Protecting Yourself

I've begun to think for myself and not just repeat catch phrases and ideas from the latest New Thought guru or author. Well, that's not quite true. I've been thinking for myself for awhile, but haven't shared my thinking broadly (although those folks close to me get an earful!!). 

You know how so many of us like to put the white light (or even sometimes a golden light or a green light) around things for protection? Many of us surround our cars, our houses, and even ourselves with this light of protection. 

So here's my question: if there is only One Thing and that One Thing is God and It operates in and through absolutely everything and there is nothing else but God, and that God is a Power for Good, then what do we need protection from? The answer would be 'nothing.' 

Well, we might need protection from our Monkey Mind thoughts. But if we think that something 'out there' is out to get us or can hurt us or take something away from us, then that is our clue that we have completely forgotten that God is all there is (see paragraph above).

Maybe we need to start putting that 'white light of protection' around our limiting beliefs, our stories, our excuses, and the temptation of our Monkey Mind to stall and sabotage [tongue in cheek].

When our mindset tells us there is not enough, that others have something we want, or that having that 'thing' will make us happy and satisfied, we have turned away from Spirit and allowed ourselves to feel weak and vulnerable. We are indeed powerful when we unite with the One Power. Let's not forget that.

I've always been partial to a pink light myself because it reminds me of fairy princesses! Or is it that it reminds me of 'rose-colored' glasses?

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

"We are powerful only as we unite with Power. We are weak when we desert this Power."  [Science of Mind] 

"The Power of Life within you is a spiritual power, able to bring to you permanent peace, increasing happiness and joy, and greater material abundance. These things that have made man miserable can be eliminated through the conscious use of this Power." [365 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" 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

It's Not About the Facts of Life

Sometimes we need some mountain-moving faith, especially if the mountains we want to move include lack of money, lack of health, lack of relationships, anger, grief, guilt, shame, resentment, or just plain old feeling stuck.

Instead of having mountain-moving faith in the Infinite, we seem to have faith in the problems we are facing. They loom large in our lives and take up a lot of our thinking. Maybe we worry, get anxious, or stay stuck in fear - especially when we can't see the way out.

In the quote below, Ernest Holmes tells us the remedy to every problem or challenge is the Truth. However, many of us seem to confuse the 'facts of life' with the Truth of Spiritual Principle. Facts are temporary human conditions and are subject to change. When we persist in only seeing the facts then the Truth is hidden from our view. It's as if we have mountain-moving faith in the current limitation or challenge we are experiencing.

It's time to correct any confusion between the 'facts' and the Truth and allow the Divine to move those mountains.

And don't let any thoughts about "it's easier said than done" prohibit you from trying (and succeeding). The remedy is right where you are!

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

In the Science of Mind, we learn that persistent, constructive thought is the greatest power known and the most effective. If the visible effect in our lives is not what it should be, if we are unhappy, sick and poverty stricken, we know the remedy. The Truth is always the remedy, and the Truth is that the law of liberty is the only real law. When we reverse the process of thought, the effect will be reversed.          ~ Love and Law

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

Planting Seeds

A woman is warming up before her morning jog - she stood a few feet from a large oak tree, placed both hands on it and pushed against it to stretch her calf muscles. She was in the midst of this standard runner's ritual when a young man passed by. He stopped, turned, and shook his head. "Lady, you'll be there forever doing it that way," he said. "Use a saw." 

Sometimes we may feel like this woman, only we are not pushing against the oak tree to stretch our calf muscles; we are pushing against the oak tree to make something happen! We hear ideas in New Thought that we are in charge of our destiny; that we are in control of our future. And those words "in charge" and "in control" also seem to signify that a lot of pushing and straining needs to happen.

And then we are told to let go, to release, and to allow. That seems to be a paradox, doesn't it? We are in control but we need to let go. We are in charge but we need to release. And then some of us go to the extreme of 'letting go" and releasing so much that if nothing happens, then we think it's a sign that it isn't meant to be - as if some force external to us determines what we are supposed to experience. It's no wonder we are confused!

It might be easier to think about planting seeds - planting thought seeds, planting vibration seeds, planting emotion seeds, and planting belief seeds. It is by planting these seeds that we are 'in control' of our future. We are in the seed-planting business; God is in the outcome business. And that's not so confusing. 

And the letting go part? That's just letting the Infinite grow what we've planted. Easy peasy.

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

Just as you watch your garden that foreign seeds shall not fall into it, producing a growth of undesirable plants, so you must refuse entrance to any thoughts you do not wish not see manifested in your life. Guard well this garden of your mind. It is God's garden of your soul. It is your Garden of Eden wherein may grow your fondest desires and hopes, blossoming into fulfillment. 

Or, if you permit, the weeds of destruction, fear and doubt will choke out the beauty of hope until despair along remains. Watch carefully then, this garden of your soul. Plant there only seeds of happiness, of joy, of peace and of good will. It may be necessary to cultivate your garden, to uproot the weeds and straighten out the rows planting new seeds - new ideas, broader visions and deeper realizations of life. 

New aspirations must be bedded here, fertilized with the fervor of hope, the conviction of faith, the beauty of wholeness, and the quietness of peace. Watch our garden carefully, guard it patiently, waiting for a new harvest - for you shall reap what you have sown.

            ~ 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" 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