Thoughtful Living

The lady, I will call her Ann, became psychic through a near death experience 25 years earlier. She held a weekly spiritual meeting at her house. I was invited to attend. It was the best thing that could have happened to me. There, over the next few years, I learned to integrate my near death experience into feeling comfortable about living a physical life again.

At the meetings we practiced meditation, guided meditation, and prayer. We worked with our belief systems. We learned to notice how our thoughts, emotions, and beliefs colored our actions, and learned to direct those actions into positive pursuits. We read spiritual books, and often had someone with knowledge to come and talk with us.

The spiritual path is easy to understand, but not so easy to walk. I will outline the path for you.

Love is the ultimate goal, and fear is what you leave behind. On a scale of one to ten, put fear at one and love at ten. Your goal is to overcome the fear in your life and move toward love which casts out all fear.

All negative thoughts and emotions are the result of fear: depression, anxiety, hate, jealousy, and all other negative thoughts and emotions are the direct result of fear. The method of overcoming fear is love, it is the only method that works forever. Near death experiencers feel great love and compassion, they come back with no fear of death or life.

Now, the only way to get love is to give it, and the methods are simple. You will recognize them as spiritual principles.

Forgive others, all others, of all transgressions or hurt they may have caused you. Do this now, without them having to ask you for forgiveness. Forgiveness frees you from negative thoughts and emotions, cancels the past and frees your future.

A non-judging attitude keeps you free of negativity. Here we are talking about condemnation judgment. Allow others to be different than yourself. There is room in this world for all religions, races, political systems, etc. Science and religion can co-exist. One is not better than the other. Wise men and women are able to utilize the best in both belief systems. If everyone realized how little truth we know about our world they would understand.

Love, the more you own it, the less negative you are. Love is an energy, a force, and owning, using, giving, and receiving love is what life is all about. Do random acts of kindness, open doors, smile, help others, you learn by doing, it is the only way.

Whether you realize it or not, your daily thoughts and emotions create your future. Positive thoughts create a good future for you, and negative thoughts create a bad future for you. The old saw “you reap whatsoever you sow” is spiritually and physically accurate. You make your own luck, you are responsible for the direction of your life. No one “gets away” with anything. Whatever you do boomerangs  right back to you. You are eternal, you can not fail, but you can make your own life miserable or joyful, the result depends on you.

Next about healing.