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I made a bit of an awesome discovery this past week. I was getting aggrevated by the fact that I couldn’t get my husband to do something that really meant a lot to me. I wanted him to read a small chapter in a book called The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate. We had recently had a converstion where we both were feeling the same exact way which was surprising. I love my husband but evidentally I wasn’t letting him know in a way that he could understand. It was really frustrating to me. I don’t recall how I came across this book but it really opened my eyes as to how different our languages of love were. I was definitely a specific language and I wanted him to read that so he had a better idea.

He left the book on the table for quite a while and didn’t attempt to read it. This just stirred up childhood issues. I realized that as it was happening and took steps to deal with it. I decided that I needed a break and went to meditate using my Immrama meditation CD. Twenty four minutes later, I felt much better. I went back downstairs and did some work. Unfortunately, I wandered into the room where the book was laying on the table and felt the grouch meter increase. I grouched around for a bit and then to go back upstairs and meditate again.

For some reason, as I relaxed into the rain sounds of the meditation, I decided to try surrogate tapping on myself while the meditation was playing. I spent about 5 minutes out of 24 tapping on my issues. I knew what was bugging me so I just “tapped” on them with my mind. I found that the words just came to me. I used to have issues with finding the right words to deal with my feelings. For some reason, the meditation helped me open the blockades and deal easily with the issues. After the meditation was over I felt SO much better. The funny thing is after I was able to really let go of the grouch in me, my husband did take the book and read the part that I wanted him to! I stopped pushing against and it happened. But had he not done that, I think I would have still been okay with it all.

I really like the way the two fit together for me. I have used it several other times and felt so good after the fact. It is really easy to learn eft. You can go and download a free manual that gives you the basics of it all. I have the DVDs that they offer and find that they are really helpful in seeing how it all plays out in practice.

You can see an introductory video of it at EmoFree.com

Everyone knows that meditation is a great tool to come into alignment and quiet your mind. It is one of those processes that Abraham highly recommends in order to allow you to come into a state of allowing. We spend quite a bit of time in a state of resistance which does not allow what we have in our vibrational escrows to come into being.

September 8 - Ask and It Is Given - Perpetual Flip Calendar

Meditation is a state of allowing, where, for just a few moments, you stop trying to make anything happen. It is a time when you are saying to your Source Energy, to your Inner Being, to your God (or whatever you want to call it): Here I am, in a state of allowing Source Energy to flow purely through me. Fifteen minutes of effort will change your life. It will allow the Energy that is natural to you to flow; you will feel better in the moment, and you will feel more energized when you come out of it.

If you have a busy life, you are likely to find excuses, left and right, as to why you just don’t have time to meditate. I have tried several meditation programs online and each has it’s benefits.

The one I am currently using and loving is from Immrama.org. I am using the Insight CD (though I have both the Insight and Focus) and can definitely find 24 minutes a day. I have always loved watching and listening to the rain so this meditation program is especially relaxing to me. I find that I am very relaxed and refreshed when the 24 minutes is over.

From http://www.immrama.org/insight/insight2.html

The audio technology, embedded on an audio CD beneath the soothing sounds of natural rain, works to guide you into profoundly deep states of relaxation, meditation, and awareness.

Not all brainwave products are dedicated to helping you achieve long-term personal growth and improvement. Many products offer temporary effects, but do not help the listener achieve long-term benefits and results. The Insight CD is designed to help you improve your mental and emotional well-being for long-term results.

While it would take years, possibly decades, of training to achieve these positive results through traditional meditation techniques or other personal growth programs, our listeners are experiencing the same results and more in an incredibly accelerated timeframe. Our audio technology will assist you in reaching levels of consciousness as deep and often deeper than those reached by experienced meditators, Zen monks, and Yogis who have been practicing meditation for years.

If you like guided meditations, you can give Meditainment a shot. They have a nice collection of guided meditations in mp3 format. It is great for those out there who like the instant gratification of having the meditation NOW You can join and download all the meditations in the member area. I have been a member for 2 years and do listen to the meditations every so often when I want to be guided through the experience. They are constantly updated their catalog and adding new, member suggested, meditations. They have a many meditations which are situation specific and run about 20 minutes in length.

A few of the topics covered include:
Depression
Thinking Positively
Money Worries
Self Confidence
Self Esteem
Many Relaxation Programs
Stress Relief

If you visit their site, you can get a free mp3 download of the Secret Garden so you can see what their programs are like.

I tried Centerpointe and, while it is a great program, it is costly and requires an hour a day. I did that for a while, but family, work and kids got in the way of uninterrupted meditation time on a regular basis.

I find that meditation helps me stay more on track. It helps me deal with the stressors of daily life in a more positive way. I like that and so does my family!

Let your dominant intent be…

Let your dominant intent be to feel good which means be playful, have fun, laugh often, look for reasons to appreciate and practice the art of appreciation. And as you practice it, the Universe, who has been watching you practice, will give you constant opportunities to express it. So that your life just gets better and better and better.

Excerpted from the workshop in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, September 13th, 1997

It appears that I have missed several days of my appreciations, but oh not so I have been doing them all day long and sometimes, sitting down to type them all out just isn’t possible.

On my post, The Time is Now, I had a friend ask me if my words matched my feelings. She sensed that it was a little bit off. My reply was that it was a bit of “faking it until you make it” but that I was aspiring to feel and beleive what I put. I am glad to report that I am so feeling what I posted now. That conscious decision to feel better and to take some small steps to get there make a tremendous difference.

Appreciation and Meditation make all the difference. If you say you don’t have enough time in your day to do these things, you are just making excuses. At most, you will spend about 20 minutes out of 1440 minutes in your day. Abraham states that it takes, at most, 15 minutes to get the benefit of connection. Appreciation can be done all at one time, like a post in a blog, or all through out your day. It really is easy peasy if you commit to making a difference in how you are feeling a focusing.

My Appreciations For Today and Past Days:

My dream that I was talking to Abraham!
A fabulous Meet-Up. Great people and discussions.
Martha and EFT
Husband’s good mood when I was checking in via phone
Running into someone that I know at BJs
Paper Mario
Bright blue skies
Wind chimes chiming
Laugher
Meditation (Which I am off to do now! )

Let your dominant intent be…

Let your dominant intent be to feel good which means be playful, have fun, laugh often, look for reasons to appreciate and practice the art of appreciation. And as you practice it, the Universe, who has been watching you practice, will give you constant opportunities to express it. So that your life just gets better and better and better.

Excerpted from the workshop in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, September 13th, 1997

I have been making a concerted effort to appreciate all day long Let’s see if I can trace it back

My appreciations:

- A nice smooth morning

- The cool air in the early morning

- The sound of the world waking up

- The moon raising not far ahead of the sun!

- Bill and Sherry in the Morning - They are just so much fun to listen to!

- Talking with Martha and walking through my issues with her.

- Money, money, money. It was bill day at work and I love writing the checks The money just keeping coming and going

- Heart-felt emails

- The ladies at the office who have helped me learn that I don’t have to have my hands in everything for my business to run as I like it. It was tough to let go of the control a little, but WAHOO I am loving the freedom it give me.

- Abraham-Hicks Workshops! I have signed up for the one on Friday 10/26 in Asheville. I am envisioning that the universe will help me get into the Saturday workshop as well! They say it is all sold out on the website, but I know it’s possible!

- Curry for dinner

- Super playful puppy

- Soft kitty cat with a roaring purr

- Cheese straws - mmmmm

- Peacefully sleeping children

- Crickets at night

- Night time breeze that told me that we *will* be having rain this weekend.

- My life

Ahhh what a way to end the day Feels great, and with that, I am off to fit in my 15 minutes of meditation before I go to bed.

Ah yes, I have been quiet. I have chosen not to write about where I have been because the feelings I have been having about everything have been less than good. Yes, they are there, and yes, I did wallow in them for a while. I just couldn’t put fingers to keyboard and write it all down. I KNOW that saying how things *are* is not going to get me to where I want to be.

I have been working on getting to a better feeling place. I am getting there, slowly but surely. I have made the choice to feel good now and get to a better feeling place now. Now is really all I have so why waste what could be happier times wallowing in what is happening in my current now. As Abraham says, now is temporary and not set in stone. Your tomorrow’s now will be molded by how you are focusing today. More positive, hopeful focusing today, will create a better tomorrow.

Yes, I’ll take some of that please

I just have to do the work to make it happen. It is oh so easy to fall back into those ingrained negative patterns of thinking. Counseling and EFT are helping with that aspect.

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Abraham-Hicks CD 10/9/04 A - Tarrytown, NY -
Feel Good Now, It’s Important

All of your power is now. Now!

This is your point of attraction. Now.

Do you know, that here you are and everything is actualizing around you now. So here you are in your now, and everything is actualizing around your now, so you future experience that you are going to walk into is actually lining up in response to your vibrational output now. Interesting, isn’t it?

So as you’re onery and upset, or in despair, your future experience is lining up in response to that, right now.

So you say, “I have good reason!” and we say “Who cares?”

“But I have good reason to feel this way!” We say, “It doesn’t matter you are still messing up your future experience.”

“But Abraham, I know I’m right. This is the way it is. I’m only speaking the truth.” We say “We know, and your future is going to be full of it. Your future is going to be full of more of this truth that you are feeling uncomforable about now.”

So get the picture of this. So here you are in your now. Your now which is attracting to you all things. The now, which is your point of attraction. And you’re attracting to you now, you’re attracting to you tomorrow, you are attracting to you a week from now, you are attracting to you a month from now. If you could see the vortex of things that are lining up for you in response to your now emitting.

So, all your power is now. Think about what you’re doing to tomorrow when you feel good now. Think about what you are doing the day after tomorrow while you are feeling good now. Can you imagine the resources that you allow to line up, when you take the the time to feel good now? When you get in synch with well-being now, you see. All of your power is now. It doesn’t matter if you are thinking about the past or the future, or observing something in your now, you’re doing it now. You’re emmanating now. You’re radiating now. You’re creating NOW.

Tomorrow never comes. Have you noticed? Because when it gets here, it’s today. All of your power is NOW. So, you’ve just gotta decide that you’re gonna do the best that you can now to feel good and stop making excuses about why you don’t feel good now by charting all the statistics of the reasons why you are justified in not feeling good. Who cares?! It doesn’t matter! You’re right, you should feel bad, but feeling bad only makes tomorrow worse. You’ve gotta feel good now. You’ve got to make up your mind that nothing is more important than how I feel now because now is everything. Now is the whole enchilada. Now is the power of me. Now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now. And if I practice, now, feeling good, there is a better chance that tomorrow I’m gonna feel good too. You might as well start somewhere, and it might as well be now.

Now why not start improving your life now, now, now.

I am determine to create a more positive tomorrow. For the next 20 days, I am going to do a daily appreciation on my blog and spend at least 30 minutes a day meditating. I feel that these two things will help me create a much more positive tomorrow. Any takers out there? Care to join me in 20 Days of Appreciation?

Ah, how appropriate. I am catching up on my perpetual flip calendar and this was the entry for September 3rd.

With an understanding of the Laws of the Universe and some willingness to deliberately choose thoughts, you can, in time, replace all hindering beliefs with life-giving beliefs; but there is a process that can give you the immediate benefit of chaning your beliefs, in a much shorter time — we call this the Process of Meditation.

And September 4th:

The Process of Meditation is not one where you work on your desires, but, instead, this is one of quieting your mind. As you do so, any resistance will subside; and your state of vibration will rise to its natural, pure state.

And finally, tomorrow’s quote:

If we were in your physical shoes, we would site quietly, by ourselves, in some pleasant place where we would not be interrupted - maybe under a tree, mabye in our vehicle, maybe in the bathroom or garden - and we would utilize 10 or 15 minutes, and not much more time than that, to quite our mind in meditation.

Okay, okay, I’ve taken the hint 15 minutes a day for the next 20 days. I can do that! Actually, I am a member of Meditainment and they have music tracks that run that 10 to 15 minute mark that would be perfect! They also have guided meditations that run about 20 minutes. If anyone is interested, I have some freebies I can give away for joining. I can let 25 people each have one of the mediations that they offer on the site. Just reply below with your email address and the track you are interested in and I will send a share to you.