October is a month that certainly brings about change. Most of us will accept this change, gradually allowing all of the changes to happen without fighting them, which helps us through the transition.

 

For many of us, the change involves the cool chilly mornings, colorful changing of the foliage, and the lessening of the daylight hours.

 

Our younger children are back in school and engulfed again in all of its activities as if they never left for the summer break.

 

Then there is the ending of the baseball season, culminating in the "Fall Classic," also known as the World Series. Football season is in full swing, and hockey and basketball is around the corner.

 

So why do we welcome some changes and resist others?

 

Each of us has our own reasons, because we are all different in so many ways. We have all been conditioned differently...some more so than others.

 

But who is doing the conditioning?

 

We all are told we have free will (depending on what country you live in), but here  in the U.S. our constitution tells us we have free will. Most of the scriptures talk about free will in one form or another.

 

Some will say we are losing our free will. In certain places, we are unable to mention the name of God because it offends another person. There are still places where two people of the same sex can't have the same rights as two people of opposite sexes.

 

On another level, the bombardment of advertising and the types of televisions shows today that allow disrespect of others in the form of sex and violence eventually will condition one's level of morality to start accepting these acts as normal and acceptable.

 

Do we really have free will when we are constantly being conditioned by our society, government and others? Do we not become sensitive in one form or another to "others"opinions and not speak our mind because we feel awkward that we have a different opinion?

 

In this issue of the newsletter, I talk about letting Love condition us.

 

I also invite you to read my latest article on "Changing Bad Habits to Good Habits" HERE. 

 

Many Blessings,

Michael

 

"Nothing happens to us, everything happens for us," I was told by a saint many times. And when I finally understood this, the love I felt was like a wave washing over me, cleansing my body and mind from all of the sand (my conditioning) that was weighing me down.

 

Just about everyone I know who has gone through a tremendous life change or event, say many years after that change or event, that it was the best thing that could have ever happened to them. That was not what they were feeling at that time they were experiencing the change, I assure you.  

 

 But over time, because of their continuous effort to go through what was in front of them, and not let their mind and emotions get the better of them, they found strength where they never knew it before, they developed hope that had been non-existent and, eventually, they uncovered a faith that had always been there.  That faith is like a metal that shines after it has been polished. That faith now is the metal that keeps them anchored and steady. It reminds me of a poem I'd like to share with you.

 

DEVELOPMENT

 

Once I said to God, "How do you teach?"

 

And He replied, "If you were playing chess with someone who had infinite power and infinite knowledge and wanted to make you a master of the game, where would all the chess pieces be at every moment?

 

Indeed, not only where He wanted them, but where all were best for your development;

 

and that is every situation of one's life."

 

~St John of the Cross

 

Namaste.

 

Let Go, Let Love,

Michael

 

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