Live In the Now
Posted by: Ann
March 5th, 2010 >> Books, Energy, God, Life, Physical/Material, Truth
Have you noticed that when you have bought a new car all of a sudden you see hundreds of that same car and color on the road? Or when you are expecting, every woman you see looks pregnant. Well the same thing is happening to me. No I am not pregnant nor have I bought a new car, but a new idea has been introduced to me and I am seeing it every where. I have heard that when an idea presents itself to you in 3 different ways that you need to sit up and take notice because it is the truth.
What is this great truth? It is living in the now. It has really been brought home to me through Eckhart Tolle’s book The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
If you live in the now, even in your misery, you have the chance to feel the river of life, that life giving force that runs through all things. If you can feel that flow of contentment and energy, you will feel hope. If you feel hope, you will be more positive. If you become more positive, the law of attraction will accommodate and things will get better.
The alternative is to dwell in your misery and your “poor me” attitude and live on the surface, never feeling the flow of life that is always there. If you live in the misery at the surface you are actually stifling the flow. If the flow is stifled you will attract more that will stifle the flow. The law of attraction works both ways.
I have some EFT events I wanted to mention.
Are you looking for your soul mate? March 27, 2010, 9:00am – 3:00pm I am holding a workshop to help you clear the energy and allow the law of attraction to work in attracting your soul mate. Lunch and snacks will be provided. I am nailing down all the logistics and cost this week. If you are interested in attending, keep watching this site or better yet sign up for my monthly tapping routine at www.naturallyresilient.com and stay informed on all the events and special offers I will be presenting.
March 11, 2010 I will be doing a free EFT demonstration at the Belton Senior Center. I have had a lot of success with removing and reducing pain and I hope to show some of these people a way they can manage their pain.
If any one reading this is in the Belton TX area, drop by the Belton Senior Center March 11, I will be there from 10 to 11 am. I hope to make this into a weekly or every other week event.
Callie was one smart cat. My husband says she had the intelligence of a 3-4 year old child. I have to agree.
Several weeks ago, I mentioned how quickly she learned but she also took the initiative. She saw me opening doors and quickly learned how to jump at the knobs and slide one paw down faster than the other making the door unlatch. She would then either push the door open or reach under the door with a paw and pull it open. The only doors that were safe from her were the heavier latched exterior doors.
Another test of intelligence is the fear factor: very little scared Callie. Most cats run from a vacuum cleaner. Callie would just act annoyed. I remember vacuuming the curtains behind the bed while Callie was on the bed trying to sleep. She kept giving me dirty looks and finally moved when the hose nozzle fell off landing next to her for the second time.
But one event really stands out highlighting her intelligence. I had two closet plants that were not thriving in their new location. Two weeks before I had cleaned out all the dead leaves from one of the plants and I had finally gotten around to cleaning out the second one. I was sitting there pulling dried dead growth from the plant when Callie came in and sat down watching me. She then walked over to the plant that I had worked on two weeks before. She stuck her front paws on the rim and started rustling around in the plant. I was starting to get worried. Had she decided to give up the litter box for more natural surrounding? But no, soon she came up with a dead leaf in her mouth and laid it on the floor close to me. She was either saying “I can do that” or “you missed one,” both fit her personality.
Yesterday was the first of the month. That can imply all kinds of things. First there is the start of a new month, a new beginning, a new try at things. Then there is the first of the month when all the bills are due and all the paperwork must be done or other words to be dreaded.
The start of every week is kind of like a mini month. Monday I pay the weeks worth of bills that were not paid with the horde at the 1st of the month. Monday also gives me a new start. If last week was not that great I get a new chance.
Well I could break this down even farther. Every day is a new beginning and at this daily rate, I may not even have any bills to pay. It is just getting better. What about every hour. That can be a new beginning a new try at things. Thinking that every hour is a new beginning I would never have bad day again as I would have a new try, a new start every hour.
Why limit it to that what about every minute, every second, NOW.
Now you are living in the now. This is where you can feel the energy flow and can really start to experience life.
Enjoy your now, over and over and over and over and over again.
Have you ever thought about how one person can change the world or at least their portion of it. All it takes is one person with a dream, one person with a passion, one person saying ‘someone ought to do something’ then realizing that person will have to be them.
My local newspaper often runs a local interest story about a senior citizen and what they have accomplished.
There was the woman who saw a neighbor in need of groceries and she started handing out groceries to people in need. One thing led to another and “Helping Hands” was created. This organization now has a large building with a clothing section and is organizing a free clinic. All this because a woman saw a neighbor in need and wanted to do something about it.
I have also learned of another woman who wanted to help children who were starting a new year of school. Most parents will buy their children new clothes, shoes and school supplies to start the New Year, but then there are those parents who can’t afford to buy new clothes or shoes and the school supplies left over from last year will have to do. This woman believed that all children should start the school year on an even footing with each other. No child should feel embarrassed with old worn out stuff for their 1st day of school. Her little project has grown to the point where all the larger local churches and a few other groups are actively involved. Each child is provided with a new shirt, pants, shoes and school supplies to start the year.
This is just two examples and they were both in the same small Podunk town in the middle of Texas. There are many others in this small town that I will not mention and there are probably several more I do not know about.
If they can make a difference, so can you and so can I.
This Sunday’s book review is a classic: Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking
The idea of positive thinking is not new. It was not new when Norman Peale wrote his book in 1952. I may mention some of the earlier books at some point. But this book put the whole notion that you can control your life by your attitude into the limelight. Mr. and Mrs. Peale both realized that you had to be positive in whatever situation you were in or you ran the risk of never rising above that situation.
Can you think of anyone who seems to be stuck in their life? Are they positive people? You may counter that they were positive until they ran into a string of ‘bad luck’. But how long did they hold on to that positive attitude when the ‘bad luck’ hit? I bet they soon let it go and became disillusioned, disappointed, humiliated, frustrated, and angry and started showing any number of negative traits. Mr. Peale addresses what to do when you are in personal problems and how to overcome the negative thoughts that abound at such times. We all have runs of hard times but that doesn’t mean you throw out the positive.
I must warn you that Mr. Peale does have a strong faith and talks much about the use of prayer. I have used prayer myself and had great results.
Even though this book was written almost 60 years ago (all of a sudden I feel old) it still contains great advice. This is the forerunner to the Law of Attraction craze and I highly recommend it for its down to earth methods of dealing with attracting happiness and abundance into your life.
The Flowing River of Life
Posted by: Ann
February 27th, 2010 >> Energy, Manifesting, Spirituality, Vibration
I have heard so many connections between rivers, the spirit and energy lately that I wanted to write something about it.
In dream symbology, flowing water symbolizes the spirit moving.
In the Bible Jesus spoke of living water several times and in John 7:39 it says “When he said ‘living water,’ he was speaking of the Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him…” (New Living Translation). (I am not going to get into what ‘believing in him’ means that is a whole different theological treatise.)
My Feb. 18, 2010 blog speaks of the energy in all things that ‘flows’ through all things connecting all things.
All of these are talking about the same thing: the energy of life, the life force.
To be in your true spirit, your true self, the energy of life must be flowing through you.
You may think you have the energy of life in you but most of us are only living partial lives. We are stagnate ponds not fresh flowing rivers. As a stagnate pond we have no outlet and little inlet. We have the possibility of drying up or as I like to say “having been dead before you die”.
When the river of life flows through you, your energy level is high and you are free to be all you can be. With all that energy behind you nothing can hold you back and you can manifest abundance.
I have been practicing feeling the flow and I found that I am usually constricted or stagnant. But I am working on it and I know that the more open state will eventually become my normal state. Let the energy come!
How Connected Are We?
Posted by: Ann
February 26th, 2010 >> Life, Manifesting, Relationship, Spirituality
I have heard the idea that each of us has created our reality. Everything and everyone around us is here because we have “manifested” it. This idea is one of the main premises in Busting Loose From the Money Game: Mind-Blowing Strategies for Changing the Rules of a Game You Can’t Win
Let’s say you are creating all that shows up in your life but let’s carry this idea farther. If everything around you is your creation it is a part of you. How do you want to be treated, with honor and kindness? You must treat all people the way you want to be treated. If you want to be neglected then treat others with neglect but if you want to be treated with attention and honor, treat those around you with attention and honor. In short, if you neglect something or someone you are neglecting yourself.
This train of thought leads me deeper. If I give someone something am I giving to myself? If I am giving to myself, I have not really lost anything, have I? What if I buy something from some one, am I really buying from myself? If I am doing that to myself, will it come back to me? How far can you carry this? But if this is true, there should not be any debt, but there is.
I guess I have not jumped on this bandwagon yet. Maybe I have not evolved far enough for this.
I do believe we are all connected but I also believe we are individuals trying to live together.
I am working on a report titled “Does Surrogate Tapping Work?” This report is about my two month surrogate tapping study using EFT on volunteers from all over the world.
Surrogate tapping involves tapping on yourself to benefit another person who may or may not be in the same room. In this case the volunteers were not in the same room and they were often not in the same State or maybe not in the same country.
In this study I performed two types of tapping sessions. Some people received the standard one hour session for a problem and others received 5 mini sessions. The mini sessions varied from 10 to 15 minutes in length for 5 consecutive days.
I was surprised about the different results between the standard hour session and the 5 mini sessions. To read the full report when it comes out, sign up for my free monthly tapping routine at www.naturallyresilient.com.
The Cat from Outer Space – Wednesday Animal Story
Posted by: Ann
Callie was from outer space. That is the only explanation. She was the most unusual cat that has ever owned me. Last Wednesday I told how she would get on the roof and back down. I did not tell you about her jump.
You see other cats jump. They make this nice arc in the air and land on a surface. Callie did not arc. She went straight up then over and down with her legs hanging loose under her. It was like she levitated. When she walked, she marched, left, right, left, right, lifting her left side in unison and then the right legs. I always wondered how she managed not to fall over (she probably thought the same about us).
At one point while Callie was with us, we moved out on to 68 acres with a mobile home. About 50 feet behind this house was a barbed wire fence and a lot of scrub and thorny vine growing close to it. One day as I watched, Callie headed toward the brush and disappeared into it. I paced her through the brush although I could not see her. I was wondering where she would come out. Soon she came out about 100 feet down from where she had gone in and I was staring straight at her. I had paced her correctly however now she had a shrew in her mouth! We always joked that she had a refrigerator of shrews back there.
While living in this mobile home we installed a cat door with a small 1foot x 1foot platform outside just large enough for a cat to jump up on and then come in the cat door. One night we awoke to a “thump, thump, thump” coming from the living room. Paul got up to see what was going on. There hopping around the living room was a full grown rabbit and Callie looking smug.
We could not figure out how she had managed to jump (excuse me, levitate) on to the small platform three feet off the ground with a full grown rabbit. I know she had to let go of it to push it through the cat door and that was why it was hopping around the living room. We put the uninjured rabbit back outside past the fenced in yard. Maybe Callie had decided to move her refrigerator into the house.