Peace, Harmony, Success

Release Your Past and Heal Emotionally

2011-11-11T10:42:00.000-07:00

To often the experiences from your past can cause negative emotions that affect all areas of your life. These negative emotions can put you into a repetitive pattern, a loop, similar to a computer programs “Do While” loop that when a particular condition is met a certain code (path) is taken until that condition is no longer met. When the same negative emotion tied to a memory is visited over and over, the same result will be experienced and you will go through it again and again, never ending, never able to completely move forward.

Becoming stuck in this repetitive pattern of emotions can eventually cause fear, illness, anger (etc), in your body and areas of your life (relationships, career, etc). By neutralizing these negative emotions you will be able to move into a place of happiness, peace and abundance.

So, “how do you do this?” It is very simple actually. Since many of life’s experiences cause negative emotions, take a look at this list of parameters. Are there any memories and negative emotions that you can connect to one or more or even all of these?

1. Bad relationships.
2. Being bullied.
3. Being abused (physically, emotionally, verbally, sexually).
4. Being mugged, attacked or stolen from.
5. Fights in school or anything similar.
6. Experiences that impacted your confidence or feelings of safety.
7. Any bad sexual experiences.
8. Any serious illnesses from the past.

Many of life’s experiences fit into these main parameters and need to be cleared.

Read each one and make a list of people, places, or things that have caused an emotional upset for you. Go back as far as you can remember.

Now that you have your list, download your FREE PSTEC Self Help System that will free you from those unwanted emotions and feelings. Here is the link: http://www.pstecaudiosource.org/pstec/?aff_id=1411

Next, after using the free PSTEC click tracks begin to do the forgiveness work on each, one at a time, by saying out loud “I offer you forgiveness and love” pause, say “I receive forgiveness and love back” pause and feel it. If you feel any resistance, it’s ok, go back and run through the PSTEC click track again, then return to this step. Repeat until you have cleared all the negativity and attachment out.

The next step is to begin to create a new belief system. Contact me and I will show you how to do this using positive statements.

Now that you have transitioned yourself into a higher place, you can begin to move forward into a life of happiness, peace and abundance.

Namaste,
Tina Marie

Practice Forgiveness Daily

2011-11-11T10:39:00.000-07:00

Forgiveness ~ an attitude and act that is vital to our well-being.

Begin each day with forgiveness of self & others.

Forgiveness of self is the most difficult task of all because you become aware of your failings and you are your worst critic.

Because we are human, we have weaknesses and make our share of mistakes. Be aware of this and work at overcoming them, which at times will not be easy.

It is important to forgive, so attempt it, this forgiveness of self and others every day. It is a 3-fold process, forgive yourself, forgive those you have hurt and forgive those you have hurt you. It doesn't mean picking up the phone or writing a letter to the person. The love energy you sincerely put into it is enough.

Hooponopono daily forgiveness meditation:
I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.

Follow up with love and compassion on each person and fill yourself up on love. God, Spirit, Divine, Universe, Higher Power (whatever you believe) will set free you free.

Namaste,
Tina

Ocean of Life

2011-09-22T09:11:00.000-07:00

As I read through entries in my journal from this year I saw the lessons I have learned and have grown so much from.

I have been through the ocean of life. The swells to see eternity and the lack of motion that just keeps you afloat in the “stuckedness” of life.

While in the “stuckedness” each time I have lost a piece of myself, a piece of my soul. From this place I pray and meditate, asking Spirit what is this bridge I am having trouble crossing in life?

My answer: I must be in the center of Love, the center of my heart, where I am free of expectation and regret, free of ambition, embarrassment, and judgment, free of fear and worry. To be in a place of grace that gives peace.

So I choose to walk across the bridge, the threshold that sets me free into a new level of enlightenment through forgiveness of myself and others, allowing more love and compassion to enter my heart.

We all are in the ocean of life, we grow by taking back what we have lost and moving forward in life by allowing more and more love into ourselves and then we can radiate it out to all beings, all creation.

Shanti,
Tina

Simple Meditation

2011-09-02T12:46:00.000-07:00

Journeys of lifelong evolution often begin simply. No matter how complex the goal or desire we have nurtured in our souls, the first steps we take are nearly always basic and uncomplicated. Navel meditation, a creation of the Taoist tradition and the oldest form of meditation recognized in China and India, is a simple practice suitable for those experienced in the art of meditation, yet it is also a wonderful introductory meditation for novices. It utilizes the natural rhythms of the breath and the regular movement of the abdomen as a means to focus awareness and rid oneself of extraneous thoughts. As you concentrate on the breath, the chaos within reveals itself, allowing you to gently train your mind to accept stillness as its natural state.

To begin, assume a comfortable and natural seated position either cross-legged on a cushion on the floor or on a chair with your legs facing forward. Maintaining an upright, balanced posture will ensure that you are physically centered and prevent fatigue. Close your eyes and relax your body gradually, starting at the toes and ending at the crown of the head. Take a moment to note any physical sensations you are feeling, such as the hardness of the floor under your legs or the weight of a piece of jewelry. When you are relaxed, breathe through the nose at your natural pace. With each inhalation, draw air deep into the abdomen, allowing the area surrounding your navel to rise and fall. Gradually focus your attention on the sensations caused by the inhalation and exhalation of breath. Feel the air flowing in and out of the nostrils as well as the expansion and contraction of the abdomen. If you find it difficult to concentrate on both sensations, concentrate only on the movement of the navel area.

As you endeavor to commune with the breath, you may notice that your mind strays. When this occurs, do not attach any significance to your thoughts. Simply bring your attention back to the flow of air into and out of your body and the rise and fall of your navel. Eventually, the torrent of mental noise flooding your mind will slow to a trickle, and you will learn to control the current of your thoughts until you are no longer at the mercy of your reactions. The more you practice this meditation, daily if possible, the more you will be able to get back to this relaxed state easily throughout your day.

Taking Time for Yourself

2011-08-24T08:43:00.000-07:00

sModern life compels us to rush. Because we feel pressured to make the most of our time each day, the activities that sustain us, rejuvenate us, and help us evolve are often the first to be sacrificed when we are in a hurry or faced with a new obligation. It is important we remember that there is more to life than achieving success, making money, and even caring for others. Your spiritual needs should occupy an important spot on your list of priorities. Each task you undertake and each relationship you nurture draws from the wellspring of your spiritual vitality. Taking the time to engage in spiritually fulfilling activities replenishes that well and readies you to face another day. Making time for the activities that contribute to your spiritual growth has little to do with being selfish and everything to do with your well-being. Regularly taking the time to focus on your soul’s needs ensures that you are able to nurture yourself, spend time with your thoughts, experience tranquility, and expand your spiritual boundaries.

It is easy to avoid using our free moments for spiritual enrichment. There is always something seemingly more pressing that needs to be done. Many people feel guilty when they use their free time to engage in pursuits where they are focusing on themselves because they feel as if they are neglecting their family or their work. To make time for yourself, it may be necessary to say no to people’s requests or refuse to take on extra responsibilities. Scheduling fifteen or thirty minutes of time each day for your spiritual needs can make you feel tranquil, give you more energy and allows you to feel more in touch with the universe. Writing in a journal, meditating, studying the words of wise women and men, and engaging in other spiritual practices can help you make the most of this time.

Making time to nurture your spirit may require that you sacrifice other, less vital activities. The more time you commit to soul-nurturing activities, the happier and more relaxed you will become. The time you devote to enriching your spirit will rejuvenate you and help you create a more restful life

Healing Your Hurt by Helping Others

2011-08-10T10:31:00.000-07:00

Pain is a fact of being and one that permeates all of our lives to some degree. Since the hurt we feel may be a part of the experiences that have touched us most deeply, we are often loathe to let it go. It is frequently easier to keep our pain at our sides, where it acts as a shield that shelters us from others and gives us an identity,that of victim,from which we can draw bitter strength. However, pains universality can also empower us to use our hurt to help others heal. Since no pain is any greater or more profound than any other, what you feel can give you the ability to help bring about the recovery of individuals whose hurts are both similar to and vastly different from your own. You can channel your pain into transformative and healing love that aids you in helping individuals on a one-to-one basis and spreading a tide of curative energy throughout the world.

The capacity to heal others evolves naturally within those who are ready to disassociate themselves from their identity as victims. In fact, the simple decision to put aside the pain we have carried is what grants us the strength to redeem that pain through service. There are many ways to use the hurt you feel to help others. Your pain gives you a unique insight into the minds of people who have experienced trauma and heartache. You can draw from the wellspring of strength that allowed you to emerge on the other side of a painful experience and pass that strength to individuals still suffering from their wounds. You may be able to council individuals in need by showing them the coping methods that have helped you survive or simply by offering sympathy. A kinship can develop that allows you to relate more closely with those you are trying to aid and comfort.

Helping others can be a restorative experience that makes your own heart grow stronger. In channeling your pain into compassionate service and watching others successfully recover, you may feel a sense of euphoria that leads to increased feelings of self-worth and optimism. Your courageous decision to reach out to others can be the best way to declare to yourself and the world that your pain didn't defeat you, and in fact it helped you heal.

Love After Pain

2011-07-19T08:48:00.000-07:00

How do we feel the pain of living without denying it and without letting it define us?

No matter what the burden you carry (cancer, abuse, depression, addiction…) we have to face the choice to become the pain, live in it or to be healed. When you choose to be healed you are not staying in the bitterness or the vengefulness, where the hate will eat your heart up. Be set free from the pain and stop living life life with a damaged heart.

This weeks mediation is on moving into love after pain.

Center yourself. Think of someone you admire who is still loving despite the pain they have experienced.

Breathe in slowly and open your heart to the wisdom of their being.

Breathe deeply now and let your heart-breath wash over your own pain, feel the pain soften and wash away with each breath as love moves in.

Do as often as you like and be transformed from your heart.

Namaste,
Tina

How to Avoid Taking on Energy of Others

2011-06-14T12:43:00.000-07:00

Have you ever felt a discomfort from being around certain individuals or groups of people? May be spending time with a particular friend feels draining or that dealing with a specific coworker exhausts you. Being around toxic or angry people is also draining. And you may even find that being surrounded by a crowd of people lowers your energy levels rather than perks you up. Each of us radiates energy and is capable of being influenced by the energy of other people. It is important to learn how to shield yourself, so you don’t unknowingly take on someone else’s energy. While some people know how to instinctively protect themselves from being adversely affected by energy, most of us need to discover and practice the technique that works best.

There are many ways to avoid being affected by people’s energy. Creating a shield to protect yourself from taking on any negative energy from other people or situations is one way. Center yourself and envision being enveloped in a cocoon of loving and protective white light. This protective layer should allow you to consciously regulate the energy around you. The intent to shield yourself is all you need for this to work. You can even create a trigger word to assist you in quickly creating a shield. Say this word each time you create a new shield, until the word and the shield become automatically associated in your mind. If you run into a person whose energy you find draining, you may want to cleanse your own energy field after your encounter. Sage, cold showers, singing, Om-ing, mineral water baths, spending time in nature, and a simple break to recharge are all ways to accomplish this.

While it is important to know how to shield yourself from energy, there are those energies that you may not want to shut out. The energy of laughter from a newborn baby, the feeling of joy radiating from someone in love, and the frequency of calm emanating from an enlightened teacher are just some of the energies coming from others that you may want to have around you.

The Secret of Surrender

2011-04-08T08:13:00.000-07:00

Most of us were raised and live in a culture that emphasizes the ideals of independence and control. The general idea is that we are on our own and we don’t need any help from anyone else, and if we are really successful it’s because we are in complete control. However, true lasting success comes only with surrender, which is the opposite of control. We cannot accomplish anything truly great on our own, without any help, and the idea that we can is an illusion that causes most of us a great deal of suffering. Surrender comes when we see that illusion and let go of trying to attain the impossible. Surrender can then be seen as a great strength rather than a weakness.

Even small moments of surrender are powerful indicators of how different our lives could be if we would only let go. We’ve all had the experience of extending huge amounts of effort and energy to reach a particular goal only to realize that we can’t make it happen after all. At the moment of letting go, realizing that we need to ask for help or simply release our agenda entirely, a profound feeling of relief may rush over us. This warm, open sensation is the essence of surrender, and if we didn’t feel that we didn’t really let go. But it is never too late to let go, even of things in the past that didn’t work out the way we wanted them to, because surrender is always an option in every moment of our lives.

When we finally do surrender, our goals actually become possible, because the act of surrender is, in essence, asking for the help we need. This help may come in the form of other human beings or unseen helpers such as angels or inner guides. It may also come in the form of shifting circumstances, the small miracles that we call grace.

Love, Give and Receive Unconditionally

2011-02-15T12:50:00.000-07:00

Giving and receiving unconditional love needs to become as basic to us as breathing in and out. The heart is the center of our circulation system where energy is transformed and carbon dioxide and oxygen are exchanged. Nothing happens without the other so if we wish to be loved, the best action we can take is to give love, like attracts like.

By turning our focus toward giving love to others, we open ourselves to receive love. A big challenge we face is being able to truly love those we may not even like or those whom we consider to be enemies. The honest expression of love can transform animosity into friendship, hatred into love, and threat into support. In the process, we need to also remember to love ourselves.

Be open to allow love to flow to you and through you. Open your heart to all, without conditions. Give and receive unconditional love. Send love out to your family, to your community, to the world. Offer your love to those who you consider your enemies so they can become your friends. Send love to yourself - to your body, mind and spirit. Accept yourself unconditionally in all your magnificence. Breathe in love, breathe out love. Love will fill you with its joy and support. You will be nurtured in unconditional love. Let go of the loneliness and let yourself be bathed in the precious agape love.

Allow Nature to Work

2011-01-18T09:15:00.000-07:00

We all see things about ourselves, our relationships, and our world that we want to change. Sometimes this desire leads us to take action to do the inner work that we need to do and we Then we wake up to a momentous shift to find that change has happened, seemingly without us. This can feel like a miracle as we suddenly see that our self-esteem really does seem to be intact, or our partner actually is helping out around the house more. We may even wonder whether all of our hard work had anything to do with it, or if it just happened by way of grace.

As humans, we can have short attention spans, and we can easily lose track of time. We may worry about a seedling in a pot with our constant attention and watering for several weeks only to find ourselves enjoying the blooms it offers and wondering when that happened, and how we didn't notice it. Nature, on the other hand, has infinite patience and stays with a thing all the way through its life. This doesn't mean that our efforts play no part in the miracle of change, they do. It's just that they are one small part of the picture that finally results in the flowering of a plant, the shifting of a relationship, the softening of our hearts.

The same laws that govern the growth of plants oversee our own internal and external changes. We observe, consider, work, and wonder, tilling the soil of our lives, planting seeds, and tending them. Sometimes the hard part is knowing when to stop and let go, handing it over to the universe. Usually this happens by way of distraction or disruption, our attention being called away to other more pressing concerns. And it is often at these times, when we are not looking, in the silence of nature's embrace, that the miracle of change happens.

Allow and embrace the change.

Sitting With Our Sadness

2011-01-10T03:42:00.000-07:00

The last thing most of us want to hear or think about when we are dealing with feelings of sadness is that a deep learning can be found from it. In the center of our pain, we often feel overwhelmed by a loss, disappointed and angry, or simply too exhausted to try and examine the situation. We may not want to look for anything resembling a bright side to our suffering or to hear the only way out of it is through it. By sitting through our sadness we can allow ourselves to move through the grieving process with full inner permission to experience it and to have the ability to surrender and accept it.

There is a great lesson sadness will teach you, it is to have compassion for others who are in pain, because it is only in feeling our own pain that we can really understand and allow for someone else's. While our own individual experiences of sadness have unique lessons, what we learn is universal. The wisdom we gain from going through the process of feeling loss, heartbreak, or deep disappointment gives us access to the heart of humanity and a greater awareness.

Healing Childhood Wounds by Going Back and Within

2010-12-22T11:30:00.000-07:00

Events from childhood, our first experiences, have the power to shape our lives. Some do so immediately, offering us challenges to overcome and encouragement to make use of our talents and interests. In the process character is built, and we make the first steps upon our personal paths. Other events seem to lay dormant until adulthood, when our closest relationships help to bring out the deepest aspects of ourselves. This is when unexamined lessons can be put to use and untended childhood wounds make themselves known in a call for healing.

We may discover issues of trust coming up, or perhaps we find ourselves mirroring actions from our past instinctively. No matter the case, we have the power within us to heal ourselves at the deepest level. With the wisdom of an adult, we can be the loving parent or guardian we needed as a child. Knowing that we are each whole spiritual beings having a human experience, we can nurture ourselves from that wholeness, and then reach out to others as well. We can recreate scenarios in our mind’s eye, trying different outcomes and following them to their logical conclusions. In doing so, we may be able to imagine possible reasons a situation occurred as it did, and even accept that it could not have happened any other way. With the wisdom born from age and experience, we might be able to see events from a different perspective, bringing new understanding and freeing ourselves from any hold the past may have on us.

Life offers opportunities to clear these weeds in the gardens of our souls. However, when we want to focus on easier and more pleasant tasks, we are likely to pass up the chances, leaving the wounds to continue to drain our energy and resources for living life fully today. We might find we need support to face the events of the past, so turning to a trained professional who can offer tools for healing can be a valid choice. As long as we remember that the child we were lives on within us, we are always free to go back and right old wrongs, correct mistaken perceptions, heal wounds, forgive, and begin anew.

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Self Development

2010-12-16T08:02:00.000-07:00

Nowadays, the terms self development, self improvement, self growth and self help have become popular. You can find many books and websites on these subjects. People are beginning to turn inside to find the solution to their problems. They seek knowledge, techniques, workshops, lectures and teachers who can show them the way. People begin to understand that self development and self growth will improve the quality of their life.

The major keys to self development and self growth is the subconscious mind. By changing the contents of the subconscious mind you change your habits, behavior and attitudes. This is brought about through visualization, affirmations, meditation and by analyzing behavior and habits.

The process of inner change requires inner work. It is not enough to read, you have to practice what you read, and this needs time and effort. There is no such thing as instant self improvement. Any inner change takes time, and there must be motivation, desire, ambition, perseverance and dedication. Outer and inner resistance and opposition must be taken into account too. Upon starting any self development program, most people will usually encounter inner resistance from their old habits, and from the people around them.

With a strong desire to change, build new habits and improve is needed to resist any laziness, desire to give up and the ridicule or opposition from family, friends or colleagues, which you will have.

There is a simple and effective technique to use, watching other people. By watching how people behave and act in various situations, you can then look inside yourself, to find out if you behaved in the same way under the same conditions. This looking within is called mirror work.

When you see people with certain traits of character, or a certain kind of behavior that you do not like, examine yourself to see if you have it also. If you do, visualize and rehearse in your mind a different sort of behavior. In your mind's eye you will see yourself with the opposite traits of character. To manifest a new behavior visualize your self in situations.

When you encounter traits of character or behavior, which you do like, visualize their advantages, benefits and the importance it would have in your own life and soon you will act in this way in daily life.
In this way you will have learned and benefited from the behavior and actions of the people around you, at work, at home, in the street and everywhere else, from people in real life, and from watching people on the screen. This is never for the purpose of judging them or taking advantage of them, but for learning how to act, react and behave in a better way. This process has another benefit, it increases the knowledge about how the mind and thoughts influence the behavior and actions of people.

Follow these steps to take advantage of this technique

1. Look around you and watch how people behave in various circumstances. Watch the people you meet at home, work, at the supermarket, on the bus, train and on the street. Watch and learn also from people interviewed on TV, and also from movies.

2. Watch how people talk, walk and react, and how they are consequently treated by others.

3. Pay attention to the way people use their voice and how they react to others' voices. Watch how you feel and act when people shout or speak softly. Watch what happens when people get angry, restless and upset and what happens if they are calm and relaxed.

4. If you do not like what you see, analyze what and why you do not like it, and then analyze your own behavior to find out whether you behave in the same way. Be honest and impartial in your analysis.

5. If you discover that you manifest some of these undesirable traits of character and behavior, affirm to yourself often, that every time you manifest these traits or behavior, you are going to be conscious and aware of them, and do your best to avoid them.

6. Play in your mind a mental scene of how you would like to behave. Repeat it several times a day, every day.

7. When you detect a sort of behavior or character traits you like and desire to possess, try to act in a similar way. Here too, visualize several times each day a scene, where you act and behave in that different way.

8. You can also decide to change some habit and behavior patterns and develop new ones, because you believe they are necessary and beneficial, even without seeing them in others first.

9. Think and visualize over and over again in your mind how you would like to act and behave. Constantly remind yourself of the changes you desire to make, and strive to act according to them. Each time that you find yourself acting according to your old habit, remember your decision to change and improve, and act accordingly.

10. Do not be disappointed or frustrated if you do not attain fast results. It does not matter how many times you fail or forget to behave as you desired. Persevere with your efforts and never give up, and you will begin to see how you and your life change.

Surround Yourself with Love

2010-12-04T15:27:00.001-07:00

Even though it might not always seem like we have much control over who we are with in our life- we do.

In our everyday life we are surrounded by a variety of people. Some of the people we deal with on a daily basis are a joy to be with, and their loving presence nurtures and encourages us. Others may have the opposite effect, draining us of our energy, making us feel tired and exhausted. Our well-being can be easily influenced by those around us, and if we can keep this in mind, we will have greater insights into the quality of our social interactions and their energetic effect on us.

Once we think more deeply about the people we interact with, it becomes easier for us to work toward filling our lives with people who help us cultivate healthy and positive relationships. Even though it might not always seem like we have much control over who we are with, we do.

The power to step back from toxicity lies within us. All we have to do is take a few moments to reflect on how another person makes you feel. Assessing the people we spend the most time with allows us to see if they add something constructive to, or subtract from, our lives. Should a friend sap our strength, for example, we can simply set the intention to tell them how we feel or simply spend less time with them. We will find that the moment we are honest with ourselves about our own feelings, the more candid we can be with others about how they make us feel. While this may involve some drastic changes to our social life it can bring about a personal transformation that will truly empower us, since the decision to live our truth will infuse our lives with greater happiness.

When we surround ourselves with positive people, we clear away the negativity that exists around us and create more room to welcome nurturing energy. Doing this not only enriches our lives but also envelopes us in a supportive and healing space that fosters greater growth, understanding, and love of ourselves as well as those we care about.

Release Your Past

2010-11-18T11:35:00.001-07:00

What is Reiki?

2010-11-16T14:12:00.000-07:00

Reiki 101:

Reiki, pronounced “Ray-Key” is an ancient and most beautiful “laying-on of hands” healing practice. REI, meaning "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "life force energy", that flows through everything. Therefore, Reiki, is the universal energy that is powerful, but gentle and is life giving; its endless supply is the most natural healing system available. Reiki may also be translated as “Spirit-guided” or “soul-guided” life force energy. If one's "life force energy" is low or not in balance, then we are more susceptible to illness and stress, and if it is high and in balance, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

Reiki heals all levels: At the physical level, Reiki supports the body’s natural ability to heal itself while ridding the body of harmful toxins. Mentally, Reiki flows into the mind and Neuropathways of the brain, allowing the release of old patterns and negative thought processes. As Reiki flows into all levels of a person’s emotional energy body, it releases blockages and stuck feelings, promoting positive feelings such as love, trust and goodwill towards self and others. When Reiki flows into the soul and spirit, it helps a person to discover their spiritual path and life purpose. It promotes the qualities of love, compassion and connects to the Divine, the Creator, the Cosmic Spirit, the All that Is.

A Reiki treatment takes place fully clothed on a comfortable futon mattress at floor level or on a massage table or sitting in a chair. A Reiki treatment can also be sent distantly. A Reiki practitioner uses a light touch by placing his or her hands on a client's body or held closely above the body with an intention to heal. A gentle feeling of warmth and tingling may be felt through the practitioner's hands.

There are eight to twelve hand placements on both the front and the back of the client. Very little pressure is applied, and there is no rubbing that may be normally associated with a massage. The ki energy flows through the practitioner and is drawn in by the recipient. The experience is often profoundly relaxing, relieving pain, and may also be energizing, creating many beneficial effects that include feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. You may feel a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you.

Many have reported miraculous results from Reiki treatments, while others may not perceive it immediately, the healing does happen. You may notice it a few days later, when you realize you're more relaxed and feeling better.

Reiki has had a positive affect on all forms of illness and negative conditions. This includes minor things like stress, headaches, tension, flu, as well as serious illness like heart disease or cancer. Where Reiki is practiced along with allopathic (western) medicine, it is found that many side effects of regular medical treatments are reduced or eliminated. This includes the negative effects of chemotherapy, post operative pain and depression as well as improving the healing rate and reducing the time needed to stay in the hospital. Reiki has rapidly gained acceptance in major hospitals, hospice care and especially among the nursing community.

Reiki is NOT intended to replace conventional medicine but to be used to complement it.

Let Go of the Toxicity in Your Life

2010-11-12T15:34:00.002-07:00

By T.. D. Jakes

There are people who can walk away from you.

And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone.

When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.

The bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19]

People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay.

Let them go.

And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead. You've got to know when it's dead.

You've got to know when it's over. Let me tell you something. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay.

Let them go!!

If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to......

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ........

LET IT GO!!!

If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth.......

LET IT GO!!!

If someone has angered you.

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge......

LET IT GO!!!

If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction.... ..

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents

LET IT GO!!!

If you have a bad attitude.... ...

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better......

LET IT GO!!!

If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him..........

LET IT GO!!!

If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship. ....

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves.. .....

LET IT GO!!!

If you're feeling depressed and stressed ............

LET IT GO!!!

If there is a particular situation that you are soused to handling yourself and God is saying 'take your hands off of it,' then you need to.......

LET IT GO!!!

Holding onto regret....

2010-11-10T14:38:00.002-07:00

Holding onto regret is like dragging the weight of the past with us everywhere we go. It drains our energy, leaving less available for life in the present because we are constantly feeding an old issue. This attachment can cause illness the same way watering a dead plant creates decay. We know that something new and beautiful can grow in its place if we only prepare the soil and plant the right seeds. We also know that we create our lives from our thoughts, so dwelling on the past may actually recreate a situation in our lives where we are forced to make the choice again and again. We can choose to move on right now by applying what we have learned to the present and perhaps even sharing with others, transforming the energy into something that is constructive and creative for ourselves and others.

Forgiveness is the soothing balm that can heal regret. In meditation, we can imagine discussing the issue with the self of our past and offering our forgiveness for the choice. In return, we can ask for our selves’ forgiveness for keeping them locked in that space of judgment for so long. We may also want to ask forgiveness from anyone else who may have been affected and perhaps offer our forgiveness. By replaying the event in our minds, we can choose a new ending using all that we now know. Imagine that you have actually gone back into the past and made this change, and then say goodbye to it. Release your former self with a hug and bring the forgiveness and love back with you to the present. Since we are usually our harshest critics, it is amazing how powerfully healing it can be to offer ourselves love.

Keeping our minds and our energy fully in the present allows us to fuel our physical and emotional healing and well-being today. This action frees our energy to create the dreams we dream for the future. By taking responsibility and action in the present, we can release our hold on the past.

Manifesting Beyond the Law of Attraction

2010-11-06T03:47:00.002-07:00

Are you tired of the Law of Attraction and trying to get it to work for you? Have you tried everything to manifest your life the way you want it to be?

Benefits of Reiki

2010-10-18T13:52:00.000-07:00

1. Physically

Reiki supports the bod's natural ability to heal itself while ridding
the body of harmful toxins.

2. Mentally

Reiki flows into the mind and Neuropathways of the brain, allowing the release of old patterns and negative thought processes.

3. Emotionally

Reiki flows into all levels of a person’s emotional energy body, releasing blockages and stuck feelings, promoting positive feelings such as love, trust and goodwill towards self and others.

4. Spiritually

Reiki flows into the soul and spirit, helping a person to discover their spiritual path and life purpose. It promotes the qualities of love, compassion and understanding, acceptance of self and others, it connects to the Divine, the Creator, the Cosmic Spirit, the All that Is.

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Listen to your Heart

2010-10-15T08:04:00.000-07:00

When we listen from our heart, the logical grid of our brain tends to soften and melt.

Most of us were born and raised in cultures that value the head over the heart and, as a result, we place our own hearts below our heads in a sort of inner hierarchy of which we may not be conscious. What this means is that we tend to listen and respond from the neck up, often leaving the rest of our bodies with little or no say in most matters. This is a physical habit, which sometimes feels as ingrained as the way we breathe or walk. However, with effort and awareness, we can shift the energy into our hearts, listening and responding from this much deeper, more resonant place.

The brain has a masterful way of imposing structure and order on the world, creating divisions and categories, devising plans and strategies. In many ways, we have our brains to thank for our survival on this planet. However, as is so clear at this time, we also need the wisdom of our hearts if we wish to continue surviving in a viable way. When we listen from our heart, the logical grid of the brain tends to soften and melt, which enables us to perceive the interconnectedness beneath the divisions and categories we use to organize the world. We begin to understand that just as the heart underlies the brain, this interconnectedness underlies everything.

Many agree that this is the most important work we can do at this time in history, and there are many practices at our disposal. For a simple start, try sitting with a friend and asking him to tell you about his life at this moment. For 10 minutes or more, try to listen without responding verbally, offering suggestions, or brainstorming solutions. Instead, breathe into your heart and your belly, listening and feeling instead of thinking. When you do this, you may find that it’s much more difficult to offer advice and much easier to identify with the feelings your friend is sharing. You may also find that your friend opens up more, goes deeper, and feels he has really been heard. If you also feel great warmth and compassion, almost as if you are seeing your friend for the first time, then you will know that you have begun to tap the power of listening with your heart.

DailyOm

Send Yourself Sunshine

2010-09-15T13:07:00.000-07:00

When things go wrong, it is easy to get into a bad mood, and that bad mood has a way of spiraling out and affecting our life for days to come. In the same way, when we feel badly about ourselves, we tend to act in ways that have repercussions, again creating a negative vibe that can negatively influence the next several days.

While it is important that we allow ourselves to feel what we feel, and to be genuine, we do not have to completely surrender to a dark mood or feelings of self-doubt. In fact, the more we simply allow and accept our darkness as one part of the picture, the more easily we can also allow and accept our light. In this vein, we can temper our grey moods with an injection of sunshine in the form of sending good wishes to ourselves for the next 24 hours.

If you feel a bad mood coming on or find yourself plagued with negative feelings, take a moment to acknowledge that. At the same time, recognize that things can and will change, and that you can still have a good day, or a good week, especially if you take the time to visualize that for yourself. This is a great way to support yourself when you are working through tough times and hard feelings. When you visualize good things for yourself, you are sending yourself love and warmth, as well as encouraging yourself to keep going.

Before you even get out of bed in the morning, you can take the time to send good wishes to yourself all the way through to the next morning. As you picture your day, take the time to fill in the details—where you are going, who you will see, what you will do—and send love and good wishes ahead to yourself, as well as everyone you encounter. It will be like arriving in a new place and finding that an old friend has sent a bouquet of flowers from back home to welcome you and remind you that you are loved.

... DailyOm

Stop the Foolishness

2010-09-09T08:49:00.000-07:00

It's foolish to be obsessed with past failures and it's just as foolish to be self satisfied with one's small achievements. The present and future are what is important, not the past. Those who neglect this spirit of continual striving will start to veer off in a ruinous direction.

Daisaku Ikeda

Gratitude

2010-08-23T08:04:00.000-07:00

Be in a constant state of gratitude, this will start to bring a flow of blessings into your life. When you can be truly grateful for everything that happens, the good or the bad, you will find that your life will begin to improve. It may be challenging at first to find the positive in every situation, but once this habit of gratitude becomes a part of you, you will be surprised by what opens up for you. Begin by being grateful for the basics like food, shelter and for small things that you can easily acknowledge. From there, allow your gratitude to grow and then you will be ready for even better things to come your way.

I am grateful… for the gift of life and all my many blessings, for family and friends, for a place to live and food to eat, for the earth and the spirit of life, for the sun that shines every day and for life it creates, that I can learn and grow from experiences I may not even have wanted, but that allow me to open up to a greater awareness of myself and my world, for the love that flows to me and through me and for support for the journey that is my life.

What emotions are you creating?

2010-08-18T08:36:00.000-07:00

Emotions are habits, and are actively created. It seems like they have a life of their own because we aren’t conscious of exactly how we create them. If we can bring more awareness into our emotional life then we can cultivate the emotions we want to experience (those that make us and others happy), and discourage the arising of those we don’t want (those that make us unhappy and generate conflict with others).

We cultivate emotions all the time. An example of how we unconsciously generate emotions is this: imagine you’re with a group of people, and you get to talking about all the things that are wrong with the world — hatred, war, intolerance, child-abuse, pollution etc. As the conversation goes on, and we get more and more involved, what happens? The chances are that we get angry, or depressed, or feel self-righteous. By focusing on things that anger or depress you (without creatively trying to see what you can actually do about these things), you cultivate these emotions.

Imagine if you did that with things that encouraged a sense of love and well-being in which we consciously set up the conditions for the arising of positive emotion.

What we resist persist

2010-08-03T09:09:00.000-07:00

What does it really mean “What we resist persist” and how does this affect YOU?
Anytime you’re not feeling good you are resisting something.

If you feel unloved, you are resisting love.
If you feel betrayed, you are resisting trusting yourself.
If you feel abandoned, you are resisting accepting yourself fully, just the way you are.
It all comes back to you, to accepting yourself fully and completely.
It’s about being in conflict with who we really are, being in conflict with our true and abiding nature. It’s about us believing that we are limited and small when just the opposite is true. But we believe it anyway.
And then you break free from all the limiting beliefs.

Affirmation for today: I honor the perfection of the Universe

2010-07-29T10:09:00.000-07:00

Often we try to control the universe by wishing things were different for us, but when we take a deep look into the nature of existence, we find that there is perfection in everything that happens. We tend to judge people and situations, and by doing this, we block any opportunities that may be coming to our way. The process of accepting the idea of perfection can at times be difficult, especially when there is sickness, loss, an accident or death. By believing in the ultimate perfection of all that is, we begin a journey that moves us in the direction we want to go. We may not see it yet, but if we focus on it, we will evolve into the divine vision for our lives.

Todays Affirmation: I am relaxed during times of stress

2010-07-27T11:47:00.000-07:00

Is your body relaxed? Being relaxed can help you heal.

Do you know what disease means? Dis-ease ‘lack of ease’ so with that in mind, returning to our natural state of balance should be a goal of a healthy lifestyle.

When people are uptight and tense, they often create blockages in their chakra and body systems which may cause toxins to accumulate and disease can result.

The body and mind are interconnected so when one experiences tension in the mind, it is reflected as constriction in the body.

By being aware of the need to relax and by practicing relaxation techniques, such as meditation, one can mitigate the effects of chronic or acute stress and even pain.

Living in your past?

2010-07-23T07:52:00.000-07:00

From Dailyom.com...

Holding onto regret is like dragging the weight of the past with us everywhere we go. It drains our energy, leaving less available for life in the present because we are constantly feeding an old issue. This attachment can cause illness the same way watering a dead plant creates decay. We know that something new and beautiful can grow in its place if we only prepare the soil and plant the right seeds. We also know that we create our lives from our thoughts, so dwelling on the past may actually recreate a situation in our lives where we are forced to make the choice again and again. We can choose to move on right now by applying what we have learned to the present and perhaps even sharing with others, transforming the energy into something that is constructive and creative for ourselves and others.

Forgiveness is the soothing balm that can heal regret. In meditation, we can imagine discussing the issue with the self of our past and offering our forgiveness for the choice. In return, we can ask for our selves’ forgiveness for keeping them locked in that space of judgment for so long. We may also want to ask forgiveness from anyone else who may have been affected and perhaps offer our forgiveness. By replaying the event in our minds, we can choose a new ending using all that we now know. Imagine that you have actually gone back into the past and made this change, and then say goodbye to it. Release your former self with a hug and bring the forgiveness and love back with you to the present. Since we are usually our harshest critics, it is amazing how powerfully healing it can be to offer ourselves love.

Keeping our minds and our energy fully in the present allows us to fuel our physical and emotional healing and well-being today. This action frees our energy to create the dreams we dream for the future. By taking responsibility and action in the present, we can release our hold on the past.

Useful Transformation: At the root of all growth, we find change.

2010-07-18T21:23:00.000-07:00

At the root of all growth, we find change. Occasionally, change and the circumstances leading up to it are a source of extraordinary joy, but more often than not they provoke feelings of discomfort, fear, or pain. Though many changes are unavoidable, we should not believe that we are subject to the whims of an unpredictable universe. It is our response to those circumstances that will dictate the nature of our experiences. At the heart of every transformation, no matter how chaotic, there is substance. When we no longer resist change and instead regard it as an opportunity to grow, we find that we are far from helpless in the face of it.

Our role as masters of our own destinies is cemented when we choose to make change work in our favor. Yet before we can truly internalize this power, we must accept that we cannot hide from the changes taking place all around us. Existence as we know it will come to an end at one or more points in our lives, making way for some new and perhaps unexpected mode of being. This transformation will take place whether or not we want it to, and so it is up to us to decide whether we will open our eyes to the blessings hidden amidst disorder or close ourselves off from opportunities hiding behind obstacles.

To make change work for you, look constructively at your situation and ask yourself how you can benefit from the transformation that has taken place. As threatening as change can seem, it is often a sign that a new era of your life has begun. If you reevaluate your plans and goals in the days or weeks following a major change, you will discover that you can adapt your ambition to the circumstances before you and even capitalize on these changes. Optimism, enthusiasm, and flexibility will aid you greatly here, as there is nothing to be gained by dwelling on what might have been. Change can hurt in the short term but, if you are willing to embrace it proactively, its lasting impact will nearly always be physically, spiritually, and intellectually transformative.

...from your Dailyom

Finding Deep Strength Below the Surface

2010-07-12T07:12:00.000-07:00

We have all faced moments in our lives when the pressure mounts beyond what we feel we can handle, and we find ourselves thinking that we do not have the strength to carry on. Sometimes we have just gotten through a major obstacle or illness only to find another one waiting for us the moment we finally catch our breath. Sometimes we endure one loss after another, wondering when we will get a break from life’s travails. It does not seem fair or right that life should demand more of us when we feel we have given all we can, but sometimes this is the way life works.

When we look back on our lives, we see that we have survived many trials and surmounted many obstacles, often to our own amazement. In each of those instances, we had to break through our ideas about how much we can handle and go deeper into our hidden reserves. The thought that we do not have the strength to handle what is before us can be likened to the hard surface of a frozen lake. It appears to be an impenetrable fact, but when we break through it, we find that a deep well of energy and inspiration was trapped beneath that icy barrier the whole time. Sometimes we break through by cutting a hole into our resistance with our willpower, and sometimes we melt the ice with compassion for our predicament and ourselves. Either way, each time we break through, we reach a new understanding of the strength we store within ourselves.

When we find ourselves up against that frozen barrier of thinking we cannot handle our situation, we may find that the kindest choice is to love ourselves and our resistance too. We can simply accept that we are overwhelmed, exhausted, and stretched, and we can offer ourselves loving kindness and compassion. If we can extend to ourselves the unconditional warmth of a mother’s love, before we know it, the ice will begin to break.

by Dailyom.com

Coping with Passive Aggression

2010-07-08T19:52:00.000-07:00

Those who cannot express negative emotions may engage in passive-aggressive behaviors that provide a means of redirecting their feelings.

Many people are taught from a young age to suppress feelings commonly regarded as negative, such as anger, resentment, fear, and sorrow. Those who cannot or will not express these emotions tend to engage in passive-aggressive behaviors that provide them with a means of redirecting their feelings. Passive aggression can take many forms: People who feel guilty saying “no” may continually break their promises because they couldn’t say no when they meant it. Others will substitute snide praise for a slur to distance themselves from the intense emotions they feel. More often than not, such behavior is a cry for help uttered by those in need of compassion and gentle guidance.

When we recognize passive-aggressive patterns in the behavior of others, we should never allow ourselves to be drawn into a struggle for power. Passive aggression is most often wielded by those who feel powerless in the face of what they perceive as negative emotions because they hope to avoid confronting their true feelings. They feel they are in control because they do not display overt emotion and often cannot understand how they have alienated their peers. If someone close to us shows signs of frustration or annoyance but claims nothing is amiss, we can point out that their tone of voice or gestures are communicating a different message and invite them to confide in us. When we feel slighted by a backhanded compliment, it is important that we calmly explain how the jibe made us feel and why. And when an individual continually breaks their promises, we can help them understand that they are free to say no if they are unwilling to be of service.

As you learn to detect passive aggression, you may be surprised to see a hint of it in yourself. Coping with the natural human tendency to veil intense emotions can be as simple as reminding yourself that expressing your true feelings is healthy. The emotions typically regarded as negative will frequently be those that inspire you to change yourself and your life for the better, whereas passive-aggressive behavior is a means of avoiding change. When you deal constructively with your feelings, you can put them behind you and move forward unencumbered by unexplored emotion.

By Today's DailyOm

Do you hold onto the past?

2010-07-02T09:50:00.000-07:00

Energy in a Home

2010-06-28T20:26:00.000-07:00

Our homes and our belongings within them all contain energy. Tend to the energy of your home as you would tend to anything you love.

Our homes are filled with energy that we create. In many cases, our relationship with the pulse of our homes is passive rather than active because we do not pay particular attention to the energy that has been established. It is only whe we regard these spaces as unique entities that we begin to understand why it is necessary to take charge of the energy that fills our homes.

Stagnant, inharmonious energy can find its way into our dwellings through many avenues. Previous occupants, builders, visitors, and the individuals who maintain a home leave a strong energy imprint behind. Objects and symbols can also have an effect on the energy of a home. When we are aware of all that can influence the energy of our spaces, we are empowered to create harmonious homes that do more than meet our need for shelter.

Exercising care with regard to who and what we invite into our homes is one of the easiest ways we can ensure that the energy within remains loving and supportive. It is not always possible to keep potentially harmful people and possessions from entering our homes, but we can take precautions. Individuals can be kept from private spaces like bedrooms and meditation areas, while property can be purified through cleansing or smudging.

During periods of remodeling or construction, Reiki symbols and other positive imagery can be printed on surfaces that will later be covered by walls or flooring. Though hidden, these will continue to attract good energy and cleanse the existent energy. Blessings can also be drawn in plain sight, where they remind us of how potently our home's energy can affect our own.

A home can appear beautiful, comfortable, and stable while still serving as a dwelling place for negative or otherwise offensive energy. If you care for your home conscientiously and with great care, you will instinctively look beyond the surface qualities of your home when assessing how it feels. Since you actively guard your home against the intrusion of unwelcome energy, you will have the time and vigor necessary to cope with it constructively when it would appear in your midst. The spirit of your spaces will respond to your thoughtful ministrations, nurturing and supporting you for as long as you choose to reside within her walls.

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Psychic Tie Healing Affirmation

2010-06-18T09:39:00.000-07:00

A psychic tie is an undue attachment, repulsion or resistance to any person, place, thing, organization, situation, circumstance, memory, experience, or addicition that influences you adversely. Psychic ties are made of negativie emotions and memories left over from detrimental encounters and experiences.

They are in the astral/mental realm, and can be seen or felt with subtle senses. They often manifest behaviorally as obsessions, co-dependent relationships, compulsive thoughts, habitual behaviours, work aholism, or addictions. They are not blessings, they are always harmful and never useful. They cause tension, frustration, addiction and slavery. It is important to always cut and release them.

When to do a Psychic Tie Cut?
~~ If you cannot go deep into meditation or cannot hear the voice of God due to distraction or mental fixation on a person/thing.
~~ Whenever you feel pulled or tugged from someone/thing
~~ When you feel angry, resentful, wronged or harmed by someone/thing
~~ When you are overly attached, dependent or addicted to someone/thing
~~ When you feel dominated or controlled by someone/thing
~~ To pray for another person to cut psychic ties with someone/thing

How to cut the Psychic Tie:

I call upon the Holy Spirit to now lovingly
cut any and all psychie ties between (myself or name of person)
and (name of person, place, or thing cutting tie with)

These psychic ties are now lovingly and completely
CUT, CUT, CUT, CUT, CUT, CUT, CUT, CUT (make scissor cut motions)
healed, blessed, loved, dissolved, released, ifted and let go
into the light of God's love and truth.

Thank you God, and SO IT IS.

Namaste'

2010-04-26T14:20:00.000-07:00

I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute the Source in you.
Let us work together for unity and Love.

~~Mahatma Gandhi

Being Part of One Another

2010-04-21T06:36:00.000-07:00

The first and most important relationship in your life is with yourself and often it is overlooked. If it is not positive then none of your other relationships will be positive either. We spend more time daily communicating with ourselves consciously or unconsciously.

The first step in creating a positive relationship with yourself is to begin to love yourself unconditionally. Stop right now with the negative self-talk and become more gentle with and accepting of yourself.

It doesn't matter what your career is or what business you have; the strength of your relationships will determine the level of your success. You can live without a sister or brother, but you cannot live without a friend. We are always in relationships, keep them positive by nourishing them.

Life is made rich through our relationships.

Let the Sun Shine In

2010-04-13T16:58:00.000-07:00

Are you the kind of person who lets rainy days and Mondays get you down?

Psychologists say that prolonged bad weather can lead to depression and dampen your enthusiasm, leaving you feeling blue. They call this condition Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD for short.

I'm no psychologist, but it occurs to me that both the disorder and the cure are in the mind. If the sky is black and the rain won't stop, grab a philosophical umbrella and let the sun figuratively shine in. You can shop if you like to shop, spend time with friends who are fun to be with, or curl up with a good book.

Whatever you do, if you do it with a sunny attitude inside, you can beat the weather outside. You will suffer from JOY instead of SAD.

Joy comes from within!

Take Time To Be Happy

2010-03-12T14:16:00.000-07:00

Enthusiasm creates joy. Joy creates more joy. Maintaining a joyful outlook and keeping a high level of enthusiasm can sometimes be difficult, but the more you do it, the easier it gets. The rewards always reflect what you invest.

Two ingredients are necessary for success in life, fun and fearlessness. I am suggesting you replace fear with faith and look for the fun in everyday experiences.

How many times a day do you laugh? If you don't have at least four or five belly laughs a day, you're missing out on a very important ingredient in life: fun. It's the one thing in life that can get you through any situation stress free.

POSITIVE THINKING

2010-03-04T08:23:00.000-07:00

Positive Thinking Will Take You Anywhere You Want To Go...

A positive attitude is one of the secret ingredients you need to discover and fulfill your life's dreams. It is not the cure-all for everything that ails you or a magic potion for making you the smartest student in class or the most successful person on the planet, but coupled with other good qualities it will help you flourish and become the best you can be. High self-esteem, commitment, integrity, the gift of giving, faith and love, are some of the other ingredients.

Your attitude toward the world hinges on how you look at yourself. As you lift yourself up, you will find that the world outside becomes a reflection of what you are within.

Remember, you will get much further on one gallon of optimistic thinking than you will on a tankful of negative thoughts. The power in you begins with a positive attitude!

Know How to Overcome Any Crisis

2010-02-24T20:38:00.000-07:00

1. Don't become part of the problem. When you are faced with an unpleasant situation, do not internalize the dispute or defend yourself in a combative manner. Concentrate on the worthwhile things in your life.

2. Accept and acknowledge the reality of your situation. You have to say to yourself, "This is the way it is, and the course of events now depends entirely on me." You can deal with your problem once you separate your emotions from the facts. Once you do that, you gain control of your situation and can make the moves necessary to resolve it.

3. Remain committed. Even when you privately may think things could not be worse, you should still wake up each morning determined to stay the course. Keep your heart and mind completely on track, and never give up.

4. Allow the experience to open you up to what you need to learn. Every situation is an education. If you open your mind to the voices of others, you will open your life and enhance your chances for growth and achievement.

5. Maintain a positive mental attitude. Regardless of the appearance of a situation, there is always good to be found. Make sure you seek out the beauty and wisdom in everything. Believe it or not, it is always there to be found.

6. Hold on to your faith. When you have faith, you reinforce your subconscious to make your life move forward and flourish. You create your own circumstances; your subconscious merely reproduces in your environment what you conjure up in your mind.

7. Consciously practice living in the present. It always helps to be mindful and aware of each moment so that you can make best use of the time you have. If you waste your energy on thinking about what can go wrong, you inhibit your ability to live each day effectively. If you live in the moment, you realize that you ahve everything you need to deal with your life. The past cannot be changed nor the future predicted, but each moment in the present is a building block to a happy existence.

Manifesting 101

2010-02-04T11:24:00.000-07:00

The four step Law of Attraction manifestation process:

Step One: Create It
Decide what you really, really want. Is it a new home, car, or job? Is it a special someone?
Write it down, beginning with "I'm so happy & grateful I have..."
Then list the positive qualities and features of what it is you want, give the detials.
It is important to write it in the present. If you write "I want this," then you are vibrating at a frequency of want, and wanting is all you will attract. You want to be vibrating harmony with having it already.

Rather than asking for money, focus on what you want to have. The $2500 doesn't come because you asked for the money, it comes because your end result is a vacation that costs $2500...you know this because you estimated all the expenses for the vacation.

Once you have written it all down, write the end, "This or something better, for the highest good of all concerned." Give the Universe (God) an opportunity to give you something better and/or more appropriate, it knows better than we do.

Step Two: Clear It
Too often we are sending out contradictory energy, keeping what we consciously say we want at a distant from ourselves.

Clear out any contradictory (negative) thoughts with tools for clearing like Zpoint, PSTEC, or EFT. The Universe will pick up on them so it is important to release the blocks to your success.

Also clear on your intentions. If you have doubts about your motives, you will either block receiving your desire, or limit your ability to receive it in a joyful manner. Make sure you want it for the right reasons.

Keep doing this until you can think about the successful attainment of your objective without feeling any resistance.

Step Three: Live It
Now that you can think about successfully receiving your desire without feeling any resistance, do so. Really think about having it, and allow yourself to enjoy it.

Indulge in all the positive feelings you expect to experience while enjoying this thing in your life. Really feel how good it feels!

Meditate and visualize yourself really enjoying your desire, and allow the positive feelings to wash over you and through you. Do this each day.

Another great way to do this step is with a partner. Tell them, "I have this new ____ in my life and I'm so happy and grateful! Again, in the present and positive terms. Your partner says "Great, I want you to tell me more!" As you do, allow the joyfully, happy situation to feed both of you with excitement, building the vibrational energay.

Step Four: Let Go and Let God
You need to be unattached to the outcome, otherwise you may start clenching your energy, asking "Where is it?" Not great energy to be attracting to yourself.

Also, don't be attached to how it happens. You might be staring at the front door waiting for the special someone to walk in, and completely miss them because they came through the side door.

This doesn't mean you don't take action. Do what you can, let the Universe know you are serious about making things happen. Just don't be surprised if the manifestation comes in a way that doesn't seem to be directly related to what you are doing. You can do some clearing here also and Let it go!

If you've created your vision, cleared all internal objections to it, allowed yourself to experience living it and really feel how great it would be to have it, and it still isn't showing up, then you need to trust that maybe it really isn't in your best interest to have it at this present time.

Remember that God's delays are not God's denials.

Many times there is more clearing work to do. Abundance just is. It is all around. The extent to which we are not experiencing it is the extent to which we are resisting it.

Stop Resisting It! Manifest It! You Deserve It!

The 18 Rules to Happiness

2010-01-22T17:57:00.000-07:00

Rule #1 - Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself!
Self-pity is the very worst kind of emotion. It destroys
everything around itself, and leaves you feeling powerless.
Stop being the victim, stop feeling sorry for yourself – and be
happy.
Rule #2 – Be Grateful
The world is so fast-paced that we’re rarely grateful of its
gifts. Think of all the things you’re grateful for right now:
family, health, home, everything. Spend time being grateful
each day – and be happy.
Rule #3 – Say Yes More
We each say “No!” way too often. Try saying “Yes!” more to
all of life’s experiences. Don’t fight the river’s current. Say
“Yes!” more to emotions, situations, social invitations – and
be happy.
Rule #4 – Follow Your Bliss
In life, we often find ourselves half-way up a ladder we don’t
want to climb, rather than at the bottom of one we do. What
do you really want to be? Follow your own bliss – and be
happy.
Rule #5 – Learn to Let Go
Emotions often hold us back from true happiness and
freedom. Remember, you are not your emotions. Let go of
unwanted emotions by asking yourself “Can I let this go?” Do
it – and be happy.
Rule #6 – Do Random Acts of Kindness
Being kind is double-edged. It makes you feel happier, and
spreads that joy to someone else too. Do more Random Acts
of Kindness every day – smile, hold open a door, pay for a
coffee – and be happy.
Rule #7 – Happiness Is Only Ever Now
Most of us spend our time anywhere but in the present. We
obsess about the past, or plan for the future. Now is the only
time that really exists. Make the decision to be happy – now.
Rule #8 – Experience, Don’t Hoard!
Research shows that material purchases only boost your
happiness levels temporarily. Experiences bring more
overall joy. Enjoy safari holidays, learn a language, join a
dancing group – and be happy.
Rule #9 – Appreciate Both Sides of the Coin
How many times do we try to embrace happiness – and
reject sadness? They’re both sides of the same coin. You
cannot have one without the other. Sadness is critical. Don’t
fight it – and be happy.
Rule #10 – Be More Social
Extensive research shows that the happiest and most
successful people are those with large social networks. How
many friends do you have? Be proactive, start making more –
and become happier.
Rule #11 – Love More!
The more you love, the happier you are. Try giving everyone
and everything around you a little more love. Friends,
family, nature, even enemies – open your heart, give them
love – and be happy.
Rule #12 – Have a Dream
Dreams are the spark plugs of the spirit. They give each day
excitement and enable you to move forward. What are your
dreams? Think about it, write them down. Then do them –
and be happy.
Rule #13 – Intention Sets Direction
The outcome you expect is usually the one you receive. If
you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you
there. So, set a great intention in everything you do – and be
happy.
Rule #14 – Enjoy Simple Pleasures
Real happiness can be found in simple pleasures and rituals.
From a daily walk in nearby countryside to a glass of wine
after work. Indulge in these, setup your own little rituals –
and be happy.
Rule #15 – Accept What Is
Many of us spend time resisting what is. We fight against our
own emotions, building up anger and resentment. Accept
what is right now. Change it if you can. But accept it first –
and be happy.
Rule #16 – Exercise and Eat Well
You are as happy as your lifestyle! For optimum happiness,
try walking for 40 minutes a day. Take Omega 3 supplements,
and eat more fish, nuts, turkey, cottage cheese. Enjoy – and
be happy.
Rule #17 – Zoom Out and Don’t Sweat
We often get a fresh perspective on life, after we lose a family
member, or survive an illness. Don’t wait for life to remind
you. Zoom out and remember your real priorities now – and
be happy.
Rule #18 – Laugh, Dance, Smile!
Take time to laugh at the craziness of life! Splash out and
enjoy to the max. Surround yourself with happiness –
wonderful music, dance classes, evenings with friends.
Smile and be happy!

Decree of Abundance

2010-01-17T13:46:00.000-07:00

From the Light of God that I am,
From the Love of God that I am,
From the Power of God that I am,
From the Heart of God that I am,

I Decree,
I dwell in the midst of Infinite Abundance. The Abundance of God is my Infinite Source.

The River of Life never stops flowing. It flows through me into lavish expression. Good comes to me through unexpected avenues and God works in a myriad of ways to bless me.

I now open my mind to receive my good. Nothing is to good to be true. Nothing is too wonderful to have happen. With God as my Source, nothing amazes me.

I am not burdened by thoughts of past or future. One is gone. The other is yet to come.

I ask and accept that I am lifted in this and every moment into Highter Truth. My mind is quiet.

From this day forward I give freely and fearlessly into life and life gives back to me with magnificent increase. Blessings come in expected and unexpected ways. God provides for me in wondrous ways.

I AM indeed grateful. And I let it be so.

Saying it is not enough, believing it changes everything and then acting upon it changes everything, yet again!

Unconditional Love

2009-12-26T16:09:00.000-07:00

Over the last 18 months in my personal growth the same message kept coming back, to have unconditional love for all creation. While in Sedona AZ, God said "do not judge, only Love" and so I continue to love unconditionally. Somedays it's easy and somedays it's not but I constantly tell myself I am filled with Peace, Joy and Love...and so I am.

We all must have unconditional love towards each other and everything. If people can manifest more love, this world would be a better place.

Five Steps to Aundance ~~ Jo Dunning

2009-12-07T21:00:00.000-07:00

There are five simple steps which will allow us to receive the abundance and prosperity we would like. They are natural steps of giving and receiving which we can use each day to create the circular flow of joyful prosperity and abundance in our lives. Soon these steps become our way of life and an easy expression of our joy and prosperity.

To step into the flow of Abundance for your life.

1. Give what you want to receive. The flow of Abundance is already all around you. To step into this flow is easy. Give to someone else the very thing you would like to receive. And give it freely without expectations of receiving, as if you already had more than enough. If you want more kindness in your life, be kind to someone, if you want more happiness in your life, make someone else happy, if you want more money in your life, share a little of what you have. Give it away easily, like you already had all that you need and there is plenty more from where that came from.

2. Trust and know. The next step is to trust and know you have just stepped into the flow of abundance and are now aligned with what you want. Know there is more than enough to go around and it is easy to have all you want.

3. Take Action. Participation is an important part of Abundance. While you are knowing you are now aligned with the flow of the abundance you want, it is also important to participate and help make things happen. Follow your inner knowing and your intuition and do your part to help create the abundance you would like to have. Continue to participate until you are receiving what you want.

4. Be Grateful. Gratitude is a vital step in the flow of abundance. It is a powerful magnet which keeps us in the flow and aligned with receiving all the wonderful things we desire. Fill yourself with gratitude all the time, even about the small and seemingly simple things in your life. There is always something to be grateful about. When you notice a little of what you want flowing to you, take a moment and be grateful for what you have received, regardless of how big or small it may be. Be grateful and say thank you.

5. Pass it on. When you receive a little abundance take a moment and pass some of it on and assist someone else in feeling a little more abundant. When you pass on some of what you receive, do it easily as if you already have more than you need, expecting nothing in return. When you pass it on in this way you are now starting the process all over again and have once again taken the first step to "give what you want to receive." In this way the flow of abundance continues and becomes more and more each time.

Practice Forgiveness Daily

2009-12-06T21:59:00.000-07:00

A Belief

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A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought and you have the ability, if you try even a little bit, to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction.

The Law of Attraction is responding to your vibration and you can easily change your vibrational point of attraction by visualizing the lifestyle you desire and holding your attention upon those images until you gegin to feel relief, which will indicate that a true vibrational shift has occurred.

~~ Abraham ~~

Energy First, Harmony Second

2009-11-14T11:32:00.000-07:00

Most of us react to challenging situations in our lives with anger, insecurity, or fear, never realizing that we create what we experience: Our outward lives relfect imbalances in our lives.

Begin to shift your focus away from the problem mindset and focus on realigning with the inner energy (chakra) that is causing the imbalance.

The chakras are an ancient model for awakening and balancing your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energies. These vortexes of energy serve as a map to your inner world. The more freely energy flows within you, the stronger your state of health and well-being.

When problems, challenges and difficulties arise in your life, the balancing of your chakras will help you to experience life in a joyful, more harmonious way, the outer world will fall into place also.

Define Your Dreams

2009-11-10T12:09:00.000-07:00

Have you ever given deep thought to what you want to create
in your life? Consider each of the various areas of your life
and focus on what you do want, not on what you don’t want.
Get in touch with your inner truth, your dreams, goals, and

your desires. Honor these and own them without fear, shame

or embarrassment. Your dreams and desires are not subject to
anyone else’s approval. They are yours and yours alone, but
you have to define them in order to achieve them.

You deserve to have everything you want in life, whether it is
a romantic relationship, a vacation, a new home, a new car or
financial prosperity. I must tell you this, contrary to popular belief,
there is nothing wrong with desiring financial wealth, you don’t
have to feel guilty for it. You can do much good in the world with
greater financial assets in your bank. It is the attachment to money
that can become problematic, so remember that you must give
in order to receive.

Ignite the passion within you to achieve your dreams and it will
send a positive vibrational frequency out into the world. The
universe will respond accordingly, that is the Law of Attraction.

All things are possible, so don’t limit your visions for your future.
You must believe in yourself and believe that you are worthy, you
are good enough to receive your hearts desires. Keep all of your
actions, dreams, goals, and desires in alignment with your life
purpose. Decide what you truly want and create it.

Begin my defining your goals and dreams. Here are seven key
areas in your life to consider:

1. Personal goals: things you want to do, be, and have…
2. Relationships: friends, family, romantic, coworkers…
3. Health and Body: wellness, fitness, body image…
4. Career and Education: job, business, school, career goals…
5. Recreation: sports, hobbies, fun, vacations…
6. Financial: income, savings, investments…
7. Contribution: charities, community service…

Now ask yourself these questions:
Do I have personal goals and aspirations?
What is my life purpose?
What is it I love to do?
What am I passionate about?
What do I want to accomplish?
Where do I want to go?
What do I want to be or who do I want to be?
How can I give to others?
What causes speak to me?
What are my intentions?

In order to attract what you want in your life, you must first
take the time to clearly identify your dreams and desires.

To the person who does not know
where he wants to go there is
no favorable wind.

~~ Seneca ~~

To operate in harmony with the Law of Attraction, you must
first place your order in life. Become clear on your goals and
be specific, stop settling for whatever comes your way in life.
Take ownership and actively participate in the creation of your
own future by clearly stating your desires.

The bottom line is…if you don’t really know exactly what you
are asking for, then how do you expect to get it?

Take the time to decide what you really want to attract in your life,

write it down, and be perfectly clear about it.

You must see your goals clearly
and specifically before you can set out
for them. Hold them in your mind
until they become second nature.

~~ Les Brown ~~

Life Experiences

2009-11-09T08:37:00.000-07:00

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life.

I think that what we're seeking is an experience to be alive,

so that our life experiences will resonate within our own

innermost being and reality, so we can feel the rapture of being alive.

Seventeen Rules For A Better Way To Live!

2009-11-05T10:56:00.000-07:00

Seventeen Rules For A Better Way To Live!-- by Og Mandino, A Better Way To Live

Rule One for a Better Way to Live: Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move toward the life that God intended for you... with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

Rule Two for a Better Way to Live: Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Rule Three for a Better Way to Live: Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come. Rule

Rule Four for a Better Way to Live: Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Rule Five for a Better Way to Live: Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeat again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Rule Six for a Better Way to Live: Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Rule Seven for a Better Way to Live: Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.

Rule Eight for a Better Way to Live: Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

Rule Nine for a Better Way to Live: Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, "If I had my life to live over again..."Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day!

Rule Ten for a Better Way to Live: Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Rule Eleven for a Better Way to Live: Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Rule Twelve for a Better Way to Live: Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

Rule Thirteen for a Better Way to Live: Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

Rule Fourteen for a Better Way to Live: You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day -- not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal -- to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.

Rule Fifteen for a Better Way to Live: Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

Rule Sixteen for a Better Way to Live: Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valley you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Rule Seventeen for a Better Way to Live: Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Where do you Choose to put your Attention?

2009-10-28T09:13:00.000-07:00

Do you choose to put your attention on the beauty that surrounds you or on the potholes that you stumble through?

Where is your attention being drawn?

Are your thoughts centered on that pothole or do you lift your eyes to see the beauty that surrounds you? There will always be potholes.

Life is filled with potholes, but must your gaze always be drawn to them alone?Lift up your eyes and see the beauty that surrounds you.

Make it your daily task to appreciate just one thing and your gaze will be lifted from your particular pothole. You'll know it's still there, but it's much more interesting and satisfying to watch the things that give you pleasure. Before long, the potholes of the world will seem to disappear leaving you enraptured by the beauty you see all around you.

It's all a matter of where you choose to put your attention.

What We Resist Persist

2009-10-27T07:20:00.000-07:00

What does it really mean “What we resist persist” and how does this affect YOU?

Anytime you’re not feeling good you are resisting something.

If you feel unloved, you are resisting love. If you feel betrayed, you are resisting trusting yourself. If you feel abandoned, you are resisting accepting yourself fully, just the way you are.

It all comes back to you, to accepting yourself fully and completely.
It’s about being in conflict with who we really are, being in conflict with our true and abiding nature.

It’s about us believing that we are limited and small when just the opposite is true.

But we believe it anyway.

Live on Purpose and with Passion

2009-10-22T16:30:00.000-07:00

Living a life of purpose is not only a true expression of
who you really are, it is your gift to the world, and the
world needs what you have to offer.

When you are living your life "on purpose" you will find
greater fulfillment and joy in all that you do. The universe
will support you in all of your endeavors when you are
living in alignment with your purpose, your passion, and
your innter truth.

~~ The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose ~~ Richard Leider

Begin to take the time to look deeply within yourself and
identify your own personal mission and purpose in life.
This can be done through quiet contemplation, prayer,
and meditation.

Remember this: There are no accidents and you are here
on this planet for a reason. You have a purpose in this life
and in this world, and your contribution does matter.

Peace!

Destiny....

2009-09-16T14:45:00.000-07:00

Destiny is not a matter of chance;

it is a matter of choice.

It is not something to be waited for;

but, rather something to be achieved.

~~ William Jennings Bryan

Become Conscious

2009-09-09T14:08:00.000-07:00

Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions
so that you can live from true choice in the

present moment rather than being run by
programming from the past

Sedona

2009-09-07T14:48:00.000-07:00

Sedona is place to rest, relax & recharge.

It is a place of beauty.

It is a place we call Home!

Belief

2009-09-07T09:29:00.000-07:00

Believe that life is worth living

and your belief will help

create the fact ~~ William James

Do You Worry About Money?

2009-09-07T09:26:00.000-07:00

Which of these approaches do you use to solve money problems?
1. Worry
2. Hope
3. Cheat or steal
4. Wait for someone to give you money
5. Whine and complain
6. Hope even more

Of course, none of these solutions help you get more money.

What is the solution?

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New Opportunities are waiting...

2009-08-20T15:14:00.000-07:00

I open new doors to life.
Ahead of me is a continuous corridor of doors,
each one opening to a new experience.
As I move forward, I see myself opening various doors
on wonderful experiences that I would like to have.
I trust that my inner guide is leading me and guiding
me in ways that are best for me, and that my spiritual
growth is coninuously expanding.
No matter which door opens or which door closes,
I am always safe. I am eternal. I will go on forever
from experience to experience. I see myself opening
doors to joy, peace, healing, prosperity, love, understanding,
compassion, forgiveness, freedom, self-worth, and self-esteem.
It is all here before me.

Peace & Joy!

Gratitude

2009-08-19T20:07:00.000-07:00

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

It turns what we have into enough, and more.

It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order,

confusion into clarity....

It turns problems into gifts, failures into success,

the unexpected into perfect timing,

and mistakes into important events.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and

creates a vision for tomorrow.

A special thanks to our friend Dean Perrone for this message!

Being Too Serious Can Ruin Your Success

2009-08-19T10:50:00.000-07:00

Are you having fun? Do you get a thrill from your work? Do you enjoy waking up each morning?
Here are some myths about work that can hurt your progress: "Work is not supposed to be fun." "You must buckle down and get serious."

Perhaps the biggest myth of all: "People will think I’m important if I act seriously."
Yet getting serious creates problems: stress, worry, anxiety, emotional pain, drudgery and failure. Resolving problems by getting more serious is like fixing a computer with a hammer. The harder you try, the worse the problem becomes.

12 Ways to Lighten Up

Approaching your life with a non-serious attitude gives you a clearheaded view of difficulties and the energy to deal with them. Problems become easier to solve, people are more cooperative and you feel more relaxed. You probably live longer and more successfully, as well.

Try these ideas until you find one that lightens you up.
1. Deliberately turn a molehill into a mountain. Make a big deal out of a little problem. "I would feel much better if these papers were stacked exactly like this! Not like that! Like this! Not this! This!"
2. Ask yourself, "Is getting serious about this situation really going to improve it?"
3. Focusing on the positives. "What is right about this situation?" "What else is right?" "What else?"
4. Consider a complete, major change. For example, go back to school, move to the ocean, start a new career.
5. Ask yourself, "When I’m on my deathbed, will I be glad I was so serious about _______?"
6. A challenging game is much better than no game at all. So consider losing all aspects of the problem. Examples: You feel serious about family problems. You ask yourself, "Well, what if I had no family at all?" You feel serious about your investments. You ask yourself, "What if I had no money to invest?"
7. The size of your problem may match the size of your game. So get a bigger game. For example, if you get uptight about paper clips being in the wrong drawer, your game size is tiny. Double your amount of responsibility. Set some huge goals. Succeed by thinking much, much bigger.
8. Stop trying to solve the problem that is making you so serious. Certain types of problems solve themselves if you leave them alone. Your problem may be one of those.
9. Compare what you are doing to other careers. Imagine being a septic tank drainer or a tax collector.
10. Make everyone around you lighten up.
11. Look at bizarre solutions. What is the craziest way you could solve your problem? What solution, if it worked, would make you laugh out loud?
12. Act stupid for a minute. Let down your hair. Stop being so darn important for a while. Be a goof!

(This success tip is from tipsforsuccess.org)

Begin By Creating Your Vision

2009-08-18T10:08:00.000-07:00

1. Thought: Your thoughts are very powerful and by staying focused on the positive, you will attract the positive. Allow your thoughts and energy to be only on the things you want more of in your life. Your energy with flow in the direction of your attention.
2. Gratitude: Be thankful for all of the good that is already present in your life. Be mindful and aware of all the blessings you have each day.
3. Intention: Be clear that your intentions are pure. Focus not only upon that which you wish to receive, but also on your purpose, and how you may be of service to the world.
4. Vision: Envision those things that you wish to mainfest in your life. Create a vision board by choosing images and words that inspire you, that speak to you personally. A visual representation of your goals and desires is a PRICELESS tool. Spend time daily focusing your attention and energy on it and feel it in your heart. See the life you are creating, let it move you to a place of faith and possibilities. BELIEVE!
5. Emotion: Your emotions are crucial. Find the time to do the things that bring you joy. Feel happy. Feel grateful. Feel the bliss of living the life of your dreams as though it were already so. Your emotions will fuel the energy that you send out into the world, and they will dictate that which comes back to you.
6. Prayer and Meditation: Make time each day to simply be still. Clear your mind of any clutter and negativity. Let go of old painful habits and thought patterns, in order to make room for the beauty, joy, and abundance that you deserve.
7. Action: Start by opening your mind and your heart. Become more aware of the opportunities you are presented with each day, and the synchronicity that already exists in your life. Take the steps in the direction of your dreams.

Success Characteristics

2009-08-17T12:01:00.000-07:00

Develop the Characteristics of Success

To get rich and stay rich, develop the following characteristics:
~ A positive Attitude
~ Integrity
~ Trustworthiness
~ Courage
~ Persistence
~ A hardworking mentality of work smarter not harder
~ High engergy
~ Be an expert in at least one area

My Business is Prosperous

2009-08-16T13:59:00.000-07:00

I am Divinely guided, so my business prospers, expands and grows.

I now choose to release any negative thoughts about cash-flow limitations.

I open my consciousness to a quantum leap of prosperity by thinking and accepting that large amounts of money flood to my bank account. I have plenty to use, to spare, and to share.

The law of prosperity keeps the flow of cash moving in abundant amounts.

It pays my bills and brings me everything I need and more.

I now choose to be a living example of prosperity consciousness.

I live and work in comfort and ease and beauty.

I have inner peace and security.

I watch with joy and gratitude as this business continually grows

and prospers far beyond my expectations.

I bless this business with love.

What Positive Emotions Do For You

2009-08-13T11:41:00.000-07:00

You may have noticed that when you are feeling

grateful, happy, or joyful there is a sense of lightness and expansion.

You feel connected. You feel alive!

This is your natural state of being.

This is what your life was intended to be.

Strive to live in a state of joy, wonder, and gratitude.

These expansive positive emotions feel good
and raise your vibrational frequency.
In this place of love and joy, you are one with God,
and you are a magnet for all of the beauty and abundance
that the world has to offer.

Flow with Life

2009-08-13T08:27:00.000-07:00

I breathe in Love, and I flow with Life

Am I expanding or contracting?

When I expand my thinking, my beliefs, and everything about me,

the love flows freely.

When I contract, I put up walls and shut myself off.

If I am frightened or threatened or feel that something is just not right, I begin to breathe. Breathing opens me up. It straightens my spine. It opens my chest.
It gives my heart room to expand.

By practicing breathing, I drop the barriers and begin to open up.

It is a begnning point.

Instead of going into total panic, I take a few breaths and ask myself:

Do I want to contract, or do I want to expand?

I am Free and at Peace!

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Today I am a new person. I relax and free my thoughts of every sense of pressure.

No person, place, or thing can irritate or annoy me.

I am at peace.

I am a free person living in a world that is a reflection of

my own love and understanding.

I am not against anything.

Rather, I am for everything that will improve the quality of my life.

I use my words and my thoughts as tools to shape my future.

I express gratitude and thanksgiving often, and I look for things to be thankful for.

I am relaxed. I live a peacful life.

Napoleon Hill

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"Anyone can wish for riches and most people do, but only a few
know that a definite plan plus a burning desire for wealth are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth." ~~ Napoleon Hill

Your Power and Wisdom Within

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Inner tools and actions for awakening the power and wisdom within you:

• Start every day with positive thoughts and positive feelings.
• Visualization, faith, willpower, persistence, patience and taking action bring your goals into manifestation.
• Concentration and meditation lead to inner strength, inner peace, happiness and bliss.
• Through concentration and meditation you become the boss and master of your mind.
• Self improvement - The path to improved behavior, better relationships, positive habits, positive lifestyle, happiness and success.
• Spiritual growth - The process of focusing within, shedding your erroneous beliefs and misdirected attachments, and realizing the spirit, peace and bliss within you.

What Top Income Earners Do:

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1. They have written goals
2. They don't focus on being an internet expert
3. They focus on income producing activities...generate leads, put on calls, follow-up
4. They ATTEND ALL events...whatever is going on!
5. They never affirm a statement of lack or scarcity, they put their focus on things they want
6. They give testimonies on calls
7. They engage in personal development everyday
8. They operate with certainty and clarity!

Seven Spiritual Laws of Success:

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We express our gratitude to Deepak Chopra for the wisdom he has shared with us.
To learn more on this subject, we recommend his Book & DVD "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success"!

1. Law of Pure Potential
The source of all creation is pure consciousness... pure potentiality seeking expression from the unmanifest to the manifest. And when we realize that our true Self is one of pure potentiality, we align with the power that manifests everything in the universe.

Applying The Law of Pure Potentiality ~
I will put the Law of Pure Potentiality into effect by making a commitment to take the following steps:

1) I will get in touch with the field of pure potentiality by taking time each day to be silent, to just Be. I will sit alone in silent meditation at least twice a day for approximately thirty minutes in the morning and thirty minutes in the evening.

2) I will take time each day to commune with nature and to silently witness the intelligence within every living thing. I will sit silently and watch a sunset, or listen to the sound of the ocean or a stream, or simply smell the scent of a flower. In the ecstasy of my own silence, and by communing with nature, I will enjoy the life throb of ages, the field of pure potentiality and unbounded creativity.

3) I will practice non-judgment. I will begin my day with the statement, “Today, I shall judge nothing that occurs,” and throughout the day I will remind myself not to judge.

2. Law of Giving and Receiving
The universe operates through dynamic exchange...giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. And in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.

Applying The Law of Giving and Receiving ~
I will put the Law of Giving and Receiving into effect by making a commitment to take the following steps:

1) Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today, I will give something to everyone I come into contact with, and so I will begin the process of circulating joy, wealth and affluence in my life and in the lives of others.

2) Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of nature: sunlight and the sound of birds singing, or spring showers or the first snow of winter. I will also be open to receiving from others, whether it be in the form of a material gift, money,
a compliment, or a prayer.

3) I will make a commitment to keep wealth circulating in my life by giving and receiving life's most precious gifts: the gifts of caring, affection, appreciation, and love. Each time I meet someone, I will silently wish them happiness, joy, and laughter.

3. Law of Karma
Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success.

Applying The Law of "Karma" or Cause and Effect ~
I will put the Law of Karma into effect by making a commitment to take the following steps:

1) Today I will witness the choices I make in each moment. And in the mere witnessing of these choices, I will bring them to my conscious awareness. I will know that the best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.

2) Whenever I make a choice, I will ask myself two questions: "What are the consequences of this choice that I'm making?" and "Will this choice bring fulfillment and happiness to me and also to those who are affected by this choice?"

3) I will then ask my heart for guidance and be guided by its message of comfort or discomfort. If the choice feels comfortable, I will plunge ahead with abandon. If the choice feels uncomfortable, I will pause and see the consequences of my action with my inner vision. This guidance will enable me to make spontaneously correct choices for myself and for all those around me.

4. Law of Least Effort
Nature's intelligence functions with effortless ease...with carefreeness, harmony, and love. And when we harness the forces of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

Applying The Law of Least Effort ~
I will put the Law of Least Effort into effect by making a commitment to take the following steps:

1) I will practice Acceptance. Today I will accept people, situations, circumstances, and events as they occur. I will know that this moment is as it should be, because the whole universe is as it should be. I will not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. My acceptance is total and complete. I accept things as they are this moment, not as I wish they were.

2) Having accepted things as they are, I will take Responsibility for my situation and for all those events I see as problems. I know that taking responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for my situation and this includes myself). I also know that every problem is an opportunity in disguise, and this alertness to opportunities allows me to take this moment and transform it into a greater benefit.

3) Today my awareness will remain established in Defenselessness. I will relinquish the need to defend my point of view. I will feel no need to convince or persuade others to accept my point of view. I will remain open to all points of view and not be rigidly attached to any one of them.

5. Law of Intention and Desire
Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment...intention and desire in the field of pure potentiality have infinite organizing power. And when we introduce an intention in the fertile ground of pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.

Applying The Law of Intention and Desire ~
I will put the Law of Intention and Desire into effect by making a commitment to take the following steps:

1) I will make a list of all my desires. I will carry this list with me wherever I go. I will look at this list before I go into my silence and meditation. I will look at it before I go to sleep at night. I will look at it when I wake up in the morning.

2) I will release this list of my desires and surrender it to the womb of creation, trusting that when things don't seem to go my way, there is a reason, and that the cosmic plan has designs for me much grander than even those that I have conceived.

3) I will remind myself to practice present-moment awareness in all my actions. I will refuse to allow obstacles to consume and dissipate the quality of my attention in the present-moment. I will accept the present as it is, and manifest the future through my deepest, most cherished intentions and desires.

6. Law of Detachment
In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

Applying The Law of Detachment ~
I will put the Law of Detachment into effect by making a commitment to take the following steps:

1) Today I will commit myself to detachment. i will allow myself and those around me the freedom to be as they are. I will not rigidly impose my idea of how things should be I will not force solutions on problems, thereby creating new problems. I will participate in everything with detached involvement.

2) Today I will factor in uncertainty as an essential ingredient of my experience. In my willingness to accept uncertainty, solutions will spontaneously emerge out of the problem, out of the confusion, disorder, and chaos. The more uncertain things seem to be, the more secure I will feel, because uncertainty is my path to freedom. Through the wisdom of uncertainty, I will find my security.

3) I will step into the field of all possibilities and anticipate the excitement that can occur when I remain open to an infinity of choices. When I step into the field of all possibilities, I will experience all the fun, adventure, magic, and mystery of life.

7. Law of Dharma
Everyone has a purpose in life...a unique or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.

Applying The Law of "Dharma" or Purpose in Life ~
I will put the Law of Dharma into effect by making a commitment to take the following steps:

1) Today I will lovingly nurture the God in embryo that lies deep within my soul. i will pay attention to the spirit within me that animates both my body and my mind. I will awaken myself to this deep stillness within my heart. I will carry the consciousness of timeless, eternal Being in the midst of time-bound experience.

2) I will make a list of my unique talents. Then I will list all the things that I love to do while expressing my unique talents. When I express my unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, I lose track of time and create abundance in my life as well as in the lives of others.

3) I will ask myself daily, "How can I serve?" and "How can I help?" The answers to these questions will allow me to help and serve my fellow human beings with love.

Jack Canfield: When Success is Slow, What Can You Do?

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When we admire someone's success, or even our own, we often focus on the end result and not so much on the effort (and time) that it took to get there. This can cultivate unrealistic expectations, especially the idea that overnight success can happen through careful strategy and an execution of sound advice.

The truth be told, success typically follows a series of little events and achievements that can seem to take an eternity, that include a few disappointments along the way, and that challenge everything about you to the core - your stamina, courage, integrity, and even your willingness to keep going.

If you focus on what's not working, guess what: You're likely coming from a place of aggravation as your mind wraps around all that is wrong.
You may even have negative thoughts like "I'm not good enough," "It will never work," or "Something must be wrong with me."

What this mentally does is engender more of these counter-productive feelings. And given what we know about the Law of Attraction, you attract what you are feeling. So negative experiences, people, and results will beget more negative experience, people, and results. There's not much success in that.

The key, then, is to focus on what IS working. To do so, I recommend two simple practices: journaling and meditation.
Maintaining a journal (I call it an Evidence Log, Results Journal, or Gratitude Journal) is a great way to steer your attention to the positive and continually renew your vision for yourself.

Start each day with reflections on what you are grateful for in your life (list them out!) and end each day with notes on what went right (again, write them down), however small they may seem.

Spend time each day in quiet contemplation, prayer or meditation.
Meditation can be a powerful tool for arriving at solutions to problems and shifting your attitude so you can attract success sooner rather than later. The magic of meditation is its ability to essentially shut down the outer layer of your judgmental, highly-critical brain and allow your unconscious mind to take over. This is where you enter a deeper state of inner peace and joy, tapping into a higher level of creativity that will help usher in the results you want.

Let's say you're doing ALL these things, but you still aren't happy with your results...

I'll ask you then, are you taking real ACTION?

You may be taking the actions you are used to taking. But if you keep doing what you've already done, then you'll keep getting what you've always gotten. It's a matter of practicing some new behaviors. Shake things up a bit and see if you can take new actions or modify existing ones.

Remember the Rule of 5.
Every day do five specific things that take you toward your goal. Change up the five actions regularly and be open to feedback so you know when you're off course.

Lastly, I want to remind you about patience.
It's natural to underestimate how long a certain goal can take, especially a profound one. When I set a goal to become a millionaire the year was 1983. How long did it take? Eleven years. It took time for Chicken Soup for the Soul to hit the bestseller lists. You could say our tenure on the New York Times list was more than a decade in the making. That's a lot of patience for someone who initially wanted overnight success.

So, yes, patience is a virtue. But keep at it, and in no time, you'll be only one week, or one day away from your ultimate success.

Remember... be Grateful, reflect on what IS working and continue to take ACTION!

JOY an Attitude

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Joy is an attitude;

it is the presence of love

for self and others. It comes from a feeling

of inner peace, the ability to give and receive,

and appreciation of the self and others.

It is a state of gratitude and compassion,

a feeling of connection to your higher self.

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