Energy Update “Recognizing the negative voice”

How do we crack the code of the negative voice in our mind? We start listening for it, once we recognize it we can learn how to tune it out and allow our positive mind to speak over the other. Being present is the key. Being present is when you have a thought and your negative voice chides you, stop the thinking. I visualize a white screen. Then I stay there and if the negative thoughts come in I see them but do not let them influence me. I let them float out, just as they floated in. Now if you find yourself running in circles in life. This is time to apply another tool. STOP, tune in and see what is the most opposite thing to do. If you have a deadline for something and you are feeling hungry and tired. To stop the intensity of the voice you’d be better to eat a little something and take a nap, then to keep pushing to meet your deadline. What are you really doing? You are coming back to presence. See the negative mind is at the ready to overthrow you. Your job is to recognize it, release it or act on the opposite. Naps, walks and watching a movie are my favorite ways to stop this voice. The more we release these thoughts with neutrality, the more we stop them. I practiced this for a week. This is a big lesson for me…and had two days of shear bliss in my power. Then I let the negative mind over throw me. I could see it in action but feigned interest in working with it to stop it and voila, there I am back at the negative mind running my show. I personally have let this voice of ego run the show at points in my life, especially lately. Ouch, it hurts. What I can tell you about this is when you know you’ve achieved presence you won’t care to tell others about it or make promises to others how you will be more or can do that extra thing. You will be quiet within yourself, know you are enough and worthy. This is the sign of an open heart, because it is discerning life, in place of trying. So at each moment you feel a negative message come in, release it, it is not divine. Divine messages are only positive ones. If you struggle with this voice, tell yourself 10 times a day, “I love myself and all of my cells in my body too.” “I am enough” Rejoice in your inner world that becomes when you stop beating yourself up and start working with the voice inside. Once you gain solid grounding with this, keep up the new voice of self-love so your natural power will be fully alive!

Energy Update, Self Judgment, working with our inner voice

“Self Judgment, working with our inner voice” I am reading a book called, “There is nothing wrong with you” by Cheri Huber. She teaches us how to stop the inner negative voice, which can make you feel low about and second-guess yourself. If we’re insecure we may look for validation outside of ourselves. We need and deserve to create an inner voice that loves and supports us so we can get this from us first, then what others say will mean way more to us. If we do this we achieve flow and peace. Things like manifestation become simple because we are already in our flow. How do we achieve it? By being in the present moment. See, when we look to the future or into the past, we cannot be in the oneness and we are then in our ego. Our egocentric modality takes over and creates who we are in place of being present and allowing us to truly be us, magnificent beings! If we operate moment to moment we can work with our ever- changing feelings but if we hold rigidly to being something for somebody else or “try”, we are in our ego. This is especially a grand trap for women. “If I just do this one more chore, I’ll have more time tomorrow.” That extra time never happens. Why? Because we are focused on future and pushing ourselves to do something maybe we don’t want to do. We also are justifying it, “If I, then “X”. If we tune in at that moment and ask what we want, we may see we have the energy to do the extra chore. With no judgment or resentment included, the task is simple for us and the next day we do find we have more time. If we tune in and the message is sit, go to bed, read a book or other? We need to follow the resting otherwise we are in the negative voice trap. Next week the article will be on how to stop the negative voice.

Energy Update "Recognizing when you are giving your power away"

“Recognizing when you’re giving you power away” If we operate from beliefs where we can’t see how they sabotage us, what are we supposed to do? Here’s a story that may help you see where these patterns are and change them. My husband and I have purchased two new cars in our life. The other cars have been used. When purchasing used cars we’ve had exceptional people to deal with for the sale. Truly! Kind, relaxed about the process and we felt heard. So what happened the two times we went to buy new cars? We gave our power away. We must carry a belief about getting service when making a big purchase because I can see it written all over MANY big ticket transactions we’ve made together. Windows, getting the house painted and others! However, I’ve especially sat with discomfort over the car purchases. One scenario we’d given somebody an opportunity to match the price to give them the sale on a car at a competing dealership. They agreed but when we went out of our way to pick the car up, they told us how this is a bad deal for them and they were sour with us. I just took it and didn’t say a thing. But now I see I needed to stand up and say, “Well, sounds like you didn’t want our sale after all. We’ve made special arrangements and come some distance to work with you, so now we’ll be going because we don’t do business this way.” This is challenging for me even reading this because I don’t want to hurt anybody but how we were treated WAS inappropriate. We offered the option for this person to match the price or miss the sale. When they made that choice to take the sale they needed to feel good about it. Not guilt us. The second time we went in excited but unsure of what we fully wanted. We drove some cars, looked around and finally decided. The color we wanted was at another dealership. When it came in it looked wrong to us both. A used car salesman was standing around and said, “Don’t every buy a car if you don’t like the color. You will regret it!” He then went on to tell us a story about how his dad did just this once and it illustrated the point nicely. However, our salesperson sighed with his hands on his hips like we were really putting him out by asking to order a different car. We are making a HUGE purchase (to us). I’ve often thought about these scenarios and at some point I figured it out because I sent a plumbing company away when they weren’t giving what they promised. They told me how inconvenient this was and I told them if they want my business they better send somebody who can plumb copper! I finally convinced the woman who had come with the plumber from their office to leave and send the other guy another day. Something was up anyway, why’d she come with this plumber??? In the end I feel she lied to me. She told me the other plumber we wanted was at a funeral. When he did come to do the work I said, “I’m sorry for your loss and he ducked his head and moved by me fast and without a word. However, what dawned on me the other day was…..and maybe none of you have these problems…..but what I realized is these left me ruminating for years. Wondering what I’d done wrong to make these people be mean to us or treat us poorly. That’s when it hit me. If you are ruminating about anything, you are stuck on some belief. If you can address what you are bringing back up in the way of thoughts and replaying the story of hurt, you can address, in time, the root cause. So go out there and fire plumbers, ask for another car…use your power and trust your heart’s desire!

Energy Update "Talons Locked"

Energy Update “Talons Locked” Image title "First in Flight" Some 6 years ago I was at the Wabasha Eagle Center with my family. As my son and daughter watched the handlers with these huge birds, they warned that next they would feed a rat to the birds and if anyone wanted to move closer now would be a good time. My son, 4 at the time nudged me. We went up and with him on my lap watched and listened to the bird crack that animal apart right before us. My son was quiet and big eyed, then he leaned back into me a bit and said, “That is BEAUTIFUL and DISGUSTING, but BEAUTIFUL.” The reason I share this is I’ll never forgot that day because of what he said. Something else that was shared that day was that Bald Eagles mate for life. When they are selecting a mate they do tricky flying maneuvers to interest the other. Then when both Eagles decide they are “the one” they both fly up very high in the sky, lock talons and free fall. If they make it to the ground, are able to separate and fly back to meet each other, in the world of Bald Eagles, they are married! The reason we were told they do this is to identify who is a viable mate to “match” them. There were some facts pointing toward, if they do this and fail, they likely wouldn’t be able to reproduce together. WOW, maybe we need humans to lock talons before...... So about 2 years ago I set an intention to see this happen in nature and for it to act as a sign for me. So in the middle of some tricky challenges in my life, I am driving to some support two hours away from my home, two times in a week. I am driving back from my second trip and you guessed it! I saw three Bald Eagles flying about when two of them lock talons, free fall and land behind some trees. The spinning birds looked like a sculpture falling from the sky. I couldn’t believe it. I reached to turn off the radio in the car and just watch. When they landed the third bird flew down to them and then away quickly. I am guessing that was a male who was making sure it was a match. Too bad for him it was, now he’s going to have to get back on “EagleMate.com” This is really a rare chance, especially at this time of year because mating normally takes place in January & February. This year maybe due to the cold, snowy and very long winter the birds are mating later? Or perhaps they court a year, build that HUGE nest and get ready for the following mating season. My intention for this article is a reminder to tell you to ASK for what you want! ASK! ASK! ASK! If you'd like to learn more about the Law of Attraction, check out the work of Esther and Jerry Hicks. You can find them on Hay House.

Energy Update "Being in Our Truth"

"Being in Our Truth" What does being in our truth look like? It is accepting who we are fully, that we make mistakes and still love ourselves and that we see ourselves as magnificent and divine beings, no matter what. Ways to achieve this: framing life struggles with perspective, allowing our soul to speak and create upon its goals, needs and desires. These are the things that make magic for the human. Also, being able to find a center, peace among chaos or distress. These are the signs of purpose and truth. Wow, that all sounds noble! However, the real thing about truth, and this is what makes it so difficult, is it is about us being us. We are going to say, do and experience things which create discomfort. Truth comes in when none of that matters (compassion). When we accept ourselves as whole, no projecting on others, just allowing them to be them and us to be us. We don't want to change people but instead love them and allow them to be them. We might choose to hold boundaries to keep us in our truth. Choosing expectancy over expectations and responsiveness over responsibility will help in relationships because these qualities are naturally related to discernment (knowing) over judgement (facts evaluated by the mind). People will feel vulnerability and acceptance if you approach life expectant & responsive and that is sure to create great relationships, fill you up and support your inner peace!

Energy Update "Self Nurture"

“Self Nurture” This theme is part of the trinity of self-acceptance and self-forgiveness. This is the place where self-love arrives. What I am finding at its root, in my own journey, is self-nurture may be foreign to most of us. You might be saying in your head, I go get massages and attend yoga classes. While this can be a form of self-nurture, I want to focus on a smaller facet of this concept. When we are feeling low and need boosting up most of us look outside of ourselves. It is ok to get support in this process of nurturing, however if you want to find self-nurture, you’ll avoid your friends and the Internet and explore soothing your fears on your own. To be honest, I didn’t know what self-nurture was until a few days ago. It is about staying with the pain, the feelings. Just being with them. This is what a mother would do to nurture her child, be with them so they know they are supported. The mother can’t really take the feelings away but give perspective to ease the child. We can look to ourselves to go in and find perspective among the bits we’ve disowned or forgotten. Go through the feelings to go out. In place of flailing at solutions, ask yourself, “What feels right? What clarity do I need to achieve my desired results? How do I ask for these needs to be met? Then we need to release resistance to allow what we want to flow to us, give the fear over to the angels, guides, or source. You can also talk to yourself. Who wrote an article and encouraged people to talk to themselves? Ok, me. Have a dialog with your inner and outer you. See what, can be gained by placing your hand over your heart and talking to the fear. Touch your arm like a mother would to support yourself. Be your best advocate, wrestle through it but what you are doing is huge! You are fully accepting you and this is a key to peace.

Energy Update "Looking for Joy"

Now that we have all successfully have surrounded ourselves with people who view the world from “What is” What’s next? We can focus our attention on seeing the joy in life! I was on an airplane, which had just landed as I actualized my next request from the Universe. I asked to see all of the joy around me. As the plane stopped, people shot up to grab bags and claim their space on the aisle to exit. A father, mother and child rode in the row ahead me. The dad stood up to get their bag and when he turned around to face his row, his little daughter reached her arms up. He set the bag down and brought the child into his arms, she immediately snuggled her head on the father’s shoulder and neck. Contentment and love! That is what I saw. However, what brought me even more joy was the couple in the aisle in front of this father. As all of this was happening, the couple in front of them was watching this dad and child too. This couple was likely ready to start a family of their own. The hope in the woman’s eyes for love of this kind, for her spouse and herself, wanting to be needed, wanting to be able with one small gesture to calm her own child......this yearning oozed from her giant smile. Seeing her brought me great joy. To remember back to when I too could be this for my own children or even for another person. This is a great example of Zero Point Manifestation. We can ask and receive immediately. I left the plane and started this leg of my journey seeing joy all over the place! Somebody outside the plane helped another by taking their hand because their elderly legs weren’t the same as his younger ones. Did I impact this quantum field of ours by requesting to see joy and asking to open the hearts of myself and others? Or was my attention only drawn to what was already always there? Tune your focus to joy. The contrast of this is lack. We deserve to live in "What is" (abundance & expansion) and if we are really committing to this we will ask to see joy, happiness and love in abundance around us and for us!