Our stay in Mount Dora is coming to an end. Just a couple of morning hours left before we load the car and head north. The morning is cool, but the heavy breeze that was constant for two days has abated. As soon as the sun is higher in the sky, the temperature is sure to reach the high 80's. I awoke to the chiming of Easter morning church bells, but now, other than an occasional passing car on this quiet street and the twittering of birds, the only sound is the soft taping of my computer keys.
The time here has been good. The petty irritations that followed us were blown away in the stiff lake winds. My man and I have fallen into the softness that surrounds this town. Many long, long walks have left us comfortably tired. We spent precious time with our friends who own or work at the Cuban restaurant where we dined twice. We choose to eat there at off-hours when the owner and the staff are not busy, allowing us to have leisurely conversations with them. On Friday morning, before her shop opened for business, we visited with the owner of my favorite women’s boutique and again yesterday when I shopped there. She and I recently became friends on Facebook and I look forward to strengthening our friendship when we move here.
An important part of manifesting is to act and talk as if your desires are already plans in progress. The details are inconsequential. We need not be bothered with all the hows and whens; we just need to live as though our dreams are happening right now because they are. Right now, everything we do and say is part of the manifestation process. With our shop owner friend and the owner and staff at the Cuban restaurant, we shared our plans to move here and my man even invited them to our future Mount Dora home for an Argentine asado (cookout). I know all the pieces and parts will fall together in time.
Now seems a good time to review how my commitment to positivity is progressing. Since March 20th, the first day of my Manifesting Mount Dora project, I only missed one day of writing in my Gratitude Journal. New posts to my blog appear every two to three days just as I planned. I am listening to more music which soothes the rough edges of my hours. I also bought and listen frequently to a CD call “Music to Inspire Positive Thinking Scientifically Designed by Dr. Lee R. Bartel”. I bought the CD at an independent bookstore. It was in one of those electronic displays where a sample of each CD for sale can be heard with the press of a button. I did not know about Dr. Bartel and I had no opinion as to whether or not music can be scientifically designed for positive thinking, but I liked the gentle tunes and figured listening to the melodic sounds certainly was relaxing and so could possibly have the ability to inspire positive thinking. Since then, I Googled Dr. Bartel and found that he is a Professor of Music and Assistant Dean at the University of Toronto and is the Acting Director of the Music and Health Research Collaboratory. He teaches graduate classes in Music and the Brain and the Social Psychology of Music and certainly seems qualified to design music for positive thinking. A quick visit to Amazon.com revealed that he also has CD’s to promote rejuvenation, stress relief and relaxation.
I stay focused on being positive and search for ways to promote happiness and a sense of well-being in my life. Tonight, we will attend a Crystal Bowls Concert and Mediation in our current hometown. If you have never experienced the sounds of crystal bowls, I highly recommend searching for a musician who uses them in your area or downloading/buying some crystal bowl music from a website. The sounds will touch your soul and give you a deep feeling of peace. So, the concert tonight is one more step on my journey to “be peace” which is also part of my journey to Manifesting Mount Dora. It is all related.
I continue reading positive and inspiring books. While at the same independent bookstore where I bought Bartel’s CD, I also picked up a used book called “The Architecture of All Abundance - Seven Foundations to Prosperity” by Lenedra J. Carroll, which I started as soon as I finished re-reading The Secret. Carroll’s book is wonderfully entertaining, informational and inspirational. I want to share a biblical quote from her book that seems very appropriate for this Easter morning.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field - which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven - shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith.
Therefore take no thought, saying, "What shall we eat?" or,"What shall we drink?" or, "Wherewithal shall we be clothed?" for the God of your Being knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Seek them not, nor be of doubtful mind but rather seek ye first the kingdom of your God, and in his righteousness all of these things shall be added unto you, for it is God's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Matthew 6:28-33, Luke 12:27-31
Being more of a spiritual nature and not a religious one, I use that quote in a non-preachy sense. In my church-going days, those words were read aloud many, many times, but not until I read them in Carroll’s book did I notice “the God of your Being and “the kingdom of your God”. To me that just confirms my belief that we all have our own spiritual path and you may walk with the Judeo-Christian god or with the many Hindu gods or with Buddha or you may connect spiritually with an all encompassing Universe, but we still are lilies of the field and we should live in faith that we will be cared for as they are.
I will end with another quote from “The Architecture of All Abundance”:
“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way that it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you love to do, in order to have what you want.” —Margaret Young
I find a correlation between “. . .seek ye first the kingdom of your God, and in his righteousness all these things will be added unto you” and “You must be who you really are, then do what you love to do, in order to have what you want.”
Perhaps, just perhaps, being who we are meant to be and doing what we love to do is the way we are to seek the kingdom of God. What do you think?
The time here has been good. The petty irritations that followed us were blown away in the stiff lake winds. My man and I have fallen into the softness that surrounds this town. Many long, long walks have left us comfortably tired. We spent precious time with our friends who own or work at the Cuban restaurant where we dined twice. We choose to eat there at off-hours when the owner and the staff are not busy, allowing us to have leisurely conversations with them. On Friday morning, before her shop opened for business, we visited with the owner of my favorite women’s boutique and again yesterday when I shopped there. She and I recently became friends on Facebook and I look forward to strengthening our friendship when we move here.
An important part of manifesting is to act and talk as if your desires are already plans in progress. The details are inconsequential. We need not be bothered with all the hows and whens; we just need to live as though our dreams are happening right now because they are. Right now, everything we do and say is part of the manifestation process. With our shop owner friend and the owner and staff at the Cuban restaurant, we shared our plans to move here and my man even invited them to our future Mount Dora home for an Argentine asado (cookout). I know all the pieces and parts will fall together in time.
Now seems a good time to review how my commitment to positivity is progressing. Since March 20th, the first day of my Manifesting Mount Dora project, I only missed one day of writing in my Gratitude Journal. New posts to my blog appear every two to three days just as I planned. I am listening to more music which soothes the rough edges of my hours. I also bought and listen frequently to a CD call “Music to Inspire Positive Thinking Scientifically Designed by Dr. Lee R. Bartel”. I bought the CD at an independent bookstore. It was in one of those electronic displays where a sample of each CD for sale can be heard with the press of a button. I did not know about Dr. Bartel and I had no opinion as to whether or not music can be scientifically designed for positive thinking, but I liked the gentle tunes and figured listening to the melodic sounds certainly was relaxing and so could possibly have the ability to inspire positive thinking. Since then, I Googled Dr. Bartel and found that he is a Professor of Music and Assistant Dean at the University of Toronto and is the Acting Director of the Music and Health Research Collaboratory. He teaches graduate classes in Music and the Brain and the Social Psychology of Music and certainly seems qualified to design music for positive thinking. A quick visit to Amazon.com revealed that he also has CD’s to promote rejuvenation, stress relief and relaxation.
I stay focused on being positive and search for ways to promote happiness and a sense of well-being in my life. Tonight, we will attend a Crystal Bowls Concert and Mediation in our current hometown. If you have never experienced the sounds of crystal bowls, I highly recommend searching for a musician who uses them in your area or downloading/buying some crystal bowl music from a website. The sounds will touch your soul and give you a deep feeling of peace. So, the concert tonight is one more step on my journey to “be peace” which is also part of my journey to Manifesting Mount Dora. It is all related.
I continue reading positive and inspiring books. While at the same independent bookstore where I bought Bartel’s CD, I also picked up a used book called “The Architecture of All Abundance - Seven Foundations to Prosperity” by Lenedra J. Carroll, which I started as soon as I finished re-reading The Secret. Carroll’s book is wonderfully entertaining, informational and inspirational. I want to share a biblical quote from her book that seems very appropriate for this Easter morning.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field - which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven - shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith.
Therefore take no thought, saying, "What shall we eat?" or,"What shall we drink?" or, "Wherewithal shall we be clothed?" for the God of your Being knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Seek them not, nor be of doubtful mind but rather seek ye first the kingdom of your God, and in his righteousness all of these things shall be added unto you, for it is God's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Matthew 6:28-33, Luke 12:27-31
Being more of a spiritual nature and not a religious one, I use that quote in a non-preachy sense. In my church-going days, those words were read aloud many, many times, but not until I read them in Carroll’s book did I notice “the God of your Being and “the kingdom of your God”. To me that just confirms my belief that we all have our own spiritual path and you may walk with the Judeo-Christian god or with the many Hindu gods or with Buddha or you may connect spiritually with an all encompassing Universe, but we still are lilies of the field and we should live in faith that we will be cared for as they are.
I will end with another quote from “The Architecture of All Abundance”:
“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way that it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you love to do, in order to have what you want.” —Margaret Young
I find a correlation between “. . .seek ye first the kingdom of your God, and in his righteousness all these things will be added unto you” and “You must be who you really are, then do what you love to do, in order to have what you want.”
Perhaps, just perhaps, being who we are meant to be and doing what we love to do is the way we are to seek the kingdom of God. What do you think?
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