Desires

For those of us who want to live at a higher level of consciousness, we must let go of:
1) unrealistic desires
2) Obsessive desires which nurture fantasies and cause psychological distress
3) Desires which, if fulfilled, would contribute to personal misfortune, harm others or the environment and serve no purpose.
4) Desires which arise because of restlessness, confusion, boredom or an inclination to imitate the behaviors of others whose life purposes are different from yours.

Instead, we can have our life-enhancing desires fulfilled if we:
1) Accurately define our needs and meaningful goals. Be specific. Write them down. Write what you an and will do to accomplish them.
2) Discern the different between necessary life-enhancing goals and desires who are not necessary or important. Focus your attention and actions on having those necessary, life-enhancing desires fulfilled.
3)At all times, be aware of the fact that you live in the wholeness of God's spirit. In order to do this, quiet your mind. Rest in the silence until you are peaceful, God-centered and confident. When desires arise in your awareness, discriminate between those which are in harmony with your ultimate aims in life and discard all other desires. By allowing those desires to disappear from your awareness. you will weaken their hold on you and soon they will be dissolved. The energy formerly tied up with them will be released and used for higher purposes.
4)Learn to cooperate with with universal, impersonal laws of mind which determine that every cause produces a corresponding effect. The thought you habitually think, the states of consciousness you maintain, and the effective actions you skillfully perform will then manifest the results you desire.

We can be healthy, happy, secure, creative, prosperous and spiritually filled. Meditate....