The Point of Power

There is so much in the news lately-gun control, the Pope resigns, the economy, Newtown, an enraged ex cop in CA. If we let it, it could consume us. But if we don't let it consume us, we free ourselves..we change the exact circumstance that we would have let take over our life.

Every day many of us wake up and check our Facebook news feed. How many of the posts are negative-someone has a cold, or they are complaining about the state of the world, or just that today might be a certain day of the week? Many people are so consumed by problems and the outside world, that they are simply paralyzed into inaction. They simply cannot see another way. However, "when there is a problem, there is not something to do, there is something to know." (Dr Raymond Charles Barker)

This is what I know-I get to have whatever I choose to think. If I continually focus on the negative and on problems, then that is what I get to have. What we think about, we bring about. When we consciously send out love and light into the world, then that is what we draw back to ourselves. Personally, Id rather know that I am drawing in love and light instead of hate and darkness and conflict. 

The point of power is always in the present moment. We are not stuck in the past. We do not project into the future. It is this moment, right here, right now where our power lie. We are not helpless to affect change..in fact we ARE the change. Whatever I choose to believe becomes true for me. Try it. If I wake up each day and believe it is a crummy day, it will be. There is no doubt about that. 

I wake up each day declaring that today is my best day yet. And guess what? I have yet to be proven wrong.  And Im very sure I wont be.

For many years I was a news addict. I checked the news easily 25 times a day, on the internet, on tv, in the newspaper. I read the same stories, told from a different perspective, over and over. I filled my mind and my consciousness with what was mostly negative information. Then..I woke up. I stopped watching the news on a regular basis. I now only buy a newspaper once every couple of weeks. And those times that I do, I end up usually throwing it away without reading it. I am still very well informed. The difference is that my mind is not filled each moment of each day with negative news..It is a proven fact that a steady diet of news of the world will change a persons' emotional thought process. When I stopped feeding my mind with this news, I felt a change physically, emotionally and spiritually. It is very freeing. 

What we put in our minds first thing in the morning sets the tone for our day. What we hear and watch at the end of the day is what rests in our subconscious as we sleep. When I realized this, I realized that CNN was not the first and last thing I needed to hear or see upon waking or before going to sleep. 

When we are at peace(and world news does not evoke peaceful thoughts), we can spread peace throughout our day. To effect real change in the world, it will take this shift..a shift in our collective consciousness. It will take an awakening to make a real difference.

The point of power is now..today, this moment.