Yesterday was such an exciting day and now today it’s time to get to work. This however is not the regular work of grind and struggle, this is the work of new directions, of ingenuity, of the great will of a nation that has gone off course and now seeks a new direction. The President’s speech was not one of celebration but of purpose, intention, and the call for the collective energy and will power of each one of us. This inaugural day will long be remembered as the day the people returned to power.
Do you feel the momentum of these last few days and are you now ready to ride this wave toward creating the life and world you want? You and the rest of us need to get on board and make the best of this window of opportunity.
People all over the world joined in our celebration because they recognize the seismic shift that has taken place in America. That shift was not only for Americans but also for everyone around the world who still believe in our country; a nation that is about real freedom, great opportunity, and true prosperity available to every citizen.
At every level real change is knocking at the door of the establishment in DC saying the old ways must go out with the ideas of this past administration. The ways of fear, power, control and greed must be put aside. Instead the brother and sisterhood of all humankind must assert themselves guided by the principles of compassion and understanding to push away from the table of fear and embrace the hope in our hearts at this moment in time.
There is no going back to the ideas of the past right or wrong. There is only going forward in search of the light of higher human expression. This is the light of open hearts, of human potential, of the soaring spirit within all of us. This is the light of a life guided by joy and tempered by the many growthful challenges of today.
From this day forward let only the brightest of lights guide you and together with President Obama a new day will dawn unlike any before and we will witness a true human transformation.
President Obama , Yes We Can
We now have a new president and he is about hope and positive change. President Barack Obama is partnering with all Americans to move this country back toward health and a return to greatness. The people are what make a nation great and good leadership can make a very big difference.
What do we the people have to do to realize out own greatness? How can we make our nation healthy again? What needs happen in us so we can be part of making the world a better place?
First we must remind ourselves that there is so much yet to be expressed in us and it is time to step up to the plate. We all have been waiting for this moment, it is destiny.
Second we have to take full responsibility for moving the nation towards how we want it to be. No more blaming or complaining is allowed. The politicians represent us and if they are not then we need to let them know clearly what they are to do..
Third we need to find where our purposeful interests lie and get involved in doing something that has meaning to us. Where you have passion, you can help bring about positive change. What makes you feel joy inside is a guide.
Fourth we need to listen to our hearts and return to being a compassionate person. The head too often can’t be trusted, but our hearts are very reliable. Love is a powerful healer.
Fifth we are best when we feel free to be ourselves and joyous in what we do. Stop trying to please others, be kind in our relationships but stop seeking everyone’s approval because it keeps us from being who we really are.
Now move into action and make a commitment on this important day in history to do things of great meaning with your life. You have a mission, only you can do it and it must start today.
Enjoy the wonder of this day, the beauty of all these human beings coming together to alter the course of our history. You and I are part of a huge shift and it feels so good when thing feel hopeful.
From King To Obama
Today and tomorrow are very special days as we transition from, Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream. . . . . . . .” to the reality of Barack Obama becoming president of the United States. That dream was an inspiration for many of us who care about what is right, who believe in equality, who are guided by higher values. It feels good to be moving forward again, to be focused again on hope and positive change.
MLK walk the planet with a clear purpose and we have all benefited from his passionate intention. Barack Obama entered into politics to make a difference, now he finds himself in the highest office in the land. If we help him, we too will benefit from his clarity of purpose and determined intention. MLK was successful because many people joined him and made his movement a success. The same will be true for Barack Obama if we make this a collective effort.
What kind of purpose do you have inside that has the potential to dream big, to act with the highest intentions, and to make the world a better place? Can you feel inside of you the collective consciousness of all humans who have made a difference on the planet? This inner source of wisdom and purposeful action resides in you. If you listen quietly inside, you will hear the call to your own greatness.
It is never too late to blossom into the potential waiting to be expressed in you. Make 2009 the year that you live by your higher calling, be guided by your heart, let your creative expression flow, awaken each day as fully as you can, free yourself from any limiting beliefs, and be filled with joy.
Take time to celebrate being a human being these next few days because we are all part of the forces for positive change. Enjoy and express your aliveness for there is reason to have hope again.
Optimism Sweeps The Nation
My headline was borrowed from The Huffington Post today. The polls all show that mass majority of people feel hopeful about the change in leadership, about the Obama Presidency. The past 8 years have been very unenlightened and driven by fear. People everywhere in this country of ours are feeling positive and hopeful about more awakened leadership. The following are eight qualities that would be excellent to further develop in ourselves and in our government to help bring out the best in us.
1. The expansion of consciousness is needed. We can no longer sleep walk and let others decide for us. We must be fully awake and involved using our best and brightest qualities.
2. The realization of connection is important. We are all connected to each other on this planet. If there is hunger, homelessness, or the lack of care anywhere, we all suffer. Acts of terror are the result of the lack of caring.
3. There is an essential need for compassion. Our hearts have the answers to the world problems. If we are guided by compassion in all we do, then great things will happen.
4. Freedom must be a priority. Every human being innately wants to be free. All governments and institutions must be guided by the principle of expanding freedom if the human potential is to be realized. This freedom will be guided by genuine self-responsibility at all levels.
5. Hope must be the guiding force. There is in every person unlimited possibilities that can only come out through hope and belief in who they are. Fear contracts a person and hope opens them up in mind, heart and spirit.
6. There is no greater indicator of true success than joy. Joy lets us know we are headed in the right direction. If we live our lives to be joyous then all will work out for the better.
7. Human expansion and expression is needed. We humans feel best when we are growing and expressing who we are. All of the solutions the world needs will come through the expansion of the human heart and mind.
8. What is for the good for all the people must be the basic question. The seeking of truth and the care of the planet and of each other, have to always be in the equation if America is to be great again.
What would you add to this list? What qualities are you working on now in your life? Where do you feel the greatest hope in yourself and in humankind? Are you ready to join the excitement and momentum of true and significant change? You are needed more than you may ever realize.
Confidence Is Needed In Us And Our Nation
Lately I have been writing about the importance of our thinking in shaping our life experience. What seems essential in these times is that we have hope and that we find our confidence again. This needed confidence is both true inside of us and as a nation. Please explore these ideas and give them a try and then watch as you change your own life.
• You are the creator of your own experience. No matter what is going on, you decide at some level how to think and feel about it. So if the economic looks to be in trouble, you can let your fear thoughts run you or take control of your thoughts and be excited about being part of challenging times and figure out how to prosper despite the news.
• How you feel will affect the outcome. If you feel confident, trust and believe in yourself, you will be successful. If you have hope you can find the place in you that knows where to find solutions.
• Confidence comes from listening inward and being guided by your higher knowing, which is usually not your thoughts. Thoughts are just words and too often faulty ideas and incorrect beliefs. The deeper knowing is in your heart or from your spirit.
• When you live your life from your heart, guided by compassion and seek understanding your confidence will grow. The more you search for your own truth the more you learn to trust yourself.
• Positive thoughts also support your confidence. If your thoughts are hopeful, supportive and encouraging of who you are, you will be more self-assured
• On a national level, the more people have hope, the more confidence they will have in the government. Confidant governance by the people is the best possible outcome.
• When the government and the institutions gain the confidence of the people then positive change is on the way. If people believe again in the financial institutions then the economy will improve. Consumer confidence is a positive indicator.
• When the nation as a whole believes it is heading in the right direction then the people feel more hopeful. A confidant citizenry is able to come up with solutions for all the challenges of a country.
• If all the people on the planet had hope that all their basic needs can be met then all the roots of terrorism would be eliminated. This is global confidence and the way to a peaceful world.
Confidence is important and each of us needs to find our own and together we can grow our government, nation and planet in healthy and positive ways.
Please share your thoughts about how you grow your confidence and how we can better grow the confidence of our nation.
Are you confident in President Obama to lead us in a positive and hopeful direction? I am more confident in his presidency than any other in my lifetime. I have hope, will you join me?
Martin Luther Kings’s Mission and Barack Obama’s Challenge
Yesterday was Martin Luther King’s birthday as I mentioned. He lived an incredible life that inspired many of us. His legacy has made it possible for Barack Obama to become our next president. I am unsure what kind of president he will turn out to be but I suspect a very good one. MLK transformed our nation from hate filled bias to a slow acceptance of differences. Obama has an equal challenge; to change the government driven by fear to one that is guided by hope.
This is not an easy task. Washington DC and both parties are fear driven because they lack the awareness or the courage to question the status quo, to go beyond the drive of the ego for power and control. Banks, Insurance Companies, Financial Services, Power and Oil Companies, Drug Companies and many other corporations seek power and control often through the use of fear. Many of our major institutions including the American Cancer Society, Churches, Military, Homeland Security, CIA and others gain power and influence through fear.
Offsetting the powerful influences of fear and the call to have power will take the work of all of us. If hope was the guiding force and compassionate action the solution, we would not need power and control and many corporations and institutions would loose influence. If hope guided us and we cared for all those who needed help, food, a home and health care, terrorism would fall to the wayside. This better world is possible if we decide it is what we want.
Hope is about finding solutions, about living in a compassionate world, about realizing we are all connected to each other, about raising consciousness, and about evolutionary progress. This has never been tried because too many have lacked the courage to believe in humankind.
MLK said equal rights was the higher moral ground and he lead us there. Today compassionate action is the higher moral ground and the right of every human being and we need to lead ourselves there.
Please take to heart the importance of us being here on Earth at this important moment. Is it by accident that you and I are alive at this pivotal point in our nation and planet’s history? Or could it be that each of us has a destiny to do something that is beyond ourselves and for the good of all? Look and listen inside. What is it that you are here to do? Are you ready to begin? Let this day of the inauguration of President Obama also be the day we all agree to do our best for all people of the planet.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
It has been cold here in Colorado lately as it has in many parts of the country. As I get older, I find myself less than enthusiastic about the winter and the freezing temperatures. I read on My Yahoo page that the weather in Santa Barbara is supposed to be 75 degrees today and tomorrow. I use to live there and this time of year I really miss it. I will return there someday soon.
I started to imagine how it would feel to be on a walk along the beach on a warm sunny day. My imagination changed how I felt as if I was there in person. That power of my mind created very positive emotions, which made be feel good. As I was feeling excited about this walk in my mind, my body began to feel energized, my face was covered with a smile; I felt excited about being there as if I really was.
This is the power of the mind to alter my experience in an amazing way. You have that power to alter your life experience in the moment by focusing on where you want to be, doing what you want to do. Instead of riding my bike across the patches of ice I went walking along the beach in my mind. Which is more real, the beach or the ice roads? I would argue that my beach walk was just as real to me as the cold winter day here.
There is a great power for creation in this experience of my mind. If I truly want to alter my life, I have to go there first in my imagination. Where do you want to be and what do you want to experience? Go there now by trying this visualization, please adapt this to meet your needs:
Take a few moments to just allow yourself to breathe in a relaxed way. Notice the inhale of the breath and them follow the exhale. Do this breathing with awareness for 10 relaxed breaths.
Now imagine you being some place you want to be, let your senses take you there by seeing this place, hearing this place, smelling this place, tasting this place, and feeling this place. Sense this place and the experience you want to have as best as you can and they say, YES! YES! YES! with your whole body. Feel this place and what you are doing with every particle of your being.
Now feel the emotions of this place or situation. Feel the joy of being there, the excitement of the experience, the pleasure of the senses, the freedom of enjoying what you want, the love you have for the moment. YES! YES! YES!
Now feel the relief of being the creator of this experience, feel the power of being in charge of your own life, feel the effortless flow that is possible, feel a life free of worry and full of what you want. YES! YES! YES!
The more you think positive feelings and experiences, the more you will create them in your life. If you are happy and excited about your life you will attract more experience that make you feel happy and excited. Try this every day for one month and each day imagine that you are getting closer and closer to what you want. Sense the breakthroughs, notice the opening of your mind, feel the expanding passion of your heart.
***Today is the Birthday of one of my real heroes Martin Luther King. Please take a moment to imagine the force he was inside of you.***
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You Can Blow Those Doors Off
You are now two weeks into the New Year. Are you noticing any results or at least feel like you are getting closer to making things happen? Yes you have many years of limiting yourself with your beliefs, thoughts and emotions, with you determined action, with your habitual behavior and yet you may sense that just on the back side of these imaginary doors is access to a real breakthrough.
You are right about the infinite possibilities so close waiting for you to invite them into your life. This is not a game set up by some sinister Divine Force, some psychological hang-up or the misbelief about you deserving. No it is not about luck or a miracle.
What often holds the abundant flow you desire from happening can be an inability to know how to open up, how to go with the flow, how to reach beyond the logic and open the door with your heart and the focus of your mind. Let this set of ideas settle and feel your response.
Now back away from the years of effort, the years of the same story, the years of quiet disappointment and gently remove the ego from the equation. Set yourself free of the need of approval, of the trance of societal conditioning, of the deep groove of a habit driven life.
Look inward and listen to a much greater wisdom than effort and logic. There in you is a profound knowing beyond the practical. Rest there until you are guided by the energy of consciousness flowing from your higher self. At that moment let any crystal clear knowing bubble up and be present to feeling your way to where you want to go.
This may all sound a little woo-woo to you. It should because it comes from a place in you beyond your rational mind. That is exactly where real shifts happen. When from beyond the mind, you are able to raise your vibrations of desire; you can make what you want possible. From this place you can you create amazing results.
Quiet now and listen. There is more than enough purpose, passion and power to blow any doors off that may be keeping you from what it is you desire.
Let Hope Fill Your Mind
The fear – hope spectrum that I shared with you yesterday needs some further discussion. This is my own perspective from my work and research in psychology. I am taking the ideas shared by Michael Lerner on Sunday and relating them to what I have been writing about for making 2009 a powerful and successful year.
Fear is the contracted and closed state caused by our thinking. Hope is the open and expansive state also caused by our thinking. Fear is the state in which we feel out of control so we seek more power and control. Hope is the state in which we feel optimistic and trusting in things working out for the better. Fear causes blocking of the heart and the closing of the mind. Hope causes the heart and the mind to open to infinite possibilities.
Which state will work best in creating the life we want? The answer seems obvious but not so easy to follow through on because we are creatures of habit and repetitive thought. We tend to think the same way over and over again unless we become conscious of our thoughts. Our inner dialogue runs along saying the same things to us all the time. This will need to change if we want to change our lives.
Let’s get specific, look around you and see what you are causing to happen in your life. If your life is working well and you are surrounded with what you want, congratulations you mind is working well and hope is part of your way. If you look around and things are not at all what you want, then you will have to look at your thoughts because they are most likely negative and fearful.
You mind is constantly deciding with your thoughts where you are on the spectrum of fear and hope. Fear doesn’t work if you want to have a life of prosperity, freedom joy, and love. Hope will make you life work out the way you want it to.
This is true not only in your own life but also in your community and for the nation. If leadership is based on fear it will run the government with power and control as the goal. If leadership is based on hope the government with be run by thoughtful ideas, compassion and for the good of all.
It seems clear to me that you and I need to be conscious of our thoughts. We need to make sure they are positive and hopeful so that we can have the life we want and a government that supports the best in all of us.
Today and from now on make it your goal to listen in and hear what you are thinking. If there is hope, compassion, optimism and encouragement, joy, freedom and love in your thoughts, you will have a wonderful life.
Will It Be Hope or Fear?
Sunday early evening I had the wonderful privilege of listening to Michael Lerner speak. He is a rabbi and co-founder of the Spiritual Progressives organization and the author of a book called The Left Hand of God. I joined the organization in the past but had not kept up since there always seem to be so much going on. I will immediately reactivate my participation after hearing his wisdom and ideas about the new leadership and how we can make a difference.
If he comes to your community, I highly recommend you go hear him speak. You will feel his passion and greatly value his ideas. The most powerful idea was the difference between what he called the right hand and left hand of God. This is not the conservative right and the liberal left as you might guess. The right is ruled by fear and about having power and control over others, this is about an all powerful God that about damnation and domination. The left is ruled by hope and about compassion, understanding and the realization that we are all connected and this God is a loving and caring God who wants the best for the people.
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He says you and I have the full spectrum going on in our heads. We at any moment can be in fear or in hope. President Obama was elected because we were in the mindset of hope because he inspired that in us. As president there will be many people around him who will argue about being practical, which means living by fear and having power and control over others. Rabbi Lerner knows Obama and says he is a hope based person but will have incredible forces insisting he be practical and go for power and control. We have to offset that fear mindset and do all we can to push for hope and compassion to win out.
He suggested that we look for solutions that are hope based and not be a government of fear as the last administration was. He said be mindful of what movies, books, news etc that we watch or read and ask ourselves is this nurturing our hope or feeding our fear. Almost all news is about fear. We need to watch and read what will build hope in us and not take ourselves in the direction of fear. A simple measure we can use to evaluate our mindset is asking ourselves, is this expanding me and my heart or causing me to contract in fear?
He has what he calls a Global Marshall Plan in which we use our resource to make sure everyone gets fed, has a home, has health care and a good education. He said this plan will truly provide homeland security for everyone on the planet. You can read more by picking up his magazine called Tikkun or by going to their website. Please consider joining today. This is political involvement from a conscious spiritual perspective that is about real and positive change.
Have a good week and keep your mind and heart focused on the positive results you plan on achieving.
Positive Outlook Will Create Positive Results
If you have recently started reading my blog thank you for stopping by. My numbers have been growing and I am excited. New readers may not have come upon my more political oriented posts, which I regularly write. The reason for my non-political emphasis lately is that I have been focused for the New Year on my positive mental and emotional state and politics can be very challenging to keep a positive frame of mind.
A case in point of the inherent negativism is President Elect Obama who is already getting criticism from everyone who has an opinion and he is not even in office yet. We all have opinions but for many of the so-called experts seem to feel the need to be right and let their ego’s strut about. I have come to the place that I try to ignore most opinion and instead find my own truths by listening in and feeling. I use to listen to Air America because I liked their slant on things but lately most seem to be just ego’s on display. Al Franken was very good when he was on that network with humor and truth seeking. He will make a great Senator because he is a very thoughtful person.
I am rambling about I just realized so let me see if I can get to my point. The best way to see how President Obama is doing is to see the results he creates. There are so many things wrong after the last 8 years of horrendous leadership. Obama’s task almost seems impossible but I believe greatly in us humans to rise to the occasion. This must be a government in which the people get back involved. If we don’t there will just be more years of the same corrupted power.
We are at a very transformative moment in human history. We can continue down the path of planetary destruction and the elimination of the middle class / power in the hands of the few or we can alter the course. It is really up to you and I and everyone.
My choice is to continue to write and be as involved as I can be in encouraging all of us to make a positive difference. I will emphasize a positive difference and do my very best to be focused on solutions instead of problems. Please excuse my occasional rant. The positive emphasis is because I personally don’t want to be in the energy of blaming, complaining, and spreading fear, which is counterproductive and self-destructive to one’s personal life.
In this next year I suggest we all look forward positively and take action that makes productive things happen. Let’s focus on where we want to go not on the mistakes of the past. Really redirecting our nation and the planet is going to take the best and most optimistic part of us to succeed.
The key questions seem to be: can we be compassionate enough; can we have enough patience; will we gain enough understanding; and what is for the good of all people and the planet?
Open Yourself To Success
The ideas I have been sharing lately are ones I am working on also. What I invite you to look at are things I too am exploring. Life is always a learning project if it is to feel alive and worth living. You and I have the best ideas available, now it seems we need to get out of our own way. The part or parts of you and me that needs to change can often be something that we are unaware or something we see but don’t quite know how to change.
This change process takes awareness before new and better choices can be made. Here are some possible blocks and ways to increase awareness and the choices you have:
• You have old beliefs that are holding you back. Take a look at the beliefs you hold on to that are no longer serving you or feel ready to change. “Not deserving” is a belief many of us learned which is simply not true. Explore what beliefs are stopping you now and change them to free yourself today.
• You have ideas about the way things should be and that is getting in your way. Is wanting to be in control is one of those ideas that get in your way? Let go of thoughts that make you feel out of control and instead go with the flow.
• You may have thoughts that everything must be hard work or it won’t happen. If that is your thought, you are right and nothing will come easily. Change that set of thoughts immediately or everything will be a grind. Focus more on having fun.
• You may have quiet little viewpoints that unconsciously don’t allow you to have what you want. These are learned and not true but you may have to listen very carefully inside to hear them. As best as you can make the unconscious, conscious. Unconscious ideas can be offset by powerfully positive thoughts and emotions,
• You may have a bunch of negative emotions rambling around inside. Do you get angry easily, or you are impatient often? Maybe you feel depressed and want to blame others for what is going on in your life. These negative emotions attract more negative experiences. Time to let go and move on to being positive.
• You may have limited ideas about who you are that you picked up when you were a child. These ideas need updating. They could have been decisions you made about life which are not true. Do you believe in yourself, that you have a purpose, and that you have all the skills necessary to succeed? Be positive about yourself; believe in who you are.
• You may have limiting self-talk that keeps repeating itself and blocking new and expansive ways of being in the world. All your inner dialogue needs to be supportive and encouraging. When you catch yourself talking in negative ways inside, stop those thoughts and change them to ones that inspire the best in you.
You can remove all your blocks through self-awareness. Take the time necessary to open the passageway and let the flow go. This freedom will feel great and the results will be wonderful.
Tune In And We Can Grow Together
This first week of the New Year I have been sharing some ideas that I thought you might find helpful to get you headed in the right direction in 2009. Each New Year brings new hope and the desire to improve the quality of your life. Please take these ideas and use them because they will enhance your experience and bring more prosperity and health.
What you do with this information will give you feedback about how open you are to new ideas and how willing you are to make changes. Most people find it easier to adapt their expectations and settle for things as they are. That is a perfectly OK option especially if things are going well. Yet to grow and to have desire is natural and makes for a more positive sense of self. Staying where you are may not be as satisfying as pushing yourself out of your comfort zone.
The reason I share these ideas is because I know you want to grow and be more successful otherwise you wouldn't be reading my blog. Since I am making this assumption, I want to put a challenge out to you. That challenge is to go for your highest and best expression in 2009, to stretch your mind, open your heart further, expand your health, and explore your spiritual expression.
As I have written often, the world needs you and the rest of us at our very best in these chaotic times. The new leadership needs your influence in DC, your community needs your active participation, your family's need you to be more present, and you need to be at your clearest and most conscious so that each of us can make a positive difference. This way you and I can leave this planet a better place when we are done.
Are you up for the challenge? I will be here through this entire year to encourage, support and inspire you in any ways I can. My passion is to help you be as conscious as possible and to fully live your purpose and amazing potential.
I write often to remind me of what is possible within. I know we humans have so much more potential to express. I hope your 2009 is full of satisfaction, success, prosperity, freedom, health, well-being, love and joy. Tune it and we can grow together.
“A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.”
James Allen
Your Infinite Possibilities Await
Relief is what I wrote about yesterday and I hope you found the ideas of interest. More important I hope you understand that emotions are a key to you making this year a huge success. The reason the feeling of relief is so powerful is that you can imagine what your life will feel like before it even arrives.
Yesterday on my run I imagined the relief of having my body fully fit and healthy. I imagined how it will feel when I have financial freedom and can run, workout and play as long as I want whenever I want. I imagined getting up each morning and deciding what I want to do and being able to do it. I imagined traveling to places I want to see and enjoy. I imagined what it will be like when I have the financial resources to help out those in need, those with great ideas who need start up money, family and friends who need more resources to help them create the life they desire. I imagined feeling my body free of anxiousness, worry or fear. I imagined going to as many art classes as I want to. I imagined running along the beach in Santa Barbara on a winter day of a warm 60 degrees. All of this will be my reality because I can imagine it, feel it and attract it.
It is wonderful to feel the relief of living the life I desire, you can too. Let you imagination move your forward in life and place you where you want to be, in a relaxed body, with a calm mind, and feeling the passion of living the way you want to live. Feel the relief of no longer being anxious or worrying. Feel the relief of knowing you have all the money, love, health, or whatever you want. Feel the relief of relaxing into your life, flowing downstream in the river of well-being easily and effortless filled with joy. Does this sound good to you? Of course it does, so imagine the relief and let it happen.
I came upon an interesting website with a family interacting with wild deer as if they were all part of their family. The beauty of nature and of us human beings interacting struck me as really wonderful. Check out the deer video at this site www.pelorian.com.
Remember infinite possibilities and beauty are in you and as you tune into your higher nature your limits drop away and you can and do just about anything. This anything included living life effortless, having abundance, healing yourself, and loving without limits. Give these ideas of the past few days a try and let me know if I can be of assistance in any way.
R-E-L-I-E-F
Remember the old Rolaids commercial about how do you spell relief and they spelled out Rolaids? Relief is a really interesting emotion more like a set of thoughts. When you feel relief isn’t it like a combination of peace of mind, a relaxed breath, sitting calmly, happy to make it through whatever the ordeal, or just plain “thank god” that is over. Relief is the topic today because that emotion is a very fine indicator of progress in the midst of confusion or struggle.
When you are in the midst of changing your life for the better what often starts that process is seeing things need to change or feeling uneasy with what is going on. Next you begin to think about what you want to happen instead. Once the new direction comes into view the next step is you start planning on how to be successful. You explore options and ideas until you think you are on the right track. There is where most people stop the questioning and instead go directly to moving into action. That is the wrong step because action is not the most important thing to do at this time.
What needs to happen next is to listen beyond the logic of the mind. Instead the heart and intuitive knowing need to be consulted in a way that raises your awareness and wisdom about what is the right way to alter your life’s path. Now when the inner wisdom is consulted and the heart feels positive about which way to go is the time to do what needs to be done. The doing is not the key here as you might think. The better and more powerful approach is the sensation of higher vibrations driven by the passionate feelings of you on a mission of creating from the place of who you really are.
Does this make sense and what does this have to do with relief? Yes you are the creator of your own reality by your thoughts and feeling more than by your actions. That is a truth, which you and the rest of us are just beginning to understand because this is the leading edge of human actualization.
Now what part does relief play in the fulfillment of your desires? Relief is the indicator that you are on the right track. If things have not being going as you would have them, then relief is the feeling that would let you know you are headed in the right direction. Relief would let you know you have course corrected and are now moving toward the better life you seek. Relief would also let you know that you are now able to let your shoulders relax, release the tension in your stomach and again feel the sense of freedom that comes from knowing where you are going. Relief lets you know that you are truly beginning to know what it takes to be successful in realizing your dreams. If you are not feeling relief yet in pursuit of your new directions in life then imagine what relief would feel like because that will help you get where you want to go.
I hope the next few months are filled with the great relief of seeing the results you want coming into your life.
A Feeling Heart Rules
So far this year I have been inviting you to become more conscious of how you are helping or hindering what you want to happen in 2009. Today I want to give you some additional ideas to explore to assist you in continuing to expand your awareness. You are a powerful creator of your life and the results you see around your show where your thoughts and feelings are. Look at your life right now and see what you have been creating. Is it something you are excited and happy about or something that leaves you disappointed or discouraged? These results show your state of mind and emotions.
The last few days looked at thoughts. Today we are going to look at your feeling center, your heart. In case you have not noticed, your heart plays a major role in determining how your life turns out. Most of what you feel is connected to your heart. Your heart is the center for your emotions like love, compassion, kindness, enthusiasm and joy or grief, hurt, sadness, anger and fear. Emotions are usually created by thoughts that turn into energy in motion.
The important thing here, when it come to creating the life you want, is that emotions turn into moving energy. This moving energy has the power to attract what you want in life. So if you are happy and loving you will create a happy and loving life because that is what is drawn to you. If you are fearful and angry you will draw to you a scary life that makes you mad.
Feelings are full of energy and when they are expressed they are powerful forces of attraction. When feeling are denied or stuffed you block off your attractive qualities. Unexpressed emotions settle into your body as tension, which inhibits your immune system and causes you to be closed down. Lots of denial of your feeling creates a wall around your heart and you feel unable to let anybody come close and find it difficult to feel love.
If you want to reshape your life this year start doing these three practices immediately: First start respecting how you feel and expressing those feeling in healthy ways. Let them out and let them go. No more holding in how you feel because even the positive emotions held back will shut you down and block you from getting close to others.
Second, forgive and let go of the past and the feelings connected with what happened before. Forgiveness is for you and about freeing up your own energy so you can move on in healthy ways.
Third, keep your thoughts positive so you can energize yourself with positive emotions. The more you move the emotional energies of optimism, enthusiasm, joy, and love through you the more powerful attractive force you send out to bring about the life you desire.
Feel as much as you can and live with purpose and passion in all that you do. That is a surefire approach to a wonderful life.
Is Your Self-Talk Set For Success?
What kind of story do you have going in your head about the life you want and why you are not yet making it happen? Maybe you are hugely successful, happy, and financially free and that would be great if it is so. However many are falling short of what you want in your life. That is ok if you are ok with settling for far less than you know you are capable of achieving. The fix is simple. The things that are not working just need to be adjusted so you can get headed in the right direction. Maybe you even have resolution for 2009 that could make things go better. It all depends on your self-talk and the story it continually repeats in your head.
The story in your own mind about you and your life shapes the outcome moment to moment. Checkout the blog from yesterday about your mind and how it can set you free or holds you back. This is all part of the story you carry with you.
A story that doesn’t work is focused on what has gone wrong; on the problems instead of the results you seek; and on who is to blame for things not working out. This kind of story in your head just creates more disappointment.
A story that works and creates results you can feel good about: focuses on the positive; is solutions oriented; seeks new ways to create more results; and on new strategies you can utilize to bring even greater success. This kind of story makes what you want happen.
These are both stories in your head; both are equally effective. If you don’t believe you can have things the way you want them to be, you are right. If on the other hand you tell yourself the story of your success, you can watch that become a reality.
What holds you back most of all are: thoughts that you don’t deserve, doubt that you have own share of the abundant universe, misbelieve that you don’t have what it takes, wrongly think you are just a failure or some other nonsense which you learned along the way to your adulthood. These thoughts are a clear blocks to you having the life you desire. Change them today and all others in correct thoughts that continually kick you in the ass or put you down. These are just thoughts and they are not real.
This week sit down and write yourself a new story. This story needs to be filled with your insights and successes. This story needs to be filled with thoughts that encourage and inspire you. This story needs to be filled with the powerful emotions like purpose and joy. This story has to have in it the pleasure of your freedom in this new life. This story has to include your heart being open and filled with love and compassion for yourself and those you care about. This story has to be about how you stepped into the downstream of life and let the good things happen easily and effortlessly. This story has to be about raising your consciousness and therefore your vibrations so that you can attract what you desire. This story has to include the relief you feel at finally understanding what it takes to be the powerful creator of your own life.
Are you ready to write your new story of success about all you want in your world? Remember you have the ability to manifest the life you want by allowing your thoughts and feelings to focus on the best outcomes you can imagine.
Freedom Starts Between The Ears
The greatest liberator in our life can be our mind. It can also place extensive limits on us for no reason. Freedom is an innate desire within us and our thoughts play a major role in how free we feel. We all want to be free enough to express who each of us is as fully as we can. Our thoughts will determine the amount of freedom we allow ourselves to have.
How does the mind liberate and/or limit us? Let’s begin with the limiting aspect. Thoughts and beliefs limit everyone and this is how it happens. From the earliest moments of our life we are taught ideas and beliefs that are passed on to us from our parents and those around us. These ideas and beliefs often are not true and therefore limit what is possible for us. An example of those false beliefs include children, raised in families where low self-esteem is prevalent or there is substance abuse going on, often learn to not believe in themselves and their emotions.
People raised in strong beliefs systems like churches often learn many false beliefs that are passed on by well intended but not really critically thinking people. Schools teach that you can be a failure, which is simply not true. The school system is the failure if people are failing. Society teaches us many rules and beliefs to fit in but many of those ideas need to be questioned. Our peer groups teach us what to think and believe and those too need to be examined. The nightly news is filled with drama and fear decided for entertainment affect and that can make the viewer think the world is a scary place when it is not as it seems.
Every thought, idea, and belief needs to be examined with an objective eye on what is genuine truth and what is not. We are only as free as our thoughts are and if we have many unexamined thoughts running us then we are not free. Yes our thoughts run us and if they are faulty they often run us aground. Have you every felt stuck or filled with negative emotions, those are often caused by faulty thoughts.
So where does freedom come in? Freedom comes from knowing our thoughts and self-talk and making sure this endless inner dialogue is as true and real as we can. The practices of mindfulness and meditation are to help us see through the parade of our thoughts into the deeper truth. Impartiality is a skill we develop through mindful activities. When we have impartiality we can see and feel what is true and do so without judging ourselves in any limiting way.
We are as free as our mind is. If our thoughts are clear, our life clears up. If we are optimistic, things work out better. If we pay attention to what we think, we can free ourselves from limits.
This year make a commitment to being more mindful of your thoughts and inner dialogue. Make sure that you are free to be all that you want to be and free enough to create what your desire. Start this New Year off right by liberating yourself to have a better life.
Is There A Real Law Of Attraction?
Is there really a Law of Attraction in the Universe? The movie the Secret and the writings of Abraham-Hicks have brought this idea of a law into our awareness over the last few years. We know gravity is a law because we have tried and proved it. Is the Law of Attraction something we can try and prove or disprove? Of course it is.
The challenge of this law however is that it is complicated because it means consciously directing our thoughts and emotions toward a level of vibration that will attract what we want. I don’t know about your experience of directing your thoughts, but my experiences tell me that this can be a challenge.
Let’s do an experiment for the next 30 days and see how this Law of Attraction (LOA) can work for us. Choose something that you want to attract into your life. It could be: more money, a loving relationship, your ideal body weight, a job you like, peace of mind, or whatever would make you feel good. Here are the guidelines for the experiment:
• You have to use your mind to imagine and feel what it would be like to have what you want in your life now. It needs to feel real to you.
• You must avoid thoughts and feeling that would indicate that you lack what you want. Lack only attracts more lack.
• You can think that you are beginning to feel what it feels like to live your life with what you want in it. It can feel uplifting to have what you want.
• You can enjoy life and feel the relief of moving towards what you want. If you can imagine it you can make it happen.
• You need to take time each day to visualize what you want and visualize or sense the vibrations necessary to attract this desire. When you wake up, before you go to sleep, and throughout the day are good times to visualize/sense.
• You must do your best not to make this an effort. This is not about doing something effortful but rather effortlessly.
• You need to have an open heart in this experiment. An open heart is part of the vibration of attraction.
• You also must engage your spirit, your higher power, your connection to the source of the universe. This spirit in you is more powerful than your ego/personality, which should not be involved in the attraction.
• You can do this best if you enjoy what you are doing. Make this fun and do it lightly with joy as a powerful vibration in you.
Yes I know this is a challenging list but I know you can do it. Please remember that being effortless in your effort is important here. Let your thoughts come into alignment, your heart make you joyous and your spirit expand your consciousness and very soon you will see results if this Law of Attraction is truly a law you and I can live by.
Power Start Your 2009
For the past 30 years I have studied the very best ideas and strategies for creating success in you life. You can have an amazing life and it doesn’t have to be full of struggle. The more you allow yourself to be in the rich abundant flow of the universe, the easier the journey. There are ways to place yourself in that flow. You can get 2009 off to a great start if you experiment with and utilize the following points:
1. Get clear what you want financially, for your health, in your relationships, and for your peace of mind
2. Feel the passion of your desires and use your mind and emotions to create an irresistible force of attraction
3. Be aligned with the highest and most conscious part of you beyond your ego and unlimited in its potential
4. Make it your intention to realize what you want while living a life you would truly enjoy
5. Set your goal to be fully free of your own limits and to experience the great joy of real freedom
6. Daily improve yourself and course correct your life so you are always heading to where you want to be
7. Live fully today and in the grace of each moment. That is where all the real action is.
8. Wake up each morning and fire yourself up with enough inspiration that you will succeed not matter what obstacles may arise. At night let go fully, sleep, release and re-energize for the next day
9. Make your life a purposeful expression of the very best in you and change the world for the better along the way
Review the previous blog post about your fullest expression. Set your sights high and be clear and positive that you will succeed in wonderful ways.
If you want assistance in making 2009 a great success, no matter the circumstance of the economy, drop me an email at josephteach@hotmail.com and I will be glad to be of assistance.