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Resistance is Futile

April 18, 2013 in Spirituality, United States, World

Resistance is a flawed response if one is on the road to peace.

It assumes that the person or thing being resisted is not you.

It assumes that unity does not exist.

Resistance is futileIf one truly desires peace, resistance is futile.

Yes, I’ll explain.

Peace requires unity.

Therefore, resistance is a flawed response on the road to peace because it assumes there is something outside you.

Resistance reveals that a person believes unity does not exist.

This doesn’t mean that we blindly accept everything that comes our way.

This doesn’t mean that we are not active in our pursuit of the peaceful response.

It means we practice the philosophy found in eastern martial arts and redirect an aggressor’s energy to accomplish our goals.

It allows one person to provide the energy while another person provides the direction.

This isn’t possible with resistance.

With resistance, the energy is deadened.

It is wasted.

With awareness and unity, the energy may be redirected.

This is what I see some of my clients doing when they seemingly throw caution to the wind in fulfilling their earning potential and maximizing their cash flow, even when it results in a larger tax bill.

They are aware that “traditional tax advice” is not good advice. Therefore, they make their own decisions based upon their own goals.

They take the energy of the system and, rather than resist it, they redirect that energy for their own purposes.

Do you see the difference?

As I said yesterday, I see this happening in the way people are responding to Monday’s bombing during the Boston Marathon.

Instead of immediately pointing to an international terrorist suspect, many people, including mainstream media, considered whether government was involved.

As I watched President Obama’s initial press conference after the bombing, I noticed he was curt in his speech patterns.

He didn’t take questions afterwards.

His body language said he was annoyed rather than angry, irritated rather than concerned.

My interpretation is that he knew this was a false flag event and he was tired of playing his role in this type of scripted activity.

Rather than, as was done on 9/11, immediately accuse someone, Obama said, “We still don’t know who did this or why. People should not jump to conclusions before we have all the facts.”

I sensed he was saying, “You’re not going to use me to point fingers at someone who didn’t do this.”

Meanwhile, other signs of a false flag event have appeared.

Prior to the Boston bombing, the stock and metal markets fluctuated wildly, just as they did around 9/11.

The blast in Boston was followed by poison being sent in the mail to elected leaders, just as anthrax was sent to elected leaders after 9/11.

The mainstream media has reported on the arrest of the person responsible for sending the ricin.

They have been more hesitant to report that the arrested man was someone who, for more than ten years, had attempted to investigate the illegal organ harvesting market after discovering a refrigerator full of dismembered body parts and organs while working for a Mississippi healthcare organization.

Was he too close to the truth or is something else going on here?

As time goes by, will we discover that the ricin was produced in a CIA contractor’s laboratory just as the anthrax was in 2001?

Our awareness of previous events gives us clues regarding what may be taking place today.

With these clues, we can begin to understand that each of us is responsible for these acts.

The peaceful response allows us to assume that responsibility and redirect available energy.

With this understanding, it is obvious that resistance is futile.

Following My Intuition

March 20, 2012 in Spirituality

Snowboarding“Did anyone tell you why the room was so heavy when you told the story about the young man who hurt himself snowboarding?”

The question came from a new client. She was at the event when I spoke to Albuquerque business owners last month. My topic was “Adapting to Change.” I had opened with a powerful story about a young man who hurt his head in a snowboarding accident. The doctors told his friends and family he would not live through the night.

I tell the story in The Financial Peace of Mind Section of Complete Peace of Mind Training. I use it as an example of how unexpected events often arise because we are resistant to change. As our resistance builds up over time, it takes something dramatic to break through so we can move forward.

In the story, the young man miraculously came out of coma, recovered completely, and had a different personality. His new personality was a fit for my daughter and he is now my son-in-law, the father of two of my grandchildren.

I’ve told the story numerous times.

I always get positive feedback. Some people cry. Others sigh with relief.

On this night, it felt like someone had dropped a stink bomb in the room and everyone was trying to ignore the smell. The morning afterwards, I wrote an article where I speculated that old stories lose their energy and guessed that maybe it was best to tell stories that are more recent. At the time, I wondered if I should put the story on the shelf.

Truthfully, I was surprised at the response. I have a variety of stories I can tell when I speak. In spite of my best efforts to develop several messages that I can memorize and present with flair, I always end up customizing my talks for each event. This makes for a less polished and more genuine presentations. It allows me to connect with the audience before I arrive. Afterwards, people always comment about how what I said resonated with them.

It works so I keep doing it that way – except for this time.

People loved the rest of my talk that night.

They commented on everything I said – except for the snowboarding story.

I remembered all of this.

“I remember the feeling in the room but no one told me anything.”

“I wanted to explain but you were busy answering questions afterwards so I didn’t get to you. One of the members in our group lost her husband and the services were the previous weekend. He died from head trauma in a snowboarding accident.”

I immediately realized that the story was the one for that night. Unknown to me, I had hit upon a topic where the emotions were so raw that people hadn’t processed them yet.

“Oh wow…I had no idea.”

I understood my audience was attempting to ignore the message.

The pain was too great.

I thanked my new client for telling me.

A few days later, my wife told me I had a phone call from someone. The name was familiar but I couldn’t place it.

I took the call.

“Hi, I missed the last time you spoke for our group but I heard you the first time. I need your help. My husband recently died in an accident and he handled all of our tax and financial stuff. When can I meet with you?”

I have that appointment this afternoon.


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Resistance Only Makes It Stronger

November 17, 2011 in World

I interrupt my series about the merit of certain prophecies and predictions to do this update on the Occupy Movement.

From my perspective, 11/11/11 brought an energy change to the Occupy Movement. Sometimes an energy change manifests through significant moves forward. Other times, it comes in the form of increased resistance.

For the Occupy Movement, the energy shift brought increased resistance.

The day after 11/11/11, crackdowns happened on Occupy Movement camps across the country. Oakland, Portland, and Denver grabbed the mainstream media headlines while other cities from Chapel Hill to Seattle raided camps, made arrests, and tore down tents.

A couple days later, New York’s Mayor Bloomberg ordered NYPD to close down the Occupy Movement camp in his city. This resulted in a couple of trips to the courthouse and clarification on how the protesters could use the park.

Occupy ArrestThe mayors of these cities seem to have forgotten history’s lesson that protest moves forward when it encounters opposition. Keith Olbermann explains it in this eight minute video.

As Olbermann points out, George Wallace learned this as governor of Alabama in the 1960s. Wallace used his inaugural address to promise segregation would continue forever. His speech made Alabama the national target for the desegregation movement. Within a few short years, segregation was illegal thanks in large part to the victories won by the civil rights movement in his state.

The stands being made against the Occupy Movement today give it a similar energy, especially when there appears to be a coordinated effort across the country to squash the protesters’ camps.

I say coordinated because the mayors have met via conference calls to discuss the most effective tactics. I say coordinated because the early morning raids of the encampments follow a similar script. The police gather after midnight and begin their invasion around 1:30 AM. This is happening in city after city after city.

The local authorities use local ordinances dealing with safety and trespassing as their legal argument for the raids. Sometimes the judges agree with these arguments, sometimes they don’t. However, in all cases, the camps have already been raided.

As I said in previous articles, this is war, fought with new tactics.

Why the sudden increase in activity?

As I said in the beginning of this article, I believe the energy shift on 11/11/11 is creating resistance that will increase the voice of the movement.

There is a tactical reason too. The Occupy Movement plans to close Wall Street today, November 17. New York City believes they must disrupt the operational base to disrupt the protests. Obviously, other cities believe the same thing.

They don’t realize that the resistance will make the movement stronger.

Watch today and see what happens.

If the Occupy Movement closes Wall Street by using the same techniques they used to close the port of Oakland, there will be tens of thousands and possibly hundreds of thousands of people there.

Will today be the turning point of the Occupy Movement?

If history is any indication, it will be.

My Thoughts About Occupy Together

October 2, 2011 in Opinion

If you have been reading the past week’s articles on Peace of Mind News, you can see I’m fascinated by the Occupy Together Movement. In case you’re wondering, Yes, I support it.

If you are familiar with my writings, this may surprise you.

I write, “What we resist persists.” Therefore, why do I support those who are resisting the oppression of government? Doesn’t that empower the oppression?

I write, “Everyone creates his or her own economy.” Therefore, why do I support those who are blaming others for their economic woes?

I write, “What we focus on expands.” Therefore, why do I support focusing on the inequities in our society?

Those are valid questions. I will answer them.

I believe all three of these issues, government oppression, economic woes, and class inequities are issues that need to become bigger. In fact, there are many issues in our society that must become bigger. We must see them. We must explore them. We must quit ignoring them if we are going to respond appropriately to them.

The strategy of those doing the oppressing and creating the inequities has been to suppress and hide their actions. This strategy is practiced at the government level with the cover-up of controversial topics such as advanced technologies, political and business practices, and space explorations. It is practiced at the religious level when those who believe differently are excommunicated. It is practiced at the personal level when we judge those who think differently and either lock them away or otherwise remove them from our lives.

The Occupy Together Movement is giving all of us the opportunity to look at all aspects of life. It is clearing the channels so that we can have the courage to quit hiding those things that make us uncomfortable.

I still believe that resistance weakens us and empowers the things we fight against. I am firmly convinced that blame gives our power to others. I know the inequities in our society will become larger as a direct result of Occupy Together.

In spite of this belief, I think the Occupy Together Movement produces progress because it opens the door for further conversation. I believe this is progress because it creates an opportunity for revealing information about advanced technologies, political and business practices, and space explorations. I believe this is progress because it gives religions the opportunity to accept everyone. I believe this is progress because it opens dialogues between those with different points of view.

It gives us opportunity to recognize life is not designed to be difficult. It allows us to see we live on an abundant planet and not everyone has what they need. It makes us look at our claim that we want peace while war persists.

I believe we know how to solve these issues. We are too busy to address them.

Therefore, the PEACEFUL disruption of business as usual by Occupy Together is necessary to open the discussion. It calls attention to the ineffectiveness of our current way of life where we are too busy with the urgent to take care of the important.

Occupy Together Arrests Brooklyn BridgeYesterday, this disruption was met with entrapment techniques, police brutality, and mass arrests. Those in power are fighting to keep their secrets hidden. This resistance by those in power will only reveal their secrets to more and more people. At they come to light, as they become bigger, each person will have to determine his or her response.

Occupy Together is forcing us to respond to a situation we can no longer ignore. Therefore I support it.

I’m preparing a peaceful response and I’m writing about it on this website.

Feel free to leave your ideas for a peaceful response below.