My Two-Minute Video for this Week: Possibilities:
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Some of us are old enough to remember Mad Magazine and Alfred E. Newman with the ‘What? Me Worry?’ smile on his face. How nice it would be to adopt this attitude toward all our problems!
I see worry as a huge drain on energy, away from the energy pie of today. Each day we start with one energy pie. We choose each day how many slices to make in that pie and to which activities we are giving those slices of pie. Some days we might make huge slices and work on only a couple of projects. Other days, we cut up slivers and divvy them out to lots of different activities or people.
When worry takes over, we cut a big slice of our energy pie and throw it away. Worry is planning energy, creating a mind wrapped around a possibility that has not materialized. And, knowing about the Laws of Attraction and Manifestation, we then energize the very thing that we don’t want to have happen. Bummer!
Since great worriers are also great planners, (they have to be to be so good at creating a picture of the future that hasn’t happened yet!) what if you took your energy for worry and turned it into the energy of planning for the outcome you desire? Much more fun to picture a happy desired outcome than a dismal one!
This is the difference between saying to yourself, ‘I hope I don’t catch that cold’ and ‘I plan to stay healthy.’ Since the unconscious mind can’t understand a negative without storing a picture of the phrase without the negative, the ‘I hope I don’t catch that cold’ thought creates and stores a picture of catching the very cold you don’t want to have! Much better to think, ‘I plan to stay healthy’ and then create a mind picture of staying healthy.
Worry works like that. You must create a picture in your mind of the horrible thing you are worrying about. Think of the energy it takes to create that scenario and plan all the details about which your are worried. Now take that energy back into your energy pie and devote it to something more productive in helping you to lead your richest life.
Whatever you are worried about might be a real problem in your life. I don’t mean to diminish real problems. But taking a slice of energy pie and devoting it to worrying about something that might happen does not use your most creative energy in the most productive manner. Instead, how about using the feeling or worry as a signal that your creative juices are about to start flowing and you want to choose to direct them in a positive way, rather than in the negative direction of worry?
Plan for the success you desire. If you are worrying about a certain outcome, then energize a different one with your thoughts. If you have a problem that you are worrying about but have not made any progress in solving, then change how you are thinking about the problem and look for some solution to ponder instead of the problem. Even the most outlandish possibility might hold some clue to the optimal solution.
And PLAY. Sometimes worry just indicates the need for you to get in touch with the energy of play. Make something. Play with kids. Get out crayons and paper and draw something. Get your hands in the dirt or the dough or the clay and form something. Play a game, sing a song. PLAY.
Get those creative juices flowing and apply them to the possibilities that hold the most energy for you. You don’t need to ignore the problems. The choice isn’t between worrying and ignoring the problems. The choice is to be your creative self and solve problems rather than to worry about them.
Explore the field of all possibilities with the energy of play and watch the wonderful solutions appear!
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“The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being” — Socrates
As far back as the time of Socrates it was taught that examining one’s life is extremely important, to the point of making life ‘worth living for a human being.’ And, yet, in the 21st Century, we seem to have become so involved in being busy that it is difficult to pause and ponder. What does it really mean to examine life?
For one thing, I believe that we must be constantly aware of the choices that are before us all the time. An unexamined life creates a false impression that ‘I have no choice’ but that is truly never the case. There is always a choice. It might not FEEL as if there is a choice but that is because we are making a decision based on what we feel, think and believe about a situation. It might be because the alternative before us is so abhorrent that we cannot imagine making the choice to do other than the path we see as the ‘only way.’ But we could choose something different even if the consequences were unacceptable.
Many clients come to me with seemingly impossible choices that they face and they ask for guidance in making decisions about those choices. The answer is often not ‘this or that’ but, rather, ‘how can you find a way to have both?’ That is, they can move from ‘either-or thinking’ into ‘and thinking’ and the solution presents itself. But what we believe about ourselves and our world often prevent us from moving into the higher space where the solutions live.
I remember several years ago, after one of my favorite Christmases of all time, I was facing a Christmas without any family except my husband. I was very depressed about the prospect of not seeing our kids or grandkids or the rest of the family during the holidays. The Christmas before we had had a magical time when all of our children and grandchildren were together for Christmas, ‘Santa’ came to our house on Christmas morning to deliver a kitten and a Buzz Lightyear toy, and we had time to relax and be together. And then everyone had moved away and we were going to wake up on Christmas morning without any family to share in our day. We were even going to be visiting with the grandkids just before Christmas because Richard had a business trip to their area, but the trip was to end just before the holiday and we were scheduled to return home to the empty house. My belief was that we had to be ‘home’ for Christmas, no matter what my heart wanted. But it finally occurred to us that we didn’t have to leave when the business trip was over. We could stay in the hotel, be with the family, and celebrate Christmas the way we wanted to, even if it was not at home.
We had an amazingly wonderful holiday that year! We cooked Christmas Eve dinner for 19 in our Residence Inn suite kitchen. We had a little tree from the drug store and a fire in the fireplace and enjoyed our extended family, missing only 1 son and his wife that year. But it took a huge leap in changing beliefs to allow that magic to happen when the closed-up, depressed thinking was keeping the possibility from presenting itself.
You can change your beliefs. You need to, however, first examine how your limiting beliefs are affecting your world. What negative thoughts are generated from these limiting beliefs? Fortunately, because I have the tools to help other people examine their beliefs and thoughts, I was able to use those tools for myself and find amazing possibilities that turned into realities for myself and my family.
When you choose to live a conscious life, you allow yourself to constantly be examining how the circumstances of your life are the result of your thinking and how you can change your thoughts to change your life.
What are you going to commit to today so that you can live a more conscious life?
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Every one of you has a question or two about your life on Planet Earth that it is difficult to ask. For some of you it is the proverbial ‘Why am I here?’ question. For others, it is something like ‘What happens when we die?’ And then many of you wonder about all sorts of ideas that have been proposed that you do not feel have been proven to your satisfaction, like the existence of Life elsewhere in the Universe or the actual origins of the chemicals and minerals of the planets or the nature of animals or other living things on your planet. Questions abound when the thinking mind explores the world around the person.
The danger comes when a person stops asking questions because of one of these two reasons: they stop being curious and thus choose not to explore, or they believe that they have all the answers and thus do not need to ask any more questions.
Do you fall into one of these two categories? Do you sometimes get tired of the ‘not knowing’ and wish you had all the answers? Or do you sometimes get tired of always finding another question to ask? Or both?
Believe this, Dear One: you are a questing being. Your soul incarnated in your body so that you could ask questions and learn the answers which would lead to more questions as you explore the world around you. You chose to incarnate on Planet Earth at this time so that you could learn all about 21st Century Earth and her peoples, the environment, the societies, the ideas, the poetry, the art, the cuisines. You incarnated in a particular family so that you could learn all that that family had to teach you.
Let’s talk about that last sentence for a moment. Have you wondered why you were born to the family you were born to? Maybe you grew up feeling like an outsider, or maybe your mother gave you up for adoption and you were raised by some other family. Do you have an answer for why you were born where and to whom you were born? Examining this is a part of growing into who you incarnated to be. Why those particular parents? Siblings? Why that school/philosophy/religion/neighborhood/country? There are lots of aspects of your early life that you can examine to understand more fully how you have been shaped by those very aspects.
The uncurious mind doesn’t bother to explore these questions but one who would grow, who would develop, experiences a certain curiosity about their origins that helps to elaborate on their understanding of Self. Did you ever wonder about your rebellious or non-rebellious nature as a young person? What do you suppose that was about?
You rebelled against what was helping you to define yourself, or you chose not to rebel in obvious ways because you chose to adopt what was being presented to you. The process of growing up is a process much like shopping for a new outfit of clothing. You try on several to see if they fit, if they are comfortable, if they present the image you wish to project and to see if they are appropriate for who you are in that moment. When you are growing as a person you are exposed to many new ideas, philosophies, possibilities and you try them on for a fit. Some you discard, some you adopt and some you modify.
This process never ends. As long as you are breathing you are exploring the wonder called ‘Life.’ Adopt a curious attitude about what is around you. Examine it and yourself for ways that you can grow. Learn from everything that happens or appears around you. And enjoy the process!
This IS Life!
And so it is.
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Your life is Your Life! YOU are in charge of your life. If others are causing you to feel things you do not wish to feel then you must make a change. Sometimes that change is to move those people out of your life. If you are feeling that you have lost control of your life, then you must regain control by changing the way you think about yourself and your life.
Do not give your power away to others. It is an easy thing to do and can happen unconsciously in insidious ways. You can start by loving someone and wanting to be what they want you to be. Then you make choices to ‘keep the peace’ rather than to confront them about something that is bothering you. And then you think to yourself that you will change at some nebulous later date and bring up what is bothering you, but not just now. It doesn’t take long before you have given away your power to another.
Notice if there is anyone to whom you have given your power. Your partner? Your boss? Your child? Your parent? Your friend? This is not a judgment, Dear One, this is a time for you to observe yourself in your current life. And this is the first step toward living a Conscious Life – becoming the observer of your own life. Observe yourself without judgment. Notice your own choices and your own feelings. When you can observe yourself without judgment you give yourself the opportunity to grow. If you insist on judging then you will get caught up in the ‘shoulds’ and you will miss the possibilities.
Now, decide today that you will hold onto your own power to control your own life. This is a decision you can make that has nothing to do with other people. If someone says or does something that you do not feel comfortable with, you have the option of reacting to that with your own power. Decide whether or not you will let that in. And decide whether or not you will take action about the situation. Give yourself permission, from your own internal place of power, to choose not to take action, if you wish. Make sure that you are deciding from inside you.
We said that we would be there to help you. If you wish to make changes in your life or in yourself, you have only to ask and you will be guided and supported in making those changes.
The world around you is getting ready for some major changes. There will be power shifts in high places and individuals will be facing major decisions. The energy of change abounds and so this is a good time to make whatever changes you would like to make as you will be supported in those changes.
Reach inside yourself and search for your own inner guidance. When you decide to change, make the change that helps you to grow. This is a part of living a Conscious Life from the place of internal empowerment.
You are blessed and supported!
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Mystic Messages 
EXPLORATION: Are You Expecting?
March 13, 2013 — RosemaryAre you ‘pregnant with possibilities’?
The Universe is filled with the potential of answering every dream you can dream for yourself. But what are you expecting?
The energies of attraction are not focused like a laser when they are generated from the emotion of fear. You can’t be worried and manifesting your dreams at the same time, for the laser that you send out like a beacon, attracting like energy into your field, is a laser tuned to that upon which you focus your worry energy, not the energy of your dream.
You do have the power to attract a nightmare but why would you?
When people start studying prosperity and the law of attraction they often do exercises to change their expectations. Recently our daughter started expecting the Universe to give her money. She found a dollar on a store parking lot and sat waiting for the person who had dropped it to return but no one did. She found several dollars in the dryer when she did the laundry. Magic? No. She EXPECTED the Universe to find a way to be generous with her and then she ALLOWED the Universe to choose how to do that.
I often teach that prosperity can come into your field in surprising ways when you are open to it. One way that the Universe gives me money is to have a sale on something that I have to buy. I was going to buy it anyway but I can save money that I would have spent. This just happened for the Color Class that I am teaching. We had selected the binder we wanted to give participants and had found one that came in lots of colors [this IS for a Color Class!]. We developed the prototype workbook with one binder then went back to purchase a larger quantity when we had the final numbers for the class. The binders were on sale and they had all the colors in stock!
This doesn’t represent a lot of money saved but it was going to have to be spent anyway. We expect the Universe to give to us in surprising ways.
What do you expect from your business? Your boss? Your significant other? Your children? Are you expecting challenges, threats, anger, disrespect? And are you getting that?
How adaptable are you to change? Are you willing to ‘go with the flow’?
Sometimes we get so stuck in our expectations that we forget to adapt to changing circumstances or energies. Have you ever thought about changing your expectations? Are you willing to change?
I knew someone who had a business and lost her business partner so was faced with only being able to pay half the rent. It was time to renegotiate the lease and she thought she might have to move. Instead, she focused on staying in the same space and paying half the rent. She focused and prayed and concentrated and expected this. She came out of the meeting with the landlord with a lease at half the rent for the next year! It CAN happen!
Are you, at this point, telling yourself that this only happens for other people, that it doesn’t work that way for you? As Henry Ford said, “Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.”
Trying being ‘pregnant with possibilities.’ Think that you CAN manifest your dreams. EXPECT the Universe to support you in that manifestation. Then go with the flow and allow the Universe to figure out the ‘how’ of making things happen.
Let this week be your ‘due date’ – expect great things!
PS: I did an interview with BlogTalkRadio program, Explore the Afterlife, the other day. You can listen to the recording here!