Category Archives: Law of Attraction

Holy Mother of God!

Posted on September 9, 2010 | 5 comments

Let me start out by saying that I am a borderline atheist. Have you seen the movie Contact? I’m close to Ellie Arroway’s beliefs about God: that there is no scientific evidence to prove God’s existence and that Occam’s Razor (the simplest explanation is usually the correct one) is generally the case. However, I can also see Palmer Joss’ point of view, that sometimes things blow your mind and the only way to explain them is “God.” Well, I just had my mind blown.

Remember when I went on Epiphany Quest with Vicci and I had a psychic reading where I was told that Mother Mary had my back? Remember how skeptical I was? Well, I was, but I kept it on a back burner. However, when Jeff and I were recently in Asheville, we stopped in to take a tour of the Basilica of St. Lawrence and I bought a few medals at the gift shop for my parents, who were raised Catholic and still sort of maintain their faith, even if they don’t attend church regularly. I also picked up a medal for myself, one of the Virgin Mary. It was in a bin marked “Miracles.” Okay, I thought, and I tucked it away in my purse.

Well, last night when we got back to the camp after the car died AGAIN, I pulled it out of my purse and put it on. I practically dared it to work. “Come on,” I said, “if there is anything to this stuff, now is the time to prove it.”

After posting this morning’s blog, I went back to the tent to get warm (it’s very cold here, and I have to sit outside the campground office for an internet connection). Shortly thereafter, Jeff returned and told me his fine in court was only $55. Can you believe that? He was told it would be at least $500!

Next, while he was replacing the voltage regulator (which was the least expensive option to repair, so he tried it first), he told me he was going to have to find a jump because the battery was dead. At just that moment, two men walked by and stopped to talk to him about the car. Once they heard he needed a jump, they came back with a battery and jumper cables.

With that repair done, we went in to town to get some lunch and the car started acting up again. Yikes! It wasn’t the voltage regulator, apparently. The only other option was the alternator. We made it to the Napa store and one of the clerks came out to help Jeff fix the car (they never do that!!!). They didn’t have an alternator in stock, but he offered to test it to see if that was even the problem. If so, they could order one and have it here by morning.

Jeff removed the alternator, and the clerk noticed that the plugs, which Jeff was not supposed to remove with it but did by accident, had been fried. This was the problem! He still didn’t have what we need in stock, but lo and behold, one of their regular customers had just walked in and the clerk knew that this guy had just junked a similar car in which he had just put new parts like the ones we needed. This man happily agreed to go home and get it from his car and sell it to us for $50.

While he went on this errand, Jeff asked me to walk to the nearest ATM to get some cash for him, and I asked the man where I might find one. He directed me down the road a piece, but I “just happened” to find one right next door to Napa.

He quickly returned, and stayed to help until it seemed that Jeff had it handled. Unfortunately, he left too soon because the new part wasn’t fitting into place. That’s when I remembered that I was wearing the medal. I pulled it out and started asking for help. Immediately, another man pulled up with the exact tool that Jeff needed for the next phase of the repair. As soon as he got stuck again, someone else would show up and step in.

I was pretty blown away by now, but I kept doing it. Every time he’d get stuck, I’d ask again for help and get it. After a while I began to feel, not only silly, but wrong, like I was abusing some sort of power and likened it to “taking the Lord’s name in vain.” But then I reminded myself that I wasn’t being frivolous, we really NEEDED the help. God knows (no pun intended) that we’ve been through enough and just want to go home. We need all the help we can get at this point. So I stopped feeling bad and just kept asking for miracles, and they kept coming.

I’m not going to pretend to understand or explain what happened today. Nor will I say that I’ve had a religious conversion. I don’t know what that was all about, but there is no denying that strange things were afoot at the Circle K. All I know is that there were some pretty mind-bending synchronicities going on.

Wouldn’t it be especially amazing and miraculous if this whole thing was orchestrated just for my benefit, so that I would have this experience of finding out what was meant by “Mother Mary has your back”? If so, I gotta say I’m pretty impressed.

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Get grounded to access your power!

Posted on May 2, 2010 | Leave a comment

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NING SITE ON JUNE 27, 2009 (I’m moving old posts from that site, which is closing down, to my WordPress blog):

Being “grounded” doesn’t sound fun, not even the metaphysical version. To me, that word means punishment, so I’ve avoided listening to advice that says I should be grounded. Boy, was I wrong! I’ve learned that being grounded was the only way I could access my power!

You’ve heard the advice. It usually says something like “Sit up straight and put your feet on the floor. Imagine your feet connecting with the earth and roots growing out of them. Then imagine a silver cord connecting your root chakra to the center of the earth…”

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz … huh? Oops, sorry. Did I drift off?

I didn’t want to be grounded, because life on Earth is pretty boring and dull. I’ve always preferred playing around in the psychic realms. I spent most of my life reaching upwards, trying to escape living in my body. In fact, I even mentioned briefly in my book, Shape Shifting—reclaiming YOUR perfect body, that I realized my weight gain was partly my body’s effort to keep me grounded. Even so, I had no interest in grounding. I’d rather be fat and psychic than skinny and mundane.

So when my friend, psychic astrologer Glenna Dietrich, recently did an astrology reading for me, and mentioned that my chart says that I was born extremely ungrounded, I was amazed because I thought all this time that I am stuck in the physical and need to escape. She told me that I am so up in the air that it is imperative that I get grounded. Hence, the topic of our most recent radio show, Grounding and Self-Healing (listen here … it’s one of the best shows yet!).

But even before that show, I was playing around with the idea of grounding, only because she insisted. I imagined the typical scenario: I dropped the proverbial cord from my root chakra into the center of the Earth. This felt uncomfortable. I felt like I had to hoard all my energy … I didn’t want to let it drain into the Earth, because I felt like I wouldn’t have enough then. So I also added a cord upward, from the top of my head, to connect to the source of my energy, wherever that may be. That way I got the best of both “worlds.”

I realized, as I did this meditation, that the upper cord helped me to feel replenished, like I didn’t have to hoard excess energy because I have an infinite supply now. I’m able to allow it to run through me like an appliance, which never wonders if there will be enough power to let it run if it’s plugged in. This offered exquisite relief because now I don’t feel so very static and overloaded, and the fear of “never enough” has been alleviated. I don’t have to cling so tightly to what I’ve managed to collect.

As I explored this concept, I realized that (as I mentioned on the radio show) what I have been doing my entire life is similar to revving up a toy car … you know the kind that you roll across the ground over and over in order to wind up the toy’s mechanism … but never putting it down and letting it go, to zoom across the floor. I was revving up my own motor, “manifesting” like a mofo, but never touching down into the physical realm long enough to let my creations grab any traction in the 3D realm. No wonder so many of my projects, which I’ve been working on for so very long, haven’t ever been realized! The ones that have are those that I put down and released. Those that haven’t, I’m still revving up in the ethers.

For example, since I’ve started really focusing on this work, which corresponds with my use of my own creation, the Shape Shifter’s Daily Diary, I’ve not only dropped 16 pounds (and 13 inches) I’ve also completed a short novel! Many of my friends are astounded that it didn’t take very long to write, but the story has been in my head for over five years. I just finally put it down and let it zoom across the keyboard.

If you’ve listened to the radio show I’ve written about here, you know that Glenna agreed to record a meditation to help us to get grounded. A woman of her word, she and I recorded it this week. Here is a link where you can download the mp3 file (right click and “Save As…”) and listen to it yourself. This recording includes that meditation, which is about 17 minutes long and is like nothing you’ve ever heard before. It’s not the same old “Be like a tree” meditation that we’ve all heard … this is something brand new and very powerful! Glenna and I then continued our conversation from the radio show, so if you’re interested in even more information, continue listening after the meditation is over.

I want to apologize for the sometimes lousy sound quality during the conversation. This wasn’t recorded in a studio, but on one of those conference call lines. However, the meditation is still stunning and potent, and I think it will change your life if you use it. Please share this recording with your friends and don’t forget to tell them where you got it … www.shapeshiftingonline.com!

Enjoy!

Recalibrating my default attraction setting

Posted on May 2, 2010 | Leave a comment

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NING SITE ON MAY 25, 2009 (I’m moving old posts from that site, which is closing down, to my WordPress blog):

I’ve spent a lot of time lately being more deliberate about practicing what I preach. I can blog about the Law of Attraction with the best of them, but do I always follow my own advice every day? Not so much. It’s time to change that.

I have seen some remarkable demonstrations in my life of how I get EXACTLY what I ask for, but only when I’m “in the zone” when I ask. So what I’m working on now is staying in that zone more often. Isn’t that what we’re all working toward? Living life more deliberately and consciously?

Today Jeff and I went for a ride on the bike, down some of the Florida back roads … real Florida, where the gators live … not tourist-glitzed Florida. We stopped in a little fishing village to watch some of the locals fishing off a bridge that runs over an inlet from the Gulf. It was a beautiful, sunny day and I deeply inhaled the Isness of it. I wished that every day could feel this good. Then it suddenly occurred to me that this wouldn’t be a bad vibrational set-point to start from in my everyday life.

After all, the Law of Attraction isn’t just working when we make an effort to deliberately manifest something; it’s at work ALL THE TIME. There isn’t a single moment that isn’t a creative one, so we need to pay attention to what we’re thinking when we don’t think we’re thinking, and be mindful of how far off center we want to go during a delicious bitchfest. And, honestly, I’ll often find that long stretches of time have gone by with me in a pissy mood without paying much attention to what I’m creating with it. Think of all the pissy scenarios I’ve just manifested because my “at rest” vibration was so low.

So how do I raise my default setting? Declare it to be so. Capture the moment and tell the Universe that this is where you want your inner Feel-o-Stat to level off from now on.

That’s what I’m doing right now. I’m putting in my request that life is always at least this groovy. This is as low feeling as I wish to go from now on, until I choose to bump it up even higher. Now I just need to stay out of my way and not override that request with sabotaging thoughts. Maybe I can add to that a request for a little assistance keeping the new vibe in place while I get used to what it feels like.

Well, that was easy, wasn’t it?

TRIUMPH!!! (and Challenge)

Posted on May 2, 2010 | Leave a comment

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NING SITE ON MAY 19, 2009 (I’m moving old posts from that site, which is closing down, to my WordPress blog):

I got my weight/measurement update at Curves yesterday and am really excited with the results! I’ve lost 10.25 inches and 11 pounds! Woohoo!!!

I’m more excited about the lost inches than the number on the scale because I’ve long said that I’m pretty okay with my weight, it was the lack of muscle tone that concerned me. However, now that I’ve reached this point, the Curves lady rolled out all the BMI/ASCAP/MOUSE numbers and told me that my goal weight should be another 40 pounds lighter than I currently am.

I don’t know how I feel about that. I will admit that it feels wonderful to have made the changes I’ve made. I feel lighter, healthier, younger and more excited about getting up in the morning. I’m sure that by losing some more pounds that feeling will increase exponentially. However, now that I’m faced with a decision about whether to lose more weight or not, some of my “issues” are surfacing.

For example, the closer I feel to the younger, healthier, skinnier me, the less I feel like I will be taken seriously. I wrote about this in Shape Shifting, but thought I worked through it. Apparently I only allowed myself to lose enough weight (isn’t 50 pounds enough???) to look acceptable, but not enough to have to face this issue. The thought of looking thinner and younger is bringing back memories of being treated like I’m an idiot just because I’m a girl and have a curvy body.

Back in the old days, I was built sort of like Valerie Bertinelli or Mila Kunis … not a knockout bombshell, but a cute, tiny package. And no one took me seriously, not even myself. I realize, now, that I was also adding weight to compensate for a lack of height!

On the flip side, I will never be taken seriously as a “weight loss” author if I don’t lose the weight! But I don’t want to be thought of as a weight loss author! Unfortunately, that’s how people view my work. I’ve been to many expos and seen their reactions. I have had people actually say to me, “Well, if you’re writing about weight loss, you probably better lose some weight!” Never mind the 50 that I’ve already lost and the fact that I’m perfectly content with the number I see on the scale. I don’t look like their idea of a weight loss success story, so I must not have a clue what I’m talking about.

I’m so confused. I guess what I’ll do, until I figure out a specific plan of action, is to continue working toward my healthiest body and if that means a lower number on the scale, so be it. I will augment that intention with taking myself more seriously, which will then ripple outward to those who were merely mirroring my own lack of self-esteem.