I stepped outside for a walk at 5:00am after morning meditation and found it was about 70 degrees. The air felt nice and chilly, a relief from the humid 90 degree days we’ve been having. l took a walk around the property and then an hour’s nap in the chaise out under the oaks. I love sleeping outside in nature, it really regenerates my body. Then I raced inside to go to bed for another couple of hours before it became fully daylight. 6:00-8:00am is the best sleep I get. Continue reading
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I attract a bad job out of Office Depot
Sunday on my way to church, I ran into Office Depot on Palm Bay Road to quickly drop off a print order. As it turned out, they couldn’t check anyone out. As we stood in line thinking the registers would be up any minute, we all chatted with each other. About 20 minutes later, we learned all the computers were down. The clerk took my print order since no computers were involved, and I was on my merry way. Well, not so merry at that point, since I was now too late to go to either of two churches I was headed. When I miss church, I miss a week’s worth of social interaction in person with friends, so I try to go each week. I stopped by a friend’s place and I told him the reason I was so late. He told me he didn’t like Office Depot and would never go back to them. They’d made a big mistake on a high dollar item he’d purchased, and he did not have a good experience with customer service. We talked about that for a few minutes before I realized since I just put a print order in with Office Depot and wanted to attract a good experience, I’d better get out of that complaining vibe real quick and turn it around. Continue reading
I take 2-3 minutes to prepave my day each time I wake up
Last night I slept in my new bed in my new bedroom and, when morning came, it was easy to lie there feeling comfy and do a few moments prepaving how I’d like my day to go. I do that each morning as soon as I awaken. I bring to mind whatever is the biggest priority, and I flow a few moments of thought energy toward it. Today, since I just finished final layout on the August issue of Horizons Magazine, one priority was to envision a lot of payments coming in. That’s easy to do since everyone pays on time. I just bring to mind how good it feels to see the names of friends and clients and advertisers on the checks they send me and how good it feels to have enough money in the bank to pay for everything. If I don’t have it yet, I remind myself dollars are on the way. On the way from where? Why, from wherever they are right now, of course.
Get diagnosed, or not?
I have a friend who’s having some health issues but she’s afraid to go to the doctor. She knows that once an illness is diagnosed, typically that’s when the disease progresses, and that’s because our focus turns more fully to it. Whatever we focus on grows and expands, period. Below is what Abraham-Hicks has to say on the matter. I suggested she immediately change to a healthy diet and prayer practice, then do as Abraham suggests: “Choose another thought, and get locked back on to your signal — and all of that will go away.” Continue reading
How long from the time you eat food until you excrete it?
QUESTION: Digestion, how long does it take? How long does it take to digest food — from the time you eat it to the time you excrete it in stool?
ANSWER from Michael F. Picco, M.D: Digestion time varies depending on the individual. For most healthy adults, it’s usually between 24 and 72 hours. After you eat, it takes about six to eight hours for food to pass through your stomach and small intestine. Food then enters your large intestine (colon) for further digestion and absorption of water. Elimination of undigested food residue through the large intestine usually begins after a total of 24 hours. Complete elimination from the body may take several days. More if you’ve eaten a large quantity, or eaten heavy foods. You digest much more slowly with an overloaded system. Water is crucial to keep everything in motion. Continue reading
Clearing out the energy also clears out past ties
I wrote yesterday that my tenant of nine years was moving out of the mobile home I own at Holiday Park in Palm Bay. A friend asked me why that could happen to me since I’m “such a positive thinker.” I always have to laugh when I get that question because why would someone assume that me losing a tenant is a bad thing? And it wasn’t really out of the blue. I always know when things are shaking up for me that I’ve done something to attract it. I’d written earlier this week that I bought a new bed and re-arranged furniture in the bedroom and sitting room areas. I also changed up my spiritual practice, and re-did the altar in the living room fireplace. My life experience tells me that anytime I start moving stuff around like that, that is the butterfly wing that puts the waves of change into motion.
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A friend suggests I change up my spiritual practice
Wayne Wirs and I were talking last week about spiritual practice, and he suggested I change my schedule to expand the time I spent at the healing bench, and shorten the time I spent in personal meditation. “Just try it for 30 days,” he said. I love new challenges like that, changing it up. Today he asked: “How is that hour long selfless meditation mod working for you?” Continue reading
My new eating habits are paying off
Yowza, I just got on my scale for the first time in a week and am down below another landmark number. I’m now at my 1996 weight without even trying. Too cool.
My new bedroom is finally all put together
My new bedroom
After I bought my new bed last week, I took a few days to redo my bedroom for the first time in several years. I took down the heavy royal blue velvet drapes from the sliding glass door, and replaced them with navy sheers and a blue and yellow silken sari draped overhead at the curtain rod. I can see right into the garden and I love the new look. My former king bed was so big that it basically took up 1/3 of the room. Tuesday I moved a large white credenza out of the bedroom and into the sitting room, behind the daybed. What I call the daybed used to be the futon, however I just moved the heavy wooden futon base to the shed and replaced it with a standard twin bed frame. It’s much more functional and now there’s room for the chi to flow underneath the bed — good feng shui! Continue reading
You choose where to focus your attention
When you focus upon an unwanted aspect of something in an effort to push it away from you, it only comes closer, because you get what you give your attention to whether it is something that you want or not. It is up to you to focus upon and attract what you want. How do you know what you’re really focusing on? By what you are attracting into your life.