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AUGUST 2000
Thoughts are indeed things; Your inner guidance

Hello and welcome to the August 2000 issue of Horizons Magazine.
It's been a beautiful summer so far, and we've been blessed with lots
of rain just when we needed it. We had a few groups seriously praying
for rain just before the last firewalk in the hopes to have the burning ban
 lifted before the event, and it worked so well that the entire 12 hours of
the firewalk was spent outside in the rain, a glorious experience for all!

Experiencing the prayed-for rain reminded me of what have now become buzz words: thoughts are indeed things. Remember 30 years ago when we began trying to convince everyone that thoughts were creative and we were foo-fooed by many around us? Now many are singing the same tune long and loud as if it's a new idea and my response is HOORAY! Who cares how long it takes a new belief to take hold and crossover into mainstream consciousness? That it takes hold is to be celebrated as a victory for the evolution of the consciousness of us all.

In this issue, Omni reminds us that "Thought is the cause of all feelings and behind every negative feeling is a negative thought." The good news says Rev. Tom Sannar is: "You are in command of your thoughts. You decide what you will think." One way to begin a process of change is by writing it out and Lloyd Thomas tells us, "Writing promotes healing. Writing by hand stimulates your body to produce more "natural killer cells," a crucial element in your immune system's ability to fight cancer."

Another recurring theme in the personal growth venue is the reminder that the Universe delivers to us what we focus on, and that every subject is 2 subjects and we must take care not to focus on "lack of." In this issue, Joseph Murphy says, "You live in your mind and it is there that you become rich or poor, a beggar or a thief." Dr. Kate tells us How To Stop Thoughts and Alan Cohen suggests, "Do one thing at a time. If you can really focus on what is right before you, everything falls into place." Rev. Beth Head echoes with "Just take the things that make sense to you at any moment and use those things, and your life will get better."

Also in this issue, Alexandra Solomon says, "Believing that everything that is happening to you is just as it should be and is actually very much on Divine schedule will help you accept new circumstances and roll with the punches." Aluna Joy tells us "It's all about surrender" since what the Creator has in store for us is far grander than anything we could dream up for ourselves. Gillian MacBeth-Louthan talks of "gentle reminders it is time to let go, it is time for change."

I was emailing with Holger Pedersen of the local community group for the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He'd mentioned in the latest IONS newsletter about bumbling along vs. going with the flow. He wrote: "Go with the flow," is advice that is often given. "Take charge of your life," is equally often advised. ... (a book he's read) begins by advocating letting go of the cliff and drifting with the stream. Later it advises "begin creating your reality instead of just 'bumbling along'. Start to take control of your lives in a positive way." I'm confused. What's the difference between 'bumbling along' and 'going with the flow'?

I thought that was an insightful question and responded back to him and said, "One difference between bumbling along and going with the flow is how you feel in the doing of it. What does your inner guidance tell you as you are in the process of considering either course of action? After setting your dominant intention (i.e, I'd like to have a happy life with plenty of dollars and lots of friends and good health,) and reflecting on it for a few moments, sit and consider one course of action. How do you feel in your heart about it? How do you feel in your gut about it? It either feels clear, or you feel resistance. Resistance always has meaning. Often it means this may not be the best decision, but more often it means you don't have enough information to make a decision right now.

If you're going with the flow, you'll have considered all possibilities, you'll have decided what you want your outcome to be, you'll stop doing anything inconsistent with that outcome, and you'll have daydreamed the best case scenario a few times a day for days in a row to get some momentum going. If you're going with the flow, you'll intuit the next logical steps and the right people, places and events will present themselves in synchronistic fashion.

If you're bumbling along, you will feel undecided, you'll be unable to come up with a reasonable goal and, since you've not really defined a goal, you'll be doing all sorts of behaviors inconsistent with staying focused, you'll likely feel resistance at every turn and you'll appear to hit dead end after dead end.

Your inner guidance always guides you by how you feel in the moment. How you feel in the moment of considering two or more courses of action. You will be guided toward that which is harmony with your vibrational stance. Of course the trick here is that so many of us have intentions that are not in harmony with our vibrational stance. We want a better life but are unsure how to go about it. We want to be happy but all we feel is alone and lonely. Our vibrational stance is dependent solely on the focus of our thoughts and the emotion that issues forth as a result of those thoughts. Living consciously is all about deciding what kind of life you want to live and then making sure your beliefs and behaviors are in vibrational sync with each other. Well, that's my experience anyway."

Another friend, when writing about worrying - that it's good to worry about some things, said "good worry, i.e., a failure to arm or alarm oneself when one is heading into harm's way." Well, there was something I wanted to clarify there. I wrote back "Heading into harm's way" - hmmm, this is assuming that life is a series of random events over which we have no control, which is not the case. I've learned that nothing enters our experience without our prior invitation by thought. If we "arm ourselves" in the anticipation of heading into harm's way, we are sending a signal - and thus attracting - that very experience into our life. The more we think about it and anticipate it and prepare for it, the more we are vibrationally resonating with it, and when we reach vibrational resonance with anything, it comes into our experience.

How do we reach vibrational resonance with something? We think about it, we imagine future scenarios, we remember past examples, we imagine and feel at the same time we're having some kind of emotion about the event. We know that whatever we focus on expands in our life. Whatever we spend our days thinking about and talking about and writing about and studying about is what we're focusing on. An important thing to remember is that every subject is two subjects. There's the subject of money and the subject of lack of money. There's the subject of safety and lack of safety. Since whatever we focus on is what we experience more of in our life. It behooves us to take stock and see which subject we spend more time on.

Our inner guidance guides us by how we feel in the moment of having a thought. If you've spent a few minutes determining what your dominant intent in life is - mine is to have a happy life, have good friends, plenty of dollars and free time, and make a difference in the world - if you've determined what your dominant intent is, then when you're thinking about anything that is contrary to that intent, your inner guidance will let you know. Our guidance guides us by the emotion we are feeling as we are considering a decision or course of action. You either feel good during the thought of it, or you have some kind of negative emotion, or resistance. If you have resistance, that either means the action you are contemplating is not in harmony with your dominant intent, or it might just mean you don't yet have enough info to make that decision. In either event, once you release the resistance, what you are wanting comes more fully into your experience. "

All this tells me that we, who are on the leading edge of thought, are all beginning the New Millennium pretty much on the same page. I feel we're approaching the hundredth monkey, we're approaching critical mass and the good news is that together we can co-create an enormously satisfying and fulfilling world around us. Enjoy our offering this month. Hari Om.