On another board someone mentioned being a âstruggling artistâ™. It got me to wondering.

I wonder if, before he made each of his discoveries, Edison thought of himself as a âstruggling inventorâ™ or was he passionately and joyously consumed in the process of inventing?

I wonder if Einstein considered himself a struggling mathematician or physicist?

I wonder if, when he slept in his truck ( I read, at one time for six months) if Kevin Costner considered himself a âstruggling actorâ™ or if he was imagining the success he was going to have?

I wonder if, when she was broke and living in an abandoned building and eating out of dumpsters, was Madonna considering herself a âstruggling entertainer or artistâ™? Or was her mind on where she wanted to be? Was she imagining and picturing her success to come?

I donâ™t know for sure, but I wonder. Especially in light of what Neville Goddard had to say. (Those of you unfamiliar with Neville: Mark Victor Hansen, of âChicken Soup for the Soulâ™ fame, says heâ™s his idol.)

"First, have a dream, and by a dream I mean a day dream, a glorious, wonderful day dream. Then ask yourself, 'What would it be like if it were true that I am now the man I am dreaming I would like to be. What would it be like?' Then catch the mood of the wish fulfilled and drench yourself with that feeling. Then for all your tomorrows try to the best of your ability to walk faithful to that assumption, and I am telling you from my own experience, in a way that no one knows, it will come and it will come suddenly." - From "Immortal Man" by Neville.

Or, millionaire Stuart Wilde, in a little book called âMiraclesâ™ wrote something to the effect:

âTo create something with absolute certainty, you have to establish the feeling within you that it has already happened â that the condition you desire is already a part of your life.â And, âThe fact that you do not have it on hand matters not.â

We tend to look at our circumstances as they are. Isnâ™t this true for you? This is the common way of perceiving. We look at what is, and what is lacking, and this is by far how most of us view our circumstances. So, is it any wonder that most of us are tending to get more of what weâ™ve already got?

Yet, whenever weâ™ve gotten a step up, whenever weâ™ve gone on to actualize something good that previously did not exist, we apparently did so because we somehow suspended our ordinary way of looking at things. Maybe we âsawâ™ something higher, hidden in the circumstance. Maybe we âsawâ™ to the end of what we wanted, along with the feeling of it having already being actualized.

I remember once wanting to be with a certain attractive young lady. A small part of me was saying, âYeah, right,â but the majority of me KNEW that I could be with this fine lady. I just knew it.

A certain kind of Certainty.

Iâ™m not expert at capturing the feeling of a certain kind of CERTAINTY, but I do remember times when Iâ™ve had it, or at least had a great deal of it. And I know by experience what great results can happen when I have this certain kind of certainty. This âcertain kind of certaintyâ™ carries with it what is known as Non-Attachment. I KNEW I could have what I wanted, but at the same time, if for any reason I didnâ™t get it, I also KNEW I would be perfectly fine without it. So, the âcertaintyâ™ that I am thinking of has a strange paradox about it. Itâ™s a certainty that you CAN have what you want, along with a certainty that you can be PERFECTLY FINE without it.

This is the feeling I had when I got the girl. Itâ™s the same feeling I had when we were behind 11 to 3 in a ball game, in the seventh inning, and I knew we could win (and we did, by a score of 14 to 11). Itâ™s the same feeling I had when I got a job that I was interviewing for. (It's the same feeling I had when I got a good job that I wasn't even LOOKING for!!) Itâ™s the same feeling I had when, out of the blue, a trouble relationship eased itself back into harmony. Itâ™s the same feeling I had when Iâ™ve sometimes gotten lucky breaks or gotten a free gift of something Iâ™ve wanted. The same thing has happened when Iâ™ve wanted help from someone. It seems that when I want help but donâ™t NEED it, I usually get it.

I believe there is something magical about knowing what you want, wanting it wholeheartedly, while at the same time, you are in such a frame of mind that even if you donâ™t get âitâ™ you are still whole and complete without it.

I wholeheartedly wanted the girl, but â at some seemingly crucial moment â I was also perfectly fine without her. The same goes for winning the game or getting the job. Either way, I really didnâ™t care, although I felt it would be DELIGHTFUL if we won that game.

Thereâ™s something about DESIRE + Non-Attachment that seems to be a very powerful creative energy.

Maybe someone else has experienced this. Maybe someone else can explain it.

Phil

HI Phil...I believe you did an excellent job of explaining it.......That is exactly what it feels like. Thank You......this is the VERY THING that helped me get through something in this VERY MOMENT.......no kidding ! ! !
With Much Gratitude and Appreciation.......dd

I think I understand Phil. It's like when I nonchalently said "a perfect job for me would be to take pictures and write". Of course, I was thinking of world-wide travel articles... but didn't articulate that to the universe at large. It was, as I said, a very nonchalent and rather random comment. I ended up being offered the only job in this area where I could travel and write... that of a small town reporter. I do take a lot of pictures and I do travel to get them... about five minutes each way! But I think I get the idea. My thought was random and I really was very detached from it. It would be "nice" but it wasn't something I "needed". Thanks for the insight.
Live in Light,
Coccinella

Live in Light,
Coccinella

Hi Phil,
I really enjoy your posts. The non-attachment part of manifestation is the key. A light heart around it also helps. I've noticed that often when I say in my mind "I wonder if..." or "I wonder when..." about something and don't have another thought one way or another about it - boom - the person or situation I have "wondered" about appears almost instantly. I am no longer too surprised, I just think well, of course, I thought it. These little things that happen over and over are beginning to stretch and expand for me to the bigger things that a part of me still believes I must work at somehow. Truly, what we desire is already on it's way to us. I have dozens of times manifested pens to write with, lighters to light fires (when I am a non-smoker and don't buy them or keep them about the house)and even one time pieces of cake and a total of $300 cash out of thin air. In each of these cases, I never affirmed for the things, I simply desired them and in some cases began physically to go to the store or follow steps I would usually take to obtain what I wanted - and, boom, there was the desired thing on the floor, on my counter, in my hand! About two months ago, my bank failed to register a deposit i made at the drive thru ATM. I discovered this when checks turned to rubber and got the bank charges of $180 in the mail. I went to see them and find out what was up. I saw the deposit missing. They said I would need the receipt to prove it. Now, I had a clear relpay in my mind of the moment I threw the receipt in the kitchen trash, which had since gone out the door and to the landfill. I drove home and thought - the bank requires this piece of paper I was given and it is a real piece of paper - no matter where it might appear to be, it is mine and I have it. I sent the thought out that I would look in all places I could think of to be entirely open to finding it anywhere. I walked in the door. The first thing I saw was my son's stroller leaning against the wall by the door. It has a bag on it for carrying things. I never walk to the bank with the stroller - too far. But I looked in the stroller bag. The only thing in there was the bank receipt for that deposit. It had grease and tea bag stains on it! I know we have to let go for our desires to manifest. Our continual thinking of it in a wanting way keeps us in the state of wanting and keeps the thought attached to us - not moving to Source to be acted upon. I believe the consciousness of society as a whole is expanding quickly and awareness of this manifesting ability will grow to the point where we do materialize things readily and easily. Maybe our children's children will do it as second nature. Maybe we will all do it ten years from now! It's all in the mind!
Have a rich day,
Dunnea

I am also reminded of Lincoln and his failing 6 elections before being elected President of the United States. Anybody that keeps doggedly moving under those conditions (of "failure") must have a CERTAINTY about him/herself and what he is to do.

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Hi Phil,
The non-attachment part of manifestation is the key. A light heart around it also helps... It's all in the mind!

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Wow Dunnea... you really have "mastered" this whole thing. Your story about the ATM receipt is really enlightening. I'm going to work on being unattached to the things I really want. It's a rather bad habit that I've got I think... one that can be broken with conscious attention. Thanks for the encouragement.

Live in Light,
Coccinella

Hi Coccinella,
I intend to be the "descended master" that we all are and remember how to do these things at will. That certain certainty Phil talks about can be so elusive. Sometimes when I think my thought is clear with nothing to oppose it, the very fact that I think it is clear and I don't think I have a contrary thought to oppose it, is a sure sign to me that I am deceiving myself and indeed have something opposing the manifestation. In fact, my "idle" thoughts are usually instantly manifested - where I have given no thought to the thought that arose. So I make a habit of keeping my energy and thoughts in the high zone as consciously as I can, to create a climate that gives rise to positive "idle" thoughts! One thing I have noticed and wondered about is the emotion I would call righteous indignation. It's not quite anger which usually feels scattered to me. It feels very focused and clear. It is just as intense as anger, however. It is the feeling that I experienced when I had to prove my deposit to the bank. I had the same feeling when I manifested $200 cash on my kitchen counter when I was short on rent and a hundred dollar bill on a department store floor when I didn't "have" the amount required to buy a coat for my daughter for the winter -I had looked at dozens of stores, mostly, thrift shops - was led to the high priced dept. store and found THE coat, the only one in her size. I saw the price tag and that indignation set in! I almost shouted to the Universe, "How could you lead me here and show me THE coat and not make it affordable for me?" As I turned to leave, steam coming out of my ears, I found a hundred dollar bill at my feet! I bought the coat and boots and mittens! She wore it for two winters. When we gave it to a man and his daughter waiting at an organization that aided migrant farm workers, the coat still looked as good as new! I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this same emotion when manifesting?
Have a rich day!
Dunnea

Hi Dunnea,

I was meant to read your post twice it seems. Once to "overivew" it (when I read it yesterday but didn't have time to do more than that) and just now (when I thought I saw an addition to the post and came to see what it was and there you were waiting - or at least there was your post), this time to take it in and see what I was supposed to see. That seems to be the "righteous indignation" part, since it's the part that stuck out this time around.

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One thing I have noticed and wondered about is the emotion I would call righteous indignation. It's not quite anger which usually feels scattered to me. It feels very focused and clear. It is just as intense as anger, however.

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I found that an interesting comment. I understand it as well, although the universe has not ever given me anything (to my knowledge) because I've felt it. I think there is something that I'm missing but am not sure (yet) what that might be. I'm working on it though. When you feel this "righteous indignation", is the rest of you passive, disappointed, frustrated or... ? By passive I mean, that the "how could you?" question is asked but true negative feelings (such as frustration, anger, or disappointment) don't actually arise.

I ask because when I feel this feeling that you seem to be describing, I usually end up feeling rather disappointed. Passive, I think, would be better, but I'm not sure if that's what "should" be or not. This manifesting is all so new to me and yet, it feels like I should know it at the same time. This can sometimes be frustrating in itself. Like the little boy at the piano that Wattles describes. "I know what it should be like, but I can't make my mind work right."

Anyway, thanks for the thinking spell. It felt rather good!

Live in Light,
Coccinella

In the book it says that we should think about are goal all day and spend much of our spare time manefesting and thinking about what we want. Dunnea you said that when you have an idel thought about somthing you seem to get what you want instantly so does this mean we should not think about the things we want all day long? You said that you make a habbit of keeping your energy and thoughts in the high zone can you explain what this means to me please, What is it that you a actualy thinking about? I understand maybe your not actualy talking about your goals and probably just the little things but if this method works for the little things it should also work for the bigger things we want. Soz about all the questions I just want to get myself a clearer picture of what it is your actualy saying. Thanks

Phil thanks for the advice you have given I had never really thought about it like this before.

Peace.

Hi Central Axis,
I was thinking out loud about thinking and like to hear from others how they have created or experienced manifestation of thoughts. Maybe idle thought was the wrong way to put it. It is singular thought without any attachment to outcome. I do not think again of desiring what I have thought about, or make an exercise of thinking about it many times or constantly. I understand the concept of holding a thought all through the day as a means of not allowing space for conflicting thought, but my personal experience has not had much luck with that practice. For me it seems that it either is or it isn't. If I must think over and over, it is, it is, it is, then it seems to strengthen the thought that I am trying to convert the thought "it isn't". Of the many really improbable things that I've created or attracted, I realize I can't remember desiring them with any sense of longing. Letting go, releasing is important somehow. I would like to understand it fully and be able to apply it at all times in all situations. I have realized the more detached I am the swifter the results but paradoxically(to me at least) my "righteous indignation" moments are times I've been seemingly very attached to an instant outcome and usually an illogical or impossible one, yet that energy state has worked just as well as complete non-attachment. The common thread seems to be a single thought with no opposing thought. I notice in the nonattached moments of thought I energetically feel like a calm pond without a ripple, and the energy seems concentrated in my center and contained. In my "righteous indignation" state, my energy feels very strong and big and solid and outside of myself, dense, thick and bright and heightened, as though no other energy could penetrate it. I even wonder if an object were to be thrown at me in that state if it would only bounce off about ten feet dstant from my body, as that is how far I feel the energy field. Now, maybe the constant thinking of the desired condition or effect helps some people have a single thought. Maybe I am just perverse in nature (my mother could attest to that)and the perversity only creates resistance to repition of thought. I know we are all different and have different "wiring". I have been practicing meditating more and expanding the feelings of love and gratitude because it is a much nicer state of being to walk around in long term. Righteous indignation is a big burst for me and actually takes a bit of time to come down from. I imagine if a pure love energy can be maintained for the majority of the day, any positive desires would manifest easily. In practicing the feelings of love and gratitude more I've discovered that I even have precepts about them that must be reworked into more supportive energy. Love has an element of sacrifice inherent in it for me,"for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son..."or "i"m doing this thing (I don't really want to do) or spending this money (I don't really want to) because I "love" you." and gratitude is a feeling that has a certain guilt associated with it - "you should be grateful we... for you". This old conditioning leaves a piece of me saying, "Thanks, but I'll pass on the love and gratitude, too painful and uncomfortable." If I am unable to get the amplification up on the love and gratitude, or if some of the time is is just my thinking I should be in a state of love and gratitude but am unable to put my entire heart, soul and mind into that energy completely, then it will not be a proper conduit for the thought to move through to the formless to be acted upon. I hope I have clarified some of my thoughts for you and Coccinella.
Have a rich day!
Dunnea

I'm sorry to take this discussion off track for a moment, but I have a question from Dunnea's posting:

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... As I turned to leave, steam coming out of my ears, I found a hundred dollar bill at my feet! I bought the coat and boots and mittens!

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How did you know the $100 was yours and not someone elses?

David G.

Hi Dunnea

Thanks for the reply I understand what your saying a bit better but it's still all pretty complicated stuff_lol. I think that you have been lucky enough to find a really good way of manifesting things in your own personal style like you said your probably fairly perverse so maybe thinking thought in this way helps you better than constantly thinking about something all day. You sound pretty experienced in this kind of things how long have you been doing it for? Am only new at this I've been practising for three weeks but the Idea that we can create what we want with are own minds isnâ™t a new idea to me only this book has helped to understand how it can be done. I think for now am just going to try the method that it suggests in the book to be thinking about what we want all day long and wait and see what results I get with that whilst always accepting that if I donâ™t get it then it isnâ™t going to make any real difference but it would be nice if I did get it. One of the problems is that am not sure if itâ™s something that I desire that I would be able to give it one single thought and then not think about it again for the rest of the day if this is what you mean by single thought or do you mean just thinking the same thought? Its also strange how when you said that sometimes when your in that certain energy state and you feel very attached to something you see the outcome quickly and other times when you are unattached you also see a quick outcome. The only energy I have felt so far is when am thinking about something I really want I become really happy but my whole body inside feels warm and I begin to feel really grateful and sort of excited but for this feeling to stay with me all day is hard because sometimes while working I can not get the same level of concentration to feel this positive way but if I can get it again it helps me to feel positive for quite a while.
I think maybe the book is telling the basics but each person can find an individual way that will work better for them. By trying my best to live in a certain way Iâ™ve already started to see positive things begin to happen in my life.

Peace

Hi David,
I took that $ and walked around the floor, no one else was on it but a cashier. I asked her if there was a lost and found. There was. I went there and the woman said no one had reported missing money and told me to keep it. Whether she acted on store policy or not re:cash found on the floor, I do not know. No wallet or ID was involved with the money. Re: wallets - I have found three, over the years, all with cash, and a money clip with cash and credit cards this past summer and have returned all of them intact. I had my first lesson in this when a friend of mine and I were four years old and found a woman's purse behind his garage - probably stolen and tossed there by who ever stole it. It didn't occur to us that we should tell someone. We both were told never to go in our MOTHER'S purses! Our moms found out what was up when they saw the lipstick all over us and caught us chewing wads of the gum we found in the purse. We led them behind the garage and then we had the lesson about not keeping what doesn't belong to you. To this day, I can't recall if there was money or ID in the purse - our treasure was the gum, lipstick, and moist towelettes. Ah, lost innocence!
Have a rich day,
Dunnea

Thanks for clarifying some of what you experience for me. It does shed some light on it. I think that each of us must find our own special way of mastering control over our environment and life and that we cannot only rely on what we are told to do. I am a "researcher" of sorts and do like to discover the "what" and "how" of things. It is going to be an interesting ride for me, I think... to try to find my own special way of mastering control over my life and surroundings. But a thoroughly enjoyable one, I'll bet! Thanks again.

Live in Light,
Coccinella

Hi Central Axis,
The time spent has no real relevance, except to our ego, I think. I used to be a cake decorator and taught others in the bakeries I worked in. Spinning buttercream roses on a rose nail was a skill I had to practice almost a month to master. The first time I showed someone else how to do it and they spun a perfect rose on the first try, I was actually annoyed - and ashamed of myself for being annoyed! The non-competitive part of SOGR is so relevant to our life on all levels. Many of us were educated from early on to be competetive and have alot of separative thought that keeps us apart from all the good we can share together. I know you will find SOGR works for you, in the way that is best for you. Thank you for sharing the energy you experience. I tend to be too cerebral and analytical and want to experience the process of SOGR in feeling and emotion, the energy behind words. I am learning alot from everyone's posts here.
Have a rich day!
Dunnea

In the beautiful way that Mr. Wattles presented to us our unity with the unlimited source ... His words are TRUTH, as today, as yesterday TRUTH.

A Certain Way, says: Be Certain In Your Way. However the road presents itself be ever mindful we are a part of unlimited becoming.

As soon as there is a tightness, in our emotion we have relinquished ourselves to limited thinking.

i am a Cosmologist ... and this introduction of to this wonderful SOGR community ... is a support and a concrete reminder ... we are limitless...

Trillion to the power - Thank U All

Hetepu,
(Peace~N~Blessins)
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I remember when I once had this certain kind or certainty in my life. I went into a nightclub and bought one raffle ticket on my way in but I remember that this sudden feeling I had that I was going to win it and I said to my friend am going to win this and then I didnâ™t really think anything else about it but only a few times and when I did think about it I just had the same certain feeling. I actually forgot about it and then a few days later the things I had won where dropped around to my house.

I think this is maybe one of the main things people need to learn how to obtain towards the things that they want to get. Having the feeling your going to get it and because you know your going to get it your not actually bothered if you do get it or not.

Wouldnâ™t it be great if we could learn to give ourselves this certain kind of certainty towards all the things we desire and the things in our life like our goals, Money, Our relationships, etc.

Phil do you know any ways or methods that we can use to help obtain this certain kind of certainty about the things we desire. What affirmations do you suggest? And what other things do you think would help?

Thanks.

One way to get this Certainty is to dwell a LOT on those positive possibilities that you want to experience. Think about them a lot, so that, after awhile, it becomes second nature to actually EXPERIENCE or FEEL what it is like to already have the things you want,⦠EVEN if there are no apparent indications of them in any of your conditions.

Get to where you are already experiencing ALL the FEELINGS of having, being and/or doing whatever it is you really want.

For example, letâ™s say you want an enormous abundance of money or financial well-being. Many people say that want this kind of money abundance, but they donâ™t really have a very clear, certain and convincing idea of themselves with this kind of abundance. (This is probably one reason why many lottery winners experience so many disastrous outcomes after winning, and why some of them actually go broke. They didnâ™t take the time, beforehand, to get really familiar and oomfortable with that level of financial abundance, so when it came they didnâ™t know how to really handle it well. Itâ™s a little like putting a six year old behind the wheel of a gassed up Maserati with the engine running. Without the necessary preparation, no matter how wonderful the gift, youâ™ll be like an accident waiting to happen.)

Do you want to see real life examples of this? Go look at any amateur talent show. There, youâ™ll see examples of various levels of preparation. Here, you get a group of people who have this dream of being âin the limelightâ™ but you can immediately tell which ones really prepared themselves for it. You can almost immediately tell which ones must have given a lot of positive thought and time and effort to this moment â the ones who look like they âbelongâ™ there -- and which ones were more a combination of wishful, fanciful but doubt-plagued daydreaming along with some ingenuine effort.

And itâ™s not all about the talent. In the real world, do you think itâ™s always the persons with the most natutal talent, knowledge, education or skill that succeed? Hardly. In fact, some of the most extraordinary achievers come from backgrounds that were the absolute antithesis of where they finally ended up. (Charles Schultz, of the comic strip âPeanutsâ™ bio tells the story of a kid who seemed to have the clear earmarks of someone who was destined for utter obscurity. Of his early life he said that about the only thing he did well was, he liked to draw a little. And most people know that the Olympian, Wilma Rudolph, was a sickly, crippled child, for example.)

So, what Iâ™m saying is, one of the things that will give your greater Certainty about something is to do a lot of âliving it in your imagination.â™ AND: Whatever it is that you say you want, get absolutely clear that you REALLY want this thing.

Hereâ™s an example that comes to me. Letâ™s say, for whatever reasons, you are mistaken for a criminal and found guilty of a terrible crime you never committed, and then you are sentenced to Life In Prison Without The Possibility Of Parole. But letâ™s also be clear about one other thing: It doesnâ™t matter that the Whole World has decided against you. YOU know ABSOLUTELY that you did not commit this crime and that you do not belong in any prison at all. So, even if you had to stay in that prison for ten, twenty or thirty years, or even if you ended up dying in that prison, you KNEW all the while and all along, you DESERVED better. You were CERTAIN of this, although the whole world had already decided against you, and committed you to a life in prison.

Now,.. think to your present circumstances. Next,⦠think about some great thing you want that is nowhere in sight in your present circumstances. Can you be as certain of this thing you want, and your deservedness of it, as you might be of your INNOCENCE in the above example? Can you want this thing and FEEL the truth of it, just as much as you might want your freedom, and feel deserving of your freedom, in the above example, even though you âlogicallyâ™ know that your chances of getting it are nil?

Most of us, it seems to me, have unwittingly put ourselves in prisons of sorts, of our own making. And weâ™ve been living these âimprisoned livesâ™ for so long that weâ™ve come to believe this is what we really must deserve or maybe itâ™s really all we are capable of. Weâ™ve come to believe in our so-so, humdrum lives so that now, mediocrity is all that we have a certain certainty about.

But the REAL truth is, we ALL deserve incredibly fulfilling lives WHETHER OR NOT we ever experience them as such. As a kid once pointed out, âGod donâ™t make no junk,â and we were not given life to live mediocre, unfulfilling â or worse â lives. We are all Children of God, gifted with the chance to experience as much marvelousness as we can imagine.

But whether or not we ever experience the kind of wonderful lives we want, we can still get ourselves to feel the Certain Certainty that THAT is the kind of life we want. We can still dream of living spectacular lives, living in spectacular homes, involved in all sorts of incredibly rewarding activities and experiences.

Let me end with mentioning again a certain aside: At any moment you can learn to create whatever feeling or emotion you want, regardless of your conditions. Circumstances do not determine how you feel. You can â in the midst of poverty â experience feelings of great gratitude for whatâ™s to come, or your deservedness of something much greater and better. You can â in the midst of apparent tragedy or even prolonged or great difficulty â come to feel peace and serenity and comfort. In other words, you donâ™t have to HAVE the desired conditions you want in order to FEEL however you want.

The ability to feel however you want, regardless of circumstances, is a capacity that most people do not exercise; and so this capacity grows weak through lack of use. But just as a muscle gains strength through exercise, so can this ability grow strong with practice. And itâ™s possible â through constant practice â to come to where you become so masterful at this that no condition can emotionally imprison you.

So,⦠does this help you get to Certain Certainty about anything?

Phil

Thanks for the reply Phil.

Yesterday I read one of your old posts in the archive and I have also got to thank you for that.

It was the one about needing things and wanting things and the different feelings we will feel if we want something or need it. I have to admit this last week has been hard for me to try and control my feelings and I have been having moments of happiness and then moments of sadness or feeling down. I had been trying to practice detachment but wasnâ™t really sure how to do it or I thought I was succeeding but was obviously failing. After reading the post in the archives I suddenly realised where I had been going wrong so I took a look at myself and decide to think about what things do I really need to be happy and then I now know the truth is I donâ™t really need anything but it would be nice if I could have the things I desire and want. So now whenever I begin to feel a feeling I donâ™t want to feel creep inside me I take a look at what it is I am thinking about then think would it really be all that bad and would it make me any more less complete? Would it be the be all and end all? Look at the truth which is No not really I would still survive and one day walk away from it happy then remember that I donâ™t need anything to be happy and begin to think about the thing I do want and believe am going to get it with a feeling of happiness come over me again. It's not always as easy said as done but I think with practice and patience I will master this properly and so can anyone else who chooses to take this attitude towards the things they need, Want and donâ™t want.

Thanks again Phil itâ™s good to have people like you helping us newbies out.

Peace.

C