Author Archives: Yucel

We’re here for a good time

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  • “We’re Here for a Good Time, Not a Long Time.”           

                                                                         —  Tamara Lynn

 

Recently this phrase, which I heard at a meeting, brought a smile to my face as it resonated with me and my beliefs on life and our time here.  Though I’m not sure if it was a requote, this had little bearing on the smiles the turn of phrase initiated with me and other folks present, so I jotted it down for your and posterity’s pleasure.

I guess it captures for me in a handy little turn of phrase what is also espoused by many New Thought and Self Help Modalities of nature of what a good life is in the time we have in this incarnation.

Examples of where else we see this philosophy include:

  • Real Love (www.reallove.com) a teaching that goes something like:   If I feel badly, I am doing or thinking something wrong.
  • Abraham Hicks (www.abraham-hicks.com/lawofattractionsource/index.php) teaches we to be choosing better feeling thoughts
  •  Alcoholics Anonymous strives for and believes in a Creator who wants us to be Happy, Joyous and Free

This list is by no means exhaustive as many of the gamut of self help books out there generally say something to this effect. 

And how to have a good time?

Well, if I am grateful, allowing, present, and have done the work to know what I want, I’m usually pretty peaceful and happy.

What makes you happy and peaceful?

Happily yours,

Yucel

Acceptance

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And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation—some fact of my life—unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God’s world by mistake. Unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.

Love

Bill Martuge

The Boomerang Game

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” The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.”

 — Florence Scovel Shinn

 When we begin to comprehend that what we are sending out is going to return to us, whether we like it or not, then making the effort daily to live by the Golden Rule really, really, really starts to make sense.

May that which you send forth daily create most glorious tomorrows.

Love

Bill Martuge

Intrusion

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Intrusion.  Much of what we learn in New Age or New Thought Modalities teaches us not to intrude.  Not to attempt to change others.
 
Real Love ( www.reallove.com) teaches us that we cannot expect to change another person.  That change comes from within.  Still, even in Real Love, we sometimes see the mirror of truth being held up before us lit awfully brightly, albeit to someone who has asked to be shown them self to them self as they are seen by the one holding the mirror for them.  Even here, the formula is Love, Teach, Love. 
 
The Buddhist Monk from the interviews in the “What the Bleep” Movie tells us that pain is part of the path to enlightenment  ( http://choose.ws/2009/07/02/questions-surveys/transformative-media/yucel/ ).
 
Can it be right to cause pain to aid another in transformation?
 
Werner Erhard ( the Founder of EST Erhard Seminars Training, the employees of which started The Forum when Erhard left the USA after character assassination by a 60 Minutes TV segment ) was said to be the father of the term Transformation and a slew of other vernacular we take for granted in the self help world today.
 
The title of this excellent documentary was also “Transformation”. 
 
To bring transformation to seminar participants, who paid Erhard large sums to attend and be transformed, Werner would attempt to unstick pain from the past, so people could move into the future. 
 
He would do this often through causing mental and emotional pain. 
 
His discourse and questions would bring the individual’s traumatic events from the past into the present and then teach the participant to take personal responsibility for their holding onto of past pain.  A kind of mental slap. 
 
A bright mirror of self showing how clutter from the  past creates more of same in the future unless it is emptied out. 
 
A mirror held up to show how by clinging to the victim story of pain endured in the past, the individual was taking the payoff of victim celebrity and also choosing through this payoff to being held back from moving into a brighter future unencumbered by any weighty story. 
 
A future not defined by and thus limited by the past.  A wide open, a transformed future.
 
Thus a slap, or pain can under the right circumstances, bring about transformation, if it unsticks us from a past as victim and frees us to move without a story into a future we can make, by being authentically present to our true desires in the now. 
 
I assume other transformations are also possible.   I am focused on positive aspects.
 
Thus, this does not address the moral implications of attempting to transform another.  And yet, if they paid, were they not asking to be transformed? 
 
When is it right?  Is it always wrong?  How can it be used well?  What is the path to stay on?
 
Transformatively yours,
 
Yucel

By Letting Go I Rescue Myself

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Rather than trying to impose my will, I let go. I am simply recognizing that God is actively at work in my life. When I let go and let God do what God does best, I am relieving myself of stress. God knows better than I do, so I do let go.

By thinking that I have to be in control of a situation, I maybe thinking myself into a dilemma. I rescue myself by acknowledging that my quest in life is not about being in control, but about letting God express life, love, and understanding through me.

I know that God cares for me and about me. God’s love fills me with strength of mind and heart so that I am able to achieve my goals. There is so much I can accomplish by letting go of worry and letting God bring about divine results. What a relief it is to know that God is in charge of my life.

  I am living the life I love. And I am loving the life I live.

Love

Bill Martuge