Archive for September, 2009
Q&A: When Competing with Creators?
Posted by at 30th September, 2009
Ready to share your opinions on another great law of attraction question? This one comes up a lot, so I thought many folks would appreciate our input.
Here’s the gist of the question, from someone we’ll call Brad:
I am an athlete who uses visualization and other methods to attract wins and championships. But so do many of my competitors. What if I do all the “right” LOA stuff to win my event, but so do some of the others – who will then attract the trophy?
What would you like to share with not just Brad, but everyone who wonders who will get
- the promotion
- the acting role
- the new coaching slot with Jeannette (!)
- etc.
when more than one of us are using deliberate creation to make it happen?
Looking forward to hearing your insight on this one!
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How An Attitude of Gratitude Can Attract Abundance!
Posted by at 28th September, 2009
What Are You Being Grateful For Today?
Click here to view the embedded video.
I made this video last week and posted it on my Gratitude site
I then received this comment late last night from my friend Bill Vick, via skype that made my heart sing.
Just a fast note that I spent the weekend taking note of your video on gratitude and abundance and it was my focus. Very solid stuff Suzie and very meaningful. Your honesty and goodness comes through your videos.
I kept looking around and asking myself (and Patty) look at this and that and aren’t we fortunate to be able to see it and enjoy it together… All because of your video Suzie. I figure if I can reach and impact one person a week I’ve had a good week and I know for a fact you reached two last week - Patty and me- Bill Vick- Xtreme Recruiting
Then I headed over to my youtube and discovered more comments where people had been reminded that it is the small and/or little things that make a big difference.
I credit being grateful for ‘the little things’ as what gave me? the strength to turn things around. Thanks for reminding me!- Sharon O’Day
Loved your talk on abundance! I am working on my mindset and anyone can be grateful for so many? of the small things in life! Thanks for giving us the reminder.- Karen Brooks
Suzie, this is a? wonderful refreshing reminder for me. It’s the simple things that we forget to rejoice every day that count.- Michaele Harrington
There are more comments on You tube, head over there read them and leave a comment
How does being grateful for the small things in life attract abundance for you?
namaste
Suzie
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Creative Remedies for the Vibe
Posted by at 28th September, 2009
I have to admit, sometimes the homework assignments clients get from me might seem a little strange.
If anyone heard them out of context, they might question my sanity.
(Or a client’s, for taking it on.)
But when it comes to managing our vibration, sometimes strange things are the perfect remedy.
Take, for example, Todd (not his real name) who found out the hard way that his fiance was having a relationship on the side.
With his landlord.
(Not that it feels any better when it’s a total stranger, but still …)
Todd, who was very law of attraction savvy, knew that dwelling in anger and resentment would just attract more negative results into his life.
So he was doing his very best to practice acceptance, understanding and forgiveness.
Until I got my hands on him.
I asked him to entertain a couple of satisfying revenge fantasies before he picked up acceptance and understanding again.
My request was met with confused silence.
“Don’t you just want to see them really regret their actions?” I asked. Still with the silence.
“Wouldn’t it be delicious to see her realize that screwing up this relationship was the biggest mistake of her life?”
“And to have an absolutely drop dead gorgeous girl on your arm – who’s wearing an even bigger diamond than she got – next time you run into her?”
Silence now interrupted by an irreverent giggle.
“And that their sex life is in the toilet once it’s not ‘naughty’ any more?” Now there was full on laughter.
That’s what we’re looking for. Relief!
Not noble aspirations and nice lip service to the “right” vibes – but something that truly helps us feel better right now in real life.
(And in real life, revenge fantasies work surprisingly well.)
For those of you who can get straight to understanding and acceptance, hats off to you!
For the rest of us, entertaining anger or holding vengeful thoughts or feeling deep resentment is perfectly appropriate and immensely helpful. We’re not going to live there, just using it as a stepping stone for our vibrational progress.
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Then there was the client who worried about losing her business through bankruptcy. She’d hired me because she believed an alternate outcome was possible if she could just wrap her mind around something different and better. She was just having trouble getting there on her own.
In our launch session I asked her to get okay with bankruptcy before she started entertaining new possibilities.
“What?!” she exclaimed (with the tone of a person who just realized she hired a crackpot). “That’s exactly what I don’t want, exactly what I can’t stop worrying about, and exactly the reason I hired you to help me get a new result in mind!”
And everyone knows, she went on to tell me, that you get what you think about – so why in the world would she purposely think about bankruptcy?!
I suggested that as long as she strongly didn’t want this particular outcome, she was on a direct collision course for it. We needed to make peace and clear the negative charge before she could turn that magnet off.
“I hire you to avoid bankruptcy and you tell me to get okay with it.”
Yep.
“That’s going to help me avoid it?”
Well, only if you really get okay with it, I told her.
You can’t pretend to get okay with it in order to avoid it – you have to really truly make peace with bankruptcy. When you’re there, then we have a clean slate to start creating with.
(Hey, I don’t make the rules! I just work with them!)
(And one of the biggest rules is that what we resist, persists. So when we resist feeling angry, when we resist going bankrupt, – well, we know what happens next.)
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But one of my favorite unconventional homework assignments is for someone who is intent on creating an ideal relationship with a particular person who isn’t responding well.
(I’m laughing just thinking about it!)
That assignment is to go date a smokin’ hot someone else.
That one works for so many reasons I can’t even list them here! ha ha
Another one of my most cherished vibrational remedies (that isn’t often well-accepted) is to give up on what you want.
That one’s reserved for someone who has really got their panties in a twist about their desire. It is a last ditch effort, but it works wonders when we’re able to truly embrace it.
(And yes, I have practiced each of these remedies personally.)
I suspect I don’t have the corner on non-traditional vibe shifts. What have you all practiced that we might not find in typical LOA 101 textbooks?
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Granting Freedom from Tolerations
Posted by at 24th September, 2009
Earlier this week I published an issue of Get What You Want ezine asking deliberate creators to acknowledge the energy-drainers that keep them from alignment with their dreams come true.
I wrote that many of us don’t “see” the things that serve as manifesting obstacles, like jobs we hate, relationships that aren’t working, or responsibilities we don’t enjoy. The reason we don’t recognize them as problematic is because we often think these things are unchangeable or we’ve just grown to take them for granted.
(Like the frog who doesn’t jump out of the pot as the heat gradually increases. We’re just used to it.)
I received emails from grateful folks who were willing to look for – and see – what wasn’t serving them vibrationally in daily life.
And while it seems helpful to point out potential pitfalls, I also wanted to offer solutions here by continuing where the ezine left off.
Not to suggest I know what’s best for you when it comes to changing your work, breaking up with partners or running away from home.
But I believe there is one thing that can help no matter the situation we’re dealing with.
That is to recognize we have a choice.
We always have a choice.
Once upon a time I hated my job, but I went because of the story I believed about how I should be grateful for it, that bills needed paying, and that the investment in this career shouldn’t be wasted, etc. etc.
And it was misery.
But once I realized (with the help of a coach) that I actually had a choice as to whether I got out of bed and went to work, it wasn’t quite as awful to go. I could stay home. That was an option!
That choice would have consequences, surely … but it was an option!
Believe it or not, that was a new perspective to me. I could stay home! I could get a different job. I could spend my savings. I could go bankrupt. I could move back home with folks. (Okay, maybe not that.) But I had options!
All of a sudden this option (of going to work) made sense. (Until it didn’t, and then I quit.)
But it was easier to go to work when I did it out of choice.
And when I didn’t enjoy my marriage … I’d been raised to believe divorce was not an option; that this was a promise for life. Grin and bear it. It’s what we do.
Then one day, I realized I could stay married – or I could be divorced. (Can you hear the angels singing?!) CHOICE! Freedom!
Just having the breathing room of knowing there were alternate possibilities available made it easier to be there. (Divorce was his idea, not mine, but it was a good one.)
And there was a client who did not enjoy being a parent. At all. That was their big toleration in life. (And that’s not an easy thing to admit, my friends: that you wish you’d never had your kids.)
They were flabbergasted to hear me suggest they seriously consider their long time fantasy of relinquishing custody to the other parent and pursuing their big dream of travel with a new lover.
As they considered the possibility, guess what happened? They began to recognize the joys of raising children. To the point they realized they would not be happy giving it up. That’s the magic of feeling CHOICE in life.
When you have room to say no, it makes the yes easier to feel.
So when you’re doing the work of following what feels best, be sure to include some options you might not have considered before. Give yourself freedom to make a true choice, and don’t be surprised if that in itself transforms your experience of old “tolerations.”
(Easy to say for the girl who quit and got divorced, I know, but take it from my client who is now happily raising her children – it helps tremendously to recognize we truly have a choice.)
If any of you have experiences to share about eliminating big tolerations in life, I’d love to hear them!
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Guest Post: Debra Gehrke
Posted by at 23rd September, 2009
Thank you, Debra, for today’s inspiring guest post. I’ve got a couple clients this is perfect timing for!
Hafiz wrote:
“You are a Divine Elephant with amnesia trying to live in an ant hole.”
The imagery of this quote is alarmingly vivid. Seriously, are you picturing it?
The funniest part is, this is exactly what each of us looks like when we choose to live smaller than the brilliance that we are each born to be!
A portion of one of my all time favorite quotes from Marianne Williamson says,
“Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.”
It’s becoming ever clearer to me that we, as a humanity are awakening to our purest Soul Brilliance.
As generational stories of oppression and suppression dot the path of our histories we are becoming more and more enlightened by the idea that we are meant to shine more than anything else in this life.
The Spark of Divinity that courses through our veins has been there since the beginning of time. No matter what experiences have gone before us that spark is alive and well. It can not be extinguished.
No matter what the ‘looks as if’ is on the movie screen of life…something deep inside continues to pulse, telling us there’s a better picture…a picture we alone create for ourselves.
It is our Divine Right to shine. And it is our choice to exercise this right.
What are you choosing?
• Are you the elephant w/amnesia trying to squeeze yourself into the ant hole?
• Or are you the elephant divinely aware of your majestic nature, fully aware of your HUGE Brilliance, fully willing to Live Large?Perhaps you are the ant. One ant in a colony of millions.
• One ant who in that colony of millions could choose to get lost in the ant hill of anonymity…
• Or one ant who will choose to claim his uniqueness and be counted as the one he is.No matter the choice, choose on purpose.
• Choose because you want to.
• Because you know you can.
• Choose because no one else can make the choice for you.Let the amnesia fade.
Stand up and claim your birthright. You are a Divine Soul living a Human Experience.
What a gift!
The best part …?
It’s a gift that keeps on giving. Another line from the same Marianne Williamson quote says,
“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
I know my perfect JOB. It’s to serve others through my own Light, assisting others to fully discover their own Light…their own Joy of Brilliance in life.
Just by becoming the Divine Being we are…elephant, ant, human…each of us uniquely brilliant, shining our gleaming wonderfulness in all we are…leading by the clarity of our example as Abraham suggests…
…just by this, we encourage others to do the same.It’s that easy. It’s that important. It’s that brilliant.
We create heaven on earth just by being the brilliance of who we are.
Heaven feels good. I choose brilliance. In JOY. Will you join me?
Let me hear you claim it! What amnesia have you recently come out of? What is the “Brilliance of YOU” that you are now, more than ever, willing to BE?
Debra Gehrke is a Soul Brilliance Coach & Social Media Guide ~ Intuitively guiding others in finding their perfect J.O.B. *Joy of Brilliance* in work, in life; virtually and in 3-D.
To connect visit www.mandalalifemedia.com for Social Media Consulting/Coaching or http://www.earthharmonyhome.com for Joy of Brilliance Blogging and Soulitude Sessions. Or follow Deb on Twitter (@debsoul) or friend on Facebook.
Jeannette again: here’s to letting the amnesia fade! Namaste, Debra.
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