Jim's Secret Thoughts

Do you have personal freedom? Do you consider yourself to be free? Are you free to choose in matters of health? Do you choose what you do with your time? Do you decide how to spend your money? Have you chosen the things you believe in?

A month has passed and I bet most of you have already failed to keep your new year’s resolution. And most probably you fail every year. Did you know that it is impossible to keep a resolution? It’s true! You will never change your life in any significant way unless you change something else first.

No matter how hard you try, no matter how much you pay and attend self-help and personal development programs, no matter how much you want to change your life – you will NEVER succeed because of these four basic obstacles. Have you ever wondered why, in spite of your great efforts, your life just stays the same? In fact, the more you want to change you have probably noticed your situation getting worse.

In Ho’oponopono we learn that the intellect was not created to know, it was created to choose. That is the only function of the intellect. We are to let go or not to let go, to be right or not to be right, to have the last word or not. We have a choice, to do it the intellect’s way or God’s way.

I have just watched the Avatar movie and really enjoyed it. In spite of the typical American heavy handed approach to “destroy and take” I believe the writer of the story has presented us with a very clear message.
The native Na’vi of the fictional planet, Pandora, are depicted as having a very close bond with [...]

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“Competition is a sin.” - John D. Rockefeller
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