I’ve been a very, very good girl.  How do I know?  Because I feel good, happy, awake, vibrant, alive and well.  And I like feeling like that.  So I just keep on reminding myself how good it feels…and the feelings keep renewing!

Have there been any days that weren’t ‘all that’?  Maybe.  But Santa, you know as well as I do that where we focus, magically creates more of the same.

So Santa…

I’m choosing to focus on the Feel Good.  (Which is why I’m writing this letter to you…)

Dear Santa…

I’ve been a very, very good girl.

I believe in abundance.  I believe in dreams come true.  I believe that JOY is my merry purpose.  (Pretty sure it’s yours, too! ) I believe that SHINING is my Birthright.

Me and my BIG heart appreciate all that life has delivered to me over the last year.

What I appreciate most are the FEELINGS I’ve felt…

Feelings like~

• Wonder
• Passion
• Exhilaration
• Peace
• Feisty Friskiness
• JOY (and all it’s Happy Cousins, including GLEE, Euphoric & Bliss!)
• Uplift-ment
• Appreciation (yes, I can appreciate feeling appreciation!)
• Loving
• Hopefulness
• Creativity
• Curios
• Guided
• Energized
• Inspired
• Safe
• Balanced
• Focused
• In Awe
• BRILLIANT!
• …just to name a few.  :)

Hey Santa…

Know what’s cool?  Now that I’ve experienced all of these nifty feelings, they’re mine.  And because they’re mine…I can feel them again.  And again.  Cool, right?

What do I want?  More of the same and better, of course!

But, don’t sweat it, Santa.  I know it’s all up to me.

I know it’s not your responsibility to bring me happiness or JOY…or anything else for that matter.

I also know that everything I want is available to me…all I have to do is enJOY life, line up with the feel good…have FUN…and allow…and open my heart and my arms to receive.  And I can DO that!  Easy Peasy!

So all I’m asking Santa, is that you keep shining.  You know, your eyes how they twinkle, your dimples how merry…a right jolly, (b)old elf.

Because clearly, you’ve got JOY and a whole lot of other feel good vibes fully covered.

You’re an inspiration, Santa.

I know this letter is somewhat unorthodox.  You won’t mind; you like it like that.

After all, anyone who lives at the North Pole with hundreds of elves, eating cookies all day and playing with reindeer while you get ready to fly across the sky one night a year to deliver good vibes to good little boys and girls, GETS unorthodox!

You GET it, Santa.  And I just wanted you to know that I get it, too.  I like magic.  Heck, if the North Pole wasn’t so darn cold all year, I’d probably come move in with you like Buddy the Elf did!

Have a blessed and abundantly JOYful Holiday and New Year, Santa!  (If that’s what you want, of course.  It’s your story, you get to write it as you desire it to be!  As do I…and the way I see it…it’s ALL looking pretty magnificently brilliant!)

Here’s to all the New Stories we create for ourselves in the approaching New Year!

And Santa?

My gift to you…  Loads of LOVE, Laughs and Photos of my doggie niece and nephew.  Rosie and Faron.  I’m pretty sure they’ve got visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads.  Faron’s on the floor, dazed with amazement and Rosie’s eager, forward looking and totally ready for all the GOOD that awaits her.  I hope you enjoy their pictures, Rosie and Faron’s person (my sis!) took them.

With Love and Appreciation, Santa!
And by the way…
You ROCK the Red Suit!  Keep flying high!
One JOYful GOOD Feeling Girl…

XO ~ Debra

A BIG PS~

Just in case Santa’s not the only one reading this…  Here’s a FEEL GOOD way to start your New Story for 2011…

You’re a FIREWORK!  It’s TRUE!  I SEE YOU!
Let your LIGHT SHINE…Brilliant Ones!  All the BEST, just exactly as you dream it to be.  FEEL it!  BE it!  REST into it!

Breathe.  Believe.  Receive.  It’s ALL Happening!

Any NEW Stories you’re creating for 2011?

Any FEELINGS you’re intending to feel more of?

As always, LOVE to hear from you!!
Happy Holidays…I’m envisioning all the BEST for each and every one of you.  Shine on!!

“Beliefs are just thoughts that you keep on thinking; they’re just a habit of thought.  It’s just sort of the way you’ve always thought it, and so it is the way your are now thinking it.”

This one quote means so much and applies in so many different ways and scenarios.

Right now it’s got me considering the awesomely light and transformative power of those words.

“Beliefs are just thoughts we keep on thinking.”

We make it seem so challenging at times to change our beliefs.
In fact, sometimes we act as if changing our beliefs would be taboo.

We place value on our beliefs.

We act as if they are something engraved in stone that can not be washed away.

How funny is that??

Even something engraved in stone will wash away over time.

I know, this can be a touchy subject.  Some of you reading may be thinking…but my beliefs are important…they’re what shape me, mold me…make me who I am.

And I say, you’re absolutely right!

Do Your Beliefs Serve You?

This is why I’m writing this post.  If beliefs are important to the extent that they shape and mold our very being-ness…then I feel it’s critically important to reveal them for what they are so that we would never, ever think of limiting ourselves because of our beliefs.

When we embrace the idea that beliefs are just thoughts we keep thinking, it becomes apparent that if we change our thoughts we create new beliefs.

If we continue to think the same thoughts, our beliefs get etched more deeply into the stone of our thinking mind…

But if we give ourselves the room to create new thoughts, the etching softens and a new belief is honed.

The Heart of Belief

The beauty in this is that we can shape our beliefs on purpose, consciously, thereby giving ourselves limitLESS room for expansion and possibility to become the fullness of our brilliance in this magical life we’re leading.

Are you wondering what a limiting belief might sound like?

A Few Limiting Beliefs~

1. I could never have that job; I’m way too shy to relate with people that way.
2. I will never have the love of my life; partners never stay with me for long…they love and leave.
3. My weight will always be the burden that drags me down; I’ll never be thin and beautiful.

That will be enough to get most of you saying…

“Oh!!!  Yeah, I’ve had thoughts like that.  Hmphf.  So that’s a limiting belief, huh?”

It is if you keep telling it to yourself over and over again.

Remember?  Beliefs are just thoughts you keep thinking.

Using Your Power to Choose

Come, walk the high road with me and let’s re-shape that stone we’re honing.  Remember when we did some Re-Framing?  This is similar.

• Old belief (old story) #1:

I could never have that job; I’m way too shy to relate with people that way.

• New belief (new story) #1:

**there are as many options for this as your creative imaginings will allow**

I can have any job I choose.  I am confident.  I am comfortable with who I am.  I love myself and I appreciate knowing I have something to offer.  I enjoy relating with others and feel ease and grace in social situations.

Nice, huh?

What?  You’re thinking…a yeah, but that’s a bit of a stretch, one from the other?
Maybe.  Maybe not.

This story only works for you if you’re someone who (deep down in your heart of hearts) wants to have a job where you love relating to people and where worrying about being shy is a thing of the very distant past, not at all relative to your current desires and being-ness.

If you are the person who wants to switch it up and ditch the old belief that’s no longer serving you, then this new story…these new thoughts will serve you well on your way to a shiny new belief about you and your ability to work that job.

Beliefs are just thoughts you keep on thinking.  Get it?

• Old Belief (old story) #2:

I will never have the love of my life; partners never stay with me for long…they love and leave.

• New Belief (new story) #2

I love myself and therefore I know I am worthy of love.  Love finds me easily and it sticks around because I am so fun to love. I attract my perfect partner; the love of my life with grace and ease.  I love myself enough to know that I am never alone.  I love myself even when I’m alone!  My partner adores that about me and he/she stays because it feels so good!

Seriously.  It works.  Find thoughts that are more aligned with what you truly want and think them.  They will become beliefs.  They will become beliefs worth keeping; beliefs that serve you well.

• Old Belief (old story) #3

My weight will always be the burden that drags me down; I’ll never be thin and beautiful.

• New Belief (new story) #4

I love my body.  I love how my body supports and reflects my inner beauty and brilliance.  I feel beautiful.  I look in the mirror and I see beautiful.  My body is the perfect reflection of me.  My body weight gracefully maintains itself at its natural best.  I love myself.  I care for my body’s well-being.  My body is the vehicle for my expression in the world and I love and appreciate my body.  My body is healthy, vibrant and alive.

Notice in this one I chose not to focus on the word thin specifically?  I choose to focus on health, vibrance and vitality…and allow the body to naturally find it’s own brilliant beauty.  We can get caught up on what ‘thin’ looks like…that’s another post for another day!  For now, if this is a new story that’s attractive to you, focus on the aspects that feel good and go for it!  Create a new belief that serves…and in this case suits you better.

Love, Love, Love

There’s one more thing I’d like to point out that is inherent in all of these thought/belief switch ups.  Did you catch it?

They all include, “I LOVE MYSELF”.  There it is again.  That theme I just keep coming back to, and with good reason.

Self Love is and will always be the core foundation to your Joy of Brilliance shining forth for all the world to see and be blessed with.

Is there a belief (thoughts that you keep on thinking) that you could do well with re-shaping?

I’d love to hear about it!  Share your old beliefs and their shiny new switch-ups in the comment stream…

And if you’ve got an old one that you need help re-shaping, bring it on…I’m happy to help you re-shape those thoughts into something that serves you well.

With JOY of Brilliance…

Let’s create together!

Photo Credit

You are so awesome!  In my last post I mentioned how magnificent it would be to have Good Vibe Coach, Jeannette Maw as a guest on Earth~Harmony~Home.

I always love her perspective on things and wondered just what she’d have to say about the infinite choices we have each day to conscioiusly create the life we want for ourselves.

Jeannette accepted my invitation and is here with us today to share her Good Vibes!!

Thank you for responding and delivering what I asked for.

In Harmony…  Debra

A Welcoming Round of Applause for Good Vibe Coach, Jeannette Maw

“What do you want once you realize you can have anything?”  That’s the question posed by Gregg Braden at the end of his two day workshop in Salt Lake City a few years ago.

His answer?  “Nothing.”

Braden shared that once we realize we are all powerful, able to create and experience and be whatever we want, that the strangest thing happens – we stop wanting everything.  Instead, we settle into a life of enjoyment; of not needing anything to change in order to be perfectly satisfied with life.

It sounded inconceivable at first, but I’ve since come to understand (through personal glimpses of that very feeling) what Braden meant.

So the fact that I can also relate to Debra’s experience of feeling overwhelmed with infinite choices puzzles me a bit.

The Choice is up to me…

For example, “If I could live anywhere, is this really where I would pick?”  That’s the question I kept coming back to as my boyfriend and I were buying a home together.  The choice to purchase this particular house was agonizingly slow from Russ’ perspective.

(We walked through it four times over three months despite the fact that on our first showing I declared out loud within seconds of walking through the door, “I’ll take it.”  I lost count of how many other homes we saw.  Plus he has no idea how many neighborhoods I visited without him – not to mention how far I traveled to do that!)

Can you imagine the process I went through of choosing this man as my partner?!  I’ll admit, that partner-shopping was even more fun and I spent lots more time on it than home shopping.  (hee hee)

Because once we know how the world works, once we know we can have whatever we want, that we are all powerful and that nothing is beyond our reach – that simply by imagining it we can create it – that knowledge literally puts the whole world at our fingertips.

Which some of us respond to with hesitation.  For some of us that omnipotent realization is a stopper because we wonder is this really what’s best?  Is this truly what we most prefer?  I mean, if we believe in limits we’re not as likely to ask questions like “Is this the right job for me?” or “Is this surgery the best solution?”

(Duh?!)

I remember when I was working with my mentor coach to build a coaching practice I expressed a serious doubt: “What if, in five years, I decide this isn’t what I want any more?”  That thought, that possibility, was stopping me in my tracks with fear and doubt.

My brilliant coach responded with complete impatience, “Then you’ll choose something ELSE in five years!!  Duh!”

She didn’t really say “duh,” but I did, when I realized how the fear that I might not be making the best possible choice  was keeping me stuck.

Duh, that’s what we do!

Omni-Satisfaction  ~ A Sure Thing

When we have new awareness of new desires, we move forward with those.  We’re never stuck and we’re always evolving.  We get divorced, we change jobs, we hire new doctors, we buy new clothes, we listen to other songs, we go to different restaurants, we follow wherever our true desire takes us.

All we can do is honor what that inner guidance is pointing us towards in the present moment.  Right?

To anticipate future desires is a rather inept guessing game, especially since we may very well run into the phenomenon Gregg Braden describes of becoming omni-satisfied.  (Ooh, I think I made that word up – I like it!)

But even as I write this, I’m thinking perhaps multiple desires make themselves known to us because there isn’t any ONE best answer.  Maybe the path to satisfaction and fulfillment lies in so many ways that we couldn’t miss it if we tried.

Now that’s a nice thought …

Let’s hear yours!

Thank you, Jeannette (a note from Debra)

As always I so appreciate your spin on things.  I love your new word:  “omni-satisfied”!  It’s good.  Real good.  And yes, I’ve had some gleaming examples of that very feeling in my life…more often than not to be honest…and it feels SO good to recognize and acknowledge that!

I think it’s especially during those “this is a biggie” times of transition when I feel the state of omni-satisfaction waning a bit.  OK, even more than a bit.

It’s during those very times when I’ll now have the reminder of this post and I’ll be able to say to myself…

All things are possible, all of the time…it’s me who decides if I want to be limited in my creation or not.  And I say not.  I say unlimited, always.  It’s me who decides if I want to change my mind two minutes later to choose something else.  (Therein lies the relevance of,  “it’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind”!)  Most importantly,

• I am loved by me in every choice I make,
• I trust that I make choices with integrity,
• I withhold judgment on myself in all choices, and
• I give myself permission to feel oh so omni-satisfied without questioning if I’ve made the right choice…

Because as Jeannette so poignantly expressed, “Maybe the path to satisfaction and fulfillment lies in so many ways that we couldn’t miss it if we tried.”

Yes.  I’m feeling that!  :0)

How about you?

Photo Credit: More than ‘One Way’ Both Ways

Featured Guest:  Jeannette Maw, Good Vibe Coach

Jeannette’s post was about Vibrational Instruction.  What are the messages we’re sending to the Universe; the ones we say out loud, the ones we keep quiet, big ones and little ones, all of them.  How clear are we?  What instructions are we giving the Universe to work with?  Are they ever contradictory?

I Declare!

The post increased my awareness to something I’ve been thinking quite a lot about lately.  I am pretty great at stating my desires in positive Law of Attraction style when I’m consciously setting about to make a declaration.

I am getting better at being conscious of the smallest of details that I tell myself through out the day that may send mixed signals to the Universe.  (I almost wrote: “I could be better at…” but I stopped myself and reframed right away)  “I am getting better…” sends a much clearer message than “I could be better…” which can imply, “but I’m not”.

Recently I’ve been oh so aware of the little thoughts, emotions, etc. that race around stealthily attempting to stay hidden from my conscious awareness.  Funny buggers, I’ll tell you!  …and crafty.  YIKES!  Thoughts like, “what if I don’t like it?” (Universe delivers more of what I don’t like) or “Oooo, I’m just feeling so weird right now!”  (Universe responds: “OK, feeling weird coming right up”)

Getting to the root of it all~

As I was pondering what was at the root of my at times contradictory vibrational instructions to the Universe, I realized something consciously that’s been tapping me on the shoulder for weeks now.  (Does this ever happen to you?  It’s like the ‘aha moment’ when you suddenly realize that your higher self has been inviting an awareness conversation around a certain topic for weeks and you finally get around to engaging in the conversation consciously.  “Oh hi, higher self…yeah, I get it…yeah, that’s so interesting…!”  This is what I’m talking about right now.)

I realized that a big part of why I think I send somewhat contradictory instructions is because I truly know and believe that I am the creator of my life…that I have infinite choices available, limited only by how far I stretch my imagination…and I have a REALLY good imagination!

Do you hear what I’m saying??

I love lots of things…not just one or even a few.  So, when I make one choice I suddenly notice myself wondering if that’s really the choice I want.  …’cause I could create it differently; it’s up to me.  The canvas is blank, the palette is vast, the tools of creation infinite.  On one hand I jump for joy and gleefully give gratitude for such freedom, such a magnitude of possibility.  On the other hand I say, “Holy Hannah”!  (Seriously, that’s what I say…I don’t know why…I don’t even know a Holy Hannah!)

I’m just saying, am I crazy??  (…easy, it’s a rhetorical question; not meant to be answered.)

The Irony.

If there’s a place where I get stuck; this is it.  How ironic that the very frame of my belief that it’s all up to me, that I can create it exactly as I want it, is the very thing that has me frozen in time and space.

Does anyone else ever experience this?  Please tell me I’m not alone.  I know I’m not alone.  The very idea that I can choose whatever I want, that I have complete and total autonomy, that I am the creator of my experience at times keeps me from creating!  OY.

How Perfect.

As I’m writing this I’m realizing another thing.  I’m attached to a perfect outcome rather than being open to an ever evolving outcome that continues to match my vibrational frequency more and more with every aligned choice I make!  Mmmm…now *that* feels good.

My attachment to having a perfect outcome right away (and who’s to say it wouldn’t be??) is me holding myself back from my becoming!

Epiphanies are so cool; aren’t they?  No matter great or small they’re just so darn great!

SOLD!

We’re selling our house in CO right now and moving back to WI to be nearer family…and creating the opportunity to winter tropically.

This exact scenario of life transition has given me/is still giving me all the practice I need in paying attention to what vibrational instruction I’m vibing.

All the what if’s, yeah but’s, but why’s, how will’s and if only’s that have been flying out of my mouth…or quietly through the recesses in my mind lately are astounding.

Meanwhile, I wonder why things seem to reach a stand still at times?  Duh.  Hello.  The Universe is just patiently standing by waiting for me to get clear, release attachment and allow!

It’s really up to us now, more than ever.  We choose, we create it.  So the question is, what do we want?

Being a highly sensitive person who has always felt guided along the path; I’m still looking for the ‘lightening bolt’, the writing in the sky, the sign that says, “This Way” in bold letters.  Strong guidance saying…”this is your path”.

I believe things have shifted.  Now more than ever before the tools of creation are in our hands and it’s up to us.  We paint it the way we like to see it and the Universe delivers as we create.  It’s our choosing.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences.  With such a vast palette of choices in creation; are you able to choose?

“Dear Universe~
I’m inviting Good Vibe Coach Jeannette Maw to be our guest at Earth~Harmony~Home.  It would be wonderful to hear her thoughts on choices and how they are sometimes so daunting…the magnitude of infinite possibility so overwhelming…that we may not choose at all out of wondering or second guessing where the path will lead.  I hope she will join us.

In Love and Gratitude,
Debra”

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