DIY Designer Change

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 Power

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

Where You Least Expect It

The Gift of Love

I'm not touting any specific religion now, but I found this truth written here, so I'm quoting from this source.

In the Bible, there are several very well known and oft spouted verses from I COR 13:4-8. These verses describe the characteristics of AGAPE (uncondtional) love..or...the nature of God/Source...Who is LOVE.

But just before these verses, there are a few other, more rarely mentioned ones. i put them in a song like this:

"If I could speak in the tongues of men,
or have dialogue with the angels
If i have the gift of prophecy,
or can fathom all life's mysteries
and by faith, move mountains in the sea...
...but if I have not Love, I am nothing
If i have not Love, I gain nil
I can take all I've got , and give it to the poor
but if I have not Love- i need more.

I can surrender my body, to the flames,
But if I have not Love, it's in vain."

In other words, it's never about WHAT YOU DO. It's always about WHY YOU DO IT.

WHEN LOVE IS THE SEED
When Love is the reason WHY you do something, what grows is inkeeping.
You cannot grow an apple tree, from an orange seed. You cannot grow a plentiful AGAPE harvest, from an erroneous martyrdom.

Look closely at the base of this strange looking cactus, which I called "Gringo".
Carved into its base are the words " I love ( heart shape) U". One Christmas, when my resourceful young son was staying in Sydney for his holidays, and discovered this heart shaped piece of cactus plant. He determined it would make the perfect gift for me. So he engraved his heart onto the fleshy green plant, popped in it a pot full of Horsley Park brick clay, and presented it to me for Christmas.

I brought it back in the car to Queensland, and it travelled from home to home( 3 times in that following year). But come October, it sprouted a new shoot. One of the oddest looking plants to be sure-the Prickley Pear, but I was very attached to this one, coz it came with Love. When Matt saw what the 'heart' had done, he was dumbfounded.

It never occurred to him, that given a good bed of the right kind of soil, his 'heart' would put down roots, and actually grow. He had only thought it would be as a vase of flowers, and the message it bore, a transient note that would wither with time, having first delivered his genuine sentiment.

But...

LOVE NEVER FAILS

As those verses say (ICOR 13:8)
"Love never fails", passes out, becomes obsolete, fades away, or comes to an end.

Love doesn't die. Nor it's message ever become devoid of power or meaning.
Everything is energy. LOVE is that energy. IT cannot die...it simply changes form and expression.
Love produces fruit that will LAST. All that is of love will endure forever, coz it is already in its purist form. It is already fully "alchemized" ( my new word)

All that is not Love will fall away, temporal yielding to eternal.

SOW HERE, YIELD THERE

I just noticed something very interesting. We use the phrase "yield a harvest".
Even when I sow Love, I must learn to yield, in order to receive the harvest Love has for me.
I ALLOW my harvest to come to me. Not demand it in a specific mode. If I insist that it be a certain way, I could well REJECT the harvest the Universe intended to satisfy the cry of my heart.

If I remain open and yielded ( Zero Resistence), I will receive all I could hope and MORE. Coz what is of Love is of Life and will keep on growing.
Everything is ENERGY and WE ARE ALL ONE. We are one energy field.

It may look like we've been sowing our Love seed for all the right reasons in one corner, only to have it spring forth in a far distant, and unlikely corner. But when we consider that it is all ONE energy field...it isn't surprising at all. We are sowing Love,and reaping Love's fruit-where and how we need it.

JACK's MAGIC BEANS

Love's deeds are the the magic seeds to satify all my conceived needs...and deepest desires! :-)
It doesn't matter what I do. If I do it in the true spirit of Agape, all I could possibly hope for myself will be carried forth in and through it as well.

Whatever expression Love needs to take to bring its fulness into my life, is the form it will take to emerge into my experience.

Love will bring me ALL I need to utilize EVERY moment to sow and grow more love.
I will always have a pocketful of magical, miracle working beans...
or, as the case may be, the ability to embed my heart in a cactus, and bring forth a blossoming love life.

Thanks Matt ( my boy). Tags: agape, cactus, corinthians, gift, gringo, heart, love, magicbeans, why, yield