A Special Message from Louise Hay
Trust Life!
Take a Leap of Faith
Fear is rampant on the planet. You can see and hear about it in the news every day in the form of wars, murders, greed, and more. Fear is a lack of trust in ourselves. Because of that, we don’t trust Life. We don’t trust that we are being taking care of on a higher level, so we feel that we must control everything from the physical level. Obviously, we are going to feel fear because we can’t control everything in our lives.
Trust is what we learn when we want to overcome our fears. It’s called taking the leap-of-faith. Trust in the Power within that is connected to Universal intelligence. Trust in that which is invisible. Instead of trusting only in the physical, material world. If we have trust, we can go through life much easier.
Affirm:
Everything I need to know is revealed to me.
I trust that I am being taken care of.
Believe!
Louise
This is a copy of Cheryl’s newsletter and I am reading Mama Gena’s books, they are fabulous.
Barbara
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Topic of the Week
The Pleasure Path
Last Friday night I had the pleasure - and I do mean pleasure - of attending an introductory talk at Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts in NYC. Chris Northrup has raved about this program and I finally decided to check it out. Boy am I glad I did (thanks Chris!). If you want to reclaim your power through the path of pleasure (and who the heck wouldn’t?), then you’ll want to check out the school here.
So imagine this: I’m sitting next to my friend Nancy. We’re both wearing pink boas around our necks. We’re in a room with 300 fellow Sister Goddesses (Mama Gena’s name for the women who come to her programs) who are also wearing pink boas, and I’m feeling a little nervous (ok, maybe more than a little nervous ☺).
The pounding music starts. The back doors fly open. And in comes Mama Gena - a great-looking woman in a hot pink, skin-tight dress and stiletto heels - being carried in the air by three hot-looking guys. And so the evening begins…
Mama Gena challenged women to step up and own their power by taking the path of pleasure rather than pain. She taught women to brag, to tell the truth about their fantasies and desires, and to stop leveling the playing field by bitching about what wasn’t working in their lives.
Throughout the evening, we laughed, we cried, we roared, and we danced. We heard the sensational stories of women who have reinvented their lives - women who found passionate love, who healed their angry hearts with pleasure, who unearthed the courage to leave dead-end jobs to finally start businesses they’d been dreaming about for years. These were women of all ages who were brave enough to connect with and breathe life into their desires.
And desire is what it’s all about. Mama Gena is dedicated to inspiring and supporting women to give voice and action to the hidden longings that have gone unattended in their lives. Now that’s my kind of woman!
Here’s a taste of what we learned during the evening:
* Turn Yourself On. If you want to lead a wildly successful, passionate life, you need to do things that turn up the juice in your life. And while sex is part of it, there are things you can do in the wide-open spaces of your day, too. You can take frequent dance breaks to get your energy pumping, wear a pink boa (it works), or brag about what’s great in your life to the people who have enough self-esteem and personal power to welcome it.
* Delve Into Desire. If you want to feel fully alive, you have to connect with and stay connected to your deepest longings. Make a desire list and keep it handy. Don’t buy into the initial temptation to brush this exercise off with, “I’m too exhausted,” or “I haven’t a clue.” Push past the part of you that resists change and make a list. Trust me, if you give them a chance, your desires will come flying out of your hand onto paper, like a herd of wild horses ready to gallop into the next, exciting stage of your life.
* Share Your Desires. Tell the people who care about you what you want more of in your life. When you do, do it with enthusiasm and excitement. And keep doing it. The more energy you give to your desires, the quicker they start to materialize.
* Keep Good Company. Put yourself in the company of other brave and adventurous people who are unwilling to settle for anything less than a passion-filled life. Mama Gena’s Mastery Program is a good start.
Finally, the next time you’re pissed off, frustrated, feeling stuck, or ready to scream, try something new. Look for the “path of pleasure.” Yup, rather than ignore the problem, struggle to find a solution alone, or complain to friends about how bad life is, do something pleasurable instead. Ready to ship your teenagers off to a faraway land? Get into a hot tub. Yelling at your partner for not picking up after himself (or herself)? Start singing your favorite love song and see what happens.
Sometimes the best step of all is the one we are least inclined to take. This week it’s all about pleasure!
Happy Valentine’s Day ☺
Take Action Challenge
When things feel overwhelming, stressful, or stuck, ask yourself a new question: “What pleasurable thing could I do right this minute to turn myself on, so I can turn this situation around?”
Then do it…
Give Up Your Need to Know
Healing doesn’t require explanations.
Published: January 28, 2010
 
By Caroline Myss
Learn to look beyond reason.
Giving up the need to know why something has happened to you will definitely count among the most rigorous personal challenges of your life. Everything about human nature craves an explanation for why events occur as they do. Our sense of reason is more than just an attribute of the mind; it is akin to an archetypal power that governs our capacity to ground our lives and balance the forces of chaos in the world. The power of reason connects us to the rule of law and justice, directing human behavior on that tenuous path of right and wrong.
Surrendering the need to know “why” represents the release of an entire inner archetypal map, one that the ego relies on for its strategies of survival in a world we perceive as heavily influenced by the polarities of right and wrong, good and evil. To surrender runs counter to all your instincts of protection, grounded as they are in your need for personal safety. Your unconscious fear is that to surrender is to release the force of evil in your life without the rule of good to counteract it.
We tend to believe, even unconsciously, that if we do good, bad things won’t happen to us. We not only believe that principle, but we also honor and live by it. Yet healing requires you to relinquish your need for an explanation—why, for instance, you experienced a brutal betrayal, or why you must take on the arduous challenge of healing an illness or assisting a loved one who is ill. Understandably, everyone asks, “How? How am I supposed to let go of this need for reasonable explanations?”
Surrendering the need for an explanation represents a profound act of personal transformation. What you are releasing is your need for God or the heavens or the Divine to explain the events of your life in a rational way, as if the heavens operated according to the laws of our land and the rules of human interaction. Surrender represents a course correction of our belief that others are responsible for our life and, more to the point, for our pain and failures. It also represents a supreme act of faith that states, “With you, God, all things are possible, including my healing.” In saying that prayer, however, you leave it to God to chart the course of possibilities for your healing. As the saying goes, all our prayers are answered, but sometimes the answer is no.
http://www.healyourlife.com/author-caroline-myss/2010/01/wisdom/inspiration/give-up-your-need-to-know&utm_id=HYLFB
Caroline Myss has been in the field of energy medicine and human consciousness for 20 years. She specializes in assisting people in understanding the emotional, psychological, and physical reasons why their bodies have developed an illness. Visit: www.Myss.com.
I am still in awe, please watch this video. It made my Soul soar.
Barbara
We all (and I mean everybody -man, woman, animal, plants, the Earth itself) are going through an, what Caroline Myss calls, axial change. That is in a nutshell what it really means going toward 2012 and beyond. There are major changes out there which affects every living cell on this Earth.
We are going from the fossil age toward the solar age. Which means that there are tremendous energies at work.
Governments will fall apart, the stock market is artificially kept up, big industries will go bankrupt and so on. What it boils down to is what ever we humans thought is “safe” will crumble. And it has to because in the long run it would destroy the Earth itself and all life there is.
What I am trying to say with that is that all of this affects us deep within our Soul and we are all called to change on a very, very deep level; and our resistance to this transformation can express itself as depression, anger fits, wanted to give up, self pitty,
you name it.
Please be aware what I share with you here is not a “new age” thing.
We need to activate every cell in our body in order to move forward because we are needed by so many people who are not aware of all this and in need of our help. The help can be very subtle or direct. But for that to actually take place we have to get out of our small self or dark side which wants to keep us hostage so that we do not allow the God- light within us shine too brightly.
There are strong forces at work which want to keep us at this low level. Earthly forces and not so earthly forces. Our Soul decided to come to this Earth at this particular time and we are equipped with everything what we need to make it through and evolve.
Please do not have doubts about that unspeakable, immense force called God (or any other name people give to it). It actually is un-namable because we can not even in our wildest dreams imagine what it really is. Our Soul does not yet have the stamina to look directly into this light. I believe we would die at the spot because it would be so overwhelming.
We are God’s brain, voice, hands, feet and messenger. We need to learn how to live up to that. With all our doing and thinking we always, always need to ask only one question, according to Wayne Dyer:
How can I serve?
That does not mean we are martyrs, on the contrary. we are just some people who want to help out.
-This can be through a prayer practice
-Being aware that we treat every person we meet with kindness but as well being aware of our strong boundaries.
-volunteering
-being a healing influence at work
and so on.
If we consciously decide to be that light we have to be strongly aware that the ego/small self/dark side/evil or whatever you call it will do everything, absolutely everything , to discourage us.
Only leaning close toward God through prayer will see us through.
And we really have to take good care of ourselves, eating the right food, exercise, sleep etc. in order to have the strength to go out into the world and be at our best.
We need to take time to be alone, take the time to feel our frustrations and whatever comes up during these moments of solitude. Just do not go for a quick fix, but witness it:
oh, this is what I am feeling, oh, this is what I am thinking and so on. We need to learn to be comfortable to be alone with ourselves. It will give us the stamina to go out into the world.
Barbara
Topic of the Week
Drama Free Zone
This week’s newsletter is a rebroadcast while I’m traveling. Enjoy some peace of mind!
Years ago, I created a slogan that captured the guiding rules for how I run my company - “Work Hard, Have Fun, No Drama.” Although it was originally developed as a business tool, I quickly adopted it for my personal life, too. Last week, however, I broke rule #3 - No Drama.
About a month ago we received a piece of equipment for our new home that arrived damaged. After careful inspection, Michael and I decided to refuse the shipment and have it sent back to the company. Once the truck left, I called and asked to have a credit issued on my charge card. I was told it would be taken care of right away. One month later I discovered that the credit was never issued.
When I called the company to inquire about the charge, I learned that the equipment was still sitting at the warehouse near my home. I was transferred to the president who offered us a discount to have the item repaired so he wouldn’t have to incur the cost of shipping it back to his warehouse. Empathizing with his dilemma, I agreed to have someone sent to the warehouse to assess the damage. That’s when the drama began.
What I thought was a simple solution (we were told the repairs would be easy), turned into multiple, daily phone calls, way too much paperwork, and dealing with an owner of a company who didn’t take responsibility for his lack of follow-through. After two weeks of feeling hassled, I realized that my frustration stemmed not from the problems as much as from ignoring my rule of “No Drama.” In spite of how poorly the company was handling the situation, my desire to help out the president was now costing me precious time and energy.
We all get caught up in drama at one time or another. It comes in many forms. You might be struggling with in-fighting between family members, roped into a legal hassle with someone who mistakenly sees the proliferation of paperwork as progress, or embroiled in a nasty divorce that keeps everyone living on the edge. Sometimes the drama occurs in our minds - obsessing over something we did in the past, worrying about whether or not we’ll get an outcome we desire, or overthinking a problem to death.
You know you’re caught up in drama when you feel a sense of ongoing, emotional entanglement in a situation - a circumstance that seems to take over your life. While there are some events that will take time to get resolved, that doesn’t mean that you have to suffer. If drama is on your plate, here are three things you can do:
1. Stop talking about it. Don’t gossip with others, don’t debate the situation to death, and don’t allow others to bait you with inquiries about what’s going on either. Talking about the details over and over again gives more energy to the problem rather than the solution.
2. Identify the button pushers. Oftentimes drama is fueled by unresolved past issues that get stirred up by present-day problems. If you feel like a five-year-old every time you find yourself in the company of your ex, for example, chances are he or she is retriggering a situation from your past where you may have felt powerless or afraid. These are therapy issues that can be worked through with the support of an experienced counselor. If you can’t afford that kind of help right now, check out John Lee’s paperback book, “Growing Yourself Back Up,” for great advice and direction.
3. Visualize a successful outcome for all those involved. Put energy into the solution by creating some kind of visualization (and verbal affirmation) that you can turn to when you feel frustrated, anxious, or fed up. Think of an image that helps you to feel cared for, powerful, and calm. One friend of mine used the image of a wise and loving grandmother as she went through her painful divorce. Each time she needed to take some kind of action, she followed it up by placing herself and the problem in the lap of this grandmother (in her mind’s eye) while quietly repeating to herself, “I see this situation resolved for the highest good of everyone involved.”
There’s an old saying that you can’t have a war when one side doesn’t show up. Be that side. Do what you have to to address the situation and then walk away from the drama. Not only do you give yourself (and the problem) the greatest chance for a successful outcome, more important, you protect your peace of mind - the most valuable gain of all.
Life Makeover For The Year 2009 (sm) is written and produced by Cheryl Richardson. If you have any questions or comments, or for reprint permission of this newsletter, please email: cheryl@cherylrichardson.com. © Copyright 1999-2009. Cheryl Richardson, P.O. Box 13, Newburyport, MA 01950. All rights reserved.
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