YOU ARE A LIGHT to the world. You are a living example of what all of us can achieve. Your personal transformation helps to transform all of us. People who are helping to transform the planet are called light workers. They are bringing light, a higher energy, into life on earth at this time. They are helping to evolve the people on this planet to a higher state of being.

Today there are many light workers walking the planet. Many of these are struggling with their own issues in prosperity, health, and relationships. It is often difficult for them to see their own ability to be a light worker. It may be difficult for you to see your ability to shine. This will change. It is easy to see ourselves as fakes or unqualified. If everyone had to be "qualified" to shine their light, we wouldn't have much light at all. There is no one more qualified than you to help others grow into wholeness. You are a light worker unfolding. Wherever you stand in life, you are in a position to influence others toward well being.

You become a light to others simply by deciding. Most of us have spent time and energy focusing on what we need. If you are still spending time feeling need, then perhaps it is time to shift your focus to what you can give. Your needs are already met. Your Source is providing for you. You have the tools to manifest what you want. You can feel the way you want to feel right now. Focus on how you can be a channel for good flowing to others.

How can you help? Whatever services or products you offer to the world, whatever care you offer to friends and family, and whatever prayers you send out into the world, these are all a part of your light. How do you impact others? How are the energies of others uplifted because you are here? Are there more ways you can respond to others in your thinking, acting, and speaking?

This is an exciting time. There has never been this many souls growing this rapidly in the history of the earth. There has never been this much spiritual information available to anyone through books, magazines, tapes, CD's, videos, teachers, personal coaches, and spiritual groups. There are so many opportunities to learn, grow, and assist others.

Your contribution to the well being of all is a part of your purpose in being here. Whether you are a public speaker or a house painter, you touch the lives of others in meaningful and important ways. Every thought you offer either adds to well being or takes away from it. As you increase your time spent in well beingness you create change. As you and others spend more time in higher energy thinking and being, you make it easier for all of us to do the same.

Most of us who are consciously growing spiritually have some tough moments and some difficult days. It can be difficult to see yourself as a light worker when your own well being seems threatened. In these instances it would be helpful to remember the following:

• There is no outside threat. All threats come from within - from the meaning we attach to outside events.
• There is only one Power and you can access it within you. Turn within and ask for help. Pray for help. Ask for guidance and then listen.
• Consciously direct your thoughts. Your mind has 50,000 or more thoughts per day. If you choose to direct a few thousand of those thoughts lovingly toward your vision, you will create it. An excellent metaphor for this comes from a book called Personal Power and Awareness, by Sanaya Roman. "Think of a box which represents what you want. Every time you think [appreciatively] about what you want, the box becomes fuller, and when the critical mass is reached, the box becomes reality. If there is something you think of [appreciatively] over and over, at a certain point it will manifest; how long it takes is based on how much you believe it will come."
• Honor your lack of belief. Often people want to believe, but find they can't. This is not a bad thing. You might pray: "Lord, help me with my unbelief." However, it may be better to honor your lack of belief by finding out what is behind it. Go within and ask for insight on why you are not believing. You may find answers that you do not expect. You cannot force yourself to believe. The harder you push on your unbelief, the harder it will push back. Accept your unbelief and seek first to understand it. It may have something important to teach you.
• Monitor your emotions. Your emotions indicate where your energy is flowing. If you feel bad, your thoughts and feelings are moving away from your vision at that moment. If you are feeling good, you are probably moving toward your vision at that moment. Your body will tell you how you are doing.
• Send love to others. Speak positively to and about others. Sincerely compliment people often. Respond to the needs of others. The most important need most people carry is this: "Treat me as if I am important. Acknowledge me. Respect me. Care about me." This will lift your energy and theirs.
• Don't be shy about praying for help. Help is always available. When human help is offered, accept it graciously. When you allow others to help and support you, you honor them and yourself.
• Focus on what you want, not on what you don't want. Your focus determines where your energy flows. Focusing on problems, worrying, doubt, and being a victim creates more problems. There are no problems in this present moment. There are things you can do something about and things you can't. Do what you can. Accept what you cannot change. Focus your energy on solutions. Focus on what you want to have happen - a peaceful resolution, a win-win opportunity, the highest good for all concerned. Each time the problem begins to concern you, shift your focus to the solution. The Source within you is your solution. Embrace the ambiguity. Be at peace with it. You don't have to know how it will all work out. Just know that it will work out. Pay attention to possible ideas for what you can do.
• Live these ideas. Your example will teach others.
• Define your spiritual path and walk it. Do not use it as a weapon against others, but as a means to discipline your own thinking. If you see your path as "the only way", know that it is the only way for you. Others must choose their own paths. Honor them.
• You are not changing the world; you are changing the way you think about the world. See yourself and others as perfect expressions of God. Where there is poverty, see prosperity. Where there is struggle; see ease. Where there is fear; see love. No doubt people will do things that irritate you. Your irritation can be transformed to appreciation by knowing that all fearful acts are meaningless. Refuse to attach meaning. Speak your truth from a place of deep love and compassion. Forgive the one who has temporarily forgotten that he is a spark of the Divine. Remember it for him. This is what it means to be miracle minded.

You are a light to the world. You are a blessing to those who know you. You are the answer to the prayers of many. You need not play small. You are an expression of God, a spiritual being, a spark of the Divine. As you move forward, know yourself to be prosperous and powerful. You are a radiating center of Love and Light. Remind yourself of this often. When you do, adjust your body language. Walk like a spiritual giant. Carry yourself like a prosperous person. How would you stand? How would you walk, if you knew yourself to be prosperous? Meet and greet others as if you are a very important person. Give them the same level of respect. Let your tone of voice and your choice of words reflect your prosperous thoughts and feelings.

When you sit, sit like a prosperous person. When you converse with others, speak from a point of view as one who is constantly well provided for. This doesn't mean that you toss out affirmations and little positive sayings to people who are experiencing difficulty. It means that your demeanor is prosperous and secure. It means that you may empathize, but you do not join them in their misery. You hold them in the light. You see them as prosperous and well. You allow them this moment of not knowing who they are, but you remember who they are.

The Ritz Carlton Hotel chain has a saying that guides all of their employees. It is: "We are ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen." This beautiful saying at once lifts up the server and those being served. Create a similar guideline for yourself. "I am a powerful spiritual being serving other powerful spiritual beings."

Keep reminding yourself of who you are in all that you do. This will make you slow to anger, and quick to forgive. It will make you calm in the midst of seeming trouble. It will make you clear and confident in the midst of ambiguity. It will have you releasing fears and feeling the strength of your love. It will have you being patient, rather than anxious. Trust yourself. Trust the Creative Intelligence. All is well in your life.

© William Frank Diedrich, 2007

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

William Frank Diedrich is a speaker, executive coach, and the author of three books including 30 Days to Prosperity: A Workbook for Well-Being. Bill offers online classes including a prosperity class at no charge to those who purchase his workbook. Bill works with individuals and organizations to find the opportunities presented in problems and to expand their gifts. Learn more about Bill and his books at http://transformativepress.com and at http://noblaming.com.