Today

Today as I was working and writing I felt this energy come upon me and I knew I had to sit still and be in the presence of that energy.  As I let go and placed myself in meditation, I could feel the Light and Love of God embracing me, filling me with gratitude.  When the meditation ended I continued to feel the energy of gratitude moving through me.  I knew it was time to write to a couple very specific people in my life, as it was time to let them know my deepest thoughts for them and know that I had the opportunity to say what was in my heart.

The one thing I have learned in the last ten years so deeply, is that time is not about us, it is about the timing of God, the presence of change and movement in our lives so we can become and do what we came here to do.

 

Years ago Oprah had someone on her show that shared his story about not having enough time to tell his father how he felt before his father passed.  I am not sure why that had the affect on me that it did, but, I heard that message deep down inside of me and I am so thankful that I did.  I sat down and wrote my parents a letter from my heart, sharing my thoughts, my love and gratitude with them for being the wonderful and kind parents they were.

I have always been a card sender, sending cards to thank others, to let them know I was thinking of them, it is just who I am and I love that aspect of myself because it gives me great joy to let others know how important they are to me in my world.

Well today when that energy came over me to meditate the same feelings came to me to sit down and write to those specific individuals and share my soul thoughts with them.

We often think we have tomorrow, we have time, we don’t have to tell them anything because they know.  It is true, they probably do know, but, when I receive letters and cards of gratitude, care and thank you notes, it brightens my day to know that someone was thinking about me, and took the time to communicate with me a hand written note or letter.  I continue to believe in the regular mailing system, and love to go to the mailbox and receive something unexpected that fills my heart with joy.

That letter I wrote and sent to my parents way back, I found in a frame on their bedroom wall once when I went to visit them, I sat down and the tears came because I knew it was received and they that it was important enough to frame and be present in their lives every day.

We live in a very fast moving world right now.  We share things on facebook that sometimes I cringe at and sometimes smile about and all, but, the whole world is looking at it too!

Writing to someone is private, it is intended to be between you and me.  It is so special to know you are thought of and to let others know they are special too!

I have met someone new who is a friend of someone I love dearly and I have received two cards from him already within the very short time I have had the joy of getting to know him.

I thought about it when I wrote today.  Whether it is sent by the regular mail, email or handed to them, it is important to let someone in your life know how you feel, tomorrow isn't promised to us and letting others know how important they are to you and what they may have done for you that was deeply moving and important is such a wonderful gift, lifts the spirit and the soul sings a song.

Thank you,

Oneesha La Ka

Thoughts

Woke up today knowing everything in my life is about to change.  I don’t know how to explain it but it is deep feeling.  It is going to just happen.  Life is about changes and moving, endings and beginnings.  There is a Universal Law that states:  The readiness of a situation to alter, modify, transform or convert is caused by change in “inner attitude” of one of many, and then incidental and parallel outer manifestation occurs.

I felt the time for shift and change was already here about two months ago and felt I was not ready to shift, but, as my work changes and my energy in life is changing it is all meant to be.

I’ve been aware for my life that every 10 years for me something shifts and I think that is good.  Now my life’s work is changing and I think that is wonderful.  I have a strong sense and desire to work with women to overcome their pain through healing of their soul.  This work has come to me and opened a new doorway.  I see it as a combination of all the classes and workshops I have created and taught with the my masters guides and teachers.  We take all we learn and pay it forward in service and when we do this, our soul rejoices in being a living prayer of hope and understanding for others. The journey has also impacted my own personal life in dramatic ways and the shifting is necessary.  

I am blessed with the support of my partner and family and that means everything to me.

In the program we offer: The I AM Teaching, we teach that we often become comfortable in situations that are not working or not good for our highest and best because the change can be very difficult and we are not sure what the future looks like, so we stay comfortable in what we know, even when know we are stuck, we seem to want to know how things will be,before we risk what we have. That often creates missed opportunities, frustrations, disappointments.       

For me, that meant that I needed to step forward on a new path because the old one is not working, the feeling is it is complete and now it is time for the new way.  We all at the Heart of The Dove have been feeling the shift for along while.  

We will always be the Heart Of The Dove, and always offer more advanced classes and workshops.  Gerald and I enjoy teaching and offering guidance and private sessions, but, it is time to be of service and assist in the areas that I have had to overcome in my life and offer my knowingness and my hope to others.

Have a blessed day and know that God always has a plan waiting for us to arrive.  

My love and peace to all.  

Rev. Oneesha

Rewards

"Whatever it is you seek in the form of rewards, you must first

earn. All attempts to sidestep this law will end in failure,

frustration and, if maintained long enough, ultimate

demoralization. All over the world there are millions of people

who are being hurt, confused, frightened, and whose lives are

turned upside down because they don’t understand the

principle law on which everything in the universe operates -

the law of cause and effect."

- Earl Nightingale

Success

My dad used to tell me stories about the day every year that the auto manufacturers introduced their new line of cars and trucks.

That day, people would flock to the dealerships. It looked like the county fair at the local car lots. Dealers sold more cars that day than the whole month before.

There wasn't anything like that excitement, I've been told.

Today, new models hardly get noticed. At least not the way they used to.

Why?

Because there is so much more trying to grab our attention today.

Because billions of dollars have been spent by companies in all the world's industries studying what makes us buy or not buy things. Learning how to target us more effectively.

I mean, at every turn everything we could ever want, as a consumer, is being promoted to us... "Get me!"

"All your friends have me." "You deserve to have me now!"

The marketing noise is deafening.

And it works. It makes us want what's being sold... right now.

In fact, it makes us want to have EVERYTHING now.

"Why does THAT person get to have that car, those clothes, that girl friend, that job, that grade, those sneakers when I'm stuck with less."

"I deserve to have it now."

"Let's steal that money, that bottle, that shirt, that car, his girl friend."

"Life's not fair."

Yeah, life's not always fair. But that's life.

Oh, I know, life's too short to work so hard to be thin, to be financially secure, to follow rules, to get good grades, to...

Too often, depression and anxiety is a result of false expectations of what life "should" be.

Did you ever hear of the saying, "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten?"

So my dear, dear friend, in the areas of life that you want to change, you need concrete goals or you'll always get the usual crap.

Did you ever meet anyone who lost 50 pounds or more unless they had the goal to do so?

No goal... no achievement.

How about building a multi-million dollar company without some clear daily and long-term goals?

Does anyone get straight A's without the goal to do so first?

Let me be as clear about this as I can be...You can get along, get some halfway decent grades, maybe rise up in your company just by showing up, get married, have kids and have a fairly average life without clear goals.

I mean, if you're typical you've gotten where you are now without setting and achieving any REALLY challenging benchmarks for yourself in any area of life. If you're typical and honest with yourself, you'll likely agree.

And while this discussion isn't meant to be the final word on goals, I think you can see now that committing to a clearly defined goal is critical to getting what you really want.

Especially with all of life's distractions, and the constant pressures to believe that our successes must happen NOW.

Want energy? Set some goals in any area of life you want.

And this time, commit to it like you've never committed to anything before.

This process will give you such a charge it will astound you.

Truly depressed? Then set a really challenging goal and work like you've never worked for anything else before.

Make reaching this goal the most important thing.

And I know this sounds too simple.

Look, life isn't as complicated as it feels sometime.

My life sucked in every way until I was nearly 25 years old.

I got fired from a lot of minimum wage jobs and had to live in a 9 year old van as a result.

And it didn't turn around until I got super focused on one thing... keeping a job. When I focused on that almost exclusively, suddenly I started to get really good at it.

I didn't get fired either.

Well, many huge goals later, and my web site is the biggest of its kind in the world. And there are many other incredible things going on here that will ultimately change millions of people's lives.

And none of them would have ever come about without a committed focus to mastering one thing, then mastering another one thing, then...

Now, that does lead to some imbalance at times.

But in all honesty, the most successful, wealthy, well known and yes, happiest people who ever lived totally mastered just a few things. That mastery in just a few areas of life gave them the freedoms and joy that few people will ever know.

Why?

Because few people want to work hard enough to master anything.

Most don't understand the implications of earning what they get.

Most don't understand, until it's often too late, that things that come too easy or that were dishonestly gained never stay around long.

What? You thought your bad luck was just bad luck?

Not bad luck. Bad beliefs. Bad actions.

And it doesn't matter how big the gains are...

90% of all million+ dollar lottery winners blow it all very quickly and spend the rest of their lives bitter and with nothing...

But not you.

You're going to set a big goal right now, take concrete steps toward reaching it and make decisions that will support you on your path to success.

And this will all start to make sense.

Don't read this and forget about it. Do something now or your chance will be lost.

All right! There's hope for you!

Have a Wonderful Day.

Gerald

It's a Great Day

Ah, it’s a wonderful day, today. Yes, it is, most certainly.

It’s a great day to be alive. It’s another day to learn.

Today is a day to give of yourself in labor.

Today is a day to play, to grow and to achieve your dreams… after all, you have dreams and you have but one life to achieve them.

Did you notice that? Those statements...

All of them are statements of belief - of conviction… of affirmation.

I also call affirmations self-instructions because that describes what they do. They instruct us how to feel and how to act. They affirm who we are at the deepest levels. They are the most powerful and the easiest tools to use for changing your emotions and the results you get in your life... IF you use the right self-instructions.

And if you use them A LOT.

You see, every moment of every day you are thinking. You can't stop it. Even if you are an experienced meditator, you would find it hard to turn off the pictures, sounds and feelings your mind serves up. Every minute of every day you are affirming what you already believe.

You are doing it this very second.

And in order to change your life, you must change your affirmations, your self-instructions… what you believe and accept as true.

If you doubt it, then you thought, “That’s not true.”

But guess what… That was an affirmation, too - a statement of belief and conviction.

In fact, every statement you've ever made or ever will make and every thought you've had or ever will have is either a question, an affirmation or an affirmative command.

“Is that true?” (that's a question)

“Yes that's true,” (That's an affirmation)

“Sweet!” (affirmation)

“Please leave,” (affirmative command)

“I am not going anywhere!” (affirmation)

“Sit down,” (affirmative command)

“This is interesting,” “I don’t know,” “This is boring,” “I'm hungry,” “I'm tired,” “This is never going to work,” “I feel incredible,” “I can't concentrate,” “This is easy,” “Lifting weights is invigorating,” “I hate sweating.”

All just affirmations… Self-instructions.

So anyone that says affirmations don't work has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. Zero. Because they are ‘working’ on you right now and they will ‘work’ on you until you shuffle off these mortal coils.

What's my point? (question)

Since your minute by minute affirmations (thoughts) represent your past, present and – most likely – your future beliefs and attitudes, if you elevate your affirmations toward what is most useful and empowering, you would enjoy greater success, better health and true peace of mind with very little effort.

Even if you’re already extremely skilled in some area of life, if you wanted to, you could enjoy even greater accomplishments by transforming your thoughts.

A large part of our research at Think Right Now International is to catalog and compare the beliefs, attitudes and actions of the world’s most successful, happiest people to the most unsuccessful, unhappy people.

They are always polar opposites.

For example, when the healthiest, oldest living people on the planet feel comfortably full, they typically say to themselves, “I feel just right.” And they stop eating even if a pile of their favorite food is still on their plates...

But what do people who suffer the most illnesses, pain and diseases do at the full mark? Yup. They often say things like, “One more bite won't hurt,” “It’ so good, I can't stop,” “Oh, it's small,” “I'll just eat light tomorrow,” “I'm still hungry,” “I can't throw this good food away,” “There's just a few bites left – might as well finish it.” And they continue eating.

In every discipline or area of life, we always find hundreds and often over one thousand differences in core belief and attitude patterns between successful people and those who routinely fail.

And the sobering truth is that the longer a person owns a belief (affirms it), the harder it is to change. The old saying that you can't teach an old dog new tricks is an old saying for a good reason. Because our minds don’t like change… it is uncomfortable to change.

You see, the pain you feel now might be bad, but at least it’s familiar. You are handling it. But when big habit changes happen quickly, it's doubly agonizing because they are unfamiliar…unknown. And the unknown can be frightening.

That's why when you read a self-help book, go to therapy or to a seminar, chances are excellent that you will do nothing different. Or if you do experience an improvement in your moods or habits, it's usually very short lived. Why? Because your long-held assumptions, beliefs and attitudes (lifelong affirmations) were never changed. You simply had a few more facts… So you unconsciously resist the change...

You found reasons why you couldn't continue, why you didn't like it, why it was wrong for you, why you couldn't succeed after all.

Because facts and logic alone is never enough with the biggest challenges of life.

If just knowing what to do guaranteed success, then everyone would get straight A's in school and would go on to have successful careers in their chosen field of study.

But they don't.

Out of every 100 students using the same text book, hearing the same lectures from the same teacher, only a few will score 90+ and even fewer will use their schooling to ensure success in career and life.

Because facts and logic alone are never enough.

Why? Because we are talking to ourselves all day long. In fact, our research found that most people's current thoughts (affirmations) are the same ones they had many years before. Most people have the same failure oriented beliefs in 2007 that they had in 1997, 1987 and 1977. If something frightened you 10 years ago, it's likely to still make your knees knock today. If you hate exercising now, you probably won't like it 10 years from now. And no matter how much gear you buy, you’ll probably still affirm (believe) the same things about it that you do now. If you are a disorganized mess maker now, you’ll probably be the same ten and twenty years from now.

Why is this so? I call it mental patterns. They are hard-wired into you from years of conditioning.

I have many clients whose core mental patterns are so disempowering, they suffer from panic attacks. They lose all control of their minds and bodies. But in most cases, when we aggressively work to alter their moment by moment thoughts which alters their core assumptions about themselves and about life, the 'disorder' called panic attack ends. This is true even if therapy has done nothing and the toxic psychoactive drugs they've been taking for decades have damaged their brains. Yup. Self-instructions are powerful.

Our research shows that without mental conditioning through massive repetition of positive opposing thought, the things you are bad at today you will still be bad at in ten years. In most cases.

“Same sh*t, different day” is a cliché because, unfortunately, it's true for most people.

Think of your usual thoughts (affirmations) as a paint brush that continues to paint the same colors on the same places on the same canvas… for the rest of your life. The longer you paint, the thicker the paint gets. It gets so deep that there comes a point where it feels impossible to change the picture.

“Quitting smoking is so hard,” “I’ll never figure this out,” “You make me so mad,” “Everyone my age is overweight,” “I'm just not good at this,” “I'm not meant to have a lot of money,” “I’m too busy to eat healthier,” “I'll never get caught up,” “I'm so depressed,” “I feel like I'm going to die,” “I knew it wasn't going to work,” “I need some chocolate,” “I'm so disorganized,” “There are no decent men out there.”

These kind of beliefs (affirmations) fill you with anxiety. They make simple decisions difficult, suck the joy out of your accomplishments, create illness and disease, take away your energy and zest for adventure. In any area of life where you cannot seem to succeed no matter what, I guarantee you that beliefs like those above are controlling you every minute of every day.

But they don't have to any more.

Ponder this fact... Every sentence you’ve read here is either a question, an affirmation or an affirmative command. Check it. Believe in affirmations now? Good. Step 1 is complete.

Now for Step 2. Pick any area of your life that doesn’t work, where you fail, feel fearful, hopeless or where your luck is never any good. It could be your poor diet, lack of fitness, anxiety/depression, career trouble, problems in the friendships/social arena, bad romances/sex, financial woes, poor organization, sports, study habits/test taking, memory, time management… any area of life where you are having big troubles or where you want to be a top performer.

Next, go somewhere by yourself and think about that topic. Notice your thoughts.

Whenever you notice a disempowered thought…one that makes you feel like crap, when you see a picture/movie of yourself failing or if you hear yourself say anything that makes you feel less capable, write down the thought or description of the pictures and feelings.

For example, if you want to improve your financial situation, you must get by yourself and listen to your inner dialog and notice your mental pictures about these issues. When you hear or see a rotten one, write it down. Then when you’ve done this for a while, take this list of problem beliefs/attitudes and write opposing statements in affirmation form.

So if you routinely get up late, don’t start your daily phone calls until 11:00, take long lunches, spend money you shouldn’t and never read investment related books or invest in appreciating assets, turn these beliefs, attitudes and actions around by writing down

opposing first-person, present-tense statements of affirmation. These statements will command your mind to believe differently, to feel differently and to act differently.

Take this new set of desired beliefs, attitudes and actions and copy each one down on a sheet of paper and live with those cards. Take it everywhere with you and read them with strong emotion upon waking, at lunchtime and before you go to bed. Say them aloud whenever possible. Commit to doing this and soon you’ll be taking positive daily action related to financial matters that are exactly like the best money-makers and money-managers alive.

If you think this won’t have an incredibly positive effect on your emotions and your actions, remember that that belief/attitude is an affirmation.

Suspend the doubt and follow through on this and you will have taken the most important step in your personal and professional development. Do this and nothing will be beyond your grasp. Your confidence will soar. Your motivation will last. Your follow through will be perfect. Any goal will be possible for you. Happiness will be your normal mental state.

These last statements? Just affirmations, right?

Evolution of the Spirit

Henry David Thoreau, in the mid 1800s, wrote, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

A century and a half has passed, and Thoreau's words still strongly echo in our lives. Consider the current levels of war, poverty, sickness, starvation, etc. present in the world today. We understand that a recent United Nations study¹ reported on the status, or well-being, of the people of member nations regarding challenges those people face daily. They took all the responses received and boiled them down to one word to describe the overall condition of the people of these nations. That word is "meaningless."

And lest we egotistically think that such studies are only descriptive of so-called underdeveloped countries, do we not have ample evidence much closer to home that reflects this same condition? Consider distressingly high teen suicide rates, bulging prison populations, rampant family disharmony and pervasive political dissension. Imagine, for huge numbers of people alive at this time, perhaps including you, that life is experienced as meaningless.

But Thoreau said "most men," and "most" is not "all." Who, then, are those who did not, or will not, die without fully singing the song they were born to sing?

They are the ones who realize that true and lasting happiness and fulfillment can never be won on the battlefield of material success, no matter how powerful or wealthy one becomes, or how adept one is at surrounding oneself with the "right" people or circumstances.

The songsters among us are those who have come to know that, as Danion Brinkley reminded us, "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." That one sentence has profound implications, for how does one live in the conscious awareness of his or her spiritual nature?

The single message of those who have realized such potential has always been the same, and basically, it comes down to this: True and lasting happiness and fulfillment are an individual affair and can only be found by going deep within, where one's true essence is vividly and stunningly revealed as love -- and then living into the reality of that awareness.

For those of us alive today, this realization is actually good news and explains the rapidly increasing interest in spiritual activity worldwide. More people today than ever before in human history are waking up into the awareness of spiritual reality. In terms of the UN study, more and more people are coming to the realization that what they are truly seeking is meaning in their lives. Let's be even more precise: it's neither gold nor land nor even being right for which we truly yearn; rather, it is that our lives count for something a good deal deeper than the latest electronic gadget. It is not surprising that the number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide continues to grow and provide enormous amounts of compassion-based service in various parts of the world.

Who would have ever thought that resolving the seemingly endless experience of emotional suffering would be a measure of spiritual evolution?

The Persian poet Rumi had a clue when he stated, "Your task is not to seek for love, your task is to seek and find all the barriers you have built against it." And to that we would add: "And to dissolve them." We refer to Rumi's "barriers" as "unresolved issues," which are at the core of almost all emotional suffering.

It's our unresolved issues (barriers) that keep us asleep and unaware of who we are: divine beings whose essential nature is loving. And what's an unresolved issue? "Anything that disturbs your peace." And we do mean anything. In fact, we've devised a simple, foolproof test for identifying unresolved issues. Ready?

Do you ever find yourself in an attitude of "I am upset because [fill in the blank]"? Consider the possibility that anytime you are upset about anything, regardless of all your well thought-through reasons, your school has gone into session and an unresolved issue has been surfaced in your awareness. Further, when viewed from within the context of spiritual psychology, such instances of moving into "upset" are sacred opportunities for healing the underlying, unresolved issue for the last time.

And how do you do it? One of the principles of spiritual psychology is that "healing is the application of loving to the parts inside that hurt."

If ever there was a way to transform a life of quiet desperation into a life of effective peaceful living, healing inner hurts surely ranks right up there. As you resolve issues, you stand up in who you truly are and find purpose and meaning in sharing your unique contribution.

The more issues you resolve, the more you evolve spiritually, the more peaceful and caring you become, and the more you contribute to the evolution of consciousness of the human species. As it is said, "Every time one person resolves one issue, all of humanity evolves."

Meaning is a natural and automatic by-product of a life filled with acts of love. If you want to live a life filled with meaning, start expressing from your essential loving nature. Start singing your song.

Ready to begin? Here's a simple process that you can try out and experience the result for yourself. For the next week, everywhere you go and under all circumstances, consciously choose to see the loving nature in everyone you encounter. That means resisting the urge to succumb to the negative habit of judging them.

And oh, there is one small guideline you'll need to follow: This way of seeing extends to everyone, including yourself, regardless of any considerations.

References:

1.      Nicanor Perlas, "Shaping Globalization" (Saratoga Springs: GlobeNet3, 1999).