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Should We Want Material Objects?

Personally, I’ve heard it said in the self-development world that money is the root of all evil… that we shouldn’t want for material objects.

I, myself, have said on countless occasions that money will not bring you fulfillment or sustained happiness. Neither will the lack of money, which means there is something else that provides that fulfillment.

But its not the fulfillment that I wanted to discuss today, its whether or not wanting material objects is a good thing or not such a good thing.

My own views on this topic are that we do live in a material world. There are certain material objects that we have to have in order to survive. Things like clothing and a home to stay in are all essential to our survival.

Because we live in this material world, having some of the material objects, including money, is perfectly okay. We get to define how we want to live. We get to define what experiences we want to have. We get to define it all, and so if I choose to have more money, and another chooses against it, that is perfectly fine too.

I don’t feel there is a way that you must be in order to live a successful and fulfilled life. The fulfillment can never come from a material object anyway, but only from within. The diverse setting that we live in where we each want something different, provides the perfect setting to create our own segment of reality that is heaven on earth to us.

Life is material.
Your home is material.
Our clothes are material.
Your body is material.

If we did not want to experience having and playing with the materialistic objects in this world, then why would we choose to live in a physical body? There would be no point to us coming here and so if we truly did not want material objects then surely we would choose to stay in the non-physical environment.

It’s important to remember that anyone can choose anything they please. There is no right or wrong with anything, including the wanting of material objects.

I say… go out there and experience it!

Go get some dollars… go and travel the world… experience other cultures… enjoy your life. Feel good and be happy. Your happiness should be regarded as the most important thing.

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Sound Waves

This video recently caught my attention, I’ve seen it before, but that was before I had a blog where I could share cool video clips! Check out this video showing the reaction to different sound frequencies…

(Note: You may want to turn your speakers down just a little for this first video)

There’s others like this that are pretty cool too. Here’s another one, but this time the container is being shaken at extreme speeds and holds a cornstarch liquid. The “fingers” at the end are really crazy in this one!

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Bloggers Party Contest - $7,000 in Prizes

A friend of mine, Marcus Hochstadt from www.hochstadt.com is running a very special party contest which is giving away over $7,000 worth of prizes! There’s also 66,666 Entrecard credits up for grabs that have been donated by the party contributors.

The event is for blog owners who can participate in the party by posting on their blog and submitting the site to social bookmarking sites.

What makes this giveaway so special is the diverse gifts that are available. I have donated ten copies of my Manifest a Miracle system that sells for $97. But if self-development wasn’t your interest, then you can win prizes from weight loss products, Internet marketing products and even cold hard ‘PayPal’ cash!

So for all of you bloggers who are reading this, I encourage you to head over to Marcus’ site to check out what you need to be eligible to win. (Hint: It’s one of the easiest contests I’ve ever entered into! And will take very little of your time.)

Here’s the link to the Hochstadt.com Party Contest.

And here’s a list of all of the awesome prizes that can be won…

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Trusting Your Inner Guidance

Throughout your day you will make hundreds of different decisions. Making the right decision has always been considered the most difficult to get right.

Instead of engaging your logical thinking mind to make the decisions, try using your inner guidance to guide you into making the correct decision.

Abraham-Hicks shared with us that we have something called an Emotional Guidance System. It is this system that you can feel when you walk into a room with “bad vibes”.

How do you know a room has “bad vibes”?

That’s your emotional guidance system in action!

The emotions that you feel are your emotional guidance system. When you feel bad, bad things are on their way. When you feel good, you’re moving towards something that will please you.

Your emotions are quite simply the best way to make accurate decisions.

Let’s say for a moment that you get offered a new job. Ask yourself, “how do I feel?”. If you feel good about it, then this job is in perfect alignment with you and you will be moving towards things that give you more pleasure and more great feelings.

On the flip side of the coin, if you don’t feel good about the new job offering, or if you don’t feel much of anything at all about it, then that job is not in alignment with what you’ve been saying you want. It will not yield you joyful and blissful situations.

Recently, I hired a virtual staff member to help me run part of my business. I had narrowed my search down to two different people. One of the candidates had far more experience than the other. It would have been far too easy for me to go with my logical thinking brain and to simply have hired the more qualified person.

Instead of using my logical brain, I followed my emotions. The candidate with the least experience actually felt much better to me. In fact, we hit it off great!

The person with most experience didn’t give me any good feelings at all. I would have described the feelings felt around this person as “neutral”. As I discussed in a recent blog post, Neutral Emotions Are Negative Emotions, so neutral can be considered the same as bad.

So, I followed my emotional guidance system and hired the less skilled employee.

And the results?

We’ve been getting on great! This new person has been putting in way more hours than I expected and is completely over-delivering. Our relationship is steadily growing and I’m feeling very optimistic about what’s ahead. All in all, I made what I consider to be a very good decision.

I’ll never know for sure what would have happened if I had of hired the other candidate. Maybe his performance would have been just as good, maybe not? Focusing on the past is not productive, so I choose not to give it my attention.

Another example of when I used my emotional guidance system recently was when I was looking over an Internet marketing forum I visit now and then… Someone has posted a new thread saying that they will take on 10 people and coach them to make $100,000 per year business. The cost? Nothing, nada, zilch.

Of course, it sounded too good to be true, but never the less, it aroused my curiosity and I read the post. Immediately I could feel that it wasn’t something that would bring me any joy what-so-ever. In fact, it made me feel pretty bad!

My logical mind on the other hand was going in over-drive…

“Everyone would like a $100,000 business, why not just signup and see?”
“This guy wants nothing to get started! That’s nothing for $100k!”
“Let’s go for it!”
Etc.

Instead of listening to those thoughts, I passed on the opportunity very quickly and went on to read something that was more in alignment with what I was vibrating.

The message I’m trying to convey is stop listening to that logical mind no matter what is presented in front of you. No matter how good it sounds to that logical mind. Resist the temptation and follow your feelings. Always follow your feelings.

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24 Hour Special

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Happiness is a Journey, Not a Destination

My friend la from notesfromlalaland.com forwarded this to me in an email recently and I just had to share it with you…

The Daffodil Principle

Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, “Mother, you must come
to see the daffodils before they are over.”

I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead
“I will come next Tuesday”, I promised a little reluctantly on her third call.

Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and reluctantly I
drove there. When I finally walked into Carolyn’s house I was welcomed by
the joyful sounds of happy children. I delightedly hugged and greeted my
grandchildren.

“Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in these clouds and
fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and these children that I
want to see badly enough to drive another inch!”

My daughter smiled calmly and said, “We drive in this all the time, Mother.”
“Well, you won’t get me back on the road until it clears, and then I’m
heading for home!” I assured her.

“But first we’re going to see the daffodils. It’s just a few blocks,”
Carolyn said. “I’ll drive. I’m used to this.”

“Carolyn,” I said sternly, “Please turn around.”

“It’s all right, Mother, I promise. You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience.”

After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road and I saw a
small church. On the far side of the church, I saw a hand lettered sign with
an arrow that read, “Daffodil Garden.” We got out of the car, each took a
child’s hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path. Then, as we turned a
corner, I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most glorious sight.

It looked as though someone had taken a great vat of gold and poured it over
the mountain peak and its surrounding slopes. The flowers were planted in
majestic, swirling patterns, great ribbons and swaths of deep orange, creamy
white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, and saffron and butter yellow. Each
different-colored variety was planted in large groups so that it swirled and
flowed like its own river with its own unique hue. There were five acres of
flowers.

“Who did this?” I asked Carolyn. “Just one woman,” Carolyn answered. “She
lives on the property. That’s her home.” Carolyn pointed to a well-kept
A-frame house, small and modestly sitting in the midst of all that glory. We
walked up to the house.

On the patio, we saw a poster:
“Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking”, was the headline.

The first answer was a simple one. “50,000 bulbs, it read.

The second answer was, “One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two feet, and one brain.”

The third answer was, “Began in 1958.”

For me, that moment was a life-changing experience. I thought of this woman
whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun, one bulb
at a time, to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop.
Planting one bulb at a time, year after year, this unknown woman had forever
changed the world in which she lived. One day at a time, she had created
something of extraordinary magnificence, beauty, and inspiration. The
principle her daffodil garden taught is one of the greatest principles of celebration.

That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a
time–often just one baby-step at time–and learning to love the doing,
learning to use the accumulation of time. When we multiply tiny pieces of
time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can
accomplish magnificent things. We can change the world …

“It makes me sad in a way,” I admitted to Carolyn. “What might I have
accomplished if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five or forty years
ago and had worked away at it ‘one bulb at a time’ through all those years?
Just think what I might have been able to achieve!”

My daughter summed up the message of the day in her usual direct way.
“Start tomorrow,” she said.

She was right. It’s so pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterdays.
The way to make learning a lesson of celebration instead of a cause for
regret is to only ask, “How can I put this to use today?”

Use the Daffodil Principle. Stop waiting…..
Until your car or home is paid off
Until you get a new car or home
Until your kids leave the house
Until you go back to school
Until you finish school
Until you clean the house
Until you organize the garage
Until you clean off your desk
Until you lose 10 lbs.
Until you gain 10 lbs.
Until you get married
Until you get a divorce
Until you have kids
Until the kids go to school
Until you retire
Until summer
Until spring
Until winter
Until fall
Until you die…

There is no better time than right now to be happy.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
So work like you don’t need money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt, and, Dance like no one’s watching.

Wishing you a beautiful, daffodil day!

Don’t be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.

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The Little Tree of Life

Today I received my first ever Bonsai tree which I’m so excited about. It’s a Serissa Bonsai which is also called “tree of a thousand stars” because of the way it buds.

The reason I purchased it was because I wanted a little more nature in my life.

As an online business owner, I tend to spend a lot of time by the computer. I do take regular walks and make sure I get my dose of nature, but the more I understand the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, the more time I want to spend appreciating nature and being still with it.

Noticing the stillness within a plant, flower or tree can really help you to become present in the moment. I’ve noticed that a lot when I walk through a forest.

So getting a bonsai tree is my way of being closer to nature whilst I’m still working on my business. Here’s a pic…

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You Can Heal Your Life

You’ve probably had some emails in the past month or so about Louise Hay’s new movie… You Can Heal Your Life.

I watched this movie yesterday without having any real expectations about it and I thought it was brilliant! I actually felt it to be better than “The Secret” in many ways, even though both movies are quite different.

For those who are not familiar with Louise Hay and her life journey, you’ll discover that she lived a very dark past with many incredible adversities which she not only overcame but which helped turn her into the person she is today.

The movie is primarily based around the teachings of Louise Hay’s book “You Can Heal Your Life” and using positive reinforcement to change your reality (affirmations). I felt that everything being said in the movie was very solid and I couldn’t see a way in which the primary message could be misconstrued like it was with “The Secret”.

This in itself is a great blessing and will provide hope and change for the millions who watch the movie!

Gregg Braden shares some great stuff, and something that really stood out to me was one particular story he told… Gregg and his native friend traveled to a sacred area in which they could “pray rain”. They were in the one of the worst droughts that the area had ever seen. The native friend took off his work shoes and entered the sacred stoned circle area to pray.

After a few moments, the praying man stopped and told Gregg he was finished and ready to get something to eat. Gregg asked the man “did you pray for rain?”. He replied “No. Praying for rain would imply that rain is not here, instead I felt the feelings of rain… I felt the feeling of what it feels like rainy mud beneath my feet, I felt the smell of the rain filled air. I gave thanks and gratitude for the rain thats already happened.”

(The above is not verbatim.)

I felt that was a very significant story. I know many people struggle with what words they should use when asking for something. Using “I want” allows you to “want” something… wanting isn’t having. Praying for something is implying it is not already yours and so holding you apart from what you want.

There’s some great nuggets just like this one throughout the entire movie. It’s a wonderful and very empowering movie that I believe is a must-see! You won’t be sorry that you did… even the most advanced “spiritual” person will take something positive away from it.

I was primarily interested in the movie because of some of the other participants like Wayne Dyer, Esther & Jerry Hicks, Gregg Braden, Gay Hendricks, etc. Up until now I’ve not had much of a connection to Louise Hay and her book, but after seeing the movie I feel more of a connection to her teaching and to what she has to share.

Go on… treat yourself and watch it today. You can watch online for $5 or you can grab the DVD for $16. Just head over to Louise’s website to get all the info.

www.youcanhealyourlifemovie.com

I wish you much abundance.

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Affirmation Girl

If you’re a regular YouTuber then you may have heard of Lisa Nova. Not only is Lisa really funny, but she puts together some great videos too.

Here’s one that she did a while ago called ‘Affirmation Girl’.

It’s obviously just a bit of fun and isn’t meant in any malicious way towards anyone who may practice affirmations, but I thought it was a really good illustration of how some people interpret how to use affirmations.

It’s really important to note that in order for an affirmation to work effectively, you must mix it with emotion. Further still, you must really mean it!

When you want something so much that you acquire a burning desire for that thing, you will be prepared to do whatever it takes to succeed. That means overcoming any walls that may appear in front of you (including guys who run out shouting ‘stop following me!’)

Affirmations work when you mix FAITH with your statements. If you don’t believe what you’re saying with your affirmations then don’t continue with them! Instead, try replacing the wording.

Eg.

I’m happy and have manifested $100,000.00 (non-believable)
I’m in the process of manifesting $100,000.00 (believable)

By shifting your language really slightly, you can make your affirmations feel more believable to you. Give it a go!

If you’re interested in seeing Lisa Nova’s other videos starring ‘The Affirmation Girl’ you may like to check out her YouTube profile. Here’s another funny video from Affirmation Girl:

My Body is a Temple

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