Know that the soul and center of Prosperity is Optimism.

Release your burdens for the moment.

Open yourself... relax... breathe deeply.

Slowly.

Reach out in your thoughts

to the single thread of vibration

within the Univers' whole,

that is the unique frequency of optimism.

Think of it in order to catch hold of that thread,

but then let go of the mental thought.

Just feel Optimism.

Let it fill you.

Let it be the only thing in your experience.

In your feeling state, acknowledge every detail of Optimism;

every color you see;

every element you're aware of in the moment;

the changes in your body's posture and expression.

Notice your emotions and attitude in this state.

Hold the feeling of optimism within you as long as you can.

Every day.

Every time you notice a negative or dense thought or emotion,

hold the feeling of optimism within you for as long as

ever increasingly possible.

Work this meditation as often as necessary

until Optimism is the way you naturally greet every situation.

Until Optimism is your habit.

Your nature.

I wonder things I probably will never know the truth of. Not because I’ll never get the right education, but because they are probably unknowable at this level.

I read myths and legends. I read books and stories. I learn that Tolkien, Rowling and my sister basically channel each of their stories, though that’s not what they call it.

(Yet, the characters “talk” to them in their own “voices.” The characters come into their heads already formed, being what they are. They don’t know the ending of the storey ahead of time, because it’s being told to them. They have to rewrite if they interject too much of their own will into the story. And Tolkien spoke of believing that stories “came from another world”. If this isn’t some form of channeling, I don’t know what it is.)

Am I the only person in the world that is concerned about the fact that (to me) the origin / creation storey in The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien, is the most acceptable one I’ve ever read? Because, (despite this channeling thing,) he himself believed it to be a work of fiction and was disturbed by the interest people had in his books, especially Americans. Yet, if it wasn’t “fiction” I would completely quit resisting my inner inclination to trust that “myth” as being as literally real and true, as any thing about origin can be in a linear frame. And certainly true enough to take to heart and use in every way humanity uses myth.

Am I the only person to have read the story and felt that way? That it is un-provable but makes the most sense?

This post will seem somewhat "random" to all but the person who inspired it, but I include it here because of length (as usual.) However, I didn't even try to shorten it, because I know of at least one other person for whom it would be useful.

First I have to say something about the Strings of us. 
I must have removed the journal entry where I really talked about this. There is a mention of it at the end of the entry “Do We Live in a Friendly or a Hostile Universe” see first question and first response.

I think of people as stringed instruments. Every single thought, feeling, memory, belief part, EVERYTHING in and of us has a string and they are all singing their song, (or screaming, as the case may be,) at once, all the time.

This is why we can have mixed feelings and how we can have internal conflicts. A person can truly feel that they are wonderful and truly feel unworthy at the same time. Because they are carried on two different strings and get strummed harder at different times by different things. It’s also how someone can seem so self assured and together and do something that bespeaks insecurity and neediness. Or be one way with some people and the other with other people.

This is why it’s easier to update issues and problems and errors, than people generally allow. See “Peeling the Onion” at bottom.

On Loving The Person vs. Loving What They Do For Us

I think a lot of people don't differentiate between loving another person and loving whatever it is that they do for us. They are just happy that being with the other person makes them feel safe, important, belonging, provided for, socially connected, sexually active...what ever it is. It's a totally different faculty that looks into another person and feels their feeling (the feeling of them, like a blind person telling people apart by voice and smell.) and knows their being and loves them no matter or apart from what they do for them.

When it's difficult to separate, (for me that's when I'm in the infatuation faze.) I make lists. I make it into something I can touch. When another person is almost nothing but wonderful in my eyes it's hard to tell.

So I list what they do for me all together, every bit, actions, behaviors, feelings they inspire about me, life, society, spirit...everything that isn't actually a feeling about the other person. I list opportunities and resources they bring, services they perform. In essence the first list is everything that someone else could do, if they were willing and able. Very like a role in a play or movie.

The second list is second, because I just got all the floating, gratitude inspiring, fun, new, sexy, self-aggrandizing, self-protecting, self-serving ...stuff out of my head and acknowledged on the first list.

The second list is mostly feeling stuff, guesses and sneaking suspicions (not the bad kind, just "knowings" you cant really verify.)

If I do one for my mom, it looks something like This

moody

infectious smile

deep waters

depressive

funny

playful when she feels it

grudge bearing

spiteful feelings, but doesn’t act on it

on the verge of wholeness, but so hopeless, wont even try

impatient

judgmental

just wants to be comfortable and happy

responsible

deep

good

reaching out, unsure and scared

open to Spirit, but not seeking strongly

internally focused socially

shy

feels warm and soft (inside)

grumpy on the out,

easily hurt, takes things very personally even when it’s not at all.

very bright, sharp mind, reader,

willing to be a friend, but only to those she selects.

shut down in much of herself, emptyish, but only because she’s hollowly getting by in life and has been so for too long....definitely bereft of her “Soul Skin”

(Ref: Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., chapter Seal Skin Soul Skin)

On the chakras:

I’ve heard somewhere an attempt to talk about negative feelings and positive ones as being related to different chakras. Literally that negative feelings have a lower vibratory level and are related to the lower chakras and that positive feelings having a higher vibration are related to the higher chakras. Also that The lower chakras and lower feelings are more related to Earth Life and concerns of 3D. The higher feelings and chakras more related to the spiritual or Godly.

I didn’t relate so I dismissed it, but having recently heard it again I will speak of my opinion on the matter.

Many years ago I went to a session with a channeled being named Comrade. He spoke of the chakras and how people only interpret the chakras in the one dimensional stereotypes. Root-material world (often seen as issues with survival.) Navel- sex issues and creativity (often seen as leaking sexual energy or as being too pleasure oriented.) Solar Plexus - issues of power (often seen as powerlessness) Heart chakra-issues around love (often love of earth and humanity.) Throat chakra communication, Third eye- manifestation and psychic powers, Crown- Cosmic connection.

Comrade said that each chakra was always a center for the "issue" whether it was a negative balance or positive. So the heart is the center of love and lovelessness. Both the positive and negative expressions of the associated issues/focuses come thru the respective chakra.

The root chakra holds all that is of physical manifestation...survival, support, material wellbeing, material expression....but fight and flight are only one way of expressing thru that center. Self sacrifice and allowing of all potentials (i.e. risking death) and choosing to negotiate instead, are others. Living every moment in the full realization that all is provided and ever present in safety and wellness...is also a root chakra expression. Its just not your average one.

In response to the person wanting to read more about the paranormal and alternative spiritual beliefs.

While you're searching for the spiritual path that suits you, you can begin by learning about manifestation, magic, and the paranormal from the scientific and humanist perspective. These are not books that will tell you it is impossible, rather they will tell you why it's possible and how to begin.