Have you been choosing or working on choosing to believe your life, your bank account, your romantic liaison could be different? In the words of the late Maureen Stapleton to Meg Ryan in the now classic movie, You’ve Got Mail, “You are daring to believe you could have a different life.”

Can you dare to believe? Can you let your imagination float out beyond what you can see in front of you on this plane of reality and entertain the possibility of something else? Can you choose to believe your life or your world can be different?

Around this time of the year–Thanksgiving and the holiday season, I think of the miracle of meringue when I need to believe my situation, what I’m presently experiencing, can be different. Why meringue, you ask a bit incredulously? Not only does it top my great Grandmother’s cherished holiday pie recipe, but to create meringue you have to believe in possibility.

There in the bowl in front of you sits an unappetizing glob of uncooked egg whites, some cream of tartar and a scoop of sugar.

That’s reality.

You see it, you can feel it and if you’re so inclined, you can taste it. In goes your whisk, and just as your arm is about to cease functioning for the rest of your adult life, something happens and before your very eyes the bowl of slimy liquid transforms into  shiny, snow white peaks and valleys of luscious meringue for which, you are most grateful ,and possibly astounded. You believed it could be, just like it said in the Joy of Cooking, and it happened.

So this week, imagine whatever is making you feel sad, frustrated, angry or helpless, as the raw batter in the bowl. Now, see it, feel it, choose it to be transformed into something abundant, beautiful, and wonderfully delicious.

  “You will see it when you believe it.”

                                           Wayne Dyer

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How did this past week go as you contemplated the decision you made to seek out this website in your
pursuit of a more joy-filled life? What new thoughts or feelings did you experience?

Choosing to believe a situation, an experience or your life can be different is a lesson I had to relearn
(again) this week.

Monday started off with a big disappointment and the week went downhill from there, adding a second
and then a third blow. Into the tar pit I fell– weighted down with anger, frustration, helplessness, and
all-around self-pity. For several days I struggled against the dense, viscous cocoon I had created. I barely
saw over the dark surface, much less actively tried to choose to believe something, anything, would
ever, could ever, be different.

At times like these, it’s hard to stay focused. I looked into the handbag of my life and dug out some
things for which I could be grateful right then, in that present moment. I sat on my patio and went
through a short list. I practiced my Gratitude Meditation^SM and came up with a few more. I acknowledged
what was going right in my sea of sorrow. As the week came to a close, I sporadically believed these
setbacks were only temporary; in the timing of the universe they would work themselves out to my
benefit, despite what I was seeing in front of me, and how my return to running old belief tapes through
my head had dumped me into my fabricated black abyss.

Like a punching doll that falls over when hit, I am slowly swaying back up to center by reconnecting to
my center, the source of all truth–my heart, dwelling in thanks giving, and gingerly reclaiming my power
to choose to believe something different. You can too.

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of
their lives.
William James (1842 – 1910)

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By coming to look at this website you have put your foot or, maybe just a toe, on the path toward a
more spiritual-based life. Good for you! Perhaps, without knowing it, you have made a conscious effort
to change your life. You have chosen something different. This could be the most monumental choice
you have ever made.

Somewhere in your heart you have realized that your current worldview could use some adjusting or
maybe it needs a complete overhaul. In either case, CONGRATULATIONS!! You have become a spiritual
pioneer, willing to search for a more fulfilling, happier life.

Think about this for a moment; you have engaged one of your most profoundly human abilities, the
ability to choose or, re-choose. Deliberately deciding to make a change in our lives opens us up to seeing
the world and ourselves differently. That’s huge. You are very brave.

So go with this, roll it around in your brainpan for a bit. Think what making a conscious choice to think,
see, or believe something different from what you have thought, seen or experienced before might
do to your whole life. How fresh, dare I say it, not-before-thought thoughts might start drifting up to
the surface and begin nibbling away at old beliefs that are no longer serving you, making way for more
spiritually nourishing thoughts. Ponder the magnitude of making that choice.

Now that’s something to be grateful for!

Men often live and follow a beaten path by imitation,
Only a few wise men dare to carve out
A new path for themselves.

From The Rig-Veda, one of the Hindu sacred texts

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Dear Reader,

Welcome to my website and welcome to my blog!

This is the first of what I hope will be many weekly blogs. Some will be big new ideas for you to ponder for the week, and some will be little nudges to help you remember where you’re going if the last few days were particularly wild and woolly.

As time goes on, I hope you will feel inclined to respond and ask questions, which is the best way, I think, to learn.

Please also check my events page from time to time, as I hope to be speaking in your city, allowing us a nice long chat.

Remember to always come from your heart and your life will become your heart’s desire.

Gratefully yours,

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