Attitude is Everything

Consciousness creates our circumstances

Attitude = orientation, implying direction; our outlook.

I recently had surgery. I had no choice but to take a far more positive view of the medical system, my doctors, and nurses.

What I’ve learned is that the best pre-op approach is gratitude.

Normally, the human mindset is to wait to be given a gift or a good result to express gratitude. But if we express gratitude first, we invite positive results.

I’ve taken to expressing gratitude every chance I get to each person involved in my medical care. Each feedback survey is also a chance to express gratitude and compliment the medical team members.

In February, it was a dismaying realization that I was left with no option but surgery to heal my nose. Yet, even as I exited Dr. Kim’s office that day I began to look on the bright side. At least the procedure would not be as invasive as the oral surgery in 1994 that left my health chronically altered for the worse.

Overcoming fear is more important than the particular doctor or remedy used

I hadn’t thought of my avoidance of the medical system as a kind of fear. But as I still felt resistance to it, even though I found out it was my only option, it became obvious that giving up control meant facing a fear.

There is only fear or love.

We choose.

I chose to start with the facet of love we call gratitude. I began giving thanks as a prayer weeks before the procedure was to take place.

I talked to my body to let it know the surgery is not an invasion or attack, but a healing procedure. So no need for lots of pain or inflammation.

Needless to say, I did not need to pick up the pain prescription (Oxycodone) the doctor had given. I had no pain worth mentioning.

I also did not need to pick up the round of antibiotics. No fear-based expectation of the worst.

No, if we start with love as gratitude, as practical optimism, there is no need to ‘prepare for the worst.’ I’m finally learning that hoping for the best but preparing for the worst is actually just inviting the worst.

And I’m not leaving any part of my life or health to faint hopes for something better.

With the challenge of two surgeries (to remove a benign tumor, and replace the skin on my nose where it was removed), I was left with no good choice, but to consciously create a positive outcome through positive attitude, gratitude, and taking command of my body.

It’s a learning process, but the only way is to jump in and keep at it.

Gratitude is a creative power

Thankfulness verbalized and visualized — well before the expected time/result.

THAT is a great creative power. Expressing gratitude for the good result and feeling and going forward as if it were already done. Because it IS done — in Spirit.

Spirit is the life > Mind is the builder > The physical is the result.

That’s what Edgar Cayce used to say, and it describes the order of how everything in our world is created.

Even negative circumstances, however we define ‘negative’, are opportunities to transmute negative into positive.

The key is aligning ourselves to the result we prefer. While in a peaceful, prayerful, meditative state of mind, visualize the result and verbalize it as if it is already done.

Our problems come from not believing in our power

Circumstances are opportunities, not problems themselves. Circumstances are like raw materials which an empowered consciousness takes as a challenge for transmuting negative into positive.

I don’t want this to sound like a sermon. And I don’t want to mislead you. I have found it challenging. But I’m doing it. And I’m getting the results I want.

I’ve had all kinds of thoughts and feelings come up during this process.

I’ve had good days of optimism and cheer.

And I’ve had low days of no energy and pretty dismal expectations. (Fear will try to get you to focus on any little thing to turn it negative.)

But I keep coming back to the power I’ve put into motion. And I keep reinforcing it on those good days with more gratitude.

Gratitude for every little victory.

And when dealing with the medical staff, I simply tell them what I need (like two feet of separation from everyone’s cell phones due to my weird sensitivity to them). Everyone has been very respectful and has given me what I’ve asked.

Mainstream medicine has changed a lot in the last 30 years

Fears and expectations based on what was done decades ago are out of date. There is hardly any of the old paternalistic, authoritarian, ‘doctor’s orders’ attitude left in modern medicine.

Responsiveness to patients now goes well beyond mere ‘bedside manner.’

I have learned that if I approach each medical staff member with courtesy, gratitude, and expectations of the good … that is what I get.

We get back what we put out.

I had to learn to drop my defensiveness and expect better things from the medical system.

So I recommend preemptive gratitude for everyone who is facing anything at all that brings up any anxiety or apprehension.

We are Creators. We have lots of power.

So I’ll ask you to take a moment, just in case there is any doubt about this truth …

Take a moment to breath deep into your belly and exhale fear and anxiety. Do it a few times. Do it more if you need to.

Then sink into an awareness of the life that flows within you. Your breath. Your heart beating. The countless functions of all your cells.

The origins of all life are at work in you.

The Source of all Life flows through you effortlessly at all times.

It is only our resistance (fears) that ever obstructs it.

So breathe again and exhale the fear. Inhale love.

Even the trees love us enough to give us their oxygen to breathe. We love them enough to give them our carbon dioxide to live.

We have helpers all around us if we just notice them …

and give thanks.

You are completely unique.

No one can replace you.

Your presence on this planet is needed.

We all benefit from your happiness and want you to succeed.

Peace and healing to you,

Kannon