Archive for November, 2008
Break Free From Pre-Packaged Holidays
Posted by: | CommentsIn most cases, holidays = tradition. I will even go so far as to suggest that holiday tradition is pretty much a set of pre-packaged beliefs about how you are supposed to celebrate and not so much about why or what you are celebrating. We get so caught up in the “how” we forget about the why.
Let’s use the Thanksgiving turkey as an example. For many people, Thanksgiving equals turkey. All around us we see images that represent Thanksgiving and there are Turkey’s in them. This afternoon I was hanging out with my 3 ½ year old niece and the topic of turkeys came up .It was suggested that she could chose to be vegetarian and not eat Turkey. My niece was very matter of fact when she said “We got to eat the Turkeys!” There was no question about it. It was Thanksgiving, what else would you do? Having a Turkey dinner is how you celebrate. My question is this: “How does eating Turkey represent being thankful for all the abundance in my life and all the help I have received along the way?”
Now what happens if you do not like Turkey? In most cases you have to suck it up and go along with it. It is what’s being served and what everyone is expecting. Perhaps you choke some down, or move it around on the plate, or loudly complain about it, or maybe you do not say anything and just become resigned to the idea that you will not get what you like for dinner and that is just the way it is. You have bought into the story that in order to celebrate Thanksgiving, you need to eat turkey.
I think that you can apply this thinking to many other situations in life. You grow up being bombarded by messages about how things are supposed to be. At a very early age you buy into these stories and begin to believe that it is just the way it is. So you hunker down and ignore the part of yourself that is not happy, that is uncomfortable and struggling through. You tune out your inner guidance system and take the hard road. You choke down the things that you do not want. You do not even give yourself the opportunity to imagine what would work for you. Maybe you do not even imagine that there are an other possibilities. That is the trap of the pre-packaged life! You believe that t is OK for parts of your life to feel bad and you are not open to the possibilities that are right in front of you.
So, how do you go about creating a holiday, or a life, that taps into the “Why” of what you are celebrating and feels meaningful? You take a step back from the pre-packaged ideas and ask yourself “What do I want to create here?” In the case of Thanksgiving, you might ask yourself “How can I express my gratitude and share the abundance with the people around me?” Then give yourself the space to create your own celebration. Pay attention to what your inner guidance system is telling you. Do what feels good. Maybe this does look like a big turkey dinner, or perhaps it is serving meals to the homeless. Do this with your life too. Decide what it is you want to create for yourself, and then explore all the different ways to go about it. I promise it will be worth it.
Manifesting 101
Posted by: | CommentsA few weeks ago, I celebrated my birthday with a super hedonistic “High Roller” weekend at Foxwoods casino. About 20 of my friends joined me in a fantastic suite with an incredible view at the new MGM Grand. We had a VIP table at the hot new ultra lounge & restaurant called Shrine. I spent part of Saturday in the Spa getting pampered. I even won some money within the first five minutes of my playing the slot machines. Boy was it fun!
Let me say right up front, by no means do I have High Roller status at Foxwoods, or any other casino for that matter. I have only gambled a few times.
But I do like to be hedonistic and live the high life, AND I know how to manifest a good time.
You can too. It is pretty simple. All you have to do is connect to the feeling of what you want, amplify that energy, release the energy and wait for it to happen.
Let me use my Birthday extravaganza as an example.
I first got the idea to go to Foxwoods when my dear friend invited a group of us to go down for her birthday. We stayed at her family’s home close by and went to the casino for the evening. It was fun. There was lots of action and people and stuff to do. I was totally digging the scene. (This is the connecting to the energy part)
(Here is where I amplified the energy) I began to imagine how cool it would be to come down and stay for the weekend in a big suite. I could have a party in the room and use it as home base. That thought expanded into being VIP all the way. Having dinner and a spot at a club and going to the Spa. I looked on the Foxwoods website and checked out the suites and all the stuff to do there. I kept thinking: ”Wouldn’t it be cool if we all went to the spa floor” ,”It would be awesome to have a big whirlpool tub in the room”, “We could get a VIP table at the club!”. My fantasy was growing and it felt good!
I decided to take action to make this happen. (More amplifying the energy.) I told my friends about what I wanted to do and we basked in the energy of it together. I went online to book a suite and that is where the roadblocks started coming up. There was no suite available to me. It seems they were reserved for the High Rollers. Then I discovered that reserving a VIP table was very expensive. Even reserving a regular room was costly.
I began to feel a bit discouraged, but I could still tap into the energy of my High Roller weekend.
So released it. (OK, this is obvious: I released the energy)
I still wanted to go, but did not know how it was going to happen. I still engaged in the game of imagining how cool it would be, but I was obviously not the one to make it happen. I stopped trying TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
About a week later, a friend of mine told me that he knew a high roller. The next thing I know, I was getting a phone call from a wonderful stranger asking me what he could do for me. He had heard that I wanted to go to Foxwoods for my birthday. (Allow it to happen.) Before I knew what hit me, I was hooked up with a king size suite and another room to boot, all for an amazingly low cost. I was back in business! It all started to fall magically into place. Next came the email asking if I wanted a VIP table at Shrine. Apparently a friend of a friend was a manager there and offered to hook us up at no cost. Yes Please!
And there you have! I was off to Foxwoods with my fabulous friends! We had a great time. I made sure to bask in the pleasure of it all.
What do you want to manifest?
Thoughts Are Energy
Posted by: | CommentsToday I came across this cool video from the show 60 minutes. It talks about a computer system that enables people who have lost the use of their bodies to use their thoughts to direct a computer interface to communicate for them and to direct the computer function.
This is amazing stuff ! It also is scientific proof that our thoughts are energy that can be directed to create.
