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Now for the good news: It’s a Power, It’s real, and you can use It. Like It or not, right now BOB looks out through your eyes, feels your feelings, and thinks your thoughts.
What does It see? Does It look out on a beautiful world? Does It see a drama or conflict? Perhaps real tragedy? Maybe a sitcom or possibly just humdrum routine? That’s OK, too. To BOB, it’s just another view of Paradise.
What does It feel? Love? Joy? Fear? Anxiety? Worry? Guilt? Anger? Contentment? Boredom? Bliss? All that is OK, only some are more fun than others.
What does It think? Anticipation? Judging? Planning? Wishing? Thanking? Hoping? Judging? Condemning? Praising?… Ooops… I said “judging” twice. I wonder why?
BOB sees, feels, and thinks exactly what you see, feel, and think because it’s all real! There is such an Entity, It is infinite; It is powerful; It is intelligent and you (and I) are a part of it. Do you realize what that means? It means our thoughts are creative, too. It means our dreams can translate into form if we just get rid of the RACE stuff in the way (RACE = Righteousness and Approval Complicate Everything). It means the happier we can live our lives, the greater the blessings of BOB are bestowed upon us… or more accurately, the greater the blessings of BOB we bestow upon ourselves.
Watch Your Mouth
“Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they’re yours.”—Richard Bach,
The Messiah’s Handbook
The limitation you speak is the limitation you get. If we don’t speak or think limitation our lives will truly be unlimited.
It isn’t easy.
See? There goes another one. Why can’t it be easy? Because I just said, “It isn’t easy.” My little mind hears and sends the message to BOB which says, “Right, it isn’t easy.”
The spoken word is one of the most powerful tools we use to create our lives. It’s also most easily heard by our minds, which then send the e-mails to BOB, which create whatever life or limitations we request.
What comes out of the mouth also goes in the ears, and the ears have the mouth outnumbered. Just as we knocked out the walls of BOB’s room, so must we knock out the walls of our limitations to enjoy the infinitude of goodies available to us.
Suppose, for example, I decide to put my hard-earned money into a risky business. It would be stressful, but I could become filthy rich. Look how the modifiers limit my creation:
I limit my avenues of abundance as I call my money “hard-earned.”
I limit my success as I call my business “risky.”
I limit my enjoyment as I call situations “stressful.”
I limit my income and self-respect as I call wealth “filthy.”
Couldn’t I put that money that comes to me so easily into an exciting business and breeze my way to vast wealth? Why not? BOB doesn’t care. It just says, “Yes.”
“Picky, picky” you may say, but so does BOB. It picks up every thought and word and delivers the goods—or the “not-so-goods” if that’s what we say or think about.
Righteousness and Approval Complicate Everything
Why, then, do we create all this limitation for ourselves? The answer boils down to one friendly old acronym, RACE. Those RACE rules we adopted, when we thought we needed rules.
If we don’t actually live the unlimited life at our command, there must be a reason. There is, but we’d rather mask it with excuses. Because of RACE rules, we need to get those around us to agree and approve of our limited selves.
It’s also likely that our friends face the same restrictions, and we may want to stick with them to “belong.” Nothing bugs the limited mind as much as somebody who has made a change for the better.
We can usually find some degree of self-righteous justification or need for approval beneath the limitations we unconsciously accept. All the egos then get together to create RACE Consciousness, that muck of limited thinking we have to wade through to be sure what we create is best for all.
Let’s take another analogy. To make it easier to picture, we’ll go back to the BOB room, filled wall to wall, floor to ceiling with BOB. Now picture in the room a little game of Whack-a-Mole—the game where air pressure makes moles pop out of holes and you try to hit them with a mallet before they disappear.
BOB plays Whack-a-Mole with us. Our thoughts are the moles, and BOB’s mallet is YES! We pop up with a thought/request/statement and quick as a wink BOB hits it with the YES! “I’m prosperous.” YES! “I can’t afford it.” YES! Since we live in a world of appearances, we can’t expect to deny 24/7 what’s right in front of our eyes. Yet often our requests are granted, so there must be something else that makes a difference.
All moles are not created equal, and the equivalent of the air pressure that makes them pop up is the emotional charge behind the thoughts. For our purposes there are only two emotions: love and fear. We do all we can to stimulate the positive feelings we call love.
BOB won’t be fooled. You’ll get a “YES” to what you REALLY believe. If a claim of “I am abundant” is negated by a fear of lack, what do you think will get the “YES?” If fear of being alone contradicts, “I have a wonderful, beautiful, exciting, super-duper, loving relationship,” whom do you think you’re kidding? Whack! Whack! YES! YES!
Naturally, when we go back and forth like that, there’s a lot of starting and stopping. BOB doesn’t care, It just whacks YES! It does get kinda hard on the mole after while, though.
Once again, let’s remove the walls and expand BOB and the game board out to infinity. Now, there are an infinite number of moles and BOB has an infinite number of YES! mallets for infinite whacks! Still, since all us moles are connected under the table, it’s easy for BOB to move things around so we all get what we ask for, but it’s helpful to give our requests as much emphasis as we can. Thus we speak our word. We hope BOB will hear us above the din as we make more din.
So what’s the answer? It’s the same as it’s always been: “Tune in next month.”
There’s more to it, of course, get the whole story at www.spiritwithasmile.com.
