Finding My Way to Well-Being

The exploration in deliberate creating continues

2008-08-11T15:09:00.026-04:00

I discovered Abraham-Hicks almost five years ago and when I saw their web site welcome page I knew it was for me. I wanted to turn my life around and I can say right now that I have because I've changed my thinking about my part in creating my life experience.

Abraham says that whatever we want is because we think we will feel good in having it, so we might as well feel good first. Finding My Way to Well-Being is about my journey in discovering that what I really want is to feel good -- and I can have it every time. I've found great relief and freedom in coming to really understand that it's never about anything outside of me -- not even my own body. What I want is simply that good feeling of connection to my Inner Being. The loving Universe takes care of the rest of it.

I'm continuing my exploration in deliberate creating by playing with how this works day-to-day. I've felt like a crew member on the reality creation ship while I was finding my way. In my perspective, Source Energy is in charge, but now I'm ready to take the helm and play my part deliberately in this joyous co-creative experience.

You are invited to join me at:

Deliberate Reality Creation - My journey in applying deliberate creating day-to-day. There's always something new to discover and more good feelings every day. Life is getting easier and easier.

The Creation Box - What we pay attention to grows. I am writing posts of appreciation for all of the wonderful, magical manifestations in the world. More of this please, Universe!

I'm having great fun with all of this and I can see much more in store.

I invite you to walk with me awhile as we explore this adventure in living in these interesting times.

With much love,

Suzanne

Maya Angelou and hummingbirds

2008-05-18T19:05:00.009-04:00

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you kid.
Let's go."

~Maya Angelou, in Daily News

May your days be filled with unexpected moments of delight,

Suzanne
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Photo copyright Abigail and Sam Alfano. See more of these delightful pictures at http://www.abigailsings.com/hummingbirds/

Abraham-Hicks and using appreciation as a bridge to allowing

2008-03-17T08:16:00.017-04:00

I haven't been posting for awhile and the main reason is that my experience is coming smoothly, quickly, and easily. I get an awareness and kind of soak in the good feeling of it, relax into it and let myself become aware of anything new that might be on the edges of it, and then I'm off to something new. The whole process can happen in a matter of minutes.

I've made innumerable notes for posts, but by the time I might write it up I'm way beyond that point and don't want to look back. It's too much fun to go with the flow. A few minutes ago I just had a quick awareness and thought I would capture it in a post instead of just making a note and trying to doing something more elaborate later.

Here's the snap shot of my experience as I read this Abe quote:

We would begin saying, “I'm not ever going to get it done. I'm an eternally expanding Being, and I'm doing great where I am, and I'm so eager about what’s coming.” That’s the essence of the vibration that keeps adventurous things coming, keeps you feeling always excited, stable and secure, keeps you feeling in love with life. All day, every day, count your blessings! All day, every day, make your lists of things you appreciate. And as you keep activating what is working in your life, then more pleasing things on all subjects will flow to you.

Abraham-Hicks, 3/6/04A

Appreciation has become an integral part of my thinking and co-creating tool kit. I keep in mind Abe's information that appreciation is the closest energy to Source Energy and use it to uplift my energy. It's become more and more a part of every aspect of my day.

I have been playing Elyse Hope Killoran's Prosperity Game for some time. She offers a gratitude journal as a feature of the game and I feel so eager to journal my gratitudes each day. I get into such a wonderful energy when I do it and feel my mind expanding in possibilities. It's like I have an expanded experience of who I am.

Abe talks about using bridging statements to get from where we are to where we want to be. Bridging statements start out where we are and take small steps in the direction we want to go, raising our vibration as we move to alignment with our desires.

The sentence that really stood out energetically this morning from the quote above was this part: "And as you keep activating what is working in your life..." (by appreciating or entering it into a gratitude journal).

When I read that sentence I realized that appreciation is bridging us from our experience in the physical world to our spiritual Self, our Inner Being. It is a way, a method, for us to have the physical experience and also dwell in the deliciousness of our non-physical being.

Here in our bodies we are co-creators with Source Energy: We see. We shoot off a rocket of desire. We allow. Source manifests our desire immediately, but our "allowing" allows us to experience it.

In that first part where "we see and shoot off the rocket of desire," we are not in alignment with our Inner Being. And that's ok. That's how this process works. We are supposed to work our way into that alignment and can do it quickly.

Appreciation is that easy, delightful way to bridge to our spiritual Self and come into the alignment of allowing. It's a gentle and very pleasant way to be in the flow of Source Energy that we create by shooting off that rocket of desire.

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Abraham-Hicks: The window of opportunity is always open

2008-02-09T14:43:00.000-05:00

Sometimes physical beings will say, "Well, I'm afraid that I've missed my opportunity. I wanted it, but my window [of opportunity] opened but I wasn't there for it and so my window closed." And we say that window is always open. You may close it for a moment, but it opens right up again. In other words, the Universe never stops hearing you and never stops answering you. You are deserving beyond our ability to find words to explain. And it is your job to find yourself in that place of letting it in.

Now we know that a feeling of worthiness does let it in. And we know that there are many of you who, for whatever reason, decided that you're not worthy, and that might be [a] reason that you're not letting it in. But we don't think it is the predominant reason. We think that there are about 2,000 things that you're doing every day that you haven't been aware that you are doing that you think is all right to do because "after all, it's true!"

You see? And as you come to recognize that even though it's 'true,' doing it, saying it, feeling it is holding yourself - deliberately or not - in the place of not letting yourself be in the receiving mode of the very things that you're asking for, and the slightest little adjustment will begin to cause avalanches of stuff you've been asking for to flow into your experience.

We're not just talking about the material manifestations.... We're also talking about clarity in the moment or the sensation of vitality. We're talking about a feeling of awareness, a feeling of being in the moment. We're talking about saying the right thing at the right time. We're talking about being intuitive so that you know what freeway to take, so that you sense whether there's a blockage somewhere.... We're talking about being so in sync with who you really are that you have broader view flowing through you at all times, so that you are the fully-blossomed Nonphysical energy in human form that you have come forth here to be.

Abraham-Hicks - North Los Angeles, CA, 8/13/01

So, if you find yourself wanting to think about the things you want and wanting to talk about them with others, if the desire is calling your interest and calling your attention and calling your action, then you're pretty well lined up with it, and it is unfolding. But if it feels like work; if you're thinking about your desire because you have been told that goal-setting is important and that Deliberate Creation is about thinking about what you want; if it feels like you are making it happen rather than letting it happen, then there may still be some resistance within your vibration.

Abraham-Hicks, Boca Raton, FL, 12/13/03

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.

Abraham-Hicks, 4/19/97

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All quotes are copyright Abraham-Hicks Publications. Visit the official Abraham site at: http://www.abraham-hicks.com/

My observations of the beauty and lovable humor of nature

2008-02-07T15:13:00.000-05:00

Setting moon in the pinks of a dawn sky - an enchanting moment in time.

Some drama in the field... - a tale of a gander and his lady.

The "duck alarm" goes off - Ducks and geese band together -- the little brown female ducks lead the group. Sweet and funny.

Whoopee. It's RAINING!!! Dr. Emoto and blessing the water. - Rain, oceans, our bodies. The water in us and around us is a blessing. Dr. Emoto on blessing water.

Who's playing games? Playfulness in the clouds.

Home

Clarity on contrast and resistance as given by Abraham-Hicks

2008-02-02T18:33:00.000-05:00

I was looking for Abraham's definition of contrast and was surprised to find this one in Ask and It Is Given: ...the contrast, or variety, in which you are standing provides the perfect environment for the formation of your personal preferences.

I've been working with Abraham's information for about four years and had wandered off into my own version of contrast. I was thinking of contrast as something I didn't want, but I'm reminded that Abraham is saying life offers a buffet of choices, and from seeing the contrast among the choices, we conclude what we want. There is no value one way or the other with what is offered -- it's value only depends on what we desire.

So, why does it feel unpleasant when I see something I don't want? Because of my thoughts and feelings about it. What I was thinking of as contrast was actually my own resistance.

Even as a child I can remember being aware that when I felt bad it wasn't about the person or thing I was contemplating -- they weren't in my head making those thoughts -- I was the one thinking them. I just didn't know what to do to change those thoughts because they sure seemed to be caused by people or events outside of me. I also didn't know how to create what I wanted to experience. Abraham has given me the key.

In these four years it's been a long learning process to turn my thinking around. I approach changing my thoughts and feelings from different angles, work with it, and am very happy with the changes I've experienced. As Abraham says, we never get it done so there's more and better to come.

This is a post about a simple thing, a thought, a change in perspective. I offer it to you as part of the abundance in the buffet -- a little morsel that may be a tasty part of your life today or may be waiting in your thoughts if you ever need it.

Bon Appétit!!
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The quote above is from Ask and It is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks, p. 17.

All quotes are copyright Abraham-Hicks Publications. Visit the official Abraham site at: http://www.abraham-hicks.com/

In appreciation for a loving view of nature: Beyond the Fields We Know

2007-12-02T10:35:00.001-05:00

One especially beautiful understanding I've learned from Abraham-Hicks is that we create by appreciating -- we not only attract it in our own experience of the world, but by loving it, we send the message out to the Universe: more please!

This is one of a series of posts sharing my appreciation for others who express their love in blogs or articles. John Cali and Chief Joseph in the post before this, and Cate in this one. In her blog, Beyond the Fields We Know, Cate shines her love on the earth to illuminate it for me with her photographs and words. I am soothed and inspired.

Here's her tender experience of a beaver pond near her home:

12.01.2007
Freezing Over

I come here in early winter to be a witness as the beaver pond freezes over, to watch as ice forms in the trees along the pond, on the reeds along its perimeter and the brittle tumps of aquatic grasses which fringe the swimming channels of the resident beaver colony, now tucked warm and snug in its lodge out in the center of the pond.

Mere photos will never do justice to this place, and neither will my words, but here I am anyway on a freezing day, bundled up in my warmest winter gear with a camera slung around my neck and a noggin full of words which have icicles dangling from them.

The water is icy cold and clear, and it contains not only the dreaming landscape around the pond, but the whole blue winter sky - nothing whatsoever of this perfect day is left out, forgotten or willfully cast aside. In early morning, everything sparkles in the sun, and the light is so intense it is blinding - one can scarcely see a thing. Since I know the contours of these peaceful waters as well as I know the contours of my own two wrinkled hands, this being blinded is not a problem. It feels good to stand on the shoreline in the sharp winter light, thoughtful and all bedazzled - I am right where I should be.

These early winter visits are good times for revisiting the year; for remembering frogs singing at dusk in springtime, mud turtles sunning on their log perches in summer and deer coming down to the shore to drink, herons striding through the shallows in autumn and migrating geese winging their way overhead. This year, the water lilies were spectacular all summer long.

My pond may seem quiet, abandoned and forlorn at this time of year, but that is only an illusion - it's crowded with fur and scales and bright plumage, with flowers, wild musics and happy memories.

By kerrdeLune (Cate)

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Beyond the Fields We Know [original photos, paintings, verbal meanderings and poetic scribblings] is an ongoing work of creativity and deep thought by its author, Catherine Kerr (c) 2005-2007, and all rights are reserved by her.

This post is reprinted with her permission. Thank you, Cate!

Chief Joseph: All you need is within

2007-11-26T11:29:00.000-05:00

I've come out the other side of the latest transformation and I'm catching up on my RSS feeds. I appreciate having the backlog -- enjoying the good energy building in reading several posts and then going on with my day.

There is a gleaning process going on, deleting ones that no longer appeal. I notice that reading one post after another of my favorite blogs is like a meditation and I want to have more when I finally catch up on my back reading. I'm following their links to find new ones that match my energy now.

I want to express this good feeling I have by sharing the people, places, and ideas that I appreciate. This article by Chief Joseph and John Cali was especially pleasing this morning. I like the reminder that we have the support we need as long as we feel we want it, and when we no longer need it, there is something new until we eventually come to know who we are:

Many of us, especially when we were young, had a hero or heroine in our lives.

John Cali

Sometimes, we had more than one. These were people we looked up to, people we wanted to model ourselves after.

At various times in my younger years, my heroes ranged from cowboys to politicians (believe it or not!) to religious figures, and so on.

Who have been some of your heroes and heroines? I think the answer to that question can teach us a lot about ourselves.

Now, in the autumn of my life, I find I have no heroes.

Here’s Chief Joseph.

Chief Joseph

There comes a time when it is entirely appropriate to give up your heroes. Especially when you don’t need them any longer. Of course, you never needed them in the first place. You just thought you did.

Your heroes and heroines served their purpose. But not in the way you may think.

Whatever heroes or heroines you were drawn to had a gift to offer you. The gift was the admirable qualities you saw in them.

We all know how the law of attraction works -- whatever you ask for is given. Or, as your Christian bible puts it, "Ask and you shall receive."

So, friends, the people you admire -- your heroes and heroines -- are simply your mirrors. You drew them into your lives because -- so you thought -- they had something you did not have. And you wanted that "something."

The truth is you already had that "something," whatever it was. But you didn’t know you had it.

So, as you moved through your younger years, you immersed yourselves in hero worship. Until finally you realized you needed no heroes.

This is the point in his life John spoke of when he said "Now, in the autumn of my life, I find I have no heroes."

You will all reach that point sooner or later. Some of you have already gotten there. It’s the point where you remember all you need is there within you.

Your "heroes" and "heroines" then become your higher selves -- your Goddess and God selves.

If you insist on worshiping, make it your higher self. Make it the person you want to become, the person you are becoming, fully aligned with that part of you that is God.

You need no one, nothing outside yourselves. There is nothing to seek, nothing to find.

All you seek is within you.

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Since 1992, John Cali has been communicating with a non-physical entity called Joseph. In one of his many physical lifetimes, this spirit was incarnated as the legendary Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe in what is now the state of Oregon in the northwestern USA. These messages are a blend of information from Joseph, other spirits in the "Joseph group," and John.

Visit John's web site for more articles, information about readings, or to sign up for his newsletter, Sentinels of the Sky at http://www.greatwesternpublishing.org.

Article quoted from the Chief Joseph Newsletter, Conversations with Chief Joseph & John Cali, reprinted with permission of John Cali. Copyright © 2007 by John Cali. All rights reserved.

Blog Action Day: Using the Abraham-Hicks information for our well-being and the environment

2007-10-15T18:31:00.001-04:00

I was watching the DVDs for the Abraham-Hicks Alaska Cruise 2005 and heard Abraham give some information that works well for our desires for well-being for our beautiful earth and all life on it.

The woman asking the question was a politician from Canada who wanted to use the Law of Attraction to create her desires for her country and her constituents. Abraham said that all she had to do was focus on what she would like to create and align with it.

Abraham said she could do this privately. She didn't have to create committees or get signatures or do any particular action unless it was inspired and felt good. The Universe would bring all of the people and circumstances together to fulfill her desire.

We don't manifest it -- we allow, accept, receive, reach out and open our hands and hearts in welcome. Every desire we have is manifested by this very loving Universe. Our bodies --everything -- is brought into our earth experience by Source Energy. We are the co-creators, the visualizers, the requesters, the appreciators -- we are the ones who experience and ask for more. We are the ones who work the clay of the physical by appreciating, experiencing, giving the focus of our attention, making decisions, and sending off our rockets of desire.

When we reemerge into non-physical -- when we blend back into our pure positive selves -- what we ask for is given very quickly because we are aligned and allowing. The information that Abraham has given us is in answer to our desire to consciously choose that positive state by changing thoughts that don't feel good. The more we choose positive thinking, the better we feel, and the better we feel the more we align with our true nature -- and the more we allow our desires to manifest.

A couple of days ago I had an experience of feeling how loving the Universe is. I could feel the Universe was pure, overflowing, giving Love because that is It's nature. The Universe is pure Love and wants to give you what you ask for. Wants you to have it. Offers you your desire, and neverending love, without conditions. Believes with no restraint that you deserve it. Sees only the good in you. The Light in you. The Love that you are.

There are wonderful books and tapes of the information Abraham has offered. They offer techniques and exercises to change to a better feeling vibration and align with your true self. Or, if it pleases you, you can pet your cat and choose to think of yourself as the lucky one who always has everything fall into place. We are all free to choose what feels good and works for us.

So what can you do for the environment? Get something delicious to drink and watch a sunset. Bless the water. Ask Source Energy for what you want and why. Align with your good feelings and your desires and take the action that feels good to you. Stretch your legs and feel the sun on your back as you help clean up a stream. Tell the Universe why you have your desire. Because I love animals. Because the clean air smells good. Because I want to be healthy. Because it makes me feel good. Appreciate. Ask. Appreciate. Feel good. Ask. Enjoy!

Take a journey of power and visualize the earth and all of the life on it as you wish it to be. Go anywhere with your vision that feels good. Soar with the joy of appreciation and know what power you have in that moment. You are co-creator with the energy that creates planets, solar systems, and the intricate, wondrous functioning of living beings. And go to your powerful place of vision again when it feels good. As much as you want. In any way that you want. You get to choose and the Universe says "YES!!"

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Waiting for circumstances to change so you can feel good is like looking in a mirror waiting for your reflection to smile first.

~Bashar

The politician was the first questioner on the Alaska Cruise 2005 DVDs, Disc 2, Fourth Session, July 10, 2005. On that set of DVDs there was also a veterinarian asking how to work with a horse. Abraham talked to her about communicating with animals and their humans as well as how to align and hold a vision for the animals. A man was talking about getting together with others for 17 seconds of visualizing and how powerful that was. Abraham talked to the politician about a similar process saying they thought it was a fine idea to get together with other like-minded people to visualize.

Related posts:

Bashar: feel good first

Abraham-Hicks: Your power is Now

Bashar: Trust your Timing

Bashar: All possible versions of reality already exist

Visit the official Abraham site at: http://www.abraham-hicks.com/

Bashar quote copyright © by Darryl Anka. Bashar Home Page

Taking a break from blogging -- will post Oct. 15 for Blog Action Day

2007-09-19T16:16:00.000-04:00

Change is happening quickly inside and outside and I'm taking a break from blogging. I'm going to focus on writing now and have other projects coming up beginning in October.

I'm not sure how long the break will be, but here are a couple of items for the blog I will work on in the meantime:

Look for labels in the sidebar:

I have labels on many of the posts and will do the research to find out how to put them in the sidebar -- I have around 90 or more posts of Abraham-Hicks quotes which are timeless.

October 15 post:

I registered Finding my way to Well-Being and This Magical Earth with Blog Action Day so look for my posts on the environment on October 15th.

There's much to do!

Wishing you much joy on your journey of well-being,

~Suzanne

Grace and Abraham-Hicks

2007-09-11T19:25:00.000-04:00

I am changing so quickly that I haven't been able to pull posts together about the process. I don't even want to look at what is going on -- some gentle change is happening inside of me that has a life of it's own and I just want to get out of the way. I can offer feeling tones and this is one of them.

On my journey of well-being the last few days I've been dazzled by the light of Grace.

Source Energy offers each one of us a gift and that is Grace, that we deserve just because of who we are. In a way I feel stunned by the realization of this gift we are given with such love.

Abraham tells us that when we shoot off a rocket of desire, the Universe answers YES! 99.99% of what we want is created immediately and waiting for us to allow it into our life.

We don't have to do any thing to earn it or prove that we are worthy. As a matter of fact, it's impossible to do enough to deserve or be worthy of the abundance this loving Universe pours into our lives every day.

How many negative thoughts are due to not feeling worthy -- feeling that something more is needed to be enough in some way?

How would your life be different if you allowed yourself to feel that you deserve --just because of who you are?

You live in a state of grace. You forget that when you feel good, only good things can come to you. It's just a matter of relaxing, and things will come.

Abraham-Hicks, 1/23/94

You are liquid love in physical bodies, wanting, more than life itself, because it is life itself, to adore the vessel that’s you through which this Source Energy flows. You are God. You are Source. You are creator.

Abraham-Hicks, San Rafael, CA, 2-21-04A

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A technique for changing thinking -- from watching Abraham-Hicks

2007-09-05T14:30:00.000-04:00

I was watching the second DVD of the 2005 Abraham-Hicks Alaskan Cruise yesterday when I saw something that made it so easy for me to quantify my thoughts. I offer it to you as way to fine-tune your thinking for even more feelings of well-being and allowing those delicious desires to come into your life.

The questioner had asked about negative manifestations that seem to come from nowhere. Abe was explaining that they don't come from nowhere, they always match our vibration. The problem is that we often are not aware of how much time we are focused on what we don't want. They illustrated how it works by turning back and forth as they repeated various thoughts, physically illustrating which thoughts are downstream and which are upstream.

For those who may be unfamiliar with Abraham, they are saying that there is only a flow of Well-Being and it goes in one direction -- like our earth rivers, it flows downstream in an expansion of well-being and the answer to our desires. When we resist the flow, we are trying to go upstream which is impossible. The way we can tell is by our feelings -- when we go with the flow we feel good, when we resist we have unpleasant feelings -- that's our emotional guidance system.

Abe's illustration worked like this: You are standing up. Upstream is when you face in front of you -- your desires are met and you feel good. Turn around and face behind you. That's downstream -- lack, desires not met, looking at "what is" in the physical world.

A short illustration using money as an example:

Facing forward, downstream with the flow: I want more money.

Then turn around, upstream: But I have no money. My bills are due!

Start to turn forward: But I want more money.

Turn facing downstream in back of you: But I don't know what I'll do if I don't get the money. What if I can't pay my bills?

You can physically feel what your thoughts are creating using this technique.

We can become used to an underlying grumpy feeling, thoughts that we kind of mumble to ourselves in the back of our mind while we are doing something else, or even habitual thoughts that happen at certain times like getting bills in the mail.

It is consciousness raising to catch those thoughts and turn around facing the direction you do not want to go. It's a real eye-opener to actually see what that thought is doing, going in the opposite direction of where you want to go.

If you find yourself facing away from your desires just know that every single moment is newly created. Every moment is an opportunity to make a choice. Right then when you are facing backward, know there is the delicious opportunity to make a new choice. Turn around, face forward, and affirm what it is that you want knowing that it is yours -- because it is.

It doesn't matter what thing you've done, it only matters what thing you do -- because you can't resist in the past tense, you can only resist in the powerful Now. You might have started a pattern before and you might be continuing a pattern, but it's the doing now not the 'have done' that matters.

Abraham-Hicks, Cincinnati, OH, 7/7/01

Get so fixated on what you want, that you drown out any vibration or reverberation that has anything to do with what you do not want. When you ask it is given, every single time, no exceptions. You are beloved, blessed beings who deserve good things....

Abraham-Hicks
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Abraham-Hicks quotes copyright by Abraham-Hicks Publications. For more information visit http://www.abraham-hicks.com/

Blog Action Day: October 15

2007-09-02T17:59:00.000-04:00

Blog Action Day asks the question, "what would happen if every blog publishes posts discussing the same issue, on the same day? One issue. One day. Thousands of voices."

The topic for the first Blog Action Day is the environment. The day of unity is October 15, 2007.

There are three ways to participate:

1. Post about the environment on October 15th.
2. Promote Blog Action Day.
3. Donate your day's earnings to an environmental charity. The sponsored charities are Greenpeace, The Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation, The Sierra Club and The Conservation Fund.

Click here for information about participating in the 2008 initiative.

Finding my way to Well-Being and This Magical Earth have joined. There are over 3,735 blogs participating right now reaching an audience of 3,359,375 readers and the word is spreading quickly.

I'm really looking forward to reading about the environment from such diverse perspectives as Copyblogger, Bellydance: Experiences, and Cogito Ergo Sum.

Join in and be a part of this blogger community action -- and be sure to set aside some time to surf the web on October 15!

Calling all creative bloggers! justBe...Connected creative workshops and bazaar Oct. 12-14, 2007

2007-08-31T18:41:00.000-04:00

Melanie McMullin is offering a special event, justBe...Connected, which will gather creative bloggers and other like-spirited souls together for friendship, food, fun, workshops, and a fabulous Creative Bazaar open to the public.

The workshops are designed to nurture and explore your creativity. Sessions for altered books and an altered book of dreams sound intriguing -- creative photography, making necklaces, and much more are offered.

Tickets are available for the weekend, individual events or workshops. See the schedule for more details.

When: Workshops and events are October 12-14, 2007

Where: at the Four Points by Sheraton Hyannis, MA, 35 Scudder Avenue
Hyannis, Massachusetts 02601. Phone: (508) 775-7775.

The Creative Bazaar is an indie craft fair taking place during justBe...Connected on Saturday, October 13, 2007. Click here for details on selling your crafts at The Creative Bazaar -- vendor spaces are still available. Contact Melanie at her email address below if you have promotional items you would like included in the free goodie bags given to attendees.

For more details visit:
http://www.justbeconnected.com/
and
http://www.bealivebelievebeyou.com/creativebazaar/

Melanie is a very special, loving, creative spirit and this promises to be a unique event.

Email Melanie McMullin with any questions at melbamcmullin@comcast.net

Reid Stowe: All You Need is Love

2007-08-29T23:13:00.000-04:00

With much appreciation for Reid and Soanya, here is Reid Stowe on their amazing journey at sea:

Reid Stowe, 1000 Days Non-Stop at Sea: All You Need is Love, August 25, 2007, Day 125

I take a nice breath of fresh air outside and look around. The deck is wet everywhere from spray and waves coming over. The cockpit is covered in salt and I could feel the salt on my face. We are still beating away to the NNE and the schooner is leaning over steadily plowing through the top of one wave and leaping over another. I've lost track of the days that we have been doing this. I could look on the chart then go back in my journal, perhaps weeks or months in all different directions. But I don't have a habit of doing that. We are headed where we want to go now, so I'll take care of what's happening now. We'll take care of each wave until it reaches the shore. We know we can always do more. On land there may have been a certain boldness that is necessary to go to sea for a long time. Once here, however, the wind and waves erode boldness and inner strength is left and we have to adapt to it because we were not meant to live on the sea or in space even though we have the desire to experience what is out here and find out what we are made of. This is my opportunity to embody more light and love and for people to see me in that way. I hope I can adapt physically to this environment so I can achieve this understanding of love and light on the sea and reflect it on humanity. This is not just an adventure story. The nature of what we are doing brings other human experiences to the forefront. How could we go on if we didn't love it? It's the love that wells up and sustains me when I'm tired and doubtful. It's the love that I heal myself with. It's love that I give Soanya as much as I can so that we can do this together as a man and a woman experiencing each other. Our ability to go on will have a lot to do with how we live in love.

Whoopee. It's RAINING!!!! Dr. Emoto and blessing water.

2007-08-20T20:55:00.000-04:00

What a beautiful day. Late last night I heard heavy thunder coming my way and when I opened the drapes, could see steady flashes of lightning on the horizon. It took about an hour but the thunder grew louder and louder until the bright, white light flashed through the drapes and heavy rain hit the windows. I went to sleep, comforted.

I've always liked rain -- I like balance, too, and have never had the desire to live in an area that has too much. We've had very dry weather in the 90's for several weeks and yesterday the wind blew the dead leaves along the ground like a very hot fall day. I appreciate the wind that blew this storm to us. The plants, grass, and trees are just following their wisdom -- trees dropping leaves to conserve energy. Plants go into a type of dormant period during really hot weather.

But today was magnificent! I woke up to the promise of heavy, dark grey clouds and I wasn't disappointed. The music of thunder grumbled for several hours as it drizzled, poured, drizzled, then grew into steady rain. I opened my windows several times just to smell the moist air and listen to the rain gurgling in the downspout.

I've always loved water. I like to drink it. I love to swim, to watch ocean waves and hear the shush as they wash over the sand, to enjoy lakes and rivers, and to sit on a porch wrapped in a quilt and listen to the rain. It's an earth meditation for me.

I read about Dr. Masuru Emoto's work using the principle of Hado and water took on new meaning for me. He has photographed crystals of water affected by thoughts sent to it.

“Hado creates words. Words are the vibrations of nature. Therefore beautiful words create beautiful nature. Ugly words create ugly nature. This is the root of the universe.” by Masaru Emoto

His theories fit right in with Abraham-Hicks and deliberate reality creation. Hado in action says that everything is vibration and when we change the vibration, the substance is changed.

So, what does this mean for you and me? Most of the earth is water -- 70% of the earth's surface is covered by water and there is more in the ground. 66% of the human body is water.

I invite you to look at the photographs of water at Dr. Emoto's site, Hadolife, and then think of how beautiful your body becomes when you love it, when you say beautiful words to the water you drink, and to the shower or bath that feels so good. How powerful your words of appreciation are when your spirit is nourished by the rivers and streams and rain.

Blessings to water. Thank you for sustaining me. For nourishing me. For uplifting my spirit every day.

Abraham-Hicks and the leading edge

2007-08-16T16:07:00.000-04:00

Photo: Guggenheim Museum Bilboa, Spain

As physical creatures, you are upon the leading edge of thought. You are here so poignantly, so deliberately, so finely focused in this time and place...that in your very precision of experience, you are taking thought beyond that which it has been.

Abraham-Hicks, 10/4/92

Speaking of being on the leading edge...I recently watched a DVD called Sketches of Frank Gehry about the leading edge architect. I'm fascinated by his creations like the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain shown in this photo above, but I think I was as interested in how he created his life as I was his buildings. An "ordinary man" building extraordinary creations who said he fell into architecture -- who convinced others to believe in him and his designs, to put millions of dollars on the line as well as their reputations for choosing such unconventional designs. And he did it very successfully. One artist made a comment that it made him feel that Frank was setting up an arena where something incredible could occur. And where does he get his ideas? In one scene in the documentary Frank describes how his inspiration comes from anywhere -- like the shadows and forms from the trash in a wastebasket he picked up.

You have been oriented that you must pay a price in order to get somewhere, and in the process, you've come to believe that getting there must be really important, therefore, it must be your purpose. And we say, but if you're not getting to joy, then you've gotten nowhere. Joy is really where you're going.

Abraham-Hicks, 12/13/03

I'm also intrigued by Reid Stowe and Soanya Ahmad who are sailing their schooner, Anne, in a heart shape in the South Atlantic for 1,000 Days Non-stop at Sea. What strikes me is not only the adventure of their journey, but the beauty of their appreciation of each other and the world they are seeing. From Reid's August 11th post, "We sail on in beautiful weather almost in disbelief that each day and night can be more beautiful than the next. How many times can I see it before I become jaded or maxed out? I would like to believe that I have the ability to keep appreciating and being more and more grateful. The same with Soanya. She is so good and getting better. I have to believe that it's in me to keep treating her right and keep taking care to appreciate her. It's like questioning my ability to do the 1000 day voyage. I have to believe that I have the ability to keep going."

When Madonna was at her height of popularity I attended a personal growth workshop and the trainer asked us who gave Madonna permission to act the way she did on stage? Who told her she could be famous? She had a dream and she believed in it, just like the people I've mentioned above.

As Abraham says -- our true self, our inner self -- believes in our dreams and knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that we can have them. Only our own thoughts that we can't have it stop us.

And I offer this to you.

You are an expression of love walking the earth. You are adored by life itself. Your dreams are valuable, not only to yourself, but to all of us. You have permission to try, fall flat on your face, and like Thomas Edison, find the 1,000th way not to create a light bulb. You have permission to succeed. You have permission to change your mind. You have permission to dream. You have permission to love yourself just as you are.

We are wanting to awaken within you, your memory of how wonderful you are! How brilliant you are! How good you are! How worthy of whatever you are wanting you are!

Abraham-Hicks, 1/13/91

Nothing is more exhilarating than to dance through life recognizing that the Universe is there to yield to you whatever you want whenever you want it.

Abraham-Hicks, 2/12/94

No matter what it is, if you really want it, and if you get out of the way of it, it will happen. It must be. It is Law. It can be no other way. It's the way this Universe is established. If you want it and you relax, it will happen.

Abraham-Hicks, 9/21/02
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Abraham-Hicks: The nature of your Inner Being

2007-08-12T21:01:00.000-04:00

So, your reason for being here is to be physically focused and connected to your Source for the purpose of taking the Source of pure, positive Energy beyond that which it has been before. That's how this physical earth plane got here. Somebody like you from broader, Non-physical perspective imagined a delicious physical experience, and in that pure flow of Energy it is come to be.

Abraham-Hicks, 2/13/93

Once you emerged into these bodies, all of you did not come into this body, just a part of you. A part of your focus is come forth here, while a larger part of you, a broader part of you, a very much older, wiser part of you remains in Non-physical.

Abraham-Hicks, 1/13/91

Your Sixth Sense is your Inner Being who has a full view of all you are living, all that you have ever lived, and all that is in your future. Your Sixth Sense is your Inner Being with broader perspective of that which you are. Your Sixth Sense is your broad perspective, you can call it God perspective, you can call it Inner Being, you can call it Soul, you can call it spiritual guide. It is the Non-physical part of you that has very keen awareness of that which you are. Your Sixth Sense is your feeling barometer that lets you know the distance between what you want and what you are currently vibrating....your gut feeling.

Abraham-Hicks, 1/23/93

You acknowledge that your Inner Being exists? And we say to you that your Inner Being is very old, it has lived thousands of Life experiences. Your Inner Being sits now as the culmination of all that you have lived -- very decided, very sure and very happy -- in a place that by your standards, you would say is pure ecstasy. Your role, your work is to harmonize with you, which means -- think thoughts that make you feel good -- Speak words that make you feel good.

Abraham-Hicks, 7/4/91

You have an Inner Being within you, that has been walking with you all the days of this experience, who is aware of all that you want, and all that you are. We are wanting you to find a very real connection with that which you are -- with your broader Non-physical counterpart -- with your God-force -- with All That Is -- with your Higher Self -- with your Soul or Inner Being or whatever label you are wanting to assign it, so that you can be and do and have that which you've come forth to be, do and have.

Abraham-Hicks, 5/2/92 B

The only way for you or any to reach this place of understanding of this life experience, in the context in which it was intended, is to reconnect with who you are to gain that sense of the overall picture sense of the, I am and why I am here.

Abraham-Hicks, G 8/1/92

You intended to come forth into physical experience to live, to love, to laugh, to play -- to look for reasons to feel good!

Abraham-Hicks, G 6/7/91

Without your perspective, Universal expansion would not be. It's time for you to take credit for the important part you play, and yield the good stuff to yourself by virtue of your own self-appreciation... If we were standing in your physical shoes, a day would not go by that we would not make a list of positive aspects of ourselves, and of those that are closest to us that mean the most to us in terms of interaction. A day would not go by that we would not count our blessings, and express them in every way we could. In that acknowledgment, you bring yourself in alignment with how You really feel about you. How You really feel about you is absolute adoration. And if you ever feel anything less about you -- or about anyone -- you are not You.

Abraham-Hicks, 9/28/02

Take your Inner Being everywhere you go. If you take your Inner Being to the party, it's going to be a good party! If you take your Inner Being, the food that you eat will be received perfectly by the cells of your body. Every word that comes out of your mouth will be beneficial to everyone who hears them with their ears, or with their vibration. Don't go anywhere without your Inner Being. That's what "Allowing" is. Always having your Inner Being present. And then, anything else that happens is always orchestrated perfectly by Law of Attraction.

Abraham-Hicks, 2/17/01

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Everything you want flows to you through loving who you are

2007-08-11T10:48:00.000-04:00

I want to share part of a message I received last night from my friends in spirit:

We do wish to speak to you about many things that are manifesting in your life right now for you always have manifestation. Always. Always. When your thinking is the same you don't notice this because what you create appears to be the same. But now your thinking has changed and so it appears to you that new things are coming into your life....

The most powerful part of the message is that for each one of us changing how we think about ourself changes our world. The same "things" could be happening -- dating, marriage, jobs, travel, friends -- but the difference is in how we think -- and it follows that how we think comes from how we think about ourself.

That last sentence was a mouthful so I'll say it in other ways. All we have to do is love ourselves and our thinking will come into alignment with our desires. From this all we desire will flow to us -- it must, that is how the law of attraction works. And because we love ourself we will experience what comes into our life in a joyful way. Think of how you feel when you are falling in love with someone -- everything you see is wonderful. That's what feeling good is -- loving ourselves. That's who we really are -- we are love in expression.

How we view ourselves grows our experience of life. We are the fertile ground that supports the lush forests and gardens of our life. And it is this experience of being so creative, so rich in expression, and so powerful in feeling and allowing the life force within us that makes our reality seem so different to us.

Fall in love with yourself. Treat yourself to something you really want. Take yourself to someplace you've always wanted to go. Fall deliriously in love with how wonderful you are. Love yourself and let your beauty shine into life through your desires and your creativity and giving of who you are. We need you!
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Bashar, channeled by Darryl Anka -- links for videos

2007-08-10T21:34:00.001-04:00

Bashar is a multi-dimensional being from our future channeled by Darryl Anka. Bashar is a wise being who talks about reality creation and related topics with energy and humor.

Links to Bashar videos:

You Tube search for Bashar

You can also go to Google and use the video tab to do a search. Here are a couple of Google videos:

Meeting with Bashar 1/19/07 - 1 hr 13 minute workshop

Bashar, New York City, 10/28/2006

Other posts about Bashar:

Bashar: All possible versions of reality already exist, just select what you want

Bashar: All possible versions of reality already exist. (When they said God is infinite, they're not kidding!)

Bashar: Feel good first

Bashar: Trust your timing

Chief Joseph: Time is Money

2007-08-10T09:52:00.000-04:00

I was looking for some quotes about time for an article when I ran across this delightful information from Chief Joseph. Some people will say we must exchange energy to have abundance -- that you have to produce to receive -- as if it is an equal exchange of so much work for so much abundance. I don't believe that's true -- some people win millions in the lottery or inherit. It's all energy. It's all available to us in abundance by a loving Universe. Abraham says all we have to do is dangle our feet in the bay and relax to allow our desires to come to us -- and quickly. This interesting perspective of Chief Joseph speaks to the flowing nature of time and money:

John Cali

Joseph -- and other spirit teachers -- have often said time is an illusion. Not in the sense its not real, at least to us humans. But in the sense its not a "fixed" commodity, inflexible and unchanging.

Chief Joseph

Time, in fact, is very flexible. Almost everyone has had experiences where time seems to "drag." Or where it seems to "fly."

The dragging and the flying are far closer to the truth of what time really is than what your world imagines it to be -- "a fixed commodity, inflexible and unchanging," in Johns words.

When you focus on getting into the flow of energy from your higher self, your soul, all the resources you need to manifest your hearts desires become available to you. And those resources include what you call time.

You have all the time in the Universe when you're focused on aligning your energy with the energy of your higher self. When you're focused on aligning your energy with what you want to manifest in your life.

When you do that aligning, you can literally expand time.

And the same is true of money.

Friends, you have available to you all the time in Universe. And so too do you have available to you all the money in the Universe. Time and money are simply expressions of energy. Energy is limitless and infinite. And so time truly is money.

Are you beginning to see where were going with this?

If you will focus on flowing your energy, on being aligned with your higher self, you will never experience any lack in either time or money. Both are simply forms of energy.

And energy is all there is. Albeit in many different forms, physical and non-physical.

But its all just energy.

And you are free to expand or contract that energy as you will.

Time is money. And money is time. They are interchangeable, both simply different expressions of energy. Nothing more, nothing less.

Once you experience the truth, the reality of energy, you will know -- really know -- you live in a vast sea of abundance. And you can have however much, or little, you choose to allow into your life -- however much, or little, of it you choose to "scoop up."

So, friends, do you want to go to the seaside with a little cup, or a bucket, or a tanker truck?

Its up to you.

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The loving words of Chief Joseph are channeled by John Cali. Visit John's web site for more articles, information about readings, or to sign up for his newsletter, Sentinels of the Sky at http://www.greatwesternpublishing.org.

Copyright © 2006-2007 by Great Western Publishing -- All rights reserved. Article published by permission of John Cali.

Bashar: All possible versions of reality already exist, just select what you want

2007-08-09T19:15:00.000-04:00

I'm working on some articles and was just going to take a bit from this Bashar quote, but it's so good I'm going to put the whole thing here. Bashar is funny, loving, and wise and I always enjoy his perspective. Thank you, Bashar!

All possible "versions" of your reality already exist. In fact, they are all here - right under your nose - right Here, right Now. However, most of these "versions" are invisible to us, and they become "visible" only when we "tune" ourselves (via our beliefs), to be compatible and resonant with the frequencies of any one particular "version".

As an analogy, if your computer screen offers you many choices, and all you have to do is click on one of them to select it, then your imagination is the total of all the available choices on the screen. Moving the mouse to the desired choice is like focusing your imagination on one particular vision. And then clicking on that choice is like using your feelings to activate your selection.

Misconception: "Seeing is Believing" (What we perceive determines what we believe.)

The Actuality: "Believing is Seeing" (What we believe determines what we perceive!)

As an analogy:

A TV set does not "create" the program it's displaying. It just "selects" it and "allows it in"....

Realizing this, it should make it feel even EASIER to create/select/allow the version of reality you wish to experience, because

YOU DON'T HAVE TO CREATE THE VERSION OF REALITY YOU WANT! IT ALREADY EXISTS! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS "SELECT" IT AND "ALLOW IT IN"!

All possible version of reality already all exist! (When they say God is Infinite, they're not kidding.)

3 Phases for receiving the "version" of reality you prefer:

1. See it. (mental)

Visualize it. Imagine it. Daydream it. Visualize it clearly. You dont need to visualize it for a long time. Short time is sufficient, but you need to visualize it clearly. You need to have a solid clear picture. Visualizing it creates the blueprint, so see it in great detail. See it ==> Become an efficient Mental Antenna to receive this "version" of reality.

2. Feel it. (emotional)

Get excited & passionate about it! How would you feel if you had it now? Feel that now! Plug into your vision with all your emotions & all your senses, as if you had it now! Involve all your senses - imagine smelling it, touching it, tasting it, etc.
Feel it ==> Become an efficient Emotional Antenna to receive this "version" of reality.

3. Be it. (physical)

Physical action. Do it! To ground the experience. Do actions that most closely mimic the actions you "see" yourself doing in your vision. Gather and use whatever props mimic that scenario, and do a "dry run". Doing this "make believe" physical action trains the body consciousness. This makes it "real for you now", so the universe then delivers it to you. NOTE: This physical action does not directly cause this desired reality to manifest. Instead, this physical action creates a more precise vibration in yourself, making you a better antenna to receive it, by you becoming more aligned to the same vibration. The reality you desire already exists. You do not have to create it. You only have to receive it.

From The Basic Blueprint for the Structure of Existence ~ Bashar. Bashar is channeled by Darryl Anka, copyright Darryl Anka.

Chief Joseph: High Noon at Walmart (about our changing times)

2007-07-28T21:18:00.001-04:00

I always love hearing from John and Chief Joseph. I just read their latest article and was so touched.

I've had peak experiences of well-being and my desire is to bring them into a smooth flow in my daily life. That means letting go of any blocks or old stuff I was holding onto. It means change.

I was feeling some distress yesterday about new opportunities that seemed beyond me and Spirit asked me what I wanted. My answer was to know that I was connected through all of the changing experiences that I'm having now. I want to walk with this loving Universe -- to experience the partnership of co-creating. The playing field for this desire is physical -- prosperity, creativity, health, relationships -- but the desire is spiritual.

Thank you, John and Chief Joseph for reminding me we are all experiencing this new energy now and I especially love the reminder that we can't help but be on the path.

Here's John:

I’m sure many of you remember that classic western film, High Noon, starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly (later, Princess Grace of Monaco). As a kid, it was one of my favorite movies.

John Cali

Every night at 6:00 p.m. at Buffalo Bill’s Irma Hotel in Cody, Wyoming, there’s a gunfight, Old-West style. You might even find Jesse James or Wild Bill Hickok there.

As you probably can guess, this gunfight is a nightly stunt put on for the enjoyment of summer tourists. And also to benefit the Gunfighter Charities.

However, a couple of weeks ago, there was a real gunfight in Cody -- in the Walmart parking lot, of all places! Cody, my town, is generally a very peaceful place. After all, the days of the Old West are long gone.

Nobody yet knows all the details of the Walmart gunfight, but it was obvious there were two very angry men involved. And their anger erupted into violence.

Here’s Chief Joseph.

Chief Joseph

You don’t have to be particularly perceptive or observant to see what’s happening on your planet today. Explosions and eruptions of all kinds have become virtually daily events. You’re seeing the intense energies everywhere you look -- in other people, in animals, in plants, even in your Mother Earth.

If you are physically alive today, you are feeling the intensity, at some level. You may not be fully aware of it consciously, but you are feeling it. It’s having a powerful effect on all of you.

Now, this is not a bad thing. In fact, it’s a very good thing. Those of you on a conscious spiritual path know you have no choice except to grow, to change, to evolve. That, friends, is what your physical and spiritual lives are all about -- growing, changing, evolving -- and creating. Even God is changing and growing.

The difference today, however, is -- at this point in linear time -- you have reached a place no one else has ever reached in your human history.

You have different names for what’s happening -- some call it ascension, some call it shifting to a higher dimension, some call it the beginning of the second coming, etc. But it doesn’t matter what you label it. What does matter is that you reach a place of peace and joy within yourselves -- no matter what’s happening in the world around you.

You cannot shift the tides of what’s coming, any more than you can shift the tides of the oceans.

What you can do is simply go with the flow. Many of you are consciously feeling the increasing intensities in your bodies, in your relationships, in almost every aspect of your lives. We realize much of this feels uncomfortable and even painful, at least some of the time.

But if you stay attuned, aligned with your higher selves, you will move through this time with relative ease. You will all get through this, one way or another.

And you don’t have to do it the hard way. You don’t have to shoot it out at high noon at Walmart. But that is how many humans are dealing with all the intensity they’re feeling. They don’t consciously understand what’s happening. And so they erupt and explode in often-unpredictable and violent ways.

All is well, friends. This is simply a time of accelerating growth for each of you individually, and for your entire planet.

Simply do whatever feels good for you. Nurture and love yourselves. Nurture and love your families and friends. Nurture and love every living creature.

This too shall pass. It is only a step on your journey back home to God.

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Related article by Suzanne:
Being in alignment is being who we really are

The loving words of Chief Joseph are channeled by John Cali. Visit John's web site for more articles, information about readings, or to sign up for his newsletter, Sentinels of the Sky at http://www.greatwesternpublishing.org.

Copyright © 2006-2007 by Great Western Publishing -- All rights reserved. Article published with permission of John Cali.

You deserve your desires

2007-07-25T16:42:00.000-04:00

I had the most interesting realization this morning. I was guided to relax and rest my head on the back of my chair. I was feeling peaceful and the thought of something I wanted came into my mind. I'm not sure how to explain this, but I was offered an opportunity to accept it as mine and I did. Something inside me slid into place like two images side by side merging into one.

After I had merged with my desire, I felt fleshed out and more real than I had before -- like part of me that was potential was now being expressed. Then I realized, well, of course everyone deserve their desires!

And I say this to you: They are intimately you. No one else has exactly the same desires that you do. They are absolutely personal. They come from who you are and your desire to expand your light into the world. That's what following our passions and dreams is all about.

Any thoughts I had before about being selfish or impractical or making a wrong choice seem ridiculous to me now. I can feel that my desires are an expression of my life energy and I know the life energy that creates us is the stream of well-being and it is good.

I not only feel a difference in how I see myself, but also how I see you. I feel more aware that you are light creating in this world. I feel eager to see what new things you are dreaming up.

It's never too late to change our future -- we're the ones we've been waiting for.

--Unknown

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Here are some other posts about experiences on the way to this interesting place:

Our non-physical self is the Energy flowing through us
Being in alignment is being who you truly are
Life is a magical journey

Affirmations and deliberate reality creation

2007-07-24T13:13:00.000-04:00

I've used affirmations for years, but Abraham-Hicks has given me a perspective that makes them so much more fun to play with in creating reality. Now positive affirmations are easier to use and I have the pleasure of knowing I am creating my reality as I speak them.

Negative beliefs are the voice of what we want to change

Decades ago there was recognition that resistance would come up when we affirmed something positive we didn't have yet. That voice would pop up, "but wait a minute...," "but what about...," or just plain, "I don't believe I can...."

That resistance is the voice of the negative beliefs we wanted to change. It was seeing the conditions or having the feelings those negative beliefs created that prompted the new desire and positive affirmation. Without knowing about reality creation, we didn't realize the thoughts were connected with what we saw or felt. They were considered an inner psychological pattern.

You don't have to get rid of the old, just choose to think the new

There were a lot of techniques to deal with those resistant thoughts, but now you don't have to pay any attention to them at all. They are just thoughts and all you have to do is choose a better feeling thought.

If you are new to deliberate reality creation, just know that as you practice changing your thoughts and experiencing your feelings change with them you will discover that it works. Even if these are negative thoughts you've had for many years or even from childhood, they will change. It's very empowering to walk the new path and get to the place where you can feel -- really feel -- that the old beliefs have lost their power and are just thoughts. Once you have that experience it becomes easier and easier.

When you say a positive affirmation it is so powerful. I remember one dark night of the soul where I was at a crisis point with some very old beliefs about my worthiness and fears around experiences that had happened as a child. It was a real eye-opener to experience the control of working to turn those old unpleasant beliefs and feelings around and end up feeling better during a sleepless night!

Now I know it works and I get a warm, pleasant feeling deep inside when I speak my positive affirmations. I know the affirmation is a step on the path to my desire and the good feelings are the connection to well-being that is calling me forward.

How to use affirmations

When you have a desire for something good then state it as if it is real. Whenever you feel doubt or whenever it feels good, repeat it again. Your mind will get used to the thought and you will also get used to being in control of your thoughts.

As I mentioned, I like the Abraham-Hicks information which tells you that you don't have to work on your thoughts and reel in your desires like a fish on a line. The Universe grants your desire as soon as you have it.

Affirmations are for those times when you still believe in the old and want to change your thinking. Just think of it as building something beautiful because you are. You are being a deliberate co-creator with the Universe and building your dreams by thinking them into your experience.

I send you these affirmations of well-being:

You are a blessed being who is worthy of every good thing. You are on the right track and the Universe is with you every step of your life's journey.

All is well.

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RSS feeds make my blog reading experience so much easier

2007-07-22T22:03:00.000-04:00

My friend John Cali has been urging his readers to subscribe to his RSS feeds for quite some time. I trust him, but dragged my feet. Finally, when I was looking at what I would want to have on my new web site, I read his RSS article here, and could see the benefits. Now I wonder how I got along without it. I love it! Thank you, John.

When I subscribed to newsletters via email I found I would often shuttle them off to a side folder to review later. Sometimes I read them and sometimes I would get behind and just delete them and start again with the current issue. I checked my favorite blogs for new posts irregularly. I was looking for a more efficient solution and this is it for me.

I wanted software that was easy to use and went with John's first recommendation, the free software, Feedreader. Here's what I like about it:

1. It's timely: When I'm online I receive newsletter articles or blog posts a short time after they are posted. No need to wait for newsletters or check the web site every day.

2. Easy to access and open: I have Feedreader minimized to my task bar for easy access at all times. It opens very fast and I can quickly check to see what I want to read.

3. Handy alerts: I have it set to give me a small popup which let's me know the site and title of a new post. I can open and read it or ignore it -- the popup goes away in a few seconds.

4. It's easy to subscribe to a post: I go to a web site, click on the Feedreader icon which opens to their site feed page, copy the URL, open Feedreader, press F3 and the URL automatically pastes in the subscribe window. I click OK and it's all done in four easy steps.

5. Unsubscribing is even easier: If I've read through some posts and find it's not for me I just right click on the site name in Feedreader and choose delete. Its gone.

6. Information is organized for me: Each site is listed in the left-hand column in alphabetical order. I click on a site and a list of the posts for the last few weeks appears in the middle column. If I want to view an article I click on it and it shows up in the right-hand column or I can open it in my browser. Unread articles are in bold, articles I've read are in normal text.

It's easy for me to keep a lot of information organized. No folders, no favorites or bookmarks unless I want them. If I scanned through a post I didn't think I needed it's easy to find and read again later.

I'm looking at a lot of new blogs and web sites now and appreciate how easy it is to keep up with posts or see if a site is one I want to stay with.

By the way, some sites don't have the orange icon or say RSS feeds. Blogger uses Atom feeds and I've found some sites that just say XHTML feed. The Feedreader site is the authority on the software, so check there if you are using it, but my experience is that it has accepted Atom and XHTML feeds with no problems.

Advertising as Internet support for creative, spiritual lifestyles

2007-07-21T20:53:00.000-04:00

I've been exploring creating a web site and deciding the features I might like to include. Writing and reality creation were my main interests before, but now that I'm looking for information for a new web site and blog, I'm reading tips I could have used all along. I'm also becoming aware of how much freedom the Internet is providing us to create the lifestyle we desire and to have abundance.

I used to find advertising on a web site annoying and a visual form of spam. I ignored it as much as possible. When I found out the site owner received payment for click throughs on Google AdSense ads I realized this was a way for me to show appreciation for the gifts I had received at that site -- wise and loving words, feeling better, beautiful pictures, the interesting personality that came through, information, and much more.

I barely looked at the names of advertisers before. Now, if I'm at a site I feel appreciation for, I look for ads that look interesting to me and click through. I've found some very useful web sites in the process.

The Universe has such interesting ways to answer our desires and I'm intrigued by the interconnectedness here. Google prospers, the web site owner prospers, and the advertising site prospers. As I make the choice to click through on the basis of feeling good -- then I am a part of the flow of light and well-being and sending a positive message to the Law of Attraction manager.

The Internet itself has opened up so many opportunities for us to express our creativity. If you want to go through traditional publishing resources that's fine, but you don't have to wait for a publisher or magazine to accept your work to begin writing for others. You can start a blog and begin gaining experience communicating immediately. If your book would only be of interest to a small niche market or you haven't been able to find a publisher, you can create an e-book or a print-on-demand book from a reputable site like Lulu.com and advertise it on your blog or web site.

I've seen blogs with links to their eBay ads. Bloggers selling their personally developed products like Kirsten Harrell's downloadable positive affirmations at Think Positive! Crafts, coaching, workshops, psychic readings, books, your inspiration and anything you want to develop from it have a world-wide market. That's abundance!

I've been looking at a lot of blogs on blogging and new technologies. If you aren't having success at your site I can recommend Darren Rowse's Problogger as a good place to start for blogging tips and information. There might be something new that would be just what you have been looking for.

The Internet is reality creation in action -- an invitation to innovation and new ideas. There are so many opportunities to prosper and bring your dreams to life. If you can dream it you can create it!

Resources: Abundance and Prosperity

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Abundance Journal: Belle Wong writes about her experiences with Abraham-Hicks, The Law of Attraction, and reality creation in creating the abundance and joyful life she desires. Belle shares practical tips as well as her heart in her well-written posts about her journey.

Attracting Abundance with Carol Look. Carol is an EFT master with a background in traditional therapy. She combines her experience as a therapist and knowledge of energy work with an understanding of the Abraham-Hicks' information about reality creation and the Law of Attraction to create a transformative experience. I've had personal coaching with Carol and have also participated in her teleclasses. She's a bright and loving spirit and I recommend her highly.

Breathing Prosperity: Shauna's articles shine with positive energy and information about creating prosperity.

Choosing Prosperity: Elyse Hope Killoran is another lightworker who is dear to my heart. She discovered the Abraham-Hicks information and decided to believe it and act on it -- that's how Choosing Prosperity was born. I am especially grateful to Elyse for introducing me to the Abraham-Hicks material. She has created a community of enthusiastic men and women exploring the Law of Attraction and creating abundance in every area of their life. There are many free resources on her website: audio files, a delightful prosperity game, a free two-week trial of her program, and more.

Shakti Gawain: Shakti has been writing and giving workshops on prosperity, visualization, and reality creation for over 25 years. A truly beautiful spirit.
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Updated 8/10/07

Affirmation: I am love in action

2007-07-17T11:04:00.000-04:00

Today I am love in action as I bring non-physical into the physical. I am the bridge. I am the playful one who knows that joy is the purpose of my life. I am inspired and each action I take creates beauty. All that I need is provided and I am prospered in every area of my life. I can really feel that all is well and I am at peace. Thank you blessed Father Mother God for this beautiful day.

Kaziah Hancock paints fallen U.S. soldiers with love

2007-07-16T12:53:00.000-04:00

I just received an email with a link to a deeply moving video about Utah artist Kaziah Hancock who paints portraits of soldiers who died in service to our country. What touched my heart the most was her love for the soldier as she painted the portrait -- she could see so much good in them.

The Project Compassion website news brief states that Kaziah "compares her compassion to a bottomless well to explain how she's able to complete painting after painting of U.S. soldiers."

Kaziah talks to the picture and painting of each soldier, seeing the best in each of them, and giving it back as she paints them. When I watched the video I could see how much love and healing was expressed in the paintings, given to the families, and how it would spread to all those who saw the portraits or this video. There is so much light in all of this.

Love in action is a very powerful force.

Go to Project Compassion for more information about the project, artists, or to find out how to request a portrait of a fallen soldier.

New blogging and Internet technologies support lightworkers

2007-07-14T14:42:00.000-04:00

A little over two weeks ago I completed my intention with this blog, to find my way to well-being with the Abraham-Hicks information.

I did find the inner connection I was looking for and now wanted to explore bringing my inner connection into the world. I had a lot of new ideas and wanted to create a web site, but didn't have the know-how to begin. So, while I'm doing my research and clarifying my ideas for something new, I'm using this blog to draft articles, explore ways of writing, and try my hand at implementing a few of those technologies. Like you, my understanding and experience of well-being always continues so I will continue to post my thoughts about it here and then plan to have a blog on my new web site.

I love writing about my own experiences, but I also really enjoy meeting the many beautiful spirits in the blogosphere. Now, in my research to create a web site, I have a growing appreciation for the ways technology can support us in building a community of lightworkers.

I feel I have just begun to enjoy the benefits waiting for me and want to share with you with the hope that you will benefit, too.

Preview of coming attractions: How site feeds help me organize information and how advertising on blogs can support our work.

More soon!

Live like what you want is here right now

2007-07-13T14:40:00.000-04:00

I enjoy the adventure of exploring new ways of being a deliberate creator. The technique that's been intriguing me the last week or so is living like what I want is here right now.

First is knowing what I want:

1. When I feel a desire I ask myself "what do I want?" And when I answer I ask again and again until I feel that I am at the heart of my desire.

For example, I think about my bills and want a kazillion dollars. When I ask again, I want freedom --I don't want to have to be concerned about bills, I just want to write and create. I keep going with it until I get to the deepest desire.

Next is becoming comfortable thinking what I want is real:

2. I say positive affirmations of what I want. This is a way to change my thinking so that what I want becomes familiar to me.

3. Before I go to sleep I affirm that I sleep well and wake feeling refreshed. I give over anything troubling me and ask the loving Universe to take care of it and affirm that I will be guided to any action that is needed. Before I sleep and when I wake I affirm what I desire for that time. This declutters any unpleasant thoughts or feelings hanging around.

These are some ways to become comfortable with the experience of what I want:

So, I know what I want and I'm becoming comfortable with thinking the thoughts of it being real. Now, how do I live it?

4. I remind myself that what I'm seeing around me is just a place to enjoy and decide where I want to go next. Abraham calls it the platform where we shoot off our rockets of desire and I really like that analogy. No recriminations needed on my journey -- just course adjustments by sending out my next desire. This thinking keeps me facing forward toward what I want.

5. A fun exercise it to sit down and write what a perfect day would be. It can be something realistic that could happen on earth, but it doesn't have to be. It could be about exploring space, traveling in time, or being an animal or tree. It's an exercise to just have fun and write whatever feels perfect in that moment. The way to bring it to life is to read it over, pick at least one thing, and do it right then -- like buying flowers if they were in the perfect day. Each perfect day can be a new story.

3. I ask myself if what I want was real right now, how would I feel? This is what I've been doing a lot of in the last week or so and when I allow the feelings I open up to possibilities in the physical world that feel real to me.

In a post here I wrote about a peak experience where everything was me. I'm using the same processes to deliberately create my physical experience as I did to deliberately change my thinking and feeling. This work I'm doing now is to consciously bring my spiritual self into my physical world.

My perspective is that we are souls and in our non-physical experience we are naturally allowing beings. We ask and it is given right then. The only work on "allowing" that is needed is in the physical world.

We don't have to do anything to deserve what we receive -- we just plain deserve good things because that's the way things work. Taking action is following what feels good and from that all kinds of things to be, do, and have manifest that are much greater than any action could be on it's own.

Let the rockets soar! And let it not matter that there is a rocket born that I have not yet achieved because I cannot help but achieve it. If I can contemplate it, if I can imagine it, then the Universe surely can deliver it to me. I could not imagine something that could not be.

Let it be. Let me relax and let …it …be.

You summon with the clarity of desire. And, we say to you, just relax and trust. That if you can want it, the Universe has yielded it and now its time for you to just relax. Not watching for evidence but trusting that the evidence will show up everywhere you turn ... and it is our promise to you, that it will.

Abraham-Hicks, Boston, MA, 10/05/02

All quotes are copyright Abraham-Hicks Publications. Visit the official Abraham site at: www.abraham-hicks.com/

Abraham-Hicks Rampage of Appreciation (YouTube Video)

2007-07-11T23:54:00.001-04:00

With much appreciation for True Nine at Dearer Still is Truth for showing me the way to these wonderful YouTube videos. Do a search for Abraham-Hicks to find this and other videos.

Resources for well-being: channeled information, churches, dreamwork, interactive guidance, publishers, and more

2007-07-11T20:28:00.002-04:00

CHANNELED:

Bashar: Bashar is a multi-dimensional being channeled by Darryl Anka. With humor and wisdom Bashar explains reality creation from another perspective.

Chief Joseph: Chief Joseph, channeled by John Cali, explores reality creation and the Law of Attraction in a loving way.

CHURCHES AND SPIRITUAL COMMUNITIES:

The Church of Humanity: Explores Law of Attraction, Quantum Mechanics.

James Twyman and The Beloved Community

Unity: Unity has churches worldwide, has a very positive message, and has always fit in perfectly with the information I've studied about reality creation, especially Abraham-Hicks.

DREAMS AND DREAMWORKERS:

Henry Reed: I knew Henry from his work as a very active and creative force in the dreamwork movement when I lived in Virginia Beach in the 80's. There are links to his Dream Helper Ceremony and Dream Quest articles on the lower right-hand side of the landing page.

World Dreams Peace Bridge: A global project to create peace by dreaming together.

ENERGY WORK AND PHYSICAL WELL-BEING:

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT): EFT is a very simple technique with powerful results. It's been used by professionals and laymen around the world and is one of the techniques I use to quickly transform the energy of unpleasant thoughts and feelings to feeling good.

School of Spiritual Homeopathy

Thriving Now, LLC: Transforming Pain into Optimal Health™ with Rick Wilkes, an EFT coach. Rick has excellent case files which are very clear -- the tapping sequences insightful. This is a valuable resource.

INTERACTIVE GUIDANCE:

Psychology of Vision: Spiritual/Interactive three card reading from the Enlightenment Pack.

TwinkleStars: Lovely music, twinkling stars...you ask a question and choose one for an interactive experience of inner guidance.

MEDIA -- NEWS CHANNELS, PRESENTATIONS, VIDEOS:

Gary Zukov: Streaming video of his talk at Unity Village.

HappyNews.com: Real news, always positive.

May You Be Blessed: Movie and million blessings project.

OTHER WELL-BEING RESOURCES:

LOVEinFORMed: Eileen Meyer and The Divine Feminine. "...she blends all of her healing, intuitive and musical abilities to teach both children and adults how to feel and entrain to the God Frequency, validate the heart, and give it a voice and presence on Earth."

The Seekers Circle: The Seeker's Circle offers a rich resource of Links You'll Love for sites and articles about intuition, psychic development, holistic health, personal celebrations, rituals, integrative medicine, divination tools, general spirituality, self-help and the groups, organizations, education centers, online magazines, and speakers sites on these topics.

PUBLISHERS AND PUBLICATIONS:

Hay House: Louise Hay, writer and publisher of spiritual books, DVDs, music.

Well Being Journal

PlanetLightWorker online magazine

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Updated 3/4/08

Abraham-Hicks Resources and Links

2007-07-11T18:59:00.002-04:00

Abraham-Hicks home page. Channeled info on how we create reality and how to live joy-filled lives.

The Abe Forum

Abraham Meetups Near You

WORKSHOP EXCERPTS, VIDEOS, AND INTERVIEWS:

Abraham audio workshop selection on well-being and why we have contrast.

Hay House Radio: Listen to Abraham-Hicks workshop excerpts. Register free, then go to Archived Shows | Weekly Shows | Ask and It is Given. mp3's seem to download better than podcasts.

Oprah radio interviews with Abraham and Esther Hicks. Download at AttactionHacker.com

YouTube: A search on YouTube for Abraham-Hicks gave me 215 results here. Not all of the videos are of Esther channeling Abraham, but are related in some way.

YouTube: Abraham-Hicks Publications YouTube Videos

YouTube: Rockets of Desire: Creator of several Abraham-Hicks YouTube videos.

ABRAHAM-HICKS QUOTES:

17 Seconds of Abraham

Abraham-Hicks Cocreative Collection. Looks like the blog ran into a problem posting at the end of June, but the previous quotes are there.

Abraham-Hicks Daily Quotes

Abraham-Hicks: Search the Abraham-Hicks Journal for quotes

Dearer Still Is Truth: True Nine posts Abraham-Hicks quotes and videos.

Nirvikalpa.com

Spirit Library: Channeled messages of Abraham-Hicks, Kryon, Metatron and others.

The Abe Blog : Interestng and extensive Abraham quotes, workshop transcripts, and articles by Abraham-Hicks.

Update 3/4/08

Sites exploring the Law of Attraction (LOA) and reality creation (updated periodically)

2007-07-11T18:40:00.000-04:00

INTERESTING PERSPECTIVES ON LOA AND REALITY CREATION:

Cardin Routhe at OptimistLab wrote an interesting article about her observations of women she worked with who attracted relationships that lasted -- from a Law of Attraction point of view.

Dawn's article describes her experience with energy shifts -- one of the better descriptions of what it is like to experience a transformation shift/awakening process that I have read. It doesn't have to work this way for everyone, but I think it happens in Dawn's case because she is not only very aware of her energy, but also very open and allowing of change so it happens quickly. (The Empathic Healer)

Steve Pavlina's article on Complaining takes a look at the effect of our thinking on an event -- before and after it happens.

BLOGS AND SITES:

28 years later - Debra sprinkles quotes by Abraham-Hicks, Alan Cohen, and others, images and playful YouTube videos, with her own delightful and unexpected thoughts. Only read this blog if you want to end up with a smile on your face! "Thoughts are like blobs of mercury - they floop around when you try to direct them, especially if you are caught up in trying to direct them. So think about....anything that makes your heart sing."

Abundance Journal: Belle Wong writes about her experiences with Abraham-Hicks, The Law of Attraction, and reality creation in creating the abundant and joyful life she desires.

Allowing a Perfect Body: Tigerlilly uses her study of Abraham-Hicks and the Law of Attraction to create her life in a "smaller physical version by creating it in a bigger spiritual version."

A Mystical Man's World: Robert Shapiro describes himself as a professional trance channeler. Shamanism and true magic, a benevolent expression of magic in our earth experience, are topics of his blog.

AttractionHacker.com: This site is described as a community project to find shortcuts (or "hacks") in life using free tools on the Internet, which will help us resonate with the Law of Attraction (LOA). The last post was in April, but there is lots of good information about Internet resources and how they can be used with the LOA to attract your desires.

Balanced Life Center's Spirituality Blog: Nneka writes with real understanding about spirituality and reality creation using her experiences from every day life. I loved her post Thinning the Veil describing her growth in understanding of the Law of Attraction from observing the changes that happened to matter, such as burning paper turning to ash.

Be Alive * Believe * Be You: Melba McMullin shares her personal journey and the creative vision which is transforming her life. She reaches out and creates community through creativity and believing the best is within.

be Conscious now: Kara-Leah experienced a spiritual awakening in 2004 and writes about her shift in consciousness and experiences of spiritual energy as she is integrating this experience in her life. K-L also sponsors carnivals on truth, an opportunity to explore others' perceptions or contribute your own view.

Believe It's Possible: Maddy describes herself as a "self-professed Pollyanna who chooses to see the best aspects in life." Her blog is filled with playful and insightful posts of her explorations in using the Law of Attraction to create her life.

Belle Enchanted: Belle writes about creativity, art, writing and "the magic of the Law of Attraction." Reading her blog is like being with a dear friend.

Bland to Bliss: This blogger was given an Abraham-Hicks audio tape about 10 years ago and has created her blog to organize all of the wonderful information she had discovered about the Law of Attraction -- book reviews, spiritual cinema reviews, and her experiences in exploring what others are saying about creating reality.

Breathing Prosperity: Shauna's articles shine with positive energy and information about creating prosperity.

Clearly Envision: This blogger presents clear, easy to implement ideas for spiritual seekers who would like to use the Law of Attraction for development and success.

Contemplate This: With honesty and grace, Vicki shares "the real me" and tells us how she is using the Abraham-Hicks information in her life and with her family.

Creating a Better Life: Lyman Reed offers insightful reviews and articles with links to many resources about his topics: Abraham-Hicks, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), free personal growth videos and e-books, meditation, and other topics related to creating a better life.

Dearer Still Is Truth: True Nine offers Abraham-Hicks quotes and YouTube videos.

Erin Pavlina's Blog: Erin is pursuing her life's passion in supporting others to awaken to their Divine Energy. She writes about how to use the Law of Attraction in your life, answers questions from readers, and in other features on her site, offers intuitive readings, articles, and podcasts.

Everything Spiritual: Michele writes enthusiastically about the latest spiritual news. Recent posts included Hay House radio, spiritual cruises, new Abraham-Hicks products, and her experience meeting Pat Rodegast who channels the light being, Emmanuel.

Feel Good Vibes - Dave Trager empowers the positive by focusing on what feels good -- images, YouTube videos, quotes, and thoughts. Dave is in the process of updating the site so that you can register and create a good feeling vibes page of your own -- completion date possibly in September 2007.

Feeling Good: Clyde writes thoughtful, gentle posts about using the Law of Attraction to feel good as well as information about the Tampa Law of Attraction group. In some recent posts he explored his use of the Law of Attraction in his job search and his thoughts and experiences with Shamanism.

Happy Rant: Curt Rosengren is blogging about creating positive change in the world by focusing on news, books, and movies about people who are taking action to make the world a better place.

Illuminated Minds Want to Know: Maddy explores Abraham-Hicks and the Law of Attraction, sharing herself as well as her insightful, positive understanding.

Intentional Living: Kristen Schuerlein dealt with a health issue using a positive perspective. She has a personal mission to inspire others to design a life they love. In this blog she shares her positive affirmations and viewpoint with high energy, and also posts news of others who are taking action in a positive way -- a special focus on women and health. (Formerly Affirmagy blog)

Law of Attraction for Beginners: Dean Lacono is a Law of Attraction coach, writer, and speaker who blogs about his experiences using the Law of Attraction and various energy work techniques to bring about positive change.

Life 2.0: Nick Smith writes, "I believe that our true nature is far more powerful, creative and loving than we could ever imagine, and the recognition of this is readily available to each and every one of us. The realisation of our true nature transforms everything - our relationships, our work and our organisations; and is, I believe, the answer to all our problems." Nick writes insightful, well-written articles that sing with intelligence on an array of topics from psychotherapy to Buddha, creativity to leadership, the joy of following your bliss to never being afraid of conflict.

Live the Power: Through her reading, Karen Lynch discovered that we are all responsible for our life and that we become what we think about. Karen's blog celebrates self-development with a focus on our unlimited power to create our life. Free e-book available for download.

Living Out Loud: Hilda Caroll, life coach, writes a joyful blog of quotes, tips, and exercises about happiness, trusting your intuition, and taking good care of yourself.

Living with Awareness: Awareness meditation teacher Padme Nina Livingstone shines her gentle light with posts about reducing stress and finding balance and health through mindfulness in daily tasks.

Magic Happens: This blogger explores consciousness and our place in the Universe in a very thoughtful way. She lives in Australia and has an appreciation for nature and the native people who live in harmony with the land. She references Abraham-Hicks, Mike Dooley and Notes from the Universe, as well as other sources of inspiration for her path.

Magical Mind: Jeanette posts articles and interesting links that she has been drawn to in her quest to manifest her hearts desire. Recent posts include Notes from the Universe by Mike Dooley, You are Enough by David J. Walker, and LearnOutLoud.com's article on Epigenetics: The Biology of Belief.

Metaphysical Musings: Gina discusses her metaphysical journey -- how she learns from her reading of Abraham-Hicks, Seth, and others -- and how she applies these ideas in her life. Many quotes are included and she often talks about her dreams and dreamwork as well. The photos for each post are a visual treat that complements her thoughtful words.

Monk at Work: Adam Kayce has been exploring the inner side of life for over 20 years teaching spiritual growth and healing. Monk at Work is about opening the heart and expressing the soul's purpose in business.

My Secret Spiritual Dance: Mysticism, Buddhism, Paganism, Meditation, Law of Attraction, Abraham-Hicks, Tantra, not the Kama Sutra, and Personal Growth by Pamm.

mysticalgraffiti.com: David Wechsler writes about his spiritual journey with intelligence and a naturalists eye for the life within and around him. He has compiled an invaluable directory of channeled beings. I loved his August 7, 2007 post where he explored the idea of fairies and devas along with his observations of nature.

Optimist Lab: Cardin Routhe's site features spirituality and self-development articles combined with intuitive insights, high-vibe exercises, and a feature where you can ask questions about transforming your life with the Law of Attraction.

Peace, love, and harmony: Traci began delivering the messages from Friend (a group of non-physical beings) in 1988. She hasn't been actively posting since the end of May, but there are three timeless messages about peace and love, including a very nice exercise on visualizing peace in the last post on May 30th.

Shakti Gawain: Shakti has been a best-selling author and teacher for over twenty-five years. Her books on visualization, intuition, and transformation were important to my spiritual development and she has a special place in my heart. Her web site offers a daily selection and affirmation from her book Awakening: A Daily Guide to Conscious Living.

Steve Pavlina: Steve Pavlina has a passion for exploring his own personal development and sharing with others. A very active forum and over 500 free articles on topics such as abundance, creativity, productivity, and every area of personal growth are available on his site. He blends a deep spiritual understanding with very practical advice on living and loving with freedom and courage.

The Empathic Healer: On the path to her own healing, Dawn has become a healer. She writes of the energetic transformations in her life and how her thinking is changing. Her outer life is changing, too, with a recent move from Virginia to Sedona, Arizona. Dawn is truly a child of these changing times and writes of her journey with love and honesty.

The Golden Instant: Mousie's beautiful blog combines the writings of the mystic Walter Lanyon, with the art of the Impressionist painters -- a treat for the eyes as well as inspiration for the spirit.

The Positivity Blog Henrik Edberg writes well-thought out and helpful articles on personal growth and transformation. Topics include meditation, expanding consciousness, reducing stress, becoming more productive, controlling thoughts, improving relationships and all that he is exploring in living a better life.

Think Positive! Blog is Kirsten Harrell's blog of daily positive affirmations. She also advertises her ipopins, recorded one minute affirmations that can be downloaded.

TUTs Adventurers Club: Having fun with the Law of Attraction by Mike Dooley. Join the free Adventurers Club and receive playful and wise Notes from the Universe in your inbox.

TUTs' Mike Dooley is interviewed by Carol Look on NPR. Select show #52: June 27, 2006, Manifesting Change: It Couldn't Be Easier.

Uncover Your Bliss: Kimberly Pirtle is a vibrant, intuitive, plus-sized life coach whose articles and services offer support in finding your bliss and celebrating who you are. Kimberly talks about all topics for enjoying life from the importance of having things around you that you love, abundance, enjoying your body, to quick tips for daily happiness.

www.SparkedBlog.com: Will Mitchell blogs about a wide range of interesting subjects including Quantum Physics, the Law of Attraction, lucid dreaming, and personal growth and development. Often with humor, always with thoughtfulness and logic, Will presents interesting information and tips for following through on the topic in a practical way.

Your Holistic Assistant invites you to Lighten Up: Donna Marie Castener offers articles, tips, and resources with a spiritual perspective for lightworkers who have their own business. Topics include email lists, marketing, nurturing spirit, and more.

Zen Habits: Leo Babauta writes about simple, positive ways to live the life you want to lead right now such as: eating healthy, being productive at work, living a stress free life, parenting, and living frugally.

CHANNELED WISDOM:

Bashar: channeled by Darryl Anka. Bashar is a multi-dimensional being who speaks of reality creation with much humor and wisdom.

Chief Joseph: Channeled by John Cali. Chief Joseph speaks loving words of wisdom about reality creation and the Law of Attraction.

COMMUNITIES, DISCUSSION GROUPS, and FORUMS:

Chief Joseph Discussion Group: A forum for meeting like-minded spiritual seekers and discussing Chief Joseph's information and related topics.

Spiritual Forums: A very active forum of members discussing spirituality and beliefs, religions and faiths, paranormal and supernatural, lifestyle (health, exercise, vegetarianism, yoga), and anything more (nature and animals, lounge, games, humor, music, books, films).

Steve Pavlina's Forum on Intention & Manifestation: Mix it up with fellow seekers of personal growth, success, the Law of Attraction, and spiritual interests.

The Abe Forum: Abraham-Hicks discussion forum.

The Village at TUT's Adventurers Club: "TUT’s Village is a community for the spiritually aware who are looking for travel companions, chat and video cam buddies, new friends or romance."

TUT's Adventurers Forums: Folks having fun with the Law of Attraction. Post your creative poems, talk about success, share business opportunities, meet fellow Adventurers and more at this active forum.

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Updated: 9/16/07

The Universe has a sense of fun and is playful

2007-07-09T11:03:00.000-04:00

I just love the playfulness of the Universe. One Saturday I was low on cash. I felt an impulse and bought a lottery ticket that day -- and in the mail got a check for $1.67 in a settlement on an investment I sold two years before. I was bemused at the unexpected check and the amount and wondered why LOA was bringing it at that time, but accepted it cheerfully.

The next day I was going over the money in the bank for a payment I needed to make in a couple of days and decided I needed $29 to cover it.

The lottery ticket! I looked online and I had won $28 in the lottery. Then I remembered the check for $1.67 I had received the day before which brought me over the top.

I just had to laugh. It was so playful and I could hear the Universe saying, "See, I know what you need before you ask."

There is no past. There is no future. There is only the living Now where all our needs are met with generous, joyful love.

That's my perspective anyway and I'm sticking to it!

Wishing you much love today.

~Suzanne

Abraham-Hicks information that helps me smooth my journey in life

2007-07-04T14:08:00.000-04:00

We don't have to do a thing to experience the life we desire, it's ours -- a gift from this loving Universe. Abraham tells us the process is simple: 1) Ask 2) The Universe answers 3) Allow. The allowing part is where we usually have some work to do.

The "work" is changing our thinking and how much work it is depends on where we are starting from. I used to have emotions from one end of the scale to the other. Abraham's information was such relief to me because it's really simple: I had strong desires and equally strong beliefs that I couldn't have my desires. I had my foot on the gas pedal and on the brakes at the same time. Not fun!

Some people have had a pleasant life and when they discover Law of Attraction just take off and have fun with it. If you have been running into periods of turbulence from conflicting desires and beliefs, then I can offer some thoughts and techniques that work to get me through the storms.

I ask myself, "what do you want?" The stream of well-being is loving, positive energy so I ask for my desire in a positive way. It's not to get rid of something or not think a thought -- it's to choose something better. When I first read Abraham I was so used to pushing against the unwanted memories or thoughts that I didn't always know what I wanted. To be positive I would just say, "I want to feel good."

It also doesn't matter how or why we got to where we are. All that matters is what we want. We are continuously asking for new desires, having them met or not, looking at what is, making a decision about whether we like it or not, and shooting off new desires. Being in the flow is turning from what we don't want and looking at what we do want.

When I found Abraham I was at the end of the way I had been thinking and doing things and ready to change everything in my life. I jumped in with all four feet. Therefore, I had some very strong desires running up against unwanted ways of thinking and memories I'd had since childhood. Rough waters emotionally, but I learned a lot quickly.

I later heard Abraham say that it was easier to start in small steps. Now you tell me! I think the Law of Attraction (LOA) brings us the information we need at the right time, so what happened worked for me -- I was absolutely ready to change my life. And if I feel frustration now and want things to go more quickly, I remember to let the Universe take care of the big picture while I choose small steps and feel better.

I've also recognized the wisdom of Abraham's advice that we are always on our journey. We never get it done and we never get it wrong. I wanted to "get there" to that good feeling place and it took me quite a while to accept that isn't a static place -- it's absolute joyful, constant creation. Something new and delicious is waiting to be experienced every moment -- the Universe has an infinite capacity to delight us.

One thing that has really been helpful, especially in relationships, is to remind myself that nothing is worth feeling bad. It's just a platform that I'm standing on. So, I ask myself what I want. It's so freeing to realize that I can feel better by changing my thinking. I don't have to try to control or change circumstances -- as a matter of fact, I change my thinking and the Law of Attraction will change circumstances for me.

Lately it's been so helpful to think about the Abraham quote: ...99%, more than 99%, 99.99 and even then some percent of every creation is complete before you begin to see physical evidence of it. So, you have creations well along the way before they begin to show up in your experience. Abraham-Hicks, Alaskan Cruise 2005, Disc 1.

Can you feel that? What you desire is right here! The Universe has created it and wants you to have it. When you affirm something now, know that is created instantly.

I think "allowing" is finding the way to love ourselves and the other part is loving what we see. When we do that we allow ourselves to experience and to be the channel of the delicious flow of Source Energy. Abraham says that appreciation is the closest energy to Source and that works for ourselves or for whatever we see as outside of us.

Above all, it will all work out. We are always learning. There will always be things we desire and we desire them because we want to feel better -- we want to experience that love flowing through us as Source creates what we desire and then calls us. The smallest, smallest experience can be so incredibly rich because it is full of the experience of love.

May you find joy and delightful surprises in your journey.

See Feb. 17, 2007 post for Abe quotes on going with the flow.

Posts August 6, here and here are about a technique I found that helped me in relationships: thinking "I love you" to myself soothes others when they are upset. I found it also smoothes my own experience in other situations, August 10, 2006.

The full Abraham-Hicks quote about 99.99% of our desires being created was on June 24, 2007.

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Abraham-Hicks and The Brotherhood of the Fifth Dimension: Encouragement when you feel less than wonderful

2007-07-04T09:50:00.001-04:00

We want you to hear that your tantrums are understood, they are, you're not supposed to put up with less than is wonderful, you're not supposed to be sick, you're not supposed to be confused, you're not supposed to feel bad, you're not supposed to feel unworthy.

That is not who you are!

We'll never be there but we want to tell you that we'd throw a fit to if we ever got there.

Abraham-Hicks, Ashland, 7/17/04

You are, in your natural state, vibrating at a very high, pure, fast vibrational rate. But when you choose a thought that is not up to speed with that, and you introduce or include that vibration in your vibrational mix, the result is that it slows the vibration of your being. Which is just fine. You have free will. You can do that all you want. But when you slow the vibrational content of your being, you feel the slowing. And what that slowing is is negative emotion. That’s what it feels like to you.

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There is no reason to worry about your thoughts, for they are not like a loaded gun that wreak powerful and instantaneous destruction. For you have plenty of time - as soon as you become aware of negative feelings - to begin to choose other less-resistant thoughts and choose a more desired outcome.

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The Universe is not responding to your reality. The Universe is responding to your perception of your reality and so when you deliberately take an emotional journey you offer a vibration that causes Law Of Attraction to respond to you differently.

See how it works?

It is our desire to help you to identify how you are doing emotionally or vibrationally because if you can improve the way you feel just a little bit your whole point of attraction shifts.

Abraham-Hicks, Kansas City, KS, 9/14/05

Rather than "What should I do?" we want you to follow the thought of your Source, and the thought of that Source within you is looking for things to appreciate. And we know that guidance always sounds like "should I go this way, or should I go this way?" when you understand that the guidance is about the direction of your thought, and you deliberately choose the better feeling thought, what begins to happen is that you get going with The Flow so well that questions about what to do answer themselves easily because it is so obvious what to do....the confusion goes away when the resistance goes away....when you say, "never mind what I'm going to do, how am I going to think about this? And you chose a better feeling thought about the subject, what happens is that The Stream is flowing so smoothly that all of the chaos and confusion from your life lifts from you and you have clarity about what to do.

Abraham-Hicks, Tarrytown, NY 9/30/06

We wish to give a message of hope to all. When you are on this spiritual path and obstacles appear, we encourage you to continue your work to align with the spirit of All That Is, the Holy I AM. For there truly is nothing else. So, what are these appearances? Perhaps they are the last of the boogymen that have plagued your thoughts for many years. Thoughts that are so familiar to you that you haven't even noticed them or thought they were important. You cannot be in the flow of All That Is and hold onto a boulder comfortably. So, if there is something that you have been unwilling to release, then it will come up for you -- it may manifest as a shadow of lack in some way -- lack in health, in finances, in relationships. The form of it doesn't matter, it is all the same source. The boulder is seeing the material world as the source instead of All That Is. You are to have all that you desire, but recognize the Source of good. That is all, that is simply it. And when you do that you will experience being in Paradise every day, for you are there. Turn your thoughts, in whatever way you are able, to that which is beautiful in your life, that which has been beautiful. Think of your perfect day and make it so today. Take something from that perfect day and enjoy it today. Enjoy fresh air, sunshine, love, something that tastes good. If you have something you are holding back in storage because it is too good to use...why not bring it out and use it today. Treat yourself well, for you are precious to us. We love you with an everlasting love. We are your Brothers in truth, we are the Brotherhood of the Fifth Dimension.

The Brotherhood of the Fifth Dimension, Channeled by Suzanne Keyes, Words of Well-being, 12/6/06. (Copyright 2006 by Suzanne Keyes)

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I'm creating a web site about exploring well-being

2007-07-04T09:06:00.000-04:00

The post below this sounded like an ending, and it was. I've been writing about my path to finding well-being and have found it where it was all the time: within me and you and in all that is.

That post was about coming to completion with the way I was thinking and blogging, not an end to the journey. Whether we are experiencing these bodies or have returned to non-physical, the exploration of well-being continues.

I'm working on a web page, possibly another blog. Writing fiction. I love communicating with you.

For right now, there are a lot of changes in my thoughts, relationships, and outer circumstances. Abraham says the stream of well-being is a fast moving stream and when we are in the flow, there is not enough action to keep up with it. As promised, I'm creating a post right now about what is working for me to be in that good feeling place in the midst of change.

Wishing you a dazzling day!

Thank you for sharing this journey

2007-06-27T15:48:00.000-04:00

In a June 24 post I wrote about an experience where I saw everything as me. It was an experience of oneness, but different than I'd ever had before. It's so personal and my life has changed in so many ways since then that I couldn't explain them all. It's as if everything around and inside me is rearranging and coming into another alignment. I explained it to a friend as my life now being girders and blue sky, that a new world is being built around me.

Even though I had experiences before of oneness, I saw it as Source's oneness, and I shared it through Source. Seeing everything as me has changed my perspective. I'm experiencing myself as being fluid in some way. I have intentions and they ripple through me as well as through the world. I want to change my attitude about someone and I do and when I visit them I see wisdom and a nurturing heart that I hadn't seen before. I realize that the resistance I feel is to myself -- not them.

My intention when I first blogged was to share what happened to me as I applied the Abraham-Hicks information and to offer it to others who are seeking information. I just love it when I've had something I wanted to know and the Law of Attraction guided me right to the person who was offering the information I need and I wanted to do the same.

This is new to me -- I know the words to explain it will come. Right now so much is changing in my life. What I do know is that I'm at an end with the way I have been creating this blog and I'm exploring new directions in creating a web page and writing -- trying things out to see how they fit.

If you are interested in Abraham-Hicks and the process of working with their material then I would encourage you to browse through these posts from the beginning. It is an interesting journey and I am here to tell you that what Abraham is saying really works. I would also like to add that there are links to many other wonderful voices giving loving and inspiring information in my sidebar.

Thank you for sharing this journey in life. May you walk in joy and light.

~ Suzanne

Abraham-Hicks: Energy alignment and health

2007-06-25T11:24:00.000-04:00

A state of perfect health is simply a state of perfect balance - a state of Energy alignment.

When one holds a desire but his belief contradicts that desire he is not in a state of Energy alignment, and the fear of discouragement or anger he feels is his indicator of that misalignment.

When there is misalignment of Energy, there is struggle and tension. When the misalignment stops, a feeling of relief or ease ensues.

Lack of health is disease.

Allowance of health is ease.

The best assurance of physical health is deliberate alignment of Energies. And the most tangible way to discern this alignment is by making the desire for ease a dominant intention.

When Energies are in alignment, inspiration as to food, action, motion, exercise, supplementation and all else, will fall into perfect alignment.

If one does not take the time to align Energies, there is not enough medication, exercise, or action to make any difference.

If one takes the time to align Energy - perfect action is always inspired.

Notes from Abraham-Hicks workshop, may not be exact quotes.

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Abraham-Hicks: How the Law of Attraction works with your internal guidance system

2007-06-24T18:11:00.000-04:00

You are including many things in your vibration, some of them you want to include and some of them you do not. But because you are not remembering that you are vibrational beings, you don't tend to your vibration. You tend to wait until things manifest and then you deal with what is manifesting. And this gathering is about helping you to realize that you are vibrational beings and that you are vibrational transmitters and receivers. Law of Attraction is matching all of these signals up and the way you control your experience is by deliberately offering your vibrations.

What you think and therefore what you feel, which is an indicator of your vibration of thought, and what manifests is always a vibrational match. No exception. But, if you wait until something has manifested we call that post manifestational awareness. And it's not all that helpful because 99%, more than 99%, 99.99 and even then some percent of every creation is complete before you begin to see physical evidence of it. So, you have creations well along the way before they begin to show up in your experience.

Once something manifests -- while you always have the ability to be where you are and to move from where you are to where you want to be -- once something has manifested and you get that habit of observing "what is" going, then the tendency to continue to perpetuate "what is" is a very strong tendency.

We want you, as you are visiting with us in these hours that are before us, in these days that are before us to come to the most keen awareness that you have ever found that you are the creator of your own experience. And that you create by deliberately projecting your thought. We want you to realize that as you give thought whether you are projecting your thought about the past or about the present or about the future, whether you are observing or pondering or musing or imagining, whether you are wondering, whether you are having a conversation, whatever it is that you are focused upon is causing an activation of a thought vibration within you. And Law of Attraction is responding to that thought vibration.

So, it works like this, the contrast, which we mean the variety. The things wanted and not wanted. The things really wanted and the things really not wanted. The contrast of your time and place causes you to come to conclusions of your personal preferences or your desire. It just happens. It's the way the entire Universe was established. It's not something that you need to work at or learn to do. If you were the one-celled amoeba in the ocean you would be having your experience and those personal preferences would be being born within you.

So, as you evaluate or even observe or even move around in without conscious awareness, as you are moving through contrast, your personal desires or preferences are being born. And they shoot, we like to call it like rockets of desire, into what we lovingly refer to as your vibrational escrow. In other words, they are there being held for you waiting for you to become in vibrational alignment with them.

Now this is something you may not have heard from us before. We really want you to get this because it's the basis of the way your guidance system works. When your contrast causes you to desire something or prefer something -- in the moment that that preference is born -- Source Energy agrees with that preference.

How wonderful is that? Do you realize how known you are to be leading edge genius creators? Do you understand how worthy you are known to be? There is no question or no misunderstanding on the part of Source Energy that you -- out here on this leading edge of creation -- have the ability, the wherewithal, and the right to have an experience which causes you to conclude your personal preference.

And when that preference is concluded, when that preference happens within you -- even if you don't speak words about it -- when that preference happens within you, a vibration emanates from you and Source becomes immediately one with that vibration. So, now there is a strong current or signal that is pulsing within you.

Jerry and Esther have navigational systems in their vehicles. And the way they work is the computer in the coach and the antennas on the roof let the satellites in the sky know where they are. So they program in their destination and then Magellan calculates the route between where they are and where they want to go -- and then gives them turn by turn descriptions, both verbally and visually. Magellan never says to them, "where have you been?" Because it is not relevant where they have been. Magellan has only one function: to determine the route between where they are and where they now want to be.

Your emotional guidance system is exactly the same. You are where you are and you have desires within you constantly that are being held for you in vibrational escrow. So those same two points of vibrational relativity are there for you. And your emotional guidance system is based upon those.

So day by day, experience by experience, you have preferences born. You know how it works. Someone is not nice to you and you want them to be nicer. You're not nice to someone -- you wish you had been nicer. You don't have enough money -- you would like more money. You're disorganized -- you want to be more organized. Your body doesn't feel good -- you want to feel better.

Constant information being sent for Source to align with. And so there is this constant steady projection of your intention that is born from your day-to-day experience and Source is saying, "Yes, we agree. Yes, we agree. Yes, we agree. Yes, we agree." And do you know what that agreement means? That means that all of the resources of the Universe are put toward your achievement of whatever it is that you've set in motion. In other words, there is nothing that you cannot be, or do, or have. If this time-space reality has the ability to inspire that desire within you, this time-space reality has the ability to deliver it. And Source, who is in alignment immediately, not only with what you just said but with everything you've been projecting...oh, what a magnificent array of creations are awaiting your alignment.

That alignment is what we call the art of allowing. It's bringing yourself into vibrational alignment with what you have projected and Source is agreeing with, that is in your vibrational escrow. And the better you feel the more in vibrational alignment with it you are. And the worse you feel the more out of alignment with it you are.

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And you can tell by the way you feel what you are systematically moving toward. It's wonderful that you live in an environment with this glorious buffer of time. It's so nice that your thoughts do not instantly manifest. There would be much more for you to deal with than you really want to. It's such a lovely thing that you have this buffer of time which means 99.9999% of everything is complete vibrationally before you begin to see the evidence of it.

So what happens is often you are well along your path to whatever it is you are wanting. But because you are not taking score based upon the way you feel -- you often are taking score based upon what you see manifested -- many times you are well along the way, nearly on the brink of a manifestation -- but as you stop and take score and see that it has not yet come, then your vibration comes to one that is reflected by disappointment. And then you are moving in the opposite direction.

[Abraham gave the analogy of Jerry and Esther driving from Phoenix to San Diego. They don't get discouraged in Yuma because they are not in San Diego. They don't turn around and go back to Phoenix because this physical journey is clear to them.]

But sometimes we see you in a body that has been given a label of sickness, finding some optimism or some hope, and moving well along your way to full recovery because there is nothing that you cannot be, or do, or have. But because the manifestation is not evident yet and because it's not showing up on the doctor's scans or tests, your assumption is that you are not on your way to recovery. And when you get the remarks from the doctor regarding the test you freak out and turn around and go back to Phoenix.

We see you struggling in not enough money -- finding a vibration just out of sheer willpower or desire -- doing a pretty good job of lining up with it, and we see your financial future turning around. We see you moving steadily toward the increase in dollars that you want. And then something happens that causes you to look abruptly at what is and you find yourself focused upon the lack or opposite of what you want. And the disappointment or worry or even anger surges within you to indicate that you've lost your vibrational bead on your vibrational frequency and you are turned around and are going back to Phoenix.

emotional guidance system described

On the end of the scale that feels so wonderful to you is your perception of freedom. It's your perception of empowerment. And the reason that we say that to you is because your freedom or your ability to be free is really not in question. You are so free that you can choose bondage. But if you are not aware, it is your perception of freedom that is important. Because you are the one projecting thought.

So on the good feeling end of the scale is your perception of freedom. On the not so good feeling end of the scale is your perception of disempowerment or not freedom. And as you understand that basis then you understand that as you improve your place on the emotional scale you feel a feeling of relief, because each time you move even the slightest bit on the emotional scale the subsequent feeling to you is one of releasing resistance. And releasing resistance always feels like relief.

So there is allowing on the good end of the scale. Resisting on the not good end of the scale.

When we say we want you to make peace with where you are we really mean that because it doesn't matter where you are on the emotional scale in relation to where anyone else is on the emotional scale. The only thing that matters is your vibrational relativity. In other words, you are the one that has been living the life that has been letting the Universe know what it is you are wanting relative to every subject imaginable. And you are the one living your life right now, thinking the thoughts, having the conversations, beating the drum and, here is the key word, activating the vibration within you that is either matching that or not matching that.

And so as you are paying attention to the way you feel, you can get a very good sense in time of how well you are doing in bringing yourself into vibrational compliance with what you have already established over there in your vibrational escrow.

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When you want more money or you want an improved bodily condition or when you want a relationship that just knocks your socks off and you're just standing in the middle of a conversation with yourself or someone else and you're complaining about not enough money or something about your body or something about your relationship, that negative emotion that you feel that you may call fear or you may call worry or you may call anger -- that negative emotion that you feel is your Magellan that is saying, "Please return to the highlighted route."

Abraham-Hicks, Alaskan Cruise 2005, Disc 1

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Chief Joseph: The Quiet Senator

2007-06-14T10:01:00.000-04:00

Wyoming’s senior US Senator, Craig Thomas, died last week after a brief illness. The June 13th Sentinels of the Sky newsletter by John Cali and Chief Joseph is a tribute to Senator Thomas, an honest politician who made a big difference in the lives around him.

John writes: He was a good, decent man always doing what he believed was right, despite being in a high-profile profession where the temptations are too much for many weaker souls. He represented his beloved Wyoming and its people fairly and competently for many years. And the people loved him for it.

John and Chief Joseph's article about Senator Thomas is moving and inspiring, and in it Chief Joseph offers these words of encouragement for all of us:

....you can still make a huge difference in the world around you. Simply by being true to yourselves and your principles, you will make a difference.

People will be drawn to you. They will resonate with your energy and be touched by your words -- even by your physical presence without any words.

You probably won’t ever make a newspaper headline or reach tens of thousands of others. But you will make a positive difference in the lives of those immediately around you.

And those immediately around you will, in turn, make a difference in the lives of those around them. And so on -- it’s the "ripple effect" we’ve spoken of before.

You, one person standing alone in the steadfastness of your own truth, can ultimately touch your whole world. You may never know the results. But you can be sure your life has mattered.

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Since 1992, John Cali has been communicating with a non-physical entity called Joseph. In one of his many physical lifetimes, this spirit was incarnated as the legendary Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe in what is now the state of Oregon in the northwestern USA. These messages are a blend of information from Joseph, other spirits in the "Joseph group," and John.

John can be reached by email at john@greatwesternpublishing.org or through their website (http://www.greatwesternpublishing.org).

Private readings with Chief Joseph are available here: http://www.greatwesternpublishing.org/readings.html
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The Quiet Senator Copyright © 2007 by John Cali. All rights reserved. Quotes posted with permission of John Cali.

The light you shine inspires others

2007-06-13T18:04:00.000-04:00

I ran across a card sent years ago from a friend -- a sweet note about their visit to Boston Harbor and whale watching. On the front of the card is a picture of the boats in the harbor and this quote by John Augustus Shedd:

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

~John A. Shedd, Salt from my Attic, 1928

I really enjoyed the quote and Googled it for more information. I saw that it has inspired and motivated bloggers and businessmen to take the risk to live their lives more fully.

The entry for John Shedd's quote in Wikiquote is short: In 1928 he wrote "Salt from My Attic" whose 500 copies were made on aurelian paper, privately printed for John A. Shedd...distributed in the month of August 1928.

Privately printed, perhaps for his own pleasure and for his friends, and yet his influence is timeless and touches me today.

You just never know where the light you shine will reach.

Drumming Circle for Children in Iraq, June 25, Washington, DC

2007-06-12T20:12:00.000-04:00

Jean Campbell was the Director of Poseidia Institute in Virginia Beach when I lived there in the late 70's and early 80's. Her work was based on The Natural of Personal Reality, a Seth book by Jane Roberts. and I explored reality creation with Jean during psychic development classes and dream research experiments.

Jean continued her work on dreaming and after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in the United States, invited dreamers to join together to dream the world toward peace. The World Dreams Peace Bridge was born.

I recently heard from Jean, who sent me information about a drumming circle to raise funds for children in Iraq. Instead of walking for charity, participants will drum for peace in Washington, DC. If you have a friend or know a group that is interested in dreamwork or would like to know how they can help, please give them this information.

Jean's email to me is an invitation to all of us to join in dreaming for peace and to contribute to this worthy cause:

As you may know, I have decided to participate with many others, especially children, in the world's largest drumming circle Monday, June 25th on the National Mall, Washington, D.C. We are gathering at the World Children's Festival to make a joyful noise, asking for PEACE for the future. Those of us participating in the 1,000 Drums Campaign are raising money to aid Iraqi children who have been traumatized by four years of war. Many of us will gather on the Mall in Washington, but we will also be joined by groups of people drumming globally.

Did you know that over 50% of all Iraqis are children under the age of 18?

According to an October 2006 survey by the Iraqi Ministry of Health, cited in USA Today, about 70% of the primary school students in many Baghdad neighborhoods suffer symptoms of trauma-related stress?. Each day these children pass by bodies lying in the street as they make their way to school. Each day more children lose parents, brothers and sisters. The wounds children suffer last long after war. We'd like to help as many children as possible.

Since 2004, the Word Dreams Peace Bridge, sponsor of the 1,000 Drums Campaign, has provided over $40,000 in direct aide to Iraqi children through its Aid for Traumatized Children Project. This money has paid for therapeutic tools that help children heal from the loss and trauma of war. One hundred percent of funds raised by this group are transferred to schools and other projects working with children traumatized by war, chaos and violence.

I am eager to get started with my fundraising and I need your support! I have pledged to raise money for the 1,000 Drums Campaign. As part of my participation, I am asking friends and families to contribute a few cents for every drum beat I sound during Drum Dance and Dream for Peace I plan on making at least 1,000 drum beats. A penny donated for each drumbeat raises $10. My personal goal is to be sponsored at $1,000 per drum beat!

Will you donate a few cents per drumbeat?

It is faster and easier than ever to support this great cause. You can make a donation online by simply clicking on the link at the bottom of this message. It will take you to a secure site where you can safely use PayPal to make a donation by credit or debit card. Donations made by check can be mailed to the address below. Whatever you can give will help! I truly appreciate your support.

Thank you for your support; you really do make a difference.

Jean Campbell for

The World Dreams Peace Bridge

Drum, Dance and Dream for Peace, June 25, 2007

To Contribute Online:

http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/aidforchildren.htm

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I experience my choices as threads weaving my life

2007-06-08T17:17:00.000-04:00

I've always had more things I was interested in experiencing and learning about than there are hours in the day. Sometimes I make lists. Sometimes I don't. I have lots of ways to manage the feelings of overwhelment and frustration that I experience from so many desires and more and more I'm "dropping the oars" as Abe says, getting in the flow, and allowing the Universe to take care of the details.

Today was a list making day and I put so much on it that I knew I wouldn't get it all done. I just used it as a way to focus so that was ok. I like to change what I'm doing: alternating chores with working on my computer is refreshing to my body and alternating various writing and research activities refreshes my mind. My desire right now is to create ways to bring in money that I really love and I started to be concerned that I wasn't focusing exclusively on a big project to follow it through to the end.

I've had some experiences lately where I would start into a new area of spiritual interest and all of a sudden could see the footsteps of the path that I had been on that led me there. Sometimes over a period of forty years! Interests that I had in college in the late 60's, picked up in a different way in the 70's, explored in another way in the 80's. It felt to me like time was wrapping around and touching in all of those places and now they came together in the understanding I had been seeking.

I've been thinking about success lately and what it means to me. The work ethic of my family and the community that I grew up in was that you work hard, have a plan, and when you do "it" right, you are successful. Everything else was pretty fluffy.

Sometimes I do focus on one thing and don't want anything at all to distract me, but today my concern was about choosing to have a buffet of actions to select from instead of making one of them a major focus and seeing it to completion (and therefore to be successful). I had a powerful realization though: that I am weaving a whole cloth. If I look closely at these actions I'm taking and pull them out of context I can see a thread that is a flash fiction story or a thread that is dishes being done, but if I stand back and really look, I can see that I am weaving my life -- that's the whole cloth. That's the experience I've been having lately when I get this flash of all of the connected activities from the past that led to what I was doing in that moment.

The greater part of our creating goes on at a spiritual and energetic level that we aren't aware of and surfaces almost fully formed into the physical world. That's when we take action. I don't have to manage that creative process with my intellect, as a matter of fact I slow it down and resist it when I try to manage it because the energy of creating is so fast.

I know there are great mysteries in the impulses that come to me. Gifts that are given that I didn't even realized I'd asked for. There is an exquisite timing of events, some which I was so unhappy about at the time and thought I had failed -- thought I had made bad choices. But what has happened is that I see where I made the best choice I could at the time because I was stepping out into unknown territory and not only that, it was a footstep on a path that has led me to success, achieving understanding or getting something I desired, but always it was an experience of my Self.

We are actually masters at living our lives. We are the only one that knows what will make us happy. We are the one that feels the rhythm of life that flows through us. We are the choosers and the experiencers.

There is a lot of information available now about the Law of Attraction and getting what we desire. And that is great. It's wonderful. It's fun. But it's not all about getting what we desire. The more we live our life the way that we enjoy, the more powerful we are because we are in alignment with our own true, loving Self.

Chief Joseph: Your natural state of freedom

2007-06-06T23:43:00.000-04:00

Once you are able to see the beauty and the power within yourselves, and all your brothers and sisters, it won’t matter that you are all different from every other human. You will see the differences as gifts -- unique gifts you offer to one another. And you will see the oneness you are, despite the differences.

You will see those differences as not something to fight about -- to abuse, kill, and otherwise separate yourselves from each other.

You will simply allow others to be who they are. And you will not allow who others are to determine who you are. You will let go of your need to have everyone see life as you do. You will let go of your need to have everyone be the same as you.

Once you can do that, you will be utterly and completely free. And when enough of you can do that, humanity will return to its natural state of freedom.

.... You’re free because you’ve allowed all others to be free.

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Quote by permission of my friend, John Cali. Go here for the complete article by John Cali and Chief Joseph.

Since 1992, John Cali has been communicating with a non-physical entity called Joseph. In one of his many physical lifetimes, this spirit was incarnated as the legendary Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe in what is now the state of Oregon in the northwestern USA. These messages are a blend of information from Joseph, other spirits in the "Joseph group," and John.

John can be reached by email at john@greatwesternpublishing.org or through their website (http://www.greatwesternpublishing.org).

Private readings with Chief Joseph are available here: http://www.greatwesternpublishing.org/readings.html

Copyright © 2007 by John Cali. All rights reserved. Quote published with permission of John Cali.

Life is a magical journey

2007-06-04T15:07:00.000-04:00

You don't live in one world. You share a dimension and are individually creating in as many separate worlds as there are beings.

Abraham-Hicks, A New Beginning II, Jerry & Esther Hicks, P. 236

In April I had an experience, a moment, when I knew that everything I could see was me. I felt very powerful. I knew everything I saw was love and that there was nothing to fear. This moment has flowed through every part of my life changing and rearranging my relationship to myself, others, and the world.

It was not that I felt connected to everything, it was that everything was me. Everything. I still feel amazed when I think of it.

And in case you are reading this and are having a "hey, wait a minute I'm an individual in my own right" experience...yes, that's true and what I said was true also. I experienced that we each create our own Universe, even though we play together in this dimension we share.

In that moment in April, the words Mage and Magician came to my mind and I knew that there were civilizations before where others knew the laws of the Universe and used them -- sometimes whole cultures, sometimes individuals.

The process of transformation now seems very organic. My desired feeling experience is flowing through me without effort on my part. I may think my way into well-being, but I don't have to. I can just ask and let it go. I have so much more energy. I can ask about something like wanting to change my eating habits and it's easy to do. It just happens. I'm enjoying life more and more and that's what it's all about. It's a magical experience of life.

Wishing you many blessings, unexpected delights, and a bit of magic on your journey today.

Abraham-Hicks quotes copyright Abraham-Hicks Publications.

Inspired Action for Day 4: Your Challenge to the Universe

2007-06-04T14:18:00.000-04:00

A few days ago I posted information about Elyse Hope Killoran's June Prosperity Play your way to Prosperity Experiment. Many are offering information about setting intentions and goals. What I really liked about her day 4 exercise is that the examples she uses ask for the feeling states and awareness often needed to allow prosperity. It's a different way to think about asking than just saying, "I want $500 by June 5." It also reminds me of how much I received from her teleclasses and coaching because it's a technique that I use often.

Inspired Action for Day 4: Your Challenge to the Universe

The important thing is that you let the Universe know (loud and clear) that you are 'asking' -- and then you commit to become very open and very alert as you prepare to 'receive'.

Here is an example of what you might write:

Dear ____________ (Universe, God, Goddess, Higher Self - use your favorite term)

~ I want to believe that I can affect the prosperity that shows up in my life.
~ I want to experience that prosperity can come from unexpected sources.
~ I want to believe that good things can come to me through 'play' and 'flow' rather than only through hard work.
~ I want evidence that there is a practical strategy around creating prosperity that provides tangible results.
~ I want evidence that the idea of 'creating prosperity from the inside-out' is not just wishful thinking.
~I am asking for observable and quantifiable proof that I can attract more prosperity within the next four weeks.

I am open to this prosperity arriving and taking the form of:

~ unexpected money coming into my life this month
~ unexpected gifts coming my way this month
~ clear inspiration leading me to new opportunities
~ a feeling of relief from fear, stress, sadness or discomfort
~ .....

I am ready for a breakthrough. I am ready to see things in a different way.

And so it is! / Amen / Namaste

Name ________________________
Date _________________________________

Now, as stated before, the form that this 'challenge' takes is not important. Bringing yourself into full alignment with the challenge is key.

Hoping that all of you enjoy the wonder of this day.

With love and light,

Elyse Hope Killoran
Prosperity Guide
Facilitator of the Prosperity Partnership Program
http://www.choosingprosperity.com/PPPdesc.htm

I have to laugh at her descriptions of how prosperity arrives unexpectedly. In 2003, two or three days after I first spoke to her, I found a $100 bill on the sidewalk -- unexpected and playful indeed.

The program is free and there is a community of like-minded, shining souls sharing their experiences and energy through blogging and other activities. There is wonderful energy here for you with Elyse at Choosing Prosperity.

Abraham-Hicks: Befriending our body and our relationship with food

2007-06-02T15:23:00.000-04:00

What is the perfect food? We would say there is not one, other than water. We encourage lots of that for all of you. Drink as much water as you can get into your body, and then eat anything else that feels good to you.

We would, for a little while, step away from the subject of food altogether in terms of trying to make anything happen. And we'd get as happy as we can relative to other aspects of our life, until we could feel that our cork is floating mostly about most things. And then we would say, “I'm going to befriend my body. I'm going to become a friend with my body. I'm going to make my body my friend.”

That is so essential: making your body your friend. Most of you are afraid of your body. Your body feels like something that might trick you. It might get run over, or it might make the wrong decision, or it might die too early, or it might get a disease in it, or it might do something, after all, it has all kinds of mysteries. You can't look into your body. You can't see metabolism. You can't see what’s happening with the cells. You don't really understand your body. And your body frightens you in most cases.

We would like to help you to know that your body is oh, so well meaning. Your body is so well orchestrated. You see, your body is trillions of cells that are vibrationally interacting with Source Energy. And if left to their own without a lot of static in your vibration, your body would only thrive.

In other words, the basis of your body is one of true and utter thriving. It has no reason to frighten you. It is the greatest evidence of Well-being that exists anywhere in your physical experience. It is an extraordinary mechanism that’s come together from great deliberate intent from so many Non-Physical and physical creators.

And every one of you who stands in your body, continues to enhance the experience of the physical body. This is an evolution of a species that is extraordinary. Your bodies are not to be feared. Your bodies are to be revered. Your bodies are to be applauded. Your bodies are to be maybe even amazed at. But they are never to be feared.

Your bodies are not vulnerable. They’re not fragile. They are resilient. They are flexible. You have the ability to come into alignment again and again and again, and if anyone in the Universe understands that, it’s the cells of your body.

Befriending your body is the only way we know of coming to understand that your body is resilient and that it knows what to do, and that it will be whatever you ask it to be. But you have to ask it to be that in a place of nonresistance. It’s the most significant information that we have ever expressed relative to your physical body and food. You must love your body, and then lovingly give it the food. And when you love your body and lovingly give it the food, it matters not what food you give it.

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Abraham-Hicks quotes copyright by Abraham-Hicks Publications. For more information visit http://www.abraham-hicks.com/

Elyse Hope Killoran - Play your way to prosperity experiment, June 2007

2007-06-01T21:28:00.000-04:00

Seven years ago Elyse Hope Killoran made a commitment to live her life by the science of deliberate creation offered by Abraham-Hicks. I am so grateful she did because she created the Choosing Prosperity program which changed my life.

I first spoke to Elyse in September 2003 and signed up for personal coaching and her prosperity teleclass sessions. Elyse draws on a wide range of information and teachings about prosperity and creating our reality, but the Abraham-Hicks material she included resonated deeply with me. I knew it was just what I was looking for.

Elyse is fun, inspiring, loving, and full of light. I can't say enough good things about her and the community that is created by those participating in this program. If you are interested in abundance in every area of your life then I suggest you try some of the free resources Elyse offers and see if this is for you.

Free resources

Free June 2007 "Play your way to prosperity experiment"

-- emails and blog posts to keep you on track with your intentions
-- invitations to attend live teleconferences and to listen to audio recordings
-- program and product discounts
-- daily play of the online Prosperity Game

Elyse's intention for the prosperity experiment: Together we're going to shift our individual energies - once and for all - so that we have the ability to generate more prosperity across the planet. Sent off to you accompanied by an abundance of love and light, Elyse Hope Killoran.

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Prayer Gathering for Yellowstone Lake July 7, 2007

2007-05-30T19:20:00.000-04:00

My friend John Cali has posted information about a prayer gathering for Yellowstone Lake, July 7, 2007. Here's John:

Yellowstone National Park is one of the USA's natural treasures. I'm blessed to be able to live at its doorstep. Although it's certainly not as pristine as it was years ago, it's still one of the most beautiful places on earth, in my (admittedly biased) opinion.

My good friend, Julie Sirovetz, plans to hold a prayer gathering in Yellowstone in July. Here's her invitation to all who'd like to attend:

On July 7, 2007 (7-7-07) a group will gather on the shores of Yellowstone Lake to honor and offer prayers for this magnificent body of water.

You may be aware that Yellowstone National Park is a Volcanic "Hot Spot" and that Yellowstone Lake has a massive pressure dome building underneath her waters.

I believe that the Earth is our Mother, and that we are co-creators with God. Therefore the power generated by our good intentions is not only felt within the earth but required in the ongoing process of our existence and elevation on this planet.

I invite anyone who feels a deep calling in your heart to take part in this important earth-work on this very powerful day to contact me for more information.

I send you many blessings of peace.

Julia in Montana, USA

Please email sirovetz@gmail.com, or you may call (406) 222-4451 (Montana in the USA's mountain time zone)

John can be reached by email at john@greatwesternpublishing.org or through their website http://www.greatwesternpublishing.org.

Copyright 2007 by John Cali. All rights reserved.

Chief Joseph: Who you are

2007-05-30T18:34:00.000-04:00

Chief Joseph

Most of you here today are on a conscious, deliberate path of personal and spiritual growth. You want your lives to matter. You want to be able to reach out and uplift others. You have undoubtedly asked yourselves who you are. And why you are here.

Your modern world seems crazy, chaotic, senseless much of the time. There is so much turmoil, disaster, destruction, and despair. And you often seen no purpose or sense in any of it.

But there is always a purpose to even the most senseless of human acts and experiences. And it will ultimately all make sense. Do you know why?

Because you are here. That’s why.

Even in this so-called "new age," there are relatively few humans who are really awake. Many more are waking up, and eventually all will awaken. But right now, you are a minority, albeit a growing and powerful one.

Whether you can see this clearly or not, there is a reason you are here -- there is a purpose to your physical presence on the planet at this time.

That reason, that purpose is because you are who you are. And because you are now remembering who you are.

Those of you who find yourselves often reaching for, yearning for the meaning of life are the very ones humanity has been waiting for over the eons.

You -- the reaching, yearning ones -- are the vanguard of what will be a truly new age. In your reaching, in your yearning, you are finally remembering who you are.

You are the gods and goddesses who have come to help your sisters and brothers, your planet -- and other planets -- to move forward on their paths. And to evolve into lives of higher vibration, lives of greater joy, lives of greater awareness of what it means to be God.

For you are all God/Goddess. God is always speaking and acting through you. And when you trust and know you are God, you will have come back home again.

You will hear the voice of God, always and in all ways, in the sound of your own voice.

Chief Joseph Newsletter: Sentinels of the Sky, Conversations with Chief Joseph & John Cali, May 30, 2007.

The loving words of Chief Joseph are channeled by John Cali. Visit their web site for more articles, information about readings, or to sign up for this newsletter at http://www.greatwesternpublishing.org.

Copyright 2006-2007 by Great Western Publishing -- All rights reserved. Quote published by permission of John Cali.

Abraham-Hicks on how we influence others and my experience with a cord cutting technique

2007-05-29T23:26:00.000-04:00

Nobody can get inside your head and make you think. Sometimes it feels like it, because they're clamoring in your face so loud with whatever they're saying. But you have the ability, if it is your desire, to feel good. You have the ability to withdraw from whatever thought is bothering you, get off to yourself, and reclaim your connection to Source Energy. And that is the freedom that you are looking for.

You have the ability to look here where there is not resistance. Jesus said, to turn the other cheek, and that's exactly what he was talking about. Resist not evil. Turn the other cheek -- and achieve vibrational harmony with that which feels better.

All of you have access to Source Energy! It is always within you, always radiating through you. Sometimes you are providing a shadow that doesn't let it shine, more than others, and sometimes you are letting it shine fully. But the more you are letting the fullness of who you are radiate through you, the better you feel about everything -- and the more you are contributing to the whole of things. However, in any case, you cannot get it wrong!

Abraham-Hicks, Phoenix, AZ -- 3/21/99 and Silver Springs, MD--4/11/99

I wrote about a physical decluttering I went through in April and it paved the way for a mental decluttering. I've been reading Abraham-Hicks for over three years now and have changed my thinking quite a bit. But what has come up for me in the last few weeks are old conversations from my childhood up to fairly recent times -- conversations that never were cleared, but just hung around like a 60's polyester dress in the back of the closet.

I would find myself having arguments in my own mind with the speakers, aware that it was more than slightly ridiculous to be having these conversations from years ago. At this point it's just me resisting me and didn't feel good. I attempted quite a few techniques to clear my thoughts, including talking to some of the people involved, and that didn't feel good either. I felt stuck. Ok, then. This morning I was just plain ready to let the memories and thoughts go. I'd had it. No working on them. Just get them out the door and on their way.

I was drawn to several things, including looking at a blog that was new to me, mysticalgraffiti.com by David Wechsler. David's May 21st post described a cord cutting exercise to release negative feelings and it appealed to me. I had learned a similar technique in the 70's and 80's when I lived in Virginia Beach, but haven't used it for many years. This morning I changed from thinking my way to well-being and energetic techniques like EFT to moving my arms, visualizing, and speaking my intentions while in the shower. I used David's exercise this morning to cut the cords of my negative thinking about conversations and experiences that had happened with others in the past.

I appreciated the cord cutting exercise this morning because it was physically expressed and it can be powerful to change modalities. Give it a try by writing affirmations with your non-dominant hand or make a song and dance of them. Write a play of a dream and have friends act it out. What a difference that can make if you are in the "audience" watching your dream. Something new engages our attention and allows us to "turn the other cheek" to well-being.

My day has gotten better and better. Thank you, David, for the light that you are and for each of you who touch others lives in ways you may never know. Just know that you do.

I had three quotes that wanted to be included together in a post. I didn't intend to write anything myself, just post the quotes, but I discovered I had something to say. I started to delete the last two quotes because they didn't seem to fit with what I had written, but they insisted on being put back in this post. So, here they are. More wonderful, inspiring, loving words by Abraham-Hicks:

You are a very powerful influence. Any of you are. When you understand that well-being is the basis of your life and you begin looking for the positive aspects in everything you focus upon and you have people around you who are living life experiences and they become your object of attention and so you are observing them from your place of connection, from your place of positive expectation, they get swept up in some of that current of well-being. And unless they are really resistant to it which almost no one is really resistant to it, then they benefit from their exposure to you who knows this stuff. That's what upliftment really is. In other words, when you feel well being and nothing freaks you out, and you know that everything is all right no matter what and you see someone in trouble and you feel humorous about it, its much better for them than if you feel tragic about it. The better you feel, the better everyone around you benefits and the greater the benefit to those around you.

Abraham-Hicks

You are powerful beings in your influence as you are connected, and it is important to realize that -- you see, when you are praying on behalf of another, what you are really doing if you are in alignment with Source Energy is you are saying, "Source, I would like to use my vortex to focus well-being toward the fulfillment of what this being truly desires".

And so if this person has absolutely made a decision that they are no longer wanting to be in this physical experience, if their decision is they are wanting to make their transition, no amount of your focusing could alter that, because you can not step on their creative toes. So what you are doing is acting as a catalyst or adding focused energy towards the fulfillment of what they are wanting.

Abraham-Hicks

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Abraham-Hicks quotes copyright by Abraham-Hicks Publications. For more information visit http://www.abraham-hicks.com/

Purse blessing

2007-05-28T19:07:00.000-04:00

I ran across a purse blessing from Unity, it's on a small card meant to be carried in a purse or billfold. I can remember similar sayings from many years ago not only blessing the supply and receiving for self, but blessing those that will receive abundance from me. I'm used to the more modern terminology of Abraham-Hicks and this blessing has a quaint quality that I like. And I like the reminder that money flows through us in a stream of well-being for others.

Purse Blessing

Divine love blesses this purse and keeps it abundantly filled. It is open both to give and to receive in perfect proportion and divine order.

The substance in this purse is blessed for its true use. The owner expresses wisdom, love, and good judgment in handling this money.

All those whose hands this money passes through are enriched and blessed with wisdom, love, and good judgment.

And I would add this Abraham-Hicks thought: All is well.

Abraham-Hicks: Appreciation about money

2007-05-27T09:38:00.000-04:00

I'm doing very well in my life. I'm happy to be in this body. I'm glad I came. I like life on planet earth at this time. I'm appreciative of the environment in which I live. I like the abundance that surrounds me. I like the platform of well-being from which I get to choose. I'm sorting all of this out. I'm realizing that there’s not a rightness or a wrongness in having money or not having money, it’s just a preference that people are aligning with or not. And I like coming into vibrational alignment with my preferences about money.

What is it about having money that I like? I like the freedom that it allows me. I like the context of choices that it provides. I like the arenas that it opens to me. I like the feeling of expansiveness that it gives me. I like having all of those choices. And I adore the idea of having the flexibility to be and do and have more of those things.

I love this planet. I love the idea of exploring it. I love tasting the finest aspects of it and I love getting to choose what those are. I love this benevolent universe. I can feel that my source is calling me toward this abundance. And I can feel when I go, and I can feel when I don't. And all of that’s alright. It’s not wrong to have dollars or right to have dollars. It just feels one way to align with my own desires, and it feels another way not to align with my own desires. It’s only about that.

I'm not making a statement to the world about what they should do about dollars. I'm not condemning people who have them, or critizing people that don't have them. This is only about ME and my gap relative to this subject. And I can feel that my life has caused me to put some things in vibrational escrow that I've been holding myself apart from. But now I know what I'm doing. And things are coming in. And I'm getting the hang of this and I'm doing rather well at it. And I can feel the influx of energy. I can feel that my stream is calling and I can feel that I'm more willingly going with it. And I can feel that on many subjects I've let go of the oars. I can feel that I'm coming into alignment. I have seen the evidence of my improved vibration in many different aspects of my life. I have seen the improved vibration of my being in the aspect of money in my life. I know I'm understanding this. And I think I'm making too much of all of this. I'm happy that I understand it. I'm going to look for more reasons to feel good. And I'm going to enjoy watching the abundance flow to me.

I'm hoping to see more evidence of the abundance flowing, and I'm believing that I will. In fact I have already seen some of it. This is going to be fun. Nothing’s gone wrong here. Everything’s right on track. I'm doing just fine. I'm happy where I am. I'm pleased with what I know. I'm happy to apply what I know. I can't get it wrong. I never get it done. Isn't life fun?! Don't you love money?! Don't you love money flowing?! Isn't this a wonderful world?!

[Audience bursts into joyful, enthusiastic applause!]

Abraham-Hicks, San Francisco, CA, 2-24-07A

In this quote, Abraham is demonstrating how to think our way into the good feelings of alignment with money. They call it a rampage of appreciation. This technique can be used for anything that we desire or just for feeling good. Abraham has said that appreciation is the closest energy to Source.

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Abraham-Hicks quotes copyright by Abraham-Hicks Publications. For more information visit http://www.abraham-hicks.com/

Chief Joseph: Vibrations of God

2007-05-26T08:21:00.000-04:00

John Cali

I clearly remember, as a young boy, being super-sensitive to other people and to situations. Often it caused me great pain and made me wonder what was "wrong" with me.

Many years ago, just as I was starting out on a conscious, deliberate spiritual path, I attended a "new age" seminar. The whole weekend, I was amazed by all the "secrets" I, as a little child, had suspected were true. But our Catholic faith forbid us to explore them. And my family, loving though they were, had no interest in talking about such matters.

So for many years, I was left to drift alone in a sea of doubts and fears. Finally I got the courage, as a young adult, to question the spiritual "truths" I’d been taught were "gospel" (literally). And I started a search for my truth -- a search which continues today, and will for as long as I choose to remain here.

One of the activities we did during the seminar was "muscle testing." I know this is familiar to many of you. And I also know it’s a controversial subject. If you do a search on Google, you’ll find about 280,000 links to the phrase "muscle testing."

For those of you not familiar with muscle testing, I’ll give you an example.

One form of muscle testing is taking something generally acknowledged as "bad" for you (e.g., alcohol or cigarettes) and holding it next to your heart. You extend your other arm out to your side, and have someone push down on the arm with only two fingers while you resist the downward pressure. Often, you are unable to resist the pressure and your arm will simply go down.

You can also do the opposite. Take something acknowledged as "good" for you. For example, an organic banana. Do the same test and you’ll often find you can resist the downward pressure.

The point of the exercise was everything has a unique vibration. Your body is sensitive to vibrations. Some vibrations weaken your body, and others strengthen it.

When I say "everything" has a vibration, I mean literally every thing vibrates in its own special way.

Your thoughts have a vibration. Your relationships have a vibration. Your physical bodies have a vibration. Your pets have a vibration. Your homes have a vibration. Your cars have a vibration. Your household plants have a vibration. Literally everything and everyone on the planet, and in the entire Universe, have a vibration.

Here’s Chief Joseph.

Chief Joseph

You live in a vibrational universe. Every thing that exists -- plant, animal, human, rock, etc. -- has its own unique vibration. Some of you, like John when he was younger (and like he still is), are particularly sensitive to vibrations.

Many more of you are now becoming so sensitive to the vibrations and energies coming into your planet today, you sometimes think you must be losing your minds. You may be wondering what’s wrong with you.

Friends, there is nothing wrong with you. Your increasing sensitivity is a very good thing. If you pay attention to it, you will find your powers of discernment increasing. You will more often find yourselves instinctively and instantly knowing all kinds of things you were never consciously aware of before.

Your tastes and preferences will change. And that applies to every aspect of your lives -- the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the relationships you have, the work you do, the places you live. And so on.

What’s happening here -- to repeat ourselves -- is a very good thing, even though you may sometimes feel frustrated and fearful.

A huge shift in the energy of your planet is happening right now. A similar shift is happening in every aspect of your lives, individually and collectively. These are shifts of historic proportions, like none other that have occurred in all of human history.

Consider these shifts great gifts from the Universe. As you become more sensitive to all the shifting vibrations -- and, more importantly, as you pay attention to how you feel -- you will find your lives becoming more joyful, more peaceful, more abundant. You will quickly know, when faced with changes and opportunities, what is good and right for you. And what is not.

Trust your feelings, your sensitivities. Remember everything has a vibration, as John said. Some vibrations will feel good to you. Some will not. Trust your own inner guidance, always and above all.

You live in exciting times. There has never been a better time to be physically alive on your planet. See these changing times as an exciting opportunity to fully remember who you are and why you are here.

Rejoice in the changes. Rejoice in yourselves. Appreciate yourselves more, as you come to the full realization of your divinity. You are God. A playful God. Your higher selves know that.

Have fun. Play more. Love more. Life is not serious. It’s supposed to be fun!

All the changes you’re experiencing are designed to bring you closer and closer to home, to the home within you. Back to your own heart. Back to where you came from -- to God.

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Since 1992, John Cali has been communicating with a non-physical entity called Joseph. In one of his many physical lifetimes, this spirit was incarnated as the legendary Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe in what is now the state of Oregon in the northwestern USA. These messages are a blend of information from Joseph, other spirits in the "Joseph group," and John.

John can be reached by email for readings or comments at john@greatwesternpublishing.org or through their website http://www.greatwesternpublishing.org.
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Copyright © 2007 by John Cali. All rights reserved. Chief Joseph Newsletter: Sentinels of the Sky Conversations with Chief Joseph & John Cali, May 16, 2007. Article posted with permission by John Cali.

Being in alignment is being who you truly are. And Abraham-Hicks on creating a joyful journey.

2007-05-25T14:25:00.000-04:00

One time I woke up to see a non-physical being curled up right above me. I don't know if it was my Inner Being or some other non-physical friend or teacher, but I remember that positive, joy-filled, wise, aware look on it's face (as well as a moment of happy surprise to be looking into my eyes). Whenever I think of the energy I am wanting to align with, I remember that experience. I was thinking how I could offer it to you and I would say to look into the eyes of a very young and happy baby.

That open, trusting, eager self who looks back at you from that baby's eyes is who I think we really are. We are non-physical beings having a physical experience. So, when Abraham talks about vibration and alignment and getting happy, that is what I feel they mean: allowing myself to come home to that positive, open, wise, accepting part of me. Since it is the truth of who we all are, there is assistance and power that comes naturally from being our true selves because we are literally joining with the Energy that creates worlds! Those urges to act and passions and interests we all have is this wonderful Self wanting to express itself. The more we come into alignment with our true self, the more we are using our strength for us instead of going against it. That is flowing energy.

When you read the Abe quotes below, think of vibration and alignment as being your true self and see how the quotes sound to you. The Law of Attraction is a given, just like gravity is in our earth experience. We don't have to make ourselves stick to the floor, it happens naturally. We also don't have to reel in our desires or work at them, unless it gives us joy to do so. The Universe and the Law of Attraction takes care of bringing it to us. Being a hammock-on-the-beach type of reality creationist, I just love how much fun Abe encourages us to have with all of this. Enough of me though, here's Abe:

We will state the law of creation in simple terms here: want it, and allow it to be -- and it is. Perhaps even a better term than "want," would be, "intend," for in the intending, there is wanting, certainly, and also an expectation for the receiving. "Intend" is a broader, more inclusive word. We will restate the Law of creation: Intend it, and allow it -- and it is.

Abraham-Hicks, From the book: A New Beginning I

"Truth or Untruth, you say TRUTH.
Feel Good or Feel Bad, you say FEEL GOOD.
Feel Good or Truth, you say 'eechkiiiieeeeeaieiiiikkkkkkk...
I want to say FEEL GOOD but what I really mean is truth because I have been commanded & demanded & encouraged and programmed to face reality,' and we say *BUT YOU LEARNED TO FACE REALITY BEFORE YOU KNEW YOU WERE CREATING REALITY!*

"Now that's worth thinking about! You were taught to face reality before you knew you were creating reality and now you know you're creating reality -- You don't want to face reality unless it's a reality you want to create.

"And so, you say -- and we want to make that distinction between reality and virtual reality: Virtual Reality is the pure one. Reality is MANGLED with historical things that do not please you."

Abraham-Hicks, Albany, NY, 10/1/02

The Universe is not responding to your reality. The Universe is responding to your perception of your reality and so when you deliberately take an emotional journey you offer a vibration that causes Law Of Attraction to respond to you differently.

See how it works?

It is our desire to help you to identify how you are doing emotionally or vibrationally because if you can improve the way you feel just a little bit your whole point of attraction shifts.

Abraham-Hicks, Kansas City, KS, 9/14/05

The entire Universe is responding to you based upon the way you are flowing your energy. And NOTHING is affecting your experience other than the way you are spewing your energy. It is not someone else, it is not outside circumstances, it is nothing but the way you are flowing your energy.

Abraham-Hicks, 7/24/93

We want to speak about freedom: This is a Vibrational Universe. The only Source that flows is the Source of Well-Being. And, physical and Non-physical, we are all free to allow that Well-Being to flow to us and through us, or we can pinch it off. It is our call--every time...

Abraham-Hicks, 2/28/04-B

The more in vibrational sync you are with who you really are, then the more you are allowing only those things that you're wanting, and the less resistance there is. And the less resistance there is, then the less delay between the idea of the thought and the receiving of it.

Abraham-Hicks, 12/1/01

The only thing that makes the difference in the way you feel right now is the thought that you are thinking right now. It doesn't matter how much money you've got; there are joyful people with no money, and there are unhappy people with lots of money. How you feel is about how you are allowing the Source that is You to flow. So when we talk about the Art of Allowing, we're talking about the art of living; about the art of thriving; about the art of clarity. We're talking about the art of being who you really are.

Abraham-Hicks, 7/20/02

There is no reason to worry about your thoughts, for they are not like a loaded gun that wreak powerful and instantaneous destruction. For you have plenty of time - as soon as you become aware of negative feelings - to begin to choose other less-resistant thoughts and choose a more desired outcome.

Abraham-Hicks

At the heart of every condition is a vibrational pattern -- a rather minor tweaking of vibrational patterning (sort of like the hub of a wheel) can affect tremendously out there on the peripheral of this big wheel... A little bit of tweaking on the emotion can make big differences in the way the physical manifestation occurs.

Abraham-Hicks, 1-29-05

We want you to utilize the enormous Nonphysical staff more efficiently. We want you to recognize that it is there for you, and we want you to make your statements of desire, make your demands to the Universe, from a place of absolute knowing that you deserve it and that it is there for you. Most of you have not been making demands because in your humility you do not think you should. We’re not trying to guide you towards mansions or toward opulence. We’re not trying to guide you toward anything except knowledge that the Stream is there for you to do with it whatever you choose, you see.

Abraham-Hicks

You have been oriented that you must pay a price in order to get somewhere, and in the process, you've come to believe that getting there must be really important, therefore, it must be your purpose. And we say, but if you're not getting to joy, then you've gotten nowhere. Joy is really where you're going.

Abraham-Hicks, 12/13/03

People will say, "Well, I have to work on my goals," or, "I have to work on my visualization." And we want you to think more about holding the vision because it is pleasurable to hold the vision, not because you're trying to make the vision work in order to get to some place that you're not now standing. "How much should I work?" We would say, work in the sense of joyously moving forward.

Abraham-Hicks, 8/13/01

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.

Abraham-Hicks, 4/19/97

The more you find something to appreciate, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do it. The more you do it, the better it feels. The better it feels...the more you want to do it! The Law of Attraction assists with the powerful momentum of these positive thoughts and feelings until, with very little time and effort, you will find your heart singing in your joyous alignment with who you really are! And, in this wonderful-feeling vibration where no resistance exists, you will be in an exaggerated state of ALLOWING -- you will be in the vibrational state where the things that you desire can flow easily into your experience. The better it gets, the better it gets!

Abraham-Hicks, Ask and It Is Given, pp. 143-144

Daydream for the pleasure of doing it -- not to get whatever it is that you are wanting, but just for the deliciousness of watching how far your imagination can go, to what heights and joys you are capable of. Do this every day, in as many moments as you remember to do it, and you will be amazed at how quickly your life and your perceptions of your life will change. Dream for the deliciousness of dreaming.

Abraham-Hicks, Rye, NY, 1997

Once you envision something and the Universal forces come into play to help you in the creation of it, there's never again going to be enough action for you to keep up with it. You can't use the Energy that creates worlds to create a situation and then find the action to keep up with it. You have to keep envisioning. You have to keep imagining it better.

Abraham-Hicks, G-10/12/97, Rye, NY

Let the rockets soar! And let it not matter that there is a rocket born that I have not yet achieved because I cannot help but achieve it. If I can contemplate it, if I can imagine it, then the Universe surely can deliver it to me. I could not imagine something that could not be.

Let it be. Let me relax and let …it …be.

You summon with the clarity of desire. And, we say to you, just relax and trust. That if you can want it, the Universe has yielded it and now its time for you to just relax. Not watching for evidence but trusting that the evidence will show up everywhere you turn ... and it is our promise to you, that it will.

Abraham-Hicks, Boston, MA, 10/05/02

You have no responsibility to struggle. None whatsoever....

If tomorrow everybody could focus upon what makes them lock on to the signal, everything that they have ever wanted would flow to them without any justification.

And now we say to you the most important part of that: not one other has to figure that out in order for you to begin your thriving. Just you.

Abraham-Hicks, Boulder, CO, 6/2/01

There are endless paths that lead to Source. And it is the connection to Source that is ultimately sought after by all.

Abraham-Hicks,12/9/00-B

Let more of your moments be about things that interest you.
Let more of your moments be about things that feel good while you are focused on them.
Let more of your moments be about things that make your heart sing.
Or things that taste good, or things that look good, or things that smell good.

Just relax more of the time!

Be the selfishly oriented GENIUS that you were born to be and insist that you feel good more of the time.

And it is our promise to you that blessings beyond anything that you have lived will flow into your experience...AND FAST! There is great love here for you. We are complete.

Abraham-Hicks, Boston, 5/15/04

All quotes copyright Abraham-Hicks Publications. www.abraham-hicks.com/

Movie Wisdom

2007-05-13T13:23:00.000-04:00

We are who we are. Even if we sometimes forget.

K, Men in Black II

Abraham-Hicks: We create by what we think, whether it's real or imagined.

2007-05-12T19:08:00.000-04:00

Whenever I think something in the physical world is real or when I have thoughts about family, politicians, or what any other "they" might be thinking, I remind myself of this Abe quote:

The Universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it.

Abraham-Hicks, Napa, CA, 2/27/97

If I'm thinking something that doesn't feel good about myself, the world, or people, this quote is a really helpful reminder for me to change my thinking.

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Abraham-Hicks speaking to the mother of a beautiful baby girl

2007-05-12T17:18:00.001-04:00

GUEST: People here know that you have helped me create my beautiful baby girl who is the most joyful, sparkling thing I have ever seen in my life. Now if you could take it a step further and tell me everything you know about how to treat her at this stage in her life, or remind me of everything that I know.

ABRAHAM: Treat her as if she knows. Honor her ability to choose, and trust that, in time, she will learn how to choose. Teach her, through the clarity of your example, which means, you cannot teach her connection unless you are connected. Do your dominant interacting with her when you are feeling your very best, and any time you don't feel that good, make yourself scarce from her.

When she asks questions, applaud every one of them, and if you don't have the answer, still applaud her question. And let her know, early on, that the knowledge that she seeks, and the good that is natural to her, will come from all kinds of places, not only through you. Encourage her independence from you, as quickly as you can, so that she can discover the thrill of creating on her own.

Fill her with words of encouragement. If you find a moment of dissatisfaction with her, swallow it. Do not speak it. But let the desire that is born out of that, roll across your mind in the night. Develop it fully until you have visualized a full picture of what you know she is wanting, relative to any subject. And once you have come to feel familiar about that, then begin to express it to her.

When you speak to her, always speak what you feel. If you don't feel good, don't speak. If you are always speaking what you feel and you are only speaking when you feel good, what you are doing is always opening a vortex that connects with the Energy and always flooding it into the relationship that you are having.

If, as she grows, she finds something that displeases you, and you feel that it is your job to correct her, and you do, and you feel the negative emotion that is within you, know that, in this moment of teaching your child, your Inner Being is not there with you. Come to trust the way you feel, and express to your little one only in your times of connection. There is plenty of contrast out there for her. And in doing this, what you will teach her is what it is like to be with someone who is, for the most part, connected to Core Energy. You will give her an up close example of how well the Universe responds to someone who's in vibrational harmony with Source.

It is not your job to protect her or guard her from anything, because there is nothing to be protected from unless you make it part of your consciousness. As she grows and begins to interact with others, there will be plenty who will be offering that information to her, and when that begins to occur, do not push against it. Do not feel that her connection is fragile. It isn't. She can get back to it easily. Impart to her: Her connection, that she is living fully now, and that you are learning or relearning and living much of the time, is not a fragile thing. You don't have to protect anyone from anything. Mostly, just get happy and stay there.

GUEST: I'm so busy because I'm working full time and I'm a single parent, and everything's going very nicely. I used to take three or four hours before I'd get those 17 seconds going. But when I did it, it was great, and it obviously worked. Now I may have five minutes. She's crying. Or something's going on. I know that I can do this. I'm just not real snappy at it yet.

ABRAHAM: Well, you get better and better at it. But here's a very strong statement to chew on for a while: Your child would benefit more from your full schedule, where there are all kinds of things that you are focusing on, that are drawing Energy through you, than if you had long leisurely afternoons with not a thought in your head, only to bask and pamper yourself and her, because what she benefits most from is the Energy that flows. And so, the busier you are, the more things you have to think about, the more decisions you're making in every day, the more Life Force is flowing through you.

GUEST: So it's okay? I don't have to worry as long as I'm appreciating, because I feel like I need to create for two now, because she's such a little sweet thing.

ABRAHAM: Well, in truth, she is the more dominant Creator now, because in her freshness and newness, there is pure desire that flows through her. And so, you are sort of swept up into the vortex of that Well-being. The most important thing that we are wanting to impart to you is: Your child is not fragile, and it is not your job to protect her from anything. It is your job to appreciate her, to appreciate all things, to let life flow through you, to live your life and let her live hers. She is very little and it's hard to imagine it, at this point, but these are the things that she would want us to tell you. What she wants you to know is, it's going to be a great life, and it's going to be more fun all the time. And that, every day, nearly so, there will be a new experience and that there will be no ending to the unfolding of it. And for you to stand in your now and try to anticipate that would be utterly overwhelming.

GUEST: So, I don't have to plan?

ABRAHAM: You don't have to plan anything. All you're wanting to do is focus. Stand where you are in your fresh wanting, offer it to the Universe, and let the Universe respond. Give her an opportunity to see a Deliberate Creator fully involved in one's life. Your connection with her was set into motion by the intentions you put forth before her birth. She understands you. She understands all of this. She will not be a child that you will have a difficult time explaining these things to. She already understands. In fact, it will be second nature to her, and by the time she is ready to communicate, and by the time she is old enough that she's really wanting to get off on her own, you will have figured it out. And she's counting on that. The conversations we have with her go like, "Abraham, by the time I'm really ready to get out there and roll, is my mom going to understand that all is well, enough, that she's going to let me do it?"

Abraham-Hicks, 08/02/98
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The loving, positive truths of Abraham-Hicks and Unity

2007-05-09T19:11:00.000-04:00

There are so many loving, positive people offering workshops, retreats and information about creating the reality we desire. It's getting better and better! I wanted to share information about some that I've had personal experience with.

I have always found the writings, services, and prayers of Unity church to be positive and loving and they have always fit right in with my concepts of reality creation, especially Abraham-Hicks.

Abraham-Hicks

You have your hand on the switch. You are the allower or the resister. And your emotions tell you which you're doing right now. It's easy once you understand the formula: When you feel good, you're allowing good. When you don't feel good, you are not allowing good. We didn't say, when you feel good you are allowing good, and when you feel bad you are allowing bad (although it may translate into your experience in that way). There is only a Source of Well-being---which you are allowing or not. Abraham-Hicks, 7/20/02

So as you are focused on something right now, an idea or something that you are looking right at, and you feel wonderful as you give it your attention, that means that right here and now you, and all of you, in other words, you and the Source that is you, is having this moment in time. You are literally the eyes and ears and nose and fingertips...you are literally the taste buds for that which you call God. You are Source Energy in physical embodiment and when you feel good you are allowing all that you believe is God to flow through you in your powerful now. Abraham-Hicks, Ashland, OR, 7/19/03

...Well, in the sense that Nonphysical Energy flows forth to all of you, and you are all part of that source of Nonphysical Energy that is flowing, and in the sense that as you are here as physical catalysts to inspire one another to appreciate, which connects you with that same Energy of which you all are -- you are all related in the sense that you are all one. Different perspectives and projections of one.... Abraham-Hicks, Houston, TX, 01-23-94

You cannot be separated from that which you are calling God...People hear us say, "Reach for the thought that feels the best." And they think, "Oh no, I need to listen to what God wants." But aren't we talking about the same thing? Abraham-Hicks, 9-18-04

You are the creator of all that occurs in all of your life experience.You create your physical life experience through your thoughts. Literally, every thought that you think gives birth to a creation. Abraham-Hicks, 2/12/94

Wikipedia lists the five basic principles of Unity:

1. God is the source and creator of all. There is no other enduring power. God is good and present everywhere.
2. We are spiritual beings, created in God’s image. The spirit of God lives within each person; therefore, all people are inherently good.
3. We create our life experiences through our way of thinking.
4. There is power in affirmative prayer, which we believe increases our connection to God.
5. Knowledge of these spiritual principles is not enough. We must live them.

As thinking is believed to affect our reality, positive thinking is another important tenet in Unity. "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours" (Mark 11:22-24) is interpreted to mean that what one believes is what one receives, and that if one holds a belief that is not what one wants, one is, in effect, praying for what one does not want.

Unity is discussing the Law of Attraction and The Secret on their website.

I have called the Unity prayer line many times over the years. The person answering asked how they may pray with me and when I told them, it has been an amazing experience. The person I spoke to seemed to know the exact words I needed to hear right then. As I said, it is always positive and affirmative. They put my name in their prayer room and pray for 30 days and I've always appreciated knowing that Light-filled support was coming into my life. The Silent Unity prayer line is 1-800-669-7729 in the United States. International callers can check the Silent Unity website for the number to use.

When I lived in Virginia Beach in the 1980's I was a member of the Glad Helpers Prayer Group at the Association for Research and Enlightenment. We did energetic healing for people who were there, but also prayed for those who requested it. And I've done Reiki and energetic healing at other times in my life. It is one of those delightful experiences that feels as good to give as to receive so I'm very open to it and Unity prayer line is a treasured resource for me.

Myrtle and Charles Fillmore began Unity in the late 1880's. Myrtle studied spiritual healing in 1886 and healed herself of tuberculosis. Charles became interested and they went on to study new thought and create the Unity church. This commitment to healing continues today at Unity Village, Missouri, 1,400 plus-acres of sacred space for retreats, meditation, and prayer, where they are planning a holistic healing center.

Retreats are scheduled on spiritual transformation, unleashing your inner beauty, expanding your consciousness, intuition-developing your inner wisdom, creating the life of your dreams, celebrating your essential self (a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender retreat) and more. Visit www.spiritpathonline.org for more information.

For books, magazines, music, a virtual tour of Unity Village, a Unity church locator, screensavers, and more, visit http://www.unityworldhq.org/.

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Chief Joseph: Trust your feelings

2007-05-09T19:00:00.000-04:00

John Cali

How much do other people’s opinions of you matter? I have to occasionally remind myself there’s only one person’s opinion that matters. And that is my own.

The other day I saw a quote from Dale Carnegie I absolutely loved:

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Our wise and wonderful animal friends are often great role models for us, are they not?

Here’s Chief Joseph.

Chief Joseph

Animals certainly are great role models for you, as John said. They are also great teachers for you, especially if you observe them closely. They don’t know they are teachers, and they don’t care -- after all, your opinions of them do not matter. All that matters to them is that they live joyfully, uninhibitedly, doing what comes naturally.

They live out their lives’ purpose by simply following their instincts or, you might say, by following their hearts.

Most humans do not follow their hearts. They allow themselves to be guided by outer circumstances. In fact, many of you were taught, as little children, not to follow your hearts. Instead, you were told others’ opinions mattered more than your own.

And you carried that perspective with you from the innocence of childhood into the forgetfulness of adulthood.

As you grew in years and physical maturity, you forgot all the wisdom of your child self. And your "authority" became whatever other people’s opinions were. Those opinions were often embodied, and even formalized, in many different ways -- in your religions, governments, educational systems, and so on.

We are not saying religion, government, and schools are evil. We are saying, however, they generally do not encourage you to rely on and trust your only real authority -- you, your higher self.

You will never, ever find any higher or better or wiser guidance than your own inner voice.

The opinions of others do not matter. We are not saying you should never listen respectfully to others. But we are saying you should always take what they tell you with, as you say, "a grain of salt." Run their opinions through the "filter" of your own inner guidance.

Trust your feelings -- they are your clearest form of communication between you and your higher self, between you and God.

And then you will have released yourselves from the prison of other people’s opinions.

The loving words of Chief Joseph are channeled by John Cali. Visit John's web site for more articles, information about readings, or to sign up for his newsletter, Sentinels of the Sky at http://www.greatwesternpublishing.org

Copyright 2007 by Great Western Publishing -- All rights reserved. Article posted with permission of John Cali.

Abraham-Hicks: The secret behind the secret

2007-04-29T08:00:00.000-04:00

It's a wonderful thing that so much information about the Law of Attraction (LOA) is coming into general awareness through The Secret. I first attracted information about reality creation and LOA in the 70's when I lived in Virginia Beach, Seth's concepts, but it wasn't workable for me. The Abraham-Hicks information came to me about three years ago and their information about the spiritual connection in creating our reality and how our emotions guide us was just what I was looking for. I dove right into it and my life has changed totally -- it's worked wonderfully well for me. I love you, Abe!

I've known spiritual people who worked together and one might like Abraham and the other prefer some other source. The minute I read an Abe quote and looked at their web site I knew it was for me. And at an Abe workshop I sat next to a woman who said she knew when she heard a two minute segment of an Abe workshop.

Abraham says they have come in answer to those who are asking for their information. They are Law of Attraction in action so if their information feels right, you know it. If not Abraham, then there are many sources of information about how we create reality and the Law of Attraction. Everyone is attracting what they need at the perfect time.

I received a postcard about some new books and DVDs Abraham has about The Secret and the Law of Attraction and just wanted to post their words:

To call the Law of Attraction a secret is comparable to calling gravity a secret, as if you could keep its obvious results from being noticed. The secret they continue to hide, because of their fear of the response from the general public, is that nonphysical voices have once again, in your time, revealed with precise detail, your reason for being, your relationship with all that is--and the power of your own connection with Source.

By editing out the heart and basis of this message, they have omitted any means of your understanding the affect of the Law of Attraction in your life. Without an understanding of the relationship between you and the Source within you, you are without guidance. And so, the world that surrounds you often seems secretive and ridden with problems beyond your control.

I think other cultures have known and used the Law of Attraction long long ago. Maybe in the past we are aware of and perhaps farther back in the reaches of time. And, while not calling it by that name, writings for hundreds of years have used wording that we create according to the way we think. It's in the Bible and other spiritual works. It's not new, but the time has come in our society and in our time to understand how this loving Universe works and to claim our power to live our life as the loving, joy-filled, positive spiritual beings that we are.

Hay House publishes books by Doreen Virtue, Esther and Jerry Hicks for Abraham-Hicks, Louise Hay, Stuart Wilde, Shakti Gawain, Jane Roberts, Neale Donald Walsch and many, many others who speak about creating our lives in a positive way. They have good discounts on their books, DVDs, and other offerings.

If you are interested in Abraham-Hicks information at Hay House, do an author search on Hicks, Esther and Jerry. There is a 30% discount on the Abraham-Hicks DVDs, The Secret behind the Secret.

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Blending with the flow

2007-04-22T08:13:00.000-04:00

I had a week between projects which became two weeks when the start date was moved to tomorrow, April 23. Those two weeks seem like a year to me and I can see why the Universe gave me this time to transform and renew. I don't feel like the same person at all. This energetic transformation is going on with the earth and everyone on it at this time and this is my personal experience.

My energy level changed during these two weeks. One time the gas pedal stuck on my car and the engine was roaring. That's how I felt at times -- like I was about to come out of my skin and fly. I appreciated the new energy and told the Manager I wanted to feel comfortable with it and for it to come in smoother. It did.

This change showed up in my physical life as letting go of whatever was no longer needed, thoughts or things, so that the new stands free and clear. The new was already here amongst the old, more came in these two weeks, more is coming.

I decluttered with mad abandon. You've probably seen the movies of an animal who is digging a new den or hole in the earth. Their legs are planted in the earth, butt in the air, and the earth is flying out behind their powerfully digging arms. That was me sans fur. I was moving so fast when I first started that I was actually panting. I just have a few things left to wear in my closet and that's very ok with me. I'd rather have a few things I really like to wear than things that are useful, but not interesting. I went through paperwork and receipts. Everything was up for review and it was so satisfying to put the bags out for trash pickup.

I've been through the decluttering process many times before. I've moved six times in the last five years and each time there was a lot that I gave away or tossed. One time I gave away several boxes of stuff in my living room and I didn't even know what was in them. Moving really puts objects in perspective -- it takes time to pack and unpack them and costs money to move them. Do I really like it or need it? And I have to laugh because I've helped the process along by moving into smaller and smaller places.

There is outdated energy in books I've read before or ones that I bought and know I won't get to. Projects that weren't completed or never begun. An object kept because it was a gift or reminded me of someone, not because I liked it. Even pictures or art objects, clothes, books, or anything that might have been a source of pleasure at one time, but aren't any more. All these things are old energy -- and the fulfillment of someone else's desire when they are given away.

I've changed the way I eat. I wanted to support the new energy and also cook in a way that gives me more time for the things that I want to do. I'm using spices in a new way and, for now, seem to be cooking really delicious soups that I can reheat and add a side salad or vegetables to for quick meals. I see casseroles in my future. The foods I'm using now were there in my repertoire, but not put together in the same way. I notice I'm no longer interested in some foods at all anymore. When I eat now I have an immediate experience if the food supports my energy or if I feel tired or sluggish. I'm a hedonist and like feeling good so supporting this new energy becomes my pleasure. I notice I feel hungry more often, wanting smaller meals during the day rather than any meal being larger or more substantial than the others. I get involved with something ignoring hunger until I feel ravenous, the food satisfies my hunger quickly, and I go on to other things.

I'm not at all saying what I'm doing is "purer" or I've reached some kind of "stuff" Nirvana. I've been a vegetarian before and am not back to that now, although I can see I'm heading in that direction again. I'm having more fun with food. If I want chocolate ice cream, I get chocolate ice cream and enjoy every bit of it! When I eat that way I feel good afterwards no matter what I ate. And what kind of "stuff" do I really need? A plate, knife, fork, pan, place to sleep, a few clothes, and little more. I could declutter more. There's always old to let go of. Always more new coming in. I've had enough of it. Now on to other things.

I've found it's never, ever about the physical -- not even concerning my body. The physical world is where I play, including my body, but it's not where I live and have my being. So, decluttering and changing the way I eat is more about honoring the way I'm feeling and my desire to change my thinking than it is about things.

The changes in my thinking led me to decluttering and decluttering also supported changing my thinking. When I was deciding what to keep or where to move things I did want, I was able to clarify my desires for the new things I've been thinking about. I made space so that things I want to use are easier to get to. There was a very quick interplay between thinking of something I wanted to do or be and immediate ideas for things to get rid of or move. I noticed that when I got rid of some objects, the experience they evoked flooded and filled me. I let go of attaching a feeling to a thing. Even a small experience is powerful as I posted here. And what happened in these two weeks was that every area in my life shifted to a more comfortable, freer place.

I feel much lighter physically, mentally, and emotionally. I've always enjoyed the experience of communicating with non-physical whether it was with personalities of guides and teachers, my Inner Being, Christ, or the Loving Presence of Source Energy. I've been experiencing the "distance" between me and "them" as being less and less -- they have felt closer and less of a specific personality. I don't feel as much like I'm talking to an "other" anymore although I do still experience a loving, intelligent regard watching over and being present with me. I hope I always have that feeling of companionship.

The hard edges of resisting beliefs about who I am have dissolved in a very big way and I'm softening energetically. I might describe the sensation as blending with the flow. Whatever is happening, it feels very good and natural and right. Like coming home to who I really am.

There is a song from the movie You've Got Mail that started going through my mind a few days ago. I heard the tune, but could only remember one word, "Remember." I got the movie out yesterday and finally found it. It's the scene where Meg Ryan is having that gentle, fun breakup with her boyfriend. He tells her about someone he's interested in and asks her if she has someone. She says no, but there is the dream of someone. Then the song starts as she walks away, "Remember. Life isn't always what it seems. Remember. Dream. Dream. Dream." That song started to play in my mind as I was writing this. This song is such a lovely way to remind myself that what is important is the experience. That's what we are here for. And that dreams do come true. And then another. And another. For as long as we all shall live. Forever.

Chief Joseph: God Speaks

2007-04-18T14:43:00.000-04:00

John Cali

Some time back Chief Joseph and I did a private reading for someone going through a hugely challenging time in his life. We ordinarily get people coming to us with tough questions and issues. But this one was far beyond the realm I would call "ordinary."

The details are not important. But my reaction was. It was a wake-up call for me.

I’ve been channeling Chief Joseph almost 15 years now. And I think I’ve gotten pretty good at it. But there are still times when I question the whole process. And I wonder if I’m making it all up.

Shortly before we did that reading, I said to myself, "I wonder what in the hell Chief Joseph is going to say to this person." I had no idea whatsoever.

Immediately Joseph "popped in" and chided me (gently), "It’s not your job to figure out what in the hell we’re going to say. It’s your job just to be the messenger."

Joseph was simply repeating what they had said to me many times over the years -- go with the flow. You don’t have to figure it all out in advance. You don’t have to be able to analyze or articulate it. Just do it!

God speaks to us all. For me, through Chief Joseph. But also through a book, a movie, a friend, an animal. Or an angel. And always through our higher selves. Regardless of the messenger God uses, he/she speaks to us all, all the time.

Joseph told me something years ago I have never forgotten:

When you know, really know, in your heart and your gut God is with you always, and speaks to you always and in all ways, all you will hear is the sound of your own voice.

Here’s Chief Joseph.

Chief Joseph

Friends, you live in a world and in a time that often devalues the worth of the individual. You see this manifested in many ways. You need look no farther than the daily headlines of your mainstream news media.

But when you see this phenomenon expressed in such a shockingly tragic way as the events in Virginia two days ago, that really gets your attention. (Chief Joseph is referring to the mass murders at the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.)

Though it’s certainly a human tragedy of unimaginable proportions, it’s also a wake-up call for all of you on the planet today. As are all the other sad and tragic human events you see showcased in your news media nearly every day.

So what’s it all about?

Is the human race on a sure road to hell? Are you all lost? Is there no hope for you or your world?

The answer to all these questions is "No!" All is not lost. Although it sure seems like that at times, we know. But all is truly well, despite appearances.

When you listen to your own inner guidance, to your heart, such events cannot happen. They are impossible. But they do happen. Which means many of you are simply not paying attention to yourselves, to your inner guidance.

No one who is really tuned into his/her inner guidance, to the God/Goddess within, could ever do what that young man in Virginia did two days ago. It simply would not be possible.

Being in touch with yourselves -- in other words, with the God within -- puts you in a place of absolute joy and love. From that place of joy and love, it is not possible for you to reach out to others, to any living being, with anything but love and compassion.

You are all having "conversations with God," as the title of a recent movie reads. Where you get lost often is you do not consciously know you are always having a conversation with God. But if you are listening to your heart, if you are always taking care to do only what feels good to you -- in other words, if you are trusting yourself and your own wisdom and power -- then you are listening to God speak.

God speaks to you through your own voice, always and in all ways

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Since 1992, John Cali has been communicating with a non-physical entity called Joseph. In one of his many physical lifetimes, this spirit was incarnated as the legendary Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe in what is now the state of Oregon in the northwestern USA. These messages are a blend of information from Joseph, other spirits in the "Joseph group," and John.

John can be reached by email at john@greatwesternpublishing.org or through their website (http://www.greatwesternpublishing.org).

Copyright © 2007 by John Cali. All rights reserved. Article posted with permission of John Cali.

I'm ready to play

2007-04-18T10:17:00.000-04:00

Ok, I'm ready to play with in a new way with manifesting. I've been going for the feeling of connection and that has worked so well. I've had ecstatic experiences of connection with All That Is when the actions I took or the things that were manifested were very simple and day-to-day. And oh, that is so much fun! Just the pure experience of those wonderful feelings clearly in connection to Well-being and manifesting outward into the world.

I feel grounded in the awareness of my connection and am in the midst of another big shift that is happening rapidly this week. I realize my true energy is what it is and I haven't affected that at all, but it feels faster and freer now. I'm just allowing myself to experience it more freely with less resistance. Abraham advises that we turn our focus to what feels good at all times and the reason is that we align energetically with what we focus on. I appreciate the new connections with people I am making this week that match these good feelings of prosperity and creativity I'm enjoying. All along my path in this lifetime I have met beautiful souls to talk to, learn from, and share ideas with at every level of allowing I've had.

When I know that I live in the eternal Now and that the Universe answers my desires immediately, then I am always prosperous. If something I desire costs $3.99 and I have $4 in my pocket, I am prosperous. What is needed will be given. As far as connecting with well-being goes, this is one of those situations where size really doesn't matter. This wisdom is in many writings. For example, the Course in Miracles says there is no order of miracles and Abraham-Hicks states that it is as easy to manifest a castle as it is a button.

Well, I'm wanting to manifest castles now. I have these delicious desires to write and publish in a bigger way than I have. I love nature and there are many beautiful places I would like to explore and interesting critters to see. I want to nurture the earth that I appreciate so much -- clean up rivers, preserve and provide habitat for trees and animals. I want to play!!

And I'm ready.

The energy of writing and a surprise short short SHORT piece of purple prose

2007-04-17T19:57:00.001-04:00

Short short fiction can be a story of few words or a few thousand -- there are no rules. Roberta Allen advises us to follow our energy in her book, Fast Fiction. Her ideas mesh so well with the philosophy I love -- Abraham-Hicks and LOA. I was listening to an Abe CD recently where their advice to a writer was to write for enjoyment and let it attract the market rather than try to write for a market. These ideas are interesting and a lot more fun to explore than the traditional advice.

It is important to remember, especially in the beginning, that the words in an exercise are less important than the energy behind those words. Whenever you have energy, you have the seed of a story or novel, even it is only a phrase or a sentence that excites you. (p. 10)

As I think you realize by now, this book is about playing with possibilities so that ultimately you will make the right fictional choices for yourself, the ones that "feel" right. Energy, feeling, and the writing process are the key words in these pages. If you learn to follow your feelings and go where the energy is, you will learn a great deal about your writing process. When you know a great deal about that, you know a great deal about yourself.... (p. 12)

When I say there are no "real" rules, I mean that they are not carved in stone. I believe rules are made to be broken, but only after they are learned. There is a reason for them. They focus the mind.... So my advice would be to learn as much as you can first. Then go for it. Ultimately, what counts is whether your story or novel "works." How you got there is beside the point. Exactly what happened may never be known. You may not be able to follow your own trail twice. That's the way stories and novels are sometimes. They are words plus a little bit of magic. (p. 14)

A philosophy to live by in any creating!

Ok, and in the spirit of creating I'm going to also include a short short SHORT piece I posted for a Purple Prose contest at AbsoluteWrite (my favorite writing site). We were given a selected sentence and were to pick a genre and rewrite it in purple prose.

I selected this quote from The Old Man and the Sea and chose to rewrite it as a very flamboyant science fiction piece:

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. (The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway)

Journal Entry: Some on this planet say the river Styx exists only in mythology, but it runs...oh, yes, it runs...a dark, hellish, fishless stream of energy...winding its long and lonely course in the Stygian darkness of space (both sublime and ominous) to this cerulean, azure globe where the crabby, fussy, stubborn, wizened old man sits hunkered in his small, wooden boat beneath the searing rays of the luminous star lighting this planetary system. This star...spewing millions of protons and rays and stuff into space in violent bursts of radiation, and he, the crusty, ancient mariner of a man absorbing these rays into his very skin, nay even into his brain... dance again as the seemingly endless night oozes into the virulent, blinding day for the eighty-fourth time. Our note log indicates: No sandwiches. No drinking water. No Doritos. No soap. No toilet paper. No deodorant. Probably no underwear, but we really don't want to know. And, as we sit thoughtfully in our fifth dimensional observation post, we must add: No fish. No wonder.

(copyrights held by everyone noted, including me.)

Remembering some wise teachers: Stephen Levine, Shakti Gawain, and Mary Anderson

2007-04-17T14:12:00.000-04:00

I'm going through a full-fledged sorting and throwing out fest. I just found some quotes I'd kept from years ago from three truly beautiful souls: Stephen Levine, Shakti Gawain, and Mary Anderson. Just touching on something they wrote evokes peace in me and appreciation for their light which still shines:

Healing, like grace, can be somewhat disorienting in its early stages. It is a breaking through of the old to reveal the ever new. Healing, like grace, always takes us toward our true nature. Indeed, healing is not somewhere we are going, but a discovery of where we already are--a participation in the process unfolding moment to moment. Many of us pray for a miracle when all else has failed. We wish for grace to descend upon us. But grace comes from within. Grace arises when the work of healing is in process. A graceful healing into the spirit that goes beyond the need of definition or even words like "grace" or "karma" or "spirit." Though many of the people we worked with did not begin with a spiritual inclination, many uncovered their healing by taking on what some call spiritual practices toward the discovery of a deeper self. But we did notice that even those who had shied away from what they call "spiritual stuff" in the course of their daily confrontation with the impermanence of the body, cultivated a certain quality of heartfulness and peacefulness.

Stephen Levine, Healing into Life and Death

We each have an infinite supply of love and happiness within us. We have been accustomed to thinking we have to get something from the outside in order to be happy, but in truth it works the other way: we must learn to connect our inner source of happiness and satisfaction and flow it outward to share with others--not because it is virtuous to do so, but because it feels really good! Once we tune into it we just naturally want to share it because that is the essential nature of love, and we are all loving beings.

Shakti Gawain, Creative Visualization

A small boy, upon being asked how he would describe God, said simply, "I think of Him as Light." Looked at from the angle of color and its place in our lives, this is a very apt description, for all life is energy vibrating at a different rate. Each vibration has a corresponding color and all color rays emanate from the central source, the Great White Light or Logos as we are instructed by the Ancient Teachings. In fact, as with everything else in life, there is an outer form to be perceived by our senses and an inner or hidden meaning to be discovered.

Mary Anderson, Color Healing

I was aware that the decluttering I'm going through is part of a transformation I'm going through: out with the old to make space for the new, physically, mentally, and spiritually. But there is also an interplay between rearranging my physical environment and my thinking that feels like a graceful dance.

Some of it is obvious -- I have new things I want to do and I'm getting rid of old papers, books, clothes, projects, and stuff that no longer interests me -- rearranging my physical space so it's easier for new desires.

Some of it is understandable because of the work I've been doing with Abraham-Hicks -- as I see things I haven't touched or read or looked at for a long time, I've been thinking about family and my life -- gaining clarity about how I want things to be now.

Some of it is unexpected -- I'm also having an integrative and very loving experience with my past that has just come full-blown into my consciousness.

The awareness started this morning when I wrote a friend about how I viewed past romantic relationships. I explained that I had loved them so I didn't want to get rid of the love when they ended -- I just wanted to come to peace with how it had changed. And as I wrote that to her I could feel those relationships with the men I had loved as something inside me that had been woven into a path or a whole cloth. I could feel my appreciation of them and what they had given me and their appreciation of who I was and how they had loved me supporting who I am now.

I had this warm feeling of peace and love as I was entering the excerpts for this post. I was remembering the time when I read that information. I lived in Virginia Beach and was into psychic development, dreamwork, and healing in a big way. I went to workshops, met a lot of people, was in groups, did research, published a newsletter on dreamwork, learned a lot, and had a lot of fun.

Awhile ago I had a feeling of hardness inside me like a wall or block. I felt empty and was puzzled because I know I'm not empty. I touched on it and did the work that felt best: EFT, placematting, and giving it to the Presence and having a good talk about it -- then I forgot about it.

So, now I've been guided to these quotes and these warm and loving experiences of all of the good things in my life -- I'm filled to overflowing with them and they spill into my life now. I tossed the paper the quotes were on after I entered them and that felt really good, too. I'm getting rid of the stuff that doesn't matter and the warm, living experience flows through for me.

(Copyrights are held by the authors noted.)

Abraham-Hicks: How we are creators

2007-04-14T21:31:00.000-04:00

What "moving thought forward" is, is about being a nucleus that attracts different components of thought so that when they actualize around you -- it is different than it has ever been before!

As I stand in my focused, human, leading-edge experience, and I choose this combination of thoughts and feelings, I am offering a signal that has never been offered before. And so, the Universe must uniquely yield to me, which causes me to offer a vibration that maybe someone somewhere else is matching. If they are, they will certainly come into my experience for the time that we are matching it."That is the way you affect the world.

Most think in terms of thought affecting the world: You think about transmitting outward: "I'm going to affect the world from my outgoing signal." That isn't the way it works. You affect the world by achieving the vibration that brings the signals to you. You create a nucleus that the Universe has to respond around. That is how you are the creator.

Abraham-Hicks, Albuquerque, NM, 5/9/99
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The energy of well-being expressing in the physical world

2007-04-14T01:12:00.000-04:00

I have a post right below this one and this is the thinking I was doing that got me to that place. By the time I got to the end of this post I understood what I was talking about and had the realization that I posted below.

I was thinking about energy. Each blog we read, each mineral, tree, bird, car, piece of money...each thing we see, each sound we hear, all of it is energy that we are experiencing and our body is interpreting for us. Abraham is teaching us about our feelings and their function which is to let us know how we are thinking relative to those things we desire. Our inner being is communicating to us and our feelings are our interpretation of the communication. Another way to say it is that feelings are our interpretation of what we are thinking relative to what we have sent out before us in our desire and which is in turn calling to us by it's energy. We just have to match what we sent out!

And the trick is that we won't match it in the physical world platform that prompted us to have the desire. We match it in our thinking and draw it to us. It materializes which creates a new platform for us to shoot off rockets of desire.

The short cut for me is to remember that everything is well-being. So, if I am feeling anything but well-being it is simply that I am having a thought that is out of alignment with well-being (the truth of what is). I change my thinking and I change my feeling. It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with anything "outside" of me -- including my body. It only has to do with what I am thinking. And furthermore, "reality" will reflect my thoughts of well-being.

Waiting for circumstances to change so you can feel good is like looking in a mirror waiting for your reflection to smile first.

Bashar (copyright by Darryl Anka)

That's why Abraham is always talking about seeking things that feel good -- to taste, to see, to do, to read, to talk about, and to experience. Because we are always aligning with the energy of what we are perceiving.

However, another tricky part -- what we are perceiving is filtered through our beliefs. The energy of love is everywhere. It's the only thing that is real so if we are looking at something we have a choice of what we think. Our choice of thoughts is either allowing ourselves to interpret the energy of well-being or not. We don't change well-being or anything outside of us, just allow ourselves to see the truth of it or not and call it into expression.

This perceiving is so powerful! I think of Christ and the loaves and the fishes or the miracles of healing that happened in His presence because He saw the truth of well-being that is in all things.

It is standing in the physical experience as a spiritual being -- aware of non-physical Presence -- sensing the love in all things in the physical -- experiencing the body as a sender of desires that you receive as gifts and can taste and touch and see!!! That's what it's all about -- it is that absolute flowing of life force joyfully and without any restrictions.

You are extensions of [pure, positive] creative energy, and when you are not deliberately doing it [i.e., flowing the energy toward what you want], life is flat. Friends, this is not piddly little energy! This energy keeps your earth spinning in its orbit, in perfect proximity to other planets. We THINK it can help you be happy in your house!

Abraham-Hicks

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.

Abraham-Hicks, 4/19/97

You have your hand on the switch. You are the allower or the resister. And your emotions tell you which you're doing right now. It's easy once you understand the formula: When you feel good, you're allowing good. When you don't feel good, you are not allowing good. We didn't say, when you feel good you are allowing good, and when you feel bad you are allowing bad (although it may translate into your experience in that way). There is only a Source of Well-being---which you are allowing or not.

Abraham-Hicks, 7/20/02

The Universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it.

Abraham-Hicks G-2/27/97, Napa, CA

"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.

Abraham-Hicks, 8/19/00

You're picky about the car you drive, you're picky about what you wear, you're picky about what you put in your mouth. We want you to be pickier about what you think.

Abraham-Hicks, 2/27/97

There are endless paths that lead to Source. And it is the connection to Source that is ultimately sought after by all....appreciate their path. Appreciate it as their method of connecting with Source Energy. And we promise you, there is not one method that is better than the other.

Abraham-Hicks, 12/9/00-B

Once you start deliberately offering thought, then you can never offer enough action to keep up with the thought. Once you access the Energy that creates worlds, a huge vortex comes into place, and there's just not enough action for you to keep up with that. And so, what you have to do is visualize every step of the way, envision you happy in the process. Envision things in place, envision people catching on. Just envision it working. Skip over the how and the where and the when and the who -- and just stay focused upon the what and the why.

Abraham-Hicks, Monterey, CA -- G-3/14/00

It is not possible to earn anything. It is all vibrational.

Abraham-Hicks

What you're beginning to understand is that first of all --- all things are possible, everything that you can flow Energy toward, you vibrate with and you attract the physical tangible proof of it. Then you come to the place that you have really intended to be, you come to the place of saying --- What do I choose to give my attention to? What part of this immense spectrum of possible thought am I wanting to contribute to?

Abraham-Hicks (copyright Abraham-Hicks Publications)

Money is a gift from our loving Universe

2007-04-13T23:27:00.000-04:00

I was prompted to channel for myself this evening and with it received golden energy from non-physical into my heart and through my heart to my spine. I'm not sure if my body was physically moving or not, but it felt like a giant heart beat along my spine that eventually filled me and quieted. It seems that there is another shift coming soon for me and that's a good thing. This is just part of coming into attunement with my deepest desires. Feels like a biggee this time.

I'm rewriting this post because by the time I got to the end of it, I changed my alignment with my topic which was prosperity. I see the well-being in money now. I can feel the loving energy of money as a gift from our Father Mother God. "Go here. There's the most beautiful waterfall I want you to see." "This is for you to dress in ways that make you feel like the beautiful person you are." "Taste this delicious dish. And this one. And try this one!" "This is for you, dear one."

The nature of the Universe is abundance and we have full and free access to it. It is the non-physical energy of love and nothing can stop or hinder it in expression. Nothing.

I'm experiencing a whoosh of freeing relief like I've opened up a place that was cramped -- coming out a shoebox into a big wide Universe. And I could see so much abundance in my life before. Wonder what fun this will be to explore!

The better it gets the better it gets -- the process of fine-tuning

2007-04-13T10:15:00.000-04:00

I feel so good that even though uncomfortable thoughts are light, I still notice them and have the desire for better feeling thoughts. This process of fine-tuning is happening is such a gentle way now.

I know the Universe offers me one opportunity after another and that I am free to choose what feels good, but still had concerns about not doing the income tax preparation this week while I was between projects. Hanging onto the possibility of working for them was like keeping something in my house in case I "might need it some day." What was activated was an old pattern of thinking I needed to "be responsible" and not trusting my own feelings about what I wanted to do this week because that would be irresponsible (doing things just for fun and because I want to instead of working. Good heavens, what if everyone did that?!!! LOL)

As I was writing yesterday morning I was kind of mulling being responsible vs having fun and got the message that this is just a platform I am standing on and a place to make another choice. I felt relief at this answer to the old way of thinking. It's not a matter of being responsible vs being irresponsible. I was reminded that Abe is telling us we can always make another choice and that the Universe answers. That when we have fun, when we feel good, when we think thoughts that feel good, and make choices that we enjoy...all good things follow. My family was in turmoil when I was very small and I was such a responsible little kid -- kid stuff was being childish. Being responsible is certainly something I can do, but I love the support from the Universe for my hammock-on-the-beach reality creation. I would MUCH rather stand on a platform that feels good to shoot off my next desire! Universe bring me money in ways that are fun and feel good, please.

Now in this particular situation I was wanting to be responsible about money so I got immediate confirmation from the Universe that I made the right decision. I found out my rent is being readjusted and going to be lowered $50 a month starting in June! I had also been thinking I would like a new top and the same day got a $15 gift card in the mail from my favorite store.

All of these things I'm describing were just a few minutes of time, but fell into place in a couple of days. And there were other things happening like that all week, sometimes I would have a thought and within a few minutes get the answer or have something happen. It's a lot of fun when the manifestation happens so quickly and the more fun it is the quicker it happens and the quicker it happens the more fun it is and so on. This makes it even more fun to just have desires and anticipate them coming. Even things I've wanted for a long time are fun now. I know what held them back and I know I'll receive them. And I know the Universe will bring them in some playful, unexpected way. How many folks have their rent lowered?!!

And probably the best thing I've experienced is clarity on creative projects that I've been thinking I'd like to do. Manifestation is already starting to happen this week! I have ideas, they sound like fun, and then gosh gee whiz, I "stumble across" an Internet site that gives me new ideas. I have a thought about what I might want to have to start the project and a place where I could find the supplies comes into my head. I'm going there today and it's so much fun to see what is there for me.

I have fun getting things I desire, but the joy comes from the feeling of connection to a loving Presence, of being watched over and nurtured and loved for who I am. It feels so right to be oriented to that Energy -- the right way for me to live and a way to enjoy this physical experience that feels good all the time. I always have plenty when I know that whatever I need is supplied -- and it is!

The more you find something to appreciate, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do it. The more you do it, the better it feels. The better it feels...the more you want to do it! The Law of Attraction assists with the powerful momentum of these positive thoughts and feelings until, with very little time and effort, you will find your heart singing in your joyous alignment with who you really are! And, in this wonderful-feeling vibration where no resistance exists, you will be in an exaggerated state of ALLOWING -- you will be in the vibrational state where the things that you desire can flow easily into your experience. The better it gets, the better it gets!

Abraham-Hicks, ASK AND IT IS GIVEN, pp. 143-144 (copyright by Abraham-Hicks Publications)

Abraham-Hicks: It's all about how you feel when you eat it

2007-04-11T09:20:00.000-04:00

Guest: I'd like to know what to do when relief looks like too many chocolate chip cookies or too many games on the computer? Or, for some, pain pills or alcohol?

Abraham: If it keeps looking like relief, then you must be continuing to turn back the other way. We can see it looking like relief once or twice, but if it keeps happening, it means that it's relief, then you find an upstream thought, then it's relief, then you find an upstream thought.

But what's wrong with the chocolate chip cookies anyway?

Guest: Too many of them tends...

Abraham: But what causes you to call them "too many of them?"

You say, "I want to be slender, but I believe the cookie is the opposite of that." So I want this but I am doing that, so how does it really feel when I'm eating the cookie?

Now stay with this, you're really gonna like it.

So if I am reaching for the relief of aligning with my physical intention, then it would feel better for me to let the cookie go as long as I believe the cookie is in opposition to where I want to go. But often that is not the subject on the table. The subject on the table is "I'm frustrated out of my mind about this and this and THIS! Oh, that cookie looks like relief! I'm frightened about this. This cookie looks like relief."

As you begin to reach for relief, there is nothing wrong with reaching for the comfort in food. There's nothing wrong with that, but just don't let that be the only comfort you are reaching for. Reach for the comfort in thought.

Now imagine this really sophisticated chemical factory that has the ability to extract from everything that you give it necessary components. Your body's ability to digest breaks everything down into usable stuff. And the cells of your body then attract to themselves the parts of that usable stuff that they most need. Very raw description, but really an accurate description, too. So your chemical factory has the ability to effectively utilize what you are eating unless you are angry about it or frightened about it or guilty about it. If you don't make peace with the way you are eating, you make it harder for your chemical factory to utilize it. When
you love what you are eating...

That's the biggest thing that has gone wrong with diet in your culture today. You used to eat and like your food, and now you've made all food your enemy.

It's a really rare one of you who can eat anything and not find something in it that makes you believe you should not eat it. So it is really odd to find a human eating and taking pleasure from the food. Instead, you've got this love/hate relationship with food. You want it because the cells of your body are asking for it. You were born with this guidance that lets you know it is time to refuel. You have this cellular calling for the food, then you give it the food and before you have even swallowed it, you've set up a vibrational wall of resistance that makes it more difficult for your body to utilize the food.

That's why different people can eat the identical food and get different results from it. If it were as you think it is, by now or long ago, you should have been able to get a formula that works for everyone - This food means THIS and this food means THIS. This combination of food means this. You are leaving out the only factor that matters. And it's the resistance/allowing factor.

It isn't WHAT you eat, it's how you feel when you eat it.
It isn't WHAT you say, it's how you feel when you say it.
It isn't WHAT you do, it's how you feel when you do it.
It's ONLY how you feel.

Abraham-Hicks
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Thanks to True Nine for this quote posted on Dearer Still is Truth.

Abraham-Hicks: The window of opportunity is always open

2007-04-10T12:20:00.000-04:00

Abraham-Hicks: You don't have to be perfect to begin receiving your desires

2007-04-10T12:05:00.000-04:00

You don't have to be pure and perfect to begin to be the recipient of avalanches of evidence of well being. In other words, you just have to tip the scale a little bit in order for you to begin to receive the evidence of it. As you begin to tip the scale, you'll have some, what you will later call, "near-misses": Someone who initially looks pretty good will come in. And by closer scrutiny or exploration, you'll discover, "This isn't quite right," and you'll say, "Oh, Universe! You have foiled me again! (laughter) You have brought to me someone less than I want!"

And we say, Oh! It is just a near-miss! It is evidence that you're getting closer and closer. Don't you notice all of these things that were nearly right? And didn't the parts that weren't right help you to clarify more clearly what it is that you are wanting? And aren't you now sending off clearer signals about what you do want? And as you're reaching for thoughts that feel good, are you not aligning to these yet clearer signals about what you are wanting? And is your future not brighter? Is it not more assured of satisfying you when it comes? And aren't you willing to sort of cool your jets and relax a little bit, and wait for the perfect timing of the unfolding of this?

If you were sculpting clay -- and this is not different from that, except that you are using energy for focus, rather than your hands to focus -- if you were sculpting clay you would not expect to take that big clump of clay and create the perfect thing the first time! And we notice that the fun is in the sculpting. And so, sometimes you'll sculpt, and you'll sculpt, and you'll sculpt, and you'll sculpt . . . and finally it will come to something that you want. And if not you can pick up some more clay. But the thing about this sculpting of your life experience is that the clay never hardens; it stays soft and pliable, so you can keep making it into more and more and more and more and more and more pleasing things, you see.

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Abraham- Hicks: Procrastination

2007-04-10T10:19:00.000-04:00

I love how this works. I completed a project for one company Friday and could call and see if I am needed to do income tax preparation this week. I don't really want to work there, keep doing other things, and just ran across this quote.

Procrastination is nothing more than your physical realization that you are acting too soon - that some mental alignment is in order. So procrastination is not a bad thing. It is the realization that the Universe has not yet sufficiently aligned the Energy.

Abraham-Hicks, 2/8/91

When I listen closer, the internal pushing I feel is to call, and my foot dragging was thinking it was intuition that I should work for them. I feel OK about calling. If I don't want to go in at all then I can just say so. The money will come to me in other ways that are much more fun.

Yep, so I'll call. The feeling of procrastination was mild and in the background, but I don't need to feel even the mildest resistance. I've really been enjoying my day off yesterday and today and have gotten a lot done. I look forward to more fun this week before my next big project starts next Monday.

We're not wanting you to ever feel bad about feeling bad. Because we know that feeling bad is always a temporary state of being. Good is ultimately all that is. You say, "Why did I ever let it feel bad?" And we say, we've been wondering the same thing.

Abraham-Hicks, 11/23/02

I just love feeling good!

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Abraham-Hicks: You don't create with action

2007-04-10T10:16:00.000-04:00

You don't create with action. Action is how you enjoy what you've lined up with energy.

Abraham-Hicks

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Abraham-Hicks: Allowing the career you really want

2007-04-09T20:24:00.000-04:00

ABRAHAM: ....You're thinking there is a right or wrong action that I might take. And what we're telling you is it's not about a right or wrong action, it's about an allowing or disallowing vibration. So the action doesn't mean anything. We want to break that to you gently. The action is insignificant. It's the way you feel about the action....

It's like we were watching them wanting to help lovable cat. They call her LC for lovable cat. They're wanting to encourage her to go out the new cat door. And Jerry said it's like trying to put toothpaste back into the tube. When she wants to go out she is like a sleek little streak that goes right through it. But if she doesn't want to, she swells up and sticks everything out, there's no way you can force her through that little hole. And that seems to be the way so many of you are going about your creations. It's like you're so sure it's not going to work but you've got to take the action so you're just pushing yourself as hard as you can and getting no results at all.

Inspiration is where you dream it and then the inspiration makes it happen. Motivation is where you hope it or want it and then just try to shove yourself through the cat door from behind....

Certainly the music that flows through you is a talent but you have all kinds of talents. The thing that we think is messing you up is you are trying to call one talent favorable and one talent unfavorable. And what we are wanting you to understand is you are this magnificent perceiver that at any point in time can receive non physical energy to assist you in whatever you are creating.

In other words there is not one more virtuous than the other. You get to choose where the fulfillment is greatest for you. And we think there is part of that unworthiness and self judgment that we were talking about earlier is sort of mixed in with all of this.

We would have to talk long and hard in order to in one sitting convince you that it is alright for you to allow all of this success that your are wanting so much. We are offering it to you vibrationally. We are knowing it from every corner of the universe. There is not one reason that you should ever disallow any of that.

It must be the most joyful and pleasant continuing unfolding. You are not off track. You are not behind schedule. There is not an imbalance here. Nothing is imperfect about this. Everything is unfolding just right. Your desires have not been set aside too long. There is not somebody else that is keeping it from happening to you. It is yours if you want it. We can feel from the vibration of your being that you certainly do want it. There is not a reason for it not to occur.

Whether it occurs now or later doesn't really matter. The process is what it's all about anyway. The opportunity to have the desire and then allow the alignment of energy. The manifestation is going to be great but the energy flowing in the meantime is every bit as delicious you see?

Abraham-Hicks, 4-15-00

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May You Be Blessed - Virtual Therapy for the Soul

2007-04-09T08:05:00.000-04:00

I have something really, really lovely for you today --the May You Be Blessed movie by Mary Novak.

Just Imagine...

what would happen if everyone who views this movie — all the millions who have viewed it thus far, and all those who will view it in the future — if all of us spent just 24 hours blessing everyone and everything in our lives.

That much positive thought energy, wrapped in a blanket of love and sent forth in a genuine attitude of care and appreciation, could radically shift world-wide trends, changing not only what is happening in our world right now, but for decades to come.

http://www.mayyoubeblessedmovie.com/

There is an incredibly beautiful energy about this movie. As you view it, your appreciation gives to that energy which in turns gives to others that view it.

Be sure to wait after the movie for more information about Mary's vision to create a billion blessings in 1000 days through this movie and the inspiration that follows.

There are so many wonderful expressions of love happening now!

Quote above Copyright 2006 by Kate Nowak. All rights reserved.

The fairies of the Universe lay it all out in perfect timing

2007-04-08T09:59:00.000-04:00

My thinking and being in the world is still changing very quickly, but gently. One thing I have been noticing for several weeks is how elegant the timing of the Universe is.

There are several financial and legal situations which are being resolved right now. I had asked the Universe to take care of it for me and guide me and I can look back now and see how the pieces fell into place one after another to lead to this freeing moment. I felt distressed about some of them, but they all helped me become clear about what I wanted and to make a decision which led to resolution. It wasn't the way I had been thinking it would happen, but you know what? That doesn't matter! It's going incredibly smoothly and I feel such relief and so prosperous. I also feel more confident about my own judgment about the timing of things. What another person sees as procrastination, may actually be our own inner sense of right timing.

I've been seeing how this timing works in many big and small ways and have a feeling of relief. I don't have to control any part of what I desire. I don't have to think it into being or hold myself in a certain position. All I need to do is to relax and let what I want happen.

The more in vibrational sync you are with who you really are, then the more you are allowing only those things that you're wanting, and the less resistance there is. And the less resistance there is, then the less delay between the idea of the thought and the receiving of it.

Abraham-Hicks, 12/1/01

What Abe is describing above is what I think of as being in the flow. The Universe rolls out a red carpet in front of me as I walk through my day. I know there is an Abe quote where Abe says the fairies of the Universe go to work to lay everything out for us when we have a desire. And the timing is so that the experience is more delicious to us when we receive it.

There are those that enjoy the deliciousness of having a desire and molding it. They like to work it into shape. I'm the laying-in-a-hammock-on-a-beach type of reality creationist. I love knowing I don't have to do anything but love myself right now, just as I am. Eat foods I enjoy. Read books and look at movies that make me feel good. Talk to people I love. Do things that are fun. That's it in a nutshell.

Oh, I do things all the time. I make plans. I think about what I would like to have or do or what I want to have completed. I explore ideas. I work. I write. I clean my house. I file my taxes. I pay bills. I take care of paperwork. But I just love discovering more and more and more that I can choose to live in a happy state of being where it's all fun -- that I can flow through my day like riding on a raft on a beautiful river. There are lovely sights to see and wonderful things to experience at every turn. I ask for a clear space for me to merge into traffic on my way to work and there will be a huge clear area in heavy traffic. I want a boss I enjoy on this project and get the sweetest, smartest trainer I've had yet. I'm going to describe an experience I had that happened a couple of days ago that took...what... 10 or 15 minutes? And yet was such a magnificent answer to my desire.

I'm doing paperwork at my desk and notice I'm starting to feel a little bored or frustrated and have a desire for something interesting. We've just had a big rain storm and I stand up to stretch and look out the window and there is the most incredible sunset -- I just stand in awe. There is a flat, slate-blue cloud cover across the sky with an open area at the horizon where the sun is setting in billowing oranges, reds, and yellows that glow toward me. As I watch, the colors change to more intense reds and yellows, then fade to rose with mauve and lavender at the edges. The clouds above are lined with gold at times or lit on the underside with rose. A beautiful, unique, lovely moment that I was inspired to enjoy. The Universe knows I love nature and got me on my feet to see: look, look what I have for you! I think this answer is available to us so many moments of our day and when we trust and listen to our own desires, there is a gift for us. Trust yourself, for what you want is good.

It's not that we have to grab every moment or it's lost. There is another and another and another in an incredible display of abundance. The buffet is laid out fully for us all the time. It's up to us to choose what we want to taste and sample and enjoy.

I've had good feelings and the answer to my desires before but they were high moments among other feelings that didn't feel so good. This fine-tuning all through my day is new to me. Catching frustration or boredom right when it's happening, setting a new desire, and having it answered right then -- that's new for me. It's a smoother way to feel good all day long. I can adjust it exactly the way I want it right in the moment. Or just set an intention for a longer period of time. I can do whatever I want whenever I want!

I just love this reality creation stuff!

With much appreciation for Abraham, and Esther and Jerry Hicks for this wonderful information.

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Walking consciously into the reality I create

2007-03-28T20:09:00.000-04:00

This was some channeling that I did for myself yesterday, but while it was happening I was thinking that others might like this information and this thought was answered in the message. When I channel I don't always receive just words, sometimes there is also wordless understanding or a bigger picture and I'll add some comments about that after the message:

I am here for you, dear one. Have no doubt whatsoever that all that you ask for is given for it is. There is a blending going on now of all that you have created in Escrow and how you experience your reality. That is why things are coming so much faster. You are walking into and in your creation now. You always have, but now you are doing it consciously. But yes, it is this blending and merging of the non-physical and physical that you are experiencing as speeding things up. Give this information to all that you desire for this is the way it works in creating your reality. It is the merging of the conscious choices that you are becoming aware of where before it seemed like "not you" and "you," but the "you" part stood out as paranormal experiences, gifts from your guides, miracles of spirit. Now you know what you can do! Now you are really beginning to understand what this is all about. Now you can really play and have fun. There is more to the shift as it blends and you acclimatize to it, but all is going very, very well. Just know that all is well. It is yours now and forever more. All is well. We love you with an everlasting love. We are your brothers in spirit and in truth. We are the Brotherhood of the Fifth Dimension -- love expressed to you from our hearts to yours.

What they were saying is that at one time I viewed the physical world as "not me." I felt separate from it. And when something happened that I desired and identified as a gift from spirit it stood out and was a paranormal experience or seemed like a miracle.

Now I'm understanding that as I think I create -- so my day is a flow of delightful experiences. Traffic flows smoothly, I have huge clear merge spaces in heavy traffic getting across several lanes, yesterday I had the only open parking space in a crowded lot and on a big city street -- and the spaces were as close to where I was going as could be. Things are flowing into place legally, financially, and in other ways.

All of this flow is delightful because I know that love is everywhere and I experience it no matter where I am. The times when I forget and have thoughts that don't feel good stand out and I work to choose other thoughts. I ask for good feeling thoughts from the manager or whatever technique I'm drawn to.

I do have negative thoughts, but I remind myself that everything is love and I realize that I am feeling separate from myself. It helps me to remind myself that something I am holding myself apart from by negative thinking is really an expression of love. I don't have to choose that thought that didn't feel good. I remind myself that it doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't have to have a thing to do with so called "reality." It just matters that I feel good when I think it. We are creating our reality now by what we think and we can think anything we want!

This channeled information is for all of us and is about "coming into our own." We are loving beings and when we allow ourselves to love who we are, right now, and when we realize the blessing for us and everyone that we create when we have desires, we come into our own reality, our real life -- and our life comes around us like a warm hug.

Bill Paying Challenge with the Law of Attraction

2007-03-28T19:55:00.001-04:00

I found out about Abraham through Elyse Hope Killoran of the Prosperity Partnership Program and she holds a special place in my heart. Here is some news from her latest newsletter:

Challenge the law of attraction - from a place of sincere curiosity and a suspension of disbelief - and let the truth reveal itself to you.For the next month I'll encourage you to participate in a "Bill Paying Challenge." We'll be presenting one step in the paradigm shifting process each week throughout the month of April - which should be especially valuable for US citizens on and around April 15th - tax day. (If you want to get a head start, visit http://www.choosingprosperity.com/bill.htm )

Also, why not register for the next f'ree two week trial of the Prosperity Partnership Program which begins the week of 4/15.

~ John Assaraf (of 'The Secret') and I are among the speakers for the 2007 International Association of Career Coaches Telesummit. You can listen to an audio where IACC Founder Marcia Bench and I discuss how our professional lives have been shaped by 'The Secret' at http://www.iaccweb.org/telesummit2007/preview/ (There are loads of other bonuses on that page as well!)

Sent off to you with an abundance of love and light,

Elyse Hope Killoran

Prosperity Guide
Founder of the Prosperity Partnership

A Powerful Intentional Community Experience of Aligning Body, Mind, Emotions & Spirit to Awaken Prosperity Consciousnessin Every Area of Your Life!

© Copyright 2007 by Elyse Hope Killoran.

Oprah Meets Jerry, Esther and Abraham!

2007-03-28T19:46:00.000-04:00

Just got this email from Abraham-Hicks Publications:

Hi Everyone,

Tune-in to "Talk to Me" on XM Satellite Radio's "Oprah & Friends" channel (XM 156) to hear Jerry, Esther and Abraham's conversation with Oprah Winfrey.

Thursday, March 29th, Thursday April 5th, Thursday April 12th at : 4 A.M., 10 A.M., 4 P.M. , and 10 P.M.

**All Times listed are Eastern Time**

If you don't currently have an XM radio subscription, you can sign up for a free on-line trial at the link below. Follow the easy steps and you're on your way.

http://www.xmtrial.com/oprahlp_free/index.jsp

For more information, please visit: www.oprah.com/xm or www.xmradio.com/oprah

Our Love,
Jerry & Esther

©1997-2007 Abraham-Hicks Publications

Free Movie Tickets for movie based on Dan Millman's Way of the Peaceful Warrior

2007-03-28T19:30:00.000-04:00

FREE movie tickets! Opening weekend only March 30-April 1.

Request FREE movie tickets to Peaceful Warrior, the powerful movie starring Nick Nolte, Scott Mechlowicz and Amy Smart.

Peaceful Warrior is based on Dan Millman's perennially best-selling autobiographical novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. In the film, Scott Mechlowicz plays Dan, a talented-yet-arrogant college gymnast with Olympic dreams and a golden future. The athlete thinks he has it all: bookcases of trophies, endless friends, fast rides and disposable relationships. But all that is about to change.One day, Dan's world is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a mysterious stranger he comes to know as Socrates (Nick Nolte) — a man who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. After he suffers a debilitating injury, with the mystical help of Socrates and an elusive young woman named Joy (Amy Smart), Dan will grow to realize that strength of spirit is what leads a man to his true greatness.Limited quantities. Must be 13 or older.

Offer begins 3/18/07 and ends 4/1/07 or while supplies last. Limit 10 tickets per person. Close theater proximity to retail locations not guaranteed. Please check website for participating theaters. Not valid with any other offers.

© 2007 Universal Studios. All rights reserved.

I'm playing with how I interact with the world

2007-03-25T11:40:00.000-04:00

I'm watching What the Bleep do we Know!? which explores ideas about how reality is created and our part in it. One speaker talked about an experiment where the brain activity of subjects was monitored when they looked at an object and then when they closed their eyes and thought about it. The sections of the brain and activity were the same so then they wondered if we are living in a hologram where we create by our thoughts and our brains perceive the pattern outside of us that matches.

The Universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it.

Abraham-Hicks G-2/27/97, Napa, CA

One speaker talked about clipper ships coming to a island. The natives had never seen anything like the clipper ships and could not see them. It was a shaman who saw the pattern of the water disturbed and after watching for awhile was able to see the ships.

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.

Abraham-Hicks, 8/19/00

Abraham talks about choosing thoughts that feel good and looking for things that feel good to see, taste, and experience. Abe says that what we pay attention to grows in our experience. I think they are saying more than that. I think we actually create the world by our thoughts and what we pay attention to. And it's not that we have to go around "cleaning things up" to get rid of things we don't like. It is that the truth is that there is only a stream of well-being and when we see that and live that, we allow that love to manifest in "our" world -- everyone's world. It is up to them to see it or not. It's up to us to see it right now. To love the world just as we love ourselves.

We practice the Art of Allowing. Which means reaching for the thought that feels best, not the thought that is the real thought, not the thought that is telling it like it is. Telling it like it is only holds you where it is: "Damn it, I'm going to tell it like it is. I'm going to tell it like it is, because everybody wants me to tell it like it is." Tell it like it is if you like it like it is. But if you don't like it like it is, then don't tell it like it is -- tell it like you want it to be. If you tell it like you want it to be, long enough, you will begin to feel it like you want it to be, and when you feel it like you want it to be, it be's like you want it to be.

Abraham-Hicks, 9/30/00

It was enough for me before to deal with finding a way to feel good, but now I'm starting to explore reality creation in other ways. I've been intrigued by the ideas I've had that I create by what I see. What was my part in creating what I see? Just choosing or do I actually participate? When I seek to see what I appreciate in every thing and person then I support that love coming forward into expression there. I can say something so that someone else sees the positive aspects and that's one way I can create. But I've had some experiences that tell me it's more than that. I think we can make a stand for love. Someone near me has a very small dog which they leave out in their yard and it barks a lot -- sounds like one of those little dogs bred for emotional closeness to people. I've fussed about it in my mind, but this morning decided that unless I wanted to be upset every time I heard it I needed to find some way to feel better. Then the thoughts came: He or she has access to well-being. It is asking and the Universe is answering. Angels watch over it. I asked the U for a home for it where it would be appreciated and allowed the loving experience it desired. I went about my business and realized about five minutes later that it wasn't barking anymore. It started barking again a little later and I was realizing it was really ok and that it would be very nice if it had another little dog to play with. It's stopped barking again. Interesting.

What is your work? Is your work to fix a broken world? The world isn't broken, friends. It is an extraordinary, rather well-balanced arena of creating which contains enough contrast to stimulate your awareness of what is wanted. So, as you realize that it isn't broken and you realize that your work is to find your connection to the pure Energy that created it to begin with, your work is to allow the Energy to flow through you as you hold objects of attention -- then you are the extension of that creator....

In other words, you perceive of it, or conceive of it, you launch it, you give it birth, so to speak. Then it, in and of itself, begins to attract other things that are like it. Now you might continue to add to it and mold it and shape it, but it is pulsing and growing, in and of itself. Now as it gets large enough, it will reach back and inspire you to it. In other words, that's when you get this impulse or compulsion to take action.

Abraham-Hicks, St. Petersburg, FL, 03-13-94

And I agree, I don't think we create anything, even our bodies. That's the job of the Universe, Source Energy, God Goddess All That Is, Mother Father God, The Holy I AM. But what a thought it is that when I choose love for myself I choose it for the world. I make a stand for love. Whooee. Heady stuff.

We want you to utilize the enormous Nonphysical staff more efficiently. We want you to recognize that it is there for you, and we want you to make your statements of desire, make your demands to the Universe, from a place of absolute knowing that you deserve it and that it is there for you. Most of you have not been making demands because in your humility you do not think you should. We're not trying to guide you towards mansions or toward opulence. We're not trying to guide you toward anything except knowledge that the Stream is there for you to do with it whatever you choose, you see.

Abraham-Hicks

The reality creation material has always been about what we attract into our experience and how we do it. My thoughts on this are no different now that I am playing with the idea of the hologram and how I interact with the world I see. The way reality creation has worked for me has been Abraham's information about emotions and thoughts. And every part of consciousness -- every mineral, animal, planet, person, cell or expression of matter -- offers their desire to the Universe and it is answered. So, it's true that there is nothing to be fixed because there is only well-being. And it's just that I like the idea that while I am selfishly basking in the good feelings and experiences I attract, that I do have desires for what I see. I have the desire for animals and the earth to be loved and respected. And I can see that and support it -- not only in my action but my thoughts. I feel very empowered by these thoughts!

All-That-Is, or God, is not finished and waiting for you to catch up. You are the leading edge of thought, here seeking more: more of all that feels good to you, more of that which is fresh and gloriously uplifting. (You are, in essence, bringing heaven to earth.)

Abraham-Hicks, From Abraham-Hicks Daily Planning Calendar

Bringing heaven to earth -- I can line up with that!

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Loving channeled messages by Yaël at the Circle of Light

2007-03-21T14:32:00.000-04:00

It was December of 1986, the Winter Solstice. Doug and I had just married. We sat together to meditate-a practice I had been faithfully doing at that time for fifteen years, a practice that had fed me and sustained me through the death of my son and through the loss of physical mobility to a powerful genetic disease.

Two years earlier I had begun to receive Messages. They began at the time I lost my mobility. I was in great physical and emotional pain and was very seriously considering ending my life. Through this dark night God reached forth with an incredible love and gave me the strength to continue. There was no doubt who it was lifting me and renewing my faith in life. The Messages then were "flashes" of love and of light. I would be wrapped in God's Divine Presence. I would be given an "instant understanding." It was like receiving a "package" that was a totality-all the love and all the information---all at once "dropped" into my head. At that time I recorded these experiences in a form that was like poetry.

Now, on this December day I sat for the first time with Doug, my new husband and the love of my life. Although we had many a rocky road to travel ahead of us, even then we knew we were each other’s destiny. I closed my eyes and touched Doug’s hand. My entire being exploded into Light. A loving, pulsing Light that was alive with movement and luminosity. Dancing golden white particles shone all around me, joining together into a greater and greater Light. The sense of Loving Presence grew, filled my heart and poured through me. My heart caught on fire. There is no other way to describe it. The fire leaped the gap between Doug and me and drew us together into an experience of becoming living flames ourselves, dancing together, "burning" in love and reaching higher and higher.

In the midst of this experience I knew I had to write. I reached for a notebook and pen. As the experience continued I wrote. As I wrote I was aware of being assisted to describe that which is indescribable. Thus these messages began. They have now lovingly, unfailingly guided us through fifteen years of marriage. They have kept us going when we were ready to give up. They have explained ourselves to us. They have revealed to us our destiny. And as we have grown together as a result of God's tender guiding love, we have also grown in our ability to raise ourselves up to meet God at a higher level. In doing so, we have been greatly blessed with the understanding of the information that it is our destiny to share.

Yaël & Doug, Circle of Light

The Circle of Light offers loving meditations and messages from God channeled by Yaël. You can subscribe to the meditations or listen in by phone while they are occurring. Their web site also offers information about soul mates and animal communication.

© 2006 Circle of Light

John Cali's recent Sentinels of the Sky Newsletter contained a channeled message by Yaël -- response to a message about the physical body by Chief Joseph in an earlier newsletter.

Shanna Mac Lean, a member of The Circle of Light explains:

This is from the weekly Tuesday night meditations. We call it Tuesday Circle. It takes place here in Eureka Springs every Tuesday at Circle of Light. First the group gathering here reads an excerpt from a recent Message from God through Yaël, and then we have guided meditation through Yaël.

When people sign up on our email list to receive the bi-monthly Messages from God on our site, they can check "I would also like to receive transcripts of the Tuesday Circle Meditations" and then they get this each week. They can also telephone in and hear the meditation each week live by phone bridge. The number is 605-772-3300 Pin number 679076. We greet everyone before meditation starts at 8 p.m. (in the USA's central time zone).

Shanna Mac Lean

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I get my training wheels on seeing love in every thought and experience

2007-03-20T15:15:00.000-04:00

In the Feb. 10 and Feb. 23 posts I talked about experiences I could only describe as altered states. I walked around for several hours feeling at one with love and seeing and experiencing everything as that love. These experiences have had a profound impact on me and I am changing fast. I do want things, but I've learned that for me it's all about feelings and the feeling is love -- the other "stuff " means little to me without it. And the more I trust that what I need is provided, the more I allow myself to focus on aligning with the feeling of love, the easier it is to do so, and the happier I feel. It is a real rush to get any desire met from that space of allowing -- the cost or size of the desire doesn't matter at all -- it's the experience of knowing and feeling the Presence that gift is coming from.

I've had some really, really neat experiences surrendering to that trust through what would have looked like contrast to me at one time. I'm even starting to feel exhilarated, freed, and excited by the experiences. I love that feeling of being taken care of by a loving Universe. I love feeling safe.

The change has been too fast to synthesize right now so I'll just look at my journal and see what I can come up with. This was my experience one day:

3/15/07 6 AM. I had a vision before that felt like an altered state -- walking in love -- and now what is happening is love is becoming real in all I do.... The Presence I felt in the altered state is there and assisting me all the time, watching over me, available.

7:39 PM. So many very good things happened today!! I feel this Presence and any time I want to I can touch it. I am having a workshop all the time, for each thought, about how to work through it -- like my thoughts are a jungle gym and I'm walking amongst them and practicing finding the love there. It is as if I am being taught how to get in touch with that love that I felt during those altered states while I am experiencing every physical experience. And right now there is a lot going on. I am again thinking that there is actually no contrast at all.

When I have a thought or something happens that I don't enjoy, I have been finding the feeling I want and then asking for my desire. The Presence asks me often when I have a thought -- what do you want? A lot of time the way I get in touch with the feeling I want is asking to be with the Presence or align with the Presence or thinking and feeling about the altered state experiences of love. This is good. This is very, very good.

Examples of what I was journaling about are that I was taking training for some project work where we have to qualify after training to do the work. I score standardized tests and have to make decisions constantly about it -- and we have random test sets all day to make sure we are scoring correctly. So, I might have a thought about getting tired or wanting a more comfortable chair or not knowing how to score an answer that is a fence post sitter and ask for help with it. My car was overheating and I had to drive an hour in rush hour traffic so I asked for help with that. One street I drove on had very high water. There was a line of traffic and I didn't realize the problem until I got to the water. SUVs and big cars drove past me in the other lane sending surges of water up the side of my car and over the hood!! Was I in touch with the Presence then!! LOL. I got through the water and out to the other side, I got green lights, and all manner of good things...and I also got that feeling of reassurance...oh, that beautiful feeling of reassurance! That all is well. I AM there. All is well.

I said this in the italicized notes above from my journal and it bears repeating. I'm beginning to think...well, actually it makes a lot of sense to me...that there is no contrast. Abe says we want things or experiences because we want to feel good. I'm more and more going straight to feeling good first and the more I do, the better I feel. I feel balanced and strong and centered when I live my life this way. And logically, it seems to me that if I align with well-being first and trust that what I want is given, then there isn't really any contrast. Maybe there are only decisions.

I'm writing this post on 3/20 and I will say that at this point I don't feel the Presence in the same way I did last week. I thought at the time that it was kind of like training wheels on a bike -- that the Presence made itself known all the time so that I could practice thought by thought. And I had several other things going on than the ones I noted above on that particular day. It was like an exercise course and I started getting a sense of fun out of it all -- especially after getting through that water.

And using water as a metaphor, maybe we don't sink or swim -- maybe we become divers when we are in deep water -- maybe we float on a raft and have someone bring us a tasty drink in a carved out pineapple with a little umbrella in it -- maybe we hitch a ride on a porpoise and experience something beautiful. Maybe it's all good! What a thought, isn't it?

Discovered how much I've changed since the last post

2007-03-17T01:00:00.000-04:00

I just looked at this blog and I was struck by how different I feel -- how much my thinking has changed in the few days since the March 5th post. There has been lots going on the last week or so with accelerating change in my thinking. I'll probably be posting something Saturday or Sunday.

I am abundance

2007-03-05T11:52:00.000-05:00

I just wrote this in a previous post:

As I was waking up this morning I had such a strong feeling of joyful surprise at a thought: "when I am allowing some "thing," I just have to get used to thinking it. " There was an image of money and the feeling of a new perspective that came with the thought.

I've been interested in learning about abundance and discovered Abraham-Hicks when I joined the Prosperity Partnership over three years ago. I'm a treehugger and can visualize having billions of dollars to nurture the earth and animals in a way that is great fun for me.

This thought this morning is letting me know I didn't have a problem thinking about money -- I had a resistance to thinking about money and me.

I've never been one to drool over jewelry or cars. Didn't care about having something because of it's "name" or cost. That's ok, but there was also a reverse prejudice I had against money.

And thinking about the experiences of oneness I've been having -- if abundance is "out there," it's also in me -- it is me.

I can feel the relief of that box of reverse prejudice dissolving. I feel freer. I know I'll be guided to some very good feelings, experiences, and things. This is gonna be interesting!

Sometimes, stuff got activated in your vibration when you were really little, when you were living with somebody else whose activation was very strong, and you didn't even know it got activated until you got old enough that you started watching the manifestational response.

It is our powerful desire that you be pleased with where you are right now, in this moment...no matter where you are.

Abraham-Hicks

[It is our powerful desire that you be pleased with where you are right now... No wonder there is such power in choosing well-being -- we are aligning with the desire of Source Energy.]

Once you envision something and the Universal forces come into play to help you in the creation of it, there's never again going to be enough action for you to keep up with it. You can't use the Energy that creates worlds to create a situation and then find the action to keep up with it. You have to keep envisioning. You have to keep imagining it better.

Abraham-Hicks, G-10/12/97, Rye, NY

Understanding the Law of Attraction, and more importantly, understanding the way you feel, will give you creative abilities beyond your wildest dreams. There is nothing that you cannot be or do or have; there is nothing that you cannot reach for and achieve---and there is nothing that needs to take a long time to come to you.

Abraham-Hicks, Boca Raton, FL, 12/13/03

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Having it all AND having fun

2007-03-05T10:05:00.000-05:00

As I was waking up this morning I had such a strong feeling of joyful surprise at a thought: "when I am allowing some "thing," I just have to get used to thinking it. " There was an image of money and the feeling of a new perspective that came with the thought.

When I look at that thought now it just seems like words, but I can feel something like champagne bubbling excitedly in the midst of me ready to flow joyfully upward and through me. Something new is happening and that's always exciting.

I've had a reverse prejudice about money and what it means to people -- my conclusions from childhood experiences with my family. The great thing about Abraham's information is to let us know that we don't have to mull over and work through old beliefs at all. We just have to focus on what we want and select better feeling thoughts.

It's time to climb out of the old box of beliefs that money led to unhappiness and decide how I want abundance to look like for me right here and now.

I can play with being wasteful or generous or selfish. I can support green living or support my creativity. Selfish or generous before were in the context of my former beliefs. I don't have any context now. I'm starting fresh. I can play with ways of "being" with money and choose the ways that feel best to me.

I love the freedom of feeling good whenever I want, not dependent on anything outside of me, but coming from me and connecting with the love that is everywhere present.

In the last few days I've been getting flashes of luxurious things coming my way. For example, watching a movie with a person driving an expensive car and getting a feeling that it was for me. So, Universe, I hear you. It's time for me to begin selecting wonderful thoughts about having lots of money, fine cars, and other "things" AND feeling free.

Thank you Gilbert for your joy in creating success and abundance. You play in such a big way in every area of your life and it's always fun. And thank you Law of Attraction Manager for guiding me to his energy and saying, "see, it can be done!"

Abraham-Hicks: Death

2007-03-04T21:34:00.000-05:00

Q: I was listening to a tape and you made a statement that there is no suicide....

Abe: Well, actually what we said is [all deaths are]....

Q: That's right, [all deaths are] suicide. That's right, that's right.

Abe: All death is that because everything is self-created.

Q: Okay. Well, I had a question... I recently got married and my brother-in-law, he passed away at 39 years old very unexpectedly and two days after Thanksgiving. And it was just a shock to everybody. That day he was going to a concert with his girlfriend, they were going out to dinner. (Very choked up.) He was very happy, talked to everybody. And then he was gone.

Abe: Well, not really.

Q: Well, yeah. So, you know, I'm part of the family but I'm new to the family, so it's been hard for me to watch everybody else in the family, [and] my wife, deal with it. And I was just wondering, like, I really believe that he is in a better place, you know, he chose that, and that he's up there. And actually when I was out running one morning I had a conversation with him (choked up again) and he told me to tell them a few things, and I felt a little resistant at first, but I did tell the parents what he had said, you know, "Don't worry, everything's okay." And it was really some things that he would have said, so I know I was connected to it. And I guess my question is, is there anything I can do to help them with this?

Abe: There are so many things that we're wanting to give you around this subject. We're going to go right to the heart of it because we think you're ready for it, and that is: you still believe that death is a bad thing. It feels like something that shouldn't have happened and something that if there had been any way that we could have prevented it we would have, and something that has gone wrong. And part of the reason that powerful teachers that are in conscious concert with others like you, who are other powerful teachers -- in other words, the reason that someone this young and this vital does something like that is to assist all of you in understanding that there *is not death*.

There are a number of things -- it's hard for you to hear, but we're going to really go after this because we think if anyone will hear it you will. We can feel the intensity of your desire and yet you're not in a place of such closeness to it that you can't hear what we're saying.

...physical beings have treated the subject of death as something not wanted and something inappropriate for so long, and yet you have yourselves in an impossible [position] -- this is something every single one of you are going to experience. How do you stand pushing so hard against something that is so inevitable? Do you feel the absurdity of that? And the best way that we can... [help you] hear this maybe in a different way is to say to you: in this Universe that has at this basis only Well-Being, how could something as abhorrent as you think death is even exist...? And what it is, all that what you call death is, is your ultimate pinching yourself off from Source. In other words, it's sort of like every bad dream you've ever had, every negative thought you've ever had, every reason that you've ever used as your excuse to not allow energy to flow in this moment sort of culminates into the great subject that you all call death. That's how big and bad and ugly and awful this subject is to you.

And it's an interesting thing for us to get our thoughts around because it is something that doesn't even exist and it is the thing that you all use to not allow yourself to live. In other words, the circle of this complex subject is... (brief pause to search for words) very funny. (Laughter.) It is very funny to get a look at it in this way, you see.

When you understand that you are eternal beings -- in other words, you walk into this room, you all come willingly and yet you have not committed your life to being in this room. In a few hours, you're going to get up and you're going to walk out of here and everybody's going to say that's just fine. And yet when somebody makes their transition, which is no different than that -- they just withdraw their attention from one room and give their attention to another room -- you all act like it's the end of the world.

Jerry and Esther have a new cat that they kidnapped when they were in Louisiana -- well, the cat really kidnapped them. It sort of appeared at their motor home and said, "I want to live with you," and the owner of the park said, "We want you to take this cat," and ultimately they did. And now this cat -- Loveable Cat is her name, they call her L.C. -- she lives at the office. And Jerry wanted her to have freedom, and so in the beautiful new office building the carpenters cut a door for L.C. to come in and out. And the building is very thick, and the doors are metal so they could not put the cat door in the door. So they put it in the building and built a chute, and so there's about this much distance from outside to inside. At first, she did not like the idea of the door. Jerry said it was like trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube. (Laughter.) And then he watched her, her first emergence, and it was a very interesting thing because here she's standing in the break room, a very beautiful room inside, and then she leaps up onto her shelf that has been build and she pokes herself through the tube and then out into the bright sunlight.

Well, death is sort of like that. In other words, it's not a bigger transition than that. It is something that is going from one perspective to another, but there is no sense of having left behind something. Instead, there is the exhilaration about what is on the other side.

Now the thing that we're wanting you to understand is that once L.C. goes outside, she is equally free to come back in. So she's in and out and in and out and in and out and in and out, and that is the way it is from the nonphysical perspective. In other words, the conversation that you had was a very real conversation -- nonphysical consciousness is here with you all the time.

The question is why have those of you who are still remaining in the break room, why have you limited yourself only to that experience? And that really is what these workshops are about. We're wanting to help you consciously reconnect with that broader self that you know you are. And once you gain that awareness of the wholeness of who you are, then you're like the cat that's back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, not feeling any big deal about it, having a glorious experience no matter where your consciousness is focused, you see.

Physical beings feel so earthbound in the fact that you think you only can stay in the break room. In other words, you don't know you have access to all of that other stuff. And we know that even as we speak about death that you're really not worried about those that have made the transition. You consciously know that they really are doing very, very well. The problem that you are having and the worry that you feel is for those that feel as if they have been left behind. And that's the whole point of our conversation -- we want you to understand that you are not left behind, but you have to accept the fullness of who you are in order to understand that.

Abraham-Hicks

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Abraham-Hicks: You don't have to wear yourself out enjoying the moment, it never runs out

2007-03-03T18:41:00.000-05:00

Your good stream never runs out. So you don't have to wear yourself out trying to lap up the good, just enjoy the good you're lapping up! In other words, savor more, enjoy more, experience more of the deliciousness of this moment.

Know that the more that you are in love with this moment, the more moments just like it will appear right before you.

Abraham-Hicks, Dallas, TX, 11/02/02

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Abraham-Hicks: Focused in this moment in time

2007-03-03T18:22:00.000-05:00

All of you are Non-physical as well as physical. In other words, your physical body has sprung forth from a physical place, and certainly you are focused within a physical place. But, the Life Force the current or Energy that streams into you that Life Force comes forth from Non-physical, and all of you are receiving it. And so, you are the embodiment of Non-physical.

Abraham-Hicks, 8/22/92

New desire is what summons the Source and carries what is now into the future experience. But the thing that's tricky about the future experience is that the future never gets here, because the moment that it approaches -- it becomes now. Tomorrow never comes because when it gets here, it's today.

Abraham-Hicks, 10/2/04

Metabolism is vibrational response to your moment in time. Metabolism is the way the Energy is moving through your body. And so, everything is in response to the way you feel, everything is. Everything is mind over matter. Every disease is mental first. Everything is about thought. Everything is about vibration. Everything is about the way you feel. Practice scenarios that feel good and never mind reality. Reality is only a brief moment in time that you keep repeating.

Abraham-Hicks, 5/11/02

Your vibration doesn't have to be strong, it just has to be pure. You don't have to think about something over and over again. You just have to think about it purely. You just have to not contradict it with your own vibration.

Abraham-Hicks

So there is an important distinction about what you are calling aging and what we are hearing as declining. Because you cannot stay young, you must move through time. But you can stay in your prime by controlling the direction of your thoughts. In other words, you do not have to decline.

Abraham-Hicks, Asheville 10/22/06

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Our understanding is always expanding and so is All That Is

2007-03-03T11:46:00.000-05:00

There is only Law of Attraction. And so it is your asking that is bringing forth the answers, but it is desire on the part of all of us. It's like, as you stand in your physical shoes and you imagine a happy future, you literally give birth to the idea that calls you to it. And so in like manner we from our nonphysical have given birth to the idea of you, which is now vibrationally calling us back forth. And in the way we would really like you to hear this, there can be no separation really between the physical you and the nonphysical you. You are the physical you and Abraham is the nonphysical you and we are all so integrated together. But it is your leading edge experience that is producing the leading edge question.

We're expanding with you. And knowing as we go. And we would call it learning as well. That which you call God is never complete, but is ever expanding.

Abraham-Hicks, Albuquerque, NM 9-02-02

Here is my view: I think a more complete understanding is intuitive, but we use words to communicate. And these words are some approximation of the understanding we would have intuitively. So, it's worth keeping in mind that we choose all of these thoughts, even the ones that seem like the "truth." There are lots of folks exploring the Law of Attraction and using words for finding the way that it works for them. When we take on any thought as our current understanding of the "truth," even words spoken by Abraham, it's important to realize that we chose it. And because we chose it, we can change it.

The truth is within each one of us and we are the only one that can know what that is. And we are ever changing and All That Is is ever changing, too.

There is more understanding and more truth beyond the leading edge concepts and ideas we have today. Who knows what we will come to understand in a week, a year, or 20 years! These ideas of reality creation are not the end, they are a beginning.

Life. What an adventure!