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.

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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.

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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.