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"The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living".
Walter Rauschbusch
"The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of life" Walter Rauschbusch
A blog about Inner Happiness, Consciousness and Freedom!
"What can I tell you about happiness that you don’t already know at the very core of your being? You may have ‘forgotten’ perhaps, as I have. But let’s remember, together. Let's return to the original Self we long for - that Self that is forever at peace, forever joyous, limitless, powerful, abundant and free! And as we do, let's become Conscious Creators, Bold Adventurers, creatively exploring infinite possibilities as we flow in this enchanting journey we casually call Life!"
I promised you a free ebook, 10 Themes for Power and Prosperity in 2010. Well, here it is! And here is a short extract from it:
“There is no way to prosperity. Prosperity is the way” Wayne Dyer
“The greatest single source of wealth is between your ears” Brian Tracy
“On the second day of this year, I was unexpectedly invited to accompany a friend to a wedding reception. As I’d come from overseas in a hurry to be with my mother who was critically ill, I’d not planned nor given thought to being equipped for a celebratory occasion. Consequently, I had to go shopping for something suitable to wear to the wedding reception.
My niece and nephew accompanied me and both were exceedingly patient and helpful in finding me something appropriate, flattering and at a price that wasn’t going to break the bank. Not an easy task even when you have oodles of time on your hands, never mind when you barely have a couple of hours!
As we looked at a number of possibilities, many of which were clearly tailored for people who were not my size, I began to notice a sense of frustration set in. I realized that this frustration was the result not just my not finding ‘the’ item but especially because I had the weight of time and cost restrictions bearing down on me!
GRATITUDE OVERCOMES LACK AND BUILDS PROSPERITY
I decided I would not be burdened by these ‘pressures’ and that, instead, I would focus on what I really liked and felt good in and leave my other concerns to ‘sort themselves’ out. Within seconds, an item that had thus far escaped our attention became apparent to my niece.
She asked me if I thought it might be suitable. I tried it on and not only did it fit perfectly, it was very flattering! Everyone who saw me in it some hours later had very nice things to say!
What does all this have to do with prosperity?
Well, prosperity is really the opposite of ‘lack’. When we feel prosperous, we feel like we have plenty, which is beyond ‘enough’.
‘Enough’ can be a limiting and limited concept. Prosperity, however, is the very opposite of lack or anything limiting. Prosperity is about having and being plentiful.
In what ways can we be prosperous?
In any number of ways. We can be prosperous in the families, friends and friendships we have. We can be prosperous in out charitable thoughts and our feelings of goodwill, peace and joy. We can be prosperous in our sense of power, our sense of time and space and in our creativity. And of course, we can be prosperous in our finances, our businesses and in our homes and gardens….”
I wrote this ebook as a means for reflection and goal setting. I also wrote it knowing that was is useful for me can also be useful for others, not necessarily in the same way, but it ways that they will discover and use.
So, in this still ‘new’ year, I am offering you my ebook as a tool for your own reflections and goal setting. In it, you’ll read how common events can be a source of insight and inspiration and how these can prompt us to move forward in life much more powerfully, productivly and prosperously.
The 10 themes that I write about in this book are:
Interconnectedness
Blessings
Positivity
Prosperity
Fulfilment
The Inner Journey
Family
Intuition
Learning
Moving Energy
These are everyday life themes which we often miss or ignore in our desperate need to ‘keep up’! But what are we trying to ‘keep up’ with? Is there a different way? You bet there is! I invite you to find out how and much more by downloading 10 Themes for Power and Prosperity in 2010
Love always
Lucy
Awakening to Power, Prosperity, Happiness and Freedom!
I received a request for some advice and a meditation from a person who is struggling to overcome years of oppression in his country of birth. He feels unable to make much progress personally and professionally in the country he has immigrated to. He said:
“I have developed several emotional issues like lack of self confidence, self-esteem, concentration problem, anxiety and being a perpetual worrier on trivia”.
Although his case may seem uncommon to those of us who have lived in comparatively safer and freer countries, you might be interested in reading about the common causes of our mental, emotional and psychological unrest in my response to him:
“A blessed New Year to you Z! And thank you for your inquiry.
Moving from one country/culture to another even when the two countries/cultures are similar is quite an upheaval – pulling up one’s ‘roots’ and establishing new ‘roots’.
When the two countries/cultures are so different, that upheaval has an added dimension of adjustment. In your case, this adjustment may have much to do with trust.
I say this because it seems that you have grown up and lived in a culture that you now see as oppressive and one that you appear to be unable to trust. Perhaps you have always felt the culture, religion and government of your country of birth to be oppressive and untrustworthy.
Whichever it is, the fact is you don’t feel you are able to live your life as fully and freely as you would like to, personally and professionally.
The first thing I’d like to say, Z, is that there are many, many people who are not living their lives as fully and as freely as they would like to. They can be found in all parts of the world.
The clinics and offices of professional therapists, psychologists, counsellors and other related professionals in the West (and to a slightly lesser degree in the East) are well patronized by such people.
My point here is simply this:
While our backgrounds may be different, our experiences unique and the triggers for our psychological and mental disquiet many and varied, the underlying cause of our mental/emotional/psychological pain is the same – it is fear.
Fear takes many forms, one of which is distrust. We are unable to trust the world to be kind to us, to do right by us and to allow us to live fully and freely.
At the same time, we have lost confidence in ourselves and we are unable to trust ourselves to know what is best for us, to make the decisions that we need to make and to follow our dreams. In short, to live fully and freely!
Let me say it again – most of us are in the same boat. We differ only in degree!
So, what can I recommend in a situation such as yours?
I shall put it in dot points. I suggest that you use each one as a point of reflection and meditation.
Begin by sitting in a quiet and comfortable place. Allow yourself to relax by holding a sense of softness in your mind. Take some deep and gentle breaths. Then instruct your mind in the following way:
I allow myself to be soft, open and spacious.
I allow myself to sit in the direct flow of universal energy, source, unconditional love, god, Allah (use the term that you are most comfortable with).
I allow myself to feel the peace, power, joy and freedom of this universal energy.
Take a few more deep breaths.
Now, reflect on one or more of the following. Take your time with each:
I am an expression of god/love/universal energy
As an expression of god/love/universal energy, no one and no thing has power over me
The only thing that is vulnerable is my fear-conditioned mind
My natural mind is powerful, peaceful, joyous, limitless and free
No one and no thing is responsible for my happiness or unhappiness, my sense of power or powerlessness, no more than I am responsible for anyone else’s
When I cease to hold someone or something else responsible for who and what I am, I assume full responsibility for, and power over, myself. I am liberated.
As an expression of ultimate source/universal energy, I am free to be, do and have anything I want. I am only limited by my fear-conditioned mind
My purpose in life is joy. It is something I can choose right now and focus on right now
When I focus on joy, on living fully and freely, I feel empowered for I have dropped all disempowering thoughts and feelings
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I feel I want to say something at the close of the year so that I can stand fresh and free at the door of the New Year, ready to receive an unlimited supply of power, peace, joy, abundance and creative energy!
Of course, all these are already available to me. In fact, they are all who and what I naturally am. I don’t need a new year to avail myself of these ‘graces’ but, somehow, the closing of one year and the opening of another arouses a collective consciousness that I cannot help but want to consciously participate in.
For some reason, 2010 has a promising ring to it. I experience a certain boldness, succinct and complete, each time I say it – ‘twenty-ten’!
The last few weeks of 2009 have been intense – the near loss of a loved one, my having to leave home suddenly to be with the family overseas, an unexpected marriage, the constant flow of visitors, local and foreign, the meeting of family members for the first time in years, the intermittent care of a sibling who is currently unable to care for himself…all this against the more familiar backdrop of work, finance and relationships has been consuming, forcing me into ‘present mindedness’ or ‘mindfulness’ in a slightly different way than I am used to.
The immediacy of someone’s physical presence and face-to-face encounters (especially of people I have not seen for ages) generate instant and unexpected throwbacks to old anchors/triggers, inviting fresh responses to old preconceptions.
It is all good. It is all allowing the greatness and goodness from within to express itself.
It’s a good place to be in, a good state to be in as the veils of 2009 are slowly and thoughtfully drawn while the doors of 2010 are swung wide open with excited anticipation.
Ah, this is good.
This is the perfect time to fashion new dreams and reclaim abandoned ones.
This is the perfect time to recognize all the goodness and greatness of our true nature i.e. to be grateful.
This is the perfect time to stand up boldly with faith and an unwavering conviction that:
Our desires are our delight
Our dreams are our desires in picture and
Our passion sets our pictures in motion!
I wish you the blessings of great memories and giant learnings from the year we’re leaving and limitless power, peace, prosperity, joy and love in this new year of 2010.
Love always, Lucy
Awakening to Peace, Power, Prosperity, Happiness and Freedom!
Peace in your heart
Joy in your spirit
Love in every thought, word and deed…
Imagine it…
Intend it…
Allow it…
And so it is…
Dear Friend
May you feel the presence of angels
Around you at all times
May you hear their sweet singing
Upon the tinkling of their harps
May you rest softly in their arms
And soar high upon their wings
May their good tidings remind you
That you are blessed now and always
May this Christmas be a time of
Wonder, Hope and Faith that now
And in the year to come,
And in every moment
You are in Love’s inescapable presence!
Blessings of Joy, Abundance, Power and Peace!
Jealousy is one of the most destructive mind states leading us to behave in deplorable ways – from launching verbal swipes/put downs at others to some of the most elaborate and heinous crimes of murder.
Put simply, jealousy is that mind state of thoughts and feelings that is rooted in a belief – that someone else has or is something that I want but which I believe I cannot have or be.
Because we see someone else have what we want and what we believe we cannot have, we direct our resentment towards that person. Yet, when we examine it closely, we find that our jealousy has far more to do with our belief that we cannot have what we want than it is to do with someone else having what we want.
This is an important distinction to make because it allows us to see that the source and cause of our jealousy is not someone else and what they have but our very own mind and its beliefs about our power and freedom.
If we believed that we could have anything that we want and we felt free enough to go after what we want, we would never feel jealous about anyone.
When we believe that we cannot have or do something, we effectively put blocks in the natural flow of our free, limitless energy.
When we believe that someone else, by virtue of what they do or who and how they are, is a threat to our inner happiness, we put blocks in the natural flow of our free, limitless energy.
All this causes us to feel powerless and it is the feeling of powerlessness that causes us to take jibes at others, behave in childish and petulant ways and, in more extreme cases, take more extreme and destructive action.
In the relationship we have with our partners, jealousy, which ultimately results in the feeling of powerlessness, blocks the flow of love and gets in the way of our inner happiness.
You cannot feel happy and powerless at the same time – they are two very different vibrational states.
Are you interested in finding out how you can overcome jealousy in your relationship and have the relationship you truly desire? Are you serious about taking charge of yourself so that you can be the kind of partner you wish to attract?
“I have read a number of lengthy books on this subject and none have inspired me to ‘change’ as much as Lucy’s book.” Alison McCartney, Social Worker, Wife, Mother
"In only 40 pages Lucy covers the essential issues for anyone in, or contemplating, a romantic relationship. I have read a number of lengthy books on this subject and none have inspired me to ‘change’ as much as Lucy’s book."
