How To Be the Master of Your Life

What if you lived your life as the master of all you survey? You can change your thinking and change your life--in an instant! Think of it. It's your choice; be a master of the world or be a victim to its horrors. You have to cleanse your thinking because your life begins with your thoughts. You can choose to be in heaven or in hell right now as you form attachments to the world and react to the things of this world. Let go of your attachments to the things that are temporal, for they will always disappoint you. Let go of your reactions to people and events of all kinds, no matter how tragic they may appear because you get sucked in inevitably to pain, fear and further disappointment.

1. Rise above the petty judging of others and above the petty judgments that others make of you. It is not your role in life to be the judge of others. You do not know enough to judge anyone. You do not need to be swayed by what others think of you. Remain centered in your knowledge of who you are as a child of God. If someone doesn't like you or treats you unkindly, it is simply a call for love. That doesn't necessarily mean to try to get close to him, but to simply see beyond his façade to the child of God he truly is.
2. Treat yourself and your past with love and kindness. You are a divine child of God. You, too, often are guilty of focusing on faults you perceive in yourself and the things you have done long ago. What is done is done and should be forgiven (released). There is nothing you can do to change it. Your punishment of yourself for past mistakes only keeps you in a prison, a victim of the past. The only escape from that prison is forgiveness. An attitude of love and kindness towards yourself is your key to the doors that hold you bound and give pain. Letting the past go opens the future to a bright new possibility, no matter how low you are now. Rise above your negative thinking and addictions. You only hurt yourself with these things. Life becomes a living hell on earth as you find yourself controlled by something or someone outside yourself such as food, drugs or cigarettes. Giving your power away to addictions reduces your experience of life force, or energy, and weakens you considerably.
3. Treat others with love, forgiveness and compassion. Prejudices and old wounds must be released for you to go forward in your life. Holding resentments against someone is like holding a sword above your own head. As you strike the other person, you only strike yourself. So often, others are acting out of pain in their own lives, so it's not a personal attack on you. It could have been against anyone handy at the moment. One of the greatest truths is that the problem with which you are faced is not the real problem--your reaction to the problem is the problem. Learn to react with love, forgiveness and compassion.
4. You are the author of your universe. You write the script of the movie that you are in. You are the producer. You select the persons who are in your movie--they are drawn to you to fulfill the purpose you had in coming to this earth. You can rewrite the script and choose again the persons in the movie if you desire. All it takes is another choice. You are powerful beyond your greatest wish. You are God in expression. You are a master of all you survey because you control your choices, thus creating the background for your future.
5. The universe is on your side. God is the energy behind the universe and God does not attack. All of the events--tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, divorces, deaths, etc.--are simply events. Fear is an attractive force for events such as these. God loves you and would never plan to hurt you. The things that happen give you opportunities for growth and forgiveness.
6. Take time to be still and listen to your inner voice. Clear your heart and soul of all your past history. Just a little time each day to do your devotional work makes a world of difference to the remainder of the day.

From A Course in Miracles: I will be still, and let the earth be still along with me. And in that stillness we will find the peace of God. It is within my heart, which witnesses to God Himself. Workbook, pg. 391

I have said that you cannot change your mind by changing your behavior, but I have also said, and many times, that you can change your mind. When your mood tells you that you have chosen wrongly, and this is so whenever you are not joyous, then know this need not be. Text, pg. 63 ...the only real mastery is through love. Text, pg. 33