AS IRON SHARPENS IRON......

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. -Proverbs 27:17

If we think of our ability to help one another to evolve into that which was God's vision for us at the moment of our creation--it opens the door to deeper reflection.

We can gently keep each other on track by holding one another accountable and reminding one another of God's Love for us and His plan for our lives--this is sharpening, and both parties become better, sharper-more grounded and more focused.

Taking this too far and we whittle away at each other, sanding each other to bits...Too much friction caused by constant judgment, disapproval and criticism of one another will definitely lead to breaking and not sharpening.  Remember, it isn't OUR responsibility to JUDGE--it is OUR responsibility to COMFORT by showing and reflecting the Love of Jesus on our faces and in our Lives.

Being in constant prayer for ourselves and those among us means that we are utilizing our God Given power to change lives and influence greatness in the world.  It's easy to become jaded here on earth.  Especially when we don't get what we want-or when someone doesn't do what we think they should or WE want them to.  It goes one step farther when WE bring God into the picture by painting a picture where ourselves and God are standing together in judgment of someone's actions.  God is the Judge-He doesn't need our help.  And NONE of us are without sin.

I believe that God wants to touch the lives of every person with the tender tips of His fingers-caressing our hearts with His Love, touching our minds with His divine guidance and preparing the way for our feet to travel.  Let us be as the bible says we should-so that our words and actions sharpen one another instead of tearing one another apart.  Let's allow the gentleness of the Heart and Mind of Christ to shine out and be reflected in our lives and echoed off our tongues as we speak His name to those who are lost.

Lost puppies don't always return home and neither do the Lost Children of God......But if we allow God to shine the Light of His face upon ours--then we can move through this life as a lighthouse, a beacon to draw in all who are lost......reuniting our lost brothers and sisters with Our Father......

BE GENTLE-THINK GENTLE

Being gentle is often an overlooked necessity to a happy life.  If we are gentle and we walk in gentleness then the world around us feels a little bit softer.  We are surrounded by things that embrace us back, instead of those that cause abrasions.

In order to walk with gentleness-we have to soften our heart and our mind.  This means that we let go of judging harsh rights and wrongs that are scattered in our paths.  We, instead opt to stay out of that game and leave all of that to God.  In this way, we become more like the "observer" in our world-and observing a situation gives us a cushion of protection against whatever it is that we are "observing" so that we are protected and remain passive and gentle.

What does it bring us to walk in harsh criticisms and judgments all day long?  Besides the throbbing migraine, I mean.  Nothing.  It brings us nothing.  It alienates those who need a shoulder.  It alienates those who need to see a light-because when we walk in judgment and harsh criticisms we are blocking our own light from shining forth into the world.  We are using negativity to darken our lantern-and remember, our lantern not only shows others the light inside of us, but it also lights our path in life.  So, refrain from the judgments and attitudes that block out the light-if not, the path set before your feet will become a winding road that is entangled with jagged briars that you cannot see...all alone in the dark with only your harsh criticisms to guide you.

FORGIVENESS IS A WONDERFUL THING!

FORGIVENESS IS A WONDERFUL THING!  Receiving forgiveness allows us to let go of self hatred and self-limitation.  It gives us the certainty of a better tomorrow and the hope of all things possible.  Giving Forgiveness allows a deeper sense of healing from traumatic past events that can secretly hold us hostage to fears, limiting beliefs and poisonous mindsets.

Remember that the old adage still holds true even in the area of forgiveness:  It is better to give than to receive.  While receiving is important, as well--I believe that GIVING forgiveness is the key that opens the door to TRUE FREEDOM in our lives.  If we are able to let go of anger and resentment, we are so much better able to glide past the obstacles of today and on through the fields of greener pastures tomorrow.

At the same time, if we are denied forgiveness for a shortcoming by someone we have unintentionally (or in some cases, intentionally hurt) this doesn't indicate complete stagnation in our lives.  We can take the first step and graciously and gently forgive ourselves for that offense-while diligently praying for the other person's heart to heal from the trauma.  God allows healing on all levels to occur when we come to Him and ask for it.
I encourage you to spend fifteen minutes with God-ask Him to show you if there is anyone who is hurting because of something you may have said or done.  Ask Him to help you see it and to move forward in your life by acknowledging the offense and by asking the person He points out to you for forgiveness.  Also, tell Him how you are feeling-tell Him how you have been hurt by the actions of another.  Remember, God is
the Great Healer of All Wounds-He is the Changer of Times, He is the Remover of Obstacles and He is the Inner Alchemist of our heart, mind and Spirit.  Allow Him to do a work in you today.  You, the ones you love and all of the earth will benefit from that one simple choice.

I encourage you to read the book that is advertised in this Blog Post-not because I am the author-but because it holds a deep message of forgiveness that I believe will help you in your quest for freedom from past wounds.

May God bless you Today & Always.

Kindness Matters

A few days ago our A/C went out in the house.  Talk about hot!  It has been miserable and the temps have been over 100 each day.  I have a wonderful person in my life who surprised me last evening-not only did he let us borrow a unit he had, but he actually BOUGHT me a brand new one to go along with it!  This amazing act of kindness really made me look at my world differently.

I hadn't asked him to do that.  I hadn't even mentioned anything like that--the thought actually had never occurred to me, but I realized as I was driving home last night that the thought had occurred to God.  Of course, I am thankful to my wonderful friend for doing this-but I'm amazed that God was thinking about my (and my family's) suffering in the heat enough to put it into someon else's heart and mind to do this kindness for us.


I drove home with a very tender heart toward both him and toward God.  But I am in awe of God, because as amazingly divine as our creator is, He looks upon our suffering and He cares.  So the next time you have a feeling or a thought that you should do something uncannily good for someone-act on it!  It is God who is trying to do a good work through you!  And believe me, when you do--you will be showing the recipient of your kindness the Heart of God.  And that's something we all need to see more of in one another.

Letting Go of the Labels...

Learning to let go of the activity of labeling and judgment serves to further us along this path to enlightenment.  In the time that it takes us to attach a judgment or label to a stream of information that we receive, we can decide not to label and to refrain from judgment.  This stops negative emotional attachments from bonding to the information in the first place.  When we simply observe events instead of attaching an emotion to them, we are preventing those events and that information from being deposited into our bodies, minds and chakras.  We are also preventing stress reactions to the emotions that begin to grow as soon as the attachment of the emotion to the information is complete.  In preventing this stress, our bodies become healthier because we are not piling them up with junk, our emotional state is better because we aren’t flooding ourselves with negativity and our chakras are not impacted negatively.  I propose that by learning to consciously remove the emotional component  from any event or information around us, we in essence are prohibiting that event or information from affecting us and we are creating health on all levels of our being.

The biggest difficulty in implementing a non-judgment system within your mind and life is in finding that tiny opportunity between the information and the labeling.  This space is so small, that we really have to look for it and in bigger situations it appears even smaller.  I believe that practicing non-judgment daily on a conscious level will help in this process.  It acts to highlight that tiny space where we can choose non-judgment instead of allowing spontaneous pre-programmed labeling to occur, which then will attach a negative emotion to this information. 

The attachment of emotion to information by labeling/judgment  is what binds us to the past.  It is what binds us to pain.  It is what steals our present moment and robs us of the sensation of freedom.  It is also the creative force which perpetuates the manifestation of similar circumstances in our lives, because it follows the Law of Attraction.  The thought portion of the judgment is relatively minute, however; the emotional constituent becomes viral and intrudes and spreads out, entwining itself into a vast number of other associations in our minds and psyches.  This is an important concept to grasp.

Have you been swallowed by a whale lately?

I was thinking about the story of Jonah the other day and God pointed out to me how we oftentimes find ourselves in the belly of the whale-just like Jonah was.  Imagine how he must have felt-first of all running from God because he didn't want to do the thing that God asked him to do (how often does that happen to us!)  And then, boom!  All of a sudden he is swallowed up by a huge whale.  He is in total darkness and has no idea where this violent, thrashing beast is going to spit him out at.

We go through this in our lives.  Maybe we're not really swallowed by a gigantic fish-but it sure feels like we have been doesn't it?  We can't see our way out.  We can't determine which way is up and all we are left with in that darkness is the fact that we didn't follow God's commands...we didn't do what He asked because it seemed too much and too hard....and so now, it's even worse.  We're lost, all alone and in the dark.

Remember how the whale spit Jonah up just at the place that God wanted him to go in the first place?  Well, this too happens to us when we get swallowed up by the whale in our lives.  He will turn over our turnip cart (as my granny used to say) and then, He will send us through a period of chaos where we can't see what's happening-we can't tell what direction we should go in....But God never fails us. 

Eventually we will be spat out on the shore to continue our walk through this life-and we'll be right where He said to go in the first place.  There is comfort in that, I feel.  So, if you're in the belly of the whale today--take heart.  God hasn't forgotten you-and you aren't nearly as lost as you think you are.

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Coping With Stress Successfully

Sometimes, it's possible that we just have too much information, too many events that are flooding our minds and bodies with stresses that simply can't be dealt with effectively. That's why it's so important for each of us to know what our bodies and minds need. Just like we sleep each night so that our bodies can regenerate and heal--it's also just as important that we take time spiritually to connect with our source to allow for spiritual and mental healing to take place. When we do not take the time to rest and do things that are healthy for ourselves, we begin burn out.
Spending time with friends (who don't stress us out) is a great way to unplug from stress and allow ourselves some healing time. Meditation is effective in reducing the amount of overall stress that we carry in our bodies. Prayer and spirituality offer us possibly the greatest possibility of regeneration on all levels and fulfills many of our emotional needs, as well.
We have to learn to respect the needs of our bodies and our emotional needs, as well. Studies have shown that our attitudes affect our health and the way our bodies deal with stress. It has been shown that people with optimistic attitudes suffer far less with physical manifestations of stress such as lower functioning immune systems , as well as mental and emotional manifestations which include depression.
In short, take time for yourself. Spend time with optimistic people and become more optimistic yourself. Also, don't underestimate the power of prayer in your daily life!

Reconciling Our Present Moment

The first part of reconciling your present moment is defining your prison.  Who or what is imprisoning you?  Are you stuck in a dead end job that you can’t stand?  Is your marriage a listless, lifeless way of passing the time? Has your body gotten away from you, and now you are sitting there in an overweight state in a body that has grown exponentially for no outward reason?  Okay, good we’ve defined the prison.  Now for the escape.

Escaping the prisons of our life are not as simple as flying as quickly as we can in the opposite direction of our fears, or building up layers and layers of protective numbness between ourselves and our world.  Escaping the prison is first in defining it, which we have done--and now, tracing those roots backwards in time--to the ancient places when incorrect thoughts took root in us without our knowing and started to grow.

RELEASING THE NEGATIVITY IN LIFE IS ESSENTIAL FOR HEALTH**PROTECTING THE CHAKRAS**

Well, think of this; a coworker does something insensitive at work and greatly offends you and puts you in an awkward position with a supervisor.  You are professional, you are responsible and so you refrain from reacting to this action.  You refrain from smacking your coworker off their swivel chair into the floor.  Well, good job-nobody got injured.  Or did they?  You are still carrying around that anger and irritation toward this person, even though you aren’t expressing it outwardly.  Where do you think this energy goes as you are driving home, fixing dinner and watching television that night? Perhaps you are still actively  thinking about the event and replaying it in your mind.  Perhaps you experience vivid angry emotions toward your coworker which you suppress, in order to have peace. 

But that’s just it.  You don’t have peace.  You have lack of conflict.  But the inside of you, your mind, your connective tissue, your chakra system have to deal with these emotions.  And so they are stored in your brain (the amygdale and hippocampus), in the matrix of your myofascial tissue (physical body) and in your chakra system, most likely in your solar plexus chakra and perhaps your root chakra, if the event was as such that it posed a threat to your job (which would affect your survival system). 

This energy not only bombards the solar plexus and possibly the root chakra, but it has another impact on your chakra system.  It causes a blockage in your throat chakra.  Because you are suppressing these emotions which your system finds poisonous, you will become less able to express yourself because of the throat chakra blockage.  You begin to have backaches, headaches and you may even start to come down with laryngitis frequently. 

Some people disregard the chakra system as unimportant in the physical body, but that is a grave misinterpretation of their roles in maintaining balance and health in the body systems.  We are much more than an intelligent sac of water held upright by bones and having the ability to reason.  We are much more than just a body.  Our body is our vessel for getting around on the earth plane and just like a car, we must take care of it so that we can get to where we’re going without breaking down.

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Call Forth Your Faith & Lay Down Your Blame!

[1]FAITH CALLETH THOSE THINGS THAT BE NOT AS THOUGH THEY WERE  -Rom. 4:17

 This beautiful bible verse talks about Abraham’s faith in God’s promise that he would be a father to many nations.  Now everything in the material world was screaming no way!  But somewhere in Abraham’s heart was the trust in God that somehow it would come to pass.  Now, Abraham could have chosen a different way of thinking, couldn’t he?  He could have done what we oftentimes do.  He could have doubted.  But he didn’t.

Imagine how easy it would have been  for him to lose faith and begin to doubt God’s word.  He was over a hundred years old!  Sarah was, too!  She had a deadened womb and by all earthly terms-he would have no seed left at this age!  But he called things that were not as though they were.

When we blame others for our pain-we are using the same principle but we are using it backwards and it’s detrimental to our well-being.  It hampers our growth.  Every time we blame our pain on the person “we know” caused it—we are calling that which is not to be as though it were.  Because honestly, even though you may think “so-and-so” did this awful thing that caused you so much grief in your life; you lived a long time before that occurred and have lived some time since it occurred.  This means that maybe just maybe your own actions in some way perpetuated the event.

 And even if your actions didn’t-and even if you’re completely right about that person instigating the event-it’s not godly to continue to blame them and hold bitterness toward them.  Unless, of course you want to doom yourself to more and more pain just like what you’re experiencing.  And that, my dear brothers and sisters is a choice.  It is a choice we all have to make for ourselves.  But if we choose to use this bible verse in the correct manner to bring healing and prosperity to ourselves through faith, then we are allowing The Inner Alchemist to transform that dirty old rock of a situation into a shining diamond of opportunity.

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[1] Romans 4:17 (God declared that Abraham would be the father to many nations. )

FORGIVENESS, JESUS STYLE

?”  You must understand that as individuals, we will have pain.  Our three dimensional world pretty much guarantees that and we are given ample opportunities here on earth to bring harm to ourselves and harm to others.  But I encourage you to look at the life Jesus led.  Look at His actions.  Observe His Walk.

Don’t you think that He was disappointed in people?  In the same people He was sent to save?  Don’t you think he was hurt when Judas betrayed Him?  Don’t you think that when He went into the wilderness to pray, He did not shed tears just as we do in our times of conflict and pain?  Oh, but yes dear brothers and sisters.  He did.  He wasn’t a plastic model of a human being with no feelings, no choices no disappointments.  He was human.  He was one of us.  He was just like us.  He worked for the first twenty eight years of His life as a carpenter, following along in his father’s trade.  He took care of the bills, he cared for his mother.  He didn’t come here to earth and sit on a throne and have tea and crumpets delivered at a whim.  No, he came here and lived among us.  Ate and drank with us.  Walked with us.  He spoke kindness to even those who condemned him.  He was tempted.  The devil offered him the world in exchange for his Loyalty To God.  But He didn’t budge.

The devil offers us a latte in exchange for a small child’s supper in a starving third world country today and we usually take the latte. Ouch, that hurt.  But it’s the truth.  And deep down inside-we all know it.

What then, of our pain?  How is our pain so much more important than the suffering of another?  How is it that the impact an event has on us as individuals should carry so much more weight than on another involved in the same circumstance?  It shouldn’t.  It doesn’t have to.

Jesus prayed as He hung on the cross-bleeding and dying in excruciating pain. “Forgive them, Father. They know not what they do.” 

And yet we can step on a thumb tack and be angry for three days at the person who accidentally dropped it on the floor.  Because their action caused US pain!  Well…if we believe what Jesus taught.  And if we are truly walking in a Christlike manner then our whole world of thought is transformed.  We will think a whole lot less about ourselves and a whole lot more about others. 

WHO IS THE INNER ALCHEMIST????

And it all starts, here.  True healing begins with recognizing the Inner Alchemist.  Who is this amazing being?  God, of course.  God is our Inner Alchemist.  He is the Great Changer of Thoughts.  He is the Great Remover of Obstacles.  He transforms coal into diamonds and metal into gold.  And He changes the heart and mind of man.

Allowing God to BE our Inner Alchemist guarantees that we will live our lives in Right Thinking.  It guarantees that we will have the ability to firmly embrace the wondrous path that God has planned for us.  And it sets us apart from the world, so that we can become carriers of His Light and His Message to all of His children.

Now, you may be thinking to yourself right now-“Yeah but what about this circumstance in my life? What about my pain?”  You must understand that as individuals, we will have pain.  Our three dimensional world pretty much guarantees that and we are given ample opportunities here on earth to bring harm to ourselves and harm to others.  But I encourage you to look at the life Jesus led.  Look at His actions.  Observe His Walk.

Don’t you think that He was disappointed in people?  In the same people He was sent to save?  Don’t you think he was hurt when Judas betrayed Him?  Don’t you think that when He went into the wilderness to pray, He did not shed tears just as we do in our times of conflict and pain?  Oh, but yes dear brothers and sisters.  He did.  He wasn’t a plastic model of a human being with no feelings, no choices no disappointments.  He was human.  He was one of us.  He was just like us.  He worked for the first twenty eight years of His life as a carpenter, following along in his father’s trade.  He took care of the bills, he cared for his mother.  He didn’t come here to earth and sit on a throne and have tea and crumpets delivered at a whim.  No, he came here and lived among us.  Ate and drank with us.  Walked with us.  He spoke kindness to even those who condemned him.  He was tempted.  The devil offered him the world in exchange for his Loyalty To God.  But He didn’t budge.

The devil offers us a latte in exchange for a small child’s supper in a starving third world country today and we usually take the latte. Ouch, that hurt.  But it’s the truth.  And deep down inside-we all know it.

What then, of our pain?  How is our pain so much more important than the suffering of another?  How is it that the impact an event has on us as individuals should carry so much more weight than on another involved in the same circumstance?  It shouldn’t.  It doesn’t have to.

 Jesus prayed as He hung on the cross-bleeding and dying in excruciating pain. “Forgive them, Father. They know not what they do.” 

And yet we can step on a thumb tack and be angry for three days at the person who accidentally dropped it on the floor.  Because their action caused US pain!  Well…if we believe what Jesus taught.  And if we are truly walking in a Christlike manner then our whole world of thought is transformed.  We will think a whole lot less about ourselves and a whole lot more about others. 

Jesus didn’t rebuke his disciples on the boat for waking him from a blissful nap.  He rebuked them for their lack of faith.  And how was Jesus sleeping so peaceful in the midst of that storm anyway?  He had faith in his father.  He wasn’t worried for his safety.  He wasn’t thinking fearful thoughts and speaking fearful words and drawing in more “storms”. 

Maybe this should be a lesson to us.  Our actions and reactions in this world are not because we haven’t been shown a better example to follow.  We behave in this world the way we do because we attach ourselves so tightly to earthly things that they begin to adhere to us as people.  This leads to unhappiness and distress and moaning and groaning-which by the Power of Attraction (power of the tongue) draws in MORE of what we’re complaining about!

It’s time to stop the madness!!

MY STORY.....

Yesterday at church we had a guest speaker and if ever a message has touched me--it was that one!  He spoke about letting go of the old and embracing the new.  He illustrated that repentance isn't always from "sin"--sometimes it's as simple as letting go of one thought to embrace a second thought--like when God changes your direction in life.  He said that it seems like every time you get comfortable and things are going good in your life--it gets shaken up, and it's time to let go of the old thought and embrace a second thought. 

My life has recently illustrated just that.  I lost my massage company in January of this year.  I lost my home, I lost 2/3 of my income.  I had to move back in with family so that I could get myself together again.  I wondered why that had happened to me, I was going to church-I was devoted to the Lord (as I am now)--and I was happy.  I was doing corporate massage in a local plant and it was paying wonderfully-and it was fun.  Then, I found that the bottom dropped out of my life.  It took me a few months to figure out what the Lord was trying to show me.  (I was not paying attention-because I was feeling sorry for myself and falling into self-doubt)

Then one day I sat down at my computer and out of the blue a title of a book came into my mind.  From Blood To Blood.  Hmm, I thought.  What's this?  I had no idea.  I'd never written a novel before-and honestly I didn't have the slightest idea what it was even going to be about.  But as I began to listen, the voice of the Lord grew louder and louder.  As I sat at my computer, day after day and night after night-I felt more like a transcriptionist than a writer because the ideas and the storyline--and all of the characters involved were NOT of my creation.  I found myself learning, waiting and wondering what was going to happen next  as I was writing the book!  I even noticed that I would have opinions about what should happen when Astrid drove out to the country house....but as I listened, I was totally wrong about it.  The ending of the book was as much a surprise to me as it is to my readers. 

The last three weeks of writing this novel found me with tears streaming down my face as I saw God's message unfolding-page after page after page.  It is one of the most beautiful stories I have ever read--I can't say written, because even though I am the author--and my name is on the cover, the Lord himself wrote From Blood To Blood.  I remember questioning Him as I would write--I would want to know, is this REALLY how it happens when this awful abuse happens to people?  Is this REALLY the medical terminology??  Time after time I would write pages and pages of this novel as I watched the events unfold in my mind's eye, as though someone were standing over my shoulder--telling me the story.  Night after night when I finished--I would google what had happened in the book, just to see if it matched up, because the condition I was writing about--I was NOT familiar with at all....and I wanted to see (I guess I wanted proof) that I wasn't nuts and that God was showing me this story.  As I googled-I found that the historical data was correct, the geographical data was correct and the disorder symtomology was correct--textbook correct! 

I gave up doubting Him and just let Him lead me and continued to type as I watched the rest of the "movie" unfold in my head.  I would sit for as many as ten hours in a day, barely getting up--hardly eating...sometimes still in my jammies at 7pm at night....and I wouldn't feel like time had passed at all.  Out of all the pages in From Blood To Blood, I only "authored" one section--and that was later removed because the Lord convicted me.  I had put a romantic love scene in the book....and from the moment I wrote that-I knew it didn't belong.  I tried to ignore the feeling in my stomach.  I even let the first copies go through the printer before I finally caved in and did a re-edit and removed that content. 

The bottom line is this, if I had stayed in that place after I lost my business, my house, my lifestyle--if I had resented the Christian Friend who was behind the whole thing in the first place--I would never have written that book.  And I believe that writing the first novel was opening a doorway for me to write Kinetic Forgiveness.  My writing experience is the same in this book-I sit down and I hear His words, and I see what I'm supposed to write down.  Only now, instead of googling the terms--I practice the techniques myself.  And they are hard.  Let me tell you-they are hard.  But anything worth changing your LIFE is not supposed to be easy, now is it?  And, personally-I have found healing through Kinetic Forgiveness and it's not completed yet. 

I cannot express how honored I am that He chose me to author these great messages to his children.  I know that He has a plan for both of my books.  And I know that they will bring people to Him--and they will heal.  I know this because I am one of His children, too--and I am already being brought closer to Him and through practicing the art of Kinetic Forgiveness in my own life--I am healing.  Old wounds don't hurt like they used to--in fact, I can honestly say that right now in my life--I am blessed on every level.  And that's the way it should be.  God didn't create us to be unhappy little blobs that float around on the planet in misery every day of our lives.  He created us in His image to bring glory to His Name.  I am living in a state of gratitude for the lovingkindness of our father.  I may have lost many things in this life--but I haven't lost my way, because when I was in that dark place--it was God's hand that reached in and rescued me.

Don't Go Damming Up The Flow...

It is so important to keep fresh energy in circulation in our lives.  It is what carries in new opportunities, new blessings--and it carries out old, outdated ways of being.  But what happens when we "dam up the flow"?  No new energy can come to us.  No old energy can be whisked away.  And so, life becomes stagnant.  Stagnant water breeds disease--so does stagnation in the body and mind. 

Holding fast onto the sense of "being right" or  "not going to budge on this one" only creates a roadblock in your life.  Of course, you should never do something that you know is not right-but with that being said, I believe that we should be gentle and easily swaying, kind of like a palm tree.  Take a look at some of the old oak trees in the woodlands of Virginia and think for a moment how they would fare in Florida during a category four hurricane.  Not too well, right?  They would most certainly snap under all of the pressure--because they are too rigid to bend.

Well, thankfully God made us to be like palm trees.  When the storms of life blow in, we can bend until the tips of our branches are sweeping against the ground-but when the storm is over.....we have not been snapped in two.  We are still in one piece! 

God never promised us that this life would be easy--probably because He cannot tell a lie.  This life is NOT easy-if it were easy, we wouldn't learn anything, right?  But that doesn't mean that we have to run around all over the planet gushing on and on about how "rough" our life is.  What we speak is what we create.  Remember that old bible verse in Genesis?  God said "Let there be light."  And there was light.  And the light was good.  Well, let's stop right there for a moment--God SAID.  He didn't think it.  He didn't gripe about how it was before he called the light into being.  He called something that was not into being by His words.  The words of our mouths are powerful.  And they create every thing that is around us-and within us.

Did you know that it is a proven fact that even if you're in a "bad mood"--if you smile (force yourself to make the motion, go ahead--I know you're following along, here)....If you force a smile to spread wide across your face and you hold it there for a few minutes, no matter what "mood" you were in or what "kind" of day it had been for you up to this point--YOUR BODY WILL BEGIN TO MAKE THE CHEMICALS THAT CREATE THE FEELING OF HAPPINESS!  That's right-God made our bodies wonderfully and marvelously.  And He made our minds like vast landscapes so that we can think what we think in total freedom.  But when you find that your "freedom of thought" is putting you into a world of hurt--it's time to put the brakes on and head out in a new direction.

The bible says that we need to call things that are not as though they are and by the words of our mouth, according to God's Law--we will bring those things that are not into the material.  I was watching a nice Joyce Meyer last night--and she talked about Jesus and how He can only do what our mouths will confess that He can do in our lives.

Isn't that amazing?  The things we are griping about and harping on and on and on about--and the rigidity we hold in ourselves actually work to PREVENT THE LORD FROM BLESSING US.  We need to watch the tongue, become more flexible and less easily offended--and we need to speak the blessings of the Lord over our Lives!  We need to stand up with our God given tongues and confess that He is Lord and Saviour of our lives and thank Him for all that He is doing right now to change those things in our lives that need changing!  Joyce illustrated that we need to declare a blessing over everything we can possibly bless every single day!  I believe that this will keep the energy flowing and it keeps our tongue in right standing with the Lord.  Oh, and we need to be nice to people--because God didn't create us to judge, criticize, hurt and hate one another--He created us to give HIM glory. 

How much glory are your words and actions giving God today?

Our Built-In Resiliency Factor

We are created with the quality of resilience.  In our physical construction we are resilient.  In our mental and emotional construction we are resilient.  This means that on every level, we have self-healing abilities.  It's all really just a matter of tapping into the flow of healing energy and aligning ourselves with that energy so that our bodies, our minds and our spirits can do what they were created and designed lovingly to do.  Heal.

Imagine this, you wouldn't cut a gash into your arm this afternoon and then keep it submerged in a bowl of breeding bacteria expecting it to heal, would you?  No, of course not.  That's silly.  We all know that if we cut ourselves, the most important thing is to keep it clean.  Well, isn't it the same with emotional wounds?  They hurt just as much-and oftentimes much MORE than physical wounds, and yet we tend to leave them open and submerged in a sea of bacteria.  That "bacteria" is what we call resentment, regret and fear.  Then, of course, there is always anger--which is the "staph" version of energetic bacteria.  So, how do we expect that these emotional traumas are going to heal in that environment?  They aren't.  At the very best, they are going to scar.  And these scars create thickened, numb and deadened areas within us where they form. 

For example, if your emotional injury was that your boyfriend left you for another girl--then that scar would form in that area and you would have a difficult time trusting again in the future, right?  Aha! So the past does influence the future--but it does so via the present moment.  What happens to the scars?  Well, most likely since we are aligned energetically with those events that created the injury and now the scarring, we will undoubtedy attract similar situations (by default) into our lives that will rip open that scar-revealing a fresh wound, which will then undergo the same scarring process.  This happens over and over and over again, until we find the solution.  And thankfully-now we have it.  Kinetic Forgiveness!

In this book, you will learn how to break down those old layers of emotional scar tissue and heal the underlying wound.  You will learn that forgiveness, even as difficult as it is to grasp when we analyze just what it means--is truly the key to unlock happiness.  This book will change your life.  It will change your mind, your heart; it will even change your PAST.  Learning to forgive like God is not some far fetched idea--it's something that is inherent within each of us, it is that part of ourselves "created in His image" and it's available NOW to transform your life.

In writing this book, I have discovered the techniques to be effective (albeit painful at times) in removing negative barriers between myself and others--and even between myself and my past.  I expect that all who have been in search of healing in their lives will find the path to that healing in this book (Kinetic Forgiveness). 

Kinetic Forgiveness has an expected Publication Date of August 2011.  You may feel free to email me to be put on the pre-order list at:  bettyhumphreycmt@aol.com  Thanks!

What Is Peace?

What is Peace anyway?  I mean, we all (collectively as human beings) generally agree that out of all of the things we can seek to possess in this world, peace stands out at the forefront of all desires.  But can we define it?  You see, I believe that if we go a little deeper we will find that the definition of Peace is illusive when we try to fit it into the conceptual mold that we have been taught to view it in. 

Peace isn't the absense of conflict.  Just like the absence of hatred doesn't indicate love--neither does the absence of conflict indicate peace.  Peace is sentient and energetic.  It has its own intrinsic gifts when we learn to allow it to expand and unfold within us.

Until we learn to embrace what peace really is, we will never be fully able to embrace the energies it carries with it-and the total transformation that it creates within our lives.  Forgiveness and Peace are two intelligent energies that work together synergistically to connect to the wellspring of positive manifestation.

I believe that the first step to embracing the true embodiment of peace within our lives is to refrain from the labels game.  We stop labeling good, bad, ugly-etc.  We begin to allow information to FLOW instead of damming it up by creating emotional connections to it.  The negative emotional connections that are established through judgment only serve to act as a funnel that directs that negative information AND it's negative emotional counterparts directly into our lives & our bodies where it creates discord, unhappiness and disease.

What Is Kinetic Forgiveness About?

What is Kinetic Forgiveness™

Kinetic Forgiveness™  is a cultivated state of awareness that is useful in the releasement of negative patterns of behavior and thought.  By tracing current patterns backwards to the point of origin and examining the underlying stagnation of energy, the block can be successfully removed.  This technique will allow one to heal continually in an ongoing basis.  It will assist in removal of negative mindsets that have evolved into destructive patterns which often derail relationships, damage self-esteem and cost valuable opportunities.

 

The Health of the Mind and Spirit are played out on the canvas of everyday life.

Negative mindsets can undermine and destroy relationships, opportunities and the health of the body.  

 

Without the Body, the Spirit has no home.

Use this powerful teaching to move forward in YOUR LIFE today!

Kinetic Forgiveness™

What happens when we steal our own happiness?

When you wake up one morning and everything feels like the wrong thing we need to
Just take a moment and a deep breath and make the choice to take a look
Around ourselves and decide to see the situations around us with
A different perspective and a different attitude. We need to feel
Thankful for the goodness that surrounds us and focus on those
Things so that we are not caught as thieves of our own joy. Start that day over
With the words I am thankful for... And see how the world around you
And within you immediately begins to transform.

FREE*FREE*FREE Workshop! Visit THE INNER ALCHEMIST WORKSHOP PAGE

I would like to invite everyone to join THE INNER ALCHEMIST WORKSHOP on my website.  Here you can download free learning materials, join our forum and connect with other members. 

Inner Healing requires Inner Change.  The Inner Alchemist Workshop teaches the principles of Kinetic Forgiveness,so that your life can become filled with the things that you want, instead of overflowing with regrets, sadness and discontent.