Connected and Committed

nano seconds

The local hamlet library has recently purchased mucho cds to add to their collection, with what appeared to be an emphasis on "oldies", which, of course, depending on your age, could be anything. To me, that means music from the 50s. What caught my eye were titles from Neil Young, Van Morrison, and then Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation. I loved playing that on vinyl many moons ago, a joy puller extraordinaire. My son is telling me to stop clapping and singing while I catch up with the good vibes some of these songs can induce in a matter of nano seconds. I apologize not for whatever it is that propels me into the upper registers of the emotional scale. I only apologize for not doing it more often.

another reason to work your imagination

The Universe does not know or care whether the vibration that you're offering is in response to something you are living right now, and observing, or in response to something you are imagining. In either case, the Universe accepts it as your point of attraction and matches it.

-- Abraham

ripples

great advice on how to live your life

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning August 30
Copyright 2007 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This will be an excellent time to read five
books simultaneously, snack constantly on delicacies while avoiding heavy
meals, climb a tree with an adventurous friend and make careful yet wild
love right there, refuse to practice any form of meditation that doesn't
involve laughing, buy ten cheap alarm clocks and smash them with a
hammer out in the middle of a meadow, pretend to be a feral teenager
who's allergic to civilization, and throw invisible stones at any god, angel,
or genie who won't help you get the love you want.

look around and then imagine it better

In other words, the day would be a day, and you said it beautifully in your earlier statement when you said: “I've been collecting a lot of data”. That really is what the function of your day is. It is the collection of data. Now, friends, you all thought that it was the work that you did that equalled your life's success.

You all thought that it was the asking to join you in relationships, that was the action of your success. What we are wanting you to hear from us, and we are wanting to put in in a framework that you can really hear: The whole point of your day to day action experience is one singular thing; to collect data for your box. Your box represents your point of vibrational attraction. So the whole point of the day is to just look for good stuff to bring to the box!

That's the whole point of the day! That is the point of work, that is the point of relationships, that is the point of television, that's the point of everything that exists upon your planet. It is there for your data collection. Look for the good stuff and bring it to your box. Now, what your purpose in life is, is the visualization process. To look around and see it like it is, and then imagine it better. To look around and see what is, then imagine it better. The visualization process is your purpose of life. The universe will match it with the physical equivalent. The trick is to not getting swept up in the physical equivalent so much, that you lose sight of your ability to visualize. Can you hear us? The temptation is to then start observing! The temptation is to just start observing, to let what is happening around you dominate your every thought! Your work is to keep pulling yourself back.

--Abraham

take the fuel away from the fire

If you don't meet resistance with resistance, it dissipates dramatically. It just softens. Try it! Next time somebody says to you, "I'm right, and you're wrong," say, "Pfftt, you're right. You are right. You're right." And mean it. In other words, don't mock them. Don't be sarcastic. "You're right." And then watch how, all of a sudden, their legs almost go right out from under them. They don't have the energy to blast you, because you just took the fuel away from the fire.

-- Abraham

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It's an amazing phenomenon, this. SO much more constructive than arguing.

as you choose

Imagination is the power of creation. Use it as you would choose, rather than as others would choose for you.

-- Alan Cohen

the gratitude dance

set the tone

It is your job to set your own tone. So what you do is look for something that’s easy for you to feel good about. The aspect of your life that is going well, there are always some of those. And as you give your attention to that, you let that be your reason for establishing your tone. And as you set your tone relative to that, now the universe accepts that as your tone relative to all things, you see. So all you have to do is find the feeling of well-being relative to any aspect of your life, and stay there on it long enough that the universe can begin to respond to it, and then things just get better and better and better and better.

Conversely, you can find one thing that is going wrong in your life and focus on that and let that be the reason to set your tone, and then all aspects of your life begin to acquiesce to that, in time.

--Abraham

I just can't shake it

It was a Tuesday.

There was a feeling in my gut that I couldn't shake.

Sifting through my thoughts as potential distractions, it still wouldn't budge.

No matter what I threw at it, it stubbornly held its ground and seemed
to enjoy the experience.

Knowing was in the house. Bliss, in as much as could be tolerated
in a corporate setting, was in the house. Contentment was in the house.

My body moved differently. My day was phenomenal. A perpetual smile was on my face.

I wondered what had gotten me here, and how do I repeat this
as often as possible?

I retraced my steps. For one thing, I had engaged in some very satisfying physical exercise
the day before - riding my bike with a good friend - at an intensity level in which I don't usually
partake. I was proud of the effort and the results.

Secondly, I had had some very pleasant conversations with a new friend over the course of
several days, during which I totally showed up as myself and was appreciated for same.

Thirdly, I had exchanged some focused feedback with a former boss who swears our
discussions are like therapy sessions.

Fourthly, I was wearing a new blouse, a solid, tawny, deep chestnut, henna perfection,
and my color vibe was singin'.

The joy-puller music I've been playing for weeks, and the thoughts
I've been coralling on purpose over there so I can focus on the ones over here,
all of that has parlayed into the total effect as well.

In my mind, it's no accident that I'm dwelling in this particular piece of real estate
at the moment, and I have to say, these here digs are mighty fine.

They are the perfect basecamp from which to poke my nose, to go out and discover,
to see what is around the corner, to revel in all of joy's various packages.

I almost didn't write this tidbit however. I almost didn't share this newsflash from euphoria.
I almost didn't broadcast what is oh-so-good.

I almost fell prey to the mentality of lack.

Who wants to listen to all this happiness stuff? Won't it just foster bad feelings
in people who aren't in the same place as me?

But hearing me gush about how great things are in my life is what
my part of where I touch the world needs.

Finding evidence of abundance and joy is exactly the ideal contribution.

There are others who are looking for these breadcrumbs to feeling
so good, you almost want to puke. They want to hear these words, so I wrote them
down for them.

For all you Hansels and Gretels of the new age, I salute you.

And isn't this dark chocolate windowsill fabulous?

hopscotch on the promenade

fascinate, inspire, reward, engage

There are water cups in every business. Those small, overlooked items that you think are insignificant that actually matter – a lot – to your customers. Make the “water cups” significant. They are an opportunity to Fascinate, Inspire, Reward and Engage. To you it’s just a water cup. To your customers, it’s a representation of how they’re being treated.

--Brains on Fire

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It's always the little things. Think about it. In relationships, in business, in everyday living. The tipping point happens, the critical mass is reached with the accumulation of all the little things that either annoyed or FIREd.

I'd rather FIRE.

doesn't matter what it is

Rather than trying to monitor your thoughts, we encourage that you simply pay attention to how you are feeling. For if you should choose a thought that is not in harmony with the way that broader, older, wiser, loving Inner Being part of you sees it, you will feel the discord, and then you can easily redirect your thought to something that feels better, and therefore serves you better.

-- Abraham

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Thoughts are like blobs of mercury - they floop around when you try to direct them, especially if you are caught up in trying to direct them. So think about how coffee smells, how fresh-baked bread smells, how babies laugh, that sunrise on the lake, the music that's jazzin' you lately - anything that makes your heart sing. And the issue of the moment will take care of itself much more quickly, with much less effort. Promise.

ain't it da truff

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology,
even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are
not absolute truth.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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Take what works and leave the rest. From everything.

stones in cement

nothing that is worthy of your disconnection

You’ll reach a place that there is nothing in all of the Universe that is worthy of your time of disconnection. You’re not willing to have a conversation that doesn’t feel good, listen to another talk about illness or the problems of the world, go out to dinner with someone that doesn’t feel good. You’re not willing to go somewhere that doesn’t feel good, you’re not willing to have a thought that doesn’t feel good.

I’m not willing to do anything that doesn’t feel good — I’m not willing to cut off my clarity for that, my health for that, my abundance of dollars for that. If it doesn’t feel good, I don’t go there. Nothing is more important than that I feel good! When I face reality, it leads to more of the same reality.’ Nothing in all of the universe is worthy of your time of disconnection.

Decide today: ‘Nothing is more important than that I feel good; when I face reality it just leads to more similar reality.’

Ask yourself: ‘What memories am I holding that won’t let it flow?'

--Abraham-Hicks

chair

back off, jack

I distinctly remember the conversation, Debra. We were having triple-chocolate, brownie fudgesicles, listening to Beethoven's "Fifth" before he even was Beethoven, overlooking the galaxy, when you mentioned how neat you thought it would be to one day have dreams you didn't know you'd inevitably manifest, to have challenges you didn't know you'd inevitably conquer, and to have friends you didn't know you'd inevitably meet.

And as I leaned forward in total awe, all agog, wanting to learn more of your genius and courage, I almost fainted when you added, "And should it ever appear as if I could use your help, before I even begin helping myself, back-off or you'll ruin everything."

You memory-maker you,
The Universe

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Thoughts become things... choose the good ones! ®
© www.tut.com ®

Or, Debra, were we listening to DJ Khalid's "We Takin' Over," before he even was DJ Khalid?

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One of his best yet :-)

delicious

By Flowing Energy, we mean choosing anything that felt delicious, anytime. Maybe you lived it, maybe you dreamed it, maybe you saw someone else live it. These could be thoughts or pictures or collages of beautiful things. It doesn’t matter what. It doesn’t matter if you saw it in a movie, it doesn’t matter if you read it in a book — just something that felt delicious to you. Just keep more of those things in you pocket. Get them out often, and ponder them — that is the process of Flowing Energy.

--Abraham

stories

It's good to tell stories, to reconnect with who you were and realize who you have become all those years later. It's good to remember, and it's good that you've forgotten so many details that seemed so important at the time. It's good to take the lessons and the things that you wanted out of the mix and focus on them. It's really good that you don't dress up like Madonna anymore. It's not so good that you lost that fabulous red hat somewhere along the way.

my toe

always, always, ALWAYS

The key is, starting from the inside out. Often you say, “I don’t know what to do.” True, you don’t know what to do. There are infinite possibilities. And a bunch of them haven’t worked for you. A lot of them have been tried, and they haven’t worked under what you think are the same conditions. And so, you sort of pace around, you don’t know what to do. Sometimes you don’t even know what you want to have. But you always, you always, if you will stop and think about it, you ALWAYS know how you want to feel.

--Abraham

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Oh yes.

Always.

a very good thing

The entire Universe is set up to produce wanting within you! You cannot squelch wanting. You are born wanters. Wanting is a good thing. Write that down in big letters: WANTING IS A VERY GOOD THING!

-- Abraham

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I'm rereading old journals in an effort to scour my known universe for other older wantings that haven't manifested themselves yet. A few have recently come to fruition, and they feel so particularly awesome that I want to keep the flow going. Shed the unworthiness and the figuring out the how's, and keep the flow going. For me, for the people in my life, for Abe and the crew. Cuz I'm a team player.

consequences

January 11, 1986

But now I feel stronger in the sense that I can usually trust my feelings and gut reactions, and I should follow through more than I do for fear of consequences. The consequences of not following through have to be 100 times worse than what your mind, boy and heart are trying to tell you.

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I wrote that almost 22 years ago in my journal during a particularly difficult period in my life. It's an intriguing story with twists and turns and ultimate disappointment, but oh. my. god. looking back now, am I glad it didn't work out. And that listening to your gut thing, I've gotten much better at it. Cuz those consequences, they haven't gotten any less expensive since then.

organic

it's a darn shame

If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.

-- Adam Duritz

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Lots of staring off into the distance this weekend. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

there is more than one right move

One little known secret to making precisely the right move, at precisely the right time in your life, Debra, is knowing that in all cases, there is more than one right move and more than one right time. Lots and lots more.

In other words, no matter what you do next, or when, so long as you do something, I'll meet you there, smooth the edges, polish the grill, and connect the dots.

Tallyho,
The Universe

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Thoughts become things... choose the good ones! ®
© www.tut.com ®

Don't ask me "what grill," Debra, I thought you'd know...

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nudges 08/24/07

I am so happy and very grateful for:

1) A long weekend of mommy time. The possibilities are endless...

2) The sunrise this morning, looking like a sparkling sandy beach up there in the sky. Absolutely gorgeous....

3) Feedback from several coworkers that makes me feel good about what I'm doing;

4) Movement towards my desire to become proficient in Photoshop manifesting;

5) Knowing, not hoping;

6) People who opened their doors to my son when he needed a place to be, and appreciate him for who he is;

7) Realizing that I have what I want - thank you, T;

8) So looking forward to what happens next.

renting space

You alone are responsible for the manufacture of the gods and devils around you, and only you have the authority to take your power back from them.

-- Alan Cohen

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LOVE. THIS.

It might be a good idea for me to maybe, finally, actually read one of his books. Just sayin'.

forget about it

Leave the manifestation piles alone and we want you to focus ONLY upon the way it feels when energy flows through you.

--Abraham-Hicks

the subtleties

Your emotion, your indicator of vibration, is indicating the ratio between your currently focused desire and any other belief or thought that you hold about same. When you feel negative emotion, anger about something, or fear... the name of the emotion does not matter, it always means that there is a desire within you that, in this moment, you are contradicting with some other thought. Your emotions are always about your relationship with your own desire, and nothing else.

-- Abraham-Hicks

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Every once in awhile there's a hair's worth of a difference in something that turns my head and rocks my world. This is one example. One more layer of understanding, one more strand of ah-ha-ness that will contribute to a better me down the road. Just another way of saying something can open up an entire nuther vista.

putting out

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning August 23
Copyright 2007 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You've been putting out and putting out and
putting out, Aries. Good work! I'm impressed with the blend of high-
minded generosity and ego-boosting self-expression you've synergized.
Now, however, it's time to make a transition. You need to start taking
in and taking in and taking in. Your radiance needs to be fed by other
radiances. Congratulate yourself for how aggressive you've been, then
cultivate an equally robust receptivity.

the place

God calls you to the place where your deep gladness and the world's
deep hunger meet.

- Frederick Buechner

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This just makes me want to dance.

eraserhead

Those old habits don’t have to be erased, they just become replaced by a new habit that is more in vibrational harmony with who you are and what you want.

--Abraham-Hicks

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No brainwashing necessary. No bucking up and stiff upper lip. Those habits of mind can slowly get replaced, and let me tell you, it's a phenomenal high when you realize that the old one is gone, for good. Even if it seemed like a herculean effort to make that shift, at first. Maybe even especially if it did. My gut at the moment is currently enjoying blissed-out freedom from a particularly heinous emotion that I'd rather not name so as to avoid giving it any juice at all, and the sensation is such a novelty that I am like a kid with a new toy. I suppose that will fade with time and experience, just like everything else, but right now--right now, is sweet.

so if you can't think of anything good...

Desire summons Life Force. If we must continue to be alive, we must continue to have new desire. You are not willing to let yourself outrageously want because when you outrageously want something that you haven't found a way of getting, it is too uncomfortable, and the risk feels too great. We're wanting you to hear that there is no risk at all! Fantasize and watch what happens.

-- Abraham-Hicks

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I'd rather ocntinue to be alive, so let's keep those desires comin', shall we?

I remember a time in my life where I thought my desires had come to and end, because I'd gotten one that I really, really, really wanted, and on the other side of it wasn't sure what to do next. That was way-y-y-y-y-y-y more uncomfortable than the discomfort of focusing on what is not. I wouldn't recommend it. Keep goosing up your desires, cuz they pull joy through you. That's where my money is, every time.

without everybody else's

By paying attention to the way you feel, and then choosing thoughts that feel the very best, you are managing your own vibration, which means you are controlling your own point of attraction -- which means you are creating your own reality. It's such a wonderful thing to realize that you can create your own reality without sticking your nose in everybody else's, and that the less attention you give to everybody else's reality, the purer your vibration is going to be -- and the more you are going to be pleased with what comes to you.

-- Abraham Hicks

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Dude.

a good payoff, any way you look at it

If you took one tenth of the energy you invest in criticism and converted it to gratitude, your life would improve a hundredfold.

-- Alan Cohen

perfect

Healers remind the cells of the body that they are perfect love.

-- Emmanual (Pat Rodegast)

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OK, NOW we're cookin'.

fandango

psychic surgeons

Now what we’re saying to you is you do not understand the intricacies of your body. Your body is doing all kinds of things to bring itself into balance. Your body is so masterful - the cells of your body are like psychic surgeons, they know what to do. So what you’re wanting to do is make every effort to relax and allow
the natural rhythms of your body to take care of you. You are in such good hands if you allow it. But in your worry you are not allowing, you see.

--Abraham-Hicks

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Unexpected non-parenting time. I'm going to cook myself some lovely healing food, and bask in my own entertainment center of the mind and conjure up some delicious sequences in my imagination, and retrieve from my memory, that which makes me feel good. My body will be free to do its thing and right itself. I can remember joy zooming through my veins, and that's where we're headed.

ear worm alert

This song was popular when I lived in Europe. Blast from the past.....

what does procrastination mean?

Procrastination is nothing more than your physical realization that you are acting too soon - that some mental alignment is in order. So procrastination is not a bad thing. It is the realization that the Universe has not yet sufficiently aligned the Energy.

--Abraham-Hicks

double negative

"You can’t be happy about where you are without getting quickly where you want to be."

Oh, really good words!

You cannot be happy about where you are without moving quickly to a place you consider to be better.

You cannot be unhappy about where you are and get to anything different.

--Abraham-Hicks

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I like the juxtaposition of the first statement, how it makes your brain do a somersault. Silly humans, we are. And so cute.

there's that trampoline again

It’s about no longer letting what is be such a powerful point of my attention that I cannot move from this spot. It’s about finally being the bouncing-on-the-trampoline, flying-into-new-ideas, passionate, powerful, forward-moving creator that you are.

--Abraham-Hicks

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No wonder I like my rebounder so much.

more bang for your buck

17 seconds of pure (not contradicted) thought is equivalent to 2000 action hours. 34 seconds of pure thought is equivalent to 20,000 action hours. 51 seconds of pure thought is equivalent to 200,000 action hours. 68 seconds of pure thought is equivalent to over 2,000,000 action hours.

--Abraham-Hicks

inspired, not motivated

Let your action be inspired action, not motivated action. Motivated action is doing it because there is lack if you don’t. Motivated action is trying to overcome something. Motivated action is very often trying to perform action that someone else wants you to perform. Let all of your action be inspired action. So how do you do that? You do that by talking about what you want and why you want it. That will bring you to the vibrational connection with who you are, and from that place you will be inspired to the how, and the who, and the when, and the where.

--Abraham Hicks

big brothers

Two teenaged boys and a squirt in third grade were playing sand volleyball this evening near a playground Little Man and I frequent quite often. I cringed inside when I realized that Little Man wanted to hang out with them. His Asperger's makes social situations a trial, because he wants so much to be included but he just doesn't know how. However, the teenagers asked him several times if he wanted to join, and he said no. Then he changed his mind and joined in for a little while, peppering the banter on the court with the Spanish he's been learning. They were kind enough to tolerate his awkward attempts at social interaction, and he enjoyed the experience immensely. Thank you to the mom who raised those two - I see them playing with their younger sisters and being awesome big brothers too. Thank you.

OK2BEME

it is attitudinal

Your solution is not geographic. It is attitudinal.

-- Alan Cohen

the bad with the good

You don't have to take the bad with the good. Why include the bad in the vibration? Only include the good in the vibration, and then only the good can come to you.

-- Abraham

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Man, I love hangin' out in this universe. So many corners around which fabulous things happen. It hit me like a ton of bricks this morning that I don't have to take the bad with the good. I can stop pushing against, now. It is so clear to me how that rocks my world, today. I get it that it's all me, me, me, me keeping that in place, and it's me, me, me, me, me who can do something about it, namely knock. it. off.

*Sigh of relief*