Energy – what would you do to have more of it? May 22, 2009

Spring is finally here in full force.  We’ve got cloudy and rainy days, yes, but everything is green again and the lilacs are out!  A sure sign mother nature’s arms are open and ready to embrace summer too….ah a most promising time of year….

For Canadians, surviving the long, cold, dark winter is a triumph worth celebrating on a patio the first sign of spring.  I know I slowed down this winter.  More indoor activities, long sleeps, early to bed and later to rise type days and lots of creamy hot homemade soups! 

This spring I discovered Cell Food. 

Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor, and you should not act on my advice alone, but if it feels right for you to look into and seek your doctor’s advice, then by all means pursue it! 

It’s actually a series of sychronicities that brought me to owning a bottle of Cell Food and testing it out with some water one day in early May, but within 6 hours I noticed a SIGNIFICANT difference in my mood, energy level and mental capacity.  For all of you who work in an office setting, I’m sure you’re very familiar with the 3pm ‘wall’ that one hits and ponders yet another hit of caffeine to make it through the day.  I didn’t hit the ‘wall’ on day 1 and haven’t hit it since!  In fact, even my need for a second morning coffee waned.  So did my emotional appetite – you know the one – ‘I’m bored.  What’s to eat?  I don’t feel like working yet, maybe I’ll go get something.  Boy oh boy someone in the office is eating something that smells good.  Maybe I’ll go get me some!’

In fact, I’ve almost had to re-train myself to learn what my new tired is! 

I had no idea how my energy level was affecting my life, my choices, my thoughts, my actions, my perception and my reality!  It’s amazing what having the energy to take on your dreams will do for boosting those dreams!

I’m not saying that this Cell Food stuff is for everyone.  But it’s worth asking yourself, what is your Cell Food?  What rejuvenates you and helps you make the choices you want to make and take the actions you want to take?  What renews your spirit and energy and inspires you to go forward confidently in the direction of your dreams?  What actions can you take today that will help you sleep better, feel more alert, and be more excited about your life?  What’s holding you back from taking these actions or pursuing these life-giving activities?  Are you sitting in the backseat of the car of life, or are you driving with the wind in your hair and the radio blaring?

Whatever your choices and actions are today, I hope they inspire you to new levels of personal connection to the Divine.

Blessings,

Pamela

Healing with the masters… March 3, 2009

I am so excited and filled with anticipation over this new (to me) tele-seminar series that I had to write a post about it to highlight this amazing opportunity for others as well. 

Healing with the Masters is 24 (free) teleseminars that you can join in on with some well-known masters leading the calls. 

One thing I know for sure is that there is nothing like sharing space and time with a community of high vibrational people to really get my creative juices flowing and after another Canadian winter, which isn’t finished yet, the promise these teleseminars provide truly feels like spring is coming early for my soul! 

What gets your juices going and fills you with anticipation and delight?  How are you integrating that into your life today?  Do you know of any high vibrational people in your life?  Are you aware of your own vibrations? 

May the light within guide you on your way in this moment and in all moments.

Blessings,

Pamela

Why… April 19, 2008

I have to admit that I tried to end my relationship with the question ‘why’ years ago when I realized that they usually came from a victim mentality when I asked them of myself:  “Why haven’t I achieved my goals?”  “Why don’t I write more often?”  “Why is it so hard to lose weight?”  And I also realized that they had a negative almost offensive effect on others when I asked them anything that started with a “Why”.  Immediately I would get defensive responses and the situation would not go in a positive direction at all.  I know I’ve even chatted with friends about the question “why” and advised of my success in conversations when I eliminated it from my vocabulary.

Then the other night a fabulous mentor shed a whole new light on the potential use of the question why and it has opened my eyes and my energy in unbelievable ways!  Want to know what I learned?  Maybe you already know you lucky dog you! 

The question why has a response within all of us.  An automatic response that we don’t consciously choose at all.  Think about it for a moment.  Ask yourself a few why questions.  Easy ones.  Why is the sky blue?  Why do drivers slow down when they see a police car?  Why do telemarketers call during dinner hours?

What happened?  Did you have answers?  Did you have a response at least?  Most people do.  Most people feel compelled to answer a why question.  And usually with more than ‘because’.  Think of the occupations based on answering why questions – scientists, engineers, even management consultants.  Our brains are hard-wired to automatically search for an answer to a ‘why’ question.

So how about putting that automatic search function to work for you?!  That’s what a mentor shared with me lately!  Why is it so easy for me to wake up feeling rested and alive?  Why is it so easy for me to double my income now?  Why is wealth flowing from multiple streams in unbelievable abundance in my life now?  Why am I such a loving and giving partner?  Why is it so easy for me to feel the love and respect of my partner?

Breathe deep, smile when you ask them, and really feel as though these are real, in your life, right now.  Wow…..

Then let the automatic search function go to work for you.  The answer is not for you to form.  That is the role the Universe plays.  Just as when you ask yourself why you have such a hard time losing weight, you continue to have a hard time losing weight, for years, decades, and maybe a lifetime.  Since that wasn’t working for you, then there is nothing to lose but asking yourself “Why is it so easy for my body to be the right weight for me now?” a few dozen times a day for a few months now do you?

Let the Universe form the response to your new, heartfelt questions.  Have fun dreaming them up!  “Why is it so easy for me to take vacations on a whim now?”  “Why is it so easy for me to connect with my customers and help them with their projects now?”  “Why am I such a good leader now?”  “Why is life one smile to the next now?”  “Why is it so easy for me to see the Light in others now?”  “Why is it so easy for me to get along with my neighbours now?”

As with everything, the possibilities are endless!  The more you ask, the more the Universe has to answer, and believe me, the Universe is just waiting to answer and loves to over-deliver all the time!

So ‘why’ and I have started a new and beautiful relationship now.  I find it so easy to silently ask myself why questions consistently throughout the day.  And in fact, if I start to feel down about anything, it usually triggers me into some form of ho’oponopono – thanking myself for the awareness that I was immersed in a less than serving thought pattern and then forgiving myself and all that is, and then rhyming off a bunch of really fun and wild ‘why’ questions to get a smile on my face again!

Try it yourself and let me know how it works…

Here is the guy who discovered this method and wrote about it in The Great Little Book of Afformations doing a short video on youtube.  His website is here.

Why is it so easy for me to know that everything I’ve ever dreamed of and more is real in my life right now?!

Blessings of light and love to you all,

Pamela

Resistance… March 2, 2008

Let’s start with the concept that we are the Creator of all things in our lives.  That each feeling, emotion, encounter, and thought is something that we have created with our Divine Purpose in mind.  More and more lately I have struggled with powerful feelings of ‘not enough’.  I know I share this lot with many people, and that inspires me to listen to it and learn from it all that much more!  Resistance to what is creates so much unrest in our lives.  When we don’t ‘like’ feeling down, or not getting what we wanted from a situation.  That resistance is energy, our energy, and it is speaking to us with great power.  The same place where all your power comes from.  Because without judgement, power is energy and energy can feel good or feel bad, but it’s all still our energy.  Ask yourself today, the next time you feel resistance to anything in the moment, what that resistance is trying to tell you.  How can you graduate from that situation with love and joy?  How is this connected to your Divine Purpose?  Stop and listen in the moment to whatever your heart is trying to tell you and if nothing appears, be thankful for that as well.  Being ok, no matter what shows up in your life is truly the key to peace.  Sooner or later when you practice speaking with yourself about your feelings of resistance you will notice how strong your inner voice is and how much it has to tell you.  Always be patient with yourself and ask gentle questions as an observer and be grateful for whatever answer comes.  Always practice gratitude in the moment.  Because this moment is your life!

Another large source of resistance comes from past memories, or future anxieties.  I often ask myself when I’m feeling hurt by any particular situation if I remember feeling that feeling before, and when, and how does that feeling serve me now, and how I can infuse the situation where I feel hurt with love and joy.  It’s not easy, because our patterns are very strong.  Most of our core beliefs come from memories that were created before the age of 7, so if you’ve been unconsciously practicing a pattern for more than 30 years, of course one movie or one book isn’t suddenly going to remove that pattern from your life entirely.  (Or maybe that’s my judgement, and maybe it will!)  The joy truly is in the journey.  Of recognizing those patterns, being grateful for the awareness of them.  Learning from them and then consciously choosing new patterns with fresh intent.  But moving forward with goals and intent and visualization can be severely hampered if we bring the past into it all with us.  I often see people getting very excited about re-claiming their personal power, but I also feel the hurt and anger and disappointment in themselves for ever having let it go.  And they are determined that no one will take that power away from them again.  No one took it in the first place, we gave it away.  And carrying that hurt and anger into our future where we set a new intent that no one will have the ability to do it again, sends a message out to the universe that we want to keep experiencing the hurt and the anger and sure enough we will encounter situations where we feel that someone has taken something away from us again.  I see this time and again as a pattern in my life.  Do you see it in yours?  So how do we free ourselves from such a situation?  Consider for a moment where your personal power comes from?  Who are you really?  Without the job title, the relationships, or any material aspect of your life, who are you?  Really sit and ponder that for a moment.  Perhaps write a few ‘I am’ statements and see what hits the paper first….then gently take a look at them without judgement – are any of those statements of the material world?  Are any of them adjectives?  Keep revising and brainstorming until you are comfortable and confident that the statement of who you are is something that will never change, something that is constant, and something that is not of this material world.  Then meditate on how it feels to be connected to that Divine Spirit that is you.

Connect to that sense of who you truly are on a regular basis.  Touching your heart center, the top of your head, or deep breathing will usually trigger it for a lot of people.  Then when you experience resistance in your life to any situation, talk with that resistance and talk to it from that constant and very powerful source of who you truly are – which never changes and is always available to you and something that no one can alter in any way shape or form.  Perhaps the resistance, or the bad experience, is another opportunity to dialogue with who you truly are.  And to remind you that your Source has not depleted in any way, but that you have reconnected to it as a result of this experience.  Would that bring you peace and joy in a situation?  If so, then you know you are on the right path my friend.

We are all on a path….learning….growing….loving….feeling….observing….creating….but who we truly are is the constant throughout it all, and the joy in discovering that bit by bit, piece by piece, present moment to present moment, is the art of life!  I’m very excited to see that Eckhart Tolle has a new book out and that some people who participated in ‘The Secret’ have expanded upon their understanding and sharing of the Law of Attraction and developed another movie titled ‘The Opus’ coming in March 2008.  We are all expanding upon our awareness of how to navigate and there are many great tools to guide us along the way, but none so powerful as your own inner voice.

More and more I realize the value in the quiet moments of just listening….

May you listen and hear the wisdom of your heart today!

Blessings,

Pamela

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Clutter February 17, 2008

I’ve always enjoyed watching Clean Sweep on television.  You know that show where the guy with the Australian/British accent gets into homes that people have almost stacked themselves out of with stuff and then they have a yardsale and whatever doesn’t sell goes off to charity and they come home the next day and the reno team has transformed their house into something truly functional?  If I had a dollar for everytime I silently wished a clutter team would sweep in and save me from myself, I would be in a different space right now – that is for certain!  However, life is not always a television show, and the best person to deal with my clutter issues is yours truly!  The comforting thought is that others have clutter issues too, so I thought I would share a few lessons I’ve learned lately…

• Here’s the Clean Sweep guy on Oprah as he was talking about his new book.
• Mind over Clutter – a new theory on the ‘in you haven’t used it in X amount of time’ rule
• Get Organized Now – a truly helpful newsletter you can sign up for that comes once a week with fabulous ideas on how to organize your household.  Especially handy for tips on how to get your children involved.
• Clear your Clutter with Feng Shui – I got this book years ago for my family and myself and it was the first time I started to clue in to the mind/body connection between clutter in our surroundings and how our bodies/health were reacting.  If you suffer from any energy draining in your life, you may want to take a look at the things you surround yourself with and consider letting go of them, and the emotions attached to them…

More importantly, if you would really like to know the emotional triggers behind what drives us to keep the stuff in the first place, then check out this blog from Paul Bauer.  Because let me tell you, I’ve seen some pretty darn organized pack rats too.  People who still manage to hold on to a lot of things in their life and because it all fits into labelled boxes and you’re not tripping over it, then it seems ok to hold on to it.  I aspired to be like that.  “If I just had the right storage unit.  If I label all my files in the filing cabinet and it looks organized, then it’s ok to hold on to all that paper.  If I just had a bigger home to display all that I love and cherish.”

Life is not about our stuff.  Stuff will come and go.  Even the emotional items are only emotional because we bestow that power on them.  Emotions are not material things.  And if we clear the material thing out of our lives, we have an opportunity to clear that emotion too.  Consider dialogging with your emotions and asking yourself how something is important to you, how else that importance is manifested in your life, whether or not that emotion could be manifested without this item.

I’m a big believer in FLOW.  I believe that things flow in and out of our lives and it’s fun to observe and very risky to attach our sense of who we are to any of it.  Money will come and go.  Jobs will come and go.  Relationships will come and go.  Those are all material items too.  If something isn’t serving your higher self.  If you have it because it represents who you wish you could be, but instead is a constant reminder of who you are not, then let it go and have faith that when you are that person, and if you need that item then, it will be available to you.

May you make peace with your emotions today and free yourself from a corner of clutter!  You’ll be amazed at the ripple effect it has in your life!

Blessings,

Pamela

Pretending… December 3, 2007

Pretending is a beautiful thing – it is the product of an active imagination. I love it when my little nephew gives us all air band instruments to play and we prance around playing our imaginary instruments and performing in our little air band. It’s jolly good fun! I’m so lucky I have a little nephew to dream up such things and remind me that I used to freely dream too. Take a moment for yourself today and really dream – really imagine some wild and outrageous possibilities! Freedom, love, health, wealth and true peace – you can dream it. So what if not so pretty alternatives are still there when you’re done your little dreaming session? In the moment that you’re dreaming, they do not exist – only your dreams do. And that moment is the present moment. And it is yours to explore any time you choose. Take the imagination a step further if you will. Imagine that all realities are imagined. That you are imagining the reality you are in right now. And in a different time/space continuum, but still in this present moment, other realities exist AT THE SAME TIME. Any reality you can imagine. So if the choice is yours to imagine, what picture did your heart create?! Did you save the world with your rockin’ ability to sing? Did you write a novel that inspired others? Did you have free time in your schedule to volunteer with the needy? Did you just sit for a moment of silence in the sun listening to the waves of the ocean in your seaside fortress? Let your imagination take you anywhere and everywhere. It’s God’s gift to you. Available all the time!

And if you’re wondering what led me to this inspiration, below is my daily dose of Notes from the Universe:

Couldn’t you just pretend with the job or occupation you now have, whether or not it even pays or is recognized by others as a job, that you’re receiving a salary of millions each year for doing it? That everyday your peers, partners, or supervisors are left in awe by how you deftly handle each challenge and setback? That there are backroom discussions going on (sh-h-h-h-h….) even as you nonchalantly read this email, about retaining you no matter how high the cost? That shareholders are beginning to whisper among themselves about your legacy, and board members are each hoping to bump into you at the water cooler? That the competition has just hired a management consultancy firm just to keep up with your innovative style?

I think you could, even if you work in your pajamas, and I’d highly recommend it. Especially the “millions each year” part.

See you in the teller line -
The Universe

Grieving… November 7, 2007

Life has been busy for a while – sometimes work gets in the way!    However, I am grateful to the universe for gently reminding me on a regular basis that there is more to life than my job.  Today I received some sad news that friends of my sister had a little girl who just passed away from leukemia.  She was only 4 years old, and she spent the last 15 months of those precious four years battling cancer.

Sometimes life does not seem fair.  Sometimes we cannot seem to find a rhyme or reason for why the universe works the way it does.   Sometimes we are thrown a curve, or we watch loved ones go through horrific events and it rouses anger, a sense of helplessness, and sadness.  The way we deal with these emotions is through the grieving process.

So what is the grieving process?  I would lean towards saying it is expressing whatever emotion you can to the fullest extent you can.  Crying spontaneously, admitting that the situation is next to unbearable, talking about it and sharing freely with loved ones how you feel.  Journalling your innermost thoughts and the fears it may raise in you about your own situation.  Whatever grieving means to you.  A good friend of mine once suggested that while I could not be present at my grandfather’s funeral since I was overseas at the time, that I create some time for a ritual.  A time of meditation about memories of my grandfather and perhaps lighting a candle and writing him a goodbye letter and then burning it as a symbol of me saying goodbye in my own way.  I did not take her good advice to the extent that I could have and always felt an open loop about the death of my grandfather until I did one day create the symbol and say goodbye.  It relieved me tonnes to be able to truly make peace with it.

Symbols or talismans are a wonderful way in which to give material life to your emotions, pour yourself in to them, and therefore get them out of your system.  I’m not suggesting they don’t belong, I’m merely suggesting that it is entirely therapeutic to give your full attention to them, and let them move through you instead of holding on to them and letting them paralyze you.

Consider it an opportunity to practice ho’oponopono and ground yourself.  Thank you.  I’m sorry.  I forgive you.  I love you.   And so it is.

While it is difficult to imagine, feelings of anger and sadness wished to be given the same attention and care as feelings of jubilation and celebration, because to them, they are all feelings and all feelings are energy and all energy has a primitive need to be in motion.  So let your energy be in motion today – be it that of grief or stress, or gratitude and love.  Express yourself today.  Create your own symbol for Wednesday being over, or kiss your pillow before falling asleep in gratitude that you have a bed to sleep in and a roof over your head.

Wherever you are, and whatever you are expressing, I am sending you a hug through the coconut wireless.

Unquestioned Assumptions… September 28, 2007

We all make assumptions. It’s a part of life. I’m not putting assumptions down at all, I think they are very useful to me sometimes. Usually assumptions are coupled with a splash of experience, and a dollop of hope or trust. Like how I assume that if I put my lunch in the fridge at work where 40 other people put their lunch, that it will still be there, untouched and ready for me to eat when I go back to get it at lunch!

But what about the assumptions that are not based on experience, or even coupled with hope and trust? What about the assumptions that are born out of fear, or simple acceptance? “New studies report that more than 20 minutes in the sun is bad for you and anything under SPF8 is useless to you as a sunscreen.” Suddenly we’ve got people out there who literally don’t spend more than 20 minutes in the sun and scramble to find SPF 60 to put on their skin everyday! All because a news report said so?!

Or how about the diet industry? Carbs, no carbs, all protein, no wait balanced diet, lots of water, not too much water, eggs good or bad?, and so on and so on.

Or what about that feeling you get when it’s Friday?! You are tying off your list of maybe not so exciting things you had to do this week and making plans for numero uno! That’s right, 3 whole nights and two whole days to do what you want, go where you want, see whom you want and so on. (For those who work Monday – Friday days – if you have a different schedule, then imagine the feelings that are aroused in you when you’re about to get your break of a couple days…)

I love Fridays! TGIF! There’s a light-heartedness in the air no? Most workplaces allow you to ‘dress down’ – maybe wear jeans and perhaps maybe that helps you to feel a little more like yourself instead of Mr or Mrs Suit. But who says that only Fridays are reserved for this feeling? Who told you that you must suffer 4 work days out of the week, and on the 5th you’ll have a little respite and then for two whole days you are your own!?! I mean, if we are dreaming big, if we are the masters of our own design, if we weave the story of our life into a way that allows us access to that TGIF feeling every single day of our lives, would we make the choices we are making right now? Are we just NOT QUESTIONING the assumption that it doesn’t have to be like this? Are we afraid of having the TGIF smile on all the time? What will it be like to be different? How will I feel if I do X and not Y anymore? Who will I be? How will my friends and family view me? How does that make me feel? How would I feel knowing that the best I could possibly imagine, is real in my life right now? Right now. Real, in your life, right now…

Oh there are lots of things to question…

You know that feeling you get when you’re on vacation and not just the weekend? You’re away, exploring, on an adventure, someone else is cooking your meals and cleaning your room for you, all your worries are left behind, and you have nothing in particular as a goal except to enjoy yourself, rediscover sleep, and re-fuel before going back to the grind?! Who says that feeling cannot be accessed every single day of your life, no matter where you are or what you’re doing?

I know a very special person who worked in a post-conflict country for a year and who faced life-threatening danger often, and he considered it a vacation every single day! Everyday he felt joy for seeing the ceiling when he woke up in the morning and everyday when he heard others complain about the hardships of living and working in this environment, he laughed and reminded them that he was on vacation! We can adopt any belief about life we choose my friends…and it will certainly shape the experiences you encounter…

Question some assumptions in your life today – gentle questioning that opens doors to ideas, creativity, and your Heart’s voice….

-It’s ragweed season and so I am going to have allergies. That’s an assumption no?

-Once I’ve been promoted to a certain salary level, then life will be ok for me and my loved ones.

-You’ve got to put in the time to get the dime.

-I can’t swim.

-I can’t anything…

-I should anything…

Or how about the big big big ones, that not only involve your life, but the globe and all it’s inhabitants?  How about the assumption that the ozone is depleting?  Or that there is much suffering and poverty?  Or that no matter what we do it never seems to get any better?  What happens if you lived life assuming the opposite?  What would you see?  How would you approach things?  What if the world were a place of birth and rebirth for you?  How would you feel knowing that the planet is an unlimited resource when you align with it in respect and harmony?  Would you like to connect with others who are questioning their assumptions about the world as they knew it from memory and creating a vision for how they feel about seeing it with new eyes?  Check out the Consciousness Project today then…

Enjoy the journey!

Light and Love,

Pamela

Consciousness Project September 23, 2007

In case you missed it, or if you’d like to download the recording of the Heart Consciousness call,
please visit this page:

http://www.dreamsalive.com/OneHeartCall.htm

We are holding a special 30 minute Meditation tomorrow – Friday, Sept. 28th at 9:00 a.m. CST

(10:00 a.m. Eastern and 7:00 a.m. Pacific) for those interested in connecting through meditation.

This special Meditation will be available via WebCast and you can get the specific information about how to
join in at this link:

http://www.dreamsalive.com/OneHeartWebcast.htm

Again, we thank you for your participation and being a part of this exciting Awakening into Heart Consciousness.

Please RSVP if you plan to listen in…

Just email paulb@dreamsalive.com and say, “Yes I’m attending your webcast”

Blessings of Peace To You,

Paul Bauer

www.dreamsalive.com

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There’s a great awakening happening across our Planet…

An awakening into Heart Consciousness.

This unique shift in consciousness transcends the challenges of our modern world and restores peace and harmony within ourselves and the entire planet.

Would you’d like to feel more peace in your life?

Do you feel a calling in your Heart to make a difference in this world?

Would you like to learn about the great awakening of consciousness that’s now happening across our planet?

We’ve created a special Flash movie for you to enjoy that describes this awakening at:
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http://www.dreamsalive.com/AFlash/CP/cp_aol.htm

Blessings,

Paul Bauer

www.dreamsalive.com

Susan Castle

www.relax-online.com

P.S. You can be part of a special Tele-Seminar we’re having this Wednesday, Sept 26th that describes this great awakening of Heart consciousness.

Learn more here:

http://www.dreamsalive.com/AFlash/CP/CPopen.html

The Jamshids!! August 21, 2007

Oh my day is complete now – I received some photos from a friend who was in Kabul, Afghanistan and she was kind enough to deliver a present to my dear Uncle Jamshid and family!  This is a photo of my friend, Uncle Jamshid and Bilal!  Those of you who read my stories of my adventures in Kabul will remember the dear Jamshid family…they are alive and well and we keep in touch…although I wish I could do more than send them words of encouragement…this only strengthens my desire to go back…

May we all feel the pull of our callings and find a way to follow them…

Blessings to the Jamshids! 

Empowered! August 19, 2007

I just got back from Showcase – the annual Creative Memories event held for consultants packed with recognition, motivation, and tonnes of ideas and a general enthusiasm that is contagious!!! I think events like this, in whatever field that moves you, are essential to living life with a smile! I am so grateful that I got to share it with my mom and my sisters and my new sisters Vicki and Lisa! I truly see a way that CM can help me with empowering others to live their authentic lives by sharing their stories and helping others to share their stories. I think the more stories we share, the more we all grow – and growing is a natural thing! I am so pumped about all the items available through CM to help you bring your stories to life that I would like to share them with the world – one person at a time, so if you have twenty minutes to chat, anytime, just let me know. But more importantly than that, if CM is not your expression of choice, that’s fine too. I just want to help others live their life, their story, their way – so if you just want to chat, or need a point of inspiration, motivation and empowerment, let’s connect!

Pamela

Everyday Display August 7, 2007

I cannot say enough good things about physically creating expressions of your true self. Whether you entertain the idea of rituals, which can be as simple as closing your eyes and visualizing a problem in your life and feeling all the feelings of that problem and where they exist in your body and then metaphorically taking them out of your body and placing them on a table across from God and asking him to handle the problem and then knowing in the instant you have asked for His help it is done, and feeling grateful, or any kind of ritual that suits you.

Something so very powerful too, is the vision board – a collection of items that inspire you to live in laughter and freedom, so that every time you see it (and hopefully you’ve placed it somewhere that you see daily) it lifts you up. The Everyday Display is a beautiful partner in such a board. Since it is magnetic, it allows you the freedom to quickly put things on to it, and change them as often as you’d like. Who wouldn’t feel welcome in a home when the first thing they saw was a display that cherished the home owner’s life and dreams? Who wouldn’t feel a little lighter in their chair at work, with a display of loved ones and memories shared looking over them all day long? What team/organization wouldn’t benefit from having a central display that celebrates their accomplishments? It is increasingly important to celebrate all that we are and all that we share as humans, in a world where there is more to do then we will ever have time to do, and more to learn then we will have time in one lifetime to learn, why not set an anchor in the storm for yourself by decorating a display board and reminding yourself of who you are, what you cherish, and what you dream.

It doesn’t have to be this display, but it does make it super quick and easy and classy. But I’ve also used “post-it” sticky boards, regular picture frames that were on sale, and even a dollar store lined notebook to stick things in to and pull out and flip through the pages on ‘rainy days’. But presently I am working on a “Gratitude/Quantum Questions” scrapbook.

I highly recommend you open the creative gates and express your life, your story in your way today. Liberation is yours for the asking!

If you’d like more ideas, please feel free to contact me. I would be honoured to help you on your journey…

Zencast 99 August 1, 2007

Today’s podcast of the day goes to “The Secret Garden” – provided by www.zencast.org and Meditainment. Allow yourself this 15 minutes of bliss…

You can also download through iTunes, or directly from the site above as an .mp3

Imagine… July 5, 2007

Imagine for a moment; breathe deeply and imagine that all the energy you put towards disliking your current situation was full force in the other direction.

Imagine that you loved your job / your body / your life as much if not more than you dislike it now.

How powerful would that be to you?
That power is yours to have right now, and it has always been there for you, and it will always be there for you.

That power is you.

Pamela French – May 2006

Ho’oponopono encore… June 26, 2007

I heard a saying yesterday about this whole Law of Attraction thing – it was something like “If it was hard to do, then everyone would get it.  But it’s simple, and that’s why we have so much trouble with it.”

And then I began to read over the other Ho’oponopono post and realized that it sure is short and sweet!    And I wonder if you realize that it is vital to recognize that this is very simple stuff, but that you have to take it and make it your own.  You can walk around saying “Thank you, I’m sorry, I forgive you, I love you” and probably feel better after a while.  It can be that easy – if you want it to be.  But letting go of old patterns, heck, even waking up to them in the first place, can be the greatest challenge some of us may have ever faced….

So take it all in – remember that it is simple – and then make it your own….

“Thank you to that part of me that raised this particular feeling/belief/thought in my awareness at this time”

“Now I know what I have to look into further…thank you.”

“I’m sorry that this feeling caused strife in myself and potentially others.  I see the positive intent behind this feeling, or the old pattern it is in keeping with and I forgive all.”

“From now on my intent with this is to ________”

“I deeply and completely love and accept all parts of myself.”

If you’re breathing deep and placing your hand on your heart or your head, and maybe try staring closely at a mirror!   Let the spirit move you….but don’t feel as though it has to take place in the outer world.  If you’re driving along and feel road rage, you can speak to yourself in the inner world and no one has to know but you.  But others will pick up on your calm demeanor.

Life is to be lived, and I think it is increasingly important to find ways to throw things we love in to the mix and not ’schedule them’ so much.  Someone once asked a yoga instructor what poses she could do to strengthen her ability to bend over and pick up children as she does in her daycare 5 days a week, and with her own two children all the time.  A voice spoke from within me before I could even stop it – and I said – “That is your yoga.  You live it everyday.  Find the stretch, the joy in reaching for a child.  Feel yourself grounded with Mother Earth and Father Sky and breathe deeply and with unconditional self acceptance as you do it.  That is your yoga.”

There is too little time to fit in a class, or wait for advice all the time – just live it in all that you do now my friends….

Laughter really is the best medecine… June 25, 2007

There are many serious yet inspiring stories, of people healing themselves of cancers and other deadly diseases by watching comedies and laughing and using positive intent of self-healing throughout their days. Tonnes of research and world-wide movements into laughter yoga, breathing techniques and through it all no one can deny – breathe is one of the most powerful parts of our existence. Some of us may take it for granted that we breathe – until an unpleasant smell comes into our awareness….but think about this – you can go without water for days, without food for days, but you require breath within seconds (minutes for well-trained peeps who hold it under water!)…

Take some time out to think about your breath today…is it shallow? Does it quicken when you feel a certain emotion? What do you feel after you deepen it? How does it feel to contract you rib cage or to feel your lower belly rising with the power of air, and pushing that air back out again?

We have a general tendency when we get older to breathe lighter and more up in our chest and with a shallow timing. And so goes our laughter as we age. We laugh quickly and sometimes quietly to not disturb any sort of perceived peace around us. Not so when we are young. If you are not around young people right now, then watch the video below to jog your memory:

Above all, remember what it was like to laugh fully – deep in your belly complete laugh our loud laughter. Abandon all notions of what others will think, or how you sound, or anything in and in the moment laugh! Wholeheartedly. There is great therapy in laughter…can anyone in the moment they are laughing feel anything other than joy? I mean truly – doesn’t it all seem to melt away, and isn’t there a sense of restored peace, even if only for a few seconds, after a good laugh?

I encourage you all to laugh and breathe like babies, and to find the laughter in your daily routine.

Light and Laughter to you all!

Pamela

Thank you! June 19, 2007

Imagine for a moment if you were to notice in the moment you were feeling other than peace, exactly the emotion, and what triggered it, and then in the next moment you were able to thank your inner self for showing you the next layer of the onion to peel off?!  If someone says something that upsets you, then you know right away that you are experiencing a limiting belief associated with that feeling and you can tap away (see EFT tapping in “Grab a Coffee”) or write in your journal, reframe it, or meditate on it for a bit and find peace with it.  Whatever your style – whatever works for you, but you have it within you to do it, are you aware of that?  You don’t have to replay painful situations over and over and over again – you are only a victim as long as you choose to be.  Hard words to hear sometimes, but great power in them, because there is such great power in each one of us!  Let your light shine today. 

Podcasts June 13, 2007

I’m relatively new to this type of technology, but I have discovered that you can download all sorts of podcasts for free through iTunes and listen to them on your computer, or burn to CD for your car, or your iPod if you have one.  Either way, tonnes of free podcasts in all genres!  I’m downloading language lessons and meditations as I type!

Have you listened to any podcasts that you would like to share with the rest of us?  Am always interested in learning new things…

Limiting Beliefs June 11, 2007

Beliefs are something we carry deep inside of our souls, and they are formed at a very young age, but they shape what manifests in our lives today. Have you ever considered delving in to what your beliefs may be? Finish the following sentences with whatever comes to mind first:

“Money doesn’t grow on…”

“A penny for your…”

“It takes money to make…”

“Success doesn’t happen…”

Now how do you think your answers to the above are shaping your life? Consider re-framing those standard sayings with a flood of positivity that makes sense to you and see if you can come up with that line first when you see these statements again.

Embrace the beliefs you hold, because they have kept you safe and have brought you to where you’re at today – but if you’d like to go somewhere else, then thank those beliefs and let them go and embrace new ones on a frequent basis.

May abundance overwhelm you today and always.