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Happy Spirit Day!

July 12th, 2009

Clouds I really love Sundays.
Not the ice cream treat, the day of the week. Well… the ice cream treat too… but this post is about the day of the week!

I grew up going to Sunday School every week so it wasn’t that far of a stretch for me to begin my own Spiritual practices on Sundays. I feel that it’s important for my personal and Spiritual growth to have a day of the week in which those things are my main focus.

That doesn’t mean my life stops and I sit in my bedroom with the curtains drawn and light candles and meditate all zen like for the day. Any parent alive knows it can be difficult to find five MINUTES in which to do that, let alone a whole day.

I DO try to spend time in nature if at all possible. For instance, today I’ll go out and weed in my garden. I always feel so “at one” with everything in the Universe when I sit in nature. One of my favorite things in the WORLD to do is to weed around and tend to my plants while mentally communicating extremely loving and grateful thoughts to them.

I know loads of people talk to their plants and I’ve always thought that was really cool. I mean, plants are alive. Why Flower Garden wouldn’t caring affection affect them as it does any other living thing? Then it just struck me one day. Gardening is a very meditative task already. If I talk to my plants and fill myself and them with words of love and gratitude while in that meditative state, it’d be like Spiritual Miracle Grow! And it is. That’s why I do it. It makes me feel fantastic!

I try not to plan things on Sundays. I try not to go places on Sunday. Even if we’re all in separate corners of the property, my family spends the day together. We’re very close knit. I want to know my husband and children and I want them to know me.

I don’t want to wake up one day to find that one of them isn’t who I thought they were. I want to reinvent them regularly in my mind and learn from them and see their growth. They are new people every day. I want to ensure that I always have Sundays in which to meet the new them they’ve become in the past 7 days. They’ve grown and so have I. Sharing that growth is what unites us as a family.

I believe that when you dedicate a portion of your time regularly to being in love and Spirit, that same energy you send out some back to you in manifest form. So you want to add your energy and focus it. If you can’t do it for an entire day, start with just 10 minutes a week. Spend just 10 minutes a week focused on sending love and feeling love and the warm vibrant energy of the Universe.

The Universe is going to send into your life whatever you ask it for. Why not ask it, in a purposeful way, to send back loving energy?

I hope you’re all finding the growth you seek on this beautiful Sunday morning!
∞

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Manifestation, Meditation

Experiments in Thought

July 12th, 2009

lightbulb I had this idea yesterday, so I went to my lovely friend Ash and pitched it to her. She was immediately on board and excited. Here’s what we decided to do…

I’ve been thinking about the Law of Attraction and gratitude and visualization lately. I think the best way to show your gratitude for money is to, of course, BE grateful… but also to give it away. What you give comes back to you, right? And by giving, you show abundance, right?

Well… Ash and I decided that we’re going to do a thought experiment. Not an “experiment” in the sense that “We’ll see if this works” but more of an experiment like “We’ll see how fantastically well this works!” The funny thing is, it started working for both of us almost immediately (Big Hellos to that wonderful Alpha reflection!).

Every day, first thing in the morning and last thing at night, I’m going to imagine a scenario in which I am giving Ash a boat load of money. I have FAR too much and you could use this, so here… please take it…for the kids… for a business… for whatever you want!

She, in return, will imagine the same things in her own unique way and that will add her own creative energy to her visualizations.

I figure, there’s no one else in the world I’d rather shovel oodles of money at and it takes away the random chaos of imagining a charity or kids or whatever. I’m imagining a real person, whom I know, whom I genuinely wish all the riches in the Universe to. The mere thought of giving a load of money to her made me grin from ear to ear so I knew from the moment I conceived the idea, that it would work.

Well, it IS working!! We both got nearly identical alpha reflections last night before we went to bed!!

Money

I love the term “Alpha Reflection.” I got it from Steve Pavlina. When you set an intention to do something or be something or have something, you send your thought vibrations out into the Universe. The Universe then reflects back to you, in some small way, a piece of your intention or a synchronicity that’s intended to let you know that your order was received and it is good and it is now cooking in the Universal cauldron and will be complete ASAP.

Once you see your alpha reflection, you know you’re on the right track and all you must do is stay in alignment, vibrationally, to what you intended.

This morning when I got up, I found an excited email from Ash informing me that last night, she actually received a $10 bill in the mail. Not a bill for $10… a TEN DOLLAR BILL! Well, I immediately replied to tell her about the $10 I also got!!

One of you wonderful people ordered something through my “Hourglass Angel” link and I got to earn a small commission from it. THANK YOU, whoever you are!!! I really DO, so very deeply, appreciate your purchase. Every purchase or click made helps me add income to my household which, as a stay-at-home mom, is a pretty big deal :) So again… my sincerest gratitude to you, whoever you are.

There’s one other thing I was thinking about last night. See, my original idea was to visualize giving money to each other to express gratitude for the money we already HAVE in an effort to attract MORE, but I think I’ve found a better fitting angle. Well, better fitting in the sense that, this new and slightly different perspective makes me feel more powerful and in alignment than my original idea.

I decided last night that, instead of even THINKING about attracting anything to myself with my visualizations, I’m only going to focus on manifesting for Ash. Now, I know… you can’t vibrate or manifest for someone else. But see, I believe you can. I believe all personal vibrations have an outer perimeter of sorts and that outer perimeter makes contact with the vibrations of whatever is near it, thereby affecting it’s vibration also. In this way, you can have an effect on countless things because…. everything is energy and everything is connected.

SO… I am NOT trying to attract money.

My intention is to send abundant vibes to my very good friend Ash and to assist her in manifesting an abundance of money using my creative energies to serve her and her best interests. I don’t even need anything in return. I mean, seriously… how TOTALLY FREAKING FANTASTIC will it be for me to sit here and watch someone I love rake in an abundance of money that I helped her create by doing nothing but SEEING it with my imagination?! I’ll tell you how totally freaking fantastic it will be…. WAY TOTALLY FREAKING FANTASTIC!

So that’s our thought experiment. I will most assuredly keep you posted on what becomes of this little experiment and just how much Ash is rolling in the dough! If you feel so inclined, send her some abundant and prosperous vibes of your own! She totally deserves them!

Also, please go check out her new website. Brace yourself! Here comes the shameless plug!!
Ash can be found at Into the Rabbit Hole and most recently at her BRAND NEW and TOTALLY bitchin’ site, “Shine!”

Happy Spirit Day ∞