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Stop Smok­ing and see God

By Paul Gangnier

The title of this arti­cle may sound funny to you, and I admit it hits me as funny, too.  And no, I’m not smok­ing something.

This say­ing came up the other day because I had some­one com­ing for a “stop-smoking” Hyp­no­sis ses­sion. I told my friend Nicole about it, and we looked at each other and smiled, know­ing that all my clients these days come for spir­i­tual and per­sonal growth, with very few for addic­tions.  I was sit­ting there, yearn­ing to “show up” totally for my new client.

“I really want to do a great job for this client,” I said to my friend Nicole, “and I need to start men­tally prepar­ing myself.”

“They’re not com­ing for smok­ing!” she coun­tered. “They’re com­ing because they want heal­ing and need your help.”

“That’s it!” I exclaimed, “Stop smok­ing and see God!” We both laughed. When my client showed up, how­ever, it was imme­di­ately appar­ent that it was all about spir­i­tual and per­sonal growth.

Yes, “Stop Smok­ing and see God.” How won­der­ful! Now you’re prob­a­bly say­ing “I don’t smoke.” And I say, yes, you prob­a­bly do. It’s not just about smok­ing cig­a­rettes or pot, it’s about smok­ing our own excre­ment, quite frankly. We get stuck in it, we roll in it, and we think with it. When we’re caught up in the crud we’ve attached, such as false belief sys­tems, con­jured up modal­i­ties and con­cepts, and neg­a­tive emo­tions, we can­not con­nect – plain and simple.

We have to get through the excess debris and see our­selves as God made us before we can grow fur­ther. You can con­jure up all the dis­trac­tions and sto­ries you want – includ­ing spir­i­tual beliefs, or what­ever you like, but the fact is its all made up, block­ing the way to expe­ri­enc­ing the real you.

“Let Go & Let God” isn’t just a cliché say­ing.  It’s the sim­ple truth.

 

Om for Organic Maui

 

 

By Mary Carol Breck­en­ridge & Paul W. Gangnier

 

OM (regarded as three sounds, a-u-m) is a sacred San­skrit mantra sym­bolic of three major Hindu deities (God or God­dess).  To many Om is the high­est of all vibrations.

When I OM for Maui in my mind, this cre­ates the high­est inten­tion and vibra­tion for this island and myself. To me there is no higher and more lov­ing thought than lov­ing our land, the sea, uni­verse and our self.

Organic has become a pop­u­lar word for whole­some­ness, nat­ural, chem­i­cal free, nur­tured, non-GMO and con­ser­va­tion. This was the lifestyle of our ancestors.

The con­cept of “OM for Organic Maui” rep­re­sents the inten­tion and focus to  moti­vate stores, com­pa­nies, neigh­bors, friends and all peo­ple to awaken to how were treat­ing our bod­ies, land, waters, skies and world.

OM – Sup­port higher energy organ­i­cally grown foods.

OM – Pro­mote Greener lifestyles — solar ener­gies and energy-efficient vehicles.

OM – Insist upon 100% recy­clable con­sum­ables — Maui-made and imported.

OM – Prac­tice all things that gen­er­ate the flow of pos­i­tive ben­e­fi­cial energy.

Sup­port only com­pa­nies and trades that advo­cate and prac­tice respect and con­ser­va­tion of nat­ural resources.

Awaken neigh­bors and friends to a greener way, show­ing them by exam­ple the poten­tial for a bet­ter, cleaner, greener, health­ier, hap­pier world. We can do it.

This way of liv­ing takes inten­tion, courage and action, requir­ing all of us to be teach­ers, lead­ers, thinkers and espe­cially doers.

OM for Maui gov­ern­ment. We do not need “progress” as in big­ger faster roads nor another sub­di­vi­sion or mall.  Smaller roads, bet­ter mass trans­porta­tion and metic­u­lous plan­ning, will enhance a more nat­ural, cul­tur­ally rich trop­i­cal Maui while encour­ag­ing more tourism and set­ting an impor­tant exam­ple for the world.

You can do it! We can do it! OM for Organic Maui!

Mary Carol Breck­en­ridge @ marycarolbreck@gmail.com

The High­est Thoughts™  a Free­dom Company

 

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Arti­cle for Maui Vision Magazine

True free­dom

By Paul W. Gangnier

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of cre­ative altru­ism or in the dark­ness of destruc­tive selfishness”

Mar­tin Luther King, Jr.

My def­i­n­i­tion of Free­dom is…   The abil­ity of see­ing that all things are gifts

When we dis­cover that “all things are gifts” our per­cep­tion shifts onto another level just as if we have opened the door to golden light.

I redis­cover this over and over again in my mind by the inten­tional act of allow­ing the space for the universe, God, spirit, and all, to do its thing for me every­day in every way.  All I need to do is bring myself to a place of calm, peace, love, harmony, and acceptance.

Then allow.

True Free­dom is not fought, bought, nor bar­gained for.

This is the old ego based par­a­digm and is not for me.

True Free­dom is not when my ego feels free

It’s when my soul is free!

Being free of neg­a­tive attach­ments while being con­nected to Source is my daily goal and practice.

Peace to the world

This I do pray

Heaven rain upon us

Rain it today

For all to have peace

Have it today

Peace I pray peace

Please make it today

Who had this True Free­dom?.… Nel­son Man­dela, Mar­tin Luther King, JR., Jesus, Gandhi, Parama­hansa Yogananda, Dalai Lama,

Desmond Tutu, Mata Amir­tanan­damayi, Mother Teresa, to name only a few. So many have had this wonderful

Free­dom love energy so ingrained in their beings that they had to release and

share it to all that would listen.

True Free­dom for me is a soul choice!

 

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a Free­dom Com­pany 

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