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7-13-10 Independence From Our Egos
This July, as always, the United States celebrated its Independence Day. We decided to make this day and this month a celebration of Independence from our egos.
Our egos filled with fear seem to have so much "crazy glue" around them, they become like fly paper, and the more we try to shake loose from our egos filled with fear, the more entangled we become with them.
We find if we take one second at a time to focus on getting beyond our bodies, and sharing our love with other, that our egos will lie down for that one second and we feel free and independent.
Please comment below and tell us about your experiences of becoming independent of your egos, even if only for one moment!
Love and Peace,
Jerry and Diane
6-8-10 Recognizing "Being" Instead of "Doing"
One of the focuses of Attitudinal Healing is to let go of the blocks that interfere with experiencing ourselves as love and giving that love away.
We have experienced that the main blocks to love are generally our judgments of ourselves and others, our attachments to guilt and blame, our control issues, the interpretations we make on others and ourselves, and our belief that we are only bodies doomed to die and that’s the end of it. These are strong manifestations of the ego’s system that keep us from experiencing love and inner peace.
Another manifestation of the ego system is that we get caught up in our “to do list” and achieving, and feel guilty when we have not completed our impossible list. We seem to make our “to do list” more important than “being.” Would you be willing for just a week to wake up in the morning and focus on what we call our “to be list?” This would mean that you could wake up every day and say to yourself:
Today I recognize that my “Being” is:
• Unconditionally Loving
• Compassionate
• Peaceful
• Gentle
• Generous
• Honest
• Trustworthy
• Kindhearted
• Mindful
• Open Minded
• The Light of the World
Love and Peace,
Jerry and Diane
4-13-10 Love IS The Answer
There is an old saying that April showers will bring May flowers. We like to think that our purpose here on planet earth is to be gardeners who plant seeds of love. Some of the seeds will blossom into flowers almost instantly; some might take a few months, while others may well take years. In their own time all of them will blossom. When we plant these seeds and give our love away to others, we do not measure it or get focused on the outcome. We believe that all love sent is ultimately received at some level.
Attitudinal Healing has to do with letting go of the blocks to love and learning to not be afraid of it.
We often ask ourselves, “Are we here to love or are we here to judge?” Have you ever thought of what might happen if each of us would make a decision not to judge others or ourselves? That would mean that we would be loving ourselves and not excluding our love from anyone?
What would happen if each of us decided today to see only the light in each other and not our lampshades… the costumes we wear?
What would happen if in our minds in every challenging encounter we said silently, “YOUR LIGHT IS ALL I SEE AND IS BUT A REFLECTION OF THE LIGHT IN ME?”
We might then find that, indeed, Love actually IS the answer.
Love and Peace,
Jerry and Diane
2-26-10 Happiness Is A Choice
This month we celebrated President Lincoln's birthday and were reminded by our dear friend Carlos Santana of a quote of his that went something like, "We are only as happy as we decide to be."
That quote is what Attitudinal Healing is all about. Our happiness is not dependent on external factors. Our happiness is our natural state of mind. It is only the self-imposed blocks we put in the way of love, such as unforgiving thoughts, that cause our unhappiness.
We can make a decision to be totally happy and peaceful no matter how hard we work with what is put on our plate.
We want to thank so many of you who have come to the new AHInternational website and shared so many beautiful comments and helpful feedback. Please invite your friends and family to visit www.ahinternational.org and share it with others - all are invited.
Love and Peace,
Jerry and Diane
1-18-10 Another Way Of Looking At Life
The mind can be retrained. Within this fact lies our freedom. No matter how often we have misused it, the mind can be utilized in a way that is so powerful an agent foe change that at first it is beyond anything we can imagine. However, before the mind is retrained, it seems to be nothing but tightly locked compartments. We sense our potential, but it is held behind "closed doors." As you may already know, these blocks are really only attitudes in need of healing, and because they are attitudes that we alone have chosen, they can be altered. With each small change, another "door" springs open. At the beginning we feel trapped and unable to escape our limitations, but as each unhelpful attitude is put aside, we increasingly see that our mind was never meant to be compartmentalized. All our potential has always been at hand because our mind is, when healed of our grievances, whole. The final barriers to our happiness are self-imposed.
