We (Nick and I), have someone giving us a hard time with our website – causing viruses that we’ve had to clean up twice in the past few weeks. Why are so many folks so uptight these days that they spend their time in damaging ways?

Karen C. asked me, “How can I be at ease with people when so many people are complaining about the economy, terrorists, and the general malaise that prevails with the oil spill, global warming and what not?”

I responded, “Thank you Karen; that’s a great inquiry and I appreciate your passionate curiosity.” I went on to say, “Think of someone that you love being with and that you want nothing from … perhaps a grandparent, a child or even a pet. Notice the ease that you feel when you are with this person or pet. Tension occurs when you want something from your family or friends or from your neighbors or strangers, or from the government or your religion or even the planet. You feel that this outside agent can give you something that you need, but you fear it won’t happen.”

Pause… pause… pause…

Take a moment, now, to think about this:

1. What if you felt that you had the personal power to take care of all of your needs…. would you be feeling tense?
2. What if you felt that the ‘cosmic boomerang’ never failed you, and if you were willing to give away what you wanted (money, love, harmony in worldly affairs, encouragement to help others be successful , feelings of security by believing that others are far more capable than they imagine) that it would come back to you multiplied … would this not make you feel at ease with everyone … with the world?

Tension does not occur when you ask for a cup of coffee and have the money to pay for it. There is a sense of inner security that allows you to ask, expecting to receive.

What are you asking for in your life right now that you are fearful you will not receive? Who are you blaming – the government, God, your spouse, your boss? Is there really any outside power that can determine your fate?

The whole world seems to be in frantic pursuit of things from the world … without the slightest idea that all sowing begins on the inside. By seeing that whatever you desire … is available … when you truly believe that you have what it takes to cause it to happen; when you believe this, you turn your creative energies in the right direction (not the wrong direction like sabotaging my website!) Ha Ha.

There is only one way possible to banish tension – through knowledge of the entire ‘process of giving’ so that we may receive. You can stop feeling threatened by the world when you know that your ‘personal model of reality’ determines the world you experience. Work on making your inner kingdom rich with prosperous thoughts of gratitude and appreciation … that is Vital Step 1. If you do not take this internal Vital Step I, promise you that your outer kingdom of events and things will not offer you what you desire.

Johnny. is a very successful real estate salesman that really loves finding the right and perfect home for his customers. Johnny appreciates his customers. He gets to know them and even invites them to enjoy a barbecue with him and his family (in his backyard). He means it! John earned over $250,000 in commissions four years ago when the market was red hot and he earned $250,000 in commissions last year when the market was stone cold. How’d he do that? Hmm. You tell me.

Please leave your comments to help others with this inquiry about tension and how it affects you … and what you have found that has rescued you from such anxious feelings. Why do you feel tense about your life right now? What specific change of mind has helped relieve you of your tension? Perhaps you have not resolved your tension – ask questions so we can help you.

Blessings and thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Human beings are teleological beings – we are all goal seeking beings. Those who take their goal seeking seriously – achieve their aspirations and aims. Those who don’t take their goal seeking seriously, find tomorrow showing up pretty much the same as it did yesterday.

Even today, I can find myself pretending to be up to something (imagining I am setting out to achieve an aspiration that interests me), but making little progress. There is a correcting fact that I must accept: I am fooling myself – the reality of the situation is that I am lost, pretending I know where I am going. This fact can penetrate a stubborn mind about as easily as ivy can penetrate a brick wall. I still find myself sometimes living with a stubborn mind!

Are you willing to admit that you have been insincere with yourself about your intent to achieve an outcome that you claim you are passionate about? A chief interest of an unawakened mind is lack of interest in looking at the truth.

And yet… it is the truth that will set you free of any insincerity that knocks you off course.

I made a new friend on Friday; his name is Jay. Jay co-owns his own ReMax real estate office and has aspirations of developing an incredibly successful real estate business. Jay is very passionate about what he intends to do. He is clear and is willing to do what it takes to create himself to be the right person to do it. Willingness is vitally important whenever we decide to start a new business or set an aim that is different from the usual.

I can spot an insincere goal seeker quite quickly because I was one for many years. Jay asked me to help him spot his faults so that he could correct them and waste no time moving toward his goals. Jay is intensely sincere about creating himself in a new fashion; creating a ‘new Jay’ that empowers him to take effective outer action while making efficient inner decisions. You cannot have one without the other.

I inquired, “Do you really want me to help you notice any thought patterns or habits of behavior that are slowing you down?”

Jay responded, “Of course I do, that is why I am sitting here with you.”

Just the way that Jay responded proved to me that he was not inquiring with idle curiosity. Willingness and flexibility are essential if anyone is to elevate his consciousness above his old ways of seeing things.

All growth, including business growth is always an inside job – it always begins on the inside. If Jay intends to create a business that soars, Jay must create an attitude of mind that thrives even in ‘testing times’. Life is always testing us. It’s called the school of hard knocks – learn from it and you win… resist it and you flounder.

It matters not if the external environment is rich with rewards, if your internal environment of thoughts and emotions are impoverished – you will flounder. On the other hand, it matters not if the external environment is going through what seems to be ‘hard times’, if your internal environment is flourishing with rich supportive opinions and inspiring ideas, you will gather the worldly riches that you seek. Life is never here to stop you – it is just here to test you. DO YOU MEAN IT?

ARE YOU REALLY SINCERE ABOUT ACHIEVING YOUR ASPIRATIONS?

Sometimes I will say to folks, “I wish I could tell you a thousand times that you must first study your internal environment (belief system, highly cherished opinions, and your tendencies), before you can approach the world with an efficient and effective action plan. So many people think that they just need to charge forward like a crazed bull to get the job done.

Jay understands that it is highly intelligent of him to study himself in an objective manner so that he may change what needs changing about himself in order to achieve his aspirations without a lot of undue struggling.

• What aspiration and aim have you watched become an idle wish?
• What was your excuse to yourself for letting it go?
• Did you assume the world was too big for you to handle?
• Did you ever assume that it was your internal environment that was stopping you?
• Are you willing to be rigorously honest about subtle ways that you self-sabotage?
• Will you share a little about how you recreated yourself anew in order to achieve something that the old you was incapable of achieving?

The insights needed for inward sunshine is freely available to those who are tired of living in a cloudy internal mental environment.

If you want to gain clarity on your mental environment, consider purchasing my book, 180. Now only: $19.95 + S&H

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Check out my (Edgy Guru) interview with Hulbert Lee: The Strange Pleasures of Depression and How to Move Past This Phase

Be sure to check out my interview with Tess Marshall on her amazing blog The Bold Life; a delicious and juicy mix of inspiration, spirituality and personal development.

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You cannot passionately imagine trying something new without taking action on it. Don’t fool yourself. I used to think if I vividly imagined myself succeeding at something new (like playing the trumpet in the symphony orchestra), this would be enough. I did not increase my trumpet practicing time; I simply assumed ‘the passion’ owed me a favor.

What I always am BE-ing is what I am always passionate about. When I was secretly passionate about ‘wishing and hoping’ (thinking the energy of wishing was enough to make my dreams come true), I continued to do what I always did… and inevitably always got what I always got. The wishes did not come true.

We can never comprehend how the four interactive forces of creations work – gravity, electromagnetism, strong nuclear interaction, weak nuclear interaction – but we can tap into them so they go to work for us. What does it take? It takes the energy current of passionate desire backed with action.

‘I AM’… is all there is to you. Be passionate about the ‘I AM’ that you choose to be. You are being passionate about the ‘I AM’ that you currently are… or you would not wake up to it every morning!

‘I AM’ is your direct choice. No one can decide the ‘I AM’ that you are. Take this seriously. I had to totally recreate a brand new version of my unique infinity in order to live in a bright new world of possibility.

A willingness to learn from this blog will help you develop a talent for celestial inspiration (that will guide you to the right and perfect ‘I AM’ for you). Don’t listen to the world’s advice, it will inevitably lead you astray.

• What qualities of character would you like to exude with your personality?
• What talents would you like to hone?
• What project would you like to begin, if you were the ‘I AM’ that you desire to be?

If you can imagine these qualities and talents … and if you can envision a new world to live in – then they are available to you. YOU CANNOT IMAGINE BEYOND YOUR CAPACITY TO CREATE!!!

Don’t be shy… share your truth so that you and others (who read your comment) might grow.

PS… I never became more than a mediocre trumpet player because I relied on ‘wishing and hoping’… and it disappointed me. Growth occurs when we no longer support ideas that hamper it.

If you want to develop personal passion, consider purchasing my book, 180.

We have started a new “Best Comments of the Week” feature on our homepage. Our way of saying thank you for all of your contributions that enhance this blog and enrich our readers. This weeks winners are Tess Marshall from the “Bold Life” and Marion from “The Second Half of My Life.” See their comments here.

Be sure to check out my interview with Tess Marshall on her amazing blog The Bold Life; a delicious and juicy mix of inspiration, spirituality and personal development.

I love the word ‘create’. Indeed, it contains powerful electromagnetic vibration. Coincidentally, it contains the same letters as the word’ react’, but what a difference in attitude between those two words.

To create is to move ‘the magnetic motion’ so that you are up front, manipulating the environment and determining the outcome.

To react is to move you behind ‘the magnetic motion’ so that you are manipulated by your environment, just hoping to cope. I know when I am on the wrong end of that stick (the reactive end) – I play the role of helpless victim.

When it comes to money matters, it is important that I see myself as the farmer, planting seed-money and expecting a large harvest. Otherwise, I am the helpless victim that is simply trying to pay the bills and get by.

You see, most folks think money is something that happens to them, they don’t see that it is because of them that they have an abundance of it or a scarce amount of it. The ultimate truth is that you and money are one. There is no separation of anything in the universe. There is just ‘ONENESS’. So, how can you be separate from money?

As long as you think you are separate from money (like it’s way over there and you are here), then you are planting your seed-money in infertile soil. Your field of consciousness is sparse of the rich humus (rich attitude) that you need to attract an abundant crop of money. Really! Take this seriously.

As long as I believe there is plenty of something to go around, I find that I have plenty of it to enjoy … be it love, harmonious relationships, money, etc. Creative expression around money can pull ‘rabbits out of a hat’; money opportunities seem to be everywhere I look. Reactive expression around money has the rabbit run deep in its hole (impossible to find). Being reactive implies that you have no choice in money matters. YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE IN ALL MATTERS.

In short, we act as we have been acted upon. If we learned that money acts shyly around us (runs away – like the rabbit down the hole), then we are shy around money (we run away from it). If that has been your unconscious strategy – it is time for a change. Become conscious of your attitude around money. Be the cause of your money matters. Stand up now and say, “I love money and money loves me” enthusiastically!!!

Imagine all of the good you that can do in the world if you have oodles of money coming in. Create a new relationship with money.

Please tell me how you feel about money right now?

Tell me a short story about how money has been good to you?

Give me a tip on how you’ve learn to love money?

Consider purchasing the book 180 to help you with your money matters?

P.S. We have started a new “Best Comments of the Week” feature on our homepage. Our way of saying thank you for all of your contributions that enhance this blog and enrich our readers. This weeks winners are Tess Marshall from the “Bold Life” and Marion from “The Second Half of My Life.” See their comments here.

P.P.S. Be sure to check out my Creative Artist Spotlight interview with Kim Maglinti of Mindset Success Coaching. Kim is a great contribution in helping everyone access more and more of their authentic, unlimited, creative nature.

The Esoteric Pondering Series

1. Yes, it is possible to be master of the elements.
2. Your words contain electrified substance.
3. Beams of radiant light flow from you outwardly.

Now, what are you to do with this knowledge? If it cannot be put to practical use – then it just ‘ain’t spiritual’. Well, this knowledge is powerful spiritual information, and when used rightly, can make a magnificent difference in your life.

How do you use this knowledge rightly? You must take your aspirations and aims beyond the surface mind. The surface mind tries to intellectualize everything. That is what the world has taught your surface level awareness to do. Yet, the greatest accomplishers in the history of humankind never give rational explanations to the miracles they create. That is because they elevate their consciousness beyond the blind web of appearances. They understand that there is so much more to creation than what can be explained with words.

When you trust that you are capable of interacting with the ‘interactive forces of creation’ – you regenerate your mind with incredible power – power that attracts exactly what you need in order to make your dreams come true. So how do you interact with the ‘interactive forces of creation’? What are these forces? (more about these four forces in a future blog).

In the beginning there was the WORD (your word). Your word is an electrified substance. It beams outwardly. When you learn to speak your word with the full force of ‘intent’, your infinite supply of unrealized potential (which has served you with half measure) now jumps fully to life (ready to serve you).

By the way, there is a ‘holy spirit’ within you… it is the WHOLENESS that you are now, always have been throughout eternity, and always will be. When you surrender to this WHOLENESS, by taking your word seriously, it triggers momentous creative energy that dwells deep within your ‘quickening’ (your infinitely unique nature).

This is a great beginning that I have shared (above blog). Please just ponder what has been written so far. Do not try hard to understand all of it. Do not try to rationalize it. Do not resist it, and do not blindly accept it. JUST BE WITH IT. Now, please share what is showing up in your thought-stream – make a comment:

a. What question would you like to ask in order to gain clarity?
b. What word would you like defined?
c. What statement would you like explained?

You cannot receive value from anything unless you give value… comment from your heart… let it be spontaneous… what greater value can you offer (in this moment) than ‘you’ commenting from your heart-center (where your WHOLENESS dwells)?

1. What does it feel like to dwell in this elevated consciousness… an awareness that takes you beyond your usual day?
2. What if all of this (written here) is true – what next might you do to absorb it into your consciousness?
3. Does this consciousness interest you… do you want more conversation on this matter?
4. What can you offer that adds clarity to what is shared so far, here?

Consider the 180 book as an option to help you further understand what this esoteric pondering is offering ……… blessings, rob

P.S. We have started a new “Best Comments of the Week” feature on our homepage. Our way of saying thank you for all of your contributions that enhance this blog and enrich our readers. Last weeks winners were Sandra Hendriks and Jenny Ann Fraser for articulating their sincere thoughts so effectively.

I would like to begin by introducing my new Wednesday blog (on esoteric matters). It begins this upcoming Wednesday. The Wednesday blog will be an inquiry into the deep and virtual truths of ‘all of it’. This blog will interest folks who want to engage in a conversation that goes beyond the fight/flight mentality of the world voice.

Awareness of one’s unawareness IS SHEAR AWARENESS. Today’s blog will help awaken your awareness to the ‘natural flow’ and ‘exquisite perfection’ of life, so that you can become part of that flow, and participate fully in all aspects of life – including the ‘money domain’.

When I began admitting to myself that I was an ignoramus – one who was not only ignorant, but ignorant of being ignorant – I granted myself the authority to experience life-lessons in a new way. I no longer wailed out ‘poor me’ when things did not turn out as I’d hoped. I now sought wisdom; therefore, I asked, “How can I see things differently?” What a gift I gave myself!

MONEY OFFERS A FABULOUS LIFE LESSON: You cannot worship god (circulation) and mammon (hoarding and greediness) too. Money is to be circulated, and it should be considered that way (and only that way).

Choosing ‘greed and hoarding’ never works, no matter what I apply it to. It applies to everything from love to money. I cannot hoard love. Trying to hoard love causes jealousy, which always amounts to misery. I cannot hoard money. Trying to hoard money cause greed, which always amounts to misery.

I’ve heard the myth that says ‘rich people are cheap when it comes to others’. I once believed it. It simply is not true. If rich people were greedy (hoarding money for their own personal gain), they would be worshiping mammon and inviting misery. (YES, some rich folks are greedy – the exception proves the rule). Some poor folks are greedy, too.

I LOVE MONEY AND MONEY LOVES ME… really means that money is a means to an marvelous end (that is what it means to me). If the end for which I am aiming, is to circulate money in ways that betters life in general, then I am in harmony with the basic laws of this ever-expanding universe. Sweet victory (no misery).

What can I do today to plant a little sowing-money so that more can come my way? How can I handle money so it loves to be around me? What shall my attitude be around money even when financial times seem tough? What about when I feel as though others are taking advantage of me with money matters? These are self-empowering questions worthy of pondering.

We’ve all learned about tithing – giving 10% of our money to a worthy cause as an act of gratitude. Tithing is good. It is circulating money in a helpful way.

How about flipping tithing around? What if I were to give 10% of my money (as sowing money) with the intention of attracting much more my way? Is that greed? What if I were to plant sowing-money everywhere I went by making a claim on the Force of Multiple Returns? Is that bad? What if you always considered every dollar bill I owned as an opportunity to sow… so that I could receive a multiple return of dollar bills? What if I wanted more and more money so I could use it to donate to great causes like cancer cure and helping the poor … and what if every time I did that I laid my claim for more money? Does that work? Yes, yes, yes.

Is that not what a good business investment is about – considering money as sowing money? The business owner begins the business (no matter what the product or service may be), hoping to sow his money effectively so that he may receive a multiple return… like the farmer sowing seeds in the field. Perhaps business owners did not think of it that way specifically, but that is what they are doing.

Every time I handle a dollar bill – I consider it sowing-money. I pause to claim a multiple return on it; then I pay spend that dollar bill to pay my utility costs or to buy a cup of coffee. I always consider money as sowing money, all of my friends will tell you that. I love to pick up the tab and then lay my claim on the infinite for a multiple return. Try it, you will be wonderfully startled at how easily money will begin returning in multiples to you.

I have included this money idea into my personality – “I am one who sows money. I don’t earn money and spend money; I sow money in multiple ways and I receive a rich harvest of money in return. I give my money and I use my money for all that is good. I love money and money loves me.”

I think this is enough for one blog.

What do you think?

Does it bother you to say, “I love money”?

Do you tithe?

What if you flipped it around? What if, instead of giving 10% of your paycheck to a good cause (which is after the fact), you get in front of the Cause/effect game with Money and sow it? What if you become the cause … you decide the multiple return you will get by laying a claim as you spend your money?

All things are for use and for use only.

What use have you made of money?

My book 180 offers great tips on how to fully participate in life (handling money is a part of participation).

P.S. We have started a new “Best Comments of the Week” feature on our homepage. Our way of saying thank you for all of your contributions that enhance this blog and enrich our readers. Last weeks winners were Sandra Hendriks and Jenny Ann Fraser for articulating their sincere thoughts so effectively.

Several of you folks have asked me to take the conversation deeper. Taking the conversation deeper requires elevating one’s consciousness above the usual. Are you ready to dip into the esoteric?

Student: How can I take command of my life?
Teacher: You must be willing to become ONE with all of it.

Student: I’ve heard the idea of ONENESS, but I don’t know what it means.
Teacher: ONENESS is a spiritual term, and it is a very practical way of conducting one’s life. Let me begin by saying that if it ain’t practical, it ain’t spiritual. Good, pragmatic common sense is good spiritual common sense.

By being ONE with everything, you cause no division between you and what’s happening around you. This psychic position ends all conflict. You begin to see the perfection in everything – you no longer resist by insisting that your point of view is the right and only point of view. What happens next is extraordinary… answers just come to you.

When you give up the idea of being a separate self, (with your own precious point of view), you have absolute access to infinite intelligence, the intelligence that commands the interaction of all energy in this ever-expanding cosmos.

1. You find that your hunches are right on target.
2. Your spontaneous responses are right and perfect.
3. Your intuitive urges direct you to the quickest ways to accomplish your aspirations and aims – no matter what they may be:

A. Harmony at home.
B. Money matters.
C. Physical health…

You become the commander of everything when you are willing to become ONE with everything. This is because you no longer feel the need to take control… guess what?… in that instant you are in control! The rational mind will never grasp this truth. Trust it is true.

One example of ONENESS working for me in my lifetime: when I decided to attract a lot of money into my life (so I could be financially independent and travel the world to exotic places), I decided to have an absolutely harmonious relationship with money; I would no longer allow money matters to disturb me. Within a year things began to flow and money began to flow to me. (Yes, it took me a year to become ONE with money – I’m stubborn).

1. My business choices were right on target.
2. My stock market picks brought me great gains.
3. My investments with partners all proved lucrative.

I loved money and money loved me (still so, today). I did not love the pieces of paper with pictures of notables on it – I loved the benefits that I could bring to myself and others in the world with money.

Well, I have handed you a ‘mindful’ of information… please ponder this. What have you allowed yourself to become ONE with (in your environment) – and it has proven to be a rewarding enterprise?

1. Your tomato garden? (which now has an extraordinary tomatoes hanging off the vines.)
2. Your pet? (which has taught you unconditional love.)
3. Your lover? (who you now have incredibly romantic evenings and great sex with.)
4. Your business? (that has grown tenfold in two short years.)
5. The traffic light? (which always turns green when you approach.)

P.S. Don’t be shy to buy my book, 180 – you’ll be startled awake.

P.P.S. We have started a new “Best Comments of the Week” feature on our homepage. Our way of saying thank you for all of your contributions that enhance this blog and enrich our readers.