Unforgettable Love Story

A government that is truly Of the People,
By the People, and
For the People.
A government that offers true representation for the taxes you pay.

The Founding Idea

We are all dissatisfied with the way the governments of the world operate and how poorly they represent the true needs of the world and its inhabitants. Greed and people who just don’t have a clue are all corrupting the existing systems.

One of the main problems is that we vote for a few people to represent us on a wide variety of issues. One person cannot have expertise in all of the issues he is expected to work on. Nor do we as citizens who may have expertise have a real chance to participate in the decision making process. We simply leave it up to our representative to vote for us. That is like leaving it to chance and worse if the politician is corrupt.

The other problem is that the general public is allowed to vote on laws and public projects that they know nothing about. I do not think it is right that someone votes when they don’t understand the issues or proposed solutions. They might as well flip a coin. Actually it is worse, because too many people let fear be their guide, and we all know what a crappy guide fear is. It pretty much takes you to the opposite of what you would consciously choose.

The third problem is that there are far more problems to solve than representatives to solve them. And it takes too long to solve most problems. Longer than it needs to in this day and age.

The Solution

Elect our representatives on a problem by problem solving basis. Involve the people by posting the problem solving process on the internet. The general public can participate by posting and reading problem definitions and proposed solutions and by posting useful follow up information, from what they know and have experienced in life.

There will be a place to post fearful concerns along with special interest requests; these issues will be addressed rationally with the intention of providing the most loving solution in service to All of Life. But idle chit chat, hysteria and strong emotional rants will be discouraged and moved to a less prominent location; one would have to be searching for it to find it. The goal here is to make it easy to find the most useful information about the problem being solved, allow everyone to participate, and for anyone to be able to view information deemed less important just in case some sort of fraud is being committed.

As we come closer to a solution we elect representatives who will work out the final solution and administer it. Electing a representative will depend on their proven expertise and track record, especially in the area of fair and honest negotiation and administration. All people should have an equal opportunity to acquire a position of service and trust within the system.

Progress of the implementation of the solution will be tracked online and compared to the stated goals. Adjustments will be made by the administrating representatives, with the public being able to stop, slow down or speed up the process based on the various factors at hand. Successes and failures will be tracked for the benefit of future decision making.

With the capabilities of the internet for swift communication and logical organization of information, we can all communicate and work out the problems that plague our world together. Enough of the closed doors! These problems are solvable, and we are the ones who can do it!!!

We need to build a World Solutions Database to hold problem reports, the dialogs for their solutions, and the results of past successes and failures. It needs to be organized such that those with true expertise offer solutions and rise up in status amongst the group. Those who want to distract and waste time with frivolous postings and hateful ideas get pushed off to the side. Their postings will remaining available for those who will scrutinize the system and watch for fraud and the unfair exclusion of ideas. This is one of the first projects on my plate as soon as royalties for my book begin to roll in. It is my commitment to use the wealth I am in the process of generating to heal this planet from its dysfunctional ways of life.

I already see a similar system in action in the corporate world. I work at Microsoft as a software engineer. We deal with problems all of the time. We take bug reports and must solve the problems for our customers, often there are conflicting interests. A huge amount of data is taken into account, egos get involved, but logic and reason based on provable results is ultimately what is used to solve the problem. And the market tells us if we are wrong. We track our results and continue to chart new courses based on new data. We can use a model much like this in servicing the needs of the world. And all the data used to arrive at solutions can be made fully available to the public online at all times.

This is an attraction based government. This organization has already begun independent of our current governments. It will begin working with various world governments as each opportunity presents itself. Success over time of this organization should bring a gradual end to the current model of government in favor of this new method. Laying out of the rules of operation of this system is the first project that I am now opening up for discussion. Yes, that is right. Your comments made today will be the start of a new International World Government.

The pace of change could be much more rapid and made in a way that allows every human being on the planet to participate in any issue that is of importance to them and ignore issues that do not matter to them. With full disclosure of all issues that are of public concern online everyone has the opportunity to get involved in a positive way.

Understanding Each Other, understanding Life, understanding God will be the global outcome of such a system. Please join us and help form this new system of government.

Namasté
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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Continued from Helping Others: Reiki, Energy and Physical Support

On one occasion I was giving Kathryn a full Reiki treatment; she was laid out on the massage table. I had been working on her for about five minutes when Kathryn commented, “That feels very nice; it is just what I need.” By this time I had made the mistake of getting caught up in my ego too many times. Each time that happened, Kathryn would correct me. It almost got to the point where I did not want to work on her because of this. But as time went on I was grateful for the fantastic training I got at Master Kathryn’s feet.

On this occasion, I held my focus on being a clear channel for the Holy Spirit to move through for about another ten minutes longer, until I got to Kathryn’s abdomen. I knew this was where the cancer was. Fear came over me, but I did not realize it, I just became stupid and lost my focus. I began to imagine the energy flowing through me and into her like a raging white water river. I imagined this incredibly powerful force washing the cancer away. Clear clean white water flushing away the unwanted disease. I was just beginning to feel pleased with myself for coming up with such a great visualization when…

Within just a few seconds Kathryn said, “Whoa, that’s way too fast…too intense! You have to slow that down. Please it hurts; it’s making me nauseous!” Kathryn had a pained look on her face; she opened her eyes and began to sit up.

It took me a few moments to comprehend what was happening. I did not want to believe that I was doing harm, I wanted to help. Kathryn’s pleas brought me back to a place of cooperation and openness, I silently asked the Holy Spirit, Please work through me in exactly the right way that would best help Kathryn.

Kathryn responded immediately, “That’s much better. Thanks.” She lay back down, and I continued giving her an energy treatment. I never even told her what I did, and she did not ask.

Being able to shift my energy on demand was a skill that I had to develop in order to support Kathryn as she was going through her most painful times with cancer. It seemed that Kathryn had to remind me when my mind was drifting into uncomfortable areas. There were also times where my intense passion for life could be very unpleasant for Kathryn, and she brought this to my attention as well.

Can you remember a time when you were uncomfortable in your body? For me this happens if I am tired or if I need something to eat. At those times, have you ever felt how your sense of irritation increases when someone else enters the room or comes near you? Kathryn had been in a state of intense irritation for many months now; I expect her cancer complications were beyond any irritation I had ever experienced. This amplified her sensitivity to my energy.

I would come home from some outside activity, and often I would be feeling full of life and enthusiasm. In great excitement I would go to say hello to Kathryn and to sit with her for a while. Just entering the room with my energy revved up to such a state was nearly enough to make her vomit. She often had to ask me to settle my energy down.

It was difficult not to take this personally. I would think, I haven’t done anything wrong. Why does she have to be like that? Can’t she tell that it is her illness that is making her feel this way? However, when I thought like this, it only made matters worse for Kathryn. She would grab the bowl and beg me, “Michael, please that is not helpful. Please change your energy or go somewhere else.”

Eventually I would realize what I was doing and change my thinking to, This is my beloved wife. She is suffering. It will be much easier for me to change my energy than it will be for her. What thoughts can I hold that will make this better?

Kathryn replied, “That’s it, now your energy feels much better.” Yet I had only thought those things; I had not said anything out loud. I had not even found the new thing to focus on; there was only the questioning, the desired to find a loving place to focus. That turned out to be enough of a mental shift. When my mind was genuinely concerned for Kathryn’s welfare she felt fine having me near her. But if I was excited, wanting to tell her about my afternoon, or if I was feeling guilt for not taking her with me, she was asking me to change my energy.

Well I hope you got something of value out of that. And I do encourage you to buy my book and read it. You will see how poorly I understood life and our energies earlier in my life, the mistakes I made and what occured to change me into the wise and enlightened person I am today. It took another five years (beyond the story in this book) of study, practice and Life experience to get it down, but now I am undeniably a different person who really does understand how life and our energies work.

Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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Lately I have been reading mail coming from caregivers who are falling down on the job. The pain and suffering they have to deal with is overwhelming them. They find themselves taking on the pains of others and depression and deep sadness is the result. This also applies to parents who are overwhelmed with supporting the family and caring for their own children.

It is of the utmost importance to take care of yourself number one. YOU MUST BE YOUR OWN TOP PRIORITY!

I cannot stress this point highly enough. If you do not take care of yourself then you have very little to offer to another person that will be of real value. This is because the energy coming from you is harmful. Especially to one who is extra sensitive due to some physical or mental illness. And children too react to your suffering and worry. The following are links to blogs that will help you take care of yourself in your role as a caregiver…

Being a Caregiver
Reprogramming Yourself
Meditation and the Wandering Mind…Meditation is especially important for a caregiver!

Have you ever wondered how I came to understand the relationship between our thoughts and our energy so well?

It comes from experience, much experience. The following excerpts are taken from my book Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story. Kathryn was my late wife who was dying of cancer at the time the “Lessons In Energy” story takes place. She was very intuitive, a gifted psychic and a Reiki Master. She was a powerful healer for others and taught me a lot about energy and how it works through the following sorts of experiences…

Our First Reiki Experiences

I did not feel much when I gave a Reiki treatment. Occasionally I would pick up information about the people I was working on, but my head kept questioning the validity of what I was feeling. One time when Kathryn was having back pains she asked me for some help. I was happy to be able to help and almost surprised that she believed that I could. She sat in a dining room chair, leaned forward and asked me to do Reiki on her back. In my mind I prayed, Please Holy Spirit move through me to help Kathryn in the best way possible.

After a short while she said, “Oh Mike, that feels great; it’s just what I needed. You have such good healing energy.”

I believed Kathryn could really feel the energy so I was excited to hear that coming from her. Without saying anything, I did not move a muscle; I only thought to myself, Wow, I am doing this. It is actually working. I might just turn out to be a healer after all. I felt thrilled and excited; I was even more enthusiastic to continue treating Kathryn, until….

At the very same moment I was having those thoughts, Kathryn responded, “That’s not it, it’s changed. The energy feels bad now.”

I immediately recognized how I let my ego get in the way. I prayed quietly, Okay Holy Spirit, I’m sorry, I’ll get out of the way and allow you to move the energy as you see fit. I am only an instrument of your healing.

Once again, at the very same moment I began having those new thoughts, Kathryn responded with, “That’s better…It’s back.” Not only was I amazed that I was actually changing my energy with each thought, but that Kathryn really could pick it up. This experience made a profound impression on my mind.

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No matter how you slice it, relationship breakups are difficult to cope with. For those whose relationships are suffering from problems you may find this relationship advice challenging to say the least, especially if you are/were in a committed love relationship. But stay open and read it all so that you don’t take something I write out of context. Believe me I have had plenty of experiences with relationship problems and breakups, and plenty of experience with finding peace and happiness in the midst of it. If I can do it, so can you!

One of the first things that a person needs to consider is the question, “What am I expecting from my relationships?” I know for me, when I was younger and less mature, I expected love, support, and on a deeper unconscious level…validation! But the problem with those expectations is that no one else can really give you those things.

I can hear some of my readers minds now, “What? No one can give me love? No one can give me support? You must be joking! And just for the record, I don’t need any validation. My self-esteem is just fine thank you!” Okay, so that is what I used to think and I am certain there are many others who still do too.

Of course someone else can give you love, but are you open to receive it? If you are not receiving it then what use is their giving it to you? If you are in the midst of judging another person, or even yourself, are you open to receive their love or any love for that matter? NO! If you are critical of Life and what it has been delivering to you are you open to receive love? NO! If you are worrying about how to pay the bills, or what kind of drugs your kid is smoking or what they are doing when you are not around, are you open to receiving love? NO!

As for support from others…they can give it, but you can just as easily squander it. It can even become a setback. What happens when you depend on someone and their support and then they leave? It could be divorce, it could be death, it could be work, it could be drugs or alcohol, there are many ways in which someone can leave you and take their support with them. Then where are you? Helpless and frightened and once again in judgment of Life and other people.

But the biggest problem is self-esteem. Most people don’t have it! Most people are seeking validation from outside of themselves. Low self-esteem shows up in two forms. The most obvious is when you just don’t like yourself, when your thoughts, words and actions make you feel in some way unworthy and unlovable.

There is another side to low self-esteem and that is ARROGANCE! Oh I have a great deal of experience with that side of low self-esteem. Arrogance is how I used to cope with my low self-esteem and it is insidious because it makes you feel like you are so good that you are better than others. It often comes out in words and actions. The arrogant person has to be the one to be heard; they can talk on and on and often don’t let others participate. Or they are always contradicting the ideas of others instead of finding the places that they can agree. The arrogant person is often putting other people down. But always, at the bottom of arrogance is low self-esteem. (There is a pretty cool story in my book on how I overcame my arrogance. If you need help with that issue, this book will be powerful for you!)

Relationship breakups give us the chance to face these issues in ourselves and to heal them. We get to become stronger people as a result. How would you like to be the kind of person who is never lonely, especially when you are alone? How would you like to be the kind of person who has an inner strength capable of facing any challenge that Life has to offer, especially when everyone is ignoring your requests for help? How would you like to be the kind of person who knows without a shadow of a doubt that you are thinking, speaking and acting in the right way, in a loving way, in a way that is of benefit to all people whose lives you touch, even when others are judging and criticizing you or telling vicious rumors about you? And how would you like to be happy anytime you want no matter what is going on in the outer world?

When you have to face life on your own you have the greatest possibility of growing into these life skills. When you face life on your own it is much easier to see what your creations are and what are the creations of others. It becomes much easier to understand the relationship between your thoughts and your feelings, because no one else is there to create in your experience. There is no one to blame, except yourself…of course you should not be blaming yourself either, but accepting that you have created your own reality.

I went through a pretty rough experience around a relationship break up when I was 44 years old. I had been divorced twice, had a wife die on me (story is in my book Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story), and then had my next fiancé dump me too. I felt like my life was over. I felt like all I could count on was women leaving me. I felt like my youth was slipping away and I was never going to have that long lasting really great relationship that I needed to have that would prove that I was an okay person, and that I was worthy of love. I cried a lot. I was facing financial struggles too. I was living in Australia and they were asking me to leave because I no longer had a sponsoring job. I had other friends who were judging me and my actions too.

In the midst of all that pain and suffering I went through I kept a watch on my feelings and my thoughts. I was listening to a lot of Abraham CDs about the “Law of Attraction” and the “Science of Deliberate Creation”. I got a new CD every week, and I listened to many of them more than once. It was during those times when I had my first experiences of Self-Realization. Intellectually I had learned that I was God, but those experiences were different…I remembered that I was God…it was just like I remembered where my bed was, or what my name was. I KNEW! And those experience changed me forever. I finally had the self-esteem that was previously based on other people’s opinions of me. And I finally knew without a shadow of a doubt that whatever I did or thought about another, I was doing to myself. I still had habits of thought and action to overcome, but now I would not let anything or anyone deter me from making the necessary changes in my own programming. And I also know there will never be another lifetime, or a time in this lifetime, where I will not have this inner strength and awareness. These gifts are mine forever more!

And for the first time in my life I loved being alone, so much so that when I finally did find a wonderful woman to marry, my dear wife Shyni, I was actually disappointed to lose my alone time! At first I felt like I got married out of habit, because for so many years I was looking for it and had not stop to reconsider my priorities carefully enough. Now I was reaching for the ability to go into the state of Samadhi at will and the distractions of other people and their needs was getting in the way. Union with God is addicting, it is the most beautiful thing I have ever experienced.

I have come to accept my choice to be in a relationship. I know I have work to do in continuing to reprogram myself and the challenges that come up when living with others is giving me the chance to do just that. So it really is perfect for me at this time, just as perfect as it was for me to lose the other relationships I had earlier in my life. Without those relationships breakups, I would not have Shyni in my life. In very many ways she is more perfect for me than any other woman has been, by a factor of ten. This is honestly the best and most amazing relationship I could ever imagine having.

No matter what challenges you face in your life, they are perfect and you have created them through the “Law of Attraction”, this includes your relationship breakups. Walk through your fire and come out the other side. Many people consider suicide when relationships breakup. Suicide is like walking most of the way through the fire, and then turning around and walking back to the other side. You suffer so much more as a result.

Suicide will not take you were you believe you will be going, to a place of peace. Suicide is trying to escape from yourself, and you just cannot do it. Wherever you go, there you are. In the afterlife, you will not be in the heaven you think you will be in; you will still be enmeshed in your life’s troubles, because the afterlife is still life. It is just life in another dimension. And you will not have the ability to change your programming there. You will be stuck with it, playing out your dramas over and over until your next physical life begins. And in your next physical life you will set up the same dramas so that you can finally face the issues and move through them. So in reality you will have to walk through that fire all over again, face the same pain all over again, and finish the walk to the other side. Don’t do it!

You can find so much strength inside of you that it will be you that other people come to for strength and support. You can find so much strength inside of you that no matter if the entire world seems to hate you, you can still love yourself and them so deeply that you only feel love. You can become so enlightened, so wise, and so powerful that you are actually a clear conduit that God’s love can flow through and heal others wherever you go. And if you become such a person, you will be overwhelmed at times by the difference you really do make in the world.

Relationship breakups are not the end, but the beginning of the next chapter your life. Get excited and know that you are in for something far better than you ever dreamed possible and your relationship breakup will be exactly that!

Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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I find that there are some very interesting common components between ALL of the practices I have been taught.

*Deep breathing – Called Pranayama in Yoga training.
*Creative visualization.
*Repetition of a phrase or word.
*Focused concentration on a specific part of the body.

Some might call repetition of phrases a mantra, but the teachings I have read put greater emphasis of mantras being a specific sound that came from some deep Samadhi meditative state and is imbued with magical powers, I as of yet do not have such experience and choose not to relate mantra’s to English phrases or words. But it is quite possible they are indeed one and the same.

For each of those components of meditation there are many different varieties of practices. For advanced students, I suggest a proper teacher or the books I mentioned earlier. But for the average person I would recommend the following practices.

Start by sitting in a comfortable way. It does not need to be cross legged on the floor. It can be in a chair. Find the most comfortable way to sit for you and your body. Meditation can even be done lying down, but in most cases this is not advisable as it tends to induce sleep. However I find that I can easily go into a deep meditative state and remain consciously meditating when I have just woken from sleep. So you might want to try meditating right after a nap for five to fifteen, or when you have insomnia lie in bed and meditate until you do fall back asleep or decide to get up and do other things.

Deep Breathing – Start by emptying your lungs completely. Then begin to fill your lungs in a progressive way, and do it the same way every time. Some recommend filling from the bottom of the stomach up and others recommend the reverse, filling the chest first and working your way down. And the same is true with the exhalation, do it in the same way each time.

All the masters say, and my experience confirms, that deep breathing exercises are responsible for energizing the body and even healing the body. It will certainly heal many stress related disorders and even asthma. Since I began doing Pranayama exercises my need for sleep and food both have been drastically reduced, and this is spoken of often in Yoga texts. If you have any sort of illness, daily deep breathing exercises will proved noticeable relief if not complete relief from the disease. You should try it, what do you have to lose?

Notice that you are taking conscious control of a normally unconscious process. Swami Rama gives credit to the various Pranayama exercises for his COMPLETE CONTROL of his AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM. This is how he was able to perform feats such as speeding his heart up so fast as to make it stop for sixteen seconds and how he was able to produce cancers on his body and remove them at will. He also claims in his book “The Path of Fire and Light” that one can learn to retain the breath for hours at a time and he did prove this as well in a live performance at the Menninger society.

Do your deep breathing exercises prior to your meditation time it will relax you and move you into a deeper state. One practice bleeds into the other. You are also preparing yourself for the day when you choose to advance your practice and reach for more advanced goals.

Creative Visualization – There are a lot of techniques under this category. I suggest you read those two books I mentioned earlier if you wish to try more than the few techniques I will offer here. Visualization is best done while doing the deep breathing exercises. You may have to focus on the deep breathing by itself the first few times you do them, but soon enough your body learns how to do them and then you need something else to focus on. Visualizations are perfect for this.

I believe one of the reasons visualization is powerful is that while you are focused on your visualizations the normally destructive thought processes in your mind are stopped. Thoughts such as worry, or thinking about what you should have said to that rotten person who is spreading lies about you for example. Abraham (as channeled by Ester Hicks) tells us that it is simply enough to cease negative thinking in order to allow our good to enter our experience. It is our negative thought processes that choke off the flow of inspiration, intuition, and life giving energies.

What will you actually see? That will differ from person to person. Most people will see blackness with the occasional spark of light or briefly see forms come and go. So why is it called visualization then? Because you involve your mind in a thought process that is creating forms, even though you may or may not actually see them. These exercises work even if you do not actually see what it is that you are visualizing!

If you are fortunate enough to leave the body, enter the psychic worlds, and vividly see these forms you are visualizing and other objects of those dimensions, count yourself lucky indeed. Most likely this is a skill you have developed in past lifetimes. And you should probably add something of value from your experience in the form of a comment on this blog to help other people understand this experience.

You can visualize a fire, like a candle flame, in the heart chakra of the body or at the third eye position. You can visualize white light filling up a hollow version of your own body. Start at the toes and feel this light as it slowly moves up your body and fills you up with white light, until your entire body is full of light and holds the form of your body.

Also you can concentrate with eyes open on a real object, something simple like a candle and its flame or a lemon, and take it all into your memory. Then close your eyes and use that object to focus on during your creative visualization time.

You can visualize flying around the state, country or entire world and spreading light and love as you pass over the area. You can visualize white light, or other healing colors that you are aware of, surrounding the body of someone with an illness with the intention of assisting them in their healing process.

It may be difficult to do these visualizations at first, but that is normal. Just continue your practice and when you notice that you mind has slipped off onto another topic or worry bring it back. Don’t judge yourself. Just resume the visualization wherever it was you left off. You should also notice what topic your mind went to and later contemplate why it seemed so important as to disturb your short period of practice. Remind yourself that you have put aside only fifteen or thirty minutes or so for your practice, and for that short period of time these other thoughts will just have to wait, you can think about them later if they really do require your attention.

This is something you are doing to help yourself, those other thoughts can wait!

Repetition of a Phrase or Word – By repeating a phrase or a word you can lift your energy and quickly build a deep grove of thought in your mind. It also occupies your mind such that other negative thoughts are pushed out.

To help with stilling the mind and stopping all thought repeat, “Release. Let go.” Every time a stray thought or worry enters in, just go back to your phrase, “Release. Let go.” Do not judge the slip in concentration or worry that it ruined your practice. This can take you very deep and give you moments of a completely still mind. This is best done during the meditation phase of your practice and not the deep breathing phase. These other suggestions are intended for the deep breathing phase…

“I am One with God, I am One with All People Everywhere” This phrase is good for self-esteem and for reminding yourself that those others you look at and judge are really yourself.

For moving past road rage the phrase, “There is something I don’t understand about their driving, if I did I would have compassion instead of anger.” Or “Everyone has the right to use this road just the same as me.”

For safety and protection, “I am alert and aware of all hazards that come my way and easily move around them.” Or “I am safe and protected by an angel that guides me. My intuition tells me where to go and I am safe.”

To generate a feeling of love, “I love myself just the way I am. I love others just the way they are.”

So the point is to repeat these or other useful phrases over and over again until they become automatic, until you find yourself repeating them at other times during the day. Repeat them during your five to ten minutes of deep breathing exercises to keep your mind focused in a positive way.

Focused Concentration on a Specific Part of Your Body – By concentrating on a specific part of your own body you send extra energy to it. Also you occupy your mind such that other negative thoughts are pushed out.

Along with your focused attention on your body, you can repeat a healing phrase, or you can visualize white light or another healing color.

Focus on your heart chakra or your third eye chakra during the meditation phase of your practice while you attempt to still your mind and repeat the phrase, “Release. Let go.”

Putting it all Together as a Practice

Start with five to ten minutes of deep breathing exercises while doing one specific visualization or while repeating a one specific phrase. This will cause you to gather energy and do significant healing work on your own body. This will also cause you to go deeper in preparation for a deep meditation.

Then for another five to fifteen minutes attempt to still your mind. Cease the deep breathing during this time and let your breath become calm, shallow and regular. Focus your attention on either your heart chakra or your third eye chakra and repeat the phrase, “Release. Let go.”

I have given you many suggestions for each part of the practice. Choose only one way of doing it for one meditation session. Rotate these suggestions and try different techniques. It is ideal to do two sessions each day. One in the morning before beginning your day is essential. A second session later in the day will help too. It is not necessary to do these exercises for long periods of time unless you are feeling really into it and enjoying it so much that you do not want to stop. But do them daily and you will receive results.

Clarifying Comments are Welcome

Comments from your own experience will help others who read this blog so please feel free to comment! Also ask specific questions if you don’t understand something. I and my other enlightened friends are happy to answer them.

Good luck and happy practicing!

Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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Continued from Meditation and the Wandering Mind…

I used to have this very same problem with meditation…I was expecting my mind to become perfectly still and expecting some sort of psychedelic astral travel kind of experience. But it wasn’t happening. And I had been trying for years. I was getting results with my meditations, but I was not enjoying them. And they were not matching my expectations.

The teacher I was studying with at the time (this stuff is in my book Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story) told me to try a walking meditation. Amoram told me that I had too much energy flowing to sit still. He also told me that a walk in nature would help release that energy and allow my mind to gravitate to more creative and positive contemplation.

That is when I shifted to mostly doing walking meditations. I nearly stopped doing sitting quiet and still meditations, I change to doing them only once or twice a week. It worked well for me for many years. I was also listening to a lot of channeled material nearly daily and reading spiritual books daily. So I did a lot of contemplating and prayer too. I consciously worked on reprogramming my thinking. I advanced in my understanding of life and gained experience and wisdom as a result of these practices. I continued on this way until I had my Self-Realization experiences, which as I said earlier motivated me to get serious about a sitting quite and still meditation practice again.

Meditation became a daily practice for me again at the end of 2003. Wanting to understand the process more I took Kriya Yoga training at the end of 2004 because of the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi. I have also been reading books like “The Path of Fire and Light” by Swami Rama and “The Esoteric Practice, Christian Meditations & Exercises” by Dr. Stylianos Atteshlis known as Daskalos in the book “Magus of Strovolos.” I choose these two books because both of these authors were very advanced mystics who were able to consciously and deliberately go into the states of Samadhi, travel instantly to distant places, and manifest themselves in some way that was physically perceivable by others. Of course there have been other trainings I have received over the years as well.

To be continued…

Love and Blessings,

Michael Skowronski

Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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One of the most common things I hear people say about meditation is, “I have tried many times to sit down and meditate, but I just can’t seem to get my mind to be quiet. No matter what I do it never works, my mind just wanders off onto many other things. I wish I could be like others who love meditation and get so much out of it. But I just can’t do it!”

If this is your problem, join the club, you are amongst the majority and this blog is written especially for you. If you are seasoned in the art of meditation, practice regularly, and enjoy meditation, then please post a comment that expands on what I have to offer here. Other points of view especially from those who are seasoned mediators would be really helpful to those who are reading this blog.

Have you ever noticed that masters refer to meditation as a practice? Meditation is a Practice! It is exercise for the mind, an exercise to gain control of the mind. For most people the mind goes wherever it will, without control of the owner. It is like the servant is ruling the master. You need to become the master of your mind; you need to direct the mind in where it is going.

The mind controls your feelings. Whatever you think of has a corresponding feeling…is it a good feeling or a bad one? Law of Attraction brings to us people, things and events that match our thoughts. At a much deeper level, at the level that you and I are God, we actually create all of manifest creation, all of the dimensions of life including the physical dimension.

The human brain is not the same thing as the mind, however the brain and all manifest form is created by the mind. You can think of the brain like a computer, it has an operator. Sure the brain can process thought, but the thought that is injected into the brain, the input of ideas and creativity, comes from the mind. And of course mind is created by God, for those who wish to insist that God is creating everything.

The ultimate goal of meditation is to move beyond the physical into the non-physical and into divine union with God. This requires shutting down the mind and the various sensory inputs. I have read accounts from more than one master who says that the reason so many people report spiritual experiences on heavy doses of drugs is that they are essentially breaking the mind, cracking it open, and revealing a glimpse of the dimensions beyond the physical. But unfortunately most people under the influence of drugs have no control of their minds which is the reason the experiences are so out of control and even harmful. And then there are others, take Ram Das for example, who had some control of his mind and came back from his drug trips with very enlightening wisdom to share with the world. A person may be able to hide his inner insanity, to some degree, while clean and sober, but while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, he reveals the real chaotic state of his mind.

For most people, the goal of mediation should be to simply gain control of the mind in order to live a happy life. Do NOT worry about trying to still the mind completely. The reason I say that is because most people are satisfied to be in the physical world and enjoy physical things. Most people want things, perhaps wealth, perhaps fame, perhaps a hot lover, perhaps they want loving children and certainly physical comforts. Most people want life to run smooth and for changes to be under their control. Perhaps they would like to know God too, but they are content to wait until they die to discover heaven. There is nothing wrong with this. There is a reason we incarnate in the physical world, and that is to play in and experience what the physical world has to offer.

There is another type of person who is trying to perfect themselves, or pay off their karma, in order to escape the pain of physical life. (Now please do not get the idea that I am judging a person who thinks this way, or anyway for that matter. I am simply stating observations from my experience and NOT assigning a value to it.) My first efforts at meditation were highly motivated by this sort of thinking. This person may be trying to know God, but the reality of it is that they are still very much attached to the physical world and would be quite happy to be here if everything was going well in their life. They will certainly re-incarnate once again. Again for this sort of person, the goal of mediation should be to simply gain control of the mind in order to live a happy life.

Then there is the person who has done it all, or all that they really want to do, over many lifetimes. They have discovered that the external objects of the world hold little or no meaning for them. They have discovered that they can be happy anytime they wish. They can still enjoy things of the physical world, but they can also enjoy being without these things. They are no longer motivated by chasing these things; they are motivated by discovering who they really are and what their relationship to God is. This sort of person already has a great deal of control over their mind, they already understand the relationship between their thoughts and what those thoughts create and attract. The goal of mediation for this sort of person should be to still the mind in order to move beyond the physical while still having a physical body.

I want to stress that there is no right or wrong in being in any of these places in your eternal life. You are where you are, it is best to accept that and move through life content and happy to be who you are and where you are. It is all in divine perfection. Too many religious or spiritual people try to force a stage of practice or development on themselves or on another person that is not right for them and their place in their eternal life.

Also don’t take everything I am saying here as absolute truth. I am now discussing things that I have some experience with mixed in with some divinely inspired intuition and book knowledge based on the writings of masters far more advanced than I. Normally I like to teach from a safe place, from my own personal experience, but to do this topic justice I must go a little further out on a limb. I have reached some pretty deep states, but they were a gift from God and not a highly developed skill that I have. Those experiences were a prod to make me reach harder for a state of mind I previously doubted existed.

To be continued…

Love and Blessings,

Michael Skowronski

Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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Are miracles that are reported throughout history true? Or are they just the hopeful fantasies of silly superstitious people? I say, for the most part, they are true and I will tell you why further down…

When Jesus performed his miracle of the loaves and fishes before the great crowds that came to hear him speak what was the first thing that he did? FIRST He gave thanks, second he broke the bread and fishes, and third he instructed his disciples to distribute them to the crowds. Jesus gave thanks even before the miracle had occurred. Gratitude is a very powerful tool for creating. You cannot just give lip service, or mental service to gratitude, for when gratitude is done properly it is ALWAYS followed by a very good feeling that we refer to as gratitude. This feeling often moves us to tears…that is how powerful this feeling is.

I am often moved to tears by the responses of my friends on MySpace and here on my blog. THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE!!! Some of my friends send me their gratitude for the work they see me doing. This brings tears to my eyes. Some of my friends have asked for my help to get them through some difficult situation. Once I have finished composing my email response to them, I am filled with intense gratitude because helping people is the biggest goal that I have for my life…more tears, even before I receive a grateful response back.

It is our emotions that tell us when our thoughts are on target. If we are feeling bad, we have separated ourselves from God, we have separated ourselves from our own higher power, from our source of energetic sustenance. But when we feel good, we are on target, we are connected with God, we are receiving our intuition, we are on our path in life heading where we ultimately want to be heading. And do not confuse this with the path that others, such as our family or our society, want us to go, this path I am referring to is the path that we have chosen along with the higher aspects of ourselves that is in direct communication with God.

I have experienced MANY miracles in my life. First let me say, that a miracle is just an event in life that we do not understand. All miracles occur according to spiritual law and coming into alignment with spiritual law. But for the most part we don’t understand these laws and so it seems like there has been some sort of divine intervention. There is no intervention, we are divine, we have only forgotten this fact and happened to stumble unknowingly upon the right thoughts and actions to receive our miracle. (Even if I word things otherwise, which I sometimes do, it is only so that what I am saying can be easily understood or accepted by others…other masters do the same…but they too know this fact I just stated.)

The more you practice the more you will understand Spiritual Law. Taking an active role by studying the teachings of great masters is the best place to start…but you still have to do the work, do the practice. You must come to understand the relationship between your thoughts and your feelings and the results you receive…including both the inner changes in your personality as well as the outer world changes that become manifest in your experience.

There was a time that I thought these reported miracles were a myth, a fantasy, the delusions of some superstitious people. But I no longer brush reports of miracles off so easily. I have had two major physical healing miracles in my life, and many minor ones too. The first major one is detailed in my book, Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story. The second one is detailed in a book that is just about to be published by another author called Living the Law of Attraction. Details about that book can be found at this website: http://livingtheloa.com

I live an amazing life…I know some of you who have read my bulletins and blogs might think I have a lot of dramas, that is true I do, but for every drama I have about ten things that are going so very very well. And those dramas I am also calling to myself by deliberately asking God to heal me of the last of my issues with judgment, anger, and criticism. I have been saving the best stories of amazing coincidences and miracles for my books. These experiences I have had, and deliberately call to myself, are due to the spiritual laws that I do understand…and GRATTITUDE is at the TOP of the list when it comes to POWERFUL ways to use the mind.

Be sure to remember to take ten minutes to remember everything you are grateful for. Actually this is a good practice to do every day. You too would experience many miracles if you did this ten minute practice every day. Guaranteed!

Love and Blessings to all,

Michael Skowronski

Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story
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This is continued from Drowning in Worry…

Letting go of attachments to people, places, things, or getting what you want, is the first thing you need to consider. You don’t need anything outside of yourself to make yourself happy. If you did then people with lots of stuff and plenty of money would be happy. But for the most part, they are unhappy too. Or they constantly need exciting things to happen in their lives to be happy, and when the excitement ends so does their happiness. Soon such people will enter a cycle of life where their resources are gone and they are forced to find happiness inside or be miserable. Perhaps you are in such a cycle now. This is Life’s way of teaching us; it is not a punishment as too many people think.

Slow Down. While the changes are in progress we need to slow down and change our expectations of life and of ourselves. We will make mistakes, love yourself anyway. You need to be okay with mistakes that have already been made, but then be firm and stick with your reprogramming efforts.

Feel Your Feelings. We need to check in frequently to make sure we are still on track. Something that felt good at one time may not feel good at another time. We need to feel, and notice when something does not feel good and then notice our focus, notice our thoughts. What are we thinking, what are we feeling, how do they relate? Where is our focus? We need to notice what our automatic reaction is and become aware of the programming that is to be changed.

Meditation and Contemplation. Is meditation a habit for you? It really is necessary in some form or another. Is it a joy for you? It can be and will be if you are doing it correctly. It should be as important in your day as eating, sleeping, bathing and exercising (if you are leaving one of those items out put it back in!) You need to be so skilled at meditation that you can sit down in a moment of deep suffering and bring yourself back into balance, back to peace. This requires practice, repetitive, ongoing, daily practice. If you say you don’t have time for meditation then what you are really saying is that you don’t have time to have a good life.

Visualizations. We need to visualize the way we want to be and the way we want life to be. We need to script our response to life for specific situations that come up and tie it to the triggering events. I give a powerful example of doing this in my post Reprogramming Yourself . This takes only 30 seconds to 2 minutes to do but should be repeated as often as you can until the change registers in your response. Your scripted response should be loving, it should feel good to contemplate it.

Stop Negative Thinking. You will know you are in negative thinking when you feel bad! Make sure you notice when you feel bad and then notice what you are thinking. During your visualization time, if negative thoughts occur stop them and counter them. You need to become skilled at finding new ways to view the situation such that you feel better about it and can respond from a loving place. Practicing this when you feel good will make it easier to do when you feel bad.

RESULTS. When you get results, you need to remember them, re-live them, use them to re-inspire yourself in the future when you are feeling blue and when you feel like you are not making any progress.

Hang Out ONLY with Positive People or People ONLY when they are Positive. This can and should take the form of books, movies, and audio programs. Of course this can be real live people too, but you may not have such people in your life at the moment, so do what you can with what you have. When negativity creeps into your experience, in whatever form, slow down, change your focus, change your thinking, end that particular dialog or end your visit with the person you are with. This may be difficult at first but it is necessary.

Prepare Yourself for the Life you wish to Live. Again this would be study of books, movies, audio programs, and classes that will prepare your mind and change your thinking. This can be fun as long as you are not attached to an outcome such as becoming rich this year. Educate yourself for the sake of enjoying the positive flow of ideas into your mind and life. Here are some book suggestions…

* “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki
* “Conversations with Millionaires” by Mike Litman
* “The One Minute Millionaire” by Robert Allen and Mark Victor Hansen

Reading these books or listening to them as audio books will teach you something about wealth. Being wealthy and staying wealthy is a skill. People who win the lottery most often end up in a worse position within a few years, deeply in debt, because they do not understand money, or how to make it work for them.

Stop watching TV and begin to study. Opportunities are coming to us all of the time. You must be the person who is ready and capable of taking advantage of the opportunities that are coming. Learn how to trade stocks, and practice without investing until you are very successful. Learn how to market on the internet. Learn how to manage others who will work for your business. Don’t get the idea you will be rich next week or even next year, but if you keep on studying and practicing, one day you will become rich and forever more you will have these skills programmed into your very being. A treasure that is stored up in heaven so to speak, a treasure that will travel with you into your next life times.

Read books on developing relationship skills. After all “Like Attracts Like”, which means if your skills have caused you to push men out of your life, then you will continue to do so, and you will not attract a man who is good for you. You will attract a man with relationship skills that match yours in some way.

My book, Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story , will teach you better relationship skills. It will also teach you how to make yourself happy and improve your self-esteem. And it is entertaining as well so it can satisfy multiple needs at the same time. And there are many other good books on these topics as well. Check out http://Abraham-Hicks.com . Abraham is one of the best teachers you will find.

While doing all of this study and practice, make happiness right now, each and every minute of each and every day, your 1 goal. If you do, everything else will fall easily into place.

I hope this helps. If ANYONE READING THIS BLOG has more specific questions feel free to post questions directly in my blogs and I will respond as I can and post them back in my blogs.

Namasté
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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This blog is a response to a friend’s request for help. She has given permission to use her question and my answer in this blog. Here is her question…

“For the past many months my life has being going downhill. I have been trying to save money for a house, but it is not working. I have left two jobs in the past four months; I have even tried to work from home, but still no luck. For past seven years I have been a single parent, left on my own with eight kids. My saving are going down not up! I just turned 46 recently and all of a sudden I had this burning desire for a man to come into my life, to comfort me, and to lift my burden of having to always be on my own. I would like to try and achieve something with someone special in my life, and for it not always to be me working hard and not getting very far. But Michael I am still waiting. I feel so lost and I don’t know what to do, or if I will ever find someone that will be true to me and my kids.”

Here is my answer to my friend and all of you who suffer from similar problems…

I have compassion for you. I understand how it can feel like there is no way out. But there is a way out, and it is all contained in your own mind and thought processes. First I want to echo back what you said with some comments, and then I will get down to suggesting a path of recovery.

“My life has being going downhill.” I expect that is how you think and feel about your life and yet it is NOT the true facts about it. Your life is what you have created, what you have hoped for, asked for, dreamed for, and worried for…yes worried. Our worrisome thoughts are just as creative as our conscious deliberate thoughts, even more so since they run on automatic pilot and often go on and on for hours on end, day after day…and the conscious ones are held for only a few moments at a time, and probably days go by before you remember to dream a creative dream. So you have created this and likewise you can create something else.

“Eight Kids…” Wow you did set yourself up for a challenge! How much help are the kids? How much trouble? With the right resources and training you have yourself a small company! How many of them are up for the challenge of creating an internet business? Or some other sort of business? Just an idea.

“If I will ever find someone that will be true to me and my kids…” That too can be a challenge, most men would run screaming from such a situation…or enjoy you for as long as they can and then leave once it starts getting difficult or serious…but still it is not impossible to attract a man who will help…but having a man to help is not the only way to cope with this situation. So don’t be attached to that idea.

“My saving are going down not up!” That would be a scary picture to look at for almost anyone. You need something positive to be looking at when it comes to finances and this is not it.

“I turned 46 recently.” I hope that does not mean that you believe it is all downhill from here, or “what can possibly be left in my life if I still don’t have a solid relationship?” It is easy to think that way, but that is one of the kinds of thoughts you must catch and stop.

“A man to come into my life, to comfort me,” no one else can truly comfort you. You must learn to comfort yourself. Indeed someone can comfort you for a moment, but it won’t be long before their comfort will cease to sooth you and your worried mind will take over and ruin your life experience once again. They too will become a burden and cease being a comfort.

“And to lift my burden of having to always be on my own.” Someone else cannot lift your burden. Your burden is your worry and your attachment to your desire for something you do not have, not your life circumstances. There is nothing wrong with desire, but
attachment to the where and when and how it will show up will definitely cause you to suffer. Hold desire without attachment.

“And achieve something with someone special in my life.” Having a partner can be nice, or it can be hell…but you want a partner that has strength and courage and honesty and integrity and ability…is that right? Be sure you are clear about what kind of partner you want, and NOT someone who has just been released from jail or who prefers to hang out at the local pub with his mates. If you are clear you won’t waste your time with the wrong sort of bloke and you will know when the right one comes along. If all you want is a little sex and play and touch for a few hours, nothing wrong with that by the way, then be clear about that when it happens and make sure he does not hang around like a lost puppy.

“And for it not always to be me working hard and not getting very far.” When the work is hard, it is because you are swimming upstream. When you stop doing that then it will stop being hard work. You must learn to go with the flow. It may seem like the flow is not taking you where you want, but that is impossible…the flow is always going where you want, it is your vision that is limited. You have not yet learned how to trust Life so you go against it.

“I am still waiting.” Stop waiting and make yourself happy now. Never wait, make yourself happy in each moment. Then with each passing day count the blessings you do have, and the desires that have become manifest. That is much more fun.

“I feel so lost and I don’t know what to do.” Your thoughts are attacking you. You believe something has gone horribly wrong in your life. Make yourself happy. That is what you need to do!

Okay so I have picked apart the things you have written. I hope I did not offend you, that was not my intention. You need to learn how to do this very same thing for yourself. First write out your problem, then go back and read your own words, your own thoughts, and find out what is wrong with them, but more importantly challenge them with thoughts that feel much better.

There are two approaches you can take…1) going after financial resources and a man to help…or 2) going after happiness. If you take approach 1 you will be waiting a long time to be happy. But if you take approach 2 YOU CAN BE HAPPY ANYTIME YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY! And you can still attract the financial resources and a man at the same time. So I suggest approach 2.

To be continued…

Love and Blessings,

Michael Skowronski

Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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