ANNOUNCEMENT

ANNOUNCEMENT

12 April, 2007

I will no longer be taking any appointments for personal, group, or gallery event sessions due to important personal reasons. Unfortunately, I have no timetable for resuming sessions in the near future.

If you’re already scheduled for an upcoming session, your session must be cancelled. Please accept my heartfelt apologies. I will refund your payment, if applicable, as soon as possible.

For those of you who are looking for some help with grief, loss, or other issues; please see the Links section of the site for some referrals. I trust these people listed here implicitly, and hope you find them helpful.

Above all, remember that you’re a beautiful person just the way you are.

I wish you all the best.

MTI

Government by Contempt

"The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

James Madison, The Federalist Papers

When I was born, my father had already served 19 years in the Navy. He was a corpsman attached to a Marine unit, and his career saw him engaged in combat in both Korea and Vietnam. Of the 22 years he served, more than 3 years were served under combat conditions.

As a boy I was fascinated with my father's military service. I wanted to hear stories of glorious battles and victories. I wanted to know the friendships he had. I wanted to hear about the honor and the sacrifice.

Dad didn't talk about it much. And when he did it was with red eyes and a choked voice. But one day not too many years ago, my father told me, in detail, about his first day in-country in Vietnam.

He was a thirty-something NCO (I'll bet they called him the "Old Man") who volunteered to go "to help," he always said. He landed in Saigon and waited a day or so for the transportation to the unit on some numbered and dust-choked hill that would be his first assignment.

The cargo plane didn't even stop to drop him off--the landing zone was consistently bombarded by enemy mortars so they did a fast turn with the back ramp open. He had to jump out and roll to a stop with the other supplies.

His first night on that dirty mountain in Vietnam, the enemy pounded the base with artillery. Despite my Dad's best efforts, 42 of "his boys" died. 30 years later he could barely talk about the pain and suffering he endured that horrific day.

He stayed in Vietnam another 400 days.

The word "patriot" springs from the Greek word pater, which means "father." In Greek, patrios means "of one's father." To be a true patriot, then, has nothing to do with the arbitrary borders that delineate one country's clan from another.

Being a patriot means being a parent. A guardian. A teacher. A mentor. A caregiver. Loyalty to "the family" is important, of course, but not to the detriment of the greater good. So, with patriotism, as with parenthood, comes responsibility. Sometimes uncomfortable decisions must be made. Consequences--for stealing, lying, cheating, injuring, etc.--must be enforced. As parents know, love means sometimes doing not what is wanted, but what is necessary in order to teach, to protect, and to grow.

My father was and is a true patriot. He chose to help heal other people, day in and day out for over 50 years (he spent another 30-some years as an orthopedic Physicians Assistant). Sometimes he was under fire but he was always under the weight of his memories. His decisions are powerful lessons for me.

As a people, we're now allowing other patriots, other fathers and sons, to suffer and die, but not just under the weight of patriotic duty. We are suffering the lies of tyrants and putting an undue but permanent weight on the shoulders of our fellow man. Regardless of their country or other affiliation.

It's important you read Mr. Strieber's article.

MTI
www.mtisaac.com
www.spiriteducation.net

Beauty in a Chain Email

I just got a chain email that stopped me cold.

Normally, I just read, go "hmmmm...." and delete these emails, but there's something really beautiful about this one that led me on a quest.

Here's the entirety of the email I received:

Look at the picture, read the prayer, and then make a wish and read the prayer again.

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Hi - I am picking 11 people who have touched my life and who I think would want to receive this. Please send it back to me (You'll see why).

In case you are not aware, Saint Theresa is known as the Saint of the Little Ways, meaning she believed in doing the little things in life well and with great love.

She is represented by roses. May everyone who receives this message be blessed.

Theresa's Prayer cannot be deleted.

REMEMBER to make a wish before you read the prayer. That's all you have to do.

There is nothing attached. Just share this with people and see what happens on the fourth day.

Sorry you have to forward the message, but try not to break this, please.

Prayer is one of the best free gifts we receive. Read the prayer below.

Saint Theresa's Prayer

May today there be peace within.

May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be

May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.

May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.

May you be content knowing you are a child of God.

Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.

It is there for each and every one of us.

Now, send this to 11 people within the next 5 minutes. And remember to send this back. I count as 1...you'll see why.

It's a beautiful prayer.

But I, as a general rule, don't do chain emails... This one intrigued me.

The picture in the email is of Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II, neither of which wrote this prayer. I looked high and low but found no solid attribution for the prayer, either. Some say Saint Teresa of Avila, some Saint Therese of Lisieux, but I wasn't able to find an "official" version of this prayer in my searching. Not that this matters very much. I'm just interested, but it's a great prayer that I'll remember.

During my search, I found the story of a young lady named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who was born in Skopje, Macedonia, in 1910.

At the age of twelve, Agnes felt the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India.

After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 she taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta.

In 1979, Agnes won the Nobel Peace Prize. But you don't know her as the humble Macedonian missionary Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.

You know her as Mother Teresa.

When looking for Mother Teresa's prayers, I came across this touching and inspiring prayer.

Prayer of Mother Teresa

DEAR JESUS, help me to spread Thy fragrance everywhere I go.
Flood my soul with Thy spirit and love.

Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that all my life may only be a radiance of Thine.

Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Thy presence in my soul.

Let them look up and see no longer me but only Jesus.

Stay with me and then I shall begin to shine as you shine, so to shine as to be a light to others.

I was very excited to hear Mother Teresa read the prayer in this recording. It's from a Franciscan-run Catholic web site.

Now, I'm not a Christian, per se. I'm not a member of any religion, as a matter of fact, nor do I ascribe to all the tenets and dogmas of any religions. One of my avatars for love and forgiveness, though, is Jesus.

If you're like me, you find beauty in many things. I find beauty and truth in this prayer.

And that's what I want to embody here: that God/Jesus/Supreme Being/Love/Cosmic Consciousness--whatever you want to call it--shines through me so that I can be a light to others. I also want to contain that spirit and that love.

Admittedly, my chosen profession doesn't align nicely with the tradition and dogma of most organized religions. (I have had priests and those in seminary come to sessions incognito, however!) But my modality is just mediumship.

My goal is love and connection. I sometimes stumble and turn away from this goal, but I continue to strive for it.

As I read these prayers, I could feel something "working" in me...I hope you feel the same thing.

MTI
www.mtisaac.com
www.spiriteducation.net

Parts excerpted from Nobelprize.org

The Secret is a Lie

Well, it's already starting... The naysayers and vociferous critics are jumping on (or maybe off?) The Secret bandwagon.

As was stated by James Arthur Ray on The Oprah Winfrey Show a few weeks back: mediocrity attacks excellence. And while I still have a few issues with The Secret and some things I think it's missing, I think it's an excellent introduction to the power of the Law of Attraction and Practicing the Miraculous.

I want to live in a world where anything is possible for anyone. I want to live in a world where magical and miraculous things happen every day. Isn't that preferable to a world in which people are limited and miracles are only for the privileged few? So I choose to believe in the power of quantum possibility and the miraculous. And the miraculous happens to me almost every day.

Just think of the powerful and majestic world we'd live in if each and every person on this planet agreed that everything is possible. What an amazing idea! Peace, full bellies, wanton love and creation, smiles, equity and respect. It's all possible!

Why would anyone EVER attack that possibility?

I think there are two reasons people attack The Secret: they can't get it to work for them, and they are afraid to admit they're ultimately responsible for the world they perceive.

We're taught, from a young age, to be victims. We're taught that things happen to us and around us. We're instructed that the only way to make something of our pitiful lives is through hard work. Not productive work, or enjoyable work, but through sacrifice and lack.

Here's the major omission I think the producers of The Secret made:

Moving from a victim's mindset (like most of us, including Yours Truly at times) to a miraculous mondset is HARD. It takes diligence and introspection and what I call "hyperawareness."

The Secret, at times, makes the Law of Attraction sound as if all you need to do is sit around "aumming" all day to get that Ferrari. Or maybe all you need to do is clench your eyes shut and visualize more checks than bills arriving in the mail. Or just paint a picture of your perfect mate to have them show up on your doorstep.

Nope. It's not that simple. Not by a longshot.

In fact, nothing could be further from the truth, my friends. In my experience, it just doesn't work that way when you come from a mentality of victimhood.

That doesn't mean, though, that these truly wondrous things can't happen! Quite the contrary. They do happen all the time! But when we still believe, at our core, that we're bit players in some larger cosmic script, replicating the miraculous becomes pretty dicey.

And, as Einstein said, "God does not play dice with the Universe." Well said!

So I understand where the detractors are coming from. I sure do. Many of them think there's a lot of attention given the material aspects of wealth. Some think it's downright dangerous. (Why? To give people hope?) Others think it's not scientific nor provable.

These things may be true. But I think they're missing the point completely.

What The Secret, and most personal-development teachers, tell us is that we are in control of how we perceive the Universe around us. When coupled with the ancient engine of the Universe (I call it the Cycle of Continuous Creation and The Secret calls it the Law of Attraction)--consciousness...

Miracles happen. Every day.

I invite you to watch the DVD and then listen to the detractors. I hope you apply that beautiful and powerful mind of yours and evaluate the statement that's at the heart of the matter:

Miracles happen.

With intentional consciousness, you can make them your partner.

MTI
www.mtisaac.com
www.spiriteducation.com

Someone to Watch over You

I'm speaking at the Twin Cities Psychic Symposium on March 24. In preparation for this exciting event, I was asked to provide some of my thoughts about intuition...

Here's a reprint of the article!

A Preview, by MICHAEL THOMPSON ISAAC
Someone to Watch over You

Speaking from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. You have a constant companion, and its only job is to protect and care for you. Your intuition, that consistent source of whispers from your soul, is always on the job. All you need to do is listen and act. Sometimes, your intuition will even save your life.

It was 1980 when I learned this firsthand.

I was riding home from the park near my house in Green Bay, Wisc., one fine summer evening. My bike and I were operating as one -- a finely-tuned machine of 11-year-old muscles and Schwinn steel. We were going so fast! We were free and flying! The wind whipped my face and the howl of speed echoed in my ears.

Invincibility!

We were going to have to swing wide on that last corner in front of my house in order to bleed off some momentum. "No problem," I thought. "We'll make it." Nonetheless, a little tremor of uncertainty rippled through me. "Slow down," an inner voice whispered. Instinctively, I tapped the brakes, just a little.

When I saw the car speed into the intersection, directly in my path, my cocky invincibility instantly gave way to panic. I fell to the right to avoid getting hit. My leg got tangled up in the frame of the bike. I skidded to a stop, akimbo and face-down, beside the car's left front quarter panel.

Let me tell you: grinding across 10 yards of pavement on your knee, while terrifying and painful, is a lot better than getting crushed by a car. If my constant companion hadn't whispered, and if I hadn't acted, I might not be writing these words today. I was able to hobble home that evening, thanks to intuition.

The word "intuition" comes from the word "tuition," which didn't always mean a high university bill. Back in the 15th century, "tuition" was defined as "protection, care, or custody." That's a fitting description.

Intuition is an inner well of knowledge and wisdom that's charged with our loving protection and care. We all have it, and we can all use it to enrich our lives.There is no requirement for intuition to work for you. Its whispers are heard by the rich and the poor, the young and the old, the healthy and the feeble. The only thing you need to do to hear intuition whispering to you (and it is whispering to you) is...

Listen. Then act.

Now go create the life of your dreams, knowing that your constant companion, your intuition, walks dutifully by your side.

MTI
www.mtisaac.com
http://spirit.mtisaac.com

The Meaning of the Gallery Event: Connection

I just got some great feedback about a recent gallery event.

Here's a portion of the email I received:

I was a beliver of talking to the dead before I came, but after leaving I dont know if I belive any more. Which is really sad because that was something I needed to belive. There was 5 of us at that event who were hoping to hear from loved ones,and I know if this was to be a true thing someone would have come through.Its not even the $100.00 we spent, like I said I belived before but not sure I belive anymore.

When I started working as a medium and teacher full time, I made two promises to myself:

1. The psychic information I received had to be real and verifiable, and
2. It had to be helpful and healing to my clients.

I can't change your beliefs. Only you can, as only I can change my own. Beliefs are choices we make, each and every day, about what things we want to accept as truth and what things we don't.

Nobody can make you believe anything.

But I sure do want you to agree to believe after each and every event. I want your socks to be knocked off! I want you to be energized and excited and a little awestruck.

That's why, when I first read the email above, it stung a bit: my ego wants to be loved by everyone while helping people believe in this as much as I do. I don't take this person's disappointment personally, but it certainly made me take some time out and think.

Why do I hold these events? What are people getting from it? How can I improve?

I received a wonderful insight yesterday. (Where was I when I got it? That's right! I was in the shower, of course.) I hold these events because:

I want to offer opportunities for conclusive illustrations of the miraculous, permanent, and deep connections we have with everything around us.

I want to offer opportunities to change beliefs.

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Only some of the people in each gallery event audience are going to receive a personal message.

But, even though you don't get a direct reading, it doesn't mean you don't get read. Information comes through all the time in the "overlay" format: very detailed and specific information that applies to more than one person in the audience. Let me give you an example.

At one of my first gallery events, I was shown a picture with the Little Rascals on it. There was a big pie in place of the moon, and the words "Pie in the Sky" were printed along the bottom. One of the characters (Porky?) was staring up at the pie in adoration. I got that this was hanging in someone's kitchen.

Pretty specific, huh?

Nobody acknowledged the information for a few minutes. Then a woman raised her hand. She said that the picture was a rare one that her deceased mother had given her long ago. She had it hanging in her kitchen. She had never seen another one and was surprised that the information I got was so detailed.

Another woman raised her hand and said, "Oh my God! I have that same picture in my kitchen! My Mom gave it to me, too! I've never seen another one!"

Overlays. Impressive examples of the spiritual connection, coordination, and foresight that becomes apparent at gallery events.

Even though you may not get a direct reading, it doesn't mean you don't get read!

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I'm always looking for ways to improve as a medium and teacher. And as a person!

You have my word that I'll strive to be the best conduit for connection I can possibly be until the day I pass from the physical world.

What I find most humbling about being a medium, though, is that it's not about me. It's really about you. Let me explain.

It's your real and deep emotional connections with those who have passed that allow me to communicate with them; you’re the switchboard operator, I just pick up the party line and see who’s there.

I am not an all-powerful “beckoner of the dead.” I won’t summon, conjure, or otherwise magically command spirits to appear. That, to me, isn’t what this is all about.

What it is about though, is love and faith and healthy skepticism. Before each event, I spend time setting my intention that whatever happens during the event serves our higher good and purpose. Then I “let go” and allow the evening to unfold. I hold my faith that I am there to serve you and that the best will occur without fail.

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So what are people getting from these events? Well, that differs with each person, I think. But I'll tell you what I hope people get from attending a gallery event.

As I said above, I hope you leave the auditorium walking on air and feeling the miraculous all around you. I want you to feel loved and connected and joyous. Even if you don't get a direct reading or connect with an overlay, I hope that you still attend and bask in the love that's communicated at each and every gallery event. I hope you're grateful that, even though your expectations for a direct reading may not have been met, others got what they needed at the right moment. And so did you.

I hope you think about agreeing to believe.

The gallery event is a way to intentionally connect--with other attendees, with those who have passed, and with, in a way, all of us. We've all loved and lost. It's this shared experience that bonds us during gallery events, and at all times. We’re the same.

So, if you must have a personal reading, I hope you try a gallery event first. You may receive the blessing of a direct connection there. If not, you can always contact me for a personal consultation session. (And don't worry about payment! I am ALWAYS willing to consider alternative means of exchange, like barter, reduced rates, etc. We can make it work, have no fear.)

Let me end by telling you what Pat, a frequent gallery event attendee, told me a while back:

"Keep up the good work, your galleries are incredible. I don't know why, but they make me tingle, and it is always kind of a sad time when we have to go home."

Share in the joy, share in the "tingle." We're all connected. We're all brothers and sisters.

It’s this core reason I do gallery events. And it’s the main reason I love them so.

I hope you join us (all of us!) soon.

MTI
http://www.mtisaac.com
http://spirit.mtisaac.com

For Jennifer

On February 13, 1993, you and I were married. I remember that day as if it were yesterday! I bet you do, too.

Since then we've had a wonderful and exciting time together, haven't we!

We've laughed more than yelled. We've cried many more tears of joy than pain. We've sought each other out for comfort much more than we have for confrontation, and we've spent many more quiet and joyous moments than loud or angry ones.

We've explored what it means to be partners. What it means to be married, what it means to be in love.

Together, we've helped present three wonderful people to the world! While we may not always have been right in our parenting decisions, we've always intended the best. I see you in them, and I'm proud and humbled by it. I'm so excited for them! And I'm so excited for us!

Thank you, Jeni, for allowing me to be your partner on this miraculous journey we've undertaken. I look forward to many more years on Earth with you, as well as to the beautiful promise of an eternity by your side.

I love you more this day than I ever thought possible that day those 14 short years ago.

M

Sex in the Tarot Den

And you wonder why psychics get a bad rap sometimes. Man.

I saw a newspaper article in a local Minneapolis paper today that tarot card reader Miguel Antonio Garcia Garro, also known as "The Maestro," told two young clients that, in order to "examine their energy" they would need to have sex on his desk while he waited in the other room. Then they were to wipe up and submit their drippings to him for analysis. (Go here for more details: http://www.startribune.com/467/story/969423.html)

Thank heavens Garro wrapped their used towelettes in tin foil! Otherwise a true and proper scientific analysis would have been in jeopardy!

This may sound sick and wrong to you. Perhaps that's because it is, on its face, sick and wrong. And that's quite enough for me to begin a rare but inspired rant. But wait, there's more!

Garro allegedly videotaped the whole thing. Oh, yeah, and one of his clients was a minor.
Enter 6 felony charges. "The Maestro" is looking at 52 years in the slammer.

Oh, this disturbs me to my core. Right down to the quick. But not for the reasons you think. Read on.

Many of you know that, when I started this psychic gig, I had two rules: (1) the phenomenon displayed had to be real and verifiable and (2) it had to help both my clients and humanity-at-large. (Nobody ever accused me of thinking small!)

There were, and still are, times when I chafe under the title "psychic" precisely because of the mental fish hooks goofballs like The Maestro set in the collective memory. To be blunt, obvious frauds like this guy give all psychic practitioners a bad name.

But what about the clients? It took 5 episodes of being asked to have sex on a desk in some dingy office in Minneapolis for the couple to suspect something was amiss. 5 times?!? The female client (the 16-year-old), finally noticed what she thought was a stereo speaker, but turned out to be a video camera attached to a VCR in the back room.

So let me set the stage: a 16-year-old girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend solicit the advice of a tarot card reader calling himself The Maestro operating out of some storefront in Minneapolis . They are asked to have sex on his desk and then submit their bodily fluids to said Maestro for energetic analysis (all for the bargain basement price of $750!). The kids become suspicious after their 5th "session" when they spy a camera which turns out to be spying on them.

What tha?

Whew. Deep breath... Relax...

Outside of the obvious and sundry details, it really bothers me that people are so out of touch with their intuitive sense that a situation like this would be possible even once, let alone five times.

It also bothers me that people are so out of touch with their innate intuitive senses that they look to those who are so apparent in their depravity for "saving."

It bothers me that the real and good work that people are doing is lost in a constant slurry of published gore and hate and damp desktops.

So, I beg of you, if someone asks you to cross an obvious personal boundary in the name of things spiritual or energetic, run--don't walk--the other way. Then report them to the police, Better Business Bureau, Rotary, your grumpy mother-in-law, and each and every stranger you meet.
And then, in a moment of quiet, remember that you and only you can make permanent change in your life. You're a more powerful influence in your own life than any psychic, or card reader, or astrologer, or guru. You are infinitely wise. You are beautiful. You are perfect!

And me? Well, I'm just coming down off this rant.

Thanks for listening.

An Intuitive Look at 2007

I was asked to provide some predictions for the upcoming year by Edge Life Magazine.

What a great opportunity! Instead of forwarding the usual doom and gloom, I wanted to use this chance to help remind everyone that they are sacred, blessed, and special.

This is what I came up with:

It is my prediction that 2007, like all years, will be a year of change and challenge and beautiful opportunity.

In this New Year, obstacles will be overcome. Opportunities will be recognized. There will be tears of both pain and joy. Relationships will dissolve and others will spring up. Love will be found and strengthened, but sometimes its gifts may be just out of reach. We will debate and argue and sometimes make the wrong decisions. We will feel the power of personal triumph.

There will be ski trips and picnics and parties. Snowballs will be thrown. Songs will be sung. Dances will be danced. There will be many first kisses. School will end, and then start all too soon. Jobs will be won, and new passions discovered. Pictures will be painted. Gardens will thrive, and rabbits will seem to thwart our every protection. Sap will run, snow will fall. Beauty will be recognized. Sunsets will be watched. And we will feel that sun shining upon our face.

We will learn! We will experience! We will feel.

Some of us will move to another place in the coming year. Many others will stay where we are. The hope and grace of new life will begin again and again and again.

My most important predictions, though, are these:

You will remember that you are the most powerful force for creation in this Universe. You will love unconditionally. You will discover a hidden talent and then use it. You will help someone. Someone will help you. Your life will continue to have deep and significant meaning.

You will live like you are intrinsically connected to everyone everywhere, and your changes, challenges, and beautiful opportunities make up the perfect balance of this world.

The Year of "I Love You"

It's already 2007! Whoo hoo! That time just keeps on a'marchin'.

Traditionally, the New Year is a great line of demarcation; a time to reflect upon our successes and failures, as well as to do some goal-setting for the upcoming year.

I'm full of resolve on New Years Day! I make my resolutions with a set jaw, and am fully prepared to see them through.

Unfortunately, I think I've successfully completed one resolution. In my whole life. Thankfully, that one was to stop smoking, and I've been tobacco free for over two years. Whew.

The idea of resolutions was wafting in and out of my mind right before New Years Eve 2006, when I heard a discussion about resolutions on the radio. That got me to thinking... The guests on the show were complaining about the futility and folly of making these pacts with yourself. Why do most resolutions fail to become permanent fixtures in people's lives? Why are they so freakin' difficult to implement?

I think I figured it out. So now I'm going to make 2007 the Year of "I Love You."

In some of my previous posts, I explored the idea that the energy contained in aligned beliefs, thoughts, and emotions is a powerful creative force in the physical world. In short, what you "think about, you bring about."

Gratefulness is also very important, and is closely related. In the Bible, this is apparent in many places. Here's one: I Thessalonians 5:18 says "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you..." This makes me believe that gratitiude is pretty important if we're instructed to hold it "in all circumstances." Not sometimes, or only when we're feeling satisfied with something in our life, but always--even when we're not satisfied with something in our life! Be grateful anyway!

When making resolutions, I realized that I was focusing on the thing I was not satisfied with in my life--the smoking, the extra weight, the mess in my office, my hurried schedule--and not the thing I wanted to create in my life.

I was focused on what I perceived as negative. And I certainly wasn't grateful. But knowing what you don't want is the first step toward knowing what you do want!

So... How does this translate into The Year of "I Love You"?

What I find is that, in order to create what you want, you have to be grateful for and love what you have right now.

Simply put, if you bring about what you think about, then thinking about things that make you feel grateful will bring about more things in your life that make you feel grateful. Being grateful forces an internal shift and opens the floodgates, so to speak, of creation.

If you have trouble seeing a really practical way to do this (who is grateful for that extra weight?), then think of it this way: the things you've created but want to change in your life are wonderful opportunities for you! Just imagine your sense of accomplishment and wonder at the power of creation when you manifest your desires!

So I'm doing this in the upcoming year: when I realize that I have a thought that is more about what I don't want than what I do want, I'm going to say "Thank you. I love you." to the situation or circumstance that spawned the thought.

An internal shift can happen just by thinking this. Try it right now: think of something in your life that makes you uncomfortable. Now, while focusing on this situation or circumstance, say, "Thank you. I love you." Can you feel the subtle difference? Just by thinking gratefulness and love, you emit gratefulness and love!

And that brings you more thankfulness and love. Cool!

So when you're working on your resolutions for the New Year, be sure to focus on (1) what you do want and (2) gratefulness and love.

The creative power of the Universe will consistently astound and amaze you as it has me. Do these two simple things, and futility and folly will be, gratefully, obstacles long since conquered.