Forwarding your Game 2014
Steps to Live Better, Love Better, Be Better
In the annual renewal of intentions, awareness, goals and desires, I found myself reflecting this year on how often I personally cycle through phases; at times full of fire and passion and, like seasonal change, at times hibernating to regroup and rebuild. For quite a few years I boycotted the whole notion of an annual review. Having managed teams and staff in years past, I realize the challenge of making an annual review current, timely, comprehensive and relevant. Cryptic notes and frequently only negative feedback are often the hallmarks of the traditional "annual review". The tendency to create a personal guilt cup to toast in the New Year just never felt like my "cup-of-tea".
This year has been different. I have quietly been taking inventory of specific areas where I've allowed my gratitude cup be left a little empty. Taking stock, I am filling that cup with high vibration activities, food and personal care -- not a diet or a regime, but fun stuff. Stuff that makes me smile and laugh. I notice my continued goal to further my emotional, physical, mental and financial well-being and my desire to better serve and love. I have a firm commitment to "further my game". With so many powerful messages and words of wisdom from masters past and present what could possibly make the most difference?
Perhaps you too have noticed an increased desire to step fully into your personal manifest destiny and shine in 2014. But how to really make the leap this year? How to drop the pin on the map and chart the most direct course? As we look forward in 2014 at the Bountiful Life Institute, this one question describes our entire purpose. What is the map to a fully abundant and bountiful life in 2014 and beyond?
THINK -->
The one truth that keeps ringing my bell is the absolute truth "As a man thinketh, so is he". Quieting the often negative monkey mind and manifesting radiant health, joy and peace begins inside the thoughts. Or more succinctly put, "If you want positive results than, tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to 'sit down and shut up.'" Yesterday I found myself surfing the You-Tube channel and landed on the channeled messages of Bashar, The Four Laws of Creation-Creating Your Reality (www.bashar.org
Law No. 3 What you Put Out you Get Back. In other words, the vibration you give out is exactly what you get back. All reality is a mirror of your personal vibration, of your vibrational health; the Law of Attraction and Magnetism simple stated. Bashar uses a great metaphor to describe this Law. Go to a mirror and look at your image. Now without turning up the corners of your mouth, see if you can get the image in the mirror to smile. Just keep trying. Is the image smiling while you stand there staring at it? Got it? The image in the mirror has no choice but to follow suit because it is simply a reflection.You get back what you put out. Sobering thought really. Powerfully simple thought really.
And for those of you wondering about the other three laws - here you go:
Law No. 1 You Exist. Always have. Always will.
Law No. 2 The One is the All; the All is the One. All creation is of the Creator. You are the out- breath or child of the Creator. You are the Creator.
Law No. 4 Change is the only Constant. Everything changes except the first three laws.
SAY -->
Words spin magic. Words are the sounds of creation. Words create. "In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God" (Genesis) The harmonic principles of sound have been, and are currently, used by yogis and masters worldwide to levitate what seems to be solid matter. Scientists are now demonstrating this same principles in labs using sophisticated phased-wave sound systems (Google it). Understanding the principles of energy and the quantum field has re-opened human understanding to the principles of sound therapy as visually demonstrated in the harmonic or discordant effects on water (Dr. Masaru Emoto) through sound and intention. Be your most magnificent 2014 creator through intentional use of every sound (word) knowing how powerfully this creates our reality. Remember the Toltec mastery as summarized by Don Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements, and be Impeccable with Your Word, impeccable meaning fully intentional and aware of the magic you are spinning.DO -->
Much of the corporate quality movement of the 70's and 80's can be summed up by the book titled In Search of Excellence, written by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr, 1982, which began as a study of organizations and their people. Departments, colleges, researchers and scientists worldwide continue to study the cause and nature of human behavior and what makes us all tick. From Freud and Jung to the current crop of remarkable doctors and neuroscientists studying brain plasticity, the search continues to learn what makes us do what we do.
At the root of all human behavior and primal brain development (i.e. neural networks) is one primary motivation--we will always choose the choice that we perceive to be closest to pleasure and furthest from pain, either strengthening existing neural connections or re-wiring them to a new pathway. The causes of why we perceive something as either pleasurable or painful are as many and context-specific as is the unique life and generational experiences of each individual. The unique development and imprint of every soul creates a very personal journey wherein we are each explorers charting our perfect course. Judging another's course and timeline is about as useful as the cow jumping over the moon.
Do something different in 2014. Give yourself a hefty dose of self-forgiveness and a measure of non-judgement. Find good counselors and supporters and DO your own recovery work. Find out what is really motivating you to do what you do and above all Remember Who You Are.
Two incredible resources for those inclined to delve further into the reasons we do what we do:
Incognito, The Secret Lives of the Brain, by David Eagleman, 2011
The Brain that Changes Itself, by Norman Doidge, M.D., 2007
BE .
Finally, "Be the Change you Want to See" in 2014. Follow your joy. Follow you Bliss. Knowingness comes from surrender which is the idea of letting go of the concept of who you think you are supposed to be and surrendering to who you are, your unlimited total Self. In the words of the AA - 12 Step Program, "Let go and Let God".
Life is Like a Painting
by Kiera M. Brown, 2014
by Kiera M. Brown, 2014
