Day 4

The tiny snowball of commitment and momentum

Today, I am beginning to feel a momentum building within me when it comes to allowing Universal Love to flow into me, and through me. It feels like that with each day, and with each 12 minutes of channeling and communicating Love, I am packing a little more snow onto the snow ball, and pushing it a little bit. I am actually feeling it get bigger. It is still really small - I am still pretty much a community of one, because all this is still a vision I am holding in my mind (thousands of people each taking 12 minutes a day and giving Unconditional Love into this Exchange).

My biggest challenge in life has been this: I am really great at the 50 yard dash, but I suck at the Marathon. Once I am 50 yards into the race, I start looking at that field way, way over yonder - and start wondering about it, then I slow down, and find myself meandering to that other field.

So I am really setting my intention deep into my soul this time. I am pouring concrete into my brain, and then I am inprinting this intention into my head, and hopefully I will let it dry: I will send the Love into this Exchange for 12 minutes a day, every single day, for the next year. And I will blog about my insights, inspirations, and challenges.

I do think the difference is commitment. This concept, this book, this Exchange, has been in the cogs of my brain for about 2.5 years now. I keep writing it, publishing it, changing it, re-writing, re-publishing, changing, changing, changing it constantly. 

It used to be called The Heart-Based Network, but I never liked the name. It has always been stuck in my throat like a cocklebur. Calling it The Universal Life-Force Energy Exchange is much better.

Anyway, back to commitment. In my early 12 Step Recovery days, I always heard this statement, and it has stuck with me ever-since:

"When you sit down to eat a breakfast of bacon and eggs, the chicken is involved, and the pig is committed."

Even though I am a vegan, and don't eat meat or pork at all, I get it. I must give my all to something, and do it over the long-haul. I must give myself wholeheartedly to it.

Todays session

Today, I got to my office in Grandview, brimming over with happiness, smiles, gratitude, and enthusiasm. I immediately sat down, and did my breathing meditation, and placed my hands over a print out of the cover of The Exchange. I drew my heart into the Universe with each inhale, and I sent the Love out of my heart and hands with each exhale. I did it for exactly 12 minutes. 

I feel Magnifilicious on all levels of my mind!  There is something about doing this that I can't describe. It is awakening a freshness, a clarity, a JOY in me that feels really wonderful. It is like I can see better, clearer, and my heart is beginning to feel like a geyser.

An amazing assumption

This book is based on an incredible, almost revolutionary assumption:  The Love within each of us is larger than life, larger than the Universe, encompassing all. We are one with this Love. WE ARE THIS LOVE.

So that means we, each of us individually and all of us collectively, are the Love that is larger than life.

Larger than our demons, fears, traumas, irritants, crankiness, stress, tiredness...

Larger than our relationships...

Larger than the Earth and Larger than the galaxies...

We are Beings of Love, born on the wings of Infinitude, destined to awaken the Greatness of that Love in every precious moment of our lives.

My kids

This morning, I thought of my two boys becoming teenagers, and the thought filled me with a laughter and with a dread and with a love for them that almost crippled me inside. I could see them trying to "fit in" trying to find their place in the world, trying to be accepted by their peers, all the while having hormones raging through their bodies. 

I pray to GOD that they sail right through those teenage years. I felt myself thinking Love to them as teenagers, hoping and praying and KNOWING that the Love I channel into this Exchange is reaching them as they go through the WRINGER of teenage-hood.

Today, I renew my commitment to the Love flowing through me.  

I renew my commitment to awakening the Quantum Flow of this Love... to awakening my Love-Consciousness.

In the words of a Great Indian Saint, Paramahansa Yogananda:

As soon as you think a right thought, work it. Some people have a good idea but they haven't the tenacity to think it through and work it out. You must have courage and preserverance, and think, "I am going to see my idea through. It may be that I won't win out in this life, but I will make the effort." Think and act, think and act. This is how to develop your mind power. Every idea is a little seed, but you have to grow it.

Many people try to achieve something in the realm of thought, but they give up when difficulties arise. Only those persons who have visualized their thoughts very strongly have been able to manifest them in outer form.  (Where there is Light, Paramahansa Yogananda, page 64 and 65)

Dear Sir, I am going to take you at your word. I am going to water this seed every day, myself, by channeling Love into this Exchange. I will stick with it. I will hold this vision in my mind of "Thousands of people losing themselves in Love for 12 minutes a day" with tenacity and courage and preserverance.

The fresh, clear, geyser of Joy welling up from within me is providing me with endless enthusiasm.