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The stock market is crashing, the economy sucks, we
don't know whom to elect as our next president, and
we are scared. We are scared of a depression. What are
we going to do if we lose our jobs, can't make our mortgage
payments, buy gas to travel, put our kids through school,
put food on the table, pay for health care? The anxiety
is terrible and the fear feels like a hollow place in
our stomach. It is hard to sleep or to relax. What are
we to do? How can we feel better and rid ourselves of
the terrible agony of uncertainty?
I was born and raised in the Great Depression. We lived
in my grandmother's closed grocery store with five other
families who were all part of our extended family. My
family lived in the basement. I slept in the coal bin.
We had one toilet, a sewer, a sink and a wood burning
stove for cooking whatever food we could scrounge, steal
or grow. Grandma and grandpa lived in the kitchen behind
the store. Uncle Julius's family of five was in the
store, Uncle Howard's family, Aunt Barb's family and
Uncle Steve's families lived upstairs. A total of 21
people overall lived in this old closed down store building.
All cooking was done in our basement. We stole coal
from the trains across the tracks, sold Hungarian noodles
that the women made for five cents a bag and grew most
of our food in the garden, made our own wine and stored
food in a root cellar and canned stuff for the winter.
Nobody had any money. It was great fun!
When I grew up, I finished college that I worked myself
through by scrubbing floors, repairing cars, painting
houses, delivering newspapers and groceries and any
other odd jobs I could get. I didn't live in an apartment
at college or the dormitories … I couldn't afford
to. I lived in the basement of an old school near the
University and served as the night watchman. After five
years, I graduated and went to work as an engineer,
got married, raised three kids and got divorced. I was
broke most of the time.
Over the years, I worked hard and saved until I had
a comfortable amount of money, invested it and lost
all of it. I did this four times in my life. Each time,
I went back to work, saved and then lost the money.
Each time I was very scared and got sick on top of it.
However, I kept working at whatever I could and each
time I came back.
It is not what happens to us, it is the perception
of what happened that counts and this is what affects
us. We cannot control most of the circumstances of our
lives, we cannot control what other people do, we cannot
control the stock market or the economy or what happens
to the country such as wars, etc. The only thing we
can control is how we let the circumstances of life
affect us. This, we have complete control over. There
is nothing outside of ourselves that has any power over
us, except the power we give it. We are always in control
of ourselves because we can always choose how we react
to life. It's called free will.
It is a lot easier to control ourselves and begin to
use our own power to affect our lives in a positive
way when we don't have negative energies blocking the
flow of life force energy to the cell communities of
our body. These blockages are what make us sick, mentally,
emotionally, physically and spiritually and make it
difficult for us to use our own powers. This is a fact
and it comes from the most ancient model of disease
on the planet, which is over 4000 years old.
These blockages come from the distortion of our energy
field by negative forcing functions, which are bad things
that have happened to us in this or past lives: unresolved
internal conflicts, biological carryovers from our ancestors,
and the attachment of foreign energies. Find a good
hypnotherapist who knows how to release these negative
things, which prevent you from using all the insight,
strength, and power you have as a child of God, created
to handle anything that ever happens to you. Nothing
can defeat you if you are strong and remember who you
really are, but it is difficult to be strong if you
have to carry the burden of negativity.
So get rid of your negativity and be strong. You can
conquer anything. There is no burden that can defeat
you. The stock market will come back, the economy will
improve and we will end up electing the right president
for the job. Step back from your fears and problems
and look at what is happening now with an elegant detachment,
like you were watching a game or a movie.
Choose to be happy, choose to be fearless, choose to
be strong. It is up to you!
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