HOPE's Gifts --

 

I want to list for you some of our gifts in order to remind you of the fact that HOPE is given us. It is not something that was an idle thought of a tired, bored, fearful ego:

1.      Earl Nightingale brought the knowledge of the centuries of how to be a success, which is how to create one's future, and thus create one’s present. The key to all success¾the progressive realization of a worthy ideal¾is one’s chosen attitude.

2.      Brian Tracy gave us the Psychology of Achievement that describes the way to maximize one’s potential.

3.      Barry Wood, MD, gave Ken Karen Horney’s concepts of relationships, and his own experience of living with many pathological conditions, including his own cancers.

4.      Through his own cancer, Barry introduced Ken to Bernie Siegel, MD.

5.      Bernie taught Ken about great value of group process for seriously ill people and the function of drawings and guided imagery to help the individuals in the group.

6.      Bernie gave us the acronym, HOPE, because he could not develop a name for it.

7.      Sharon Williams, RN, named the acronym “Healing Of Persons Exceptional”.

8.      Jerry Jampolsky, MD, gave us the Principles of Attitudinal Healing for groups to use as affirmations.

9.      Jerry and Bernie’s people showed us what facilitators are, from which we have developed the definition of a HOPE “guide.”

10.  Murad Sayen, skilled facilitator and spiritualist of the Sufi tradition, came at precisely the right instant to facilitate. He reinforced again and again that we are a center for attitudinal healing.

11.  Joan Murphy, high level intuitive, and student of Susan Trout’s work, started the facilitator trainings, based on Trout’s work with the Principles of Attitudinal Healing.

12.  Key Trust came to us with the Ripley house. 

13.  Ripple (The Grateful Dead) came in precisely at the right time to be the focus of a personal peak experience for me, without which I would not have had the trust and awareness to follow HOPE's path.

14.  Deb Sanborn came with the emphasis on self-esteem; showing us that this is, indeed, a profound human issue. She reinforced the awareness of HOPE’s esteeming nature.

15.  I share with you my mystical insight into the divine nature of the human being, and the awareness that the practical component of attitudinal healing is to replace fear with hope.

16.  I also share with you my knowledge that HOPE is about helping humankind discover its spiritual nature, and thus lead to the healing of ourselves and the planet.

17.  Our present ego-directed condition gives us the precise awareness that this is the time when HOPE is most needed.

18.    The psychology of achievement includes the practice of finding parking spaces. There is one for HOPE. We need but visualize it, and it is ours. It is today ever more visible, a shimmering image of HOPE’s potential. It will be given; for it already exists. It is another gift. It comes from our intention. Let us be grateful for it now.