Here are five of my favourite empowering beliefs.

1. My life is created according to my faith. Do I have faith in miracles or disaster? Do I have faith in war or peace? Do I have faith in love or hatred? Do I have faith in cancer or healing? Do I have faith in what I intend or in what I fear?

2. I am the captain of my ship. Yes, I do direct the way. I follow a map but I’m the ultimate decision-maker of the direction of the ship. I decide when to change course and how to deal with the obstacles I face at sea.

3. Love is in everything and everyone. If there is no love, there is no life. Life is love. It is the only thing we are here to do. If you give love in every moment, that moment is a success. Love is my state of being.

4. Abundance is my natural state of being. It’s how I was created, but unforunately, schools of thoughts have betrayed me. It has covered the core that is me. It is my job to get back to my natural state of being. The more I am in that state, the more I will attract that which I desire.

5. World peace and unity is a possibility turned probability. Life is full of unlimited possibilities. We simply have to identify them and turn them into probabilities for ourselves. I have done that and made this an empowering belief. It is what I work for.

What are some of your favourite empowering beliefs? Please let me know by commenting here.

Intuition provides us with guidance, knowledge, direction and the ability to feel what’s right or wrong. Intuition is sometimes mistaken for coincidence or guesswork. Those who can tune their intuition and use it to their advantage are usually in a state of higher consciousness and in a place of abundance.

Have you ever looked at a problem and known the root cause instantly, without even looking into it? That inner voice that you’ve been taught to not trust by society is your intuition. It was Emerson that said, “all things find their origin in intuition.” Here are a few ways to sharpen your saw:

1. Allow yourself to flow past fear. Most people don’t face their fears. They prefer to stay in their comfort zones and remain stagnant. Tune your intuition by facing your fears and flowing through it. Allow your intuition to guide you when you feel uncomfortable. Follow it’s command and see what happens. Fear blocks intuition and is strengthened when we resist it.  Don’t bury your fear.

2. Emotional communication. When you talk with others by email, phone, face to face or any other method, try to seek out their emotions and connect to how they feel rather than only what they say or do. How does the person sound? What is that emotion they are feeling trying to convey? This is a powerful exercise and works wonders.

3. Question yourself. When in conversations with others, ask your inner voice what to do. Ask questions of yourself and what the next step should be. This builds your intuition strength and allows you to trust it more when you enter important situations.

We are currently living in a realm of infinite possibilities. We have at our hands all that we need and all that we may need. All we have to do is select the infinite possibilities we want and turn them into infinite probabilities. Making your dreams come true is not about blood, sweat and tears… it’s about beliefs, imagination and expectation. We live in a magical universe with unfailing principals that conspire on our behalf. 

If this is true, there are infinite possibilities for peace and unity as well. When we keep our eyes and ears open, we get to observe and appreciate more. This increased awareness allows us to notice the possibilities that around and thus grab the ones we feel at home with and turn them into probabilities. The more possibilities we turn into probabilities, the more hope there will be for world peace and unity.

How are you keeping your eyes and ears open?

Ho‘oponopono means to make right. Essentially, it means to make right with our ancestors and the people we have relationships with. The original purpose of Ho’oponopono was to correct the wrongs that had occurred in one’s life. It’s a simple process of letting go of toxic energies within you to allow the impact of Divine thoughts, words, deeds and actions.

There is one technique which I find particularly powerful. Different practitioners have different methods of invoking the power of Ho‘oponopono, but since I like the work of Dr. Joe Vitale, I am utilizing his methods of invoking Ho‘oponopono, which can be summed up in the 4 phrases that he uses whenever he wants to invoke Ho‘oponopono, which is also called “cleaning”:

“I Love You”
“I’m Sorry”
“Please Forgive Me”
“Thank You”

By creating a mantra of saying those 4 things pretty much as often as you can day after day and week after week, you will quickly come to the realization that by Loving yourself, by Apologizing to yourself when you have done something wrong, by Forgiving yourself for that wrong-doing, and by Thanking yourself for the opportunity to create Good, as well as to stop creating Bad, that you can create your life to be “right”.

Vince has a great blog on this Hawaiian process here.

Omens (both good and bad ones) are very powerful. You could say that they are moments left in your path to treasure by God. They are signs that show you which way to go. If you listen to them and follow their guidance, ye shall find what you seek. Should you choose to ignore them, you will feel a sense of betrayal, guilt and anxiety.

There is calmness to be found in the heart. The heart will show you how important and valuable your desire is to you. It will guide you, together with the omens you receive, to unlocking the treasure that awaits you in your life.

Every second of the search is an encounter with God (or any higher source you connect with). When you’re heart is leading you in your search for the treasure, that heart doesn’t get hurt. It is only the mind’s pain that we believe is hurt as this is falsely covered by the ego. The fear of suffering is probably worse than the suffering itself, and your heart knows this.

Happiness could be found in a drop of water, just as it can be found in a grain of desert sand. As the alchemist in the book “The Alchemist” by Coelho says, “Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.”

When you possess great treasures within you, you know that they are different to any other treasure within any other person. When you try to tell others of them, you are rarely believed. The simple advice from Abraham Maslow is to be independent of the good opinion of others.

And finally an important message: don’t give into your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart and your ego will take over.

One social theory is that if we change the attitudes of the individual, society will change around it. In opposition, if we make changes in social circumstances, the individual will automatically change. Both have their pro’s and con’s. Sometimes one will work, and the other won’t. And other times the opposite will happen.

Lenin, in 1917, headed the idea of Communism, trying to bring change through altering the socio-political circumstances in Russia. The idea failed in 1989. The masses became disillusioned.

Gandhi was probably the first thinker who brought the two ideas together. Rather than change one of social circumstances only, why not change both? was the pattern of his thinking. He attempted to change social circumstances, and simultaneously change the attitudes of the individuals at the same time. His belief was that the individual and society are part and parcel of each other.

The bottom line, if any, is that it’s not only political parties and governments in the wrong. We, too, as individuals in society have a part to play. We cannot put blame entirely on someone else’s shoulder. We cannot expect society to first change and we will easily mold around it. Together, we have to change. We, as individuals, have to take the steps as well.

Starting with expressing and only coming from a place of true, unconditional love for everything, regardless of how much you like or dislike the person, item, place or being. We come from a place of love and we are going to return to a place of love. We have just been trapped and caught up in “blame-a-name” and “I’m-the-winner” games once we came out of our toddler years. We need to go back to our origin. It’s there we together both our shift and the nation’s shift can take place. Love is all that matters.

We are all perfect. We all came from a place of perfection and we will all leave to go back to a place of perfection. All that has happened is that we are born as humans and unfortunately, have learnt to compete. Our learning to compete meant that we learnt there was a good and a bad, a better and a worse. In fact, we are all perfect and we are all one. At the spirit level, not the body level. But if we only opened our hearts a bit more and saw this more often…

As humans, we all have unlimited capacity. Marianne Williamson, a great spiritual teacher, says that we shouldn’t use the term unlimited potential for it can be a very dangerous concept. The idea of potential means that we are setting ourselves up to live in the future instead of in the present and therefore constantly measuring ourselves to be what we could be rather than what we currently are. According to what she has said, it is therefore impossible to live up to our potential.

What we can do, however, is go deeper in our capacity to live more profoundly in the moment. Potential means that we have to wait till we are perfect to meet our potential. Capacity, on the other hand, ensures we do what we can. Immediately.

“The key to it lies not in what we have inside of us, but rather in what we are willing to own that we have inside of us.” - Marianne Williamson.

A few years, I remember for a period of time I was trapped because I knew I had a lot of possiblities open to me, as well as influences from people around me about what I should do… but I myself didnt know which would get me to my point of “reaching potential”. All those times, I never lived in the moment - I lived in the future.

We have a capacity for brilliance - but we can only unleash it the more open we are to giving and receiving love and joy. The difference between those “living their potential” and those who aren’t is how open they are to living in the present.

Goal-setting, a very popular technique throughout the last few decades, is a process of focusing the mind on a desired result. However, it’s only a method of trying to get the world to do what we want to do. Sell 1,000,000 number of CDs. Get a Lexus. Get a waterfront home in Australia.

When setting a goal and we get what we affirmed, we’re ecstatic with joy. Yet, a few days, weeks, months or years later, we’re either back to normal or worse off. This temporary joy played no part in our quest of eternal peace. Yes, the mind has the power to achieve whatever we set but the point is we won’t necessarily be happy once we do get it.

Our goal should be to make happiness our reality. Rather than take an external event such as getting a car, getting a job, getting married, the first kiss, etc a goal, peace should be our only goal. If our goal is to have our first kiss with this particular lady, then that’s fine if we do, but if we don’t, we’ll feel depressed. If we make peace our goal, then if we get the first kiss with her that’s great, but if we don’t, we’re still peaceful.

Of course it is important to set goals and I’m not saying that we shouldn’t, but what I’m presenting here is that peace should be our goal - the state we want to achieve permanently.

Maybe the question that should be asked then is how to stay peaceful admist such events. My response would be that you need to come from a place of unconditional love where all things are equal and deserved to be honored for the love that they really are.

The miracle from all of this is that we’ll feel our faith. In a recent Bollywood film, one of the actors said in his branded line, “where there is faith, there is no fear.”

Spiritual surrender is when we give all we have to our source, soul, God, spirit or whatever you wish to call that inner guidance from where all life flows. By setting external goals we cannot do that, but by making peace our goal, not only can we surrender to God our life so He can produce what is supposed to unfold in our lives, but we can also see remain distant from those external pleasures we call goals.

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” - Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi taught that nonviolence begins with what we eat. Even when he came under heavy influence in Britain and Africa during his travels and education, he resisted with the strong belief instilled by his devoted mother that killing or eating animals is strictly prohibited.

The words above are more appropriate today than ever before. How can countries that slaughter animals uncontrollably in factories and slaughterhouses called themselves a GREAT nation? Most animals never even see the sun and just die piece by piece.

Remember this quote from Gandhi: “It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elemental compassion toward our fellow creatures.”

Tuesday July 17th at 11:11 GMT is the Fire The Grid global meditation. One person’s goal to get millions of conscious thoughts to a higher level at one particular moment creating “critical mass” change. According to A COURSE IN MIRACLES, “Prayer is the medium of miracles”.

Find out more and join in - www.FireTheGrid.com