The 5 steps of Personal Prosperity

1. Taking Responsibility for Our life - God is
2. The Value of Patience - Unification
3. The Power of our Personal Truths - Declaration
4. Gratitude is the key connection - Gratitude
5. The Incredible freedom of forgiveness - Release

            #1 -Showing up and being present, not unconscious, but fully present and aware; this  begins with a basic willingness to be willing to walk through the stuff of our lives no matter what.  Are you willing ?

You created this spiritual center, and these words of mine spoken or written to you in your life at this very moment. I just showed up and provided the mirror for you.

Ernest Holmes says: "The world has learned all it should learn through suffering"

Have we learned all we need to learn through our own personal sufferings, up until now?

Breathe

Have we been running our lives by the seat of our pants? From one painful experience to another?

            If you are new to Science of Mind, or just need a refresher or reminder of who you really are, that Divine and Perfect Demonstration of God or spirit, you're in the right place.

The Science of Mind Text says : "Spirit and Science Of Mind make a tremendous claim that "each individual should be free from the bondage of sickness, poverty and unhappiness."

So what meanings do we place on the word responsibility?

            Our ability to respond to life, as life presents our lessons. how do we respond to those lessons? Do we see them as lessons to punish us, leftover thinking from centuries of religious control and dogma that served them at the time. In those days, they didn't know they didn't have to do things that way. They even had the potential for electricity back then,

but werent' able to discover it because of their limited beliefs.

 Just like the decisions we made when we were children, don't work for us today as adults. We are constantly and continually evolving to new and more expansive paradigns. We think more globally and Universally today, we have to.

How do we see our personal responsibilities?  What does it mean to you to be responsible for your life, to your life?  When I say the word responsibility, does the hair on the back of your neck stand up?

As the oldest of 8 kids, I didnt want any responsibility. When I was growing up, I felt it was a burden, and held me back from  "real living", which at the time was just about how much fun, fun, funI could have at a Party, Party, Party. It was my way of thinking at the time with what potential I thought I was limited to-- the total self centeredness of my youth.

How about, when we say the word responsibility? Do we feel responsibility for others first, then finally, or eventually, ourselves?  Or do we feel that giving up our responsibility to handle things ourselves, and asking another, is copping out on our own lives?  Have you felt like you have lost your identity because of giving away your power to another becaue of this?

Well, the answer is balance.

The Dali Lama Spoke about balancing our lives when he said ,"Developing a flexible approach to living is not only instrumental in helping us cope with everyday problems, it also becomes the cornerstone for a key element of a happy life"

What do we do with life's lessons when they are presented to us?

How do we respond to life on lifes terms?

Do we just have a knee-jerk reaction to these events and most other events in our lives?

Do we live in an endless loop from one adrenalin rush of daily dramas to another, or do we slow ourselves down enough to take a breath, step back, and look for the ahas in each of life's sometimes challenging stuff.

Because life happens, that's our journey here on this plane of human awareness. Are we willing to be open and teachable, and expand that awareness?

In the SOM Declaration of Principles it says:

We believe that the ultimate goal of life is to be a complete emancipation from all discord of every nature, and that this goal is sure to be attained by all." An affirmative prayer in the present tense.

            It also states, that  unless we understand these conditions and obey the natural laws, we will not benefit from this teaching fully.

Suffering is not God ordained, because we create our own experience. We have volition, self choice, the conscious mind and total freedom to create the quality of life we want.

This is not a cookie cutter teaching or philosophy, we don't leave our brains outside the front doors every Sunday, and show up like sheep, and are told what and how to think.

We show up for our own lives responsibly, and for the lives of other people in our personal relationships, in our community, and workplace, and essentially the whole world.

Mother Teresa said:  "Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier".

And we are in choice. As to how we want to perceive that happiness. That becomes the quality of our life.

                                                             

 

The Center for  Prosperous Living Proudly Welcomes

Dr. Marilyn Hall

as our Senior Advisor

 

Known as a "teacher of teachers", Dr. Hall's inspired leadership and demonstration of the Principles of Science of Mind, has made her an icon in the New Thought movement.  A minister for twenty-nine years, Dr. Marilyn's creation and presentation of her "Healing Your Heart" process exemplifies her extraordinary gift of communicating practical spirituality, and facilitating a deepening of awareness at a heart and soul level.

 

                                  

Ask Dr Gayle

 a new collumn from our Director of Practitioners

Dr Gayle Cleigh, clinical Psychotherapist in private practice at the center's new sanctuary, and is available for practitoner appts during the week, call for appointment - 949-494-6194

email your questions to Dr Gayle at: lagunabeach-cpl.org

mark it: Dear Dr Gayle

 

 

 

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