Tuesday

2014 Meditation - Creating with your Inner Wise Self

 In support your life's vision for 2014, I am sharing the meditation Pierrette Raymond and I recorded for her More than Just Business Community.

You are about to take a journey into your future - the future where you are living your 'best self' life. This is the future life that comes to be as a result of listening to and following through with the advice of your inner wise self. During this meditation you will connect with your inner wise self and gain insight and inspiration to support your aims for the coming year. Everyone will experience this meditation uniquely - there is no right or wrong way to experience it. If you don't receive any specific guidance or insight while listening to the meditation, if it come in bit foggy or if you fall asleep... not to worry. Both you and your inner wise self will have experienced the energy of your future and over the coming days the insights will continue dropping in and synchronicity will continue working it's magic. And you can always come back and experience the journey again!  Also included is a worksheet to use along with the mediation for note taking, so please print it up before you start so you'll have t he questions handy.  Enjoy!!

https://conscious-creation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2014-Best-You-Meditation.mp3

Your Best Wise Self Advice for 2014 Worksheet

Thank you to Roger Ellerton for the lovely background music titled Sailing.

The Illusion of Attraction - Part Two

 Back in January I wrote Part One of The Illusion of Attraction. In it I shared how the idea that we are solely responsible for creating our reality is an illusion and how impossible it would be for us to do so. Using David Copperfield’s act as a Master Illusionist, I compared how all that is involved in making his illusions appear real, to all that is involved in our own creations appearing like we make them happen.  While we do influence our reality with our thoughts, no one person makes things happen on their own. We are co-creators with every other influencing factor that contributes to reality.  The good news is that we can all cut ourselves some slack and not live in fear that every negative thought is going manifest.  I’m sure you have daily experiences of how that isn’t how it works, yet if you listen to some of Rhonda Byrne’s teachers from “The Secret” they would have you monitoring every thought. Try it – I did and just about drove myself nuts.

So what can we do, to have greater influence over our lives? Develop your intuition! 

Your intuition is the key in identifying the best strategies to put in place, to have the most favorable possible influence over the co-creation of your reality. Tuning into and interpreting your own vibe and the energy around you enables you to acknowledge the impact of your personal influence in any moment. Let your intuition inform you of the attitude or thoughts that need to shift to bring your whole self into alignment with what you are wanting.  When you are clear with what you want, your intuition will guide you to it.

Recently my honey and I were buying a new car. We made a list of “must haves” as well as the “would be nice to haves” allowing our inner feelings to guided us. With some research we narrowed our search to four models of cars. Following my intuition, a call to my mechanic brought it down to two. Then one night we went to a dealership and there is was, the first car we were shown had everything on the list down to the previous owners having been mature folks who had taken good care of it and had loaded it up with all of our “would be nice to haves”.  Did we manifest this car?  As fun as it is to think so… no we did not.  We knew what we wanted, what was important and our intuition lead us to where the car we wanted already existed.

For many of us, our intuition is leading us much more than we realize. I’ve met lots of people who were very intuitively directed, but when asked didn’t think so due to a preconceived idea of what intuition is – crystal balls and tarot cards. Not everyone recognizes their natural insightfulness as intuition, but it is and the more it’s developed, the better influence one can have on the co-creation of not only our own reality, but the collective reality as well. Developing our intuition empowers us to tune in and make more informed decisions for ourselves and be in the flow more often.

 

Sunday

The Illusion of Attraction - Part ONE


I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard people ask, “Why didn’t it work? I did everything I was suppose to; I made myself think positively, envisioned the outcome I wanted, put it on my vision board, held the right emotions… I did everything the Law of Attraction told me to do. Why didn’t it work?” Next they start trying to figure out what they did wrong. Was it because they said “I need…” instead of “I want…” – yes that must be it!  Really??

 I’ve had a love/hate relationship with the Law of Attraction ever since it was popularized by Rhonda Byrne’s movie “The Secret” in 2006.  While many of the ideas shared fit my own of how we can more consciously create our lives, there was always something in how it was being portrayed in the movie that didn’t completely resonate with me.  Recently it hit me, what if the missing puzzle piece is that there isn’t anything actually missing – maybe it’s the idea of the “Law of Attraction” that’s flawed. Yes, our thoughts, feelings and beliefs contribute greatly to our outcomes – but the idea that we are solely responsible for creating our realities is not a Law, but an Illusion!

Perhaps you’ve heard of the master illusionist David Copperfield? His genius is to create illusions, visual manifestations that appear real.  A few years ago I got to attend two of his performances in the same evening. The show includes his famous “Portal Illusion”, which can be viewed online on You Tube, where he appears to teleport himself and a woman from the audience to a beach in Hawaii.  Together they suddenly disappear and within seconds a livestream video shows the two of them suddenly appearing on a beach in Hawaii. To make the illusion more believable, before leaving Ottawa they ‘randomly’ pick a number of audience members to help create a picture to bring with them on their journey. In awe, the audience gasps in unison as the woman who now appears to be on a beach thousands of miles away, pulls the picture out from her pocket. Everyone is amazed and I hear a couple behind me asking each other – “Was that for real?” David leaves the woman on the beach and reappears in the Ottawa audience, just a few seats away from me.

 “The Secret” has served as a catalyst for thousands of people, awakening them from the illusion of being mere victims of their circumstances, to considering the possibility that their thoughts, feelings and beliefs alone, are responsible for creating what happens to them.  They started taking control and as a result became more aware of how their thoughts and feelings were affecting what they are attracting.   David Copperfield can make a car appear out of thin air or vanish before our eyes and reappear on a beach thousands of miles away – or so it seems.  Many of the people whose lives were significantly changed by following the ideas presented in “The Secret” started believing that through the proper use of the Law of Attraction they could create anything they wanted.  All they needed to do is to think the right thoughts and feel the right feelings and ‘poof’ it would appear.  We know that what David Copperfield does in his show is an illusion – not real.  What if the Law of Attraction is like that; sometimes it can appear that only our thoughts and feeling are creating our realities, but in reality there is much more involved! 

Back to David Copperfield’s show - take two.  For the second time I’m witnessing his amazing Portal Illusion, but wait… the woman he’s taking with him is the same woman from the first show, the one he left on the beach in Hawaii. Not only that, somehow the exact same members of the audience are  ‘randomly’ picked to create the picture they bring with them – which was pretty amazing  in itself when you see how these people were chosen!  And the picture ends up looking the same too. Now we’re starting to see some of what goes on behind the scenes contributing to the illusion and it looks like there are a lot of people in on the secret!  

Now, my intention isn’t to ‘out’ David Copperfield. During the show he himself assures us that he isn’t trying to convince us that what he is doing is real; he is creating illusions.  My intention is to invite you to question the probability that any of us could be even remotely capable of creating our reality on our own. David Copperfield, a master illusionist, requires a huge team, very specific conditions and supports to create the magic he presents in each show.  He could never pull off such magic all on his own.  Likewise, none of us are capable of manifesting anything on our own and no one thought or emotion is going to make or break our ability to achieve a goal. There is always so much more going on under the surface and in our environment that is contributing to and influencing the possibility of every success or failure we experience. The idea that we could control every outcome with our thoughts, beliefs and feelings is an illusion – believing that is all it takes would be a delusion.

Think of a goal you recently achieved or a time when something happening that you didn’t want to have happen – like catching a cold. Try to bring into your awareness every contributing factor that lead to that outcome.  Every thought, feeling, belief, choice, action, the people involved and the added influence of their thoughts, feelings, beliefs, choices and actions; items that were used and how they come to exist, the various synchronicities and coincidences and choices people made that contributed to such happenstance; the weather, the elements, cells, bacteria, planetary positioning … just try to acknowledge every single contributing factor and to figure out what exactly lead to the outcome.

Even Jesus acknowledged; “I can of my own self do nothing.” John 5:30

We are not creating our own reality, nor are we merely pawns of some greater force.  We are participants of a co-creative process, on this planet that we are part of, constantly supported and influenced by higher intelligences, each other, the elements, every aspect of nature and celestial influences.