Life is not something to be lived through:
it is something to be lived up to.
It is a privilege, not a penal servitude
of so many decades on earth.

William G. Jordan

As we embark on this adventure of living the Law of Attraction, we come very soon to the rather disturbing conclusion that there truly is no such thing as a victim, and that continuing to play the game of being a victim to anything or anybody guarantees only continued discontent from the relentless emission of low vibrations.

Oh sure, the rest of the world is still doing it, blaming "them" for what happened rather than their feelings; blaming "circumstances" for their bad luck rather than their feelings; blaming the drunk on the freeway, or the rotten boss, or the economy, or God for messing them up, rather than their feelings.

We may have been taught, and therefore have believed that we live at the mercy of others, or fate, or luck, or chance; certainly that is what most people on this planet live by.  But once you start to see the Law of Attraction in operation, you ultimately come to understand that there is no such thing as a victim; never has been, never will be.  There is no good luck, bad luck, good fortune, or coincidence.  There is no destiny, fate, or providence.  There is no big judge in the sky keeping score on how right or wrong you've been.  There is no karma from past lives nor penance.  That's all victim stuff.  And there is not a victim among us, only co-creators in thought and feeling, powerful magnets attracting like bees to honey the matching frequency of our ever-flowing vibrations.

You never again have to believe that circumstances outside of you control your life.  You never again have to believe that it is wrong to want.  You never again have to believe that some great power outside yourself is pulling the strings, or that anyone or anything other than you is in control.  You never again have to be afraid of "them" or "it," no matter who or what they may be, unless you so choose.

So how did we get in this mess?  You got it!  More than six billion people (plus however many more there have been over countless centuries) being born into vulnerable, lackful, fearful vibrations, all focusing on what they don't want and getting more of it.

It was never intended to be that way, but in our anxious state of needing to find a reason why things never seemed to go the way we wanted them to, we figured it had to be the fault of some factor separate from us:  the government, the economy, our boss, our marriage, our background, our education, our rotten luck, even God.

Or maybe it was because we weren't worthy, didn't measure up, were too filled with sins, hadn't been fully put to the test, or had not in some way or other paid our rightful dues.

The reality -- the real reality -- is that we are already worthy, there is no test to pass, and sin is nothing but a man-made abomination to foster control by others.

The real reality is we have come here to thrive, and prosper, and live this grand human experience in lighthearted joy, not in struggle and pain.  We have come here to have fun while we learn, to grow without suffering, and to harvest our desires in the absolute knowledge that we can have it all once we learn how to handle our energies . . . meaning . . . our emotions.

We came here with a guaranteed freedom of choice mandated by the very nature of our existence.  The time has come for us to exercise that birthright.  We are caught in no one's web.  We are bound by no circumstance.  We are victims to no conditions.  Rather, we are beings who possess the sacred ability to implement any outlandish desire our limitless minds can concoct, for we possess unregulated, unrestricted, uncontested freedom of choice, no matter what those choices may be.

It's wake up time.  It's time we remembered how to make those choices happen.  It's time to take our heads out of the sand and accept that it's no accident we get what we get in life.  It's time for us to stop creating from the improper default setting and remember the secrets of the ancient wisdom we once knew so well before recorded history, wisdom that allowed us to create our passions with simple intent.  It is time.

You deserve it all.  You deserve to have all of your aspirations realized, no matter what they may be.  You have only to want it and feeeeel it, and a whole new life of extraordinary happiness will be yours.  Not can be; will be!  That is a cosmic guarantee.

Lynn Grabhorn was a long-time student of the way in which thought and feelings format our lives.  Raised in Short Hills, New Jersey, she began her working life in the advertising field in New York City, founded and ran an audio-visual educational publishing company in Los Angeles, and owned and ran a mortgage brokerage firm in Washington State.  Lynn's books, which also include The Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting Playbook and Beyond the Twelve Steps, have received high acclaim from all corners of the world.  Her last book was Dear God! What's Happening to Us?   Lynn passed away in 2004 at her home in Olympia, Washington.  For more information, please visit www.lynngrabhorn.com
   

Excerpted from Week Six of the Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan.  Reproduced with permission from the Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine.
   

Begin by making your life a work of art. You don't have to be a super-achiever. You don't have to be unusually creative. You don't have to endure great obstacles. According to success expert, Jim Rohn, you don't have to do exceptional things at all. Just do ordinary things exceptionally well. That's The Art of Exceptional Living.

Believing Nonsense
Gail Pursell Elliott

My mother and my aunt were sitting together in church one Sunday morning.  They were 8 and 6 years old, respectively.  Their minister was in the midst of delivering a forceful sermon of the 'fire and brimstone' variety, when my mother leaned over and whispered to her sister, "He's yelling at you!"  My aunt immediately burst into tears.  Later my grandmother, who had an unpolished but keen sense of justice, punished them both.  Mom was punished for tormenting her sister.  My poor, wounded aunt got it for "believing nonsense." 

It would be interesting if every time we took something personally that we shouldn't have, we would be 'punished' somehow or reprimanded for "believing nonsense."  We'd quickly learn to take another look and be a bit more discerning before reacting to situations.  Actually, we regularly are reprimanded when we take things personally.    Often we feel like we've been slapped.  We become indignant and blame our 'tormentor,' never realizing that the tormentor really is us.   Like most tough lessons, we wind up having to do this one over and over until we learn.  And not taking things personally is one of the toughest lessons of all.  

One reason this can be so difficult is because we humans are basically self centered and have a tendency to personalize what we encounter.   It is a by-product of being trapped in these biological units we call bodies.   We feel separated from the world around us while simultaneously feeling a great need to be connected to it.  If isolation and separateness were natural to our state of being we wouldn't take anything personally, for we would be acutely aware that any outside encounter really wouldn't apply to us.  

Mystics tell us that we are all connected to each other as well as the rest of creation.  If we were completely aware that we are irrevocably connected to everything and everyone around us, we wouldn't take anything personally either for it would be an exercise in taking offense to oneself.   We would be our own adversary.  It is the conflict between the appearance of separation and the sense of connection that causes us to react.  Unresolved conflict can be pretty irritating, and for most of us, the more irritable we feel, the more reactive we become.

Since most of us are caught up in this conflict, however unconscious, we have to make a conscious decision and effort to not take things personally.  We can do this by becoming aware that our fellow travelers, caught up in the same conflict, are much more involved with themselves than they are with us.    Trying to make sense of the same feelings of isolation and need for connection that we are.   

There was an old game show my grandmother enjoyed watching called "Truth or Consequences."   When we take time to become more discerning, to look for the truth so that we can respond rather than react, we can avoid the consequences of "believing nonsense."  

Have a Great Day and be good to yourself.  You deserve it!

© Gail Pursell Elliott, "The Dignity and Respect Lady"  Innovations "Training With a Can-Do Attitude"TM  Box 552, Roland, IA 50236   515-388-9600
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