Awesome post, Grace!! Great examples!!

Aloha Grace

I had a Spiritual Teacher who would say,"Live your life like a metaphor." And creating a world with people with allergies is like that part of me that makes distance, while I am moving closer as in I am. Deepak shares to use your memories, don't let them use you. It is Buddhist Mindfulness. If you like Abraham you might like Nassim Haramein he touches on creating your own reality: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4907540922643918266

love patty

Hi Grace,

Perhaps, it is the television commercials for allergy medication. There is a correlation between when allergy problems began to increase and when pharmaceuticals were allowed to advertise on TV creating the ability to suggest disease conditions to people in the suggestible alpha state that occurs when watching TV.

In other words they are creating disease through suggestion. It also doesn't help that 85 % of the population suffers from 2 or more deficiencies.

Also we might ask what benefit is there for someone to focus their attention on their allergies? Does it allow them to avoid putting their attention on something else? Does it serve as an excuse?

Hi Grace,

I lived in Austin for about 7 years and in the beginning I was also told very often that I would develop cedar allergies. Not only did that never happen, but my lifelong springtime allergies actually disappeared. Also, after being there a while, I didn't notice the allergy complaints as much and it started to seem that a lot more people don't have allergies than do---maybe the ones who do have them are just more vocal. :) Really there is not very much to complain about there (maybe this is why they latch on to allergies to gripe about?) and I am looking to move back ASAP!

Grace, what a great example of healing through positive affirmation. And what a great example of brainwashing in the allergy club. It takes a lot of strength to say "no" to the massive collective consciousness and to think and act for oneself.

I was thinking of you today, Grace, as I was outside in my garden. Earth needs to breathe and so do humans. By digging in the earth we not only help Her circulate air currents we also help ourselves. So, get your hands in the dirt, connect and breathe deeply with Mother.

The health issue that gets me boiling mad is the C-section craze. As if women's bodies don't know how to have babies. Give women their natural birthing rights back! And at the same time we have an increase of mid-wives to help women with natural childbirth.

It seems everywhere we look there are two opposite extremes. As if it's time for people to choose their side. Is it Judgement Day?

Trish~~

Hello Grace!

The Google advertisement is currently for "Allergy Treatment".

Startling! I am now beginning to over-react and exaggerate.(conspiracy?)

The caffeine begins to take affect like a clockwork orange.

Arousing my senses...making me aye's water! Forcing me

to be well aware of each and every tickely spot I possess!

And this whole time...the clue was right under my nose.

Like attracts like. Pollen is not to be held responsible.

Dust mites have a right to life. Try to be a good neighbor.
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Best wishes to you for a grand 2008, dear lady!

I once discovered I could speak, think, and write things into existance.

It's good to practice on your toe. Then you'll be ready for the bigger things.

I've been listening to Abraham/hicks tapes also in the car. Nice common sense approach to bringing about postive thinking, bringing your thoughts to the better place. For example, just 10 minutes ago I was cursing my car for being stuck in the snow. As I was mini freaking out about the snow as I hammered at it with my shovel I calmed my sefl down at brought my thought to the better place: Well, it's good to get some excersize. Well, April is going to seem extra nice this year when it comes. Well, maybe I'll go snow shoeing on my day off with my sister and have hot chocolate and snapps.

The main thing about the Abraham/Hicks take on the Law of Attraction is that complaining doesn't work and in fact may keep you from what you want even if it's true. Even if what you are complaining about is true.

I find it interesting that I've become more of a conservative thinker in the last few years since studying about buddhism and like subjects. I've become compassionate to many on personal levels even with strangers, but at the same time I found strength to put my head down and focus on what I am doing with intention and doing my best not to bother with people who bring negitive aspects into the mix (although still feeling compassion for them, for where ever they are, I was and maybe will be again).

And it continues to amaze me when the negitivity just fanishes, and it does if you ignore it and work through it, and even deny it. There is a place for denial. It's ignoring something you find unpleasant and have no control over. Next thing you know, that thing is just gone! There is something new that bothers you now, but it's not as bad as the previous thing, and it doesn't bother you that much, and what you find pleasant there is more of anyway, so before you know it that new unpleasant thing is gone to, itself off to it's own happier place, which is good for everybody, and so on and so on.

I'm thinking that the best training one can do is training the mind, leveling out the IQ and the EQ, and giving the frontal lobe some good positive and hopefully income producing passions (addictions) to occupy itself.

(#3) Richard - That's very interesting about the allergy problems correlating to tv advertisements. I remember hearing something about pharmaceutical companies developing new drugs, and then inventing the conditions to go along with them. It really is quite easy to create something in this world, isn't it? "Also we might ask what benefit is there for someone to focus their attention on their allergies? Does it allow them to avoid putting their attention on something else? Does it serve as an excuse?" Definitely! You hit the nail right on the head. What are we avoiding? Hmm...

Trish - I'm taking what you say to heart. I think there's a lot of good in getting your hands into the earth. And if you've never really thought about it before, of course women's bodies must know how to give birth. It really is absurd, isn't it? I know women who've wanted to give birth at home (it's more comfortable, feels safer, etc.) and have had such resistence from those around them. I've never had a child so I don't know for sure, but my "spider-sense" tells me that if people did it for thousands of years at home without doctors, that somehow we should know how to do it on our own.

Keith - thank you for the kind wishes. Happy New Year to you as well! :0)

Bobby - I agree with you about the complaining. It wouldn't kill me to do less complaining about the things I can't change.

Patty - you must live in Hawaii? Where? I lived on Oahu for four years back in my early twenties. Ah, such good memories...

dear Grace,
I enjoy each post you share at IB, each one adds to the collection of interesting insights you share - Thank you.

Happy new 2008!
love,
~ Kate