New year, new hopes, new dreams

Are you looking forward to something great in the new year? You should! Good will come if you will it. Good will always happen if you welcome it with faith, hope, and love.

Sick and tired of resolutions that you never stick to? You may need a change of heart first before a change of habits can happen.

Benjamin Franklin said, “Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”

Oprah Winfrey, on the other hand, has a famous quote on a new beginning: “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

As we enter a new year, let me share two inspirations for power. One shows us that power comes from faith and love. One believes the power is within you to imagine and create your future.

New Year, New Heart

It is good to be inspired and motivated at the start of the year. Like you, I looked for inspiration. I found one when I opened the gift of a young seminarian: an image of the Blessed Mother Teresa. She is regarded by many as a modern-day saint, practically a miracle away to being one. Her beatification in 2003, they said, took the shortest period in history (she died in 1997).

Mother Teresa was captivating for her words of love, knowledge, and inspiration. Her life was spent with the poorest of the poor. She cared for them like family. Going through her most famous quotes, I was touched by some that I would strive to do for the new year. I hope they inspire you to be better as well:

• Appreciate. There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

• Be passionate. God doesn’t look at how much we do but at how much love we do it with.

• Love God. To show great love for God and our neighbor, we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

• Love others. The success of love is in the loving; it is not in the result of loving. Of course, it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

• Pray. Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God’s gift of Himself.

• Smile. Let us always greet each other with a smile for the smile is the beginning of love.

Imagine Yourself Well In 2011

This was in my inbox this morning. A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne, author of The Secret and The Power: “To celebrate the end of the year, and to guarantee that 2011 is your absolute best year yet, this Secret Scrolls contains one of the life-changing revelations from the book The Power, and one of the most powerful processes you can do in your life.

Whether you realize it or not, you bring everything to you through the power of your imagination. The power of imagination is not something you have to acquire; you have it already! You think in images even if you aren’t aware that you do, and you use imagination or imaging every single day of your life. When you think about the past, you are imagining. When you think about the future, you are imagining. And as you imagine and concentrate on anything with feeling, you are bringing it to you.

When you worry about something, you are using your immense power of imagination negatively. You are imagining the worst, and as you imagine the worst, you are bringing it to you. When you are excited about something, you are using your power of imagination positively. You are imagining the best, and as you imagine the best, you are bringing it to you.

Using the power of your imagination is something that comes to you naturally, but I want you to understand something about your imagination that will change your life: Whatever you can imagine already exists! You simply can’t imagine anything unless it exists already, because when you imagine something, you are actually tuning into a particular frequency, and if that frequency didn’t exist in the universe, you wouldn’t be able to tune into it. So, when you imagine yourself with something you want, you are tuning into a real thing that already exists, and you are looking at the very frequency of you with your desire!

Now, I am going to take you step by step through a revolutionary process using your imagination from the book The Power.

Picture Yourself With Your Heart’s Desire

First, imagine something that you really want. It could be money, health, a particular job, a partner, a vacation, happiness, or anything else. Imagine yourself with your desire; close your eyes and really get the picture of yourself with your desire.

Pay special attention to what you see about yourself in your imagined picture. Notice how you are talking. Notice how you are moving. Notice how you are walking. Notice how you are acting. Notice how you are feeling. Look at everything about yourself in your imagined picture, but in particular, notice how happy you are! Capture every detail that you can and open your eyes.

Understand that the picture you just imagined of yourself with your desire exists already! You know it exists because if it didn’t exist how could you tune into it? How could you see it in your imagination? When you imagined yourself, you were looking at the actual real version of you with your desire!

Can you see the difference between yourself right now and your imagined picture of yourself? Because your job is to become as much like the version of yourself in the picture as you can! Walk like that now. Talk like that now. Act like that now. Feel the same as that, now. Become as happy as that person, now. Be that person, now! When you become the person in your imagined picture, you have shifted yourself to the frequency of your desire, and it must and will appear. Your imagination is showing you precisely the person you need to become. It is showing you what you look like and how to act and feel so that you can copy it and become that person!

To help you become more and more like the person in your imagination, practice closing your eyes and seeing yourself in the imagined picture with your desire as many times as you want. Seeing the imagined picture of yourself will continuously remind you how you need to be, feel, and act. Then come out of your imagination and go about your day doing your best to act and feel like that person, now. You will be amazed at how little copying it takes before you see the evidence that your desire is coming.

This is one of the most powerful processes you can ever do to make your desires appear with lightning speed. This process is based on the physics of the universe. Use it! Practice it! You have the power to your life; every force in the universe will do anything for you, but you have to use the power that you have!”

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