Beautiful Summer MorningInspirational Articles, Quotes, Music, Poetry, Art, Video, Self-development2012-02-05T04:14:05Zhttp://beautifulsummermorning.com/feed/atom/WordPressNick Grimshawehttp://beautifulsummermorning.com<![CDATA[Euphoria You: Sunday Inspirational Video #193]]>http://beautifulsummermorning.com/?p=75802012-02-05T04:14:05Z2012-02-05T04:14:05Z“For me, ultimate relaxation comes from watching the sky. I collected this highlight reel of amazing sky footage over the past month and put it to some exciting, yet soothing, music for you all to enjoy. I hope this video makes you feel calm, happy, inspired, confident, and rejuvenated. The beautiful clouds and breathtaking sunsets are sure to please.”
Source: Green Eggs and Hamster’s Channel on YouTube.
While you are listening and watching the sky…listen for the silence between the notes.
Enjoy the video and on this special Sunday remember to walk with your friends in quiet places.
Until we meet again.
Be Inspired
Finding Your Life Purpose Course
Our modern world is full of distractions and interesting byways that call to us every day. We are flooded with appealing visual media designed to grab our attention. We are bombarded with information at a pace and intensity most of us can’t absorb. We turn our attention first to one thing then the next and wonder why we are confused and frustrated.
Wouldn’t it be beneficial if we had a guiding star which we could measure our actions. A litmus test if you will to measure an action against our basic purpose in life?
But if you don’t understand or don’t know what your specific basic purpose in life is you are left to drift on the tides making little progress and feeling frustrated and stopped.
]]>0Nick Grimshawehttp://beautifulsummermorning.com<![CDATA[What You Won’t Find Out by Staying Upstairs]]>http://beautifulsummermorning.com/?p=75732012-02-04T16:50:57Z2012-02-04T16:50:57Z
Cover of The Forest Lover
Let’s start with a quote and go from there.
“Has it ever occurred to you that to clutch at life fearfully, unwilling to spend it, is not a form of gratitude to God for life?”
The quote is from a book I received as a Christmas present from my sister Pauline DeForest. The book is a fictionalized account of Emily Carr‘s life. The nice thing about fictionalized accounts of someone’s life is the thrill of getting close to that character in a way that is not open to you any other way.
Emily Carr was a British Columbian artist who for much of her career went unrecognized as one of the premier voices of the rugged heavily forested, west coast at the turn of the twentieth century. Reading the book is to witness the struggle of an artist to come to terms with her art and her “voice”. Her challenge to speak with paint what she truly felt inside about a place and a native people she dearly loved, is one in essence I believe we all experience in some for or another.
Here is another quote spoken by Emily Carr herself,
“But if I throw my life at art again, like a wild dance, give everything in the search for a deeper seeing even if none of my family, not a single hiving being, like the results, maybe I might feel I’d lived fully. But I’ll never find out by staying upstairs and doodling imaginary forests.”
The book is brilliantly written and pulls hard at your heart stings, helps you feel deeply the emotional landscape of an artist seeking to pull all the experience within out into the daylight for others to see and feel and understand. The book is a rollicking look at the turbulence and joy of life with all its twists and turns. Emily Carr lived and breath fully, hiding away at times, while at others pushing ahead with a devil may care attitude.
What makes the book so universal is that Emily Carr’s struggles to express the godness in everything is our own struggle to do just the same thing, maybe not on such a large canvas as hers, but never the less, just as important, just as profound.
Within us all is the touch of greatness. You don’t have to invent it, or develop it, it is all ready there. The task is to express it, through your own life in a way that satisfies you, not some other arbiter of what is right or good. It’s finding the means to express what is all ready there that brings about joy, and happiness and transformation.
As Emily so rightly points out, we can’t get there by sitting upstairs pretending, we need to get out there and toss ourselves into the fray.
So in this New Year of 2012 I invite you all to leave your comfortable rooms, and join in the glorious battle of expression to put our there the true passion of our lives that is wholly true to you, and your spirit.
Here’s to a passionate year of discovery and transformation.
]]>1Nick Grimshawehttp://beautifulsummermorning.com<![CDATA[Going the Distance: Sunday Inspirational Video #192]]>http://beautifulsummermorning.com/?p=75572012-01-29T05:25:30Z2012-01-29T05:25:30Z
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Let’s start this one off with a quote from the lyrics:
“But to look beyond the glory is the hardest part For a hero’s strength is measured by his heart.”
Michael Bolton does a beautiful job on this song: Go the Distance.
Coming Down the road, to embrace my fate all that road may wander, it will lead me to Him, And a thousand years, would be worth the wait It might take a lifetime, but somehow I’ll see it through.
The lyrics and the music and the voice together create and emotion that burrows into your body with feeling. You can’t help to be inspired.
Put on the headset, sit back and absorbed the feelings and emotions of this song.
May your special Sunday be filled with love, music, laughter and inspiration.
With Love
Nick
Finding Your Life Purpose Course
Our modern world is full of distractions and interesting byways that call to us every day. We are flooded with appealing visual media designed to grab our attention. We are bombarded with information at a pace and intensity most of us can’t absorb. We turn our attention first to one thing then the next and wonder why we are confused and frustrated.
Wouldn’t it be beneficial if we had a guiding star which we could measure our actions. A litmus test if you will to measure an action against our basic purpose in life?
But if you don’t understand or don’t know what your specific basic purpose in life is you are left to drift on the tides making little progress and feeling frustrated and stopped.
]]>1Nick Grimshawehttp://beautifulsummermorning.com<![CDATA[How You Can Achieve a Consciousness Shift: Inspirational Book Review]]>http://beautifulsummermorning.com/?p=75362012-01-31T04:19:36Z2012-01-25T00:03:50Z
When The Secret became a viral marketing phenomenon several years ago the world seemed to be on the verge of a new dynamic. Even though the “secrets” in the book of that name have been openly talked about for hundreds if not thousands of years our emerging planetary society seemed ready to accept the idea of the Law of Attraction on a massive scale.
Not long after that, Oprah Winfrey went on the airwaves with a brand new broadcasting concept where she interview Eckhart Tolle about his new book “A New Earth” using the latest in interactive technology to connect live to people all over the world. She conducted what I consider the first global classroom where the world came together for ten lessons to work together through Tolle’s book, to ask question of the author Tolle live on TV, and to relate with each other around the frame work of the book. His work followed the theme of an arising planetary consciousness taking hold and changing the world in unimaginable ways. Eckhart and Oprah did just that before our eyes.
Since then we have seen the cell phone revolution engulfing one Arab state after another where one man taking his own life in a protest sparked people revolutions in several Arab countries. Out new mobile technology played and continues to play a leading role in the scenes that cross our sights every day. Facebook pages, endless video uploading to YouTube, and the instant access to a cell phone network that simply can’t be taken down by anyone government.
Our world is definitely changing before our eyes.
Paul Lenda’s book “The Creation of a Consciousness Shift” carries this theme forward and talks about the creation of a consciousness shift not just on a planetary scale but on the very personal scale of your own transformation to a higher state of awareness.
On many levels this book completely mystifies me but not in a negative way. Paul’s style is scholarly rather than the more chatty personal style adopted by many self-development writers currently in vogue. Yet in saying that, Paul manages to fascinate as he follows his theme from what a consciousness shift is to the higher realms of being within our grasp.
The language he uses is clinical, precise, and methodical, yet at the same time inspiring and moving, leading you all the while deep into his amazing world of expanded and expanding consciousness.
His chapters are so well delineated that he takes you effortlessly into some very difficult concepts. His chapter on “Everything is Connected” is broken down into easy steps: Interconnectedness in History, Interconnectedness Today, Independent Co-Creation, Full Consciousness, All is One, The Reality of Non-duality.
His chapter on meditation is a great primer for anyone interested in beginning a practice and is worth the price of the book alone.
Yet it is not until Paul gets to the talking about transcending the lower states to outlining the higher state of consciousness does the book begin to take flight. The chapter entitled The Splendor of Self-Realization is a beautiful piece of writing that will hold you spellbound in splendor as you read.
You need to bring all your mental faculties to this book. This is not some sugar coated brush off of important and critical concepts; it is a very thoughtful book exploring the depths of difficult concepts.
Yet the book is strangely easy to read.
I would love to have had Paul sitting across from me while I read his book…there are so many taking off points crying out for more discussion. As an example Paul seems to give some overall progression to the higher states with out really explaining how that order was arrived at. Maybe I am misreading and he didn’t intend to do that. [Oh for a Manhattan Bar or Coffee Shop (Paul lives in New York City) and an endless supply of napkins to scribble on, and loud conversation about the higher state of consciousness.]
I stay up late turning pages (Paul sent me an advance copy of his book) like I was reading a really good mystery…and in a way that is just what this book is.
Now be prepared for some new words and concepts: they were at least to me. One is Transpersonal. I had to write Paul to ask him to give me a little more detail. He obliged by sending me this link which I am passing on to you. Paul’s intention which he expressed to me in an email was to get the reader interested enough that they would go out and seek more information. Here is the article courtesy of Paul Lenda:
Paul also mentions empathogens which is not in most dictionaries but came up when I Google it. I’m quoting now “The terms empathogen and entactogen are used to describe a class of psychoactive drugs that produce distinctive emotional and social effects similar to those of MDMA (“Ecstasy”). These drugs can induce states similar to the higher states reached in a consciousness shift. Paul is quick to point out he is not advocating using drugs to reach those state. I quote Paul here:
“[my] reason for my mentioning them is not in advocating their use in order to achieve those higher states but like you said, to show that they have the ability to help induce those higher mind-states like serenity, bliss, and joy…all states that are possible to achieve naturally.”
If you want to read something with real substance that will make you think, make you question, make you wonder, make you seek…then this is a book for you. Like me, you will learn, love, argue and disagree, yet in the end you will have been transformed, enriched, and inspired to reach for that which is inside of you, that which is already there , a shift in your consciousness to a higher state of being.
I leave you with these words from the book:
“Let nobody dictate what you ought and ought not to do, based on whatever social norms or constructs there may be. Allow yourself to experience the acts of giving and receiving love, no matter what anyone may think. Express this consciousness of love in whatever way you feel promotes the positive social transformation of humanity as a whole. Whatever your medium through which you transmit love, as long as you are pouring out this high energy from within, you are not only helping yourself, but the whole of humanity and the world as it exists.”
Our modern world is full of distractions and interesting byways that call to us every day. We are flooded with appealing visual media designed to grab our attention. We are bombarded with information at a pace and intensity most of us can’t absorb. We turn our attention first to one thing then the next and wonder why we are confused and frustrated.
Wouldn’t it be beneficial if we had a guiding star which we could measure our actions. A litmus test if you will to measure an action against our basic purpose in life?
But if you don’t understand or don’t know what your specific basic purpose in life is you are left to drift on the tides making little progress and feeling frustrated and stopped.
]]>13Nick Grimshawehttp://beautifulsummermorning.com<![CDATA[Ten Quotes to Inspire Your Meditation]]>http://beautifulsummermorning.com/?p=75292012-01-24T05:18:07Z2012-01-24T05:18:07Z
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My purpose , of course, is to inspire others to live a life of magic by teaching people to pursue their unlimited potential through the use of a consistent daily practice of meditation, practical exercises and healthy living. Many people shy away from meditation thinking that it is something difficult, or boring, or something they just don’t have time for…which is a huge shame…because it is the less boring thing I have ever done. You just never know what is going to happen when you sit down, quiet your mind, and open yourself to the divine.
Below are a few quotes about meditation, I hope will inspire you to overcome your rationalizations and just sit quietly for a while in a world of magic.
1.“As you take a few minutes each day to quiet your mind, you will discover a nice benefit: your everyday, “ordinary” life will begin to seem far more extraordinary. Little things that previously went unnoticed will begin to please you. You’ll be more easily satisfied, and happier all around. Rather than focusing on what’s wrong with your life, you’ll find yourself thinking about and more fully enjoying what’s right with your life. The world won’t change, but your perception of it will. You’ll start to notice the little acts of kindness and caring from other people rather than the negativity and anger.”
2.“We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect it’s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don’t do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”
3.“Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.”
Source: James Allen
4.“There’s no such thing as a bad meditation. Any time you spend time in silence is valuable, even if your inner voice is persistent and loud. Don’t judge it; just observe it. Simply observe yourself sitting there, and when a stray thought suddenly appears, just note it, and use its presence as a reminder to go back to the gap.”
5.This is what it feels like: I quickly leave my Body and Self behind and am only aware of my Consciousness. This awareness floats (best word I can come up with) from image to image–maybe more like a feather floating on the breeze? and touches upon thought while creating a sensation of unity, clarity and peace. The peace is a feeling of All is Well, All is One, Already Done—so the focus of my meditation from the start–which could be manifesting my latest dreams, changing an unwanted habit in myself, deepening my relationship to Source, is Complete–the feeling of Complete.
Source Joe Dispenza
6.”Whenever you try to exert control over the natural ebb and flow of life, you end up either frustrated or disappointed- because it can’t be controlled. Whenever you apply effort to trying to relax and slow down, you produce the opposite effect. Whenever you try to dictate the outcome of your meditation you negate its most wondrous benefit- the pleasure of simply being.”
7.”You cannot see clearly, because you are so full of expectations, hopes,desires. Your eyes are covered with many layers of dust: you need a deep cleansing of your eyes. That’s what meditation is. Let the thoughts disappear, the hopes disappear, the desires disappear. Then you have a clarity, then your eyes are perfect mirrors. Only then, in that silent state of your vision, will you know the secrets of the beyond.”
9.It’s easier to teach you to have no thought than to have pure positive thought. When you quiet your mind you stop thought; when you stop thought you stop resistance; when you stop resistance–then you are in a state of allowing.
10.”in the beginning of practice, we focus primarily on learning the form of meditation. we learn how to work with our bodies so that we can sit comfortably in zazen with good posture and natural breathing, and we learn how to work with our minds so that we can focus our attention. at some point we experience an opening to our true nature. we call that first experience of nonduality ‘the shift’ because it is a shift from our usual way of perceiving reality. suddenly, instead of perceiving only the apparent reality, what appears to be so, we have a direct experience of the absolute reality that underlies and pervades all things, including the self. once we have glimpsed the absolute, the self never again seems so solid or permanent. our usual way of perceiving the self and the world has been cut through, even if only for an instant, and it becomes easier to remember that duality is just one side of reality.”
Source: Genpo Roshi
If you would like to learn more about meditation, or begin a daily practice I offer a Beginners Guide to Meditation.
Until we meet again:
BE INSPIRED
Our modern world is full of distractions and interesting byways that call to us every day. We are flooded with appealing visual media designed to grab our attention. We are bombarded with information at a pace and intensity most of us can’t absorb. We turn our attention first to one thing then the next and wonder why we are confused and frustrated.
Wouldn’t it be beneficial if we had a guiding star which we could measure our actions. A litmus test if you will to measure an action against our basic purpose in life?
But if you don’t understand or don’t know what your specific basic purpose in life is you are left to drift on the tides making little progress and feeling frustrated and stopped.
]]>6Nick Grimshawehttp://beautifulsummermorning.com<![CDATA[A Whole New World: Sunday Inspirational Video #191]]>http://beautifulsummermorning.com/?p=75152012-01-22T07:12:27Z2012-01-22T07:12:27Z
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Build deep into the heart of our DNA , programed into the language of our cells, imprinted into the soul stuff ofwhich we all are made is this mythological concept of a “whole new world”. Through out the history of our time on this earth, the promise of a new world somewhere has drawn us to the adventure of seeking new worlds, new ways, new hopes, new dreams. We have gone out and crossed deserts to find the green heart in a new land. We have braved the wild sea to seek and find…and we have discarded our mortality for the immortality of the stars. Where there have been men and women with a dream of a better life…a better way of living…we have stepped out of our comfortable places to explore at the very edge of our understanding.
My parents were such intrepid adventurers…they launched out into the unknown to a brand new world where their children would have the promise of a better life. For their courage…for their dream…I will always treasure and love them…for they did just that…brought us to a whole new world.
To be human is to seek for…that better world…it is what drives us to take inordinate risks…to go beyond the accepted boundaries. For every human being who had done that…down through the dusty centuries…they gave everything they had to make us richer in ways that would have been unimaginable for them. We are the benefactors of their adventures. Every last one of those adventurers rank as heroes among men.
That seeking for whole new world sparked our imagination. We have written and sung about those places in very inspiring ways. The archives of our moment here on earth are full of those stories and songs.
So when I listen to Peabo Bryson and Andrea Tessa sing of this bright new world I am transported to a place of gratitude of the highest order.
Sit back, put on the headphones and allow yourself to be transported to that Whole New World…and you will find joy there, and love, and happiness and abundance.
Until we meet again:
BE INSPIRED
Just Released: Finding Your Life Purpose Course
Our modern world is full of distractions and interesting byways that call to us every day. We are flooded with appealing visual media designed to grab our attention. We are bombarded with information at a pace and intensity most of us can’t absorb. We turn our attention first to one thing then the next and wonder why we are confused and frustrated.
Wouldn`t it be beneficial if we had a guiding star which we could measure our actions. A litmus test if you will to measure an action against our basic purpose in life?
But if you don’t understand or don’t know what your specific basic purpose in life is you are left to drift on the tides making little progress and feeling frustrated and stopped.
]]>2Nick Grimshawehttp://beautifulsummermorning.com<![CDATA[4 Great Times to Bless Your Food]]>http://beautifulsummermorning.com/?p=75042012-01-18T16:37:39Z2012-01-17T19:40:03Z
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Editors Note: Healthy Living is very much apart of living a full and rewarding life of magic. What better way to recognize the role of food in your life than to take time to bless the food that sustains us. Below in Mariana’s article are 4 great ways to bless food. If you have another one or want to make a comment please use the comment section below.
One of the most common forms of prayer is the blessing of food. This is important for many reasons, but one of the main reasons is that it makes us aware of our life on earth and thankful for being provided with the sustenance to exist. This is actually a somewhat profound type of prayer, and, if you don’t regularly bless your food or have fallen into a habit of rushing mealtimes, you should try it! Use some of these tips for a week, and watch how your eating habits and level of stress change for the better!
1. As You Cook
Cooking is a wonderful time to add harmonious energy to your meals. They say that food cooked with love is best for a reason. As you prepare dinner, take a moment to relax your mind. While you are washing vegetables take the time to feel them with your hands and think about where they came from. Treat the ingredients with care, and respect their original flavors. Create a peaceful environment as you cook, and that energy will carry over into meal times. Also, make sure to enjoy yourself. Try out new flavors and cook dishes that you love to eat.
2. Before You Eat
As you sit down to eat, take a moment to look at the plate of food you are about to consume. Close your eyes and say any kind of prayer you like. It can be aloud or to yourself, but it is often more powerful to say things aloud, as our minds can become distracted with inner thoughts. Say thanks for the gift of food that you are about to receive and visualize your plate filled with energy. Imagine that your food is being filled to its highest potential of nutrients.
3. While You Eat
Many of us have heard about conscious eating as a diet fad. People blindfold themselves while eating, eat slowly, chew every bite, and take breaks between bites, and then stop when they are full. Typically they take their blindfolds off to realize they have eaten about half the amount they would usually need to feel full. This is because we have become accustomed to eating quickly and without consciousness of the act. Next time you eat, take the time to breathe deeply between bites and truly taste the flavors. Give thanks for the sustenance you are receiving.
Gardening is one of the best ways to be conscious of the food you eat, because you were a part of its creation. Even if you don’t have the ability to keep a full garden, try growing herbs or tomatoes inside. Feel the soil with your hands and think about your life force moving into the things you grow. Just the act of creating life reminds one of its values. Also, as you shop, give thanks for the produce you put in your cart. Choose things that are ripe, vibrant, and beautiful. Fill the food with light as you choose each item.
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]]>0Nick Grimshawehttp://beautifulsummermorning.com<![CDATA[This is Your Song: Sunday Inspirational Video # 190]]>http://beautifulsummermorning.com/?p=74972012-01-08T05:07:38Z2012-01-08T05:07:38ZWe’re back after Christmas Break with a powerful inspiring song.
What makes a song inspirational? Do you know? What qualities should an inspirational video have. I’d love to hear your thoughts about this below. Maybe your comments will inspire my search to bring you those heart stopping, eye tearing videos, that up lift and stir your emotions…that make you feel in ways that perhaps you are a little afraid of feeling.
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In this video the passion is powerful. Emotion is clear in every word every look, every gesture. The theme wrenches at the heart. It is a universal song about the power of a loved one to help shape our lives. Ronan Keating expresses something soul stirring that resides in us all.
Ronan wrote the song for his mother, and for himself to deal with her passing. While there is sadness…the sorrow of losing a loved one, a mentor and a guide, there is also the joy of the human experience, the joy in the opportunity to share part of the way…to be together to share part of our journey with another traveler.
We are all bless, if we really look into our hearts with those special people that found away deep into the creaky recess of your soul.
And you know that one day we will all sing along.
Put on your headset, sit back, allow all the emotion and passion to flow through you. Don’t fight it…don’t try to push the emotion away…absorb it, embrace it…for there is healing here…a release…a lovely memory.
This song is a treasure for you to hold. Play it through a few times, just like I did before I decided this was the right song to kick off the New Year…a memory and a going forward, passion and emotions stirred.
Be sure to share this precious Sunday with Family and Friends and walk with them in quiet places.
]]>8Nick Grimshawehttp://beautifulsummermorning.com<![CDATA[Three Mistakes to Avoid When Creating Your New Year in 2012]]>http://beautifulsummermorning.com/?p=74632012-01-06T17:16:59Z2012-01-06T17:16:59ZWhat would you like to attract in this new year? Visualizing clearly what you want to bring into your life this year is the first step in any goal setting process. Once you clearly and consciously create the images of your coming year then you can focus in on the action steps you will take to bring that visualization into a manifested reality.
I want to set this all up with a quote and then talk about three things to avoid when created your new year for 2012.
Are you asking for what you really want, or are you asking for the means of getting what you want?
The quote obviously points to the first thing to avoid when you begin the visualization process. If you are focused on the “how” to achieve your visualization, you focus on the wrong thing. The “how” is the job of source energy. Your job is to create the most compelling image you can of what you want to create in 2012. Now that could be your dream home, your dream holiday, your dream date, your dream relationship, your dream lifestyle. My recommendation is to create a list of ten things ( you can tell I like the number ten) you would like to attract into your life this year. You can create categories into which you place those dreams. For instance, you can break your list into personal, health, spiritual, material, relationships, family, travel. You can create one or two visualization to go into each area…or maybe you have ten dream holidays you would like to attract into your life in 2012. Go for it.
The second thing to avoid when creating your list is working from an all ready painted canvas that is your current life. This is a very limited way of operating and creating. So when you sit down to work on the ten things you would like to attract into your life in 2012, work from a blank canvas. Don’t do something like this (as a visualization exercise) “If I sell off my current house I could step up toward my dream house by going up market one or two steps. I could get a house on the more upscale east side with larger bedrooms, and a bigger backyard.” Now that sound entirely possible, its something you could manifest…but it isn’t what you really want.
As an example: my dream home would be located in a warm tropical environment, on a beach front ocean view were I can step out of my house across the lawn and onto the sandy beach. That’s just the start of course. I’ve visualized how my bedroom would look, from the king-size bed, the color of the bed linen, to the wall decor to the meditation space on the deck just outside the siding doors of my bedroom that face the ocean view. The floors are hardwood cherry. There is a reading nook again facing out to the surf. Detail, detail detail. When you visualize write it down and ask yourself questions like….what colors do I see, what is the feel of the linen sheets, what is the scent of the sea breeze that caresses the bedroom. What do you see from various location in the bedroom. What sort of furniture do you want. Use the senses, sight, sound, touch, smell, taste if appropriate: such as the fresh taste of the tree ripen oranges that grow in your back garden. Have fun with this. How does it make me FEEL! The more detailed, the better. Create a vision board of each room. Be creative. The more fun and delight you take in the process the less likely you are to resist your creation.
When I was creating the visual for my ideal home I went online and looked at real-estate in Hawaii. I did a Google search for beach side homes. I looked at houses in the 5 to 12 million dollar range. Many of those sites had video tours through the homes and gardens, which gave me a lot of material to work into my visualization. I was surprised by the number of multi-million dollar homes I really didn’t like, but that helped me really focus in on the elements I wanted in my dream home
The third thing to avoid is resisting the resistance.
Obviously when you start the process of visualization, depending on where you are personally, resistance to what you are doing is going to arise. Again when I was surfing through those homes in Hawaii, I kept asking myself how I was going to come up with the money (see what to avoid #1). Then I would go oh no! I can’t think like that, I have to be open to the possibility. What that does is just create more resistance. The best thing to do is just acknowledge your resistance, and then keep going. My suggestion…and again you might not want to be doing this in the middle of a crowded food court, because the men in the white suits might show up for you…is to point to the resistance. Take your finger and point toward the imaginary location of that resistance and say something like.” Okay…I understand…that’s my created resistance…I see you…thank you.” And then just go right back to creating and visualizing.
If you try not to resist, it is the same as trying not to think of a pink elephant. Opps…pink elephant.
Don’t worry about a timetable. Seriously. Your Ego demands results now, but impatience really causes you nothing but trouble and will keep you exactly where you are now. The Ego wants to stay in control. Things will come to you at the perfect time, to the extant that you allow them to.
Source: Bob Doyle
So while we are talking about what you want to attract into your life in 2012…don’t get hung up on it having to happen in 2012. The idea of creating the list for 2012 is to get you thinking, visualizing, and manifesting your vision of your life….which is all ready in existence in the universe, you’ve created it in your mind.
Practice, preferably daily…visualizing the things on your list, leads you to the manifestation of your every dream.
Here is a PDF download to help you with the process. I would keep this sheet in the front of your 3X10 exercise book.
]]>5Nick Grimshawehttp://beautifulsummermorning.com<![CDATA[Happy New Year 2012]]>http://beautifulsummermorning.com/?p=74512012-01-01T00:36:09Z2012-01-01T00:21:56Z
Soon the celebrations start. All across this great big wonderful world people will be out celebrating the turning of the year. I hope you get a chance to join in the festivities with family and friends.
This won’t be a long email. I don’t want to keep you away from the joys of this season.
I wish you a New Year filled with your dreams, your desires, even those secret of secret ones, deep down inside.
It’s time to create your plan for the new year, to plan a direction, to write down your goals and ambitions. I’m including here, two downloads to help you do the planning.
The first one is a simple planning worksheet for you to use to write out your goals, and describe the first action you will take to accomplish that goal. First actions, at those that begin the process, it might be as simple of making a phone call to register for a class, or it might entail some more detailed research. What every that first action is…it is the most important action because it starts you moving in the direction of your goal.
Another important part of planning for the new year is finding ways to do things differently. By doing something differently you break in grained habits that are no longer serving you, freeing you to find the change within, to create the real you without.
Here is a work sheet you can use to write down what you want to do differently in 2012.
Those two planners will get you started. The next most important tools is visualization. Visualize yourself as having already achieved your goals, or imagine yourself as all readying living your dream.
And finally: consistency. Consistency is the day to day steps that bring you ever closer to realizing what is all ready inside of you but yet manifested.
All the very best in the New Year.
I hope we can continue to walk this path together.
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