What does freedom mean to you?

Freedom means different things to different people. We hear a lot about it today. Webster has a generic definition of “FREEDOM” which is, “The power or condition of acting without compulsion; the absence of constraint in choice or action; relief from lacking something unpleasant.” Do you consider yourself free today? They say that if you had enough money, you’d be free.

I was prompted to do this article when I saw a picture of $800 million found stacked in a room during a drug bust. What in the world would anyone do with $800 million?!

All it did for this drug dealer was to get him off the streets and give him permanent residence in jail. That is not my idea of freedom.

We all think that if we had a million dollars, we would enjoy freedom. It might help and it could be the worse thing that could happen to you. There’s no guarantee. I’m sure we all know of people who have acquired great wealth and live miserable lives. Similarly, we all know people who have limited funds and are the picture of joy and freedom.

Years ago, I felt I had so many problems and limitations that true happiness and freedom were mere abstract terms that applied to someone else, not me.

In this period of desperation I made an exciting discovery. I reasoned that, in “big picture” success, prosperity, freedom and harmonious life experiences was not dependent upon having a lot of money. The conditions that define freedom are as natural to you and me as wet is to water or heat and light are to the sun and readily available to anyone independent of one’s economic status. I reasoned that the only thing preventing us from experiencing these characteristics right now is because there are some un-solved problems in our lives that are NOT natural conditions.

This prompted me to search for those natural laws and principles that would not only resolve all my problems but prevent new ones from occurring in the future. It meant that would have to change a lot of habitual thinking and get in sync with natural laws and principles.

I did find my answers and subsequently, I wrote a pamphlet entitled, “FREEDOM is Knowing How to Solve Problems” which evolved into my current book, “The Science of LIVING BETTER FOREVER” (available through Amazon or downloaded in an expanded version from my webpage at www.livingbetterforever.com).

Over the years, my wife and I have had many opportunities to prove the principles embodied in my book. We have not only survived some tough situations but have prospered. For example, although Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans took everything we owned, today all our needs are abundantly met and we are freer today than at any other time in our 62 year marriage.

Today, I enjoy sharing my unique approach with others seeking success, prosperity, freedom and pressure-free life experiences in spite of their being victimized by a declining economy, unemployment and all the other world discords over which they have no control.

I know how abstract it sounds, but freedom is not found “out there” somewhere external to you. It is as Galileo said, you “find it within yourself.” When the science of this source is understood and properly implemented, the events and circumstances comprising your life experience, including a freedom from lack, will adjust to be in conformity with the mandated harmonious actions of the universe’s natural laws and principles.

As true as this is, it is totally academic until you are willing to access them and make them work for you. It was Aldus Huxley who said, “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

Don’t give in to the temptation to ignore facts just because it is difficult for you to accept them and they differ from your preconceived ideas. When you can discipline yourself to accept the facts of every situation, your freedom will be assured.

A continuity of the universal natural laws and principles, defined by Webster as “the creative and controlling forces of the universe,” are outlined in my book “The Science of LIVING BETTER FOREVER.”

When I got over the initial shock of being urged to “seek alternative employment”, I found that I was just another one of the pack following the same traditional job-hunting procedures as everyone else. It seemed as though everyone is LOOKING FOR A JOB.

To be successful amid all this competition would be tantamount to winning the lottery! It sure looked like the odds were stacked against me; especially after enduring the long non-event waiting periods that never ended. I got the same frustrating non-results and suffered the same heartaches, delays and disappointments as did most all the others who were looking for employment.

Then I realized that if I wanted to break away from this seemingly dead end system I had to make some changes. I had to break the pattern of sameness that plagued everyone else.

I began to realize that businesses are not in the business of giving out jobs. They are committed to making a profit by providing a product or service that filled the needs of its customers. Needs! As I thought about it I realize that my needs would be met only when I met the needs of others.

So I decided to bypass the system and re-focus my efforts from what I wanted and needed to finding out what my prospects needed. I must stop trying to GET something and put myself in a position where I could GIVE something. I must GIVE something to the prospective employer that he needed!

I learned all I could about my prospect’s situation, got him to define his objectives and worked out a game plan that showed him why he needed me, my talents, my experience and expertise in order to accomplish his defined objectives.

This simple procedure resulted in more than one opportunity. In my particular case, I took on more than one “job”. In fact, without realizing it, I found that I had become a consultant.

That was more than 50 years ago. Some things don’t change and these procedures work just as well today as well as they ever did. The basic axiom “Find a need and fill it” is still relevant. Whether you are looking for fulltime employment or providing your expertise on a consultation basis, the basic truth that “You fill your own needs by filling the needs of others” has been proven throughout all recorded history.

This cannot be done if you are satisfied to just run with the pack, passively wait in the employment line and make your success dependent upon the mathematical statistics inherent in traditional job hunting routines. To assure your success, you must depart from the pack, take the initiative and offer your prospect something he really needs and prove to him that you are the only one qualified to give it to him.

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The world thrives on one crisis after another.  When one crisis has run its course, news people come up others to take its place.  This is as predictable as the sunrise.

This kind of “news” brings out all the gurus, self-appointed “experts”, analysts and “preachers of doom” only too willing to share their views on any given subject.  However articulate they may be, seldom, if ever, do they offer any viable solution to the problem.  And if they do, it is immediately challenged with hostility and rejection.

Is there a real solution?  Of course there is!  It has been articulated by serious thinkers throughout history but nobody is listening.   In more recent times, it has been presented by Dr. Einstein when he noted that, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.  We must learn to see the world anew”.

Every problem, every crisis, every conflict, whether personal, professional, corporate, national or international can only be resolved by this self-evident rule. However difficult it may seem, the law demands that we see the troubled world from a completely opposite point of view.  The opposite of chaos, turmoil and discord is harmony, balance and perpetual well being.

Where does all this take place?  Think about it.  The only PLACE it can occur is in your conscious awareness.  Your experiences take place within you; they are not a “something” that occurs externally “out there” somewhere.  This is your “mindset” which, by definition, “determines and influences events and circumstances” (Webster).

This new, opposite world is embodied in the universe, which is defined by Webster as,

“The whole body of things observed or assumed; including the whole without limit or exception; accruing everywhere”.  There is no room for chaos, confusion or conflict here!

QUESTION: The infinite universe, being the only reality, wherein does this “thing” they call a “crisis” come from?

ANSWER:  It doesn’t come from anywhere; it is merely the unawareness or absence of the answer.  It can have no more real existence than a counterfeit dollar bill can have without there being a genuine dollar bill to be a counterfeit of.

What is termed a “crisis” is only the absence or unawareness of the answer.  It is an illusory, misinterpretation of the harmony and balance already in full operation in the universe of which we are an inexorable part.  In reality, the only way we can experience this illusory “thing” they call a crisis is to accept it as real.  To the degree that we can separate ourselves from it and identify ourselves with the “controlling forces of the universe without limit or exception”,  can we prove it in the “events and circumstances” that comprise our life experiences.

This is more than a nice comfortable philosophical, abstract or academic statement.  It is the LAW!  “Law” is defined by Webster as, “A rule or principle that always works and is enforced by a governing authority”.

Living up here in New Hampshire this time of year, I observe the operation of the laws governing the universe every day as the trees change their colors.  I note, too, that the operation of these laws and principles, “the creative and controlling forces of the universe” (Webster), are no more influenced or directed by any man-made “laws”, legislation or government regulation than the sunrise.

All I can do is to be an impersonal observer of the perfect, uninterrupted rhythm of the universe.  From this perspective, all the utterances of the “bad news pundits” have no more power or authority over my world than the belief that 2 + 2 = 6.

If you need a boost, please review these four specific articles:

Handling Financial Pressures

Justification for Rejecting the Idea of “Financial Disaster”

How to Live Harmonious Life Experiences in Spite of World Problems

The Idea of Economic Collapse is Flawed

Remember the slogan of the Thought Box that says, “When you react to appearances, you are not in control”. I would also remind you of the old adage that “Nothing important is urgent and nothing urgent is important”. The balance and perfection of “the controlling forces of the universe” are still in full operation.

Maintain your focus and remember that the laws and principles comprising this entire universe are committed to maintaining your well being; NOW!

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Is there a viable “solution“? Of course there is because in a universe that has been sustained by natural laws and principles (“the creative and controlling forces of the universe”. Webster) in perpetuity, imbalance is as unknown as darkness is to light.

Throughout the centuries, there have been countless scholars who have recognized the answer to this dilemma. Not the least of these was Dr. Einstein who summed it up by noting that “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew”. This truth is ignored by our decision makers.

However difficult it may seem, the law demands that we see the troubled world from a completely opposite point of view. Webster defined “opposites” as “elements that are so far apart and diverse as to be totally irreconcilable to the other”. One is true and the other, its opposite, is false. The negative idea of economic collapse must be rejected, reversed and seen as a fictitious illusion. It must be replaced with its opposite and be in conformity to universal law as embodied in “the controlling forces of the universe”, ie financial security and balanced perfection.

Where does this positive mindset take place? It is a self-evident fact that we can only be aware of that which is in our individual conscious awareness. YOU are the only one who can resolve any problem; and you must do it by restructuring YOUR mindset to “see the world anew”. “Mindset” is defined by Webster as, “A fixed way of thinking; that which determines and influences events and circumstances”. Your total life experiences are defined by “events and circumstances” which reflect your mindset., not that of some “outside” influence.

I realize that this is a radical departure from traditional, accepted perspectives, but I have proven its viability in my more than 50 years as a professional problem solver to the benefit of a widely diverse client base. It was Voltaire who said, “It is dangerous to right in matters on which accepted authorities are wrong” but facts are facts, proof is proof and universal natural laws and principles cannot be successfully challenged, altered, modified or circumvented.

Success, prosperity, freedom and pressure-free life experiences are already a natural to you as wet is to water. You can prove this when you do as Galileo advised and “find it within yourself”.

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The universe is sustained and maintained in perfect harmony and balance by irrevocable natural laws and principles. These “laws and principles” are defined by Webster as “the creative and controlling forces of the universe”.

By virtue of the fact that these controlling forces are in full operation here and now after countless billions of years is sufficient proof that they will remain operating forever. Logic forces the conclusion, then, that there never was a time when these laws and principles were not in operation. This kind of perpetuity embraces Webster’s definition of “infinity”: “That which is limitless, boundless, endless and greater than any pre-assigned finite value however great”.

There are no exclusions to the infinity of the universe; you couldn’t separate yourself from it if you wanted to. As great and all-inclusive as the universe is, it has no power to create anything unlike itself. It is totally impersonal. Its perfection is your perfection. Period. With no exceptions.

“But”, you may ask, “why do I experience such unhappiness, feel the pressure of my spouse’s drug problem and fear for our financial future? I see turmoil, conflict, destruction and evidence of more chaos all around me. And the ‘experts’ predict that it will get worse before it gets better”.

If problems were controlled by law, they could never be negated but would be as perpetual and unchanging as the universe.

Whatever it takes, you MUST discipline yourself to reject all negative suggestions as being invalid, without actual existence or power. When you can accept and identify with the universe, to the exclusion of all else, this mindset will manifest itself in your experience as universal harmony, balance, peace and love. The law of “like begets like” will be invoked. No negative suggestions can “come nigh thy dwelling place” because you have negated their cause: ignorance or rejection of the “controlling forces of the universe”.

And what about the interpretation of a finite universe as offered by leading scientists and scholarly experts who study every observable phenomenon from the infinitesimal to the infinite? They draw conclusions predicated on there being a finite, measurable beginning; the very idea of which challenges the idea of infinity. They justify their conclusions on an intellectual assumption of there being a beginning, which they define as the “Big Bang”. Such a finite premise leads to finite conclusions that are polluted by the acceptance of the idea of limited time and space and the conflict of opposing powers. Such a scenario is as irrational as would be the idea that light created darkness.

When we can separate ourselves from contemplating finite interpretations (problems of whatever definition) we will experience a freedom unknown to those who cannot accept the absolute infinity of the universe. Any concept of a “Big Bang” beginning ignores all evidence to the contrary.

Guess what? The law of “like begets like” works! The mindset of lack, limitation and depletion of resources manifest itself in like conditions. It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy. Your mindset doesn’t make any value judgments. It manifests whatever it is told; good or bad. It is the law!

If you’ve read or seen The Secret, you know they tell you if you think you’re broke, you’ll be broke! They even offer a blank check you can write yourself (from the Universe) and fill out any way you want. The idea is if you think you’re rich, you will be rich.

People are accepting the world belief in a lack of resources. This is challenged by the fact that we live in an infinite universe that, by definition is, “the whole body of things without limit or exception and accruing everywhere”. This is a classic example of the phenomenon of opposites. As detailed throughout my writings, opposites cannot coexist.

One is real and true; the other is unreal and fraudulent. The unlimited abundance of the universe and the laws and principles that govern it, represents what Webster defines as, “the creative and controlling forces of the universe”. As such they cannot be successfully challenged, debated, circumvented or altered.

You see this phenomenon at work when you balance your checkbook. If you make an error in your calculations, it will not balance. Knowing that the laws governing mathematics are inviolable, you take your thought off the conditions of the error and apply the rules of mathematics. This destroys any and all opposite, fraudulent concepts that claim to challenge it. The law is absolute!

Dr. Einstein tells us that, “no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew”. The universal problem of lack, limitation and depleted resources can never be resolved while we are accepting it as a real and valid concept. We must see the situation from a different perspective if we ever want to resolve it.

Understand this: You cannot experience anything other than that of which you are consciously aware. The only place you experience a lack of supply exists only within your own individual consciousness. It is YOUR conscious awareness and YOU are alone in your experiencing it. Anything that appears to be external to this conscious awareness is, according to Webster, “fraudulent and fictitious; an unreal illusion”. Until you can see this, your efforts to “get more supply” will be tantamount to trying to put water into the mirage in the desert or trying to straighten out the railroad tracks that appear to converge at the horizon.

Remember, because your sense of lack is not real, any effort to “correct” the situation means that you still believe there is a real situation to correct and that it is a real power over which you must gain control. There is a slogan I have in my Thought Box that reminds me that “When you react to appearances, you are not in control”.

Money is not your supply. Money is one form your sense of supply takes; it is an effect of your mindset. The real nature of supply is not unlike honesty, love, gratitude, etc. Although intangible, they are real and cannot be depleted. They are infinite and omnipresent. You can prove this in your own experience by maintaining a conscious awareness of it to the exclusion of anything else.

When this conscious incorporeal sense of abundance dominates your mindset, you find it manifesting itself in appropriate forms. Remember, you are not trying to correct a fraudulent illusion and trying to make it real. Your focus must be on being quiet and allowing the “controlling forces of the universe” to express themselves in your experience. You are simply an observer and must be responsive to its directives.

Over the years, my wife and I have proven these laws and principles to be valid and demonstrable when properly implemented. We prove them in our experience every day. When it appeared that we had lost our house and everything in it to hurricane Katrina, we maintained this proper mindset.

By knowing the true substance of “things” to be infinite, intangible substance and that nothing of any real value can be taken from us, harmonious “events and circumstances” unfolded in seemingly miraculous ways. We wound up in a new, fully furnished apartment in New England where the “events and circumstances” comprising our life experiences continue to unfold harmoniously. We had again proven the validity of this principle and found that what the world calls “miracles” are simply natural laws and principles in operation.

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