Have you got the sort or sort of human brain that’s susceptible to speak up uninvited about everything? Well I’ve had one like this so long as I can keep in mind. I’ve in fact spent a substantial amount of period as a grown-up learning the artwork of controlling the build of my “cranial committee.” In most cases We’ve been completely effective in dismissing their debates.

Existence changed forever for the better after i finally found that with sustained work I could actually shut that team up. Abraham Hicks phone calls it “achieving for the greater feeling believed.” This is accomplished in many ways but all involve turning intentionally from the experienced negativity and toward something positive. I depend on re-focusing myself for the welfare of others mainly, or duplicating my mantra to realign with Nature.

Yesterday We opened a thrilling email delivered to Jubilee people that started such as this:

If all goes based on plan, we ought to expect Jubilee to accomplish our complex design procedure, site engineering function, and initial permit & approvals procedures during the period of the next six months. We might actually reach the stage where we have been in significant negotiation with banking institutions for building financing, for which we will have to bring down payment dollars to the table in order to secure our loan.

This wonderful “quickening” of our project is right where we have worked so hard to be. We all want to be there, and we know we have the “plan” that should get us there. I was taken aback then when, after months of no obstreperous interruptions related to Jubilee, my cranial committee started in with pronouncements of doubt and other annoying heckling. That surprise attack really got me thinking though.

I’ll bet I am not the only one among us Jubilee members who falls prey to the occasional ambush of ridicule and negativity concerning this complex project. It would seem very unlikely that I alone would have to contend with pot shots like, Who do you think you are?! (that you and your friends can successfully create your own Passivhaus cohousing neighborhood in Floyd) and There will never be enough ____ (fill in the blank) to pull this off!

Who do you think you are? Now there’s a snarky voice from my past. Any time I ever waste listening to her she promotes her ridiculous belief that I simply am not good enough to create anything wonderful or have anything wonderful happen to me. Believe me, I’ve learned not to give her the time of day any more, but she continues to pipe up from time to time with her unwelcome harangue.

There will never be enough ______ to pull this off! That one’s a family heirloom, handed down (traditionally wrapped in layers of many-times-recycled tissue paper) from the time of The Great Depression. Some among us may halfheartedly still embrace that belief, but I have to give it the boot. For that job I employ the voice of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, from The Wizard of Oz, “Oh-ho-ho-ho, rubbish! You haven’t any charged power here. Become gone before somebody drops a homely home you as well!”

It occurs if you ask me that easily am not the only real Jubileer who ever gets these annoying, unwelcome cranial committee appointments, then maybe it behooves me to request other Jubileers to become listed on me inside a combined work to create a highly effective banishing spell. On our trip house today I asked Walter what he considered members discovering an affirmation that functions for all those for these last frontier times that lie forward for the Jubilee task. He urged me to talk about my procedure with everyone.

In the automobile I used my intelligent telephone to Google for quotations about facing the “difficult highly.” This 1st one to pop-up could deliver a walloping great activate the pants to the people cranial committee people who seized power within my malleable childhood.

Pay attention to the mustn’ts, kid.

Pay attention to the don’ts.

Pay attention to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts.

Pay attention to the under no circumstances haves, pay attention near me… after that

Anything can occur, child. Anything could be.

Shel Silverstein

But here’s one I love a lot more:

The positive thinker sees the invisible,

seems the intangible and achieves the impossible.

Without a doubt why I love that one better. We, most of us, have been seeing the invisible and feeling the intangible. That’s two out of three right there! So, of course we can achieve the impossible. And, as pragmatic Walter was quick to point out, “Cohousing is not impossible. Look at all the other cohousing communities that have created themselves! And we have the professional allies to pull it off.”

“I know.” I said, (was I whining? I hope not.) “But my cranial committee loves to run riot over rationality or reason.” (Almost as much as I personally enjoy alliteration!)

Just then Marcus Aurelius, trying to have the last word uttered this (via the internet,) uewb_07_img0461

Because a thing seems difficult for you,

do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

And despite the recent crisis of confidence I find myself, once again, believing that we will succeed.