Your range of available choices right now has no limits.
The only limits you have are in your mind.
You've got it in you to succeed.
Just make up your mind and stick with it.

You weren't born with any limits on your powers
or any set limits to your capacity.
At any moment, you have more possibilities than you can act upon.

Imagine your possibilities and your vision expands.
Capture your dreams in your mind and your life becomes full.
Reach out and touch the limits of your being in your mind.

If you think you can, you can. --Daily Guru

Playing with boys is fun , but also scary. They are not like girls.

I grew up with two sisters. There were two boys next door and their grandad and our grgaddad would take us for walks to the cricket field , the canal , the woods or the rec Short for recreationalpark where there were swings and roundabouts , a football pitch , gardens and a tennis courts.The graveyard was also next door to this park with beautiful angels that I used to talk to...but that's another story.

I think life is about learning to play with the boys. School is where we get most of our education and it should prepare you for coexisting with boys, not seggregate you from these mysterious wierd and wonderful people.

I went to mixed schools till I was 11 and after that an all girls grammar school the boys school was next door. we would mingle when we could and when teacher- police were looking the other way

I think co-ed is far better . We are in mixed in real life - part of your education has to do with learning to live with the opposite sex - unless of course you choose to be a monk or a nun, which, in my humble opnion comes later when you have tried mixed life and you can consciously choose to opt out.

I also think that education is about preparing you for life - not just academic subjects and IQ , but EQ emotional intelligence and spiritual awareness and integration into everyday life .

What do you think ?

I do love these questions that appear out of the blue. When I asked myself this , I discovered I was quite passionate about how things " should " be .
Ahemmm.. so , for the record , here's what I think. What do you think ? You might also like to add to Cyns blog research.

I went to mixed schools till I was 11 and after that an all girls grammar school the boys school was next door.

I think co-ed is far better . We are in mixed in real life - part of your education has to do with learning to live with the opposite sex - unless of course you choose to be a monk or a nun, which, in my humble opnion comes later when you have tried mixed life :-)

I also think that education is about preparing you for life - not just academic subjects and IQ , but EQ emotional intelligence and spiritual awareness and integration into everyday life .

reading this story gave me such a boost when I first read it . I was reminded of it in my meditation this morning. I know that it is my job to feel good.

Goldie is feeling really down and in depths of despair when she meets Metatron:

" I'm Metatron, and we have known each other since the beginning of time. I come from the higher realms and have created a physical persona for you today so that we may share some time together in a way that you feel secure." She immediately looked around to see if it appeared that others could see him.

"I don't mean to be rude or anything, but why should I trust you and believe you?" she asked.

"You don't have to trust or believe me with your mind. You have choice and free will. What does your heart-your feelings-tell you?"

"Well, I guess my feelings are saying that I have no reason not to believe you and that your energy actually feels very good, so I am willing to trust those feelings long enough to see where this goes." She took a step back just to feel safer.

Metatron replied with a kind and gentle voice and said, "I came here today to show you how much you are loved. I've been listening to your rants and cries and watching you torture yourself, and I have come to show you that you are only doing it to yourself."

"You have been asking for work that fulfills you and compensates you what you are worth and provides enough money for all of your desires. You have asked for work that you are passionate about, that gives you joy, and that makes you feel that you are contributing and making a difference. You have asked for work that is fun and that uses all of your skills and talents. I am here to offer you the job. There is a position open that has truly been divinely designed to be a perfect fit for you. Are you interested?"

As he was speaking, Goldie started getting chills up and down her spine and had goosebumps all over. Her heart was buzzing and her face was lit up. It felt like this was the moment she'd always been waiting for - like winning the lottery or a huge competition!

"Am I interested? Are you kidding? I suppose you just have to ask that as a formality, right? You know, to get my `permission' on a spiritual level? You already know my answer!"
"Please! Tell me, tell me!!" she cried out with excitement.

Metatron sat down in the sand. Goldie joined him. "Well then," he said, "Let's get started."

"The first thing I need to know is what salary do you want?"

She looked at him rather puzzled. "Don't you need to tell me what the job is first so I know what my skills are worth? I don't want to say something too high or too low, plus I would think the job would already come with a salary range that has been budgeted."

He chuckled. "Ahh yes, Beloved One, that is a very common thought pattern and belief with you westernized humans! Let me assure you that this job is everything you've always wanted and you get to name your price and design it to your liking, so the answer to your question is no, I do not need to tell you what your skills are worth. You need to tell me what your skills are worth! I understand it's not an easy thing for you, dear one! When you have been living a lifetime being told by others that you are unworthy, it is a mighty challenge to recognize and honor your worth and value!"

Goldie sighed, "Yes, I get that. Of course this wasn't going to be too easy! Of course I'd have to struggle with resistance inside myself on my way to fulfilling a dream!! Why can't fulfillment be easy?"

Metatron laughed a booming laugh. He was laughing as if he had just heard the funniest thing ever said. "Dearest Goldie, I am now stating that part of your job description will be that all things must be done with ease. If you struggle, resist and do things the hard way you will lose your salary! Are you still interested?"

"Of course I am!!" she blurted with exasperation. "Ok. I get it. This is all a test and you're teaching me another lesson. Can't I be done with the damned lessons? I'm so tired of all of this? I just want to be happy, be a divine human and give!"

"Is that all you want? Are you sure?"

"Yes" she shouted with frustration.

"You are asking for the lessons my dear one, every time you feign like you don't know the truth! You are asking for the lessons every time you judge yourself and forget that you already are a divine human, that you already give and that you can be happy any moment you choose!"

"Okay, okay" she replied with a tone of sarcasm, "Can we please move on with the job? Alright, without really knowing what this job is going to entail it's hard for me to say what it's worth and what I'm worth doing the job, but what I'd really like is about $50,000 a month. Now I know that's probably crazy but that's what I'd really like if it were a perfect world. And I know that I'm worth it and so much more on many levels, especially compared to many of the top executives, celebrities and wealthy people out there. "

"Excellent!" replied Metatron. "I will submit your salary for $50,000 a month then."

"Really? That easy, huh? Of course. So are you going to tell me what the job is, then?"

"Yes, dear one. Just one more thing I need to know from you. You can't get fired from this job, but you can resign if you choose to, however when you do the job with resistance, difficulty, force or stress, your pay will be reduced. It will even be possible to receive no salary for a period of time if you go too far off the path of least resistance! Knowing that you can't get it wrong or get fired, are you still willing to give 100% to this job?"

"Geeze! Of course! I've always been a very hard worker and someone who goes above and beyond, and I'm not about to stop that now! Especially when we're talking about my dream job and that kind of money! Plus I've got to earn it . I'd never be comfortable accepting that kind of money if I didn't feel that I was earning it."
"Ok then, but are you willing to be open as to how you define 'earn'? If you think it means you have to work long hard hours and be filled with stress, then this is not the job for you."

"Absolutely! I get it. Ease. Effortless. Let it flow. So please tell me! What is that job and when can I start?"

"Well then, congratulations! You are hired. The job starts immediately.

You are now the Executive in charge of Love in your life. In order to receive your salary you must do the following:

Love yourself unconditionally and at all times. This means you must stop self-judgment and behaviors that are detrimental to yourself. Keep yourself in a state of joy and happiness continually. If you notice yourself falling into lower vibrations, you must bring yourself back into love and joy through your feelings. You must do something-anything-to change how you feel in the moment. Call a friend who uplifts, exercise, walk, watch a funny movie, play in the water and sand at the beach, take a scenic drive, listen to your favorite music, play with a child, play like a child by swinging on a swing or jumping on a trampoline or playing a game!

There are endless small things you can do that will snap you back into the higher vibrations. This will be the hardest responsibility for you as you will find times when it seems you are in a hole so deep you can't see daylight, and this is when your pay will start being reduced, so it is the time that is the most important for you to find a way out! If you stay in the hole too long, you will find yourself struggling for survival again because the money will stop.

But you would not be given this responsibility if you did not have the ability and the skills to do this. Your salary will always begin flowing again with every feeling that you feel that is of the Love Vibration. Trust. Trust Love. Trust your feelings. Trust yourself. Trust your guidance. The second you start distrusting is the second you have left the Love Vibration and your pay will again begin reducing immediately. Love others and more importantly have compassion for everyone. Allow them their journey no matter what.

Even if you see them hurting, you cannot "help them," you can only honor them for the choices they have made. Think happy thoughts! Think joy-filled thoughts! Think love-filled thoughts! The more love and joy you experience, the more money from your salary will come in and it will come in much more frequently.

If you make things hard or do them with resistance and stress then your pay will be reduced also. Your earning potential is purely based on how good you can make yourself feel. If you allow yourself to stop feeling good you will notice that the flow of money reduces.

It is possible for it to reduce to nothing if you allow yourself to judge yourself, feel bad, be angry, sad or depressed, question the why and how of everything in your life, stop trusting, or forget that you are a divine human and dearly loved by all of creation.

"So, do you have any questions Beloved Goldie?"

"Yes. Lots. Why don't I feel good about this? Why don't I feel overwhelmed with excitement? I think I'm more afraid that excited. I'm afraid I can't do it. I'm afraid I won't get paid. I feel incompetent and that I'm not worth it anyway. How can I expect to be in the world and live my life and get paid for just feeling good? That seems absurd!"

"Well my dear, that is precisely what humans have been conditioned to believe for many millennia. Do you believe that you are supposed to follow the herd and believe the same way, or follow what feels right and good and true and love-based to you? Ask yourself if there is anything about this job that doesn't add to you. Ask yourself if there is anything about this job that you even need to discuss with anyone else. Don't you think you can do this job and nobody even has to know that this is your secret? Your magic?"

"But if it's really possible and that good, then I want to share it with others! I hate keeping good things from other people!"

"Precious one, how can you share it if you do not first do it yourself?"

"But where is this money going to come from? Who's paying my salary?"

"That is not for you to concern yourself with. It will come in forms that match the vibration from which you summoned it. Anything is possible. Don't you think that those of us in the higher realms who sit at the threshold of all creation, that we would know how to manifest some simple human money? You must remember that money is not real. Exchange is real. Money is merely a paper or material exchange. It is a symbol. It matters not in the eyes of creation whether money is represented by $1 or $1,000,000,000. It is only an increased summoning of a higher vibration. That is a matter of trust again, dear one. You must trust and then you must allow and be open to receiving. If you are closed off, it will come to you but you will not see it in order to receive it."

Goldie sighed again, then stood up and brushed the sand off of her backside. "Ok then, sign me up" and she extended her hand to Metatron to help him up and shake his hand.

Metatron gave her a huge hug and offered her congratulations. "There's just one small formality. I need you to write the pledge in the sand and speak it, thus acknowledging your commitment to this job."

Goldie knelt down and with her finger she wrote as he spoke:

I Goldie, am a divine human.
I am Love. I am Loved.
My job is to live joyfully and filled with love.
I am worthy. I am worth it.
And so it is.

She stood up and he told her to say it altogether.
She turned to the crashing surf and the azure sea and shouted
"I Goldie, am a divine human. I am Love. I am Loved. My job is to live joyfully and filled with love. I am worthy. I am worth it. And so it is."
Tears of joy streamed down her face as her soul recognized that she had remembered her true purpose. She shouted it again and
whooped with joy and laughter. She turned around to give Metatron another hug and he was gone. There were no footprints leading away from their spot. He was nowhere to be seen. There was only the man and his dog still playing frisbee.

Goldie smiled to herself.

"And so it is" she whispered.

Months later Goldie was in the grocery. An angry lady in line behind her was starting to make a scene because the person in front of Goldie had too many items for the express lane they were in. Goldie stood there and began focusing on a huge shower of love and joy coming down from the heavens all around them. The lady got really loud and obnoxious saying how stupid people are when they don't follow the rules and other derogatory remarks. Goldie just held her ground and increased the love and joy coming down on all of them. The woman in front with too many items was apologizing profusely to the clerk and explaining that she had not seen the sign and since the clerk didn't say anything it wasn't her fault. She turned to look back at the angry woman and apologize to her face and the angry woman said, "Oh my God, Stella? is that you? I have been looking for you for 10 years!"

Goldie moved out of the way and the women embraced. "I'm sorry about my fit. I'm just in a big hurry because my husband is in the hospital from heart surgery and I've got to pick up my kids from school and get to the hospital within visiting hours."
There is a lot of magic in the midst of love an joy. Just be love and joy and everything has a way of working out. Goldie was truly happy. She had grown accustomed to feeling good all the time. Because her vibration was so high in the love frequency she never even attracted negative things happening to her anymore. And at times like that in the grocery store, she knew that she was there for a reason and that she needed to have compassion for the angry woman but not get involved - at least not on a human level! Because she felt good all the time, projects, money, opportunities, trips, and parties came to her on a continual basis.

She had had a devil of a time in the beginning. The first few days after the beach she just couldn't conceive of where $50,000 a month was going to come from no matter what she did! It was a little rough for the first few weeks as she turned on the valve of feeling good and it was wide open, and she magically received money from something she had done long ago and never been paid for. She faltered a few times when people from her past showed up and tried to use her they way they had before.

Over time, she began to understand and it made it even more fun and exciting to see how much joy, love, pleasure and fun she could summon in her vibration every hour of every day to see what would show up next. She met people she'd only dreamt of meeting. She magically was guided to show up at the beach at times when events were happening or someone would ask her if she was so-and-so. You see. when you are in the vibration of love and joy, you have a glow about you and everyone - yes, everyone - is attracted to it. The more people are attracted to your vibration the more they either swear they know you or they really want to know you - almost like being a celebrity!

Goldie is now the one that gets all the calls to do the cool things. And the money just keeps on flowing. She even received a courier delivery of $10,000 cash one time. The red Wells Fargo truck came to her door and a man with a gun on his belt told her he needed her to sign for the delivery. She looked to see who it was from and it simply said International Abundance Merchant Unlimited. She tried to look them up on the internet and it appears that IAMU doesn't exist on the earth plane!

She smiled and thanked Metatron out loud. "Yes, you did say money was easy for you to create. I remember it well. I love you Metatron."

Isn't it intreresting how different everything is seen from a higher perspective ?
" You would never be discouraged if you knew, as we do, that anything you want must be, and that all you have to do is line up with it. You would never be discouraged if you knew, as we do, that when contrast causes you to clarify a desire, that, in the moment of that clarification, even if you don’t speak words about it, Source immediately says yes to that desire and becomes one with that desire. So, there is no possibility whatsoever anywhere in this Universe that your desire is not being answered in the moment that you give birth to it. But if you don’t know that, if you’re still looking at the gap between your realization that you want it and your realization of the manifestation of it, then, because you have forgotten that it’s going to happen for sure, we can see how you might get discouraged.

Feel the difference between something that you want that you know you can achieve, and how exhilarating that is, and something that you want that you feel powerless to achieve. And what we’re wanting you to understand, is: You need not ever again feel powerless about the achieving of anything— because when you ask, it is given, every single time.

There is no such thing as something that is incurable; there is no such thing as something that is impossible. There’s only vibrational discord with the wellness; that’s what illness is. There’s only vibrational discord with abundance; that’s what poverty is. There’s only vibrational discord with clarity; that’s what confusion is.

You have Guidance within you that will help you to quantify your journeys. And so, you can tell (if you care about how you feel) whether you’re marching, marching, marching towards something that you’re going to like when you gets there. People will say, “Abraham, it came out of the blue!” And we say, hardly. You’ve been beating that drum for a long, long time. And you say, “No, I haven’t. I haven’t been thinking about that. I didn’t think about the specifics of this terrible thing that happened to me.” And we say: You thought about enough things that were a vibrational equivalent to this powerlessness that you are feeling (or to this rage that you are feeling) that you activated a vibration that kept you from going in the direction of what you want, and, in fact, took you directly to what you do not want.

When you are feeling ornery, ornery, ornery, ornery, ornery, ornery, you can’t end up in Happyville. It’s on a different path, you see. When you are frustrated, frustrated, frustrated, frustrated, frustrated, everywhere you go, things that are frustrating in nature are there waiting for you. They are waiting for you with open arms. “You planned us,” they say. “You prepared us. You called us from the ethers.” And the Universe and Law of Attraction goes to great trouble (it’s really no trouble at all; it’s just a natural consequence of the Laws of the Universe). Law of Attraction (that which is like unto itself is drawn) will meet you around every corner with the essence of your vibrational nature. It’s everywhere you go. That’s what we mean when we say: you take yourself with you.

What we want you to come to understand is that, here you are, wherever you are, and out there somewhere, is something you really want, and out there somewhere else, is something you really don’t want. In other words, it’s like your future is a big long stick with things you really want on one end, and things you really don’t want on the other end. And here you are, in every moment of every day, making a decision about which direction you’re going. So, it’s like there are all of these potential forks in the trail.

Have you ever taken an airline trip or a car trip, or any trip, even a hiking trip, where you have made a direct line from where you are to where you want to be? Or, are your trips always ups and downs and around things? In other words, aren’t you just always correcting your course, generally going in the direction? Jerry and Esther are amazed sometimes when they look at a map, and they realize that the road that they were on that says I-10 East doesn’t go east a good deal of the time. It’s really interesting how often it is going north, or even south in its general direction of east.

There are many twists and turns in your road, but you must have your Guidance System activated consciously so that you can tell, when you twist and turn, how you’re wanting to correct yourself—because, of course, things are going to happen—of course. Something’s going to sneak up on you that you didn’t see coming because you weren’t aware that it was active in your vibration. Sometimes, stuff got activated in your vibration when you were really little, when you were living with somebody else whose activation was very strong, and you didn’t even know it got activated until you got old enough that you started watching the manifestational response.

It’s a wonderful thing, that what you think and how you feel is always a vibrational match. It’s a wonderful thing that what you think and how you feel—and what manifests—is always a vibrational match. But if you wait to correct your course until something is already manifested, it’s harder to correct your course. We call that post-manifestationa l awareness.

It’s ever so much more effective if you are correcting your course, based upon the way you feel, and that you stop in the middle of an ornery moment and you say to yourself, “I’m marching, marching, marching toward something that I’m not going to like when it gets there. Can I find a slightly better approach?”

Now, this is the thing that we really want you to hear: We do not expect you, because no one has ever done it, to go from an ornery vibration directly to bliss—it doesn’t happen. We don’t expect you to immediately correct your course. We don’t expect you to teleport yourself to where you want to be. This is a physical time/space reality where you have this magnificent buffer of time. So, you have plenty of time to get yourself lined up. And with every effort of realignment that you attempt, you will find a slight enough improvement that you will begin to see manifestations that reflect your effort. Even though you’re not all the way to where you want to be, you will see manifestation that reflects your effort. (We’re not kidding you one bit about that.)

So, you might see yourself as standing always at a fork in the road because there is always the option of finding a way that feels better. In other words, wouldn’t it be nice if? Or, making the best of it. Or, there is also the option of, wouldn’t it be awful? Or, making the worst of it. In other words, you get to choose.

We see a lot of you (lovely Beings that you are) making the worst of it over and over again. And do you know why you do that? It’s for very well-meaning reasons. You make the worst of it because, at every level of your Being, you understand that you are supposed to feel good and that things are supposed to go well for you. And when they don’t, you’re, sort of, freaking out on even very deep levels… there’s something that makes you want to shout, “Somebody should call somebody about this! Somebody should call somebody, and somebody should fix something, so that my life goes better,” ( this is my underlining mm) because you were born with that promise in place. You were born knowing that you are the center of the Universe. You were born knowing that the resources of All-That-Is would back you up. So when something’s going freakishly wrong, we understand your consternation. We understand how frustrating it must be, or how disempowering it must feel. But we want to say to you: All you have to do, is make the best effort you can right now, to fork a little bit in the direction of what you want—that’s all the work is.

Every moment of every day, you have these forks where you can go closer toward something that you want, or further from something that you want.

You want to demand the world give you what you want. And we say, the world cannot give you what you are demanding. The world is giving you what you’re deserving. The world cannot give you what you’re demanding; the world is giving you what you’re offering vibrationally, and nobody can change what you’re offering vibrationally—but you… We think the reason that you may not be very good at it, yet, is because you want to change too much, too fast. You want the manifestation to change, right now. And we want you to just take this opportunity to mold your vibration. Because as you take this opportunity to mold your vibration, and this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, not only do you feel better along the way, not only do you have more friendly clerks across the counter, not only do you uplift rather than make people feel terrible, you feel better along your way. Your journey is brighter and brighter. And ah, the manifestations that reach out to you, the people that you rendezvous with, they are equivalent to the vibrational forks that you take in the road.

You are the creator of your own reality because you are the chooser of the thought right now.

Don’t be hard on yourself. If you’re standing in a place where you’ve been chopped off at the knees, where you’ve been hit in the gut, where you’re feeling awful, don’t feel bad. Don’t beat up on yourself for not being able to choose the best thought you’ve ever thought. Just choose the best thought you can find from where you are. In other words, just fork off gently in the direction of what is important to you. And before you know it, your path will get brighter and sweeter, and brighter and sweeter. And the people who watch you will say, “You know, you amaze me. Things go well everywhere you go. Why is that so?” And you say, “I’ve come to expect it.” And many of them will say, “Agh.” They don’t want to hear how you expect things to go well. They’ll say, “Oh, that’s because you’re rich. Oh, that’s because you have an entourage that travels with you.” We promise you, no entourage can buck your current. There is no one in the world who can prepare your path for you, you see. You are all as rich as everyone else because you all have the resources of the Universe at your fingertips. And when you take the time, when you care enough to take the time to find the better-feeling thought, now, you’re moving toward something that will please you.

Every step you take, you are marching toward a manifestation. And if you feel good while you’re stepping—you are marching, marching, marching toward things that are going to delight you when they get there. And if you are ornery, if you’re unhappy, if you are frustrated, if you are blameful, if you are angry, if you are hateful, if you are revengeful, if you are fearful, if you are depressed—you are marching, marching, marching toward things that are going to augment that feeling of depression, of anger, of frustration. In other words, the way you feel must net you more stuff that feels like the way you feel.

The better it gets, the better it gets, the better it gets, the better it gets, the better it gets, the better it gets, the worse it gets, the worse it gets, the worse it gets, the worse it gets, the worse it gets. You cannot defy the Laws of the Universe—please give it up! Stop trying to use your words and your action for the stuff that attitude and mood, and vibration are to do. In other words, mold yourself into place. Do the vibrational work before you do the action work, and the action work will be a fraction of what it has been before.

If you take the time to do the vibrational work first, you won’t have to offer nearly as much action. You’ll begin to discover that the things that are important for you just unfold for you because the Universe is at your fingertips. The fairies of the Universe are there for you. You are the center of an enormous entourage that means to please you.

And when you, through your magnificent deciphering of contrast, give birth to a rocket of desire,(oooh la la mm ) that rocket of desire is duly noted, understood, and absolutely agreed with by all of the resources of the Universe. And now all you’ve got to do, is to get in the vibrational compliance with what you are asking for. (Isn’t that nice to know?)

There are three steps to the Creative Process: Step One, you don’t have to worry about; contrast makes you take that step. Contrast causes you to desire or focus, or prefer.

Step Two, not your work, anyway. Source and all of the resources of Source answer your request. That’s that vibrational alignment. That’s that one point of vibrational relativity that happens instantaneously.

So, your only work is Step Three. And Step Three is: Can I find a thought right now that feels a little better than the thought I’ve been thinking? That’s all Step Three is. Finding a thought that causes me to feel a vibration (or a feeling) of relief. So, there is allowing of what I want, or disallowing of what I want. There is allowing of what I want, or resisting what I want. You are either practicing the art of allowing, or the art of resisting. When you’re forking off toward things you want, you’re practicing the art of allowing. When you’re forking off to things you don’t want, you’re practicing the art of resistance. And every day, and every moment of your life experience is a perfect reflection of how you’ve been forking. (Good.) "

Excerpted from Abraham-Hicks Workshop
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