAYS SEEKING FOR SOMETHING TO ATTACH ITSELF TO IN ORDER TO UPHOLD AND STREGTHEN ITS ILLUSORY SENSE OF SELF, AND IT WILL READILY ATTACH ITSELF TO YOUR PROBLEMS. THIS IS WHY, FOR SO MANY PEOPLE, A LARGE PART OF THEIR SENSE OF SELF IS INTIMATELY CONNECTED WITH THEIR PROBLEMS. ONCE THIS HAS HAPPENED, THE LAST THING THEY WANT IS TO BECOME FREE OF THEM, THAT WOULD MEAN LOSS OF SELF. THERE CAN BE A GREAT DEAL OF UNCONSCIOUS EGO INVESTMENT IN PAIN AND SUFFERING.

     SO ONCE YOU RECOGNIZE THE ROOT OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS AS IDENTIFICATION WITH THE MIND, WHICH OF COURSE INCLUDES THE EMOTIONS, YOU STEP OUT OF IT. YOU BECOME PRESENT . WHEN YOU ARE PRESENT, YOU CAN ALLOW THE MIND TO BE AS IT IS WITHOUT GETTING ENTANGLED IN IT. THE MIND IN ITSELF IS NOT DYSFUNCTIONAL. IT IS A WONDERFUL TOOL. DYSFUNCTION SETS IN WHEN YOU SEEK YOUR SELF IN IT AND MISTAKE IT FOR WHO YOU ARE. IT THEN BECOME THE EGOIC MIND AND TAKES OVER YOUR WHOLE LIFE.

LIFE MEANINGS

                            POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE THINGS IN YOUR LIFE

   "LOVE IS AN ELEMENT WHICH THOUGH PHYSICALLY UNSEEN

     IS AS REAL AS AIR OR WATER. IT IS AN ACTING, LIVING,

    MOVING FORCE... IT MOVES IN WAVES AND CURRENTS

    LIKE THOSE OF THE OCEAN"

     

     THE KIND OF LOVE THAT THE GREATEST THINKERS AND SAVIORS OF THE WORLD TALKED ABOUT IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT MOST PEOPLE UNDERSTAND LOVE TO BE. IT IS MUCH MORE THAN LOVING YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND FAVORITE THINGS, BECAUSE LOVE IS NOT JUST A FEELING, LOVE IS THE POSITIVE AND GOOD. THERE ARE NOT A HUNDRED DIFFERENT POSITIVE FORCES IN LIFE, THERE IS ONLY ONE.

   NATURE'S GREAT POWERS, LIKE GRAVITY AND ELECTROMAGNETISM, ARE INVISIBLE TO OUR SENSES, BUT THEIR POWER IS INDISPUTABLE. LIKEWISE, THE FORCE OF LOVE IS INSIBLE TO US, BUT ITS POWER IS IN FACT FAR GREATER THAN ANY OF NATURE'S POWERS. THE EVIDENCE OF ITS THERE IS NO LIFE.

    TAKE A MOMENT TO THINK ABOUT IT. WHAT WOULD THE WORLD BE WITHOUT LOVE? FIRST OF ALL, YOU WOULDN'T EVEN EXIST, WITHOUT LOVE YOU COULDN'T HAVE BEEN BORN. NONE OF YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS WOULD HAVE BEEN BORN EITHER. IN FACT, THERE WOULDN'T BE A SINGLE HUMAN BEING ON THE PLANET. IF THE FORC OF LOVE CEASED TODAY, THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE WOULD DECREASE AND EVENTUALLY DIE OUT.

      EVERY SINGLE INVENTION, DISCOVERY AND HUMAN CREATION CAME FROM THE LOVE IN A HUMAN HEART. IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE LOVE OF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, WE COULD NOT FLY IN AN AIRPLANE. IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENTISTS, INVENTORS, AND DISCOVERERS, WE WOULD NOT HAVE ELECTRICITY, HEARTING OR LIGHT, NOR WOULD WE BE ABLE TO DRIVE A CAR OR USE A PHONE, APPLIANCE, OR ANY OF THE TECHNOLOGY THAT MAKES LIFE EASIER AND MORE CORFORTABLE. WITHOUT THE LOVE OF ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS, THERE WOULD BE NO HOMES, BUILDING OR CITIES. WITHOUT LOVE, THERE WOULD BE NO MEDICINES, DOTORS, OR EMERGENCY FACILITIES, NO TEACHERS, SCHOOLS, OR EDUCATION. THERE WOULD BE NO BOOKS, NO PAINTINGS AND NO MUSIC, BECAUSE ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE CREATED FROM THE POSITIVE FORCE OF LOVE. TAKE A LOOK AROUND YOU RIGHT NOW. WHATEVER YOU SEE THAT IS A HUMAN CREATION WOULD NOT BE THERE WITHOUT LOVE. 

           

GRAVITING POWER OF LOVE

                                 UNLIMITED WAYS TO RECEIVE LOVE

     MONEY IS ONLY A TOOL FOR YOU TO EXPERIENCE THE THING YOU LOVE IN LIFE. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH MONEY, YOU WILL FEEL MUCH MORE LOVE AND JOY THAN WHEN YOU THINK ONLY OF MONEY. IMAGINE BEING WITH WHAT YOU LOVE, DOING WHAT YOU LOVE, AND HAVING THE THINGS YOU LOVE, BECAUSE YOU WILL THEN FAR MORE LOVE THAN YOU WILL IF YOU ONLY THINK ABOUT MONEY.

   THE ATTRACTIVE FORCE OF LOVE HAS UNLIMITED WAYS FOR YOU TO RECEIVE WHAT YOU WANT, AND ONLY OF THOSE WAYS INVOLVES MONEY. DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING THAT MONEY IS THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN RECEIVE SOMETHING. THAT IS LIMITED THINKING AND YOU WILL LIMIT YOUR LIFE!

     MY SISTER ATTRACTED A NEW CAR THROUGH THE MOST ADVENTUROUS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS. SHE WAS DRIVING TO WORK AND SHE GOT CAUGHT IN A FLASH FLOOD AND HER CAR STOPPED IN THE WATER. AT THE INSISTENCE OF AN EMERGENCY RECUE WORKER SHE WAS CARRIED TO DRY LAND, EVEN THOUGH THE WATER WAS NOT DANGEROUSLY HIGH. SHE LAUGHED HER WAY THROUGH THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE, AND HER RESCUE EVEN MADE THE NIGHTLY TELEVISION NEWS. MY SISTER'S CAR WAS IRREPARABLY DAMAGED BY THE WATER, AND WITHIN TWO WEEKS SHE WAS GIVEN A LARGE CHECK, AND SHE BOUGHT HER DREAM CAR.

       THE MOST WONDERFUL PART OF THIS STORY IS THAT MY SISTER WAS RENOVATING A HOUSE AT THE TIME, AND SHE DIDN'T EVEN IMAGINE HAVING A NEW CAR. SHE HAD ATTRACTED THE BEAUTIFUL NEW CAR TO HER BECAUSE SHE HAD CRIED TEARS OF JOY WHE SHE HEARD THE NEWS THAT OUR OTHER SIBLING HAD GOTTEN A NEW CAR. MY SISTER WAS SO HAPPY AND GAVE SO MUCH LOVE FOR OUR SIBLING RECEIVING A NEW CAR THAT THE LAW OF ATTRACTION MOVED EVERY ELEMENT, CIRCUMSTANCE, AND EVENT TO DELIVER A NEW CAR TO HER TOO. THAT IS THE POWER OF LOVE! ALL THINGS CAN COME TO YOU IN AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF WAYS.

STAY WITH POSITIVE FRIENDS

                                         EVALUATE YOUR FRIENDSHIPS

        IT'S CRUCIAL THAT YOU EVALUATE YOUR FRIENDSHIPS FROM TIME TO TIME-EVEN THOSE YOU'VE MAINTAINED FOR MANY YEARS. TRUST ME, THIS ISN'T A MINOR ISSUE. THOSE WHO OCCUPY YOUR TIME HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON YOUR MOST PRICELESS POSSESSION-YOUR MIND!

      ARE YOU SURROUNDING YOURSELF WITH NEGATIVE FRIENDS AND SPENDING A LOT OF TIME WITH THEM IN YOUR LEISURE HOURS? IF SO, I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO THINK ABOUT SPENDING MUCH LESS TIME WITH THESE PEOPLE-OR EVEN NO TIME AT ALL WITH THEM.

      SOUNDS HARSH, DOESN'T IT? I'M SUGGESTING THAT YOU LIMIT - OR ELIMINATE- YOUR INVOLVEMENT WITH SOME LONG-STANDING FRIENDS. WHEN I TELL PEOPLE  THIS AT MY SEMINARS, INVARIABLY SOMEONE WILL RAISE A HAND AND ACCURE ME OF BEING COLD OR UNCARING. THE AUDIENCE MEMBER WILL TYPICALLY SAY, SHOULDN'T WE TRY TO HELP OUR NEGATIVE FRIENDS INSTEAD OF DUMPTING THEM?

      WELL, YOU'RE FREE TO DO WHATEVER YOU THINK IS BEST, AND EACH SITUATION MUST BE DEAL WITH ON ITS OWN UNIQUE FACTS, HOWEVER, I'VE FOUND THAT IN MOST CASES, HANGING AROUND THESE NEGATIVE FRIENDS, DOESN'T HELP THEM- AND IT DOESN' HELP YOU, EITHER! EVERYONE GETS DRAGGED DOWN BECAUSE MOST NEGATIVE PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO CHANGE. THEY JUST WANT SOMEONE TO LISTEN TO THEIR TALES OF WOE.

         IF YOU HAVE A STRONG URGUE TO SPEND TIME WITH NEGATIVE FRIENDS, ASK YOURSELF; WHY AM I CHOOSING TO BE WITH THESE PEOPLE? CONSCIOUSLY OR UNCONSCIOUSLY, YOU MAY BE CHOOSING TO HOLD YOURSELF BACK-TO BE LESS THAN YOU ARE CAPABLE OF BECOMING.

           BY THE WAY, I THINK IT'S WONDERFUL TO TRY TO HEPL SOMEONE OVERCOME THEIR NEGATIVITY. BUT IF YOU'VE BEEN TRYING FOR SEVERAL YEARS... AND AREN'T GETTING ANYWHERE... MAYBE IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON!

       LET ME CLARIFY ONE IMPORTANT POINT. I'M NOT MAKING A JUDGMENT HERE THAT NEGATIVE PEOPLE ARE ANY LESS WORTHY THAN OTHER PEOPLE. I'M SAYING THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES IF YOU SPEND TIME WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE NEGATIVE. WHAT ARETHE CONSEQUENCES? YOU'LL BE LESS HAPPY AND LESS SUCCESSFUL THAN YOU COULD BE. 

   

THE AMAZING STORY

                                                          THE STORY OF OUR LIFE

     THE REAL STORY IS THAT YOU ARE AN UNLIMITED BEING. THE REAL STORY IS THAT THE WORLD AND THE UNIVERSE ARE UNLIMITED. THERE ARE WORDS AND POSSIBILITIES THAT YOU CANNOT SEE, BUT ALL OF THEM EXIST. YOU HAVE TO START TELLING A DIFFERENT STORY! YOU HAVE TO START TELLING THE STORY OF YOUR AMAZING LIFE, BECAUSE WHATEVER STORY YOU TELL, GOOD OR BAD, THE LAW OF ATTRACTION MUST MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVE IT, AND IT WILL BE THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE.

     IMAGINE AND FEEL WHATEVER YOU WANT AND THOSE WILL BE THE PICTURE YOU RECEIVE BACK IN YOUR LIFE. GIVE LOVE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AND FEEL AS GOOD AS YOU CAN, AND THE FORCE OF LOVE WILL SURROUND YOU WITH PEOPLE, CIRCUMSTANCES, AND EVENTS THAT YOU LOVE. YOU CAN BE WHATEVER YOU WANT. YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. YOU CAN HAVE WHATEVER YOU WANT.

     WHAT DO YOU LOVE? WHAT DO YOU WANT?

    LET GO OF ANYTHING YOU DON'T LOVE ABOUT YOUR LIFE STORY AND JUST KEEP THE THINGS YOU LOVE. IF YOU HOLD ON TO NEGATIVE THINGS FROM YOUR PAST, THEN YOU KEEP PUTTING THEM INTO YOUR STORY EVERY TIME YOU REMEMBER THEM, AND THEY GO BACK INTO THE PICTURES OF YOUR LIFE-NOW!

     LET GO OF THE THINGS YOU DON'T LOVE ABOUT YOUR CHILDHOOD, AND KEEP THE THINGS YOU LOVE. LET GO OF THE THINGS YOU DON'T LOVE ABOUT YOUR ADOESCENT AND ADULT YEARS, AND KEEP THE GOOD THINGS. JUST KEEP THE THINGS YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR WHOLE LIFE. ALL THE NEGATIVE THINGS OF THE PAST ARE DONE, FINISHED; YOU ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON AS YOU WERE THEN, SO WHY KEEP PUTTING THEM IN YOUR STORY IF THEY MEKE YOU FEEL BAD? YOU DON'T HAVE TO DIG NEGATIVE THINGS OUT OF YOU FROM THE PAST. JUST DON'T PUT THEM IN YOUR STORY ANYMORE.

SUCCESS DEFINITION

                                                   DEFINING SUCCESS

     WHAT'S THE KEY TO SUCCESS? WHY DO SOME PEOPLE SUCCEED WHILE OTHER FAIL?

        EARL NEGHTINGALE, THE GREAT SUCCESS WRITER, BROADCASTER SPEAKER, ADDRESSED THIS ISSUE IN HIS FAMOUS RECORDED MESSAGE ENTILED "THE STRANGEST SECRET" IN THIS PROGRAM, HE IDENDIFIED THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN JUST SEX WORDS. OF COURSE, HE WENT ON TO EXPLAIN IT IN MORE DETAIL-BUT THE FOUNDATION OF HIS SUCCESS SECRET IS ONLY SIX WORDS.

        YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW THE SIX WOULDN'T YOU? WELL, BEFORE I TELL YOU THE KEY TO SUCCESS, YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT THE SAME SIX WORDS ARE ALSO THE KEY TO FAILURE!

       ARE YOU READY FOR THE KEY TO SUCCESS? HERE IT IS:

    WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT.

ON A GUT LEVEL, DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO YOU?

     IN HIS RESEARCH ON THE SUBJECT, NIGHTINGALE FOUND THAT ALL OF THE GREAT WRITERS, PHILOSOPHERS AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS HAVE AGREED THAT OUR THOUGHTS DETERMINE OUR ACTION, HERE ARE THE OBSERVATIONS OF A FEW GREAT THINKERS ON THIS VERY POINT. 

     NAPOLEON HILL SAID, "WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE, THE MIND CAN ACHIEVE"

     THE BIBLE CONTAINS NUMEROUS REFERENCES TO THINKING INCLUDING THESE

        ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH BE IT UNTO YOU.

        AS A MAN THINKETH IN HIS HEART, SO IS HE.

        IF YOU CAN BELIEVE, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.

        

    RALPH WALDO EMERSON PUT IT THIS WAY, " A MAN IS WHAT HE THINKS ABOUT ALL DAY LONG"

   ROBERT COLLIER OFFERED THIS INSIGHT: " THERE IS NOTHING ON EARTH YOU CANNOT HAVE-ONCE YOU HAVE MENTALLY ACCEPTED THE FACT THAT YOU CAN HAVE IT"

  AND FINALLY, THERE ARE THE WELL-KNOWN WORDS OF HENRY FORD, WHO SAID, "WHETHER YOU THINK YOU CAN-OR THINK YOU CAN'T YOU'RE RIGHT"

     

THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE RESPONSE

                                                POSITIVE RESPONSE

     THEN, THERE'S THE POSITIVE APPROACH. THESE ARE THE ENTHUSIASTIC PEOPLE WHO SAY:

  * TERRIFIC

  * FANTASTIC

  * GREAT

  * EXCELLENT

  * SUPER

  * I'M ON TOP OF THE WORLD

  * IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER

    THOSE WHO USE POSITIVE WORDS LIKE THESE HAVEA BOUNCE IN THEIR STEP AND YOU FEEL A LITTLE BETER JUST BY BEING AROUNG THEM. BE HONEST. HOW DID YOU FEEL AS YOU READ THE POSITIVE LIST? I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I'M ENERGIZED AND EXICITED AS I REVIEW THAT LIST. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING TODAY. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE MORE LIKELY TO GET MY BUSINESS.

     WHO NOT GO BACK AND RE-READ THE NEGATIVE LIST AND THE MEDIOCRE LIST. SAY THEM OUT LOUD. HOW DO THEY MAKE YOU FEEL? BUMMED OUT, FOR SURE!.

      YOU SEE, IF GIVEN THE CHOICE, I'D RATHER BE AROUND PEOPLE WHO ARE POSITIVE AND FULL OF LIFE.... AS OPPOSED TO THOSE WHO ARE NEGATIVE AND LISTLESS . IT'S LIKE THE OLD SAYING THAT EVERYBODY LIGHT UP A  WALK OUT! YOU WANT TO BE THE WHO LIGHTS UP A ROOM WHEN YOU WALK OUT! YOU WANT TO BE THE ONE WHO LIGHTS UP A ROOM WHEN YOU WALK IN!

      AS FOR ME, WHEN SOMEONE ASKES ME HOW ARE YOU? I USUALLY RESPOND WITH TERRIFIC! IT PROJECTS A POSITIVE ATTITUDE TO THE OTHER PERSON AND THE MORE I SAY IT, THE MORE I FEEL TERRIFIC!

                                                 NEGATIVE RESPONSES

        THE NETATIVE REPLIES TO HOW ARE YOU? PHRASES SUCH AS:

    * LOUSY

    * TERRIBLE

    * I'M TIRED

    * IT'S NOT MY DAY

    * THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY

    * A DAY OLDER AND A DOLLAR BROKER

    * DON'T ASK

   

      WHEN SOMEONE RESPONDS WITH "DON'T ASK", I KNOW IN FOR TROUBLE. THAT PERSON IS GOING TO UNLEASH A MULTITUDE OF COMPLAINTS AND MAKE ME SORRY FOR ASKING HOW ARE YOU? IN THE FIRST PLACE!

     AND I REALLY PITY THOSE WHO TAKE THE "THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY" APPROACH TO LIFE. THINK OF WHAT THEY'RE SAYING. "MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY ARE BAD DAYS EVERY WEEK". FOR THESE PEOPLE, FOUR-FIFTHS OF THEIR WORK WEEK IS LOUSY! THE FIFTH DAY, FRIDAY, IS "BEARABLE" ONLY BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY'LL HAVE THE NEXT TWO DAYS OFF! IS THIS A WAY TO LIVE YOUR LIFE? ARE YOU BEGINNING TO SEEN HOW THESE NEGATIVE PHRASES CAN POISON YOUR ATTITUDE.... AND TURN OFF OTHER PEOPLE?