Got Water?

"The Bucket"
05.17.17.

Water. It's a Universal need for all creatures, including us humans.

Did you know our bodies are made of about 60% water? It's no wonder that when we are dehydrated, our brains start to feel fuzzy and we get lethargic and "off."

Did you also know that water molecules carry energy, and our thoughts can change the composition of the molecules?

Since our bodies are composed of so much water, it's important that we manage our thoughts so they do not effect us negatively with the energy we create.

When Dr. Masaro Emoto exposed water to a number of different words and sounds, and he found that the molecules rearranged themselves in patterns in response to the stimuli. Check out this video:

What strikes me with this research is that the health of our bodies--in connection with water--could be directly related to our thoughts, our words, and to the people and situations we choose to surround ourselves with.

And how we treat others can physically effect them, as well.

Have you ever noticed a shift in yourself, physically and psychologically, when you are around negative people? It's almost like you can feel their energy--it's real.

Our thoughts and words matter. Let's consciously choose them.

cHooSe your POWERful tHouGHts . . .

“There is nothing either good or bad, 
but thinking makes it so.”

~Shakespeare

Dear FunFreePeeples!

Last night I woke up at 12:30 and never really got back to sleep. My mind was taking over my body,  . . . hELp!

ALIEN INVASION!

This is what happens when I actually listen to my thoughts and believe them--especially when they are negative or self-critical, or they have to do with my past or worry about my future . . . 

      they get bigger

                     and BIGGER

                             and BIGGER

until they literally take over my brain and body!

I have to remind myself that I am in charge of my own thoughts and beliefs. My perception of the outside world is nothing more than a projection of my inside world, a projection of my inner world, my fears, doubts, struggles, my own darkness. Here's another amazing quote about our thoughts and feelings:

"You are not your mind, your emotions or the circumstances of your life. You are the peaceful observer of your mind and emotions that allows life circumstances to pass through and around you for your evolution to finally come to a place of total acceptance of all that is. Only the peaceful observer remains after all else fades away. Only the peaceful observer in total acceptance of what is can take action towards effectively changing anything. You are only this peaceful observer--everything else is as fleeting as the blink of an eye, choose happiness and don't buy into it." 

- Jackson Kiddard

We can choose to blame the world for our unhappiness, and our our lack of abundance and inner peace. Happiness is our choice and our responsibility because ultimately we choose our own thoughts, our own beliefs, and our interpretation of our own life events. If we are too busy focusing our time and energy on what is wrong, we may be putting our attention to the wrong stuff.

When we choose to see the many incredible things that take place every day in our world across the world, our amazing relationships  in our lives. And, when we choose to accept all for WHAT IS, we can be at peace.

Which brings me back to (of course! you guessed it!)

ACCEPTANCE & GRATITUDE.

So, to get myself of my brain and thoughts, I am going to meditate and begin a gratitude practice by silently saying thank you to all that is in my day.

Thanks for reading! Hearts!
Dana 

I Don't Mind (my mind . . .)

Click on the Image Above for a Cool Meditation

Mindful Meditation

Yesterday I shared how much power I give over to my mind. Sometimes I wake up at night and I am racing and racing in my head (or am I dreaming? . . ). It almost feels like my head is all that exists, or like I don't have a body. I know that I am NOT my mind, so why does logic and thought try to take over all the time? It's all so three-dimensional.

I know we are outgrowing this paradigm, which is probably why my mind is, well, hitting me over the head right now. Like, OVER, and OVER, and OVER. I have to somehow let it go.

Meditation helps me stay in the present, and I was listening to a podcast last week about staying at the top of the breath in meditation--even when we are exhaling. 

Guru Singh wrote a blog about staying present by staying present in our breath. Read the link below, and listen to the meditations while you are reading:

Guru Singh: Happy New Year Message

Guru Sing Meditations

Happy meditating and breathing!

Dana

iS yOuR mINd THINKING yOu?

“There is nothing either good or bad, 
but thinking makes it so. ”

~Shakespeare

Dear FunFreePeeps!

Yesterday, after listening to a bit of Esther Hicks, I wrote about the Law of Attraction, and it's connection to emotions and thoughts:

We can watch with detachment our emotions like a guidance system. We also can listen (with detachment) to our thoughts, which are our vibration--the point of attraction.

If we want to attract something different in our lives, the place to start is by changing our thoughts! And, if we are having resistant thoughts, we can change them to from resisting to allowing.

When I actually listen to my thoughts and believe them--especially when they are negative or self-critical, or they have to do with my past or worry about my future . . . they get bigger, and BIGGER, and BIGGER . . . until I feel like they're in charge of me, until they literally take over! 

 I have to remember that I am in charge of my own thoughts and beliefs, and my perceptions of the outside world are nothing more than projections of my inner experience--my fears, doubts, struggles, my own dark spots. Luckily, I'm learning that these are under my control.  Whew! 

I am learning to DETACH from my own thoughts and  OBSERVATIONS of the world around me; I'm trying to practice observing without attaching judgement or expectation about what I want something to look like, smell like, or act like. I'm taking my thoughts out of the driver's seat 'cuz sometimes it feels like 

MY THOUGHTS ARE THINKING ME!

(and not the other way around) 

"You are not your mind, your emotions or the circumstances of your life.

You are the peaceful observer of your mind and emotions

that allows life circumstances to pass through and around you

for your evolution to finally come to a place of total acceptance of all that is.

Only the peaceful observer remains after all else fades away.

Only the peaceful observer in total acceptance of what is

can take action towards effectively changing anything.

You are only this peaceful observer--

everything else is as fleeting as the blink of an eye,

choose happiness and don't buy into it." 

- Jackson Kiddard

As I wrote about yesterday, our state of wellness is always available to us because we can choose pleasant feeling states; contentment and peace are our responsibility 'cuz ultimately we choose our own thoughts, our own beliefs, and our interpretation of our own life events. If we are too busy focusing our time and energy on what is wrong, we may be putting our attention to the wrong stuff and drawing more of the yuck back to us (LAW OF ATTRACTION!).

When we choose to see the many incredible things that take place every day in our world across the world, our amazing relationships  in our lives. And, when we choose to accept all THAT IS, we can be at peace.

Which brings me back to (of course! you guessed it!)

ACCEPTANCE & GRATITUDE.

So, to get myself out of my brain and thoughts, I am going to meditate and begin a gratitude practice by silently saying thank you to all that is in my day--as if it the very best fro me and I trust the Universe.

Hearts!
Dana

dIvE iN . . .

"When in deep water, 

become a diver."

~Ralph H. Blum~

Have you ever started something, and you really didn't exactly know what they heck you were doing or where you were going? But you knew it was the right thing to do, anyway?

(FOR EXAMPLE: THIS BLOG? YIKES!!!!! 

DOUBLE YIKES? WHAT AM I DOING, ANYWAY?)

It's not so easy to continue on a path when you're not sure where you are headed. 

It takes 

courage, 

and it takes

  faith

 (which is the subject of this blog).

Sometimes we have nO iDeA what we are doing, but in our hearts it's the right thing and we can feel it! Has this ever happened to you?...It's kind of like listening to your gut, which I didn't do when I first named this blog (sEe YesTerdAy's PoSt...)

We just need to tell our inner mean voice: 

"stop bugging me!!!!!!!!!"

about why I 

can't or shouldn't 

______________ (fill in the blank).

AND,

stop listening to kids and other stuff (like the media!) that could discourage us.

Yep!#%?  I know that's tough stuff when your a kid or a teenager, and guess what? It's also tough for grown ups!

 Living from the 

IN:SIDE OUT and not the OUT:SIDE IN 

takes courage and faith.

I was watching a video from the OWN network (yeah, that's Oprah!) where she interviewed Ram Dass who is a very well-known spiritual leader. She asked him about the difference between faith and belief. He basically said that belief is up in your head (remember my first blog about listening to our thoughts? ...WATCH OUT! they might not be true!); he also said that

faith, 

on the other hand, 

comes from your heart.

Hmmmnnnnnn.

What do you want to listen to: your head? your heart?

Maybe they can actually have a conversation! Imagine that!

I don't know about you, but I have spent a lot of my life up in my head thinking...and not always trusting my heart (aka feelings). My head sometimes talks me out of listening to my heart, and I am sick of it! I am learning how to tell my head to 

ZIP IT!

As Carl Jung once wrote: 

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart … 

Who looks outside, dreams. 

Who looks inside, awakens.”

PICTURE THIS...it's a super sweaty day... and you are dying of heat!
Would you rather stand on the end of the dock for hours thinking about the whether you should jump in? Or, would you rather just jump in and get your butt into the cool water?

Just sayin'  ;) DiVe In!

Lots of LoVe,

Dana

cHaNgE yOuR vIbRatIoN . . . cHanGe yOur LiFe!

"A belief is only a thought you continue to think.

A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought,

and you have the ability --

if you try even a little bit--

 to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, 

to achieve a different vibration,

to change your point of attraction."

--Esther Hicks 

Yesterday I was listening to a CD from Esther Hicks called "Ask & it Will be Given." It is about energy and The Law of Attraction, which basically holds that whatever we put out into the Universe as a vibrational state comes back to us. I was really grateful to be reminded that we all have a natural state of well-being, and we can choose to either resist or allow that natural state.

It also discussed that we can gauge how connected we are to Source by our emotions; in other words, the better we feel, the more in alignment we are with the Yes!, the I AM. So we can watch with detachment our emotions like a guidance system. We also can listen (with detachment) to our thoughts, which are our vibration--the point of attraction.

So (this is totally mind-boggling), if we want to attract something different in our lives, the place to start is by changing our thoughts! And, if we are having resistant thoughts, we can change them to from resisting to allowing.

Wow. I think I have been seeing this backwards for much of my life. 

As Hicks puts it (paraphrased): 

We look our whole lives to control our outside surroundings and attach ourselves to what we observe; we think that when we have __________, we will finally feel better.

The reality is that our natural state of well-being is always available to us because we can learn to CHOOSE better feeling thoughts to feel better--before  our negative vibration manifests in the world in the physical form.

These are the processes we must pay attention to consciously if we wish to become intentional, deliberate creators.

We must awaken.

We must shed our unconsciousness.

We must raise our collective vibration.

In Gabrielle Bernstein's newest book May Cause Miracles, guess what she writes about? Energy. 

Here are some of her words:

"Your body is a molecular structure that is always vibrating energy. That energy is positive when thoughts are positive, and it is negative when your thoughts are negative. Our energy fields are like magnets; they attract their likeness. Therefore, if your energy is negative . . . guess what? You're attracting negativity into your life. [ . . . ] The miracle-minded approach shows you how to shift your thoughts and energy, thereby attracting positivity into your life."

Bernstein, May Cause Miracles, p. 7

So, whatever energy we put out into the Universe in the form of thoughts comes back to us in the original state--in the same form of energy. Ask yourself:

Can you shift your vibration from negative states to focus more intentionally on service, gratitude, forgiveness, and love?

Can't wait to hear from you!

Lots of love,

Dana

I think I can, I think I can . . .

Hey All--

So I am in the process of finishing organizing my writing--feels a bit clunky and new, and, to be honest, scary.
The good news is, I am telling myself that I CAN DO THIS, even though it may take a little bit of time and patience.

Anyway, like I was writing this past week, I'm not letting my fearful thoughts get in the way of taking baby steps toward my goals; and when I think about it (thoughts . . . ) I am reminded that fearful thoughts are usually about the future, and they take me away from being present and engaged in chiseling away at the task or moment in front of me.

 I am also reminded of one of my favorite childhood stories called "The Little Engine That Could" by Watty Piper. The little engine had a powerful mantra: I think I can--that served him well and led him to conquer what others believed was insurmountable. 

The power of positive thoughts can serve us in a similar way. What is your power mantra? As usual, leave us a comment and share your power!

Lots of love,

Dana

LoVe! aNd LovE mOrE . . .

Hey fun free folks! 

Have you ever noticed that many people spend a lot of their time focusing on things they don’t like or what bothers them. Sometimes, we are that person . . . either focusing on negative stuff about ourselves (mean inner (S)ELF) or other people. If we don't catch it, this behavior can drain us of our energy FAST!!!! Today let's celebrate: 

WhAt We LoVE!

I personally like to write stuff down in a journal every day. Do you have a journal? If you want, take out a piece of paper and for each category, list three things you LoVe; otherwise, just think about the stuff on this list.

3 activities you LoVe:

3 foods you LoVe:

3 people you LoVe:

3 books you LovE:

3 songs you LoVe:

3 objects you LoVe:

3 things you LovE about your life:

3 things you LovE about yourself:

Did you know that our thoughts make a huge difference in how we feel, and if we choose amazing thoughts, it can help us feel, well . . . amazing!
 What if: Every time you felt mad, or irritated, or even sad, lonely, or tired.  .  . You looked at your list of things you LoVe and chose to focus on being psyched for all the good stuff  instead of being miserable?

What amazing shifts might occur?
Just sayin'...

Lots of LoVe!

Dana

i heArT U!

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works;

if from the head, almost nothing." 

- Marc Chagall

gOOd moRning aLL!

You probably already know if you follow my blog that sometimes I get very stuck up in my head (like, as in the night before the first day of school when I couldn't  sleep!). 

One of my bffs has told me over and over: "Don't overthink it." In other words, I should stop thinking so much and follow my gut and my heart.

Which makes me wonder why I tend to overthink so much and why I get stuck up in my brain so often.

Didn't I ever really learn to trust my heart and my gut? I mean, I get that it's really never too late to learn, but jeeeesh! 

Some things, I suppose, take a lifetime of practice . . . and, at least I realize that I do this now. A few years ago, I was usually trapped in my head and I didn't even realize I was a prisoner of my own thoughts sometimes. I guess that's progress, huh?

Meditation really helps me calm my thoughts and focus on my breath--which can almost always bring me back to the PRESENT MOMENT,-- out of my worries about the future and yucky instant replays of my past.

Eckhart Tolle wrote an amazing book called The Power of Now that I listen to on my iPod. He basically tells us that we are not our thoughts and we are not our mind--we are so much greater. And he gives strategies for freeing ourselves of our negative beliefs and thought patterns. And what we need to do is stand beside out thoughts and observe them (without judgement), and not necessarily believe them . . . but just notice them, and then let them go. Kind of like sitting on the side of a river watching the current of the water flow by. Ahhhhhh . . . I feel calmer already! 

Here is a super juicy heart chakra meditation to try. It's only a few minutes--and the benefits are amazing!

I totally know that my most important journey these days is finding the path from my head to my heart. Maybe I will introduce them to each other and we can all have a lovely chat!

I hEaRt U, yO!

Dana bo bayna

mIs-TaKeS!

Hey Ho ffPeePS!---

Whew! So glad yesterday is over!. . . I really put myself through a lot and I was miserable for a good part of the day!

Brief recap of my made-up drama: I screwed up by making an honest mistake (and nobody died, or was hurt... it really wasn't a big deal--lol...), and then my super evil mean inner (s)ELF started screaming at me in my head all day long (you know, the haTeR voice that says we are so stupid, wrong . . . and should be perfeckt?--not humanly possible) and she (my mean inner (s)elf happens to be a girl) SERIOUSLY WOULD NOT SHUT UP!

Anyway, GUESS wHaT? 

I pretty much filtered everything all day long through the lens of "I'm a screw up" and I seriously misinterpreted a lot of go(o)d stuff that was going on around me. I took things personally that were not personal, and I seemed to feel all the energy drain out my feet until I was completely exhausted by the afternoon...

That mean inner (s)elf is a total (bull)y, and I don't quite know what to do about her. Funny thing the awful crap we tell ourselves . . . cuz I know she's really (me)an & (me).

How do we make friends with the icky mean parts of ours(elves)? Maybe I'll. . .

• yell back or write her an eviction notice and tell her she is fired (but that's being mean, too . . . and that's not me)
• invite her to dinner and ask her why she is so mean
• buy her a mango smoothie and hear her story find out who treated her so yucky
• hug her and make friends with her

LIGHT BULB IDEA: I wonder if she is the same part of me that criticizes and complains about other people? Yikes...I think this is huge. I could get to know her a lot better... maybe I'll start by giving her name?

Good thing we are all works in progress!  What makes Life BEautiful is there's so much to learn, yo! And we are unwritten. . . 

SosOMuchoQuiero!

;) dana

wE r iN cHarGe of uR thOUghtS!

"There is nothing either good or bad,

but thinking makes it so."

~William Shakespeare

Hey aLL!

Wow! I really have been on a huge learning curve lately. Let's just say that the drama factor has been cranked up a notch in my life lately . . . which really, I now understand, is actually a good thing!

Know why? 'Cuz it has given me the opportunity to practice DE-TACHMENT--which has been one of my blind spots (or shall we call it one of my "growth opportunities" . . . bArF!) over the course of my life!

Here's the toxic, barfy, painful, stupid pattern:

1. DRAMA ENSUES (insert any dramatic event here . . . a fight, someone says something mean about me, someone doesn't like me, I don't win, I'm sick, I'm wrong, I make a mistake . . . etc!)
2. I enter fully into drama and gets sucked up into the storm . . . trying to "fix" everything, make people like me again, convince others that I'm okay, over-apoligize, feel ashamed, try to make it up to everybody . . .etc!
3. I obsess about the drama . . . loses sleep, talk about it too much, convince others that I'm "right" . . .
4. I feel bad about obsessing about the drama . . . now it's become drama once removed . . . META-DRAMA . . . you know, drama about the drama?
5. Repeat cycle.

With the drama in the past week, I've been able to make some shifts in this shi(f)ty pattern of mine. Yeah me! I'm actually looking at the drama like a bystander--like I'm watching a bad, or slightly sick play . . . and I'm not taking the drama personally (well, actually I started to, but the I ACTUALLY CAUGHT MYSELF!).

And now, as one of my bffs would say: All is well. 

I'm okay!@ 'Cuz I'm choosing my thoughts carefully and remaining in my calm spot. Whew! 

I'm glad I'm at choice and not just RE:ACTING (this time). As Deepak Chopra writes:

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way,

ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past

or a pioneer of the future."

How do you remain at choice when DRAMA ENSUES!? Are you a prisoner or a pioneer? (leave a comment and let me know! . . .)

Still learning ;) lol!

(nondrama)dana