This Will Pass

This too will pass

How many times have you heard that ? In the words of my mother if I had nickel for every time I have heard that I would be rich. The thing is with a statement like that the times I remember hearing it the most are times when things are going pretty awful. We all know those days when things just seem like they are not getting any better.

You woke up and the car wouldn't start.,You spilled coffee on your favorite shirt., and You got placed on assignment with a co worker that is less than optimal to work.

This too will pass

Here is one context where this statement rarely gets used and when I was reading about it the simplicity of it was very powerful.

When things are going great and perfect.

I will be the first to say what you may thinking. Dominick why would I do that when things are going good I want my good times to last not go away? The logical answer is the one you know but may not accept and that is that their is a natural order to things.

Ying & Yang

Good & Bad

Up & Down

So if that is remotely close to what you were thinking then you are fighting natures law and don't worry we all fight it. I am only trying to strengthen your awareness of the battle your taking on.

See realistically we know we can't have the good moments forever but in an effort to focus on the positives in life we tend to think of things being great and wonderful all the time will be the key to that peace we have. However when the seasons shift we start to get upset and frustrated and feel as though some how someone has robbed of these wonderful and awesome moments. Even though we know the natural order of things are for them to go and come.

Why do we do that?

There are three reasons primarily we feel that pain and they are:

Nonresistance- To resist is to not accept the way things are and work with them from that space. It is the decision in your thoughts to want things the way you want them and to push back on life about it. When you do this you block the flow of power that you could receive from taking place in your life. You also create that feeling of things are never going the way they should,or should I say the way you think they should be going.

Non-judgment-Much like resistance it is the idea that the way you think something should be is right and you allow your feelings about that to upset you. You hear it in the following statements " I would never do that I don't know why they do", "Who wears those colors together", "Why do you talk like that", etc. Ultimately when you judge others you saying if they were more like me then things would be better. Well what would happen if you accept them as they are and work from that space ? One thing is for sure you will have less resistance to manage. You also will have less desire to try and persuade them to your way of thinking it would allow you to listen to hear others.

Non-attachment- This is the one that really is hard not to do. You own nothing in this world you are attached to nothing when its all said and done you will leave with only YOU. People,Places,Things, and Moments are not yours to own they are yours to Value,Love, and Appreciate while they are in your presence. You do not get to keep anything you can only add to everything.

Since I have been sharing my teachings and journey with you I have started to see a common thread in my writing and I wanted give this last parting statement as means to fulfilling happiness.

Stop Living Life The Way You Won't It To Be and Start Loving Life The Way It Is

Until my next posting

Namaste & God Bless

You Are A Flower

Because God is Beauty, He created loveliness

in the flowers that they might speak of Him.

More than anything else in nature they hint at his presence

Paramahansa Yogananda

I can remember being a young child and loving the idea of growing flowers or maintaining planets. I use to do lots of experiments as a child (shocking) and I can remember always wonder how does a plant come out of this seed I mean it is just a seed how can transform into something greater. I would break about a seed and look for magic within but as you can imagine the magic as not inside of the seed.

Not like I expected it to be because it was there I just couldn't see it and as I grew up I detached from the wonderment of such a question and became detached from wanting to know to outcome until I recently when listening to an article from Dr Wayne Dyer who I consider to be a great teacher to me in helping the concepts I have learned and share with everyone be so easy to understand. In the tape I was listening to he answered the questions I had about planting seeds so many years ago.

Future Pull is the concept of the future of something is already inside and once aligned with the proper eliminates and only when aligned will it revel itself to us to see. So when you look at a flower the elements it needs to grow are water,sunlight, and air. See flowers don't have to really think about being a flower it just is and if they had to worry there biggest worry would be where to do I get planted so my chances for growth are optimal.

Well you are certainly more aware than a flower yet the same principles that make that flower grow can help you to manifest your desires and grow into the beauty that is you.

The elements needed to grow are simple

Alignment With Source- This is getting to understand the spirit of the universe that resides in you also known as god or various other names depending on your religious belief. This may seem like a hard step but most of us already to some degree know what it is and communicate with it. It is that feeling you get when you are told to be nice and don't why or when your satisfied from helping someone you knew needed your help. It is when you place your ego aside and all yourself to be vulnerable enough with the world to share your spirit. Now the idea is to be connected with your spirit which can come different ways for different people for me it is through meditation because when I am in that state I become the silent observer to my life and my ego is ceased and in that silence my spirit is free to be.I then know how to get back to this place when I need it because I know what it feels like and where it is located.

Thoughts-Once you have yourself aligned with source you can start planting your seeds and that is going to simply be what you think. As it states in Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. Or as I put it in my own words Our thoughts are the seeds that sow the actions that create the life we live. You are what you primarily think if you look around everything has lived twice once as a thought prior to its creation so truly know what you think will ultimately determine your outcome. So you need to have thoughts that support the source and what you want for your life positive ones, problems become challenges, everyone is a teacher,things are the way they are supposed to be. You are one with your source and it lives within you there for you are entitled to all that it has.

Vision- Once you know your thoughts manifest to reality then the next step is to see what it looks like before it happens sports teams do this all the time they see themselves winning before it happens. It allows for you to know what you expect your outcome to be. This can be done actively or while in mediation and must be done while you have s strong sense of stillness and connection to your source. I find this easiest for me when I run or swim. The other thing to realize is that with no crazy wild thoughts running thru your head you can have time to positively see the outcome of things which is a way better use of your mind than its current state of consistent worry.

Surrender To Outcome- Now when you make it this far this will step be a unique challenge letting go of outcome simply means to except whatever happens as if it is supposed to be ( which in most cases it is supposed to be). The reason I said this was hard is because when we do all the above things we have the idea that what we want is supposed to happen and that is not always the case sometimes we get a completely different result than we set out for and even though it is not what we wanted it is equally good in its own right. The trick is not to be upset but to be grateful of the lesson and experiences for it is still beautiful and valuable. See there is no losing in life unless you see loss surrendering to outcome lets you see this.

When you can do the four items in the order they are listed life will flow you right into the things you desire and help the flower or flowers that represent your life grow into the garden you have always desired.

Bringing Happiness To Something Is Different Than Trying To Get Happiness Out Of Things

I woke up this morning and called my friend to get permission to be happy.

If you thought the line I stated above was the dumbest thing you have ever heard then you my friend get a Gold Star. When you place it into that persepctive however it seems crystal clear but we all do it or have done it at some point. Giving up our hapiness to something or someone that resides outside of us and in doing this critize,blame,and allow a reason for us not be happy.In my personal journey I can understand why and how this comes about and starts with being happy inside and then only allowing other things to add to that not take away from it.

So the first and most obvious question I would have reading this is How do I know what makes me happy ? Well my friend all I can say to that is results may vary and it requries time,focus, and patience for you to learn yourself enough to know what things make you happy. It could be one thing or a combination of things like it is for me. I would suggest that you start living life to find out and be open to everything once,check the results, and look for the things that repeat if you find something that keeps showing up and you enjoy it then it is probably something that makes you happy and keeps you balanced add it to the mix. Everything else becomes something else you learn on your journey thru this thing called life.

So here is the benefit of knowing what makes you happy from there the sky is the limit you can then CHOOSE to let things deplete your happiness bank or you can let things leave deposits that increase your happines. I love letting myself find the beauty and happiness in things because you see parts of life differently and more vividly. In reality it is all about how your process things that come to you. and they are going to come and you can't change that but you can change how you see things that is your place that you can work from. This is the moment happiness becomes a choice.

The issue we have is sometimes we give up our choices because honestly it is easier to say Life Happened,If You had someone else, That new pair of shoes, Car,House and it seems like a bottomless pit and for good reason becasue "Nothing ouside of the soul/spirit can quench its thirst for inner happiness" yet it is easier give up that ownership in a lot of cases than it is love ourselves ,or learn a new language, or learn a new skill.The other side of that coin is this if you spent less energy telling your story about why your unhappy and more time focusing on learning about yourself u would have more answers,more energy, and ultimately more happines.

The last rule I think is to have fun while you do it and let that fun start from within. Then everything else can be fun that doesn't identfy you which is where the trap really tends to happen and exactly where you don't want to be.

Happiness is a choice and is not something you find as much as it is something your discover from within.

Good Luck On Your Search

Until my next posting

Namaste & God Bless

Perception & Principles

What is it about this concept that seems to hang us up? We have always known the glass is either half empty or half full. Yet when situations cross our path we fail to truly employ this power to its fullest. We see it for the worst and knowing that we are what we think this becomes exponential.

I am not above this fact even though I know better however I am currently working on pattern interrupts

Like if can't I must by linking those words together I immediately force myself to go further by doing things I think I can't (by the way I can do them).

Also it is asking myself better questions like what else could this mean or how could I better use this to my advantage?

The other thing that we fail to realize is that there are principles that govern these the correct type of behavior. For example no matter what if your are a fair,honest,and loving person you will get back from the world what you put out. It is understanding principles and placing faith in those that allows you to really look at any situation and find the positive perspective in it.

It is still a choice as with everything else in our lives we choose to like or don't like, do or don't do, feel or don't feel, react or don't react. So the next time you are faced with a situation you may not like choose to focus on a benefit for yourself or choose anyway you would like. The power to choose is yours and also that god rewards growth as stated in 1 Corinthians 3:7-8 So neither he who plants nor he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor For we are God's fellow workers

Until next post God Bless and Good Luck

CANI

Today was one of those days that come along ever so often. You know them they are the days when you feel that you are getting things accomplished ,creating the results you choose and it is all happening without you even knowing it. Anytime we have a day like this or a few days like this it is so empowering that there is an inital need to relax or rest on our laurels.

That is where our senses take over and we must fight or natural tendency to enjoy comfort. One way of doing this is by changing our frame of focus from working for comfort to working for CANI. Now I do need to let you all know this is not my word nor did I create it. It came from Anthony Robbins who is my unoffical mentor. His perspective is one that seems to resonate with me. (much like I hope mine does for you)The word means Constient and Neverending Improvement and I can tell there is tremendous value in having this be your frame of reference to come from.

We live in a time when the only thing that is constant is change. The problem is how many people like change ? Well in my interactions I would say not many at all and there energy and focus becomes the fact that they don't want to change and resistance is built around this idea. What would happen if that resistance became an opportunity for CANI? Well my guess would be the result I see in my life less stress,growth, and opportunity at every corner. Isn't that a better perspective to have? I can only speak from my experience and I would say that it is a great one because with all the information that we get in our life it can feel overwhelming so why not get an advantage and even the playing field by making use of all the stuff that is gonna come your way anyway.

What is the worst that could happen it might work and make your life better ?

Start off small take a day and focus on learning and improving and see if it feels better than when you just go thru feeling inundated with life.

Change you rules for life and change your life.

Until my next post God Bless and Good Luck.

The Art Of Giving

So I wanted to take a minute to remind everyone about the benefits of giving. I know we have heard this time and time again but I have recently gotten to a point in my life where I wanted to start living this more to see if the law of attraction really worked in my favor. Well after a week of creating giving situations I did manage to find that it does truly work and now I daily look for ways to give. I have listed 10 easy ways for you to do this try it for the week and see what happens.

1. Help out a friend give them a few moments of your day.
2. Give advice to someone who is in need of it
3. Give the homeless guy who ask for money some spare change ( you will get back 10 times what you give)
4. Give your partner a gesture of love ( a note, a passionate kiss, flowers)
5. Slow down and give a few minutes to your children and be interested in only what they want
6. Volunteer to help out a church,youth organization, or somewhere where your skill set could be of use.
7. Take something that you no longer use and give it to someone who can find value in it
8. Having a giving sale instead of a yard sale give away items you are no longer in need of.
9. Donate money to a local charity.
10. Talk to a stranger and be friendly and polite the gift of a smile goes a long way.

There is only one rule to this whole idea make sure that you have no expectation for the outcome when you give. You must give and be open to whatever the result and if you do that I can promise you that you will get a good result. Now it may not come directly from the person you give to but you will be blessed for your efforts.

Until My Next Post God Bless & Good Luck

Mind Control Get Some

Title sounds a bit scary huh? Well it isn't actually not as much as one would believe. I learn the most important lesson that I can pass along about being afraid of anything.

Knowledge is one of the main eliminators of fear meaning we fear what we don't know based off of our preconceptions well when you challenge that with knowledge you eliminate part of the fear and in some cases all of it.

The reason I started off this article in this way is simple the majority of people have a fear of their mind and don't even know it they walk around feeling powerless to the world that is around them. I am here to debunk that myth you have all the power you will ever need right in-between your ears. The problem is not that you don't have what you need it is that you don't know how to control your state of mind on your demand it happens to you daily but from outside sources.

One of the easiest reference points for this is advertising is it a coincidence that certain products make you feel a advertiser certain way? No but most likely until now this has not been pointed out to you. Advertisers know more about the way your brain works than you do and actually use that to their advantage,but what if you became your own advertiser?

For an example of exactly how your brain can focus and manifest things I want you to do the following

• Close your eyes (after reading the rest of the instructions)

• Open your eyes and find 10 red things in the room your in.

• Now do the same thing with the colors blue and green.

So you should now know at least your brain can help you to see the things you want if you direct it to. So let's make this a little more practical by giving you some information on how your brain filters things. The main source for filtering is based of two concepts pleasure and pain. At the root of all of your choices are those motives. You are looking to get pleasure and avoid pain.

Lastly you have to perform key actions that will result in the state of mind you are in at any given moment. If your sad there are factors that go into making you sad as it is not a disease you catch. When was the last time someone told you that they were having a case of sadness ? and it should be cleared in a week or so. they haven't because that doesn't make sense to do that.

So here are three things to better mind control

• The power of focus you can change how you feel by changing what you focus on.

• Pleasure and Pain are always your underling motives for why you choose to do something

• What actions go into your state of mind at any given moment?

Learn these and you will learn how to change your mood by using the right set of actions. To learn more about the topic I discussed today check out the following links here and here.

Until next post God Bless and Good Luck

Power Of Positive Thought

I have determined that we live in a world where looking at things from a positive prespective is almost taboo. Why would that be wrong honestly? When is a positive outlook considered wrong? I mean I believe after my research on the subject that things are nothing more than the meaning we give them so I decided to change how I see things and take everything from a level of positive instead of negative and I seem to get a hard time from some of my peers which I understand why they would do what they do. However why not stay positive and keep making the most out of everything. I will tell the main reason why this doesn't happen is because it removes EXCUSES which is what usually people love to hide behind. If you have to find a lesson in the events of your life then maybe you have to admit you could have done something to change a previous event. Having tough conversations is never easy but thats what makes them great is that the answers that come from them is where the jewels of knowledge lie. I challenge you to a week of doing the following two things

• Take every event that comes to you as a lesson to learn from.
• View your life with only a postive outlook.

Then post your responses here I would love to see what impacts something as simple as this could really make our quality of lifes much more enjoyable. Which is what it is all about God Bless