The Way to Happiness and Peace By Jonathan Mathews

The Way to Happiness and Peace
By Jonathan Mathews

I make no decisions by myself. I call on Holy Spirit first. I surrender my will to His, knowing that His will is mine.

I see another’s interest as my own. I see his suffering as my own. I ask for guidance as to how I can be truly helpful.

I do not judge because I’m unable to. I can choose again. I can love everything and everyone the way it is. I cannot be against anything because I haven’t judged it.

When I am seemingly attacked, I ask Holy Spirit to help me see it differently. I instead ask how I can serve the seeming perpetrator. I let go of anger and condemnation.

I stay in integrity. My thoughts, words, and deeds are aligned. What I think and what I say and what I do are not in conflict. I always speak the truth, as I know it. This gives me self respect and self love. In other words, I can always trust myself.

I give over my fears to Holy Spirit. I am not a body. There is nothing to fear. I give up not being good enough. I surrender the fear of death, suffering, lack, and loss. There is no greater illusion than fear. I trust God.

I am kind and generous to everyone and all living things. If I see a need, it is mine to fill.

I am devoted to doing my spiritual work regularly. My life is a prayer and God is always in my mind.

I give selfless service whenever appropriate. I give of my time, talents, and money. I do not ask or expect anything in return, not even recognition. I practice giving anonymously. I give knowing that I give to myself. I cannot out give God.

I give up defensiveness, knowing that I am innocent and a perfect child of God. I choose to join with my brother instead. I listen carefully to the criticisms of others and ask Holy Spirit for the truth. I don’t make him wrong, even in my mind. I would rather be happy than “right”.

I pay attention to my thoughts and beliefs, for they create my reality. I take full responsibility (not blame) for what I have created, knowing that I can choose different beliefs and thoughts. I think only about what I like and want, not what I don’t want, so that I can manifest appropriately. I give up beliefs that no longer serve me.
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I give up my stories that keep me imprisoned. I am not my stories of the past. I can live in the now, where God is. I accept God’s grace instead of suffering. Without my stories I can move effortlessly through life. I no longer think my stories are who I am!

I replace illusions (the world) for love (God). I give up chasing people, pleasure, power, and things. I surrender any need for respect, approval, and support. I choose instead to focus on the joy of who I am. I am what I have been looking for!

I let go of control, desires, attachments, and outcomes. This is big! I can choose what is instead. I give up thinking that I can change circumstances or change another so I can be happy. It has nothing to do with my happiness. I can allow my body be as it is, knowing that it is perfect for my path through life. I accept its size, shape, and state of health. I am happy because I am aware of, and extending, the love that I am. I give all outcomes to God.

I can forgive myself and my perceived perpetrators. I can know and see our innocence. I forgive my beliefs and projections that wrong thinking created. There are no perpetrators and no victims. In truth there is only love. I can see attacks for what they are, a call for love and nothing more.

I am in a constant state of gratitude because gratitude will undue the ego. I cannot be in gratitude and simultaneously suffer. When conflicted with another, I can use appreciation to replace judgment. I find more and more to be thankful for. I am grateful even when circumstances are difficult because I can never know the whole picture. I trust God impeccably.

I give up duality. There is only good and that is God who is in everything and everyone. Anything else is in my mind and is not true. I have given everything its meaning; otherwise it is neutral, not good or bad. I can live in this world, but not be of it.

I let go of the world’s views concerning security. I truly know that there is no security in this world! No kind of money, insurance, medicine, doctors, or any other kind of protection is of value to me. I am not attached to keeping this body alive. I only trust and rely on God, my source. I am free.

I can die to the ego. This is what it means to be born again. I can let go of the ego that thinks it needs something and instead rely on Holy Spirit, that part of me that is complete, wise, and loving. I am not the ego, I am free and I open my mind to all possibilities.
Do any one of these exercises for 30 days and your life will change, guaranteed!