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What do you do when you have a setback?
Posted by: | CommentsSomeone was asking today about what it means when you take action towards what you are wanting – and things seem to be working out and then things change, and there are a few obstacles in your way.
To me obstacles are always signs that there is some lack of clarity, or somewhere that I am not fully aligned with what I am wanting. The hiccup gives me clues to what this might be. (it can be a while before I fully see it like this – but that’s what’s always there when I am ready and willing to look).
This was my suggestion to them:
“I think if I were in your shoes, I would first sit with the feelings that were coming up about things not working out. Really feel them in my body and let them be there – breath into them and let me body do whatever it wanted. Or find whatever other way I know that works for me about releasing the feelings that this is bringing up.
Then I’d see what felt BETTER from where I was – not necessarily good, but better and sit with that for a while.
Then, when the time felt right, I’d get into as far into my Vortex as I was able in the way that felt best to me – walking the dog, listening to music, listening to a great call, dancing, etc
Then I’d look for more clarity on what it is I’m wanting – contrast is always a way of showing more clearly what you do want. So I’d sit with that and see what clarity came up for me. There are often things I haven’t thought of as possibilities that show themselves to to me. Or inspiration that just pops into my thoughts – or I may realise that I didn’t really want what I thought I wanted.
Hiccups always have a message in my experience. Hope you get greater clarity after yours.
To me hiccups are always signs that there is some lack of clarity, or somewhere that I am not fully aligned with what I am wanting. The hiccup gives me clues to what this might be. (it can be a while before I fully see it like this – but that’s what’s always there when I am ready and willing to look at.”
Here’s a great talk from Abraham Hicks about contrasts:
A week in the Garden – good vibrations!!
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The Front Garden
I’ve just spent most of the week in the garden – planting 300 bushes and shrubs around the perimeter of our large, exposed, seaside garden. It’s been fabulous for so many reasons:
- to be moving my body for hours each day – especially after the long winter months when I’ve been on the computer a lot of the time.
- to be out in the fresh air
- to have my hands in the earth – as a Taurean, I love the earth and always feel an immediate change when I have my hands in earth.
- to feel the sun on my back – for most of the week……..
- …………… and today to feel the soft rain on my face
- to see the bushes in the ground and imagine them when they are in full bloom – and all the generations who will see and enjoy them after we’re gone.
- the beautiful long, hot baths with beautiful bath salts which I’ve really enjoyed deeply, and really felt that I deserved them.
- the deep sleeps from the great tiredness.
and the great thing is that I’ve also done quite of coaching, I’ve done other work on my business and I’ve listened to great calls.
Another really good thing is that things have been flowing to me , whilst I was happily in the garden – money I wasn’t expecting, donations from appreciative readers, offers to work with other people I really like, great comments and feedback. All have come without me thinking about them, because I have been doing what I wanted to do and really enjoying it – and feeling really appreciative for the life that allows me to do it.
That’s the Law of Attraction in action – when you’re in a good vibe place and just doing the things that feel good to you and are really appreciating everything – you are in an allowing place, and things flow easily to you.
The funny thing is, for a couple of years I haven’t spent as much time in the garden as I like – it’s seemed hard to get there. I can really feel that something has changed now, and I know I’m going to be spending a lot of time there this year. The bushes feel like my babies now, so I have to go and talk to them all the time!!!
What do you love to do that
Oprah and Good Vibrations
Posted by: | CommentsHere is a great conversation I just heard for the first time between Oprah and Esther Hicks. It was a long conversation, and this is the last part.
I like it in particular for 2 reasons – firstly, they’re talking about Channelling and how strange that can be for people. I used to feel it was weird too, and still do in some ways, although I absolutely love talking with Paul and the Communion of Light, and find their insights amazing and really helpful. I think I’m at the stage of believing without fully understanding – a very different place than I was even a few years ago.
The second reason I really like it is because in this part, they talk a lot about us as vibrational beings – which is why our thinking effects our reality so much. Have a listen to it – you’ll even get to hear Oprah sing a snatch of Good Vibrations!! I thought that was pretty cool.
The Law of Attraction and Making Marmalade!
Posted by: | CommentsAs I was saying yesterday, I spent the day making marmalade – a very relaxing, reflective thing to do.I had a lot of insights about the Law of Attraction, and how everything came together to in perfect ways for me to be in that moment.
Here are some of the things I noticed.
In 2009 my very good friend Lucy, asked me if I wanted to go to Seville, in Spain, for the Easter celebrations. As in a lot of Spanish towns, they have a week long celebration of Easter, with large statues of Mary, Jesus and other being carried through the narrow streets of the town. I jumped at the chance – although I knew nothing about Seville, apart from that was where the oranges come from that my mum used to make marmalade from.
Semana Santa Seville
So, we looked into how to get there, accommodation etc and it turned out to be difficult and very expensive to go there in Easter Week (Semana Santa) – a lot of tourists go.So we decided to go the week before. We booked an apartment in the city, flew out to a town nearby and got a lift to the city with friends. When we arrived at our apartment it wasn’t quite as we expected – darker, older, dirtier. The location was great though, and we thought we could make the most of it if we moved things around a bit (no resistance). We were just about to unpack, when we thought we’d ring the letting agent to see if they had anything else. She immediately upgraded us to another apartment – a much more expensive one, but for the same price. Newly renovated, great location, very helpful friendly landlord!!! We loved it.
We had a fabulous five days there – walked for miles through the wonderful streets, ate the most delicious tapas ( I can still taste some of them if I think about them!) The time that we were there, there weren’t too many tourist, so we had lots of room. We went on a fascinating walking tour of the city, and there were only four of us there, so we could ask any questions we wanted. We learnt all about Seville oranges, and I remember standing under the orange groves, remembering the smells in the house when my mother was making marmalade saying “I’d love to make marmalade” (and then I forgot all about it!
Orange Grove Walkway, Seville
We were so happy that we were there the week before Easter, and not for the very busy week of Easter. We experienced all the feelings of excitement and anticipation as the Statues were brought out of storage and put out on display in the churches. We saw the men practising parading thought the streets carrying the statues, heard the bands practising, sensed the feelings of anticipation. It was wonderful.
Back to the marmalade……….
As I said – I thought I’d love to make some, and immediately forgot about it, until last week, when I was driving down a street I never drive down, in a town that I’m not in very often and I saw a big sign in the window saying SEVILLE ORANGES now in stock – they are only available for a few weeks each year. I stopped the car and went in - the shopkeeper told me it had been really hard to get hold of them this year and she had only just put the gign up. I filled up my bag with oranges, lemons and grapefruits. The smell filling the car and bringing me back to Seville. It felt as if the universe had remembered what I had forgotten I wanted, and arranged it all for me. (which is of course, how things happen all the time).
So yesterday, I made the marmalade, and the house was filled with the beautiful smells of the fruit and sugar. I was full of happy memories of my childhood and appreciation to my mother for giving me those memories. My dad always used to help my mum with the jarring up etc, and I was remembering this very happily. My partner, has never expressed any interest in making marmalade, or had any experience of it – he happily came and helped me in the busy stage of jarring it and putting the lids on. We had a very pleasant experience together – more than I could have imagined.
Interestingly, I came down this morning to find that the marmalade hasn’t set properly – it’s too runny. It tastes DELICIOUS, but isn’t very practical to store or keep ( I’m confident, that I’ll find a way to resolve this easily). I’ve been really interested to notice that I’m not upset by that – I enjoyed the process so much, that nothing could take that away. I loved seeing all the ways that the Universe had helped arrange things. I know it’s a small thing – but it’s great to see the Law of Attraction at work in the small things – I think that really helps to align myself up with the bigger things. Breadcrumbs, Positive Evidences – whatever you like to call them.
What signs is the Universe giving you that it is arranging things for you? What desires have you expressed in the past, which are now coming true for you? Have fun seeing what ways things are showing up for you. How does your vibration feel when you think of all the delicious ways that things are lining up for you?
Are You Living Your Dreams?
Posted by: | CommentsI was just listening the radio while making my marmalade – the first time I’ve made it for years!! It feels great to be doing it, and the smell of the fruit is beginning to spread though the house. Delicious!!
John Spillane and his brother were on a radio programme, talking about their lives. John is a well known singer now, but he didn’t really become well known until he was into his thirties. He left his permanent, pensionable job in the bank to pursue his dream of being a singer – not something often done in the recession hit Ireland of the 80′s!!! He often had to borrow money from his accountant brother to keep him going.
He wrote this song to speak to all people to remind them to follow their dreams. It got me thinking of my dreams and how much I am living them – and which ones could do with a bit more oxygen at the moment! Making marmalade is a dream I dreamed last year on holidays in Seville in Spain – a small dream, but great to bringing it to realisation.
Many of my dreams have come true – working from home, having lots of time in the day for walks on the beach, having a network of people around the world who share the same beliefs and ideas that I do. Feeling the support of others. Having money to do the things that I want to do without worrying. Feeling a deepening and growing spiritual connection. They’ve come true in gradual ways – and some in ways that I hadn’t fully realised until reflecting on my dreams.
One of my big dreams that hasn’t come to fruition yet, is to surf and catch a wave. A real wave!! I know that I will, and soon. But I also realised, as I was reflecting, that I am surfing a huge wave – the wave of deliberate creation!!! I am feeling the growing swell of really getting how I create my on reality, and of allowing the things that are waiting for me to come into my physical reality. I am surfing!!!
I thought I’d give you the song here, so you can see how you are with your dreams.
I’ll let you know how the marmalade turns out!!! The smell is getting stronger and more yummy as I write!
Changing Your Vibe When You Feel in Conflict
Posted by: | CommentsThis subject has been coming up a bit over the last week. What to do if you feel in conflict in relationships – with children, partner, work colleagues, friends - whoever.
I’m sure we all know the feeling – you start to get stuck into the negatives and all the things that seem to be “wrong” in the relationship. You start an expectation that the things that displease you WILL happen – as we know, thus increasing their chances of happening!!! I remember a friend once describing, how she used to be so angry when she came home from work that her 17 year old daughter hadn’t turned the heating on, so the house would be cold. She could hear herself talking to herself about this on her way home from work – and the first thing she did when she walked in the door, was to touch the radiator to see if it was hot! Of course, it never was – she was right everytime!! When I hear that story, I can almost feel how hard it would be for the daughter to put on the heating – when her mother had such a powerful expectation and vibe that the heating wasn’t going to be on!!!!
Of course – it’s much easier for me to see this so clearly in relation to someone else’s life than it is to my own!!!! Funny that, how we have blind spots about ourselves and our own manifesting of things we “don’t want”!!.
I was listening to Paul and the Communion of Light about relationships the other day and they were talking about bringing your focus to an kind of appreciation if you are having difficulties in a relationship. Sometimes, it can feel like too big a step to appreciate the person that you are having difficulties with - although this is something that I have heard before, and it can just seem too much. But to bring SOME appreciation into your vibration can really help you to make the shift to where you want to be – and your motivation in anything is always to feel better, even if that’s not a great feeling.
Anyway, I have found it really helpful to use the appreciation exercise. You start with things around you – anything you can see physically.
So it may be something like this:
I really appreciate my car – it’s amazing that I can travel so many miles so quickly. It’s so reliable. I just sit in and it starts. It makes it so easy for me to do things – I can bring the dogs for great walks that it would be really hard to get to without the car. I can work in places I wouldn’t be able to work without a car. I can travel with children and friends and go to see shows and other things. and on and on and on.
I really appreciate my ipod. It’s amazing that a tiny piece of metal can give to access to wonderful, inspiring talks and people to listen to wherever I am. I can always choose to be inspired. I can listen to music that I want to easily. There is SO much music out there – isn’t it wonderful that so many people are inspired to make and record such great sounds.
Can you feel the energy shifting already?? I can even as I write it.
Then when the time feels right you can start to shift to people – start with people that it’s easy to appreciate and really milk what you appreciate about them:
I really appreciate my friend Lucy. She’s so thoughtful and kind. She’s funny and we always have such a great laugh together. She;s so hospitable, and I feel really at home in her house. I know that I can call her about anything and talk to her. etc, etc.
DO the same with a few more people. From time to time think about the person you are having difficulty with, and see if you can find anything to appreciate about them. If you can great – let the appreciation vibe flow to them. If not – think of someone or something else that you can more easily appreciate.
There’s no rush or hurry, nowhere to get to. Just bask in appreciation as much as you can, and be open to what happens.
A wonderful sight
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I opened my curtains this morning and saw a fox walking up the middle of the road!! I live in the countryside, so it’s not a busy road, but it was a wonderful sight.
I love foxes. I know they have a bad press, and I don’t keep chickens, so I don’t have to deal with the carnage they can wreak. I just love their energy, and their spirit. It felt like such a blessing to see one. If I am lucky enough to catch a glimpse of one jumping over a ditch in my headlights as I drive home at night – it always feels like a magical night. It’s a such a vibe lifter for me.
A few months ago, I found a young fox lying outside the house, stunned and scared. I gave it some water and then went in to call the vet. When I came back, the fox was gone. I was wondering if this was the same fox come back……
My dog Bella, who recently died, looked so much like a fox at times, that I love them even more!
As the fox was walking away from the house, down the middle of the road, I called out to it “Bella, Bella” – and it stopped and looked back at me, twice!!! It was amazing.
I have no clue, what the connection is, or if there is one – except that as we are all connected, I know there must be one!
I just know with that start – it’s going to be a good day!
What signs and signals and vibe lifters have you experienced?
Scripting Your Day
Posted by: | CommentsHow do your days unfold for you?
Do you feel as if they just happen – as if you have no control over them? Or do you have to-do-lists which keep growing? Or maybe you have great plans but life keeps sending things to disrupt you.
I find a great tool to keep my days at a high vibe level, is to start the day with 5 minutes scripting. I write mine down in a journal – but you can also say it out loud, or say it in your head if that’s easier for you. You can do it in the shower, walking the dog, or on your way to work. The earlier you do it the better, because it sets your vibration at a higher level to start the day off. If you’re used to doing it one way – in a journal for instance, and don’t have your journal one day – don’t let that stop you – just write it on any piece of paper, or say it for today.
Here are the steps:
1.Connect to your source of Spiritual Connection – to whoever or whatever, that may be. Do it in the way that feels best for you – light a candle, meditate, say a prayer, offer an invitation.
2. Identify what is up for you today. Be honest with yourself.
How are you feeling? What is bothering you? What do you need help on? What is on your mind right now?
You may have:
- a difficult conversation looming
- Financial challenges
- Health concerns
- Worries about your family
- A presentation at work
- Your car in the garage
- A concern about a pet
- etc, etc,
Just identify whatever is there, bring it out into the open and acknowledge its presence.
3. Now Script what you want to experience in your day around the things you’ve just identified.
If other things may come up as you script just include them in the scripting in the way that feels best.
Script what you’d like to experience and the feelings you want to have as you experience them. Really feel the feelings as you’re writing them, as this will activate the vibration in you. It’s the feelings that you want which are more important than the specific outcomes. The Universe often has ways of bringing us the feelings we want in more delicious ways than we can even imagine!! So stay open to the fact that you may not know the best way!
Script for small changes in your vibration, rather than great leaps!! If you reach too far beyond where you really are now, you can reinforce what you don’t have. If you move up the scale in smaller steps, you’re much more likely to get there!
For instance if you are feeling really down about the break-up of a relationship, it may feel too far away to script about a great new romance (although that might be what you ultimately want). But if you script about feeling a sense of enjoyment as you go to movie with a friend – that will bring a shift, and be going in the direction that you want to go in.
4. Go about your day – with a consciousness, that you have set up a vibrational call to certain feelings. If any things happen – make a note of them. At the end of the day, I like to review the day, and to note what happened – what evidence there was that my vibration is attracting different experiences. They may be small or big things, but they are all signs. You can write them down, or say them to yourself.
They may be things like:
- I found the perfect parking space
- A cheque arrived in the post
- Someone smiled at me when I ordered in the cafe
- I found just the right words to say in a difficult conversation
- I seemed to have so much more time than usual today.
- A friend I hadn’t heard from for ages rang out out of the blue
- I saw an ad in a paper I don’t usually read for my perfect job
- Someone contacted me about coaching after reading an article I wrote 2 years ago!!
All of these things are signs that things are moving – note them and celebrate them, and you will be sending the signal that you want more of the same.
Have fun with it!!
Thank you for the Days
Posted by: | CommentsI haven’t felt like writing for a few weeks now. Some of you may have heard that two of my beautiful dogs, Bella and Izzy died very suddenly a month ago. Somehow they ate something poisonous to them, and it killed them both. Luckily, the other two, Rosa and Ruby are fine. It’s a mystery as to how it happened, and of course it has been very, very upsetting, but we are doing better than I would have thought we would. They are all related, so poor Ruby lost her mother and sister in the space of 24 hours, and was so bereft and lost for a few weeks, it was hard to see. Luckily, we have had many friends calling, and coming to stay, and their love and energy has helped. I also was able to give her some Flower Essences, which have really helped her, and she is finding her ground again. The eldest dog, the grandmother, Rosa, is thriving and obviously much happier, now that she has more attention, and less annoyance from the other dogs.
People have been SO kind, and I want to acknowledge that here. We have been so moved and helped by so many people, some we don’t even know. There has been great healing – people with whom relations had not been great, have forgotten all that in their shock over what happened, and reached out to us. It’s been wonderful.
Izzy on the left, with her sister Ruby, and Bluebell the cat.
Beautiful Bella
So here is my rampage of appreciation for Bella and Izzy – in their lives with us, and in all that they have brought to us in their passing, and to all the people who have helped along the way. Having the beautiful spirits of those two wonderful animals in our lives was extraordinary and we are SO grateful to them.
Thank you for:
- the beautiful walks – seeing the four of you bounding with unbridled joy across the bog.
- the most deeply giving, allowing hugs from Bella.
- Bella’s most beautiful golden locks.
- Izzy’s boldness and enthusiasm and freedom of Spirit.
- The 4 part harmonies of morning Howlings!
- The trust they had in us and gave to us.
- The healing that came in their passing.
- The massive support from friends and family.
- The massive support from people in GVU and my unmet friends on Facebook.
- All the offers of healing and conversations with the spirits of Bella and Izzy.
- The daily walks on the beach with Ruby and Rosa.
and SO much more.
Thank you.
Wouldn’t it be nice if………….
Posted by: | CommentsIn Process #12 of “Ask and It is Given”, Abraham talks through Esther Hicks of a way to turn something around to a more positive feeling, if you are leaning towards the negative, and feeling some resistance.
He says “When you say, ‘I want this thing to happen that hasn’t happened yet,’ you are not only activating the vibration of your desire, you are also activating a vibration of the absence of your desire – so nothing changes for you. And often, even when you do not speak the second part of the sentence and you say only, ‘I want this to happen,’ there is an unspoken vibration within you that continues to hold you in a state of not allowing our desire.”
He then talks about playing around with things that seem a bit out our reach by coming up with “Wouldn’t it be nice if…………….” sentences. I LOVE this, and find it really helpful, if I am feeling stuck in some way. It has an almost instant affect of lighten up my vibration around things, and opening up a much greater feeling of possibility.
I was inspired to write this post today, because I’m just back from driving my lovely niece to her first Junior Certificate Exam. There are two weeks of exams for 16 and 18 years olds in Ireland now, and people can get very stressed! My niece doesn’t really enjoy school and that kind of study much, and wasn’t feeling great about going into the exams – she’s much rather be surfing!! So in the car on the way in we played WOULDN’T IT BE NICE IF………….
We came up with some great ones and were laughing having a great time on the journey, so of course, she felt much better going into the exam.
Here are some of the ones we came up with:
Wouldn’t it be nice if:
- the weather was dull on the exam days and sunny at the weekends
- if I enjoyed my exams a bit (my suggestion)
- if I enjoyed them a lot!!! (her suggestion)
- if the questions were just the ones I wanted
- I could easily remember everything I know
- if the time went by really quickly
- if I did better than I thought I could
- if my revision went really well this afternoon, and I could surf for an hour tonight
- If every time I felt stuck on a question, I asked God for help and remembered the answer
and more.
Abraham gives suggestions like
“Would it be nice if I stumbled across something that really worked for me.”
“Would it be nice if I looked like I did in this picture.”
“Wouldn’t it be nice if I discovered this to be much easier than its been before.”
Play around with it and see how you get on, and if you can feel the difference it makes to your vibrational level. Let us know some of your great – “Wouldn’t it be nice ifs…….”
