A virus attacks and invades your body's cells and programs the DNA and RNA within them to carry out its wishes, regardless of the best interests of you, its host.

 The thoughts, feelings, and emotions of others surround you every minute of the day like various airborne pathogens.  You perceive them, take them into your body and your being, and say, "I feel angry, upset, sad, unhappy, worried (and whatever else those for miles around you are feeling)."

Your body then takes this as a command and says, "Okay, you said feel angry, upset, nauseous, whatever" and does everything it can to create that sensation in your body.  The alien thought, feeling, emotion becomes yours and runs your body and your life-many times forever.

What if there were another way of functioning in the world?

What if we had a choice about whether others' thoughts feelings and emotions actually infected us and ran our lives?

 Guess what!  You do have a choice.  And there is a simple tool you can use to make yourself instantly aware of that choice.

 Here's the tool:

 Who does this belong to?

How do you use this tool?  It's really easy!

Whenever you find yourself "having" an emotion, a feeling, or a thought, just ask,

 Who does this belong to?

At least 98% of the times you ask this question, you will perceive a lightening up in your being.  For some it feels like a weight lifted from their shoulders; for some it feels like a relaxation in their stomach, throat, or chest; for some, it feels like the air around them becomes lighter, less dense, like there is more space between the molecules.  HOW you feel it is not important; THAT you feel it is critically important if you wish to get free of everyone else's thoughts, feelings, and emotions.

 When you feel that lightening up, all you have to do is return the thought, feeling, or emotion to its sender.  If you didn't create it, is it your problem?  Can you truly do anything about it?  Only the person who created it can change it.

You can't solve it for them, nor do you assist them by attempting to.  Your attempt to change it robs them of the opportunity to change it and create something different in their own lives.

 What do we mean by thoughts feelings and emotions?  A thought is something we think.  It has words, it can be expressed in a sentence once we become aware of it, and the thoughts we have, whether they are ours or not, reflect themselves in the reality we create around us.

 An emotion is a visceral sensation: angry, sadness, fear, excitement.  We feel it in our bodies, and many of us have mis-identified that that sensation is what tells us we're alive.

 A feeling is in some ways a combination of the two:  it can be expressed in words, and it has an affective or quasi-emotional component as well.  Feelings are often how we justify what we've done or thought or created.  Feelings are about what "feels right" to us, what "feels" appropriate, what "feels comfortable."  It doesn't have the visceral intensity of emotion, but it's less intellectual than thought.

 These thoughts, feelings and emotions tend to be what we all think is real; they are what we create our lives from; and we tend to believe the more intense they are, the more real they must be.   These thoughts, feelings, and emotions that we make real function as a giant distraction from what is possible for us as the infinite being we truly are.  Would an infinite being choose all this?  Or, being infinite, would they recognize they had better choices, like joy, bliss, and ecstasy?

 So when you choose to function from these thoughts, feelings and emotions, are you choosing to function as the infinite being you truly are, or are you choosing to function from a more limited finite place?  Is that really your best choice?

 Here's the way out:

 Who does this belong to?

There's many ways to use this tool.  Any time you find yourself feeling upset, afraid, unhappy, angry, or anything else other than joy bliss and ecstasy, you can ask yourself,

 Who does this belong to?

If you're really daring, you could "shoot the moon" and really go for it, and get clear once and for all (in the space of just three days) on how much of what you have been basing your life on (what's been running your life, really) belongs to you..or doesn't.

 Here's how it works:  For three days, make the commitment to yourself to ask,

 Who does this belong to?

every time you feel anything other than joy bliss and ecstasy, or the lightness you as an infinite being truly are.

 It may be harder than it sounds!  What usually happens is you'll start this and maybe be able to carry on for 45 minutes if you're really lucky.  Then you'll space out and forget all about it for an hour or two.  Then you start again and maybe you last an hour.  Then you forget for another hour or two.  It's okay!  You can still count this day as the first of your three days.

 The second day will be easier.  And you'll probably still forget.  And you can still count that day.

 And by the middle of the third day, you will discover an emptiness in your head-all those thoughts you had been thinking were yours will start to automatically go back to their senders, leaving you with--oh, yeah, peace.

 How does it get even better than that?

 Well, one way is that you could join us.  We're having three days of

Who does this belong to?

and we're inviting you to join us!

 Just imagine--if all the stuff that's been running our lives isn't ours, and we start to recognize it and stop allowing it to infect us, how much better (ie happier more peaceful, more easeful) might our lives become?  How might that affect (infect?) everyone around us?  Might that just change the world?  Wouldn't it be worth a try?

 Wanna play? 

 Who does this belong to? Day

started November 3, 2009, so some of us may be on Day 3--but you can still start now!

All you have to play is do your best to ask,

 Who does it belong to?

every time you have a thought, feeling, or emotion.

 What will happen if we do this?  What are the infinite possibilities?  Are you ready for wonderful surprises?