Choosing your vibration is as easy as choosing your favorite flavor of ice cream. What is the sensation of enjoying your favorite ice cream? Can you taste it? Can you feel it on your tongue?
By now you have probably heard of the law of attraction. Like attracts like. That’s what all this vibration is all about. Our vibration is created by our feelings, not our emotions, but what we feel. When we choose to vibrate with our true selves we are vibrating with love.
When you sit for a quiet moment and smile, it brings up pleasant feelings. Then set the intent to be the love that you are. How does that feel?
We have all experienced unconditional, non sexual, love in some way; a kitten or puppy, a baby, taking a moment to look at a beautiful view, or enjoying your favorite food. Use that as the start then just let yourself feel the vibration of love.
As you breathe in and out, breathe love, think love, feel love. Know you are love and feel the vibration. When we are intending to be the love that we are, we attract everything our hearts desire.
Is it time for a new car or are you hoping for the perfect lover? Are you looking for a satisfying new job or do you wish you could feel as good as you did 20 years ago? Set the intent to be the love that you are. Everything good is attracted to love. Spend a little time each day quietly focused on feeling that love. It may take a little practice to feel the vibration but I know you can do it. Choose it!
Intent is an amazingly powerful too and we all have it. When I intend to be happy I am. When I intend to be angry I am. When I intend to be fearful I am. All we have to do is recognize and take responsibility for our intentions. Intend to be the love that you are and all the rest will follow. Choose to enjoy who you are. Don’t wait for someone else to make it happen for you. No one can do it as well as you can.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Let's Play Pretend
I just finished reading a wonderful article about coming to terms with our fears written by my friend Dawn at http://breathfusion.1hwy.com In it she says “Intend it. Pretend it.”
It brought my attention to the word pretend. When we were children we played “let’s pretend”. We didn’t know it then but it was a very important step in growing up to be who we intended ourselves to be. Then we grew up and thought we had outgrown such a childish thing. Not really . . . If we can intend, we can pretend. It is still a useful tool. Pre tending is something we can do to begin the manifestation of our hearts desires. When we pre tend we feel it, see it, smell it, taste it, know it. To intend is to put it out in the future somewhere but when we pretend we are in it, as if it were happening now.
Anyone who has seen the movie “The Secret” or read any of the many articles and books based on those ideas, knows this process is recommended to manifest our desires. We have had the secret all along.
I am so often reminded that much of what we did as innocent children was exactly right. Many of our, so called, childish games were wonderfully useful tools. So much of the “growing up” process stripped us of our fantasies and imaginings, our sense of wonder. Remember, a great deal of our culture is based on a strict Puritan background. It was dangerous to be a dreamer.
We can let that go now. We can be the imaginative, creative, joyful beings we were created to be. All we have to do is give ourselves permission and do it.
Today I will spend a few moments allowing my imagination to run free and “play pretend” just for the pure joy of it.
It brought my attention to the word pretend. When we were children we played “let’s pretend”. We didn’t know it then but it was a very important step in growing up to be who we intended ourselves to be. Then we grew up and thought we had outgrown such a childish thing. Not really . . . If we can intend, we can pretend. It is still a useful tool. Pre tending is something we can do to begin the manifestation of our hearts desires. When we pre tend we feel it, see it, smell it, taste it, know it. To intend is to put it out in the future somewhere but when we pretend we are in it, as if it were happening now.
Anyone who has seen the movie “The Secret” or read any of the many articles and books based on those ideas, knows this process is recommended to manifest our desires. We have had the secret all along.
I am so often reminded that much of what we did as innocent children was exactly right. Many of our, so called, childish games were wonderfully useful tools. So much of the “growing up” process stripped us of our fantasies and imaginings, our sense of wonder. Remember, a great deal of our culture is based on a strict Puritan background. It was dangerous to be a dreamer.
We can let that go now. We can be the imaginative, creative, joyful beings we were created to be. All we have to do is give ourselves permission and do it.
Today I will spend a few moments allowing my imagination to run free and “play pretend” just for the pure joy of it.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Gifts
I think I had forgotten for a while, why I started to blog in the first place. I have had, and continue to have, some wonderful thoughts that I consider to be gifts from the Universe. Sometimes they work themselves around in my mind until I know I have to share them. That is what blogging is to me. It was also the inspiration for my books.
Lately I have been putting so much of my energy into trying to figure out what to do with my life. The plans I had haven’t worked out and I’m staring into, what I have seen recently as a bleak future. How could I write blogs that would uplift people and lend hope in these troubled times feeling that way? A couple of days ago I made a commitment to myself that I would do whatever it took to find my way out of my negativity.
As usual, the Universe has sent me a wonderful multi layered gift. A friend suggested I read a little book called “The Go-Giver”, by Bob Burg and John David Mann. The multi layer part is the recognition of the importance of my friends. I have wonderful, loving, beautiful, friends and I give thanks for them. All of the people in our lives add to the intricate tapestry that is our lives.
Then there is the book! I encourage you all to find a copy of this little book and read it with an open heart. It says it is a “powerful business idea” but I see it as a beautiful life lesson. I would love to tell you all about it here but I believe you may be better served by letting the story unfold for you and seeing what ever it is you are to see as a result of your own experience. I read the entire book in a couple of hours.
I found it at my local library. Libraries are one of the best kept secrets of our time. They are an opportunity to try out lots of books to find the ones we are most served by. The library is also a place to find books to help relax and to find a laugh or a cry, whatever we need for that day. When we find a special book we can then purchase it, to have it around, like an old friend, for reference and comfort.
So I did have something to share after all. This time I started with gratitude and let the words just flow. Thank you, my friends, for giving me this opportunity to share with you once again, the thoughts and ideas that flow through.
I wish you all the blessing of friendship and a strong awareness of your own value.
Lately I have been putting so much of my energy into trying to figure out what to do with my life. The plans I had haven’t worked out and I’m staring into, what I have seen recently as a bleak future. How could I write blogs that would uplift people and lend hope in these troubled times feeling that way? A couple of days ago I made a commitment to myself that I would do whatever it took to find my way out of my negativity.
As usual, the Universe has sent me a wonderful multi layered gift. A friend suggested I read a little book called “The Go-Giver”, by Bob Burg and John David Mann. The multi layer part is the recognition of the importance of my friends. I have wonderful, loving, beautiful, friends and I give thanks for them. All of the people in our lives add to the intricate tapestry that is our lives.
Then there is the book! I encourage you all to find a copy of this little book and read it with an open heart. It says it is a “powerful business idea” but I see it as a beautiful life lesson. I would love to tell you all about it here but I believe you may be better served by letting the story unfold for you and seeing what ever it is you are to see as a result of your own experience. I read the entire book in a couple of hours.
I found it at my local library. Libraries are one of the best kept secrets of our time. They are an opportunity to try out lots of books to find the ones we are most served by. The library is also a place to find books to help relax and to find a laugh or a cry, whatever we need for that day. When we find a special book we can then purchase it, to have it around, like an old friend, for reference and comfort.
So I did have something to share after all. This time I started with gratitude and let the words just flow. Thank you, my friends, for giving me this opportunity to share with you once again, the thoughts and ideas that flow through.
I wish you all the blessing of friendship and a strong awareness of your own value.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
What Do We Really Need?
We think we need so much and we think we are somewhat dependant on others to help meet our needs. If we can turn our minds around on this for a moment we can change the energy and change everything.
If I don’t need you to help me out with my project I have no need to convince or manipulate or cajole or persuade or try to make you like me or believe in me or my project or my abilities . . . . See what is happening here?
When I realize I don’t need, I don’t have to twist myself around and do the convincing dance which can lead to my resenting you for not appreciating how important my work is. When I appreciate myself and my work I don’t need your approval. I don’t need anything.
When I realize I have no needs, I have everything; I realize that to offer you an opportunity to participate in my project has no strings. I can make the offer, share my excitement and leave you to decide . . . without expectation. I know my project is wonderful and I don’t need anyone to approve or support it. I know there will be people who will recognize the value in the project as soon as they see it. All I have to do is get it out there. As I recognize the intrinsic value in all that I do and all that you do, I trust myself and the Universe to flow with abundance for all of us
The projects that come from our hearts will flow with abundance as we present them to the world with confidence and joy. That is what the new energy is. When we realize it is all there for us and know it, really know it, we create the energy to make things happen. People will feel that energy and choose to become involved. It just feels good.
Now the trust is in me. When I know in my heart that my ideas and what I am doing with them are valuable, whether anyone agrees with me or not, then I know I have the power to create and produce and change the world. (No ego, just gratitude and love) .
When I am confident I can share my thoughts and plans with the world without the need for approval. The energy surrounding that is joyful and people respond naturally.
So share yourself with the confidence that comes with knowing you are God also. You and your ideas and your projects that come from your heart are valid and valuable. Share yourself with the world knowing we are all one body, all one mind and all one soul. What comes with confidence and joy is a beautiful gift.
If I don’t need you to help me out with my project I have no need to convince or manipulate or cajole or persuade or try to make you like me or believe in me or my project or my abilities . . . . See what is happening here?
When I realize I don’t need, I don’t have to twist myself around and do the convincing dance which can lead to my resenting you for not appreciating how important my work is. When I appreciate myself and my work I don’t need your approval. I don’t need anything.
When I realize I have no needs, I have everything; I realize that to offer you an opportunity to participate in my project has no strings. I can make the offer, share my excitement and leave you to decide . . . without expectation. I know my project is wonderful and I don’t need anyone to approve or support it. I know there will be people who will recognize the value in the project as soon as they see it. All I have to do is get it out there. As I recognize the intrinsic value in all that I do and all that you do, I trust myself and the Universe to flow with abundance for all of us
The projects that come from our hearts will flow with abundance as we present them to the world with confidence and joy. That is what the new energy is. When we realize it is all there for us and know it, really know it, we create the energy to make things happen. People will feel that energy and choose to become involved. It just feels good.
Now the trust is in me. When I know in my heart that my ideas and what I am doing with them are valuable, whether anyone agrees with me or not, then I know I have the power to create and produce and change the world. (No ego, just gratitude and love) .
When I am confident I can share my thoughts and plans with the world without the need for approval. The energy surrounding that is joyful and people respond naturally.
So share yourself with the confidence that comes with knowing you are God also. You and your ideas and your projects that come from your heart are valid and valuable. Share yourself with the world knowing we are all one body, all one mind and all one soul. What comes with confidence and joy is a beautiful gift.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Choosing to be a Peaceful Warrior
I just received one of those forward e-mails suggesting it be passed on to everyone I know if I agree with the sentiment of the writer. It was filled with so much anger and hatred I couldn’t ever read it all. My first thought was to delete it but I decided to walk away for a few moments and see if I could come up with a different way to handle all that rage.
This is my response and I’m sending it out as a blog and to all the people listed on the e-mail.
There is truth to all the incidents listed in the letter, beginning with 9/11 and going through a very long list of horrors and atrocities that have been perpetrated since then. I will not list them as it simply fuels the fires of fear, rage and hatred that are already altogether too strong in our world today. The piece even suggests the author might make a good candidate for president.
I simply want to remind everyone of some simple truths we have all observed in our lifetime. Has war ever produced a lasting peace? Has hatred ever produced love? Has rage ever produced anything worthwhile?
Do we have a right to be angry? Yes! But exactly how does that anger benefit us? The acts committed were unforgiveable, it’s true. But we must forgive if we want to change things. As long as we keep the rage alive the killing and maiming will continue.
We each have a choice, every moment of our lives. We can choose love over hatred. We can choose forgiveness over revenge. We can choose peace over war - in our hearts and minds.
Do you have the courage to be a peaceful warrior? Do you have the courage to pray for all of the men, women and children fighting in wars all over the world; that they find love in their hearts and recognize that we are truly all one people? Do you have the courage to hold love and compassion in your heart and recognize the personal hell each individual who participates in war produces for themselves?
I do not say any of this to, in any way, diminish the sacrifice and dedication of our troops overseas. They are doing a job to the best of their ability with courage and a belief that they are truly serving their country in the best possible way.
I simply want to suggest that we who are here could better support their efforts with love and compassion than with hatred. If we as individuals can make a conscious choice to send a loving message out into the world, the world will begin to change. We have the power to do that. As we send out hatred it perpetuates war. As we send out love it will bring peace and bring the troops home.
So let us make a new choice today. Water the flowers and not the weeds. Choose love over hatred. Send your loving energy out into the world. Be the love you hope to see in the world. And remember our children learn to relate to the world through us. If we have fear and hatred, so do they. If we choose love and compassion, our children will be much more likely to do the same.
I send blessing to all.
If you agree- - - or even if you just wish it could be so - - - pass it on
This is my response and I’m sending it out as a blog and to all the people listed on the e-mail.
There is truth to all the incidents listed in the letter, beginning with 9/11 and going through a very long list of horrors and atrocities that have been perpetrated since then. I will not list them as it simply fuels the fires of fear, rage and hatred that are already altogether too strong in our world today. The piece even suggests the author might make a good candidate for president.
I simply want to remind everyone of some simple truths we have all observed in our lifetime. Has war ever produced a lasting peace? Has hatred ever produced love? Has rage ever produced anything worthwhile?
Do we have a right to be angry? Yes! But exactly how does that anger benefit us? The acts committed were unforgiveable, it’s true. But we must forgive if we want to change things. As long as we keep the rage alive the killing and maiming will continue.
We each have a choice, every moment of our lives. We can choose love over hatred. We can choose forgiveness over revenge. We can choose peace over war - in our hearts and minds.
Do you have the courage to be a peaceful warrior? Do you have the courage to pray for all of the men, women and children fighting in wars all over the world; that they find love in their hearts and recognize that we are truly all one people? Do you have the courage to hold love and compassion in your heart and recognize the personal hell each individual who participates in war produces for themselves?
I do not say any of this to, in any way, diminish the sacrifice and dedication of our troops overseas. They are doing a job to the best of their ability with courage and a belief that they are truly serving their country in the best possible way.
I simply want to suggest that we who are here could better support their efforts with love and compassion than with hatred. If we as individuals can make a conscious choice to send a loving message out into the world, the world will begin to change. We have the power to do that. As we send out hatred it perpetuates war. As we send out love it will bring peace and bring the troops home.
So let us make a new choice today. Water the flowers and not the weeds. Choose love over hatred. Send your loving energy out into the world. Be the love you hope to see in the world. And remember our children learn to relate to the world through us. If we have fear and hatred, so do they. If we choose love and compassion, our children will be much more likely to do the same.
I send blessing to all.
If you agree- - - or even if you just wish it could be so - - - pass it on
Sunday, June 15, 2008
The Mirror
Every experience is a teacher. Every person who passes through our lives is there to give us the gift of themselves. They mirror something for us so we can better understand how we take our place in the universe.
I realized recently how I have always seen the mirrors of the negatives but rarely the mirrors of the wonderfulness of me. Do you allow for the idea that the friends you hold dear for their admirable qualities of kindness and compassion, humor and love are mirroring those qualities in you? We all have this ability and this gift . . . any time we allow it. This isn’t pride or ego. It is simply recognition of who we are.
When I choose to look only at the things that are “wrong with me” that is ego. It is saying; “Look at me, how bad I am. Notice me, please!” If I can’t be all the things I think I should be, at least I’m so bad I deserve attention, even if it’s negative attention. That may be a bit of an exaggeration but it makes the point.
There it is . . . a craving for attention that is common in people with self esteem issues. It is amazing how many successful and well adjusted people have a place inside where they hold fear that someone will find out they aren’t as good as they appear to be. The thing is we all are as “good” and as “bad” as we think we are. All of that is simply judgment. This is where the problem really is. We judge ourselves based on some old rules created by our cultural environment long ago.
We are coming into a time of new understanding and can now let go of those old rules and judgments. They no longer serve us. So, as we begin to open up to the process, the universe sends us wonderful people to mirror for us so we can clearly see who we are.
The most beautiful mirrors are the ones we may at first reject because they make us uncomfortable. They are the people who love us unconditionally, for no reason at all. We may have become quite good at loving others unconditionally. To love is the greatest gift of all and it becomes quite nice to love and release others without judgment. It feels quite good. Then comes the challenge, allowing someone else to do the same for us. That’s quite a different story, especially when we don’t recall having the experience before. Most of us weren’t raised that way . . . because our parents weren’t raised that way and theirs weren’t and theirs and on and on back it goes.
Well my friends; accept the challenge. Sit back, take a deep breath and feel that love. Allow love to bath you in its healing light. Allow yourself to gratefully accept the gift being offered. Just say ‘Thank you” and feel the love in you grow like the Grinch’s heart.
You are all that and more. Breathe it in. Know you are God also and open to your sacred place in the Universal Consciousness. Know, we are that mirror to others as well. We don’t set out to be. We can’t decide to be. We just are. We don’t even have control over how others perceive us. Just be who you are. Live the love that you are and breathe. It’s all in the breath . . . and the gratitude.
I realized recently how I have always seen the mirrors of the negatives but rarely the mirrors of the wonderfulness of me. Do you allow for the idea that the friends you hold dear for their admirable qualities of kindness and compassion, humor and love are mirroring those qualities in you? We all have this ability and this gift . . . any time we allow it. This isn’t pride or ego. It is simply recognition of who we are.
When I choose to look only at the things that are “wrong with me” that is ego. It is saying; “Look at me, how bad I am. Notice me, please!” If I can’t be all the things I think I should be, at least I’m so bad I deserve attention, even if it’s negative attention. That may be a bit of an exaggeration but it makes the point.
There it is . . . a craving for attention that is common in people with self esteem issues. It is amazing how many successful and well adjusted people have a place inside where they hold fear that someone will find out they aren’t as good as they appear to be. The thing is we all are as “good” and as “bad” as we think we are. All of that is simply judgment. This is where the problem really is. We judge ourselves based on some old rules created by our cultural environment long ago.
We are coming into a time of new understanding and can now let go of those old rules and judgments. They no longer serve us. So, as we begin to open up to the process, the universe sends us wonderful people to mirror for us so we can clearly see who we are.
The most beautiful mirrors are the ones we may at first reject because they make us uncomfortable. They are the people who love us unconditionally, for no reason at all. We may have become quite good at loving others unconditionally. To love is the greatest gift of all and it becomes quite nice to love and release others without judgment. It feels quite good. Then comes the challenge, allowing someone else to do the same for us. That’s quite a different story, especially when we don’t recall having the experience before. Most of us weren’t raised that way . . . because our parents weren’t raised that way and theirs weren’t and theirs and on and on back it goes.
Well my friends; accept the challenge. Sit back, take a deep breath and feel that love. Allow love to bath you in its healing light. Allow yourself to gratefully accept the gift being offered. Just say ‘Thank you” and feel the love in you grow like the Grinch’s heart.
You are all that and more. Breathe it in. Know you are God also and open to your sacred place in the Universal Consciousness. Know, we are that mirror to others as well. We don’t set out to be. We can’t decide to be. We just are. We don’t even have control over how others perceive us. Just be who you are. Live the love that you are and breathe. It’s all in the breath . . . and the gratitude.
Monday, June 2, 2008
A Little Ordinary Magic
Have you smiled yet today?
This may sound corny but it works. If you smile in the morning as you are getting out of bed, choosing your clothes for the day, showering, fixing breakfast, you begin to feel a warm sensation, a sensation that comes with joy. It may bring to your mind a memory of something that made you smile - or it may not - but the feeling is there. It’s like creating a little sunshine from the inside out.
Now think of a couple of things you are grateful for and let that smile come again.
What a way to start the day.
Now try a laugh!
Be the love that you are.
This may sound corny but it works. If you smile in the morning as you are getting out of bed, choosing your clothes for the day, showering, fixing breakfast, you begin to feel a warm sensation, a sensation that comes with joy. It may bring to your mind a memory of something that made you smile - or it may not - but the feeling is there. It’s like creating a little sunshine from the inside out.
Now think of a couple of things you are grateful for and let that smile come again.
What a way to start the day.
Now try a laugh!
Be the love that you are.
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