Think up your existence

Human beings never really see the whole story of their lives as its unfolding.  Situations you initially judge as tragic or disappointing may reveal a completely different perspective that you missed.  How would your mindset affect all that?  Quite honestly, it is the pivotal part that shapes everything.  You actually devise or think up your existence.  Can you see through illusion?

If you decide your thinking process will limit your experience, it will, that is, unless it doesn't.  How you draw from your mind is what you will perceive and express.  You are exactly what you think.  You are the level of awareness which is experienced.  You've already done the choosing.  Everything you desire to do, be and have will unfold right before your eyes.  Just concentrate.

Its said that the highest level of pleasure you will experience would be an offshoot of creating who you really are.  Thinking positively will help convince you that you can create such an experience.  You can tap into those resources which will enable you to see clearly.  Choosing options of lower levels of pleasure enables you to forget why you're alive and what you were really born to do. Yet, learning to recognize what you aren't enables you to see what you are.  Condition yourself to sense the positive.

Your source of power

Do you dream of exerting new influence in your life? Your greatest source of power is linked to thoughts and feelings. Power emerges from a sense of self-confidence and inner power. You cultivate this within as if you were a plant. You feed yourself words and ideas as if they were the sustenance that keeps you growing on a certain track. Are you stretching and growing as you would desire to develop yourself?

From the moment you cease to think of yourself as separate from everyone and everything, you begin to boost your inner power. Yet, if you believe that weilding power over others is the key to expanding your soul, then you have been misguided. You gain power not by to setting yourself apart and boasting about who you are and what you've done. Instead, let your life speak for you. Rather than describe what you desire, choose to demonstrate by example.

Consider how you choose to learn or whether you desire to learn anything at all. Some people actually close themselves off from the world and decide they already know everything. Do you know anyone who believes they have no need to grow? What you see as desirable or undesirable gives you hints about their hopes and fears and how you can build on what you think you know. When will you decide to explore even some of your feelings? The teaching at your disposal is powerful. Take your own worries seriously and learn about them, for they are key to your joy.

Inspirational roadkill

In this day and age, mobility is no longer only a dream for everyone. People who desire to get from place to place have many options at their disposal. Nonetheless, we still benefit greatly from thinking positively. This helps to better deal with many variables that enter into the equation which may otherwise cause us to lose our cool and feel somewhat helpless.

For instance, how often do you hear about people running out of gas at the side of some road? This kind of obstacle keeps you from getting from where you are to where you wish to go. If this happens, you still have a choices. You can permit yourself to get all frustrated about what you could've done and what you can't control or, you can focus on how to become more resourceful.

In my life, I once ran over a piece of previously dead roadkill splattered on the highway. This happened at night.  The bones of the animal punctured and blew my car tire.  At the time, I had a girlfriend as a passenger. Neither of us had cell phones or any roadside assistance membership card. My girlfriend wasn't keen on hitch-hiking at all, let alone in the dark on this highway between Amherst, Nova Scotia and Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. What a blustery night and unsual memories!

To make things more exciting, my friend started imagining stories of prospective murderers who could stop abruptly and quietly dispose of us. I wasn't taken in by her fear and thought more about proactively creating solutions. To invite assistance, I got out of the car on the windy night and bravely stuck out my thumb. I honestly had to work at it. After all, hitchhiking is an art and persuading passing cars to stop isn't always easy. Admittedly, there was little traffic. 18 wheelers didn't look like they would stop.  My optimism wouldn't lead me to to make frantic arm gestures.

Lucky for us, before too long, two university student guys drove by in this small chortling vehicle. They were all bundled up in hats, scarves, mits and wooly clothes for the cold winter weather. My girlfriend wasn't sure if she should get into their car. I told her to think positive and we would find a garage in no time. She hesitated, but decided it seemed better to leave in that car with me and strangers than to stay alone in the isolated cold car along the highway. I thought, 'fabulous,! she was thinking more positively!' I thought this would attract better things.

After puttering along for a time and chatting with these straingers along the icy road toward Amherst, we did find a gas station that was still open at that late hour. Alpha thinking worked! We thanked the students, who drove away into the night. The towing guy took us out onto the highway in his monstrous truck. He was able to bring the necessary tools to change the tire along the road. Before long, my girlfriend and I were again on our way for the rest of the drive home. She didn't seem convinced roadkill could inspire positive thinking, but I knew differently.

Not because its easy, but because its hard

What have you taken steps to learn today? What kinds of experiences enable you to grow? Some people figure we have some pre-determined pattern for a life journey. As long as you remain open to expanding how you see and what you think you know, then you also remain open to bettering yourself. You define failures and successes and these ideas evolve with your self-awareness. How will you choose to learn from them or not?

Each of us has different ideas about what makes life meaningful and about what would make it even more meaningful. You have this desire to carry on, even if you also feel somewhat apprehensive. What you think is easy or what you believe will be difficult are all relative. You may feel that self-improvement requires you alter your mindset and some of your life choices. You may think its vital to contribute to the world in new ways rather than simply taking from it.

Consider John F. Kennedy's famous speech about the U.S. Space Program which triggered a great deal of enthusiasm and self-improvement among actors in the Space Industry of his time:

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

Relive precious moments

Everything that happens to us and everything we believe in (or not) affects everyone else. Each of us is meant to be emotionally touched by thoughts and feelings. Its for our own good that we relive precious moments and get nostalgic. These events and feelings become a closer part of us. Its this relative closeness to positive feelings that connect us to guardian angels, those beings that are forever beside us, and can enable us to come into our own sense of completeness.

Before a recent public talk, I took a brief survey of the audience. In response to my question about believing in angels, the vast majority of hands were raised. These people came from all walks of life, and varied in age from their 30s to their 70s.  All of them recognized a desire to believe in this mysterious possibility. 

Throughout my presentation, they were formulating complete and expanded answers for themselves in their own minds.  Did they believe my stories? Were they becoming even more curious about the possible significance of events in their own lives? Had strangers assisted these people in ways that may have actually been Divine intervention?

My immediate reaction was: 'definitely.' In speaking with them later, I got to re-experience again what had happened to me, to see it differently, to realize we all desired these shared experiences and we had chosen to be at that venue for a particular reason. We were using each other as soundboards and silent listeners to better understand ourselves.

I left with the impression all the answers to any of my questions were accessible inside. It was like realizing I had more knowledge at my fingertips than I thought. Reliving precious moments reminds us we're all here to learn "why."  Reality is only reassuring to people who do not fear or do not wish to ignore it.  Are you ready?