My Reality is Shifting

Ever since I had that really profound "Ah-Ha" moment (see the archives) things have really been rolling for me. I can feel these amazing perception shifts happening inside of me. Most things are things I've always known, but now they're just resonating deeper within me.

The concept of all people being One. Me and my brothers and sisters. Branches on the tree of life. Separate in our paths, but eternally connected at our base. This has been exploding within me. I've known this all my life on an instictual level. Anyone who's known me will tell you I was always a kind and sweet child (of course I was a pain, but I'm talking about my nature LOL) and I always wanted to help. I've always had that "Good Semaritan" in me. I will always shine brightest in the service of others because I know that to spread love and kindness to my fellow human being is to bring that love unto myself.

The thing is.... it's been hitting me... DEEPER, if you will. I mean, I'll sit and contemplate it because I can't seem to focus my mind anywhere else. I feel so connected to life. The reality of the Universe and Life and Love and the astounding perfection of it all is frankly, overwhelming to me. As I sit and contemplate my love for nature and my life and the wonderful people in my life and my indivisible connection to it all, it nearly reduces me to tears of pure, unadulterated Joy.

I've been really enjoying my feelings of love and acceptance and connectedness, but here's the thing..... My reality is shifting before my eyes. In a noticable way! Yesterday, everybody I encountered while I was out running errands was enthusiastically friendly. In the past, I've kind of avoided eye contact with people. Not to be unfriendly or anything.... but I find that when people talk to me, esspecially strangers, I don't know what to say on the spot and have more than once walked away thinking, "My GOD they must think I'm an idiot!" LOL.

Well yesterday, as I left the house... I had this amazingly light feeling. I felt connected to everyone and everything around me. I felt happy and boyant and inspired and with head held high and a ridiculous smile on my face, I ventured out into the world. I'm telling you straight... every single person I encountered.... on the street, in the library, at the grocery store, on the sidewalks, in parking lots... EVERYONE.... was smiling and happy and friendly.

I stopped at my Hubby's work to pick up his check on the way to the bank. The boss' wife gave me the check. She's not "unfriendly" by any means, but we don't talk much to eachother, other than... "Is he here?"...."Yeah, he's over there". Well I took the check to my van and was endorsing it to take it to the bank and she came out to my van and tapped on the window. When I rolled down the window she started saying that she'd heard I'd gotten a new van and it's really nice and it must have been a good deal and that's really cool for us etc.... with this warm and friendly smile on her face. We chatted for a minute or two and said goodbye, and as she walked away, she turned back to me and with so much warmth, smiled and said "Hey... You have a great day!" I was just stunned as I drove away. I was so connected to the moment, I was able to smoothly reply, "I intend to. And you do the same!" but as I drove away, all I could do was smile this big goofy smile and say my thanks to the Universe for the great start to me day.

The whole rest of my excursion was exactly like that. I haven't encountered many people today as I've only left the house once to run and pick up pizza for dinner, but I encountered the same friendly, welcoming smiles as yesterday. I've been very much in love with everything around me lately and now it seems that everything around me is in love with ME!

Catch a Smile and Spread the Joy,
El

Out of My LOA Closet

Greetings Friends!

I had the best day today. I send my children off to school and Hubby off to work and I set out to have a good visit with a good friend of mine. With the kids being home for the summer, we hadn't had a good "sit down" for quite a while and we had some catching up to do.

I know a great amount of the people that I interact with online in forums and websites use the internet as their outlet for taking creative control of their lives with the Law of Attraction. A lot of them don't have anyone in their "real lives" that's in a place similar to them that they can talk to about their manifestations and get support from. I am one of those people. I get 95% of my creative support and encouragement from people online in group forums and communities.

I suppose up until this point, I've mostly kept my interest and application of the LOA to myself because I wasn't really equipped with enough knowledge to explain it without sounding crazy. I've spent a lot of time trying not to come off "weird" to people. Along this journey I've been on, when I looked into the Wiccan way... I SURE didn't tell anyone. My GOD what would people think if I decided to label myself a "witch". But, I believe I've reached a new precipice.

I've been listening to Wayne Dyer (Check out my "What I'm Reading" section -->)on my MP3 when I walk in the morning and yesterday he was talking about all the visionaries and philosophers and great people who've contributed to raising the consciousness of all of mankind, like plato and Di vinci and Emerson and more I can't name off the top of my head. The point was though, that people have gone on before us and DIED because they spread the word about how the Universe works and responds to your thoughts. And how you're not truly in alignment until you don't care any longer what people might think of you because you know that those judgements are only part of the JUDGER'S experience. What someone thinks about you has no affect on how you experience your life unless you allow it.

So I've been thinking about this since then. Now today, I find myself at my friend's house and she's one of the more spiritual people I know. She'll probably read this post too! Hi T. Well, I outed myself today. I came out of my LOA closet, so to speak. I kinda gushed a little at T's house and it felt good. It felt good to express how happy I am to another person, in person. I've decided that if people think I've lost my mind, I don't care. I'm too happy to feel bad.

I'm here.. I'm happy.. Get used to it!

Go out and find your Joy!

Happy Thursday!
El

How to Meditate - Energy Movement Method

I meditate 3 times each day. I'm not on a schedule or anything and it didn't start this way. When I started to meditate, I did it once a night. I read Eckhart Tolle's book, A New Earth, and in it, he describes going into the "Now" by feeling the energy in your hands.

Up until this point, I always felt very frustrated when I'd try to meditate because I could never "turn my mind off" like I'd heard I was supposed to. But when I tried his method, it really worked for me.

Here's what I do:

• Take a couple deep breaths and relax.
  
• Close your eyes and without moving, with only your body awareness, find your hands.
  
• Feel your hands. Each finger, finger tip, palm, nail, skin.... the energy... the tingle...
  
• Once you feel the tingle... just breathe into it. Feel it grow stronger... almost vibrate.
  
• Now move the energy. Energy follows attention, so move your attention (body awareness) up your arm a little. Maybe to your elbow. Feel it swirl around and move back to your hands. Move it back and forth a few times feeling the tingle grow each time.
  

Enjoy the warm tingling sensation in your body. What you feel is your energy. The energy that pulses through you, that animates you... that makes you "alive". The energy that controls your vibration, health, manifestations.... everything. I have personally healed myself of severe burns by building energy around it. You can read about it HERE if you'd like. Once I adjusted to building the energy in my body, which didn't take long; maybe 5-6 days, I expanded my meditation to this:

• After completing the above steps, you now have tingling hands and arms.
  
• Now, holding the tingle.... move your awareness to your feet. Repeat the above steps, only do it for your lower body.
  
• Keep going back to your hands and arms and try to keep the energy humming in them also.
  
• After you've adjusted to having your feet humming too, try bringing the tingle together in your torso so you're moving energy through your whole body.
  

This is the meditation method I started with. I would take a nice hot shower and relax before bed. I'd climb under the covers and lie on my back with my arms and hands down at my sides and go into my hands and start my meditation. From the first night I did it, I noticed a difference in the quality of my sleep. I also noticed a jump in remembered dream activity, and I started having lucid dreams within the first week. I found myself "going into my hands" in my dreams and that was enough to wake me IN my dream.

If this works for you, I'd LOVE to hear about your experience!