When you hear the word “abundance”, what associations come to mind for you?

For so many of us, the concept of abundance is heavily one-dimensional.  When we hear the word in connection with topics such as the law of attraction and prosperity consciousness, it brings to mind images of wealth, of financial reservoirs overflowing, the kind of cash flow that makes possible the acquisition of dream homes and dream cars, of exotic vacations and impromptu shopping sprees.  Or for some of us, it can mean the money to be able to help those we love so dearly, to enable us to actively make a difference in the lives of our friends and family, in the causes we believe in and the charities and organizations we so passionately support and uphold.

Regardless of what money means for you, looks like to you, abundance isn’t all about having enough money to make our dreams come true.  So often we hear about abundance, and how it is -supposed- to be flowing into our lives all the time.  Yet when we hold it up the measurement of our definition, equating it only with the flow of cash into our -bank accounts-, and we don’t see that abundant flow of money, we can easily start to ask an all too common question…

“Where’s my stuff??”

But is it that your life really lacks abundance?

Actually, real abundance can come into your life in many forms, and it may not surprise you to hear that the flow of abundance into your personal experience can often take expressions over which you have the least resistance.  It could very well be an abundance of money, but it can also be an abundance of generosity from the people in your life.  You could be receiving this generosity in the forms of gifts of time and attention, where others are offering their skill and expertise freely to help you to scale a particular challenge or to meet a particular goal.  You could be experiencing the gift of abundance in friendships, surrounded by friends who support and adore you, who nourish your soul and genuinely respect the value your precious heart holds.

And what of opportunities? Do you find that you frequently run across chance encounters and circumstances that end up blessing you with thrilling experiences or the timely answer to questions, objectives or desires?  Do the right people just seem to show up in the right place and at the right time?  Looking back on your life, how often have you been blessed with a valuable opportunity, only to not see it until after the situation evolved over time and the value became clear?  Have you ever found yourself being given opportunities for travel, for new jobs or job advancements, for business opportunities or invitations to particularly beneficial events, clubs or organizations?

As a fellow creative, I can also highly relate to inspiration as a form of abundance.  The visions suddenly appear with crystal clarity, or the ideas suddenly burst forth, seizing you with the need to get them out into physical form as fast as possible, where they flow with absolute effortlessness and are, somehow, the perfect answer to the issue, or issues, at hand.  I have frequently been possessed with a sudden idea for writing, for an eerily well-suited design solution, for product and service ideas for myself or my clients.  What a rush, and an immense satisfaction, when those beautiful flashes of insight suddenly start to flow, uninhibited and often difficult simply to keep up with as they appear.

It could be perfect health.  It could be love, romance and passion.  Abundance can take the form of actual gifts, items freely given when they are most needed.  It could be a loving family, great food, a beautiful home.  It could be more free time to pursue the things you truly enjoy, or a releasing of outside responsibilities that will no longer hold you back from chasing your dreams.  It could be priceless advice and guidance, an educational opportunity, an unexpected expression of love and gratitude from another, or even… well, you get the idea.

So if looks to you like you are asking for more abundance to be given to you, and you don’t see any indication that your asking is being answered, consider taking a closer look at the details of your life’s experience.  Abundance isn’t likely to hide from you, but if you are looking for one specific path of its arrival, to the detriment of all others, you still could very well be missing more evidence of abundance in your life than you may now know is possible.

Want to invite even more abundance into your life?  How about answering the following questions:

What is your personal definition of abundance?  What does it look like?  What does it feel like?  Without thinking too deeply, how are some ways in which you are already experiencing manifestations of abundance in your life?  How has it changed your experience?  Looking closer, name at least five ways in which abundance has been flowing into your life “under your radar”, and you weren’t completely aware until now?  How does this now affect your definition of what it means to be abundant?  What is the most unexpected way in which abundance has been flowing, or is flowing, to you?

I would love to hear your answers and your feedback!  Leave your thoughts in a comment to this post (you’re free to remain anonymous), or if you prefer, drop me an e-mail at contact@askandallowonline.com and let me hear from you directly.  Bountiful blessings, and may abundance find you in any form, and every form, today and every single day!

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Do coaches, teachers, speakers and other “experts” on the Law of Attraction and abundant living ever have “real life” problems? Oh, honey, you bet! Being a teacher of the abundant living doesn’t automatically convey infallibility, and it certainly doesn’t mean that we don’t have our bad days, that we don’t forget, that we don’t lose our way temporarily or that we don’t experience the same kind of frustration, complication and failure that everybody else does. This is life, and as long as you’re participating fully in it (and I certainly hope that you are!), then you’re going to run into frustrations, complications, so-called failures and setbacks. Just like anyone else, even those people you perceive to be “gurus” are going to have their bad days, going to forget temporarily, going to lose their way for a little while and going to experience the same kind of contrast and dynamics that all of humanity does.

Why? Because we -are- human beings. It’s just part of what we’re to experience and do. For some of us, though, we can really feel the pressure to look, act and speak “perfect”. We set ourselves up to be quintessential living examples of what it’s like to live fully in the flow, and when we sometimes stumble and wander -out- of it for a moment, it can be doubly hard for us to step back, look at the bigger picture, and let go of that need. …And yes, I am absolutely referring to myself as well, believe me.

But here’s the real issue. As teachers, we’re here to help other people step into their own wellbeing, to be of service to others and provide the teachings, tools and resources to assist others in living the kinds of illuminated lives that we know is within their grasp. How well are we really serving those we’re passionate about serving by pretending that we’re living above the nitty gritty that, in truth, besets us all? At the very least, it’s not presenting an accurate picture of what it’s like to reconcile being a “normal” human being with being a divine extension of Source energy. But at the worst, it can perpetuate this myth onto others that once you “get it”, everything just always goes your way. And in the end, when the very people we’re trying to help end up discovering that “real life” doesn’t work that way, it can potentially set them up for discouragement, disappointment or abandoning the pursuit of abundant living altogether.

The good news is that most of us really already know this deep down. We understand that ours is not to demonstrate any kind of perfection, and that in fact by readily acknowledging our own contrasts, complications and setbacks openly, we’re offered an opportunity that is pure magic and absolutely priceless for everyone observing. And for the record, I’d like to clarify my own stance on what it means for me to be a teacher of the law of attraction and the art of living in abundance.

I’d like to think that it’s far more valuable for me to acknowledge whatever issue I’m facing, move through it, and let my experience serve as a very “real world” example of what one can do when facing similar situations. I’d rather stumble, get angry and then work my through it gracefully, turning my full attention toward making my own way back into my own flow. It’s not only giving myself permission to be human. It’s giving everyone else around me, everyone looking at me, looking up to me even, permission to be human as well.

After all, while you’re on this planet, you’re going to be a human being, and your intention was never to shy away from the contrast of losing your way, because in the end it all serves you perfectly well. In theory, it might sound like a fantastic idea to fill your life only with things that please you, only with happy experiences, only with ideal situations. “Real life” is ever so much more vivid and colorful, interesting and dynamic. Giving yourself permission to experience, and even enjoy, the challenges is the fastest way to create that ideal life because it makes the challenges you face ideal for you as well.

So then… permission to be human granted? Absolutely, baby. As you were!

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If you have some favorite videos that inspire and delight you, why don’t you leave a comment and share them with us? We invite you to also share videos that you have made as well, as you are certainly the very best kind of inspiration there is, so please feel free to share your own content to be featured in an upcoming weekly roundup!

Lastly, if you’d like to see more videos specifically adored by Ask and Allow Online, you can visit our channel on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/askandallowonline and browse favorites as well as playlists of various themed soul food and eye candy.

Now how ’bout we get on to the videos?  Right! Click through to the article and we’ll make with the multimedia goodness right after the jump!

Stewart St. John channels Source energy into musical form, and once you hear his breathtaking compositions, you’ll swear you hear the voice of Source itself embracing you. “This Year” is a sweet, soulful affirmation of the magic of life and the wonder of you!

“We Are Awakening” is a brilliant reflection of the ripple of rising awareness happening all across the planet at all times, in a constant motion, and that has been taking place since the moment we began. It’s a tender piece, full of love and light.

These next two come from one of our sweetheart friends, Sherry Yorke, a gorgeous young lady and delightful Facebook friend!

Set to a delicious track called “Amazing” by the band One Eskimo, the video “2010 Predictions from… Beyond” features an exhilerating set of wonderous planetary predictions for this year from the December 2009 edition of “The Sedona Journal”.

Inspired by Eckhart Tolle’s book, The Power of Now, “Now” is a delicate song of gentle, uplifting reminders that NOW is all we have and all we ever need!

This final selection comes from our fabulous Facebook friend, James Kuloloio, who sweetly shared this delicious little selection with us on our Facebook fanpage wall. Thanks, James!

“Inspiring Song” features a series of simple, beautiful, truth-centered suggestions on how to make every day more joyous and extraordinary, not only for yourself, but for the world around you. Some of them are so effortless, so simple and divine, and we’re sure you’ll be inspired to adopt at least a few of them for yourself.

Unfortunately, embedding is turned off for this last one, but you can see the gorgeous video for yourself at the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smhK8l2SF-s

Do you have any inspiring videos that are YOUR favorite? Please leave your favorites in a comment below, and your suggestions will likely be featured in an upcoming inspirational video roundup! I love hearing from you brilliant creators, so c’mon… don’t be shy! What gives your soul wings to fly?

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They’re the users, the leechers, the “moochers”, the attention starved, the energy-thieves, the “poor me’s”, the drama-queens, the wanton victims, the selfish and the self-obsessed. They’re our friends, our family, our bosses, our coworkers, our peers and associates and clients… and sometimes, they’re our love interests.

At first the choice is simple; we want to help, gladly embrace the opportunity to give to another, because it’s who we are and who we want to choose to be. For women especially, we’re automatically given to the urge to give of ourselves, to nurture, to help heal, to support and to “feed” the world around us. Sooner or later however, if we have even just a little ability to feel the connection to our larger, “authentic” selves, regardless of gender, it becomes clear that the only help we’re truly providing is in supporting the perpetuation of relationships that are not only dangerous to the people we are enabling, but just as dangerous, if not moreso, to our own sacred peace of mind.

It’s true that sometimes the contrast can be very beneficial to us as human beings. Sometimes there can be precious gifts hidden underneath the darker folds of the relationship that can yield some of the most priceless and unforeseen opportunities for our own growth, self-definition, empowerment and evolution. Sometimes it’s just not that big of a deal; the situation may occur infrequently enough, or our personal attention may simply be focused sharply enough upon our own natural abundance and wellbeing, that it simply has barely an impact upon us in the grand scheme of things.

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…And this isn’t that board.

Several months ago, I developed a similar idea, not for manifesting the life you dream of, but for manifesting a healthy heart and mind instead. Using the principle of gratitude and appreciation, it seeks to nourish our thoughts, feelings and beliefs about ourselves and about the people we surround ourselves with in our day to day life. As vibrational beings constantly engaged in the creation of our lives, and the experiences we live, our thoughts and feelings have a -huge- impact.

It’s so huge, in fact, that you can say that all that you have in life is a clear reflection of what you believe about yourself, your life and your world, and this includes the people we have let into our lives and the relationships we have developed with them. While studying the Law of Attraction, one is sure to learn about the power of gratitude and appreciation, and how looking for, and identifying, the good qualities in others will greatly assist us in not only experiencing the best of them in particular, but in other people that we meet and interact with.

…This is -that- board.

The Appreciation Board is simple, and its purpose is two-fold. For one, we can use it to nourish, build and reinforce positive messages about our own self-image, particularly when it comes to our value, our self-worth and our beliefs in our ability to contribute and make a difference in our world. Secondly, it enables us to also transform our beliefs about how we would like others to relate to us by focusing on the evidence of ways in which the world around us already relating to us in those positive ways.  It’s created in much the same way as a vision board, except that, instead of attaching representations of things you’d like to experience in your life, you will instead fill the board with notes of love, gratitude, appreciation and positive wishes from others to you.

Start by picking up a standard corkboard, magnet board, or even a piece of styrofoam poster board or cardboard poster board.

You can usually pick up one or more of these at your local office supply store, craft store, art supply store, Wal-Mart, K-Mart or Target superstore, Home Depot or similar shop.

The next step is a little more involved… but ever so much more fun!  You will be going through your e-mails, your online messages and chats, your “snail mail” and any other messages from others to you.  Specifically, you’ll be sifting for any notes or lines in which someone else is thanking you, complimenting you or offering you praise.  This can range from a quick one-line “thank so much” or “you wicked rock!” to those heartfelt notes in which someone else is expressing their heartfelt gratitude for who you are and what you do.  If it involves an online message, print or write them out onto a piece of paper.  While you’re sifting, take time to enjoy the process and see yourself for how others are seeing you as they offer you appreciation!  This can be a fun exercise in which you may discover you are far more valuable, and appreciated, than you may have been realizing.

Set aside the various notes, cards, e-mails, etc, and cut out the various lines of appreciation, gratitude and praise.

The next step is easy!  Start pinning, taping, stapling and paper-clipping your notes to the board.  Feel free to decorate your board and to arrange your collection in whatever way you choose.

Place your board in a location where you will see it as often as possible.  If you can, it’s a good idea to set aside a little time each day, no more than 5 or 10 minutes, and spend some time perusing and focusing on the messages contained on the board.  You can add more as you receive them and you begin to develop the habit of wanting to display those heartfelt compliments and expressions of appreciation in this special place.

You will be surprised at the changes that can occur in your way of thinking, in your beliefs, by simply using this exercise to be mindful of the magic you bring to the world and to the lives of everyone you touch.  Better still, as you focus more and more on the appreciation from others, you will likely find that more and more people will come into your life who show you such love and appreciation.  Enjoy and have fun creating a fun and positive tool that will give back to you many times over!

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In her book, Eat, Pray, Love, author Elizabeth Gilbert talks about being faced with life altering questions toward the end of her first marriage.  Juggling her responsibility to herself with her perceived responsibility to her marriage, to having a family, to living a life that didn’t seem to fit her and that she didn’t want, she notes a breakthrough that came to her when she finally sat down and did what most any good writer would do – examined the word responsibility and discovered another meaning through its parts.  Elizabeth writes:

“Oh, Lord–responsibility.  That word worked on me until I worked on it, until I looked at it carefully and broke it down into the two words that make its true definition:  the ability to respond.”

What a beautiful, empowering definition for such an often fearful and burdensome word.  Responsibility is a word that comes up often in my own discussions, both on a personal front as well as in talks with other friends, family and clients.  I’ve always tried to communicate the sense of power and strength that comes with responsibility, not because it is a burden of duty, a heavy thing to be carried on our shoulders whether we like it or not, but because it is ultimately an issue of choice.  When you are given the ability to respond to something, to anything, you are also automatically given the choice;  the choice of whether or not to respond and the choice of how to respond.

And what a liberating gift!  As vibrational beings constantly engaged in the creation of the experiences we have, the environment in which we live, the life itself that we lead.  Every single bit of our fundamental power lies in our ability to choose and then to respond.  Choice is such an inherent part of our physical existence that we can even choose to be blind to our ability to choose.  Even more so, we can choose to give up our right to choose… and that in itself is a choice we make.  The largest part of our stepping into the limitless power we hold as human beings is in the act of becoming aware of both our ability to choose and our ability to respond.  The whole of creation has always been rushing forward to support and assist us in the perceptions we have, and the choices we make, but when we begin exercising our ability to choose and to respond with deliberate focus and intention, then we are better able to work in tandem with the whole of creation to bring forth a physical reality that is in alignment with our own inherent abundance and wellbeing, our purpose and passions, our deepest desires.

When we’ve spent so much time being unaware of our conscious ability to respond, then it’s not always easy to begin becoming aware, especially with regard to our responses to our own internal, mental and emotional environment.  The latter though is where so much of our ability to mold and shape reality resides, and so for that reason, it can be of an invaluable benefit to us to begin being more aware of, and deliberately exercising, our ability to respond… our “responsibility”.  Are there situations in your life where you have been, either deliberately or by default, giving up your power to choose how to respond to any particular person, place, circumstance or event?  Can you identify the choices you have available to you?  What choices, and what modes of response, can you take that are in greater alignment with the freedom, abundance and joy that is eternally available to you?

Lastly, just as sometimes it can be of a huge benefit to deliberately exercise our ability to respond, sometimes the best response is to not respond.  And so if you are faced with a situation in which no response seems “right”, consider the possibility that it’s just that;  “no response”, or non-response, seems right.  Sometimes it pays to simply be still, be at peace… and do nothing at all.

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“What is the absolute key to Law of Attraction? It’s the same key to prosperity, to health and wellbeing, to having the life of your dreams. It is the map that guides you, the engine that carries you, the very stuff from which the totality of your reality is built. That key is emotion. …What? You were expecting pixie dust? Hah!” -Your Loving Source [Jessica Smith, The Love Letters: A (Universal) Love Affair]

It’s the fuel in the engine of creativity. It’s the wind in the sails of the people, places and events you encounter every day. It’s the seeds by which the dreams in your imagination grow wild, bursting through to the physical plane and the soil by which they wither or grow to full fruition.

When most people first begin to study the Law of Attraction, one of the first things they encounter along the way is the idea that the thoughts you think can literally create the reality you experience. This leads to all kinds of reactions, from a deep dive into memorizing positive affirmations that fall terribly short of believability, to desperate attempts to prevent or cancel the flow of negative thinking that now you’re all too aware of having on a regular basis.

It becomes almost like a militant bootcamp, an uphill battle to reprogram the brain, from the subconscious outward, to suddenly think in a radically different way from what has been a lifelong “norm”. And when it becomes obvious that the struggle is more than they can comfortably maintain, or the results are totally lacking, blame, guilt and cynicism results. It’s an ending that it both understandable… and entirely unecessary.

Earl Nightingale said, “Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”  In my own work with others, I talk about how being a deliberate creator is very much a three part formula; that is, one part thought and two parts emotion. Why is that? Because thought acts much like your navigator, helping you to create your roadmap, decide your direction and intended destination. It even assists you in identifying and taking those occasional “detours” that crop up. Emotion, on the other hand, is both the vehicle that takes you there and the fuel that powers your vehicle and makes it go.

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I know, you thought it would never happen, right?

I don’t blame you. It’s been since October 2009 that I’ve made the time to post here, and since then so much has been going on that it has me positively on edge to get back here, back to what I love best. So enough rambling, right? Let’s get down to the good stuff!

First off, it’s probably obvious by now that the site has undergone a redevelopment.    Actually… it underwent three, but that’s what happens when you have a designer at the wheel who keeps changing her mind… I mean… who keeps evolving… right!  Most importantly, though, the site should load ever so much faster now as all hiccups that were holding up loading times have been chased down and busted, baby!

Then there’s the new mailing list.   Through The Love Letters, I have a precious opportunity to say the things I most want to say when all the lights are out and all the walls are down.  Through an ongoing series of love letters, I’m able to remind others of their heritage as extensions of pure Source energy, to uplift and inspire, to shine a light on our ability as a powerful creator, and our role as a cherished beloved of the Universe, and remind myself and others of who we really are.  That in itself is amazing, but what’s been even more amazing are the responses that come in from time to time.  Those have been exhilerating and humbling, and it lets me know beyond a doubt that both my love, and the love of Source itself, is most definitely understood.

You can expect that the posts to the website will be starting back up now… finally!  E-Cards are also still in the works.  Even though it’ll be a free service, it’s still of first rate importance to me that it be enjoyable, captivating, easy to use and fun to share, and so I’ve opted to use a premium service to facilitate this feature.  In addition, A+A will be coming out with its own line of inspirational print products; cards, calendars, prints, posters, mugs, mousepads, swag and more – after all, the designer in me deserves to have plenty of fun along the way too!  The second video is also in production, as is the first downloadable screensaver and a lil’ set of wallpapers to enjoy.

There’s other things, but I’ve been babbling quite long enough, don’t ya think? 

It’s high time we get back to the posts.  See you in the next release, folks!

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QUESTION: “Hey Jessie (and IB too)! Loving your posts so keep it up! I liked the quotes the other day too. One of your quotes I saw the other day said something about “there is no guidance wiser than your Source”. Well I wanted you to talk about that? Like by Source were you talking about something like God or a higher “me”?

And you said “you do have to use it”, so I was wondering if you’re referring to things like prayer or meditation? I’ve tried meditating but I always seem to have a problem just “being still” so does that affect my ability to use it? And I think I already pretty much know the answer but I’d like to see what you say about why you stress that Source guidance is wiser than anything else. Ok that’s enough to get you going right? Haha. Thanks Jess. Lemme know when you post this!” — Lainey

Did you miss the first installment of this article?  You can read Part 1, “The Wisest Counsel”, by clicking here!

In the last post, we discussed the nature and origin of what we call “Source energy”.  We likened it to the widely familiar concept of “God”, not for the religious connotations, but in that Source energy is the origin of all things, the place from which all things are possible and the place from which all things eventually manifest.  We talked about how you, as a part of this “everything that is” Source, are born with an eternal connection to this Source; and therefore, born with a sense of guidance, of wisdom, that is eternal, constant and always accurate, in any and all things, when it comes to your own most perfect wellbeing.

This time we’ll be talking about how to actually access, use and “hear” the divine guidance within you.  Some people call it instinct or intution.  Some call it that “quiet inner voice”, and still others give it names like “hunch”, “gut feeling” or the like.  Whatever the case, one thing is for certain; they are all talking about the same thing.  In a world of tangibility, of intellectualism, of logic and evidence and hard proven fact, Source guidance is that still, sweet voice that transcends the physical, goes beyond the logical and, in the midst of confusion and uncertainty will always be unflinchingly and unfailingly certain about one simple thing – that which is in alignment with your true, total and most joyful and abundant wellbeing.

So if we come into the world already possessing this impeccable guidance, how come so many of us find that we cannot hear it at all?  How come it seems like we have to dig down deep, past the noise of everyday living, to get to the heart of this divine connection and activate its guidance?  Why does it have to be so… so hard?  Especially in the times when our confusion is at its thickest, it seems to sometimes take an incredible amount of effort just to access something that sounds like it should be always ready, and immediately visible, at all times?

The truth is, activating the Source guidance with you is the absolute easiest thing in the world to do.  It is so easy, in fact, that you are doing it both constantly and automatically.  It takes far more effort to drown that voice out and can sometimes take years before it finally seems to vanish altogether – not that it ever does.  How is this accomplished?  It happens over time as a result of putting others’ advice, opinions and guidance ahead of your own.

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QUESTION:  “Hey Jessie (and IB too)!  Loving your posts so keep it up!  I liked the quotes the other day too.  One of your quotes I saw the other day said something about “there is no guidance wiser than your Source”.  Well I wanted you to talk about that?  Like by Source were you talking about something like God or a higher “me”?

And you said “you do have to use it”, so I was wondering if you’re referring to things like prayer or meditation?  I’ve tried meditating but I always seem to have a problem just “being still” so does that affect my ability to use it?  And I think I already pretty much know the answer but I’d like to see what you say about why you stress that Source guidance is wiser than anything else.  Ok that’s enough to get you going right?  Haha.  Thanks Jess.  Lemme know when you post this!”  — Lainey

First of all, what exquisite questions!  We love these issues that you bring up because they are so very important, so completely “core” to living the life of a freedom seeking creative genius always smack dab in the center of the natural flow of health, of wellbeing, of abundance, of prosperity.  We love your asking these things because of the undeniable awareness alive within you that you are, in fact, an extension of the Source energy that creates worlds, and that you should seek the guidance of that loving Source energy.  We love that you are aware, that you are eager for answers, and we can feel that you are in a place of receiving the answers you solicit.  We appreciate YOU so very much, and we adore the totality of the magic, and the wonder, that is YOU.

For the sake of this conversation, let us recap the quote to which you are referring.  Essentially, we say, “There is no guidance wiser, more brilliant, more precise or more accessible to you than the Source connection of your own inner being.”  And then we point out, with no small degree of delight, that there is a catch; you must use it.

We really wanted to say, “There is no guidance wiser, more brilliant, more precise, more accessible, more loving, more universal, more truthful, more dependable, more pure, more uncorruptable, more unselfish, more eternal, easier to understand or more attuned to your own well being; but you have to be willing to do the work of determining that no one else can decide for you what is in the best interest of your own well being, deciding that you will let nothing and no one else take precedence over this natural guidance within you, understanding that the way you feel and the experiences you have always reflect each other perfectly, concluding first that feeling good, really feeling good IS in your best interest while feeling less than good is a clear indicator that you are moving in opposition of your wellbeing and finally cultivating the habit of always asking yourself, “how do I feel about this?”  And, if you are not already really feeling good, the next question should always be, “what can I do, or what can I choose or what can I focus upon, that will help me feel just a little better than the way I feel now?”

But Jessie was rather alarmed about fitting all that into a tweet and insisted that, “brevity is the soul of wit.”

What we are referring to when we refer to “Source guidance” could be called “God” or “Buddha” or “Allah” or “Yahweh” or “Krishna” or “Jesus” or “Larry King”.  Really, it matters not, but we generally translate “Source”, in this case, to mean what you would call your “higher self” or “inner being” (as if there is a tangible direction to the spirit!) or “divine spark” or what have you.  The reason for this is really just because of the pre-existing connotations of the former list; that is, this predominant interpretation, when it comes to what you call “God”, that “God” is separate, apart from, or outside of, you; and this is so not the case.  The energy that you call “God” is not separate from you, because that energy is the origin of you.  Indeed, it is the origin of all things.  We have heard you say, “God is everywhere, and is within all things,” and while we so enjoy it when anyone comes to this conclusion because of the sheer, loving connectivity to all things it offers, we would push this further.

We would say, “God is not just within all things.  The energy that you call God IS all things.  There is nothing that God is not!”

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