Transforming Bad News Into Good

It is a paradox that bad news is best dealt with by avoiding
it. If you turn off the television news, you ignore the
bad news that does little more than induce fear in people.
Actually, it's getting harder for news stations to find bad
news. Crime reports are getting scarcer because crime keeps
declining.

For the last thirty years, and especially during the last ten
years, crime statistics have been falling steadily. The U.S.
Bureau of Justice statistics show that, for the thirty-year
period, 1975-2005, the rate of violent crime has dropped a full
50%, while the rate of property theft has plummeted by a
whopping 72%!

The underlying reason is that a new wave of consciousness is
being born into this world as the Old Reality steadily fades
away. Humanity has one foot in the New Reality and it keeps
pushing the envelope to explore the expanded vistas of
heart-centered consciousness.

People in Old Reality consciousness are used to holding their
energy close in to themselves as a defense against possible
attack, so they sometimes view an open and loving heart as a
sign of weakness. What they don't understand is that
heart-centered consciousness sees a wider vista of
consciousness and that its natural emanation of healing love
energy precludes the likelihood of most forms of attack.

When you turn off bad news, you avoid wallowing in its
negativity and thus lowering your frequency of consciousness.
Instead, you have the option to support the world with higher
consciousness. What you think and feel flows from you directly
into the Global Mind atmosphere which surrounds this planet. A
more enlightened sense of personal responsibility leads you to
help to heal, rather than pollute, the mental atmosphere which
we all share.

But what if the bad news lands on your own personal doorstep
and can't be shut out?

If it's personal to you, or to someone close to you, then the
same principle applies, but you need to apply a specific effort
to it. New Thought author Emmett Fox (1886-1951) developed a
technique called The Golden Key. He counseled people to stop
thinking about the difficulty at hand and to think about God
instead. By focusing on the spiritual, the person's attention
reaches a higher level of consciousness where the best solution
can be perceived.

When a person practices Golden Keying, the problem is soon
resolved. What happens is that your inner being is able to
resolve the problem once you move into a state of spiritual
awareness. You are then in a conscious position to perceive the
wisdom of your inner being as it determines the optimal path,
or what I call The Elegant Solution. The situation may simply
be healed by the presence of the spiritual energy which can
flow through the person when they are attuned within.

At the level of your inner being you have access to enormous
vistas of awareness, clear intuitive insight into the essence
of every situation, and the vision to see how each possible
solution would actually unfold if chosen. It is only in our
outer consciousness that we run around in the outer world,
stressed and worried, pretending that we don't know the answers
to problems!

The answers, the energy, and the healing are all available
within. It just takes intent plus quiet time to gain access to
the abundant resources of your inner being.