Awareness is One of the Keys to Harmonious Living: How Aware are YOU?

 

 

 

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Our experiences are determined by our choices.

Our experiences are NOT determined by our circumstances.

  

When we awaken our inner and outer senses we will realize that we are not victims of our surroundings. We must become alive in every cell of our body and alive in every thought in our mind and every feeling in our heart. We have a grand opportunity to be a active participant in the creation of our life experience. This begins as we practice AWARENESS.

  

How do we begin to practice awareness? We develop awareness by noticing all that we do, say, encounter, and experience. This involves focusing our attention. As we become conscious of all that little things that go on in and around us, we realize that the seemingly trivial things combine to create our reality. The easiest way to access our awareness is to notice where our attention goes from moment to moment. Once we notice where our attention is being placed, we can make the conscious decision to leave it where it is or move it elsewhere (if it isn’t serving us.) If our attention is focused on an inharmonious aspect of our life, we can choose to redirect our focus. We are limitless, creative, spiritual beings who have the potential to create or dissolve anything in our lives!

  

To increase the amount of inner peace we experience, we must begin to observe our emotions, our actions, our reactions, and our thoughts with non-judgment. As we monitor our behavior without criticizing ourselves, we gain the opportunity to make more conscious, wise, and beneficial choices the next time around. Similar situations will continue to reappear in our experience until we learn to make the decision and the choice to respond in ways that are healthy and positive for our soul’s growth. Therefore, we can rest assured that we will always have another opportunity to express the wisdom we’ve gained.

  

Awareness happens when we begin to notice where our consciousness flows from moment to moment. It is helpful for us to notice any repeating patterns of behavior, situations, conflicts, and turmoil that we experience. Once we become aware of the life we are creating by our patterns of thinking and reacting, we gain the power to make the necessary changes that will bring peace into our daily existence. We have the opportunity to choose a state of peace and harmony within ourselves no matter what is going on outside of us.

  

Turmoil and struggle are commonplace in our surroundings. It is important that while we feel compassion for what is taking place, that we do not allow ourselves to be pulled down by external disturbances. Our daily challenge is to remain calm, centered, and balanced in the face of any chaos or confusion in the world around us. We always have the choice to remain calm and non-resistant. Our state of happiness is determined by our awareness and ability to remain unruffled no matter what is going on outside of ourselves.

  

Are YOUR typical ways of reacting to the circumstances in your life bringing you peace or frustation? Your answer will reveal and indicate any changes you need to make. If we wish to play a role in the active creation of our lives, we must begin to take responsibility for our choices and make decisions that strengthen our emotional and spiritual growth. As long as we are blaming others for our problems and for the  circumstances of our lives we will not experience true fulfillment.

  

Taking full responsibility for our current life conditions takes courage!

It isn’t the easiest road to take because it requires

more strength and discipline to forgive the injustices and trespasses of others than it does to hate, feel righteous, or win.

  

  

As we learn to accept the power of our choices we gain a great deal of inner strength. That inner strength affects our external relationships and circumstances in a very positive and transformational way. When we begin to live from a peaceful center, with awareness, we naturally and beautifully raise the vibration of others because we have raised our own. When we radiate a positive, loving attitude towards ourselves and towards life, we will receive the same ten-fold! We have been given the means to discover our amazing personal power and potential. We cannot make this discovery a responsibility of others. We cannot make ourselves responsible for another’s state of mind. What we CAN do is embrace the keys to harmonious living which lies deep within each and every one of us. Those keys are accessed with AWARENESS.

  

Wishing you a beautiful day filled with conscious awareness, joy, love, and inner peace.

  

Much love,

Cari

  

 

ARE YOU READY TO CREATE CHANGE NOW?

Happy Monday, you beautiful human magnet! It’s the beginning of a new week and an opportunity to create your life on purpose, with positive intentions, and deliberate decisions that will magnetize all the success you desire.

  

ARE YOU READY TO CREATE CHANGE NOW?

  

Are you ready to make the shift from being the victim of your life to being the hero and master creator of your destiny?   

• Are you ready to shift from a place of stagnancy to a beautiful place of expansion, growth, and true fulfillment?
  
• Are you ready to move beyond your fear and take that leap of faith into the powerful realm of limitless possibilities?

• Are you ready to see yourself as being worthy of investing the time, energy and commitment that will catapult your personal development to a whole new level of awakening and living?

I am thrilled to welcome TWO of the most empowering women I know to today’s radio show! It’s going to be a power-FULL hour of spirited and enlightening conversation with Lorraine Cohen and Anita Pathik Law regarding the “Shift from Desperation to Inspiration!” 

 

I invite you to join us as we delve into a powerful discussion on how to shift from fear to faith!

  

Today you can choose to awaken to and align with your soul’s purpose so that you can begin living the prosperous, abundant, joy-full life that you deserve. Tune in to the show TODAY, Monday FEB. 8TH, from 3-4 PACIFIC, 5-6 CENTRAL, and 6-7 EASTERN.

  

Lorraine is the Founder of Powerfull-Living, a spiritual minister, life coach, published writer, speaker and radio broadcaster who is recognized as a cutting-edge expert in her field. Anita is a coach, hypnotherapist, published author, speaker, an Ordained Minister of Spiritual Peacemaking and a powerful voice in the consciousness movement. Together, THEY ARE A DYNAMIC DUO, and they provide powerful insight into removing barriers to success.

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ARE YOUR EMOTIONS MAKING YOU SICK?

ARE YOUR EMOTIONS MAKING YOU SICK?

  

A recent health scare in the life of someone very close to me has me reexamining a topic that I’ve written on many times in the past fifteen years. I felt compelled to address the subject today and remind us all of the immense power that our emotions (current or repressed) have on our body and our health. In reality, the condition of our health is a direct reflection of our awareness, attention, and understanding of ourselves as powerful, creative, multi-dimensional beings. The more we are able to accept ourselves as physical AND spiritual beings, the easier it is for us to accept responsibility and control over our health.

 

There are many paths to spiritual development and all of them explain that healing comes from within, not without. We are unique spiritual beings temporarily housed in physical bodies and we have our own energy system that plays a large role in determining our life experience. We exist on a multitude of levels. These include physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of our being, which interact and exist simultaneously. ALL of these dimensions work together and affect our overall health.

 

Our energy system has a fascinating and enormous capacity for self healing and self rejuvenation. It begins with an awareness of our predominant thoughts, emotions, and expectations. We can actively participate in the maintenance and healing of our bodies by broadening our perspective, opening our mind, and becoming aware of our personal power to create change in our lives and our physical bodies. We need to treat and give our bodies the attention they deserve. We need to listen to and notice the subtle, yet powerful signs we are given each day. We also need to recognize what emotions and thoughts might be limiting us and causing us to feel stressed and ultimately- sick.

 

It is unfortunate that modern approaches to medicine and healing can create a vicious cycle. It begins with us developing a physical problem. In many cases, we are unaware that this is a symptom of a larger, internal issue that has been left unhealed. An unresolved issue (emotion) intensifies and finally manifest as a physical symptom in order to get our attention! Must physical symptoms originate from an emotional, spiritual, or mental block that has been left unhealed or repressed. Over time, guilt, unresolved emotions, or resentments create an inner struggle that intensifies and finally manifests in the physical body. Modern medicine deals with the physical problems by giving medicine. Typically, the physical symptoms disappear, but later something else pops up because the root of the problem was not treated. The next physical symptom or problem is then treated and the cycle continues. To escape this cycle, we must begin to think about our health in a new way.

 

Pills can relieve physical or emotional discomfort, but they also mask the cause or source of the illness that was created in the body. Medication is necessary and very beneficial in some cases, but isn’t the goal to discover the underlying issue that is causing the dis-ease? Opposed to popular belief, most physical dis-ease does not originate IN the physical body or from the environment. Most of our diseases stem from a meta (beyond) physical source. It is actually the non-physical aspect of ourselves and its level of balance that makes us susceptible to manifesting a problem. It is our thoughts, attitudes, and imbalanced emotions that deplete our natural physical immunities in ways that make it more likely for us to get a cold, virus, or manifest some other problem. This may be a new concept for many of us to embrace due to the common ways we are raised to understand sickness in our culture, yet it explains why two people may be exposed to the same virus or sickness and only one of them picks it up!

 

If we are not flowing easily with the rhythms of life, we prevent ourselves from experiencing life’s natural changes. When this happens, stress is created and intensified internally, whether we are aware of it or not! The key is becoming aware because this is the root cause for most illness or dis-ease. If we care to play a role in the healing ourselves, we have to begin to view our physical conditions as symptoms only. Our emotional and mental patterns are what trigger many of the physical symptoms we experience.

 

We can ask ourselves the following questions: Are there any feelings of resentment or unforgiveness that we’ve been suppressing? Are we preventing ourselves from flowing with the natural desires of our soul? Are we avoiding something?

 

The bottom line is that if we don’t take into consideration the mental and emotional conditions that could have potentially served to create the physical problem, we are only placing a symbolic band-aid over the problem. There are no quick cures for healing from the inside-out. The quick cures, such as medication, only heal our symptoms. Internally, there is still energy being blocked in a particular part of our body. If we ignore our repressed emotions or ignore the negative patterns of thinking and behaving, we will be rudely awakened at a later date when an illness takes over our body.

 

WE are solely responsible for our thoughts, feelings, and emotions. All of our physical symptoms are meant to awaken us! They serve as wake up calls from our physical body, which alert us to an imbalance which has occurred. Once we embrace our problems as opportunities to learn, grow, and move beyond any struggles or blocks in our consciousness, we can finally begin to heal ourselves in a complete way- from the inside-out.

 

It is crucial for us to recognize that every thought, word, action, and reaction is of great significance because they affect our energy flow and manifest outwardly, in physical ways. We can positively benefit our health with our choices. We shape the nature of our future health by our current feelings, thoughts, and beliefs! When we become aware of and change our state of consciousness, we affect our physical health. Health and healing is a process of becoming “whole” again. It’s a process of awakening and examining ourselves in a complete way. Wholeness is not expressed or experienced in physical ways alone.

 

Our entire being plays a role in our health. Wholeness refers to our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of being. If we ignore any one of those aspects, we are preventing ourselves from experiencing a natural state of perfect health. We can break free of any holding patterns in our lives so that we will feel whole, unlimited, complete, and free! We are worth the effort!

 

Wishing you a beautiful day.

Much love,

Cari

 

FYI: Please join me and my incredible guests, Lorraine Cohen and Anita Pathik Law on my radio show tomorrow, Monday the 8th, from 3-4 Pacific. We will be having a power-full discussion on shifting from fear to faith and shifting from DESPERATION TO INSPIRATION!

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Monday’s Radio Show: Shifting from Desperation to Inspiration!

Are you ready to make the shift from being the victim of your life

  to being the hero and master creator of your destiny?   

• Do you hear your soul calling you and urging you to tap into your greatest passions and potential and shift from a place of stagnancy to expansion, growth, and true fulfillment?
• Does fear of the unknown or the fear of failure  (or even the unconscious fear of success) prevent you from taking that leap of faith into the powerful realm of limitless possibilities?
• Do you see yourself as being worthy of investing the time, energy and commitment that will catapult your personal development to a whole new level of awakening and living?

   I have the honor and privilege of welcoming TWO amazing women to Monday’s show! It’s going to be a power-FULL hour of spirited and enlightening conversation with Lorraine Cohen and Anita Pathik Law regarding the “Shift from Desperation to Inspiration!” Please join us as we delve into a powerful discussion on how to shift from fear to faith!

  

Do you want to awaken to and align with your soul’s purpose so that you can receive your innate wisdom and gifts? If so, tune in to the show on Monday from 3-4 PACIFIC! Lorraine is the Founder of Powerfull-Living, a spiritual minister, life coach, published writer, speaker and radio broadcaster who is recognized as a cutting-edge expert in her field. Anita is a coach, hypnotherapist, published author, speaker, an Ordained Minister of Spiritual Peacemaking and a powerful voice in the consciousness movement. Together, they provide powerful insight into removing barriers to success.

I welcome your questions, comments, and feedback! Just click the comment button on my web-site at http://www.CreateChangeNowRadio.com or rate, comment and hear the show on Itunes!

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Wishing you a fantastic weekend!

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WE ARE THE WORLD!

WE ARE THE WORLD

 

I have the lyrics to the song, “We Are The World” lingering in the back of my mind this morning. I bought it on Itunes recently after so much new attention had been placed on it with the tragedy in Haiti. I love that over 80 of music’s biggest stars gathered together for a charity remake of the song in support of the Haitian earthquake relief. Being re-introduced to the song, I was casually playing it here at home yesterday, and was surprised when 14 year old daughter entered the room and said “Wow, I love that song!” What a beautiful thing to hear since I had loved that song when it was first recorded almost twenty five years ago for the African famine relief when I was almost the same age as my daughter is now! It made me realize what a timeless song it is due to the lyrics that seem to effortlessly touch our hearts and awaken that sense of unity, passion, and love that runs through us all. This morning on the drive to school, my daughter even asked if I could play the song again. I was beyond thrilled at the request! It’s a much more soothing song that many of the songs she tends to listen to at her age! I was also touched that she felt the beauty, purity, and power behind the lyrics and the music. There was a beautiful moment of not just mother-daughter bonding, but of recognizing the power of music and it’s ability to strike a chord in us all while stirring up emotions of connectedness and oneness.

 

All of this got me thinking about the choice we have to make today a better day! We can make this world a brighter place with the energy that we send out through our thoughts, actions, reactions, and expectations. Isn’t is amazing to think that so many of us think that the power to influence our lives lies outside of us? So many of us walk around waiting to see how the external circumstances of our day will shape our mood and determine our reality. Wouldn’t it be even more amazing if we approached each day knowing that we have the power WITHIN us to mold, shape, and create the external circumstances of our day— instead of them molding us! It’s the difference between living from in the inside-out and living from the outside-in. We aren’t victims of our reality unless we choose to believe that we are. It can be so incredibly liberating when we embrace our role as the master of our destiny! Our spirit soars blissfully and beautifully when we recognize it’s power to guide, direct, and protect us in the most brilliant and natural ways.

 

We are each individual sparks of energy that have the creative power to offer whatever we wish to the world. Each of us has an important role in adding to the overall energetic nature of the planet. It is our personal responsibility to make our individual lives a beautiful reflection of that which we wish to see in the world. We can’t expect to offer negativity, greed, anger, pessimism and judgment and see something different reflected back to us. If we offer hostility, we will only be able to recognize hostility in the world. We have to recognize that we must do our part in being that change we wish to see in the world and choose (consciously and deliberately) the feelings, thoughts, and actions that will support the creation of a loving environment.

 

Wishing you a beautiful day filled with conscious decision-making that will allow for you to feel, witness, and experience the fullness and richness available to you now and always.

 

Much love,

Cari

 

P.S.  I have the honor and privilege of welcoming two amazing women to Monday’s “CREATE CHANGE NOW” radio show! It’s going to be a power-FULL hour of spirited and enlightening conversation regarding our ability to create powerful, positive, lasting change in our lives!LORRAINE COHEN and ANITA PATIK LAW will join me as we delve into a powerful discussion on how to shift from fear to faith and shift from being a victim of your circumstances to being the hero of your own life story. Do you want to awaken to and align with your soul’s purpose so that you can receive your innate wisdom and gifts? If so, I invite you tune in to the show from 3-4 PACIFIC. Lorraine is the Founder of Powerfull-Living, a spiritual minister, life coach, published writer, speaker and radio broadcaster who is recognized as a cutting-edge expert in her field. Anita is a coach, hypnotherapist, published author, speaker, an Ordained Minister of Spiritual Peacemaking and a powerful voice in the consciousness movement. Together, they provide powerful insight into removing barriers to success.

I welcome your questions, comments, and feedback! I feel so blessed to have such amazing listeners! Your praise for the show warms my heart and inspires me greatly!

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The James Arthur Ray Tragedy: Feeling Compassion

The topics of spiritual authenticity, accountability, compassion, and soul growth are all weighing on my heart, mind and spirit this morning after hearing the sad news of self-help guru James Arthur Ray’s arrest yesterday. I posted a message on facebook last night right after hearing the news and was amazed to wake up and find so many heart-felt responses from friends and colleagues opening their hearts and offering their feedback on the subject. I appreciate all of you who shared your thoughts and feelings.

  

As I’ve matured over the years and grown into a more self-aware human being, I am not one to just quickly judge an individual and pound on them when they are down, for I aim to see the bigger picture and recognize that there are always soul lessons involved in any situation. Observing things from this broader perspective doesn’t make the situation any less sad or horrific for both James Arthur Ray or for the three individuals who died that day in the sweat lodge, but it does allow me to open my heart and have compassion for everyone involved.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with what happened, James Arthur Ray, a very wealthy and successful best selling author, speaker and personal development expert who owns a multi-million dollar corporation was holding a spiritual retreat in Arizona. His retreats focused on creating wealth and enlightening others on how to create a millionaire lifestyle. His original messages were genuine, powerful, and authentic and it seems somewhere along the way, that authenticity may have gotten distorted. Money and power can play games with our minds and spirits. I’m not saying that’s what happened with James Arthur Ray, but it seems that may clearly be a possibility. It was a very expensive retreat (I believe in the range or 9,000-10,000 per person) culminating in the group joining together at the end of the week in a sweat lodge that was poorly constructed/created. Three people died in that sweat lodge and James Arthur Ray is now being held accountable for their deaths because he was their “leader” and the one they entrusted their hearts, minds, bodies, and spirits to for the period of time that they were attending this retreat. His attorney says the claims are unjust. I wonder how all of you feel…

I can completely understand that for many of us our first reaction is to lash out and blame the man at the forefront of this situation. It appears he certainly did not take the necessary precautions nor did he appear to take any real, authentic accountability for the tragedy as it was happening or during the hours, days and months following the incident. I am filled with sorrow and compassion for the families of those three beautiful souls who lost their lives that day. I am also filled with sorrow and compassion for James Arthur Ray. His human journey as a spiritual being housed in this physical body is just like ours. This tragedy is public and therefore open to much more ridicule and criticism that it would be otherwise. That being said, I don’t want to — in any way– undervalue the extremely horrific situation or the loss of life– but I do want to step back and examine the lessons involved here for everyone involved.

  

I have been made aware of the family background and history of Mr. Ray and now have a better understanding of his passion for self denial, fasting, and extreme personal and physical risk to reach “nirvana” by pushing the limits and trying to prove to himself the power of his limitless nature and abilities. That doesn’t condone the behavior or the possible element of ego or greed that may have been involved. This appears to be a man who has sought harmony (within himself) all his life. I have compassion for the journey of everyone. Some lessons are more profound than others. I also have to wonder how enlightening the event was for so many of James Arthur Ray’s “followers.” Perhaps there is a lesson for everyone involved. Isn’t there always?? I know that it’s important to have others that we look up to, respect, admire and learn from. I also recognize that there is a fine line between being inspired by someone and becoming a follower.

  

I believe the key for any of us that devote our lives and careers to promoting spiritual growth, awakening, well-being etc is to remind our readers, clients, and our audience that THEY must be their own leader. They must rely on their own intuition, their own power and their own strength to conquer and master their life/soul lessons. We are meant to simply serve as catalysts that awaken and remind others of the immense power within them to take responsibility and accountability for the quality of their lives.

  

My heart and my love goes out to everyone involved in this tragic situation. May everyone emerge with a renewed sense of awareness, compassion, and love- for themselves and others.

 

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THE POWER OF BELIEF SYSTEMS!

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THE POWER OF BELIEF SYSTEMS

We weren’t born with belief systems in place! We created them! Just as we created them, we can also RE-create them if they aren’t serving us. Sadly, many of us are severely limiting our life experience due to the belief systems that were developed and ingrained in us since childhood. Wouldn’t you like to break through those barriers and finally know what it feels like to move beyond your self-constructed limitations and live in a world of unlimited possibilities?

So, how do you go about making that happen? Well, it all begins with your thoughts. Your thoughts created your belief systems. Everything you were ever told (repeatedly) and every reinforced idea about the world that was thrust upon you served as building blocks for your belief systems. As an adult, you now have the strength, awareness, and ability to CHOOSE what thoughts and ideas you wish to focus on. Remember, what you focus on expands!If you focus on a fear-based thought system, you are going to manifest a reality that is reflective of that thought system. On the other hand, if you choose to focus on your strengths, your abilities, and the limitless opportunities that are available to you each and every day– you will manifest the experiences that are in alignment with that expansive type of thinking.

Individuals who remain “poor” do so because they live with a poverty belief system. The things that they talk about, focus on, and act upon reflect a poverty mentality that is directly in line with their poverty belief system. Certainly, they don’t wish to be poor on a conscious level. They wouldn’t refuse money, but until they build a new belief system, thought by thought and action by action – that reflects a new, optimistic perspective on life, they will remain “poor.” This is the reason that so many lottery winners end up broke!

It’s been said that if you took all the money in the world and divided it up equally among all the people, it would eventually end up right back where it is today! Why? A poverty mindset will attract poverty and a wealthy mindset will attract wealth. So, which do you choose? Yes, this is a choice! This isn’t something out of your control. No matter how you grew up or what your past was like, this is something you can begin to develop RIGHT NOW with awareness, determination, and deliberate focus.

In addition to your thoughts, being to pay close attention to what comes out of your mouth! What you say is a critical indicator of your belief systems. Have you ever noticed what people with a poverty belief system talk about? They talk about lack, time and time again. Take this challenge today: Take note of the words that are coming out of your mouth! If you find yourself saying any statement that begins with “I can’t,” or “Nothing ever..” immediately replace them with statements that begin with “I am or I will,” or “Everything does..” The key is noticing how often you are sabotaging your own life experience with the words you consistently speak or the thoughts you consistently think. Once you are aware of what you’re doing, you have the power to make a shift and create change in your life!

Remember that negative thoughts are the building blocks for negative experiences. Positive thoughts are the building blocks for positive experiences. It’s that simple! Worrying about something doesn’t change it. In fact, it only serves to bring more for you to worry about because that is where you are placing your attention! Wherever you choose to place your focus today will determine the people, circumstances and opportunities (or lack of opportunities) that are attracted/magnetized into your experience.

Begin today to consciously, deliberately, and purposefully establish the belief systems that will serve to empower you and magnetize the success you deserve. No one else can do it for you! The ball is in YOUR COURT at all times. YOU determine the quality of your life experience. So, make it a phenomenal one!

Much love,

Cari