Tonight I’m speaking to myself as much as with you.  The Missus and I sat in shock last night and looked at each other dumbfounded remarking that something has broken yet again.

It seems like in the past 3 days we’ve gone from one mishap to another.  First this blog site broke – for two days no one could get on to read.  Then that got fixed, but I still couldn’t get on to the back end to post.  That’s been a week now.

Then I had a major disaster in my studio, a place where nothing ever breaks except on rare February 29^th full moons.  I keep a pristine workspace and since I’m the only one who ever engineers the room, everything stays put in its rightful place and the room simply works.  However, a pair of midi converters that were over 20 years old decided to give up the ghost.

I had to replace them and re-think the entire system of literally thousands of midi channels, a 23 hour job and I’m not done yet, but up and running.

Then last night one of our laptops went down.  I won’t bore you with the rest.  You probably got your own troubles.  It seems like all I’ve done for the past three days is to try and figure out technical solutions and my brain is fried.

So last night, two brains fried, the Missus and I sat in shock over a cup of hot chocolate and asked each other, “What’s really going on here?”

The answer came pretty fast.  Where is our thought?  What is our expectancy?  How many times the past couple of days had I asked out loud, Good Lord, what’s next?”

I know I’ve been hammering you all a lot lately about this “thinking” business, but, as I said, I’m talking out loud to myself here as much as I am to you.  That’s the great thing about blog writing – a chance to sit and think.

We needed to correct our thinking, not necessarily fix the technical problems.  After all, it’s just matter to be fixed – just like healing work on the human body, it’s healing work on the mortal condition.  The misplaced zeros and ones of the digital world are no different than the corrupted molecules that form the impressions of cancer.  It’s all just cancerous thought.

Heal the thought; heal the cancer.  Heal the thought; heal the computer.

Some of you say, “Bah, humbug”, but you’re wrong.  We’re really just changing the illusion of matter from one idea to another.

My old studio, Westrax Recording Studios, was housed in a gigantic space compared to my present studio, yet I can do more in my small space today than I could back then.  Why?  Because of software.  Far less machinery; much more space-saving software.  For instance my entire orchestra plus most of the other instruments of the world now live in 7 hard drives under my desk.

Software: the digital thinking that takes the place of material instrumentation.  Matter turned back into mind.  Zeros and ones representing the sum total of our thinking on any one particular subject.  Want to change the software?  Change your thinking about it.  Want to fix it?  Fix your mind.

Werner Erhard, the founder of EST, said, “Everything that happens to us happens because we choose it.”  So don’t go ‘round blaming others or the moon for our misfortunes, because we chose it all in the first place.

The act of choosing starts in the mind.  Make up your mind what you want, Pete.  Then choose it.  Make up your mind the way things should be and then hold to that thought.  That’s the power of positive thinking.  That’s the way Jesus healed.  Change the thought; change the result of thought.

So the Missus and I decided to change our thought towards the future and the present.  We decided then and there to stop thinking negatively (worrying) and become expectant/joyful.

This was praying, though we didn’t kneel and fold our hands.  This was protective, right-minded correction of thought.  It didn’t take long.  We didn’t have to chant for two hours or call a practitioner or even read the Bible.  We just decided to change our thought, as tired as we were, and expect something different, something better.

I decided to repair permissions on my laptop one more time before I went to bed.  Between the two of us we had done this 5-7 times with no apparent results before the change of thought.  This time, all the problems so evident with the computer before were cleaned up and fixed.  Of course it worked.

Perhaps I didn’t even have to repair the permissions that one last time.  Perhaps the computer had already healed.  Perhaps the digital misinformation had been already righted by our change of thought.  We’ll never know.

Point is, we changed our thought after hours of work and then, 3 minutes later, we discovered the problem was fixed.

I wake up this morning to a new day – a day of ease, creativity, joy and perfection.  I expect things to work.  And you just watch, they will.