“A Thought Is Just a Tool, Not Reality.”

- Our own ideas can cause us harm and keep us in the dark.

- Once a day, sit still; put your beliefs and ideas to the side.

- Experience yourself as who you are, with no ideas or thoughts.

- Experience your perfect soul, then bring it to the world.

Sometimes the “Flow of Life” will lead us to a waterfall that will
crush and kill us at the bottom of the flow.

There are different flows in life to take. A flow may feel natural
and good at first, but some flows have disaster at their end.

Check your flow; where does it lead?

Sometimes, to get where we must go, we must go alone for a
while, with no flow.

As we take a new direction, life can be difficult and tough, but
eventually we create a new flow, the flow of our life.

Life begins to flow with us; the world begins to come along.

Difficulty, turmoil and confusion are not neccessarily a bad thing:
when we leave a flow to find our own way, chaos may be the first
expression?

Chaos may be the consequence of simplification, where we are finding
who we are, finding our flow and creating a new direction.

(From my book, “Lessons in Love“)

We are imperfect beings… but only when we have forgotten our purpose and identity.

We are made in the likeness of the world; we are made to do good works. As we know this purpose, we begin to change, and life starts to work.

This change may be slow, quick or a little of both? It is our choice, to do what is best.

What we do determines how we feel and think. What we think determines how we feel.

If we do what is best, we thrive and experience the best of life.

Compassion is our primary self, but we have to use compassion to have it in our lives. We have to act and practice our best, to get the best of life.

To act from our best is to know the best of who we are. We have to use the best of ourselves, minute by minute and day by day, if we are to have the best of life.

We have been chosen by all the world. We are significant and unique. As we realize our value and purpose, we express the love of our soul. We begin to know who we are.

As we identify with life and all the world, we experience love. Things go well. We feel better in every way. Our problems leave us, and the difficulties that remain seem less unimportant than they were. As we know who we are, we know our purpose, and all we dreamed becomes real.

(From my book, “Lessons in Love“)

(This is a Self Improvement article that will help you develope your abilities to have  love, “the power of choice” and the gift of your heart and soul. It is an exerpt from the book, “Lessons in Love” by John Harrigan)

Make a Choice

In life, look for the gift. Look all around. Keep looking, and you will find the gift.

At first, you may think the gift is something outside of yourself, perhaps something you must do or own? After much searching, you may come to realize that the gift is you? The gift is in your heart and in your soul, the home to all there is.

Discover Your Gift

Discover your gift, which is you. Nurture it. Dance with it. Feel its pain and loneliness. Love it. The gift is you.

You are your greatest gift! You are God’s gift to the world, and you are divinely perfect, though imperfect you may feel.

Your Gift Begings with You

Your gift begins with you, and the secret lies in your heart and soul.

As you see and feel that you are a gift, you will become aware that all of creation is a gift to you.

What makes us most a gift is the quality and power of choice we have.

Our greatest quality is that we can choose what we become. However, we must first become aware of our power of choice.

We Become what We Choose

We choose our destiny. It may be unconscious at first. It may be an unknowing habit our entire life, but choice is there. And we are using choice to shape our lives.

Choice is our greatest gift. It is our road to freedom. When fully used, it is a path to the heart and soul. Why is this? It is because our nature is bliss, true love and happiness.

Make a Choice that Benefits You

Given the right time and place, we can make or create anything. However, only one thing will stand the ravages of time, and that is our gift: the conscious choice and ability to choose… to choose love when it is not expedient, handy, appropriate or the first intent of our mind… to change and shape our lives into some-thing good.

Demand of yourself that you choose love until it is a habit, until it is your first thought, your first command of yourself. Become Love. This is your Gift. It will change the world.

Make a choice that benefits you.

(From my book, “Lessons in Love”)

No matter what we look like, every human being is beautiful as their true and honest self. When we find our self, we find our soul… a thing of beauty and gold.

Our souls are loving, kind and strong. As we let our true and honest selves express, the way we are seen by others changes. We become radiant, strong and kind; we are seen in an attractive light. Our physical appearance improves as we are our true and honest selves.

As our true selves, we are strong and benevolent with attractive qualities. We are seen for who we are.

At our center, we are gold.

As we express our loving and benevolent nature, the truth of who we are begins to shine. Our soul appears as majestic beauty.

See yourself as beautiful, as generous and full. Realize that you are a wonderful person. Picture this within your mind, and express it in your life. Do generous things and be kind. Be humble. Express love at every opportunity. Let your beautiful soul express.

Treat yourself well, and know the marvelous person that you are. Treat others well. See the world as it is meant to be seen–with love, kindness and beauty. See heaven on earth, and let your soul make this heaven yours.

(From the book, “Lessons in Love”)

Most lasting self improvement is slow. There may be

sudden leaps of incredible dimension, but added
 over

time, these are fewer than the simple daily experience

of benevolent change.

The best feelings often accompany the bad. First,
allow yourself to feel.

When we get centered, grounded and have found
ourselves—most feelings are good, and bad feelings
pass from us quickly.

To feel good, practice feeling; practice knowing who
you are. Feeling good consistently begins with desire
and happens through practice. We all deserve to feel
good. Goodness is who we are!


To begin:

1. Sit quietly, and be still
2. Quell judgment

Observe thought if it comes, but do not perpetuate
thinking. Random thought is natural; don’t resist.
Observe, and let it go.


3. Observe your breathing, in and out

But do not attempt to control your breathing. Simply observe.

4. With quiet, gently observe

Focus again on your quiet. If there is no quiet within you,
imagine there is. Imagine how it would feel, how it would look?
What is the shape, color and location of your quiet?

5. Allow thought to be present or absent as you sit
6. Observe your thoughts when they come
7. Do the same with feelings

In time, you will know.

With practice, you will understand.
Your feelings will come under control.
Your thoughts and life will occur with greater ease.

8. This requires practice

A thousand pages of instructions and videos could
be shown; but this is all the information you need.

The truth is simple.

9. Who we are is simple

Fear breeds complexity and confusion, so does ambition. Get quiet.

Sitting still, of our own volition, allows the “true person” to appear.
Good feelings then happen.

This requires practice.

10. Do Qi Gong

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For more help on this topic, see my talk: “Immortality Is a Word and a Thought”

http://immortalnow.com/?p=2871&preview=true

A feeling…

• Don’t deny it
• Don’t push it away
• Relax and look at it

A feeling…

• What does it mean? What does it say?
• Where did it come from?
• Do you need it?
• Do you want it?

Is the feeling constructive, helpful or informative?

Feelings often slow down and become controllable
if we look at them without judgment or interference.

When you have finished with the feeling, when you
have decided its time is up, that it has no further
purpose: Say good-bye to the feeling or put the
feeling to bed as you would a little baby.

Feelings are in our life to serve us, to instruct us,
help us grow and be safe.

Feelings are in our life to be our joy.

Our feelings belong to us; they are in our control.

(From my book, “Lessons in Love,” pp 149-150)

Learning to feel may be no easy task, especially
for things we have learned not to feel.

Pain is a basic feeling most of us try to avoid.
The pain of rejection, embarrassment or
abandonment can often be denied.

It is natural to avoid pain, but to continually
deny it, or “stuff it,” can lead to misguided
numbness and increased pain down the road.

Even though we fear emotional pain, it is probably
best to feel it as it comes. When we deny it, we
get knotted up and out of touch.

A fearful denial of pain can keep the needed solace
of love away from us. It can block us off when we
need love most.

Fearful denial keeps us from love. Do not be afraid
to feel hurt when hurt comes your way.

Acknowledge pain and say, “I am hurt.” Seek solace
from contemplation, meditation, prayer and friends.

(From my book, “Lessons in Love,” pp 149-150)

When you deny your emotions and feelings, you
are controlled by them and may not even know it.

A simple way to get in touch with your feelings is to
write them down at the end of the day or whenever
you can.

Talk about feelings with other interested and trusting
persons. Ask them how they feel? Tell them how you
feel. Practice identifying your feelings.

When you are angry, acknowledge to yourself that
you are angry. Do not stuff it.

If you feel driven by fear, let yourself know it. Seek to
understand the fear? Then let it go, and instead
choose to feel a better feeling, such as love.

When you deny your emotions and feelings, you
are controlled by them and may not even know it.

Get to know your feelings, but do it in safety. Do it
with caring and trusting friends. Do it with a Higher
Power.

Do not rush things; everything has it’s moment.
Do not rush the process of feelings, simply
feel what you are feeling, and nothing more.

The point of feeling our feelings is to feel good, and
feeling good comes naturally when we are open to
feeling in a Divine and caring way.