The last couple weeks, since focusing a full week on kindness, has been a whole new level of awareness and overall feeling of gratitude, an overall feeling of wellness, an overall feeling of happiness. Kind of like reaching a new plateau with a whole new feeling to life in general, in a very good sense. A new sense of a real power and fearlessness. A pealing off of the old cement, growing into a whole new sense of self, and who I really am. A much deeper understanding of, I am whole, I am perfect, I am strong, I am powerful, I am loving, I am harmonious, I AM HAPPY.

I always keep my promises.

Don Nicholes

My awareness this week reading 17, is that there is a fine line between concentrating to hard on something, trying to force the thoughts or ideas, and just being those thoughts and ideas. Trying to hard defeats the purpose. I need to just be the thought, be the idea, live the thought or idea. Don’t try to have it, just be it. Now all the exercises we are learning, are simple little was to just be our definite major purpose. Live our definite major purpose.

6. Concentration is much misunderstood; there seems to be an idea of effort or activity associated with it,when just the contrary is necessary. The greatness of an actor lies in the fact that he forgets himself in the portrayal of his character, becoming so identified with it, that the audience is swayed by the realism of the performance. This will give you a good idea of true concentration; you should be so interested in your thought, so engrossed in your subject, as to be conscious of nothing else. Such concentration leads to intuitive perception and immediate insight into the nature of the object concentrated upon.

You can not have until you can be. Be the thing you want to be.

Second this week, was thinking about intuition, I should never second guess it, and I have  begun to celebrate it with joy and gratitude. I want it to visit often. The more it comes the smoother things seem to go. I am more and more aware of it.

23. Intuition arrives at conclusions without the aid of experience or memory. Intuition often solves problems that are beyond the grasp of the reasoning power. Intuition often comes with a suddenness that is startling; it reveals the truth for which we are searching, so directly that it seems to come from a higher power. Intuition can be cultivated and developed; in order to do this it must be recognized and appreciated; if the intuitive visitor is given a royal welcome when he comes, he will come again; the more cordial the welcome the more frequent his visits will become, but if he is ignored or neglected he will make his visits few and far apart.

I always keep my promises.

Don Nicholes

This week it has become clear that how we feel about anything, is the biggest determining factor, as to what will manifest or show up in our life. Feeling brings life or vitality to what ever we are thinking. When I really grasp the thought I can choose how I want to feel about something, and that will bring about, wither it is good or bad, depending again on how I choose to feel about it. It becomes even more clear how important it is to be aware of not only what we are thinking, but how we are feeling about it. So again it feels great to catch the negative thoughts coming in. Stopping and choosing to think how ever I wish to think.

All this week, when something happens, I hear something, or someone says something to me that is not to my benefit, for my purpose. I say quietly to myself, I am Whole, I am Perfect, I am Strong, I am Powerful, I am Loving, I am Harmonious, I am Happy. Then I repeat that over and over, I will say it backwards and forwards and really think about what each word means to me. This has been an amazing week, the things that are showing up, unexpectedly, (well I should not say unexpectedly) as when I am choosing my thoughts, with feeling, because that is what is.

I always keep my promises.

Don Nicholes

It has become very obvious this week that knowledge does not apply itself. Knowing all that we are reading and learning, requires a  concentrated, purposeful application for it to come into fruition. We are getting exactly what we have given. Just that awareness alone, helps me to consciously be choosing thoughts that are conducive to what I want. So as my day goes, I catch myself more and more, when something that is not in harmony with my purpose. I stop and repeat to myself. I am Whole, Perfect, Strong, Powerful, Loving, Harmonious and Happy.

I am Whole, because I am part of the whole. I am Perfect, because, I was made first class, by first class, and I go first class. I am Strong, because I choose my thoughts, always in harmony with my purpose. I am Powerful, because, I am one and the same as the Infinite, Omniscient, and Omnipresent. I am Loving, because I choose love. I am Harmonious, because the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and I am a part of the whole. I am Happy, because I choose to be happy. Happy Happy Joy Joy.

I always keep my promises.

Don Nicholes