Total Prosperity Thought for July 15, 2008
By karen | July 15, 2008
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
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-Harold Whitman-
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Total Prosperity Thought for Today- July 14, 2008
By karen | July 14, 2008
You would never think a negative thought.
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Peace Pilgrim
1908-1981
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A Way with a Love Song
By karen | July 14, 2008
featuring Andy Griffith……yes, that is perfect casting!
You have to go back to Youtube……Enjoy!
I know I did!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvKgnkIN8C8
He definitely has a way with a Love Song!
(actually with every song!)
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What if…?
By karen | July 10, 2008
It has occurred to me that the collective consciousness is not necessarily playing the “what if” game in the most productive manner. Now this is just my own opinion of course but if we accept that our thoughts and our words are creating our lives then why on earth would we speculate in such a negative direction when playing the “what if” game as this question that I saw yesterday?
“What if gas prices got to be $**** per gallon?
(what? Did you think that I was going to join in on that pitiful party and say out loud how much? Not me!)
It’s fun to play “what if”. We all enjoy the game of speculating on what the future may hold but some speculations should be reserved just for entertainment purposes, novels and movies. For example,
“What if a giant asteroid hit the earth?”
Yes, that is a subject that could be (and has been) a fun movie or an entertaining read but in real life? No. Don’t think so.
So when you are playing “what if” in real life, play it in a productive, creative way. Rather than thinking about “what if” and following it with a huge catastrophe, follow it with something that you really want, that really makes you happy, and that you would really love to create in your life.
For example…..(this one is for everybody)
“What ……if we could really have world peace?”
Or we could turn that first one around…..
“What if …..the price of gas went down to $***”
Or even better
“What if….. there was so much money that the price of gas didn’t even matter ?”
And since you are speculating for your own future, play your own “what if”.
“What if __________ really happened? (Fill in the blank with your own dreams).
If you are going to play the “what if” game play it in a manner that serves you. You don’t really want a catastrophe in your life, so stop speculating on that and start speculating on the life that you really want!
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Pivot to Power
By karen | July 8, 2008
Well as promised a week or more ago this is now the 400th post! Kind of amazes me when I think of it and look back. 1 year, 10 months (almost to the day) and 400 times I’ve hit “Publish” here at Live the Power. My “what if” game today is “what if a real publisher of real books let me hit “Publish” just once…. or twice or ½ dozen times…..that puts a smile on my face!
So what is Live the Power?
It’s about creating your best life, using the power of your mind to create the things that you really want. Becoming the best You. It’s about making your life the way you want it to be.
It’s all about the thoughts that you think, the feelings that you feel and making the best of the situations of your life.
But enough with theories, what about some real, concrete things that you can do that will assist you in creating a joyful life? I recently started using a very powerful process that I learned sometime ago from Abraham-Hicks. All of a sudden I had the “aha, I get it ” moment and now this process is really working to help direct my thoughts to create a more joyful and powerful life. It’s effective, I can use it to dramatically change a negative vibration coming on and it is simple. Can’t get much better than that.
Whenever you are feeling a negative emotion it is because of the thoughts that you are thinking. Now I know some of you will want to argue with me there and say…
“No, it’s because this happened” or
“That other person did this or didn’t do that” or
“Woe is me….my life is so difficult…”.
But the fact is that it absolutely does not matter what is happening outside of you or what somebody else did (nobody here lives in a perfect world), the only reason you are feeling negative emotions is because of what You are focusing on.
When you blame it on conditions or other people you just give away your own power.
You cannot control conditions or other people but you can control the focus of your own mind. The focus of your own mind is really the only thing that you can control.
But that is enough and that is powerful.
Negative emotions are caused by you focusing on the things that you don’t want and the things that do not make you happy.
So how do you shift your focus back to the things that make you happy and the things that make you feel good?
Use the process of the Pivot.
Whenever you feel negative emotions coming on, regardless of the cause, stop yourself and realize that you are focusing on something that you don’t want. At that point recognize that your focus is not where you want it to be and turn it around by acknowledging and asking yourself….
“I know that something is amiss here and for some reason I’m focusing on something that I don’t want , What is it then that I do want in this situation?”
As soon as you identify some of the things that you do want or that you would prefer you will feel that feeling of relief. You will feel a shift.
The real beauty of this is that even when you can’t really pinpoint what it is that’s making you feel negative emotion and you really can’t even identify what it is that you want from the situation you still realize that you no longer want to feel the way that you are feeling so even if your answer to what you want is “no clue” you still know that you want to feel good (and of course, you don’t want to feel bad). Just acknowledging that to yourself will often shift your focus. It works wonders. It really does.
Use the process of the Pivot and you can change anger to acceptance, chaos to peace, fear to confidence. You can shift all of your negative emotions back to zero where you can start all over again and attract the life that you want.
No matter what I am doing,
No matter who I am doing it with,
It is my dominant intention to feel good.
Today I will look for that which I am wanting to see.
(paraphrased by me from Abraham-Hicks)
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“And be renewed in the Spirit of your Mind”
Ephesians 4:23
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