The Light Within

There is that within us which lights us up and if we simply allow ourselves to be a vehicle for the Divine. We don't need to go in search of anything because we'll find everything we need is already here and already within. The Love of the Divine, the Joy of the Divine, the Abundance of the Divine, and the Wholeness of the Divine burns bright within us. However, we need to make a conscious choice to turn within and connect with the luminescence that we are.

This time of year (or any time of year, actually) can bring up feelings that are uncomfortable or make us unhappy.  Maybe we feel lonely or unlovable. Maybe we feel we don't have enough money or talent or good looks. Or maybe we feel like a victim or a failure. And what are those feelings but a turning away from the Truth and a refusal to look at the Light of Truth within? We can follow the light within to the Greater Light and a realization that we are the out-picturing of God.

Today is Christmas and it symbolizes the birth of the light within us all. We are the perfect union of God in man (and woman). It is time to remember our relationship to Spirit and begin to step into our courage and let our own brand of light shine so we can make the difference we are here to make.

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

Each of us should seek that beam of light within and follow it to the great Light - the Light that is in everything. We must acquiesce to It, and surrender all that has made us unhappy, all that has isolated us from It. Only then can God fully pronounce Itself through us and in us, and personalize Itself as us.

              ~Light

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" who can see beyond your doubts and fears and ask the right questions so you can dive deep into your soul. She is also a master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

Unwrapping the Real Self

There is within each one of us an impulse to be our 'real self' and to express the Divine in our own brilliant way, but we've gotten off the path somehow. We've followed someone else's idea of who we are and what we should be doing and maybe we're going in circles trying to find our way home. 

We may get distracted by self-doubt, by wanting to know the outcome even before we start, by choosing comfort over growth, by not claiming our power, and by not owning up to our Truth that we are the Divine in action. We wait for the perfect time to begin and while we are waiting, the world is being robbed of a most valuable asset: us. We have come here to make a difference but we can't make that difference if we hide out.

Do we stand behind the walls of comfort and safety? Do we water down our truth in order to fit in or to be accepted? What gifts have we kept buried? How are we hiding our passion, our courage, our boldness? Where do we play it safe, not take a risk, not dare to stand up or stand out.

It's time to unleash the 'real you.' The 'real you' is wonderful and marvelous. The 'real you' is courageous and bold. The 'real you' is caring and compassionate. And the 'real you' might be cranky and ornery. And the 'real you' might be needy and whiny. And it is all the wonderful tapestry of our life. Are we open to loving ourselves anyway? What a great holiday gift that would be!

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

There is an inner urge in our own minds to grow, to expand, to break down the barriers of previous limitations, and to ever widen our experience. This persistent urge is a Divine influence, and irresistible force, and constitutes the greatest impulse in human experience. Mostly misinterpreted and misunderstood, ...it is still the urge back of all accomplishment, the promise of all fulfillment.         ~Living Without Fear

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" who can see beyond your doubts and fears and ask the right questions so you can dive deep into your soul. She is also a master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

The Quest to Feel Good

New Thought has been called the 'feel good' religion. We talk a lot about moving through life with 'grace and ease.' We want to manifest our dreams and desires 'easily and effortlessly.' We look for signs. We ask our guides. We are told if something 'feels good' than it is probably a 'yes' and if it doesn't feel good it is probably a 'no.' And so our life becomes about doing what 'feels good.'
I think we need to move beyond that mindset. 

If we want to create something new in our life, we may have to be dedicated and disciplined to think new thoughts and create new patterns of behavior. These new thoughts and new behaviors may bring us to the very edge of our comfort zone and take us on a path of the unknown which will very likely not feel good. In fact, 'feeling good' may help us cover up those ideas that will lead to growth and transformation.

So, doing what makes us feel good may not be the answer. Relying on the Divine instead of relying on what we can see doesn't always feel good; in fact, it feels scary. I gave very personal talks all month at CPL Sedona and it didn't really feel good; it felt self-centered, egotistical, and vulnerable. Taking that step into the limelight or having the courage to disagree yet speak our truth is very uncomfortable and doesn't feel good. 

So, if you buy into the idea that you only want to do things that make you feel good, you'll likely never grow, never dream, and never get to experience what it might look like to actually open your heart and mind to your infinite possibilities.

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

Developing confidence in ourselves, in our ability to meet and handle all undesirable situations, requires that we must have confidence in that Something which is greater than we are. Then we will have spiritual self-reliance. 

When this is done the lesser must always submit to the greater. Weakness will give way to strength, despair will turn to hope, hate will become love, failure will become success, and sickness will dissolve into health. 

The action that takes place is not one of despotic or overruling harshness, but one that moves in harmony, love, beauty, warmth, and order, quietly transforming all that is unlike it.

      

            ~The Spiritual Universe and You

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

 

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" who can see beyond your doubts and fears and ask the right questions so you can dive deep into your soul. She is also a master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

 

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

Learning the Rules

We all have many roles: husband, wife, mother, father, sister, brother, friend, boss, employee, leader, follower, church member, student, teacher, rebel, peacemaker, human being, spiritual being, business owner - and the list goes on and on. These are the various ways we identify ourselves and they generally seem to come with a set of rules so we can assess how well we are doing at any of these given roles. But, who made those rules?

Well, the rules I made up had me firmly planted in a 'good box.' I made up ideas of what a good daughter, a good mother, a good minister, or a good friend looked like. The problem is, there is little room in the 'good box' for feelings that make me uncomfortable.

So what has been the end result of me making up all of these weird rules? Just take a look at the picture. The result is a lot of emotional bypassing, pretending, and expending a lot of effort to navigate the waters of life. The result is feeling like I've never ever been completely myself. The result is that I feel like I have to hide the aspects of me that live outside the box and outside the rules. The result is that I don't trust my own wisdom.

What rules have you made up for yourself? What roles are you playing? What box have you erected? Where do you feel trapped and not living fully or expressing fully as yourself? How have you not trusted your own wisdom and your own brilliance and looked to someone else? When is it time to start thinking for yourself and trust yourself? Have you been running away from your shadow because it isn't love and light? Where are you pretending and not being authentic?

Here's the one rule: There is only God - and you are it. This is the one rule worthy of keeping on a piece of paper in your back pocket. 

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

All conditions have a sequence of cause and effect as soon as any particular condition exists it may continue to project lesser conditions around it. These secondary causes, however, are projections and never things in themselves.  

We become caught in a sequence of these negative conditions.  We come to believe in them as positive within themselves and thus are caught in a perpetual trap.

The way to escape from this dilemma is to look through the condition to the primary or First Cause where energy, intelligence or power exists without any limiting circumstances whatsoever.  

      

            ~Lessons in Spiritual Mind Healing

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

 

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" who can see beyond your doubts and fears and ask the right questions so you can dive deep into your soul. She is also a master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

 

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

Time for a Treat

Spiritual Mind Treatment is not prayer in the normal way we think of prayer. We are not asking a God outside of us to answer a request, hoping for a positive answer and making bargains to get what we want. It is a scientific and methodical way to change the way we think and believe so that our subconscious patterns change in order for our life and experiences to change. Way more than affirmations, it is affirmations on steroids. But in order for it to work in our lives, we have to use it and we have to practice it. 

So often we are quick to use alternative healing modalities and slow to use spiritual mind treatment. We go on the internet, we use the magic lights, the magic cards, and the magic crystals. We pay money for shamans and oils and supplements. And that is all good, but how about including spiritual mind treatment with that as well? Maybe we'd get better results or quicker results. This is the crux of what we teach in the Science of Mind philosophy.

Spiritual Mind Treatment isn't about hoping for the best and it isn't about changing God. It is about changing us; it is about aligning our own mind to the Truth that we teach; it is about using this spiritual tool to create new neural pathways and new subconscious patterns. We spend a lot of money buying books and taking seminars from people who are selling to us the very things we teach.

It is time to listen to our own brilliance, our own voice, and our own Truth. We've had this answer all along. Isn't it time to put it to use in our own lives and prove what we've been teaching? You bet!

What challenges or obstacles are you experiencing now? What limiting beliefs are running the show? Where are you trying to make things happen on your own? What if the answer to all your problems was in Spiritual Mind Treatment? You'd say, "Wow, that was easy!"

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

Treatment is not for the purpose of making things happen; it is to provide, within ourselves, an avenue through which they may happen.[Science of Mind]

In the Science of Mind, which is a conscious use of the creative energy of the Law of Life, mental treatment is the art, the act, and the science of using this Law for the purpose of producing a definite, objective, manifest result. [This Thing Called Life]

Prayer is for the purpose of changing our thinking so we can get rid of what we do not like and have more of the good we do like. [The Magic of the Mind] 

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

 

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" who can see beyond your doubts and fears and ask the right questions so you can dive deep into your soul. She is also a master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

 

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

Getting Out of the Hole

Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters*: Chapter 1: I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost ... I am helpless. It isn't my fault. It takes me forever to find a way out. Chapter 2: I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again. I can't believe I am in the same place but it isn't my fault. It still takes a long time to get out. Chapter 3: I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in ... it's a habit. My eyes are open and I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately. Chapter 4: I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it. Chapter 5: I walk down another street.

The hole represents those ideas and beliefs that keep us stuck and simply understanding them may not be enough to take us to Chapter 5. Growing up, I learned how to hide my feelings so I could navigate my parents' feelings; never showing or telling what I wanted or needed. I came to believe something was wrong with me and I couldn't be myself if I wanted to fit in or be loved. Looking back, I don't think I was ever completely myself. I am still working in Chapter 3 for my "mac daddy" false belief of "I'm not enough / I'm not good enough / there's something wrong with me." 

What about you? How are your early messages and beliefs about who you are still leading you to fall into the hole in the sidewalk? Are you afraid to ask for what you need or want? Are you afraid to appear needy? Or weak? Or assertive? Or arrogant? Are you afraid to sell yourself because you don't want to seem pushy? Do you push away good that is seeking you?  How easy is it for you to receive? Are you afraid to speak up, speak out, or speak your Truth? Have you settled for a life that didn't seem to be one of your choosing? Where do you make excuses in your life? What do you feel you don't deserve? Where and how have you given up? Where do you not let yourself be seen? Where are you holding back? How do your buttons get pushed? How does it make you feel when someone else gets what you want? Whose truth are you living?

There is something deep within calling me to step out and make my truth known. Is something deep calling you? Now is the time to be heard and seen!

* by Portia Nelson

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

Unity does not mean uniformity. Life has set the stamp of individuality upon everything, from a blade of grass to a person. There is unity at the center, variety at the surface. These variations are separate and distinct without being separated or isolated. Variety feeds on the unity in which it is rooted and expands through a consciousness of being one with the whole.       

                   ~ Words That Heal Today

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" who can see beyond your doubts and fears and ask the right questions so you can dive deep into your soul. She is also a master energy healer, utilizing her own special brand of intentional energy to help release each person's inner brilliance and wholeness. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

It Isn't Over

The last Sunday of 2014, everyone who attended the service at CPL Sedona had an opportunity to write what we wanted to experience or create in 2015 and what we were willing to release in 2015 and seal it in an envelope. I mailed those out this past week and I opened my envelope and was surprised at the top of the page I wrote: "2015: My Year to Show Up."

At first glance, I immediately thought that I really didn't show up more than normal. I was basically doing the same things: working at Gore and working at CPL Sedona. I was still showing up every Sunday, teaching class, attending the Wednesday night concerts, going to my monthly game night, and playing Bingo once a month as well. So, on the surface, things were the same. And I can say I was a bit disappointed. 

But when I reflected longer, I realized I was showing 

up deeper, showing up more authentically, and showing up more for myself. I facilitated a correspondence course for an inmate in Alabama, helping him work through issues of anger, frustration, self-acceptance, and shame. This helped me work through my own feelings. I hired a coach who is gifted as seeing past my wall and fear and is a guide on my heroine's journey. I am showing up for myself, moving deeper into myself, and into my power. And it is scary.

What has your year looked like so far? What did you decide to create or experience this year? How have you moved forward with that? What limiting ideas are you willing to release? What do you say "enough" to? There's still time. How can you show up and create something new?

Dragon-slaying, troll dancing, and weed whacking can be a piece of cake once you take that first step.

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

When a problem confronts you, take it into the silence of your consciousness.  Instead of thinking of the problem, think of the answer.  God does not have problems, therefore, the Divine Mind is the answer to every human problem.  Principles never have problems.  Problems are solved by bringing them under the control of principles.  The problem is dissolved as the principle flows through it to the correct answer.    ~ This Thing Called You

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" and master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

Change Starts With Us

We have a saying, "Change your thinking, change your life" and so often it seems as if we want others to change. We want others to be nicer, to be kinder, and to be more considerate. We want others to be more responsible, to reach out to us, to step up and help out. We want others to forgive, to apologize, to be less angry, and to stop pushing our buttons. So while we may want things to change in our life, we don't always want to be the one to make the first move. 

How many times have we not used our inner wisdom and made the needed changes that we know will result in increased happiness or success? How many times do we keep doing the same things over and over because we've had some past success, even if it isn't working now? How often do we seem to demand that others change to our way of thinking and behaving? I wonder how many ways we are keeping our good from ourselves, whether it is in health, relationships, or finances simply because we continue to hang onto to old ideas or old patterns.

We are each brilliant and magnificent and we don't need to look outside of ourselves for validation or for proof of our value. We only need to look within and remember that everything we're looking for is already here; in fact, we ARE what we're looking for. Instead of hoping and wishing that things were different, we need to turn our thinking around from looking 'out there' to looking 'in here.' 

What steps can you take that will help make a change so that you can really fall in love with your life?

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

As you listen to the Divine Wisdom within you, you will receive your inspiration and guidance. As you speak your word, think your thoughts, or make your affirmations with complete conviction, you will discover that you are using a Power that actually is, and that actually does respond to you. The Spirit within you is God, the infinite Source of your intelligence and wisdom and creative power.    

     ~ The Power of an Idea

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" and master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

The Search is Over

Sometimes we get caught up in falling in love with the idea of what success and happiness is according to someone else's definition. Maybe we spend a lifetime keeping up with the Jones' or trying to be the parent or grandparent someone else says is the right way to be. And we get so busy chasing someone else's dream, we may wake up one day and discover it was the wrong dream. 

Instead of chasing the dreams and goals of others, we get to determine what is right for us and we can wake up to the idea that things can be different and we can be different. And we don't have to settle for someone else's opinion. I love this twist on the Serenity Prayer:  God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change; the courage to change the one I can; and the wisdom to know that person is me.

We don't need to go in search of joy and happiness and success and love. The Truth is we are all of those things, and more. What we need to do is find the barriers within us that keep us apart from those things. And maybe one of the barriers was that we allowed someone else to determine our idea of joy, happiness, success, and love. Isn't it time to dissolve those barriers? You know, barriers like low self-esteem, grudge-holding, resentments, and inner criticism. Remove those, find the brilliance within, and fall in love with yourself.

How do I love thee? Look in the mirror and count the ways!

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

"There is a song of the Universe - let's sing it. There is a hymn of praise - let's praise it. There is a joy, a beauty; there is a deep, abiding peace; let's experience it. There is a laughter of God - let's laugh it."     ~ Ideas of Power

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" and master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

Stop Fixing and Start Appreciating

Sometimes we love to entertain ourselves, don't we? We love to talk about the "ain't it awfuls," or how things aren't working out for us, or how we are confused, or how we need more money or better relationships or more joy, and how we are struggling in various ways. Yes, we are the stars of our very own horror movie. Of course we know intellectually that happiness is an inside job, but that's not always how we behave.

 

What if we stop trying to make things happen and simply allow things to happen once we establish a particular consciousness? When we look in the mirror and we don't like what we see, we don't try and fix the mirror, do we? And yet, that's exactly what we are doing when we look to the external world and try to fix things out there when we don't also work on adjusting what created that thing that needs to be fixed in the first place: namely our consciousness.

We have about 41 days until Thanksgiving. What if we spent time each day for the next 41 days appreciating our talents, being thankful for something that brought us joy, or being present and inspired by something we find beautiful? How might your life be different by Thanksgiving? Think about it. But don't only think - take some action.

I wonder how much your "I LOVE LIFE" meter might increase in just 41 days, not to mention a renewed sense of your awesomeness.

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

Everything in the universe is a unique individualization or expression of the One Thing, which is the cause of all things. You should become aware that the One Creative Power is expressing in you in a unique way and that it is always pressing against you, seeking a fuller outlet of its infinite possibilities. You do not have to imitate or compete; you are a special creation of God and you have full access to the unlimited potential of Infinite Intelligence.

    

     ~ Thoughts are Things

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through speaking, articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" and master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

Rethinking Happiness

We all want to be happy, don't we? The problem is that we often have our external environment dictate whether or not we will be happy. If we have plenty of money we are happy; if we don't have very much money we are unhappy. If we have plenty of friends, we are happy; if we don't have too many friends, we are lonely and unhappy. If we have vibrant health with plenty of energy, we are happy; if we are in pain or get a diagnosis or are tired all the time, we are defeated and unhappy.

 

It is imperative for all of us to turn that around and allow our inner life determine our outer life and not the other way around. And this type of changed thinking takes time and practice. And we may not get it perfect the first thousand times we try it, but we must persist. 

 

What if happiness was supposed to be our natural state of being? Maybe we need to have a new definition of 'happy.' How about this: happiness is a sense of connection to the Divine, happiness is loving ourselves no matter what, happiness is knowing what our bliss is, what our purpose is, and keeping that in mind, and happiness is being fully present in this moment. In this definition of happiness, anything happening in our outer world would have very little to do with our happy-factor. Why not give it a try?

 

Remember, what is within you is more powerful and infinitely superior to any circumstance in your life. And that is a reason to be happy!

 

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

Happiness is an interior quality, a state of being, the result of knowing that in the long run the Divine will win, the knowledge that we can trust the integrity of the universe. Our good will come to us in such measure as we ourselves measure it out in our own experience.       ~ Science of Mind Magazine

 

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

 

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" and master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

 

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

New Beginnings

Much of our time is spent on unconscious thinking patterns and habits, so the directions we are giving to the Law of Mind are fuzzy and muddled. We might even be giving out mixed messages. And then we wonder why we haven't accomplished what we wanted, why we are in the jobs we're in, why our relationships struggle, or why we don't feel creatively fulfilled. We didn't give good directions. And by directions, I don't mean HOW something needs to be done, but the end result.  

 

It all begins with a new thought. And this newthought could be the beginning of opening up; the beginning of releasing old ideas and beliefs; the beginning of allowing and not controlling; the beginning of listening to our own inner brilliance. 

 

If we want a different outcome, we need to have a new beginning and a new thought. We don't need the magic bullet; we already have the magic bullet. We just haven't been aware that the answer has been within us all along. We don't need to be healed; Spirit needs to be revealed. Let's take off the burden of our limiting beliefs and reveal the Truth.

 

No matter how long you've been thinking a certain way, it's never too late to change and come home to your spiritual power.

 

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

It has been proved that by thinking correctly and by a conscious mental use of the law of Mind, we can cause It to do definite things for us, through us. By conscious thinking, we give conscious direction to It.      ~ The Science of Mind

 

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

 

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" and master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

 

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

Dream Big

Some of us find it hard to dream big, receive big, and get out of our own way and let Spirit move through us. Some of us just want to play it safe, remain in our comfort zone, and keep doing the same thing over and over again. We may not be on fire with life, but we sure know what to expect! If we don't accept or welcome or receive our good, it doesn't go away; it just doesn't become part of our life. 

How many times do we let old tapes and old storiesdetermine how (or even if) we move ahead? Maybe we start something with confidence only to let the memory of Uncle Bert telling us we could never accomplish anything diminish our confidence. And before long, another thought that is similar follows along and we are soon derailed. Some of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we can't do something simply because we failed at it once before. 

Most of us have heard the saying, "Whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve." Our beliefs are creating a mental mold that Creative Intelligence, Spirit, God or the Law (all the same thing) will rush to fill. That's what God does; It creates and It gives and It gives and It gives. We need to create the mold we wish to experience. We need to uproot our old beliefs and choose something new. It's time to dream big.

I love this poem by Meister Eckhart:  

"I could not bear to touch God with my own hand when He came within my reach, but He wanted me to hold Him. How God solved my blessed agony, who can understand? He turned my body into His." And that's you too!

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

How much of this Infinite Good is ours? ALL OF IT! And how much of It may we have to use? AS MUCH AS WE CAN EMBODY."      ~ The Science of Mind

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" and master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

Ready to Receive

God is Infinite, ready to fill our every desire and every need, but we aren't always open to receive all of our good. If we go to the ocean with a thimble, we take away a thimble of ocean. If we go with a bucket, we get to take an entire bucket of ocean. And if we back up a tanker truck and fill it, we can have an entire truck full of ocean. The ocean doesn't care; it is still the ocean and the flow continues to flow. 

However, we are not always receptive to the flow ofgood. We have ideas about our worthiness. We think if we have more than others will have less; we worry what other people will think of us - we might look greedy; we question our ability to handle money or other good. The result is we don't ask for what we want and we block the flow of good to us and through us. It's time to get out the Spiritual Drano to unclog our pipes. 

How much are we willing to move beyond the thimble and become a bigger vessel? God is willing to fill up the entire container that we provide. Spirit wants to give us more of the goodness that we desire but we must be able to see it, feel it, and know it before the goodness can be revealed. 

What is Life calling you to do and what is Life calling you to be? Are you hiding from your greatness? Are you shrinking from your destiny? And if you are....then stop it!

Are you willing to be glorified? Are you willing to be so full of joy that you don't know if you can even contain it all? Are you willing to step into your power? Hard questions, huh?

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

How much can one demonstrate? Just what one can believe. How much can we see, how much can we accept, how much can we find in our consciousness that is no longer repudiated by our own denials? Whatever that is, THAT IS HOW MUCH WE CAN HAVE

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" and master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

What Picture Are You Drawing

A small child was drawing a picture and his teacher said, "That's an interesting picture. Tell me about that picture." And the child said, "It's a picture of God." The teacher replied, "Nobody knows what God looks like." At that point, the child looked up and said, "They will when I get done."

What is your concept of God? What do you really feel -deep down - about God? How many of the ideas that we had about God when we were children remain, even if it just a tendril that remains? Is God some far off deity? Is God a vengeful Being? Is God something you turn to only in tough times because God is too busy to deal with your minor day-to-day needs? Is God sitting on a throne, wearing white, with white hair? Yes, what we think about God says a lot about us. What picture are you drawing of God?

How about this as a picture? God is always God. And this limitless Power is at our disposal. Instead of looking to the outside world for happiness and fulfillment, how about discovering that what we are looking for is already within us? It is the internal world that fulfills us. And just maybe, once we discover that, the external will follow along. What a thought!

Dance with the courage to explore your true nature and create all the beauty and joy that was meant for you. It will be the dance of a lifetime!

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

Man and woman, by thinking, can bring into his or her experience whatsoever he or she desires - if we think correctly, and become a living embodiment of our thoughts. This is not done by holding thoughts but by knowing the Truth."

    

     ~ The Science of Mind

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" and master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com