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October 2009 
What is your greatest distraction?
Posted on Jun 26th, 2008
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Nicola
Nicola
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for June 26, 2008:
What is your greatest distraction?
Noise that in some way I have judged to be disturbing. Noise that I am registering as being disruptive to my neat and orderly world!
The problem as my ego sees it, is that I don't like how the noise gets to me and makes me feel helpless, tormented and agitated. I want to lash out and make it stop.
Beyond what my ego views as the problem, lies a whole bunch of "oughts" about the situation.
I ought to be able to transcend this noise. I ought to be able to remain at peace, harmonious and one with what is.
Transposing these oughts or shoulds into I AM statements...
I AM peace.
I AM harmonious.
I AM one with what is.
Through God's grace, I am free.
Through God's grace, I am at peace and in harmony with what is.
I am grateful that I am re-reading Eric Butterworth's "The Universe Is Calling: Opening to the Divine Through Prayer." It comes at a great time along with your question!
Noise that in some way I have judged to be disturbing. Noise that I am registering as being disruptive to my neat and orderly world!
The problem as my ego sees it, is that I don't like how the noise gets to me and makes me feel helpless, tormented and agitated. I want to lash out and make it stop.
Beyond what my ego views as the problem, lies a whole bunch of "oughts" about the situation.
I ought to be able to transcend this noise. I ought to be able to remain at peace, harmonious and one with what is.
Transposing these oughts or shoulds into I AM statements...
I AM peace.
I AM harmonious.
I AM one with what is.
Through God's grace, I am free.
Through God's grace, I am at peace and in harmony with what is.
I am grateful that I am re-reading Eric Butterworth's "The Universe Is Calling: Opening to the Divine Through Prayer." It comes at a great time along with your question!
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I love how you are in the midst of the distraction here and go into the pain, judgments of self, allowing, accepting it as it is coming, bring up inside YOU as the calm with reminders. YOU! I AM
This photo is touching. This scene brings up in me the desire to be present with this child who seems frustrated and in pain somehow, exasgerate or not, no matter, still so real in the child's experience. I want to be the calm found deep within to show this child all is well and mirror back their magnificance.
Beautiful Child
Hi Nicola, cool blog, you are on the right track methinks. I like the sound of that book, maybe I will see if the library might have it.
Sometimes we shut the window, close the door or sometimes we choose to leave the window and door open to allow all the perfection of what we make in co-creating here and now.
Thanks you guys! Just a week before, I was open to learning more about healing and prayer. I was sitting at the computer, glanced sideways at my bookcase and saw Eric Butterworth's book at the end. Without even knowing which book it was, I knew that it was my next read! As you can gather, I am loving my second reading of this book!
Funny how we have different responses to the same stimuli. Here I am wanting to repel and lock it out and you are moved to embrace it! We are all amazing and important pieces of the whole. No doubt about it!
Eric Butterworth's worth a trip to the good old library. Amazon may have it where you can read an excerpt and get a good feel for him. He's got some other awesome books too.
In The Flow of Life, Spiritual Economics and Discover The Power Within You. I was in a book study of the latter and fell in love!
Isn't life fun?!