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Have you ever been in the pits? You know, the kind where you are suffering real emotional pain? This often happens when we forget our purpose or our reason for being. You find yourself unable to work or if you do work it is only with half-a-heart. Food doesn't taste so good and it is hard to take pleasure in anything.
The simple answer, but not so simple to do, is to "remember." Remembering is when you are able to say to yourself: "Oh yeah, I can make it. Life's going to be alright. I got it now. I'm back in the groove. I know who I am." This realization is wonderful especially when coming out to the pits. It's great to be the real you!
While "the pits" is a purely personal and is an internal phenomenon, recessions can be global and external things and usually need solutions you won't find in your own house. However, there are very specific things you can do as a person to avoid recession entrapment which includes having your mind trapped in an external form of the pits.
A simple beginning is focusing on "what you want." Ask the question, "What do I want?" But be careful not to make it what your momma wants for you, not what your kids want for you, or not what your spouse wants for you, and especially not what your boss wants for you. "WHAT DO I WANT?" (A lot of people never ask themselves that.)
Do you know that most people treat Sears and Robuck better than they treat God? Can you imagine calling up the Sear's Catalog Department and saying, "Sear's, just send me something you'd think I'd like." (The computer at Sear's would go nuts.) When you order you have to tell them the size, the color, the fabric, the number, and the page. They need all kinds of details, the physical details.
And yet we dare to go to God with this general kind of, "I don't want to take the responsiblity for choosing what I want, so somebody else choose." You can almost hear them say, "Oh may heavens! Here's another one." What do you want? Any vacillating and that is where "fear" comes in. It is fear because we are afraid will choose something, then when we get it, we won't like it. We got it, now. What are we going to do with it? The simple answer is, you just pray it away.
The truth is, "you can have anything you want." To invoke the law of attraction you'll need to do something that I'll tell you about in a moment. You can being anything you want to be. You can do anything you want to do. There is absolutely nothing stopping you. There is a whole universe out there saying, "Go for it!" So now it is time to look at what you really, truly want.
The beautiful thing about putting your desires down on paper is nobody else gets to see it. That's your private stuff and you don't have to say why you want it. (Hey, it's probably a lie, anyway.) It maybe that you don't even know why you want it. You just want it. "When you are hungry for chocolate cake, you don't have to give a reason. You just want chocolate cake."
Here's what you do to escape from a real or an imagined recession: (you won't find this in "The Secret")
1. Separate yourself from distractions.
2. Write down single everything you think you want. Everything you can think of.
All you are right now is a bunch of hazy, vague wishes. You've got to learn to direct your faith by being clear on what you want.
Take a legal pad, write on both sides, don't be afraid of filling the whole
legal pad, get another one if you need to. No matter how big or small, write
them all down.
3. Choose the twelve (12) that seem most significant to you right now.
a. write those down in order of importance
b. write down the date by which you will be ready to receive these
(You're probably thinking, "But I want them right now!" No you don't. If you wanted them now you'd have them already.) By putting a date on them you may be opening up a bunch of stuff in your personality. For example, there are all your excuses, all your barriers, all your "cop outs" and all your reasons why you can't have it.
The next and most crucial step in this process is:
4. Go into prayer and ask this question; "Father, what must I change about myself in order to be willing to receive this by this date?" (Not somebody else, not my spouse, not my kids, not my boss.) WHAT MUST I CHANGE ABOUT ME, in order to be ready to receive it?
Who is this a task for? It is a task for spiritual warriors. THAT'S WHO YOU ARE! Why? Because change is scary stuff. Have noticed that? Hey, we keep saying, "Change is the name of the game. Let's go for it!" Then "change" rears its beautiful head, in our lives and we get "scarred." We think it is much easier to change "them" or think we can than to look and see what I must change in myself.
I don't know about you but when I was a teenager I became an instant expert. Yes, I tell a phony from a mile away. I knew so much I could find fault anywhere and anytime, and I was free with to tell others of my true vision. I am sad to admit that this became part of my personality for years although I eventually restricted my expression to only those with whom I shared some intimacy. Although this is not about me as much is it is about a universal principle we all can benefit from knowing and using. I had to learn to cease "bitching" in order that I could be in a place that would be receptive to my desires. For you today, dear student of life, the highest metaphysical law in the universe is: "DON'T BITCH!" When life is reduced to its greatest simplicity, it is time to pay strict attention. You better pay attention, here, learn to cease to find fault.
In your favor there is a little rule that says, "If you can do anything for 21 days, it becomes a part of your soul." If you want to be a more receptive person to the bounty that awaits your amended behavior then make two little 21 day calendars that you can post in your bathroom and on the refidgerator. Now make an agreement with yourself and your Maker that for 21 days you will not gossip, you will not criticise, you will not complain, and you will not utter any negative language. Mark off those 21 days! (I hope your conversations won't suffer because you can't think of anything to say outside of those categories.)
Will you see yourself differently? Have you been a poisoner? Have you poisoned your own environment with gossip? Have you been a murderer? Yes, sarcasm is murder. Criticism is murder. All that stuff is a waste of time and energy and it turns that negative stuff into powerful stuff. It really pollutes everything around you. But by stopping the source of your pollution (your choice of words) you will find all sorts of new energy powering into you. You will find time and energy to contribute to the good things that are going on. The good projects, good ideas, the praise, the building up, the loving, the saying the good thing about somebody.
You can really get into what it feels like to be powerful. Are you willing to be powerful? ARE YOU WILLING TO BE POWERFUL? Power is your birthright. But you won't be given that power until you learn to be faithful in small matters. You need to prove to yourself that you are a being of absolute integrity. You've got to learn to tell the truth all the time, not just when it is convenient. Try that one for a week!
In conclusion, I've shared 4 of twelve steps (you can get the other 8 for fr*ee by putting "12" on the subject line of your blank email to yesdocmiller@gmail.com) you can use to be free of pity parties or recessions and share in life's bounty by asking for what you want. You don't have to take recessions personally. What we've talked about has to do with how you personally exercise your choices. It is key that you keep your choice personal, very personal. You can and should include your Maker in your choices and call upon Him for support. You don't want to catch yourself finding fault or poisoning others with your words and you know how to cure yourself if you do. And just say "no" to the personal effects of any recession, today or tomorrow.
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