Year: 2015

“I promise to give without expectation of reciprocity from the channels I enrich because I know I am in the dynamic flow of giving and receiving.”

This is another one I thought would be easy. After all, I have a few chosen charities I contribute to,  and I expect nothing in return. But wait! There’s more!

Reciprocity isn’t only about monetary donations. What I’ve come to realize for about the last month or so is each time I am irritated or angry because something I’ve freely given isn’t appreciated, that’s an expectation for reciprocity–in the example used, appreciation is being sought in return for whatever action I’ve taken.

Sometimes, what I thought might help isn’t helpful, so why would the person appreciate it? Sometimes, it just needed to be done, and the doing was “reward” enough.

No matter what the right answer is, and I’ve discussed it imperfectly here, I have learned “expectation of reciprocity” has a much broader application than when I first began making the promise several weeks ago.

As I am able to better keep this promise, I will be much happier. I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy. I always keep my promises.

JeanS

When I retired in 2008, I removed my watch. For me, I thought ‘Living by the compass’ is easy. Been doing it for years, right? Not so fast, Sport!

My husband began dealing with a serious health issue at the end of August. There’s a procedure that can correct it, but certain conditions must be met first. We tried in mid-October. Condition not met. We just tried again. Condition still not met. Proceeding with the procedure could kill him. We don’t want that.

Frustrated, I found myself thinking, “Isn’t it about time we could do this?” Nope. This is a process that has to go by the compass, not the clock.

This is getting exciting. I’m enjoying Week 12 of the Master Keys.  Where to begin?

(1-2) The first few paragraphs really lay it out there. Creative thought is the key. Anybody can do this. Well, anybody who has to capability of thought. Thinking is free. Nobody can take it away from you (well, perhaps with drugs and other ways of limiting one’s ability to engage his or her mind). That’s important, because this gives credence to the line we were taught as children that we can be anything we want to be.

(3) “We know that thought is building for us the thing we think of and actually bringing it nearer.” Too often negative thoughts intrude upon the positive thoughts we have and negate our effort.  Our thoughts must be laser focused.

(4) To keep from going backward, one must go forward. But how? With three essential steps. 1) know about your power, 2) have the courage to dare, and 3) have the faith to do.

(5-7) With these three things, you can construct the ideal business, home, friends and family, or environment. Materials and cost are of no matter. Your mind can imagine all these things in great detail. But you must maintain your focus. Scattering your forces will result in nothing — like a sculptor changing the sculpture ever fifteen minutes. Without the focus, the product is muddied.

Before you think these thoughts will magically produce results, it isn’t quite that easy — but close.  Paragraph 22 says, “Things are created in the mental or spiritual world before they appear in the outward act or event. By the simple process of governing our thought forces today, we help create the events which will come into our lives in the future, perhaps even tomorrow. Educated desire is the most potent means of bringing into action the law of attraction.” In short, once we’ve conceived and believed, we see the ways we can make our thoughts a reality.

Next it gets interesting, and I found the explanation for why I am initially resistant to new ideas, and why most other people are, too.  Paragraph 23 explains: “The mind cannot comprehend an entirely new idea until a corresponding vibratory brain cell has been prepared to receive it. This explains why it is so difficult for us to receive or appreciate an entirely new idea; we have no brain cell capable of receiving it; we are therefore incredulous; we do not believe it.” Once we’re heard an idea and have time to think upon it, we can believe it and see it as a possibility.

(24)  The Omnipotence of the law of attraction, and the scientific method by which it can be put into operation opens possibilities to those who are enabled to take advantage of the resources it offers. Taking advantage of the unlimited powers which may be yours by cooperating with Natural Law is done by concentration or attention.

 

I began experiencing sciatic pain yesterday (this was worse than my total knee replacement back in April and maybe worse than the pain in my yet-to-be-replaced knee on a  bad day). Last night, I was miserable. Then I remembered we have this affirmation. I began repeating “I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy” over and over. Gradually, my mind was able to focus on that instead of the pain, and I was able to sleep. What a great Law of Substitution example!

This is an interesting week. I’ve been sailing along on the Master Key Experience (and there truly is NOTHING like it!). I thought I’d been doing pretty well. I’ve been doing my reads. I’ve knocked out my services — I made sure they were easy to do, but everything needed to be done. That’s what the Subby needs, so I did it.

But there were some…

I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.

As recommended, if I thought someone I knew needed the affirmation, I’ve been saying it for them. I say it for my cats. One of my cats, the reclusive one, has been more responsive lately. How cool is that? But a little insight? Sometimes, when I’ve been saying it for someone else, I’ve come to realize, I need to say it for me (because, in some situations, I’m the one who needs it more).

So why the title? Old Blueprint wants to address things that bother me. Things I’m not doing that I think I should be. But the Law of Growth says, “The things I think about grow, and the things I forget atrophy without exception.”

So if I want the old blueprint to go away, I need to not talk about it, right?

I am whole perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.

But…

I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.

I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.

Most of you don’t know this, but I have eight indoor cats. How is that relevant, you ask? Well, it turns out at least one of them thinks I should have discussed my Movie Poster with him or her.

I included a page of a view outside an Amtrak train window on my poster, because we take long distance train trips planned jointly with my husband every year or two. We enjoy this, so, naturally, it’s part of my movie.

The cats go to boarding school during those trips. Somebody has taken it upon themself to “apply the knowledge” and begin to remove that picture from my poster. Apparently felines have DMPs, too, and mine is at cross-purposes with theirs.

In other news, since I’ve begun using the affirmation “Rossie is whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy,” she has begun to emerge from her hiding place under the rocker (nearly three years) and seek our companionship.

Have any of your pets responded to the program in any unexpected ways?

Persistence is something I’m known for. In a peer evaluation several years ago, it’s one thing about me one of my co-workers remarked upon — that I never, no matter what the obstacle, give up.

Now, while I never give up, I have frequently failed to gain, and often lost, ground in the battle. But persist? Persist I do.