This is the week of Valentines!!! I was so impressed by the law of Giving!! GIVE more GET more!! And “bring a gift to every encounter” as we have learned about in the course. It has been easy to give hugs, smiles, cards, hearts and gifts this week as many are in the mood of LOVE due to the holiday. I have seen how excited I have gotten to give people gifts in my family and outside of my family. I have sent cards, given cards, given gifts, and given lots of hugs. And what I have seen has been so beautiful!!!!! I have seen soooo many more smiles and excitement in others, but I have also noticed how excited I have been to see their excitement and gratitude in recieving the gift, card or hug. Truly give more get more is an absolute law! And I have LOVED getting the opportunity to see it expressed abundantly in my life this week!!!!! It is like the love, joy, smile vibration is amplified to the infinite degree!! I LOVE it!!!!!
When our lives are too busy and we don’t think to give (not because we don’t want to; but just because our lives are too busy) we miss out on great blessing! (getting)
‘Fear is a powerful form of thought. It paralyzes the nerve centres, thus affecting the circulation of the blood.
This, in turn, paralyzes the muscular system, so that fear affects the entire being, body, brain and nerve, physical, mental and muscular.’ (Haanel 19:Intro)
This week has been one of my biggest challenges yet on the journey to launching my own creative personal development course! Starting to shoot the launch videos!!!! Arggghhhhh! Brain Freeze!!!!!!! For those that know me you will understand what I mean! But for those that don’t, I generally do not even like my photo taken, so to do a video of myself felt like sticking pins in my eyes!
Even though I had the help and encouragement ofSam Warner from ‘Get Your Message Across‘, my initial feelings were one of FEAR!! Panic!! and I wanted to cry! My body was screaming at me, ‘I can’t do this‘ as physical, mental and muscular paralysis felt like it was taking over. How do you get past those feelings of fear?
‘Of course the way to overcome fear is to become conscious of power. What is this mysterious vital force which we I call power? We I do not know, but then, neither do we I know what electricity is.’ (Haanel 19:Intro)
Well isn’t that just dandy! If you don’t know what it is how do you become conscious of it? But wait, there’s more. Phew! In Chapter 19 Haanel explains that ‘Thought is the vital force’ or energy, and energy is created by connecting two opposite poles to create a polarity. ‘……To change the form of manifestation we I must change the polarity. This is the principle of causation.’ (Haanel 19:26 part)In other words it was time to change my thinking and concentrate on my power to overcome fear, and master this. Time to put my money where my mouth is. It was time to dig deep, and I’m talking deep…..REAL deep!!!! Nothing in my ego mind wanted to make a video of myself! I was so grateful that Sam offered to leave her light boxes with me for a few days so I could practice by myself. And I did. I practiced, and practiced, and practiced! And brother did I need to.
Perfect Practice Prevents Poor Performance!
I can’t begin to tell you how many outtakes there are….. but I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Wahoooo!!!!!!! Admittedly I am nowhere near finished but at least I feel I have gained control of my mind. I just couldn’t let the last few years of tremendous effort and focused concentration go down the toilet because of a pathetic fear of seeing myself on camera. Breathe Sandra, Breathe!!
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Maryanne Williamson
I am reblogging this blog from Carole in an effort to try to catch up. She does a great job with this blog:
Week 18-Is it a break week or Giddy-up
Wow!!! what a week it has been. Snow started last week and I ended in warm sunny Florida. It kind of reminds me of my journey here with this MKMMA class.
September 2015, I got on a phone call with a friend talking business and he told me about this class. It was like a prayer was answered. Diving in with both feet scared to death after the first week, thinking what did I just get into. As the weeks progressed amazing things began to happen and obstacles (YEAH). So here we are at week 18 and four months into this amazing journey, happier, more confidence, minimal fears(still working on that one), looks like my past week. Walking in a world of blinded by a blizzard of life and ending with warm and tranquil breezes and peace. Mark and Davene got it right to get out the cold weather. Reading under a palm tree is so much nicer.
This weekend we took a mini vacation to a college in Florida with my daughter. She has decided to go their but the had a “scholars weekend” so she could spend time on campus as if she was a student. She had a wonderful time and met several girls. One as soon as she arrived, it was like they were two sister separated a birth. Likes, dislikes, it was crazy. We met her mom who had traveled with her from California. We connected quickly also. After the weekend my daughter said I’m am 110% in and I knew that was going to happen. I fell in love with the school as well. This brings me to my DMP knowing she will be exactly 1,076 miles away from me makes me more determined then ever to see it through. I have had the amazing pleasure to not only have a daughter, but a best friend too. She has taught me so much and is becoming an incredible young woman. She is watching me taking this class and applying it to her life as well. Thank goodness for this class, she is learning much sooner to follow her bliss.
So it’s the beginning of the month so we change to the next Scroll. Some how I look forward to the change but miss the old one. So this morning I read Scroll V for the first time. Loving the questions. As we know birth and death come to us all. What we do in the middle is what counts, yet we all forget that. We go living day to day and only when something bad happens do we reflect. This Scroll is certainly going to lay an impact on me.
This week is it a break or a giddy up one? It’s a giddy up week for me. Missing some readings while away but doing my best to get most of it in. This week’s webinar reminded me that I haven’t been able to get all 5 in everyday. The sits are the hardest. My mind is always wandering. So I guess I avoid them thinking I am going to think of the wrong things, when I am actually thinking of the wrong things not in the sit. So my determination this week is to get all 5 in EVERYDAY.
Thank you to all that follow me and encouraging me with your wonderful comments. I am so grateful for each and everyone of you.
My Guide Sandra is a shining light for many and I am reblogging another great blog:
In Silence
‘Every obstacle conquered, every victory gained, will gives me you more faith in yourmy power, and you will I have greater ability to win. Your My strength is determined by yourmy mental attitude; if this attitude is one of success, and is permanently held with an unswerving purpose, you will I attract to you me from the invisible domain the things youI silently demand.’ (Haanel 17:26)
This week particularly I’ve felt things speeding up and an inner sense that ‘it’s time to buckle up‘ is in the air. Working with the lovely Sam Warner from ‘Get your Message Across’ to prepare launch videos, along side other tasks and various meetings, I feel a sense of urgency, focused concentration and the need to spend time each day in Silence is even more vital. The conviction in my heart is strong and my fabulous mastermind partner Konstantina Bourmou is helping to keep me on track. If it were possible to take only one thing away from my MasterKey Experience it would be the absolute necessity of having a Mastermind partner. It is a priceless gift.
‘The intensity of one moment’s earnest concentration and the intense longing to become and to attain may takeyou is taking me further than years of slow normal and forced effort; it willunfastens the prison bars of unbelief, weakness, impotence and self-belittlement, and you willI am come coming into a realization of the joy of overcoming.’ (Haanel 17:16)
Learning to quieten and focus your mind, feel yourself already in possession of the life you want and being able to recognise intuition when it comes can take time to perfect, if indeed it can be perfected! But it can certainly be improved through persistent effort and discovering what works for you. For some walking in nature helps free the mind and enables focus, for others it may be playing music, painting, or even driving on the open road. Knowing yourself and what makes you tick is definitely a huge step in the right direction. Being alone and silent is the invitation to intuition. Intuition doesn’t shout and scream, it whispers quietly in the peace and calm of Silence.
‘Intuition arrives at conclusions without the aid of experience or memory. Intuition often solves problems that are beyond the grasp of the reasoning power. Intuition often comes with a suddenness that is startling; it reveals the truth for which we are searching, so directly that it seems to come from a higher power.’ (Haanel 17:23 part)
‘Intuition usually comes in the Silence; great minds seek solitude frequently; it is here that all the larger problems of life are worked out.’ (Haanel 17:24 part)
Listen silently, close your eyes and let the beautiful Universal language of music wash over you.
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
Watching this week’s suppliment made me think. It is mindblowing how Aimee changed her feelings and thinking and ultimately her life about the fact that she had no lower legs. I was gonna write ‘…about her disability’. Disability? Her example shows that it is rather a possibility. Disadvantage at first sight that she turned around to be an absolute advantage, people envied her and not only for what she was able to do with her body. It is so much more. Breaking out from the ‘prescribed’ thinking and feelings by society about her condition she saw herself as a full and beautiful entity with all the possibilities hidden in her situation. And she was it from the inside, so she became it regarding the outside. She has been having a full life and wonderful experiences in the world without. I remember when I was small during drawing a picture or making something, it often turned out wrong half way. After the first shock of realising it I remember stopping for a minute, looking at my half done work and I was looking at it in different ways. I always found a way of finishing it, kind of turning the mishap around, making it part of my work, decorative and attractive and I was proud of it at the end. I think about myself from that time and it feels like the little child had something then that would turn things around for me now. Creativity, the ability to focus and simply be with something tuning into it. There were no ‘recepies’ carved in; I was free and able to see the possibilities in the situation. I believe the genius is there in everyone – the golden buddha, we all come to the world like this.
In Vincent van Gogh’s early life it has been said that he “was highly emotional, lacked self-confidence and struggled with his identity and with direction.” Yet when he started to paint you could say he found his bliss and became a prolific painter. Like Aimee we too should “waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should we throw good after bad?” We should dream about what we want then create our dream.
Week 15 Inspirational highlights: Make Resolution / Make Change! Small minds talk about people, Average minds talk about events, Great minds talk about ideas; “Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come!” Victor Hugo
The right thoughts will lead you to the right place.You have the knowledge, you’ve paid the price. “Let the miracle of your birth be extended into today.” You were not created to be a copy of a copy. “You are the light of the world.”
We were reminded again in the Master Keys 13 :16 about the Creative Power of thought: “Thought will bring about conditions in correspondence with the predominant mental attitude. Therefore, if we fear disaster, as fear is a powerful form of thought, disaster will be the certain result of our thinking. It is this form of thought which frequently sweeps away the result of many years of toil and effort. The laws of the mind work both ways. Earl Nightingale in the Strangest Secret said, “the mind is like a field; The farmer can plant Nightshade or corn, the ground doesn’t care, whatever you plant will sprout. The mind, like the land, doesn’t care what we plant; good or bad, but the mind is much more fertile.” We have the ability to plant in our minds any idea we choose, or we can let someone plant tares or weeds in our minds which eat up the good nutrients & healthy ideas. If someone puts a negative idea in your magnificent mind, remember, you have the ability, you can change it! “If you think in negative terms you will get negative results, if you think in positive terms you will achieve positive results. Dr.Norman Vincent Peale
“I am a unique creature of nature. I am rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore I am valuable.”
In Week 16 Haanel states in 16:5 “Wealth should never be desired as an end, but simply as a means of accomplishing an end” In my attempt to catch up in MKMMA I am reblogging this inspirational blog from Virginia Perl. She does a wonderful job, an enlightening experience, hope you enjoy it!
I am Nature’s greatest miracle. Yes, I am realizing that my mother was right all along. She always told me, “Just be yourself.” She’d say, “Don’t try to be like someone else when you are already perfect.”
Og writes, “Vain attempts to imitate others no longer do I make.”
Be yourself!
Now that this thought has really started to sink into my being, I have found my voice. I am writing with so much more clarity, so much more honesty, and wisdom, and bravery. Og suggests proclaiming your uniqueness to the world, which I’ve done, (read my week 15 blog.) The flash cards were the key to my awakening to my uniqueness. I’m so happy I can finally see that. I read my flash cards twice a day. I do not want to lose this feeling that embraces who I really am.
Live happily ever after!
My second awakening for this week was finding my ideal. I always thought my purpose was to write a book. I thought the book would create wealth and I would be rich and live happily ever after. But this is only half of it.
Haanel writes, “Wealth should then never be desired as an end, but simply as a means of accomplishing an end. Success is contingent upon a higher ideal than the mere accumulation of riches, and he who aspires to such success must formulate an ideal for which he is willing to strive….There must be a definite fixed purpose, an ideal.”
Aha! Light bulb alert!
Ta Da!
Haanel is saying that the wealth I acquire should be used to give back. This I will do by forming a foundation which creates world awareness of the damage caused by the toxins in our food, and will fight for children’s rights to organic school lunches.
My book and the ensuing riches are the means to the end. The foundation is my ideal.
I wonder what I’m going to learn next week. I can hardly wait.
This week in the Master keys Haanel speaks again about thoughts. He says,”Thought is a spiritual activity and is therefore endowed with creative power. This does not mean that some thought is creative, but that all thought is creative. This same principle can be brought into operation in a negative way, through the process of denial. Haanel says,” The conscious and subconscious mind are but two phrases of action in connection with one mind.” He states, “The relationship of the subconscious to the conscious is quite analogous to that existing between a weather vane and the atmosphere.” And,”Just as the least pressure of the atmosphere causes an action on the part of the weather vane, so does the least thought entertained by the conscious mind produce in your subconscious mind action in exact proportion to the depth of feeling characterizing the thought and intensity with which the thought is indulged.” For my Movie assignment I chose to watch “Cool Runnings” as my movie of choice from the list provided. One good example of what Haanel is refering to is witnessed in the character “Junior Bevan”. He seems to be a timid character but with a great passion, like the other sprinters, to represent his nation at the olympics. He manages to help the team get to the Olympics by selling his car but he doesn’t tell his father what he has done or where he is going. His father thinks he has gone away to start work for “Webster,Webster & Cohen.” But Junior’s father is alerted to the fact that he is at the Olympics and arrives to take him home to Jamaica. Junior Bevan seems to have had a fear of his father in the past and he thought he had to do what his father wanted like “a scared little boy” but on this occasion when he is confronted by his father he stands up and says,“I am a MAN father and I am an Olympian.” Junior Bevan produced at the right moment “the action in exact proportion to the depth of feeling characterizing the thought and the intensity with which the thought is indulged.” With some help from Yul Brynner, Junior Bevan changed his thoughts about himself and replaced them with the thoughts and conditions he wanted. We can do the same; It just takes courage and persistence!
Haanel: “It follow that if you deny unsatisfactory conditions, you are withdrawing the creative power of thought from these conditions. You are cutting them away at the root. You are sapping their vitality.”
This weeks Webinar starts with a short passage from “Alice in Wonderland where she is asked,“Who are you?”Alice is at a crossroad and asks theCheshireCat,“Which road should I take?”TheCheshire Cat asks,“Where do you want to go?” and Alice replies,“I don’t know!”The Cheshire Cat then replies,“Well then it doesn’t matter does it! I thought what a great analogy with life. We spend a lot of time procrastinating and indecisive about what we want to do with our lives so when we get to a crossroad we don’t know which road to take because we haven’t decided who we are and what we want to be. We take the first turn that comes along or we can’t decide which road to take and wonder why quite often we find ourselves going around in circles. Solution: The Habituator ; “His Persistent Pursuit of his Passion and Purpose Perpetuates Perfection….The Habituator presses forward, honing the tools of self-discovery; mastery; enthusiastically moving towards his magnificence. As we press forward in Fidelity with the sits,cards,DMP, The 7 Day Mental Diet, Masterminding, The Blueprint Builder and related exercises we are becoming The Hero of our own Journey; Changing the world within. We are reminded this week that we are half way on our MKMMA Journey: at the point of no return! I have had conflicting thoughts about what I should be doing with my life but I am feeling confident. I am half way up this mountain and the prize is at the top; ” The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning.” “I am nature’s greatest miracle. I am not on this earth by chance. I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.” It is time for action; “The bridge to manifestation is Action.”
The vehicle to help me take the necessary action has presented itself this week. I am challenged this week to put NARC into action Using the Law of Dual Thought. I realized as soon as I heard this that I was procrastinating. I am putting in place the law of practice. I am going to enjoy myself. I am feeling grateful and adding to my cards regularly. I am grateful for NARC! I am grateful for MKMMA. I am grateful for the MKMMA Guides and members. I am grateful for the man in the mirror. “for I am unique.” “Who are you?” “I am nature’s greatest miracle.”
This week the same struggles have been evident that were resident at the commencement of the MKMMA; struggles around time and also attitude. It is such a busy time of the year but life is always busy; always problems and challenges. Norman Vincent Peale once said,”Problems are a sign of life; the more problems you’ve got, the more life you’ve got.” It is easy to get distracted when challenges come your way and fall back into old habits feeling sorry for yourself but I have come to the realisation that I have to fight on for success; do the work, no one else can do it for me. The MKMMA is helping us to train our brain to think differently, to be the ‘Watchman at the gate’ of the ‘subby’. We have been doing some revision this week and focusing on the 7 Laws of the Mind, putting yourself in the dream; using all that we’ve learnt, leveraging the 5 senses & the Mental Diet to keep our focus forward & not allowing ourselves to be dragged back by the old blueprint. The failures of the past, or negative thoughts from others are being substituted with good thoughts, loving thoughts in our minds. We have the right information; the ability to change the thought or substitute it with something else; “The Law of Substitution.” One great idea for dealing with these intruders was given in the webinar this week; “Bear hugs kettle,” by writing this on a card and reading it when negative thoughts present themselves. This week I also found inspiration from the blogs of other MKMMA members: Virginia Perl
My body was screaming at me, ‘I can’t do this‘ as physical, mental and muscular paralysis felt like it was taking over. How do you get past those feelings of fear?
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