Wrapping up the month of June, here’s a quick screenshot review of the month’s news. Let me know which ones you like the most. Thanks for your input, -David M Masters
Month: June 2018
Spirituality and Churches
As the government continues to grow in strength and power, expanding ever further, it creates new ways to control the masses by brute force, enacting new laws, and monitoring and tracking our every move to ensure compliance or instill fear of punishment. Meanwhile, those who are spiritually inclined are also expanding.
Freedom of religion in the United States has afforded us the opportunity to play a particularly influential role in creating a better world for those of us who believe in a brighter future for our children, their children, and future generations.
We pray for a better life and a better world. People in the United States pray more than in any other nation, and even those who profess that there is no God, even 20 percent of those who profess no belief in God, can be found practicing prayer.
Within the medical community, the effect of prayer on healing and recovery is unrefuted; although it may be dismissed as a “placebo effect” in study after study, including double-blind studies, the results are consistently positive.
Churches have the most powerful impetus for change in the human condition. Every day, the less-than-desirables in the United States, the criminals, those who helplessly succumb to addictions, abusers (both legal and illegal), and other problematic members of society incredibly change their lives with the least amount of recidivism thanks to American churches.
Churches make the world a better place by reaching out to the disadvantaged, giving them a reason to live, and encouraging even the least of us to reach out and help to make the world a better place.
Thanks to churches, we see a reduction in crime, divorce rates, poverty, homelessness, drug and other addictions, depression, and other mental health issues.
Churchgoers tend to have a higher sense of obligation to do what is right, higher self-esteem, greater achievement among family members, and a more significant contribution to the community at large. They are more proactive and have happier, healthier families, increased immune systems, and greater life expectancy.
Spiritually minded individuals who profess a sincere connection to a higher power and regularly attend church, where they gather with like-minded people, live happier, more productive, law-abiding lives. They are more understanding, compassionate, and loving towards themselves and others.
The statistics reveal markedly and exponentially higher degrees of success and satisfaction in all areas of life among those who attend or gather together three times a month compared to those who gather once a month or less.
Many spiritually minded Americans who are ever-evolving into higher versions of themselves may have negative associations connected to the idea of church or a recognized religious gathering. The time has come for us to embrace the concept of religious freedom as part of our expanding consciousness.
Spiritual growth need not be a solitary journey. As we know, there is greater significance and more power for a better world when we combine our abilities with those of other like-minded individuals on a similar path.
We must ever be cognoscente about proceeding with such an idea in caution to prevent the interruption of our efforts by an oppressive ruling government.
Even though the founders of our country protected freedom of religion by declaring, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” in the First Amendment to the Constitution, effectively establishing a separation between church and State, since then, there have been attempts to integrate the church and state, giving government the final say in specific affairs of the church.
The primary method for controlling the church was for the United States to offer a deduction for financial contributions, exempting the church from tax debt owed to the IRS through registration and filing for 501(c)(3) non-profit status. Churches volunteer to do so to increase the financial support of their members but also become a corporation in the United States, clearly aborting the separation of their church from the state.
A church, as a non-profit organization of the United States of America, achieves the status of a state-recognized licensed church. Doing so may waive its freedom of religion and its ability to remain separate from the state, allowing for government intrusion.
You can see it in action: churches being violated, shut down, priests, pastors, preachers, and teachers being forced to testify in court, violating the penitent privilege. Churches, which may have otherwise been considered sanctuaries, are now subject to having their perimeters breached in the name of the state, and many compromises are made by voluntarily striking a deal with the state.
Is there a better way?
If you can’t find a church in your community that would welcome an expansion explorer like yourself, perhaps it’s time to create such a venue.
Could you be a part of this spiritual awakening and expansion?
Let your church be the antithesis of all those other churches.
It is your privilege, and your responsibility, after a time of healing, if you are so-called. You might be the key to providing a safe environment for others to discover themselves, engage in their own deep inner work, and do so in any way they see fit while being loved and supported by others who are doing similarly individual work.
My wish for you, for all of us, is that there is a church where any one of us would feel welcomed and supported without fear of not being accepted or threatened nearby.
This is the next step.
Power vs. Force David Hawkins
You just never know when you’re going to connect to something that is important and ancient all in the same moment. This is what occurred to me while I was in training for a new modality and was introduced to Power vs. Force by David Hawkins as a supplementary text.
It was one of those not-so-rare discoveries that I made long after others in the know had been aware of it, not unlike Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life.
In Power vs. Force, I found Hawkins covering a lot of information I’d already encountered, such as kinesiology, and he presents us with the powerful gift of the “map of consciousness,” a priceless tool for both personal and spiritual growth.
His map of consciousness lists the range of human conditions and emotions divided into two categories. As you may have guessed, they are Power and Force.
Click on the following image for Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness.
Anger, which calibrates at 150 in the Map of Consciousness is often the tipping point leading to either negative progression or positive, depending on the response of the person who is expressing anger. Courage, which resonates at 200 is the dividing line between Force (vibratory states below 200) and Power (200 and above) generally enables one to move further up the scale, if he or she can keep from falling to a lower level vibration for whatever reason.
Power is of the spirit, it includes all those states and feelings which are pure, authentic, true, nurturing, and filled with love and above.
We are led to believe contrarily, that Force is the most powerful approach to life, to dominate and control others, to compare ourselves with others, and at the deepest levels feeling depressed, dejected, suicidal, or losing all will to live.
Force represents all thought and effort of the flesh. All things which are possible via our abilities and capabilities, our brute strength. Power, on the other hand, represents the wherewithal and strength accessed from without, beyond the capabilities of mankind, unconditional love, all that is God, and the power of the universe.
Alternative healing and treatment modalities may use various forms of kinesiology to enhance their abilities to interact and intervene in the lives of themselves and others. I know many Chiropractors well-versed in the use of kinesiology as well as many other alternative practitioners and doctors. The practice is more commonly referred to as muscle-testing.
A common use of muscle testing is the outstretched arm of a patient. Items can be placed in the opposing hand of the patient and tested to whether or not the item being held in the opposing hand is good or beneficial for the patient, while the practitioner applies downward pressure to the outstretched arm. If the item being held is beneficial, the arm will remain rigid. If the item is not good for the patient, the arm will weaken and be able to be pushed down.
Likewise, this same method can be used for just about anything which can be answered “yes” or “no” in the universe. Theoretically, by drilling-down using a succession of yes or no answers, anyone who practices kinesiology could practically discover the truth of most anything.
If the idea does not inspire you, think about this excerpt from the forward of Hawkins’ book:
IMAGINE-what if you had access to a simple yes-or-no answer to any question you wished to ask? A demonstrably true answer…. Any question. Think about it. There’s the obvious: “Jane is seeing another guy.” (Y/N?) Johnny is telling the truth about school. (Y/N?) But it’s only a short step to: “This is a safe investment.” (Y/N?) or “This career is worthy of my pursuit.” (Y/N?)
Hawkins also possessed a keen awareness of the truth continuum with the knowledge that all truth was subjective, based on the perspective of the observer at a particular point in time and space.
The most startling bit of information is that all of this is a free gift to all of us. It is built into each of us and can be accessed by any human being, though practice is necessary for most of us to develop any level of accuracy. I have known some people to who were born with the natural ability to access the process of kinesiology intuitively, not knowing there was such a name for the process.
While sounding quite “Woo-woo” on the surface, kinesiology has survived the test of time and weathered scientific testing, and it is practiced by traditional medical practitioners and doctors, as well as allopathic.
You can see the enormous value and impact that kinesiology and Hawkins’ Map of Conscious can have in the world of healing, therapeutic science, self-improvement, and spiritual awakening.
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Defensive About Love?
If the idea of unconditional love causes you to feel anxious there’s a good chance there is some emotional healing that is needed before you can fully embrace the idea. We are all a collection of emotional wounds from our past which prevent us from fully enjoying all the best things this life has to offer.
In an effort to find ways to survive the maze of all that life can throw at you, you create a defensive system just to navigate the potential angst you can face on a daily basis. You don’t want to feel bad, rejected, threatened, or experience emotional pain, so you make it a priority to protect yourself from being vulnerable.
Yet, love is all about letting go and being vulnerable.
While we all want to be loved unconditionally, the idea of loving someone else this way can be very frightening, leaving you fearful of what might happen if you let down your guard. Your protection of yourself can be interpreted by onlookers, or potential love interests, as hostility or anger.
You may find yourself pushing away a potential love interest, finding fault, potentially offering up false accusations, impulsively challenging, judging, or rejecting any openness, compassion, or closeness because you are overwhelmed by the pain from your past relationships (which can go far back, even to early childhood relationships).
You may be unaware of the source of your angst, still, you remain defensive, embroiled in defensive thought, overwhelmed by fault-finding, seeing “red flags,” or finding ways to blame anyone or anything for justifying your negative feelings.
Just the fact that you were emotionally hurt or betrayed by someone you fully loved and trusted from your past can create an alarm that sounds triggering your defensive response any time you feel yourself starting to trust or love.
When you were a child, you loved unconditionally, often only to be abrasively and suddenly make keenly aware that you cannot trust those who you believed would never hurt you. You carry these unhealed emotional wounds into adulthood, as you collect more corroborative evidence along the way.
As a child, you idealize or idolize your parents, and when they discipline you, you feel rejected, still, to survive, you assume responsibility and accept that you must have done something wrong or were bad, even when you did nothing wrong. You might carry this into an adult romantic relationship, as you seek to replace your parents with a different kind of life mate.
We all desire to grow and expand in a safe environment with another to forge a life and emerging with a family of our own as we mature. When ancient texts suggest, like St. Paul did, “that a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the twain shall become one flesh,” (Ephesians 5:31) note that it says to “cleave” not to cling. To cleave is like the grafting of two trees into one, so that the one tree can bear two types of fruit. There is no separation, yet the fruits of both trees are there for all to see and be enjoyed by the community.
This is the natural desire of an adult, yet your conscious and/or unconscious mind reasons that no one can be trusted, and if you do trust anyone, they will turn on you, causing you to experience sadness, pain, and/or emotional trauma.
If you’ve ever fully trusted and loved someone, only to have your whole world shattered into a million pieces, like the man who didn’t believe in love, what right-thinking person would willingly put themselves in that place of vulnerability again?
You can go on through life, asserting your independence by not needing anyone, “I can do it myself.” Doing so keeps others at arm’s length (and a beer bottle) and isolates you keeping from deeply connecting another or others. “I don’t need anyone.”
You may find ways to fill the void by immersing yourself in your career, hobbies, or addictions if you are unable to love yourself unconditionally. You might be surprised to learn that the same conditions you impose on others regarding trust and love, you also place upon yourself.
If you really desire to love another, you must first find the love for you within yourself. Then, this love can overflow to be shared with others.
See you at the Soulmate Wizardry event.
Feeling Bad About Negative Feelings
It’s okay to feel bad. Sometimes, the motivation to be positive or to consistently be a good influence on those around you can make you feel like you cannot allow your positive persona to be interrupted by feeling negative. If you do have negative feelings, you might like to cover it up or push it down, and for god’s sake don’t let anyone see your emotional falter because you wouldn’t want anyone to misinterpret any upset in your powerful baseline as weakness.
Are you a human being? Don’t you think others might be able to feel closer to you if you occasionally allow your humanity to show through? You are not a deity. You are a man or a woman making your own way through this life, just like anyone else. Yes, you want to remain positive, but you don’t want to separate yourself from the rest of humanity so much that you are no longer a member of the human race.
There are few cases in history where the attempt to do so wasn’t met with severe emotional conflict. A mentor of mine used to say, “Don’t become so spiritually-minded that you’re no earthly good.” Be in the world but not of the world. In essence being here but also maintaining a residence elsewhere simultaneously.
Here, amidst humanity, we all express a wide range of emotions, and you must find a way (or ways) to express these emotions. To not do so is a denial of the human condition, and your psychology and physiology will deteriorate, health will decline, and you may put yourself at risk of disease, psychotic breakdown, rapid aging, or a premature exit from the human condition altogether.
Yes, being positive and maintaining high vibrational states is preferred. St. Paul encourages us to fix our thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. To think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise (Philippians 4:8) which is integral to the maintenance of higher vibrations of the power of love.
You must also allow for the natural ebb and flow of life, especially if you intend to grow because the greatest growth spurts take place in the time of struggle, when things appear to not be going so well. You need both the good and the bad to move to the next level, sometimes more than others.
This complexity in life gives us the ability to enjoy all the richness this life has to offer. This contrast, as Esther Hicks says, “knowing what you don’t want helps you to know what you do want.” This is the balance of life, enabling you to know what it is that you want less of and what you desire more of in your life. You, then, can make the necessary adjustments in your life accordingly.
Your intention to remain so positive can keep you from seeing potential obstacles or danger. It is prudent to keep one foot on the ground, aware of your surroundings in the “real world” to avoid finding yourself in an undesirable predicament, or to find yourself falling into complacency.
Adversity leads you into growth, allowing you to come to increased clarity about what you want, empowering you to delineate specific goal for further advancement and achievement. In essence, being able to squeeze all the best juiciness out of all this life has to offer, all thanks to those less than desirable moments in this life.
A natural emotional response to not feeling right, or having negative emotions, might be to reject these feeling or to push them away but they are really an attention-getting pique to your awareness if instead, you start to look within, rather than to become defensive.
Since these feelings are in contrast to what you want, it is an exciting opportunity to break your positive flow, which is just comfortable enough that you can glide unaware of your surroundings, in a kind of sacred trance. This interruption can break your state or being just enough to look for new opportunities for potential alternative exploration, growth, or expansion.
The more you push against a thought with your consciousness, the more it expands in your unconscious mind, where the lower vibration undermines your ability to remain in higher vibrations in the background. This is why the Law of Attraction doesn’t care whether you want a thing or don’t want a thing. It is attracted to you whether you want it or not.
It’s like telling yourself not to think of a lemon. The more you resist a thought, the more apparent it becomes either consciously or unconsciously. This is also the nature of nightmares, where your unconscious mind runs rampant, unbridled by your conscious mind’s ability to squash your thoughts.
There is wisdom in inviting and allowing the negativity to flow over you, even to allow yourself to be fully engulfed by negative emotion for a predetermined period of time. In a sense surrendering to it in an effort to fully feel it. After fully expressed, you can examine the source, or look around for new opportunities which may be trying to expose themselves to your awareness.
In some cases, just letting it out and letting it go is all that is necessary.
Looking within yourself when your regular flow of life is interrupted by negative emotions might be the door through which you must pass to become aware of some lingering deep inner work longing to be addressed.
You might want to find or create a safe space or the company of another who will hold the sacred space for your expression of these negative emotions without fear of judgment.
Embrace the fullness of life, the good, the bad, and the potential for change, growth, exploration, and expansion.
An amazing journey lies ahead.
Loving Upstream
Love resistance is one’s inability to accept and embrace the best things in life, the positive, powerful emotions, even rejecting them due to sensitivities to negative attachments from the past.
Fear will keep you anchored in negative emotional states because there is a feeling (albeit a false sense of security) associated with the belief that you can control the life which surrounds you with brute force. The emotions of fear are all in the domain of force.
In the realm of power, are emotions which are based in love. To hover among these emotional states requires letting go and allowing life to flow as you detach from expectations and grow.
You can achieve much in your own militaristic strength and understanding, but if you can lean not unto your own understanding, you open our life to new, infinite possibilities, allowing exponential rewards from far less effort on your part because you are operating in the flow of the power of love, in effect downstream.
Going with the flow, you travel much further with little or no effort. You must still be active and aware enabling you to simply maneuver your movement amidst the flow to avoid any potential resistance. You don’t have to be pushing to move upstream with all your might against the current.
If you are loving upstream, against the current, you will be unable to accept genuine love flowing from another. Your perception is clouded by fear from an experience from the past. You will be predisposed to suspicion of being love because love in the past resulted in pain.
You know you are loving upstream if you predicate any display of love with, “the last time.”
“The last time,” is an excellent method to support the survival of the fittest. We learn from our mistakes and protect ourselves from suffering a similar negative result by protecting ourselves with all our might upstream; against the current or flow of love.
Some examples might include, your partner asks you to put on your safety belt, and you resist because you’ve associated wearing a safety belt with being controlled of having the affairs of your life dictated by someone else in the past. You recoil with rejection, when your partner’s intent was to encourage you to be safe, as an expression of his or her love for you.
Other upstream rejections of another’s expression of love might include feeling assaulted when you are complimented. Feeling threatened if given an unexpected gift or shown some other form of generosity. Not being able to receive compliments because of either feeling unworthy or fearing potential manipulation. Rejecting intimacy because, “All you want is sex,” when this refers more to a past relationship, rather than reality in the now. And the list goes on and on, ad infinitum.
So you build walls of protection around yourself and push away any potential for love in fear, upstream, against the current.
Effective? Yes. Your highest and best method of living in the flow of love? No.
No wonder the search for love is so frustrating, even exhausting, when you’re attempting to achieve it with all your determined strength, loving upstream.
He’s Gonna Get His
When you experience, witness, or hear about someone’s wrongdoing, it’s easy to respond with a nonchalant, “He’s gonna get his,” which casts a powerful karmic spell. Take heed about wishing karma on someone because if it’s cast with malice or negative emotion it will backfire on you.
He’s Gonna Get His
This is a basic fact of the divine balanced nature of life. Everything that goes around comes around but it is not up to you or me to decide when, where, or how karmic justice will play out.
We can participate by casting our karmic spells, aligning ourselves with the justice of divinity. Your heart is a powerful energetic tool which can cause you to reap unforeseen karma yourself if you do not do so with a pure heart.
The saying, “He’s gonna get his,” is a shorthand reference to the more descriptive,
He is going to get what’s coming to him
That is to say, if someone thinks, says, or does something with malice of intent to take advantage of someone, to disrespect God or His creation, to do harm to someone or something, or even to neglect or ignore someone in need, that this will in some way revisit the very same person, in some way, possibly when he least expects it.
This gives us all a chance to revisit our selfishness, our egos, which for the most part run unbridled sometimes without a thought of how our thoughts, words, or our actions might affect others and the world around us.
Karma is not about revenge, karma is about love, about having the chance to make right that which was wrong in perfect balance and harmony. Karma is not about crime and punishment. Karma is about perfect love. Perfect love casts out all fear and all negative emotions which are connected to fear.
Karma is a bitch
How you can cast a karmic spell using the phrase, “Karma is a bitch,” with purity of heart is beyond me but it may be possible, if it can be said without any negative (fear-based) emotion.
Take heed: If you cast a negative karmic spell on someone, any negative emotion ricochets the spell back on you.
The Born Loser
The Born Loser refers to the person, who is not a bad person, but he just seems to have the worst luck No matter how hard he tries, he gets stuck in the never-ending cycle of bad luck, seemingly out of proportion to any deserved karma. Sometimes people will grab onto the idea that he is paying a karmic debt from a past life.
More often than not, if you dig deeper, you discover that he is paying the price of casting karmic spells with an impure heart.
The Born Loser is likely one who passes judgment on others quickly, and casts the karmic spell to in effect punish people whom he has defined as abusive or criminal and in need of a serious readjustment, not realizing that any negative emotion, which is not pure love, will bounce the karmic spell back onto he who has cast if.
While the Born Loser might be an extreme example, I think you get the idea.
You might know someone (someone you may know intimately, who might even be wearing the same skin as you) who seems to be experiencing a disproportionate degree of negative karma.
If you look closer, I think you will find that this person is casting negative karmic spells and reaping the rewards for doing so. I see it all the time. I think you will too, now that you know what to look for.
The cure is simple. Stop casting negative karmic spells.
It’s simple but it’s not easy to stop doing something you’ve been doing for a long time and instead; doing the opposite, casting spells of pure love, free from judgment or angst.
It doesn’t happen overnight (though I have seen people change instantly due to an epiphany or major paradigm shift) but you can learn to replace a negative thought with a loving thought.
All your effort to move from fear to will pay off in living a better life, your best life, and who knows? You might even end up making the world a better place.
It all starts right here, right now, if you choose. It’s your choice.
You can change your whole life
Note: While the theme of this article was written addressed in the masculine, it applies to the feminine just as well.
Want Love? You Got Love
Do you want love? You’ve already got it.
All the love you could ever desire is lying dormant, deep inside of you, waiting to be discovered. Let’s meet this love that’s already a part of you.
Imagine there’s a little four-year-old child living within you—a child who is naturally loving, caring, and deeply sensitive. This child relies on you for their sense of safety and wellbeing.
Now, ask yourself: what would you say to this child to make them feel secure? How would you nurture them to feel respected, self-confident, joyful, and loved?
On the other hand, what might you say or do that could hurt this child? Could you unintentionally make them feel fearful, neglected, or unloved?
While this might seem like a silly exercise, there is a little one who lives inside you who wants to talk to you, and this is a crucial step toward understanding the essence of love within you. This child represents your inner self—the neglected, vulnerable part of you that has been hiding in the shadows, afraid to burden you. For too long, this inner child has felt unseen and unheard.
Isn’t it time you finally met this little one?
The Key to Unlocking True Love
When you embrace your inner child, offering love, care, and reassurance, something incredible happens. As your inner child feels safe, secure, and excited to reconnect with you, your capacity to love yourself—and others—grows exponentially.
Neglecting this child, however, causes love within you to wither. Left unattended, your inner child may manifest frustration through emotional outbursts or even tantrums, disrupting your life in unexpected ways.
The truth is, loving yourself is the foundation for loving others. You can go through the motions of showing kindness and affection, but to share authentic, life-giving love, you must first cultivate it within yourself. Without that love energy flowing inside, any outward expression is simply a kind gesture—nice, but not transformative.
Your inner child longs to be loved by you. By nurturing and cherishing this part of yourself, you build the love energy that sustains and overflows into your relationships.
Love Starts Within
True, lasting love begins with you. You must honor and cherish yourself before expecting to love—or be loved by—someone else.
If your heart is empty and someone else’s love fills you up, that good feeling will inevitably fade. Without a wellspring of love within, you may become dependent on others to feel whole, leading to unhealthy cycles of seeking love outside yourself.
This is how love addiction begins: constantly craving external validation to fill an internal void. But when your heart is full, love becomes something you give freely, not something you desperately seek.
Authentic love is an energetic exchange. When the love within you overflows, it naturally reflects back from others who are also overflowing with love. This mutual exchange creates a profound, sustainable connection—a reflection of the awakening love energy emerging in humanity today.
You Are Whole
You are already complete. You don’t need another person to “complete” you or to fill a perceived gap. You are not broken or incomplete.
When your heart overflows with love, you no longer need to seek it outside yourself. Yet, the beauty of life lies in love’s reflection—the way it intermingles and grows when shared with another.
Love Without Struggle
Love is not about struggle, control, or manipulation. It’s not about bargaining, conquering, or clinging. True love flows effortlessly, without fear or conditions. It doesn’t need guarantees or expectations.
Love is sacred, fearless, and safe. It protects, trusts, honors, and hopes. Authentic love overflows naturally, like water finding its level, seeking the path where it can flow freely.
This kind of love is pure, like the bond between a loving mother and her newborn baby. There’s no jealousy, no contracts, no trading “this for that.” Just pure, unfiltered love that simply is.
Are You Ready for Authentic Love?
If you’re ready for a deeper, more fulfilling love, start within. Meet your inner child. Nurture them. Love them.
As you fill your own heart with love, you’ll find that love flows effortlessly into every corner of your life. You won’t need to struggle, strain, or seek love. Instead, you’ll discover the joy of letting love flow naturally—both within yourself and with others.
Love begins with you. Are you ready to embrace it?
You Could Have Done It Better
Sometimes in life, we all make decisions that change everything. It’s as if your whole life shifts into a completely different track of life, all from a decision you made at what you thought was an insignificant point in your life which turned out to be one of the most massively pivotal junctures in your life. Now, here you are.
If only you could have done it better. If only you knew then what you know now. All that second-guessing and nostalgic rumination, and for what?
Each one of those decisions which were made by based on analysis, emotion, or abruptly in the heat of the moment earmarks a point in time when we could have (if we had the cognisance and intention to do so) made a choice, decision, or taken action based on knowledge, feedback, or a feeling provided to our consciousness from our heart.
Your heart, if you are able to tap into this powerful resource, is the seat of wisdom.
Most of us let our mind, our brain, run everything. If you allow your mind and intellect to dictate all your thoughts and interpretation(s) of your surroundings, you will never hear or feel the still small voice echoing from your intuitive heart consciousness.
For those of us who have taken action based on our intellectual or emotional rationale, or in a knee-jerk reaction to some ancient anchor, in retrospect, there is a part of us which knows we could have done it better. Since the opportunity has passed, it is likely that you will be visited by regret.
Left to itself regret can turn into guilt, but it doesn’t have to. If you can find hidden treasure, the embedded sacred lesson in the event, you can receive the gift of wisdom. Storing this blessed data in your consciousness can help you to live a better life. Faced with a similar circumstance or decision in the future, you can refer back to this lesson and do better next time.
Your experience may be beneficial to someone else who you see in a similar situation.
Accept responsibility for your responses or actions, which you could have done better, in the past. This was all “you” in your glory of simply being human. Extract the educational value in the event, realize you could have done it better, and vow to do it better next time. Accept responsibility and change. Have gratitude for the event, love it, and leave the past behind. Let it go.
To allow yourself to be haunted by something you did in the past is abusive. If you can learn from your mistakes, your self-abuse is never justified. Love and forgive yourself, if necessary. Love it and let it go.
The divine reality of it all is that you really never do anything wrong. Certainly, there are things you could have done better, but anything that changes your course in life in some radical way always leads to growth and expansion.
You find yourself exposed to unlimited possibilities of new life when you are transported to an entirely new path and perspective.
While you may not be able to see it from your current vantage point, in the not too far off future, you will be able to look back at these pivotal events in your life and see the divine order of it all.
Every misstep, every bad decision, emotional response, injustice, broken heart, or hurt feeling is calling you to exponential greater opportunities, allowing you to live a better life, your best life, and make the world a better place.
Don’t Let Them Get to You
Ever have someone slow your roll by interrupting your positive vibrational momentum and breaking your stride by bringing you down? The power that others wield in your circle of influence may be stronger than you think. Don’t let them get to you.
Because your parents and others supported the idea that you would grow into a confident competent adult, the day came when you adopted the persona of the grownup. You actually became the embodiment of what those around you expected you to become. They believed in you, you believed in their expectations, and you grew into your adulthood.
You are able to face all life’s challenges because you believe in your ability to do so. Often your belief in yourself was influenced by those you who surround and support you.
For those who were not fortunate enough to have a powerful support system, they have a tougher time of it and will face challenges with a feeling of unconfident and incapable of staring obstacles down with the ability to draw from a history of inner strength. These people have the most difficult go of it.
Those within our circle of influence have an incredible effect on who we are and whom we become.
When you’re in the presence of another person, your attitude and potential for successfully navigating any communication is greatly influenced by the other person. Whether it be your friend, someone who has power over you, a parent, teacher, law enforcement, a judge, the government, or your spouse.
Likewise, anyone you have influence over like you friends, workers, if you’re a manager, people you are teaching, younger siblings, or children you might be raising or babysitting, are influenced by the words you use as well as the respect and support you give them when they are in your presence.
For those who are living their highest and best life, they believe in their capacity for goodness, greatness, and unconditional love, and so it is. They are stepping into their purpose, message, passion and mission. These are the people who are not unlike you. You, too, can live a better life, your best life, and make the world a better place.
I guess that’s why it’s referred to your circle of influence. These people don’t just represent the people you have influence over, but it also represents the people who have the ability to have influence over you.
Left unchecked, you could be allowing people to populate your circle of influence who could be dragging you down, they could even be influencing who you are, or who you will become.
If you have allowed people to influence you negatively, now is the time to turn the tables on them and show them what you are made of, and all the possibilities which are awaiting your loving embrace. The time has come for you to grow and expand beyond any limitations of anyone else.
The naysayers are wrong. Anyone who ever amounted to anything faced those who didn’t believe in them, and the most successful people persisted to continue to strive above and beyond any of the expectations of the naysayers.
The most successful people proved them wrong in spite of the beliefs of the doubters.
Don’t let them get to you
You have the power over who you become, and it’s up to you to protect yourself from those who could stand between you and your embracing you and all of your potentialities, all your gifts and talents, all your love and strength of honor.
You are worthy. You have been endowed with everything you could possibly need to get from where you are to where you want to be, and no one has the right to question your divine endowment.