It’s been said that ‘going off’, in a rampage of appreciation does wonders for the soul.  It lightens the mood, stimulates good vibes and creates space for everything you’ve ever wanted in life to become reality.

I’ve found this to be more than true.

Today, at Good Vibe University a fellow member started a forum topic inviting others to share their Rampage of Appreciation.  It’s been awhile since I rampaged publicly and I thought, what a fun thing to share…maybe you’ll be inspired to join me!

How to go on a Rampage of Appreciation

There’s no right or wrong way to rampage…there’s no magic number of things to rampage about…you just do

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it…you let it flow out of you in perfect random order, no editing, no considering…just pure appreciation…and you do it ‘til you feel done…’til you’re filled with JOY with your vibe running so high absolutely everything not only *seems* possible, it IS.

The only tricky part is it feels so good you may find yourself wanting to do it continuously!  No end, no beginning…just continuous Rampage of Appreciation.  Now that, my friends sounds heavenly!

So here I go…right here, right now, in this moment…

THIS is my Rampage of Appreciation!

• I love and appreciate how even though I’m so ready for spring I can’t help but see the amazing beauty of the big fluffy flakes of snow falling right now outside giving everything a pure, new blanket of white.
• I love and appreciate how my kitty, Hina is curled up beside me right now while I write this post, her purring creating the purrfect backdrop to my appreciation.
• I love and appreciate that I get to choose what I feel inspired to write about and how writing always feels SO gooood!
• I love and appreciate how Ashki, our dog is always within 4 feet of me…she’s my best friend in literally every moment.  (yes, often times in the bathroom/shower, too)
• I love and appreciate the hum of silence in my house.  How it breathes peace and stillness.
• I love and appreciate how my days are (mostly) designed by me.
• I love and appreciate knowing there are a multitude of like-hearted, like-minded souls pulsing the same vibe with me right now around the world (many of which in attendance at GVU)
• I love and appreciate that my house is a haven, a sanctuary that supports my creativity, my need for aesthetic beauty, my connection to the natural world and my desire for comfortable, peaceful, inspired surroundings.
• I love and appreciate how I can choose to work in my comfy pj’s most any day of the week from the comfort of my home.
• I also love and appreciate how sometimes I get to dress up and remember what it’s like to leave the house to go to work and mix and connect with other delicious beings.
• I love and appreciate how being in appreciation brings me JOY…and connects me to this very present moment.
• I love and appreciate how my body supports me in my desire to serve and how I give her a rest when necessary…like now, when we’re envisioning a happy, healthy, vibrant immune system.
• I love and appreciate that Destin (our son) is growing into an amazing young man who turns 15 on Thursday!
• I love and appreciate the MOM I Am.
• I love and appreciate parenting from the heart and how when my eyes meet my son’s we love, respect, appreciate and recognize each other.
• I love and appreciate my beloved husband who is the best partner a girl could ever wish for.
• I love and appreciate how much time we spend in the vortex together…and that we know how to hold space for each other while one or the other journeys around just outside.
• I love and appreciate how we teach each other so much and how we grow together through each other’s contrast.
• I love and appreciate the colors of my world…rich, alive, vibrant.
• I love and appreciate how easily I get turned on by simple things that bring me JOY.
• I love and appreciate my life.
• I love and appreciate the community of others in my life who understand how good it feels to love and appreciate!
• I love and appreciate YOU!

Whew!  …and I’m just getting started…

Who would like to join me this amazing minute?

Warning!! ~ Immense JOY likely to ensue

Taking part in this activity may cause ecstatic bouts of JOY and feelings of Deep Love and Connectedness.  Proceed at your own risk! LOL

Please…I’m passing you the torch.  Carry on this Rampage of Appreciation. Look around you.  Let it flow.  What do you see, feel, hear…right here, right now that sends you into a Rampage of Appreciation?

Bring it!  The comment stream is warm and open…

**If you find yourself reading this wondering where in the world to begin…if you question just how to start your Rampage of Appreciation, connect with me and we’ll do it together.  I can help you find your way to JOY…and on the way there, we’ll discover the power of a positive rampage (or two, or three…)!  email me: debra[at]soulitude[dot]com.  I’m so excited to play together!

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Jeannette wrote a post pondering the possibility of outsourcing our manifesting to others who would be willing to see our desired outcome as reality for us.  She offered many examples along with this:

“I suspect something gets activated within us just by getting in the field of someone who believes in your possibilities.”

I felt a surge of knowing immediately, the power here…and that it had to do with connection.  The fact that we’re all connected, the pulse of the Universe pumping through each and every one of us…and that collective thought creates amplified manifestation.

In the well over 200 comments that flowed through the stream it became clear that this was a hot topic, one that took on an immediate life of its own and is still continuing to breathe and grow.

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Friendly LOA savvy Good Vibers, myself included, started flowing their requests to the group and with profound love and authenticity the group responded by being active agents of the Universe…seeing each and every one of the requests made as a complete and wonderful reality.

Our Colorado house had been on the market for over a year and a half.  It had become for me bump in the road of ease and grace manifesting.  I couldn’t figure out why this house wouldn’t sell.  I didn’t personally subscribe to the blanket theory of a declining economy and didn’t see any reason why that notion need have any bearing on the sale of our house.

I thought I was doing very well at letting it go.  After all, a year and a half gives lots of opportunities to do that, again and again!

I felt Jeannette’s blog comment stream begging me to play and I thought…why not?  This feels really good and I’ve got nothing to lose. (Right there was the first key!  Two keys really…feels good…nothing to lose.)

I then, in Good Vibe style, sent my manifestation request out to the group.  And when I did, I seriously felt the strongest sensation of letting go I have ever felt.  (Another key! …I felt the RELEASE, the relief of letting go)

From Request to Success in Four Days!!

• On day one I made my request.  I asked the group to see our house sold in the next four weeks or sooner.  I gave them some details about the house and they took it from there.

• By the end of the second day they had manifested 4 new showings and most importantly, two SECOND showings!!  While we’d had showings, we’d never had a 2nd showing the entire time we’d been on the market!

• By the third day we had our first offer.  It was lower than we could accept, but it was an offer and that told me that we were in the vortex, we just needed a little fine tuning.

I kept the group informed and asked them to amp up the money offer vibe a bit more.

• By the fourth day we had an offer we were willing to accept and the house is now under contract!

Go Outsourcerers!

We celebrated HUGE success…all of us doing the Happy Dance together and now the Outsourcerers have wielded their wands for a smooth, successful closing of the sale.

Every fiber of my being knows it’s already done.

The Outsourcerers (known and unknown) are my extended family; we are children of the Universe.  Together, we act as agents of manifestation working with the Universe to bring desire to reality through the simple act of thought, of seeing (and feeling) it already done for each other…with Love, Joy and Pure Bliss.

If you choose to read the entire post and comment stream, chances are you’ll feel the charge that we all feel.  It feels good to help others.  It feels good to see success for others and in doing so, we see our own.  The bottom line?  It just plain feels good.  All of it.

There are more happy faces and exclamation points in that stream…and now in the Outsourcerer Forum at Good Vibe University than anyone has ever witnessed any where else.  (Don’t quote me on this…sure seems to be, though!)  It’ HIGH VIBE~HIGH PLAY.  It’s JOY loaded and it’s REAL.   (Stay tuned for details on Good Vibe University’s public launch coming soon!  The playground is HUGE and we’d love to have you join us.)

Stay tuned for more exciting stories of manifestation magic brought to you by the Outsourcerers…and me.

What would you like to Outsource? Are there any burning desires you’d love to release to the Outsourcerers?  Let’s hear them!

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I don’t know that I’ve ever been so entirely inside a movie while watching it, and though there have been other movies that have moved me deeply, I can’t recall another movie that has ever taken me inside its world in such a way that I felt it undesirable to leave that world when the movie ended.  I felt at home on Pandora, and like characters in the movie, I felt a longing to stay.

It’s been weeks since seeing it now and what I realize is that Pandora is not a distant planet.  Instead, she is inside me.  Everything that felt right and true to me about Pandora lives and breathes within me, in much the same way that the essence of Aloha lives and breathes within me.  Living on Kauai stoked the flame, but the spark of Aloha was there all the time.

It’s All Inside

This is comforting somehow.  To know and feel that something I see as outside myself…another physical location…is actually just a beautiful representation of those qualities that are alive and well within me.

Perhaps the very reason they appeal to me in the outer 3-D experience is specifically because they already exist within me, therefore my resonance barometer goes off and my recognition of alignment heightens my experience.

Of course that’s what it is.  That’s how it works, doesn’t it?  Everything I am is within me. And thus, everything that is attracted to me is a result of what is at play within me.

I love how examples like this carry the theory home with great ambition.

The more aware I am of my Brilliance, my true nature self…the more consciously and purposefully I draw that which is a perfect match into my reality.

The more I increase my awareness of this, the more that I choose to responsibly and deliberately create my world.

The more I focus on aspects of my reality that I cherish, appreciate, love and adore…the more those aspects become a part of my expanded reality.

This is why sometimes people ask me if I’m living on a different planet!!  Hah! (Apparently they see my reality as quite different than the one they’re living and wonder just where I reside.)

Life on Pandora

Maybe I am living on another planet, in essence.  In this case, we’ll see it as Pandora.  (Forgive my references to the movie if you haven’t yet seen it…and if you haven’t…what are you waiting for?)

There is so much about the way of life on Pandora that is a match to my very own.  Maybe not the extremely tall, sleek body…maybe not the blue skin…maybe not the remarkable agility and grace with which they move about.  No, maybe not so much those things…but that’s just what’s on the outside, isn’t it?

It’s what’s on the inside that I’m referring to.  It’s what is inside the words, “I see you” that are spoken several times with great meaning throughout the movie.

My resonance with the Na’vi, the people of Pandora is in what I see inside them.  I see a people who know in every fiber, every cell of their being-ness that they are all connected in this great web of life. They see the connection.  They feel it.

The Na’vi have a deep-rooted awareness of their reverence and appreciation for all life.  They see the heart and soul of their fellow sentient ones, all.  Plants, trees, sky, soil, two and four leggeds, winged and every other mix there is on Pandora.  They see the Divine Essence alive and breathing in all…and by recognizing that essence, they know the truth.

The way of life on Pandora has much to share with us.  The Na’vi clan can guide us to the promised land that lives within each one of us.

That part of me that is Na’vi is alive and well.  She looks out at the world and sees hope, promise and life eternal.  She looks out at each living creature and sees the heart that connects us all.  She looks at you and smiles in recognition, “I See You”, she says.

And in those moments, absolutely everything is right with the world.  And that moment can be every moment.  It’s my choice.  It’s our choice.

Through the Eyes of the Na’vi

• Can you feel it?
• Can you feel the heartbeat of our planet pulsing through you?
• Can you see the heart and soul of those around you?
• Do things look different through the eyes of the Na’vi?

• What if we chose collectively to see through these eyes?
• What if we made a plan, as a planet to see through these eyes…and we all agreed to do this on the same day at the exact same time, forever more?

What a tremendous transformation that would be!

From this day forward, I am committed to living the truth of the Na’vi within me.  I am committed to seeing with the eyes of my heart and soul.  I am committed to honoring what my heart-soul eyes see.  I am committed to honoring my Divine Self…my Brilliance…the Light that is alive and well within me.

Will you join me?  Let me hear you proclaim it!

I See You.

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In fact, days before Christmas I updated my Facebook and Twitter with this:

Your best gift to the world is YOU! …during this fast paced season of giving and always. YOU are the shining star. Give the gift of YOU!

Know what I love most about this gift?  It’s perfect, readily available, easily accessible, and it never stops giving.  If you’re breathing, you’re giving.  You being here, alive on this planet right here, right now is the greatest gift.

Do you know the miracle of the Gift of You?

To give the Gift of YOU, to give the gift of your Brilliance to everything…in everything you do is the most amazingly magnificent gift anyone could ever hope to receive!

Imagine what would happen if we gave our attention to the magic in this idea.

When we recognize our Brilliance, the shining star we are each born to be…we become (and we already are) our most heavenly gift to the world.

Being conscious of our Gift and how we share it is yet another gift…to others, as well as to ourselves.

Within the Gift of You there are many glorious Nuggets of Brilliance that make up the whole.

It feels good to share the Brilliance of who we are freely and deliberately.  From this space we are aligned with the Essence that is our most Divine Self and our gifts are even more magnificent!

What are Your Nuggets of Brilliance?

We’ve all got many!  I’d love to hear at least 3 favorites that you love to give others…and if you’re in a giving mood and more than 3 flow forth…wahoo, it’s a celebration!!

I’ll start…

My favorite gifts to give others are:

My JOY (and my irresistible desire to help others find theirs)

My Love

My Ability to Listen with my Heart

My Loving Guidance & Inspired Perspective

My Reflection of Your Brilliance  (I see the JOY of Brilliance in each of you and give the gift of reflecting it back to you so that you can see yourself through J.O.B. eyes!)

It’s Your Turn~

Let’s here it Brilliant Beings!!  Share the Gift of YOU with the world…deliberately, on purpose…here…now.

We’re all ready to receive the Gift of YOU with deep appreciation and love.

Join in…share the Gift of YOU with us now…

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In her post, Tia mentions that, “Living a values based life is what will bring you true happiness…”

This reminded me of a book I love…and used a whole lot in the early years of home schooling our children.  It’s called, “The Virtues Project Educator’s Guide: Simple Ways To Create A Culture of Character”, written by Linda Kavelin Popov

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I’ve long felt that tuning in to the power of a virtue-based life is key.

When we place our focus on virtues or values that are important to us…and live the magic of them, the vibration of these virtues in our lives draws us ever closer to our most brilliant, aligned, Divine Self. (*because the vibrations of the virtues are a part of our born brilliance)

As with anything that is real and true, it serves us well to begin within.  Cultivate virtue within first. And when the nature of the virtue sprouts from within…the possibility for seeding virtue around you is infinite.

Just as Tia mentioned pursuing Happiness can be trap…
So can pursuing virtues.  …or pursuing anything really.

The key is in the being-ness.  Not so much in the pursuing-ness.

When we recognize that the qualities of every value, every happiness, every JOY in our lives are inherently within…we no longer feel the need to seek…or pursue…and the feeling of Happiness, Peace, JOY, Bliss, Hope, Promise, LOVE, etc…just bubble up.  And suddenly we’re the cork, bobbing along on top of the water as Abraham so vividly suggests.

Below, you’ll find a list of virtues.

As you read them, feel into them…

It’s the feeling quality that goes along with each virtue and how that feeling truly resonates with each of us in our own uniqueness that matters.

Are there some that feel like your favorite pair of jeans?  Are there some that feel so close to home you can feel their warm invitation?  Are there others that feel distant, cold or somewhat like uncharted territory?  Are there any that feel so natural to you that you don’t even have to wonder what they are…they’re like breathing, they just happen?

• The ones that feel so very close to you are your natural harmonizer virtues.  They are the ones that give you your brilliance, your inner-light, your natural glow.  They are always at work in your vibration.  Others recognize these in you without you doing a single thing.
• The ones that feel a bit foreign are wonderful…but they’re not yours…not in the natural, harmonizing kind of way.  You can visit these virtues; but they’ll never feel like home to you and that’s OK.  Someone else ‘lives’ and feels at home with them.
• The ones that feel like home, like your most comfy pair of jeans or your most cozy slippers…those are the ones you feel most comfortable wearing with others.  They’re the ones that fit perfectly and you never tire of wearing.

Knowing the virtues that are inherently a part of your character, your Divine Blueprint, your Soul’s innate voice, will bring you ever closer to you knowing your self.

The more deeply we get to know ourselves, the more in harmony we become with our true nature, our core Brilliance.

You’ve heard me talk time and again about the value of Self Love.  Coming into relationship with your core virtues is an amazing tool to deepen and strengthen your relationship with Self...giving you more and more reasons to love your Self along the way.

Tune in…

Now, I invite you to look at the list.  Feel into each of the virtues and see if you can recognize the ones that feel like:

• Your Natural Harmonizers ~ The virtues that are your true Brilliance.  The virtues that just become you…with no thought, no ‘trying’, they are just a part of you…they are your inner-light.

• Your Most Comfy-Cozy-Wear them with anything, any time, any where Virtues.  They fit so perfectly, you love to wear them all the time.

• Your ‘I’m only visiting here’ Virtues.  The ones that feel a little outside, a little foreign…you like them, but they’re not you entirely.

List of Core Virtues~

This list includes some (not all) virtues & is derived from “Sacred Moments: Daily Meditations on the Virtues” by Linda Kavelin-Popov

• acceptance
• beauty
• commitment
• compassion
• confidence
• contentment
• courage
• courtesy
• creativity
• detachment
• devotion
• diligence
• discernment
• enthusiasm
• excellence
• faith
• flexibility
• forgiveness
• generosity
• gentleness
• grace
• gratitude
• humility
• idealism
• integrity
• joy
• justice
• kindness
• love
• loyalty
• moderation
• order
• patience
• peace
• perseverance
• prayerfulness
• purity
• purposefulness
• respect
• responsibility
• reverence
• righteousness
• sacrifice
• self-discipline
• service
• tolerance
• trust
• trustworthiness
• truthfulness
• unity
• wisdom
• wonder

If it feels good, make a list.  Celebrate YOU and the virtues that make you Brilliant. Use the list to connect more deeply with your Self.  See the virtues as more reasons to be in Love with your Self.  Honor and cherish the way that these virtues guide and support you in being the absolute best you can be. See these virtues alive and active in your daily experience.

And when you’re ready…see how amazing it is to notice virtues present in your loved ones, co-workers, friends and general passers-by.  Grow to recognize and appreciate virtues that are alive and well within others.

An exercise in the good stuff

This is a remarkable exercise.  It places your focus and attention on the good stuff.  We all know where we go and what we get when our energy is moving in the direction of good.  We get more and more and more good!

And, I just bet that Happiness will be a key feeling along the way!

Happy travels, my Virtuous Friends!  EnJOY the journey, be blessed along the way.

Oh and PLEASE, send me a ‘post card’ in the comment stream.  I’d love to hear about your discoveries…especially which virtues are alive and well within each of you!

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In my world giving thanks leads me to a feeling...a feeling of immense JOY and appreciation for whom ever or what ever it is that I’m recognizing I’m thankful for.

I’ve been playing with the vibration that surrounds saying thank you…just the words…and then really tuning in to the appreciation factor and feeling the words as I say them with appreciation.

Let’s walk beyond thanksgiving together…

Most of us when asked what we’re thankful for will say family…or perhaps one or two significant others in the form of close friends, partners, etc.

On the Road to Appreciation

Now if we simply say, “I’m thankful for my family.” The words alone may not conjure much vibrationally.  But, if we allow ourselves to enter into the feeling realm of why we’re thankful for our family (or a special friend, etc.) we begin to see and feel within ourselves all the wonderful aspects that we love about them and it sends amazing ripples of love and appreciation through us.

From this place, we are beyond thankful.
We are in the essence of appreciation, we are in the essence of love and the vibration here is so high…we feel high!
Elated even.  We are moved.  Our hearts and souls are engaged.

Mother Nature leads us to Appreciation

When we surround ourselves with nature and we gaze out into her beauty it’s easy to find at least one thing we see that we’re thankful for.  We may be grateful for the blue sky, the soft, gentle breeze, the trees that offer shade on a hot summer day, or the way the sun glistens on the new fallen snow.

We could just say we’re thankful for these things…
and I don’t know about you, but for me…I can’t stop there.  I am easily taken in by the beauty that surrounds me…and suddenly I’m over come with immense appreciation for Mother Nature, for her grace, her steadfastness, her power, her magnificence.

What might shift?

Can you imagine how things might shift to the highest positive if we were willing to look at all of life through the eyes of love and appreciation?

What would happen if every where we looked we could only see something positive, something that we loved, something that made us feel good?

It reminds me of the post I wrote months back about Seeing Life Through Rose-Colored Glasses.

What if our eyes were equipped with a special filter that heightened our awareness to the good that surrounds us in every situation…even those situations that seem entirely dire and dim?

What if I told you that we ARE equipped with that special filter?  What if I suggested that each and every one of us have that filter alive and well within us? What if I said the only thing necessary to turn it on, to activate it is our own willingness, our own conscious choice to do so?

Would you turn yours on?  Would you turn it up, full throttle, and allow the world that surrounds you to be filled with things you feel good about?  Things you love, things that make you feel better than ever?

Do you believe it’s possible?

I do.  I’m living proof.  I see the good stuff.  I feel good in my life.  Joy is mine.

Do I sometimes have to have my filter re-adjusted?  No, my filter is made of perfection and can not be broken and it never loses it’s power.  It’s me who sometimes needs adjusting.

It’s me who sometimes needs a tune-up.  And all that takes is me noticing that I’m seeing things that don’t make me feel good, things that bring me down, things I don’t like.  When I notice I’m seeing some of these things I know it’s time for a tune up.

3 Steps to a Quick & Easy Appreciation Tune Up~

1. Think of and write down as many things as you can that make you feel good…keep writing until no more things come in right now.
   
2. Think of and write down at least 5 things/people/places you love and allow yourself to move into the feeling place of why you love them…what do you love about them…how does all of it make you feel.
   
3. Take yourself into nature and look for as many things as you can that look beautiful, things that bring out the wonder and appreciation in you.

If we’ve managed to block the flow of our special appreciation filter and there isn’t much we’re seeing that looks or feels good, it may feel challenging at best to do these 3 easy steps.

If you find yourself feeling that way, here’s a question to ask yourself.  It’s one that when I ask it of myself, it gets me on track every time:

Do I love the way I’m feeling, do I want to continue feeling this way…or is there something better I’d like to be feeling?

OK…so technically that’s 3 questions.  Bear with me.

As soon as we ask ourselves if we’d like to feel better…as soon as we glimpse the idea that we can…we’ve shifted into an opening that allows the feel better to come in.

Abraham says, “Look for the thing you like the best even if there’s only one thing in all of it that you like, give it your undivided attention and use IT as your excuse to be who you are.  And as you use those things that shine bright and make you feel good as your excuse to give your attention, and as your excuse to be who you are, you’ll tune to who you are…and the whole world will begin to transform before your eyes.
It’s not your job to transform it for others, but it is your job to transform it for YOU.”

From this place we can begin our tune up…and get that special filter activated…leading us to the most amazing life experiences we could ever hope for…with ample amounts of Feel Good and JOY along the way.

I’ve said it before.  I’ll say it again.  Life is meant to be JOYful, to be enJOYed.  And one of the clearest, most easily travelled paths to experiencing that is the Road of Appreciation.

This quote from Abraham sums it up nicely~

“Appreciation is me being in sync with the whole of that which I am.  
Appreciation is seeing what ever I’m looking at through the eyes of Source.
A state of appreciation is a state of godliness;
A state of appreciation is being who you really are.”

So go Beyond Thanksgiving.  Find yourself in a State of Appreciation.  It feels good.

• How do you activate your special appreciation filter?
• How has living in a State of Appreciation made a difference in your life?
• …or if this road is new to you…  How do you imagine being in a State of Appreciation may support the Feel Good in your life?  *Remember, imagining makes it so!

You’ll enJOY this YouTube video from Abraham-Hicks on Appreciation vs. Gratitude.  Fitting, huh?  The Abraham quotes in my post came from this video…listen for them!

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I’ve written about the importance of Self-Love before…here and here … oh and HERE too.  (OK, so it’s a fave topic of mine.  In fact, the theme of Self-Love is inherent in most every post I write, blatant or subtle, it’s there.)

Now, it’s time to get down to it.

Can you shout from the mountain tops and proclaim your Self-Love?

What…? Is there a part of you that feels a little squeamish at the thought of that?

Why?  When you think of another in your life whom you love, is it easy to come up with 5 things you love about them?  Can you rattle those 5 things off without blinking an eye?

I believe it’s important for us to recognize the qualities within ourselves that make us fall in love with ourselves over and over again.

We’re better in everything we do when we have an honest, loving relationship with ourselves.  We’re better in every other relationship we have in our lives when our relationship with our Self is in L-O-V-E, Love.

Define Self-Love

Do you know what the dictionary says about Self-Love?  My Mac dictionary says this:

“Self-Love~ regard for one’s own well-being and happiness (chiefly considered as a desirable rather than narcissistic characteristic).”

You see?  Even the dictionary agrees Self-Love is a desirable trait! And a ‘regard for one’s own well-being and happiness’?  Hello.  That is truly what life is all about.  Abraham says life is meant to be JOYful.  Seems to me that Self-Love is the passageway.

So let’s go ahead and give ourselves permission to rattle off 5 things we love about ourselves.

I’ll go first…

5 Things I Love About Me:

1. My infectious smile. When I smile I feel it in my whole body…every cell, every nerve ending, every single bit of me feels my smile.  And it feels good.
2. My JOY factor. The smallest things turn me on.  I love that about me.  It doesn’t take much…and I’m all gleeful…like a kid in a candy store.
3. My HUGE Heart. I love how much LOVE I feel inside.  Sometimes I wonder just how much my chest can expand…I mean, there’s gotta be a lot of room in there for this great big heart!…really easy to get to 3 things……slight pause now……oh, and here come the other two…
4. My Way with Words. I love how words flow through me…I love how easy it is to communicate with my words…and how I find lots of feel good words floating through my thoughts.
5. My Inner Knowing. My sensitivity. (Does that count for two?  …for me they’re kind of the same.  Close relatives.  Like twins, if not one and the same.)  I’m a feeling person.  I love that about me.  I love how my sensitivity, my inner messenger, draws me nearer to my Brilliance, the one true essence of who I AM.

There.  5 Things I Love About Me.  Woo-Hoo!!!  …and you know what?  Now that I’ve proclaimed these 5 I can feel a river of love qualities flowing freely. Mmm…that feels good.

OK…now it’s your turn!

Please come along!  Use the comment section to Proclaim Your Self-Love from the Mountain Tops!

I want to hear you shout 5 things You LOVE about Your Self…right here…right now!

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I love the dual energies I feel at this time of year.

It’s a time of harvest.  A time of recognizing and giving gratitude for the abundance gathered over months of inspired growing time.
And it’s a time of winding down as we allow ourselves into the womb of winter.
A time of preparing to go inside until the light is renewed and another cycle of rebirth is upon us.

Nature truly gives us all the wisdom we could hope for.  She knows without question what to do next.  She is the perfect example of allowance.  She just flows.  If something outside of her realm of influence attempts to disrupt her…she shakes it off…she self corrects.

Through nature we find ourselves.  We are nature in human form.  The same vibration that created her is that of us.  We are energy.  Alive.  Pulsing.  Enlivened by the very pulse of the planet.

Nature’s Gateway

In my world, Nature is one of the most magical gateways to our Brilliance.

If ever we feel unsure, shaken, unaware, out of touch with who we are in our purest form…Nature is the Gateway to finding our way home…to our Brilliance, to all that we are.

Most of us have created lives that lead us away from nature.  We create boxes; we exist indoors.  We have multi-level buildings that give rise to our feet from the grounded connection they so love to feel on the earth.  We turn on another box to watch nature…through the lens of another.  Our lives are busy.  We don’t have time to play outside.

My life got as much like that as I’d ever let it.  And then we moved to Kauai where even when you’re indoors you feel the harmony and oneness of nature breathing through the space.  I am forever in appreciation for our blessed union with Kauai.

She gifted us with the Gateway home.

Once we understand the significance of Nature in our lives; once we’ve crossed the threshold of that gateway…we are FREE.

Have you found your Gateway?  There are many…and they’re free, and available to everyone…no matter where you are on the planet!

A Good Sit Spot

On Kauai, we’d often encourage the children in our homeschool community to give themselves a quiet sit spot in nature.  We’d ask them to just be with it…to quietly watch and observe…and later we’d talk about their findings.  Kids are close to nature, so this is easy for them and they always had magical things to report.

As I sit today…with the tree spirits just outside my door…I am aware of these things:

• I am nurtured by the grace of nature.  She fills me up.
• I sit, observe, feel, smell, listen, taste…  I drink her in.
• I recognize the simple beauty…and the intricate details.
• Breathing, nourishing, nurturing…
• Constant BEingness, in complete grace and ease.

The tree doesn’t ask, “What should I do today?”  He just stands in his knowing.  He doesn’t wonder who he is.  He’s good at being a tree.  He accepts himself for who he is.    He doesn’t bend over some days and say, “nope, not today…I’m just not going to show up today…can’t do it.”  He stands in his Brilliance, in his Power and he is Tree.

• I see movement, flexibility~
• …bending, swaying, dancing…and yet rooted, solid, grounded.

Trust the Cycles

I trust the cycles~
…Birth…Death…Rebirth

Tree doesn’t say, “no, no, no…I’m not ready!!  I can’t be time.  How is it possible?  I’m just not ready.  I don’t want it to be fall.  Please!!  I don’t want to lose my leaves!!

Instead, she accepts and allows.  She is in the flow of perfection.  She just is.  She is nature and nature is her.  Her leaves fall…naturally, gracefully…feeding and nourishing her roots for further growth.

In this moment, I am the tree.
I give myself to the cycle that is upon me with full abandon.
I am the tree.  I stand strong in who I am.
I stand strong in my connection with the earth.
My roots dig deep.  My branches reach out to the heavens.
My leaves, one by one gently float to the earth in rhythm with the earth’s calling.
My heart knows I am one with the All, all with the One.
I am in perfect harmony.

In this moment, I am Free.
This moment is every moment.
In every moment I am Free.

In love, gratitude and appreciation for the Tree…the Tree that is me…I AM FREE.

Your Gateway?

• How does Nature’s gateway lead to your Brilliance?
• What intimate moments have you shared with Nature?
• What has Nature revealed to you?
• Where will Nature lead you next?

I’d love to hear from you…

In Harmony…with JOY…in Nature,
Debra (@debsoul)

Brilliant Autumn Tree Photo
Tree Gateway Photo

I often feel energetic shifts afoot.  I can describe them…how they are inter-playing in my life’s experience and how I’m observing them in others.  I see them and feel them as energy and the reflection of the energy in emotions, actions and communications.

I love it when I see or read another’s context for the energy I’m observing.  That’s what happens frequently with my dear friend, Kay Snow-Davis.  She’s a Soul Purpose Astrologer (and many other amazing things!).  When I read her most recent post it was like light bulbs were lighting up one after the other.

It’s timely information that I feel will offer support to all of you…so here it is!  Please welcome, Kay Snow-Davis…

Everything must change…nothing stays the same…

Have you heard these words before?  They are words to a song and if these words are not familiar to you, it doesn’t matter, you can just look at life and know this is the theme right now…Nothing stays the same.

CHANGE is life and it is happening everywhere, in ways we never imagined.

From an astrological view, let’s check in with our old buddy Saturn and see what’s happening.

Saturn is truly our buddy – our stabilizer for structures and systems, inside our body and our environment.

Since September 7, 2007, Saturn entered the Element of Earth through the sign of Virgo, whose planetary “ruler” is Mercury.

What does all of this mean?

• The Element of Earth is the foundation for Life…represented by our Home planet Earth.
• Virgo is the energy of health, healing, service, animals and the details of daily life – our physical world/body and daily order.
• Mercury is the “messenger of the Gods” – the bridge between the Universe and the frontal lobe of our brain that is dependent on memory and understanding.

When Mercury goes retrograde, we get all frustrated because communication seems disrupted, appointment fall through, we can’t remember details etc. That is because retrograde Mercury is bridging with our intuition and the frontal lobe of our brain and ordinary thinking seems to be on pause.

So for 2 years, collectively we have been experiencing some or all of the above in different ways in our lives.

On October 29,2009…something will change.

Saturn leaves the Earth sign of Virgo and enters the Air sign of Libra. This will not be happening again for 30 years.

Remember, Saturn is about systems and structures and stabilizes our foundation for renewal…this means consciousness, intentions, focus, belief systems, choices, behavior and action as well.

We needed to make new choices and create new structures to be prepared for Saturn to enter Libra and receive Venus for the next 3 years.

For 2 years, this energy has been focused in our cognitive minds where we have been making so many decisions based on so many changes that feel like a tsunami of consciousness in our daily lives.

Does this mean we can actually “get out of our heads” for a while and “into our hearts”?

Yes! As a matter of fact, from October 30, 2009 to October 6, 2012, Saturn will be in Libra, the first time in 30 years.

By Element alone, this change makes a difference. All Elements – Fire, Earth and Water are dependent on Air; thus all life on earth in in relationship to Air.

• Without Air/breath there is no life: More Air, means more Life.

• Libra is devoted to beauty, order, balance, harmony and justice in relating – on every level of life.  This is the energy of the true Peace Keeper.

• Venus (Libra’s planetary ruler) represents the arts, beauty, creativity, love and compassion.

Mercury is about choices, decisions and action. (Masculine principle)

Venus is about receiving – intuition, love, and creativity. (Feminine Principle)

As a collective, we have the opportunity to consciously create balance inside and out between our masculine/feminine principle. This balance is essential if we are to survive because it is a basic foundation of sustainable living.  It is about being able to breathe in and breathe out…the balance for all life.

So ask yourself:

• How prepared am I to allow life to become more gracious? Less stressful?
• Am I open to receive more love in my life? More creativity? More possibility and potential?
• Do I really want to live peacefully? With myself? My partner? My Children? My family? My community? My nation? My Global Family?
• Am I willing to release the conflict between my head and heart?
• Will I allow my health and happiness to be renewed through forgiveness and compassion?
• Can I compliment rather than criticize and complain about others and myself?
• Do I believe in loving and being loved?

And the list will continue, as we receive more breath and become more alive in all areas of our life.

Life is very different now than 30 years ago when Saturn was in Libra.  You and I and our daily thoughts, choices and action will determine the sustainability of the next 30 years for our children and ourselves.

Will you choose Love?

The power of Venus is with you 24/7 for the next 3 years to practice this as a lifestyle.

Blessings in your choices and actions,

Kay

Thank You Kay!!

You offer a brilliant Call to Action with your questions…to which I answer an emphatic YES!
The most important question:   WILL YOU CHOOSE LOVE?  YES!!!  To infinity and beyond, I choose LOVE.

Please join Kay & I.  If it’s in your heart…say YES to Love.  Let’s maximize the energy of Peace, Love and Understanding.  Let’s embrace Change as our only Constant.  Let’s embrace change & catalyze it for the highest good.  Will you join us?

We’d love to hear from you…  How will you catalyze the energies of Saturn in Libra for good in your life & the lives of others?

FY-JOYFUL-I: Kay’s new book, co-authored w/Margaret Koolman is an amazing tool for taking an empowered journey of self discovery through your chart and the Zodiac.  I’ve had non-stop aha! moments with this book!  Find it here:  Gateways to the Soul ~ Heart of Astrology

Saturn Photo Credit
Artistic Libra Credit

“Scary.. going offline at midnight.. till Friday. Time out for self care, go within & reconnect with myself. Calling Inner Guidance forth.”

I replied:
“@TiaSparkles Oooo…enJOY your time with yourself/guidance, Tia!!! Magical space that it is! It’s gonna rock!  See ya Fri!!

She said:
“@debsoul I still have 3 somethin’ hours in the online world! LOL.

I replied:
“@TiaSparkles You’re right. Be in the moment. EnJOY these 3 hours…and then…immerse yourself in the magic of YOU!

And she responded:
“@debsoul Tx! I like your take on it. Mine was more the `get away & go within to find what I seek` kinda sabbatical! LOL. Just need time out.

And I simply replied:
“@TiaSparkles :0) I LOVE time outs! :0)”

This morning I woke up and thought about Tia…starting her Time Out/Sabbatical with herself, away from the computer, appointments, obligations, etc…and I smiled.

I love Time Outs and give them to myself frequently.  They’re powerful.  They’re necessary.

When I came to my own computer (as I’m not on a computer time out right now) I noticed Tia’s new post announcing her Time Out…posted just before midnight last night.

In her post she talks about the movie Penelope (spoiler alert!! for Tia’s post) and how the story centers around Penelope, a beautiful girl who is seemingly cursed with a pig’s nose until she can find her one true love.  It’s a wonderful movie that teaches us the value and importance of Self Love.

Here is my comment (hardly a comment, more of a post, that’s why it’s here) in response to Tia’s post:

Dear Tia…

YAY for YOU!!!!  I love every post you share, my friend.  And I love this one like crazy ’cause it’s one of the most important themes you’ll ever touch on…and one of the most important all of us can give our awareness to.

I loved Penelope, the movie!  What a great example for talking about Self Love!

I’m a Self Love fanatic!! (That must sound so crazy to those who are still thinking that being selfish is a bad thing…)

Thanks for recognizing the need in yourself for a time out…and for giving yourself one…RIGHT NOW!  What a gift.  …not only for you, but for everyone of us who’s path you touch.  (Can you seriously get any better??)

When we give ourselves permission to be with ourselves…in a loving, nurturing, ‘I’m there for you’ kind of a way…it’s like getting the best bear hug ever!  It feels sooo goood.  The connection with our Divine Self deepens…and we all know what happens then.  Our vibration rises yet again, we’re more aligned with the Pure Brilliance we were born to be, we beam Happy-Power-Joy-JOY all over the place…and our lives and the lives of those around us are infinitely more alive and enriched simply because we said YES! to falling more deeply in Self Love!

Pretty darn cool.

Oh yeah, you asked what some of my favorite time outs for myself include~

First of all, I look at every day and say…OK, where is my time-out today?  I need one every day…and if I don’t feel I’m giving myself that I get kinda cranky…and then I need a BIG time out…which is OK too…but, getting them every day makes me feel SUPER Special & keeps the whole ‘overwhelm’ thing out of the picture.

My favorite time-outs include one or more of the following:

• Time with my horse, Lindy Rose…at liberty…in the pasture, being one w/the herd
• Walking in nature…especially a forest trail
• Reading my favorite book of the moment
• Soaking in my hot tub or extra large soak tub~immersing myself in water feels so yummy
• Cooking or Baking~when it’s just for fun, something special and creative…at a time of my choosing…but even making dinner each night feels like ‘time-out’ activity most of the time (think Chocolat!)
• Listening to my fave music & letting my inner rock star shine (except I’m usually singing along with Snatam Kaur or Tina Malia, hardly rock stars…but their music stirs my soul!)
• Laying on the floor with my dog, Ashki for some scratch & snuggle time
• …that’s the short of it!  The list could easily go on and on.

I’ve created our home as a sanctuary/retreat in and of itself.  Everything I need (except my horse, she’s a few miles down the road) is right here…including a mini forest for tree hugging and contemplation space.  When your home space supports your desire to connect to your full Brilliance, Self Love becomes second nature…it’s just so easy to give yourself what you need.

I’m so excited and happy for you, Tia!!!  You GO Girl!
Much LOVE and JOY…  Debra (@debsoul)

Being the Self Love Fanatic that I am, you’ve probably recognized this theme running through other posts…especially this one and this one.  And remember, being in deep Self Love helps you rock your Joy of Brilliance!  What are you waiting for?!?  Give yourself the Time Out you deserve so you can shine like the Divine Elephant you are!!  (Does anyone else see a recurring theme here??)

Give yourself a Self Love Time Out today…and tomorrow…and the next day…you get the picture.  You deserve it!  In fact, you owe it to yourself.

In honor of Tia and Self Love Time Outs…I’d love to hear about some of your favorite Self Love Time Outs.  What do you do that helps you fall more deeply in Self Love?

Photo Credit: My Niece, Mother Nature, Grandfather Tree & Me

As I pondered what to write I considered all the topics that speak to me…and grabbed the one that sings to me.  The topic of Brilliance and Living Your Shine to the Fullest. As soon as I knew that’s what I wanted to write about I stumbled upon the quote that you’ll read a couple sentences from now.  I had the spark and the quote ignited the post.  I LOVE it when that happens!!

The Good Vibe Community loved the post…and naturally I wanted to share it with you too.  Here it is!

Hafiz wrote:

“You are a Divine Elephant with amnesia trying to live in an ant hole.”

The imagery of this quote is alarmingly vivid.  Seriously, are you picturing it?

The funniest part is, this is exactly what each of us looks like when we choose to live smaller than the brilliance that we are each born to be!

A portion of one of my all time favorite quotes from Marianne Williamson says,

“Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.”

It’s becoming ever clearer to me that we, as a humanity are awakening to our purest Soul Brilliance.

As generational stories of oppression and suppression dot the path of our histories we are becoming more and more enlightened by the idea that we are meant to shine more than anything else in this life.

The Spark of Divinity that courses through our veins has been there since the beginning of time.  No matter what experiences have gone before us that spark is alive and well.  It can not be extinguished.

No matter what the ‘looks as if’ is on the movie screen of life…something deep inside continues to pulse, telling us there’s a better picture…a picture we alone create for ourselves.

It is our Divine Right to shine.  And it is our choice to exercise this right.

What are you choosing?

• Are you the elephant w/amnesia trying to squeeze yourself into the ant hole?

• Or are you the elephant divinely aware of your majestic nature, fully aware of your HUGE Brilliance, fully willing to Live Large?

Perhaps you are the ant.  One ant in a colony of millions.

• One ant who in that colony of millions could choose to get lost in the ant hill of anonymity…

• Or one ant who will choose to claim his uniqueness and be counted as the one he is.

No matter the choice, choose on purpose.

• Choose because you want to.
• Because you know you can.
• Choose because no one else can make the choice for you.

Let the amnesia fade.

Stand up and claim your birthright.

You are a Divine Soul living a Human Experience.

What a gift!

The best part?…

It’s a gift that keeps on giving.  Another line from the same Marianne Williamson quote says,

“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

I know my perfect JOB.  It’s to serve others through my own Light, assisting others to fully discover their own Light…their own Joy of Brilliance in life.

Just by becoming the Divine Being we are…elephant, ant, human…each of us uniquely brilliant, shining our gleaming wonderfulness in all we are…leading by the clarity of our example as Abraham suggests…

…just by this, we encourage others to do the same.

It’s that easy.  It’s that important.  It’s that brilliant.

We create heaven on earth just by being the brilliance of who we are.

Heaven feels good.  I choose brilliance.  In JOY.  Will you join me?

Let me hear you claim it!

• What amnesia have you recently come out of?
• What is the “Brilliance of YOU” that you are now, more than ever, willing to BE?

Living amnesia free ~ In my Joy of Brilliance…  Debra  aka @debsoul

Divine Elephant Photo

For example, I do things like:

• live JOYfully,
• express creatively,
• love unconditionally,
• dance wildly,
• sit quietly,
• speak passionately,
• BE brilliantly.

In fact the premise of that post was inspired by the nursery rhyme ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’ in which one floats gently down(the)stream…because…merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a Dream!

Oh, the Magic!

Last night I was updating my Facebook status and something magical happened.

I saw something in a word that had been there all the while, except I had never seen it that way before.  (LOVE when that happens!)

I was giggling to myself about how people I’ve known for years, but haven’t seen for a long time seem to be perplexed about all the different ‘jobs’ I have.  Currently I am:

• a Social Media Consultant,
• an Intuitive Guide,
• a Copywriting Coach,
• an Alkaline-Antioxidant Water System Fan & Promoter
• and even the Magic Hairdresser in me may be getting dusted off to shine in the spotlight once again.

As I considered how funny it is to me that I don’t fit into another’s ‘I do this and this alone!’ box, I stared at the word ‘job’ that I had just typed.

As I stared the letters started dancing before me …J…O…B… and that’s when it happened.  I saw the word JOB as an acronym for Joy of Brilliance!!!

J.O.B. = Joy of Brilliance

Oh My Goodness!!!  It’s everything I ever say, share, be, do, live, encourage, etc. to the max!!

Who knew that a little word like ‘job’ held the magic of J.O.B. ~ Joy of Brilliance?!?

This is perfect! JOBs are meant to be born of our Soul Brilliance and expressed with great JOY!

The secret to life is about living JOY and Feeling Good…and when we do we become like Midas; everything we touch turns to GOLD.

Life is not meant to be about ‘work’ or ‘job-jobs’.  It’s meant to be about a continuous joyful flow of expression…and within that we receive abundance as a result of living that joy.  (Some may refer to parts of that abundance as a ‘pay check’)

My friend, Star Rinaldi on Facebook shares a quote by Rabindranath Tagore in her sidebar that I resonate with so deeply:

“I slept and dreamt that Life was Joy.  I awoke and saw that Life was Service.  I acted and behold, Service was Joy.”

In dream time we often recognize the brilliance of who we are.  To wake up and express that with joy each and every moment of every day is the best JOB we could ever dream of.

The best part is…every job we have can be this if we choose it to be.  Every one.  Even the most seemingly mundane.  Putting our Brilliance to work with Joy is possible no matter what we do.

Do You Want a JOB?

So…I ask you, what is your JOB?  Are you working it?  Do you have your Joy of Brilliance (JOB) turned on in everything you do? If not, what can you do to shift it?

Now, when someone asks, “What do you do?” I can simply reply, “In everything I do, I have the BEST JOB in the world because I’m working my Joy of Brilliance!”

It’s up to you.  You are Brilliant beyond measure. Will you work it?

If you need help finding your J.O.B., let me know…one of my favorite J.O.B.s is helping others find theirs.

And you know what?  When you work your Joy of Brilliance it is as easy as you choose it to be to turn that into your Midas Touch JOB…the one that creates the paycheck you desire as well as other joyful abundance.

In future JOB posts we’ll talk about how to find your JOB in any job, the Age of the Entrepreneur related to JOBs, Creativity, Passion, Purpose and Connection JOBs, why being a Jack or Jill of all trades creates great JOBs, etc.

Are you as excited as me about this Re-Frame? Tell me about it!  I want to hear about your JOBs.  What is your Joy Of Brilliance?  …and if you’re not sure, I want to hear about that, too!

In JOY…with my new JOB…  Deb

BEe JOB Photo Credit

He came barreling in the bedroom just after sunrise shouting, “Mom…Dad, there’s a wild turkey banging on my window!”

What?! I must be dreaming.

I heard what he said but it wasn’t computing.  We just recently moved to the country and I’ve never had a wild turkey come knocking at my door window.

I hadn’t really opened my eyes to this point.  I settled back in.  And immediately Destin shouted it again, “Mom!!  There’s a wild turkey banging on my window! Come quick!”

This time I opened my eyes.  Sure enough, our son was really standing there telling me about a turkey at his window.

I grabbed the camera and we ran downstairs to witness the most amusing early morning sight ever.

There was this HUGE Tom Turkey just banging his beak with full force on our window!!

Honestly, he was pecking with such force I was a little concerned the window would break.

I caught a couple pic’s and then asked Destin if he thought the turkey could see in.

He didn’t think so.  We moved closer. The turkey kept banging.
We moved closer still. The turkey was insistent, relentless in his pecking; he didn’t notice us.

Finally, when we got within a couple feet of the window, we entered Tom Turkey’s field of awareness.
He suddenly realized the error of his ways (or was freaked out that a group of two-leggeds was suddenly posing threat as well) … and he ran away across the lawn.

As he did we noticed his ‘wife and children’ standing further up the lawn.  (OK, I’m anthropomorphizing just a little.  Bear with me.)

This turkey was clearly banging away at his own reflection in what he believed was a noble attempt to ward off any threat to his own.

Interesting.

A Look at Reflection~

If we look at ‘reflection’ metaphorically…

How often do we bang away at our reflection…or what is being reflected…only to realize that we could be looking deeper, broader, more intently beyond what currently seems to be.

• Is it possible that at times our own awareness is limited by what is being reflected around us?

• Is it possible that by giving all of our attention to what we’re focused on that we create more of that reality?

The turkey was sure that there was another turkey threatening his territory, his family, his livelihood.  It’s all he could see and he was determined not to let anything happen that he didn’t want to happen.

That was his reality.  For him, in that moment, the threat (as he saw it) was real.

And so, he continued fruitlessly banging away at his own reflection when he could have taken a step back, broadened his awareness, offered himself some relief and a new perspective.  He could have.  He didn’t.  Until we stepped into his field of awareness he was complacently attached to his seeming current situation.

I know I’m giving this turkey a lot of credit.  In his defense, I’m sure the depth of character I’m giving him is not at all there.  He was innocently doing what he thought best.  I recognize that.  We do that, too.

Questioning Reflection~

Here are some questions that ran through my awareness as I witnessed this amusing spectacle this morning:

• What beliefs are we holding about our reflection and that which is reflected around us?
• Could there be something more?
• Is it possible to look at things from another angle?
• What may be blocking our deeper vision?
• What is the reflection being presented saying?  Are we listening?
• Is it possible the reflection currently revealing itself is only a facade?  …or a mirage?
• And most directly…  How do I feel about what is being reflected, and how is what I see being reflected present within me?
• Are we ever so attached to our current situation that we forget to allow space for new possibility to come into our field of awareness?

I know one thing right now.  I’m grateful to Tom Turkey and his family.  They offered me a profoundly introspective ‘wake up call’ opportunity this morning.  Not to mention some early morning humor to start things off right!

I mean seriously, if you’re going to get woken up before your body says it’s time it may as well be for the antics of nature playing at your window!

Did You See THAT?!?

Any attention grabbing reflections at your window lately?

Metaphorically speaking, of course.  Although, if any of you have had experiences with nature’s amusement I’d love to hear those stories as well!

Here’s to reflection!  Seeing it for what it’s worth, seeing it for its face value, and recognizing that there’s more…if we just take a step back, forward…or even INward…yet another reflection takes shape with ever deeper messages to share.

As always…I’d love to hear from you. What reflections are currently staring you in the face?

And in honor of Tom Turkey~

May your reflections be pure, may they lead you to your deepest truth and may you see the beauty in all.

Turkey in the Mirror photo credit

Turkey at the Window photo credit:  Me, this morning!

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It doesn’t matter.  Not really.  Ultimately what matters is that I’ve been busily living life and enJOYing every moment.

I’ve had 42+ Good Days!!  (Seriously.  At the end of day inventory, they were ALL GOOD.)

“Weren’t there a few moments of stuck & yuck here & there”, you may ask?   …OK, maybe a few…but not enough for me to care to give my lasting attention to.

Give Me a Cloud…

I’m all about the JOY.  You give me a cloud and I’ll find the silver lining.  The JOY is always there for us.

That’s really all there is.  Being in JOY as often as possible.  And when that’s where our attention goes…it’s amazing just how many JOYful moments we live.

Have you been living JOYfully? Are you giving attention to how much JOY is in your life?  Look around you.  Can you see anything at all to be JOYful about?  If you aren’t immediately noticing anything…  Look CLOSER.

• What about how your dog’s body rises and falls with each relaxed breath, reminding you that life is good?
• What about the wonder in a child’s eyes?
• Or how your partner sweetly says, “I love you” a bunch of times each day?
• How about that forwarded email that’s been around the world and back again?  You know, the one with the incredible photos of animals in nature.

(OK, so these are a few things that ‘do it’ for me…what does it for you?)

• What about the fact that you’re alive?
• What about all the blessings, big and small that grace your path in life every day?

Want an immediate JOY boost?

Think of 3 things right now that you LOVE in life.

Dig deep and give gratitude for each of them.

Feel what it’s like to be with what ever those 3 things are.

If it’s food, taste it.  If it’s flowers, smell them.  If it’s a loved one, give them an imaginary squeeze!  Right now.

Can you feel it?

JOY isn’t far away.  JOY isn’t something for some day.  Joy is for right now. In every moment.  Did you know that?  JOY is a choice just like everything else. In every moment there is something just screaming to be recognized for the JOY it brings you.

When we begin to realize that we are surrounded by JOY INDUCERS, we begin to realize that we are the igniters.  We are responsible for turning our JOY on.

Every day is a Good Day…if that’s what we choose it to be.

What are you choosing?

Will you choose to notice and count the JOYful blessings in each day?  Or will you choose to notice the things that make you go a little buggy?

A YouTube video from Brother David Steindl-Rast titled, “A Good Day” moved me to tears of JOY this morning.

So much so that I was inspired to write this post.  I just had to get back in touch with you.  I just had to tell you that Life is Good.  Better than good, really.  Downright GREAT.

As I watched the video I found my inner self shouting, “YES!  Beautiful!  Yes!  I feel that!  I see that!  I am deeply, ever so deeply GRATEFUL for that!!”

May your every day be a Good Day.  May you see and live each day as if it were your very first…and your very last.  Now that, as Brother David points out, makes for a day well spent.  A Good Day, indeed.

So…What’s UP…What’s All the JOY About?!

For those of you wondering just what’s been so JOYful for me these past six weeks…

We’ve followed our hearts once again.  We moved from Colorado where we’ve been feeling a bit like misfits for the last two years back to Wisconsin, our birth home.  We’ve been away for over six years…and coming ‘home’ to family, friends and the natural green space and water we love feels sooo good!

We’ve been blessed with a gorgeous sanctuary atop a hill in the woods.  It’s the perfect retreat for us.  We’re surrounded by nature in every direction.  This place feeds our souls…and inspires deep creative passion within us.  It’s a constant re-charging station and we are eternally grateful.

The past 6 weeks have been about the transition, the move, the settling in and making a house a home.  The past 6 weeks have been about re-connecting with family and friends; such JOY.  And the past 6 weeks have been about re-connecting with Mother Nature…boating, hiking, sitting, exploring, listening, watching nature in all her splendor.

Such Good Days.  Such JOY.  So much to give Gratitude for!

JOY is contagious. I’m willing to share so you can catch some. 

• Let’s be friends on Facebook~

• Let’s get in the stream together on Twitter~

I want to feel your JOY, too.  Share it.  Please? 

Awesome HEART Cloud Photo Credit:  Me!…and Heaven, of course. (photo taken while JOYfully boating w/Mark & Destin on White Lake in WI)

Need some assistance in finding the JOY in your life?  I can help.  Let’s discover your JOY together through my Soulitude Intuitive Coaching Sessions (that’s just a fancy name for us getting together via phone, skype, iChat…or even in person…to talk about stuff so that I can help you feel into the Feel Good Joy in your life).  If that idea feels good, email me now:  debra[at]soulitude[dot]com

Just recently I was talking with our realtor about creating a new marketing flyer for the house we’re selling in Colorado.  She thought it would be fun to play with the idea of “Seeking the Mystery Buyer”.

While this idea got my creative juices flowing, it stimulated my passion for Re-Framing.

3 Great Words to Re-Frame:

• Desperately
• Seeking
• Mystery

The word “seeking” within the ’seeking the mystery buyer’ idea reminded me immediately of the movie title, ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’.  And when it did I literally laughed out loud and said, “Oh no, this little conscious creator will not give power to desperate anything!”

I am not desperate.  I have no desire to be desperate.  Immediately the magic of a re-frame appeared across the movie screen of my mind’s eye.

Desperately … Re-Frame … Deliberately

Ah yes!  But of course!  My friend, Deliberate.

Deliberate = Conscious, with intention, in charge, on purpose, with meaning, by choice…Deliberate. Perfect.

My attention then turned to “seeking”.  Hmmm…  “Nope, seeking will not do”, I thought.

Seeking implies I’m looking for something outside of myself…perhaps even something I can’t find, something out of reach, something not readily available to me, something hiding from me.

None of those scenarios give me any FEEL GOOD.  The vibes I feel conjure feelings of hopelessness and despair.  No thank you.

In my world everything I need and desire comes to me.  I am a magnet.  Magnets attract.  Bull’s eye!  My re-frame for “seeking” is “Attracting”!

Seeking … Re-Frame … Attracting

Great!  So now instead of ‘desperately seeking anything’ we have, ‘Deliberately Attracting Everything’.  That FEELS SO GOOD!  Yes?

In life I choose the vibe of deliberately attracting over desperately seeking every time.  Can you feel the difference?  Have you ever felt desperate about anything?  How does feeling deliberate register instead?

Our internal Resonance Barometer measures each of them quite oppositely.  Using our emotions as the indicator, we recognize that desperateness feels yucky and deliberateness feels good, positively charged.

We’ve been talking about Power lately, Authentic Power to be exact.  It’s easy to see that Deliberately Attracting is beautifully grounded in Authentic Power; sourced from the inside with Love.  YAY!

It’s no mystery~

In our realtor’s idea for ‘seeking the mystery buyer’, I felt one more word screaming to be re-framed.  “Mystery”.  I chuckled again thinking, “I may not know the buyer’s name or personal information, but this buyer is no ‘mystery’ to me.”

In fact, there are many things I know about our Perfect Buyer.  **Did you catch the re-frame?

Mystery … Re-Frame … Perfect

As defined by my Mac Dictionary Friend ‘Perfect’ means:  having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be; highly suitable for someone or something; exactly right.

That sounds so…PERFECT!  :0)  Right?

Our buyer is no mystery to me.  I’m perfectly clear who our buyer is.

Our Perfect Buyer loves creative, peaceful environments, enjoys an incredible gourmet kitchen open to entertaining spaces, appreciates mature trees, privacy and being surrounded by nature with local conveniences just minutes away, adores the finer things~attention to detail and gorgeousness, recognizes an incredible deal when they see one, has a ready flow of accessible cash for a clean, smooth transaction, needs this house any time between now and fall of 2009.

Our perfect buyer knows quality, has dreamed of living in a house like this in a gorgeous, mature neighborhood like Fox Hill, and is blown away by the serendipity that drew them to this amazing house at this remarkably great price!  Our perfect buyer knows all about deliberate attraction (consciously or not!) and being in the right place at the right time!

No mystery at all.  Crystal clear.  Perfect.

We are Deliberately Attracting the Perfect Buyer.

The Magic of a Re-Frame~

Re-framing our thoughts and intentions makes an enormous difference in what it is we attract.  Let’s face it…we’re going to get what we ask for anyway…we may as well be conscious and deliberate about it!

Understand that as long as we are clear and deliberate in our wanting, in our asking, in our desiring; then we can go about enJOYing our lives, trusting that what we are attracting is brilliant, most likely surpassing and exceeding our highest imaginings and is already on its way to us.

Get clear.  Get deliberate.  Be BOLD in your declarations of what you want and always be open to being surprised at just how PERFECT, even *beyond perfect* the manifestations that are delivered to your doorstep are.

• What needs re-framing in your life?

• Have you re-framed anything lately?

• How does it feel?

Get your Authentic Power on.  Give your thoughts…and your life…the Deliberate Re-Frame Attention YOU Deserve!!

What are you Deliberately Attracting?  How Perfect is it?  I’d love to hear about it!

And…just in case you’re reading this and you feel like you’re the Perfect Buyer we’re attracting, here’s a link to help you find your way to the most amazing house ever!

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Self Love in the purest, more reverent sense is the greatest gift we could ever give ourselves.  In turn, it is also the greatest gift we could give another.

By loving ourselves unconditionally, we heighten our capacity for love in general.  By loving ourselves we are tapped in to our true nature and therefore in access to our greatest authentic power.

Communicating with others from this space of Authentic Power steeped in Self Love is magical.

Sphere of Receptivity~

By focusing first on our self love and then radiating outward, we create an authentic sphere of receptivity for communication to flow through.

When in this space of Self Love related to Authentic Power, we recognize that we have no desire to control another.  Our only wish is that each person finds the deep peace associated with their own relationship with Self.

How the communication is received is not up to you.  It is up to the receiver.  Your only ‘job’ is to come from your inner love and relate from a position of good intention without agenda, without attachment to the outcome.

We can tell the difference between being in our Authentic Power and coming from our Inauthentic Power in two ways:

• how we’re feeling emotionally while communicating
• if we’re feeling attached to the outcome, or not

If the emotion that is flowing feels good, is based in unconditional love, peace, harmony and understanding then you can be sure that you are coming from your Authentic Power.

If the emotion that is flowing is steeped in feelings of anger, frustration, fear and/or judgement you can use caution, recognizing that it’s more likely to be coming from an Inauthentic place when the emotional energy is charged in this way.

The flow of emotion is an ever changing stream of consciousness. At times calm and placid, other times like raging rapids.  In addition, this flow can shift and change at the blink of an eye.

As we commit to bringing our awareness to our emotional flow, we engage another level of our Authentic Power.  We are aware of the shifts and therefore aware of our level of authenticity.

Feeling Powerless?

When I look at the path I’ve journeyed over the years relative to being in my own authentic power I can clearly see the relationship between my journey to self love and my ability to be in my power.  I can see plenty of stops along the path where I felt powerless…and in those moments I was also OUT of love with myself.

Being powerless is a close friend of self-doubt, self-sabotage, self-neglect, self-hate.  Period.  No one can render you powerless but yourself.  Just as no one can give you power but yourself.

An Inside Job~

It’s an inside job.  It always is.  As soon as we externalize *anything* we’re at risk of giving our power away.  Again, when this happens it’s of our own choosing.  Nothing has been taken away.

The inside job here is all about loving and honoring your most Brilliant Source Self and allowing the expansion of that Source Self to fill you up from the inside out.

When we allow our True Nature Self to expand into the fullness of our being-ness we are free.  We feel such joy and elation.  Nothing can stop us.

We are unstoppable in our flow of power in grace and ease.

Being the ‘Look-Out’~

When in conversation or communication that matters to us, it’s our responsibility to bring awareness to where our communication is flowing from.  It’s responsible of us to be our own look-out, our own watch-guard to where our energy is flowing from.

When in conversation we begin to recognize that our emotional barometer has switched from love to fear, we draw ourselves in, call ourselves on it and proceed only when we are back in a centered, loving, peaceful place.

Just imagine how different the world would be if we could self-manage our energy in this way.  And of course we can.  …do we?  That’s the question.

War would be an unknown if each of us committed to this practice, this awareness.  What a commitment this is…and will be to those we love in our near and dear daily lives, as well as to our global family.

When we recognize that it’s only about us, as the individual…that no one else imposes anything on us; it offers a deep sense of comfort and freedom; as well as responsibility–one that we willingly accept because it’s just too important not to.

Calling all Captains~

Accepting this responsibility means we realize that we are truly the captain of our own ship.  We realize that we are in charge of our feelings, our thoughts, and our actions.  We realize that everything we do, say, and be…is a choice.  Everything.

Most of all, we recognize that true power = love…better yet, Love = Power

…and it all starts on the inside. Inside of you.  Inside of me.  …how beautiful when it radiates outward!! LOVE POWER

That’s the only kind of power I’m interested in.  How about you?

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I’ve written  Letting Go & the Power of Happy (…the new Power of Now) and last week’s post, I’ve Got the Power.  This week several people have posed questions around Authentic Power…what it is, how to tap into it and how to know when you’ve got it turned on.

Here’s what I’ve got relative to Authentic Power; in two parts, because I just couldn’t fit all the juicy details into one post!

Part One:

The Heart of Authentic Power~

Communicating from your center, your place of authentic power, will always feel good to you.

That’s your key that it’s working.

If it feels good, it’s working.

If there are any not so good feelings (uneasiness, hurt, anger, resentment, fear, etc.) floating about that’s your key that something is off, not quite right, awry.

The magical key to feeling good and thereby being in your authentic power lies in your capacity for Self Love.

The more in love with your Self you are, the more able you are to relate from your Authentic Power.

I capitalize Self here to denote the real, true essence you.

• Not the you of your personality, job, roles in life, etc.
• Not the you as someone else may define you.
• Not necessarily even the you as you may define yourself if you’ve not yet fallen truly, madly, deeply in love with your Self.

Self is the Brilliance Within.

• Self as God-Given,
• Source-Driven,
• Divine Nature,
• Pure Perfection Self.

Now that’s goooood.  (and oh so easy to love, yes?)

Being in love with your Self automatically ensures great levels of confidence, worthiness, acceptance, peace and joy.

Being in love with yourself in the purest sense means you don’t need anything from anyone else…ever.

You are your own best friend.

From this space, giving is delightful and receiving is magical.

Both are like icing on the cake…not necessarily needed, but oh so appreciated.

The more capable we are of loving ourselves for the pure perfection that we are, the more capable we are of reflecting that ability in others to do the same.

Self Love is the most important gifts we could ever give…ourselves.

Self Love is the foundation by which all else is created.  For when we recognize the greatness of our Source Self…our God-Given Self we recognize the Power Within that is limitless; the power to be, do, live anything we dream or imagine.

• The more deeply we love ourselves, the less likely we are to be swayed by something outside of ourselves that is dissonant.  Thus, we are IN our Power.

• The more sure we are of ourselves, the more likely we are to be able to maintain our center (our Power) when our surroundings seem to be on shaky ground.

• The more steadfastly we love ourselves the easier it gets to relate from our Point of Power in all that we do.

We are designed to be powerful, loving beings.

Love is the Heart of Authentic Power.

Tap in!  It’s yours to claim.  Fall in love with your Self and feel the Power!

In part two we’ll talk about Authentic Power in Communication.  Be prepared to be Power FULL.

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Using a chant to Lakshmi…or anyone else (including chants or prayers to Jesus, Mary, Buddha, God, etc.) is simply (and amazingly) an empowering tool.

The chant or prayer is an energy ignitor, a connector, a bridge between You and your most Tuned in You; the You that is Source itself.

The power of these chants is not in the chant alone.  It’s in what you activate vibrationally within yourself and in turn in the world around you.

That’s big.  Did you get that?

The power of these chants is not in the chant alone.  It’s in what you activate vibrationally within yourself and in turn in the world around you.

Power Source Inside ~ Inquire Within

It’s important to recognize that true power can only be sourced from within.

It’s tempting to externalize sometimes.  We have a tendency to look outside ourselves for the latest, greatest fix, fad, idea, pill, diet, self-help book, etc.  It’s not to say that any one of these things might not assist; they may.

The bottom line is none of these things work unless and until the ‘Inside You’~your Authentic Source Self is ready and prepared to make the shift.

No matter what the shift is.

When the you that is YOU is ready and says YES!; you’re in your POWER and magic happens.

You’ve Got Mail~

I’ve mentioned in previous posts that when I finish chanting I like to sit quietly in the energy and vibration the chanting created within and around me.  Some days I hear or observe something.  Others not so much.

Today I felt a message coming through.  Here’s what I recorded:

“Chants are meant to empower the power within.  Invoking my energy is meant only to awaken that part of you that is me.

The energy of prosperity and abundance is within you.  It always has been.  It always will be.

It is not outside of you, and therefore cannot be sourced in that way.

Yes, of course physical manifestations will reveal themselves to you outwardly.  You must understand they are the fruits of the inside nurturing you have done to allow them to sprout, blossom and ripen.

They are the outward manifestation of the beautiful inside connection to Source and therefore the aliveness of prosperity and abundance within you.

Can you accept this to be true?  It is so.  Trust in the power within and know that chanting, or any other ‘magical’ tool are only that ~ tools.

It is you alone who is the keeper of your power.  You alone can tap in and turn it up.  It’s easy.  Believe it so.”

I believe this came through me, from within.  From that part of me that is Lakshmi, from that part of each of us that is Lakshmi, from the collective Lakshmi consciousness.

So…What Did You Get??

Many ask, what has manifested for you since you started chanting to Lakshmi?

They want to know in $$$ or things because of course isn’t that what this is all about, they say?

While I have had outer manifestations ‘show up’ in the form of

• more perfect clients (another incredible one just yesterday!),
• unexpected money from the government in the form of tax refunds from years gone by (huge welcome surprise),
• our investments are growing beautifully (in a supposedly yet ‘downturned’ economy~my picture of the economy looks bright and cheery);

I have to say the biggest gifts I’ve received are those that woke me up to my inner knowing of

• worthiness,
• deservedness and
• connectedness.

I’ve been in touch with these qualities my whole life…and somehow over the past 2 1/2 months of chanting I feel the fullness of my worthiness, deservedness and connectedness.

Awakening the fullness of these three qualities within me “set me up” and “got me poised” for major receiver mode.

Receiver Mode Activated!

• I am ready, willing and able to receive.
• I am open!
• There are no blocks to my receiving.
• In fact receiving brings me so much JOY I am blissfully ecstatic!!

This is HUGE for me.  Can you relate?

Many of us are incredible givers; we know how to do that one REALLY well.  We love to give.  We feel SO GOOD when we give.  And…because we’re so good at giving…some of us aren’t that well versed in receiving.

To feel this immense freedom within me now around receiving just completely rocks so deep!!  Receiver Mode Engaged!  Full Throttle!!

• I am in my Power.
• I am Unstoppable.
• I am Happy.
• I am JOY FULL.
• I am Bliss.

• AND ~ I am a powerful manifestor, who is grateful for the energy of prosperity and abundance that is awake, alive and well within me.

Thank you Lakshmi for these gifts ~ and all those I am poised to receive!

Is your Internal Power Source turned on?  Is your Receiver Mode activated?

Tell me about it! 

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There was a time in my life where others attempted to lead me to believe that wearing rose colored glasses was wrong; that by wearing them I was somehow out of touch with reality.

Funny, right? Knowing what I/we know…  We are each responsible for creating our own reality.  And so, if this is the case…and it is…then my choice to see the world through rose colored glasses has served me very well.  (And it has)

Growing Up in the School of Hard Knocks

I remember so many instances growing up hearing adults around me say to one another:

• Get your head out of the clouds!
• Take those silly rose colored glasses off and see life for what it is!
• Get real!
• What do you think…life’s supposed to be a bowl of cherries?!
• You can’t have your cake and eat it, too!
• Oh yeah, to you life is all sunshine and rainbows!

I listened with a certain curiosity.
I wondered why the world these adults were living in was seemingly so bad?
What kind of glasses were they viewing life through?
Maybe they wanted to try mine.

My world through rose colored glasses

I observed that I rather liked my head in the clouds…watching them float by, seeing angels, bunny rabbits, pirate ships and castles.

I looked at life and  really did see sunshine and rainbows.  As far as a bowl of cherries go, they’ve never been my personal favorite…but if someone else likes them, why wouldn’t life be just like that?

I noticed that when I was at celebrations that included cake I could have it…and eat it, too!  And…there was always icing on the cake!  Bonus.  Why would someone think I could have cake…but I couldn’t eat it?  Strange reality these people lived.

Sunshine and rainbows have always been magical to me.  I see them all the time.  In fact, I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen a day yet where the sun hasn’t shone…OK, so maybe there are clouds at times…but I know the sun rises to greet each new day; has ever since I started paying attention!

I’ve seen double and triple rainbows as well as an abundance of singles.  While living on Kauai rainbows were a natural part of my day.  My life was then, and is now filled with sunshine and rainbows.  I like it like that.  It brings me joy.  And why not?

Life’s Road is paved with…

Why is it that human nature at times tends to sway in the direction of belief that life is somehow meant to be hard, fraught with challenge, obstacles, rough spots and stuck or yuck?

Who ever gave us the notion that life was to be anything other than JOYful, FEEL GOOD, HAPPY…and just plain delicious to live?

I believe we can find rainbows in every situation.  If that makes me one of those silly rose colored glasses wearers, then so be it!

• I’m proud to take my stand as someone who’s committed to seeing the good in life.
• I’m committed to creating my reality the way I see it; the way I want it to be.

Did you know rose colored glasses are FREE?

It’s true.  Rose colored glasses are a CHOICE. And they’re completely FREE for the choosing!

Well, the metaphorical kind are, anyway.  I’ve had some pretty cool regular ones, too.  The kind that actually sit on your face and have bows that extend over your ears.

They cost a few couple bucks, unless you find a pair discarded on the roadside when someone feels life’s not meant to be so glorious and they leave them behind!

That’s happened to me before!  I’ve found someone else’s discarded glasses…and they just happened to be rose colored.  No kidding!  Meant for me, yes?

Are you laughing? Good.  I’m serious.  Laughing again? No?  Why not?  Yes? Good.

Rose colored glasses look good on EVERY ONE! They’re not for the faint of heart, though.  Beware.

• Wearing rose colored glasses will get you noticed.
• People will wonder just what’s gotten into you.
• Others will question your sanity; surely no one could be this happy.
• Your loved ones will wonder if it’ll ever where off; secretly hoping not.

Other rose colored glasses wearers will be drawn to you like bees to honey.  You’re sweet…and you know where the feel good is.

• Expect sudden bursts of JOY in your life while wearing them.
• There are no known side effects for wearing them 24/7.
• Even in sleep time, people have reported deeper, more restful sleep and magically inspiring dreams while wearing their rose colored glasses in bed.

I’ve heard other bed time reports as well.  Wearing rose colored glasses at all times (even during bed times…) increases the feel good across the board.  Use your imagination if further explanation is necessary.  Good stuff.

My Story 

My character, my inner brilliance has always been strong; my own experience has always spoken more loudly to me than what someone else may suggest to be true.

Though there were some years where I attempted to mask the effects of my rose colored glasses on my life from the rest of the world so as not to outwardly draw undue attention to the joy I was living; in time I realized that letting my rose colored-ness shine was good for me…and overall, it has had a pretty decent effect on those around me as well.

Notice~

The story I’m sharing doesn’t include stuck and yuck pieces.  That doesn’t mean there weren’t any.  There were plenty from another view.  I’m choosing to tell the story from my rose colored glasses view…and from that perspective I see JOY.  Period.  …and the stucky-yucky places-spaces?  The joy within them.  That’s the ticket.

The following is an excerpt from Esther and Jerry Hicks, “The Law of Attraction”.

It seems Abraham likes rose colored glasses, too!

How Do We Avoid Influence from Old Beliefs and Habits?

Jerry: Abraham, it seems to be particularly difficult for most of us to discarding old ideas, beliefs, and habits. Would you be willing to give us a affirmation that would assist us in avoiding any influence from our past experiences and beliefs?

Abraham: I am powerful in my now. We are not encouraging a discarding of old ideas, for in trying to get rid of them you actually only think about them more. And, some of your old ideas are worth keeping. Just be more aware of how you are directing your thoughts, and make a decision that you want to feel good…… Today no matter where I am going, no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to see that which I want to see. Nothing is more important than that I feel good.

Jerry: So, if people are witnessing the negatives being broadcast through the media, or even listening to problems that they might hear presented by their friends, how could they keep the negativity from offsetting them?

Abraham: By setting forth the intent, in every segment of their life experience, to see that which they want to see. And then, even from the most negative presentations, they could see something that they want.

Are you wearing your rose colored glasses 24/7? When do you notice you’ve forgotten to don them?  
What are some of your most gleaming rose colored glasses moments? Do tell!  I so love to hear from you.

PS~Life IS a bowl of cherries.
PPS~You CAN have your cake and eat it, too!
PPPS~I AM living proof.  :0)

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I’m awed every time by the thoughtul, caring responses from people who are truly interested in shining their brilliance and thereby helping others to do the same.  (My most favorite thing to do in the whole wide world!)

What if I can’t let go?

This week’s question had to do with the “letting go” step of the Law of Attraction process.  As in, how can I possibly ‘let go’ (release from attachment and trust) when I really, really, really want something?!

Oooo…this one is in the ‘freshy-fresh’ category for me right now!  As always, I’m grateful for the question…and the opportunity to share my happy observations.

Here’s what I’ve got…

When you really, really want something.

• Good.
• Be clear about it.
• Proclaim it from the mountain tops,
• sing, dance and celebrate it’s coming.
• And then…
• Get in the Power of Happy!

Eckhart Tolle talks about the Power of Now…I say the Power of Happy has even more…power.

Happy goes beyond and gives meaning to the Now…it gives it purpose.  (Not to mention, it’s downright FUN.)

When I’m really, really wanting something, I’m getting better and better at being in the ‘every day happy, now’.

When I’m focused on my happy I notice I don’t think about my ‘thing’ I really, really want (much).  And you know what else?

Is *that* what I wanted?  Really?

Sometimes in the course of being in the happy, I look at what I really, really want and notice that it looks different.  I notice that I want it a little different than I thought…a little bigger, a little smaller, a little more, a little less, earthier, bluer…you get the picture.

When this happens I get to celebrate a happy dance all over again!  Oh goodie! Thank Goddess it didn’t arrive yet, ’cause now I get to switch it up to match my new vibe!

**Do you think it’s possible the Universe was one step ahead of me (or three, five, one hundred) and knew better than I that I wasn’t quite ready, quite clear enough?

**Do you think it’s possible the Universe was waiting for my ‘aha moment’ of expanded clarity?

Trust ONE thing~

If there’s one thing I trust after all these years of experience it’s that everything happens on purpose, in right timing.  Everything. Period. If it looks as if, or feels as if it’s wrong…look deeper. Divine Timing is fail-proof. (There’s comfort in there if one chooses it.)

My most recent opportunity to practice what I preach (so to speak of course!) has been with the sale of our house here in Colorado.  (No, it’s not sold yet…and if any of you reading know the new owner, could you tell them the house is ready, willing and able to be theirs?)

Trust me when I tell you, this scenario has put my “Power of Happy” to the test.  And unequivocally I tell you the better I get at being true to my happy the more my attachment to the outcome (the sale of our house) drifts into the recesses of my awareness.

Here’s the key to my Power of Happy:

I’ve found that doing more of what I love, more of what I love, more & more & more of what I love…gives me more & more & more happy.  As a result my neediness and attachment melt away. (…and an abundance of other amazing things line up, manifest…etc.! *Bonus*)

Now, when I think of the house sale I want to happen it’s just a shoulder shrug of,

“I guess it’s not quite time yet.  Boy, the Universe (God) must really be hatching together the most glorious of outcomes!  THIS is gonna be goooood!!!”

Trust, Patience and Happy.

Those are my keys to detachment. Happy is at the top of the list…’cause it just makes everything else easy-peasy.

I like easy-peasy. In more refined terms:  Grace & Ease.

Grace and Ease are my compass…and Happy is my True North.

(Oooo…I like that!  Never came out quite like that before!)

As is always the case when a certain theme is fresh, the theme attracts that which supports it. This week I clicked on one of @kendrathornbury’s links and followed it to her blog where she had posted an especially appropriate Abraham video about happy. I bookmarked it. I posted it to my Facebook page. I made a note to include it in a future post. (Ta-dah! See bottom of post) Yesterday, I clicked on one of Jeannette’s past recent posts and there it was again!

See what I mean? Divine Timing. Serendipity. THIS post, this question. All on purpose. All in harmony. All giving me more HAPPY. :0) Thanks!

What we give power to manifests.

I’m giving power to happy. The way I figure, then everything else just has to bring more happy!

I loved this quote from Sylvia’s comment on Jeannette’s Q&A post:  (…the comment flow runneth over with deliciousness!)

“If the Universe doesn’t grant your heart’s desire maybe it’s because it’s got something even better waiting for you that you can’t even imagine today.”

Have you noticed The Power of Happy at play in your life?  Tell me about it…

Enjoy the video… ” Look for something happy…focus upon it…BE Happy!”

Photo Model~Our Adorable Ashki~”Grabbing JOY”
Gratitude to Jeannette Maw for her gleaming example

In Happy & Harmony… Debra