YOU ARE the I AM.

You look at but you do not SEE.
You listen but you do not HEAR.
You touch but you do not FEEL.

The propensity for change is relative to the human experience. Complacency is a learned behavior not a desired behavior.

Act as if you already ARE then you BECOME.

The Holy Spirit is the ONLY therapist. He makes healing PERFECTLY clear in ANY situation in which He is the Guide. The human therapist can only LET HIM FULFILL HIS FUNCTION. He needs no help for this. He WILL tell you EXACTLY what to do, to help ANYONE He sends to you FOR help, and will speak to him through you, IF YOU DO NOT INTERFERE. Remember that you ARE choosing a guide for helping, and the wrong choice will NOT help. But remember also that THE RIGHT ONE WILL. Trust Him, for help is His function, and He is of God.

The I AM is NOW.

In the end a belief in the reality of karma or reincarnation as viable concepts must be discarded, as they are obviously related to a linear view of time, which is of the ego’s magic tricks to obscure the reality of eternity. The “genetic fallacy”, a belief the ego eagerly sponsors, reduces all current behavior and feelings to the past, whether attributable to former lives, genetic make-up, or early developmental experiences. The truth of course is that everything we do, think, or feel comes only from a decision by the mind in the present,

“NOW IS THE ONLY TIME”.

I am here ONLY to be truly helpful.

I am here to represent Christ, who sent me.

I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do,

because the one who sent me will direct me.

I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing he goes there with me.

I will be healed as I let him teach me to heal.

"Mercy, Truth, Love."

Because you mean to be right and do right, it seems to you that others must do and be as you say. But regard them as right when they are doing their own business, and keep for your motto: "Mercy, Truth, Love."

But there were so many things we didn’t think of….

We thought about it for years, living in the lowlands along the creek, where the water table is close to the surface. We thought of adding fish, and maybe ice skating in the winter if we dug it large enough.

One year a backhoe was in the neighborhood, so we dug a small test hole. It quickly filled with water, and we watched the water level change through the year—lowest in fall and winter when the creek dwindled, but always only a few feet below the surface. [...] Read the rest ...

Stand Up For Your Right To Food

http://balanceyourapple.com/2011/04/27/stand-up-for-your-right-to-food/


Raw Milk – The Saga Continues

Today, April 28th 2011 a large group of people met in the tool shed of Paul and Cathy Noble in preparation to stand in defense of their right to eat and drink the natural foods that they choose to have. Farmers who care for and milk cows for people who have shared the cost of [...] http://balanceyourapple.com/


YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore.

Optimal physical form and optimum health

The Weston A. Price Foundation is a rapidly growing nonprofit, tax-exempt charity founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston A. Price, whose studies of isolated non-industrialized peoples established the parameters of human health and determined the optimum characteristics of human diets. Dr. Price’s research demonstrated that humans achieve optimal physical form and optimum health, generation after generation, only when they consume nutrient-dense whole foods and the vital fat-soluble activators found exclusively in animal fats. http://www.westonaprice.org/

For fifty years, big business, government agencies and medical organizations have campaigned deceptively against animal fats, meat, eggs, butter and other nutritious, traditional foods, leading to huge profits from the sale of toxic margarine, shortenings and liquid vegetable oils, and the foods that contain them. Scientific data contradicting current anti-animal fat public health policy was suppressed and censored for many years. Dr. Enig and Sally Fallon now tell you the truth about how that happened. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_O46Bml5JU

The Oiling of America will open your eyes to fraud and deception behind the lipid hypothesis of heart disease. Topics include:
• How scientists cheat in scientific studies
• Why cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease
• The dangers of cholesterol-lowering diets and drugs
• Why trans fatty acids and liquid vegetable oils are so dangerous to human health http://www.newtrendspublishing.com/OOA/index.php


The Web site(s) of Kris Johnson
http://www.mercyviewmeadow.org/
http://mercyviewmeadow.blogspot.com/

I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.

From Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. Trust Us, We’re Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001 http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/rampton.html


"If you want to know how the world wags, and who's wagging it, here's your answer. Read, get mad, roll up your sleeves, and fight back. Rampton and Stauber have issued a wake-up call we can't ignore."--Bill Moyers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Moyers
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html

You can make a difference!

Blessed is he who obeys the Truth, he shall not remain comfortless.

James Allen Quote for 4/25/2011

DISCIPLE : What are the greater and the lesser powers ?

Master : Hear me again, O Disciple !

Walking faithfully the path of discipline and purification, not abandoning it, but submitting to its austerities, thou wilt acquire the three lesser powers of discipleship ;
thou wilt also receive the three greater powers.

And the greater and the lesser powers will render thee invincible.

Self-control, Self-reliance, and Watchfulness—these are the three lesser powers.

Steadfastness, Patience, Gentleness—these are the three greater powers.

When thy mind is well-controlled, and in thy keeping ;
when thou reliest upon no external aid, but upon Truth alone ;
and when thou art ceaselessly watchful over thy thoughts and actions
—then thou wilt approach the Supreme Light.

Thy darkness will pass away for ever, and joy and light will wait upon thy footsteps.

Happy Easter!!!

Forgive us our illusions, Father, and help us to accept our true relationship with You, in which there are NO illusions, and where none can ever enter. Our holiness is YOURS. What can there be in us that NEEDS forgiveness, when YOURS is perfect? The sleep of forgetfulness is only the unwillingness to remember YOUR forgiveness and Your Love. Let us not wander into temptation, for the temptation of the Son of God is NOT Your Will. And let us receive ONLY what YOU have given, and accept but this into the minds which You created, and which You love. Amen.ACIM CH 16.

The key to resolving issues is to learn to easily control your imagination, rather than the other way around...

What are you thinking to yourself and "how" are you thinking it?

If each day you think or say to yourself "What's wrong with me'", this then causes the brain to scan for all the potential problems which could be present according to your own imagination. Changing your thought patterns and behaviour leads to a new freedom of choice.

"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination." ~ Elbert Hubbard


“It is easier to understand that the entire manifestation is of a nature of a dream, or a mirage, but you interpret the rest of the manifestation as being a mirage and won’t let go of the seer of a phenomenon, the seer too is also part of the mirage.” - Nisargadatta Maharaj

Please sign the petition to demand the truth about G8-Gate!

The more people join this campaign, the more powerful our call will be. Please help spread the word -- forward this link to friends and family, and post it on Facebook: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/canada_save_democracy/97.php?cl_tta_sign=7439d97b0b602abec17194f6a6c836c2 Thanks so much, The Avaaz Team ---------

Here's the original email to forward:

Dear friends across Canada, This week, a leaked report alleged that the Harper Government illegally handed 50 million taxpayer dollars to a single Conservative riding – and then covered it up as G8 summit spending. With Canadians heading to the polls in mere weeks, we need to know the truth about Harper and his loose-fisted ministers.

REMEMBER Sponsorship Gate ?

Parliamentary experts say that no law bars the Auditor General from immediately releasing this report to the public. In fact, it would serve our bruised democracy to reveal the facts about G8 spending before Canadians are asked to choose the next government. In the interest of accountability, Canadians need to know if Harper illegally doled out public money to his supporters before we cast our votes.

Let's raise a massive public call to the AG and all 5 parties to agree immediately to release this report. If enough us join, our outcry will compel the AG to protect democracy by revealing the truth before the vote. Sign the petition below - we'll deliver it when we hit 75,000 signatures:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/canada_save_democracy/97.php?cl_tta_sign=7439d97b0b602abec17194f6a6c836c2

This is the first time in Canadian history that an AG draft report has been leaked. Members of Parliament knew that the alleged illegal conduct documented in this report was outrageous - they had no choice but to violate the tradition of confidentiality surrounding draft AG reports.

Since the scandal broke, the AG has been “sent” to Nunavut. But she cannot escape a public outcry – nor an official request from all political leaders demanding that the truth be revealed before election day.

A fair and informed vote depends on exposing the truth about Harper and his G8 spending to the Canadian public. Let’s send a flood of messages to the leaders of all five major political parties calling on them to file an official – and immediate – request with the Auditor General for the release of the G8 spending report. Then we'll bring our call directly to the AG:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/canada_save_democracy/97.php?cl_tta_sign=7439d97b0b602abec17194f6a6c836c2

The Harper Government fell because it was the first in Canadian history to be found in contempt of Parliament for refusing to tell the truth about public spending. This election is in large part about accountability, and if there is yet another massive misappropriation of taxpayer money, we have a right to know. Let’s fight for the chance to make an informed choice at the polls.

With hope, Emma, Ricken, Janet and the rest of the Avaaz. team

SOURCES

Sheila slams Tory G8 spending(Montreal Gazette) http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Sheila+slams+Tory+spending/4599222/story.html G8 spending: Did taxpayers get their money’s worth? (The Toronto Star) http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/973788--g8-spending-did-taxpayers-get-their-money-s-worth?bn=1 Will auditor’s G8 report postpone Speaker Peter Milliken’s retirement? (The Globe and Mail) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/will-auditors-g8-report-postpone-speaker-peter-millikens-retirement/article1980442//

"I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!"

REMEMBER Sponsorship Gate?

Whistleblowing

In the United States, legal protections vary according to the subject matter of the whistleblowing, and sometimes the state in which the case arises. In the United Kingdom, the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 provides a framework of legal protection for individuals who disclose information so as to expose malpractice and matters of similar concern. Canadian protection for whistleblowers is notoriously poor by English-speaking countries' standards.

Thomas Alured Faunce is an Associate Professor jointly in the College of Law and Medical School at the Australian National University (ANU) at Canberra Australia. His main area of research has been health technology law and policy and in 2009 he was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to study nanotechnology and global public health. Faunce has promoted the idea that whistleblowing, particularly in healthcare, needs to be recognised as having a stronger academic foundation in virtue ethics.

New Brunswick is the only Canadian Jurisdiction Providing Specific Protection for Whistle blowers.

Dr Shiv Chopra wrote the book, “Corrupt to the Core”. He claims that even as head of the UN Commission on Vaccine standardization he never did find a single double blind study showing either vaccine safety or vaccine effectiveness.

Double-blind describes an especially stringent way of conducting an experiment, usually on human subjects, in an attempt to eliminate subjective bias on the part of both experimental subjects and the experimenters.

In most cases, double-blind experiments are held to achieve a higher standard of scientific rigor.

In a double-blind experiment, neither the individuals nor the researchers know who belongs to the control group and the experimental group. Only after all the data have been recorded (and in some cases, analysed) do the researchers learn which individuals are which.

Performing an experiment in double-blind fashion is a way to lessen the influence of the prejudices and unintentional physical cues on the results (the placebo effect, observer bias, and experimenter's bias). Random assignment of the subject to the experimental or control group is a critical part of double-blind research design. The key that identifies the subjects and which group they belonged to is kept by a third party and not given to the researchers until the study is over.

Double-blind methods can be applied to any experimental situation where there is the possibility that the results will be affected by conscious or unconscious bias on the part of the experimenter. Computer-controlled experiments are sometimes also erroneously referred to as double-blind experiments, since software may not cause the type of direct bias between researcher and subject. Development of surveys presented to subjects through computers shows that bias can easily be built into the process. Voting systems are also examples where bias can easily be constructed into an apparently simple machine based system. In analogy to the human researcher described above, the part of the software that provides interaction with the human is presented to the subject as the blinded researcher, while the part of the software that defines the key is the third party.

An example is the ABX test, where the human subject has to identify an unknown stimulus X as being either A or B.

Which shape would you call "Kiki" and which "Booba?" is such example.

Of course neither shape has an actual name but the suggestion they do leads to a decision on the part of the person to whom that question is asked.

Some Canadian Whistleblowers http://fairwhistleblower.ca/wbers/canadian_wbs.html

There’d be no need for retaliation if people simply did “What’s right?”

“There has to be a better way!”

Vote for the Internet!

The Conservatives have put forward an invasive, anti-Internet set of “Lawful Access” policies that would have Internet providers collect our personal information without court oversight. If this goes through, officials will have real-time access to our online information. "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!"

The good news is: •The Green Party got the ball rolling by actively encouraging their members to sign up as pro-Internet candidates. •Conservative Candidate Sébastien Forté showed his support when he went so far as to join an open meetings in Montreal. •Jack Layton and many New Democrats quickly came out in favour of the open Internet. NDP candidates showed support by handing out flyers and wearing pins, and the party later introduced a digital policy that calls for an end to usage-based billing. Jack Layton even called the OpenMedia.ca office to pledge his support! •Many Liberal candidates have committed to stand up for the Internet. Pressured by OpenMedia.ca during an online panel discussion, the Liberals went as far as making a commitment to prevent anti-competitive behaviour by separating Big Telecom’s Internet service businesses. Keep the momentum building!!!

On Health Canada

ALIVE March 2000 by Helke Ferrie Senator Noel Kinsella initiated public hearings in Ottawa on December 7, 1999, to ascertain if the Health Protection Branch (HPB) is guilty of "contempt of parliament." In a democracy, such as ours struggles to be, that means "contempt of the Canadian people" and may carry a jail term. The investigation focuses on a reprimand and temporary job suspension meted out in 1999 to drug evaluator Dr. Shiv Chopra. Thanks to Drs. S. Chopra, M. Haydon, and their colleagues (and despite their superiors), Canada's milk and beef is contains no BGH. The origins of this matter are to be found in the entanglement of two public scandals: (1) racism in the federal civil service and (2) the mishandling of a public health hazard of global importance. In the audience was also Dr. Chopra's wife, Nirmala, herself a scientist, who was removed in the late 1970's from the HPB because she insisted on the mandated human safety studies for silicon breast implants, rather than rubber-stamp US corporate demand for quick approval. Her fears became reality: immense profits were made at the expense of human suffering caused by the implants' disruptive effect on human immune systems. About ten years ago Dr. Chopra began to wonder why he, one of the most highly qualified scientists at Health Canada, had not received a single promotion in twenty years of service. At about that same time, Monsanto brazenly attempted to bypass Canadian regulations by directly applying for a sales permit of BGH. Dr. Chopra insisted on the legally required safety evaluation first and began to ask those routine questions Monsanto was determined to avoid. Over a decade, slowly, often by chance, information began to surface that BGH could trigger cancer and leukaemia, disrupt human immune and hormonal functions (an early version had caused men to grow breasts), and its potential for promoting birth defects. Monster calves born to the first herds of cows injected with BGH were secretly buried by the industry's' scientists and excluded from their data. Official pressure to approve BGH increased steadily: US $ 50 million in projected annual sales were at stake. But access to the required scientific information continued to be denied. Frustrated, Drs. Chopra and Haydon went public on June 11, 1998, on Canada AM. On September 30, 1999, the whole staff at the Food Directorate directly approached Health Minister Allan Rock. They wrote: "Trade globalization and advancements in bio-technology pose an increased threat to consumer safety ... we recommend that the new Canadian Environmental Protection Act, which also protects food safety, be amended so that human health takes precedence over the concerns of manufacturers. Prevention is much less expensive than remedial action." Meanwhile, Dr. Chopra learned why even the most routine promotion had been denied in by now almost 30 years. An internal departmental memo revealed that his superiors felt his "cultural background" prevented him from "doing business in the North American Way". Indeed! He doesn't do business. He does science. He was also accused of lacking "communication and negotiation skills" especially with "stakeholders, such as industry". For Dr. Chopra the only relevant stakeholder is the public. Promoting Dr. Chopra meant having an incorruptible scientist influence government and business policy. In 1997 The Human Rights Tribunal found systemic racism to be pervasive; not a single person of a visible minority (all scientists) had reached executive levels in Health Canada. Change was ordered. In 1994 Dr. Margaret Haydon's office was burglarized. All key information on BGH's adverse effects as well as on Monsanto's bribery efforts of Health Canada officials was stolen. This caused the Senate to initiate its first round of inquiries, asking Drs. Haydon and Chopra to testify. HPB officials threatened to "send you to a place never heard of before" if they testified before the Senate. Finally, unable to defy the Senate, HPB officials blanked out all relevant scientific information in Dr. Chopra's negative BGH report and ordered him to testify from only this blanked out version of his own report. When Dr. Chopra was sworn in at the Senate, he asked, "Which oath takes precedence - the one I just made to God or the one I made as an employee of the ministry?" Senator E. Whelan told him to "go with God" and the whole rotten story finally saw the light of day. Shortly after Dr. Chopra's final testimony in May 1999, his superiors reprimanded him and suspended him from work for 5 days without pay on a flimsy pretext, prompting Senator Kinsella to dig deeper. Legal opinion from the Privy Council indicates that the threats, intimidations, reprimands, job-suspension, and tampering with the official BGH report may constitute "contempt of parliament". We will be sure to find out. Senator Kinsella has also introduced Private Member's Bill S-13 "An Act to assist in the prevention of wrongdoing in the Public Service by establishing a framework for educational on ethical practices in the workplace, for dealing with allegations of wrongdoing, and for protecting whistleblowers." It had first reading in parliament on December 2, 1999. http://www.kospublishing.com/html/dr_chopra.html

The Seven Day Mental Diet

The subject of diet is one of the foremost topics of the present day in public interest. Newspapers and magazines teem with articles on the subject. The counters of the bookshops are filled with volumes unfolding the mysteries of proteins, starches, vitamins, and so forth. just now the whole world is food-conscious. Experts on the subject are saying that physically you become the thing that you eat that your whole body is really composed of the food that you have eaten in the past. What you eat today, they say, will be in your bloodstream after the lapse of so many hours, and it is your blood-stream that builds all the tissues composing your body -and there you are. Of course, no sensible person has any quarrel with all this. It is perfectly true, as far as it goes, and the only surprising thing is that it has taken the world so long to find it out; but in this pamphlet I am going to deal with the subject of dieting at a level that is infinitely more profound and far reaching in its effects. I refer of course to mental dieting. The most important of all factors in your life is the mental diet on which you live. It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life. It is the thoughts you allow yourself to think, the subjects that you allow your mind to dwell upon, which make you and your surroundings what they are. As they days, so shall they strength be. Everything in your life today the state of your body, whether healthy or sick, the state of your fortune, whether prosperous or impoverished, the state of your home, whether happy or the reverse, the present condition of every phase of your life in fact-is entirely conditioned by the thoughts and feelings which you have entertained in the past, by the habitual tone of your past thinking. And the condition of your life tomorrow, and next week, and next year, will be entirely conditioned by the thoughts and feelings which you choose to entertain from now onwards. In other words, you choose your life, that is to say, you choose all the conditions of your life, when you choose the thoughts upon which you allow your mind to dwell. Thought is the real causative force in life, and there is no other. You cannot have one kind of mind and another kind of environment. This means that you cannot change your environment while leaving your mind unchanged, nor-and this is the supreme key to life and the reason for this pamphlet -can you change your mind without your environment changing too. This then is the real key to life: if you change your mind your conditions must change too- your body must change, your daily work or other activities must change; your home must change; the color-tone of your whole life must change-for whether you be habitually happy and cheerful, or low-spirited and fearful, depends entirely on the quality of the mental food upon which you diet yourself. Please be very clear about this. If you change your mind your conditions must change too. We are transformed by the renewing of our minds. So now you will see that your mental diet is really the most important thing in your whole life. This may be called the Great Cosmic Law, and its truth is seen to be perfectly obvious when once it is clearly stated in this way. In fact, I do not know of any thoughtful person who denies its essential truth. The practical difficulty in applying it, however, arises from the fact that our thoughts are so close to us that it is difficult, without a little practice, to stand back as it were and look at them objectively. Yet that is just what you must learn to do. You must train yourself to choose the subject of your thinking at any given time, and also to choose the emotional tone, or what we call the mood that colors it. Yes, you can choose your moods. Indeed, if you could not you would have no real control over your life at all. Moods habitually entertained produce the characteristic disposition of the person concerned, and it is his disposition that finally makes or mars a person's happiness. You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition. If you are sulky, or surly, or cynical, or depressed, or superior, or frightened half out of your wits, your life cannot possibly be worth living. Unless you are determined to cultivate a good disposition, you may as well give up all hope of getting anything worth while out of life, and it is kinder to tell you very plainly that this is the case. If you are not determined to start in now and carefully select all day the kind of thoughts that you are going to think, you may as well give up all hope of shaping your life into the kind of thing that you want it to be, because this is the only way. In short, if you want to make your life happy and worth while, which is what God wishes you to make it, you must begin immediately to train yourself in the habit of thought selection and thought control. This will be exceedingly difficult for the first few days, but if you persevere you will find that it will become rapidly easier, and it is actually the most interesting experiment that you could possibly make. In fact, this thought control is the most thrillingly interesting hobby that anyone could take up. You will be amazed at the interesting things that you will learn about yourself, and you will get results almost from the beginning. Now many people knowing this truth, make sporadic efforts from time to time to control their thoughts, but the thought stream being so close) as I have pointed outs and the impacts from outside so constant and varied, they do not make very much progress. That is not the way to work. Your only chance is definitely to form a new habit of thought which will carry you through when you are preoccupied or off your guard as well as when you are consciously attending to the business. This new thought habit must be definitely acquired, and the foundation of it can be laid within a few days, and the way to do it is this: Make up your mind to devote one week solely to the task of building a new habit of thought, and during that week let everything in life be unimportant as compared with that. If you will do so, then that week will be the most significant week in your whole life. It will literally be the turning point for you. If you will do so, it is safe to say that your whole life will change for the better. In fact, nothing can possibly remain the same. This does not simply mean that you will be able to face your present difficulties in a better spirit; it means that the difficulties will go. This is the scientific way to Alter Your Life, and being in accordance with the Great Law it cannot fail. Now do you realize that by working in this way you do not have to change conditions? What happens is that you apply the Law, and then the conditions change spontaneously. You cannot change conditions directly you have often tried to do so and failed but go on the seven day mental diet and conditions must change for you. This then is your prescription. For seven days you must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought. You must watch yourself for a whole week as a cat watches a mouse, and you must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. This discipline will be so strenuous that you could not maintain it consciously for much more than a week, but I do not ask you to do so. A week will be enough, because by that time the habit of positive thinking will begin to be established. Some extraordinary changes for the better will have come into your life, encouraging you enormously, and then the future will take care of itself. The new way of life will be so attractive and so much easier than the old way that you will find your mentality aligning itself almost automatically. But the seven days are going to be strenuous. I would not have you enter upon this without counting the cost. Mere physical fasting would be child's play in comparison, even if you have a very good appetite. The most exhausting form of army gymnastics, combined with thirty mile route marches, would be mild in comparison with this undertaking. But it is only for one week in your life, and it will definitely alter everything for the better. For the rest of your life here, for all eternity in fact, things will be utterly different and inconceivably better than if you had not carried through this undertaking. Do not start it lightly. Think about it for a day or two before you begin. Then start in, and the grace of God go with you. You may start it any day in the week, and at any time in the day, first thing in the morning, or after breakfast, or after lunch, it does not matter, but once you do start you must go right through for the seven days. That is essential. The whole idea is to have seven days of-unbroken mental discipline in order to get the mind definitely bent in a new direction once and for all. If you make a false start, or even if you go in well for two or three days and then for any reason "fall off" the diet, the thing to do is to drop the scheme altogether for several days, and then to start again afresh. There must be no jumping on and off, as it were. You remember that Rip Van Winkle in the play would take a solemn vow of teetotalism, and then promptly accept a drink from the first neighbor who offered him one, saying calmly: "I won't count this one." Well, on the seven day mental diet this sort of thing simply will not do. you must positively count every lapse, and whether you do or not, nature will. where there is a lapse you must go off the diet altogether and then start again. Now, in order, if possible, to forestall difficulties, I will consider them in a little detail. First of all, what do I mean by negative thinking? Well, a negative thought is any thought of failure, disappointment, or trouble; any thought of criticism, or spite, or jealousy, or condemnation of others, or self condemnation; any thought of sickness or accident; or, in short, any kind of limitation or pessimistic thinking. Any thought that is not positive and constructive in character, whether it concerns you yourself or anyone else, is a negative thought. Do not bother too much about the question of classification, however; in practice you will never have any trouble in knowing whether a given thought is positive or negative. Even if your brain tries to deceive you, your heart will whisper the truth. Second, you must be quite clear that what this scheme calls for is that you shall not entertain, or dwell upon negative things. Note this carefully. It is not the thought that come to you that matter, but only such of them as you choose to entertain and dwell upon. It does not matter what thoughts may come to you provided you do not entertain them. It is the entertaining or dwelling upon them that matters. Of course, many negative thoughts will come to you all day long. Some of them will just drift into your mind of their own accord seemingly, and these come to you out of the race mind. Other negative thoughts will be given to you by other people, either in conversation or by their conduct, or you will hear disagreeable news perhaps by letter or telephone, or you will see crimes and disasters announced in the newspaper headings. These things, however, do not matter as long as you do not entertain them. In fact, it is these very things that provide the discipline that is going to transform you during this epoch making week. The thing to do is, directly the negative thought presents itself - turn it out. Turn away from the newspaper; turn out the thought of the unkind letter, or stupid remark, or what not. When the negative thought floats into your mind, immediately turn it out and think of something else. Best of all, think of God as explained in The Golden Key perfect analogy is furnished by the case of a man who is sitting by an open fire when a red hot cinder flies out and falls on his sleeve. If he knocks that cinder off at once, without a moment's delay to think about it, no harm is done. But if he allows it to rest on him for a single moment, under any pretense, the mischief is done, and it will be a troublesome task to repair that sleeve. So it is with a negative thought. Now what of those negative thoughts and conditions which it is impossible to avoid at the point where you are today? What of the ordinary troubles that you will have to meet in the office or a home? The answer is, that such things will not affect your diet provided that you do not accept them, by fearing them, by believing them, by being indignant or sad about them, or by giving them any power at all. Any negative condition that duty compels you to handle will not affect your diet. Go to the office, or meet the cares at home, without allowing them to affect you. (None of these things move me) and all will be well. Suppose that you are lunching with a friend who talks negatively-Do not try to shut him up or otherwise snub him. Let him talk, but do not accept what he says, and your diet will not be affected. Suppose that on coming home you are greeted with a lot of negative conversation-do not preach a sermon, but simply do not accept it. It is your mental consent, remember, that constitutes your diet. Suppose you witness an accident or an act of injustice let us say Instead of reacting with pity or indignation, refuse to accept the appearance at its face value; do anything that you can to right matters, give it the right thought and let it go at that. You will still be on the diet. Of course, it will be very helpful if you can take steps to avoid meeting during this week anyone who seems particularly likely to arouse the devil in you. People who get on your nerves, or rub you up the wrong way, or bore you, are better avoided while you are on the diet; but if it is not possible to avoid them, then you must take a little extra discipline that is all. Suppose that you have a particularly trying ordeal before you next week Well, if you have enough spiritual understanding you will know how to meet that in the spiritual way; but, for our present purpose, I think I would wait and start the diet as soon as the ordeal is over. As I said before, do not take up the diet lightly, but think it over well first. In closing, I want to tell you that people often find that the starting of this diet seems to stir up all sorts of difficulties. It seen is as though everything begins to go wrong at once. This may be disconcerting, but it is really a good sign. It means that things are moving; and is not that the very object we have in view? Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over., the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire. The above point is vitally important and rather subtle. Do you not see that the very dwelling upon these difficulties is in itself a negative thought which has probably thrown you off the diet? The remedy is not, of course, to deny that your world is rocking in appearance, but to refuse to take the appearance for the reality (Judge not according to appearances but judge righteous judgment). A closing word of caution-Do not tell anyone else that you are on the diet, or that you intend to go on it. Keep this tremendous project strictly to yourself. Remember that your soul should be the Secret Place of the Most High. When you have come through the seven days successfully, and secured your demonstration, allow a reasonable time to elapse to establish the new mentality, and then tell the story to anyone else who you think is likely to be helped by it. And, finally, remember that nothing said or done by anyone else can possibly throw you off the diet. Only your own reaction to the other person's conduct can do that.
How to change your life (and the world) in a week

by Emmet Fox ~ 1935

And all of this will come true unless we choose to reverse it.

I am part of a lost generation and I refuse to believe that I can change the world

I realize this may come as a shock but

“Happiness comes from within”

is a lie, and

“Money will make me happy”

So in 30 years I will tell my children

they are not the most important thing in my life

My employer will know that I have my priorities straight because

work

is more important than

family

I tell you this

Once upon a time

Families stayed together

but this will not be true in my era

this is a quick fix society

Experts tell me 30 years from now

I will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of my divorce

I do not concede that

I will live in a country of my own making

In the future Environmental destruction will be the norm

No longer can it be said that

My peers and I care about this earth

It will be evident that

My generation is apathetic and lethargic

It is foolish to presume that

There is hope

And all of this will come true unless we choose to reverse it.

There is hope

It is foolish to presume that

My generation is apathetic and lethargic

It will be evident that

My peers and I care about this earth

No longer can it be said that

Environmental destruction will be the norm

In the future

I will live in a country of my own making

I do not concede that 30 years from now

I will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of my divorce

Experts tell me

this is a quick fix society

but this will not be true

in my era

Families stayed together

Once upon a time

I tell you this

family

is more important than

work

I have my priorities straight because

My employer will know that

they are not the most important thing in my life

So in 30 years I will tell my children

“Money will make me happy”

is a lie, and

“Happiness comes from within”

I realize this may come as a shock but

I am part of a lost generation and I believe that I can change the world

Lost Generation

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