Ahhhhhmazing - Grace

It really is amazing how grace works. I was raised to believe that grace, like God, was outside myself. That in order to achieve the blessing of grace I had to petition the angels and the saints and pray for the best. It never dawned on me that grace, like God, was something that was energetic, a vibration that I held at my core. I had no idea that I could actually match that vibrational frequency on the outside by merely tuning myself to the grace frequency on the inside.

This awareness is just one of the gifts I've gotten as a result of using travel as a means to open myself to the possibilities. It really is true travel does expand us. Probably because when we go on vacation, we vacate the daily grind, relax and let go and when we do it's easier to hear that still small voice within. Instead of pushing the river we go more with the flow and as a result awareness is heightened.

Here in the Caribbean, where the energy of 'don't worry be happy' permeates the essence of everything, I feel in sync with the frequency of grace. The grace state of course is a vibration, a frequency on the dimensional ladder which requires one to tune themselves to a frequency different than that of the ordinary.

Within less than 24 hours of being here I recognized a subtle yet profound shift in my perception. At first I was out of sync with the energy. Like a dance partner out of sync with the rhythm of the music, I was stepping on toes. My pace was fast, I was quick to anger, I was unaware of the static associated with my state of mind.

Here in the middle of a vast ocean, on a small island whose frequency vibrates to a less structured, less dense, less stressful beat, I was able to hear that static and retune myself to the frequency of the grace-state.

Everything around us is a reflection of what is going on inside of us. From the most frenetic to the most sublime and everything in between, it's all us. It is truly amazing how the process works, how that frequency we associate with grace, something we feel blessed by on rare occasions, something we attribute to coming from someplace 'out there' actually lives with in us all the time.

Like everything else the grace state is a choice and requires nothing more than tuning ourselves to its frequency.

Personal Development

Yup that's right, the two words that attract the attention of over a half million people on Twitter are "PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT".

It's not so shocking really, not when you consider that everyone from Opra to The Donald have endorsed the fact that developing the human potential truly is the next frontier. The book 'The Secret' did a lot to set the wheel in motion as well. By alerting us to the fact that there is such a thing as The Law of Attraction, our curiosity was triggered and interest piqued. The movie version of the book brought the message home in living color. Now What??

How do we actually develop that which we have a propensity for, what is the practical application of the lofty ideal, who has the answers and where can I find them - ever had any questions like these, I certainly have.

What I've found in my search for a deeper meaning to life, is that the extraordinary is usually always right there in the midst of the ordinary. The easier something is to put into practice, the more likely I am to engage with it on a regular basis. Consistency does work because the more habitual and repetitive an action or a thought becomes, the more likely it is to make a groove in our subconscious mind, which burns a program we can eventually automatically download at will.

Positive reinforcement of that which makes a difference in a good way, not only supports the evolution of consciousnes but it also develops our human potential so that the things we have been trying to change or putting up with, clear up just in the process of life.

By engaging with the following 3 exercises in ritualistic fashion I've found them useful in boosting my energy on a daily basis:

Gratitude - Each day I set aside time, usually in the morning to give thanks. I start with the obvious. I can walk, talk, listen, see, taste and smell, all of these I am most grateful for. For the most part however, throughout my life, I have rarely recognized any of these as anything to be worthy of my gratitude specifically. As I give thanks for that which I've considered the mundane and the trivial, I actually feel my vibration rising.

Affirmative Thought - In monitoring my thought process I was amazed the degree to which I spent time slumming in the negative vibe. Negativity actually pollutes the energy field, forming a vibrational buildup which undermines the higher frequencies. This includes negative self talk, gossip, a dismal perspective such as a cup half empty as compared to the cup half full perspective. I'm able to catch myself now and give myself the choice to either continue the rant or go higher. That's a big win!

Visualization - Both the animate and inanimate have a vibrational frequency. When we visualize, construct in detail what we see in our mind's eye, we actually draw or attract those frequencies to us in manifestation. I find when I use my ability to respond, to create what I desire I'm empowered by the process of creation through me. . . .and I usually always get the parking space sooner rather than later.

Upping the frequency from victim to victor requires vigilance. Just because we bathed yesterday doesn't mean we don't need to clean up again today. I've been on the path of personal development for over 3 decades and yet every moment of each day is another opportunity to either go backward or move forward.

Being part of a world wide trend that is influencing the shape of the future is awesome isn't it!!

What The Fork-in-the-road Is This??

Moving house is never easy. Well, it doesn't have be 'hard' either, however, it is challenging to undo and redo ones life in form without skipping a couple beats. The very implications of moving holds within it the essence of new beginnings, rebirth. These germinating seeds of that which has not yet been considered, invites expansion. Expansion as we well know, is often accompanied by growing pains. Moving of course is metaphoric in nature. We move house when we need an outward manifestation of an inward shift that either has or is taking place, and requires acknowledgment of such in the physical.

Such was the case with myself. I'd changed geographic location (BIG move) just a short 5 months ago, only to have to repeat the process just a week ago. The packing tape on the old boxes was still sticky when I retrieved them from the storage closet. It seems I had shifted my inner foundaton just enough to warrant an outward expression of the same. When the driveway adjacent to my lower level quarters landed in my livingroom one rainy afternoon following a horrific storm, I came home to find the contents of my apartment floating.

The basement, that which is associated with dark, dank, unprocessed emotion, is usually the last place any of us seek out. I had ended up in the basement quite to my surprise, after years of emotional processing. I'd found the place on Craig's List and from a long distance perspective it looked like the perfect spot. Despite the owners zeal for home improvement, it was still a basement, a repository for the negative energies from above as well as a caldron of low vibratory frequencies. It was also damp and cold and there was no view. Even the cat was wet to the touch. None the less I had made home and was determined to make it work, no matter what.

Even after being almost washed away I hemmed and hawed over weather to relocate so soon after just having done so. The forces of nature assisted me with my decision straight away however. Nothing says " bye bye, get out of here, vamoose, split, hit the road" quite the way same way as does a washboard hardwood floor and the stench of mildewed carpet. I actually tried like crazy however to ignore the fact that the universe was sending me an engraved invitation to move on.

This was the proverbial fork in the road we hear so much about, that place where stubborn meets opportunity, and there is no choice but to pick one and leave the other behind. And even though I had my heels dug in and was insistent upon doing things my way, making it work, even though there wasn't any energetic signature for that to happen, just so as I could hold onto the modicum of comfort I had by remaining stable, I made the choice to let go.

It's been a sweet ride ever since I might add. I found a fabulous place with a birds eye view of The Great Smokey Mountains and it's dry, quiet and flanked by beautiful surroundings. In the end, when I finally let go, I won. I won because I came into vibrational alignment with the right place for me and recognized it to be such. I won because I chose to win instead of settle. I won because when it's all said and done, I am a winner and that's just way I choose to play the game, regardless the circumstances or the situation.

I've always thought it nothing short of brilliant, the degree to which the powers that be will go to ensure that the plan gets carried out for the evolution of consciousness and the development of human potential.

Personal Certainty - Knowing For Myself

I never thought much about cultivating a relationship with personal certainty. Until recently I've always felt pretty much tuned in to the world around me. At present however, I am needing to know more about that which I don't have time to learn or study, and so I have no choice but to call upon my natural knowing, my ability to sense the vibrational alignment with something, or not.

The hi tech world of the .com generation is challenging for me because it causes me to have to be really awake and alert, no time to go on autopilot here. I am being given the opportunity via my need to interact with the internet in my business, to listen with different ears, so as to hear the drumming of an authentic beat.

The vibration of our own knowing actually pulsates to a very high frequency. Just as dogs can hear tones we can't, so too can we tune in to that part of who we are which recognizes the difference between what's a go and what's a no. Weather we are 'educated' about the subject in question or not makes little difference, we either 'get it' or not. In a world filled with hype and half truths I've found it mandatory to cultivate the ability to know for myself.

Fear of the unknown had me stopped for a while but at the point at which I realized there was no hoover, I was either moving forward or going backwards, I became willing to do something different. Interestingly enough I took to the fine art of social networking like a duck to water. I am happy to say that so far Twitter, Facebook, and Linked In are showing the promise of becoming healthy relationships with good potential. Becoming internet savvy at the business level at first appeared to be a somewhat daunting learning curve. However as a result I've developed a stronger grip on my ability to know for myself.

Interestingly enough I'm about the business of promoting a new DVD which is all about learning how to 'know for yourself'. Given that we are in the throws of the 'miss'information age, a quagmire of half truths as thick as pea soup, we have to 'cowgirl up' (as one of my Twitter associates puts it). We have no choice but to become as aware as possible of how to determine what is so and what is not so.

Knowing for ourselves looks like becoming response ABLE so as to bring clarity and percision to our decision making process. Gone are the days when it is even an option to roll over and hit the snooze alarm, there's just to much hanging in the balance.

And so then learning how to determine for myself what the correct next steps were for me to take in effectively working with the internet, I had no choice but to rely on my inner knowing of what resonated and what didn't. Developing a relationship with the part of me that always knows is the most valued tool in my personal development tool box.

The new personal development movie Know For Yourself starts where The Secret left off. Learning how to apply the principles associated with the Law of Attraction is the difference between just having a hot car and knowing how to drive a hot car.

The energy in the trailer supplies enough of a high tech hit to trigger a vibration congruent with new octave awareness. This movie instantly conveys an enthusiasm for cultivating the ability to know from within, instead of depending on outside sources for information upon which to base a decision.

We have arrived at that place where this information is pertinent to our well-being, it is an instrument we can use to chart a new course in our desire to move forward. Without using the right key, the door will not be unlocked. We must learn how to deepen our relationship with our ability to know for ourselves, or we are in for a collision with fate.

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Because I Did That Thing!!

Yesterday I went to the DMV for a new license. The last time I did this I flunked the test, had to go back and retake it. This time I didn't have the luxury of falling prey to 'not knowing'. I had to take the test yesterday so as to get the whole process out the door, down the road and DONE before the end of Sept when my tags expired - they don't hand out tags unless you have a license from the state you are seeking to register the vehicle in.

It was almost 4 pm when I arrived at the testing site. I grabbed a book and started to cram. I could feel the onset of panic beginning to weave the threads of negative thoughts though my mind. What might it be like ridding the bus, living without the right to drive. Immediately I STOPPED myself from going down the path with the doomsday ending and began to visualize the completion of the test and me passing with flying colors. I literally pictured myself jumping up and down with excitement.

Before I knew it my number was called and I was positioned in front of a computer screen. The test began and I answered the first question correctly. The second question I got wrong, the third I answered correctly and the fourth question I answered incorrectly. At that point I stopped. I knew there was no way I was going to ace this test unless I did something different. I was allowed only 5 wrong answers and already had 2 and wasn't even close to half way through.

I remembered what I'd learned about everything having an energetic signature to it, a vibrational frequency that attracted like kind to like kind. I decided I would merely tune in to the vibration of the one answer which matched the vibration of the question being asked. I literally let go of trying to figure out the right answer and just tuned into what I knew for myself to be true from a vibrational stand point.

Interestingly enough I completed the test with no more misses. From that point on I answered each question correctly, even the ones I know I didn't 'know'. I was able to get in touch with the matching vibrations and in doing so was able to provide the correct answers to each one of the questions.

Because I was able to do this thing, I left the DMV not only with a drivers license in hand but with the experience of knowing I could create ANYTHING I wanted to using the same method of visualizing it already accomplished and tuning into it vibrationally.

I realized I'd not only gotten my 'drivers license' for the driving of a vehicle in 3 D reality but more importantly I was now licensed to move full speed ahead in the creation of my own reality on all levels. And because there is no order of difficulty in miracles, acing the drivers test isn't any different than manifesting a million dollar mansion or a multi 6 figure income!!! I am in the drivers seat now and ready for the ride of my life!!

Till next time, be well and take care

Mastermind - Creating A Focus Group

I've heard it said that we have within our sphere of influence at all times, at least 200 people. And that was way before the advent of the social networking systems. The point being, we are always giving and receiving energy in the form of information and vibration. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are consistently influencing and being influenced.

Directing this energy, in the same way a funnel directs liquid to infill a container, concentrates movement. If the content happens to be the movement of thought from a number of stimulated minds all focused on one topic of consideration, the energy expended to reach a desired result becomes focused intent. Focused intent produces momentum. When the momentum builds the ability to produce results consistent with goals and vision is always greater.

Master mind or focus groups are designed for this very purpose. To take a group of individuals pointed in the direction of the greater good and concentrate the energy into one specific focus so as to manifest an agreed upon desire, is a very powerful way to create a new reality, fast.

Napolean Hill refers to Mastermind Alliances as one of the most important factors in achieving success. This alliance intensifies concentration by creating a mass psychology which increases faith, self-reliance, imagination, creative vision, personal initiative, enthusiasm and the will to win. Working alone one is more likely to quit when the going gets tough.

Think of it this way. What happens when you have your foot on both the breaks and the gas at the same time? Nothing. You go no where, there is no movement. You are stopped. The collective unconscious, comprised of negative mental mass, made up of consensus reality, a vibrational group-focus which is heavily impacted by mainstream media, acts as that which resists movement outside the box. Trying to move forward alone in this swill of low frequency energetics, can feel like moving through molasses. Mastermind groups offer support for the process of breakthrough and are a necessary ingredient for the building of a new way of being.

Herd consciousness impacts all of us on a vibrational level. Mediocrity is born from herd consciousness. Not until a critical mass comprised of higher frequencies congeals, forming a vibrational match with higher consciousness, will we lift ourselves energetically out of that stuck vibration. transformation is really a numbers game. Critical mass, or 51% of the consciousness, is required to tip the scales in favor of the greater good . Focus groups are the forerunners to the repatterning of consciousness.

Coming together with like-mindeds to focus attention on the manifestation of an agreed upon goal/vision, not only empowers collective movement forward, but also produces the by-product of individual empowerment.

Keeping in mind the power of focused intent and the extraordinary way in which group synergy functions for the benefit of the whole, we will next explore the five attributes of success. The benefit of positive thoughts, dynamic will, self analysis, initiative and self control will be considered from the perspective of their impact on raising the vibratory frequency of society as a whole. We will explore the possibilities for lasting change while focusing on practical application of primary principles for conscious living. Consider the possibility that we could actually up the frequency and shift the vibration of humanity as a whole, by individually coming together in small groups to focus our intent for the greater good.

Till next time, be well and take care.

Focus - Here's The Beef

Meditation, visualization and verbalization are the three components necessary for the practical application of effective focusing.

First one must BE available to receive what is desired. Without context, content is spewed every which way . When I get up in the morning, consciously tune into my day by sitting still for a few minutes, anchoring myself at my center before careening out into the business of my day, I find I run more smoothly. There may not be any less chaos to cope with but the way I deal with what the day delivers is what makes the difference here.

Next, to know what to DO, what form of action to take to create what we want, is always of the utmost importance. I remember back in the early 80' when I was living in Hawaii and new to the idea of visualization, I constructed a treasure map. A treasure map, or image book, is a plan put to pictures so as to attract what is desired. I felt a little foolish at the time, a grown adult cutting and pasting pictures of men who appealed to me. However my focus at that time was relationships and so I followed the directions and covered a large piece of cardboard with the faces of good looking guys from local magazines. I then placed my creation where I could see it regularly.

A short time later I was having dinner with a friend at a local restaurant when a man walked up to our table. He happened to be someone she knew quite well and so she introduced us. He looked very familiar but I knew we had never met. As it turned out he asked for my phone number saying he'd love to get together. When I got home that night I realized he was one of the cut outs on my treasure map. He had been featured in a local magazine, the one from which I had found my pictures. I manifested what it was I had been visualizing.

To HAVE the intended result it is also particularly powerful to affirm it already done. Write it down, be specific, put it into words. Goal setting and affirmations work well for this. It isn't enough to just be 'in the space' or to only focus attention on what we picture in our minds' eye. We also have to ask for what we want. To articulate our request for good health, financial abundance, a dynamic relationship or successful business adds yet another dimension to the of process of focusing our intent.

In the next post I'll overview Focus Groups as a yet another valuable way to ensure the regular flow of positive energy.

Till then be well and take care.