to our friends in japan -

many caring and healing thoughts
to you and yours
and all others impacted

let us all think...

the greatest invention...

i invented my life 

by taking for granted 

that everything 

i did not like 

would have an opposite -

which i would like -

from fields of corn...

her pregnant gut she chose to hide

until the day ordained to die

when all the earth did open wide 

and let them out from deep inside

then those with wings who just were born

when from her deep dark womb were torn 

did rise at last from fields of corn 

to summon forth a new day’s morn 

the waters rose and washed away 

the hearts of those who could not stay 

who with their deeds did dark the days 

and prayers alone could not them save

.

.

.

- do we not see - 
- do we not hear - 
the signs? -

- a re-post that just seemed fitting today in light of the tuscan incident of 1/8/11 -

the seed...

 within the seed 

of your desire

is everything 

necessary for it 

to blossom 

to fulfillment

and where do you dwell?

i dwell in
POSSIBILITY

imagine your desire...

Never mind what is. 

Imagine it the way 

you want it to be 

so that your vibration 

is a match to your desire. 

When your vibration 

is a match to your desire, 

all things in your experience 

will gravitate to meet 

that match every time.

TO ALL OUR CREATURE COUSINS IN THE GULF...

To whales, 

dolphins, 

pelicans, 

fishes, 

shellfishes, 

planktons, 

corals, 

algae 

and all 

creatures 

in Gulf of Mexico
 

I am sorry.

Please forgive me.
 

Thank you.
I love you. 

thank you to masaru emoto for this original prayer 

and to

trish and rob macgregor for posting it 
http://ofscarabs.blogspot.com/

let's change the gulf waters...

the observer has an effect on reality - 

our thoughts have the capacity to change physical matter

the creation of dreamers...

We are all dreamers

creating the next world,
the next beautiful world 
for ourselves 
and 
for our children.

it's all up to you...

By choosing your thoughts,

and by selecting

which emotional currents

you will release

and which you will reinforce,

you determine

the quality of your Light.

You determine

the effects that

you will have upon others,

and the nature

of the experiences

of your life.

a single thought...

If you and I
are having a single
thought of
violence or hatred
against
anyone in the
world
at this moment,
we
are contributing
to the
wounding
of
the
world.

the king of intention...

I am the greatest,
I said that even before I knew I was.

I figured that if I said it enough,
I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief.
And once that belief becomes a deep conviction,
things begin to happen.

thoughts turning the baby...

i've mentioned several times in this blog the concept of "intention" - obtaining what you want or need by "intending" it - by knowing you can obtain or do whatever it is that you want - that we each create our own reality - another of my own "intention" experiences involves the birth of one of my children - during the delivery process, it was discovered that the baby was breech, then transverse - the doctors did everything possible to get the baby to turn but she was obstinate and would not budge - this meant that i would have to have a c-section - the doctors announced that i would be made ready for surgery and i announced to them that they should all leave my room and not return until i rang the nurses' station - and that i would get my baby to turn - reluctantly, they left, saying they would give me no more than 15 minutes - once i was alone, i closed my eyes, "talked" to my baby and asked her to please turn and visualized her turning herself - within a few minutes i knew that she had and then i rang the nurses' desk - of course, when i was checked, the baby was head down and ready to be born - the natural way -

lynne mctaggart [the intention experiment, pg 139] refers to this kind of result in pregnant women being obtained through "'hypnotic intention', discussing how, in altered states, corresponding to the hyperalert state of intense meditation, conscious thought can convince the physical body of many things"...

i just didn't happen to be hypnotized -

another intention related quote...

What you can do,
or think you can,
begin it.

- -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

the power of words - of belief - and of KNOWING...

this is a story of several things - it is the story of my son stephen and his experience with the power of WORDS and of THOUGHTS...it is a story of spirit and of body, of INTENTION, of BELIEF, but FAR MORE than mere BELIEF - a story of KNOWING - and of SURVIVAL against all odds -

in 1999, stephen found himself at death's door after four separate physicians had failed over the course of a week to correctly diagnose his real medical problem and that was a pulmonary embolism - the bottom line was that on august 29, he found himself back in an emergency room of the first hospital he had gone to for help a week earlier - this time, within an hour, the correct diagnosis was made - but for stephen it was too late according to the doctors who advised me to call in our minister and to contact his siblings to come home - he was immediately placed on life support in icu - his sisters were called in from the east coast, his other sisters rushed to the hospital, friends came and some of them performed group prayers while he was still in the ER - his ex-wife out of state was called in - once in ICU his condition deteriorated moment by moment - medications were increased then decreased - medications were added and then removed - machine after machine was hooked up to this organ and then another organ - the second night he was taken to a small surgical room where a heart procedure was done and we [his family] were called into the room to say "goodbye" - i remember being led into this procedure room - my daughters were there and stephen's father and stepmother and sister were there - and there was my son lying on a stark operating table - naked except for a single sheet from his waist down - his skin was dark gray - almost a lavender gray - his body was swollen - the room felt frigid - i stood there in the middle of the floor - frozen, transfixed in time - time stood still - i remember standing there desperately trying to intellectually emotionally make sense of what i was seeing - the almost-corpse of my child - everyone was sobbing - and i remember the eyes of them all - they were all looking at me - trying to see what i was going to do and how i was going to do it - and i remember saying to myself, literally, SUCK IT UP - DO NOT GIVE IN TO THIS - YOU MUST NOT BELIEVE THIS - YOU MUST NOT SEE WHAT THEY SEE - HEAR WHAT THEY HEAR - FEEL WHAT THEY FEEL - SOB WHAT THEY ARE SOBBING - YOU MUST KNOW YOU DO KNOW that he will not die - and i remember the wetness of tears falling down my cheeks and the salty taste of them on my lips - and in this moment - this microsecond - my body physically straightened - i remember it as if it were yesterday - my body straightened and i looked up at all of them, wiped my tears and walked over to my son and told him that he was fine - that we were there with him waiting for him to awaken - and then i turned to the others in the room and whispered to them that they had to save their tears and their prayers for somewhere else - that when they were in stephen's presence - and mine - they could have no other thought except that he was going to awaken and he would be well - it was simple, really - clear as day to me - we had to not only believe, we had to KNOW - and so, thenceforth and forever more, whenever a doctor would come to me - and they did, several times daily, sometimes hourly, with more negative medical news, each of them was met with the same response - when one told me that 99% of his patients did not make it at the point where stephen was, i said HOW WONDERFUL!!! THAT MEANS HE HAS A ONE PERCENT CHANCE AND THAT'S ALL HE NEEDS - THAT'S GREAT NEWS! - when they came to me and told me they had nothing else to offer but more experimental procedures that had never even been tried on a human, i said OH, THAT'S GREAT NEWS, YOU'VE GOT PROCEDURES UNTRIED STILL - HOOK HIM UP! and when i would walk into his cubicle and find them clustered there around his bed, shaking their heads, and mummering negativities, i would call them out onto the floor and tell they that they were prohibited from using any of that language, saying any of those negative words, in the presence of my son - and, further, that i did not want them saying them ANYwhere - if his own physicians did not know he was to improve, how could he? - every day i took something else that he liked to him - one day i took his favorite pizza and sat it beside him to smell - and we stood around his bed talking about how good the pizza was - i took his favorite willie nelson music and played it in a boom box in his cubicle - he was on four life-support systems but that was just his body - i knew that the "real" stephen was there smelling the pizza and singin' with willie - and so, with my sometimes not so gentle prodding, the doctors began to change - the nurses were more cheerful around him - from that moment in the cardiac procedure room, not another tear left my eyes - i made my life as "usual" as possible - i went to and from work and the hospital - his sisters went back to the east coast - and then the time came for all life support to be removed - he had been left on longer already than was feasible - he had to be weaned from it all else face the issues if he weren't - and so there were weeks then of the ups and downs of that process - but through it all, we went on with as much of things as usual as was possible - and then, one day when i got there, his eyes were open - he was still on a ventilator and several other machines - but he was awake - and from there - another month and he came home - he had a long road of recovery and was left with some deficits - but today he is able to work and do most of the things he did before - for me, this was such a turning point in my individual life - in how i began to see things differently - to do things differently - to THINK things differently, to SAY things differently - i experienced first-hand the POWER OF THOUGHT - the POWER OF KNOWING over belief - the POWER OF WORDS - i no longer allow negativity around me in friends, television, movies, books, employment - i no longer keep negative words in my vocabulary - i seek out positivity - now, that is not to say that i am 100% successful in these things, 100 % of the time, but i am cognizant of them every single moment and that is all i can do - one moment at a time -

POSTSCRIPT: i want to clarify my comment regarding prayer above - while i do totally understand the m any different ways of accomplishing the same thing and do not wish to negate in any way anyone's individual chosen methodology - ie, prayer, belief, thought, whatever - for me, in the context of that moment, the manifestation of any of those things meant that there was the possibility of my son's death - and i refused to accept that - the saying of a prayer, for example, meant to me, in that moment, that a prayer NEEDED to be said - i simply chose not to NEED but to KNOW - there is a difference - do you know what i mean? i hope so! namaste' - j

the power of words...

...words have the power to both destroy and heal - buddha

...whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or for ill - buddha

...you can change your world by changing your words - remember life and death are in the power of the tongue -
joel osteen

...words differently arranged have a different meaning...and meanings, differently arranged, have different effects - blaise pascal

...we are what our thoughts have made us - so take care about what you think - 
words are secondary - thoughts live - they travel far - swami vivekananda

it's all about knowing...

i am frequently asked
how i manage to "LOOK" so young -
my response is easy -
what do you mean?
i don't KNOW that i'm
NOT young...

...for some reason that came to my mind just now as i was cruising the www - and i came across this quote which resonates with my own philosophy -

Aerodynamically

the bumblebee

shouldn't be able to fly,

but the bumblebee

doesn't know that

so it goes on flying anyway--

Mary Kay Ash

it's all in the KNOWING...

from the mouths of babes........gumballs and more

a year or so ago, while at macy's with my daughter and her then five-year-old little girl, babygirl decided that she wanted bubblegum from the giant gumball machine in the children's clothing department - however, as is usually the case, neither her mother nor i thought we had any change at all - but finally we found one single quarter - ONE - and babygirl wanted a RED gumball and RED ONLY so she was going to need more than one quarter obviously as the huge machine was full of all different colors - thousands of gumballs and only ONE CHANCE at a RED one - well, you know, when you're five years old, having a RED GUMBALL is a really really big deal - it was for me at five, anyway, and so, too, it was for babygirl - so there we were - one quarter and thousands of gumballs away from a red one - my daughter continued to prepare babygirl for the inevitability of a green one or a blue or yellow or orange gumball, which only served to upset babygirl more - it was then time for YAYA INTERVENTION - so, i told babygirl that all she had to do was to focus on a red gumball if she really really wanted one - she had to look into the exit cup and see one single red gumball first in line to pop out when her quarter struck - i reminded her that yaya had never told her anything that wasn't true or possible - and asked her to believe to know that yaya was telling THE TRUTH now - and that she could have that red gumball if she just believed and, moreover, if she KNEW she was getting the red one - she had to KNOW not just believe - and there IS a difference - so she stood still for a moment, looked at the outlet cup and said "red gumball, come on out" as she inserted her one little quarter - and then, before she could catch it, there onto the floor bounced a RED GUMBALL - which she promptly grabbed, blew off, and popped into her little mouth -

[the image is not the exact machine, but similar - our gumball machine held about 5,000 one-inch gumballs and it was full!]

ghandi on thought...

A man is but

the product of

his thoughts -

what he thinks,

he becomes.