Stop Complaining and Become Creative Power Soul – ‘lutions Oriented

What do I mean by Creative Power Soul – lutions?   It means to start to use your creative power for more than just complaining.  It is about finding soul – ‘lotions, or solutions from the soul, that will produce joy, peace, and harmony.

Don't Talk About It, Be About It

We all hear it all the time.  Friends, relatives, associates, church members, co-workers, parents, girlfriends, boyfriends, you and I, we have all spoken on what we feel would need to change in a situation that clearly bothers us.   Now whether or not we are individually affected by it, isn’t the point; although it should be.  Why?  Because some people who grumble the loudest, really aren’t that affected by what they may be complaining about.

I know you’re probably saying, O.K. give me specifics. 

Allow me to paint a very true life picture.   Not long ago, Carmellita and I took on the project of renovating three of her mom’s rooms.  Carm’s mom lives in a large, ranch style home, and since her youngest children and grandchildren moved out, the three rooms they were inhabiting for years were left…well let’s just say, they needed some work.  Carmellita decided that she wanted to take on the project.  It was her way of giving back and saying thank you for all the support her mom had given her and still gives her to this day when it comes to running a business. 

Unfortunately, there are people who don’t quite get having a vision and purpose.  Some may try to deter you from your goals because they can’t visibly see what you were doing at the time or why you were doing it in the first place; until the business begins to make money (but that’s for another writing).

I’m absolutely crazy about Dot (her mom) and I too appreciate her for being the kind soul and gentle lightworker that she is; so I decided to jump on board and help.  While we were working on a plan, there were quite a few people who thought we were crazy.  They didn’t see the point. 

We just kept on working and had a lot of fun picking out paint and new wall decorations and furniture.  It was magical to see the look of  joy on Dot’s face as we were helping to manifest her vision for the other part of her home.  I tell you Carm and I were just like designers on HGTV.  It took us 4 months to complete the project, but after the reveal everyone in the family was astounded and pleased. 

Dot had a man-cave for her husband, a home office, and a guest room for visitors.

In the middle of all this joy, there was a relative that appeared out of the shadows and disagreed with the entire look.  He didn’t really think it made sense to “purpose” each room.  He thought that each room should be guest bedrooms.  I can safely say that this person had his own ulterior motives.  So of course they didn’t get the vision.  You see, if there were a lot of guest bedrooms, then more family members and friends could move in, for an extended stay.  But once again that is for a later writing. 

This relative was one of the main people who were complaining about the rooms and that something should be done.  For months, the complaint was his daily mantra.  His creative power was being mis-used on complaining rather than providing soul – ‘lutions to the problem.  Mind you he didn’t lend a hand to help with the renovation, but was the biggest complainer.

Eventually he stopped complaining.  The pure light energy and focus we all shared for the new part of the house, finally diffused his complaints.

Friends, I know that each of you have come across people who complain constantly about a situation, but if you ask them for solutions (being pro-active), they are short on action, until someone else takes the lead and then it becomes a problem.

If you ever find yourself in a situation that’s bothering you enough where you are projecting your mental focus and energies on the situation, begin to ask yourself, “Am I being soul – ‘lutions (solutions) oriented?  How Am I helping this situation?  If this is bothering me so, what can I do to create positive and productive change?”

Or as a famous rapper once said, “Don’t talk about it, be about it.”

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

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.

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.

Nina Simone Cranks Out I’m Feeling Good and I Know the New Year is a Blessing

Family, I just read Roslyn’s post and I concur, we are so grateful for all of you here at Blue Lotus Living.  This year has been absolutely beautiful and I am glad I shared it with all of you.  Our readership has expanded and we owe it all to our friends across the blogosphere who have embraced us, commented, and emailed us with wonderful words of encouragement.

Do you want to bring in the New Year feeling good about who you are?  Do you realize that 2010 is a blessing, yes it is a blessed year?  We hope you do because there are so many great things for us who walk the path of enlightenment.  We live in an abundant and loving universe that wants to see us succeed and be the happiness we often search for.

The last song of tonight at our New Year’s Bash was Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good.”  And that’s exactly what I want you to experience this year.  We at Blue Lotus Living want you to feel good.  We want you to feel good about who you are and the “more” you are becoming by allowing the Creative Spirit to move you on purpose.

This first part of 2010, we will be talking a lot about self-worth, this is how the Creative Spirit is moving us.  We are discovering that many people have place there value in their homes, cars, bank accounts, properties, friends, and even family, but that they personally are last on their list. 

A high self-worth is what leads to prosperity, wealth, health, and empowerment. Furthermore, we will not allow the Spirit of Oneness to direct us towards purpose and inner peace if we don’t think we are worth it. 

We don’t take our dedication to the Blue Lotus Living Community lightly so we are going to spend sometime addressing self-worth from many angles.  Those angles include wealth, abundance, health, the use of our gifts and talents, personal power, and more.  We want artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs who have put their dreams on the backburner to remember who they really are and value themselves as divine beings.

With this in mind, heart, and spirit, we hope that you will take this journey with us in 2010.  We hope that you will discover just how wondrous you are.  This New Year is a true blessing.  You are a blessing.  Remember to feel good, live well, and let the Creative Spirit move you.

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.

How to Use Your Spiritual Gifts Everyday…Even When You Don’t Know What They Are

Rediscovering your spiritual gifts and true talents is a daily developmental process.  You don’t just jump up one morning and know what your spiritual gifts and true talents are without the practice of asserting purpose and intentions or purposed intentions.  We have often stated at Blue Lotus Living that we should create consciously in other words, the creation process should be deliberate creation. 

Deliberate creation does require that we understand that rediscovering our gifts and talents is something we must be committed to.  It requires the discipline of wholeheartedly doing our spiritual work daily:  This spiritual work includes:

 (1)   Meditation:  We meditate daily for the purpose of increasing our awareness and to live from higher consciousness.  Through meditation, we can hear from the voice of our soul without any words being spoken at all.  The voice of our soul communicates to us in ways that seems like impressions which are from that all-knowing place within us that we call “The Oracle Within.”  This all-knowing place reveals to us ways in which we can rediscover and use our spiritual gifts and talents.

(2)   Prayer:  Prayer allows us to tap into the field of infinite possibilities with our desire, faith, and belief.  It is through our prayers that we open our hearts to infinite possibilities and wonderful synchronicities begin to happen.

(3)   Affirmations:  Affirmations are your voice reaching into the cosmic order of the universe and affirming who you really are and what you truly desire.  Your spiritual gifts and talents are not only affirmed through affirmations, but multiplied and energized.  Affirmations work well with prayer and visualization in the manifestation and creation process.  The fusion of affirmations, prayer, and visualization is called Affirmative Prayer or Scientific Prayer.  Affirmative Prayer and Scientific prayer are very powerful spiritual tools for those on the path of enlightenment.

(4)   Visualization:  Visualization is imaging or creating vivid images of what you truly desire with your third eye or mind’s eye.  Your spiritual gifts and talents will expand and grow with the daily practice of visualization.  Not only will they expand and grow but your spiritual gifts and talents will have the power to spread inspiration—that’s right, you will inspire others to inspire other people.  This is what makes inspiration absolutely contagious. 

(5)   Journaling:  Yes, write it down and make it plain.  There is something magical, yet mystical that happens when we write things down.  To affirm our spiritual gifts and bring these gifts into our awareness, we can start by writing down our abilities and skills.  Remember there is nothing that is too simple or too small.  Even if we have great organizing skills, this alone can be evidence of a spiritual gift.  Hmm?  Perhaps you are gifted in bring divine peace and order to an environment or situation?  As chaotic as things can get in our society at times, who couldn’t benefit from peace and order?

These daily practices will then create impulses that when aroused through your discipline creates a vision.  Your vision, when expounded upon, becomes your vision of purpose in life.  You will not discover what your spiritual gifts and true talents are without spending time developing and honing in on your vision of purpose in life.   This is the beginning of realization or self-realization.  In self-realization you begin to use your power to create your reality while in partnership with our loving and abundant universe.  Building your partnership with our loving abundant universe as you create your reality is called co-creation.

Realization is the key to knowing what your spiritual gifts and talents are.  As co-creators, realization is our breakthrough in all things.

Yes, spiritual gifts and true talents must be “realized” just like everything else in our lives.  And what do we mean by “realized.”  In the process of realization, we recover and rediscover what is true and authentic for our own soul development.  Yes, we are literally in a joyous recovery as we grow on the path of enlightenment and rediscover who we really are. In this recovery and rediscovery, there is a great deal of “re-cognition” that must take place in our soul development and this includes our spiritual gifts and talents. 

“Re-cognition” is really a three-step process for those of us on the path of enlightenment as we “realize” our gifts and talents.  Our re-cognition process is three-step:

(1)    Re-cognition is giving a token of acknowledgement or gratitude for what you have.  In other words, you may not know what your spiritual gifts and talents may be, but you can give acknowledgment and show gratitude for those abilities you do know about.  And the best way to show gratitude and to acknowledge these gifts is by using them.

(2)    Re-cognition is also identification based on pass knowledge.  We are re-cognizing our spiritual gifts and true talents because we are re-discovering what has already been within us and used by us before through some soul experience.  Accordingly, to identify our spiritual gifts and talents, we must spend time in prayer and meditation.  We must also spend time affirming those abilities we do have.  If we do not affirm those abilities we do recognize, then how are we to connect with the energy necessary to identify our gifts and talents.  In other words, you may discover that you give good advice.  It may seem like a simple ability, but it may be significant.  By utilizing and affirming this ability, you may discover you have the spiritual gift of insight, communicating divine wisdom, and discernment.  That’s not a minute thing.  Ask anyone.  Helping to bring someone out of a state of confusion into a state of awareness is powerful. 

(3)    And that brings us to…Re-cognition is also validating the existence and power of a thing.  Sometimes we don’t validate our own gifts and talents because we don’t believe it’s worth anything.  We have to see our spiritual gifts and talents as valuable.  In fact, we have to see our creativity (The Creative Spirit moving through us) as being more valuable than the money in our pocket. 

With these “re-cognition” steps, continual meditation, and prayer, we will rediscover our gifts and talents.  So, how do we use our spiritual gifts and talents each and every day even when we have yet to know what they truly are?

We use our gifts and talents each day by asking a simple question:  “How can I best serve humanity today?”  Then we affirm, that “In some way with some opportunity or resource presented to me today, I will serve humanity in a way that will promote well-being in my life and the lives of others.” 

A heart that has been convinced and has visualized the opportunity to serve humanity in some way that day will actualize this intention.  That’s right, you can use your spiritual gifts and talents each and every day by affirming your commitment to serve others and by visualizing an opportunity to spread well-being. 

Remember, an intention visualized with purpose, becomes a purposed intention and a purposed intention is a powerful intention.  It may sound like a riddle of sorts, but it is truth.  It is truth because if you are really committed to using your spiritual gifts and talents each and everyday, it is not something you have “try to figure” out or something you have to use force and might to accomplish.  Using your spiritual gifts and talents daily is accomplished by your powerful intentions or purposed intentions. 

Yes, through your powerful intentions, the cosmic order of the universe will bring into your reality opportunities, people, things, and resources in wonderful synchronicities to assist you.  That’s the beauty of co-creation because as we co-create our reality with a loving and abundant universe, the ALL-Mighty through Spirit will draw to you by way of the Law of Attraction all you need to use your gifts and talents daily.  All you need is the courage to execute. 

Now, where does this courage to execute come from?   It comes from your WILL and the daily spiritual work we discussed a few moments ago.  Daily spiritual work such as meditating, visualizing, affirming, and praying empowers you as a Willing Vessel. Once you have decided to become a Willing Vessel and have been empowered as a Willing Vessel, the well of your being ignites all those dormant spiritual gifts, talents, skills, and abilities to use for ever-increasing good or well-being. 

A fine example of this was something that happened to me shortly after college.  After college, I had written several poems that were published by various publishing companies and in various anthologies.  I was very happy about the results.  Then one day, I sat down to write a poem and instead, I was drawing a picture.  Now I hadn’t sketched anything before in my life (other than a few stickmen and stickwomen), but these pictures were quite vivid.

A cousin of mine, Aquilla Miller who is a cartoonist, saw my drawings and thought they were great.  I submitted a drawing to a publication and received a significant check for the rights to buy the drawing.  I was once again very happy with the results.  

Later, I began writing what I didn’t know at the time were personal development articles.  I was paid quite handsomely by several small publications for exclusive rights to these articles.  And yes, once more, I was very happy with the results.  My aunt read some of my articles and asked me to speak at one of her women’s groups.  After attending the group, my friend Marcy asked me to speak at her prayer group meetings. 

It was through these small speeches and articles that I developed a love for personal development and reignited my abilities for public speaking.  That’s truly the way that it works.  We have to be available for good and good will show up every time thanks to The ALL-Loving and ALL-Mighty Creator. 

Your spiritual gifts and talents can be used everyday; you just have to pledge and commit to using them.  There are infinite possibilities and infinite opportunities available to you right now.  You just have to open your heart and mind to them. 

Affirming and using your spiritual gifts and talents is the key to being successful, experiencing financial freedom, living in purpose, and enjoying life again.  So my advice is…Open your heart. Open your mind.  Step out on faith.  And let the Creative Spirit move you.

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Unlocking the Mystic’s Chest Containing the Link Between Creativity and Psychic Phenomenon

How can a psychic phenomena and creativity be interlinked?  Is there some type of mystical paranormal activity that takes place in the creative process which produces an increased awareness?  It is all possible. 

We are more powerful than we know and our mental and spiritual powers reach beyond the realms of this time-space reality.  In fact, when we allow ourselves to use our authentic mind power, we will discover that our creative potential can reach beyond the confines of linear time.  With this, power we truly understand the “INFINITE” in our infinite creative potential.

Consequently, as we explore the above questions, we must realize that it may very well be a brave venture to ask such questions…I don’t know perhaps an inquisition of sorts.  But one thing is for certain the journey to discovering the power of our creative energy is an adventure we all want to take.  Although we desire to take this journey, we are often stagnated by fear—fear conjured by the illusions of the ego. 

Why are we often overwrought by fear even though we know that the power of our creative energy is essential to us creating the life we want to live?  We are often overwrought by fear because we are acting merely on faith.  Each time in the creation process there is something different realized.  Ask any artist and he or she will tell you.  He or she will tell you that in the creation process you have your intention and purpose, but something magical yet mystical happens.  You see, by allowing the Creative Spirit to move through us, sometimes things become more than you ever imagined or envisioned. 

For example, a good friend of mine who is a painter told me about the image he had in his mind of a woman on shore.  Night after night he would be awakened by this image of this woman on some seashore. 

In his dream the woman was singing a song.  The melody was playing in his head and he couldn’t get the melody out of his head. He’d sketched the woman out a few times, but never really painted her.  He told me, “Something in me knew I was supposed to paint this image I couldn’t shake, but I kept sketching the image.”

Finally, after dreaming about the woman for nearly two weeks, he let go.  “Yeah, I decided to ‘let the Creative Spirit move’ as you always say,” he told me.  He said when he sat down to paint it was somewhat arduous in the beginning because he didn’t really want to do it.  He said he had to calm the voices in his head that were telling him he would fail at what he was doing.  Then, he said, the melody started to play in his head. 

“For a few moments, I put down the paint brush and just closed my eyes.  For some reason when I begin to paint I feel insecure for a moment like I am about to mess something up, he said.  I don’t know why I feel that way.” 

He said, “But after I closed my eyes and heard the music and the melody, I felt the meaning of being a painter. I can’t explain it,” He said. 

“I know what you mean,” I told him.  “You felt like you were creating something beyond yourself that seem to have a life of its own.”  He nodded at my explanation.   

We went on talking about how creating in a state of true self awareness causes you to express yourself so effortlessly.  And now that I think about it, of course it would.  When you create any art form or artistic expression it is a form of true and authentic self-expression; therefore, if you are in state of true self-awareness and hearing from the voice of your soul (which your inner being speaking to you) then you will be able to express yourself effortlessly. 

The condemnation and “voices” discouraging my friend came from the resistance of the ego.  Sometimes as you are about to create your best works of art, the ego can step in and attempt to break the connection between you and Source Energy in an attempt to make you feel uninspired.  We know that when you are inspired—you are “in spirit” or in the Presence.  The ego feels uncomfortable with this connection because this connection robs the ego of its “separate identity from Source Energy or God” which it wants to maintain.

My friend did not allow the ego to overtake his creative flow.  This was the key that unlocked the mystic’s chest in which he discovered the link between creativity and a psychic phenomenon because after he completed the painting, something wonderful happened. 

He completed the painting and left it on an easel in his studio.  His studio was a guest house he had couple hundred yard from his house he had renovated just to have quiet place to work everyday. 

He told me that one day his girlfriend was looking for him and assumed he was in his studio.  “She waited at the house for a while but decided to just pop her head in for a second without disturbing me too much.  She told me saw the painting and she was mesmerized.  She said she heard a song playing in her head and went home immediately,” he said.  “I should tell you my girlfriend is a songwriter and she write her own music.”

About a week later, she had recorded the song in studio with another singer singing the song.  “When I heard the song, I had to tell her.  That’s the song that heard playing in my head when I was painting the lady on shore.  “Carmellita,” he said excitedly.  “It had the same jazzy punch I remembered. How did that happen?”

I told him exactly how it happened.  He embarked on the journey to discovering the key which unlocks the Mystic’s Chest containing the link between creativity and psychic phenomenon.  And at one point in time we have all taken or will take this journey even if we don’t realize it. 

On this adventurous journey, we discover that there is mystery chest which contains the bonding agent between our creativity and a psychic phenomenon.  The adventure begins with finding the key to unlock the mystery chest.  And just what is this key?

The key which unlocks the mystery chest of creativity and this psychic phenomenon is true self-awareness.  When we become aware of our true and authentic self by opening our hearts and minds to the voice of the Soul, then we possess the key which unlocks the mystic chest that contains the bonding agent between our creativity and whatever psychic phenomenon the Universe seeks to express through us. 

This psychic phenomenon is designed to promote inspiration from one person to the next in an attempt to remind us of the divine beings we truly are.  This psychic phenomenon can restore hope, perpetuate inspiration, heal both mentally and physically, spark the emotion of love, and build empowering relationships.  Think about it, have you ever heard a song, danced with someone during that song, and the two of you begin to have romantic feelings for each other.

Have you ever read something that triggered a memory or gave you hope?  These moments of psychic phenomenon are moments of psychic exchange between the artist and his or her audience and these moments should not be undermined. 

It most certainly should not be undermined because once you obtain this key, you have it for life.  You have the key for life; therefore, at any given moment in time when you choose to use your creative energy, it will trigger a psychic phenomenon.

And just how do we obtain this powerful key?  We obtain this powerful key by aligning our will with cosmic order.  What do we mean by aligning our will with cosmic order?  The thing that people fail to realize in the creation process is that our WILL is forming things.  Our WILL has volition.  When we unleash our WILL upon the unformed stuff of the universe (potential not yet defined or utilized) then we have the volition of our WILL to create a thing. 

Creating. Creating.  That’s just what I am about to share with you right now. We have already established that the key which unlocks this mystical chest is true self-awareness, but the interconnection or bonding agent between various psychic phenomenon and creativity is what causes a psychic phenomenon like the one my friend experienced with his girlfriend. 

What he experienced is a higher vibrational frequency caused by allowing the Creative Spirit to move.  By allowing the Creative Spirit (function of the Holy Spirit or Oneness Blessing) to move, you are aligning your WILL with the Cosmic WILL and Cosmic Order.  When you align your WILL with the Cosmic WILL and the natural progression is true self awareness, but then the bonding agent between a psychic phenomena and creativity is at work.  And that connection—that bonding agent is love.

That’s right, when you obtain the key to open the mystical chest what you will find inside is love.  You will find self-love.  You will find love for what you do.  You will find love for your spiritual gifts.  You will find love for others.  You will find unconditional love.

Friends, get the key and open the chest today.

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Can Creativity Pay My Bills?

Allowing creativity to flow without the analytical and bombarding thoughts that may very well devalue our work as artist can sometimes be difficult in this day and age. And the number one cause of these bombarding thoughts which take us out of the Presence is a little something called “bills.”

Yes, unfortunately, we all have accumulated them over the years and often times “bills” have caused too many artist to turn their backs on their gifts and talents while taking the path of their fall-back-just-in-case-it-does-not-work-out career choice. You know the career choice we often get trained for just to have back-up plan just in case the “art-thing” doesn’t work out.

But are we as human beings able to let go of the analytic mind which lacks the imagination to see the infinite possibilities available to us as artists and co-creators? And if we used the creative abilities of our Living Mind, would we not see that devotion to who we really are will pay the bills?

When I was in college, I met several artists who were getting degrees in biochemical engineering, writers who were majoring in Pre-Law, and actors who were getting their B.A. in Marketing and Finance. I usually said, “huh.” Roslyn and I took a brave road and got our B.A. in Speech Communication. For us, it had it all, writing, performing, entrepreneurship training, and public speaking.

However, the first questions we were bombarded with were “What kind of job can you get in Speech Communication? How much money can you earn in that field?” At the time of majoring in this field, I honestly never thought about it until other people brought it to my attention, I simply knew I wanted to achieve the goal of getting my degree and with that commitment, I chose a Major I actually enjoyed—something that more I did it, the more I loved it tremendously.

Things changed when I got out of college. People had a strange way of saying “Hah, welcome to the real world.” I would reply, “Didn’t know I wasn’t already a citizen.” Their words didn’t express it entirely but as I have grown and matured, I now realize that there are some people who glorify the struggle. The struggle of bills and they make bills the driving force of their lives.

So, can creativity pay the bills? My answer is, if you want it to. There are those among us as artists who can not see the value of their creativity. If you can’t see the value of your creativity, no one else will. When you begin to value your creativity as much as you would the money in your pocket, then you will soon see that creativity can not only pay the bills, creativity can totally improve the quality of your life.

The truth is, as long as we live in this society as it is, we will have bills. If you purpose your art as a profession from which you will create many streams of income, it will become your reality.

Accordingly, how do you purpose your art as a profession? Here are some helpful tips to get you started:

1. Know that your work has value.
2. Know that compensation is just. Nothing gets to live in this universe without compensating and recompense. As an artist, it would be inappropriate and unjust to “never” be compensated for your work. It’s okay to charge. You haven’t sold out.
3. Know the value of networking with others. As artists, we have the tendency to want to be the lone wolf. There is a reason wolves run in packs. I’m not saying get your posse rolling, but do find a mastermind group of people who share your intent and vision.
4. Invest and reinvest in your work as an artist. Investing in your work means investing skills and more skills training. Investing in work also means paying for things that will enhance you as a professional. Take it a little bit at a time, but be sure to build on your investment for your professional advancement.
5. Get uplifted by other people’s work by socializing with other artists.
6. Remain creative and never let the woes of competition take your spunk or divert your attention away from Purpose.
7. Let the love of what you do be your guiding principle.
8. Open yourself to opportunities to expand professionally and creatively.

Yes, creativity can pay the bills, but you must commit to turning your creativity into a profession. Commit yourself to become greater and greater at your gifts, talents, and creative abilities. If this is your focus, then your mind will open to the infinite possibilities that await you and no “bill” will stand in your way.

The Law of Attraction Asserts that Positivity Creates Productivity Because Like Attracts Like

It may be difficult to believe that the Law of Attraction asserts that like attracts like.  We have been told for so long that opposites attract.  However, we grasp a clear understanding of principles associated with the Law of Attraction when we look at the correlation between positivity and productivity. 

A positive mental attitude is a productive mental attitude.  You can really see the difference in a person’s life who practices positivity.  You can see the difference positivity makes because you will see many manifestations of productivity. 

So how does positivity and productivity work together?  Positivity and productivity are powerful energy currency which work together to attract and synchronize your steps in right action.  In other words, positivity draws productivity which creates order. 

Sometimes, those of us in the field of metaphysics, personal development, spirituality, and even self-help can haphazardly explain what positivity is and how it relates to productivity and synchronicity.  We explain it as in complicated rhetoric which may convey perfectionism.  Then some may explain it  as having a nice disposition, thinking positively and saying positive affirmations all day. 

However, positivity is much simpler than this but much broader in its cosmic affect in our lives.  Positivity, which draws productivity, is the choice to live your life from higher consciousness and as your true and authentic self.  There is something about living your life with positivity as your true and authentic self that draws wonderful synchronicities and order in your life.  Things just seem to work out for your highest good. 

And just how does this happen?  Can the Law of Attraction explain this magnificent phenomenon?  It may seem like magic, but the law of attraction can most certainly explain how positivity draws productivity and wonderful synchronicities in your life. 

Positivity is manifesting life from your higher consciousness and committing to expanding your awareness of ever-increasing good.  This commitment to expanding your awareness of ever-increasing good emits a vibration which is synonymous with productivity and order.  Productivity and order causes alignment, harmony, and peace.  Synchronicity happens because inspiration flows easily and without resistance where there is harmony, alignment, and peace.

 In other words, positivity makes it easy for good to flow in your life.  And when it is easy for good to flow in your life, you can be more productive at manifesting the life and reality you truly desire to live. 

Negativity is the opposite of positivity.  The Law of Attraction is no respecter of persons; so, if you are operating in negativity, you are not living from your higher consciousness or as your true and authentic self.  When you operate in negativity, you are ego-driven and living your life according to fear, fetters, and illusions.  As a result, you have to fight and struggle for everything you desire and often times; you will find yourself confused about what you truly desire. It is like spending your precious energy and powerful intentions chasing apparitions instead of creating and manifesting your true desires. 

It may all seem more difficult than what it is, but the key is to operating in positivity is spending time in prayer and meditation in order to tap into the field of higher consciousness which is God (Source Energy, The “I AM”, The ALL) in you.  And when we begin to live our lives in the Presence, we find that the inspiration to live life the Blue Lotus Living way…in full bloom.

Until next time, flow in positivity and remember to live well, live wise, live wealthy, and let the Creative Spirit move you. 

With the Law of Attraction We Can Manifest, Think, and Actualize the Beautiful Picture of Happiness and Prosperity

Attraction is a powerful gift and just as all Universal laws, the Law of Attraction bestows various rights and power with it.  Specifically, we can manifest what we truly desire in our life because we hold the divine right to think whatsoever we want to think.  No one and nothing can stop you from thinking what you choose to think, but you. 

This whole Universe is made up of the thinking stuff.  The Kybalion states quite clearly…

“All is Mind. The Universe is Mental.” 

We must hold fast to the truth that we have the right and power to think what we want to think.  We can control the good we attract into our lives and our reality.  The Universal Law of Attraction, The Universal Law of Vibration, and the Universal Law of Mentalism with all its principles work together so that we may be able to transform our state and create the conditions we truly desire in our lives and our reality.

If we want to experience happiness, health, and prosperity, then we must be happiness, health, and prosperity and we will draw happiness thoughts, healthy thought forms, and prosperity thinking.  The thoughts we think become things in our life.  These thoughts become what happiness is, what prosperity is, what health is. 

Therefore, it is very important that you have a picture in our minds what happiness, health, and prosperity looks like and represents to you so that you may channel these thoughts through you and these thoughts will manifest according to what you believe happiness is.  . 

This is why some people have trouble actualizing their dreams, visions, and true desires.  They have trouble because they are not picturing happiness or prosperity.  There is contradiction in the thoughts they draw from the mental plan and their heart’s desire because the pictures that flash before the mind are not pictures of happiness and prosperity. 

Accordingly, the thought forms they are drawing from the mental plane do not match (in vibration and likeness) to that which they truly desire.  Simply put, their beliefs (system of thoughts and collection of thought forms) do not align with what they truly want and what they are picturing in their mind’s eye is evidence of the contradictions. 

For example, if you truly desire to have a prosperous business, but you are picturing how difficult it is going to be to draw customers and clients to your business, then your picture does not align with your desire, nor does it align with happiness and prosperity. Does not having a low customer-base bring you happiness or feel prosperous?   If this is your picture, then your picture does not align with a true desire of a prosperous business.

So what do you do?  How do you change the pictures that have turned into a horror film playing in your mind?  You change them by consciously changing your state.  You become conscious about what you read, the images you see, what you listen to, even what you eat, in order to change those pictures you are conjuring and imagining.  Take care to consciously and purposely read, look at images, listen to, and eat that which is of a higher vibration with deliberate intent.  If you truly desire to be happiness (yes be happiness) and live in prosperity, then read happiness, look at images of happiness and prosperity, listen to happiness and prosperity and you will manifest the beautiful picture of happiness and prosperity in your life.

Ultimately, as you do these things with deliberate intent, you become more conscious about your own consciousness, then you will transform your state which will vibrationally match with your true desires.  This vibratory match will cause the energy of the things you desire to flow in your time-space reality and manifest in your life. 

Become like a sculptor, picture the beauty you want to manifest and mold into your reality.  Become like a painter, picture the beauty and luminosity you want to actualize in your life, and manifest it with each beautiful hue and stroke of your brush.

You have the power.  You can create it.  Until next time, manifest beauty in your life and remember to live well, live wise, live wealthy and let the Creative Spirit move you.

Overcoming Mental Illness with Good Vibration for the Whole Self in Mind, Body, and Spirit

 With the warring views of healthcare going back and forth like an unrelenting game of table tennis, one group of people suffering tremendously are those who are struggling with mental illness.  While we at Blue Lotus Living do not seek to give some quick fix answer to mental illness, we realize that mental illness can be a spiritual malady.  Mental illness as a spiritual malady has a spiritual answer and that answer relates to understanding the metaphysics of vibration. 

Good vibration or positive vibration, as some like to call it, incorporates a mind-body-spirit connection which supports well-being.  So, how does one create the mind-body-spirit connection?  It begins with understanding and embracing 3 life-transforming agents:

1. Oneness
2. Holism
3. Wholeness

Oneness, holism, and wholeness are agents of the Holy Spirit or the Oneness Blessing.  Let’s explore each of these components in brief detail:

Oneness is the guiding principle of the entire Universe.  The word Universe means one song or one harmony.  Oneness is made possible by unconditional love and prosperity.  The spirit of oneness is what keeps all things in harmony.  When we embrace oneness, we offer, emit, and embody the vibration of peace, order, harmony, and well-being.  Oneness leads us to recover or rediscover our true and authentic self.  In the mind, when we embrace the spiritual principle of oneness, we no longer get bombarded with fragmented thoughts, as a result, we are able to direct our attention and focus in on our powerful intentions to manifest our true desires in life.  In the body, when we embrace the spiritual principle of oneness, we experience physical alignment, the pituitary gland is able to regulate all other glands and body chemicals and hormones are regulated as well.  Furthermore, the spine becomes aligned and we experience the proper functions of our entire chakra system.

Holism is the guiding principle of our total human and physical experience.  Holism is made possible by purpose, peace, and order.  The philosophy of Holism is that we are indivisible.  We are not divided.  Therefore when it comes to soundness of mind all things should be considered which includes physical conditions, mental conditions, and social conditions.  When holism relates to the body, it promotes that all systems, faculties, and bodily functions work together to support health and wellness.

Wholeness is the guiding principle of life and longevity.  Wholeness is made possible by elimination, replenishment, and restoration.  For mental wholeness we have to eliminated bad habits, thoughts non-productive to our true desires, and conflicting energy from our mental environment and replenish it with good habits, thoughts productive to our true desires by raising our vibration, and align with energy which promotes our true and authentic self.  With proper replenishment, we experience the joys of mental restoration.  The same is true for the body.  The body in the detoxification process, eliminates, replenishes, and then experiences restoration.  This is accomplished by eating whole, organic, raw plant foods and drinking pH balanced water. The result is long life specifically long-lasting life. 

A holistic lifestyle when practiced consciously and with the intentions of well-being and happiness, one can experience the glorious benefits of focusing on his her state of being rather than the conditions.  The Universal and Spiritual Law of Mentalism asserts that we can transform our conditions by transforming our state.  We transform our state by transforming our vibration. 

Fragmenting our Self will only place us in default where we are subjected to living from condition to condition, situation to situation, and influence to influence.  We can overcome the strongholds of mental illness by applying the principles of the Law of Mentalism.  We can overcome mental illness by raising our vibration and experiencing good vibration for the whole self in mind, body, and spirit.

Until next time, embrace oneness, holism, and wholeness, and remember to live well, live wise, live wealthy and let the Creative Spirit move you.