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FROM THE HEART fence, and the cows will have a magnificent tree they can rub
up against and rest under its shade.”

Alan Cohen is the author of A Course in Miracles Does the injunction to safeguard sensitive projects mean
Made Easy; mastering the Journey from Fear to we should be neurotically secretive about what is important
Love. Join Alan and friends in Hawaii, Feb 26 - to us? No, it just means we should be discerning when choos-
March 2 for a rare retreat, Unplugged. Put your
devices aside for a few days, liberate yourself ing the people we share our visions with. If you know that
from technology, and reconnect with yourself someone loves and supports you, that would be a good person
and your life. For more information about this to include in your vision. Some people attend mastermind
program, Alan’s books and videos, free daily groups in which they meet weekly with a few positive friends
inspirational quotes, online courses, and weekly to share exciting ideas and get behind each other for success.
radio show, visit www.alancohen.com. Cultivate and fertilize the soil in which you plant your valued
seeds.
The Word and the Womb
Let’s say you share a sensitive project at an early stage
and someone throws a dagger of negation at it. Does that
How much should you tell other people about what mean the project has been killed? Not at all. You can use the
is really important to you? Should you broadcast experience to make your project stronger. Use the criticism
your dreams to everyone in hopes that others will as motivation to go within and affirm the value, power, and
honor your intentions and support you? Or would potential of your project. In homeopathy and immunization,
you be wiser to keep your visions to yourself and patients take small doses of viruses that would kill them in
avoid debilitating criticism? larger doses. The body then develops antibodies that prevent
the disease from overcoming them should it return. “What
You have probably had the experience of sharing a fresh does not kill me makes me stronger.”
insight, experience, or project with someone, only to be met
with an icy, insensitive response. “I tried that and it didn’t No person, no matter how negative or virulent they are,
work.” “You will put yourself at risk.” “That would cost has the power to thwart your project or remove your good.
too much to produce and nobody would buy it.” Nothing is That power belongs only to you. If someone judges or attacks
more daunting than someone throwing cold water on your hot you, consider them an angel reflecting to you your own beliefs,
dreams. Then you walk away from the conversation feeling doubts, or fears so you can recognize and heal them.
deflated and defeated.
If you get upset or cave in when someone criticizes you,
I am amazed at how obtuse people can be when offered you must agree with that person. If you didn’t, the criticism
an opportunity to support someone. I visited a friend in the would not disturb you. Your issue is not with the other person.
hospital who had had a very minor surgery. A relative in the It is with yourself. Find the hidden self-doubt or judgment,
room said, “I know someone who died of what you have.” confront it, hold it up to the light, and heal it with a greater
One of my coaching clients told her husband she wanted to truth. Because light is more powerful than darkness, you must
take a yoga class. He laughed and told her she was on her way succeed.
to Jonestown. When I self-published my first book using my
mother’s life savings, the publisher’s agent told me, “They say As we enter the holiday season, you may have some juicy
you don’t make any money until your third book.” (The book opportunities to discern who to share your sensitive truth with,
went on to be a bestseller.) and how to deal with people who judge or criticize you. Don’t
shy away from these opportunities. Use each one to practice
Jesus was a master metaphysician who understood the remembering your beauty, power, and worth, and that of your
power of thoughts and words. He instructed, “Cast not pearls valued projects.
before swine,” meaning to not offer sensitive, lofty ideas to
people who will not understand, and gobble them up. After Motivational master Jim Rohn said, “If you really want
he performed a certain healing, he told the recipient, “Tell something, you will find a way. If you don’t, you will find an
no man.” Jesus understood that if that man broadcast his excuse.” Don’t use fear or others’ negative opinions as an
experience publicly before the healing was solidified, negative excuse to not move ahead. Don’t let people into your visions if
observers would cast doubts and skepticism upon him so as to they don’t match your intention. Love and support your visions
weaken or undo the healing. Better to wait until the healing like a pregnant woman would diligently protect and care for
was gelled in his subconscious; then the opinions of others the soul in her womb. Then your progeny will grow into power-
could not unstitch his advancement. ful, mature, successful adults.

A yogi told me, “When you plant a seedling in a field Everyone is your teacher. Some teach through loving sup-
where cows are grazing, set a fence around the little plant port, and others teach through challenge. Become a spiritual
to protect it from cows eating or trampling it. Later, when master by using the power of the word to your highest advan-
the seedling has grown large and sturdy, you can remove the tage.

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