Thoughts Are Things
100 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe expression of our lives are the sum of our thoughts and beliefs. Do you want to change your life? Begin by changing your thoughts and beliefs. Explore why life is the way it is and what can be done to change it... if that is what you want!
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This Time and How
September 10, 2018 00:01 - 20 minutes - 16.6 MBThere is only this moment. “The first principle fundamental to the understanding of the operation of thought is, that we are surrounded by an Infinite Intelligence. The possibility of healing … rests entirely on the theory that we are surrounded by an Infinite Mind, which reacts to our thought according to Law.” -Ernest Holmes
Hello, My Name Is...
August 26, 2018 23:12 - 27 minutes - 22 MBOur creative nature starts with our clear identity. But who are we? How do we identify ourselves? Identifying ourselves as Divine is a good start!
Here I Go!
August 19, 2018 21:44 - 21 minutes - 17.9 MBReady to go deeper into Spirit? I am. Here I go. Ok... the Truth is none of us can go deeper into Spirit... because we ARE Spirit. Let us remember who we are! Divine identification enhances and enriches life! We get to decide what that enrichment looks like!
How Will We Be Remembered?
August 15, 2018 16:43To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer. -Saadi
A Reminder to Remember
August 13, 2018 17:02A realization of the presence of God is the most powerful healing agency known to the mind of man. -Ernest Holmes
Sing Your Song Out Loud
August 06, 2018 00:45 - 24 minutes - 19.4 MBEvery one of us has a song in our heart. Is it in harmony or discord with love? That is the question we should ask of ourselves.
Trust Thyself
July 29, 2018 20:12 - 25 minutes - 22 MBEmerson: “A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.”
The Art of Letting Go
July 22, 2018 19:16 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBThere is a blessing and a curse in New Thought. The art of letting go addresses the path to freedom, and three practices serve your personal evolution!
R.E.A.L. Freedom
July 15, 2018 20:08 - 15 minutes - 15 MBRecorded Live at Dedicated Gluten Free Bakery and Coffee Shop.
Our Inherent Birthright
July 08, 2018 20:42 - 13 minutes - 11.5 MBWhat is our inherent birthright? If you guessed FREEDOM you are right! But, are we truly free? What are the ways we keep ourselves in bondage? It's all a matter of mind... that's it!
Free To Be!
July 01, 2018 18:29 - 10 minutes - 9.36 MBIn the current political climate of the USA, freedom is a big talking point. As we are about to celebrate Independence Day, let's move to the core of what true freedom is.
The Practice
June 24, 2018 19:31 - 20 minutes - 15.1 MBAt the root of the New Thought faith tradition is action. We take action though spiritual practice. Do you have a spiritual practice?
Difference of A Day, or The Roller Coaster, or The Universe Has Your Back
June 17, 2018 17:50 - 10 minutes - 9.38 MBWhen it all fell apart, there was only one thing to do... be grateful.
I'm All Made Up
June 10, 2018 17:40 - 10 minutes - 9.53 MBWhen our brain agrees with the hallucination, we call it reality.
The 3 Keys to a Healing Conscsiousness
June 03, 2018 17:54 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBWhen we align with the three keys we are more easily able to settle into the spiritual blueprint from which all things physical arise!
Oh, The Possibilities!
May 29, 2018 20:30 - 14 minutes - 17.4 MBI am back! It's been a ride returning to Tucson, Arizona after 21 years and staring a new Spiritual Center. It was never my intention to let the podcast go for so long... but it happened. Now I am returning to a regular practice of posting podcasts.
Love The Earth
April 22, 2018 18:12So much has been going on. It's wonderful, magnificent, and also challenging. I am up to the challenge, though. Getting clarity about how to allow this work in Tucson to unfold, and doing so in faith, has proven to be a wild ride!
Spiritual Creativity... Are You Using It?
April 12, 2018 01:12Today's VLOG You are a creative thinker... and what you think creates! What might you have been putting off? Don't put it off any longer!
Gratitude!
April 10, 2018 19:04Gratitude is the gasoline in the engine of creation! Be grateful... you are a part of the Infinity of the multiverse!
Prayer Is Essential to Happiness
April 06, 2018 22:36Today's Vlog!!Prayer is Essential to Happiness "The conscious commingling of our thought with Spirit is essential to the well-being of every part of us." - Ernest Holmes
Immortality, Prayer, and Accepting Wellness!
April 05, 2018 18:17TODAY'S READING: 508.M1&2 So last week I decided to "Change It Up." I am grateful to everyone for the week off... and I am grateful to be back. This is my intention as a new paradigm for the daily posts... video blogs!
Rest and Change
March 29, 2018 04:31There is no rest for the eternal Spirit. It is always unfolding, creating, evolving. We can either try to work against it or go with the flow. Truth be told, we could row upstream in the river of life. That would provide a lot of stress and strain. We could also allow ourselves to flow with the Divine current knowing that the momentum takes us down the river to wherever we chose to be.
It Is Well With My Soul
March 27, 2018 16:54A couple years ago I sang in a concert with Forte: Toronto Gay Men’s Chorus, of which I was a member. The concert was titled, “My Story, My Song” and the conceit of the evening was members of the chorus brought to the mix a song that had deep resonance for them. One of the songs that we sang was a hymn called, “It Is Well With My Soul.” Some of the lyrics were, When peace like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to know I...
Go West Young Man?
March 27, 2018 04:54The reading today touches on going more deeply in understanding what we don’t know, and allowing ourselves to know it. It also asks us to question the necessity of concerning ourselves with too much beyond ourselves. Some people look to this reading as an affront on what they believe, and I suppose it can be taken that way, but that is all point of view.
Standing Up For Change
March 26, 2018 05:18 - 10 minutes - 13.7 MB"Find me one person who is for something and against nothing, who is redeemed enough not to condemn others out of the burden of his soul, and I will find another savior, another Jesus, and an exalted human being.” - Ernest Holmes Thank you to the Douglas Family for allowing me to incorporate the speech given by 14 year old Tillie Douglas, at the March For Our Lives Tucson
My Body Is My Business
March 25, 2018 03:13We are more than our bodies, and yet, at the level of consciousness where we currently operate the body we have is the body that is required. Whether we have a body hereafter is less important to me in this moment than the way in which my current body serves me in this moment.
Who Am I Anyway?
March 23, 2018 18:22Have you ever considered what your body is? What are the delineating factors that make up your body? Are you flesh and bone? Are you the individual cells that make up the aspects of your being? Are you the subatomic particles that have converged to create your cells? How about the energetic forms that are all below the level of the subatomic? Where does your body begin and end? Does it begin and end? All these questions boil down to one: What makes you, you?
Thy Kingdom Come
March 23, 2018 01:52The fundamental question that leads many people to follow a Spritual path is the very question that Ernest Holmes doesn’t answer in today’s reading. That feels ironic to me. What is that question? It is, “Why am I here?”
Every Day A Little Death
March 22, 2018 00:57Maybe it feels morbid. Today’s reading is essentially framing the concept that we deal with in this plane of existence that few want to talk about… death. Let's begin with this: "There is nothing more constant than change." —Heraclitus
Necessity of Faith
March 20, 2018 20:30I was walking with someone very close to me yesterday as we discussed an issue that was unfolding in their life. The issue was one that didn’t feel so good. Looking at the circumstances of this issue elicited a feeling of being defeated by the effects. Do you ever feel this way?
New Community - Dream Big!
March 19, 2018 18:50 - 7 minutes - 6.37 MBAudio taken from a Facebook Live Video posted in celebration of the first small gathering of Tucson New Thought.
Sitting in Love
March 17, 2018 19:52Tomorrow is a big day for me. I have the first gathering of Tucson New Thought. It will be an intimate gathering to begin, only fifteen people. Keeping this first gathering small is purposeful as the location at which we are meeting can only accommodate at most that many comfortably. As I consider what is to be with the new community, I am also reminiscing about my past and all that I bring with me to the table as I embark on this new exciting adventure.
Absolute Power
March 16, 2018 19:56There is an immutable law at work from which the entire form of the Universe has been created. Everything that exists is the out-picturing of the law. Everything. There are no exceptions to this. Why is this important? Well, if everything that exists is the result of this unchanging law… then there must be something that sets in motion this law. There is cause to all effect.
Honoring All Paths
March 15, 2018 22:58The reading today… these couple pages… I have used for teaching multiple classes. There is so much going on here! I decided to post a picture of myself holding the book today, because I wanted to show the highlights I’ve placed just on these pages… these highlights are statements within the book that I use for class discussion. When I am teaching this part of the book, the class is VERY lively!
Expand Your Part of the Experience
March 14, 2018 20:47“The potential of all things exists in the Universal Wholeness.” We create our own limits. We may talk a good game about being unlimited, but any degree to which we feel we have not excelled in creating the life we would like, is simply an indication of where the work is to be done. There are a couple things happening in the world today that show, for me, where the work for me is to be done.
Relief of the Heart
March 13, 2018 17:17I’ve been considering last night’s class more as I have woken from a good night’s sleep. There was some opinion expressed in last night’s class about the Bible. The opinion didn’t hold the Bible in very high regard, and some of what was expressed was founded in a belief that the Bible is difficult to understand. This is true for those people who hold the belief. And yet, I have another approach. I had a tumultuous relationship with the Bible. That relationship continued until I decided...
Let Your Light Shine!
March 13, 2018 03:40I loved today’s reading. I love the idea of the external cycles of life… and that there is no end to the experience of life for any one of us. We are part of infinity, and being a part of infinity is an oxymoron, for there is no part of infinity that is not inherently infinite. The infinity of life is represented here as cycle, after cycle, after cycle of livingness. Those cycles are only experienced at the level of the experiential world… and we are so much more.
No Tricks... Just Technique
March 11, 2018 21:53 - 9 minutes - 9.59 MBYESTERDAY'S READING: 144.3-146.1 TODAY'S READING: 146.2-148.4 Move away from a constant need to focus on the mechanical aspects of changing your thoughts and develop a technique for constant constructive thinking!
Tune In Tomorrow...
March 11, 2018 03:41I was a bit tied up today... I laid down scratch tracks for an album I am working on as vocalist. This picture is from my recording session! As a result... no blog today. But, a podcast WILL be released tomorrow during the day.
Active Choice
March 10, 2018 05:29I am back in Los Angeles for the weekend. I drove back today for a couple reasons. One, my Dad and I have tickets to see Glen Hansard at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday (which also happens to be my Dad’s birthday). Also, I am starting the process of recording an album tomorrow by laying down scratch tracks from which full arrangements will be constructed—and proper vocals will be recorded later. It’s an exciting time!
Speak With Divine Authority
March 08, 2018 19:15So much of what we are reading right now has to do with speaking and the voice. Perhaps as metaphor, and perhaps literally. It doesn’t go unnoticed by me that I’ve had difficulty with my voice this last week. The cold from which I have nursed myself back to health has dissipated, and the only lingering issue is that my voice is not 100%. There are many people in many spiritual circles that might wonder about the lack of voice that I’ve been experiencing. They might ask, “What is it that...
Prayer... Step by Step
March 07, 2018 17:36What prayer is: A deliberate use of thought, expressed through spoken word, to purposefully activate the Infinite Law of Cause and Effect in order to produce a shift in consciousness, thereby creating a shift in experience.
Speak Love
March 07, 2018 00:36What is it to speak with your authentic voice? I believe it is speaking from a place of Spiritual Integrity, never denigrating anyone or anything (especially yourself). In the first of today’s meditations we are encouraged to recognize that place of Spirit that is who we are and allow that voice to come forth.
Stop Thinking So Hard
March 05, 2018 17:06Have you ever made a major life change without any guarantee that the choice you made was going to work out in your favor? I am going through it now. Moving to a new (old) city with no guarantees is a scary thought. I can easily fall into the frame of mind that there is more going “against” me than going for me in this endeavor.
It's Done Unto Us As We Believe... Believe It Or Not!
March 04, 2018 22:45 - 6.33 MBTODAY'S READING: 140.3-141.2 Jonathan sounds a little froggy. He welcomed in a head cold unknowingly and it set the tone for what he wanted to talk about today! Life is NOT about struggle! Let it go!
Personality and Technique
March 03, 2018 22:16In reading today’s few paragraphs there are two ideas that come to me. First, the power of thought is the practical application of the Science of Mind. This entire faith tradition hinges on the power of thought as cause to all effects. To practice the Science of Mind, we must practice the art of affirmative, constructive, and active thinking. That’s all there is to it. What we think becomes the experience of our lives.
The Proof is in the Application of the Principle!
March 02, 2018 18:29I’m back! It has been an eventful and busy couple days since my last “proper” blog post. I have made my way to Starbucks because I know I can grab internet service on my computer (and not tether off my phone). It feels good to be back.
Offline
March 02, 2018 05:03I suspect there was an expectation for a blog post today. I thought I would be able to do one... and a twelve hour drive from LA to Tucson (longer than expected), followed by a couple hours unloading the truck, and I have been fighting a cold in the midst of this move... it just wasn’t in the cards. I will I’ll get “caught up“ tomorrow... I will grab some wifi at a coffee shop and get the spirit flowing!! That all said... I am moved to Tucson! Tucson New Though is coming!!
What Ye Reap...
February 28, 2018 14:51Judgment. How does that word feel? What comes up for you when you speak the word out loud. Do you find there is a hit in your chest as if your body is responding with distaste? I have felt that way… mostly when I believe I am being judged. Our response to feeling judged is a great teacher. If we do not like it, then why would we subject others to our judgment? We can stop the cycle of judgment when we decide to stop it.
Sheer Perfection
February 27, 2018 18:00Today’s meditation was a fitting reading for me. I really needed to be reminded of the perfection in all things, and open my eyes to it. The tendency of my mental process is in that direction most of the time, and this week has, so far, been a little challenging. Yet the challenge has all been in my mind. When I step back and review the grand scope of life… it’s pretty darn good and everything is in perfect flow. So what is the challenge?