Saturday, September 15, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
Activate Abundance! Blogapalooza 2012 – Guest Post: “Abundance is Easy” by Lisa Marie Selow
I am excited to share this wonderful article on abundance by my fabulous friend Lisa Marie Selow – an absolutely rockin’ life coach, among other things, as well as the Hay House author of the book A Rebel Chick Mystic’s Guide - more info below. Enjoy!
Abundance is such a beautiful word. It conjures up images of a cornucopia, the stereotypical symbol of the American Thanksgiving holiday. My inner child likes to type it up as “a-bun-dance,” to suggest the fun of shaking your booty on the dance floor.
I’ve benefited from many teachings about the law of attraction in books, lectures, podcasts, and in other forms of media. I’ve become more positive, including more expectant of good stuff flowing into my life.
After years of doing affirmations, visualizing, and working to manifest my desires, I’ve learned some important things that I’ll share below:
1) If you desire something, help others to get it too.
Let’s say you need to find a job. You hit the pavement going to job interviews and sending out resumes, but nothing seems to work. Keep on working at it, but in your spare time, you can help someone else you know with their own job search. If you desire better health, contribute to the good health of others by sharing recipes, web links, or books. If you want to be in a romantic relationship, help others to get one. By helping others, you plant positive seeds. Of course, you don’t do things for others with the thoughts that it’s to help you. You just do it because you care and desire to be of service. I find that this practice is simple and fun, a bit like being Santa Claus to others, but year round.
2) Detachment works well.
I have found that if I effort or try to create something, especially according to my timing, it takes so much longer. Abundance is about being in the flow. It is everywhere if you pay attention and it’s always coming to you. You just have to receive. If you try to control how, where and when things will show up, it tends to block the flow. Sometimes, too, the Universe has a much better plan for you. So, yes, do your thing and work towards your goals and dreams. Don’t push so much. See where things take you. Be open that it might turn out differently. Plant more loving seeds for the future by being of service to others, especially if you get anxious, bored, stressed, depressed, or worried when things take longer.
3) Be happy and have fun.
The goal of my own spiritual practice is to be happy. When you’re happy and having fun, everything seems to flow better, including career, relationships, finances, life purpose, and health. The vibration of love is the strongest in the universe. You attract who you are, besides what you desire. If you show up loving in life, you naturally attract the good stuff that you desire. This feels good to me personally and it’s a huge relief. I don’t have to make my umpteenth vision board, or visualize until my brain hurts. I can just trust that what I desire will show up.
Bio: Lisa Marie Selow has a life mission of liberating as many people as possible. She is a rocker chick, life coach, motivational speaker, modern mystic, and women’s empowerment expert. Her specialty is helping you to get out of your comfort zone and gain courage to live your best life possible. She is the Hay House author of the book A Rebel Chick Mystic’s Guide, a self-help book for brave, misfit women (or those who desire to be), which helps the reader write her own guide for living life on her terms. Lisa has been involved in the healing arts since 1998 in various roles such as massage therapist, energy worker, intuitive consultant, and most recently, as a life coach. She has studied both formally and informally with many top spiritual and personal development teachers for more than 20 years. Lisa lives in Detroit, Michigan with her husband JT, a few electric guitars and some very friendly outdoor squirrels. You can find out more about Lisa at her website: http://lisaselow.com/
Thursday, September 6, 2012
You Create Your Life!
“By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life.”
~ Gary Zukav - from “Seat Of The Soul” ~
You create your life by what you focus on consistently.
So the question is, how are you creating your life? Are you focusing on awesomeness and success, abundance, happiness, health and joy?
If this is what you focus on all day, your results are likely stunning!
You at least are truly going in the direction of your dreams, leaving the old patterns behind.
Good for you!
Or, are you focusing on what is not working, what is making you frustrated, people that bother you, and situations that are not up to par? Are you wishing that things could get better, that you want them to be different, and that the way they are is not up to your standards? Do you focus on the frustration you constantly feel because you are not seeing the changes you long for?
If this is you, it’s OK! Don’t panic! We’ve all been there at some point, and it is totally fine. It is because we were never taught to think differently – and we were never taught the truth – that we actually create our lives with the thoughts we think and the actions we take consistently!
Now that you know this, you CAN do things differently. I KNOW you can do it! If I can train my chattering Gemini-mind to calm down long enough to turn things around, anyone can.
When I catch myself going into that broken record syndrome, where thoughts and worries play over and over again, I stop, take a breath, and tell myself the truth: That I am in control of my own thoughts, and I am the only one responsible for my life, how it is going currently, and how I want it to change. So, if it is change I am looking for, I know that I first must change my thoughts and align them with how I want to feel, what I desire, and how I want to create my happy life moving forward.
Every day is new – and so are you! You can decide to stop being stuck in the old and break out of the patterns that aren’t working in order to create your whole new happy life!
Let me know how this goes – I’d love to hear!
To Your Abundance,
Astra Spider – Shaman, Success Mentor, Abundance Specialist
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Activate Abundance! Blogapalooza 2012: You Can Live Your Abundant Dream Life – Daily Practices
I believe in getting the job done, so I will get right to the point! To live your abundant dream life, filled with love, money and joy (or whatever makes you happy!) you must practice the following daily:
Be who you are
Embrace your truth
Be grateful for all that is
Let go of judgment
Remain grounded in the present
1) Be who you are. What do you like? What do you love? What makes you happy? What stirs your passion? Pay no attention to what anyone else thinks you should be doing, feeling, or focusing on - the spark for igniting your abundant dream life comes from within YOU, and from within you this spark will grow, bloom and shine as the starflower it is. YOUR starflower.
2) Embrace your truth. Why are you here? Those painful lessons you have gone through in your life – love them. You have learned from them. You wouldn’t know what you know now without them! Love your yin and your yang. Your shadow and your light. Without both you would not be humanly whole.
3) Be grateful for all that is. ALL that is. All you have, all you see, all you taste, touch, sense. Experience it. Learn from it. Revel in its fascinating vibration. All is here for your learning delight. Even challenges. Challenges are your teachers. As is beauty. As is love.
4) Let go of judgement. An astounding quote I read recently: “Where there is no judgment, there is nothing to forgive.” One of the 9 keys in opening to your abundance is: “Do not judge.” Judging takes away energy that is needed to breathe abundance into your dreams. Judging the self or others breeds resentments. Let go….you will feel better!
5) Remain grounded in the present. As the beautiful Louise Hay puts it: “The past is over.” Holding on to the past or worrying about the future takes us out of the present, out of our bodies, and keeps us floating in a state of nothingness – a plane of non-creation. Be present!
Right now, this is the life you’ve got, in the body you chose, on this lovely planet we call home. You can choose today how you want to live it.
Why not make this your most amazing abundant dream life – Starting now?
On your marks, get set….GO!
To Your Abundance!
Astra Spider
Shaman, Success Mentor, Abundance Specialist
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NEW COURSE: Awake and Abundant! Intro to Vibrational Healing with Astra Spider
AWAKE AND ABUNDANT!
Intro to Vibrational Healing
With Astra Spider – Shaman, Success Mentor and Abundance Specialist
Awaken your senses, magnetize your abundance, empower your inner healer and open to your joy with this magical course on vibrational healing!
Vibrational Healing is healing on the energetic level and deals with the vibration of energy within and around you.
You can change your life by understanding energy and knowing how to work with it to change your vibration.
This course includes 4 one-on-one class sessions with Astra, and can be done in-person or long distance (by phone or Skype). Classes are 1 hour each and take place once a week over the course of a month, at a time agreed upon by student and teacher.
Weekly assignments are provided via email.
Class One: Energy, Chakras and Auras
Class Two: Intuitive Senses and the “Clairs” – Clairvoyance, Clairsentience, Clairaudience, Clairoratory, Clairolfactory (aka Clairalience), Clairgustatory and Clairtangency. And, of course, Omniscience.
Class Three: Flower Essences and Gemstones as Vibrational Healing Tools
Class Four: Energy Work
Class Two: Intuitive Senses and the “Clairs” – Clairvoyance, Clairsentience, Clairaudience, Clairoratory, Clairolfactory (aka Clairalience), Clairgustatory and Clairtangency. And, of course, Omniscience.
Class Three: Flower Essences and Gemstones as Vibrational Healing Tools
Class Four: Energy Work
Course Fee for Awake and Abundant! Intro to Vibrational Healing:
$222. Includes the 4 class sessions, course reading materials and weekly assignments.
$222. Includes the 4 class sessions, course reading materials and weekly assignments.
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