Look Within

Hello Boys & Girls - It's been a while since I have written to you. But something has been aching at me to share with you....and I hope it doesn't drive any of you away. I say this because it is one of the hardest things to admit about ourselves.

What it is....is.....that we bring all the crapola we have in our lives TO us. YEP...it is brought to us by our very own hands. But the good news is...that we bring the good stuff to us as well.

Now, I bet you are thinking...no way!! I wouldn't want *xyz* in my life. It is too painful...upsetting...fearful....etc. But, Goms is here to tell you....that you really have. It is hard to accept that our hand would be in something that we don't want in our life. But, the reality is that we bring everything to us....all the time.

If you believe in God....then you probably pray for things, right? So you must 'Believe' that your prayers will be answered then. GOTCHA!!! And God does answer every prayer....we just don't realize that we have sent the wrong memo out into the Universe sometimes.

Let's say you want to win the lottery. I see everyone's hand up right now. But how many of you say something like...."I wish I could win the lottery. But I'm not lucky"? Guess what??? You just cancelled your wish. Or say you want to lose weight...and you think...."I'm going to be really good and not eat anything I'm not supposed to eat.....but as soon as I lose the weight...it just comes back on and usually twice as much as I lost." BUSTED- I bet most everyone has had that thought a time or two.....or threeeeee!!!!

And have you ever noticed that the people who think about being sick the most...ARE the people who are sick the most? Or the people who think about being rich...are the richest? What you have to realize is that 'Like Attracts Like'. Thoughts send out a magnetic signal that draws the parallel back to you. That is the Law of Attraction and it works every time, with every person. And it works whether you believe it or not. Just as the Law of Gravity works. Try it....try to think that an apple won't fall if you drop it. It still fell didn't it? Even though you said you didn't believe in the Law of Gravity.

Oh, and another thing....it doesn't matter if the apple was a ripe delicious apple or a rotten apple. It still falls. So that is another way to answer the question of why do bad things happen to good people. The Laws of the Universe....have to work perfectly at all times....and can't make exceptions because someone is a good person or a bad person. These Laws are how God makes everything work perfectly and exactly all the time. There can be NO exceptions.....or everything will tilt and be off kilter. And God doesn't make mistakes.

Something to be careful about is that positive or negative thoughts and emotions have energy. The Universe brings into our life, the most powerful ideas and thoughts we have. It does not care whether you want it or not. It isn't concerned with where the energy flows into or from where it flows out. This is why things you do not want to happen, still happen. The very things you are afraid of....do come into your life. Worries come true. But why this is so? The answer consists in energy flow. The more you don't want these things to come into your life....you think about them with STRONG PASSION. So, the Universe is 'hearing' what you are emitting. It does not matter that you may be thinking that you don't want it....it just recieves what you are focusing on. And if this object is negative......then negative is what you get. Even if this is what you do not want to bring into your life. You are giving energy to things you don't want and that is why they are attracted to you. Think about abundance and wealth, and health and success and prosperity....think POSITIVE things.... and those things will be attracted to you.

Another analogy I like to use is of a flood. Now floods can be terrible and they do much damage and even kill people. But that very same flood....that did so much damage and killed people....is the same water that goes down the way to benefit others. It may bring much needed water to a farmer's herd of cattle....or it may bring water to crops that are dying from drought....or it may bring badly needed water to a village of people who depend on that water to survive. See, it wasn't bad water or good water....it was just water.

Unfortunately for 'us'....we are creatures of habit...and we take the easiest route. This is another reason things don't change for us when we 'think' we want them to change. And many times that leads us right back to square one. We don't like having those extra pounds on us...but those chips and dips sure do call our name at night while we are watching TV. And if we do believe that what we ask for is what we receive (ASK AND YOU SHALL RECIEVE)....we are correct. But the sneaky little secret...is that we must make an adjusment in the receive thingy. We must ASK-then BELIEVE-to RECIEVE. Then it is like shopping on the Net...we can just click and point to whatever it is we may be wishing for. And another little secret is that we must REALLY and TRULY believe it can happen. If there is the slightest doubt....then *POOF*....all gone.

Now you are probably asking....How long before I can start manifesting? The short answer is that there are no rules on how long. The trick is that the more aligned you are with positive feelings the quicker things happen. By aligning I mean....get the boogers and road blocks out by the roots! And THAT my dearies is the hardest part. We may think we are doing everything correctly...and we just haven't won the damn lottery yet. But there may be some hidden emotion or thought....somewhere in your psyche...that is keeping that wish from being a reality. You may think that money is bad...or rich people are stuck up.....or you were just meant to be at whatever level you are right now...or maybe if you work REAL hard...you may be a little more comfortable......but you'll never be wealthy. And you can use anything that doesn't seem to be materializing for you as you try this little pop quiz for yourself. Believe me....there IS something that is in the way of you manifesting something you really want. You just have to find the booger and pull it out by the roots. Not just prune and trim it... but rip it out by the stinking roots.

So, this is what Gommy means by 'Look Within'. You have the answers as to why *xyz* is in your life right now. Even if it is the most irritating situation in the world! You brought it to ya' Sorry peeps! That is the brutal and honest truth.

This is Gommys' offering to you today boys and girls. IMHO we can make our lives 'gooder or badder'...just by the way we think. So, my very unprofessional advice would be to start thinking good stuff and shy away from the negative stuff. Heck....just look at Jim Carrey. He tells a story about how he wrote himself a check for $10 Milllion Dollars way before he was famous. But he believed he would be famous one day and visualized it over and over. And he didn't just sit on his dufus and wait for the check to arrive. He went on acting auditions and made sure he did everything he could to be in the right place at the right time to get into show business. And after being in some films...he did manifest the money he wrote on that check. This is what Jim Carrey said himself about the writing of the check when he was on Bravo's 'Inside the Actors Studio' TV show :

On writing a 10 million dollar check to himself:
JL- When you were struggling personally and professionally, did you write yourself a check?
JC- Yeah, I made myself my check which was just basically you know, 10 million dollars to Jim Carrey for acting services rendered, dated Thanksgiving 1995, and that was uh, 1990. I gave myself five years to be one of the most successful working actors, to be given the best material, and the best scripts - things that people would never expect in a million years that I could do.
JL- What did you do with the check finally?
JC- I put the check in my fathers pocket in his casket because it was his dream too and he followed me the whole time and it was kind of a completion of all that. He saw The Mask - he saw what was happening to me, and I felt like it was ya know, it was his as well- so I’d give it to him.

Pretty awesome right? Welllll....you can do it too Boys & Girls. Gommy is pulling for ya'
Hugs & Mush- Gommy

You ARE Appreciated!

After spending the last day of the holiday vacation with my daughter and her little ones, I was riding home and listening to the radio. There was a conversation on a radio talk show about finding the Divine in the Mundane and that Love is in the Details. All the way home….I kept thinking how it applied to mothers everywhere. It made such an impression, that when I returned home, I wrote my beautiful daughter an email to tell her my thoughts.

I told her that when are mothering our children…there are days that it seems we just don’t have enough time for a minute to ourselves. And we don’t really feel anyone notices or appreciates all that we do for them. It even feels as if it is ‘expected’ sometimes.

But as I thought of the radio show and how they were talking about the topic of finding Divinity in the Mundane and that Love is in the Details….I knew that all those times I was feeling unappreciated….I was wrong. My daughter Tracey tells me all the time how she has such warm and fuzzy memories of the different holidays that I tried to make special for her and her brother and sister. There were some lean times for some of the occasions….but there was lots and lots of love and that is what she is remembering. I bet she could only tell you a very few gifts that I worried over to get her….but she does remember the ‘feeling’ that she had on those very special times. I read somewhere recently that it isn’t about the presents….it’s about the presence. And that, my friends, is ab-so-toot-ly the honest to goodness truth of the matter.

I told my daughter that on those times she feels depleted from getting up at the crack of dawn….just so she could run (that’s her exercise of choice….and her therapy too I imagine) because that is the only time she can carve out of the day to take some Mommy-time….and that getting her daughter up for school, making the lunch, taking her to school, spending time with Brandon while Samantha is at school….picking up Samantha….going to the park or to a play-date so the little bundles of energy will be ready for an afternoon nap and she just might get to answer some emails or pay some bills…..then prepare dinner for everyone, clean up and then tuck them in at night…and hopefully have enough spark left over to spend on her wonderful husband….that…it is those times that will really be appreciated....some day. It may not seem as if anyone is noticing…but take a Gommys’ word for it…THEY ARE. If Mommy or Daddy were not around to do all those things….that wonderful life those little ones ‘expect’ every day….would not be very wonderful any longer.

And one day….when the little ones have little ones of their own….they will tell Mommy and Daddy just how much they did appreciate all they did for them. All the vacations they went on that they now realize were for the enjoyment of the children….when Mom and Dad could very well have gone on some exotic adult get away alone. All the considerations they made of making sure the children were getting the proper education. The nights they stayed up because they were sick. All the million little ‘mundane’ things Moms and Dads do every, single day for their family. Those 'mundane' things are the things made of love...and love IS in the details.

So, Moms and Dads out there…..just know that what you are doing IS appreciated. You just won’t be told for a few years. But it’s coming…I promise you….it’s coming. You do matter and what you do is appreciated. And remember….Love IS in the details and never forget to look for the Divine in the Mundane. It’s there….look for it and you will see it. Gommy is pulling for ya’. Hugs & Mush - Gommy