My walkabout with inspirational jewelry

Last November 2010 I won $1000 in the lottery. With my birthday in early December I indulged myself on a bit of a walkabout with some inner awakening courses. Being a creative entrepreneur with a signature collection of inspirational jewelry I champion myself to be the best I can be.

When I watched President Obama’s State of the Union Address; he used the phrase “information age” which really caught my attention. I have found this to be true on a level of personal development that is definitely a movement in magnitude. Never have words of the most quoted peace statements rung more true, for example: “Be the change you wish to see” by Mahatma Gandhi. With the added tool of the computer and the Internet, information can be disseminated and shared at twice the speed of the conventional distribution channels of the eighties and nineties.

I remember buying tickets to hear Scott Peck M.D. speak, weeks if not months in advance of his book, A Road Less Traveled, in 1993. This is so not the case anymore. In December of 2010 I signed up for a free telesummit of “Masters in the field of clarity”. The event was hosted by Radha Conrad, a Jungian trained psychologist who lives in Maui, Hawaii.

There were sixteen presentations in total, each interview was an hour long and I made the time to catch all of them. It was so cool. I loved it, loved it. It took me back to the eighties and nineties when my friends and I would sit in a deli or at dinner parties and talk and hypothesize on the latest books. Everyones point of view was embraced. For those that were fortunate enough to make the time to socialize, a lot of happy times were created.

Now in 2011 all I have to do is sit down, click a button on my keypad and while sitting in my living room listen to a live interview of Radha Conrad. I recognized none of the presenters names, and that is why I took the time to listen to what they had to say and what programs or books they were sharing with the subscribers on the telesummit. What I discovered was a plethora of current ideas and systems and the love, love, love of sharing their discoveries of how we can live a happier healthier life, today-now.

O.K. so I spent more than I planned of my lottery winnings, for my birthday present to myself and signed up to work with two presenters works which are as follows;

With Radha Conrad I am just in the midst of a six-week course of working through and identifying limiting belief patterns where they stem from, how to release them and rehabituate the mind, body and soul to walk in rhythm with each other. Every call starts with Radha saying “Aloha, Radha here from Maui”. Make no mistake Radha is a highly skilled psychotherapist and wades into such deep realms of the psyche to retrieve and enlighten a person that is most humbling. I am so honored to listen to her and to have been in contact with someone who has dedicated her life to helping the emotionally lost and suffering. Good stuff….
Her website displays her impressive education and her dedication to her work with the mental health associations of Hawaii. Her website is www.lifemasteryskills.

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Noah St. John Ph.D presentation of Afformations® and his work with re-wording the way that we ask ourselves empowering questions was my other course birthday present to myself. Noah’s course was a combination of online writings and audio programs. I actually finished Noah’s e-class in December, and spent several days almost sleepless because I was so excited about his work. Noah’s interview explained how to ask our subconscious empowering questions and the results in his book The Secret Code of Success, are life changing. I am so inspired to be working with my present affirmations and re-working them with the simple word why? that morphs them into an afformation® You can actually turn his book into your own workbook answer the questions and participate in the exercises in your own space and time. I personally flagged all the chapters and then flagged the exercises with a different colored flag and worked with the information in the book in that way.
Noah's website is www.successclinic.com

Here are my musings ~

If you visit my product line you will see 9 focus life paths. These are Feng Shui inspired and with the added enlightment of afformations, my mindful thought product is elevated to a new level. I am so excited. Creative with a purpose - beauty & fashion with a purpose. I will be working up positive empowering questions to compliment each focus path, as soon as I can settle down from the excitement of my walkabout.

Just to tempt you try this thought on. “What is your question that can release you to your next level?”

The most insightful information to share with you that I gained through this telesummit of Clarity, is that inner work without action is just that. Inner work. The complete cycle is to work through your self-limiting thought, and dissolve the pattern. Then, invite new energy and act upon it within your life patterns, is one complete action. The inner work is just half of the action.



In Feng Shui terms my first advice for the New Year is clear the clutter off your desk. Ask yourself these questions… Why do I need this? Why do I use this? Why do I have this? This is a physical action. The inner work in relation to this would be the desire to enhance your career. You could in addition work with a focal point word and afformation. This would benefit you by making your subconscious available to seize and act upon opportunities.

Why am I good enough to IMAGINE all that can be with my career?

The year of the metal rabbit is just a few days away, and it is a wonderful year for learning,

and succeeding…

you should be excited,

good news is on the way.

So, speaking metaphorically I have been a bit of a dolphin heading out to the dark blue water to do some investigating. I share with you these discoveries that inspire my own personal journey and for your own awakening, and to introduce you to some really amazing noteworthy people.

Have a beautiful day,



Photo: 'float into' PKM


joy,



Rena


www.talktotheturtle.com

Fun sayings, positive affirmations and powerful quotes:

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

-Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
American stateswoman & humanitarian



To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
American poet


The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship
between its men and women.

-Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
American writer & humanitarian


This is one of my favorite positive affirmations statements:

No one is destined to live a life of poverty because each of us has the ability to change everything in this life. The law of attraction is the law of creation, and it allows each person to create the life they want. Every person has their own unique circumstances to overcome, but every single person has the opportunity to achieve anything - and change everything.

-Rhonda Byrne
Creator of "The Secret"


Here is a excerpt from Deepak Chopra M. D. book,
Creating Affluence ~ Wealth Consciousness in the Field of all Possibilities

~ C" stands for carefreeness and charity. A billion dollars in the bank, without the experience of carefreeness and charity, is a state of poverty. Wealth consciousness, by definition, is a state of mind. If you are constantly concerned about how much money you need, then irrespective of the actual dollar amount you have in your account, you are really poor.
Carefreeness automatically leads to charity and sharing because the source from which it all comes is infinite, unbounded, and inexhaustible.





Have a beautiful day,




Photo: 'bison' PKM




joy,




Rena



www.talktotheturtle.com

unusual gift ideas include stop smoking

Happy New Year! 2011, Year of the Yin Rabbit

I am really happy to be heading toward the year of the rabbit as it is such a friendly animal rather than the year of the tiger which will be exiting here in a few weeks. I thought it would be a good idea to start off the new year with some wellness postings and include my personal triumph of quitting smoking some twenty two years ago. My mother actually bought me my treatment of cold laser therapy to stop smoking and although at the time I thought it was right up there with some of her other unusual gift ideas I am eternally grateful.

On the Rachel Ray show a long while back Rachel had four different people trying to stop smoking and the success story belonged to laser therapy, or cold laser therapy, and is also known as laser acupuncture, photon stimulation (PST) or low level laser therapy (LLLT).

My personal story of laser therapy was that my mother purchased it for me as a gift and all I had to do was show up. I was pretty much hooked on nicotine and just could not imagine quitting but inside desperately wished I had never ever started. I showed up at the clinic and the clinician sat me in a chair and showed me the laser pen and she pointed it on my hands in a couple of different locations (I think it was red if I remember correctly) and then some points behind my ears and head. That was pretty much it, less than half an hour and I remember leaving thinking it was the hokiest thing I ever experienced.

A few hours passed though and I felt different, like kind of a calm different and I could never remember feeling like that before. I liked the feeling; I liked it a lot. It was actually that immediate and as crazy ass as it sounds I had no craving for a cigarette, zip, nada, nothing.

I did have withdrawals however and was quite unprepared for that part of it all. I know some people say that withdrawal takes about five months, but seriously for me it was like two years. Pure insane torture, on such a subliminal monkey scratches your back level that it really defies a logical description.

That treatment was in the month of June. My life was pretty hectic then and between June and November I broke up with my boyfriend and I got really mad and picked up a cigarette and started smoking again.

I was smoking for a few days, and I remember talking to my Mom humiliated and upset not about breaking up with my now ex boyfriend, but that I had started smoking again and I was a failure. I can still hear my Mothers voice, "Don't worry dear, its guaranteed, I am going to phone over to the clinic right now." I got off the phone and shaking my head to myself in disbelief thought to myself, sure Mom only you could buy something to quit smoking that is guaranteed.

Mom phoned me right back and explained that the clinic was so happy she called and I should go over there immediately. Oh man, 32 years old and having my Mom call over on my behalf- let me tell you I have had better days. So when I got to the clinic it took the same short amount of time for the treatment, and the clinician asked me when I started smoking again and what was going on in my life.

I explained I had broke up with my boyfriend and was really mad. She pointed out that the number one trigger for restarting smoking is anger and to pay attention to those vulnerable moments in my life for future reference.

The same lovely feeling floated over my body again within an hour.

I have never had another cigarette since. That was 1989.
It almost sounds surreal to tell this story because I am still so amazed that cigarette smoking is not a part of my life, and I really did feel hopeless about it all. The fact that I had Elsie in one corner of the ring pulling me to safety and the cigarette company product in the other corner pulling me back to the other direction, is right up there with the movie, The seventh Seal. A game of chess of light over darkness.

Peope I knew had never heard of laser therapy, and I thought my Mother's money was going to a great invention that didn't have enough clients and probably folded years ago - probably the day after I left.

I got pretty excited when I saw the Rachel Ray show since I knew exactly what the successful non smokers were feeling like.

I googled laser therapy and found a clinic in Florida called Healing Laser Clinic,. They have a 1-800 number for other locations, but what caught my attention the most was that they had as an unusual gift ideas on their site-gift certificates to quit smoking.

Then I got thinking some more, because the pop up ad at the top of their site was for Groupon and I thought, "hey you Groupon advertising execs., why don't you approach all the laser stop smoking clinics in the U.S. and Canada and have one big coupon party approach for quitting smoking.


If you are looking to quit smoking or know of someone who wants to quit smoking this is a wonderful solution.

Here are some of my favorite afformations by Noah St. John:

Why is addiction to nicotine no longer part of my life?
Why am I so happy being free of cigarettes?
Why did I finally stop smoking?

Have a beautiful day,


photo: PKM



joy,


Rena


www.talktotheturtle.com

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

Fun sayings, positive affirmations and powerful quotes:

I think it’s the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you’ve done in the past.
I keep on.

-Leslie Caron
French actress




It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.

-Marlene Dietrich
German actress




You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.

-Mary Tyler Moore
American actress




I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of
friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

-Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
New Zealand writer






This is one of my favorite positive affirmations statements:

Every day, or at the very least once or twice a week, take a few minutes and focus on seeing yourself in joy. Feel yourself in joy. Imagine only joy ahead in your life and see yourself basking in it. As you do this the Universe will move all people, circumstances, and events to bring you that joy. You can't be in joy if you have money worries, or health worries, or relationship problems with friends or family. So deposit some joy in the bank of the Universe as often as you can. There isn't an investment that is more worthwhile. May the joy be with you.

-Rhonda Byrne
Creator of “The Secret”




Here is an excerpt from Deepak Chopra M.D., book,
Creating Affluence ~ Wealth Consciousness in the Field of all Possibilities

~"A" stands for all possibilities, absolute, authority, affluence, and abundance. The true nature of our ground state and that of the universe is that it is a field of all possibilities. In our most primordial form, we are a field of all possibilities.

From this level it is possible to create anything. This field is our own essential nature. It is our inner self.
It is also called the absolute, and it is the ultimate authority. It is intrinsically affluent because it gives rise to the infinite diversity and abundance of the universe.



Have a beautiful day,


Photo: PKM


Joy,


Rena

www.talktotheturtle.com