Thursday, November 1, 2007
Your Insights
This month's card says "share your dreams". We invite you to post your interpretation of its meaning, your experiences integrating its concept into your daily life, etc.
Manifesting Your Heart's Desires
We have all felt worry, fear, doubt and desperation for a change or for a new reality. The need exists to exercise trust and to establish a relationship with a source that is not entirely unfamiliar, yet not quite understood. Then we try to live each day through actions of faith and be ever attentive to the guidance given. . . Eventually, receiving great rewards ( a harvest) and proof of what can be - today & in the future.
This is a story that reminds us of just how to manifest our heart’s desires - through elements we have discussed often this year. It is also a part of our history (in the USA) that provides proof of the efforts many have actively been engaged in this year. It is, in fact, a summary of the story that gave life to this day of Thanksgiving that is upon us. It is a story worth reviewing in a new light.
Unfortunately, as we gather with our friends and families, we will rarely remember the wisdom provided us from the events of history that occurred in 1621—the first Thanksgiving. Instead, this special day has been transposed into one of stressful traveling, elaborate menus, football games and holiday shopping. A prayer of gratitude may be offered before the turkey is served. There may be some conversation shared of the year’s happenings, but these activities are, more often than not, a traditional exercise and a method to catch those we’ve not seen all year up on our lives so we can appease ourselves with some relation with one another. Our children may offer colorful paper turkeys with notes of what they are thankful for as a part of their studies at school and we will smile. The event of Thanksgiving is for the most part then complete, with some sitting stuffed in front of the TV to watch football as they eventually fall asleep and the other members will rush off to find the best in pre-Christmas sales. (Happy Thanksgiving!)
This year we would like to encourage you to engage in the essence of Thanksgiving and to actually give thanks for all you have accomplished throughout the year. Share those stories with your family and friends. Inspire them to remember the truths of manifestation within your story of thanks giving.
Remember the power of magnification is in speaking in the light— The more our thoughts, words & actions
express the manifestation of our desires and the more we are in the place of acknowledgement (giving thanks), the more we will experience what we most desire.
As you prepare to enjoy your holiday feast, imagine what it would have been like in Plymouth in 1621—The journey you would have been on. The actions of faith that were required. Most importantly, the rewards of faithful actions and all you would have had to celebrate on this day of gathering and feasting.
True, the times and circumstances were different in 1621 and the characters are merely symbolic today, but the essence of truth remains the same— With a vision, a belief, a trust, a relationship with that in which we place our faith in and an expectation, there will be a bounty of joy to be harvested! Do not let this truth fade, nor let our own histories become one less worthy of giving thanks.
This Thanksgiving, enjoy your holiday activities, your family & friends, and give thanks for all that has
become yours and all that is coming to you!
This is a story that reminds us of just how to manifest our heart’s desires - through elements we have discussed often this year. It is also a part of our history (in the USA) that provides proof of the efforts many have actively been engaged in this year. It is, in fact, a summary of the story that gave life to this day of Thanksgiving that is upon us. It is a story worth reviewing in a new light.
Unfortunately, as we gather with our friends and families, we will rarely remember the wisdom provided us from the events of history that occurred in 1621—the first Thanksgiving. Instead, this special day has been transposed into one of stressful traveling, elaborate menus, football games and holiday shopping. A prayer of gratitude may be offered before the turkey is served. There may be some conversation shared of the year’s happenings, but these activities are, more often than not, a traditional exercise and a method to catch those we’ve not seen all year up on our lives so we can appease ourselves with some relation with one another. Our children may offer colorful paper turkeys with notes of what they are thankful for as a part of their studies at school and we will smile. The event of Thanksgiving is for the most part then complete, with some sitting stuffed in front of the TV to watch football as they eventually fall asleep and the other members will rush off to find the best in pre-Christmas sales. (Happy Thanksgiving!)
This year we would like to encourage you to engage in the essence of Thanksgiving and to actually give thanks for all you have accomplished throughout the year. Share those stories with your family and friends. Inspire them to remember the truths of manifestation within your story of thanks giving.
Remember the power of magnification is in speaking in the light— The more our thoughts, words & actions
express the manifestation of our desires and the more we are in the place of acknowledgement (giving thanks), the more we will experience what we most desire.
As you prepare to enjoy your holiday feast, imagine what it would have been like in Plymouth in 1621—The journey you would have been on. The actions of faith that were required. Most importantly, the rewards of faithful actions and all you would have had to celebrate on this day of gathering and feasting.
True, the times and circumstances were different in 1621 and the characters are merely symbolic today, but the essence of truth remains the same— With a vision, a belief, a trust, a relationship with that in which we place our faith in and an expectation, there will be a bounty of joy to be harvested! Do not let this truth fade, nor let our own histories become one less worthy of giving thanks.
This Thanksgiving, enjoy your holiday activities, your family & friends, and give thanks for all that has
become yours and all that is coming to you!
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Your Insights
This month's card says "play inside your dreams". We invite you to post your interpretation of its meaning, your experiences integrating its concept into your daily life, etc.
Manifesting Your Heart's Desires
“Be careful what you wish for.”
At one time or another we all have heard these words spoken to us in response to some dream we’ve expressed. Often those words were spoken by an elder and we quickly dismissed them, certain they were not spoken from a place of love and support, but for the purpose of some other agenda. Sometimes things worked out for us, sometimes not so much.
Today those words, “Be careful what you wish for”, have particular importance because we have become aware of the principles of manifestation from a larger vantage point. As a result, “chance” is no longer an acceptable excuse for our disappointments. The knowledge we have gained in our search for greater meaning and purpose has awakened us to our role in the experiences we have—for better or worse. We now understand that if we are not fully aware of how we project our wishes /desires or the actions we take, disappointment is a likely outcome. Our new found knowledge then can evolve and fuel great falsehoods about who we are and endanger the manifestation of our ultimate goals / of our heart desires.
Take for example : The sales rep who, for reasons beyond his immediate control, finds himself with only a limited number of products as he enters a weekend expo. He believes strongly in the company he represents and the products he sells. This is his “dream job” and he is truly grateful for the opportunities he’s been given. He knows this weekend he must achieve $2000.00 in sales. Looking over what he has on hand for products he hopes (wishes) he’ll have enough to make it through the weekend. At the end of the weekend he adds up his totals and finds he only made $1200.00 in sales, but he DID have enough product to fill his display for the entire weekend! On his way back to the
office, disappointed, he questions whether his “dream job” isn’t just that—an unachievable dream.
Was this sales rep’s experience a coincidence? An occurrence of chance? Consider what may have happened if his wish was to meet his sales goals despite the limited amount of product he had on hand. If he had taken care in what he had wished for (intended) the laws of manifestation certainly would have yielded a different outcome. And today he would not be in a different position (not because he was fired, but because of his own guilt). He would not be miserable (his words), wondering what his future could have been.
When we have become familiar with the principles of manifestation and we find ourselves in moments of disappointment, it is difficult to disassociate ourselves from recognizing the responsibility we had in creating those outcomes. It is only for those who can accept these incidents as learning experiences along a greater path that promise and light will remain bright upon the future. The more we understand the art of manifesting, the quicker the results of our efforts will present. So, when we’ve been a little careless in our intentions we can take heart and know we can quickly change disappointing circumstances IF we remain mindful of those words that have been passed down through the ages, “Be careful of what you wish for!”
At one time or another we all have heard these words spoken to us in response to some dream we’ve expressed. Often those words were spoken by an elder and we quickly dismissed them, certain they were not spoken from a place of love and support, but for the purpose of some other agenda. Sometimes things worked out for us, sometimes not so much.
Today those words, “Be careful what you wish for”, have particular importance because we have become aware of the principles of manifestation from a larger vantage point. As a result, “chance” is no longer an acceptable excuse for our disappointments. The knowledge we have gained in our search for greater meaning and purpose has awakened us to our role in the experiences we have—for better or worse. We now understand that if we are not fully aware of how we project our wishes /desires or the actions we take, disappointment is a likely outcome. Our new found knowledge then can evolve and fuel great falsehoods about who we are and endanger the manifestation of our ultimate goals / of our heart desires.
Take for example : The sales rep who, for reasons beyond his immediate control, finds himself with only a limited number of products as he enters a weekend expo. He believes strongly in the company he represents and the products he sells. This is his “dream job” and he is truly grateful for the opportunities he’s been given. He knows this weekend he must achieve $2000.00 in sales. Looking over what he has on hand for products he hopes (wishes) he’ll have enough to make it through the weekend. At the end of the weekend he adds up his totals and finds he only made $1200.00 in sales, but he DID have enough product to fill his display for the entire weekend! On his way back to the
office, disappointed, he questions whether his “dream job” isn’t just that—an unachievable dream.
Was this sales rep’s experience a coincidence? An occurrence of chance? Consider what may have happened if his wish was to meet his sales goals despite the limited amount of product he had on hand. If he had taken care in what he had wished for (intended) the laws of manifestation certainly would have yielded a different outcome. And today he would not be in a different position (not because he was fired, but because of his own guilt). He would not be miserable (his words), wondering what his future could have been.
When we have become familiar with the principles of manifestation and we find ourselves in moments of disappointment, it is difficult to disassociate ourselves from recognizing the responsibility we had in creating those outcomes. It is only for those who can accept these incidents as learning experiences along a greater path that promise and light will remain bright upon the future. The more we understand the art of manifesting, the quicker the results of our efforts will present. So, when we’ve been a little careless in our intentions we can take heart and know we can quickly change disappointing circumstances IF we remain mindful of those words that have been passed down through the ages, “Be careful of what you wish for!”
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