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Newsletter #3
Inspirational Ideas
Spread a New Attitude
Happy New Year! Let’s spread that greeting around! Yes, it’s
a great wish for everyone you care about, but what can you do to ensure
it?
For starters, you can look for positives in every situation, rather than
negatives. (Even – and in spite of – the global money crisis.)
Would you believe that every negative situation is capable of being converted
into a positive? Expect that, and you’ll find it will come true.
More importantly, though, you can make a positive contribution to the state
of your loved ones, your neighbours and your world. How? Well, by refusing
to watch negative movies or TV shows; by declining to pay good money to
the producers and distributors of scare-mongering films, comics and books;
by not encouraging war-mongering politicians, no matter which country or
viewpoint they represent; by not tolerating cock-fights, bear-fights, or
fights between senseless – or soon-to-be-senseless – human beings.
The fact is that humans are the most aggressive creatures on earth. Cats
may play with their prey, but humans are the only creatures that will kill
for the sake of killing, often not even collecting the birds or fish they
destroy, and more often killing huge and rare animals for a small part of
their anatomy.
Do something positive this year, to make it a Happy New Year, not just for
you and your loved ones, but for those under-privileged humans and for creatures
that cannot defend themselves against the guns and machines of war-mongers,
hunters, drug-pedlars, oil-explorers and loggers whose uncaring self-interest
is destroying the planet. Fortunately, there are many organisations dedicated
to saving this planet. If you’re not already an active member of one
or more, do something about it now, and help make this a happy new year
for all.
This Month’s Affirmation
Affirm this statement twice daily, and more often if you wish. Before long, you will develop an attitude and experiences in accord with it.
Today I create for myself and my world a new day and a new life, and every thought or emotion or thing I create is good for me and good for all.
Helping Others
Physical, Financial or Emotional condition
Most problems for which people need help fall into one of the three categories above. In most cases, the problem will seem to have been imposed from outside. The spread of an infectious disease, a company’s need to retrench staff, a partner’s running off with someone else – these are all examples. However, I do assure you that in every instance, without exception, whether one knows it or not, whether it is conscious and deliberate or not, a person’s setbacks as well as his or her rewards arise from within that very person. There are many who survive fearsome infectious diseases untouched. There are those who are unaffected by changes in financial conditions, whether global or particular. Relationships based on sound foundations are unshaken by outside influences.
Mental cause
Physical conditions affect one’s mental state. Consequently, many
people think that the physical precedes the mental. In fact, the
five aspects of a human life – creative, intellectual, emotional,
material and physical – all affect each other; any one of
these can trigger a reaction in any other or in all the others. But just
as a person does not finally die until they are brain-dead, so do they not
live until their brain functions. This implies that thought (a left-hemisphere
activity) and intuition (a right-hemisphere activity) are the starting points
for every circumstance of one’s life.
Nobody can plumb the recesses of another person’s mind, no matter
how close they are, how much they share, or how medically or hypnotically
trained one is. Therefore nobody can say with certainty what specific mental
process in another person has caused their circumstances. There are pointers,
though, that may be suggested. Someone who has been the victim of a robbery
(material sphere) may have carried a sense of loss from an emotional situation.
One who suffers from cancer (an eating up of healthy cells) may be “eaten
up” with anxiety about something. A person who has lost his job may
suffer in most or all of these spheres.
Spiritual cure
There is a power in the Universe greater than you or I, and we can use it. Distance makes no difference, whether one is healer, sufferer or sufferer’s friend or family. We invoke the Creative Power on behalf of the sufferer for a healing. It sounds so simple that many believe it to be foolish. It is simple and it’s not foolish, but it does require that the invoker’s mind is clear, and free of all assumptions. The directions that follow will also be clear, but they may not come to the invoker. They may come directly to the sufferer, or to someone else who can help. The spiritual guidance may not come in thoughts or words, either; it may come in the form of a newspaper article or a TV show or some other way. The point is that the connection with the sufferer and the condition will be so clear there will be immediate recognition by the recipient of the message, who will then know what is required.
Helping Another
Golden Rules:
Assess whether you are willing or able to give the help asked for. You will
not help an alcoholic by giving him money; rather offer food. You cannot
help a seriously injured person by stating metaphysical laws; rather render
first aid, and do the metaphysical work yourself, silently.
Do not fudge or use euphemisms. Tell the sufferer whether you can or cannot,
whether you will or will not.
If the sufferer is someone you dislike intensely, don’t attempt a
healing. Get someone else to do it.
Animals and plants cannot speak. Be guided by your inner voice as to whether
and how to help.
When to help
When help is requested, and not before. (Not when you would like to!)
When help is requested by the sufferer, not by the sufferer’s family
or friends, unless the sufferer is unconscious or too seriously
ill to ask.
How to help
People who are trained to help, such as doctors, nurses or paramedics,
psychologists, accountants, etc, are obviously equipped to give their specialised
type of help where it is appropriate. The best help the average person can
give is by invocation – calling upon the Creative
Power of the Universe
*to help the sufferer, and
*to direct you as to whether you should do more, and
*if so, what help to offer.
When not to help
If it’s contrary to the rights of the sufferer, including his/her
right to die or to continue suffering. (Remember, some people have to descend
to the very depths of despair before they are able to change. Intervention
could damage their enlightenment.)
If it’s contrary to your own beliefs.
If it’s contrary to the rights or the good of others.
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