Many people believe taking time to just sit and think is a luxury they cannot afford to take. Everybody is so busy doing and going, that to actually have them take some time to stop and think about all the doing and going does not even occur to them.
"The unexamined life is not worth living" is the famous quote. Taking the time to think about where your life is, is not a luxury. If you don't take time to think about where your life is, you will have no control over where it is going. And before you know it, years will have gone by.
I am taking some time right now to think about the direction I want Conscious Kernels to take in 2008. I am setting my priorities. I am setting my goals. I have several lists of where I would like to see Conscious Kernels move in the coming year. Will I get to all of them? I'm not sure. But I have a road map, and I am setting out on the journey, and I know where I am going.
(The Law of the Universe likes definite-ness!!)
Taking time for your spiritual growth is no different. Where are you going with your personal connection to spirit? Are you drifting around? Take the time to figure out what spiritual growth looks like to you. Are you getting there? Have you really started the journey? Ask for Divine Guidance.
Before I started writing down the goals for Conscious Kernels in 2008, I took the time to quiet myself, connect with Spirit in treatment and asked for Divine Guidance and the understanding to see that Divine Guidance in my life. I did not want to unknowingly miss it!! I want to make sure I recognize Divine Guidance when it happens.
Taking time can be a few minutes in a day. It can be a week-end. It can be a week. The actual length does not matter. It is the quality of the time taken.
"Be still and know that ye are Gods."
Until next time.
Namaste.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Making room for the new by letting go of the old
Everyone says they want change in their lives, they want new, they want different.
Yet at the same time, they are really afraid of change. They are anxious about the different. They feel uneasy with the new.
If you truly want something new, you must first make peace with the old and release it. Otherwise, the Universe will keep you in the same place because you are giving it two messages: wanting the new, keeping the old.
Recently, my dear beloved car of 14 years (!) was hitting its last stride. For nearly 160,000 miles, we traveled together. It was zippy, peppy, pretty, and fun. But now it required repairs that cost more than the car was worth. The time had come. I always knew this day would come, especially in the last year or so, as more and more things started to go wrong.
Its last visit to the shop spelled the end. Driving this car could prove dangerous without certain repairs. I had to get a new car. It was a Friday. I was going to go serious car shopping the next day. That evening, I went into the garage. I looked at my sad, rusting, old, broken car. I put my hand on its hood. With some emotion, I have to admit, I talked to my car. I said thank you for being such a great car, for all the trips we took, for all the rain and snow it shielded me from, for all the summer days we ran with the sunroof open and the windows down. I told my car that there was someone better than me to take care of it now. It was beyond my scope of car ownership.
I was saying my goodbyes. I was making my peace with this thing. I was mentally and emotionally letting it go.
And, instinctively, I knew I had to do this, I had to clear this, if I was ever to find its replacement. I had to finish the chapter. I had to end this story. I had to do this to ensure that the activity of finding a new car would go smoothly and joyously.
Otherwise, resistance would kick in and I would be driving a car that was destined to become dangerous at any moment. You must let go of the old in order to make room for the new.
And do the letting go joyously! Know that the thing you are letting go of will be in its right place.
So to finish my car story. The next morning I got up and did not fret about getting another car. I cleaned the house and had a wonderful lunch. In the early afternoon, I got on line and looked up some cars. I called 4 or 5 dealers. The fifth one had the exact year, model and color of car that I wanted. The bonus was it had really low mileage and the asking price was right (and it could only go down from there). It was in the late afternoon by now and the dealership was closing in an hour. I thought to myself, well its too late today. I'll go Monday night when they are open later.
Then I stopped myself. It was a tiny bit of resistance and fear of the new that made me think that. I told myself, I had dealt with any resistance. I was to get over to that dealership now.
I got to the dealership 15 minutes before they closed. I test drove the car. I negotiated the price and they even offered a good trade-in price for my old baby. Two hours later, I was driving off the lot with a new car, new license plates, all my stuff transfered from the old car to the new.
It was truly amazing. Truly a spirit-driven (pardon the pun) experience. It all worked out so perfectly. And I know it was because I had mentally cleared the way for the new. I thanked the old and opened myself to the new.
If you truly want new in your life, you must do the same.
Yet at the same time, they are really afraid of change. They are anxious about the different. They feel uneasy with the new.
If you truly want something new, you must first make peace with the old and release it. Otherwise, the Universe will keep you in the same place because you are giving it two messages: wanting the new, keeping the old.
Recently, my dear beloved car of 14 years (!) was hitting its last stride. For nearly 160,000 miles, we traveled together. It was zippy, peppy, pretty, and fun. But now it required repairs that cost more than the car was worth. The time had come. I always knew this day would come, especially in the last year or so, as more and more things started to go wrong.
Its last visit to the shop spelled the end. Driving this car could prove dangerous without certain repairs. I had to get a new car. It was a Friday. I was going to go serious car shopping the next day. That evening, I went into the garage. I looked at my sad, rusting, old, broken car. I put my hand on its hood. With some emotion, I have to admit, I talked to my car. I said thank you for being such a great car, for all the trips we took, for all the rain and snow it shielded me from, for all the summer days we ran with the sunroof open and the windows down. I told my car that there was someone better than me to take care of it now. It was beyond my scope of car ownership.
I was saying my goodbyes. I was making my peace with this thing. I was mentally and emotionally letting it go.
And, instinctively, I knew I had to do this, I had to clear this, if I was ever to find its replacement. I had to finish the chapter. I had to end this story. I had to do this to ensure that the activity of finding a new car would go smoothly and joyously.
Otherwise, resistance would kick in and I would be driving a car that was destined to become dangerous at any moment. You must let go of the old in order to make room for the new.
And do the letting go joyously! Know that the thing you are letting go of will be in its right place.
So to finish my car story. The next morning I got up and did not fret about getting another car. I cleaned the house and had a wonderful lunch. In the early afternoon, I got on line and looked up some cars. I called 4 or 5 dealers. The fifth one had the exact year, model and color of car that I wanted. The bonus was it had really low mileage and the asking price was right (and it could only go down from there). It was in the late afternoon by now and the dealership was closing in an hour. I thought to myself, well its too late today. I'll go Monday night when they are open later.
Then I stopped myself. It was a tiny bit of resistance and fear of the new that made me think that. I told myself, I had dealt with any resistance. I was to get over to that dealership now.
I got to the dealership 15 minutes before they closed. I test drove the car. I negotiated the price and they even offered a good trade-in price for my old baby. Two hours later, I was driving off the lot with a new car, new license plates, all my stuff transfered from the old car to the new.
It was truly amazing. Truly a spirit-driven (pardon the pun) experience. It all worked out so perfectly. And I know it was because I had mentally cleared the way for the new. I thanked the old and opened myself to the new.
If you truly want new in your life, you must do the same.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Blessed Event
The other day, I received a small pamphlet from Catherine Ponder's ministry talking about blessing. The idea was to start blessing the things you have been condemning. So, for instance, if you have been complaining about your job or your boss, start blessing them. And then wait to see what happens and how things improve.
I thought this was a great exercise and maybe something I needed to do in my life right now (after all, there had to be a reason I received this -- as there are no accidents!). So I set aside some time the next morning and began blessing everything in my life I could think of. One of the things I blessed was my house and everything about it. The furniture, the plumbing, the heating and air conditioning, the electricity, the windows, everything.
So I was excited and looking forward to what all this blessing did. Here's what happened. That very night, for the first time in 3 years, the electricity went out! And due to storms in the area, my electricity has gone out 3 more times in the last 24 hours. So much for my blessings!!
But, seriously, what does this mean? I truly said my blessing with feeling. It was not just some rote exercise. I truly felt grateful for everything in and connected with my house.
Then last night, another huge storm blew through as I was riding home on the train. I heard people talking on their cell phones about tornados, electricity going out, trees down, flooding. All the way home I said my blessing -- but differently this time!! I said "I am blessed." "My car is blessed." (which was parked on the street surrounded by trees). "My home is blessed." I said this to myself over and over. When I got off the train, the town was deserted. The power was out, the streets where flooding. Many tree branches had fallen to the ground. An electical wire had been snapped by a fallen tree. One side street was roped off and impassible. I kept walking the 4 blocks to my car, wondering what I would find there. I waded through ankle deep water in a low spot in the road. I turned the corner and found my car. PERFECTLY FINE!! There were tree branches all around it, but nothing had hit my car. It was blessed!
Then I drove through the darkened streets to my home. The power was on in our little neighborhood and the streets were not flooded. I got into the house and everything was fine. My home was blessed!
Do you see the difference between the two experiences? I have made a distinction. The first time, I was doing the blessing. I was bestowing my blessing on things and people as if I were some exaulted leader. (Read ego -- even though I did not realize it at the time). The second time I was declaring that things and people are blessed. Blessed by Source, blessed by God, blessed by Spirit. Remember, as Jesus said, "I of myself can do nothing, It is the Father within that doeth the work." So really I cannot bless anything in that way. I can have good will toward someone or something. I can stop condemn things, circumstances and people. But I will not be blessing people or things from now on.
I will declare and affirm that I am blessed and people are blessed and things are blessed. Not by me but by the infinite Love and Givingness of Spirit.
That is my blessed event.
I thought this was a great exercise and maybe something I needed to do in my life right now (after all, there had to be a reason I received this -- as there are no accidents!). So I set aside some time the next morning and began blessing everything in my life I could think of. One of the things I blessed was my house and everything about it. The furniture, the plumbing, the heating and air conditioning, the electricity, the windows, everything.
So I was excited and looking forward to what all this blessing did. Here's what happened. That very night, for the first time in 3 years, the electricity went out! And due to storms in the area, my electricity has gone out 3 more times in the last 24 hours. So much for my blessings!!
But, seriously, what does this mean? I truly said my blessing with feeling. It was not just some rote exercise. I truly felt grateful for everything in and connected with my house.
Then last night, another huge storm blew through as I was riding home on the train. I heard people talking on their cell phones about tornados, electricity going out, trees down, flooding. All the way home I said my blessing -- but differently this time!! I said "I am blessed." "My car is blessed." (which was parked on the street surrounded by trees). "My home is blessed." I said this to myself over and over. When I got off the train, the town was deserted. The power was out, the streets where flooding. Many tree branches had fallen to the ground. An electical wire had been snapped by a fallen tree. One side street was roped off and impassible. I kept walking the 4 blocks to my car, wondering what I would find there. I waded through ankle deep water in a low spot in the road. I turned the corner and found my car. PERFECTLY FINE!! There were tree branches all around it, but nothing had hit my car. It was blessed!
Then I drove through the darkened streets to my home. The power was on in our little neighborhood and the streets were not flooded. I got into the house and everything was fine. My home was blessed!
Do you see the difference between the two experiences? I have made a distinction. The first time, I was doing the blessing. I was bestowing my blessing on things and people as if I were some exaulted leader. (Read ego -- even though I did not realize it at the time). The second time I was declaring that things and people are blessed. Blessed by Source, blessed by God, blessed by Spirit. Remember, as Jesus said, "I of myself can do nothing, It is the Father within that doeth the work." So really I cannot bless anything in that way. I can have good will toward someone or something. I can stop condemn things, circumstances and people. But I will not be blessing people or things from now on.
I will declare and affirm that I am blessed and people are blessed and things are blessed. Not by me but by the infinite Love and Givingness of Spirit.
That is my blessed event.
Monday, August 20, 2007
New (old) inspirational book
I just have to share with you the latest book I've read and that is now available at ConsciousKernels.com. It is called "In Tune with the Infinite" and it was new to me, but written in 1897! So new-old. I have to say that this is one of the most profound New Thought/Metaphysical books I have ever read, and I am so happy to share it with you. It is even more astounding to me to know when it was written -- 110 years ago. It is so insightful and uplifting and amazing. While reading and after reading it, I guarantee you will feel you have "touched the hem". It is a bit hard to describe, but you will feel more connected, more in touch, more conscious, more aware of and with the "Big Picture." Truly an incredible work. Not to be missed.
What I like even more about this book is that it is both practical and esoteric. Get something useful in your day-to-day living and be spiritually uplifted too. I am truly grateful I found this book. I intend to read it again and again.
Maybe once lost in the shuffle and forgotten, this book truly has staying power. It is just, if not more, relevant today as it was when it was written. Ralph Waldo Trine, the author, was truly ahead of his time. Whether he realized it or not at the time, he is one of the great Truth teachers.
I urge you to get this book and let it change your life!
Until next time...
What I like even more about this book is that it is both practical and esoteric. Get something useful in your day-to-day living and be spiritually uplifted too. I am truly grateful I found this book. I intend to read it again and again.
Maybe once lost in the shuffle and forgotten, this book truly has staying power. It is just, if not more, relevant today as it was when it was written. Ralph Waldo Trine, the author, was truly ahead of his time. Whether he realized it or not at the time, he is one of the great Truth teachers.
I urge you to get this book and let it change your life!
Until next time...
Monday, July 16, 2007
Do You Like Cash?
Then you better get your prosperity consciousness in order! We have a great new book available on our website
http://www.consciouskernels.com called "Creating Enormous Wealth and Prosperity -- The Easy Way!" This ebook and audiobook will jump-start your way to right-thinking about what wealth is, what prosperity is, and how the Universe and Spiritual principles figure into it.
Just look around you. Nature is lavish. Nature is extravagant. A dandelion does not produce one or two seeds. It produces hundreds. Trees produce thousands of seed pods. The Universe has an infinite number of stars. We can have as much of that limitless abundance as we choose. But we have to believe it and let go of old limiting beliefs that stiffle that flow.
Get this audiobook or ebook and you will begin to open up the gates to this incredible abundance. This ebook/audiobook will show you how to start thinking about this area of your life. Everyone can use a greating understanding of prosperity.
And this is one of those areas where you can see definitive results. Do you have more incoming flow than in the past? Is your paycheck bigger? Is there more money in the bank? Do you have more to invest? Do you feel like you can afford more? Are you doing what you want to do when you want to? (And sometimes actual money is not involved.) Get solid, concrete proof that building your prosperity consciousness works.
Check out this powerful new ebook and audiobook today!
Oh, and the author, Jane Abram, will be joining us for a "Meet the Author" teleseminar coming up soon. Think of it as a virtual book signing. It will be free, so please join us to hear what insights Jane will have to share with us. Date to be determined, but probably early August.
To learn more about this ebook and audiobook, click here:
Creating Enormous Wealth and Prosperity -- The Easy Way!
And check back at the website for the exact date of Jane's "Meet the Author" teleseminar.
http://www.consciouskernels.com called "Creating Enormous Wealth and Prosperity -- The Easy Way!" This ebook and audiobook will jump-start your way to right-thinking about what wealth is, what prosperity is, and how the Universe and Spiritual principles figure into it.
Just look around you. Nature is lavish. Nature is extravagant. A dandelion does not produce one or two seeds. It produces hundreds. Trees produce thousands of seed pods. The Universe has an infinite number of stars. We can have as much of that limitless abundance as we choose. But we have to believe it and let go of old limiting beliefs that stiffle that flow.
Get this audiobook or ebook and you will begin to open up the gates to this incredible abundance. This ebook/audiobook will show you how to start thinking about this area of your life. Everyone can use a greating understanding of prosperity.
And this is one of those areas where you can see definitive results. Do you have more incoming flow than in the past? Is your paycheck bigger? Is there more money in the bank? Do you have more to invest? Do you feel like you can afford more? Are you doing what you want to do when you want to? (And sometimes actual money is not involved.) Get solid, concrete proof that building your prosperity consciousness works.
Check out this powerful new ebook and audiobook today!
Oh, and the author, Jane Abram, will be joining us for a "Meet the Author" teleseminar coming up soon. Think of it as a virtual book signing. It will be free, so please join us to hear what insights Jane will have to share with us. Date to be determined, but probably early August.
To learn more about this ebook and audiobook, click here:
Creating Enormous Wealth and Prosperity -- The Easy Way!
And check back at the website for the exact date of Jane's "Meet the Author" teleseminar.
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
New Teleseminars and Online Classes
Exciting happenings going on at Conscious Kernels. We have introduced and added teleseminars and online classes to our line-up. Teleseminars are phone-in seminars. There is a speaker or discussion leader and the audience. You call in on a regular phone line and can participate in the discussion, question and answer session, etc.
On-line classes work the same way.
Our introductory teleseminar is coming up on June 5 and is FREE! We will have a "Meet the Author" teleseminar with our lastest author, Jennifer Weggeman, author of "A Month of Sundays, Vol. 1" ebook and audiobook. A Month of Sundays is a collection of 30 inspirational affirmations. Each about a page long, these were written when Jennifer went into her Akashic Records. Fascinating stuff! She wrote these down as she read her Records. You can learn all about that at the Meet the Author session.
But you have to sign up now as space is limited. Just go to the website page or go to the home page at www.consciouskernels.com and click on the Teleseminar link at the top of the left hand column. You can get the details of our first seminar there. We also have a further explanation of teleseminars and how you can benefit.
This is a very exciting and new way for you to explore your personal spiritual growth. I know a number of people do not live anywhere near a New Thought church or group. So we can become your local group via the telephone!
We also want ideas for future online classes and teleseminars, so if you get on any one of our mailing lists (customer, newsletter, free book, ecourse, teleseminar sign up), we will be sending you a survey to see what people want to learn, what people want a greater understanding of, what people need to feel more fulfilled. We want to help people with their challenges. So hopefully the survey will go out soon after the first teleseminar and that will be the impetus of many more to come. All for your personal spiritual growth.
Until next time,
Namaste
On-line classes work the same way.
Our introductory teleseminar is coming up on June 5 and is FREE! We will have a "Meet the Author" teleseminar with our lastest author, Jennifer Weggeman, author of "A Month of Sundays, Vol. 1" ebook and audiobook. A Month of Sundays is a collection of 30 inspirational affirmations. Each about a page long, these were written when Jennifer went into her Akashic Records. Fascinating stuff! She wrote these down as she read her Records. You can learn all about that at the Meet the Author session.
But you have to sign up now as space is limited. Just go to the website page or go to the home page at www.consciouskernels.com and click on the Teleseminar link at the top of the left hand column. You can get the details of our first seminar there. We also have a further explanation of teleseminars and how you can benefit.
This is a very exciting and new way for you to explore your personal spiritual growth. I know a number of people do not live anywhere near a New Thought church or group. So we can become your local group via the telephone!
We also want ideas for future online classes and teleseminars, so if you get on any one of our mailing lists (customer, newsletter, free book, ecourse, teleseminar sign up), we will be sending you a survey to see what people want to learn, what people want a greater understanding of, what people need to feel more fulfilled. We want to help people with their challenges. So hopefully the survey will go out soon after the first teleseminar and that will be the impetus of many more to come. All for your personal spiritual growth.
Until next time,
Namaste
Friday, March 9, 2007
"The Secret" Backlash
Did anyone catch another "Secret" show on Larry King last night? This time the people who appeared in the "Secret" had to defend themselves and the movie against pop psychologists and the like. I missed the first 15 minutes so I stayed up to catch the re-airing 3 hours later and after I saw what I had missed the first time, I turned off the show. I just could not take it. I could not stand to hear one more word about the "Secret" or its nay-sayers. I'm so sick of the Secret, but not for the reason you might think.
Just for clarity, the Secret was no secret to me. I've been a Religious Scientist for over 8 years. That teaching encompasses all the Spiritual Laws of the Universe, not just the Law of Attraction. What I am so sick about is the secularizing (if that is a word, if not I just made it up) of Spiritual Principles into drugstore remedies. The people who criticize this one explanation of one Universal Law, are not considering its complex nature as a Spiritual Law. They take a few phrases at face value and say "positive-thinking" is dangerous to be solely relied upon. And "to tell people all they have to do is think about something and they get it is living in a fool's paradise."
Science of Mind and New Thought cannot be reduced to Positive Thinking. That is so secular. And the "experts" on the Secret who reduce everything to energy vibration and brain waves are doing a great disservice to this knowledge of Spiritual Laws too.
Something "new" (although this teaching has been formally around for 80-some years; 2000 years if you count the true teachings of Jesus) is bound to be resisted, as some of the Larry King guests said last night. So I quess we will see how this all shakes out. The vast majority of humankind has not been ready for this revelation, otherwise Religious Science would not be classified as a "cult" by some unenlightened text books. Are they ready now? Not if they reduce a spiritual practice and principles to mundane, pedestrian ideas of "pie-in-the-sky" thinking.
But for those who felt something ring true in any of the information presented in the Secret, there are organizations that you can go to to learn more, to get more than just a Readers Digest version. New Thought centers and churches. That includes, Unity, Divine Science, and Religious Science.
Go get the real deal from one of these places and take yourself out of the pointless rhetoric that now seems to be the new legacy of the Secret.
Just for clarity, the Secret was no secret to me. I've been a Religious Scientist for over 8 years. That teaching encompasses all the Spiritual Laws of the Universe, not just the Law of Attraction. What I am so sick about is the secularizing (if that is a word, if not I just made it up) of Spiritual Principles into drugstore remedies. The people who criticize this one explanation of one Universal Law, are not considering its complex nature as a Spiritual Law. They take a few phrases at face value and say "positive-thinking" is dangerous to be solely relied upon. And "to tell people all they have to do is think about something and they get it is living in a fool's paradise."
Science of Mind and New Thought cannot be reduced to Positive Thinking. That is so secular. And the "experts" on the Secret who reduce everything to energy vibration and brain waves are doing a great disservice to this knowledge of Spiritual Laws too.
Something "new" (although this teaching has been formally around for 80-some years; 2000 years if you count the true teachings of Jesus) is bound to be resisted, as some of the Larry King guests said last night. So I quess we will see how this all shakes out. The vast majority of humankind has not been ready for this revelation, otherwise Religious Science would not be classified as a "cult" by some unenlightened text books. Are they ready now? Not if they reduce a spiritual practice and principles to mundane, pedestrian ideas of "pie-in-the-sky" thinking.
But for those who felt something ring true in any of the information presented in the Secret, there are organizations that you can go to to learn more, to get more than just a Readers Digest version. New Thought centers and churches. That includes, Unity, Divine Science, and Religious Science.
Go get the real deal from one of these places and take yourself out of the pointless rhetoric that now seems to be the new legacy of the Secret.
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