The following questions were put to us by our visitors  and workshop attendees. These questions are then answered by various teachers working for the sanctuary.

Does positive thinking help shape a better future?

Ian Jones:  How many of us believe that our thoughts are strictly private and what we think about goes no further than than our own four walls --- unless we're praying. The reality is, that our thoughts actually shape the reality we choose to live in today. We are exactly where we have thought to be, consciously or unconsciously. Using free will we have many tools to aid us in our experiences, we all know how to make choices, good or bad, sometimes we can be guided or inspired by spirit to make the best choices but ultimately we have the final say, which means it's up to us whether we learn the easy way or the hard way.

Some people think that free will doesn't really exist and that all our lessons are somehow pre-planned. This couldn't be further than the truth. In fact we do have some very powerful tools in our arsenal of free will that allows us to create our very own reality, although because we live in a linear time frame things don't happen immediately. One of these tools is the power of Intent. But intent on it's own isn't enough to materialise what we want unless we really believe we can have it or already have it. For example if I give intent for more money to come my way but my belief is that I'm never lucky enough to receive money then our intent is in dis-harmony with our belief, effectively removing the power for it to manifest.

Another powerful and mis-used free will tool is our ability to focus on the very things we don't want. Imagine the scenario where we really don't want to bump into a person because they have a knack of making you feel worthless, if you focus on the thought "I really don't want to bump into Mrs x today" and you apply a lot of negative emotion to it, what you are actually doing is creating the conditions to potentially meet Mrs x in the very near future because that is exactly where you have focused your energy, the more powerful the emotion when focusing on what you don't want, the quicker it may manifest in your experience. What you should be doing is focusing your power and thoughts to the very things that you do want rather than what you don't want. By following these simple truths you become the master of your own reality, it's as simple as that.