Well, here it is! My first time on television. Oh my goodness – it was so much fun. The host Penelope Chatterton made me feel so comfortable, like chatting with a friend. I could really use a stylist and some help in the hair department, haha, I never pay attention to these things, but aside from that this is a really fun 30-minutes! Enjoy!

The episode is called New Beginning. Click here to watch the whole episode: http://www.awakeinthedreamtv.com/archives/634

Most people don’t realize you can cut anything at all out of your life: addiction, sadness, sickness, depression, doubt, habits, anything at all. You can be happy.

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Here is the recording from today’s show. Max and I talking about the movie Thrive. What to do about world problems? What is the real conspiracy? What can you do? Relax. It’s all good.

Let me recognize my problems have been solved.

Click here to listen:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/maxandlisa/2012/02/07/the-max-lisa-showa-course-in-miracles

Enjoy!

‘At the very gates of Paradise the descendants of Zeus halted here on their way to eternity to cast a look earthward and saw with the eyes of innocents that the earth is indeed what they had always dreamed it to be: a place of beauty and joy and peace. In his heart man is angelic; in his heart man is united with the whole world… Here the most sublime thoughts are nullified, stopped in their wing…ed flight by an ever-deepening halo whose effulgence stills the very processes of thought. At its best thought is but a speculation, a pastime such as the machine enjoys when it sparks. God has thought everything out in advance. We have nothing to solve: it has all been solved for us. We have but to melt, to dissolve, to swim in the solution. We are soluble fish and the world is our aquarium’ (Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi, pp.165-6).

How can you tell if the ego/mind is running the show? VERY SIMPLY. Whenever you are not wholly joyous, you can be certain the ego is in charge and masquerading as you.

The ego is an imposter. He likes to make you think it’s you that’s depressed and confused, but that’s utterly impossible because God did not create depression or confusion. He created only Light which is what you are. You can’t be depressed (or sick or sad or conflicted) because these these things don’t exist.

I absolutely love today’s lesson 37 from A Course in Miracles:

My holiness blesses the world. 

“This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world, or why you are here. “

YES and AMEN.

 

 

It’s a one hour talk and it’s great. This is the first audio I have ever listened to that I’ve ever done – Bill had it on in the living room and was listening and I walked into the room and I said: WHAT IS THIS??

He said, it’s us.

LOL.

I sat down and listened – and am listening right now – and it’s very good.

The topic is: We only have today. We don’t have any time. There is only today, and now is the time to be alive and live, to be in gratitude, appreciation, happiness and joy.

I also talk about a great great great movie we watched Life as a House.

and Bill talks about Helen Schucman being asked by Jesus if she wanted to see the past or future and she said no, I just want to be in this moment and she received the scrolls that said: GOD IS.

The focus is ONLY on God – nothing else. God only.

I’m in Boston right now with Bill, and with friends, having a great time.

I spent yesterday entertaining an idea/revelation that came into my head, and then yesterday evening around 10pm something happened to me that seemingly is a lesson I have given myself to reinforce the idea/revelations – so that I could practice it. LOL. At least that’s what it feels like.

Yesterday afternoon I got the idea that acceptance is NOT enough. That’s the first step, and it’s a good place to arrive. You accept all things exactly as they are without trying to change or fix or understand them. That is Step 1.  That’s being in the Now. Acceptance is being wherever you are, realizing that where are is where you are.

That’s Acceptance.

Being alert and aware, in the Now.

Like the Buddhist idea:
Breathing in, I know I am breathing in.
Breathing out, I know I am, breathing out.

You bring your total awareness to the present moment, to your breath, to making a cup of tea, to driving your car, to listening to whoever you are with, to washing a dish. That’s acceptance. You let the moment be what it is without wanting to change it.

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in.
Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

And that of course is GOOD and for a lot of people a huge, huge, huge step.

But for the Saviors of the world, I feel there is more being asked of us. You don’t stop there. Now in the space we have accepted, and are absolutely in the present moment, WE LOVE. We bless. We give thanks. We bring God in. We bring joy in. We bring appreciation in. We bring light in. We recognize ourselves as joyful fearless beings in the accepted space (where nothing needs to be fixed or changed or understand), and we know ourselves as open clear channels for God.

So I had that revelation yesterday afternoon and got extremely happy when it arrived.Thank you God.

Well, then last night,  at 10pm, I was getting ready to go to bed and I picked up my suitcase to move it and a muscle in my back completely spasmed so that I was unable to bend down. It was excrutiatingly painful. I have been practicing choreography for Zumba classes for about 2 weeks and my body has been in a kind of transition, with new muscles in action after no use for years, etc.

So last night, my back spasmed into a knot and I could not move without extreme pain shooting through me.

And then I remembered the revelation.

1. Acceptance. Whatever is happening right now is PERFECT
2. Bless and Love and Give Thanks.

I spent the whole night doing that – blessing and falling totally in love with the situation without trying to change it. Just being absolutely totally in joy and gratitude and love.

And then applying Lesson 14:
God did not create pain (back pain or any other) and so it is not real.
I am supposed to teach a Zumba class this morning at 8:30am. I’m going to show up. This is a lesson that has been given to me. I’m not a body. I’m up writing this blog post. I feel happy even though it’s still difficult to move. What is not real (pain) cannot affect me or my happiness.

It cannot affect me in any way whatsoever. I AM as God created me.

In AA we have a great phrase “I can’t, but He will if I let Him.”

I can’t teach the Zumba class, I can’t do anything on my own in fact, but HE CAN, and I’m going to let Him. Amen.

I love you and I bless you and I give thanks for you , you joyful fearless gorgeous light of God!

Love, Lisa

Here is an audio talk I gave: Meditation, Purpose and Aliveness. Here is the link:

On Meditation
by Osho

Meditation is an adventure, an adventure into the unknown, the greatest adventure the human mind can take. Meditation is just to be, not doing anything — no action, no thought, no emotion. You just are and it is a sheer delight. From where does this delight come when you are not doing anything? It comes from nowhere, or, it comes from everywhere. It is uncaused, because existence is made of the stuff called joy.

When you are not doing anything at all – bodily, mentally, on no level – when all activity has ceased and you simply are, just being, that’s what meditation is. You cannot do it, you cannot practice it; you have only to understand it.

Whenever you can find time for just being, drop all doing. Thinking is also doing, concentration is also doing, contemplation is also doing. Even if for a single moment you are not doing anything and you are just at your center, utterly relaxed – that is meditation. And once you have got the knack of it, you can remain in that state as long as you want; finally you can remain in that state for twenty-four hours a day.

Once you have become aware of the way your being can remain undisturbed, then slowly you can start doing things, keeping alert that your being is not stirred. That is the second part of meditation. First, learning how just to be, and then learning little actions: cleaning the floor, taking a shower, but keeping yourself centered. Then you can do complicated things.

For example, I am speaking to you, but my meditation is not disturbed. I can go on speaking, but at my very center there is not even a ripple; it is just silent, utterly silent.

So meditation is not against action.

It is not that you have to escape from life.

It simply teaches you a new way of life:

You become the center of the cyclone.

Your life goes on, it goes on really more intensely – with more joy, with more clarity, more vision, more creativity – yet you are aloof, just a watcher on the hills, simply seeing all that is happening around you.

You are not the doer, you are the watcher.

That’s the whole secret of meditation, that you become the watcher. Doing continues on its own level, there is no problem: chopping wood, drawing water from the well. You can do all small and big things; only one thing is not allowed and that is, your centering should not be lost.

That awareness, that watchfulness, should remain absolutely unclouded, undisturbed. Meditation is a very simple phenomenon.

The only two things in our lives are aliveness and patterns that block our aliveness.

As patterns are experienced out, our lives become clearer. Things begin to make more sense. What we do makes more sense.

It’s funny, but when the alive you emerges from behind the smokescreen of all those patterns and begins to participate in life directly, life really does have purpose. It all somehow makes sense, in a fantastic way.

When you get rid of the blocks, what you have is aliveness, and when the blocks are gone, purpose emerges. There is no use searching externally for purpose, or trying to “pull it in.”  It is already there. Just focus on clearing out what is between you and aliveness, so every time we create greater aliveness, the purpose is being served.

Aliveness and purpose are practically the same thing. The purpose is greater aliveness, so every time we create greater aliveness, the purpose is being served.

As more and more of us get to see that the purpose is greater aliveness, it happens that all of us start to do the same thing – we start serving the purpose. Life comes on to us in our own terms, and so does the opportunity to serve.

That everyone is serving the purpose in a different way does not mean that everyone is doing something different. That’s the illusion. We do the same thing in different ways. As each of us makes our part of the whole really work, the purpose is being served.

The purpose is LIFE and that it be, completely.

The commitment is: aliveness

Lisa

The best gift you can open on this Christmas Day is YOUR EYES.

Be free from the past and all that has been holding you in mental slavery.

It’s Christmas – the birth of Christ IN YOU into this world. Our hands are made strong by the Hand of the Almighty.

Click to listen The Redemption Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zyAVfH6VPg

Lyrics:

Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
‘Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs,
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
‘Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it’s just a part of it:
We’ve got to fulfill the Book.

Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
‘Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs,
Redemption songs,
Redemption songs.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

“This Christmas, give the Holy Spirit EVERYTHING that would hurt you.
LET yourself be healed completely, that you may JOIN with Him in healing.
And let us celebrate our release together, by releasing everyone WITH us.
Leave nothing behind, for release is TOTAL.
And when you have accepted it WITH me, you will GIVE it with me.
All pain and sacrifice and littleness will disappear in OUR relationship, which is as innocent as our relationship with our Father, and as powerful.
Pain will be brought to us, and disappear in our presence.
And, WITHOUT pain, there can BE no sacrifice.
And WITHOUT SACRIFICE, there love MUST be.”
-A Course in Miracles

This is the week-end in which a new year will be born from the time of Christ.
I have perfect faith in you, to do all that you would accomplish.
Nothing will be lacking, and you will MAKE COMPLETE, and NOT destroy.

Say and UNDERSTAND this:

I give you to the Holy Spirit, as part of myself.

I know that you will be released,

UNLESS I WANT TO USE YOU TO IMPRISON MYSELF.

In the name of MY freedom, I WILL your release,

Because I recognize that we will be released TOGETHER.

So will the year begin in joy and freedom.
There is much to do, and we have been long delayed.
Accept the holy instant as this year is born, and take your place, so long left unfulfilled, in the Great Awakening.
Make this year different, by making it ALL THE SAME.
And let ALL your relationships be made holy FOR you.
This is OUR will.

Amen.

Okay, I can’t hardly believe I am posting this, but here it is!

A video with me in it!

I’ve been slowly switching over to a whole food diet since this spring 2011 when I traveled to Europe. Thank you to my darling friend Trish Alvarez! Then for the past couple of weeks I have been transitioning over to raw foods, cleaning out my cupboards, getting rid of anything processed, cleaning out the fridge, out with the white flour, out with the refined sugar. I’ve been making vegetable juice every day (kale, beets, carrots), and a fruit smoothie every day (pineapple, raspberries, blueberries, mangoes, strawberries) and I’ve just generally been feeling really great.

But I know this can’t be a diet for me – because diets don’t work. I need something I can live with and also I know I NEED SWEETS and desserts and real food to eat not just salads – so I’ve been looking for recipes.

So last night I was on Amazon searching for Raw cookbooks and I happened to come upon a book called Get Naked Fast by Diana Stobo. Well!! The cover is just so fun, and the title is so intriguing that of course I had to go find her! I went to her website first http://www.dianastobo.com where I signed up for her mailing list and received the first 3 chapters of her book for free in pdf form, then I found her on facebook, then I watched the most inspiring video of her on youtube, and instantly I knew I was going to do this 10-Day Challenge.

So today was officially Day 1, and I wanted to document it on video. Just for me, and my eyes only.

As most of you who know me, I DON’T DO VIDEO.

I’ve been blogging and doing audios since November 2004, but I don’t do videos.

But today, I decided that I really wanted to document Day 1, and since it was just going to be for me, for my eyes only, no one would ever see it, so what the heck?

So I made a very short video – 1 minute and 27 seconds. Then I watched it, and I really liked it. That was a huge surprise. It’s like getting naked already on Day 1, exposing myself which felt really liberating. So I sent it off to Diana – thinking she’d get a kick out of it – and she loved it, wrote me back straight away and asked if I would be willing to send her videos every day for the next 10 days.

HAHA. So, there you go. I’ve never told anyone my weight and now I am telling the world. Talk about getting naked fast!

Plus you finally get to see what I LOOK like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl_5PXzG6Bs

Enjoy!

This is a good one – designed to get to the core of what you think are your problems.

On a piece of paper on the top of the page write down I SHOULD

Make a list of five to six ways to finish that sentence.

I should ___________________

I should ____________________

I should ____________________

I should ___________________

I should ____________________

Once you’ve got your list written down of I should, now after each one, ask WHY?

Because my parents said I had to
Because I have bills to pay
Well everybody has to do that
Because I’m afraid not to
Because if I don’t everything will fall apart
Because people are counting on me
Etc.

Now take the word SHOULD out of your vocabulary. It is one of the most harmful words in our language, equated with a feeling of being wrong.

Now ….

replace should with COULD.

Could gives you a choice.

Now take your list from above, one item at a time, except this time begin each of those sentences with
IF I REALLY WANTED TO, I COULD ___________________.

This puts a whole new light on the subject.

Now ask yourself WHY HAVEN’T YOU? WHY AREN’T YOU?

Now we hear entirely different answers:

I don’t want to
I’m afraid
I don’t know how
Because I am not good enough
Etc.

“I often find that people have been berating themselves for years for something they never wanted to do in the first place.” -Louise Hay

HA. There is the end of guilt. I laughed out loud in joy when I did this exercise when I said I COULD IF I WANTED TO __________________ and I discovered that I didn’t want to do any of the things I thought I “should”.

“Or they have been criticizing themselves for not doing something when it was never their idea to begin with. Often it was just something that someone else said they “should” do. When they can see that, they can just drop it from the “should do” list. What a relief that is.” -Louise Hay

Give this a try and see if some of the burdens you have been carrying around unnecessarily are released. You’ll be amazed.

from Louise Hay’s book You Can Heal Your Life

Here is the recorded audio of a one-hour talk I gave yesterday at ACIM Gather Radio.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4621838/Lisa121511.mp3

I talk about how my eyesight for the past 6 weeks had been getting worse and worse and worse until finally it was so blurry I couldn’t read anything without taking out my contact lenses (kind of a problem, since I am blind without contact lenses). Then I was in the library earlier this week and lo and behold there was a book called 28 Days to Reading without Glasses. I couldn’t believe it, I wasn’t even looking or thinking about trying to correct my eyesight – but there it was and I thought WHAT I HAVE GOT TO LOSE??

So I immediately started doing the exercises – some yoga stretches, deep abdominal breathing, change to a whole food diet, and going deep into the subconscious by resting and relaxing to plant new ideas there – and immediately on the very first day there was an dramatic improvement, and by the second day, my eyesight is 100 percent back to normal and I can read perfectly without taking out my contacts.

So even though it says 28 Days for me it worked in 2 days.

I didn’t use the affirmations mentioned in the book, but used this one from Florence Scovel Shinn’s book: I GIVE THANKS FOR MY PERFECT SIGHT. I SEE GOD IN EVERY FACE. I SEE GOOD IN EVERY SITUATION.

Here is the audio: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4621838/Lisa121511.mp3

And my honey Bill Free joins me on this audio, reporting from Portugal where he is with Mooji.

ENJOY!!

How the life of man can become centered in his being, how he can experience himself and how he can attain his own self?

The first point is about how a man should start living his life from the center of the navel, centered in the self, centered in his being. Before I go into this I would like to discuss three other significant ways through which the energy that is dormant in the navel can become awake. Once it is awake it becomes a door through which man can experience a consciousness which is different from his body.

I will tell you the three points, and then I will discuss them. The first point is right exercise. The second point is right diet. And the third point is right sleep. The person who does not get right exercise, right food and right sleep, can never become centered at the navel. Man has lost touch with all these three things.

Man is the only species whose diet is not predictable. The diet of all other animals is certain. Their basic physical needs and their nature decides what they should eat and what they should not; how much they should eat, how much they should not; when they should eat and when they should stop. But man is absolutely unpredictable, he is absolutely uncertain. Neither his nature tells him what he should eat, nor his awareness tells him how much he should eat, nor his understanding decides when he should stop eating. As none of these qualities of man are predictable the life of man has gone in some very uncertain directions. But if there is even a little understanding — if man starts living with even a little intelligence, with even a little thoughtfulness, opening his eyes even a little, then it is not at all difficult to change to a right diet. It is very easy; there can be nothing more easy. To understand right diet we can divide it into two parts.

The first thing: what should a man eat and what should he not eat? Man’s body is made of chemical elements. The whole process of the body is very much chemical. If alcohol is put into a man, then his body will be affected by the chemical — it will become intoxicated, unconscious. Howsoever healthy, howsoever peaceful the man may be, the chemistry of the intoxication will affect his body. Howsoever saintly a man may be, if he is given poison then he will die.

If the navel center is mistreated, if a wrong diet, wrong food is used, then slowly, slowly the navel center becomes dormant and its energy becomes weaker. Slowly, slowly that center starts falling asleep. Finally it almost goes to sleep. Then we don’t even notice it as any center.

Then we notice only two centers: one is the brain where thoughts are constantly moving, and the other is a little bit of the heart where emotions are moving. Deeper than this we have no contact with anything. So, the lighter the food is, the less it creates heaviness on the body, the more valuable and significant it will be for the beginning of your inner journey.

For a right diet the first thing to remember is that it should not create excitement, it should not be intoxicating, and it should not be heavy. After eating rightly you should not feel heaviness and drowsiness. But perhaps all of us feel heaviness and drowsiness after our meals — then we should know that we are eating wrongly.

A very great doctor, Kenneth Walker, has said in his autobiography that according to his life-long experiences he can say that of whatever people eat, half of it fills their stomach and half of it fills the stomachs of the doctors. If they would eat only half of what they usually eat then they would not get sick at all, and there would be no need of doctors.

Our wrong attitudes towards food are becoming dangerous for us. They are proving to be very costly. They have taken us to a point where we are somehow just alive. Our food does not seem to create health in us, it seems to create sickness. It is a surprising situation when food starts making us sick. It is as if the sun rising in the morning creates darkness. This would be an equally surprising and strange thing to happen. But all the physicians in the world are of the opinion that most of the diseases of man are because of his wrong diet.

So the first thing is that every person should be very aware and conscious about his eating. And I am saying this especially for the Meditator. It is necessary for a Meditator to remain aware of what he eats, how much he eats, and what its effects are on his body. If a man experiments for a few months with awareness, he will certainly find out which is the right food for him, which food gives him tranquility, peace and health. There are no real difficulties but because we do not pay any attention to food, we are never able to discover the right food.

The second thing about food is that the state of our mind when we eat is much more important than what we eat. Food will affect you differently if you eat joyously, happily, or if you eat when you are filled with sadness and worry. If you are eating in a worried state, then even the best food will have a poisonous effect. And if you are eating with joy then it is possible that sometimes even poison may not be able to have its total effect on you. It is very possible. So what state of mind you eat in is important.

The more happily and joyously and the more relaxed and without worry a person can take his meal, the more his food starts becoming the right food.

A violent diet does not only mean that a man eats non-vegetarian food. It is also a violent diet when a man eats with anger. Both of these things are violent. While eating in anger, in suffering, in worry, man is also eating violently. He does not realize at all that just as he is violent when eating the flesh of something else, so when his own flesh burns up inside due to anger and worry, violence is present there too. Then the food which he is eating cannot be non-violent.

The other part of right food is that you should eat in a very peaceful, a very joyful state. If you are not in such a state, then it is better to wait until you are and not to eat for a while. When the mind is absolutely ready, only then should one take his meals. For how long will the mind not be ready? If you are aware enough to wait then at the most it can remain hungry for only one day — but we have never bothered to listen to it. We have made eating food a completely mechanical process. One has to put food into the body and then leave the dining table. It is no longer a psychological process — that is dangerous.

On the body level, the right food should be healthy, non-stimulating and non-violent; on the psychological level the mind should be in a blissful state, graceful and joyous; and on the level of the soul there should be a feeling of gratefulness, of thankfulness. These three things make food the right food.

A feeling of gratitude should be there in all aspects of life, and very particularly with diet. Only then can diet become the right diet.

OSHO QUOTES ON VEGETARIANISM

1. The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.
2. It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not make much difference. You can be a vegetarian and cruel to the extreme, and violent; you can be a non-vegetarian and kind and loving. Food will not make much difference. In India there are communities who have lived totally with vegetarian food; many Brahmins have lived totally with vegetarian food. They are non-violent but they are not spiritual.
3. I don’t teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years.
4. Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has much to do with aesthetics. It is unbelievable that a man of sensitivity, awareness, understanding, love, can eat meat. And if he can eat meat then something is missing he is still unconscious somewhere of what he is doing, unconscious of the implications of his acts.
5. If you meditate long enough, deep enough, it is impossible for you to hurt anybody for food; it is impossible. It is not a question of argument, it is not a question of scriptures, it is not who says what, it is not a question of calculating that if you take vegetarian food you will become spiritual; it is automatic. It is not a question of cunningness, you simply become spiritual. The whole thing seems so absurd. Just for food, killing animals, birds, seems so absurd, it falls down.
6. With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord. You don’t have to drag it, you don’t have to discipline yourself for it. I have nothing to do with vegetarianism, but I know that if you meditate you are going to grow new perceptivity, new sensitivity, and you cannot kill animals.
7. Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one’s sensitivity, one’s respect, one’s reverence for life.
8. No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the Nobel prizes go to non-vegetarians? — because vegetarian food does not contain those proteins which create intelligence. And unless we provide those proteins, intelligence cannot grow. The body is a very delicate phenomenon and it needs a very well balanced diet.
9. In my commune, I have added non-fertilized eggs to the vegetarian food. I am a vegetarian and I would like the whole world to become vegetarian — but not at the cost of risking your intelligence. Non-fertilized eggs fulfill the need completely; in fact, better than non-vegetarian food. We should make it a point that non-vegetarian food is not allowed in the universities because to kill, to do violence just for food, is so ugly and so inhuman that you cannot expect these people to behave lovingly, sensitively, humanly. Non-vegetarian food is one of the basic causes of the whole society being almost in a continuous fight. It makes you insensitive, it makes you hard, it makes you a stone. And it creates things in you — anger, violence — which can be easily avoided.
10. Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is the idea of vegetarianism. It simply means: don’t destroy life. It simply means: life is God — avoid destroying it, otherwise you will be destroying the very ecology.
11. Vegetarianism functioned as a purification. When you eat animals you are more under the law of necessity. You are heavy, you gravitate more towards the earth. When you are a vegetarian you are light and you are more under the law of grace, under the law of power, and you start gravitating towards the sky.
12. Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly — so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.
13. Vegetarianism is of immense help. It changes your chemistry. When you eat and live on animals…. The first thing: whenever an animal is killed the animal is angry, afraid — naturally. When you kill an animal… just think of yourself being killed. What will be the state of your consciousness? What will be your psychology? All kinds of poisons will be released in your body, because when you are angry a certain kind of poison is released into your blood. When you are afraid, again a certain other kind of poison is released into your blood. And when you are being killed, that is the utmost in fear, anger. All the glands in your body release all their poison. And man goes on living on that poisoned meat. If it keeps you angry, violent, aggressive, it is not strange; it is natural. Whenever you live on killing, you don’t have any respect for life; you are inimical to life. And the person who is inimical to life cannot move into prayer — because prayer means reverence for life.
14. Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live in friendship with nature, in friendship with creatures. That becomes the foundation. And only on that foundation can you base your prayer, your meditativeness. You can watch it in yourself: when you eat meat, meditation will be found to be more and more difficult.
15. Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness — becomes more sensitive but less sensuous, becomes more prayerful and less sexual. And your body also starts taking on a different vibe. You become more graceful, softer, more feminine, less aggressive, more receptive. Vegetarianism is an alchemical change in you. It creates the space in which the baser metal can be transformed into gold.

Forgiveness always rests upon the one who offers it, until he sees HIMSELF as needing it no more. And thus is he returned to his REAL function of creating, which his forgiveness offers him again.

Forgiveness turns the world of sin into a world of glory, wonderful to see. Each flower shines in light, and every bird sings of the joy of Heaven. There is no sadness and there is no parting here, for everything is TOTALLY forgiven. And what has been forgiven MUST join, for nothing stands BETWEEN, to keep them separate and apart. The sinless MUST perceive that they are one, for nothing stands between, to push the other off, and in the space which sin left vacant do they JOIN as one, in gladness recognizing what is part of them has NOT been kept apart and separate. The holy place on which you stand is but the space that sin has left. And here you see the Face of Christ arising in its place.

Who could behold the Face of Christ, and NOT recall His Father as He really is? Who could fear love, and stand upon the ground where sin has left a place for Heaven’s altar to rise and tower far above the world, and reach beyond the universe to touch the heart of ALL creation? What IS Heaven, but a song of gratitude and love and praise, by everything created, to the Source of its creation? The holiest of altars is set where once was sin believed to be. For here does every light of heaven come, to be rekindled and increased in joy. For here is what was lost to them restored, and all their radiance made whole again.

Forgiveness brings no little miracles to lay before the gate of Heaven. Here the Son of God Himself comes to receive each gift that brings him nearer to his home. Not one is lost, and none is cherished more than any other. Each reminds him of His Father’s Love as surely as the rest. And each one teaches him that what he fears he loves the most. What BUT a miracle could change his mind, so that he understands that love cannot BE feared? What other miracle is there BUT this? And what else NEED there be to make the space between you disappear? Where sin once was perceived will rise a world which will become an altar to the truth. And YOU will join the lights of Heaven there, and sing their song of gratitude and praise.

For as they come to YOU to be complete, so will you go with them. For no-one hears the song of Heaven, and remains without a voice that adds its power to the song, and makes it sweeter still. And each one joins the singing at the altar which was raised within the tiny spot that sin proclaimed to be its own. And what WAS tiny then has soared into a magnitude of song, in which the universe has joined with but a single voice. This tiny spot of sin that stands between you still is holding back the happy opening of Heaven’s gate. How LITTLE is the hindrance which withholds the wealth of Heaven from you. And how GREAT will be the joy in Heaven when you join the mighty chorus to the Love of God. -A Course in Miracles

Hi there !

I gave a 1 hour and 20 minute talk yesterday, here is the recording.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4621838/LisaNatoli121211.mp3

ENJOY!

the first 40 minutes are about finding out what resentments are blocking you – WHAT IS YOUR KING-PIN? – and then removing it so that everything starts flowing again.

and the last 40 minutes are about healing food addiction with A Course in Miracles.

If something is blocking you, you gotta unjam it if you expect things to start flowing again. You can’t just stand at the river’s edge and hope and pray for a miracle – you must go deep in there – deep into your subconscious – find the thing that is blocking you and then unblock the block, it’s that simple. Then everything starts flowing again.

From Florence Scovel Shinn:

Find the thought which is your great oppressor; find the “king-pin”.

In the logging camps in the Spring, the logs are sent down the rivers in great numbers.

Sometimes the logs become crossed and cause a jam. The men look for the log causing the jam (they call it the king-pin), straighten it, and the logs rush down the river agian.

Maybe your King-Pin is resentment. Resentment holds back your good.

The more you resent, the more you will have to resent; you grow a resentment track in your brain, and your expression will be one of habitual resentment.

You will be avoided and miss the golden opportunities which await you each day.

I remember a few years ago, the streets were filled with men selling apples.

They got up early to get the good corners.

I passed one several times on Park Avenue. He had the most disagreeable expression I have ever seen.

As people passed he said, “Apples! Apples!” but no one stpped to buy.

I invested in an apple and said, “You’ll never sell apples unless you change your expression.”

He replied, “Well that guy over there took my corner.”

I said, “Never mind about the corner, you can sell apples right here if you’ll look pleasant.”

He said, “O.K. lady,” and I went on. The next day I saw him, his whole expression had changed. He was doing a big business selling apples with a smile.

So find your king-pin (you may have more than one); and your logs of success, happiness and abundance will go rushing down your river.

Go therefore now and work, for there shall no straw be given you, yet ye shall make bricks without straw.”

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4621838/LisaNatoli121211.mp3

The Love Declaration is a personal transformation covenant whose purpose is to be a bridge to our awakened conscious unity. It is a spiritually-initiative portal through which all beings are invited to pass via the authentic setting aside of the illusion of a separate self. It is a powerful and unambiguous thought form, and is intended to be freely shared, moving as a gift from heart to heart as timed and guided by the Good That Is. It’s mission is to inspire unifying miracles by rigorously voicing—without exceptions, back-doors, loopholes, or exits of any kind—a fundamentally true knowing living deep within every created being.

Regardless of any failures to actually BE it moment to moment, The Love Declaration stands for the possibility of knowing ourselves as our Word in exactly the same way that life’s Creator knows itself as it’s Word. This Declaration, by including and going beyond the present tense simple into the future-promissory (I am and I will be) languages for the benefit of our personal awareness the actively compassionate voice of our universal relatedness. It is a tool providing the limitless non-comparative reality of Absolute Love a trustable anchoring presence for our hearts and minds. Beyond suggesting daily remembrance, and that its usage be public, shared, and communion-generating, The Love Declaration, being universal, comes “without instructions”, because guidance regarding its use is available within every being directly for the sincere asking, whatever our individual cultural backgrounds, faith persuasions, or other life-contextualizing paradigms. Thank you for recognizing that your life, and the creative, intentional, and contributive way you live it, is a blessing absolutely essential to the wholeness of Life. There is only One of us here.

Wanna sign The Love Declaration?

“I AM AND I WILL BE”

THANK YOU GOD.

THE LOVE COVENANT

I am your partner
in awakening
from fear.
From this moment on,
at all times,
under all conditions,
I Declare I am
and I will be,
for All Beings,
A Conscious Source
of Absolute Love;
and I promise
I will serve
only this Love,
in you,
in me,
and in All,
no matter what,
for the rest of my life.

AMEN.

Hi there -

My friend Marielle is now on her way back to Wisconsin – I just dropped her off at the airport. We had a great amazing weekend. Relaxing, a movie, breakfast, lunch and dinner, zumba and a yoga class, a trip to the ocean, a trip to Barnes and Nobles, Starbucks and lots of laughing. So she’s on a plane right now on her way home. I miss her already!

Just a reminder we are doing a weekly radio show every Monday at 3pm EST: Healing food addiction with A Course in Miracles.
So that’s today.

Since Marielle is traveling today, it will be just me today.

You can listen in at http://www.acimgatherradio.org

and if you would like to interact, or ask question or talk – you can come to http://www.paltalk.com and the room is ACIM GATHER

Hope to see you there.
If you have a topic or question you’d like to see covered on the show, please let me know.

Love, Lisa