Our stories are all woven with the intentions we transmit to the Universe.
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  If you don’t like the way your story is playing out, you can learn to exercise the power of intention to re-write a more meaningful one.

Answering some simple questions by going within can assist you in getting focused on what your true intentions are: 

• What matters most to you?
• What are you passionate about?
• What would you like to create or nurture in your life?
• Is there anything you would like to let go of that has been holding you back?

When you seek stillness and allow your desires to rise from the silence of the gap between thoughts, the answers that are revealed to you are for the highest purpose of your being. Your deepest desires are messages from your true self encouraging harmony, expansion, and connectedness.

When you manifest from your true self, you are deeply connected to what your soul came here to do.  As you allow these seeds to flow out into the world and take shape through purposeful action, you will be guided by the wisdom of the Universe and attract all the nourishment needed to turn your intentions into reality.

From within your being, you awaken the energy of attraction and harness it’s power of creation to fulfill your greatest desires. What an extraordinary gift you give to yourself and to the world when you allow your deepest, truest, most cherished desires to come alive.

When you direct your awareness toward soul-affirming desires that fill you up, ignite your passion, and connect you with your purpose, a sense of joy and of harmony abides in everything you do. Doors will open as you advance toward them. That is how powerful a being you are!

With true appreciation of the power of intention, you can dive deeply into a sea of transformation and emerge ready to transcend any obstacle that comes between you and your destiny. Every time you choose love over fear, you open to infinite possibility and step into the powerful role of divine creatrix in your life.

Though, most often we set intentions to manifest for the future, our attention must remain thoroughly in the now.  The present moment is where our power abides and the only place where we can wield the magic to which we were born.

When you lead with conscious presence, from the stillness of your being –you access the power of the Universe and your connection to all that is.

Inherent in every intention are the workings for its realisation.”
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While intentions set the direction for your thoughts,   it is your actions that guide you toward their fulfillment. The choices you make will either move you a step closer to your dreams or whisk you further away.

As powerful energetic being s, we all have the ability to shift the world around us by choosing what energy we bring.

How you project yourself into the world around you communicates your intention. 
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When you’re coming from a place of love, compassion, gratitude, peace, creativity, and clarity, everyone around you can feel your energy, and doors open in welcome. Likewise, when you feel irritable, anxious, or emotional, you communicate that too, and doors close because you are closed.  As your energy ripples outward, you must pay close attention to how you show up, at least until your response, through practice, flows naturally from the core of your being.

On this journey of self-discovery, there will be times when the challenge of obstacles will distract you from your intention, and you may find yourself faltering, and falling out of balance. When ego slips in, its enervating whispers can be debilitating and it can be hard to pick yourself up. Thankfully, your body speaks to you and signals you of its presence. In silent awareness, you can witness without judgment and rest in the stillness as the silent watcher of your thoughts. Each pause you take allows you to step back from emotion, assess what’s going on within you, and to gently reframe and shift your thoughts to choose love.

In mastering the art of intention, you open and allow the abundance of the Universe to flow to and through you. Before you know it, you have crossed the chasm and moved from intention to fulfillment. Deep within your soul, you know that the Universe is always there, always guiding and supporting you.

Here are some of the heart-centered intentions I use for creating a peaceful, harmonious life of joy and abundance.  

My natural state is balance.
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I fearlessly speak my truth.
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My awareness is infinitely adaptable.
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I allow myself to be vulnerable and to own my journey.
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I manifest my desires easily and effortlessly.
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I hold open my heart and my mind and I lead from within
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I stand courageous in the face of fear.
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I connect with others with ease and grace.
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I offer unconditional love and acceptance to myself and all others.
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My life radiates the Light of being.
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I use my energy to heal and transform.
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I am here to bring more love into the world.
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Remember, all your hopes and dreams already exist as a wave in the quantum field – and are just waiting for you to wield your magic and make them real.

Please share your thoughts and leave a comment below. 

I played small in my world, helping others achieve their dreams and living vicariously through their successes.  I understood deeply the gift of giving, and everything I chose was about helping others. And while that gave me great satisfaction, I still felt incomplete.

I didn’t see then that I was firmly ensconced in resistance.  I had allowed myself to shrink at every suggestion that either crossed my mind or was aimed at me, and was invariably ready with an excuse for why I couldn’t dare.  Such is the power of a passing thought or comment to create havoc in a mind where no quiet can be found.  I had given my power to my fear, fully expecting the world to be as harsh a judge as the critic in my own mind.

After more than twenty years of being weighed down by the agony of unacknowledged passion, I’d finally had enough of  hiding and was beginning to awaken to the possibilities before me.  In the stillness, I could hear my soul clamouring for freedom, adventure, and for the unsuppressed expression of who I am.

Then one day it dawned on me  that for all those years,  I had yearned for people to accept me when I had not yet learned to fully accept myself.

Even once I found the courage to forge a new path and began  embracing the concepts of honouring myself, trusting myself, loving myself , and being myself, my fears still continued to test me. “Who do you think you are?” they asked. “What will people think?  For so long, I’d forgotten that I was in charge of my mind, and not the other way around. Taking back the reins of my thought was a daily challenge, but one I had to rise to if I was going to move forward in my life.

 The Universe is always conspiring to help us achieve, but we each still have to be willing to do our part.

I had finally come to a place in my life where I was not only willing to pay attention to the signs, but I was also willing to take unequivocal action in the direction they pointed.  Doors appeared as I advanced toward them and all I had to do was to choose to walk through them.

Guided by my inner voice, I began to see life with a new clarity. I stopped taking myself so seriously, embraced my carefree nature, let go of the struggle to fit in, and began living from my truth.

I watched as…

The pure expression of who I am and the love I bring to the world illuminated my life. 
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I no longer needed to seek outside myself for recognition.

In letting go of judgment and embracing all aspects of me, the healing that comes with self-acceptance rippled through my life. 

Learn to stand up for yourself, even when it meant standing up to yourself..
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 I learned to love those parts of me that I once hated, knowing they were there to help me; perpetually pointing me in the direction I needed to grow. I learned to be vulnerable and delighted in the discovery that my willingness to be so,  inspired others to open to me.  

Authentic connection truly creates a beautiful ripple effect.
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I marvelled at the change and delighted in the understanding that every moment of my life has presented me  with exactly what i needed to tune my awareness.  The people and the places I had moved toward in the past, were there to teach me to make different choices that would lead me to  choose me.

That’s what the journey is all about –  learning to love and honour who we are. 
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With that gentle reframe and a heart full of gratitude, I began to make choices from the authentic core of who I am.

How wonderful it feels  to have finally become an honoured guest in my own heart!
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I opened to old friends and new, with ease and with grace.  In learning to accept myself, I also became more accepting of others, and past conflicts simply melted away because I was no longer willing to play a part in them.

Those who see the light in me and appreciate me for who I am, naturally gravitate toward me, as I do them.  Now I flourish in relationships that nourish me and respect differences, where communication is open, and there is unconditional freedom to be and to share without fear of judgment. 

Today, I am living my dreams and honouring who I am, allowing myself to be guided by the wisdom of my own inner light. It is in having the courage to give the gift of our authentic selves to the world, that we find our joy, and we finally find our tribe.

Tips for Tapping Into The Joy of Being YOU

Stop comparing yourself to others – You are amazing just the way you are.
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Embrace what makes you unique. You are the greatest gift you can give to the world.
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Don’t let your fear of what others think stop you from expressing the truth of who you are
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Appreciate life and the gifts you’ve been given – they are there even when you can’t see them
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Remember that everything happens to turn your awareness to the magnificence of who you are.
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Know that it is how you decide to see your experiences that will guide you to your joy
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Practice gratitude. There is always something to be grateful for when you look with your heart
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Please share your comments below and feel free to contribute any additional tips for self-love and acceptance.

The #ChoosingHappiness excitement that’s gone viral, my story CRIMSON FLOWERS is featured in the transformational book Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Choosing Happiness published by Inspired Living Publishing.

Dreams Do Come True!!
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Not only is #ChoosingHappiness an Amazon International Bestseller in the Happiness and Self-Help categories but we also…. {DRUMROLL}

• Lovingly bumped the one and only Tony Robbins to take #1 HOT NEW RELEASE in Self-Help ….

• And we  squeezed out OPRAH’S Book Club Pick, Ruby, to take the #1 on Amazon’s Movers’s and Shaker’s  Pinch me!!!

Wait… there’s more!

#ChoosingHappiness placed on seven, yes, seven other lists including:

# 2 BESTSELLER in Happiness (right behind The Four Agreements. (Great company to be in.)

 #10 BESTSELLER in Self-Help (We were in great company with Tony Robbins at #8 and Brene Brown at #9)

 #20 BESTSELLER in Happiness in Canada – right behind Byron Katie… International baby!!

 #1 HOT NEW RELEASE in Happiness (WOO HOO!)

 #2 HOT NEW RELEASE in Happiness – CANADA

 #10 HOT NEW RELEASE of ALL AMAZON BOOKS Yes, that means that on launch day, out of millions of books on Amazon, #ChoosingHappiness was in the Top 10!!

And a major win… #81 on Amazon’s TOP 100 BESTSELLING BOOKS LIST

It’s a dream come true!  My story, along with those of 26 visionary women, is now inspiring women around the world.

Have you grabbed your copy yet?

Time is running out to access the 50 transformational gifts that come with your purchase of #ChoosingHappiness during the official launch period.

If you already ordered your copy, then THANK YOU, THANK YOU for supporting this sacred project and bringing our book to International Bestseller!!!! Please share your comments below.

If not, get over there now before the BONUS GIFT BUNDLE is gone!

Stop by www.ChoosingHappinessBook.com to meet the authors, preview the gifts, watch the Book Trailer and of course, order your copy today!

The honest, authentic stories featured in Choosing Happiness will make you smile, cry, and laugh out loud. More importantly, they’ll prove that everyone, no matter her background or circumstances, can make the powerful choice to be happy.

I know you will be as amazed as I was by the vulnerability, the openness, the courage, and the audacity of these incredible women to choose happiness in the face of some of life’s biggest challenges.

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Until we choose happiness right here, right now, in the midst of life’s messiness, we will be forever searching. So, here’s to YOU and CHOOSING HAPPINESS in your own life!

Remember:  “Every day, in every moment, we have the ability to choose happiness. Even in the midst of the darkest night, when everything is falling apart, that choice is still available. Sometimes, it’s not until we hit rock bottom that we see the choice before us—but sometimes, all it takes is a gentle reminder that we are powerful, lovable, and worthy enough to create our lives and ourselves in the image of the Divine and according to our souls’ plans.” Linda Joy, Publisher, from the introduction of ‘Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Choosing Happiness.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that dreams can’t come true!

The Light in me honours the Light in you.
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May you receive all that you have been asking for with ease, grace and gentleness.
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May you notice that as you walk in your life, you bring grace to others.
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May you see how blessed you are by the people that surround you.
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May you know that you are the greatest gift you can give to the world.
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May you feel the gift of life that runs through your body and your breath
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May you address life itself with your kind heart.
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May you know that what you feel is important.
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May you take those steps that have scared you in the past and may you know you are safe now.
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May you know in your heart that you are never alone.
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May you learn to receive life’s gifts of grace and disappointment with an open heart.
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May you learn to transform anything that is challenging into an act of beauty.
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May you give acts of kindness even when you are hurting.
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May your heart expand relieving you of pain, suffering, grief, doubt, lack, unworthiness, sadness, and anything else that seems to be in your life that holds you back.

May you accept pleasure as part of your growth and turn to face adversity with an open heart.
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And…

May life take you on adventures that bring you in touch with your greatest gift to share… The Gift of YOU.
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As the new year alights upon us, there is no better time than now to step into the new you – the real you. The “you” that chooses to dare in the face of fear and uncertainty. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control, or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, and make… “2015”  …the year that you elevate from where you are, to soar on high. It’s up to YOU!

What will you do with this new chance to shine?

Please add any other wishes you may have or would like to share with others. Namaste.

If you’re like most people, you leave your brain in charge instead of remembering it’s there to serve you.

First of all, understand that you are not your thoughts. And despite what “everyone” says, you are not your behaviour, either… but we’ll save that for another post.

Let’s get back to understanding that you have the power to adapt and to learn how to train your brain for your greater good instead of letting your brain train you.

Your brain is wired in a plastic way… meaning it is adaptable.  It’s malleable, it’s flexible, and it works with what it is given – so be careful what thoughts to which you choose to give energy. 

It makes more sense to choose to engage with thoughts and emotions that actually serve you, doesn’t it?

Did you know that your thoughts and actions produce neurochemical changes in your body?

The type of chemical produced  and released is a direct result of the types of thoughts you choose to indulge in. These chemicals influence the choices you make because they influence how you feel.

Think about that. EVERY thought you have, changes your neurochemistry and your molecular make up.

When you choose to indulge in negative thoughts you may not have any idea how much harm you are actually doing to yourself. Your own unguarded thoughts can do you more harm than most any enemy you can imagine.   If you truly understood how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought again.

Depression, reactive behaviours, unsuccessful strategies, feelings of inadequacy, as well as various other physical and mental health issues are just some of the results of allowing your thoughts to run rampant.

Every single thought you choose to engage with creates a cascade of physical reactions that you feel in your body. This is called the mind-body connection.

I have heard a lot of people declare that they have the right to be angry. And, of course, we all get to make our own choices.

Is the need to be right worth abandoning your own well-being?
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 Most people do not seem to recognise that such choices impact their mental, emotional, and physical well-being, as well as impacting others.

It is really important to understand that consciously choosing to embrace anger or any other negative thought or emotion always has a price and takes a toll:

When your fight or flight response is activated, your body releases hormones that increase your heart rate, muscle tension, and stress levels,  among other side effects. These hormones change your body’s chemistry, further accelerating the anxiety, which then continues to cycle and to further install the anger and fear into your neurology.

Everything you choose to grapple with in your mind, literally changes your body’s chemistry and your physiology. The more you engage with negative thoughts and emotions, the unhappier you become. The longer you engage with negative thoughts and emotions, the more it will impact your mental and physical health.  Not only will it zap your energy, but it can lead to all sorts of short and long-term health problems including high blood pressure, stress and feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.

If you decide to have a problem with something or someone instead of seeing an opportunity to bridge a gap, realise that you are choosing to have a problem!

Your thoughts, which are also energy, are transmitted outward like a radio frequency and join together with other energies vibrating at a harmonious frequency to shape what you come to see and experience in your physical world.

Did you know you were such a powerful creator?

Let’s have a closer look…

If you believe you’re not good enough to get the promotion you’re after, you will project that energy and your life will reflect that belief.

If you believe money is hard to earn and that it does not come easily to you, it will not.

 You are always responsible for the results you are experiencing in life.  If you want different results, you need to learn to change your thoughts.

Begin by recognising the negative energy your past thoughts and behaviours bring to your experience and to the world around you.

Do not focus on what you don’t have – that will only get you more of what you don’t have.  
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You manifest what you focus on, whether you want it or not, because energy flows to where the attention goes. Your thoughts are that powerful. Your thoughts will always determine your experience.

Choose to be grateful for your blessings and for the opportunities that are there waiting for you to see them. When you radiate positivity, you will attract positive outcomes.

You absolutely can train your brain to get better results.
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Every new experience, new learning, new practices and new insights will create neural pathways for processing information.  The old unproductive patterns you’ move away from and fail to reinforce will eventually dissipate. Likewise, every time you make choices to own your path and to honour who you are, you reinforce those new neural pathways and those new patterns of behaviour will eventually become automatic conditioned responses.

As you can’t just snap your fingers and make those pesky undermining thoughts disappear, here are some helpful steps you can take to create a brighter future and a happier NOW:

1. Be fully present in the moment. Leave the perceived problems of the past behind and do not engage in anxiety for the future.
2. As soon any negative thoughts or feelings come, re-label them and file them under false messages.
3. Step back from the thoughts and make room for them to pass right on through
4. Figure out why the thoughts are there and what you need to learn to let go of them and the limiting beliefs that frame them
5. Let go of limiting beliefs about yourself and the world around you and open yourself to possibility
6. Believe in and love yourself and consciously choose strategies that serve who you are and wish to be
7. Take action toward what you want and allow abundance to flow to you

As you actively take these steps to create change, you will begin to change your faulty brain chemistry and step into your role as creator.

Remember, all your hopes and dreams already exist as a wave in the quantum field and are just waiting for you to make them real.

As the watcher of my thoughts, I have learned that…

There is no need for forgiveness where judgement does not exist.
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I remember when I first came into awareness that if I ever felt I needed to forgive somebody, it was because I’d had an expectation of them, and I judged them for not meeting it.

That startling revelation was a bucket of ice cold water thrown over me, waking me up to my own limitation.

Every time we choose judgement, we focus on separateness and we fortify the veil of that illusion – the very veil that we are here to learn to lift.

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Forgiveness is a requirement that is only necessary for the ego mind, which makes its modus operandi a full theatrical production.

Farce or tragedy? I’ll leave that to you.

The stage is set as we hold the bar up and we ask our adversaries to rise to it. We seem completely oblivious to the fact, that this, of course, means positioning ourselves above them. And that is what they become – adversaries – even the ones closest to us, because that’s how we treat them when we decide they’ve done us wrong.

And all of this is a contrived concoction, served to us by ego, whilst reminding us of the pain “they’ve” put us through, and the suffering “they’ve” caused. Oh, how we fool ourselves as ego maligns our loved ones (or anyone who we see as an opponent), and tricks us into simultaneous stints of both victimhood and superiority.

The absurdity of such a dichotomy is always a sure sign that our psyches are being tampered with. Yet, we indiscriminately fall for it, because it’s an easier route than holding our hearts open.

And, thus begins the myriad of ways in which we undermine our relationships.

We willingly listen, when ego promotes expectation in the name of Love. And we watch, as ego vitriolically criticizes our loved ones, all the while evincing that we deserve so much better. Beguiled by our own insecurities, we accept all this conjecture, caught completely unaware of the pathological co-dependence we are creating with this insidious usurper who lives in our minds. We even go so far as to convince ourselves that we’re merely sticking up for ourselves through all our self-serving demands.

Arms flail, we throw the backs of our hands to our foreheads in anguish, as  tears splatter forth, and we give the most outstanding Academy Award worthy performances, without all the perks and paychecks.

And none of it gives us any sense of peace or satisfaction. It doesn’t feel right, because it isn’t.

The more we become disillusioned and disappointed by relationships, the more our expectations grow. And as our expectations grow, our own feelings of righteousness begin to elicit a startling propensity, for nose-in-the-air-itis.

From expectation, we are led to a prevailing sense of entitlement, and from there, we don our robes, hop up on our benches ready to dole out judgement on all those who come before us, and busting any who dares behave in a manner we deem unbefitting of the laws we’ve set out in our own minds.

This is how we becomes alleged victim, judge and jury, and then move onto warden, as we become the curator of punishment and penance, deciding how will have to earn our forgiveness.

Now back that up! Does any of this sound loving to you?

Just, who do we think we are?!!

And that’s the crux of the problem. In all of this… we’ve forgotten the truth of who we are.  We’ve forgotten our true role: our role – as the one who loves .

Love has no motive but to fulfill itself and to take action through kindness, compassion and acceptance. Love is recognising ourselves in each other, knowing that as we reach to console, we console ourselves.

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When we have expectations of others to serve our own needs, then we do not accept them for who and where they are.  If we can’t allow people to learn and to walk their own path, then we’re more focused on being right, than on being loving.  Love doesn’t care a fig about judging or being right.

You get to be right, or you get to be happy.  And when you choose happy, you get to be both.
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When our minds are closed, we miss out on a world of possibility and we limit our imaginations to what we have chosen. What a narrow existence that is.

“When we let go of our idea of what life “should” be, we open ourselves up to serendipity and to what life “could” be.”

As we open, we welcome possibility, and in possibility, there is great capacity for love. Possibility is about living in the now.

When we live in the now, we bring our greatest resource into responding. We bring our Light.
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Everybody is always doing the best they can, whether we see this so or not, and whether they disappoint us or not. This can be hard to accept when we’ve seen them do better. But in every instance where a different choice is made, some other element is either present that was not there before, or missing, that had been there. So, literally, in each instance, we give the best we have in that moment based on our mind’s perception and the feelings that drive us.

Acknowledging that we’re all doing the best we can doesn’t let us off the hook, we still have to live with the repercussions of our choices. And we don’t have to like someone’s behaviour to love them.  Even if we decide that a relationship isn’t what we want the way it exists, we can let go of anger, blame, and sadness, and send a silent offering to the Universe wishing them well.

We are all responsible for the energy we bring to the world. It is only our own actions for which we must hold ourselves accountable.

When we lead with Love, every single happenstance becomes an opportunity to tune our awareness and to allow others to do the same.  As we lead with Love,  we draw back the veil to welcome the Light.

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Tips for moving toward loving acceptance:

• Understand that you are responsible for the way you perceive your life and other people
• Know that everyone has their own path to walk and  their own lessons to learn
• Never let a problem to be solved be more important than a person to be loved
• Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you
• Detach from emotion and look at the experience from the other person’s vantage point
• Live fully in the present moment. Leave the past where it belongs and know that the future will always be what you make of it
• Put your energy into solution instead of focusing on perceived problems
• Welcome possibility and let go of your notion of how things should be
• Embrace  every challenge knowing that it brings you closer to uncovering your inner truth.
• Make a commitment with yourself to lead with love and kindness in every moment, no matter how hard it might sometimes seem
• Be grateful for every moment no matter what it brings.

Just imagine what a love like that can do for the world!

Easier said than done? Not once you learn how easy it really is.

Wherever you are on your journey, and whatever you encounter, you will continue to discover yourself through unexpected challenges and learn to step into your true potential. Life flows more easily when you learn to trust your own intuition. Be courageous and walk through fear. The reward is breathtaking.

It is truly a blessing to keep putting one foot in front of the other, and to go on this journey of human discovery to unearth the magnificence of your own inner Light. With every step you take, you create your own opus in harmony with the Universe. If you have not yet discovered your own magnificence, and you are not living the life you want to lead, there are steps you can take to begin to uncover the beautiful you that you always wanted to be – the beautiful you that you already are.

Imagine a life filled with more clarity, more peace, more success and of course, more fun.

YOU WANT THAT, don’t you?

Isn’t it time to stop imagining and start living it?

There are the four essential steps for creating meaningful change in your life.  That doesn’t sound so hard, does it? Just four steps to freedom, to fulfillment, to FABULOUS! And those same four steps to embrace the truth of who you are. That’s a lot of reward for just 4 simple steps!

The Four Steps that will set you free :

• Move From Floundering to Flow: Release your negative emotions, your limiting decisions, and your past patterns and strategies that do not serve you
• Stop the Insanity Struggle: Focus on solution and what you truly want. Energy flows to where attention goes. You get what you focus on whether you want it or not, so stop focusing on fear.
• Shift From Sabotage to Success: Let your actions indicate your intentions. Make choices that take you closer to your dreams instead of away from them.
• Discover the Magic of Mind Mastery: Accept your power and understand that you are the cause of how you experience your life. You are the designer of your destiny.

As you take each step and reach the landing,  you may be astonished that change can be so instantaneous and so all encompassing. It’s always so amazing when you first discover that you really did have the power all along.

Start where ever you are now and know that you matter. Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know until you learned it. Within you is the wisdom, the strength, and the courage to own your path, to wield your own magic, and to design your destiny.

You came into this world as Love – pure and unselfish – beholding the world as a magical place, and seeing everything simply, for what it is. As a small child, you beheld everything without judgement, and with a wide-eyed sense of wonder. This is how life is meant to be lived; but, as you  grew older, you learned to live small, as we all do, you allowed your light to be dimmed with layers of fear.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
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Step out of the shadows and come live in your Light – the Light that has always been there, waiting for you to uncover it and reclaim your magnificence. You are a beautiful bright spirit maneuvering your way through a human awakening. There is greatness within you. Let it shine.

The Light in me honours the Light in You.

All suffering is caused as a result of choosing false and limiting beliefs – that you have accepted as actual truths – about yourself, others, and about the way you believe the world should be.

These beliefs emerge over time due to your fears and judgements, and have been imposed by your ego through past experience, parenting, education, and what simply is rationale gone awry

I can think of more than one occasion where I let my emotions rule the roost, righteous in my wrath, cape billowing behind me on the wind, all while pointing a finger and ready to battle with anyone who wronged me and stepped in my way. Rarely, did that take me to the place I truly desired.

When you choose to blame others for circumstances in your life, you will suffer a lot.

Most of the time (as I was back then), you are likely out of awareness of the fallacies that cause your misery.

Thankfully, we are all blessed with a built-in beacon – the mind-body-connection.
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Even if you think you think you accept these inhibiting thoughts, you will find that you will still physically and emotionally react to them. Every single negative thought you choose to engage with, creates a cascade of physical reactions that you feel in your body.

Understand that the body’s triggered emotional and physical responses to false beliefs, are messages from your Unconscious Mind and Higher Self, telling you that something is wrong –  telling you that you are out of alignment with the true magnificence of who you are.

Your suffering is the mode of delivery of that message.

Think about that, what a gift it is to have the awareness that suffering means we need to do something differently to bring ourselves into balance.

And you’ll always know when you “get it right,” because it feels right.

I’ve heard some people worry aloud that they won’t know what that feels like because they think they’ve never felt it before. But, that’s just another trick of the mind.

1. It will feel like the absence of whatever you feel when you’re suffering.
2. It will feel like peace and joy. This is the natural state of the soul and this essence is always buried within your memory.

“The first step in healing is accepting responsibility for your own perceptions, and your own actions.”

If you’re still suffering, you have not yet found the courage to do something differently. Bounding down the bunny hole and hiding is not going to get you to where we want to be. I know this because I’ve done it far too many times before. My own warren was replete with warmth and conveniences – none of which masked the suffering that I chose to wallow in.

Upon realising that your thoughts are clouded by feelings of anger, sadness, fear, hurt, guilt and anxiety (that have all been surreptitiously planted there by ego and rooted with what it presents as irrefutable proof), you can begin to free yourself from the gloom through awareness.

With the knowledge that ego operates from fear, you can begin to see that all its premises are formed through flawed logic.  From there, you discover that:

You don’t have to believe everything you think.
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Ego will whisper to you that your suffering will end and that peace comes when everything falls into place. Don’t give power to this lie woven by ego and laced into your psyche through fear.

These beliefs can be so alluring because they let you off the hook.  But, when you wait for everything to fall into place, peace will not come. You have to go to it.

Your Higher Self will lead you to that place of peace within yourself, and when you arrive, everything else will fall into place.  As you release all that does not serve you, as you shift your perception, as you move from resistance to acceptance,  and as you open your heart and mind, you will be guided there.

When you come to realise that you hold your answers within, you will discover a new sense of power and love for yourself.

Underneath all the layers of pseudo protection you’ve covered yourself in – at the core of your being, you are a divine spark of Light.

As you uncover your truth, you will move away from suffering and into the flow of living.
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Acknowledgement: The cover photo for this blog is a gorgeous piece of sculpture by Paige Bradley, titled Expansion. Paige is a classically trained American sculptor living and working in London, England. Her representative figurative bronzes reveal the beauty of the human form as well as the complex, often contradictory, yearnings of the human spirit.

You know what I’m talking about, don’t you?

• People who wave theirs white flags wildly in an insane effort to exempt themselves from taking up arms (their own two arms), preposterously supposing  that surrender will at least fetch them a life of tolerable imprisonment.

• People who choose not to accept that they possess the power to solve the problems they perceive.

• People who are  far too busy blaming others for every misfortune that befalls them, all whilst swooning and clamouring at the injustice of it all.

• People who are  more comfortable playing the role of victim than of the adventuring hero of their own stories.

It makes things easier, doesn’t it? Not having to take personal responsibility for what happens in your life. Or does it?

On the flip side… the fun side, we’ve got a posse of possibilitarians who live life as an epic adventure,  where the limits of the imagination are their only constraints.

Where do you stand? Are you at cause in your life? Or are you at effect?

Not sure?

Check these simple benchmarks and see where you fall:

Being At Cause

• You take full responsibility for all that you create
•  You are the driving force of all that you achieve.
• You see opportunities instead of obstacles
• You are an explorer of possibility
• You are flexible and adapt to change
• You accept challenges and love to learn
• You are response able for your emotions and actions
• You reach and surpass goals and move on to new ones
• You feel like you have the world in the palm of your hand

Being At Effect

• You blame others for how you feel
• You feel powerless to reach your goals
• You see obstacles instead of opportunities
• You consider yourself a victim of circumstance
• You are stuck in old patterns and too afraid to make changes
• You give up easily because there’s no point in continuing
• Your emotions run rampant and control your choices
• You only dream about the life you want
• You believe you are at the mercy of whatever the world gives you

So how did you do?

If you’re at cause and you’re busy creating the life you want… congratulations! I can’t wait to see what you create!

If you’re at effect and happy there. Enjoy the discomfort of your comfort zone.

Or if you want to take charge and step into your own magnificence…  then go back to the parameters above and start taking responsibility for your choices.

If you choose to step up and  escape the insidious loop of being at effect, don’t call it quits if you happen to slide back and forth as you learn to adapt to feeling in control of your life for the first time. It can be a slippery slope as you learn to rid yourself of old patterns of thinking and being. But take heart, it is so worth the perseverance. And you will learn to wield your own wand and create a magical future of which you’d only once dreamed.

Remember: Being at cause does not mean you will no longer be triggered.  It does mean that you have the awareness that whatever triggers you is about you, and no one else. You know that your reactions are your own limitations.

Your ego is a sneaky and treacherous little blighter.  It wants to hold you back to keep it company and it won’t give up without a fight.

But, you don’t have to fight. When you choose battle, you’ve already lost.

All you have to do is hold your own power.  When you back away from your negative thoughts and emotions, you render them powerless, making room for them to just pass right on through.

When you allow your feelings to flow, at the right time and in the right place, you can explore the reason for their being. From there, you can find the learning, and let go with gratitude. acceptance, and in many cases, a good laugh.  I love that part!

That’s a lot healthier than dwelling in the emotion and allowing it to continue to recycle and re-install into your neurology in a vicious cycle. This is the sad fate for those who choose to stay stuck in being at effect.

It’s all up to you. The power has been yours all along

So here to causing a stir! Be sure to mix up something wonderful!

It sure beats being  served up something unsavory and being stuck with it.

Well, it is to me.. but then I’m already creating the life of my dreams.

Won’t you join me?

Today do something untraditional, unconventional and unexpected. LIVE through your fearless spirit.
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Inspired by my good friend Jon Mertz, of Thin Difference, who wrote his own post called Live an Unlife Life, I  proffer this UNpost.

I came into this world as Love. Pure. Unselfish. Beholding the world as a magical place.  Seeing everything simply, for what it is, without judgement, and with a wide-eyed sense of wonder. I choose to return to who I really am.

I unaccept all the fallacies, all the limits, all the labels, that I once allowed to hold me back. I unallow it.
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I unfetter myself from past illusions. I follow my dreams and honour my heart.
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I unalign with Fear. I walk courageously forward in my path and in my Light.
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I unbuild all the walls that I once built to protect me. They only keep out the light.
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I unbrace myself for life’s storms. I can weather anything.
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I unanchor myself from my past. I live in a beautiful NOW and have a bright future before me.
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I unfocus my thoughts on obstacles. I focus on my strengths and my faith in myself.
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I uncommit to using my imagine for over-thinking, fantasizing, imagining, expecting, worrying, & doubting.
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 I use my imagination to stretch myself to more than I had ever imagined and to create the life of my dreams.

I unwaive all the rights I gave away. I claim my right to simply be. I am love and peace and joy.
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I unyield to what the world expects from me. I will create my own destiny by listening to my soul.

I unabandon my right to happiness. I choose to live in gratitude and to see the blessings that abound in all that life brings.
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I unlimit my beliefs. I choose to believe in possibility.
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I unaccept the illusion of safety in living in my comfort zone. I am ready to soar.
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I uncloud my perception. I know who I am.
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I unabsorb the frequencies of those around me. I emit my own frequency and imprint my intent on the Universe.

I unclose my heart and my mind. I believe in the Oneness of all that is.
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And today…

I undo all that I have unwittingly undone.
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I live unabashedly out loud.

I live each day with unceasing faith in myself.
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Today… I AM A WOMAN UNCHAINED.
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What about you? Will you join me in writing your own UNpost? Will you unencumber yourself of all the obstacles you once put on your own path? I hope you will. I believe in you. I hope you do, too!