Happy Calendar
Happy moments seem extraordinary when they occur but their effects do not last as long as we would like. Quite soon we forget about how great they were, and we take them for granted.
So, the challenge is to hold the good memory as long as possible.
Today I started doing something that you may find useful too: my own “Happy Calendar.”
The concept is quite simple: to keep records of the good surprises I get and those good moments that outstand as special. The aim is to be able to look at it in a few days, or in several days, and remember the good things that happened to me.
February has been a very good month, filled with positive news, good surprises, and pleasant happenings. Today, for example, after much resistance, I went swimming. I believe 10 years have passed since the last time I swam. So, at my return from the swimming-pool, I was walking home and thinking how much respect I felt for those people who were at the club and took care of their bodies. Then, I realized I had entered that group today and I congratulated myself for having been stronger than my resistance. And that is when I thought how good I felt and how I wanted to remember this feeling somehow.
So I’ve started my “Calendario Feliz” or “Happy Calendar” and I’ve registered the most outstanding events of this month. There were so many!
I did it very simple: a table in a Word doc. I inserted nice images, arranged the titles neatly (I’m not managing to copy the format or images here, but use your imagination to make your own as pretty as possible) and added events in the corresponding dates. Below you’ll find a draft of it.
The effect of this Happy Calendar is so uplifting!
Try it yourself. Let us all feel very good and attract good stuff in our lives.
Cheers!
CALENDARIO FELIZ
|
FEBRERO 2010 |
Lunes |
Martes |
Miércoles |
Jueves |
Viernes |
Sábado |
Domingo |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14Fui a nadar x 1ª vez en 10 años. | |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
February 14, 2010
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It May Not Work
These past two months have been times of deep reflection and evaluation. Writing became difficult because I was balancing pros and cons and trying to make sense about certain things. In this field of visualization I have been an autodidact, permanently learning from experience. Therefore, my journey is mostly valid for me, because I have no mass studies, statistics, or things of that sort.
Two months ago I felt really tired and had to ask the visualization group for a pause. I felt my energy failing and my vibrations lowering.
I stopped seeing the group and I also stopped visualizing for some days. Things were not clear in my heart and were not clear in my mind either. What was wrong? I was convinced that the “system” worked. I had proved it in the past. Therefore, there was something specific to this experience that was not working the right way for me.
After a couple of weeks things started getting into place and I realized that I didn’t feel the same level of commitment in some of the members. Some often acknowledged not having visualized many days of the week, others didn’t even ask who they had to visualize for.
The general lesson is this: for a group to be effective and fulfilling, all members have to commit and take responsibility for the group. I already knew that but now I realize that there is a need to put it as a requirement before creating the group. So far, the groups I helped create were “open to whoever may be interested”.
At a personal level I have learned now that to share my intents and deposit my confidence for their realization in other people, I need a guarantee that those intents will be handled with love and responsibility.
The question “on the desk” now is how to confirm that before the group is working. I have to find a way to test commitment and responsibility before building the visualization group. This is my next challenge.
Why posting this? Well, simple responsibility. This aspect was not addressed in Thriving Together, because I was not so much aware of it. Now that I am, I think it is responsible to let you know, because if you are reading this, you are interested in group visualization. If so, you’ll probably create your own group at some point.
I’ll be living and learning forever; that is what makes it fun.
February 9, 2010
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A Present To Celebrate 2010 – Secrets To Creating More Inner Peace
Secrets To Creating More Inner Peace was written by four friends and me in 2008, when we were enjoying the gift of belonging to a community that was boiling with shared love. Until today I only included this e-book as a bonus with the purchase of “Thriving Together” but I thought it was a good idea to share it with you all, even if you choose not to buy “Thriving Together”.
I hope you will find the information useful and interesting.
Have a happy and consciously created 2010!
January 7, 2010
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Make It, Then Perfect It
One of the actions I suggest in my e-book Thriving Together is to write down your intents in a nice notebook. Please note that I have not invented anything here. This was already said by many other authors and friends, and from them I have learned it.
So, you have already written down intents that seemed impossible in the past.
For example, you used to be an employee at some firm you could not stand anymore. You earned a quite good salary and the idea of quitting was as charming as dangerous. You had an activity in mind, but no certainty of being able to generate the income you needed. So, you wrote down your intent: “I change my job and I earn the same amount of money I earn today but doing something I enjoy, that does not feel like a job.”
At the moment of writing this intent, you felt thriving, you felt free, you felt so happy. “Wouldn’t it be great?” you thought to yourself, then you smiled. You extended your high-vibrating feeling because you knew that was the door to it.
Just like magic, a few months later you find yourself working somewhere else, doing an activity you enjoy so much that it does not feel like a job. You go to work every day with a smile on your face. You enjoy every day, because you like what you do.
Is it time to discard that original intent and simply forget about it?
No. Absolutely not! On the contrary, what you will do now is to perfect it to higher levels.
You have already achieved the most difficult part! The big magic has been done and you were the awesome magician who made it happen. Now it is time to look at your beautiful notebook, smile at your great achievement, and colour it with whatever colours you choose from the palette of your imagination.
Do you want to win renown in your new profession? Do you want to move abroad to a place where you can develop more? Would you like to earn twice as much as you are earning today? Would you enjoy having better colleagues or nicer clients?
Remember the hard step was already taken and you were extremely successful. Perfecting your manifestation is child’s play now.
To begin with, you already have the conviction that you are a professional magician and designer of your life. In the second place, your high vibes are so much at hand regarding this intent because you thrive when you think at what you did. Now, it is just a matter of repeating the formula starting from a much better position.
Maybe in your case you have not changed careers, but you have manifested a new house that still misses some touches to become your dream house; or you have attracted people whom you would like to improve your relationship with; and so on.
I know most of you who read this blog are very good designers and creators of your lives and you have all my admiration. Many of you have inspired me in my own creations. I wonder if maybe now it is time to take your creations and make them even more perfect. Ha?
Oh, yes. The fun has only begun.
All images in this post by Thea Westra from www.myforwardsteps.com and www.timeformylife.com
November 9, 2009
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Just a Thank You Post
Today is Thursday, the day of the week when I meet with the visualization group that was formed when I launched my e-book Thriving Together (on April 14th, 2009).
The day I launched the e-book, two people who were listening asked me to take part in the group. Then other people joined us. Some of them have stopped coming, but there is a stable group of 4 people who meet every Thursday at my place.
This short post is to say thanks to them. Made, Nando and Sharya, who have come every Thursday, no matter the winter and no matter their busy weeks. I really appreciate your presence, your company, your energy, your support, and your friendship.
A special hug to Made, who couldn’t actually come today but visualized with us from her home. I’m sure that lovely baby is already very proud of her beautiful mum.
Today, while visualizing, I had a very enlightening “flash” regarding one aspect of my relationship with Pedro, my son. Being a (good) mother is extremely challenging. It is my belief that meditating and visualizing are vital. I really don’t know how I could do it without it, because connecting to the source has shown me the way many, many times.
Motherhood is the subject I want to pass with excellent marks but, of course, there is not one test to study for. It’s a continuous challenge that keeps changing and it demands all your wisdom, patience, creativity, strength, and flexibility. And probably some fifty more abilities that I’m simply forgetting right now.
I want to thank Pedro also, for being so respectful about the visualizations. He still can’t find his way into them (except for some naps he has taken in our company) but I think he will some day.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I love you.
Picture taken by Pedro
October 29, 2009
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Focus on The Present
Take a look at these three everyday, common dialogues, that we often participate in:
1.
- “Hi, such a long time! What are you doing?”
- “Well, I’m finishing my high school studies”
- “Will you go to University then?”
- “Well, yes, I expect to go to University X because I want to become a Y (profession).”
2.
- “Hi, how are you? How is Mr./Miss X?”
- “Oh, we are doing great. We are planning to get married by the end of the year”
- “Oh, that’s great! Congratulations! Will you make a big party?…”
3.
- “How are you doing?”
- “So so. I have been having health problems for the past months. I’m on a special diet, I have problems to….”
I believe these three examples of dialogues show an aspect many of us need to improve in our lives: our focus.
For some reasons, that I believe are educational, we tend to focus on the future. We devote a lot of time, energy, and dialogues to what we will do in the future. Besides, it is quite often that what we will do is tightly linked to conditions that are not completely certain. The result, then, is that we are focusing on something that will happen in the future if something else happens in the future. Yes, and that is what we focus our attention and energy on.
Having the future in mind is all very well, but our top priority had better be what, where, how, and who we are now.
If we are in high school, we had better enjoy every minute of it, because it is one stage of our lives that will not repeat itself. At a smaller scale, every single year, day, and hour of highschool is special and impossible to repeat.
If we have a child, every single moment with that child is unique, and it is so for every single experience we live: if we meet a new person; if we are at our jobs; if we take a shower; if we go to the beach.
Are you living in the present?
How are you now? Where are you now? How is your body right now? What do you hear? How does the room you are in smell? Do you have anyone or anything you love next to you at this precise moment?
As much as I recommend visualizing to create the (future) life you want, I invite you to sense yourself right now and thank for everything positive you are right now, you experience right now, you live right now.
A hypothetical situation: You lived all your life in a place where you were surrounded by orange trees that offered you delicious fruit. Those oranges were really tasteful and you loved them but because the only thing you had to do was extend your arm to pick them, you took them so much for granted that you rarely ate one of those delicious oranges. One day, something happens, and you don’t have access to the oranges anymore: either you moved, or the orange trees fell ill, or you fell ill and your body does not accept oranges anymore. How would you feel? Would you long for them? Would you feel frustrated because you wanted to eat one delicious orange but you cannot find them anymore?
Well, although this was a hypothetical example, I must say that I have already lived this with food: the chickens I used to eat at my childhood house in the fields were tasteful and healthy while nowadays I’ve been recommended to avoid chicken due to the many hormones they are fed on. Carrots, apples, corn, tomatoes, and bananas were a thousand times more tasteful when I was a child than they are today, and so on.
But leaving food aside and just learning the moral, I am urged to say “take advantage of what you have now.” Enjoy what you are living now. Thank everything good that you have today. In short: live now.
Christopher Westra, owner of sites:
http://DietForAHappyPlanet.com (Energize Your Body)
http://RoyaltiesUniversity.com (Earn Perpetual Income)
http://ICreateProfits.com (100 Steps to Online Profits)
that are extremely useful and interesting, suffers from an illness, not too much known, that is called Lyme Disease. Recently he wrote: “Be grateful if you can digest your food without pain. Be grateful if your brain chemicals work properly. Enjoy it if you can do one task, and then another, and another through the day, rather than “crash” every few hours from literal exhaustion. Don’t take it for granted that your bones are strong and healthy.”
And I add, do not wait until you are ill to value your health. Do not wait until you have lost your loved ones to tell them how important they are. Do not wait until nothing to anything!
Life seems to be eternal but it is not. We will all be old some day, then dead. It is now that we are young and alive.
Before closing this post I’d like to share this link to HealFromLyme.com that you may share with anyone you may know who suffers from Lyme Disease or anyone who may know someone who suffers from this disease. It has information and tips that would surely help them.
If you find this issue of focusing on and living the present interesting and you want to read related posts, you may like the following that I wrote at Attracting The Best:
October 19, 2009
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When Being Positive Becomes a Challenge
Sometimes we enter periods when things become challenging: we seem to have forgotten the way we had previously planned, things around us seem to conspire, or, even worse, we wonder if we have forgotten all we had learned about the Law of Attraction, because we can’t find our way to meditate and the outlook of life seems to have gone back to our old, negative ways.
Well, I have some good news for you today. Once you have entered the world of deliberate manifestation, you will never go back to the old frame of mind where you thought things happened to you haphazardously. You may have difficulties, but if you understood that you are responsible for absolutely everything that happens in your life, those difficulties will be interesting challenges.
Maybe you used to meditate or visualize twice a day, you were quite proud of your ability to manifest your desires, but lately you can’t find your way to meditation, or you have even discovered a degree of negativity that you had not felt in a long time. Well, if that is the case, you are living one of those challenging moments that can become fabulous personal success. You are before an opportunity to grow. It is the time to apply all the theory on yourself and put yourself back on track.
All it takes is 3 simple steps:
1. Be selfish: devote time and attention to yourself. Taking yourself into the positive field is key, so you will make it a priority.
2. Thank, and thank, and thank. Thank for the food in your plate, for the people you love, for the sun, for the rain. If you find it hard to feel it at first, start by saying “thank you” and repeat it, and short after that you will be feeling it. Stay at that thank you, good-feeling zone as much as you want. The more you thank, the better you will feel. The better you will feel, the better your point of attraction becomes.
3) The following necessary step is to meditate. The aim of this meditation is to connect (to the Divinity, the Energy Source, Yourself). You want to connect because it is connection that you have been missing. Once you are connected, everything makes sense again, everything looks bright, and everything works the way you want it to work.
Repeat this simple process as many times as possible until you feel good, simply enjoying the fact of being alive, trusting and allowing.
Of course you can help yourself watching an inspiring video, reading a positive book, etc. but in my opinion the connection is the real solution.
What is magical is that once you’ve been a visitor, for any length of time, at the world of deliberate creation, you know that all answers and all solutions are within yourself. That makes it so overwhelmingly easy!
I am a fan of group work regarding LoA and manifestation, because I’ve experienced how a group buoys you up in hard times. So, if you have any friend or friends who happen to be interested in deliberate creation, I suggest you try doing this 1-2-3 process side by side. Do it together (either in time or space, or both) and the results will be faster and better.
Always remember: Take Action! And if it is Inspired Action, much better.
PS: If you found this post interesting, you may like reading these posts I wrote at Attracting The Best:
October 9, 2009
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Let Us Take A Close Look at Intents Together
Hi my friends,
Thank you all for the awesome comments about this new web page. I’ve felt so much love coming from you all that I thought it was a good idea to give you participation in this blog by sharing something I’m interested in and asking you a few questions, that you may freely comment in the comments section.
Do you think sharing some insight about our intents could be useful? I’ve made myself the following questions that I address to you too:
- “What is always in your list of intents?”
- “Are those long-lasting intents manifested or not?”
- “Are you aware of the reasons why some intents do not manifest?”
- “Once you manifest an intent, do you erase it from the list or do you stick to it with more power?”
Please follow me here, because I have the hunch that we may all learn from a little insight about this.
Is there any intent of yours that keeps being there while time passes? Are you consistent and persistent in your intents or change them often?
I have found that my list of intents (so far, because I suspect that writing this post may change that) usually includes those aspects (material or abstract desires) that I don’t have at this specific moment and I’m feeling some need for. And it does not include those things I don’t have, that I would like to have some day, but that I am not feeling like urgent at this specific moment. Let me put it clearer with an example: I do not have a couple and I have not had a couple for a very long time. However, although I sometimes play with the idea of having one, I rarely feel the need for a couple, at least not as an urgency. And the couple has been included in my intents only in those rare moments when I needed it badly. So, my intents vary in time, focused on needs.
Still, there are a couple of intents that have accompanied me through time. One has not manifested yet and the other manifests always and I really want it to keep coming.
The intent that does not manifest is not because the desired thing is stubborn and does not want to reach me yet. The thing I have not manifested yet shows my big self-limiting beliefs about the subject. I am convinced, deep down, that I do not deserve it or I am not good enough to have it. But, a quick look at my other manifested intents easily shows that I have manifested other things that were just as difficult to imagine realised but that flowed into my life so easily.
I invite you to take action about these self-limiting beliefs soon. I am taking action today and I hope to have good news to report soon. (I apologise for not telling you what it is, but I do not want to give more energy to the lack of it).
As far as manifested intents is concerned, I have taken two different attitudes:
1) I left some of them behind, simply forgetting them once they were a reality. For example, two years ago I manifested an amazing vacation in a magical place. I enjoyed it hugely and thanked the Universe for it, but once I returned, I did not think about expanding that in any way. I simply forgot about it.
2) I keep including them again and again because I want more and more.
Regarding the first attitude, I would like to know if you agree with me on this: If we manifest something positive, that manifestation is the perfect spot/standpoint to manifest something of the same nature but better. The hard work has already been done, and amplifying it is only a step away! Taking the example of the vacation, instead of putting the travelling and vacation issue in a forgotten drawer, I could have manifested more travelling and more quality, free time with my son! Does it make any sense to you? Yes? No? Why?
If you agree with the concept, let us pick the intents that you have already manifested in the past and challenge ourselves to manifest something similar but better.
The intent that keeps being in my list and keeps manifesting is one that I suggest you include in yours because it adds adventure and fun to your life: “I get awesome surprises that fill me with joy.” Is there any intent that has proved useful to you? I would be delighted to read about it!
Cheers and good manifestation!
Patricia+
October 2, 2009
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Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones
This book I want to recommend you today is nothing like any other book you may have had in your hands before. Thea Westra from Forward Steps has created an unusual resource of inspiring, positive material that will make a big difference in your life if you choose to let it in.
By reading one page a day, that does not take much of your time, your life will improve step by step. Some days you will feel they are baby steps, and other days you will be convinced that you live a new life. Well, of course, you need to open the book every day and devote 8 to 10 minutes to it. Do you think you can make that effort to improve the quality of your life?
If you do, go ahead! Visit Thea’s page and make yourself an excellent present.
Here is a lovely video about the book:
Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones
Once there, do not hesitate to visit her blog Forward Steps. I assure you you will fall in love with her blog and you won’t believe the amount of resources Thea has gathered for all of us.
If you purchase her book now or if you have it already, feel free to use the comments section to tell me your opinion about it. I’m loving it so much that I would love to share impressions with others.
October 1, 2009
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Visualization Groups
Those of you who have read Thriving Together. A ‘Magic’ Way to Attract The Life of Our Dreams know that all this adventure of visualization started thanks to a group of friends who joined me in attempting something that none of us had experienced before.
That first group, that I will call Group 1 for the purpose of this post, had a very high level of commitment and the results we all got were extraordinary. Basically, we all achieved most of what we intended in the first place.
That successful visualization group one day dissolved so fast as it had created itself. The trigger for that dissolution seemed to me at that time to have been anchored in certain selfish behaviour.
On April 14th, 2009 I made the presentation of Thriving Together, sold my first issues of the e-book and Group II and Group III were formed.
Group II disintegrated a very short while after starting. I do not venture to state any reason for this, because of the array of potential causes I find, including my own difficulty to stick to a visualization routine when the group started.
Group III, however, is still alive and kicking with several very good manifestations for some if its members. Last week we invited the members of Group I to join us. They came and the experience was especially enjoyable for all.
As I see it, what I wrote in my latest post about books is just as valid for activities and groups. If a group works well, stretch your arms, let yourself be taken by the soft, warm breeze, allow your feet to separate from the ground and simply follow the drift. Enjoy it and live it to capacity. If the time comes when the group does not work anymore, simply let go with confidence. The Universe knows exactly what it does and remember that dots are always joined well backwards.
Under the light of my latest readings, however, I believe a group has more chances to suceed if members practise a conscious love for the group and take full responsibility for the aspects that do not work so well.
It is my experience that the dynamics of a group of people are fragile and need care and love.
October 1, 2009
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There Are No Coincidences
When we are in alignment and we allow, an amazing amount of so-called coincidences happen. A common example is when the person we were just thinking about calls or when we are in the street, think about someone who we haven’t met in a long while, and a few steps further we bump into that person.
When we are aligned and let life flow through us, what happens is simple and magical.
I was given a book as a present more than one year ago. Even if the book was in tune with my interests, I never felt attracted to it and it patiently waited for me on the shelf of “books I’m about to read”.
Not long ago I took it from the shelf and devoured it. And I loved it. Also, I realised that I would have not liked it much one and a half year ago and I would have mainly overlooked it.
This has happened to me with a great amount of books and whenever I waited for them to call on me at the right time, they were exactly what I needed to read at that exact moment.
This latest book I’m talking about is “Zero Limits” by Joe Vitale. The truths I found in that book are in complete resonance with my present state of being and in full tune with my present inspiration.
My advice is that whenever a book does not resonate with you in the first pages, you simply leave it aside and wait for a moment of better alignment between you and it. There are so many excellent books to be read, that you’d better find the one that is aligned with you at each precise moment.
October 1, 2009
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