Archive for the ‘Physical/Material’ Category
Archangel Michael and Car Trouble
Posted by: Ann
June 12th, 2010 >> Guides, Life, Physical/Material, Spirituality
Once I was waiting at a stop light, when it turned green I started across. My car started rolling but there was no power. No matter how much I put my foot on the gas there was no power. I made the corner and was able to pull to the side of the road. I tried to start it and nothing happened. What to do!
I was about 4 miles from home and another 4 miles from my destination. I remembered reading that Archangel Michael was good with computers so I thought maybe he could help with the car. I said a fast prayer asking Archangel Michael to help me ‘get my car started’. Then I tried starting it again; nothing.
I decided to call my husband who was 1000 miles away on a job in another state. I knew he couldn’t do anything for me, but just hearing his voice would help me feel better. While I was talking to Paul, a work truck pulled up behind me and a man got out and approached the car. I rolled down the window (the electrical still worked), and I said good bye to Paul. The man in the truck was a mobile mechanic!
He stayed there working under the hood, trying the easiest possibility first and progressing to the more difficult. Each time we would try to start it and nothing. After changing out about 4 smaller items with no success, he finally gave the car a full blown tune up, new spark plugs and new wires! He had been working on the vehicle for 3 hours! After he put the last wire on I had this feeling of ‘OK, I’ve been here long enough, it is time to get going’ I got in the car and it started! I happily paid him for his work and got going.
OK Michael did not directly get the car going, but I believe he sent that mechanic to help me ‘get my car started’ just like I had asked. Another oddity about the incident was that I was not upset or frazzled by the delay and there was a distinct feeling that it was time to get going again after the tune up. I just knew the car would start at that point because it was just time to go.
That makes me wonder what I missed by the 3 hour delay, was this a form of protection? I will never know in this life the significance of that event, but maybe when I get home I will understand what that was all about.
The Commandments and The Law of Attraction
Posted by: Ann
June 10th, 2010 >> EFT, God, Life, Manifesting, Meridian Tapping, Physical/Material, Spirituality
As promised, today is how the commandments 4-10 relate to the law of attraction.
The rest of the commands have to do with how we treat each other. If we are truly living in abundance and in the law of attraction we will not do any of these because that would be like doing it to yourself. What goes around comes around. Be good to others and good will come to you. Let’s take a few and look closer.
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy’. You don’t have to work your tail off. Take some time off and recuperate. Have faith, expect that good will come and let it come. This can also be expressed as take time for gratitude which is very important in the law of attraction.
“Honor your father and your mother”. Ok who hasn’t had a dysfunctional childhood? Congratulations, move to the next paragraph. The rest of you keep reading. I am going to use the big “F” word: Forgiveness. I know it is hard, but your mom or dad or who ever wronged you had a crappy childhood too. More than likely they did not wake up each morning thinking of ways to make your life miserable. For the few who had parents that did, remember you are grown up now and can break those ties for your own good. They don’t have to be in your life any more, I give you permission to never see them again! Thank them for what they taught you, because you did learn from them, then move on. Those lessons may not have been pleasant but they formed you. Now you know what you do not want to be like. Remember you are forgiving them, not their actions. But if you can’t bring yourself to forgive, work on the issues involved with EFT or one of the other meridian tapping methods. (Go to www.naturallyresilient.com to learn more). Lifting the weight of the issues from your shoulders will help you tremendously.
The next several are no-brainers; don’t murder, don’t commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t lie. This falls under what you think about comes about. If you do something to someone else then that is the way you view the world. If you view the world as unfriendly that is the kind of world you will get. I have heard it said that the most important decision you will ever make is to decide what kind of a world you live in; a friendly one or an unfriendly one.
What about the last one; you shall not covet. This is beyond just wanting what they have. In the law of attraction, you can attract the same thing into your life if you want it. You do not have to take from some one else to have it, there is plenty to go around. This is beyond just wanting because I also see this as rejoicing with your neighbor for what he has accomplished. Be glad that you neighbor has figured out how to attract good things into his life. This is like love, just because you love one of your children that doesn’t mean there is less love for the other children! Rejoice and be glad and expect just as good for yourself.
These tenants are great ones to live by and can enrich anyone’s life no matter what culture they live in.
Tuesday I wrote about fear and how prevalent and insidious it can be for so many.
I have a strong passion about bringing this to everyone’s awareness because I have been there. I have lived most of my life in fear. I have never really had anything to logically be afraid of but this fear has always been with me. It got so bad that 13 years ago I developed panic attacks. After several years of suffering, I did overcome the panic attacks with the use of EFT. If you are interested in how I did that go to www.naturallyresilient.com/Bio.html
I was thrilled that the panic was gone but the underlying fear was still there.
You may not have panic attacks but if you are still reading this, I am assuming you are dealing with some form of fear in your life. Today I wanted to tell you how you can overcome that fear for yourself by telling you what I have done.
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) or some other form of Meridian Tapping is a great place to start.
Get a notebook and start writing all the incidents in your life that have been uncomfortable for you. Anything that caused you pain or problems or anyone that caused any form of emotional turmoil. You are not just looking for things or events that caused fear in your life, but anything you wish had not happened. Our emotions are often so tangled together that the first emotion to surface may be anger but often anger is just a cover for an underlying fear.
You should come up with at least 50 items on your list. Now pick one of the items and start to apply EFT or Meridian Tapping to any emotion that arises. When you clear one emotion another may take its place. When you can finally replay the event or think of the person with no negative emotion, move to a new item and do it again. It may take 30 minutes or more to clear one event, but it will be worth it. After you have cleared a number of issues, your life will start to feel calmer and more in control.
If you still wake in the middle of the night in a panic, take the next step, release the fear. I know this is easier said than done, but you can do it. One night I was lying in bed with my fear as company and I started thinking about how I have had this fear all my life. It was a revelation to me that this fear was not anything new. I realized the fear had just displayed itself in different ways throughout my life and even in my past lives I knew about! I decided that enough was enough! At that point a calm came over me. The next morning I still felt calm but I realized I had to fill that place where the fear had been so it could not come back. What can replace fear? I chose faith; Faith that God was for me, Faith that the universe could provide good things in abundance to me, Faith that I would be taken care of and everything would work out.
That has been about two months ago and I am still feeling calm and I am still relying on faith.
This Memorial Day Weekend one of the cable channels had a Harry Potter marathon. This got me thinking about Dementors. Harry Potter’s dementors were dangerous because they first sucked the joy and hope from a person, then they sucked the soul out of them.
Do you realize we have present day, real life dementors? There is something a lot of us fall pray to that sucks the hope and joy from us and I believe it is totally capable of sucking the very soul from us. What is this horrible thing and why have we let it loose on the planet? This horrible thing is FEAR and yes we have let it loose on this planet. I believe we welcomed fear as soon as we left Eden. We were afraid of wild animals, we were afraid that the rains would not come, that the herd animals would not migrate, that the gods would be angry. I could write ten pages just listing all the things we as humanity have been afraid of through the ages and this would not even touch our personal private fears!
Why do we allow this fear to persist? OK, some fear is good, it keeps us safe. But what about the fear that wakes us up in the middle of the night in a panic about current relationship troubles or the pile of bills that we can’t pay. This is the fear I am talking about; this silent invader that does not contribute a solution but keeps our mind in a panic so we can not think logically. This is not a good thing. This fear sucks the joy right out of life. This is the fear that caused people to jump out of multi-story buildings during the great stock crash that preceded the ‘Great Depression’. This is the fear that smothers hope.
What can we do about it? Check back on Thursday when I will tell you how to overcome this fear, in the meantime, eat chocolate.
Today is my birthday. No I am not giving my age.
What do I want for my birthday? I have most everything I want; a loving family, a roof over my head, and food on the table. Yes these are wants but these are also needs. What about some true wants? Something I don’t have to have but would like? This is a hard one as it is asking me to negate years of conditioning and upbringing where I was taught to suppress my wants and desires. I think many of us are like that. We have learned to ignore ourselves. But what good is that? In ignoring ourselves, we end up requiring others to pay attention to us and our needs. We run ourselves into the ground so that someone else has to come along and take care of us.
I had a co-worker once who thought he had strep-throat but did not want to go to the doctor. Here he was at work, possibly infecting the rest of us. I overheard a conversation between him and one of the other workers. John said we use to not go to the doctor for every little thing. Jim rebutted, “yes, but we also only lived to about 40.” Jim went on to explain how strep can get down to the heart and weaken that vital muscle. John decided to go to the doctor.
Another co-worker had a brother who was in his late twenties. This brother suddenly died. He had gotten so sick with pneumonia that he could barely stagger into the emergency room where he collapsed and died. Why had this happened? He had ignored a need. Maybe he had labeled a need with a want, a want to feel better not a need to feel better. Sometimes it takes some one else to look at our situation and label it correctly as a want or a need.
These may be cases of ignoring our needs not our wants. But isn’t ignoring our wants, just one step away from ignoring our needs? I don’t want to end up like either of the two people mentioned above. So what do I want? Those Mini Convertibles sure are cute.
The Benefits of Being Positive
Posted by: Ann
May 29th, 2010 >> Energy, Life, Manifesting, Physical/Material
I have a neighbor who is always dwelling on how bad things are and how she just can’t get ahead with her finances. I really don’t care to listen to all these complaints as I am trying very hard to live a positive life. I have found that this person does not come around as much as she use to. I think it may be because I am sending out more positive energy waves which repell her negative one.
Last year I did an experiment where I noted when my emotional state changed and then noted what manifested in my physical life. I can tell you the emotional change occurred BEFORE the physical manifestation. When I started feeling down and woe-is-me the lack soon started coming into my life. When I decided to give myself a talking to and be more positive, things started picking up and money started to flow again.
This year I am doing another experiment. I have decided to be as positive as I can as much as I can. I have found that new information and help keeps coming my way to keep me on track. Some of the things that have come my way include: a friend starting a group called “Mindful Happiness” which is a support group for us trying to live a more positive life, I have also rediscovered some books that have helped me, each one coming when I needed to go a little deeper or concentrate on a different area.
What am I experiencing on a more tangible level? For one thing, the monthly bills are being paid even-though no major invoices have gone out since March!
I will keep you informed of any major changes. Let’s stay positive!
Manifesting or Intuition?
Posted by: Ann
May 25th, 2010 >> Energy, Life, Manifesting, Physical/Material
I wanted to continue with yesterday’s topic as I feel it is very important. Maybe I am just trying to get it clear in my own mind.
One morning last week I started thinking about my watch. I had to take this watch in for some repair work in April and had to leave it with them. I was thinking it was about time to get my watch back. That afternoon, I received a call that my watch was ready.
Some people call these types of occurrences idiosyncrasies, others call them coincidences but I want to propose something else. What if these are actually manifestations of our thoughts? What if we have more power than we think we do?
Are you ready to take responsibility for your thoughts and resulting actions?
You could probably tell me your own stories. The time you started thinking about someone you have not thought of in years and all of a sudden you get a call from them. What about the list of things you wanted to do that you wrote up years ago then rediscovered the list recently and realized you have accomplished them all.
There are many such stories. Are these coincidences? In this household we have a favorite saying “There are no coincidences”.
I think one of two things is happening. Either we are using our intuition and accessing the future or we are creating, manifesting the future.
I find myself leaning more and more toward the idea that we are manifesting the future. What do think is going on?
Have you ever had one of those weeks where you are sick all week and can’t get anything done? Last week was like that for me and I am still recovering. I could feel the cold coming on Monday. I did not think much of it. OK, a cold, which means two days of sore throats followed by three days of only being able to breathe out of one side of my nose. Then I suffer through two to three weeks of drainage down the back of my throat, keeping me from singing in church.
I started taking my vitamin C when the sore throat hit. Vitamin C can help cut the sore throat to a day and the clogged nose to 1-2 days. I did not think much of the cold otherwise, at least not for the first two days. I guess that is why it was different this time, it just kept coming. By the end of the week the sleepless nights were getting to me. I hate trying to sleep when I can’t breathe!
Finally on Friday I looked up the healing properties of amethyst and Turquoise (the stones on the necklace my spirit guides chose for me). From The Illustrated Directory of Healing Crystals: A Comprehensive Guide to 150 Crystals and Gemstones
The cold may have been running its course or maybe the necklace was helping. Believe what you want but I do not believe in coincidences.
Order your own necklace at www.naturallyresilient.com/cicada/
Do you have fear in your life? I would be safe to say we all do. Remember the bumper-stickers from a few years back that said “No Fear”? I always wanted to write below them “No Courage”. You can’t have courage without fear because courage involves doing what you know you should do in spite of the fear.
Fear was very useful many thousands of years ago. Back then it told you to run from that wild animal, it told you that your neighbor tribe was to be avoided, it kept you alive. We don’t usually have the same type of life and death issues as we did back then (I know some people do have these survival issues but the majority of us don’t) but we still have the overriding fear mechanism in place “to keep us safe”! Safe from what??? Ourselves?
Fear can be an overpowering emotion. It can keep you from doing what you want in life. It can keep you from doing what you need to in your life. You have to let go of the fear so it doesn’t become master of your life. That is often easier said than done. EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is very useful in helping to release the fear but what happens when you keep grabbing it back? Sometimes new issues keep presenting themselves which reenacts the fear in your life. You can keep doing the EFT and it will keep working. Many may think the EFT is not working when the fear keeps coming back. Let me assure you that the EFT is working but it is new issues that keep popping up to be dealt with. When you are in the middle of fearful situations you will have to apply the EFT many times a day.
There is another way out of the continual fear. This involves trust. Sometimes we just have to trust ourselves, trust the future and trust something greater than our physical beings. It is in that trust you can begin to let go of the fear. You can see new hope and possibility. That is what I did late one night several weeks ago. I reviewed all the fear I have had in my life since an early age. I reviewed the fear I have had in the past lives I know about. Then I decided enough was enough and I did not need the fear anymore. I then experienced a calm come over me. That calm has stayed with me ever since.
Let me know how you have dealt with fear in your life.
Create Your Own Rules
Posted by: Ann
May 8th, 2010 >> Energy, Manifesting, Physical/Material, Truth, Vibration
We all live by rules. Some rules are there to protect you. Some rules are created to level the playing field. Some rules are just to make the game more interesting.
We have legal rules to keep us safe. Then there are general and globally accepted morality rules about relationships, food, money, religion and a host of other areas. Each culture and country has rules on social behavior and acceptable ideologies. Then there are more personal rules that we create for ourselves. These rules are often a refinement of the more global rules such as: I will never find that perfect partner, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and I just can’t lose weight.
These rules hold true of us because we created them. But on the personal level, what is true for one may not be true for another. We manifest these personal truths into being. How do you manifest them? By putting energy into the idea. To manifest something you have to start with an idea. Then you add your passion, your energy, your emotion. Over time that extra energy solidifies into reality. The reality may start as an idea, such as “I can’t lose weight” that manifest into being overweight.
From what I have read about manifesting, answered prayers and even the paranormal activity some police departments run up against, it is intense emotion that creates things. I have found from personal experience in my prayer life that the more intense, emotional prayers get answered the fastest. I have heard and read many true life stories where some one in the midst of strong anger had extraordinary experiences such as: ironing clothes with a hot iron that was never plugged in, seeing objects falling off shelves and other objects being thrown across the room, witnessing objects appear in thin air. Often when someone feels their house is haunted and they move but the haunting continues in their new home, it is because their own strong emotion about something is still with them. It is the emotion that is creating the haunting activity not another entity.
If we are so good at manifesting, why don’t we direct that energy and create a more desirable life for ourselves? I believe we are attempting to learn that right now. Some people can do that. Some people seem to have a natural ability to manifest what they want. Maybe the rest of us are trying too hard. I would love to create my own rules and manifest what I want at will. I’ll let you know when I get there.