When you live in the country there is a good chance you will see mice. When you live in a mobile home in the country, there is a better chance you will see mice. When you live in a mobile home in the country with cats that have easy access to their own door chances are the mice are scarce around the house unless they bring them in for later entertainment.
On this 68 acres we had to mow every once in a while to keep the weeds down and give the eatable grasses a chance to grow. We had a tractor and a large 15 foot bat wing mower, the kind the highway department use to mow the sides of the road. One early evening my husband was mowing and noticed a large colony of mice close to the house. We decided to give the cats a surprise. I grabbed Daneel and the plan was that Paul would drive the tractor with the mower, cutting a large swath and the mice would run for cover toward the higher grass closer to the house. I would point the mice out to Daneel and he would take off after them.
It was probably my choice of cats, but when Paul started the mower up, Daneel did not want any part of the effort. Daneel clawed and panicked and I had to let go. Barney had come out to see what was going on and he started to run just because Daneel was running. But Barney did not have the panic that Daneel had. I caught Barney and we decided to do the exercise again.
Paul started the mower again and made another swath. Barney was not too sure about the whole deal, especially when I started to run with him toward the tractor. But then he saw the mice. It was ‘lock on target’ and he sprang out of my arms and was off. I am not too sure of what or how many he may have caught, but as soon as he had seen the mice it clicked as to what we were trying to do. Daneel never did catch on.
Here is another example of how fear prevents manifestation. Daneel was so caught up in fear and getting away, he missed a great opportunity.
I am reading Earnest Hemingway’s book The Old Man and the Sea.
Is his life really that different from our daily lives? We get up and usually have a more elaborate morning routine than just drinking coffee. Then we go to work and wrestle with problems and people (usually not fish). Every once in a while we have a major event in our lives, a dark day of the soul if you like, that we have to wrestle with and either come out victorious or it kills us; it may not kill us literally but it may kill our spirit.
Usually these types of events end up changing the person involved. The involved person, evolves. This is where Hemingway lost his chance at a more in depth character development. How did this experience change the old man?
This idea of character change is very interesting to me. Jane Austin does a good job of showing the evolution of her characters in her book Sense & Sensibility.
Don’t think of the hardships in your life as limiting you. Think of them as changing you so you will be better equipped to change your world.
Shakti Gawain has a couple of workbooks that I have used in the past and continue to use even now. I bought Living in the Light Workbook (which is actually a supplement to her Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation
In Living in the Light Workbook: Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation
The Creative Visualization Workbook: Second Edition (Gawain, Shakti)
If you are searching for answers in your life, these are some great workbooks to use.
This is another healing story. This time it is Peter’s mother-in-law (you never hear about Peter’s wife). This woman was in bed with a high fever but when Jesus touched her hand, the fever left and she got up and prepared a meal.
How many people do you know that can be very sick one minute then the next minute be well enough to feel like cooking for a guest?
The above verses go on to tell how people were brought to Jesus and he healed all the sick.
This reminds me of Dr. Eric Pearl, you can read his story in The Reconnection
This also leads me to think of the many articles I have read lately concerning the placebo effect. Researchers are discovering that in many cases the placebo actually does better than the drug being tested. They have even gone back to retest established drugs and are finding this to be so.
What all this boils down to is the ceremony. All through history and different cultures there have been healers of different types, Doctors, Shamans, Medicine Men etc but all they provide is a ritual. And this ritual whether it is a pill, incantations or surgery, if the patient believes it will work it probably will! It is all placebo effect but you have to believe with an unwavering faith.
When I was young, I had warts and one doctor told me to cut a potato in half and rub my warts with it then bury the potato under the house and my warts would disappear. I really did not believe this but tried it anyway and guess what it did not work. If he had done a better sells job I might have believed and then it would have worked. Our minds are much more powerful than we may think (and it is that unbelief that limits us).
Matthew 8:2-3 says “Suddenly, a man with leprosy approached Jesus. He knelt before him, worshiping. “Lord,” the man said, “if you want to, you can make me well again.” Jesus touched him. “I want to,” he said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared. “
I ask you whose will healed the leper? Was it Jesus or the Leper?
Matthew 8:5-13 is a similar story where a Roman officer comes to Jesus pleading with him to heal his young servant who was “in bed, paralyzed and racked with pain”. The Roman officer impressed Jesus because he said “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come into my home. Just say the word from where you are, and my servant will be healed! I know, because I am under the authority of my superior officers and I have authority over my soldiers. I only need to say , ‘Go,’ and they go, or ‘Come.’ And they come. And if I say to my slaves, ‘Do this or that,’ they do it.” Jesus told the Roman officer, “Go on home. What you have believed has happened.” And the young servant was healed that same hour.
Again I ask, whose ‘will’ actually caused the healing?
In the first healing, Jesus touched the leper which was totally taboo so Jesus already believed the leper was healed. In the second healing, Jesus did not even see the sick man and yet the young man was healed.
In both situations someone was asking for a healing with the belief that Jesus could heal. I believe that the belief was very important. If they had such belief in anything or anyone else it would have occurred.
Belief is a main requirement for manifesting. This is not the superficial, ‘I believe’ but the deep undeniable belief that this is the way it is. So I see that the people asking were the ones who actually created the healing. Remember the many times that Jesus said “your belief has made you well”.
Get Congruent and Manifest Your Dreams
Posted by: Ann
July 29th, 2010 >> EFT, Energy, Manifesting, Meridian Tapping, Physical/Material, Vibration
The idea of resonance and natural frequency has popped up in my awareness several times in the last few months. What do I mean by resonance?
Everything is made of energy and so has a vibration. This vibration is at a frequency that is natural to that particular item. Think of a tuning fork that when you hit it you can hear the frequency it produces. Different size tuning forks will produce a different sound. The tuning fork resonates at a frequency you can hear.
Another idea that keeps popping up that is related is congruence and natural frequency. Tesla did some experimenting with this. He was under the impression that if you could surround a person or object with the frequency of a particular place such as a clearing in the woods you could get that object to be in congruence with that clearing and that would cause the object to be transported to that place; Interesting idea.
Is this what is happening with manifesting? You need to be congruent with what you are trying to manifest. You need to be on the same resonance of what you want and then it will materialize. Think of those tuning forks again. If you have two forks that are tuned to the same vibration, when you hit one and get it going all you have to do is hold up the other and it will start vibrating at that same frequency, they are in congruence with each other.
But how do you get congruent with what you want? For one thing you have to believe it is yours. Have you ever had experiences like I have where there was a prize drawing and before they call the name you knew it was yours. That is the kind of belief you have to have. You have to know it is yours. Yes, but – that is the problem. All the ‘Yes, but’ statements that keep you from being congruent with what you want.
This is where Meridian Tapping or EFT can help out. As my husband is so fond of saying, “Tap it out”. Getting rid of all those statements can clear the field to allow you to be congruent with what you want. When you are congruent you can resonate at the same frequency of what you want and then you obtain it.
If you would like help “Tapping it out” for your self, check out www.naturallyresilient.com or send me a comment and set up an appointment.
Callie was a very clever calico but she had one main downfall; she liked a good fight. There was very little that scared her. I could vacuum and she would stay sleeping and only be annoyed when I had to move her out of the way. I was vacuuming my drapes at the head of my bed once with her sleeping close to the pillow and the drapery attachment kept falling off. Finally Callie got up and moved, giving me a dirty look. There was only one time I ever saw her scared.
A number of years ago when we had Callie and about 6 other cats we bought 68 acres and a small mobile home. There was a lot to do before we moved onto the land. One Friday evening before setting out to work on the mobile home for the weekend we decided to bring a cat with us to check the place out and maybe this cat would tell the other cats about it. We decided Callie was the best choice.
At the worksite we did not have the electricity connected yet and decided to trust Callie out of the hot house to roam the grounds while we were outside working. That evening I had some trouble getting her to come in but luckily I had brought a can of cat food and a can opener. I took it outside so she could see what I was up to. I opened the can and she decided to come over, she had not eaten all afternoon and was hungry. Then I grabbed her and took her inside with us.
Since we did not have electricity, we did not have any air-conditioning. We opened the front door and closed the screen door and opened the windows that had screens for the evening. There was no front porch built yet and the bottom of the front door was more than three feet off the ground.
We had seen a gray long-haired cat hanging around the area when we had come before and figured we had moved into its territory but did not think much of it. That night the gray long-haired decided to check out Callie.
Paul and I were in the bedroom and Callie was in the dark living room by the front door. This wild cat started throwing himself at the screen door making all kinds of racket. This was some jump as he was hitting the door about four feet off the ground. Callie stood her ground for a short while but the wild cat was persistent and I guess Callie decided discretion was the better part of valor and we saw her run from the front door through the bedroom and into the bathroom where she reached her paw under the vanity door, pulled it open and went inside, closing the door behind her!
That was the only time I ever saw Callie run from a fight.
Five Ways to Prevent Worry
Posted by: Ann
July 27th, 2010 >> Energy, God, Guides, Life, Relationship, Spirituality
OK worry is bad for you. This is the general worry that freezes your mind and sends you in a panic. Some worry is helpful. Helpful worry like helpful fear is that which spurs you to action; such as a child falls in the pool and can’t swim, the fear and worry causes you to dive in after them.
No the worry I am talking about is that which limits your view; you can’t see a positive future in fact you may not see any future at all. This is the worry that stifles and prevents action. This type of worry often feeds off of itself; one worry leads to another, snowballing to the point that you give up.
How do you drag yourself out of such a place without spending a fortune on therapy? I have some suggestions.
1. Start every day by reading something positive. You can even read the same book or chapter or poem everyday. The prime requirement is that it is uplifting. No downers. Some suggested reading material is listed at the end of this article. If you are not into reading, there are many audio tapes out there with uplifting material.
2. Reaffirm you faith and belief. If you affiliate yourself with a spiritual belief, remember it. When I was going through a rough time of worry I realized I was not practicing my faith. If I truly believed what I said I believed then I had to exercise that faith. The belief that I exercised was that all things work toward good and that God would take care of me. I also believed that God wants to give you good things. When ever I start to feel down or start to worry about bills or finances I turn back to that belief and feeling that I will be taken care of, and guess what, I have been taken care of. Have hope in the future.
3. Go for a walk. The exercise will do you good, but don’t just walk, look around you. Look at the trees, the clouds, the animals and feel gratitude for each of them. In sending the gratitude you are reinitiating the energy flow that worry has choked off. Keep the energy flowing through out the day by looking up and being grateful for what ever your eyes see. Try and really feel the gratitude.
4. Talk to your spirit guides. We all have them and they really want to help but they cannot help if you don’t give them permission. Just talk to them like you would a friend you are telling your troubles to, or you could just think the conversation. Ask for their help in what is troubling you or ask for them to help you be more positive. Just having some one else to talk to can help (even if you can’t see them). You can talk to a trustworthy friend but you run the risk of that becoming a pity party or one-up-manship competition on who has the worst life. This is not the kind of thing you want to dwell on and your spirit guides will not join in your pity.
5. Be open to solutions. As soon as you start letting go of the worry and replacing it with gratitude and hope for a better future, solutions will start to come to you. You may still be in a slightly negative bent and may be tempted to automatically negate any solution that pops up but try to realize what you are doing when that happens. Pay attention to the solution and give it a legitimate look. A true solution may seem weird but as you think about it, doors will start to open to allow it to happen.
There is a way to a better, worry-free life. You can do it!
Suggested reading material:
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles down load for free from www.thesecret.tv
The Power of Positive Thinking
Moments of Grace 
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Worry is Like Constipation
Posted by: Ann
July 26th, 2010 >> Energy, God, Manifesting, Physical/Material
Did you know that the word “worry” is derived from an old Anglo-Saxon word which meant to strangle or to choke? This is very appropriate as when you worry you are choking the life out of your world!
Worry prevents the life energy from flowing. Worry literally chokes the flow of energy. As Einstein pointed out everything is made of energy. In fact energy is flowing all around us connecting each and every thing in the universe. This energy is what sustains all things. You may think of this energy as God or Universal Power but whatever you choose to call it the main idea is that it is energy. When you worry, you create a necking down of this energy. You are so focused on your little world of problems that you do not see the larger world. It is when you see the larger picture you will feel gratitude; you will be uplifted out of your problem mindset.
Worry prevents the energy that can bring solutions from flowing to you. Worry is like constipation; only a little gets through and the backlog of the worry slowly poisons your system. Only when the worry is released does it allow the energy to flow providing fresh ideas and options that you could not see before.
Manifestation also requires the energy to flow. I had a dream recently where I effortlessly started using telekinesis to bring objects to me. It was as if the objects flowed to me. In the dream, when I tried to force the object to me, it did not work, I had to let it ride the energy flow, I could not force it by the power of the mind. I think this dream was about manifesting. You have to let it flow to you and it can not flow if you have choked the flow off with worry.
How do you prevent worry? Check back tomorrow.
We all want to be healthy, or at least feel healthy. But why can two people do the same exercises, eat the same foods, have similar lifestyles and one be healthy and the other not? Some would say it is their genes and that has something to do with it but there is another major contributor; the persons blood type. In Dr. Peter J D’Adamo’s book Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight,
Have you heard all the success so many people have with the low carbohydrate, high protein diet, but when you try the diet you don’t lose much weight? That is because a low-carb, high-protein diet is the optimal diet for Type O blood (which is the most common blood type) and if you happen to have Type A blood that high protein diet will kill you. Type A does great with a vegetarian diet.
According to Dr. D’Adamo, Type O is the oldest blood type. It is the blood type of the hunter-gatherer and what did they eat and thrive on? Meat, poultry and fish along with nuts, berries and any wild edible plants they could find. The hunter-gatherer did not have dairy products or much in the way of grains.
Type A evolved out of Type O. These ancestors were less warlike and more settled than their Type O predecessors. Theses are the first farmers so Type A’s do well with a vegetarian diet. If you are a Type A, sticking to a diet high in vegetables, soy and pineapple but low- or no-meat, dairy, wheat and beans will cause the weight to slide off. If you grow it in your home garden, you can most likely eat it whereas a Type O could only eat the items that would naturally grow wild.
The next blood type to develop was Type B. These were the nomads and thrive on a more balanced diet. Type B is a balancing of the A and O types. Corn, buckwheat, lentils, peanuts and sesame seeds will cause a Type B to gain weight. Gee, I wish I was Type B it is a lot easier to avoid those items than all the grains a type O can’t eat. If you are a Type B and have trouble with your blood sugar levels – USE THIS DIET!
The last blood type is Type AB. This type has been around for less than a thousand years! It is the rarest of the blood types with only about 2 to 5 percent of the population having it. This is a complicated blood type. Type AB needs to avoid the foods that are bad for both Type A and Type B with a few exceptions such as tomatoes.
The book has a section for each blood type; explaining the best diet, with suggested meal plans and recipes. I have tried a number of the recipes and they have been excellent! Each blood type has a listing of foods that are categorized into meats, seafood, dairy, oils, etc. and then the foods in each category are divided into highly beneficial, neutral and “avoids”.
Being a Type O, I have found that when I stick with my high protein, low carb diet, it is easier to keep the weight off — and I feel better.