Tell me something good...

As I sit here watching the beautiful sun come up after two dreary days of rain, wonder and gratitude for all that life has to offer me increases. I am truly filled with awe and joy.

It is sometimes challenging to start our day in gratitude when so many challenges are around us. As I read my morning meditation, it is revealed to me that any good fortune I desire begins with me. I should not expect miracles. There is no tooth fairy. My prosperity needs to be a process and it is not magic.

Believe it or not, this is not bad news. It is good news because it gives me the power to direct the process in my own life. In a book I am reading by Eric Butterworth, he insists we get over the idea of expecting a miracle. He goes on to say, “Your fortune is not influenced by caprice; it is determined by the shape of your consciousness.” If we believe good luck is the key to prosperity, then we believe bad luck can obstruct it. What a helpless perspective!

The basic idea is that as we change our consciousness, we change our experience. I believe we are living magnets, meaning that our consciousness is constantly attracting the things, people and circumstances drawing into our lives.

You may reason, “I cannot be responsible for the state of the economy!” Not you alone, but economists observe that business conditions, stock market, etc. tend to reflect the level of people’s confidence. If this is true collectively, then it is true individually. The state of your personal economy is a reflection of your consciousness. I love the quote from Walt Whitman, “I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune!”

Bold-faced Lies!

When was the last time you allowed “doubt” to take you into a downward spiral in your thoughts? “I doubt that!” can be a statement to impress our subconscious mind with a message that takes us into a desirable thought or idea, rather than staying in a place of acceptance of what we no longer want to be true for us. Sometimes, an even stronger phrase is needed to shift us.

For an example, a gentleman found himself on an elevator with a couple of people discussing the weather. The gentleman was looking forward to his experience in the city he was visiting. The couple, also visiting, agreed with each other that the weather is going to make their lives miserable that day and through out the week. The man stepped out of the elevator rather discouraged when he realized that he must challenge his reactive feelings. “Wait a minute,” he said to himself. “That was a bold-faced lie, and it had nothing to do with me! The weather has no authority over my experience. My life is happy, full of wonderful surprises, and overflowing with exciting joyful events.” Then he went on his merry way.

We can claim the command of language to empower ourselves so that any negative messages, whether from the news media, stories of others, or stories we make up, have no effect on us. We can continue to accept the good that life is bringing to us.