Unforgettable Love Story

Of what value is belief? This conversation began with a simple question about the form life takes throughout the universe. An interesting question…a curiosity to satisfy…but we must first come to know who we are, from experience, NOT from belief or from the teachings of others. Only then we can really know the answers to such questions. You should not believe me or anyone else. You must discover the knowledge that lives inside of you…

Tryphania

I was just curious…and wanted to know what your thoughts are on the possibility of life existing in other parts of our universe? Do you think we are alone?

There is NOWHERE that Life is Not. For God is Everywhere and Everything.

However, the Human experience is the highest experience that God has of Himself in existence. Perhaps that is duplicated in other places; on other planets…some say it is not, others say it is…I am not certain. But human consciousnesses can experience themselves as one with All which is one with God, and can create with the Almighty many things beyond the grasp of the ordinary human.

So, humans are the highest experience that god has of himself… and if you look at reincarnation… then, were we ever in existence of a different form other than human? I’ve always wondered how that works…

Perhaps, I have read in some places that some have been angels who decided to go human. I have read that some go through the experience of being rock, plant, and/or animal then go through the experience of being human.

In other words, what level are animals? I’ve had it explained to me before that animals and humans don’t go together in reincarnation… rather that animals evolve to a higher existence, but they do not ever reincarnate into a human form. I have not yet put my views on reincarnation into a complete belief pattern… simply because just when I think I understand it, I suddenly learn something new… and so my views are always evolving and changing and growing.

I explain much of this in my blog Evolution of a Soul. However, we are getting into pretty abstract territory here. The first problem is there are no words to fully describe an experience that is outside of the physical experience. Our words can only accurately describe that which we can experience in the physical world. Yes there are some words to describe those things beyond the physical, but how is it any person can really understand them if they don’t remember an experience that is beyond the physical?

Belief is Not Knowing

The second problem is with beliefs. Belief is NOT KNOWING. So of what value is a belief? It could be of value in the sense of it taking you to the state of knowing by giving you a guiding point to follow. But beyond that, belief is a limitation where most people get stuck. People decided to believe some philosophy and then search no further for truth, knowledge nor experience. This is the trap that too many religious people find themselves in. They get angry if you challenge their beliefs; their anger exposes the level which they are stuck within their beliefs. So one must be careful with beliefs and always remember that they really don’t know. If a person gets angry when you challenge their beliefs, they don’t know, they don’t want to know, they just want to be peaceful within their beliefs.

I have read that there are times that a human will incarnate as an animal to fulfill a desire that can more easily be fulfilled as an animal. One example was given of someone who was so in love with eating that they came back as a pig since a pig has a far greater capacity to eat than a human; after fulfilling such a desire that one then continues incarnations as a human.

I have also read that once a spark of God passes through the “Idea of Man”, once they become human for the first time then that soul must pass all the way through the many experiences and incarnations necessary to come to full and total realization of themselves once again as the spark of God they are.

I’ve also heard before that as far as reincarnation goes, humans evolve here on earth as far as they can, lifetime after lifetime, but then, once they have moved beyond what they can experience here, then they move onto other planets…where there are other life forms that live in a higher dimensional existence. Or, they stay here, and choose to help other humans on earth with their life experiences. There are whole groups of individuals who have formed religion-like congregations, based from these beliefs.

There is so much out there as far as information goes… and it’s as if the possibilities are endless! It’s also easy to become confused.

I too have read many different accounts of how things are beyond our physical incarnations. There are many versions and ideas, they are a lot of fun to explore since they cause us to expand our thinking and our view of this very small experience of life we call physical reality.

I must say in these regards I do NOT KNOW. What I do KNOW is that we exist, that we are eternal beings, that there is much more than this physical existence or single incarnation. I have had enough experience outside of my body and merged with God that I remember and know this is true, but I have not had enough experience and remembrances to validate these other fascinating things I have read.

I do trust the many sources I have read, their wisdom is so very profound and their achievements are way beyond my own, and they brought me to advance as far as I have advanced thus far and this is why I trust them and follow their lead…so for me it is a belief, a not knowing, it is something I am seeking to verify for myself.

I haven’t yet decided on what I believe, simply because there is so much out there that cannot be proven…and so then it comes down to picking and choosing what I believe…and how much faith I have.

I want to know as much as I could possibly know…and understand as much as I could possibly understand before I let myself start having too much faith in one idea.

Maybe it’s not about what is the truth…maybe it’s simply what kind of truth I want to choose?

I believe truth can be known, but there again you see I too am using the word believe. It has been my experience that I continue to discover more truths about life through experience. I also believe that to know ultimate truths, one will not be in body when one comes to know them. This physical body is too limited of a structure to hold the total truth of the unlimited within it.

For now it is enough to know that the people who go around telling us our life is limited to a single incarnation and we had better follow the one and only son of God, or the one and only master who ever existed, or the one and only true religion…it is enough to know these people do not know what they are talking about and are simply involved in a fantasy.

Go with the practical. Improve your life and your awareness each and every day. Look for evidence and proof that it is improving. Improve upon your personality. Learn how to gather energy and what it is that depletes you of energy. Learn to have your own experience of the Unlimited within yourself. These are the kinds of things I teach in my blogs and in my book. These things will hold you in good standing within yourself and enable you to be strong under any circumstance life presents to you. This will give you the greatest chance of KNOWING the truth of these things you are asking me about.

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

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My friend asked the following question…

Do you think there is an evil force directing people? Or is all the evilness and wrongdoing in the world only a direct result of past life karma?

Yes and no…it depends upon your perspective. From the perspective of our individual ego selves, certainly there is an evil force at work. A force with more power than the individuals it preys upon. It is a grouping of dark beings who work together. This evil force is also due to individuals that work in conjunction with an existing system that has flaws in it that are easily exploited by those with evil intentions and some financial or influential power (such as parents, spouses, teachers, religious leaders, police and government to name a few).

But there is another level, another perspective that you can operate from. It is from this perspective that the answer is no, there is no evil at all. This is the perspective of God, of the All That Is. This is the perspective of the Source of all energy and all systems in existence; this is the Source of balance that allows manifest creation to exist.

All of us have participated in evil thoughts and deeds at some point in our eternal life. I know many people find this hard to believe since they are so good and nice in this lifetime, and some people don’t believe in reincarnation. Those folk will probably have a difficult time understanding this lesson. But I would also say that those folk do not understand life, because belief is not knowing. Just because you believe something it does not make it true, it only creates a reality that seems true. I will also state that I do know; I do NOT believe, I KNOW! However, you cannot take my knowing and just arbitrarily switch to believing what I am telling you. You yourself must become a seeker of truth and keep seeking until you experience a greater part of your own self and who you really are such that you KNOW these things too.

So once again I state that all of us have participated in evil thoughts and deeds at some point in our eternal life. When you consider the All That Is, a balance must occur. The evil we experience is that evil that We collectively created and the fact that we are experiencing it and aware of it is due to Law of Attraction and its connection to our individual creations of evil elementals. Elementals are the thought forms we created in our past. They are attached to us but do go out into manifest creation and then return to us with more power. When they return to us we are confused because they carry the energy of others with them and do not seem to be of our own making but they must be if we attract them. We must intentionally and with much effort focus our minds in a new way when those evil elementals return to us in order to deactivate them and rob them of their power. In so doing we create positive, loving, and life giving elementals as we focus our minds in this new way.

As we reprogram our minds, deactivate evil elementals and create positive elementals we make progress and we learn. We come to understand the true nature of reality and how our thoughts create it, and eventually we master our energies. Once we master our energies we have access to much more power; in this state of mastery we are in tune with the will of God and we are essentially a body and ego with the fullness of God moving through it. We still experience ourselves in a separate way, but at the same time we experience the fullness of God’s energy too. This power cannot be touched by that which we consider as evil. This is the ascended state of man.

In my book Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story I take the reader through the most common experiences we all face in life. Specifically I reveal what I was thinking, the good and the bad, and the real life results I got. The relationship between my thoughts and the results I got are undeniable and the number of examples given are many. I expose myself in this way so that the reader can relate these lessons I am teaching to their own thoughts and outcomes and have a real chance of making real change in the direction the reader wishes their life to go.

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

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Most of us are very familiar with how much our own families can hurt us. One of my friends, Jade, wrote to me with her concerns…

I was recently verbally attacked by “Christians” telling me because I am Wiccan I am “of the devil” and that my child (who has a cleft lip) came out deformed because of my way of life. What’s worse is they were family. Should I defend myself and stand up for my beliefs or should I just stand and take it. I know I am in the right, but the comments are really hurtful and I really want to say something but I don’t want to cause conflict.

It sounds to me like you are already doing all the right things except for one…you are making too much of what other people think or say.

There are a lot of really hurtful, ignorant, and immature people in the world. Unfortunately those people are our relatives. You see we all volunteered to take some of them on to help them out…and boy they really do need some help. It is a lot like these folks are in kindergarten; try to see them this way. You could even respond with, “You really crack me up when you say that,” while laughing hysterically.

Then call someone over like your husband or lesbian lover or even your daughter and say, “Listen to momma, she has recently graduated from Our Lady of the Living Saints Medical College and is imparting her gems of wisdom now…shhhh, listen…okay momma, go ahead we are all listening now.”

Okay, so perhaps your response should not be quite like that unless you are quick with the wit. But that is the perspective you need to hold in your mind; not disrespect, but the realization that your family is crazy and they need help. If you don’t take them seriously, if you take what they say like you might take the silly words of a child, and you love them anyway, then you have the best chance of making an impact upon them.

Get to know yourself. Get to the point where you totally accept yourself. Minimize the time you spend with people who are cruel and immature. You can even cut them out of your life for a time if that is what it takes to get yourself on stable ground.

My late wife had a family like this. She was the one light amongst twenty four others who ranged from vile and hateful to almost human but too afraid to be real.

I bet you would enjoy and get a lot out of my book Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story because it tells of many such experiences we went through with negative family members. In the book I reveal the lessons we got from our teachers and how we applied those lessons and the results we got. We had many miracles including physical healing miracles. Honestly, this book touches on most issues that people in relationship will encounter, our dysfunctional ways that needed healing, how we healed them, and the amazing results we got. In the book I am really open especially about my own thoughts and ignorance and harmful ways of trying to meet my own needs, and what it took to heal those things within myself. Not only that, but it is all told in a touching, humorous and emotional love story.

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

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This first paragraph from my blog, Relationship Breakups How to Cope, triggered a conversation about Suicide that I thought more people would be interested in.

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!

How does ANYONE really know what the outcome of suicide is?

At any given moment, we are right where we are suppose to be… And, each of us eventually does leave our physical bodies to rejoin All That Is…
I know many of us have theories and beliefs about killing one self - mostly horrible beliefs with horrible believed outcomes…
Are we sure that these conditioned beliefs are not just that? Conditioned beliefs.?.?.?

This topic is something I have been theorizing about for about a year now…
Personally the doom and gloom theory does not “work” for me…

I am wondering if you are implying that suicide is not an option only IF it has to do with a relationship gone bad…

What about the terminally ill?

What if they decide to stop all forms of treatment, knowing that there body will cease to live by doing so?
Are they too doomed to such darkness on the “other side”?

What about the smokers of the world, are they not “killing” themselves each and every day?
Sure, it is not a quick gun shot to the head, but in the end, it is still the same, isn’t it?

I make these statements based on two thing:

1.Personal experience and remembrances of the other side…as dim as they may be.

2. The teaching of many masters I have read. Why do I trust they know what is what? Because they brought me quite a ways on my spiritual path, ie.. I got results, and I don’t believe their teachings could have brought me results if these masters did not know what they were talking about.

So in answer to your question…what I know is that we don’t magically change consciousness when we leave this realm. We loose our bodies, certainly, but those with open minds and some level of control over what their minds think do experience the same openness and control on the other side. Those without that control in their physical life still don’t have it in the afterlife. Thoughts manifest realities instantly on the other side. Thus these people who are in such a dire mental state remain in their dire mental state and manifest realities to support it.

As for those who have terminal illnesses, choosing to pull the plug on life support is different. Death occurs by natural means, previously it had been artificially sustained. Their mental state remains, but the body is gone. So if they suffered due only to their illness, the illness is gone and their suffering is gone too. But if they suffered due to unresolved psychological states of mind then they too have to deal with that on the other side.

This is not about being punished for killing yourself. This horible afterlife experience is not due to an edict passed down by God that says you must suffer for taking your own life…NO! It is about the fact that the dominant way you think is not going to change in the afterlife. It remains and it dominates your experience there. We change our thinking here and gain control of our minds here on the physical plane. Once we gain control of it, once we realize we can change our lives by changing our thinking, then we have the ability to do the same in the afterlife. But go ahead and ask people if they can change their reality by changing their mind…most people would say no. I have experience that says the opposite. I constantly and deliberately change my life experience and reality by changing my mind. I also have experienced, in this lifetime, NOT having this sort of control and being blown about by the winds of fate.

If you were a master and shot yourself in the head to end it all you would be fine on the otherside because you had control over your mind…but then a master can leave his body when he chooses and would not need to shoot himself in the head to leave this plane of existence.

Are not ALL illness’s created from some sort of unresolved psychological states of mind? EVERYTHING that is our life, IS created by our thoughts…Illness included…So, how is this scenario any different from any other?

I would say not in all cases, but in most cases yes. There are cases where masters are helping to balance the karmic load of a love one. In the book series, The Magus of Strovolos, Fire in the Heart, and Homage to the Sun Daskalos has an illness that he “suffers” with, in that he is stuck in bed and limited due to the illness. But he demonstrates to the author Kyriacos C. Markides he can turn it off at any time and be perfectly well, then he returns the illness to his body. Although this is not my own first hand experience, I trust the author and Daskalos that the experiences conveyed were accurate and did happen and their explanation of why they occurred. He does this to take some of the karmic load off a family member who would have died otherwise. This sort of thing can only work in the case where the other person had learned their life lesson, but still the momentum of energy was such that it had to be dealt with.

But lets look at the majority of the cases…

Most people cause their diseases for various reasons:

1. To understand the disease process and the experiences that go along with it.

2. To pay a karmic debt and learn the lesson that goes with paying that debt.

3. They simply have abused their own life force energy, and bodies, due to the ignorant way they used their mind and their actions in life. This is similar to 2 but not exactly the same.

In all three of these cases the person who dies from a disease has gone through the experience. It has transformed them in someway. When they passover, they no longer have a physical body. The emotional body that the do experience is whole. Often they think they have miraculously been healed from their disease. Most of these folks probably have not gained enlightenment or freedom to move as they please in the psychic (emotional) and noetic (mental) dimensions. They are bound by the confines of the predominant way they use their mind and manifest based upon that just like the one who commits suicide. But they completed their experience in a natural way.

A person who has committed suicide has not completed the challenge they set forth for themselves. Due to karma or due to a poor mental state they found themselves in circumstances that overwhelmed them and caused them to deliberately destroy their life. They thought they could escape the pain of the life they had created, but they have not learned what it takes to move beyond recreating that experience. So in their next life they will once again create such an experience. And in their afterlife they will still not be free of the mental state they are in exactly like the person who dies of disease is not past their mental state either. But usually the person who created the disease already learned their lesson, or most of it and their mental state was altered in a beneficial way by their experience.

Lets take Hit.ler as an example…He killed himself because he had lost his war and the rest of the world would soon be coming to take him away, to ridicule him and abuse him and kill him. Certainly on the other side Hit.ler was creating war, victimizing others, and dealing with the energy of that experience. Did he suffer? Well perhaps not like a Christian might think. He probably had a grand time victimizing others. But did he know God like a great Yogi does? I doubt it.

Then he returns in the life of 13ush and recreates the same experience all over again. Will he kill himself this time when he finally looses, or will he face the world he created and deal with it and fully experience the anger and hatred he created in others?

First I must say….
Love the 13ush/Hit.ler theory….
I believe that without even having to “decide”…

Second…
How can we be certain that the person who commits suicide is not indeed facing the very “challenge” they set forth to accomplish in this life?

I’ve heard it called “soul contracts” and “sacred contracts”…. but, could it not be possible that suicide was what that person came here to do? Maybe as a “lesson” for someone in their lives? Maybe a contract was set forth between the two “souls” before manifesting here in this reality? Maybe the act itself goes according to the plan they themselves chose for their “dance” this time around on the big stage…???

What if I personally wanted to experience the experience of a loved one who kills themselves as one of MY “soul contracts”… Would that “experience” not have to be fulfilled by someone in order for me to experience mine?????

You obviously think a lot and in depth about things. Bravo. Be sure to feel too. Just a caution from personal experience…thinkers tend not to feel as much and need to make more of an effort to do so.

I’ll admit there are probably cases where a soul chooses to experience killing themselves and also there are those who choose to experience a loved one killing themselves.

But still we come down to the real point to my original statement and that is death is not going to magically transform you. You will leave with whatever consciousness you have, whatever abilities you have attained or have not attained.

When making the choice to commit suicide or not, I doubt the person themselves would have enough awareness to realize this is a soul choice they are making. They would probably just feel an overwhelming compulsion to do so. If they were so evolved as to be clearly in touch with their inner voice I find it very unlikely that they would be in a place of wanting to experience suicide.

As for the one who wishes to experience the suicide of another Law of Attraction would most likely hook them up with someone who is hell bent on doing so anyways. Someone who even after reading such advice as I have given would blow me off as crazy, would still believe that sweet oblivion would come or they would be with God and all would be well.

My original statements are for the person who is making the decision based upon the idea that they can free themselves from the horrors of their physical life, which I would guess to be most cases, they are attempting the impossible.

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

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I had a friend, who shall remain Anonymous, write the following letter to me in response to my blog What is Right or Wrong? Your Feelings are Your Guide!…

Hi: Right or wrong?… Somethings are really uncomplicated when it comes to that topic.. for example, if I took my time to send you and your wife a Valentine’s comment, it would had been RIGHT or proper for one of you to reciprocate and send one back or at least have the courtesy to acknowledge the receipt.. now, that was WRONG! Trust me your time is NOT more valuable than mine whatsoever! Preach… Walk the talk!

Peace, Anonymous

How does it feel to you when you judge people Anonymous? Is that a good feeling? Watch that over time. Notice what it does to your internal system. Do you know that the hormone cortisol is secreted into your bloodstream in excessive amounts when you engage in such thinking? That is a scientifically proven fact. This hormone is also linked to cancer and memory diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.

So you have to ask yourself is it really worth it to destroy your own body for someone who does not even care enough to give you the respect you deserve? How many people will come into your life that you will have to train in how to respect you? And once you have trained those people, what about the next batch that comes along? This will become your life long duty and it will never end!

I am very sorry that you are offended by my lack of returning a comment. However I did not receive a comment from you, nor did my wife. I just went back and checked them all and there is nothing from you in either of our profiles. And it is rare that I don’t accept a comment, only when it is spam or I suspect the links in the comment are from hackers.

I understand jumping to false and inaccurate conclusions as I have done exactly that TOO MANY times in my life. One thing I have discovered about anger and judgment…there is ALWAYS something I don’t understand. If I only dig a little deeper I discover it.

I do practice what I teach. I am loving in my thoughts and actions. I still have my occasional slip ups but I quickly notice when it happens and change immediately and put in some effort to reprogram my reactions. But I have never taught anyone that being a good person requires that you return comments…where did you learn that from? It is a false teaching. If you think right and wrong can be defined by such a way, then you really do need to read my blog What is Right or Wrong? Your Feelings are Your Guide!

I do make every attempt to return comments, but there are times I just cannot keep up with all the comments I get. I had 3500 friends on valentines day, now I have many more than that. Sometimes I do not return comments that are generic and general in nature. Just because I get the impression people just send the same thing to all their friends and they are not really even writing to me specifically. But when someone writes to me personally and it is an indication they have actually taken the time to read my writings or enjoy my videos or slide shows, then I respond in a very personal way.

I am not offended by your outburst. However I suggest you take a look at this pattern in you for your own sake. You will alienate friends and loved ones this way and you will certainly make your own life miserable with it.

Cortisol? very well aware of it; however, too much credit given to the simple fact that I found it outrageous that someone that “teaches” about life would act in such manner. Very SIMPLE… not judging, no outburst (very funny), no damage to my internal system etc lol Again, I believe in honesty and I simply stated how I felt… I forgot about it after I put my thoughts in writing. SIMPLE, you are going too deep… Courtesy is elementary my dear… As far as friends.. it will happen to you. Have a wonderful day, Namaste, Anonymous.

Finding it “outrageous” that someone would act in such a manner, whether they teach what I teach or not, is certainly a judgment. It seems that you don’t even know what a judgment is. You have created a rule, (you mistakenly thought) someone broke it, and you have judged it to be so wrong that you are outraged by it. That is a judgment.

A non-judgment would be to observe that someone did or did not do a certain thing and to observe that it is either taking that person towards or away from their goals in life. You could even be disappointed they are heading away from their own goals or that you missed out on their company without that being a judgment. But to be outraged that someone does not do what you expect them to do is a judgment.

This is a HUGE issue with far too many people. They do not even understand what a judgment is. And you need to understand the difference between judgment and observation because judgments do harm yourself and sometimes those you judge.

Judgments of SMALL things can do you greater harm than judgments of big things. The reason for this is that with big things you are often afraid to make a judgment because of the repercussions, but with small things you think they don’t matter, but they do. Habits of thinking in judgmental ways are formed each time you hold a judgment. So if you hold judgments about many small things then you establish a strong set of habits that become difficult to break once you do realize you need to break them.

Yes I believe that courtesy is elementary and important. I believe it is helpful in making people feel welcome, wanted and loved. I believe it is helpful in gaining people’s trust and their aid when you need it. But courtesy is not so important as to become outraged when it is not present, it is not so important as to ruin your mood for even an instant, which can snowball into ruining many more moments. And courtesy is not so important as to develop a habit of judgment because courtesy was missing.

I am NOT going too deep. Everyone will eventually want and need to go this deep if they wish to live a happy and peaceful life. I am not judging you either. I am simply observing that what you are doing will not take you to a peaceful and happy life and that it could create disease in your body. My feelings about your letter to me are happy because you offered the substance for a perfect lesson that will heal many people.

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

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In this blog I will be delivering solid evidence that we can heal this world using the real life examples of people who have achieved dramatic results. In particular I will be reviewing the wonderful achievements of the Delancey Street Foundation. These folks have a thirty-seven year history of successfully healing the worst of society’s criminals while working WITHOUT government funding.

GOALS to Healing the World: For every single person on the planet…provide housing, food, clean water, sewage, energy, health care. Move into living sustainably on the planet, heal the mental dysfunction that causes so much hatred and violence, cut crime and violence by 90%, reduce drug usage and addiction by 70%, and end all wars. While dramatically increasing the quality of life, peace and happiness of all people everywhere.

I bet if you were to take a poll of all of the people in the world today and ask them if we have the resources to achieve such a goal most folks would say no. I believe the real question is not can we achieve this, but do we have the will and the desire to achieve this?

Solid Evidence – Dramatic Results

Delancey Street Foundation has been in operation since 1971. That makes thirty-seven years they have been in operation as of 2008! That sort of longevity says they must be doing something right. Although their achievements are many I wish to focus on the following since these achievments are critical in duplicating Delancey’s model for healing the entire planet and achieving the goals I stated earlier.

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They have reformed thousands of the worst criminals in society.
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They have helped thousands recover from drug addiction.
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They have educated thousands who were failed by our public education system.
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They have funded their operations largely by their own efforts through businesses that they themselves have created and through private donations.
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They have maintained the highest level of service and integrity in the businesses they run.
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They continue to expand nationwide in the USA as well as influencing programs in other countries too.
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They use an “each one teach one” principle where older residents help newer ones…everybody works.

The basic principle of healing the planet is that people need a better education on how to live a healthy, happy, and abundant life. People need to be given the skills to succeed in their relationships with others, the skills to maintain a healthy mind and body, and the skills to be productive in the workforce. Society as a whole needs better systems to solve the problems we face and manage the common resources we are all creating in our everyday work life.

If an organization like the Delancey Street Foundation can take people with the most dysfunctional life skills and transform them into people with functional and even exceptional life skills, then we can reproduce this success on a larger scale.

What Delancey Street Foundation does is it has the residents who have been in their program longer teaching the newer ones all that they need to know to be healthy and happy members of society. Using this system everyone gets at least a high school equivalent education complete with certification, and many even get a BA college degree. But there is much more power in this system than the fact that a person gets the certificates and degrees that can help get them a job in the real world. Each resident becomes a teacher and a leader too. THIS IS SIGNIFICANT!

By helping each resident become a teacher and leader they also move a long ways towards achieving a healthy sense of self-esteem. They each get to experience patience and compassion. They each have to become a good example for another person to follow. This is a level of responsibility we just are not taught in our usual course of schooling. If you read my blogs Healing the World Using Law of Attraction and A Beautiful Vision for Re-architecting Our World you will see I had suggested a system such as this. Do we really need expensive universities? Perhaps for some things they are necessary, but for many things we could go back to more of an apprenticeship program for teaching job skills. Or we could mix the high school and college education in with on the job training. It would make things more interesting for the students and give businesses cheaper labor.

The other thing that the Delancey Street Foundation is doing is creating businesses and using the residents to run those businesses. We are not talking small, barely making it businesses…no, WE ARE TALKING FIRST CLASS, AWARD WINNING BUSINESSES THAT ARE ROLE MODELS THAT ALL OTHER BUSINESSES SHOULD BE FOLLOWING!

They have a moving and trucking company, run by convicted criminals, that has the highest rating for non breakage and not a single incidence of theft or loss of property. It has been in operation for 33 years. It is the largest independent moving company in the bay area averaging 5100 moving jobs per year.

They built their own headquarters, a beautiful Mediterranean style housing complex for 500 on the waterfront in San Francisco. It won the “Award of Honor for Design Excellence” from the American Institute of Architects.

This complex also houses one of the finest restaurants in San Francisco the Delancey Street Restaurant, which they also operate and use to train their residents in. It was named one of “San Francisco’s Delicious Dozen” and won other awards and high reviews in local newspapers.

The Crossroads Café, Bookstore and Art Gallery is another one of Delancey Street Foundation’s businesses. And like their other businesses this too is a first class operation with attractive décor, spacious and inviting. It provides the best of coffees, fresh juice, bagels and other fare typical of a café.

That is not the end of it either. You really should pay a visit to the http://delanceystreetfoundation.org website to see how truly remarkable this organization is. You will find heaps of videos, articles, photos and resources. You may even find a service they offer that makes you want to hire them yourself or take one of their training courses.

Does this inspire you? It should! If an organization like this can take convicted murders, thieves, drug dealers and addicts and teach them life skills, turn their lives around while at the same time running first class businesses that pay their expenses then certainly we can achieve the goals stated earlier using the same sort of techniques these folks are using. And we could free millions of people who are suffering in prisons all over America and all over the world.

I believe the acomplishments of the Delancey Street Foundation proves that what I have suggested in these other blogs will work for transforming this world; we can achieve these goals. Please read these and help us all by holding these visions in your own mind too.

Healing the World Using Law of Attraction
International World Government
Crime and Punishment…Both are Insane!
A Beautiful Vision for Re-architecting Our World

There are many more poor and disenfranchised people on the planet than there are those who currently control the governments of the world. We need to pool the power of this majority to overcome the sick and corrupted systems we currently call “government”. If we treat them well and give them what they need we will form a solid point of power that will sweep across the entire planet by law of attraction. We can transform this world into a peaceful, loving and functional home where we all thrive.

Use this blog as a hopeful dream of a future that WILL be!

Namasté
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story
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Is it your fault that someone lied to you, abused you, cheated on you or disrespected you? Is it your fault when you are mistreated? Are you to blame?

Unfortunately this is such a common belief that too many people hold when they are mistreated by someone else. For most of us as we grew up there were those who we trusted, those who were stronger than us, those who had more skills, those who were in charge of our lives, or those who were cool that gave us messages like, “It is your fault that I am blowing up on you. If you were smarter, prettier, paying more attention, if you did not do that thing you just did, bla bla bla…I would not be treating you like this.” Have any of us escaped the experience of someone else spewing their verbal abuse upon us?

When this happens to us at a young and impressionable age we tend to believe it. We develop all sorts of methods to cope. Some people rebel, get angry, abuse others, break some rule, or damage something. Other people hold it in, think they are at fault, and walk through life doubting themselves. No matter which way you react, the result is a person with low self-esteem.

A rebel who lashes out or who abuses others is just being arrogant. They may know they don’t deserve the ill treatment, they may be strong enough to express it, but they still have low self-esteem and they do not really love themselves. To truly love yourself REQUIRES that you love all other people too. Did you know that? You cannot heal your low self-esteem by becoming really good and skilled at one or more things. Being a great musician, sports figure, business person, or even lover does not make you worthy. Perhaps it helps you get or keep a job, but it can also win you the jealousy of others and get you fired. However doing your best for the good feeling you get from engaging your God given creativity into some endeavor that you enjoy is always a good thing and it does help you with your self-esteem.

The flip side of arrogance is a person who is constantly doubting themselves. They tend to think the problems of others they are in relationship with are their fault. They try too hard to please others. If someone suddenly stops like them, or suddenly disrespects them, they take it personal as if it must be true. If this is happening for you then you need to counter those thoughts with truth. You need to face the fact that most people are in some level of dysfunction in their lives. You need to remind yourself that their spewing is their issue. Reprogram Yourself such that anytime you receive disrespect your mind is flooded with talk that helps you understand the truth of who you really are.

Of course there are times we do things we are not proud of. We feel some guilt. When someone dumps on us at a time like this we feel extra bad. Even at these times you need to remember that their spewing is their issue and yes you too have your own issues to heal. When you realize you did something you are not proud of, something that you feel bad about, simply take a few moments to Reprogram Yourself so you will eventually cease doing such things.

As I was writing my blog I came across this blog called The Awakening that was posted by one of my friends. If you want to read about a great vision for how your life will be as you heal your self-esteem do read this blog. It will inspire you and will direct you in the sort of thinking that needs to be changed. It will provide you with help in your reprogramming efforts.

Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story
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Continued from What is Right or Wrong: Your Feelings are Your Guide…

Repeat of +Magdalin’s+ earlier statement…”So if you go with your feelings only, you will never try to do right if it feels bad. You will choose to remain how you are until you are confronted with a situation where you must change regardless of how you feel.”

I never said that someone should go with their feelings only. I have always stated they should use their feelings to guide them as an indicator of being on their path or off of it. Our thoughts are the cause of our feelings. We need to look at our thoughts in order to change our feelings. And we need to tag thoughts we discover do not serve us with the command to ourselves to wake up and shift them ASAP so that in the future we become aware much sooner. We need to contemplate and understand why they don’t serve us and what new thoughts we will replace the old habits of thought with.

This practice gives us the power to make ourselves happy and feel good anytime we want, no matter what the outer circumstances contain. However, there is another point to all of this…when we are feeling good we get in touch with a very deep source of inspiration. We get in touch with God. It is like we move to a higher vantage point where we can see a broader overview of our situation and then suddenly many other paths we had not considered appear before us for our consideration. New options emerge out of the darkness. These options and paths are hidden from us by the thoughts that create negative emotion.

So what is “doing right if it feels bad?” To me it sounds like confessing to a crime that you know will get you into trouble in some way. If you are clear about your thinking you will realize it could only feel bad if you have fear involved, or if intuitively you know that a bad outcome would come of your decision. So then is it really “doing right?” If you confess to a crime that you did and that someone else is being blamed and punished for then it would feel better to take the path of confessing than it would letting someone else suffer for your deeds. But if no one is taking the blame, and you have realized your errors, it would definitely feel bad to turn yourself over to someone who will punish you. In that case I say don’t do that. But if confessing feels better to you than living with the guilt then I say confess and let the chips fall where they may. If there are amends to be made then again confessing would probably feel the best.

What if you have cheated on your lover and you realize your error and resolve to never do it again, do you confess? Perhaps not. It may feel better to purge yourself of your guilt than to live with it. But does it feel better at the cost of the mental anguish your lover will then experience as a result of your confession? Will it feel better to have them doubting you forever more? We have more than one question to ask ourselves while trying to sort through such issues. I certainly have not presented all of the possible questions in regards to these situations. We need to think about how our actions in “doing right” affects us and affects others and then feel how each of those courses of actions feel and then choose the course of action that feels the best. That is “doing right” in my opinion.

+Magdalin+ in a prior response, one that somehow got lost, you wrote something to the effect that, “…people can feel good while they do all kinds of wrong things (superficial, and serious).” I want to comment on that notion.

People in that situation feel good relative to how bad they have felt. In some way they have been abused, judged, neglected, or harmed. After a long period of time of dealing with such a situation and the constant negative feeling of being unworthy, unlovable or unacceptable, they find it exhilarating to feel superior to someone else and they feel that superiority when they succeed in doing some sort of harm, be it verbally or physically. But this is a relative pleasure. It is like when the temperature drops below 20F for week and then it suddenly rises back up to 35F…35F now feels warm, when in fact it is nearly freezing!

We have to be aware of the long term affects of our thoughts and not just the short term affects. If we harm another that harm will eventually come back to us and that does not feel good. In fact the pain caused by this boomerang affect of karma is usually far greater than any momentary pleasure we feel by causing another to suffer.

For a person who experiences pleasure from making others suffer or from watching others suffer I recommend the following exercise to get yourself out of that sort of thinking. Which thought feels better? The thought of getting verbal or physical revenge on another…or the thought of healing one’s own self-esteem and of feeling worthy, lovable and acceptable? Wouldn’t you rather be immune to the judgments and unkind words or actions of others? Wouldn’t you rather help unconscious people wake up instead of causing them to suffer more? We need to compare different ideas and how they feel and choose the thoughts that feel the best. And we need to continue to reach for new thoughts that feel even better still as we move through time and gain experience. With each shift to a better feeling place, new thoughts of a better feeling nature become available to us.

So when we teach people to use feelings as their guides, and to understand how our thoughts create our feelings, we must also teach them this sort of process of reasoning so that they can make sense of it all. Some of it comes so naturally to me now that I often forget I need to mention these things. It is only when people begin to question what I have written and object to it that it brings these ideas up. And actually if I just present them, without the questioning from another person, the reason for presenting these concepts can go right over the head of the student. If you give people information they did not ask for, they rarely take notice of its importance. But if the question is asked, then the opening to understanding is created.

“I would like to expand on the abuse comment in brief…As far as the patterns and cycle of abuse goes, I had to counsel people in those areas and I have had friends that have come from such dysfunctional childhoods. Also most of us do not come from perfect family homes… So, more or less, we all need some help in healing in that area. However, depending on the type of abuse, severity of abuse and the mental/emotional/spiritual status of the individual, people respond differently to certain therapies, treatments, practices, ways for healing from that kind of past. Some people have a certain inner strength or, insight, or even destiny, and support needed, that enables them to find ways to heal on their own. Others, can go down the wrong path and lose themselves even more, before they can even recognize the need for internal healing. Others, seem like they have it together, while using faulty self defense mechanisms to avoid the darkness of the pain in them, by all kinds of addictive behaviors, and so on. Thus, “Healing” is a key word in this type of matter. What will cause healing in each person can differ. There are those who can respond to such therapies as the one you mentioned easily, which is similar to what is called, RET (Rational, Emotive Therapy, which is very popular in psychology) and change their behaviors and feelings by using reasoning to control their thinking. But there are those who need “healing” beyond this type of work. How this healing can occur it depends on the individual and their “Will” to seek the healing they need…where and how it can be found. It may be that they need spiritual healing along with psychological, because it is the need to heal the spirit, the most inner part of the soul that has been affected by the darkness of abuse.”

+Magdalin+ I agree with you that there are people my guidance won’t help for precisely the reason you state, lack of will to heal. There are those who have dysfunctional behaviors they are dead set on exploring. This is normal, this is natural, this is our God given right, and this is how we come to fully understand certain things about life. This is the reason I wrote the blog, Evolution of a Soul. A young soul is NOT going to follow the guidance I am giving. Only mature and old souls will be interested in doing this work. Young souls need to get their hands dirty, need to make a mess of things in order to understand why things are the way they are. It is one thing to be told hurting someone else will eventually hurt you, and another to experience the blows of karma when they beat upon your back.

However, anyone who does correctly follow the guidance I am giving can and will heal! Completely 100%. And I am willing to clarify any misconceptions you may hold so that you can follow this guidance correctly.

I am not here to support those who still want to wallow in the negative side of life. I will love them. I will forgive them…actually I just won’t judge them. (Not for very long that is…I occasionally get caught up in judgment for brief periods of time.) I will stay away from them. I will let others deal with them. This is karma. This is the soul’s path. We have all gone down it at some point in our eternal lives.

+Magdalin+ you emphasized a point that I do make often in my writing…One can feel in certain ways and in response, unconsciously do certain things, and make no connection between the thought/feeling/action they are experiencing and responding to. Ultimately it takes much work to understand the thought behind the feelings and actions. You may have to go through the experiences many times. Then it requires honest self evaluation and examination as to whether one’s thoughts are according to “right” practices and/or principles that will guide them to a better place, state, activity etc.

Yes, this is work. This is a practice. This is not a onetime thing that a person does to become aware. It is an ongoing effort to understand this connection and reprogram negative habitual thinking patterns that we have learned and continues to be taught to us by nearly everyone around us.

To rephrase what you said +Magdalin+…Books, blogs, and lectures by those who have mastered these skills can be extremely helpful. They can cut out much effort of trial and error by leading us directly to the sort of thinking we should engage in for the sort of circumstances we will face in our lives. But again, each person must do the work. We each must purposely and consciously engage in the suggested train of thought and feel where it takes us in our emotional state and see how it plays out in our actions.

“… my comment above [originally presented at the very beginning of this blog] centered on the law of attraction, and positive thinking. I agreed with using positive thinking as it is a right practice. However, I disagree with the gospel that this all can bring about certain expectation to come to be. If something is destined it will be. If it is not, then it is wrong for people to believe that if they focus hard enough on something it will happen. It is a wrong principle in that way. What is right is to seek to know what is possible for your life and focus on making that a reality. Use positive thinking against anything that is negative as to make wise choices and decisions to find and pursue the right solution to the problem.”

And with this statement you show us all that you too understand what I said above about being attached to the outcome. There are many people who misunderstand these teachings and believe that the Law of Attraction will get them anything they consciously want and quickly. Those people are in for a big disappointment…that feeling of disappointment will be their clue that their thoughts and ideas are not in alignment with truth.

But I do NOT agree with the idea that something is destined. It may be that at a specific point in time that too much energy and momentum is already behind a certain path of creation that WE have set into motion. We may wake up in circumstances we don’t like, or see something heading towards us that we do not want, but then it is too late. We must deal with it and put in the effort to set a new course and create differently such that our future will contain what it is that we do want. But WE are the creators of our life experience. And as stated in the blog Evolution of a Soul, WE is much bigger than this ego being we normally think of as ourselves. Also the closer one comes into alignment with their inner being and with God, the quicker our thoughts do manifest in the physical world.

“This I must disagree, with you, although I am not ready to expand on it too much at this point. This is a very complicated subject, and my insights come from personal, spiritual, experiences and revelations. There are things that are destined to occur, regardless. They are based on who you are and what you have been born to live out to a certain extent. I believe what you are doing right here, was pre-destined for you to do. However, certain events, situations, circumstances, choices, future states of being can be affected by present choices and decisions. Most times however, people are missing information viable to what choices or, decisions they are to be making today to effect their future in specific ways tomorrow and thus, the future occurs as it would based on where they are today, and what is destined regardless.

“The focus is on the “NOW”, because your actions NOW, determine the consequences you have to live with tomorrow.”

+Magdalin+ I also agree with your concept of destiny…ONLY if you view it from the physical human ego being level. Yes it does appear to us, to most people, that things are destined and out of our control. What you said is accurate from this human perspective. But the truth of Life is that WE are more than this. We have a higher self, that in reality we are one with and not in any way separate from, this part of our being is participating in this creation we call our life experience, and from that perspective WE are creating it. WE have chosen it, WE desire it, these experiences that we as an ego being say we don’t want, those experience that appear negative, the greater WE wants them because IT knows these experiences will balance us and teach us.

Feeling the Thoughts of Others

There is another point I wish to make about feelings. Feelings can tell you about the intentions of other people. A good example of this is discussed in my blog Jealousy and Low Self-Esteem. You are capable of feeling the thoughts and intentions of others. You will notice this when you first encounter someone or first begin to think about someone or first begin to talk with them on the phone. How did your feelings change when this other person first came into your experience? How did it feel, good or bad? When the conversation changes, did your feelings change?

To be able to discern between feeling your own thoughts about that person or their words and feeling the intention behind their words takes clarity of your own mind. You will find this difficult or impossible if you have agendas especially harmful ones. If you have low self-esteem it might feel like you are being judged even when you are not.

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

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This is a conversation that occurred in the comment of my blog Evolution of a Soul. It is such an important topic and the debate/discussion brings up many good points that I thought it deserved its own blog so that many people would read it. There is a lot of very good information contained in the comments of my blogs. I have many friends with fantastic insight who add greatly to my blogs by their comments. There are the occasions like this one where I respond which usually means I am answering an important question or clarifying a misunderstanding. If you are on a path of self-healing it would serve you well to read such comments.

+Magdalin+ and I did not always agree, but even when we thought we disagreed, the more we wrote the more we realized we were on the same page just articulating our experiences in different ways. I found +Magdalin+ to be intelligent, experienced in the art of counseling others and to have a lot to offer. Perhaps you will even favor her perspective, if so you might contact her for friendship or her counseling services.

This conversation has been re-ordered slightly so as to match up the point-counterpoints made more clearly. Some of the conversation was removed only because it was more about being polite to each other and not about the topic at hand. I also added some extra clarification as well. If you wish to see the full conversation in the original context it occurred then do read it in my blog Evolution of a Soul.

+Magdalin+

“…My experiences has led me to know that reality and why things happen or, do not happen, is much more complicated than the laws of attraction or detraction. I believe in living according to right principles and practices that can align me with the Divine Source (God), and lead me into the insights necessary to know the proper solution and answer, as it fits each situation. I believe that when you abide in a state of goodness (that being your immediate destiny) it is easy to attract good things and then, because of that, believe that it was your mind’s capacity rather than your present life state to acquire good. Positive thinking is always good, and it should be a practice we apply continuously. But positive thinking alone does not create. It rather propels one to continue striving for the best, for the better. Feelings are not wrong as long as they don’t control you and you are in control of them. When your feelings become a driving force than you must evaluate how they may be affecting your life, your functioning, your purpose. Thoughts and feelings describe where you are mentally and emotionally and can only become a block if they stop you from doing right, from making right choices, and decisions, from reasoning properly, from becoming a better person, from influencing your actions, relationships in negative ways, from leading you down the wrong path, etc…”

+Magdalin+ you said, “I believe in living according to right principles and practices that can align me with the Divine Source (God), and lead me into the insights necessary to know the proper solution and answer, as it fits each situation.”

It makes me wonder if you and others do not realize that what I am teaching is precisely what you have said. How do you know if you are living according to right principals and practices? Did you read what those are in a book? Did someone tell you what those RIGHT principals and practices are? Because no one can do that, it would be an infinitely long book of rules and exceptions to the rules.

“Well, you are semi-correct. I agree, that would be an infinitely long book. But in order for yourself to become that Life Book, you must become a student of all kinds of books first. And then, take what you learn and apply it in writing your own book as you go along….”

What I am teaching is how each person can tell for themselves, without a book of rules, what RIGHT principals and practices are as it fits each situation. Your feelings are your guide. If you are feeling bad, you are NOT thinking/being/speaking/doing/living RIGHT principals and practices. This is simplicity itself. All the rest that I say is to help make sense of that basic philosophy.

“Well, your feelings should not be your guide unless you have mastered your thoughts and they are of Light only. I know many people who feel great while doing all the wrong things, and having all the wrong thoughts. Learning to do right can create pressure, distress, frustration, anger, sadness etc. As anything new that you need to learn to apply or do and while training yourself you feel distressed it is the same with learning to do right. So if you go with your feelings only, you will never try to do right if it feels bad. You will choose to remain how you are until you are confronted with a situation where you must change regardless of how you feel.”

So many people get guidance in so many different ways…some see colors, some hear angels speak to them, others follow the bible or some other book, others talk to God directly…but what is common amongst ALL people? FEELINGS! We ALL have feelings. They are the common guide that everyone can depend upon having available to them.

Both positive and negative thinking creates…It is not just positive thinking that creates. Thought is our creative power. But what is it that you create? Your feelings guide you and tell you the answer.

I never said feeling were wrong. I never said feelings are wrong. FEELINGS ARE NEVER WRONG! I do not, nor will I ever teach that feelings are wrong. FEELINGS ARE ALWAYS CORRECT! They guide us and tell us where we are…on track or off track, with God or moving away from God.

I repeated that so that it would be very clear for everyone. Not to make an example of +Magdalin+ whose comments I am responding to. I know some people think I am knocking feelings. Some people misread what I teach quite often.

You also said “Feelings are not wrong as long as they don’t control you and you are in control of them.” (which is one of the reason I wrote the above statements as well as those below)

How can a feeling control you? IT IS Your thoughts that control you. You might think, I don’t like this feeling so I will not do that. Or you might think, I don’t like how it feels to look foolish so I will hide this thing I did, I will blame it on someone else, I will do further wrongs to cover up something wrong I did. But that is thought controlling you, not feelings. The person is simply running away from the feelings and not understanding that the source of their feelings is their thoughts.

Women tend to confuse this much more than men. IN GENERAL Women worship feelings and men worship thinking. When women approach my writing some of them to want to defend feelings and say things like, “Feelings just are, you need to accept them.” This is simply because they do not understand what I am saying about feelings. And they do not understand the role their thoughts play in creating feelings. Men need to get more in touch with their feeling and understand that their feelings are guiding them in regards to the quality of their thoughts.

“Again we seem to semi-agree as your comment sounds similar to what I am saying. Your thoughts do control you. But one can feel in certain ways and in response, unconsciously do certain things, and has made no connection between the thought/feeling/action they are experiencing and responding to. Ultimately it takes, many times, work to understand the thought behind the feeling and action. Then it requires honest self evaluation and examination as to whether one’s thoughts are according to “right” practices and/or principles that will guide them to a better place, state, activity etc.

“Now again knowing what is right or, wrong is not always as easy because situations that occur are not black and white and one must become examinant, insightful, introspective about right and wrong. This is where seeking knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, even from books that pertain to such needed understanding is a good approach. After all, education is a valued experience that helps all who pursue it in any way. But I also believe as I have practiced the inner spiritual path in pursuit of God (the Divine Source) to learning right and doing right and to becoming “right”.”

My friend +Magdalin+ I appreciate your comment. I feel that it speaks volumes about your integrity and desire to be a kind and loving person and that you have a close connection to God and it says that you are a wise woman.

However I am nit-picking at it to clarify this relationship between thoughts and feelings so that there is NO confusion as to what I am teaching and what I am NOT teaching…because what I am really teaching is one of the most powerful things you can know about Life. It will transform anybody’s life for the better if they really take it in and work with it and practice.

Yes everyone should aim to become that Life Book, and they should become a student of all kinds of books and teachings…it will save them a lot of time and lifetimes of trial and error.

I will agree with you that people who have NOT mastered their thought will have a difficult time understanding their feelings. But still they must aim to master their thoughts. It is exercise and must begin somewhere. MISTAKES WILL BE MADE! But this is the design of Life. We must learn from our mistakes. People who are not willing to do so will not wade so deeply into blogs like mine or yours. They won’t see the point and they will stumble through life in a drunken stupor.

If you are paying attention to your thoughts when you feel pressure, distress, frustration, anger, or sadness, you will find it is due to focus, expectations and attachments on a certain outcome. It does not come from the act of using your feelings as your guide. It is your focus on having a certain outcome, and shifting from one idea about how to get that outcome to the next two or three ideas until your run out of ideas and realize that none of your ideas have worked or will ever work to get you that outcome…then you will be frustrated. That is the process that causes these negative feelings. I still maintain that feelings are our absolutely accurate guide.

If you deliberately refocus your mind on something completely different, something that causes your feelings to change, you will see that your thoughts do affect your feelings and you have the power to change your feelings. If you can do it once, you can do it again, and you can make it a regular practice. After all, no one really wants to feel bad, not for a long period of time. The whole point of chasing money, sex, drugs, prestige, etc is because we think we will be happy when we get it. If we learn we can make ourselves happy by simply changing our mind then we have discovered a very great power that resides within us.

I will expand on one point just a little…when we feel grief, or anger, or some other strong negative emotion it does feel good to cry or scream or to lash out physically. We don’t even want to try to refocus our mind. This is necessary to release a great deal of pent up energy that has accumulated in our physical body. The longer we entertained negative thinking, the greater the emotional energy that will accumulate. We should allow ourselves this outlet to release this energy but not prolong it.

To be continued…

Love and Blessings,

Michael Skowronski

Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story

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So please read these blogs and then tell me amongst these topics what ideas do you have, what challenges do you see us facing towards achieving these visions, what questions do you have to pose live on World Transformation Radio Talk Show?

Listen to the very first show listed as “2/5 Tue - Foundational Ideas ” in the radio box at the top, we discussed some of these ideas and we intend to get much deeper into them as the show matures and more listeners begin to participate. This show occured on February 5th 2008.

You can even ask a question in the comments section of this blog and I will answer the question on the next show that involves these topics. I will follow up by email to let you know when your question has been answered.

Technical Details of World Transformation Radio Talk Show

The simplest thing is to use the radio box at the top of this blog to listen to the show live. You can also use it right now to listen to a recording of a past show. However the following option is better for some folks…

When the show is live you can chat with other listeners, the host and the guest as well as listen to the show by going to this web page: http://www.nowlive.com/show/UnforgettableMichael

You must create a FREE account with NowLive.com if you wish to chat. Chat gives you the chance to present questions live while the show is in progress without calling in. HINT: Create your FREE account right now by going to http://NowLive.com then you are ready when the show starts.

There are many phone numbers USA Nation Wide that you can use to call into the show. Eventually I will put them in this blog. For now you can look them up yourself on the radio talk show page http://www.nowlive.com/show/UnforgettableMichael The user interface keeps changing so it is difficult for me to tell you exactly where to find those numbers but I’ll give it a go…

* Look for Call Show button and click it.
* Look for a link that says Call in with your phone and click it.
* Look for the pick a local number control and click on the arrow which will reveal a list of phone numbers.

The Show Id is: 266309 – Use this show id when prompted once you call in to the show on one of the following numbers, or a local number you found by using the instructions above…
Phoenix AZ (480) 588-2619 == Los Angeles CA (213) 839-6521 == Boston MA (781) 234-0073

Choose Option 2 when prompted, then enter show id: 266309, then enter 1 to go live on the air. I will also have to un-mute you as well, so be patient.

If you live in a country other than the USA or don’t want a long distance phone charge there are other options for calling in using your computer’s microphone. http://NowLive.com supports Google Talk and Gizmo Project. There is a link on the show’s page for downloading the software for each of these options.

Here are some tips for calling in.

* Use your Internet and PC connection if you intend to only listen to the show.
* Call in when you are ready to talk and ask a question. Hang up and go back to listening on the PC once we are done with our conversation…wait long enough to make sure I have no more questions for you.
* Use a standard phone on a land line as your first option.
* Use a cordless phone on a land line as your second option.
* Use a mobile phone if that is all you have.
* Make sure you are in a quiet room if you intend to speak on the show and remain on the show via the telephone.
* Please no mobile phone calls from your car unless you are the guest I have booked and it is your only option at the time. PLEASE TRY to use a land line whenever possible.
* You may get disconnected from the show by phone – I cannot mute a caller once I allow them to talk so if there is too much noise on the show as a result of your call I will have to disconnect you.
* Don’t worry too much about these rules, give it your best try and if it works great, if it is too noisy then I can always cut the call.

You can always listen to a show that you miss, however your participation in a show when it is live will ADD LIFE TO THE SHOW!

Past Shows

Searching for Missing People
The Plight of the Boat People of Vietnam

Lat February 26th 2008, we had Terin Taylor on our show…

Join us on for our talk with Terin Taylor about her search for her missing sister and the boat people of Vietnam. Terin Taylor is using her notoriety as a beautiful fashion model to help get the word out about her missing sister and her mission to help others who are looking for lost loved ones. Terin has managed to acquire more than 103000 friends on her MySpace account which gives her a pretty good chance of reaching a lot of people with her message.

The Power of Love

This Tuesday, February 19th 2008, we will have two guests on our show…

HANEEFAH EL-AMIN aka Granny Queen.

When I met this woman on MySpace I went and had a look at her photos. I could see a white hair lady with happy friends and young ones. I felt such a loving energy from her that I dubbed her my Granny Queen. Either I didn’t notice her age, or at the time it said 99 or something like that. I didn’t realize she was only 2 year older than me! LOL…anyway I still think of her as my Loving Granny since she is a very loving lady with lots of energy for reaching out and helping others.

Shyni Skowronski

My other guest is my sweet and loving wife Shyni. I could say more about her, but I have already written many blogs about her, the most recent blog which exemplifies the power of love is The Honeymoon and the Truth about Eju.

It is said that Love conquers all, that Love heals all wounds, and that Love is the answer to all problems. This is true. Between the three of us we will be sharing stories that gives testimony to the Power of Love.

Why is Love so important in transforming the world? Look at all that is happening. Our government has gone fascist and continues to go deeper into this state daily. And pretty much everyone hates 13ush these days. Yet we must remember in the midst of our greatest pain that Love is the Power that will bring us out of our despair. We are not going to transform this world by hating these people, or by clamping down harshly and imposing suffering on more people. We need to bring ourselves to a loving place in order to receive the guidance necessary to successfully transform this world into a peaceful and loving place.

The show of February 12th 2008 Features Mark David Gerson

Mark David Gerson is a spiritual teacher and mentor, creativity coach, artist, sound healer and author of two new books — a visionary novel titled The MoonQuest: A True Fantasy, and The Voice of the Muse: Answering the Call to Write, a book and companion CD for anyone who wants to write, doesn’t believe they can write, is feeling blocked in their creativity, has written forever or is new to writing. His goal in all his work is to help people reawaken experience and express the fullness of their passion and potential.

Besides being a wise man and a healer Mark David loves helping other authors. When I was new to MySpace and just starting to market my book Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story Mark David was very kind and gave me many tips and pointed out some great internet resources for authors.

To learn more about Mark David, what he teaches, and his books please visit his websites:
http://markdavidgerson.com
http://lightlinesmedia.com
You can also find Mark David’s books and CD on Amazon.com.

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

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