Pesky monkey

This is pretty amazing.

I've found two different studies that show significant heart health benefits for people who meditate daily.

Here's what's amazing: Both studies are mainstream. One was recently presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association and one was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

But what's truly amazing – and most important – is that in both studies all the subjects had coronary heart disease.

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"Forget what you've heard about meditation."

That advice, from my friend Ed, is for anyone who's interested in getting started with meditation. His point: If the word "meditation" conjures images of incense, finger cymbals and crystals – and if those things aren't exactly your style – don't be put off. Some people enjoy those trappings, but none of them are necessary.

About 20 years ago, while trying to come to terms with the death of his mother, Ed learned how to meditate. He describes meditation simply as a way to relax and focus by training what he calls the "monkey mind" to take a break and calm down for a few minutes.

What's to be gained by calming the monkey mind?

Previous studies have shown that a popular form of meditation known as transcendental meditation (TM) may actually help patients control blood pressure.

Researchers at the University of Southern California divided 103 coronary heart disease (CHD) patients into two groups. Subjects in one group received 16 weeks of TM instruction. Compared to the placebo group, TM subjects experienced significantly better blood pressure control, reduction of insulin resistance and improved heart rate variability. In addition, TM helped subjects control their response to stress.

In the more recent study, researchers from The Medical College of Wisconsin collaborated with a natural medicine school in Iowa. Similar to the California study, about 200 CHD patients were divided into two groups. Half received TM instruction and half did not.

Results: Over nine years, rates of heart attack, stroke, and death were all significantly lower in the TM group.

At the AHA meeting, lead researcher Robert Schneider, M.D., suggested TM should be thought of as a new class of heart disease medications. "In this case, the new medications are derived from the body's own internal pharmacy stimulated by the Transcendental Meditation practice."

You can find information about the TM technique used in the CHD study on the Transcendental Meditation Program website at tm.org.

This Is My Theory

I make war with what comes in contact
with health and happiness,
Believing that God made everything good.
And if there is anything wrong
it is the effect of ourselves.

Man is responsible for his acts
and even his thoughts,
Therefore it is necessary
that man should know himself
so that he shall not communicate sin or error.

This is my theory:
to put man in possession of a Science
That will destroy the ideas of the sick
and teach man one living progression
of his own identity,
With life free from error and disease.

Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

How Do We Live the Truth?

Unity's fifth tenet says, "Knowing and understanding the laws of life, also called Truth, are not enough. A person must also live the Truth that he or she knows." How do we LIVE the Truth? We think it; we feel it; we act on it; we view life from that perspective; we stand on it; we confront our issues with it; we rely on it; we judge our life by it; we weigh our words by it; we meditate upon it; we love it.

My Spiritual Exercise for the Day

I love to think that...

• I am healthy
  
• I am satisfied and fulfilled
  
• I am happy and contented
  
• I am fully and successfully engaged in life
  
• I am speeding along on my spiritual journey
  
• my prayers are powerful, effective and instant in their effect
  
• I am creative and prolific and joyful
  
• I am guided by wisdom
  
• my appetite is regulated by mind
  
• I am helpful and loving to others
  
• I can breathe freely and without congestion
  
• I am in my right spiritual place and on my right spiritual path
  
• Truth is wiping out all error from my thinking
  
• I am energetic and enthusiastic
  
• I know what I'm doing and operate with grace

...and I'm going to keep going all day!

Reaching for Forgiveness

When confronted by the resentments of the past, it seems a startling idea, but we can decide how we think and feel about our experiences. We can control our feelings and can change how we feel about the painful situations of the past. Mind is cause, never effect—never a victim. Circumstances, situations and actions of others never control our thinking—we do. As Paul says, “be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…” (Romans 12:2)  We don’t have to conform our thoughts or feelings to what we see, hear or experience, but instead can renew our thinking—finding new ways to think about the past, and through this process, find transformation.

When we allow our thoughts and feelings to conform to our experiences, we allow those experiences to act as a mold for our thought patterns and thought-feelings, and allow them to perpetuate our suffering needlessly.

We can begin this process by being willing to think a new thought.

I am ready to move on—to see this experience of the past from a spiritual perspective—through the eyes of Mind—not the eyes of the flesh. I am willing for my thoughts surrounding these events to be new ones. I now decide to dissolve these old patterns of thinking with their accompanying thought-feelings. Divine Mind holds no grudges or resentments. Divine Mind knows the right way to think about these events of my past, and that Mind is my mind now. I am listening to God’s divine ideas. As God’s expression, I can never be a victim.

Reasoning Through Evil Has No Power

There is only one Mind—the divine Mind. The word God comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for good; so, good is Mind and good is the only Mind. God is right consciousness and God holds the right idea of everything s/he creates and sustains—i.e. of everything that is real. If God is all then any other power must be a supposition, an assumption, a false belief, a misapprehension or a misunderstanding.

Since God is infinite Mind, an evil consciousness, called a devil, cannot be Mind, and cannot have intelligence or reality.

If God is infinite power, there can be no evil power. If God is infinite Mind, there can be no evil consciousness or devil. If God is infinite presence, there can be no lurking presence of evil. 2+2=5 cannot be real and cannot be a part of the principle of mathematics and cannot exist. So it is with evil. Evil can have no place in the divine Mind and cannot exist as a part of the divine Principle.

Saying there is a devil is like saying there is a principle of anti-mathematics which is trying to get us to make mistakes in arithmetic.

If you believe evil is real and is a power, what does that do to the Unity statement, "There is only one presence and one power in the universe and in my life, God the good, omnipotent?" It makes it meaningless.

God says

God says for me to tell You This:

nothing needs fixing;
everything desires
a Celebration.

—Em Claire, from “Shine”

The True Bread

The real bread or food of life is thoughts of health, of happiness, and success or progress. It requires a lot of work and effort to obtain and maintain these true and life-giving thoughts. But there is no way out of this erring condition but the one—discarding all thoughts that evil and any life separate from God (i.e. material life) are real.

Questions Demanding an Answer

If there is only one presence, who are you? Where are you?

If there is only one power, what power does sickness or disease have over you? Addiction? The economy? Hurricanes?

If God is All-in-all—everything, how can you possible be separate from our Father-Mother? How can there be any lost souls?

If God is All-in-all—everything, and God is good, how can evil be real? How can disease be real? How can poverty be real? And how can there be any sinners?

If God is all and God is Love, where is hell located?

If God is spiritual, and you are His image and likeness, how can you be material? How can you be imperfect?

Self-motivation without gratitude is impossible.

Self-motivation without gratitude is impossible. Our energy is "sapped" when our entire focus is on what's wrong instead of what is right with our lives. One of our greatest challenges is to live and love in spite of pain and disappointment...to find gratitude in the midst of it all.
Reflect for a moment on this beautiful quote from Melody Beattie:
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."
-Eric Hoffer

Get out of God's way so blessings can flow

Every person can be healed of his discords very quickly if he will release God from any responsibility to heal him. Release God and acknowledge that you seek nothing of God, you desire nothing of God, and you wish nothing of God. You release God because you understand that God made all that was made and all that God made is good. Anything that God did not make was never made. Therefore, you do not need God to heal you, for in the whole kingdom of God there is nothing to be healed. Instead of living a life of duality, which is one of saying, "I am sick now. God, come to me and do something," live the life of single mindedness in which you realize:

All the power necessary to maintain my life is already at work and all I have to do is to acknowledge it. Acknowledge that God is fulfilling Itself. God’s nature is to fulfill Itself as peace on earth and the divine grace in my life. I do not pray or ask for grace; I acknowledge grace as God’s means of fulfilling Itself on Earth. When I acknowledge that and let myself be receptive, I will find It functioning in my life.

You benefit by this grace of God, not because God is picking you out or seeking you out to do good for, but because you are opening your consciousness to receive the grace of God which is forever flowing and which is forever on earth as it is in heaven. God is really fulfilling His own nature; God is the protective, maintaining, and sustaining influence, but God is also the loving and gentle influence; therefore, God is always being expressed.

When you and I accept that truth and stop thinking in terms of "God, do this for me or for mine," in other words, release God, loose Him, let Him go, and realize that the grace of God is as much yours as mine, then you will have entered into a whole new consciousness of life. Thank you, God! And So It Is
www.globalheartspiritualcenter.net

On Making Choices

"I have many inquirers ask me how it is possible to determine which one of two things or two courses is the right one to choose. Many times I am asked the question: “Shall I continue in my present vocation or shall I turn all my time and attention to the healing field?” Ultimate success of any business or pursuit does not lie in the choice, but lies entirely in the amount of right thought applied to the proposition after the choice has been made." William Walter writing in the booklet, Business.

About Tarot Wisdom

Sometimes when I tell people I am a Tarot Reader they say, they get their information from God and don't believe in Tarot, as if it comes from somewhere besides God. OR worse, that if I use Tarot I don't believe in God. Well I don't believe there is a Big Man in the sky making judgments about me and what I do. I am my connection to God. I am one with God, as we all are. I live and move and have my being in God. God is all there is. Other terms for God are One, Wholeness, Love, Truth, Beauty, The Universe, Spirit. There is nothing that is not God, NOTHING. Now there can be the absence of seeing this the absence of knowing this. But no one is alive without this breath of life that is God or the Universe or Spirit. Tarot is a part of Gods wisdom, it is just a different venue. It is all in picture form rather than text or words. The words come from the Spirit within which is, of course, God. Tarot is a book of Truth and Wisdom not at all separate from God or Good. Thinking Tarot is of another source or the Big Boogie Man the Devil means that you are not seeing God as All. You are not seeing Good. You are missing Truth. My devotion to God or Spirit or Spiritual Truth is where I get my inspiration and wisdom of the Tarot. I take it as a personal goal in my life to clear up the superstition in the idea there is some other Source. When Moses ask the name of God he was told I am. That is where we find God and Truth,Within ourselves. It is given to them according to their belief so if some one or you believes there is some other Power than God the Good then that is what is given to you. We create our world through our thinking. If we think there is someone or something against us then we are against our Self against our Good. I wish I could wave a magic wand and remove the superstitions that plague people about methods of finding Truth. If you are drawn to inspirational images, Tarot is your great picture book of Truth Wisdom and your very own Soul.

STAND UP AND SAY YOUR NAME!

“We did not come here to be common… We did not travel this great distance to give up, give in and lie down. We came here to wake up and be joyful; to stand up and be powerful; to open up our hearts, our minds and our eyes as we expand our knowledge and our perception. You are extraordinary and you are powerful beyond belief!” —Heather K. O’Hara

Live your love, trust your joy… STAND UP AND SAY YOUR NAME! …Together, we ARE the change we wish to see in the world!
Heather K. O’Hara

More Music

The Music Continues

John and J-Adam Smith make wonderful harmony

Music at the New Church Building at Sutherland

John London Makes beautiful music for us!

THE LAW OF THINKING

THE LAW OF THINKING by Dr. Raymond Holliwell

"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." (Prov. 23:7)

To the average person, Life is an enigma, a deep mystery, a complex, an incomprehensible problem, or appears so, but it is very simple if one holds the key. Mystery is only another name for ignorance; all things are mysteries when they are not understood, but when we understand life, it no longer appears mysterious.

Man is a progressive being, a creature of constant growth, before whom lies an illimitable ocean of progress to be navigated and conquered only by development and culture of his inherent powers. The progress of the individual is largely determined by his ruling mental state, because the mind is the basic factor and governing power in the entire life of man. Attention should be given to the pre-dominant mental state, for it will regulate the action and direction of all one's forces, faculties and powers, the sum total of which will inevitably determine many particular experiences and the personal fate.

The ruling state of mind is made up of various mental attitudes which the individual adopts towards things, events, and life in general. If his attitudes are broad in mind, optimistic in tone, and true to life, his predominant mental state will correspond and exhibit a highly constructive and progressive tendency. As almost all the forces of the personality function through the conscious mind in one way or another, and as the daily mental and physical acts are largely controlled by the conscious mind, it is obvious that the leading mental state will determine the direction in which the powers of the individual are to proceed.

If his ruling mental state is upward bound, that is, aspiring, harmonious, and positive, all his forces will be directed into constructive channels; but if his state of mind is downward in tendency, that is, discordant and negative, then almost all his forces will be misdirected.

It is evident, therefore, that of all the factors which regulate the life and experience of man, none perhaps exercise a greater influence than the ruling state of mind. Mental attitudes are the result of ideas, and these have their origin in points of view therefore, by seeking true and natural points of view, one may secure the best and most superior ideas, and these in turn will determine the predominating state of mind.

We are prone to believe more than what we see. The evidences of the senses are the only facts that some accept, but now we shall realize more and more that it is what we believe that determines what we shall see. In other words, believing is seeing. More defeats and failures are due to mental blindness than to moral deviations. If one lived only by physical sight, his world would be very small. It is said of a bug that its world is only as large as the size of the leaf on which it lives, and many times it does not live long enough to consume the whole leaf. With man, if he lived according to the senses, the largest sense he possessed would be that of sight. Thus our whole world would extend only as far as we could see.

If we believed in the testimony of our eyes, we would accept many conditions that are not true. For example, if you look down a railroad track, you will observe that at a certain distance the two tracks converge at one point. This is not true. Have you ever stood on the boardwalk and watched a ship slowly sink into the sea as it sailed away? That ship wasn't sinking; our eyes tell us falsely. When you are worried over some obstacle or problem, just remind yourself that it may be purely an illusion of the senses, that it may not be true at all, according to the Law.

Did you know that you don't even see with your eyes? Your eyes are like a pair of windows; at the back, of the window there is a reflector and this reflector, in turn, forms an image of what you see and sets up a wave current. This wave current follows along thin wires called nerves. This relays the image back to the brain. Here at the brain it is referred to the memory center. If the picture is a common one our memory accepts it readily, but if we are looking upon some new picture, some new scene, our memory does not recognize it, and then we must repeat the picture over and over many times until it makes a lasting impression. Therefore, we do not see with our eyes; we see with our mind.

Thought is a subtle element; although it is invisible to the physical sight, it is an actual force or substance, as real as electricity, light, heat, water or even stone. We are surrounded by a vast ocean of thought stuff through which our thoughts pass like currents of electricity, or tiny streaks of light or musical waves. You can flash your thoughts from pole to pole, completely around the world many times in less than a single second. Scientists tell us that thought is compared with the speed of light. They tell us our thoughts travel at the rate of 186,000 miles per second. Our thought travels 930,000 times faster than the sound of our voice. No other force or power in the universe yet known is as great or as quick. It is a proven fact, scientifically, that the mind is a battery of force, the greatest of any known element.

It is an unlimited force; your power to think is inexhaustible, yet there is not one in a thousand who may be fully aware of the possibilities of his thought power. We are mere babes in handling it. As we grow in understanding and in the right use of thought, we will learn to banish our ills, to establish good in every form we may desire. It is our power to think that determines our state of living. As one is able to think, he generates a power that travels far and near, and this power sets up a radiation which becomes individual as he determines it. Our thoughts affect our welfare, and often affect others we think of. The kind of thoughts we register on our memories or habitually think attracts the same kind of conditions.

If we take the thought of success and keep it in mind, the thought elements will be attracted, for "like attracts like." We are mentally drawn to the universal thought currents of success, and these thought currents of success are existent all around us. We will psychically contact minds who think along the same lines, and later such minds will be brought into our lives. Therefore, successful minded people help success to come to them. That is how successful living is founded.

The Law of mind is in perpetual operation, and it works both ways. Persons who dwell on thoughts of failure or poverty will gravitate toward like conditions; they, in turn, will draw to them people who accept failure and poverty. On the other hand, we can think on positive conditions, on success and plenty, and in the same manner, enjoy full and plenty. What the mind holds within takes its form in the outer world.

Some think that we must deal with two forces; that is, to attract the good we must do away with the bad, but this is not true. For example; if we are cold, we do not work with cold and heat alike in order to get warm. We build a fire, and as we gather around that fire we enjoy the heat that is extended from it and become warm. As we build up warmth, the cold disappears, for cold is the absence of heat. To be warm, we give our whole thought to those things which tend to create warmth; we ignore the cold in thinking of heat and bring forth heat. Prosperity and poverty are not two things; they are merely two sides of one and the same thing. They are but one power, rightly or wrongly used. We cannot think of plenty and then worry about the unfavorable conditions that may seem apparent. We think about plenty, and as we think of it, lack, its opposite, will become absorbed or disappear. All our thoughts must be directed to that one thing which we desire in order that our desire may be fulfilled. Our method is not manipulating two powers, not dealing with good and evil, right and wrong, prosperity and poverty, but as we follow the Law of Good and dwell upon that which is good we shall bring to pass all good things.

The mind force is creating continually like fertile soil. Nature does not differentiate between the seed of a weed and that of a flower. She produces and causes both seeds to grow. The same energy is used for both, and so it is with the mind. The mind creates either good or bad. Your ideas determine which is to be created.

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Inspiration find Bliss and Happiness

GET INVOLVED IN SOMETHING INSPIRATIONAL AND YOU FIND BLISS AND HAPPINESS! by Susan Barbara Apollon


“All our dreams come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney

So, what is inspiration? How does it impact us? And what and who inspires you? Clearly, if nothing else, to be inspired or to focus on something inspirational is all very high vibrational activity, contributing to you feeling like you are living your bliss, finding happiness and a sense of empowerment!.

The word inspire actually has several definitions: 1. To stimulate somebody to do something (encourage somebody to greater effort, enthusiasm or creativity); 2. To provoke particular feeling (arouse a particular feeling in somebody, as inspires optimism); 3. To cause creative activity (to stimulate somebody to do something, especially creative or artistic work); 4 to breathe in (as to inhale air).

For me, personally, that which inspires me (fills me with beautiful spirit) is what touches my heart and my entire being, in a way that motivates or pushes me to want to take some kind of action or to, at least, give thought and consideration to the meaning in my own life of whatever it is that has inspired me. Whatever my inspiration is, it serves my journey in some way, contributing to the forward or upward movement, hopefully, of my soul’s growth – and, most of all, it really feels good!

If you are looking for some bliss and joy, take time to become aware of your sources of inspiration; take time to look for situations, people, experiences and moments which you intuitively know will uplift you and, because they feel so good, you will hold in your heart, where you keep your treasure box of special vibrational memories, as we do with Susan Boyle’s experience, forever treasuring them ….again and again.

Finding inspiration is so often about the internal meaning you give to an external event, making it, then, something precious and uplifting to you. For example, I recently had the honor of participating in a benefit theater production in Bucks County, PA, of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues.. The goal of the monologues: create awareness of - and an end to - the violence against women. All profits went to charities which support the education of ending the abuse against women and girls.

To my surprise, I found that by choosing to participate in this magnificent production, I was finding daily, if not moment to moment, inspiration that moved me to tears, through the words I was reading and the actors with whom I was performing. Those of you who watch Oprah know that through the gift of television, you are often inspired by her guests and what they have done or by Oprah and all that she is doing to help the world. This is what I felt by choosing to perform in this play.

Consequently, I felt empowered and wonderful – and wanted to be able to do even more to stop the violence against women and to bring peace to the world in which we live. I felt, also, a sense of transformation occurring within me and, most important, I felt I was making a difference!

—Susan Barbara Apollon, Copyright © 2009 – All rights reserved.



Susan Barbara Apollon, Intuitive Psychologist & Author
http://www.touchedbytheextraordinary.com
http://www.lovetofeelgoodblog.com
http://www.intuitioniseasyandfun.com

The Web

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.

—Chief Seattle

Gratitude

On the right panel you can see the links to the New World Gratitude sites Enjoy.

Into to my new book

I would like to start by saying everyone is born with psychic ability. Yes, I do mean everyone. Just as everyone is born with muscle, feelings, hearing, and sight.

Some little babies are born with so much weight that you can’t see their muscle, while others are born so frail and inactive that you can’t see their muscle either. But they both can be developed, and it is the same with our psychic abilities. All abilities can be developed.

Some children are born so muscular that they were obviously born to be athletic, while others have to work very hard to develop any athletic skill at all. It’s the same with being psychic. It’s where and how we apply ourselves.

It is my intention to help you see the simplicity of seeing with spirit the meanings in the things that surround us.

Tuning in to our forgotten sensitivities and trusting what we see and feel, then watching it show itself in picture form with the Tarot, we can learn to look into the potential of our future before we meet it. Simply because we are the ones who have created it. What we do now creates our future.

The Tarot is a book of life, or of changes, not only revealing changes as they relate to our lives but also holding the solutions and ways of walking through these changes.


You can click on My new book site on the right column and see more or buy the book. Thanks

The Lover and the Beloved

This is the poem I made reference to in class last Tue. and that I will be refering to when I give my talk on the 12th. It is by Meher Baba I wrote it is both sexes so if you are a man read it as he, him and himself, if you are a woman you can read it as she, her and herself.

The Lover and the Beloved

God is Love and Love must love, and to love there must be a Beloved. But since God is Existence infinite and eternal there is no one for God to love but itself. He/She must imagine Himself/Herself as the Beloved whom He/She as the Lover imagines He/She loves.
Beloved and Lover implies separation, and separation creates longing; and longing causes search. And the wider and the more intense the search the greater the separation and the more terrible the longing.
When the longing is most intense separation is complete, and the purpose of separation, which was that Love might experience itself as Lover and Beloved is fulfilled; and union follows and when union is attained the lover knows that he/she himself/herself was all along the Beloved who he/she loved and desired union with; and that all the impossible situations that he/she overcame were obstacles which he/she himself/herself had placed in the path to himself/herself.
To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other then knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

Meher Baba

First night of class: Were you inspired?

Hi All: Tonight was the beginning of our class of Studying Deepac Chorpa's book. I felt it to be a great start. I would love hear feed back, about what is going on with each of you, and how you felt our first class went. Did you feel inspired at the end of the class.

Inspiration Comes From Perspiration!

"No Pain No Gain"

The Last couple months I have been living in pain... Physical Pain, Mental Pain, and Spiritual Pain.

What's the Diagnosis Doc?
We all Can get pills that can solve the problem... (or Hide)
I'm Depresses... how about this pill...
I'm Negative... No Problem, we'll give you this...
I've got heart burn... You need this...
I'm so Stressed... Here's what you need...

Let me be FRANK... Western Medicine is only allowing the bottling up of all this pain, stress, and conglomeration of all the above. What's the problem? or SOLUTION

There is one solution for all the above... CARDIO
Yes, it is that simple....
What does Exercise Do?
Gets rid of depression by stimulating endorphins
Minimizes negative self talk, because your mind is on your body... not those negative thoughts
Cardio loosens up your muscles, which pushes out all that negative decay sitting in body
And, you start standing taller... which gets rid of you slumped depressed body position
Acid build-up will be a thing of the past, because your body eats it up...

"I am in control of my world, inner and outer" j-adam smith

All this info I am sharing with you has been an eye awaking experience for me, and I hope it helps you... My new goal is to walk/jog in the morning and evening (twice a day)... and Already I feel better!

Hope this helps,
"In light"

J-Adam Smith

April 19th

Peter and Astrid have been invited by celebrated Unity Minister and Prosperity Speaker, Edwene Gaines, for a Friday evening Seminar on Shamanic Healing and a day of private healings on Saturday. For information, call (256) 865-9585.

Peter Speaking at Knoxville Unity Church

On Sunday, April 19, at 11:00 AM, Peter will speak at the Knoxville Unity Church, and he and Astrid will teach a two-hour seminar on modern shamanism. (Love offering.) For information, call (865) 573-5165.

A Lesson we all must try to remember. Our Truth

Dear Spiritual Family
A Spiritual Lesson

THIS LESSON is important because it is not just a lesson for one day. If you are faithful in putting this into practice, it will be sufficient for the rest of your life. This lesson is the secret that brings happiness, joy, success, prosperity, and the ability to be of help to our fellow man throughout this world. First of all, whenever you are faced with any problem, whether it is one of health or one concerning your supply, or let us say one that concerns your relationship with other humans, here is your first step: Get comfortable; close your eyes; put your feet on the floor; and now remember that God is closer to you than breathing, nearer than hands and feet. Right here, where you are standing or sitting or playing, God is. You have only to close your eyes, get quiet for a moment, and God will solve your problem.

It may sound strange to you that you don't have to tell God what your problem is or that you don't have to ask God for any favors, and that you don't even have to make any statements or affirmations. That if you have a problem in your household or if there is some subject that you are not properly grasping, stop what you are doing for a moment, close your eyes, and realize God is right here, closer to you than breathing as close to you as inside your own chest. Wait for just a minute or two, and you will find that God, who is the divine Intelligence of your being, knows that you are coming to Him and what you are coming to Him for. It is God's good pleasure to give you the answer. In fact, it is very much like a radio station: God is always talking to you; God is always revealing the answer to every problem, whether it concerns your lessons, your health, or your human relationships; but you cannot receive God's guidance, direction, protection, or support unless you are tuned in to accept it. It is like your sitting here in this room and receiving instruction in spiritual wisdom. But suppose that you had your ears closed and weren't listening, or suppose you were outside playing, or suppose you were downtown at the movies, how then could you receive that which is so willingly offer you? The answer is: You couldn't.

You must give God obedience, attention, lovingness—not by loving a God whom you cannot see, but by loving the people with whom you come in contact. And why? In order that you may receive God's grace because, even though God is present with you, you cannot receive God's grace unless love, joy, and respect fill your mind and your Soul. Each one of us is responsible for himself. There is no God sitting up in a sky, looking down upon you and judging your actions; but there is a God-center within you that knows everything you do and which brings back to you that which you send out. Therefore, the love and the respect that you send out are the love and respect that you get back, and not only that, but they are pressed down and running over.

Have four periods a day where you do this as a daily practice—early in the morning, at noon, about dinner time, and before retiring. Close your eyes; put your feet on the floor; listen way deep down inside of yourself; and then remember that this day which lies ahead of you is now God-governed, God-protected, God-maintained, and God-sustained because you have consciously opened your consciousness to the presence and the government of God. I can promise you that if you do this every day, your life will be a success, and even more than that, you will be laying the foundation for a completely God-governed life. Remember too, if you do not do this every morning, you go out into the world just as a human being, subject to all the trials and tribulations of the human world, and without divine guidance. Thank you, God ~ And So it is!

Spiritual Burn Out ( how to prevent it)

This is a talk I gave at Columbine Unity of Boulder and decided I would be the first to start using this blog as place we can all share our Spiritual idea and lessons. From the desk of Mary Whiteflower on Spiritual Burn Out. I have been a follower of the Unity way of life for close to 40 years now. And I just received a wonderful healing, dodging the dreaded cancer, and wanted to share that first because some of you know I have been working on this healing.Praise be to God the Good.My blog today will be on Spiritual burn out.Because I am a teacher of the Tarot, I went to my Tarot to see if there was a card that described or held the essence of Spiritual burn out. Well it’s not a Major Arcane because it is not a state of understanding so it would be a Minor; a human condition or experience.So I would have to pick the 7 of pentacles because it talks about having worked so very hard gaining energy of some sort and before completion have a strong desire to rest to just sit on the idea a while before continuing because you are so exhausted.But that is the tarot and I’m hear today to share my personal experiences on the subject of Spiritual Burn out not teach tarot on this entry.Let me start by saying; I started my path toward enlightenment and understanding from the closest we can get to hell I am sure. Having come to the a sad conclusion in my youth that God; As it had been explained to me, was going to send me straight to hell, So nothing mattered because my only choice was hell.Mind you now I came from a good family, a Sweet Mom, and a Dad who took his responsibility seriously. Kind of like Ozie and Harriet, and they sent me off on a Sunday School Bus to learn about God. So I sent Myself to hell early as a drugged out lost soul by the sweet young age of 21.However Not liking there. By 22 I said my first desperate heart felt prayer and telling really begging spirit Or whatever IT was, if there was a god or any goodness it better show it’s self, because I was hitching a ride to anywhere until it showed. I was in California at the time. Well I found God in the streets of New York City. A little guru gave me a book and then someone told me about a free class while I was reading the book, and when I went there, it was the same little guru teaching that class. He told me truth for the first time in my life I wept with joy, and Set my feet upon the path of true understanding and enlightenment.Those first years I grew so fast it made my spin. The world no longer was a bad place that was sending me to hell, and I wanted everyone to hear and understood what I had been shown.Well not yet understanding what I do now,knowing about how we create our world by our emotional responses,The Old Ones if we haven’t cleared them,that that’s how we make our world by our thinking. Even though I found Unity in that first year.However trying to put my new learning in a mind filled with lies from my given social perspective lead to many burn outs of my spiritual learning.Now having been burnt out enough times on my own journey to be turned to ash maybe even too many times too confess to, but I know now time teaches, “once our feet are on the path, there is no choice but continue, to reach your total truth and the fulfillment of life.” Now I have concluded the reason spiritual burn out happens is when one stands on the edge of the alter fire of the heart, a place of seeing the need for great change and just stands there studying it and contemplating it and not taking that step of surrender into the fire. If we just set there in at the edge we burn, soon we are burned out; or if we take that steep in with only one foot stop and freeze in fear again we burn again burnout.But I’ve learned if I step in to the fire of my heart with a heart felt determined intention to step into the fire and be consumed by my commitment, and surrender, Truly surrender to the truth of my true Good God Self, and walk the walk not just talk the talk, I am truly reborn and the baggage I carried into the fire is gone.I know because it just happened after a burn out of well many years. 5 maybe 10 maybe more.Now I feel it is always our choice of how many life times takes to truly step into the kingdom. But we will have to step into the alter fires of our own heart, and forgive everything especially ourself, and allowing ourself to surrender to our own Goodness, or Godness in order to reach the true kingdom.I personally know nowI can see the joy in all times by seeing from my heart.Or if I refuse to see and feel the joy in life, be once again brought to my knees so I can truly look up into the eyes of truth.I have had to learn to Surrender to the good however it may appear, it is MY only salvation TO THINK ON THE GOOD, GOOD being the key word here,Good as in joy and beauty and things that make us feel blessed and just let all else just flow under the bridge of life.For myself I have had this path of emotional cleansing to walk (maybe because I am a Pisces), and I have had to face far to many kinds of exhausting challenges, time has truly shown me they truly are for my own pruning in order for me to make the choice of joy and more life each time, or give up and let this body die. So I have concluded each time, all else but the joy knowing the Good of God must be cut from my thinking or this body will die, Also know all trying needs to be let go of, as I surrender to Spirit within. No matter how long it may seem to take in what ever dimension I may be looking at. My job is to know joy and the goodness in life.(And that is different with every single person of course) So I say be not afraid of the fire of your heart and true commitment to surrender to the Good, the God Within. And you won’t have to endure Spiritual Burn out. Oh I too looked On the internet and I found this after I wrote my talk. Paraphrased slightly http://www.lastdaysministries.org/articles/spiritualburnout.html“Spiritual burnout can only occur where there is either a fundamental misunderstanding of the heart of the Truth, or a failure to apply it to our lives. A person who has dropped exhausted does so because he has believed a distortion of the Truth, or because he has forgotten the heart of the Truth he once committed to.”

HARNESSING THE POWER OF PRAYER AND TECHNOLOGY

Jensen Beach, FL March 18, 2009 - It’s no secret that where two or more are gathered, there are results. That is the premise behind Global Prayer Wake Up Call, a high-tech service created by Reverend Celia Filla and GlobalHeartSpiritualCenter.net . A two-minute daily message of affirmation and prayer, which is distributed via telephone at the same time to literally millions of individuals, the intent is to create an inspired outlook individually and globally. The service is being offered for free and asking only for donations, which are then used to pay for the basic operating expenses and to help run programs assisting communities and individuals in great need. The Global Prayer Wake Up Call is becoming successful beyond the founders’ dreams.

Reverend Celia, who began her ministry on the streets of Fort Pierce, Florida, mentoring, feeding and clothing her neighbors, started the Global Heart Spiritual Center in Jensen Beach, Florida two years ago in an effort to “demonstrate the presence of God with my actions in our community and our world.” With assistance from GlobalCallEnterprises.com, the state-of-the-art technology that handles the monumental task of providing millions of synchronized phone calls each and every day, along with help from members of her congregation that create web sites and handle publicity, Reverend Celia began providing the daily affirmation and prayer service in a ‘test mode’ six months ago. She says she has already seen dramatic positive changes in the lives of participants.

The process is simple and user-friendly. Participants sign up for the service for free, or by donation. Within one week of signing up, they will begin receiving a phone call at the hour of their choice. All they have to do is answer the telephone to receive the daily message delivered by Reverend Celia. The same message will be delivered to others subscribing to the service, helping to create a magnificent positive energy through prayer, creativity and commonality of purpose.

Author of the well known book, Saved by the Light, Dannion Brinkly says, “Prayer, whether used in religious contents or as willful conscious intent used scientifically, steadfastly remains the true model of harnessed spiritual might of directed thought.” The Global Prayer Wake Up Call is a sign of the times and sets a new paradigm of unity and diversity because it brings together a wide variety of faiths, backgrounds, cultures and belief systems in a shared desire for peace, prosperity and the choice of a positive attitude within ourselves and our community.

To subscribe or learn more about the Global Prayer Wake Up Call, please visit www.GlobalHeartSpiritualCenter.net. Peace and Blessings

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Please feel free to forward this to everyone! Let us get the word out!

From Mary

Hi all: I have taken down phone numbers as this is too public a place for most to be comfortable having their phone # up on the web. So if you need me or anyone else to have anyone's phone number please email it to me or to them. Also please feel free to write any thing you would like put up; like poems or ideas or thought about Unity living. About truth or your study of it. I would like to thank every one for their warm welcome yesterday after I spoke. Your appreciation meant a lot to me. Thanks So Much and remember. :Ring the bell that still can ring. Forget your Perfect offering, their is a crack in everything, that's how the light get in. " If anyone would be interested in attending a work shop of mine let me know I will post the next one I plan on this blog, it will most likely be in late April or the first part of May. Thanks again please make use of this blog as place to share your thoughts. Off to the side I will place links to my sites and if any one else wants their sites posted here send me their links and I will put them up. my email is whiteflower909@me.com Thanks

Hi Everyone

Hi Everyone: We the speaker committee will meet after church on Sunday the 8th. It will be a short meeting about 20 minutes to discuss strategy. Take heart we will do well with this project. All is well and everything is perfect. See you all Sunday tomorrow. Mary Whiteflower

Planning for Sunday services

Mary,

Thought I would give this a try with giving you additional information re suggestions for planning the sunday services. We will see if I am doing this right/if this will be received.

#1 Others who indicated that they are interested in helping with speakers for sunday services on the form that Alice created:

#2 YOU will NOT be doing the service on the 15th as they will be at youth rally that weekend. Thus we will need a speaker for that Sunday. They have asked to do the sunday service on the 29th of March. Judy Talley and are your contacts for YOU.

#3 Possible speakers: Micheal Betz(# is above) ;Donn King has spoke in the the past and is well liked,gives excellent lessons; Micheal Buckner, M.Div., Ph.D., local psychologist and hypnotherapist, Knoxville Hypnosis Center
I suggest that you make an annoucement this Sunday that anyone who would like to be a speaker or participate in a "sharing sevice" as what Unity means to them, what Unity has given them, any spiritual sharing etc OR knows of someone who would be willing to be a speaker/is a good speaker and such. That they should give you their information, phone #s etc.

#4 To get things started I suggest that you pick a date and time for all interested to meet with you and brainstorm together.

#5 I have to put 865 and then her phone # for the call to go thru from my home) has agreed to coordinate the format for the sunday service: choose music, arrange for musicians to perform, who to do the meditation, worship assistants etc etc. Yall will need to work together as you will be taking care of different parts of the sunday service. I suggest you ask her to come to your first meeting. Alice will be a good resource person for you as coordinator of speakers for sunday services. Also in the office will be working closely with Alice and with you as she is the one who will type up the bulletin/order of service.

This is all I can think of at this moment. Please call me if I can be of any assistance.

Affirming Love, Peace, Harmony and Divine Order,

Linda Green

Hi All,
Here is what I did to get here. First I made up my profile page. Follow the link until you get to the actual BLOG. Then click on the POST in the upper right hand corner and that will take you to a page that will allow you to type your post, preview it and then post it as you would like. You can customize it with all of the colors or pictures that you would like.

I would like to thank Mary for providing this for us and I think that we can use it as a great tool for communication. It was unfortunate that the meeting went as long as it did this morning. I think we were all getting hungry and perhaps a little emotional. We are going to have to allow ourselves a little time to regroup with everything and to allow ourselves time for adjustment. I am looking forward to working with all of you.

Hi Everyone

This is to help us stay in touch and keep a communication flow. So everyone please leave your ideas hopes and dreams for our church community here in Knoxville. If you wish to be on the author list and go to church at Unity of Knoxville, and have not received an invitation to do so please email me at whiteflower909@me.com and I will send you an author invitation. To author well require setting up an google account, it's free, it's easy, just follow the instruction in your invitation.

The meeting to day was long and and a little painful for us all, so this will afford everyone time to think and give suggestions and idea as to what we want the future of our church to look like. So please everyone participate and share. There are no wrong ideas. The Board of course will make any finial decisions concerning budget and church expenses. But this is a place we can all share ideas and direction.
Thank You Mary Whiteflower