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Abracadabra! I Will Create As I Speak

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Did you know that our childhood magic word “abracadabra” is from the Aramaic  abruq ad babra, which literally means “I will create as I speak?”  The idea was to give voice to a desire, say the magic word, and it would appear.

Apparently that’s how it works. What we say creates our reality. I guess we’d better monitor both our words and our thoughts.

Everything is energy 

In our human form we experience and understand very little of the Great Mystery. In many of the world’s spiritual philosophies each person is thought to be collectively dreaming. Therefore each person can, with awareness and an act of will, change the dream.

What kind of dream are you creating with your thoughts and words?

I can. I can’t. I deserve. I don’t deserve. It’s hard. It’s easy. Whatever you tell yourself, that’s what you‘ll get. So a major step to begin to change your life is to become aware of what you’re thinking and saying.

Change your thinking, change your life!

Phrase your affirmation in the present tense

Begin to speak in affirmations. Not “I’m going to…” but rather “I now….”

I learned this practice as I studied to become a practitioner in the Center for Spiritual Living. One time, when I was first learning to speak positively all the time, I was asked my opinion about a carpet that I really didn’t like very much. I knew the owner was pleased with it, but it was far removed from my taste. It took me a long time to offer a comment because I had to sort out all the negatives that were my first response in order to find one positive thing I could say.

As I practice speaking more positively, the positive observations are now the first ones that showed up. And I’ve become sensitive to what people actually want to hear rather than what they ask.

Modify your vocabulary 

I don’t like to use the word “compassion” because it makes me feel “pity”. I prefer “empathy”, which means we are equals on a similar plane of understanding.

“Inclusion” is more common in my present vocabulary as the need for it grows more prevalent. What does it mean? How do I practice it?  What do I need to change within me to become more inclusive?

Be aware of how your choice of words will be received. The more unusual my exploration into various forms of spiritual philosophy, the more cautious I am about who I share them with. “Metaphysics”, “Shamanism”, “transpersonal” are not part of everyone’s vocabulary or realm of understanding.

Believe it can happen

You need to believe that change/healing/opportunity can happen. I’m working with an age-related eye degeneration for which the world says there’s no cure. Every day I have to work on my belief. With each wholing work I do on myself I also have to send energy to my belief. The spiritual world says it’s all energy and energy can be shifted. So in order to make my “abracadabra” process work, I have to believe what I say with my whole being. “My eyes are perfect and whole. I see clearly, especially on the physical plane”.

Look for any doubt that lies behind your abracadabra “I create as a speak” and rephrase it so you believe is. “My eyes are healing.” “My eyes are healed.”  Better still “I see clearly.” Remember to word your affirmation in the present tense. Then believe what you say.

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

– “I create as I speak.”  Choose something you want to change, something you’ll notice when it does change.

– Create an affirmative statement in the present tense as if it has already happened around what you want to change. “I am whole.”

– Say this affirmation out loud seven times each day.

– In seven days, notice what changes have occurred.

– In 21 days, notice what changes have occurred.

– Repeat as desired.

To Sing a Deeper Song consider:

How Choosing the Right Word will Clarify your Choices

Be the Story you Want to Tell

How do You Put your Spiritual Insights to Work?

How to Manage Your Subtle Energy  

How to Pull Forth Your Strength From Within 

VLOG: Insights of a Deeper Song 

PODCAST: Reflections of a Deeper Song 

What Do you Need to Leave Behind? 

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In order to bring something new into our life, we have to let something we’re holding on to go. If things are not flowing into your life as easily and rapidly as you desire, perhaps you should look at what you need to leave behind?

Explorers travel lightly

Backpackers pack efficiently because they know they have to carry the full weight of whatever they take with them. They make things do double duty. They re-use things. They choose the few vital things like a compass and a knife and a canteen and a sleeping bag and carefully select and add one thing at a time, noticing the weight and the time it takes to put it into action. They leave a lot of things behind.

Since life is constantly changing and we are on a continuous adventure of exploration, we should learn to travel lightly.

Chuck the outmoded beliefs

Begin by looking closely at what you think can happen. If those beliefs are not big enough they can keep you from seeking, considering, choosing and expanding the new choices.

For instance, as I grow older, some physical things look and feel a little harder. So I simply make physical adjustments in how I participate. However, I never let physical restrictions stop me from taking part in some manner. I can participate, but I have to make room to explore the possibilities of how.

What do you need to leave behind to have time for the new vision?

Life is a series of choices. If I want to do one thing, I may have to do less of some other thing.

We change and our needs and desires change. Look closely at what is calling to you and make time for what resonates the most.

Honor your own process. I like to immerse myself in a project, so setting aside ten days to focus on one aspect or one project suits my personal rhythm and my learning style. I also like to create more than complete, so I have added a “Completion Day” in which I get things out the door.

How do you like to work?  And what do you need to make that happen?  Take only those actions on your journey forward.

Who do you need to leave behind?

Take stock of the energy exchanges between you and your friends. Is it balanced? Has a friend grown too needy, too demanding?  You always have a choice. Make room for supportive, nurturing empowering people in your life. Let the others go.

I love to learn but I’m realistic about how much I can absorb at one time and how much time I’m willing to spend on a specific class. I choose the best and most productive and most enjoyable use of my time and leave other opportunities behind.

Be prepared to cross a new threshold

Where are you going next and what do you need to take with you? What do you need to leave behind?  You don’t pack snow boots when you are going to the tropics. You may need to leave some habits behind. You may need to find new, more streamlined versions of something that nurtures. Where are you going, and what are the most supportive ideas and relationships you need to take with you?

As I explore subtle group energy work in many forms, I have to make some choices. I take parts of what I’m learning and creatively adapt what I keep into practices that fit my personal purpose, my physical energy and my time. I don’t know exactly where I’m going or what will be required but I’m definitely leaving space to explore what shows up.

As new doorways open, new opportunities appear

What happens if you lay every thing down that you’re carrying around and step through the new door with just you and an open mind?  Trust that whatever is needed will be provided. When you leave the “old” behind, you have room to embrace and explore the new. You are free and open to the new experience. You let the experience shape you.

As you end each day, lay down all your burdens, beliefs, and expectations.

As you begin each day, pick up only the tools you need for that day. You will become more productive and more joyous in moving through the opportunities you’re now free to explore.

What do you need to leave behind?  Will you let go so you can move on?

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Find and Use Your Power Within 

What Seeds Do You Allow to Grow in Your Garden?  

How do You Put your Spiritual Insights to Work

What is Self-transformation?  

VLOG: Insights of a Deeper Song 

PODCAST: Reflections of a Deeper Song 

How to Pull Forth Your Strength From Within

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Only one person can help you — you. Whatever is going on in your life, whether good or bad, it’s there because of your thoughts and words and actions. Only you can change what you are experiencing. How do you do that?

Change comes from stillness

Our minds can be the bad guys, responding rather than creating. Our minds are wonderfully busy, comparing, examining, creating, even judging. But our mind only responds to stimuli. It is at the effect of whatever thoughts show up regardless of how valid they are. We have to go within in order to make conscious choices and to consciously shape and choose what we want to show up in our life. The thoughts we choose to keep will shape our life experience.

You can immediately stop the chatter of your mind by just following your breath. Focus on slowly breathing in, hold it a minute and then breathe out. Repeat for several minutes. Pausing for a focused and calming breath makes us present in the moment of now. From that place of stillness and inner serenity, we learn to interpret our inner nudges, the “ah ha’s” that seem to come from nowhere.

We hold those wisps of insight to our heart to make certain they are aligned with our soul’s purpose. Then we become aware of how we are to put our centered, focused knowledge to use.

What strengths do you have to call on?

Courage, determination, love, empathy, overview — what are the strengths you call upon over and over? I, for instance, call upon my self-awareness.

Determination is present in my life, as is contemplation and self-awareness. What tools do you call upon from within that get you through a challenging time?

Let the answer unfold

My mind and emotions were very aware that national circumstances seemed to invalidate every belief I’d held all my life. I was disbelieving and afraid. I did work to understand the “why” and began to expand my awareness of how people I didn’t know much about were feeling. I didn’t know what I, a senior woman sitting in her apartment, could do to heal and soothe and even create change.

How do you want to feel? Begin by noticing what you want to change about yourself. About the way you feel. Expand your knowledge of why things happened the way they did.

Choose from the answers that show up

If I want to feel safe, I simply focus on what it feels like to be safe. If I want to feel loved, I think and feel and explore what it would feel like to be loved — and to love. If I want to help the planet, I join in worldwide meditation groups and up my personal recycling efforts. Do whatever it takes to encourage yourself to move forward — away from what’s not working.

Examine the many paths

As you can only choose in the present moment, whatever you choose is exactly right — for now. Don’t anticipate, don’t plan ahead, just notice where you are and how you feel.

Pay attention to what shows up. It may be an opportunity. It may be an idea. It may be a call from a friend. All you have to do is be prepared to notice and make a choice around whatever shows up.

Get help if you need it

Look to others for ideas and inspiration that inspire you to take action. If you are lucky enough to know like-minded people, listen to them. Journal, mind-map to pull your own ideas and understanding from deep within. The choice is yours, and only yours. No one can make it for you. No one should be allowed to make it for you. Your choice. Your result.

What are your strengths?

Identify your strengths and notice how you’re using them. Perhaps you have a few strengths lying dormant waiting to be called upon.

Develop new strengths. I have a hard time completing things because the discovery and creating process is so much more exciting than the technical aspects. But I took time to figure out my working habits and now have a better handle on how to get my work to completion — in spite of myself.

Know that you can make it work

As I continue to recover my balance and consider my options, I broaden the possibilities of what I can do and I deepen my understanding of what’s necessary. Both good steps.

How do you pull forth your inner strengths? First stillness. Then knowing. Then choice filled by action. You can do that.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:
Why we are Afraid of Change?
Accept Yourself as You Are
Be the Story you Want to Tell
Why Do You Believe What You Do
How to Hold the Space for the New Vision to Emerge

What is Self-transformation?

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I know the importance of self-awareness — the need to know our passion, recognize our gifts, understand our needs and define our core values. The better we know ourselves, the more aligned are our choices. But when I came across the concept of self-transformation, it called deeply to me. It’s so powerful and empowering. What is the difference between self-awareness and self-transformation?

To transform is to reshape

Transforming ourselves takes us beyond self-awareness.
It’s like being a potter, holding a ball of clay in your hand. You have shaped it to the best of your ability through your self-awareness; now you must take the additional steps to turn it into a cup or bowl or vase. There are the transforming steps. For instance, pottery requires steps like glazing and firing.

If I want to transform my life, where do I begin?

The first step is to know that you can. You can change anything — how you act, what you say, what you think. All of which shape your life experience.

Begin there. In particular, get rid of the beliefs of self-doubt and know that you can change, you can transform.

Let it unfold

Self-transformation. What does that look like? Feel like? Just be still and listen to the voice within and shape whatever shows up.

Begin with the work within

What calls to you? What do you want to learn, to explore, to try?

As I deepened my connection with the voice within, I could hear it and interpret it more clearly. It required stillness and receptivity on my part for several weeks before any direction began to emerge. Now the signs and ideas and opportunities are emerging clearly and rapidly.

What shows up, what evolves, what changes, cannot be planned for. It can only appear as it will. Work with what you are given.

Be willing to change

Your actions and choices will automatically transform your life. That means you make a choice, watch what shows up because of it, and choose and re-choose until you feel you’re closer to the right place, the center of your being, the core of who you are.

You’ll have to let go of some things, adjust others, and push through perceived barriers in order to achieve new understanding, move in new directions, rise to new heights.

What is your next step?

You embrace the concept of being willing to transform — to be responsible for your choices, to actively take part in deepening your inner life and broadening your reach. Be present. Be aware.

That’s the beginning of self-transformation.

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

Where Do YouPlant our Stake
How to Manage Your Subtle Energy
How to Hold the Space for the New Vision to Emerge
The Power of Positive Purpose
The Move From Inner to Outer Work

How to Grow fromYour Inside Out

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Lao Tzu says, “The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness.” I wondered how I would do that. What steps can I take to understand and dwell in higher dimensions of consciousness?

Meditation is a basic step

You grow yourself from your inside out by listening to the voice within. Leaning to recognize it, and interpret it.

Meditation is the perfect starting place. Each day, set aside five to ten minutes of personal stillness. You can begin by simply focusing on your breath and learn to still your body mind. In. Out. In. Out. No mind. Just being. You can choose to repeat a mantra. Aum (ohm) is the universal seed symbol. Experiment with hand postings (mudras) See my video “The Mudra That Made a Difference.”

Develop your own method for daily stillness. No mental chatter. Just simply being.

Mindfulness helps you see deeper dimensions

When I eat mindfully, I taste in more detail. When I listen with my full attention, I hear things I otherwise would have missed. When I perform a task with mindfulness, each step becomes a sharing of my soul.

What you believe emerges

Rumi says, “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all of yourself.” That puts me in charge of my life experience. That makes what I believe I deserve and what I believe is possible the cornerstone of what my life looks like.

Connect with group consciousness

Joining your personal energy and focus with a group of people focusing on the same purpose is an extraordinarily powerful way to help balance our world.  There are many groups offering that opportunity. www.gaiafield.net offers a daily worldwide three-minute meditation. And read “How to Activate a Tree Messenger to Send Your Healing Energy Out Into The World”

Learn to listen within

Mind-mapping, sitting in silence with pencil and paper focused on one problem, one change, is a remarkable way to grow from within. Journaling is another powerful way to hear the voice within. When you uncover something new in these quiet times, record how you feel about that. Your emotions are strong guides that help you make aligned choices.

Let your spiritual practice focus and clarify your intentions

Move into your chosen forms of spiritual practice with mindfulness and gratitude. Savor the ceremonies you create. Embrace each moment as a sacred moment, a rich, full, come-from-within conversation with the intuitive, on-target, wise voice within.

Begin today to expand your experience of life by looking from your inside out.

To Sing a Deeper Song consider:

How to Track Your Self-Awareness
What if You Broke the Mold?
Message from a Rainbow Mother
The Many Faces of Your Calling
35—How to Hold the Space for Change
31-How to Cultivate The Power of Simplicity