Thirty years ago I read my first book on how our thoughts attract and shape our reality . Science of Mind , the book by Ernest Holmes that became a philosophical and spiritual movement still lives on my bedside table , and at one time was part of a giant pile of books - The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity , by Catherine Ponder , As a Man Thinketh by James Allen , The Seth materials , followed by so many more notwithstanding the more simpler fare like The Secret ? I considered myself an immersive student and was determined to be a master !
As an intuitive doing readings and even before that I could tell that there was a relationship between us , and the Big Mind of the Universe . I had the stories of my clients to witness . In my own life I knew the potential of a change in thinking , being and doing intimately . Clean and sober ( now over 30 years ) transforming my life until it was no longer recognizable I know this stuff works . And I was , and am a walking example of it , but not a consistent one . I still have 30 or so vision boards to prove it . Yet today I believe that ? s a matter of perspective .
When I first began playing with the Law of Attraction , and other universal laws of manifesting reality , I found myself swinging wildly between amazing success and awe to ( in my opinion ) dire failure . To be frank it all made me so nutty and wondering what I wasn ? t getting in the equation . Why was it that sometimes it was so easy to attract something into my life and others it seemed like I was slogging uphill in a river of molasses ? There had to be a solution or at the very least a better understanding of how we create reality , or , as I ? ve come to know how we co-create reality .
When I think back in my case , when my world wasn ? t working according to the ? secret laws ? of the universe it was always when I forgot that I wasn ? t alone and when I stubbornly had to have things my way . When I was running my life on the fuel of self will run riot I wasn ? t considering that there might be a higher order of things , that my attachment to the form of the way I thought things should appear may be the issue . That , and the other fact that my conditioning and strident need for certainty and false control didn ? t help or that I didn ? t understand the part about consistency , karma , and the consequence of action , cultural and familial conditioning , etc . The list can go on . It ? s not as simple as ? think about it and get the prize ?.
Hindsight being 20 / 20 is also a beautiful lesson in humility and surrender .
As I look at the life I have been gifted with it is nothing like what I imagined and yet it has certain uncanny elements that remain consistent with my desired outcomes .
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