Lisa Shah Escape Launch

Wisdom-Spiritual Riches I

2011-12-27T18:58:00.000-08:00

Wisdom for the day

As a young mum of 5, I had a deep hunger to know the bestway to mould and care for my babies.

Materialistically, I had grown up with little and still hadabout that, but I started to explore God’s wisdom to find the answers and guidanceI sought. I studied what I found in the Bible but also relied a lot on thewonderful connection I felt between me and God and His love for me.

The following passages became mantra-like for me. To knowthat I’d been granted access to the same forces that framed the universe gaveme incredible inspiration.

Pr3:19-20

“BY wisdom the Lordlaid the Earth’s foundations, and by understanding He set the heavens in place.

By knowledge the mountains were formed and the clouds let drop theirdew.”

Pr 24:3-4

“By wisdom a house isbuilt & by understanding it is established

By knowledge its rooms arefilled with rare and beautiful treasures.”

I concluded from these verses that God had given me theexact same abilities to raise my family (build my house) as he used to create perfectionin the universe. And in James we read that we can simply ask God if we findourselves in need of wisdom and he’ll freely give it to us (Jam 1:5)

Obviously wisdom is more than a lofty ideal. It has potentpractical application.

Wisdom at the beginning of all things

Just as Pr 3 states, wisdom was from the beginning. The bookof Proverbs espouses the countless benefits of walking in wisdom’s counsel.Silver, gold, honour, long life, health, safety, practical knowledge andrewarding relationships are ALL listed as blessings offered through Wisdom. Whoof us doesn’t want these things and yet how often we ignore what’s available tous in the form of Wisdom, in order to acquire them? Or try to find other placesthat share some of these truths without encountering God because Ego doesn’twant to face Judgment. But Truth is God. Eternal. Unchanging.

Of course, it isn’t about knowing the theory of wisdom, itis about reshaping one’s beliefs to harmonise with this Logic of God. And whena person starts out on that path, that’s when he finds just how much he hasbeen alienating himself from the Truths of God’s wisdom, understanding andknowledge. Prov 2 and Prov 8 are particularly good for a description of and thebenefits surrounding Wisdom. And also the level of dedication it takes toattain her company and blessing. Nothing short of your complete commitment willyield these returns. Total alignment-and once aligned...the rest follows.

No Punishment Today

Proverbs 1:7 opens with the concept that the “fear of theLord is the beginning of Wisdom” but ‘fear’ here is referred to “a reverentialrespect” for God and his ways...not a terror of being punished by him. God isn’tpunishing anyone at this point and if anyone tells you differently, you can saythat Jesus bore the punishment of ALL of, not only your past , present andfuture “sin”, but everyone’s past, present and future shortcomings! Anyonewilling to accept this can be free of judgment, come boldly to God’s throne ofGrace and experience God’s peace.

And then, on the other hand, if you encounter someone whotells you there’s no need to receive forgiveness then evaluate the fruit of theirself worth.

Perhaps some can find a way to get free of judgment anotherway, but I’ve not really encountered it. Somewhere along the line, I findpeople come to a place where they can’t forgive themselves and so suffer selfinflicted guilt. This is the guilt that destroys us. Telling oneself it’s ok is not the same asfreedom-trust me!

The antidote to a poor self worth is being LOVED as you are.God does this but if he hadn’t provided a gateway for man to approach him, wewould still be running and hiding like Adam, when God wanted to come andcommune with us. Because we feel GUILTY!

We can’t even reason WHYwe feel bad, or why we feel the need to justify. The mind and heart become anendless labyrinth-an abyss of rationalisms. Personally, I gave up trying tounderstand and just accepted that I can enjoy freedom from judgment withouthaving to analyse it, by surrendering to Wisdom.

To accept this “wisdom of God” opened my heart and keeps itopen to receive whatever other insights I need to live well.

To Live As I Was Designed

So I believe I was created and fashioned to live as a miniversion of God, co-creating together with God using the laws he establishedthrough wisdom , understanding and knowledge ( AKA law of Attraction/ Love). InFrench, “knowledge” is translated “la science”. I love this as it signifies theaffinity rather than enmity of God and Science. Religion and Science have hadissues, but the truth about God is SCIENCE. Science just takes a little whileto catch up and make instruments that measure what was previously “invisible”.

I want the wealth God intended for me...all of it! And everykind of it promised to those who walk with Wisdom.

2011-12-25T13:30:00.000-08:00

Living True
Since I started song-writing years ago, I have found that my songs, much like my drawings and my writing have carried a strong creative element. That is, I see them become real in my life.
Some would call them prophetic but because I understand how we can intentionally design our lives, I see them very much as tools for creating-more like ‘self fulfilling prophecies’. That’s not their only purpose but it sure is a potent one.

It could be this way for me because my talents have always been about tapping into the inner font and been an overflow expression of my heart. Not contrived for any reason or motive other than to say what’s in my heart. And the most impacting work is work that comes from the heart. But when is aligned to God...now, that’s when you get something incredible!

My Singing & Song-writing
How I Love You Lord
The very condensed version of how I began singing and song-writing follows:
When I was 5 and watching two sisters up the front of my kindergarten class singing together, I heard a Voice. It was the same Voice that I’d known for years and one with whom I shared regular dialogue. Even as a 5yr old, I’d already begun to receive wisdom and insight that was so incredible. God was very real to me. And very close.

This Voice spoke and said “You’re going to be a famous singer”. I simply thought, “Ok!” I had no reason to doubt and immediately began to sing and performed later that year for the first time. After that, crowds of people would gather around me at school, so I could sing for them and I was brought before the entire school assembly to sing, unaccompanied, to them.

I even learnt to read through my singing by asking my sister to write out words to songs and as I learnt the songs, I could read and learn the words.

So, obviously, I had a love for music.

Life got even messier and the opportunity to sing, being always portable, was ever present, but access to instruments was not a priority. For 6 months only, when I was 11, I had access to a piano and began teaching myself. I didn’t gain access again until 12 years later, when I bought myself one.

It came into my life at the same time that I re-committed MY life to God, and to His truth, in a life changing way. I still couldn’t play but suddenly I heard songs in my head and I could sit at my piano and play them in different keys until I settled on one. Song-writing and piano playing were a gift that flowed straight from the heart of my connection with God. Turned on like a tap. And they were all love songs between me and God.
That’s how it started and it seemed that God redeemed the time, bringing me and my abilities up to where they would have been , had I had access to a piano all along. Only now, it was so much more amazing.

Living True

All that simply to introduce this song I wrote called “How I Love You Lord”. I wrote it mid 1995 but it has been reignited in me and is fanning the flame of the Fires of God within me, reminding me of my purpose and my path and strengthening me in that way.

And as I sing it over and over, rededicating my heart, I feel such a radiance glowing within and such a firmness beneath my feet that I feel sorry so many people have never known this type of experience with God. And due to previous bad experience are closed off to having it.

I pray this song ministers the beauty of the truth in being enveloped in love with God and draws you deeper into the Secret Place where He awaits you.

Song Lyrics- How I Love you Lord
HOW, HOW I LOVE YOU LORD
WITH ALL MY HEART
WITH ALL OF MY MIND, SOUL, AND STRENGTH
AND I WILL SERVE YOU MY DAYS
AND IN ALL MY WAYS
ACKNOWLEDGING MY PATH BEFORE YOU

AND I WILL GIVE MY ALL FOR YOU
ALL THAT I AM
AND ALL THAT I DO
HOLDING NOTHING BACK
SURRENDERING IT ALL FREELY UNTO YOU
TO FULFILL YOUR CALL

AS I LIVE MY LIFE IN YOU
GIVE ALL FOR YOUR TRUTH
THAT OTHERS MAY KNOW YOU
AND YOU WILL GLORIFY YOUR NAME

IN THIS FLESH AGAIN
THAT OTHERS MAY KNOW YOU
AND I LAY DOWN MY LIFE IN YOU
NO OTHER IS AS TRUE
JESUS, I LOVE YOU
SO NOW, GLORIFY YOUR NAME
IN THIS FLESH AGAIN
THAT OTHERS MAY KNOW YOU

writtten and performed by Lisa Shah C 1995

On Being In Love

2011-12-21T19:07:00.000-08:00

God is Love. Whoever lives in love lives in God and God in him.-I Jn 4: 16b

When a person is in love, they are engaging with God on a different level.

Love has to be both one of the singularly most misunderstood states on the planet , yet the most universally and profoundly grasped concept of humankind.

This Love is agape (Gk- a-ga-pay)

Relationships are the ultimate place to give and receive love. But broken people cannot give or receive love easily. When God\'s love is shed abroad in the human heart, bringing healing,love can flourish freely and fearlessly."
Agape is the daddy of all loves and at different times is given expression in all the other delightful forms we have come to think of as 'love' (and many we have not!). But the premium, set apart quality of Agape is that it "seeks nothing in return". This kind of love , in whichever form it is expressed longs only to be expressed. It lives only to be surrendered and even so, loses nothing of itself in the doing so. It preserves all parties intact whilst simultaneously having the ability to make whole those that are broken. Where it is received, rocks sing-believe it!

This kind of Love is too good to be true!

But it is true!

The Love of God is the creative force of the universe. It sustains all things and is the energy that IS all things, including the space between all things.

The wisest thing I ever did was believe that God was in love with me. It turned my world upside down and inside out and connected me with a Presence that I could literally feel delighting in my company.

"Listen, o daughter, consider and give ear.

Forget your people and your father's house.

The king is enthralled with your beauty

Honour him, for he is your Lord" Ps 45:10-11

The king is enthralled by my beauty...wow!

The first verses that came alive to me from my Bible, were all like this, telling me of how intoxicatingly in love with me God is. Not with a love like anything I'd known (Ez 16:1-14). Not to use me or abuse me or exploit me or jealously possess me but to adore me, uplift me, adorn me, honour me. As I gazed upon His beauty, drawn in by his love, he showed me a truer reflection of myself and I fell in love again( 2 Cor 3:18. I love the "love version of Lisa". I choose to live there! That's what I call "Agapeism" now. It takes a bit of practise, but the more I see how God loves me and believe it, the more those same beautiful qualities flow from deep within me, where God and I play together in the garden (SS 4:15-5:1).

About 25 years ago, as I rode a train through Sydney's inner west, I was quietly conversing with God. At one point I asked for reassurance saying "If I could just know that you love me..." ( As in feel it as real) At that moment, I looked up and out the window. We were passing flat concrete blank walls of old terraces backing up to the railway line. Blank , that is, but for the graffiti. And there before me, sliding by on a wall, these words:

"I Love you, Lisa"

I was flooded with the experience of KNOWING God's love for me again, just as I was the first time I read Ps 45:10-11 and felt the inner witness of it being spoken right then to me. I can choose to relive the reality of this love in my emotions as often as I please. And I do. And so, more 'love notes' come in a variety of expressions. God loves me! I'm a being in the state of love and a love-being, a god-being and have my being in God. And I'm enveloped in love, one with God in this love state of being.

I believe God has given me the gift of being able to help others experience this truth in a deep, life changing, soul healing and undeniable way and I intend to do just that. So, to "whosoever will" out there who wants to know God's love for them this way...hang around. I guarantee, if this is your desire and if you hunger for it, you will be filled.

Lisa IN Oz

I'm A Believer

2011-12-19T22:54:00.000-08:00

I'm sitting on my deck.

The deck that looks out across the road to the beautiful beach of Burleigh.
I spent a year cultivating the right "vibe" -or faith, if you like- to move into this dream of wanting to be living beachside.

My decision to be consistent to walk the beach every day (from mid Feb 2010)was part of making "real" that element of my desired life.

So many other wonderful benefits, pleasures, artworks, blogs, vlogs, radio shows and insights came as a result of the year that followed. You can find many on this site as well. They document the journey under the main title of DIY Designer Living.

Another Year...

So, I moved into my place but then felt somewhat lost.
The work contracts ( singing/playing) I had started to ebb and things became very tight.This happened at a time when my youngest two ( and last remaining at home of 5)children moved out. I had looked forward to the extra $$ to save for a trip overseas and to spend on all sorts of things I'd never had.

Because money dried up, I was forced again to think about to generate more and nothing that I used to do or had previously done was getting any results. I was losing interest in trying and even doing it, if it came. Some thing needed to shift.

However, even if work had continued, I would still have felt plagued by the same inner question that had walked with me ALL my days. And it wasn't so much "Why am I here?" as much as it was "What does it actually look like when I'm fulfilling this 'why?' "

I knew it was spiritual. I knew it was mentoring, musical, artistic and I knew I could help people locate, live and flourish authentically.Since I really didn't know how to walk this out given my life as it had become, I was equally more perplexed than ever.

Two Degrees Off Truth

You see, the only place I'd ever felt was "right" was when I was worshipping God and sharing how his Wisdom was changing my life. When I left church, ten years ago, I was at a loss as to where/how to sue these gifts that were so obviously for "The Body Of Christ"

Aaah...(shaking my head) it suddenly seems so obvious.

I had not seen this quite this way before.

This is why I couldn't get this stuff to function to any great degree anywhere else. I tried the Corporate World. I tried New Age Circles. I tried Network Marketing and Social Media. I tried study and teaching...nothing "took" and certainly nothing took my heart. They were all "two degrees off My truth"

Three times in just the last few days, I have been referred to as "a gift" to the Body. The minister on Sunday, pointed me out, spoke of my "ministry" and said "Lisa is a gift" given to help lead people into the Presence of God.

That same day, another lay minister wrote of me saying:

"When Lisa is singing praise & worship she effortlessly carries you along into the tangible prescence of God. It is not something learned or even practised but a true gift given to the body of Christ."

And what it has just prompted in me is a reminding that I have repeatedly said over this past week, that "the gift has always made a way". But the gift is not just what I do ...it is WHO I AM.

The reason I have never felt like a proper fit in any of the many other places it seems I would be a great fit, is because I am a gift to the Body of Christ. I am a ministry gift.

:-)

And why does this help me so much right now? (As revelation always does-helps now!) It makes it easy for me to see and understand "WHO" I need to focus on. In business terms, you could say my "target market". I know who it is I am talking to/for /with.

I was trying to overhaul my website but couldn't even get started. Now, it will be much easier.

It's so funny how we can "know" something but then we can "see and know" it more and it brings faith and empowerment, insight and instruction. I knew I felt called back to ministry and in a much more significant way but thinking of myself as "a gift to the Body" really sheds a light on this in a more profound way. Another point that had been percolating around inside me was the understanding of commitment and that it cannot help but promote exclusivity. The Whole idea of "niche marketing" is based upon this premise. You become the expert of your chosen field. I could never decided how to select and define that for myself. But I always knew...it's worship. And it's obvious that worship doesn't really relate to anyone but those that know and love God as father. It just wouldn't mean anything to anyone else. And did you know that Gods seeks worshippers who worship Him in spirit and in truth? Jn 4:23 God SEEKS them!

"Do not take the children's bread and give it to the dogs". The term "dog" simply refers to those outside the covenant and was quoted by Jesus in reference to the distinction between Jews and Gentiles. After Jesus' death and resurrection the covenant would be open to all but in this passage, the Gentile Jesus was addressing answered , "Yes Lord, but even the dog gets the crumbs that fall from the Master's table." That man received his desire. Jesus ministered to any and ALL that came to him but He was sent to the children of Isreal-those under the Law first.

It's easy enough for anyone to become a "child" now and participate in the covenant God has made with Jesus, sealed in his own blood.

In understanding myself as "a gift to the Body", I know exactly who I'm speaking to and what my words should do-and my being is flooded with that wonderful sense of his Blessed Assurance once more.

:-)

From Conception to Fruition-Here & NOW

2011-12-14T18:41:00.000-08:00

Below is an excerpt from some of my very recent journalling.
I've been trying to 'see' and understand the next step, so I can face this giant and move on! Trying to control the process perhaps LOL what a jokE! I get all flustered, and out of peace..it's obvious I only know one healthy state o function in and from ... HERE
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And now, I've written this intro, from after what I wrote below, so I see more clearly. And I believe I have found what I need to continue and maintain what is needed for things to move forward in the highest possible way for all. Another firm underpinning of insight. Nothing new...yet empowers with the freshness of new life. YUM!
The Great Wall
Hmm... this is the sense of “impenetrable” I find whenever I turn to go a certain way.
Instead of thinking of this as being a wall of resistance built from fear, I’m starting to take the view that it is a hemming in of my way brought about by wisdom’s guidance, if for no other reason than it will lead me by the swiftest path to the fruition of my desires. This may not change what I face, but it changes the face of what I see.
If I sit down to write because I think I should...NOTHING. ZILCH. Forced or lesser quality. Just doesn’t hit the mark...falls short. That’s the definition of ‘sin’. So maybe what I’m trying to do is ‘not of faith’ for “whatever is not of faith”-is sin. Hmmm...now this thought is REALLY interesting.
Same with drawing, same with singing and music...and the thing is it’s only like that when I’m doing it for the reason of feeling I “should”. UGH!!!
When I’m a naturally productive mode, it flows huge BUT IT’S ALL PART OF REAL LIFE. And I think this could be the crux of it. I don’t want to prepare messages. I want to deliver them in the moment. I have just WAaaaaaayyyy too much to try and cover if I try to do things logically and I become literally overwhelmed. But when faced with an opportunity or presented with a theme-I can run with that! It’s the principle of having structure to foster creativity. I can do it on a small scale, like I did with DIY blogs, and then compile them. And only for a season, in response to inspiration. I cannot IMPOSE the structure. But I’m better with a novel where life lessons are presented all out of linear logic and applied personally.
As soon as I get a good idea, I’m all excited but it goes nowhere. Nothing wrong with all my ideas! They’re awesome. And they’re endless! But I cannot seem to stay with them. They have the feeling of being 2 degrees off truth. I’ve thought that perhaps I’ve had fears to overcome and I’m sure I have. But thinking of them as fears to overcome makes it harder somehow. Whereas thinking of these ideas as directions that I’ve chosen as strategies to avoid the total commitment to the exact bearings for my life-this alters my take on it. This exposes them as diversions. And it makes me realise that it is utter futility to even try to succeed with a goal that was never 100% me.
When have I seriously never felt 2 degrees off-EVER? When I’m connecting! With God , with people, with nature, with creativity...
I was born to worship. My life is about being one with God in conscious awareness.
I KNOW WHAT IT IS!!!
I am a responder, not an initiator.( The power of the Feminine)
My ministry in word, whether written or spoken, is a response to someone and their situation, unless it is a story. My blogs are accounts of “Show’n’Tell”. They are my response to the life experience I’m having.
To try and write content with all the answers before I’ve been asked the questions...this I struggle with. There is no impetus in that for me. It’s theoretical-lacking the essence of life. I need to be working on the edge of the universal expansion where life is being created right NOW.
I am an addict of creation. :-)
I cannot make a generic self-help book that is good for all. I have to do a personal one. If that person shares it around, as people have with my letters, that’s fine but I can’t write it that way. I seem to need to write it TO someone, if I’m going to have decent quality to it.
I’m personal, like God.
And I need to be out responding to people.
The INSTANT I try to “initiate” something, I am out of sync with myself. This is definitely the matter.
Now, when I feel I am “waiting on God” this is not like waiting for a train to come. To “wait on God” is to minister to him, to give him my attention, to recount truths I’ve learnt from him, to ponder his nature etc. And it is always a response to the love and grace and goodness I’m receiving from him. It is appreciation, gratitude, honour, respect, value, love and awe. Waiting on God is an active response...not a passive thumb twiddling exercise.
It is from this place of intimacy I intuitively receive insight, instruction and inspiration. (This is where the piano playing came from) And it is from this place that I must move forward. To shift gears is to fall out of sync and be that two degrees off again. It’s not like God gives me a plan whilst we’re communing and then says, “um take this out into the world with you and find a way to do it. I’ve given you the plan...you take it from here" Aah...no. lol
He says "here’s the plan". You look at it, look back at him, look at yourself, look back at him and say...”um, I think this was for Mother Theresa” or some other hero. “No,no, this is you, “ he says, “but you can’t do it.[blank look]... Well, not without living Here. Constant intimate connection is the ONLY way.
Hence the song. Life in that place of connection is ALL I HAVE EVER WANTED. And this thoroughly aligns with "Cherchez premierment le royaume et la justice de Dieu, et toutes ces choses vous seront donnee par-dessus."
"Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you" This "wall" is Wisdom keeping me on the track of experiencing the fullness of this life I desire. Where God brings them to me instead of me chasing them.
And when asked, some time in the future, what I did to get from rags to riches, I will say...I believed God and like Abe, it was credited to me as righteousness( it aligned me). I gave all my energy to the "labour of entering into this rest of faith". :-)

Living In Love ( Agapeism)

2011-12-13T20:49:00.000-08:00

Running Themes

I can look over my life right up till today and see various themes playing out. I can view the events and growth from the perspective of Truth/Lies, Love/Fear, Judgement/Righteousness and so on. I have experienced wonderful enablings and giftings and talents, known healings and miracles, given and received prophecies, wisdom and knowledge and enjoyed an intimacy with God that never fails to bring my heart into utter surrender-since I was a preschooler.

Where Everything Felt Right

I wanted to be so much ONE with God coz when I was in that conscious space, I could feel the freedom from all earthly concern. Even through all of these things, I've never enjoyed the reality of God/me in the way I am now. It was a dream and a desire and the goal of my life but one of those waaaayy too good to happen things beyond how good it felt and why would it happen for me, type deals.. and yet, I'd been the recipient of so much already.

When I divorced, I felt I'd disqualified myself. Nothing could be further from the truth. I was struggling to forgive myself for doing what I had allocated as the unforgivable sin for me ( what hogswallop!). I had failed MY expectations. A person can never fail by following their heart...it will lead them to their truth if they are willing to accept it as so and allow the growth. Living a lie and pretending to be happy is unacceptable. So much better to "fail" authentically than to "succeed" as a fraud. We can find our true sense of worth the first way, but will despise ourselves for our own lack of integrity the latter way.

The ONLY Place that Felt Right...or felt TRUE

I have an INNER DRIVING for this authenticity that I cannot begin to explain. On the one hand I wish it on everyone, on the other, I know the journey it will mean. But once it has a hold of you, there is no peace but being on it-no matter where it leads you. And the reason it lives in me is coz I know I will never be content with a pseudo faith. I have to have the real thing. Otherwise I feel I would spend my whole life trying to protect my "archilles' heel", and this would end up taking over. My whole life would be built around the consciousness of that weakness. Shudder! What a thought!

So, in keeping with current themes of Love/Fear...I've had so many lessons in this stuff. When I had a break down and suffered Alopecea ( stress induced baldness) fear was on the rise again in my life and threatened to engulf me. I remembered David and despaired of having the courage to run at this giant. I knew what to do, I even knew how but I still spent 3 and 1/2 yrs (collected some incredible stories and personal experiences in the process) suffering with my "silent anguish". Till one day, I'd had enough and refused to accommodate fear any more. This is when I felt that courage begin to show and I had peace from then on, immersed in the truth. But 6 months in, a new bald spot appeared and none had grown over. I already knew I'd need to believe in the face of current conditions but to see more could've undone me. I wasted no time turning it around. Didn't reason, just turned back to the truth that had given me peace and decided I'd rather have that and be bald than the other way. But I was still focussed on wholeness..let the hair take care of itself. I said, "If I can do this, I can do anything". That's when God reminded me of David again and showed me my own courage at running at the fear giant.

Giant Slaying Faith

I passed through that hump in strength in one evening and powered on to a full head of hair ( took another 18 months for it all to grow back, but I had peace and joy and that "blessed assurance" all that time.) A pseudo faith just doesn't give you that! It cannot give you a ROCK to stand on.

I have committed and recommitted again and again to this process of LIVING free of fear. I've never stopped progressing but what I'm enjoying now is that which is what I once saw from afar and at times wondered if I could ever be: myself as the dwelling place of God, and God as my dwelling place. I live in Him and He lives in me.Not just as a theoretical truth, but reality...and the confidence this fusion brings.

This is my security. My fortress, my strong-tower, my refuge, my rock, my secret place, my garden of love and singing and worship. I just haven't been able to find that sense of intimacy and connection without seeing God as someone consciously separate that chooses oneness with me as I do with him. My God-self is different for me-that's my spirit.

Shameless Surrender =Glorious Success

Some speak of Source or God as that spirit part of themselves and if that works for them- great. But for me, I need to know that God is in love with me and that's why I can surrender my heart. My spirit, I know, is just like God and that is where we fuse and then flow as one through all extended parts of my being.

For me, I need to be hid in someone bigger than myself. I need to be part of something bigger than myself. And the paradox of that is, I find a largeness and fullness I knew was there but couldn't access before.

This is what works for me :-)

I am so excited and expectant of what lies ahead!

love to you all

No Luxury of A Second Opinion

2011-12-06T12:49:00.001-08:00

Desperately Real

Many years ago, maybe as many as 25, a preacher "spoke a word" of prophecy over me. He said "Get desperately real with God, for you have phenomenal potential".
I already felt "desperately real" with God, making every effort with all my heart to stay consciously connected, deep in His presence and full of his truth.

What I've come to understand about a "prophetic word", when accurately delivered, is that is stays true and keeps on being true and applicable no matter the circumstances or passing of time on the human scale.

(Me living one of my dreams)

And so today, I find myself, yet again, being reminded of this moment in my history and of my own heart's deep, deep desire to be so ONE with God that the hunger is almost painful. (and yet I wish this state upon all! lol) This "hunger" compels from a place of passion and purity within. "Deep calls to deep" the psalmist cries. ( Ps 42:7)

The key attribute of this state is a quality common to pretty much everyone, but rarely developed intentionally and where it has randomly excelled , is actually viewed as a 'disorder'. Not in my house. We're intentional with it...our Obsessive Compulsive Practises.
Yes, we've seen the down side to it, but we've also harnessed its power and applied it to be an "up" side.

Any addiction or obsession for anything or anyone is evidence of this ability. All it requires is a 100% focus on healthy content-then it will work miracles for anyone who uses it. The labour is in redirecting unruly thinking but this is entirely do-able.

Entirely doable that is, once the commitment to "get desperate" with it is there.
W.H. Murray
Until one commits there is hesitancy, a chance to turn back, always ineffectiveness...
If you've "tried and failed", I can almost certainly guarantee it's because of lack of commitment. Somewhere along the way, you accepted a different outcome to the one you began with. You let your heart be swayed away from your goal. You were not fully persuaded which I why you were not fully committed.

Understanding The Plan
When a person commits to their dream ( Theirs alone. You cannot commit on behalf of another), there is NO plan B. The difficulty most face is determining their dream. Actually, that's not entirely true. At least, not by my experience. It is not the dream that is vague but the inability to believe it done that clouds the view.

Napoleon Hill said "Whatever the mind can conceive, and believe, the mind can achieve."
This wasn't a concept of his invention. This has been the law governing creation since God! He tapped into the knowledge of how this worked and gave his heart completely over to the process of believing it, so he could enjoy life on his own terms. He lived its truth, so he could deliver the truth with power.

With this belief as the underpinning of all he undertook he knew he could achieve anything he directed his mind toward, and proceeded to teach others likewise. Abraham in the book of Romans Chapter 4 ( from the Bible) is recorded as having done the same. The bible describes this faith as being equal to "righteousness". It is choosing to align oneself completely with universal truth.
This is Plan A and from what I can see, was the only part of the plan that was never negotiable-if you want to create the life of your desires. You will create your life regardless, but it will be chaotic and burdened with all manner of undesirable elements.

No Luxury of A Second Opinion

The most difficult aspect of living this lifestyle, for most people, seems to be the selling out of all other options. They reason with a logic akin to having a spare tyre...blow outs happen, we need a spare, a back up, insurance. There may be a relevant truth to this regarding a tyre that is material and wears out but this is not a characteristic of faith.

And we are not left without the means to have faith. The bible says it is the gift of God and that "he has given to all ...the measure of faith". Jesus said with "faith as a mustard seed, we could move mountains" and that "anything is possible for him who believes". I want to live HERE. :-)

What we have are counter beliefs and these throw our confidence around like a rag doll in a tempest. Once again though, we are not left without means to "fix" this. And we do it by "fixing" our hearts and minds on that which we desire. And you don't need to worry about whether God wants you to have it or not. Romans 8 says he graciously gives us all things, all things are ours, all things pertaining to life (2Pet 1:3), every good and perfect gift from the Father of heavenly lights who does not change (Jam 1:17) And just to top it off, we are informed that God's gifts and his call are irrevocable ( Rom ) He NEVER takes them back. They are OURS to keep and do with whatever we will. So, that's settled.

As long as what we want brings no infringement on another's well being or freedom of choice, it is perfectly acceptable.
The real question here is, "Is what you want so important to you that you are willing to put everything into bringing it to fruition with regard to fully persuading your heart?" I'm not talking about doing the practical things like making a plan for your goal and following it. By all means do this too, if you wish...but FIRST become fully committed to the outcome.
Let your plan be built from this place of "Blessed Assurance" and let each step of the way be inspired action from that very same assurance. You will need it-this assurance.

If you are unsure about the way to establish your heart, I can help, but basically it is focussing your attention on the outcome and allowing yourself to believe it. When a contrary belief arises, immediately take the thought captive and bring it down by grasping the truth again. The truth that ministers to your heart and gives faith the ascendency. I have tons of techniques that help here. The "double minded" receive nothing. You must discipline yourself to give energy and focus on that which you want. Sell out to the truth.

And finally, I'd like to leave you with the full quote of W.H. Murray and let this encourage you to commit.

Until one commits there is hesitancy, a chance to turn back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts ofinitiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of whichkills countless ideas and splendid plans. That the moment one definitelycommits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to helpone that would never have otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events issuesfrom the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidentsand meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would havecome his way, I have learned a deep respect for Goerthe’s couplets; “ whateveryou can do, or dream you can do , begin it. Boldness has genius, power andmagic in it.”

WH Murray. Himalayan Expedition 1951

Surrender:An Act of Love

2011-12-05T02:03:00.001-08:00

Defining Surrender

The Free on-line dictionary defines surrender as follows:

v. sur·ren·dered, sur·ren·der·ing, sur·ren·ders

v.tr.

1. To relinquish possession or control of to another because of demand or compulsion.

2. To give up in favor of another.

3. To give up or give back (something that has been granted): surrender a contractual right.

4. To give up or abandon: surrender all hope.

5. To give over or resign (oneself) to something, as to an emotion: surrendered himself to grief.

6. Law To restore (an estate, for example), especially to give up (a lease) before expiration of the term.

I want to look at surrender from the perspective of a process that takes place within ourselves. At any given point in time, I see myself as functioning out of a state of Love and wholeness or fear and lack. I consider the first to be my higher authentic(spiritual) nature and the second to be the base (carnal/natural) ego nature.

My authentic nature is lorded over by Love and this is an easy leading-not tyrannical. It's based on my own desire to live freely and truthfully, in peace and in joy. Conversely, the ego centre is driven by Fear, always concerned with preserving the sensory self, led by the desire for security and manipulated by physical conditions.

All of our human life will be plagued by this conflict unless a commitment is made to, and an understanding attained of how to operate from, this higher place of Love.

So when I speak of Surrender, I refer to the soul surrendering to Love instead of fear.

Bringing Life to Bear

I personally have given birth five times. I loved it and actually wouldn't mind doing it some more. I think I embraced the process of birth because I believed, and still do, that I was purposely designed to give birth and that some part of me knew instinctively what to do even if no conscious part did.

I was so convinced of this, that it belayed fears and settled any issues of concern without my having to understand anything logically. I had wonderful birth experiences-very swift, no stitches, no epidurals, and I had clarity to enjoy my baby afterward.

I came to see that this process as a clever metaphor for creating ALL kinds of life, whether internally in my being or externally in my world. Now, I don't think I even see it as a metaphor because I surrender to a deeper part of me, trusting that it knows how to bring forth that which is needed just as my body knew how to bring forth a healthy baby.

In recent months, I've even gone as far as not needing to understand all the reasons why I've felt afraid or unsure or confused...I replaced all other "workings out" with this simple act of "surrender and breathe, believing..." in that intuitive part of myself that is Love.

Perfect Love

The bible says "perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with punishment" ( I John 4:18) and today, I think I've understood this truth in a way I've never seen before and in a way I honestly NEVER conceived or expected to see. It was such a sweet surprise! And yet so typical of the paradox of life in the spirit.

In believing in the righteousness the bible says God gives ( aligning myself to God-Rom 1:16), I started to trust that whatever I was facing about myself or reflected in my body or circumstances as being what was required in order for me to allow Love to grow out, unhindered from my core. I've done this for years and made some wonderful progress by interpreting these things as indicators of what I needed to shift in my thinking/energy/being. I've seen ALL kinds of delightful results BUT...in the last few months, I found my deepest inner workings becoming far too intricate and complex to "get my head around", so to speak.

And I just didn't seem to be able to help myself past a point of SELF judgement that was keeping the best of my personal dreams at bay. That is, until I surrendered completely to humbly accepting the gift of righteousness offered to "whosoever will" believe, and in so doing, understand the great love God has for me even more. I know this may not make sense to those who are unfamiliar with the biblical teaching of righteousness but what this results in is a total release of ALL judgement. Where there is no judgement, there is no fear of punishment or sense of unworthiness either.

Things just got better and better. The more I chose to "surrender" over any other approach the more deeply a shift began to take place. I simply trusted that tried and proven process and applied it to everything. My mind, body, circumstance...I started viewing any hint of worry/fear as part of the process of Love, not fear-and governed by intuitive Wisdom, not personal sabotage. This grew inside me more and more.

Today, after a progression of insights and expanding understanding I realised this has led to the knowledge of how fear is dismissed. It is converted to another format-if you like. In shifting viewpoints, it becomes the servant of a greater good and is no longer a form of resistance, but of relinquishing. No longer a barrier to overcome or strive against but an ally toward success. And it isn't just a nice, pious idea to try and accept, but an actual STATE. Fear is no more when one lives in this place of utter SURRENDER. It is dissolved when trust is pure.

These words don't do the condition justice but with all my heart, I hope any reader will ask to experience this knowing.

"One thing I've come to accept now, is that there are no short-cuts through one's process. The shortest, quickest, fastest way between you and your dreams, is that which is being presented to you. I've stopped viewing the 'space between' as some chasm to traverse or some test to pass or some obstacle to overcome. It is what I've asked for: the process of manifesting my dream" Lisa Shah

What's Love Got to Do With It?

2011-12-01T18:43:00.001-08:00

In short, EVERYTHING!
God is LOVE. The terms are synonymous, the names interchangeable.
When a human being stands and surveys their life, wondering what part love plays, let me say this:
Love is ALL.
This Love is not restricted to some whimsical emotion that shifts with mood or circumstances. This Love is a commitment to rid oneself of the Fear that brings any and every kind of suffering. It takes the greatest kind of courage.

When what enters your life is not that which you desire, it is still Love? Yes. How so?
It is the work of Love revealing where you have Fear.
Fear and Love are the only forces at work in this world. The first of these resides in the brokenness of humanity, the latter in the wholeness of the Authentic nature deep within.

You are born of Love, but where Fear has been allowed to live and fester in your thinking, it has the ability to become the overriding motivator of your actions. It leads you to take paths that will not bring life and peace. It leads some into a pit of despair from which they feel they can never escape. I know.
All is not lost, though. It never is -in spite of how it looks or feels.

By choosing to face the circumstances, the people and yourself and realise that a deeper part of you is wanting to persevere through into Love's power and fullness, you can become a "shock absorber" and turn what was of Fear into Love, leading to the joy and fulfilment you desire.
"All things work together for good for those who love the Lord [Love] " Romans 8:28

Suffering is a cruel teacher and not the only way to learn, but when we fail to heed the voice of our own inner guidance, this breach brings pain -WITH torment. This then can become a greater force for Fear and perpetuate the cycle repeatedly...until one stops, decides to learn the lesson, feel the grief of having made our lives harder than they needed to be, forgive ourselves for being less than we wanted to be and receive the restoring work of Grace that Love alone can wrought within a soul.

Making things "right" ( that is, WHOLE), changing the fruit of our harvest, involves bringing to birth a new part of one's Authentic nature. This is no different in principle to giving birth in the natural. There are cycles of tightness and tension and discomfort but there is a part of us within that knows how to do this when left unhindered to do so. Simply surrender and breathe-just the same way a woman's body knows how to conceive, incubate and deliver a baby.

The deeper we grow into Love, the more intense this process becomes because we are uprooting major tumours and the more radiant we will be for the journey. The evidence of what manifests in a person's life is proof that they are ready to address these things, whether they feel ready or not. Their desire for what they love is drawing them.

: Light up your world with Love

In the same way a mother bird knows when it's time to push the fledgling bird from the nest, so our psyche knows when it is the time to learn to fly.

All of this is the work of Love. Love doesn't come cheap. Not this kind of Love. Because Love drives out Fear. It reveals it and when allowed to do its work, drives it out,leaving the heart FREE and CLEAN.
It requires your WHOLE HEART.
But when it comes down to it, the human soul will be content with nothing less. And distraction from this purpose only gets harder to find and more anguishing to maintain.
"Draw near to God and he will draw near to you"
"Draw near to Love and Love will draw near to you"
But, Love is not for the faint hearted. Be prepared to covenant yourself to Love. This is the higher way of Agapeism.

"Why spend money on what is not bread
and your labour on what does not satisfy?" Is 55:2
This is why a reverent heart that adores God stands us in such good stead and fills a being with a deep sense of purpose and nobleness.
Nothing feels as good as living TRUE TO ONESELF through and through.
Let Love and Truth abide in your inmost parts. They will protect you
Find your life in LOVE.

Alignment and Separation

2011-11-30T23:41:00.001-08:00

The following are my own ideas and beliefs and I live by them. I write about my own life experiences and findings and as they are my own, I have the right and final authority to do so. Comments are welcome and disagreement is accepted, but arguments will never be entered into.

Alignment.
What do I mean by "alignment"?
Put simply, I mean to know yourself well enough, and to be brave enough, to be able to choose how you will design your life and follow through on fulfilling that blueprint-whatever it is, or isn't. It's your choice.Alignment is therefore to live in one's authentic state. To do this, a person must first know this state.

We can be living at varying degrees of alignment with our personalities and this can be constantly changing. But what doesn't change is the sense of peace and equilibrium , joy and contentment that we experience when we are in that place of alignment.

Admiring the majesty of a massive waterfall, looking into the face of a loved one or engaging in a practise about which we are passionate are all doorways into our own personal authenticity and conscious connection with not only ourselves, but also the Source/God from which we come.

The more time and energy we give to those things that enhance this connectivity, the more aligned we become with who we really are, the happier we feel and the more opportunity is created for such endeavours. AS simplistic as this sounds, if we would just stay on this path, we would find all our desires awaiting the fulfilling. This is my absolute conviction.

"Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you" Mt 6:33. In my previous blog , I referred to righteousness and alignment as being interchangeable. A person may align to many aspects of their beings without understanding the gift of righteousness. We are wired with talents and preferences and desires that make us who we are. In simply aligning with them, we will immediately experience a greater state of harmony.

So many people live so far away from their natural rhythms, rhymes and routines that this can be a huge difference. Still, the state of alignment that comes from relinquishing judgement is as far superior to this as gold is to copper.

Separation
What do I mean by 'separation'?
I consider separation to be a way of seeing oneself that is not congruent with the authentic state and to live out of synchrony with self, which leads to countless anomolies and raging pathologies that are so prolific as to now be considered normal. This life of "misalignment" has reached epidemic proportions.

All supposed "enlightened" ones say much the same. It isn't just a Christian idea. But I feel Christianity, in its TRUE form addresses the problem like no other. This has been my experience.

If we go back to garden of Eden for a second, the story reveals that as soon as Adam and Eve ate of the tree of "the knowledge of good and evil", they felt guilty and wanted to hide. Separation and judgement came simultaneously. When we are separate from our authentic selves, we are in a state of self judgement as well. It's inevitable.

No one living in their place of separation can restore the state of alignment completely. It must be done by one who is aligned. God, or Source's, authentic condition is unaffected by humanity's exploits. God alone has the capacity to re-callibrate us and has made a way for us to partake of that.
But it cannot be done via the Ego ( human effort) other than a simple willingness to allow it.

Ego and Authentic natures.
A person who wants to grow in Love and overcome their fears can get quite a long way if they are truly committed, but I feel that without this re-callibration, there will always come a point of undoing. For this is what the Law ( of sin and death) does. This is what was bought into when the fruit of that tree was bit into: the knowledge of good and evil is the awareness of JUDGEMENT.

It leads us to the knowledge that we are still suffering under judgement, experiencing separation and rejection. Not God's...for he made a way out of it, but under our own if we do not partake of it. Our sense of Self never truly overcomes feeling unworthy, or feels fully valued or loved unconditionally.

Still we can achieve some wonderful elements of alignment as I said, in simply beginning to take time for those things that bring us deep and profound pleasure...even in simple things. Appreciation of and focus on these things will greatly improve the quality of our lives.

Ultimate Alignment
But the sense of "Resonant Recognition" that I experience in knowing myself as righteous in God, as a result of his gift ( of re-callibration) goes far beyond all this. The states I've experienced in being in oneness with Him and feeling God think my thoughts with me as his own and vice versa....this can only come from such an ultimate alignment. At least, I have known no other way. And whilst I do not claim to be in that consciousness all the time, I have known it as my own experience and more than a single freak occurrence.

In this place "resonant recognition", I feel my life path before me light up and vibrate back to me, the same way an "A string" will respond to a 440hz tuning fork. As it leaps in recognition, so too does my path before me and I see with a certainty like never before.

The only thing I do is to stay focussed on what it means to be "the righteousness of God"-from the inside out...and as Mt 6:33 says...the rest is taken care of.

Living MY Life

2011-11-30T02:50:00.001-08:00

Greetings all!Been some time since I blogged here, but I intend to be back quite regularly from now on.It's my plan to write here about being in "ultimate alignment" with one's greater Self and to share from my own life and experiences how I am doing that myself.It's my hope that some may read and find useful information and heart expanding inspiration.

AGAPEISM-ULTIMATE ALIGNMENTIn previous blogs, I am sure I have spoken at length on being aligned with one's authentic nature. It is this alignment that makes it possible for us to, not only identify what it is that we really desire for our lives, but also empowers us to attain and sustain that desired life.To lay a foundation,I would like to point out that there are two main forces at work within us. They are Love and Fear. These two qualities are diametrically opposed and I'd like to use the account of the Garden of Eden to show how. I will however insert other more contemporary terms so as to diminish the religious dogma attached to certain terms conveyed through centuries of poor use. Whether you believe this story literally as presented in the Bible , or whether you are simply willing to accept it as Myth, the meaning of the symbolism is clear and accurate for understanding the current state of the human psyche and the antidote for the "fallen", or fearful, human condition.

The FallOk,so humanity was created perfect. Just like God, by God "...and it was good". In their authentic and original state, Adam and Eve, or people in general, felt no sense of wrong or right, good or bad. Freedom of choice is how things got screwed up, but without freedom of choice we would have no consciousness to expand. And without a world of contrasts desire would not be stimulated to develop into that expansion.

Put simply, I believe we entered physical form to come into the fullness of knowing ourselves as children of God/Love/Light. Rom 8 says something like this when it says "the creation was subject to frustration in hope that it would be freed from its bondage to decay".

What is exemplified in this scene (and I'm simplifying one aspect here) is that people chose becoming their own judges over living free of judgement. The two trees, or sources of empowerment and ways of living, were Life or the knowledge of good and evil. The first is powered by LOVE, breeding abundance, peace, joy and righteousness, or in general, alignment. This is the "authentic" state, harmonised to the spirit nature

The other Tree is powered by Fear and is characterised by lack, judgement and punishment, guilt, condemnation and MISalignment. It is the equivalent to what psychologists call the Ego, or Id. The bible calls it the sin nature. This word "SIN" has been SOOooo exploited that it has become totally loaded down with judgement but it simply means "to miss the mark". A person can never be fully aligned as long as any vestige of the 'sin'/ego nature lives. Fear and Love cannot co abide. The second one feels afraid, ashamed, inadequate, unacceptable, unclean, guilty, unworthy etc then one is living from their ego and not their authentic nature.It's CRUCIAL to realise, the fearful state is NOT YOUR NATURAL OR AUTHENTIC STATE. Righteousness ( or alignment) is.

The QuestSo, the point of life is to make our own choice between the trees. Each one of us can choose for ourselves which of the fruits we will eat. The ego resists this ALL THE WAY, filling the soul with dread, because to choose the tree of Life is to annihilate the lower aspects of Self. It is literally DEATH to the ego. And it feels like it...until you do it. Once that whole hearted choice is made...REAL life floods the being and the old way pales away as the worthless counterfeit it is as a source of love, joy or peace or security.In ensuing blogs, I will talk about the kinds of fear/lack/guilt/shame and condemnation I've learnt to leave behind...and I'll share how I did so. My entire life has been dedicated to understanding these states and how to live truly free. It's been an ever deepening work in progress and my heart is in an ever expanding process-just like the universe from which it has been spawned.So here's to Ultimate Alignment through Agapeism. Agape is Greek for the Love that is the energy of ALL-That-Is and Agapeism is a commitment to living through Agape. This is my quest.

New Designer Routines

2011-03-24T20:06:00.000-07:00

New Designer Routines
Whether you feel you wanted change or not, there is a deeper part of you that will initiate it for your growth and expansion. I like to deliberately work with mine and believe myself to be the instigator, guided by the Source of life. Viewing any and all change from this proactive and positive perspective will make transition MUCH easier.

Managing Change in Your Life of Transition.

As a child I was moved around a lot. Not only were my geographical situations changing often, so were my circle of friends and even my family members. I had to deal with a lot of quite traumatic adjustments from very early on. As difficult as this was, I grew up as something of an expert on change. I focussed on the excitement of the new more than the passing of the old. This doesn’t mean I didn’t feel the emotional impact, but it did strengthen me to grow beyond fearing change and helped me to see that waves of “change” will always come and I can choose to be overwhelmed by them or ride with their power.

One major key, I believe, in maintaining some level some of equilibrium in a sea of flux is to have personal anchors.

Anchors and Cornerstones

At 21 and a young single mum of two children only 13months apart, I continued to move around a lot, but one thing that never changed was the routine I set for my babies. This meant that no matter where we were, we ate and slept and held to certain daily “rituals” and I was always the one there looking after them. The core of our life was stable and so the souls of our little family were peaceful and “safe”.

In each of our lives we can begin with the fundamentals basics of daily living that will immediately release a lot of stress and begin to set up a harmonious flow for us, from which we can grow and expand, adapt and absorb the other ripples new circumstances and relationships of all kinds can bring.

I heard of a woman once had MANY children ( more than my five), but she taught them that when she sat with a scarf or large handkerchief over her face, they were to leave her alone. That was her space. It doesn’t take much to begin to create an anchor for yourself but you do need to know what nurtures your soul.

Daily routines are, in my opinion, the absolute BEST place to start.

Ebbs and Flows

With changes to circumstance, some major things stay the same but elementary changes occur. For example, in moving to the beach, I still go for my walk each morning, but something as simple as entering the beach from the south as opposed to the north disrupted other patterns I had constructed around that element. Now, instead of going to the Surf club for a coffee and writing, I can come home and do so from my deck. But this led to other ripple effects of change that would no longer occur, such as being at the club and being given “rewards” for frequenting that I had enjoyed.

I consider these types of changes very fluid. The foundational practice of walking is preserved, but the subsidiary practices undergo a new flow. Now, I go there on my evening walk, which had only just begun, but now is more permanent. Allowing the fluidity of these ripples to help me form NEW practices is part of the excitement, and sometimes challenge, of change.

When patterns are disrupted it is as if all elements are thrown into a swirl around us and if we are patient and trust the process, they will fall into new places and slot comfortably back in with a freshness that is stimulating to our creative force. What doesn’t fit back in will fall easily aside, ending a cycle for now. You can afford to let them go. 

Breaking Out

This is the challenging aspect to adjusting in a new life of some sort. And form of transition requires a strengthening that comes THROUGH THE PROCESS OF CHANGE. A tiny chick in a shell has a certain amount of food , oxygen and stamina as available resources to get out of that dark place and emerge into the light. It looks, and indeed is, such hard work for a fragile new life, but utterly essential if that chick is to survive the life beyond and flourish.

The same with the butterfly, locked in a deep sleep within a chrysalis.

As with the chick, as with the butterfly, so it is with us. In The Alchemist, the notion of “beginner’s luck” is mentioned as one embarks upon their journey to their new life. But it seems that once launched with Universal blessing, the rug is pulled out from under our feet! In truth, it is so that we develop completely into the person who having arrived at this new life, can now sustain it. the book says it is important to complete the process, so we can understand all things pertaining to it.

The odds haven’t suddenly been stacked against you, nor the blessing removed. It’s not bad luck or misfortune but ALL part and parcel of the very same path. Persevere. Remain consistent and do what you need to stay in that place of confidence and peace, trusting the process and holding to your anchors.

Once delivered, adjusting to the “light” takes a little while, but is not so hard for there are many pleasures on this side of the mountain and you were “born for it”!

Emergence into Full Flight

Now you are ready and fully equipped for this new phase of life. Greater heights of freedom, deeper and more profound joys are yours. Enjoy!

My Life My Design

2011-03-07T02:05:00.000-08:00

One Decision Can Slowly Save Your Life

A very little over a year ago, I made a seemingly small, but rather significant decision. I love the beach. I love it in all kinds of weather and for all kinds of reasons. It is just one of those places where I find it so easy to feel connected to God. Rainforests, trees, gardens, wildlife, singing, writing, drawing, sitting on a sun soaked deck in winter, or listening to the song of the wind play in the leaves-all of these are joy for me this way. February 2010, I decided I wouldn’t wait to move beach front before I enjoy the beach daily. My decision was to be down there, walking its length and back every day. I wanted to create the state of feeling like I already lived there. I live 6 kms west of our incredible Ozzie Gold Coast.

Over the last year, I built Burleigh into my psyche as the place I want to be permanently and I made a powerfully resonant connection.

Alignment brings Freedom

The first and immediate advantage was that I was getting a 4km (50 min) walk every day and some nice colour. It didn’t take long for me to feel like Burleigh was My beach. I wanted Burleigh beach front and I was there faithfully. Sometimes I swam, and other times I lay in the sun. Even though I’ve always felt this way about the beach, and lived close by for the 15 years before that, I hadn’t done any of these things since I was a kid. I had suffered from eating disorders and body image issues and so had deprived myself of decades of pure pleasure. How tragic that we humans do such things. But one choice aligned to your inner Truth can change it all.

I felt SO good even on that first day, that I felt inspired to do a video ( for my Utube channel) and call it Designer Alignment which became the first of a year-long DIY Designer Living Series. I also birthed a Blog Talk Radio radio show and blog series by the same name.

Do What You Love

The point is this one decision was so aligned to my authentic nature and things I desire and am passionate about, that the next year has brought wave after wave of new freedoms that have rippled directly out from that one intentional act. I knew I was wanting to create in myself the state of being harmonious to living at the beach, but the “across the board” shifts this brought to every area of my life has left me breathless with joy.

Firstly, the exercise which provoked better eating, and all that productivity and creativity (photography/writing) sprang from it. But also, I felt so much better about everything and about myself and so much more at home on the sand that I even began to lie in a bikini when sunning. This was a HUGE step. The beach feels “safe” to me. These new levels of freedom just grew stronger and stronger to the point where I can genuinely say I so love my body (called Rosita lol) exactly as she is and this confidence has an impact on everything, not least of all my performances. I am a professional musician/singer and looking and feeling your best counts for a lot!

Fears Fall, Love Reigns and Life is Lived to the Full.

The personal expansion and growth I’ve been experienced continues to amaze and delight me. A year ago I couldn’t see how I could have a place on the beach at Burleigh. I just believed I could and would manifest it at some point. Now, a year later, both of my remaining offspring ( I have five) moved out within 8 days of each other and I find myself in a position to find my new dream place. I am applying for one tomorrow that is perfect!

Another lovely realisation I’ve had this last week, is that I’ve started to “play” in the waves and body surf again. I find myself laughing, tumbling and enjoying the activity amid flashbacks to my 12 yr old days in Avalon ( Sydney’s Northern beaches) which would have been the last time I did that. I had become so self conscious about my body after that, and fearful of the waves that I couldn’t enjoy these things any more.

Both of these barriers to living my life fully and completely and joyfully, have crumbled under the power of this one aligned and whole hearted decision, which led to consistent action that broke through to create this new state of being.

These days I’m down there morning and night-closing the distance to my brand new life as a single, dependentless individual and transitioning fully into the life I began to consciously create a year ago.

What this Means to You

Figure out, if you don’t know already, what it is that you deeply desire. Choose one thing and think about what you can begin to do NOW and in an ongoing way, to begin to generate that state for you. A simple example could be that you want to grow your own food. A vegie garden and chook pen could be too much but some potted tomato vines, sprout tubs and small herb planters are easily undertaken. BEGIN! Don’t wait till you finally have that larger lot. Begin and watch what happens inside you as you continue along the path that is authentically you.

The Art of Resistance and Allowing

2010-11-07T13:23:00.000-08:00

Hi All!

I know I've not been here for a while but I've been busy in a lot of other places. ( such as my site http://lisashahescape.com and Facebook...and you tube...and Blog Talk...yada yada

However, I thought I'd like to start adding some of my art/writing/music work here.
So here is one that I'm going to be using as inspiration for further works which hopefully will be compiled into an interactive art coffee table book. Cool idea huh?

The 'clash' of opposing forces all seem to work with
one intent in the Hands of the Great Creator
to bring forth masterpieces that share no rival.

"The Art of Resistance and Allowing"

“The Art of Allowing Resistance” I love the movement, even in the static elements, as well as the wonderful contrasts in the textures, substances, line,design and form. Never the same, it’s the ever changing display in the dance of creating art, at the liminal point where water and land meet. Always perfect to my eyes.
I think that’s how we look as spirits in the universe, meeting flesh. Encountering contrast and conflict, learning how to flow in who we are and making beautiful art of it all in the process. As stunning as any fireworks could be!
Lisa In Oz
P.S. I f anyone chooses to save and use my artwork, please post a link to where you found it and give credit to the artist. This would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Inseparable

2010-08-16T03:56:00.000-07:00

Live Like You Mean It Pt 2!

2010-08-16T01:49:00.000-07:00

Last week I wrote a little about this, inspired by my time in a Surf Museum. Below, are a couple of paragraphs I'd like to bring to your remembrance.

DO What YOU Love

Something about the raw passion of the people who had surfed those boards infiltrated my soul. The old boards murmured to me of days gone by-of laughter, sun, personal challenge, edgy lifestyles and travel...living the dream...I saw 'flashbacks' and felt the purity of passion based adrenalin rushes and the exhilaration of truly LIVING LIFE--for the sheer joy of it!

I want to reunite people with this immense sense of connection and oneness...through their passions. We really DO touch God through the intense pleasure we know when we are living passionately. They, our passionate desires, are our key to ALL we could ever want to know, have or experience. My heart ached with longing not only to sing my own song, but to see others release their own. To not die with their song unsung and their vision still in their bellies like a still born child. I felt a sense of urgency to make this my priority.

The words “Do what you love! Do what you love! Do...” kept rolling over and over as I felt the energy in that room of people that had done just that!

This wasn’t something just for me to “tell” others. It was a resonating admonition to LIVE it before others in order that they may be empowered and encouraged to do so themselves. It was a strong reminder to me to document my journey, taking others with me, allowing them to see HOW I do it.

Two Degrees off Truth

How much of your time is spent doing what you love doing?

How often do you find yourself groaning over what you feel you MUST do?

Or are you one of those people who has begun to make those changes and have created a niche marketing some version of your passion but it doesn’t quite “hit the mark” for you?

I have always felt I would, could and should write books and be a successful author. I also believed I could be famous as a singer. I am a firm believer that if you have a strong desire for something, then you have within you the means to release some version of that desire that fulfils you AND sustains you-financially as well. We are MEANT to be happy in our vocations.

Yes, I want to write. I am a chronic journaler. I don’t just WANT to write. I HAVE to in order to make sense of my world and balance all the day’s activities in an orderly way. And I feel I have so MUCH to say, but whenever I “try” to write a conventional non-fiction book, the gears just seem to seize up.

I think I’ve finally realised that the love I have for “making” books is where I need to place my efforts. I LOVE making books-out of the weirdest things! I love surprising people with a snippet from my life that falls out of an “Eclipse” mints tin, or reads through round pages stored in a CD case. I love making books out of boxes and boxes out of books and I love adding texture, sound, scent.

Now, when it comes to writing fiction...that’s a different story entirely. And I think it’s because it is a STORY. I am a storyteller, and I like sharing the stories from my own life immensely. I dubbed myself the Family Scribe- “The Maker and Keeper of Memory”. I want all my children and their children and their children to know me and about my adventures. Just teh same way I wish I knew such things about those in my history.

I want the chance to love and be loved by them.

I am an artistic and experiential storyteller who wants to share the tales of her life for the inspirational benefit of others. To try and write a conventional self help book is to be TWO DEGREES off my mark. It doesn’t flow.

It would never give me the joy, satisfaction or fulfilment that making my own book will. So I have asked myself the question for years and argued about the value of such books for any other than my family. But it is not the BOOKS that I need to market. IT IS THE PROCESS.

Understanding how you can find something inside the perfect version of doing what you love is the key. But you will never find it by stepping sideways into a lesser likeness of it.

Think unconventionally. Give your most fiery passion and deepest delight your time and energy. Think about WHY you love what you do and how can you use it to help others experience that feeling. Please live your BEST life!

Live Like You Mean It!

I think people start thinking somewhere along the line that “it’s too late” for some reason. Either there isn’t enough time left for them to reach some level of success with their passion, or they are too deeply invested in an alternate reality.

This just isn’t true. Yes, I know it can look like it but you really don’t have to bulldoze the whole mountain to begin to feel the fire of having reached its summit. You can make the tiniest turns toward your true core and begin to experience the magic of living in that place of fulfilment.

I guarantee that when a person is truly ready to sell out to bringing passion back to the centre of their lives, colourful ways to traverse the lack lustre landscape will appear. It’s never too soon to believe in an impossible dream and it’s never too late to go for it. You're never too young or too old.

I once heard someone say something like “if you’re dream is easily attainable you’re aiming too low”. You are the Creator of you own Experience. The spinner of your own story, the writer of your own script, the painter of your own masterpiece...be extravagant!

It’s time to “Live like you mean it!!”

:-)

Live Like You Mean IT!

2010-08-10T23:39:00.000-07:00

just SO love how we are guided from the Inside out!!

The Passion Coach.

Next week, on my radio show, I have a guest called Katey Shaw. Katey did coaching sessions with me, after which she dubbed me the Passion Coach, which I REALLY like! :-)
She did this because she felt that I helped her through a refining process of defining what she wanted to a much greater place of clarity.

The reason I mentioned this is because last night when I attended the networking event, it was hosted by the "Surf Museum". Walking through this space of boards, press releases, photos and smiling faces had an instant and profound impact upon me impressing deeply upon me a clarity of purpose. It's not like it's anything new, but to have these moments of weighty significance when you are reminded what really matters to you are priceless.

Something about the raw passion of the people who had surfed those boards infiltrated my soul. The old boards murmured to me of days gone by-of laughter, sun, personal challenge, edgy lifestyles and travel...living the dream...I saw 'flashbacks' and felt the purity of passion based adrenalin rushes and the exhilaration of truly LIVING LIFE--for the sheer joy of it!

I want to reunite people with this immense sense of connection and oneness...through their passions.We really DO touch God through the intense pleasure we know when we are living passionately. They, our passionate desires, are our key to ALL we could ever want to know, have or experience. My heart ached with longing not only to sing my own song, but to see others release their own. To not die with their song unsung and their vision still in their bellies like a still born child. I felt a sense of urgency to make this my priority.

THIS IS MY PASSION
And I know that I'll do it through selling out to my own.
My desire to sing and play my way around the globe will open the way to others to follow their dreams whatever they are.

Pass It On

As soon as I emerged into the main room from the museum two men began speaking to me and all I could talk about was living passionately and how they were , or could be, doing that. Something had shifted in that space/time.BIG TIME. Back in church days, we'd say something like "a new mantle" or a "fresh anointing" had fallen upon me. However, you want to say it, that is what happened.

I went home and immediately captured and posted a video on Facebook. This week's content "Live Like You Mean it!"
I had a message form someone who watched and was emotionally touched. They shared their dream and how they felt they'd been skirting around it and how that video spoke directly to them.

I FEEL THE POTENCY OF PASSION IN THIS WAVE-and I'm riding it!

DIY Designer Living-The Look of Love

2010-08-10T19:01:00.000-07:00

The Look Of Love

Beauty, Love and Truth are all in the eye of the Beholder.
"Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it."
~ Rumi

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The other day I spoke of how our focus will determine what we draw into our lives. I have spent the last few days revelling in the perfection of the days. Today was just "Another Perfect Day In Paradise". The more we can enjoy our "here and nows', the more exquisite things we draw to enjoy. that is what I call the "look of love"

An old Jewish proverb goes something like this:
"When you only see two choices...take the third!"

You know "Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].
Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]" 2Cor 13:7b-8a

The thing is LOVE ALWAYS SEES MORE OPTIONS. Love is never limited in its view. It is expansive. It FINDS new ways, creative ways to move forward. It doesn't fear or resist...it flows.
What you fear will come upon you, what you resist will persist, but what you allow to flow will pass constructively through your life, carrying you buoyantly along.
The ebbs and tides of life are part of the authentic rhythm of your true nature. Fight/flight are ego centred and fear based. They COMPETE for the right to live.
You are designed to CREATE, not compete. You are born to know abundance, not lack. Whatever the 'climate' of your life, you are able to improve it by aligning to who you REALLY are at the core level and FLOW.

Have a fantastic day!
Lisa In Oz

I'm Flying to Paris!

2010-07-31T17:26:00.001-07:00

I want to go and sing in France. I'm looking to sell my music to buy my tickets. If you'd like my songs and want to help me live out my dream, then get in touch and I'll tell you how. ;-)

Times Change-A New Song

2010-07-12T15:46:00.000-07:00

This was a very nice surprise. :-)

Please take a look!

http://villageconnector.com/howardcountymd/2010/07/12/a-community-treasure-from-down-under/

it includes my latest music video

Essential Elements for Effective Masterminding with CTT

2010-07-06T05:37:00.000-07:00

Essential Elements for Effective Masterminding with Creative Thinking Technology

In a previous article (http://lisashahescape.blogspot.com/2010/02/th-art-of-controlled-chaos.html) I wrote that one of the ways creativity can be applied to businesses in this ever changing economic climate is through a regular masterminding session. Masterminding as a creative tool may well have existed long before Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, however, it has since become a term well recognised and used in business circles.

In fact, could it be that it has become so commonplace both as a term and an idea that it’s possibly in danger of becoming clichéd. When something becomes clichéd, even though it holds great value, much of its impact can be lost. Let’s consider, in light of Hill’s definition, what constitutes a productive masterminding connection.

“Two or more people who work in perfect harmony for a definite purpose...

...Borrow and use the education, the experience, influence, and perhaps the capital of other people in carrying out your own plan...

...You can accomplish in one year, more than you could accomplish in a lifetime, if you depended entirely upon your own efforts for success...

...When you form a true mastermind alliance with others, and work with them in a true spirit of harmony, you can draw freely upon the spiritual forces within you in carrying out your plans and desires...

...Also, this alliance can give you absolute protection against failure provided that your purpose is beneficial for all that you influence...”

Napoleon Hill

The first of these statements describes what it takes to create a mastermind alliance, and the other points listed could refer to the benefits able to be gained through that alliance.

“Two or more people who work in perfect harmony for a definite purpose...”

To create this allegiance takes more than one person with varying abilities between them whilst being committed to the same outcome. To be in harmony as compared to unison implies a different role whilst the definiteness of purpose speaks of specific agreed outcome from the joint efforts. Win:win.

It’s not often, or even likely, that a large group would be in harmony from the outset even if there is a shared beneficial goal. Each has their ideas and methods as well as their own particular talents, skills and egos. The gain for each member needs to be such that it motivates a strong commitment to the group as a whole and should include helping the others receive their gain.

The first agenda of any potentially effective mastermind alliance must be that of attaining “perfect harmony”. To develop this among members requires building trust and developing a “safe” environment.

When a mastermind is built upon specifically selected individuals this can be easier, but when a group is brought together via other means (e.g. a family, or a micro business) developing relationships and like-mindedness are paramount.

Having Fun and Feeling Good.

Social networking between businesses and within businesses has been on the rise for some years, the reason being it has been widely accepted that people who “play together” tend to get along better in general and feel better about working together. It’s also because it brings balance to the work/life ratio and relieves stress which leads to healthier people and better personal performance.

Something amazing happens when people laugh together. A bonding around the moment takes place. Humans are creatures who are shaped through information and strong emotion. Enjoyment of another’s company usually draws a desire to have the experience again. The more pleasant time together is the more trusted the environment becomes. To the extent people reveal themselves in various scenarios and meet with acceptance they will willingly share ideas and subjective opinions more openly.

When the result of playing or working together feels good people are free to be themselves and ultimately demonstrate more creative as the group culture allows for the putting forth of ideas without ridicule, judgment or criticism. Not only is this so but a genuine regard for each other’s well being rises out of the bond that feeling good together brings.

For an effective masterminding synergy these elements are absolutely essential and they rest solidly on the level of connectedness between the all parties no matter the number.

Creating a Safe Environment Swiftly

It could be considered a difficult task to bring synchronistic energy to a “motley crew” and it is certainly something that cannot be forced upon people. This kind of harmony must be offered willingly from within by each individual. The best way to have people align to a vision as told by many a success advocate is for it to be their idea. All that is being presented here is the notion that incentives can play a rather influential part.

Feeling good, having fun, playing and laughing are powerful incentives. Too long have these influential factors been outlawed as contrary to good working models and cast aside in favour of a penal ( reward versus penalty) system. Whilst working with pain as the motivator may require less creativity and seem effective it squashes initiative through the fear of what making a mistake could bring basically short circuiting potential innovation.

The other side of this system is pleasure and it will perhaps generate a better response. Pleasure can work where the safe environment is in place otherwise fear will yet hold many back. Using pleasure as the way to establish a non judgmental space is a superior path to fostering within people a desire to contribute to the well being of the group and a confidence to suggest ways in can be done.

Further along in this series another concept for motivation will be presented that surpasses both pleasure and pain.

To begin to set up the conditions for a fertile masterminding session make use of games, interactive activities and artistic tools such as drawing implements, drama techniques and music. Organise individual, partnered, team and group oriented activities. At this stage these games/activities need to help people feel comfortable and relaxed through being enjoyable. The key component is engaging people though focussing attention on the fun of the activity and interaction rather than on the people themselves, thus minimising self consciousness. When working with others the focus is on being attentive to the whole. This can be achieved in very simple ways through games that involve counting together, singing a well known song chorus or synchronised actions.

This is the magic of CTT.

Studies in Conscious Creation Vol III

2010-06-05T17:33:00.000-07:00

Studies In Conscious Creation Vol 3-Keeping Your Focus

This week I thought it might be good to look at the kinds of things that enter our lives in any ordinary day and how to maintain an energy focus that will continue to work to move us toward our desires, and the fruition of the same toward us.

This IS a two way street. A host of paradoxical perspectives are active here, and yet all in perfect harmony with each other-no contradictions.

What To Do With An Ordinary Day.

Now, when I say an ‘ordinary’ day, I am referring specifically to a day that has no specific extremes or intense emotions. Trust me, these are as needed as the others. A lot of the time these days don’t have any intense need for anything either. They just are. They are like the calm in the midst of the storm (not necessarily a bad storm). They are a lull, for breathing more deeply and slowly and not really much else. They are a balancing of energy, so that you don’t go “over the top” with extremes.

They are good days.

As I said, in my video, they are good days for me to be more inclined to “change gears” go left brain, and get some other kinds of work done, that I am usually way too excited to bother with. Site maintenance, or book keeping are good examples. They are “ordering” days for me. Some would say “practical”, but I think all my days are productive and practical! J

When you’ve been flying with intensity, this can feel like a “come down”, and therein lies the danger. In the same way, that some people view rainy days as “bad” weather, these days can be unappreciated for the value they bring.

The important thing to remember, is that feeling good is ALL that matters. If that isn’t exactly “over the moon/on fire”, that’s fine. As long as it isn’t “down in the dumps/nothing is happening”. Do some of the other things you normally put off. Be productive in “practical” ways. Watch cool movies. Relax with a friend. Pamper yourself. Enjoy the NOW.

In this way, all that has already been set in motion by your desires will continue to work toward their fruition. If you shift your mood into a lower vibration, you will send out different information, and begin attracting different outcomes.

Remember your desires whilst attending the day’s requirements. Depending on where you are with your Intentional Creativity, you may feel you have more of these days than the exciting kind, but momentum will grow. AND...what you are wanting to see may be closer than you think! ;-)

When Opportunities Come.

This is another important time to keep your focus-REALLY important.

As I put my focus on my desired end result, opportunities that can bring it to fruition begin to emerge upon my path. Each one will somehow reflect something of what I’ve been wanting. All of them will include elements from every facet of my being in a mixed array of arrangements. As the Universe responds to my vibration, I will be presented with offers I can choose to accept or decline, explore or ignore. Just because they come doesn’t mean I HAVE to follow them, OR that they are exactly what I want. What they will do however, is reveal to me how completely I am sustaining the desired “state of being”. That is, how thoroughly I believe I HAVE what I desire.

In this scenario, as with all, align yourself afresh with what you want. From that place, does this path feel firm and good...or more a “maybe this could work” type deal? TAKE ONLY THE WAYS THAT ARE FIRM. Being firm doesn’t mean you can clearly see the road straight out before you. It simply means you feel certain of the next step. Living this way, that’s the only step you need to be sure off.

Should you face a fork in the road, feel uncertain, yet know you must make a choice now, then whatever choice you make , don’t second guess it! Be committed. It is your whole heartedness that will make either choice RIGHT for you, and work around to the desired outcome anyway. Universal reality is fluid and always changing. You can’t ‘miss out’. You can be sure you will get whatever the lesson is contained in it, and the lesson is there, to steer you into your dreams.

Opportunities to become the person who can create AND sustain that dream will come. They will lead you into it. They are not barriers to it, but gateways!

Opportunities in a Different Direction

This can be tricky. For example, I feel I must get to Nice, France. That is the desired outcome for me. To be honest, I don’t even think it’s necessarily because something amazing is going to happen there. I think it’s because in becoming the person who gets there, I will have accomplished what I need within myself to live the life I desire from that point on. I believe it will mark some kind of milestone in this way.

I have become totally focussed on that as being the gateway into another world for me. However, the path way to Nice may not look as direct, because the way Universal Energy orchestrates events is supremely unexpected, unforeseeable and exquisitely “random”.

Going With the Flow

As happenings unfold, and circumstances evolve, stay intuitively aligned to your predominant personal desire. If you are already in a relationship, this will have a bearing. However, personally, even though a life partnership is a strong desire, I believe it’s better to hone in on that which is uniquely you-YOUR specific part along the time line. You will miss NOTHING of all you desire in following this, but in relinquishing this for ANYthing else, even on an motivational level, will distort the outcome as well. As those other things enter the stage of your reality, they will be aligned to all that is you, enhancing and enriching, rather than supplanting.

When an opportunity presents, surrendering it to the “state of being” for your desires, will give you a sense of effortless flow, and a kind of inner ‘glitch’. Follow the flow. J Along this path are whatever lessons and experiences required to lead you to what you are wanting, whether you immediately understand how, or not. Embrace what comes with an attitude of readiness to grow and a hunger to learn and become the person who can sustain your dream. Be thankful.

Even when occurrences arise that stir emotions and responses that don’t feel incredibly good, peace is still discernible on this path and it is that firmness that allows one to undergo the discomfort of outgrowing old paradigms and fears. It is the patience that will draw you into the wisdom and insight to equip you further. Surrender, and trust the process.

Light in the darkness-oct 08 blog reviewed

2010-05-29T22:44:00.000-07:00

This is another significant blod to show my transition...

Hi again!
It's morning, and I have made some interesting progress through the dark stillness. (I call this "charlotte's portal" )

Just after midnight, and I woke up. I must have dozed off for a bit but awoke again shortly after and was unable to sleep, my head intensely bombarded with all the fiery darts of fear and financial anxiety. I could feel myself sinking deeper into the old, and all too familiar spiral, that literally drives the hair right out of my head! Like a floating orb that had crossd the 'event horizon' of a black hole,I was slipping away and I just didn't seem to be able to help myself.

EFT...the QUIET ACHIEVER

I sat up in bed, donned my iPod ear phones and listened to Napoleon Hill and a reading of Orison Swet Marden( both from Success magazine). Then I perfromed EFT on myself, but was so scattered in my thinking I could;t even coin a phrase! Focussing on the feeling is the issue anyway, and that' was NO trouble. I lay back down, feeling no different, but still couldn't sleep.

By this time it's 2 a.m., and I fall back on my faithful writing tool, which aids in the process of focussing my thoughts and intentions. I really AM a compulsive writer. I 'preach ' myelf happy.

Of course, I started out exploring the terrible way I was feeling-hopeless and so tired of being in this place again. I was infuriated with myself, coz I've known and expereinced so much, adn should be passed falling into this place. I could see the 'lack' i had let creep in and it was destroying all my joy.

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT EFT

I looked up and saw a shooting star. Of course, I was immediately transported to thinking about how much I love seeing shooting stars, and how good God is for giving me one right then.
From there, without any thought, I just started to list some of the many things i love: to ponder, to share, to do, be, have and give.

I wrote pages and I let them fill me afresh with the joy of living.
I love EFT and how it goes to work like an anonymous fairy godmother when you've forgotten you've asked for help.
I see EFT as the most humble of God's healing tools. The way it works, you could 'miss it' and never give credit where credit is due, unless you're truly paying attention.

TURNING POINT

That's where things started to change. By the light of a tea light lantern, out on the balcony in the deep purple breeze, I found a better place to view things, and a major burden of the past few weeks lifted.

I wrote for half an hour, and went back to bed...but still not to sleep.
Only now, I was receiving GOOD things. Answers, insights and plans.
I wanted to get up and get started on them!

TRULY AWAKE
I finally dozed off at about 4:30 a.m., but you can bet, I did it as one awakened, no longer in the dark of a dimmed consciousness. i had gotten past it, throught it, over it, round it...it was gone and I knew what to do.

For the same time that I felt this weight, I felt God inside saying "follow Your Bliss...All things are yours". Any time I asked a question, this was my answer.

In each situation, where I felt blocked or challenged or frustrated, I simply chose NOT to focus on those , or complain, but turned my attention to what I DO want. I recognised these as merely distractions and potential excuses, and I'm done with those.

BEING THANKFUL FOR THE LITTLE

Also, I'd read recently to be thankful for ALL money that comes in , whether 5c pieces, or whether you think it's enough. I kept finding 5c pieces after that!! I thought about how when somebody bugs you to call them, then, when you do, they do nothing but complain, and so, you don;t really wanna call them again in a hurry. That's how I saw 'money'. When it came, I would inwardly despair that it wasn't enough, and would list all the reasons why not...and money just got tired of my lack of expressed appreciation in respect ot that whining!! ( works for me!)

I thanked God for the gifts in all the situations that were there for me, and for the faithfulness and consistency of the laws of the Universe, such as LOA, and how perfectly my expectations were carried out and became my reality. I praised the reliability of these wonderful Truths, and rejoiced in them.

And I gave thanks for the truth of 'multiple realities', and that at any moment in time, I could switch from experiencing one reality to another reality of my choosing. I chose to see a different possibility in the Sea of Possibilities, and BE my desires fulfilled...and then, I started to SEE the things that were mine.

I realised that I DO have what i need right now. I DON'T have lack, but had let the belief I did blind me to what was already mine.

INSPIRED ACTION

"follow your bliss". Not sure how, but somehow, the notion of giving myself a birthday present sprung up. As I do have a little immediate cash, and no need to pay an immediate bill, (and I get paid after that) I decided to FREE myself of even thinking about how to get money ( coz that sends the message of not having it...and then, that's what you get) One of the ways, I can easily forget about money, is to lose myself in my art, writing, music an dloved ones....and Follow my Bliss.

So, as it's my birthday, next Friday...a week away, I gave myself the gift of this SEVEN DAYS UP TO MY BIRTHDAY to let go of money concerns and feel the pleasure of true wealth by doing what I love. I felt immediately liberated! KNowing that I've set a boundary like this totally frees me from giving thought to anxious thought weeds, and gives the Universe soemthing better to manifest.

Dollar Notes or Love Notes

2010-05-29T22:30:00.000-07:00

This is a blog I wrote about 19months ago, and it shows how my attitude to money changed...

Yesterday was another good day.
As I mentioned, I began it with all of you, and how inspiring that was.

MUSINGS
I have a few different ponderings I'd like to share with you today.
1.Sowing-Growing-Knowing.
When i practice a difficult part of a song, i feel like i get nowhere initially.
I persevere, coz in spite of what seems obvious,I know I will improve.
But there's a kind of time lapse thing, where it feels like you get nowhere for the longest time, then, one day, after not practicing for a week, I go back to the piano, and hey presto! I can do it!
You put the time in, you water(sow), the sun rises and sets, rises and sets(grow), then you find you HAVE BECOME ( know-experientially)

It's the same with the things I speak over and to myself, and now, EFT on. I can feel myself being nurtured by the faith in what I'm saying, but one day...you wake up and you SEE differently, and you can link the changes to the profound truths of what you've been focussing your attention on.

This is what I'm experiencing now-with Money and with being in my own successful business.
After I left my
"P.S." BLOG yesterday, I read this little book by Morgana Rae, that I'd downloaded. I almost fell over! Everything I'd just come through, was what she listed to do , in order to draw abundance into your life.

PERSONIFICATION
Relationship is everything to me...that's why I like to 'hang out with God consciously'

I should have realised it years ago. I personify and ascribe personality traits to everything in my life, out of this love of relationship. It definitely helps to appreciate and love something when you give it a name. And I name everything. My car, Rita, got pampered yesterday. This laptop is called "Peeta Poota". My plants all have names, even my clothesline did, and my piano. I love relationship and develop them with everything!!

SO, I'm a bit surprised to see it took me this long to realise that I'd been treating Money like the Predator in my life. Money has been the scapegoat of all that I'd encountered in men, through abuse and neglect, so I hated the fact that I couldn't live without it/him.He felt like an abusive pimp that took whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted, and sent me to do what I never wanted to do, in return for a meagre, 'never enough', no promises fulfilled guarantee. I had seen that I'd connected Money, the lack of it, as well as the manipulative power of it, to early memories and incidents that left deep welts inside. and I had traced a pattern of working-but-not-getting what I earnt, from that time on ( at 5). I had chronic fears of displeasing Money, but never realised that I had made him this monster.

A NEW FRIEND
In learning to be grateful for every cent, I was inviting Money back into my life, but as my Friend. In 'choosing to feel good about supporting myself through my own multi million dollar business, and committing to it, a new Money Portrait was forming.
Money wouldn't talk to me before, other than echo what I believed about the Tyrant version of him. It reminds me of the "Parable of the Talents and Minas" in the Bible, where Jesus quotes the Owner who had left varying amounts with his workers to make what they will of it. When he returned from his journey,the first two had doubled their investments. The last one, afraid and judgmental, was too scared to do anything, and so buried his to keep it and return it.
The Owner, began with "So YOU KNEW that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? Well, then , you should have..."The worker received the worst of his fears, The Owner had not been this Ogre to the others.It was the beleif and expectation the worker held of the Owner that coloured his picture so black and bleak.

I can so see, that this is how I've seen Money-a cruel, unfair, pschyzophrenic tyrant, who could never be trusted, and would take and exploit, then abandon you, until he felt like using you again. ANd you had to have him, so you do nothing but surrender to his works, and despise yourself for it. These weren't just beliefs ABOUT money-this has been my RELATIONSHIP WITH Money, and that's why I could never get him to hang around very long and any assoication with him led to worse conditions. A chronic, life long resentment of everything bad that I saw in the world, was attributed to Money.

VOICE IN THE NIGHT

But the other night, when I couldn't sleep and in my despair, Money came and spoke to me. Not only that, but I'd noticed when I thought about my business, I felt stirrings of warmth and endearment-something was changing-or had.I felt love toward my business, and all it could be for me, and through me in the world. I started to see it as the sweetest life gift I'd ever received-the place to fulfill all the potential of who I am and want to materialise.
Business and Money were inextricably linked ( I know that seems like stating the obvious-but, think of them as people) and what I thought of one, was being projected against the other as well.

I was terrified to succeed with Business, coz how would I keep my distance from Money?
So, with the fluid rearranging of my perspectives, came a wave of wonder and love and appreciation,and I entered
into a new relationship with Money, and found him to be the tangible, hands-on face of Wisdom, who is my matriarchal mentor and all that I adore and aspire to be. Her hands have been tied to assist me in fulness, due to my hatred of Money, and I must say, I actually experienced true and impacting feelings of remorse for judging Money this way. I had done him an immeasurable disservice, and myself in the process!

This was a genuine repentance-a real turn around and a dramatic milestone.
And that's when i knew, Money and I were gonna be best friends from now on.

DOLLAR NOTES OR LOVE NOTES?

So last night, whenI went to work, i received a $10 tip. When the man left it on my piano, whispering 'thank you', i didn't see the monetary value of this note...i saw the gesture of love from Money. The man was the one who delivered it, and I'm grateful to him for his part, but it was a love note from Money. There was no thought of currency worth, but a wave of self worth in feeling truly adored and cared for.

How's that for a change????

It was Money that has been saying "Follow Your Bliss". To take time off worrying about Money, is to demonstrate the new found trust in Him, and to spend time doing what I love is to BE WEALTHY.

So, to wrap up for now...here's a thought about perspective. What you focus on, GROWS. It will, if you let it, eventually take over your entire range of sight-everything. In Australia, we have this thing about 'BIG FRUIT'. We've got the Big Banana, Big Pineapple, Big Avocado...we even have a BIG MERINO (sheep, pictured above)

You can make anything BIG, BIGGER than anything or anyone, simply by giving it ALL your attention. And only you can determine if this magnification will be good or bad.
Money loves to be where He is appreciated.
HAve a BEAUTIFUL and groovy day! :-)

Thank You-Music Piece

2010-05-27T01:09:00.000-07:00

We had a good night together! :-)

Studies in Conscious Creation Vol II

2010-05-24T18:33:00.000-07:00

Studies In Conscious Creation Vol II- Motivation

**Disclaimer** In sharing elements of my story, I, in no way, desire to malign anyone in my family-or others. I see myself as the creator of my own experience, including the one I was born into. I judge no one, resent none, but sincerely love and appreciate all. Everyone is on their own journey. I also believe how I ‘saw/see’ my life experience is my own perspective and as such, subject to my own interpretation of the facts, and not a reflection on those who were part of my world .

Well, as the title suggests, I want to give some thought to those things that motivate us to move forward on our dreams and desires. On the flipside of that, I also want to look at what we hide behind and make our scapegoat for NOT moving ahead on them. And finally, explore the validating motivations we can fabricate to allow ourselves to be happy in the pursuit of our pleasures.

Of course, in this small space, I’ll only be opening the tins, rather than dragging all the worms out. I imagine they will wriggle out of their own accord...and once they do, there’s no putting that lid back on! LOL

I am going to use myself as my example-as I usually do. That’s because I really only know about me and whilst I am certain that I’m not the only one responds to things the way I do, I can only speak for myself. What follows are some of my conclusions regarding my own “methods of operation”.

Who Am I To Be Happy?

Without going into any longwinded details (just for a change! lol ), I will point out that my childhood circumstances were ideal for demonstrating contrast, so I would by default catapult desires for better. It is an automatic thing to want health in sickness. I wanted peace in the storm. I wanted an oasis in the chaos. I was only very young, when the change to my circumstances came.

My life and disposition were such that certain erroneous beliefs had been given great leave to seed and grow even by then. Thinking that I was the centre of anybody’s universe but mine was one of them. This was the way the stage was set when the opportunity to have my desire to be out of the environment came.

Here’s the thing: we get what we focus on. I got what I wanted, even tho it cost me dearly-the event ultimately splintering the family into chards. I loved my family more than anything, I thought-but obviously not more than myself. I had to be out of that place. It is this love for Self that has always come to my rescue. I guess you could say, from even way back then, as a very little girl, I saw that the only person I could save, was me.

I also saw that I was the only one who would.

So...in this instance, self preservation was the motive to have the something better I could see in my dreams. It was my motivation, and it made my dream my reality.

BUT here’s the thing. There were some in my immediate family who DIDN’T want to be out of that situation. I can only assume their fear and focus delivered a reality for them as well, and it played out in tumultuous ways for my brother. He blamed me, and said things that implied I had betrayed other family members. Not many years later, that brother killed himself. We were on good terms by then, by he’d had enough, and his words sowed a seed that took deep root, that for me having what I want would bring heart break to others that I loved.

Guilt for being happy accompanied me in the form of deep depression for many years, and a desperate loneliness that led me all sorts of places. I had no right to be happy when all my family were SO miserable. And they were!

Who am I to be happy when others suffer?

But once again, I left the environment that made it hard for me to be happy, and went out on my own. I had about $80-something dollars (my big inheritance! Lol) and a bowl , spoon and fork from my grandmother and an enrolment in Art School! Can naivety and desperation be viewed as gutz? Yes. I’ll give myself that J

Jumping ahead, events led then, to me becoming a mum .

Now, I had a REAL reason for making better choices. My babies were my unspoken justification for everything, including bringing out the very best in me. I was always fascinated with inner workings, but struggled with old patterns of behaviour in some areas, until I had my babies. My strong memories of early life were the guide for me. I never wanted them to feel the ‘bad’ feelings I’d had, or know the traumas I’d felt, but I did want them to know the deep love and appreciation I’d felt even in the midst, and how precious family are.

Being the kind of person that could teach and impart all the best things is all I cared about. I lived it from the heart before them, and was alone with them until they were 5 ½ and 4 ½.

Scenario after scenario played out in my life that confirmed my belief-that I could only have what I wanted at the expense of others’ dreams. Eventually, I slid comfortably into the role of false piouity that many know...that one of sacrifice.

Find and Be the Scapegoat

So, now we jumped way down the track and I’m married with five babies.

I know, without a shadow of a doubt, I lacked the wherewithal to do something constructive my life in my late teens. I did a year of Art School, found it too lax, and enrolled in a Fine Arts degree-filling in time coz I really didn’t know what to do with myself. If I hadn’t had such a compelling to recreate a family unit, perhaps I would have made something from there. Instead, I gladly had babies.

I still say it some of the finest work I’ve ever done! You will too, when you meet them!

I think I wanted that solid family unit behind me and it gave me great stability. I’d moved into my dream environment but in doing so, the old idea of having a happy family or my personal dreams came into play again. It was either/or again. This time, I chose ‘sacrifice’, so that I could continue to give my family what they needed to be happy.

None of these motivations are cut and dried. They all interlace and intertwine. I isolate them for identification’s sake, but all were simultaneously present to varying degrees. This one, of feeling the need to complete my commitment to my children has really stayed active to this day. With the youngest one approaching 18, the compelling to pursue my individual life has grown progressively stronger. I still feel a measure of responsibility to ‘take care’ of them and supply a home-which I do, but not so much now, that I can’t accept certain types of opportunities-if not all.

Thing is, I felt it had to be this way. I wanted to be mum until they had grown. My mothering and lifestyle have changed over the past 8 years of being single again, but I’m still basically PRESENT and in the home. A direct spin off from my childhood.

And here is the beautiful part, in the almost 30 years I’ve spent being a mother, I have finally become the person who is ready to live their own personal dreams, and I know it doesn’t have to make anyone miserable.

Today, I know nobody owes me anything, let alone to save me. And by extension, I have found the liberating counter truth of knowing I can ‘save’ no one either. If I am aligned to my dream, I will get it and the people around me will get their own version of reality according to their focus.

This brings me to my last point:

The Place of Altruism.

So...one of the ways that I found my dreams gained access to the ‘acceptable’ genre, was to somehow see them as “good for all”. I still wasn’t enough reason to have something. The only way I could protect the people I loved was to ensure that my desires had elements that were good for them too. That became the defining criteria for a long time.

But as with everything, who we are must surface. And I have always been such a lover of growth and deep spiritual connection, so that growth must come-no matter what! At times, it has broken through in great dramatic, and what some considered uncharacteristic, leaps sideways. I’d find a way to level the extremes, bring the pendulum back to centre, but still get fix of expansion. This put pressure on people around me to grow as well. Something, not always well received.

Getting back to “altruism”. It can be used either way, to support or to avert your dreams. But both are exercises in Ostrich-ism (that disease of sticking one’s head in the sand). The truth is MY dreams are mine and your dreams are yours... for YOU. Each one of those people we love has their own and- dare I say it?-apart from us! Do you want them to modify or sacrifice what would make them most happy for you??

What healthy person would?

Nor are you expected to do it! No one is. Not you, not me, not the people you love and wish would never leave.

But here’s the real danger, and my strongest point for this blog: In attempting to make your dream acceptable on any terms other than the fact that it makes you happy, is to move it away from its purest form, and once adulterated, it cannot lead to the place of pure joy. Nor leave the most empowering legacy.

That’s not the end of it. It’s not all over. Life is a never ending process of refinement...as are you, and I, and our respective dreams.

What I’m Aiming For

I think my dreams have reached their purest form, and my heart the cleanest state, when I recognise that I do what I do PURELY for the love of it. I do what I do out of SHEER PLEASURE.

I need no other motivation, nor any other validation. It’s not my job to fix, change or save anyone. What relief that is! I live simply to follow the compelling of my own heart to do that which I love. I don’t need any other reason. It doesn’t have to be marketable. My job in life is to find ever increasing degrees of freedom for these endeavours.

The exceedingly lovely by-product of putting all this energy on myself, is freedom. Freedom for me, freedom for others and the sweetest, purest legacy I could ever hope to leave with the planet-

The legacy of demonstrating the power of living one’s dreams.

This is the only life I’ve wanted to live and the only legacy I ever wished to leave for anyone.

DIy Designer Living -Studies IN Conscious Creation

2010-05-24T16:52:00.000-07:00

Here's some of my story!

DIY Designer Living-Studies in Conscious Creation

2010-05-18T22:05:00.000-07:00

Studies In Conscious Creation

Before anything can take a physical form, it needs to have existed as a concept in the imagination of someone. Our universe is created through thought waves converting energy from one form to another. Energy is the life force, and it has intelligence. I call it God, Source , Source Energy, Daddy God, the Universe. I like the term “lord”...because it feels Personal for me, and it really mean “I Am”.

My favourite is probably Source though, coz it makes it easy for people to understand their relationship with energy and Source-ONE. ALL ONE. Whilst I never felt alienated from God, I didn’t always feel the power of the connection. I always believed in it, but didn’t know how to clear the cobwebs that seemed to develop through my troubled teen years.

I use to sit at my window at night, look up at the stars, and say “I know you are talking to me, but I don’t know how to hear you.” (Sure got over that!)

It’s been my desire for as long as I can remember, to live my life the way that I believe I was designed to. Of course, over the years, I’ve gotten better and better at articulating that, but the desire has ALWAYS been a conscious preoccupation.

Years ago, I discovered some proverbs that read

“Through wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations,

By understanding, he set the heavens in place.

By his knowledge the mountains were created

And the clouds let drop their dew.” Pr 3:19-20

Then, I found this too...

“Through wisdom a house is built

Through understanding it is established.

By knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.” Pr 24:3-4

Truly ,from that day I knew like I’d never know before that I could INDEED create my life the very same way God had created ALL that is, because I knew I had free access to all the wisdom, understanding and knowledge that I could ever want. This was well over 20 years ago.

I lay this foundation to show that my understanding and experience of everything that I share has been born from this connection I have with Source. I have been almost desperate to know myself as ONE with Source. I know what it is to be caught up in glory and know mysteries. Sometimes, I am so hungry for more, and so thirsty for filling, that I feel I will collapse from within.

But, my lover always comes. He comes when I am so faint with love and weak with desire. And he possesses me. We fuse as one and for a moment I am satiated. From that extreme conscious oneness, life comes forth with dizzying colour and sensory awakening. I am deeper, broader, longer, higher. It is this KNOWING that fuels all that I am, all that I do, and taught me how to create my life on purpose.

It is also because of the reality of this Connection that I am able to ‘release’ my vice like grip on the things I so wish to experience in my life. As with all things, it’s been a process, and the climate for mastery was nowhere near the supportive community it is now.

Today, people have a much ‘lighter’ and ‘brighter’ energy to ride. It’s easier to believe than it used to be, not only for the role models who went through decades of preparation for this time, but because the energy atmosphere is far more conducive through the Collective Consciousness toward illumination.

However, it is a time of contrasts. The dividing line between those who live in fear and those who choose to learn to trust love, will broaden, and with it, the contrasting lifestyles of lack and abundance, sickness and well being.

Now really is the time to learn how to fly with this.

Time to come out of the cocoon and into the light, stretch those wings and bring all your colour into the world.

So...do you know what you want?

Do you know what lights your fire?

I really would like to help, but I need feed back to offer the best advice to develop awareness...not only of what You want, but also of how you’ve already created your current life experience.

How would you like me to help you?

DIY Designer Beauty

2010-05-18T03:33:00.000-07:00

use life's experiences to release the beauty within.

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DIY Designer Beauty

2010-05-11T03:12:00.000-07:00

DIY Designer Beauty

All my life I suffered from ongoing “body image” issue.

It’s not an uncommon issue, particularly for women. It has led many a beautiful soul down a tortured path of insecurity and self abasement, and for some, it has even proven fatal. A curse perhaps

Like many such “curses”, however, I have come to recognise it as a blessing in disguise. Not only this adversity, but any and all the adversity I have faced. From my darkest fears, to my plaguing more “liveable” irritations, I have found a way to absorb them all and turn them into something wonderful.

I found what has become for me cure for all ills, the answer to every question and the panacea for all maladies. I found the fountain of liberty indeed. And I found it in living in the heart of the Universe, where there is only beauty, truth and limitless life.

Choosing to make abiding in that Love the top priority of my life, I continue to deepen my experience of beauty, multiply my encounters with beautiful people, and I see an ever increasing beauty present in myself. In who I am. This ripples out and I am free to see the magnificent wonder and beauty in all that is around me.

And give it worthy appreciation.

Metamorphosis is the Path to Beauty-Accepting Growth

Two analogies come to mind: the life cycle of a butterfly, and the process of creating a diamond. In both scenarios, a wonderful alchemy is at work, and these days, I relate to the alchemical process the most-but all three have their common points.

Firstly, there is a base substance. Carbon for the diamond, the caterpillar (grub) for the butterfly, and a base metal, such as tin or nickel, for alchemy.

In relating this back to humanity, it is our ‘ego centred’ nature that is the base component. It is that part of us that we are born into when we take on flesh. It is ruled by our physical senses and lives in the conscious part of the psyche. It is the “perishable” part, and there comes a day for all that breathes, when it is shed once more.

The larvae of a butterfly lives to eat. It may be itself eaten, but its whole agenda is to reach a certain physical size and age, and then all it has consumed will sustain it through the next phase. It does have elements for protection-camouflage, odours or maybe poison. Nothing about this life is incidental or accidental. A caterpillar will outgrow and shed its skin four or five times, the final time being when it cocoons itself a chrysalis.

Meanwhile, for the diamond, carbon atoms must have leached through the earth’s mantle formed by melting rocks and begin a descent propelled by the elements of temperature, cooling sufficiently to once again harden. Already the carbon has been subjected to heat and cold and passages through pressure. If the amount of resistance, and the balance of chemistry right, diamond crystals are formed DEEP in the womb of the earth (120-200kms down).

If the conditions are not so “perfect”, the crystals can melt partially or completely dissolve. Just like the grub, they may not complete the process.

Of course, there are many more very interesting details in these analogies that are worthy of study, as they parallel the human soul’s journey so well, but my blogs are only ever an appetizer! Lol

And so, in this section, I just want to present the notion that life on earth is about a progressive transformation. Not a static condition. Nothing on this glorious planet enters from the energy state and emerges back into it in the same form. Everything grows, is changed, matures and is transformed again. Everything is recycled in its physical life.

And whilst all things change and are transformed, the energy that is that central matter goes on.

You are not your body, but having emerged into this physical plane, you have an adventure to embrace. That adventure is the one of metamorphosis, and through this extended process, you can grow wings and become free to fly. You can develop a resilience that never crumbles, and you can purify your heart like the finest gold.

This is your glorified state. The REAL you. The part that never dies. You can choose to take an entire lifetime and never respond to the conditions in such a way as to grow into this beauty, or you can say ‘yes’ to all that comes and somehow grow ever more brightly, living here to enjoy so much more.

The Dark Night of the Soul

We all can know ‘good’ and ‘bad’ days, but when you accept growth as the motivation for life, they all contribute in positive ways. You can learn ‘how’ to see things so that you can grow, with less resistance, which means a LOT less discomfort. A measure of awkwardness perhaps, but pleasure can fill these times too.

However, it does seem to be undeniably common that most endure some period of deep suspension into a personal abyss of sorts. It may not feel nice...but simply think of the caterpillar, whos ‘prison’ was of its own intent and construction. Hard as it may seem to grasp, so is ours! When you take a larger view, it’s possible to see this, and understanding it, we can accept our ‘classroom’ more readily as an opportunity to master the necessary skills to be and remain free.

In transcending the circumstances, through releasing resistance, we will IMMEDIATELY shorten the time we stay here, because we allow ourselves to be receptive and open. Everything moves along more swiftly like this.

Looking for the resources within you, fuelled by an intensifying desire for freedom and flight, will cause all you need to begin to surface...just like a diamond finds its way up to the light. Fearing the continuation of the state...will intensify that...and lengthen it. Even if you are finally relieved, the fear that abides lurks as a constant reminder and ever present invitation to more of the same. Address the fear, face it, don’t run from it. Look at how living in that place of connection alleviates it.

We overcome such things in layers. So what may have brought anguish to me at 20 may not bother me at all today. Incremental growth out, the way a caterpillar sheds its skin, is perfectly fine. You, from your other than subconscious mind orchestrate it all, because who really are wants to find the freedom for expressing its unique beauty.

Trading the Outer for the Inner

I can’t actually remember of ever being without the consideration of my deeper self. I had the ongoing struggle of seeing myself through the eyes of Love, but feeling that no one else had those eyes! Later in life and into my forties, I explored a more sensory approach, but was in a constant state of feeling so “out-of-sync” with myself, that I just couldn’t continue. It certainly didn’t appease anything, but I did find that some things were good to include in my life, within reason. As long as I stayed in a place of harmony with my authentic nature...anything was, and is, okay, but I have NEVER wanted to be dependent on anything, or anyone, outside myself, for my own well being, because I learnt early on that nothing and no one would always be there, nor would, or COULD they be responsible.

Thus, due to my particular path, I needed the Inner Life in order to cope with my outer circumstances. I know many though, that yet LIVE in their outer life, still looking for everything and everyone to be something different, so that they can be happy.

In choosing a life of true beauty and connection, one also chooses a life free of judgment, full of grace and overflowing with an untouchable joy. Should a difficult moment come, such a one knows that it’s there for their benefit, not their demise. This soul rises, greeting the circumstance with an open heart and embracing the challenge like a lover that brings deliverance into deeper LIFE.

The most beautiful and beautifying attribute I know is Wisdom. The ancient wisdom of All-That-Is. Wisdom always knows what is best, and understands the “why”. Insight brings empowering. Wisdom like this brings peace, assurance, confidence. Its ability to see so deeply spawns a joy and appreciation that springs from the womb that gave birth to time, and can never die.

Wisdom is found through Love and wielded by it. It is my greatest desire, for in being one with Wisdom I am one with the Oneness that is all.

“Wisdom’s ways are pleasant ways,

And all her paths are peace.”

DIY Designer Positioning Vol 1

2010-05-11T03:09:00.000-07:00

DIY Designer Change Vol 1

2010-05-03T04:29:00.000-07:00

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DIY Designer Change

2010-05-03T01:55:00.000-07:00

DIY Designer Positioning

This week, I’m presenting something a little different.
Generally, my slant on everything about life takes an holistic bias. I like working on everything from the inside out. I do get practical in my application too, but not necessarily in the typical linear way. I’m not primarily a left brain thinker. I desire very much for balance in my overall thinking processes, and for some of them, I get the assistance of friends and advisors I know have an excellent grip on those things that I’m not so adept in, so I can glean from their viewpoint.

So, this week, I’m taking more of a business tack on some of my DIY designer ideas and looking at ways we can shape our ‘package’ to position ourselves authentically and desirably in the market place. And to help me do that, I have a great friend and business colleague, Jason Spurlock joining me for my Blog Talk Radio Show May 11. http://blogtalkradio.com/lisa-shah

What we’re going to be looking at is how we can take some of the ‘designer’ ideas and bring them into a place of action. Everyone’s action can be different and motivation unique, but ultimately there are aspects of the process that remain consistent throughout, and via which most, if not all, goals are achieved.

AS Jason mentioned to me, Tony (Anthony) Robbins, the well known personal development guru, talks about a three prong process. These spearheads are :
1. Focus
2. Physiology
3. Language

Focus

Under this heading, I want to look at my usual starting place...”designer alignment”. This seems be irrevocably and always the starting place for any venture.
Set your sights on what and where you want to be.

Consider where you find yourself today and what the mirrors in your life are presenting to you. How are they revealing what needs to be adjusted for you to reach the desired outcome? How is this showing up in circumstances and what struggles or conflicts is it presenting?

Now, focus yourself again on the person you feel you will become in the process of achieving your goal. How do you look as the person who is successful in this venture? What is your dominant attitude and vibe? How do you handle crisis? Why do people turn to you? What are you giving to them?

How do you look? Where do you present yourself...what circles? Corporate, Retail, Community, etc. How do you speak? What manner of things do you say to yourself of yourself? How do you think of other people? How is your day laid out?

Set these things in your mind as your magnetic NORTH, like the compass you will work to, and attract to you. Regularly, refer to your compass, and do what you can to strengthen its drawing power, by feeding your focus well. Learn to think and focus like someone who is where you wish to be.

Physiology

One of the ways you can apply this, is studying the ways these people are walking their focus out. Even if they differ in what they do, the elements of their success will be relevant. What is their posture and stance, their demeanour and dominant presence? How is this reflected in the way they literally walk, talk, dress and relate.

Our physical bodies are a direct reflection of our self opinion. What do you feel yours says about you? What about those of whom you think well...how is the physiology adding to that? With those that don’t summon that respect from you...how does THEIR posture give away their opinion of themselves.

In the same way that donning a mask and wearing a costume make it easier for us to assume a different role or character, so, physicalizing the elements that a successful person walks in will actually begin to send those signals through your physical muscle memory. Every cell of your being is intelligent. You are disrupting old habits of being, and SUPPORTED by the mental shift in focus will begin to create new sets of habits to go with that mind set change, helping to establish the two as a powerful set of triggers.

Assuming a physical state has attached emotional conditions and can reveal conflicting belief issues, too. EG If a person of self worth stands erect and healthfully proud, he could feel arrogant. This could become a hindrance to the process, and with techniques like good old EFT, this resistance can be worked through.

Language

Finally, the third of the three prongs is language. As with the physiology, language reveals an enormous amount about where a person really stands in relation to a healthy self image, and it shows not only in their self talk, but also in their talk and attitudes toward others.
It’s an inescapable fact, that as we are toward others, is actually how we are to ourselves, if not overtly, then most definitely covertly. In other words, if we are judgmental and critical of others, we will always feel the associated affects of being judged (unacceptability) and being found deficient (unworthiness). Likewise, as the adage, “love thy neighbour as thyself” implies, the two are relative.

So...what does your language reveal about your thinking? Consider when you hear yourself use words like ‘should’, ‘never’ and ‘always’. How much of your conversation with others, or playing in your head is about circumstances? How is what you hear coming out of your mouth different to that which you hear come from those who are where you want to be?
Build awareness, of yourself and the company you keep. What is their language like and what does it reveal? “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks”. Just like your physiology, your language will work for or against you. As you reset your focus and your stature, re-educate your tongue as well. Implementing change by choice, SUPPORTED by the other areas, will work wonders.

Develop an integrity with your words. Spend your words on what counts. Your focus will shift if your tongue strays. Your language will help to align you, and as you speak those things you mean and want and believe in passionately, will draw your emotions up to a higher level too.
It will get easier for all these things to work together.

The Balance of Power

So...bring some balance. The bizarre thing is that consciously we determine to control through our will, but it is our subconscious that rules the outcome. When we work with the two in harmony, identifying and removing the resistance, there can be an harmonious free flow between the two and productivity is vastly improved.

Be sure to listen into the show next week, when Jason and I look at how using these principles can help to design a distinct and strong position, both within ourselves as creative individuals, and in the market place as effective contributors to lives of others.

http://blogtalkradio.com/lisa-shah

DIY Designer Change

2010-04-27T00:12:00.000-07:00

DIY Designer Change.
Change.
Hmmm...for some it’s not only a negative word, it’s a terrifying prospect. Why is that?
Everything about life is in a constant of flux, so how is it we can become so rigid? I our early years, everything single thing we learn comes to us via a process of desire and discovery, then experimentation and mastery. There was no shame when we didn’t roll over the first time, or successfully take five steps without falling.
Nor was there any judgment! Only encouragement and cheers at our wanting to try, and a confidence that we would eventually accomplish that which we were endeavouring to achieve.
Somewhere along the line, we trading in our spirit of adventure and self confidence, selling out to the more generally accepted notion that we ‘can’t’. The blissful condition of being judgement free dissipated and in its place a need to hide and not venture out where we’ve not gone before-coz, what if we fail?
This week, I’d like to look at the way Change comes into my life, and how I determined how I would have it play out.
Incremental Steps
Change can strike in many ways. A slow progressive evolving, a dramatic shift in circumstances, an opportunity that grows out of synchronistic meeting or even a line by line action plan.
When considering ‘incremental’ change, I want to see steady and consistent growth without extremes or obsession. A type of approach to life, if you will, that will always hold me in good stead. I love balance and harmony in all areas of my life, with rich and recognisable growth, but free of stress or pressure...just like when I was little.
I used to beg God for three times the intensity, to have a learning process over with three times as fast, and I think I had that for a long time! Lol but there are certain other necessary characteristics that develop over time THROUGH consistent application that takes longer to perfect. This is the one place I really love TIME. As long as any fear is being dealt with in a healthy way, simply spending TIME doing something will develop confidence and familiarity.
In giving yourself goals of change think of this: One step forward is all you need to take. Just ONE. Do this regularly, this small amount every day and change will eventuate.
As an example, think of a child’s growing feet. I have five kids and I know when I shopped for ten pairs of shoes at the outset of each new school year, I looked for a shoe that fit well enough for my child to walk comfortably, but yet, have room to grow. Every mother knows this!
When you want to step into BIGGER BOOTS, this is what you do.
A lot of our lives can, and is, lived like this. This is a very easy approach to change, and if we practice life this way, the sizes between shoes can get bigger, and we will get bolder and more confident to tackle larger ‘risks’.
When a person stops dealing with life’s little changes this way...often a “Quantum Shift” will come and shake life TO THE CORE.
This may feel uninvited and most certainly unwanted, but believe me, there is a part of you that wants nothing more than to blossom into fullness. The spiritual essence is the part of you that will subject the ‘ego’ to what’s necessary to satisfy this.
Sadly, people can go their entire lives, never recognising these opportunities, and die, having only tasted their true passions in secret, unfulfilled yearning.
What single thing would you like to begin to incrementally change in your life? How will you/your life look with that change fully established?
Quantum Shifts
If you’re familiar with any of my personal history, you may know that I had some very severe environmental shifts that scattered family members and geographically brought big change to me as well.
On the one hand this change was exactly what I wanted, but on the other, it brought a heavy toll to my heart, as it meant not being with many of the people I loved most dearly. Even though this brought some difficult situations, like many years of nightmares, and heart ache, there were many aspects of my new life that I could easily enjoy.
As children, we tend to do this much more readily-lose ourselves in the moment. We find and focus on those things that make us feel good. This was an instinct in me from as far back as I can remember, and I’ve never let it go. Feeling good has always been the better option for me and I learnt through MANY situations how to do that, from the INSIDE OUT.
This traumatic turn of events was the deliverance I wanted from some unpleasant elements of my young life, and I can see how it was the result of my own desire and creation. Looking back now, the hardest part I see in it, was the fact that I was able to create new levels of freedom , but couldn’t make anyone else want them. And for many decades, I accepted the guilt some family members put on me for finding peace when they remained in turmoil.
Often, I’ve been accused of NOT CARING because I have chosen to move forward with change instead of resisting it. This is hard to take from people you love-but move forward anyway, coz you staying miserable won’t help anyone.
This is an important part of your growth and change: You cannot create in someone else’s experience
The change that you may view as powerfully and positively potent for another could spell total disaster-all because of the way they view change.
I have seen myself generate circumstances in my life that ‘force’ me to address things I was having trouble making a decision to deal with. Whilst others felt bad for me, I knew I was getting the compelling I needed to commit myself to the change I wanted. How could I complain?
This is principle behind hiring a coach too, giving yourself an accountability partner to get you past where you keep getting stuck. Who knows, lol, maybe hiring a coach will even avert more harsh alternatives!  That has certainly been my thinking when hiring the service of a book keeper/virtual assistant to walk me through things I needed to know to get myself organised ( for bigger business shoes!), and also a business advisor to help me see the practical logistics that my right brain orientation isn’t ‘all up’ with, since I’m new to business on that level.
Without them, I wouldn’t even feel ready to BEGIN to receive any substantial business...my shoes weren’t big enough!
I do confess though, I wear lots of different ‘hats’ as well as ‘shoes’...and every hat requires another learning curve-A seemingly never ending, ongoing, learning curve. I haven’t had a chance to wear ANY of my shoes out because my desire to be living my dream life is taking me through some quantum growth spurts!
It can be exhausting to feel such stretching and growing all the time, but it’s also exhilarating and you sure know you’re alive, and best of all—you get to LIVE YOUR DREAMS, one intentional Designer moment at a time. :-)
Think about the area you’d like some change in, how can you give yourself some ’structure’ to encourage you along the path. Perhaps join a spiritual network, like http://jasonsnetwork.com or http://boundlessliving.ning.com -you’ll find me on both. Or like a friend of mine on Facebook, who gave herself a challenge and set up her own daily accountability blog. There’s LOTS of ways to do this-countless, in fact. Which will you choose??
By far...the best way to tackle change is make it a game!
Making it FUN
When I get an unexpected twist, I have several possible responses. How/why did I create this?
If I don’t feel any sort of negative affirmation like “I KNEW this would happen!”, but rather feel , aligned, I look at it as being the result of my “This, or something better clause”. That is to say, when I ask the Universe for something I think I want, I add the disclaimer of “this or something even better”, because I readily concede the Intelligence in All–That-Is, knows WAY better than I, how to satisfy my desire.
So, if I put ‘disruption’ under that disclaimer label, I cannot help but get excited! I’m not kidding! Or exaggerating. I’ve learnt to love and embrace change so much, that ‘ending’ actually means “new beginning’ to me, and ‘death’ means ‘transformed’, unexpected change, means ‘adventure’!
I immediately start thinking of how I’ll tell it as a story, or record it in a little Artbook, perhaps even a song. I bring in an element of Creative fun that instantly shifts my focus and opens the door to FUN! I might imagine myself doing an interview (common practice since I was very young! Lol)
Change is so much more appealing when it’s FUN!
Where can you, right now, begin to make some element of change that could be a fun outlet for you, connected with the area in which you want to evolve? (I’m good at ideas and for helping you to generate your own)

More About Change.
The previous content has been about positive aspects of change and response to it. There is the element of dealing with the ‘can of worms’ that are unleashed that must be sorted one way or another. Mostly, we want them out of the way, so we can stay aligned to our desired outcome, which we’re not even always sure of in times of deep transition.
I know I spent three years in limbo when my husband and I separated, not really able to cope with the notion of divorce, OR staying married. He and I progressed slowly through degrees of separation, incremental change, that seemed the better way for all five kids too. When I dealt with the reasons why (mostly the shame of feeling like a failure and being judged). But I know others who simply Cut it off and moved on...they went for the ‘intense’ version! Lol the underlying issues still need addressing though and we each decide which brand of “is-shoes” we choose to grow into and through.
There’s so much more to cover with change, such as how we deal with the strong reactions that can even debilitate us in the face of change, immobilizing our progress through fear. Other issues can arise from our habitual responses to triggers, and the problem becomes how can avert that pattern and bring the change I want, and allow it to flow?
My life afforded me the opportunity to become something of a ‘shapeshifter’. As a result, I love to help people transition change in their own lives. If you think I can help you, simply contact me on lisa@lisashahescape.com and visit http://lisashahescape.com to see how others have been assisted.

Listen into next week's show http://blogtalkradio.com/lisa-shah as Suzie Cheel , the "abundance Queen" and I discuss how we can embrace the emotions of change and Suzie's book "Emergings" on the topic.

Be Blessed! 
Lisa

DIY Designer Passion Vol 1

2010-04-25T19:20:00.000-07:00

Here's the compiled 4 part Vol 1 of the written content.
Please leave a comment on how this material may help/inspire you... or even suggestions on how It could better do so!
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2010-04-19T05:05:00.000-07:00

DIY Designer Passion

This week, leading up to next week’s show with Bob Doyle, I’ll be looking at passion and how it can be the illumination we’re looking for to light the way ahead.

What is a Passion and How Can You Define Yours?

During the various seasons of our lives, we may try many diverse experiences. Whilst some are nothing more than “passing fancies” or “fashionable fads”, others stay with us for life, their call to our attention, and draw on our affection, never waning.

It’s those lifelong past times, well known as the “humble hobby”, that could well prove to be the glorious golden bricks that lead you to even more gold at the proverbial end of ‘somewhere over the rainbow’.

You may never even have allowed yourself, or had the opportunity to spend any time actually doing your desired activity, but have invested hour after hour, imagining, dreaming and preparing for it.

Find Your Gold

One of the quickest, easiest ways for a lot of people to find their deepest loves, is to recall what they loved doing as kids. This isn’t a fool proof way, but it certainly can be a pretty sound indicator. Since our ‘passions’ seemed to be so inherently part of our DNA and hard wiring, they often appear very early in some form or another.

“The Passion Test”, authored by Chris and Janet Attwood http://www.thepassiontest.com/offer/ptprofile/ is also a fantastic resource.

Even so, I know many people who still feel they have NO IDEA what to do with their lives. It isn’t always because they don’t know what they love doing, but often because they have absolutely NO IDEA (again) how to monetize it. They don’t even see how such a thing is possible, so the mere thought of it doesn’t so much as enter their conscious thinking.

In these instances, a person can literally enter a self imposed obliviousness. That call from within will stay with them, seething as unidentified anger or frustration, or may surface for an odd second when inspired, but if no action is forth coming, will become submerged again in all the clutter and business that make it easier to justify letting it go. Somewhere inside though, we feel the betrayal.

This can lead to what I believe to be the greatest of all tragedies- the tragedy of dying with your song unsung and your vision still in your belly.

Mine Your Gold

If, in that moment of inspiration, some prolonged thought is given, there can be a different outcome. That blackened ember is closer to life than you could possibly imagine. It can be breathed upon and fanned into flame so easily that it will take your breath away! I’ve watched happen over and over again.

Your passion will give you LIFE. It will energise and ignite you. It will leverage any resource you pour into it back untold fold into your being. Tapping into the power of who you are through your passion will connect you to Source faster than a secret hotline to the president, and the more you commit to living true to your deepest passions, the more magic you will see come into your life to help you do so.

The more clearly defined you become about what you really want to do with your life, and the more the method of that is refined through your specific sets of skills, talents and knowledge ( usually able to be linked to your passion), the more amazing the synchronicities you will see enter your reality to help you fulfil those clear intentions.

This is why the single most important question you may ever ask yourself is “What do I Want?”

Not just “what do I want to do?”, but also “who do I wish to be?”, “what would I like to experience?”, “what would I like to give? Or leave as a legacy to future generations? ”

Refine Your Gold

I love doing SOOO many things, and often, I’ve heard people comment on how this could be a blessing, or a curse, because it makes it hard to choose. But going through the process of prioritising those loves certainly makes it clearer. It’s not the mode of expression (singing/writing) that mattered to me near as much as THE MESSAGE.

I took Janet Attwood’s Passion Test 3 years ago, but I had spent so many years pondering my vision for the future, and was so thorough in following the instructions, that the 8-9 pages of information that outlined my Top5 , their ‘markers’ and the details have remained as true as the day I penned them. The only aspect that has ever really changed has been in the area of monetary amounts, as I grew more comfortable with higher thresholds.

Many of the things I listed began to take shape and continued to develop, one of them being to mix with the company of certain well respected high profile people in whose company I wanted to be considered a friend and peer, as well as those who may not be so well known, but are beautiful spiritual souls, in whose company I greatly delight.

I knew I wanted to sing (compose and play), to speak, and to write-on a public scale, and watching these things come to pass has been great fun. These desires coupled with my deeply appreciative love for other Arts practices, became the basis of my content and the source of my empowerment. They led me into greater understandings and made it possible for me to ‘hone’ them for the benefit of others.

I knew I wanted to sing, but I also knew I didn’t want to sing rock in pubs after midnight. I also knew I wasn’t interested so much in cabaret and music theatre, although I enjoyed them a lot. I found my ‘first love’ for singing, my deepest satisfaction in singing about my love for, and connection with, God. After that, I found, whatever I felt passionately about-this is what I wanted to give melodic voice to. That’s also what came out in my songs. Love, intimacy, communion, connection, family, adoration, appreciation, joy, truth, beauty, wisdom and grace. I did this in churches for a LONG time, and loved it, but when I left I didn’t know how to re-shape it. The ‘new’ spiritual awakening has given me a long awaited platform and an appropriate audience.

I tried to be all things. Sing all types of music. I felt like I had to please everyone, and did for a while, feeling a little false because it always felt 2Degrees off MY truth. Like many ‘artistes’, I felt like what I really wanted to do, wasn’t wanted. I was working in places where having people stay and drink mattered more (as it was all about business) than creating an atmosphere for genuine intimacy, which is all about spirituality.

And here’s the thing: There doesn’t have to be a rift between the two. Spiritual prosperity, which comes from living your passion from a pure heart, should also result in monetary reward and physical abundance-sooner or later. One is the physical expression of the other.

Finding out EXACTLY what it is about your passions that you love, will help you to fashion a viable product/service package around it, so that you can dedicate your life to living it, living completely authentically, whilst still being amply supplied with all you need and plenty to share AND staying in love with what you do (plus how you do it).

Alchemical Magic.

Even though I refer to your seeds of passion as ‘gold’, they are, in some ways, more accurately termed the “blackened ember”. As they are reignited and begin to burn hot, the fire in your soul brings refining and purifying, by which process that original base element becomes GOLD.

There is an old Brothers Grimm fairytale of “Rumpelstiltskin”, a dwarf who spun straw into gold, and the way he tried to outwit a young woman of her baby through an exchange made under fearsome circumstances. Cautionary Tales, as they are more accurately termed could be quite cruel, but hidden in their plots were “secret keys” for life and growth and personal wisdom. In such tales, through ‘overcoming’ the adversary, the protagonist assumes the others’ strengths. In this case, the maiden kept her baby, but she also developed into her own ‘alchemic’ version of herself.

So, there may be fire and challenges, depending on the level of resistance you have toward being able to live your dreams through the power of your passions, but they will ALWAYS lead you into you the most pure form of Self.

And THAT is my no.1 passion. That’s what matters to me more than anything.

That’s why I want to live by my passions-because they are literally the meeting and merging place of GOD IN ME where we are fully ONE.

Not only will you have the extreme pleasure and satisfaction of a full expression in life, but you will know how it feels to be a true child of the Universe, co-creator, consciously connected and lover of All-That-Is.

Trust me...you can’t beat that. J

Lisa Shah

“The Passion Coach”

Creator of CTT (Creative Thinking Technology)

DIY Designer Living with CTT Series

DIY Designer Power utube

2010-04-19T05:03:00.000-07:00

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DIY Designer Power

2010-04-13T20:28:00.000-07:00

DIY Designer Power

DIY Designer Power on BTR bext week

As I did with DIY Designer Reality, I’d like to start out with a definition of power.

For the sake of this article, I want to refer to ‘power’ as the ability to have total control over something. That ‘something’ being our own thoughts, and by extension our feelings, which then leads into our experience and circumstances-in ever externalising layers.

I never condone domination or control over anyone or anything else, whether by force, deception, fear, guilt, obligation or even ‘good intention’.

So when I say power, I am referring directly to each individual with regard to themselves, and themselves alone. In order to create your desired reality, you never need to control anyone else. Nor can you create in anyone else’s reality. Each person’s life is their own jurisdiction-and this is absolutely as it should be, so that all people may know the immense power and pleasure of total freedom and complete responsibility and to live life exactly as they choose to.

My Desire

I know that this content is controversial and can be so easily misrepresented as well as open to misinterpretation, due to the filters people can ‘hear’ through, but I feel so strongly about it, and would like so much to see people live in the freedom of it, that I am prepared to put some challenging thoughts forward.

If I can simply cause a questioning ripple resulting in people being open to explore, then I will have done something very worthwhile. I don’t intend to answer the ‘big’ questions here...just provoke some possibility thinking.

Super Powers

I don’t know about you guys, but for me, as a kid, I always thought about having some sort of ‘super power’ or several of them. I wanted to move inanimate objects, fly the way I did in my dreams, ‘see’ into the unseen spirit world, and know a person’s heart. I also LOVED the idea of being able to ‘draw’ my reality into being through the literal act of drawing-in a sense, animating my own life.

The seeds of all these ideas were alive and magnificent, and I wanted them to be real-so badly. In fact, my life was such that I needed to believe they were real. They were my hope.

As my journey in this life has moved along, I found these things were more than fantasy, more than blind faith. “Super” powers are real. However, they function within certain structures and understanding these makes it easier to get much more specific in their intentional use.

Tapping into The Power of the Universe.

Being consciously connected to Source, and hence All-That-Is, is the beginning of being able to see yourself as you truly are: a dynamic co-creator of life experience. Everything is centred in our deepest thinking and believing and in really beginning to understand the connection we have to all things, we begin to truly see ourselves, and all others in a new light.

As we start to understand our place and position as part of God/Source in the flesh and being of the same substance (spirit/energy), we also begin to appreciate the love that governs all, the peace that can be ours and the desires that can know fruition.

Letting Go of Needing to Control

Once we realise this, we know longer need to struggle or strive for ‘our’ place. When you know who you are, and what you’re capable of, you don’t need to prove it to anyone any more. The old insecure EGO can be released and let fall, as it is the conscious centre of all feelings of inadequacies-fear and lack.

These states then become the breeding places for greed, domination, intimidation, competition, manipulation and whatever else can aid the insecure in trying to compensate for feelings of lack of power/control. Performance, achievement, possessions and status become the way an ‘impotent’ person looks to establish some modicum of power in their lives. Everything is external, trying to ‘make up’ for the internal sense of impotency.

But a genuinely confident person, who knows who they are and lives under their own control, has no need of such trappings. Should they come, and they will as a result of this knowing, they are tempered with a healthy love, grace and non judgment toward others.

Living in the Point of Paradox.

Understanding where control, and where letting go should be exercised is a major component of living successfully in this way of being. Blame has no place-toward oneself, others or circumstances. If situations exist in my life, I know they are there by my ‘invitation’. That is, there is something IN my consciousness core that is aligned to it, and attracting it. The fact that it appears in my life, helps me to see where my thinking/believing really lie, allowing me to explore ways to modify them.

So...control is applied in becoming consistently attentive to thinking the things that produce GOOD FEELINGS. They don’t have to be specifically about anything...only that they feel GOOD. This is a perfect place to start. Doing something you love, being in company you enjoy, being in nature, appreciating your life and all that you are and have.

This is where you need diligence.

Wielding and Sustaining the Power

The flipside to accepting this responsibility is yielding responsibility for MAKING something happen. The need to feel busy/productive/proactive through performance is very strong to the EGO, but the old rule of 80:20 is good here. If only 20% of what you do produces 80% of your best results, why not enjoy the other 80% doing something that makes you feel ecstatic about life?

Using that 80% to feel GOOD is an incredibly proactive way to fill your time. It is very hard to get people to accept this, since so many believe that life must be hard. How on earth can you get ahead by spending all your time ‘goofing off’? (having fun) You must ‘hurt’ to get something. “no pain no gain”. I’m not saying life doesn’t require effort, but ‘work smarter, not harder’.

Put your effort where it counts. I think this is probably the biggest area of difficulty for people. I have found some excellent ways to bypass the questions posed by this, using my Creative Thinking Technology...so, if you want to know more, you know where to find me ( http://lisashahescape.com ) These techniques deal with blocks and create new energy focus without you feeling that you have changed anything dramatically, or deal with dears about letting go. It’s like a transitioning process, if you like.

Being Powerful means being Capable

When you start to play with this power, you start to realise that it’s EASY. Yes, it requires determined effort, but it is WELL WITHIN your ability, once you MAKE THE CHOICE.

I’m not anyone special. Everyone has the capacity to create their experience. The only advantage I may have is that I never relinquished my faith in this idea. I still had my share of crappy thinking to clear away, but my childhood ‘fantasies’ would never let me go, so I simply kept on playing with it, pioneering a path for others to walk, should they desire.

Life is ONLY as hard as you think/believe it has to be. I know coz I made it hard...and I’ve made it easy. When it’s hard, I know who to deal with...and the very first thing I remind myself of is that ‘it doesn’t have to be hard!’

So this is your starting place. Try and make something ardous something fun. It’s not frivolous, it will immediately change your vibration. CTT is great for this. People want to ‘play’! They will take on all sorts of challenges when it’s fun. And from this will spring all manner of support from the Universe- ideas, connections, synchronicities that you could never hope to have orchestrated. Plans will emerge from a new wisdom. Paths will appear where there were none.

“All things are yours”. You don’t need to compete or steal, or be jealous of.

Start creating with your own power NOW! J

DIY Designer Reality with Christopher Pinckley

2010-04-05T21:01:00.000-07:00

DIY Designer Reality with Christopher Pinckley

This week's theme, as you can see, is about Designing your very own reality.

Like I've said before, as quoted from Dr Jim Richards, "Life isn't how you see it. That's just how YOU see it."
And as bummed as I was by this , thinking I had such a great unbiassed, non judgmental view-I also came to realise the limitlessness of knowing and really beginning to understand this Truth.

I've seen so many people TRY to believe this, but then let the confines of their limited logic destroy their budding freedom.
Try leaving the the logic perameters out of the picture for a little longer and simply go exploring that fascinating dimension of "what if..?"

This week, as we look at 'reality' afresh See it as a fluid and flexible thing that easily morphs from one form to another, like some digital image you've seen on the screen.
The truth is: it does!
And YOU, my friend, are the Master Shaper!

WHAT IS REALITY?

Good question! Perhaps, it is what is ACTUALLY happening. Could we say it that way?
I guess this could be accurate. But who really determines what is actually happening? The 'detached observer', the 'participant', the 'orchestrator'...all of them?
I believe it is all of them. In any given scenario, we are co-creating our 'general consensus' of reality-the Collective UN/Consciousness. More of that when we look at Chris' content on the energy of localised Mass Mind.

But even when we DO co-create, we each choose our own viewing stance. For every single individual, there will be a DIFFERENT slant on what 'really' happened, and varying types and degrees of significance attached to it. Just on this level, it's already possible to grasp the inifinite potential in just a single instant along the linear line we call TIME.

The reality of our world, is that is it the FRUIT OF OUR CONCLUSIONS. It is the mirror of all our combined ideas, beliefs, dreams, hopes , hatreds, judgments, complaints, joys...and so on. If you despise war, live in peace. If you want the world to be free of cruelty, BE KIND.
The best thing any one soul may do to improve the REALITY of conditions around the glove, is , as Ghandi said "Be the change you wish to see in the world"

Ho'oponopono recognises that we all share responsibility for all 'terrible', and wonderful, things in the world. This way of thinking says 'if it exists in my world, I have had some part in feeding it and keeping it alive'...and it is our BELIEF that these things must be because of human nature that makes them BE and gives them breath. Our own fears are the fuel that fire tragedies, disasters and tyrannies.

"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy...think about such things...and the God of Peace will be with you."
(*NB. If I knew other religious texts, I would quote them, as I'm sure they would have equivalent sayings, but it learnt them here-so take no offence from their use, please. I'm not flogging religion here. See the truth in them-that's what counts.)

My point is REALITY IS MY RESPONSIBILITY.
Next time you hear the question asked, to or by yourself or another, 'what is reality?' , remember this:
"Reality is MY responsibility"...and act accordingly! :-)

HOW DO I CREATE REALITY?

Aah, now this is such fun-once you surrender to the idea of your own master craftsmanship skills. You and Source, and all of us together are creating. We are all co laboureres together in creation! How cool!

None of us is a powerless victim-unless, of course, that is the reality we choose for ourselves. Why do you suppose ANYone would choose that? I suggest that if that's the reality you feel you have, then you came into this world to know the fulness of youself as the Victor, and all your circumstances are working together to motivate you into that liberty.
In wanting to find out HOW we have created the life we are now living, it is simply a matter of developing a few observation and documentation skills...and from their, some "thinking muscle".

As I have said many times, I am my "most favouritest"guinea pig! ;-) I love conducting experiments to see how these things work, and I record what I feel, how I see things, what is revealed, and how to manipulate such things ON PURPOSE. So, start by 'taking notice and taking note' of where your thoughts and feelings lie. This process can take as little or as long a time as you wish. Personally, I love it, and am often lost in it! In fact, I even have extended periods of this, which I call "hermit mode", and can last for months, preceding major changes in my life.

For the most part tho, it is a daily practice, and I am generous with myself and have 2-3 hours every day for this exercise(plus moments throughout). I don't always do it the same way, but writing and reflection are always in there. I have become finely tuned and self aware and can easily see the ways my thoughts/feelings ( ie VIBRATION) are being mirrored back to me through ALL-That-Is. I love the faithfulness of this mirror! And it is swift too!

How often do we wail that we 'don't know how...' to fix or do something. The 'magic mirror' of Life always clearly shows where we need to adjust our thinking to change our vibe, and that's all we need to know. The effort required to sustain that state till it becomes habit, is the work most people shy away from, BUT it is only as hard as we think it has to be! lol Inspired action will flow and prompt us from there, manouvering us and our circumstances as a whole, toward our "sympathetic vibrations"-Our desires.

We give up before we start, just because we THINK it's going to be TOO hard! It's time to change our stories. Whatever story that made it hard...rewrite it, focussing on all the GOOD that you wish to see spring up in your world. Then, proclaim it, whilst doing EFT...and watch gleefully as the walls come down.

A little disclaimer here...if you've NOT down a lot of personal expansion work before, get someone who HAS to walk with you. When you start Spring cleaning, everything looks like "merde" ( French for s#*%) for some time, whilst you pull it all out, unpack the old trunks covered in dust. It takes time to sift, process, sort, throw away , restore, systemize and establish the new order. It's very good to have someone around who knows and understands the process, and helps you trust yourself to it.

THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT CAN'T BE FUN AND/OR FULFILLING. It can , and is, but you could need an 'accountability buddy' or Coach to help you see that when you are feeling submerged in all your previous creations! lol

HOW do we create our reality?? THROUGH THE STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES ABOUT OURSELVES.

ENERGY and the MASS MIND

Now, I'm not going to steal Chris's thunder here, but rather tell a few stories.
I grew up in difficult places but even as a little girl, had the rare and beautiful gift of being able to 'see'. I could see who people REALLY were-their potential. I could see a future that bore no resemblance to any life I'd known-yet knew it to be so.

MY ability to see these things and to live there in my imagination resulted in my removal from my surroundings, and a transplanting to another place. It was sad for me that I couldn't 'show' everyone else, and take them with me, but you can only have full control over YOUR life. That's freedom. At only 8, I started actively shaping my external world.
But The Mass Mind is an amazing and powerful thing. 6 years later I returned, drawn by the energy of that communal consciousness. Once again, I broke away, but not really free. I went almost 1000kms...one of my sisters went 18 time zones, a brother explored several places, another killed himself...and whilst I don't wish to be depressing here...I want to point something out:

You can, and may need to, remove yourself from the energy of the Mass Mind that will keep you bound, but unless you learn to be free from within, you will stay connected to it and it will reproduce itself in your life-no matter where you are. I went through a REALLY strong experience of this just 3 years ago, and it was then that I realised how much more free I could be. After that, I actually took myself into 'the lion's den', slayed the giant, and became truly free. I know I CREATE MY REALITY.

EVERYTHING IS ENERGY

I will leave this topic for Chris to address, because I thought he did an outstanding job in expounding on this-but I will say that I believe there are localised areas of energy, and a global one. Listening to Anne Aleckson ( http://stepuptojoy.com ) on my show today, she spoke of david Hawkins and his work with energy, connecting freqencies with certain emotinal states. He also stated the threshold of 200 is where the shift form negative to positive occurs, and where the world had sat at 190 for sooooo long, in the 80s it went above 200. That's the tipping point, and what I've been watching and waiting for, for decades!! WeeeeeEeeee am I happy!

With that shift,it will be SO much easier for people to raise their vibes and shift their thinking and lift the quality of their lives and relationships. The more powerfully you live in these constructive states of courage to face yourself ( courage happens to mark the turning point of neg:pos), then the easier it gets to go onward and upward in vibrational escrow.

Everything is energy and you are the a most powerful magnet. To what frequency will you set your dial?

I find it MOST pertinent that Courage is found at the 200 mark. It is the beginning of all the finest virtues, and, in my opinion, it takes more courage to face and accept the truth about yourself in LOVE, without judgment, than any other force in existence. Once you decide that you will accept your birth right, step into your place as powerful creator, you alter your world forever. You become truly free, and you allow others to be so in your presence, even teaching them HOW to be so. Your positive influence will be felt in ripples and waves all around the globe, and I venture, out into the farthest regions of the universe, for we are all connected in this one vast energy field called God, or Source, or Daddy, or I AM. ONENESS.

Be Bold, be strong, for ...'the Universe conspires together with you'... and waits to reveal itself as the 'stuff your dreams are made of'.

Don't miss this fantastic episode coming up with Christopher Pinckley next week. I KNOW it is going to be Incredible!

The SCIENCE OF DIY DESIGNER LIVING AND REALITY CREATION

So, having all this scientific

MY DIY Designer Flight in a RED Balloon

2010-04-03T16:52:00.000-07:00

I took A lot of photos and captured a fair bit of footage, and with things being the way they have this week, I enlisted the services of my expert 17(and a half!!)yr old Matt, to do the editing of this and as he has his own UTUBE Channel and has been playing with this stuff since he was, like 10-it's really cool.

The opening panorama was taken on my digital in 7 separate images, and he has much cooler editing suites to do groovy slide shows etc.

In fulfilling this mini adventure, I feel I have crossed over into a new phase of my life-a long awaited phase. And there's something very fulfilling about the documenting of it, as it ritualizes it as a milestone, and recognises it for the achievement that it is.

Not only that, but as far as "maximizing and leveraging BUBBLES" goes, documentation adds mileage even unto the point of LEGACY.

I think my chronic journaling has been about this: so that one day , all the 'unseen' things can be known and others may benefit from them. Consider such things as the "Diary of Anne Frank".

Share your joys and any heartaches. Let people live through you too, especially the family that come after, and who would so loved to have met you personally. Let the essence of who you are shine in frequent expressions, if not in journals, then in direct gestures toward people. Leave tangible evidence of your life through enriching others'.

I hope my adventures somehow inspire others to find the depth of courage that it takes to live in increasing levels of freedom. Every part of your authentic nature longs for this. Be blessed!

...and thanks Matt! :-)

DIY Designer Health Vol1

2010-03-29T17:08:00.000-07:00

This, of course, is made to be viewed in conjunction with the blog of the same name, and this week's radio program http://tobtr.com/s/938765 --which didn't go quite as it was expected, due some weird technical thing, that wouldn't allow my switchboard page to fully load. Go figure! The Chat room did...and I even had a guest! lol

Consequently, the show is ALL me...not even any music except the default intro, as there were no 'play' buttons! Isn't life is a fun surprise!

So, we'll have Ingrid back another time...in the mean time, enjoy Good DIY Designer Health!

Lisa in Oz

DIY Designer Recording

2010-03-28T14:20:00.000-07:00

Here's a video of me recording with John Morrison (drums), Matt Baker (piano)and John Conley (bass) in the new james Morrison Studios , Warriewood Aug 08

Find more videos like this on The Boundless Living Challenge

DIY Designer Breakthroughs Vol 1

2010-03-22T07:01:00.000-07:00

DIY Designer Health with CTT

2010-03-22T05:27:00.000-07:00

DIY Designer Health

Now, when it comes to health, as with any other area of my life, I work from the inside out.

There’s a scripture that reads

“Fear the Lord and shun evil,

this will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.” Pr 3:7b-8

Now, even tho I think this is a poor translation, I believe the sentiment behind this verse to be VERY apt. Basically, it’s saying that when you’re aligned to the Source from which you spring...you will reap the benefits of that alignment. Health.

There is only a stream of well being. Abraham-Hicks will tell you all about it. You are either in the flow of it, or pinching it off. You determine which it is through the ‘stories’ you tell yourself about yourselfhttp://abrahamhicks.com

Now, I’m going to tell you about how I discovered getting into the flow of this wellbeing, in the places where it had been trained out of me. I will tell you my own stories that will show you the power you have resident in you for total spiritual, mental, emotional and physical wholeness.

Spiritual Health

Spiritual health is about believing you are the incredible creator God/Source birthed you to be. In fact, in being one with Source in your core, it was a joint decision to come into this physical realm and create the range of physical experiences you chose to have. Through this vast range of experiences, you wanted to know yourself in the fullness of your nature...your god nature.

Spiritual health is basically being ‘aligned’. Remember “DIY Designer Alignment”? That is spiritual well being. It is what Abraham-Hicks terms as ‘being in the Vortex’. It is what I call being the ‘Secret Place’, or the ‘Garden’, or ‘in the space between’. Ultimately, it is being in conscious connection with All-That-Is and at the very least it is feeling in harmony with your most intimate circle.

It is BEING IN LOVE.

In this place of Love, where you know your own wholeness, there is no fear, no lack, no judgment nor any unmet desire. Here, ‘all things are yours’...and you know it. As one whose job it was to lead people into this ‘state’ through my singing/music, I was well practiced in being there.

I can tell you this: it is the sweetest addiction you will ever know.

Joy, peace, appreciation, love without demands, doing what lights your fire...this is being aligned. This is when you are closest to being all you are, and that’s also why it is SO important that you take time to DO what you love. It will re-adjust your compass to north, and keep you on the right path for you.

I have countless ways to enter into this state. I live there mostly. Soon, I’ll post some more content on this subject on my sites. All other forms of health, in my opinion, stem from this one flow. I’ve lived my life by this belief and freed myself repeatedly of various potential ills.

Mental Health.

What is mental health? Well, for the sake of this blog and this week’s theme, I’m going to say mental health is the ability to think clearly and make decisions soundly. Not necessarily only logically, because intuition is equally essential...sometimes even more so. Intuition is sharpened through alignment, which is why so few feel confident with theirs. I have my spent my entire life cultivating the confidence in this Inner Voice.

That doesn’t mean I haven’t had opportunity to doubt it. In fact, In wanting to know myself utterly connected with that core part of me, I’ve had many challenges to grow by. Eating disorders , body image issues, and an emotional breakdown that led to Alopecea ( stress induced baldness) basically meant that I had lot of ‘self’ perceptions that needed adjusting and aligning.

Funny thing is, we can KNOW what we need, and still not do it. I think that’s because we doubt our ability to see it through. But the incredible thing is, once we DO come to that point of heart-felt decision, we find a power abiding in us, that we KNEW was there, but refused to believe in. It lives in all but is activated by those who believe and act.

After three years of nightmares about being completely bald, being pregnant four times, miscarrying one and losing almost 2/3 of my circulating blood supply, something inside me stood up. I knew I was doing these things to myself. I knew only I could change it. I also believed that if I could turn it around, I could do anything.

No one could beat that truth out of me today. No matter where I may appear to be on the journey in any one else’s eyes, I know this truth: “All things are mine”

That is a sound mind.

A sound mind thinks clearly, finds creative solutions easily and frequently, takes risks confidently and improvises competently...not to mention houses a great sense of humour! J When you start agreeing with these truths, and write your stories by them...you will know the Peace that is far beyond understanding.

A note** When washing your brain...keep the water clean. Allow NO ACCESS to any story that is NOT aligned to your desires. When those things present themselves, you will find creative ways to address them, but you needn’t focus on them in between. When you’re working with life and death, you learn this well!

Emotional Health

I taught my kids to sing songs or love and joy and to 'turn the day around' that way. I taught them little tricks that came to me, in the moment, that stayed with them through the growing years and became part of who they are. They never questioned whether they were ‘right’...they saw me live by the same principles, they knew I loved them , and only wanted them happy, and they saw how they worked for me.

My youngest son when he was very little, maybe 4, used to get migraines and vomit, then sleep it off. As he grew a few years older I could see how emotionally ‘worked up’ he would get. I could see I needed to find a way to teach him how to diffuse the triggers before he was on the spiral down. Before he’d left Lower primary school, I had taught him how to detach from whatever was ‘stringing him out’ with one VERY simple technique.

I told him he could tell me all about the ‘problem’ (which, by the way, keeps the emotional charge building), but in 5 minutes (This time was extended each time). I took him out to my balcony, overlooking the back yard, where there were very tall gums, well grown palms ringing the perimeter, and smaller hedge type trees. When the wind blew, you could distinctly hear it hit each level of different greenery, creating a different song. It only took a few seconds to completely distract him, and in doing so, detach from the negative energy, and bring equilibrium to his emotions, completely bypassing resistance.

He felt so good, he took the practice on easily and would take himself out for de-stressing when he needed to. He even learned to avert the migraines altogether. Alignment is the answer to all health issues in my book.

Today, we still do this and other things, but I also really love EFT, for when you just GOTTA ‘spill it’! EFT is the great ‘diffuser’ if you’re struggling with resistance. If EFT were a man, he’d be my hero!

Listen to my Blog Talk Radio Show with Brad Yates for more on EFT http://tobtr.com/s/926420

Physical Health.

Ok, now what I share may be hard for some people to agree with, and it’s not my job to tell anyone else what to do with their bodies...but I will tell you of my experience with mine.

After having Alopecea and seeing first hand the chemical effect I could make on my body to bring about physical change, no one will EVER be able to tell me I have no control over such things. I have absolute control over my life-every facet. Not the details, but the desired outcomes. And even if I struggle to come to terms with some aspect of it, you will never hear me say otherwise, because I will never believe otherwise. I know that as soon as I entertain the idea of not having control I yield it, by default, to all manner of harsh task masters. But in retaining conscious control, I will eventually find the core of the cause, correct the misalignment and be well.

I can give you COUNTLESS stories of this at work in my life, but I think the most amazing one is the one concerning the miscarriage. I can’t give all the details here, but I carried a “suspended” foetus in my womb for 6 weeks whilst I learnt about what it meant to have the power of life and death in my own hands.

I was supposed to be 13 weeks, but from 5 weeks, I felt something was wrong. I didn’t know what to do, afraid to speak it out, but wanted to understand. (I am my favourite guinea pig) from 7 weeks, that baby ‘waited’. Usually, after 2 weeks poisoning of the system would kick in.

Part of learning that was to ‘let go’ of the life-I made the conscious choice. But I recovered from all that blood loss in two weeks and was pregnant again in four and back with a baby in 10 months-as I told them I would be.

But here’s the interesting part: At 10 weeks, I had a widespread abruption in the placenta-where it comes away from the uterine wall, and the growing baby starves to death. I didn’t go through all I had just done, to not learn. I knew I could decide what would happen here. Three doctors said ‘not good’. Two said ‘the pregnancy’s terminated, she needs a curette’, and after 5 hours of deliberating, that last report just got my back up, and I decided to keep this baby.

They made all the preparations, and I started telling a different story to myself-literally. I was absolutely convinced that life and death were in my hands, with regard to my body.

I wasn’t scared or over wrought, or stressed out, but simply requested an ultrasound before they took me in. It was granted, and we found a live baby, and a placenta that had already started clotting (reconnecting) That baby is Paul, and he’s 21 in September.

My Prognosis

I’ve been diagnosing and treating my own ailments this way for a LONG time. I have powerful documented experiences that no one could ever take away. I live this way. And I have overcome MANY traumas through the principle of aligning myself within. Every symptom, thought, feeling is an indicator that mirrors to me where the real issue lies, and I do my best to address it swiftly.

Some things take longer, and have complex layers, and if needed medical assistance in the interim, I'd take it, but as a bridge, not a cure. I want to know WHY/What I'm creating etc.

I am addicted to the feelings, thoughts and outcomes of being in a state of ALIGNMENT. From there, if I need to take action, I am shown where/how. Sometimes, I do. Other times, I just needed to shift my focus, or adjust my ‘antenna’. I expect to receive the necessary wisdom, and if it doesn’t come immediately, I know there are layers masking it, and I’ll always know what to do next if I keep myself aligned.

I will continue to live this way, and I’m glad I’ve taught my children this. They may still have their own paths to learn by, but they have heard and seen what I believe. I’ve had miraculous ‘healings’ and slow steady recoveries that took diligence of mind-but the strength gained through the process was needed...even wanted. So many more accounts to tell... :-)

Today, I am strong. Open, vulnerable, trusting...and strong.

I am HEALTHY-spirit, mind, emotions and body.

My radio show guest Ingrid Arna has had to deal with a similar range of experiences, but she is also a wellness coach, into fitness and nutrition and healthy body image.

Join us on Tuesday, Mar 30, for DIY Designer Health at 9 a.m. ( GMT +10)

I realise this is a very extended blog...but I wanted it to have substance.

Love to all you groovers and groovettes!

Lisa In Oz

[HOW TO] Make Money in your Underwear

2010-03-18T22:54:00.000-07:00

[HOW TO] Make Money in your Underwear

I really like Cory, and I love what he shares in this Blog!

check it out! :-)

Reality Creation 101 Book review

2010-03-15T22:16:00.000-07:00

I just read and reviewed this book by Christopher Pinckley, and if you love the idea of designing your life on purpose, and living intentionally, you will LOVE this book. Chris is real , fresh, transparent and easy to learn through.

http://www.amazon.com/Reality-Creation-101-Mastering-Manifestation/dp/1439200041/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268246997&sr=8-1

Just Breathe

2010-03-15T05:03:00.000-07:00

Just Breathe

My beautiful girl!

Join me LIVE on my DIY Designer Vision with guest Sarah Shah show on #BlogTalkRadio at http://tobtr.com/s/917149 or call (347) 857-3368

Daughter #1 On radio with me this morning and daughter #2 on Utube this evening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFVGZqZMnHA

cut and paste if it isn't live :-)

DIY Designer Breakthroughs

2010-03-14T23:23:00.000-07:00

DIY Designer Breakthroughs

This week, as the title implies, I want to look at ‘breakthroughs’.

Firstly, I’d like to ‘demystify’ the notion of breakthroughs. Contrary to popular opinion, I don't believe they are the freak, ‘lucky break’ or the extraordinary miracle. Like ‘strokes of genius’, breakthroughs are much more within our ‘intentional grasp’ than many realise. They are the result of certain characteristic processes

Breakthroughs, like anything in life, follow a traceable pattern and can be designed and pre-determined, to a degree. Whilst the specific details of any situation are best NOT under your control ( the Universe is the Master Orchestrator), the desired outcome you have in mind definitely is!

“In his heart, a man plots his course, but the Lord determines his steps” Proverbs 16

My paraphrase: I decide where I want to go, and God opens the way, leading me a step at a time. I decide the ‘what and why’, Source energy works the ‘how’. When we allow ourselves to yield and to create our daily lives this way, we become open to fantastic opportunities that we may otherwise miss in trying to control everything or dictate the delivery method of our freedom.

I guess the major difference between achieving a goal, and experiencing a breakthrough refers to the level of conflict we’ve known in trying to get past a certain point and moving into a NEW position. Eg new income bracket, healthier lifestyle, relationship status, vocational shift.

Process #1-what do I want?

As with everything else, the path to a breakthrough begins with...’what do I want?’

And I don’t mean ‘what do I kinda want?’ or ‘it might be nice if I had..’ . I’m talking ‘what do I REALLY want?’ Why waste time or any other resource on something you aren’t really crazy to have? Of course, sometimes, we find out along the way what we really want, and the process of heading out was needed to define and refine our goal or even just practice the skills of applying ourselves and our focus. No effort is ever wasted.

My suggestion would be this: think of some of the things that you’ve often heard yourself say “I’ve always wanted to be/do/have/give that, or go there.” Time to take hold of one of those types of desires.

So-given where you are TODAY, where would you like to enjoy a breakthrough? This is your first step toward freedom. CHOOSE...then write a statement outlining your desired outcome. Eg. I desire to be earning $50 000 a year in my chosen field of composing jingles.

Process #2-How Does My New Life look?

Design the details of your new found freedom, as far as you can ‘see’ it from here. NOT how you’re going to do it, but how it looks to be LIVING it. Imagine you are already earning $50 000 a year writing jingles. How do you think your life would look to support this outcome? What would a day/week/month look like? Would you be attending any seminars/courses? Who would you be networking with? How many items would you be producing? Who would buy and for how much? What level of royalties and residual income would you expect?

Also...what other liberties and opportunities do you feel it might make available for you in other areas of your life? How would your personal life be affected? What new kinds of relationships and activities would you be able to enjoy?

This is GREAT fun! And Absolutely CRUCIAL. This process is a MAJOR component of creating an energy resonance with what you’re desiring, and if you follow the process laid out in “MY Designer Calendar” you will set your inner antennae so sharply and so effortlessly that you will surprise yourself.

It’s important not to rush this. It doesn’t matter that it takes a long time. The longer, the better actually, as it sustains a healthy and active connection with your desire.

THIS IS NOT WASTED OR UNIMPORTANT INDULGENCE. Change the way you view FUN. Life doesn’t have to be HARD. Change is easy when you ENJOY it!

Process #3-The Path Of Zero Resistance

This is probably the part that people struggle with most-Resistance.

Chances are you will come across it, otherwise you would already be living out your dream. When addressing resistance, you must first recognise it. It can be insidiously covert or obviously ‘impassable’, but there are ways to ‘read the signs’ in your life so that it becomes clear. One thing about making a decision about what you want...it will bring many things to the surface immediately. Watch and take note of your responses, reactions and day to day thoughts/feelings and encounters. They will reveal MUCH. Your life is a perfect mirror of where your energy and focus have been.

Once you’ve acknowledged levels and areas of resistance, there are a number of ways you can address it. I have two favourite ways that I use individually and in conjunction with each other.

One is quite simply to use whatever abilities I have to re-focus my energy and align it to my desire. I draw/write/collage/sing/speak about my desired outcome. This harmonises me with my dreams, diminishing any sense of lack and makes me feel fantastic, coz creativity just feels SO GOOD!

The other process I use a lot is EFT. Emotional Freedom Technique. And my absolute favourite facilitator of EFT is the EFT Wizard himself...Mr Brad Yateshttp://bradyates.net http://youtube.com/eftwizard This delightfully humourous and insightful practitioner is on my radio show on Tues Mar 23, 2010 at 9 am. (GMT +10) and we will be looking into how to help people design some breakthroughs for themselves. Tune in here http://blogtalkradio.com/lisa-shah I will post a direct link once the show is done for people that want to listen or download the archived version.

You can go to Brad’s site to learn more about EFT, but what I particularly love about it, is how it frees me from the ‘feelings’ that might otherwise disable me. I’ve used EFT to release Fear, Resistance, Stress, physical conditions caused by these things...and I LOVE it!!

I also use EFT in conjunction with the images and text that are part of my ‘designer’ life. I refer to my collages etc , whilst doing EFT, using positive statements. You don’t have to wait to feel resistance to make good use of EFT! J

A note on this ** if you’ve not done a lot of personal work this way, you could find more negative emotions come up. Just keep going through the ‘clearing’ processes, but if you want assistance to transition these times, get in touch! **

Also, Christopher Pinckley’s book Reality Creation 101 outlines other techniques he’s found useful. Here’s a linkhttp://www.amazon.com/Reality-Creation-101-Mastering-Manifestation/dp/1439200041/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268246997&sr=8-1.

We’ll cover more of this on Mar 23, please go tohttp://blogtalkradio.com/lisa-shah and send any questions, call in or chat with us live.

Process #4-Stay Aligned

Basically, just keep doing processes 2 and 3! Lol

Live your life and be happy, knowing that “...the Universe is conspiring with you for your success...” Be open to follow leading that comes and feels right. Stay aligned and act on prompts and ideas that come. Stay aligned...I’ll say it again-Stay aligned!!

You’re aligned when you FEEL GOOD, remember? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2_1qRUL5Iw&feature=player_embedded

Process #5

Please let us know of the progress you make. Share your stories and outcomes with us. I am the Queen of Show’n’Tell! I love to hear people’s tales of victory and fun. Even more if I can have been a tiny part of it! J

Create an Incredible Designer Week, and I hope to hear from you soon!

p.s. BTR gues Mar 16, my daughter Sarah :her story ( and music) of changing her vision to be free of Anorexia, and

Mar 23, Brad Yates, EFT Wizard...don’t Miss it! J

DIY Designer Vision with Creative Thinking Technology

2010-03-10T01:15:00.000-08:00

I took this photo on the left a couple of weeks ago. Up till today all the photos I've taken have been at 'sand level'. If you're familiar with my Facebook page, you'll know I've taken hundreds in the space of the 3 &1/2 weeks that I've been doing this daily walk!

As the title implies, I want to get you thinking about the way you see things.

In fact, I'd even go as far as saying that the purpose of my life is to help people learn HOW to see again...by conscious choice.

The functions of generating ideas and creating alternatives, or even the punch line for a joke-are right brain, creative thinking processes. Logic and reason...are the legalistic left brain lawyers that forever try to 'anchor' that wayward dreamer we call Imagination.

Yet the skills developed along this line are what set apart the outstanding from the ordinary, and are most highly sought after in every field. Innovation. Improvisation. Whether a home duties full-time mum, or a corporate CEO...creativity will make you SHINE.

Life isn't the way you see it-that's just the way you see it.

Creativity isn't being artistic, it is 'seeing' differently.

I don't want to get technical here and discuss the brain and its functions. This blog just doesn't go into those details. I just want to look out how we can effectively make it work for us, without even having to KNOW. And I have known and seen far too many people who know the theory but never have mastered having the experience.

I want aid with the experience!

We each have so many different ways of looking at things. Even within one individual, the capacity to conceive multiple perspectives on any and every matter, is endless. How can it be then, that anyone would ever conclude anything impossible?

We choose HOW we see our lives. Our beliefs, emotions and experiences cause us to decide what and how we'll see. Are your filters by your design, or by default? If you wonder what filters the perspective you have on your life, then simply 'consider and give thought to your ways'. Your life is a perfect mirror.

Process #1- back to Picasso

If you've read my stuff before , you'll have heard of what I call the Picasso Principle. Practice developing alternate view points by looking at images from the side, or upside down, or back to front. Play "Mr Squiggle" with random lines drawn by another for you, and do it from every way up. See how turning the squiggles changes what you can 'see' to draw. Life is the same.

Look at photos from magazines or books and make up characters and stories about them. Write who/what/where/when/why and how...and do three different versions. if you do this, when you need to create alternatives in your life, you will be practised.

Process #2-Break the Pattern

If you're really serious about seeing a situation differently. You will need to DO something different. Decide that no matter what, you are not going to do what you always have done before. This is a very literal thing. I wanted to demonstrate it by taking a photo of the beach from another point.

To do that I had to change where I parked my car, and the way that I usually do my routine walk. I had to embrace all the inconvenience and discomfort of change-and as simplistic as this example might be, it's surprising how swiftly we 'take' to a pattern, and don't want to change it.

I was excited about my plan, but I was still very aware of having to do something another way.

I met unfamiliar faces, many more were running , not walking. I had to wear shoes, and go up a STEEP hill. MY enthusiasm wasn't daunted at all, coz I knew what I wanted and why-but was all the same, keenly aware of the newness.

But getting to my new vantage point was well worth it. I got a BIGGER picture. I had a much broader perspective. I could see BEYOND my usual setting, north and south. I could see the distance that I walk each day, where I enter onto the beach usually.

And I could see my new friend-Harriet, just coming up to the bottom of the headland, at the halfway point of her walk! :-)

The first image is taken from in front of the tall apartments (top right)

so...MOVE yourself by doing something DIFFERENTLY. If you normally have breakfast and then a shower. Do it the other way around. Go out for breakfast. Take fruit salad and eat in a park. Eat it in a different part of the house-in the garden, on the balcony, preferably somewhere where you can see some nature.

Change SOMETHING and just watch what happens. Your eyes will begin to open-and so will your heart.

{this is another view from just south of the surf club looking up to the look out where I was just standing, in the above shot}

Process#3- Prepare for a Different Path

If you decide that you are going to do something differently, you may have to do ready yourself somehow.

I knew I would want shoes to walk to the top but I don't usually take any. So,I put the shoes out where I literally tripped over them!

Give yourself tangible, visual prompts.

I turned left instead of right at the Esplanade, so I could park right at the northern end. I made all these mental adjustments before I even set foot on the new 'way of seeing', because I thought about doing things differently so I could share another vision of Burleigh.

The same process is at work whenever we wish to take an alternate position in relation to something. Break the pattern and give yourself prompts to help you on the alternate route.

Process#3-Plan to Empower

This is really part of the mental preparation and motivation, but it comes into play when you take the first step. There is a reason for scaling a hill to get a better view. You can see where you are, where you wish to be and maybe even an obvious path to get there.

It takes effort to climb a mountain. More effort than to walk the sandy shore. But your desire to want to see the extensive view it promises will give you energy and strength to deal with any resistance that comes through discomfort-whether internal or external.

Focus on what you will gain-fresh insights into your life and how to make it more like the Vision you have of it in your dreams.

When we first begin to make changes, it can feel VERY uphill...contrary to the flow we'd established. Eventually though, you will learn to implement ideas for change that spring from your core, like me doing the beach walk, and these will be easy, once you decide, and reap manifold ongoing and lasting rewards.

For now, just experiment with changing little things...and see how this opens your imagination to more.

Process#4 Put on New Glasses

What's really funny about my trek to the top of North Burleigh Rock is that in my descent, I lost one of the lens from my sunnies! I literally had an altered view! :-)

And that brings me to this point: which glasses are you wearing? Some people talk about 'rose coloured' glasses as if they are unrealistic "La Vie en rose" (French for "Life through rose-coloured glasses," literally "Life in pink"), but since is literally whatever we determine to see, it seems to me that looking through rose coloured glasses is a smart thing to do.

You choose the tint of your shades. You determine what will be highlighted and what will be minimalized. You do this by what you are open to believe.

An anorexic sees themselves as fat, no matter how bony they get, because that's what they believe they are.

A constantly sick person doesn't see themselves well and whole, and for some reason thinks that to be well and whole will conflict with something else they believe. This isn't often conscious, but the 'mirrors' of our lives don't lie.

You can change what you believe, once you understand how it's creating your life. You can harmonise beliefs to your desires, and build your Designer Life. You can be free of the shackles and millstones of old ghosts that come haunting and drag you ever back into dungeons of your own psyche.

You can be FREE. And it starts with you painting a picture of yourself and your life as you wish them to be. Only you can do this for you.

How do you want your life to look? DIY Designer Vision.

And now I've climbed one headland...I'm gonna do the other and present yet another set of perspectives! lol (see the video!)

DIY Designer Networking with Creative Thinking Technology

2010-03-08T22:36:00.000-08:00

hi everyone...this is the video that supplements the blog of the same name.

A few more snippets of my "designer life".

O! and the radio show that aired to day too... http://blogtalkradio.com/lisa-shah

Create an awesome Designer Week!!

BIG love,

Lisa in Oz

For Blase...

2010-03-01T18:29:00.000-08:00

Well, here's the ones you've missed... you can see them anytime on my Utube Channel, along with others...that is, if this deluge doesn't overwhelm you! lol

http://youtube.com/lisashahscape

Hey Dude, thanks for reading and watching. :-)

FYI, I post a short video on FB http://facebook.com/lisashah from tue-fri, then compile them into one unit for uploading onto UTube. Sometimes, I forget to come back and post them here.

You can subscribe to the utube channel if you want to-