3-45. The balance of your thoughts will dictate everything that occurs from day to day. Let negativity gently drift away. Cherish positivity and allow it to flourish. The results will speak for themselves.
Thought is the impetus for the creation of this world, and for much that occurs within its boundaries. This appears to be reversed from the general opinion of this world of form, and indeed it is. But it is not that this understanding of the correct layering of cause and effect is wrong - rather, it is the world’s subjective formulation of a systematic presumption that insists that happenstance is causative of your beliefs that is fundamentally flawed. Thought occurs first, and then its effects ripple outwards, floating upon the surface of a vast ocean of possibility that is the material from which much of the events of this world are constructed. As such, when you present yourself to the present moment with a structure of negativity and impossibility foremost in your mind, the universe attempts to construct just such a series of situations for you, for all that is physical responds to the will of the mind - not the opposite. This reconstruction of your beliefs surrounding what it is to affect this world may not occur instantaneously, for it requires a complete undoing of all that you previously believed to be axiomatic to this world, and so you would do best to be patient with yourself while you experiment with implementing this new approach, so that you can be presented with examples as to why it is true, slowly but surely cementing your certainty in its veracity. If you expect to encounter difficulty, you will indeed seek it out and you will be on alert, looking for reasons why it might be that your present moment should become infected with problematic circumstances that appear to be fully beyond your control. And more importantly, the universe will collaborate with you, effecting alignments with challenges that the universe believes you are requesting to encounter, for the universe is neutral and it operates fully within a paradigm of dispassionate creativity without regard for the consequences of what arises. Yet there can be another way. You do not need to utilize your formidable power to create in the interests of making your life as frustrating as you may believe - erroneously, of course - you deserve. For this is the genuinely accurate prognostication that you are deliberately investing yourself within, desiring and then creating, even if you are unwilling to observe your own thoughts to the point that such a conundrum becomes undeniably clear. You create your world as a reflection of your own inner perception of your innate worth, and so if you feel that you deserve to suffer and to be stymied at every turn, you will place those intentions upon the surface of the ocean of chaos that is the unlimited potentiality of all that can be, and you will find returned to you exactly what it is that you believed most appropriate to occur, even if you are decidedly mistaken about your own nature. The ego is desperate to maintain an illusion of uselessness and valuelessness, for these are its most potent mechanisms for producing a schism between your mind and your heart, rendering you blind to yourself and ensuring that you continue to listen to the ego, to its benefit and to the great detriment of your own ability to create a world that is most appropriate for you to live within. God does not Will suffering for any of the Children of God. That is not an aspect of the Nature of Love, and suffering is not a prerequisite of your realization of the Perfection of Creation. Rather than attempting to create a world that is reflective of the ego’s missives and mistakes, why not try another way? Why not attempt to allow your heart to speak to you of your own innate value, so that you might be presented with a world of endless wonderment and joy? What is there that you could possibly lose, if you continue to wish to believe that loss is an aspect of the Heart of God? Why not at least attempt, perhaps for just one day or even one hour, to not just hope for the best - but rather to expect it. Try to believe that it might be possible that all that will occur from that particular present moment, ever onwards for the rest of the time that you will have any use for at all, will be wholly in alignment with your best interests in every sense of such a qualified statement, even if you are not yet able to accurately perceive just what might be best for you, after all? Why not, indeed. It is a simple proposition but an entirely new world of light and possibility awaits your decision to cease believing that pain, suffering and anger are components of Creation. They are not. They are aspects of a belief in illusion that has no place within a fully healed and Awakened mind. There is only the expansion of Love into ever greater and more robust forms, or there is the stillness that exists while Love awaits your surrender to its Certainty. There is no manner in which Creation can contract, and so all that occurs either adds value and depth to all that is reflective of Creation, or nothing occurs at all. In this manner, there becomes no rational manner in which it is possible to label any event as “bad” per se, for all that occurs is but reflective of an aspect of the Plan of God that you do not yet understand, or it is an event that occurred for no “reason” at all, which is really to say that it is an event that was wholly chaotic in its genesis and so it is not “bad” - it simply is. To accept the neutrality of this world of form is to be freed from reactivity when tragedy befalls you, for instead of demanding some formulation of a rationale that simply does not exist, you instead accept the challenge and you continue to strive to move forward, towards ever greater levels of expansion, no matter the seeming intractability of what you face in any moment. This is the strength of God now made manifest through your acceptance - you no longer look out upon a random world and decry its viciousness and cruelty as being representative of a systematic bias against you or anyone else - you simply accept that events will occur that are not necessarily beneficial, at least on their surface, and you release them after they have transpired. Instead of creating a world of misery because you believe that that is the only world that you are fit to occupy, you look again with the eyes of Love and you see that a great array of possibilities are splayed out in front of you, so many lovely opportunities to learn and to grow, none of which have any specific intention of causing you harm in any way at all. There is nothing to the world of form that is personal, at least in the sense of some purposeful and directed vendetta on the part of randomness to seek you out and to persecute you directly. Releasing the ego’s view, which of course is a perspective that is based solely on a presumption of the immense and irreversible importance of you in relation to everything else that occurs, you can become ever more willing to allow events to arise and then be released, rather than attempting to assign some presumptive meaning to them that they may simply have never enjoyed. Positivity is a process by which you imagine what it is that you believe to be best, and then you put forth into the world the intention to be shown in every moment and at every opportunity the reason why you are so very much deserving of such grace and power. And indeed you are, although the ego will never be willing to admit as such. Positivity is a practice that is its own reward, for it renders you ever lighter and increasingly more willing to allow yourself to be shown what is best, rather than applying a linearly systematic approach to the world and then allowing it to overtake you and to force you to believe that if any particular event unfolds in a manner that you either did not predict, or that you believe to be incorrect, then you have automatically suffered a “misfortune” or “problem” that you did not “deserve”. All of these forms of thought are restricted, restricting and fundamentally incorrect, for there are lessons to be learned of your innate freedom and they will be manifest, even if you are unwilling to accept them at any particular time. All are beneficial, but you will not see them as such as long as you are willing to believe that you are beset by a world that wishes only to befriend you instead.