Awaken the Genie Within

All Wrapped Up

When you're all wrapped up in yourself you come in a small package.

Just think about that for a moment. As you wrap your mind around all the issues in your life that you're struggling with or feel overwhelmed with, you keep yourself small. When you're continuously focusing on what's not working in your world it's limiting, stifling, and needless to say, frustrating.

As soon as you allow yourself to look for information outside of yourself that can raise your consciousness you become bigger. You expand. And it's through that expansion, that you're no longer so involved with yourself and all wrapped up in your past, present and future thoughts that aren't serving your highest good.

The next time you're feeling small or less than, I invite you to imagine unwrapping yourself so you have the mobility to move toward and attract to you, circumstances, situations and information that allows  you to be all that your Soul knows you are meant to be.

To Myself Vs. For Myself

Do you ever hear yourself saying; "Why do I keep doing that to myself?" What was I thinking doing those things to myself?"

When I hear clients asking questions like this I recognize it as their Gremlin speaking. Simply because "to myself" can appear like you're doing yourself a disservice and what you've done or continue to do is a "bad" thing. There's judgment in those questions. 

I'd like to invite you to consider changing "to yourself" to "for yourself". Just that one, simple change in verbage, allows you to shift from a Gremlin mindset to a Genie mindset.

Everything you experience has the ability to contain a gift in it. Having an experience for yourself puts you in a place of empowerment giving you an opportunity to awaken to a bigger picture that needs exposing.

Cheat The System, Cheat Yourself

There are plenty of people in the world who will tell you they've tried everything to help improve some area of their life and nothing seems to work. Doesn't seem to matter if it's formal therapy, coaching, books, audio programs, or seminars, according to them, life still keeps bringing them more bags of lemons.

We receive back as much as we're willing to put into the process of remembering who we really are; Infinite Beings having a human experience.

All too often, without even being consciously aware of what they are doing, people will rearrange the way they move through the information they're receiving in order to suit themselves and still complain that "it" doesn't work.

We all know that not every process and/or system is perfect for everyone. And the beautiful thing in this day and age is the amount of choices we have to discover something that feeeels best for us to assist us on our journey. Once we've found what feeeels best, the key is to stay the course and not to manipulate it in a way that makes it more comfortable just because it's bringing up feelings we're not enjoying in the moment.

When we move through those uncomfortable feelings, we've expanded, allowing us to be ready to move on to our next level of expansion that will ask us to stretch ourselves yet again.

The bottom line is this; When you cheat the system, you cheat yourself.

Jumping For Joy!

Yesterday I jumped for joy from 13,000 feet above ground. Out of an airplane! The experience is impossible to put into words and truly one of the most amazing moments of my life.

If you're looking for a huge way to awaken your Genie and reconnect with your Soul, this is by far, the quickest way to do just that! :-)

Thought you might enjoy watching the video of the jump:
http://www.realxstream.com?XStreamID=25049&Vid=1

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Listen With Your Heart

It's so apparent to me when someone listens with their heart vs. their ears as I'm talking to them.

When heart listening is present several things seem to take place:

1. There is no judgment around what's being said.
2. The questions that get asked have more depth.
3. The compassion is more prominent.
4. The desire to understand at a deeper level exists.
5. There's no urgency for the listener to have a turn to speak.

Being listened to from this place is truly a gift. So I would like to invite you to give the gift of listening from your heart. During the next 24 hours, no matter who is speaking to you, make it a point to listen with your heart. It's a remarkable experience and you just may find yourself opening up and appreciating someone you had judgment around or brushed off in the past.

Please feel free to share your experience with me privately or through this post.

Collapse The Stories

Last week I found myself so deeply entrenched in my "story" that it had me paralyzed from taking action for 2 days. I wanted to make a phone call to someone I didn't know. Someone I wanted to connect with on a business and personal level and I found myself creating all sorts of stories about the outcome that didn't exactly leave me feeling good. The deeper I got into my "story" the more my fear took over. It got to a point where I was picking up the phone, telling myself to just dial already, only to find myself hanging up before I finished dialing.

On day 2 I finally remembered that everything I was telling myself had absolutely no truth to it! My Gremlin was completely manufacturing any and all thoughts about the phone call.
Remembering this truth, I dialed the number feeling more at peace inside.

The real story? I connected with someone who was a joy to talk to and an opportunity for an alliance was created that will serve both of us.

I want you to know, even though I've been doing spiritual growth work for more years than I care to admit at this moment, I'm as human and vulnerable as any of you reading this. We can all find ourselves so caught up in our stories that it's too easy to not take the necessary actions that can bring us new opportunities and wonderful surprises for our Soul's journey.

It's absolutely critical to collapse the stories you find yourself trapped in if you're going to make any real headway for yourself. All you need to remember is that any negatives you tell yourself before a situation has even unfolded is a big fat lie. It's a complete Gremlin fabrication.

If you end up with a less than desired outcome, don't worry about it! You did a great thing. You took action! Now you get to move on from that moment in time instead of staying in a state of anxiety from no action. And, what's really important in this scenario, is that you don't create another story about the outcome you just experienced. It's an outcome and nothing more. Next!

Stick to the facts. You got a no. End of story. Your boy/girlfriend said it was over. End of story. You didn't get the raise. End of story. They rejected your proposal. End of story. You didn't get the house. End of story. The list can go on and on. The sooner you end the story the sooner you can move on to the wonder and delight that awaits you for your higher good.

Yeah, but.....

Yeah, but... We've all heard these words come out of other's mouths while talking with them. And, it's certainly come out of our own mouths on numerous occasions.

A few days ago I found myself immersed in "yeah buts" from a friend of mine. She's been thinking about selling her business and working from home. It's a great move for her and although she knows this too, it seemed no matter what I said to support and encourage her dream, she had a "Yeah, but" for all of it.

You know what happened? I became frustrated and was no longer willing to carry on with the conversation. I explained that her "yeah buts" were starting to squelch my enthusiasm. She looked at me blankly and then shared that she had no idea she was saying that. After thinking about What I said for a few seconds, she realized she did the "yeah but" scenario a lot when it came to big decisions in her life.

"Yeah, but" is a sure way of squelching any dream. "Yeah, but" interFEARS with magnificent possibilities. "Yeah, but" is limited thinking at its best, "Yeah, but" is the beginning of a story that will not serve you, and last, but not least, "Yeah, but" just happens to be one of your Gremlin's favorite two words.

Notice how often a "Yeah, but" flies out of your mouth during the next week or two and ask yourself what it is you're not letting in because of those two little words.

Thinking vs. THINKING

Several years ago Harvard and Yale did a study revealing that the average person thinks over 50,000 thoughts a day. No real surprise considering our minds can be an ongoing chatterbox. What is worth noting is they also mentioned that most of the thinking was negative.

So that got me thinking. I thought to myself, "Well, there's thinking and then there's THINKING. The thinking in lower case letters would be the limited thinking and the upper case letters represents the expansive THINKING.

Next time you're thinking, look more closely. Are you simply thinking the same thoughts over and over again that don't necessarily inspire you or give you an opportunity for growth? Are you thinking thoughts that fall into the mass consciousness?

Or, are you THINKING along the lines of the individual Divine Being that you are giving you an outlet to a whole new world of possibilities and all that you can become.

I invite you to THINK about it.

Truth In A Fable

A long time ago there lived a king who announced he will give a great reward to the artist who paints the painting which best depicts the term peacefulness.

Many artists tried their luck. The king looked at all the pictures but only two of them really appealed to him, and now he had to choose one of them.

In the first picture, a still and serene lake was painted. The lake was a perfect reflection of the chain of mountains which surrounded it. Above it were blue skies spotted with white sheepish clouds. Everyone who looked at the painting thought it was the perfect image of peacefulness.

The second picture had mountains in it too, but these mountains were bald and rocky. Above them was a dark and cloudy sky split by lightning and a heavy rain fell to the ground. On the side of the mountains, a gushing waterfall. This picture didn't look peaceful at all. When the king looked once more at the picture he saw behind the waterfall a small plant growing out of a crack in the stone. Inside the bush was a small bird nest. There, in the middle of the bustle of the foaming water, a bird sat on its eggs.

Which picture did the king choose?

The second. And he explained:
Peacefulness doesn't necessarily exist in a place where there is no noise, no disorder and no hard work. Peacefulness means being in the midst of these things, and still staying calm inside ourselves, and in our heart.
Author Unknown

Where's Your Attention?

While waiting for my car at the Honda service center recently, I witnessed something that just reaffirmed to me how willing people are to turn their attention toward a tragedy and be completely swallowed up by it in the moment.

There were 5 people, plus myself, in the waiting room. Each person was reading a book. When I walked in and sat down no one paid any attention. As I sat, I noticed the TV in front of us showing some morning show. Choosing to ignore it, I started reading my book.

About 5 minutes passes when I see in my peripheral vision everyone's heads lift from their books at the same time. I looked around and the expression on their faces ranged from horrified to complete sadness. One woman actually had tears in her eyes. They were looking at the TV.

When I turned to the TV I saw the news was on, showing something horrendous. When the segment ended they murmured a few words to one another, shaking their heads and went back to reading.

Although this may seem like no big deal, I promise you it is. The information you feed your heart and soul is critical to your ability to make the changes you want to create in your life. If you're going to pay attention to things that hold a lower vibration then you need to be really sure you can simply observe those things without allowing it to have a negative emotional effect on you. If you can be charge neutral about what you're observing, then go for it. If you can't, put your attention elsewhere.

It's really that simple.