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It’s time to rethink the old methodology of New Year’s Resolutions. Forget about taking the traditional vow to quit a bad habit, or to start a new and better habit. These typical resolutions sound wonderful, but they rarely bear good fruit throughout the year.

Losing weight, controlling a temper, giving up a nasty habit, or vowing to save more money, are all respectable and admirable resolutions that have one thing in common. If accomplished, you will be a better person by the end of the year.

There must be an easier way!

There is an easier way!

We should focus on enhancing the whole person. If we can make changes at the very core of our being that enable us to shine not only as individuals, but as citizens of the earth, we can help everyone to shine in 2009.

As we work on becoming a better person, we will gradually lose the bad habit cravings in a more natural way, according to our thoughts and our energy.

I started by sitting down with pen and paper, and then asked myself the following questions…

1) How can you honor this gift of life? How can you live a calmer, richer and fuller life?

2) What kind of person do you want to be?

3) What do you want people to say or think about you when you’re gone?

4) What are your passions in life? Are you honoring those passions? How can you honor them and become your true authentic self?

5) What do you really want to achieve or become during the next year?

You can add whatever questions you feel coming from your soul. As you sit down ready to ask yourself questions, take a deep cleansing breath to release any tension. Take another breath and prayerfully meditate on the task before you…. How can I shine in 2009?

As you go over these questions, it isn’t necessary to write down every single response. You can sometimes have several thoughts that can be encompassed with one carefully thought out sentence or statement.

Later we’ll discuss ways to help you monitor your progress throughout the year.

Happy New Year!

Go forth and shine in 2009!
©2008  Sandra Cobb

Thanks to AffirmingSpirit.com for pointing out that my comments weren’t working.

Here is her comment:

Great ideas, Sandra. I usually suggest people start with resolutions to create affirmations to shift their mindset first (line up the energy before taking action). However, some people still have too much resistance or emotional attachment to the things they want to change.

Focusing on ways to be a better person and more authentic person makes the process easier, and is another approach to shifting consciousness. Once their consciousness shifts, the experiences that no longer work for them will fall away!

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Mabel Iam posted the top five things she wanted to do by the end of the year over at our Master Mind group on FaceBook.

Naturally, I mistook the post for the top five things to achieve in the new year.

So here they are.

My Top Five New Year’s Resolutions for 2009

1. To practice living in spirit 24/7 - via giving thanks, prayer, meditation, intentions and heartfelt communication with others.
2. To share and recieve with a cheerful and grateful heart.
3. To be a good Mother/counsellor/mentor/friend to my daughters and others who might need me.
4. To begin sharing my healing energies and learning more about my gifts.
5. To become financially independent and help others achieve the same so that we can change the world!

Happy New Year!

Sandra Cobb
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There is one tiny little bit of mental space that people of faith share with people of science…

Where and how did anything begin?

This is where science and organized religion both fail us.

What if, one day, science and religion come to the same conclusion?

That conclusion being that at some point, there was an accidental birth of life. How and what that life was, is where the conflict will arise.

The accidental emergence of a single cell cannot, in my mind, explain the complicated process of the evolution and development that led us to what we now experience in life.

Perhaps, rather than a single cell, the accidental birth was one of energy, an intelligence that simply “had” to bring itself forth and exist. Call it what you will - energy, spirit, mind, God, or the universal source, it is simply something that was compelled to spring forth. No matter what we discover scientifically or spiritually, it is my belief that we can never go beyond one of these two options.

1) A single cell emerged for unknown reasons and proceeded to evolve into what we now see, and what we don’t see.

2) A universal source of life and energy sprung forth for unknown reasons to expand via the art of creation and continues to exist and expand.

Following option two, upon the birth of this universal energy, the logical progression would assume that it had no choice but to  expand by the art of creation to fill the void that surrounded it and bring forth life throughout space that is as of yet, without boundaries that we can see.

Option one has a huge flaw in that science cannot explain the “need” to learn, grow and develop, or the need to create which is typical of the human condition. Science can only explain evolution as a means of survival. Surely that is not the only purpose of human life - to simply survive? If that were the case, then the question arises - survive for what? Death?

I choose to believe option two. The only logical explanation that I have found is that somehow, an intelligent mind emerged and then followed its own logical path of expansion. It is that spirit of expansion and creation that perpetuates itself in mankind.

The path of expansion led to the creation of many life forms which included evolution and all of the other scientific details that apply to the universe as we know it.

This intelligent energy which I call God, is not a wizard nor is he a magician.

He is simply the beginning and the center of the universe and therefore experiences no death. He loves all of his creation, without prejudice. Death and destruction are against his nature, the nature of creation and expansion.

Scientists have determined that the universe is constantly expanding. This cannot be explained as an act of evolution because it is an  expansion of all that is.  More space is developing around what already exists.

The expansion is probably required for the survival of life, but still, it is not evolution.

Can it be that the answer to life’s mysteries are out there, just waiting for us to ask the right questions?

Those who believe in God and those who are writing some inspiring principles of positive thinking are putting forth the idea that we are co-creators. This is not a new idea, but it is one that is just now getting the attention it deserves.

Perhaps as co-creators with the Universal Source, we are subconsciously taking care of future business by believing that this world will perpetually exist for our descendants, and therefore, it expands to accommodate us.

If co-creation is an absolute truth, and if co-creation is a simple concept or practice that is not being utilized by the majority of humans, just imagine what endless possibilites are just over the horizon for each of us not only as a group of earthlings, but as individuals.

It boggles the mind.

Is it possible?

All the answers to the problems we face are within our reach if we would only use our minds and energy appropriately and for the good of all. That possibility is certainly one worth exploring.

Major religions teach the principles of  life over death and good over evil. They teach creation, bearing good fruit, and multiplying, all of which fit into the major category of expansion. Evil is the opposite of expansion. Evil is death and destruction.

Mankind hungers for stories that tell of good overcoming evil. These stories are not only perpetuated in our daily lives, but in many religious texts, fictional books, television shows, movies and fairy tales. These are the stories that touch us, move us to action and feed our spirits. Most of humanity revels in the joys of good destroying evil, light conquering the darkness and love winning over hatred.

Yes, I choose option two. I live because of a cosmic universal source that sprang forth and saw the need for creation and the perpetuation of life.

I believe that it goes against human nature to believe that all life forms are a mere accident of evolution.

A single cell did not have dreams and desires and a heart capable of great love and great sorrow. If one believes that the human spirit developed over time, then why would it be so hard to believe the spirit developed first?

The Great Spirit sprang forth.

The sudden emergence of the Great Spirit, in my opinion, is more believable than the sudden emergence of a single cell which sprang forth without dreams, desires, or the ability to love.

Live in Harmony with what is.

©2008, Sandra Cobb

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I want to wish all my blogging friends and readers a very Merry Christmas.

I have posted an article about Jesus at C4Him.com.

It deals with the question “Is Jesus a Myth?”

It covers the comparison of Jesus to the mythological Horus, scientific and archaeological findings concerning the Bible, the Shroud of Turin and the virgin birth.

I’m a little busy today (who isn’t?) so I only have time for one post.

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