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Have you wanted to understand more about quantum physics and its effects on the world, but feel like it seems so mysterious?
You’ll love how Cynthia Sue Larson makes the whole idea of Quantum physics easy to comprehend and use on a practical, every day level in your own life.
Today, we’re going over how to change your life the way you want it to be, why placebos work, and how you can use her ideas to make your life – and the contents of your wallet – be the way you’ve always dreamt.
Making provision for your critters in your will is not enough! If an unexpected situation comes along and you do NOT die, your pets can be left completely out of the mix!
Debra Hamilton, animal advocate and pet problems mediator, explains why. I’d never thought of it before, but what happens if you’re suddenly struck down by a stroke or Alzheimer’s or incapacitated and/ or unconscious, and you can’t talk or walk or take care of your animals? You’re not dead, so your will won’t apply!
Joan Ranquet, Animal Communicator extraordinaire, ‘talks’ with your animals to see what’s going on with them.
They have problems just like we do – fears, anxieties, behavioral glitches – even temper tantrums! Joan finds out what their story is and helps resolve the problem.
We find out how she does that; what scalar energy and standing waves are and why that’s important; how to affect the parasympathetic nervous system of your critter to help it find relief, and so much more!
Dr. Jamie Turndorf, or, as she is known on her radio show, Dr. Love, reveals how tragedy can turn into a lifetime of ecstatic love!
And you will see how totally fitting it is, too, that it’s Valentine’s Day Weekend!
When your spouse/loved-one/partner suddenly dies right in front of your eyes, and you can’t do a darned thing about it, you certainly don’t expect it to turn into a lifetime bonus of ecstatic love!
I invite you to listen in as Dr. Jamie Turndorf – AKA Dr. Love – reveals how that’s exactly what happened to her, in the most delightful, deeply satisfying and surprising ways.
When her boat capsized, Nathalie Kelly was slammed in the head, resulting in massive damage to more than one part of her brain. This was no ordinary brain injury!
Listen in and find out how she endured – and actually grew from – years of having to simply lie flat and not even move a muscle…even her eyes…
…how she persisted in trying to find answers, even through horrific headaches and completely debilitating dizziness and disorientation so bad she had to walk with 2 walking canes…
…and how she got through embarrassments and humiliations that are so common for TBI sufferers who cannot remember or cannot read or walk, and can no longer function in the simplest ways.
I’m a believer in mind over matter. So saying, I believe we can become who and what we want – as long as we know who we are, and what we do want.
But how do you do that? In my experience, it takes tremendous self-discipline and the desire to stop being a conditioned pawn of the Game, and start being a free individual.
So it’s very fitting that my guest today is Dr. Eldon Taylor, who has been called a “master of the mind.”
He says: “You probably believe you know yourself and understand why you believe what you believe, and how and why you participate in this world as you do.
BUT – you are simply hard wired in ways that you cannot escape and seldom understand, as well as programmed with biases and attitudes that often fail to serve you and your authentic self.”
I believe we need to know what is being done to us so we can counter-act it. If you’d like to hear more about how you are unwittingly programmed and guided in ways that not only do not come from your authentic self, but drain you of energy, listen in and find out what to do about these things.
Click HERE or on the Daring Dreamers Radio icon on the left to listen in as I ask him some tough questions about what ‘they’ are doing to us, and what to do about it.
Or, listen in on iTunes on the Daring Dreamers channel.
Click HERE to get your copy of this important book, Dr. Eldon Taylor’s Gotcha!: The Subordination of Free Will
An award winning New York Times best selling author and host of the radio show, Provocative Enlightenment, his most recent books include Gotcha!: The Subordination of Free Will
Eldon is also the inventor of the patented InnerTalk technology and founder and president of Progressive Awareness Research, Inc.
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I had the wonderful honor of being interviewed by Levi Ben Shmuel, who writes a great blog post for the Huffington Post, on the Sunday radio show in Santa Fe, NM that he hosts with 2 others.
I invite you to listen in on this shorty (5 minute) interview, where I describe graphically how big the problem of the Great Garbage Patch is: transradio.com.
They question me about my Paint 100 Paintings in 100 Days project to raise awareness of the problems around our consumption and discarding of plastic water bottles, and about the Great Garbage Patches in the oceans (there are five) – in the post called The New Good Life – John Robbins, Maitreya & A Floating Garbage Patch (show 1386) Sep 19th, 2010 Posted in Ecology & The Environment – Look for Hour #1. I was on the air from about minute 46 – 53.
I’m including Levi’s latest blog post – The Festival of Sukkot: 7 Nights, 7 Guests, 7 Inspirational Ways of Seeing.
I enjoyed it because he described a Jewish festival about which I had not one clue before. I was fascinated to discover about each of the 7 Guests, their essences, how they offer different gifts, and how to use these in your own daily life.
Read it here: huffingtonpost.com/levi-benshmuel
One of California’s foremost stone sculptors, Patricia Bengston-Jones is a shining example of a Daring Dreamer – someone who doesn’t take Normal for one minute and who bucks the odds to live her Deepest Dreams. Not because of any rebellion, necessarily, but because it’s simply who she is and what she does.
She’s a powerful example of someone who really lives her passion, not alowing the numbing, everyday trance that surrounds us that says, “get a job, be norrrrmaallll…” overtake her!
I was really taken with her work. I love the raw, mythical quality of it, and how she allows the stone to be stone, rather than trying to make something pretty-pretty out of it. It’s stone: heavy; plain; figured; textural; translucent; eternal; even humorous.
I love how her forms give you an inkling of a story, but not much more than will tickle your own frames of reference and put you on the beginning of a path to create your own stories from the images.
Here is one of the pieces I loved the most. Although these are all maritime themed, not all of her works are. Let’s Clean the Barnacles Off: made from Travertine and Slate, 10″ x 7″ x 20″
Here’s what she has to say on her site: PBengtson.com
“As a seeker of knowledge, with ten years of landscape and (color) field painting in 1972, I returned to finished my education, to find answers in my search of the ‘unknown’.
“This led me into sculpture and using concepts of the prehistoric monumental stone sites and myths. I visited England, Italy and Mexico, and lived in the Southwest.
I used the monolithic forms, arches and stacking or layering to denote the passage of time in my sculpture
“This background information along with the mythology of the Vikings, has helped me research my own heritage which combines Swedish and Northern European.
“My endless search has helped to shed some light on the unexplained phenomena of my past cultures. It enables my sculpture to come together as a ‘Passage to My Heritage.’ ”
Make sure you visit her site for more mythical, powerful stone and glass work – especially check out that gateway she’s carving in the image above! See lots more of her works at her website, PBengtson.com.
One of the most precious things that can help make your life as great as you wish it to be is an unshakable support system.
Whether that consists of your family, friends, co-workers, business team or a great coach, that support is essential.
These are the people (or person) to whom you can go and feel safe, and by whom you feel loved and uplifted.
With them, you can open your heart, let your hurts fall out on the floor for examination and healing, without any judgement or criticisms or you-should-haves.
They love and support you with massive amounts of love as you be with that pile of scary stuff, deal with it, and decide what to do next.
They stand by you as you go through and transform your circumstances, attitudes, thoughts, or situations so you end up feeling good, so you feel open and delighted again.
You know for certain that they have the uplifting energy and sweet, unbiased love and support that only someone who believes in you can give you.
You know for sure that, even if they don’t have any solutions for your problem, any new perspective through which to look, they still love you without judgement. And that they will be with you until and as you choose something new, something that does work for you.
You also know that, even if you don’t don’t like what they have to say, they will tell you the truth of their own experience; they will give you their opinion and perspective; and they will tell you how they feel.
And you know that they will never insist that you do anything their way–that yes, they’ll have their say, but they know that you need to make your own decisions that may even be in direct opposition to what they say or would do, themselves.
It’s a gift beyond measure. It’s like having a rock to lie down on in the sun and breathe in new light and life. It’s strength where there seemed, before, to be none. It’s a line to life when life itself seems impossible. It’s a mirror for the depth of your own power, the power that takes you where ever you want to go.
These are the kind of people who ask you what you’d like to get out of this situation, rather than joining you in blame, shame, resentment or pity parties. You’ve found a gem. What a gift!
If not, I invite you to become one, yourself, to at least one person.
You’ll find out what it’s like, to be that generous, that kind, that truthful. It will grow you faster than you can even begin to imagine. And one day you’ll see that you’ve had people like this in your life the whole time–you just never knew it. You just never recognized them.
If you do you have people in your life who love you and support you, who make you feel safe and like you can do anything you set your mind to, then send them love and gratitude, because they need it, too!
Guest article by Samantha Hartley, Enlightened Marketing Expert
I once had a client, Greg, who came to me for assistance with his marketing.
He’d invested a fortune in his company but wasn’t attracting enough paying clients.
He was scraping by, waiting for the momentum to kick in.
Greg hadn’t been frugal about his marketing materials. They were developed by professional designers and copywriters and were polished and fashionable. There was only one problem: they didn’t communicate his brand.
How do you help them?
What do you do for them that no one else can do as well?
Why should anyone choose you instead of the alternatives?
That’s what your prospective clients want to know. When people meet you or see your website, they’re asking, “How should I think about you? Where do you fit in the filing cabinet of my mind?”
Like Greg, many entrepreneurs who come to me for help with their marketing are actually struggling with an identity problem: they don’t have a clear one.
Your brand identity includes:
In Greg’s case, he could have ditched the expensive brochures no one reads, and the confusing web site filled with puzzling images and then just shared from his heart:
“I work with small business owners who are tired of hiring candidates who present well but don’t perform. I help them to identify the profile of the ideal candidate and the best way to select them. As a result, they hire the right one the first time, save money on training and make money by having a productive employee from the get-go. My system doesn’t rely on self-reporting, so profiles are more accurate, as seen by our 92% retention rate.”
More often people think of the Nike swoosh logo or Starbucks’ green mermaid.
But those aren’t brands – they’re logos.
You may think of Big Mac hamburgers, Crocs holey shoes and iPod players. But those aren’t brands – they’re products.
Even for entrepreneurs and solopreneurs, brands need to be positioned, which means defining who they’re for and why they’re the best choice for them.
In the example above, we have an intended audience (small business owners) and a differentiator (very accurate profiles); this is the beginning of brand building. In addition, you should articulate a brand promise (money saved on training and made on productivity) that lays out what to expect from an experience of your brand.
Unenlightened marketers skip this step entirely and doom themselves to commodity status. Do you want to be just another entry in the Chamber of Commerce directory? Of course not! You want to be the Starbucks of your profession.
Starbucks proved the power of branding by transforming a measly pennies-per-cup beverage into an experience its audience would pay scads of money for.
They expanded the coffee playing field from simply aroma and flavor to include atmosphere, skilled service (not from wait staff, but “baristas”), fair trade and more benefits than my poor little truck stop coffee counter had ever heard of.
(Hint: differentiated value)
The irony here is that almost every business has a brand identity of some kind, just not necessarily the one they want.
I’ve heard people refer to “the expensive place,” or “that weird guy who does something health-related.”
They’ve called brands “cars for old people,” or “the ones made in sweat shops.”
Our task is to brand ourselves, consciously, with an identity, and work to make it at least as prominent in the minds of our audience as the other impressions they receive.
If you don’t do it, someone else will do it for you, and you might not like the results.
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© Samantha Hartley 2009 EnlightenedMarketing.com
I’m really interested in discovering ways to create real, lasting health and longevity. You may have seen the videos from David Wolfe I sent you last week. In case you did not, here they are again – I really like his work:
David Wolfe Video 1 – Immunity
David Wolfe Video 2 – Wealth
David Wolfe Video 4 – Product
I like how sincere he is, his great depth of knowledge, and the fact that he uses such easily attainable foods and herbs.
Get his books here: Amazing Grace: The Nine Principles of Living in Natural Magic
Vicki Warren is a psychic who works with people on any number of topics, including archetypal patterns, health, relationships, police cases and many others.
She was told 17 years ago that she had only 6 months to live because she had an ‘uncurable’ condition.
Well, either I just interviewed a ghost, or she had the guts and wherewithal to buck the odds she was given to create her own choice in living!
When you listen in to my interview with Vicki, you’ll hear how she created her own internal ‘switch’ that helped her heal, (getting the amalgam out of her teeth was critical).
And why she made the decision to NOT go to doctor or hospital-recommended ‘support’ groups, and the dynamic thing she did instead.
When I had a session with her, she zeroed in on some issues I’d never spoken about with anyone, ever. What a surprise to hear her coming out with it all! And she also helped me resolve something I had been dealing with for over 50 years.
We also give you a short demo of how she works – you’ll hear at one point a surprising bit about my vertebra I hadn’t known about – and that checked out later to be right on!
As you can probably gather by now, Vicki lives for living, not for getting ready to die.
If you’re on the same wave-length, you’ll enjoy this interview. I hope you’ll be inspired by this well-known and highly respected psychic.
You can also find her book, Coffee, Doughnuts & God) HERE.
Either click on the IDareYouRadio.com logo above, or go HERE to get to the interview.
Photo credit: Boardman Tree Farm
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You probably saw the big hoo-ha when Susan Boyle, the power-voiced gal who made such a hit on the Britain’s Got Talent show, came on stage.
If not, check this out for some real inspiration.
The judges and people in the audience made faces, raised their eyebrows and had clear disappointment and doubts that she could be any good.
Frankly, I felt embarrassed for the judges and the people in the audience who were so quick to judge Susan Boyle on her looks – she certainly doesn’t have a thing to do with skinny legs, belly-button rings or silky-sexy clothes!
The sheer arrogance of both audience and judges wa astounding – like someone who isn’t dressed in designer clothing can’t possibly have anything to contribute, oh no! Good grief. Where have we come in our supposed culture that we reserve talent for the Pretties?!?
The second she opens her mouth in song, it’s as if a tsunami of energy swamps the hall – within seconds people are on their feet crying, laughing, clapping, yelling in joy and full of the same enormous spirit Susan is radiating. And they keep clapping and shouting for her until after the song is done! Every time I watch it I feel full of the magic and tears and the sheer authenticity of the woman.
There are those who say the staging and setup are all hype; who say she hasn’t got what it takes to go beyond her ’15 minutes of fame;’ that she needs to get ‘with it’ with her clothes and media-presence.
Why do we insist that people fit in to our narrow ideals so WE can be comfortable?!? I think she’s more savvy and honest and grounded than the next person, and knows in her heart far better what to do than the flight of pretties who come and go every year.
Susan’s birth was apparently a hard one, with resulting oxygen deprivation and minor brain damage. Perhaps that’s what has kept this golden canary in the shadow so long, not flitting out of the nest as soon as she knew she had a voice that could thrill.
I hope she has all kinds of people around her who can steady her hand amidst the glitz and glimmer and onslaught of media, because if she can sing like she did on that stage, I want to hear more. She has the posture and presence of an opera singer, and belts her song out from the very center of her heart – who could ask for more?
Who cares if her eyebrows are thick and powerful? Who cares if her dress is 50s and she walks like an excited five-year old? I think she looked like the embodiment of Heart. Who needs another skimpily-S&M-dressed Madonna or Britney? I say keep those eyebrows!
One report called her a ‘frumpy spinster’ – critics and reviewers somehow feel they have the unalienable right to cut people and their works down in razor-thin slivers. Does it make them feel better to be so denigrating and nasty? If those same people calling her those names were on the stage, I can assure you they’d feel crushed by such comments.
This was a great example of how, when we let our judgments and prejudices and cultural beliefs cloud our eyes, we can be shaken out of our trees in a split second. What a fabulous surprise Susan Boyle is! We should be so lucky as to have her in our lifetime!
No more cynicism!
No more arrogance!
No more judging books by covers!
Yes more asking for and claiming your Dreams – go Susan!
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Today’s economy is freaking people out, no bones about it. Here are a few of items you may find interesting. I decided to look up the definition of the word, ‘economy’.
Before I list the ones I thought were most clear, I suggest that you stop a second and see what the word ‘economy’ brings up for you.
When I put that question to myself, I thought immediately about how we operate on a fiat currency system, rather than one backed by gold or some physical substance of perceived value.
I also thought about how a fiat economy, by definition, always historically collapses within a specific period of time; and how over the last 90 years this system was introduced and implemented by people who were so saturated with greed that their own self-aggrandizement came before the lives of everyone else.
I also thought about how so many important public programs and institutions are being cut back and even eliminated. None of what is going on today makes sense to me if we are to carry on creating fulfilling lives.
Now, here are some of the definitions I found:
Economy:
1. The system by which money, industry and trade are organized
2. The system of production, distribution and consumption
3. Efficient use of resources
4. Effective management
5. A system of allocating resources based only on the interaction of market forces, supply and demand
6. A true market economy is free of governmental influence, collusion and other external influences.
If we cannot do anything immediately effective to change the way our commerce and currency are set up, what CAN we do?
There are several things we can each do to create a new relationship with the world and the economy, no matter what is going on outside of ourselves.
1. Realize that every thought, feeling, belief and action you generate and act upon determines your reality. Take deeper responsibility.
Use energy practices to even out old self-worth issues that keep you shy, angry, sad, depressed, etc.
You may think you, your energy and your life are inconsequential in the Big Scheme of Things, but that is utterly untrue.
Your energy is needed right now right here in order to help dream up, create and nurture a new, clean paradigm.
Energies are shifting so fast and so intensely that it’s easy to get caught up in the density – don’t allow it. If you have to use EFT (the Emotional Freedom Techniques) all day long, do so. This is not a dress rehearsal.
2. Remember that we participate in this economy, even if we don’t like it.
So every one of us needs to be conscious of how we literally vote with our dollars. And I know you know what I mean by that. Use each dollar as if it was a ballot cast in the voting box. It will make a huge difference in how you use your funds, and will produce results that will surprise and please you.
3. Stop complaining and ask what you can do differently in your own life, whether tiny or huge, to create the shifts in your life that would make it better. Then make a pact with yourself to DO those little shifts. DO those big things. Do it, and see how cool it is to feel like, “Hey! I made a difference in my own life!”
4. Get rid of excesses and distractions. Really ask yourself at a deep level what it is you value and if you really want to keep spending time and energy on things that only have half or minimal value to you. Just stop doing them. They waste your life energy. Concentrate on what helps you bring yourself internal pleasure and even a soul-thrill.
5. Tap. If you have no clue what I’m talking about, get FREEbie info at EFTinEveryHome.com.
Tap all day, as I said. Don’t let your emotions or thoughts be either totally numb or overpowering you. Tap on feelings of anger, fear, sadness, grief, shame, impatience, helplessness and powerlessness.
Tap on thoughts of blame, shame, complain, vengeance, retaliation, disappointment, terr-or, disgust, dismay, self-sabotage, not-good-enough, etc.
Keep tapping until you can come to a place of inner peace, even if it’s a tiny bit at a time. How can we say we want peace if we can’t even create it in our own minds and bodies first? The journey starts within – always.
6. Remember that you are part of life’s Great Circle, and that you are no less than and no more than any other creature in the universe. You are valued and honored, and your contributions, life energy and individual spark are part of that which keeps us all on fire and alive.
I want to publicly acknowledge how incredible Helena Summer Medena was when I had to spend time in the hospital for surgery. Yes, she is my friend, but she is also a determined ally in the face of stress or hurt.
She sacrificed a huge amount of her time last week to visit me, hold my hand and be my verbal advocate while I was too doped up to know up from down.
The night she brought me in, she stayed with me until I was finally admitted to the hospital at 3 a.m. – even though her ride had long gone and she had to find another to get home!
She also helped me tap (even though I was so sensitive I’d pull my hand away!), and is one of the finest EFT leaders I’ve met.
I want to suggest to you that she would be as good an ally for you in whatever it is you’d like to move through in your quest to live a more healthy, peaceful and abundant life, and that if you want her services, she is well worth way more than her nominal fees.
I asked her what she does when she speaks with a new client, and here is part of her reply:
“We talk a little, I give them 30 minutes of conditional consult, and then we schedule a minimum 3 sessions.
“Brand new online? I introduce them to skype and see if that would work or phone… tell them about what to expect….
“With all of them I make sure that I am interested in them, that I feel like we are a good match and that we can achieve what they want.
“I tell them all that EFT is not magic, but super powerful… I make sure they feel heard and we go with scheduling.
When she says she “makes sure she is interested,” I can tell you from personal experience that she puts her all into it.
She has no idea I’m doing this, so no, this is not a concerted publicity campaign. She’ll probably cry when she reads this –
Please do consider availing yourself of her considerable love, care and talented intuition and gifts using EFT and other energy modalities. You can check her out, as I’m sure you probably know by now, at LivDelicious.com.
much love and aloha to you,
Angela
This is the Black Madonna (and her child) after about 15 carving sessions.
The stone you see with my glasses on top is what this piece looked like at the start. You can see my hammer next to it.
I carve all by hand, using small chisel and files called rifflers. I carve at about 2 or 3 hours at a time, although sometimes I’ll put in a full day. Hard to do as it’s pretty tiring work. Imagine swinging a 2-pound hammer all day – you get tired!
It probably will take me a good 45 to 60 hours total to finish this using just hand tools. If I were using air tools, it’d go monstrously faster, but I like the pace of hand tools.
I raised the hand on our right up so you can now see the child’s belly and the top of her thighs. It looked way too ponderous the way it was before. You actually have more latitude for moving elements around than you’d think, and I push the envelope as far as I can!
I wanted her to look like a mother, not a girl-friend, so I made the chins swing away from each other – this way they are pressing foreheads together, and that’s it. I also took away a lot of that heavy hair on the side.
Now it seems to me to be a double entendre: is it a child imagining being held by her mother? Or is it a mother holding her child? Or maybe it’s a child imagining herself as an adult, or dreaming an angel. I like to think of it as a mother transmitting her innate wisdom to her child. Now you make up your story about it!
See more artwork at AngelaTreatLyonART.com
Way back in November of 1981, after almost 20 years of having been a fine art potter, I decided to take the next step. It was time to make the move from making pots – upon which I drew very detailed designs in black and white – to carving 3-d figures in stone.
I had just been introduced to carving-stone by an old friend, and I was hot to trot. I couldn’t stop thinking or dreaming about it, and I even now had stone in my studio just sitting there begging to be carved.
From everywhere and everyone I heard, “Oh, Angela! You shouldn’t stop making your beautiful pots!” But I just knew it was Right for me.
Although I had been supporting myself and my 2 kids on my pots, and it was really scary to think of selling off my clay, glazes, kilns and all the stuff having to do with creating my pots, on December 25th, I told my kids that I had decided I’d stick with making pots for one more year so I could have a smooth transition into carving stone.
And at 11:43 am on December 31st, I was slammed not once, but twice in a car wreck that completely totalled my car and left my neck and back so damaged that I was told I’d probably never walk again.
One was saying that it was such a shame I’d never walk again, and if I’d never decided to quit making pots I’d still be OK, shame on me, why couldn’t I ever take anyone’s advice.
Another very firmly told the first one to stuff itself in its own dark place, and that it was because I had something to Do that I had to continue carving–even if I had to do it sitting down.
And yet another that told both of them just to be still, please, because the universe is a mutable essence, and if we could all work together, we could heal my body and not only get me walking again but carving and carrying big rocks around as if I was a 20-year old again.
It made me feel so supported and so powerful. From the inside out. And although I was flat on my back and in too much pain to move, I felt as if I had a rocket inside of me that simply had to take off, that wouldn’t allow me to sit and stew or feel sorry for myself or stop seeking assistance in getting back on my feet.
All of them wore long, grave faces, closed their office doors sooo carefully and quietly, sat down and gazed at me solemnly across their desks. They each spoke in hushed tones, as if I was already one foot under.
By the third one, I was livid. Boiling. I refused to put up with their cemented belief that I’d be crippled for the rest of my life.
I fired all three, went home feeling curiously light, happy, and utterly trusting that someone would show up for me.
The very next day, I was introduced quite by chance (right!) to a chiropractor who lived a half a block away! Within 6 weeks he had me walking again, and most of the aches and pains and stiffnesses and knots in my neck and back gone.
Needless to say, I decided to uphold my original choice to move on from pots. The Universe had spoken, and I listened. I’ve been carving stone ever since, going into painting and illustrating on the side.
And I’m going to continue to talk my walk, and continue updating you on the techniques, systems and tactics I take and that I hear about and think are great that will help you walk your dreams.
Why is it so important that we do so now, of all times?
Because if we get caught in oh-the-economy-is-bad-woe-is-me-what-am-I-gonna-do BS, we’ll stay there.
You know as well as I do that we get that upon which we focus. Focus with me and all the other aligned people who are knowingly, trustingly, joyously creating life the way we want to live: conscious, conscious, conscious!
It’s Time–NOW. We have enough information about how to create what we want, we have enough resources and connections to build the world we want, and we have the guts, the minds and the heart. I refuse to even imagine our not doing it.
Look at interruptions and pain and illness and obstacles as messages, not blocks.
Look at them and ask, “where is the energy in this that I could use to create something better–for myself, my loved ones and my world?”
What is the first thing I can do, what is the first step I can take towards something I’d rather have or be or do?
What can I say in my mind that will keep me from the perpetual downward spiral of why-me and oh-I’m-stuck by asking yourself what would I rather see/feel/do/have?
What is my next step on my continued path, holding the space for the Dream?
Because it’s right here, right now, and all we need to do is let it expand within our hearts and minds and lives.
Here are SOME of the most radical, most heart-swelling videos I’ve ever seen.
Here is how one jaded young man woke up and changed his mind and has now helped thousands of people all over the world get clean water.
Not only that, but he has developed an amazing charity structure that allows ALL–yes, 100%–of the monies donated be used for the intended people and purposes.
http://ebenpagan.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/charity-water-replay/
Please do pass this one around!
Top Image: Leaf Bowl and Fish Bowl, porcelain, © Lyon 1981 (sold)
Sculpture: Hula Kahiko, soapstone 24″ x 13″ x 6″ © Lyon 1999 (sold)
What, really, *is* success–to you? And why would you want it? What will you do once you attain success? How will you contribute? With whom will you share your joy, your money, your time, your talents, gifts and skills?
This is what is important, not the just the money. I had a deep breakthrough a few years ago when I read Lynne Twist’s book, The Soul of Money, when I read that she defines money as a vehicle that allows you to fulfill your soul’s deepest desires. My heart flipped into a new position–at last I could contribute and receive money and it was OK!
Wow! That was a far cry from the bland, uninspiring definitions I’d heard before: it’s just ‘an energy exchange,’ ‘a vehicle of commerce,’ ‘neutral energy,’ and so on.
I felt ashamed to want money–like it was some spiritually bad thing to have anything to do with. Now I saw that I could acquire it and use it and it was OK–that I could allow it to come and go through my hands so I could contribute *and* feel fulfilled and valuable.
What if you thought of each dollar as a unit of appreciation? Like every time you get paid for something, someone is saying, ‘thank you, I appreciate what you’ve done for me.’ I love that! So now each time I pay my bills, I’m saying thank you to that company or person for the service rendered.
If we remember that the root of the word ‘to sell’ means to serve, it looks like a different animal, doesn’t it? The manner of selling is what counts. It isn’t serving to push yourself and your goods on anyone. That will end up–especially in this day and age where everyone down to a one-year old is suspicious of salesmen–in your being pushed away.
Rather, what would happen if you simply shared with people what you love about your work? What results you get with your clients? What they get out of your work? Then you are in integrity, staying in your own space and not intruding on theirs, and they get to choose whether or not what you do resonates with them or is anything they’d like to try out.
Because believe me, in this busy world, if people don’t hear about you and your work, two very sad things happen: the people who want and need what you do never hear of you and they miss out receiving the benefits of your gifts, and you miss out on contributing to them and feeling fulfilled because you helped those people. Everyone loses.
We need your services and products.
We need YOU and your gifts and talents.
We need you to prosper so you can continue on your fulfillment journey.
We also need you to prosper as an example for what we can do, too.
I want you to feel fulfilled, humble, proud and excited, rather than bashful, afraid and ashamed of selling and of your desire for money.
Money helps you feel appreciated and supported. What’s wrong with that?
Selling is letting people know about your passion and what it does for people in a way they can receive and make an informed choice.
So money and selling seem like different animals now, don’t they?
It sure would have helped me tremendously to be able to think like that way back when I was still starving! I’d have been able to see myself and my role in life in an entirely different light, and thoughts of ending that life would have never occurred to me–they sure don’t anymore!
I used to picture millionaires as greedy, hand-wringing money-mongers. For some reason that image–like the skinny, black suited Bad Guys in cartoons–stuck with me for years, although I really did know better.
Don’t let that image wreck your relationship with money.
Instead, allow the thought of money as an instrument of fulfillment inspire you to think of your soul’s Deepest Desire. And then go about fulfilling that Desire as a Sacred Mission, step by step.
You can get money-activist Lynne Twist’s book here: The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources
You can get the audio version of it here: Unleashing the Soul of Money
Lynne has worked with over 100,000 people in over 50 countries – she must be doing SOMEthing right!
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A friend turned me on to the book, Wisdom: With Three New Interviews
The entire book, from conception to organization, execution, display and presentation, every inch of the refinement and excellence of this work is unparalleled.
It’s an enormous opus presenting the most beautiful photos and interviews of wise people over 70. Every inch of the process is painstakingly thought-out and seamlessly integrated to produce one of the finest books and websites (and documentary on itself!) that I’ve seen in a long time
Andrew Zuckerman is a master of simplicity and elegance.
He discusses his process and each person, and even how he packed the bags and how they set up the film sets in order to ‘democratize’ the settings for each interviewee.
When I first went to check it out, I had to unglue myself after an hour of fascination, so be aware that it will pull you in–in a most wonderful way.
The Wisdom Book is an exquisitely filmed group of elders sharing their wisdom unabashedly and quixotically and vulnerably. What a breath of fresh air! It’s about time we stopped being so obsessed with our youth culture and remembered to have some respect for our elders!
I think you’ll love it, too. Get it here: Wisdom: With Three New Interviews
I just finished reading Seth Godin’s book, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
If you haven’t picked it up yet, I’m thinking that you’ll want to if you have any interest at all in how our tolerance for push marketing is now close to zero, and instead we are actively drawn to, seeking and cultivating more connection, relationships and passion.
He says: “A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea….A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate….Human beings…need to belong. We want to belong to not just one tribe, it turns out, but to many….Tribes make our lives better. And leading a tribe is the best life of all.”
He discusses social media (twitter, facebook, etc.) and how there are literally thousands of ways to connect, and how, with just one idea, each of us is a leader. He says, “The market needs you…and your vision and your passion.”
As a staunch proponent of living life with passion, I am so excited to see this book and its celebration of the individual’s potential to co-create a world of more passion and heart-filled creativity.
Get his book here: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
You know those emails (and now facebook posts!) that say if you send on the email you’ll get paid thousands of dollars by Bill Gates? Sorry ’bout that. Scam.
Here are four ways you can keep your friends, family and acquaintances un-spammed and happy with you.
Did you know that WHEN YOU TYPE IN ALL CAPITALS it’s considered yelling? Don’t do that. It’s hard to read, and people will yell at you for doing it.
Refrain from panicked email subject lines like PLEEEEASE READ. Most emails with subject lines like that are blatantly spam.
If you want your email opened and given proper respect, use both Upper and Lower case letters.
If you send out notes to a group from your regular email carrier and not from your auto-responder, never, ever, ever, EVER use Cc (carbon copy).
ALWAYS use Bcc (blind carbon copy). If your email carrier doesn’t have Bcc, then don’t send out mass notes from it. Period. Find another way. Sign up for an autoresponder system like 1AutomationWiz.com or a mass emailing system like constantcontact.com of one kind or other.
Why? Because down the line, that note that you Cc’d people, which thenceforth went to more people and then more people–every single one of them with every single email address sitting there like lame ducks waiting to get shot, whose recipients passed it on–one day, a spammer is going to see all those lovely lines of email addresses and use them for his spamming (or hers). It’s called email address spam harvesting.
When you use Cc, you have turned into an indirect spammer. Don’t do it. Use Bcc. Got that? Third….
When you get notes with subject lines like PLEEEEASE READ, and they tell you something like Bill Gates can track every email you send and will pay you ten cents or something ridiculous don’t believe it! He can’t track your emails! Good grief! He wouldn’t want to! NO, sorry, he won’t send you any money! And if he could track your emails, isn’t that just a little bit spooky??? Grow up!
Check with snopes.com every time you get a note like that, and you will find that they are NOT for real.
Save yourself the embarrassment of having to write your list and tell them it wasn’t a real email and that you are embarrassed and won’t ever, ever do it again. Don’t send them out in the first place.
What to do when you get an email with PLEEEEASE READ in the subject line?
Hit delete. BEFORE you read it.
No, it really won’t be anything you might miss.
No, it won’t be anything important your far-away cousin sent you.
No, it has not one good thing about it at all–unless you’re a spammer, in which case it will have hundreds of email addresses innocent ignorant people have allowed to circulate endlessly.
Please, do the rest of us a big favor, and be a savvy emailer, OK? Delete those things as fast as you get them, and help keep those addresses out of harm.
Check with snopes.com, OK? Thanks.
I’m so happy to be able to tell you that my images have been added to a wonderful freebie greeting card site!
You can see (and use) them for FREE right HERE at SpiritCardCenter.com.
I looked a long time before I found this site – I wanted to be proud to be a part of it, and finally found it last month. I’m delighted to be a part of the Spirit Card Center Collection – I invite you to bookmark it!
Did you know that the kingdom of Bhutan has a policy of supporting its people’s Gross National Happiness. Much cooler than Gross National Products, eh?
What if we all decided we’d care for, build and support our Gross Individual Happiness?
Imagine this: you are a shy but very talented interior designer who doesn’t just make houses pretty, but who brings out the Heart of the House.
You have been asked to visit a battered women’s shelter to see if you can give them some ideas to cheer the place up.
Here’s the amazing part: you turned it into a major miracle – for the residents, the house itself, and yourself.
Join the amazing Terry Grahl and me as we pick through the amazing details. Do check out her site at TerrysEnchantedCottage.com –
The shelter is now one of the most delightful houses I have yet to see – it’s really hard to believe what she did with a beat-up, scruffy, sad, dark and depressing house!
Find out how she got the huge wall-to-wall mural upstairs (which would have ordinarily have cost her 3 arms and 4 legs if she had hired an artist to do it), how she raised over $200K for the project, and the unique way she uses her intuition!
Are you one of the few people who actually say your mother was an inspirational force in your life? Join us to hear why Terry’s is. And how she’s going to duplicate her efforts all over the nation in the future….
CLICK HERE for Part One.
CLICK HERE for Part two.
What do you do when you discover how much money your spouse is spending on alcohol?
When you realize s/he’s an alcoholic? When you don’t like how you’re being treated? Do you put up with it? Sit down and get drunk, too? Or…what?
Dr. Anne Marie Evers tells us how she managed to not just deal with that very situation, but how she actually made it work for her in a big way.
CLICK HERE for PART ONE:
What do you do when you realize your spouse is an alcoholic? When you don’t like how you’re being treated? Do you put up with it? Sit down and get drunk, too? Or…what?
CLICK HERE for PART TWO:
How do the works of Louise Hay and Dale Carnegie fit in here?
CLICK HERE for PART THREE:
Why does Dr. Anne Marie say you can’t hook up a U-Haul behind a hearse?
CLICK HERE for PART FOUR:
How do you write Affirmations contracts for money and relationships
Get Dr. Evers AFFIRMATIONS book here: Affirmations Your Passport to Happiness 8th edition
And her important deal with CHEMO book here: Affirmation Life Tools: 70 ways to cope with chemo and other medical treatments
NOTE – The Hawaiian music behind the Hawaiian Wedding ad in Segment 1 is from the song, Kalele Swinging on the Magic of Steel Guitar album performed by Master Artist, Musician, Composer, Producer, and Music Educator Henry Kaleialoha Allen. You can find more of his amazing music at CDBaby.com and HenryKAllen.com. I am most honored to be able to share his music with you!
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