Day 49 New Years Resolutions

Holy Moly, with the holidays and family coming in and out and parties I lost track of time. :) NO more of that now. :)
How many of you guys have written or even thought about the year 2011? Do you have your normal resolutions to make on New Years Day? Do you intend to keep them? Work on them consistently? I am going to post mine here, today and work on them throughout the year.

1. Get my Life Coaching Certificate
2. Get a certificate in learning the art of Feng Shui
3. Get my book published in the year 2011.
4. Take better care of myself (this includes my mind, body and spirit)
5. Live in gratitude each day and pull out joy and happiness out of every situation.
6. Take more time for me, to really love me and find out what I am meanto do with my life.
These are my intentions for the year 2011. I am sure I will come up with more but for right now I have put them on my calender each month to remind me what it is I want to accomplish. :)

My new mantra for myself is I am moving towards all my goals with ease and success. :) Along with I love and accept myself for who I am.

Much love to you all

Day 41 finding my voice inside...

The holidays are fast approaching with it almost being over. Another year that has flown by! I swear it seems like they are getting shorter!! :) With 2011 fast approaching and my annual house cleaning week starting on Sunday I am going to have to learn to balance between cleaning and family life. :)

I have been asking myself a lot lately why is getting into a healthy thinking routine seem so difficult for me lately? Not just with my weight because I have baked way to many yummy, delicious treats lately and beginning to get a pouch on my tummy. But the self talk and the anger and no patience that has come with it. I know better but why do I default to this type of behavior? When I am good with my thoughts and mind my feelings then great things appear out of thin air and all is great! When I am bad with minding my mind and let it wander then darkness falls upon our home and all heck breaks loose. :) I am thinking I love the good thoughts and behaviors! But I am not the only one that struggles with this, I have met so many people and talked with them. Often able to get them out of their slump but seems to always be a reach away for me. Nonsense I tell myself! It is like I argue with myself on a daily basis! I decided I will now study what all I have learned, not buy another book or program until I sit down with an old book or program for at least a month and really read it and absorb its message. I know all my answers are inside of myself, I just have to find them all. I usually don't carry on like this in a blog either but thought maybe some of you might be feeling like this too.

Much love and happiness to you!

Day 39 needing a miracle?

What happens when you really need a miracle and it is just not showing up? It could be related to health, money that you need for a bill, an item that is needed or a maybe for another person you see that needs it. I have needed a miracle a time or two in my life. I can remember one time clearly, we needed money for our rent. It was winter time and my husband had been out of work for 3 months, we needed the money to pay our landlord and we needed it fast. It wasn't a huge sum of money I think we were short $500.00 on that months rent and we had never been behind before so it was nerve racking for me to say the least.

I did a garage sale that morning and we were $200.00 short, I was stressed out completely, I needed that money so badly I could taste it. I needed a miracle to say the least. Worrying up until this point had not helped me, it just cluttered my mind with bad scenarios, negative words such as how am I going to get this? I began to feel sad, and a lack mentality. So I changed it up a bit, I decided I needed to pray the right way and give confidence in knowing my need was takin care of. That I no longer needed to hold onto this thought, I needed to let go and let God/Universe take action. I couldn't predict what would go on in the next 2 hours but I felt a lot better knowing a power higher than myself would take care of it for me. Our basic need of somewhere to live would be taken care of. We had a very strict landlord at that house and being late was not an option. So within 24 hours we managed to sell our patio furniture (2 sets) for $200.00 in the dead of winter with it raining outside. :)

The moral of the story that I took away from it is when we stress we inhibit God/Universe to give us what we are asking for. The easiest thing we can do as beings is to worry and be negative. The hardest is to let go of the control (which we don't have in the first place) and find a way to be happy or relieved and find our belief it will be handled and all will end better than what we expected. :)

Much love to you all

Day 37 Winter cleaning

Do you do your spring cleaning only in the spring? Or how about only when you are going to host a big tada in your home? I have done huge spring cleanings not only in the spring but in the summer, winter and fall too. Every year the day after Christmas the tree comes down and all the decorations go back into the holiday closet. Except for the outside lights (I try to keep those up as long as my husband will let me) then the dreaded words "Today is the day we are going to start cleaning everything out!) Now those words are dreaded to my kids because they know I like to everything wiped down, donated, thrown away before New Years Day arrives! I love my house feeling super clean and de-cluttered! Everything has its own place I tell the kids and the time is drawing near to begin.

I do these super cleanings because in a way it if free therapy for me. It signals change and a fresh start to the new year is showing. All the old stuff is being thrown away or given on freecycle, stuff that we no longer use, broken or just has bad memories tied to it. Each object carries with it, its own energy, and I don't know about you but I love good energy in my home. I also break out my Feng Shui books and re-read the areas I want to activate in my home and spruce those up too. :)

These cleaning can also be done on our brains and looking at ones self in the mirror. If the ends of your hair are all frayed go get a trim, if your clothes have holes in them go get a new shirt or two. If you want a new job then pace yourself and set aside a day to send out resumes, job search on the web and market yourself.  Make a calender of days you will set aside for yourself. Pick an activity you haven't done yet and get started on it! I have a list of things I want to do in each room of the house.  Like paint walls, clean carpets, furniture, backyard landscaping plans and so on. It's fun to get creative and go towards reaching a goal for that particular room. Remember you don't have to have it done in a day. It usually takes me about a week to tackle my whole house. I even do the yards!! But in the end it feels great. You can celebrate your new year with cleanliness inside and outside your home and it burns tons of calories!!

Much love to you guys

Day 36 changing vibes in the house

Last night I picked up my book The Power again to remind myself what it is that I wanted in my life. Happiness and that feeling of love that has been in the wings waiting for me to feel again. Sure I love my family, love my mocha's, love little surprises everyday but to really feel the love is what I have been missing. In it one of the quotes said Love is like air and water. We do need it to survive. Babies that are never held or kissed or told I love you often get very sick or can die. Our bodies need this feeling and I am going to concentrate on giving myself this gift. So this morning I woke up at 3am to meditate a little while snuggling with my 2 year old. While I meditated a great image came to me.

I have been wanting to plant a garden in our backyard for sometime now. Filling it with vegetables and fruits so we can do some canning during the summer and give our family and friends some wonderful food over the gardening season. :) In my mind I thought about a garden of feelings. I started to pull the weeds that were anger, sadness, resentment and guilt.  I had a section in my mind for each person of my life and started to weed out the unwanted weeds and plants that were growing. I even had a section for myself. I felt rejuvenated when I opened my eyes. A lot better than how I have been waking up lately. So if you have some unwanted emotions in your life that you feel you can't shake try the weeding of emotions in your own minds. To get rid of the handfuls of weeds I then imagined a ball of golden light right  in front of my face. I looked at it through my 3rd eye on my forehead and when I breathed in I imagined the golden light entering my body. When I breathed out I tossed all of my negative emotions into the ball of golden light. After about 10 breaths in and out I began to feel a lot better. I began to notice I didn't have as much anger and worry inside of myself.

Much love to you all

Day 35 out of 365 changes are in store. :)

I have been playing with the notion of changing things up a bit. I got a dose of inspiration from a good friend that said "I need a dose of happiness to fill my void up inside of me" It got me thinking what if daily I could provide this service? How would I go about doing it? Blogging about Miracles in one thing but to incorporate the two would be awesome! Kind of like going hand in hand. :)
I think right now she is absolutely correct on needing a daily dose of happiness in our lives. Something that may make you smile or make you think in a different way.

I awaken to my golden opportunities ~Louise Hay

I have been reminded gently by the Universe/God this past week about faith, hope and love and staying in happiness. I see the effects of writing the chapters about my past, re-living my past and letting it affect me. As a mom and wife I see now that maybe I am just not allowed to have those processing days because it affects my family so much. When I snapped out of it and reminded myself to stay in the present and live for today not for yesterday. That yesterday is essentially a story, nothing more and nothing less then I can begin to see today for what it is. Also, start to create the future I want. I changed the intent on my book also. I want a great golden light at the end of the tunnel for my readers. I do not want them to stay stuck as I did for so long. I want to teach the lessons of moving on and making your past just what it is, the past. It should have no marker on what  your future can and will be. :)

I love you guys and have a wonderful day!!

Day 29 out of 365 past thoughts

Yesterday seemed to go on forever. I wasn't myself at all, I did have a great time during playgroup in the morning. We hosted about 6 kids over and made reindeer food and the kids played while we talked. After everyone left it just seemed like a blah day. :) I have been processing emotions in my little brain and come to realize that I am the only one that can make myself feel the way I do. The past has no hold on me unless I let it! Learning these tools over and over again by reading or hearing them it doesn't click until you really start to practice the lesson. I noticed while I was punishing myself in feeling bad and sad my two year old picked up on my vibrations and began to react. Goodness, that is never good when he decides to react. :) My daughter had her band concert last night. I really wanted to watch it but I had this 2 year old you never know what he will do. I so badly want him to behave in public but I also understand he is his own person, he is unpredictable to say the least and usually I enjoy this but last night I was already feeling bad so I just wanted him to be good.  Well we all know Murphy's Law and he started out good. He let me carry him all the way from the car to the multi-purpose room (should of been my first clue) then he got down when he saw his sister. Stayed with us so I could get some pictures of her. Then I walked him to the back of the room. Figured if I didn't make him sit right away we could have a chance. As the evening went on, the shorter his attention span got (typical 2 year old right?). Well, someone had to leave a playground ball out and he found it of course. A bright yellow ball! It was like a beacon to him, calling his name out saying "Throw me!!" Before I could get to him, he threw the ball up into the air and hit a lady in the head. She wasn't to happy about that and I apologized then he took off running when I got the ball away and sure enough! He tripped and fell right in front of her about taking her down too! Needless to say we had to leave at that point. He was done and I wasn't going to set him up to get into more trouble. I'm thinking maybe a baby sitter for the next performance. :)

On the way home is when it hit me. I should be the one to get myself out of this funk! I should know better than to let past emotions affect me this much that I can not enjoy day to day life. It's not easy processing painful situations in the past while being a mom and wife. I am not allowed to be in a bad or sad mood because I have little ones depending on me. :) Plus I should know better and know that what is in the past is in the past. Nothing can hurt me unless I let it. So I am clearing out those painful emotions, writing about them to get them away, to release them once and for all into the universe! YAY! My goal for today!
Much love to you all!

Day 27 our of 365 new paths in life

I am heading out onto a new path today. One that I have never been down before. Usually I take some comfort in knowing what I can expect because I don't switch gears this drastically but I am called upon to do something that has been heavy on my heart all day. :) It's not easy acting with blind faith but it is something I feel I need to do. The re-programming of my mind and heart have been tolerable up until today. My writing has become sad as I process emotions. It is no longer the fun part of writing about past pains. I find myself being distracted a lot easier today too. I have cleaned out things in my office and the play room. Cleaning had always helped me in my past. I have tried talking with friends and my husband about my challenge I now face only to be told wisely it is all up to me now. This I know but would rather be not that far ahead in knowledge and have someone else make this decision for me.
Soon I will be able to tell you all about my decision. I need to get all my ducks in a row to have the courage to stand up to someone who hurt me in my past. One that I am realizing still has control over me not in the outside world but on my inside world still. It is all confusing! :)

much love to you all

day 25 out of 365 blanket of shame lifted

The weekend was a huge success on breakouts and breakthroughs for me. Now to just process all these emotions inside of me to be a healthier, stronger and definitely more courageous woman! I am getting a huge blessing today and get to type more on my book and organize the chapters so it reads more smoothly. My husband is off today so he is going to drop kids off at school and take the baby out of the house for a couple of hours. Maybe I might get a whole 6 hours in on this thing today!! :) Bonus!!

I have learned a valuable lesson about how one person can say something to you and it gets stuck in your mind. You live with those words all your life unless you are willing to uncover those beliefs and shed some light on them. I was told repeatedly not to tell anyone of the abuse, to always keep it in and no one would understand.  That was totally wrong in every way and shape! People do understand, people do support me and most of all those words are those peoples issues not mine! They tried to make it mine but no more. I had a huge blanket of shame lifted off this weekend. A blanket that had been covering me for some time now. I decided to shred that blanket and no longer allow it to be on me. What happens, happens, is what I am thinking now. Sure I have fears, sure I have no idea what will come of this. But I am no longer worried about how those words are true.  To me they are lies and meant to keep shame inside of me. Yes, I was sexually abused as a child and I am learning to speak up for others to help heal myself. I was told to NEVER speak of it again! I told people in my teen years that tried to help me those words. For so long those words were my motto and I would talk a little about what happened, always skating around the real issues. I have come to realize others are in this boat too. Punishing themselves for crap they didn't ask for or want. Not knowing how to process the emotions that come along with it! Sucks! But what I learned is this, if 1 in 4 woman and 1 in 9 men are sexually abused we have a lot of people walking around that need their own blankets of shame lifted off!

Much love to you all today!  

Day 23 out of 365

Goodness how time flies! I have been working so hard to meet my deadline for this book that I am on overdrive. By the time Christmas does come I will be ready to relax. :)

It is such a great feeling to wake up in the morning, renewed and charged full of a positive energy. To know that even though you are nervous and somewhat fearful it is all going to turn out way better than you could even imagine! I was given so many little gifts yesterday to fill my heart and soul up it was a beautiful! My batteries got re-charged and I am ready to stretch myself out of my comfort zone just a little bit more today. If we stay exactly where we are then things will never change. It is when you begin to feel nervous, begin to have those butterflies in your stomach because you don't know how it all will end. This is exactly where you need to be! I say this because it is exhilarating but scary to step out of my comfort zone. I have been so happy for so long sitting still, tucked deep inside of my turtle shell and now off with the shell! :) I have been thinking for about 2 months now that I have been out of my comfort zone but I fooled myself! I haven't because I don't have that tingly feeling deep down in my stomach! It's not an uncomfortable I'm gonna be sick feeling but more of an excited I can't wait feeling! So now I know without a shadow of a doubt I am there! I am finally growing and reaching up and stretching!
You have to get off your horse and start stepping in a new direction with me! Come on! It is a fun feeling and you will change your current state you are in!
Say: I experience love wherever I go.  Loving people fill my life, and I find myself easily expressing love to others.

This new feeling of it will all turn out better than expected must be my new dose of faith and belief. I have finally turned the corner to expect better than lack. It took awhile but it has finally happened and it is wonderful. Miracles really are in the shape of emotions, and what you feel. I am in the process of creating my own miracle with my voice, boldness and new faith! Can't wait to see what happens!

As with all new growth in ourselves we have this new feeling we love and then we get comfortable in it. We make huge strides in progress. We move forward many steps and then somehow we stop. Maybe we are busy for a couple of days, maybe something happens and we go back towards the direction we were once in. That is OK. What matters is that you stop yourself when you are taking those steps backwards and begin to move forward in the new direction again. We all have our old habits we would like to change. It is a conscious effort to keep track of what we are doing to so we can make the changes we want. :)

Much love

day 20 out of 365 Miracles

I asked Ash on our way to school this morning what she thought a miracle was. She had some interesting anwsers. She said a miracle is the whisper that you don't hear but God does and he makes it happen in our lives. Like a cancer patient being cured, or a child waking up to a room filled with toys from Santa. When something you want to badly happens in just the nick of time.
It was like hearing music in the car when she described all the miracles she sees or hears about. What she thinks of in her own mind as a miracle is amazing. As a 10 year old she has some wisdom in her that I didn't know was there. And thank goodness I had the time to spend with her asking this one simple question and the result was bigger than I thought. I was humbled and filled with joy listening to her talk.
Of course she added what miracles she wanted in her life :) And as a parent it is all I could do to not make each and every one of them happen for her!!

Much love to you all

Day 19 out of 365 Days Love

I believe in my heart our greatest miracle on this planet is to LOVE. What a great feeling it is! The love we have for our babies, for our families, for ourselves, for objects, food the list can go on and on. IT is what fuels our passions in this life. When we feed each other or things with love they grow so much better! When we neglect and with hold love things tend to get unhealthy, die or just look dull.

Have you ever fallen out of love with something or someone? You loose the feeling inside of you and you just can't get it back is what I always heard from myself or others. Maybe to much stress, resentment, hard words were spoken? With each negative blow a chip of love comes off. If you think of love being a huge stone and negativity being a hammer. If you hammer it enough then there are only pieces of the stone or just dust blowing in the wind. How do we replace that love once it is gone?

Well, it can be tricky but anything is possible. :) Maybe you need to start basic with the love inside of yourself. Is that strong? Need to do a system check to make sure you really do love yourself and then you can go out into the world and really love others the way you should. A healthy dose of love can fix anything and everything!! When you truly love yourself you can approach all relationships with wholeness and self confidence. This took me a while to get and apply in my life. I would argue with myself stating I love myself! But really I thought I did. I didn't have that wonderful feeling inside of me going towards myself. I would always having it going to others. To truly be present in any and all relationships you need to fill yourself up with love first then go out into the world!

Love you all today!! Have a wonderful day!

Day 17 out of 365 Symbols

Wow!! Time is flying by!
I love who I am, and reward myself with thoughts of praise. ~Louise Hay

I was reminded over this holiday weekend of how important Stars are in my life. A symbol of I do not walk alone on this earth. It is always comforting to know someone else is with you in spirit at all times. :) During heartache, troubles, even good times the Star symbol has been presented to me and I had ignored it up until recently. Back when I was 4 a Sunday School teacher told me that God was always with me. I asked how she knew that because I couldn't see him. She told me to pick my most favorite symbol and he would put that symbol in my life to show me He was still there. At this moment in time I was surrounded by Christmas decorations and chose the Star on top of the tree at church. Looking back over the memories in my life I remember seeing that Star being placed in front of me. Whether it was on paper, someone saying you are a superstar or stars in the sky. It's funny how many times I have been shown and didn't take comfort in knowing I am not alone. When so often in the past 6 years I felt so alone and on my own.
Do you have a symbol that is shown to you? Do you take comfort in knowing you are not alone in this world?

I also love snowflakes because they look like beautiful stars. :)

Much love to you all

Day 13 and 14 out of 365

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! I feel so thankful for so many wonderful things and people in my life! This past year has been unbelievable in growth and I can only go further from this point!

In the last of the four part series we are going to talk about our spiritual body. In many ancient religions, stories and depicted on pictures our spiritual bodies were drawn as colors around us often called auras. When we vibrate at our highest frequency we surround our other 3 bodies and combine to radiate a beautiful aura around us. As many pictures showed Jesus with a golden light around his halo radiating outward.

When our spiritual body is flowing into our other bodies this is when we are most energetic and positive person we are able to be. When we experience any feelings of fear, selfishness, being unkind we automatically disconnect ourselves from this power. These negative emotions cloud our beautiful light around us putting a blanket over us. Then it is unclear on what we can be thankful for and instead of what we don't have. When we are connected to this power we are encased in positive feelings and we are like a beacon shining in the darkness to help others find their way too.

How to connect to our beautiful white light is easy and there are many ways to do this. You can close your eyes while sitting or standing and go inward. Then begin to illuminate yourself from the inside out with a white light. Some imagine they are angels with white wings coming out of them. Taking deep breaths throughout the day to re-connect with our spiritual body. Releasing any darkness in your solar plexus (right above your navel) since this is our power house inside of us.

Being in love with life and being grateful for all that you have helps you be in line witness your spiritual body. When we have our spiritual energy we feel as if nothing is impossible.

Much love to you all today!!

Day 12 out of 365 Days Mental Body

Our Mental Body is were we actually create our electrical energy in our brains. It houses all of our intellect (smarts), our distortions, possibilities we see around us, misconceptions about how we feel about ourselves and the world around us. Our 5 senses are stored here too, along with all of our experiences in life.

The energy from our thoughts shapes our life and how we experience it and what all we believe. We can change our beliefs in life to have a better one when we start to work on this area and make some changes. Once our brain makes or creates an idea or opinion it is imprinted upon our subconscious so this is why things are automatic for some of us, bad habits or unhealthy ways of thinking. Maybe you experienced a spouse or lover cheating so you store a memory or thought about betrayal or never trust again. This is where this would be stored in our bodies, the mental body.

The negative belief system or bad self talk is where our mental toxins start come come about and leak out to the rest of our body to stop us from drawing upon the type of life we want. These thoughts affect us on a molecular level we can only feel but not see. For example Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of The Hidden Messages in Water, has photographed ice crystals showing water being exposed to certain positive words and certain negative words! The photos are absolutely beautiful! With our bodies being composed of 80 percent of water then our words or thoughts we say to ourselves has a significant impact upon our bodies!
Words do absolutely have power over us and what we say to ourselves or allow others to say to us has an impact on a cellular level!!

Our thoughts direct energy towards manifesting what all we want in life! We can control all positive and negative energy inside us and leaving us. Ask yourself what words have I been describing to myself and what kind of life have I been telling myself I am having right now?

Scientific research has proven we think about one hundred thousand thoughts a minute! WOW!! And 80 percent of those are negative if left unchecked! WE are literally turning our future into a nightmare if we do not get some kind of hold upon our thoughts and re-train our brain into thinking better!

Here is an exercise I have found easy and can do anywhere when I have a negative thought that keeps creeping up or showing up in my life. I visually take these words and put them in a bubble outside of myself and then I take that negative bubble and throw it at our golden sun way up into the sky. Sometimes I have to keep doing this because I feel the thoughts over and over. Maybe its because I have said them so much I have to keep throwing them up to the sun til I no longer believe them.  Then I replace it with the opposite a positive thought and repeat the positive at least 7 times to myself. Like a Power Mantra that changes my attitude right around.

Our mental body needs the support of our physical and emotional body to be strong. All of these bodies work together to become one strong support for us.
Keep working at it each day! DO some research on ways to help you support your different bodies inside yourself!!
Much love

Day 10 and 11 of 365 days.

Yesterday I was so busy getting the house clean, decorated, grocery shopping because today is our family and friends Thanksgiving dinner! Yay!

We are going to talk about our Emotional Body part of connecting ourselves back together. Once we have cleared our toxins from our physical body we can go deeper inside our Emotional selves to clear this level. Our emotional body is our guardsman to our physical, mental and spiritual bodies. When our emotions are out of balance it throws off all of our other bodies and keeps us from maintaining the positive perspective we want. We often trap our negative feelings in our emotional body, this is where they are stored and live inside our subconscious mind. These trapped negative feelings lower our vibrations, can manifest the feeling of being tired all the time because you are using so much energy to keep it there. It can give you symptoms of depression, fear and anger. When we hold onto many dark feelings it becomes a poison in our system and new ailments, troubles, fatigue, headaches start to come about on a daily basis. Many symptoms can be contributed to this epidemic in your body. Anger issues, depression, rage, shame, guilt any and all of the lower vibration emotions stem from to many negatives holding on in our body.

When we hold onto any of these feelings of hurt, rejection or anger or even sorrow we close down emotionally. When we shut down we don't allow ourselves to open up and see the different circumstances that could of been around us.  Our points of view are shaded and can no longer be open ti new possibilities that are all around us.  None of us prefer to experience the pain but shutting it down and not dealing with it will only do mare harm. I know this from experience. :) As we release the emotional toxins and heal ourselves we will eventually have a detachment from the memory and not experience any emotion when we do call it up. This does take some practicee and time.

When we do hte work of calling up an old painful memory and working through the emotion of it we will need to reward ourselves with a positive. I prefer taking a nice hot bath. this also serves the purpose of drawing more of hte emotion out of us also. Add a few drops of rose or geranium oil to help release the blocks and heal ourselves. As we get into the water feel  the emotions going into the water, lifting you of us and evaporating in the steam.  Saunas are a great place to do this too. You are free from old wounds and can start to see things clearly.

Much love to everyone

Day 9 out of 365 Our Phyical Bodies

Our physical bodies are fascinating when you get down to the nuts and bolts of it. Remember in science class and they taught you everything starts out as an atom or molecule? Then you get a swarm of them (like bees) and that is what our physical eye sees. If you think about our surroundings nature. We have beautiful music that can move our emotions (so it must resonate with us on some level) we have beautiful landscapes that move us when we are outdoors. Being outdoors helps our moods and gets us healthy with exercise. Art is a way to express yourself and sometimes it can move us emotionally too. Plants live with their own systems using the sun and marine animals live in water.  We are all connected in and through nature because we need each one of these in our body to live. We can learn from our surroundings how to work with the Universe to live better lives.
Let's talk about frequencies that we can all understand. First of all I think we have four vibrating bodies which range from lowest to highest vibrations.  The lowest vibration or octave (if you can relate better to music) would be the physical body because it vibrates at the lowest speed. Then next step or octave up is the emotional body, next is the mental then the spiritual. I will talk about each one in the next couple of days. But let's tune our physical body today.

When we can harmonize all of our vibrational bodies within us then we will increase our positive energy and love that we feel. You can rise over difficulties and see solutions instead of being stuck in a rut and not overcoming obstacles. We do this already or have done this in our lives at some point. We just need to be reminded to keep with it on a daily basis to be happier and live a better life.

If we think of a flock of birds and watch them closely have you ever seen them shift for no reason to our eyes and watch how they are all in harmony with one another? This is what our field around our bodies do. We attract what we are vibrating. Those birds are all connected by the same vibrations, the same energy field around them so it is natural to them to all shift at the same time. The lead bird shifts direction so all the other birds feel that shift and go accordingly. We do this on Sundays in church, whatever the priest, preacher or teacher is we all shift to his/her thinking (lessons) for the day or week. We are gently reminded and taught what to think about.

We first need to start to get rid of the negativity from our bodies. These negative cells are lodged into us and make us slow down and feel depressed or deflated. You are physically blocked up and nothing can radiate out to the world. This starts the domino effect because when your physical body is sludge then your mental body is dragged down by worries and dark thoughts then you get angry or depressed (emotional) and the spiritual body which is your highest vibration doesn't get bogged down unless you lose faith but it doesn't get to vibrate at the highest rate that it can. This is why we can sometimes attract what we want but not all the time.

How do we clear our physical body? Easy exercises like breathing. Taking deeper breaths allows you to center and energize yourself.  When we draw in plenty of oxygen we are clearing out the toxins. When we are stressed or worried our breaths are shallow and we hold in in toxins and we don't have enough oxygen to feed our cells. Eating right, more earth foods instead of processed foods. Each of the foods we eat have their own set of vibrations. Things from the earth have highest vibration and junk, processed or  foods with refined sugar have lowest. Water is the cleansing agent the best and cheapest!! My 10 year old put it into perspective one day when we were talking she said "When you poop mom you are essentially clearing out all the toxins in all 4 of your vibrating bodies" :) I guess we can look at it like that. Exercise helps move all the toxins out of the body. (This is one I personally need to work on) Our goal is to feed our body what it needs, keep it moving and keep it cleansed with water. When you do start to really dump toxins out of your body then you will feel effects immediately! Sometimes right away you feel icky but it will get better! I promise that one! Then the last thing we can do to shift our self into a higher physical vibration is give thanks to our body each and every day. In traffic I have sat there starting with my toes thanking them for what they do for me everyday. I go through my whole body all the way up to my brain. I don't leave a body part of system out. I feel great afterwards. I am in a state of gratitude and it shows! If you are able to taking a bath in Epsom salts helps cleanse the body of toxins too. I do not recommend this for everyone! Pregnant or nursing or with some medical conditions ask your doctor first!!    Epsom salts are simple but can do damage if you are not able to handle all the toxins coming out. :)

Much love to you all!

Day 8 out of 365 changing a bit

I open my consciousness to all the wonderful possibilities of life. ~Louise Hay

Yes I am a huge fan of Louise Hay. Her books I often give away as presents to my friends to help them hopefully through rough spots in life. The mirror work of saying to yourself I love you while looking into your own eyes is powerful!
On this site of Changing Our Minds it made me realize last night that am I all over the board and I think when you start a new project that deals with your mind you can feel lost or misguided and left with a feeling of Ugh, this doesn't make sense.. Am I doing it right? I felt that way about this blog last night. I know my vision will pan out and become clear as more days pass. I know living each day in love will bring even more miracles to life and spread the feeling to others. I am working on a mission statement today so each day I sit to type I can look at the statement and stay on course.  Thank you for bearing with me on this journey and knowing that I am working on a grand vision to inspire people to see that they can create so many miracles with their own brains! It is amazing what all we can do with our thoughts and focus! Maybe that is it! Using the power of our minds with our thought and focus and creating miracles! :) I will work on it today to be uplifting each morning. My mind is changing too! :)

much love to you today

Day 7 out of 365 Ideas

I love life! I look forward to every moment of it. ~Louise Hay

I am going to change gears a little bit and talk about how to see the miracle of success in your business. Now I will be the first to admit I am not some big time huge success in my attempts at running business but I can motivate you to become one! :) I have noticed that some of the most popular motivating people out there hadn't climbed the ladder of success until recently too. :)

During my learning curve with Arbonne (I will pick this company because it where I had the most growth) I learned quickly I hated the saying "IF they don't like you, then they won't buy the product" UGH! that saying use to drive me crazy because I already had the lack of belief in myself to get this done! If there is a saying that you don't like clue into it because if you fix your belief about yourself then this is one less thing that will hold you back. Having motivation in your team is huge! But at the same time you need to learn to motivate yourself into doing the actions too.

With the Holidays here and I know most companies are pushing you to come buy from them gifts let's brainstorm right now how you can increase your sales. First that little miracle of belief is going to have to be there. Belief in yourself that you can achieve the goal you want to this month and next. If it hasn't worked for you in the past 2 months whatever idea or action plan you are doing then drop it like a cold and move onto something you have been putting off. Maybe you like the idea of walking into businesses and dropping off a card, catalog, or brochure. You keep putting off this idea because _____ you fill in the blank. But instead you are just leaving your stuff at random places but not getting any bites or leads. As my mom use to always tell me "just get the things off your list first thing in the morning you don't like to do." Go buy a bag of holiday candy and tape a piece on top of whatever it is you are handing out. People love little bite size candies and you can find the nerve to go into places with something other than your business card and catalog. Smile!! Smile people! It breaks the ice every time! I know there are a lot of new people in the multi-level marketing business all trying to overcome their selling fears and some will do this. These are easy ways to get into selling or sharing your product and hopefully your ball of momentum will start rolling.

I would bake cookies and take small wrapped cookies into my kids doctors offices, local real estate offices, fire houses because they do buy for their families! :) Offer extras like gift wrapping, delivery, something that would cater to them and go over the top. I love that the place I get my oil and filter changed vacuums my car floor every time! One less thing I have to do! Be creative and figure out how to save people money! People always love how you can help them save during this time of year. Ask them what big items they have on their list this year other than what you are selling! and end the conversation with I can save you this much to go towards that big purchase you want so you could have all these people done on your list and still have some for yourself. :)
Google creative selling tips, if you need a confidence boost for any area of your life google it and start to listen. There are some great videos on You Tube that are inspirational and uplifting to help you too!

Then when you get enough small victories then you will start to feel more confident and then when a big sale comes through at just the right time you might say "It's a miracle!" :) That's the fun part because in a sense it was you all along. All your little things you did everyday to build up to the big one!

Much love everyone
   

Day 6 of 365

With every new challenge in our lives comes a test to maybe see if you are serious about your new choice. Personally I think it would be a lot easier if these little tests didn't come at all :) Yesterday I was being tested by my own kids. Started first thing in the car when we were on our way to school. Ash decided nothing was going to be right with the ride :)I made the mistake of stating Hunters face changed again in the night. She then promptly asked if she had grown any? Then I replied with yes your attitude :)

My oldest decided to hit me after school with forgetting to give me his progress report last Friday because he knew he would be grounded over the weekend. So now he is grounded all week :)

There was little miracles all day besides my kids acting up. BUT I had to look for them and get myself out of letting the kids get me upset. My computer came back fixed last night and better than ever! Yay!! Hunter did so good in his speech class AND I got to spread some hope this holiday season to another mom at school. I learned another lesson yesterday that in the past I would let little things build all day then I would finally be so upset by the end of the night I wouldn't let myself enjoy the evening with my family. Usually the very people that would get on my nerves! Now I am enjoying learning new skills for these tests that keep me on my course of changing my life for the better! It is so easy to get upset and stay that way all day!!

Much love you guys

Day 5 of 365 feeling more gratitude with each day

I am gaining momentum each day that I consciously practice this exercise. It is fun and the benefits are already taking shape! New habits in the way I think, feel and interpret my surroundings have been noticed by my kids. It is fun and exciting!!

Yesterday it was just me taking the kids to Target to do a Christmas list and then to the mall to see Santa. Yes it is still November but having 2 out of 3 kids part time sometimes you just have to do things early :) I thought it was going to be tough since Hunter doesn't like to go shopping or should I say the way I want him to shop. Which usually consists of him sitting in the cart so I can get done fast. He likes to touch, explore and pick his own things out so usually half my time I shop the other half you hear me calling his name and chasing after him. He is a great way to get card in during the day! :)
But, remembering the day before lesson I decided nope it is going to be fun. We got out of Target with our Christmas wish lists in hand! Went to the mall where Hunter played in the fake snow before seeing Santa. He was such a joy to watch! The mall had this huge dome and inside you walked in and it was the witches ice castle from the movie Narnia. Fake snow fell from the ceiling and Hunter played with the snow on the floor. Then he would look up with wonder as it fell. What I noticed was an employee that just stood there started to change in her body language. She was bored when we got there or something was wrong, but as I laughed and smiled watching Hunter she too did the same! It was great to notice the effects Hunter, Ash, Leigh and I had on her! Hunter was very interested in how it was coming from the ceiling but none the less was blowing the snow to make it float. Running through it to scatter it and throwing it up in the air to watch it float back down. I told him it was like watching bubbles float. :)

The rest of the day was amazing, kids got along and were helpful. We invited a neighborhood kid over for dinner and made spaghetti tacos! So yummy and we laughed all through dinner at the table. The little girl said at their house they sit in front of the TV and eat. She loved sitting at our table with us and laughing. What a great feeling!!

I can not express how much inside of me has changed just in 5 days!! It feels great and I have 360 more to go!! I realize now more than ever whatever story you tell, whether it is good or bad, will be the story you live in your life! So start looking at life differently if you want some parts to change! You do have the power in your mind to change it all! Discipline of your thoughts is the first step! There is no wrong way to start just starting is an accomplishment! You will start and stop and start again and that's the process. Just make the time between the stop and start shorter each time :)

Sending you love and happiness! Remember to look for your miracles today to get more of them! Peace between my kids was a huge blessing and miracle and one that I expressed a lot of thanks for!! Why? To bring more of that into our lives!!

Day 4 of 365 Miracle of Health

Yesterday I was reminded how much our health means to us and how often we don't even think about it! Family friends, Ash and I went to enjoy a Childs birthday yesterday morning. I hadn't seen the little girls mom in a long time but she had been through some pretty major stuff with her body. She suffers from diabetes and truly ignored whatever the doctors told her to do. She drank and ate whatever she wanted! After years of not taking care of herself she is in a wheelchair with only 1 foot, blind in one eye and in the other eye can only see half of her visual field. Her feistiness that she is known for wasn't there. I saw a glimpse every now and then but she truly wasn't herself anymore. What really hit home was her medicine she HAD to take like every 4 hours! She took 18 pills! I sat in the backseat and thought my goodness all of those pills she takes is keeping her body going. She no longer has the luxury of doing this for herself! Opened my eyes to not judge her but remind me what a miracle our bodies truly are!!

I, myself don't really exercise or eat many fruits or vegetables. I see now the effects I have put upon my children unintentionally because as parents we always want what's best for our kids. I knew this mom didn't want pity or to be treated differently so just helped when I could and kept sending her healing energy. Energy for the whole family because they are all needing that. :) I reflected how and what can I do to lead by example for my family to realize how precious our bodies are. Last night I had the kids drink a lot more water and eat more vegetables than cheesy bread at our friends house. They ran and jumped in the bouncy house so exercise wasn't an issue. But for myself since I have been blessed with a tiny body and can eat whatever I want I have to dig deep. Learn more about my body and what it needs to feel great. Our bodies if fueled with what we need will give us incredible energy and incredible airs to attract what we want in life. If your energy fields that surround us are low then our abilities to attract can be slow. I don't know about you but after figuring this little piece of knowledge out I want to feel great!!

Another incredible woman I re-connected with last night lost 80 pounds in just under 5 months! We laughed when she shared she had gotten a gym membership with good intentions of going to workout but she really uses it as a break from her two young kids. She will walk her mile and then go take a really long shower while the kids are playing in childcare. I know a thing or two about wanting peace :) even if it is to take a shower! She looks great, detoxed her system naturally and is eating more fruits, vegetables and whole grains. She said at 325 pounds she didn't have a lot of energy but now she does! I was so happy for her!

The miracle of our body is amazing! It can heal itself, be it's own energy source, it defiantly has a mind of it's own because we don't sit and instruct it to process what we eat, keep our body systems in check and running. So why can't the possibility of fueling it with the foods we need for each of bodies, our mind do some much more than what we think it can do? I know some doctors that have instructed their patients to visualize the illness gone, visualize all your cells as having happy faces on them, or telling your body "I release this illness with love and light" over and over while you see yourself healthier. Maybe those that first get diagnosed with an illness it is easier for them to believe in a cure. I have seen others that have a life long illness it just becomes part of who they are. I am not offering any medical treatment, you always consult a doctor before stopping medication I am just trying to give alternative ways of viewing things. Hopefully inspire those that need it to start increasing their knowledge about the body and look further than pills.

Our bodies have everything they need to cure themselves! It is all inside of us and that is truly a miracle we live with everyday!
Much love to you all!!

Day 3 of 365

Miracles are events that make us feel there is more to life than what we see!

Gosh I have been there asking myself "what the heck? There has to be more to my life than this. Where do I go? What am I suppose to do?" sometimes my answer my come in a new friendship and over the years something materializes for me. Maybe an event or new place to visit inspires me go change directions in my life. Friendships usually bring me the best experiences, laughs and overall joy to me.

My high school reunion is coming up and I smile because my old best friends never lost their place in my heart. I still talk to them every now and then. My friends that I have made over the years here where I live have come and go. But they too have never really lost their place in my heart also. My really, really close friends the ones I can be my crazy, fun, laughing self with truly do stay with me even if they chose to spread their wings and venture out. I have a few that even though we don't talk much or just say hi through Facebook I would drop everything and be there for them if they needed someone. To me that is what the miracle of friendship is all about. You don't have to be in their lives every single day, sure it's nice to be in touch with them everyday. You can share and hopefully laugh more than cry when you talk.

Friendships are fun and those that click with you for right now cherish them. Those that need to explore more avenues with other people just release them with love. We have all done this, releasing people from our lives. It's not the easiest thing in the world to do because we have memories and emotions tied to them but sometimes we need to. This is the miracle of life going on around us. Releasing is natures way of making more room for new people to come into your world that align better with you!! Just the part of a miracle is what we don't see but what we want to happen right? If you go back out there and reach out to people you will have a life filled with beautiful people in your world! It took me years to figure this out due to my own insecurities inside of myself. Be the type of friend you want in your life.

Maybe this affirmation will help bring you joy and new types of miracles into your life. It did a lot for me when I said it many times a day. From now on, I shall grow more good humored. Joy, happiness and cheerfulness are now becoming my normal states of mind. Everyday I am becoming more and more lovable and understanding.I will be a center of cheer and goodwill to all those around me, infecting them with my good spirits. This happy, joyous and cheerful mood is now my normal, natural state of mind. I am grateful.

Enjoy your day everyone!!
Much love

Day 2 of 365 :)

I got to thinking yesterday what are some of the miracles I see around me right now? It put things into perspective for me. Went from small things to big things such as: the miracle of Hunter (whose 2 now) walking up to me and giving me a hug and kiss. Or the love I feel from my family and the love I have for them. The miracle of my husband working steadily and with overtime too! The miracle of friendships even if they come and go. New friends turn into great friends with great times following. How about the miracle of our dreams? Hunter was taking a nap and he was laughing and smiling! The miracle of love, the miracle of courage and how about how different foods affect our body and mood!

Beginning to look at life through these miracle colored glasses got me thinking how programmer I was at believing miracles were once in awhile. This is not so and I was in the best mood yesterday! Full of energy and just happy.

Yes my toddler did manage to delete a bunch of apps off my iPad yesterday and I'm not to excited to take a trip to the Apple store to have then help me get my Dashboard back up but hey I get to go to the mall now! I hear they have a beautiful ice palace where Santa sits. Now I have another reason to go and visit! Just gets me there sooner! I understand he is 2, he didn't mean to do it. Plus I gave him my iPad unsupervised so I really was angry at myself. Learning to look at the challenge in many different ways helps release the anger from yourself. Which is always a good thing!!

What we think about we bring about so make that conscious decision to look for the miracles around you too today!
Much love to you all

Day 1 of 365 what's this all about?

Welcome!!

I was inspired to start a blog about the miracles that surround us everyday and write about them. If you believe as within so without, or what you think about you bring about, then this blog is for you. Join me on my own journey to see what miracles we can bring about for ourselves and others!

I am truly excited to be kicking this off on 11-11! I am told in the next year starting today we are all shifting to a higher understanding! What a great way to start my next year! To live each day in joy, happiness, love and intent on miracles!

What is a miracle? According to the dictionary it is an unexpected event attributed to divine intervention. When we see something that we can not explain we say it's a miracle. If we look hard enough they happen everyday for us and around us :) we may even make a miracle or two happen for other people! That's when the real fun begins :)

On my next 365 days I am sure I will be amazed and delighted. Have questions and ponder meanings but I am committed to blogging everyday and see where this takes me.
Please sign up to follow me. If you would like to blog about your own miracles please feel free to share. I am always welcoming more and more onto this page!

I have my own sources of inspiration to keep me in alignment with what I want. Such as The Power by Rhonda Byrne, I am by Linda Wright, Esther and Jerry Hicks, Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer and many friends that are in the same state of being as I am.

We are never truly more alive within ourselves when we live in a wonderful state of constant awe. Like a child learning things or seeing objects for the first time. Life is a gift and we should start looking at our surroundings as such. When we really begin to live our life with the consciousness of everything is a miracle we begin to shift and feel in a constant state of gratitude, joy and wonder. Our outside world begins to shift to be amazing, brighter and more colorful. To match our beautiful shining light inside of us. We begin to see every moment as a blessing and love more in our lives. This in turn brings more of what we see and feel. It's a win-win situation! We begin to really see anything is possible in this beautiful world!! If we begin to see that miracles are all around us and share them we begin the Ripple Effect. We begin to touch other peoples lives and sharing these experiences with them. Yes it will take the limiting belief that miracles are rare occurrences. But why do we want them to be rare in our lives? They are wonderful, make us hope and have faith. Which I think we need a lot more of in this world!! We can redefine them in our existence and therefore make that world open up to us all.

Maybe by labeling miracles as rare occurrences or happen only once in awhile this is exactly what we get! If we begin to expect miracles or a better outcome than what we think could happen then that's what we will receive. A miracle is created and set in motion the moment we think and believe in it!! Exciting!!

Thank you all for stopping by!
Much love to you all