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Can we still hold the Dude to that promise he made in the New Testament?

May 2, 2017 28 Comments

“You carry within your heart a portable paradise.”—Paramahansa Yogananda
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A reader asked me the other day why I chose nine experiments instead of 10 for E-Squared and E-Cubed. She wondered if there was some deep spiritual significance. In numerology, nine is the symbol of wisdom and initiation (or mental instability, depending on who you consult), but here’s the real reason I chose nine.

The original book (God Doesn’t Have Bad Hair Days) had ten experiments. But I found readers to be quite resistant to the Lillies of the Field experiment where I asked people to hold the Dude to that guarantee he made in the New Testament. The one where He promised that if we’d just quit worrying, we’d be clothed, fed, and taken better care of than the lilies of the field?

In our culture at least, people don’t have the chutzpah to place all their trust in the care of the universe. They just aren’t willing to “leave their wallets at home” or have the faith that life really does have their back.

In an effort to convince people to try it, I told the story of Paramahansa Yogananda.

When he was 15, he was sent to the Indian city of Brindaban with nary a rupee. He had been yammering to his family about wanting to quit school and devote his life to God. His brother, a stolid accountant, decided to pull a fast one on his pious pipsqueak brother.

“Okay,” he challenged him, “You wanna do God’s work, fine. But let’s forget about your inheritance. If you wanna depend on God, I insist you depend on Him for everything. What do you say we put your vaunted philosophy to a test in the tangible world?”

Ananta, the sermonizing elder brother made this proposal. “I’ll buy you a one-way ticket to Brindaban. It’s where Lord Krishna first displayed his glories, so it’ll be a good place for you to start. You spend the day there. Take no money. No food. You’re not allowed to beg. Yet you can’t go without food or transportation. Furthermore, you’re not allowed to reveal your predicament to anyone. If you return to my bungalow before midnight without breaking any of these rules, I’ll not only give you my blessing, but I’ll become your first initiate.”

Ananta undoubtedly smirked as he sent his penniless brother and a friend off to the strange city they’d never visited, but not before searching both of them for a hidden hoard.

The friend, lacking the young yogi’s faith, was nervous—almost as nervous as you probably are in contemplating this experiment.

“Shouldn’t we take a couple rupees just as a safeguard?” he pleaded. “At least then we’ll have money to telegraph you in case of misfortune. There’s something reassuring about the clink of coins.”

Paramahansa rebuked his friend, refusing to proceed with the test if he took any “safeguard.”

As the train rumbled towards the holy city, the friend started whining. “I’m really getting hungry. Why did you talk me into this?”

Right before the last stop, two men stepped into their compartment, began joking with the young boys. When the train pulled to a stop, the two men linked arms with the boys and led them into a horse cab.

Well, long story short, they ended up at an ashram, taking the place of two princes who, at the last minute, had to cancel their lunch plans. Not only were they served a 30-course meal, while being fanned by a hostess, but they visited Madanamohana Temple and other Krishna shrines, were given train tickets back to Agra, and fed the finest of Indian sweetmeats for dinner.

Was Ananta ever surprised when, at a few minutes before midnight, the young yogi walks into his home with piles of rupee notes and bursting with stories. His brother, as promised, insisted on receiving spiritual initiation that very evening.

Two quick announcements. The kindle version of Thank & Grow Rich is on sale for $1.99 for just two more days. And there’s still time to enroll for the 5th annual Hay House World Summit (it’s completely free) and features hundreds of authors and speakers talking about really enlightening things. You can sign up here. Hope you’ll join us.

And as always, my friends, thanks for your continuing love and support.

Pam Grout is the author of 18 books including E-Squared: 9 Do-it-Yourself Energy Experiments that Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality and the recently released, Thank and Grow Rich: a 30-day Experiment in Shameless Gratitude and Unabashed Joy.

Why I like to gang up on perceived problems

May 1, 2017 34 Comments

“Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or the things we do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.”–Simon Sinek
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If you’re a regular at this blog, you know how much I love my Lawrence possibility posses and how important I think it is for all of us to “gang up” on perceived problems of lack and limitation.

I am so thrilled that groups are forming all over the planet to talk about the principles in E-Squared, E-Cubed and Thank & Grow Rich. And so grateful for all the amazing things people send to me—everything from origami roses to Love Lists (thank you Sherry Richert Belul).

Since I get together with my one of my posses every Sunday (they’re like my own personal pit crew who help me change my flat tires when I’m heading in the wrong direction), I often have great stories to tell on Monday.

Here are just three from yesterday:

Never Say No to Fun Rhonda and Carla were driving home from a gardening workshop in Overbrook. Rhonda said to Carla, “You know what I need? A friend who loves to garden and has lots of extra plants to give away.”

The next day (literally the next day) she’s at the posse and a new guy walks in. Rhonda starts chatting him up, welcomes him to the group. “So what do you like to do?” Innocent enough question, right?

He replies: “I’m a Master Gardener.” She has been getting free plants from him ever since.

Jeff didn’t mention it to anybody, but thought, “I’d love to get a mountain bike.” He filed it away in his “someday when I get some money together” file.

Last week, out of the blue, one of his co-workers presented him with a…do I really have to say it?..a mountain bike with a 29-inch frame that was too tall for its original owner, but just the right size for Jeff.

Robbin’s daughter, Kitty, who recently manifested the perfect interior architect job just manifested a second job at the same company for her best friend from college. The two recent graduates moved into an apartment together that, included in the rent, just happens to have its own concierge, its own driver and its own personal trainer.

There were more stories (there are always more stories), but I’ll close for now by reminding us that we are here on Planet Earth to magnify and glorify infinite potentiality. We can’t do that if we depend on what we’ve seen in the past, what we think we know. That’s why it’s so darned important to keep this conversation going.

Anyone else have a great story to share?

Make sure to claim your blessing this weekend

April 14, 2017 17 Comments

“It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.”–Calvin & Hobbes
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When it comes to manifesting miracles, there’s really just one hindrance. It’s the same obstacle whether you’re trying to draw in a new Lexus or attract a soul mate.

Instead of using our imaginations, we rely on what we know now, what appearances have revealed in the past.

“What is” is the last place you should go when wanting something new. You have to create a vision, a vision that gets you pumped up and excited. There is no room for “what is” or “what you know now.”

That’s why it’s called a miracle. It’s a rearranging of life as we think it is. A Course in Miracles insists that miracles are normal and that if we’re not enjoying them on a daily basis, something has gone wrong.

What has gone wrong is that we keep believing and putting our attention on what we’ve noticed in the past. The past has no relevance.

What has relevance is having a vision. You must employ your imagination because what you want to draw into your life has been blocked by your strong belief in it not being there.

As you know if you’ve been attending this party for very long, I hear about miracles every day. Readers write me with their “You’re never going to believe this” stories. The other day I got an email from a woman in India who had written me 18 months earlier about her desire to attract a partner. Seems as if her parents had other ideas about her perfect soul mate. I wrote back and said something about trusting the universe had her back and knowing that it always, always wants what’s best. A few days ago, she wrote to say that she’s now happily married. And all she had to do was let go of her story that she was hopelessly single and that her parents would never approve of her choice.

Like the Brothers Grimm, we all have stories and we invest lots of energy in them. But let me say it again, your old stories have no relevance on your future unless you keep repeating them.

To manifest miracles, you have to let go of every story and just trust, deep down, that joy is your birthright, that good things are lined up for you and will flow in the very moment you release your old story. All your good is right there, waiting.

I often hear from musicians who, inspired by my work, write songs about E-Squared or about gratitude. I need to collect them all and put out an album.

Last year, I met an amazing musician named Claudia Carawan. She is the music director at Unity Bon Air in Richmond, Virginia. The day I spoke there, she played this song that, while she didn’t write for me, could easily be my theme song.

So, dear friends, please, do what this song says—get up every day and claim your blessing!

What marvelous thing might I create today?

March 22, 2017 18 Comments

“What is the most important thing we can think about in this most extraordinary moment?”–Buckminster Fuller

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again. The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the questions you ask. The universe will always match you question for question.

Sadly, most of the questions we ask are repeats of the questions we asked yesterday. We keep wondering the “same ole, same ole” that forever locks us into a tiny box of perception that greatly limits our reality. We place amazingly low expectations on what might be possible.

Every time you ponder the question “How do I get rid of this?” or “How can I overcome that?” you add energy to sustaining the unwanted state. As you devote more and more attention to its existence, you further validate its reality. You continue to view the state you’re attempting to overcome as a linear, predictable “problem.”

Not a lot of options in that teensy box.

Here’s what I’ve learned from quantum physics. Despite how it looks, we humans and everything else we lay gaze upon are, at our core, nothing but patterns of light and energy. We are entangled with all other beings on the planet, forever linked with the indivisible “Field of Potentiality” or to use Luke Skywalker’s vernacular, “The Force.”

By continuing to ask the same boring questions and residing in the same uncomfortable little shoebox, we block the flow and full expression of the F.P’s power.

The force, to borrow from Luke one more time, “can’t be with us.”

So my intention is to ask bigger questions, to think bigger thoughts?

“What if?” is always a good start.

“What if our politicians could see eye-to-eye, to join forces for true and lasting change?”

“What if every child on the planet had a hot meal before they went to bed tonight?”

“What if every family had a roof over their head?”

“What can I do today that makes me dance with joy?

“How can I grow into the loving, wise, inspiring person I am meant to be?”

“What marvelous thing might I create today?”

Anything is possible, but we have to imagine it first. The more big questions we ask, the more we dare to say, “What would it look like if….?,” the bigger our lives will become. Putting your attention on something calls it into existence. We can literally reshape and redesign our lives by asking bigger questions.

Happy Dancing, all around

December 21, 2016 36 Comments

“Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.”
― Leo Buscaglia

My friend Joyce recently reminded me of a story Leo Buscaglia used to tell about a Sunday school class who was putting on a big performance for their parents. Everyone was given a part.

The youngest girl, who couldn’t yet read or memorize lines, came to Buscaglia in tears: “But what do I get to do?”

“Your job,” he told her, “is perhaps the most important of all. Your job is to clap.”

And that’s what I feel is my job—to clap for all of us who are finally figuring out that there’s a loving force that wants to guide and bless us.

Here are a couple stories for which I’m clapping:

1. Songwriter Neil Gama wrote to me back in September. He said chapter 2 of my book, Thank & Grow Rich, gave him a high-five for a song he wrote called “Blind Vision.” I wrote back and thanked him for the kudos.

Last week, I got another email from Neil. Turns out, the song, that he demo-ed with Berklee College of Music’s Andrea Stolpe, just won the 2016 U.K. Songwriting Contest in the adult contemporary category. The YouTube link is below.

Congratulations, Neil!

2. Here’s a story from Johanna in Finland:

“I started Experiment #2 (from E-Cubed): The red pill corollary yesterday. I was wondering what is the actual meaning of “a belly laugh.” (It’s one of the signs I encourage people to look for).

“Well, I thought I might find out during the next days. Then this morning I went to work to teach a group of kids who are 6 years old. The boys came to show me their bellies and at first I was a bit puzzled. Then I realized they had smiley faces painted on their bellies! They told me that they had painted those smileys with lipstick for yesterday’s Christmas party.

“And they, as well as their parents, had laughed so much during their elf dance. They had had huge elf-hats on and only the painted smiley face on their bellies were showing while they danced. We also laughed with the kids when they told me this! So, I found out the meaning of belly laugh and also a new quite literal definition.”

3. And this one, judging by the spelling, comes from the UK, or maybe Australia.

“I just had to write to tell you I loved the E-squared book and I am now on Ecubed! I had a life changing experience while on experiment 4.

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“I will draw this item into my life.”

“So I chose a yellow rain coat. It was sort of random but I really love the colour yellow and I need a new coat.

“That day while dropping my kids off at school, a dog in a yellow doggy rain coat walked past me. I thought it was weird because the dog was in a coat, until I said it out loud to my husband, “Oh funny look at that dog in the … hmm.. the yellow rain coat.”

“Next a parent walked past in a yellow rain coat.

“That evening I made a point to go to my favorite sports store and try on a yellow rain coat.

“I found the exact one I imagined!!!! In the change room, I stared at how gorgeous I looked in it for quite awhile (probably awkwardly too long) and then I sighed, and realised I had zero dollars (I’m currently unemployed and we are a family of 4 trying to survive, the chances of me getting extra money was next to impossible, plus everyone else needed food and clothes and fun)

“I made a conscious choice to change my attitude (thanks to your incredible book) and work on my experiment from E-squared.

“I put the $100 rain coat on hold at the store with the knowing that by my deadline the field of potentiality would provide the means to follow through with my intention.

“I had school (I’m studying to be a yoga teacher) all weekend. There was only a deep satisfied sense in my spirit that was so excited I found my yellow coat. I couldn’t wait to wear it Monday, and I kept having a vision of laying on my bed so, so happy I had my coat!!!

“Sunday night I asked my daughter to go check the mail (super random, the kids needed fresh air and I don’t know why I threw her the keys and told her to go check).

“She came in, there was a card from a relative (totally the LAST relative that would do this) with a cheque for $500.

“I went to the store. I bought my coat.”

Thanks everybody for sharing your stories. I clap, I dance and I celebrate that today is Winter Solstice, meaning the light is beginning to grow.

Pam Grout is the author of 18 books including E-Squared: 9 Do-it-Yourself Energy Experiments that Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality and the just released, Thank and Grow Rich: a 30-day Experiment in Shameless Gratitude and Unabashed Joy.

Magic is afoot…in Egypt, in Bhutan and anywhere you happen to be right now

December 16, 2016 7 Comments

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”– Aldous Huxley

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I’ve been mulling over the millions of things I could share. I could recount my adventures, particularly my spiritual insights which tend to slap you in the face when you’re traveling in an ancient, mysterious place that happens to be one of the planet’s great energy vortexes.

Suffice it to say, manifestation happens really fast in Egypt. Whatever you’re thinking (both good and bad) shows up near-instantly.

Here’s one small example.

I mentioned to Taz, my daughter who was traveling with me, that I’d love to get a picture of a youngster driving a donkey cart. In Siwa, a beautiful desert oasis not far from Libya, it’s quite apparent that you don’t have to be 16 to get a driver’s license.

No sooner did I mention my desire, then we were passed by not one, but literally 8 donkey carts, one after another, all being driven by adorable young kids. I noticed an enticing restaurant one morning when walking back from the coffee shop and within 20 minutes, our host Sarwat Hegazy (he has led tours in Egypt for Sylvia Browne, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer and Danyon Brinkley, to name a few) took us to that exact restaurant. And, no, I hadn’t mentioned it.

Or I could tell you about all the badass belly dancers I met in Egypt, mostly Westerners who have chosen to live in this magical country and create remarkable things. Over the next few months, I’ll be writing lots of travel stories about the people I met, the places I visited. Maybe I’ll even share a few on the blog.

But for now, I’d love to tell you a story my other host, Jane Bolinowsky, a chamber musician and flute teacher from Australia, told me that still rocks me to my core. She was hiking in Bhutan one day, feeling a bit down. She was wondering “Why bother? What can one person really do?”

Her hiking partner had hiked ahead so she sat down, all alone, at the top of Chomolhari, a beautiful peak known as Bhutan’s mountain goddess.

Even though she didn’t really feel like it at first, she pulled her flute out of her backpack and began to play. She poured her heart, her questions into her music.

That mountain solo, performed by one solitary flutist sitting alone on a deserted ridge, set off an avalanche, a monstrous avalanche that completely changed the landscape.

So don’t despair, my friends. It may seem that we’re all alone, that there’s no way to deal with the forces that appear to be rising.

But remember….one butterfly flapping its wings is all it takes.

If you’re interested in knowing more about Jane or Sarwat, check out their website: www.egyptunveiled.com.

Forget your wallet! What’s in your belief system?

May 10, 2016 5 Comments

“Your personal beliefs create realities. These beliefs are so powerful they either create expansive or entrapping realities over and over.”–Kuan Yin

I am so blessed to get stories from readers of my books. And it is my great privilege to pass them along here on the blog.

Here are three that recently caught my attention:

1. “In my Spiritual Laws group, I shared more on your book E-Cubed. I had put out to the Universe “Checks are in the mail.” Below (or in this case above) is a picture of $1000 dollars worth of shopping cards we got in the mail 2 days ago.

2. “When I was in college, I got really sick. I was sick for 4 months and ended up in the hospital for 6 weeks. I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. The day I got my diagnosis, I was a little dazed. I told my doctor and my mother, who were both in the room, that I wanted to take a shower. They both left the room so I could have some privacy. I stepped into the shower and I was expecting to cry. It was so bizarre, though. I can’t explain it and I’ve never told another person because I didn’t want people to think I was crazy.

“I got this wave that came over me. Something inside said that I was the same person I was yesterday before I was diagnosed. This disease wasn’t going to change that. I finished my shower and got back in the hospital bed. I decided that I didn’t want the disease and I didn’t accept it. That was 15 years ago. Shortly after my diagnosis, I stopped taking my pills. I have never once been sick since.

“My current doctor told me that he thinks I was misdiagnosed and doesn’t think there’s any reason for me to claim this diagnosis any more. I know I wasn’t misdiagnosed, though. I cured myself! I know it in my heart. I just never had a way to describe it before reading your books. I’ve conjured up tons of stuff in my life, but it wasn’t planned. I just inadvertently stumbled onto a connection with the FP. It’s just nice to have a better explanation of what was happening. So….thanks for writing your book. Thanks for explaining things no one else could. And thanks for giving me an outlet to finally tell my story. Something so magical needs to be shared with someone.”

3. “I’ve been practicing tapping into the Universe and all it has to offer and telling my son and husband about it.

“I am in the middle of revamping our school curriculum (homeschooler) and since my son loves gaming and wants to become a Game Tester (Quality Assurance Systems Engineer), I thought we’d better see what he needs to do in order to become one. So last week we scoured through job descriptions, requirements, etc. and on 4/24/16, I wrote a course description for it. The next day my son comes running to me to tell me he was selected to test a game before it is released. I said that’s how the Universe works. You put it out there and it works out the rest.

“On the morning of 4/28/16 before my son wakes up, I’m thinking this is so great, it would be nice if he was doing this on a consistent basis and I let the thought go. Later that morning my son comes to me again with a look of astonishment saying “Mom, I’m sorry I didn’t tell you earlier but I was offered to test the beta games permanently. Can you believe that?!” I said that’s how the Universe works. Awesome huh?! Needless to say he’s super excited.”

Awesome indeed! Thanks everybody for all your great stories. I love each and every one of you to the moon and back.

Pam Grout is the author of 18 books including E-Squared: 9 Do-it-Yourself Energy Experiments that Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality and the about to be released, Thank and Grow Rich: a 30-day Experiment in Shameless

I know you are. But what am I? A theory on manifestation

May 5, 2016 12 Comments

“Get yourself in alignment with the quantum field and you’ll beam like the sun.”—Russell Brand

This is a post for anyone who has ever asked? “Why does everybody else get all the goodies. Where’s MY manifestation?”

My first answer is usually this. Get on the joy and gratitude frequency. When your channels are open, life can’t help but rush in.

But here’s another theory. Since people have been asking.

I call it the pinball theory. And this video illustrates it perfectly.

Are your thoughts like geese, all flying in the same direction? Or are they more like a pinball machine?

Here’s the pinball in practice. You ask the universe for let’s say, a relationship. But then you start wondering if you’re really worthy and then there’s that last jerk to think about and well, what if this new person might see your cellulite and….

There is never reluctance by the universe to provide our good.

But first we’ve got to get all the geese flying in the same direction.

Manifesters who do too much

April 11, 2016 36 Comments

“She would think things so hard that they showed on her face.” –Amanda Palmer

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I got an email the other day from a reader of one of my books. “Help,” she said, “I just can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. I meditate every day. I’ve made at least three vision boards. Every morning, I make lists of positive aspects. I’ve got a focus wheel (These last two are practices recommended by Abraham-Hicks). And nothing is happening.”

I was exhausted just reading her email. And here’s what I told her after I took a few deep breaths: All of those practices are fabulous. I’m an avid fan of Abraham-Hicks myself.

And I also know how tempting it is to work hard, to try, try, try.

But when we “try so hard,” we negate Truth. We put up roadblocks to all the good that wants to manifest before our eyes. It’s as if we go brain dead and forget that all this “stuff” we’re trying to manifest is already ours. This is important to say again. Everything you’re trying to manifest is already yours. It’s sitting right there in your field of potentiality, twiddling its thumbs.

But because you’re on a different wave length (the wave length of I don’t have it, the frequency of I’d better get on my running shoes and move faster, try harder), it’s invisible to your eyeballs.

All of us are already living the life most extraordinary (on one of the FP’s channels), but because we’re focused on all we don’t have or on what we’re trying to get, it’s fuzzy and not something we can put our hands on. It’s surrounded by static.

Just like a filmmaker decides which of many objects his lens focuses upon, we get to decide if we want to zero in on the stuff in the foreground (what we have now) or if we’re prefer to shine our lens on something else. We’re the cameramen.

It’s important to remember that reality is never static or complete. It’s an unending process of movement and unfoldment. We choose what to unfold, what to put in our lens, where to point our viewfinder.

Kicking cancer in the nuts, a free trip to Hawaii and other miracle stories

April 1, 2016 14 Comments

“Plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”–Alan Watts

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Joyous Friday, my friends!

As ya’ll know, I love sharing miracle stories. Here are a couple that recently showed up:

#1: “So, my head is still spinning from the aftermath of what happened this weekend. I recently finished E-squared, did the 9 experiments and was blown away at the results.

“I put it out there from my heart that I wanted to travel to Hawaii with my wife. We have been talking about it for eight or nine years.

“After finishing your book, I made the intention, put it out there to the energy field. Friday night at 7:23pm at Buffalo Wild Wings (cheat meal for me), our in-laws, who had no idea about any of this, invited us to go! I was awestruck.”

#2: “Just wanted to say something about giving up long held beliefs as fact. After participating in a friend’s self love webinar over a period of several weeks, I got to see a lot about how we hold on to various personal, cultural, national and international beliefs.

“I examined my own, and saw the power they have over me, over my life, and my body. For most of my life, since I was 11, I have had it that I am fat and overweight (yes, both!), and as a result I have dieted for most of my life.

“Just by giving up cultural, personal, national and international beliefs about dieting, I have lost more than 30 pounds WITHOUT dieting! I didn’t ‘watch’ what I ate. I didn’t give a second thought about having a second helping. Basically, I ate what I wanted to eat, when I wanted to eat. Some may call it intuitive eating. When I wanted ‘unhealthy’ food I would have it. When I wanted cream with my cake, I would have it.

“What I have further noticed is how these beliefs can easily creep in… time to re-examine them and give them up again…”

#3: This last story came yesterday in a phone call. My friend, Annola, from my power posse was diagnosed with cancer last year. She was given three months to live. She freaked out for awhile and then decided, “hell, no! I’m not going to let some doctor tell me what’s going to happen in my life.” At yesterday’s appointment, her doctor, who has already been amazed and inspired and wondering what in the heck she’s smoking, declared her 100 percent cancer-free.

And lastly, because it IS Friday, here’s a fun Dance of Freedom video.

Have the best weekend of your life, my friends.