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The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion by Pete Egoscue with Roger Gittines

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You are not moving enough to keep your body and overall health from deteriorating. And when you do move, because this “motion starvation” is acute, the movement violated the design of the body with every step you take.

In time, many patients who have had hip replacement surgery start experiencing knee problems.

The inactive muscle is in the first stages of dying.

Pain is the body’s way of getting our attention … We assume that things like everted feet, rounded shoulders, one leg being shorter than the other are nothing more than heredity or birth defects … The discrepancy was caused by the man bearing most of his weight on the left or “longer” leg, which, in the course of doing the extra work, has shifted the pelvis vertically and horizontally. One side of the pelvis, the ilium, has been pulled downward, and the other one pushed upward (and forward).

The voluntary side, by enervating the muscles which move the bones, energized the involuntary systems: in turn, those sustain the voluntary functions by distributing oxygen and deploying white the blood cells and making other vital contributions … In short, we’ve got to move the body or we lose it.

Nutritionists are urging us to eat more fiber because it decreases what they call the “transit time” between intake and elimination, thereby reducing the risk of colon cancer. The quicker waste products are moved through the body, the less risk there is of toxic residues leaching out into the internal organs. But fiber, or lack of it, is just one element of the problem. Transit time increases as the body’s movement decreases.

All that means is that you have inherited Dad’s environment, including its requisite motion or lack of motion, which produces the characteristic family shoulder.

Dysfunctional shoulder and back muscles can hardly be expected to hold the head in an upright position … Drop your chin toward your chest and you’ll feel a tightness across the top of your upper back. The “echo” of that tightness reverberates all the way to the hip. The muscles in your upper torso are fighting to keep your in an upright position and it’s a losing battle. Back spasms, neck aches, migraine headaches, excruciating jaw pain, dizziness, blurred vision are all indications of how hard the body is struggling to stay upright … The flow of blood and oxygen is all uphill, and it doesn’t help matters when the upper torso is dysfunctional and under strain … The poor performance is reflected in the postures.

Humans only do what gives them pleasure.

(eversion tips the pelvis forward, inversion tips it to the rear)

I don’t believe in being macho about pain. It must not be ignored.

What I am looking for initially I Condition I: hips titled forward, feet everted.

Everted feet mean you are walking with your hips. The feet evert because the gait muscles have become lazy and transferred the walking function to the hips flexor muscles. If I shot a slow-motion video tape of a functional foot and leg in the act of walking, we would see the heel strike the ground, the foot traveling forward and down  in a straight line until the ball contacts the surface (the foot’s arch acts as a fulcrum), which creates a launching pad that slows for a solid downstroke with the toes providing traction and balance. The lower leg, the knee, and the thigh, meanwhile, lift and move forward in a straight line powered by muscles in the calf and thigh.
A tape of a dysfunctional foot and leg would show this: AS the heel strikes, the foot shears off at an angles instead of a falling in a straight line; to keep the walker moving forward, the knee struggles to bring the foot around to where it is supposed to be according to the design of the body, and the result is the weight that would properly fall on the ball of the foot is transmitted somewhere along the inside of outside edges of the foot, which means that our walker is actually performing a skating movement with his feet. At the same time, the lower leg, knee and thigh are being hoisted off the ground at the hip and swung forward. Aside from the muscles involved in the articulation of the knee joint, all other gait musc.es are taking a free ride at the expense of the hip flexor

If the heels of your shoes wear unevenly, your feet are everting (or, in rare cases, inverting).

By getting the head back into the functional position, the sinus cavities were level and able to drain. It’s logical to assume that the other “systems” of the head, including the basic flow of oxygen to the brain, are similarly impacted.

Fashion models throw their hips forward this way to counteract dysfunctional shoulders and hips—and we’ve come to think that it looks sexy!
Another way to tell is to stand against a wall or lie on the floor. If the back is instantly flat against the surface, it’s a sign of Condition III hip dysfunction.

  • Do remember the four socket position; shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles should be in line, feet pointed straight ahead; the head should also be back.
  • Don’t forget to breathe with your diaphragm and use your stomach; not shallow little puffs, make your lungs fill the chest cavity.

Wall crunches energize the abdominal muscles, but a full traditional situp doesn’t do that because the powerful hip flexors kick in after about six degrees of elevation. Hence, the situp crazies at the gym are building terrific hip flexors when what they’re really trying to do is flatten their stomachs.

Many people almost stop breathing while they are doing exercises. The gasping and grunting and desperation that set in during a rigorous workout are often the result of simple oxygen starvation. Breathe!

Like the gears of the car’s engine and transmission, the muscles and joints are still working no matter what the brace is doing to the exterior of your body.
The brace give you a false sense of structural stability and it overrides the boy’s mechanism for warning your, with pain, that you are doing things that will cause damage. That’s what pain is there for.

Breathing properly is very important. Slouching over a keyboard or leaning back in the chair impedes your respiratory system. And it’s wise to avoid putting anything into your bloodstream that interferes with the red blood cells’ oxygen-bearing capabilities.

Almost everything in the modern home, work place, and school environment is at war with the body’s need to maintain adequate levels of fluid. The list includes central heating, air conditioning, overhead lighting, pressurized airplane cabins, and high salt content in food.

One sign of dehydration is lack of mental concentration—you can see it in a person’s unfocused eyes and wandering attention.

Rowers and boxers should take heed as well—particularly boxers. A head hat’s forward and out of position, which is characteristic of all three conditions, is an invitation to brain damage.

Shin splints result when feet strike the ground improperly. Most often the runner is everting the feet. Thus, he or she is probably running on the outside of the heels instead of the balls of the feet. When the foot hits the pavement, it produces lateral torque that travels up the lower leg, chafing the muscles and producing the pain of a shin splint.

Stress eliminates learned behavior.

The activity of a type of white blood cell, tagged NK cells for “natural killer” cells, is stimulated by moderate exercise. Without exercise, the NK cells are not up to the job of defending the body. Thus, carcinogens get a head start; the NK cells, sensing that they are at a disadvantage, pile on in overreaction.

Essentially, our engines run on glucose, which results from the way the digestive system converts the food we eat. No glucose, no energy (except when we are burning off our fat supply).
Therefore, the body keeps close tags on input and output. When we overeat and underexercise, instead of generating an unnecessary supply of glucose, some of the excess is converted to glycogen, a starch, and stored away ion the muscles and liver to be available on demand for the next day’s hunting and gathering. But the remaining extra glucose must also be dealt with. One of the mechanisms form regulating the glucose supply in the bloodstream sis the pancreas; it functions as the enforcer or hit man. After an extra handful of elk meat is converted into glucose that won’t be used—the hunter rolls over the takes  a nap—the pancreas then goes into action. It releases insulin to burn off or convert the glucose. Ten thousand years ago, the pancreatic hit man rarely needed to get tough because the supply and demand for glucose was in balance. But the pancreas was always there just in case of a glucose overload.
The body, being a marvelously efficient machine, does not do any more work than it has to, and digestion is a lot of work. When a cheap and abundant supply of fuel comes along in the form of pure sugar, it doesn’t bother going to the trouble of converting, processing, and sorting. The sugar is passed directly into the bloodstream as instant glucose.

The back is designed to bear its own weight without help from foam rubber or tufted leather.

I No Longer Have Patience

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“I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.” (Streep, M.)

How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

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  • …highest-paid personnel in engineering are frequently not those who know the most about engineering … But the person who has technical knowledge plus the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people-that person is headed for higher earning power.
  1. Don’t criticize, condemn or complain.
    Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
    human nature in action, wrongdoers, blaming everybody but themselves.
    “Judge not, that ye be not judged.”
    “Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof,” … “when your own doorstep is unclean.”
    “I will speak ill of no man,” … and speak all the good I know of everybody.”
  2. Give honest and sincere appreciation.
    the sex urge and the desire to be great.
    We often take our spouses so much for granted that we never let them know we appreciate them.
  3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.
    “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.”
    Yet many salespeople spend a lifetime in selling without seeing things from the customer’s angle.
  4. Become genuinely interested in other people.
    You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
    “We are interested in others when they are interested in us.”
  5. Smile.
    People who smile tend to manage teach and sell more effectively, and to raise happier children.
    … people rarely succeed at anything unless they have fun doing it.
    “I have also eliminated criticism from my system. I give appreciation and praise now instead of condemnation. I have stopped talking about what I want. I am now trying to see the other person’s viewpoint…
  6. Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
    Most people don’t remember names, for the simple reason that they don’t take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds.
  7. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
    All she wanted was an interested listener, so she could expand her ego and tell about where she had been.
    He got this feeling of importance at first by kicking and complaining.
    “They have been so much concerned with what they are going to say next that they do not keep their ears open….
  8. Talk in terms of the other person’s interests.
  9. Make the other person feel important—and do it sincerely.
    “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”
    “I’m sorry to trouble you,” “Would you be so kind as to —-? ” “Won’t you please?” ” Would you mind?” “Thank you”
    Almost everyone considers himself important, very important.
    The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.
  10. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
    Why not let him save his face?
    A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still.
    If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent’s good will.
    “Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love,”
    Perhaps this disagreement is your opportunity to be corrected before you make a serious mistake.
    Distrust your first instinctive impression. Our first natural reaction in a disagreeable situation is to be defensive.
    Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.
    Listen first.
    Look for areas of agreement.
    Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.
    Promise to think over your opponents’ ideas and study them carefully. And mean it.
    Thank your opponents sincerely for their interest.
    Postpone action to give both sides time to think through the problem.
    When one yells, the other should listen-because when two people yell, there is no communication, just noise and bad vibrations.”
  11. Show respect for the other person’s opinions. Never say, “You’re wrong.”
    Never begin by announcing “I am going to prove so-and-so to you.”
    If you are going to prove anything, don’t let anybody know it. Do it so subtly, so adroitly, that no one will feel that you are doing it.
    Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
    You will never get into trouble by admitting that you may be wrong. That will stop all argument and inspire your opponent to be just as fair and open and broad-minded as you are. It will make him want to admit that he, too, may be wrong.
    Few people are logical. Most of us are prejudiced and biased. Most of us are blighted with preconceived notions, with jealousy, suspicion, fear, envy and pride.
    It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem which is threatened.
    When we are wrong, we may admit it to ourselves. And if we are handled gently and tactfully, we may admit it to others and even take pride in our frankness and broad-mindedness. But not if someone else is trying to ram the unpalatable fact down our esophagus.
    “I am convinced now that nothing good is accomplished and a lot of damage can be done if you tell a person straight out that he or she is wrong. You only succeed in stripping that person of self-dignity and making yourself an unwelcome part of any discussion.”
  12. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
    There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one’s errors. It not only clears the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error.
    Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes – and most fools do— but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one’s mistakes.
    When we are right, let’s try to win people gently and tactfully to our way of thinking, and when we are wrong – and that will be surprisingly often, if we are honest with ourselves – let’s admit our mistakes quickly and with enthusiasm.
  13. Begin in a friendly way.
    “A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.”
  14. Get the other person saying “yes, yes” immediately.
    Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.
    When you have said “No,” all your pride of personality demands that you remain consistent with yourself. You may later feel that the “No” was ill-advised; nevertheless, there is your precious pride to consider! Once having said a thing, you feel you must stick to it. Hence it is of the very greatest importance that a person be started in the affirmative direction.
    When a person says “No” and really means it, he or she is doing far more than saying a word of two letters. The entire organism – glandular, nervous, muscular -gathers itself together into a condition of rejection.
    Hence the more “Yeses” we can, at the very outset, induce, the more likely we are to succeed in capturing the attention for our ultimate proposal.
    it is much more profitable and much more interesting to look at things from the other person’s viewpoint and try to get that person saying ‘yes, yes.'”
  15. Let the other person do a great deal of the talking.
    They won’t pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression.
  16. Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers.
    “In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
  17. Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view.
    Try honestly to put yourself in his place.
    … success in dealing with people depends on a sympathetic grasp of the other persons’ viewpoint.”
    “I would rather walk the sidewalk in front of a person’s office for two hours before an interview,” said Dean Donham of the Harvard business school, “than step into that office without a perfectly clear idea of what I was going to say and what that person— from my knowledge of his or her interests and motives— was likely to answer.”
  18. Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires.
    The only reason, for example, that you are not a rattlesnake is that your mother and father weren’t rattlesnakes.
    Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
  19. Appeal to the nobler motives.
    If you are satisfied with the results you are now getting, why change?
  20. Dramatize your ideas.
    Merely stating a truth isn’t enough.
  21. Throw down a challenge.
    The way to get things done … is to stimulate competition.
    “All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory”
    That is what every successful person loves: the game. The chance for self-expression.
  22. Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
    It is always easier to listen to unpleasant things after we have heard some praise of our good points.
    Beginning with praise is like the dentist who begins his work with Novocain.
  23. Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly.
    This could be easily overcome by changing the word “but” to “and.”
  24. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
    It isn’t nearly so difficult to listen to a recital of your faults if the person criticizing begins by humbly admitting that he, too, is far from impeccable.
    Admitting one’s own mistakes—even when one hasn’t corrected them—can help convince somebody to change his behavior.
  25. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
    “You might consider this,” … “Do you think that would work?” … “What do you think of this?” … “Maybe if we were to phrase it this way it would be better.”
    Asking questions not only makes an order more palatable; it often stimulates the creativity of the persons whom you ask. People are more likely to accept an order if they have had a part in the decision that caused the order to be issued.
  26. Let the other person save face.
    Even if we are right and the other person is definitely wrong, we only destroy ego by causing someone to lose face.
  27. Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be “hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.”
    while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.”
    Because he had singled out a specific accomplishment, rather than just making general flattering remarks, his praise became much more meaningful to the person to whom it was given … when praise is specific, it comes across as sincere—not something the other person may be saying just to make one feel good.
    Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.
  28. Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
    In short, if you want to improve a person in a certain spect, act as though that particular trait were already one of his or her outstanding characteristics … “Assume a virtue, if you have it not.”
  29. Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
    Tell your child, your spouse, or your employee that he or she is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, has no gift for it, and is doing it all wrong, and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve. But use the opposite technique—be liberal with your encouragement, make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it—and he will practice until the dawn comes in the window in order to excel.
  30. Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.
    Always make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.

     

    1. Be sincere. Do not promise anything that you cannot deliver. Forget about the benefits to yourself and concentrate on the benefits to the other person.
    2. Know exactly what it is you want the other person to do.
    3. Be empathetic. Ask yourself what is it the other person really wants.
    4. Consider the benefits that person will receive from doing what you suggest.
    5. Match those benefits to the other person’s wants.
    6. When you make your request, put it in a form that will convey to the other person the idea that he personally will benefit.
  • The ability to speak is a shortcut to distinction.
  • he practiced his speeches as he milked the cows;
  • The way to develop self-confidence, he said, is to do the thing you fear to do and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 3 by Neale Donald Walsch

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  • You must learn to be gentle with yourself. And stop judging yourself.
  • It is not necessary to have achieved the highest level of evolution to speak of the highest level of evolution.
  • You will not grow through guilt, but only shrivel and die.
    Awareness is what you seek. But awareness is not guilt, and love is not fear.
  • “All good things come to those who wait.”
  • First you “be” the thing called “happy” (or “knowing,” or “wise,” or “compassionate,” or whatever); then you start “doing” things from this place of being-ness-and soon you discover that what you are doing winds up bringing you the things you’ve always wanted to “have.”
    The way to set this creative process (and that’s what this is. . . the process of creation) into motion is to look at what it is you want to “have,” ask yourself what you think you would “be” if you “had” that, then go right straight to being.
  • Happiness is a state of mind. And like all states of mind, it reproduces itself in physical form.
  • “Fake it until you make it.”
    …Only you can’t really be
    “faking.” Your actions have to be sincere.
    Everything you do, do out of sincerity, or the benefitof the action is lost.
    This is not because I won’t “reward you.” God does not “reward” and “punish,” as you know. But Natural Law requires the body, mind, and spirit to be united in thought, word, and action for the process of creation to work.
    You cannot fool your mind. If you are insincere, your mind knows it, and that’s that. You’ve just ended any chance that your mind can help you in the creative process.
    You can, of course, create without your mind-it’s just a great deal more difficult. You can ask your body to do something your mind doesn’t believe, and if your body does it long enough, your mind will begin to let go of its former thought about that, and create a New Thought. Once you have a New Thought about a thing, you’re well on your way to creating it as a permanent aspect of your being, rather than something you’re just acting out.
    This is doing things the hard way, and even in such instances, the action must be sincere. Unlike what you can do with people, you cannot manipulate the universe.
    So here we have a very delicate balance. The body does something in which the mind does not believe, yet the mind must add the ingredient of sincerity to the body’s action for it to work.
  • If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper.
  • So when you want something, give it away. You will then no longer be “wanting” it. You will immediately experience “having” it. From there on, it is only a question of degree. Psychologically, you will find it much easier to “add onto,” than to create out of thin air.
  • I never, ever interfere with your deepest desire.
  • When your choices conflict-when body, mind, and spirit are not acting as one-the process of creation works at all levels, producing mixed results. If, on the other hand, your being is in harmony, and your choices are unified, astonishing things can occur.
    Your young people have a phrase-“having it all together”-which could be used to describe this unified state of being.
    There are also levels within levels in your decision making. This is particularly true at the level of the mind.
    Your mind can, and does, make decisions and choices from one of at least three interior levels: logic, intuition, emotion-and sometimes from all three- producing the potential for even more inner conflict.
    And within one of those levels-emotion-there are five more levels. These are the five natural emotions: grief, anger, envy, fear, and love.
    And within these, also, there are two final levels: love and fear.
    The five natural emotions include love and fear, yet love and fear are the basis of all emotions. The other three of the five natural emotions are outgrowths of these two.
    Ultimately, all thoughts are sponsored by love or fear. This is the great polarity. This is the primal duality. Everything, ultimately, breaks down to one of these. All thoughts, ideas, concepts, understandings, decisions, choices, and actions are based in one of these.
    And, in the end, there is really only one.
    Love.
    In truth, love is all there is. Even fear is an outgrowth of love, and when used effectively, expresses love.
  • Grief is a natural emotion.
    Grief that is continually repressed becomes chronic depression, a very unnatural emotion.
    Anger is a natural emotion.
    Anger that is continually repressed becomes rage, a very unnatural emotion.
    Envy is a natural emotion.
    Envy that is continually repressed becomes jealousy, a very unnatural emotion.
    Fear is a natural emotion…The purpose of natural fear is to build in a bit of caution. Caution is a tool that helps keep the body alive. It is an outgrowth of love. Love of Self.
    Children who are made to feel that fear is not okay-that it is wrong to express it, and, in fact, that they shouldn’t even experience it-will have a difficult time appropriately dealing with their fear as adults.
    Fear that is continually repressed becomes panic, a very unnatural emotion.
    Love is a natural emotion.
    Love that is continually repressed becomes possessiveness, a very unnatural emotion.
  • Newly departed souls therefore learn to monitor their thoughts very carefully, because whatever they think of, they experience…
    If physicalized souls learned to control their thoughts as quickly and as efficiently as spiritualized souls, their whole lives would change.
    In the creation of individual reality, thought control, or what some might call prayer-is everything.
  • Thought control is the highest form of prayer. Therefore, think only on good things, and righteous. Dwell not in negativity and darkness. And even in moments when things look bleak-especially in those moments-see only perfection, express only gratefulness, and then imagine only what manifestation of perfection you choose next.
    In this formula is found tranquillity. In this process is found peace. In this awareness is found joy.
  • Souls released from the body quickly remember to monitor and control their thoughts very carefully, for whatever they think of, that is what they create and experience…you are at cause in the creation of your experience, not at the effect of it.
  • To the degree that your uncontrolled thoughts are stronger than the collective consciousness, to that degree you will experience them as reality. To the degree that the collective consciousness is accepted, absorbed, and internalized, to that degree you will experience it as your reality…
    1. You may allow your uncontrolled thoughts to create The Moment.
    2. You may allow your creative consciousness to create The Moment.
    3. You may allow the collective consciousness to create The Moment.

    …It is when you are surrounded by lower consciousness that you will benefit more from remaining with your individual understandings, and when you are surrounded by higher consciousness that you receive greater benefit from surrender.
    …I cannot overemphasize the importance of the company you keep.
    In what you call the afterlife, there is nothing to worry about on this score, for you will instantly and automatically be surrounded by beings of high consciousness-and by high consciousness itself.

  • Be open, therefore. Be OPEN. Don’t close off the possibility of new truth because you have been comfortable with an old one. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
    Yet be not quick to judge another. Rather, seek to avoid judgment, for another person’s “wrongs” were your “rights” of yestermorn; another person’s mistakes are your own past actions, now corrected; another person’s choices and decisions are as “hurtful” and “harmful,” as “selfish” and “unforgivable,” as many of your own have been.
    It is when you “just can’t imagine” how another person could “do such a thing” that you have forgotten where you came from, and where both you and the other person are going.
  • Nothing in this universe occurs by accident. There is no such thing as an “accident,” nor is there any such thing as “coincidence.”
  • Finally, don’t try to “get out” of anything. What you resist, persists.
    1. All thought is energy.
    2. All things are in motion.
    3. All time is now.

    Asking the question engages the mind, and that’s the last thing a psychic wants to do. Intuition does not reside in the mind. To be psychic, you’ve got to be out of your mind. Because intuition resides in the psyche. In the soul.
    Every feeling you’ve ever had resides in your soul. Your soul is the sum total of all your feelings. It is the repository.

  • Whatever you cause another to experience, you will one day experience.
  • What you fear, you create. Yet there is really nothing to be afraid of.
  • There are no coincidences in the universe.
  • You may return to mortal form-that is, a physical form which can “die”-whenever and however you wish.
  • “Right” and “wrong” are philosophical polarities in a human value system which have nothing to do with ultimate reality-a point Which I have made repeatedly throughout this dialogue. They are, furthermore, not even constant constructs within your own system, but rather, values which keen shifting from time to time…
    Glorify what you are today, yet do not condemn what you were yesterday, nor preclude what you could become tomorrow.
    Understand that “right” and “wrong” are figments of your imagination, and that “okay” and “not okay” are merely announcements of your latest preferences and imaginings.
  • Enlightenment begins with acceptance, without judgment of “what is.”
    This is known as moving into the Isness. It is in the Isness where freedom will be found.
    What you resist, persists. What you look at disappears. That is, it ceases to have its illusory form. You see it for what it Is. And what Is can always be changed. It is only what Is Not that cannot be changed. Therefore, to change the Isness, move into it. Do not resist it. Do not deny it.
    What you deny you declare. What you declare you create.
    Denial of something is re-creation of it, for the very act of denying something places it there.
    Acceptance of something places you in control of it. That which you deny you cannot control, for you have said it is not there. Therefore what you deny controls you.
  • The person of great wisdom needs little sleep.
  • Daily meditation is one of the best tools with which to create this experience. With it, you can raise your life energy to the highest chakra . . . . . and even leave your body while you are “awake.”
  • Breathe long and deep. Breathe slowly and gently. Breathe in the soft, sweet nothingness of life, so full of energy, so full of love.
  • The realm of the relative is, in fact, held together by just such tensions. As an example, the tension between good and evil. In ultimate reality there is no such thing as good and evil. In the realm of the absolute, all there is is love. Yet in the realm of the relative you have created the experience of what you “call” evil, and you have done it for a very sound reason. You wanted to experience love, not just “know” that love is All There Is, and you cannot experience something when there is nothing else but that. And so, you created in your reality (and continue to do so every day) a polarity of good and evil, thus using one so that you might experience the other.
    And here we have a Divine Dichotomy-two seemingly contradictory truths existing simultaneously in the same place. Specifically:
    There is such a thing as good and evil.
    All there is is love.
  • Your life was never meant to be a struggle, and doesn’t have to be, now or ever.
  • So there is no need to worry about what you are going to “get back.” There is only a need to worry about what you are going to “give out.” Life is about creating the highest quality giving, not the highest quality getting.
    …life is not “for getting.” Life is “for giving,” and in order to do that, you need to be forgiving to others-especially those who did not give you what you thought you were going to get!
  • A HEB, in fact, would never consume an animal, much less fill the ground, and the plants which the animal eats, with chemicals, then fill the animal itself with chemicals, and then consume it.
  • A HEB never worries-and wouldn’t even understand the human concept of “worry” or “stress.” Neither would a HEB “hate,” or feel “rage,” or “jealousy,” or panic. Therefore, the HEB does not produce biochemical reactions within her own body that eat away at it and destroy it. A HEB would call this “eating itself,” and a HEB would no sooner consume itself than it would consume another corporal being.
  • There is no shame.
  • Nor any such thing as guilt.
  • “Good” does not-cannot–exist experientially without its opposite. Therefore have you also created evil, which is the backward motion, or opposite direction, of good. It is the opposite of life-and so have you created what you call death.
  • Your brain is not the source of your intelligence. It is simply a data processor. It takes in data through receptors called your senses. It interprets this energy in formation according to its previous data on the subject. It tells you what it perceives, not what really is. Based on these perceptions, you think you know the truth about something, when, actually, you do not know the half of it. In reality, you are creating the truth that you know.
  • There was no one to forgive. All I have created is Perfection and Love.
  • You are deciding what is “cold” and what is “warm,” what is “up” and what is “down.” (Get out in space and watch your definitions disappear!) You are deciding what is “good” and what is “evil.” And your ideas about all these things have changed through the years-indeed, even through the seasons. On a summer day you would call 420F “cold.” In the middle of winter, however, you would say, “Boy, what a warm day!” …
    It is not necessary for an opposite condition to exist right next to you in order to provide a contextual field within which the reality that you choose may be experienced.
    The distance between contrasts is irrelevant. The entire universe provides the contextual field within which all contrasting elements exist, and all experiences are thus made possible. That is the purpose of the universe. That is its function.
  • what you are doing now is simply remembering everything you are, and choosing the portion of that which you prefer to experience in this moment, in this lifetime, on this planet, in this physical form.
  • You do have to live within a contextual field within which That Which You Are Not exists, in order for you to experience That Which You Are. This is the Universal Law, and you cannot avoid it. Yet you are living in such a field, right now. You do not have to create one. The contextual field in which you are living is called the universe.

An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 2 by Neale Donald Walsch

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  1. For a number of reasons. Because you do not believe you can have what you choose. Because you do not know what to choose. Because you keep trying to figure out what’s “best” for you. Because you want guarantees ahead of time that all your choices will be “good.” And because you keep changing your mind!
  2. When you spend your time trying to figure out what’s “best” for you, you are doing just that: spending your time. Better to save your time than to spend it wastefully.
  3. Remember this: the soul creates, the mind reacts.
  4. Failure to express (i.e. push out) negative feelings does not make them go away; it keeps them in. Negativity “kept in” harms the body and burdens the soul.
    • Life is an ongoing process of creation.
    • A secret of all Masters is to stop changing one’s mind; keep choosing the same thing.
    • Don’t take no for an answer.
    • We “call forth” what we think, feel, and say.
    • Life can be a process of creation or reaction.
    • The soul creates, the mind reacts.
    • The soul understands what the mind cannot conceive.
    • Stop trying to figure out what is “best” for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.
    • Your feelings are your truth. What is best for you is what is true for you.
    • Thoughts are not feelings; rather, they are ideas of how you “should” feel. When thoughts and feelings get confused, truth becomes clouded, lost.
    • To get back to your feelings, be out of your mind and get back to your senses.
    • Once you know your truth, live it.
    • Negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others.
    • Previous experience is no indicator of truth, since Pure Truth is created here and now, not reenacted.
    • To change your response to anything, be in the present (that is, the “pre-sent”) moment-the moment that was sent to you and was what it was before you had a thought about it… In other words, Be Here Now, not in the past or the future.
    • The past and the future can exist only in thought. The Pre-sent Moment is the Only Reality. Stay there!
    • Seek and you shall find.
    • Do whatever it takes to stay connected with God/Goddess/Truth. Don’t stop the practices, the prayers, the rituals, the meditations, the readings, the writings, the “whatever works” for you to stay in touch with All That Is.
  6. His actions were what you would call mistakes-the actions of an unevolved being-and mistakes are not punishable by condemnation, but dealt with by providing the chance for correction, for evolution.
  7. The concept of “Age” as it relates to souls really has to do with levels of awareness, not length of “time.”
  8. No one comes to you by accident.
    There is no such thing as coincidence.
    Nothing occurs at random.
    Life is not a product of chance.
  9. If you cannot find a group whose consciousness matches your own, be the source of one. Others of like consciousness will be drawn to you.
  10. The best way to change the consciousness of others is by your example.
    If your example is not enough, form your own group-you be the source of the consciousness you wish others to experience. They will-when you do.
  11. For there is a little bit of Hitler in all of you-and it is only a matter of degree.
  12. It was the Buddha who said “Life is suffering.” The Buddha was right.
  13. Time is not a movement but a field through which you move-in this case on Spaceship Earth.
  14. And a way will be made known to you, because you have asked.
  15. Yet do not choose sex instead of love, but as a celebration of it. And do not choose power over, but power with. And do not choose fame as an end in itself, but as a means to a larger end. And do not choose success at the expense of others, but as a tool with which to assist others. And do not choose winning at any cost, but winning that costs others nothing, and even brings them gain as well.
  16. Go ahead and choose being better-but not better than others; rather, better than you were before.
    Go ahead and choose having more, but only so that you have more to give.
  17. You see beauty where you desire to see it. You see ugliness where you are afraid to see beauty.
  18. I can only experience what I am by experiencing what I am not.
  19. If you love another, you will not do anything that you believe could or would hurt that person. If there is any question or doubt, you will wait until you can get to clarity on the matter.
  20. The sexually active are no less qualified for enlightenment, no less spiritually evolved, than the sexually inactive.
  21. …nothing is “evil” lest thinking make it so.
  22. No action which causes hurt to another leads to rapid evolution.
  23. No action involving another may be taken without the other’s agreement and permission.
  24. Enjoy everything.
    Need nothing.
  25. Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship.
  26. Wisdom is knowledge applied.
  27. “Not needing” is a great freedom. It frees you, first, from fear: fear that there is something you won’t have; fear that there is something you have that you will lose; and fear that without a certain thing, you won’t be happy.
    Secondly, “not needing” frees you from anger. Anger is fear announced. When you have nothing to fear, you have nothing over which to be angry.
    You are not angry when you don’t get what you want, because your wanting it was simply a preference, not a necessity. You therefore have no fear associated with the possibility of not getting it. Hence, no anger.
    You are not angry when you see others doing what you don’t want them to do, because you don’t need them to do or not do any particular thing. Hence, no anger.
    You are not angry when someone is unkind, because you have no need for them to be kind. You have no anger when someone is unloving, because you have no need for them to love you. You have no anger when someone is cruel, or hurtful, or seeks to damage you, for you have no need for them to behave any other way, and you are clear that you cannot be damaged.
    You do not even have anger should someone seek to take your life, because you do not fear death.
    When fear is taken from you, all else can be taken from you and you will not be angry.
    You know inwardly, intuitively, that everything you’ve created can be created again, or-more importantly-that it doesn’t matter.
    When you find Inner Peace, neither the presence nor the absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be the Creator of your state of mind or the cause of your experience of being.
    This does not mean that you reject all things of the body. Far from it. You experience being fully in your body and the delights of that, as you never have before.
    Yet your involvement with things of the body will be voluntary, not mandatory. You will experience bodily sensations because you choose to, not because your are required to in order to feel happy or to justify sadness.
    This one simple change-seeking and finding peace within-could, were it undertaken by everyone, end all wars, eliminate conflict, prevent injustice, and bring the world to everlasting peace.
    There is no other formula necessary, or possible. World peace is a personal thing!
    What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.
  28. There is perfection in everything. Strive to see the perfection. This is the change of consciousness of which I speak.
    Need nothing. Desire everything. Choose what shows up.
    Feel your feelings. Cry your cries. Laugh your laughs. Honor your truth. Yet when all the emotion is done, be still and know that I am God.
  29. When in doubt, always err on the side of compassion.
  30. No one does anything evil, given his model of the world.
    Put another way, all are doing the best they can at any given moment.
    All actions of everyone depend on the data at hand.
  31. Embrace every circumstance, own every fault, share every joy, contemplate every mystery, walk in every man’s shoes, forgive every offense (including your own), heal every heart, honor every person’s truth, adore every person’s God, protect every person’s rights, preserve every person’s dignity, promote every person’s interests, provide every person’s needs, presume every person’s holiness, present every person’s greatest gifts, produce every person’s blessing, and pronounce every person’s future secure in the assured love of God.
  32. Speak humbly of yourself, lest someone mistake your Highest Truth for a boast.
  33. Speak respectfully, that no one be dishonored.
  34. When someone enters your life unexpectedly, look for the gift that person has come to receive from you.
  35. Envy is a natural emotion urging you to strive to be more…It is a motivator. It is pure desire. It gives birth to greatness.
    jealousy, on the other hand, is a fear-driven emotion making one willing for the other to have less. It is an emotion often based in bitterness. It proceeds from anger and leads to anger.
  36. Truth and God are found in the same place: in the silence.
    When you have found God, and when you have found truth, it is not necessary to talk about it. It is self-evident.
    If you are talking a lot about God, it is probably because you are still searching.
  37. Wisdom which comes from within is not nearly so easily discarded as wisdom which comes from another. You tend to hang on a lot longer to that which you’ve created than to that which you’ve been told.
  38. …what you think is what you get.
    What you fear is what you will draw to you.
    What you resist, persists.
    What you look at disappears-giving you a chance to recreate it all over again, if you wish, or banish it forever from your experience.
    What you choose, you experience.

An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1 by Neale Donald Walsch

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  • Nothing happens by chance.
  • You don’t have to take No for an answer,
  • My most common form of communication is through feeling. Feeling is the language of the soul.
  • I also communicate with thought. Thought and feelings are not the same, although they can occur at the same time. In communicating with thought, I often use images and pictures. For this reason, thoughts are more effective than mere words as tools of communication.
  • Words are really the least effective communicator.
  • The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.
  • Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth.
  • Such a statement produces the experience. For your thought about something is creative, and your word is productive, and your thought and your word together are magnificently effective in giving birth to your reality.
  • You will not have that for which you ask, nor can you have anything you want. This is because your very request is a statement of lack, and your saying you want a thing only works to produce that precise experience-wanting-in your reality.
    The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication, but a prayer of gratitude.
    When you thank God in advance for that which you choose to experience in your reality, you, in effect, acknowledge that it is there… in effect. Thankfulness is thus the most powerful statement to God; an affirmation that even before you ask, I have answered.
    Therefore never supplicate. Appreciate.
  • If, therefore, you beg and supplicate, there seems a much smaller chance that you will experience what you think you are choosing, because the Sponsoring Thought behind every supplication is that you do not have now what you wish. That Sponsoring Thought becomes your reality.
    The only Sponsoring Thought which could override this thought is the thought held in faith that God will grant whatever is asked, without fail. Some people have such faith, but very few.
    The process of prayer becomes much easier when, rather than having to believe that God will always say “yes” to every request, one understands intuitively that the request itself is not necessary. Then the prayer is a prayer of thanksgiving. It is not a request at all, but a statement of gratitude for what is so.
  • It is this doubt about ultimate outcome that has created your greatest enemy, which is fear. For if you doubt outcome, then you must doubt Creator-you must doubt God. And if you doubt God, you must live in fear and guilt all your life.
    If you doubt God’s intentions-and God’s ability to produce this ultimate result-then how can you ever relax? How can you ever truly find peace?
  • Every human thought, and every human action, is based in either love or fear. There is no other human motivation, and all other ideas are but derivatives of these two. They are simply different versions-different twists on the same theme.
  • Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms.
    Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, heals.
    Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.
  • You have been taught to live in fear.
  • Judge not, then, the karmic path walked by another. Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul’s reckoning.
  • So long as you entertain the notion that there is something or someone else out there “doing it” to you, you disempower yourself to do anything about it. Only when you say “I did this” can you find the power to change it.
  • The first step in changing anything is to know and accept that you have chosen it to be what it is. If you can’t accept this on a personal level, agree to it through your understanding that We are all One. Seek then to create change not because a thing is wrong, but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of Who You Are.
  • In the largest sense, all the “bad” things that happen are of your choosing. The mistake is not in choosing them, but in calling them bad. For in calling them bad, you call your Self bad, since you created them.
  • The world’s natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoils-are not created by you specifically. What is created by you is the degree to which these events touch your life.
  • Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.
  • But judge not, and neither condemn, for you know not why a thing occurs, nor to what end.
    And remember you this: that which you condemn will condemn you, and that which you judge, you will one day become.
    Rather, seek to change those things-or support others who are changing those things-which no longer reflect your highest sense of Who You Are.
    Yet, bless all-for all is the creation of God, through life living, and that is the highest creation.
  • Therefore bless every person and condition, and give thanks. Thus you affirm the perfection of God’s creation-and show your faith in it. For nothing happens by accident in God’s world, and there is no such thing as coincidence.
  • There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice. It is not appropriate to interfere with choice, nor to question it. It is particularly inappropriate to condemn it.
  • What is appropriate is to observe it, and then to do whatever might be done to assist the soul in seeking and making a higher choice. Be watchful, therefore, of the choices of others, but not judgmental. Know that their choice is perfect for them in this moment now-yet stand ready to assist them should the moment come when they seek a newer choice, a different choice-a higher choice.
  • Allow each soul to walk its path.
  • There is no coincidence, and nothing happens “by accident.”
  • The First Law is that you can be, do, and have whatever you can imagine. The Second Law is that you attract what you fear.
  • Emotion is the power which attracts. That which you fear strongly, you will experience. An animal-which you consider a lower form of life (even though animals act with more integrity and greater consistency than humans)-knows immediately if you are afraid of it. Plants-which you consider an even lower form of life-respond to people who love them far better than to those who couldn’t care less.
  • Emotion is energy in motion. When you move energy, you create effect, If you move enough energy, you create matter. Matter is energy conglomerated. Moved around. Shoved together. If you manipulate energy long enough in a certain way, you get matter.
    1. Thought is creative.
    2. Fear attracts like energy.
    3. Love is all there is.
  • Thoughts rooted in love will produce another.
    The Masters who have walked the planet are those who have discovered the secret of the relative world-and refused to acknowledge its reality. In short, Masters are those who have chosen only love. In every instance. In every moment. In every circumstance. Even as they were being killed, they loved their murderers. Even as they were being persecuted, they loved their oppressors.
  • There are no coincidences in the universe.
  • Your soul (subconscious, id, spirit, past, etc.) is the sum total of every feeling you’ve ever had (created). Your awareness of some of these is called your memory.
  • Words are more dynamic (thus, some might say more creative) than thought, because words are a different level of vibration from thought.
  • This will require tremendous mental and physical effort. It will entail constant, moment-to-moment monitoring of your every thought, word, and deed. It will involve continued choice-making-consciously.
  • So-do you want your life to “take off”? Begin at once to imagine it the way you want it to be-and move into that. Check every thought, word, and action that does not fall into harmony with that. Move away from those.
    When you have a thought that is not in alignment with your higher vision, change to a new thought, then and there. When you say a thing that is out of alignment with your grandest idea, make a note not to say something like that again. When you do a thing that is misaligned with your best intention, decide to make that the last time. And make it right with whomever was involved if you can.
  • It’s your words about it-“l’m broke,” “I haven’t a dime,” “1 don’t have any money”-that dictates how long you stay broke. It’s your actions surrounding it-feeling sorry for yourself, sitting around despondent, not trying to find a way out because “What’s the use, anyway?”-that create your long-term reality.
    The first thing to understand about the universe is that no condition is “good” or “bad.” It just is. So stop making value judgments.
    The second thing to know is that all conditions are temporary. Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.
  • Here’s why that is so, and how that works.
    1. I have created you in the image and likeness of God.
    2. God is the creator.
    3. You are three beings in one. You can call these three aspects of being anything you want: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; mind, body, and spirit; superconscious, conscious, subconscious.
    4. Creation is a process that proceeds from these three parts of your body. Put another way, you create at three levels. The tools of creation are: thought, word, and deed.
    5. All creation begins with thought (“Proceeds from the Father”). All creation then moves to word (“Ask and you shall receive, speak and it shall be done unto you”). All creation is fulfilled in deed (“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us”).
    6. That which you think of, but thereafter never speak of, creates at one level. That which you think of and speak of creates at another level. That which you think, speak, and do becomes made manifest in your reality.
    7. To think, speak, and do something which you do not truly believe is impossible. Therefore, the process of creation must include belief, or knowing. This is absolute faith. This is beyond hoping. This is knowing of a certainty (“By your faith shall ye be healed”). Therefore, the doing part of creation always includes knowing. It is a gut-level clarity, a total certainty, a complete acceptance as reality of something.
    8. This place of knowing is a place of intense and incredible gratitude. It is a thankfulness in advance. And that, perhaps, is the biggest key to creation: to be grateful before, and for, the creation. Such taking for granted is not only condoned, but encouraged. It is the sure sign of mastery. All Masters know in advance that the deed has been done.
    9. Celebrate and enjoy all that you create, have created. To reject any part of it is to reject a part of yourself. Whatever it is that is now presenting itself as part of your creation, own it, claim it, bless it, be thankful for it. Seek not to condemn it (“God damn it! “), for to condemn it is to condemn yourself.
    10. If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing. Do this magnificently and the rest of the world will follow you. Ask it to. Call for it to. Say, “I am the Life and the Way, follow me.”

    This is how to manifest God’s will “on Earth as it is in Heaven.”

  • Throw all negative thoughts out of your mental constructions. Lose all pessimism. Release all doubts. Reject all fears. Discipline your mind to hold fast to the original creative thought.
    When your thoughts are clear and steadfast, begin to speak them as truths. Say them out loud. Use the great command that calls forth creative power: I am. Make I-am statements to others. “I am” is the strongest creative statement in the universe. Whatever you think, whatever you say, after the words “I am” sets into motion those experiences, calls them forth, brings them to you.
  • The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.
    When you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts-thoughts that negate your highest idea about a thing-think again! I want you to do this, literally. If you think you are in a doldrum, in a pickle, and no good can come of this, think again. If you think the world is a bad place, filled with negative events, think again. If you think your life is falling apart, and it looks as if you’ll never get it back together again, think again.
    You can train yourself to do this. (Look how well you’ve trained yourself not to do it!)
  • Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you’re being right now.
  • You cannot resist something to which you grant no reality. The act of resisting a thing is the act of granting it life. When you resist an energy, you place it there. The more you resist, the more you make it real-whatever it is you are resisting.
    What you open your eyes and look at disappears. That is, it ceases to hold its illusory form.
    If you look at something-truly look at it-you will see right through it, and right through any illusion it holds for you, leaving nothing but ultimate reality in your sight. In the face of ultimate reality your puny illusion has no power. It cannot long hold you in its weakening grip. You see the truth of it, and the truth sets you free.
  • You should always want it to! There is nothing in your reality to hold onto. Yet if you do choose the illusion of your life over ultimate reality, you may simply recreate it-just as you created it to begin with. In this way you may have in your life what you choose to have and eliminate from your life what you no longer wish to experience.
    Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?
  • In truth, you cannot renounce anything-because what you resist persists. The true renunciate does not renounce, but simply chooses differently. This is an act of moving toward something, not away from something.
    You cannot move away from something, because it will chase you all over hell and back. Therefore resist not temptation-but simply turn from it. Turn toward Me and away from anything unlike Me.
  • We make real that to which we pay attention.
  • There is nothing scary about life, if you are not attached to results.
  • Choose, but don’t want.
  • That is why Masters are imperturbable in the face of what others might call calamity. A Master blesses calamity, for the Master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of Self. And the Master’s second life purpose is alwaysgrowth. For once one has fully Self realized, there is nothing left to do except be more of that.
  • Never do anything in relationship out of a sense of obligation. Do whatever you do out of a sense of the glorious opportunity your relationship affords you to decide, and to be, Who You Really Are.
  • First comes thought; the formative idea; the initial concept. Then comes the word. Most thoughts ultimately form themselves into words, which are often then written or spoken. This gives added energy to the thought, pushing it out into the world, where it can be noticed by others.
    Finally, in some cases words are put into action, and you have what you call a result; a physical world manifestation of what all started with a thought.
  • The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process.
  • Do the deed that you want to have the new thought about. Then say the words that you want to have your new thought about. Do this often enough and you’ll train the mind to think a new way.
  • Yet your mind is filled with reactive thought- thought that springs from the experience of others. Very few of your thoughts spring from self-produced data, much less self-produced preferences.
  • When you want to change a root thought, act in accordance with the new idea you have. But you must act quickly, or your mind will kill the idea before you know it. I mean that literally. The idea, the new truth, will be dead in you before you’ve had a chance to know it.
  • Your mind is right now filled with old thoughts. Not only old thoughts, but mostly someone else’s old thoughts. It’s important now, it’s time now, to change your mind about some things. This is what evolution is all about.
  • Doing is a function of the body. Being is a function of the soul.
  • …instead of thinking “I want success,” think “I have success.”
  • Jesus had such clarity. Before every miracle, He thanked Me in advance for its deliverance. It never occurred to Him not to be grateful, because it never occurred to Him that what He declared would not happen. The thought never entered His mind.
  • Yet at your stage of development do not be surprised if “worldly success” no longer concerns you.
  • People smoke and wonder why they get cancer.
    People ingest animals and fat and wonder why they get blocked arteries.
    People stay angry all their lives and wonder why they get heart attacks.
    People compete with other people-mercilessly and under incredible stress-and wonder why they have strokes.
    The not-so-obvious truth is that most people worry themselves to death.
    Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is-next to hate, which is deeply self destructive. Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. It also creates bio-chemical reactions which harm the body, producing everything from indigestion to coronary arrest, and a multitude of things in between.
    Health will improve almost at once when worrying ends.
    Worry is the activity of a mind which does not understand its connection with Me.
    Hatred is the most severely damaging mental condition. It poisons the body, and its effects are virtually irreversible.
    Fear is the opposite of everything you are, and so has an effect of opposition to your mental and physical health. Fear is worry magnified.
    Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots:
    anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It is impossible to have a healthy body under these conditions.
    Similarly-although to a somewhat lesser degree-conceit, self-indulgence, and greed lead to physical illness, or lack of well-being.
    All illness is created first in the mind.
  • Nothing occurs in your life-nothing-which is not first a thought. Thoughts are like magnets, drawing effects to you. The thought may not always be obvious, and thus clearly causative, as in, “I’m going to contract a terrible disease.” The thought may be (and usually is) far more subtle than that. (“I am not worthy to live.”) (“My life is always a mess.”) (“I am a loser.”) (“God is going to punish me.”) (“1 am sick and tired of my life! “)
    Thoughts are a very subtle, yet extremely powerful, form of energy. Words are less subtle, more dense. Actions are the most dense of all. Action is energy in heavy physical form, in heavy motion. When you think, say, and act out a negative concept such as “I am a loser,” you place tremendous creative energy into motion. Small wonder you come down with a cold. That would be the least of it.
    It is very difficult to reverse the effects of negative thinking once they have taken physical form. Not impossible-but very difficult. It takes an act of extreme faith. It requires an extraordinary belief in the positive force of the universe-whether you call that God, Goddess, the Unmoved Mover, Prime Force, First Cause, or whatever.
  • You can “solve some of the health problems,” as you put it, by solving the problems in your thinking. Yes, you can heal some of the conditions you have already acquired (given yourself), as well as prevent major new problems from developing. And you can do this all by changing your thinking.
  • It means, My son, your body was designed to last forever.
  • The soul conceives, the mind creates, the body experiences.
  • That is why it is said, if you can cause your body to experience something (take abundance, for example), you will soon have the feeling of it in your soul, which will conceive of itself in a new way (namely, abundant), thus presenting your mind with a new thought about that. From the new thought springs more experience, and the body begins living a new reality as a permanent state of being.
  • I AM THAT I AM.
    And YOU ARE THAT YOU ARE. You cannot not be. You can change form all you wish, but you cannot fail to be. Yet you can fail to know Who You Are-and in this failing, experience only the half of it.
  • If karma is the innate desire to be better, to be bigger, to evolve and to grow, and to look at past events and experiences as a measure of that, then, yes, karma does exist.

WordPress Tutorials

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How to Install Locally

  1. How to Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer – 16
  2. WordPress 2.9 e-Commerce – 251

How to Transfer

  1. WordPress All-in-One For Dummies – 163
  2. Beginning WordPress 3 – 39
  3. WordPress 3 Complete – 295

How to Create a Sticky Post

  1. WordPress – The Missing Manual – 104
  2. WordPress 3.0 jQuery – 182

How to Add a Favicon

  1. WordPress – Visual QuickStart Guide, Second Edition – 165
  2. How to Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer – 100
  3. Teach Yourself Visually WordPress – 132
  4. WordPress 3 Cookbook – 43

How to Modify the Loop

  1. WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook – 62
  2. Building WordPress Themes from Scratch – 37
  3. How to Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer – 131