Might I toss a couple of questions your way?

1. 1. Is it possible that the mood of infinite intelligence is always LOVE? (my instant response is ‘yes’, though the world-voice screams ‘NO’.)
   2. If I allow Universal Mind to express through me, without my ego’s interference, would it always be in LOVING ways? (my instant response is ‘YES’, though Sigmund Freud’s would point to the ID and say ‘NO’).

   

   3. Does nature wrought everything by means of LOVE? (my gut says ‘YES’, but the world-voice points to destructive tornadoes, and says, ‘NO’.)
   4. Is it possible that I am a distribution center, with a storehouse chuck full of love? (YES, I love that metaphor, but I don’t always live it … no siree!)
   5. Is joy and harmony always the experience if love is the center of attention? What about so many broken marriages? Oh, I see: ‘love as the center of attention’ is key!

OKAY THEN … if LOVE is truly the answer to all things, then what goes on with humanity?

1. 1. Is the harsh word ‘NO’ (and scolding opinions that encourage harsh NO’s), the cause of 99% of the troubles in the world today?
   2. Does ‘NO’ prevail with great might because we refuse to command our scolding opinions to lie still?
   3. Is it challenging to live as a loving human being because of the following bad habit: we take more interest in other people’s faults than their blessings … we learn to sneak around behind people’s backs catching them doing things wrong rather than catching them doing things right?

   

   4. Is life tough because most folks subscribe to W.O.E.?
      (What On Earth consciousness, taking on the role of helpless victim and adopting a blame mentality.)
   5. Would life be nearly so tough if everyone accepted the natural W.O.W state of being that accompanies us at birth?
      (Wonderful Obsession Winning … at the game of life, with love as the trump card.)

WHAT ABOUT ME?

If I kept my attention only on loving possibilities:

1. I would forget all untruths that have me living cautious (daring not to dance as though no one is watching.)
2. I would accept everyone as they are – I would not think it my job to change anything about anyone.
3. I would refuse to allow petty annoyances to get under my skin; I would not think it my duty to react from thoughts of badness (thoughts of badness is madness!) … I would learn to chuckle more and go on my way when life was testing me.

WHAT ABOUT YOU?

1. What if you never harshly judged your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues or even strangers? What if when a harsh judgment popped in your head, you made it sit still? See how your confidence is already stronger!



2. What would your life be like if you kept your attention on loving possibilities? What perfect action would you take if you really trusted that love is the only strategy that can bless and prosper you and everyone else in your world?

Be aware of yourself as a loving, creative person, and you suddenly find ways and means to do all of this. With whom would you begin your new practice?

WHAT ABOUT EVERYONE?

1. What if everyone considered LOVE to be their true friend?
2. What if no one any longer allowed unnecessary nervousness (accompanying old echoing NO’s) to make choices for them?

How would life be different on planet earth if everyone lived this way?

ONE LAST THING:

Any ideas you hold about LOVE is not LOVE … to really KNOW LOVE, you must go out into the world and express LOVE (right here, right now). Dare to allow LOVE to guide you beyond your present ways of conducting business in life.

Thank you for any comments, insights and examples of your own that you may be willing to share on this topic ………. LOVE, rob

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“Best Comment of the Week”. This weeks best comment comes from Debbie The Happy Maker. The runner up is Andrea DeBell from Britetalk. See their comments here.

Here is a conversation that I recently had with a famous ex-rock star, who feels that he’s lost his sense of power in the world, that the world is insisting that he be who he no longer cares to be:

Teacher: Who’s living your life for you?
Student: Well, I never thought of it that way, I always thought that I lived my own life, but I’m not satisfied any longer with how things are turning out.
Teacher: Well, what makes you think the thoughts you think right now? … What happened that puts you in the moods that you don’t enjoy? Why do you say and do the things you do that you later regret?
Student: Obviously the world effect my moods, but my own attitude and point of view are a major part of it.

Illuminating tip: The capacity for becoming a new kind of person exists with in everyone … but first we must examine what causes us to be as we currently are.

Teacher: Where’d you get your viewpoint toward the world; toward everything in the world … like people, sex, god, money, health, politics, everything else?
Student: I learned a lot of it as a kid, and more of it as I grew up.
Teacher: Then, you’re saying that you acquired them; you’re saying that they’re not part of your original nature; would you agree?
Student: Yes, that’s logical.
Teacher: Then you are living according to the attitudes and viewpoints of others who passed their attitudes and viewpoints onto you?
Student: Well, certainly that’s true for a part of it.
Teacher: Then, can I assume that you are not living your own life entirely; that you are repeating what others taught you; so in a way, you are living the life they presented to you?
Student: Now that you say it that way, I cannot only assume this is true; I can see how it IS true.

Illuminating tip: A flower seed contains everything it needs to express as a beautiful flower; is it possible that you contain everything you need to express as a beautiful you? You cannot truly address this question until you notice that you’ve added unnecessary stuff to yourself (flower seeds don’t have the capacity to do this – perhaps that’s their blessing).

Teacher: What if some of these learned points of view and subsequent attitudes are wrong; what if they are stopping you from being able to recreate yourself anew; What if there is a ‘blossoming you’ just yearning to be nurtured, but to nurture it, you must unlearn the poor points of view and attitudes that you accepted as true?
Student: If that’s the case, then I’m paying a heavy price for a learned points of view.
Teacher: Do you want to pay that heavy price; must you continue to pay that price?
Student: Not at all!
Teacher: Why not?
Student: I can drop those points of view, if I’m really willing to.
Teacher: YES, since they are merely learned, you can unlearn them; you can toss them out like old, uncomfortable shoes that never fit right in the first place.
Student: Then, for the first time in my life, I will once again ‘hold title to my life’, like when a kid – I really got that it was MY LIFE! I love that idea; I’m ready.
Teacher: When you understand what it means to be loyal to your fundamental nature, and you learn how to ROAR about that – you receive incredible practical benefits.
Student: That’s funny, I never thought to pledge my loyalty to my fundamental nature; when do we being ROAR-ing?

Illuminating tip: The way to begin change is with light-hearted feelings of self-liberty; the little orange book that I am soon releasing will show you how to ROAR your way back to self-dependence (rather than world-dependence).

Now, lets take the conversation deeper … Please leave your comments on this conversation; AND, I encourage you to comment on each others comments … You will get notices via e-mail when this happens … this is what makes the lesson take effect in YOUR life.
blessings

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“Best Comment of the Week”. This weeks best comment comes from Rosemary from Offbeat Woman. The runner up is Marlee from Metamorphoself. See their comments here.

I want to introduce you to an important reality – it’s a reality of accountability. This is the only reality that gives you title to your life; If you are living in any other reality, you find that you are handing title to your life over to the circumstances or people in the world that you claim cause your life to unfold as it does.

Now, I want to introduce you to a psychological fact. This fact explains the mechanics of how YOU create your daily experiences; yes YOU! Here is the fact: The attitude that motivates your responses to life is reinforced by your responses to life. What does this mean? I means that you look out at life with an attitude; you respond to life from that attitude; life reflects the attitude back to you; you say, “See, I told you my attitude was correct!”

Let’s connect this fact to your personal history, so you can see how it works:

When you are feeling confidence and have an attitude of competence, you are motivated to go into your day in a very different way than if you are feeling doubtful and your attitude is fearful.

With an attitude of competence, you respond to life in decisive ways; you set lofty aspirations, take more chances, re-take your miss-takes when you fail at something, and you eagerly learn from your failures so you can improve your skills of success. You are living in a reality of accountability – you hold yourself accountable for your actions. This reality gives you a feeling of self-worth and self-trust, which reinforces your attitude of competence.

Now, with a reinforced attitude of competence, you relate to others in a way that have them quickly accept and like you. You see life as a treat, and you love your relationships with others. What a wonderful world!

What happens if the feeling of doubt and an attitude of incompetence motivates you? You respond very differently than when feeling confident, don’t you. You hope to get by and avoid as much failure as you can; you shrink from life; when you make a miss-take you come up with a 1,000 excuses; you become a NO-it-all – saying “NO” to any insights or life lessons that may help you see things differently. You are living in a reality where you see yourself at ‘The Effect’ of life. This reality makes you feel insecure; it reinforces your attitude of incompetence.

Now, with a reinforced attitude of incompetence, you relate to others in an insecure way, which guarantees that others will reject and avoid you. You see life as a threat, and you find your relationships are fraught with problems. What a miserable world!

Many folks believe that the circumstances of life and other people in the world are the cause of their attitude. This believer takes no ownership of his life; this is the ultimate ‘helpless victim’ position.

There is a powerful lesson in this blog. Ponder it. Reflect on it, with your own personal history in mind. Don’t let your habitual thinking come up with your usual responses. What can you learn from it?

Tip #1: It is a self-liberating insight to notice that you cannot respond to life beyond what your attitude allows.

Tip #2: If you feel that life is hostile toward you, it is time to take back title to your life – it is time to create a reality of accountability for yourself. Begin with holding yourself accountable for your attitude, and then go out into the world responding in ways that support that attitude.

TIP #3: When you observe how others are stumbling because of their attitude, do so for ending the stumbling in yourself. What attitude is that person teaching you NOT to have?

TIP #4: Justifying a poor attitude does not reduce by one ounce the weight the attitude places on you. A poor attitude immediately fades when you stop insisting that your mental trash is treasure.

• ‘Poor me’ is mental trash.
• ‘If it is to be, it is up to me’; that’s treasure!

I’d love to go deeper into this with you right now, but I’m writing a blog (not a book), so it is time to wrap up. Would you like to pursue this conversation further? Leave comments saying so, and we shall.

Blessings.

“Best Comment of the Week”. This weeks best comment comes from Frank of A Spark Starts. The runner up is Alicia. See their comments here.

Tiny Brown Speck
It seems that when you plant a mustard seed in soil, it’s but a tiny brown speck; it is one of the least prominent looking of all seeds. Did you know that? YET, no matter what happens in its environment – it waits patiently – KNOWING that it will grow and become a lovely tree! No amount of environmental NO’s can stop it from its earthly destiny to grow.

And when the mustard seed grows into a magnificent tree, all the birds of the air come to perch on it and sing; they even raise their young in the tree. WOW!

Student: What is there for me to learn from that mustard seed?
Teacher: The mustard seed contains a great and magnificent invisible power, hidden from the human eye.
Student: What has that to do with me?
Teacher: You contain a great and magnificent invisible power, hidden from the human eye.

Illuminating tip: What seems insignificant, outwardly – holds great magnitude, inwardly.

Hidden Power
You cannot access your hidden power if you allow echoes of past NO’s to influence you (NO’s tremble that you may ponder this statement). When you learn to R.O.A.R. you naturally say “NO” to echoing NO’s, and you grow; your life expands.

ROAR-ing is not refuting the echoes of past NO’s; ROAR-ing is re-minding yourself of what you already know deep inside of you (it’s performed in the secrecy of your own mind).

To ‘re-mind’ is to put yourself back in touch with your original mind – the mind that is regnant and free to create your life as you want it to be.

Speaking of seeds, let’s take a moment to glimpse at the Redwood Tree seed; it begins as a small seed that feels like a small piece of chewing tobacco. Look what that small seed is able to do when planted in California: one tree, when cut down and made into boards, can supply lumber for thirty ‘seven room homes’. WOW!

There is incredible authority that comes with believing, ‘ WOW is me’ ; it creates the strongest and best kind of mind.

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W.O.W. is my acronym for Wonderful Obsession Winning!
(winning at what? winning at the game of life)
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What happens when we get caught in a lament of ‘WOE is me’?
We take on the learned role of ‘helpless victim’ (it’s learned; it’s not natural).

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W.O.E. is my acronym for What On Earth?
(meaning that we look out onto the planet for
a 1,000 reasons to excuse our life away)
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WOW is natural.
WOE is learned.
What is learned can be unlearned.

‘WOW’ has a unique power of its own; the attitude that accompanies WOW is self-awakening – it offers you great adventures in life.

It is time to learn to R.O.A.R. so you can unlearn the faulty lessons that WOE taught you. A good ROAR clothes itself with extraordinary creative power! When WOE diminishes, WOW naturally flourishes.

If you water a thorn bush, it offers nothing but thorns
(whining is watering … echoing NO’s are thorns … WOE is the bush)

If you water a Hydrangea bush, it blossoms with Hydrangea flowers. (ROAR-ing is watering … enchanting YES’s are the flowers … WOW is the bush).

The nature of ROAR-ing is kindness and compassion for yourself; it’s not shouting YES; A ‘YES-Shout’ has no clout. The little orange instruction book is coming.

Give yourself to more diligently reflecting on the life-lessons available with the above seed metaphors; don’t jump to quick conclusions; don’t assume you already know all there is to know about the matter – that’s being a ‘NO-it-all’. A ‘NO-it-all’ is NO-stuck; he’s stuck with saying “NO” to inspiring truths and fresh insights tapping on the door of his mind.

What do you think? What you can become is far greater than you think, so take pleasure discarding habitual thinking; stop being a ‘NO-it-all’. (I work on this daily)

Do give some feedback, please.
blessings

“Best Comment of the Week”. This weeks best comment comes from Sylvia. The runner up is Joe Wilner from Shake Off the Grind. See their comments here.

Be sure to check out my guest article on JK Allen’s wonderful (WOW) blog, The Hustlers Notebook.

Thanks for all those who braved the cold & came out to Village Books and made this stop on the ROAR Tour a success! If you are local be sure to stop into this wonderful, cozy little nook of a bookstore.

The conditioned mind that asks a question about something contrasting its beliefs, CANNOT answer the question. Do you know why?

Let’s begin by taking a look at the word CAN … CAN implies that you are able to do something.

Now, lets look at the word CANNOT … CANNOT is actually two words combined: CAN-NOT, which implies that you are able to NOT do it.

The mind is truly genius with its reasoning; when it asks a question with a CANNOT attitude, it simply knows it is able to NOT find an answerr. This is how confident the mind is that it will come up blank.

Student: What’s the mind’s motivation for coming up blank when it asks a question?
Teacher: It would rather protect your precious old beliefs than support you with fresh and new answers.

As you continue to read this blog, please keep the above lesson in mind.

It’s time to apply the above realization of CAN and CANNOT to the 60,000 NO’s that you received from age 2 to 6. The mind will ask, “How do I rid past echoes of NO so that I’m regnant and free to create new activity?” The mind is asking with no intention of finding a true answer. It believes the NO’s are too powerful to overcome. It has been conditioned to believe this!

I notice a lot of folks will turn to motivational speeches and self-help books for answers, but won’t turn to the NO’s and look directly at the power they have in their lives. The mind prefers it this way; because it CANNOT help when asked to help. So, what will the mind suggest? “Let’s pretend shouting YES over the NO’s will do the trick”, exclaims the mind! It won’t work.

Student: What works?
Teacher: Real Thinking works.

Here is an example of Real Thinking: the echo of NO is only a consciousness; it can be overcome. It is possible to eliminate years of accumulated NO’s. You do it by learning how to effectively R.O.A.R. (key word here: effectively). Don’t assume you remember how to R.O.A.R. (yes, you did it as a child, but you got amnesia to ROAR-ing after 60,000 NO’s)

Be willing to admit that your life isn’t working as well as you’d like; be willing to say to yourself, “I want to re-learn how to R.O.A.R. once again.”

A full conviction to ridding your mind of NO-thoughts begins with accepting that NO has a powerful influence on you. Where in your life, is there an experience of lacking? Right there sits a NO in your mind. Are you willing to share this with the rest of us … where is there a NO sitting firmly in your mind (stopping you from experiencing YES in your life)?

The key to prosperity is the ‘spirit of willingness’. Willingness most often begins with accepting truths that bother us. Yet, the surest way to a healthy NO-free mind is seeking the truth and accepting it. To penetrate life-enhancing-truths, almost always begins with accepting that you are stuck with a growth-hampering attitude in some domain of your life (perhaps not all domains … but some).

Choosing to grow requires accepting a paradox: Growth is ‘NO shouts’ in reverse, but you don’t get there by just shouting YES … a ‘YES-shout’ has no clout. Wow, did you hear that?

‘YES-shouts’ have no clout.

Here is another paradox: Growth isn’t adding something on … it is undoing the limitations that NO impose on you. With the undoing of NO, you automatically grow. Wow, did you hear that?

With the undoing of NO, you automatically grow!

Freedom to do or not do to comes with freedom from NO.

When NO is zero … YES is all … but beware: YES is revelation (it’s a deep feeling of super-sufficiency); it’s not a three letter word.

Your greatest realizations come when you remove ignorance of the fact that you are an unlimited being. You cannot remove ignorance of this fact until you remove the NO’s.

I have been speaking about echoes of NO for a few blogs now. Why? Because so many folks insist they understand … when the truth is – they don’t. If they did, their world would show up very differently for them (and really … that’s not happening for soooo many folks, perhaps you’re one of them?).

The right path shows itself by providing glimpses of the truth – that is what I’m offering. Don’t slay the messenger; rejoice with me … and … the truth shall set you free! Be patient; I will show you the true way of ROAR-ing your way to self-liberty (liberated of NO). Little orange book – coming soon!

Blessings

“Best Comment of the Week”. This weeks best comment comes from Jk Allen from The Hustler’s Notebook. The runner up is Kara. See their comments here.