Focus May 27th

Mother Theresa said,"I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.

"Where is your focus? I watched a youtube video sent around by a friend. It focused on the violent riots around the world. It focused on fear of a "New World Order" It focused on all the negative aspects of fear and it was spread across the internet to spread fear. It will I am sure anger some, but moreso I believe it will dishearten people and make them fearful. It was what was intended when it was made. If we focus on the negative we get more of the same.

How did Ghandi get the English to leave India? Passive nonviolence in the face of extreme opposition. When you confront violence with violence it becomes a ignited flame fed by gasoline. It erupts and helps nothing. Focus is inportant. Bob Proctor says, "I don't care if it's get in or get out, if you are focused on debt it's debt"

Where is your focus? Are you focused on fear and violence? Is your focus optomistic or pessimistic? The ever optomist lives a joyful life. The ever pessimist lives a life in expectation of fearful events and each receives reasons to keep believing as they do. I believe we can choose a new focus and the more of us that choose it can literally change the world.

On May 27th at 9pm eastern time I will be Meditating on Unconditional Love for the world I ask that you join me at that time and start a ripple of loving peace that will surround the world. After which we can share our experiences of being in that space for a half hour. Let's change the world one of us at a time. Please join me.

This Moment

Look around the room your in, right now, go ahead do it. Realize that at this moment you are right where you are. When you look around the room it isn't yesterday nor is it tomorrow. It's not and hour from now nor an hour ago. This moment is the only one you have. The past is done. it is a collection of present moment memories, a track record of actions or inactions. The future is not set. In reality there is no future there is only possibility. The future is a blackboard on which we write goals. Each of those goals will not and can not be achieved unless we take in the present moment. Right now in this present moment, decide what goes in the chalkboard, a new car, a new house, health, wealth, a loving partner. Make the decision and focus on the result of achieving that goal. Actively focus your thoughts on the final outcome of your desires. Realize that focusing on a specific partner entering your life is not productive as the person of choice may be focusing elsewhere. Focus instead on the perfect partner coming into your life and thus that partner will come. But realize that the action in this moment is the next present moment memory that you are creating. and the next will happen and the universe will surround you with like actions that will real-ize your dreams.

Today

Today, today is a day of celebrating a great deed. I am asked constantly whether the thing that is celebrated today actually happened. My first memories of that past life were of my face raising from the sand. My face was in the sand because I had fallen onto my face at the feet of my friend. My friend who wasn't supposed to be there. My friend who I had seen suffer and die.My friend who gave his life to keep his friends and enemies from a war that would reap nothing but fear, death and destruction upon us. A man who at the very very end upon the cross looked down at me in complete love for me and all who stood about. This man now stood before me. I dropped to his feet. If I had believed he was amazing before, now I was convinced that he knew things that I didn't. He had told me many times that everything is Love and that In full faith everything is possible. Now he stood there I fell to my face. When I built the courage I slowly looked up. He smiled at me, laughed, and told me to get up. He told me that this was an example of the possibilties of our lives. He told me that with full belief (faith) we are unlimited. His words didn't change my awe in seeing him again. It was not long before this that my dispair of his death left me clutching the foot of the cross with my hand above me just to touch his foot. Did it happen? Yes. Why it happened was to show us that when following the path of love, nothing is impossible. Today is a day for all of us to remember what he did yes, but more importantly it is a day to live what he was teaching us. Be loving not fearful. Have faith that in love all things are possible. I am grateful for the greatest lesson he ever taught.

Thank You

Thank You

Thank You

Amy's Story

I was recently contacted by Amy with a message that really moved me and I asked if I could share it. I am so grateful to her for allowing me to do so.


John,

You don't know me personally. I am on your MySpace because I'm a fan of the Hack & Slash shows. But, I felt compelled to write to you when I read your new blog.

My Grandfather died suddenly in January, and we were unable to bury his ashes until yesterday. He was incredibly important to me and we were very close. Of course, you know that when you lose someone dear to you, it's very painful for a while... but then your heart begins to heal and you move on, keeping them in your memory. But since my Grandfather's death almost 4 months ago, I wake up every morning and the pain feels fresh again. My sorrow will sneak up on me, and I will sit and sob for hours, totally inconsolable. My poor husband doesn't know what to do for me, and it's beginning to affect our young marriage. But I don't know how to turn it off, how to control it... and I can't find a way to turn it into something positive. I have been struggling with my faith... unsure of a "loving" God who will allow one of His children to experience pain like I have that will not subside, with no relief in sight. I just don't know what to do with all this darkness I have inside me. I was so angry with God for letting this happen. My Pop was relatively healthy, still had his right mind and still lived at home with my Grandmother. I had such high hopes that he would one day be able to see and hold his great-grandchildren, and that they would know the man that shaped who I am in so many ways.


When we got home from Pop's burial yesterday, I happened to read your blog last night (Ask and you shall receive no matter how much it hurts- john) It gave me a new perspective on my pain... and more importantly, some insight into why I felt that all the other everyday things that went wrong were a personal slight against me from God or Karma or whatever was causing these things to happen. I see now, that my negative way of viewing my Grandfather's death, and my inability to find some sort of solace was making everything else only seem worse than it was.


So, as I sat in mass this morning for another death on my husband's side of the family, I prayed for God to help me find peace in my soul, to help me let go of my Grandfather and to see him resting comfortably and happy where there is no more pain. As I prayed, crying what felt like the last tears I would shed for my Pop, God allowed me to see an image of him standing near our family at his grave while the minister prayed for his soul. He was wearing his favorite baby blue blazer, smiling, with one hand in his pocket and the other holding a drink (as he always stood, as we would all remember him). Then I saw him walk past the family, touching each of us on the shoulder or cheek on his way by. He walked down the path through the cemetery, and as he reached the gate, I smiled and looked back at the flowers on his headstone, simply knowing Who was waiting for him just outside the gate. Just then, a sense of relief washed over me... so strong, like nothing I had ever felt before, like a huge weight had been lifted from me and I could breathe again. I left that church feeling at peace for the first time in 4 months.


I don't know if that image was the product of an overactive imagination or not, but I believe it was God helping me find the peace I asked for. I believe that God really does work in mysterious ways, and I believe that in some small way, you were inspired to write those words on April 3rd so you could inspire me. I see now that it wasn't that God didn't want to console me and take away my pain, it was that my doubt was in His way. "Ask and you shall receive no matter how much it hurts"... no words have been more true.


So, thank you, John. Thank you for helping me find God again, and thank you for helping me find the path to heal my heart. I still have a lot of pain to let go of, but I finally feel like I'm heading in the right direction.

Take Care,

Amy

UPDATE:After asking If I could share her story Amy sent me this reply:


Absolutely, I don't mind at all! If I can be of any help, please let me know. I also wanted to give you a little update in case you were wondering. My relationship with my husband is better than ever... these days I wake up rested and smiling... and I deal with everyday problems with an optimistic attitude - a huge change from just one week ago! There is a Sufi saying that my Grandmother found after Pop died and she wanted me to share it with you - "When the heart grieves for what is lost, the soul rejoices for all that is left." I am so thankful for all the blessings in my life.

Amy

REPOST FROM A YEAR AGO

AND IT IS STILL TRUE:

Thank You ..

Thank you for allowing me to awake this day.

Thank you for my wonderful son.

Thank you for the small pleasure of solitude.

Thank you for the friends I have.

Thank you for allowing me to be a friend.

Thank you for the unconditional love .

Thank you for the many places I have traveled.

Thank you for the light shining upon the path ahead.

Thank you for allowing me to speak truth.

Thank you for allowing me to witness miracles.

Thank you for the opportunity.

Thank you for the abundance I am blessed with.

Thank you for the abundance yet to come.

Thank you for the manifestations

Thank you for all my life experiences, for they define me.

Thank you

Thank you.

Thank you.

Where U At?

No matter where you are in life, you arrived there through your past thoughts and actions. Actions are a response to our beliefs. We react accordingly to our beliefs. If we believe our life is lacking, then our actions or inactions create a life of lack. If we believe our life to be fun and adventureous then our actions will create that experience. Your life changes with your very thoughts. Discover fully what your beliefs are. Listen to your words. You can not manifest wealth if you are constantly searching for the way to make money. Believe you are receiving it and when your belief shifts to absolute faith, your actions will be congruent with the reult you are creating. after your belief/faith has a track record it will create it fully. When you focus on "How?' then you are creating lack because your belief is you aren't receiving it because you don't know how. Release," How" and have faith that it is coming. You are unlimited, as is teh Universe. Nothing is too big or too small. In my life I wanted to travel I had complete faith I would. I never asked how. I just had faith I would. I have been to twenty-seven countries. most of which I did not pay for. I have been inside the great Pyramid of Egypt and Climbed Mach Picchu and Mt Sinai. I did not know how I would get there but I went there because my faith was tha I would get there. Start manifesting what you want. Bypass the "How" moment and step into the receiving moment. Just a thought.

Ask and you shall receive no matter how much it hurts

One can never know how the universe will grant your prayer. You ask for things and they are granted, but sometimes painful things are the impetus for change that puts you on the path towards that which you have asked for. An example might be: After years of struggling with my weight I asked God for healthy weight loss and a fit body. I immediately started feeling the symptoms of diabetes. It alarmed me. Being the spiritual person I am and after seeing so many healings I knew that the power to heal was within. I began eating an 80% raw fruit and vegetable diet. Which was somethingI had been planning on anyway for many reasons other than just my health. But change came quickly with the symptoms of illness and the shift was made towards healthy weight loss and a fit body.

I also asked for the opportunity to get my spiritual work out there more, to be more of service. I immediately had a good friend abruptly end our friendship. I didn't want the friendship to end and still offer my hand in friendship to her. As soon as my friend decided to part ways, the universe started bombarding me the right people to get my work out there more. Internet marketing people called me to tell me they were on my team. Readers in California started recommending my services. Speaking gigs sprang up and more and more opportunities started to abound. It was as if I had to go through the painful process to get the result I had asked for.

I worked with a woman from Texas who asked for her child's father to step up and be a good father. Events took place that had her child taken from her so the opportunity would arise for the father to step up. The mother had shifted into a loving healthy life and the family around her erupted in fear, thus taking the child so the father could step up. The more fearful the mother becomes as a result of her lack of faith the more fearful events surround her.

Many people ask, but as soon as a painful event happens, they lose faith in the result. Remember That whatever you ask for you shall receive. So if you ask for something and painful things happen, they are just events that must play out to arrive at the desired destination. Be thankful for the pain, make the shift, and have faith you will arive where you are supposed to be.