Love, Pain, Soothers, and Overcoming the Addiction to Drama

Are You Sick of the Drama?

Addictions are so dangerous because often times we give over a lot of our life-force energy to our addictions.  In the systems and programs of the Matrix, there are many addictions available, but the addiction to drama is often the most over looked because sometimes our addiction to drama can look and feel like love. 

So, has love changed in modern times?  The answer is certainly not.  Modern love is the same as all love through out history.  In this day in age, we want the same things from love relationships that we wanted years ago even if it wasn’t articulated. 

In loving relationships we want to be accepted for our true and authentic self, we want someone who understands us, and we want someone we can share our lives with.  This is true about love rather it is friendship love, family love, community love, or romantic love.  However, in this day and age, there is one thing we must get passed and that’s the addiction to drama.

I really hate to use the word drama, because true drama is an art form and artistic expression (Dramatic Arts); but, in this case we use drama to identify the addiction many people have to heightened states of emotional trauma. So please do not confuse “drama” with the Dramatic Arts.

For a long period of time in the field of personal development, many philosophers taught that if we associate enough pain with a habit, practice, or addiction, then eventually we will break the habit or addiction.  Unfortunately, modernism has met with this modality and has created what I call “soothers” to help us get pass the pain, thus staying in the pain much longer.  Moreover, in many cases the soothers themselves can make the pain of the addiction feel good.

Who Will Finally say, "No More Drama?"

Let’s take the subject of drama.  A woman who attended some of my group sessions a while back in New Orleans told me about the relationship she had with her fiancé of five years.  She told me he was emotionally and verbally abusive.  She stayed in the relationship because he was a “good man.”  In her eyes, he helped to pay the bills, he went with her to her doctors appointments, and he helped her with their children from time to time. 

She said he was only verbally abusive when he had a hard day at work or when the finances seemed to be “strained.”  After being engaged for five years, she gained quite a bit of weight and much of the weight came about because she used comfort food, fast food, and junk food as a “soother.”   Within five years she had gain 80 pounds and also had high blood pressure.

His soother, however, was his Xbox, ESPN on a 52 inch television, a six pack of beer a day, and having his friends over every Sunday.  Both of them had the wonderful distraction of jobs they hated which took up a 60-hour week and a bunch of unnecessary bills (the $129 per month 52 inch flat screen was just one of them) they collected which required extra hours of work.

She had been able to prolong the relationships because their soothers kept them distracted and kept them from dealing with each other and  dealing with their problems.  Once she became involved in her own self-worth, spiritual evolution, personal development, and health, she began to eat more raw and living foods.  She practiced yoga.  She spent time in meditation.  She cut back some hours at work and her soothers were gone.  After her soothers were gone, she ended the relationship.

When she ended the relationship, it was the first time she had ever been without a man for more than a few months.  She took two years to commit to herself and her daughters.  After two years of what she called her “sobriety,”  she met a wonderful man about 4 years her senior.  They dated for a year and were married after a six-month engagement.  They are still married now even after they lost their home during Hurricane Katrina.  They have recently bought a new home in Houston, Texas (yes, even in this economy).

Until we get rid of or lessen our dependency on the soothers in our lives, we will continue to play out the dramas of our dysfunctional relationships.  With soothers distracting us from the truth and from the pain, we find ourselves taking much longer to hit rock bottom and sometimes even when we hit rock bottom we have used our soothers to cushion the fall. 

Today, with modern conveniences we have found it difficult to know if we are in love or in drama and dysfunction.  With our soothers distracting us, no, we often don’t know the difference. And if we can not acknowledge the existence of pain and suffering and dysfunction in a situation, it takes much longer to hit rock bottom.  And the longer it takes to hit rock bottom, the longer it takes to heal.

To this end, it is apparent that either we lessen or get rid of our soothers in order to face what we have attracted in our lives, or we not only do we prolong suffering but we become addicted to the drama we have manifested in our lives.  And this addiction will always hinder our spiritual and personal growth on the path of enlightenment.  It hinders our growth because it robs us of the life-force energy and mind power required to co-create our lives as we truly desire our life to be.

In fact, the addiction to drama can be downright deceptive we don’t get rid of or release our dependency on the soothers in our lives.  For example, sometimes we find that what we are think we are addicted to (toxic food, drugs, alcohol, sex) isn’t really the addiction.  Once we probe our lives and get rid of the soothers (toxic food, drugs, alcohol, sex), then we realize that it is the drama behind the addiction we are really addicted to.

A friend of mine told me about a cousin of his who was a prominent business man in New Orleans.  This prominent business man was what we call a womanizer.  He told many of his friends that he was addicted to good scotch, women, and sex.  Well, eventually these women ran interference in his life and he ended up in a big sex scandal surrounding the Canal Street Brothel in New Orleans.  It was in all the papers and many national news channels.  There was his name and his face and his business attached to the biggest sex scandal New Orleans had seen in while (and for New Orleans, that’s saying a lot!).  The man was devastated and so was his business. 

After a few years of lying low, he left the line of business he was once in because he had lost the trust of his clientele.  In 2007, he started a new company doing what he loved and now he’s a suburban dad coaching his son’s little league baseball team.

My friend said his cousin seemed so content now.  He said his cousin told him, he had to “hit rock bottom” before he realized what the real problem was.  The real problem was that he was unhappy.  He was in that particular line of business because he made a lot of money, but it didn’t leave him much time for anything else.  So, instead of the wife and family he really wanted, he convinced himself he wanted the women, fast cars, sex, and alcohol. 

It took a scandal to destroy his business before he overcame his addiction to drama.  My friend said his cousin hit rock bottom when all of the women who were once beating his door down stopped calling and wouldn’t even acknowledge him in public.  He really discovered who cared about him and who his real friends were.

Why put ourselves through the trauma of drama over and over again when all we are doing is destroying our hope, faith, and confidence in our true and authentic self.  Not only that, but we are also destroying our perception of our true self worth. 

 And just how do we overcome he addiction to drama?

(1)    We have to acknowledge the dysfunction in our lives and not treat it as if it is “normal” or okay. 

(2)    Get rid of our soothers through detoxification and treatment if necessary.

(3)    Get in some “self” time through meditation and prayer.

(4)    Face the pain of the situation we have attracted in our lives and build our spiritual strength through self-empowerment.

(5)    Practice present moment awareness and proclaim what you really want in your life.

(6)    Stop settling for an artificial version of your true desires. Acknowledge how you want to live your life and do not settle for a fake version of it.  The fake version is only an illusion of the ego. 

(7)    Use your “creativity” for something other than creating avenues of pain and suffering.

Despite what we have been told, we can overcome drama.  We don’t have to live our lives in a tornado of drama, trauma, and dysfunction.  If we want to live in abundance and increase our self worth, we have to pledge…NO MORE DRAMA.

Until next time, remember to give up the drama, live well, live wise, live wealthy, and let the Creative Spirit move you.

Your Creative Power Allows You to Attract Empowering and Fulfilling Relationships

Create More Love!

You can only use the true essence of your creative power when you are living as your true and authentic self.  As you live in truth and authenticity of who you really are, your creative power allows you to attract, build, and maintain empowering and fulfilling relationships.

With this truth, one can easily realize that there are no limits to what you can create in your life when you develop the Visionary’s Insight.  It is the Visionary’s Insight which sees beyond the dysfunctions of the Matrix and its programs and knows that when consciousness flows, creative power grows, and when creative power flows we are able to build the charisma and magnetism required to attract functional, empowering, and fulfilling relationships.

The programs and systems of the Matrix have miseducated us on the purpose of relationships.  Relationships are meant to empower the Soul and fulfill our lives.  Volatile and turbulent relationships marked by unnecessary drama leave us with traumatic emotional scars.  And these scars will require more of our life-force energy in order to heal. 

Many among us have wasted a lot of life-force energy trying to heal from turbulent, stressful, and volatile relationships we have attracted and held on to in our lives.  Don’t waste your life-force energy and creative power on turbulent and toxic relationships.  You can attract and manifest empowering and fulfilling relationships that don’t zap your creative power but add to your creative energy through the power of inspiration and unconditional love. 

An empowering and fulfilling relationship can be a powerful source of inspiration in our lives.  This inspiration can move us creatively as we live our lives because with this inspiration comes the fuel of unconditional love—love that is not weighed down by the conditions, fetters, and illusions of the ego.

When we get a taste of a fulfilling relationship, we know what it can do for our Soul. The sweetness of its nectar is nourishing to our hearts.  It does not confuse us and leave us scarred and dismayed, but rather it is good to the Soul and it allows the Creative Spirit to move us. 

The Visionary’s Insight can see beyond the Matrix and knows how to function in, build, and grow fulfilling relationships.  The vibrational frequency of unconditional love and devotion flows from our creative power and nurtures our lives.

The ego will settle for co-dependent relationships, but the true and authentic self desires relationships that are built on love and devotion.  The true and authentic self doesn’t want to hide behind things but it wants to express who you really are to those in your life. 

Too many people have developed co-dependent relationships. But when we use our creative power to attract and build empowering and fulfilling relationship, we can stand as one as well as be one in our relationships.  Oneness and devotion no longer frightens us, but we look forward to it because we know that Oneness is the way of the ALL-mighty which lives in and through us all.  In an empowering and fulfilling relationship built by creative power we can see the God in others and those in or lives can see the God in us.

In Stillness, You Can Manifest Your Dreams and Desires Spontaneously

Be Still. I AM God!

A dream is but a desire you have had in your heart for a period of time.  We all have desires and dreams.  Our dreams and desires can manifest spontaneously when we restore our mind power and listen to the voice of our Soul as it guides us with inspired action. 

Of course, this requires that we “Be Still and Know that I AM God.”  Do we know that I AM power which is God or have we become so addicted to turbulence, noise, and drama that we fear the very idea of stillness?  The great Yogis and Sages teach us that if you are going to chase one thing, then chase everything.  And family, we are here to tell you that you will run out of gas for sure.

And at some point in this holographic time-space-reality network we all get tired as our Souls beckon for peace.  Our soul beckons for  peace because the Soul knows that when we are still, we enter the field of pure consciousness and in this field all things are possible when we knowingly believe.  The Oracle Within guides us and our dreams manifest spontaneously.

 When we create from the field of pure consciousness, there is no need to chase a dream to manifest a dream.  There is no need to chase a desire to actualize it in your life.  You are infinite creative potential ready to be activated when you learn to “Be Still and Know that I AM God.” 

And who or what is this I AM.  As you unplug from the Matrix and its exhausting programs and systems, you develop a Visionary’s Insight which allows you to see that I AM God.  I AM is all that it is and I AM is all around you.  I AM is in you as you and as us.

I AM is the one.  I AM is oneness.  So be still and know I AM.

It is the fear of those who have benefited most from the Matrix and its programs and systems that you will learn stillness and silence.  And this collective unconsciousness breeds and feeds on our exhaustion as we chase and chase and chase.  Your Soul cannot function in this exhaustion and because of the turbulence and noise and dysfunction we can’t hear the voice of the Soul. 

It is the fear of the ego which only knows how to operate in the Matrix and its systems that you become still and silent.  So, the ego creates drama for you to act out and stress for you to live in. The ego fears the light and it fears being light.  It limits expectations and possibilities for greatness.  But your Soul wants to be free.

 And family, when you are free, you are free indeed.  When you are free, you can hear the voice of your Soul guiding you to greatness.  You are no longer weighed down by the fetters of the ego.  You are free to reveal the light and luminosity of your Soul.  You are free to share that light with the world.  Like the Blue Lotus you rise up with the Morning Star and you live your life in full bloom.

Silence, Meditation, and Your Infinite Creative Potential

Meditate to Create!

We create in silence and meditation and we stir the energies for the manifestation process.  It is hard for some people to practice the art of silence and meditation, but silence and meditation is essential for the use of our infinite creative potential. 

In our society, many have become addicted to emotional and mental turbulence.  We feel like we really have a life when things are loud and turbulent.  Unfortunately, silence has become equated with boredom.  And for this very reason, we have more stressed-out people in the world than ever before.

The truth is, we may not be as stressed as we think. In fact, we just may need a little silence.

And silence is what we can get when we unplug from the useless systems and programs of the Matrix.  When we unplug from the programs and systems of the Matrix and its counterproductive effect on our ability to create the life we want to live, we find that we can activate our infinite creative potential and transform it into infinite creative energy.  This is accomplished through the practice of silence and meditation.

Silence and meditation allows us to cleanse the subconscious debris of counterproductive thoughts and thought forms.  Like a mental detoxification, we are then “empty to be refilled.”   We are liberated. 

As we empty our minds, we can reload and restore productive mental imagery which works with pure consciousness in the creation and manifestation process.  Productive mental imagery then activates our infinite creative potential and turns it into creative energy.  When this creative energy is used, it becomes creative power which has the volition to manifest our most focused intentions. 

 Silence and meditation also activates our infinite creative potential for creative energy because the yoke of resistance are broken and energy (creative energy) always follows the path of least resistance. This is why it is important to “purpose” your intentions.  Purpose intentions are not weighed down and held back by resistance.

And how can we undoubtedly know we are resisting.  Stress is the signal.  Stress and turbulence is always the signal of resistance.  Our infinite creative energy cannot flow and become power where there is resistance.  Silence and meditation make us aware of what and where the resistance is and through our Oracle Within, we discover what inspired action to take to unblock the flow.

All to often we are told we need to add something to ourselves in order to become our true and authentic self.  However, those of us who have grown on the path of enlightenment have discovered that it is nothing we need to add to ourselves but what we need unload to make room to reload and restore what we’ve already had. 

Silence and meditation is not only detoxifying but it is replenishing.  What we replenish  and restore is the infinite creative power we require to create the life we desire to live.

The Power Money Cannot Buy But True Self-Awareness Produces

When we understand true self-awareness, we understand our true self-worth.  And this consciousness is powerful.  It is the power money cannot buy.

But Now I See!

The power money cannot buy but true self-awareness produces is the power of the Visionary’s Insight.  When you become awaken and unplug your mind power from the energy-zapping illusions of the Matrix and its programs and systems, then you become like Neo, the One.  You become the Oneness Blessing and your true self-awareness grows and expands into a self-worth money can’t buy.

This state of true self-awareness springs from the field of infinite creativity and infinite possibilities.  Without true self-awareness and spiritual awakening to oneness, we really don’t know our worth and our power.  In this field of pure consciousness , we rise like a lotus from murky waters.  The inherent qualities of this field are bliss, wonder, freedom, and wealth. 

Not so long ago, I asked the question, “Can Creativity Pay My Bills?”  The answer I received from Divine Intelligence is, “Yes, if you want it too.”  Too much time and energy has been placed on external sources of power which can be sold to the highest bidder in the Matrix.  And those who trade in external sources of power live by the code “you up one day and down the next.”  However, those of us who have discovered the power money can’t buy have awakened and we know that true self-awareness can produce creativity and creative freedom that will make you rich. 

The programs and systems of the Matrix will have you believe that you could never have such control in this holographic time-space-reality network.  The programs of the Matrix will have you to believe that you can only succeed in life through its programs and systems. 

It is when you awaken and walk the path of enlightenment that you discover the power that money cannot buy.  A power so strong you become certain—faithful to the voice of your Soul. 

In this faith and certainty, you live in such a profound way that abundance and creativity flows naturally and without resistance in your life.  You become the happiness,  prosperity, and success you once searched for.  And this is the Visionary’s Insight.

Every one of us who has awakened and who listens to the voice of our Soul sees beyond the Matrix knows the Visionary’s Insight.  We know what it is to see into the Absolute Reality or the Substantial Reality.  We know why it is said that “all things are created Spiritual Realm, first.”  We know what it is to live fearlessly without the limitations and fetters of the ego.  We have left the object-reference programs and we have realized the True Self and spirit-reference life which hears the voice of the Soul. 

And the voice is so loving, pure, and good that it transforms all of the fears we have into faith, love, passion, joy, and self-worth.  The voice of our Soul reminds us of who we really are and why we are here.  It increases our vibration to a state of Charisma which magnetizes us at a subatomic level and it transmits and radiates love, beauty, luminosity, and inspiration. Now, how much is that worth?

Creative Freedom and the Flow of Abundance from Pure Consciousness

An old 70’s funk song’s belts out the lyrics, “I want to be free.”  Do you know what I am talking about?  I am talking about creative freedom and the flow of abundance from pure consciousness.  Pure consciousness allows us to create what we truly desire in this holographic time-space-reality network.

I want to be free!

It is the goal and greatest desire of the Soul to live fearlessly—to live with the expectancy of ever-increasing good, freedom, love, abundance, expansion, and growth.   Pure consciousness, which is granted by enlightenment, is the elixir that frees us from the bondages, fetters, and illusions of the ego.  The illusion we live  and struggle through if we allow our Soul to be trapped in the programs and systems of the Matrix.

Pure consciousness is what allows us to live in a continued expansion of happiness, creative freedom, and the flow of abundance.  Creative freedom, the flow of abundance, and happiness is not a program.  Happiness is a state of being.  Creative freedom is an expression of who we really are, infinite creative potential.  The flow of abundance is the movement and rhythm of our true nature which is that of abundance. 

The Visionary’s Insights grows in a state of happiness, creative freedom and expression, and in the flow of abundance.  Pure consciousness makes it all possible.  

To expound on this truth, we must understand that there is no separation between who we really are—the true and authentic self, the Soul—and The Source of ALL-That-Is.  When we receive the Oneness Blessing or the Holy Spirit, we live in pure consciousness and we open our lives to the infinite possibilities of creative freedom and the flow of abundance. 

As we live in pure consciousness, our need for acceptance becomes true self-realization and our light shines.  We develop and expand this light and the light becomes so luminous that we ourselves become lightworkers with a Visionary’s Insight, intuition, foresight, awareness, and power. 

All lightworkers know the power of pure consciousness, the Oneness Blessing, and how it frees you creatively.  The power of pure consciousness frees you from resistance and you find it unnecessary to be attached to anything or anyone.  Now, living without attachments doesn’t mean we are living without love, but instead we are living in unconditional love which is the prime source of pure consciousness.

As unconditional love flows through us, we become this wonderful state of being (pure consciousness) by letting go of the ego and listening to the voice of the Soul.  We become this wonderful state when we realize that the programs and systems of the Matrix are but an illusion and we are not trapped. 

As we become this wonderful state we live in creative freedom and the flow of abundance because we have allowed the Creative Spirit to move us.  With each move, we make a Quantum Leap into true self-awareness, ever-increase good, and continuous spiritual evolution and the light within us to shine brighter and brighter. 

Deliberate Creation in Harmony and Well-Being

Harmony and well-being that is the true desire behind every desire we have.  We just have to become enlightened to what harmony and well-being truly is. 

Deliberate Creation is a faculty of increased consciousness, enlightenment, and your spiritual awakening.  We all desire to succeed in life, but we all have different ideas and perceptions of what success is.  In the Matrix, there are many programs and systems which “tell us” what success is and what it is not.  And these programs and systems devalue our true self-worth.  We get so caught up in the illusion–the belief that these programs and system are reality and real life that we forget who we really are and why we are here.

However, for those of us who have developed a Visionary’s Insight, we know that if we buy into these illusions we are furthering an agenda that in no way aligns with what we truly desire to experience in our lives.  In fact, in all cases, it is counterproductive to what we truly desire to manifest in our lives.

It takes a true spiritual practice to “see beyond” and live beyond the Matrix—the great illusion.  When we practice true spirituality, we have the empowerment and determination for deliberate creation.  It is essential for our success to practice deliberate creation in harmony and well-being. 

I am Awake!

As we commit to harmony and well-being on the path of enlightenment, we will discover that we can live beyond the Matrix and we no longer are victims of  its programs and systems.  Deliberate Creation in harmony and well-being gives us the power to hit the delete key or the escape key to any program or system we don’t like in this holographic time-space-reality network. 

With this empowerment, we can begin again, and create what we truly desire instead of suffering with “experiences” we don’t want.  Our true self-worth is beckoning us to use this empowerment.  Our true self-worth is beckoning us to begin again with the self-awareness and consciousness necessary to create the life we want to live, manifest our dreams, and actualize our vision of purpose in life. 

There are many aspects to success and we have a divine right to experience opulence and success but we must work with the Source of ALL-that-is in us as us in order to experience this opulence, success, and abundance.  This is co-creation and co-creation is deliberate.  We will find that when we take this spiritual approach to creating the lives we want to live, we put ourselves in harmony with nature and we create in joy, peace, love, and happiness.

This is the purpose and intention of the Visionary’s Insight.  The Visionary’s insight is to see beyond the Matrix and align with that which is affluent, abundant, and harmonic.  There is a rhythm to life in which we can master and create a melody that is sweet, beautiful, and inspirational.  When we practice deliberate creation in harmony and well-being, we find that rhythm and we find our dance. 

And when we dance, we are greatness.  Each of us wants to express momentously who we really are and to showcase that expression to the world.  It all happens with deliberate creation in harmony and well-being.  This proactive way of living allows us to manifest optimal health, empowering and fulfilling relationships, creative independence and freedom, financial independence and freedom, emotional and mental stability, peace of mind, happiness, and meaning in lives. 

And as we commit to deliberate creation and develop a Visionary’s Insight, we realize we have become a seer who can manifest our dreams.  We have become a lightworker who shines our own light.  Yes, when we practice deliberate creation in harmony and well-being, there is no limit to our power as co-creators.

Consciousness, Self-Awareness, and Spiritual Awakening for Success in Business, Art, and Life

The Visionary’s Insight sees beyond the Matrix.  And when we develop a Visionary’s Insight, we have consciousness, self-awareness, and a true spiritual awakening for success in business, art, and life.  When the knowledge of who you really are is incorporated in your consciousness, you become aware of your true and authentic self which is a real spiritual awakening.  To be awake, to walk the path of enlightenment,  and be conscious of who you really assures your success in business, art, and life.  You cannot fail.

Life, art, and business requires that you be awake in order for you to manifest what you truly desire rather than furthering someone else’s agenda.  Life is the process of being and becoming.  Art is man’s ability to demonstrate that something can come from “no-thing-ness” while business and entrepreneurship is about expansion of ideas, resources, and concepts which spreads wealth and prosperity. 

This holographic time-space-reality network is filled with programs and systems we’ve created ourselves and in the worst case scenarios we have forgotten this.  We have forgotten what we agreed to “create” while we are here.  We have forgotten that we are not stuck.  We have the ability and creative power to get ourselves out of any program or system that is no longer working for us and our vision of purpose in life. 

But many among us are afraid to hit the escape key because many of us have come to believe in the programs and system more than we believe in our true and authentic self.  It is Soul liberation when we awake and realize we are not limited to the program or system.  We can create something different. 

What we can create is business that promotes wealth and prosperity for ourselves and others.  We can create avenues of entrepreneurship which allows us to use our gifts and talents while providing apprenticeship opportunities (what we now call jobs) for others to grow in skills to expand their careers or start their own businesses.

Yes we can create art that demonstrates the power and effect of our imagination—art that inspires and reflects the beauty of life.  And there is so much beauty despite the images often shown in the media. 

Most importantly and significantly, we can create the life we want to live.  We can actualize our vision of purpose in life and be the “idea” and example of hope to others who truly desire to do the same. 

It is through consciousness, true self-awareness, and our spiritual awakening that we can express our true nature.  Our true nature is that of abundance and we are infinite creative potential.  When that potential is activated, it becomes creative energy, and when our creative energy is used, it is creative power. 

This infinite power organizes and it is how we are able to create avenues for success in business, art, and life.  All of us have a burning desire to “be” something great and to do something spectacular with our lives.  This is very much a natural desire for all of us. 

It is not always about fame, but remembers friends; it is good to be celebrated for who you really are and for using your gifts and talents to inspire others.  The applause is not for the ego, but for the beauty of life that is expressed through you. 

If we all just took a little time each day to appreciate our own Soul and listen to the voice of our Soul as it speaks to us and reveals who we really are, then we will find that we are increasing in consciousness.  That increase in consciousness produces a powerful self-awareness which allows us to live  and create in harmony and well-being. 

Compassion for Haiti and a Time For Oneness

This is a season for compassion and oneness among humanity.  It is at moments like these that we show we are Divine Beings…

We were all stunned, shocked, and saddened by the 7.0 earthquake devastating Haiti last Tuesday.  As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, seeing those images of the people of the land, I was overwhelmed with compassion.  Years ago a genealogist, who had specialized in studying facial shapes, was certain I carried Haitian and Senegalese ancestry.  I have yet to research my ancestral background, but what I am certain of is that Haiti has a population of 9 million people.  Reports of massive losses of life are steadily reaching into the hundreds of thousands.  The tragedy which occurred to this beautiful island, home to millions is a concern to all of humanity.

In this country’s greatest time of need, there are thousands of lightworkers hailing from all walks of life that are doing what they can to bring aid, awareness, and luminosity to Haiti.  It is during these times of tragedy, our consciousness as a nation elevates.  The best of humanity reigns supreme.  Unfortunately the worst also rears its unconscious head.  And who in this tragedy represents the worst?  Conservative Pat Robertson.

Mr. Robertson, an alleged proponent of the “Word of God,” in his view of the reasoning behind the earthquake, piously declared that the people of Haiti made a pact with the devil.  Since his remarks made it to mainstream media, many of his supporters rushed to his side insisting that he never indicated that it was the reason behind the quake and that Mr. Robertson believes we should all pray for the people of Haiti.

But mind you, this was one of the first statements he made regarding the situation in Haiti.  The cause of the destruction, “the curse,” was his interpretation or reasoning behind why the people have suffered for centuries.  In a time of great tragedy, people of every nation have always looked to their Spiritual leaders for comfort and to give reason for suffering.  Mr. Robertson has been a leader among his group for more than three decades.  He was asked for a spiritual answer or reason for the devastation in Haiti; and his answer was that it was an ancient curse.  Hence the wrath of God has yet again befallen the people.  Make no mistakes family, it does not matter what Mr. Robertson’s P.R. is saying, in his reality, God is an angry and vengeful God. 

As a woman of color and just as a human being, I found his comments to be highly offensive, insensitive, and prejudicial.  Prejudicial from the standpoint of the influence Mr. Robertson has on a specific group of people.  These types of comments disconnect one from the oneness of life and the people connected to that oneness.  It disconnects you from humanity.  It inhibits you from feeling concern, compassion, and love for God’s creation—in all its fullness.

If you would like to assist with Haiti’s relief efforts, please visit the following:

www.yele.org

(Performance Artist Wyclef Jean’s website.  Mr. Jean is a native of Haiti)

www.redcross.org

http://www.unicef.org

http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake

http://clintonbushhaitifund.org

http://www.clintonfoundation.org/haitiearthquake

Also when giving, allow your Spirit to guide you.   Use caution and ask questions before contributing to any organization.  Click on the following links for information and tips on contributing to charities.

http://www.essence.com/news/hot_topics_4/how_to_avoid_donating_to_a_fake_charity.php (Essence Magazine online)

http://www2.guidestar.org/rxg/give-to-charity/haitian-relief-efforts.aspx (Guidestar)

If you are unsure of the sites listed on Blue Lotus Living, Guidestar has an exhaustive list of charitable organizations.

Until next time family, live well, live wise, live wealthy and let the Creative Spirit to move you.

Motivation and Inspiration to Live on Purpose

We all have to find the motivation and inspiration to live life on purpose.  The power to will and co-create our reality is living with purpose on purpose. 

The decision to co-create your reality rather than be a victim of circumstance or a child of chance can be difficult when the world around you tells you that its systems and customs are the only way to achieve success in life.  When one decides to co-create their reality, he or she has to re-evaluate goals, intentions, and desires while focusing on what really matters in life.

Often times, when one says the word “purpose” some people get frantic and wonder, “how do I know what my purpose is.”  At Blue Lotus Living, we answer this very simply, “You give your life purpose.” 

And just what do we mean by “you give your life purpose?”  Life purpose is the child or offspring to the Soul Purpose.  Our Soul Purpose is to expand, create, cultivate, and enrich life by becoming more of who we really are and what we really are in our truest nature is abundance and infinite creative power.  That’s who we are.  Therefore, as we go through our life, we discover purpose for our life force energy—yes we purpose our creative power.  We accomplish this by probing our lives and determining what brings us joy and elation, how we want to serve humanity, and how do we want to expand life on this plane of existence. 

Although teachings and information can inspire us and inform us about our power, no one else can give us the answers to these questions.  We must desire to know and through our desire we will determine these answers for ourselves.

 Accordingly, at Blue Lotus Living, it has never been the desire or intention of our community to determine these answers for anyone but rather to inform people and inspire people to desire to know these answers for themselves without the influence of others (that includes us).  We want you to know your power as a co-creator.

 It is for this reason we call our community Blue Lotus Living.  We call it Blue Lotus Living because we hope that what we share will help everyone to rise up and live life in full bloom and his requires that one knows that he or she is infinite creative power and abundance. 

If we all live this way and let this be our reality and continue to allow inspiration to flow through us from the Creative Spirit, then we will find that The Most High Source of ALL Creation cannot be separate from us and through this realization (the only reality there is—the Absolute Reality) we discover our true power and just how infinite this power is.

 It’s easy enough to dream and plan according to the systems, customs, and cultures our society has already put in place, but it takes great courage, desire, and determination to live as a co-creator and maintain the motivation to live life on purpose.  I do not in any way seek to minimize the importance of dreams and aspirations because it is when we do not limit our dreams and aspirations that we are living as co-creators. 

However, we must be brave enough to expand our dreams, plans, and aspirations beyond the limitations of our systems, cultures, and customs.  Your dreams and visions cannot be limited to the house you own, the car you drive, and where you vacation twice a year.  These are but simple perks of manifestation resulting from living on purpose.  If we look deeper within ourselves and listen to the voice of the soul, we will realize that these simple manifestations of focused intentions are not the dream itself.  Often times when we limit our dreams and life aspirations to these simple manifestations, we suffer from discontent, and despair.    

At Blue Lotus Living, we are always hoping that through our writings and teachings, we are inspiring people to dream big and then dream bigger and just when it seems like you realized the biggest dream ever, you dream even bigger than that and actualize it.  This ever-increasing power to actualize one’s dreams is expansion and expansion is living a limitless life with unlimited possibilities.   

As we share workshops, performances, writings, and teachings, Roslyn and I hope that every person can see their own unlimited and infinite possibilities.  For it is in the realm of infinite possibilities that we create life as co-creators with and as the Source of ALL Creation works through us as Willing Vessels. 

So let’s live beyond the limitations of our societal systems and really invoke and evoke our power as co-creators all while allowing the Creative Spirit to move us on purpose.

The Holistic Creative Entrepreneur Practices Productivity and Creativity for Good Business Sake

Being an Entrepreneur is one of those gifts we all have access to if we develop our skills in areas of productivity and creativity.  As a Holistic Creative Entrepreneur, I have discovered that productivity and creativity are the basic essentials for success in any field of business.

Since we’ve re-established Blue Lotus Living, productivity and creativity have been the focus of everything involved with our business model.  Our business model is that of internet publishing (blogging, social networking, link-exchange, digital products…) and with internet publishing you have to be creative and productive on a daily basis. 

Yes, here in the blogosphere and cyberworld, you have to utilize productivity and creativity daily because things are constantly changing.  Do you know how many times I go to the administration area of our site to find out I need to upgrade a plugin?  But this is what entrepreneurs do; we have to stay on top of things.  We have to know the latest innovation. 

With this in mind, I wanted to share with you today some skills necessary to promote productivity and creativity in your business or career.  And let me make it very clear, productivity and creativity is necessary even if you are “hired” by someone else.   

Some skills necessary to enhance your productivity and creativity for good business sake are:

1.  Innovation

Innovation is not unique to the entrepreneur, but it is most definitely required.  Innovation is spawn from the creativity and the execution of one’s witty ideas.  It is always good to be an innovator instead of an imitator.  Innovation is the ability to use creative energy and channel original ideas which become something unique. 

For instance, as I have become more and more involved in the internet publishing or e-publishing industry, I have learned the necessity of innovation.  We live in an age of the Global Economy and The Age of Information (an overlapping gumbo of an age you can say).  Because information can be transmitted with the touch of a button, we are consuming more information than ever and we are consuming it quickly.  Those who are succeeding online are staying on top of ways to meet the demand for information.  They are staying on top of ways to get information out quickly, efficiently, and accurately.

And if you don’t think you have great ideas, that doesn’t mean you are not meant to be an entrepreneur.  Innovators also know how to capitalize on a great idea.  A few moments ago, I told you about how I always have to update my plugins for this site.  Well, this site is powered by www.wordpress.com, but many different people have developed the plugins I use for this site.  That’s still innovation.  I may not have “invented the internet,” but I sure am finding wonderful and innovative ways to use it to promote and establish a luminous and beautiful community and company called Blue Lotus Living.

2.  Passion

Few people believe it, but we got to keep saying it.  “Do what you love and the money will follow.”  I tell you the truth, you will be amazed at the amount of energy you can muster when you are doing what you love.  And that energy which will take you so much farther than ambition and drive is called Passion. 

It is very difficult to be passionate and enthusiastic about anything you don’t love.  Moreover, it is difficult to be productive and creative if you are not passionate about what you are doing.  Again, ambition can only take you so far. 

Passion puts the intensity in your intentions.  Those among us who understand how the Law of Attraction works also know that your intentions are critical to the manifestation process.  The intensity behind your intentions are fueled by love and passion.  Productivity and creativity follow this passions.

And how can passion be a skill, you might ask?  Passion becomes as skill when we use it as vehemence.  Vehemence has force as in influence.  And in this context of influence we mean the ability to effect something.  For this reason, passion is very important in helping you enhance your skills for creativity and productivity. 

If you are not passionate about what you are doing, you will not have a passionate staff or passionate subordinates and you most certainly will not have passionate consumers or clients. 

For instance, before I left New Orleans, I was told that an associate of mine was stepping down as Executive Director of her Community Based Organization.  She had been providing Substance Abuse Counseling services to HIV/AIDS clients for over 14 years.   After leaving, she opened a small but elegant Night Club in a more up and coming neighborhood in New Orleans.

She was met with a lot of criticism because people felt she had turned her back on the community.  After running into her daughter,  a few months after she opened the club, I asked about her.  Her daughter said that her mom stepped down because she was tired.  She wanted the services to continue but she no longer had the passion for it.

 “Mama wants to be around music and laughter at this point in her life.  She’s 47 and she has been doing community work and activism since she was 19,” her daughter told me. “She has a new passion now.  I wish people would stop dogging her about it.  She’s happy.”

I fully understood and I told her daughter to tell my former associate that I wished her well.  There is nothing productive nor can anyone be creative if they continue to do a thing they are no longer passionate about.  You know longer have influence when you are doing something for which you no longer have the passion to do.

Are there ways to stir up your passion again?  Of course there are.  Some great ways to stir up your passion are:

• Return to your purpose and intentions.  Why did you begin to do the thing you are doing in the first place?  Think about how you would feel if you could no longer do it.  Ask yourself, if you are resisting some sort of necessary change or transformation which has caused you to lose your passion.  Again, this will take you back to purpose.
• Find ways you can make things new and fresh again.  Is there something you haven’t tried?  Is there something you haven’t tried a different way? 
• Associated with others who are interested and passionate about the thing you are doing.  Passion can be contagious. 
• Walk away for a while and see how you feel before making a drastic decision.  We all need a break.

3.  Attention and Focus

Some of us have developed a short attention span for everything but what “entertains” us.  Developing our ability to focus and pay close attention to what is truly important in our lives has now become an arduous task for many.  It has become a task because of the vast number of distractions or “dis-attractions that we have in our lives.  The average home in Western cultures has at least 3 televisions.  Then  you have iPods, cellular phones, 200 Apps on the cell phone, video games, tons of DVDs and CD, computers, and  computer games.  

When was he last time you sat in a room other than the bathroom quietly for 15 minutes with no television, no phone, no computer, or any other gadgets?  Hmm…Can’t remember?

Sometimes in order to get our focus back and to start paying attention to what really matters in life, we need to detoxify from our distractions.  Yes, all these things serve their purpose and have become important in the day to day tasks in our lives, but we still have to put all the stuff away at times in order to keep our footing in life.  Most importantly, we must pay attention to and remain focused on our vision of purpose in life. 

For example, as entrepreneurs we always have to remain focus if we want our business to grow and expand.  You have to pay just as much attention to customer and client relations as you do to the bottom line.  What good is a top-notch marketing plan if your customer relations suck?  What good is customer relations if you have no marketing plan and your business is barely breaking even?

You happen to notice these things when you are focused and paying attention.  When you get focused, you get productive.  When you pay attention, you are in the present moment.  And we all now know that when you are in the present moment, you are in the presence of God or you are in the presence of omniscience and omnipotence.  Your most powerful moment is now.  As you increase your awareness in the present moment, you tap into the field of infinite possibilities.  Here, in this field, there are endless opportunities available to you.  By holding the vibration of acute awareness and ever-increasing good, you will draw to you by way of the Law of Attraction, the best opportunity to get the best result no matter what the current situation may be. 

 Need a marketing plan?  It’s available so get focused.  Need a better way to relate to your customers or clients?  It’s available so get focused.  Need a new business concept?  It’s available so get focused on it.  It’s all available when you become available to it by tapping into the field of infinite intelligence and drawing to you all the resource, opportunities, things, and people you need to conceptualize your desires.

What you don’t pay attention to, you get distracted from or dis-attracted from! What does that mean?  Whatever you don’t pay attention to in life is left in a state of default.  In other words, you have no influence over or no power to flow energy towards a thing you don’t pay attention to.  This means it is left to chance.

For instance, if you don’t pay attention to your children, then you have little influence in advising them on things that could help them succeed in life.  When you don’t have influence in your children’s life, then who knows who they are taking advice from.  Perhaps, your child is listening to someone who may not have your child’s best interest at heart.

The same is true in the subjective/spiritual realm.  Remember, as it states in the Kybalion, “ALL is mind, the universe is mental.”  When you do not pay attention or focus in on something, then it is left to be influenced by other mental powers.  Yes, this includes your business so pay attention.  If you are not focused or paying attention, you may hire the wrong people for a job.  You may execute an advertising campaign that isn’t very fruitful.  You may launch a product that isn’t ready for market. 

When we pay attention, we get full wisdom and knowledge on how to handle things most productively.  We also get creative ideas on how we can do things.  So, again, pay attention.

4.  Imagination and Visualization

Increasing your imagination and visualization skills is crucial for the enhancement of productivity and creativity.  Imagination and visualization can be used as tools in business. 

When you use your imagination and visualize, creativity flows naturally and without resistance.  The flow of creativity then sparks excitement and enthusiasm.  When this fire is lit, you become more productive almost spontaneously.

Some of the most effective ways to increase the flow of your imagination and improve the vividness of your visualizations are:

•  Journaling about what you would like to see happen in your business in the next year, 5 years, 10 years.  Make this a daily activity.  As you journal, you are thinking and seeing at the same time.  What you are writing down, you are imagining.  Be sure to journal in present tense as if the vision you have for your business has already actualized.
• Go on long nature walks.  Just going on a 30 minute nature walk sparks the imagination.  You will find that nature gives you incredible inspiration that will stir your imagination. 
• Meditation as a daily activity.  Meditation has a way of clearing the mind of debris and gives you the energy and mental space to imagine and visualize what you truly desire to happen in your business and in your life.

Now, with these skills you will enhance your productivity and creativity as you thrive in life and business as a Holistic Creative Entrepreneur.  Furthermore, as you grow in other skills, talents, and abilities as an Entrepreneur, you will find that your productivity and creativity will naturally enhance to meet your growth if you continue to develop these skills. 

Yes, Entrepreneurship is a wonderful gift, but as with all gifts, once it is in your hands, it is your job as a co-creator with our loving and abundant universe to make the most of it.  Be momentous.  During your journey on the path of enlightenment you will gain many gifts and talents along the way, but you must be willing to maintain a progressive state of being.  Everything in this universe must grow, multiply, and expand.  Anything that stagnates will either disintegrate or die.  Digression is death.  Expansion and growth is life.

So put the life back into your living and your business or career today.

The Quantum Physics of Affirmations – Speak What You Truly Desire into the Unformed Stuff of the Universe and Manifest Your Dreams

The unformed stuff of the universe is unused potential beseeching to become and be realized.  Quantum physics talks about this unformed stuff in detail.  In fact, this unformed stuff of the universe is called dark matter.  It has intelligence.  It has potency (potential) and it is formable under your volition (will or willing power). 

Quantum Physics teaches that you can transform this unused potential through your vibration because this unused potential is formable.  You can form it through daily affirmations and various affirmative exercises and spiritual tools which give your affirmations power and voliton.

We have been told by so many people that affirmations don’t work.  Affirmations do work but those times when affirmations have not worked have been because they had no power.  If you do not add your “will” or your “power to will” to an affirmation, the affirmation will just be meaningless words.  In other words, use the power of your intentions.

Quantum Physics acknowledges our ability to form and affect our reality if we are willing to use our mind power and spiritual aptitude to do it.  The science of Quantum Physics and metaphysics asserts that we live in a vibrational universe.  All things in our reality will manifest after its own kind.  Just like you don’t plant apple seeds and expect oranges, you must be in vibrational alignment with that which you want to see manifested in your reality.  In other words, we truly do have to get into the spirit of a thing in order to align with it vibrationally and see it manifest in our reality.

Affirmations are powerful spiritual tools when you add your creative power and momentum to it. In fact, here we will give you three prerequisites to adding power and momentum to your affirmations.

1.  Detoxifying the mind with meditation

Sit in silence and cleanse your mind before beginning your affirmations.  This form of meditation is designed to “detoxify” the mind of the debris which can cause your mind to wonder and shift your awareness to a lower vibrational state.  If we want to attract the best energy to create the best conditions, we must address our state of being by shifting our awareness to a higher vibration. 

 You can reach a higher vibration when you are not weighed down by stressful debris such as worries, unfulfilled desires, and illusions of the ego.  This is one aspect of what it means to be “enlightened.”  You are literally “lighter” (as in spiritual and mental weight) because you have released all that junk from your microcosm. 

As you become lighter with meditation, you have the energy to direct your mind.  Yes, you are then in control of mind instead of allowing your mind to be controlled by circumstances, worries, and other peoples vicarious desires. 

Once the mind has been released and is lighter; you have the energy to added volition (willing power) to your affirmations.  We don’t want our affirmations to just be another thing we are saying to make us feel better temporarily.  We want our affirmations to have forming power as we speak to the unformed stuff or unused potential of the universe.

2.  Say an Affirmative Prayer

Calling those things that be not as though they were, has been practiced among Christian Mystics for centuries.  While some who practiced this universal principle were considered a heretic, many built their message around it.  The most memorable among all Mystics was Yeshua, the Christ, who stated in his prayer “thine kingdom come,” in present tense.

Affirmative Prayer or Scientific prayer, as it is sometimes called, is a prayer which speaks the positive outcome you desire. Through affirmative prayer, you are guided by Infinite Organizing Power of the Universe to take inspired actions or right actions which will orchestrate wonderful synchronicities that will cause your desire to manifest in your reality. 

In reference, a short time ago, I taught an Abundance Training class for Universalclass.com.  In this class, I emphasized the importance of being process oriented, meaning putting your attention and intentions on the creation process rather than trying to manipulate the outcome.  Affirmative Prayer allows you to “let go and let God.”  Once you know the outcome you desire, you can then be guided through the creation process by the Creative Spirit. 

Affirmative Prayer makes you aware of what you “really” desire.  By practicing affirmative prayer before declaring your daily affirmations, you are asserting your desire; furthermore, you are increasing your conscious awareness of what you truly desire. 

Sometimes we just don’t know the power of increasing our conscious awareness.  When we increase our conscious awareness, we are aligning vibrationally with our desire.  As we are in sync with our desire, then the orchestration of the universe takes place and by way of the Law of Attraction you will attract every resource, thing, person, or opportunity necessary to bring your desire into your reality.

3.  Journaling in Present Tense

Journaling in present tense may very well sound crazy to some people.  But I have to make a statement that some people believe is a cliché nowadays…”In order to receive something you have never had before, you will have to do something you have never done before. “  Although rather cliché’ –ish, the saying still has a bit of Zen to it. 

Journaling in present tense before declaring your affirmations will make your affirmations more real to you.  When we are writing, we are using our conscious mind and our subconscious mind is visualizing what we are writing.  When you spend time writing your desires regularly in present tense, you are having that experience now.  And as we have been told, the subconscious mind does not know the difference between a mental experience and a physical experience. 

For instance, if you want to be a homeowner and you wrote:

“I love being in my new home.  As I walk through the rooms of my home, I feel peace and joy.  My gourmet kitchen is always stocked filled with fresh foods. I entertain family and friends in my kitchen and we enjoy having dinner parties in my formal dining room.  My husband, my children, and I have movie night every Thursday in the family room.  There is always laughter in my home.”

Now, if you wrote this in your journal in present tense and later said the affirmation “I am a homeowner who experiences financial freedom while enjoying my home with my family,” the above journal entry is in vibrational alignment with the affirmation.  The affirmation has power and volition because you have “vision” which is in tuned with the frequency of your “homeowner” affirmation. 

Quantum physics teaches us just how powerful the human mind is.  We truly do have the power to co-create our reality with our loving and abundant universe; however, we must be proactive in doing so by practicing Quantum physics of affirmations to manifest our desires and actualize our dreams. 

Meditation, prayer, and journaling before you do your affirmations daily will add creative power to your affirmations.  We can say our affirmations in a sing-song repetitive manner or we can use our infinite potential and allow our affirmations to empower us. 

By practicing the Quantum Physics of Affirmations, we do something much more substantial and much more momentous.  What we are doing is speaking to the unformed stuff of the universe and forming it to manifest our dreams and our vision of purpose in life.

Friends, we are much more powerful than we know and we have the entire Universe willing to work with us and through us to make our dreams a reality.  What we must learn is that the dreams we have are in us for a reason.  These dreams, our visions, were seeded in us long before we took our first breath of life. 

Our dreams were seeded in our Soul to manifest in our reality and we can proactively co-create the manifestation of these dreams by practicing the Quantum Physics of Affirmations.  Speak your reality as you truly desire to experience it now.