Receive and Share

Receive and Share

It is great to realize your dreams, to enjoy the fruits of your hard work; that in itself is a blessing, but do not fall in love with your great successes and hoard it all for yourself. A greater more extraordinary and infinite blessing is when you share your success and the rewards of your dreams with others with open arms, mind and spirit, not just with your family, not just with your friends but with those unknown to you. Share it with strange people that need comfort, both physical and emotional, enlightenment, both emotional and spiritual, encouragement, in achieving their needs, goals, and dreams. Share your affluence with others, with the poor, with those in need.

The more you share, the more you give with a deep love, joy, happiness and gratitude, the more the Universe will give you. No matter where you are in the realization of your dreams, no matter whether you have much or very little, share what you have gladly, believing that you have enough and you will receive infinite blessings.

If you say to yourself that you can’t help people because you don’t have enough for your own needs, it is exactly what you will get. Your needs will multiply and you will always have very little, but if you say out loud “I have plenty, I have enough for me and for others” and believe what you are proclaiming, the Universe will guarantee that you will have exactly as you proclaim and in great abundance.

The greatest anthropologists are more often than not multi-millionaires. These super rich people have discovered that the more they give to others, the more you contribute to causes that will bring relief to the poor and destitute, the more you can improve the life of other human beings, and you do it with love and joy, the more abundance and prosperity you will receive.

By doing this, by sharing your triumphs with those that need, by believing that you have enough to share with those that have less than you, you will be blessed with great prosperity and success. By expecting nothing in return and by giving to others with all your heart, utter joy and happiness and willingly, God will continue to reward you without end and in huge abundance.

God bless you.

Believe You Have Received

Believe You Have Received

So everything you wish for, goes on your Vision Board. But, that is just the beginning. The hard part is believing that you have already received your dreams, that they have already been realized, that they already exist. Since there is no past, present or future in the Universe, since Time does not exist in Heaven, whatever you see in your mind’s eye, believing you have received, your dream becomes manifest through your Faith, your Love and Gratitude in a very short period of time.

This is not a fairy tale, there is no magic involved, no swaying of wands and “abracadabra” it is there. But, there is a certain amount of make-belief. This is an aid to help you believe in what you cannot see immediately. If the make-belief is really strong, if through your imagination you can place yourself in the middle of your dream, if you can actually feel being there in your dream and if you can see everything in detail, then the quicker and stronger the realization of your dream will be.

When it actually happens, you won’t even be surprised because you have already experienced it, lived it in your mind.

Even though the Universe does not perceive time, we do, due to the laws that bind and surround our planet. As a result some dreams will be realized quicker, others slower. We also determine, through our thoughts, which wishes and hopes get realized first. Therefore, decide which of your dreams is the most important, give it a specific time period for your dream to become manifest and concentrate on that without loosing interest or sight of the others. Next installment you will read about being grateful for what you have received, in the meantime, believe you have received.

Create Your Vision Board

Create Your Vision Board

You place on your Vision Board images of everything you want. You want your perfect mate: you have a strong idea of what he or she looks like but you have not met that person yet, so you find a picture that represents your ideal mate and you paste it on your Vision Board. You also write on the board all the qualities you want in your ideal mate. You want children, so you find an image(s) of your ideal children and you paste it on your board. You can also write down the qualities you want to see in your ideal children. You do the same with the home of your dreams, and you do it in detail, the outside of the house, the gardens, the interior of the house, every possible room the way you want it to look. For a more accurate vision of your ideal home create a floor plan that shows you the exact layout of every room.

You want a certain car: so you find a picture of that particular car; the color of your choice, the exact model, and you write down exactly what features you want it to have and you paste it on your board.

You want a specific job, career or business: find a picture or create one yourself that will depict exactly what you wish to do, what career you want, what type of business you want to build and paste it on your board. Create a written depiction of the perfect job, career or business. Go as far as describing your ideal employer, ideal office, ideal atmosphere, and ideal colleagues. When you describe the business you want to have, describe it in detail what you want to do, what products you want to sell, how many clients you want to have, how much money you want to earn, how many employees you want to have, what work should each employee do, what type of character do you expect in the ideal employee, how long do you expect to build and reach the ultimate success in your business, how many hours you expect to work. For a more successful business, create it around your passion.

Once you have pasted every wish you have on your Vision Board, place it in a place in your home where you will see it every day. If you spend a lot of hours at your computer then place it right above your monitor. If you spend a lot of time in your kitchen, then put it on your refrigerator door. Place it in a strategic place that you know you will see every day, a few times a day. Every time you look at your Vision Board, stop and look at it and see in your mind all your dreams coming true and believe that you have received them already. That is very important, believe that you have already received and achieved your dream; that is key...

In the next section we will give you another very important part to help you achieve and realize your dreams. In the meantime, create your vision board.

Visualize Your Dreams

Visualize Your Dreams

Jesus Christ created many miracles, He cured many diseases, but every time He created a miracle He said that the recipient had Faith, the recipient Believed. Unwavering Faith in Christ and the ability to see themselves healed brought about the miracle of the cure. The miracles that Christ created when He fed the multitudes with just a few fish and a few loaves of bread, and the water that He turned into wine were done so that His disciples could see what can happen when you have complete and unshakable Faith. These men needed the affirmation of what one’s Faith can bring about.

For some of us, visualizing an idea is somewhat difficult. For others it is quite simple a process. The concept we come up with is strong enough but for many of us our minds are not sufficiently disciplined to sustain a Vision for a long period of time. We get easily distracted by the different emotions and elements that surround us that prevent us from staying focused on our Visions. Often, we also allow negative thoughts to intrude into the process of visualizing our dreams. To help us maintain that Vision in the forefront of our minds and consciousness we use visual aids, better known as Vision Boards. Keeping these Vision Boards in front of our eyes helps us fight the negative and bad thoughts that can kill the realization of our dreams and hopes.

In the next blog we will discuss what we use in Vision Boards. Until later, start visualizing your dreams.

Life is what you make it

LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT

This is how dreams start, by first visualizing them in your mind, writing them down in detail and then creating the picture gallery that represent your dreams and goals.

Some plans are just wishful day-dreams, fanciful thoughts without real substance, they appear in our minds in a shower of sparkling stars as if touched by a magical wand, and as they appear out of nowhere they’re gone a few days later.

Often, these so-called wishful day-dreams could actually become a reality, if you really wished it, but sadly you seldom believe you can achieve them from the get-go. You think that they are just there to brighten a hard and difficult day, to give you respite from worry and despair. A great pity, because that wishful thought, that “silly” day-dream can be the catalyst that will relieve you of all your troubles if you had only believed.

On the other hand, there are those dreams that are well thought out; they are connected with our talents and are the passion of our lives. These dreams tend to be more realistic, from our point of view, and therefore stay with us, often, throughout our lives.

But why are there so few of us that actually realize our passions? Why are there so many of us that have so many regrets of unfulfilled dreams at the end of our time here on earth?

Are we too set in our comfort zones that stretching out and stepping away from our cocoons is too traumatic for our psyche to contemplate? Do we have so little belief in ourselves and in the power of God that we don’t want to try to reach for the stars at all? Is mediocrity preferable to excellence if it will maintain the status quo? Is it better to deprive ourselves of our dreams so that life’s waves will not rock and maybe sink the little rafts we’re on? Perhaps! Fear can also be a deterrent from living our lives to the fullest…

I believe that humans are and have always been conditioned to live within a specified norm imposed by the societies we live in. People today are addicted to instant gratification; most people live from paycheck to paycheck and beyond their means. What they see, they want, and what they want, they buy without thought of whether they can afford it or not. Most people today don’t believe in waiting to satisfy their physical comforts or go without for a while so that eventually they can have it all and in abundance when they realize their dreams. People don’t realize that if the going is easy on the way to realize their dreams, they won’t appreciate the end results. It is those who work hard, stay focused and struggle along the way to success that eventually truly enjoy the fruits of their hard work and can truly celebrate their achievements.

But God wants us to share the abundance we have with those that have nothing. Throughout the Bible the Lord tells us to care for orphans, widows and the poor. When the Lord gave Moses the laws of harvesting, He often mentioned that the Israelites must not harvest their fields from the one end to the other, that they had to leave some of the grain unharvested and if some of the grain fall on the ground to leave it. This was the share of the poor, of passing foreigners, and of the wild animals.

Through giving abundantly to others that are in need, through sharing your wealth you can show the Lord how much you are grateful for the blessings you have received. The more you open your heart to others the more the Universe will give you what you want. Therefore, life is what you make it.

The Corner Stones of Our Lives

THE CORNER STONES OF OUR LIVES

There are four corner stones that support the structures that harbor our lives: Perseverance, Faith, Hope/Belief and Dreams! Dreams come first.

The dreams I am referring to here are the things we want in our lives; they are the plans and goals we make and want to see realized either today or at some later date. These dreams are the ideas and visions of how we want to change our present and create an ideal future for ourselves and those we love. These are the plans that we weave in our minds—we can actually see the final outcome in our mind’s eye, step by step, and in perfect Technicolor.

You want a new house and so you browse through real estate postings, you walk through some of the houses that are for sale looking for that special home you have visualized in your mind; you look through Homes and Garden for the perfect décor for each room of your ideal home and a perfect garden. You also want a new car, so you go on the Internet and start looking for the exact model of the car of your dreams. You actually are able to build your motor vehicle with every comfort, every gadget you may want, right there on your computer. Once you have all the things you want, you then print the picture of your new car with all the comforts and the color of your choice. You also print images of the interior, gardens and façade of your new home and paste them on your refrigerator for your enjoyment and to keep you reminded that what you see on the refrigerator door is the epitome of your most cherished dreams.

But dreams cannot realize themselves by themselves. We all need a support structure. People who try to work in isolation end up giving up. We all need others to boost our morale, to encourage us not to quit; to help us through the hard spots; to do what it takes to reach our ultimate goals.

So it is with dreams as well. Dreams also need a support group and that is where Hope/Belief, Faith and Perseverance come into the picture.

Together with your dreams comes Hope/Belief. Hope/Belief is what keeps the threads of your dreams glued together. The stronger the Hope/Belief, the more tightly woven it is with your dream and the more defined your dream is. The moment Hope/Belief wavers your dream starts unraveling and eventually dies.

The second component in achieving your dreams is Faith. Faith is completely and utterly interconnected with Hope/Belief, one cannot function without the other. Faith is the stronger of the two components, with Faith, Hope/Belief thrives, but without it Hope/Belief becomes an empty shell that eventually dies and so do your dreams.

Perseverance is what leads to the actual execution of your dreams. Perseverance is the hard road that you need to take to reach the eventual success that your plans have conjured up. Dame Julie Andrews explains exactly what it is to persevere: “Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” This is the third element that will carry you to achieve your goals and let you reach the finishing line, a winner.

No dream has a chance of realization unless it is strengthened by Hope/Belief, Faith and Perseverance. Together with these three elements, dreams can become the reality of your life. But, ultimately, you have to have Love and Gratitude in your dreams.

You see, Hope/Belief, Faith and Perseverance will help you reach the culmination of your dreams, but it is Love that will maintain your dreams realized and will keep you going forward to higher realizations and achievements. Love binds Hope/Belief, Faith and Perseverance together creating an indestructible force that will attach itself to your dreams and which will propel you to realize your future and place you in a state of euphoria of utter fulfillment. Ultimately, Love is the foundation and the true meaning of life. These are the corner stones of our lives!

Ask, Believe, Received and Give Thanks

ASK, BELIEVE, RECEIVE AND GIVE THANKS

Human beings were created to dream dreams without end and be able to realize those dreams. Life without dreams is an empty shell discarded on the shore of greatness.

God created humans in His image; which means that He gave us the same abilities He has. The Lord is the Universe and the Universe is the Lord and since we were made in God’s image, we are one with the Universe. Time has no meaning to the Lord. An hour to us is merely an instant, a fraction of a moment to God. We are aware of time passing because we are bound to Earth. In God’s realm everything happens at the same time. There is no past, no present and no future. That is how the Universe functions. The Universe does not distinguish between yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Universe does not know the difference between good and bad.

We know what is good or bad for us because of how we feel. If we feel good or happy when we think about something, then that is good; if we feel bad or worried about a thought, then that thought is bad for us.

The Universe reacts exactly to the way we think. It gives us exactly what we ask. It is like the genie in the lamp, it says: “Your wish is my command!” So, whatever you wish, you will receive. If you have constant thoughts of worry, fear, unhappiness, you will receive more of it. If your thoughts are of abundance, success, prosperity, joy and happiness, that is what you will get and more. It is up to you to make the right wishes for you and those around you and to make those wishes with love and gratitude while believing you have received them.

The reason I mention this, is so you understand that being made in God’s image, being part of God and being part of the Universe you too have infinite power, your Creator gave it to you when He made you. As long as you Ask, Visualize what you wish, Believe that it is already available to you, have Faith and are ready to Receive what you asked, anything you desire will manifest itself.

Your thoughts and feelings determine what and how you Ask, they control your Visions, they influence your Belief and Faith and affect your Receiving.

So, if your thoughts and feelings are positive that is what will manifest in your life, if your thoughts and feelings are negative in nature you will get exactly that and much more of the same.

Happiness, joy, contentment, love and gratitude are always the benefits you will reap from good and positive thoughts and feelings.

Sadness, despair, unhappiness, dejection, inadequacy, rejection, inaptitude, etc, are the direct results from bad, negative thoughts and feelings.

There is nothing in the Universe that you cannot do or accomplish; it all depends on your state of mind and your level of Faith. If you have a dream, and you can see it clearly in your mind, ask the Universe for it. Then believe wholeheartedly that you have received what you asked for. Give thanks for receiving your request and nothing, but absolutely nothing in this world and in the Universe can or will prevent you from getting it.

You ask for it, you pray for it, you believe you have received it and it will be so. God said, ask and you shall receive, believe that you have received whatever you desire, now, and everything will happen as you wish. In the book of Matthew 7:7-8 Christ Jesus says: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” In Matthew 21:21-22 when the apostles were amazed after Christ withered the fig tree, Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

The actualization and materialization of your dreams lie squarely within you. It is entirely up to you. Your attitude, your thoughts and feelings will determine whether or not your dreams will come to life and stay that way. So, ask, believe, receive and give thanks.