God’s Dictionary: Contrast

By on March 4, 2009 in Peace, Spirituality, Success

Contrast

 contra = against     +      stare = to stand

Contrast is one of the many ways humans learn about how to live life on Earth. So often we know what we don’t want because of contrast. What we don’t want is powerful information, but many of us get stuck there. Focusing on what we don’t want creates more of the same.   

This is why, even though the practice of contrast is valuable, we have to move beyond it in order to create the lives we do want. Here’s how to know when you’re stuck in contrast. It comes from Latin roots which mean to stand against.

When you stand against something, you are in resistance. Think of a scenario wherein you take a stand against and think of its polar opposite. Let’s say you’re against the politicos who are in charge of our government currently. Acknowledge your againstness and then flip it. What are you really for? Effective government? Smaller government? Laissez-faire government? It’s easier to create from a for position than an against one. Ask:  How can I be for something today? 

Infinition:

I am aware of the contrast between what is and what I want. Today I focus on what I want and it makes my life easier.

 

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Dr. Susan Corso is a spiritual author, speaker, and counselor. An omnifaith minister and the author of God’s Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002) and The Peace Diet, she has had a spiritual counseling practice for more than 25 years. She has been an intuitive since childhood. 
 
Susan’s blogosphere writing may be found at Seeds for Sanctuary, Ode Magazine and The Huffington Post, and Beliefnet. Her website is SusanCorso.com 
 
One of her favorite occupations is writing spiritual fiction. She is the author of The Healing Mysteries of Mex Stone under the pseudonym Shulamith Burton. The audiobook of the first in the series, Oklahoma! Hex, came out in September 2008.
 
Susan is the founder of Sanctuary and ten-year author/publisher of a free e-newsletter, Seeds. As a professor at the accredited College of Divine Metaphysics, she teaches and ordains ministers.
 
Susan has been published in magazines, online magazines and newsletters including Business Ethics, Beliefnet.com, Ode Magazine, Science of Mind, Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, New York House, Q-Spirit, Self, and Winning Ways. She is the author of several tape series. Susan also writes for the theatre: The God Show, I Would Never, Fight or Flight, and PeaceWomen. 
 
For many years, Susan was an organizational consultant and motivational speaker guiding nuclear scientists as well as entrepreneurs into their life purposes. Some of her former clients include Westinghouse Hanford Company, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Gila River Casinos, and the American Nuclear Society, among many others.

Today she functions as Chief Spiritual Officer for corporations. She lives in one-sixth of a Victorian house outside of Boston, with her beloved spouse, director/actress/teacher Sheriden Thomas, and the spirit of her familiar cat, Charles of the Ritz. 
 
Her mission in life is peace. 

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