This weeks quote comes from a book I love by Joan Anderson. She has written several books about her journey of self discovery.

 

Such is my morning ritual, nothing terribly complicated unless I’ve forgotten to bring logs in from the woodpile the night before. I’m deep into my time-out season of life, where it seems best to be actively passive, involved in little, aware of much. Instinct told me to take myself away and look at all the unwrapped gifts nature has to offer. The natural world is hibernating and so am I.

Joan Anderson has written several books and she  holds weekend workshops on self discovery. Her latest book is The Second Journey. You can learn more about Joan Anderson at joanandersononline.com

The beginning of freedom from the pain-body lies first of all in the realization that you have a pain body. Then, more important, in your ability to stay present enough, alert enough, to notice the pain-body in yourself as a heavy influx of negative emotion when it becomes active.

This is such an amazing book, well worth the read.

Renaissance Island

 Renaissanace Island Aruba

“There are three components to the Law Of Dharma. The first component says that each of us is here to discover our true Self, to find out on our own that our true Self is spiritual, that essentially we are spiritual beings that have taken manifestation in physical form. We are not human beings having occasional spiritual experiences – it’s the other way around: we’re spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences.”

From the book “The Seven Spiritual Law’s of Success” Deepak Chopra

 Photo Credit: Lisa Overman

    Ask and It is Given Learning to Manifest Your Desires By: Esther and Jerry Hicks (The Teachings of Abraham) is a book that has the potential to transform your life. I’ve read other books by Esther and Jerry Hicks and I have found them very useful and filled with insights.  Wow, I wish I’d picked this book up sooner. Everything happens for a reason and in this time, this moment I was ready for the book’s message and it’s exercises. For years I’ve heard people talk about raising your vibrational level, of shifting your energy to transform situations in your life. I have meditated off and on for fourteen years and in the last few years, since attending a Metaphysical Church I have come to have a much deeper understanding of how this works and how I can create these changes in my life.

Ask and It is Given Learning to Manifest Your Desires gives you incredible, pleasureable exercises to begin transforming your life. I’ve only been using the book for a few days but can already feel a shift in my energy. I feel a change taking place each time I do the exercises. I’m excited and so deeply moved that they created this book for each of us to benefit from. It’s truly worth reading and exploring no matter what your beliefs.

In this post I am going to detail one of the exercises I’ve completed and talk a little about the shift I felt as I worked through the exercise. This is Process #3 The Creative Workshop

They say you should use this exercise “when you want to focus upon what is most important to you personally.”

“When you want to be in more deliberate control of the primary areas of your own life.”

“When you want to improve your state of allowing so that even more wonderful things can flow into your experience.”

“When you want to practice a positive point of attraction until it becomes a dominant point of attraction.”

They also discuss the emotional set point range that you should be in before doing an exercise. For this exercise “it was recommended to be between Joy/Knowledge/Empowerment/Freedom/Love/Appreciation and Optimism.”

They say it is good to do this exercise one of several ways,” writing it down, thinking about it in your head while driving, walking or when you have time alone.” They have you work with four categories on four separate pieces of paper. You can find the four categories listed in their book on page 156.

They say to write a short list of things you desire in each category, but not to work hard on the list, just put what comes easily to mind and then move on.

I will share with my readers one category of mine.  This category is My Work. In this exercise they said to “write a short list of things that come to your mind easily that you desire, right now about your work.”  They give examples. You can refer to the book to see their specific examples. After they gave examples they broke these down into desires and listed several things they desired under each item.

My Own Work List

I actually did this exercise twice and added to my list, giving it deeper detail which felt vibrationally correct for me. I noticed that the more clear I got with my desires that my energy vibration shifted. I also found it helpful to read them aloud, that also seemed to deepen the shift. I felt really good doing this exercise.

I want to make more money.

I want to make more money because I enjoy feeling financially secure.

I want to make more money because I like to pay my bills ahead.

I want to make more money with my writing and my gift. I want to use my writing to give guidance to those healing.

I want to make more money because I can create more good through letting go of dealing with financial snafus and being financially responsible.

I want to make more money because my writing and healing work benefit others and deserve generous payment.

I want to feel excited about the work I do.

I want to feel my spiritual writing and speaking make a positive impact on the public.

I want to be financially secure through my writing career.

I want to teach people through my writing work that they can heal their pain.

I want to buy a place on an island where I can do some of my writing work.

This is just one of many many exercises that help readers get clear with their desires and to begin shifting their energy and manifesting transformation in their life. I hope you will get a copy of their book and try these exercises for yourself. I have a special spot where I keep this list and I reread it aloud daily, noticing how my energy shifts when I  focus on what I desire.

Let me make something clear here. You are all my messengers. Every one of you. You are all sending a message to life about life through your own life lived. The question is not, “Are you a messenger?” The question is, “What is the message you are sending?”

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Louise Hay you can Heal your life.

I have written about this movie, “you can Heal your life” previously on my site. I watched the interview portion of the dvd with Louise Hay again tonight. I was looking to gain some additional insight for my own life. As I listened I was touched over and over by her words and her inspiring thoughts. I replayed the interview about four times so that I could get each of these quotes. Her words and her thoughts are so deeply moving and inspiring that I wanted to share them here on my web site.

Begin to train yourself to be aware of what your thinking. One of the ways to do that is to periodically say, “what am I thinking?” Would I like this thought to create my life? It takes a while to do that. Even on the smallest level it can make changes. We begin this by doing, doing affirmations. Do them deliberately, that is making positive statements about your life. Do it morning and night, or twice a day or even at lunch. As you do this, things will begin to change. I call it getting the green lights and the parking spots. They are small things but they are good things.

What I like people to do is stand in front of the mirror and do their affirmations. There is something very powerful about looking in your own eyes and accepting yourself or rejecting yourself. When you get up in the morning go to the mirror and start your day by saying “your name, I love you, I really really love you.” Miracles will begin to happen. If you can begin your day with that it’s very very powerful.

If you do a good general statement about yourself the universe will figure out how to manifest that, how to bring it into your life. It’s like planting a seed and letting it grow.

Gratitude works alot. The more you’re grateful for your life, the more the universe gives you to be grateful about. The universe loves gratitude.

]]> http://ahealedheart.lisaoverman.com/2009/02/23/you-can-heal-your-life-3/feed/ 0 http://ahealedheart.lisaoverman.com/2008/12/27/the-true-power-of-water/ http://ahealedheart.lisaoverman.com/2008/12/27/the-true-power-of-water/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:08:59 +0000 ahealedheart http://ahealedheart.lisaoverman.com/?p=180 The True Power of Water By: Masaru Emoto is a book that I find deeply interesting and that I recommend. It is one of several books that Masaru Emoto has written on the effects of vibration, energy, prayer and thought on water. When I was flipping through it this morning, reading randomly I came across a piece I wanted to share. Along with this is a YouTube video with Dr. Emoto

A family that subscribed to our magazine conducted an interesting experiment. They put the rice in two glass jars and every day for a month said “Thank you” to one jar and “You fool” to the other, and then they tracked how the rice changed over the period. After a month the rice that was told Thank you started to ferment, with a mellow smell like that of malt, while the rice that was exposed to You fool, rotted and turned black. Pg 97

To give your attention to something is a way of giving energy. By receiving attention , life can get the energy to move in a better direction. Pg 98

With our economy in such flux and with the emotional upheaval so many people have experienced I was reminded by The True Power of Water just what we as people can do to focus our energy and our intentions to begin bringing love and calm to the distress and upheaval we see and feel. This morning as I read pages 90 to 104, I was reminded that we can create with our focus and our intention. We can begin to create a calm, healing around us by focusing our gratitude on everything good around us. Energy goes where we put our attention. We want to give energy and focus to the good in our world and in our lives. Focus on gratitude, Be grateful, be filled with love for everything in your life. Being grateful creates an energy that eventually opens the door to more good in our life.

For example, my house needs to sell, so rather than focus my energy on feeling a desperate need for a sale, I focus my energy on gratitude for what I have, for having a beautiful place to live, for having the abundance of owning a home and I release it to spirit. Another example, with the economic situation many families are feeling strapped financially and are not able to meet all their financial obligations, rather than focusing energy on all the things that are not paid, and getting more distressed focus on what you have paid. If you paid your rent, or your phone bill, think of the money you used or are using to pay this bill and say a prayer of gratitude for the fact that this money is in your hand and that you are using it to pay something that needs to be paid. A grateful attitude for the abundance in our life helps create more abundance.

There will naturally be moments of distress and stress. I can attest to this…laughter with a house for sale and still for sale long beyond what I can afford. But what I am seeing in my own life, with my own intention and gratitude is a subtle positive shift in my abundance with keeping my focus in GRATITUDE and using my thoughts in an uplifting way to say THANK YOU for everything I can pay and for EVERYTHING I have. I can assure you with two houses of bills this is a real test of my focus and intention.

There are more days than not that I could just spin out in the anxiety and stress of paying for two houses. Instead I’m learning and seeing positive results by saying THANK YOU to God and the universe for everything in my life. When I awake in the morning I say a prayer of gratitude for my house, the man in my life, the money I have, for my family and friends. I refocus through the day, for a minute or so and I say another prayer of GRATITUDE and THANKS for all these things and for any abundance that I find coming into my life on that day. I know there will be readers rolling their eyes, some in my own family I’m sure, but it’s working.

GRATITUDE is THE RIGHT ATTITUDE to change our experience, to change our lives. We know that greed and corruption are not working, we can see that every day on the nightly news. We see the direct result of the economy in our investments and our bank accounts. We know what doesn’t work, so lets focus what can work. AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE AND LOVE.

]]> http://ahealedheart.lisaoverman.com/2008/12/27/the-true-power-of-water/feed/ 0 http://mysticmakedasspace.lisaoverman.com/2008/06/11/practice-what-you-preach/ http://mysticmakedasspace.lisaoverman.com/2008/06/11/practice-what-you-preach/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:45:35 +0000 mysticmakedasspace http://lisaoverman.com/?p=129 Last week my 25 year old daughter, Monique, called me from Kentucky, tired, overwhelmed, frustrated and worried. She was preparing for the “GRILL”, which was the test all employees have to take to move forward in her company. There were topics from “accounting” to “everything you think you might need to know”. You went from department to department being “grilled” about what that particular department did, and their relationship to other departments. The goal of the “griller” is to hit you and hit you hard. One in particular had a reputation of making the “grillee” cry. The pressure was on. As an employee she works an average of 55 hours per week, plus she’s a new mom with a three month old son. She and her husband share duties, but as most women know, we are usually the overall caregiver of the family. 

So, here we are two days before the “grill” and she’s a wreck. With both she and her husband as recent college grads they both found great jobs, she at a national car rental company, and he at a multinational company. They both make a decent salary, but with car notes, rent, baby everything, and huge student loans, they frankly needed the money passing this test would provide. Needless to say, a lot was riding on the outcome of this test.

The call came in, “Mom. You got to help me with this test. You need to call on somebody, people, spirits or anybody to help me!” Monique has grown up with a mother that wasn’t necessarily like other moms. I was always a “woo woo”. As a matter of fact she often calls me “Glenda, The Good Witch”, or “Harry Potter”. I much prefer “Glenda” she was such a kind, compassionate witch. But I digress, “What can you do Mom? We need the money now!”

Metaphysics is what excites me. I love the role of spiritual counselor and life coach, both offer me the opportunity to teach and inspire others by sharing my own life experiences and lessons.  I instantly thought of Doreen Virtue, PhD’s book, “Archangels and Ascended Masters”. I knew the information I needed was there.

Now I believe we all have a spiritual team around us. We have our departed loved ones, angels, guardian angels, ancestors, and various archangels and ascended masters around us at all times. The members of your team may vary depending on the particular circumstances. You can add anyone to your team that resonates with you. What about the Chinese goddess of mercy, protection and compassion, Kuan Yin?  Mother Teresa, a nun, dedicated her life to nurturing the world would be a good addition. What I wanted to do for my daughter is pull together the best team for this specific issue.

I settled on Lu-Hsing to take the lead on this mission. Lu-Hsing is the god of salaries, pay, success, career progress, investments, steady accumulation, wealth and employees. Lu-Hsing was a mortal man who was a high ranking royal court official in China during  the 2^nd-century B.C. According to Doreen Virtue, Lu-Hsing says, “The secret of financial success is the willingness to adopt a warrior spirit in attitude, grace and presence.” He goes on to say “…Warriors have an outlook of expecting a positive outcome, and a willingness to do whatever is needed to incur that outcome. It means not giving up, but allowing for flexibility, and to flow with the energy or chi as it moves along. Be strong, be vigilant for success, and be sensitive to the energy undercurrents, and you shan’t go wrong.”

This was exactly what I was looking for. Doreen Virtue goes on to say to invoke Lu-Hsing write, “Thank you, Lu-Hsing” on a piece of paper, fold it, and hold it in your palm during the applicable situations. I passed this information on, encouraged her to take her time, focus on her breathing and slow everything down if she began to feel overwhelmed or anxious. At the end of our call she seemed calmer and more in control.

Needless to say, Monique can through the process with flying colors. While she felt she did “O.K.” the next day her boss’s boss told all the other managers that, “Monique crushed the Grill”. It seems she did better than most other grillees. After that, she was flooded with calls and e-mails congratulating her on her accomplishments. Not only did she get an instant raise, this put her in the enviable spot of the managers all wanting her to work as an assistant manager in their branch. When she makes money, they make money.

I of course wasn’t surprised. I expected no less. I have worked with the archangels and ascended master enough to know they were the real deal, and if you want to make things happen, one just has to ask for assistance. I encourage anyone interested in learning more to check this particular book and to look over Doreen Virtue’s extensive list of books, intuitive cards, and other metaphysical material.

I got a call yesterday from my daughter asking for help once again. An assistant manager job vacancy has come open and she has received e-mails encouraging her to apply. I know without a single doubt that she will get the right position for her needs. All things are DRO (Divine Right Order). So she will again call on Lu-Hsing. I will be calling on Archangel Michael, Hathor, Ishtar, Mother Mary and other mothering goddesses and teachers to help guide me as I guide her.

Namaste

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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