Have you noticed how we are affected by the people and circumstances around us? We know a good deal of people, and they stay in our thoughts. You might say that we keep a word or phrase describing how we basically think about them, handy at the tip of our brain, whenever a thought of them comes up. Repetitive shorthand.

Humor is very energetically uplifting, but not if it demeans someone. Others’ smiles bring smiles to our face, also raising up our body of personal energy. A smile lack similarly brings about a stale kind of rigid blah-ness to our spirit.  I know for me, if I even get a little chuckle from something on TV I feel happier. Interesting and useful fact.

Music can lift me off a chair to dance, or just make my body move, and I feel anywhere from nice to great. You know very well that some music can make you cry so sadly, or other music make our mood light or downright Happy. Clap along if you feel that happiness is the truth.

When having a setback it’s easy to feel blah, depressed, gloomy and stuck. How fortunate to have even one person remind you that even if experiencing setback, God already has your comeback. When in a receptive mood to God, synchronicities are unmistakably noticed; you know goodness and hope are calling on you to stay open to good.

Even spiritual counselors, authors, teachers and Oprah; we all, need supportive talk and influences. No man is an island and we all benefit from words reminding us of basic positive spiritual principles

I’ve never been a fan of shows developed around hate, crime, hospitals, horror, violence, brutality or things similar. Especially considering experience being a long-time resident of Sedona, a spiritual counselor, ordained minister, teacher, reiki and Young Living essential oil healing facilitator, you might understand why I prefer TV shows and movies of encouragement and empowerment, love, togetherness, respect and inspiration. Though others can deal with negative subjects just fine, I do best influenced for inner growth, not to mention enlightenment, joy, and peace. 

Spending more time at home, I’ve watched Sedona’s McLean meditations on YouTube and sometimes Unity of Sedona’s broadcasts on YouTube, too. I’m grateful to feel benefit from Louise Hay for decades. After years of forgetting a particular favorite meditation by her, the other evening I remembered, and played it on the Tube that night. The following day while having my hair cut, my stylist asked if I’d ever heard of Louise Hay … and then mentioned the book, Conversations With God, one of my favorites. She said the Tube had many broadcasts by author Neale Donald Walsch. That night I listened to him speak about the mind we mostly listen to, which only is able to give us thoughts we have already had. Only repetitious input.

Interesting… that mind offers nothing new, just the same old thoughts and what we’ve heard and believed…yet it’s our constant feed! The mind of God is always present, when we are willing and take the time to have a conversation. So delicious. You will notice the truth in the wonderful conversation coming your way; the answers to your questions. Realizing that the other mind conversing with you will only repeat, makes it easier to determine what to pay attention to, within.

Listen to the stillness and the small still voice in the spaces between sentences. In fact, take a time-out there, anytime you wish. At the end of that stream of thought, and before the next thought begins, ‘there is a field. I’ll meet you there;’ Rumi. My favorite practices help quiet the mind, and offer truth and comfort.

We’ve become inundated with constant breaking news tweets by the President. Shock and awe. Hourly. Minute-by-minute. News has never been so consistently based on what one man thinks, from hour to hour, for years. In my opinion, he successfully created his personal, 24/7, one-man-show, expecting to, kind-of, hypnotize viewers/listeners to mindlessly believe that whatever he says is true. He seems a simple apprentice, with his own personal agenda more important than anything; currently no compassion and clarity that the shutdown is putting over 800,000 government workers, (his American citizens), into serious economic downfall, as well as airport security not being able to secure us (ironic) due to losing workers, and what may happen to air travel if losing the air traffic controllers. And on and on. Crisis and emergency.

I believe this reality star/apprentice needs a new team captain to take over. How many were surprised that he was elected? Americans ‘hired’ him. Or were some Americans unknowingly programmed via social media?  

We all have our own challenges without White House hourly interruptions.  Can I get a restraining order, or a cease stalking or harassment legal document?

How are we being programmed? What TV shows have high ratings? Walking Dead, for instance. Though partly clear we don’t expect zombies in the future, the subtle background programming is how the survivors have to live in all ways. Thoughts make imprints, without judgment. They do effect our future direction. Many ‘shows’ promote people acting rudely to each other. Yelling, Gossip, rumors, betrayal.

We are careful what children watch, but do we realize how terror, war, crime and lies programming may be making us ‘used’ to these situations in our everyday lives? Numb. Our soul’s recognition of these things not being in healthy alignment is shoved aside. If I could relay an example that just pops in my mind, it could be; if I watch videos often of sweet desserts, I’ll probably eat more sugar and may be surprised, down with line, with diabetes problems.

‘They’ say stress makes us ill. It’s called disease. Dis – ease; not being at ease or harmoniously balanced within. It’s an inside job. I know I experienced intense stress for years, and did not love myself enough to remove myself from circumstances that I could have.

These years have shown me what real self-love feels like. 

Let’s Control our own Programming, and Seek Bliss.

Love from Rachel Star of Sedona

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