From the TROML Journals

You Can’t Keep Hating People…

May 30, 2016 By admin Leave a Comment

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“You can’t keep hating people”… but some people do and to who’s expense?

“At the time that was my job and I could not question that.”

“Kept it Locked inside…”

“Ghost of long ago enemies…”

“I have never been there,” said the son but haven’t we all been there in our personal life?

Justified, rationalized, in denial that our resentment and anger was the right thing to do at the time?

We don’t have to keep hating people…

We don’t have to keep hating ourselves…

We can turn the spoils of our lives into the fertilizer that enables peace, joy and freedom to grow from within creating a whole new life for ourselves, our loved ones and the people we connect with for the rest of our lives.

They aren’t justified memories of hatred… they are self-created, self-imposed prison bars containing our innate spirit to grow, to love and to be a part of the an emerging next-generation worldwide humanity of our times.

Separation in life from others we love and need is good in life as far as it goes for a limited time only.

Nothing is forever except in death and beyond that it is all forever.

Can you see beyond what seems to be in your life?

It is better to give than receive…

It is better to look within… be selfish for awhile… and grow to love yourself…

It is better to learn how to accept, love and be compassionate to yourself…

And then be accepting, loving and compassionate towards every other human being on our home planet Earth…

Is it time to go within and find the True Self of your birth destiny? To re-discover and re-energize the Eternal Child Within?

And then go outside and play in the world?

Something is wrong with me and that is okay as long as I come out of denial; out of the self-justificating, self-rationaling, and self- distinguishing world of hate of myself, others and the world in general.

I maintain if we put one human being from each country of the world in a confined space with limited resources we would not kill each other but help each other to survive—you and I would figure it out, we would figure it out of love…

Yet the governments and religions that we have constructed between us have not…

Something is wrong…

We have yet to figure out the mystery of ourselves, yet to figure out why and to stop killing one another on the battlefields and in our own back yard.

That is the logical and emotional solution.

Someday this will become the Church of TROML but first if you are like-minded (love life, love your country and love the world but don’t accept the insanity within or outside your self) let’s start growing together in the right direction.

Our circular leadership of the past has always brought us to the same realization:

“You can’t keep hating people,”… so why do so in the first place?”

Have a TROML Day today!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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So inspired by Church this Morning…

May 26, 2016 By admin Leave a Comment

From Paul the Apostle to the Galatians (5:13-25) we have “the Works of the Flesh,” the list of 15 should not do in life—fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factious, envy, drunkenness, carousing and things like these. Also, a shorter list of 8 of “the Fruit of the Spirit”—joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control with the differing comment that there is no law against such things. Or I would add that the first list that there is no human law in our world of free will to not choose what we will choose at any point in our life.

In the Gospel of Luke (9:51-62) Jesus, setting face towards Jerusalem (and the Crucifixion), simply asks us in His own way to “follow Me.”

In the beginning and end of the priest’s sermon our prayer for courage and strength to love and follow Jesus with gladness and single-mindedness of our hearts. If He is the primary pursuit of our faith journey then everything else comes second and works out just fine. I have experienced this at times in my life especially early on growing up impacted by the disease of alcoholism and later in life and more recently in recovery from the disease of compulsive overeating and sugar addiction. “I can’t fix that” transforms to “with God and Jesus I can,” were the words of the priest. Is a faith journey a primary purpose in your life? If so, what is the true primary purpose of that faith journey? These questions, at times, are difficult for me to answer.

“Finding the right balance” in life is why I seek a spiritual journey in life. It is difficult in the world we live in. Yes it is but we need to question our denial, our rationalizations and our justifications in our life. What is the truth of our human being, what is the true purpose of our life?

The priest referenced the 2015 Charleston Church Shooting where nine beautiful souls were lost. How the remaining victims and their family and loved ones were now more focused on the grace and love of Christ and not being sucked into hate from the traumatic experience. On their “Journey of Awakening” they are learning how to pray for the shooter that he experience God’s mercy and forgiveness to live a different life and to be able to tell a different story with the rest of his life.

The Children’s Talk where the kids go up on the altar and here a more childish version of the gospel had a special message for me this morning. Actually I usually connect closely with the message to the children, maybe it is the Eternal Child Within? The kids’ translation was simply put as a prayer when confronted with something we don’t like in life.

“God, can you help me to see this (experience in my life) in the way You see it?”

It connect the dots once more for me in my pursuit of a “Splendid Spiritual Self” and the “?4 Ask God 4?” translation from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous where I ask God four things in times of crisis (anxiety, indecision, contemplating a slip in abstinence)— to free me of my self & selfishness; to direct my thinking, to inspire my decisions and to show me the next step to take in the moment.

How can we think, how can we be more like God in our lives?

After the mass (or service), there is more interpretation and a question and answer session with the rector. There are usually ten or so questions asked and I love this part of my morning spiritual experience because I learn so much more about the Word of God and realize we are all imperfect and struggling a bit at times to get through this experience we call life. More dots are connected in my mind and more importantly in my “Splendid Spiritual Self.”

We are spiritual beings first that the world has duped us into not believing this. Some spend their whole lives denying this but in the end it can be suppressed but not denied. Hopefully and eventually we all come to this realization in life.

I formulated a question as the discussion went on and was surprised at the end that there was silence when the audience was asked for another question. I took this as a Godsend and asked my question. Making reference to the two lists above, I commented that we all come to a place of acceptance and realization the we are not God in our lives or the lives of others and as human beings we die. It seemed to me that our experience will follow Jesus’ experience in that we all ultimately die. I didn’t say it but that is indeed true, that we all share one thing in common without except— we die! But nobody talks about it to any great degree or minimally likes to talk about it. So you would say, as others did, hey where is the question in that?

Here’s the question I asked of the rector: When you look at “the rest of your life,” what comes to mind, what will Jesus say to you in your 60s, 70s, and 80s that is different than what He is saying to you today? Always a TROML question from me!

I loved and was inspired by his response, first making reference to the first list as things we do when Jesus is not first in our lives and that the reality is that the second list spills out into our life from a God-centered life. As to my 60s, 70s, and 80s question he does not think that way, mainly because he isn’t there yet age wise. As he continues his journey, he will grow more in God’s grace and love and shared that he wants to always be a person that believes in wonders, that he is intrigued by people who have lost their sense of wonder. Why have they lost their sense of wonder of life?

Have you lost your sense of wonder?

For me, as inspired as the morning was, the real inspiration came when an older gentleman in his 80s came up to me afterwards and tapped me on the arm. He looked up and looked me in the eyes and said that in his 60s he was focused on transitioning into retirement. In his 70s he began walking closer with God. As he told me about his 80s he turned and motioned to his wife saying that he continues to walk closer taking big steps and that it is overwhelming how much he loves his wife today.

I connected with his spiritual insight as though I am single today when I pray and ask, and meditate and listen, I hear God sharing that I will be married by the time I am 60 which is only a few years off. Which reminded me of my neighbor the other day sharing what his wife wanted him to share with me. Reminding me that I said that I will be married in 1-1/2 years. Evidently six months ago I said I would be married in two years. But I don’t remember that as I always thought I heard 3 to 4 years which would be 60 for me!

LOL, when and to whom will God direct me to? I do know one thing that will be required. That she and I put our relationship with God first and foremost above all else and that No. 2 on the list will be our marriage and each other.

I left to go back out in the world I heard the message from today. Courage and strength for gladness and single-mindedness of God’s love, grace and mercy. I hope to live the rest of this day in an abstinent manner in peace, joy and freedom.

Plus I will ask God to help me to see my tragedies and successes in life in the moment in the way he sees them and act accordingly.

For I am my True Self, with God within me with my Trusting Ego, an Eternal Child Within…

Have a TROML Day today!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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Today, Throughout the Day, I am Grateful for…

May 21, 2016 By admin Leave a Comment

My TROML Journals are a simple bound composition notebook that I buy for less than a dollar at you know where. They date back to September 3rd, 2000. My current one is No. 141. As I fill up one and transition to another, this is always an opportunity to improve the patented TROML Journal Process. Some things are static like numbering the pages and creating a Table of Contents. Other things are dynamic like the content of the journals, how I capture inspirational moments and how they are digested to improve my physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.

Over the years the TROML Journal Process has become very easy to use, almost as easy as having a conversation with God or a good friend. Indeed, the TROML Process is all about having a conversation with oneself and reconnecting to the meaningful and powerful innate abilities that we all possess as human beings. Part of the patented TROML Journal Process is 100% electronic, present on my cell phone though my hardcopy Journal No. 141 is never very far away.

One of the things that is electronic and is archived and started anew when I transition to a new hardcopy TROML Journal is my Gratitude or Thankful For List. When a grateful thought pops into my head I like to capture it to insure my TROML Perspective is always one of gratitude at first thought. To insure I actively work on an “Attitude of Gratitude” once a week I intensely document three thoughts of gratitude every hour, on the hour, plus upon awakening and retiring. For a recent day that was 17 times 3 or 51 thoughts of gratitude.

Here they are:

Today, as I awake, I am grateful to be alive, to wake up to another day.

Today, as I awake, I am grateful for dreams, to finally realize my mental capacity is to be used like a computer, only when needed as directed by My Spirit (my life is not directed by Spam, I am not Spam).

Today, as I awake, I am grateful for having visited with a dear friend this past weekend.

Today at 8 am, I am grateful for the love of my first wife who I was married to for over 25 years.

Today, at 8 am, I am grateful for being a father to two awesome sons.

Today, at 8 am, I am grateful for this abstinent breakfast of sugar-free oatmeal.

Today at 9 am, I am grateful for Yogi & his yoga class.

Today at 9 am, I am grateful to be able to read a Bible verse at the YMCA.

Today at 9 am, I am grateful to be inspired by the Spirit of the Lord, this is Liberty, this is Freedom!

Today at 10 am, I am grateful for McDonald’s & consuming a sugar free iced coffee.

Today at 10 am, I am grateful for a feeling of euphoria from yoga class.

Today at 10 am, I am grateful for working the ACA Twelve Steps with a Co-Traveler in recovery.

Today at 11 am, I am grateful for the ACA 12 Step recovery process.

Today at 11 am, I am grateful to be an adult child of an alcoholic in ACA recovery.

Today at 11 am, I am grateful to be a compulsive overeater & sugar addict.

Today at Noon, I am grateful for being able to grocery shopping at Fresh Market.

Today at Noon, I am grateful for being able to grocery shopping at Publix

Today at Noon, I am grateful for being alive & to begin to feel a pain of hunger.

Today at 1 pm, I am grateful for my home, my creative condo.

Today at 1 pm, I am grateful for God & being close to Him, & following His will for me in life.

Today at 1 pm, I am grateful for knowing that the next 10 waking hours of my life will be the absolute best time of my life, absolutely, positively, without a doubt.

Today at 2 pm, I am grateful for knowing that I am loved by God, my family & friends.

Today at 2 pm, I am grateful to have a place to call home & to be a home in my home today.

Today at 2 pm, I am grateful for being with and enjoying time with a dear friend this past weekend.

Today at 3 pm, I am grateful for all the wonderful people, my new friends, which God continues to bring into my life.

Today at 3 pm. I am grateful to feel the love, acceptance & compassion of an abstinent life which is a much better feeling than the loneliness, despair and tragedy of compulsively overeating and being actively addicted to sugar.

Today, at 3 pm, I am grateful for this attitude of gratefulness & thankfulness that has opened my mind & heart to new possibilities in my life.

Today, at 4 pm, I am grateful for my friends who came over to play tennis.

Today at 4 pm, I am grateful to see my friends and neighbors, one who is recovering well from knee surgery.

Today at 4 pm, I am grateful to write about the Spirit of Olympic Golf.

Today at 5 pm, I am grateful not to be obsessing about food.

Today at 5 pm, I am grateful for my creative condo, a place where I am inspired to write about golf & life.

Today at 5 pm I am grateful for the love of my father & mother through which God created me!

Today at 6 pm, I am grateful for being alive & enjoying this day.

Today at 6 pm, I am grateful for having work to do & feeling a sense of accomplishment.

Today at 6 pm, I am grateful for growing up with siblings and good childhood friends.

Today at 7 pm, I am grateful for my hometown & experiencing a sense of community growing up.

Today at 7 pm, I am grateful for the education I received, as much for what I learned as for how I learned to keep learning my whole life through.

Today at 7 pm, I am grateful for my three abstinent & healthy meals with nothing in between or consuming any added sugar.

Today at 8 pm, I am grateful to visit the beach and be in awe of the vastness of the ocean.

Today at 8 pm, I am grateful to hear the surf crashing in and quietly receding out.

Today at 8 pm I am grateful to experience a sense of overwhelming peace, joy & freedom in my life.

Today at 9 pm, I am grateful for my neighbors.

Today at 9 pm, I am grateful to be home in my creative condo.

Today at 9 pm I am grateful for my relationship with God, more secure, compassionate & loving than ever before.

Today at 10 pm, I am grateful for being abstinent, not overeating compulsively or eating sugar.

Today at 10 pm, I am grateful that I have had a full day and am starting to feel tired & sleepy.

Today at 10 pm, I am grateful for all the people I interacted with today that made me think, made me laugh and taught me something about life.

Today, as I retire I am grateful to have walked with God throughout the day with no need to make amends to anyone, including myself.

Today, as I retire I cherish this day, No. 20,477 of my life & No. 5,521 of TROML.

Today, as I retire, I pray & meditate to start a new day with a restful & restorative sleep.

Have a grateful TROML Day today!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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Why do I ever Abandon Myself, especially in Difficult Times?

May 21, 2016 By admin Leave a Comment

No, we never really ever abandon ourselves do we?

How could we, we are we physically and never have the ability or opportunity to leave our bodies, do we?

We are always our own best friend, even in difficult times, except when we are not.

I know I have abandoned my self at times seeking to escape being someplace, in some situation, with somebody or many bodies or associating with a thing.

How did I do that?

Through sugar and compulsively overeating what others eat for nutrition and pleasure in a normal fashion. At times in my life I have eaten to escape, anesthetize myself, to medicate myself sometimes gaining large amounts of weight in very short periods of times.

I have probably gained and lost 100 pounds three or four times in my life. Then there were the times I lost twenty to only gain forty and lost that forty to gain sixty. This disease of compulsive overeating and sugar addiction is a disease and it is progressive. Unattested there is no doubt in my mind that I would become morbidly obese with the onset of diabetes and a severe reduction in the number of years that I would be of existence on this earth.

In recovery from the disease of compulsive overeating and sugar addiction my slips are minor in comparison to my past personal experience. Months are minutes and pounds gained and lost a small fraction of what they were. I don’t obsess on weight or body image anymore. I focus on utilizing my abstinence, the Twelve Steps and TROML to maintain my life of peace, joy and freedom.

I think there are many like me afflicted with something we took for granted and almost treated like a prize, a positive reward earlier in our lives. Be successful, eat and drink all the good stuff and as much of it as you want because you are successful and able to. It is an insidious trap.

Most afflicted don’t realize it or certainly don’t look at it like a disease. They see it as a willpower thing or a character weakness thing when in fact I know and believe it is a disease, no different than alcoholism, the common cold or cancer. No one wants to have this disease and no one can get rid of it alone in isolation or by themselves.

That explains the why of compulsive overeating and sugar addiction—there is no why.

There however is a “why not,” or several of them.

Why not continue to solve the mystery of your self?

My how can be your how—freedom from compulsive overeating through Overeaters Anonymous.

Why not be introspective and look within for what is happening on a subconscious level in your life?

Why not embark on a TROML Journey, free yourself and travel down your own road in your life?

Why not discover, accept and then change the habits and patterns that have kept you imprisoned in a cell of your own making in life?

Why not let go of fear, anger and resentment and anything that is not true in your life?

Why not escape from your “Silly Ego” and unite with your “Trusting Ego?”

Why not embrace a new and better God of your understanding or no God at all?

Why not free yourself instead of abandoning yourself?

Why not have your God right there beside you at all times and in all situations?

Why not let go of the apparition of perfectionism. control, all-or-nothing thinking and judgmentalism in your life. After all they are not real but the truth is that you are real.

Why not embark on that TROML Journey today and forever be your best friend traveling with a renewed, understanding and helping God of your understanding by your side never abandoning yourself again on the way to your destiny in life and beyond?

Have a TROML Day today!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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I have yet to Solve the Mystery of My Self…

May 19, 2016 By admin Leave a Comment

I grew up reading the Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale. Advertised as a practical guide to mastering the problems of everyday living, this book written in 1952, was a complementary addition to his previously published Guide to Confident Living. This book was my first endeavor to looking within to solve the mystery of my self, something that is always ongoing for me, never to be mastered.

Never to be mastered by me but maybe it is for you? Of course the challenge is to get to the essence of our life, that which is buried beneath our rationalizations, our justifications, our dishonesty (imagine that) and of course our egos. Plus throw in the subconscious and conscious levels of awareness and our dynamic, elusive True Self and Eternal Child Within becomes a lifelong pursuit. If we are lucky and haven’t taken an early exit in life to a place of numbness, circular logic and limited living.

Sometimes it seems we are always on detours in our life. Detours triggered by the realities in life for some of us, nearly all of us, definitely all of us at one time or another—death of a loved one, job loss, divorce, addiction in one of a hundred forms, and ultimately our decline and death—the ultimate detour in life. But if you are looking at it as a sort of dead end or a depressing consequence of life, you are not looking far enough ahead in our pursuit of eternity.

Detours are tough and can be fatal to the peace, joy and freedom of life. Imagine the days before cell phones and GPS and being in an area which you are not familiar with. Although you know you are on the right road traveling through one section of your life, one of those detours pops up and forces you into the unknown. Follow the detour signs and eventually you return to the main road of your life. But life is complicated and some combination of factors, some within your control, some not cause you to miss one of the turn here detour signs. You may not even realize it or you may and think ardently and arguably that you are still on the right path in life for you. Good luck finding your way back. Some do, some never do.

Solving the mystery of our selves is a lifelong pursuit and then some.

If you think you have solved the mystery of yourself, think again. The moment we arrive in life it is time to leave. That’s the true essence of life in that it is really only in being and living in the present moment no matter what the circumstances of our lives are.

Connect our mind, body and spirit. Be emotionally intelligent. Mind over body. The power of positive thinking—to survive one’s childhood, one’s forced detours, one’s ego. The challenge of the mind the biggest and longest distance to overcome is that six inches between our ears. So they say and we sometimes concur.

But seeing beyond that isn’t the biggest challenge in our lives navigating the road between our mind and our heart? Both ways. The love, charity and youthful ways of our childhood growth are innate, are they not? The intelligence of the world and self-knowledge of ourselves we accumulate as adults, do they make their way to our hearts. Has our spirit emerged from our mind, emotions, body and soul and become us in a living way?

Have we let that spirit, our unique spirit, dictate our life’s journey?

Or are we still on some sort of detour in our life with only a vague feeling that we may be in denial of the truth and essence of our life and with that denial comes an internal self-imposed denial of a full life?

I have yet to solve the mystery of myself.

I hope that I am still trying to figure it out on my last day of earthly existence for then I know the peace, joy and freedom in my life is still expanding to fill this universe of life we find ourselves.

Let’s go beyond the mind, body and emotions and live a rich and rewarding spiritual life for while on a spiritual journey in life there are no detours, only the right road for us to travel through to where we are going.

Have a TROML Day today.

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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Life may be Programmatic & Problematic, but TROML is NOT!

May 5, 2016 By admin Leave a Comment

We grew up and live in a world of programs… programmed education K-12, programmed religion, programmed Twelve Step Recovery, programs of programs on television transitioned to social media and the internet—with books of faces and faces of books galore…

ALL VERY GOOD programs with an appropriate place and time in the life of nearly all 7,420,323,205 human beings on our home planet…

But we are not the programs that we have imbibed over the course of our lifetime whether it be for a decade or two at this point or nearly a decade of decades..

We are not simply the sum of those programs…

Did we learn how to learn?

Did we learn how to learn from ourselves throughout our lives?

We are a unique person beyond what seems to be in our life…

There is only one of us… there will only ever be one of us.

Our spirit will endure for ever and even longer if we find that special spirit of our being while being here on Earth.

Our special spirit of peace, joy and freedom emerging from a life devoid of perfectionism, controlism, all-or-nothing thinking and judgementalism… emerging beyond the fear, anger/resentment, dishonesty and selfishness of our earthy existence…

TROML is not a program, it is a 17-day process to free you of the programs of our lives while still being able to tune into those programs as needed to live a proper worldly life while transitioning beyond to a sense of youthful spirit.

TROML becomes you and you become your TROML program in 17 days. There are no limits thereafter.

TROML, pronounced “Tee-Rom-El” sounds and is a better tomorrow after living a great today.

TROML, not pronounced “Trom-EL” because it sounds too much like trauma is not problematic, it is “solution-matic” in all aspects.

For me it started with being pushed out of an airplane without a parachute…

For you it will be as designed personally by and for you…

Have a TROML Day today!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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So Grateful for My Lucky Life…

May 3, 2016 By admin Leave a Comment

CLICK here to listen to My Lucky Life by Candy Coburn…

There’s a little place outside in my backyard where I can let go…

So grateful for this life of mine…

We can go within to find God and myself to restore that wholeness anytime we want…

My life emerges from the inside-out in a loving manner…

So grateful for this life of mine…

Grateful to meet Candy way back when performing in Fort Worth, Texas…

Another of her songs has inspired so many people through a difficult time in their lives…

CLICK here to listen to Pink Warrior by Candy Coburn…

Do you know the word defeat?

Why?

If you are looking at defeat in this life you are not looking far enough ahead…

See beyond what seems to be…

Have the best day of your life today!

Have a TROML Day today and every day for the rest of your life!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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This is What I Love about TROML, Transparent Journaling & Being Introspective!

April 30, 2016 By admin Leave a Comment

This is what I love about TROML, transparent journaling and being introspective as yours and mine Personal Revivalist.

The birds woke me up early and I went with it remembering to journal at my computer desk instead of my more comfortable recliner where I usually pray and meditate. In this way I can be transparent and share my thoughts electronically instead of only with myself writing in my personal and confidential TROML Journal.

When something pops into my mind… like there are something like 300 feelings, why does it seem I only experience just a handful… I go back and realize I forget how much introspection I have done and how much progress I have made…while I realize I have only written about 3 feelings and there are so many more I don’t get overwhelmed by the pile of work before me because I realize how far I have come.

I realize I am confused a bit between what is an emotion and what is a feeling. Actually I was googling to add a picture to the depressed article and a chart of the differences popped up. Thinking I should research and write about that topic I realized I had already done so.

Emotions, Feelings & Emotional Maturity

Now I was in a new place ready to go higher…

We think of our ego as our best friend that may be a bit too boastful… but in reality it seems to me that sometimes it’s the reverse making us think we are perfect and acting on only that we think about in the moment… better to pause, really think, investigate, pray & meditate a bit and then make an inspired decision… otherwise we are chasing a figment of our ego and not real life… I have already been down this road… now lets continue to build up to get a better perspective of our life… and thereby be able to live each day to the fullest!

Have a TROML Day Today!

Your Personal Revivalist

Anonymous Andy

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Let Go and Let God, then put it in your God Box and Live Freely!

April 26, 2016 By admin Leave a Comment

With 15 years of TROML Journaling experience my system continues to progress and change dynamically with my life journey. As I transition a large part of my handwritten TROML Journal to an electronic journal on my cell phone, I continue to see the transition from physical to mental to spiritual in my life. That’s the Ultimate Love I seek in my life. There is more and more of peace, joy and freedom in my life. Freedom of choice in every way in every moment to be inspired by God enables a life of spiritual living, thinking with an inspired thought-life, feeling true and honest emotions, and being human in all the physical aspects of life.

Why? Because that is where TROML has led me these past 15 years by connecting me with something bigger and more powerful than myself and simply following the inspiration that appeared in my life. And with inspiration, there is always power too. TROML powers my life by connecting me with sources of power I never imagined were available in life.

One part of my TROML Journaling that I have converted 1oo% to the electronic world is the God Box.

My God Box is where I Let Go and Let God.

When I challenge my Ego to discern which mental thoughts originated from my Silly Ego and which were generated by my Trusting Ego, the ones from my Silly Ego go into my God Box and the ones from my Trusting Ego go onto my To Do List.

Am I or other people asking me to be perfect either directly or indirectly by their thoughts, words or behaviors? Not my problem or the expectation of my God. Into the God Box go those perfectionism thoughts…

Am I or other people insinuating I should be in absolute control of people, places, things and situations other than myself? Not my problem or the expectation of my God. Into the God Box go those control thoughts…

Am I or other people evoking that I should be thinking in an all-or-nothing manner like they do? Not my problem or the expectation of my God. Into the God Box go those all-or-nothing thoughts…

Am I or other people advocating that I should be judgmental? Not my problem or the expectation of my God. Into the God Box go those judgmental thoughts…

Is this easy? No, not at first. In fact most of the time we don’t see this happening in our lives or it happens on a subconscious level that is very difficult to detect. It is easy to see the patterns emerge through the TROML Journaling Process. One’s the ability to detect is restored, the response is basically innate, same as being affronted by food or drink that has previously made you sick.

TROML detects where our sickness in life is coming from.

You, your God (or no God at all if that is what you believe) and TROML is a powerful trio to conquer the life experience in a way that is not easily evident or easy to see and follow in the world today.

Am I or other people asking me to react solely on the basis of their fears? Not my problem or the expectation of my God. TROML is a fearless process. Into the God Box go those fearful thoughts…

Am I or other people asking me to react solely on the basis of their anger or resentments? Not my problem or the expectation of my God. TROML is an externally nonreactive, internally generated powerful process. Into the God Box go any thoughts associated with anger or resentment…

Am I or other people asking me to do something that is simply dishonest or not in line with my morality? Not my problem or the expectation of my God. TROML is an honest process. Into the God Box go any dishonest thoughts…

Am I or other people asking me to do think, say or act in a way that is selfish, egocentric and benefits no one else other than me? Not my problem or the expectation of my God. TROML is an ego-less, inspired and humble process. Into the God Box go any selfish thoughts…

Yes, my God Box gets full pretty quickly!

Or at least it used to as my thought-life is naturally maintained on an inspirational and powerful level. From what does go in there and is reviewed through the TROML Process patterns emerge and once identified, those patterns are worked through as directed by my Higher Power.

Sounds too spiritual for you at this time in your life? I completely understand and accept you and your beliefs but if you want to live in peace, joy and freedom, in the Ultimate Love at some point you need to get in touch with the Spirits as you understand them or have the ability to develop a growing relationship with them. The sooner the better in life. I started early but not earnestly until 15 years ago. My personal difficulties were great. Hopefully yours are less. It’s all good.

Take it one day at a time, one hour or one minute at a time when needed. There is peace, joy and freedom to be found and claimed in the TROML Process. Start a God Box today. I wish you well!

Have a TROML Day today!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

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A New Spiritual Principle to Update My TROML Program…

April 12, 2016 By admin Leave a Comment

New Spiritual Principles to update My TROML Program—I don’t know where they come from. There is no pattern to have one produced. I know they come from the TROML Process, living life to its fullest, journaling and being reasonably and responsibly introspective, silencing any harsh critical voice and amplifying our Eternal Child Within, and being present, always listening for them to come. And they will come, they do come.

Please remember TROML has nothing to do with me. For whatever reason my sole role is to share this TROML Process that developed within my lifetime experience. It is a process for anyone to apply to their life and develop their own TROML Program. The process turns to program in a uniquely spiritual, mental and emotional manner with wonderful physical consequences. This is not a follower program, this is not do what Anonymous Andy did with his life. That’s why it is done anonymously, within ourselves in a quiet yet effective manner.

We each have a unique TROML Program. In fact you already have one today. This is a tuneup or major overhaul depending on your thoughts, words and actions and the life situation you find yourself in today. Or TROML may be an opportunity for you to share your life experiences to benefit others. TROML is an umbrella program that integrates all other programmatic spiritual sources like religion and Twelve Step programs, corporate organizations (work), community and charitable based organizations and entertainment and sports (fun). TROML is the non-programmatic umbrella for all your previous and future programs. It is uniquely you and becomes your spiritual compass in life to your True Self and Eternal Child Within. In this way we find peace, joy and freedom along the way and at our closing breath we can feel, think and say to the Universe and beyond—”thank you for a beautiful life and having the opportunity to live it fully and gracefully, being able to contribute what I was suppose to contribute to this amazing world.”

So a new Spiritual Principle came to me recently. It might be hogwash to you but to me it meant another step forward in My TROML Program of peace, joy and freedom and living with what I call the Ultimate Love. For me it seems they come after an intense experience where my capabilities are tested and stretch to where I know life as we know it is beyond my control. Maybe it is another step of awareness, surrender or alignment. It’s a beautiful experience that beings immediately a new and different and seemingly higher level of peace, joy and freedom to my life. It’s inspiring to me and more inner power come with it. My course is recharted a bit and recharged. It seems as if living from the inside-out with this newly and properly aligned spiritual compass that there are no limits in life, only those imposed by ourselves and TROML dissolves most of them and all of them with time.

Through the TROML Process, with our own TROML Program, we can become a spiritual entity in life!

So my latest Spiritual Principle in my own TROML Program, to be added to My TROML Daily Script is:

Shoot, I can’t read the writing I scribbled down in My TROML Journal when it came to me.

LoLiL, Lots of Laughs in Life, here it is:

I will vigilantly challenge my ego within to detect when I am justifying, rationalizing, or denying the truth about myself, others and my life situation. My innate, natural ego protects me and enables me to function in life. But when my ego becomes out of proportion to the earthly task at hand, if I am humble and willing, God with intervene to keep my ego functioning properly and keep me along the spiritual path to peace, joy and freedom, the Ultimate Love.

CLICK here for my newly updated TROML Daily Script- what is yours?

Have a TROML Day today!

Your Personal Revivalist,

Anonymous Andy

Filed Under: From the TROML Journals