{"id":37663,"date":"2014-08-08T21:28:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T01:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=37663"},"modified":"2014-08-09T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T10:57:00","slug":"my-spiritual-lesson-from-the-brighthouse-repairman-i-am-the-only-one-who-can-amplify-my-life-i-do-that-by-choice-of-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/my-spiritual-lesson-from-the-brighthouse-repairman-i-am-the-only-one-who-can-amplify-my-life-i-do-that-by-choice-of-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"My spiritual lesson from the Brighthouse repairman. I am the only one who can amplify my life,  I do that by choice of focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37668\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lightning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37668\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37668\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lightning-148x300.jpg\" alt=\"I get rebooted in the lightning flash\" width=\"148\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I get rebooted in yesterday&#8217;s\u00a0 lightning flash<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday I arrived home just as it began to pour rain and I was happy for a garage to drive into.\u00a0 As I looked into the back yard, a sudden flash of lightning and thunder startled me.\u00a0 The lightning was so bright that it whited out the entire backyard. That let me know it hit close.\u00a0 I found my internet, cable and land line phone lines were down. Brighthouse arrived 36 hours later and he first wanted to find the amplifier that sent a signal to his equipment, which should be, he said, a cable connection that is plugged into an electrical outlet. We looked at every outlet in the house and couldn&#8217;t find one. Then at the cable box outside he found a splitter looking thing\u00a0 that he says is typically attached to an amplifier, and that it had gone bad.\u00a0 It looked, he said, as though a technician prior to him didn&#8217;t have the correct device on his truck when he came out and replaced it using this one, then the tech didn&#8217;t alert the office that it needed to be swapped out.\u00a0 It was coincidence that it went bad right after the lightning strike and that was the cause of my internet, cable and phone going down.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also coincidence that the electric on my east wall went out as well. That&#8217;s where the bedroom altar is.\u00a0 Whatever the reason, the message I take from it (because everything contains a spiritual message for me) is that I&#8217;ve been rebooted. That an overload had weakened the system, so a reboot, a reconnection was necessary.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I feel has been happening the past month as well.\u00a0 Having time without internet and phone allowed me to contemplate what this means on my path to personal growth. I HAVE been feeling like I need a reboot, and now that I&#8217;m back in the art studio after years away, I&#8217;m feeling enthused on many levels.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the lesson from the faux-amplifier that had gone bad and lost signal? A message to me that I can&#8217;t depend on anything outside myself to motivate me and amplify my experience.\u00a0 If I don&#8217;t do it myself, the Universe will take it out of my hands and arrange a blowout to reboot me. As in the defunct amplifier, what seemed like a good idea at the time, an easy option and quick fix, was not a long term solution. I am the only one who can amplify my experience.\u00a0 I do it by focusing on what I am doing and finding things about it to appreciate. That&#8217;s what amplifies anything in my life. Right now, I&#8217;m appreciating being back in the art studio. I&#8217;m appreciating that a whole lot.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=37519\" rel=\"bookmark\">Update from the art studio<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=37421\" rel=\"bookmark\">The new art studio is coming together<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=37407\">My former dining room is now the art studio<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=37571\" rel=\"bookmark\">There\u2019s the painting on canvas and there\u2019s the Photoshopped digital version<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=37586\" rel=\"bookmark\">I begin painting from out of body, astral flight sketches<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=37603\" rel=\"bookmark\">Painting is a daily meditation for me<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=37627\" rel=\"bookmark\">Painting as a method of altering consciousness<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=9455\">Meditation links\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/my-spiritual-lesson-from-the-brighthouse-repairman-i-am-the-only-one-who-can-amplify-my-life-i-do-that-by-choice-of-focus\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=My spiritual lesson from the Brighthouse repairman. 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