Which World Do You Live In?

How many times must we hear about the concern people feel relative to their financial security and survival in a world that is coming unglued with no sure end in sight? The news cites all sorts of problems but offer no viable solutions. Even the "experts" don't agree with each other.

So where does that leave you and me? Is our only option to sit back and be unwilling victims of situations over which we have no control?

Let's get real! Do you think for one minute that you or I, as individuals, no matter how intensely we may feel about what we are told of world conditions, that we are going to be invited to the world's seat of authority to influence the world economy, the energy crisis, fear of destruction by terrorists or the bone-head decisions made by those in authority? Never! Our individual reaction to world conditions reaches no further than our own personal feelings.

However, when we know how, we, individually, CAN exercise control over these feelings and prosper in spite of declining world conditions. We can be like a bird who has taken refuge in a protected shelter above the turmoil of a raging river's storm-tossed fury. We can observe the storm but remain untouched by it.

And the beauty of it is that no matter who is elected President and no matter what policies a new administration enacts, we can still be our own individual selves in control of our individual life experiences. We can do this in proportion to our focused, disciplined adherence to the natural laws and principles that comprise and sustain the order and perfect rhythm of the flawless universe of which we are an inexorable part.

From Galileo to Einstein, the world's clear thinkers have been telling us how to find the solutions to our problems, the answers to our questions, the resolutions of our conflicts, the peace in our hearts and the stability in our lives. They tell us that we must look within our own conscious awareness. It behooves us to listen to them. To accept this as simply an intellectual truism is not enough. In and of itself, it is just another academic abstraction and "feel good" exercise.

To make it work in our experience, we must push the "activate" button. We must totally reject any and all suggestions that would oppose or challenge the integrity of our true identity as the perfect, complete, balanced representatives of the universe which is "the whole without limit or exception" (Webster)

Maintaining this mindset, any discordant picture will automatically adjust to conform to the natural harmony and balance of the universe. With this mindset, we can no more experience discord than Columbus could fall off the edge of a flat world!