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Stumped by Your Past?
Aloha Friend, In his classic text, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Dr. Joseph Murphy recounts the story of a horse that would shy away from a tree stump in a road that he traveled regularly. The horse's owner removed the stump, burned it, and repaired the road so it was clean and flat. Yet for many years when the horse and rider reached the former location of the stump, the horse would continue to shy away from it. Like that horse, many of us feel impeded by obstacles that are no longer there. We carry in our mind ghost images from our past that haunt us even though they have no present reality. You might have been subject to child sexual abuse; overbearing parents; a punitive religion; a disease or diagnosis; or a sense of insurmountable poverty. Later in life you may have had bad experiences in relationships or marriage; unfair treatment by an employer; or felt abused by an ethnic group, nationality, or government. Then, without knowing how, you kept attracting situations that mirrored it. A Course in Miracles tells us that the only wholly true fact about the past is that it is not here now. “The past is over. It can touch me not,” the Course asks us to remember. The only place your past lives is in your mind, and that is the only place it can be healed. You do not need to fix your past. You just need to find a way to think about it that brings you peace and relief. When a student challenged Abraham, “You can't teach an old dog new tricks,” Abraham answered, “You have no idea what an old dog you are.” Who you are as a spiritual being runs far deeper and stronger than any programming or imprinting you have received. A brilliant psychologist also noted, “Creative minds have been known to overcome even the worst programming.” That psychologist was Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund. So your past has only as much power over you as you think it does. Change your mind about your past, and you change your present and your future. Release your history and clear your way for your destiny. Then, like the horse that shied away from a stump that was no longer there, you are free to travel the path of your choice fearlessly and joyfully. Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Highly Recommended Film: What the Bleep do We Know?
For months I have been receiving emails from friends urging me to see the film What the Bleep Do We Know ? Now that I have seen it, I understand their enthusiasm. Now I am urging you to see it. What the Bleep? is an extraordinary spiritual and quantum physical examination of how we create our reality with our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Never before have science and spirit danced so intimately on the cinematic screen. If you are mystically oriented, you will find an orgy of limit-popping concepts and illustrations. If you are science-minded, you will be impressed by the authority with which some of the world's leading physicians and psychobiologists illuminate how consciousness plays out on the atomic and cellular level. Filmmakers William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, and Mark Vicente have succeeded in breaking new ground to bring metaphysical truth to the masses in a humorous and touching way. I especially enjoyed the sophisticated entertaining graphics and special effects. Finally, digital technology in the service of higher wisdom. What the Bleep? could easily generate lively discussion in any psychology, philosophy, religion, medical, and salesmanship classroom. Once the movie completes its theater run, lots of folks will show the DVD in their homes to circles of friends. Not everyone, of course, will “get it” - just people who have had enough of “reality” that is not working for them, and are willing to question their investment in being right about what is wrong. But many will get it, and you will be among them. What the Bleep? will become to cinema in the new millennium what The Celestine Prophecy was to the book world in the 1990's. It is already creating a groundswell attracting the attention and respect of many folks who would not otherwise sit down and watch a film inviting them to consider their identity as an expression of God. A long time ago I heard that one day when scientists reach the top of the mountain of the truth, there they will find theologians eating peanuts and laughing like hell. That day may very well have arrived. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Q & A: Each month I post one of the questions and answers from the "Ask Alan" section on my web site: .
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find myself bored with my job, bored with always having to exercise
(so I'm not!). These things are weighing me down to the point that i'm
overweight (need to lose at least 50# for my frame). I feel that because
I live in a very small town, my resources to find a job that makes me
happy are really limited. I don't want to quit the job I have because
finding another is so difficult. I'm doing my best at staying positive
with my thoughts, etc, but reality it taking over! Help?! Click here for Alan's response. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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