Merry Christmas note 2010

I was planning on having a slipper slipping, eggnog sipping fun time blogging over the holidays.


Change of plans.



I am unplugging the phones, unhooking myself from the computer and taking some time off and will start again with planet earth in 2011.

Best wishes to all my friends, everywhere for a blessed time for a wonderful Christmas.

Hope your holidays are filled with beautiful music and a deeply felt connection with your inner happiness.

Remember it's not the destination, its the journey.

May you find the "special" in all your moments.

God bless you.

joy,


photo: friends 'Mare and Paul' PKM

Rena


www.talktotheturtle.com

Beyond The Secret with charm jewelry

Every once in a while I am inspired to expound upon the wisdom of “The Secret” and all of the good thoughts that author Rhonda Byrne shares. I think that it would be really wonderful to meld together fashion pieces that are exceptionally beautiful, current & hip (yes I am including charm jewelry into that mix) and actually works for a better life of enjoyment at the same time. Lofty thinking there I know.

My attention was again drawn to “The Secret” where I remember reading a posting by Dr. Lee Pulos about the idea of “Affirmations”. Most recently I was happily introduced to the latest works of Noah St. John Ph.D and his work with Afformations® and his very cool interpretation of working with the focus on your intentions.

In the following read thru by Dr. Lee Pulos I am excerpting from his site, He talks about the origins or rather the inspiration of material for the well known book The Secret.

I am writing this as a two part posting with the intention of laying the ground work of Affirmations and how they can be threaded into working with Afformations®.

So here goes, to start with Dr. Lee Pulos from his blog posting:


Beyond the Secret/Dr. Pulos~

One of the most successfully popularized and widely read books that offers the attainment of whatever you wish for – financial abundance, the ideal mate or whatever other hallmarks of successful life is contained in The Secret by author Rhonda Bryne.
The key concept in The Secret is the law of attraction, which states simply that “like attracts like”. Each of us vibrates at a specific frequency giving off waves of mental energy and intent that are like a psychic magnet, attracting back into the here and now whatever the content of our mental broadcast may have been.

The Secret is based upon the Hermetic philosophy which traces back almost five thousand years to ancient Egypt. Some of the Hermetic principles were later integrated into the belief systems of the major religions including Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Paganism and Christianity.

In 1912, an anonymous group of initiates with ties to the Masonic Temple in Chicago published The Kybalian, which incorporated many of the principles of Hermetic philosophy.

Physicist Sir James Jean often stated, “The universe is simply a giant thought.” That is, in the quantum domain, there is a subtle, fundamental field of energy and information – or energized awareness that interconnects all things. In addition, everything in the universe and our world is in constant vibration and that with intention and mental alchemy, one can create and transmute the subtle energy to attract a desired outcome or goal. Implicit in The Secret as in the Hermetic teachings is the law of attraction.

However, simply thinking about abundance or attracting a loving relationship and believing you will attract it is not sufficient in most cases. One must look back and utilize the ancient teachings of the Hermeticists of meditation, prayer, invocation, alchemy along with the practices of other spiritual traditions to chart the navigation to your goals.

But, what are the secrets of embracing the power of creation? The core and secret of all manifestation is just three words: desire, expectation and imagination. All people in the world, whether you are a London bus driver, a San Francisco ballerina or Donald Trump all utilize the same three energies for achieving one’s goals or dreams.

The first key to opening the door of manifestation is that you must have a burning desire of an almost overpowering intensity of what you want. The emotion must be so strong that you feel it in your gut and in your whole body. Experience the power and energy of your desire but stop short or before the line of desperation and panic.

Many of us have experienced the constricting emotions of anger, fear, hopelessness, shame and frustration. There are no limits however, to the expanding emotions of wonder, ecstasy, excitement, joy and love. The strong positive emotions of desire can be evoked by using memory as a kind of hook. Look back into your past to some time when you felt the expansive emotions of an experience. Use memory to identify that situation, then in your mind leave the context behind but bring the emotion into the present and attach it to your goal. Amplify the emotion so that it becomes the driving motivating force, the fuel to ignite the “fire in the belly of the beast”. Even Plato recognized the importance of desire – which in his words, “must drive the soul with a reigned in craziness”.

The second key is expectation and it must be totally honest. Many people will say they expect one thing or a certain outcome but do not really mean it. Perhaps, based on past experience of “almost” attaining a goal, but not quite, there must be an old limiting belief in their subconscious that will create a cross-current, a stumbling block and “almost” is the outcome.

Expectation awakens the slumbering giant – the subconscious – which then leads to our behavior becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Yet, oddly enough, some people are encouraged to lower their expectations so they will not be disappointed. However, your expectation, of course, almost ensures you won’t succeed. What athlete says, “I don’t really expect to win” – those who don’t win – a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The third key or tool for achieving goals or changing beliefs is imagination – which along with desire and expectation creates the imagery, the mental movies of success. Mentally rehearsing in as much detail as possible is breathing life into your goal – your new program for change – your optimal future. Metaphorically, it is laying down neurological tracks in your brain reinforced by desire, expectation and the visual richness of mental movies.

The art of manifestation is therefore, like a perpetual motion machine. The more you desire, imagine and expect – the more desire, imagination and expectancy you will have. Just as the best way to get love is to give love. The more love you give, the more love you receive.



~ Are you still with me?

After I read this post of Dr. Pulos of course I googled Kybalian to see if this was really some secret. The site is actually quite detailed and immediately shares with the visitor (that would be me) that the articles are of public domain.

I found the Kybalian site a little deep in reading, so I visited Wikipedia to get the “readers digest version” which I have to say I quite enjoyed as I could get through the material and overall concept a lot faster.

To refresh your memory this blog posting is a two parter leading to Noah St. John’s work with Afformations®, and I feel this background information will help the reader (that will be you) flow through to assimilate working with Affirmations and Afformations®.

Here are the two sites to visit:

www.kybalion.org/kybalion.asp

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kybalion


I am so grateful for the work of “The Secret” and to think what a huge undertaking it was to wade through all those writings to package the idea/concept down to something that could be used by so many to empower day-to-day lives with positive thinking.

So again this set up is kind of like learning the piano. You get the basics with Affirmations and then you can play different styles of music. That is how I feel about Noah St. John’s work with Afformations® and how basically the sky’s the limit for empowerment.




Stay tuned for the next posting on Afformations®


Have a beautiful day,


Photo: ‘the way home’ PKM


Joy,


Rena

www.talktotheturtle.com

Beyond The Secret Code of Success with Affirmation charms

I can be the type of person that gets so excited that I run straight ahead with an idea and then have to backtrack to pick up the dropped pieces because I am a detail person as well.
I have found that affirmation charms work by allowing me to take eight seconds (check in time) to breath deeply and come back into the present. I then touch my charm and when I have done this several times in a row, the "thought" is locked in and then all I have to do is take a inhale and exhale and then touch my charm and skip having to say the affirmation. This is a well- known NLP (neuro linguistic programming) anchoring technique.

(note*This post is the second of a two part posting on affirmations versus afformations®. The previous post is the lay work of affirmations and this entry is on afformations® and how the two can work together).

I have worked with this concept for a while now and I quite like it. After reading Noah St. John’s latest book offering however, The Secret Code of Success , however I have a brand new twist on how I am working with affirmations. Noah St. John’s Afformations® (actually a word that he created no less), is a very simple concept and is explained by Noah St. John in the following way:

What is an “affirmation”? An affirmation is a positive statement of something you’d like to be true in your life.

What is an “afformation®”? An afformation is a positive question that triggers the mind to search for an answer to your question.

“The word “affirmation” comes from the Latin “firmare”, which means “to make firm”.
“The word “form” comes from the Latin “formare”, which means “to form or give shape to”.

Let me continue with excerpts from Noah St. John’s book: The Secret Code of Success

“Your mind has what you might call an Automatic Search Function, which means that when you ask yourself a question, your mind automatically begins to search for an answer. (Psychologists have referred to this function of the human brain as the “embedded presupposition factor.”)

The greatest teachers throughout history have taught the truth of the statement, “As you sow, so shall you reap.” This is often called The Law of Sowing and Reaping (Emerson called it “First Law”) or The Law of Attraction, which means that what you focus on (the thought-seeds you continually plant) will grow and bear fruit.

Your thoughts are seeds that you plant every minute of every day, whether you know it or not.

This is such an important part for me that I had a huge “ah ha” moment and here is the gem:

“Your subconscious mind responds to questions”.

Positive conscious statements (affirmations) are not questions.

It is so much easier to overcome negative beliefs using empowering questions than positive statements.

Try this affirmation on : “I am rich”
Now, try this afformation® out: “Why am I rich”? better still “Why am I so happy being so rich”?

Empowering vs. Disempowering questions:

Another excerpt from “The Secret Code of Success”
Most people unknowingly ask negative, disempowering questions – and are wondering why they’re not getting the results they dream of. The ultimate result of asking disempowering questions – whether conscious or not – Is that you manifest what you focus on. In other words, when you ask negative questions, you get negative results.
These questions are like: “Why am I such a loser?”

Empowering questions = the right questions:

Empowering questions cause your mind to focus on what you have vs. what you lack. Asking empowering questions leads to feelings of self-esteem and a positive self-image-because your mind automatically begins to focus on what’s RIGHT about you, instead of what’s wrong with you. Empowering questions, therefore lead directly to answers that tell the truth about Who You Really Are.
Change your disempowering questions to empowering questions. Simply reverse the negative questions to positive. For example:
Disempowering question – “Why am I such a loser?”
Empowering question - “Why am I such a success?”

The purpose of Afformations is to change your disempowering questions to empowering questions.

By doing this, you will gain conscious control of the thought-seeds you’re planting…
which will, through the Law of Attraction, change your life.

Stories of success are threaded throughout the book: My favorite is of a 13 year old girl who was a compulsive and chronic worrier. Her mother taught the young girl how to use afformations and what questions would make the most difference in her life.

These were her questions:
“Why am I worry-free?”
“Why do I enjoy a full night’s sleep?”
“Why do I put my trust in God’s hands?”
“Why do all my friends love me?”
“Why do I love me?”

The Mother happily reported that her daughter became happier, more relaxed and seemed to be at peace in her own skin. This Mother went on to say the afformations improved her own business and she started sharing afformations with everyone she met. When her husband told her that he wasn’t passionate about his work, his wife began afforming,
“Why is the right calling come to Scott?”
You guessed it, within weeks he landed a dream job.

Your life is a reflection of the thought-seeds you plant and give energy to. Your life is a reflection of the unconscious assumptions you make about life and your relationship to it.
For example if you grew up in an environment where there wasn’t a lot of money, and were made aware that the lack of money was the cause of unhappiness, you may as a adult be asking yourself unconscious negative questions:
If you’ve been unknowingly asking, “Why don’t I have enough?”
~the answer will appear as your lack in life.
If you’ve been unconsciously asking, “Why am I so unhappy?”
~ you’ll get the answer as your unhappy life.

Reverse the negative questions: “Why am I so happy?” and “Why do I have enough?”.

“The quality of your life depends on just two things: the quality of your communication with the world inside yourself, and the quality of the your communication with the world outside yourself”.

Begin to ask yourself empowering questions, and stop asking yourself negative, disempowering questions.

Using this method: Ask yourself, “Why is (what you want) true in my life now?”
By using this example you would ask yourself, “Why am I so happy, healthy, and wealthy?”
You can fine Noah St. John, at www.successclinic.com and on facebook at www.noahnation.com

~Are you still with me?

This is a lot to take in, I realize, but it is really exciting. Try taking your affirmations as they exist right now and re-word them with a “Why” at the front of them.

For example:
Why do I have what it takes to succeed?
Why do I have the courage to do what I love?
Why do I enjoy so much success?
Why do I so easily see my own worth and value?
Why am I so respected in my work and life?
Why am I so willing to give love a chance?
Why am I safe to love and be loved?
Why am I so grateful that I’m so healthy?


By working with your affirmations and re working them into afformations (forming sense) it is a brand new set of perimeters, namely, the sky is the limit.



Personally, I am taking my own affirmation charms which are beautiful and hip and adding a brand new "why" spin onto them.....

Have a beautiful day,


Photo: ‘inside looking out’ PKM


Joy,

Rena

www.talktotheturtle.com