NOW YOU ARE FREE

“don’t poison your future with the pain of the past” (Mike Mordock)

Take a fresh bath tonight, spend some time in the tube, let your heart melt like water; wash away the hatred, pain, and anger. As you wipe, take a moment, look back and see them flush away, draining through the flexible connector; feel them disappear, turn around and smile, its over, now you are free.

Welcome to the world of love, laughter, and kindness. Welcome to the world of freedom.

Let this therapy be a light to you. Amen.

Note: “the tragedy of life is what dies inside of a man while he still lives” (Albert Einstein)

What are you lacking?

"Money cannot fill an empty soul."

-- Julia Cameron & Mark Bryan

Where in your life are you experiencing lack?

Are you experiencing a lack of self esteem? Of humour? Of energy? Of love? Of money and abundance?

Whatever you believe you are missing, it is there to be claimed. The first step starts with shifting your perspective. See the glass as half full rather than half empty. Focus on accepting what you DO have, and more will be attracted to you.

"Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth."

-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Unlocking the golden key of accomplishment

Most people miss opportunity because they always expect it to come fully ripped and ready for consumption.

The truth is, most times opportunity don’t come full in its whole figure. It throws a finger, if you grab it, the wrist will appear, if you grab it, the hand will be revealed, and if you persevere, you just might end up unlocking a golden key.

Note: “small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises” (Demosthenes)

What blocks connection?

"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."-- Joseph F. Newton

We experience soul when we really connect with life -- when we stop and consciously experience what is happening.

We lose soul with:

- resistance - to anyone or anything
- superficiality - we avoid depth of experience
- control - we try to control the relationship
- selfishness - we remain self-centered.

Each of these attitudes fosters separation rather than connection. Once again, soul lives in relating.

Take time to become aware of, and perhaps journal on how you relate to other people and things in your life.

"We have to decide for ourselves what’s nourishing to our souls, and do those things over others."

-- Thomas Moore

Take time to be still

"Work is not always required ... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."

-- George MacDonald

When was the last time you did absolutely nothing?

Our world is so addicted to productivity that we feel guilty if we’re not doing something. But taking time daily to be still and inactive opens us to the spacious present. It nurtures and restores balance. Give yourself a regular gift of inactivity.

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."

-- Sir J. Lubbock

Need a spending plan?

"Paying off your debts and saving money is less stressful than spending the rest of your life with your back against a financial wall."

-- Ron Hiebert

How are you choosing to spend your money?

Do you have a spending plan? A spending plan feels quite different from a budget. With budgets, we can feel victimized. They can heighten our poverty consciousness.

With a spending plan, you look at how much you earn and then decide how you WANT to spend the money. With a spending plan, you claim your power to decide, to manage, to make your finances work. You can choose to spend your money differently so your life works more smoothly.

"True financial freedom is not only having money, but having power over that money as well."

-- Suze Orman

Think for yourself

"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."

-- Rita Mae Brown

Where do you need to think for yourself?

When we begin to cultivate awareness of our thoughts and emotions, we begin to see just how much we live according to other people’s and society’s beliefs and actions. Don’t get upset by this. Just get in touch with how you really think and feel inside and begin to express your authenticity.

"Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to."

-- Alan Keightley