Being Part of Another's Manifestation

(If you are looking for the Post about the Special Offer for the Powerful Pivoting Process, please scroll down!)

I felt like sharing another personal story with you today of a powerful manifestation orchestrated by our wonderfully mysterious universe.  It may not seem like the most important item to manifest, but it was to my friend and it very clearer demonstrates that the universe will get your desires to you any way it can.

One day I was drawn to stop at a local "flea market" shop in the quaint older section of the small Missouri town where I used to live.  Inside were all kinds of individually owned spaces that sold every manner of object.  I was just wandering around taking it all in when I spotted a pitcher made out of "carnival glass" that looked very much like a pitcher my friend, Diane, had.  

Every time I visited her she would open this upper cupboard in her kitchen and carefully take down this beautiful aqua/gold pitcher made out of carnival glass.  She would serve our beverage in that pitcher and she had told me about her grandmother giving it to her and how special it was to her.  So it had grown special to me, too.  This one at the market was identical.  It wasn't much, and for no apparent reason, I bought it.  At first I thought I would keep it so that we would have the same pitcher.  We had discovered that we had a lot of the same things in our respective homes, which was one of many wonderful oddities about our friendship.  I didn't really want it for me though, but rather I felt compelled to give it to her.  

So, I wrapped it all up, sound packaging to ensure its safety on the hour and a half drive into the countryside where she lived, and wrapped it in beautiful gift paper.  I went between feeling silly at giving her a duplicate of something she already had and feeling elated with the idea of giving her this gift.  

When I got to her house I carried in the package and set it on the table to hug her.  She wondered at this impromptu gift, but made me sit down and wouldn't open it until she got us something to drink.  She went to the cupboard I knew well and opened it, but I saw an empty space where the pitcher had always been stored and she reached for another pitcher, way in the back.  I said, "Where's your grandmother's pitcher?"  She turned sadly to me and said that she had opened the cupboard door just a few days ago and the pitcher had fallen from its high place to the floor and shattered to pieces. 

I just sat their dumbstruck.  She saw my face and asked simply, "Why?"  I told her to come and sit down and open her gift.  She did, and when she saw the pitcher inside she just looked at me in shock and then burst into tears and laughter.  Me too!!

So who or what guided me to that pitcher?  I am dissolved in bliss, for it really doesn’t matter.  I was simply tickled (and still am!) to have played a part in my friend's manifestation of something precious to her.

I love how this universe works!

CJ

FAITH: Drive and Arrive

I just found some writing of mine from over a year ago and thought I'd share this small, but potentially huge thought with all of you.  A bible verse resurfaced and brought new and deeper meaning.  The verse was "Faith is the substance of all things."  I read it and really didn't understand it at first.  What did it mean ... "the substance of all things?" 

I read it over and over and realized it just didn't make a lot of sense ...

Faith is the substance of all things.

Faith is the substance of all things.

Faith is the substance of all things.

Huh?

And then slowly light started to make its way through the cracks of my mind and I realized ...

Faith is the substance of all things.

Faith is knowing without the shadow of a doubt.

Faith is Knowing.

Know it is yours and IT IS.

Faith turns things into substance.

Faith in your dreams makes them come true.

And on and on the thoughts came!

I remembered an old recording of Abraham I heard once where there was a discussion about how you have to believe something is real before it can BE real in your life.  The example was given of driving to work ... how when you set out from home in the morning to drive to work, that there really is no doubt in your mind that your office building will be at the other end of your route.  No, you never question that at all!  You drive and arrive at your destination and start working and never even consider that the place might not really be there when you get there.  It just EXISTS.  And Abraham said that this is how we must believe in our dreams .. as if what we are wanting in our lives is already there.  We must believe our dream is out there before us, just like the office building, and then just walk confidently through time and space to our dream ... to the point where it is a substance in our lives.

So, would another way to consider this be to say that our faith is what causes our dreams to take on substance?

Faith is the substance of all things.

You'd better believe it!

Grins,

Cj

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To your joy!

CJ

Living An Outrageously Radical Life

Have you ever taken a moment to consider how your life would be different today if you had, at one point in your life, made a different choice than the one that you did?  Do you think you might be in a different place today  if you'd made that choice?  Or even be a different version of you than you are today?

Just for a moment, consider what your life would be like if you chose, now, to start this very minute, to live the most outrageously radical version of your life that you have ever dreamt up.  If you're human, you've had dreams all your life ... little fantasies, or big visualizations ... that pop into your mind and tug at your heart and say, "That could be you."  Don't deny it.  We can't stop ourselves.  It's just part of being human.

What do you suppose would happen if right now, this very minute, you chose to walk away from the life you have been living and now live one of your fantasy lives?  Seriously!  If money were no issue, if family were no issue, if obligations were no issue, what is the most outrageously radical version of these fantasies that you would choose to walk into and claim as your new life?

Really stretch yourself here.  If you have not allowed yourself the delicious luxury of exploring these fantasies before, allow yourself NOW.  Take 10 minutes and meditate or doodle into cohesive form at least one super-duper outrageously radical life for yourself.

Did you do it?  Did you really do it?  If not, I command you, for your future peace of mind, take this time now and explore your wildest dreams!  You can thank me later, but right now just thank yourself for doing this very good and important discovery ground work.

Now that you've stretched yourself to the farthest reaches of your imagination to find the most outrageously radical life you could ever imagine living, I want you to come back to the  present moment of your life as it is ... now.

Yea, sorry, I know it can be a real bubble-burster of an experience, but come back anyway.  As you come back, pause for a moment just there at the border where you can still feel the outrageously radical version and the current version both, and from this observer's stance see ... and feel ... the difference between where you were in your outrageously radical life ... and where you are in your current reality.  If you did this exercise correctly, fully, and with all your heart .... and if you are human ... then you will feel a huge gap between the fullness and completeness of the life you could be living and the one you are living.

Immediately now, everyone, please promptly forgive yourself for any perceived fallacies, affronts, or broken promises you have ever made to yourself and not kept, or the short-sightedness that you now see has kept you living your life small, or only partially.  This too is all a part of our human nature, so get over it and just pay attention to the fact that there is a gap.  A big one.

So, with this new knowledge, what are you now going to do about this gap?  Are you going to stay where you are, living the smallish version of your not-totally-fulfilling life?  Or are you going to do something to start to transform your life into a closer version of your outrageously radical and totally fulfilling life version?

Remember to be kind to yourself.  You may never be able to come close to your outrageously radical version ... it is, after all, an ideal.  But do not despair.  If you did a good job of this exercise then the outrageously radical version is really a stretch from where you are ... something for you to strive toward.  

Strive does not equal achieve.  Don't get the purpose of this whole thing confused now.  Soothe yourself by remembering that every great journey began with a single step.  What will your single step be?  For therein lies your greatness.  The JOY is in the JOurneY, my friend, and it is those who take the journey, no matter where they land on the road to their dreams, who look back on their lives and say, "Well done!  It's been good."

And one more thing ...

Allow yourself to be grateful for the smaller version of the life that you have created to this point.  It has served you well and is now at this very moment serving you by partnering with you in this exercise to show you what it is still yearning to become.  How will you now contribute to this partnership?

Just thought I'd ask.  But I've gotta get back to creating my own outrageously radical life and I'll leave you to that answer of yours.

Ciao for now!

CJ

Perspectives on My Latest Juicy Life Quest

Hello!  I've been having a string of RICH life experiences since last I posted!  So many amazing people-connections, illuminating moments, and both intellectual and spiritual high-points that I couldn't possibly put it all in one blog post, but suffice it to say that life has indeed been RICH and FULL.  Just a couple of nuggets to satisfy the curiosity I'm sure I've just created ...

I've had some beautiful "aha!" moments ... the type I love to share with my coaching clients.

I have been to new places in my own being that I hadn't even known were in (of) me.

I have journeyed through frontiers I had only dreamt of exploring just short months ago.

I have made powerful decisions about my life and career ... and acted upon them.

I have faced some fears head on and lived to tell the tale.

And I have committed to being even more transparent as I continue to live my authentic life.

(More on that transparency bit later in this post.)  

I'm betting that won't really satisfy the curiosity I hope I have instilled within you now, but I have a reason for writing this update this way.  

First and foremost, I shamelessly admit that I want to peak your curiosity.  I want you to wonder what it is that I have been up to and doing that has been so exciting ... so that you will begin to yearn for these kinds of juicy experiences for your own life.  

Second, I want you to realize that it doesn't matter what your life has looked like or been up to this moment, but that you can choose "on a dime" to choose to spice it up and invite in your own juicy, rich and fulfilling life experiences.

And third, that you will not be able to set these thoughts aside, but that instead you will choose to subscribe to my blog and begin to explore the delicious possibilities that exist out there in this vast universe we live in ... and that are waiting ... just for you.

Truth be told, it might be interesting to hear the details of what I've been up to, but let's be honest, you would listen and be intrigued for a moment, but you'd soon put the discussion aside because after all, that is my life and you are here to live yours!

So, now that you've read to this point in this blog post, I hope you are not totally disappointed that I didn't succumb and tell you all the juicy details of what I've been up to since the first of this year.  Rather, I hope that you have gotten to this point and are inspired to find your own quest to embark upon in order to make your life juicy!  

Of course, I highly recommend hiring a coach (hint, hint) ... that's what I did, of course.  Practice what you preach, eh?  A coach should always have a coach, just as a psychologist should always have a psychologist and a "shrink" should always have a "shrink."  A coach can take you to the regions of yourself that you have either been too afraid to visit, or not known existed so that you could visit them.  And a coach will keep you on the path you choose to explore, and will hold you accountable to the goals or dreams or aspirations you want for your juicy life!

About that transparency ... well, stay tuned (aka, subscribe!) and you'll witness plenty of that!

TTFN Beloved Reader,

CJ

My Humanity Got the Better of Me for a While

Oh, it's been too long since I posted here. And now it seems so silly since what I have been doing these past 6 months was reaching for the better-feeling thought, and the process I was going through would have been so perfect to share here. Ah, well, hindsight is 20-20, eh? Actually, truth be told, I was so deep in my "stuff" that I didn't even think of posting. Forgive me; my humanity got the better of me for a while.

So, looking back at my last post to this blog, I see how amazingly synchronous and right on my closing comments were about how I realized I wasn't falling out of alignment, but falling INTO alignment. The journey I have been on has been a process of allowing myself to shift my alignment to a whole new way of life!

It was a strange journey, and I'm glad to feel the change on the winds of my life finally. I can see now that I was not sure how to be without a corporate job ... or perhaps more accurate would be to state that I didn't know how to be without a corporate paycheck. I didn't know what it felt like to trust the universe to provide my sustenance through other means. I had to get my sea legs, as they say. I don't just mean the practicalities of our 3D life here on earth, but also that ethereal place of FEELING and EMOTIONS that we have to master as well. THAT place is where the biggest challenge really lies, and when we make the emotional journey, everything else (the 3D stuff) just falls in place like magic.

And that's what happened to me!

When I wasn't doing the business of my 3D life (and often even while I was), I was taking that emotional journey. I really did a dance with fear and doubt. "Where will the money come from? What if I can't make this work? I really want this to work (but I could feel that thought riding out from me on a wave of fear)."

As soon as I would catch myself generating negative thoughts, which seemed to come from some deep elusive place that I was simultaneously trying to find, I'd remind myself to pivot.

Oh! There's a negative thought!

PIVOT.

I'm clenching my jaw.

PIVOT.

I'm actually holding my breath!

PIVOT.

"Everything will be all right. I've been through far worse and come out shining. I would never hurt myself. The fairies of the universe love me and are doing everything in their power to help me succeed. This NOW moment is a million times more powerful than all my past moments PUT TOGETHER! I can do anything. I am a powerful force for good on this planet, including doing good for ME. All is well."

I'd keep rattling on with whatever positive thought I could find ... until my body sighed. Ahhhhhhhhhh. A natural sigh, falling out of me with ease, release and relief. Back in alignment once more. The sigh was my sign that I was truly there.

And on and on it went for months. Back and forth, until ... finally ... I was sighing a lot ... for no apparent reason ... just relaxed and enjoying my life. It was unfolding nicely. I had been afraid that I wouldn't allow myself to find this place actually, but all of a sudden ... I was there. And then things got really interesting and I started loving my life even more!

And yesterday, amidst all my deep New Year's Eve cleaning and organizing, all the sorting out what goes and what stays, all the making-room-for-more-good activities I do every New Year's Eve ... I found myself thoroughly enjoying myself, loving my life and everything in it. I felt a lump in my throat and tears prickling my eyes as I realized that I had NO doubt or fear, but rather that it had been replaced by a deep trust in All That Is to protect me and provide for me. No, it was more than that. It was a sense that there was a Force out there Whose only desire was to grant me the deepest desires of my heart!

Now who could ask for anything more?

Oh! My heart was fairly bursting with Love and Joy for this life and how well it was being lived. How well I was living it! Gratitude was pouring out of the depth of my being for the chance to live THIS life, with all its aspects ... those that we humans would call good, wonderful and divine, as well as those we might choose to call sad, painful or scary. I was in love with it all! The whole delicious package that I had embraced as MY LIFE seemed to have tickled the deepest part of me to no end! I was divinely happy. Totally saturated in this Happiness. Drunk as a skunk!

(I wonder where that phrase came from. Did someone really see a drunk skunk, or did someone just use it because it rhymed and someone else loved how funny it sounded and so used it too and it just kind of spread?)

I digress. Well, I guess I'm pretty done with this thought anyway ... for now. Bottom line: I'm back. And I'm feeling better than ever!

I just wanted you to know.

Getting Out Of Your Comfort Zone

As you may know, I am in the process of transitioning from a traditional job in Corporate America into some personal businesses. The transition has been occurring for quite some time (which is something else I’ve manifested). Just days before my last day in the corporate role, I found myself going through many emotions. I would even say that I felt a bit paralyzed. Stuck may be a better word.

One day, as I sat in a workshop related to one of my new ventures, I felt myself slip into Observer mode, where I was observing me and my life as if I was some unbiased “Other.” I saw my life from “above” as if I could see time as a story. I saw all the events that had led to the moment of sitting as a participant in the workshop, and all the potential moments that were yet to come, depending on what that Me sitting there chose to do.

The most obvious thing was that everything was perfect. Given everything that had led up to that moment, even things I’d perceived as “mistakes” or “delays,” everything I wanted was completely possible and vibrantly there for me! I was right on track!

I decided to have a little “chat” with The Observer. As I pondered what I was seeing, I wondered why I had felt “nervous” at times recently. From the broader perspective of The Observer I realized that I didn’t fear what I wanted, nor my ability to make the transition to this new life; rather, what I was feeling was the dis-comfort as I took the steps out of my comfort zone into things as of yet unfamiliar to me.

This was a wonderful ah-ha moment! I also realized it actually wasn’t the first time I’d had this thought and it made the ah-ha kind of comical. A verse I’d written years ago came to mind and I went back to my notes to find it. Here it is:

Let’s Talk About Comfort

We dream of things in our lives
And in our experiences
That we have not yet known…

So how can we expect
To always feel comfortable
As we move into the unknown
To be with them?

CJ (26-Jul-2003)

After realizing this aspect of what The Observer was seeing, I noticed something else. The Me sitting there in the workshop didn’t seem all that excited about the new things appearing in her life. How could that be? All her dreams were just footsteps away! She knew what she needed to do and what she wanted to do and it was all good stuff, but it seemed she just couldn’t get excited about it even though it was what she’d dreamed about for so much of her life. What was going on?

And from The Observer’s perspective I saw that it was all part of a reprogramming of neuropathways. Every day had held certain activities, certain stressors, certain events happening at certain times (leave home at 7:30 to drive to work, work 8:00 – 5:00, drive home, cook dinner, blah, blah, blah). The tasks associated with the job were not what the new “work” would be. Everything was being reshuffled, resorted and realigned.

The joy was still there. The dream was still intact. There was no problem, just a process that was efficiently taking place.

The seeming “stuckness” was not “stuckness” at all! She … I … was … am … filling myself with all the new tools I need and re-routing all the little electrons traveling my neuropathways so that I can welcome all the dreams that lie before me. I’m not falling out of alignment … I’m getting INTO alignment!

Well, that put a whole new spin on things. Guess who’s happy now?!