Resentment builds a strong connection between you and whatever or whomever you resent. Is that really what you want to do?
The time and energy that you devote to resentment will take away from other things you could be doing. Is resentment really how you wish to spend your precious resources?
Sure, you may not like whatever has happened, whatever brought up those feelings of resentment. Yet the sooner you move beyond it, the better off you'll be.
Stop punishing yourself for the thoughtlessness of someone else. Let it go, and let yourself move positively forward.
Take all that energy in your resentment, re-direct it, and make something valuable out of it. What's happened has happened, yet what will happen next is up to you.
Make the next moment one that will give you cause for grateful celebration. Drop the resentment, and get on with living your own unique joy.
~ Ralph Marston ~
Wheatgrass Juice and Fluoride
Page 62
Chapter 'ARE YOU PROTECTED FROM THE HAZARDS OF MODERN LIVING?'
A few years ago, I ( Ann Wigmore ) asked Dr. GH Earp Thomas of the Bloomfield Laboratories in High Bridge, New Jersey, to do an experiment for me. He placed a small amount of wheatgrass juice in a jar of regular tap water and he tested it for fluoride and other chemicals present in the water...
Both of us were surprised by the results!
He concluded, "Fluorine rapidly combines with calcium phosphate and other kinetic elements to lose its toxic properties, and harden teeth and bones. that is why fresh grass would act as a catalyst to speedily change the acid fluorine into a beneficial component with a positive reaction...
By using wheatgrass, which is comparatively rich in calcium phosphate, it would remove any free fluoric acid and change its negative charge to an alkaline calcium phosphate fluoride combination with a positive reaction"
I was amazed (Ann Wingmore )
not only did wheatgrass neutralize the toxic effect of fluorine but it converted it into an ally in maintaining healthy bones and teeth! I don't recommend that you drink tap water, though; pure spring or purified water taste better and is much better for you. But if you cannot obtain spring or purified water, pour a little wheatgrass juice into regular tap water, and it will make it more healthful...
book info: The Wheatgrass Book: How to Grow and Use Wheatgrass to Maximize Your Health and Vitality (Avery Health Guides)
Author: Ann Wingmore"
The Innocent World
Heavenletters
What beautiful occurrence is going to happen today simply because your heart is with Mine? In which direction will the world turn today because you gave a kindness? What sally will the world bring forth today because you let go of a long-held reproach? What miracles will you set the foundation for today? What event will occur nine years from now because you walk the Earth today?
I would like to ask you, beloveds, what is not possible in this world?
I would like to ask you, if you can influence an event in nine years to come, what event might you choose? I will even ask you, how many? How many choices in the world would you like to spin? What blessings are you eager to bestow upon mankind?
If you can alter something today, if you can alter something in nine years, what could you not influence and where and when?
Let Us send a message. Could be in a bottle, and it will sail the Ocean of Life, and it will turn up somewhere, and it will be read, and it will be heard, and the world will smile.
Beloveds, even if the message is sent and no one finds it, it will still have served a purpose and fulfilled what it set out to do. Even if the message is thought of and not actually sent, it will still find its place in the world.
All your thoughts are messages sent out to sea. How important you are to the world right now and the world to be! You can even change the past, beloveds, so powerful are you.
Certainly, you have not thought that you are helpless? If, for some obscure reason, you have thought you are helpless, then will you kindly think a new thought? What you think you spread out to the Universe. What would you like to send out? Even if only an echo of what you send out comes back to you, and only you, would you not be happy? Of course, I am not implying that it is possible for you to be the only one to hear the echo. Any message you have thought will resound throughout the world. The timbre of it will be felt. Someone will react to it. Many will react to it. You will have set something in motion.
Beloveds, bless rather than curse. Encourage rather than discourage. Hearten rather than dishearten. You have a noble mission in life, beloveds. You are to play the chord for the world. The world is waiting to hear you play a tune on the piano that it will harken to. The world is waiting for the sound of your voice. It is waiting to hear what song you sing. The world waits to vibrate to what you send it.The innocent world will vibrate to whatever song you sing. If you sing a dirge, it will vibrate sadness. If you sing a song of love, the world will hum a love song. This is the story of the world, only you have not thought so. You have thought no one hears you, no one listens, no one responds. Now I tell you that the whole Universe trembles or smiles according to what you send. Send a care package.
There are messages not to be sent. Tear them up. Take care with what you think and speak, even to yourself, for you are making the drum roll for the world. The world is innocent. It can only do what you tell it to. The world is a reactor. It reacts to you. It is you who makes the sun shine.
Repeating Unhealthy Patterns
April 5, 2009 by Susan Elliott
Source >>> http://gettingpastyourpast.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/repeating-unhealthy-patterns/
When we have been traumatized in any way there is always the (usually unconscious) drive to re-create the traumatic situation and this time to prevail, to gain ascendancy over what defeated us before. The greater the trauma, the more powerful this drive to surmount it. ~ Robin Norwood
Many of our relationships take shape because they are familiar to us. The unsupportive person is like our unsupportive parent. The absent partner is like the parent who was never there for us (whether of their choice or we were pulled away from them or they died). The critical partner is like the critical parent we could never please. The partner who plays “I love you, go away” with us is replicating messages from long ago. We want to hear “I love you, come here.” but keep picking people who say, “I love you now leave.” Sometimes they are mirroring us and our need to run away lest we be rejected. The push me-pull me dance is both maddening and comfortable and we don’t know how to break out of it.
We find ourselves abused in the same way as before. There are two dynamics at work here. The first is the draw to the familiar, that which we know, that is comfortable. Comfort does not mean warm and fuzzy and nice, it means what we are USED TO being around.
If what we are used to (familiar with…from the word “FAMILY“) unhappiness and abuse, that is what is comfortable to us.
To break out of this comfort zone we need to recognize our patterns, recognize what we are drawn to and work on our self-esteem and our self-talk to break those patterns a little bit at a time. That is why it is important to stay away from relationships while you do this important work. The change happens gradually and if you continually go into relationships you will find that not much has changed from the last time.
The second reason is that we are drawn to people who represent old struggles that we have never won. We think (unconsciously of course) that if we get this unavailable person to be available to us, then we have won over the unavailable people who came before. If we get this person to stop drinking or drugging, we have won over the alcoholic/addicted parent who raised us. If we get this abuser to become a healthy individual, we have triumped over all the abusers who came before.
It doesn’t work that way. We will never win. We lost those old struggles and we need to recognize and accept that. We need to understand that the only way to WIN now is to NOT PLAY THE GAME. We need to recognize the old patterns that are keeping us stuck and how we say the same old same old and do the same old same old and therefore GET the same old same old (which is misery).
We need to go back in time and look at the fights we have lost and realize there is no way to win. We need to use our friends and our support systems and our journal to get angry at our old tormentors and tell them we are no longer playing the games. We need to revisit what was visited upon us when we were young and innocent and didn’t know better. We need to get angry and hurt about it and work through it and stop playing it out in our present.
We need to stop continuing the hurt that others put on us before.
We need to take care of ourselves NOW and step out of the automatic dances with the inappropriate and hurtful people.
We need to stop hurting ourselves by continuing the dance.
We stop repeating unhealthy patterns when we recognize them, when we feel about where they come from and when we make the decision that we don’t need to win. If we are drawn to someone that doesn’t mean we necessarily have to have them or be with them. It could just mean that they are familiar and not in a good way.
Often our “type” is just some variation on a theme that we have had before, that has hurt us before. That is why our type often does us wrong….because the mold has been set by very unhealthy people.
Work on your self-talk, journal about the hurt and the anger of the past, decide to avoid your “type” until you have it straightened out, and be good to yourself…the single most important thing in defeating unhealthy patterns is to develop a new one of being good to yourself and insisting others do the same.
We must learn to step back and “observe” especially when someone is setting us off. We need to look at the choices we are about to make and ask why. We need to learn to walk away and say “no, not now. Not this time. Not anymore.”
And then go and soothe the places in us that have been hurt, that have craved attention from those who cannot give it…that have tried to be loved by people who cannot love.
The only way to win is not to play the game.
And to be good to you.
Pope was reluctant Hitler Youth, Vatican spokesman tells 'Post'
By MATTHEW WAGNER AND SAM SER
May 12, 2009
Pope
Benedict XVI was forced to join the Hitler Youth as a teenage seminary
student, but was ideologically opposed to the movement, said Tuesday
Rev. Federico Lombardi, spokesman for the Holy See.
"There was a time when the pope was a young seminary student that he was obligated to join the Hitler Jugend," Lombardi told The Jerusalem Post.
"He was forced to miss seminary studies occasionally but he opposed Nazi ideology and got out as soon as he could."
Lombardi's comments contradicted news stories that appeared during the day Tuesday to the effect that the pope was never in the paramilitary organization tied to the Nazi Party.
A Reuters report quoted Lombardi as saying that the German-born Benedict was actually involved in an anti-aircraft unit which was drafted between 1944 and 1945. "The pope was never in the Hitler Youth, never, never, never," he was quoted as saying.
The German anti-aircraft units, according to Lombardi,
"had absolutely nothing to do with the Hitler Youth and the Nazis and
Nazi ideology."
According to the report the spokesman stressed, "It
is important to say what is true and not to say false things about a
very sensitive thing like this."
However, previous research and comments made by the pope himself paint a different picture.
According to this the pontiff's membership in the Hitler Youth as a teenager was not voluntary but compulsory and that he was given a dispensation from Hitler Youth activities because of his religious studies. Also, Benedict XVI, who served in an anti-aircraft unit, deserted during the war.
The pope was the son of an anti-Nazi policeman.
Ratzinger has several times gone on record on his supposedly 'problematic' past. In the 1997 book Salt of the Earth, Ratzinger is asked whether he was ever in the Hitler Youth.
"At first we weren't," he said, speaking of himself and his older brother, "but when the compulsory Hitler Youth was introduced in 1941, my brother was obliged to join. I was still too young, but later as a seminarian, I was registered in the Hitler Youth. As soon as I was out of the seminary, I never went back. And that was difficult because the tuition reduction, which I really needed, was tied to proof of attendance at the Hitler Youth.
"Thank goodness there was a very understanding mathematics professor. He himself was a Nazi, but an honest man, and said to me, 'Just go once to get the document so we have it...' When he saw that I simply didn't want to, he said, 'I understand, I'll take care of it' and so I was able to stay free of it."
Ratzinger says this again in his own
memoirs, printed in 1998. In his 2002 biography of the cardinal, John
Allen, Jr. of the National Catholic Reporter wrote in detail about
those events.
The Vantage Point of Adversity 
From people who have difficult problems, innovations are born.
From people who are bored and dissatisfied, creativity flowers.
Great accomplishments do not come from people who wait
until conditions are perfect. Great accomplishments come from
those who are determined to begin working,
right here and right now, to make things better.
Even in the deepest adversity, life's immense value
persists and endures.
From that adversity, great strength can grow.
It is when times are difficult that you most profoundly realize how
great life can be. It is when life's best possibilities are impossibly
far away that you can comprehend their magnificent brilliance.
Life's burdens provide a unique and powerful vantage point. In the
midst of those burdens, not only can you see the way forward, you
become fully committed to making the best possibilities real.
From the vantage point of adversity, chart your course
to a life that's richer than anything you've yet known.
And feel the power as you do indeed make it real.
Ralph Marston
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It Is Getting Very Serious Now
by Chuck Baldwin
May 12, 2009
First, it was a Missouri Analysis and Information Center (MIAC) report; then it was a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report; now it is a New York congressman's bill. Each of these items, taken on their own, is problematic enough; taken together they portend "a clear and present danger" to the liberties of the American people. It is getting very serious now.
As readers may recall, the MIAC report profiled certain people as being potential violence-prone "militia members": including people who supported Presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and myself. In addition, anyone who opposed one or more of the following were also included in the list: the New World Order, the U.N., gun control, the violation of Posse Comitatus, the Federal Reserve, the Income Tax, the Ammunition Accountability Act, a possible Constitutional Convention, the North American Union, the Universal Service Program, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), abortion on demand, or illegal immigration.
The MIAC report prompted a firestorm of protest, and was eventually rescinded, with the man responsible for its distribution being dismissed from his position. The DHS report profiled many of the same people included in the MIAC report, and added returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans as potentially dangerous "extremists."
As I have said before, it is very likely that when all of the opinions and views of the above lists are counted, 75% or more of the American people would be included. Yet, these government reports would have law enforcement personnel to believe we are all dangerous extremists that need to be watched and guarded against. If this was not bad enough, a New York congressman has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to deny Second Amendment rights to everyone listed above.
According to World Net Daily, May 9, 2009, "A new gun law being considered in Congress, if aligned with Department of Homeland Security memos labeling everyday Americans a potential 'threats,' could potentially deny firearms to pro-lifers, gun-rights advocates, tax protesters, animal rights activists, and a host of others--any already on the expansive DHS watch list for potential 'extremism.'
"Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., has sponsored H.R. 2159, the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009, which permits the attorney general to deny transfer of a firearm to any 'known or suspected dangerous terrorist.' The bill requires only that the potential firearm transferee is 'appropriately suspected' of preparing for a terrorist act and that the attorney general 'has a reasonable belief' that the gun might be used in connection with terrorism.
"Gun rights advocates, however, object to the bill's language, arguing that it enables the federal government to suspend a person's Second Amendment rights without any trial or legal proof and only upon suspicion of being 'dangerous.'"
WND quotes Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt as saying, "By [DHS] standards, I'm one of [DHS Secretary] Janet Napolitano's terrorists. This bill would enable the attorney general to put all of the people who voted against Obama on no-gun lists, because according to the DHS, they're all potential terrorists. Actually, we could rename this bill the Janet Napolitano Frenzied Fantasy Implementation Act of 2009."
Pratt was also quoted as saying, "Unbeknownst to us, some bureaucrat in the bowels of democracy can put your name on a list, and your Second Amendment rights are toast." He went on to say, "This such an anti-American bill, this is something King George III would have done."
Now that DHS has established both a list and a lexicon for "extremists," it looks to Congress to confer upon it police-state-style powers through which these individuals may be disarmed and eventually done away with. Rep. Peter King is accommodating this goal with H.R. 2159.
Let me ask a reasonable question: how long does anyone think it would be, after being profiled by DHS and denied the lawful purchase of firearms, that those same people would be subjected to gun confiscation? And how long do you think it would be before DHS began profiling more and more groups of people, thus subjecting them to gun confiscation?
This was exactly the strategy employed by Adolf Hitler. The Jews were the first people denied their civil rights--especially the right to own and possess firearms. Of course, after disarming Jews, the rest of the German citizenry was likewise disarmed. And we all know where that led.
I'm not sure how many of the American people realize that it was the attempted confiscation of the colonialists' cache of arms in Concord, Massachusetts, that started America's War for Independence. Yes, my friends, it was attempted gun confiscation that triggered (pun intended) the "shot heard 'round the world." And now it would appear that, once again, a central government is on the verge of trying to deny the American people their right to keep and bear arms.
I am told that as of 2004, 50% of the adults in the United States own one or more firearms, totaling some 270 million privately owned firearms nationwide. I would venture to say that the vast majority of these gun owners would find themselves matching the DHS profile of a potential "extremist." I wonder how many gun owners realize the way they are now being targeted by their government, and just how serious--and how close--the threat of gun confiscation has become?
If one doubts the intention of the elitists in government today to deny the American people their right to keep and bear arms, consider what former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is purported to have said just a couple of weeks ago. Kissinger attended a high-level meeting with Russian President Medvedev that also included former Secretaries of State James Baker and George Shultz; former Secretary of Defense William Perry; and former Senator Sam Nunn. Included in the discussions was Kissinger's assertion that the American people were now ready to accept a "New Global Order." He is also reported to have told Medvedev, "By September we'll have confiscated all privately owned guns so it really doesn't matter what we do, we'll still be in charge." (Even though the national news media has not reported this statement, the Internet is abuzz with Kissinger having said it. Whether Kissinger actually made that statement or not, he, and rest of his ilk, have repeatedly called for a New World Order, in which there will be no constitutional protection for the right to keep and bear arms.)
This leads to a very serious question: how many of America's gun owners would allow their government to deny them gun ownership? Further, how many would passively sit back and allow their guns to be confiscated?
As humbly and meekly as I know how to say it: as for me and my house, gun confiscation is the one act of tyranny that crosses the line; debate, discourse, discussion, and peaceful dissent cease and desist at that point. I say again, it is getting very serious now.
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EMOTIONAL ACCEPTANCE
by Jennifer Hoffman @ urielheals.com
You understand the concept of acceptance in spirit, where you allow each person to be in their own energetic vibration and know that each one is vibrating at their highest potential in each moment. It is necessary to bring this understanding to the level of the emotions for this is where the energy becomes stuck and is unable to move. The emotional attachments you have to outcomes, to others, to beliefs and to desires is what requires release to bring you into harmony with the spiritual growth that you achieve through your healing work.
The emotional energy of the earth experience is dense and fear-based and it is the density of this energy that allows it to collect in multiple layers in your consciousness. Each emotional experience has an energetic imprint that becomes encoded in your DNA and can be released through your healing work. It is this imprint that feeds your desire for closure, restitution, resolution and an outcome that responds to your expectations. Embedded in this imprint is lifetimes of emotional experiences that form the layers of your emotional body.
Emotional acceptance occurs when you honor the emotional energies that you and others carry and allow them to be transmuted through the removal of judgment and expectations. This removes the imprint and all of its lower vibrational energies, as well as your attachment to it. Without the imprint you are able to be in acceptance of all emotional energies, yours and those in your soul group. You remove the connections to your expectations and allow yourself the freedom to accept others' choices of emotions as theirs, without being connected to them.
Your emotions are never bad or wrong, they are simply your representation of the earth's energies as you experience them through your emotional body. Accept these energies as a physical experience of your soul's journey and become the observer. Each person has chosen to heal a specific emotional vibration that they must experience. Learn acceptance and you can resist the urge for attachment, to change them and transform their emotions. The lesson of releasing attachments is one that all of humanity is learning and with it comes the release of the density of the emotional energies and the opening for the higher level energies that come with acceptance in all things and freedom from fear.
The Great Momentum of Love
There really is not more love nor is there less love. Yes, I know it seems that way, and sometimes it can even seem on the Earthly plane that there is no love, no love at all, neither love to give nor love to receive. Yet love can never go extinct, beloveds. It cannot dry up, and yet love is not to be preserved but spent. To keep up with itself, love has to flow. It has to flow until the whole world swims in love.
Love is like the air you breathe. There can be deep breaths or small gasps of air, and yet you are surrounded by love just as you are surrounded by air. You who are love are immersed in love. You are love. It's just that you have put your attention on other things, this or that, or you have put your attention on what seems like the absence of love. Where was your head, beloveds? What were you thinking of? The absence of love, indeed.
Really, beloveds, can you look up at the sky, night or day, and say that you are not in the presence of love? If that is the case and you have been unaware of the presence of love, then you have been thoughtless. Be thoughtful in your awareness of love. Love cannot be absent. It must be that you have absented yourself from awareness of love. What compares to love, and what would you ever want to take your awareness away from love for? What is worth even one tiny shred of love? Anyway, love cannot be shredded. It comes whole. Love is wholly love. Is love not stirring in your breast now?
When you are planting a garden, what can be prompting you to plant but love?
When you pick a ripe peach from a tree, what can your attraction to this peach be but love?
You want love. Even when you harbor resentment, you want love. You wouldn't harbor resentment towards anyone unless you wanted love. What you want is to be loved. Resentment is saying that you wanted love from someone, that you deserved it, and you didn't get it. Otherwise, why would you harbor resentment in the first place and ever let it turn into a grudge?
The world and the people in it seem to either give love or withhold it. How about you? Would you prefer to give love or to withhold it? Withholding love makes you a miser of love. What good does storing love do for you or anyone? Giving expands, and withholding contracts. When you expand, you relax. When you withhold, you are tense. In fact, when all is said and done, whom can you withhold love from but yourself, beloveds?When you compress love, you are not loving yourself. You have turned yourself into a compressor rather than expresser. You are happy when you give love, and you are unhappy when you don't. You may say that you are unhappy when someone else doesn't love you. You feel unhappy because you don't know how to express love to someone who doesn't love you, doesn't continue to, or never did. When love is not expressed, it is repressed, and repressed love equals hardness of the heart, which can only mean unhappiness and dejection, perhaps anger and pique. In any case, you need to stir the love in your heart.
When you express love, you express it fresh from the cow of your heart. The more you express love, the greater the flow. The greater the flow, the more love that is expressed and the more momentum of love you have.
Beloveds, just love. That's all there is to do, just love.
