Feel Bettter, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful

The artist Prince is an interesting sort. I was listening to his LotusFlow3r collection (yes, it's spelled that way) and there is a definite shift in his musical focus. In the interest of full disclosure, I've been a fan since my teenage years and enjoyed his NPG Music Club from it's humble beginnings until he closed it a few years ago. It just seems that certain of his songs hit me at the right time in my life and stages of growth.

For example, when his song "When Doves Cry" came out, I had just started college and was confused about relationships, which were much different in college than in the neighborhood during my high school years, and my changing relationship with my parents. That song was nearly a biographical sketch of me.

When "If I Was Your Girlfriend" was released, I was a young husband who didn't understand why my wife was more open with the female friends in her life than with me. That song spoke to my feelings of "I want to be/The things you are to me." When he sang, "Would you run to me if somebody hurt you/Even if that somebody was me," he sang about the openness I thought should have been there.

He did a song called "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" which I sang to my year old daughter all the time because I thought (and still think, now that she's an adult) that she is the girl Prince was singing about.

To be sure, in the past, he had his dark side and I listened to those songs, too, but the ones that really struck me were those mentioned above. So as I'm driving home today, I'm listening to the new 3 CD collection, two of his music and one of an artist he's working with named Brie Valente. I haven't made it to her CD yet because I keep playing one song over and over and it's the latest one that catches me the right way.

The song is called "Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful" but when he sings the chorus, it comes out "feel better, feel good, feel wonderful."  I guess the rhyme scheme works better that way. No matter because this is exactly how I'm trying to live my life now. The gratitude he tries to convey in this song is what I'm developing in my own life. The ending lyric goes "You know you should feel wonderful/Keep your mind in the vertical motion/Always looking up."

I don't understand how Prince, an artist for the masses, has been coming up with songs that keep touching me as they've done so since the 1980s, but I'm grateful it keeps happening. I have another song I can enjoy at full volume and hopefully, the groove will catch someone else so that they can feel better, feel good, feel wonderful.

It's funky and positive and might be just what another new spiritual being needs.

Now Look What You Did

I'm in the hospital as I write this entry and, like everything else that happens to us, I'm here because of the tenants of the Law of Attraction. Don't worry, this is not a bash of the LoA, in fact, it is a more concrete proof that the Law is in action everyday. It's more a story of how I need to pay more attention to my thoughts when I am asking the Universe for something I want.

No worries from me. My condition isn't serious and I may end up going home tonight, but I can think back to the exact time that I attracted these events to myself. The issue is in my leg. I felt a little pain and I said to myself, “well, if that doesn't feel better, I'm going to have to get that looked at.” And the Universe said “your wish is my command.” It began moving people, places, events in accordance to what I asked for. The issue is in the generality of what I asked for.

I went through the day, getting worse with other symptoms that I attributed to a light bug but I ended up getting sent home by my boss. By this time, I was feeling pretty bad, so I came home and fell into bed. Later in the afternoon, my wife got worried and I did my best to alleviate her fears, but she wasn't having that because I came home with a fever and slept for a long time.

Unfortunately, I was being a man and men don't go to the hospital. Why is it that men all know that's the wrong attitude to have, but we all act like that anyway? Do we still have the mistaken idea that giving in to a hospital visit makes us look week? We need to stop that kind of thinking, starting here.

So my wife brought out the big guns. She called my brother, my sister (who is an Registered Nurse), my mother and my daughter. You can guess the outcome of that?

The Universe loves speed and the Universe acted accordingly. Within the space of a few hours, because things didn't feel better, I was going to have it looked at whether I liked it or not. I blogged about being particular in your manifesting when it comes to your health. Problem is, I didn't follow my own rule and the Universe came up with this option as a way to fulfill my non-detailed request.

I will still maintain the “I'm always health” mantra, but when manifesting something that requires detail, I have to remember to be specific.

Ville Voice Gratitude

Over the last few days, I've begun my association with a local foodie website called Ville Voice Eats. Back in February, they posted an ad looking for writers and I made my pitch, even using The Prophet Within as writing samples. After submitting my name for consideration, I gave it to the universe to make it happen and last week I was informed that I attracted the end that I wanted. I was to be a writer for Ville Voice Eats.

To set myself apart, my style of writing for them is slightly snarky but informative. My first posts are updates on the swine flu issue. Here's an excerpt from that first post:

If you are affected by swine flu, and there are no reported cases in Kentucky as of right now, life will suck for a while until you get better. Like most flu strains, you'll have a fever, cough, sore throat, headache, chills, etc. A doctor may prescribe Tamiflu or Relenza, but most patients in the U.S. recover without it.

Read that entire post here.

The snarkiness of that post got an angry response from a reader who said things like "You’ve got to be kidding me. There just may be a special place in hell for whoever wrote this garbage."

Wow.

A writer hopes to attract a response, but I hadn't had that one in mind. In the post, I poked the media for it's gloom and doom reporting as they attempt to scare viewers into watching their content with the idea of attracting a humorous and hopefully positive response. How often have we heard that positivity will help us attract positive outcomes. I've updated information on swine flu as new, solid information has become available, including the fact that Kentucky has had a few cases reported now.

Also yesterday, I was able to break from that subject and celebrate my state's best burger. Food Network magazine found the best burgers in all 50 states for a summer issue and Kentucky's best is right in my city at W.W. Cousins. I've been there a number of times and I can't argue that it is the best burger from a locally owned restaurant. Find out how I celebrated that positive here. Yeah, I know my editor keeps getting my byline wrong, but with all the content I will be providing him, he'll get it right.

So you see, the Law of Attraction is working every day but I still have a lot to learn. Be specific about what you want and if it's a positive to the universe, you can have it.