“Face piles of trials with smiles…” - Moody Blues, from In The Beginning.

A lot of our difficulties, whether they be spiritual, mental, emotional, or physical, come from having bad attitudes. If we’re often thinking negative things about the world we live in and the people who share this world with us, it is bound to darken our auras and have a negative effect on us. In fact, our negative thoughts about other people or events have a far greater impact on us than on anyone else. And if there really is someone out there trying to make us miserable, the only way to escape from that misery is to rise above it by thinking good and positive things, feeling spiritually exalted, and not allowing ourselves to be sucked into the pit of despair. This is what I speak of when I write about attitude healing.

A long time ago, in December 1990, I was homeless - a single mother with two babies ages 7 months and 19 months, and a seventeen year old. I was an escapee from a relationship in which I was battered. I left an extremely bad housing situation hoping to find something better, and was without a home for over a month. At the same time one of my neighbors who had become a close friend did the same thing. She had a four year old son at that time. We stayed in hotels and some nights I even stayed in my car. We both applied for new rentals and hers became available sooner than mine did. She offered to let me stay with her until my rental was ready since she knew I was in as deep a financial bind as she was.

Everything went well for us for a few days until Christmas Eve, and then the stress got to be too much for my friend, and she started yelling at me because she didn’t like living with my teenager. I quickly gathered my things, not knowing where I’d take my three children, and prepared to leave her home since that’s what she wanted. Before I left I turned to her wondering what to say, then suddenly felt the cares of the world lift off of me. Suddenly my heart was flying above the situation. I honestly felt like a white bird flying through the sky, filled with compassion and love. I expressed that love to her in the kindest words I could manage, acknowledging her stress and prior hospitality, and promising my friendship was still available when she was ready for it. (And yes, we did continue as friends in the months to come.)

That moment wasn’t the first time I’d experienced that “flying above” feeling of loving despite the hostile expressions of others, but it is the time I always think back to - the time I remember as my most conscious moment of emerging from the web of emotional entanglement into the freedom of spiritual, world-embracing, unconditional love.

I thereby challenge you to allow yourself to be filled with love no matter what terrible things are happening in the world or in your life. You will free yourself from stress and negativity as the healing joy of blissful love permeates your being and gives you the peace you need for health and well-being.

Heal your attitude; heal your life!

In his book, The Tenth Insight, James Redfield put forth the idea that true healing lies in helping the client remember his birth vision so he’ll have a motivation for self-healing.

Three quotes from the text:

“We should visualize the patient remembering what they intended to do with their lives but still hadn’t done.”

“Real healing springs from a renewed sense of what one wants to do once health is regained.”

“Bringing in the world vision, and holding it, is important so we’ll know what to pray for, what future to visualize.”

Another important point in the book is that when we visualize love for the planet we must include everyone, even our enemies. We are all souls in various stages of development. None of us are born intrinsically evil. Compassion is for everyone and spiritual healing should be shared with those who seem least deserving of it.

Tonight I consulted my Archangel Oracle Cards with this query: How can I best prepare for becoming an energy healing practitioner?

Here’s the cards I got:

1. Healthy Lifestyle - this card is what the reading is about. And it is totally on target. The business of health is exactly what I was asking about. It amazes me when I get a reading with a card so spot-on, but it happens commonly. I think that’s why I like using these archangel cards as much as I do. If it never seemed like they were communicating about things that I’m asking about, why would I bother?

2. Beloved One - this card tells about what’s happening now. I think this refers to my boyfriend who is also into learning about healing modalities. He is giving me the drive and determination to learn the things I need to know. He probably doesn’t know that. I’ve always been interested in healing and really, when we realized we’re both interested in the same types of things spiritually, it was the moment I first started noticing him as more than just someone passing through town.

3. Claircognizance - the card of the future. It says to ‘pay attention to thoughts and ideas that come to you as they are answered prayers.’ I will be sure to do that. There’s always more to learn. I love it when I get inspirations about ways to improve my healing techniques, or when I hear about something new and realize I just have to understand and learn every bit of it.

I like the Archangel Oracle Cards, which were created by Doreen Virtue. They usually give me readings that make sense and seem very accurate. I think if they don’t make sense to me, it is probably because I’m not ready to understand something, or because I was distracted and didn’t ask a good question or concentrate hard enough on it. I have several other decks of cards, but this one is my favorite.

Every person naturally wants to become all that they are capable of becoming. This desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to become all that we can be. Success in life is becoming what you want to be.

- Wallace D. Wattles

The Science of Getting Rich, originally published in 1910, was Wallace D. Wattles’ statement on what we now call manifesting abundance. Currently popularized by The Secret, an Australian movie featuring experts in the art of creating wealth, manifesting has become big business on the internet and in books. Wattles’ early work is substantiated by information put forth by theoretical physicists in another popular movie, What The Bleep Do We Know. There are many experts these days teaching what manifesting is, how to do it, and why it is possible.

I first read The Science of Getting Rich last year, and I’m re-reading it now. The principles put forth in the book lead us to prosperity consciousness, and need steady review to be mastered. The book is simple — consisting of seventeen very short chapters — and since there is no longer a copyright on books written so long ago, the book is available for reading free, right here on the internet. You can use Google to find it or go straight to The Science of Getting Rich Network where you will be able to sign up for a free book and newsletter.

In The Science of Getting Rich, Wallace insists that you can get rich, if anyone else can, in your current location and job. He doesn’t recommend moving or changing jobs right away. Instead he says that anyone who follows the steps in his book will, without a doubt, get rich. To understand the steps you must realize that everything is made from a “universal raw material”, the supply of which is inexhaustible. This formless stuff is intelligent and alive, and “always impelled toward more life”. It responds to our needs. By our ability to create thought forms in this universal raw substance, we can bring into being anything we want for our life.

Of course there’s more to it. We must deal with others fairly, giving everyone more ‘use value’ than we take from them in cash value. There’s absolutely no need to cheat anyone in order to get rich because there’s plenty of the “universal raw material” to create wealth for everyone. And we must be grateful for everything we’re manifesting, even before we get it.

Wallace D. Wattles lived from 1860 to 1911. Though he lived in poverty most of his life, in his later years he indeed got rich, showing us it can be done and that he knew how to do it. He wrote a few other books including The Science of Being Well, Health Through New Thought and Fasting, and The Science of Being Great.