Natalie's Spirit Writings Wednesday the 17th of March 2008

Terence,

 
So good to see you. Though quite an ironic statement as my words come to you via this most delightful lighted screen, I assure you however, as each and every word reaches your retinas, I stand by you and read along. I do love the sound of my own voice (or look, in this case) and I feel I need to be on hand to answer your pertinent and ever relevant questions.
 
I gallantly defend the young lady who provides the typing power for my words and the mortal link to this realm, for she, unlike some, is taking the lessons of positive change and visualization of goals quite seriously. I feel hypocritical to complain about delay when it was action on MY words indeed that she busies herself with.
 
Now, I am honoured to take up the position of chief lecturer on change and how to implement it after the misdeeds of my predecessor left the position vacant. But it leaves me a little lost at where to begin. I feel I should simply continue from where he was previously, despite my last lecture, but then, I feel I should start again, in my own splendid words.

So with that quandary, I shall take a stab in the dark and land somewhere between. I feel I should apologise to all those reading and following the lectures previously. Such lamentable events affect not only those directly involved. So do stay with me, and excuse me if I repeat things you have already covered there's nothing wrong with a little repetition. It helps things sink in, I always say.
 
Life, that thing that people have made many metaphors form, still search for the meaning of, and generally assume has to be hard.  What a piece of nonsense!

Every spirit housed in flesh has a vague path of lessons they have to learn before they move away from their cumbersome house and on to better things. It's a general misconception that life is a struggle, up to the fates, luck or destiny. That, my dear readers and friends, is a load of absolute collywobbles.

However, it's that deep, ingrained idea, festering at the back of your mind, yes, I speak specifically to you, else you would not have found this lecture that causes the most trouble, the most difficulty and the most resignation to "fate" second to religion.
 
This need not be. As you have no doubt been reading in my predecessor’s logs of thoughts and lectures, belief and CHOICE play far bigger roles than you can possibly imagine.
 
By now some of you will have followed his instructions, writing things down and placing them prominently in place. Most of you will not have, and why is that? I hear your excuses now "I forgot", "I live with other people, and didn't want to be laughed at or teased", "My partner thinks its rubbish" and so on and so forth.

 
And you know what that is? It's fear. Fear that it won't work; fear that it WILL work... Fear of ridicule... Fear of rejection, all foolish fears built over the years that do nothing but hinder you. The very same fears that stop you from reaching the goals and changes you have written down.
 
Oh I could tell you to write them down and put them up again, but I can't see more than a few of you bothering with these fears. I can hear the further excuses "you don't understand", "oh, I simply couldn't", "I'm too old to change"
 
So instead, I ask you something else. Do you REALLY want what you aspire for? REALLY? I don't think you do. I think there's something far more comfortable, far easier and you're living it right now. And I think that needs to change, don't you?

So I shall ask you to do something positively ridiculous. But I assure you with the most generous sincerity it shall help you take the first terrifying step towards positive change. I want you to laugh. I want you to find the time, on your own, to laugh. it doesn’t have to be a real laugh, a silly fake one will do. But laugh as often as you can.
 
The thing that holds us all back is fear, self pity and depression.

I need you to first shine the light into those dark corners. You won't sweep them away, not yet, but change will be much simpler.

I have hopes for you all. DO NOT be one of the ones that will inevitably fall by the wayside, stuck in their own fears and self pity, to change. Do this silly task for me, NO... for yourself.
 
Humphrey.

 

End of Lecture