You are not a body with a soul, you are a soul with a body; and that body is your vehicle for exploring the physical plane. Though it is a transitory vehicle it is a magical one for, while you are so intensely focused within it, it will faithfully mirror, in quite physical terms, you inner beliefs, attitudes and emotions. It is a wondrous reflection of your faith and fears.

Your body today is the result of your past thinking. If you do not like the body's condition then you had better start changing your current emotional responses to your personal environment, especially as your present feelings will be mirrored in your future environment.

Remember that you get what you concentrate upon, so if you focus your mind, through worry and stress, on the last thing you want to have happen, you are beginning the creative chain that will turn that focus into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Most of us put our focus on the external, physical world in order to gain dominance and control of it. We seek this power in business, government, relationships and in almost all types of organisations.

Those with the wisdom to realise that the physical is, indeed transient, focus internally on the spiritual world and seek the power to live in peace and harmony, good health, abundance and fulfilment without having to control or dominate others. Using physical force is not an option to those with spiritual power. Real power comes from inner strength and one is content to allow others to be themselves.

Even though 'children of the book' (Jews, Christians and Moslems) have the commandment "thou shall not kill!" they still make no serious effort to live in peace. Before we Aussies shake our heads at the violence in Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Somalia and South Africa, we should stop to consider that though no country has ever declared war on us, we have attacked our fellow man in the Boer war, World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf war.

Of course, we justify our actions by declaring our loyalty to our country and to our form of government and to our families. But does not our 'enemy' do the same?

One day, perhaps sooner than we realise, we will stop using violence to combat evil, declare ourselves neutral and seek only peaceful solutions to world problems. If we cannot find solutions we might learn, at least, not to interfere.