1. CLARITY OF INTENT:  You must know what you want if you expect to get it.  Getting rich isn’t a valid goal.  This is about knowing what you want to do to get rich.  The Oracle of Delphi couldn’t step down and tell you what you should want.  You have to decide, or nothing will change.

Do you know what you want to do that will make you a multi-millionaire? If I were you, I’d start by pretending you’re Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz and all you have to do is click your magic red slippers to have what you want.  No logical restrictions.  What would you wish to be, if you could have any wish you wanted?

What do you want out of life?  Not what should you want, or what someone else thinks you should want.  What do you want?  Maybe you think your real wants are greedy, so you disguise them.  Or you feel your real wants are irresponsible or unrealistic, so you won’t admit to them—even to yourself.

What do you want to do?  Don’t put excuses between you and doing it.  Excuses are automatic blocks.

Here’s another way to explore what you want to do.  Take a look at your role models, going all the way back to high school.  Who are the people you admired?  List them.  Then check and see if there is a common trait.  When I did this, I found several common traits in my role models, some that pushed me forward and some that held me back.  Without realizing it, I had subconsciously become a composite of my role models common traits without ever having consciously thought about it.  The good news is, you’re always free to choose new role models… role models that support your current desires.

Okay, let’s move on to the second trademark of a multi-millionaire.

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2. THEY ENJOY WHAT THEY DO. To become a multi-millionaire, you have to love to do something. For most people, work is something they do to maintain their lifestyle. But millionaires seldom feel like they’re working. Their work is their play. They enjoy what they do.

If you don’t love the vehicle you’ll use to become a millionaire, you’d better find a way to change your attitude about your work, or find a new career.

Most of the millionaires I know and those I’ve met, consider vacations work. Their career is their play. Exactly the opposite of 99% of the population.

3. THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO CONCENNTRATE THEIR POWERS. Millionaires tend to concentrate all their power on the vehicle they use to make money. They don’t try to do many things. They don’t go off on tangents, because when you do, you’re distracted from the area of your greatest potential.

When you focus all your power in one area, you quickly learn from your mistakes, and the more you learn, the more your productivity increases. In learning all there is to learn about your area of expertise, you lower your chance of failure.

4. THEY HAVE AN EMOTIONAL PURPOSE: You need an emotional purpose to fulfill a large vision, because an emotional purpose will drive you forward through the good times and the bad.

Example of emotional purposes: The desire to be one of the best in your field is an emotional purpose. The desire to send your kids to Harvard is an emotional purpose. To flaunt your success to all the people who used to laugh at you is an emotional purpose. Once, many years ago, I was conducting a seminar with author Richard Bach. We were sitting in a hotel room talking about success and what drove us. We decided we both were still reacting to our fourth grade classmates, I explained, “I was always the last kid they picked to be on the basketball team.”

“You too,” Richard replied. “They never wanted me either.”

Okay. Let’s look at the practical purposes. If you simply want to more easily pay the mortgage or to afford a nicer car, that’s a practical purpose. Instead of fulfilling such a practical goal, you’ll probably tend to reduce your desires the moment the going gets tough.

One thing is sure; no matter what their emotional purpose, millionaires have excessive ego drives behind that purpose, and they’re relentlessly driven to be winners.

5. THEY HAVE A POSITIVE SELF-IMAGE. Many people feel that perceiving yourself as a winner is the most powerful success force of all, because your outer life is a projection of your inner beliefs. As within, so without.

Self-image results from what you do. The more you act in ways that make you proud of yourself, the better your self-image.

Stop doing anything that lowers your self-image. Maybe you loan your car when you don’t really want to. Not being willing to stand up and say, “No,” lowers your self-esteem. Maybe you commit to a diet, but you quickly give up on it. Your lack of willpower lowers your self-esteem. When you do things that lower self-image, you harm yourself far more than you realize. Know that you will never allow yourself to have what you don’t feel worthy of attaining.

6. THEY MAKE DECISIONS AND ACT. Millionaires are willing to take risks. It goes with the territory. You learn to analyze and evaluate, then you make a decision and act upon it. To be highly successful, you’ll have to evaluate and act, over and over again.

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But oh how we resist change. Out of fear, we cling to what is and do everything within our power to keep people and things in their familiar static positions. If you’re in a good relationship, you certainly don’t want your union to spin off in some unexpected direction that will cause you anxiety. You want things to remain just as they are, solid and predictable. But soon suffering arises, because life is constantly changing.

“It is your resistance to what is that causes your suffering,” said Buddha. Life is change. Change is what is. If not today, tomorrow, or next month, or next year. Everything in your life will eventually change.

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Trouble starts with our desire for permanency. Desire is a matter of living in the future — of sacrificing the present for the future. And desires always disappoint. If you don’t get what you desire you become frustrated. If you do get what you desire you’ll still be frustrated, because what you desired will never live up to your expectations. Sooner or later you’ll find you were chasing illusions.

And permanency is a great big faulty assumption, because it simply does not exist.

But what if you could lock up life so that permanency were possible? Nothing would ever change. Tomorrow would be a repetition of today. Next year, everything the same. Five years down the road, exactly the same. BORING! STATIC! DEPRESSING! It is the not knowing that makes life exciting and generates ALIVENESS.

So the idea is to be courageous enough to embrace change, knowing that your soul is in search of new experiences to provide GROWTH. Growth is why you incarnated upon the earth. But you can’t experience growth living a static life. A static (stagnant) life may protect you from some problems, but at what cost and for how long? Stagnation is a process of drying up — allowing your life to become dull, colorless, lifeless. No aliveness. No joy. Watch some TV, go to work, come home, watch some TV, go to work, come home. Treadmill.

Even if your actions in a quest for growth cause you pain, at least when you’re hurting you know you’re alive. And the pain will generate more action, which will lead to more aliveness. Soon you’ll find yourself back among the living.

If your life has become lifeless, what can you possibly fear from change? Explore your DISSATISFACTION, allow time for CONFUSION, and then make up your mind and ACT to manifest a more satisfying life.

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I mentally scanned the lives I know about. Incarnations in Mexico, Scotland, and the settling of Texas stood out. “Everything about establishing the Republic of Texas,” I said. “I wasn’t at the Alamo, but what happened there seemed to affect the lives that followed. Since I was a kid, I’ve read everything I could find about the men who died there and about Sam Houston defeating the Mexican army. But I think I lived several lives, both American and Mexican, around this time in the Southwest.”

“What about you?” I asked.

“Probably the Mexican life we shared,” Roberta said. This is a life we have been exploring for over a year, and I will write about it someday.

“Damn, it gets confusing. The Alamo was 1836. I have total memories of a life in the South and being in the Civil War (1861-1865), plus several Texas and Mexican incarnations. What was the timing of our shared life south of the border?” We’d both seen vivid images, but we had not asked for timing. “Could you ask Lily?” (Roberta’s Spirit Guide.)

Roberta closed her eyes and took a deep breath. “Lily says, ‘you two are just beginning to see how complicated it is. You are constantly incarnating, living, dying . . . each incarnation entwined like a web of past lives, parallel lives . . . it’s ongoing. Your soul comes down and experiences many layers at the same time.’

Recently, Lily had been eluding there is much more to reincarnation than either of us realized.

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Roberta continued, “Lily says, you are only going to remember the lives affecting you at the moment, as Roberta, but your parallel life as a man in Japan is being effected by totally differently lifetimes.” Although he is part of your web, he has his own web. It is all in perpetual motion. Do you begin to get the idea?

“Your soul is so much more powerful than you can imagine. You might be counseling someone who just died and has crossed over, and at the same time you’re attending a lecture in Spirit, and at the same time helping a loved one on earth who is suffering, plus you’re living your day-to-day lives. The whole purpose of all life on earth is to take every experience you’re going through and rise above it. In so doing, you’re providing the light to help others rise up. The light is how you create. Inside the light are all the tools and power of creation.”

This is only a fragment of the new teachings we have been receiving from Lily. We plan on sharing the knowledge once we have a better understanding of it ourselves.

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Up until now, I wanted a phone to call out or to allow people who have my number, to call in. That was until a few days ago, when Roberta explained that I could load about three million songs in my iPhone. “Oh, really? Hmmmmmmm.”

She showed me how. I don’t think I loaded three million . . . but I now have a huge choice of all my singer-songwriter favorites. And I listen to my music while reading the lastest news online, on my phone. “Oh, really?”

“And, Richard . . . you can purchase your favorite songs right here, and they’ll instantly download into the phone.”

“Oh, really.” She was enjoying leading me down the path to temptation. “What are all these apps?” I asked. She explained. My eyes lit up.

I’m now a little more familiar with the iPhone and why it is so popular. You can subscribe to favorite magazines, newspapers, watch videos and TV shows, and the GPS will guide me without maps to anywhere on this continent. You can insert a little plastic slider and take people’s credit cards. It will also store all my pictures, take pictures and videos . . . and I can also make a phone call.

Record stores are gone—buy the MP3 online. My young kids have been doing this for years. Book stores have almost disappeared—Roberta has more books in her iPad than I do in our bookshelf. And newspapers are soon to bite the dust. But I’m not willing to give up on newspapers just yet. Sunday morning, in our pajamas, Roberta and I delight in spreading the newspaper all over the living room floor, then sitting together in the middle of all that news, coffee cups in hand, we read. It’s the best time of the week. So I will continue to subscribe as long as “The Phoenix Republic” is willing to deliver. I just can’t picture us on Sunday mornings, each reading our iPhones or iPads.

I know, I know . . . if you’re one of the trillions of people who have had an iPhone for years, you’re thinking I just emerged from the dark ages where people were satisfied with a phone that called people. But in my defense, I’ve been very busy seeing clients, writing books, blogs, doing a radio show, and conducting seminars and Webinars.

This blog would be longer, but my iPhone just “blinged” to announce I have a new email, or someone has texted, or maybe even left a phone message. Of course, it could be announcing a new app, or a movie preview, or . . .

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Who are the Souls that are attaching themselves and why?

Deceased entities who have avoided going to the Light out of fear, will enter a living person’s body, by choice, or because of opportunity presents itself.  A living person finds him-or-herself with an entity attachment because they have allowed their vibrational rate to be lowered due to lifestyle choices, or they have had to go to the hospital, or in rare cases, because they are sympathetic. An entity can also follow someone into life at birth and attach them for their own reasons. A Spirit who joins a living person in their body doesn’t take up space (they are non-physical), so the living person is not usually unaware of this happening.  The dead Entity is clinging to life out of fear, and soon after entry, will begin to influence their host, either consciously or unconsciously. This will show up in the host as new cravings, attitudes, or emotions that were not part of the person’s previous personality.

Earthbound entities were once just like the rest of us. When alive, they had their own personality, likes and dislikes, and maybe their own addictions. Their reasons for attaching to the living is as varied as people. A woman we recently worked with was extremely depressed as the result of many surgeries and being forced to remain in the hospital.  (Note: Many people die in hospitals, so they are a place of frequent entity attachments.) When our client came home, she found she couldn’t get enough apples and popcorn. She had never had cravings for either, but since they weren’t harmful, she soon forgot about this new phenomenon in her life. She did, however, come to us because she was losing confidence in herself and wanted to find solutions to resolve it.  During our session we uncovered a young girl who had slipped into her body during her last hospital stay who loved apples and popcorn, but was fearful about life.  This little girl was influencing our client in many ways; most of which were not serving her. But the woman explained, she had never been able to have children, so she may have subconsciously been playing out her maternal instincts by taking care of the child. Consciously our client didn’t want the little girl inside her body, so we called in an angel to take the child to the light.

No entity attachment is good for you.

At death, some people do not follow the path home (“going to the Light”) because they are desperate to cling to life. Sometimes they don’t even realize they’re dead. Some may fear punishment for what they did in life. So when a host body is available they take advantage of the opportunity, and bring all their fears, earthly orientations, cravings, and addictions with them. In time, this is sure to adversely affect the person they attach to. It doesn’t have to be big fears, but it is fear.  It can be a fear of not eating anymore, such was the case of another client we had. This lady found that she couldn’t stop eating. She didn’t look over weight, but she quickly explained she had become an exercise fanatic due to this affliction.  It turned out that a man entered her body when she was severely depressed and was fearful that once he died, he wouldn’t be able to eat!  This entity’s food cravings never stopped and our client feed him whenever he wanted. With the help of Archangel Michael, Richard and I sent the entity on to a better existence, and our client left feeling much lighter.

The effects of sending an entity to the light are immediately felt by the living host feeling a sense of relief or feeling lighter. Maybe they were wondering why they were getting so angry all the time, or depressed, or why new cravings began to appear, or other such odd behaviors. Whatever the case, they are relieved.  No one wants to believe this can happen to them, and no one wants to think another person could actually live inside their body without them consciously being aware of it.  Richard and I understand this and assure you that it happens all the time. It seems to be a part of life. But it’s easily resolved, and it’s easy to keep it from happening again with mind programming.

Roberta will often chime in, “Affecting your life at this time in your life . . . in your soul’s evolution. If we had done this session with you five years ago, you might have been experiencing very different influences from an altogether different life.”

“You might have learned those lessons,” I’ll say. “Now you’re working on new lessons. We will experience this life in detail. Once we understand this all-important lifetime, I’ll direct a forgiveness process and I’ll bring you back to the present, remembering everything about that life. While I’m regressing you, Roberta will be using her mediumistic skills to learn about you. She will talk to her Spirit Guide about you, and probably your own Spirit Guide as well. She will normally write six or seven pages in a large spiral notebook.

“Now when I bring you back to the present time, I will direct you up into an all-knowing level of Higher-Self. If I ask you about something in the past, you will be able to draw up your soul history. I will introduce you to your Spirit Guide, if you are not familiar with your guide. I’ll also ask you to invite in people you once knew and trusted in life who are now in Spirit. And I will ask your guide and these familiar souls, questions you’d like answered.”

At this point in the pre-session interview, our clients will share their primary concerns, but usually Roberta and I will have to draw them out. “We can obtain a lot of answers in a short amount of time,” we say. After a little more urging, they might verbalize everything. ”And after I learn about my past lives and patterns and entities within, I’d like to know why John really left me, why I can’t get my new web business off the ground, and how I can best help my 26-year old son. Also, could you throw in some suggestions to stop smoking, find a new relationship, and increase my self-esteem.”

“These suggestions,” I explain, “will be included in the Mind Programming audio program I make for you at the end of our session.” (Roberta will write suggestions for that programming that she’s receiving from spirit while I’m regressing our client.)

Either Roberta or I will continue to explain what will happen. “After asking these questions of spirit, Richard will guide you through two more past lives that are affecting your current life. Richard will find out if you have any negative earthbound entities residing in your body. If you do, and know that half of our clients do, we’ll remove them and then seal your body. If you need to experience cord cutting or soul retrieval he will guide you through that. Then he will awaken you and I will probably spend about 30 minutes explaining all I have perceived from Spirit about you. Next, we will talk about the suggestions you want in your mind-programming audio. Then, Richard will put you back in hypnosis and record it while you just lay back and listen. Later, we’ll mix it with our hypnotic sounds and send it to via email.”

I feel that the direct communication with Spirit offers the biggest potential to attain life-changing information. It is not unusual for a client to begin speaking of themselves in third-person (channeling).

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Well, I wish I could tell you exactly what is going to happen, but I have no more knowledge than I did back when I was first looking into it. In fact, come to think about it, I have much less knowledge. Here is a quick summary:

I progressed about 2500 people forward in time to the Winter Solstice, Dec.21^st of this year. The most reported visions were 1) the sea waters rising, 2) acts of terrorism. The sea waters are rising but certainly not at a rate that will endanger us in the near future. Some say our calendar is off by as much as four years. But off from what? You won’t find a clear answer on Google or Dogpile. So I guess we best settle for Dec. 21 being Dec. 21. And the changes will take place this year, or we’ll have to call the psychic visions “misses.”

My major global warming concern was the widely reported slowing of the Gulfstream. But now, NASA scientists have reported it is not slowing down. Anyone closely watching the Global Warming issue is aware that much of the data was bad science or faked to assure continued funding of research programs . . . and to make money. John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel says Al Gore should be sued for fraud. Look up “Climategate” on your computer if you’re willing to face the fact you’ve been sold a bill of goods.

Still, most of the visions my people perceived were psychic. Nature often generates rapid changes—tipping points—that could make the visions manifest. A huge ice shelf slipping into the sea in Antarctica, for instance. That could even save Gore’s reputation.

What’s going to happen in 2012?

I just received an email from a good friend. It says, “Kiss American goodbye in 2012” and goes on to explain, “Washington is about to suffer an all out attack by global investors that makes the European debt crisis look like a Sunday picnic.” If that’s what’s coming, it might be less scary than some prophets predictions of what will happen when the Earth lines up with the center of the Universe in a few months.

Seriously, Roberta believes, January through March will be a time of accelerated manifestations. April through August will be a time of living with your consequences. September through December will be the final outcome. Those who refused to change, may be forced to change.

2012 is all about letting go of all fear-based emotions, and finding out what is really important on your Soul’s path. Listen to your Soul callings. You know what is right for you to do. What is happening or will be happening is individual. How you deal with these tests, will be up to you.

Naturally… lol.

One subject I’ve become quite interested in lately is the idea of a transition we are all going through in one way or another.  Most of our clients are also experiencing a transition of some kind; Richard is experiencing his transition from finalizing a divorce to moving back to his beloved Arizona. I’ve experienced leaving the yachting world and moving into a new phase in my life.

Each transition I’ve witnessed is either fought or accepted.  When it’s fought the person’s life is in turmoil.  If the person embraces the changes going on, then life seems to go even better for them.  Transition also seems to be going on in a bigger way, such as geographically, politically, and so on.  With all the talk about 2012 and changes this new year might bring, I though I’d ask my beautiful Spirit Guide, Lily, for her take on this and see what Spirit has to say.

Lily told me this transition time has been occurring for several years, and it’s all about the individual.  Each decision, each event that happens to you is all about your Spiritual growth.  Because we all have been on the reincarnation cycle for so long, we have had ample opportunities to experience many lifetimes and expand our knowledge.  Now is the time to wrap things up, so to speak.  This does NOT mean the world is going to end for I do not believe that and neither does Lily.  This does mean we have an opportunity to embrace our potentials by accepting our Highest Path. If we resist, we may be forced to go through our transition kicking and screaming. But in the end, we will walk the Highest Path.

Here’s an example of what Lily means: what does a man do when he loses his job at 65 years of age?  What about the huge second mortgage he took out so he and his wife could pay for home improvements?  What about his retirement income?  His boss has told him his nest egg isn’t very large anymore; as a matter-of-fact, the company’s investments went down the tubes along with the rest of the economy.  He’s been a hard worker all his life, and he can’t believe this is happening to him.  He defined himself as upper Management in the Construction Company.  He sees the bills piling up, and he eventually loses the house and all the fine material things he and his wife purchased, especially during the home-improvement stage.

This feels like a tragedy, but our 65-year-old man decides to look at it another way.  The house was too large for them and all the material possessions were beginning to feel like balls-and-chains instead of being enjoyable.  The kids were all grown and they had lives of their own.  By collecting what little they had from the sale of their home, they were able to buy a small condo and finally felt free again; something the two of them hadn’t felt in a very long time.

This scenario could have had many different conclusions, but because our man decided to take his Highest Path, things worked out for him and his wife.  His path may have meant that he was too concerned about material possessions so had to learn to let them all go.  Or his path could be that he leaves the construction job and becomes a part-time teacher to kids; something he has always dreamed of doing.  Or his path was put in front of him to pick himself up and help others find the strength to do the same thing.

Or his path might have been to experience with love instead of fear.  All transitions boil down to this:  love versus fear, darkness versus light.  Now is the time for all good men (and women!) to LOVE.  Everyone is going through transition now. Change is part of life. Nothing stays the same. But it seems like these tests are just a little bigger for all of us at this time.  I think it shows how ready we are for change!

Lily tells me this transitional time is about replacing fear with love and that it’s all about the individual.  Seems simple, but the truth is usually simple!

Peace on Earth and have a safe and wonderful New Year.  2012 is going to rock!!!

Roberta Witters

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ROSALYN: Sometimes deciding which the more peaceful choice is, can create stress!

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NORMA: This sounds like a great idea for choices. My only concern is that most people are not very clear on separating emotions. For instance, it is difficult sometimes to sort out the difference between peaceful and relieved, or comfortable and peaceful. What I mean is, the lines CAN become muted when defining these emotions, especially if one is attached to outcome. So perhaps it would be a wise idea to CLEARLY define to yourself what exactly these emotions mean to you and/or define your “perceptions” of these terms as clearly as you can BEFORE undertaking this exercise.

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ABBY: Sometimes choosing peace over the anxiety is a form of denial. Eventually we have to face just about everything, especially the TRUTH.

I’ve been a psychic reader for 26 years and I’ve seen what happens when the truth is avoided in order to find peace. The only way to heal is by telling the truth and then that leads to REAL peace. The easy way to peace is only temporary.

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SUSAN: I treasure Shauna’s “peace” advice — so simple, so easy, so powerful.”

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SHIRLEY: I agree … ask for what creates peacefulness and you will learn more of your true heart’s desire. I also believe that the one with the most flexibility wins in the happiness arena.

For some, peacefulness equates to the path of least resistance which can just be a rerun and there is nothing alive about a rerun/repeat of one’s life experiences.

Flexibility leaves one open to accepting life-enhancing challenges — which poses the next question. Can one be peaceful while one is stretching oneself to reach even higher, more expanded experiences of peacefulness? Perhaps that process is the making of peacefulness much like the end product of practicing patience is the joy patience brings.

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CHRISTINA:

READER RESPONSES:

Every time you choose peace, you are leaving out anxiety. There is always one choice that causes anxiety and one that doesn’t. And if there is still anxiety then the answer is, “I need do nothing right now … no choice yet.” So basically the peaceful choice can still be the exciting choice.

Try it. Let’s say you’re a woman and you’re interested in new man who has recently come into your life. Here are two ways to approach the situation:

“I continue to get to know William in more intimate ways.”

“I keep my relationship with William only as it is now.”

Which causes anxiety?

I received over 100 thoughtful responses to my “MAKE THE PEACEFUL CHOICE” column. Reader’s opinions ran the gambit from agreement with therapist Shauna Hoffman, to total disagreement.

SHAUNA’S RESPONSE:Just when I’m wondering what kind of a column to write next, I get an e-mail from a friend providing the inspiration.

Shauna Hoffman is an extraordinary therapist who also runs a “Whodunit” mystery troupe that entertains on cruise ships. We’re in regular e-mail contact and she and I try to have lunch together regularly.

Shauna’s words in regard to searching for an answer: “Sometimes I just think the hell with all of this spiritual, astrological, psychological stuff … just go with the heart. I tell my clients to close their eyes and make the decision that makes them the most peaceful. Not more excited, or happy, or relieved, or comfortable. The most peaceful. That will be your answer.”

I wrote back saying, “I really like that, but what about challenge to generate aliveness — the joy and blood-pumping enthusiasm that tells you you’re alive? Peaceful sounds very good. Aliveness also sounds very good.”

When you live with expectations and desires, it follows you want to control outcomes. You want things to unfold in your favor. But you can’t control outcomes in life. The best you can hope to do is increase the odds through wisdom.

If you’re desiring a particular outcome, step back and ask yourself, “What’s the fear associated with the outcome?”

Explore the fear, including the worst that might happen if things did not turn out in your favor. If you’re committed to an outcome, the fear will be related to loss: The loss of love, loss of control, loss of finances, or the loss of self-esteem. Which applies to your situation?

Then ask yourself, “What if I could take the fear out of my desire?”

If there were no fear, the outcome would not matter. Logical.

So we’re back to resolving fear, a subject I write about a lot, because I’m working on it all the time.

As New Agers, we believe we can create our own reality, and I know this to be true when it comes to finding happiness, fulfillment and living an abundant life. Reality is created by the way we view and accept what is. But don’t confuse this with controlling outcomes that affect other people.

In other words, if you want Leigh to fall in love with you, that is not within your power to control, no matter how many mind-programming CDs you use. The same is true with winning the pageant, getting your book accepted by a major publisher, or desiring a beautiful sunset.

Expectations and the desire to control do not work. Both are fear-based emotions, which we incarnated to rise above.

Many New Agers believe in controlling their thoughts. But it can’t be done. You can catch yourself when you’re thinking negative. You can use thought-stopping techniques which condition you, over time, to reduce fearful thinking. But out-and-out control of your thoughts isn’t an option.

What you can control is your behavior — your actions.

Mystics have always said a wise seeker learns to live without desire. Easier said than done. Probably not going to happen in this lifetime, but finding a self-actualized balance seems to me a worthy goal.