I have been hearing the term ‘team work’ for a long time, but I don’t think that I have actually understood the concept. In the USA, we live in a society that tends to admire self-sufficiency. Our roots are tied to the pioneers who struck out and survived by their own wits and efforts. However we tend to forget that those individual efforts usually had others involved in support roles. The pioneers had to have wheel-wrights, water-wrights, cart-wrights and others who helped them get to where they were going.
These pioneers also quickly realized that survival often depended on others and the strength of numbers. It was dangerous and suicidal to break off from the wagon train and head of across country alone.
There were mountain men who hunted and trapped in the mountains, staying out on their own for months at a time but they still relied on the trading post to be there when they came down from the mountain. They had to convert their pelts into corn meal and tobacco. They needed people.
We still need each other even though we don’t want to admit it. An individual can have a grand idea but that person still needs others to work with them to see it come true. Our founding fathers started with one person with a grand plan but it took many to make it come true and many of those lost their lives for the effort. In business, team is very important. An individual can try to be the marketer, accountant, attorney, but in trying to do them all they will do none of them very well. It is best to stick with what you do well and have others do the rest.
When people come together for a common effort, amazing things can happen. A whole country maybe born. Who do you work with?
Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised
There are numerous interpretations or editions of Hill’s original book. The one I reference claims to be “the original version, restored and revised”. It is a good book, well organized and planned. If you choose to buy a different editions or version, make sure it has a 5 star rating as they are not all created equally.
Hill breaks down his procedure to 13 steps. Many other authors of similar topics have this condensed to fewer steps but if you want to know the whole method get Hill’s book. Some of the steps are: Desire, Faith, Autosuggestion, Specialized Knowledge (this deals with personal experience and observations), Imagination, Organized Planning, Decisions, etc, you get the idea.
Intense Emotions = Manifesting
Posted by: Ann
April 24th, 2010 >> Change, Energy, God, Guides, Life, Manifesting
I am big on symbolism. Many of the inconveniences and problems in life are symbols of other things that are going on in our emotional life. Our emotions have a tendency of coming out in physical form. This is what the ‘law of attraction’ is all about. In fact the more intense the emotion the faster something will manifest.
I have heard that the prayers of mothers are answered the quickest and I believe that is due to the intense nature of a mother’s prayer for her child.
However, to our dismay we often materialize the negative things in life quicker than the positive. This is because we can quickly bring up the negative emotions with more intensity that we can bring up the positive emotions. Try it right now, think of something bad and see how fast and how intense you can bring up the fear, the worry or the anger. Now think of something happy or good and see how long it takes to bring the intensity of that emotion to the same level as the negative emotion.
Some people are good with the positive emotions. I am not – yet. I am working on it. As they say, the first step is recognition of the problem.
There are techniques that can help. Vision boards give you something to focus on. Meditation can help calm a person. Prayer or talking with your spirit guides can help you realize you are not alone and it gives you someone to hand your hard problems to. But all of these are difficult when you are in the middle of the trauma that is bringing on the emotions. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow and let it wash over you and when you come out on the other side you will finally see the sun shining.
Last Sunday I reviewed a book called The Hidden Messages in Water
Now when I start feeling down, all I have to do is think about the words I wrote on myself and those feelings come over me. The words ‘Love’ and ‘Gratitude’ seem to be the strongest.
I will continue to do this for a while and let you know if anything significant happens in my life.
Benefits in Problems
Posted by: Ann
April 22nd, 2010 >> EFT, Life, Meridian Tapping, Physical/Material
Play with me for a minute. Let us say that this universe, this world is a construct, a big hologram. Now let’s pretend that every thing in your life was put there by you in this holographic universe, how would you treat things differently?
Each piece of paper, each piece of clothing, each morsel of food was just a creation by you! What if every problem, every inconvenience, every catastrophe was put there by you for your benefit? Would you treat it differently? Would you start to look at it in a different light? Maybe you would start to see the benefit of the problem, or the inconvenience or even the catastrophe. I have had some events in my life that I would not take a million dollars to go through again but I also would not take a million dollars to give it up.
When something major happens in your life, look around, check to see if the event is actually to your benefit. You often can not see this if you are too close to the actual event, it often takes years to get enough distance from the trauma before you are able to look back and see the benefit.
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) can be used to help you get past the emotion of the event so you can see the purpose, the benefit. EFT and other meridian therapies are great at getting your emotions back on even ground when you have been sliding down the cliff.
If you have been sliding down a rocky cliff, check into EFT and sign up for my monthly tapping routine at www.naturallyresilient.com
I have another raccoon story this week. The year we lived in north Austin, we had a cat door installed. We also had a huge cat feeder outside. This feeder would hold a 7 pound bag of feed easily as it was made of a eight inch PVC pipe about four foot long. The bottom end had 2 round holes cut in the side for the cats to slick their head to eat and it had a funnel mounted inside the pipe to funnel the food to the center. There was a floor on the inside to act as a dish. The feeder would only let food out when the food was low in the dish part. Between the free food and the cat door, we did end up collecting stray cats.
However what we did not expect to collect were raccoons.
Several mornings we woke to find the feeder on its side and totally empty. We would stand it up and fill it with another 7 pound bag of food and the next morning find it tipped over totally empty. We started watching to see what was eating all the food. We soon saw raccoons coming up to the feeder. What we thought was weird were that the cats lounging around outside were totally ignoring the raccoons. We would open the door and start barking and the raccoons would take off over the six foot privacy fence. It was only when the raccoons were on the move that the cats would suddenly notice that they were there.
Maybe they just did not want to notice them because if they did they would have to confront them and they did not want a fight, anyway the humans would refill the food dish.
Well, we humans did not have the money to feed all the wildlife in the area so we decided to move the feeder inside. The second night the feeder was inside, I had one of the cats (Callie) in the bedroom, petting on her when her nose when up and she started sniffing alertly. I told my husband something was in the living room. We stepped out and sure enough there were 3 raccoons headed for the cat food. We barked and chased them out. The two other cats lounging around the living room acted like they didn’t know the raccoons were there.
We thought we were through with the raccoons for the night. We went back to the bedroom with Callie and started petting her again. It wasn’t too long before her nose went up again. I told my husband they were back.
We ran back to the living room and chased the raccoons around a bit. They were not very timid creatures, but they finally headed back out the cat door. As the last raccoon was squeezing out, Callie ran up to it and batted it out the door. After that we had to lock the cat door closed at night and bring out a litter box. Luckily we did not stay in that house much longer; we moved and left the raccoons to fend for themselves.
I feel as though I am being given opportunities to practice trust. I have always thought of myself as a trusting individual, but lately I realize I am not. I do not trust the future. In not trusting the future, the path I am on, I am saying I do not trust God, I do not trust my choices, I do not trust myself.
Every thing is a reflection of yourself and where you are in life. If I can not trust ‘fate’ or ‘the Universe’ or ‘God’, that is just a mirror of not being able to trust myself. If I can not trust myself, no wonder I am worried about the future.
That reminds me of the movie Forrest Gump (Sapphire Series) [Blu-ray]
The ‘law of attraction’ says you get what you concentrate on, more to be worried about. I can swing my mood around and be very positive for a while but then like a rubber band I snap back to my old ways. I wish I could just be positive for a whole year and see what happens. I know that when I am positive, life seems to go a little smoother, I don’t get ruffled as easily. I will work on it.
The “Soul Mate Workshop” was Saturday. I should have looked at my horoscope Saturday morning. According to tarot.com my horoscope said “It’s nearly impossible to keep on schedule today, so you might as well not even try”, that about says it all. The group was small and people brought specific questions which caused the schedule to go out the door very quickly. We may not have stuck religiously to my schedule but the energy was there and I did see a lot accomplished.
The plan was to look into past relationships to determine what you want and don’t want in a relationship. Past relationship patterns are also important to locate. Once you see a pattern, you can disrupt it or recognize it when it is occurring again.
Then we looked at what an ideal relationship would be like for each person. You have to be clear on what you want before you can see it or even recognize it when it comes to you.
The next step was to delve into the energy, ideas, writing on your interior walls that is holding you back. This is where it really strayed from the plan. This is an important area to investigate for any plan whether it is finding your soul mate, or releasing excess weight, or even visualizing a bigger, better future, so I did not mind spending extra time in this area as it was needed.
The last section was how to get where you want. The work in the previous sections was mainly to lay the groundwork for this section.
After all was said and done, much was accomplished. I had a call today (Monday) from one of the attendees and she was all excited. She had met someone Sunday and no red flags came up! (We had spent considerable time talking about red flags and to not continue a relationship if a red flag is waving).
This was a great and potentially life changing workshop, sorry you missed it!
Hidden Messages in Water – Book Review Sunday
Posted by: Ann
April 18th, 2010 >> Books, Energy, Manifesting, Vibration
Many of us first became aware of Masaru Emoto’s book The Hidden Messages in Water
For various reasons, I have been very conscious of my thought over the last year. It is hard to control them.
Emoto shows how the words associated with the thought also have power. Many years ago it was thought that words had such power. It was believed that words came out of the mouth and actually took form. In our scientific world we have gotten away from that, but I believe there is more truth in the power of words than we know.
Words are thought in symbol form. Thoughts are what create; from the ‘law of attraction’ view point. The thought goes out to the universe to create and bring into your life what you are thinking about. So beware and think good thoughts. Words especially the spoken words are just a stronger version of the thought.
I have always had to be careful about what I say as it will often come true (it seems to mainly apply to the negative words and ideas, Argh!) My husband stacked and moved, loading and unloading about 30 bales of hay one day with no problem. We put the bales out for erosion control on some land we were developing. Several weeks later we took a walk and noted one of the bales had shifted out of position. Paul went to move it back and I said “be careful, don’t hurt your back”. Guess what – he hurt his back! Things like this happened a lot. This happened so often that I was not allowed to refer to the mobile home that we were living in as “tornado bait”. My husband could, but I could not.
I think I will run an experiment on myself. For the next several weeks I will write positive, uplifting words on myself and see what happens. I will note if my thoughts are more positive and if anything extraordinary happens during that time. I’ll let you know what happens.
Today is my Soul Mate workshop. I think every one deserves and can have a special romantic relationship. I even believe that if your spouse, your love of your life dies, you can find another romantic soul mate if you so desire. Look at how many billions of people there are in the world. Surely there can be more than one special person for you. Don’t get me wrong, I am a firm believer in one at a time relationships. It takes energy and time to devote to a person and a special relationship. There is no room for two in such a partnership.
So if you are by yourself, and truly desire a romantic partner, don’t give up. Think positively and keep your eyes open for opportunity. When that opportunity comes you still have to act. You cannot sit there like a lump. Get up and do something. Go out there and enjoy life. When you are enjoying yourself you are more attractive and people will gravitate to you. Your special intended maybe one of the ones who will be attracted to you so always be aware.