Wake Up and Live! ~ Stirring up the power within.

October 11th, 2011

One day a lion cub was playing alone in the wilderness while his mother slept. The baby lion decided that he’d explore a bit and see what the great world beyond his home was like. Before he realized it, he’d wandered so far that he couldn’t find his way back. He was lost.

Very frightened, the cub ran frantically in every direction calling piteously for his mom, but she didn’t hear him. Weary from searching, he didn’t know what else to do. Then a sheep, whose offspring had been taken from her, heard his cries and adopted him.

The sheep became very fond of her foundling, who in a short while grew so large that at times she was almost afraid of him. Often she’d detect a strange, far-off look in his eyes that she couldn’t understand.

Nonetheless, the foster mother and her adopted cub lived very happily together until one day when a magnificent lion appeared, sharply outlined against the sky on the top of a nearby hill. He shook his tawny mane and uttered a terrific roar, which echoed through the countryside. The mother sheep stood paralyzed with fear, but the cub listened as though spellbound.

The lion’s roar had touched a chord in his nature that he’d never felt before. New desires and a consciousness of his power possessed him. Instinctively he answered the lion’s call with a corresponding roar.

Trembling with mingled fear, surprise, and bewilderment at the feelings aroused within him, the awakened animal gave his foster mother a last look and then, with a tremendous leap, started toward the lion on the hill.

The lost cub had found himself. Until then he’d gamboled around his sheep mother just as though he were a lamb, never dreaming that he could do anything different from the ordinary sheep around him. He hadn’t imagined that he had within him a power that could strike terror in the other beasts of the jungle. Whereas he used to tremble at the mere howl of a wolf, he was now amazed to find that the animals that had terrified him before now fled from him.

As long as the baby lion thought he was a sheep, he was as timid and retiring as one. He had only a sheep’s strength and courage and could never have exerted the command of a lion. If someone had suggested that he could, he would have asked, “How could I be so powerful? I’m only a sheep.”

But when the lion was awakened in him, he instantly became a new creature, the king of beasts. The roar he heard hadn’t given him any new abilities; it had merely brought forth what was already within him, revealing what he’d always possessed. Never again could this young animal be satisfied to act like a sheep. From then on he’d live as a lion.

There is in every human being a sleeping lion. It’s just a question of rousing it… of finding something that will stir the depths of our being and awaken the powers within. Just like the cub, when we at last discover that we’re more than mere clay and have the Divine Spirit within us, we shall never again be satisfied to live like a common clod of earth. We’ll feel a new sense of strength welling up that we didn’t know we possessed, and we’ll no longer be content with low-flying ideals and cheap success. Instead, we’ll seek higher and higher planes.

In a Nutshell

Let go of everything else if you must but never lose your own esteem. This is a priceless pearl and is dearer to you than your breath. Protect it with all your might.

Perhaps the past has been a bitter disappointment for you. In reviewing it, you may feel that you’ve been a failure or at best have been plodding along in mediocrity. Yet in spite of any setbacks, if you refuse to be conquered, victory is awaiting you farther down the road.

Try to bring forth your enormous potential. You know that it’s there and can instinctively feel it. Your intuition and ambition tell you that there’s much more in you than you’ve ever discovered or used. Why don’t you stir it up and call it out?

 

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Your Chosen Path

October 9th, 2011

One of my favorite poets, Robert Frost, is the author of one of the world’s best-loved and most famous poems, “The Road Not Taken.” This poem about choosing an independent course applies in all areas of our lives. To me, Frost says be wary of following the pack, and don’t do anything simply because everyone else is doing it. Also, do what you do in the manner that you perceive it, regardless of how everyone is doing it, or has done it. The importance of choosing your own path is reflected in the poem’s conclusion—that taking the road “less traveled by” makes all the difference. Virtually all the people we revere took the road less traveled by, and that is why they were able to make a difference.

Frost himself was expected to be a farmer, lawyer, and then a teacher. He tried farming and left it. He entered law school to be the lawyer his grandfather wanted him to be, but departed almost immediately without notice. He left Harvard because of an illness, perhaps brought on by trying the road most traveled. But poetry was in his heart, and when he went down a road that few traveled with him, it made all the difference, and today we have his poetry because of that choice.

Frost’s poem invites you to forget peer pressure and instead know that if you truly want to make a difference in your life, you cannot do so by doing things the way everyone else does or because everyone else is. If you choose to lead your life just like everyone else, then what exactly is it that you have to offer? The road most traveled by is one that will allow you to fit in and feel accepted, but it will never allow you to make a difference.

In my own professional work I have been willing to speak and write about topics and ideas that were criticized by those on the more frequented road. In the beginning, the road I took was filled with potholes and gravel. Yet my work has always come from that place I trust most—my own heart—and so I persisted. As the years passed the road became paved and well-lit. Now many who once thought this was a preposterous path are walking with me. I have heard them say, “I used to think those ideas were insane, but now I really like what you were saying then.” I am happy to have experienced what Robert Frost was writing about.

Listen to your own heart concerning the path you wish to travel. Even if your entire life training has been in one direction, if it is not what you feel now, then begin the adventure of exploring a less-traveled road.

 

 


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Who’s Running Your Life? ~ Learn to trust your ideas.

October 3rd, 2011

Just before I left home for Harvard at the age of 17, my father decided to share some of his wisdom to see me on my way. He died a few years later; and I remember him as a warm, energetic man who devoted his life to healing children emotionally and mentally, and who made up nicknames for everyone he liked.

He had shared his wisdom with me before on several occasions, usually while listening to a Red Sox game and drinking a few Gablinger’s special-draft 66-calorie beers (drinking light beers before they became mainstream, he was truly a man ahead of his time). This wisdom usually consisted of a neat little rule of life he had determined to be significant: “Son,” he would tell me, nodding his head slightly and lifting his bushy gray eyebrows as if to distance them from his much more pronounced but similarly textured mustache, “never bet on a filly who fades in the stretch.”

I’m not sure if he was giving me advice about his favorite hobby, horse racing, or if it was a subtle message relating to any marriage plans in my future. In any case, on this one occasion, I remember asking him how he had decided to become a child psychologist. My father, more serious than usual, although not stern—and still with the light beer in his hand that served as a prerequisite for the imparting of wisdom—said that he hoped I would read Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance” while I was at college. He told me that reading it had been a turning point for him, had helped him decide what to do with his life and, more important, how to live it.

Although through some combination of rebellion and procrastination, I didn’t actually read Emerson’s essay for more than ten years after that talk, I did come to a similar turning point in my life as the result of taking my first personal-growth workshop. (Having done both, I can safely say that taking a workshop is a far more effective means of learning than reading an essay, especially one written in 19th-century English.)

Emerson wrote about people’s fear of trusting themselves. He saw that so much failure and misery in the world was a result of people failing to trust their own judgment. Yet the ironic thing is: We are always making our own decisions.

Either that or we make our own indecisions, which often lead to worse consequences than active decisions. In a way, not making a decision is a decision, too.

If we let others decide for us—then we’ve decided to let others decide for us, and that’s also our own decision. And while it’s fine to delegate decisions to others when they have more information or experience than we do, often we simply do it out of habit or out of fear that our own decision wouldn’t be good enough.

Have you ever had a thought or idea but kept it to yourself or not acted on it because you didn’t trust its worthiness? Have you ever then heard the same idea come out of someone else’s mouth and suddenly felt a wave of emotion—justification, gratification, or even humiliation or resentment because you knew it was your idea first? Your ideas are just as good as anyone’s! I’ve heard it said that everybody has at least two million-dollar ideas in a lifetime. What do you think separates the people who make the million dollars from the rest of us?

Action! Those people rely on themselves, trust themselves, and act! The rest of us have plenty of excuses, reasons why we don’t trust ourselves, justifications for not acting—but in the end, we don’t even get the chance to turn those great ideas into reality. Self-reliance means trusting ourselves to know what’s important, casting aside excuses, and going for it!

If you don’t trust yourself to know what’s best for you because you’re afraid you might be wrong, then whom or what do you trust? It’s good to know—they’ll be running your life until you change your mind. They’ll have all your power, and they’ll be the ones to decide whether you do something worthwhile with your life, or whether you simply pace off the minutes from here to the end of the line. And if you don’t feel you are trustworthy—if you’re living your life based on some kind of weighted average of all the advice you’ve been given from kindergarten until now—well, whose decision was it to do that?

It was yours. At least, it’s yours now. If you’ve never thought about this before and therefore never had a chance to make the decision to trust yourself—why not make that decision right now?

You’re always trusting yourself anyway, on some level; the final decision, or lack of one, always comes down to you. Why not cut through the confusion; the distortion; the doubt, resentment, and fear? Why not trust directly in your own inner sense of what is right and wrong, good and bad, worthwhile and worthless? This is your life. Why not rely on yourself?

 

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Manifest Your Desires

October 2nd, 2011

Manifest Your Desires

It’s very common for people to think about the things that they need. The things that are needed for everyday life is something that is on the minds of many people nowadays. However, how common is it for people to think about their desires? When we were children, one of the most common phrases that we uttered was “I want”.  This was probably because as children, our basic needs were met, and we had little to no responsibilities. Therefore, we were free to do nothing but spend hours upon hours a day contemplating the things that we wanted, if we actually didn’t receive them. After all, what loving parent doesn’t fulfill their child’s desires?

As we got older, we learned that we needed to put our desires aside in order to fulfill our responsibilities. For example, we might have desired to play and daydream all day, but we were told to focus on being good students in school. We were told that when we got home, we had to focus on homework and household chores, although we might have desired to play and blow off our responsibilities. You can think back on the timeline of your life, and think of many things that you desired. In any case, you were probably taught like everyone else that being a mature, good, and responsible person meant that you had to forget about your desires and focus on being responsible, so that you could fulfill your daily and future needs.

While being responsible is certainly necessary to function as a healthy adult, is it any wonder why as adults, we dare not think of our desires? Is it any coincidence that the older we get, we lose the spark in our eyes? Is it any wonder that most adults don’t even know what they desire anymore, or that most adults dare not contemplate their desires? So it would stand to reason then that most adults have no clue how to manifest their desires. But I say that it’s very much a part of one’s healthy existence to manifests your desires. These are just as much a part of a balanced life as meeting responsibilities. Here are some simple ways that you can manifest your desires.

You can journal. You don’t have to buy a fancy journal. You can buy a simple one dollar notebook. The key is to write in an uncensored manner about your desires. Maybe you can start writing about your childhood desires. Reflect back upon why you desired what you did. Why did your desires move or motivate you? Are there any talents that you have and take for granted? Can your talents and your desires lead you to a life that is bigger than the one that you have now? Could this new life be far more suitable for you?

You can also manifest your desires by creating a vision board. This is a grown up version of a fun childhood activity. You simply cut out pictures from magazines, and glue them to posterboard. You create vision boards of places that you’d like to visit, or of people you’d like to meet. Maybe you can create a vision board based upon the job that you’d like to have. You don’t have to simply use photos. You can also glue words and phrases to your vision board. The point is for you to bring your desires to the forefront of your mind, so that you start taking steps to move towards your desires.

To paraphrase a popular verse, a dream deferred makes the heart sick. In many cases, physical and emotional illness is caused in part by the lack of unfulfilled desires. While it’s true that responsibilities need to be met, you also owe it to yourself and your well being to manifest your desires as well.

 

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Faith is All You Need ~ Be an instrument of peace.

September 30th, 2011

I’ve been blessed with a long career as a teacher and lecturer, speaking in close to 50 countries around the world—Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, South America—from Copenhagen to Singapore.  People in Singapore ask, “What’s life like in Copenhagen?” and I say, “It’s just like it is here.” I say that because I’m not speaking to people from Copenhagen or Singapore; I’m speaking to human beings. Life is life for us all. People are all one and we all want the same things—a life of peace, a life of harmony, freedom from tyranny, and closeness to God. We share these desires because we share a connection to the Divine, we are all one. That’s something I both believe and know.

Recently, I got to realize a dream and returned for a third visit to the Italian town of Assisi where Saint Francis began his ministry of love and healing. My companions on this trip, a community of family, old friends, and new friends, were joining me for a tour of some of Europe’s most sacred sites—Assisi, Lourdes, and Medjugorje.

I was speaking to our group in the Basilica of Saint Francis when something happened to me that has never happened before in my 40 plus years of giving public talks. I was reading a passage from Nikos Kazantzakis’ powerful story about the life of Saint Francis. In the passage from the novel, Francis is instructed in his prayers to do something that triggers his deepest fear—to touch a person with leprosy.

In 13th century Europe, lepers were required to live apart from the rest of the populace and to wear bells to warn people of their approach. Jesus asked Francis to walk up to the next leper he saw, embrace him and kiss him on the mouth. Francis came upon a young boy with a leper’s bell. He embraced and kissed him and wrapped him inside his robe to escort him into the village. When Francis opened his robe to reveal what was inside, the boy was gone. He realized that the boy he met was not a leper or any member of the community—but Christ himself in one of what Mother Teresa would later call “one of his distressing disguises.”

Reading the words of this story to the audience, my eyes filled with tears and I began to sob. It was a complete emotional breakdown on stage—an unprecedented experience for me and one I had no control over. As I cried on, the fellow members of our journey to the miraculous stood up and extended their hands toward me. They were crying, too.

Saint Francis used faith to overcome his greatest fear and saw the fear dissolve into love. For us, too, faith conquers fear. When we realize that we are never alone or separate from God, our fear disappears. By simply recognizing our connection to Spirit and to one another through Spirit, we raise our consciousness to the level where love replaces fear.

During the days of our journey together, our community of 157 people from all continents and all age groups (18-84) became a family. Saint Francis wanted to reach his community with the message of Christ-consciousness, harmony, peace, and love. He saw himself as related to everyone and everything—from the animals to the stars. We are all brothers and sisters and our desires for a peaceful world are one and the same.  The first line of the Prayer of Saint Francis, “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace,” tells us what we need to do if we are going to realize the dream all of us share. When we experience our true oneness and the dissolving of fear into love, our obligation is to spread the love and create a global community with the knowledge of our shared vision.

 

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Simply. . . Empowered! ~ Your map to the high road.

September 27th, 2011

Life should feel easy and effortless, like floating on a buoy on a beautiful summer day. Instead, most of us live like we’re trying to hold the buoy underwater—applying so much resistance is exhausting. There are so many lies that we don’t even realize are lies. It takes great effort to live in this way, yet all it takes is letting go . . . of fear, anger, and of the lies we’ve fed ourselves. We must allow our truth to rise to the surface in order to resonate in our natural and elevated place. Try telling this to someone who thinks the buoy is saving her life. Letting go is terrifying!

As you go about your day, be aware of what you’re feeling. When a moment of weakness arrives (whether it’s making an excuse; complaining and whining; popping a pill; smoking a joint; heading to the bar, mall, or casino; watching a porno; gambling your paycheck; picking up a stranger; working longer and longer hours; or simply vacating in front of the TV all night with ice cream and potato chips) stop and ask yourself, What am I really feeling? Don’t beat yourself up for the ways you want to escape your fears—instead, look at what’s really going on.

Each time you take the high road, your weaknesses lose power over you, and eventually, you’ll realize that nothing has a hold on you. That is true empowerment!

Taking the high road may sound easier said than done, but right now, while you’re feeling strong and inspired, create the support system you’ll need when a moment of weakness arrives. For example, if you tend to eat or drink when you get upset, come up with a list of positive alternatives right now. This will be your line of defense!

Make your arrangements in advance with a person you can call for a talk or walk. Perhaps you could find a workout buddy or running partner. Is there a favorite bookstore you could visit? A journal you could pour your thoughts into? Maybe you could meet up with a squash or tennis buddy to whack away your frustrations together. Could you run a hot bubble bath and meditate? Go for a yoga class? Listen to your favorite playlist? Head to a spa for a massage or manicure? Visit a museum or art gallery to clear your head? You could even just make sure that you have plenty of healthy snacks in the refrigerator.

Maybe you have a tendency to get stressed over your finances and at times pull the covers over your head, leaving the mail to pile up unopened. Or maybe you jump in your car and head to the mall to shop away your woes. You, too, must create your “high road” choices before the next worrisome episode arrives. Call a financial planner now! You don’t need to have lots of money to talk with someone. They’ll help anyone, even those in dire need of getting out of trouble. Don’t be embarrassed! This takes courage, too. Your planner will give you an array of suggestions that will offer you hope and a sense of empowerment. Taking action doesn’t cause anxiety; it’s the not taking action that does!

When your moment of weakness arrives, pull out your “high road” choices, your line of defense, and do something that will add to your life force rather than take from it!

Once you’ve made your list, read it over every day. Get very familiar with your better options so that when you’re faced with a crisis, they become second nature.

The next step is the most crucial one of all: Before you make any decision—stop! Don’t react.

In order to do so, you must be willing to pause, even if for just 30 seconds (30 seconds of no talking, moving, thinking, speculating, worrying, or considering). Take this time to just breathe and clear your mind. Ask yourself, What do I want to feel?

I guarantee you want to feel empowered. You want to create a magnificent life. You want to enjoy the fruits of your labor, not squander them. You want a great relationship, not to get even. You want a beautiful, healthy body, not indigestion and guilt. You want peace, joy, love, and harmony—not fighting, pain, fear, and lack. One road will lead you to your dreams, the other to your downfall. In your moment of weakness, just stop, breathe, and say a prayer:

God, thank you for helping me make the right choice.
Thank you for giving me freedom to choose what I want.
Thank you for giving me so much courage and such a willing spirit.
There is nothing I can’t do through You.

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Attract Ideal People ~ How to find those you want and need.

September 26th, 2011

If you saw the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, you probably came away remembering the concept that if you pursue a dream, you will succeed (or, “If you build it, they will come”). I mention this because I’m suggesting that if you commit yourself to matching up with the field of intention, everyone you desire or need to fulfill your personal intention will appear. How can that be? The moment you definitely commit yourself to being a part of the power of intention, “then Providence moves too,” and unforeseen assistance comes your way.

The right people will arrive to assist you in every aspect of your life: The people who will support you in your career are there; the people who will help you create your perfect home show up; the people who will arrange the finances for whatever you desire are available; the driver you need to get you to the airport is waiting for you; the designer you’ve admired wants to work with you; the dentist you need in an emergency when you’re on vacation just happens to be there; and your spiritual soul mate finds you.

The list is endless because we’re all in relationship to each other, we all emanate from the same Source, and we all share the same divine energy of intention. There’s no place that this universal mind is not; therefore, you share it with everyone you attract into your life.

You’ll have to let go of any resistance to your ability to attract the right people, or you won’t recognize them when they show up in your everyday life. Resistance may be difficult to recognize at first, because it’s such a familiar form of your thoughts, your emotions, and your energy levels. If you believe that you’re powerless to attract the right people, then you’ve attracted powerlessness into your experience. If you’re attached to the idea of being stuck with the wrong people or no people at all, then your energy isn’t aligned with the power of intention, and resistance reigns. The field of intention has no choice but to send you more of what you’re desiring. So, make a somersault into the inconceivable, where you have faith and trust in the universal mind of intention, and allow the right people to arrive in your life right on schedule.

Once you’ve formed a picture in your mind of the person or people that you intend to show up in your life, and you know how you want them to treat you and what they’ll be like, you must be what it is that you’re seeking. This is a universe of attraction and energy. You can’t have a desire to attract a mate who is confident, generous, non-judgmental, and gentle, and expect that desire to be manifested if you’re thinking and acting in non-confident, selfish, judgmental, or arrogant ways—which is why most people don’t attract the right people at the right time.

More than 30 years ago, I wanted to attract a publisher into my life for my book, Your Erroneous Zones. This publisher would have to be understanding since I was an unknown writer at the time, and would have to be a risk taker, willing to let go of any doubts about me.

My literary agent arranged a meeting with an executive editor, whom I’ll refer to as George, at a large New York publishing house. As I sat down to talk with him, it was obvious to me that he was personally distraught. I asked him what was troubling him, and we proceeded to spend the next three to four hours talking about a devastating personal matter that had just transpired the night before. George’s wife had told him that she was going to seek a divorce, and he felt as though he’d been blindsided by this news. I let go of my own desires to talk about getting my book published and became what it was that I was seeking: an understanding, confident, risk-taking person. By being that very thing and detaching from my ego-dominated desires, I was able to help George out that afternoon, which I’ve never forgotten.

I left George’s office that day without even discussing my book proposal. When I told my literary agent this story, he was convinced that I’d blown my one opportunity with a major publishing house by not making a strong pitch for my book. The following day, George called my agent, telling him, “I really don’t even know what Dyer’s book proposal entails, but I want that man as one of our authors.”

At the time, I didn’t realize what was happening. Now, with a quarter century of living in this world of spiritual inquiry, I see it quite clearly. The right people show up precisely when you need them and when you’re able to match up. You must be that which you desire. When you are what you desire, you attract it by radiating it outward. You have this ability to match up with the power of intention and fulfill your intention to attract ideal people and divine relationships.

 

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Sticks and Stones…Choosing words that heal you.

September 25th, 2011

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” It’s a familiar childhood taunt that we once thought was true. But as we learned from Dr. Masaru Emoto’s work, words have an energy frequency that affects the molecular structure of water. Because the body is 75 to 90 percent water, we are affected by words. Not only can words hurt us emotionally, but the ones that we choose to use represent the flow of our subconscious mind.

One of my patients, Jennifer, was 13 in 1967 and excited about being invited to her first “teenage” party. When she told her friend about the invitation, her companion responded, “No boy will ever want to dance with you.” At the time of those remarks, Jennifer and her friend were eating tuna salad. When Jennifer began dressing for the party hours after the conversation, her nose and lips started to swell. Her parents took Jennifer to the emergency clinic, and the doctor declared that she was allergic to fish. From that point forward—over the next 35 years—Jennifer never ate fish, and if she was around while it was being cooked, she had an allergic reaction.

Using the words and intention of Infinite Love & Gratitude, I harmonized the internalized thoughts, feelings, and beliefs associated with Jennifer’s memory. She no longer has any allergic reaction to fish and enjoys eating it on a regular basis.

Words can have a profound, life-altering positive impact—or they can create intensely negative, devastating effects. Think about the words used when you have a disagreement with your spouse or significant other, or when you receive criticism from your parents or praise from your boss. How do words affect you when your siblings, friends, or co-workers tease you? If you don’t respond to them right away, what energy frequencies are rumbling around your body as a result?

Some words that you use every day have a similar impact. Close your eyes and say the words: my, try, can’t. What feelings do they evoke in you?

Let’s start with the word my. It means “belonging to or done by me.” So what happens when you use my to describe a symptom or disease? “My migraine headache is killing me.” “My allergies are making me sneeze like crazy.” “My arthritis won’t let me stand up for long periods.” “My diabetes is acting up.”

When you use the word my when speaking of a symptom or a disease, you create an identity as if the condition defines you. That’s dangerous! Adding the word my means that the symptom belongs to you. The truth is that the ache or other dysfunction is a sign that there’s an imbalance in your system, and your body is attempting to get your attention. When you qualify the headache by calling it “my headache,” it sends a negative message to your body, and the cycle of breakdown continues. In addition, when you participate in verbal patterns of communication that are pessimistic or limiting in any way, the body has to take on another opponent—you. It’s hard to defend against yourself. It’s like shadowboxing: The opponent ducks every time you do.

This is what I recommend: When you talk about a symptom, make it the pain instead of my pain—the pain in my head, the pain in my stomach, or the pain in my back. At the same time, you should own your body parts—that is—my head, my stomach, or myback. But don’t say my arthritis, my multiple sclerosis, or my Parkinson’s disease. When you do, you’re just solidifying dysfunction as being a part of you.

During a recent service, our rabbi gave a wonderful sermon. He talked about a little boy who showed his teacher a picture of the earth. As an experiment, the teacher tore it into little pieces and instructed the boy to put them back together again. In a short amount of time, the child came back with the picture taped together.

“How did you do it so fast?” the teacher asked.

“On the other side of the earth was the picture of one person,” the child responded. “Putting that one person back together helped me put the earth back together.”

In order to heal the earth you must first put yourself back together—you must heal your own life. The words my, can’t and try are representative of the state of imbalance and dis-ease in your subconscious mind. My, can’t, and try are symptoms of the subconscious mind’s perpetration of harm against the body. Own your power by doing your best: Unconditionally respect, honor, and love yourself by choosing to take responsibility for the words you use. The impact of your choice will send a ripple outward to heal the earth, one person at a time.

 

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Dance Your Problems Away ~ Let the Spirit move you!

September 22nd, 2011

Everything is changing and moving into new unknowns. With the umbrella in the skies of difficult astrological influences last experienced during the American Revolution, we have been experiencing these energies within us—a timely inner revolutionary cycle requiring us to become authentic and true to our highest good.

We’re being called to find our center that pulsates deep within us as the outer world shakes and shimmies into its new form. This is our dance. Nature beats a rhythm of her own, in her own way of clearing the path for new life, a new world and a new way of being in that world. And Spirit is waiting with new music. Can you listen? Can you hear it?

The invitation to dance in sync with the big drum of co-creation is for all of us, all of life together, and it’s rising in the ethers soon to be upon us. Spirit, Nature and You!

So put on some music and get into a rhythm of joy, of celebration, of gratitude, and embrace your life!

What would your best life look life?

Dance it to life!

What would it feel like if you sent all your goblins of fear to bed to go to sleep?

Dance that into being!

What would your life become if you could find expression for all the gifts and talents Spirit has bestowed upon you?

Here is a 30-day plan that really works to help shift your energy from fear to faith, from ebb to flow, from denial to clarity, from sadness to joy, poverty to abundance!

Tools you will need:

  • One song that is upbeat and danceable chosen by you to listen to once a day while envisioning your best life.
  • Your favorite aromatherapy spray (preferably one that has lavender, sage, eucalyptus, orange or lemon in it).
  • A piece of apple, orange, or chocolate.
  • A photo of you when you were around 4 to 6 years old.
  • An affirmation list ( you create this personally).
  • A talisman, stone or object that you choose to represent your dreams coming true.
  • A spiritual symbol (angel wings, cross, ankh or a crystal).

First: Commit to a partnership with Spirit. Pray daily with reverence that you will serve and trust in this partnership. Although Spirit will be working in the invisible realms, trust that you will do your part. You will do the legwork and Spirit will do the rest.

Second: Write a letter to the little child in the photo promising her/him that you will protect and love them, and assure them that good positive things are true for them! Apologize for not giving them the life they deserved and let them know how you’re going to look after them. (For example: stop smoking, stop your addictions, take steps toward a long cherished dream and so on.)

Third: Imagine that you can see your fears embodied in the character of a goblin who is sitting in a basket. Let the goblin talk to you, identify each fear or issue without judgment, placing the words, ideas and emotions back into the basket with the little goblin. Imagine giving the basket to Spirit and the goblin immediately falling asleep. Spend some time in the freedom and peace you feel knowing that Spirit is in charge and all will be well.

Fourth: For 5 to 10 minutes each day, do the following Dancing Affirmation:

(Place the symbols of Spirit, your best life, and your photo where you can see them. Spray the aromatherapy mist and eat a teeny bite of fruit or chocolate. This anchors your vision into form.)

Listen to your music and chant:

Spirit is the source of inspiration and the source of my supply!

Spirit is all around and also here inside!

Life is New and Life is Grand!

I expect Miracles!

I expect Miracles!

Imagine a bright pink light in your heart center that sparkles with a steady light. When you dance, your light sends out teeny filaments and connects you to all of life. Send your love into the web and intend for healing to occur for everyone that needs it. Imagine it coming back to you in a perfect flow.

Do this daily for 30 days with gusto. Anytime you experience fear, put your goblin in the basket and hand it to Spirit. You will feel empowered!

 

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Your Intention Connection – Let others feel your positive vibe.

September 21st, 2011

When you feel connected to and in harmony with the universal mind of intention, you’ll sense a major difference in how other people react to you. These reactions are important because they bear directly on your ability to fulfill your own individual intentions, your goals and dreams. The more closely you resonate with the frequencies of the universal all-creating Source, the more others will be impacted. They’ll gravitate toward you, bringing peace, joy, love, beauty, and abundance into your life. Here, in my opinion, are some of the ways in which you’ll impact others when you’re resonating with intention:

Your presence instills calmness.

When you coincide with intention, your impact on others has a calming influence. People tend to feel more at peace, less threatened, and more at ease. The power of intention is the power of love and receptivity. It asks nothing of anyone, it judges no one, and it encourages others to be free to be themselves. As people feel calmer in your presence, they’re inclined to feel safe, by virtue of the energy frequencies that you radiate. Their feelings are encouraged by your energy of love and receptivity, causing them to want to reach out and be with you.

Your presence leaves others feeling energized.

When you bring the frequencies of intention into the presence of others, they’ll feel energized just by being in your immediate circle. You don’t have to say a word. You don’t have to act in any prescribed fashion. Your energy of intention alone will make others in your field feel as if they’ve mysteriously been empowered. They’ll want to assist you in fulfilling your own dreams.

Your presence allows others to feel better about themselves.

Have you ever noticed when you’re in the presence of certain people that you feel better about yourself? Their compassionate energy has the noticeably pleasant impact of simply making you feel really good about yourself. You’ll impact others with this energy of compassion as you develop your connection to intention. People will sense that you care about them, understand them, and are interested in them as unique individuals.

Your presence allows others to feel unified.

The effect of being in the presence of people expressing high frequencies is to feel unified and connected to all of nature, all of humankind, and to intention. As you raise your frequencies, your impact on others invites them to be on the same team. You are unified and want to assist each other in the fulfillment of a common objective.

Your presence instills a sense of purpose.

When you’re in the higher spiritual energies, your presence and behavior from a space of love, acceptance, nonjudgment, and kindness becomes a catalyst for others to feel on purpose in their lives. By staying at the higher energies of optimism, forgiveness, understanding, reverence for Spirit, creativity, serenity, and bliss, you radiate this energy.  The people around you begin to feel your quiet reverence and serenity. Your own purpose, which revolves around serving others and therefore serving God, becomes fulfilled, and as a bonus, you create allies.

Your presence allows others to trust in authentic personal connections.

By bringing the traits of intention to others, you allow trust to be present. You’ll notice both an inclination and a willingness on the part of others to open up and confide in you. This is related to the quality of trust. In the atmosphere of higher energy, people trust and want to share their personal stories with you.

Your presence inspires others to greatness.

When you’re connected to Spirit and quietly reflect this consciousness, you become a source of inspiration to others. In a sense, this is one of the most powerful effects that connecting to intention transmits to others. The word inspiration means “in-spirit.” The fact that you’re primarily in-spirit means that you inspire rather than inform with your
presence.

Your presence aligns others with beauty.

When you’re connected to intention, you see beauty everywhere and in everything because you’re radiating the quality of beauty. Your perceptual world changes dramatically. At the higher energy of intent, you see beauty in everyone, young or old, rich or poor, dark or light, with no distinctions. Everything is perceived from a perspective of appreciation rather than judgment. As you bring this feeling of
beauty appreciation to the presence of others, people are inclined to see themselves as you see them. They feel attractive and better about themselves. When people feel beautiful, they act in beautiful ways.

Your presence instills health rather than sickness.

Your connection to your Source keeps you focused on what you intend to manifest into your life, with no energy given to what you don’t want. This internal focus doesn’t permit you to complain about what ails you or to think about disease, pain, or any physical difficulties. Your energy is always on creating love, and expanding the perfection from which you originated.

 

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