You have to find a way to stop the mind chatter. The only way you can truly listen to your inner self is to have a still mind. Also, follow your intuition as best as you can. There really is no other way though, you must learn how to have a still mind in order to hear directions from the ethers.

Hello,

I have given up earthly things, myself, but then I have to say that because I have given up earthly things, earthly things have come to me as I need them. I'm not rich, although I could be, but my choice has been to NOT hoard or gather wealth, since I could help so many more poeple if I just accepted a minimum salary and keep the extra money that would have gone to me in the non-profit school so that we can keep the prices low and expand the services of the school. I have what I need, that's all that's important. I have a bunch of clothes, some sparkly cheap jewelry, and a couple guitars, what more can a girl want? I don't need a lot of stuff. Why gather wealth? Living needs are enough. This is not a time for amassing wealth.

If you ask God for something, who are you asking? God is not outside of you, so you are asking yourself if you ask God,since you ARE a part of Godself, right? So there is no where outside yourself to ask, not even God. "He's" not out there.

If you use all the jedi mind tricks you've learned about manifesting, well, isn't that just another way to be greedy and get what YOU want? We have to be so careful with the ego. It hides in spiritual teachings as well, and most of the poeple who are all gung ho about law of attraction and manifesting skills are pretty greedy, actually, and they've just found another cool way to justify and serve greed.

I don't know what works for others,but my choice has been to surrender all my own desires and wants for material things, the perfect this or that situation,and just be in service to divine in whatever way I can be. The good thing is, that I wasn't expecting,is that I have a pretty good life after all. I don't have a big fat savings or anything like that, but I have to say life is pretty good! Igetto live in thecountryinEcuador, even if only inacabin, and I have my beloved spouse and kitties with me, and soon when thecenter opens inEcaudor that I've been working my butt off for, there will be lots of like minded people. The universe arranges a goodlife for you if you just give your lifeinservice.Trust me on that one.

My advice is to jut be in service in whatever way you can be, and let theuniversesort itout. Your mind powers for manifesting won'thold a candle to what the powers that be will give you if only you let go of your human plans and be come in service as eternal being to that which you know to be divine light and love. Everything else will take care of itself.

Nah, consciousness doesn't need the physical body to expereince itself. Why does consciousness do what it does? Because it can!  Physical reality is not needed. However, there must be some part of Godself that is curious about it and having a physical vehicle in it. There can be no other explanation.

None of the life story is yours personally, since all lives that have ever been lived are yours. If it is all one self, all these lives are your own.

Welcome to being awake and aware! 

indeed something climactic is brewing!

Your hair has nothing to do with your inner strength, so don't give any more thought to that. Otherwise peopel who are bald would be quite at a disadvantage, and I know some seriously strong bald people, strong emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually. So that idea is a myth. Let that go.

Your strength is reflected in your words and deeds. That is how people know you are strong. If you are talking about physical strength, well, better start lifting weights if that's what you're after! Just kidding. Seriously, your strength has nothing to do with your outward appearance. Forget about that idea. Otherwise only perfectly good looking people are strong. That simply isn't so.

You have the hint though, it's the worrying about everything. You KNOW what it is already that is creating this disruption in your physical form, and you picked up that programming from your mother. It's time to stop worrying! What's in your power anyway? Not much. Only your inner landscape is in your power to control, and after that, it's up to physical reality to decide how it's going to reflect that. Only YOU have the power to stop your worrying, no one else can do this for you, so this is a mental and emotional habit that is time for you to break now.

Whenever you catch yourself worrying, just stop. Reassign your thoughts to something else, something in the present. 10 minutes later when you catch yourself worrying again, just stop and reassign your attention. It takes discipline, time and consistency, but after a while you will notice that you are worrying less often, and this will be a sign that you are breaking the mental and emotional habit that worrying is. It's just a habit that you have gotten deeply rutted in, that's all. However, you can break that habit if you focus on it for a while. It took me a year of work to stop my mind chatter enough to meditate effectively, and every day I had to work hard at reassigning the mind to just be still, in the present moment, but eventually the effects could be seen of my hard work on stopping the mind. 

Good luck! Let us know how it goes! Use little notes around the house to remind you to stop worrying, and think of something nice. Use a timer that goes off every half hour (that MotiveAider thing works great, get one of those, google it, about $50-75, don't know what they cost now). put something there to remind you to change your habit.

There isn't anything specifically you have to do now that you have "voted" for the light. Just be yourself, continue to grow, continue to develop your consciousness and awareness, and let life unfold.

As for finding a spiritual focus, since church is not your thing anymore, then maybe you should look to spiritual groups that are more to your liking. There are meditation groups everywhere in the world, and there must be some that are near you. You will make friends with people in these groups and find a whole new set of friends to hang out with and talk about what you are experiencing.

In buddhist teachings right fellowship is one of the things a person must develop, so find your right fellowhip! It is there, somewhere, right in your town.

Okey dokey! See answer below!

For many, it will not be as conscious a choice as is may be for others. For children, they will be choosing with their hearts. There are children who kill animals for fun, and there are children who could never do such a thing. It is the heart that is making the choice, as to which path to follow in the future.

My suggestion would be to help your children develop in their hearts and compassion, and if you catch a child doing something that is "dark" you might want to suggest another way for them, and explain to them the difference. They are choosing by the way they act in the world, by the energy in their hearts, and the makeup of their human consciousness.

Don't worry, children are not being left out of this choice. They ARE choosing by the type of being they are becoming. If they are becoming "dark" they will be in the darker version of Earth that they match. If they are "love" they are choosing the lighter version of Earth.

Yes, indeed that does sound like a dilemma. It is too bad that we don't live in the Celtic traditions. They used to make agreements for about 5-10 years, and if they wanted to renew their marriage they would. However, if they parted, they will both still be in the village, and see the kids every day, as the kids were really raised by the whole village, not just the nuclear family like they are now.

Since we're not in that era, the unfortunate thing is that one or the other parent will experience more separation from the children than the other, when ways are parted. However, children are very resilient, they won't be damaged, especially at that age. They will get used to whatever arrangement you and your wife work out very quickly. Children are more able to accept what is in the moment than adults, so they won't suffer nearly as much as you will! 

Your happiness is more important to your children than your presence, so that when they see you they are inspired and happy instead of surrounded by your unhappiness that staying in an unhealthy relationship would create. It is better to not see them as much than to be a heavy energy in their reality in a situation you are not happy in.

Don't worry, kids are like rubber! They bounce back from absolutely everything! You, on the other hand, will have some processing to do, that's for sure. You sound like a very aware person though, so it will work out. You will find your way.

Yes!!! Absolutely! I'm starting to record world peace meditations because no one is just giving them away for free in a group of meditations, there's just one you can find here and there, so it's important for someone to put this out there for no money, so no one is left out, and I finally got the mic working to input into my computer, so I started about a week ago and will be uploading them as I get them done on http://www.umsonline.org/Teleconference/World/World-Peace-Meditation.html and you can download them there.

Make CDs out of them, share them with your group, we'll get some transcripts for them and you can even read them to your group, or share with friends and family, it's time to get everyone focused in an effective way to use our consciousness to create what we want. It's all FREE! You're welcome to post these meditations on your website, in your blogs, forums, whatever you want. No strings attached, just give credit as to where they came from, there will be directions on how to do this. I'm also going to start a website for this too, http://www.1worldpeacemeditations.com  Check every week or so and a new one will be there.

If you have some other ideas, feel free to contatct the University of Metaphysical Sciences office at ums -(at)- umsonline.org because we are happy to work with anyone in any way whatsoever to make the world peace meditations thing help in any way that it can.

Thank you for asking! Yes! let's work together, and we can start by meditating together on World Peace! 

Namaste,

Christine

When it comes to doing your work in the world, what would be the worst thing that will happen if you fail? No one would read your book you wrote, or no one will come for counseling sessions or reiki sessions, no one would come to your classes, or even worse, maybe someone will make fun of what you are doing and ridicule you! The work I do in the world, the youtube vids, my writing, just imagine some of the negative comments that have come up from negative peopel. I even had some guy in his underwear make nasty videos about me. People are totally nuts! The negative ones are really nuts. So yes, there might be failure, and even attack! 

The question to ask yourself is: Will you survive that? Look at what the worst outcome will be, and then determine if you can survive that. Sure, maybe nothing will come of it, or you will make some kind of mistake, or maybe someone will ridicule or attack you. However, that's just goes with the work. If you're on a planet working with a primitive consciousness species (and yes, humans are quite primitive in many ways, that's why so many of us are disappointed in the way the world is and want to change it), you're going to run into some of the more negative primates, and maybe not even be accepted! 

However, you have to be willing to face failure or negative people if you want to do your work in the world. I have found that the negative stuff, or the lack of people finding what I offer, is very small compared to the feeling I have of feeling fulfilled that I have done my work in the world. If anyone comes to find it, great, if no one does, so be it. I don't mind whether millions of people partake of what I offer or not. Whoever does, that's who I'm meant to help. It doesn't matter how MANY people you help in the world, it just matters if you did your part to help at all. If it doesn't turn into a huge Deepak Chopra sort of thing, so what? If you helped a few, that's all it takes to change the world. If each of us can touch the part of the world we can reach, the sum is greater than it's parts.

I'm going to load up an article in another couple days that I got inspired to write about from a conversation from a lovely person I know, about how taking the action to do our work in the world is the cure for depression for those of us who are called to be of service to humanity in some way or another. We are not fulfilled unless we at least try. If people partake of our offering to the world or not, that's less important than the feeling we have about ourselves for at least trying! Failure or success is irrelevant.

There are so many people in need right now, don't worry, you won't fail. I can promise you, there will be people who need what you have to offer. Start small, and let bigger steps come as they do. I started University of Metaphysical Sciences with a $25 Mac classic, second one ever made, the size of a shoebox and an index card sized screen, that's all I could afford at the time, and $200 to my name. It grew from there, one step at a time. Just start! The rest will come later. Forget about success or failure. I had no idea UMS would take off like it did, I did it more becuase I had to put all my teachings in linear order and in a school format more becuase it was what I wanted to do. I was not driven by hopes for success or money, I still had my day job, I just was drive by the fact that this is what I'm built for, what I'm made to do, and for you it's the same, you're built to do this, so do it! Failure is irrelevant. You just have to serve your purpose! 

Oh, the title for the article is: Cure for Depression: Do Your Work in the World! 

When memories come flooding in from the past, just turn away. Turn your attention elsewhere. The past is gone, can't do anything about it now, might have really been a bummer, but all you have is now and your future. It is up to you waht you do with it. No sense in poisoning this brand new moment with memories of the past. Stop reliving this stuff, it's useless. Focus on what is in front of you, right here, right now, as if you were just born this moment, and you have no past. That's the trick to getting out of the sufferening the past is creating for you. Simply give it NO attention whatsoever now. It's just a broken record playing in your head now, and it wasn't a good movie, so move on to a new movie. You can invent something completely new.

As for people who kill themselves, it's one of the expereinces every soul must have on the reincarnational cycle, so have no judgement. It was that person's turn to play that experience out. Those who experience the loss had to experience that too. You have to take all the courses in human reality, not just the nice ones. Sometimes the pain just gets to be too much and some people simply cannot stop playing the old records that make them so unhappy and they cannot see any other way for relief of the mental and emotional pain.

You are aware enough not to make that choice, you have the ability to turn your attention away from the past and reset yourself into a whole new reality. Take that opportunity. It takes discipline, but you can stop to mind from churning on old experience. It's time to have new ones. It's time to turn your attention elsewhere now.

Hi,

Old habits are hard to break, and take time, especially ones that were started since childhood, as we are all taught from the beginning of life that we have to look good, sexy, all that. You know exactly what to do, to release it and shrug your shoulders and say, "Oh well, I didn't get the perfect body in this lifetime, so be it." There are other lives where you had the perfect body and that brought with it a whole different set of problems! Just keep at it, keep awareness of it when it comes up, and redirect your energy into truth instead of societal pressure to look like a model, which is born of illusion.

Just be at peace with the imperfection that is present in the body, and be thankful for what you HAVE! Sometimes, when I'm thinking that I wish I had a better body or a more perfect image, I just remember that there are millions of people in third world countries that would trade places with me in an instant, imperfect body and all. There are paraplegics who would trade places with me in an instant and wouldn't mind being 20 pounds overweight if they could just walk again.

I always find that I can put things back in perspective when I realize what I have to be grateful for, even if I wish I was 20 or 30 pounds lighter (yes, I gain and lose 20 pounds often, gain it, then work hard to lose it, gain it, lose it, argh!). However, I can walk, I can talk, I can hear everything, I can taste everything, I can feel everything (even though walking and feeling everythign was a bit compromised by a car accident I was in a couple years ago as a passenger in the back seat). Still, everything works, and I consider myself lucky to even be here! I almost died more than once in this lifetime! 

So, a bit of a flaw in the image? Oh well, doesn't matter. Just enjoy the life as you have it, and consider yourself lucky that everything works! There are a lot of people who would give anything if they could walk again, or hear things, or see things again, even if they had to be a little overweight to have it. This is how I put everything back in perspective when I start thinking about the societal pressure to look like a model! That is just illusion, societal pressure created out of illusion, and the reality of it is that you have a GREAT body if everything works! Even if everything doesn't, the fact that you can function normally is a true blessing. And if a husband leaves just because he thinks you're 10 or 20 pounds overweight, good riddance! Ha! No, seriously, love is deeper than the image of the body, including your love for yourself.