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SEPTEMBER 2004
Hurricane Charley; our perceptions create our personal reality; it's all related;
using the power of the Now
Hello and welcome to the September 2004 issue of Horizons Magazine. As
usual for September in Florida, as I write this we're under a tropical storm watch
due to Hurricane Charley predicted to come ashore in the Tampa area later today.
The Florida Keys are being evacuated as folks head to the mainland to escape the predicted heavy winds and rains.
At 4am in Melbourne, the skies are beautiful and clear, however on the news you see the long lines of traffic heading north along the Gulf coast, from the Keys to north of Tampa. It's always a good idea to have somewhere to go in times like this, a backup plan to be in a safe place away from turmoil.
Our personal storms are like that also. We can either feed them with hasty actions and reactions based on the vibrational stance of those who are freaking out around us, or we can keep conflict at bay by being mindful and following our own guidance system, no matter what is happening, no matter what anyone else is saying.
It's true that our perceptions create our personal reality, that how we choose to look at the world determines what kind of world we will live in. And two people living under the same roof can live in very different worlds. One of them can believe we are all at the mercy of Fate, and the other can believe we each create our own reality.
Even for those of us who believe we create our own reality, there is one concept that most just can't seem to get. They think if they ponder and dream on what they want, that what they want should just come of its own accord. They don't realize that what they do and how they think and what they say in all other areas of their lives impacts the creation process.
You can't hate your boss and criticize your co-workers and expect to find your dream job - it's all related.
You can't ignore your mother and be fighting with your sister and expect to draw in your perfect mate - it's all related.
If you watch the news and get aggravated by it, that's impacting your creation process.
If you listen to politicians and think anyone is unethical, that impacts your creation process.
If your boss is unreasonable and rude, and you have any emotional reaction of discontent or dislike toward him on a regular basis, that definitely impacts your creation process. And not just in the area of career and income. It impacts it in all other areas. Even areas you don't think you have resistance in.
In my experience, that's where I find most people get hung up. They don't get that it's all related. They don't get that they've already done all the daydreaming and pre-paving of their creation, the Universe is just waiting for them to release their resistance and allow their creation to come to them.
It's way more important to release resistance than it is to visualize what you want your outcome to be. It took me years to learn that. It took me years after hearing it so well said by Abraham-Hicks in the late 80's to release resistance I didn't know I had, or to even understand there was a process I could do to discover where I had resistance and a process to release it.
For me, the key was when Abraham said - remember no one else was talking about this back in the 80's - that every subject is 2 subjects: that which we want and the lack of it, and we're either focused on one or the other. I'd never heard that concept before and it changed the way I saw everything after that.
We can always tell what we've been focusing on, because it shows up in our lives. It shows up in our relationships with others, it shows up in what kind of job we have and how much money we make and the state of our health and happiness.
If you and your husband are in business together, how you feel about him affects your business and affects your income. How he feels about you affects your business and affects your income.
You can't think about and treat your partner one way and expect the Universe to deliver to you anything other than what you're sending out. And only one of you has to change how you think and feel about the other in order to effect a change in the outcome (and a change in the income!)
This is where we can fully realize the power of the Now: by choosing in this moment right now to release any old baggage we have with whoever is the closest to us; whoever we have to see every day and who has been in our life for the most years.
Forget everything that has ever happened between you in the past. Stop bringing to mind all past transgressions.
When he pushes your buttons and a past memory comes up, make a choice to turn your thoughts around right then. Bring to mind the things he does that you love. Bring to mind all the good reasons you are together and how much fun you have when things are going well. That's how best to use the power of the Now: to dissipate old baggage and transform the Now moment into an enjoyable, delicious time for you and everyone around you.