THE BIGGER PICTURE
A blog to explore what it means to live life from a spiritual perspective - the bigger picture. Using personal stories that uplift, inspire, encourage and celebrate our incredible lives.
In my work as a Life Fulfilment Coach and Personal Empowerment Mentor, I help others identify their dream and achieve it. I love helping people reconnect with themselves & their values and seeing how they can purposefully create and live fulfilling lives. Not only do I use all the coaching tools I have to hand, but I also come from the perspective that when we are aware of the bigger picture, aware of who we are, what we think and how we feel, we have influence over what we bring into our life. The next trick is to keep that awareness in everyday life. This blog is to share my experiences in the pursuit of conscious awareness and inspire you to do the same.
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Spreading Kindness and Love |
I have just received in the post my copy of the Cygnus Review, the
monthly magazine of Cygnus Books (www.cygnus-books.co.uk), which is a
great resource for all books to guide, uplift and inspire.
In
the editorial they told a lovely story of a child planting two runner
bean seeds and feeding and watering them, one with the words “you are a
fool” and the other with the words “you are beautiful”. Although the
one with the words you are foolish germinated first the beautiful bean
grew stronger and bigger and larger than the foolish bean. In fact the
foolish bean stopped after 12 inches and then the roots withered and
the leaves yellowed.
Now this idea came from the work of Masaru
Emoto (The Secret of Water available at Cygnus books) who has done many
experiments with water photographing water crystals after exposing them
to different words. The ones exposed to love or similar thoughts were
beautiful, the ones exposed to any form of negativity we all ugly and
mis-formed.
It is a timely minder that not only what we say or
write carries vibration, but also what we think too. There has been a
lot of focus recently about monitoring our thoughts in the light of
what we create for ourselves, but how about watching out what we think
in light of others? The water experiments show that our thoughts have
power over water - and remember, we are all over 70% water, what does
that mean when we direct a particular thought?
One way to be in
line with our Source is to stop the comparison between others and
ourselves. Today I caught myself feeling superior to some people I
didn’t even know (they had bumped into me in the street and ignored it
– nothing huge). I noticed my feeling straight away and instantly
stopped the mental rant and sent blessings instead. It was small thing,
but a start in the right direction. And, what’s more it felt good, it
felt loving and I felt more in touch with my true self.
So by
sending love, by being vigilant about what we send out vibrationally,
not only benefits the recipients of our thought as they receive a
positive vibration, but also benefits us as we become more in line with
our truth.
So, please, do spread some love and kindness today,
send out the vibration of goodness and if you want any encouragement
just think of the small, runted runner bean trying to grow under the
barrage of negativity, it’s a powerful image.
Much love and many blessings to all.
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The Stories in our Mind (and how to ignore them!) |
I know I’ve talked before about the power of our minds and how they can
take us off on a tangent, but yesterday was a great case in point and
so I think it is worth mentioning again.
Tragedy! My email
program completely crashed during a back-up session (I have since
learnt close ALL programs before backing up) and to my horror I thought
I had lost all my client folders. Not only that, but when I looked
through my old back up files I couldn’t find what thought should be the
file with all the folders in it. Double Tragedy, not only had I lost
the current work but also all my work for the past two years.
My
mind went into spin; I saw hassle and problems and began to feel that
panicky feeling. Then, with the help of my partner, I managed to calm
down enough to breath. This was step number one to getting back to a
good state.
Step two was a reality check, ok, so I had lost the
files, but most of the important stuff was elsewhere in some form or
another. I had also lost marketing contacts, but if they were going to
be good they would come chasing me anyway. I was then reminded of the
bigger picture perspective, if I needed to have the contact details of
people I would get them and the others, well they obviously weren’t
necessary. This is coming from the ‘everything is perfect ‘train of
thought, which, when I’m not panicking I believe!
So gradually
and without taking too much time the story of the tragedy in mind
reduced to just a hassle that could be overcome quite easily. It all
depended on what spin I gave it. Once I reached that space it wasn’t
too hard a stretch to get back to feeling light, easy and happy with
the day. We finished the day with a walk on the beach (always good for
the soul) and gazed at the blue moon and sent manifesting vibrations
out into the world. All was well.
The whole experience, which
lasted about two hours, gave me two insights. Practice does indeed make
perfect. Not that I can turn around apparent tragedies in an instant
but I am a darn site faster than before. And, becoming present and not
letting the stories develop really helped. I also realised that because
I have been focusing on watching my mind, catching the negativity and
actively working on changing it, I was much more open to having someone
talk me through a reality check. Before I’d have not been able to hear
someone tell me that everything is perfect, but this time (after a
little persuasion) I could.
This game called life is so much a
journey, we can make up the stories and live out the tragedies or we
can choose to leave the stories behind and get on with what is. We are
like blank pages, what are you going to write on yours?
Happy thoughts!
P.S. The problem was cured this morning my pressing one key as I opened the program, so it really was a story!
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 I was watching one of the funniest DVD’s I have seen for a while last
night and it’s core message was lighten up, feel good! This wasn’t a
comedy movie but a DVD of the Teachings of Abraham about the Law of
Attraction in Action. It was funny because Abraham loving and teasingly
poked fun at our seriousness and how ‘life and death’ we seem to make
this life.
In one section Abraham said (and I paraphrase) “we
have a lot of laughs as we watch you make such a big hairy heavy
weather over what is so small and insignificant if you could only see
it from our perspective”.
Now this may seem a slightly callous
statement, especially if you are challenged right now and feel poor me,
what am I to do, my life is so awful. The problem is that this victim
space is like living in tunnel vision. I remember in the ashram one of
the teachers asking how relevant our concerns and worries would be in a
hundred years from now. Kind of puts it in perspective doesn’t it? And
that’s what we need a new perspective. It is a matter of choice, we can
make heavy weather or we can put our focus elsewhere and change our
experience.
We simply need to feel good. Each rocket of desire
has begun manifesting in the unseen, all we have to do is maintain our
vibration to match that desire. How, we all cry?
Well the
hundred-year perspective is one way but I realised that it is also just
practise. Catch the negative thought; make the effort to change it (and
there are many ways to do this, see Ask and it is Given by Esther &
Jerry Hicks) and gradually it will become second nature. If we do this
conscientiously for 30 days our life will change, if only because we
will be happier and lighter people. Heaven knows what we could also
manifest along the way.
Find something that you can use to put
a smile on your face. A friend of mine uses the bizarre category on
YouTube. It always makes her laugh and immediately that changes how she
feels. Sound too simply? Well that’s just us believing that it must be
hard. We could lighten up with that too!
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How often in our busy busy world do we stop and relish the experience
we are having right now? A lot has been talked about being present,
being in the now and yet it is another thing to relish the experience.
Not
only are we in the moment (we have to be to even notice the experience
we are having) but we then have to actually slow down enough to truly
notice what is happening. I love the word relish. When I say it to
myself my mouth starts to water, the word has the power to bring on a
physical sensation. So take that feeling of relishing a taste and apply
it to an experience. What does that tell you?
To relish an
experience is to allow yourself to revel in it, to enjoy it to the
full, to delight in it, to take full pleasure from it. It suggests that
it is almost a sensual experience, one that we can relax into. I write
about relishing this week as I had something click within me about it.
Relishing the moment. For a while now I have been saying to myself that
my optimum week is where I condense my coaching down into fewer days
and free up some time. This is free time over and above my schedule for
other work related tasks like writing, marketing, working the Internet.
This is just free time in my working week.
With this time I
can choose to do anything I like. It might be work related if I want or
going to do a fun activity, or learning something new, or simply being
with friends. Or, and here’s the extra special bit, it might the simple
joy of doing nothing. I hit the jackpot this week in that my week came
together exactly as I would wish for in the best-case scenario and, hey
presto, a free Friday appeared. At first, because I am not used to
these free days I started to feel itchy, what ‘should’ I do with the
time? How ‘should’ I fill it?
It was then the idea of simply
relishing came to me and immediately I felt so good. I could sit back
and enjoy, no feelings of guilt or a need to fill time. Just enjoying.
How
cool is that? What can you relish this week? How can you remind
yourself to stop and smell the flowers? It can happen in a minute, you
just need to pause long enough.
Enjoy!
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Oddly enough I have spoken to quite a few of people this week who have
felt out of sorts. Kind of uncomfortable in their skin, emotional,
cross, tearful and generally not happy. Then a friend who is a planet
watcher told us all that lots has been happening in the heavens and
more is to come!
For example, Sun-Neptune square (Saturday
evening) followed by an explosive Mars-Pluto confrontation (Sunday
morning). And you still may be feeling Jupiter-Uranus face-off and this
morning's Venus-Saturn 45-degree tussle. Now for some this may make
totally sense and although I don’t understand the technicalities I do
believe and experience the influences these planets have.
However
what I found interesting in all the conversations I had with people
about the recent days, is that as soon as I said that some pesky
planets are playing up a kind of relief came over them. The general
consensus of opinion seemed to be ‘oh well that’s ok then’. It didn’t
change their experiences but it certainly changed their attitude
towards them.
So I ask, is it just that we had an explanation
for the upset? Not particularly although that can help. I think it was
more that it helped people understand that it was temporary. That this
would move through and move on and we would feel better.
I
began to use this mode of thinking once I’d gotten the idea -
admittedly it took a while and a spilling of face cream all over my
trousers! Interestingly enough even though my crazy, full, stressy week
continued up till this minute, as long as I kept on reminding myself
that it was temporary and that things will change and peace will
return, I managed to handle all the pulls on my time with far more
grace and tranquility.
So often when feeling unhappy, crazy,
negative, stressed, angry, any ‘not good’ feeling we forget that life
does indeed move on and that where we are right now is a temporary
experience. So if the pesky planets are playing havoc with your week
let this be a little relief, they will move on their way and normal
service will be resumed. And if it is not even a planet playiyng around
we can still remind ourselves that it still is temporary.
Happy Days!
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