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How does one develop Courage?...
I have read a lot of things in my life that changed me with a slow progression, fiction and nonfiction.
(Fiction is a way of telling the truth with a lie.) HA! :rolleyes:
Anyway...I read some words that changed my life instantly. I don't know that I have ever gotten anything so quickly in mind, I usually have to ponder it a while and then it comes. I will be walking along doing other things and BAM!..it hits me and I will yell out..."That's what that meant!" ...but that didn't happen yesterday. It was an instant SHIFT of being. :D Yes, I am going to share the remarkable words of beauty that changed my life forever.
I am always in a hurry, I have been in a hurry since I was a teenager, doing so causes me to have anxiety. I rush, rush, rush...and then get very upset if someone slows me down. Especially in driving...If you go grocery shopping with me you must jog beside the buggy to keep up. One day while getting groceries a man burst into laughter while seeing me coming, and I thought; Uh Oh..whats happened? I turn around because at this point in the mission I am pulling the buggy from the wrong end..my daughter was pushing at one time...but she must have given out because when I turned to see what the man was laughing at she was hanging from the handle dragging her feet behind her...skiing through the isles. She was having fun but I was so rushed...I paid it no attention. Just drug the child from one isle to the next.
Add coffee to that picture...and you can get a bit of an idea of what a day spent with me would be like.
Life Changing Words from a book written in 1828 by Prentice Mulford.
"COURAGE and presence of mind mean the same thing. Presence of mind implies command of mind. (PONDER THAT SENTENCE A MINUTE BEFORE MOVING FORWARD)
The quality of mind or emotion underlying all this hurried mental condition and consequent hurried act, is fear.
Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.
The cultivation of courage commences in the cultivation of deliberation! (Deliberate movement in body and mind: "Right now I am walking, just walking..I am not at an interview, I am not fighting with my neighbor, I am not paying the bills...I am just walking, and I have an amazing walk, and WOW, Where did that amazing flower come from?, Thank you!") I'm here now...I am deliberate. I am Awake. I am in control of my thought. I am Still. I am ...
If we analyze what we fear, we shall find we are in mind trying to deal with too much at once of the thing feared. There is only a relatively small amount to be dealt with now. In any transaction – in the doing of anything there is but one step to be taken at a time.
Timidity is often the result of looking at too many difficulties or terrors at once. In material reality we have to deal with but one at a time. If we are going to what we fear will be a disagreeable interview with a harsh, irascible, over‐bearing person, we are apt to go, occupying our minds with the whole interview. (We visualize the entire outcome in a negative way before it takes place and this causes fear to grow and intimidation to occur.)
The more we train our minds so to concentrate on the one step, the more do we increase capacity for sending our force all in one given direction at once.
Pleasure is the sure result of placing thought or force on the thing we are doing now, and pain of some sort in both present and future is the certain result of sending thought or force away from the act which needs to be done at this moment.
To train then for courage is to train for deliberate movement in all things, for that is simply training to mass and hold your force in reserve and let out no more than is needed for the moment."
And so after reading that, I began to think about my now moments, I still need to visualize my goals but there is a time and a place for that. In meditation, in earnest prayer seeking and for me at a peak of exercise excitement when my heart is pounding...and its creative. ;)
But the point of this part of my spiritual growth was to understand my thinking and how I overwhelm myself with too many thoughts, and too many images at once...which causes my body to try and catch up with all that disorganized chaos... it physically puts me in a hurry all the time.
Sure I have learned to have my moments of stillness but until now they were never controlled moments. When I found time out of my busy mind schedule I would just stop for those few moments to deliberately think a thing or a dream for the future through in its entirety.
It wasn't until yesterday that I realized how to deliberately walk and enjoy the moment of my being. It was fabulous and as I was sweating from the run, (the deliberate run) I was in the moment enough to enjoy the beautiful trees and the wind, I saw the beauty of nature unfold right in front of my eyes...and at the perfect time in admiring her it started to rain just enough to cool me off. All I could say to that out loud was "THANK YOU" and I truly meant it from my heart. And it was like Nature heard me and I felt her appreciation for my appreciation of her beauty. No words exist to describe that Amazing feeling in its entirety!
:)
Bliss is only part of it...
Infinite Blessings & Perfect Love
EVERYTHING...
"No sooner the Light was perceived, happiness prevailed on me"
"The sweet nectar was tasted by me as soon as the Arutperunjothi (Supreme Grace Of Light) became visible" Ramalinga Swamigal (India)
One....
Understanding the permanent reality of life,
with mind rising above the influence of pleasure and pain
in omnipotent deliberation
Unshakable...
Established in the understanding of unlimited abundance
is free from the existence of relative order
is heir to everything
and is immortal.
One who does not know truth does not have the capacity in WORD to transform and unite with it IN BODY AND MIND. But what was once a mysterious feeling is now absorbed, understood and believed...therefore the WORD has become ONE with the BODY AND "ALL IS KNOWN".
"So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory." II Corinth.
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Infinite Blessings, Perfect Love, Unlimited Abundance and Beautiful Images surrounded by Glorious Thought this Day!
"A picture is worth ..."
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Ok..I think that's a good note to leave it on. It's all GOOD! No worries. :)
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Thankful Spirit.
Day 26 of 28
Sorry, part of me had to die, She kicked the mop bucket. (private joke, hurt my toe and got all wet with dirty mop water, lost my shoe...bird died it was a mess)
Buried and Gone...
I read the funniest quote and met some one else from India, My sweet friend..we are doing positive thought games everyday via email. Indian people are very different and amazing people, love my new Indian Friends. :)
"Read like a Wolf Eats"... (funny but good advice)
If you feel alone, reach out to someone else soon you will find yourself in GREAT COMPANY.
The secret to having great friends is being a great friend. :rolleyes:
Picker upper....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFN2hcuDtx0&feature=related
Hole in ONE...
"Jack Nicklaus, the world famous golfer, explains he will not even pick up a club until he has
a very clear image on the screen of his mind, showing exactly how the ball will fly through the air, how it
will hit the ground and where it will roll after it hits. Nicklaus calls this "going to the movies." Bob Proctor
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Day 27...
Life is GOOD!...or at least its beginning to be GOOD..I am at the threshold and walking through the door of The Boss's Tea Party. Except we are not having tea, we are having coffee. ;) It's a coffee party and all who join us will be woken up.
Do you know how to tell when you have great coffee? When you open it up for the first time and it smells so good that you could snort it. Dunkin Donuts Original...its that kind of coffee!
Tune of the Day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsJcg-g1pg
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"Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man, grasping all, loses everything." James Allen
Believing is SEEING...and so it becomes. Persistence brings RESULTS.
"I run a district office in Wichita, Kansas. Out of over 500 offices Prudential has, our office stands in 175th
place. Now," he said, "that's not bad, nothing to be ashamed of." And it wasn't-it was a fairly good
standing. He then said, "My problem is, I know we are good enough to be in the top 100, and we're not.
Every year I go for it, but I never seem to make it." At that moment I knew what the cause of Paul
Hutsey's problem was. I explained to him that he was letting the sales sheet dictate the image he was
holding in his mind. He saw himself as being number 175, and he was doing his utmost to move into the
top 100. He worked hard, he worked with his people and, as he explained previously, he had good
people. I showed Paul that it was imperative he see himself in the top 100, regardless of what the sales
sheet said. In other words, he had to act as if he were already in the top 100. He had to become
mentally what he wanted to be on the physical plane. He also had to learn how to communicate this idea
to his entire staff."
You are so Blessed! :) Born Blessed! Favored and Loved!
I'm on Day 28 of this gratitude journey and I have learned to spell grattitude correctly ... :rolleyes: J/K Gratitude
Is my life magical? HA! :D
You know....
The interesting thing is that it was already magical at day ONE. I just couldn't see it as being so. It is funny how you can read into something and slowly you begin to see it merging into your life on a regular basis.
I am reading a new book called Born Rich, where it teaches that prosperity and success are all around you, you are prosperity and success ...you were born into it. You just haven't been seeing it until now. Little mind shifter book. Me like it!
Ever learn a new word, oh I don't know maybe...ambiguity ("lets just keep it completely ambiguous.") It means to let it have more than one meaning, draws more attention that way...you know in certain circumstances.
Anyway, you look it up, never seen it before in your life, but now you have looked it up and know the definition. You begin to see the word all around you.
The word has always been there, you just didn't notice it before.
Same thing with magic. There is something about the expression of gratitude that brings wonderful things into your life. Try it! every day list 10 things you are thankful for and see what happens.
In the past 28 days, I didn't ask for it, just was openly thankful every day and they appeared...magically into my life, as well as many other beautiful gifts that have magically appeared in the last month.
I made 2 new friends from India and now we are playing mind games about positive things in our lives. The first email to me was titled "Walk and Walk and Walk...." Then it said tell me 10 things that make you happy...and he shared with me his 10 things. So we had 20 feel good thoughts together. Then there were beautiful pictures embedded into the email, LOL...I don't know where that idea came from...but I like it. ;)
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That is collective consciousness of a positive force...very powerful energy. And the more people we get on the same page the more powerful the force becomes.
Do you know what a blessing it is to gain a positive thinking friend like that? It's a tremendous blessing, positive thinking friends are priceless.
I am so thankful today because I get to do something that I love to do this very weekend. I am going away...Camping with family. I have my tent packed and ready. There is no comparison to sleeping in the woods. The crickets, the fresh air, the stars at night and nothing but the sound of my fan blowing on me. I don't completely rough it until Independence Day on a local creek bank, then we rough it...No electricity. But this weekend I will have some electricity...cause its a campground that is right on the water. LOVE IT!!! :D magical weekend.
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May your weekend be so very Blessed! Love, Love, Love
Love is all around YOU!
Ascension
"With great power comes great responsibility."
Happy Memorial Day! Thankful for soldiers who have given their lives for our freedom.
I get home from my trip (The crickets were beautiful) and I have a special email in my box, it is another special friend. I am Sharing of course...
"I hope you do not mind _____ ____ (private name) having given me your email address. I was complimenting him about the idea of identifying 3 people who have made a positive difference to our life and sending blessings to them and he told me the idea was from you. He then gave me your email address so that I could address my thanks directly to you. I just wanted to say how lovely this idea is and that it really brightened my day to think about these people. At a time where things have been a little tough going for me and are tough going worldwide, it is soothing cheerful and also making me so happy to think about these people. It reminds me that we are all linked to one another and that there are and have been wonderful people in my life. This is what matters after all in life! Thanks a lot for this brilliant reminder!"
Have a great day!
How wonderful was that? There really are many wonderful , loving and sincere people in this world. Many times we overlook that and only see the negative, when we begin to focus on love and positivity, we begin to see all energy that lines up with that vibration. Its not specific but an array of beauty more magnificent than we can imagine... completely surrounding and saturating us with itself.
I AM SO BLESSED...And so very Thankful today! :)
Find the beauty in the shadows...
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In all situations there is something beautiful lurking for us to pull out and magnify. There is never a situation or experience in our lives that we cannot find something beautiful within it, something pure...something that will bless us and something that will bless others that find themselves there with us.
Thank You! :)
History always repeats itself...
With a little manipulation we can tweak it a little...
TWEAKING...
To TWEAK: to make usually small adjustments in or to <tweak the controls>; especially : fine-tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ_5Nvc7YZ4&feature=related
Face to Face...
In the Kitchen with Martha...It's a GOOD THING!
If you mix up the same cake batter using the same recipe, in the same oven at the same heat, in the same pan....The cake turns out the same every time.
Always the same results. It is wise to study history at times.
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I made 9 double layer red velvet cakes and they all turned out the same. I used the same two pans. Except one of which I left in the oven longer than the rest. He was different...A little tougher around the edges but just as good. Tasted the same on the inside.
I overheard Will Smith in an interview talking about some advice he gave his son. He said to him, If you ever want to do something successfully, someone somewhere has written a book about it. Read it, and follow the recipe.
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” –Tony Robbins
"When the mind is transcended, the supermental consciousness steps in of itself.-Mouni Sadhu "
Blessed Day! Pray for me I have a test that I must make 90 on to pass! Need some prayer support...need some light in my path...need the teacher to like me more. J/K... ;) He does, he likes me...We are going to eventually get on the same page in mind.
Well what do you know?...
A very good friend of mine once told me success on testing has nothing to do with fate. It has to do with what you KNOW, and how much you KNOW.
In the past I have taken that word for granted..To KNOW. Be Still and KNOW...
Anyway...what led up to that comment in our conversation was that I told him I did not want to get overly confident about an upcoming test because I might get the rug snatched from under me and my big head deflated with a big F on the Grade book.
Friday when I finished that test I KNEW I passed it. I even drew a smiley at the end of the last answer on the paper.
I made 100%! :) :D :D :D :D :D
I KNEW it... before he graded it.
Life is Amazing...
New email from my Indian friend...beautiful words...
The Goal was to list 10 quotes that changed your life in a positive way.
This is what he shared...
1. The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift....
2. You can't win a game that you dont even play it.
3. If you think you can you are right
4. You are you what you think what you are.
5. You dont get what you wish but you get what you keep in your mind.
6. love what you do and do what you love.
7. Take a decision and align with it.
8. You are most powerful when you are within you.
9. You can rise only by doing the best in today.
10. Happiness is not alone to give us all.... what I thought to achieve in our life.... you need your most healthy body first. Healthy body will make your healthy positive mind to act, to control to be happy. How will you get healthy body... 1.proper rest... 2. enough food 3. some excercise.
now, when you have healthy body you can think better, act better. align better, communicate better.
Happiness doesnt make us successful but sucess make us happy. So, we required success first. Happiness just removes resistance from the path but it is not only tool to make you successful.
For success we need to have healthy body and mind first then our clear goal and some positive visulization and action for it. Now, when you move this way.. align with the goal, the decision you made. love what you do. And now you will get success and you are happy. Multiply this happiness with more music dance or any other favourite activity or spending fun time with your friends.
Whole path.... rest, enough food, excercise.... now active body and mind... take decision.. make some powerful visulization....align with it and work on it....love what you do.... get success and be happy...Make it large...........!!!!!
Love to share with you"
Have a blessed day! :D
In Response...
Very nice, I am inspired by your words. So thankful to be sharing with you. These are some life changing phrases that I have read over the past few years.
1. "Read like a Wolf Eats"
2. “A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.” James Allen
3. All that we see or seem is nothing but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe
4. “Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.” James Allen
5.“Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” Jack Canfield
6. “Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and belief in the 'what”.
7. "A lucid dream is when you awake inside the dream and take control. Am I dreaming? Is this a Dream?"
8. "Merrily, Merrily, Merrily ...Life is just a dream."
9. "Beautiful dreamer wake unto me, starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee." Stephen Foster
10. "Your greatest reward lies on the other side of your biggest fear."
11. "There's no greater love than this, That a man would give his life for a friend; There's no higher sacrifice."
Our Greatest Fear
By Nelson Mandela
Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.
And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
Great things are happening! :D
To Truly LOVE someone, is giving them the freedom to be who they are without trying to change them. To really love someone you have to let them go...FREE.
You know its love, when you still love them even if there is nothing in it for you. That's love and what a blessed experience it is when you feel it for the first time because its in that moment that you become love and you for the first time in your life feel serenity and eternal peace in your heart. (SEE QUOTE NO. 11 ABOVE)
Its that moment when life really begins because you see through new eyes and everything is beautiful and you KNOW in your soul that everything is going to be ok! ;) Because your AWAKE.
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YOUR SO BLESSED, and SO LOVED! God is GOOD...ALL THE TIME!
Hold the Vision
Remain steadfast in Faith (knowing without any doubt)...
It must come to pass exactly how you see it. Don't waiver, don't look back, don't confuse it with any unorganized chaos.
See it, be specific, be direct, Organized...KNOW IT.
Do you know how powerful you are?
"How much better to get WISDOM than GOLD." Proverbs 16:16
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3.http://www.beardeddragonguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/baby-bearded-dragons1.jpg
4. http://www.cutehomepets.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/bearded-dragon-food.jpg
5. http://careforbeardeddragon.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/bearded-dragon-15.jpg
I'm laughing too, buy you have to admit its good stuff! :)
HOLD ON TO IT!
"Great and noble thoughts of what you habitually dwell upon become great acts." Joseph Murphy
"Become a mental surgeon, cease talking about your ailments or giving them a name, then your troubles will be cut off like dead branches are pruned from a tree. If you are constantly talking about your aches and symptoms, you inhibit healing, furthermore by the law of your own mind, these imaginings tend to take shape, As the thing I greatly feared. Instead, Fill your mind with great truths of life and walk forward in the light of love."
Joseph Murphy paraphrased by me.
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible."
— T.E. Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
HOLD the Vision and let nothing take it from you...no matter how big the offensive player, hold on to the ball until you reach your predetermined destination.
See it again with new eyes...;) HOCUS POCUS...TOUCHDOWN!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zewqNp3AMzM&feature=related
Scientific Evidence ;)
It's a GREAT DAY! :)
Lucid in the Day
"If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you." Robert Collier
“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”
Anais Nin
"Pause now to ask yourself the following question: "Am I dreaming or awake, right now?" Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer." ~Stephen LaBerge
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
Henry David Thoreau
"If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Loving my life! ;-)
Who knew?
Jello is made of animal carcases...They serve this in hospitals on a regular basis. How can that be healthy?
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/hygel.html
A while back I finally discovered that I am a vegetarian, I have felt amazing ever since I put down the meat. My body has improved and I feel amazing.
Well I found out this morning that one of my recipes that I loved with PUDDING...JELLO PUDDING...is made from animal bones and flesh. I never knew that, but what I find amazing...after I got sick to my stomach. Now I have to come up with a new healthy pie recipe..dang it! Makes me mad! Anyway....the beauty in it is that the information came to me. I did not seek it out. Because my energy was directed at being animal free in diet, I was approached with the information.
Your thought truly magnifies what surrounds you. I think it's beautiful, so thankful for the awareness.
"Perception and new discovery lead to new awareness."
It's in everything.. This is not meat...it is bone and flesh!!
The jelly beans I ate yesterday,
Ice Cream
Jam
Gummy Bears
Capsules
Velveeta Cheese
Marshmallows
Cereal
I am sick right now.... Very Sick!
http://vegetarian-problems.tumblr.com/gelatin
http://www.wolfstad.com/2006/09/pop-tarts-with-beef-gelatin/
I need cleansing....God help us! Its in everything.
No wonder the hospitals are overflowing. I have to write a book about this. The public must know...;) LOL! What a Sunday this turned out to be!
Still thankful for the information..but at the moment I am tad bit "overwelmed". Overwhelmed..?? Sp?
The good news is that Miller is an animal free company and bottled water so far is safe.
Water, Beer and Lettuce. J/K :)
"Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you. ... which he ate, and found it sweet as honey in his mouth, but after he had eaten it, it made his belly bitter, .... Ezekiel Chapter 3 Verse 3 ...
So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, "Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey." Rev. 10:9
You ever eat something that tastes amazing but later causes much distress in the digestive system?
Ever read something that is so sweet and easy to ingest but totally changes the fabric of your existance?
I once read that with great knowledge comes great responsibility. The more aware one becomes the more one is required to stand up and help others. I kind of felt like that yesterday. And its interesting how the food and the WORDS are intermingled as one here so that we understand it in a literal and symbolic way simultaneously. Isn't that beautiful?
Today I am thankful because only God knows how much I struggle with food, and only God knows my heart with animals, and the love I have for them, and only He knows how to make me move and change by using something I adore to shift my consciousness to a new channel. My body and my mind although torn yesterday feels NEW, REBORN today and I am filled with even more gratitude (did I spell that right?)
JESUS is not in the Refridgerator
When I was little, I experienced a lot of darkness in my life. But one thing that used to get me through was the stories I read of Jesus and how He loved me. I looked for Him everywhere, and when bad things would happen, I prayed to Him, I prayed for things to get better and I prayed for my mom's nails to grow because she wanted long nails. I prayed for everything as far back as I can remember. I always talked to him even though as I grew up I made many bad decisions, like entering the bar scene at 17 with a fake Id and a new name..I was Dina Jo!
ANYWAY... My grandmother (R.I.P) who I never really knew, used to go to church every Sunday and then feed the congregation after church in her home. She gave my mom this plaque of Jesus, and the plaque hung on the Refridgerator my entire life. And so every time I would go to the fridge, which was multiple times per day. I saw His beautiful FACE.
Well I noticed not long ago, that the only picture I have of Jesus, is on my refridgerator as an ADULT. You see I struggle with food and eating. I usually eat when I am stressed or if I am hurting, I search for comfort in the food. For hope, for love, for a good feeling. And unconscously I was searching for Jesus.
I started running and found that it is a passion of mine, Lots of ideas come to me while I run. One day I got this message..Jesus is NOT in the Refridgerator. And all the images that I just explained..came pouring forth in my mind.
For the first time in my life...I understood myself and my struggle with food.
I know He is not in the refridgerator, He is inside me, living in my heart and when I need Him all I have to do is say His name. He comes forth through unlimited access...Divinely Unified with All that is .. GOD! ;-)
Praising God today for AWARENESS! Excited to SHIFT my Consciousness yet again on to a new journey of new birth!
JESUS Is NOT in the Refridgerator!
"Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you. ... which he ate, and found it sweet as honey in his mouth, but after he had eaten it, it made his belly bitter, .... Ezekiel Chapter 3 Verse 3 ...
So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, "Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey." Rev. 10:9
You ever eat something that tastes amazing but later causes much distress in the digestive system?
Ever read something that is so sweet and easy to ingest but totally changes the fabric of your existance?
I once read that with great knowledge comes great responsibility. The more aware one becomes the more one is required to stand up and help others. I kind of felt like that yesterday. And its interesting how the food and the WORDS are intermingled as one here so that we understand it in a literal and symbolic way simultaneously. Isn't that beautiful?
Today I am thankful because only God knows how much I struggle with food, and only God knows my heart with animals, and the love I have for them, and only He knows how to make me move and change by using something I adore to shift my consciousness to a new channel. My body and my mind although torn yesterday feels NEW, REBORN today and I am filled with even more gratitude (did I spell that right?)
JESUS is not in the Refridgerator
When I was little, I experienced a lot of darkness in my life. But one thing that used to get me through was the stories I read of Jesus and how He loved me. I looked for Him everywhere, and when bad things would happen, I prayed to Him, I prayed for things to get better and I prayed for my mom's nails to grow because she wanted long nails. I prayed for everything as far back as I can remember. I always talked to him even though as I grew up I made many bad decisions, like entering the bar scene at 17 with a fake Id and a new name..I was Dina Jo!
ANYWAY... My grandmother (R.I.P) who I never really knew, used to go to church every Sunday and then feed the congregation after church in her home. She gave my mom this plaque of Jesus, and the plaque hung on the Refridgerator my entire life. And so every time I would go to the fridge, which was multiple times per day. I saw His beautiful FACE.
Well I noticed not long ago, that the only picture I have of Jesus, is on my refridgerator as an ADULT. You see I struggle with food and eating. I usually eat when I am stressed or if I am hurting, I search for comfort in the food. For hope, for love, for a good feeling. And unconscously I was searching for Jesus.
I started running and found that it is a passion of mine, Lots of ideas come to me while I run. One day I got this message..Jesus is NOT in the Refridgerator. And all the images that I just explained..came pouring forth in my mind.
For the first time in my life...I understood myself and my struggle with food.
I know He is not in the refridgerator, He is inside me, living in my heart and when I need Him all I have to do is say His name. He comes forth through unlimited access...Divinely Unified with All that is .. GOD! ;-)
So thankful for his Presence in my life, even when the knowledge He brings me upsets my system for a little while. ;)
Praising God today for AWARENESS! Excited to SHIFT my Consciousness yet again on to a new journey of new birth!
Here is the image, exact plate: http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/m/mpV_i_P6O8uRzlvhaoUWWaQ/140.jpg
Close up:
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Entangled Dreams
After years of study, grueling tests and terrifying clinicals...I graduated. ;)
It was the hardest course of study I have ever endured in my life. After going through it, I feel like I can do anything. Any other subject is an easy A.
For a month I have been putting in applications and waiting by the phone for an interview.
I kept saying to myself...I need to work, I need to work...but then a few days ago I changed my words and changed my thought pattern to Thank you for the wonderful opportunities. Thank you for the wonderful new career with great people surrounding me. Thank you for the great pay.
Thank you for taking care of me.
The night before last I had this dream that I was talking to an RN, an elderly woman that had been a nurse for 20 years. In reality I have never seen her, met her for the first time in a night dream. I asked her if you she liked what she did? She responded with ..."Yes, I love my job." I don't remember much else other than she was like a mentor to me in the dream. We were working to together.
Yesterday....the phone rings. I have an interview this morning at 9am. Oncology. ;)
I asked God to put me where I could do the most good.
I read this quote one time that said if you do something you love you will never work a day in your life. So I asked myself if I never had to worry about financial issues what would I do with myself?
The answer was, help others..I would volunteer in as many areas of doing good that I possibly could. There is no better feeling to know that you made a positive difference in someone's life.
Have a great Day! Wish me Luck!
I got the position! I start Oct.1!
Yes there is a God story with the interview process of which I will explain in the morning. Right now...I am so THankful...
My entire life has just changed.
The Interview
Are you ready for this? Its Good!
It was my interview day, the interview that if successful had the power to change my life forever.
Yesterday, I was looking really good, dressed, polished, heels, hair perfect except that I burned my left arm with the curling iron, so I have this big band aid with burn cream on it. I thanked God that it wasn't on my neck because that would have not been good for first impressions.
I got to the hospital on time with 10 minutes to spare. I was confident with only a few butterflies. I told the nice lady at the desk that I was there for an interview, people were everywhere, Doctors and Nurses and The Joint Commission was there so it was very busy. She said have a seat right there and pointed to what I thought was the right place and so I grab a chair and she says, No not there, in that room over there and she pointed again. I was flustered and my heart was racing. I was starting to loose the unity and become seperated again, I was forgetting whose in control and I was starting to think about how I was being judged, and how my every move was being scrutinized, every one was sizing me up and deciding if I was the one. I could feel eyes, peeking and prodding. As I was sitting in this little room multiple people came by the door smiling and saying hello. I knew I was too nervous to pull this off and I was saying to myself calm down, you can do this, Then I said, I am giving it to you, Lord. Then I looked to my right and laying on this table was a BOOK...with the words "The Power of Positive Thinking" by Norman Vincent Peale. I felt God in that moment and remembered who was really in control of the situation.
I picked up the book and started to read the last chapter,"How To Draw Upon That Higher Power". It was so good that I started writing down parts that stood out to me.
One very special part was about a "Trapeze Student" full of the fear of failure. The teacher in the scenario was waiting for the students to show what they had learned, but this student was fearful of falling. So the teacher puts his arm around the student and says to him, "Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow".
In reading those words I remembered my heart and why I was doing this, that it was out of love. I remembered how I asked God to put me where I could do the most good. People that are really sick and need help medically and emotionally. People that need someone to care for them. I began to TRUST Him and I lost sight of my shortcomings and my fear of failure. I lost sight of myself and my ego and let him take over inside me. I gave him control of my spirit and let love lead me.
I kept reading and writing while I waited: Here is a couple of other things that stood out:
"Select a dozen strong passages about faith and saturate your mind with them."
Then I read:
"I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best." I said that one in a whisper while I sat in the that little room.
The interviewer walks in as I am still reading and there is an immediate connection, she looked like the woman in my dream only much younger physically. She said come on down here to my office so we can talk. It was a pretty intense interview, but I wasn't nervous at all, all my butterflies were gone and my heart was beating normally. I felt like I was at "HOME". She asked me many deep thought provoking questions, she gave me fake scenarios and wanted to hear what I would do if I were in that situation. She also asked me what my definition of Integrity was.
Then she asked do you have any questions for me? Just like in my dream, I asked her if she liked what she did. She answered with, "I love my job", I started here as a tech years ago and now I am a manager. The people here work together as a team, we have our own pharmacy, The Dr's are kind and helpful and I never dreamed of going anywhere else. I looked deeply into her eyes while she was telling me this, and I could feel her honesty and her love for what she does. It was at that moment, I knew something was happening.
I really liked her as a person, she is very caring but also very professional.
She said to me, I hope you decide to come here and work with us. Then she gave me a tour and introduced me to everyone on the floor. Before I got home there was a message on my machine. When I returned the call a woman from human resources gave me an offer I could not refuse, then she said do you need to think about this offer for a while? I said absolutely not. I'm IN. :) Working 3/12 hour nights are great because I have the rest of the week to do other things that I am passionate about like being a mom and volunteering with the kids on other projects. Its absolutely perfect for me.
So Thankful.
I am also loving Normal Vincent Peale's thought patterns and will now have to read all of his books.
Nice write up about him:
Peale applied Christianity to everyday problems and is the person who is most responsible for bringing psychology into the professing Church, blending its principles into a message of "positive thinking." Peale said, "through prayer you ... make use of the great factor within yourself, the deep subconscious mind ... [which Jesus called] the kingdom of God within you ... Positive thinking is just another term for faith." He also wrote, "Your unconscious mind ... [has a] power that turns wishes into realities when the wishes are strong enough."
Have an Amazing Day!
Saving Henry
I think there is a time and place for the history of King Henry the 8th in relation to the church and I have been in informed this is neither the time or the place.
However, do keep in mind that he was a powerful king that devalued women, hated homosexuals and believed in slavery and gluttony. He died of a wound that would not heal. He had the bibles he printed chained to every church pew so the people would have to read them. Its an interesting history to research and study especially how King James comes into the picture later and had another bible printed after King Henry.
Knowing what I know about believing and manifesting, and how our thoughts create, especially collectively...when a majority is reading and believing the same concepts, the same ideas, the same stories... our collective environment reflect those beliefs. Just watch the news...its laid out there, many say its prophecy coming to pass. But what if it is just collective beliefs manifesting the physical perception of what we all call reality...or in our collective beliefs that this is supposed to happen because its what we have been taught to believe.
Just enough to make one curious:
"King James was not personally involved in the translation, though his authorisation was legally necessary for the translation to begin, and he set out guidelines for the translation process, such as prohibiting footnotes and ensuring that Anglican positions were recognised on various points.
Yep....next post will be more enlightening. ;)
"Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow"
There was a place in the book of John that stands out to me this morning:
Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. John 21:25
From what I have researched there are a lot of books out there that talk of Jesus, historical documents that didn't make it into the Bible as we know it. Lots and lots of books. How do we know, which ones to believe are truth?
Do we take the word of 44 men who decided what we should believe or do we let the spirit of God speak to our own soul in distinguishing truth?
Love will Lead and I believe that. I believe in the Power of God to guide me in truth.
This is from a book that I love and that inspires me called the Gospel of Thomas that many say is one that we should not agree as being truth but I can't help feeling the power of resonation within my soul when I read the words.
Its a personal journey and I believe that when something does not stand out to me I let it go for later on in my learning process, I hang on to the things I feel are leading me into LOVE.
This is one of my favorite passages from Thomas...It took me a while to understand it, but when I did ...I was FREE.
Jesus said, "Everyone who seeks should continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will be troubled at the contemplation of Truth, but when he has passed through the time of trouble, he will be astonished at the brightness of the Light, for the Way of Truth is the Pathway to the Eternal Godhead, and the price of the beatific vision is the wringing of the soul. The person who desires to rise above all things must descend below all things, for the way to the heights passes through the depths of anguish, which generate the fires of Life. The person who has suffered and found Life is blessed."
Be Blessed! :)
The Death/Rebirth of Iggy
Iggy was/is a bearded dragon. My youngest (13yrs) is an animal lover she has a room full of pets of all kinds, and she takes very good care of them. Feeds and cleans the cages, buys them toys, communicates..etc.
A woman came to their school with pets, reptiles, and introduced all of them to her pet bearded dragon, full grown, 2 feet in length. My daughter fell in love with it. She pleaded her case to me of which I was a little hesitant, I was never much of a reptile person. She did all the research and convinced me this was a good purchase. She saved her birthday money that people from all over.."magically" gave her. One person in the family up and gave her $100 out of blue of which almost choked me to death. It was just enough to purchase her dream pet and its new home.
I took her to the pet store where one little guy was waiting on her with his little foot placed squarely on the front of the terrarium almost as if he knew she was coming to get him. She said "He's the One" I agreed, I said,"He was waiting for you." She purchased everything she needed..lights, live crickets, books, rocks, carpeting. The bill was over $200. But she saved her money and made her own purchase.
Every morning she feeds this creature, every afternoon after school she feeds him again. I know that bond is tight because they spend so much time together.
We also have a cat named Gracie, Cats like to eat lizards, better yet they like to kill them. One day we accidently left her in the house. Upon our arrival home Iggy's terrarium was demolished...the entire top had been broken into.
The cat had the lizard in the kitchen floor of which I saved him. He had nothing wrong with him, he cheated death.
One night recently, weeks after this incident, I left her in to sleep, certain that she would not attempt such a thing in the presence of my daughter. And certainly aware that I would awake on hearing something if she attempted to be mischievious.
I was wrong, Dead Wrong. In the middle of the night she murdered Iggy. I can't tell you how bad I felt, my heart sank when I found his little mangled body in the living room floor, breathless. My daughter, cried and cried and cried, I have never seen her so upset over the loss of a pet. We have lost a lot of pets in the past and she was fine. But this one is special, and while I held her saying, I'm so sorry, over and over....Something happened.
In the midst of our sorrow over Iggy, I felt an image of him being in the pet store...AGAIN. I said to her you know every thing in life teaches us lessons, even the hard stuff like this right here, and I don't know where the words came from but they began pouring out of me. I said get dressed, Iggy is waiting for you in the pet store, His spirit just transferred into another body, He is teaching us something. She skipped school that day and we went to the pet store where you guessed it, Iggy was sitting on a rock way up high looking dead at her.
Interestingly while I was in the kitchen and she was in the bathroom getting ready to go. We both had a simultaneous image of buying him a plant. We hadn't bought him any plants in the past. He only had a rock to sit on. I told her we need to buy him a plant this time. She said I had the exact same thought. (at the same time) We bought him a big plant and now he stays in that plant, we can't get him out of it.
Was there any truth in Iggy's reincarnation? Or did I just make that up...I don't know for sure but I do know that it stopped my daughter's tears and mended her broken heart. Gracie has been banned from the inside of the house until Iggy is full grown. :)
Iggy's appetite has increased and he is growing quickly and needless to say after all this drama, I have become a reptile lover.
Pic of a full grown Bearded Dragon. Ummm...He is our baby. ;-) Just sayin'
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Bartagame_fcm.jpg/250px-Bartagame_fcm.jpg
Have an Amazing Day after you read the next POST on Lizard Medicine!
LIZARD Medicine
Teaches listening to intuition in dreams, visions and perceptions throughout the day. Be aware of the emotions surrounding your impressions. Aids in illuminating fears and doubts and how to change them. Lizard can teach about objective and compassionate detachment. Do you need time to rest and relax or step back from a situation? Is it time to move forward? When lizard appears, listen carefully to your inner guidance of feelings and emotions. He will give strength in taking the "next steps".
New Beginnings
A few weeks back we participated in the highly publicized "Color Run". 3 teens and myself. A niece, a daughter and a girlfriend of theirs. They had a slumber party the night before and when I woke up sleeping girls were all over my living room in a sea of junk food wrappers, empty potato chip bags and their shorts. My niece who has very long legs was hanging half way off the recliner where she was trying to find some peaceful sleep. I had to dodge may way around them to get to the kitchen at 4am for my coffee.
I woke these children up at 4:30 am, where they excitedly began to put their white clothes on and prepare for the happiest 5k on the planet. The drive was an hour and half trip. It rained, not only did it rain...It rained hard and consistantly for hours. As we arrived near the entrance of the motor speedway everyone else did too at the same time. Traffic was MAD..it was a brutal, long, slow drive into the event. 10,000 people showed up in the rain.
On the way in I saw these stickers on the back of vehicles that read: 13.1 and 26.2.
see photo: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7HPDEiQkq9I/ToRRl9sC-QI/AAAAAAAAKtw/DMbglQ2ZQsA/s1600/IMG_20110929_070727.jpg
I found out later they are called marathon stickers, you wear them proudly when you join the big leagues of running. I want one. ;)
Once we finally got parked, the scene was amazing. Big people, little people, young and old were walking in white in the rain to the start line. The music was loud and everyone was in great spirits even though it was raining so hard we were all completely soaked from head to toe.
They started us off in groups of 1000, we all got into this little area where the MC would get everyone pepped up and screaming. We ran out of the starting gate on to the motor speed way without a car. HA! As we get to each check point in the rain...people were attacking us with paint. The girls had paint in their hair and up their nose. It was hilarious. I have never seen them laugh so much..In the RAIN. Keep in mind these are very self conscious teens. :) They loved it and I loved it.
As we approached mid way...we witnessed a boy about 12 doing belly flops in the side of the track in large water filled grassy areas. And suddenly grown men began to run down the hill, land on their belly's and slide as far as they could go..IN the RAIN. Of course the girls had to try this a few times. There is a moment when I thought to myself this is crazy...it is pouring rain..people are putting paint all over us...there is water up to our ankles in some areas and we are having a ball with thousands of other people. INSANE!
When we finished the course, we had to participate in the EPIC finish where you get in this very large crowd and throw the powder paint up in the air to create this massive rainbow cloud before it all drops back on to your body. The MC had the music LOUD...and he counted us down. Everyone opened their pouches of color and began to throw it wildly in the air. For a moment all you can hear is laughter, screaming, people jumping up in the air with hands high up over their bodies. I couldn't see anything but colored dust..but I totally felt the love and the beat of the music. It was fantastic. The Kids absolutely loved it and we had a beautiful day in the rain. It didn't stop raining until we got in the car to go home.
We had to stop in Walmart on our way home for a blood sugar monitor for the teen that was with me, she broke her's in the chaos. She has Type 1 diabetes and has to wear a pump on her stomach to give her insulin when her sugar gets too high. So we entered the store looking like we have been swimming in paint and mud. People stared a hole in us and some even turned up their nose. I just pretended nothing was wrong and did what I had to do, Quickly. ;)
All in all it was a blessed day, and the girls love 5k's! They realized there is a new world of fun out there to participate in for a wonderful cause. The funds went to a local charity for people with disabilities called the "The ARC" spelled with a "C" instead of a "K". I thought that was funny considering that it totally flooded that day.
This morning I have a very important meeting to attend, I am meeting with the coordinator for Alzheimer's association to volunteer for our first 5k event. We are going to help organize and coordinate a 5k. They welcomed my daughter as well with open arms and said they would love to have her join in. She is at such an influential age right now. At 14 is where I took that turn and began drinking and smoking. I actually got drunk for the first time at 14.
So I read that if you put 5 trusting people in your kids life, 5 people they can talk to besides you. There is a less likely chance they will go down that hard road of development. I want to show her how she can have fun without getting drunk or smoking or doing drugs. She can have fun and do something good that will leave her feeling proud of her accomplishments and surround her with loving, compassionate people.
Its going to be a new journey. Going to make some new friends and have a lot of fun benefiting the community.
"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."
George MacDonald
I hope you have a Blessed, Amazing Day full of "little miracles"! :)
MC = Master of Ceremonies get it..MC instead of emcee ;)
"More Valuable than Gold"
A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.
"I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."
"The Wise Woman's Stone"
Author Unknown
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
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Kahlil Gibran
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own."
Disraeli
Just Sharing something shared with me...
I had this patient one time that had pneumonia, she was an elderly widow in her 80's who lived alone even though she did have grown children. She had a long list of chronic health problems. Upon her discharge I handed her 9 new perscriptions to have filled. She already had 9 that she had to take daily. Now this is 18 perscriptions she must keep organized and pay for.
She went through them and said.. I can fill this one and this one. The rest I can't afford. She is only ONE out hundreds of thousands in the same boat.
http://www.alz.org/national/documents/ppacarebatefactsheet.pdf
Just some thing we can all chew on today.
The Meeting
When we entered the cafe, he was the only guy in dark purple sitting with a laptop. I knew he was my guy. We talked for an hour and during this time we learned a lot about each other. I also fell in love with the cause, more so than before. One thing that I thought was unique and beautiful about their walks is that they have each participant write their story on a large flower. The volunteers then plant the flowers in a large garden so everyones stories can be shared and read.
http://addins.whig.com/blogs/betweenthelens/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/walk-187end-AlzheimersAA.jpg
Anyway...I signed on. He wants me to lead a huge upcoming walk next year with his guidance of course. Its going to be so much fun and it requires a lot of creativity...I love creating things. ;-) I think this is a great thing to be a part of considering I have been directly effected by this disease. Funding goes to research and to help support groups and educators for family members in the midst of this disease. Hoping for a cure in the future so other families don't have to experience this kind of pain.
Something magical happened in this as always. Earlier I almost cancelled the meeting or postponed it. I wasn't really into the drive, but something kept pulling me to go. While talking to him he said that he had 10 on his list and only 4 were willing to meet with him. He said that one of his main volunteers dropped out and left with a ton of material. Now he is stuck with a large upcoming race and not enough help. So I am glad that I went, God was pulling me there the whole time.
When he asked me to lead, I was hesitant because I have no experience, and I thought...can I really pull this off? Even though I was a little unsure, I told him the truth and told him that I am willing to give it my all. After we ended the meeting my daughter and I went to the book store, they had a massive book store there. She just finished reading the second book in a Alyson Noel series, So I bought her the 3rd book. I try to keep her encouraged with reading.
While I was in the store I looked up and there is this card in front of me that read: "Trust in God" in huge letters with a beautiful painting on the front of it. I bought the card. This is what it says:
God knows your every thought,
your every sorrow,
your deepest desire,
and your every need...
God never leaves us where he found us.
He desires to show us
great and marvelous things
through patience, trust, and a willing heart.
If we just believe, HE will LEAD the way,
unlocking what once seemed impossible.
God knows who "He made you to be.
The good work he started in you he will complete.
That is HIS PROMISE.
Put this promise in your heart.
Reflect on it every day.
If something comes along that makes you doubt,
remember the words written on your heart.
God knows his plan for you
a plan that will bring you happiness, prosperity,
and the fulfillment of your hearts desires.
You are blessed, yesterday, today, and always.
God knows what he is doing,
even if sometimes we don't understand.
He only asks that we trust Him.
Ummm....unusually long card to just pop in one's path in the book store, don't you think? I thought so too. That is why I bought it...and I have it to share this morning.
God Bless! Have a fantastic Sunday! :)
Ghost Writing
You know, I always wanted to be a ghost writer...its so much fun being mysterious. But those who really know me, know me. ;-) Ha! My true friends.
Doesn't matter how long friends are absent from one another's presence if it's true friendship you take up right where you left off, this brings tears to my eyes because there is no greater gift in life than to know you are loved for the real you.
We put on masks through out our life to please and to not offend, especially if we are in the minority with our true feelings. And many times we are in such a state of focus for pleasing others we lose who we are and what really makes us happy and brings us real joy in life.
I finally had to ask myself, Do you really want to sacrifice your joy just to be in the presence and accepted by a certain social group, or do you want to be happy and surrounded by those who love you unconditionally? After years of being a part of the first solution (miserably pretending). I finally chose the second solution.
It took years to figure out who I was, what I liked and didn't like. I am still on the journey. I don't think we ever really arrive and that is the fun of it. I do know now how important it is to be honest about the growth process because within it you meet some amazing people who truly care about your well being.
I also had to ask myself, Why am I so worried about being accepted by certain individuals? Why do I pretend to be someone I am not to gain approval? Then I looked in the mirror and I realized that, In reality it has nothing to do with the outside, it all reflects the inside of me. How I feel about me when I am alone is a direct reflection of how I am treated in the outside world.
Others feel my energy and respond or are drawn to what I am in alignment with. If it is self hate, I am going to attract that exact pattern in my life that will reflect how I feel about myself. They will hate me.
If it is self love, to know I am a child of God and that He loves me enough to have His spirit live inside me and guide me, to become His temple of dwelling. Then others will feel and be drawn and respond to that energy. "true love".
You ever wonder why some are said to be charismatic (everybody loves them) and you see others that seem to be surrounded by bullies (them against the world) Take time to talk to them and really get to know who they are on the inside, what their internal dialogue is in their mind. It becomes so obvious.
The key is changing the thought pattern, of self hate to self love (not narcissim (separation from all) but pure love (unification with all) there is a fine line between the two.
I have also learned that the first step in changing that in someone is encouraging them and motivating them and loving them for who they are. The exact way that you change it within yourself.
I feel like a ton of bricks have been lifted off my back, things are improving everyday. Life is Amazing! Happy to be ALIVE!
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and "head" and hands." Robert M. Pirsig
Have an Amazing MONDAY! It is going to be miraculous... :)
While I was putting in my contacts, I had the thought about Psalms 22 which was written by David and Jesus lived the role...to teach. (Separation vs Unity)
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from my cries of anguish?
2 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
by night, but I find no rest.[b]
Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
you are the one Israel praises.[c]
4 In you our ancestors put their trust;
they trusted and you delivered them.
5 To you they cried out and were saved;
in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by everyone, despised by the people. (thought process)
7 All who see me mock me; (external environment)
they hurl insults, shaking their heads.
Just some thoughts..Its an interesting read..the entire Psalm. He shows us how to go from separation to unity in the Psalm and with what he DID! ;)
Retrain the Brain
I had to sit in silence for a moment this morning because I had no idea what to write about. Usually it will come to me in the night as I sleep or simultaneously as I am writing. This time it came to me from a moment of silence.
It was an image of a woman, Louise Hay. She was a turning point in my own personal journey because she created ways to help retrain the thinking process through affirmations. Affirmations are just sentences that are positive about the internal self, they highlight areas in your life that you want to improve upon and banish shadow beliefs once the shadow beliefs are identified. It takes a lot of internal work and awareness of your own thoughts and belief patterns. It can make you quite emotional at times. Lots of tears if you have as many shadows as I did lurking in your crevices. I am sure there are some of the little devils still lurking that I haven't found yet. Its a game of hide and go seek.
In Psychology I learned that the term for this is "cognitive therapy". The idea is with consistent repetition of affirmations eventually you accept it as being true and we all know what happens when that occurs...magical things begin to take place in our lives. I am living proof. I always experiment on myself first.
Also in addition to the affirmations you can create a photo book to reinforce the affirmation process. It's the same as praying. The bible states we should pray without ceasing. David prayed 3 times per day. Jesus prayed often and said what you ask for will be given to you. But faith and belief is required to allow it to come to pass in the physical. That is what many of us lack is trust and belief and faith.
You ever notice how they play commercials selling products over and over in on television and when you find yourself looking for that particular item, you think of one certain brand. The very brand with the most hype behind it because you have learned to trust and believe in what they are selling. Then you buy it and it becomes in your "physical" possession. But in the beginning it was just a thought and an image on television not physical at all.
The more you advertise and push something no matter what it is, people buy into it. It works the same way with your own internal dialogue its all about energy and alignment.
Here is an example of one to repeat: "My creativity is always in demand."
I have her book called "Experience Your Good Now", it came with a CD that helped me so much understand this entire process. One thing that I have used in that CD that really made a huge difference when things begin to go wrong in my life is to stop and say, "All is Well and I am SAFE."
http://www.hayhouse.com/details.php?id=4846
This woman was a huge help in my life and I recommend her to everyone, she teaches to love to heal internally in a healthy way and her life's purpose and work in helping others is amazing. I admire her and hope to follow much of her lead in my own life.
Norman Vincent Peal says to find scripture in the New Testament and saturate your mind with it. It is not the New Testament but I love the verse," The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want, He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, he restoreth my soul, he leadeth me beside still waters, yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff ,they "COMFORT" me (he doesn't beat me with it). That is all I remember but it is one that I like to reflect on at times.
The point is as I grew up I had all these false beliefs in my mind about who I was and who I was supposed to be, it wasn't who I wanted to be and who God made me to be, because who God made me to be is who I wanted to be, it is our unique imprint its why we are drawn to certain things above others.
But experience with parents, family, friends, teachers, television, society molded me into something that wasn't really me, it was who I thought they wanted me to be. Make sense? God wants me to be who I want to be, who He made me to be by following my heart and trusting His guidance in my life.
He led me to her. ;)
Have a wonderful Day! :)
"You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind." Louise Hay
"Look at the problems in your life. Ask yourself, 'What kind of thoughts am I having that create this?'" Louise Hay
"No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts." Louise Hay
"Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to this moment. What you are now choosing to believe and think and say will create the next moment and the next day and the next month and the next year." Louise Hay
"Be kind to yourself. Begin to love and approve of yourself." Louise Hay
"You cannot travel within and stand still without."
"Here is a youth hard pressed by poverty and labor; confined long hours in an unhealthy workshop; unschooled, and lacking all the arts of refinement. But he dreams of better things. He thinks of intelligence, of refinement, of grace and beauty. He conceives of, mentally builds up, an ideal condition of life. The vision of the wider liberty and a larger scope takes possession of him; unrest urges him to action, and he utilizes all his spare time and means, small though they are, to the development of his latent powers and resources.
Very soon so altered has his mind become that the workshop can no longer hold him. It has become so out of harmony with his mentality that it falls out of his life as a garment is cast aside, and with the growth of opportunities which fit the scope of his expanding powers, he passes out of it forever."
"Years later we see this youth as a full-grown man. We find him a master of certain forces of the mind which he wields with world-wide influence and almost unequaled power. In his hands he holds the cords of gigantic responsibilities. He speaks, and lo! lives are changed. Men and women hang upon his words and remold their characters, and, sunlike, he becomes the fixed and luminous center around which innumerable destinies revolve. He has realized the Vision of his youth. He has become one with his Ideal."
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
As I read this again this morning I thought of spiritual maturity, those are the words that came into my mind. With spiritual maturity comes responsibility and accountability.
I also thought of acceptance of what has been given and how life changes so drastically when we get to the point of understanding.
It is so devastating to finally see the truth but then things seem to improve quickly and I remain steadfast in the hope that love finally seeps into all my crevices overpowering the rest of the lurking shadows of which I am very aware of at this point.
But hey, seeing them is the beginning of change for the better. We can't fix the problem until we identify it. :) That I can honestly say I have most definitely achieved this morning. I am not feeling well.
:)
The Maya
As in Micro, so in Macro. The whole exists within the minutest particle and the minutest particle contains the whole. The atom contains the universe and the universe contains the atom, and neither exists without the other. Creator exists within creation, even as creation exists within
creator.
- Brahmarishi Mayan, circa 10,500 BC
A few days ago I was ease dropping on Iggy (the dragon), He didn’t see me but I saw him. Instead of buying him a mate we bought him a mirror to help him with his social skills.
Well after several weeks of avoiding his reflection, he finally found the mirror and saw the reflection within it. He assumed that it was another lizard. I giggled because he stared at himself for the longest time thinking he was actually looking at another reptile just like himself. He didn’t try to attack it like he did my finger the other day. He only stared in disbelief.
He didn’t know that the outer reflection he was seeing was just an energetic illusion of himself. ;)
I said to myself, “Iggy, at this moment every move you make is reflected back to you in that mirror.”
Life is just that way.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." - William James
A dragon sees his own reflection:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dwcwjqLPiw&feature=related
I know that at times I forget these concepts in my own life. Its nice that nature can remind me how to get back on track. Animals are fabulous teachers. :)
Maya or Māyā (Sanskrit माया māyāa[›]), in Indian religions, has multiple meanings, usually quoted as "illusion", centered on the fact that we do not yet experience the environment directly but rather through some projection of it—Maya sustains the self by blessing self judgement of self creation. Māyā is the principal deity that manifests, perpetuates and governs the illusion and dream of duality in the phenomenal Universe. A mystic may attain self-realization observing the manifestations of Maya.[1] Each person, each physical object, from the perspective of eternity, is like a brief, disturbed drop of water from an unbounded ocean. The goal of enlightenment is to understand this—more precisely, to experience this: to see intuitively that the distinction between the self and the Universe is a false dichotomy. From the perspective of Maya any distinction between consciousness and physical matter, between mind and body (refer bodymind) is a kind of illusion of the unenlightened.
Have a Great Day! :)
Dragon Eats Fruit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWw8eqb0-oI
Mystical Creatures, They look so ancient.... Love them.
Changed Identity
Yesterday I was officially legally reborn, it was a moment where I said, "wow, that was easy".
In reality it wasn't, years of internal work went into what it took for that moment to physically manifest on paper with a judge's signature.
Now a totally new life begins and is unfolding magically before my eyes. Everything is just falling into place.
The more I work on my internal dialogue for the better, the better my life is getting externally. :)
"...by virtue of the thoughts which they choose and encourage; that mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness."
James Allen
"The may NOW weave in enlightenment and happiness."
"The Making of...Beautiful Relationships"
I read that in order to have friends... loving, genuine, true friends...we first have to be that way...ourselves.
To make friends we first must be a friend to others. We have to take the first step in connecting and in communicating with others.
But first and foremost we have to become our own best friend, knowing who we are and what we stand for and liking it. What is it that brings joy to our heart and mind and is pleasing to God's spirit within?
Then and only then do we develop the courage to step out into the world and meet other like minded individuals. "When God is for you, who can be against you?"
Life changes for the better.
I have learned that if I am pretending to be something I am not, to please others and get acceptance from a crowd that is not anything like me, then it makes one more lonely and isolated than if they had no friends at all. It also makes my entire existence FAKE...and every time I look in the mirror I see a LIE. Its no way to exist.
I used to hate my own reflection, I found myself saying the most horrible things a person could say to themselves when I was alone. I hated who I was and the way I looked. Little did I know that the energy I was exuding attracted external circumstances that reflected it. And I wondered why do I always get into hurtful relationships? Why do I seem to pick the very people who hurt me and betray me and say horrible things to me? Now "I SEE"!
"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark." ~Zen Proverb
I can now honestly say by the Grace of God, I love who I am becoming. I can look in the mirror and like who I see. It feels really good, its so freeing.
“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”
― Brene Brown
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz, "Personal Conduct," The Second Sin, 1973
"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." ~George Moore
I loved this writing about positive assumptions by Ralph Marston today. :)
It is just what I needed.
Positive assumptions
Assume the best, and then work to make your assumption true. Assume you can do it, and then go about finding a way to get it done.
Your assumptions exert a powerful influence on your thoughts, actions and perceptions. To make your life more fulfilling, make your assumptions more positive.
At any point in time, life has so many pathways to choose from that you cannot possibly perceive them all. What you will see are the possibilities you assume to be there.
That doesn’t mean those possibilities are imaginary. What it means is that those very real possibilities are discernable and available to you because of the assumptions you’ve made.
Negative, disabling assumptions lead you in the direction of a very dismal reality. Positive, empowering assumptions give you every opportunity to live a rich, fulfilling life.
Though assumptions don’t make your wishes come true, they can give you the perspective necessary for bringing your dreams to life. Assume the best, and you’ll encounter plenty of opportunities to make it happen.
— Ralph Marston
Take Control Of Your Thought Process
One way I take control of my thoughts is by using my feelings as a guide. If I am angry or depressed, I ask myself what is it that I was thinking that caused me to feel this way? It is usually something in my past that I can't seem to move away from but once I identify the thought, I have the power to change it.
You can immediately feel better by saying, "I love you" over and over. Or begin to count the things in your life that you are thankful for. We are all thankful for something.
At times I use a negative situation to remind me to flip it to its positive opposite. If I have a debt that I can't pay, I say thank you for the money. Every time the phone rings, I say it. If I am going through bills I can't pay, Write thank you for the money on the back of them and put them away. The money will come. Opportunities will emerge ...it has to it is a natural law unless I am sabotaging my own efforts with doubt.
Its all about focus and intention...and believing. If we don't believe in it we can't see it. We have to believe in it, before it manifests. (whatever it may be, goals, money, shoes, food, success...whatever!)
Is it biblical? Absolutely! These concepts go back as far as you can trace!
This is an interesting paragraph I ran across this morning:
"Aligning yourself perfectly with your intentions is the key to manifestation. By being aware of your thoughts, you can indeed master this alignment process. It's a matter of paying attention to where your thoughts flow, and the feelings those thoughts create within you. When you're feeling upset or uneasy, trace back to the thoughts that are creating this unease. Once you're able to pinpoint those thoughts, make a conscious effort to change or turn them around."
I have learned to focus on things that really bring me joy. I do as many of these things as I can. It becomes super easy to conjure up a great memory and to be thankful for those times. Many times all I have to do is look at picture of our good times and it brings the joy back instantly.
Every one finds joy in different things, I have personally found more joy doing as much good for others as possible. To wake up every morning praying for the opportunity to make a positive difference in someone's life. The energy from those experiences multiplied feels absolutely amazing. ;-)
Have a Great Day! :)
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"WHATEVER YOU CREATE, IN THIS MANNER, IN YOUR MENTAL WORLD, WILL LATER BE MANIFESTED IN YOUR OUTWARD LIFE."
Dynamic Thought, by Henry Thomas Hamblin [1921
"I want you to trust me to the extent of doing something, the underlying principle of which cannot be explained in this first lesson. I want you to make what is known as an "affirmation," I want you to affirm the following: "THE OLD LIFE IS DEAD AND BURIED. I HAVE SEVERED MYSELF FROM IT ONCE AND FOR ALL. HENCEFORTH I LIVE THE NEW LIFE... "
Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin
Sucralose (I like that word)
Yesterday, I was fitted for a TB mask for the first time. There is a special way you have to put these masks on so that no air can seep in from the edges. It has to form perfectly around the face.
She showed me how to put it on and then she told me to breath in deep and blow out very hard to see if I felt any air escape around the edges. I thought it was fine. She then proceeds to put this large white hood over my head and sprayed sucralose aerosol into the hood with me in it. She asked me if I could taste sweetness. I told her, "yes, I can taste it". She said in that case my mask wasn't tight enough and I had to redo the entire process until we got a tight fit. OOPS!...In the end after another try, we finally had success with the TB mask. :)
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They told me yesterday I will be taking care of TB patients as well.
"TB-causing bacteria is passed from person to person through the air when someone with the disease coughs or sneezes. People who are nearby may get infected after breathing in bacteria. The bacteria can attack any part of the body, but they usually stick to the lungs."
Warning Graphic pic of Lung w/ TB bacteria, Don't look if you have a weak stomach.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ayDfkQkrVmU/TFJ0clyjbWI/AAAAAAAAAIs/5oG7IQ7UuHI/s1600/post+mortem+Dis+alpacas.JPG
Am I worried? Absolutely not... ;-)
God has my back...and my front! :)
Good Day Today!
FEAR "NOT"
"People living deeply have no fear of death."
Anais Nin
"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain." Frank Herbert
Reaching Euphoria
Gosh It is chilly this morning...I had to wrap up. I am just not a cold weather person at all. I am moving to a warm island just as soon as I can.
I am practicing for my first half marathon at home every day. I have learned that what I eat right before a run greatly influences how long I stay in the game.
My daughter runs with me but she is not able to run as long as I do yet. She wanted to know, How in the world do you run nonstop without getting overly tired.
The key is to start slow. Run a lap, walk a lap...then run two laps, walk one lap...run 3 laps, walk one lap...run 4 laps, walk a lap, then run 4 more and walk 1. eventually you can connect them all with running. I had to listen to my body and feel it. One day after the 4th lap Instead of walking my body said ..Go...you have plenty of energy left to do this. I heard forest gump in my mind when he broke out of his braces....Ha! I love that movie, precious! Now I am running 3 miles a day without walking in between. It feels amazing.
couldn't help it...LOL! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2-MCPa_3rU
Many ask how in the world do you do that? It's just a matter of getting your body used to it over a gradual period of time. It is a great habit to create for yourself.
It takes 66 days to form a new habit! http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/09/how-long-to-form-a-habit.php
This is the perfect plan...
http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml
"But the longer and farther I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind - a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
HAVE A GREAT DAY!
Finding Your Sweet Spot
In addition to yesterday's post, when I started running I had to find the right speed. If you run with the throttle wide open, you will tire out very quickly.
You have to find the balance where you are breathing normally and your body just glides along the path. Its not too fast, and its not too slow. I always have that extra burst of energy for the last lap to get faster right before the finish line.
There was a moment in the process when I became fully in the moment, one foot in front of the other, one step at a time. This moment is all I have and I choose to live it like this.
And my earbuds Rock the entire time!
Also I started getting these blisters or burned areas of skin right under my arm on the right side. On the left is where I keep my Mp3 player with an armband. Those rubbing burns on the right were killing me, hurt when I would finish running. So I took an old fluffy sock and cut the top out of it and made an arm band that would fit around my upper arm. Now ...no more arm burns. :)
IT'S A GOOD THING!
New topic coming up in a few seconds!
It's 2am, Do you know why I can't sleep?
Here lately I have been waking up at anywhere between 2:30 and 3:00 am and I toss and turn til the alarm clock buzzes at 4:30am. So instead of tossing and turning I decided today I would get up and do something productive.
In a few weeks I will be a night owl anyway (hoot, hoot)...I love working nights. I usually get in the bed around 9am and sleep til 2pm then I do it all over again! ;P
It also gives me more time to be a mom the rest of the week which is what I care about the most. That is the only thing I don't like about working...is leaving my mommy post. However hard and unusual my situation has been over the past 13 years...I am thankful that I got to be a stay at home mom, most of the time, or had a job where I could take her with me.
My youngest one is in Eriksons stage of Identity vs Confusion. So me leaving her side will be beneficial to her finding her own identity. However scary that is for me as mom, I have to let her explore who she is and wants to become without being to overbearing. I think gentle guidance and support with a mixture of living by example will help her develop in a healthy way.
I also work another part time little gig that is more fun than it is work and I make however much I want to make depending on how much time and effort I put into it. We had a Red Carpet night honoring top sellers on Monday and I took my daughter and her friend with me. The attire was little black dress and we all looked really good. About 100 people attended and my director asked my daughter to stand up and introduce herself to everyone. She has a little story about my daughter she likes to tell people. I was so proud of her, she looked amazing and spoke beautifully in front of all those people. It was a good night! ;-) God has great things in store.
Today I am off to have TB skin test read at the hospital for job clearance. It is going to be my new home for a while until I move to my warm island and become care giver to sick islander natives :-).
Am I just rambling today? Maybe :-0...but I believe there is a reason for everything! :D
Have a Beautiful Day!
Leaving the Negativity Behind
In order to move forward into the shift, one can't hide and can't runaway from what was. One has to have the courage to be the shift right in the place that they are in the moment. I have to own it!
It doesn't matter who is surrounding me or what my life once was. When I take hold of who I have become and embrace that. Parts that once were connected to me, as in friends, (so-called) will fall away or will go the other way...Ha! They will unfriend me. What will be left are those who truly love me regardless...and those are the one's I want to call friends.
You cannot align with someone who is not an energetic match. You maybe connected in some way for life, but spending time together on a regular basis just will not happen. Some thing or event will always prevent it. The phone will ring, someone will interrupt every time you try to carry on a conversation. Some odd circumstance will come up that prevents the meeting from happening.
Once embracing the new happens, magically, seemingly, new people begin to emerge into your life. New friends with different faces but with a familiar spirit, a spirit that you recognize as being in alignment with your own. That is just one of the beautiful rewards that come with knowing and embracing who you have become.
Oprah once said, "It's not hard to find someone to ride in the limo with you, but I want to find someone who will ride the bus with me when the limo breaks down."
She also said,"Don't you hate it when makeup artist's put so much lip gloss on you that when you go on stage you look like you've just finished eating a piece of fried chicken?" HAHAha! Sorry...had to share
My point this morning is ...learning to be still, embrace who I am, Love who I am even in the face of possible rejection. There will be rejection because of the change...but it will not last because the reward of the new acceptance will overshadow what was. Pure joy comes when we love who we are and I thank God for living inside me and showing me this truth. :)
Have a Blessed Day!
Believe before Seeing!
Fake it til you make it!
One of the tricks of manifesting is convincing yourself and others that something is happening before it actually does, then guess what? It happens.
It is the same as counting your blessings, it's just counting them before you actually have them physically.
I've read these concepts in just about every area of life addressing business and personal issues.
One of the big things in business is that no one will take you seriously until you take yourself seriously. People tend to believe about you, what you believe about yourself when no one is looking. It is an energetic reflection to teach us about direction, our navigator.
Another important thing I learned about running a successful business is to give it away..."the widgets" Ha! Give them away first... because it is a natural law that what you give is multiplied and returned.
Richard Branson who is one my inspirations in business started his publishing company by giving away thousands of copies of his first magazine. He made it successful by selling ads in that same magazine. When you give it away something magical happens,its planting the seeds for the harvest. A farmer always goes in debt during planting season but he knows with the right nurturing the harvest will yield what he put in plus more. Did God do it? He told us it would happen that way if we follow the right steps in production.
When we take from others to get ahead, it always comes back to bite us in some form. A big drought comes along and kills our crops. Did God do it? He told us it would happen if we didn't take the proper steps.
Why do I like Richard Branson? His story is amazing, he has overcome incredible obstacles and he still cares about people and animals and giving back!
“My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them." Richard Branson
"I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life."
Richard Branson
What was the first business idea you came up with?
I set up this magazine called Student when I was 16, and I didn't do it to make money - I did it because I wanted to edit a magazine. There wasn't a national magazine run by students, for students. I didn't like the way I was being taught at school. I didn't like what was going on in the world, and I wanted to put it right.
Of course, a lot of businesses want to reach students, so I funded the magazine by selling advertising. I sold something like $8,000 worth of advertising for the first edition, and that was in 1966. I printed up 50,000 copies, and I didn't even have to charge for them on the newsstand because my costs were already covered.
So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make sure the magazine would survive. The point is this: Most businesses fail, so if you're going to succeed, it has to be about more than making money.
Richard Branson
I'm on the verge of something huge... I always experiment with myself before talking about it. I have learned that if you can run one business you can run any of them. My first business was understanding myself. If we can do that ...we can do anything. Ha! :)
Great Saturday, I get to go to a wedding...I have this massive 3 layer strawberry shortcake I made for the reception. :) It is nice...going to be a treat for the guests!
Confidence vs Arrogance
What is confidence? To me it's faith in God to get you from point A to point B. It is becoming a hollow vessel for the Creator's spirit to fill and use on a whim without shame of the mission laid before you. It's holding your head up in the darkest hour and knowing all is well even before the light emerges. Confidence is Unity and Belief in the Oneness of life and it is the acceptance of the energetic reflection life shows us.
Arrogance is the denial of one's own reflection. It is a manifestation of the separation of all that is. It is the belief in the illusion of separateness and refusal to look at the self in the energetic mirror of life.
Another inspiration of mine is Mary Kay Ash, Why because God led me to her book called "Miracles Happen" in a thrift store one day. I read it and fell in love with her. She was one determined, driven woman.
She said this about people: “Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
― Mary Kay Ash
I try to live by that because everybody is important no matter what their appearance. There is a blessing hidden within the heart of every individual. When we take a moment to make that blessing come forth, the massive amount of energy provoked in that one encounter, follows you and that person forever. It is an amazing feeling to be unified with all you meet.
I had so much fun last night, I drank water or Diet Coke the entire time...a few guests had one too many. HaHa! I love it... An old friend of mine from years back always pinches you when he has had too much. He pinched on me all night and I love him and all his pinching very much. They demolished my cake. It's Good Thing! ;)
A few more of my favorite quotes from Mary Kay Ash:
“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
― Mary Kay Ash
“The greatest polution problem we face today is negativity. ”
― Mary Kay Ash
“My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared”
― Mary Kay Ash
She has some amazing books! Great Reads.
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Gods Beautiful Blessings this Sunday! :)
Embracing the Change
It is official I start orientation today. Ready to meet the new family.
I got this note this morning:
“There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.”
― José N. Harris, MI VIDA
http://mypinkvisions.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/life-is-too-short.jpg?84cd58
God's Blessings Today in a "VERY SPECIAL WAY"! :)
Creative Visualization
I keep running into the book by Shakti Gawain called Creative Visualization, so It must mean I need to read it.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KsgexhhCL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg
This morning I go searching for excerpts from the book and this is what I find:
One law of energy is this: Energy of a certain quality or vibration tends to attract energy of a similar quality and vibration.
"Thoughts and feelings have their own magnetic energy that attracts energy of a similar nature. We can see this principle at work, for instance, when we "accidentally" run into someone we’ve just been thinking of, or "happen" to pick up a book that contains exactly the perfect information we need at that moment."
Hahaha! I love it when that happens...
Do you think I am going to read the book? Absolutely... ;)
Another excerpt:
"When we create something, we always create it first in thought form. A thought or idea always precedes manifestation. "I think I’ll make dinner" is the idea that precedes creation of a meal. "I want a new dress," precedes going and buying one; "I need a job" precedes finding one, and so on.
An artist first has an idea or inspiration, then creates a painting. A builder first has a design, then builds a house.
The idea is like a blueprint; it creates an image of the form, which then magnetizes and guides the physical energy to flow into that form, and eventually manifests it on the physical plane.
"The same principle holds true even if we do not take direct physical action to manifest our ideas. Simply having an idea or thought, holding it in your mind, is an energy that will tend to attract and create that form on the material plane. If you constantly think of illness, you may eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so. Unconscious ideas and feelings held inside of us operate in the same way."
Have a Great Day! I have to get this book today! :)
I love my life! :)
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"In the same way that you can love a good friend while clearly seeing his or her faults and short comings, you can love yourself for all that you truly are."
Shakti Gawain
Making a Positive Difference
People are truly incredible, kind and loving. That is what I choose to see.
In seeing and in believing in that perception magnifies...incredible, kind and loving people into my reality....everyday.
Living those same words and the definitions of those words in my own being, magically pulls the same type of energetic beings into my life. ...everyday.
Pure thought, pure actions = pure reality.
My definition of purity= the absence of anything that pollutes. (example: hate)
“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.” – Robert Collier
Be kind to yourself and the bullies will disappear.
http://www.upworthy.com/bully-calls-news-anchor-fat-news-anchor-destroys-him-on-live-tv?g=3&c=upw2&ref=nf
"Follow your bliss and the Universe will open doors where there were walls.” – Joseph Campbell
Beautiful Day!
"Waste Not, Want Not"
“Waste no tears
Upon the blotted record of lost years,
But turn the leaf, and smile, oh smile, to see
The fair white pages that remain for thee.
“Prate not of thy repentance. But believe
The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.
That which the up-reaching spirit can achieve
The grand and all creative forces know;
They will assist and strengthen as the light
Lifts up the acorn to the oak-tree’s height.
Thou hast but to resolve, and lo! God’s whole
Great universe shall fortify thy soul.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Coinkydink? (sorry I spelled that wrong (Coincidence?)
I just finished "Sinner's Creed"! I bought a copy from Amazon back when it first came out...months ago. I actually received a copy of it yesterday afternoon in my mailbox. My daughter said, " Who is that? He is cute!
I read 125 pages last night, but finally had to go to bed because I just started a new job and I am in the middle of orientation. It has been a challenge. I can't run and that is upsetting to me cause I love to run in the afternoons but I am not getting home til dark...so I am going to run all weekend. ;p.
Anyway...It's really ironic and only God can connect people in such a way that totally becomes a dynamic reflection of one another.
Of course it is a natural law that like attracts like even above words..it's an energy.
I couldn't put the book down. I finished it tonight and even read it on my lunch break today. Yea! Amazing irony...I couldn't believe the connections.
I really enjoyed it and was inspired and moved. I appreciate the work and the time it took to create this and to share with the world. I also understand the courage that it takes to talk about such personal pain and situations and admire the transparency that went into this book. Very moving! Definately a BESTSELLER! God's Blessings... Always prayed, and still praying! :)
Guidance...
I stopped by Publix on my way home this evening and found some cole slaw. It had Sweet Cole Slaw marked on the container. Good Stuff! :-D
“Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.”
― Alexander McCall Smith
The Process
I have taken in so much information this week that I am on information overload right now. A couple of amazing lessons I have learned is yearning to be spoken about.
One of the main concepts I keep hearing in my mind over and over is that when something goes wrong in a situation, it is not the person, but the process the person is using that needs refining.
That can go very deep. The process, sure it can be a simple skill to carry out a task in the most efficient way possible. A task that has been time tested by others who have devoted their lives to perfecting the process to finish with the best possible result. Meanwhile, Always accepting that there is room for improvement.
The process can also be the way a person thinks and the images supplied in mind through life experiences. Change the very essence of thought pattern, change the images...and the persons life changes right along with them.
Just some thoughts this morning. One more day...
Truth!
Yesterday during orientation as we learned about an EKG, the speaker said something that stood out in my mind. She said, "Truth always stays the same."
Then I saw this in my mind:
Truth stands the TEST of TIME. With practice truth always produces the same results.The lie will take us to a dead end street. A dead end street over and over again until we accept the truth.
She was speaking of the way the heart association has changed the names of certain heart rhythms. One of them had 5 different names..but it was THE SAME RHYTHM. She said doesn't matter what you call it...it's the same thing folks..don't get confused!
A million thoughts went through my head when she said that. But TRUTH no matter where you apply it, even with a heart rhythm strip ...is still truth. It never changes. Truth is Timeless. It cuts like a knife through lies, through labeling, through all the different names, the "Rhythm" remains the same!
We have been spoiled this week with catered breakfasts and lunches, drinks. Anything we wanted. But one big episode has stood out in my mind and that is that everytime I would step up to fix my lunch..I got asked by a different person..Why I didn't eat meat? To keep it short and to keep from getting into a long debate...I said for health reasons, I feel better when I stay away from it. Which is Truth..but not the whole truth.
I saw a video and read a quote that changed my life...and I will never eat another animal as long as I live. I will eat roots and grass first. You see when we go to a restaurant and order a beautiful steak, or we go buy the nicely packaged meat at the grocery store...it looks so nice and peaceful lying there. Its all good, right?...What happened to get it to that point?
I said to myself, if you don't have compassion for the animals, at least think about the negative energy that you are putting into your body...because the enzymes that were produced in the torture and mutilation the animal suffered...went directly into the MEAT and then into my body.
Now ...with that said...it is a personal decision...but I stand behind mine. My kids....they have to make that decision for themselves. I still buy it because they eat it...and I don't think its right to force my perception and belief on them. But they do have the right to see the entire process and to know the truth..so that they can make their own decision in the future when the time is right for them.
"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken."
Leo Tolstoy
“As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.”
― Leo Tolstoy
Think about it...if life is our reflection on a micro level...life is also a reflection on a macro level.
This morning...I put a link on here that took the reader straight to video's that will change the way you think about food intake. I want to apologize if it was too graphic...maybe inappropriate material.
If anyone is curious...just go to you tube and search "The truth about slaughter houses" you will become fully educated on the topic.
This is a link that provokes serious thought and gets the point across without the graphic images:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hakAfNWxneg
Black Elk Oglala Sioux Holy Man
1863-1950 (TRUTH STANDS THE TEST OF TIME)..ALWAYS
You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
This is the rhythm strip that brought all this into being..It is called SVT...Its a very FAST rhythm..it also has 5 other names but it is the same rhythm.
http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/upload/136203.gif
I am so thankful for knowledge and truth even when it hurts and causes me to change direction! Blessed Saturday... :)
The Macro Reflection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpIKJ9mo7wU
Break the Cycle
When I was taught about the infection PROCESS I was told that I had to intervene in the middle of the PROCESS in order to break the cycle.
By intervention I can prevent infection from occurring. In order to have the knowledge to take this kind of action. I had to understand the process of infection from start to finish.
Its the same with ANY PROCESS. If results that a process is producing in our lives is causing a result we do not like, with intervention the old cycle is broken and the new emerges unless we follow the same process as before producing the same results.
In other words we must change thought pattern, images and actions in mind in order to produce a physical manifestation that is more PLEASING!
Cycle of Infection:
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Cycle Broken:
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The way we break the cycle is to make a drastic change. A simple way to do that is to read a book that takes you in the opposite direction of where you were going. WORD is new thought, new thought applied...produces new results.
Another way to break a cycle is to sit down and write out what your goals are and then look at images of those goals multiple times per day. After some time passes you will see that resources to produce those goals and make them real..come to you! Prove me Wrong! Please... :)
Have a Great Sunday!
Peace...
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http://www.destinychurch.tv/sites/default/files/lion-and-the-lamb_0.jpg?1339709841
Think about it! Usually this would not happen. What is it a reflection of? A future society?
Can it really be that simple, to observe it in our reality, we simply change our eating habits?
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
― William Wilberforce
“For as long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”
― Pythagoras
“By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
“Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away. ”
― Robert Fulghum
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
Leonardo da Vinci, artist and scientist
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President
"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
Mahatma Gandhi, statesman and philosopher
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
Thomas Edison, inventor
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. ~Paul McCartney (You tube is the GLASS Wall)
A Dream within a Dream
Saturday night I dreamed, in the dream I was teaching a friend of mine about metabolism. Now the graph I showed him in the dream was something I had never encountered in waking hours.
I drew it in dream and I remembered it when I woke up, so I drew it again and showed my daughter. Out of curiosity I googled metabolism when we eat six meals per day. In the dream I was showing him the difference in our bodies reaction to 3 large meals verses 6 small meals.
The graph showed how we have a large increase in glucose release with a large meal and a large crash when it comes down again. The crash makes you feel very bad, it also makes us eat more during our 2nd or 3rd meal of the day. Usually our 3rd meal is the largest...and we have a HUGE crash about bedtime.
If we eat 6 small meals, we don't have crashes, we don't get hungry, and the body works better because we have consistent energy levels and our metabolism believe it or not actually speeds up and stays consistent as well.
Here is the graphs, They already existed:
http://www.betterlifeclinics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/InsulinGraph_6.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f3jMESj9eaI/Tz3H6ytqKmI/AAAAAAAAEAU/I2uF8VoZdw4/s640/InsulinGraph_3a.jpg
You see with a large meal the peak is much higher therefore the crash is more intense.
My point is that dreams are creative and they are also messages, sometimes lifesaving messages. They are portals of communication as well with those who have passed on.
"The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened". ~James Arthur Baldwin
"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions." ~Edgar Cayce
Beautiful Monday! :)
Jumping Rope
My daughter recently stared a hole in my nose while we were driving home for the evening. I could see her out of the corner of my eye, she finally got up the nerve to ask me how I got that little crook right in the center of it.
I told her there were two possibilities to that. One night on our way home from a party, my sister and I as teenagers got into a fight in the car. Actually she was the one fighting, I was trying to drive. Someone gave her vodka at the party and, after trial and error we discovered she is not a vodka drinker. While going down the highway she decides she wants to jump out of the car. I am driving at a high rate of speed, reach over to pull her back in and bring back nothing but her shirt, I did manage to keep her from jumping out. Me removing her shirt..made her furious, so she decked me with a closed fist right in the nose. I saw stars...to be punched in the nose is excruciating. She then decided to hit me again with her other fist in the side of the head. By this time I am so angry I could kill her...but I took into consideration that this is the vodka reacting, not my beloved sister. So I didn't hit her back, instead I got us home and put her in the bed. It is funny I go into some kind trance when I am hit, it is actually kind of funny. It doesn't bother me like it would most people. I had this patient cuss me like a dog one night..and I thought to myself this can't be really happening..and I really thought it was funny. I guess God is with me in those situations, He gave me a special gift under intense emotional pressure.
The other possibility is when I was very little, I was trying to teach myself how to jump rope on concrete outside my home. After many tries I finally had a good rhythm going when somehow my feet got tangled in the rope and I went forward onto the cement, landing on my nose. It bled really bad, excruciating pain...geesh. I retired from jump roping (edit: I mean jumping rope..it is early..OK?) after that experience. Some people are just not meant to jump rope. :)
After these explanations she laughed at me for quite some time. I thought I am glad my wounds can be uplifting, at least something good came from experiencing those painful events. It made my kid laugh. ;)
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"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
Mark Twain
Have a nice day!
Stress and Laughter
Yesterday upon arriving at my destination. I entered a very large room with a movie screen at the front of it. A professor at a local university began to speak and show us videos.
He is a pilot and he also teaches aviation. His mission yesterday was to teach us patient safety. We were put into live simulations with mannequins and expected to perform in front of our peers and research personnel behind a one way mirror. Talk about pressure and high stress. I forgot my name and could barely remember how to perform. I looked like a deer in the headlights much of the time and kind of wished someone would punch me to snap me out of it.
I survived but had a rough day. Very stressful...I killed a mannequin. It was a disaster. Too much morphine. 4mg is the max dose on morphine no matter what the physician is telling you to do. I was like ok doc whatever you say 20 mgs. I could have killed 4 elephants. They were teaching me to question the doctor when I know something isn't right. I failed that one, but learned a valuable lesson.
later we learned that stress causes your brain to forget simple processes that you knew before the stress level rises. It causes you to be emotionally hijacked and that is what the entire purpose of putting us through that was about. It was to teach us how to think in a high pressure situation without loosing our cool. Because when you are in a room with someone who is dying and you are trying to bring them back..you completely loose your train of thought so we are being taught to make it automatic without having to think about it.
In the middle of all this purposely induced stress the professor would put on funny videos, this is one, I laughed so hard I cried....
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/98090/toot_tone/
Anyway...the laughter in between the stressful scenarios allowed us to get through the day without loosing it completely. We have to do it all over again today, am I anxious? absolutely...
This another one he showed us, called the trunk monkey..funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee3L9BQQ4Gs
Have a good day!
Multi-tasking (NOT)
Do you know that noone can really multi-task? The brain is not set up that way. We only have the potential to focus on one thing at a time. So instead of multi-tasking what we are really doing is switching from thing at time quickly. Some have the gift of switching tasks faster and staying focused on each one without getting flustered.
I have learned that though we may think we can, we can't. When we are in a stressful situation we can become emotionally hijacked and our focus becomes shifted on to the stressor and it is taken away from our task. In order to shift it back to the task at hand. We have to stop and take time to literally shift back. Take breaths, count to 10, visualize. anything to shift the focus away from the stressor.
Yesterday I saved my manniquin patient...Yay! Interesting thing is it was the same scenario with different meds and a different problem but the same situation. Physician ordering...read back...except this time I said wait...this is not right. You are going to have to give me a new order. You can't put Lovenox in an IV. As soon as I said that the person behind the one way mirror said ..Stop...scene complete, you guys are finished.
The entire two days...taught us how to work together as a team and how to be assertive and a patient advocate in the face of authority. Because to err is human. We all make mistakes. It is up to each one of us to have each others backs and to not be afraid to say. I don't know everything but my gut is telling me something is not right. We have to be able to swallow our pride, crucify the ego and reach out to each other for help and also help each other when we see a brother or sister in need, don't let them hang themselves.
"We are our brother's keeper..." In every situation...
This professor has flown helicopters for the Navy, and also flown into major storms, he also teaches meteorology, safety and aviation at a local university. He told us stories, and taught us amazing concepts that changed who I am. Awesome human being. He touched my heart and changed who I am in two days. That is pretty powerful stuff. People are amazing.
I kept thinking he was a mind reader because he called me out in front of everyone and said ...didn't you say you were feeling a little anxious today? I thought to myself I didn't say it out loud but yes...I said that. He looked at me and said, you are not the only one. How sweet is that?
Have a great day!
Correction: "WE" helped our patient live another day... ;-)
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You being You
I dreamed all night. One scene after another scene....
I am at a concert, guitarist in the dream goes down, At first I was checking a pulse but then realized she wasn't the guitarist, but a mother. I kept checking her pulse, it would come and go...some major issues going on...healthwise. It wasn't clear in the dream but we finally got her to come to and she was fine after we were able to get her to sit up, but there was no guitarist anymore..so the concert was cancelled.
Scene change..I am in the water, someone is calling me and when I try to get to them a very powerful wind pushes me down stream, Tornado...I am then crawling on my belly through the woods trying to get home. But tree limbs are falling all around me, and I am praying none of them hit me in the head.
Scene change... I am in a raggedy storm cellar, there is a very large tornado...I am surrounded by kids and my family and I am telling them we are not safe...the shelter is not going to hold through this storm...but some how the storm missed us....but there is another one coming...and I told all of them we have to get into a stronger shelter next time.
I had others but these are the ones standing out to me today...Usually when I dream like this, there is a strong message that relates to reality with symbolism being the key decoder. Trees, Storm, Shelter, Loss of life, Family...do you get the picture?
I don't know what is coming but it is going to cause a major change within my circle..a tragic change...but in the end we survive, we are supported through it.
Scene change...you ever notice how another person's dreams speak to you as well on a personal level and also in a message as well? Why is that?
Because their dreams are also your dreams! It is no accident that you are reading these words...it was meant to be.
Now to the point of today....
When we have the courage to be who we are, we effect so many people without even knowing it because we are so busy just being ourselves and being comfortable in our own skin. I ask myself why is it like this? I think people feel your energy, they feel your spirit and the love inside you and want what you have and so they are determined to be like you in order to get it.
What most don't realize is that, it is already inside them. There is nothing material that can take you to this place, no amount of riches or fame, but Love inside yourself is the only ticket to all that on the outside. But the funny thing is that when you realize what you have on the inside. All that other STUFF, doesn't matter as much anymore. What matters most is relationships with others and really living a life of love and service. That is truly the key to happiness. "He lives..."
It is very freeing, no agenda, just having the courage to speak up about your own choices and expressing who we are freely. All the while attracting like minded, caring, beautiful people into your circle every moment.
Have a Great Day!
Giving Back
We are off to do our first walk on the other side of things. We are usually participants but today we are going to be setting up and helping run the show.
Excited...but I sure could have slept longer. Did not want to get up this
morning. Now I have to wake up the crew of children that are scattered all over the living room. They are not going to be happy campers til I get them fed. They are the volunteer crew today. Their job is to to cheer for the people crossing over the finish line.
"Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another." Erma Bombeck
"Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people." Dolores Huerta
"No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers." Ronald Reagan
Have a Great Saturday! Looking forward to mine! :)
Mission Complete
We had an awesome day! ;)
Now I am off to do a 12 hour shift, so I can't talk much or I am going to be late.
I am sleepy...and being rebellious about getting dressed...but don't want to be late...so..ummm...I have to go!
HAVE A BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY!
...What day is it?
Wait....I think it is Monday! I am a little bit exhausted...12 more hours..and I am off for a few days! ;)
HAVE A GREAT MONDAY!
IN RETROSPECT
Support systems are so important to get over life's humps and bumps, but what if we don't have that. What if we were never close to anyone...where do we fit in to that picture?
On Saturday we helped make a community walk happen. I knew God was leading me to meet with this guy in the beginning. I really didn't know why at the time but I trusted His guidance. See, The walk almost did not happen because one of the main volunteers decided to quit, but she took everything with her and will not return phone calls. So this guy was left holding the empty bag. He almost cancelled the walk. But...3 people chose to meet with him to discuss volunteering in the future. We all decided to help him out with this particular walk because he needed help. I was blessed to be chosen as one of those people.
We rallied to together and got people we know to be volunteers many were teens and college students. He said it was the best walk he has ever had, there were more than enough volunteers present to make things happen.
Do you think God had a reason for this walk coming together? Absolutely..that is the beautiful part.
This family shows up with their loved one in a wheel chair, she is suffering with dementia, right now. The thing is...her whole family showed up, maybe 10 or 15 of them...all dressed in Alzheimer's shirts. Three of the smallest children walked out front holding a banner with her name on it. One of the daughter's was very emotional and you could tell this day was a healing moment for her. The husband pushing his wife in the wheel chair was visibly depressed and distraught that his wife no longer remembered him.
They all walked a 2 mile path pushing their loved one, honoring her...We all stood at the finish line waiting for the walkers to come in. We let them run through tape like they had just won a major race. Do you know what happened when that family crossed the finish line together? He smiled...the husband finally smiled...and we were able to witness that. What a wonderful blessing. There is no greater reward. I was so happy to share that wonderful moment with my kids...they saw it too!
One of my jobs was to be an educator for people in need of help, so we have ways of hooking people up with support groups. This lady comes up talking to me and starts crying...you know what do you do? You hug them...doesn't matter who is looking...just hug em til they stop crying.
It all became very clear...why I was led to this event. He blessed me with wonderful people, new friends and He allowed me to be a blessing to them as well. That family support system I witnessed was incredible to me...males and females old and young showed up to support that sweet lady. I was blown away!
It is such a blessing to be alive!
Have an amazing Tuesday! I am going to spend much of mine resting... ;)
Scrutiny
This morning I heard these words:
"Scrutiny makes time for success."
It was clear as bell...but what does it mean?
Scrutiny: : a searching study, inquiry, or inspection : examination
2.: a searching look and 3.: close watch : surveillance
Makes time: I don't feel like that is a shallow statement but more in depth...CREATIVE in meaning. Powerful...MAKES TIME.
For Success: What is success? favorable or desired outcome;
A searching study, inquiry or inspection CREATES a favorable or desired outcome.
Deu 1:21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
Num 13:2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
Num 13:20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
Exo 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; ...
Num 13:23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
(One cluster of grapes was so big that it had to be carried by two men on a staff!)
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Gen 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Gen 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Wow all that from one sentence I heard upon waking... ;)
Have a Beautiful, Blessed ...Wednesday!
Multiplication...
Yesterday when I opened my mailbox I got a 30% off coupon from a local dept. store. Then I pulled out a 2nd one, then a 3rd one...ummm...a 4th...and finally a 5th. I laughed...and thought someone got keyboard happy with my address. They were all identical. But then I remembered ;)...I remembered the lesson that was given to me yesterday morning.
Trusting in a promise..is the same as walking forward with blind faith...knowing all is well...before it manifests into physical reality.
Those brave souls who searched the land to find those massive grapes, had to have faith to enter a land they knew nothing about, they were only going on GOD's Word that it was waiting for them there.
And where is God's spirit? In the sky?....how about within YOU...and outside you simultaneously....EVERYWHERE.
The other day I was really nervous...my first patient at a new place. When I pulled the covers off him...LOL..he was wearing an Alabama T-shirt and Looney Toons boxers...my first words to him was Roll Tide! He smiled...in all his pain. After that he almost drove me crazy....Ha! very needy, talked a lot...but he helped me get used to things and gave me lots of practice. I appreciate him. :)
All in all I came out so Blessed....multiplied blessings....I got to sleep almost all day yesterday except when time to pick up the kids. I love my bed. :) I love to sleep... I wonder if that can be labeled as a hobby? sleeping to enter dreamland.... I definately think its a nice one! :D
Have a great day!
Did he really eat fish?
You decide...
http://www.all-creatures.org/discuss/didjesuseatfish-jv.html
MindSet
"There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells." Psalms 46
Have a Great Saturday! ;)
Enlightenment
"Enlightenment is taking responsibility for your life." I don't know who said it, but it is true.
Kiss
"Follow your bliss and the Universe will open doors where there were walls.” – Joseph Campbell
Who knows what may happen when all the limitations in mind have been released and we accept the supernatural as being reality. You can be 1000 miles apart and still visit.
Thankful.. :)
New Life
This has been a great week, I am really tired and sleepy but tomorrow night I become an official night owl. I will become the the one who roams the hall at night...all night... taking care of those who truly need help. You see on days...you get all kinds of requests, some people are just lonely and want to talk. At night...most of those who don't really need anything are sleeping. The ones that are truly in pain are up...and they need help. That is my job, and I love taking care of them.
I had to say goodbye to my lead guy on days last night because I am done with day orientation. I bought him a gift card for lunch on me. He did not want to take it, but I made him, and I also made him give me a hug. Great guy and I love him, we spent 60 hours together taking care of sick people.
Today I was given a mentor who is a huge success and he is going to take me to the next level. I opened a new account in my new name and I am on my way to achieving ALL OF MY GOALS, now...not just one.
I had put all my focus on graduating and receiving my degree...it is a very demanding field and it is something I had to do for myself. Time consuming... Now I almost have all my ducks in a row and I am going to achieve my other goals that I have specifically outlined. God has blessed me.
Funny thing is that my goals were more about happiness and doing good than money, but when I followed that path...The money began to flow in...and so did the gifts and the blessings that money can't buy. Fabulous...
I have so many loving people in my life now...
You know when you are in a new field or a new job...or in a new school. At first people don't accept you and with time you blend in...well the medical field is a little different, you have to pass the test...Yesterday...I PASSED. ;)
I have a lot of great friends who are just like me and care about the same things I do. Wonderful!!! So thankful!...and all I had to do was have the courage to be me and to follow my dream. God is SOOO GOOD! I am truly happy! :D
A First time for EVERYTHING!
Training the MIND...
At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation. ~Eknath Easwaran
In meditation, you are calm and receptive. You are like an open door providing a kind of cross ventilation so that the air of divinity can move through you. ~Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu
[M]editation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace. ~Muktananda
Have a Great Day!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6g2YkTAYQ4&feature=related
Thanksgiving~
"I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter into your country and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of Their Highnesses. We shall take you and your wives and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as Their Highnesses may command. And we shall take your goods, and shall do you all the mischief and damage that we can, as to vassals who do not obey and refuse to receive their lord and resist and contradict him."
The statement Spaniards were required to read to Indians they encountered in the New World, to which the natives cannot understand because of language barrier.
"I'll show you everything, when your ready."
From the diary of the commander in charge of the massacre..
"Down fell men, women, and children. Those that 'scaped us, fell into the hands of the Indians that were in the rear of us. Not above five of them 'scaped out of our hands. Our Indians came us and greatly admired the manner of Englishmen's fight, but cried "Mach it, mach it!" - that is, "It is naught, it is naught, because it is too furious, and slays too many men." Great and doleful was the bloody sight to the view of young soldiers that never had been in war, to see so many souls lie gasping on the ground, so thick, in some places, that you could hardly pass along.
The massacre at Mystic is over in less than an hour. The battle cuts the heart from the Pequot people and scatters them across what is now southern New England, Long Island, and Upstate New York. Over the next few months, remaining resistors are either tracked down and killed or enslaved. The name "Pequot" is outlawed by the English. The Puritan justification for the action is simply stated by Captain Underhill:
It may be demanded, Why should you be so furious? Should not Christians have more mercy and compassion? Sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents. Sometimes the case alters, but we will not dispute it now. We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings."
King Henry the 8th passed "his version" along to King James! Something to think about. It is wide open for everyone who will take the time to read it.
Source: http://www.pequotwar.com/history.html
Thanksgiving...for me...Remembering their blood that was spilled, and honoring the lesson behind it all so that we don't ever repeat it again. That we move forward in unity and peace...as they were...before the darkness took them from us.
https://d27fcql9yjk2c0.cloudfront.net/assets/5511136/lightbox/dreamscape.jpg?1336046297
They are still very much with us...still teaching. We only need to realize we are not alone.
READY? yep... It's hard to fathom, that all that one believes to be true...for years, can be torn apart in 10 minutes. What is left? Only LOVE...above the DOGMA and LIES....Love is still alive!
Truth: Name of the video is 1492
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNCuXR5hhls
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FREEDOM
"First the Truth will make you mad, then it will set you free."
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Drunk on You
I have eaten too much today...and after dinner the family drags out the weight scale....I did not need to do that! But I did....Back to running soon. Ha!
I loved being with my family, you know you get to a certain age and you appreciate just being together and watching the kids play, so thankful for being able to do that.
This is my other favorite tune of the week:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpFaI0dKAHc&feature=relmfu
You know why I think this guy is so special, I went to one of his concerts. He is just himself, He has fun and it shows. I think fun rubs off on the audience. If you ever get the opportunity to see him live, its so much fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzBkkEG9qyg&feature=relmfu
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FUNNY!! He is just who he is...hilarious guy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6--Czltoi7w&feature=related
Audience Participation
I kept thinking about what makes a great concert besides great music. Why is it that some have millions flocking to see them, and others don't. What is the difference and what draws in the masses?
I sat on that question for a while and then the answer slowly manifested. I examined all the bands that were extremely popular in the past and present. I thought about Psy who has beyond 600,000,000 views on his video and the song is in another language.
What is it that makes some special? The answer is simple: Audience Participation
Its like hitting the concert lottery. We all want to win something, it is embedded into our being. We can't help it...We have to try even if the odds are 1 in a million. The PowerBall Lottery is several hundred million today! Somebody has to win it, right?
Audience participation is embedded into Psy's video. Watch it...he boards a train and there she is, and they dance, as the video plays other every day people he meets along the way are dancing with him. It is a concept that we all deeply relate to...UNITY. Something we all crave.
Luke Bryan...Huge audience participation at his shows. He calls males and females on stage with him one at a time, he picks them out himself as he sings and makes them feel "special" for just a moment and the crowd loves it...They go crazy.
"Make Me Feel Special"
This quote from George Cummings, says it all.
"Every person you meet in life has a flashing sign on their chest. It says, 'Make me feel special'."
There is no greater thing that we can do in each human interaction than to make the other person feel special.
Now, this is not done by phony and insincere words, but by creating a feeling of "acceptance" in the other person.
Listen to what he says: "closely"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr2_A7zwNC0
Of course I can name others...they will just start coming forth daily to whoever reads this because I have opened your eyes to this concept. Just make room for the multiple demonstrations to pour forth in abundance. They will.
“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.” ― Mary Kay Ash (CEO of Mary Kay Cosmetics)
I'm thankful for the answer to my question. ;-) God's sweet blessings to you ...the reader. :)
Correction Psy now has over 800,000,000 millions views...watch him!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0&feature=related
You have been tagged! ;-)
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English Translation:
GANGNAM STYLE ;)
Oppa is Gangnam style
Gangnam style
A girl who is warm and humanle during the day
A classy girl who know how to enjoy the freedom of a cup of coffee
A girl whose heart gets hotter when night comes
A girl with that kind of twist
I’m a guy
A guy who is as warm as you during the day
A guy who one-shots his coffee before it even cools down
A guy whose heart bursts when night comes
That kind of guy
Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Now let’s go until the end
Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style
Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style
Oppa is Gangnam style
Eh- Sexy Lady, Oppa is Gangnam style
Eh- Sexy Lady oh oh oh oh
A girl who looks quiet but plays when she plays
A girl who puts her hair down when the right time comes
A girl who covers herself but is more sexy than a girl who bares it all
A sensable girl like that
I’m a guy
A guy who seems calm but plays when he plays
A guy who goes completely crazy when the right time comes
A guy who has bulging ideas rather than muscles
That kind of guy
Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Now let’s go until the end
Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style
Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style
Oppa is Gangnam style
Eh- Sexy Lady, Oppa is Gangnam style
Eh- Sexy Lady oh oh oh oh
On top of the running man is the flying man, baby baby
I’m a man who knows a thing or two
On top of the running man is the flying man, baby baby
I’m a man who knows a thing or two
You know what I’m saying
Oppa is Gangnam style
Eh- Sexy Lady, Oppa is Gangnam style
Eh- Sexy Lady oh oh oh oh
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Audience Participation Video Demonstration
Super Cute!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCS9TbE0F8
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Audience Participation Demonstration
Bon Jovi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=CsaUU_cM8Hk&feature=endscreen
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Audience Participation Demonstration
Bruce Springsteen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYvmq-sK9_8
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Demonstration of TOO MUCH Audience Participation!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9w68_ehUCE
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HaHA! OK I'M DONE WITH THAT...ON TO NEW DISCOVERIES! :)
All humor aside I have learned that when we treat people special no matter what business we are in, or in every day life..we will be socially successful. In order to have a friend we first have to be a friend. :)
So Sweet! Love this one! You will too...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI7IwdRrxqY
Ok I'm done with that...
Mysterious Celtics
You know what I love and I am drawn to for some unknown reason...CELTIC DESIGNS..absolutely beautiful and mystical.
Where is this going? Time will tell.
https://thewizardshat.com/store/images/180902010140-2106.jpg
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Celtic
"I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful."
Nicolas Cage
http://www.sacredsites.com/europe/germany/images/externstein-distance-500.jpg
http://swordsandarmor.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/celtic-priestess.jpg?w=529
http://www.jiroolcott.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/menhir-champ-dolent-day.jpg
https://sites.google.com/site/jksamurai/raventoken1.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-id_zI3nHnaU/Tgd9zYVmbtI/AAAAAAAAAkc/ilmRljKYuEU/s320/green%2Bman.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m141/gayjim1969/Cernunnos.jpg
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34081/34081-h/images/ill-057.png
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Why was I drawn to the quote by Nicholas Cage? because last night my daughter was watching the movie Family Man..at the end it always makes me cry. On Yahoo.com yesterday the news stories featured an ancient pic of a Nicholas Cage look alike.
This morning I began researching Celtic Design, inspiration and meanings and found a quote that stood out above all others by none else but...NICOLAS CAGE.
That is guidance in the most unusual, creative way. There is always light to make a path in the darkness when we can't see but know that we are being given a message to follow. :)
As I followed the the designs that stood out to me in a blind naive way I began to post the ones that glowed in my perception.
As you can see at the end of the postings there is one last special posting, It reminds me of the druid ruins...Stonehenge...maybe it is the same of maybe something totally different. I am naive to even the purpose of those circled rocks but I have always wanted to explore it just out of curiosity.
But the title is what led me...Celtic Religion. That is where I go next. How did I know that was the last posted design? Because when I tried to add it to the other posted designs, they all disappeared, and I thought to myself "darn, they are erased after all that work, then I thought well maybe all that was to lead me to this one special photo and title...and the answer in my mind said, "YES" that is it". So I posted the last pic..and with that posting for some reason all the others appeared. I call that GUIDANCE in the extreme! ;)
Something in me says that the rocks represent people and it was a way of speaking to future generations after the flood of lies and misrepresentation swept over the world because of some greedy, selfish, controlling individuals that wanted to rule over the people. They took their power and instilled fear in them to keep them from exploring what was within them, and those who found it and were discovered were killed in a public way to keep others from going within.
They began to be forced to worship an external god, that was the false one instead of going within to what was real.
I don't know where that came from but with my research if there is any truth to it I will get a second witness to this. It happens to me a lot...especially with healing issues within myself and my children.
The first witness:
Socrates was forced to drink hemlock because he reasoned that all the Greek divinities were actually a manifestation of the traits and acts of a single entity. Monotheism was not popular at the time. Socrates was a heretic and died for his supposed heresy.
Galileo, Copernicus, and a host of "heretic scientists" were abused, jailed, and killed for heresy None of these former heretics are considered heretics today by the same organization that abused and killed them.
Witness #2
Constantine the Great, who along with Licinius had decreed toleration of Christianity in the Roman Empire by what is commonly called the "Edict of Milan",[6] and was the first Roman Emperor to be baptized, set precedents for later policy. By Roman law the Emperor was Pontifex Maximus, the high priest of the College of Pontiffs (Collegium Pontificum) of all recognized religions in ancient Rome. To put an end to the doctrinal debate initiated by Arius, Constantine called the first of what would afterwards be called the ecumenical councils[7] and then enforced orthodoxy by Imperial authority
LOVE ONE ANOTHER?
http://madamepickwickartblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/heretics2-582x1024.jpg
http://kuriakon00.tripod.com/reincarnation/images/burning_heretics.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KJv3JXS7CNg/SwOGo5n1cMI/AAAAAAAAAUk/wI8dc9lCeNw/s1600/Burning+heretics.jpg
http://www.wallofseparation.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/baptistpersecutionvirginia01.jpg
Yes we say that was in ancient times that does not happen today...Oh yes it does...maybe not in such a literal way but in every other way it does...
The congregations are told they will burn in hell if they stray from a certain way of living and if they choose to read anything out of the realm of the King James Version.
Anyone that teaches to go within is still called a heretic and their reputation is ruined. Those living in fear of being thrown into the lake of fire are terrified to go any further in listening or studying what their heart is calling them to do.
Jesus was called a heretic by the religious authority of this day, they said he healed by the authority of Satan and he was also killed publically. Then his truths were twisted and hidden by the same ones who killed him so others would not follow that path to the end. Your drawn in by those truths he exhibited but then somewhere halfway in the midst of the commitment, after baptism and after you become attached to the members, you realize..Something is not right with this whole picture...It is because only half of the truth is there...to pull you into the flood of lies that follow.
I kept going, I didn't listen to the lies, but I listen to my heart...and I know my GOD is one of LOVE and Guidance...and He never leaves my side. Jesus is my friend and I see his whole truth in studying the other books..the Gnostics that the religious system has covered up and said to be heresy. The Gnostics teach to go within. It is what was left out of the other books that most follow today except for one important verse that they forgot to remove or change.
"nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you." Luke 17:21
As soon as Oprah began to teach about going within, the churches declared her a heretic....they posted videos on you tube that millions watched and began to be in fear. They made websites...
These videos have put fear in people, and her career and reputation have been tarnished because of this. It is no different than burning people alive publically. It is the same!
Because think about it...what would happen if everyone knew you could go within...The religious system would crumble and world UNITY would dominate.
John Lennons song would become a reality...
This is the video posted about her:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7vh5LJjJhc
And another:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM5ILOsHLnw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJahV_AJqUU
I agree with her! If you do the research the truth will overcome the lies!
For a while I fell for it, I believed it was evil, I was part of a church that believed such as this, I not only stood up and confessed my sins publically on stage with a microphone in hand and I am marked on both hands, I also stood at the alter praying over the microphone when the entire congregation would come up weeping and bowing on their knees, and I saw people persecuted, and rejected because of being gay or because of the color of their skin...that changed me because I loved them for who they were...
If that makes me a heretic, then so be it!
IMAGINE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwUGSYDKUxU
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I LEFT!!!! I will not go back... nor will I look back!
What happened to John Lennon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NUgIEpH5ic
I wonder what they were recording?
BEAUTIFUL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkdr3YUm8Gc&list=UUuVqmTud-MTtn01ZXpDnu6w&index=10&feature=plcp
APPRECIATION FOR THIS:
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. - 3 John 4
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All power is within you ... You can do anything and everything ... Believe in that ~ Vivekananda.
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THE BEGINNING
Yet the gnostic Gospel of Thomas relates that as soon as Thomas recognizes him, Jesus says to Thomas that they have both received their being from the same source: Jesus said,
"I am not your master. Because you have drunk, you have become drunk from the bubbling stream which I have measured out. ... He who will drink from the bubbling stream which I have measured out.... He who will drink from my mouth will become as I am: I myself shall become he, and the things that are hidden will be revealed to him."
Incredible!!
I just witnessed the most incredible football game of the year for the Crimson Tide! Roll Tide! Amazing game... Proud of our guys! RTR :)
scores and highlights:
http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/56985/instant-analysis-alabama-32-georgia-28
Would love to be at that next game! Going to be in a beautiful environment! :) Maybe I will make it!
I am Breathing ...again :)
A Celtic Blessing of Light
‘May the blessing of light be on you, light without and light within.
May the blessed sunlight shine upon you and warm your heart till it glows,
Like a great peat fire, so that the stranger may come
and warm himself at it, as well as the friend.
And may the light shine out of the eyes of you,
like a candle set in the windows of a house,
Bidding the wanderer to come in out of the storm.
And may the blessing of the rain be on you – the soft sweet rain.
May it fall upon your spirit so that all the little flowers may spring up,
And shed their sweetness on the air.
And may the blessing of the great rains be on you,
that they beat upon your spirit and wash it fair and clean,
and leave there many a shining pool, and sometimes a star.
And may the blessing of the earth be on you – the great round earth;
May you ever have a kindly greeting for people you pass
as you are going along the roads.
And now may the Lord bless you, and bless you kindly.’
GAIA
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All That Remains
Keep moving.. forward, the remnants of yesterday are barely even alive. Every once in a while on the path of joy, I run into that snarling, hate filled voice that once was the way I treated myself before love embraced my being.
But last night, ...was a shift... A shift filled with love and peace. At first the hate was in my presence but then the very mouth that spewed such hurtful words, walked up to me and said, "Will you forgive me, I am sorry I hurt you."
First, I was shocked...
What do you think I did? I hugged her and said, "Forget it, everything is okay."
I loved her through the hate.
Life projects our energy, and I as I learn to love me and to forgive myself for all the hateful things I thought in the past, others pick up on that and they feel it...and magic happens.
I try to always remind myself, the hate is just a projection of what I did to myself yesterday. I am making new patterns, creating new realities everyday that I choose to LOVE PERFECTLY! One day the love is going to be all that is left....the further I walk into the light of my existance.
Dorothy followed the yellow brick road filled with obstacles until she found the wizard, who ultimately was not what she had been taught, finally in the END...found herself...HOME surrounded by LOVE!
Who KNEW? Beatles and OZ...LOL!...Haha! LOVE IT! LIFE IS GOOD! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex6TeVmC8c0
"And in the End the love you take is equal to the love you make."
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Guess Who!
http://api.ning.com/files/hmYZpdeJ07UhIBfOAaBeRVps*PAzKliQQeobAJylmlYa-Qmx-DrH3FUzOAOwDc7cjwzBAB8gEwTiQs6xakhSEBTW3F8aD-Wc/oz70_a_crop.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZSb0JCWcXk
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SEE with Eyes to SEE and Hear with Ears to Hear!
Go beyond the surface of this story..Listen with your soul...See the spiritual reflection of our own country.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/newsmakers/enslaved-children-freed-after-being-forced-to-make-christmas-decorations-potentially-headed-for-us-194625049.html
New Flu Type...
My throat is killing me.... I caught something that is not very friendly to the body.
I have an ACLS test tomorrow and I have to be the lead in a Code Blue Simulation... Please say a prayer for me, that I stay well til it is over. :o
I have been trying to study but my throat is killing me...
I heard that everyone is getting this new flu type sickness that the shot does not prevent...so be on guard and wash your childrens hands. It is a NASTY bug.
A Song of my Mother, The Mother of All.
By Scott Goodknight
Mothers Day 2012
Mother Earth hear your child as I sit here on your grassy lap and look into your blue ocean eyes. Whisper in my ear the ancient wisdom you have sown in the hearts of my fathers and grandfathers. Hold me close to your Mountainous Heart and teach me how to live more harmoniously with all your children, my brothers and sisters. Show me the way to walk thru the dark forest of illusions. Make me a Light in the darkness. Send guidance from my brother of the four winds the lessons of the four kingdoms...
From the East: Teach me to be a Lover of all Life. To Love unconditionally and have compassion for all living beings, especially for myself. Remind me to use what I need and no more, to share my gifts and gratefully receive the gifts of others. Let me be the gentle hand that comforts and the soft rain that falls on the dry ground sprouting new life in the hearts of all I meet on my journey. I am grateful for the never ending abundance of resources that you are.
From the South: Teach me the ways of the Warrior, strong and true, uncompromising, unyielding and full of Courage. Show me the pathway to peace thru endurance of pain and difficulty. Give me strength to protect the weak and if necessary give my very life for what is right and just. Let me be the sword that cuts thru fear and indecision. Let me be the sunlight that cuts thru the darkness.
From the West: Teach me how to be a Magician, to heal the hearts of those who have been broken on life's journey. Show me how to use the magic of words and stories to inspire those who have lost their fire. Show me how to reignite the fire in those who have lost their way in the darkness. Teach me not fear the darkness but to embrace it as the place of mystery and wisdom. Teach me to see into the blinding light of Truth and understand it comes from within. Let me be a channel for your power always.
From the North: Teach me to be a Sovereign of the Kingdom of my Mind and NEVER abdicate my throne to any man. Teach me how to walk as a true King and show me how to stand in my power fully and completely. Let me hear the echoes of wisdom from the Elders of the Great Tribes. Let them teach me and show me the way to peace and harmony by balancing true power with freedom and independence for all. Teach me to always be just and true and keep a balance between all my earthly energies and be the eternal guardian and good steward of you, my Mother.
Mother Earth hear your child. Teach me these lessons gently as I remember who you are and who I am as I walk this path holding your hand. Guide me and protect me until I return to the source of all life and sit with all the Great Elders of past, present and future in the presence of the one all powerful Creator of us all forever and ever.
Mitakuye Oyasin - All My Relations
Scott Goodknight
www.FindingYourHero.com <--- Find your Mother.
ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy also wrote a book that I was not aware of until today that was titled THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU.
Based on guess which verse...Luke 17:21 .... Hmmm?
Putting that one on my reading list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdom_of_God_Is_Within_You
"“Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.” Tolstoy
“In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Going on my wall....;)
“People often think the question of non-resistance to evil by force
is a theoretical one, which can be neglected. Yet this question
is presented by life itself to all men, and calls for some answer
from every thinking man. Ever since Christianity has been
outwardly professed, this question is for men in their social life
like the question which presents itself to a traveler when the
road on which he has been journeying divides into two branches.
He must go on and he cannot say: I will not think about it, but
will go on just as I did before. There was one road, now there
are two, and he must make his choice.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You
“So it would be, were it not for the law of inertia, as immutable a force in men and nations as in inanimate bodies. In men it takes the form of the psychological principle, so truly expressed in the words of the Gospel, " They have loved darkness better than light, because their deeds were evil." This principle shows itself in men not trying to recognise the truth, but to persuade themselves that the life they are leading, which is what they like and are used to, is a life perfectly consistent with truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You
STATE BOARDS
I have a 6 hour test on Thursday at 10 AM (central time zone). I need prayer.
Please pray for me.
... I am cramming the rest of the week. BE BLESSED!
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Thank YOU! :D So Happy! I just want to sleep now. :)
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Doin' the Daily with Sasa!
Starting tomorrow the 15th of December...The Daily will be dedicated to completely motivational, inspirational and positive entries. It will be a place one can come and be lifted in spirit and in mind and in body.
I am so HAPPY...TIME TO SHARE IT.
Laughing Yourself Well
"Optimism supplies the basic energy of civilization. Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time."
Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins, who edited Saturday Review for more than 30 years, was a great fan of laughter. After he was diagnosed with a life threatening form of arthiritis, he checked himself out of the hospital and into a hotel. He hired a nurse to take a sample of his blood, and then he laughed. He laughed every day over and over while watching funny films and listening to funny albums. He wanted only funny people in his room. He and his nurse conducted an experiment and discovered that after five minutes of genuine belly laughter, his immune system cells increased in number and activity by 50 percent. Cousins turned pessimism into gold-plated optimism. He lived and laughed for twenty six more years.
:)
The Old Grow Young
STATE OF MIND:
The difference between a youthful mind and an elder mind.
A youthful mind looks forward and an elder mind looks back.
A youthful mind is always growing and changing, an elder mind doesn't grow...it has stopped growing and changing and begins to die...cell by cell.
Keep growing, changing and looking forward to the beauty of tomorrow.
"See the light through the open door"
"Sit and watch...." The old grow young... ;)
--- So mote it be...
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http://www.woopop.com/albumcovers/Creed%20-%201999%20-%20Human%20Clay.jpg
So mote it be...
Merry Christmas...my sweet friends.
http://www.coverdude.com/covers/creed-human-clay-1999-inlay-cover-84463.jpg
Human Clay...molded by the state of mind that sets man free or imprisons him.
This song ROCKS....Love the way this song is sung...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTJLJtVlk1U&list=PL8E005D0880500DB6&index=11
"Consciousness has tied his hands"...Amen to that
Oh...the changes that are coming....and all will see the miracle that is about to be...
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Hidden Truths
The beauty about some artists, is that they hid bits of truth within the images so that it could never be lost, but easily found when someone truly SEEKS TO FIND IT....
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http://web.iti.upv.es/~hendrik/DALI-2011/pics/geo.jpg
http://uploads2.wikipaintings.org/images/salvador-dali/ascension.jpg
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The Fountain of Youth
Ponce De Leon searched for it....
Men and women alike would give their fortunes to reverse the hands of time...
I found it...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tktyaZhFT0E/TRaEe20m57I/AAAAAAAAAPk/CqCSUHc43Ds/s1600/Fountain+of+Youth.jpg
"X" marks the spot!
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X...marks the spot.
.....So young
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Notice the hands of time are no longer on the watch....
Where are they?
I think you can figure this one out.
Have a Beautiful, Blessed Christmas!
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http://wildgoddesslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/goddess-power.jpg
I've had a wonderful Christmas, and it's only Christmas Eve. :) I have a date...
The best is yet to come!
Merry Christmas!
The best gifts can't be found wrapped under a tree.
1999
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Wdbdb1OOw
Say "I"...
2013
Turning the page...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMqNFAU0tOw
The best...is...yet .......to .....come! See you on the other side. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT1902pVlsE
See you!
LIKE I SAID
The best gifts cannot be found wrapped underneath a tree.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GKgOXyVt7s
oiii
Ummm.... ignore the nudity in these videos...
Focus on the CREED MEthod!
Umm ... Mark was definately some where other than on that stage...
During ILLUSION....
Beautiful!
The re-establishment of our Mother..
"Normally my mind is racing, thinking about my next move, the future, this and that...Today I choose to be still to focus on the here and now...In this moment and thanking God for it. Thanking him for having already planned before me to work out the next scene in my life.
What the New Year brings depends on what you bring to the New Year. Here's to an amazing New Year and another chance we have for us to get it right." Scott Stapp "2013"
Finished... :)
God's Blessings for the New Year
Now and "ALWAYS"...
2013 I AM GOING VEGAN
ONE WITH NATURE....INSIDE AND OUTSIDE....
When I left work the other day I was a little confused...
One of my patients got sent to ICU...
I kept thinking I must have missed something, I felt like I didn't give her what she needed...She had end stage COPD...she was a smoker and worked in a textile factory for years. She couldn't breath...she fights for every breath.
I remembered before I left her she took my hand and wanted me to put my hand on her head, and then she held it in her hand and kept saying thank you, thank you, thank you.
After that she had to be moved to a special unit. I went home feeling like I had failed...that I wasn't good enough.
But when I came back the next night ...as I walked by the rooms of my six patients... I realized 3 of them had been discharged. It has been a pattern lately.
And as I went to the elevator that morning after 13 hours on my feet...a stranger stood beside me...and as I pressed the button to get on the elevator the door immediatley OPENED UP and the stranger said to me with this familier look on his face..."You have the magic touch"...everything stood still around me as I looked into his eyes. He smiled like he had known me forever...
When I touch my patients there are times when I feel a surge of energy flow through me and out through my hands into them....it is very physical to me and them...and I wonder...is there a way to strengthen it...to hone in on it...to control it...
In such a way as we do a light switch..there must be.
I just have to listen to my inner voice and let it guide me through this process...as it has already begun to do.
I am feeling my way through this...not sure what is happening.
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REIKI
The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words - Rei which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "life force energy". So Reiki is actually "spiritually guided life force energy."
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A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. Many have reported miraculous results.
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nice!
http://www.reikiwebstore.com/ProductPage.cfm?ProductID=503&CategoryID=2
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http://www.reikiwebstore.com/ClassCalendar.cfm?CategoryID=15
July 13 & 14
Hawaii is on my places to visit list 2013.
Interesting how powerful guidance is when you just go with the flow.
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Well there we have it! Yes I will be there!
http://www.reikiwebstore.com/ClassPage.cfm?ScheduleID=206
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hmm... not a master...just starting out..
http://www.reikiwebstore.com/ClassPage.cfm?ScheduleID=206
Reiki 1 & 2 first...step!
http://www.reikiwebstore.com/ClassPage.cfm?ScheduleID=206
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lol...why does it keep going to the master class...ha!
http://www.reikiwebstore.com/ClassPage.cfm?ScheduleID=204
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Amazing...my daughter and I are flying there this year for the first time. :)
WHY VEGAN?
THIS SUMS IT UP! THINK IT THROUGH...
WE REAP WHAT WE SOW....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GrbYVsK7vs
...evOLVE...sHIFT...LIVE!
CREATE THE WORLD
YOU WANT TO LIVE IN...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-F8whzJfJY
The Matrix... Red or Blue PILL? Which do you choose?
"You can be manipulated like that to believe an untruth and if your told the lie enough times it becomes part of your reality...
If enough people believe the lie it becomes part of the culture...
If enough people passes that misinformation along to the next generation, then it becomes tradition."
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HUMAN CLAY...
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Don't look away....
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Change it...We don't have to participate in this...
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The EARTH speaks...
"We kill billions of wild animals to protect the animals we eat. We then destroy our environment to feed the animals we eat. We spend more time, money and resources fattening the animals we eat, than we do feeding humans who are actually starving. The greatest irony is that after all the expense of raising these animals, we eat them, and they kill us… And instead of recognizing this insanity, we torture and kill millions of other animals trying to find a cure to the diseases caused by eating animals in the first place."
Sweet to mouth, Bitter to the stomach...
The truth is eaten so easily, but once inside you it becomes bitter and you want to throw it up. You wish you hadn't eaten it in the first place because now it means...YOU KNOW...and now it means you have to take RESPONSIBLITY for your actions. And that makes you upset, and sick..
Because everything you once thought was RIGHT and GOOD...is now WRONG....
And now we have to teach our children something completely different...
But the beauty about children is that they already know...and they have been trying to tell us this truth all along....We only refused to listen and justify our actions by telling them...THE WRONG WAY.
...."Somebody told me the wrong way" CREED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kp7hJznFCg
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...Take a look..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6qi3gfIJRA
Why not EGGS and MILK?
Ethical vegans state that the production of eggs and dairy causes animal suffering and premature death. In battery cage and free-range egg production, unwanted male chicks are culled or discarded at birth during the process of securing a further generation of egg-laying hens.[38] To produce milk from dairy cattle female calves are separated from their mothers soon after birth and fed milk replacer, so that the cow's milk is retained for human consumption. Unwanted male calves are either slaughtered at birth or sent for veal production. To prolong lactation, dairy cows are kept almost permanently pregnant through artificial insemination.[39] After about five years, once the cow's milk production has dropped, they are considered "spent" and sent to slaughter for hamburger meat and their hides. A dairy cow's natural life expectancy is about twenty years.[40]
Farm Sanctuary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQs2BWlkFVo
....Animals saved from slaughter
Shattered Dreams
Enlightenment is not attained by imagining beings of light but by making the darkness conscious.
My Darkness Revealed
God's Blessings they are to numerous to Count...
Enlightenment Comes by Making the Darkness Conscious
Ellen on Being Vegan
Listen to her:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeSA2j4oiDA
Earthlings...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19eBAfUFK3E&ytsession=0nEW9KBqo7Pmpmj2IvES9YhHuEU0f5jwlAAjcz5MejbOSepfHvuZaEMOPHMqUgG0B94496OPUG8x5WWqK-kSm0Yfvtm_kdgl5nvuJq4akLLCsnczz0096EISYIIjP5-1Y7JQrsflxOmP0lfwLP4YhiQponERyRTNzcpid_1o-a2aXhHmobh0LEZClHrNnfTQJhDZSCsM7OY2H-k6_Q7rK6Lljvli-dJQ3k1psuDCN4K1nCueVLzcEPdfjRXJk80OL-4tY8DW-bFkEm1OuFsunKbYtZhi8TvjFxv0ZSBsUus
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Simplicity
Make things that are complicated... simple and find greatness in that.
That is a thought I am having this morning.
The more simple I make my life the happier I seem to be, I am not weighed down as much when I don't have so much going on around me.
I think of a heart attack and one of the symptoms of a this is feeling like an elephant is sitting on your chest. Extreme pressure and heaviness. It's what happens when the heart is clogged up with fat...
The blood can't pump efficiently..
It is no different outside the body when we load our life full of things and events that don't really matter to us but is based completely on the acceptance of those outside us. Those who really don't matter in the first place. The one's who matter are there when we are in our simplest form.
Those who matter love the person, not the stuff or our social status.
I meet people everyday with nothing but a hospital gown on and their personality. I see them with nothing but themselves...and I don't care what their social status is or how many possessions they own. None of that matters at that point all that matters is the moment when we make contact and how that unfolds.
I met a man recently that stole my heart in the few hours we made contact. It was the way he touched my hands, and the look in his eyes, it was the way he spoke to me and though he was very sick he still found the time to make a joke and laugh. He made me laugh out loud...several times.
It was right after a moment that I cried and hugged a woman that was saying goodbye to her mom...her mom was dying and it made me cry because I felt her pain. She came out of her room and said" I don't want to let her go"... I cried with her. Sometimes we have a hard time letting go of people we love...especially when it seems so permanent. We get so caught up in our physical form that we forget about the spiritual side and the fact that it is the beginning and root of all that is physical. We seem to lose our power and live in the after thought...in the results.
When I walked into his room...he touched my hand and reminded me of what mattered and how real God is in all aspects...the spiritual and the physical.
All he wanted from me was to help him sleep, he hadn't slept in several nights and so.....I helped him sleep. ;)
I went to check on him around 2am, I touched his hand and asked him if he was ok? He said...I am happy as a PIG in ....and he paused...Slop! He was fixing to say the other S word and caught himself. He cracked me up again.
Point is...There is such beauty in simplicity...joy, laughter, touch...a look..a word...a hug...a tear.... just being with each other. Such beauty in that!
Those are my thoughts today.... I am so blessed...and thankful for such powerful lessons in my life! :D
Exciting News
Lately I have been shopping a lot! :D ... More than I ever shopped in my life.
We were in the midst of buying a binder for my child for school when I look up and glowing before me was one of the most interesting tools I have ever seen...
A laminator... Want to use my laminator? Nice way to make a friend don't ya think?
To laminate or not to laminate it? That is the question. Yes maybe I am a weirdo I get excited over lamination procedures and beautiful books. I love to create.
I bought two books today Dante's Inferno...preparing for my all time favorite author's new book. Inferno by Dan Brown coming out in May. I thought since the book is written about this poem then I should study first. The other book was unplanned but what sold me on it was that it is written by a neurosurgeon that died and went to heaven, he lived...to tell about the experience. Before it happened he thought life after death stories were just brain reflexes..until it happened to him.
The story is called" Proof of Heaven" I am on page 4, but it's interesting coming out the gate. Here is the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Proof-Heaven-Neurosurgeons-Journey-Afterlife/dp/1451695195/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358656430&sr=1-1&keywords=proof+of+heaven
Tomorrow we are adopting a new puppy, She is eight weeks old and we are naming her "Sunday" because we are going to pick her up on Sunday and meeting her for the first time. She is a "magical" lab and husky mix. I assure you...she is not your average dog. ;)
You see this dog is magically special because we used to have a Solid White, blue eyed husky that disappeared about 2 years ago, we haven't seen a trace of her since except in our dreams, she still visits. Our hearts were broken for a long time. I kept telling my daughter I would get her another dog, but kept making excuses...you know ..it's hard to get attached like that...and just start over so quickly.
Well I told her we were going to try a lab this time because husky's are very hyperactive dogs but very smart. So she still wanted a husky. I call about an ad in a local paper...thinking it was a husky puppy because naturally the child always in wins out in situations like this. Ha!
I am talking to the lady, Debbie. I ask her if she has a puppy left and she says, Yes I have one left and she is a female. I said great is she a husky? She says, "yes, and a lab mix." She is half husky / half lab! My heart just exploded...and I knew she was our dog, it was meant to be, it was fate...destiny..divine guidance...she is a special dog. I haven't seen her yet ...but can't wait til tomorrow. We are picking her up after lunch. :)
Spawn of Hell...
Ha! That is what you would think when you see out new dog! Rosemary's baby.
But she is "gorgeous" all at the same time. Very hyperactive, and teething...I am bleeding at the moment. I have been teaching her how to howl and say I love you. We are making progress. She bit my index finger. She also has webbed feet. Labs have webbed feet. She will already sit on command, is house broken and will fetch a tennis ball. Talking on the other hand takes a bit of time, but huskys can talk very well with some training. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c8MMiytwNs
My sister swears our animals try to talk to her...She said this time she is packing holy water.
She is absolutely beautiful, took my breath when I saw her for the first time. She came right to me and I handed her to her new mom. So thankful for her! :)
Scotty Maloney
"He's always happy, so he deserves some recognition for who he is," Gibbs said.
Three Tennessee homecoming king nominees made a unanimous and touching decision that no matter who won, they would give the crown to a beloved student with a genetic condition.
Students Jesse Cooper, Drew Gibbs and Zeke Grissom were all nominated for homecoming king at Community High School's basketball homecoming ceremony.
The teens got together and decided that the winner would turn over the honor to junior Scotty Maloney, who has Williams Syndrome, a neurological disorder that inhibits learning and speech.
"I've been blessed with so many things," Cooper told ABC News' Nashville affiliate WKRN-TV. "I just wanted Scotty to experience something great in his high school days."
"He's always happy, so he deserves some recognition for who he is," Gibbs said.
Cooper won the popular vote for king, but when the official announcement was made at a Friday ceremony, the principal told the crowd what the nominees had decided to do.
"When they called [Scotty's] name, his eyes got really big and I don't know that he registered exactly what was happening. He knew something was," Maloney's teacher Liz Hestle Gassaway told ABCNews.com. "It was very, very emotional."
The crowd erupted with cheers and Maloney got a long standing ovation, WKRN reported, as he was awarded his "King" medal.
"It was just a ton of emotion from everybody," Grissom told WKRN. "I think I saw Scotty shed a few tears. I know Jesse was pretty emotional. We were all emotional out there on the court."
Maloney is a beloved teen in his school and in the community, Gassaway said.
"Scotty is fabulous. He is a superstar. He knows everybody. There's not one person that Scotty does not know," she said. "To know him and meet him is to love him."
Gassaway believes that the nearly 500-student school in Unionville, Tenn., is "one of the best schools in the world when it comes to dealing with special needs children."
Students like Cooper help out in special needs gym classes and other activities. Gassaway said the boys' gesture toward Maloney sent a greater message.
"We want people to have more empathy towards people, not be scared of people with disabilities," she said. "We want them to embrace them, more like the boys did."
Next year Maloney will get to crown the school's new homecoming king. But for now, he is proudly sporting his medal everywhere he goes.
"He's been wearing his medal around," Gassaway said with a laugh. "He is not here today because he had a doctor's appointment, but I'm sure he has his medal on."
We have amazing teens and kids....
We have amazing kids....
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/high-school-senior-comes-gay-while-accepting-award-230305217.html
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Life Reflects our Internal Changes and Choices
Life on the OUTSIDE...is a direct reflection of Life on the INSIDE.
I had a beautiful thing happen in my life today. My daughter used to be a very competitive athlete. She has won over 60 medals in her sport, not to mention multiple trophies. But her knees began to give her many troubles and the pain was intolerable...so she had an early retirement leaving her dreams shattered and her future blurry. We were heart broken but as a parent I could not stand to see her in such pain, and when we went to very prominent, experienced sports doctor, He told me that what she had is called Osgood Schlattter and it would get better only when she stopped growing, by that time...her career in her particular sport...would be over.
It has been a few months since she had to stop doing something she loved, and now she has been kind of at a loss trying to find something she is passionate about again. I have tried to be a gentle guide, throwing many different subjects to her to chew on. Music lessons, acting, singing, art, yoga, swimming, vollyball, soccer, ...Recently I decided we have sat at home enough, it is time for her to get back into something at least try something new.
So I decided I would sign her up for modeling classes and for a local swim team. These are things she has shown interest in and I told her to just try it and see if it fits. I have asked for prayer so that she finds her way and that something else will come into her life that she can be passionate about again.
Well a few weeks ago, I signed us up to volunteer at a local zoo. Tonight I get an email asking for us to come in and work with either the birds or the giraffes. We are going to start with the giraffes... ;) I have to assist because she is not quite old enough to be on her own so she has to have a parent present. We are going to work with wild animals...Isn't that fantastic? Talk about becoming one with nature...I am so happy.
I am so excited and so is she....
Still signing her up for some modeling classes...I think she will have a lot of fun with that.
She is doing a Powerpoint for school...Ha..this is funny! In her goals for the future she wants to be The sexiest "Meteorologist" in the World. She has her little pictures and everything. It is interesting because ever since she was about 7 or 8...she has slept with the weather channel on her tv in her bedroom. Not cartoons..she watches the weather channel.
I love to watch their personalities bloom... It is a blessing!
Forgetfulness
I constantly forget what I have been given. I think that we live so long as victims and in poverty and dependent on someone else for our survival that even when we are given the get out of jail free card or "key"....
We still go through moments of forgetfulness...
I have moments where I feel it and I remember...and then plunge back into victim, helpless, powerless mode.
I am wide awake...wait no, no...I am drowsy and sleeping again.
I am AWAKE...no...I am sleeping...I am AWAKE...no ...wait I am still sleeping.
I have amazing things happen that nudges me and says...wake up ...you are awake and you have been shown the way ..HOME. :) All You have to do is not forget that simple fact and use what you have been given.
Everything is an affirmation, if we constantly complain about something then we are calling those circumstances into our lives over and over again. But when we appreciate and say thank you for what we have, we are constantly gifted with more of that... We are calling circumstances into our lives that cause us to be thankful by our thoughts and words.
Just Kidding....
; )
I promise I will be good from now on...I just like to play a little bit!
... It's all beautiful...Nothin' but love here. :)
...BEAUTY FOR ashes....
.....................JOY FOR mourning!
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Happy Tuesday!
A little music to start the day off right...
http://t.co/eT9TUvn3
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When I was a little girl...my uncle used to lean over the hood of his truck in his front yard and listen to Waylon Jennings very loud. While we were all playing in the front yard...those songs became a part of me. Love Waylon...and my uncle for introducing him to me.
;)
What a gift I found....James singing Waylon... :)
The sound I grew up with...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Hp6T0Xpc4
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Ignorance has prevailed so long, only because people do not want to know the truth.
Because in knowing truth..it means we have to take responsibility for our actions, and shift. In doing this we no longer fit in.
We become...THE MINORITY.
So BE it! I AM TAKING A STAND.
EPIPHANY
I don't know when or why I suddenly realized this but it is so powerful that it is meant for sharing in more places than one.
No matter how many possessions we own, or what our socioeconomic status is in the physical world we are all equal in that we all have the God Given right to experience true natural beauty. Beauty that is FREE and gives in abundance. The kind of beauty that doesn't require anything to be paid, you can't buy it with money. We have all the food that we can grow..and when we harvest it we are given hundreds of seeds with each one to start again. The most beautiful cathedrals...are the ones that man didn't build.
True beauty...lies in NATURE.
It is only waiting to be appreciated.
http://500px.com/photo/5598124
http://apethana.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=95
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SupplAklas
02-23-2013, 06:51 AM
A thought for the day. This is a mirror of the printed version, with links to audio files and Bible ...
Thought for the day: "The greatest oak was once a little nut that stood its ground." unknown ;)
mirror...mirror...on the wall
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My new favorite song:
:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6PmdUE9HCw
TY~
Nice... ;)
...."When the daylight comes I'll have to go, but tonight I'm gonna hold you so close."
Beautiful song...
"I was afraid of the dark but now it's all I want, all I want.."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqR-ElB5kXY
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"The true alchemists do not change lead into gold, they change the world into words." William H. Gass
:D
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http://www.taoalchemyarts.com/uploads/4/0/9/1/4091117/841259.jpg
http://awakeningwomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Saint_Mary_Magdalene_by_karmievarya.jpg
http://aeldwood.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/mary-magdalene-high-priestess-harlot-or-hero/
The first ghost writer...
Many people now believe that both of these men, daVinci and Perugino, were of the same opinion (as were many others): that Mary Magdalene was, indeed, the Beloved Disciple of the Fourth Gospel. This belief was of course an heretical concept punishable by death, under certain circumstances; hence the need for secrecy in espousing or endorsing the opinion (or esoteric knowledge).
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"Mary Magdalene is purportedly the only individual identified in any of the gospels as having been a living witness to all three critical events: i.e. the crucifixion of Jesus’, his entombment, and the discovery of his resurrection."
....Interesting message between the diverse sounds of these talented ones!
The Eagles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaO-kgG7eCQ
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The Emotions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPefERS7EZs
add the Bee Gees.. How deep is your love?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpqqjU7u5Yc
and a sprinkle of Kool and the Gang with "Get down on it!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xJWQPdG7jE
When the sun sets in the enigmatic jungles of time...
Run through the Jungle with some CCR...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbI0cMyyw_M
with a woman.......a witchy woman...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAIAXk0z0lI
What a message that turned out to be....
Mix it all up...and waa..laa! A NEWBORN...
Pluripotential tune... ;)
Sweet Dreams...
Math Lesson of the Day... "10 from 6" .. J/K ...It's just the title of an amazing album that has stood the "test of time"... A classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joEWKXCqyNk
;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-7ABIM2qjU
Message in the video...timeless message!
:) Have a NICE DAY!
Here's to our Future....Our beautiful Future!
Message of the day:
I want you to realize:
"That within you are infinite power and possibilities.
That the inward Power can be aroused and brought into expression by holding high ideals in the mind and by affirmations and meditation.
That it is necessary to spend a short time in the Unseen both night and morning.
That by so doing you can enter a super-conscious realm where your word is creative.
That what you speak comes to pass, that what you mentally picture must come true.
That it is only by following high ideals that true success can be achieved.
Therefore, picture a higher life--the highest you can conceive, and affirm that it is yours. Remember that this higher life is without sickness, disease, forward with joy--you can never fail."
Love and Hugs!
Moving Forward Apart but Together...
Now close your eyes, and mentally picture yourself, radiant, strong, successful, happy, full of the joy and zest of life. See yourself treading a path that leads ever upwards. Behind you the air is murky and gloomy, but in front is increasing brightness and loveliness. See yourself progressing, climbing, winning. See yourself trampling old habits and weaknesses under your feet. See yourself meeting difficulties in your path, and see yourself, sustained by a mighty inward power, brushing all obstructions aside, and never faltering in your upward climb.
Concentrate with all your powers upon
this mental imagery. Persevere until you can see yourself radiant, sublime, shorn of all weaknesses and imperfections, the perfect image of your perfect self. See yourself full of vitality and health, see yourself successful, attracting both people and affluence to you. Make a concrete, sharply defined image in your mind of yourself as you desire to be; see yourself master of circumstances, attracting all good things by the power of your mental forces.
Last night I had a patient from India. He was in his mid twenties, lived here for 11 years. Now has a degree, came strictly for education and success. I loved him because he seemed so innocent and had gotten addicted to beer, cigarettes and weed. I was immediately taken by his spirit and we began talking about life. I told him I wanted to visit India because since I was very little everyone always thought I was from India...He even asked if I was from his country. When I told him I wanted to visit India...do you know what he responded with? He said..."WE want you to come!" He began teaching me about the culture and said they are taught English in grammer school. He speaks 5 different languages... fascinating human being.
Anyway...I told him he had to start taking better care of himself. I got tickled because he was so innocent with his responses. I shared with him I overcame some addictions and told him beer got me in trouble because I loved the taste of it. He said...LOL... I drink and smoke weed because I love the way it makes me feel, He said I go to Miami and party..ohhh..it was amazing time." LOL...He said it with that little Indian accent...His eyes wide and smiling...so innocently...but in severe pain because his love of Bud Light has led to severe problems with the pancreas which is "severely" painful.
I had to give him Morphine with Ativan to even touch it... He said in his accent, That is so much better than the Aleve I take at home...He said, Can I buy this?...LOL...He tickled me again. I had to tell him you can't just buy it over the counter.
Anyway he began asking me how I stopped drinking and smoking ...and I shared my life with him. LOL..He took notes... He was amazed...at how I did it and really feel that maybe he is going to be ok. He inspired me to visit India one day. :) I love the Indian people, so connected spiritually to them.
To Forget and To Remember
"My awareness was larger now. So large, that it seemed to take in the entire universe. Have you ever listened to a song on a static filled radio station? You get used to it. Then someone adjusts the dial and you hear the same song in it's full clarity. How could you have failed to notice how dim, how far away, how untrue to the original it was before?"
Excerpt. Chapter 18 "Proof of Heaven"
After I read this something clicked inside me...and I remembered what happened all the years of growing that my song was slowly adjusted away from the original by outside sources and the illusion that love is on the outside was slowly fed to me by lies. LOVE is inside you first....then its projected and reflected on the outside.
We grow up adjusting away from who we are to please others and to gain love and acceptance from them. When we are cheating ourselves slowly over time. We betray ourself our true self...and enter a destructive cycle that only gets worse until we REMEMBER...and have the courage to RETURN TO LOVE. All the false friends, family and others are shed from us...and those left are the ones who really love us...because we have returned to the core of our being and loved ourself once more. After that the ones who come into our lives...they love us too...and life is so much better IN LOVE. :)
Have a great day! til...the sun sets again!
My "own" Prison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP4G8_alAT4
Illusion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCr5ZGeiY_w
Bullets (watch it again with new eyes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPzhUp8mWgs
My Sacrifice (watch it again with new eyes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-fyNgHdmLI
AMEN!
A Patient's Dream...
One of my patients made me laugh again... I treated her pain for her the before she slept. I watched her all night to make sure she was okay and stable while she slept.
The next morning I entered her room just as she was waking...I said to her "Well Good Morning"...she smiled and said, "Good Morning" "I had a dream about you last night." "You and I were on this beach in the sun having a wonderful time when a storm approached, she said but the storm didn't touch us, It was raining all around us..but never touched us." She said then you leaned over to me and said, "Do you need something for pain?" HaHa! funny...love it! ;)
"Great spirits have always faced violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Einstein
"You can find meaning even in the depths of despair, for he who survives the dark night of the soul becomes a better man/woman." unknown
True statement but why?
Because in my case you develop compassion from suffering.
I am glad that I was addicted to alcohol, smoking, drugs because I can help others overcome them and I recognize the reasons why they turn to them before they understand why themselves. You can gently hold up a mirror and show them their own reflection. My life being so hard has made me a better person, suffering and being alone made me turn inward...and I found love there. Now I feel the love externally as well. I am so blessed and so very thankful for my beautiful life and for GOD with me.
“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”
― Suzanne Collins
Don't you hate it when you think you have finally met your soulmate, and you find out they lied to you about who they were and what they were feeling. After you give them your heart and share your life with them, your children... and the whole time they were only after your money and your identity. I cried for a day...now I am done. Is my heart hardened? maybe a little...but I am stronger now for sure. Do I wish him harm? no...I pray for his blessing. I am thankful for the pain because it made me see myself a little clearer and how my own life is a lie. For something to be pure and real...one must be able to have a life on the inside pure and real, and honest then that follows and becomes a physical reality.
I am bigger than this!
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness." Eckhart Tolle
I needed that today! Its true even the hurtful experiences have the power to teach us and cause us to wake up to our own inner thought process, so that we become aware of a better way of living. Namaste
"Your greatest regrets are just thoughts in your head, pulling you away from the moment. They're not real. Let go. Be free."
Be free to create your tomorrow with pure thoughts in this moment. Thoughts of love, joy, abundance, success and prosperity....and PEACE.
How Animals Eat their Food
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnydFmqHuVo
Deep stuff...
J/K...but it is hilarious...
Don't watch it if you are in a place where you can't laugh really hard!
Time for more Mad Science...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y
Experiment on self number twenty something...
:D
It's coming stay tuned.
ummm.... ha!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AiYS-rDGyc
...Are you Ready?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_hmFcAMx-k
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This is going to be FUN!
I promise...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmVyIRdh1Eo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDkqrJqXFnM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEV--gqY6R4&NR=1&feature=fvwp
I wouldn't steer you wrong...
One Step at a TIME!
Let the experiment begin...
Goal Number ONE
CORE...
Not just any core...
but a core to die for!
a core that deserves a cover shot.
Goal #2
Make the bestsellers list...and hug Oprah.
Goal #3
Attend the most amazing concert of 2013..EPIC Concert!
"The only limits are the ones we put on ourselves, and tonight I have no limits." Isnt' that fascinating?
CATALYST
: a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible
: an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action
A Toast...
Here's to CHANGE...Simultaneous Transformations...
And to Best Friends! CHEERS...
DAY 1 of....
Creating a Vision board, the catalyst of my goals.
What is a vision board and how do I make it?
I first began playing with this several years ago, I started with little things, believable goals, and tested it. It works! I got overly excited and made about 5 boards...many goals...years later...I burned those because I reached the goals on them. It took a while because I had so many images and goals to meet. The magic comes in as you think about those images, you attract resources instantly to make them happen, the only limits are the ones we put on the self.
I read many books on the subject and practiced (half way) what they suggested I do.
"The law of BELIEF is what creates physical results in our lives." A collective group believing the same...creates larger miracles...possibly faster results.
I make the board by taking images of my goals already reached, from printouts, magazines, books...and putting them together on one board. I put it in a place where I can see them every day and see myself reaching that goal and I say "thank you."
I create affirmations to match those goals and I say them to myself daily. This creates a steady mindset, and magic happens. Be careful what you wish for...know what it is you want and be specific because what we attract into our life also has a negative side...it's wise to be aware of the things that come along with pretty packages. I had this happen and changed my mind quickly...that is the beauty of it all, we can change anytime we want...but there are side effects to change as well.
Example #1
I chose to change my career path a few years ago that I thought was different than what it actually is, so in putting those goals up it looked all great and nice but in reality when I actually reached that goal after much hard work and determination it was really different, it's stressful, and emotional..and not all flowers and smiles and hugs. My point is that it is wise to educate ourself on a goal before we put it on our board and in our mind. ;)
I still love my job however, it is amazingly rewarding and I get to help people, the positive out weighs the negative. :) Thankful for that.
Example #2
I started with some shoes I really liked, expensive shoes, and magically I found those shoes half price, brand new... I put them on...and they were not as comfortable as I thought and running in them hurt my feet. They looked great, just like the picture on my board...but once inside them they were not as great a shoe as I thought. Be Careful what you Wish For.
Now, had I been smarter I would have first asked the question, What is the most comfortable running shoe on the planet?...and waited. Then made my move, but I was so caught up in pink and grey coloring...the superficial beauty of the outside package that I overlooked what is on the inside.
Umm.. That is just an example...doesn't have to be shoes you get my point.
So day one of meeting those goals...is a creating my Vision Board!
Will share..as this progresses. Have a Beautiful day! :)
Revelation
John knew the results of VISION and powerful BELIEF.
He saw a new earth and a new heaven....before it became His reality. and he shared it with everyone...but most of us get caught up in the history and the negativity and forget to look to the end of the story...and the beauty that awaits us.
Revelation 21:1-4
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone.
And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, "Look, God's home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them.
He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever."
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Progress Report
I created 1 of 3 boards.
While thinking about a "Catalyst" and how to supernaturally speed a somewhat tedious, time consuming process. Asking the question what do I need to make it go faster...to make it manifest faster.
The answer I got was STOP...STOP...at one board...until that particular goal is met...when it is met move on to the next.
Because when I crowd my mind with more than one goal..it slows the process. But when I focus intensely on acquiring and manifesting the end result of JUST ONE goal...then it comes supernaturally fast when applying specific techniques to that effect.
So...to report....One board done on the CORE...my Core. My center where all else follows suit. Day one DETOX the body...Create board, create affirmations...Ready for day 2.
Asking for resources to speed the process. AMEN
"You can build radiant health, success and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind." Joseph Murphy
"Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus - your abdominal brain - and is brought into your world as a reality." Joseph Murphy
“Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and believe in the 'what”
― Jack Canfield
“If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.”
― Robert Collier
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FAITH: Believing in an idea, before it has physically manifested in your life.
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Little Miracles
Every Monday in the AM we go to a Cardio Combo class. We have the same teacher, and usually pretty much the same moves, you know, something that gets the heart pumping and the body sweating. Most of the time it is a focus on legs.
This morning we arrived early and found our usual instructor absent. She was replaced by a different instructor,
Do you know what she said our focus was on?
Our CORE...
Did it hurt? Absolutely
Did I sweat? Absolutely
Am I closer to my goal today? Absolutely
I love it...I Love my life so much! :)
HMB
Beta-Hydroxy beta-methylbutyric acid, a metabolite of the essential amino acid leucine, synthesized in the human body.
Today I had the first day of this 2 day healing workshop to attend as part of my profession. During which one of the lecturers introduced me to an amino acid that actually speeds the growth of new muscle by compounding the old with the new.
Its super fast way to add lean muscle. ;)
Every day I get closer to my goals.
What is HMB? How can HMB help me?
During exercise, muscles are damaged, causing muscle protein to break down. HMB, a metabolite of leucine (a branched-chain amino acid), helps prevent protein breakdown.
Taking protein and amino acids after a workout can help replace lost protein, and build more. The presence of HMB signals muscle cells to preserve the existing muscle, thereby promoting additional muscle growth and faster muscle development and recovery.
This helps you build muscle mass, muscle strength, and muscle endurance.
Ensure has this type of amino acid in it. The chocolate flavor is great and its quick to get in the system.
When I looked it up once I got home I found lots of information on it!
http://eas.com/nutrition/nutrient-education/hmb
I wonder what tomorrow holds? :)
God Bless!
A Study At Vanderbilt on human consumption of HMB.
What were the results? In the first study, HMB greatly decreased the muscle proteolysis as well as the levels of plasma creatine phosphokinase. Additionally, the amount of weights lifted increased with HMB supplementation when compared with the unsupplemented group. During each week of the second study, fat-free mass was significantly increased in HMB supplemented subjects compared with the unsupplemented group. Nissen and colleagues thus concluded that supplementation with either 1.5 or 3 g HMB/day can partly prevent exercise-induced proteolysis and/or muscle damage. Additionally, the dietary supplementation of HMB can result in larger gains in muscle-mass associated with resistance training.
A Place of Non Resistance
One of the things that can slow down our goal progress is self resistance and disbelief in the ability to achieve it.
We have to find a place inside our thought process of non resistance, one of complete undeniable faith and belief in achieving the ultimate result. Any doubt slows us down, it fights against the body in reaching its defined destiny, pre-ordained by our thought....the spirit of THE CREATOR within us. We have to rid the mind of any doubt and even time to allow the miracle to manifest.
Any negative emotion or thought hinders progress...I have to saturate my mind and body with love, faith and KNOWING...it must and will come to pass just like I saw it in my mind's eye...nothing or no one can stop it...except ME.
I have to have fun with it, and when I have a good feeling...reach for another good feeling thought, and yet another and another...until the manifestation presents itself to me. It is about feeling good and keeping that vibration in the air...much like sport...but in mind. Keep your eye on the ball...
WE got this! :)
30 days to Six Pack Abs
Eat Clean, ingest HMB. Cardio 5 days a week. min. 30 minutes each session.
By Day 30 you will exceed one hundred situps.
Day 1
15 situps
5 crunches
5 leg raises
10 second plank hold.
Eat Clean, ingest HMB. Cardio 5 days a week. min. 30 minutes each session.
Day 2
20 situps
8 crunches
5 Leg raises
10 second Plank
Day 3
25 situps
10 crunches
10 leg raises
15 second plank.
Day 4 rest.
I am on Day 3, of this experiment with Cardio one hour daily.
The ANSWER
Sometimes the answers take a while to emerge and manifest, but if we ask the question, put it out there, the answer will present itself to you in some form. It will come to you in all its beautiful glory. :)
IN Body....but first in MIND.
I left out creating the right mindset when performing the exercises.
You have to imagine and visualize your goal in front of you. I am already there, I am in maintenance mode is what needs to be the in the thought process of our minds.
If you are already there, your body aligns to the vibration your cells work together to create in harmony. If you are trying to get there...you are resisting in mind and your body obeys...leaving us always, always just trying to get there.
See yourself already there...feel what it feels like to be there, how would you treat yourself if you were already in that place. I would only need to maintain what I already have.
I watched the movie "Here comes the BOOM" hilarious but the info I needed jumped out at me in one part. If your cells are working together the entire body is healed, if there is one in opposition, there is a constant war going on inside you...the fight becomes time consuming.
You have to see that movie. So Funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4L6ruTF5qE
To be continued...
Day 6 of Thirty
Day 5
30 situps
12 crunches
12 leg raises
20 second plank hold
Day 6
35 situps
15 crunches
15 leg raises
25 second plank hold
Day 7
40 situps
20 crunches
20 leg raises
30 second plank hold
Visual in mind...hold it as often as possible:
http://beautyandfashiondiva.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/six_pack_abs1.jpg
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This is a plank hold
It works every muscle in the body especially abs :
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6A0QgH-xt8o/UFH-uF55MTI/AAAAAAAARPY/t5LhN8i3t_k/s1600/front_plank.gif
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ALCHEMY
al·che·my [al-kuh-mee]
noun, plural al·che·mies
1.
a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
2.
any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value.
Origin:
1325–1375; earlier alchimie < Old French alquemie < Medieval Latin alchymia < Arabic al the + kīmiyā' < Greek kēmeía transmutation; replacing Middle English alconomye, equivalent to alk ( imie ) + ( astr ) onomye astronomy
That said, here’s Napoleon Hill’s Six Ways to Turn Desire Into Gold:
1. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. it is not sufficient merely to say “I want plenty of money.” Be definite as to the amount. (There is a psychological reason for definiteness.)
2. Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. (There is no such reality as “something for nothing.”)
3. Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.
4. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put his plan into action.
5. Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.
6. Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and once after arising in the morning. As you read—seeand feel and believe yourself already in possession of the money.
It works for anything not just financially...Alchemy = Creation..or Transformation.
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