God does not require any exchange for blessings. I have been feeling unworthy for yers. I was trained to beg for blessings. Little did I know that God has been waiting to gladly give, the way the Father of the Prodigal Son rushed to meet his returning son.

From “Mindfulness Yoga” : Our life is shaped by our mind; all actions are led by mind, created by mind.”

“Happiness follows a skillful thought as surely as one’s shadow.”

Gill Edwards wrote: “We always get what we want (Is she writing about the 4th dimension?), so if you are not creating it, you must be blocking it.”

This is why the Law of Attraction has caused me to blame myself each time I got challenges. Yet Joe Vitale’s Ho’oponopono never allows blaming.
I keep swinging to my old limiting beliefs!
Edwards offered tips:
“You need to clarify what stands in the way:
negative beliefs or attitudes
fears and doubts
anger and resentment
guilt
feeling undeserving
or
payoffs such as self-pity, punishing others, feeling better than others or avoiding responsibility.

GOODNESS! The list seems to say only the Dalai Lama can get his desires.
Edwards continued: “What are the excuses you give yourself?”
At this point I choose not to be further frustrated. I choose to listen to M Tamura: “Instead of insisting that we get what we want, how we want it and when and where, by being compassionate we allow our whole process of receiving to develop in its own way and time.”

But as always I choose Boorstein. She wrote:
“There are all sorts of things I don’t like. And in response to what I find unpleasant, I often feel dismayed or impatient or annoyed or disappointed or grieved.”
“What I try to do is keep my mind from fighting with my experience, confusing and isoating itself in self-centered despair.”
“…the mind’s acceptance of the situation, free to allow space for new possibilities to come into view.”

No need to be nervous! No need to be jittery about the Law of Attraction.
For years I have been reacting to irritating text messages re loans, condos, food franchises etc. I kept on forgetting what I learned from M. Tamura:

“When crises arise in your life, they are not due to something inherently wrong with you.”

“Although you may take them personally, situations in your life don’t happen to you. They just happen. And you are involved in them according to the way you respond to [them].”

I have found it hard not to blame myself when: I misplace things; when I get unhappy text messages; when I get negative news in my Facebook News Feeds. I agonize over saying/writing the wrong things. I feel bad over inefficient/poor services.

I automatically ask myself: “How did I attract such things?”

These past 2 months or so, I have been agitated by biased national news as well as by international interpretations of the country’s situation.

Sylvia Boorstein wrote:”It’s part of the whole system of painful things that happen to human beings and you can manage.”

Laura Day wrote: “Things are what they are. Ruminating won’t change them. Nor will it provide an insurance policy for avoiding pain  in the future. In fact it perpetuates it.”

Gill Edwards and  Rabbi Brickner left their bodies years ago. Wayne Dyer went last year. So I choose to be guided by M. Tamura, Tato Malay and of course my husband Emil who are still alive. I aspire to be like Sylvia Boorstein who tuned 80 last month.

Sylvia wrote about meeting challenges: “…I relax see what my options are and choose the best of them. I won’t always be pleased but I’ll be happy.”

I learned some practical guidelines from Gill Edwards: “Whenever we talk of using will power…we mean declaring war upon the Basic Self. And it doesn’t work. Eventually, the Basic Self fights back. And feeling out of control…”
“What we resist, persists.”
“The only long-term solution is to co-operate, to befriend your enemy and realise it was trying to help you all along. (The enemy is not any external force; it is a challenge from the Basic Self)

M. Tamura has warned against judging ourselves lest we split into the one who judges and the one judged.

Boorstein is ever so kind: “Sweetheart, you are in pain. Relax. Take a breath. Let’s pay attention to what is happening. Then we’ll figure out what to do.”