Personal Development is something I have been passionate about since I was a teenager; however, my own healing journey started about 8 years ago, was when I began to discover the possibilities of creating my life based peace, happiness, and prosperity. As I discovered the power within myself, I attracted people, books, and classes to aid me on my journey of healing myself and returning to wholeness.
I began my own journey of healing when crisis had struck me in my life after going nearly financially destitute. Everything I thought myself to be was taken out from under me, and I had no idea who I was.
In the beginning of my journey, I was searching for the secrets to being financially free and successful. I read books and listened to tapes on visualization, goal setting, and using affirmations, but I was not getting the results I wanted. As time went on, I became depressed, angry, and frustrated with the world. As a way of protecting myself from feelings of my financial “failure”, I suppressed the pain of my emotions, but all that changed when I was introduced to a process that transformed my reality.
At the time I was a working as an insurance agent, and one of my clients who was training to be an energy therapist asked if she could demonstrate a process that would release my anger and frustration. At first I was skeptical, but I was very amazed by the process after using it. As she continued with the process, I began to access the repressed emotional pain and release it. Immediately I began to feel shifts take place in my body and my mind. During that initial session, I discovered limiting beliefs of being “undeserving and unloved” stemming from a my childhood. I saw how these beliefs had literally controlled my life and stopped me many times from going after what I wanted.
With this process, I was able to reframe and create my new identity by changing the way I looked at myself and the world. I received many new perceptions about myself and the world, and I was able to see the lessons I needed to learn to awaken.
What was this amazing process that allowed me to easily release my suppressed emotions? It is called Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT.
What is EFT?
Emotional Freedom Techniques is an Energy Psychology process developed by Gary Craig, a personal performance coach in California, that uses the ancient Chinese meridian system to eliminate all kinds of emotional, mental, physical and spiritual discomfort.
If you are familiar with acupuncture, you know that the body is made of a system of meridians. The meridian system was mapped out by the Chinese over 4000 years ago and is the basis of all acupuncture treatment. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) use the same wiring as acupuncture except there are no needles; instead you tap with your fingertips on some of the acupuncture meridian points.
The theory of Emotional Freedom Techniques is that the cause of all negative emotion is a disruption in the body’s energy system.
Strong negative emotions cause a shock in our systems, creating the equivalent of a short circuit in our energy system. Strong emotions can be triggered by a thought, a memory, or an event (depending on how you think about the event). For instance, if you think about how angry you are that your spouse yelled at you, you may feel tension in your body.
Once there is a build-up of emotional or psychological distress, one of these pathways or meridians becomes blocked and must be cleared or aligned in order for healing to occur. Using EFT, you can balance the energy system which stops the power of that thought from affecting your body in that way. . Once the energy circuits (meridians) are then realigned, balance to the energy system is restored. You may still have the thought and the memory of what occurred, but without the emotional intensity that the thought was associated with. You are then much more able to think about the event differently. Your thoughts become more flexible.
While the theory may not make much sense to you, what I know is that EFT works.- often quickly, and often dramatically. I have seen this with my own eyes over and over again.
EFT has been proven clinically effective as a simple yet powerful way of releasing fears, phobias, anxieties, angers, addictions, and all kinds of emotional and physical issues. This is a new paradigm in healing because it no longer takes months or years of therapy and boxes of tissues to resolve problems. With EFT, specific issues can often be dissolved in minutes - forever!
The beauty of EFT is that ANYONE can learn how to apply it on themselves. It is painless and harmless, and it is completely safe, simple and easy to use.
For more information about EFT, watch this video from Gary Craig.
Intuition is the gateway to your vast and unlimited self, and all the wisdom and guidance you need to create a prosperous life. It serves as your inner compass aligning you and guiding to your highest path and potential, and opens you to realms of awareness beyond five-sensory perception.
Although intuition is an inherent ability that we all possess and can tap into for guidance, creativity, problem solving, and new discoveries, many people do not believe in it, do not understand it, nor do they act on it. This ability is not a rare gift, but it is something that comes to everyone. Most people have had the experience where they sense information that seems to come spontaneously from nowhere or have heard of people who had experiences such as:
The telephone rings and you reach out to answer it. As you do, the image of someone flashes in your consciousness. You pick up the telephone, and the person whose image flashed in your mind is at the other end of the telephone.
You get a feeling you should not accept a job offer that is paying significantly more than you are currently earning. Months later, you discover that the company has filed for bankruptcy and is laying off its workforce. Because you listened to your gut feeling, you avoided being financially impacted by the actions of the new company.
A woman suddenly senses that her young daughter has fallen off a swing in the schoolyard. Moments later she receives a telephone call from the school confirming her feelings.
A scientist is working on a cure for a medical problem. While sleeping, the scientist receives a message while dreaming. The message was the missing link the scientist needed to complete the cure.
These are just a few examples of this phenomenon called intuition. People often describe these and similar experiences as psychic impressions, gut feelings, hunches, inspiration, revelations, premonitions, insight, inner voice, or vibes. No matter how we describe these experiences, they all have one thing in common-they all come from the small voice within us. I called this small voice the Higher Self which is the aspect of your consciousness closest to Source (God). It is your divine essence; the fully realized eternal being that you are.
Although intuition is a highly effective human ability and perhaps the most universal natural ability we possess, there remains considerable skepticism in western cultures about it. Unlike the non-western cultures which associates intuition with a way to discern the Divine or the true nature of all realities, western cultures tend to emphasize intellect, logical thinking, reason, rationality, and objectivity. As a result, many people in western cultures denigrate its legitimacy and reject its efficaciousness.
However, there are many people who have readily accepted the validity of intuition and acknowledged that they have used their intuitive power in their lives. These people include scientists, philosophers, musicians, artists, and business people such as Albert Einstein, Dr. Jonas Salk, Philosopher Karl Popper, Ray Kroc (founder of McDonalds) , and Morris Kline (mathematician) .
Albert Einstein, who was one of the most notable scientists in the 20th century, was an ardent believer in man’s intuitive abilities. He said that “man’s conquest over his own ignorance must rest on intuition and “the intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”
What is Intuition
“Intuition is an opening in your mind that allows for right answers, insights, and realizations. It is an inspiration beyond the analytical, inductive, or synthesizing mind. Intuition simulates and prepares us to receive grace as the representative of higher consciousness.” - Dr. Chuck Spezzano
Intuition is derived from Latin term intuire, which translates as “to look upon attentively, to contemplate, or to consider”. The word intuition is used as a noun to describe a faculty of mind, a state or a mode of consciousness, a specific kind of knowledge, and a process in arriving at general knowledge or meaning.
To intuit is the verb form of this noun and intuitive is the adjective that conveys the same meaning.
Intuition is that unerring and inexplicable knowing beyond logical thought and volition. Yet it possesses a flowing logic all its own. It is a powerful ability that manifests itself in the hunches and inspirations that lead again and again to added insight or new direction, creative breakthrough, or the ability to be in the right place at the right time. In a typical intuitive experience, there is a sense of being a recipient as opposed to an initiator. It is the “Aha” which comes spontaneously, a sudden dawning, or total shock. Intuition is holistic to the extent that it is a flash containing an extraordinary amount of information worth a thousand pictures, yet not necessarily focused on any details - the whole rather than the parts.
Modes of Receiving Intuitive Impressions
An important first step in becoming aware of our intuitive messages is paying attention to how it comes to us. We each have a dominate mode or combination of ways we receive intuitive impressions (messages or revelations), and understanding what works for us is the key to opening up your intuitive insight. There are four basic modes that we can receive intuitive impressions from our inner voice. These four basic modes include:
Receiving inner or outer visions or dreams (clairvoyance).
Receiving inner or outer sounds or messages in words (clairaudience).
Receiving feelings through inner sensing or bodily sensations (clairsentience).
The inner knowing and epiphanies of awareness at higher levels. (Claircognizance)
All four modes reveal insights and information beyond our five-sensory sources, sight, sound, touch, and smell. You may naturally resonate with or be more dominant in one or more of these inner senses; however, you can work to awaken and strengthen each one of them.
How To Initiate Your Intuition
Although we all have intuitive abilities, no one can more force or command intuition than grow one inch in height. You can prepare for it by being open and receptive, but you can not say here it is and have it appear. It comes suddenly as a burst of wind on a still day, or like shooting star illuminating the night sky. When it does appear, it usually appears with the information that you need at the time. It may contain a solution for some problem you have been working on, information as a warning to protect you, or contain symbols that leads to some new discovery or new invention.
Intuition can come as a bolt from no where. It can be as weak as a slight gut feeling. It can be a feeling in your heart, a sensation in your head, a ringing in your ear, a whispering voice in your head, an answer to a nagging question, insight and information of a future event, or a complete story in symbols in the mind.
However, you can initiate guidance from your Higher Self by using intentions and asking for help and insight. From that point, your Higher Self will respond via one or more mode for receiving intuitive messages.
But there is two major problems for most people….
Firstly, many people dismiss these experiences (messages) off as coincidence or ignore them because they are reluctant to listen or trust to their inner voice. As children, many of us were not trained to connect with or trust our intuition. When I was in grammar school, I did arithmetic with intuition and allowed the answer to compute automatically. But my junior high school math teacher threatened to flunk me for getting the right answers without being able to show steps by which I arrived at them. Many schools have scolded children for daydreaming, doodling or looking out of the window which often suppress creativity.
Furthermore, western cultures does not encourage the reflective receptive attitude necessary to expand consciousness or to access knowledge within. Albert Einstein said “the intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
I believe this mistrust of our intuitive abilities is due to fear. This fear is the fear of the unknown, fear of loss of control, fear of unalterable life changes, fear of psychic ability, fear of confusion about reality and fantasy, or fear of making a mistake. This fear sends a message to other levels of consciousness that they are not to permit full expression.
Secondly, many people who accepts the concept of intuition, believe that it speaks to us in complete, grammatically correct sentences or in vivid, color images. However, intuition communicates indirectly, in fragments and through symbols and is never forceful or loud. It is rare to find a high degree of correspondence between intuitive impressions and what actually occurs.
For example, perhaps your inner voice tells you to eat avocados. You are willing to eat them, but you wonder “why avocados?” You may even explore the Internet to read up on the nutritional value of avocados. But the reason you were given the message to eat avocados did not have anything to do with nutrition. It was to nudge you to go to the market that day. While there, you run into a friend from your old neighborhood who introduces you to the person who is to become your spouse. You discover the intuitive message was not about eating avocados after all; it was nudging you to go to the market so you could meet the person you would ultimately marry.
Removing Blocks To Intuition
If you truly desire to become come receptive for intuitive guidance, you must connect to your Higher Self remove the blocks to intuition. These blocks are the inability or unwillingness to surrender in a detached way from the capricious, neurotic ego. The ego is our conscious identity of who we believe we are, and it keeps us externally focused. When we detach from the ego’s control, we can have transpersonal experiences which always involve an expansion of consciousness. The reality of these experiences is apprehended intuitively. When our consciousness expands, it allows the deepest wisdom and truth to come forth.
To move pass the ego, you must pierce the illusion of the neurotic ego and enhance one’s intuitive abilities. This can be accomplished by listening to your heart. The heart is the seat of the soul, and the place where your Higher Self can be heard when your mind is still. The incessant chatter of your ego mind battles clear communication with the small voice within.
To quiet the mind, you can use any technique that will still the ego mind and to draw its attention from the outer world to the realm of inner realities. This has a positive effect on awakening the sensitivity to intuition. The intention of quieting the mind is to produce a shift to an inward receptive state and to diminish the intensity of ordinary consciousness so that the small inner voice can be heard. Personally, I recommend the metaphysical practice of meditation which prepares the mind for the experience of intuition.
Meditation is an emphasis on turning within and connecting to the depths of one’s Higher Self; the point where God is manifesting as you. In Matthew 6:6, Jesus states “Go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. “ This means to go inside your mind and close off the outer senses and seek a connection to your Higher Self. In a meditative state, the full power of your intuitive insight can be accessed. In this state, your intuition senses the whole reality of the situation and delivers information which would be unobtainable by any other means. The deeper the meditative state, the clearer it becomes as to what the best solution can be.
Although meditation is by far the best transpersonal activity a you can use for becoming receptive to intuition, there are additional consciousness expanding activities that can be practiced. Some of these activities include visualization, yoga, mind mapping, and work with dreams. These activities are designed to sensitize their innate imaging capability of the unconscious mind and to give the mind practice in integrating the imaging capacity of the right hemisphere with the language capacity of the left hemisphere. While intuition may emerge spontaneously, when you make an intentional decision to participate in these activities, your innate intuitive ability is awakened more quickly and usually more powerfully.
Here’s a great video that will really inspire you. When I first saw the link for it, I was hesitant to click on the link. But My curiosity really peaked and I felt compelled to click on the link and watch the video.
And I am glad I did because I was really impressed, blown away, entertained, and I felt a tear in my eyes.
This video is very incredible, and I learned that it won an award for short film category.
After watching this video, I decided to download a copy of it to my ipod, and I watched it everyday for weeks.
I have shared this video with my friends, and they were impressed and inspired too.
Now, I want to share this inspiring video with you here on this blog.
I expect that this video will touch you too.
You’re so great. You are so blessed. You have a pair of gorgeous eyes to read my rants and watch this video. The Universe is responding to your intentions and your good is coming to you now. You’re ready to soar and be super successful.
Did you know the thoughts you think before dozing off to sleep at night and the thoughts you think when you awaken first thing in the morning, set the tone for how you will feel and what you experience for the rest of the day?
Although this is a fact, the majority of people are totally unconscious and unaware about what they think about during these important moments.
Even more surprising is when you think, you think in pictures. If you don’t believe it, do this simple exercise. Think of your car? Did a picture of your car appear in your mind’s eye? Try it again, but this time think of your house? Did the picture of the car disappear from your mind’s eye and a picture of your house appear?
Well, this same process occurs with your final thoughts and first thoughts of each day.
If you go to bed with the final thought, “I’m really tired”, guess what occurs? When you awaken in the morning, you will still feel tired. This occurs because the mental movie of tiredness and fatigue played all night long programming you to wake up almost as tired as when you went to bed.
If you change your thought before falling off to sleep to, “In the morning, I feel great and full of energy”‘ and if you visualize in your mind’s eye yourself arising in the morning filled with vibrancy and zest, then I assure you it will happen.
Furthermore, if you awaken in the morning, with thoughts such as “God No!”, this will also set the tone for your day. Instead, think “God YES!” When you do, this will immediately bring gratitude into your awareness.
I have used this simple technique, and it really works. I taught this technique to some people who were always waking up tired each morning, and when they did it, they were simply blown away at how powerful and effective it is.
So, test drive this technique for yourself, and experience the amazing shift in your energy level in the morning.
Now this technique doesn’t just work with your energy level, but it works with other areas of your life. For example, let’s say you want to wake up feeling more peaceful and joyous than when you went to bed. To accomplish this intention, don’t go to bed with thoughts of anger or feeling upset because that’s what you’ll be programming yourself to think when you wake up in the morning.
Sure, your reality for you right now may be the opposite of what I’m suggesting you to think and mentally visualize, but the only way out of the maze is to begin thinking and visualizing of what you desire. Begin seeing yourself the way you want to be in when you awaken in the morning, as if you are already experiencing it right NOW.
If you go to bed with the image of waking up wealthier and happier, your subconscious mind will work on this image as you sleep. In turn you’ll awaken with financial prosperous thoughts. However, you must take action to make your imagination become the reality you desire.
To further help you set the tone for what you feel and experience during your day, think prosperous thoughts about such as being healthy, having a loving relationship with your primary partner, or receiving increasing financial abundance throughout the day and before you know it, you’ll be bumping into one opportunity after another which are all designed put you on the path of prosperous living.
Finally, live your day with powerful movies and picture playing in your imagination and before long your imagination will be what you’re living.
As Ione of my mentors once said, ”What’s the difference between imagination and reality?”
“TIME!” Time is the only difference between imagination and reality. There’s a fine line between the two, and no one knows where that fine line begins or ends.”
P.T. Barnum once said, “Imagination is the elixir of life.”
When you use your creative imagination to create a brighter future, you feel the effervescent energy of an elixir bubbling up all around you, and you come to understand that everything in the Universe vibrates - including YOU.
If you use your imagination to put negative movies into your mind, you lower your vibration and you will not experience the bubbling energy.
If you play positive movies in your mind, you immediately begin to vibrate with MORE life, and you instantly stand up straighter, breathe more fully, get a gleam in your eye and power in your step.
To change your results in your life, you must change how you feel, and how you feel is based on the pictures in your mind. If you don’t feel a strong, pulsing vibration inside your mind and body right now, it is because you’re looking at low-level mental pictures and movies.
Upgrade your pictures and movies, my friend. Play only the best. Think only of the best, and the best will pursue you while you move toward it.
What if I told you that you have free will and you can use it to choose to be happy or to be negative. Many people would probably doubt this statement, but being happy is a choice. Your choice of being happy has a greater influence on your life than you believe. When you choose be happy, you broadcast a high energetic vibration to the Universe that is full of love, joy and gratitude. As a result of this high energetic vibration, you will begin to attract all of sorts of glorious things and experiences into your life. Furthermore, when you are happy, you can overcome any negative emotions such as anger, sadness, frustration, guilt, desperation and fear. These negative emotions simply dissipate when you are devoted to embodying your nature divine state of happiness.
“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” ~ Mildred Barthel
Many people have been conditioned to believe that external stimulus such as your spouse or children acting and conforming to what you believe is correct and proper, winning the lottery, getting a promotion at work, having a new baby or buying a new car will make you happy. Although external things or the actions of other people can engender feelings of euphoria for you, they are often only ephemeral, thus you cannot sustain them for very long. Have you ever noticed when you purchased a new car, and you felt really happy. As you drove your new car, you felt proud and happy that you owned it. But what happens after about three or four weeks, the feelings soon subside, and you begin to look at the next car you want to own.
Perhaps, in some way, that is a good thing because the Universe is reminding you that happiness really does come from outside of you.
Instead, happiness comes from within, and it is available to you and me at any moment. True happiness has very little to do with external events, circumstances, things, and other people because happiness is an inside job.
I can say this because is simply a conscious choice, and it is a state of BEING that you can make in each moment of the day no matter what is occurring in your life. Simply choose to understand that you are already free from needing “this or that” in order to be happy. You don’t need anything in life to be happier in this moment because you can always choose to be grateful for who you are and what you have in your life even if you think it should be different. You can feel this joy inside for no reason other than exercising your free will and choosing to be it. Simply choose to be an energetic ball of light, love and joy!
”Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.” ~ Dan Millman
If you intend to live a prosperous life, your mission is to go beyond playing those “unhappy roles” that keeps most people trapped in negativity and step into being the Divine being you really are. All of your unhappy thoughts and feelings are just caused by negative thinking patterns, and they are not who you truly are.
You are much larger than a handful of thoughts. In fact, you are a manifestation of Source (God)!
As a manifestation of Source, your nature state is Love and Happiness! Once you truly realize this, happiness will find you. Surrender to your greatest experience of happiness right now in this moment. Find your most authentic expression of boundless joy and happiness, and express it!
When you do, this simply creates more happiness. Once you continuously vibrate at this level, the Universe will reward you with even more satisfying experiences that snowball into manifesting even happier feelings and experiences for you!
The greatest secret you can learn for experiencing a perpetual state of happiness is to remain completely present to the “NOW” moment in whatever activity you are engaged in. The past is over, and the future does not exist. So, the more you can be completely absorbed in the “NOW”, the more your energy expands which allows you to feel higher about life!
If you are currently not being happy and joyous, just express gratitude for what you have in your life. Close you eyes, and list ten specific (good) things you are grateful for experiencing or having in your life. Include not just the people in your life and your accomplishments, but also include your positive qualities and what you have to offer to the world.
Really feel your vibrations of gratitude for these things. As you begin to express gratitude, your feelings will shift to a state of happiness and joy because you can’t be grateful and feel negative emotions such as anger, overwhelm, frustration, and fear.
As an alternative, you can find something that brings you great pleasure such as sitting outside in the garden under an old tree and listening to the birds sing, or watching puppies or cats playing and just savoring the moment.
Happiness is always available to all of us. It is our natural state and you need only to allow it in. At any moment, you can stop, take a few deep breaths, and remember who you really are, and why you came here, and that truly is to experience joy and the aliveness of being.
“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
So, today, no matter what is going on in your life, take a few moments to breathe deeply and just choose to BE happy.
May there be a miracle in your life today… May you have the awareness to see it…And the thoughtfulness to be grateful for it.
Namaste,
RC
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What if I told you that you have free will and you can use it to choose to be happy or to be negative. Many people would probably doubt this statement, but being happy is a choice. Your choice of being happy has a greater influence on your life than you believe. When you choose be happy, you broadcast a high energetic vibration to the Universe that is full of love, joy and gratitude. As a result of this high energetic vibration, you will begin to attract all of sorts of glorious things and experiences into your life. Furthermore, when you are happy, you can overcome any negative emotions such as anger, sadness, frustration, guilt, desperation and fear. These negative emotions simply dissipate when you are devoted to embodying your nature divine state of happiness.