Time to take 100% Responsibility for Your Experience

We have trouble manifesting joy and prosperity for ourselves because we buy into a duality in our minds, even while we deny it with our lips. We still view the world primarily in terms of oppressors and victims. When you set up that view of the world, you can’t help apply it to yourself. Whether the victims of people or of circumstance, when we view ourselves as such, the reality follows. If you believe you are a victim, guess what—you are, and you become helpless.

Circumstances happen. That’s a fact. But your experience while in those circumstances is entirely your choice. Once we get this, we can start to transcend circumstances and enter into joy and power. Once you really understand this, the next step is to go to the center and connect with your divine center. Feel the joy, feel the power—not power over others or circumstances, but power of choosing joy and peace, no matter what.

And we in the metaphysical churches get this, intellectually at least, but what trips us up at this point is our tendency to judge our progress by what our physical eyes see. This keeps your belief from shifting from the temporal to the eternal. Once you are choosing joy and peace, the changes in your circumstances are no longer the bringers of this joy and peace. Your choice to experience this serenity becomes the whole object of the spiritual exercise. The changes in circumstances are merely preferences.

That’s not what you wanted to hear, is it? Well, here is where you can enter the area of miraculous possibilities. Here is where you can choose the changes, as long as you don’t make your joy and peace dependent on the outer changes. Affirm those changes calmly, confidently, but don’t make your happiness depend on them. Your happiness, from a divine source, is what makes the changes happen.

After this, no matter what your eyes and ears tell you, BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE DONE. Seldom are the changes instantaneous, especially after living in firmly entrenched pattern of using outer conditions as your guide. Believe despite what your eyes, or your friends, or your family tell you.

In the western world, we are very methodical approach to everything, so I will break it down into steps.

1.)    Go the center and connect to joy

2.)    Visualize the way you want to live

3.)    Feel the emotion that accompanies that vision as if it is realized now

4.)     Feel grateful that is so now

5.)    Think and act as if it is so now

6.)    Repeat daily, or even hourly

One very good program that promotes this practice and provides support for you in this method is the One Command Circle. This has been embraced world-wide by people of all religious backgrounds, and in all kinds of circumstances. You can find a circle in your area at this link:

http://commandingwealth.com/calendar.php

If you are in the Augusta Area, you can join us by visiting the this link:

http://manifestingbrilliance.com/theonecommand-2/   

Namaste,

Bob R.

Was Jesus a Liberal?

Dear Friends:

I have heard it said that we shouldn't mix politics and religion, but in a sense, how can you separate them? I mean, theocracies are dangerous and have never worked without oppression and bloodshed, but in a way, we can't divorce our set of values from the way we vote.

I have noticed that if one goes to a new-thought church, it is assumed that he or she is a liberal in his or her politics. This is an erroneous assumption. There are many of us who believe in the universality of the divine principle, and of our connectedness. That does not mean we all believe in the same principles of governance.

I have had friends who bring up Jesus with regard to so many of the issues we are debating about today, trying to prove that Jesus was a liberal, I guess. Well, we can't say with certainty what he WOULD do if he were alive today, but we know there are things he did not do.

Jesus did not demand that the government take care of the poor or sick. He told his followers to do that. He did not tell his followers to force someone else to do it, nor to shame them into doing it. No, the responsibility was firmly on their shoulders.  Jesus told his followers to turn the other cheek, but he did not tell the government to do so. Jesus did not demonstrate against the government about the wars it was involved in--if fact, he did not demonstrate against the government at all about anything. This makes Jesus more like a conservative than a liberal.

If you are a political conservative who feels out of place among new-thought people, then relax. Your view is valid. It is compatible with universal principle and connectedness. Holding people accountable to work and take care of themselves and their families is a good thing, a compassionate thing--and so is charity. Conservatives statistically give more to charity than do liberals. We are all one in a sense, of course--but our checking accounts are not. Every individual has a lesson to learn about money and work and the relationship between the two. Every individual must find their own way, and it is our joy to help when we can.

There is nothing to be ashamed of for a conservative position on politics. It reveals your love of freedom and a desire for that freedom to be preserved for everyone.

Namaste,
Bob Roushar