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Insight from a Poker Player’s Story

    Yesterday I attended a friend’s birthday party and a financial teacher who loves poker said that most poker players like to focus on what they are really good at and ignore their weak spot. When asked, one player said she wasn’t willing to invest the time and what it took in being really bad before becoming good.  For some of us, it isn’t about the time, but instead about the discomfort in experiencing incompetence, vulnerability, and the feelings that come with an intense learning curve. One’s poker didn’t improve much, she said, from focusing on one’s strength; yet, took quantum leaps from growing just a small increment in the area of weakness. This morning while journaling, I experienced this story from the perspective of spiritual awakening. The path back to one’s Wholeness includes re-living old perceived wounds and feeling the pain associated within them until realizing the original wound contributed toward a Soul Ripening and a trusting of the Universe/God. Eventually the realization comes to us that...

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My Birthday Present to Me

    Today is my birthday!! Yes, I am a fun-loving, adventurous, travel-addicted Sag. So, what did I buy myself this year for my birthday present? A book of 286 letter, notes, and doodles by John Lennon. I love handwritten letters. I always have and appreciate them more now that most correspondence is done by text or email. There is a power in the written word and the words that come through the arm and written out of the hand to me gives forth an intimate, thoughtful energy. Thumbing through my birthday present today, I chose a postcard from John, Sean, and Yoko they sent to their friends for Thanksgiving in 1980: This past Friday evening I attended a Prayers in the Wind service at Agape Church in Culver City. Rev. Dr. Michael had each of us write a letter as though it were from God to someone in the sanctuary; letting the person know how deeply they are loved, how precious they are, how needed they are, etc....

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How to Access Light Intelligence

      What a week! Mark Earlix, healer, came to Los Angeles to facilitate private healing sessions, Spiritual Group Healing, and teach a workshop. Crazy good stuff happened. Moved by his connection with The Light, I had to share his wisdom with you. ‘Tis the Season …...

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A Day Surrounded by Dr. Ernest Holmes

  Yesterday I had the privilege of being at Founder’s Church. THE Founder’s Church where Dr. Ernest Holmes, founder of Science of Mind, blessed the church at its dedication, ministered in it for four short months and then was the focus of the first memorial service. Dr. Holmes’ writings have been influential to my spiritual growth and unfoldment. Here is a taste of his early writing from Creative Mind and Success (1919): From selfish motives alone, if from no loftier reason, we cannot afford to find fault or to hate or even to hold in mind anything against any living soul. The God who is out of love cannot hear the prayer of the man who is not love. Love and co-operation will yet be found to be the greatest business principle on earth. “God is Love.” I re-read this passage yesterday out of a book signed by Dr. Holmes and it along with several others passages felt as though it entered directly into my bloodstream. Within Founder’s Church...

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What if Mistakes are Miracles in Disguise?

    Big apologies to all of you who received fifteen or so articles in your in-box yesterday. I was working on my new website and the articles sent to you were to upload to my web page, not be sent out to you. However, they were, which got me thinking. I have always believed that even mistakes, maybe especially mistakes, are filled with a Divine Mojo of miracles. Yesterday after the BIG BLAST, I received a phone call from my spiritual practitioner inquiring in part about the abundance of articles. After laughing, and some colorful words from me, we both knew there was magic in the mistake. Someone in the blast was to receive an article on preparing for death or my three favorite ways to forgive. The posts were rich with wisdom and comfort and possibly, just possibly, they were meant to tend to the Soul of someone. This is what I trust to be so. Every morning I wake up with a grateful heart there is...

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The Many Benefits of Meditation

Through the study of books one seeks God: by meditation one finds him. Padre Pio  Meditation, which began as a sacred practice thousands of years ago, has become mainstream because of its many benefits. I Googled “meditation benefits” and the first reference to meditation that arose was from the Mayo Clinic. They suggest meditation as a body-mind medicine and cite the following benefits: Gaining a new perspective in stressful situations Building skills to manage your stress Increasing self awareness Focusing on the present Reducing negative emotions I recall Goldie Hawn speaking about the benefit of two minutes of silent breathing meditation on The Oprah Show. Interested in accessing her research, I discovered a curriculum program she created with neuroscientists and positive psychologists for children utilizing mindful meditation. She calls it MindUp™ and is based upon the practice of mindful meditation. The benefits for this practice include: improved focus and concentration; increased academic performance; developed empathy; and increased optimism. Food Matters, an e-magazine, recapped the benefits of meditation based upon...

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