Getting Out Of Our Own Way

The pathway to prosperity is not always obvious is it. Sometimes it is circuitous and even turns back on itself. It seems as if we've forgotten something and have to repeat it. I'd like to talk a little bit about that today.

These days we are often reminded of how much some people have and we are also reminded about how little some have. I know that we all see the future in time, as being something benevolent where everyone has what they need and we are all kind to each other and I believe that this will happen but there is a pathway there.

One of the pathways is something that we experience here on the internet where we read each others thoughts and as best as possible in words - our feelings and we have the opportunity to read thoughts and feelings of others many of whom we don't know and have never met and some whom, by reading their expressions here on these blogs, we feel we know somewhat and perhaps we would like to meet.

I have found in my experience that when we co-ordinate in this way we find out things about each other - even people who might live on the other side of the Earth - we have so much in common with them.

Oh we may not have the same pursuits or the same interests but we all feel things the same way and our thought processes work the same and our body biology is basically the same, given that we have two different types of human beings.

Still, with all this common ground and even with a heart filled with a desire to share there is a genuine feeling and evidence to back it up that prosperity is sorely lacking in many places. I'm sure we can all identify with that from time to time if not all the time.

I want to suggest some homework. It won't take long, so no worries okay. It comes under the heading of a living prayer and as I've said before I'd like you to ask for all those energies to come in to support you so that you can feel as benevolent as possible before you say this living prayer and once you have done that then I recommend you say this especially if you are feeling those benevolent energies.

I recommend you say, "I am asking that all those beings whom I know and whom I don't know who have needs physical that can be served by prosperity of their own or by shared prosperity from others experience all that they need on an ongoing basis in the most benevolent way for all beings." Now it's important to put it like that so that there is no confusion that all are to be served benevolently.

In my world where magic is so much a portion of existence, and my perception of many of the beauties of our world is that it has its own definition as magic - the smile of a baby unprompted by anything around baby, the beauty of a flower and so on, then in that magical world I perceive that we can experience prosperity.

One of the ways I want to strongly recommend is if you don't have something - alright - and you need it that you examine your own feelings. If you can say out loud - I need...something or other - perhaps you need to sell something, perhaps you need to acquire something - say it out loud someplace where you feel comfortable speaking out loud and notice how you feel in your physical body.

Does your physical body feel tight and uncomfortable? That could mean that you are simply upset because you don't have it but it could also mean that you are resistant, angry or resentful because you don't have it.

If that is the case, and even if it isn't, I'm going to recommend that you say this living prayer as well. I recommend you say, "I am asking that I be able to easily and comfortably let go of all the resistance I have to welcoming my reception of all my needs - that my needs be served for me in the most benevolent way for me and that I experience delight, happiness and comfort in my acquisition of my needs and can express my thank you's with simple graciousness."

Now you might ask why I added that little part on the end. So many of us have been raised in environments where we are encouraged to be rugged individualists and when that happens we often do not learn how to say thank you in such a way as other people feel you mean it.

If you want to test this out, look in the mirror sometime and say, "Thank you." Do you feel uncomfortable saying it? Do you feel uncomfortable hearing it? Check it out too when others say thank you to you. Do you feel uncomfortable? If you do, make up your own living prayer in order to get past that - alright.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Mother Earth Can Help To Soothe You

There is a place on this planet that has special meaning and significance to me. I lived there for some time and still have some connections there. That place is Sedona Arizona. It is a place of great beauty. There are many people there of wisdom and of course knowledge. I bring this out even though most of you know about it because it is a place that has connections to the body of Mother Earth and it is not alone in those particular connections.

You have seen in many places - Spain, Colorado in the United States to name a couple of others - where there is soil and rock and mesa's and so on of red Earth. This has to do with Mother Earth's blood system in stone. It is as if she is trusting us with her blood vessels.

I know that the actual comparison in our bodies would suggest that there is some liquid comparison but if you want to know the actual linear version of what is Mother Earth's blood compared to our blood it is oil but I think many of you know this.

As far as the connection though, to our version of blood with the signs we recognize that makes our blood red - hemoglobin - then red soil and red rock is that.

Why do I mention this? It is possible if you have wounding of the heart, and what I mean by that is old pain and heart hurt, to go to such a place where there is this red rock and if you can find - not some to take, please don't do that for it will lose its capability if it is removed from that place - but if you can find rock that is in place or dirt that is in place there in that location where the red rock and dirt is found you will discover if you spend time there, sit there, lean against the rock and so on and just speak out loud if you remember - not everyone does - about what caused that hurt then you may find that it is to your advantage.

Don't speak in a way that is blaming anyone - yourself or others - rather speak it as if you were a third party. Not like a journalist speaking about something but like a observer. I know that won't be easy for you but I do not wish you to relive what caused that hurt. If you like you can type up something beforehand that you will read and that you feel comfortable reading because all the details are not necessary to give.

But when your body is in contact with that red rock or soil you can find - not for everyone - but you can find very often that that pain level will be reduced and if you are able to do this for 3 different times on 3 different days - it can be done 3 days in a row, I would recommend that it be done on alternate days. Say, spend a week in such a place if possible or even over time. If it can be said while you are touching that rock or dirt it will help.

It is also possible to experience some other forms of benevolence but remember that it is not sufficient to just lean against or sit on or be in contact with that stone or dirt in your clothing. By all means remain dressed but touch the rock or stone or dirt wherever it is safe to do so and feels good to you.

You can touch it with the back of your hand or with your finger tips - alright. I recommend that or if you feel completely safe and comfortable you can touch it with your wrists on the side where you find the palm of your hand. One wrist or the other or if you feel completely comfortable - both wrists. That is a place of profound reception on your body that is available for most people to be touching some thing.

I am not offering any guarantees or health cures here but in terms of old wounding that you have suffered I recommend this.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

The Team

On the way to a better life we have many choices and pathways, don't we.

There is a path of conflict and competition which some use to, as they feel, bring out the best in themselves. To excel, to do what they are able in our position to others and yet even on that pathway there is the desire to work with others - to be on a team and support each other.

Then there are other pathways that involve the team over individuality and yet here we are on Earth in our lives and there is no denying that we are singular as individuals.

We look around and each tree, each flower, each animal is also a singular individual and yet how very often there is the drive - it must be that eh - to be amongst others of our own kind - to support each other, to have our team.

My feeling is that this whole thing with teams whether it be expressed as a sporting event or in the corporate world or in the political world or in the social world or in the professional world - this whole thing with teams has everything to do with our natural desire to work together.

I am not saying that competition is a bad thing, I am not saying that one way is the best way. I am saying that I believe that because our physical bodies are essentially a team - working together - all the elements - to create the best physical self we can achieve - or for that matter in our world the harmony that is still present - the plants and animals in balance with each other to the best of their ability - I feel that we are here to learn the value of teamwork in difficult situations.

From my perception the worlds, other than this planet which is a school, are all involved in teamwork and compatibility. It is a given - that - in those worlds but here where we don't remember who we are in order to learn this, that and everything there is the need to be reminded of the value of the team.

I believe and I have been taught that the team is the way of the future and that teams will continue to become more and more inclusive. Perhaps sporting events will evolve that are more inclusive rather than exclusive. This is happening even now when you look at the phenomena of the broader community of sports enthusiasts.

I believe that we are becoming Team Earth by way of connecting this way from person to person and I also believe that someday we will be Team Universe with the inclusion of ourselves and our culture. Granted, more modified to be benevolent in acceptance of life benign and in the joyous discovery of a variety of life beyond.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Consider The Forest

Acquainting oneself with the environment of trees is invariably a lesson incorporating the harmonious in ones life.

When you consider the way a tree exists - it cannot get out of the way, can it - perhaps to a very slight degree it can but for the most part it is stable. It can produce seeds, often fruit and other in the way of a harmonious contribution. Leaves or needles fall and cushion the ground creating - in time soil to receive the seeds.

I know you know this already but I speak to you today about the heart of the tree. The heart of the tree is not in one place alone just as our heart being is not in one place alone. You could say that it is associated with the tap root which reaches deep into the soil and gives birth to other roots that search out nutrients to support the tree yes but also future generations and in the larger sense - the forest and the life in the forest itself.

Do we do that as human beings? Yes, to a degree but because we have the advantage - or is it a disadvantage - of mobility we are not forced to learn harmony.

The tree must learn harmony because of its stolidness. It remains where it chooses and is invited and of course welcomed to grow. I am speaking here of course of the tree growing through the influences of nature rather than being planted by man.

So, given the example of the tree why might it be that for us as human beings we could be at disadvantage. We must seek harmony as beings of motion.

We have at times in our life cycle moments when we are not in motion. Sleep yes, in our early childhood yes - a little motion there or a motion wrought by others picking us up eh. Sometimes late in life or even during times of injury or illness but other than that we are largely mobile.

How does a mobile being create harmony? You create it of course by the example of other life forms or other people around you.

You see how they live - are they happy? Do they cause others to be happy by their example, by their support, by their interactions? Are our own actions causing harmony and happiness?

This is difficult isn't it because it's easy to interpret those words according to one culture or another which may believe it is causing harmony and happiness within a given realm of existence.

I feel now that the reason there are so many people on Earth and so many different cultures or variations of cultures is that our mobility while it seems to be expanding is also in a sense becoming less so. We are being encouraged to look to the home front. Our families, our friends, our neighborhoods yes. Do we get along? Are we welcomed? Do we welcome others? These simple thoughts and feelings are important in our life.

Consider the forest - I do not feel we are close to such harmony yet but we can consider it as a model.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Kinship Beyond Time

Do you know that there is a co-ordinating element connecting all people's of the Earth and it is being heightened now so as to bring forth much greater co-operation, recognition and memory of past alliances.

This memory of past alliances is going to reach across all races, cultures, religions, nationalities and remind us all when in the company of another or many others - many of whom we won't have any awareness of ever having met in our now lives - that we have something very strongly in common. It is a hidden kinship.

This kinship has only been recently and subtly released into our conscious feeling memory. Now what do I mean by conscious feeling memory? I mean a physical memory in our body that recognizes through the feelings we have in our own body of a concordance between ourselves and others.

This does not have at this time a counterpart in thought. Thought will of course jog our memory very often about some person, place, thing, event and so on but this is different.

This type of feeling memory is the type of thing that you may have had from time to time. Deja vu is an example but also you've had perhaps times in the past when you have met someone and felt that concordance. Oftentimes these meetings result in friendships that can even last a lifetime.

This kind of connection between people's is going to become so obvious to so many people now that you and others will be talking about it around the water cooler, so to speak. In short, it will become a topic of conversation that is so striking, so obvious and so frequent that it will not go unnoticed.

I want to bring this to your attention now because over the next 2 to 3 weeks - yes - you will become much more aware of it as a factor of your daily lives.

It is a good thing this, because it not only brings up that capacity to your mental attention within your physical body - that feeling capacity of knowing but it also reminds you that there have been other times, other places, other lives where we have lived and yes - loved and also been in concordance with - developing friendships and family and greater family with so very many people that are on the Earth right now.

I wanted to remind you that this is here now and it's a happening. Talk about it to your friends if it comes up and encourage them if you would - to welcome it. It can mean the difference between war and peace. It can make the difference between good life for us all with co-operation. It can really make a difference.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Allowing And Accepting - We Can Do This

How often we all feel we have the answer even if only for a moment.

There are times when I read or hear from others - things that work so well for them that I can tell that they are in the enthusiasm of the moment and I wouldn't dream of questioning it but the question that does pop up into my head when they are not so cheerful is - so, does your system work well for you? This would be a cruelty however to say because we all have downtimes don't we.

I believe that we are here to test our beliefs and our attitudes about life that we have incorporated before we have been born here. This is a testing ground and that's why it is so challenging.

This is what I've been taught and this is what I believe on the basis of my experience.

It is easy for us to be critical. Sometimes that criticism comes from our life's experience and we feel justified in providing our criticism but other times it comes from the criticism and judgment of others that we have internalized because those others were important to us at that time or have an ongoing importance to us.

Very often the challenge involved here is that we don't always remember where we assimilated our attitudes and opinions and therefore we find ourselves justifying them or further entrenching ourselves in those attitudes and opinions even though they may derive from judgments placed upon us at a time when we were more vulnerable or perhaps younger or both.

I'm not saying we must remain in constant analysis of our own motives and attitudes. I am saying however that maybe we need to cut ourselves a little slack as well as we might need to cut others some slack too.

It is a difficult world this - for us all and while it's challenging to be patient for what we want and need I believe the more patience we provide ourselves and the more patience we provide to others - not expecting them to live up to some unrealistic standard and not expecting ourselves to live up to it either will ultimately benefit us in allowing us to experience life as it happens in the present moment rather then as we've been told how it should be, how it must be.

And so, that's my thought for today. Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Life - Understood Now Or Later

There is a way with words where the energy that was present when those words were spoken can be felt when the page is touched or when, through the usage of words the mind must stop to think about what has just been said - to ponder what did that mean and sometimes one does not really know what it meant.

However as life goes on and one goes back another time to read it then very often you understand it because your life has progressed, you have had more experience and the way you read it allows you to stop, think, reflect and understand.

These blogs are written very much that way. So anytime you have the experience where you don't understand something just know that you can make a little marker there and sometime in the future after you've lived life come back and read it again - it might make more sense.

Keep that in mind with the books as well, the ones that I've put out and any book that doesn't make sense when you read it even though it may feel good on a physical basis but the words don't seem to connect in your mind. Once life has been lived, once experience has been had - thus the possibility of doors and windows being opened so that what was felt once as having meaning is still felt that way but the addition of the mental understanding is presented.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

The Plant That Survives For Us

Now you come across a weed by the side of the road. You look at it for no good reason for a moment as you walk along the old country road and you realize suddenly that it has great beauty and you wonder why it's called a weed.

After all it has a beautiful flower and some of the flowers are going to seed and they have great beauty and have even been shown in countless photographs of their beauty as people, often children, blow the seeds into the wind.

Is it not a beautiful thing that - how the dandelion which we often take for granted and sometimes do not welcome has such great beauty and that Creator has seen to it that those seeds can get from place to place through the natural cycle of Mother Earth - wind, water and welcome.

Those 3 w's - wind, water and welcome have a great deal to do with how the plant species on this planet are able to not only propagate but also to be welcome to the exact place on the Earth where they are not only most welcome but most likely to be able to thrive - yes - not just survive but thrive.

Is that not a beautiful creation. Think about that next time you look at a weed, as we call it, and consider - if Creator put all this effort into this - is this plant not worthy of our appreciation.

I know that there are those who use the greens of dandelion for food and there are those who use other parts of the plant for medicinal purposes but lets also consider the fact that this plant has beauty and I believe it has purpose far beyond what scientists and even medicine people have discovered yet. I believe it is not only a example to us of natural survival in the natural elements of Earth but that it has the capacity to provide for us in ways we have yet to discover.

Lets, instead of assuming the opposite - lets assume that this plant is here for us because it is determined to survive even when we don't welcome it. I say lets say - welcome.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

A Valuable Service

This is a time now when we are faced with choices. We can assume this or gravitate to that. We can accept this or resign ourselves to that. We can welcome this or we can be depressed by that.

There is something I've been doing for awhile and it requires an effort on my part given the facts of the world as they are presented to us not only by our observations at times but frequently by the news reports that are so prevalent in our society - and that thing is that I've been practicing optimism.

I've mentioned that here before several times but I'm mentioning it again today because it is sometimes feeling like a uphill struggle. Oh, gotta be optimistic - you understand.

It's not always easy but there's a reason. Do you know that it is in the nature of being cheerful that things will be attracted, you see. It functions like a magnet. It is possible to attract good things to happen for you.

Also there is another factor of it and that is that it automatically puts you into service where you are providing good things for others. Oh granted you'll meet the person from time to time who might make fun or a joke out of the fact that you're cheerful when there is plenty of reasons not to be but you'll also meet many people who will be uplifted and cheered by the fact that they met someone who's cheerful.

Now I know you've had the experience of meeting someone who's cheerful and it does tend to leave you with a good feeling even if at first you don't feel comfortable with it because it is out of the ordinary these days but once upon a time it wasn't so out of the ordinary. It was in fact so ordinary that people took it for granted.

So, I'd like you to practice on it and I promise I won't keep bangin away at you about optimism. I've just found that at times it improves the quality of my life and I receive the personal satisfaction of having improved the quality of other people's lives by being optimistic.

Give it a try and see if it is of value to you and others and remember it isn't always necessary to be optimistic every moment ;-) I know I find that to be difficult too but give it a try and see if you can be optimistic sometimes.

Goodlife.

Our Quest For Time

Where has time gone? I'm sure many of you have noticed that time or the time you have to do things has seemingly speeded up. Where has it gone?

I believe that it is important to inform you of my perception here. Our lives on Earth are dedicated to a purpose. Yes we each have our individual soul purpose, that's true but in the larger sense we are attempting to accomplish something.

The explorer race books, which I put out quite a few with my publisher, do elaborate in great detail what that purpose is but the nutshell of it here is simply that the intention we all have together is to provide the insight and the complete understanding of how it is possible to work together unconsciously at all times and gradually come to full and complete consciousness of how we work together to bring about a benevolent outcome from what was once chaos as we understand chaos to be.

We look around our world now and very often we can see that chaos - and yet we move our vision to another place and we can see beauty and yes - even grace.

I believe that the reason time is apparently speeding up is that our hearts and souls wish the suffering to stop and that we have moved the speed up on the recorder, so to speak, so that we can get through things quicker and that the suffering and travail can be over with faster.

It's hard to imagine that we have such capabilities and yet we are all created by Creator are we not and thus we are in that sense Creator's apprentices. I believe that it is in our nature to have such capacities as are available through observing Creator in our greater senses and through being on Mother Earth who has such vast capabilities that she can provide for all the myriad of life forms we have here.

I believe that we are here and we are changing time. I will have more to say about this as time goes on.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Adaptation Is The Key

Now many of us these days are feeling the strain on our physical bodies. In our times we are used to medical treatments being touted generally from a pharmacological sense or even alternative methods that have had success as well and speak of these successes and in a world like that we become somewhat used to the idea that our personal physicality can be determined at least to a helpful degree by the available medications and treatments.

There is no doubt that modern medicine and various alternatives have come a long way in providing relief and help for us all and they have much to be proud of. Still it creates a conditioning for us doesn't it or at the very least it lulls us into a state of expectation.

We expect that varied type of cure - perhaps simple, perhaps more prolonged or we worry that there isn't one. In times in the past peoples only expectation was that they would live as well as possible until they were not here anymore.

I'm not here to chide anyone this way or that way, rather I'm suggesting that in a perfect situation where there is no danger perceived or otherwise, where there is simply a state of calm based upon observation and experience and where happiness exists everywhere that our physical bodies have the capabilities without expectations of disaster or even discomfort of surviving easily. A hundred and twenty, a hundred and thirty years - maybe more but in these stressful times our physical bodies adapt.

How do they adapt. Sometimes we have conditions, yes discomforts. Other times what we experience is a alteration of perception based upon the degree of "simple cure" that we are exposed to.

I want to suggest something to you and that's this. In order for us to live well and live as well as possible yes - it is important for us to allow our physical bodies to be just what they are. Yes by all means get medical treatment when necessary and use modern pharmacology when necessary and alternative treatments - yes of course but lets not have unrealistic expectations about our physical bodies and lets also remember that Earth as we experience it now is a school. We are here to learn.

Cause and effect yes, we are here to learn what happens and why yes, we are here to learn how to get along with each other yes but we are also here to learn the nature of our own physicality, how we can preserve and protect it, how we can do that in the most benevolent way.

Let us be developing and applying a attitude of benevolence towards our own physical bodies. Let us drop the criticism when we look in a mirror. Let us appreciate this magnificent vehicle that allows our souls and our personalities to function on this world and enjoy the moments of happiness and the joys we have here and to accept the rest as part of our education or our simple time of duration.

I believe a shift to an attitude of benevolence towards our physical bodies from our personalities to ourselves and from our personalities just observing the physical bodies of others could easily add 20 years to our lifetime. Consider it, think about it, let me know what you think if you wish.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Say It If You Would - With Feeling

Do you know that when you have a feeling of gratitude or appreciation or happiness for another person or towards another person that these feelings feed you as well as are emanated to them.

It's good to say the words, "Thank you" and mean it with the feelings and it's not necessarily as good to simply say the words without the feeling because that can confuse true communication.

True communication is something whereby one hears what you say not only on the basis of your words but just as important and in many cases much more important on the basis of your feelings that you are experiencing when you say them.

What happens when you say something where your feelings are not corresponding with what you say. In many situations in the polite world of work and so on - not much but perhaps the one that hears you or the many that hear you simply feel that what you're saying is insincere.

What about the situation though that is more important to you - someone perhaps near and dear that you're communicating with that you really want to hear you and to feel that you're sincere.

Practice okay - I'm going to give you a little homework, its been a while since I've done this. Practice on saying, "Thank you." That's all - and see if you can feel thanks - a genuine feeling of thanks. It might be a physical feeling of warmth that you may feel in and around your heart. It might be some other physical feeling but if you don't feel a physical feeling of thanks then you know you've got some practicing to do.

Try other words that would have to do with gratitude and see if you can find that physical feeling in yourself that corresponds with those words that you are saying. This is very important because not only do we wish to communicate in sincerity with others but of course we need more than we know these days to feed ourselves at the same time.

Yes we eat with food - yes, of course and yes others may do kind things for us and that's a comfort but if we do not allow the kindness we do for others to also feed ourselves in this benign benevolent way we are literally saying to our own bodies that we are unworthy. I know you do not wish to give this message to your body and I also believe that you will welcome the opportunity to provide a welcoming to the physical world for others as well as for yourself.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Yes, You Can Help

There are times now when we are totally baffled by events in the world but we have to remember when we were younger. Yes perhaps more innocent in our own insulated worlds regardless of what was happening there, was happening in our area, in our family, in our neighborhood - yes - things were happening all over the world then we just didn't know about it.

In these times we are able to know about it and often events upset us. Always remember, when those occasions occur immediately say the following living prayer, "I am asking that all those people and beings who need help, love, support and relief receive all that they need now benevolently from all those beings who can provide that for them." Or if you prefer to say it in a simpler way you could say, "I am asking that all those beings who need help now receive all the help they need in the most benevolent way from all those beings who can help them."

This may seem like a worded thing but you can prepare yourself by asking that all of the most benevolent energies, loving beings and yes deities if you wish be with you in that moment in the most benevolent and loving energetic way possible for you and when you feel something - anything - or even feel yourself relax then say those words.

It is alright to be comforted yourself. It is natural when world events happen or even something upsetting in your own neighborhood or community or closer to home than that to be upset, to want to help, to feel like taking action in your physical body but if you are unable or if those you wish to help don't know you want to help them or cannot for any reason receive your help or that they are simply so far away that you are unable to have a direct effect then say that living prayer for it will bring comfort to all those who need it. You'd be surprised how very effective it can be.

Goodlife.

Forevermore

Can we find our way? Is it possible? Through the dim passages of life are there doors bidding - goodlife.

It is possible but one must do more than look. Looks can be deceiving yes? And this is why we must learn to use the tool offered to us here on this planet. The tool is feelings - not only that which we touch but that which we sense inwardly before contact is made. I speak very often on these blogs about such contact and when we have that contact it can be most pleasing.

Consider now forevermore
To wake perchance to dream
And life upon any golden shore
To be, to see, to be.

Can it be - this contact sport that we play here - can it be as simple as that. Are we simply learning touch from the inside out. Are we simply here to learn physical feelings?

I believe we are here to become - to become more and in order to become more we must now make contact not only with our inner world, our physical self, our spirit, our soul but we must make contact with each other and in order to do that we must come to that place within - that choice forevermore.

Traveling The Highways Of Life

The world of the abstract mixes freely with the free form flow of life here. Sometimes there is a juxtaposition of one into the other. As those who practice benevolent magic it is our responsibility to encourage as much ease as possible so that those moments of juxtaposition are as soft as possible.

I am not trying to prevent people from having adventures, fun and excitement that is benevolent for them - meaning causing no harm to them and no harm to others - I'm not trying to stop that. After all the world of fun is intended to be part of our true nature however how many times have we either participated in or observed or even heard about someone else's fun having turn into pain and suffering for others.

This is often found in situations when machinery is involved isn't it. It is easy to do that and so important to pay attention as we all know and yet there are things that can be done - processes and encouragements.

Let me give you an example. Say you are living near or even walking near or near for a moment - a highway. You see the cars going by, occasionally you might think about the drivers who are your fellow human beings. Granted, you may not know them personally though you may see a car you recognize and say, "Oh, there's a friend."

Still in the larger sense we know and cherish all. Here's something you can say to encourage the most benevolent experience. Try to be looking at the highway when you say it but if you need to close your eyes it's alright to simply face in that direction. You can sit down if you like or not - whatever is safe and comfortable for you.

You might say, "I am asking that all those who travel here remain alert in their machines and experience the most benevolent and safe journeys whether short or long, whether an errand or a mission of mercy or any reason for travel - may they be safe in the most benevolent way."

Remember always - when you say these things, that being a Living Prayer, if you do not feel energy coming in when you are saying it pause and wait - see if it comes in.

The reason living prayer works is not because they are well chosen words though that is also true. It works because there is a sense of harmony that is not only a worded thing but also is something that is felt.

Mother Earth herself is in harmony with it and all life around you from the smallest to the largest - all souls, all beings are also in harmony with it.

If you do not feel the energy, don't be discouraged. Someday you will and perhaps that day will help you to see if you also feel as a portion of all beings.

Life here is interposed with many intersections, let's see what we can do to create the safest and most benevolent ones.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

A Deeper Image May Be Coming Soon

Do you know there is a invention coming. There are people working on it now.

It is a mirror unlike any we have known so far. It has depth and will reveal to us more of our feelings - not what is shown now. Granted what exists now has qualities to it that we take for granted but when it was first invented were quite startling and many of us of course have seen children or animals with that startled enjoyment of the mirror and yet the new mirror coming will reveal feelings and depth of character to us in a way that causes us to feel at ease and brings us towards a greater sense of our own personal comfort with our being.

I'm talking about that now because there are those who are working on it and I want to encourage you.

I feel that that mirror will improve the quality of life for everyone on this planet in ways we do not currently understand.

It's not that the old mirror is not a amazing thing but I feel that the mirror that's needed now is one that gives us comfort at all times and does not only give us an image of ourselves that prompts us to experience our feelings of ourself on a purely surface level. The mirror we have now is basically a two dimensional reflection but the mirror that is coming will reveal our depth of character - not philosophically but it will show qualities in us that allow us to feel better about our whole self.

It's coming and I just thought I'd let you know so you can think about it and anticipate it and yes - look forward to it in a way that will cause us to feel happiness when our persona on a level of depth is revealed to us so we can appreciate our character as well as our image.

Goodlife.

Repetitive Dreams - What Might They Be

Have you ever had the experience of a dream that is repetitious - not necessarily frightening or agitating but repetitious? Maybe not every night, just every once in a while - and the natural conclusion is that you're trying to learn something or that life as you're living it is trying to tell you something.

I want to offer an alternate explanation. I'm not saying that it is the only explanation but it is an alternate explanation that I feel is valuable.

One of the reasons we're here on this planet, as I believe and I've been taught, is not only to learn how to get along on our own but quite obviously just looking at societies all over the world - how to get along with others in a situation where we need to be co-operative and at the very least - communicative in some way.

I believe that we are here to continue what we do in other worlds. Other worlds are very easy by comparison to this one. This is the Ph.D. school, this is the hard place and in Ph.D. school you are expected to function largely on your own with some minor degree of guidance.

Here we are expected to do that as well even though we might have a lot of guidance from those around us - oftentimes more guidance than we would ever want or need - yes :-)?

So I believe that what's going on that we're having in this dream experience is some version of assisting others.

I know this is going to sound fantastic to you but what if...we're in Guide school? What if we're in a situation where we're trying to resolve something that has to do with guiding others?

We are familiar with the idea of having Guides, those who help us out, those who try to give us a word or a suggestion that will ease our way in this life. What if we are that.

I know we tend to think of Guides as being Angelic Beings but what if we are that and what if we have that on an ongoing basis even though we have a life here at the same time?

What if we're trying to do both in order to increase our level of compassion and understanding for those whom we're trying to help and at the same time trying to find a way to resolve something that we have been unable to resolve - meaning unable to help whoever it is we're guiding because we need that compassion and we need that understanding of life here on Earth.

I realize that may sound a bit fantastic but it is alright to suggest such possibilities isn't it. I believe that it might just be possible and it is certainly one explanation for repetitive "dreams" because maybe this is where we're stuck in trying to help that person that we're guiding.

Maybe our whole life here is to help us to get unstuck - to develop compassion and experience so that when we continue with our work beyond this planet we will have patience to a much greater degree.

Compassion yes, experience yes and also we will not have such high demands and expectations and yes attachments for our own capacity to resolve anything, everything - to help everyone all the time, to make sure that everyone is happy before we are happy - in short to accomplish all there is.

Maybe all there is is a co-operative effort. Maybe all that is is a co-operative effort also.

Consider it, think about it and yes - it's okay to smile about it too. Goodlife.

A New Sensory Awareness - Who Shall Bring It?

At the one end of the spectrum one finds colors. At the other end of the spectrum one could find sound or contact - meaning touch. What spectrum am I talking about?

I'm talking about sensory awareness. In our world sensory awareness is essential for us to be able to accommodate an interaction with our physical world.

Without that interaction we could perhaps have thought. We would certainly have feelings and there would be awareness of sorts but we are here not to simply contemplate existence. Granted we have opportunity to do that but we are here to interact with other whatever form that other might take - a person, a place, a thing, a time, an event and so on.

The reason we are here to do that is that we have moved throughout many lifetimes towards an application time. This time is truly about application.

We are here on this planet to see if what we've been thinking - what we've been contemplating if you would, what we've been considering and what we've been doing on other planets would be possible to do here. This is the laboratory - on Earth - that's what I believe.

It is the laboratory to test out all of those ideas that looked so good on other planets. Can you imagine - people sitting around on other planets saying, "What can we do about Earth? The people seem to be struggling so much. They seem to be combating the natural world and what is offered by the natural world - wisdom, food and resources. They seem to be struggling not only for their survival but with themselves and with each other."

You can imagine people sitting around with a desire to help us saying this - working out how they could try this, how they could try that. The thing about it is that they're working that out in a much more ideal world so what seems natural that would work there might not work here. How to come up with a plan that would work here.

Well of course, first you need to have some trainees. You need to have people who've been here, who've lived lives here and who understand the way things work here.

I believe that at times in our lives we are surrounded by trainees. Oh yes, we like to think of them as guides and other names we apply to them but in fact I feel that they are observing us.

Haven't you ever noticed at times the feeling of someone being present. I'm not talking about neighbors walking by chuckling and talking to themselves. I'm not even talking about upstairs or downstairs or next door neighbors. I'm talking about a sense of presence that doesn't exactly feel uncomfortable but it's palpable - noticeable if you would.

I believe that these beings have the capacity to sit in on our world a little bit - not interfering, not frightening, just sitting in and observing. I have noted some phenomena to support this and I believe some of you have noted it as well.

Let's just welcome them and say, if we get that feeling sometime, "Welcome. Please observe, please note and please tell others when you are in your meetings that it is difficult here and also - welcome - come and live a life here so you can find out for yourself."

I know this scenario I'm laying out for you might seem to be ludicrous on the surface of it but in fact I believe that there are some here that are from other planets and will return to other planets who are literally trainees and I'll bet there's been times in your life when you felt like you might have been one of them and wondered what it was like back home on another planet.

I'm pretty sure that as difficult as this planet is and as filled with love as I believe Creator is that Creator would not expect us to live out our lives eternally on this planet. This is a school.

It is intended to be a challenge. I believe we're here to learn and I believe that when we do complete our learning that we do return to those meeting rooms on other planets and maybe have more practical solutions to help our brothers and sisters who are on Earth and I believe that we're going to start to see a lot of these people returning in new lives now.

As a matter of fact I believe that those people are being born and raised on the planet now. I have a lot of faith in the younger generation coming up. They're going to have some unusual ways about them. They're going to demonstrate unusual ways about them. Let's not assume there's something wrong with them. Maybe there's something right with them.

Maybe they're here to remind us who we are. Maybe they're just delivering the message we've asked for.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Helping Your Dog Help Yourself

Have you ever had the experience of your dog acting strangely - tired, listless, no energy and of course you take your dog to the Vet to be checked over maybe more than once and they can find nothing.

So if this is the case and you have taken your dog to the Vet maybe more than once then I'm going to suggest you try something. For dogs, especially dogs you see, love us so much that they will sometimes take something on for us if it is too much for us to bear.

We live lives that are very often loaded with stress and sometimes there are burdens as well, challenges you understand, that are a daily or weekly or occasional experience.

Our dogs will often take on some of this energy to lighten the load for us.

I'm going to recommend, especially for those of you who've been reading this blog for a long time, to apply some of what you've learned here. First I'm going to recommend that you say, "I am asking that I experience all of the support, love and benevolent energy available for me that I may help my dog now." Then wait, see if you feel something. If you don't, just wait about two to three minutes.

Then if your dog is there I recommend you say, "I am asking that gold light beings and light beings who are compatible with the gold light come now with dog golden spirit and remove all of the energies that are harming my dog or could harm my dog."

Make sure that your dog is not sitting on you when you are doing this. Make sure that your dog is a distance away and observe how it goes for your dog.

It is possible that your dog will fall asleep during this or go into a state where dog is very quiet. They will perhaps feel something and will relax into it.

I have had some experience with this and I grant that what I do to help dogs is a little different but I want to share this with you, what I have to offer in this case, because I am so fond of dogs and other four leggeds.

So if your dog is more energetic afterwards and seems to be his or her old self then what I'd recommend is for you to say the following Living Prayer, for the others were Living Prayers too.

Before you go to sleep at night or at any time when you are relaxing for a while especially if you're not in contact with someone else's body or even a dog or cat - say this, "I am asking that all those energies that are overwhelming me and that are causing me to be tired and stressed be removed from my body in the most benevolent way now."

And of course what I mean by "those energies" is not necessarily the tasks you have to do but the burden and the stress which can sometimes take an energetic form and weigh us down.

Try to do this last Living Prayer for your body at least once every other day or even once a day. If you go to sleep after saying it that's fine but if not then wait where ever you are after having said it - wait at least 10 minutes and try to move as little as possible. Don't have the phone ringer on if you can help it - no TV, no radio - as quiet as possible - and then perhaps you will feel better and maybe a dog won't have to take things on for you.

This is not to blame you or for you to feel bad but rather for you to notice how wonderful your dog is, how much your dog wants to help you and to just allow these wonderful light beings to clear you off of energies that may be harming you or causing difficulty for you.

You will feel better perhaps. I am hopeful that you will and maybe your dog will feel better too.

Goodlife.

Timelessness With A Spiritual Cat

I was thinking about this the other day because I was recalling my time in Colorado - a beautiful place. I particularly like Durango and my friends there.

I recall one time when I was in the living room of one of my friends trying to explain something to her that I'd seen in a vision. It was a vision of ancient times on this planet - perhaps Egypt, perhaps just something that we identify with Egypt - I don't know the place but that's what it felt like.

I was trying to describe what people would do there - initiates perhaps or what we sometimes call priests of those times.

In the course of the explanation I was attempting to describe how spiritual cats of that time would interact with those who were attempting to help people.

If the healing or helping person could not grasp what it was to be done for that person who needed help or they didn't have enough energy and needed a little bit more to assist that person back to better health then the cat who was involved in such work with that healing or helping person, and they would have had a close tie you see, would then get on that person's right arm and wrap themselves around that arm so that the cat's head would be resting just past or on the wrist.

And the healer person would by holding the cat and the cat gripping with its forelegs the forearm of the person aim their arm with the cat on it towards that person, place or thing that they were attempting to help and the cat would somehow support that endeavor but it was hard to describe this to my friend and she didn't quite understand.

Her cat, one of my all time favorite cats, was listening to all of this and suddenly she jumped up and placed herself exactly like that wrapping herself around my arm and resting her head on my wrist holding on tight the way I was describing.

I remember my friend looking at her cat with wonder and I enjoyed the experience very much and when I was done with my story, cat got down and walked away.

Who says they don't understand us. I think our beloved four leggeds understand everything we say. Just because they don't always go along with what we want doesn't mean they don't understand what we're talking about. I don't know if they understand our words but they sure do understand our meaning. Aren't they wondrous beings. My hats off to cats and dogs and other beloved four leggeds we live with.

Goodlife.

Lessons From My Cat

I remember times in the past when things were hard - you understand - hard times, right.

One day when my cat was still with me she hopped up onto my lap and started purring and I find that so very comforting. I started petting her and she purred a little louder and I felt myself relaxing and feeling better.

At one point she looked up at me - just looked right at me and I always knew because she was a very spiritual cat that when she looked at me pointedly like that that something was going on that she felt I ought to pay attention to. I gave it some thought and it occurred to me that my cat was showing me how to give by receiving.

Think about it. I didn't feel good and I was unhappy at that time and my cat jumped up into my lap as I said and I started to feel better because she laid down on my legs and just by being, just by existing and by making that sound I liked and by keeping me company I was comforted and yet she was receiving because I was petting her. Petting her made me feel better.

Is it not a wondrous thing how our four legged friends, dogs or cats or others, can comfort us by receiving. I feel that sometimes we give by receiving as well and the other way around can happen also.

My feeling is that there are other circumstances like this that I recall. I recall being down in the past - depressed and worn out by life - you know what I mean and someone needed what I had to offer - called me up or came up to me and even though I was tired I provided what I could and afterwards I felt better about that and in a way I realized that I was giving - yes but I was also receiving and it reminds me of that time with my beloved cat.

Goodlife.

Heroes

Do we really need to be superheros with super powers to be honored, appreciated, respected and loved?

When I was looking the other day at the TV schedule I was struck by how the entertainment industry is catering to our needs - are they - or are they providing us with needs. I am not certain but what's going on is the idea of presenting a world as too complicated for human beings to resolve - problems - but superheros can do it.

I am not at odds with the entertainment industry for providing much needed entertainment and relief but I am a little concerned that every day heroes are not always appreciated.

Mother and Father working hard to make a good life for children - and older children working hard at school to succeed and perhaps helping out younger brothers and sisters and guiding them and yes, at times protecting them - and what about people in jobs - ordinary everyday jobs - not jobs identified with the heroic such as police or district attorneys as sometimes celebrated in entertainment world. While we appreciate and need them there are other jobs that are vitally important as well.

Teachers who guide and form and support our morals and values and principals. Yes, parents do this - yes religion and philosophy does this but what we are taught at school has such a great deal to do with how we perceive the world doesn't it? And teachers, even within the curriculum that they are provided which has certain rigidities, can often inspire us and encourage us not only to be interested with the answers and explanations but to learn how to ask questions and to feel safe in asking them.

We have so many heroes amongst us - look around. Look around in your town, look around in your neighborhood, look around in your family and look in the mirror. There's a lot more than we think about.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Happy Valentine's Day

Once upon a very long time ago we were all part of the same egg - I recall it clearly.

I heard a voice during that time say, "But what else is there?"

There was a long low vibration and the vibration seemed to be answering, "I don't understand" and the little voice said, "Isn't there something else beyond the egg?"

The rest that had answered said, "We don't know" and the little voice said, "I'm going to go and find out."

Well that was a long time ago and you know what I've been feeling ever since is that there is a re-gathering and the re-gathering is taking place very comfortably.

I believe what's happened is that we now have the full dozen eggs but we still have not returned to the overall egg. Perhaps that's what's going to happen next. I'll look forward to that and I'll look forward to being with you all in that most beautiful place.

Happy Valentine's Day.

Goodlife.

Neighbors

I don't recall - did I ever tell you this one? It's not something I did but it's a thoughtful thing that an old friend did and it happened in the trailer park when I used to live there in Oak Creek Canyon.

It was done by a nice guy, an older man - had been around, done this and that and of course was very fond of animals. There were several cats that came and went, no one was really sure who they lived with on a regular basis and we weren't even sure if they did but they were nice to have around.

My old friend who I will call J had been working on his trailer and adding to it over time and had noted once that this particularly friendly but feral, as it's called, cat would sometimes be on his roof and he wondered why. Did the cat just like to be up high or was it maybe because the cat enjoyed something else and sure enough J saw him one day.

He was snuggled up to the smokestack for J's stove. He used the stove sometimes when it got chilly and of course regularly in the winter and so J got a clever idea.

He figured out how he could build just a little bit of a housing between 2 eves since the trailer had a special roof that he had put on it and the attached cabin which he had built also had a portion of the roof there and if he was careful he could tack on a few boards here and there without damaging the roof and without causing too much heat to be trapped in that spot in the roof since he slightly vented it but that there was enough room for the cat to crawl inside and be nice and warm especially on snowy winter days and that's exactly what he did.

He also put something up against the side of the trailer cabin so the cat could easily hop up there. Now that's what I call being a good neighbor.

Goodlife.

Thinking A Different Way, Part 2

Last time I started very briefly about a new way to think. The new way to think is very simple. It involves no thought - meaning anytime you catch yourself worrying you stop because worry does not solve the problem.

Curiosity and analysis might be helpful. Other activities such as asking people for help, that can also be useful but worry very often just turns things over and over and over again and can even disrupt a solution that's already in place.

So the new way to think is to think less. Anytime you catch yourself worrying just stop and say, "Is there some way I can apply my curiosity to this that will make the situation better" and if there isn't - just don't think.

It's a discipline that, because you'll have to catch yourself and stop thinking. How can you do that at times in the simplest possible way. I'm going to give you something you can do that's physical. I've mentioned this before but as I said then and as I often say - I'll build on that in time.

One of the things you can do is to touch your body. Do something physical. Now of course you're always touching your fingers and your hands so your body really won't notice that very much but if you take your right or your left hand and you just bend your fingers like you're making a claw - okay - so that your fingernails - if you move your hand with your palm down towards your upper leg - so that your fingernails are touching your upper leg, say you're around your thigh someplace - then you simply slide your hand with your fingernails touching your leg - you slide it down towards the knee - that's all.

Because this is a gesture you rarely make on your body for any other reason it will tend to bring your bodies attention to that physical moment and that place. In short, it will bring you into the present. When you're in the present it's difficult to worry because you will then become very observant of what's going on around you at that moment and that will automatically trigger your minds curiosity - you see.

So that's what I recommend as a solution and something to try. It might just improve the quality of your life in many situations. I hope it works for you.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Thinking A Different Way, Part 1

Now, there is a new way to think about things. In order to understand how our thoughts work we need only be conscious of whether we are worrying or whether our mind is functioning in the pattern of curiosity.

The number one purpose for our mind to exist is curiosity and almost all else falls under the heading of worry. Curiosity though, is our minds primary function. We are curious how to solve a problem. We see something and we are curious about it. We see someone and we are curious about them but so much of what we do is worry.

I'd like to give you a suggestion for some homework. It's not hard and you don't even have to do it at home if you don't want to. Just take 5 minutes - it's something you can do on the bus if you're not talking to someone or having to react to someone. It's something you could do on a coffee break for instance. It's something you can do when you're out for a walk if you don't need to be too vigilant - and that's just notice what you're thinking.

You don't have to be the guard dog about it - you don't have to watch every thought but there are times when you will suddenly notice what you're thinking. Try to pay attention - am I being curious or am I worrying. Now sometimes one can do both - be curious and worry at the same time so count that as worry but try to be able to differentiate.

Generally speaking, if you're worrying you will have an uncomfortable feeling in your body but if you're curious the feeling will be more anticipation or even excitement - something like that.

That's the basic homework right there. We're not casting any blame here. We're not trying to say - this is right, this is wrong. Mostly this is about observation because there is a new way to think and I'll say more about that next time.

Goodlife.

Goodlife To You All

Greetings - a little message here for new years. I would like to thank you all who have been reading, studying and perhaps practicing some of the suggestions that I've posted here on Benevolent Magic.

I feel I have said just about all I'm going to say on this blog and I may possibly post here again sometime if there is something that I feel is important to say on the general topic of benevolent magic.

That, while likely to come up, might also be said in some way on Mystical Man where I am posting more regularly now but I would say for now a brief resolution for new years and beyond.

My resolution will be, "I am asking that all those individuals who desire to feel welcome here on Earth as they are with all their quirks or what others occasionally call flaws - that they be recognized as personalities and that those quirks be benevolent and seen as such and also that there be a general acceptance of the ways of others and an appreciation of same."

Maybe that's not exactly a resolution but it is my living prayer for us all this coming year and beyond.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Magnetic Attraction And Your Breath

Now comes a time in your lives that you have been waiting for. You all have an opportunity now to see things you've always wanted to see. Do you know how, over the years you've done visualizations - yes - creative visualizations that have helped you to move past certain points that are difficult in your life? Many times in these creative visualizations there was a beautiful scene that you would see, or you would step from one place into a place that's a beautiful scene. Now you have the opportunity to bring that beautiful scene closer to your life. Let me tell you how.

Picture again that beautiful scene but instead of doing the visualization where you put yourself in the scene - feel the ground under your feet, smell the smells and so on - this time I'd like you to use your breath. When you see that scene, those of you who've done these visualizations, look at it from a little distance and then as you're looking at it move your point of seeing that scene closer so you are almost in it and then looking at it take a deep breath - breathe it in.

If you wish to be in the visualization in that beautiful place that is alright also. Breathe it in so that you can actually feel it. You will feel the feelings of being in that place and you will assimilate it more.

It is a time now of increased magnetic attraction and the way to improve that attraction is to use your breath. There is another way to do this.

Consider visualizing, as best you can, the most wonderful life you could possibly have but it must be done as something benevolent. If you can do this as something that is benevolent for all beings - as best you can, again - put yourself in the scene and breathe - breathe it in. Feel it move, as your body reacts, within you. Feel the energy of that scene move into you.

This is a time of magnetic attraction - breathe it in. Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

More On Deep Disentanglement

Ilias, thank you for your question. It was a very good one. You want to know whether deep disentanglement can be done on a chakra.

Yes it can. It would be good if you feel that there is true problems for example, with any given chakra - meaning that you feel blocked in that area or that you might feel a urgent need for some growth in that area of your body - that after you do the deep disentanglement there that instead of giving yourself 2 days of extra rest and relaxation that you do 3 days.

I'll tell you why. When you choose a chakra it involves more than one portion of your body even though it might be centered in a very specific spot it has radiations that include quite a more significant portion of your body then say one organ or one other specific body part. Therefore given the intention of the deep disentanglement you must allow for this extra integration.

Also the integration time, which I referred to before, which might be several weeks could in the case of an entire chakra be up to six weeks. So, certain things might need to be avoided and you might also notice that the things that you might need to avoid could very easily be things that you would otherwise be normally able to do but it might feel sensitive.

You will know because if you go to do these things you may have a sense of pause or a sense of insecurity or a sense - meaning a feeling of course, that it would be better to do this at another time. If you get any of those senses, please acknowledge them and do those things at another time.

The general experience then of this kind of work with a chakra could be approached in another way. Say that in that area of the chakra you have some body part specifically that might, you feel, need deep disentanglement and while it may not be at the exact point of the chakra it is within the - what I would call the zone of radiation of that chakra - meaning in the immediate area affected.

Then it would be better to do deep disentanglement on that part of your body if you feel that part needs that process. After you do that and if you feel that your body is fairly clear in that area, then do the chakra.

I know this sounds complicated but deep disentanglement is something that is quite major and can have profound effects and I feel it would be the best idea to proceed with caution and allow the area of your body where the chakra is to be as clear as possible.

If you are fairly certain that the area is clear, what you could do a day or so before is to request a disentanglement in that area of your body especially.

You might say for instance, "I am asking that gold light beings and light beings who are compatible with the gold light or compatible with gold light beings or both come now and disentangle my.." then you might mention that area of the body - don't say chakra. Mention the area of the body using the physiological terms.

You might say, "Do a thorough disentanglement of.." you understand - saying that area. If you do that a day or so before the deep disentanglement it might help a bit - make it easier or smoother alright.

This may be more information than you wanted but given that it is something that I am directing to a wider audience, I feel it has value and benefit. That is what I suggest.

Goodlife.

Deep Disentanglement

It's time now to talk about Deep Disentanglement. I have discussed Disentanglement before here and here but Deep Disentanglement takes this a step further and I will build on this in time as well.

Deep Disentanglement allows you to interact with portions of your own physical body. These portions of your body can be any part. Realize that builds on Disentanglement so I strongly recommend you do that first or at least be underway with it.

Deep Disentanglement is something that requires focus and relaxation and I strongly recommend as well that you don't have too much to do for a day or two afterwards especially not to be doing anything that involves machinery, as in driving, or such items as may cause some risk. The reason I explain it to you this way is that your physical body will be sensitive after this and you also might need more sleep. So, it is something that is a profound interaction with your body.

Now not unlike in Disentanglement, you begin by relaxing as best as possible. Turn the ringer off on the phone, make sure you will not be disturbed - perhaps doing this some time of the day or evening when others are not around or when you are least likely to be disturbed.

If this process is disturbed before you make the initial statement or after you've made the initial statement requesting the Disentanglement or even during the time of processing the Deep Disentanglement then you must begin over again in the case of making the initial statement.

Of course by that time some of the process will have been completed and it may feel, especially for those of you who feel energies, like it takes less time but if you don't feel energies then wait the suggested amount of time.

If it is possible - or if you feel more comfortable wearing earplugs that is alright but - as quiet as can be. Then you begin using the same process as with Disentanglement.

You say out loud, "I am asking that gold light beings and light beings who are compatible with the gold light or compatible with gold light beings or both come now and disentangle me from all my discomforts and their causes."

Then you pause for a little while. It might take up to ten or fifteen minutes, in some cases twenty minutes. For those of you who feel a sense of energy, wait until the energy fades. If you're not sure whether you're feeling energy or you don't feel it then wait about ten or fifteen minutes - at least that.

Then after you've waited that time, you say the following. Now I'm going to give you the basics of what you say but it will be up to you to fill in some of the other factors. This is what you say - you say, "I am now asking that gold light beings and light beings who are compatible with the gold light or compatible with gold light beings or both come now and do Deep Disentanglement on my..." then you fill in the name of a single body part - only one or a single portion of your physical body. My foot, my leg, my heart, my lungs - something like that you see - it is up to you.

What this accomplishes is that the gold light beings and the light beings, who have the capacity to move through time and space, will disentangle this particular body part from any grievous causes of stressful anxiety and other distress that you have experienced in the past - and by in the past meaning any time in the past from the moment you are stating this request - and it will possibly - in the case of myself it has - improve the functioning or at least the feeling in that part of your body.

Of course I cannot guarantee this but I have had good luck with this and I am hopeful that you may as well. Then wait about fifteen or twenty minutes or until the energy fades if you feel that and when that is over - meaning you feel relaxed then this is what to do - if you happen to fall asleep after this part of the process that is alright - so as soon as possible after you wake up you can do this.

Then request the following - this is in the form of a Living Prayer. Say, "I am asking that my body now function smoothly and benevolently for me and that all that I have asked and all that has been done for me I will experience in the most benevolent way for me now."

Now, I'm adding that in for you to ask because I realize that some of you have busy lives and you may not be able to be as quiet and relaxed as I would recommend. This is by way of setting up a bit of an insulation for you in hopes that any disruption or disturbance, though I strongly advise you to keep it at a distance if you can - meaning to have a quiet weekend if possible or a quiet couple of days, will be kept at bay as best is possible with this Living Prayer or what I'm recommending here - meaning you will avoid disturbance if you possibly can.

Now, Deep Disentanglement is something that is quite profound. You never say more than one body part at once and you never do more than one Deep Disentanglement a month. That's because even after a couple of days of relative relaxation, quiet and perhaps extra sleep and if at all possible no alcohol, then it will still take a couple - maybe three weeks to fully integrate as a process.

So - if you do this, wait a minimum of thirty days and perhaps better - thirty five days before you do it again with some other body part you understand. That's what I recommend.

Deep Disentanglement is not something you do and then leave the house and go re-roof your house or something. You don't go and operate machinery. You don't even go into the kitchen and slice a tomato because even if you are normally very adept at these things you might not be entirely in your body - as we say.

It is something that does not harm your body but as I said it will make you more sensitive and you might not be as physically sharp as you usually are. It's not going to make you dull witted but it is going to require a little extra care and watching out for your own needs.

Now this is not something you can request for somebody else, this is only something that one can do for one's self.

If you decide to do this - remember - get started with and be well on down the road, so to speak, on doing Disentanglement. That's really important to prepare yourself and then you can try Deep Disentanglement. I have used it and it has been very helpful and I am hopeful it will be helpful to you as well. As always, I will build on this in the future.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

My New Christmas Story

Greetings, this is just a little note to tell you that I have my new Christmas story up.

I've been writing a Christmas story every year for the past few years and I've been posting it on another blog I have called Nice Little Stories.

This year instead of writing it only on my own I've asked Eileen Meyer to help me, so you'll notice that she also has the byline. It's called The Special Stocking and I hope you enjoy it.

Goodlife.

Another Form Of Benevolent Magic

Some of you may have noticed the link I have over there on my sidebar referred to as "streamlined benevolent magic". Sometime ago I had a guest column by Tom Moore on my blog A Mystical Man's World because Tom had developed a streamlined version - meaning a briefer version of benevolent magic that he has found works well for him and he's doing what he can to share that technique with the world.

That's why I wanted to bring it to your attention because I feel it has value. Tom has been able to write a book about his experiences with his technique. It is not too long but it's filled with examples and suggestions of things to say in different situations. You might want to give it a try - it's up to you. The click on streamlined benevolent magic will take you to his website.

If you recall, a short time ago, I said I would be winding down this site and concentrating my efforts on mystical man but as I said I will continue to post here.

The reason I'm bringing up Tom's site is that even though it is based on my work I want to refer you to it so that if I do not post here about benevolent magic and living prayer specifically as often as you would like or have not covered topics that you would like to see covered then I feel that it would be useful for you to engage that process further with Tom.

In Tom's book he has specifically made an effort to utilize his technique in places that are dangerous. This is, I feel, something that is particularly important and I've even devoted a book that I have put out called Techniques For Generating Safety to this very subject.

While I do not often make comments here about this or that hazard I feel this is not something we ought to treat lightly or overlook and therefore I feel that your time spent with Tom on his website or with his book will be a good investment.

Goodlife.

Deflecting Discomfort

There has been a request and I would like to elaborate on something here.

Many of you are exposed to discomforting energies on a regular basis - some are even directed at you specifically either by those who are angry or perhaps jealous or any of a wide variety of other intentions.

There is one major thing you can do that will deflect the bulk of this from effecting you in any way and that major thing is to develop and maintain a good feeling about yourself.

Of course we all get down on ourselves once in a while but lets make an effort now to develop and maintain a good feeling about ourselves. Let us not continually allow the artificial images promoted by television or other forms of artificial stimulation - such as advertisements to decide for us whether we have worth or value based upon those agendas.

Let us decide right now that we are valuable, we are important and that we deserve to experience a most benevolent life and a most benevolent way of being. That we deserve the respect of others and that when we receive it we appreciate it, we acknowledge it with grace and we give respect to others as well.

What I am saying here is this - that the major means of deflecting discomfort is feeling good about yourself. It is not sufficient to make this mental.

So, this is what I want you to do - a little extra homework for those of you who are here to learn. I'd like you to do this meditation or visualization. Picture yourself in any benevolent environment you choose - whatever it may be. Feel yourself surrounded by friends that like you, love you and appreciate you. They can be human beings, animals, plants, anything - and feel the benevolent feeling that ensues.

Pay attention to the physical feelings in your body. Notice how you feel when you feel good about yourself and you're surrounded by others who also feel good about you. Make an effort then, to maintain this feeling. If you need to do this visualization again then do it because as long as you can memorize that feeling in your physical body and experience it in such a way as you truly can remember it, you will find that you will notice it if it is absent.

If you notice that, try to do the quick visualization and bring the feeling to you. Then - even if you are exposed to an environment where you do not feel appreciated you will not be effected because your good feelings about yourself will deflect most of it.

For any other forms of deflection you can look to this blog or my other and find what you can find and do the homework as you will. I'm sure there's plenty here to do as I am sure you all have other ways to develop good feelings about yourself, good feelings about others and to spread this around as you choose.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Us

Have you ever considered that all around us are beings who are cheering us on. I know it may not be obvious but from time to time I can sense their presence and I can feel their great love for us all.

It is a conundrum, I know, for us all because life here is really so very difficult.

Even for those who seem to have plenty, there are troubles. It may not be obvious to those of us who don't have so much but for those who have plenty they have other worries. I have talked to many of these people and I have discovered that when they have those moments of pause and doubt, their troubles spill out too.

In this world upon which we live every single human being, every single animal, every plant, every form of life is its own unique self.

We all have so very much in common and really when taken in total so very little in percentage that is unique to us as individuals. However that uniqueness is important because it adds to the universal choir that makes up the entire beingness of consciousness, feeling and heart on our planet.

Let's try to remember that as we prepare for the new year here and in that light I'd like to suggest a Living Prayer that we can say. I'd recommend that we all say, "I am asking that all individuals here - unique and united experience the most wonderful new year in benevolence, in joy and fulfillment."

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Choices On Our Soul's Path

Priming the pump - you've all heard that term - it essentially means for our purposes here - encouraging a benevolent and desirable outcome by getting something started. My intention here on Benevolent Magic has been from the beginning of this blog to prime your pump.

We are all born on this planet from a point of origin where we have tremendous capabilities. We leave those capabilities behind when we come here so that we can reinvent - or you might say recreate our knowledge base.

Imagine if you would for a moment that you've lived many lives in different places, different planets as different sorts of beings and you may have accumulated during that time a great deal of knowledge and wisdom and of course skills and abilities but you may need - or believe you need at least other skills and abilities - something perhaps so different than what you've been learning and perfecting that the only way to achieve it is to forget who and what you are.

Very often, as I've been taught, souls who wish to acquire something in their knowledge base choose - with Creator's permission of course - to be born on this planet because on Earth as we know it now we experience a great deal of stress and while stress is not a fun thing to experience it is a fence - you might say a guideline.

We don't like bouncing off the fence but we get definite feedback from it that we've taken the wrong direction or that there is another direction that might be more beneficial.

This planet is a learning place and if we choose as souls to come here to learn something new, we will invariably try something or create a general pathway for ourselves in this life in order to move in a direction we haven't tread on before.

You'll know if you're moving in that direction - giving you a little guideline to know here - if you feel totally at sea about something you're doing, meaning that you really do not have any awareness, any clue or any sense of natural ability in what you're doing.

I'm not saying that you are to pursue it and make a profession out of it but tread slowly and lightly - ask for guidance and help. There are others who may know more about these things. Also, if you feel like you're being steered onto that path - it might be something that your soul wants you to explore - not necessarily - as I say to perfect it but to familiarize yourself with it.

Sometimes familiarization simply means to get a lay of the land, not necessarily to participate.

Here on Earth we have one thing that is not so available on other planets I believe, and that is the tremendous variety and experience of life.

We don't like stress - no and we don't like bouncing into walls or fences - no - who does - but very often when these things occur we must turn - we must change the course of our path and that turn or that change of course will sometimes take us on to a path that will lead us to an easier transit - something that is easier - something that is more in alignment with who and what we are.

If that happens to you, don't fight it too much but know that you may not have to be there indefinitely. Look around, see what you can learn and feel if it is for you. If it isn't for you then notice it, observe it in others and move on. Perhaps that's all your soul wants you to do.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

More On Instinctual Training

There but for the grace of God go you or I. We have all read that or heard that at some point in our lives and yet all around us are people who may or may not fill that description. Sometimes it's obvious, other times less so and sometimes completely invisible.

Let us all now say the Living Prayer in this case to support the unknown sufferers, "I am asking that all those beings who are suffering whether they know it or not receive all the help, love and support they need now from all those beings who can help them."

Now why did I say - whether they know it or not. Sometimes because of life and its stresses we institutionalize in our own body - meaning that we become less aware of and feel or at least think that our discomforts are just part of life and because we are less aware then of our discomforts - we don't know we are suffering.

So much of what I've been writing about here on Benevolent Magic and on Mystical Man has to do with feelings. This is because it is time to become aware of our feelings not so that we can suffer through them, not so that we have to relive old pains and wounds but rather to allow our body to express itself, to move through those feelings and to acknowledge that feelings are not only that which is some strange unknown phenomena but that feelings are the key and the pathway to resolving for ourselves and gaining for ourselves a greater wisdom and a means to bring about benevolent healing.

It is my intention on this site and especially on Mystical Man to provide you with the means, manners and yes - morals of bringing about this benevolent eventuality through the use of feelings and energies and blessings to become aware of your physical self, your feeling self and ultimately your instinctual self and it is in that light that I will continue this talk on Mystical Man next time.

Goodlife.

Our World - Our Community

Once there was a time when the natural creation of family came from afar and provided the glue to hold peoples together. This concept and experience of family has always been intended to provide bonds, kinship and a sense of belonging - we all know this.

Somewhere along the line we became more insulated and perhaps even insular and the concept of greater community may have been misplaced but not lost.

I feel that, even though in these times we sometimes are unable to see greater community it almost always emerges during times of great urgency and sometimes during localized disasters as well.

There is an energy just below the surface which I feel is coming to be more noticeable. I feel it will be seen first in the family, then in the neighborhood, then in the community and will spread all over the Earth.

One of the most wonderful things about our planet is the variety we have to share - different peoples, different cultures, different foods - yes, different social attractions and the variety of the animals and plants as well.

Some day there will be travel between planets and I know that our planet will be known as the place of variety and especially a place where a visitor can come and no matter what their society is like at home, that they will be able to express themselves individually in benevolent ways and be accepted and appreciated for their unique talents and abilities.

Our world is becoming smaller every day - we are around many different kinds of people. We have the opportunity to enjoy other cultures and we also have the opportunity to share our own culture. Lets appreciate this variety in food, in family, in culture and ultimately in the bonds of kinship we will form as friends and ultimately as global community.

Goodlife.

More About Forgiveness Now As Well As Disentanglement

Let us consider the circumstances around forgiveness. You have all read many things over the years about forgiveness and why it is worth doing even if only to relieve yourself of the burden of resentment.

Let us consider one of the main situations that holds back forgiveness from being complete. Very often one finds oneself in the circumstance where forgiveness, no matter how difficult to provide to others who have offended you or otherwise harmed you, can be worth doing simply because the constant gnawing at you about your anger at others can be overwhelming and add greatly to your stress level - but you know this.

What's holding it back from being complete? The biggest challenge is in forgiving yourself. Consider when you say to somebody - though it may not come up very often for some of you but consider when you say, "I forgive you" then also in a quiet moment later on - laying down or sitting up on your own - go into the most relaxed feeling you can obtain.

Calm yourself completely and when you can get to that place where you are calm and comfortable then say out loud, "I forgive you." You don't have to be specific about a person but if someone's picture flashes to your mind or some circumstance about which you feel discomfort simply say, "I forgive you."

If the discomfort doesn't fade then say, "I forgive myself for allowing myself to be hurt in life."

See if that helps. If that discomfort fades then remain in your relaxed state until other things come up that disturb you even if it is a place or a thing that makes you uncomfortable.

Speak out loud to that place or thing even if it's an inanimate object as you might perceive it, "I forgive you." If your discomfort doesn't go away then forgive yourself in the way stated above.

Now for some of you it won't work because it's a deeper root then that - meaning that there is so much about forgiveness, so much pain from the past or even present that there needs to be something that goes beyond being able to do that.

In this case I'm going to recommend disentanglement - the steps of which I've given here.

It involves gold light beings and light beings, angels and guides and certainly - Creator in order to support you as an individual and you are worth supporting.

I'm going to recommend that after you do the forgiveness process wait for about ten or twenty minutes. If you fall asleep that's fine, when you wake up try disentanglement.

Remember to request that all your beloved deities - whoever they may be, your angels, your guides, your spirit teachers and all benevolent loving beings of spirit and other energy be with you before you begin.

You will probably - when you wake up or when you get up - you will feel a little lighter. By lighter I mean you will feel as if something has been lifted off of you.

What disentanglement does and why you request these light beings is that these beings are able to travel into all places in your present and all places in your past and release the cords that bind you to old wounds - whether they be ones you remember or most likely have forgotten - and people, places and things mostly in your past but sometimes in your present that are causing you - remembering it and not remembering it you see - causing you harm and discomfort.

It's about releasing yourself from the burden of old discomforts. You see - it is difficult isn't it - to remember all who have trespassed against you to say nothing of those to whom you have trespassed but this process allows you to not only move through the first level of disentanglement but to release so much and have so much released from you.

Now "gold light beings" is important to say because they are able to function throughout all places, times and existence in a way that is completely benevolent and the same with light beings. I might add that angels, when they've been seen by others, are often seen as gold and white light - so this gives you an idea of who they are.

I recommend you use the words exactly as stated. In time I will give you more about disentanglement. For those of you who have not yet started this I feel it will be of great value. For those of you who have started it, then focus on the forgiveness work.

Goodlife to you all and goodnight.

Steps On The Balance Trail

Ah balance - how often we need others to support us and how ready we are to support others.

This is something that we don't always think about although there are those who are not only thinking about it but teaching, complimenting and providing insight and wisdom to support balance.

In these days it is difficult isn't it, to know what is your balance and what is the balance for others. It is so very tempting isn't it - almost to the point of being seductive to read about what others have done to achieve their comfort zone and what you might do in order to achieve yours based upon what they did but in fact very often you need to discover certain things.

What are your natural talents and abilities as compared to what talents and abilities are natural for others, try to expand on what is naturally of ease to you and allow others to expand on what is of ease to them and don't try to do everything for yourself.

It's very important to allow others to help you just as it's important for you to help others. Balance, I believe, is a community experience and as a community experience it is one of sharing, one of being and one of yes - enjoying.

I believe we can do this benevolently and granted - while it may be a road it is a road worth traveling. So, good luck to you and enjoy your balance and allow others to help you - that's very important. Allow it and say thank you but don't overdo it - what do I mean by that.

It's very easy because of the conditioning and your life experience that you've had to believe that if somebody does something for you that you must do more for them in order to feel safe with having received something from them. Allow others to do things for you and learn how to say a gracious thank you and don't feel that you must go to the moon to pay them back for their kindness in kind.

Consider practicing this. Pick two friends or three if you like and promise that you will do something for them in any week you choose - you will do something for them that is more than you normally do and all you want from them - and they must promise - all you want from them is a sincere thank you. "Thank you very much" they might say - sincerely with a feeling you can feel and that's it.

If you like you can all do something for each other that is more than you might normally do - not a big thing - just something small and learn how to say, "Thank you very much" with the feeling of thank you and then let it go.

In other words we need to learn how to receive support in our own comfort zone to achieve our own balance without excluding that support by making it jump through hoops or without forcing that support to stay away because you are afraid there are strings attached.

Learn how to experience balance in a way that is complimentary. You know how you like to do things for others - let them do things for you too.

Alright - goodlife.