I am grateful for many things; my home, my family, my work, friends and pastimes.

Yet with all I am grateful for, I remain most grateful for my attitude, an attitude that embraces the possibility of change.  I have always been willing to risk being hurt in order to bring joy into lives. 

I believe there are many people in this world who live their lives from the cradle to the grave in fear of taking risks; they deny themselves innumerable opportunities to embrace the depth and breadth of life.  They seek safety because they so strongly fear being hurt by change.

Where does such a fear come from?  Many of us have witnessed people on shows like “Oprah” who are literally afraid to go out of their homes, even to purchase basic necessities.  I consistently find people who won’t go some place, be it in their town, country or the world because they fear the risk of loss or injury.  Usually the risk is incredibly remote.  There are six and a half billion people on this planet yet too often we allow ourselves to focus our attention on one incident, one freak incident, and base our decisions upon it.  We rarely seek to base our decisions on what we can perceive as being the original cause of the incident. 

Someone who is driving home from work has a serious accident.  They may decide not to drive any more to avoid that ever happening again.  Yet it could be more reasonable to simply avoid that particular route at rush hour.  Or they could possibly take some defensive driving lessons and improve their ‘road sense’.  Maybe taking the transit to work and driving for pleasure would be an option.  The point is there are many options that may be sensible and freeing yet many will continually take the more limiting option, steadily building a prison of mediocrity to live out their lives.

Often we see a domino knocked over and promptly blame the domino that pushed it.  It is a rare individual who will seek to find the first domino in the chain of events.  Our societies don’t want to go there. 

Every country to my knowledge practices ‘expediting the law’.  They deal with immediate causes and rarely go beyond unless provoked to do so.  This is an outcome of a world seeking simple solutions to apparently complex problems. 

Yet the solution is actually very simple.  It comes down to three words ‘Thoughts create Things’.  Inescapable!  Every thought is a bundle of energy that attracts energy of the same vibrational pattern.  As this energy amasses it coalesces into form, into physical stuff.  That stuff is drawn together by the same law of attraction and exerts a discernable influence upon an environment and upon the people in the environment who originally set the thought pattern in motion. 

Once upon a time this was called witchcraft or alchemy; today it is the alchemy of quantum physics and well understood by advanced experimental science.