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METRON 7-22-18 – FREE YOUR MIND AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW: Healthy Thinking and Prospering as Your Soul Prospers, Part IV

Today’s Notes:

I – “So keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real, honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, merciful and kind. And fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God, praLLOW: Healthy Thinking and Prospering as Your Soul Prospers, Part IVising him always.”
(Philippians 4:8 – TPT)

II – “Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse.”
(Philippians 4:8 – The Message)

III – “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” — Peace Pilgrim

IV – “The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds, and prays that God will bless him, is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. That which ye sow, ye reap.” — James Allen

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METRON 7-15-18 – FREE YOUR MIND AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW: Healthy Thinking and Prospering as Your Soul Prospers, Part III

Today’s Notes:
I – “O beloved one! I am continuously having (or: thinking and speaking) goodness, ease and well-being (or: wishing and professing loudly; claiming) concerning all things [for] you to be constantly having a prosperous journey (or: to progressively travel a good path; to habitually be prospered unto success; to be continuously helped along the Way) and to be constantly sound and healthy [in mind, thought and body] just as (or: to the same degree as) your soul (inner being; or: = your life) is progressively being prospered on its journey (helped along the Way; prospered unto success; caused to travel the Good Path).”
(III John 2 – JMNT)

II – “Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:
first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;
second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;
and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions.”
– Eric Micha’el Leventhal

III – “Psychologists tell us that by the time we’re in our mid-30s, our identity or personality will be completely formed. This means that for those of us over 35, we have memorized a select set of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, emotional reactions, habits, skills, associative memories, conditioned responses, and perceptions that are now subconsciously programmed within us. Those programs are running us, because the body has become the mind. This means that we will think the same thoughts, feel the same feelings, react in identical ways, behave in the same manner, believe the same dogmas, and perceive reality the same ways. About 95 percent of who we are by midlife is a series of subconscious programs that have become automatic—driving a car, brushing our teeth, overeating when we’re stressed, worrying about our future, judging our friends, complaining about our lives, blaming our parents, not believing in ourselves, and insisting on being chronically unhappy, just to name a few.” — Dr. Joe Dispenza

IV – “As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.” — Adi Shankara

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7-8-18 FREE YOUR MIND AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW: Healthy Thinking and Prospering as Your Soul Prospers – Part II

Today’s Notes:
I – “Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.”
(Romans 12:2 – The Message)

II – “I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

III – “Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.” – Buddha

IV – “The things that trouble our spirits are within us already. In meditation, we must face them, accept them, and set them aside one by one.” – Cristopher L Bennett

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METRON 7-1-18 – FREE YOUR MIND AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW: Healthy Thinking and Prospering as Your Soul Prospers, Part I

Today’s Notes:

I – “Now your attitudes and thoughts must all be constantly changing for the better.”
(Ephesians 4:23 – TLB)

II – “Now it’s time to be made new by every revelation that’s been given to you.”
(Ephesians 4:23 – TPT)

III – “…to take a fresh breath and to let God renew your attitude and spirit.”
(Ephesians 4:23 – The Voice)

IV – “…to be renewed in your mental attitude…”
(Ephesians 4:23 – ISV)

V – “And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude]…”
(Ephesians 4:23 – AMPC)

VI – “…and then to be continuously renewed(or: from time to time, or, progressively made young again) by (or: in; with) the spirit (or: attitude; breath-effect) of your mind (or: from the mind which is you)…”
(Ephesians 4:23 – CLV)

VII – “Can you accept the notion that once you change your internal state, you don’t need the external world to provide you with a reason to feel joy, gratitude, appreciation, or any other elevated emotion?” ― Joe Dispenza

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METRON 6-24-18 – CONSCIOUSNESS AND VISUALIZATION: Finding a Practical Road Map for the Fourth Dimension, Part IVc

Today’s Notes:
I – “I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him —since the EYES OF YOUR HEART have been enlightened…”
(Ephesians 1:17, 18 – NET)

II – “And so they proceed in coming into Bethsaida. Here people are now progressively bringing a blind man to Him, repeatedly calling Him to his side, continuing to urge and implore Him, that He would touch him. So then, taking a hold upon the blind man’s hand, He led him forth, outside of the village. Then, upon spitting into his eyes while placing [His] hands on him, He proceeded to ask him, “What, if anything (or: Whatsoever), are you now seeing?” And looking up, he kept on saying, “I continue looking at the people (humans); I continue seeing them as trees continually walking around!” Next, He again put [His] hands upon his eyes, and then he looked throughout and saw thoroughly (clearly), and he was restored to his former state. He even kept on attentively looking at and seeing everything at a distance quite distinctly.”
(Mark 8:22-25 – JMNT)

III – “An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.” ― Albert Einstein

IV – “Identify your assumptions (what you believe).
Question how you feel when you hold those assumptions.
Visualize holding different assumptions.
Ask yourself how it feels to hold a different world-view.”
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie

V – “Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.” ― Robert G. Ingersoll

VI – “Human beings are walking containers holding ideas, beliefs, feelings and triggers. Love and fear are the only things that can overpower these systems. Everyone lives in this container as they interact with the world, and sometimes, a combination of these things can create their own imaginary prison.” ― Ilwaad Isa

VII – “As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world.
Visualize your light radiating throughout the world,
passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.”
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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METRON 6-17-18 – CONSCIOUSNESS AND VISUALIZATION: Finding a Practical Road Map for the Fourth Dimension, Part III

Today’s Notes:

I – “Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Jeremiah, what do you SEE?’”
(Jeremiah 1:11 – NKJV)

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METRON 6-10-18 – CONSCIOUSNESS AND VISUALIZATION: Finding a Practical Road Map for the Fourth Dimension, Part II

Today’s Notes:
I – “For the momentary lightness of our affliction is producing for us a transcendently transcendent eonian burden of glory, at our not noting what is being observed, but what is not being observed, for what is being observed is temporary, yet what is not being observed is eonian.”
(2 Corinthians 4:17, 18 – CLV)

II – “…while we are not constantly fixing our gaze on or carefully noting the things that are being constantly seen or repeatedly observed, but rather, [we are continuously looking at] those things not being constantly seen or repeatedly observed, because the things being constantly seen and observed [are] for a season (temporary; set toward a certain situation; transient), but those things not being habitually seen or observed pertain to and have their source in the Age ([are] eonian; [continue] age-lasting).”
(2 Corinthians 4:18 – JMNT)

III – “To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.” ― Alan Cohen

IV – “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

V – “If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.” ― Eckhart Tolle

VI – “We’ve been given the power to have what we visualize, but we tend to visualize what we already have.”
― Tommy Newberry

VII – “As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations. [He was appointed our father] in the sight of God in Whom he believed, Who gives life to the dead and speaks of the nonexistent things that [He has foretold and promised] as if they [already] existed.”
(Romans 4:17 – AMPC)

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METRON 6-03-18 – CONSCIOUSNESS AND VISUALIZATION: Finding a Practical Road Map for the Fourth Dimension, Part I

I – “The Lord said to Abram after Lot had left him, Lift up now your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your posterity forever. And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if a man could count the dust of the earth, then could your descendants also be counted. Arise, walk through the land, the length of it and the breadth of it, for I will give it to you.”
(Genesis 13:14-17 – AMPC)

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II – “And He brought him outside [his tent into the starlight] and said, Look now toward the heavens and count the stars—if you are able to number them. Then He said to him, So shall your descendants be.”
(Genesis 15:5 – AMPC)

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III – “We are creatures of habit. We think somewhere between 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts in one day, and 90 percent of those thoughts are exactly the same ones we had the day before.”
― Joe Dispenza

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IV – “During his training, a baseball player strives to make each swing better than the last. The repetition of a faulty swing would be worse than useless. It would ingrain bad habits. The same is true of emotional responses.
If we allow ourselves to continue to have the same angry responses, we just entrench our anger habit.

But if we strive – through consciousness, visualization, and coaching – to moderate our anger response, over time, we can train ourselves to respond to events as we choose – without anger. You can’t magically be free from anger tomorrow,but you can put yourself on your own training program that will reduce the frequency and intensity
of your anger response day by day, year by year.”
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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V – “Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”
― Voltaire

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VI – “Find a time and place of solitude. Look into the distance, and into the future. Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build – and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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VII – “Let Me reveal this truth to you…you’re impressed with what happened to the fig tree, but the fact is that you have the power and ability to say to this entire mountain, “Be lifted up and be thrown into the sea!”, and see it obey you! You’ve seen me actually speak to a storm…or command the dead to live again…well, in the same way, if you can connect the God-kind of faith that is in your own heart with the creative ability that is in your own mouth…if you say what you believe, and believe what you say…you can produce these kinds of results! This is why I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer…whatever you decree…BELIEVE…accept the reality that it exists in another, unseen dimension, simply because you say it. Don’t suspend or delay belief until you see it manifested in the physical realm, because what is unseen is more real than what is seen. Be confident that your request is granted to you, and you will get it…your own irresistible faith will attract it to you.”
(Mark 11:23, 24 – Mark In The Now)

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METRON 5-27-18 – THE SOUND OF SILENCE: Discovering the Power of the Serene Mind, Part III

Today’s Notes:

1. “Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.”
(Proverbs 4:23 – AMPC)

2. “Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. “Life has its rhythm and we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity.”
― Victoria Moran

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METRON 5-13-18 – THE SOUND OF SILENCE: Discovering the Power of the Serene Mind – Part II

I – “Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.”
(Matthew 6:34 – The Message)

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II – “Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones.Learn from their ways and become wise! Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work, they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter.”
(Proverbs 6:6-8 – NLT)

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III – “Peace I leave with you; I’m talking about My own, personal sense of peace, wholeness and well-being; I’m actually transferring it to you. You see, My peace is unlike the peace that comes from this realm…the peace that is reactionary and temporal, dependent on outward circumstances to determine its strength and presence. My peace is other-worldly – settled, absolute – causing you to be in harmony with your whole life – past, present, and future – and ultimately with the whole of creation. It will empower you to refuse to let your heart (your inner world) become troubled, agitated, or upset, no matter what is happening around you, and you can be fearless because you will be at peace with the Father, with yourself, and with the universe.”
(John 14:27 – John In The Now)

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IV – “For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.”
(James 3:16-18 – NKJV)

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V – “For wherever there is jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry and selfish ambition), there will also be confusion (unrest, disharmony, rebellion) and all sorts of evil and vile practices. But the wisdom from above is first of all pure (undefiled); then it is peace-loving, courteous (considerate, gentle). [It is willing to] yield to reason, full of compassion and good fruits; it is wholehearted and straightforward, impartial and unfeigned (free from doubts, wavering, and insincerity).

And the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to God’s will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace by those who work for and make peace [in themselves and in others, that peace which means concord, agreement, and harmony between individuals, with undisturbedness, in a peaceful mind free from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts].”
(James 3:16-18 – AMPC)

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VI – “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu

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VII – “Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.
Let it teach you Being.
Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.
Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.”
― Eckhart Tolle