THE VIBRATION OF FEELING LUCKY.

I have been working with the vibration of feeling lucky, and being open to synchronicity. When you step into the energy of feeling as though good things happen to you, you are opening yourself to infinite possibilities. The universe has a hard time bringing your heart’s desires to you when your mind is stuck in a place that says “you do not deserve it” or “you are not good enough.” Those thoughts are not true! You are one with the divine creator and you deserve to live a happy life. It is easy to get stuck in the thought pattern that good things do not come to you, because if that is your belief, it is exactly what you have been creating. Your past thoughts are creating your present reality. So if you change your presents thoughts from “I don’t get what I want out of life” to “I am lucky and amazing things happen to me,” then you are opening the space to receive what you truly desire. We are here to enjoy our lives!

As far as work, some of our minds tell us that we cannot do something if we believe it won’t make us any money. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. See if it makes you feel better to ask, “What do I want to create in this human experience because it would be fun?” Nothing lasts forever besides source energy and you are source energy! So, what would you like to create, for no other reason that it would be fun for you to experience it? Instead of harping on, ask “How can I create the life that I want to live?” Try asking yourself, “How can I step into a vibration that makes me feel lucky, so that I can open to accepting all the goodness that is out there for me?” This takes some time to wrap your mind around, because the ego mind likes to keep us small and make us feel as though we don’t have hope. It’s the voice of spirit that guides you in the direction of your highest good. Learning to differentiate between these voices takes practice. In most cases, if it feels good and loving, it is your Spirit or your higher-self communicating to you. If it doesn’t feel good and motivational, it is probably your ego mind trying to keep you down. When you notice that the chatter in the mind does not feel good, simply recognize that chatter is not the truth. Then affirm your new thoughts.

Affirmations:
I am ready to accept guidance from my higher self. I am open to allowing Spirit to bring divine coincidences or synchronicity into my life. I know that I am here in this human experience for a reason - to fulfill my higher purpose. I am lucky and open to Spirit guiding me to create my highest good.

True Friends.

When you hear of friendship, what would you describe it as? Is it having a friend who always has your back? Is it a friend who'll never let you down? Or is it someone who will spread lies about you to the people whom you care about and trust? The answer is simple, friendship is having a friend who points out your flaws but loves you for them.

Lately, friendship has lost its meaning here. Everyone finds it easier to spread rumors and lies about someone rather than tell them to their face. It hasn't always been this way, only come recently has drama gotten to be such a big issue that everyone seems to be wrapped up in it. Recently, I have heard more rumors about more people than I even care to think about.

A good friend doesn't use their "friend" just for their brains. A good friend doesn't wait to tell you when they have a problem with you; a good friend tells it to your face before the problem gets out.
Bacon – the famous essayist - has warned against the friendship between a very rich person and a very poor person. Economic disparity damages friendship. Thus friendship is a feeling of affection between two likeminded persons of uniform status.

It is said that a friend in need is a friend in deed. There may be many friends at the time of prosperity. But most of them desert at the time of adversity. We can examine the sincerity of a friend during our time of hardship and trouble. Only a sincere and faithful friend remains with us at the time of our trouble. All others leave us. It is very painful when our friends turn traitors.

Very often some hypocrites pretend to be friends. They are more dangerous than avowed enemies. By telling soft words they bring enormous ruin to us. A true friend never exploits. He rather surrenders. But at present, the meaning of friendship has changed.

There are many fair-weathered friends. They terminate their friendly tie as soon as their interests are fulfilled. It is very difficult to find a true friend today. It is better to establish true friendship with either a dog or an elephant. Both these beasts will remain faithful to their human friends. Today, friendship between two persons is short-lived.

Friendship is a feeling of love and affection of one person for another. This feeling of love must be reciprocated. Otherwise friendship cannot be possible. Friendship does not exist where tastes, feelings and sentiments are not similar. Good friends exercise good influence. They always help their friends, in distress and inspire them to walk on the right path.

SINGLE AGAIN?

Quote of the Day:



“Lots of things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You’re aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can’t be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn’t be.”

~ C. JoyBell C.


I say:


Single again. Two words that to some, rival “chicken pox” or “dentist appointment” as the two most dreaded words in the English language. I have several friends who are currently just starting to navigate, or re-navigate, as the case may be, the waters of singledom, following break-ups, divorces, or other partings of way. And it hasn’t been too long since I myself was re-introduced to single life, following the crash and burn ending of my last serious relationship a few months back - so I know that this “Brave New World, Population 1” of single life can be a scary place to be.

But you know what? It can also be a really exciting place to be. It’s you, on your own, with arms free to embrace the world and all of its opportunities and possibilities. It’s a wide open calendar, with endless potential to fill it up with things that interest you, excite you and move you. It’s the rare chance to get to be selfish, to spend uninhibited amounts of time chasing your own dreams and goals and passions, without asking anyone’s permission. And it’s two open hands, an open heart, wide open eyes, and a free, uncluttered mind for inviting endless blessings, joys, lessons and laughter to fill your soul from the top of your head to the tips of your toes.

Basically, in the single girl’s dictionary, “Single Again” is synonymous with several other two word combos you might recognize.

True story!

ALL ABOUT ME.

The status quo dictates that one must abide and follow its stream regardless of its mediocre taste. I, on the other hand, won't allow my principles to conform with the norms especially if it requires me to disregard my own set of standards. I will fight back with my head up high because what I do with my life defines the very nature of who I am. My identity is priceless, it is my treasure which I could proudly pass on to whoever finds it worthy to ponder upon. Who I am is what I am, either the society accepts it or I'll beat the crap out of its absurdity.

DOMA.

I've been concerned about the Obama administration's stance on Gay Rights, in particular their brief on the DOMA - Defense of Marriage Act - case. In reading James McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom" - a great book on the Civil War, I came across the following about Lincoln.

    "Nor did he go as far as many other Republicans who called for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia and repeal of the fugitive slave law."

The real firebrand at the time in the Republican party was Seward. But it's because he was such a firebrand that he wasn't able to get elected to the Presidency.

Not too different from what we're saying about Obama today. But we don't remember Lincoln as the President who was reluctant to take action on slavery. Instead, we remember him as "The Great Emancipator".

Let's give the brother some time to get things done.

[Now I'm just rambling.]

GAY RIGHTS.

Every family has one (except mine of course).

Homosexuals should be entitled to all the same rights as straight people. We are no different than the rest of you. We simply choose to date different kinds of people. We should all be able to date whomever we want without fear of discrimination. Instead however, many homosexuals are denied the rights people take for granted. For example, in Colorado they have a constitutional amendment that forbids laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination. In other words, discriminating against homosexuals in Colorado is not only perfectly legal, but the state government is against trying to create an equal opportunity for all. Colorado is not the only discriminatory government however.

According to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, voters have repealed gay rights laws or enacted anti-gay rights measures in more than 45 communities - in the U.S. - since the 1970’s. In Normal, Illinois, the City Council rejected a proposal to add homosexuality to the city’s anti-bias ordinance. Last year, only two days after the Lansing, Michigan, City Council approved a civil rights ordinance that included protection for gays and lesbians, a group calling itself the Majority Opposed to Special Treatment gathered hundreds of petitions to rescind the law.

Whatever happened to all men are created equal? It seems to me that the people of America consider all men, exactly the same as they are, to be created equal. However, that is not the way it is. Americans are so proud of their freedom and their liberty, yet they are so anxious to take that same freedom away from someone else. Why can’t we take that statement for what it is, and start treating everyone equally regardless of his or her race, gender, and sexual preference?

AM I GAY?

When I think back of my early childhood, I can remember being fascinated with what I am. I was fascinated, in a rather special way - by a particular boy in my class. While my thoughts at that time were not particularly sexual (I was nine), I often thought about whether or not I thought this boy beautiful. I had problems settling the issue in my mind, but nevertheless, I looked at him ever so often, and I felt pleasure while doing so.

As time went on, as I entered puberty, I began to take a more active, albeit still very discrete, interest in other boys. While in the locker room after physical education, I detected that I was sexually attracted to several of the other boys, and I also saw many boys walking around the school corridors who caught my attention. Sometimes I looked them up in the school's yearbook to see what their names were, and in my free time, I often dreamt about being physically close to them.

But during this period of adolescence, I never really thought about what I was. All the things that took place in the emotional-sexual realm were, admittedly, real and concrete to me: I experienced real feelings for other boys (love, infatuation, sexual attraction). But at the same time, on an "intellectual" level, I never confronted these feelings, and so I continued having them without worrying about them or trying to transform them in any way. They just were, and that was fine with me. While some opponents of homosexuality often claim that it is "unnatural" (a claim which is thoroughly refuted in the essay "Homosexuality and the 'Unnaturalness Argument'"), for me, my homosexual feelings were very natural indeed.

Looking back at this period, my feelings for other boys were at least as strong as before, while my lack of an emotional-sexual interest in girls continued. I was very attracted to quite a few boys which I only knew from having observed them around the school, and I also experienced two strong infatuations, involving two boys in my class. Of course, as before, all of this was kept very secret. So how can it be explained that I, who really was gay, so strongly attacked homosexuality in different contexts? The explanation is, I think, psychological in nature. That is to say, I now think I was homophobic, not primarily to have people believe that I was straight (because I never thought anybody doubted that anyway), but to keep myself in check. I was "preaching" to my inner self, in a way.

During college, I gradually began to realize, on an intellectual level, what I was. Why did that take so long? I think because when one grows up and hears words like "gay" or "homosexual", one thinks of rather horrid people, who are disgusting, ugly, and immoral. I used to have a picture in my mind of two old, ugly men with mustaches (which I happen to find quite unattractive) kissing - and I found that revolting. I thought: I cannot be one of them. And yet I was, in a way. What I began to understand was that the term "homosexual" really did not denote anything but a description of towards whom a person was emotionally and sexually attracted. It did not denote anything, in itself, regarding the looks, behavior, or values of anyone. When I realized that gay people are like everyone else - some are nice, some are rude, some are beautiful, some are ugly, some are young, some are old, etc. - I had an easier time using the term for myself.

Today, I lead a rewarding life, both professionally and privately. I spend a lot of time with my steadfast circle of friends (we have dinners, go out together, talk on the phone almost daily, etc.), and even though I disagree with the French philosopher Michel Foucault on many counts, I find his view on friendship in line with my own, as it is described by Edmund White in his book The Farewell Symphony (London: Chatto & Windus, 1997, pp. 457-458): "Inspired by the ancient Greeks, whom he [Foucault] was studying, he'd developed a cult of friendship. He thought that we had nothing else to value now; the death of God had resulted in the birth of friendship. If we could no longer enjoy an afterlife earned by our good deeds, we could at least leave behind a sense of our achievement, measured aesthetically, and the most beautiful art we could practice would be the art of self-realization through friendship."

I am happy to say that I now view my homosexuality as enriching. I hope to be able to influence people towards more of tolerance and acceptance of homosexuality, and I think the best way to do that is to be yourself and be open - then, people will be able to see that gay people aren't really different, except in one little area.

*laughs.