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Why The Unlimited Love That Surrounds Us Can Be So Hard to See

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Ed here.

In my teachings I tell folks that part of the reason I am so happy is that everywhere I look I see love.

Many times I will receive an astonished look in return. Then the questions will come. Ed do you watch the news, can’t you see all the horrible things that are going on in the world? How can you possibly say that love is everywhere?

I explain that love is everywhere if you know where to look for it. But it is almost impossible to see through the eyes of fear. Unfortunately, the eyes of fear are what the majority of folks look through.

Fear is the opposite of love. Fear will completely negate the glory and grandeur of the love that surrounds you. It makes one blind to love.

Fear is completely illusion. It exists nowhere except in the dark recesses of your mind. It creates nothing but more of itself. It destroys whatever it gets its thoughts on.

Love is absolutely real and true. It exists everywhere except in the fearful and unforgiving thoughts of your mind. It creates everything beautiful. And it heals whatever it gets its thoughts on.

If you really want to see a fearful world the universe will be happy to provide it for you. If you want to see a loving world the universe is even happier to provide that for you.

Personally I am overwhelmed by the amount of love I see everywhere. Parents and their children, mothers and babies, lovers hand in hand, generous folks giving money to the poor, church groups feeding hungry people, and endless incidences I see of strangers simply giving another stranger a helping hand. I don’t find these things hard to see it all, they are as obvious as the nose on my face.

Of course if the fearful voice inside of you is telling you that these people are out to take advantage of you, or they are undeserving or if if your mind is busy trying to fit the folks you see out there into a label of judgment or prejudice that you have created in your mind, you certainly won’t see the love there.

Instead you will see a perfect reflection of the fear and illusion that is in your mind.

Life is all about choices. Whether you are seeing a world of love or a world of fear is based on your own personal choice.

Both of those worlds are available to us all. The question really is which would you prefer to see?

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Joy, Abundance, Peace and Healing

Ed Osworth
The Joy Professor
Author “Unstoppable Joy! A Happier You in 12 Simple Steps”

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Boy With No Eyes Sees With His Ears

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Think YOUR Limitations are Insurmountable?

Ben Had His Eyes Removed at 3 and Plays Basketball, Rides Bikes and Much More!

Ed here. As someone who has lived with vision challenges all my life (I was virtually blind till 6) this video sent chills up my spine.

Ben Underwood is a living miracle. His eyes were completely removed at 3 – but he refused to let this challenge keep him “blind”.

Ben taught himself to use echo location to navigate around the world. He may be labeled “blind”, but you will not “see” him that way after you watch his truly extraordinary feats on this video.

Prepare for a dose of Joy….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLziFMF4DHA

Joy, Abundance, Peace and Healing

Ed Osworth
The Joy Professor
Author “Unstoppable Joy! A Happier You in 12 Simple Steps”

Joy News Today – Being Crazy to Make a Difference.

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

She Traveled To 50 States in 52 Weeks to Locate and Share with Us Those Who Really Make A Difference

Ed here.

In the New Year we resolve to do good things in the year to come. If you need a road map to show you the way, I have just the person.

Dafna Michelson is traveling America putting together a collection of ordinary people who do extraordinary deeds.

People like the Arizona crime-fighting housewife . . . the Oklahoma man who helps troubled boys . . . the doctor who makes pottery to fund his medical missions overseas.

“I want to know what it is to solve a problem,” Michelson said. “I want to know what it feels like to be the person who raises their hand and says, ‘It’s up to me to do this.”

That desire to know fed an idea that fueled a year-long mission visit one state each week and interview people changing their communities, and then share their stories to inspire others.

“When people tell me I’m crazy, I tell them they’re right!” Michelson said. “And you know what? It takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference.”

“There have been about 350 different stories that Dafna has collected during her journey who uploads each week’s interviews to her Web site at 50in52journey.com. ”

Joy, Abundance, Peace and Healing

Ed Osworth
The Joy Professor
Author “Unstoppable Joy! A Happier You in 12 Simple Steps”

“It is impossible to find perfection, but it is easy to accept perfection”

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

It is impossible to find perfection, but it is easy to accept perfection.
Sounds contradictory, doesn’t it?

Here are the basics.

The problem with this planet is that no matter how hard you look – you can not find perfection.

Matter of fact – the harder you strain to find perfection – the farther it seems to be.

The blessing on this planet is that perfection is actually all around us.

The perfect balance of the Universe necessitates that everything is perfect.

If it wasn’t it wouldn’t work.

The Clock Stops

Look at it this way. If you pull a tiny gear out of a giant grandfather clock – the clock stops – no matter how big it is. It needs every single tiny spring and screw to function.

Your life is a tiny gear in the largest, most perfectly balanced machine imaginable – the Universe. There is no way things COULDN’T be perfect.

It is the nature of the machine to require every part working to function at all.

So why don’t we feel things are perfect. Why does everything look so crazy and out of whack?

It is because our “personal” viewpoint of our lives is one 3 billionth of the big picture here on earth.

Looking through a Keyhole

It is like we are looking through a keyhole and believing the tiny little image we see is the whole world.

Rather than trusting that everything is OK, we think of a million ways is “should” be different.

The irony is that those changes you think should happen would throw something in the Universe out of whack.

They may well have huge unintended consequences.

Such a simple choice as to whether you take a certain route somewhere could literally make a life or death difference.

Example – You are driving to an important meeting, feeling fantastic. Running just in the nick of time, you turn down a street that you use every day and, ouch, detour signs everywhere. The street you need, the only convenient way is blocked off with construction. Oh, no! You feel your stomach churn and blood pressure rise as you realize that you now have to drive miles out of your way.

You gripe and moan to yourself “I’m gonna be late. My plans are ruined, now I’ll look flaky and may lose the contract. Why do these things always happen to me? This is so unfair etc, etc.”

You are unaware that you had not been delayed and taken your “normal” route – the truck with bad brakes and you would have met in an intersection you drive through every day.

Boom, crash! And that, would be that.

But you would have been running on time, just like you planned. You would have gotten what you thought you wanted.

Unfortunately, the world would have lost all your unique talents and potential and maybe all your offspring as well. But you would have gotten your way.

Sometimes “your way” is not in the best interest of the whole 3 billion of your brothers and sisters and the untold billions in the millennium to come.

In those cases the Universe intervenes in it’s perfection. Sometimes it will even put up a “Detour” sign in your life for your benefit.

As the Universe Lovingly Laughs

Imagine how funny it looks to the Universe as you gripe because it put energy in motion to save your life this morning.

This is the other side of the saying “Man plans and God laughs”.

That saying us usually said to demonstrate the futility of planning. I see it differently To may way of thinking mostly God (Goddess, Universe, Higher Self, whatever fits your belief system) is laughing with you. Not at you.

So instead of looking for perfection – just sit back and accept it.

It’s all around you — all the time.

Guaranteed.

Ed Osworth
The Joy Professor

Author of “Unstoppable Joy! -
A Happier You in 12 Simple Steps”

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Can One Find The Joy in Personal Tragedy? On The Loss of A Pet.

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

I get asked this a lot.

And I am the first to admit that it is VERY difficult to maintain a positive and joyous attitude when a life upheaval throws a major curve ball in your direction.

Unstoppable Joy! A Happier You in 12 Simpler Steps.

Unstoppable Joy! A Happier You in 12 Simple Steps.

Rather than answer the question directly, I will tell you a personal story about how I dealt with a small tragedy in my life about 8 years ago.

I fully realize that every “tragedy” is a bit different and some look way larger than others. Please don’t think I am trying to compare a death of a cat to a diagnosis of terminal cancer.

One size does not fit all tragic situations, that is for certain. But I hope this story can be of value to some of you.

The Story…

I had a cat for 12 years who became my best friend. His name was “Handsome Stranger”.

His company became even more important to me when my wife of 25 years left me.

About a year after she left Handsome fell into very bad health. He got multiple infections and the antibiotics couldn’t bring him out of it.

Every day he got sicker and sicker. He reached the point that he couldn’t even eat anymore. My heart was broken.

Yet he would pretend to eat because he knew I was watching. He saw how much I wanted him to be his old healthy self that he refused to let me see how bad he was.

His health was a one way street leading downhill fast. He would crawl where I couldn’t find him to hide his condition from me. To protect me from the pain he saw in my face when I saw him in his condition.

I knew what I had to do.

As I drove him to the vet for his final injection I told him stories all the way of all the great times we had together. Between the tears (which I tried so hard to hide from him) I laughed and joked with him.

I didn’t want him to see how much I was hurting anymore than he wanted me to see him hurting…

The Vet assistant was an angel. As she made that injection she made sure the last thing he heard was that “You are the best kitty ever”.

I will never forget the look of gratitude in his eyes as he glanced my direction for the very last time. He was in such pain and now it was finally over – once and for all.

That look removed all my guilt.

As soon as I got home from that visit to the vet I realized that there are many ways I could remember my best buddy.

So I worked on a poem – like a child would. A silly child like poem that would always be available to me whenever I thought of Handsome.

That poem helped me to extract the bits of joy from this painful incident.

And when I remember Handsome – I always smile and remember the joy he brought to my life – not the pain of that last day.

(Well OK I admit did shed a few tears detailing this in my blog today)

Here it is….

Unstoppable Joy! A Happier You in 12 Simpler Steps.

Unstoppable Joy! A Happier You in 12 Simple Steps.

Handsome Stranger

The greatest animal I’ve known
has passed into the great unknown

I miss my pal so awfully much
I’ve lost the one I loved to touch

The feel of his fur, the deafening purr
are memories that will endure

His friendly mew, his charming ways
would brighten up the darkest days

When I would cry, he was right there
to share the wisdom in his stare

He was so wise, so all complete
he never would admit defeat

His soul shined such a wondrous light
it kept me warm through countless nights

“No soul in cats!” that’s what folks say
but I see things another way

I say that God is in those eyes
the cat is just a great disguise

A messenger from heaven above
a teacher of the ways of Love

“You must make time for fun today”
is what your cat will always say

Sit in the sun and have a ball
I do it, even though I’m small

Take time to rest, then run and play
and cuddle up at the end of the day

Be close… heck I’ll sit in your lap
Forget about the useless crap

For life is short, with too few years
to be sad and full of fears

It’s what God wanted us to see
so She made cats for you and me

Joy and Delight

Ed Osworth
The Joy Professor

Wonderful Video – I Choose Love

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008