Dear Ask Gayle:
I am a person who procrastinates everything in life and that includes LOA. Today it hit me that I have to most powerful tool in the world, I understand it more than most, and yet I still am doing nothing to change my world. So I am going to be taking action from now on. I am Finally, Truly Inspired.

That is what I am starting with. I am emphasizing money because in this world, there is nothing that can give you freedom like money. I want to be a billionaire, I want to win the lottery (just to have money to give away and buy my first home), and obviously that correlates with my wanting of being wealthy.
—-BK

Hi, BK!

Affirmations are great things, and you’ve got some really good one’s listed. But the purpose for affirmations is not to convince ourselves of a lie. It’s to affirm something that is already the truth within us, focus on it, and cause it to flourish.

So saying things like “I have won the lottery,” will only bring your sponsoring beliefs to rise in objection, and since those are the energetic “mortar” for what manifests, you’ll likely end up seeing more losing tickets than ever. Unless, of course, you already have in fact won the lottery!

Since you’re out to manifest wealth, I’ll share with you this: A good friend of mine puts it this way. If you had no money in your checking account and millions in your savings, would you have any qualms about transferring the money you have in the savings into the checking so you could spend it? The Universe is like this. You have the wealth of the world within reach. The only question is how are you going to transfer it from the accounts where it sits into the account where you can use it? Ask this question of the universe and be delighted as it shows you previously unthought of ways for you to take action to become the billionaire you dream of being.

Further, when affirming that you are happy, take care to visualize a time in your life that you truly were happy and let that feeling permeate your being. Again, those feelings are the mortar to build your reality. Affirmations are not a list to repeat by rote. They are a powerful tool when wielded with care and conscious use. Your thoughts must be properly energized to produce the results you seek.

And finally, an affirmation such as “only my positive thoughts will manifest” is a double edged sword. First off, you’re just beginning and it will be a long time before you’ve developed enough control over your consciousness to make this a reality. In the meantime, you’ll have many experiences of “failure” which will seek to discourage you (one of the causes of procrastination is a fear of failure, so it looks from here like you’re setting yourself up - don’t do that!). Secondly, many times in life, we learn valuable lessons and have wonderous experiences through events that transpired out of a negative manifestation. Divorce is negative, yet we don’t get there without having loved someone enough to marry them in the first place. Don’t rob yourself of the richness of life by trying to make it perfect.

Good luck, my friend.

Gayle

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As a metaphysicist, I observe all religions, rather than subscribe to any single dogma. This makes Easter more fun than a basket of bunnies!

This morning, I settled in with a my morning cup o’ joe to check in with some friends on on a famous science fiction author’s fan forum. One of the posts apparently came out pretty harshly against the Christian Easter (capitals used for emphasis). One might think, since the sponsoring author writes of spells and vampires and wizards named Harry (no, it’s not JK Rowling), and the fan forum is peopled with more than a few souls of a Pagan inclination, that the poster would have had tons of agreement for his point of view.

Needless to say, I was surprised at the response he got. Surprised and delighted actually. People chimed up to let him know that no matter what his beliefs, out and out religion bashing is just rude, and they got him to edit his post.

I’m all for free speech, don’t get me wrong. As a writer, it’s no less important to me than  the air I breathe. But with every great Freedom comes great Responsibility, isn’t that what Spiderman’s uncle told him?  Brutal honesty without compassion is merely brutality. In a civilized society, everyone is allowed to have their own beliefs, but derisive, discriminatory, derogative diatribes are just… well, inappropriate. In other words, if you can’t share your opinion politely, just shut up!

In the beginning… Christianity was going to be The Answer. The beginning of Peace on Earth. Not necessarily in the way we now hear those phrases; as post apocalyptic promises of utopia, but as a concrete attempt to unify many individuals with highly disparate belief systems into a new community with a common focus. To do that, an attempt was made to meld the holidays of the varied beliefs and create a prevailing focus point for the masses. It was a good intention. And a heroic effort.

And like any other system managed by human beings, it was prone to being corrupted by individual egos, miscommunication, misinterpretation.

So here we stand, two thousand years later, with groups of people pointing to the corrupted results of the founders’ intent and declaring the idea flawed. On the other side of the field stand a multitude of half informed believers who insist Christ is the only reason to celebrate Easter. The only real reason. The only right reason.

I beg to differ. Easter is the celebration of our return to Life! A natural reawakening of things that have lain dormant within us, and our world. Whether your favored metaphor described that in terms of a Godly man who woke from the dead, or in the miracle of the fragile stem of a crocus forcing its magnificently colorful petals up through a frozen crust of pure white snow, the lowest common denominator is this: Life goes on! Cyclical, eternal, unstoppable.

Celebrate that!

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When is it time to let go?

 On old friend of mine used to say, “if it’s not practical, it’s not spiritual.” Wise words. But words don’t help me clear out my basement, do they? I need a crane!

 A few years ago, we experienced a “rush relocation”. A lot of things were ending at that time, not the least of which was my marriage. In a short window of time, we had to find another place to live, and we got lucky! We were able to find a suitable home with a larger yard and a two car garage right in the neighborhood.

Actually, right around the block. Um… closer than that, even. To tell you the truth…  it’s the house behind my old home. Literally. I can see my former garden from my office window as I type, no joke!

The best part of it, given our time and money constraints, was being able to fold back part of the chain link fence between the two properties and haul our belongings right across the grass. It was great!

Except it meant that I never took the time to consider what I should bring with me, and what I should leave behind.

I suppose it’s human nature to bring the past along with us wherever we go, never giving much thought to how much it weighs, or how much space it takes up in our heads… er… I mean basements. But after three years in my new home, I still go down to the laundry room every day and cringe at the massive pile of random items I haven’t needed in at least that long, and wouldn’t be able to find if I was looking for it in a moment of need anyway. 

It’s the guilt that gets to me, finally. Because as a metaphysicist, I know that the home is a reflection of the homeowner’s inner condition, and every time I look at all of this (you’ll excuse the techinical term) crap from my past, I know it’s holding me back. I promise and procrastinate, time and again, but ultimately, I’m just as loathe as the next person to actually put in the effort to face what’s there and get rid of what no longer serves me.

But something happened last week that tipped the scales. No, it wasn’t my 14 year olds 1, 264th nag about the fact that she’s embarrassed to have friends over. (She’s a Virgo, the clutter drives her bonkers!) It was the combination of two different things. A Spiritual Coincidence, if you will.

First, someone offered me the opportunity to do a radio show. I’ve been co-hosting a friend’s show at www.metrochickradio.com for about a year now, and dreaming of having a show of my own! A slot opened and the station owner thought of me. Yippee!

Second, I stopped by a new friend’s pagan supply shop for a visit and found out she’s got a new Frecycle program going in the back room. I had no idea what she meant, and I’m still not sure if I’m spelling it right, but the concept is that if you need something and its there, take it. If you have something you don’t need, leave it. I love the concept!

And boy did I have a basement full of stuff I could leave!

With my new goal in sight (the radio show I wanted to bring into my life), and a noble destination for my cast offs, I actually went to work. I showed up at Laura’s shop two days later with ice skates, a snowboard, books I have never read, a set of five wine glasses (I never used them after the sixth was broken, blame the Libra in me,) and four winter coats no one in my family will ever wear again.

When I dropped them off, I felt absolutely ebullient! Later, my cynical critic would pipe up and remind me how much money I could have made on ebay with just a little applied effort, but I quickly shut that dirty pack rat up. I’d been promising myself for three years I was going to put stuff on ebay and never did. I was going to have a garage sale, and never did. And it wasn’t because I don’t ever get near the computer or don’t have enough lawn space in my double lot yard!

Almost immediately, the magic began to happen. The very next day, I got a phone call from someone whose paths I had crossed maybe once or twice in the last few months. She was thinking of doing the same kind of radio show the station owner had already asked me to do, so she just wanted to know how she could help. She was so sweet, “I don’t want to step on anyone’s toes,” she told me.

I looked at the phone as if the woman was crazy, thinking, “Heck, dance on ‘em if you want to, as long as you want to help!”

Turns out this woman, Judy Davids, has an amazing background in marketing and getting financial backing for her various exploits in motherhood and as part of the Mom rock band, the Mydols. Perfect. She’s also got the kind of perkiness that just forces you to smile, even if you’re buried up to your neck in muck. She was, in short, an answer to my Universal Requests.

We met for coffee a few days later, and it’s almost like a dream. Things have been falling in line like magnetized dominoes ever since.

The weirdest part, though, was meeting with my writer’s group that night, only a few hours after meeting with Judy. One of the original stories a member shared contained a reference to this Amish proverb: “Dreams can only come true after you wake up and get to work.”

So there you have it…

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