Book Review
Mastering Life’s Energies: Simple Steps to a Luminous Life at Work and Play by Maria Nemeth, PhD
This book is dedicated to making you feel alive and vibrant all of the time—not just occasionally!. This book demonstrates how to employ all the energies within our lives—physical vitality, creativity, time, money, enjoyment and relationship—to realize our goals and dreams—and even more important to live a luminous life, filled with possibility, promise, prosperity, presence and passion. This practical book provides specific methods to wake up and fully become ourselves, the spiritually awakened, yet grounded person who lives in a state of constant luminosity. I loved this book! One of the most powerful, helpful and practical books—especially for dealing with the elimination of fear. I highly recommend it.
Manifesting: Checking the Warranty – What Has Gone Wrong When It Doesn’t Work
Why is it that some people seem to be able to easily manifest their desires, and others get frustrated and just give up? What do some people seem to have the golden touch and others get disillusioned and think manifesting is a bunch of bunk?
That’s because manifesting is like a car. Each part of the system has to be working effectively in order for the engine to work and the car to drive forward. If any portion is out of alignment or non-functional, than you won’t be going anywhere. So we thought we would provide a simple checklist to make sure all the parts are working!
Here are all the systems that need to be working properly for you to manifest optimally and rapidly:
- You’ve Injected High Personal Frequency—Make sure you have filled your tank with high vibrations. This makes all the other parts work at peak performance. Operating with joy, hope, confidence, love, compassion, trust, etc. in your tank allows the Manifesting to happen. Low vibration energy won’t power the vehicle.
- Is This Good for You and It Doesn’t Diminish or Take Advantage of Others—Check this gauge. If it says that your highest good is the ultimate goal, and you’re not hurting others, than you are good to go.
- You’ve Turned the Whine Off—If you are whining and complaining, sorry, go back to the garage. Your Manifesting engine runs on pure positive thoughts and desires.
- Your Windows are Clear and You Can See The Direction You are Going—Clarity is essential. If your windows are fogged up, and you are at all confused about the direction, then you are destined to wander all over Creation and back. Once you have clarity, your Manifesting vehicle can take you where you want to go.
- The Seats are Comfortable and All The Outside Noise is Eliminated—If you’re not really comfortable and you’re getting all kinds of distractions, then your driving will be erratic. Your engine and your interior have to be in sync to make Manifesting happen.
- The Driver Has to Commit the Time and Focus – Make sure that you can give yourself enough time to drive to your destination. You can’t shortchange the process, and the focus must be consistent.
- The Imagination Gear is Engaged—Open this up to its fullest! Go for full speed and distance. Reach for the horizon; don’t just settle for what’s close. You’ll be limiting yourself if you do. Let your visualizing gear be expansive. Remember to visualize your destination as if you were already there!
- Turn off the “How? Switch”—You really don’t need to know this to manifest. You just need to focus on your ultimate destination. Your automatic Global Positioning System (GPS) will take care of HOW you are getting to your desired location.
- Trust the Manufacturer — Don’t question whether it’s working. Don’t try to maintain or wrestle control of your Manifesting vehicle. If you do, your stubbornness may take you down a wrong path. Let the vehicle do what it’s supposed to, since it has a very trusted Manufacturer—proven over time.
- Disengage – Once your Manifest vehicle is in motion, disengage. You don’t have to drive the same route again and again. The vehicle knows what’s in your itinerary and will take you there. Let go and you’ll get there with ease and grace.
- Watch for Signs—Now you might see signs that are meant to guide you along to your destination. Be looking for them. Don’t ignore them, because you ignore them at your peril. You’ll miss the right turn-off, lose a key shortcut or end up on a dirt road somewhere. This could compel you to start over.
- Be Patient and Grateful. Give yourself plenty of time to reach your Manifesting destination. Impatience can stall the vehicle. Remember it’s not YOUR timetable that will get you there. It’s the Manufacturer’s. Patience and gratitude will be rewarded with a lovely, relaxing and fun journey that ends in a remarkable destination of your choice.
Assorted Wisdom
Getting Healthy The
12 Tips for Healing and Getting Fit Joyfully
For most of us, getting healthy is a chore. We have to drag ourselves to the gym, swallow a gazillion vitamins, go to the physician’s office and sit around for hours until you get in, then follow through on doctor’s protocols.
The annoyance and resistance just makes us more energetically weak and slower to heal or grow fit.
Thus, in order to really tune up your body, you need to look at the healing and fitness process as FUN! You need to shift your attitude into a state of welcome, enjoyment, confidence in what you are achieving, and plain old happiness! The more you are in a state of joy and love for the process, the faster your body will vibrate the energy to meet your mental images and gleeful emotional state. Set the tone and your body will follow!
So here are some ideas that you can implement that will speed up your path to health.
1) Each day envision yourself as completely healed and in an ideal physically fit shape. Create your vision, feel it, enjoy it, believe it. Know that your body is absolutely PERFECT! Do this without fail for 30 days, but try to make it part of your daily routine for the rest of your life.
2) When you take your vitamins, supplements and any other medications, see them as bubbles filled with love going down your throat and then spreading out all over your body, much like the bubbles children blow into the air. You’re sending bubbles to your organs, muscles, tendons and tissues to coat them with love! Personally, I just smile when I envision this image!
3) Dance a little every day with abandon. You may have seen Meredith and Christina “dance it out” on Grey’s Anatomy. They are letting out the stress in a very positive way. This is a very healthy act to get the energy flowing positively through the body. Do this to the radio when you are getting dressed, do it in the shower to tunes in your head, do it when your favorite song comes on your iPod, dance in exercise class at the gym or when you are on the treadmill. My personal favorite is to dance in the pool to music.
4) Never go the doctor’s or therapy without a great book, an iPod with your favorite music, or some other creative endeavor such as a sketch pad. Make waiting time enjoyable.
5) Look forward to the doctor visit or therapy session. See such visits as your opportunity for a “tune-up.” You’re a Maserati that just needs a little tinkering to get you revving down the road again at 120 miles an hour. Or you’re a Dolce and Gabbana gown that needs a bit of redesign to get ready for the next awards show appearance.
6) If you are confident in the doctor’s recommendations, than follow up on his or her instructions. No point in going if you don’t what the doctor says. But don’t make this a chore. Make it a gift to yourself…a gift of your health.
7) Find alternative therapies. If you’re into alternative therapies, I always look at these as wonderful way to expand my world and my knowledge of energy. Personally, I have a wonderful mix of traditional, but holistic practitioners and alternative specialists whose work is generally based in energy flow. I go eager to know more about how my body works and how I can manage my energy better. It’s like going to college classes without paying tuition!
8) Don’t drag yourself to the gym or workout! Go with zeal! Remember how you feel when it’s over and how you love the way you look in your clothes. Put a reminder on your email calendar with an incentive—the favorite pair of pants you plan to buy when you get down to your ideal weight. Or play something catchy like YMCA on your ring tone to remind you to go! See the visit as a chance to make new friends or workout buddies. Going with friends is definitely a way to make working out more fun.
9) Got to Yoga. Who doesn’t like yoga once you start going? It’s peaceful and if you start slow, it doesn’t strain you, but you just find yourself getting more fit. It’s so good for both the mind and the body. Find a yoga studio close to home with classes that fit your schedule so there’s no good excuse NOT to go.
10) Walk! Find a pretty place where you can walk for exercise and inhale the beauty. And with daylight savings times, you can walk well into early evening after work, or even in the morning before you go to work. Pick your favorite iTunes. I have a special iPod file just with great walking music that makes me pick up the pace and puts me in a fantastic mood.
11) Get outdoors…Hiking, bicycling, snowboarding, skiing, etc. You already know that these are beneficial to you, a fun, too. Get up from the computer and go do more of them.
12) Lifestyle eating changes are often challenging, but look at them as a chance to expand your choices or learn new recipes. Go to the health food store and look around for cool new prepared foods, new ingredients and healthy new packaged goods. (I love some of the dairy-free ice creams, for example, and my regular grocery store makes a mean cashew-encrusted chicken ready to heat and eat!)
So give yourself a positive energy boost even before the endorphins kick in and you’ll fine yourself on the fast track toward greater health.
Conscious Creation
The Compassion Quotient
Do you think of yourself as compassionate? How do you react when you see someone on the street begging for money or work? How do you respond when your aging parent complains about never seeing you? What happens in your mind when you see thousands displaced after earthquakes in
Do you take a bare notice and rush on with your busy life, or perhaps think, “at least that’s not me?” Perhaps you have a moment of reflection and a small feeling of care or concern—and then focus on something else.
As our lives become so complicated and the emotional demands on us so intense, what has been lost is compassion. Whether that takes the form of a kind word, a wish for better circumstances for the unfortunate, or an act undertaken to comfort or aid someone, we can each do more. Compassion, a vibrational form of love, is in short supply. We are quick to give money, and slow to give of ourselves.
So what is your Compassion Quotient and how can you increase it? Keep in mind that the more you give, the more you will get when you need it.
- Are you oblivious to other’s pain, loss and longing?….a 0% quotient
- Are you a little bit compassionate? You remember to call on someone’s birthday and you have to be prompted to call your sick relative?…a 10% quotient
- Do you feel anguish when you see someone fall in the street, and go over to help? Do you comfort someone in obvious emotional pain…a 25% quotient
- Do you reach out to someone you know who is suffering in silence and take them to get help? Do you offer aid and a kind word to a homeless person? Do you comfort someone who has lost his or her home due to financial reversals?…a 50% quotient
- Do you volunteer to help strangers in need in your community? Are you unfailingly kind and willing to listen to the elderly, regardless of how cantankerous they can become? Are you always on call for family members in a crisis—but available when it isn’t a crisis?…a 75% quotient.
- Do you get on an airplane and head across the country to help with a rescue mission? Do you take in an unwanted child to your home? Do you expend your own love, time and money to help someone who is not related to you?…a 100% quotient.
Upping your Compassion Quotient requires being in your heart, not in your head. Here are a few key steps:
· Stop and feel. Don’t just let it pass through you. Feel for that person.
· Consciously create a reserve of love, warmth and kindness within yourself and hold a vision for healing for the other person or people.
· Express that feeling you have to the person in need.
· Ask what you can do; help without asking if you know what needs to be done.
· Be available to those who are lonely, who are in need or who are without resources. Sometimes a kind word is as valuable as a gold coin.
· Commit to doing something weekly to help someone you don’t know. Commit random acts of kindness. Pay it forward.
· Volunteer when there is a crisis in your community. Reach out with your heart..Be compassion, don’t just do compassionate acts. Show others how to be compassionate. Some people just don’t know and they learn by observation.
· Be compassionate to yourself. It will make you more compassionate to others.
· Forgive—a lot! Forgiveness is compassion for you and for the person you are forgiving.
· Be compassionate for the world and for both its sufferers and for those committing the acts that create suffering. Compassion—feeling love and respect for someone and expressing that love and respect– is the only true key to resolving the planet’s problems.
May you grow to have a 100% Compassion Quotient!
Manifest Message
The next time you're feeling stress or discomfort, ask yourself whose business you're in mentally, and you may burst out laughing! That question can bring you back to yourself. And you may come to see that you’ve been mentally living in other peoples business all your life.
from "Loving What Is" by Byron Katie
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Conscious Creation Tip
Who Can I Emulate?
While each of us can focus with intention on the traits we wish to develop in ourselves, some people find it difficult to sort out who they want to evolve to be. For some individuals it may be easier to look at someone else and think “That’s how I want to be!” Whether that is a close friend, someone you see on the street, a person you see on TV news, a celebrity who gives generously to causes or a Mother Theresa, other people can be your touchstone. This is not to say that you should be jealous or envious, that you should wish to be them or that you should worship them. It is only to say that people who exhibit worthy traits can be your inspiration to begin Consciously Creating those traits in yourself.
Manifest Message
A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It's not our thoughts, but the attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it's true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we've been attaching to, often for years.
from "Loving What Is" by Byron Katie
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Manifest Message
Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do to create what it wants without fear.
from "Loving What Is" by Byron Katie
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Manifest Message
You must mentally accept in the present what you actually want to happen in the future. Picturing it brings that acceptance much quicker.
from "Open Your Mind to Receive" by Catherine Ponder
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Book Review
The Secret of Letting Go by Guy Finley
How often have you obsessed over something, or felt that you were in the grip of emotions that had you in a vice? Guy Finley’s best selling book, The Secret of Letting Go is masterpiece of instruction for those who are ready and willing to let go. The book offers remedies for conquering stress, securing your emotional freedom, clearing away obstacles, living live on your own terms, releasing your inner strength, banishing fears and negativity and dropping self-defeating behaviors. I love the titles of his three major sections: Let Go and Grow Happy, Your True Nature is High and How to Defeat What’s Defeating You. This is a great handbook for anyone wanting to achieve emotional release and freedom.
You can find this book at www.Manifestbooks.com