My Practice and Choices Shape my Experience

March 13, 2026

by John Karn, D.D.

Every morning, we have the opportunity to set the frequency of our vibration to peace of

mind, confidence, love, creativity and so much more. By spending your day looking for

the good, you will bring about an increase of good to you. A gratitude practice is the

fastest way to bring about more good into your experience. A practice of meditation

helps you to set your mind not to react to all the attention getting headlines. When you

see yourself being calm and not buying into the latest horror story, many of them

haven’t been corroborated, you will realize that you are making progress.

You can revisit your gratitude practice in the evening as you are getting ready for sleep.

If you aren’t actively looking for good after a full day of it, you can log in your journal all

the good that came about. In this situation, the Universe has no other choice but to send

you more things to be grateful.

Its like when you are looking to buy a new car. You set your mind to a specific type of

car and you think about the colors and the features of it. It makes you feel happy. Then

all of a sudden, all you see on the roads is this car that you want. They are everywhere.

You didn’t notice that so much before you started looking for a car but not you see it.

The Universe works by law of attraction, law of correspondence, etc.

If, on the other hand, you are feeling grumpy when you wake up and you don’t have a

daily spiritual practice of any kind, you cede the control of your day over to the news

people who are leading with bleeding and the people that want to talk about ain’t it bad.

Why would you let someone else, any one else, to set you up for a day that’s going to

be immensely challenging? You have to really care for yourself. If you are looking at a

picture of yourself as a child, can you offer to let that child know you will keep him or her

safe? I’ve found that’s much easier than to look at a picture of yourself as an adult and

try talking to it. It doesn’t work for me.

So back to your daily practice – if there is no daily practice of gratitude or meditation –

your vibrational frequency is set to match the people around you . This is called the law

of averages. You can be in control of your life or you can let someone else be in

charge. What would you tell a small child? Can you be protective of that child and help

them out to have a nice experience or do you think they can suffer the way you did?

Guess what? The Universe just says yes. If this is what you are thinking about, talking

about reading about – the Universe says this must be what you want because it’s

dominating your experience.

I recently had an illness that gave me the opportunity to leave the planet or stay on it. It

truly showed me the value of our daily spiritual practice. I had the opportunity to buy into

what a doctor was saying to me or I could go within and work on a better outcome.

When I went within, I asked myself if I was ready to transition from this life to the next

and the answer was not at this time.

After that experience, I say go for the big items. Don’t hover around the little items, like

the parking space near the door of the grocery store. I say go for the big items and

know the truth, that they don’t have to exist. When you see results at that level, you will

understand the thoughts that limit what we can do or experience.

We have agency over our minds and therefore we have agency over our experiences.

By symbolically closing our eyes to all the stuff that is going on out there, creating

confusion in our lives, we can go within and have some silent time. The answers come

from within. Remember the father that is within doeth the work? Pray in your closet?

That’s a safe space where you are centering yourself rather than getting ready for

conflict. You will never hear your guidance (or intuition) if there’s an argument going on

in your head.

In Buddhism, you become able to notice those egocentric words floating by and not

react to them. Then you can keep your mind steady. I even read something this past

week that said a practice of silence and going within is an act of self-love. We all must

learn to love ourselves enough to keep up a daily spiritual practice so that we attract

more loving experiences into our lives. The power is in your hands. The savior is within

you, not outside of you.

I wish you a happy week full of blessings and rich ideas. May you be centered on

beauty and creativity as you see spring making an attempt to emerge. Enjoy the view.

With love,

John

John Karn. D.D.