Living the Great Life!
We all want to feel like we are living our life - the life we were meant to live. So often people tell me that they feel that they are living someone else's life, the one their parents wanted them to live or the life a spouse wants you to live. Life just doesn't feel right - there just isn't that feeling of contentment and rightness that you get when you are on "your Divine Path", as some call it.
How do we get on our Divine Path? I believe that is the central question for most people. The first thing we must do is to take control of our life and stop drifting. We are either rowing or drifting in life and so many of us just drift, taking whatever floats by and accepting it as "our lot in life". This is a recipe for a life of victimhood. No one needs to live this way and no one should! God did not create you to live a life of lack, sadness, tragedy and victimhood. These are a result of your thinking, choices or inaction. You are the master of your life and the captain of your soul.
To take control of your life you must first decide what you want your life to look like. What do you want? How do you want to live? Where do you want to live? What do you want to do for a living? What kind of a love life or partnership do you want? What style of life are you comfortable with? (beer and bowling or fine wine and the theatre, for example). Remember, there is no right or wrong here - it is your life and if you like the simple life - live it! If you like the life of culture and the finer things - that's fine too! Make up your mind what really feels good for you, what fits you!
Now that we have a mental picture of the life we want to live we are ready to take the first step.
1. Forget all about your past mistakes, your failures and your "sins" (errors). They have no place in your new life. You cannot put new wine into old wineskins as Scripture puts it. You cannot build a house on sand, you must have a firm foundation and that foundation has to be the knowlege that you are exactly where you are supposed to be at this moment and exactly who you are supposed to be. God loves you just for who you are, no matter how often you have stumbled.
2. Now begin to focus a majority of your thinking and visualizing on your new life. What does it look like, what kind of home do you have, who are you sharing life with, what work, if any, do you do, what do you do for fun? Live in the life you want as if it were already a fact. Yes, you must take care of your current business and life - you know how to do this on autopilot by this time, I am sure! Put your emphasis and your imagination on building your new life and then live in it. Move into the new life. Live in the end not the future. Ignore the current facts - they are nothing but the debris of your old thinking!
3. Act as if you were already in this new life. That may mean that you will have to change. You cannot live a different life without becoming a different person from the inside out. If you want to move from simplicity and modest means to wealth and culture, then the friends will probably have to change, you will dress differently and begin to enjoy as much of the new life as circumstances allow. To the extent that your current budget allows, begin to live this new life. Works the same way if you want to go the other way. You must be the person you want to be before the life you want shows up!
4. Do not concern yourself with how this new life will happen. Not your job, that is what God is for. If you do your part and get a clear picture in your mind of what your perfect life is and begin to change from the inside out to that person that lives that life, God will send the opportunities and the people to help you make this happen in fact.
More in the next lesson but remember this: Nothing in your life will change until you do!
How do we get on our Divine Path? I believe that is the central question for most people. The first thing we must do is to take control of our life and stop drifting. We are either rowing or drifting in life and so many of us just drift, taking whatever floats by and accepting it as "our lot in life". This is a recipe for a life of victimhood. No one needs to live this way and no one should! God did not create you to live a life of lack, sadness, tragedy and victimhood. These are a result of your thinking, choices or inaction. You are the master of your life and the captain of your soul.
To take control of your life you must first decide what you want your life to look like. What do you want? How do you want to live? Where do you want to live? What do you want to do for a living? What kind of a love life or partnership do you want? What style of life are you comfortable with? (beer and bowling or fine wine and the theatre, for example). Remember, there is no right or wrong here - it is your life and if you like the simple life - live it! If you like the life of culture and the finer things - that's fine too! Make up your mind what really feels good for you, what fits you!
Now that we have a mental picture of the life we want to live we are ready to take the first step.
1. Forget all about your past mistakes, your failures and your "sins" (errors). They have no place in your new life. You cannot put new wine into old wineskins as Scripture puts it. You cannot build a house on sand, you must have a firm foundation and that foundation has to be the knowlege that you are exactly where you are supposed to be at this moment and exactly who you are supposed to be. God loves you just for who you are, no matter how often you have stumbled.
2. Now begin to focus a majority of your thinking and visualizing on your new life. What does it look like, what kind of home do you have, who are you sharing life with, what work, if any, do you do, what do you do for fun? Live in the life you want as if it were already a fact. Yes, you must take care of your current business and life - you know how to do this on autopilot by this time, I am sure! Put your emphasis and your imagination on building your new life and then live in it. Move into the new life. Live in the end not the future. Ignore the current facts - they are nothing but the debris of your old thinking!
3. Act as if you were already in this new life. That may mean that you will have to change. You cannot live a different life without becoming a different person from the inside out. If you want to move from simplicity and modest means to wealth and culture, then the friends will probably have to change, you will dress differently and begin to enjoy as much of the new life as circumstances allow. To the extent that your current budget allows, begin to live this new life. Works the same way if you want to go the other way. You must be the person you want to be before the life you want shows up!
4. Do not concern yourself with how this new life will happen. Not your job, that is what God is for. If you do your part and get a clear picture in your mind of what your perfect life is and begin to change from the inside out to that person that lives that life, God will send the opportunities and the people to help you make this happen in fact.
More in the next lesson but remember this: Nothing in your life will change until you do!
posted by Rev. Dore' Jacques Patlian at
9:32 AM
3 Comments:
You're right about the living someone else's life- my mom wanted me to be an ARTIST who ignites the world with oil paintings hung in all the important galleries and museums... my husband and children HATED the mess when I was in art school and the easels were in every room of the house and the scent of turpentine wafted though the halls and oil paint tubes attacked their clean clothes and the once white cat. When I graduated (at the top of my class) they raced home from the ceremony and had a burning of the easels party. I was secretly relieved except when I thought of my mom who didn't live to see me graduate. The guilt I bore at disappointing her drove me to work at the Wherehouse renting videos for seven years and never busting out a colored pencil or water color brush once during that time.
Now, working at the Wherehouse was no accident in the long run- my teenage punk manager left to go produce computer animated shorts for television and harbored some fantasy that I was the one to talk him out of his "safe" job into the world HIS parents were afraid of. I never heard from him again until one day he called me at work one day and said he remembered me all those years and had a job for me in the computer art world at 20 times the salary I was making at the Wherehouse.
I think my Mom would understand this whole new artistic expression and approve. Taking the Foundation class freed me from the guilt and let me see my mom's side of the issue was for me to find soul satisfying work- she just didn't understand mental equivalents at the time!
I enjoyed your message, and especially like the four steps. Keep up all the good work!
Marty Bunch
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Marty Bunch, at 2:59 PM
good stuff, loved it!
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Anonymous, at 8:15 PM
Does this really work? How? I have been taught that God decides what my life will be like.
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zorro, at 8:16 PM
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