“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves.”- Blaise Pascal

Get clear about what you want, focus on your desire, then allow it. The Simple 3 step Deliberate Attraction process that has been helping me to experience more joy and success in my life as I take the action steps towards being financially free.

This card is from Doreen Virtue’s Archangel Oracle Cards

What process do you use to help you get clear?

Being Aware,
Being Focused,
Being Still,
Being Present

There are many ways we can practise being aware. Lighting a candle and and focusing on the flame brings me to stillness. Sometimes standing up and deep breathing allows me to become release a negative emotion.

I have an instance today where an email I received sent me into a tail spin of negativitey. The email was postponing, at the last minute an appointment, that I was looking forward to, and had prepared for. Then lost my original Monday Motivation post, I saw it on the screen in preview, I thought I had posted it, but when I went into check, all that was there was a photo and a saying. It is titled getting clear, I then blamed the computer the computer.:(

Des got me to stand up and deep breathe and deep breathe until I was laughing. Eckhardt Tolle in Chapter 5 of A New Earth calls this our pain-body.

Today while watching A New Earth telecast I recognized my pain- body behavior. I also now understand how my behavior can affect others. I am unaware of of my own power sometimes.

Kim Eng, Eckhart’s partner, talking with Elizabeth Lesser after the show, relates how when she is not aware of her pain-body, and a negative emotion arises, Eckhart will sometimes just leave. He discusses real life instances of this in detail in Chapter 6, Breaking Free. This has been a big AHA for me.

Todays tail spin was about me, why should I be cancelled! My projection onto someone else does not serve me and puts my vibes into a negative space, then the universe attracts more negativity to me. So becoming aware of my body-pain behavior as it arises is crucial to my becoming present and being with what is.

Kim Eng talked about how she uses Tai Chi, Qigong and Yoga to raise her chi and push out negative energy. Yoga helps stretch and release. This also assists in being aware.

The 5 Tibetans help me and recently I have started attending a pilates class that helps which stretches and releases as helps me develop core strength.

The awakening exercises provided to accompany Chapter 6 are wonderful:

Don’t try to become free. Don’t look for peace. Don’t look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Instead, try these three exercises the next time you feel the arising pain-body:

The moment you completely accept your nonpeace, your nonpeace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

When you accept what is, every moment is the best moment. That is enlightenment.

You don’t need to deceive yourself and say that there is nothing wrong with a particular unpleasant or undesirable life situation. It may be time for you to get out of it. If so, you can recognize fully that you want to get out of it. Then, narrow your attention down to the present moment without mentally labeling it in any way. No judgment, no resistance, no emotional negativity. Just the “isness” of this moment. Then you take action and do all that you can to get out of the situation.

And a few gems from Eckhart today:

Learn to accept whatever emotional arises in you.
Awareness comes into this emotion.
Feel it accept it, allow it to be and then choose
Pain body feeds on the energy of your thinking

This then becomes the voice of you head.
What stops me being present?
The need to win drains me of power.
When you are more present you become more powerful.
The energy that it takes, to look at what someone else is doing,
Stop competing against others. Follow your own race.

Please feel free to share any of your AHA’s if you are following this telecast.
I am really looking forward to this weeks reading Finding Who You Truly Are?

How about you?

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” –Melody Beattie

Being grateful is something that is integral to being successful and creating high vibes.

I was listening to a call on Gratitude by Michael Losier yesterday, and was inspired by his story of 2 young men, Brad and Matt,  the Grati-dudes from Junior Attractors who are running workshops for teenagers on manifesting and Law of Attraction. They have a link to Michael’s interview with them that set them on their path to success.

Their video of the Gratitude Dance, is  great way to start the week, be grateful, dance and laugh out loud too. What a delicious way to start the week.

HOW TO GRATITUDE DANCE

1. Write down everything that you are grateful for. 2. Turn on our video. 3. NOW, DO THE DANCE!!!

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Please share your gratitude thoughts and tools below or write a post and link back here.

Last week I said I would share each week, my  favorite quotes from chapter one of a New Earth, that form the first two petals on my flower are:

I will start with one that relates to the flower:

Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans,however briefly, to the beauty that is the essential part of their innermost being their true nature."

This beautiful Strelitzia I am blessed to see each time I drive out of our garage and return.Currently they are in bloom in many of the garden where I live. I love the beauty and the individuality of these birdlike flowers.

The next favorite conjures up childhood memories of " if you are good…….. you will……."

" You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is alredy within you and allowing that goodness to emerge. but it can only emerge if something fundamental changes within your state of consciousness".

 This quote from page13, is something I believe deep down inside of us we all know, but we forget and life becomes too serious, as the next quote tells me.

"Life isn’t as serious as my mind makes it out to be." 

This quote from page 33 makes me laugh at myself. How easy flowing and simple life can be when I let go of the mind control!

I am now going for my morning walk on the beach and I am going to practice " just walking", just being present.

This has been one the exercises suggested by Eckhart for what I describe as getting to being present

• Every time you walk up and down the stairs in your house or place of work, pay close attention to every step, every movement…even your breathing. Be totally present.
• When you wash your hands, pay attention to all the sensory perceptions associated with the activity: the sound and feel of the water, the movement of your hands, the scent of the soap and so on.
• When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.

Eckhart then suggests you journal your experiences. I know these exercises are challenging for me and my multitasking mind. Also I might miss out on something:)

 Please share below your experiences if you are also reading A New Earth and following this teleclass. And thank you to Tray and Pat who were both inspired from my post last week

"A new heaven" is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness, and "a new earth" is it’s reflection in the physical realm.