April 8-14 Manifesting Masters - Page 2

[SuperMama]

the #1 Most Fabulous Thing About Myself

[WuWei]

the #1 Most Fabulous Thing About Myself

That I am Aware that I am having this AMAZING experience of life and am AWED by the Gift of it!


Wow!

[Zannalyn]

subbing.... no time to read right now, just finished with a post to the other thread... well, I did start it, after all

catch all you lovely ladies later!

[WuWei]

Originally Posted by WuWei

Hey, I want to hear about darwinphish's non-profit endeavor! I missed the details.

Ok, I've been stalking darwinphish. And found this list of intentions from 1-02-07.

Originally Posted by darwinphish

My intention: Full Circle Farm will be approved, funded, and started this year and I will be the Program Director.

Oh and I found this! 2-09-07

Originally Posted by darwinphish

We Got The Farm!!!
The School Board met tonight and vote 6-1 for our proposal. That means that I am the new Program Director of Full Circle Farm in Sunnyvale:

www.fullcirclesunnyvale.org

This has been my DREAM for-e-ver! I cannot believe it! Where is the smilie for 'cloud 9'?!!?

Wow! How exciting! I'd love to do this with our homeschooling community. Hmmm...


Pat

[darwinphish]

OK, OK, I'm here!!! I'm going to try and keep up this time! Hopefully with my new burst of energy that won't be such a challenge.

Celeste, I so wish I had the inclination to blog about, well, anything! I can write an essay or journal article like nobody's business but when I try to chronicle day-to-day I just come up blank. It's the same story as trying to keep a journal - tried a couple times and they end up largely blank. I'm in awe of the bloggers of the Universe!

Anyway, you can read a bit about what we're doing here:

Full Circle Farm

I'm actually in the process of getting the website revamped (ideas welcome!) and was thinking of including a blog done by our new garden manager, who blogs his home gardening endeavors beautifully.

It's a nonprofit, educational organic farm that's going to be on 11 acres of school land in an urban, largely low-income district in the Bay Area. The land is basically donated to us by the District but the funds for getting started are up to, well... me.

I never, ever would have imagined something like this coming to me! It's both an incredible blessing, and more than a tiny bit stressful. I'm trying to keep enjoying it even though there are a lot of complicated steps to making it happen. I'm back to a place where I can TRUST that this will happen with ease. Of course the 100K doesn't hurt.

I'm going to try your exercize, KoalaMama. I DO have the time to stop and appreciate myself!

[ShannonCC]

Melanie! (KoalaMama) I got the video yesterday! Thank you I haven't watched it yet but maybe when we get back from the inlaws I'll sit down and pop it in Thank you so much!

Originally Posted by KoalaMama

Pull out a notebook (or open a Word document!) and at the top of the page write 'What I love about me.'

Ooooo, good idea

Celesterra, I love your etsy shop

Ok, now I'm wondering how many other LOA type etsy things there are I don't have a shop yet but yeah, some of my ideas are LOA and switch word inspired Does anyone else have any shops or other websites to share? We can link to a business site in a post right?

Darwinphish that is really cool

I realized last night I need to establish some routines for this LOA stuff. I'm feeling GREAT right now but, as Bill Harris said in one of his interviews, I think I'm mostly on auto-pilot right. I am manifesting some of this, yes, but not totally on purpose. I've especially noticed that my giving thanks and blessing food and all that is sort of haphazard. I do it when I think of it which sometimes means often and sometimes means not at all.

I was thinking of Flylady. I was on her system years ago. The one thing that totally stuck was making my bed. I get up in the morning and I make my bed like clockwork. I don't even have to think about it, I just do it. It's just become automatic. I need to do that with my LOA stuff. I need to link it to something so that it becomes second nature. The problem is that it's hard because I'm not much of a routine/scheduled kind of gal. Waking up and going to sleep are about my only definites

[WuWei]

This is the OSHO Tarot card that I turned today.

67. Rebirth

http://www.osho.com/magazine/tarot/p...068Rebirth.jpg

Rebirth
In Zen you are coming from nowhere and you are going to nowhere. You are just now, here, neither coming nor going. Everything passes by you; your consciousness reflects it but it does not get identified. When a lion roars in front of a mirror, do you think the mirror roars? Or when the lion is gone and a child comes dancing, the mirror completely forgets about the lion and starts dancing with the child--do you think the mirror dances with the child? The mirror does nothing, it simply reflects. Your consciousness is only a mirror. Neither do you come, nor do you go. Things come and go. You become young, you become old; you are alive, you are dead. All these states are simply reflections in an eternal pool of consciousness.

Osho Osho Live Zen, Volume, 2 Chapter 16

Commentary: This card depicts the evolution of consciousness as it is described by Friedrich Nietzsche in his book, Thus Spake Zarathustra. He speaks of the three levels of Camel, Lion and Child. The camel is sleepy, dull, self-satisfied. He lives in delusion, thinking he's a mountain peak, but really he is so concerned with others' opinions that he hardly has any energy of his own. Emerging from the camel is the lion. When we realize we've been missing life, we start saying no to the demands of others. We move out of the crowd, alone and proud, roaring our truth. But this is not the end. Finally the child emerges, neither acquiescent nor rebellious, but innocent and spontaneous and true to his own being. Whatever the space you're in right now--sleepy and depressed, or roaring and rebellious--be aware that it will evolve into something new if you allow it. It is a time of growth and change.

[WuWei]

Ok, there are no co-incidences, of course. Melanie's question was "'What I love about me". This Tarot card is about "I Celebrate Myself". It is depict as "what one needs to understand".

77. We Are The World


http://www.osho.com/magazine/tarot/p...reTheWorld.jpg We Are The World
When thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?... Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate. When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.

Osho I Celebrate Myself Chapter 4

Commentary: Humanity is depicted here as a rainbow of beings, dancing around the mandala of the earth with their hands joined together in joy and gratitude for the gift of life. This card represents a time of communication, of sharing the riches that each of us brings to the whole. There is no clinging here, no grasping. It is a circle without fear of feelings of inferiority and superiority. When we recognize the common source of our humanity, the common origins of our dreams and longings, our hopes and fears, we are able to see that we are all joined together in the great miracle of existence. When we can combine our tremendous inner wealth to create a treasure of love and wisdom that is available to all, we are linked together in the exquisite pattern of eternal creation.

[whimsy]

Originally Posted by KoalaMama

Well, this is a growing idea so I've not done anything with it yet! But my intention right now is to pick three beads for each family member and knot them together on silk cord. I will probably include additional sets of three beads for aspects of our community and/or extended family. Basically just beads for extra appreciation that we can use to focus on anything else around us as we're inclined. Then I'd like to start a daily ritual of working with the beads to appreciate how blessed we are. I'll let you know how it turns out! (This is all inspired by what Billie-Jo is already doing, which you can read about in her posts above.)

Originally Posted by indigenousmama

shameless plug for my blog here, but this is what kind of got it started and i shared it on one of the old threads:

http://life-fantastic.blogspot.com/2...dma.html#links

then last week, my daughter came home from school with some little "prayer beads" she made at school. i was very touched by this. i'm meaning to make another blog post about it.

I am all over this idea ladies!! I'd really like to hear how yours develop. I think it is so beautiful. IM - I think your Grandma will be proud. Look how her life is impacting us. People she never even knew. That is just so cool.

I posted in one of the other threads about feeling spiritually lonely. But LOOK!! I do have a community. I am grateful that I live in a time that enables this type of connection.

You all are getting a bead!

My daughters made something similiar at Bible school to help them remember Jesus' story. I'd really like to incorporate parts of that into our gratitude beads.

AND if you have a Hobby Lobby close, jewelery making supplies are on sale next week 30% off. Swarvsky crystal beads here I come!

[whimsy]

I was listening to MCAL's boyfriend this morning and he was saying something about the LoA being one of 7 universal laws.

What are the other six?

I found these
Law of Attraction (LoA): Thoughts Manifest Reality
Law of Energy (LoE): Attention Directs Energy.
Law of Power (LoP): All Power Originates Within
Law of Freedom (LoF): Anything is Possible.
Law of Now (LoN): Now Is The Only Time You Can Do Anything.
Law of Love (LoL): Love Is Happiness
Law of Truth (LoT): Effectiveness Is the Measure of Truth
but they aren't the ones he was talking about.

Something with polarity. I am fascinated and want to learn more!

[KoalaMama]

You all are getting a bead!

Oh! New super cool idea! Anyone want to do a bead swap for a necklace? We could 'charge' the beads with our love and good intentions, and then send them out to anyone interested in participating. Imagine how powerful that would be!!

Pat - love the cards, thanks! Very cool.

[Annikate]

My one and only intention last week was to find ways for me to reach out to dh more. It totally worked. I don't know why I was sort of *stuck* in this area before. It was almost like a fear. Now it's GONE..

I LoA!



My intentions for this week:
For the Universe to handle:
dd's final weaning

for me to remain ever-patient, calm and loving w/everyone.

To get some final large chunks of work done while V is still here.

For an easy, joyful and peaceful transition (for all of us) when V leaves.

To continue reaching out to dh and to feel completely free expressing love and affection.

[Annikate]

Okay, here comes the longest multi-quoting I've ever done. :

Originally Posted by KoalaMama

I have a 'weekly challenge' for everyone! This is guaranteed to make you feel better about you, and therefore better about how everyone else feels about you! (Which is only ever a reflection of how you feel about yourself anyway, right?!) This is inspired by Denise Coates, author of Feel it Real. Great woman, fantastic book!

Pull out a notebook (or open a Word document!) and at the top of the page write 'What I love about me.' Every day for the next week, write as many things as you can that you love about yourself. Write AT LEAST five things a day. It might seem hard at first as many of us are not used to self-appreciation. But don't worry - the more wonderful things you find, the more wonderful things you'll find! LoA in action. After day one, you might find it helpful/inspiring to start by reading your list to-date.

Remember, the 'smallest' thing at all is worthy of writing down... For example, "I love the shape of my lips" or "I love that I bake fantastic chocolate chip cookies". You could even start with "I love that I am giving myself this gift of self-appreciation."

Have fun, and don't forget to post at the end of the week and say how it went!

I adore your assignments! Will you make one every week? : I'm totally doing this.

Originally Posted by KateSt.

HEY MAMAS!



I think about some of the mamas we haven't seen recently -- anyone heard from Kundalini Mama???

Have a beautiful morning, everyone!

I got an update on Kundalini's site not too long ago. It was all good news about her little one. I think about her a lot too.

Originally Posted by indigenousmama

that's a great idea! and i just started doing something like this with my daughter during our bedtime routine. before we go to sleep, we talk about 3 things that made us happy that day. just two days ago, we started adding 3 things that we like about ourselves. and now we are adding people we want to send our love to. my daughter has really taken to this and she is the one who reminds me when i forget. it's a lovely way to fall asleep.

love, love, love this! DD and I did this together this morning! Thank you for the great idea.

Originally Posted by celesterra

your wish is my command!

I can't remember who asked, but I did it - I got myself a business signature! It was a big leap somehow, paying for that, isn't that funny? See my avatar? It's my logo! My sister designed it for me.

I'm working on the bamboovillage.org site this morning, though I'm no web designer. It's very slow-going and doesn't look too great YET! Any suggestions would be SO warmly welcome. : I'm embarassed to even link to it, but if I don't the time will continue to pass without doing anything.

Time for breakfast!

It's awesome!

Originally Posted by WuWei

Ok, I've been stalking darwinphish. And found this list of intentions from 1-02-07.



Oh and I found this! 2-09-07

Wow! How exciting! I'd love to do this with our homeschooling community. Hmmm...


Pat

That made me .

Originally Posted by darwinphish

OK, OK, I'm here!!! I'm going to try and keep up this time! Hopefully with my new burst of energy that won't be such a challenge.

Celeste, I so wish I had the inclination to blog about, well, anything! I can write an essay or journal article like nobody's business but when I try to chronicle day-to-day I just come up blank. It's the same story as trying to keep a journal - tried a couple times and they end up largely blank. I'm in awe of the bloggers of the Universe!

Anyway, you can read a bit about what we're doing here:

Full Circle Farm

I'm actually in the process of getting the website revamped (ideas welcome!) and was thinking of including a blog done by our new garden manager, who blogs his home gardening endeavors beautifully.

It's a nonprofit, educational organic farm that's going to be on 11 acres of school land in an urban, largely low-income district in the Bay Area. The land is basically donated to us by the District but the funds for getting started are up to, well... me.

I never, ever would have imagined something like this coming to me! It's both an incredible blessing, and more than a tiny bit stressful. I'm trying to keep enjoying it even though there are a lot of complicated steps to making it happen. I'm back to a place where I can TRUST that this will happen with ease. Of course the 100K doesn't hurt.

I'm going to try your exercize, KoalaMama. I DO have the time to stop and appreciate myself!

YOU mama, are the manifesting MASTER!

Originally Posted by whimsy

I am all over this idea ladies!! I'd really like to hear how yours develop. I think it is so beautiful. IM - I think your Grandma will be proud. Look how her life is impacting us. People she never even knew. That is just so cool.

I posted in one of the other threads about feeling spiritually lonely. But LOOK!! I do have a community. I am grateful that I live in a time that enables this type of connection.

You all are getting a bead!

My daughters made something similiar at Bible school to help them remember Jesus' story. I'd really like to incorporate parts of that into our gratitude beads.

AND if you have a Hobby Lobby close, jewelery making supplies are on sale next week 30% off. Swarvsky crystal beads here I come!

Cool idea!

Originally Posted by whimsy

I was listening to MCAL's boyfriend this morning and he was saying something about the LoA being one of 7 universal laws.

What are the other six?

I found these
Law of Attraction (LoA): Thoughts Manifest Reality
Law of Energy (LoE): Attention Directs Energy.
Law of Power (LoP): All Power Originates Within
Law of Freedom (LoF): Anything is Possible.
Law of Now (LoN): Now Is The Only Time You Can Do Anything.
Law of Love (LoL): Love Is Happiness
Law of Truth (LoT): Effectiveness Is the Measure of Truth
but they aren't the ones he was talking about.

Something with polarity. I am fascinated and want to learn more!

Thanks for posting these.


Oh, and Koala, about the bead necklaces, I'm in!

[chrfath]

I am up for the challenge for the week. DS and I list our 3 favorite things and 3 gratefulls at the end of each day.

I have been in a really bad mood today. DH and I are just not on the same page about money at all. Or about our thoughts/beliefs regarding stuff. Very frustrating. I know I need to let go and focus on me. I will do that. Too much yelling and screaming which makes me feel really bad. I realized though that I rarely speak my mind with DH because he throws everything critical I ever say back up in my face at some point or another. He is very quick to look at all the wrong I do and tell me all about how I am not doing very well. Enough ranting.

More positive.

Question...kids...what can I ask instead of "what's wrong?" I am trying to think of a more positive way to approach them when they are upset. Any thoughts?

Off too read more of the thread. Keeping up is challenging. Oh, and I am planning out my treasure map ideas, doing some soul searching.

[WuWei]

Originally Posted by KoalaMama

Oh! New super cool idea! Anyone want to do a bead swap for a necklace? We could 'charge' the beads with our love and good intentions, and then send them out to anyone interested in participating. Imagine how powerful that would be!!

We did this for my friend's "Mother Blessing". We each selected beads and sent them to a one of her friends and she made a bead necklace for her for support during labor. Each friend wrote a message to the baby also; and our friend placed all of the messages onto a memory board and framed it! It was inspirational.

We could do something similar. Maybe have everyone purchase x number of glass/stone/handmade beads (like 10), and send them to a single person who distributes them. Or, make duplicates of some inspirational message that we all share with each other. This could be done on-line also. Something like "Manifesting Masters Affirmations" and each have a copy. She typed up the messages in "newletter" format. So that they were not just listed one after the other.

What are your thoughts?


Pat

[chrfath]

I love the beads idea. Like a reminder to myself.

[Petersmamma]

Originally Posted by SuperMama

Happy Easter Everyone!

My Grand Attraction for the day will be bringing out the . I'm super excited about the holiday. In my late teen years I got to be a real stick-in-the-mud when it came to celebrating "traditional" holidays, but now that I have kids of my own, I'm All Over It.

: Same here!

Originally Posted by ShannonCC

I was thinking of Flylady. I was on her system years ago. The one thing that totally stuck was making my bed. I get up in the morning and I make my bed like clockwork. I don't even have to think about it, I just do it. It's just become automatic. I need to do that with my LOA stuff. I need to link it to something so that it becomes second nature. The problem is that it's hard because I'm not much of a routine/scheduled kind of gal. Waking up and going to sleep are about my only definites

The only thing that really stuck for me was the bathroom wipe down. We only have one, so it can get nasty FAST. And ds is still in dipes! It's so interesting hearing what other FLyLady dropouts have been able to keep!

Originally Posted by chrfath

Question...kids...what can I ask instead of "what's wrong?" I am trying to think of a more positive way to approach them when they are upset. Any thoughts?

Off too read more of the thread. Keeping up is challenging. Oh, and I am planning out my treasure map ideas, doing some soul searching.

Can you ask "What's up?" or "What's going on?" A LOT more neutral!

[Petersmamma]

I don't really want to discuss details because religion and LoA kind of brought up some issues, but I am having some issues with community and religion.

Maybe this is because I am spiritual and learning more each day but not religious, and yet I'm searching for a community through a church. Am I setting myself up for failure here? Because over the past couple of days, I have gotten some really negative messages about community and/or religion.

Anyone have any insights about what is going on? I'm hoping that this is all because something really good is about to manifest, and I have to get through some unpleasant stuff and thoughts first.

[KoalaMama]

Originally Posted by Annikate

I adore your assignments! Will you make one every week? : I'm totally doing this.

You're so sweet. Sure thing, I'll post a new exercise every week! (Actually, you should see my list waiting for the new site to go up. )

Originally Posted by chrfath

Question...kids...what can I ask instead of "what's wrong?" I am trying to think of a more positive way to approach them when they are upset. Any thoughts?

How about "Would you like to tell me how you feel?"

Originally Posted by WuWei

We could do something similar. Maybe have everyone purchase x number of glass/stone/handmade beads (like 10), and send them to a single person who distributes them. Or, make duplicates of some inspirational message that we all share with each other. This could be done on-line also. Something like "Manifesting Masters Affirmations" and each have a copy. She typed up the messages in "newletter" format. So that they were not just listed one after the other.

What are your thoughts?

Love the idea of one person distributing all the beads! I'd happy do that, but I'm in Canada so depending on where most people participating live, it might make sense for someone in the US to take in all the beads. How about anyone interested raise your hand, or PM me, and we'll go from there? (Is this ok within MDC rules? I hope so!)

And outside of the bead idea, I just love the idea of sharing inspirational messages! I picked up some *gorgeous* business card stock yesterday to print some of my favourites on, and was thinking of all of you when I did it. Maybe people would be interested in a card swap of some sort as well??

[WuWei]

Originally Posted by chrfath

Question...kids...what can I ask instead of "what's wrong?" I am trying to think of a more positive way to approach them when they are upset. Any thoughts?

I ask with sincere interest "What happened?" You could also ask "How are you feeling, you look sad/mad/upset/angry/frustrated/lonely?" Or just "How can I help?" or "We'll work it out." or "We can work it out." This seems to be what I say outloud, to myself mostly, when emotions start to amp up.

With dh, could you consider that dh is venting about his sense of "instability/unpredictability" and fears about a situation, rather than taking the comments as about *you* and your actions. "Criticism" generally comes from a sense of "danger" of the "what ifs" and "or else". We learned *fear* in childhood and felt threatened, so we start trying to *control* the outcome by controlling everything around us. (Children of alcoholics are especially prone to this.) There is a saying 'we control others, when we feel out of control'. So, any second-guessing, or questioning your actions, or criticism of the outcomes is related to an unmet need of his. If you can hold a place for your sense of feeling judged and scared of his opinion AND seek to understand what feels scary or threatening to him, you probably won't see the words as about *you* as quickly. It is a shift to focus on what is he *feeling*, rather than what I need to "defend".

Something along the lines of "I can hear dh's needs and feel safe" might help to open you to the possibilities of what underlies his words. Focus on what you *do want* (to understand), not what you don't want, which is what happens when we *defend* ourselves, ime.

This article from The Center for Non-violent Communication (NVC) helps to articulate the steps of reflective listening for understanding and connection. http://www.cnvc.org/bookchap.htm It has changed my life. I certainly didn't have effective communication (or connection) models in childhood.

Hope that helps.

Pat