Week 23: “Weather After The News”

Og Mandino, Scroll VI, would not have moved my foundation if it had been earlier.

I have always looked askance at “created” enthusiasm.  So often it is not genuine, more a tool of the salesman.  Beware.  I was unaware of the power of the emotions that we exude.  I never realized the control of my emotions until the Seven Day Diet, Franklin’s Makeover, and the other tools of the MKE.

“I make my own weather, yea I transport it with me.  With this knowledge, I recognize the moods of those on whom I call.”  Considering the weather, energy (or thought) is propagated by waves (emotions).  Energy, a measure of the ability to do work, can transform from one type of environment to another.

“When I master my moods, I will control my destiny!”

When I control my moods,  when I control the weather I create the facts, make the news.

This is exciting.

Week 22: Education

I’ve fallen behind in my goals.  What is the next move of the person you are becoming?  So even though I’ve fallen behind, I’ve learned that those goals, that I’m behind on, are not big enough.

“Hold ideas large enough to destroy undesirable tendencies.”

Education: The ability to learn.  The more you learn, the more you are capable of learning.

We’re having fun now!!

Week 21: Go Bigger!

As my progress through the diet, the no-opinions, the many aspects of the MKE gains momentum, the ego is tumbled and redirected, dissected and empowered by looking within.   Old Blue is exposed as our comfort zone where we are reactionary, controlled by those comfortable habits that have brought us to a place where we are dissatisfied.

Now the curtains have been thrown open, and we use baby steps to build new habits of our deliberate choice, creating the new blueprint.  The priority is to recognize that I am a part of the Universal by degree, and that, by law, that degree can be whatever I choose it to be.  Again, my choice is topical. by taking responsibility.  What do I want that degree to represent?  What portion?  Haanel, Part Twenty-One, tells me whatever I want;  think big!  Think big and use the laws.  Look within.  Hope and goals are limitless.  It is the thought that is creative;  do not care about the “how”.

The Sit has become such an exciting place for me, where my imagination has been reborn, and frolics like a teenager.

Do it now.

 

 

Week 20: Are You Sure?

We are learning to control our minds.  I’ve been sick for almost three weeks with “acute strep-throat”.  In Og, #20, I’m told it is my lack of creative energy for the result of the lack of health.  I’m not taking this well!  Do I believe I am the Universal, only a smaller portion, degree?  Good question!

My Sit is normally seventeen minutes, which I’ve been doing with a lot of coughing, and nose dripping, sitting, without moving my hands or feet, but coughing , physical spasms with all the assorted discomfort, while repeating in my mind:  “I am whole, perfect…!”

So after reading #20 again, with dissatisfaction,  I’m doing an extra Sit.  I start the Sit, with “I am relaxed, and quiet.”  “No coughing allowed”, I thought but didn’t vocalize.  Five minutes into the quiet, I spasm cough, and my nose is running.  Five more starts, thinking “I am relaxed, quiet, healthy!”  Spasms. Coughs. Concentration! Focus!  An hour later, I sat for fifteen minutes without a cough: “I am relaxed, and quiet, and healthy.”

This stuff is not for sissies; and, I was one.  I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.  But I have to focus!

 

 

 

Week 19: Practice

This MKE is a perfect parallel to Haanel’s, “men are continually progressing to come into communication with the Universal and it’s infinite possibilities.  The more we learn the more everything is connected, not only in the lessons themselves but how actions stream from thoughts into new things and new thoughts.

My health has been poor for ten days or more, and I am grateful.  I am whole and perfect, strong and powerful, loving, harmonious and happy.

Yes, I am.

Week 18: I Am Grateful.

Last week was a great week to review previous study, so I went back to the Introduction:  “natural laws and reason will erase uncertainty.”  Now, Week 18 we’re told:  “There is a change in the thought of the World; it is the Eve of a New Consciousness.”  And Mandingo says we are the product of evolution, better equipped than the emperors and wise men before us.

Haanel explains every victory gained gives more confidence; strength is developed by mental attitude.  One of my weaknesses has been a disrespect of those I have silently accused of the lack of weight control, of obesity.  I have been unable to remove this negative thought, even with applied efforts of being kind, or attempting to make no opinions.  Recently, through medical education, they have determined that obesity is actually causes by depression, and not other physical reasons.  So now I can use the Natural Law of Dual Thought(Substitution) and look at these Souls with a wish of Joy, and hope for their courage, and change of attitude.

I am so grateful!

The World obesity, especially in the the USA, is that much more revealed.  The Master Key Experience develops insight and sagacity.  There is a change in the thought of the World.  The customs, creeds, and cruelty is passing; vision, faith, and service is taking their places, and I am an example.

Thought is magic by which the human is transformed.

 

 

Week 17: Hero’s Journey

What an interesting time for this to come up as we are reviewing our material, and past reading; and,  I have had ten days of flu, or walking pneumonia, that was a perfect time to be reading the obituaries to see what kind of day I was having.

I am still ill, but through the episode I realized:  practice your new blueprint.  I am thankful that I have not read my name yet!  I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy, and healthy!!

Good health and love to all.

Week 17: Belief vs Instinct

This week is a perfect fit for my growth, or the floundering of progress.  I have weakened and been distracted.  Failure is product of untrained,  unconcentrated  thoughts.  Success is practice, and that is the disign of our program, MKE.  Ease and perfection are gained by repetition.

The distractions of the instinctive life are the muscles of the old blueprint.  The best medicine for me this week has been the seven day diet which will always be with me, my fall back position in the future.  It brings be back to the positive position where I can forgive myself for veering from my path.

Success is practice that leads to the joy of overcoming the old blue.  The Sit is the peaceful, regaining of power.  I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving harmonious, and happy.  The Law of Substitution always wins.

Week 16: Thinking vs the Old Blueprint

What a great study we experienced last week; a great example of our current curriculum in action.  Thought is creative.  A focused mental state will change my life.  This little concentrated exercise of kindness, doing, seeing, being, brought me to tears several times as I realized how much I had missed in my life, not knowing some of these concepts.

I was raised the old fashioned way when manners were paramount, and probably, one of the few ways I received compliments as a young man, which of course, I relished, and have always maintained.  Directing the daily thoughts toward kindness, also, embellished the law of give more, get more.

This is an exercise of power to remove chance from your life:  when we realize a condition  in thought, it will manifest.  Thinking is the one great cause in life.  Changing thinking will change life.  This week of kindness made me emotional because I remembered earlier times, but also saw the ripples of beauty in our current world. I gained a sense of power with this feeling, which I had misplaced with bad habits in my old blueprint.

Hope is exciting.

 

Week 15: T.W.B.B.

Concepts are weaving, intertwining from multiple sources.
Thought. Word. Belief. Behavior.

This week, Haanel emphasizes the architecture of language.
In our MKE, there is a loud click, a bright flash of the light bulb in my brain to explain, elucidate, the power, the potential, of blogging, new tools we are attempting to learn, creative building blocks, proficiency of instruments to add to our mental workshop.

As mankind’s activities are expanded, knowledge expanded, advanced, more people are writing thoughts, creating building blocks, words, communicating, growing at an exponential rate because of these steps, baby steps of technology with tremendous downhill energy.

Language, the medium of communication, which is the wave of the mastermind.

History is combined record of words. It is the expression of the Universal Thought. This historical record is exploding with the technology. From the caveman, through the printing press, into the internet, the word, thought, is growing.  The new frontier of every man.

It is intriguing at this time, Week 15, I begin, The Abracadabra Effect by Moorman & Haller, a narrative of “dis-ease” by word. “Abracadabra” is actually a Hebrew phrase meaning, “I create what I speak”. They parallel our studies: “language patterns, our repetitious thought, and the resulting beliefs, create the reality we produce in our lives”. We are unaware of the magic we are doing or not doing to ourselves.

The underpinning of the book is taking responsibility for your life, success or failure. If you don’t know you’re sick, there is nothing you can do to regain health. Our choices: decide what you want. Increase your personal strength through language, thought.

Haanel says the same: our actions are governed by custom, precedent, and habit. The subconscious is the only person who never doubts or disagrees with us. The New Blueprint will prevail.

I always keep my promises.