What's Your Super Power?

I'm getting packed and ready to go to India, which means I've been writing a lot and making videos in advance for my book club, to make sure they're uploaded before I leave. I hope I will be able to continue to make videos and upload pictures to this blog once I get there but I honestly don't know what the internet will be like so I've been busy preparing.

Creating the videos for the Napoleon Hill's A Year of Growing Rich has been very rewarding. It has forced me to step out of my comfort zone, yet again, and teach what I most desire to learn. 

Each chapter has within it hidden gems of information that I'm surprised to find as I dig and read and dig some more. It's one thing to read a book, it's another to read it with the intention of sharing it with others. 

It took me a week to finally make the video for the chapter "Hopefulness". I understood it intellectually but I've never put it into practice in my life with fervor and zeal. After I began reading and studying these two simple pages Mr. Hill wrote on "Hopefulness" all of the difficult situations and people from my past started showing up in my life and my emotions, needless to say, were a mess. 

Then, teachers began to appear in the form of books, audio CDs, email newsletters and youtube videos. I dove head first into Abraham Hick's teachings on the Law of Attraction, Eckhart Tolle's book The Power of Now and Dr. Bruce Lipton's recordings that came to my email inbox every day. They were all saying the same thing but with different words, essentially, YOU (and only you) are in control of your emotions- no matter what the outer circumstances are. They even went one step further to say, YOU are attracting life's events to you through the law of attraction whether you are aware of it or not. Dr. Bruce Lipton really helped me to finally understand the power of the mind and the part it plays in creating the life I'm living. He gave the example of harmonic resonance, our emotions are like the frequency that we are emitting and the energetic universe then delivers to us, people, places, situations and things that are in energetic resonance with us. This explains why and how we are creating this life we are experiencing. Napoleon Hill nailed it when he titled his best selling book, "THINK and Grow Rich".

Mr. Hill says that "Hope is the raw material with which you build success." First we must dream of a better tomorrow, then we must live it. By living with hope we are moving our attention from what is to what could be and then we can begin to attract what we desire into our lives. 

However, as I've recently learned and understood very clearly, we can't allow people, situations or events to dictate our inner emotional state. Since reading Napoleon Hill's A Year Of Growing Rich, I've become aware that I've lived too much of my life dependent on outer circumstances to make me feel a certain way. Someone says or does something nice, I feel good. Someone insults or betrays me, I feel bad. This is no way to live life- especially if you're interested in creating a life of peace, love and success. No one has the power to affect the way you feel unless you give them permission to do so.

Osho says it this way, "You feel good, you feel bad, and these feeling are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own pas. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and no body can make you happy."

Practice feeling good no matter the outer circumstance and you will begin to create the life of your dreams-  THIS is your superpower. YOU have the power to give your imagination free rein to create HOPE and live the life you desire.