It’s what every human wants, we all want to be happy. As a child I remember pulling a wish bone and wishing for happiness. It took many, many years before I realised how I could be happy. I used to think that happiness came from being with the ‘right’ person, having the ‘right’ things or being in the ‘right’ situations. Eventually life taught me that happiness is inside of me and not dependent on anything outside of me.

It appears, mingled with feelings of freedom and gratitude, and comes from letting go of judgments, attachments and controlling. Life is what it is, people and things come and go, situations change - that is the transitory nature of life. It’s our reaction to these things that cause us suffering.

True happiness is a natural state of being waiting to be discovered beneath the layers of mind made judgments, attachments and resistance to what is. The path to happiness is inwards - keeping your awareness on your state of mind, your thoughts and your state of being, your emotions. By being watchful and aware you can detach yourself from the incessant stream of thoughts allowing them to be but not getting involved with them.

They are only thoughts, hundreds of thousands of them vying for your attention like needy little children. Let them be there without getting caught up in them. Sometimes though a thought will seem important and grab your attention and maybe cause emotion. When this happens breathe deeply, it’s still OK. Just feel the emotion and let go of the thought.

Practice this consistently and you will experience that the more you can let go of being attached to your thoughts the more peaceful you feel. The more peaceful you feel inside, the more peaceful your outer experience will be (all of life reflects the inner experience).

As the mind begins to quieten life appears to slow down and you find yourself feeling as if you are resting in a sea of okayness. With this comes the recognition of joy within this new field of awareness.

Happiness is already within you. You don’t need to move house, win the lottery etc. etc. to experience it. You just have to let go a little/lot to let it be revealed.

Incidentally though, once happiness is found within, as natural Law dictates, it is reflected back in ones life experiences with a life that flows with synchronicity, prosperity and all things good.

I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want…

I want peace, joy, love and prosperity! And what I notice is that when I have thoughts that contradict this being possible I don’t feel alive and excited about life. If I look at the feelings closely, fear is at the root of it. Fear of not being able to be what I want to be, of not being able to have what I want to have, of not being able to do what I want to do. If the fear is not acknowledged or expressed or even suppressed I can feel myself closing down to life and a cloud of apathy takes over. (When this state of being continues in someone for a long time it is regarded as depression.)

The good and bad news is we are creators of our experience down here on planet earth. All energy is vibrational and attracts similar vibrations to it. ‘Negative’ energy such as fear, anger, sadness, jealousy etc. etc. vibrates slower than ‘positive’ energy (love, joy, peace, happiness) and attracts energy of a like vibration to it. This basically means that negative thoughts and emotions attract negative situations and experiences to us. Which none of us really, really want!!

So my lovely little Wannabe’s what to do to be, do and have what we really, really want…

Let go of any past moment (even one second ago). Be totally present in this moment NOW! Know what you want and imagine how it feels having it. If it’s love that you want imagine what it feels like to be totally in love, let that feeling permeate your being. If you want prosperity imagine what it feels like to be prosperous. If you want to achieve something, imagine yourself doing it and feel the feelings of satisfaction this brings. It’s the vibration of these feelings that permeate your being that will attract these things to you, so feel them fully and as often as you can. And finally when you first try this out you will need FAITH. (Faith is when you can believe in something that has not yet been proven.) As soon as you start to feel better and start getting results you will be able to prove to yourself that you can be, do and have what you really, really want!

It is said that if the soul leaves the physical world believing that it is the victim of its experience here, it will be drawn back again to unlearn that belief. So how do we unlearn that belief…

Know that you are creator of your experience. Don’t blame others for your experience but be open to understand why you are experiencing it. Recognise that when you are being unloving within there will be an unloving reflection in your experience around you. This is just nature’s way of letting you know what’s going on inside you, it’s not a punishment, just a reminder that something inside needs correcting. The correction will always be to be more loving!

Take full responsibility for your experience - if you are blaming someone or something for your experience you are not taking full responsibility. If you want to understand why you are experiencing something you don’t want, stop pushing the feelings/experience away, stop resisting it and just feel how it feels. Accept all of it - the experience and the feelings it brings up. Then bring love to it - bring love to the hurt inside you and love to the situation. Understanding will then come. And the answer will always be - be more loving!

You are not a victim, you are creator of your experience. Everything in your experience is just a reflection of your thoughts and feelings. Consciously create a better experience by filling your Being with love and loving thoughts. You are the Creator!

I recently came across the following passage, which is written by author Louise Hay, and wanted to share it with you.

So how do you love yourself?

First of all and most importantly cease all criticism of yourself and others. Accept yourself as you are. Praise yourself as much as you can. Criticism breaks down the inner spirit, praise builds it up. Look into a mirror often and simply say I LOVE YOU, I REALLY LOVE YOU. It may be difficult at first, but keep practicing and soon you will mean and feel what you say. This process will help you get in touch with your true self. Love yourself as much as you can and all of life will mirror this love back to you.

By consistently practicing at and nurturing the love of ourselves we open the doors to an abundance of good in our lives. You are a beautiful creation of a loving universe and infinitely deserving of love, peace of mind and self esteem exactly as you are.

When you are thinking, you are ‘moulding the clay’ of future experience - shaping your life. 

Your life does not just happen. You are the creator of your experience. Whatever you choose to hold in your mind, is moulded into existence by God/Universal Law. If you are constantly thinking ‘I don’t have enough money,’ then so be it. If you are thinking ‘ I have plenty of money, I am blessed,’ then so be it.

God is not judge saying “I’ll give this person this or this person that.”

God/Law is all lovingly, all powerfully answering every thought/prayer with the corresponding experience.

So think -

Prosperity not poverty

Peace not war

Love not hate…

and mould your Life into what you want and not what you don’t want.

In each moment we are reaping the effects of previous thoughts and sowing the seeds for future experiences.

Each thought we have will create a future experience. Negative thoughts create negative experiences. Positive thoughts create positive experiences. In each moment we have the choice to sow seeds (thoughts) of love or negativity. How do you want your future to be? It is in your hands.

The Now has to be accepted. It is NOW and cannot be changed. It cannot be anything other than what it is - so to resist what is, is pointless (and painful). If the Now feels good, rejoice and be grateful - your gratitude will create more positive experiences. If the Now feels unpleasant, accept it - Then find anything you can to be grateful about, or think of someone/something you love.

It is your opportunity to make your life more positive and pleasurable. If you want more peace in your life then think peace, feel peace Now and you will be sowing the seeds for a peaceful future. If you want more love in your life then think loving thoughts, feel loving - sow the seeds of love.

Each week I receive a newsletter from Adrian Cooper author of Our Ultimate Reality. In one of his recent letters he had included a poem by Henry Van Dyke, which I thought I’d share with you.

I hold it true that thoughts are things;
They’re endowed with bodies and breath and wings;
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results, or ill.
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds forth to earth’s remotest spot,
Leaving its blessings or its woes
Like tracks behind it as it goes.
We build our future thought by thought,
For good or ill, yet know it not.
Yet, so the universe was wrought.
Thought is another name for fate;
Choose, then, thy destiny and wait,
For love brings love and hate brings hate.

My practice at the moment is to bring Love to everything I think about. It seems to transform every situation into a beautiful blessing.

As another year begins it feels time to renew my commitment to myself and those around me.

I resolve: to respond to Life in each moment with love and acceptance (and gentleness when I forget).
To see the Light in all humanity and accept their reflection, in love and gratitude, for my correction and growth.
To take full responsibility for the way I perceive others knowing that they only show me accepted and unaccepted aspects of myself.
To imagine only what I want in my experience and surrender my fears to the Light of Conscious Awareness.
To take full responsibility for the decisions I choose to make for myself and allow others to make their own choices.
To honour my path, my way, my heart, my knowing and honour that of those around me.
To trust that I am completely supported spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically by the Lord God of my Being, enabling me to be free to support others.
To remember that I do not need to seek outside myself for anything, just to rest in the Divine Glory within and watch it manifest in Glorious abundance all around me.

Happy New Year world - may it be rewarding and enlightening and filled with Love and magic!

One of my favourite authors, Paul Ferrini says:

“See the Light in others and it is easier to feel good about yourself. See the Light in yourself and it is easier to feel compassion for others.”

Wishing the world a wonderful Christmas filled with lots of Love, Light and Joy.

The human mind always wants to know WHY things are as they are. It wants to work things out and give meaning to everything. However, in imposing your own meaning on everything, the Truth of each situation/experience is limited to the meaning you have given it. Understand that from this perspective you will not see the whole Truth of the situation.

Let go of needing to know WHY something is as it is, accept it just is how it is.

In surrendering to what is and accepting that your mind has a very limited perspective, you expand beyond the limitations of the mind and experience the Wisdom of the Truth.

It seems that in this world love comes with conditions. If you are good enough you will be loved, if you look right you will be loved, if you act in a certain way that pleases people you will be loved.

We grow up constantly judging ourselves and beating ourselves up for not being good enough or not conforming to how we think we should be and become fearful that we are not lovable as we are. Then we pass this attitude on to our children and create another generation of people who feel unworthy of love.

It’s time to stop now though. It’s time to be gentle with ourselves. To stop judging ourselves and beating ourselves up for not being how we think we should be. It’s time to accept ourselves fully no matter what we look like, no matter how we speak, no matter what we do.

It is time to love ourselves unconditionally.

How can we do this?

1. Be present in this moment (stop thinking about the past or future)
2. Stop judging yourself and others (forgive yourself and others for being the way we are)
3. Accept yourself fully (no matter what!)

Once you are able to love yourself unconditionally, then you attract people around you that are able to love you - no matter what!

If a stranger asked you to be in love with them, you would probably think, “well it doesn’t happen like that, you can’t just magic love out of nowhere, you can’t make love happen for no reason.”

If this is how you think then I’ve got some news for you!

The entire Universe is made up of one thing, it permeates all things and is the space between all things, it is ‘All That Is’ - including you. Science even says this is so. Tune into this Oneness in meditation and you will discover that It is Eternal Love. Love permeates all things, Love is all things - even You!

Ok so how come we don’t feel this Love all the time, if it is what we are and it exists everywhere, all of the time?

One of the things that stands in the way of us experiencing ourselves and everything else as being Love, is our judgements.

When we experience things without judgement Love flows freely. As soon as our minds start to judge, Love is hidden behind those judgements and is not experienced.

When you find yourself falling in Love with someone, it will be because you aren’t judging them, you are just seeing their beauty. When you find it impossible to love someone you can be sure that you are judging them like crazy!

When you realize that you have a choice to judge or to love, then there is just one easy step to being in Love all of the time!

Most people believe that this physical world is solid and real - well you can see it, hear it, touch it… so therefore it must be real.

Imagine this for a moment - You are on the Star Ship Enterprise and you desire to have a certain experience, so you take yourself to the Holodeck and tell the computer programme what you wish to experience. You step through the doors and immediately you are in a holographically created, physical yet illusory world created specifically for you to experience whatever you wish. Because you are aware that whatever you experience is just a hologram, you will always know in the back of your mind that you don’t have to take it all too seriously. And when you have had enough of the experience you can just ask the computer to end the illusion.

Far fetched though this story line may sound - believe it or not it is closer to our Reality than most people realise.

How would you be if you had an awareness of your physical experiences being an illusion? Would you be more light-hearted, worry less, play more, dream up the most wonderful experiences you could think of and dare to reach for your highest and most expanding ideals?

Whether you believe it or not it doesn’t matter. However, live your life like it is so and you will find Freedom.

When we are experiencing feelings of satisfaction everything feels good. We are at peace with ourselves and the world. We want for nothing, we need nothing. We breathe deeply and relax in the Well-Being of Life.

We usually feel a sense of satisfaction after we have achieved or acquired something. It lasts for a while then we return to our usual wanting, needing and worrying.

How about choosing for that feeling of satisfaction no matter what.

Every time you have a spare moment, breathe deeply, relax and imagine what it would be like to have achieved and acquired everything you could have wished for. Stay with that feeling and feel the satisfaction.

Do it because it feels good, because it opens you out into your True Self and because it attracts to you all good things of a similar high vibration.

Moreover do it because it will make it more and more obvious that your happiness does not depend on what’s happening around you - that you don’t actually need to change anything around you for your satisfaction to be guaranteed.

Meditation is about looking inwards, connecting with your True Essence, giving Yourself attention and discovering who you really are.

This technique is beautiful in its simplicity. Firstly make yourself comfortable, sitting down or lying down. Now focus on your physical heart. Whilst your awareness is on your heart feel gratitude/appreciation. It doesn’t matter what you feel appreciation about, however don’t focus on the reason/thoughts that brought about the feeling, just the feeling.

You might notice every now and then that your mind has drifted off into thought, don’t worry about it and think that you can’t do this (this is normal to begin with) just gently bring your attention back to your physical heart and the feeling of appreciation again.

This technique is particularly beautiful because by feeling gratitude you are aligning yourself with your True Essence. Your Natural Vibration and that of Gratitude, Love and Praise are the same and when you choose to feel these feelings your physical vibration comes into harmony with your Soul/ Who You Really Are and bliss is experienced. The more practiced you become at this meditation, the more blissful it becomes.

Sometimes when you first learn to meditate a lot of negative thoughts are released, let that be OK. When you realise that you have been lost in thought just return your attention to your heart and appreciation again.

Remember to be light-hearted about this (as with all things in life) and have fun exploring yourself!

The following piece was sent to me in an email from The Indenders of the Highest Good - www.intenders.com

It perfectly describes what I have felt within myself for the past ten years, so I thought I’d share it with you.

You can call it the Godspark, the 100th Monkey, The Reunion, Critical Mass, or whatever you like, but, regardless of what you call it, it is coming. People are going to be lifted up and out of this encumbered mindset into a freer, more exalted place. We may or may not leave this Earth, however, the days of being a slave to another man’s whims, the days of having our happiness tied to how much money we have, the days of us harming ourselves for reasons we are unaware of are coming to an end. It will be a huge relief and a release such as we have never felt before. We’ll wake up one morning, and everywhere you go you’ll see people happy and smiling because they will be being given everything they need freely and lovingly.
“Consider what happens when you strike a match. There is a critical point when just enough friction occurs to cause a spark to spring forth and a fire that wasn’t there a moment before to burn brightly in front of you. It’s the same with mankind as we move into the new millennium. It doesn’t take all of us to bring about the change; it just takes enough of us to intend that we live in a world of peace and freedom and joy. It will happen in an instant. One moment we may still be shuffling through the shadows, and then, suddenly, in the next moment, one inspired person breaks a lifelong pattern and opens up to the highest good - and with this simple act of love, the entire human race reaches a critical point. A spark of light flickers, then bursts into flame, heralding a new standard and the life that we all deserve to live.
That person could be you.”
From The Intenders Handbook
My Intention for today is:
I Intend that I am completely and utterly free.

The essence of our ‘being’ is infinite potential energy - All that exists is energy of infinite potential forever expanding. Conscious thought moulds that potential energy into form. With each new ‘thought creation’ the Universe expands. This is one of the natural qualities of this energy - eternal evolution/expansion.

This ’stage’ of experience - planet Earth, is part of the expansion of consciousness/God/Universe/Self/All That Is. We play our part when we look around us and decide what we want to experience, then joyfully acknowledge and accept these ‘hearts desires’. With this acceptance our Hearts, Being, Soul and Universe expands. (Plus our bodies are enlivened too).

As human beings we progress from being unconscious about our part in the evolution of the Universe to being fully aware of our True Nature and our ability to mould energy into form by the power of thought.

Other than the natural progression of our evolution there is no real purpose for our being - the nature of the Universe/God just ‘Is’ and will continue to ‘Be’ regardless of what we do or don’t do.

However, to be open to and to flow with the evolving upward current of Energy/God Love (our True Nature) feels far more comfortable than resisting it. It also allows Energy to flow through our bodies and help them to thrive. Resistance to what ‘Is’ (our True Nature) pinches off the energy and pain and suffering is experienced.

This is why we are so often encouraged to align with the nature of this Energy/God/Love which can be experienced as LOVE, PEACE, JOY, COMPASSION, GOOD…

So human beings, align with Love - Be Love and love being!

Meditation brings you into yourself and enables you to be aware of and connect with your True Self. Experiencing who you really are is awe-inspiring and life-changing. Knowing that you are Omnipotent, Eternal Love and indescribable Beauty and Joy in all its Fullness AND then just resting in That brings absolute Peace and comfort. The ultimate ‘at-homeness’.

Knowing yourself fully dissolves all fear and doubt and illusions of lack. You become Solid and Sure - an invincible power of gentle Goodness.

To spend some time each day giving yourself this sort of unique attention is one of the most loving things you can do for yourself and everyone around you.

People are saying they want Peace on Earth now. Yet they get angry about it, protest for it, argue for it and I suspect will even fight for it and kill for it!

Peace on Earth begins with Peace within. As each individual chooses to be Peaceful within, in total acceptance of what is (trusting in the Love and omnipotence of God) they become a beacon of Peace in the world, bringing Peace to everything around them.

So wonderful Peace seekers, just Rest in Peace within.

There is so much about ourselves that we don’t love - maybe the way we look or the things we say or do. So often though, we don’t acknowledge this dislike of our ourselves and instead project it onto the people around us and say “I don’t like the way he/she looks/behaves.”

It’s time now to take responsibility for how we feel. When we become aware of blaming others for their apparent short-comings recognise the insecure, negative part of us that feels the need to criticise. That little part of us is just crying out to be loved and accepted. So love it completely. You can look upon it as the small self or the hurt inner child or just your humaness. When that part of us is accepted and loved the hurt dissolves and a miracle occurs.

In loving every part of ourself, loving and accepting every part of everyone else becomes easy.