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This month’s thoughts AN EXAMPLE: A FB friend wrote, "Many friends have sig-
nificant loss and damage to their homes and weeks / months
about things... of hardship to face. If they do have insurance, it will take an
act of Congress to get the insurance companies to honor their
“I want to look back on my life and be giddy with commitments and do the right thing." I find thoughts like that
joy that I was the one who got to live it.”
are not looking for the good in the situation, so how can you
... from page 28 .. receive the best result if you anticipate the worst? My experi-
ence with insurance claims in the past is that when I keep
good records and keep my insurance files with me in any disas-
ter so I can get the insurer pics and descriptions immediately,
BENNY MAKES A DARING ESCAPE the payout is quick and fair. It is just a different way of looking
By 5am, winds outside had died down to 34 at a situation. I had problems in the past with a claim that
mph so it was almost past us. I opened one took a long time to process, mostly because I didn't have pho-
of the doors to look outside and Benny ran tos and descriptions. The good memory of that one was that
out. I freaked and ran outside after him. I they finally did pay.
realized these winds would not be a danger
for him as I walked two lots over to retrieve him from under I SHARE MY EXPERIENCES TO SHOW YOU THERE'S
the neighbor's car. ANOTHER WAY OF THINKING/BEING IN THIS WORLD
I like to details of my experiences and what I think about my
When it was morning, we unshuttered and checked out the experiences so that people can see there's another way of be-
neighborhood: no flooding, no damage, we did not lose power. ing and living and thinking. I'm always hopeful that whatever
I drove to my rental at Holiday Park mobile community 2 miles direction isomething takes, I will be led to handle it well.
away. I saw only 3 units badly damaged. My tenant there had
a panel of porch screen and a vertical blind come apart. Lucky IS ONE PERSON BLESSED AND ANOTHER CURSED?
once again. She had no damage from Hurricane Matthew last A Facebook friend posted asking if one person is blessed does
year. After Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne in 2004, the two that mean another is cursed, example if a disaster hits one
homes behind hers were totalled. My unit had a few dings in house and leaves the one next door intact. I don't think one
the siding. I can only believe we are lucky or that it works has to do with the other.
when we pray over these homes. Either way, we win.
I think what we experience is as a result of our vibrational res-
WHY DO SOME ESCAPE onance. Who knows what all goes into determining vibrational
DAMAGE AND OTHERS resonance? Seemingly mean and bitchy people can seem lucky
DON'T? THIS "KILLER while someone kind-hearted and generous can experience sor-
CAT6 HURRICANE" DIDN'T rows, so we know it has nothing to do with outward appear-
EVEN MOVE MY CHAIRS ance. Certainly our daily pattern of thought, optimistic and
I'd posted on Facebook, "Okay pessimistic, helps determine vibrational resonance /frequency.
this "killer category 6 hur-
ricane" that they scared us all I think of vibrational resonance as what station am I tuned
with? The morning after the to on the radio dial? And it changes moment by moment and
storm as I checked my yard, thought by thought and there are things like past momentum
I saw I did not move 4 plastic (and perhaps karma) that factor into it as well. Vibrational
Adirondack chairs that I had resonance plays a part in determining who's in harm's way and
in the firepit area of the west who escapes by the seat of their pants but that's not to say
woods. They were all still in that any luck or misfortune is the "fault" of the individual. It
place, not even tipped over. could be the default setting of someone who hasn't yet discov-
Some FB friends were quick to ered they can train their mind toward more hopeful expecta-
remind me that not everyone tion and thus change their future experience. I don't know if
did so well, some had a lot of it has to do with anything but I always expect and believe
destruction and some died. I am not diminishing in any way there will be a positive outcome to situations and so far
what someone else experienced. I had friends in other neigh- that has been my experience.
borhoods who got hit. My objection is to the hyper language I was just thinking of that this
the media feels they have to use to manipulate people. I do evening as I walked through
understand that a lot of people sustained damage. I do under- the yard and noticed that so
stand that a lot of people are only motivated to action when many of my Turk's Cap bushes
they're scared into it. still have flowers. Wow. Some
of my neighbors after Hur-
LOOKING FOR THE GOOD ATTUNES ME TO INNER ricane Irma don't even have
GUIDANCE I have made it a lifetime mission to train my bushes anymore. Enjoy our
mind to look for the good in each situation, because I have offering this month.
learned that 'optimistic practice' allows me to stay more Hari Om.
closely attuned to inner guidance, which in turn allows me to Andrea
attract synchronistically positive outcomes and situations.
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