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		<title>Old New Message?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Forrest Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">&#160;<img width="500" height="667" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="middle" alt="" src="http://www.alanforrestsmith.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/image/manch.jpg" /></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Why keep the old when you have the new?</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Well it never fails to surprise me here in Manchester how every back street, back alley, out of the way avenue or edge of the city route keeps coming up with a new announcement.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Like today we have an area near my new apartment named Spinningfields. In this district it&#8217;s very state-of-the-art, very futurist with construction that makes me say WOW!</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">If you walk behind Armani, past Nicky Clarke and Flannels you come to an old red brick building that has the words engraved in stone above the top that declares, &#8216;working men&#8217;s church&#8217;.&#160;</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Next to it is a newer construction site that surely will be more glass, more steel and more 21st century living.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Yet I wondered for a moment as I look up and see the old buildings. I see the men on cloth caps, hammering, loving, shaping, molding the building the way it should be. </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">They would carve etchings like the name, like faces, like flowers into hard timeless stone that had been quarried from the hills of Manchester&#8217;s surrounding areas.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">They would add a window because it had to be there. They would make a door a certain way because it felt right. They would create stone entrances because stone just looked amazing and felt powerful.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">They did things because in those older days, it felt right, it just had to be.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Cars were designed to attract the eye. Motorbikes were designed to look cool. Clothes were designed to be what they were and look good at the same time.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:<p>&#8230; <a href="http://www.alanforrestsmith.com/blog/2011/06/old-new-message/" class="read_more">continue reading</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">&nbsp;<img width="500" height="667" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="middle" alt="" src="http://www.alanforrestsmith.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/image/manch.jpg" /></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Why keep the old when you have the new?</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Well it never fails to surprise me here in Manchester how every back street, back alley, out of the way avenue or edge of the city route keeps coming up with a new announcement.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Like today we have an area near my new apartment named Spinningfields. In this district it&#8217;s very state-of-the-art, very futurist with construction that makes me say WOW!</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">If you walk behind Armani, past Nicky Clarke and Flannels you come to an old red brick building that has the words engraved in stone above the top that declares, &#8216;working men&#8217;s church&#8217;.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Next to it is a newer construction site that surely will be more glass, more steel and more 21st century living.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Yet I wondered for a moment as I look up and see the old buildings. I see the men on cloth caps, hammering, loving, shaping, molding the building the way it should be. </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">They would carve etchings like the name, like faces, like flowers into hard timeless stone that had been quarried from the hills of Manchester&#8217;s surrounding areas.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">They would add a window because it had to be there. They would make a door a certain way because it felt right. They would create stone entrances because stone just looked amazing and felt powerful.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">They did things because in those older days, it felt right, it just had to be.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Cars were designed to attract the eye. Motorbikes were designed to look cool. Clothes were designed to be what they were and look good at the same time.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The old had its place, it just was and so were those that created the old. Yet when I look at the new with wonderment, when I sit and watch the men building with headphones in, listening to whatever they listen to, taking instruction from the designer of the glass box, the new-age constructs it all feels so robotic, not built to last, built to be replaced at a later date.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The men know that so they just do the job, it feels like its not there forever, it feels like a statement of fashion rather that a statement of mans life itself.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">But can the old exist amongst the new?</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Of course, the old is left to stand, un-noticed but as a reminder of what was, it shares it stories, its lessons from the past, it history, it&#8217;s chitter-chatter of the long gone men that once sat on its beams eating cheese, bread and drinking red wine.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Those days are reflections of times been, times past but they leave lesson, messages for us.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">They remind us of pace, of change of the semi-permanence of life itself and how the old will pass. Yet the old was once new and the new will become old.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The only real difference it appears today is the pace of Zoomanity is fast, racing like a satellite out of control yet looking like it has real purpose.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Why keep the old when you can have the new? It&#8217;s obvious isn&#8217;t it, you can see it can&#8217;t you?</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">It&#8217;s not for the purpose of looking back and wishing for days of old, no, rather to remind us and share with us how things, men, minds were at certain times and how change comes.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Change is certain, it always is, it always has been and it always will be.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Some world powers see themselves is invincible yet so did world powers of old. Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome &#8230; they saw themselves as lasting forever &#8230; where are they now? Tiny places that people go on holiday to. This is not to say they are not important, they are I am just illustrating that change happens and will happen again.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Can your Zoomanity last, will it last, will change come to you so fast that you simply don&#8217;t expect it?</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Life and time share with us messages from the past. Old vs new&#8230; there is always a message.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Just a though, just an observation.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">I&#8217;d love to know your opinion, let me know what you think.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Alan Forrest Smith</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">www.EscapefromZoomanity.com&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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		<title>Starbucks Man &amp; Unseen Forces</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 11:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Forrest Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">&#160;</span></span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Right now I&#8217;m in Starbucks drinking coffee, watching, listening, looking and observing humanity.</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">There&#8217;s a guy sat around 5 feet away from me. He is alone, around 35, short black hair, looks like he hasn&#8217;t been sleeping,, pretty stocky and &#8216;feels&#8217; very angry.</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">He keeps going on his phone, speaking to people and almost slamming his blackberry on the table at the end of each call. Actually I over-heard and he is heading to the court across the road soon.</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">After each sip of his drink he shakes his head in a slight shake of disbelief, bangs down the white, rather over-used Starbucks mug and then picks up an empty sugar packet, napkin, stirring rod and takes out his anger on them by crunching, snapping and crushing them to almost nothing.</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">I&#8217;m almost scared to catch his eye in case he grabs me and tries to drown me in my cappuccino!</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">I wonder, why is he so angry? The power of his anger is so strong I can actually feel it reaching me and affecting my body.</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">This took me back to a few visits I had over at Heart math in Boulder creek California.</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">This time just last year I sat in the blazing sunshine just after a rain storm and sat with Howard as we drank tea and ate a delicious organic lunch.</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">At Heart math they are scientists that have proven the connection with emotions and the heart of the human body. They have also discovered how they heart radiates &#160;an energy field from the human around 5 foot in circumference around each person (including you).</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">The energy in that field your heart</span></span></span></div><p>&#8230; <a href="http://www.alanforrestsmith.com/blog/2011/05/starbucks-man-unseen-forces/" class="read_more">continue reading</a></p>]]></description>
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<div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><img width="432" height="339" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="middle" alt="" src="http://www.alanforrestsmith.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/angry1.jpg" /><br />
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Right now I&#8217;m in Starbucks drinking coffee, watching, listening, looking and observing humanity.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">There&#8217;s a guy sat around 5 feet away from me. He is alone, around 35, short black hair, looks like he hasn&#8217;t been sleeping,, pretty stocky and &#8216;feels&#8217; very angry.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">He keeps going on his phone, speaking to people and almost slamming his blackberry on the table at the end of each call. Actually I over-heard and he is heading to the court across the road soon.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">After each sip of his drink he shakes his head in a slight shake of disbelief, bangs down the white, rather over-used Starbucks mug and then picks up an empty sugar packet, napkin, stirring rod and takes out his anger on them by crunching, snapping and crushing them to almost nothing.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">I&#8217;m almost scared to catch his eye in case he grabs me and tries to drown me in my cappuccino!</span></font></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br />
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">I wonder, why is he so angry? The power of his anger is so strong I can actually feel it reaching me and affecting my body.</span></font></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br />
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">This took me back to a few visits I had over at Heart math in Boulder creek California.</span></font></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br />
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">This time just last year I sat in the blazing sunshine just after a rain storm and sat with Howard as we drank tea and ate a delicious organic lunch.</span></font></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br />
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">At Heart math they are scientists that have proven the connection with emotions and the heart of the human body. They have also discovered how they heart radiates &nbsp;an energy field from the human around 5 foot in circumference around each person (including you).</span></font></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br />
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">The energy in that field your heart puts out connects with the energy field of people around you or close to you.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">If you are happy, people can feel or be subconsciously attracted to your happiness. If sad the effect can be the same, if angry the effect is the same.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Which takes me back to this guy in Starbucks.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Zoomanity likes us to behave in a way that is expected, conditioned or polished to behave, react and perform.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Yet the problem when we are not aware of that anger that is uncontrolled, that is sent out in our field of energy, that is shared subconsciously with others is it can lead to dark things.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">The Starbucks guy is on his own and is clearly angry.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">The the air encircling the two men has a lower, angrier vibration. The heart is radiating anger, discontent or an un-contented or no content or unfilled hearts and minds of the angry men.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">When they connect in Starbucks &#8230; a War ensues.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Of course there wasn&#8217;t &nbsp;a war in Starbucks today but it&#8217;s just an observation of how the feelings from a person can affect the feelings of others in a room.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Zoomanity like us to stay quiet, say nothing, question nothing. It like us to think that understanding, digging deep, accepting reasoning and the why from others is acceptable. We are to listen to the repeaters and repeater as they repeat.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">As I wrote about www.heartmath.com it&#8217;s a subject Zoomanity are told not to accept. It&#8217;s weird, it&#8217;s a bunch of hippies being hippies, it&#8217;s not taught in school so it can&#8217;t be right. The vinration of the human, the subconcious activity of the person. This stuff is not to be accepted or recognized. This is part of the Zooman way. Humans as we know them, knew them were more than tapped into their humanity, even the invisable, unexplainable (or in the cae of heartmath, very explainable)</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">I just wondered for a moment, is the angry man in Starbucks acting out a drama the way he has seen or been taught over decades from family, from TV, from movies, from the media?</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Probably, this is Zoomanity, this is the place where we question nothing and accept everything.</span></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Just an observation, just a question.</span></font></span></span></div>
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		<title>Life Purpose or Purposeful Life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 14:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Forrest Smith</dc:creator>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I&#8217;ve known Annie for years now. She is a beautiful woman with a lot going for her. Smart, married, kids, great job and drop-dead gorgeous. Like I said, she has a lot going for her.</span></span></p>
<p>Four years ago I saw changes in her that were to redefine her life forever.</p>
<p>She had read about how women in particular were to find their life purpose and stop at nothing until they found it. She was ready for he message, her life had become a bore with nothing taking place on any day of the week. Her man had become dull, her home life had become an endless routine, she thought more and more about her self.</p>
<p>In the past she had looked for more meaning. She had studied Taoism a simple almost stoic life. She had looked into many aspects of christian belief then quickly moved on into Indian culture studying life, time and reincarnation.</p>
<p>So when she heard someone on a stage saying, &#34;would you like me to show you how to uncover your life purpose&#34;, it really was music to her ears.</p>
<p>It sounded so easy, the women spoke on stage that she was getting messages from a divine source and these messages gave her the knack of being able to intuitively just &#8216;know&#8217; a strangers purpose for life.</p>
<p>Annie loved the sound of it and fours years later her life is very different.</p>
<p>Annie is broke. Annie is alone. Annie is part of a pack. Annie is no longer searching, she goes home every night and cries to her Gods, asking them, &#34;why, why, why are you not showing my life purpose?&#34;.</p>
<p>Sadly Annie is not unique, as a speaker myself on my world travels I have met so many people that are&#8230; <a href="http://www.alanforrestsmith.com/blog/2011/05/life-purpose-or-purposeful-life/" class="read_more">continue reading</a></p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I&#8217;ve known Annie for years now. She is a beautiful woman with a lot going for her. Smart, married, kids, great job and drop-dead gorgeous. Like I said, she has a lot going for her.</p>
<p>Four years ago I saw changes in her that were to redefine her life forever.</p>
<p>She had read about how women in particular were to find their life purpose and stop at nothing until they found it. She was ready for he message, her life had become a bore with nothing taking place on any day of the week. Her man had become dull, her home life had become an endless routine, she thought more and more about her self.</p>
<p>In the past she had looked for more meaning. She had studied Taoism a simple almost stoic life. She had looked into many aspects of christian belief then quickly moved on into Indian culture studying life, time and reincarnation.</p>
<p>So when she heard someone on a stage saying, &quot;would you like me to show you how to uncover your life purpose&quot;, it really was music to her ears.</p>
<p>It sounded so easy, the women spoke on stage that she was getting messages from a divine source and these messages gave her the knack of being able to intuitively just &#8216;know&#8217; a strangers purpose for life.</p>
<p>Annie loved the sound of it and fours years later her life is very different.</p>
<p>Annie is broke. Annie is alone. Annie is part of a pack. Annie is no longer searching, she goes home every night and cries to her Gods, asking them, &quot;why, why, why are you not showing my life purpose?&quot;.</p>
<p>Sadly Annie is not unique, as a speaker myself on my world travels I have met so many people that are willing to tell others how to live their lives for a fee.</p>
<p>They say they and they only have the key to the door into God, the Universe and are willing to open and step inside to get the answers for the individuals asking.</p>
<p>They will tell people like Annie that God or the Universe has favored them, they get new information almost on demand, the spirits will speak to them and she the speaker will tell her what is next.</p>
<p>Now, today Annie is lost, alone and no closer to her life purpose than ever before.</p>
<p>It raised a question in me, are we looking to find our life purpose or should we be living, creating a life that has a purpose?</p>
<p>The life purpose people believe that each person on earth has a preset, pre-determined life purpose. The only real way to find it is to pay another to reveal it for them.</p>
<p>Yet isn&#8217;t it clear we should be living a life fulfilled or full and filled with real purpose for what serves us or serves others?</p>
<p>How full is our life?<br />
How filled is our life?<br />
Is your life fulfilled?</p>
<p>Surely the problem with the life purpose people is this. Life becomes all about them, all about the person doing the searching (or paying the hefty fee). </p>
<p>They sell their services on the fact that they have had divine contact and although it cannot be proved if the buyer has enough faith, they will also be able to find their own purpose.</p>
<p>Yet in my own experience traveling the world this almost cult like group have created an empty wasteland of women, alone, unhappy, struggling and desperate to hear or buy into the next big thing that will guarantee someone salvation.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t read me wrong, we all have a purpose in life but it raise the question how purposeful is our life?</p>
<p>I strongly feel if we are desperately unhappy in life we have to be the agents of our own change. We have to create our own salvation.</p>
<p>What the life purpose people do is create a dependency. Zoomanity loves dependents, it feeds dependency into all aspects of life, even into our spiritual feelings at every level.</p>
<p>By the way there is nothing new about life purpose. Even Adam in the garden of Edan was asking questions, he wanted to know, he wanted to understand. So did Eve and so have billions after them.</p>
<p>If you want purpose from your life, breaking outside Zoomanity is the only way.</p>
<p>Zoomanity will use everything, anything, all things in its power to hold you. Groups, cults, gangs and more.</p>
<p>But the bottom line is, no one else can live, create or reveal your life for you, it&#8217;s up to you and you only.</p>
<p>Or is it?</p>
<p>Just an thought, just an observation.</p>
<p>Alan Forrest Smith</p>
<p>www.AlanForrestSmith.com&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />
www.EscapefromZoomanity.com </span></span></p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Forrest Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This I suppose is a little off topic for me but the response was so huge on Facebook I really wanted to share it for the simple reason it might help you.</p>
<p>I posted this small not on Facebook</p>
<p>&#8216;Being alone is an interesting and very human process. It forces me to discover who I really and truly am at a much more subconscious level. I ask myself&#8230; Are you happy? Are you sad? Do you need a partner? Can you be alone and happy? These are the kind of questions and more I have been forced to ask myself. This is about me and what I want and need for my life&#8230;&#8217;</p>
<p>Think about this&#8230;.</p>
<p>You are with people all of your young life, then as you get older your almost always with others,&#160; family, friends and more. You get married or you are in a long term relationship and again you are always with someone. You are never alone and rarely get time to think, exercise your own mind and own way of being&#8230; BE &#8211; IN.</p>
<p>Then suddenly for the first time in your life after a relationship breakdown&#8230; suddenly you are ALONE&#8230; A-LONE.</p>
<p>If you are not used to this, it can have massive shock on your system and does have a huge shock on most peoples system.</p>
<p>The void.</p>
<p>The biggest challenge is suddenly a life that was full has been emptied and left a gap. A huge gap. This is the void.</p>
<p>Your initial instinct is to fill the gap right away. It&#8217;s panic, fear and more rolled into one. The tight knot is in your chest. The sleepless nights. The bed with you on one side and no one on the other. Feels horrible right?</p>
<p>You begin to ask yourself questions &#8230;</p>
<p>Will&#8230; <a href="http://www.alanforrestsmith.com/blog/2010/07/want-need-relationship/" class="read_more">continue reading</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">This I suppose is a little off topic for me but the response was so huge on Facebook I really wanted to share it for the simple reason it might help you.</p>
<p>I posted this small not on Facebook</p>
<p>&#8216;Being alone is an interesting and very human process. It forces me to discover who I really and truly am at a much more subconscious level. I ask myself&#8230; Are you happy? Are you sad? Do you need a partner? Can you be alone and happy? These are the kind of questions and more I have been forced to ask myself. This is about me and what I want and need for my life&#8230;&#8217;</p>
<p>Think about this&#8230;.</p>
<p>You are with people all of your young life, then as you get older your almost always with others,&nbsp; family, friends and more. You get married or you are in a long term relationship and again you are always with someone. You are never alone and rarely get time to think, exercise your own mind and own way of being&#8230; BE &#8211; IN.</p>
<p>Then suddenly for the first time in your life after a relationship breakdown&#8230; suddenly you are ALONE&#8230; A-LONE.</p>
<p>If you are not used to this, it can have massive shock on your system and does have a huge shock on most peoples system.</p>
<p>The void.</p>
<p>The biggest challenge is suddenly a life that was full has been emptied and left a gap. A huge gap. This is the void.</p>
<p>Your initial instinct is to fill the gap right away. It&#8217;s panic, fear and more rolled into one. The tight knot is in your chest. The sleepless nights. The bed with you on one side and no one on the other. Feels horrible right?</p>
<p>You begin to ask yourself questions &#8230;</p>
<p>Will you always be alone? <br />
Will you find someone else? <br />
Are you ugly?<br />
Are you too old?<br />
Will anyone want you now?</p>
<p>Your confidence has taken a huge knock that&#8217;s a hard one to get over.</p>
<p>Like I said the initial reaction for most is this&#8230; FILL THE GAP! Then when the gap is filled, you are back in a relationship and the reality is&#8230; it&#8217;s usually back to how things were almost before but with a new partner.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s incredible that some leave long term relationships and walk direct into a new one with no gap. How can they get to know themselves?</p>
<p>Anyway, for most people&#8230; that&#8217;s fine but it depends on what kind of life you really want to live or should I say NEED to survive, thrive and grow into someone not just good but incredible!</p>
<p>Lets look at this whole scenario again from a very personal perspective. Bear in mind I am not saying anything is right or wrong I am simply stating my opinion..</p>
<p>After nearly 30 years of being in just 2 relationships, one for 27 years and one for 3 years I found myself all alone. Yes I had the fears and wanted the gap filled but I took a new view of this after my second relationship ended.</p>
<p>For the VERY FIRST TIME in my life I had an opportunity to re-shape and re-build a life that I NEEDED not what I wanted or to fill the gap!</p>
<p>I was scared, I had fears of course but I wanted an incredible new kind of relationship at the same time unlike the past ones.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what I discovered what I always wanted isn&#8217;t what I&#8217;ve always needed.</p>
<p>Let me say that again.</p>
<p>Wanted vs Needed</p>
<p>I can bet you know what you want. I can also bet you maybe don&#8217;t know what you need.</p>
<p>For example &#8230;</p>
<p>Forget right now what you want and write down a list as long as you like of what you NEED.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t mean write I need a man or a woman. I mean write down the actual specifics of what you want from them.</p>
<p>Again for example I wrote my own list of things I need.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a couple from my own list.</p>
<p>1. Daily connection at all levels.<br />
2. Loyalty at every level.</p>
<p>Those were two out of a list in front of me from over 30 things I discovered after taking time to meditate and think that I actually NEED. Both of those weren&#8217;t being fulfilled by either relationship. Things began to look very different.</p>
<p>I looked back I discovered out of the 30 plus NEEDS only 6 were being fulfilled.</p>
<p>Interesting right?</p>
<p>Because when the relationship breaks down you think it&#8217;s the end of the world. The knot, the pain, the world has ended yet the good news is this.</p>
<p>You have been handed an opportunity on a plate to grow at a rate you will never have seen before in your life. Why is that? You are now staring one of mans deepest fears right in the face. The fear of being alone.</p>
<p>Now you are alone.</p>
<p>Now you have a golden opportunity.</p>
<p>The opportunity is this&#8230; to find out about YOU. <br />
Who are you? <br />
What are you? <br />
What do you really need? <br />
Did you really like xyz from the previous relationship?</p>
<p>This has now become about discovering the real YOU.</p>
<p>So here&#8217;s what you do now.</p>
<p>Now write down a list of what you want from a relationship.</p>
<p>Now write down a list of what you NEED from a relationship. </p>
<p>Now compare what you need to what you want. See the difference?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what I suggest for you.</p>
<p>Take time to BE alone and find out who and what you really are. Everything in life you never did or said no to&#8230; say YES and try them for yourself to see if you actually like them. I did this and made some huge discoveries.</p>
<p>Return to nature, learn from life itself. Go for walks, watch people, watch animals, watch creation at play. Watch lovers on a bench, watch people with children, watch the birds in the sky&#8230; OBSERVE the real meaning of everything and you will discover the meaning of yourself.<br />
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Don&#8217;t take advice from others. They love and want to help you of course but they are not YOU. Their pre-set levels of what is right, wrong, good or bad are very different to what you have set for yourself. You need to know what YOU think and feel.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t read to much, avoid training DVDs, avoid seminars, get to know who you really are by simply BE &#8211; IN yourself.</p>
<p>And let me say again it&#8217;s not that others don&#8217;t want to help you they do but this is about you and you getting to understand yourself at a much deeper level.</p>
<p>Ask yourself lots of questions all the time. Am I what they said I am? Do I do what they said I do? And so on. If you are what they said and you understand well simply admit it and if it&#8217;s a trait that is damaging to you, change, be your own change.</p>
<p>Then keep on looking for answers because you know what will eventually take place? You will pass through what is your valley of dark, endless, confusion and come out of the other side with clarity about YOU and what you really NEED as a person.</p>
<p>The gap gets filled by yourself. You have become the solution, not another person. Once you know yourself there can NEVER be a gap or a void again.</p>
<p>The truth is you can never be alone. Being alone is a manufactured line to protect them that are alone. Yet the reality is it protects no one, it only allows the one alone to go deeper into a state of fear and more confusion and when in the depths of fear it&#8217;s almost impossible to come out again at the other side.</p>
<p>Finally I just wanted to share this.</p>
<p>If you have read this far well this is the good bit. When you become who you truly are here&#8217;s the magic&#8230; you&#8217;ll finally attract what you truly want or&#8230; what you really need.</p>
<p>BE COME and allow what you NEED to come to you. THIS DOES happen. What you need at the time will arrive for you but you need to allow and don&#8217;t force anything, don&#8217;t search, don&#8217;t try and pull things to you, simply be at peace with yourself and watch what takes place I promise.</p>
<p>I know you might be thinking but Alan I am still alone? That is simple, you have not yet become at peace with yourself and you are not attracting the right mate to you that can give you what you need.</p>
<p>Does this mean you don&#8217;t see anyone now until the right one arrives? Not at all, get out, discover and see and feel how people really are, allow them to be themselves on dates you&#8217;ll be surprised what you discover.</p>
<p>In the meantime&#8230; have fun and head out on your voyage of discovery. A tip I can share with you is anything you have said no to in the past or in your life&#8230; go try it and see how it feels when you do. Like me, I think you&#8217;ll be surprised to discover another new part of you.</p>
<p>I hope this has helped you. Just a handful of things I have discovered during my own little period alone&#8230; A-LONE.</p>
<p>Alone but a truly exciting, enlightening, refreshing part of my life. It&#8217;ll be the same for you if you go back to YOU and find your NEEDS not wants.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been tough. It&#8217;s been magic. It&#8217;s been discovery. It&#8217;s been a time to connect and discover. Looking back, I&#8217;ve loved it.</p>
<p>AND YOU &#8230; You&#8217;ll be fine, it really is all going to be fine.</p>
<p>Now you finally know who you are, continue to grow, continue you discover and watch the one you need come to you.</p>
<p>I hope this has helped.</p>
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		<title>Dead Self</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Forrest Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>As I walked along the old railway in the distance I could see a figure sat in the shade to the left.</p>
<p>The closer I got the more detail I could see. It was a man, he was alone, he was sitting down, looking almost staring at the floor.</p>
<p>It was sunny yet he was sat in the shade. There was lots of free space yet he sat still, silent and unmoved at any visible level.</p>
<p>The closer I got the more I could feel the almost dark depressing side of the character. At this point I was around 10 feet away from him I looked at him to say good morning, I knew he could see me but remained still, unmoved sitting silent without a flinch as I walked by. He was in a wheelchair.</p>
<p>All I could feel is this mans&#8230;DEAD-SELF.</p>
<p>I kept on walking for another 10 feet but this guy was filling my head with thoughts of &#8216;is he ok?&#8217;.</p>
<p>I turned around and went back. I said&#8230;&#8217;excuse me, I hope you don&#8217;t mind me asking are you ok?&#8217;</p>
<p>He looked at me with water filled eyes and told me this story&#8230;</p>
<p>10 months ago I could walk up and down stairs, to the shops, play with my kids, play with my dogs and just be normal. Today I am half a man with no legs, no ability with nothing to give&#8217;</p>
<p>I have to say the conversation went on for around 30 minutes, we talked and cried together, it was nice. He never told me how he had lost his legs. I never asked. He never told me where he lived or what he does, I never asked. He never told me about his wife and family, I never asked.</p>
<p>What he did tell me&#8230; <a href="http://www.alanforrestsmith.com/blog/2010/07/dead-self/" class="read_more">continue reading</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">As I walked along the old railway in the distance I could see a figure sat in the shade to the left.</p>
<p>The closer I got the more detail I could see. It was a man, he was alone, he was sitting down, looking almost staring at the floor.</p>
<p>It was sunny yet he was sat in the shade. There was lots of free space yet he sat still, silent and unmoved at any visible level.</p>
<p>The closer I got the more I could feel the almost dark depressing side of the character. At this point I was around 10 feet away from him I looked at him to say good morning, I knew he could see me but remained still, unmoved sitting silent without a flinch as I walked by. He was in a wheelchair.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">All I could feel is this mans&#8230;DEAD-SELF.</p>
<p>I kept on walking for another 10 feet but this guy was filling my head with thoughts of &#8216;is he ok?&#8217;.</p>
<p>I turned around and went back. I said&#8230;&#8217;excuse me, I hope you don&#8217;t mind me asking are you ok?&#8217;</p>
<p>He looked at me with water filled eyes and told me this story&#8230;</p>
<p>10 months ago I could walk up and down stairs, to the shops, play with my kids, play with my dogs and just be normal. Today I am half a man with no legs, no ability with nothing to give&#8217;</p>
<p>I have to say the conversation went on for around 30 minutes, we talked and cried together, it was nice. He never told me how he had lost his legs. I never asked. He never told me where he lived or what he does, I never asked. He never told me about his wife and family, I never asked.</p>
<p>What he did tell me was this.</p>
<p>&#8216;I am worthless, worth nothing to no one, what is the point of being alive&#8217;</p>
<p>I asked him how old are his kids?</p>
<p>He told me 7 and 9 years old.</p>
<p>I asked how when they see you how do they react?</p>
<p>He told me they smile, laugh and ask him to race around the house on his new &#8216;racing car&#8217; (wheelchair).</p>
<p>We went on so I asked him this question.</p>
<p>How do you think your children would cope if you were not here?<br />
He replied&#8217; utter devastation&#8217;</p>
<p>I said to him do you think it&#8217;s worthwhile being alive knowing that your existence makes your children&#8217;s lives fuller?</p>
<p>He cried as did I.</p>
<p>I held his hand just for a moment, got up, said goodbye and walked on.</p>
<p>I have to be honest here. I got to a point about half a mile up the old railway, went down the embankment and had a cry myself.</p>
<p>The question had been raised&#8230;&#8217;SELF WORTH&#8217;&#8230; what is it?</p>
<p>This man had clearly been through something he didn&#8217;t reveal to me. At the point of his life as we spoke he had lost his self worth or value of himself.</p>
<p>In other words&#8230; what is his value,, his contribution and how does he see it himself?</p>
<p>He had become encased in thoughts of EVERYONE thinks I am disabled and no good. The reality is they all loved him more than ever and he really was filling a part of their lives also.</p>
<p>So his mind and his reality were playing games with him.</p>
<p>When he is alone and goes into himself he gets lost in the confusion of thought. When he is with his kids, he reacts to their reaction and becomes happy though them.</p>
<p>Interesting don&#8217;t you think how the sense of self can overcome and overwhelm to a point of destruction?</p>
<p>Yet the reality is much different.</p>
<p>How about you?</p>
<p>How do you value yourself, and what is your sense of it?</p>
<p>When I say value I mean how much do you think you are worth? Lets say in pounds or dollars?</p>
<p>You could be at a place in your life where you put a low amount on it? You could be in a place where you put a high amount on it. Yet if I was to remove all the cash and asked you the same question again how would you explain your value?</p>
<p>Remember this is about your self value or sense of self. It&#8217;s not about what anyone thinks. If you know 100 people they all have an opinion of you right? Yet all of their opinions of you are not YOUR truth or your reality, how can they be?</p>
<p>So again what is your own sense of self? Your own self value? That is up to you to find out. When you do write it down and ask yourself about what you read is that actually true?</p>
<p>Going back the wheelchair walker. </p>
<p>I turned around and walked back along the old railway. It&#8217;s pretty flat so a wheelchair can be used on it. Who should, be coming towards me but the guy in the wheelchair. I smiled to myself from this distance he looked happy&#8230; I was looking forward to him catching up to me.</p>
<p>At this point he was round 20 feet away and I can tell you he had his head raised and a smile from one side of his face to another.</p>
<p>He shouted out&#8230; &#8216;Alan&#8217;</p>
<p>I smiled and said &#8216;hi again Tony&#8217;</p>
<p>He said to me&#8230;</p>
<p>Thank you so much for sitting and speaking with me, I&#8217;ll never forget it. He said you know the bridge up there with the river below?&#8217; I said &#8216;yes&#8217;</p>
<p>He said today I came along here to kill myself by going over the old bridge into the river on my wheelchair but now I am racing home to see my kids smile. You made me wake up and realize my own worth to my kids&#8217;</p>
<p>I could hardly talk&#8230; I said &#8216;how about your value to you?&#8217;</p>
<p>He said one word&#8230; &#8216;PRICELESS&#8217;</p>
<p>Gave me a huge, huge smile and raced away after shaking my hand to meet his kids after school.</p>
<p>I have nothing more to write. It&#8217;s a short story that happened. Make your won conclusions but remember&#8230;</p>
<p>You are worth more than you can ever believe. Love your self, discover yourself BE your sense of self.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d love your feedback?</p>
<p>*~A.F.S.~*</p>
<p>Alan Forrest Smith</font></p>
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		<title>News Narcotics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Forrest Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Did you see it, read it, the news?</p>
<p>Hooked, addicted, news, abuser &#8230; this is the world of the News Narcotic!</p>
<p>I was in my village today where I live and a guy asked if I&#8217;d seen the news all week? I said &#8216;no&#8217;</p>
<p>He reply, &#8216;no are you serious you don&#8217;t know about this guy killing his ex-wife, shooting a policeman in the face hiding for days and then shooting himself live on TV in the head?&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8216;No&#8217; I replied. He looked at me as if I had just landed from another solar system on a day visit to Lymm!</p>
<p>The conversation ended. Then as I looked along the line EVERYONE was talking about this news incident. Even worse Jean (the till girl) would say to every single person at the checkout the same line&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8216;did you see that man on the news shooting all of those people and then killing himself, Terrible wasn&#8217;t it, terrible&#8217;</p>
<p>I eventually got to the checkout and she repeated the same one liner to me. I replied to her&#8230;&#8217;are you enjoying the hot&#160; weather?&#8217; Jean replied&#8230; &#8216;at least it was good weather for that guy on the run and to shoot himself&#8217;</p>
<p>I thought, how can it ever be good weather to shoot yourself? Has Jean gone crazy?&#160; Has the people in the shop been taken over by some insidious invisible airborne virus? </p>
<p>When I got outside I then could see the same story on billboards, on a TV across the road in an electronics window and as I walked past people up the street I could easily hear how they were all talking about the same subject.</p>
<p>This is the effect of News Narcotic.</p>
<p>Think about this.</p>
<p>You go to bed at night and your brain and body refreshes itself from&#8230; <a href="http://www.alanforrestsmith.com/blog/2010/07/news-narcotics/" class="read_more">continue reading</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font size="4" face="Courier New">Did you see it, read it, the news?</p>
<p>Hooked, addicted, news, abuser &#8230; this is the world of the News Narcotic!</p>
<p>I was in my village today where I live and a guy asked if I&#8217;d seen the news all week? I said &#8216;no&#8217;</p>
<p>He reply, &#8216;no are you serious you don&#8217;t know about this guy killing his ex-wife, shooting a policeman in the face hiding for days and then shooting himself live on TV in the head?&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8216;No&#8217; I replied. He looked at me as if I had just landed from another solar system on a day visit to Lymm!</p>
<p>The conversation ended. Then as I looked along the line EVERYONE was talking about this news incident. Even worse Jean (the till girl) would say to every single person at the checkout the same line&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8216;did you see that man on the news shooting all of those people and then killing himself, Terrible wasn&#8217;t it, terrible&#8217;</p>
<p>I eventually got to the checkout and she repeated the same one liner to me. I replied to her&#8230;&#8217;are you enjoying the hot&nbsp; weather?&#8217; Jean replied&#8230; &#8216;at least it was good weather for that guy on the run and to shoot himself&#8217;</p>
<p>I thought, how can it ever be good weather to shoot yourself? Has Jean gone crazy?&nbsp; Has the people in the shop been taken over by some insidious invisible airborne virus? </p>
<p>When I got outside I then could see the same story on billboards, on a TV across the road in an electronics window and as I walked past people up the street I could easily hear how they were all talking about the same subject.</p>
<p>This is the effect of News Narcotic.</p>
<p>Think about this.</p>
<p>You go to bed at night and your brain and body refreshes itself from all the dirt and grime from the day. Even the mental grime from the news, media and more.</p>
<p>Then in the morning we are programmed to&#8230; listen to the news&#8230; in our home, in our car, from a newspaper, in the line at the shops, one person to another&#8230; chat, chat, chat!</p>
<p>Does that have an effect on mankind? Does that have an effect on YOU?</p>
<p>You bet it does.</p>
<p>Think about this.</p>
<p>You drink tea or coffee? You drink coke? They are caffeine loaded. Now I know you don&#8217;t need big brother me to tell you that but let think about this.</p>
<p>Each day first thing in the morning, several times in the day, in the evenings we load up with our drinks, our favorite drinks right? Now we do it on autopilot. We don&#8217;t think about it because our body needs it. Our body is asking us, it&#8217;s telling, demanding of us we top up. If we don&#8217;t follow the subliminal demands&#8230; we suffer headaches etc.</p>
<p>So think about this.</p>
<p>Your body, my body reacts and acts in ways not even scientists understand. What we do know and they do know is what we ingest mentally and physically has an effect on our body.</p>
<p>So when we wake up our news addiction asks us to tune and find out. We wake, switch on tune in and top up. Why? Because that&#8217;s what we are conditioned to do. Go to any news stand where I live on a weekend in particular and you&#8217;ll see line after line after line after line of people walking out topping up on the news.</p>
<p>The problem with this is this&#8230;</p>
<p>Science has proved humans are affected at a cellular level by external happenings.</p>
<p>When we all tune into something bad it reduces the wavelength or the force or the power or the energy we work at. In other words we under perform at almost every level.</p>
<p>When we tune into good, we over perform and I think the best recent example is the HIGH of the World Cup in South Africa. A nation come together like never before to celebrate the good of sport and people coming together. They read it. They slept it. The worked it. The ate it. It transformed that nation in months. Incredible example of how GOOD vibrations can transform.</p>
<p>But when we focus on the bad stuff like the news, like celebrity lifestyles, like soap operas, like TV trash, like daily news on the hour, from the hour we are led into a dark alley on nowhere and no growth for ourselves as people.</p>
<p>In the UK we have a TV show called Eastenders. From start to finish it is manafactured human misery and drama. Death, divorce, pain, suffering, tears and low, low feeling. Yet a third of the UK population watch it. You can hear people talking and being part of the life of the characters. They talk as if they are real. &#8216;Did you see what happend to Pauline last night?&#8217; &#8230; yet Pauline doesn&#8217;t exist, she is fantasty created by a writer. This fantasty becomes a reality and is aborbed into the human.</p>
<p>Actually&#8230; terrifying when you think about this!</p>
<p>In fact this negative food holds mankind in a state of fear. When in a state of fear mankind will ALWAYS look to be led and NOT lead himself.</p>
<p>So man when at that level is hooked, looking and asking for a leader at an invisible level.</p>
<p>Interesting because everyman has the ability to lead himself in or out of everything but it depends on how tuned in he/she is to themselves.</p>
<p>The more we unplug from the daily happenings, newsreel, endless gossip about his life, her life, their life and the more we focus on who and what we are as human BE-INs the more we unleash the creator, the genius, the human in us.</p>
<p>Are you addicted? Are you hooked on News Narcotics?</p>
<p>There is always a way out for you. There are always for you to grow and expand yourself, to get strong, be stronger, thrive and survive.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s up to you.</p>
<p>Enjoy your adventure.</p>
<p>Do you have an opinion on this? I&#8217;d love to hear you share it.</font></p>
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		<title>Adulterous Bitch?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Forrest Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Music Teacher and Married Mother of 5 Runs off With 25 Year Old Music Student </p>
<p>Adulterous Bitch!</p>
<p>Shocking right but true. Or is it?</p>
<p>Just a few doors away from me lives a lady of 74 years old.</p>
<p>Just yesterday as I was putting out some washing to dry I heard a voice shout &#8216;Alan, Alan&#8217;</p>
<p>I went to the path to see this frail, unstable woman calling me. It was my neighbor Hilary.</p>
<p>She wanted to talk. Honestly I was busy yet I knew she wanted some time so I sat down and listened.</p>
<p>I asked how she was? She has got shingles and clearly lost a lot of weight. I asked her&#8230; &#8216;where is Roger?&#8217;. Roger is her husband.</p>
<p>She replied&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8216;we are still deeply in love you know from the day we met&#8217;</p>
<p>Interesting I thought as I never asked her anything like that but she still offered to tell me that.</p>
<p>I smiled, she smiled, she then told me her story.</p>
<p>She said&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s a big age gap you know. I am 21 years older than him. I am now 74 and he is 53&#8242;.</p>
<p>I sat in silence and listened.</p>
<p>&#8216;Yes we met when he was at college. He was just 23 and I was 44, married with 5 children&#8217;</p>
<p>We were in love right away. Can you imagine the scandal? It&#8217;s always ok for an older man to be with a younger woman but when an older woman is with a younger man it&#8217;s a scandal.&#8217;</p>
<p>I just smiled and sat there in the sun soaking up the story.</p>
<p>She lifted her small thin arm to her mouth. Took the remaining half a cigarette from a time earlier in the day, put it to her mouth, lit it and carried on.</p>
<p>Looking back&#8230; <a href="http://www.alanforrestsmith.com/blog/2010/07/adulterous-bitch/" class="read_more">continue reading</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font face="Courier New" size="4">Music Teacher and Married Mother of 5 Runs off With 25 Year Old Music Student </p>
<p>Adulterous Bitch!</p>
<p>Shocking right but true. Or is it?</p>
<p>Just a few doors away from me lives a lady of 74 years old.</p>
<p>Just yesterday as I was putting out some washing to dry I heard a voice shout &#8216;Alan, Alan&#8217;</p>
<p>I went to the path to see this frail, unstable woman calling me. It was my neighbor Hilary.</p>
<p>She wanted to talk. Honestly I was busy yet I knew she wanted some time so I sat down and listened.</p>
<p>I asked how she was? She has got shingles and clearly lost a lot of weight. I asked her&#8230; &#8216;where is Roger?&#8217;. Roger is her husband.</p>
<p>She replied&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8216;we are still deeply in love you know from the day we met&#8217;</p>
<p>Interesting I thought as I never asked her anything like that but she still offered to tell me that.</p>
<p>I smiled, she smiled, she then told me her story.</p>
<p>She said&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s a big age gap you know. I am 21 years older than him. I am now 74 and he is 53&#8242;.</p>
<p>I sat in silence and listened.</p>
<p>&#8216;Yes we met when he was at college. He was just 23 and I was 44, married with 5 children&#8217;</p>
<p>We were in love right away. Can you imagine the scandal? It&#8217;s always ok for an older man to be with a younger woman but when an older woman is with a younger man it&#8217;s a scandal.&#8217;</p>
<p>I just smiled and sat there in the sun soaking up the story.</p>
<p>She lifted her small thin arm to her mouth. Took the remaining half a cigarette from a time earlier in the day, put it to her mouth, lit it and carried on.</p>
<p>Looking back it was a crazy time. All the town were in uproar. My husband followed us for years and years. My children were devastated, his parents went absolutely crazy over it and we spent years at war with everyone and anyone. It was a very hard time&#8217;</p>
<p>I asked her one question&#8230; &#8216;what got you through it&#8217;</p>
<p>She replied &#8216;love&#8217;</p>
<p>I smiled at her and she said&#8230;</p>
<p>Yes&#8230; Just pure love, not lust or sex just a deep understanding of each other at every level.</p>
<p>We locked ourselves away, loved each other and created music&#8217;</p>
<p>She then went on to tell me another story of how she sold over 60,000 copies of her Celtic Music CD that they had created in their bedroom studio just 3 doors away from my home. Turns out she plays almost anything with strings, he is a genius violinist and they are wonderfully happy till this day in love.</p>
<p>She smiled, told me about her illness and then had another cigarette. She looked at me in the eye and said&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8216;Don&#8217;t worry Alan, I know, it&#8217;ll all be fine&#8217;</p>
<p>She knows I&#8217;m divorced. She knows I have 4 kids. She knows I have had love and lost love.</p>
<p>She smiled, held my hand and went back into her home.</p>
<p>I walked back into my own home totally inspired by her story and I want to tell you why.</p>
<p>This lady had done something most young people haven&#8217;t done.Lived and lived to tell her story.</p>
<p>She has been through the eye of the storm at many levels and survived. She is a survivor of LIFE and a lover in the truest sense.</p>
<p>Both her and her lover (they have never married) still adore each other to this day. The age gap is painfully obvious at the physical level yet to see them together it would be easy to judge what or who they are.</p>
<p>Have you ever done that? Seen something, someone and made a call of some kind in your mind about them. IF you get the chance to know them, they weren&#8217;t what you thought they were in fact they were the absolute opposite to what you expected.</p>
<p>Yet based on your conditioning, based on your own measurement of right and wrong you made a judgment.</p>
<p>Yet think about this; in life you are really only responsible for one person&#8230; YOU.</p>
<p>And when faced with the truth of YOU most of us back away, go into denial, brush everything over with huge helping of Ego.</p>
<p>Why is that?</p>
<p>Because of fear. Fear of who? Fear of what others will think. So because we fear the opinions of others we develop and create false realities.</p>
<p>Think about this for my neighbor all those years ago. She told me people were saying she is a pervert, adulteress and child snatcher because of what she did.</p>
<p>The reality was she was desperately unhappy and because of that she decided to leave her husband, forsake her kids for a while and jump into the fire with a younger man that she loved and he loved her.</p>
<p>Was that wrong?</p>
<p>We could say yes but who&#8217;s level or standard do we Measure it against? The standards of others. Standards of God. Standards of truth? </p>
<p>And the simple truth is we live in a world where the talk, the gossip, the lives of others have taken on more meaning than our own.</p>
<p>Wherever you go you will hear of others talking about others. Judging, condemning, putting someones life right without ever bothering to look at their own.</p>
<p>And here&#8217;s what I learned.</p>
<p>Give time to those that need your time. Honestly I couldn&#8217;t be bothered but after 30 minutes of listening I was truly glad I did listen.</p>
<p>Hold back from judging and listen to the whole story. When you really look at the bigger picture its easy to see both sides.</p>
<p>Remove yourself from their life. You can only judge them if you try and put them into your shoes, your mind, your thoughts. Yet why would you do that if you would hate someone else to think of you in that way?</p>
<p>The 74 year old lady next door is happy. She is in love. Her man is happy. He&#8217;s clearly in love. They have dedicated themselves to each other since the first day despite all the problems they encountered.</p>
<p>Her children love her and are around all the time. Her children love him. Time healed everything. It&#8217;s fine for them.</p>
<p>You know&#8230;</p>
<p>The doorway to happiness is what we create. The life we need to create our happiness is the life we create. When we think, think, think about what we want in life, it appears, the laws of attraction whether we know them are not kick into action and make it happen.</p>
<p>But Ultimately&#8230; it&#8217;s up to us, it&#8217;s up to YOU.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d love to know what you thinking? Let me know.</font></p>
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		<title>Bastard Genius</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Forrest Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>How is it a Bastard can become one of the most creative minds in history?</p>
<p>Let me explain and also show you how knowing this could change the way you think and feel.</p>
<p>When born in April 15th 1452 his father took him away to live with him while his mother married another man eventually giving birth to another 17 siblings.</p>
<p>Because the child was a &#8216;bastard&#8217; born outside of marriage this instantly gave him the handicap of being disqualified from education by the Church.</p>
<p>This meant if he was to learn&#8230; he would have to teach himself. So he went about teaching himself to write. Yet his technique was unusual to say the least. As he had never had formal education of any sort his writing to a form of writing from right to left in a nation where like the English all wrote from left to right.</p>
<p>Successful at writing his life then took on a voyage of discovery and achievement. This child was Leonardo Davinci.</p>
<p>Painter, artist, inventor, thinker and more. The man was clearly a genius. I was just wonder why?</p>
<p>When you look at what took place with him the moment was when society rejected him because he was a bastard. This cut him off from mainstream from birth.</p>
<p>Once cut off if he wanted to learn more about anything he would have to do it alone.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that interesting.</p>
<p>The man was a recognized genius at EVERYTHING he did. At one point Davinci was even enlisted to make war machines and better more effective weapons. Hard to believe it was the same man that painted the last supper!</p>
<p>I believe there is a lesson here, a very powerful lesson for the way we our lives and grow as a human being.</p>
<p>Davinci had the&#8230; <a href="http://www.alanforrestsmith.com/blog/2010/07/bastard-genius/" class="read_more">continue reading</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font face="Courier New" size="4">How is it a Bastard can become one of the most creative minds in history?</p>
<p>Let me explain and also show you how knowing this could change the way you think and feel.</p>
<p>When born in April 15th 1452 his father took him away to live with him while his mother married another man eventually giving birth to another 17 siblings.</p>
<p>Because the child was a &#8216;bastard&#8217; born outside of marriage this instantly gave him the handicap of being disqualified from education by the Church.</p>
<p>This meant if he was to learn&#8230; he would have to teach himself. So he went about teaching himself to write. Yet his technique was unusual to say the least. As he had never had formal education of any sort his writing to a form of writing from right to left in a nation where like the English all wrote from left to right.</p>
<p>Successful at writing his life then took on a voyage of discovery and achievement. This child was Leonardo Davinci.</p>
<p>Painter, artist, inventor, thinker and more. The man was clearly a genius. I was just wonder why?</p>
<p>When you look at what took place with him the moment was when society rejected him because he was a bastard. This cut him off from mainstream from birth.</p>
<p>Once cut off if he wanted to learn more about anything he would have to do it alone.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that interesting.</p>
<p>The man was a recognized genius at EVERYTHING he did. At one point Davinci was even enlisted to make war machines and better more effective weapons. Hard to believe it was the same man that painted the last supper!</p>
<p>I believe there is a lesson here, a very powerful lesson for the way we our lives and grow as a human being.</p>
<p>Davinci had the handicap or blessing of missing out on mainstream education.</p>
<p>This kicked his brain and mind into gear. He was known for going into nature and spending hours and days studying the workings of just about everything. This ignited his inner genius to come slowly to the surface and create the genius he finally became.</p>
<p>It appears he never forced it, he followed his natural built in nature to discover everything. Just look how he turned out.</p>
<p>Interesting right, he was a dreamer. He dreamed of things, making things, finding out things, developing and chasing his dreams.</p>
<p>Yes probably most of your life you have been told to stop dreaming, stop being a fantasist, stop being unrealistic.</p>
<p>In those moments you are told that you maybe shrunk back&#8230; back to what most call reality yet that reality is based on what the mainstream teach us.</p>
<p>Get a good education. Get a good job. Get promotion. Get a good car. Get a good house (detached is best). Get a good husband and wife. Get a good pension. Have a good life and maybe have an extra holiday on the beach of you behave well or save enough. Oh yes don&#8217;t forget&#8230; always&nbsp; try and get a car better than your neighbors!</p>
<p>Sound familiar?<br />
Have you been there?<br />
Does it feel like your going there?</p>
<p>You know it&#8217;s never tool ate to make massive changes in your life. It&#8217;s never too late to discover, uncover and recover your hidden genius. You do, you still have it despite what you might have been told.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t dream<br />
Don&#8217;t plan.<br />
You can&#8217;t do it.<br />
That&#8217;s ridiculous.<br />
It&#8217;ll fail.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve heard that right?</p>
<p>When people say that to you it&#8217;s simply THEM reflecting themselves, their fears, their traits, their patterns onto you.</p>
<p>This is where you need to dig deep and get inside yourself.<br />
This is the moment when you must let go, spend time alone within yourself.<br />
DE-surround yourself with those of a much more conditioned and rigid way of thinking.</p>
<p>Awaken all possibilities that you can be more, you can be bigger and realize your own potential.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easier than you might be thinking. You might have to strip away old ways, old thinking and then refill those gaps with new thoughts. That&#8217;s fine. That&#8217;s good.</p>
<p>But &#8230;</p>
<p>You should be aware you BE-COME what you feed yourself mentally and physically of course.</p>
<p>Put TV, and Media rubbish into your mind&#8230; that&#8217;s is what you vessel becomes just another me-too, same as human being that has never reached their own potential and never will.</p>
<p>Lets go back to Davinci for a second.</p>
<p>He would vanish into nature. See the color of everything. Hear the noise of everything. See the shape of everything&#8230; he absorbed himself in reality.</p>
<p>Reality TV is NOT reality. Its dream scape in transmission designed to hold mankind in a dreamlike state.</p>
<p>Food and hypnosis for the masses.</p>
<p>So how about you? How about today? What can you do to recover, reveal and release your inner genius?</p>
<p>Please share.</p>
<p>Alan Forrest Smith</p>
<p>*~A.F.S.~*</font></p>
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		<title>DivineDelusionDeception?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Forrest Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Have you noticed&#8230;</p>
<p>God for cash, God for love, God for living, real God, no God, I&#8217;m God, Your God and&#8230; this is just an observation but&#8230;</p>
<p>I met this lady.</p>
<p>She was wonderful. We went for a long walk in a long open space and she spoke to me in a gentle kind manner about how her life has been revealed, opened and guided.</p>
<p>She used to believe in God.<br />
Now she believes in herself as a god.</p>
<p>She used to rely on God.<br />
Now she relies on herself as a godlike being.</p>
<p>She used to pray to God.<br />
Now she chants endless repetitions about how she has arrived to save the World.</p>
<p>Now this is JUST AN OBSERVATION&#8230; but is there more and more of these people coming out of the woodwork?</p>
<p>She had given up everything.</p>
<p>Her car, her home, her husband, her regular life. She was now flat broke and had no plans. I asked her why? She replied because the Universe has plans for her, big, huge plans. The Universe will bring them to her at the right time. All she has to do is wait for the universe.</p>
<p>I said&#8230; is that realistic? She said&#8230; I have no expectations, no thoughts, the universe works alone and deliver when ready.</p>
<p>I must admit my brain was working overtime at this point.</p>
<p>Here was a beautiful young woman that had given away everything, walked away from everything. She must have needs. I asked her&#8230; what about your needs&#8230; she said I no longer need anything. I said anything, she replied yes anything.</p>
<p>Now I don&#8217;t know about you.</p>
<p>I need Tea.<br />
I need gadgets.<br />
I need my guitar.<br />
I need my lover.<br />
I need carrot cake.<br />
I need&#8230; <a href="http://www.alanforrestsmith.com/blog/2010/03/divinedelusiondeception/" class="read_more">continue reading</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font face="Courier New" size="4">Have you noticed&#8230;</p>
<p>God for cash, God for love, God for living, real God, no God, I&#8217;m God, Your God and&#8230; this is just an observation but&#8230;</p>
<p>I met this lady.</p>
<p>She was wonderful. We went for a long walk in a long open space and she spoke to me in a gentle kind manner about how her life has been revealed, opened and guided.</p>
<p>She used to believe in God.<br />
Now she believes in herself as a god.</p>
<p>She used to rely on God.<br />
Now she relies on herself as a godlike being.</p>
<p>She used to pray to God.<br />
Now she chants endless repetitions about how she has arrived to save the World.</p>
<p>Now this is JUST AN OBSERVATION&#8230; but is there more and more of these people coming out of the woodwork?</p>
<p>She had given up everything.</p>
<p>Her car, her home, her husband, her regular life. She was now flat broke and had no plans. I asked her why? She replied because the Universe has plans for her, big, huge plans. The Universe will bring them to her at the right time. All she has to do is wait for the universe.</p>
<p>I said&#8230; is that realistic? She said&#8230; I have no expectations, no thoughts, the universe works alone and deliver when ready.</p>
<p>I must admit my brain was working overtime at this point.</p>
<p>Here was a beautiful young woman that had given away everything, walked away from everything. She must have needs. I asked her&#8230; what about your needs&#8230; she said I no longer need anything. I said anything, she replied yes anything.</p>
<p>Now I don&#8217;t know about you.</p>
<p>I need Tea.<br />
I need gadgets.<br />
I need my guitar.<br />
I need my lover.<br />
I need carrot cake.<br />
I need to be close to Scotland.<br />
I need my kids.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>I just do, maybe I need therapy also&#8230; <img src='http://www.alanforrestsmith.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>But I do know I really have needs.</p>
<p>I have needs and wouldn&#8217;t give them up for anything, anyone, anytime soon.</p>
<p>I asked her what all the changes?</p>
<p>She told me about this big seminar she had been to. Her eyes had been opened. She was almost convulsing on the floor at the thought of her new enlightened state during this event. Like Saul on the donkey&#8230; her eyes had been opened, the scales had fallen off, she could now see where she was once blind.</p>
<p>She got the manual.<br />
She went on the course and the next course and the next course and was shown how to find herself amongst the mass of mankind.</p>
<p>She discovered that she had a purpose and the purpose was to save mankind&#8230; SOMEHOW?<br />
She discovered that nothing else mattered only her own self fulfillment<br />
She discovered that God was now just part of the Universe and now the universe should be asked for all things.<br />
She discovered a lot.</p>
<p>But you know what I observed?</p>
<p>A woman completely lost, lonely at home with an animal or two, living a mythical life where nothing leads to nowhere.</p>
<p>A woman that had become an evangelist for the new age faiths being spread from stages all over the planet.</p>
<p>She like countless others is broke, lonely, sad and has nothing in life apart from a shelf full of manuals, self- help DVDs and a stack of credit cards bills she&#8217;s unable to pay this month or any month in fact.</p>
<p>What the hell is going on?</p>
<p>I have just come back from the wonderful Dam walk. This is a lake that goes around a dam near where I live.</p>
<p>I enjoyed every moment being in the 3rd dimension. When I say 3rd dimension, this is real now, this is where my senses are engaged, my sight, my hearing, the nerves endings on my skin are all engaged. I can taste, smell everything. Small bird moves in the corner of my eye, my body is quick enough to see, hear, sense it and move around fast enough to be able to take a photo, this is the 3rd dimension.</p>
<p>Yet there is an invisible dimension, some call the 4th or even the 5th. There are also an awakened people coming to new life and seeing this new dimension. These are maybe like you, like me, like others that want more from life.</p>
<p>Yet sadly in business there are also those that are becoming aware of this 4th dimension and willing to use, abuse and manipulate if for hard cash.</p>
<p>Look can I give you my take on this?</p>
<p>If your life sucks, if it&#8217;s crap, if you are not happy, if it is killing you, draining you, exhausting you&#8230; CHANGE IT.</p>
<p>But when you are in that place you are hungry and eager for change. Yet you are weakened by what is taking place, physically and mentally exhausted by the drudgery of your life.</p>
<p>So when something drops in front of your eyes that is exciting, new, fresh, invigorating and at the same time you are swept along by the energy of the mass of people&#8230; you are like a hungry fish snapping at the bait and BANG&#8230; you are in.</p>
<p>Are you brain-washed? Not at all. Brainwashing is when you remove all the crap from your brain and start to add new thinking, new thoughts that make you happier long term.</p>
<p>This is more like brain toxin being injected into the brain.</p>
<p>Think about it.</p>
<p>You arrive feeling crap.</p>
<p>You leave feeling amazing.</p>
<p>You pay for everything on offer.</p>
<p>Your life two years down the line if solitary, lonely and devoid of any reality.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>You were told by another human being that this is the way&#8230; follow it.</p>
<p>I have seen this in action. I once saw a girl sign up for a ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUND mentor course. The course and the mentor promised to show those that bought into it THE WAY, their life purpose, their key to success, their divine path. HONESTLY!</p>
<p>But think about it &#8230; is that the way the Universe or even God work?</p>
<p>And what is taking place here is there are those that are now using 4th dimension (spiritual paths) to make heaps and heaps of cash in the process!</p>
<p>THEY WILL fall flat on their faces. Truth always overcomes as we are seeing in the case of James Arthur Ray right now.</p>
<p>This 4th dimension twist is leaving many, many, many totally broke yet they (and the girl above) still held tight their chosen&nbsp; messianic saviors mentors despite the fact they break them completely!</p>
<p>Interesting times, interesting thoughts, interesting observations.</p>
<p>This really is a God delusion at a very deep level. It&#8217;s growing and growing fast. What I do find interesting is that at the same time the illusionists that pump out this brain filth and destroy lives in the process will also vanish like the morning mists.</p>
<p>They might make their cash promising millions a new way, a new life, a new direction yet at the same to they create a false reliance on &#8216;NOTHING&#8217;. </p>
<p>Are you enjoying life in the 3rd dimension? Are you interested in life in the 4th dimension?</p>
<p>Be careful but be true to yourself always.</p>
<p>Do you have an opinion on DivineDelusionDeception??</p>
<p>Let me know, just post a comment below.</font></p>
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		<title>The Profit Prophets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Forrest Smith</dc:creator>
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<p>4 Years ago Ste left his job because of the Profit Prophet&#8217;s.</p>
<p>He had a great home, a great car, a great wife and kids. Not anymore, 4 years ago Ste left his job.</p>
<p>Ste was in a rut. His job meant he woke at 6-30am, left his home at 7-15am, spent the whole day watching a clock, looking and waiting and praying for the end of the day to arrive. When it did, he got back in the car that was costing him a fortune every month, drove home to his wife, his two kids and his ideal home. He arrived home around 7pm, relaxed, got ready for bed and did it all over again.</p>
<p>Until one day Ste got an email.</p>
<p>The email promised the lifestyle he had always wanted.</p>
<p>The car, the holidays, the travel, the big house and work at home as much or as little as you liked.</p>
<p>It was exactly what Ste wanted in his life. He ordered the course and made a start.</p>
<p>After just 3 months he told his wife that he wanted to leave his job of 22 years and do this full-time. She asked him but how much are you making now? His reply was nothing but I can make it work.</p>
<p>They talked, they rowed, they sulked, they did everything. She was dead-set against him doing this. He had worked out that if he left his job it would give him enough cash over 7 months to make it all happen.</p>
<p>He left his job.</p>
<p>Ste worked and worked and worked and worked. More hours than ever before but he loved it! In one week alone he did over 16 hours each day, never saw his kids and only saw wife for 10 mins.</p>
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<p>4 Years ago Ste left his job because of the Profit Prophet&#8217;s.</p>
<p>He had a great home, a great car, a great wife and kids. Not anymore, 4 years ago Ste left his job.</p>
<p>Ste was in a rut. His job meant he woke at 6-30am, left his home at 7-15am, spent the whole day watching a clock, looking and waiting and praying for the end of the day to arrive. When it did, he got back in the car that was costing him a fortune every month, drove home to his wife, his two kids and his ideal home. He arrived home around 7pm, relaxed, got ready for bed and did it all over again.</p>
<p>Until one day Ste got an email.</p>
<p>The email promised the lifestyle he had always wanted.</p>
<p>The car, the holidays, the travel, the big house and work at home as much or as little as you liked.</p>
<p>It was exactly what Ste wanted in his life. He ordered the course and made a start.</p>
<p>After just 3 months he told his wife that he wanted to leave his job of 22 years and do this full-time. She asked him but how much are you making now? His reply was nothing but I can make it work.</p>
<p>They talked, they rowed, they sulked, they did everything. She was dead-set against him doing this. He had worked out that if he left his job it would give him enough cash over 7 months to make it all happen.</p>
<p>He left his job.</p>
<p>Ste worked and worked and worked and worked. More hours than ever before but he loved it! In one week alone he did over 16 hours each day, never saw his kids and only saw wife for 10 mins.</p>
<p>This went on for months.</p>
<p>Over the next 7 months Ste had made exactly NOTHING from his new ventures.</p>
<p>It got worse, not only has Ste made nothing he had also bought and paid for more self-help, how-to course in the meantime. The Profit Prophets had been busy catching him, preaching to him, directing and persuading him to buy, buy, buy!</p>
<p>Future profits would be promised by the Prophets. The profits never arrived.</p>
<p>18 months had passed. Ste was BROKE and his wife had seen enough. She left, the kids went with her, Ste lost his home, he lost everything.</p>
<p>Sadly all familiar story of those being persuaded by the Profit Prophets!</p>
<p>And with a new year comes along a whole host of messages about how the new year can be the new you and how the new year will change your life and how the new year is your new opportunity to rebuild everything. It&#8217;s the busy time for the Profit Prophets and YES &#8230; there will be those that buy, buy, buy. Why? Because not only are they on the same wavelength of the false prophets of profit but they see the NEXT-NEW-THING as their own personal salvation from where they are right now.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s self perpetuating and all encompassing because once in the cycle of the profit prophets it can be very hard to get out.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s the answer? Is it possible just because it&#8217;s a new year that all will be different and change? Yes it&#8217;s possible but hardly possible. Why?</p>
<p>My mum went for help a million times to try and stop smoking. They gave her a date and time and system to follow. She never stopped. One day just over a year ago she woke up and said &quot;I am stopping smoking&quot;. She has never smoked since.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s no different to what the Profit Prophets will do and say to you. They will tell, tell, tell you but the reality is if you have no made a change inside of yourself, if you are just listening to the same old stuff tweaked for your ears &#8230; nothing will happen.</p>
<p>Just because it&#8217;s new year will mean ZERO to you. The Profit Prophets know that, they get that but they also understand you are tuned into the world and it&#8217;s ways.</p>
<p>They know that because it&#8217;s new year you will also be thinking about changes. Sadly those changes rarely if ever last.</p>
<p>Ste fell for the Profit Prophets and lost everything.</p>
<p>Remember&#8230; the change is YOU, it&#8217;s in you, it&#8217;s something that cannot be taken from a manual or step by step guide.</p>
<p>Beware the Profit Prophets are busy right now, they are looking to devour you, every last penny!</p>
<p>Have you been affected by these guys?</p>
<p>Share it here and let me know.</font></p>
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