Pictures in the Mind

“One of the most provocative facts I know is that every manmade object, as well as most activity in your life and mine, starts with an idea or a picture in the mind. ” (Adventures in Prayer, by Catherine Marshall)

Catherine’s words are another way of saying that the law of attraction is real and operating constantly in our world. I also think our metaphysical place in the universe is attentive to the law of attraction.

We get our heart’s desire by ideas and pictures in the mind–and, I might add, in the heart first and foremost. This is our imagination at play, and unlike many things we have believed about the essence of salvation being serious business, it is actually a place of joy. It is seriousness that is the ego’s place in our lives.

Test your wishes and see if they are truly good for us. Drop egoic notions, for eventually they always lead to pain. Seek the highest and best known for our lives.

And then our pictures, seen first internally, will bear much good fruit.

Letting Love Lead the Way–and the Miracles that Happen

“If your life is not filled with everything you love, it doesn’t mean you’re not a good and loving person. The life purpose for each of us is to overcome negativity by choosing love. The problem is that most people love and then stop loving hundreds of times in a day. They don’t give love long enough for the force of love to move all the good things into their life.” (Rhonda Byrne’s The Power, Page 48)

When we love consistently, we move to a higher level in our lives. Miracles happen, frequently, and we are happier.

Rhonda points out how important consistency is in this move toward a higher dimension. A Course in Miracles tells us that everything–everything–is a call for love and healing or an expression of love. When we truly believe this, we can forgive any regrettable attack that our brother or sister seems in this dream to lay upon us.

Then the law of attraction brings us our heart’s desire. I like to think that this is God’s way of holding the universes together.

By Changing a Thought, We Change Our World

“Consciousness is everything, and out of it immediately [snaps fingers] you create what you call reality. You’ll discover, beloved friend, the Power and the Majesty within you as you come to see that by changing a thought you change your world.”

(The Early Years, “Love Heals All Things,” Questions 2, Paragraph 21; channeled by Jayem from Jesus; to locate the entirety, enter christmind.info and choose Way of Mastery; then The Early Years)

It is always a good thing to see a renowned figure such as Jesus discuss the law of attraction, though he rarely, if ever, uses that term. This term was popularized by Rhonda Byrne, first, in The Secret, and then other books followed.

Jesus elsewhere makes a strong point that our thoughts are very, very powerful. And the direction of those thoughts, toward positivity or toward negativity, is very important as well.

Depression actually often comes from dwelling on the negative in our lives. If we can just lift up our thoughts, guided by true reality, we can often stop a minor depressed mood in its tracks. A lingering depression changes the biology of our brains, and may need help from other sources, especially including the people in our circle.

The change from depressed mood to joy can happen immediately, though this is not always the case. Reach out for help; don’t allow our reality to be colored by the negativity of this world we have created in error.

Jesus on the Law of Attraction

“Participant: I didn’t really feel as I was blaming anyone when I said that. My meaning was only: no wonder it comes as such a surprise to us that our thoughts create our abundance. It’s not surprising that it is a big surprise to a lot of people. 

“Jesus:  Reality seems shocking when you begin to see it.”

— “Awakening,” The Early Years, Vol. I. Channeled by Jayem from Jesus.

Jesus has characterized himself in The Early Years as a “mirror.” He reflects back to us what we already know but have not yet realized. Knowing that God is One with us, and available from within, make this new assertion more plausible.

We know from Rhonda Byrne’s books exactly what the law of attraction is doing. And there are many instances from history of personalities who knew that thought was all, that what we dwell on repeatedly, does manifest. Rhonda has told us that positive thoughts are much more powerful than negativity, and so we are protected to a degree.

It is good to know that such a personage as Jesus also subscribed to this law of nature.

Choice Creates Our World

”And the shower that falls is the power to choose. That’s all, that is what the Kingdom is: the power to choose what you will be aware of, how you will use the power of mind to create the thoughts that you think and thereby create universes of experience.”  The Early Years, “Decide to Be Christ,” Paragraph 27, online version, channeled through Jayem by Jesus.

When we are in union with God, He shares His thoughts with us.  And the choices that we may with this realization are pivotal.  We are creating universes of experience, though we in this world are not privy to the larger picture.

The law of attraction is important, vitally so, in the matter of choice.  If our choices are inferior, we will create experiences that are inferior; that is just how powerful children of God really are. 

“And the shower that falls is the power to choose.”

We know that listening to the Holy Spirit gives us good days.  Then the Holy Spirit shares His knowledge with us, and we fall in line.  

This makes for the best choice.  And the best attractions.

Focus Wisely

“Your experience is always the effect of where you choose to focus the attention of your consciousness, itself being unlimited forever, embracing all the many dimensions of creation.”  Jesus, channeled, in The Way of Mastery, Part 1 “The Way of the Heart ,” Lesson 1.

We don’t stay the same all the time, especially our bodies–emotional and physical.  But we do have some control over where we place our focus.  And the focus we hold most often is exactly what will manifest.

Is this scary, that we create our own reality?  Hugh Prather thought so, and said so in his wonderful writing years ago.  But the fact that we have this much control might be reasssuring, not scary.

Having a reassuring experience is predicated on dropping from thought that negativity that invites depression.  I have read that something called “thought stoppage” is most effective.  I have found this to be true.  Call a halt to the negative thoughts and feelings by saying to one’s self, “Cancel – stop!”

In time, this simple concept will work wonders.  And it may not take much time, either.

Our consciousness is activated by our focus of thought and feeling.  Dwell on that which uplifts, never that which brings us down.

Jesus: “Paint a New Picture”

“Your experience is always the effect of where you choose to focus the attention of your consciousness, itself being unlimited forever, embracing all the many dimensions of creation.” Jesus, channeled in The Way of Mastery, Part 1 “The Way of the Heart,” Lesson 1.

Focus is everything. Jesus told Mari Perron, receiver of A Course of Love, in 2009 to “paint a new picture,” an idea that is right in line with the law of attraction. When we “blue – sky” and use our imagination to improve our circumstances, Heaven and Earth move to help us in this endeavor to turn over a new leaf.

We really have the power to make our circumstances by what we choose to focus upon. Negativity never works to bring about good. And good is what God wants for us. Let this season speak to us of spiritual joy, for Christmas is often seen by many as the best time of the year.

God loves us. Always remember this as we seek to invoke the law of attraction.

May the blessings of the season be with you today and every day.

A Channeled Jesus Comments

“There is no moment, then, there is no moment, in which you have failed.  As a sovereign master, indeed, the literal embodiment of the Mind of God, you have used your freedom to create experience.  Embrace it.  Rest in gratitude for it.  Own it as completely yours.  Then simply ask:

“Do I wish to continue it, or would I like to start a new adventure?”  (Channeled from Jesus, The Way of Mastery, Part 3 “The Way of Knowing,” Lesson 35.)

The final chapter of The Way of Knowing is a complete compendium of the channeled Jesus’ thoughts about the law of attraction.  This law is a very spiritual concept, but it is not taught in churches, and all too often we think of manifesting material objects when we seek to invoke the law.

I want to stress something very different.  WE are creators, children of God with characteristics like Himself that He gave us.  And we do get to manifest what we experience in this world.

If we don’t like our worldly experience, we can turn down the negativity that has overwhelmed our minds/hearts, and choose again.  Choose something better.  Negativity breeds depression, and depression attracts all manner of things that we don’t want.

Turn to pray before you ask for something.  Go within to see if it is a right thing.

And then form an adventure that is in line with our highest ideals, the better Self whom God wants us to reach.

Doing this will make all the difference.

Newly Released Book by Celia

I am happy to announce today the publication of a new book. It is entitled, Words to God from the Heart of a Believer: Prayers & Poems and is available from Amazon for $3.95 print, or $2.99 ebook. 113 pages.

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This is the description for a column in Miracles magazine (Jon Mundy, publisher; Glenn Hovemann, editor):

Celia Hales has just published Words to God from the Heart of a Believer: Prayers & Poems.   Seven categories of prayers range from “cocooned” (by God and love), to overcoming stress, praying about others, and guidance (receiving the help we so often need).   Fifty sonnets range from “In Plea to God” (a request that God shape us gently but without softness), to “Does God Hide?,” and “Trust & Love” (twin pillars of our new era).  Available from Amazon in both print ($3.93) and e-book ($2.99), 113 pages.

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This is the description from the Amazon web page:

Celia Hales composes prayers on the page, mostly first thing in the morning, imploring God’s help as the day unfolds. She exhibits an uplifting encouragement that the reader move ever more closely toward loving God, our God who loves us first but who always encourages our response.

Celia’s religious (“divine”) sonnets never see God as external to the self, but always as a comforting inner guide for anyone seeking to live in the shadow of the divine. She uses 17th century nomenclature, drawing on the sonnet styls of both William Shakespeare (for the stanza) and John Donne (for the spiritual themes).

These prayers and poems exhibit Celia’s profound intimacy with spirituality as the reader is invited to commune with God in both prayer, and the rhyme and rhythm of poetry.

–Thanks very much, Celia Hales

Our Concept of Ourselves Makes a Difference in Manifestation

“The circumstances of my life are too closely related to my conception of myself not to have been launched by my own spirit from some magical storehouse of my being.  If there is pain to me in these happenings, I should look within myself for the cause, for I am moved here and there and made to live in a world in harmony with my concept of myself.”  The Power of Imagination: the Neville Goddard Treasury, “The Search.”

What does this mean?  We know that we are One with God, and so it is certain that the “magical storehouse of [our] being” is our joining with God to create the circumstances of our lives.

It is a new idea to the law of attraction that the “concept” of ourselves could make such a difference in what we are encouraged to manifest.  But does this not make sense?

We can only manifest those things that are in concert with ourselves, that seem possible of achievement.  And if our concept of ourselves is at variance with what we are wanting, we will not succeed.

Go within to heal the broken areas of our mind and heart.  Then, as we transform within, our attempts to actualize in our outer environment will bear more fruit.