“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” – Mark Twain
My Father was a very interesting person.
When ever we would get in trouble, our punishment was a lecture from our Dad. Depending on the nature of our crime, the lecture could go for 20 minutes to 2 hours.
And it was always full of my Father’s wisdom, from everything he had learned in life.
Being lectured for me was the worst punishment. I would get bored to tears, not understanding half of what he was saying, or having different beliefs than the ones he believed in.
But some of it did sink in, and I am appreciative for what my father tried to teach me.
Now that I am an adult, I can look back and understand my father a bit better.
When I was young, my only experience with organized religion was through the Church of Religious Science. For about three years I went to Sunday School, and was taught to think positively. I can remember one lesson in particular.
My Sunday school teacher, Mrs. Paine, explained the difference to us of how asking for something positively would have better results than asking negatively. She gave us this example:
If you want to go to the park, but you don’t believe your parents will do it, you will say “We can’t go to the park today, can we?” And they will say “No”. But if you ask ” Can we go to the park today?”, they may say yes!
Of the three years spent in the classroom, that is what sticks out in my mind.
My father was a strong believer in the Power of Positive Thinking, and he tried to pass that on to all of us kids. Through his lectures, daily conversations, and sometimes through his actions.
Although he was a workaholic, he never gained much from all of his endeavors. He was a brilliant electronic engineer, almost to the point of being eccentric. He often worked for himself, but would always bid short on jobs, and end up giving away his designs.
Now that I look back, I can see that my Father did not have all the information, he only had part of it.
If he had known, if someone had taught him, I know he would have passed the information on to us, as he cherished us and wanted us to be successful in life.
He simply did not know.
My father did not believe in himself, he did not think he was capable of success, and always threw roadblocks up for himself to stumble upon.
Although he strongly believed in the power of the mind, and positive thinking, he never had a dream, a vision of what he wanted in life. He knew the mind was powerful, but did not know how to use it consciously.
If only he had believed in himself, if he had known how to use the power of positive thinking, if only he had a dream of what he wanted, if only.
Listening to the “Your Wish is Your Command” CD set, they talk about the knowledge of how to achieve anything you want in life, and how this information is passed down from generation to generation within the highly successful elite class.
I understand why my father was not able to teach me. He did not know himself. He had part of the information, but not the whole picture.
Now that I am getting an inkling as to what brings true happiness and success in life, I am working on changing my way of thinking and being. Even at this late stage in life (I am 56) I now have access to the powerful information that has been missing in my life.
I now understand what happiness really is, because I feel it every day. For me it is an awareness of the world around me, and a deep appreciation for everything I have. It is the joy of looking at the beauty of nature around me.
In the CD’s, Kevin states that the most important thing to wish for is happiness, and to continue to feel even better.
My sister, who is already a member of GIN, has listened to the CD’s, and in fact gave me a set for my birthday, recently told me
The most powerful thing that I learned from the CDs was in projecting what I would like in my life, and putting myself in that picture, I discovered that I didn’t feel any better. And that what needed to change was me. The Feel Good now is the most powerful statement; I need to change my reactions and feelings now. I tend to get frustrated easily over some stuff. So I am working on that, and on being happy now. And when I project what I want with good feelings of being happy now, then I realized that I could have that now, the feeling good.
What do we need to feel rich? Bigger house, better car? We should feel rich now. If we don’t feel rich now for what we do have, we will never feel rich. I certainly have a lot to be thankful for. I work at the most amazing place, so much beauty all around, with a wide variety of tasks, never boring.
So the being thankful, grateful, and appreciating what you have is a big part of it.
She summed up exactly what I was feeling, if you are not feeling happy now, with what you do have, what will make you happy? The first step is in the discovery of gratefulness and appreciation, acknowledging what brings you happiness in your life.
The second step is to visualize what you would like added to your life to bring you even more happiness.
The third step is to BELIEVE that you can create and design your life how ever you want it to be.
The power of the mind, when focused on attracting the positive into your life, will make it happen.
How will it make it happen?
Once you have focused on what you want, doors will open, opportunities will present themselves to bring into your life what you are asking for, that is the Law of Attraction.
If my Father had known this, I know he would have taught me.
