An oldie but a goodie: revisiting the "sweeping, definite, gentle, persistent" approach.
Definitely showing up at a great time, since my campaign to diffuse reactivity, judgment and "oh my god what would that men?" in my life is going rather well, and this is more fuel for the creative fire. Lots of good stuff in this list of quotes. I'm sure Source doesn't mind.
All people, circumstances, events, and situations are attracted to you by the power of the thoughts that you are thinking. Once you understand that you are literally thinking or vibrating things into being, you may discover a new resolve within you to more deliberately direct your own thoughts.
--Abraham-Hicks
"Love and appreciation are identical vibrations.
"Appreciation is the vibration of alignment with who-you-are. It is the absence of resistance. It is the absence of doubt and fear. It is the absence of self-denial or hatred toward others. Appreciation os the absence of everything that feels bad and the presence of everything that feels good. When you focus upon what you want----when you tell the story of how you want your life to be--you will come closer and closer to the vicinity of appreciation, and when you reach it, it will pull you toward all things that you consider to be good in a very powerful way.
"Conversely, let us talk about the difference between , let us say, gratitude and appreciation. Many people use the words interchangeably, but we do not feel the same vibrational essence in them at all, because when you feel gratitude, often you are looking at a struggle that you have overcome. In other words, you are happy that you are still not in the struggle, but there is still some of that "struggle" vibration present. In other words, the difference between inspiration, which is being called to who-you-are, and motivation, which is trying to make yourself go somewhere, is a similar difference...
"Joseph Campbell used the word bliss, and we think it is equal: "Follow your bliss." But sometimes, you cannot get a whiff of bliss from where you are. So we say, if you are in despair, follow your revenge; it is downstream. If you are in revenge, follow your hatred; it is downstream. If you are in hatred, follow your anger; it is downstream. If you are in anger, follow your frustration; is it downstream. If you are in frustration, follow your hope; it is downstream. If you are in hope, now you are in the vicinity of appreciation.
"Once you get into the vibration of hope, now begin making lists of things that you feel good about, and fill your notebooks full of them. Make lists of positive aspects. Make lists of things you love."
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Abraham-Hicks, Money and the Law of Attraction
Grrrrr.
He's late. Again.
This is no surprise, but my desire to be on time is unable to be met because of HIM.
OK, let's try a turn-around: "He should be late"? Cuz he is, and it doesn't bother him. "I shouldn't be late?" I'm a recovering gotta-be-there-early, so that one doesn't make sense.
Where is the shadow here? Is it my need to control that's blocking my view?
Then Abe's words float to the surface: "You all agreed to harass each other into expansion, and that's why you're extra mad at these soulmates."
Oy. My body is clenched and I want to let go of this.
Play some music.
OK, that's better.
This is how it's done, reaching for anything that feels better, moment to moment, when you're able.
At its core, it is about being real and idea-driven. Trust is perhaps the most important currency in business, and big ideas may be the only true source of competitive advantage. Lack of trust is a form of tax. And that tax rate has increased in the past number of years. Customers simply don't trust institutions as much today. Particularly large businesses. The main reason is that we now live in an "information everywhere" and more transparent world. Every customer has a camera in their cell phone, a Facebook in their pocket and Twitter at their fingertips. This means we hear and see evidence of businesses not walking their talk. Their products don't match their promise. In order to regain this trust you must simply make sure that all your products, your merchandising, your advertising, your people and the totality of your touch points with consumers sing from the same hymn. And that hymn is what I call purpose. Some people call it vision. Others call it focus. It is the same thing. It is source of your promise. It answers the question: Why are you here?
~~Mats Lederhausen via interview with Anthony Tjan of Cue Ball
I saw The Time Traveler's Wife a few nights ago.
I should rephrase that.
I was in attendance, and I did see the film projected on the screen, but there was more to it than that.
I felt that movie.
The connection between the two actors was amazing, and I remember consciously sinking back into my seat, knowing I could relax into the next hour and a half because this was not going to be a typical Hollywood movie experience.
I was a huge fan of the book and thoroughly enjoyed reading it a few years ago, which helped goose up my anticipation for seeing the film, savoring it, like almost to the point of not caring if I saw it or not because i was enjoying this savoring thing so much.
But at the end, with wet eyes and cheeks--I don't know, maybe it was the colors on the screen, and the music, and the intensity of what just happened--my body started shaking, from head to toe. It wasn't unpleasant, just out of the ordinary. It lasted about 20 minutes and might have gone on longer if I hadn't purposefully started walking around to dissipate the energy.
Tonight I'm probably going to encounter some home-made basil pesto with some friends. I'm anticipating it, savoring the anticipation, since this IS one of my major joy pullers.
Can't wait to see what happens.
~David Whyte
Copied and pasted this because it rocks, this data:
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Posted 17 August 2009 10:50am by Jake Hird with 10 comments
The social media statistics I posted a few weeks ago seemed to strike a chord amongst the digital community, especially in highlighting just how big an issue this particular area of online currently is. So I’m happy to say that I’ve trawled around the internet to bring you some more snippets of useful data and awesome figures.
As before, all this information is likely to be out of date in six months or so – but until then, they’re reasonably recent facts and once again I feel they demonstrate the meteoric rise and importance of this rapidly evolving area of online.
In no particular order:
Although these statistics look impressive, it needs to be remembered that no single piece of data can be used to base strategy or objectives upon, let alone be used as a forecast for future growth of a specific area of social media. To really drill down into a sector of interest, you need to fully aggregate and analyse all available data before making an informed decision or conclusion.
There is not enough action available to compensate for misaligned thought.
--Abraham-Hicks: Money, and the Law of Attraction
I'm a fan of Abraham-Hicks, Byron Katie and Ferris Bueller, the trinity of personal growth in my brain. They each offer their distinct flavor of inspiration and relief and reinvigoration of living for me, and I appreciate the heck out them.
I've been noticing a pattern in my thoughts that I'm declaring to ditch, or replace with something else, another kind of pattern that serves me rather than locks in the staleness.
That would be misaligned thought, or strands of thought that because they are so practiced, they slip out into the neuropathways unbidden and unwelcome, but oh so familiar.
The patterns I want to release to the ethers to be activated no more are reactivity to what others might say or do, judgment of what myself and others might say or do, and the ever popular "oh my god, what would that mean if I actually did that?".
I want to make these thought processes conscious and transparent so I can see them for what they are--noise--diffuse the intensity around them, and substitute a different story.
This is called the immersion method of transformation. Learning a foreign language in this way reduces the amount of time it takes to actually speak and hear and maybe even write in a lexicon other than your mother tongue. I propose to immerse myself in awareness of what thoughts are running me, cancel and delete them whenever possible, and rewrite my story according to how I want it to be, thus reducing the amount of time I am stuck with what I've manifested thus far.
Which isn't all pain and dreariness, I should clarify. I'm just wanting to claim the rest of my birthright.
I've done this kind of all-out revamp campaign before. I read several books by Jonathon Randolph Pierce in a few weeks' time and observed as I found myself a few months later working in a new position earning 25% more than I had been. Amazing stuff.
So I'm basing this latest effort on previous success, and lining up an equally formidable board of advisers to inform my strategy. Of course this type of endeavor requires commitment, a genuine desire to change, and getting to a place of knowing that it is going to happen.
Otherwise it languishes on the vine like every other well-intentioned attempt to rewire beliefs.
I fully expect a new crop of resistance toys to be created, and that will be part of the fun. Yes, I say fun. Observing my life change is fun. Doing the work is fun. Talking about it with others who are interested is fun.
Realigning the stories I tell myself over and over will release amazing amounts of energy and time and health and abundance and great people and experiences coming my way.
And the most engaging reason to do this, or to do anything, is that it will feel great while it's happening.
It crossed my mind to start a count-down of some sort, or track 100 days of transformation, or some similar number related accountability thing. But that doesn't feel right. So I'm not going to. What I will do is be as honest and raw and genuine as I can while reporting on my progress here and elsewhere, in order to benefit others on their paths of getting to good places as well.
What I will do is examine and expose the thoughts and beliefs that hold me back. If they resonate with you and you are able to take something away from my experiment here, so much the better.
In as much as it's all about me, it's all about all of us.
And I can't wait to see what happens.
when it gets right down to it, the individuals that are really doing interesting things and changing the world don't seem to be paying much attention to the cutting edge technologies. they're too busy conducting experiments, spending time alone, making mistakes, dreaming up new ideas, sitting in the midst of uncertainty... embracing mystery.
--keri smith
Oh, Papa Seth, you hit it outta the ballpark this morning.
You helped me see the weeds for what they are once again.
You delineate what’s about to go down in the world of higher education, which in your estimation is at a crossroads, or at least, there are those in the industry who might could be awake to the fact that there is a crossroads coming their way.
Like the one that “blindsided” that pesky newspaper business, as you most aptly point out.
Or the musket makers. Or the stage coach companies. Or the train systems. Or the music companies. We could go on, no?
So the decisions that the upper echelons of systems that promote hoop jumping of any educational kind could make fall between these three polarities:
*Should this be scarce or abundant?
*Should this be free or expensive?
*Should this be about school/[hoops] or about learning/[empowerment-brackets mine]?
Hmmm…these choices sound vaguely familiar.
Could a certain combination of those decisions be the very issues that keep institutions of any kind in business, and our culture perpetually mired in clever distractions that do their best to reduce us all to less than we could be?
Perceptions of scarcity, expense and hoops—that way lies what we’ve got.
Abundance, free, and empowerment—that way lies, what?
Some of us are so afraid to find out, we won’t even consider going there, even in our heads.
My question is, could it really be any worse than the status quo?
Let’s see. Scarcity, expense and hoops means prisons, rehab programs and therapists’ offices all filled to overflowing.
I say we’re already experiencing hell on earth.
There oughta be a version of The Secret that includes traditional medicine, the food industry, organized religion and lack-based marketing when describing what knowledge gets deemed unsharable by those who don’t want it spread around.
Seth finishes this morning’s blog post by saying, “If I were going to wager, I'd say that the free, abundant learning combination is the one that's going to change the world.”
It’s the only kind that ever does.
Humans seem to be able to endure only so much self-imposed repression and despondency before we decide to wake up every once in awhile and reclaim our power.
How ‘bout we do that sooner rather than later around this timeless topic of hoops versus empowerment, huh, humanity? How ‘bout we stop buying into what doesn’t work, and hold the space for what does? How ‘bout we retire the drama of politics as usual and live well anyway?
Somebody get me a pill, or a cookie, or something to buy, quick.
I'm watching a video of an interview of Eleanor Roosevelt by an incredibly young Mike Wallace, a lit cigarette in hand, often endorsed by him during the program--bizarre. Eleanor was 74 when this interview was broadcast back in 1957, and Mike was interested in her opinion of whether or not fear is really our greatest enemy in the face of the threat of Communism. She said that we do have something to fear, the fact that the Soviets had an objective, had built a policy around it that stretched far out into the future, and we had no such future objective for the world around which we were building policy.
She also stated that the presidential candidate possibilities for leadership in our nation at that time were few and far between because of a lack of conviction, a vision, a reason for doing what we are about.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Half a century later we are still grappling with the results of a lack of conviction and guiding vision for why we do what we are about as a people, as humanity, other than accumulating power and cash.
At one point Eleanor shared, "I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge. I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past. I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know, and if they have leadership. No one can move without some leadership."
Well, we have the knowledge deep inside us. We know that what passes for reasons to focus attention in our culture will never give us what we hope they will--the restored sense of self that the culture itself does its best to stamp out of us through its sanctioned institutions at the earliest possible ages. And the leadership we require is within us as well. We are the ones who continue to provide that sanction, protecting it out of fear.
Taking a peek behind the curtain of that fear provides another perspective of it, revealing the machinations of mere humans projecting an illusion.
We are bigger and more powerful than that illusion.
It's been stuck in my head since last weekend when I sat through the trailers before Julie and Julia started.
Meryl was fabulous. The food was amazing. Butter, well, you have been given a new lease on life, again. Blogging, maybe a few folks were enticed to dip their toe in the ocean.
But that Fame trailer.
It's been stuck in my head since last weekend.
I finally took another look at it on the movie's official website.
Sure, this generation's Fame has great talent and dancing in its favor, and I wish it every success this time around.
But that set of phrases that Randy's character offers to I'm not sure who--"Everything you want to change about yourself--all of the parts of you that you keep secret--that's your power--it's who you are."
Whoa.
Blissmonger credo.
Thank you for that, script writer.
That light that you don't shine often enough. That passion you have that sits demurely in the corner dressed in grey. That nagging sense of something not quite right.
It's not.
You have been trained to ignore it for a very long time.
Your power is being siphoned away a kilowatt at a time.
And when it's all gone....
Claim it.
I was beginning my four laps of an athletic field early this evening when I realized that I was sharing that space with other people--an uncommon occurrence. I realized what they were doing when I looked up--three large kites high were up in the air, tethered to various things or people across the field. As I rounded the corner near the owners, I was asked to take the helm of one of the marvels in flight, and it was a great sensation. While the owner tied his shoe, he described what it's like to be laying on a blanket on the ground, looking up at 30 or 40 kites--blissmongering, I would imagine. How could you possibly focus on anything negative under those circumstances?
I had my cell phone with me and tried taking a photo, but there alas, there is no zoom feature. I hear they are at this same spot every Tuesday, and there will be a community ed. class offered in the fall. Maybe we'll team up and offer bliss-kiting.
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