How do you feel?

Life is about learning. Every challenge we face brings about growth and transformation. Without those challenges, we would sit and stagnate and not expand ourselves in this lifetime to a greater understanding of the world around us. This is what life is all about - experience. It is up to us to experience as much as we can. From experience we learn. From learning, we expand. It is all connected. Experiences are all good. Each challenge, though it may seem difficult while in the midst of it, is a positive experience. The reason why they are difficult is so that we can fully appreciate them once we are able to look back at them and be able to see what the lesson was that was presented to us. Without difficulty, we would not remember what we learned.

My most recent lesson has been one of emotions. It is a lesson that I just had a refresher course in because, even though I had the lesson before, I needed to learn it better. Thus, a new challenge was issued and I flailed around until I figured out what I needed to learn.

Emotions belong to each of us. Each emotion that we feel is ours. We are the only ones who can feel our own emotions; we are the only ones that can create our own feelings about something or someone. We own them. We are their creators and we must take responsibility for them. No one can make us feel anything we don't want to feel. This is a hard realization for most people to make, and it's something that I still struggle with even though I've just had a few lessons in it. If we own our own emotions and are responsible for them, then why do we feel as though we must be responsible for other people's emotions as well? This was my lesson.

I am not responsible for anyone's emotions but my own. I cannot make anyone feel anything; it is not something that can be forced. Thus, I cannot say that someone has made me feel a certain way. I must own my emotions. I must remember to say, "I felt ______ when this happened." and not "You made me feel ______ when you did this."

Most importantly, I must remember that whatever it is that someone else feels, whether it be towards me or towards anything else, whether it be good or bad or indifferent, - I am not responsible for it. I am also not responsible to try to make that person feel any differently. This is not my job. My job is to see to my own happiness.

It is always my choice. I choose to feel the way I feel towards a person or a thing. I own it. If I don't want to feel a certain way, I won't. Why? Because I can.

How to deal with stress, anxiety, fear and pain

Every day we have stresses in our lives. We have doubt and anxiety and fear about things. Sometimes they build up and feel overwhelming and they bring us down. They push our corks beneath the surface and hold us down from being in our natural state of happiness. There is something we can do about those day to day stresses - EWOP.

Everything works out perfectly.

This is a simple technique that I learned through this program that is so powerful that I had to share it with you! It helps you trust your higher self or subconscious into taking care of a problem in the best possible way. It doesn't matter if it's about money or love or school or anything else in your life that is causing you stress or pain or anxiety.

Take a few moments. Think about something that is keeping you from being absolutely happy. Whatever it is, picture it in your mind. Turn to your higher self and think or say "I turn it over to you. Take care of this for me in the best possible way." Trust your higher self to take care of it. Don't worry about the details or how it's going to happen. Say to yourself, "Everything work out perfectly" because it will.

The next step is a little breathing exercise. Focus towards the center of the earth and inhale, and then focus towards the heavens and exhale. When you inhale, you gather up these feelings of negativity - stress, unhappiness, fear, anxiety. When you exhale, release these feelings and problems to your higher self. Your problems are gone. They are being taken care of in the best possible way.

You can do this technique whenever you need help with something or whenever you have a concern about something. It will help you stay in that positive state of being instead of dipping into the negatives. I have been practicing it for a few weeks now and it has done my life wonders. It's not about manifesting anything, it's about helping bring about those little changes to your mindset when you aren't feeling like you're at your best.

It's easy to remember to EWOP. That's what I love about it!

What is Love?

I believe the answer to that questions will be different to everyone, yet similar in some fundamental ways. I looked up a couple of opinions about love and found some differing opinions.

Andrew Furmanczyk wrote that, "Love is a lot of things, but in it's most simplest definition I believe it is simply a great overpowering PASSION to have that person/thing stay in your life." I believe that this is very true on a basal level. He went on to say talk about how love is a measure of respect and the more you respect someone, the greater the love is. Respect and disrespect is "getting to know that person's qualities/character and agreeing/disagreeing with how they behave."

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had a little article on romance which said, "Love is looking at the person you married when he is greying and sick and thinking you want to wrap your arms around him. Love wants the person you are with to do what makes him happy even when this takes him away from you. Love is sitting across from the person you married and not understanding who they are but wanting to keep finding out. Love is hearing that your loved one has betrayed you but not wanting to run away. Love is a lot of things, but it is not easy and it is not free. It takes time and effort and devotion beyond all expectations. Love is worth the work." I agree with the gist of what this woman is saying. Love is about sharing your life with else's. It is a partnership that comes with devotion and a bit of work.

Yet another person on the Love forum for Powerful Intentions said, "Love is a lot of things, but rarely is it easy. It's easy to think on the fun times, but devotion (in my opinion) is about loving someone when it isn't necessarily fun or easy. That's when it counts."

It is true that love is a lot of things. Each person has a different view on what it is because it means a whole different thing to them. Each experience we have with love brings us closer to the understanding of what it is exactly. I don't know if any of us will know exactly what love is, but I'm sure that we will all know when we are in it.

What does love mean to you?

Physical and Non-Physical selves

This is the new book by Esther and Jerry Hicks (and Abraham) that I've been keeping an eye on. I only have read the first 2 chapters since that's all Amazon.com would let me see without purchasing the book. I wanted to share some thoughts on what I read.

A while ago, I was taking an intro philosophy course. I remember the professor lecturing on Aristotle's beliefs about what happens when we die. He told us that Aristotle believed that when we died, our souls went to a place much like heaven to wait to be reborn again. They took all of their experiences during the previous lifetime to this place of soul congregation and do whatever souls do. When the time came for a soul to be reborn, he would bathe himself in "waters of forgetfulness" before leaving the place of souls and returning to earth in a physical body. Now, these "waters of forgetfulness" were such that, if the soul did not bathe himself completely and missed some spots, some of that divine knowledge would go with him into this new body of his. Aristotle believed that this explained why some people were born who seemingly "knew stuff" that others did not. Or, why some people were visionaries beyond their times or why some people were psychic, or seers, or whatever.

The Astonishing Power of Emotions tells us that our non-physical selves come from a place full of pure positive energy. It is our non-physical selves that want to branch out and live in the physical world. This expansion of their awareness is borne from an idea, and from that idea we are born into the physical universe. We do not begin at our births because we exist before our births in a non-physical plane.

A physical body gives our non-physical selves a different point of view. It is the relationship with our physical and non-physical selves that is important. This relationship is what we, as physical beings, need to explore. Our physical bodies are not closely connected to that pure positive energy source that our non-physical selves are a part of. We are but a manifestation of an idea that our non-physical selves put forth in order to expand their own knowledge. Our physical lives are new and bring with them new and different experiences to help our non-physical selves expand. I'm thinking that our non-physical selves are like the light shining through a keyhole onto our lives. By exploring the relationship between our physical and non-physical selves we can make some huge discoveries and open the door and let the light shine in fully.

Personally, I have felt for a while that all of my life's challenges were presented to me in such a way as to make me learn and grow from them. Each of these challenges have been built upon by the one before it. The challenges of learning have been small and on-going, sort of like a "this is what you must do, no questions. Just do it." Yet, I think that the challenges of money in my life have been propagated by my own physical self and the beliefs that society places upon us as to what money is and how one must attain it. The most interesting of these challenges must be the ones of emotion, of love and of relationships. Each of my relationships with men have taught me something fundamental. With each challenge comes transformation. It is how we grow.

If you believe that we are extensions of our non-physical selves, and that we are here to expand our knowledge by having new lives with new experiences, then you are on your way to opening that door.

Some things to think on.