Isn’t it amazing how a new outlook and a good night’s sleep changes everything? We are still at the start of a New Year, allowing us the invitation to see if our goals align with our heart’s desires. Do you have a positive mental attitude?
Goals for a healthier life, better job, or simply beginning again to rid ourselves of habits that no longer serve us are beneficial to a happier life. How we think, or better stated, how we choose to think, is the key.
Wait.
A positive mental attitude and how we think is a choice?
Yes.
With a positive mental attitude (aka PMA) we can do anything. It is a mistake to think that just because we have been addicted to negative thinking in the past, that we came from a negative family, or that is our personality’s mind bend, that we have no choice but to think negatively.
It is also a mistake to think that just because some of humanity is clinging to the side of a sinking emotional ship that no help is in sight. Self-correction and taking the time to reassess if you are truly where you want to be is a new beginning possibility.
You may have been addicted to the one-way of thinking of any political, religious, and/or social group without your full realization of what was really going on, especially if you have been used as a pawn in someone else’s manipulation game.
Let’s face it. No one wants to lose or admit that they were wrong.
How does one break an addiction? First of all, they do not keep doing, thinking, eating, drinking, smoking, gambling or whatever the addiction is. Simple, right?
Wrong.
There are two ways to attempt to stop addictions. One is with a negative mind set, keeping past failures of trying to stop in the mind, fueling the failure of the memory until it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The result of negative thinking is a sure way to stay addicted and ruin any hope of self-esteem in the process. With this approach, usually the addiction becomes worse. All of this is a choice. You are not a victim unless you choose to be.
The second way to successfully stop an addiction, first of all, is to fill your thinking with positive messages, one minute at a time. It is a rewiring process. This will not feel natural at first. This is actually a physical thing. You are creating new synapses in the brain, new pathways of thinking. The more you think positively about your new goals, the more they will begin to be comfortable. It is helpful to know that it takes 21 days before any new way of thinking, or habit we are trying to break becomes a positive habit, and begin to feel comfortable and natural.
An important thing to remember when you are beginning to break with any addiction, is that your mind is going to argue back with you.
YOUR THOUGHTS DO NOT THINK YOU.
YOU THINK YOUR THOUGHTS.
YOU ARE IN CONTROL OF YOUR THOUGHTS.
YOUR THOUGHTS ARE NOT IN CONTROL OF YOU.
The ego will fight you on this one. Expect that. This is normal. The ego likes the status quo. The ego thinks it is all powerful and can boss you around. The good news is that this is not true. When you assert your intentions and goals, and begin on your new path to freedom from addiction to negativity, all other addictions, you begin to realize the success you are having, one minute at a time, one day at a time.
No one of us is perfect. We will make mistakes in our thinking at first, but it is helpful to have some positive statements you have already thought of before hand, to effectively argue back with yourself. No one can push you around, not negative thoughts, and certainly not your ego.
I’ve given classes on the insane ego and its negative effects in our lives. Yes, the ego is insane, egotistical (of course!), arrogant, fear-based, and will do anything to keep you in the false belief that you are not in control of you.
Here are some positive statements (affirmations) with which you can affirm yourself along the path to self-healing and a happier life:
I am worthy.
Yes, I can.
I can do this. (I say this one a lot when I am at the gym and want to quit!)
I am free of _________.
I am in control of me.
Replace the time you think negatively with a positive alternative:
Listen to music. (Music soothes the savage breast!)
Go for a walk.
Join a Yoga, exercise or dance class.
Take time out to do 15 deep breaths.
Water and take care of your plants.
If you have no indoor or outdoor plants, go get some.
Read a book.
Call a POSITIVE THINKING friend. (Do not call a NEGATIVE friend at this moment.)
With this game plan, you can have success in limiting the effects of negativity in your life, and eventually eliminate whatever has had a negative effect on you.
The following talk applies to popular political, religious and social indoctrinations using similar mind control techniques to hook you into their one-way of thinking, just as a fisherman uses a spinner bait to catch an unsuspecting bass swimming by.
Human mind-control techniques are based on presenting lies as if they were truth and hiding actual truth as lies. If you swallow their “bait,” especially in masses of humanity, you might even feel pressure to go along with your family and friends just to be included.
The solution to this form of manipulation is to continue maturing and practicing human development and self-esteem so that you are strong enough to withstand condescending remarks and out-right insults against truth, honor, and even lies against yourself in order for the emotional blackmailers to save face.
I gave this 28-minute talk as an AI virtual talk in Porto, Portugal this past September 2025. I offer it as an AI talk to you here. When you go to my website, you will see the block on the front page where you can click on it. You too can heal.
“Healing Political, Religious, and Social Indoctrinations” Virtual AI Talk in Portugal
Hello and welcome to this talk, HEALING POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL INDOCTRINATIONS, written by me, Linda Hourihan, HHCP, and delivered by AI, produced by Book Publisher USA.com. The HHCP after my name stands for holistic health counselor practitioner.
It is vitally important to maintain integrity while AI is learning how to integrate itself into the modern world. Currently there is a lawsuit in court with AI, which is accused of stealing the book from an author and another from a publisher. In my opinion, we should keep in mind this transition into AI assisted platforms, copyright and trademarked books, art and works of all kinds must be acknowledged and compensated.
No mind has the ability to think freely until it is unbound from the restraints of cults, cults that come in many disguises.
Please listen to this talk, even if it goes against what you’ve learned so far in life.
I invite you to listen to this without an answer running in your head, without automatically thinking, “That’s not what I was told,” or “That’s not what I teach,” or “That’s not what I believe.”
When I was researching my Canadian French genealogy, I discovered that I had several of the Daughters of the King of France in my lineage.
Some of the women chose to marry Native Americans, settled along the St. Lawrence River, and later became known as the Metis, traveling along the Oregon Trail or south to New England and the eastern coast of the United States of America, or to New Orleans with their fleur-de-lis French trademark.
SONGS UPON THE RIVERS is a book about those who first blazed the famous path now known as the Oregon Trail.
It tells of the buried history of the French speaking Canadians and the Metis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific.
In elementary school we all learned about Merriweather Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition exploring the trail westward to California. What was withheld was that he found it abhorrent that a white French woman would marry a Native American.
He did not write about the Metis making their way along the Oregon Trail before he did. As a result, not many people know the accurate history of the Metis forging the Oregon Trail before Lewis stamped his name on it.
History was handled so only one side of the story got told for reasons of personal power, fame, and fortune.
We need to be careful when searching for hidden histories in religion, politics, and social groups. There may be a tendency to come up with conspiracy theories or spin half-truths as if that is all there is.
Truth matters.
Later I made the decision to investigate my spiritual genealogy and the truth about Jesus the Christ wherever I could find it. Why? Because I could not explain the missing links in his lifeline.
My eternal question was, why was I only allowed to get a brief sanitized version of his life from birth to age 12, and then only 3 years from his ages 30 to 33?
Wouldn’t you want to know more than 3 years of the life of Jesus, even if you are not a Christian?
I’ll get back to this later.
In the popular romantic crime-solving television show, Castle, notice how characters, Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle and Stana Katic as Kate Beckett, first find their culprit, the possible criminal.
But upon further investigation, they discover that they have accused the wrong person. They do not keep prosecuting the first person who they thought committed the crime.
Why?
Because the wrong person would be tried, convicted, and punished.
It is vital to stay current with the truth of updated information, including your opinions of where the truth is, no matter how inconvenient that may be.
This talk will address 4 points. Remember to always have Courage, ask Questions, have Conviction, and continue your Quest.
Have courage to look deeper into your belief systems on any subject.
Notice that you are intimately, eternally, and universally connected to the very active life force, your “chi” that animates your very next breath. It is not outside of you, but WITHIN YOU.
There is more to your place on this planet than you may first realize. You are more than your job, your role in your family and with your friends. There is also more to discover than what has most likely been revealed to you. Allow yourself to know that there is more to know.
You actively seek to share your lives in your families, with your friends, in your workplaces, and out into the world while simultaneously retaining your personal power, your fame which is your reputation, and your fortune, the keys to your cash.
Have you ever observed how many people, organizations, employers, and opinion hubs such as politics, religions and certain social groups, seek to usurp your personal power, your fame, and your fortune?
How do you continue growing as a person at the same time so many establishments seek to lay claim to your personal power, your fame, and your fortune for their own?
The life force energy animating you is the Light of your Spirit. It brings life to your Soul through your thoughts and emotions. This is the Limitless Living Light of your personal Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy. Without it, you would not be alive, no matter what your belief system is.
This is what Luke 17:20-21 talks about when Jesus says this Light is WITHIN YOU.
All cults I have studied say they are not a cult.
Let’s look closer.
Having courage is the key. Here is a quote from my book now in its second printing, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled UNIVERSAL WISDOM. The publisher put this quote on the back cover: “Now is the time for courage. Courage does not mean having no fear. Rather, courage is feeling fear, but peacefully doing the right thing, the moral thing, with integrity, despite the presence of fear.” And yes, fear has many disguises.
Technically, fear is not a “thing.” Fear is what resides in the void, in the lack, in the worry, the ignorant forecast of gloom and doom, considering only the worst that can happen.
Fear is the prime motivating force some groups use to bend the free will of others to either conform, be punished, or be kicked out of the group.
I have witnessed several groups each telling me that they are not a cult while adhering to well-known Cult Markers.
Here are Fourteen Cult Markers to watch out for:
The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader, and, whether he is alive or dead, regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as Law.
2. Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or punished.
3. Mind-altering practices, such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, or debilitating work routines, are used in excess and suppress doubts about the group and its leader or leaders.
4. The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel. For example, members must get permission to date, change jobs, or marry or leaders prescribe what to wear, where to live, whether to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth.
5. The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader, and its members. For example, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar, or the group and or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity.
6. The group has a polarized, us-versus-them mentality.
7. The leader is not accountable to any authorities, unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders, or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations.
8. The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group. For example, lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities.
9. The leadership induces feelings of shame and or guilt to influence and control members.
10. Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
11. The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
12. The group is preoccupied with making money.
13. Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group related activities.
14. Members are encouraged or required to live and or socialize only with other group members.
Every person on the planet is born with free will since birth. Not one leader of any kind is in charge of your freedom in mind and body, and especially your Spirit.
You are in charge of you.
Your Spirit is a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy. This is your I Am Presence animating your physical body.
Marquette University.edu taught the Gospel of Thomas, and in the 4th verse, Jesus said, “The man old in days will not hesitate to ask a small child seven days old about the place of life, and he will live.”
Why?
Because as limited as an infant is, it knows it exists and will do what it takes to cry to be taken care of.
Remember to question everything, what others have told you to believe, and what you have decided you want to believe.
Who told you that you may not read any of the hidden writings of ancient history, especially religious, political, and educational history?
Who is it who is limiting and pontificating what you may learn, read and know, including all knowledge all over the world?
Is anyone threatening your life or your Spirit, or your Soul?
I am not saying you need to think what I think, or what anyone else thinks.
It is vital that you allow yourself to think for yourself.
While you know this, how much of your Spirit do you allow others to get their hooks into, indoctrinating you so you believe what they tell you to believe, so you fit into their club or organization?
Notice if various forms of threats to you are the motivating force others use to get you to bend your will to their will. This may come in the form of threats to your immortal Spirit, Soul or being physically ostracized out of the group.
Censorship and hiding important information are the first tip offs that you might be in a cult. It’s easier than you might first think. I know. I have been there.
Have mercy on the gurus who think it is their job to “save” you. Have empathy and compassion for them because they are not aware that even they are indoctrinated because indoctrinated people indoctrinated them. They are simply trying to follow “the rules” and “get it right.”
Ask questions. Are you allowed to question your faith? Asking questions is a good place to start in any area of your life. Your heart is a safe place to reassess your goals, hopes, and dreams.
Being in the wrong place at the wrong time is like trying to walk with your shoes on the wrong feet. When something needs to change, it just feels wrong.
Keep a journal. It is a good way to track how you feel. Your feelings are the true barometer telling you that you are on the right track for your life, or not.
When you deny your feelings and do not ask yourself questions that need to be asked, you get sick. At least I did.
I faced my fears and found my voice and wrote MY RED BAG OF COURAGE, subtitled, SURVIVAL WISDOM to help others who might be indoctrinated without fully realizing what happened to them. It is time to reclaim your personal power, your fame, which is your good reputation, and your own fortune, the keys to your cash.
I was married at 16 years old on purpose to get out of a house I was afraid to live in with my adopted father. I was also very Catholic and, for decades, divorce was not an option, according to the rules of my faith at that time.
I offered up my conflicts as a total oblation of who and what I was, a dedicated wife and mother of 5 growing children from the ages of 10 to 22 at that time, until my doctor prescribed Zoloft for my increasing panic attacks.
When I finally questioned myself, I had to be truthful. I decided to treat the root of the problem, not only the symptoms of my life which were making me ill. I made the unpopular decision to get a divorce. That is when my life began to heal, mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
Ask yourself this question, are you in the right place at this moment in your life?
Are you in the right job?
Are you in the right relationship with the person you are with?
Are you safe?
Are you happy?
There are positive solutions to all these questions. Seek out a holistic health counselor or mental health professional in your area if you need to. You, too, can heal.
It takes conviction to break out from under the heavy thumbs of indoctrination and complacency. Listen to your inner voice when information goes against what you know to be true.
Have conviction.
There are opportunities for us to bring fairness into our professional work worlds, just like the US Women’s Soccer Team did. They stayed with their conviction to fix an unjust work situation for six years. It worked.
Notice the undercurrent of male domination in the time it has taken for the US Women’s Soccer Team in FIFA to stop being paid thirty-eight percent of men’s pay while producing a markedly more successful product than the men’s team.
In February 2022, the US Women’s National Soccer Team won their case after six years of federal complaints and three years of litigation after decades of domination of the women’s circuit.
Why did they have to go to court to achieve what is only fair?
Next let’s look at the Genographic Project, launched April 13, 2005. This was a joint venture between the National Geographic Society and IBM.
The goal was a genetic anthropological study, that aimed to map historical human migrations patterns by human beings all over the Earth by collecting and analyzing DNA samples.
The studies traced 300,000 genetic markers that followed humanity’s travels all over the Earth for a stunning 150,000 years.
The Genographic Project came to an unceremonial end, and the site was retired after 1,006,543 participants in more than 140 countries had joined the project.
Let’s take a closer look to see why education about the migration of human history had to stop.
In May 2006, the Genographic Project came to the attention of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which recommended that National Geographic and other sponsors suspend the project because the findings disagreed with their indoctrinations.
Amy Harmon wrote an article entitled, “DNA Gatherers Hit Snag: Tribes Don’t Trust Them “DNA Gatherers Hit Snag: Tribes Don’t Trust Them,” that appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES on December 10, 2006.
The knowledge gleaned from the Genographic Project research caused concern that could clash with long-held beliefs of indigenous peoples and threaten their cultures.
Isn’t this how all cults operate?
Education is key to understanding all of humanity.
How is it that all Genographic DNA Ancestry Project knowledge of tracing human beings all over the world had to stop because one group of human beings did not believe that way?
I mean no disrespect. But who is it that decided to hide the truth of traceable human history because one group of humanity disagreed?
I honor and respect the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. I believe in their freedom to hold and practice their own beliefs.
I do not agree that I must only learn what agrees with their beliefs.
I ask, does all of humanity have to stop learning about the origin of human history because one group of humanity believes in something different?
This seems illogical to me.
So far, we have discussed you having courage; your right and duty to question your own beliefs; having your own conviction to live your life as you see fit; and now for the key, which is your quest to discover what has been hidden from you.
There are dear friends in our associations with our religious groups, our political affiliations, and even in our social settings.
Who wants to ruffle the feathers of our family, friends, co-workers, bosses, clients, and everyone else in our wider community of associations?
The question is, once you allow yourself to learn more than what you know now, do you stay with what is comfortable, or do you choose to continue growing as a person mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually?
This quest is your thirst for more accurate knowledge. Reassessing what you believe spiritually may be a hot button for you personally. I will share with you one last thing I thought I would never say. And that is, the Father of Jesus may not be the father of humanity.
I grew up very Catholic. I loved my faith for 60 years and still follow the words of Jesus.
But now I read and study ALL the words of Jesus, not just his famous years from his ages 30 to 33, for a total of 3 years.
How would you like to only be known for your first 12 years of life, and then only consider some of what you said between your ages 30 to 33?
I attended morning Mass every morning as a child with my mother. When I was 13, the priest asked me to teach CCD to the students in grades 1-3, so I did.
As I grew older, I was looking for more opportunities within the Catholic Church to be more involved. I got my Master Catechist training through the Worcester Diocese in Massachusetts.
I went on a Cursillo Weekend. Cursillo is a Catholic retreat started in part by then Bishop Juan Hervasfrom Spain along with layman Eduardo Bonnin and Father Sebastian Gaya. I joined the Cursillo Leader’s School and gave the Study talk on future Women’s Cursillo Retreats.
I attended a Life In the Spirit Seminar. I could not get enough of God and attended the following meetings they had.
Still, I felt something was missing.
I joined Opus Dei, and became a Supernumerary. It is interesting to note that the founder of Opus Dei, then known as Father Josemaria Escriva, is now a Saint in the Catholic Church.
He was also friends in Spain with Bishop Juan Hervas, both of whom desired to light a spiritual fire under the sleeping congregations of pastoral sheep of the world.
It was suffocation. I had to leave. I had never seen so much censorship in all my life. I asked my female spiritual director why I had to offer up so much sacrifice.
“To make up for what is lacking in the sufferings of Jesus Christ,” came the immediate answer.
As I said in my book IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, if being crucified on the cross was not enough sacrifice, which left vast chasms with not enough suffering to make up for the sins of humanity, then my washing a floor on my knees or skipping a meal could not possibly make up for what was supposedly missing in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, nor aide the starving children in the world.
That’s when I truly began my quest and allowed myself to read and study what else Jesus had to say.
Who is it really who would not want you to know what Jesus said?
I am truly a Christian, but now I read, study, and follow all the words that Jesus said, not only some of them.
In your quest I advise you to drop fear, obligation, and guilt, known as fog, and begin to recognize the manipulation of others. These are forms of emotional blackmail.
Be honest with yourself and notice when fog rolls in over your emotional Self, especially with this next important missing piece of information.
It is the very reason the Cathars were exterminated. History was being manipulated, as if by hiding information, belief systems could be altered for unholy purposes of usurping the personal power, fame, and fortune of the people.
Jesus said, “I tell you, listen and understand. For many when they hear, will be fainthearted, but you, understand in the way I can tell you. Your father is not my Father, but my Father has become a father to you.”
This comes from The Second Revelation of James under the heading, James Tells What Jesus Said Regarding Two Fathers.
The scripture refers to His Father with a capital “F” and humanity’s father with a lower case “f.” This is what having and using your conscience is all about.
The Father of Jesus is also known as Eternal Universal Life Force Energy. Your Spirit and Soul are a Spark of this same Energy.
However, you are more than just your Spirit and Soul. Your physical biology comes from the lower case ‘f” father which Jesus taught to James.
This would be easy to discount if it weren’t for the same thing accounted for in the gospel of John 8:37-38 in today’s bibles where it says,
“I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you. I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.” John 8:37-38
Since censorship hid these words, how would you ever know what was hidden from you under threats of excommunication if you did not research this for yourself?
These are some of the missing words of Jesus that were buried, because they disagreed with the religious teachings of His time.
Revelation of other hidden knowledge reveals that just like many other crucified people in his day, Jesus survived the crucifixion. The proof is documented in several books.
If you do not allow yourself to know this, you stay indoctrinated. Some people do not even allow themselves to hear or consider this information.
At the very least, you have a right to know and make up your own mind. You decide what you believe. You have the right to investigate this in books such as THE CHRIST OF INDIA, THE STORY OF ORIGINAL CHRISTIANITY by Abbot George Burke, and in another book entitled, JESUS IN INDIA by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian.
Light of knowledge illuminates these words.
Knowledge is power.
By hiding the powerful words of Jesus, the spiritual shepherds since that time could usurp the personal power of their flocks, assume the individual fame and reputation of their congregations, and definitely obtain their fortunes, the keys to their cash.
You all have your personal faith journey. Again, I stress for you to listen to your own conscience. Your heart knows if something is missing.
It was amazing to me when I began to pay closer attention to who wanted me to abdicate my personal power, and wanted me to give up my fame, my reputation, and my fortune, the keys to my cash.
All indoctrinators of any kind want your personal power for themselves and will insist you bow down to their way of thinking, and will definitely want your monthly financial contributions, the keys to your cash.
A fair amount of emotional blackmail goes along with these indoctrinations.
All cults use fear, obligation, guilt, and manipulation, as emotional blackmail to be in their “club.”
In my opinion, the good news is truly what Jesus tried so hard to teach humanity and is the reason he was crucified.
It is so powerful that the powers in his day wanted to put an end to his teaching because it was so empowering to the people of his day. Today is a new day.
He said, in Luke 17:20-21, when the Pharisees asked when the Kingdom of God would come, Jesus said the Kingdom of God would not come with observation, but this Kingdom, which is the Limitless Living Light of the human Spirit/Soul, is WITHIN you and me.
You are a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy animating you.
All bibles today are going back to these words, because earlier they changed the words to say that the Kingdom of God is AMONG you. However, the footnote following that word AMONG, sends the reader to the bottom of the page which has the original word WITHIN written there.
This is what I teach. Learning this powerful lesson is life changing. You are more powerful than you realize.
The truth is not in some cult, or other numerous trains of thought, but within yourself, if you have the courage to question your convictions and set out on a quest to find your truth.
These are the words of Linda Hourihan, HHCP which are delivered to you by AI created for you today by Book Publisher USA.com. Thank you for your time.
This is my life’s journey. MY RED BAG OF COURAGE, subtitled, SURVIVAL WISDOM, is now as an eBook at Barnes and Noble.
My Red Bag of Courage, subtitled Survival Wisdom, carries the 2024 INTERNATIONAL IMPACT BOOK AWARD for the IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS series.
My family and Massachusetts friends might remember me as the young girl teaching CCD classes to first, second, and third grade students, leading town parades as a head majorette, and later writing for my beloved town of Mendon as the local reporter for the Milford Daily News for 20 years, even after I moved to neighboring Hopedale, where I also taught religious education for an additional 10 years. I held Bible studies in my home there and began researching all religions as I had been taught to do prior to in my Confirmation class in the Noonan’s home in Mendon as a teenager.
My Red Bag of Courage is a book of integrity, tenacity for truth, and honesty in wisdom. Like the rest of you, I had a human life full of pitfalls and twists and turns of life. This book is my journey through a sometimes-perilous life which few other people knew about. It is not their fault that they did not know because I never shared my private life with anyone.
I thank all the people who have been part of my life and for the life lessons we all learned in the process. This has been an incredible and unexpected faith journey. Many of you will remember our beloved Father George Rueger who later became a bishop and resided at Saint Peter’s Church in Worcester before he died. He is in this book. I could not eliminate his counsel and wisdom.
I share from the bottom of my full heart the Love and the Light of spiritual direction which I also received from the late Fr. Bernard R. Reilley at one of the most critical moments of my life, the death of a very dear friend and her son which I share in this book.
Barnes and Noble says, “My Red Bag of Courage by Linda Hourihan is a deeply personal and transformative narrative exploring themes of survival, resilience, and self-discovery. Inspired by true events, the book blends fiction with life wisdom, recounting the author’s journey through trials, healing, and spiritual awakening. Each chapter offers insights into personal empowerment, metaphysical understanding, and overcoming trauma. It emphasizes the importance of harnessing inner strength and connecting with universal energy to navigate life’s challenges. Written with raw honesty and compassion, this work aims to inspire readers to embrace courage, face adversity, and discover the boundless potential within themselves.”
How can you tell if you have been conned by a cult, even a political, religious or social cult?
How do you get out of a cult?
Should anyone else tell you how to vote?
Should anyone else tell you what to believe?
Do you believe in censorship?
Who is in charge of you?
How old are you?
Do you believe that the government should monitor women’s menstrual cycles?
Do you believe one faith should dictate how you should live your life?
IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM is the latest best-selling book empowering everyone including adults of every age and gender on how to reclaim your personal power, fame (your reputation).
Discover how to reclaim your personal power, fame (your reputation), and fortune (keys to your cash) that may have been usurped by others, or which you might have freely given away to others because you might have thought they knew much more than you.
Reclaim your personal power, fame, and fortune with your next decision. You are in charge of you, no one else, especially if you are an adult. No religion, political party, or social group owns your thoughts, words, and actions.
This is what awaits you when you finally let go of crippling thoughts, words and actions that have been deceiving you of who you truly are.
Many people sink into victim consciousness after dealing with years of mental abuse, physical abuse, spiritual abuse, and/or self-inflicted destructive habits. This can continue to occur years after the events are remembered by the mind only choosing to remember the horrors, the injustice, and the shame endured.
When these minds finally feel they have had enough of these dysfunctional repetitive loops, conscious awareness of the opportunity to walk forward in dignity, magnanimity, and personal freedom shines through the open door of love without conditions and non-judgment. Once this new concept enlightens the mind, the person can finally heal.
Some people erroneously think that to allow themselves to heal means to invalidate what they have gone through. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The truth is, to continue to wallow in past abusive situations is to continue the past abuse by bringing it into the present time.
Have you ever begun a sentence with the words, “Ever since … this .. or that … happened to me, … I can’t … recover … heal … or do anything positive?”
Does the mantra, “I hate people,” remain decidedly stuck in your head?
This is giving the abusers of mind, body, and spirit fuel to continue destroying your life. On one hand, you want the abuse to stop. On the other hand, you might have identified with the abuse to the degree that without it, you do not know who you are without the constant memory of the abuse/self-infliction.
If this rings true for you, realize that human beings have a tendency to become self-absorbed. This can be a good trait if one is on a path to self-discovery, learning new things, and exploring possibilities in life. But it can also be a negative trait if one only allows the revolution of the mind to focus on the hurts, the insults, or the inadequacies of life to be the rock on which to build the future.
What you think about, you bring about. It begins with the thinking process. Do you want to heal? If so, decide to stop the self-destructive habits that are equal to shooting yourself in the foot, then complaining that you cannot walk or run, and boasting of that as a badge of honor.
Remember that it takes 21 days to change a habit. Be gentle with yourself. It has taken you all your life to be in the situation you are in at this moment. You can change it any time you decide to. If life situations compel you to be where you are in the same situation at this moment, nothing is stopping you from making new plans of possibility, getting a new job, taking a new class in a new subject, making new friends, or doing all of these things with a new positive attitude. Stay at it. Do not give up.
What are you thinking about?
Life is what you make it. You can make it beautiful. How you do that is up to you.
All human beings were born with the manifestation of the LIGHT of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy animating each one of us, regardless of creed, gender, nationality, race, color, age, eye color, opinion, indoctrination or any other difference humanity can contrive. Over the eons of time our DNA got messed with. It is that process and the result of their manipulation, that humanity was “dumbed down” so to speak and said to have “sinned.” That was not humanity’s fault.
How many times have you heard that you were born a sinner, requiring you to make a lifetime of amends, or join the “right” religion, or be “born again” to save your Soul?
This is what they have missed.
Every religion has their version. Sci-fi has their aliens. Books and movies have their villains. But they all look back upon that which was hidden from humanity until it was unearthed in the findings of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Books of Enoch, and the once well-known knowledge of the Nag Hammadi Scriptures in 1945.
Ancient occult knowledge knew what I am talking about. Modern science knows all about the Laws of Thermodynamics which state that energy cannot be created, nor destroyed, only changed. What is that but Eternal Universal Life Force Energy from which every human being in every stage of existence comes from?
Then the gauntlet was laid down by fear mongers at the top of religion combined with politics in 364-367 AD, in the unholy union of church and state with the Roman Empire in cahoots with the not so holy Roman Catholic Church.
Like in other belief systems in human pre-history that decried, “Believe like me or die,” fear was the tool used then, just as it was used in the Crusades, paving the thought process down to current times with various religions spreading fear and destruction as their operating system.
Yet, humanity is filled with the attributes, resilience and a thirst for truth. We are to keep searching for wisdom until we find. Our questions will persist until we do. We are not meant to be put under anyone’s finite thumb of miniscule, regurgitated knowledge. There is more for you to know.
This is only the tip of the iceberg I discovered when I searched for the answers not found in “approved” literature, especially Old and New Testament writings. They are all based upon adulterated information, while calling the reality of what happened to humanity “apocryphal,” which means secret knowledge, not anti-Christ, nor anti-Jesus.
The New Testament boasts of the first 12 childhood years of the life of Jesus, and his last 3 adult years, for a total of 15 years. However, there is another 18 adult years of Jesus where he preached and taught. Wouldn’t you like to know what the adult Jesus said? These words of the Savior of the world are not apocryphal.
All of this is explained in my latest book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM.
There is a 10% discount from the distributor of my book on the link above, although it is available anywhere books are sold.
Even Jesus himself expounds on this in Luke 17:20-21, if you allow yourself to read today’s bible where is tells humanity that the “Kingdom of God,” which is this LIGHT of God, is WITHIN us, at the time when those usurping people’s personal power, fame and fortune for themselves, altered bibles to say what they wanted it to say.
Even the Hebrew, Greek, English Interlinear Bible is putting the word “within” back in bibles which had changed the original word “within” to “among” changing the meaning. Jesus actually meant what he said when the Pharisees asked when the “Kingdom of God” would come. This “Kingdom” is the LIGHT of God that animates your Soul. Look at the footnote in any bible after the word “among,” if that is what your bible says, and you will see that the footnote says the original word was “within.”
You are a priceless treasure, because the Spirit of God lives in you, as 1 Corinthians 3:16 says. This is not based on any belief system.
Release, renew, rejuvenate. Discover more about your Self. The world needs you. All levels Reiki, Prana Healing, Qigong, Holistic Counseling, Hypnosis, Naturopath, and all other holistic healing therapists are welcome, as well as anyone who feels called to take these classes.
A percentage of proceeds of the energy classes I teach benefit the Girls Schools in Cambodia so that the girls are not sold into the prostitution and human slavery.
This is not a religious curriculum, nor is it “divine.” Rather, this class is all about cosmic Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that manifests as wisdom, love, understanding via experience, magnanimity, and increased conscious awareness which expands all of the gifts you have already been given. It is like taking the blinders off of your comprehension, mission and dharma in this lifetime. These are potent classes on working with your own energy system which will work so much better for you once you take those caps off all the concepts and constrictions presently in place through your human experience thus far.
NPMDT ™ classes assist you to release fear, self-sabotage and personal limiting belief systems while you simultaneously open the door to discovering your ability to maintain and/or gain self-esteem, confidence and competency in your personal, professional, and social circles.
Life is like an onion. You release what no longer serves you in layers, rarely all at once. Life is not stagnant and presents challenges repeatedly. Even for those of you who have mastered your reality, situations present themselves allowing you to go deeper in releasing, refreshing, and recharging, like rechargeable batteries. NPMDT™ classes do just that, allowing for a deeper comprehension of so many things you may already know. This is an experiential class that you must experience to believe.
Learn grounding, shielding, and activating techniques through meditations and activations which clear blocked pathways from your personal experiences and former comprehension. Keep what serves your highest good and release what no longer serves you.
Activations are not attunements, which attune you to something outside of yourself. Rather, activations literally activate sleeping DNA codes not yet fully recognized within yourself. Sometimes humanity needs assistance from trained NPMDT ™ teachers from the School of Esoteric Science ™, which is an international school, to activate that which you desire but have yet to achieve yourself.
If this sounds like you would benefit from a new beginning or would like a boost in your energy and/or bodywork in the therapies you offer to others, choose one of these three classes for your personal and/or professional growth.
Basic Master ™ Class:
Upcoming classes begin April 6 & 7, 2024. The cost for the 2-day, 16-hour Basic Master ™ class is $295 due by March 17, 2024, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions about this class, please email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
13D MDT ™ Class:
The 13D MDT ™ is 4-day, 32-hour workshop takes place on two consecutive weekends, June 1 & 2, AND June 8 & 9, 2024, from 10 am – 6 p.m.The cost for this workshop is $525, due by May 17, 2024, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science ™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. For questions on this workshop, email me at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
*Basic Master Teacher™:
*Prerequisite: Basic Master ™ Class – All students taking this class must provide their Basic Master certification number from the School of Esoteric Science
This 3-day, 24-hour workshop takes place during the Columbus Day holiday, October 12-14, 2024, 10 am – 6 p.m. The cost for the Basic Master Teacher ™ is $395 due by September 28, 2024, for registration in the School of Esoteric Science ™ and timely delivery of the manual and certificate. Please email me for any questions at linhourihan@yahoo.com.
This past November I was the guest speaker at the Women In Business/Sturbridge meeting held at Castle Cantina in Leicester, MA. Following the dinner, I had a book signing for my three books: IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM; MYSTERY OF THE STURBRIDGE KEYS, subtitled, CHRISTMAS UNLOCKED; and THE VIRTUE OF VIRTUES. Also for sale were five CDs from the CELESTIAL RETREAT I lead in 2010 in Connecticut.
My holistic articles have been published in The Door Opener Magazine, Wisdom Magazine, and Spirit of Change Magazine. I have also been published in the Connecticut Post Newspaper, The Milford Daily News (in Milford, MA), and was the founding feature writer for The Laconia Daily Sun (Newspaper) for two years before starting The Massage Clinic in Stratford, Milford, Orange, and West Haven, CT.
Education
DoveStar Institute, Hooksett, NH earning Massage Therapy License and certified in Reflexology, Accupressure, Shiatsu, Neuromuscular, Strain/Counter Strain, Swedish, Lymphatic Massage, and Reiki Master Teacher.
American Institute of Holistic Health and Wellness, certified by the American Association of Drugless Professionals earning my Holistic Health Counselor/Practitioner certification from the late Dr. Dolores Seymour, author of WHO CARES WHY?
Qigong Teacher taught by Qigong Teacher and Practitioner Jeff Primack.
NPMDT Teacher Certification by the School of Esoteric Science. This is an international school taught by John Armitage who travels worldwide to teach, and by whom I was trained since 2005.
I also hold a Master Catechist certification, specializing in Youth Ministry within the Catholic Church from the Diocese of Worcester. However, after reading all of the life of Jesus, his adult years from his ages 12-30, I now write about those 18 years and what he taught. There is more to know other than his first 12 years as a young boy and his last 3 years, for a total of 15 years currently written about in the bible.
I am a Universal Life Church (ULC) minister, taking and completing the Master of Chaplaincy course in the ULC Seminary, as well as completing the Doctor of Universal Order and Doctor of Spiritual Awareness programs. I spent the better part of a year prior to COVID comforting the sick and dying at Harrington Hospital in Southbridge.
Experience
I am a member of the British Complimentary Medicine Association, BCMA. I have extensive training and experience in most all forms of energy work, which is not recognized as valid therapies by the American Medical Association, AMA, even though doctors and nurses teach Reiki in most hospitals. However, the BCMA does recognize energy work as a valid therapy. It is interesting to note that the AMA does recognize the BCMA as a valid medical association. In this way, I believe this recognition validates energy work therapies.
Read the above caption each morning from now until January 1, 2024 to receive the realities of your dreams. It’s a vibrational frequency change for your brain. This is important. It rewires your brain from thinking you can’t reach your dreams and only seeing those obstacles, to discovering a new path of possibilities you had not thought of before.
Go back to school. Learn something new. Find the job that best matches your talents. Do you need a change?
Help humanity by making all your dreams come true. The way to helping the world starts by helping you to grow in character development and maturity, regardless of your chronological age. You can always learn on your own time by reading at home. When was the last time you read a good book?
This coming year 2024 is the year of manifestation, blooming with every bud of inspirational ideas for you on all levels. You decide which path you choose. Give yourself permission to make different decisions for your greater good.
Leave all those supposed or real obstacles behind in these last days of 2023. They no longer define you. You are more than your perceived obstacles. You matter. You have the complete freedom to live your perfect life more than you ever had before. Now is your time.
Call on your better angels if you want to advance your plans. Breathe in a new breath of possibility. Relax. Journal the steps you need to take to dare to begin new ventures. By working with this outline, you have steppingstones marking your progress in logical steps.
Don’t forget, the Limitless Living Light of Love, is what animates your Spirit/Soul. This is the driving force of your life. It is your personal tool to create your life, the paintbrush to splash the colors with which you choose to paint. If you don’t like what you’ve created so far, use your free will to paint a different picture.
This is the Christ Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, which I teach about in my latest book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM. You are never alone because this Spark of Christ Eternal Universal Life Force Energy is the animating force of your life.
In every life, there are times when your life takes, or needs to take drastic changes to match your personal development. Life is not stagnant. While change is not always welcome, it is the only constant in life. Welcome change when it comes to you, expected and unexpected.
Life is what you make it. Make your life beautiful.
Have you ever spoken with someone who tells you that he or she knows what God thinks, what God wants you to do, or what God will do to those who don’t obey what they think God wants?
These words are the spawn of FEAR, FEAR, FEAR. Political and religious fear mongers continue beating the drum of FEAR to motivate their followers to do their will, which they cannot do without their fear-filled followers. These leaders themselves are not filled with fear. Fear, obligation, and guilt, known as FOG, is the acronym used to refer to their arsenal of weapons, along with manipulation as a reinforcement.
“Physical abuse can be seen. But the seemingly invisible mental abuses political and religious cult leaders inflict on their unsuspecting subjects is not God-inspired nor politically productive for a democratic nation, nor any healthy congregation of believers. Political and religious cult leaders cling to an un-holy god of deception, using manipulation, fear, obligation, and guilt, otherwise known as FOG[1]. The acronym FOG, referring to fear, obligation, and guilt, was first coined by Susan Forward and Donna Frazier when dealing with emotional blackmail.” taken from IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM
Again I ask, have you ever spoken with someone who tells you that he or she knows what God thinks, what God wants you to do, or what God will do to those who don’t obey what they think God wants?
These are loaded questions which require a deeper look at the intentions of people. Often the intentions of people with good will, who are following the dark and negative drumbeat of suspicion and conspiracy theories, are misguided because they are misinformed, calling truth lies and believing all the political and religious spin of a conspiracy merry-go-round. Their political and religious leaders seem to be coming from a place for the common good based on what they claim to be fact, that they know the mind of God. This is the lie.
BEWARE OF THESE PEOPLE.
If anarchy, destruction, chaos, and murder is their MO, Motis Operandi., their god is not the good God. You will know these people by the fruits they bear.
Political leaders who claim they are standing on the principles of God would better serve the world as religious leaders, if that is their calling. Otherwise, political leaders ought to be serving the cause of the betterment of the humanity whom they say they care for, by positive solutions that build up. The USA has the separation of church and state for a very good reason.
What are good-hearted and good-willed people to do once they recognize that they have been deluded by the very ones they trusted, gave money to, and for whom they followed their direction only to discover their fearless leaders turned out to be corrupt and incorrect?
Do not hand over your personal power to anyone.
There are unscrupulous people in the world, some of whom pretend to be your friends, or claim to know what is better for you then yourselves. They want your money. They want your time. They want you to do their bidding, because on their own they cannot succeed. Do not follow the fox into the chicken coop.
Take a moment to reassess. Work for peace. Work for the common good of all people. Notice if the people you give money to are eating better than you. How many people of middle and lower economic status continue bailing out rich corporations, politicians, and religious entities?
It is good to change your mind, when you discover you have been railroaded by corrupt minds. Recognize the delusion others may have pulled the wool over your eyes for a few years. But now that truth is uncovered, let the light shine on your peaceful, loving intentions, clear the cobwebs of your mind, and focus on the unity and harmony.
Insults and biting sarcasm are the lowest form of communication. Even children know and do this.
It takes strength of character to uncover the truth of the reality of what is taking place in the USA. You may have been on the opposite side of the issue. Now you may have a clearer understanding that the truth is not what you were told. Everyone makes mistakes. Mature character development can admit when lies were told to you as if they were the truth. Truth matters.
It’s not important to stay on the wrong course in order to save face, nor money, nor friends. Now is the time to find out for yourself what the truth is. This is what can build a better tomorrow.
I’ve spent the past fourteen years reaching 203 countries, territories, and protectorates all over the world with my blog, Enlightenment Mastery, which, at this writing, has more than 118,860 views.
I interact with people of all races, genders, colors, creeds, ages, rich and poor, and any other difference people can contrive. We are all the same. People are people. It is how we live our lives, the choices we make, and allow ourselves to change our paradigms, when necessary, with opportunities and challenges in mind/body, and Spirit/Soul which define who we truly are. Thank God we get more than one lifetime to perfect ourselves in this school of life here on Earth at this moment in time.
Each chapter in this book includes quotes which I call the Library of Knowledge pertaining to the subject matter and examples of life experience. This knowledge can help with your ascension process in this lifetime. This is about free will and how you wish to use your freedom. You are your own boss, no one else rules over you, no priest, minister, or politician can rob you of your cash, property, thoughts, actions, or your voice, unless you let them. You are alive by the Divine Breath of Mother/Father God, what I also call your God Particle, which you may know as your Energy, Soul/Spirit, “I Am” Presence, Higher Self, or any other understanding of the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy which animates you. …
Eternal Universal Life Force Energy is part of the spiritual DNA of all human beings, since everyone is made up of body/mind and Soul. … It is the animating force of all human beings and all life. …
This book is a life lesson on how to stand up with peace, love, integrity, magnanimity, truth, honor, valor, gentleness, kindness, modesty, humility, patience, friendship, generosity, goodness, self-control, faithfulness, much joy, and the abundance of all good things. We learn harsh and valuable life lessons when we go against these Eternal Universal Life Force Energy principles played out in our mission, dharma, and karma as I explain in Chapter 10. …
Why on earth would there be two different Creation accounts? …
This is explained in detail, based on the Laws of Thermodynamics, which state that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only changed. It is a wonderful premise with which I started my book.
Mahatma Ghandhi is often attributed with the saying, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” While this saying aligns with Ghandhi’s philosophy, he did not write this famous quote. Change is never easy and is often uninvited. We tend to go along, often in lives of quiet (or not so quiet) desperation, until the day we almost fall part, or do in many cases.
Recovering lost dreams of better lives can begin at any time, but that is so scary to most of us, that we opt to “try to make it work” as if we did the “right thing” then all those problems of life would simply vanish.
Wrong.
You know what works for you and what does not work for you. You also know when trying to force your Self into a broken paradigm. Even if you thought things would work out, be honest with your Self. Your Self knows.
Other times, we have been set up by others’ renegade opinions of us, who choose to sabotage us, as if they knew all the truth about us, who we truly are, and why we do the things we do. They often malign that which they do not understand, nor ever could understand unless they walked just one day in our shoes.
Saboteurs seek to punish you with gossip and slander as a way to not own their own failings. They want to put you in your place, as if they have any idea of who and what you truly are. This is a tell-tale sign to get out from under those who can harm you and your reputation.
However, no one can keep you held under the waters of their own lies so as to not look bad themselves. They will never own up to their part in the situation. But you will again rise to the top of your Soul purpose, your karma in this lifetime.
Even the beachball held under water bounces back up with force, like the Phoenix rising yet again.
Your life lived out loud, for all to see the successful life you build after you leave the lowest vibrations of sabotage through gossip, lies, and conspiracies, eventually shines the radiant Light of your Soul, your I Am Presence in union with Eternal Universal Life Force Energy.
“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change,” wrote Gandhi. “As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.”
Transforming your comprehension by walking through fear is how you develop to become the person you were meant to be.
The answers to these important questions make up who you think you are. Yet, there is more to you than you may know.
You are a composite not only of the DNA of your ancestry but are the manifestation of the realization of your mission and dharma in this school of life.
What is your personal reason for being alive at this moment in time? Do you know? Do you know who you truly are?
The above diagram shows your Self in the center of your awareness. This is the only place where you can assess yourself, why you are here in the first place, and where you are going.
Notice at the top in the red square it notes your Self Concept. Do you have a healthy Self-Concept of who and what you truly are? You are much more than your accomplishments, regardless of how noteworthy they are. Where do your seemingly random thoughts generate from? Have you ever thought of that?
Have you limited your knowledge based on the thoughts and opinions of others? This can occur in all areas of life. Have you possibly bought into the plans of others without your Self actively personally investigating with critical thinking skills and agreeing that their premise is so? Your questions about all areas of your life will persist until you do.
Growing into a greater knowledge on the left side of this diagram of your Self encompasses much more than the outcomes of the things you think, say, and do. You have a physical and mental effect on everyone and everything around you, including your plants and animals, and other human beings, of course. But have you paused long enough to ponder how powerful this Energy is that animates you, extending way beyond the aura of your Self?
This Energy is the same Energy that feeds the manifestation of your life’s dreams, goals, and wishes. While it is intangible, it is measurable by your belief in your Self to accomplish the most difficult and seemingly impossible tasks.
How do you handle the energetic hits when someone tells you, “No, you can’t do that,” or “You can only do this other thing” when you know full well that you can?
Know that you can do any positive and life-affirming thing that you set your mind to. You are the creator of your own reality. On one hand, you know this to be true. On the other hand, how many times have you caved to someone else’s desires above your own?
Let’s talk about your reputation, how your family perceives you, how your employer and co-workers view you, how you are understood in your social circles. Even these personas do not encompass the totality of who and what you are. You are much more than they perceive. This is the bottom purple section of the above diagram. Keep all these aspects of your Self in focus when you continue on the path of increasing your authentic Self-esteem, Self-confidence, and Self-awareness. This is your Eternal Universal Life Force in action.
What others see are the outcomes, according to their perspective, about your Self. Still, they do not know all there is to know about you. Some people think they know everything about you and put your Self in the box of their own understanding. That is the most any of us can do. Know that you are much more than anyone else’s comprehension of your Self. You can think what others say about your Self does not affect you, but on a subtle level, if they are in your world at all, it can tend to put a chip on your shoulder, making you emotionally guarded and hard-hearted. This is not the proper way to deal with your Self.
Why is that?
What animates your Self is the same Eternal Universal Life Force Energy of all life, including mineral, plant, and animal kingdom life. This Energy follows the laws of science, specifically, the Laws of Thermodynamics, which state that Energy cannot be created, nor destroyed, only changed. Now think of what this means about the same Energy that animates your life.
Astounding, isn’t it? You are a wonder of wonder, life experienced in and through your reality, which can be changed any time you wish to go in a different direction or achieve a different outcome. You are in charge of you, no one else, literally.
So, when you notice your ego attempting to rear its ugly head, forcing you into competitions you would rather not be a part of, creatively design another alternative for your Self is you wish to. You are not pressured to do anything against your inner Self which is a people pleasing trap.
What if you traded the heavy burden of guilt for a different point of view, such as transmuting the guilt from assumed sin into the life lesson which it is?
How many times do you beat yourself up for the same failing, time after time?
How is your self-esteem?
How much time in a day do you spend lamenting the past?
How much time do you spend worrying about the future?
How much time do you spend in the present moment congratulating yourself for the things you do well?
What do think about?
Do you control your thoughts or do your thoughts control you?
Have you ever said, “You made me …. think, say, or do something?”
Have you ever blamed someone for the way you feel?
Have you blamed the other guy for getting fired, getting in trouble, or anything else?
This is a lesson in personal character development. It’s not the other guy’s fault. It is a lesson in maturity. It is one of those things that will keep repeating until the lesson is learned.
Using your emotions, words, and actions to try to get other people to respond to you in a certain way is called emotional blackmail.
It takes personal integrity to own up to our own shortcomings, mistakes, lies, and bad decisions. Everyone makes mistakes in life. Not one of us is perfect. This is how people of all ages learn. No matter how old you are, you are never too old to learn something new, a better way.
Also, other people do not have to walk on broken eggshells to be around you in order not to “make” you feel a certain way. You do not have to own any dark or negative feeling unless you want to feel that way. Choosing to stay in a negative emotional space is called wallowing and serves no healthy purpose. Others cannot make you feel anything that you do not want to feel. It is time to be honest with ourselves and why we are choosing to feel a particular way.
Everyone has the right and ability to choose to feel good. Those who are dealing with negative peer pressure at any age would do well to know that it is possible to remove your physical self from situations that are unhealthy. Everyone has the ability to stop reading malicious gossip and walk away from gossip circles where those who think they are popular prove that they are not. Those who gossip about others show their own emotional bankruptcy. Just because someone else chooses to use negative speech does not make it true. You already know this.
It is not the case that you have to manipulate outer circumstances to make yourself feel a certain way. It’s not about controlling others or circumstances at all. It is about realizing that you are in control of yourself. It feels good to finally realize that you are in control of you, no one else.
Sometimes, people think they have to justify negative feelings that come their way, almost feeling the need to fuel the fire of misunderstandings and hurts that sparked them as a way of “being true to themselves.” This is a mistake. It turns a small flame of hurt into a raging bonfire that is hard to put out. It’s a pity party, a self-sabotage trap that does not need to happen. This is emotional quicksand. Stop thinking this way as soon as you recognize it. Yes, you can.
If this happens to you, once you realize this is happening, it is easy to simply acknowledge that feeling, and in the next moment decide to think a better, happier thought. We are all in charge of our own thoughts. Our thoughts do not remain in our heads unless we feed them with our attention and emotions.
It is simply a matter of DECIDING to think in a new and healthier way. It is your DECISION to invest more in your own healing and well-being and in what others think, say, and do. It is a DECISION you DECIDE TO MAKE THAT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.
IT IS ALSO AN AWARENESS OF THE ETERNAL UNIVERSAL LIFE FORCE ENERGY WITHIN YOU. IT CONTAINS LOVE, WISDOM, AND KNOWLEDGE. IT IS LIGHT.
This Light is inside you, just as it is in all living things. This Light is your Essence, your personal Life Force, which no one can steal away from you. It belongs to you alone. This is a Bright, White, Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that pulses through every fiber of your DNA. It is not dependent on your viewpoint, opinion, or understanding. It is your own Chi, Prana, Qi, otherwise known as Eternal Universal Life Force Energy. It is this same Energy that radiates through every tree, leaf, and bird. It animates everything. No other person has more of it than you.
It’s time to be kinder to yourself, to forgive yourself, and forgive others. You do not need to punish yourself for the misunderstandings of others, nor for your own misunderstandings. Take a new breath of fresh air.
You are in charge of you, no one else. Your happiness does not rest on others understanding. Your happiness rests on your understanding of yourself, of you being true to yourself.
It also takes strength of character, to take a deep breath of compassion for others. Having this compassion is called grace.
Grace is the ability to let someone “off the hook,” so to speak, because they simply have no frame of reference for your feelings due to their own lack of experience, especially if you do not explain how you are feeling to them. Grace is treating someone with the same dignity with which you also want to be treated.
What problem? I don’t see a problem. Nope, don’t hear or smell anything either.
Have you ever noticed by trying to avoid problems, they get bigger?
How many times do we catch ourselves trying not to face the elephant in the room, or whatever our uncomfortable situation is?
Uncomfortable might feel more like painful, embarrassing, humiliating, so if you can simply stick your head in the sand, the problem would just go away, right?
Until we master how to face these situations and how to deal with ourselves, our reactions, these situations will continue to pull our strings. If you feel like giving up being a puppet to other people’s whims, and situations out of your control, then this article is for you. Your liberation is at hand.
You may have an avoidant personality, which might be either in your DNA, how you were raised, or a coping mechanism you’ve come up with to help you get by. But this life is much more than just you emotionally getting by. You may have been born with avoidant personality traits but naming this personality quirk does not mean you have no choices. Knowing what makes you tick is the first part of your healing. You do not have to be a victim to uncomfortable situations ever again.
A person with avoidance issues may be vulnerable to deprecation, rejection, be socially inept or feel incompetent. Know that this is a clouded view of yourself, as if you were looking at yourself through a fuzzy lens. This is not the reality. With a change of the “colored glasses,” or perception we have in our heads, this is a changeable thing. It is extremely liberating to discover this point. Our moods change, and so can our view of ourself for the better.
It is more often than not, a common trait for anyone with avoidant personality disorder, to view others as being critical, demeaning or superior. Again, this is not the reality, and is something you can change when you realize it is happening. That is why it is enlightening being the observer of yourself for a while to see what makes you tick. If you want to be critical, go ahead and be critical, just know you have a choice. You do not have to be critical if it makes you feel bad, which it usually does. It sinks your spirit.
If your mantra sounds like, “It’s terrible to be rejected and put down,” or “If people know the real me, they will reject me,” or “I can’t tolerate unpleasant feelings,” know that this too is a choice. Feelings follow actions ALWAYS. All you have to do, whether you feel like it or not, is to change your mantra. Do not wait to feel like saying it. Start right away with a mantra that states what you want to feel, like, “I am confident and secure in who I am,” or “I am perfect as I am,” or “I am able to handle anything.” This changes the vibration of your thoughts to a healthier, wholesome vibration you can build positive self-esteem on. Yes, you can do this. Yes, this really does work.
A person trying to avoid all kinds of things in life, may have decided the answer is to avoid all problems altogether, or to avoid unpleasant feelings or thoughts. Know that this is not the answer for a healthy life.
The holistic healing answer is to tackle all things head on immediately, no matter what. Know that any reaction you get from anyone, or anything, is nowhere near as bad as we assume it will be. Feelings born out of avoidance are far worse than any issue you take on.
The secondary answer is the opinions of others do not matter more than your opinions nor your own mental health. You count. Let go of attachments of needing to get the approval of others. You do not need it to grow in your own self-esteem. Expect that others are not going to like anything about you coming into your own and owning your own. Those around you are creatures of habit, like most people, and are used to your past habits. Keep trying. It’s a process.
Is healing possible? Where can you start? Check out these 5 steps to healing.
Even when you know what the problem is, it can seem impossible to free yourself in a healthy way. Negative world conditions can immobilize you. Broken relationships can immobilize you. Fear, shame, guilt, lies, illusion, and ego-based programs can immobilize you, appearing to be in control. They are not.
Survival issues are extremely real, especially for people fleeing for their lives. It is one thing to have empathy and compassion for those in need, giving of yourself in ways that can provide relief and assistance. It is quite another to not only not help in the ways that you can, but instead, choose to shut yourself down because the need of the world is so great that it blinds your attention span, numbs your free will, and saps your energy.
What can you do so that you don’t crumble in the face of debilitating situations?
Assess how you feel emotionally at each of your seven major chakras. Be specific. In your first, root chakra at the base of your spine, ask yourself if you are motivated by fear. If you are, take a deep breath and decide to never again be motivated by fear. It is literally a decision you make, not a feeling you are feeling at that exact moment. This takes courage to feel the fear, then go ahead to do what you need to do in spite of the fear. That is the decision part and is what courage is all about. This is also taking a step forward in character maturity and character development.
Then, move your consciousness up to your second, naval chakra, your pleasure center and sense of yourself. Many times, there are blocks here, either because of misuse of personal pleasure, or when another person may have taken advantage of you. That is what shuts this chakra down, by a constant or recurring sense of guilt. Now is the time to forgive yourself. There is no good purpose for guilt. Forgive yourself and refuse to be dominated by shame about this again.
Next, turn your attention to your solar plexus chakra, located in your stomach area. Notice when you give away your personal power, the result is often having an upset stomach. The body tells on itself. A great deal of shame is at the root of you realizing that you knew better at the time but chose to go against your inner guidance. It is not shame others put upon us but what we blame ourselves for. Now is the time to forgive yourself. Once you do, you reclaim your personal power, often with mental notes to yourself to not let this happen again.
The heart chakra takes such a beating, if you let it. You do not usually choose the heartache that you feel, often shutting you down. These are life’s traumas that have no emotional place to store other than your heart, like when someone you love dies, or a relationship you once knew to be true disappointed you. Again, forgiving yourself is the key. Also, disappointments of having prayed for the healing of a person or their situation and thinking that God did not answer your prayer as you directed God to do or arriving at the decision that there must be no God because you think a good God would have obeyed you, can shut you down by grief. Wouldn’t it be nice if everything always turned up roses, but that is not reality. It is how you deal with the problem that is the solution to the problem.
Your throat chakra shuts down with the truth you choke on not telling, as well as when a lie slips out of your mouth at times when you do not know what else to say. The more lies you tell, the easier it is to tell the next one, or a million and one. It is one of the worst bad habits a person can have, because it does not harm others, it harms yourself. The biggest reason telling lies harms you is that telling lies diminishes you. It is a character development flaw usually learned as a child trying not to get into trouble. You grow ten-feet tall the moment you start telling the truth as a matter of habit. Stand up for what you believe in, peacefully. Only use your voice to speak the truth. Then you will notice people listen to you much more.
Clear your brow chakra, in the middle of your forehead, from illusion. There is a difference between illusion and insight. You have a lot of insight when you pay attention to noticing what has happened in your life, and why things worked out the way they did. Even as an adult, you keep studying, continually learning, which grows your insight. Sometimes things change in light of more information. Many times, your beliefs change, like when your religion no longer seems to fit the way you think now, or by the way life’s experiences have played out. It’s time to grow past childhood indoctrinations. Now as an adult, it is time to shed illusion and reach for the stars with insight given from the Universal Mind, the place Nicola Tesla, Albert Einstein and Edgar Cayce frequented.
Lastly in this limited chakra exercise, understand what is motivating you. Is it purely ego? If you are motivated by what you want, when you want it, how you want it, where you want it, and why you want it only, then you are motivated by the ego. If this is the case, the ego inhibits spiritual growth. Perhaps you have been running the show, driving your life as a race car driver attacks the Daytona 500. You may have discovered there is not a lot of peace living this way. Transform your mind to include the breath of the soul. Your spirit needs your attention. You are not solely a physical and mental being. The problem with many western medicine counselors is that they do not address Soul Psychology, which is necessary for a wholesome you. Find the time to meditate, contemplate and pray. Prayer is you talking to God, Source, or Higher Power. Meditation and contemplation is God, Source, or Higher Power speaking directly to you, just like Tesla, Einstein, and Cayce did. You can decide to grow spiritually any time you do this.
Here are the five additional practices to become more fully you:
1. Take stock of what is actually taking place.
2. Make a realistic plan.
3. Begin your plan.
4. Each day is a new beginning.
5. Expand your knowledge.
These five steps can turn your life around. No one can change the past. We learn from the past, past mistakes. Time is always forward motion as our lives play out. While we know this to be true, we still often get stuck as if we were the marionette in our own lives, with some other person, situation, or thing pulling our strings.
Sometimes we follow routines as if they were the comfort zones they used to be. Time is always on the move. We need to keep up. If you want to stop staying stuck, try these five steps.
Peace, harmony, and unity are the manifestations of balanced chakras.
FIVE STEPS TO SELF-HEALING
Take stock of what is actually taking place. We can be so programmed by our own habits that we may not have kept up with the current reality of the situation. Even if things are still the same dysfunction, take a deeper look into how you want it to resolve. If you want to stay stuck, stay stuck. Just know you have the ability to change whatever is not serving your highest good any time you choose. Make sure you are making a conscious choice presently.
Make a realistic plan. For example, maybe you cannot leave your home, family, and work to help the flood of people of Ukraine who are so desperately in need of food, shelter, and clothing. But perhaps you could find an Ocean State Store near you that is offering buyers at the register to donate to this cause. They are most likely not the only store to do this. This is just one idea for ordinary people who have no idea how to help in this humanitarian crisis of our time. Make a concrete plan. Be specific. Plan to stick to it. It is possible for you to have a better tomorrow.
Begin your plan. So many of us are great at planning but fail to start. Realize that it takes 21 days to break any habit. Sloth can be one of those self-sabotage habits that immobilizes you. Naming it is a fantastic beginning. Now you know what to work on. Has failure followed you? Your past is not your future, nor who you are. If you are still breathing air, you have an amazing ability to think a new thought, change what is not working. Apply for a new job. Take a new class. Spread your wings. Build on the positive possibility. Never give up.
Each day is a new beginning. Past failure is an opportunity for a new wind to blow through new ideas, no matter how old, or limited by handicaps you are. Be creative. Stop beating yourself up for yesterday’s failures. Let go. Brainstorm your likes and things you are good at. Perhaps the internet can be your vehicle of action. Start a blog, vlog, or new business making art, jewelry, or a host of other ideas. Join a gym. Become a personal trainer, even if you are handicapped, other handicapped people could benefit from your services. Read a new book. Make a new friend.
Expand your knowledge. Learn something new. Take night courses or adult college courses, or better yet, discover the transforming and healing energy, which is the basis for New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation, if spiritual growth interests you. You have grown physically and mentally. Has your spirituality grown since you left grade school? Please know there is more, so much more. There is even more Jesus told us that most people have yet to hear, except through the words of other people. Namaste
I invite all energy workers of every modality to this workshop, and also to join us right where you currently are, in sending healing energy to wherever it is needed on this One Earth that we share and are the watchful keepers.
The next Basic Master Workshop takes place April 9-10, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days. This is a certification class of the Intenational School of Esoteric Sciences, begun by John Armitage and Germain, taking place in Holland, Massachusetts, taught by Lin Hourihan. This workshop is a wonderful refresher course to cleanse mind, body, and spirit of self-imposed fears, doubts, negativity, and worry concerning world events.
This is a new beginning for yourself personally on the road to freedom, love, and light, as well as professionally in the holistic health field. All are welcomed to attend, including practitioners of all other modalities and levels of energy work. All is One.
There are no prerequisites to take this workshop, although it is a prerequisite for the Basic Master Teacher Workshop May 13-15, 2022. The Basic Master Workshop costs $267 due by March 26, in order that registration to the International School of Esoteric Sciences can take place, and the manuals can be published, mailed, and received in time for the workshop, which is limited to four participants. The Basic Master Workshop in the fall is scheduled for September 10-11, 2022.
This is medicine for a New Age, delving into meditations that reach the Universal Mind, Universal Laws, and Universal Transformational Energy. You will be taught the cutting-edge of the whole health movement, including the basis for diagnosis and/or treatment based on solid evidence using provocative insights which have proven to be true.
Energetic transformations often lead to unblocking stuck energy which frequently lead to healings in mind, body, and spirit. Healing transformations also include healing from grief that touches us unexpectedly, often leaving us feeling unsecure and fearful. Participants will have the opportunity to work on each other during practice sessions. Time is allotted for questions, answers, 15-minute breaks in the morning and afternoon sessions, and 75 minutes for lunch each day. Participants need to bring a bag lunch, snacks, beverage, and a blanket for the meditations. This workshop is held in the classroom space in its own building to the left of the house, as seen in the picture below.
The physical body is also the vessel of the human electromagnetic field, meridians, etheric body, astral body, mental body, emotional body, and casual body, all of which includes the physical chakras, etheric chakras, astral chakras, and mental chakras. The Basic Master Workshop addresses all of these areas, how to detect energy excesses and/or voids, and how to balance them.
Germain works primarily with the energy of the purple ray of transmutation, although all rays, and various masters, and ascended masters, saints, and angels will be worked with in the practice sessions. Titles for the various metaphysical helpers are merely semantics, with respect for all. Each of us has our own life path which has provided personal experiences in the faith journey. Energy work works regardless of belief systems. We will also work with the energies of the earth, with vortexes and ley lines, as well as the human axitonal and galaxitonal lines.
This is also an inspiring character development course boosting self-esteem, personal power, and personal integrity. We are capable of learning the most expansive energy system available to humanity at this time in history, opening doors to using the dynamic energies of transformation in everyday life. Time will also be allotted for clearing out what no longer serves our highest good, allowing for a personal reset in our own personal energy system.
Participants will receive a numbered certification from the International School of Esoteric Sciences, the Basic Master manual, suggested reading list for further study, and a wealth of information and experience in this 16-hour curriculum.
Find your corner of the garden on Earth where you live and bloom in the beauty that you are.
You do not have to join a monastery, the club, or chat with like-minded beings to share your gifts with others. You have a lot to offer this world so in need if compassion, harmony, and unity in the abundance of all good things.
You and I cannot humanly put out every fire, every dysfunction, nor every disagreement. But what you and I can do is to live with integrity, honesty, and magnanimity, raising the tone of each and every day with every breath we take.
It helps the world for you to be the best you that you can be. Every time you calm and center yourself, come to grips with the problems of the day, and deal with life in the moment-to-moment choices you make, you send a healing balm throughout your aura which is a positive influence on others, even if they do not recognize it at the time. Your simplest actions of kindness manifest in a way that allows them also to pay it forward. You and I help where, when, and how we can.
Maybe your spot in this world is not at the center of the attention of others.
Perhaps you prefer to bloom by the stream of life rather than in the loud center of it. In this case, you bloom best by sending your sweet fragrance of forgiveness and empathy to yourself, and thereby feeding your soul with the strength and courage it takes to function in a balanced way within your family.
It’s like the parent listening to the instructions of the flight attendant telling the parent to make sure in the event of an emergency, to put the oxygen mask on yourself first, in order for you to be able to help your child.
However, you may feel you are the only one attempting to bloom in the joy and happiness in your corner of the world. Or you may be needing a time out in order that you may assess your best path forward among the multitude of options available to you while everyone else around you is busy with other things.
Bloom where you are planted, even if you are blooming by yourself.
Sometimes life takes us away from the familiar and the ordinary routine of daily living. That does not mean it is time for you to stop blooming. Bloom anyway, in the newness and unfamiliar unfolding of each day. There are still life lessons to learn and beauty to behold.
Or perhaps you need to give yourself your own time out, to reassess, and take stock of the best way forward given new information with which you need to deal. Drop the drama. Turn a new leaf.
It is healthy to refresh yourself, go on a retreat, read an inspirational book, go back to school, or take adult courses available at the nearest college campus. Whatever feeds your soul is a wholesome thing to do. If you have children, you can expand their horizons by encouraging the same thing for them.
Today you have the choice to make your life anything you want. You can decide to make it beautiful by blooming where you are planted.
Rudyard Kipling said this poem was inspired by the exploits of a British officer in South Africa, but today it transcends our world.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!”
~ Rudyard Kipling
Obviously, this poem was written about the inner “Man” of all of us, the inner “Person” within the Individual, a Being of substance, honor, integrity, truth, magnanimity, valor, and strength. It is not the strength of the brut bully which defines strength of character. That would be the mask of the fool.
Rather, at any given moment we can choose to rise to our higher selves for the good of all humanity, which plants the seeds for us to bloom into the better beings it is possible to become.
When opportunity knocks at the doors of our choices, let us take that precious moment to elevate our thoughts, words, and actions with pearls of wisdom that builds up all humanity, fosters world peace, and generates the most love, light, and peace for the good of All.
Jesus and Germain taught that the Wisdom of Love is the Power of achieving what they did on Earth. This is how Jesus performed miracles, and Germain healed others in the Temples of Healing in Atlantis. Jesus and Germain both taught us that Wisdom, Love, and Power are WITHIN us. For some of you, if I use the name Jesus, you may want to stop reading. For others, if I use the name Germain, you may also want to stop reading. I am the bridge, shining a light on the Love, Wisdom, and Power they both teach. I say teach in the present tense because their transitioning from this world into the spiritual world did not stop their teaching, even to this very day.
Hope is real, even if it cannot be seen physically as a feeling. We can feel hope, although others around us cannot physically see the hope inside of us. We may radiate hope out into our aura to such a large degree that others might reap the benefits of a mental or emotional uplift while in our presence because of the hope we feel, yet it is still unseen by the naked eyes of others. Just because others do not see hope in physical manifestation does not mean it is not real.
The same thing goes for the reality that Jesus and Germain tried to teach us. I say, tried to teach us, because no sooner were their words out of their mouths, than other human beings contorted their words into various control systems. Many stripped the teachings of the personal power with which we were born.
Originally, we were well aware of our individual I AM Presence connecting us to the Source of all life. We radiated with the Love, Wisdom, and Power shared by the Source of Eternity Itself, since we were an expression and experience of this Source.
Through the trials and tribulations of living through the experiences of Atlantis and Lemuria, as our fascination grew with the material world, the density of ourselves over time dulled our senses. We physically became denser in mind, body, and spirit. Forgetfulness of who and what we once were made for fertile ground for the unholy powers that claimed rights to our personal power, hijacked our mental, emotional, and physical selves, and threatened humanity with manipulation, ultimatums, guilt, obligation, and fear.
Manipulation, ultimatums, guilt, obligation, and fear is what was present on the Earth prior to the arrival of Germain, formerly known as St. Germain, and Jesus the Christ. They observed the negative, dark, low vibrational frequency qualities masquerading on Earth, subjugating humanity, which served as the impetus for them coming to Earth. Things needed to change in order for Eternal Universal Energy to experience in and through us. Our mental, emotional, and physical wings were clipped. We lost our voice. Over the eons of time, people handed their I AM Presence, their God-given identity, if you will, their personal power, over to the biggest bully on the block that demanded their total oblation.
I introduce this topic again to you because of the tendency of people indoctrinated into other belief systems to deny the reality of the words of Jesus and Germain explained in this way. There is more Jesus and Germain want you to know about. For simplification, I will use the name of Germain, but both taught what follows.
The human soul is restless until it rests in the truth of who and what we truly are. The hunger to be let out of the prison we have allowed ourselves to be put into by religions, politics, and a host of other control systems can only last so long, dictating who we can and cannot speak to, how we are to live under threats of death and doom to our immortal souls, who we can vote for or be ostracized, etc. You are bigger than the boxes of opinions others try to encapsulate you in.
It is time to step away from conforming to the wills and dictates of others and continue on your character development, standing up for yourself peacefully with integrity. Others are not on the same journey you are on. Things will only ring true for them when they decide to do their own search, not when you decide to share what you have learned with them. It is an individual awakening.
What can help you to step away from the group-think tank?
Resurrect Love and Wisdom as the Power enlightening the I AM Presence with which you were born. Power is not gained through strangulation of the free will of others. That is manipulation, which is present in some form or other in every country in the world. The Power discussed here is stronger than any human-made concoction. No matter where you live on this beautiful Earth, you are born with free will. How you choose to use it is up to you.
Step out of fear. Make a conscious decision to do this. No one owns the rights to your own mind, body, and spirit. This is something you will have to do numerous times throughout your life. I have never heard of anyone making this decision only once, no matter how holy, important, or entitled you are in any human institution.
Eliminate fear as the fuel for your next thoughts, words, and actions. You are as free as you want to be. Even if you are incarcerated and living in a cell block, you have the absolute freedom to think your own thoughts. The same is true for each of us. No one owns the rights to your mind, nor the words you decide to say.
How do you get rid of fear, oppression, depression, and every other emotion that hinders your progress forward?
Germain reminds us to use the Violet Flame of Transmutation. How does this work?
Release fear from every cell of your mind, body, and spirit. Decide not to take fear back into the way you live with every cell and fiber of your being.
As you go about your day, when conflict appears on the horizon, an argument pops up, agreements stall, or any other mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual dilemma turns up, mentally envision the problem going into the large Violet Flame of Germain. This is just as real as the example of hope which began this post. You may not see it, but by consciously sending it to the violet flame of transmutation, you can let go of it.
Stop focusing on what is not working. That is how to grow what is not working. It is the focus of observation that continues the broken reality. This is why when governments focus on what is not working, they get more of the same. As Albert Einstein says, it is not a matter of philosophy. It is a matter of physics.
Now you can operate with the next lightest thought, the next best idea generating more positive possibilities. This is how to heal mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health. It is the only way to heal. It is miraculous.
Imagine that Jude is you, and that the words “Take a sad song and make it better,” reflects your life, which may or may not be a straight line toward happiness, peace and joy. These words have a different message for me today than it did when it first hit number one on the billboard charts. I would have followed their advice more closely.
Listen carefully to all the words, “Don’t be afraid.”
“You were made to go out and get her;” in this case, her being permission to go out and step out in confidence and self-esteem, and stop diminishing yourself like a shrinking violet before the stronger personalities in your world. Just because stronger personalities may be louder, more assertive, or even threatening, does not necessarily make them right. Egotistical, boisterous, and manipulating voices may still be ignorant.
“The minute you let her under your skin, then you begin to make it better,” means awakening to your essence, and the abundance of all good things. The acceptance and genuine love for yourself as a person, is your conscious awareness blossoming of who and what you are, and are meant to be. If you are here on planet Earth, you have a right to be here. The kind, loving and Eternal Power of your God-Initiated I AM Presence develops and matures stronger the more you “let her under your skin.”
“And any time you feel the pain, Hey Jude, refrain, don’t carry the world upon your shoulders.” Re-Member, as in re-connect to the Source of all Life, of which you are but a Spark, which is the Divine Spark preciously held within all of Life. It is the Life of your Soul that will Re-Member Itself after countless lifetimes, finally achieving perfection through the experiences of Life. This is the point. You do not have to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders because the Source of all Creation desired to experience in, through, and with you. You’ve got this!
“For well you know it’s a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.” All is One. We take care of all our brothers and sisters in the human family on our One Earth, and the Earth itself, or we all die. That’s just a fact.
“Hey Jude, don’t let me down. You have found her, now go and get her,” her being that little inner voice who makes her presence known deep in your heart. Now that this conscience, this Silver Cord of the essence of life, your very own animation battery, is found within you, “go and get her,” reminds you to use this God-given Presence.
“Remember to let her into your heart, then you can start to make it better,” by you being the boss of you, rather than giving your personal power over to someone or something else.
“So let it out and let it in, Hey Jude, begin, no waiting for someone to perform with.” Why do you do things? What is your motive behind the things that you do?
“And don’t you know that it’s just you, Hey Jude, you’ll do, the movement you need is on your shoulder.”
“Hey Jude, don’t make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better …”
Yes, we all know this. But sometimes life has a way of shutting us down, stilling our voice, and usurping our personal power. Now is the time to reclaim it and live fully in kindness and love, yet without stepping on others, and without allowing them to step on us. We all are born with free will regardless of where you were born. You are in charge of your life, no one else.
The extremists are afraid of books and pens. The power of education frightens them. ~ Malala Yousafzai waving behind Hilary Clinton
Has anyone ever told you that you need to be controlled, put in your place, conform to religious standards, or told others to attempt to do these thing in order to get you in line to their way of thinking? Those are the voices of the weak and fearful, afraid of their own shadows. These are also dominant, over-bearing, and egotistical individuals who, rather than focus on their own character and personal development, seek to usurp your personal power. It’s a power game. It is as if by robbing you of your personal power, they win. If only that were true.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Those are the voices of abused and manipulated individuals, having been burdened by obligation and guilt, perhaps used as a parenting technique for order in the home. Not knowing the proper way to motivate others, what they have learned is how to step on others in an attempt to diminish them, while self-aggrandizing themselves in order to make themselves feel better.
They are also those who are afraid of the light you shine through the chaos, drama, and minutia of daily life. In their eyes, everything you do is wrong, stupid, or incorrect in some way.
Your sense of self-esteem has nothing to do with the erroneous concepts others have about themselves, nor project onto others, including you. It is a learning curve on both sides of this issue. How you respond to others trying to dominate you is key.
Decide what is important to you, what you will allow in your life, and the paradigm you want your life to model. Decide not to react to things. Simply, peacefully leave the conversation or the area. There is no need to match the dysfunction of control freaks.
Why do I mention this? It is because these control freaks have learned how to intimidate, insult, ridicule, and gossip, possibly about you within your family, extended family, neighborhood, and/or work situations. Threatening you and the others around you is their MO, also known as Modus Operandi. Sadly they have sunken to the lowest common denominator in this case, since this phrase, MO or Modus Operandi, is most often used for the working patterns of criminals.
Threatening takes the form of ultimatums such as, “Do not ever mention “So-And-So” to me ever again or I will not speak to you either. The family member who decides to go along with that energizes the bully control freak, feeling they have won. The truth is, the only thing they have done is to cripple their own character development and maturity. These are also the marks of dysfunctional school yard bullies.
Individuals will take abuse from those closest to them, when they would not tolerate the same behavior from others outside of their circle. But dysfunction is dysfunction. Is it time for you to stand up to the bully control freaks in your world.
Again, I stress that this can be done peacefully and with integrity. No one has the rights to your life, and how you live your life but you. If it is time to move on, you can keep open doors to communication if you choose, just simply move on. Your personal, mental and emotional development needs you to be healthy and happy.
They are an inspiration to all women, especially New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern who vanquished the first and second wave of COVID-19 by implementing strict lockdown and quarantine procedures; and Taiwan’s President Tsai-Ing-wen who implemented a rigorous contact tracing program in January 2021; as a result, to date, the island of 23 million people has only lost seven people to the virus.
Let’s not forget influential women such as Princess Diana, Mother Theresa, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Amelia Earhart, Harriet Tubman, as well as Angela Merkel, Kamala Harris, Melinda French Gates, Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, Ellen Degeneres, Queen Elizabeth II, Stacey Cunningham, and Stacey Abrams among the countless other women who have risen to the top and who have had, and those still among the living still have, a positive influence not only in their personal lives, but also with the ability to lift people to higher visions of possibility.
Women do not exist for others to control them, put them in their place, insult and demean them. Never give your personal power away to any person or circumstance. You are greater than you know.
Yelling solves nothing. But it is important to listen to the words being said.
Have you ever been in a heated argument, constantly screaming over the other person, so insistent on being heard that you do not hear what the other person was saying in the first place, without changing the subject to something that hurt you in the past, which never really addresses the original subject?
Holistic counseling is the course of action to take if current words keep sending you back to past hurts. Unresolved issues will keep surfacing when certain buttons are pushed in your emotional self unless these ties to dysfunction are cut and sealed, allowing your emotional self to heal and move on. It is a life lesson that will keep repeating until it is finally addressed.
Words pack a powerful punch. Once said, words cannot be taken back. We can apologize for the things we say, but once they fly out of the mouth, words said take on a life of their own. Self-justification matters little when words reflect deep-seated hostility, masked as boundaries.
What helps to defuse arguments?
Listening.
Listen to what has been said, as opposed to yelling and throwing an emotional fit, hijacking the limelight, and introducing drama over how the hurtful statement was delivered. This is a deflection method sure to not address the original subject.
Communication skills involve listening to the other person without interrupting. This can be hard to hear when everything the other person says triggers deep-seated emotional issues in yourself. Still, listening without interrupting is the key.
Communicating also does not need loud and angry voices to get the point across. If screaming at each other has been the model you have been using, you will not get to the point of understanding, nor solving communication issues. No one wants to be the one whose voice has been silenced constantly by others constantly interrupting. No wonder another person feels frustrated to the point that the only way to get the message out is to finally erupt.
Volcanos erupt after enough pressure is applied. This happens in broken-down communication, where only one side gets to talk. This also happens most often with fast talkers who do not have the patience to wait to hear what the other person has to say. This is not kind nor fair.
Insisting that “I did nothing wrong,” does not solve an argument. It is a way to break a relationship. Those words solve nothing. In any argument, both sides need to apologize, not just one. That is the height of tripping on your own ego to think that if only the other person listened to you completely, the problem would be solved. This invalidates the other person’s existence, feelings, and point of view, which might be different from your own.
Repairing relationships is possible. But it requires calm and placing yourself in the other person’s shoes to actually hear what is being said. Interrupting, yelling and screaming have a way of stopping listening. Listen with a calm focus on attempting to understand the others point of view, not constantly going back to your point of view. It helps to repeat what the other person is say as a way to show you do understand what is being said.
No one likes to be wrong. But sometimes we are wrong. The ego does not like this part and will encourage you to fight back with fighting or lengthy words. This does nothing but go back down the rabbit hole of dysfunction again.
Relationship healing is possible. It happens when both sides listen completely to what the other side has to say. When one side has completed what they want to say, that side stops talking. Next, the other side has the same opportunity to speak, uninterrupted. Interrupting someone when they are speaking means you are not listening. Make sure not to interrupt each other. Set time limits to speak if necessary, anything in order that each side is not interrupted.
Click on this healing music video and listen to it while you read the following meditation. Rest between verses. Picture yourself in the scene. Go with the flow. Then you will gently be brought back into yourself, awakening to the present moment.
Take a moment out of the day to listen to this calming meditation. Refocus on balancing your cellular structure. See your DNA expanding with the radiance of Love and Light of your Divine Presence, your Mighty I AM Presence. Re-member who and what you are, a child of the Light, a child of Love, a child of Harmony where ever you go.
When was the last time you took time out of the day to meditate? Now is the time.
Invite in the Masters and Ascended Masters, the Saints and good angels, your own guardian angel. Be present with them. Listen to the guidance that comes to your mind. They are here for you.
Who is your spiritual guide? Who is your animal guide? Are your ancestors with you? Imagine them here with you now. Feel the peace. Feel the wonder. Allow yourself to heal. This is your time.
Let the roots of your energy field sink deep into the core of Mother Earth, Lady Gaia, while the radiance of your energy system expands through your auric field, all the way to Mother/Father God, Source of all Life.
Notice how you free you feel. If you feel any constriction let it drop away from you, to be transmuted by the cleansing, balancing, revitalizing energy of the Earth, just like seeds planted in the ground arise to new Life.
Allow any problem, conflict, or situation that is weighing on your mind to melt away with the flow of the music, one of the greatest healers of all. Others will have to heal themselves for the moment. Right now, this is about you healing anything that is calling out for your attention.
Listen to the gentle flow of water washing over any negativity, all restrictions, apparent obstacles, cleansing the cobwebs of your mind you had not realized were there. Soak in the shallow pools of gently moving water that invite you in, providing you with refreshment and soothing vibrations of this Living Liquid Crystalline Light.
Now is the time to release judgments, all judgments and justifications for judgments. You now realize that these mental constrictions are what is holding you back on your advancement on your path to Enlightenment. You see that it is a paradox to work towards Enlightenment while hanging on to the dregs of judgment, about yourself, about others, and about every other situation.
Now is the time to let go what no longer serves you, no matter how long you have held on to it, or it has held onto you. Habits may have served you for a time, but if these habits are not building you up, it is time to let them go. It takes 21 days to change a habit. Dysfunction, addiction, and harmful choices may have created old and familiar paths you are used to. But if they are not serving your highest good, it is time to release them and allow the new waters of rebirth to enter your mind, spirit, and body, in that order.
Your body is a tape recorder of your Life. Your body tells on itself. When you push your body too far, too fast, and go out of balance, you break your body in some way. Sometimes you are simply working out karma. Still, you know you have the ability to create better situations for your body. Focus now on what you deem to be the best way to take care of your physical body. Is it diet and exercise you need? Is it Yoga, stretching, and meditation calling for your attention? Do you need to visit your doctor? You listen more carefully, making a conscious plan to address the needs of your body as they present themselves.
Next you release the need to be right. As you open your hand in the moving waters, the needs of the ego are gently taken down stream where they will be sunken in the silt, to be reborn as water lilies and lotus blossoms in the next season.
Now is not forever. Everything you are going through has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Relax, knowing this allows a new breath of Life to enter your being. Cycles of new beginnings appear when the old and outworn creation needs to dissolve. Change is the Law of Life, making way for new experiences, new thoughts, new revelations in personal growth. It is the path of Ascension.
You sense you are an eternal being, always was, and always will be. By your thoughts you walk familiar paths you have not tread before, knowing the way to go, by instinct, by that knowing beyond all knowing, feeding your soul through the reality you live. All is One.
You recognize the necessity to monitor your thoughts, your very own creations born out of your creative genius. Do you like what you have created by your thoughts? You can change your thoughts at any moment. You think your thoughts. Your thoughts do not think you. Your thoughts are powered by your free will choice. You are not a victim of your thoughts. You acknowledge you are a free being, created in Freedom, Love, and Light. You are the manifestation of Divine Energy on Mother Earth at this time. Your mind relaxes in re-membering this. What are you re-membering? You are re-membering to Source, since you are the Divine Spark of Source in physical form right now.
You bask in the pleasure of coming to know who you truly are. Yours are the only hands with which the Divine has to work on this beautiful Mother Earth. Your words are the eternal words which the Divine uses to elevate every person, place, and thing around you. Words are eternal. You can never un-speak words, nor take them back. Words are powerful energies at your command. Use them wisely. You make amends when necessary, since you are on the road to perfection, but not perfect yet: Otherwise you would already be Ascended.
Your soul drinks in the refreshing realization of Its origin, a Divine Spark born of Infinite Divine Love-Light-Life-Energy, which some call God. You were born by the breath of Wisdom, enlivening your eternal soul. Your soul is the Silver Cord of Ecclesiastes 12:6,7, which returns back to Source when you trade this life for another. Ascension is the goal of your soul after lifetimes of learning how to love in no-loving situations, perfecting your motives, your thoughts, your words, and your actions, matching that held within the spark of your Divine and Mighty I AM Presence.
Fill yourself up with Love, overflowing the chalice of your heart with crystalline Light, warmth of understanding that you are embraced by the freedom of your soul, the essence of you, discovering greater depths and dimensions of your personality, your path, and your eventual Ascension from this plane.
You feel the peace that knows no bounds. You float in the etheric sea of this grace. You are One with the Divine in ways you are hauntingly familiar, with the sense that you have been here before, immersed in the sea of Love and Light since before you were ever born, One with the Divine, in the Divine, because of the Divine.
Now, you begin to feel your fingers and your toes, wiggling them as you stir to come back to the present reality. Imagine taking a fresh lemon and rolling it on the table, getting to so juicy that when you cut it, the fragrance will fill the room. You feel your mouth salivating just thinking about it. Shake your head from side to side. Shake your hands as if you were drying them from the water. Bring your awareness back to the present time.
Thank the Masters, Ascended Masters, Saints, good Angels, your Guardian Angel, and your Spirit and Animal guides who walked along side of you during this meditation. You are now ready for the rest of your day.
Now is the time to shed old baggage that no longer serves you. Breathe in a new breath of invigorating vitality. Think a new thought. Do something new. Plan ahead for a new venture that is sure to wake up every cell in your mind, body and spirit.
There is nothing like it when you take stock of personal responsibility, decide to go in the direction you wish to go, grow in self-esteem and continue to progress in a forward motion in character development, regardless of your chronicle age.
Now is the perfect time to take a class that will awaken you to new possibilities within your own space. There are many dimensions to you. Do you know them all? Would you like to know more about yourself?
It is possible to widen your perspective, the lens through which you view the world, allowing for broader understanding of the life occurrences you often draw into your reality unknowingly. How often do all of us seem to be a magnet for the very things we are trying to avoid?
Do you find patterns repeating in your life?
How are your relationships?
What is your employment life like?
Would you like to add a more in-depth energy class with the most expansive energy vibration available on the planet at this time? Please know there is more than what you are used to using. It is not a competition with other energy systems. It is simply of a higher, rather, more expansive energy than what is currently available.
There is nothing wrong with change. Although most people do not like change. Change causes new situations, ruffles feathers, upsets the apple cart of routine. No matter how bored we get with routine, it is still the dysfunction with which we are familiar.
Yet there are times when enough is enough. It is time for a welcome change, in perspective, energy, and breath of new ideas. We plan for the things that are important to us. We consciously save up for them. Vacations are important to take. We come back with renewed vigor and usually relaxed sense of self.
What if you could get away for a weekend, take a course, earn a valid certification which would allow you to add to the skills you already have as an energy workers or any other profession to which you would like to add another dimension to your resume?
Brushing up on skills you already have, and bringing them to even more expansive awareness and consciousness is very transformative, including to the core of your being at the DNA level. This opportunity is now available to you.
If any of this sounds good to you, it is also a good time to plan for the next upcoming New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation (NPMDT) Workshop coming up September 11-12, 2021, from 10 am – 6 p.m. This first course entitled, Basic Master Workshop, is a 16-hour certification workshop of the International School of Esoteric Sciences. I am a certified teacher of this school. The cost is $265, which is due September 4, in order that the copyrighted and trademarked textbooks can arrive on time for you.
2 Peter 1:4, “And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desire.”
How is your self-esteem? What is your maturity level? Where are you at with character development? This has nothing to do with chronical age. Are you aware of your full potential?
These are good questions to ask ourselves from time to time, especially when we have time to think about such things. Some of us sail through life without much thought about maturing into adulthood. Lately there seems to be a joke going around that some of us adults aren’t “adulting” very well.
Have we ever really thought about the divine essence of our own being? It is something we are born with. It is something we can develop.
Begin to work on this greater awareness about yourself in this meditation. Allow yourself to settle in a quite space and follow your breathing. Relax. Think about your inner spirit, the essence of who and what you are. You are an amazing gift to the world right where you are.
Realize that you have dreams, hopes, and power within yourself. Take a minute to think about them. These are all positive things you are thinking about now. You let drop by the way side all self-sabotaging thoughts and concerns. Today is a new day.
There is a pulse to the life within you beyond blood flow and oxygen ebb and flow, and the schedule of the day. There is a spark within you where ideas generate and goodness resides. It is a wholesome place within your heart, mind, and consciousness. You are more than you seem, because you are made with that God Particle, your divine essence, that spark of life that makes you alive.
You take an objective inventory of yourself, void of criticism, fault-finding, or ego. Bring your awareness to your inner self, the heart of your conscious self. This is where you can begin to detect your divine nature, if you are not already aware of it.
You are born in this exact moment, in the family you were born into, into the situation you are finding yourself right now, for a reason. You have much to offer. You have learned so much in your life thus far, but there is more to learn, more to do, more to help humanity in the gift you share in yourself with others.
Why are things happening to you in your life as they are right now? What is your role in the events of your life? Are you trying to railroad everything? Are you shrinking from what you think you ought to say or do? How are you progressing as an adult? Have you allowed situations to control you, or are you controlling the situations in your life? Do things need to change? How can you make things better?
Jesus told us in Luke 17:20-21 that the Kingdom of God is WITHIN YOU AND ME. This is what we are talking about. This Kingdom of God, this divine nature, is more than biology and more than existing as part of the animal kingdom. It is more than just getting to the end of the day without harming anyone, or making sure all the chores are done.
Allow ideas and concepts to flow freely without the filter of your mind stopping any positive thoughts. Wake up to your essence as the divine nature of all that is to flow in and through you. You are part of all existence. Without you nothing would be the same. You have wonderful gifts to share with the world, no matter how big or small that is.
Breathe in peace, tranquility, and serenity. Exhale what no longer serves you. Inhale creativity, inspiration, and self-esteem, and release all negative messaging with which you or anyone else has labeled you. Bask in the love and light of this moment of unity with your spirit awakening to a deeper knowledge that the divine nature of the good God above also animates and fuels your body, mind and spirit.
How does a country heal from gun violence, COVID-19, physical and mental assault, relationship dysfunction, and even self-sabotage? How does anyone heal anything? Love is the only answer for every problem, every time.
The answer is simple, yet profoundly difficult to achieve, like most worthwhile endeavors, such as alcoholism – stop drinking, weight loss – stop over eating, quit smoking – stop smoking.
What does it take for some police to stop killing black and all non-white people in the streets of our nation? What does it take to competently address addictions in this country? What does it take to get rid of COVID-19, not just live with it forever? Is there a common denominator that will heal self-sabotage we are all victim of from time to time?
LOVE IS THE ANSWER.
It is a simple, yet profound principle that makes for the best motivation in any kind of healing. Right now, we are a grieving nation from blatant cruelty from the trigger of guns, drug and alcohol addictions, and millions of deaths of our loved ones who died from the deadly pandemic sweeping the world. We are still trying to solve the best way to help asylum seekers seeking safety at our borders, reuniting children with their parents.
Calling things what they are, rather than hype up language with a cause, such as calling asylum seekers violent criminals, will defuse many situations. Uniting, rather than dividing, is the suggestion here.
Individually we can tackle each problem with a different set of solutions. Yet the bottom line for all these problems is love. The kind of love I am addressing here is agape love, brotherly love.
This is different from the selfish love, me-first love, only taking care of me and my-own love.
Genuine empathy, compassion, and love needs to infiltrate our hearts. This requires love without measure.
We are all in this life together, regardless of personality likes and dislikes, abilities and disabilities, class distinctions, and personal gifts and attributes. A deeper understanding of our shared human condition will lead the way out of the dark, self-serving and self-sabotaging agendas of political and religious leaders.
Now is the time to begin again applying the Gold Rule foundation for decision making in all areas. This works in the arenas of justice, immigration, and every other area of life we can think of. Acting in fair and equitable ways is not a push over. It just makes things more human. Let us all begin again, right where we are, to treat others the way we wish to be treated.
No one person or group is better than any other group. We have pride in our heritage, but ours is not the only heritage there is, obviously. We can get along with our neighbors, even globally. There is a way to communicate with those who do not agree with us without violence.
War is not a communication skill.
If we all chose the path of least resistance, we would find our problems would be solved easier. Ramping up violence, ramps up violence. We see this in the world, our politics, and even our families.
Creative problem solving requires innovative minds. Get more sleep. Eat good food. Exercise the body. These sound like simple things to start with, but they work. Many problems do go away with a good night’s rest.
“Re-Membering” begins with balancing Love in your Life. Love is the answer.
“Re-Membering” is the answer to dismemberment. To “Re-Member” is to REMEMBER who and what you are. To “Re-Member” is to become whole, as you once were, before the dis-memberment occured.
Sometimes we were too young to recall the specific memory held within our cellular structure. All we may know is the feeling of being disconnected to ourselves, to others or to the earth itself. At other times, we might consciously disconnect ourselves from groups of people, at school, at work, or in particular circles like our neighborhoods or other situations where we choose not to interact. This is often done as a means of self preservation.
But what happens to us when we find that we have “Dis-Membered” ourselves from every person, place or thing in our lives?
What about our hopes and dreams for a future void of mental, physical or spiritual pain?
This post speaks to the hearts and minds of many who feel disconnected to themselves, either mentally, physically, and/or spiritually, or more painfully, altogether. Not all lives unfold in the perfection of a well-balanced realization of the dreams and hopes they once had.
What is the answer for lives lived in the shell of what could be?
Life throws us curves, unexpected obstacles, contagious viruses, upheavals in family life, bullies and liars in government who promise us one thing but deliver something else, coupled with our sometimes failing at our own best efforts at improving our perspective, or our physical and/or mental health. At other times we succeed in our efforts to understand who we are and where we are going, but mental, physical or emotional pain shut us down.
This life is a school where we learn the lessons necessary to take us further into the awareness of ourselves, who we are, and why we are here on the planet at this very moment. You and I matter. There is a reason we are all here on earth at this important time. You and I are the pendulum of our own life. We try living a certain way, eating or not eating a certain way, going in and out of things we once believed, only to come out the other side to understand why some actions we did or did not take turned out the way it did.
Pain is a symptom. Pain is not the problem. Treating pain as if it were the problem will keep you in pain, since you are not addressing the root cause of the pain.
Drugs are not the answer. There are drugless therapies out there that work 100 percent of the time, unless given up on. Drugs mask the pain. If drugs block pain to the degree that you feel no more pain, they also block other parts of your humanity as well. It depends how much of yourself you wish to numb by the use of drugs. Some people choose this method of “Dis-Membering” their bodies. Just know there is another way that works without the horrific side effects of so many drugs, including addiction.
Whether you are, or are not taking drugs of any sort to dull the pain, you still get to the same crisis healing point, of deciding on if you want, or do not want to heal. Recognize the crutch of saying that this is how you are or have always been. This is a convenient lie people tell themselves. It is not a true statement to say that because of your past, you cannot heal.
If and when you finally decide to heal your past, heal your emotions, heal your body, and heal your spiritual self, know that is IS possible to “Re-Member” yourself. This begins by ACCEPTING yourself at this exact moment in time. Now is not forever. Your awakened, conscious, and fully formed decision, is the starting point to begin the healing process. You can heal any and all addictions, choosing life-affirming decisions over shutting down life decisions.
Whatever you focus on grows. It is my suggestion that you use your free will to decide life over death, healing over sickness, and “Re-Membering” over dismemberment.
Self Mastery is the path of “Re-Membering” your mind, body and spirit to your eternal soul. This is the means of becoming a whole person, not just one aspect of personhood that we have saved as if it were our entire entity.
We are all on this journey of life, which can take our entire lifetime to figure out. For some people, they know from birth who they are, where they are going and why they are here, with little fluctuation throughout their life. Others of us meander, taking scenic or not-so-scenic detours, trying on different diets, spiritualities, and self-expression.
If the diet pendulum of our mind swings too far one way or the other, we can become anorexic or bulimic; if the emotional pendulum of our mind swings too far one way or the other, we can become totally negative in outlook, or totally positive in outlook.
Out of balance is out of balance.
To “Re-Member” who we are calls for us to eat in a balanced way in order to bring the proper nutrients to every cell of our body for proper assimilation and balance in our physical well-being. To “Re-Member” who we are also calls us to have a balanced mental perspective, which diet has a direct affect. A balanced mental and emotional perspective is neither depressive and full of negativity; nor flighty and not grounded in reality. It is important to address the negative aspects in our lives so that we can decide to take charge of these situations in order to find the best positive solution.
We cannot fix that which we deny is present.
“Re-Membering” who we are awakens our soul response, and connects us to the divine within us. The divine within us is not dark or negative energy. What is perceived as dark or negative energy is merely the lack of Light, Love and Positive energy in the balance of life.
You are a divine being in the process of waking up to who and what you really are. You are not what other people have told you that you are. Realize that other people have other, often impure motives, for putting other down, using and abusing others, and injuring the self-esteem of others around them.
Bullies and people who lack self-esteem themselves sometimes attempt to put others down in order to lift themselves up. It really shows a lack of personal growth and development, a character flaw of the one bullying, insulting and demeaning others. Such behavior ought never to be taken at face value. Do not believe the lies others tell you.
Why?
Love is the answer. Love is always the answer. You are made of and for Love. Love does not come from outside of yourself. Decide to believe in yourself. Discover your likes and dislikes again. Your views on what you once thought was important may have changed over time and experience.
If you are not feeling Love for yourself, it is because, quite simply, you are choosing not to Love yourself. That is a decision you can change. You can change this in a heartbeat. Never wait to feel Love. Be the inititator of Love. Begin by greeting yourself each morning with Love. Love yourself right where you are at this moment, even if you are in pain, send Love to every cell and fiber of your being.
You are a beautiful creature full of wonder and awe. Who you are is much more important that any reflection you see of yourself in others. It feels good to have validation from others, if and when that happens. But seeing a reflection of yourself in others is only a fragment of who you really are in the bigger scheme of things.
You are your best healer. It is necessary to be ready, and willing in order to be able to heal yourself. That begins with your free will. It is a conscious decision you make. All other remedies from the outside of yourself are all secondary to the power within yourself to rule your own destiny.
Also, decide that you are victim of your own life no longer. From now on, you are the master of your own life. This is Self Mastery. You have learned a lot about yourself. You have learned what has worked, and what has not worked in your life. You have learned what has pushed your buttons thus far. Decide never again to react to anything anymore. From now on, decide how you are going to act in any given situation. If you are caught on the spot needing to make a decision before taking immediate action, “Re-Member” to take a few slow breaths, then act in the direction of your new life-affirming plan.
You’ve got this. Keep telling yourself this, because it is true. Whatever you tell yourself, you believe. If you recognize that you have been giving yourself less than life-affirming statements, or beliefs about yourself, correct these dysfunctional, sabotaging thoughts each time they occur to you.
Before long, by your personal will and decision, you can drop addictions to all sorts of chronically negative previous programming. There are support groups that can assist you if you choose. How you decide to heal is up to you. Just know that you do not need to stay in any situation you find yourself. There is always a loving and life-giving response to your situation.
Make a plan to “Re-Member” yourself to yourself, to others around you, and to your life’s dharma. “Re-Member” yourself to faith, hope, and love, which manifests is joy, peace, kindness, wonder, awe in every moment of every day.
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