The Prosperity Podcast

We’ve said it before and we say it again, stress is a killer.  It is best if you can structure your life so that stress and pressure are only minor influences.  But face it, we do not live in monasteries.  Life is going to intrude on our calm and quiet and throw us out of balance.  It is our job to recognize this and bring balance back into our daily routine by deliberately cultivating states of mind  that encourage  and nurture calm and clear thought and action.

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Byron Katie is a woman who fell on hard times in her life and these lead her to a clearing technique which she calls simply, “The Work.”  Julia and I apply “The Work” to situations in our own lives with mixed results.   We discover that the most troublesome areas of our lives are, almost always, our close personal relationships.  You can apply “The Work” to any area of your life but it helps most in relationships where projection and/or judgement are the most active issues.

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Mother and son are doing fine. Podcast returns next week.

Go to Yahoo.com’s home page and every day you will see an ad for meeting your ideal love.   It’s big business and websites abound promising compatibility and even marriage.  Simply, they are playing on the basic need for people to not be alone.  We are social animals and as the French philospher Rousseau stated, “the family is the basic unit of society”.  If we are going to start a family, we need a mate.  And as celebrated in poetry, song, novels, films, movie, stage and screen — this entire process starts with falling in love.  Julia and I talk about how finding the right love can benefit your health and wealth as well.  Love gone wrong, of course, is another screenplay entirely.

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There are many important steps and attitudes that can help us lead a better life.  To me, the most important is having a definite major purpose.  Our heart’s desires are many as the world is an amazingly rich and varied place.  But whatever soul stirring experience you have, can you find the one that speaks to you loudest and clearest?  Make this the focus of your efforts. Some people are searching for their soul mate in love.  Your major purpose is your soul mate in life.  Give it the love, attention and dedication it deserves and it will nourish you beyond your wildest imagination.

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When I was a kid, I would often have a dream about showing up in class in my pajamas.  I know many people have similar dreams about doing something mildly to wildly embarassing.  Sometimes, in our real lives, even while we’re acting with our best intentions and efforts, we end up falling flat on our faces or perhaps the other end.  If you want success and prosperity in life, you have no choice but to get up, shake it off and try try again.  Perserverance indeed furthers but finding the energy to give it another go might be blocked by fears of success, losing control or just plain making an idiot of yourself.  We suggest you let go of the inhibitions and start acting as stupidly as the rest of us.  As Bob Dylan said, “Even the President of the United States must sometime have to stand naked.”  It’s your turn., Mr. President.

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Wisdom from Star Trek the Next Generation.  There are many occurences in our lives that don’t go exactly as we plan or hope.  Yet, it is often convenient for us to cling to the notion that the bad stock pick will go up tomorrow; the spouse won’t be abusive again; another Republican adminstration will cure the ills of the nation.  These are not based on reality.  They are based on the fact that we hope that something outside of ourselves will change and make us happy.  Sorry folks, it’s time to take 100% responsibility for what happens in your life and stop directing hope and blame at others.  Clinging to what isn’t true or real is not just being strong willed; it’s pig headedness.

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I think sometimes that I hope for an unexpected miracle to appear in my life that will somehow solve my problems.  A lost, forgotten, relative leaves me gobs of money and I never have to go to work again.  Oprah listens to this Podcast instead of her own and decides I can sit in her chair and talk to boring authorities on spirituality as well she.  But the expectations that disappoint the most are the ones that I consider possible.  If I were to examine closely the chances of these reasonable miracles occuring, I might find, I’ve set it up so that they are less likely to occur then the proverbial freeze in hell.

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I have met many artists in my life.  Some seem like they are from another planet; others act as ordinary as yesterday’s news.  What they all have in common is a dedication to creative expression.  That may seem like a trivial conclusion but it is very important.  Many of us spend more time saying no to our ambitions, ideas and projects than we do in actually getting things done.  Not so with the artist.  With an attitude of childlike curiosity and play, my artist friends are about to start the next project.  Sure, maybe it’s not a masterpiece (maybe it is) but I bet the piece they create spontaneously brings them a lot more enjoyment than the piece that you never even started.

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The starving orphans in Oliver! sing about the luscious rich foods they can only dream about whilst being served gruel and porridge.  Over stuffed Americans go on starvation diets in reverance to a cultural obsession with appearance.  Obsesity is a national epidemic.  The one thing that we seldom experience in our culture of fast and processed food is balance and harmony.  Food has become a terrorist plot.  Julia and I tackle a trinity of food faith.   Eat consciously and exercise regularly and pretty soon food may be your friend again.

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