Hot fudge fills deep needs. ~Susan Isaacs, b. 1943 20th-century American writer
If I look fabulous or if I look haggard and awful, it's the lighting . . . my first advice to women concerned about their appearance is to check the lights in their living room. ~Barbara Walters, b. 1931 American journalist
I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson, b. 1936 English actress
People go through their whole lives chasing everything in the material world, and they fail to discover the greatest treasure of all, which is within them. Shut your eyes to the outside world. Direct your thoughts and words to the inside of you. The Master within you is the key to all the treasures in the world.
Here is an excerpt from Deepak Chopra M.D. book, Creating Affluence~Wealth Consciousness in the Field of all Possibilities.
"Q" is to question: To Question Dogma, question ideology, question outside authority. It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.
The truth is that you really love the job you think you hate. Except for your beliefs, it's the job for you. How do I know? It's the one you have! You could own the company you're working for if you just realized that you're not there because you have to be at that job. If you drop all your beliefs around it, we want you, we'll pay you anything, you're irresistible, you're love in action.
Many of us are motivated by a desire for success. But what is success? What do we want to achieve? We do only three things in life: we stand, we sit, we lie horizontal. Once we've found success, we'll still be sitting somewhere until we stand, and we'll stand until we lie down or sit again. Success is a concept, an illusion. Do you want the $3,900 chair instead of the $39 one? Well, sitting is sitting. And for the word chair you could substitute car or house or business. You can only sit in one place at one time. If I think that I should have a different chair, just to use that metaphor, I am insane! I'm wanting two things at once, and confusion is the only suffering. "I want another chair" is a lie. What I want is this chair, obviously, because it's the one I have. So I'm not longer confused. How do I know I want this chair? I'm sitting in it.
Your job is not about making money or working with people or impressing your friends or getting respect. The job is about your freedom. Everything-every man, woman, and child, every tree, every stone-is about your freedom. It's all God giving you what you need so you can get honest one time.
My son lost a really big record contract, and he called me and said, "Mom, I'm so excited. I lost a wonderful contract, and I'm so excited to see what's going to come that's better than that!"
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you're telling the story of a future.
Abundance has nothing to do with money. Money is not your business; truth is your business. You're supposed to have more money than you have? I don't think so. You're supposed to have less money? I don't think so. You're supposed to have exactly what you have.
One of the joys in maturing is being able to give yourself permission to enjoy yourself regardless of the highs and lows that greet you every day. I was in that train of thought just prior to watching a ten minute interview with Ellie Drake and Summer McStravick on Braveheart Women TV earlier this year. Summer McStravick is the author of Creative Flowdreaming. Summer's book Creative Flowdreaming explains the technique that is discussed in the interview on this segment. Flowdreaming is a manifesting tool that is basically a guided daydream. By bundling a vision in your mind and then inserting your emotions of joy, gratitude, enthusiasm alongside and into that vision creates a very positive connection that your body responds to. This is what many people experience when working with vision boards. The unique aspect of Summer's work I feel is that she has created audio tapes that guide you through a ten minute daydream for exercising your mind's manifesting muscle. I ordered the book and one of her audio tapes after watching the video. I found it interesting in Summer's writing that she feels that our surroundings profoundly affect us. You can see that with my background in Feng Shui and decorating and design that I would have a connection to her work. She writes; "When you're living within your Flow, you can use your surroundings as yet another medium of energy to program". I enjoy listening to her tape and the guided daydream is a rather pleasant experience. In some ways her work reminds me of Shakti Gawain's earlier work from the 1980s but a wholly different or rather lovely variation on an old theme. Creative visualization clearly has never gone away; we were all reading about it in the eighties and now here I am writing about it twenty five years later. I am going to work with Summer's manifesting and Feng Shui in homes. An example would be to put a pair of candles in your love corner and then Creative Flowdreaming as a enhancement. Layering these particles of thought with the tangible items in your vision, then anchor with positive emotion and enjoy the results. Ellie Drake of Braveheart Women with Summer McStravick:
I was reading through my life list inspired by Maggie Mason that I started and still need to complete from my February 2012 posting. The original note to myself was to just savour the experience of dreaming happily of 100 life list things I would like to do. While looking out the window and daydreaming, I glanced over to one of my inspirational charms dangling off the side ring of my satchel in the sunlight. The word dancing so lovely in the day's light on that charm was "Peace". Many people will agree with the idea that inner peace is the very foundation of happiness. Project LIght founder Dr. Lori Leyden has initiated a program of self happiness and peace for trauma healing with genocide survivors in Rwanda. Rwanda's young children who witnessed the horror of the genocide are now in their teens, aged sixteen to twenty-five. Dr. Lori Leyden of Create Global Healing is using all the energy psychology modalities from her thirty years of experience in conjunction with the trauma healing method EFT-emotional freedom technique. The EFT-emotional freedom technique I wrote about in my post November 26,2010 is also known as Tapping. I was introduced to EFT by Dr. Lee Pulos of Vancouver B.C., in 1996. This is a widely known technique of literally "tapping" the meridian points on the body to permanently release emotional pain. Meridian tapping can be learned by anyone. It gives you the power to heal yourself, putting control over your destiny back into your own hands. In some ways meridian tapping is similar to acupuncture in that both tapping and acupuncture achieve healing by stimulating the body's meridians and energy flow. One of the most impressive things I find about Dr. Lori Leyden's overall humanitarian journey is that there is an overall exit strategy. This is a classic Napoleon Hill approach to succeeding, "have the end vision in your mind". The main part of this vision plan is the train the trainer model system. Her team of volunteers teach the EFT tapping system to these young teens in Rwanda and they in turn train the other orphans with this trauma healing technique. Here are the two websites that outlines this self healing journey. www.CreateGlobalHealing.org www.ProjectRwanda.com Project LIght video:
Here is a website that has information on tapping/EFT: www.thetappingsolution.com Jessica Ortner video demonstrates how to Tap.
