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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Happy New Year! Sharing a few nuggets to start our New Year off powerfully! Marinate and enjoy! :-)<br /><br />******************************************<br /><br />Being free of psychological time, you no longer pursue your goals with grim determination driven by fear, anger, discontent, or the need to become someone. Nor will you remain inactive through fear of failure, which to the ego is loss of self.<br /><br />When you deeper self is derived from being, when you are free of "becoming" as a psychological need, neither your happiness nor sense of self depens on the outcome and so there is freedom from fear. You don't seek permanency where it cannot be found...You don't demand that situations...or people should make you happy, and then suffer when they don't live up to your expectations. <br /><br />Everything is honored, but nothing matters...<br /><br />When this is your state of Being, how can you not succeed? You have succeeded already.<br /> ~ Eckhart Tolle<br /><br />******************************************<br /><br />Today is a good time to reflect upon this past year: the blessings that were bestowed on us, the wonderful things that happened, the difficulties we made our way through. It is a good time, too, to reflect on all of the things that might have happened, and didn't: the car accidents that did not effect our families, the illnesses that did not fall upon our loved ones, the storm that did not strike our homes, the unthinkable tragedy that did not befall our children -- all of those sorrowful things that could have happened, and yet didn't. <br /> <br />If during the past year we were not overwhelmed by the enormity of our own good fortune, if we were not overcome with an immense sense of gratitude for all that we have been given and not given, then today could be the day, and this could be the year, and now could be the time when we begin to recognize the power and the magnitude of the grace that holds us, when we let the light of that realization fill our hearts, so much so that our hearts break open, such that our love might pour forth. <br /> <br />Now is the time, and today is the day, and this is the year to ask some important questions: how might I live more fully? how might I love more deeply? how might I be a better friend to myself? May this be a year when we ask those questions earnestly and often. From a place of genuine gratitude, may we ask our way into the answers. <br /> <br />Today is the day, and this is the year, and now is the time. Now is the only time. <br /> <br /><b>May our thoughts be pure, may our words be kind, may our hearts hold only love. </b><br /> ~ Gemma Farrell<br /><br />**********************************************<br /><br /><b>I Am The New Year</b><br /><br />Life, I am the new year.<br />I am an unspoiled page in your book of time.<br />I am your next chance at the art of living.<br /><br />I am your opportunity to practice<br />what you have learned about life<br />during the last twelve months.<br /><br />All that you sought<br />and didn't find is hidden in me,<br />waiting for you to search it out<br />with more determination.<br /><br />All the good that you tried for<br />and didn't achieve<br />is mine to grant<br />when you have fewer conflicting desires.<br /><br />All that you dreamed but didn't dare to do,<br />all that you hoped but did not will,<br />all the faith that you claimed but did not have -<br />these slumber lightly,<br />waiting to be awakened<br />by the touch of a strong purpose.<br /><br />I am your opportunity<br />to renew your allegiance to Him who said,<br />'behold, I make all things new.'<br /><br />I am the new year.<br /><b> </b>~ Author Unknown<br /></span>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-79253417397986817742012-11-25T19:44:00.000-08:002012-11-25T19:44:56.159-08:00Thanksgiving weekend nuggets...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I know it's been quite a lonnnng while since I shared some wisdom nuggets...it's just been crazily, incredibly busy. So I thought Thanksgiving weekend would be the perfect time to send some delicious ingredients for marinating :-) Enjoy, and I hope you had a wonderful holiday and cherished your time with family and friends because - as I was sadly reminded today - life is too short to take anything or anyone for granted...please let's treasure it all while we can!<br /><br />****************************************<br /><br />Breathe. Let go.... And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.<br /> ~ Oprah Winfrey<br /><br />****************************************<br /><br />You have a choice every moment of the day to open yourself up. And when you do that, it opens the channels of love.<br /> ~ Laura Berman<br /><br />****************************************<br /><br />What if religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the temple was the earth? If forests our church? If holy water - the rivers, lakes and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was self-knowledge? If love was the center of our being? <br /> ~ Ganga White<br /><br />****************************************<br /><br />Let someone love you just as you are.<br />As flawed as you might be,<br />as unattractive as you might feel,<br />as unaccomplished as you might think you are,<br />let someone love you just as you are,<br />And let that someone be you.<br /> ~ Sandra Kring<br /><br />****************************************<br /><br />Each moment of each day in our lives is a valuable turning point -- an important part of our spiritual growth. Each feeling is important: boredom, fear, hate, love, despair, excitement. Each action we take has value: an act of love, an act of healing. Each word we speak, each word we hear, each scene we allow ourselves to see, and each scenario we participate in changes us. Trust and value each moment in your life. Let it be important. It is a turning point.<br /> ~ Melody Beattie<br /><br />**************************************** </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s simple: Be your most authentic version of you.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Your purpose does not need to be linked to a specific career – or to doing a particular “this” – or to achieving a fancy “that.”</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">It’s simply about becoming your best possible “you!”</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Your true purpose is learning how to go inside yourself to find your inner happiness – then learning how to share your inner joy with as many people as you can.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Your true purpose is to bloom into your most loving, kind self. It’s about growing, stretching and learning how to freely allow yourself to express yourself – so you can confidently, generously share your love, thoughts, ideas, creativity, inspiration, and highest vibration with as many people as you can.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">You don’t need to “do” a particular “job” – or “accomplish” a particular “goal” to find your “purpose.” Your purpose is always about what you can bring of your most authentic, one-of-a-kind, best self to this planet.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">And it’s an important purpose. Because both this planet and your soul need you to radiate your most optimum love, peace and happiness – in thoughts, words, and actions.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> ~ </em></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Karen Salmansohn</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />****************************************<br /><br /><b>A Note from the Universe</b><br /><br />The Top 10 things about time and space, that most people seem to forget...<br /><br />10. You chose to be here and you knew what you were doing.<br />9. There are no "tests" and you're not being judged.<br />8. Everyone's doing their best, with what they know.<br />7. You already have whatever you're looking for.<br />6. You are of the Divine, pure God, and so is everyone else.<br />5. Religion needs spirituality; spirituality does not need religion.<br />4. You're naturally inclined to succeed - at everything you do.<br />3. You happen to life, life does not happen to you.<br />2. Order, healing, and love belie every moment of chaos, pain, and fear.<br />1. Following your heart is the best way to help others.<br /><br />The truth shall set you free,<br /> The Universe<br /><br />****************************************<br /><br />Your joy factor will remain constant as you are continually refining your ideas of what you want, and that's why it is so important for you to get everybody else out of the equation. They've got their own game going on; they don't understand your game. Give them a break; stop asking them what they think. Start paying attention to how you feel. Joy will be yours immediately, and everything else that you have ever thought would make you happy, will start flowing, seemingly effortlessly, into your experience.<br /> ~ 'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks<br /><br />****************************************<br /><br /><b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br /><br /><b>Life is Magical</b><br /><br />Love and I have a thing going on, and it is the most magical and exciting relationship anyone can ever have. I want to share with you how I live each day with this knowledge.<br /><br />When I wake each morning, I am grateful to be alive and for everyone and everything in my life. I spend fifteen minutes every morning feeling love and sending it out to the world.<br /><br />I imagine my day. I imagine and feel love for my day going well. I imagine and feel love for each thing in my day going well, before I do it. I place the force of love ahead of me in everything I do, by feeling love inside me as much as I can <i>before</i> I do anything! I don't open emails or packages, make or take important phone calls, or do anything important unless I am feeling good.<br /><br />When I get dressed in the morning I feel enormous gratitude for my clothes. To save time, I also ask the question "What is the perfect outfit to wear today?" A few years ago I decided to play with the law of attraction and my wardrobe. Instead of trying to work out whether this skirt will go with that top, and something putting things on and taking them off again because they didn't work together (which attracts more things not working), I decided to hand my styling over to the force of love. So all I did was imagine what it would feel like if everything I put on looked great. After imagining it, feeling it, and asking the question "What will I wear today?" I now stand in awe at how good my clothes look and feel when I get dressed.<br /><br />I stay aware when walking down the street and notice the people passing me. I send thoughts and feelings of love to as many people as I can. I look at each person's face, feel love inside me, and imagine them receiving it. I know the force of love is the source of abundance of money, happy relationships, great health, and anything anyone loves, so I send people love, because I know in doing that, I am sending them whatever they need. <br /><br />When I see a person who seems to have a particular need, someone who can't afford to buy something they want, for instance, I send them thoughts of abundance of money. If a person seems upset, I send them happiness. If someone seems stressed and they're rushing, I send them thoughts of peace and joy. Whether I am shopping for groceries, walking down the street, or driving, whenever I am among people, I do my best to send love as much as possible. I know too that whenever I see anyone with a particular need, it's also a message for me to be grateful for money, happiness and the peace and joy in my life.<br /><br />When I am in a plane, I send love to everyone. When I am in a restaurant, I send love to the people and to the food. In dealing with organizations or companies, or when I am shopping in stores, I send love to them all.<br /><br />When I get in my car to drive somewhere, I imagine arriving back home happy and well, and I say, "Thank you". When I am about to drive, I ask, "What is the best road to take?" Each time I walk into and out of my house, I say "Thanks you" for my home. When I am shopping at the supermarket, I ask, "What else do I need?" and "Do I have everything?" I always receive the answers. </span><br />tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-17092346230958458872012-08-25T20:03:00.000-07:002012-08-25T20:03:46.014-07:00"Ok, so it's been a minute" nuggets :-)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">yes i realize it's been quite awhile but hopefully worth the wait! marinate and enjoy!!! :-) </span><br /><br /><br />***************************************************<br /><br />People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking they can do things.<br /> ~ Norman Vincent Peale<br /><br />The only thing of importance when we depart, will be the traces of Love we have left behind.<br /> ~ Albert Schweitzer<br /><br />Our prayer is not a request. It is an acknowledgement. It is not a plea; it is a word of gratitude. It is an awareness that that which we seek to experience is already on its way to us, or currently in hand, and we simply don’t know it.<br /> ~ Neale Donald Walsch<br /><br />You can devote your whole life to the process of making sure everything fits within your limited model, or you can devote your life to freeing yourself from the limits of your model.<br /> ~ Michael Singer, "The Untethered Soul"<br /><br />Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.<br /> ~ Thich Nhat Hanh<br /><br />The capacity for uplift is part of what makes us essentially, euphorically human.<br /> ~ Jessica Winter<br /><br />The real purpose of life is just to be happy—to enjoy your life. To get to a place where you're not always trying to get someplace else. So many people spend their lives striving, trying to be someplace that they're not, and they never get to arrive.<br /> ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer<br /><br />While you can't keep your heart from getting broken, you can stop breaking your own heart...once you realize the difference between what you can control and what you can't, and that it's far, far more fun to lavish all that attention on your own self-worth.<br /> ~ Leigh Newman<br /><br />I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.<br /> ~ Anne Lamott<br /><br />***************************************<br /><br /><b>Notes from the Universe</b><br /><br />What if everything that's happened so far was just practice for when things get really, really good? <br /><br />Really, really soon - <br /> The Universe<br /><br />************************<br /><br />Usually the folks who think life is hard are just plain messin' with the cursed hows. <br /><br />Heck, I'd think it was hard, too, if I forgot there was magic, didn't believe in miracles, and thought I evolved from the ocean as an amoeba. <br /><br />See you on easy street, <br /> The Universe<br /><br />************************<br /><br />Here's a tip on how to bring absolute joy into your life faster than it may have otherwise arrived: every day, in some small way, even secretly if you like, look for a chance to help someone else. <br /><br />Did that help? <br /><br />So happy, <br /> The Universe<br /><br />************************<br /><br />Sometimes, if the direction you're about to move feels "right" in your head and heart, yet the first few steps look pretty daunting, not fun, and maybe even scary, you should take those first few steps anyway and get 'em over with.<br /><br />And I'm not just saying that because watching you in action gives me goose bumps. <br /><br />Oh... behave, <br /> The Universe<br /><br />************************</span><table style="width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />******************************************<br /><br />Let your alignment (with Well-Being) be first and foremost, and let everything else be secondary. And not only will you have an eternally joyous journey, but everything you have ever imagined will flow effortlessly into your experience. There is nothing you cannot <i>be</i> or <i>do</i> or <i>have</i> — but your dominant intent is to <i>be joyful.</i> The <i>doing</i> and the <i>having</i> will come into alignment once you get that one down.<br /><br />************************<br /><br />Be glad that you don't have instant manifestation. This buffer of time is really your friend. It's your opportunity to observe and to ponder and to visualize, and to remember. It's your opportunity to take an Emotional Journey that might be different from what you're actually observing.<br /><br />************************<br /><br />If you have a subject that makes you uncomfortable when you think about it, it means there is strong desire related to it. Which means it really, really, really matters. So finding a way to think about it and feel good is your work. But it is equally effective to think about anything else and feel good, and let it in. You don't have to think about money in order to let in money. You just can't think about lack of money, to let in money.<br /><br />************************<br /><br />Never mind what-is. Imagine it the way you want it to be so that your vibration is a match to your desire. When your vibration is a match to your desire, all things in your experience will gravitate to meet that match every time.<br /><br />************************<br /><br /><i>Many people are approaching life from the flawed premise that if they work hard and struggle long and pay a big enough price, they will then be rewarded with financial well-being. </i>And since they do not realize that in their struggle they are denying themselves alignment with the abundance they seek, when the abundance does not come, they attribute it to <i>luck </i>or <i>favoritism </i>that is being directed away from them and toward another.<br />But there is no luck or favoritism. There is only allowing or resisting, letting in or keeping out the abundance that you deserve.<br /><br /><i>As you gradually train your own thoughts into those of positive expectation, as you align with thoughts of worthiness and Well-Being, as you align with your true power by seeking good-feeling thoughts—you will no longer offer resistance to your own abundance. And when your resistance stops, your abundance will come. A flood of good-feeling ideas and possibilities will flow to you. Opportunities and propositions will be plentiful. And soon you will stand in knowing amusement that all of this was always there within your reach, but in your resistant state of attraction, you were not yet able to experience it . . . but then, it came—not because of your struggle but because of your ease.</i><br /><br />************************<br /><br />You cannot be less than you are now. You cannot achieve a vibration that is less than the vibration that you have achieved. That's why when someone achieves an empire and then something happens where it is lost or destroyed, they still have the vibration that they've achieved, and the empire will come back again—you see it all the time—because it is the vibrational status that the Universe is responding to, not the financial status.<br /><br />************************</span><table align="center"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />A dream is a manifestation. Just like what you live is a manifestation, but a dream is quicker and easier to achieve, and not so troublesome if there's something you don't want.<br /><br />********************************************<br /><br /><b>One Minute Motivator by Edward W. Smith</b><br /><br />Success is like a time-release capsule. Success doesn't happen all at once, it seeps out little by little as you take the steps necessary to move yourself ahead. You see and feel the effects gradually as your efforts begin to pay off. Look for small examples of how things are going right to help you stay motivated about what you are working on.<br /><br />************************<br /><br />As important as writing out your goals is, writing out the benefits you will get from achieving them, is even more important. If you know the benefits you will get from achieving your goals and can keep them clearly in mind, the chances of attaining those goals goes up dramatically. So in order to keep motivated towards attaining your goals, know the payout you will get and keep it posted in front of you .<br /><br />************************<br /><br />You need to make your own destiny, your own place in the world, your own life. Destiny is not something that is preordained or set up for you. Destiny is something you carve out of your own existence minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, and day-by-day. If there is any truth to having your destiny set before you were born, it is that you were born to win. If you want to go down in history as one of the greats, you need to start right now to decide that are going to do that. Then set up the steps needed to let that greatness come out and bloom. If you do that I believe you are destined for great things. <br /> <br />************************</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />Make a "chicken" list. List the things you are afraid to do. Then put the worst thing that would happen to you if you did it, or exactly why you are afraid to do it. You will find that many of the things disappear under the reality of writing them down and looking it them. Some of them will still be very real, but others will seem silly. One thing is for sure, your list will be a lot shorter than you thought it would be.<br /><br />************************</span><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />You need to make your own destiny, your own place in the world, your own life. Destiny is not something that is preordained or set up for you. Destiny is something you carve out of your own existence minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, and day-by-day. If there is any truth to having your destiny set before you were born, it is that you were born to win. If you want to go down in history as one of the greats, you need to start right now to decide that you are going to do that. Then set up the steps needed to let that greatness come out and bloom. If you do that I believe you are destined for great things. <br /><br />*******************************************<br /><br /><b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br /><br /><b>Your Secret Symbol</b><br /><br />You can play with the law of attraction by asking to see physical evidence of the force of love. Think of something you love, and make it your symbol of the force of love. Whenever you see your symbol or hear it, you will know that the force of love is with you. I use illuminating, sparking light as my symbol, so if the sun hits my eyes, or its light reflects off something into my eyes, or if I see anything that reflects light and sparkles, I know it is the force of love and it is with me. When I am overflowing with joy and filled with love, light reflects off everything around me. My sister uses rainbows as her symbol, and when she is overflowing with love and gratitude, wherever she looks there are rainbows of light and all kinds of rainbows all around her. You can use stars, gold, silver, or any color, animal, bird, tree, or flower that you love as your symbol. You can choose words or sounds as your secret symbol. Just make sure that whatever you choose, you choose something you absolutely love and adore.<br /><br />If you want, you can also choose a symbol as a warning sign from the force of love to you, telling you to pay attention. In truth you are receiving messages and warnings all the time. When you drop something, when you trip, catch your clothes on something, or when you bump into something - they're all warnings and messages you're receiving to stop what you're thinking or feeling! There are no accidents or coincidences in life - everything is synchronicity - because everything has a frequency. It's simply the physics of life and the universe in action.<br /><br /><i> "When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance."</i><br /> ~ Isaac Newton (1643-1727)<br /> Mathematician and Physicist </span></div>
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tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-55743464744065657602012-07-17T21:59:00.000-07:002012-07-17T21:59:09.324-07:00Technically Hump Day nuggets :-)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">A plethora of long overdue nuggets...ENJOY! :-)</span> </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***********************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The way we pay attention to the world can make a huge difference in the way we experience it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Gabrielle Leblanc</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***********************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Thich Nhat Hanh</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***********************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Eckhart Tolle</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***********************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Osho</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***********************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself. </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Martha Beck </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***********************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">I see your life as already artful, just waiting and ready for you to make it art. </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Toni Morrison</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***********************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Why you? Because there’s no one better. Why now? Because tomorrow isn’t soon enough.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Donna Brazile</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***********************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Insane people are always sure they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit they are crazy. </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Nora Ephron </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***********************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day, with sweat and humility and slips. It is hard work, and slow work, but it can be thrilling to watch it take shape.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Sarah Hepola</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***********************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b>Returning to Creative Dreams</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Return and Reclaim</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Take the time to reclaim your creativity and watch your life blossom as a result.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">As children, many of us entertained fantasies or even goals of being an actor, singer, dancer, artist, or musician. In some cases, we received enough encouragement to develop our abilities in those creative arenas, but somewhere along the way we stopped. This stopping may have been due to circumstances beyond our control or to our own unconscious acts of self-sabotage. Being creative can be scary in a world that seems to value logic over imagination and practicality over dreaming. We can forgive ourselves for shutting down or turning our attention away from our inner artist, but perhaps we can also take steps to reclaim our dreams. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">In certain times and places, developing a creative ability was considered an important part of being a well-rounded human being. It was not necessary to be a professional or a masterly genius, because the act of creativity was valued in and of itself. It gifts are manifold ~ from the sheer pleasure of allowing our imaginations free reign to sharing and enjoying the fruits of our labor. Children share drawings and songs freely, without self-consciousness, and there is no reason why we cannot do the same thing. You may already be remembering some lost form of expression, such as making jewelry or writing songs. Your soul may be responding with an energetic lift as it feels its way back to a time when it was allowed to express itself freely. Your brain, on the other hand, may be throwing up obstacles, like the idea that you are too old or do not have the time. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The truth is, you are not too old, and if you have time to pick up a pen, you have time to make a doodle or write a haiku. Recognize that the obstacles you find before you have arisen from a place of fear and that they will wane in power every time you do something creative. Each creative act takes you deeper into a realm of beauty and magic, a realm that you have every right to return to and reclaim.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Daily Om by Madisyn Taylor</span><a href="http://www.dailyom.com/misc/mt.html"></a><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***********************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b>Notes from the Universe</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The Learning Game:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">When there is ease and simplicity in your life, it's because earlier you learned a lot.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">When there is resistance and obstacles in your life, it's because there's even more to learn.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And learning even more is pretty much the main reason everyone is still there. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Classy dismissed, </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> The Universe</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">*************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Performing miracles isn't a matter of doing the impossible, it's a matter of redefining the possible. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Tallyho, </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> The Universe</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">*************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">It's not how much one gets paid, but how much they give, that makes them rich. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Bling, bling - </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> The Universe</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">*************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Do you think it would be cheating, knowing all that I know, if I placed a bet on your inevitable happiness, success, and saunter? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Good. Because I have. It was called the "Big Bang," and every moment of every day I walk in your shoes. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">I knew what I was doing. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> The Universe</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">*************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Do you know why it's so easy for us in the unseen to quickly pinpoint your whereabouts?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">You leave behind footprints of love. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Aw-w-w-w, </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> The Universe</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">*************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Just an FYI: you're living a temporary life in a temporary world, where nothing makes you less, everything makes you more, and no one is truly "done" until everyone is done. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Watch your brother, </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> The Universe</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">*************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">If you knew I answered whenever you spoke to me, would you be still enough to hear me? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Prepare to be amazed, </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> The Universe</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">**************************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b>The Teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">To hold someone as your object of attention while you're connected to Source Energy, is the greatest gift that anyone could give. When you're not happy, you don't have anything to give. And so, what it literally means is be happy, because you cannot give anyone something that you do not feel </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">There isn't anything that I cannot be or do or have, and I have a huge Nonphysical staff that's ready to assist me, and I'm ready. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Your life is right now! It's not later! It's not in that time of retirement. It's not when the lover gets here. It's not when you've moved into the new house. It's not when you get the better job. Your life is right now. It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it's not ever going to get better than right now—until it gets better right now! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Someone has said, "the Universe has imagined it even better than you have." And we like to add to that: The Universe got all of its information about what you like from you, and it has remembered every piece of it and has put it together in perfect formation. And so, the things that are on their way to you are so much better than you even know that you want. And as you allow them, the essence all of these things that the Universe knows that you are wanting make their way to you and appear in perfect timing for you.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Is harmony one note that everybody is singing? Or is it a whole lot of notes that are in vibrational harmony with each other? When you give your attention to anything, the Universe responds to it. When two of you are giving your attention to it, and there is no contradiction, it is a powerful vortex. That's why a gathering such as this can achieve a great deal as you come together in greater and greater harmony and take thought beyond that which it has been before.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">***************************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b>One Minute Motivator by Edward W. Smith</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">What is working for you? You probably have a number of things that are working for you and some things that are not working for you. Take some time to step back and sort out the pieces. Look at what the good, productive things are, and think of how you can do more with them. Conversely, look at the not so good things and consider how to reduce, eliminate or change them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">*************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">It is not the circumstances, it is you. Everything bad that happens to us can be blamed on the circumstances. If you want something good to happen to you, take something bad that happened to you, and blame yourself. Once you take responsibility for a problem, even if it wasn't you fault, things will start to go better for you. You will look at what you can learn from a problem, you will feel more in control and less like a victim and you will work harder on coming up with the fix for it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">************************* </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Create a nurturing environment for yourself and others; by placing uplifting, positive messages in places you will see them throughout the day. One of our subscribers in Lake Tahoe, places messages such as "This water will bring success, happiness, wisdom and love" on cups his guests use, and he envisions them filling their bodies with goodness, when they use the cup. He also believes that by being in an environment of positive energy and in doing things that promote self-goodness, that he can carry this energy to others. There are so many negative messages we get every day. Why not choose positive messages and share them with those around us? At first people will most likely be confused, but they'll quickly get used to it, like it and come back for more. Right action is the key to good living. Why shouldn't we make the choice to live as well as we can?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">************************* </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Here is something that definitely works. Getting definite about your plans works. If you lay out what you want to accomplish is specific terms, they have a greater chance of happening, than if you just have some vague ideas floating around in your head. Take your vacation for example. Chances are pretty good that you ended up when and where you wanted to be on vacation. Chances are also pretty good that you spent some time going over brochures, looking at costs, checking calendars, etc, to get most of the details worked out. The rest of your life is no different. Any business or personal plans that you give the same amount of effort to, will probably happen. Imagine, you can really have what you want, you just have to plan for it. It is true, if you focus on what you want and get specific about how you can make it happen, you will probably get it. So if you definitely want to accomplish something, get definite about it. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">************************* </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Many times you have to do what you have to do, before you get to do what you want to do. Most people have to be a student before you are a teacher, or an employee before being the boss. A commitment to a long range goal, can be the secret to getting through all those things you don't want to do, but have to do. If you are in a small business and doing many, many different things such as sweeping the floors, and doing errands, etc, chances are you aren't too thrilled about some of these things. And it is easy to get demoralized over this, since these types of jobs always seem to take more time than the stuff you had in mind when you opened the business. So I urge you to find some method of stepping back from the "grunt" work and reminding yourself of your ultimate goal in all of this. See yourself doing what you ultimate objective is. Once you do that, you will be able to go back to the things you have to do, secure in the knowledge that you are on your way to doing what you want to do.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">******************************************<br /> </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">You know when you're driving and you see a police car, you suddenly become more alert. There is a reason that you saw the police car and most likely it is telling you, "Be more alert!" Seeing the police car may mean even more to you, but you have to ask the question "What is this telling me?" to receive the answer. Police represent law and order, so the police car may be a message of something that's out of order in your life, such as you forgot to call your friend back, or you didn't thank someone for something. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">When you hear an ambulance siren, what is it saying to you? Is it telling you to be grateful for your health? Is it reminding you to give love and thanks for the health of the people in your life? When you see a fire engine race past you with its lights and sirens going, what is it telling you? Is it saying there's a fire somewhere in your life that you need to put out? Or is it telling you to fire up your love? Only you will know the meaning of the things that come into your life, but you must be alert to what is happening around you so you can ask questions and receive the meaning of the message for you.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">You are being give messages and feedback constantly, and you have been receiving these messages all your life! Whenever I hear something, even if they are words from a conversation of two strangers who are standing near me, if I can hear their words, their words have meaning in my life. Their words are a message for me, they're relevant to me, and they're giving me feedback on my life. If I am traveling and I notice a sign and I read the words, those words have meaning for me, they're a message for me, and they're relevant to me. <b><i>They're relevant to me because I am on the same frequency as they are. If I were on a different frequency, I wouldn't notice the sign, and I wouldn't be in earshot of a conversation.</i></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Every single thing that surrounds me in my day is speaking to me, giving me constant feedback and messages. If I notice that the people around me aren't as happy or smiling as much as they were, I know my feeling frequency has dropped, and immediately I think of things I love, one after the other, until I feel happier.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> <i>"We need to be the change we wish to see in the world."</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Mahatma Ghandi (1869-1948)</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> Indian Political Leader </span><br />tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-41279786213000188452012-07-04T13:40:00.000-07:002012-07-04T13:40:18.573-07:00Freedom Day Nuggets!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Happy 4th! Enjoy the holiday and let these marinate :-) </span><br />**************************************<br /><br />Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art. <br /> ~ Don Miguel Ruiz <br /><br />**************************************<br /><br />Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.<br /> ~ Ann Patchett<br /><br />**************************************<br /><br />By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.<br /> ~ Albert Schweitzer<br /><br />**************************************<br /><br />Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.<br /> ~ Muhammad Ali<br /><br />**************************************<br /><br />I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.<br /> ~ Nora Ephron<br /><br />**************************************<br /><br />Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.<br /> ~ Rita Schiano<br /><br />**************************************<br /><br /><b>Let It Roll off Our Back</b><br />Dodging and Deflecting<br /><br />When we are criticized or attacked it is important to not take it into our heart space.<br /><br />One of the most difficult challenges in life is learning not to take things to heart and hold on to it. Especially when we‚re younger, or if we‚re very sensitive, we take so much of what comes our way to heart. This can be overwhelming and unproductive if it throws us off balance on a regular basis. When we are feeling criticized or attacked from all directions, it becomes very difficult for us to recover ourselves so that we can continue to speak and act our truth. This is when we would do well to remember the old saying about letting certain things roll off us, like water off a duck's back. <br /><br />Most of the time, the attacks and criticisms of others have much more to do with them and how they are feeling than with us. If we get caught up in trying to adjust ourselves to other people‚s negative energy, we lose touch with our core. In fact, in a positive light, these slings and arrows offer us the opportunity to strengthen our core sense of self, and to learn to dodge and deflect other people‚s misdirected negativity. The more we do this, the more we are able to discern what belongs to us and what belongs to other people. With practice, we become masters of our energetic integrity, refusing to serve as targets for the disowned anger and frustration of the people around us. <br /><br />Eventually, we will be able to hear the feedback that others have to offer, taking in anything that might actually be constructive, and releasing that which has nothing to do with us. First, though, we tend ourselves compassionately by recognizing when we can‚t take something in from the outside without hurting ourselves. This is when we make like a duck, shaking it off and letting it roll off our back as we continue our way in the world. <br /> ~ Madisyn Taylor - Daily Om<br /><br />***********************************<br /><br /><b>Notes from the Universe</b><br /><br />And while on the subject of "Whoohooos!", they always return louder than when they were first sent out. <br /><br />Matter manipulation secrets of ye old happy dancers, <br /> The Universe<br /><br />**********************<br /><br />One of life's most elusive lessons, saved for only the wise and peculiar, is that there's nothing, ever, to be unhappy about. <br /><br />Unless, of course, you lose sight of the big picture, think the illusions are real, or forget there's no such place as far away. <br /><br />Whoot,<br /> The Universe<br /><br />**********************<br /><br />For all things and non-things that you may ever want, understand that sometimes the fastest way to get them is to forget them, and to focus instead on just being the most amazing human being you can be. At which point all of your heart's desires, spoken or unspoken, will be drawn to you more powerfully than a magnet is drawn to steel. <br /><br />Have an amazing day, <br /> The Universe<br /><br />**********************<br /><br />The older the soul, the softer the glance, the quicker the smile and the sooner to say "I love you." <br /><br />Utterly fearless, <br /> The Universe<br /><br />**********************<br /><br />Please help spread the word. Here are the top 10 ways people give away their power:<br /><br />1. Asking others what they should do.<br />2. Thinking God decides who gets what.<br />3. Worrying about how their dream will come true.<br />4. Thinking they have dues to pay.<br />5. Attaching to unimportant details and outcomes.<br />6. Believing in soul mates.<br />7. Thinking karma or spiritual contracts are absolute.<br />8. Fear of anything, especially falling in love.<br />9. Waiting for their ducks to line up before acting.<br />10. Choosing to be unhappy.<br /><br />Understand the truth, little bird, and you will soar. <br /><br />Caw-caw, <br /> The Universe<br /><br />**************************************<br /><br /><b>The Teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks</b><br /><br />Most people have a hard time delegating, or even wanting to delegate, because you have been justifying your existence through your hard work, and you equate success with struggle; you equate results with struggle. And so, you sort of wear your struggle like a badge of honor. And all of that is opposite of allowing the Well-being. The only thing that ever matters in success or achievement is your achieving the things that you want to achieve. So if you are setting standards and you're feeling uncomfortable about the standards that you've set, tweak the standards back a little bit. Ratchet it back a notch. Give yourself a break. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt. Lighten up. Be easier. Go slower. Take it easy. Have more fun. Love yourself more. Laugh more. Appreciate more. All is well. You can't get it wrong. You never get it done.<br /><br />**********************<br /><br />Begin telling the story of your desire, and then add to it the details of the positive aspects that you can find that match those desires. And then embellish your positive expectation by speculating with your good-feeling <i>Wouldn't it be nice if . . . ?</i> examples. You can say things like: <i>Only good things come to me. . . I'll figure it out as I go along. . .. </i>Every time you tell your better-feeling story, you will feel better and the details of your life will improve. The better it gets, the better it gets.<br /><br />**********************<br /><br />Everything that has ever been lived, everything that has ever been written down or documented, has been vibration first. Everything has been conjured in vibration first before it manifests. So if something has manifested and you continue to give it your attention, the fact that it is true should really hold no weight with you. The question that we would ask is not, is it true, or is it undeniable? The question that we would ask is, how does it make me feel when I focus upon it? And if the answer to the question is, it doesn't make me feel very good when I focus upon it, then we would say, true or not, it does not serve you. And if you will activate a different part of your vibration—the "truth" will shift.<br /><br />**********************<br /><br /><b>By Default, I Could Have Attracted Unwanted Relationships...</b> Many of the relationships or experiences you have <i>attracted</i> you would not have deliberately <i>attracted</i> if you had been doing it on purpose, but much of your <i>attraction</i> is not done by deliberate intent, but rather by default. . . . It is important to understand that you get what you think about, whether you want it or not. And chronic thoughts about unwanted things invite, or ask for, matching experiences. <i>The Law of Attraction</i> makes it so.<br /><br />**********************<br /><br />Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with the greater variety of information that is coming forward than you did. They deliberately are coming forth into this environment where there is more to contemplate. This generation gap that you are talking about, it has ever been thus. Each new generation, every new individual, that comes forth, is coming with you having prepared a different platform for them to proceed from. There is this thing that gets in the way of that that says, "I'm the parent. I got here first. I know more than you do." From the children's perspective, and from the purity of their Nonphysical Perspective, what they are saying is, "You're the parent. You got here first. You prepared a platform that I am leaping off from — and my leap will be beyond anything that you have ever known.<br /><br />*******************************************<br /><br /><b>One Minute Motivator by Edward W. Smith</b><br /><br />It is not what happens to you, it is what you do about it. Ed Agresta says that what happens to you, happens to everybody, so the difference is in what we do about it. If you pick yourself up after having a problem, and work on a solution and then actually do something to fix it, you can move your life ahead. Realize that you are in control of much of what you do with the events that come your way. Taking charge of a response, stops you from feeling like a victim, and gives you the self-confidence to handle the situation. Take what life hands you and deal with it in some way, then you can get your life back on track.<br /><br />************************<br /><br />Maybe it is time to buy your mind a larger pair of shoes. Your mind grows and changes over time as you gain experience, knowledge, maturity, etc. Some times we get stuck in values, beliefs, goals, etc that no longer fit us, because of these changes. Just like a child that has outgrown his shoes and gets a larger size, maybe it is time for you to get a larger size of goals and dreams that fit who you are today. Strive to be really into the things in your life, or to change them. It is not normal to be average. The average person is not really into anything, they go through life, just going through the motions, and they don't feel anything strongly. You on the other hand, should find fascination with the things in your life. Look for things to spark your interest in your job, or your studies, what can you add, what questions can you ask, what can you change for the better. Things around you are constantly changing, just as your own body and mind are changing. Pay attention to all these changes and become fascinated by them. Get into the things in your life and get more out of life. Don't be average, be yourself.<br /><br />***********************<br /><br />Proven successes can work for you or against you. If you have a proven system for something that works and you try to change it, chances are you will not do as well. The message here is that if it works, leave it alone. The other thing about proves success is that anyone can copy it and have it work for them. So if you see a successful system, if you do the same thing, you will get the same results. The message here is that you don't have to reinvent the wheel to be successful; you just have to copy someone who is already successful.<br /><br />*************************************<br /><br /><b><u>Daily Teaching from the Power</u></b><br /><br /><b>Watch the Movie of Your Life!</b><br /><br />Life is magical! What happens in one day of your life is more magical than any fantasy movie you can see, but you have to look at what is happening with the same concentration as when you watch a movie. If you're watching a movie and you get distracted with a phone call or you fall asleep, you miss what happens. It's the same thing with the movie of your life that is constantly showing on the screen of your day. If you are walking around asleep and you're not alert, you miss the messages and synchronicities that are constantly speaking to you, guiding and directing you in your life!<br /><br />Life is responding to you. Life is communicating with you. There are no accidents nor coincidences: every single thing has a frequency, and when anything comes into your life, it means it's on the same frequency as you are. Everything you see - every sign, color, person, object - everything you hear, every circumstance and event is on your frequency.<br /><br /><i> "So astounding are the facts in this connection that it would seem as though the Creator himself had electrically designed this planet."</i><br /><i> ~ Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)</i><br /> Inventor of the Radio and Alternating Current </span>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-72159946680544315072012-06-23T00:03:00.001-07:002012-06-23T00:03:22.666-07:00Pride Weekend Nuggets!!! :-D<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.<br /> ~ David W. Augsburger</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Life is a field of infinite possibilities and an opportunity to evolve in the direction of truthfulness, beauty and harmony.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Leaving a long-term relationship is hard but a necessary step to receiving what you want in your life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">One of the hardest decisions we ever make in life is leaving a long-term relationship that just isn‚t working. When attempts at repairing and working out issues aren't working, it may be time to examine moving on. We are emotional creatures, and when our heartstrings are tied to those of another, separating from that person can feel like an act of courage. It is not something most of us will take lightly, and many of us will struggle with our desire to stay in a relationship that is unfulfilling simply in order to avoid that pain. We may question whether the happiness we seek even exists, and we may wonder if we might be wiser to simply settle where we are, making the best of what we have. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Saying Yes to the universe opens the gate to receiving what your soul really wants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The hardest thing about saying yes to the universe is that it means accepting everything life puts in front of us. Most of us have a habit of going through our days saying no to the things we don't like and yes to the things we do, and yet, everything we encounter is our life. We may be afraid that if we say yes to the things we don't like, we will be stuck with them forever, but really, it is only through acknowledging the existence of what's not working for us that we can begin the process of change. So saying yes doesn't mean indiscriminately accepting things that don't work for us. It means conversing with the universe, and starting the conversation with a very powerful word: yes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">It's not the steps that matter, but the path. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Rainbows and butterflies, cattails and dandelions, waterfalls and rain forests, puppy dogs and dragonflies, sea foam and orcas, sunshine and comets, snowflakes and icicles, wildflowers and You... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><i>"The power for happiness, for good, for everything we need of life is within each one of us. The power is there - unlimited power."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Everything has a frequency - everything! Every word has a frequency, every sound, every color, every tree, animal, plant, mineral, every material object. Every type of food and liquid has a frequency. Every place, city, and country has a frequency. The elements of air, fire, earth, and water all have frequencies. Health, disease, plenty of money, a lack of money, success and failure all have frequencies. Every event, situation, and circumstance has a frequency. Even your name has a frequency. But the real name of your frequency is what you are feeling! And whatever you're feeling is bringing <i>everything</i> into your life that's on a similar frequency to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">When you are feeling happy, and you keep feeling happy, then only happy people, circumstances, and events can come into your life. If you feel stressed, and you keep feeling stressed, then only more stress can come into your life through people, circumstances and events. You have seen this happen when you've been rushing because you're running late. Rushing is a negative feeling, and as surely as the sun shines, when you rush and feel the fear of being late, you bring every delay and obstacle into your path. It's the law of attraction working in your life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Do you see how important it is that you feel good before you begin your day? If you don't take the time to feel good, then you can't receive good things in your day. <b><i>And once negative things come, it takes far more effort to change them, because once they're in front of you, you really believe in them!</i></b> It is much easier to take the time to feel good so that they don't come in the first place. You can change anything in your life by changing the way you feel, but isn't it a better idea to have more good things come to you in the first place?</span>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-10896940482637908392012-06-13T22:07:00.000-07:002012-06-14T20:17:50.814-07:00Weekend nuggets!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">TGIF...almost...Enjoy!!! :-) </span><br /><br />****************************************<br /><br />Little changes [and] little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.<br /> ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach<br /><br />****************************************<br /><br />Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.<br /> ~ Thich Nhat Hanh<br /><br />****************************************<br /><br />We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.<br /> ~ E.E. Cummings<br /><br />****************************************<br /><br />Time is constantly moving on, second by second. Nothing can stop it, but what we can do is use our time properly; that is in our hands. Whether we believe in a spiritual tradition or not, we need to use our time meaningfully. If over days, weeks, months and years, we have used our time in a meaningful way - when our last day comes, we will be happy, we will have no regrets.<br /> ~ The Dalai Lama<br /><br />****************************************<br /><br />Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?<br /> ~ Amelia Earheart<br /><br />****************************************<br /><br /><b>The Pursuit of Conscious Wholeness</b><br /><b>Earthbound</b><br /><br />Our bodies are living, breathing expressions of our consciousness and should be treated as such.<br /><br />Striking the right balance between our physical and spiritual aspects is one of the most challenging aspects of existence. We are dual beings by nature, spiritual entities bound to earth by physical bodies. In our lifetimes, we are charged with the duty of nurturing and tending both with equal devotion and love. Yet while both aspects of the self are deserving of honor and respect, there is a tendency for people who are more spiritually focused to ignore, avoid, or dismiss their bodies. Similarly, many individuals are entirely ensconced in the carnal realm and pay no attention to the needs of the soul. In both cases, an adjustment is in order. We are whole only to the degree that we embrace both sides of our beings. <br /><br />If the soul is the inward manifestation of our consciousness, the body is the living, breathing expression of that consciousness. The physical self provides the home in which the spiritual self takes root and flourishes. Just as we must tend to the seed of the soul to ensure that it grows strong, so, too, must we care for the protective shell that is the body to make certain it is capable of playing its role in our development. Though there will no doubt be times in our lives when we feel more comfortable focusing on the spiritual self or the physical self, denying the fundamental importance of one or the other can lead to ill health, emotional distress, and a sense of incompleteness. Both facets of the human experience play a vital role in our well-being. <br /><br />The body and the soul are the yin and yang of our current reality. They are, at this point of human evolution, irreparably bound together, and many spiritual teachers agree that the body is one of the greatest vehicles through which to access the soul. In fact, many believe that our spirit has chosen to be embodied as an essential part of our spiritual development. Consequently, it is the responsibility of each person on the planet to forge a marriage between the two, so that these disparate aspects bring out the best in each other, creating a vibrant, dynamic, and workable whole.<br /> ~ Daily Om<br /><br />****************************************<br /><br /><b>Notes from the Universe</b><br /><br />Funny, huh, how some folks think that avoiding challenges will bring them peace?<br /><br />As if the peace they now know didn't come from earlier challenges that were faced, and mastered.<br /><br />OK - not really that funny,<br /> The Universe<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />There are only two types of dreams.<br /><br />Those that have come true. And those that are coming true.<br /><br />Whoooohoooooo!<br /> The Universe </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />************************<br /><br />I think you already feel it, but a really HUGE wave of LOVE is coming your way.<br /><br />Once-in-a-lifetime HUGE.<br /><br />Hang ten,<br /> The Universe<br /><br />***********************************<br /><br /><b>The Teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks</b><br /><br />You cannot look at that which you do not want and not join and perpetuate that vibration. Take your attention from that which is not in harmony with who you are, and your "now vibration" will adjust to who you really are — and then you can uplift others.<br /><br />************************<br /><br />How do you ever get the truth to be more the way you want it to be? You've just got to start beating the drums of truth the way you want it to be - and when you do, you will immediately feel good. And there are those who might say, "Oh, you're not facing the fact." And we say, we would never face any fact that was taking us to a place we don't want to be.<br /><br />************************<br /><br />There are those who believe that the world is getting more and more desperate. We are here to tell you that the world is getting better and better, and better, and that every experience you have causes you to launch rockets of desires, and Source comes in response to those rockets. And the best thing about your birth and death is that the resistant ones die and the allowing ones are born. And with this combination of contrast that keeps you launching new and new desires, it's no wonder that the Universe is expanding in this marvelous way and that life is getting better, in every day - and in this moment - <i>for everyone who insists on focusing there.</i><br /><br />************************<br /><br />A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability—if you try even a little bit—to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction. The Law of Attraction is responding to your vibration, and you can easily change your vibrational point of attraction by visualizing the lifestyle you desire and holding your attention upon those images until you begin to feel relief, which will indicate that a true vibrational shift has occurred.<br /><br />************************<br /><br />Everything is vibrational. "I'm letting it in or I'm not. And I'm using lots of things as my excuse to let it in, or as my excuse not to let it in." But it's all vibrational. Otherwise, we should be able to take 100 people, give them all identical exposure to experience, and get identical results. And you can't do that. You'd get 100 different results, and you'd get several big differences in results.<br /><br />************************<br /><br />My Imagination Attracts All Cooperative Relationships... You have the power to evoke from others the relationships that you desire. But you cannot get to a new-and-improved situation by giving your attention to the current situation. The Universe, and all physical and Non-Physical players in it, is responding to the Vibrations that you are offering; and there is no distinction made between the Vibrations that you offer as you observe, and the Vibrations that you offer as you imagine. . . . If you will simply imagine your life as you want it to be, all cooperative components will be summoned. And even more important, all components that are summoned will cooperate. It is Law. <i>The experience that you have with others is about what you evoke from them.</i><br /><br />**************************************<br /><br /><b>One Minute Motivator by Edward W. Smith</b><br /><br />Worried that you don't have all that it takes? No one does. The key is to use all that you do have, and to find the niche where what you do have fits. Max out the good points you have and keep looking for the fit for what you have. What is needed out there keeps changing, so if you didn't "fit" yesterday, you might fit today and you will surely fit tomorrow.<br /><br />************************<br /><br />If it ain't broke, don't fix it. This applies to you as well. Many of us who aren't happy with the way things are, go out and try to change everything about ourselves. The fact is that there are many things about yourself that are perfect the way they are, and changing them will only makes things worse for you. Figure out what is working for you and leave it alone, don't change that part of you that is perfect the way it is.<br /><br />************************<br /><br />Action is the best remedy for discouragement. When you are discouraged, you don't know where to go, whom to call, etc., take action on your dreams by doing something, almost anything; just get started on something. Get other people involved in your dream, so they can give you advice on what to do, where to go etc. Don't let discouragement stop you from taking some sort of action, as that is the key to moving yourself out of the depression and moving you back towards your goals.<br /><br />************************<br /><br />Goals are nice, but don't forget to live your life. When we have goals, we sometimes stop thinking about the present, and the present is where we live. Find something to be happy for, now. Don't wait till "if" or "when" something happens, until you will be happy. Whatever you are waiting for is probably a ways off. Enjoy where you are now; enjoy the process you are going through, enjoy the moment. If you wait till conditions are just right to be happy, you are limiting your enjoyment of life. What you are waiting for may never come, but now is here in this moment. So what are you waiting for in order to be happy? There is always something that we are waiting for and then life will begin. Stop waiting until you get that promotion, raise, perfect mate, etc., so you can be happy. It is nice to attain the big goals, but usually the glow of achievement is short lived and we need to move on to the next goal. There will always be problems in your life and there will always be things that you want. If you wait for your problems to go away, or for you to have the perfect life, you will never be happy. <i>You must choose to be happy, independently of events that life throws you, or if you haven't achieved your goal yet. </i> Learn to be happy you are in the process of getting these things, or learn to be happy with what you have now, but you must find a way to be happy with what you have, where you are for the moment. Get on with your life and start smiling.<br /><br />******************************************<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b></span><br /><br /><b>Points of Power</b> </span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">What you continually give to your body with your beliefs or strong feelings, you receive in your body. Every feeling you have saturates every cell and organ in your entire body.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">You are the ruler of a kingdom, and your cells are your most loyal subjects who serve you without question, so whatever you think and feel becomes the law of your kingdom - the law within your body.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">When you give negative thoughts and feelings of what you don't want, the force of health to your cells reduces! When you feel love for anything - for a sunny day, new house, friend, or promotion - your body receives the full force of health.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Gratitude is the great multiplier, so say thank you for your health every single day.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Say thank you with all your heart for what you do like about your body, and ignore the things you don't like.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">To see your health improve, give love to health more than fifty percent of the time. Just 51 percent is the tipping point from sickness to health.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">If you are facing illness, do your best not to own it with your thoughts and words. Instead, give love to health, own health, and make it yours.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Give love for the perfect weight, perfect body, perfect health of an organ, and imagine having it, and be utterly grateful for everything you do have!</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">If you believe that your body will deteriorate with age, you are giving out that belief, and the law of attraction must return those circumstances to you.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Feel young and stop feeling your age.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Your body will change into whatever you want, through your feelings of love and gratitude. </span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">in case you've been missing them, some really juicy nuggets to marinate in...enjoy! :-) </span><br /><br />*************************************<br /><br />When you lose touch with your inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.<br /> ~ Eckhart Tolle<br /><br />********************************<br /><br />Taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.<br /> ~ Byron Katie</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget yourself, and think of others.<br /> ~ Norman Vincent Peale <br /><br />********************************<br /><br />I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.<br /> ~ Dawna Markova<br /><br />********************************<br /><br />Quickie question: Why do you want lotsa money?<br /><br />Your most-likely answer: So as to buy lotsa stuff – and be happy, dammit!<br /><br />But does more money and more stuff really lead to more happiness?<br /><br />“Standard of living has increased dramatically and happiness has increased not at all, and in some cases has diminished slightly,” says Professor Daniel Kahneman of the University of Princeton.<br /><br />Interestingly… Bhutan, a remote Himalayan kingdom, has consistently remained one of the happier places in our world – even though it is not close to being one of the richest.<br /><br />Their secret? Their government creates policies based on Gross National Happiness.<br /><br />This includes:<br /><br />1. Banning advertising – because the science of happiness shows advertising is a major cause of unhappiness – creating envy by making people feel “less well-off.”<br /><br />2. Pushing for more exercise and healthier eating. In fact the Bhutan government actually discourages junk food – along with cigarettes and alcohol – recognizing the healthier the body, the happier the mind!<br /><br />The idea that politics should be about creating “the greatest happiness of the greatest number” is actually not new. It goes back to Jeremy Bentham, an 18th century philosopher, who tried to get politicians to create policies which upped citizen’s general happiness levels.<br /><br />Recently Bentham’s ideas have been dusted off and revisited in Britain, where the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit held a “Life Satisfaction” seminar and considered the following concepts:<br /><br />1. creating a happiness index<br /><br />2. teaching people about happiness<br /><br />3. encouraging more support for volunteering<br /><br />4. creating a “more leisured work-life balance”<br /><br />5. creating higher taxes for the rich – so there’d be less of a division between the very rich and very poor — and thereby less envy and its accompanying depression affects.<br /><br />Britain’s Richard Layard, author of HAPPINESS: LESSONS FOR A NEW SCIENCE, is also actively pushing the government to immediately employ another 10,000 therapists – so as to increase the happiness of citizens!<br /><br />With all this in mind, I want you to stop overly-focusing on how much money you’re making, and re-focus on how much happiness you’re making!<br /><br />MY BETTER THAN CASH IN THE BANK LIST OF THINGS TO CASH IN ON:<br /><br />1. Avoid poison envy. Consistently studies show comparison kills happiness. Consciously re-focus on what you have. Try to end your day with “A 3 Blessings List” – recognizing three things which went well – and why!<br /><br />2. Spend loving time with friends and family – for both more happiness and more health! Get this: Studies show friendship wards off germs! Just as stress triggers ill health, the greater your friendships, the greater the protective effect against ill health!<br /><br />3. Live a life with meaning and purpose. How? Appreciate how what you do in your job, and contribute to your friends, family and community — all matters! Look for new ways to give back to the people around you. Altruism is actually an act of self-interest. Studies consistently show that people who are involved with volunteerism are a happier group.<br /><br />4. Keep trying to use your “signature strength” in new ways. It will increase your self esteem – which increases happiness. Plus you’ll be tapping into 3 other big happiness boosters: newness, challenge, consistent growth!<br /> ~ Karen Salmansohn<br /><br />***************************<br /><br /><b>The First Moments of the Day</b><br />Conscious Creation<br /><br />Each morning when we awake, we have an opportunity to create our day with what inspires us the most.<br /> <br />The moment during the day when we very first open our eyes and come into consciousness is a precious opportunity. It sets the tone for all that comes after it, like the opening scene in a film or novel. At this moment, our ability to create the day is at its most powerful, and we can offer ourselves fully to the creative process by filling this moment with whatever inspires us most. It may be that we want to be more generous, or it may be that we want to be more open to beauty in our daily lives. Whatever the case, if we bring this vision into our minds at this very fertile moment, we empower it to be the guiding principle of our day. <br /><br />Sometimes we wake up with a mood already seemingly in place, and it's important to give this feeling its due. It can inform us and deepen our awareness to what's going on inside us, as well as around us. As long as we are conscious, we can honor this feeling and also introduce our new affirmation or vision, our conscious offering to the day. We may want to decide before we go to sleep what we want to bring to the next day of our lives. It could be that we simply want to be more open to whatever comes our way. Or we may want to summon a particular quality such as confidence. Then again, we may simply call up a feeling that perfectly captures the texture we want our day to have.<br /> <br />We can reaffirm our vision or affirmation as we shower and eat breakfast, as well as recalling it at various times throughout the day. We can write it down and carry it with us on a little slip of paper if this helps. Simply by being aware of those first moments, we set the stage for a more conscious, enlivened experience, and we become active participants in the creation of our lives.<br /> ~ Daily Om<br /><br />************************************<br /><br />when we feel we have lost our way or a little off course on our path, there is usually an urge to clean house, go through stuff & purge, cleanse, detox, empty, meditate, study, basically {eventually} wipe the slate clean and go back to the drawing board.<br /><br />"....to the ordinary human personality, love is confused with obtaining one's desires and, as such, it appears as an elusive experience based on external acquisitions. to the ordinary spiritual aspirant, love is confused with obtaining some psychic or spiritual experience, such as a vision. love then appears to be something that must to sought and therefore, it remains an elusive experience based on externals.<br /><br />the bhakti yogi, however, realizes that he is not seeking love, but that it is love that is seeking him. his task is not to make himself into something special, whereby he can acquire love; his task is to make himself into nothing, a vessel empty of selfish individuality. when the vessel is empty, then god can fill it with divine love. this emptying of the sense of egoic personality is referred to as 'the great disappearing act'. the ego disappears and love appears...."<br />~ tho yoga of spiritual devotion by prem prakash<br /> <br />empty the vessel. get shiny and clean. your real self. the same as everyone else.<br />heed the advice of others, but always listen to the compass inside...<br /> ~ Sangeeta Vallabhan<br /><br />***************************************<br /><br /><b>Notes from the Universe</b><br /><br />Generally, typically, and most of the time, it's those who consider themselves to be the least spiritually mature who are the most, and vice versa. <br /><br />Holy cow, <br /> The Universe<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />One of the most stringent conditions all angels must meet, other than double-advanced harp playing and skydiving abilities (not necessarily at the same time), is that they must not allow themselves to feel hurt or rejected by the choices made by others, no matter how much they've done for them nor how great their love.<br /><br />Yeah, WOW. <br /> The Universe<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />Life's magic is a lot like a swift flowing river. No matter how long you've overlooked it or unwittingly swam against it, the instant you stop struggling you're back in the flow, hat down low, coolest cat on the block.<br /><br />In other words, your so-called "baggage," ain't no thang. <br /><br />Coolio - <br /> The Universe<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />In a slightly different world, if dogs believed in "soul mates" when it came to choosing their owners... can you imagine how lonesome most would be?<br /><br />Oh, there's definitely room for "picky", but there's also room for "surprise me." <br /><br />Surprise me, <br /> The Universe<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />I have to admit, when we thought of adding the dimension of "time" to space, it was not wildly popular. <br /><br />True, it would make possible evolution, reunions, and cute before-and-after photos. But it would add to the illusion of separation... "horror of horrors!" Spontaneous manifestations would spontaneously cease... "eee-gad!" And the only way anyone could get anything done, would be if they held onto and moved with their vision in thought, word, and deed, even when present circumstances appeared ABSOLUTELY unchanged for their efforts... yeah, "SIGN ME UP!!!!" <br /><br />Thinking of you beaming with childlike joy - <br /> The Universe<br /><br />***************************************<br /><br /><b>'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks</b><br /><br />Is it reality, or is it not reality? All things are reality. Even if only one is imagining it, it is a reality in that the thought has been offered and someone, who has the ability to translate that vibration, will perceive it. It must be fair to say that anything that can be perceived must be reality. Because, as creators, your reality depends upon what you are willing to imagine and allow.<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />There is a Life Stream that flows to you, and this is a Stream of clarity, a Stream of wellness, a Stream of abundance... and in any moment, you are allowing it or not. What someone else does with the Stream, or not, does not have anything to do with how much of it will be left for you. This Stream is as abundant as your ideas allow it to be.<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />In your action, you lose sight of the vision, you lose sight of your trust in the process, and you just bang around in a sense of futility. Hold the vision and trust that the Universe will acclimate to your vision. Hold the vision and trust the process.<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy — you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body<br /><br />***************************************<br /><br />Discipline means doing within, not doing without. Discipline means using all those inner conversations we have with ourselves and using them to move ourselves towards our goals. Discipline starts deep inside us and translates into the actions we need to accomplish what we want. Use thoughts to move yourself ahead, not behind and take action to carry out those thoughts, once you have them going where you want them to go.<br /><br />*****************************************<br /><br /><b>Daily Motivator by Edward W. Smith</b><br /><br />You can change your future, if you change your goals. You are not stuck where you are now, forever. You can change your future, if you decide that you want something different. If you are not happy with where you are now, give careful thought to where you would like to be, and then start planning what it takes to get what is needed to get there. Then, most importantly, start to implement the plan.<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />While you are getting ready, someone else is already doing it. Stop putting things off, don't be such a perfectionist, give it your best shot and do it. Procrastination affects all of us to some degree or another, and many of us have a hard time seeing it in ourselves. So assume that you are a procrastinator, even if you think you are not, and start doing things quicker and move on with your life.<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />Create a Board of Directors for yourself. Create an imaginary group of advisors to help you make decisions. Make up a list of the top experts in the field you are making a decision in, and ask yourself, what each of those people would probably tell you to do. Read their books, check their websites, etc. and get an insight into their thinking, then bring it back to your decision. You will be amazed how just asking yourself how an expert you have in mind, would handle it, will improve your decision making.<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />Give your ideas wings. You have a number of great ideas every day, but most of us let them go by without taking any action. Take the next great idea you have, and start the steps needed to make it happen, as soon as you have the idea. Don't let the great ideas fade away without action; use the momentum you have when you are excited about the idea, to propel you into implementing it.<br /><br />**********************************<br /><br /><b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power by Rhonda Byrne</u></b><br /><br /><b>Love Is Behind Every Miracle</b><br /><br />All miracles are the force of love at work. Miracles are created by turning away from negativity and focusing on only love. Even if you have been a pessimist all your life, it is never too late.<br /><br />A pessimist is exactly how one man described himself. When this man received the surprise news from his wife that they were expecting their third child, his every thought was of how negative the impact of a third child would be in their lives. But what he didn't realize was exactly how these negative thoughts and feelings would play out for him.<br /><br />At just over the halfway point of his wife's pregnancy, she had to be rushed to the hospital and an emergency C-section had to be performed. Three separate specialists said that at 23 weeks weeks' gestation, the baby had a zero percent chance of survival. The man was brought to his knees. He had never expected to lose a child.<br /><br />After the C-section, the father was taken to the side of the room to see his son, the smallest baby he had ever seen. His son was born 10 inches in length and weighed only 12 ounces. The medical staff tried to inflate the baby's lungs with a ventilator, but his heart rate was decreasing. The specialist said there was nothing they would be able to do. The father screamed out in his mind, "Please!" At that exact moment, the ventilator inflated his son's lungs and his heart rate began to climb.<br /><br />Days passed. All the physicians in the hospital kept saying that the baby would not make it. But this man who had been a pessimist all of his life began to imagine what he wanted. Every night when he went to bed, he imagined the light of love shining on his son. When he woke in the morning, he would give thanks to God that his son had survived through the night.<br /><br />Each day his son made progress, and he overcame every obstacle that was thrown at him. After four grueling months in intensive care, he and his wife were able to take their baby - <i>who had been given a zero percent chance of survival </i>- home.<br /><br />Love is behind every miracle. </span><br /><br />tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-90092411992070530192012-05-28T15:55:00.002-07:002012-05-28T15:55:45.110-07:00Memorial Day Nuggets!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.<br /> ~ Iyanla Vanzant </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Life is a never ending miracle unfolding in every moment, and if we turn our attention to that silent presence in our heart, we can participate in that miracle. <br /> ~Deepak Chopra </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose."<br /> ~ T.D. Jakes </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><object apple-height="yes" apple-width="yes" data="cid:_1_0C033FAC0C033D6C0020F78785257A0A" height="1" id="f5202aeb-1fc1-4d1c-854d-949e9d3a9d9b" type="application/x-apple-msg-attachment" width="1"></object>Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.<br /> ~ Anthony Robbins </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>The Status Quo</b><br />Life as We Know It<br />Our lives can sometimes become status quo and that is ok as long as we aren't keeping it that way on purpose.<br /> <br />When our lives are going well, and sometimes even when they aren�t, we may find ourselves feeling very attached to the status quo of our existence--life as we know it. It is a very human tendency to resist change as though it were possible to simply decide not to do it, or have it in our lives. But change will come and the status quo will go, sooner or later, with our consent or without it. We may find at the end of the day that we feel considerably more empowered when we find the courage to ally ourselves with the universal force of change, rather than working against it.<br />Of course, the answer is not to go about changing things at random, without regard to whether they are working or not. There is a time and place for stability and the preservation of what has been gained over time. In fact, the ability to stabilize and preserve what is serving us is part of what helps us to survive and thrive. The problem comes when we become more attached to preserving the status quo than to honoring the universal givens of growth and change. For example, if we allow a situation we are in to remain stagnant simply because we are comfortable, it may be time for us to summon up the courage to challenge the status quo. <br /><br />This may be painful at times, or surprisingly liberating, and it will most likely be a little of both. Underneath the discomfort, we will probably find excitement and energy as we take the risk of unblocking the natural flow of energy in our lives. It is like dismantling a dam inside ourselves, because most of the work involves clearing our own inner obstacles so that the river of our life can flow unobstructed. Once we remove the obstacles, we can simply go with the flow, trusting the changes that follow.<br /> <br />************************************ <br /><br /><b>Centering and Expressing</b><br />Communication<br /><br />Expressing ourselves honestly in any relationship is essential to our well-being.<br /> <br />When we are in a relationship where we feel listened to and understood, we count ourselves lucky because we know how rare that experience is. We reserve our most intimate selves for the people who, along with us, cocreate an open space where we feel free to express ourselves and listen without judgment. These relationships, which thrive on open communication, can mean the difference between existential loneliness and a deep sense of belonging. We all long to feel heard, understood, and loved, and clear communication makes this possible. <br /><br />Sometimes problems arise in the process of expressing how we feel, but it is always worth it to do the work. Even in our less intimate relationships, expressing ourselves honestly is essential to our sense of well-being. Whether at home with family or in the outside world, successful communication requires some forethought; otherwise we risk blundering through our relationships like the proverbial bull in a china shop. However, too much forethought can stifle us or cause us to pad our words so extremely that we end up saying nothing at all or confusing the matter further. The good news is that there are many methods that can come to our rescue, from meditation to visualization to journaling. <br /><br />If the person we need to communicate with is open to sitting in meditation together for a set period of time before speaking, this can be invaluable. When we are calm and centered, we can count on ourselves to speak and respond truthfully. We can also meditate on our own time and then practice what we need to say. A visualization in which we sit with the person and lovingly exchange a few words can also be a great precedent to an actual conversation. If writing comes easily, we can write out what we need to say; it may take several drafts, but we will eventually find the words. The key is to find ways to center ourselves so that we communicate meaningfully, lovingly, and wisely. In this way, we honor our companions and create relationships in which there is a genuine sense of understanding and respect.<br /> ~ Daily Om<br /><br />******************************************<br /><br /><b>Notes from the Universe</b><br /><br />Do you think the most stunning, celebrated, and adept dancer in the entire world, could become so by only ever dancing to the most brilliant, illuminating, and clever music in the world?<br /><br />Or would they freak, hip-hop, and tango to every riff, beat, and la-bamba within earshot? <br /><br />Shall we?<br /> The Universe</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />*****************************<br /><br />There are no accidents.<br /><br />If it's appeared on your life radar, this is why: to teach you that dreams come true; to reveal that you have the power to fix what's broken and heal what hurts; to catapult you beyond seeing with just your physical senses; and to lift the veils that have kept you from seeing that you're already the person you dreamed you'd become. <br /><br />And believe me, that was one heck of a dream. <br /><br />Tallyho, <br /> The Universe<br /><br />*****************************<br /><br />When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. <br /><br />Funky cold medina, <br /> The Universe<br /><br />******************************************<br /><br /><b>'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks</b><br /><br />You can say things like, "As I look at successful people, and by that I mean rich people, yes, and I mean happy people, and sometimes they're rich and happy." But when I'm talking about the successful ones, what I really mean is the really happy people. People that are really joyful, that want to get up every day, that are eager to get into their day. Almost without exception, they had a pretty rough beginning, which turned them into a powerful rebel initially. And then they found a way to relax into their natural birthright of Well-being.<br /><br />**************************<br /><br />Physical human has found many labels that they use, depending on how they feel in the moment, to try to describe their interaction with Nonphysical. We are Source Energy. We are Collective Consciousness - meaning a stream. We are a consensus of many (what you might call) Nonphysical voices. We are that which some have called angel. We are that which some have called God. We are that which some have called Inner Being. But most importantly (and we'll use some of our favorite words again) we are focalized Consciousness, specifically responding to the vibration that you manage in your asking.<br /><br />**************************<br /><br />Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance.<br /><br />**************************<br /><br />Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described. But true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire. Enlightenment is about allowing my connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined here in my time/space reality. That's as good as it gets!<br /><br />**************************<br /><br />There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.<br /> <br />******************************************<br /><br /><b>One Minute Motivator by Edward W. Smith</b><br /><br />The first time should never be the first time. If you are going into something new, practice what you are going to do, both physically and mentally. Run through it as many times as you can, and make sure to do at least the mental part, the imaging, perfectly. Perfect practice makes perfect, not just practice. If you imagine yourself doing it wrong, you will do it wrong. On the other hand, if you imagine yourself doing it right, you will do it right in real life. So practice, practice, practice before you do something new, and the first time will be your best time. <br /><br />**************************<br /><br />In order to help you retain your concentration on something, you need to break the pattern, on occasion. If you are driving and are getting bored, stop the car and walk around. If you are reading, stand up and sing. Do something different from what you are doing, for a moment, and you will regain your concentration.<br /><br />**************************<br /><br />Make progress. Strive to move ahead on your goals or at least stay even. When you think you are failing, or falling behind, you might actually be making progress, if you are learning from your mistakes. Start each day with the objective of making some progress on what you are trying to accomplish. Progress doesn't have to be big things, progress can be small things, and the key thing is that the direction is forward.<br /><br />**************************<br /><br /> You are more qualified than you think. Most people don't give themselves enough credit for how good they are, when they are considering whether to go for a promotion, try out for a sport, etc. Chances are, you err on the short side when you list your good qualities and this will hold you back from going for something at the next level. Rearview your qualifications and good points and err on the positive side, and your life will move ahead faster.<br /><br />**************************<br /><br />You are never too old. Stop telling yourself you are too old, the time is always right, for a good idea. This is the perfect time to do what you want to do, after all if you don't do it today, tomorrow, you may be too old.<br /> <br />******************************************<br /><br /><b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br /><br />What does it mean to be healthy? You may think that being healthy means that you are not sick, but being healthy is far more than that. If you feel okay, or average, or nothing much at all, you are not healthy.<br /><br />Being healthy is feeling the same way as little children feel. Little children are bursting with energy every day. Their bodies feel light and flexible; moving is effortless. They're light on their feet. Their minds are clear; they're happy, and free of worry and stress. They sleep deeply and peacefully every night, and they wake up feeling completely refreshed, as if with a brand-new body. They feel passionate and excited about every new day. Look at little children and you will see what being healthy really means. It is the way you used to feel, and it is the way you should still feel. <br /><br />Whatever you believe about your body, your cells believe too. They don't question anything you think, feel, or believe. In fact, they hear every thought, feeling, and belief you have. If you think or say, 'I always get jetlag when I travel,' your cells receive 'jetlag' as a command, and they must carry out your instructions. Think and feel that you have a weight problem, and your cells receive the order of a weight problem. They must follow your instructions and keep your body in an overweight condition.<br /><br />You are the ruler of a kingdom, and whatever you think and feel becomes the law of your kingdom -- the law within your body.<br /><br /></span><br />tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-89633780246050402382012-05-21T21:02:00.000-07:002012-05-21T21:02:00.660-07:00Beginning-of-a-brand-new-week nuggets!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />Enjoy!!! :-) </span><br /><br />************************************<br /><br />Love is an aspect of being, and when you act from being, the power you draw on is limitless because it comes from the source.<br /> ~ Deepak Chopra<br /><br />************************************<br /><br />Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.<br /> ~ Robert Collier<br /><br />************************************<br /><br />But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be.<br /> ~ René Descartes<br /><br />************************************<br /><br />Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.<br /> ~ Buddha<br /><br />************************************<br /><br />Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.<br /> ~ Harold V Melchert<br /><br />************************************<br /><br />Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.<br /> ~ Og Mandino<br /><br />************************************<br /><br /><b>Live it now</b><br /><br />If you postpone your joys until later, the opportunities to experience those joys will grow fewer and fewer. If you put off dealing with the problems until later, they will become much more difficult to get beyond.<br /><br />Choose instead to live life as it comes. Diligently, and without complaints, work through each difficulty as it comes along, and enthusiastically live the opportunities for joy as they appear.<br /><br />Your world is filled with abundance. And in order to transform that abundance into meaningful value, you must make good use of it as it arrives.<br /><br />Each moment gives you the opportunity to add richness to your life. Each day brings you new ways to express the unique beauty of who you are.<br /><br />Live that richness and express that beauty not in some distant, imagined someday. Live it now.<br /><br />Your life is here today, filled with all kinds of great possibilities for joy and achievement. Get up, get going, and live it now.<br /> ~ Ralph Marston<br /><br />************************************<br /><br /><b>Trial and Error</b><br /><br />Learning to Trust Divine Guidance<br /><br />Keeping an open mind is the most important step when learning to listen to divine guidance.<br /> <br />Anyone who has asked for divine guidance knows that it can be challenging to trust it when it comes. This is because divine guidance comes in many forms and it is sometimes hard to locate it. We aren't sure if we are meant to trust our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, or our intuitions to be the carriers of divine wisdom. We are not sure if advice from a friend is the form in which the guidance has come into the world, or if our own opinion is the source of wisdom we need to take seriously. The ability to sort all this out comes with trial and error, and the best way to learn to recognize divine guidance is to engage in the process of asking and receiving. <br /><br />Sometimes when we ask for guidance, we already have a sense of what we want to hear. At such times, receiving guidance can be difficult, because we don't want to hear anything that appears to be in opposition to our desire. Therefore, one of the most important qualities we need to cultivate if we are to receive guidance is an open mind. It helps to acknowledge what we want, and then to symbolically set it aside, making room for whatever wisdom comes through to us. <br /><br />Cultivating an active relationship with the divine is the essential ingredient to being able to receive and trust guidance when it comes our way. We can make a daily practice of this by using a set of runes, a deck of cards, or a pendulum. We can also use our journals, developing a relationship with the divine through the written word. As we request and receive guidance, we might take notes on our experiences. Over time we will begin to recognize when we were able to hear correctly and when we were not. In this way, we will gradually attune ourselves to our particular relationship with the divine. Begin to trust the guidance you are receiving and soon you will find it flowing with ease.<br /> ~ Daily Om<br /><br />************************************<br /><br /><b>Notes from the Universe</b><br /><br />Sometimes, lifetimes are chosen to be with friends. And sometimes, one friend agrees to be off balance and the other balanced. One teaches stability, the other teaches spontaneity. Win-win, cool-cool.<br /><br />Gets kind of wonky though, if either starts thinking they're more important to the other, than the other is to them. <br /><br />You know? <br /> The Universe<br /><br />***************************<br /><br />No matter how things seem, hope is near and love is present. <br /><br />In the house,<br /> The Universe<br /><br />***************************<br /><br />Take it from the farmer in me... <br /><br />The more seeds you sow, the more plants we'll grow. <br /><br />I love wearing overalls,<br /> The Universe<br /><br /> *************************** </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />***************************<br /><br />You know that dreamy look of deep, soulful love you've sometimes seen in the eyes of another as they gazed into your own? Expect a lot more of it. <br /><br />Whoooooooohoooooooooooooooo!! <br /> The Universe<br /><br />***************************<br /><br /><b>The Teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks</b><br /><br />Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you're appreciating you are planning...What are you planning?<br /> <br />*************************** <br /><br /><b>Our Source Is One of Love, Not Condemnation...</b>When you pay attention to the way you feel, and deliberately choose more thoughts that feel good while you think them, you will begin to recognize the nature of your Broader Non-Physical desires. The majority of negative emotions that you feel are not because the subject of your thought is wrong, but instead, because you are condemning something that your Source does not condemn. Your Source is one of love, not one of condemnation.<br /><br />***************************<br /><br />Let your dominant intent be to feel good which means be playful, have fun, laugh often, look for reasons to appreciate and practice the art of appreciation. And as you practice it, the Universe, who has been watching you practice, will give you constant opportunities to express it. So that your life just gets better and better and better.<br /><br />***************************<br /><br /> The content of your vibration equals how you feel right now. And whether you're thinking about the past, the present, or the future, how you feel right now — as you think about the past, the present, or the future — is your life. And it's a precious, fabulous, creative life that you are not wanting to squander in a place of resistance. Your life is right now.<br /><br />***************************<br /><br />Every physical being on this planet is your partner in co-creation, and if you could accept that and appreciate the diversity of desires and beliefs, all of you would have a more expansive, satisfying, fulfilling experience.<br /><br />************************************<br /><br /><b>One Minute Motivator by Edward W. Smith</b><br /><br />Beware of success. Success is what we all want, but it brings special problems. We stop learning and make more mistakes, we stop being "hungry" and we get sloppy. If you are successful, that is great, but keep on doing what you were doing before you were successful, so you can keep the momentum going and stay successful.<br /><br />*****************************<br /><br />Value this day. Today is all you have and you are lucky to have it, no matter how it is going at this moment. Look back at your life and you will see many days you wish you had enjoyed instead of getting caught up in all the daily craziness. Happiness is in your head, so put a positive spin on what is going on around you, and value every moment you have, plus value everything around you such as your friends and all the other things you care about.<br /><br />*****************************<br /><br />Make your dominant thoughts, positive ones. As we move through the day, certain thoughts or moods seem to rule us. These thoughts can be positive or negative and they can become self-fulfilling. Make those dominate thoughts, thoughts that will help you, thoughts that will build your self confidence and will help you move ahead with your life.<br /><br />***************************<br /><br /> If you can't see yourself accomplishing your goals, surround yourself with people who can. You need people who will support you, tell you to go for it, and give you reasons you can accomplish your goals. On the other hand, make every effort to disassociate yourself from negative people, as they just pull you down.<br /><br />***************************<br /><br />Leave yourself no choice. If you want to move ahead, sometimes you are better off thinking that you have no choice, but to move forward. Having too many choices can confuse us and lull us into believing we don't have much pressure to make the right choice or move quickly. Having no choice, but to move ahead puts a clear focus on what you must do and how quickly you must do it. Cut your options and you will move ahead faster.<br /><br />************************************<br /><br /><b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br /><br /><b>Love is Truth</b><br /><br />When you were a little child, you were flexible and fluid because you had not formed or accepted as many negative beliefs about life. As you got older, you took on more feelings of limitation and negativity, which caused you to become more set in your ways and less flexible. This is not an amazing life; this is a limited life.<br /><br />The more you love, the more the force of love will melt away negativity in your body and in your mind. And you can feel love melting away everything negative when you're happy, grateful and joyful. You can feel it! You feel light, you feel invincible, and you feel on top of the world.<br /><br />As you give more and more love, you will notice changes start to happen to your body. Food will taste better, colors will get brighter, sounds will become clearer, moles or little marks on your body will begin to fade and disappear. Your body will begin to feel more flexible; stiffness and little creaks will begin to vanish. When you give love and experience miracles in your body, you will be left in no doubt that love is the source of your health! </span><br />tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-5369277013707588602012-05-12T12:56:00.000-07:002012-05-12T12:56:50.517-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />TGIF! Juiciest of the juicy weekend nuggets....Enjoy, have a glorious weekend and wishing all Mothers a wonderful Mother's Day! :-)<br /><br />*******************************<br /><br />There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.<br /> ~ Don Miguel Ruiz<br /><br />*******************************<br /><br />The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt and deception. You do not deserve happiness; you choose happiness.<br /> ~ Robert Holden<br /><br />*******************************<br /><br />Look deeper into the actions you take and the truths you take for granted. Ask why and then ask why again."<br /> ~ Walter Mosley<br /><br />*******************************<br /><br />Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.<br /> ~ Albert Einstein<br /><br />*******************************<br /><br />Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come for miles to watch you burn!<br /> ~ John Wesley<br /><br />*******************************<br /><br />What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life." “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough”. <br /> ~ Oprah Winfrey<br /><br />*******************************<br /><br />Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit—of stepping up, of taking action—more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.<br /> ~ Tony Robbins</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>A life well lived</b><br /><br />Pleasure is nice, but it is never enough. Material wealth can be immensely helpful, but brings no fulfillment of its own accord.<br /><br />Power can give great satisfaction to your ego. Yet a life lived solely in the service of ego ends up being small and pathetic.<br /><br />What truly makes life good is the commitment you put into making life good. What makes life good is the experience of making a difference.<br /><br />There is much that’s already been given to you by virtue of your existence, and there is much more that may or may not be given to you. What matters at the core of your spirit, though, is not what you have but what you do with it.<br /><br />No person, situation, event or possession can give you fulfillment. What brings about real fulfillment is your participation in bringing it about.<br /><br />Life’s rewards are not what you long for. What you long for is to genuinely earn your own significance.<br /><br />Every moment is an opportunity to do so. Treasure each of those opportunities, make full use of them, and you will have the priceless experience of a life well lived.<br /> ~ Ralph Marston<br /><br />******************************************<br /><br />Remaining Loving When All Our Triggers Go Off</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />The entire universe revolves around relationships. From the interactions between atoms to the ones between planetary orbs, everything around us is connected. Energies and organisms that relate to each other surround us every day. Links are made between nations and between individual hearts.<br /><br />By increasing our awareness of the interdependent relationships we all share in the world, we learn how to best honor them. It is an approach to living that supports harmonious co-existence between all species everywhere, equally.<br /><br />What is the quality of our connections with others? And how do we choose to act within those relationships?<br /><br />Most of us will reply that we wish to act lovingly and peacefully in our relationships with others. It is easy to act loving and peaceful when nothing is challenging us. But how good are we at loving when all our buttons are getting pushed and our feathers ruffled?<br /><br />How deep does our love and peace really go? It is authentic? Or is it just a superficial display of how we think we are supposed to act? Is it consistent? Or does it evaporate the minute we’re being confronted with our own weaknesses or those of others?<br /><br />Most of the battles we’ll face in our lives are already occurring within us. Our exchanges with others only activate them. How will we act when this happens - when the outside world triggers our own internal fears, and doubts, and insecurities? This is when our behavior counts the most, and when it is hardest to act in ways that engage love and peace.<br /><br />Our interactions with others could either increase the quality of our lives, or kill us! How does the flower of our consciousness blossom within relationships that feel like concrete?<br /><br />Perhaps the best way to test how deeply absorbed we are spiritually is to test how loving and peaceful we can remain while faced with conflicts and tensions within relationships. Fearless, loving movement through the most challenging parts of our relationships with others is the secret formula for navigating through the tensions in our relationships gracefully. Where there is love and light, fear and doubt dissipate. <br /><br />Love is not mere sentimentality that can often obscure the way we see ourselves, and others. Instead, love is deeply illuminating, like realized knowledge. True love is not fleeting. It holds us in its continual absorption. It connects us to what is true.<br /><br />The question is this: What are we choosing to connect with?<br /><br />We want to connect with what makes us feel good, and we want to escape experiences that make us uncomfortable. On a very primal level, all human beings are programmed to seek out pleasure and recoil from pain. Death, or impermanence makes human beings most uncomfortable.<br /><br />Endings in life can be most unpleasant: the ending of our youth, the ending of a marriage, the ending of a friendship, the ending of something we derived great pleasure from, and the ending of the life of a loved one, or our own life. <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/?attachment_id=332136"></a>Every time we are forced to face the ending of something. We are also forced to face the parts of us that are clinging onto it.<br /><br />We are asked to look at our human tendency to identify with what’s impermanent, and examine how our investment in it cripples our own progress. This happens to all of us most powerfully within our relationships with others. Sometimes the end of a relationship can feel like the end of our very life. And when it’s taken from us, we feel as if our shelter from life’s storms has been pulled out from over us.<br /><br />There are two passages through which we can move through and beyond our clinginess to the impermanent: one of darkness and one of light.<br /><br />The path of light is dynamic and represents growth, evolution and progress. Darkness represents stagnation and returns us to relive the same experiences over and over again. This becomes most obvious to us in relationships, when we see ourselves stuck in repetitive patterns with others. How to break out of this cycle can be bewildering. We become bewildered when faced with all kinds of imminent deaths before us. This is human nature.<br /><br />There is light and there is darkness. Which force will you choose to align your actions with?<br /><br />Relationships are therefore one of the main fields in our lives that test our dedication to our spiritual practice. If we can exercise love, even when feeling bewildered before imminent, unavoidable deaths, in the midst of discord and tension, within the relationships that matter most to us in life, then we can connect with the peace that our spiritual practice brings us anywhere!<br /> ~ Catherine Ghosh and Braja Sorensen </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">**************************************************<br /><br />Do you remember in the Star Wars movies the great wisdom that came through the little character, Yoda? <br /><br />One of his wisdom teachings has stayed with me a long time. I want to offer it to you today. <br /><br />Luke is asking the wise one, "How do I know the right decision to make? Among all the many decisions, how do I know the one that will be with the Force?" <br /><br />Yoda looks at him and he says, "You will know through peace and calm. You will know you're on the right track when you're not feeling frantic, when you're not feeling anxious, when you're not struggling with different parts of yourself. When you get to the right answer and the right decision that is yours, there will be a peace and calm that will come within you and radiate from you." <br /><br />So, as we make decisions, follow insights, hunches and gut feelings, may we look for that peace and calm that is the confirmation that we are following our IGS - Inner Guidance System. And if we miss a turn, we can always know that IGS will continue to ask us to turn around and proceed down the road that will get us to our destination.<br /><br />We can trust and know that peace and calm is our compass and our comfort.<br /><br />Inner Guidance never causes harm to the self or to others. The process of listening to your Inner Guidance is simply about remembering to relax and wait for inspiration.<br /><br />Watch this movie as many times as you need to achieve Inner Guidance and Peace.<br /><br />All you ever need do is ask, be quiet and the answer will be provided. When it is a divine answer, it is always easier than you initially perceived.<br /><br />Divine Ideas never conflict. Divine Ideas align. Pray, ask, seek alignment: P-E-A-C-E<br /> ~ Mary Robinson Reynolds </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">*******************************************<br /><br /><b>Daily Om</b><br /><br /><b>Undistracted Energy</b><br />Pure Thoughts<br /><br />The longer we are able to hold a positive thought, the stronger that energy around us becomes.<br /> <br />If we make no effort at all, our thoughts usually scatter in a vast array of directions. They start and stop and move in surprising ways from one second to the next. If we try to follow our thoughts without controlling them, we will be amazed at how truly inconsistent they are. Yet, if we apply our minds to a specific task, especially one that interests us, they gather together and allow us to focus our attention, creating great power and energy. This is what is known as pure thought, because it is undistracted. <br /><br />The law of attraction ~ like attracts like ~ influences all energy, including our thoughts, and this is what makes pure thought so potent. Our undistracted thoughts create a powerful magnet that draws similar energy into our vibrational field. As a result, the longer we are able to hold positive thoughts in our minds, the more powerful the positive energy around us becomes. We don�t need to focus on action and controlling so much when we are surrounded by energy that draws what we want toward us. We can simply respond to the opportunities that naturally come our way. When this is the essence of our experience, we can go with the flow, knowing that we will be okay.<br /><br />If pure thought is a body, it is our emotions that supply the heart that can really bring it to life. Our thoughts and feelings exist in relation to one another, and they form a feedback loop through which they communicate and empower each other. When we hold a thought in our mind without being distracted, we have achieved pure thought. When we have a positive emotional response to that thought, we enable it to dance and move and breathe itself into existence.<br /><br />*******************************<br /><br /><b>The Power Within</b><br />Energy 101<br /><br />Energy cannot be destroyed, but it be changed and transformed.<br /> <br />There is an undercurrent of energy thrumming through the Universe. Like the wind or a whisper, we can sometimes hear it and often feel it. Most of the time, we sense this energy unconsciously without any tangible proof it is really there. Thoughts, emotions, and the life force in all living things are forms of this kind of energy. So are creativity, growth, and change. The impressions, images, and vague premonitions we get about people and situations are other examples of formless energy. When you enter a space and feel an intangible tension in the air that gives you a sense of foreboding in your gut, what you are likely experiencing is energy. <br /><br />Energy cannot be destroyed, but it can be transformed or transferred from one person, thing, or source to another. Though energy is formless, it does take form and shape in the way it flows and resides within all things: a grain of sand, a bird, a stone, and an ocean wave. Living things radiate complex vibrations while nonliving things' vibrations are simpler. Energy is a magnifier that can attract like energies while repelling disparate ones. Many of our reactions to people and circumstances are based on unconscious reactions to their energies. We may even intuitively tune into the energy of a situation we are facing when making a decision about how to proceed. With careful practice and meditation, we can learn to sense the energy within other living things and ourselves. We can also become more attuned to how we are impacted by different kinds of energy. For instance, being around too many energies can leave one person feeling edgy or excited, while another person will feel tired and drained. <br /><br />While some people feel that energy can be controlled, others see it is as the unknowable force that moves through all things. The combined energy in all things plays a hand in birth, death, growth, movement, and stillness. Practitioners of Aikido believe that all living beings share a common energy source that is our life force. Whatever your beliefs, it is worthwhile to explore the roles energy plays in your life so you can understand it more fully.<br /><br />*****************************************<br /><br /><b>Notes from the Universe</b><br /><br />Remember, you will always have friends, guides, and love, but no one is coming to "save you."<br /><br />That's the adventure package you signed up for.<br /><br />The one that comes with all the superpowers, guaranteed rebounding abilities, and the all-powerful scrunched-nose-when-you-smile. <br /><br />Your 5 Star Time-Space Adventure Tour Agency Manager,<br /> The Universe<br /><br />************************</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />************************<br /><br />Some of the coolest dreams that ever came true weren't dreams at all, but standards that simply weren't compromised. <br /><br />Oh yeah, we takin' over... <br /> The Universe<br /><br />*****************************************<br /><br />Actually, if you understood the extraordinary gifts every single challenge in your life makes possible, even inevitable, you'd celebrate your challenges, new and old alike, as the omens that they are of new beginnings, spectacular change, and enhanced superpowers. <br /><br />Perfect for where you are, huh? <br /> The Universe<br /><br />************************<br /><br />As good as you've been, as on as you were, as high as you got, and as easy as it was, things will still be better.<br /><br />Payback, baby - <br /> The Universe<br /><br />************************<br /><br /><b>'The Teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks'</b><br /><br />It is not attention to lack of wellness that makes you sick. It is attention to the lack of many things… Chronic attention to unwanted things holds you in a place of disallowing your physical well-being, as well as disallowing the solutions to other things you are focused upon. If you would focus your attention upon the experience of physical well-being as much as you focus upon the absence of it, not only would your recovery come quickly, but maintaining your physical well-being and balance would also be easy.<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting. The more joyful you are, the more Well-being flows to you — and you get to choose the details of how it flows.<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />It is so wonderful, when someone gets an idea and is able to hold it purely enough that an entire movement or corporation will follow in behind it, because the movement of that Energy benefits everyone.<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />You live in a pulsating, vibrating Universe of advanced harmonics. Everything that exists, in your air, in your dirt, in your water, and in your bodies, is vibration in motion—and all of it is managed by the powerful Law of Attraction. There is nothing that exists outside of this vibrational nature, and as you learn to accept your vibrational nature, and begin to consciously utilize your emotional vibrational indicators, you will gain conscious control of your personal creations and of the outcomes of your life experience.<br /><br />*************************<br /><br />Parents can't choose the mates of their children or the behavior of their children. You actually can't choose anything for your children without disempowering them.<br /><br />*****************************************<br /><br /><b>One Minute Motivator by Edward W. Smith </b><br /> <br />Find something to be happy now for. Don't wait till "if" or "when" something happens, until you will be happy. Whatever you are waiting for is probably a ways off. Enjoy where you are now; enjoy the process you are going through, enjoy the moment. If you wait till conditions are just right to be happy, you are limiting your enjoyment of life. What you are waiting for may never come, but now is here in this moment.<br /><br />**************************<br /><br />Take more chances in your life. They don't have to be big risks, but you need to learn to take more chances if you want a different outcome in your life. Not everything will work out, but the fact that you are taking risks, even if small ones, will add excitement to your life and give you some payoffs in terms of getting what you want.<br /><br />**************************<br /><br />Don't limit yourself in any area. Usually we are our own worst enemy, as far as holding ourselves back. We are constantly telling ourselves we can't do his or that and we limit what we attempt, and this in turn limits what we get. Examine what your limits are, and who put those limits on you. Take small steps to expand your limits and your self-confidence will grow and you will get many payoffs, as a result of doing things you didn't think you could do.<br /><br />**************************<br /><br />Make mistakes. You learn from mistakes, you build confidence that you can fix things that go wrong and you learn to take more chances. Don't hold yourself back in an attempt to be perfect, take chances with the knowledge that you can usually fix things and get payoffs from things that you didn't think would work.<br /><br />************************* </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />You have knowledge and experience, you don't give yourself credit for. Taping into this knowledge and experience can help you solve problems you have been struggling with. Learn to trust your judgment and you will build your self-confidence as well as make better decisions. All this will come from using something you already had inside you.<br /><br />*****************************************<br /><br /><b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br /><br />You Really Are as Old as You Feel<br /><br />Ancient texts say that people once lived for hundreds and hundreds of years. Some lives for eight hundred years, some lived for five or six hundred years, but longevity was commonplace. So what's happened? People changed what they believed. Instead of believing in living for hundreds and hundreds of years, people changed their beliefs over generations, and they came to believe in a reduced life expectancy.<br /><br />We have inherited those beliefs of a reduced life expectancy. From the time we are born, the belief of how long we can live has been sewn into the fabric of our minds and our hearts. And from there we literally program our bodies from an early age to live for a certain amount of time, and our bodies age according to how we program them.<br /><br /><i>"The is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble."</i><br /> ~ Richard Feynman (1918-1988)<br /> Nobel Prize-Winning Quantum Physicist<br /><br />If you possibly can, don't put a ceiling on how long you can live. All it will take is one person to break the limits of life expectancy, and that person will change the course of life expectancy for all humanity. One person after another will follow, because when one person lives far beyond the current life expectancy, other people will believe and feel they can do it too, and they will!<br /><br />When you believe and feel that aging and deterioration are inevitable, then they will happen. Your cells, your organs and your body receive your beliefs and feelings. <i>Feel </i> young and stop feeling your age. Feeling your age is just a belief you've been given and a program you've given to your body. You can change the command you're giving whenever you want, by changing what you believe!<br /><br />How do you change your beliefs? By giving love! Negative beliefs, such as beliefs of limitation, aging, or disease, do not come from love. When you give love, when you feel good, love melts away any negativity, including negative beliefs that harm you.<br /> <br /><i>"The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age."</i><br /> ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881)<br /> Author </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">**********************************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom, or criticize you, remember they're telling you their story, not yours.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"> ~ Cynthia Occelli</span><br /><br />*************************************<br /><br />When we heal ourselves, others are healed. When we nurture our dreams, we give birth to the dreams of humankind. When we speak the Truth from our healed hearts, we allow life abundant to continue on our Mother Planet.<br /> ~ Jami Sams<br /><br />*************************************<br /><br />You were born with potential.<br />You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.<br />You were born with wings.<br />You are not meant for crawling, so don't.<br />You have wings.<br />Learn to use them and fly.<br /> ~ Rumi<br /><br />*************************************<br /><br />We are all interconnected through the spirit, so whenever we<br />are kind to another, support another, laugh with another, we bless ourselves. Today bless your spirit by blessing another. Today tell someone you love their spirit.<br />It will surprise and delight them, and in turn you as well. the more we do this with one another the more light and joy we bring to this beautiful planet of ours.<br /> ~ Sonia Choquette<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TrustYourVibes"></a><br /><br />*************************************<br /><br />When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing...you are doing what you were meant to be doing.<br /> ~ Gary Zukav<br /><br />*************************************<br /><br />Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. ~ Eckhart Tolle<br /><br />*************************************<br /><br />Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.<br /> ~ Mahatma Gandhi<br /><br />*************************************<br /><br />There were no boundaries or borders. It was as if my mind had once long ago made up a story about separate objects with boundaries but the story wasn’t true. The true story is that there is a luminous, spacious energy that flows through everything all the time. It’s within matter, within things as well as within space, and you can tune in to it at any time, just like changing the frequency on the radio. There is no distance between this essence and ourselves. It is not otherworldly. it is right here, closer than our own flesh.<br /> ~ Vijali Hamilton<br /><br />**************************************<b><br /></b><br /><b>Love anyway. . .for no reason. . .and give. . .just because.</b><br /><br />1. Look at life as a journey and enjoy the ride. Get the most out of the detours and realize they're sometimes necessary.<br /><br />2. Do your best, but if what you're doing has caused you discouragement, try a different approach. Be passionate about the process, but don't be so attached to the outcome.<br /><br />3. Wish the best for everyone, with no personal strings attached. Applaud someone else's win as much as you would your own.<br /><br />4. Trust that there's a divine plan, that we don't always know what's best for us. A disappointment now could mean a victory later, so don't be disappointed. There is usually a reason.<br /><br />5. Ask no more of yourself than the best that you can do, and be satisfied with that. Be compassionate towards yourself as well as others. Know your calling, your gift, and do it well.<br /><br />6. Don't worry about something after it's done; it's out of your hands then, too late, over! Learn the lesson and move on.<br /><br />7. Have the attitude that no one, except you, owes you anything. Give without expecting a thank-you in return. But when someone does something for you, be appreciative of even the smallest gesture.<br /><br />8. Choose your thoughts or your thoughts will choose you; they will free you or keep you bound. Educate your spirit and give it authority over your feelings.<br /><br />9. Judge no one, and disappointment and forgiveness won't be an issue. No one can let you down if you're not leaning on them. People can't hurt you unless you allow them to.<br /><br />10. Love anyway. . . for no reason. . . and give. . . just because.<br /> ~ Donna Fargo<br /><br />**************************************<br /><br /><b>Unmatched joy</b><br /><br />It is in the living that life gains more and more meaning. It is from the challenges, obstacles, disappointments and persistent efforts that life’s achievements gain their value.<br /><br />If you wish to enjoy success, don’t seek to shortcut the process. If you wish to be kind, compassionate and helpful to others, don’t enable them to shortcut the process.<br /><br />Living well is not the same as living easy and carefree. Being truly rich does not come from being irresponsible, nor does it enable you to avoid responsibility.<br /><br />You can have mountains of money and possessions and still be very poor. Life’s real richness is not about what you have, but rather about how much authentic goodness and fulfillment you express.<br /><br />You may indeed find superficial pleasure in many things. Yet what gives true joy and fulfillment to your spirit is what you have earned with integrity and responsibility.<br /><br />It gains you nothing to have everything if you have not put your effort and commitment into it. Step up, take full responsibility for creating real value in your world, and experience the unmatched joy of making a difference.<br /> ~ Ralph Marston<br /><br />**************************************<br /><br /><b><u>Daily Om</u></b><br /><br /><b>Noticing Synchronicity</b><br />Interconnected Experiences<br /><br />Things happen in our lives for a reason, even if that reason is not clear to you right away.<br /><br />When events appear to fit together perfectly in our lives it may seem at first that they are random occurrences, things that are the result of coincidence. These synchronous happenings, though, are much more than that, for, if we look at them more closely they can show us that the universe is listening to us and gently communicating with us. Learning to pay attention to and link the things that occur on a daily basis can be a way for us to become more attuned to the fact that most everything happens in our lives for a reason ~ even when that reason is not clear right away. <br /><br />When we realize that things often go more smoothly than we can ever imagine, it allows us to take the time to reflect on the patterns in our lives. Even events that might not at first seem to be related to each other are indicators that the universe is working with, not against, us. This idea of synchronicity, then, means that we have to trust there is more to our lives than what we experience on a physical level. We need to be willing to look more closely at the bigger picture, accepting and having confidence in the fact that there is more to our experiences than immediately meets the eye. Being open to synchronicity also means that we have to understand that our lives are filled with both positive and negative events. Once we can recognize that one event is neither more desirable nor better than the other -- they all have an overall purpose in our lives -- then we are truly ready to listen to the messages the universe gives us.<br /><br />While we may not be able to see everything in our lives as being synchronous, we can certainly use hindsight to be more aware of how the universe guides us. This sense of wonder at the mysteries of the universe and the interconnectedness present in our lives will help us see our overall ways of being and will in turn make it easier to work more consciously towards our spiritual evolution.<br /> <br />********************************<br /><br /><b>Enjoying Life</b><br />Remembering the Moment<br /><br />It is only in the present moment that we experience being alive.<br /><br />Life, in all of its fullness, is happening right now. While our thoughts are sometimes elsewhere, beautiful opportunities and moments are being passed over and lost to the flow of time. And though we cannot possibly fully experience each leaf that falls to the ground, sometimes we get so attached to reaching our goals that we don't pay attention to the wonder all around us. When we do that, we live in a world that exists only in our heads, while we miss life itself. There is so much to be enjoyed and appreciated that we need to remember to pay attention to the present moment, because it is the only space in which we can experience being alive. <br /><br />We learn from our past, but dwelling on it keeps us from being fully present to life in the moment. <b><i>We create our lives with our thoughts, but focusing so firmly on our imagined future keeps us from co-creating with the universe, so we might never allow ourselves to live our dreams as they manifest.</i></b> It's possible to be so happy and comfortable in our inner worlds that we lose touch with the business of life. We may enjoy spending large portions of time in meditation, or focused on our thoughts. <br /><br />Life must be attended to, and if we are wise, we can enjoy it at the same time. We can awaken ourselves to the moment we are living right now by taking a deep breath and simply looking around. In doing so, we refocus our attention to our location in the real world. Then we can learn to appreciate the process of working toward our goals as much as their attainment. Balancing ourselves between the present moment and eternity, we can experience and enjoy the full range of reality available to us as spiritual beings living on earth.<br /><br />**************************************<br /><br /><b><u>Notes from the Universe</u></b><br /><br />One little known secret to making precisely the right move, at precisely the right time in your life, is knowing that in all cases, there is more than one right move and more than one right time. Lots and lots more.<br /><br />In other words, no matter what you do next, or when, so long as you do something, I'll meet you there, smooth the edges, polish the grill, and connect the dots.<br /><br />Tallyho,<br /> The Universe<br /><br />******************************</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />In virtually all person-to-person relationships, disappointments can be lessened, setbacks can be regained, and little annoyances can be brushed off, when one stops and realizes that such relationships are always temporary.<br /><br />Physically speaking.<br /><br />Twister!<br /> The Universe<br /><br />******************************<br /><br />You know, I once had a dream that didn't come true. I know how that is. Ouch!! Painful!! Humiliating!!<br /><br />Until I realized, it wasn't too late to dream something better. <br /><br />It's never too late -<br /> The Universe<br /><br />******************************<br /><br />One thing I know for sure is that with time everything becomes clear, all questions are answered, what's broken is restored, new trails are blazed, hearts are mended, love returns, and you will look over your shoulder, with a tear in your eye, at life's utter perfection.<br /><br />And best of all, time is one thing you have plenty of. Trust me.<br /><br /> The Universe<br /><br />******************************<br /><br />Plan the celebration now. Sweep the floor. Clean the slate. Pick a date.<br /><br />Window shop, buy a few things, go out on a limb.<br /><br />Rearrange the furniture, pick some flowers, take some time off.<br /><br />No, no, not necessarily because the tipping point has been reached... but because this is how you reach it.<br /><br />How's today looking?<br /> The Universe<br /><br />**************************************<br /><br /><b><u>'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks</u></b><br /><br />When you ask, it is given, every single time, no exceptions. You are beloved, blessed Beings who deserve good things—but it takes a self-convincing before you will allow good things.<br /> <br />******************************<br /> <br />What I think and feel and what I get are always a match. And so, if I want something different than what I've been getting, I have to, somehow, generate different feelings.<br /><br />******************************<br /><br />If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! <b><i>Law of Attraction</i></b> says it is so: "Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration."<br /><br />******************************<br /><br />When you try to justify where you are by pointing out how bad things are, you are headed in the wrong direction. Reach for the thought that feels better, And allow the natural Well-Being that is yours.<br /><br />******************************<br /><br />You will never find yourself in a point in time when the subject of relationships is not an active part of your now experience, for everything you perceive or notice or know is because of your relationship with something else. <b><i>Without a comparative experience, you would be unable to perceive or focus any kind of understanding within yourself. Therefore, it is accurate to say that without relationships you could not exist at all.</i></b><br /><br />******************************<br /><br />Every time you praise something, every time you appreciate something, every time you feel good about something, you are telling the Universe, "More of this, please. More of this, please." You need never again make another verbal statement of this intent, and if you were allowing your cork to float — all good things would flow to you.<br /><br />**************************************<br /><br /><b><u>One Minute Motivator by Edward W. Smith</u></b><br /><br />Don't use "I am too old" for an excuse. People that were "too old" have accomplished many of the greatest achievements in the world. If you say you are "too old", you are giving up growing and living, and it is just one more excuse for not doing something. Usually being at the point where you are "too old" means you have an incredible base of knowledge and experience and at the very least you have discovered the many ways NOT to do something. It would be a real waste not to use this for yourself and share it with others. You are never "too old" to be your best.<br /><br />***************************<br /><br />Never settle for less. In your heart, you know you can do better in some situations, but you coast, or take the easy way out. Maybe you have other more pressing priorities, and that is O.K., but what if that is your standard operating method? If you settle for less, you cheat your self out of more knowledge, more experience and more rewards and you rob your self-esteem, which undercuts you when you really want to do your best. So never settle for less, do your best, every chance you get.<br /> <br />***************************<br /><br />Pick one of your flaws and start working on it NOW. Everyone has flaws, but not everyone acknowledges them and even fewer people work to improve on them. If you take one of your flaws and begin to work on it, your life will begin to get better right away. Don't wait, don't spend a lot of time trying to figure out what to work on, just pick something you need to improve on and start Now. Your life will get better in many ways, just because of this first step.<br /><br />***************************<br /><br />Watch what YOU want to watch. Research indicates that 70% of the people watching TV. are not watching something they are interested in, they are just watching. Many of us run our whole life that way. We go through life not interested in what we see; yet somehow, we don't seem able to switch to something we are interested in. Take control of your life and start moving towards things you are interested in. Take the extra effort to go to the library, surf the net, research what is on the radio, make new friends, etc and move towards things that excite you.<br /><br />**************************************<br /><br /><b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br /><br />Every moment you feel love for your health, the force of love is eliminating any negativity in your body! If you find it difficult to feel good about your health, all that matters is that you feel love for anything, so surround yourself with everything you love, and use those things to feel as good as you can. Use everything you can in the outside world so that you feel love. Watch movies that make you laugh and feel good, not movies that make you feel tense or sad. Listen to music that makes you feel good. Get people to tell you jokes that make you laugh, or have them tell you funny stories about their most embarrassing moments. You know the things you love. You know your favorite things. You know what makes you happy, so draw on them all and feel as good as you can. Use the Creation Process. Use the Keys to Power. Remember it only takes giving love and good feelings a minimum of 51 percent of the time to reach the tipping point and change everything!<br /><br />If you want to help somebody who is ill, you can use the Creation Process and imagine and feel full health being rendered to them. Although you cannot override what another person is giving to the law of attraction, your power can help them rise to a frequency where they can receive health.<br /><br /><b>Beauty Comes from Love</b><br /><br /><i>"As love grows in your, beauty grows too. For love is the beauty of the soul."</i><br /> ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430)<br /> Theologian and Bishop<br /><br />All beauty comes from the force of love. Unlimited beauty is available to you through love, but the problem is that most people find fault and criticize their body more than they appreciate it. Looking at your faults and being unhappy about anything about your body does not bring beauty to you! All it brings is more faults and more unhappiness.<br /><br />The beauty business is enormous, yet unlimited beauty is being poured down to you in every second. But you have to give love to receive it! The happier you are, the more beautiful you will be. Lines will fade, skin will tighten and begin to glow, hair will become thicker and stronger, eyes will begin to sparkle, and their color will intensify. And more than anything else, you will see the proof that beauty comes from love when people are drawn to you wherever you go. </span>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-88875113945708616262012-04-26T19:43:00.000-07:002012-04-26T19:43:28.186-07:00Almost-the-weekend Nuggets!<br />
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<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here are your almost-the-weekend nuggets...chock full of enough deliciousness to hold you through the weekend and waaay beyond...enjoy! :-) </span><br /><br />*********************************<br /><br />Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.<br /> ~ Anaïs Nin<br /><br />*********************************<br /><br />Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.<br /> ~ Henry Ward Beecher<br /><br />*********************************<br /><br />Ego love is good, but limited, sometimes forced, or has an agenda (even carrying out the mental plan, "I'm going to be a loving person"). Spiritual love, on the other hand, is quite different. Spiritual love is more like turning up the wattage on a light bulb so everyone can bask in its soft, warm glow. It's an unlimited love, not forced, with no agenda other than channeling this other-worldly love you have discovered and and sharing it with others.<br /> ~ Jay Morgan<br /><br />*********************************<br /><br />truth is perfect and complete in itself. it always exists. it is not far away, but ever near. we do not walk to it, but our every step is made possible by it. therefore, do not follow other persons' thoughts and philosophy - but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. <br /> ~ shri brahmananda sarasva<br /><br />*********************************<br /><br />Everything you've ever done, every person you've ever met, every experience you've ever had, is a part of who you are today...adding interesting layers to your being, and colorful depths to your soul. Everything needed to be as it was, so you could grow as you did and do.<br /> ~ Karen Salmansohn<br /><br />*********************************<br /><br />Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.<br /> ~ Anne Lamott<br /><br />*********************************<br /><br />To love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret. All work is empty save when there is love, for work is love made visible.<br /> ~ Kahlil Gibran<br /><br />*********************************<br /><br />The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power.<br /> ~ Deepak Chopra<br /><br />*********************************<br /><br />When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.<br /> ~ Dale Archer<br /><br />*********************************<br /><br />The mind thinks of everything you can lose. The heart thinks of everything you can give, and the soul thinks of everything you are<br /> ~ Neale Donald Walsch<br /><br />*********************************<br /><br /><b>Open-ended experience</b><br /><br />What you’re able to do is not a function of what other people think of you or allow you to do. What you’re able to do depends on what you expect of yourself and on what you choose to do with your time.<br /><br />If you allow others to define you, then you enable them to control you. Choose instead to take full responsibility for your own life, and to do whatever is necessary to bring real fulfillment.<br /><br />The world will throw all sorts of assumptions your way about what is possible and what is not possible. Look beyond the presumptions and limitations that others imagine, and connect with your own highest vision of how life can be.<br /><br />The fact is, you can achieve what you set your mind and your efforts to achieve, with honor, integrity and joy. Life is an open-ended experience, and the results you achieve come from what you expect to achieve and what you work to achieve.<br /><br />Certainly, you can be fruitfully guided by the past experiences in your own life and in the lives of others. Yet nothing about what has already been has to stand in the way of the best you can now be.<br /><br />Focus less on what others think of you, and more on bringing your own unique beauty more fully to life. Make the commitment to live each moment with richness and authentic purpose, and show all of life how very much goodness you’re able to give.<br /> ~ Ralph Marston<br /><br />*********************************<br /><br /><b>Willingness to Feel</b><br />Opening to Understanding<br /><br />When we are resisting something based on a limited understanding, we must then open ourselves to willingness.<br /><br />There are times when we may find ourselves struggling or even fighting with our thoughts and emotions. We may feel that something must be done in a certain way or not at all, or there may be some other situation that feels absolutely black and white. But life is not this way ~ it's the way we are looking at our experiences that is causing the turmoil within us. When we become aware that the struggle we are having is with ourselves, we can turn our attention to the source in order to solve the problem, but we must be being willing to look where we need to and feel emotions that may make us uncomfortable at first. Then we can choose to really open ourselves to understanding all the options we can imagine. We are likely to discover that we are resisting something based on a limited understanding, and we must then open ourselves to willingness. <br /><br />When we are willing to look at all the possibilities, we also become willing to accept that there is room for more than we can imagine. We can release ourselves from the grip we had on our emotions and stop limiting ourselves. We may have been unwilling to experience feeling loss, confusion, fear, or even joy for some reason or another, but when we realize that our understanding was limited we allow space for the universe to move in our lives. <br /><br />Opening ourselves to willingness may feel like we are surrendering or abandoning all that we believed. But at the same time it is an act of power and courage because it is a conscious choice we make about how to apply our personal will. Being willing is to be in a state of willing something into creation. It is at once allowing ourselves to be while also choosing to direct our energy in a focused way. It is being and doing from a place of openness, where we can work with the universe rather than resist it. It is an open hand rather than one that is clenched into a fist. When we make a step toward willingness, we open ourselves to truth, possibility, and the movement of the wise universe in and through our lives.<br /> ~ Daily Om<br /><br />*********************************<br /><br /><b>SHE LET GO</b><br /><br />By Ernest Holmes<br /><br />She let go. Without a thought or word, she let go.<br />She let go of the fear. She let go of the judgments. She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head. She let go of the committee of indecision within her. She let go of all the "right" reasons. Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, <br />she just let go.<br /><br />She didn't ask anyone for advice. She didn't read a book on how to let go. <br />She didn't search the scriptures. She just let go. She let go of all the memories that held her back. She let go of all the anxiety that kept her from moving forward. She let go of the planning and all the calculations about how to do it just right.<br />She just let go.<br /><br />She didn't promise to let go. She didn't journal about it. She didn't write the projected date date in her Day-Timer. She made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper. She didn't check the weather report or read her daily horoscope. <br />She just let go.<br /><br />She didn't analyze whether she should let go. She didn't call her friends <br />to discuss the matter. She didn't do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment. <br />She didn't call the prayer line, She didn't utter one word. <br />She just let go.<br /><br />No one was around when it happened. There was no applause <br />or congratulations. No one thanked her or praised her. No one noticed <br />a thing. Like a leaf falling from a tree, <br />she just let go.<br /><br />There was no effort. There was no struggle. It wasn't good and it wasn't bad. It was what it was, and it is just that.<br /><br />In the space of letting go, she let it all be. A small smile came over her face. <br />A light breeze blew through her. <br />And the sun and the moon shone forever more.<br /><br />*************************************************<br /><br /><b>Notes from the Universe</b><br /><br />A main "Criterion of Consciousness" for the human experience, is never having all you want. For as one dream comes true, another swiftly takes its place. Not having all you want is one of life's constants. <br />And learning to be happy while not yet having all you want is the first "Criterion of Joy." Nail it, and for the rest of your life people will be asking what it is about you. <br /><br />Desire is a beautiful thing. <br /> The Universe<br /><br />****************************<br /><br />Do you ever wonder where all those glorious seconds, minutes, and hours go that recently poured through your fingers on an idle weekend or a cool evening, when suddenly you feel like you're racing the clock on some crazed, hurried weekday? <br /><br />Nowhere. They're still there, lazing around. They just look different when you focus upon what you haven't done, instead of what you have done. <br /><br />Your output is legendary, <br /> The Universe<br /><br />****************************</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />****************************<br /><br />Asking someone to change is like pruning a tree: neither will ever be the same again. <br /><br />Scarier still, is that you can't quite know in what new directions they'll grow. <br /><br />But hey, it's still your call. <br /><br />Tallyho, <br /> The Universe<br /><br />****************************<br /><br />Little else you say can change so much in the life of another as words of praise, compliments, or encouragement. <br /><br />Way to go, beautiful - <br /> The Universe<br /><br />****************************<br /><br />Go way out. <br /><br />Think beyond your present dreams, to the dreams you will have once they've already come true. <br /><br />And when you can clearly see that life and those dreams in your mind's eye - how confident you will walk and how proud you will feel - start walking and feeling like that today. <br /><br />Far out, <br /> The Universe<br /><br />*************************************************<br /><br /><b>'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks</b><br /><br />We come forth not to alter your beliefs, but to reacquaint you with the <i>Eternal Laws of the Universe </i>so that you may <i>intentionally</i> be the creator that you have come forth to be, for there is not another who attracts into your experience that which you are getting—you are doing it all. <br /><br />We come forth not to get you to believe anything, for there is not that which you believe that we do not want you to believe. And as we are viewing this wondrous physical Earth plane, we see great diversity in that which you believe—and in all of that diversity, there is perfect balance.<br /><br />****************************<br /><br />You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where you are and of who you are, and appreciation of what you are, and you accept that you are a never-ending, always unfolding Being, then you can stand in that delicate balance of being optimistic about what is to come, without being unhappy about where you stand. Find a way of eagerly anticipating future changes, while at the same time you are in love and satisfied with who, what, where and how you be.<br /><br />****************************<br /><br />A very good career choice would be to gravitate toward those activities and to embrace those desires that harmonize with your core intentions, which are freedom and growth—and joy. Make a "career" of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy. When feeling happy is of paramount importance to you—and what you do "for a living" makes you happy—you have found the best of all combinations.<br /><br />****************************<br /><br />If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them with your attention to them. Without knowing about <b>Law of Attraction</b>, you have — through your old habit of observation — achieved vibrational harmony with the parts of them that you do not like, and you keep summoning those parts from them by your constant vibrational offering of them.<br /><br />*************************************************<br /><br /><b>One Minute Motivator by Edward W. Smith</b><br /><br />If you want someone to pay attention to you, pay attention to him or her first. Look and act like you care, and actually caring is even better. Show interest. No one ever get into trouble by showing too much interest, enthusiasm, etc, for the things they are involved in. If you want special attention from your boss, coach, teacher, etc, you must pay special attention to them first. Do what they want, ask questions, pay attention, show up, etc? If you show interest, they will naturally share more time, information and support for you. And just by the fact that you are more interested, you will move ahead faster on you own, as well.<br /><br />****************************<br /><br />The master will appear, when the student is ready. This quote will help you to keep the faith that things will be there when you need them. Keep working on your goals, your projects, etc, even though you don't have all the answers. Things will appear; just when you need them the most and you will attain your goals, if you keep going.<br /><br />****************************<br /><br />You have two things that guarantee you can be successful. First you have potential you don't even know about and haven't tapped into yet. Second, you don't have much competition. Most people aren't going all out, not trying hard, or even trying. So if you want to be successful, give it your all and chances are you will make it.<br /><br />****************************<br /><br />Brian Tracy says that obstacles are instructions, not obstructions. When you hit a setback, step back and look at what it is telling you. You are off course, and need to get back on course. So figure out what the obstacle is telling you, then set a new course and go back at it.<br /><br />****************************<br /><br />Realize that you only have a certain number of days left, and then decide how you want to live them. Are you planning your life or your death? Most people think about death 2 times every 15 minutes. How often do you think of what you are going to do while you are still alive? Live each day with the understanding that it could be your final day and make sure you don't waste your precious time. Each night as you go to bed, be able to put your head on the pillow and say, "I'm glad I did", instead of "I'm sorry I did". Your life is going by second, by second, and it can work for you or against you. You have 86,400 seconds in a day, and it seems like a lot, but your future is determined by each one of those seconds. Your life is lived one second at a time, and you can squander those seconds or your can invest them, the choice is yours. Learn to value each day, because if you use the average life span of men of 74 and women of 77, and subtract how old you are now from that, you will see on average, how many years you have left to live. Don't you think you should start living your life now? Don't treat your life like you have a spare in the trunk. Live life for now, there is no dress rehearsal for life. Pay attention to how you live your life and whom you live it with. Life is very short and every second counts whether we know it or not. Take your life more seriously and pay attention to how you are spending your time. </span><br />tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-16084972825299653932012-04-18T21:03:00.000-07:002012-04-18T21:03:15.063-07:00Hump-Day Nuggets!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers – for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.<br />
~ Osho<br />
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That is how authentic power is created—intention by intention, and choice by choice. You cannot wish it, pray it or meditate it.<br />
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Disappointment, hurt, and sadness come from the expectations we put on people, events, and situations. Instead of loving others simply to love them and doing things simply because you want to, so many do and love for what we hope to get back in return. When you begin to live from the pureness of LOVE and give from your soul, you will come to find that nobody and no situation can make you feel a certain way. Plant both feet firmly in the ground and keep your heart and spirit centered and you will find that joy, love, peace, and happiness will always be a steady, unshakable force in your life.<br />
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If there were ever a time to dare, to make a difference, to embark on something worth doing, it is now. Not for any grand cause, necessarily, but for something that tugs at your heart, something that's your aspiration, something that's your dream. You owe it to yourself to make your days here count. Have fun. Dig deep. Stretch. Dream big.<br />
~ Unknown<br />
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I have every reason in the world to be happy. I have one to a thousand reasons to feel good. Today, I count my blessings. I let the sun shine inside my heart and I see in its light the dazzling beauty that's within me. I see my strength, I see my compassion, I see my love, and I see my joy. I choose to feel connected, I choose to feel alive in this moment and I choose to feel good, happy, and whole. My life is good and I am blessed.<br />
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.<br />
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Gratitude is more than saying thank you. The real power of gratitude comes from making meaningful and valuable use of those things for which you are thankful.<br />
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It’s nice to be appreciative. It’s even better to put that appreciation into action by being creative and productive.<br />
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Life is overwhelmingly abundant. The way to enjoy and benefit from that abundance is by putting it to purposeful use.<br />
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In this place, in this moment, you are a vital steward of life’s great abundance. You have the opportunity, and the responsibility, of transforming that abundance into unique value.<br />
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Whatever may be going on in your world, be truly thankful for it. And then put that gratitude into action by making a positive difference.<br />
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Life’s goodness is not meant to be hidden away and hoarded. Life’s goodness is best used for making even more.<br />
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<b>No Going Back</b><br />
Every Step Is Forward<br />
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Sometimes during our spiritual growth we can feel as if we are going backwards, rest assured you are not. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
There are times when we feel that we are spinning our wheels in the mud in terms of our spiritual progress. This can be especially true following a period of major growth in which we feel as if we've gained a lot of ground. In fact, this is the way growth goes ~ periods of intense forward movement give way to periods of what seems like stagnation. In those moments when we feel discouraged, it's helpful to remember that we don't ever really go backward. It may be that we are at a standstill because there is a new obstacle in our paths, or a new layer to get through, but the hard work we have done cannot be undone. <br />
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Every step on the path is meaningful, and even one that seems to take us backward is a forward step in the sense that it is what we must do to move to the next level. In addition, an intense growth spurt requires that we rest for a time in order to fully integrate the new energies that have been liberated by our hard work. When we feel we are not making progress, we can encourage ourselves to take a moment to rest. We can meditate more, feed ourselves well, and get extra sleep. Before we know it, we will be spurred on to work toward the next level of our development, and this rest will make sense then as something we needed in order to continue. <br />
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Once the sun rises, it doesn't go backward but instead follows its path in one direction. It may appear to stand still for a moment in time, or to move more slowly at some point or another, but really it is steadily moving forward on its path. We are the same way, and once we have moved through something we can never really go back. We may be resting or revisiting issues that seem old, and it's natural to feel stuck, but in truth we are always taking the next important step forward on our path.<br />
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<b>Notes from the Universe</b><br />
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Of course, anger can always be justified. <br />
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But then, so can forgiveness. <br />
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Just depends on how much more you want from the adventure. <br />
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What if today was your day? The most amazing day of your life, so far? A day that would change everything for the better? What's already good would become great. What's already great would become amazing. And what's already amazing would become the stuff of legends.<br />
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And all you had to do to take advantage of the good and wonderful things about to happen for you, was treat folks with a true and eager kindness, think mostly of those things that please you, and go out in the world, just a bit, where you could meet, and mingle, and fall in love?<br />
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How much would you be clucking right now? Thumbs under your armpits, getting funky? Bobbing your head?<br />
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Start clucking baby! Beam, gush, preen! You got it...<br />
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Honor them, love them, help them, heal them, but above all else, free them.<br />
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Everyone, of course -<br />
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Your entire life is a work of art. And as is true of all masterpieces, everything has meaning and is important, which includes your me-time, shopping, day dreaming, dessert selections, idle chats, and walkabouts.<br />
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One day people will study you,<br />
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The better you feel, emotionally, the more you are allowing your alignment with Source. The worse you feel, the more you are resisting Source. When no resistance is being offered by you, your natural state of alignment resumes—and so does the alignment between your cells and their Source.<br />
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The more good-feeling thoughts you focus upon, the more you allow the cells of your body to thrive. You will notice a marked improvement in clarity, agility, stamina, and vigor, for you are literally breathing your way to Well-Being, until chronic feelings of appreciation, love, eagerness, and joy will confirm that you have released all resistance and are now allowing Well-Being.<br />
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Recipe for Joy<br />
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1 - Seek joy first and foremost. 2 - Seek reasons to laugh. 3 - Seek reasons to offer words of praise to self and others. 4 - Seek beauty in nature, beasts and other humans. 5 -Seek reasons to love in every segment of every day. 6 - Look for something that brings forth within you a feeling of love. 7 - Seek that which uplifts you. 8 - Seek opportunity to offer that which uplifts another. 9 - Seek a feeling of well-being. 10 - Know that your value can only be measured in terms of joy.<br />
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And Number 11: Acknowledge your absolute freedom to do any of these things or not do any of these things, for it is without exception your choice in every moment of every day.<br />
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Show interest. No one ever gets in trouble by showing too much interest, too much enthusiasm, etc, for the things they are involved it. People like you to show interest in what they are interested in, so if you want them to be interested in you, you have to be interested in what they are interested in.<br />
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Just because you feel fear, doesn't mean you can't do the thing you are afraid of. Fear has certain benefits in that it alerts you to possible problems, so it is a good check for things that can go wrong. Once you are aware of the possible problems, fear has done its job and you should move on, either through the thing you are afraid of, or take another route. The key thing is to move. Feel the fear and move; which way, is up to you.<br />
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"It is waste to walk anywhere to preach, unless you preach everywhere you walk". Make you actions fit your talk. Talk the talk and walk the walk, be consistent in the things you say and do. You will fool no one but yourself if you aren't consistent in your talk and actions.<br />
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Grow through an experience, rather than just go through the experience. Everything that you are exposed to, good or bad, is an experience. And experience can be a great teacher. Some of the worst people or events you are exposed to can be good learning experiences for you. Don't shut off learning, just because you are not happy, or even if you are very happy. Learn from everything, both the good and the bad. </span>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-83267102923061153072012-04-12T20:49:00.000-07:002012-04-12T20:49:59.682-07:00Weekend's-almost-here nuggets! :-)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigSTWQFSKpV1NQ-QNNhjRILztcKFAcSkj1NzbwmwzDxB2xSVVPCg7rG62zVEow-RIXrLktgUriQJgKDwhuDoFhReBfShQDq5pYEtpqcltIdW-kIqOeIlnBUmbN-_fGvgrF-IAXhKEWLLA/s1600/beauty+has+no+other+but+what+created+beuty-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigSTWQFSKpV1NQ-QNNhjRILztcKFAcSkj1NzbwmwzDxB2xSVVPCg7rG62zVEow-RIXrLktgUriQJgKDwhuDoFhReBfShQDq5pYEtpqcltIdW-kIqOeIlnBUmbN-_fGvgrF-IAXhKEWLLA/s320/beauty+has+no+other+but+what+created+beuty-1.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Here is your assignment...</b> </span><br />
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<b>1. You Will Receive A Body.</b><br />
You may like it or not, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.<br />
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<b>2. You Will Learn Lessons.</b><br />
You are enrolled in a full-time, informal school called Life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.<br />
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<b>3. There Are No Mistakes, Only Lessons.</b><br />
Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much as part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works".<br />
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<b>4. A Lesson Is Repeated Until it Is Learned.</b><br />
A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it, then you can go on to the next lesson.<br />
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<b>5. Learning Lessons Does Not End. </b><br />
There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.<br />
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<b>6. "There" Is No Better Than "Here".</b><br />
When your "there" has become "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will, again, look better than "here".<br />
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<b>7. Others Are Merely Mirrors Of You.</b><br />
You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.<br />
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<b>8. What You Make of Your Life is Up To You.</b><br />
You have all the tools and resources you need, what you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.<br />
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<b>9. The Answers Life Inside You.</b><br />
The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look listen, and trust.<br />
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<b>10. Whether You Think You Can Or Can't, In Either Case You'll Be Right.</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Think about it.</b> </span><br />
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<b>Easter Exultet</b></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Shake out your qualms.</div><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Shake up your dreams.<br />
Deepen your roots.<br />
Extend your branches.<br />
Trust deep water<br />
and head for the open,<br />
even if your vision<br />
shipwrecks you.<br />
Quit your addiction<br />
to sneer and complain.<br />
Open a lookout.<br />
Dance on a brink.<br />
Run with your wildfire.<br />
You are closer to glory<br />
leaping an abyss<br />
than upholstering a rut.<br />
Not dawdling.<br />
Not doubting.<br />
Intrepid all the way<br />
Walk toward clarity.<br />
At every crossroad<br />
Be prepared<br />
to bump into wonder.<br />
Only love prevails.<br />
En route to disaster<br />
insist on canticles.<br />
Lift your ineffable<br />
out of the mundane.<br />
Nothing perishes;<br />
nothing survives;<br />
everything transforms!<br />
Honeymoon with Big Joy!<br />
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is <i>giving up on being perfect</i> and beginning the work of becoming yourself.<br />
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<b>Starting New</b><br />
A Moment of Choice<br />
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We can choose to start over in this very moment, there is no need to wait for a new year or a new month or a new week.<br />
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There are times in our lives that lend themselves to starting something new. The beginning of a new year, finishing school, leaving a job, or changing homes ~ these all are times that turn our minds to fresh starts. Their advantage is that they bring with them the energy of that event, creating a tide of change around them that we can ride to our next shoreline. But we can choose to start anew anytime. In any moment we can decide that a bad day or a relationship that‚s gotten off on the wrong foot can be started again. It is a mental shift that allows us to clean the slate and approach anything with fresh eyes, and we can make that choice at any time.<br />
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Starting new is most powerful when we focus our attention to what we are choosing to create. Giving all of our attention to the unwanted aspects of our lives allows what we resist to persist. We need to remember to leave enough room in the process of new beginnings to be kind to ourselves, because it takes time to become accustomed to anything new, no matter how much we like it. There is no need to get down on ourselves if we don‚t reach our new goals instantly. Instead, we acknowledge the forward motion and choose to reset and start again, knowing that with each choice we learn, grow, and move forward. <br />
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Making the choice to start anew has its own energy ~ it's a promise made to you. The forward momentum creates a sort of vacuum behind it, pulling toward you all you need to help you continue moving in your chosen direction. Once the journey has begun, it may take unexpected turns, but it never really ends. Like cycles in nature, there are periods of obvious growth and periods of dormancy that signal a time of waiting for the right moment to burst forth. Each time we choose to start anew we dedicate ourselves to becoming the best we are able to be.<br />
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<b>Loving Presence</b><br />
Surround Yourself with Love<br />
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One of the easiest and nicest gifts you can give to yourself is surrounding yourself with loving and kind people whenever possible.<br />
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In our everyday life we are surrounded by a variety of people. Some of the people we deal with on a daily basis are a joy to be with, and their loving presence nurtures and encourages us. Others may have the opposite effect, draining us of our energy, making us feel tired and exhausted. Our well-being can be easily influenced by those around us, and if we can keep this in mind, we will have greater insights into the quality of our social interactions and their energetic effect on us. <br />
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Once we think more deeply about the people we interact with, it becomes easier for us to work toward filling our lives with people who help us cultivate healthy and positive relationships. Even though it might not always seem like we have much control over who we are with, we do. The power to step back from toxicity lies within us. All we have to do is take a few moments to reflect on how another person makes you feel. Assessing the people we spend the most time with allows us to see if they add something constructive to, or subtract from, our lives. Should a friend sap our strength, for example, we can simply set the intention to tell them how we feel or simply spend less time with them. We will find that the moment we are honest with ourselves about our own feelings, the more candid we can be with others about how they make us feel. While this may involve some drastic changes to our social life it can bring about a personal transformation that will truly empower us, since ! the decision to live our truth will infuse our lives with greater happiness. <br />
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When we surround ourselves with positive people, we clear away the negativity that exists around us and create more room to welcome nurturing energy. Doing this not only enriches our lives but also envelopes us in a supportive and healing space that fosters greater growth, understanding, and love of ourselves as well as those we care about.</span><table><tbody>
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Feeling Lonely</b><br />
An Incomplete Understanding<br />
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When we are feeling lonely, we have lost the idea that we are all one and none of us are separate from the whole.<br />
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We all have days when we feel lonely, but the very idea of loneliness comes from the false notion that we are separate and isolated parts in a world filled with other separate, isolated parts. In truth, we can no more be separate from our world than a fish can be separate from the water in which it swims. When we really begin to look at the boundaries we see as so solid, they prove to be, in fact, quite porous. For example, it is not clear exactly where our skin ends and the air begins when we consider how our skin is affected by changes in the quality of the air. When it is dry, our skin becomes dry, and when it is humid, our skin becomes moist and supple. <br />
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By the same token, it is difficult sometimes to distinguish the boundary between one person and another, especially when our actions tie us together so inextricably. Every move we make has an effect that touches all the people around us. On an even more subtle level, when we share space with another person, we often pick up on their energy, feeling how they feel and attuning to them, whether we mean to or not. This is what we mean when we say a mood or a feeling is contagious. We cannot help but be part of the realities of the people around us because we take form from the same energetic force, and this force unifies all life. This force is the light that all the great mystics and gurus encourage us to move toward, and it is the light we will dissolve into when we move beyond our individual egos. <br />
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If loneliness is a temporary condition based on an incomplete understanding of what we are made of, we can think of its presence as a catalyst for exploring our ideas about reality. We can respond by testing the boundaries we believe separate us from the life within and all around us. If we test them, we will discover that they are not so solid after all and that we can never really be alone.<br />
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<b><u>Daily Motivator by Ralph Marston</u></b><br />
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<b>Promise yourself</b><br />
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Promise yourself that you will make the most of this priceless moment. Promise yourself you will direct your attention and your efforts toward those things that have real meaning and purpose.<br />
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Promise yourself that you will be yourself, in a truly loving, authentic and effective way, in all that you do. Promise yourself you won’t waste your valuable time on useless anger, resentment, envy or worry.<br />
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Remind yourself what an extraordinary opportunity you have on even the most ordinary of days. Show yourself how great and fulfilling life can be with the way you choose to live each moment.<br />
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Give yourself good and compelling reasons to get up each day and get going in a positive and productive manner. Give yourself great, wonderful, special dreams that are absolutely worth living for.<br />
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Allow yourself to see the value and beauty in every situation. Tell yourself, again and again, how fortunate you are to be able to zero in on the positive possibilities and use them to make a real difference in life.<br />
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<b>Be inspiring</b><br />
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Common sense would tell you that it’s difficult to be positive and inspired when the circumstances of your life are negative or painful or disheartening. Yet it is at precisely those times that inspiration can be the most beneficial.<br />
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Certainly there are many things in life that can lead you and prompt you to be inspired. However, even without any positive factors in the outside world, you can be positively inspired.<br />
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Inspiration is a powerful fire that burns on the inside. Sometimes there’s nothing else to ignite that fire, so you must do it yourself.<br />
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Sometimes life’s experience doesn’t validate or encourage your most deeply held values. But that’s not any reason to abandon those values.<br />
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Instead of always depending on the world to inspire you, choose to be a brilliant, positive source of inspiration yourself. The spark of inspiration must begin somewhere, so if life seems to lack inspiration, let that spark begin with you.<br />
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The most reliable way to be inspired is to be inspiring. Feel the simple, yet profound joy of being, and let your positive spirit shine a light that lifts up all those around you.<br />
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<b><u>Notes from the Universe</u></b><br />
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As you know, for those already within time and space, their lives are usually all about finding love and making money.<br />
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Yet not so long ago, while awaiting their first turn, breathing would have been enough. <br />
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So much air, so little time -<br />
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Your generosity is making a name for you here in the unseen, while at the same time rattling the floodgates there on the plane of manifestation.<br />
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I bet you're good at chess...<br />
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Check,<br />
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Wild, huh, how the entirety of living deliberately can be summed up in just three words?<br />
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Thoughts become things.<br />
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Of course, beliefs are important too, but your thoughts can change what you believe.<br />
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And words are important, they're your thoughts that will become things the soonest.<br />
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And taking action is absolutely critical, because more than anything else, it creates expectation.<br />
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Spread the word,<br />
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Everything is optional, and every option holds a promise, and in every promise there's a plan for the "best of your life." <br />
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So, whatever you chose, or may yet choose, celebrate it. <br />
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To the conga line, "HEY!" -<br />
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Some of the things that hurt us here the most are your regrets over the past, insecurities over downtime, and self-doubts over decisions to be made.<br />
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Heck, the past was only warm-up practice, downtime gives us a chance to set a new stage, and it's you we call "the boss."<br />
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<b><u>The Teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks</u></b><br />
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In your world today there are countless action remedies, medicines, surgeries, and exercises offered—but there are not enough actions in the world to compensate for Vibrational resistance. Our daily meditations will provide a basis, or nucleus, for physical improvement; and it will also enhance any other treatments and remedies that you may already be involved in.<br />
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Since every disease or unwanted condition exists because Well-Being is being disallowed, then, in the absence of that disallowance, Well-Being will return.<br />
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It is a common thing for people to begin to lean in the direction of recovery, only to stop and take score too soon. And when they still find unwanted symptoms or conditions, they then offer resistant thought and lose the improved ground they have gained. With consistent releasing of resistance, all unwanted conditions will subside, returning you to your natural state of Well-Being.<br />
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Many around you want to point out "reality" to you. They say, "Face the facts. Look at what-is." And we say to you, <i>if you are able to see only what-is — then, by Law of Attraction, you will create only more of what-is... You must be able to put your thoughts beyond what-is in order to attract something different or something more.</i><br />
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<b><u>One Minute Motivator by Edward W. Smith</u></b><br />
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Learn to say no to people that are wasting your time. Be polite, but say no. You have your goals, your commitments, and you still take time to be helpful, however everyone has their limits. Learn to say no to those things that are clearly out of your area, you will save time for yourself and you will let the person asking for your help, move on to someone that can really help them. Time is all you have, so learn to guard it carefully and of course use it wisely. Say no to people and things when you need to.<br />
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Don't just pursue your goal. Wear your goal, live your goal, inhabit it, act it, taste it. Make it your total being. Goals that you are not committed to are just nice ideas of something you would like to do someday. Goals that you live are ideas about to happen. East, sleep and of course dream your goals and they will be yours.<br />
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Do you know what to do when you make a mistake? Move on. Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone fixes them. Fix the mistake as best you can, learn from the mistake, and then move on. Don't focus on the mistake, focus on how you learned from it and can do better next time. You can be a better person as a result of making a mistake, make sure you are, and then move on.<br />
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<b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br />
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Imagine and feel having the health you want in your body. If you want to restore your eyesight, give love for perfect vision and imagine having it. Give love for perfect hearing and imagine having it. Give love for the perfect weight, perfect body, perfect health of an organ, and imagine having it, and be utterly grateful for everything you do have! Your body will change into whatever you want, but it can only do it through feelings of love and gratitude.<br />
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When a young, fit woman was told she had a rare heart disease, her life crumbled around her. She suddenly felt weak and fragile. Her future - a normal, healthy life - had disappeared with the prognosis. She was terrified of leaving her two young daughters motherless. But this woman decided she was going to do everything she could to heal her heart.<br />
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She refused to entertain any negative thoughts about her heart. She placed her right hand on her heart every day and imagined her strong, healthy heart. Every morning when she woke, she gave the deepest thanks for her strong, healthy heart. She imagined the cardiologists telling her that she was cured. She did these things every day for four months, and when her cardiologist checked her heart four months later, they were dumbfounded. They checked and rechecked the old tests against the new test, because the new test showed that the woman's heart was perfectly strong and healthy.<br />
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This woman lived according to love's law of attraction. She did not own the prognosis of a diseased heart in her mind, but she gave love for a healthy heart, and she owned a healthy heart instead. If you are facing any kind of illness, do your best not to own it with your thoughts and words. Don't hate an illness either, because that is giving negativity to it. Instead, give love to health, own health, and make it yours.<br />
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<i>"Keep your mind as much as you can from dwelling on your ailment. Think of strength and power and you will draw it to you. Think of health and you get it." </i><br />
~ Prentice Mulford <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">,</span> New Thought Author </span>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-62220163487500773002012-04-04T18:40:00.000-07:002012-04-04T18:40:40.531-07:00Hump-day crayzee catch-up nuggets!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmUYEtfYO5-sptzkWNdlGPp840lujsv9CwDFzmfQN2jTNZ2ZO011FlynqXZUF9NUjGg8cx5C8YsjqauEi4ItWKJN5J80-l8k8YAfyDt4ZyUozYDCcFpjGaWvv_TVxHnAcxm-HqExhdzqo/s1600/butterfly-gratitude.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmUYEtfYO5-sptzkWNdlGPp840lujsv9CwDFzmfQN2jTNZ2ZO011FlynqXZUF9NUjGg8cx5C8YsjqauEi4ItWKJN5J80-l8k8YAfyDt4ZyUozYDCcFpjGaWvv_TVxHnAcxm-HqExhdzqo/s320/butterfly-gratitude.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
FINALLY....some nuggets! I cannot express just how crayzed my life has been in and out of my office the past couple of weeks, so it's been difficult to get these out. . . but here they are just in time for Hump Day! So let them marinate...and enjoy :-)<br />
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You are already perfect. You don't have to listen to anything that doubts that. Inadequacy is just a thought.<br />
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Kindness is a most edifying form of instant gratification.<br />
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We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using. When we stay close to the wisdom of our own knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart, and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.<br />
~ Marianne Williamson<br />
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Accept—then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it...This will miraculously transform your whole life.<br />
~ Eckhart Tolle<br />
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Raise yourself to the level of energy where you <i>are</i> the ligght you seek, where you <i>are</i> the happiness you desire, where you <i>are</i> the love you feel is missing, where you <i>are</i> the unlimited abundance you crave.<br />
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Just remember, if you find yourself stressed today, take a step back, inhale and laugh. Try it, you'll see it works! Remember who you are and why you're here. You're never given anything in this world you can't handle. Be strong, be flexible, love yourself, love others. Always remember, just keeping moving. Oh, don't forget... don't sweat the small stuff!<br />
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<b><u>Daily Motivator by Ralph Marston</u></b><br />
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<b>Today is a choice</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Today is a choice. Choose to make it beautiful and productive.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Today is filled with challenges, opportunities, frustrations, possibilities and much more. Choose to make good and meaningful use of it all.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">No matter what you have chosen or failed to choose in the past, today you can choose to live at your highest, most fulfilling level. No matter what today brings, you can respond with love, kindness, joy, gratitude and genuine enthusiasm for making a positive difference.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In all of time, today is the one day with which you can now work. Today you can choose to express the miracle of existence in a way that is uniquely yours.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Today, you can choose to lift up and strengthen the values and visions that truly mean the most to you. Today you can choose to rise above the petty negativity and to focus on bringing new beauty and richness to life.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Today is a choice, and you are in a position to make it the smartest, most loving, authentic and meaningful choice you’ve ever made. Today is your choice, so choose to make it the best one yet.</span><br />
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<b>Let it all be</b><br />
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Do your best at doing what you do, and accept that the rest is as it is. Hold yourself to the highest standards, while letting go of your need to place judgments on others.<br />
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Free yourself from the burdens of anger and resentment. No amount of negativity can change what has already happened.<br />
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Tap into life’s immense abundance by gracefully and gratefully accepting what is. Give richness and meaning to that abundance by putting it to good use with focused effort and persistence.<br />
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Nothing is achieved by getting uptight about things that don’t really matter anyway. Let it all be, take it all in, and put all your focus and energy into making a positive difference going forward.<br />
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Make life good in every moment by allowing life’s goodness to be and to grow. Instead of fighting against what has already come to be, make a point of finding the value in it all, and in making that value grow.<br />
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From here, you can go anywhere. Let this moment be, and rise from it into the reality of the very best life you can envision.<br />
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<b>Love Shows the Way</b><br />
We Are Here to Serve<br />
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When we open our hearts in love instead of closing them in fear, we serve the divine process.<br />
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We are living in a time of great change. Many thinkers and seers agree that humanity and the planet Earth are evolving at a quickened pace, and that this evolution will necessarily be severe and seemingly chaotic at times. It is natural for people to react with fear, because these changes will doubtless bring some level of difficulty and loss to many of us. However, it is essential that we all remember that our souls chose to be here at this time and to be part of this process. Every movement in the universe is a movement toward love. This is true even in situations that appear on the surface to be the opposite of loving. <br />
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Since we chose to be here, we are capable and ready to rise to the challenges in which we find ourselves. It is helpful to reflect on our own lives and make any changes necessary to fully support humanity and the planet into the state of love. When we open our hearts in love instead of closing them in fear, we serve the divine process. We are all powerful spirits who took form at this time in order to serve our fellow humans, our planet, and the universe. As we find ways we can serve, our fear dissipates. We may serve by remaining calm and loving with our children and our families, even as the situation seems dark. We may serve by sending money to people who need financial assistance. We may serve by going out into the world and actively helping to rebuild lives. Regardless of what actions we choose to take, the essential element will be the internal gesture of choosing to remain in love. This is all that is needed. <br />
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When it is difficult to remain in love, we may always call upon our unseen helpers: the teachers and guides who are always with us. All we need to do is ask and then trust that we are being helped. The guidance we receive is love itself, showing us the way<br />
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<b>Seeing Inside</b><br />
Sight Versus Vision<br />
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Vision comes from within and shows us how to navigate the realms of thought, feeling, and emotion.<br />
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Sight is the ability to see the physical world while vision is the gift of seeing beyond it. Sight enables us to take the physical world in so we can participate in it with knowledge. It brings us pleasure through our eyes, which perceive the colors and shapes of all the myriad expressions of nature and human beings. It helps us feel in control, allowing us to see what is coming toward us, which way we are going, and exactly where we are standing at a given moment. We are able to read signs and books, navigate the interiors of buildings with ease, sense and perceive how a person is feeling by the expressions that cross her face. <br />
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As anyone who has lost their eyesight can tell you, though, there are things that are clearer when you cannot see the world through your eyes. One of the reasons many meditation instructors advise sitting with the eyes closed is because we automatically become more in touch with our inner world when we are not distracted by the outer world. It is in this state that vision becomes our mode of seeing. Vision comes from within and shows us how to navigate the realms of thought, feeling, and emotion. It enables us to see things that aren‚t yet manifested in the world of form, and it also connects us to that part of ourselves that exists separately from the world of form. <br />
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As we age, even those of us with perfect eyesight will generally lose some of our acuity, but this loss is usually replaced with inner vision. This is the time of life when we are meant to turn inside and take what are sometimes the very first steps of a journey that cannot be traced on a map. We call upon intuition and feel our way along a path that ultimately carries us beyond the realm we can see with our eyes and into the land of spirit.<br />
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<b><u>Notes from the Universe</u></b><br />
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Always, kindness prevails. No matter how things appear, nor how humbling a task, nor how unkind they've been. <br />
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Would it be enough to know (and you can know this through deductive reasoning), that long ago, when the two of us carefully mapped out your pending adventure into the jungles of time and space: the hills and valleys you would traverse; the setbacks and advances you would encounter; the good, the bad, and the ugly, and all of the lives you would touch; when our planning was done and the "big picture" was revealed... <br />
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You burst into tears of joy, overwhelmed with its perfection and who you'd become.<br />
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Fear, like joy, usually means that you're exactly where you should be, learning what you're ready to learn, about to become more than who you were.<br />
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Whoohoo!!<br />
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Happiness always returns. <br />
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You know, in case you should ever sense its absence. <br />
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It's been so long, I'm quite sure you've forgotten our secret handshake, haven't you?<br />
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Hmmmm...<br />
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How about our code for saying, "I love you"?<br />
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Dang... <br />
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Then I doubt you'll recall my solemn promise to let you know once you began approaching exactly the right time and exactly the right place, with enough life lessons under your belt to enable you to finally stop struggling, start soaring, and begin living the life of your wildest dreams?<br />
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Well, if not, the following might not make much sense:<br />
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"You're getting hot! Steaming hot! Really HOT!! Ouch, you're so hot! Smoking, red-hot-chili-pepper, volcano, extremely, DOUBLE-HOT! HOT! HOT! NOW, NOW-W-W-W-W-W-W!"<br />
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I $l%o^v1e you,<br />
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<b><u>The Teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks</u></b><br />
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"Do I have a responsibility to make the whole world beat to my drum?" No, nor could you. You beat your drum, and the Universe will respond to the drum that you are beating… There are as many different worlds being lived by as many different perceivers of the world as there are perceivers of the worlds.<br />
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You never get it done, and you cannot get it wrong. Life is supposed to be fun: you are creator, you are a focusing mechanism, and you are here in an environment that is very conducive to that. When you get hold of an idea, play it out for the pleasure in it. If you are doing it for any other reason, then you are not connecting to your Source Energy.<br />
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So, the truth is, there's not one path. The truth is, there's not only one right path. The truth is, all paths can be made to be the right path. The truth is, that every individual has a different path. And that different path that every individual is launching incrementally—and amending constantly—that true path is known by Source and is guided by Source if you will pay attention to the way you feel.<br />
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Parents don't want their children to make the wrong decisions, so they don't allow them to make the decision. And then the child becomes dependent, and then the parent resents that, and it gets off into a blameful thing early on. If you are encouraging children to do all that they can do — and not squelching the natural eagerness that is within them, so that they can shine and thrive and show you and themselves how good they are at adapting to physical experience — then everyone wins.<br />
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The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination — that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.<br />
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Focus is power. You get what you focus on. This can be good or bad. If you have negative focus, you will tend to have negative results, and positive focus, tends to have positive results. Focus brings all your power together and enables you to do things in one area that you couldn't do without focus. It is a powerful tool and it can be misused. Keep focusing, and make sure it is on positive things, and you will move towards what you want.<br />
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When you don't feel like working, ask yourself what your competition is doing right now. Chances are that you will think of them working in some way, and you are probably right. Put yourself in a position, so that when you think of the competition, you think of them as still in bed, while you are our working, preparing, training, etc.. You need to work harder, smarter and longer than your competition, if you want to beat them. Get up earlier, stay up later, and stay focused on beating your competition. And you will.<br />
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Don't take rejection personally. Everyone encounters rejection, every day. But not everyone handles it well. Some people quit, some people cut back, but others press on. Be the one who presses on. Most things in life are a numbers game. You have to make x amounts of try's before you get what you want. We just don't know what the magic number is, and the only way we find out, is to make those tries, until you make it. While others are quitting, or cutting back, you should say to yourself, "I am one step closer to making it now". The only thing you should take personally is the wins.<br />
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Make one small change that moves you toward you goal, now. Small changes lead to big changes, they build your confidence, and they give you feedback you are on the right track. Don't hold off making a change until you are ready to make that really big change. That time will never come. Start now and put a series of small changes together and before long, you will be where you want to be, and hardly realize you did it.<br />
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Your attitude is contagious. This can be good or bad. If your attitude is negative, that negativity will spread to others. On the other hand, if your attitude is positive, that will spread to others as well. If you want to be around people that are positive, we need to start the process and be positive first. Most things that you want will come to you faster in a positive environment, so take the steps needed to create a positive focus, by being positive yourself.<br />
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<b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br />
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Before you eat food or drink water, look at what you're about to eat or drink and feel love and gratitude. Make sure your conversations are positive when you are sitting down to a meal.<br />
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Blessing food gives love and gratitude for food. As you bless food, you change the structure of the water in the food and its effect on your body. Blessing water with love and gratitude does the same thing. Your positive feelings of love can change the structure of water in everything - so use the power.<br />
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You can give love and gratitude and use their power while receiving any medical treatment. If you can imagine being well, you can <i>feel</i> being well, and if you can feel it, you can receive it. To see your health improve, all you have to do is give love more than 50 percent of the time. Just 51 percent is the tipping point from sickness to health.<br />
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When having your eyesight checked or blood pressure checked, or if you're having a general checkup, receiving results from tests, or anything concerning your health, it is very important that you are feeling good during it and while receiving the results, in order to receive a good outcome. By the law of attraction, the outcome of the checkup or tests must match the frequency you're on, so to bring the good outcome you want, you must be on the frequency to receive it! Life does not happen the other way around. The outcome of every situation in your life will always match your frequency because that is the law of attraction! To get yourself onto a good feeling frequency about a test, imagine the outcome you want and feel that you have already received that outcome. Every possible outcome can happen, but you must be on a good feeling frequency to receive good outcomes.<br />
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<i> "Possibilities and miracles mean the same thing." </i><br />
~ Prentice Mulford (1834-1891)<br />
New Thought Author </span>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-22345191675713719472012-03-23T20:57:00.000-07:002012-03-23T20:57:39.688-07:00Nuggets to celebrate our first weekend of Spring...at last! :-)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3lPccw8OV73kzU0R2_fj6Im2PM2w9OEuaH5mC-hZrJEAX2IEPIuzsEDMkNuEr8MnfSYXVP4eXmaGUPcskK3PYgX-kXCpHTvrwwChGUbqQ-7iYcROqMsfGB5QR0WCzaDu_64TBQrWoWg/s1600/cherry-blossom-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3lPccw8OV73kzU0R2_fj6Im2PM2w9OEuaH5mC-hZrJEAX2IEPIuzsEDMkNuEr8MnfSYXVP4eXmaGUPcskK3PYgX-kXCpHTvrwwChGUbqQ-7iYcROqMsfGB5QR0WCzaDu_64TBQrWoWg/s320/cherry-blossom-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">TGIF!!! have a lovely weekend :-)</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.<br />
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Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.<br />
~ Miranda July<br />
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.<br />
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.<br />
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The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.<br />
~ Napoleon Hill<br />
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.<br />
~ Emily Dickinson<br />
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If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.<br />
~ Deepak Chopra<br />
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The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.<br />
~ Deepak Chopra <br />
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<b>Get busy living</b><br />
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Today is a new day. Fill it with new experience.<br />
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You have the extremely valuable opportunity today to grow. Take full advantage of that opportunity.<br />
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There are things you enjoy that you don’t yet know you enjoy. Explore the possibilities, and discover some of those things.<br />
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There is beauty that will thrill your soul that you have not yet encountered. Get going, get out there, get busy living, and find that new beauty.<br />
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If all you ever do is stay right where you are, you’ll never know how truly magnificent your life can be. Step enthusiastically out of your comfortable rut, and into the bright, beautiful world of new possibilities.<br />
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Just around that corner you’ve never before turned, there’s a whole new path to fulfillment. Get busy living, and fill your life with the richness you don’t even know you’re missing.<br />
~ Ralph Marston<br />
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<b>Daily OM</b><br />
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<b>The Music of Language</b><br />
Words Are Energy<br />
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Each word we speak has a life of its own, a vibratory signature that creates waves into the expanse of the universe.<br />
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When we speak or write, we use the vehicles of words to carry meaning, as well as energy, from ourselves to another person or group of people. We may be speaking to our baby, our boss, or to an audience of 500 people. We may be writing a love letter, a work-related memo, or an entry in our own diary. Whatever the case, each word we speak or write has a life of its own, a vibratory signature that creates waves in the same way that a note of music creates waves. And like musical notes, our words live in communities of other words and change in relation to the words that surround them. When we are conscious of the energy behind our words, we become capable of making beautiful music in the world. If we are unconscious of the power of words, we run the risk of creating a noisy disturbance. <br />
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Some of us know this instinctively, while others come to this understanding slowly. Most of us, though, speak without thinking at least some of the time, blurting out our feelings and thoughts without much regard for the words we choose to express them. When we remind ourselves that our words have an impact on the world at the level of energy, we may find within ourselves the desire to be more aware of our use of language. <br />
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A fun way to increase our sensitivity to the power of words is to simply make a list of our favorite words and notice the energy they contain. We can write them down and post them where we can see them, or we can speak them aloud, feeling them reverberate in our bodies and in the air around us. This is like learning to consciously play an instrument that we have been playing unconsciously for most of our lives, and the effect can be startling and delightful. As we grow more comfortable and confident playing the instrument of language, we will begin to compose beautiful messages, creating positive energy every time we write or speak.<br />
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<b>Without a Net</b><br />
Living Life with Trust<br />
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When we continually live our life with a safety net it creates a barrier to our freedom.<br />
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As we create the life of our dreams, we often reach a crossroads where the choices seem to involve the risk of facing the unknown versus the safety and comfort of all that we have come to trust. We may feel like a tightrope walker, carefully teetering along the narrow path to our goals, sometimes feeling that we are doing so without a net. Knowing we have some backup may help us work up the courage to take those first steps, until we are secure in knowing that we have the skills to work without one. But when we live our lives from a place of balance and trust in the universe, we may not see our source of support, but we can know that it is there.<br />
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If we refuse to act only if we can see the safety net, we may be allowing the net to become a trap as it creates a barrier between us and the freedom to pursue our goals. Change is inherent in life, so even what we have learned to trust can surprise us at any moment. Remove fear from the equation and then, without even wondering what is going on below, we can devote our full attention to the dream that awaits us.<br />
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We attract support into our lives when we are willing to make those first tentative steps, trusting that the universe will provide exactly what we need. In that process we can decide that whatever comes from our actions is only for our highest and best experience of growth. It may come in the form of a soft landing, an unexpected rescue or an eye-opening experience gleaned only from the process of falling. So rather than allowing our lives to be dictated by fear of the unknown, or trying to avoid falling, we can appreciate that sometimes we experience life fully when we are willing to trust and fall. And in doing so, we may just find that we have the wings to fly.<br />
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When we believe that there is a reason for everything, we are stepping out with the safety net of the universe, and we know we will make the best from whatever comes our way.<br />
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<b>You Are the One You Are Waiting for</b><br />
Turn to Yourself<br />
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Ultimately, you are the one.<br />
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We spend a lot of our lives looking for role models, mentors, teachers, and gurus to guide us on our path. There is nothing wrong with this and, in fact, finding the right person at the right time can really help. However, it is important to realize that in the absence of such a figure, we can very safely rely upon ourselves. We carry within us everything we need to know to make progress on our paths to self-realization. The outer world serves as a mirror. Or to use another metaphor, our inner world has a magnetic force that draws to us what we need to evolve to the next level. All we need to do to see that we already have everything we need is to let go of our belief that we need to seek in order to find. <br />
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The path of the spirit is often defined as a journey with a goal such as the fabled pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. In this metaphor, a person begins a search for something they want but do not have and then they find it, and there is a happy ending. However, most of us know that getting what we want only makes us happy for a moment, and then the happiness passes until a new object of desire presents itself. Joy is a permanent aspect of our inner selves and is not separate from us at any point. We do not have to travel to find it or imagine that it resides only in the body of another. In fact, what the best teachers will do is point out that this very precious elixir is something we already possess. <br />
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So when we find ourselves on our path, not knowing which way to turn and wishing for guidance, we can turn to ourselves. We may not know the right answer rationally or intellectually, but if we simply ask, let go, and wait patiently, an answer will come. The more we practice this and trust this process, the less we will look outside ourselves for teachers and guides for we will have successfully become our own.<br />
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<b>Notes from the Universe</b><br />
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The real reason animals don't talk, is because they understand so much.<br />
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Word,<br />
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Show me someone who keeps getting in your way, and I'll show you someone who keeps making excuses. <br />
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Tricky, tricky, tricky,<br />
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It's wise never to ask another for what you want. <br />
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No, don't ask me.<br />
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No, not even yourself.<br />
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Just give thanks, in advance. As if you already had whatever it is the "old-you" would have asked for.<br />
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Oh, and by the way, thanks for loving every fiber of your supernatural self, as much as I do. <br />
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Tallyho,<br />
The Universe<br />
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How'd you like a little peek into the future? Oh, I really shouldn't, but, well, you so rock, I figure this indulgence, just once, will be all right.<br />
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You're sitting around a warm and cozy fireplace surrounded by friends and boisterous laughter. Early-morning snow gently falling across the countryside is visible from the enormous, ceiling-high windows beside you. Everyone is sipping hot chocolate, and reminiscing about the fabulous circumstances that have brought you together, brimming with excitement for times ahead. And then you chime in, "If only we'd seen it, we never would have been so hard on ourselves. If only we'd had just the slightest inkling that the challenges, lacks, and issues we faced back then were of our own exacting design, and that they'd soon make possible the whirlwind of events that so swiftly followed, we'd have been, well, as proud then as we are now... and every bit as photogenic." <br />
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And then everyone starts clapping, smiling, and taking lots of pictures. <br />
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Not a word to anyone,<br />
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I ask you, as humbly as I can, to consider taking the path less traveled, going within, and getting quiet. Being yourself, shining your light, and reaching out to others. <br />
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No, no, heavens no! Not what you're thinking!! I ask these things not that they might be an alternative to living high on the hog, in the fast lane, loaded down with embarrassing wealth... but as a means to attaining these things. <br />
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Just striving to preserve our options -<br />
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<b>'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks</b><br />
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If you wait until your body is completely dehydrated before you drink something or completely emaciated before you eat something, your body can get far out of balance. <i>While it is possible to eventually bring your body back to a state of</i> <i>well-being—it is much easier to maintain a healthy physical balance than to recover it after losing it.</i><br />
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Most people never put themselves into the dramatic situation where they are without water or food to the point of doing damage to their physical bodies; however, it is not uncommon for people to deprive their bodies of something equally important: alignment with Source Energy.<br />
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In the same way that it is a good idea to drink when you feel the indication of thirst—and therefore maintain your Well-Being long before dehydration is experienced—it is equally important to change the thought and release resistance at the first indication of negative emotion. For while it is certainly possible to withstand negative emotion for long periods of time, it is not the optimal experience for the cells of your physical body.<br />
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Your action has nothing to do with your abundance! Your abundance is a response to your vibration. Of course, your belief is part of your vibration. So if you believe that action is part of what brings your abundance, then you've got to unravel that.<br />
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See this world as a free world, and see everyone in it as trying—through their individual experiences—to find their way back to that calling, back to that Source Energy. And even though there are billions of them going about it in a way that is different than you would choose, there's no right or wrong way. In other words, bless them all, and get on with the only thing <i>you</i> have any power about, which is opening or closing <i>your</i> vortex to <i>your</i> natural state of Well-Being.<br />
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When you see someone living something awful, a rocket of desire for their resolution shoots out of you. And then, if you start focusing upon their resolution, you'll start feeling better right away. And now, you're part of the current that is part of the solution.<br />
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<b>One Minute Motivator by Edward W. Smith</b><br />
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Getting knocked down may not have been your responsibility, but getting back up is. Willie Jolly, a motivational speaker, makes the point that turning a set back into a come back, can only be done by you. Study the reasons you were knocked down, and put a plan in place to start correcting the situation, and sure enough, your set back will become a come back.<br />
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Lose some and learn some. Dr. Rob Gilbert, who teaches Sports Psychology, says that every time you lose; you have the opportunity to learn. If you are having a problem, something has gone wrong, and now you have a chance to learn something new. It is new, because you sure didn't know the problem was going to happen, or you wouldn't have done it that way. So now you know you don't know something, and that is better than not knowing you don't know something, but how about moving into the know something category. You are close to learning something, so why not take the extra step to figure out what is going on and you will have one more tool on your tool belt, and have one less thing that can go wrong.<br />
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You know the answer to the question, but you don't want to hear it. So many of the solutions to our problems are staring us right in the face, or we have heard the solution from others before, and we don't want to hear it. We spend our time and effort looking for easier fixes to our problems, when we, deep down, know what we have to do. Now is the time to face the solution, you know is the answer, and implement it, as painful as it may be. Make that hard decision, start that hard solution and you will be on your way again.<br />
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<b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br />
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<b>How to Use the Power of Love for Perfect Health</b><br />
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<i> "Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles."</i><br />
~ Willa Cather (1873-1947)<br />
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist<br />
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To receive the health you want and love, you must give love! In the face of any sickness, give good feelings about health, because only love brings perfect health. You cannot give bad feelings about sickness and receive health. If you hate or fear a disease, you will be giving out bad feelings, and disease can never go away through bad feelings. When you give thoughts and feelings of what you want, your cells receive the full force of health. When you give negative thoughts and feelings of what you don't want, the force of health to your cells reduces! It doesn't matter if you feel bad about a subject that has nothing to do with your health; when you feel bad, you reduce the force of health to your body. But when you feel love for anything - for a sunny day, new house, friend, or promotion - your body receives the full force of health.<br />
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Gratitude is the great multiplier, so say <i>thank you</i> for your health every single day. All the money in the world cannot buy health, because it is a gift from life, and so more than anything else, be grateful for your health! It is the best health insurance you can ever take, because gratitude is the assurance of health!<br />
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Be grateful for your body instead of finding fault with it. Every time you have a thought of something you don't like about your body, remember that the water inside your body is receiving your feelings. Instead say <i>thank you </i>with all your heart for what you do like about your body, and ignore the things you don't like.<br />
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<i>"Love draws forth love."</i><br />
~ Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)<br />
Nun, Mystic, and Writer </span>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-35913960553486981662012-03-16T22:17:00.000-07:002012-03-16T22:17:11.486-07:00Weekend nuggets!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOS-Fz5nad6SIZ6lYC6GAVBpm4aEwBbWsNbNDOcSloMNVp_dGpNwpAyo0Hv5tcYsd4OV0FDlaI4N60uhHpxB0q86UT3qttDM5QjGq8wckUY_YYtDdRBZMoMydbkaNnQIi0XR3JcRtgq1k/s1600/DSCF1577.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOS-Fz5nad6SIZ6lYC6GAVBpm4aEwBbWsNbNDOcSloMNVp_dGpNwpAyo0Hv5tcYsd4OV0FDlaI4N60uhHpxB0q86UT3qttDM5QjGq8wckUY_YYtDdRBZMoMydbkaNnQIi0XR3JcRtgq1k/s320/DSCF1577.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: large;">a true plethora of wonderful weekend nuggets to marinate in...enjoy! :-) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">It's not so much about the meaning of life...as it is about the feeling of being alive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Joseph Campbell</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The world is a much more beautiful and incredible place than you think, and each of us has a great deal of power to make it more so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Most dreams are also part reality (otherwise we wouldn't believe them), and reality happens to be a condition that gives you plenty of chances through your life to rise to—no, soar through—the occasion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Leigh Newman</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">There is no normal life that is free of pain. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">It is the very wrestling with our problems</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">that can be the impetus for our growth. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Fred Rogers </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">I have found that when I do doubt myself I'm concentrating on what other people are thinking of me rather than what I think of myself. Although, I think it's really important how other people perceive me and what they think of me, I don't think it's anywhere near as important as what I think of myself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ Adele</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Today is a brand new day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">A fresh start</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Replace any negativity with</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">positivity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Think happy thoughts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Exercise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Drink lots of water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Fill your body with fuel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Healthy is happy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Inspire yourself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Create</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Laugh</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Play</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Go for a run</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Do some sit ups</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Give someone a compliment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Make a new friend</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Tell yourself you are beautiful</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Spread love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Be kind and create good karma</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Take chances</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Experience</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b><u>Daily Motivators by Ralph Marston</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b>For a reason</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">What happens, happens for a reason. Watch, listen, feel, experience, learn and grow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">What may seem to be a coincidence is actually a consequence. What may appear to be a random occurrence is actually a direct result of something.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Life’s events and situations are always telling you something of value. Pay attention and, firmly grounded in your purpose, hear what life has to say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">By understanding where consequences come from, you can learn to choose the ones you desire. By focusing carefully on life’s various causes and effects, you can create the specific outcomes you wish to experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">When things are not going your way, it can be easy and tempting to blame it on random bad luck. Yet it is far more empowering to take full responsibility for your situation, because that puts you on a path to change it for the better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">For every result, there is a cause. Take positive, purposeful control of the causes, and get the results you truly desire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b>The way you choose</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">You have a purpose, so choose it. You have control, so use it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">What happens to you isn’t the end of the story. What really makes a difference is what you do with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Excuses and complaints give you comfort, but little else. Positive intention, commitment, action, discipline and persistence are what create a life of great fulfillment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">You are not your past, you are not your job title, you are not your bank balance or the car you drive or the neighborhood where you live. You are who you choose to be, and the way you choose to act, in this new moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The possibilities are limited only by your imagination, so imagine from your deepest, driving purpose. Feel the passion as it wells up within you, and let it energize every part of your life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Live by choice, not by chance. This irreplaceable moment is now here, so act to make its great value uniquely yours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b><u>Daily Om</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b>The Power of Disengagement</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b>Playing Mind Games </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b>Life should not be lived through a series of mind games, but from truth and looking deep within.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">For better or worse, many people have been raised to believe that communicating in an honest and open way will not get them what they want. They have learned, instead, to play mind games or go on power trips in the service of their ego‚s agenda. People stuck in this outmoded and inefficient style of communication can be trying at best and downright destructive at worst. We may get caught up in thinking we have to play the same games in order to defend ourselves, but that will only lead us deeper into confusion and conflict. The best way to handle people like this is to be clear and honest with them </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">As with all relationships and situations in our lives, we must look within for both the source of our difficulties and the solution. Reacting to the situation by getting upset will only entrench us more deeply in the undesirable relationship. Only by disengaging, becoming still, and going within can we begin to see what has hooked us into the mess in the first place. We will most likely find unprocessed emotions that we can finally fully feel and release into the stillness we find in meditation. The more we are able to do this, the less we will be bothered by the other person‚s dramas and the more we will be free to respond in a new way. In the light of our new awareness, the situation will untangle itself and we will slowly break free. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Whenever people come into our lives, they have come for a reason, to show us something about ourselves that we have not been able to see. When unhealthy people try to hook us into their patterns with mind games and power trips, we can remind ourselves that we have something to learn here and that a part of us is calling out for healing. This takes the focus off the troubling individual and puts it back on us, giving us the opportunity to change the situation from the inside out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b>A Matter of Priorities</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">When we stop worrying about unimportant matters, we can devote so much more of ourselves to what is truly important.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">We experience numerous disappointments each and every day. Our expectations go unmet, our plans are blocked by circumstance, our wishes go unfulfilled, and we discover that our lives are subject to a myriad of forces beyond our conscious control. In some cases, our response is powerful because we must invest ourselves and our resources to overcome genuine hardship. In others, our reactions are far more passionate than our circumstances likely warrant. The tension that permeates our bodies and minds when we are late for an event, interrupted at work, or sitting in traffic is not inappropriate, but it can interfere with our well-being in profound ways. When we stop worrying about relatively unimportant matters, we can be at peace and devote so much more of ourselves to what is truly important. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The small frustrations and irritations wield such power over us because they rob us of the illusion of control. But every problem is a potential teacher ~ a confusing situation is an opportunity to practice mindfulness, and difficult people provide us with opportunities to display compassion. There is a natural human tendency to invest copious amounts of emotional energy in minor dilemmas and frustrations in order to avoid confronting those more complex issues that are largely outside the realm of our control. The intensity of our response provides us with a temporary sense of personal power that helps us cope with challenges that might otherwise overwhelm us. But it is only when we let the little stuff go that we discover that the big stuff is not really so devastating after all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">In the stress of a singularly tense incident, differentiating between an inconsequential annoyance and a legitimate challenge can seem a monumental task. Ask yourself whether the emotions you are feeling will be as vivid in a year, a day, or even an hour. As focused as you are on this moment in time, your reward for letting go of your emotional investment may be the very happiness and harmony of being whose loss you are lamenting. Needless aggravation is seldom worth the cost it exacts. You cannot distance yourself from life's inconsistencies, irritations, and upheavals, but you can relinquish your desire for perfect order and gain peace of mind in the process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b><u>Notes from the Universe</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Perhaps the greatest of all illusions is that life could somehow be better than it already is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">You've got it made - </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Always trust your dreams. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">They've chosen you, as much as you've chosen them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">If you could take a daily pill that would profoundly speed-up the manifestation of all your dreams, would you take it without fail? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">I thought so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">What if it was a big, ugly pill that took 5 minutes to dissolve on your tongue, and it tasted like medicine. Would you still do it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Thought so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">But what if during those 5 minutes each day you couldn't watch TV, or talk with friends, or distract yourself in any way from your chore?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Wow, you must really want a fabulous thriving dream, and all those other awesome life changes! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">No, you can't go back to the pill idea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Ever notice how those who give 100% just to "get by" in life, usually do? How those who are willing to do just about anything to work on their relationships, usually do? And how those who seem to make it their life's mission to add more years to theirs, often succeed?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Then you must wonder, too, why they don't just give 100% to living in abundance, do just about anything to celebrate their relationships, and make it their mission to add more life to their years... huh? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Sometimes, in hindsight, it may seem that your prior kindnesses were for naught, and that in the end, they were too high a price to pay for the pains you've endured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b><u>The Teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">You are magnificent beings, in the perfect place at the perfect time, unfolding perfectly, never getting it done, and never getting it wrong. Be more playful about all of it. "Today, no matter where I'm going, no matter what I am doing, and no matter who I'm doing it with — it is my dominant intent to look for that which I'm wanting to see. I'm wanting to find thoughts and words and actions that feel good while I'm finding them. For in doing so, I am, in the moment, practicing the art of allowing all that I've been telling the Universe I'm wanting, for all of the days of my existence."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">There is a big mix out there, and there's lots of different things going on, and there is not one way that was intended to be the right way. Just like there's not one color or one flower or one vegetable or one fingerprint. There is not one that is to be the right one over all others. The variety is what fosters the creativity. And so you say, "Okay, I accept that there's lots of variety, but I don't like to eat cucumbers." Don't eat cucumbers. But don't ask them to be eliminated and don't condemn those who eat them. Don't stand on corners waving signs trying to outlaw the things that you don't like. <b><i>Don't ruin your life by pushing against</i></b>. Instead, say, "I choose this instead. This does please me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The thought that you think, you think, which attracts to it; so you think it some more, which attracts to it; so you think it some more. In other words, when you have an expectation, you've got a dominant thought going on, and Law of Attraction is going to deliver that to you again, and again and again. And you say "The reason that I believe this, is because it is true." And we say, the reason that you believe it, is because you've practiced the thought. <b><i>All that a belief is, is a thought that you keep practicing.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Quit it. Stop it right now. You are doing something in your life that is holding back your potential and/or damaging you in some way. It might be physical or it may be mental, but chances are there is something you are doing, that you would be better off if you didn't do it. Find out what it is, admit it and find a way to reduce or eliminate it. Your life will move ahead faster and you will probably feel better in the long run, if you stop doing something that is holding you back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Smile. It makes people treat you better, and you feel better. People will be more likely to help you if you look approachable and pleasant. Also acting happy and smiling, makes your body and mind follow suit and you actually will become happy. So smile and the world will smile back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Moderation is the key. Don't try to do too much of whatever you are trying to do, or you will burn out. Shooting too low won't get you anywhere and shooting too high will hurt you as well. Sometimes aiming too high will cause our subconscious mind to turn off on the goal, or we may give up before we start, because we feel overwhelmed. Set goals that are a stretch, but yet attainable and you will optimize your progress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Persistence beats brains any day. Nothing is more important than persistence. The best idea in the world is useless unless someone pursues it. We all know examples of things and people that weren't the best, but made it, due to persistence. Keep asking yourself what you can do next to move your project ahead and then do it. Persist, persist, succeed, and succeed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><b>The Power of your Heart </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">"In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> ~ David Bohm (1917-1992)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The inside of your body is an exact map of our solar system and the universe. Your heart is the sun and the center of your body system. Your organs are the planets, and just as the planets depend on the sun to remain in balance and harmony, so do all the organs in your body depend on your heart to remain in balance and harmony.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Scientists at the Institute of HeartMath in California have shown that feeling love, gratitude, and appreciation in your heart boosts your immune system; increases vital chemical production; increases physical vitality and vigor; reduces burnout; and improves glucose regulation in diabetics. Feelings of love also create a higher degree of harmony in the rhythm of your heart. HeartMath has shown that the magnetic field of the heart is 5,000 times more powerful than the magnetic field of the brain, and reaches out several feet from our body. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Other scientists are revolutionizing our understanding of the affect of love on our health, through experiments with water. What does water have to do with health? Your body is made up of 70 percent water! The inside of your head is 80 percent water!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Researchers in Japan, Russia, Europe, and the United States have discovered that when water is exposed to positive words and feelings such as love and gratitude, the energy level of the water not only increases, but the structure of the water changes, making it perfectly harmonious. The higher the positive feeling, the more beautiful and harmonious the water becomes. When water is exposed to negative emotions, such as hate, the energy level of the water decreases, and chaotic changes occur, negatively affecting the structure of the water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">If human emotions can change the structure of water, can you imagine what your feelings are doing to the health of your body? Your cells are made of mostly water! The center of every cell is water, and each cell is completely surrounded by a layer of water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Can you imagine the impact of love and gratitude on your body? Can you imagine the power of love and gratitude to restore health? When you feel love, your love affects the water of the 100 trillion cells in your body! </span> </div>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-28981328125540773822012-03-09T21:13:00.000-08:002012-03-09T21:13:05.945-08:00Weekend catch-up nuggets!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVjEz7ExUyX04wEe01MkiKW8U-6NeeR3XSebix_O5Nkuxwg5i6XzFHD9JwWWpT8NJiLGJiv2-437IDcU36sUgUBQhP6nS3hNh2iEsb5qFhtA0sZ2kAk9rjlIVOuJ-9fKqfWYYrhd9YrXA/s1600/Rainbokeh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVjEz7ExUyX04wEe01MkiKW8U-6NeeR3XSebix_O5Nkuxwg5i6XzFHD9JwWWpT8NJiLGJiv2-437IDcU36sUgUBQhP6nS3hNh2iEsb5qFhtA0sZ2kAk9rjlIVOuJ-9fKqfWYYrhd9YrXA/s320/Rainbokeh.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
TGIF! Playing catch-up once again from an extremely crazy week...enjoy marinating! :-) </span><br />
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Let go of what you can't control. Channel all that energy into living fully in the now.<br />
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Don't let regrets about the past or fears about the future stop you from fully enjoying your present. A good way to ensure you're living fully in the present is to make sure you're fully using all of your miracle senses - and seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching - and intuitively being - as much as you can in a day! Most people pay attention to mostly what they see around them. But you have so many wonderful other senses as well to tap into. Added perk: When you tap into your senses - this mindfulness can happily double-up as a form of meditation - further stopping your mind from wandering to regrets about the past or fears about the future. So today be sure to fully tap into ALL of your miracle senses - and passionately!<br />
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When you think everything is someone else´s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. Pride leads to violence and evil. The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.<br />
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You are now entering into a complete awakening: to your higher-self, your intuition, your gifts, your role on the planet and the Divine plan. The opening of your heart-center is allowing your inner vision to see more clearly. In turn, this is empowering you on many levels, both energetically and intuitively, to walk your path and do what you have come here to do. Your Awakening will subconsciously call out to others to step into their own Light as well.<br />
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That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.<br />
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<b>Limitless treasure</b><br />
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Every moment is a new opportunity to more fully experience and express the value of your life. The value you live is the value you give.<br />
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What you get out of life is not merely a result of what you put into it. What you get out of life and what you put into it are precisely one and the same.<br />
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Every moment is an opportunity to invest yourself in meaningful purpose. The quality of that investment at any given time is what defines the true quality of your life.<br />
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Fulfillment is not about acquiring something that exists outside of you. It is about more richly and more completely experiencing the unique, magnificent value that is already and always within you.<br />
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Life’s circumstances do not, in and of themselves, enhance or detract from the value of your life. Each event, each circumstance gives you a new way to explore and experience that value.<br />
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The best you can live is the best you are willing to give, and there’s no limit to what that can be. Fully invest yourself in each moment, and delight in the limitless treasure that is already yours.<br />
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<b>Live now</b><br />
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Don’t be held back by what has not yet happened or by what is already over. Live now, with all you have.<br />
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There’s no need to wait for everything to be perfect. Live now in this moment while you have it, before its unique opportunities are gone.<br />
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Some things may turn out great, and other things may be disappointing. Live now, when you can do your best with what you have.<br />
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Even when the challenges seem impossibly overwhelming, there is always something you can do to make a positive difference. Live now, do it now, and work your way steadily forward.<br />
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No action is wasted when it is undertaken with authentic purpose behind it. Live now, with meaning, and use this moment to bring new richness to your world.<br />
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You are here right now to enjoy, to experience, to create and achieve, to love, and to live. Live now, for now is the precious moment when life is yours.<br />
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<b>The Truths Within</b><br />
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Value Your Own Wisdom<br />
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Your very own inner wisdom should be valued more than any other and will always guide you in the direction you need to travel.<br />
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Throughout our lives, we will encounter individuals who presume to know what is best for us. The insights they offer cannot compare, however, with the powers of awareness and discernment that already exist within us. From birth we are blessed with wisdom that cannot be learned or unlearned. It exists whether or not we acknowledge it because it is a gift given to us by a loving universe before we chose to experience existence on the earthly plane. Yet for all its permanence, it is vital that we value and honor this incredible element of the self. It is when we do not use our inborn wisdom that we begin to doubt our personal truths and are driven to outside sources of information because we are afraid. What we know to be true in our hearts is invariably true, and we discover how intensely beautiful and useful self-trust can be when we recognize the power of our wisdom. <br />
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Inner wisdom is not subject to the influences of the outside world, which means that it will never demand that we surrender our free will or counsel us to act in opposition to our values. We benefit from this inspiration when we open ourselves to it, letting go of the false notion that we are less qualified than others to determine our fate. The wisdom inside of us is the source of our discernment and our ability to identify blessings in disguise. When we are unsure of who to trust, how to respond, or what we require, the answers lie in our inner wisdom. It knows where we are going and understands where we are coming from, taking this into account though it is not a product of experience but rather a piece of our connection to the universal mind. <br />
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In the whole of your existence, no force you will ever encounter will contribute as much to your ability to do what you need to do and be who you want to be as your natural wisdom. Through it, you reveal your growing consciousness to the greater source and discover the true extent of your strength. If you heed this wisdom with conviction and confidence, the patterns, people, and fears that held you back will be dismantled, paving the way for you to fulfill your truest potential.<br />
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Actually, your only "job" in this intergalactic affair called life is thinking. <br />
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That's it. That's all there is. <br />
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And should you learn to focus your thinking, to dwell upon what you want instead of what you don't want, and to live as if your thoughts are more real than the prior manifestations that surround you, your life will become easy, floodgates will burst open, and if you want, everyone shall know your name.<br />
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Somebody must have been loving you, BIG TIME, when this old world began spinning. <br />
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Your secret admirer - <br />
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When you feel happy, really happy, it somehow seems that you've always been happy and that you'll always be happy. <br />
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The same is often true when you feel sad, or lonely, or depressed, or broke, or sick, or scared. <br />
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Do you know what's really, really, really easy?<br />
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Whatever you say is really, really, really easy.<br />
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Same goes for the hard stuff. <br />
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You so fly, <br />
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The need to criticize simply belies a longing for recognition, appreciation, and validation. None of which, however, can be obtained through criticism.<br />
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I'm sure it's just a phase they're going through. <br />
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It's not as if one could be bored enough, feel frustrated enough, or complain enough that their life would suddenly turn around. Doesn't work that way.<br />
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Whatever anyone "is," they become more of. And anyone's is'ness is whatever they say it is. <br />
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<b>The Teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks</b><br />
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If you could get to the place where you no longer feel a need to push against anything that you disagree with—you would become in alignment with what you do agree with. Even within your own body, it is your pushing against those things you don't agree with that causes you to be out of alignment with what you do agree.<br />
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There are many situations, attitudes, lifestyles—even food choices—that you do not want to participate with. Through the living of your life, you have identified many wanted and unwanted aspects, and it is important to remember that none of those unwanted things can jump into your experience, because there is no assertion in your attraction-based Universe.<br />
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The choices that others make cannot negatively impact your experience unless you include them in your experience through your attention to them. Things come to you only through your Vibrational invitation—and they remain only by your continuing attention to them.<br />
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Your Universe is based upon freedom. Freedom for everyone to choose what they give their attention to, and therefore what they choose to experience. And your interaction with one another provides a contrasting basis that assures continual expansion.<br />
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When others achieve Vibrational alignment with something they desire, they in no way deprive you of your desires. If your time-space reality has inspired a desire within you, it is certain that your desire can be fulfilled. </span><br />
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So the big question is, "Well, do I just dump all those unwanted things and try to start fresh?" And we say, no. You just set the Tone, where you are, by looking for things to appreciate. And by setting your Tone in a very clear deliberate way, anything that doesn't match it gravitates out of your experience, and anything that does match it gravitates into your experience. It is so much simpler than most of you are allowing yourself to believe.<br />
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Anytime you feel negative emotion, stop and say: Something is important here; otherwise, I would not be feeling this negative emotion. What is it that I want? And then simply turn your attention to what you do want. . . . In the moment you turn your attention to what you want, the negative attraction will stop; and in the moment the negative attraction stops, the positive attraction will begin. And—in that moment—your feeling will change from not feeling good to feeling good. That is the Process of Pivoting.<br />
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<b>One Minute Motivators by Edward W. Smith</b><br />
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Maybe your critics are right and maybe your critics are wrong, either way, it pays to listen to them. Listen to the negative things people say about you, and as much as it hurts, think about it and see if there is any validity to it. If so, your critics did you a favor and helped you move your life ahead.<br />
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To perform like a winner, you have to prepare like a winner. Plan for success at the start. The outcome of an event is almost always determined by who prepares the best. Lawyers who prepare every step of the way to go to trial, rarely have to, because they blow the other side away in the steps leading up to a trial. Plus being prepared replaces fear and negativity with confidence, which also causes you to be a winner. <br />
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Change comes slowly. No matter how badly we want it, it takes time to lose weight, or build muscles, or to learn new skills. Understand this and build the time and frustration this will cause, into your thinking. Keep your persistence up by visualizing your goals, using support groups and lots of self-encouragement. Change comes slowly, but the success is long lasting.<br />
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<b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br />
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What do you want? What would you love? Because that is what you must give to your body. Your cells are your most loyal subjects who serve you without question, and so whatever you think, whatever you feel, becomes the law of your body. If you want to feel as good as you did when you were a child, then give your cells those commands, "I feel amazing today," "I have so much energy," "I have perfect eyesight," "I can eat whatever I want and maintain my ideal weight," "I sleep like a baby every night." You are the ruler of a kingdom, and whatever you think and feel becomes the law of your kingdom - the law within your body. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: x-small;"> </span>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-3981809675762622622012-03-02T21:20:00.000-08:002012-03-02T21:20:51.012-08:00Weekend nuggets!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Dp9S3eIe5NQ443IlcaETsCb4x2R-oHTeXxaNVTsdB0Gg2JtrW22l3kwpaJEPMgaHKz9XD3MLVMguY3Lorw78KdiX8jUiBTbN1wo4c8ZlbVijdkyJoThJQ4Hk6yw3wRxb2H-n-22XCgM/s1600/DSC04654.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Dp9S3eIe5NQ443IlcaETsCb4x2R-oHTeXxaNVTsdB0Gg2JtrW22l3kwpaJEPMgaHKz9XD3MLVMguY3Lorw78KdiX8jUiBTbN1wo4c8ZlbVijdkyJoThJQ4Hk6yw3wRxb2H-n-22XCgM/s320/DSC04654.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">TGIF! Happy Weekend! :-)<br />
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devote yourself to an idea.<br />
go make it happen.<br />
struggle on it.<br />
overcome your fears.<br />
smile.<br />
don"t you forget:<br />
this is your dream<br />
~ Christie Marie Sheldon<br />
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***************************************** </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 37.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Simple, magnificent miracle</b></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 37.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you’re not happy, it’s because you’ve convinced yourself not to be. If you’re not overwhelmingly joyful at the prospect of living this very moment, your thoughts of negativity are covering up that natural joy. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 37.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Your existence is real, it is now, and it is amazing. Your life is inherently fulfilling, and a source of limitless wonder and joy.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">That joy is yours simply by allowing it. That fulfillment is yours simply by living it as it unfolds.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You don’t need to first accumulate a lot of possessions, relationships, experiences or power. All you have to do is to quit fighting and to quit denying the beautiful, unique spirit that is alive in you.</span></div><div style="font: 28.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 39.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Let go of all thoughts to the contrary, and experience how truly beautiful your life already is. Delight in the simple, magnificent miracle of your existence.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Feel the joy that is always there, ready to flow out from you in limitless measure. Let go of the conditions and limits you’ve placed on happiness, and let that happiness easily and naturally fill your world.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> ~ Ralph Marston</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">***************************************** </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 37.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When Christopher Columbus was looking for land, he knew he was heading in the right direction as he sailed along those rough riding waves, because he kept seeing twigs along the way, showing him that somewhere out there were trees and thereby land. These twig sightings kept Chris motivated to keep on moving forward. Sure enough, Chris eventually found his dreamed of land. Similarly, as you head forward to your goal, be sure keep your eyes open for your version of "twigs" along the way - those small happy signs that what you want exists, is possible - and that you're heading in the right direction! These metaphorical twig sightings can come in brief glimpses of what you want seen elsewhere - or you're finding a twig-sized variety of what you want in your life. Anywhichway these "twig sightings" show you that you should stay motivated and keep on seeking your goal. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(NOTE: An example might be...if you're single, some "twigs" might be that you are meeting potential partners who are more and more and MORE right for you - with the qualities you've been seeking - even if these people aren't theeeee one. Or ...a twig sighting might be that you are seeing someone close to you meet an amazing partner - which then gives you hope that what you want for a relationship is out there!) <b><br />
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</b>P.S. Another lesson to keep in mind... Columbus was looking for India...and wound up finding America. Meaning? Along the way to seeking your goal, you might find that there's a different goal which is just as exciting for you! Keep your eyes open for other new exciting goals and stay flexible in how happiness might show up for you! <b><br />
</b> ~ Karen Salmansohn <b><br />
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Notes from the Universe<br />
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</b>Oh, we're busy all right. We're absolutely slammed; everywhere, always. Aligning planets, churning waterfalls, guiding sparrows, and raising more suns for more planets in more galaxies than a rocket scientist on caffeine could ever count. <b><br />
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</b>Yet still, never a moment goes by when there aren't angels here, working their little hearts out for you. <b><br />
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</b>Of this you can be sure. <b><br />
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</b>Gabriele!!! <b><br />
</b> The Universe <b><br />
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</b>When you finally get that call, meet that person, walk that walk, and live that dream, do you think you'll even care that there were a few dark and scary moments in a journey that made them all possible? <b><br />
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</b>Trust me, you won't even remember. <b><br />
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</b> The Universe <b><br />
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</b>The presumption, at all times and under all circumstances, should always be that you are good enough, worthy enough, and lovable enough. And that you are exactly the right kind of person, in the right place, at the right time. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been instilled with such dreams in the first place. <b><br />
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</b>Love you, <b><br />
</b> The Universe <b><br />
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</b>There are no sane reasons to limit a dream. <b><br />
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</b>After all, you don't have to deliver it. I do. <b><br />
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</b>Faithfully, <b><br />
</b> The Universe <b><br />
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The Teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks<br />
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</b>You don't have to take the bad with the good. Why include the bad in the vibration? Only include the good in the vibration, and then only the good can come to you. <b><br />
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</b>Take the time to line up the Energy first, and action becomes inconsequential. If you don't take the time to line up the Energy, if you don't find the feeling place of what you're looking for, not enough action in the world will make any difference. <b><br />
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</b>If you are being swept into some current that is not comfortable, or not in harmony with your desire, you must remember that couldn't happen if you weren't offering a vibration that matched it in some way. If you're vibrating differently from that, you're not having that experience. <b><br />
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One Minute Motivators by Edward W. Smith<br />
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</b>Look and act like you care. If you want to impress people, show them you care, by paying attention and hustling. You boss, your teacher, your client and even yourself will believe you care about things if you pay attention and hustle. Look people in the eye, listen to what they say and show energy if you want to show you care. People will be impressed and you will do a better job in the process. <b><br />
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</b>Don't act like a loser, even if you are losing. Have a winner's eye view of what you are doing. You want people to be around you, and they won't be around if you act like a loser. You are not a loser, just because you lost, or are in the losing position. Keep your head up, focus on the positive and project a winner's image. People can sense a loser, and they can sense a winner. Make it a winner that they sense. <b><br />
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</b>Keep balance in your life. Too much work, or too much play or too much anything will hurt you in the long run. The most successful people, who hold up for the long run, have balance in their lives. You need to respect your body, your mind and your spirit and keep them all in balance. Short term emphasis on one aspect; will come back to haunt you in the long term. Remember your body, mind and spirit are a team and no one part can function without the other for long. Keep your balance. <b><br />
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</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b>Daily Teaching from The Power</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> <b><br />
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</b>If an intruder enters your body, like a bacterial infection or virus, the memory cells immediately take an imprint (snapshot) of the intruder. The imprint is checked against their records to see if there is a match with previous intruders. If they find a match, the memory cells immediately notify the relevant attack team to destroy the intruder. If there is no match, the memory cells open up a new file on the intruder, and all the attack teams are summoned to move in and destroy the intruder. Whichever attack team is successful in destroying the intruder is then recorded by the memory cells in their files. If the intruder returns, the memory cells will know exactly who they are dealing with and exactly how to deal with them. <b><br />
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</b>If for any reason a cell of your body begins to change its behavior and ceases to work for the good of the body, the patrol cells signal the rescue team to rush in to repair the cell. If a cell needs a particular chemical to be repaired, it is found inside your natural pharmacy. You have a complete pharmacy operating inside you that can produce every healing chemical that a pharmaceutical company can produce. <b><br />
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</b>All cells must work as a team, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for their entire life. Their sole purpose is to maintain the life and health of your body. You have around 100 trillion cells in your body. That's 100,000,000,000,000 cells who are working nonstop to give you life! All 100 trillion cells are under your command, and you are commanding them and instructing them with your thoughts, feelings and beliefs. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Whatever you believe about your body, your cells believe too. They don't question anything you think, feel or believe. In fact, they hear every thought, feeling and belief you have. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you think or say, "I always get jet lag when I travel," your cells receive "jet lag" as a command, and they must carry out your instructions. Think and feel that you have a weight problem, and your cells receive the order of a weight problem. They must follow your instructions and keep your body in an overweight condition. Be afraid you might catch an illness, and your cells receive the message of the illness, and they immediately get busy creating the symptoms of the illness. Your cells' responding to your every command is simply the law of attraction working inside your body.<br />
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"Face towards the perfect image of every organ, and the shadows of disease will never touch you."<br />
~ Robert Collier (1885-1950)<br />
New Though Author </span></div></span></span></h1>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-50762515417349674482012-02-28T05:44:00.000-08:002012-02-28T05:44:41.759-08:00Monday/Tuesday nuggets!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUJPb0nqMXdMGPSxYx00wlLR-0eFbaVL2etNxQWlxe_QrMYfSix51mpy2MtnaapHYiPLRavmD7rNptXEDPbRJ7qDXZE5jYfvl3ZeOPWTTPxQV3IS_qn84nDw0L-VHctVrvoMhfsP9REy0/s1600/DC+Sunny+Day+April+2009+023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUJPb0nqMXdMGPSxYx00wlLR-0eFbaVL2etNxQWlxe_QrMYfSix51mpy2MtnaapHYiPLRavmD7rNptXEDPbRJ7qDXZE5jYfvl3ZeOPWTTPxQV3IS_qn84nDw0L-VHctVrvoMhfsP9REy0/s320/DC+Sunny+Day+April+2009+023.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. <br />
~ Michael Bridge<br />
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.<br />
~ Marcus Aurelius<br />
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You have to ask yourself, 'Does this item or thought or response move me closer to my vision for my best life?' If it does, great. If it doesn't, what is it doing in your life?<br />
~ Peter Walsh<br />
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You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.<br />
~ Ethel Barrymore<br />
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<b>Regret</b><br />
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The Weight of the Past<br />
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Holding onto regret is like dragging the weight of the past with us everywhere we go.<br />
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It drains our energy, leaving less available for life in the present because we are constantly feeding an old issue. This attachment can cause illness the same way watering a dead plant creates decay. We know that something new and beautiful can grow in its place if we only prepare the soil and plant the right seeds. We also know that we create our lives from our thoughts, so dwelling on the past may actually recreate a situation in our lives where we are forced to make the choice again and again. We can choose to move on right now by applying what we have learned to the present and perhaps even sharing with others, transforming the energy into something that is constructive and creative for ourselves and others. <br />
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Forgiveness is the soothing balm that can heal regret. In meditation, we can imagine discussing the issue with the self of our past and offering our forgiveness for the choice. In return, we can ask for our selves‚ forgiveness for keeping them locked in that space of judgment for so long. We may also want to ask forgiveness from anyone else who may have been affected and perhaps offer our forgiveness. By replaying the event in our minds, we can choose a new ending using all that we now know. Imagine that you have actually gone back into the past and made this change, and then say goodbye to it. Release your former self with a hug and bring the forgiveness and love back with you to the present. Since we are usually our harshest critics, it is amazing how powerfully healing it can be to offer ourselves love. <br />
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Keeping our minds and our energy fully in the present allows us to fuel our physical and emotional healing and well-being today. This action frees our energy to create the dreams we dream for the future. By taking responsibility and action in the present, we can release our hold on the past. <br />
~ Daily Om<br />
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<b>A Note from the Universe</b><br />
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However safe you might think you are right now, you are even safer. <br />
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However much you might think you are loved and guided right now, you are loved and guided even more. <br />
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And however likely you feel your future happiness is to blossom, let me assure you, it is, in fact, inevitable. Eternally. <br />
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It's simply that from within the jungles of time and space none of what I just shared is obvious, even as I hold you in the palm of my hand, because you've accepted what is unquestionably the single most daunting challenge I've ever imagined: to forget that we are one. <br />
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Good on you, <br />
The Universe<br />
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Offer a vibration that matches your desire rather than offering a vibration that keeps matching what-is.<br />
~ 'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks<br />
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Be kind to someone and you will get an increase in energy. Do a favor for someone, and you will feel better right away. Doing something nice, or helping someone in some way makes us feel better, so if you want to feel better, one way to do it, is to do something nice for someone else. You have helped someone else and you have helped yourself in the process, so that is a win win for all concerned.<br />
~ Edward W. Smith<br />
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<b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br />
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<b>The World Inside Your Body</b><br />
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There is an entire world inside you! To realize the power you have over your body, you need to know about this world - because all of it is under your command!<br />
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All the cells in your body have a role to play, and they work together for the sole purpose of giving you life. Some cells are the leaders of particular regions or organs, and they manage and direct all the working cells in their region, like your heart, brain, liver, kidneys and lungs. The leader cell of an organ directs and manage all the other cells working in that organ, ensuring order and harmony so the organ works perfectly. Patrol cells travel throughout the sixty thousand miles of blood vessels in your body to maintain order and peace. When there is a disturbance, such as a scratch to the skin, the patrol cells immediately signal the alert, and the appropriate repair team rushes to the area. For a scratch, the first on the scene is the blood-clotting team, and they work to arrest the blood flow. After their work is done, the tissue and skin teams move in to do the repair work to the area, mending the tissue, and sealing the skin. </span>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-50934339737495521172012-02-24T22:13:00.000-08:002012-02-24T22:13:51.185-08:00Weekend catch-up nuggets!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">TGIF! Please enjoy this plethora of weekend catch-up nuggets, including 'The Invitation', one my absolute favs, which I am sharing again :-) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> ~ Steve Jobs</span><br />
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.<br />
~ James Baldwin<br />
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<b>LETTING THERE BE ROOM</b><br />
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.<br />
~ Pema Chodron<br />
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<b>The Invitation</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It doesn’t interest me<br />
what you do for a living.<br />
I want to know<br />
what you ache for<br />
and if you dare to dream<br />
of meeting your heart’s longing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It doesn’t interest me<br />
how old you are.<br />
I want to know<br />
if you will risk<br />
looking like a fool<br />
for love<br />
for your dream<br />
for the adventure of being alive.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It doesn’t interest me<br />
what planets are<br />
squaring your moon...<br />
I want to know<br />
if you have touched<br />
the centre of your own sorrow<br />
if you have been opened<br />
by life’s betrayals<br />
or have become shrivelled and closed<br />
from fear of further pain.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I want to know<br />
if you can sit with pain<br />
mine or your own<br />
without moving to hide it<br />
or fade it<br />
or fix it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I want to know<br />
if you can be with joy<br />
mine or your own<br />
if you can dance with wildness<br />
and let the ecstasy fill you<br />
to the tips of your fingers and toes<br />
without cautioning us<br />
to be careful<br />
to be realistic<br />
to remember the limitations<br />
of being human.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It doesn’t interest me<br />
if the story you are telling me<br />
is true.<br />
I want to know if you can<br />
disappoint another<br />
to be true to yourself.<br />
If you can bear<br />
the accusation of betrayal<br />
and not betray your own soul.<br />
If you can be faithless<br />
and therefore trustworthy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I want to know if you can see Beauty<br />
even when it is not pretty<br />
every day.<br />
And if you can source your own life<br />
from its presence.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I want to know<br />
if you can live with failure<br />
yours and mine<br />
and still stand at the edge of the lake<br />
and shout to the silver of the full moon,<br />
“Yes.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It doesn’t interest me<br />
to know where you live<br />
or how much money you have.<br />
I want to know if you can get up<br />
after the night of grief and despair<br />
weary and bruised to the bone<br />
and do what needs to be done<br />
to feed the children.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It doesn’t interest me<br />
who you know<br />
or how you came to be here.<br />
I want to know if you will stand<br />
in the centre of the fire<br />
with me<br />
and not shrink back.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It doesn’t interest me<br />
where or what or with whom<br />
you have studied.<br />
I want to know<br />
what sustains you<br />
from the inside<br />
when all else falls away.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I want to know<br />
if you can be alone<br />
with yourself<br />
and if you truly like<br />
the company you keep<br />
in the empty moments.<br />
~ Oriah @ Mountain Dreaming<br />
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<b>Moving through Darkness</b><br />
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The Places We Go<br />
Often it takes something major to wake us up as we struggle to maintain an illusion of control.<br />
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In life, most of us want things to go to the places we have envisioned ourselves going. We have plans and visions, some of them divinely inspired, that we want to see through to completion. We want to be happy, successful, and healthy, all of which are perfectly natural and perfectly human. So when life takes us to places we didn't consciously want to go, we often feel as if something has gone wrong, or we must have made a mistake somewhere along the line, or any number of other disheartening possibilities. This is just life's way of taking us to a place we need to go for reasons that go deeper than our own ability to reason. These hard knocks and trials are designed to shed light on our unconscious workings and deepen our experience of reality. <br />
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Often it takes something major to wake us up, to shake us loose from our ego's grip as it struggles to maintain an illusion of control. It is loss of control more than anything else that humbles us and enables us to see the big picture. It reminds us that <b><i>the key to the universe lies in what we do not know, and what we do know is a small fraction of the great mystery in which we live</i></b>. This awareness softens and lightens us, as we release our resistance to what is. Another gift gleaned from going to these seemingly undesirable places is that, in our response to difficulty, we can see all the patterns and unresolved emotional baggage that stand in the way of our unconditional joyfulness. Joy exists within us independently of whether things go our way or not. And when we don't feel it, we can trust that we will find it if we are willing to surrender to the situation, moving through it as we move through our difficult feelings.<br />
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We can take our inspiration from any fairy tale that finds its central character lost in a dark woods, frightened and alone. We know that the journey through the wood provides its own kind of beauty and richness. On the other side, we will emerge transformed, lighter and brighter, braver and more confident for having moved through that darkness.</span><br />
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<b>Notes from the Universe</b><br />
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You don't even have to ask.<br />
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I know, I'm there, and I'm already busy.<br />
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The Universe<br />
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When just starting out on a new journey, it's only natural to feel vulnerable. After all, it may seem that you have much to lose. But may I remind you that never again, at any other point in your journey, will you have so much to gain as you will if you start today? <br />
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I'll take that as a "Yes." <br />
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Tallyho, <br />
The Universe<br />
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It may seem a bit backwards for some, but the first step one might take towards rearranging the present circumstances of their life is to stop dwelling upon the present circumstances of their life. <br />
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But for you it's probably a no-brainer.<br />
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The Universe<br />
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Just because someone may find fault, cast stones, or disagree with you, doesn't mean they don't adore you. <br />
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Actually, it's these same folks who usually do. <br />
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Tallyho, <br />
The Universe<br />
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It's not from the known, but the unknown, that creativity and inventiveness are born.<br />
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Turn away from the predictable, cliché, and reliable. Brave the void where the darkness is greatest. Trust the quiet, find the stillness, feel the calm. Then steadily think, speak, and move as if you were led. Behave as if your vision were clear. Anticipate the emotional rush that will come with your triumph. And as if by magic, as you raise your pen to write, you'll find the words have already been summoned, flooded in light that was there all along, in a world that has just as anxiously anticipated your arrival.<br />
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Just don't let them worship you.<br />
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The Universe<br />
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<b>The Teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks</b><br />
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You cannot worry about someone and love them at the same time. Most people mistake the emotion of worry for the emotion of love. They think that worrying about somebody means that you love them.<br />
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When your heart is singing, you are allowing Well-being. When you are appreciating, you are allowing Well-being. When you are yelling at somebody, you're not. When you're feeling insecure, you're not. When you're frustrated, you're not. </span></td></tr>
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While it is obvious that a good-feeling body makes for a more pleasant physical experience, we want you to understand that finding pleasant things to focus upon also makes for a good-feeling body.<br />
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However, most humans are approaching the subject of their physical well-being in a backward manner. Most people who are experiencing physical ailments let their physical condition dictate their mental attitude. In other words, their emotions are responsive to their physical condition. When they are in pain, they offer emotions of frustration, worry, anger, or fear. They want the condition to improve so that their emotional state can improve.<br />
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Any illness, or departure from physical well-being, begins at a cellular level—but the overwhelming propensity of your cells is that of thriving. All day, every day, your cells are reclaiming balance at such refined and subtle levels that most people are completely unaware of the power and intelligence of their cellular bodies.<br />
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Focusing upon good-feeling objects of attention is the most effective way of providing the optimum environment for allowing unhindered cellular communication and the ultimate thriving of your physical body.<br />
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Don't let any place that you are standing frighten you. All it is, is a by product of some Energy alignment, which only gives you stronger clarity about what you want — and, most importantly, greater sensitivity about whether you're in a receiving mode or locked off of it.<br />
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<b>One Minute Motivators by Edward W. Smith</b><br />
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Success comes from failure. Failure teaches you what doesn't work, and if you learn from your mistakes, you can move ahead faster. Every time you learn something, you get closer to your goal and failure certainly gives you the chance to learn something. Few Successful people made it to the top without making mistakes and many of them would say they made it because of their mistakes. Learn from your mistakes and head for the top.<br />
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Talk and be nice to other people. Treat other people with respect and courtesy. It reflects well on yourself and will make your dealings with other people go smoother. Start from a positive position with other people, as well as yourself. Listen and learn from other people, treat them with respect and be polite whenever possible. We get what we give in this world, and this applies to our dealings with other people as well.<br />
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<b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br />
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Being healthy is feeling the same way as little children feel. Little children are bursting with energy every day. Their bodies feel light and flexible; moving is effortless. They're light on their feet. Their minds are clear; they're happy, and free of worry and stress. They sleep deeply and peacefully every night, and they wake up feeling completely refreshed, as if with a brand-new body. They feel passionate and excited about every new day. Look at little children and you will see what being healthy really means. It is the way you used to feel, and it is the way you should <i>still </i> feel!<br />
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You can feel this way most of the time, because unlimited health is available to you unceasingly through the force of love! There is never a second that anything is withheld from you. Whatever you want is yours, and that includes unlimited health. But you have to open the door to receive it!<br />
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What Do You Believe?<br />
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<i> "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he."</i><br />
<i> </i>~ King Solomon (Circa 10th Century BC)<br />
Biblical King of Israel, in Proverbs 23:7<br />
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There are among the greatest words of wisdom ever given, but what do they mean, "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he"?<br />
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What you think in your heart is what you believe to be true. Beliefs are simply repeated thoughts with strong feelings attached to them like, "I catch colds easily,", I have a sensitive stomach," "I find it hard to lose weight," "I'm allergic to that," "Coffee keeps me awake." All of these are beliefs, not facts. A belief is when you have made up your mind, the verdict is in, you've nailed the door shut and thrown away the key, and there is no room for negotiation. But whatever you believe and feel is true will be true for you, whether your beliefs help you or harm you. Whatever beliefs you give out, the law of attraction says you must receive back.<br />
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Many people have more fearful beliefs about disease than they have good beliefs about health. It's not surprising because of the attention that is given to disease in the world, and you are surrounded by that every day. In spite of all the advances in medicine, disease is increasing because people have become increasingly fearful of disease.<br />
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Do you have more good feelings about your health than you have negative feelings about disease? Do you believe in lifelong health more than you believe in the inevitability of disease? If you believe that your body will deteriorate with age and that disease is inevitable, you are giving out that belief, and the law of attraction must return it to you clothed as the circumstances and state of your health and body.<br />
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<i> "For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me."</i><br />
~ Job 3:25<br />
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The placebo effect in medicine is proof of the power of belief. One group of patients is given real pills or treatment, and another group is given the placebo - a sugar pill or fake treatment - but neither is told which one is a cure for their symptoms or illness. Yet the group that gets the placebo often experiences significant improvements and the reduction or disappearance of symptoms. The startling results of the placebo effect regularly demonstrate the power of beliefs on our body. What you continually <i>give</i> to your body with your beliefs or strong feelings, you must <i>receive</i> in your body.<br />
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Every feeling you have saturates every cell and organ in your entire body. When you have good feelings, you are giving love and you receive the full force of health through your body at an astounding rate. When you have bad feelings, the tension causes your nerves and cells to contracts, the vital chemical production in your body changes, your blood vessels contract, and your breathing becomes shallow, all of which reduces the force of health in your organs and your entire body. Disease is simply the result of a body's not being at ease over a long period of time, because of negative feelings like stress, worry and fear.<br />
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<i>" Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined."</i><br />
~ Thomas Cutko (B. 1931)<br />
Sports Psychologist and Author<br />
</span>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-51384593272835117212012-02-17T22:29:00.000-08:002012-02-17T22:29:00.210-08:00Long (reflective) weekend nuggets...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj40QCRG50viyBCPEJHX3YvxYD2E0RePF3U_cGWzLiie_NCV-6aQ_WrNM0ETJZlfCEjxQnb00HzDtIThyphenhyphenJVj7lEvRpvHcEpnC1fJEB1BF8F8ztgFYyWZFASATZR4xHW_zA9PBfI7uDrwq8/s1600/The+Beautiful+Heart+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj40QCRG50viyBCPEJHX3YvxYD2E0RePF3U_cGWzLiie_NCV-6aQ_WrNM0ETJZlfCEjxQnb00HzDtIThyphenhyphenJVj7lEvRpvHcEpnC1fJEB1BF8F8ztgFYyWZFASATZR4xHW_zA9PBfI7uDrwq8/s320/The+Beautiful+Heart+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
TGIF! Reflecting on love as we say a final goodbye this weekend to a woman who was courageous enough to share her gift with the world, follow her dreams and inspire us all...rest in peace, Whitney.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Enjoy the long weekend! :-)<br />
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The daily path never ends.<br />
~ Masai proverb<br />
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Cherish your vision; Cherish your ideals; Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. If you remain true to them, your world will at last be built. <br />
~ James Allen<br />
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In life's ordinary and extraordinary occurrences, how are we to align ourselves with the grand design of Existence so that we may become emissaries of peace, vehicles of the evolutionary impulse governing the universe? Let us contemplate that question today.<br />
~ Michael Bernard Beckwith<br />
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Just because you’re afraid, doesn’t mean you’re in danger. Just because you feel alone, doesn’t mean nobody loves you. Just because you think you might fail, doesn’t mean you will. Look beyond your doubts and keep searching for the truth. Be aware of your mental self-talk. We all talk silently to ourselves in our heads, but we aren’t always conscious of what we’re saying or how it’s affecting us. The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive thoughts and emotions that are stronger and more powerful. Listen to your self-talk and replace negative thoughts with positive ones. The sun is always shining on some part of your life. Sometimes you just have to forget how you feel, remember what you deserve, and keep pushing forward.<br />
~ Racquel<br />
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<b>Life Lessons I've Learned...</b> </span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The world is not out to get you. There is no big conspiracy against you.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Everything and everyone has come into your life to help and guide you in some manner. Be open to it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">No matter what is going on around you, you have the choice on how you want to react and ultimately feel.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Your life is blessed every single day, in so many ways, and when you begin to realize that, you will begin to see your whole life as one continuous miracle!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Every person and situation is a teacher and a lesson. Be open to it all!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The world and your life really are how <i>you</i> perceive them, not what others say. That's their perception.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">When you're ready for change, your life will change. All you have to do is say the words.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Taking risks/chances only improves your life. You grow from it no matter the outcome.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">No matter what has happened in your life that keeps you feeling "stuck" and not moving forward, you can overcome anything if you give yourself the gift of forgiveness.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Your past does not dictate your future.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Love really does exist. Not over there, not in him or her, or in that car or that job. Stop the wild goose chase, it's been in YOU all along.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">You were born for greatness and only YOU choose to fulfill this calling or not.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, LIFE GOES ON!</span></li>
</ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> ~ Shari-ng with Shari<br />
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<b>A Note from the Universe</b><br />
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What if every wrinkle, scar, or gray hair only made you more beautiful? What if every tear you've shed, mistake you've made, and challenge you've faced, only drew you closer to the light? And what if, for every breath you've taken, every sentence you've spoken, and every path you've chosen, your fans in the unseen multiplied? <br />
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Well, I'd say it's about time you found out. <br />
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Be proud, we are - <br />
The Universe<br />
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As you practice your more positive, better-feeling story, in time your pleasure will become the dominant vibration within you, and then as you couple your pleasure with your means of earning, the two will blend perfectly and enhance each other.<br />
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There is no better way to earn money than to do the things that you love to do. Money can flow into your experience through endless avenues. It is not the choice of the craft that limits the money that flows—but only your attitude toward money.<br />
~ 'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks<br />
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Eliminate "I'll try" from your vocabulary. As soon as you say, "try", you know you can't do it, you won't do it, and it's over. "Try" weakens your self-confidence and gives you an out you are sure to take. You know when others say they will "try", it isn't going to happen, and it is the same for us. Learn to say, "I will" and if necessary learn to explain why something didn't work and how it will be better next time.<br />
~ Edward W. Smith<br />
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<b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br />
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Being healthy is feeling the same way as little children feel. Little children are bursting with energy every day. Their bodies feel light and flexible; moving is effortless. They're light on their feet. Their minds are clear; they're happy, and free of worry and stress. They sleep deeply and peacefully every night, and they wake up feeling completely refreshed, as if with a brand-new body. They feel passionate and excited about every new day. Look at little children and you will see what being healthy really means. It is the way you used to feel, and it is the way you should <i>still </i> feel! </span>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-23844535414172467652012-02-16T20:53:00.000-08:002012-02-16T20:54:50.396-08:00Thursday nuggets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxhGvA4YKuLk585eT3vHOPFgDjkbmQJCIvmKy0RDvfAE9V4KGROmZpoYvyyrCGel6W1Ob-m7Q9tkDoDMhJl9HKcrPF_pMtp2Mnzm_q9nDYZGXzR6eTJwuaQoawX-sFLm3mzQdk7lKD1CE/s1600/img101fa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxhGvA4YKuLk585eT3vHOPFgDjkbmQJCIvmKy0RDvfAE9V4KGROmZpoYvyyrCGel6W1Ob-m7Q9tkDoDMhJl9HKcrPF_pMtp2Mnzm_q9nDYZGXzR6eTJwuaQoawX-sFLm3mzQdk7lKD1CE/s320/img101fa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<b>Wabi-Sabi – the Japanese aesthetic of beauty</b><br />
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We live in a world where new is good – perfection is strived for – and young is beauty. We thought however that we would share with you today a beautiful aesthetic that the Japanese believe in – it is the principal of Wabi-Sabi. In a nutshell, Wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and accepting the natural cycle of growth. It is simple, uncluttered and it values authenticity above all else. Wabi-Sabi is about flea markets instead of big box stores and malls; it’s about aging wood, not laminate...the principles of Wabi-sabi celebrate the cracks and crevices.<br />
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It is so easy to disgard what isn’t new and forget what has aged – but stop and look closely next time at a pot that isn’t perfect – a flower that isn’t fully standing tall – or the aged face of the people around you – they all have a story to tell.<br />
~ Namaste' Om<br />
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It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.<br />
~ Alex Karras<br />
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<b>Making decisions based on fear </b> <br />
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Are you making choices based on fear? Afraid of taking a chance on YOU? Afraid of failing or succeeding? Afraid you can't control the outcome? Afraid you might grow? Afraid to LIVE outside of your comfort zone? <br />
When we make decisions based on fear, we block our blessings. Learning how to detach from outcomes while holding on to your positive intentions takes skill, but it's not impossible. When we worry and are consequently afraid of making powerful choices for ourselves, it is counter-productive. When we choose to do or NOT do things based on fear, we hold ourselves hostage. It is your responsibility to live a FULL life. How? Your choices determine how FULL your life experiences will and can be.<br />
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I have made some power-FULL choices in my life based on fear too so you're not alone. However, when I realized that I was only hurting myself, I made a change. I then chose to take the fear WITH me instead of letting it keep me at a standstill. Life is about the experiences along the way. You won't get out alive anyway as they say so why not REALLY live? Why not do the things you REALLY want to do without reservation? I'm not saying be reckless, but do live with FAITH in your heart KNOWING that your needs will be and are being met. How you perceive a situation is exactly how it will play out.<br />
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The more you fear change, the faster it will show up in your life because you see what you resist DOES indeed persist. Things will show up and you will wonder WHY -- you are the reason why. It is through your thoughts, feelings and actions that experiences are born. What are you birthing in your life right now? What are you so focused on that has you ultimately stuck? What are you afraid of?<br />
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Don't make decisions based on fear. It will get you nowhere FAST and the thing you are determined to avoid WILL show up anyway because the passion behind your fear will bring it to you. Just relax. Enjoy the moments of your life. Make great empowering choices for yourself based on POSITIVE intention, not fear. Watch what happens next!<br />
~ Kerri R. Smith<br />
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<b>A Note from the Universe</b><br />
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Guidance, attention, help, maybe. Love, always. Criticism, never.<br />
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What to give others.<br />
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Love always,<br />
The Universe<br />
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You're really not wanting to limit beliefs because belief is just perspective, and the more beliefs or the more perspectives or the more attitudes, the bigger the vibrational kitchen from which you can make your pie. Just get so good at directing your Energy that the belief doesn't dominate.<br />
~ 'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks<br />
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Don't work harder, work smarter. What can you do on your job, right now, to work smarter? What you did yesterday to be smarter, doesn't count. Things have changed since then and you have to relook at things every day. You have new information; perhaps new tools, and new challenges and opportunities, so look around you right now and see what you can do better, faster, cheaper, and of course smarter.<br />
~ Edward W. Smith<br />
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<b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br />
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<i>"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."</i><br />
~ Hippocrates (Circa 460 BC-Circa 370 BC)<br />
Father of Western Medicine<br />
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What does it mean to be healthy? You may think that being healthy means that you are not sick, but being healthy is far more than that. If you are feel okay, or average, or nothing much at all, you are not healthy. </span>tru soul powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17677639520933809000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560798865804226731.post-39101150757843302372012-02-15T19:50:00.000-08:002012-02-15T19:50:58.937-08:00Wednesday nuggets...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1z0jhQZcTWVOwawa1sS-qP1Y0b4WCtl-By3RQ6rFbDb6Rc9CcQwQX-5Tdw7xCRX7IXc5xumy9SgeIwT9Zd_dMv_eh5TGzNspRHzC4UJv39GAmEmiR4plHxUt9ZgcQzzwn2Bcu6iN5e58/s1600/Peaceful+Anger.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1z0jhQZcTWVOwawa1sS-qP1Y0b4WCtl-By3RQ6rFbDb6Rc9CcQwQX-5Tdw7xCRX7IXc5xumy9SgeIwT9Zd_dMv_eh5TGzNspRHzC4UJv39GAmEmiR4plHxUt9ZgcQzzwn2Bcu6iN5e58/s320/Peaceful+Anger.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
If you cannot hear the sound of the genuine in your own ear, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.<br />
~ Howard Thurman <br />
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We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate...either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realizing our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.<br />
~ Christopher Reeve<br />
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously WHO WE WERE BORN TO BE.<br />
~ Anne Lamott<br />
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I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.<br />
~ Georgia O'Keeffe<br />
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When people make mistakes, don’t make them feel rejected, but go the extra mile to make them feel forgiven, accepted—and free.<br />
~ Joyce Meyer<br />
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<b>A Note from the Universe</b><br />
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An end result, imagined clearly and acted upon with expectation, will always force the circumstances necessary to bring about its own manifestation, no matter how unpredictable, unlikely, or even impossible those circumstances may have previously seemed. <br />
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You were "predetermined" to have a joyful, expansive experience, and the way in which you will do that is all up to you. All other choices are for your physical format. Everything is still in the process of being created. There is no creation that has reached its completion.<br />
~ 'The Teachings of Abraham' by Esther and Jerry Hicks<br />
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Be flexible, when you think of how you want to reach you goal. If you set up rigid patterns of how everything should work on your way towards your goal, you will not be able to handle the inevitable set backs that you will encounter along the way. Be flexible in the way you want to make it and keep the ultimate outcome in mind, rather than the short term. Example: Burns and Allen had Gracie delivering the punch lines and the show was a great hit. When the show first started, George Burns did the punch lines and the show flopped, so they changed to George being the straight man and the rest is history.<br />
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<b><u>Daily Teaching from The Power</u></b><br />
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<b>Points of Power</b> </span><br />
<ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Life is presenting every person and circumstance to you so you can choose what you love and what you don't love. When you react to anything, you are reacting with your feelings, and as you do, you are choosing it!</span></li>
</ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">You can't change a negative situation with bad feelings. If you keep reacting negatively, your bad feelings will magnify and multiply the negativity.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">If you're feeling fantastic, the force of your magnetic field creates a shield that no negativity can penetrate.</span></li>
</ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Changing the way you feel is easy compared to running around trying to change the circumstances of the outside world. Change your feelings and the outside circumstances will change!</span></li>
</ul><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The more you give love and feel good, the more magnetic your field becomes and the more it expands, drawing everything and everyone you love to you!</span></li>
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