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Another Great Daily Om

March 5, 2010 in Attitude of Gratitude | No comments

I can’t tell you how much I enjoy my Daily Om. It is a free service and enriches one’s life daily, as the name says. Here is the latest, a very useful meditation. Just go to DailyOm.com to sign up for your own subscription.

March 4, 2010
Violet-Flame Meditation
The Power Of Transmutation

Use the Violet-Flame meditation as a powerful tool to release negative karma, raise your vibration and consciousness.

The violet flame is a powerful tool anyone can use in meditation. It helps release negative karma, raise your consciousness awareness, the frequency of your vibration, and accelerate your spiritual growth. Energy can?t be erased but it can be changed, transmuting negative into positive, darkness into light. This allows you to make the choices you feel negatively about become positive, while also changing your emotional experience. Physically, the violet flame releases emotions and energy pent up within that make you vulnerable to illness and disease.

The violet flame in meditation uses a combination of affirming thoughts and visualization. Once centered, begin by surrounding yourself with white-and-blue protective energy. You may even want to call on archangel Michael for his protection while you go into this powerful spiritual state. Then repeat thoughts such as ?I am cleansed and purified by the violet flame.? Picture a huge bonfire before you, its immensity making you feel small beside it, and marvel as the colors flicker between purple, violet, and bright pink. Sense its warmth while noticing that it will not burn you. Step into the flame, letting it surround you entirely while also filling the spaces in your body, your thoughts, even the cells and molecules within you. Once there, focus on the positive things you?d like to create in your life or your hopes for others. Visualize the violet flame in the midst of the scenes as they unfold in your mind. You may want to ask that the power of the flame be multiplied to as! sist those in need.

When you have finished your meditation, be sure to close with gratitude. The violet flame is a powerful tool that should be used consciously and with intent. Forgetting to close with thanks keeps you connected and may lead to the unintentional misuse of this energy. It is always a good idea when finished with any spiritual practice to give thanks as this creates closure. Saints and adepts throughout the ages have known how to use the violet flame, but it is available for all to use to raise our awareness and, eventually, that of all mankind.

A Stroke of Insight

December 30, 2009 in Attitude of Gratitude | No comments

Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. An astonishing story. She did an 18 minute presentation on TED regarding this – it is brilliant, an extraordinary account of how our brains work within our spiritual self. Please take the time to view this enlightened performance.

The Gift of Giving

August 8, 2009 in Attitude of Gratitude | No comments

When it came time to celebrate a couple of friends’ birthdays at High Mesa Healing Center, the subject of gifts came up, of course. Usually this group gets together for birthdays at a local restaurant where we enjoy a meal and then open cards and presents – little things like candles or earrings. For Willy’s and Zoe’s birthdays we did something different. Both women decided they would rather the group donate to their favorite charities. Cards are precious but I know personally I have great difficulty throwing these away, so consequently I have boxes of sentimental greetings that I’ve collected and stored over the years.

When I was told the wish was to not receive these cards or little gifts, but that we would donate whatever we could to the Food Bank and the Humane Society, I was impressed and pleased. We gathered at Barbara’s home out on the deck and all shared a salad potluck lunch. Everyone brought something different and all the dishes were delicious. We had a carrot salad, shrimp salad, mozzarella and tomato bowl, cole slaw, chicken salad with crackers, home-grown tomatoes, and other wonderful salads. After we finished our lunch we sang Happy Birthday and enjoyed home-made carrot cake. The donations were collected in beautifully-wrapped little boxes with slits on the top. Willy and Zoe took their donations and a last piece of birthday cake and that’s all. We all agreed this is how we will celebrate our birthdays from now on. The gift of Giving is the best gift of all!

Zöe and Willy

An Equinox Message – prepare for 2012

March 21, 2009 in Attitude of Gratitude | No comments

10 Tips for thriving in this economic winter

December 20, 2008 in Attitude of Gratitude | No comments

I find the writings of James Arthur Ray to be inspiring and effective. Here are some good tips for Daily Living.

Ten Tips for Thriving in This Economic Winter

Many of you have read and commented on our recent conversation about how it’s a season to sow, how there’s so much fear in our world right now and how it’s related to some of the universal laws that modern society has forgotten

Well, you asked for some quick, easy-to-apply tips on how to thrive in this economic winter and on how to apply the knowledge you learned during our conversation… So here you go!

1 Clearly define what inspires you.
There’s a big difference between taking action out of inspiration versus desperation. Use this season as an opportunity to hibernate into the recesses of your own mind and define what you choose to create in your next spring.

2 Control your focus.
Energy flows where attention goes. Are you focusing on lack or opportunity?

3 Feed your mind.
What’s your constant mental diet? Do you spend hours in front of the scare news or are you reading good books, attending more positive seminars, watching uplifting DVDs and listening to powerful CDs?

4 Strengthen your body.
Your physical health and vitality have a tremendous impact on your performance as well as your mental and emotional fitness. Exercise releases stress as well as strengthen your body and mind.

5 Inventory your friends.
Doom and gloom attracts more doom and gloom. Jettison those “energy vampires” around you and surround yourself with opportunity seekers.

6 Quiet your mind.
Take time to meditate daily and to slow down if only for a few minutes. Ten to fifteen minutes of meditation will relieve hours of stress and increase creativity and resourcefulness.

7 Rid your life of escapist activities.
Overindulgence in TV, sleep and alcohol only accelerate the problems you’re attempting to avoid.

8 Make a daily gratitude list.
Focusing on all the good, gifts and God in your life puts you in the right line of thought, feeling and their subsequent actions, which will attract and create more good, gifts and God.

9 Change your attitude.
Realize that everything that’s happened in your life thus far is here to serve you, teach you and help you grow. Find the lessons in your past results, forgive yourself for anything you could have done better and apply the lesson to move forward and create a better future.

10 Get resourceful.
For the next three days, go to a place where you can have uninterrupted time… Come up with 20 new ideas to grow your income, create new results and improve your life. You cannot leave your spot until you have twenty. And no editing! All ideas are good ideas. Do this for three successive days with 20 new ideas each day.

Now take your list of 60 unique ideas and pick the three to five most powerful and leveraged ones to put into action. Pick these three to five based on: ease of implementation, rate of return and speed of return.

And so during this winter season, remember: It’s not about resources… there are plenty of them. It’s about resourcefulness. Get resourceful and get busy.

To your continued wealth and happiness,

James Arthur Ray
President/CEO
James Ray International
jamesray.com

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