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		<title>By: Tony Chai</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony Chai</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Mr Joe Vitale :

I know you are a busy person but I know the Universe or my Sub-Conscious or my Energy has prompted me to write this to you.

I lost my right hand in an accident when I was 21 years old. I didn&#039;t know why I accepted it quickly when I was amputated. While in the hospital, I was already practising writing with my left hand and clipping my toe nails. I was assumed to be suicidal but I was discharged after 7 days.

What I didn&#039;t see was the harsh reality when I face the real world with only my left hand after that. I was offered a job (in fact, another great job after the first) but I left my job when I felt my skills level wasn&#039;t good enough. I lived with this fear of not being good enough ever since, either because of my skills level and eventually I also pulled in my physical limitations as another factor. That caused me to quit a job whenever I faced a very difficult task in my working place. I always felt I was alone and that it was too unbearable to stay in the job.

I know you might find it disappointing that I have just left my recent job because of the above reason. But I felt something very different this time. It was my reconnection to the Universe (that&#039;s another story) that told me repeatedly to leave my recent job. I bought an e-book written by Mr Stuart Lichtman and yourself and began to read some of the works written by you. I read &quot;Attract Money Now&quot; and went backwards to read &quot;Zero Limits&quot; and now I&#039;m reading &quot;The Attractor Factor&quot;. Somehow I was guided to connect to you through your works.

You must have heard this a lot from the millions of people who read your books and this is from me : &quot;Your books motivate me and encourage me when I want to give up yet again.&quot; 

Actually I am currently writing a novel (more like a short story) about  2 people pitting their wits against each other through stock trading in the name of friendship, loyalty, betrayal, greed and love. I am grateful every day that I can write a scene or chapter which will eventually build up to become a complete book project. But when I started to read novels written by Michael Crichton, James Paterson, I begin to belittle myself. That fear would creep up to tell me my project was not good enough. The good news is, I always have the courage to carry on writing my book when I read ( and re-read, and re-read) your books. I find strength when I read how you wrote about asking help from the Universe and take inspired actions when they were given to me. I don&#039;t feel afraid writing my book anymore because I&#039;m not alone in this journey. The energy is writing with me, he just sits besides me like my lost right hand, guiding my remaining left hand to write the story that it has planted in me months ago when I too ignorant to convert it into a book then. It has been there and will always be there. But I need a light to see it. Your books are the switch.

As English is not my native language in Singapore, I know my book project will eventually needs heavy editing even if I can get a publisher to be interested. But I have to let go and let my book project take shape as I put my trust in the Universe. My strength also comes from seeing my mother who&#039;s already 75 yr old but still have to wake up at 6.00am in the morning to work as a cleaner 7 days a week. I want to earn a passive income so that she doesn&#039;t have to work again. The emotional feeling of telling her that I will take care of the family and pleading her to retire is a goal I nevillize constantly. It will come true. 

Well, I hope you will forgive my blabbering. By the way, I am also listening the clearing audio that you&#039;ve recorded with Pat O&#039;Bryan and the tele-seminar audio sessions by Brad Yates. I want to clear my limiting beliefs each and every day.

I Love You. I&#039;m Sorry. Please Forgive Me. Thank You.

Tony Chai</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mr Joe Vitale :</p>
<p>I know you are a busy person but I know the Universe or my Sub-Conscious or my Energy has prompted me to write this to you.</p>
<p>I lost my right hand in an accident when I was 21 years old. I didn&#8217;t know why I accepted it quickly when I was amputated. While in the hospital, I was already practising writing with my left hand and clipping my toe nails. I was assumed to be suicidal but I was discharged after 7 days.</p>
<p>What I didn&#8217;t see was the harsh reality when I face the real world with only my left hand after that. I was offered a job (in fact, another great job after the first) but I left my job when I felt my skills level wasn&#8217;t good enough. I lived with this fear of not being good enough ever since, either because of my skills level and eventually I also pulled in my physical limitations as another factor. That caused me to quit a job whenever I faced a very difficult task in my working place. I always felt I was alone and that it was too unbearable to stay in the job.</p>
<p>I know you might find it disappointing that I have just left my recent job because of the above reason. But I felt something very different this time. It was my reconnection to the Universe (that&#8217;s another story) that told me repeatedly to leave my recent job. I bought an e-book written by Mr Stuart Lichtman and yourself and began to read some of the works written by you. I read &#8220;Attract Money Now&#8221; and went backwards to read &#8220;Zero Limits&#8221; and now I&#8217;m reading &#8220;The Attractor Factor&#8221;. Somehow I was guided to connect to you through your works.</p>
<p>You must have heard this a lot from the millions of people who read your books and this is from me : &#8220;Your books motivate me and encourage me when I want to give up yet again.&#8221; </p>
<p>Actually I am currently writing a novel (more like a short story) about  2 people pitting their wits against each other through stock trading in the name of friendship, loyalty, betrayal, greed and love. I am grateful every day that I can write a scene or chapter which will eventually build up to become a complete book project. But when I started to read novels written by Michael Crichton, James Paterson, I begin to belittle myself. That fear would creep up to tell me my project was not good enough. The good news is, I always have the courage to carry on writing my book when I read ( and re-read, and re-read) your books. I find strength when I read how you wrote about asking help from the Universe and take inspired actions when they were given to me. I don&#8217;t feel afraid writing my book anymore because I&#8217;m not alone in this journey. The energy is writing with me, he just sits besides me like my lost right hand, guiding my remaining left hand to write the story that it has planted in me months ago when I too ignorant to convert it into a book then. It has been there and will always be there. But I need a light to see it. Your books are the switch.</p>
<p>As English is not my native language in Singapore, I know my book project will eventually needs heavy editing even if I can get a publisher to be interested. But I have to let go and let my book project take shape as I put my trust in the Universe. My strength also comes from seeing my mother who&#8217;s already 75 yr old but still have to wake up at 6.00am in the morning to work as a cleaner 7 days a week. I want to earn a passive income so that she doesn&#8217;t have to work again. The emotional feeling of telling her that I will take care of the family and pleading her to retire is a goal I nevillize constantly. It will come true. </p>
<p>Well, I hope you will forgive my blabbering. By the way, I am also listening the clearing audio that you&#8217;ve recorded with Pat O&#8217;Bryan and the tele-seminar audio sessions by Brad Yates. I want to clear my limiting beliefs each and every day.</p>
<p>I Love You. I&#8217;m Sorry. Please Forgive Me. Thank You.</p>
<p>Tony Chai</p>
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		<title>By: Eve Polanska</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eve Polanska</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dr Vitale, thank you for guiding me into the third stage. Just finished reading Zero Limits...what an amazing journey! Im so happy to live in the current moment. Peace truly feels good ;)  Love, Eve</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr Vitale, thank you for guiding me into the third stage. Just finished reading Zero Limits&#8230;what an amazing journey! Im so happy to live in the current moment. Peace truly feels good <img src='http://blog.mrfire.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />   Love, Eve</p>
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		<title>By: EnLydia Zappo</title>
		<link>http://blog.mrfire.com/why-i-gave-up-intentions/comment-page-2/#comment-121530</link>
		<dc:creator>EnLydia Zappo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>dear Joe, I was very pleased by your explanation...it backs up something the Voice (spirit of God) told me last year....he said I needed to &quot;learn to go the way of least resistance&quot;.   shortly after he explained the first precept of it...and that is to say &quot;thy will be done&quot;.....since then he has followed it up with other precepts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>dear Joe, I was very pleased by your explanation&#8230;it backs up something the Voice (spirit of God) told me last year&#8230;.he said I needed to &#8220;learn to go the way of least resistance&#8221;.   shortly after he explained the first precept of it&#8230;and that is to say &#8220;thy will be done&#8221;&#8230;..since then he has followed it up with other precepts.</p>
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		<title>By: Doug bele</title>
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		<dc:creator>Doug bele</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Joe:
I have just listened to the New Wealth Experience recording tonight.  Thanks very much for the free Attract Money Now ebook, to which I have started to read.

Over the last couple of years I have been struggling greatly over my &quot;Definite Purpose&quot;.  It has not surfaced! At the age of 59 I feel greatly lost.  Which book, or other source, do you believe will help resolve this issue? (I noticed the big list of books that you support in one of the appendix.)

Thanks again for the recording and ebook.

Doug</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Joe:<br />
I have just listened to the New Wealth Experience recording tonight.  Thanks very much for the free Attract Money Now ebook, to which I have started to read.</p>
<p>Over the last couple of years I have been struggling greatly over my &#8220;Definite Purpose&#8221;.  It has not surfaced! At the age of 59 I feel greatly lost.  Which book, or other source, do you believe will help resolve this issue? (I noticed the big list of books that you support in one of the appendix.)</p>
<p>Thanks again for the recording and ebook.</p>
<p>Doug</p>
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		<title>By: carmen</title>
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		<dc:creator>carmen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>very nice!! and  inspiring...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>very nice!! and  inspiring&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Abeer</title>
		<link>http://blog.mrfire.com/why-i-gave-up-intentions/comment-page-2/#comment-104175</link>
		<dc:creator>Abeer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Joe,
I finished reading &quot;the key&quot; after &quot;the secret&quot; and i indeed lived with it a lovely mental workshop which is making me read it for the 2nd time now.  i have a question though, sometimes while manifesting ... it is so difficult to get totally in the feel it now mode, which is a distracting belief that delays the happening, within this when i feel there is something i want to do but im not sure if its inspired action or a back thought stored in the distracting belief, how can i tell the difference??? it keeps on hitting my mind but then my mind stops doing it cuz im not sure where its coming from</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Joe,<br />
I finished reading &#8220;the key&#8221; after &#8220;the secret&#8221; and i indeed lived with it a lovely mental workshop which is making me read it for the 2nd time now.  i have a question though, sometimes while manifesting &#8230; it is so difficult to get totally in the feel it now mode, which is a distracting belief that delays the happening, within this when i feel there is something i want to do but im not sure if its inspired action or a back thought stored in the distracting belief, how can i tell the difference??? it keeps on hitting my mind but then my mind stops doing it cuz im not sure where its coming from</p>
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		<title>By: Paola Verònica</title>
		<link>http://blog.mrfire.com/why-i-gave-up-intentions/comment-page-2/#comment-100239</link>
		<dc:creator>Paola Verònica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chant NAM MIOHO RENGUE KYO, ten minutes per day, and you&#039;ll see how your life get transformed

Nam Mioho Rengue Kyo
Nam Mioho Rengue Kyo
Nam Mioho Rengue Kyo</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chant NAM MIOHO RENGUE KYO, ten minutes per day, and you&#8217;ll see how your life get transformed</p>
<p>Nam Mioho Rengue Kyo<br />
Nam Mioho Rengue Kyo<br />
Nam Mioho Rengue Kyo</p>
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		<title>By: Solveig</title>
		<link>http://blog.mrfire.com/why-i-gave-up-intentions/comment-page-2/#comment-76342</link>
		<dc:creator>Solveig</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Joe or anyone else who has an opinion to my question. My exhusband found a new girlfriend 6 months ago. Four months ago I read &quot;The secret&quot;, and these days I am reading &quot;The missing key....&quot;. I have already attracted many of the things I have wished for since my husband moved away. For exemple my income was raised so that I can afford to stay in the house with the children. But I really would like to know, if it&#039;s possible to attract a certain person. Is it possible to make my exhusband come back to me, or is it only possible if it&#039;s also his wish?
I must admit that before he left, I was very bored and actually wished to get separated. You could say that because of that it&#039;s just good for me that I got separated. But now I realise that it was because I didn&#039;t believe/didn&#039;t visualise/didn&#039;t attract my marrige to become a great marrige again. I focused only on the negative things and ofcause I attracted more of those negativ things. Should I keep on visualising how he comes back to me? Or should I focus on me being with the (another) perfect partner. It could be the same visualisation, but when I visualise about my exhusband, it often includes him saying &quot;I miss you&quot;, &quot;I&#039;m sorry Ileft you&quot; and things like that. I hope that anyone can help me, så I don&#039;t focus on something that isn&#039;t in my power.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Joe or anyone else who has an opinion to my question. My exhusband found a new girlfriend 6 months ago. Four months ago I read &#8220;The secret&#8221;, and these days I am reading &#8220;The missing key&#8230;.&#8221;. I have already attracted many of the things I have wished for since my husband moved away. For exemple my income was raised so that I can afford to stay in the house with the children. But I really would like to know, if it&#8217;s possible to attract a certain person. Is it possible to make my exhusband come back to me, or is it only possible if it&#8217;s also his wish?<br />
I must admit that before he left, I was very bored and actually wished to get separated. You could say that because of that it&#8217;s just good for me that I got separated. But now I realise that it was because I didn&#8217;t believe/didn&#8217;t visualise/didn&#8217;t attract my marrige to become a great marrige again. I focused only on the negative things and ofcause I attracted more of those negativ things. Should I keep on visualising how he comes back to me? Or should I focus on me being with the (another) perfect partner. It could be the same visualisation, but when I visualise about my exhusband, it often includes him saying &#8220;I miss you&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry Ileft you&#8221; and things like that. I hope that anyone can help me, så I don&#8217;t focus on something that isn&#8217;t in my power.</p>
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		<title>By: Stephen Scott</title>
		<link>http://blog.mrfire.com/why-i-gave-up-intentions/comment-page-2/#comment-69321</link>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Scott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Joe, You asked &quot;What do you feel inspired to do?&quot; I feel Inspired to share this with You and Your readers:
“Inspirational Wisdom is wisdom that is alive and practical.” Inspirational Wisdom is alive in that it does not depend on your will, emotions, or mind. Inspirational Wisdom is practical in that there are things that you do whether you want to, whether you feel like it, or whether you understand them or not. Inspirational Wisdom is a matter of practice. Inspirational Wisdom is a way of life. It is a lifestyle. When Inspirational Wisdom becomes an unconscionable part of you life you will see your will to do things, your feelings to do things and your understanding to do things has changed. You will have achieved Inspirational Wisdom!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Joe, You asked &#8220;What do you feel inspired to do?&#8221; I feel Inspired to share this with You and Your readers:<br />
“Inspirational Wisdom is wisdom that is alive and practical.” Inspirational Wisdom is alive in that it does not depend on your will, emotions, or mind. Inspirational Wisdom is practical in that there are things that you do whether you want to, whether you feel like it, or whether you understand them or not. Inspirational Wisdom is a matter of practice. Inspirational Wisdom is a way of life. It is a lifestyle. When Inspirational Wisdom becomes an unconscionable part of you life you will see your will to do things, your feelings to do things and your understanding to do things has changed. You will have achieved Inspirational Wisdom!</p>
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		<title>By: Gerry Nolan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gerry Nolan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Joe:

ALCOHOLICS ARE HOOPONOPONO?

I read inside out many time your book the Attractor Factor since 2007. 
I am just getting to Zero Limits now on audio &amp; had few briefs mins today listening to it.

Your Post here about the 3rd STAGE You mention, where simple basic I will say, you
are letting the &quot;Divine, The Universe, God, Ones High Power&quot; guide you &amp; take control.
An inspiration comes, &amp; you follow it, &amp; add &quot;Thy will be done&quot; or &quot;YOUR Will, Not Mine&quot;.

That concept is 100% Alcoholics Anonymous A.A. a wonderful body of people.
I am a Sober Alcoholic (2 years 10 months 4th July Thank God - on a daily reprieve&quot;.
I had an amazing sponsor, who 30+ years ago got sober, &amp; first 40 ish years of
as a drinking Alcoholic lead a life of crime in a rough part of a North Eastern USA City.
(Whitey Bulger was from the same places ;-) ) 
This wonderful giving man, a saint, really grasped the principles of AA way beyond putting
down the booze bottle, AA promotes an amazing spiritual way of life. In fact (I m off my point
for a second), 

This man my AA sponsor after 7 years sober, told his Higher Power he could serve the Universe better, if he did not have to work 12 hour construction jobs, &amp; &quot;Thy will be done&quot; told his higher power, &quot;I can serve YOU better, if you free me up from construction work, so I can devote my life to getting other drunks sober &amp; on to the good side, of spiritual living full time, &amp; YOU see I am ok for rent &amp; expenses  &amp; I will serve you in this way&quot; - He told me from that day on well over 25 years ago, he never had to worry about money, the right amount of money would come from somewhere, even if unexpected bills came, an unexpected check would come in the post for a few bucks more than the bill. (a long forgotten tax rebate etc, things like that).

To my point STAGE 3 you mention, when I was under the hard traditional AA sponsorship of this wonderful giving man, his Faith in the Higher Power was 110%. 

See us Alcoholics in AA accept we  a powerless over booze &amp; sort of general screw ups  in life, (hence the boozing - on a v simple explanation). So in AA we accept, that if we decide to take on a task or a problem ourselves (Stubborn Self Reliance is a big problem with AAs - &amp; that malady leads to our downfall or messing up on whatever we to take on. ) 

So we accept we will screw it up, &amp; we accept that GOD (High Power - whatever that is for each individual), is the only entity who knows what is best for us, &amp; will guide us on the right path, maybe at the time, it does not seem that way, but it always emerges HE - &quot;Thy Will not my will&quot; is the way.

So we &quot;Let go&quot;  &amp; we &quot;hand it up&quot; to the higher power, &amp; we detach ourselves, while stilling getting on with the To Do list in the real world. (not mean sitting on our butts, waiting for genie to appear). Make the phone calls, send the marketing emails, but we detach from the result &amp; we &quot;let go &amp; hand it up&quot; &amp; its is amazing. (I am a little out of kilter on this recently myself &amp; have to get back to AA Basics on the Thy Will be done).  But the &quot;Let Go and Let God&quot; idea.. when I was with my sponsor, &amp; so tuned into this, it was like Fedex 24 hour guaranteed delivery from God.. I would hand by problem up &amp; within 24 hours- usually less, by some act of the universe, the answer would come to me. 

All of this is in the AA Big Book written well over 70 years ago, by Bill Wilson one of founders of AA. Who actually was  NOT a writer, &amp; when he wrote the Big Book, he said it was divine inspiration  as if his hand guided by the above, took the pen &amp; starting writing. (I am not into Abrakadebra stuff at all! This is his account).  In fact I think you can get free online version of the Big Book of AA on www.AA.org  - might help someone who needs it, that www.AA.org link.

The 12 Steps Book expanded more on the ideas in the 12 steps of the Big Book called Alcoholic Anonymous. 

Now forget Alcohol for a minute, Booze is only mentioned in Step 1 - we accept we are powerless when it comes to the grog.  

The rest of those 11 steps of AA makes an amazing code of spiritual living, for anyone, &amp; it is exactly what Dr Joe Vitale says above in Step 3 of Zero Limits. (and a few extra bonus things AA has in addition!).

In noticed in the Attractor Factor - They Will be Done or Even better &amp; I used to wonder was Dr, Vitale an AA&#039;er or was close to someone who was, as there was such similar grounding in the concepts &amp; many of the ideas, I was convinced there was some AA influence in there. 

I have to get back in touch with the deeper spiritual side, like anything we can have a bad day &amp; yell &amp; scream too, instead of &quot;Letting go &amp; Letting God&quot; etc.. 

When I was at todate my finest deepest level of AA Spirituality with my God sent sponsor, a living Saint. (God Bless him), every day for me, felt like I was walking on clouds. It took alot of hard work to get there, &amp; my sponsor was a hard task master. 

On the road down to the darkness of drinking alcoholism there is serious mental, &amp; spiritual pain, which takes even sober years to clear, its hell, &amp; getting sober is hell, as it is extremely difficult to accept your disease called Alcoholism, but when I broke through all of that, &amp; did my 12 steps, my moral inventory, which released me from judgment of people (most of the time!) &amp; many wonderful Spiritual gifts - I Thank God for sending me the initial hell of drinking alcoholism sliding down that slippery  chain to hell, as that was a gift, as breaking through to the other side, I became a much better person. I have a long way to go, but for me I am grateful I am an Alcoholic (and Sober today - Thank God!).

Now, as usual I have over extended my post here,  however, that wonderful &quot;release&quot; as we say in AA  &quot;Let Go And LET GOD&quot;  is Stage 3 of Zero Limits. (I am looking forward to getting into the Audio now!).

The Proof? - Well I fought &amp; fought using will power to the point it felt like a Brazilian JuJitsu expert had me in a Choke to NOT go &amp; have that 1st beer, sometimes I even pulled a month sober, but the explosion binge would be worse &amp; worse. One day I woke not remember 3 days, &amp; I said _ &quot;booze goes, or I go! (into the sea with a rock about me neck!&quot; I called AA, &amp; I never touched a drop of drink since, actually today it does not even exist for me - drinking. I do not even notice it hardly no more. 
That is my friend a MIRACLE - and its not just me - there is 3 or 4 million people world wide this past 70 years, who have got sober, experiencing the same miracle in AA. All started off in Akron my a Bill W &amp; Dr. Bob...  check out the &quot;big book&#039; &amp; the 12 Steps book is a great expansion on the 12 steps - That is God in Action.

God Bless
Gerry
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Joe:</p>
<p>ALCOHOLICS ARE HOOPONOPONO?</p>
<p>I read inside out many time your book the Attractor Factor since 2007.<br />
I am just getting to Zero Limits now on audio &amp; had few briefs mins today listening to it.</p>
<p>Your Post here about the 3rd STAGE You mention, where simple basic I will say, you<br />
are letting the &#8220;Divine, The Universe, God, Ones High Power&#8221; guide you &amp; take control.<br />
An inspiration comes, &amp; you follow it, &amp; add &#8220;Thy will be done&#8221; or &#8220;YOUR Will, Not Mine&#8221;.</p>
<p>That concept is 100% Alcoholics Anonymous A.A. a wonderful body of people.<br />
I am a Sober Alcoholic (2 years 10 months 4th July Thank God &#8211; on a daily reprieve&#8221;.<br />
I had an amazing sponsor, who 30+ years ago got sober, &amp; first 40 ish years of<br />
as a drinking Alcoholic lead a life of crime in a rough part of a North Eastern USA City.<br />
(Whitey Bulger was from the same places <img src='http://blog.mrfire.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  )<br />
This wonderful giving man, a saint, really grasped the principles of AA way beyond putting<br />
down the booze bottle, AA promotes an amazing spiritual way of life. In fact (I m off my point<br />
for a second), </p>
<p>This man my AA sponsor after 7 years sober, told his Higher Power he could serve the Universe better, if he did not have to work 12 hour construction jobs, &amp; &#8220;Thy will be done&#8221; told his higher power, &#8220;I can serve YOU better, if you free me up from construction work, so I can devote my life to getting other drunks sober &amp; on to the good side, of spiritual living full time, &amp; YOU see I am ok for rent &amp; expenses  &amp; I will serve you in this way&#8221; &#8211; He told me from that day on well over 25 years ago, he never had to worry about money, the right amount of money would come from somewhere, even if unexpected bills came, an unexpected check would come in the post for a few bucks more than the bill. (a long forgotten tax rebate etc, things like that).</p>
<p>To my point STAGE 3 you mention, when I was under the hard traditional AA sponsorship of this wonderful giving man, his Faith in the Higher Power was 110%. </p>
<p>See us Alcoholics in AA accept we  a powerless over booze &amp; sort of general screw ups  in life, (hence the boozing &#8211; on a v simple explanation). So in AA we accept, that if we decide to take on a task or a problem ourselves (Stubborn Self Reliance is a big problem with AAs &#8211; &amp; that malady leads to our downfall or messing up on whatever we to take on. ) </p>
<p>So we accept we will screw it up, &amp; we accept that GOD (High Power &#8211; whatever that is for each individual), is the only entity who knows what is best for us, &amp; will guide us on the right path, maybe at the time, it does not seem that way, but it always emerges HE &#8211; &#8220;Thy Will not my will&#8221; is the way.</p>
<p>So we &#8220;Let go&#8221;  &amp; we &#8220;hand it up&#8221; to the higher power, &amp; we detach ourselves, while stilling getting on with the To Do list in the real world. (not mean sitting on our butts, waiting for genie to appear). Make the phone calls, send the marketing emails, but we detach from the result &amp; we &#8220;let go &amp; hand it up&#8221; &amp; its is amazing. (I am a little out of kilter on this recently myself &amp; have to get back to AA Basics on the Thy Will be done).  But the &#8220;Let Go and Let God&#8221; idea.. when I was with my sponsor, &amp; so tuned into this, it was like Fedex 24 hour guaranteed delivery from God.. I would hand by problem up &amp; within 24 hours- usually less, by some act of the universe, the answer would come to me. </p>
<p>All of this is in the AA Big Book written well over 70 years ago, by Bill Wilson one of founders of AA. Who actually was  NOT a writer, &amp; when he wrote the Big Book, he said it was divine inspiration  as if his hand guided by the above, took the pen &amp; starting writing. (I am not into Abrakadebra stuff at all! This is his account).  In fact I think you can get free online version of the Big Book of AA on <a href="http://www.AA.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.AA.org</a>  &#8211; might help someone who needs it, that <a href="http://www.AA.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.AA.org</a> link.</p>
<p>The 12 Steps Book expanded more on the ideas in the 12 steps of the Big Book called Alcoholic Anonymous. </p>
<p>Now forget Alcohol for a minute, Booze is only mentioned in Step 1 &#8211; we accept we are powerless when it comes to the grog.  </p>
<p>The rest of those 11 steps of AA makes an amazing code of spiritual living, for anyone, &amp; it is exactly what Dr Joe Vitale says above in Step 3 of Zero Limits. (and a few extra bonus things AA has in addition!).</p>
<p>In noticed in the Attractor Factor &#8211; They Will be Done or Even better &amp; I used to wonder was Dr, Vitale an AA&#8217;er or was close to someone who was, as there was such similar grounding in the concepts &amp; many of the ideas, I was convinced there was some AA influence in there. </p>
<p>I have to get back in touch with the deeper spiritual side, like anything we can have a bad day &amp; yell &amp; scream too, instead of &#8220;Letting go &amp; Letting God&#8221; etc.. </p>
<p>When I was at todate my finest deepest level of AA Spirituality with my God sent sponsor, a living Saint. (God Bless him), every day for me, felt like I was walking on clouds. It took alot of hard work to get there, &amp; my sponsor was a hard task master. </p>
<p>On the road down to the darkness of drinking alcoholism there is serious mental, &amp; spiritual pain, which takes even sober years to clear, its hell, &amp; getting sober is hell, as it is extremely difficult to accept your disease called Alcoholism, but when I broke through all of that, &amp; did my 12 steps, my moral inventory, which released me from judgment of people (most of the time!) &amp; many wonderful Spiritual gifts &#8211; I Thank God for sending me the initial hell of drinking alcoholism sliding down that slippery  chain to hell, as that was a gift, as breaking through to the other side, I became a much better person. I have a long way to go, but for me I am grateful I am an Alcoholic (and Sober today &#8211; Thank God!).</p>
<p>Now, as usual I have over extended my post here,  however, that wonderful &#8220;release&#8221; as we say in AA  &#8220;Let Go And LET GOD&#8221;  is Stage 3 of Zero Limits. (I am looking forward to getting into the Audio now!).</p>
<p>The Proof? &#8211; Well I fought &amp; fought using will power to the point it felt like a Brazilian JuJitsu expert had me in a Choke to NOT go &amp; have that 1st beer, sometimes I even pulled a month sober, but the explosion binge would be worse &amp; worse. One day I woke not remember 3 days, &amp; I said _ &#8220;booze goes, or I go! (into the sea with a rock about me neck!&#8221; I called AA, &amp; I never touched a drop of drink since, actually today it does not even exist for me &#8211; drinking. I do not even notice it hardly no more.<br />
That is my friend a MIRACLE &#8211; and its not just me &#8211; there is 3 or 4 million people world wide this past 70 years, who have got sober, experiencing the same miracle in AA. All started off in Akron my a Bill W &amp; Dr. Bob&#8230;  check out the &#8220;big book&#8217; &amp; the 12 Steps book is a great expansion on the 12 steps &#8211; That is God in Action.</p>
<p>God Bless<br />
Gerry<br />
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