Intention to - take a break from the constant pressure of not being, doing or having enough

What if God (or whatever highest power you know) in its infinite wisdom came to you right now and said, "Everything is fixed, everything is fine. You can relax now."

Can you feel that? I know for me, it is a huge relief. Like the world is just fine, all is taken care of and there is no need to fix anything or anyone, including myself. No need to sacrifice, no need to martyr, no need for the huge to-do list that has obligations. When I took a moment to notice, most of what was on my to-do list was based on "fixing" something: be it myself (go work out and fix your weight), something at work or a relationship, a broken team, a hurting friend, the poverty of the world -- you get what I mean - don't you?

Take a moment and breath in the perfection of this moment. There is nothing to fix, no demands or expectations. Somehow, this always makes me feel well cared for and prosperous.
 

     Spring is the perfect time to notice all the amazing abundance that life so easily creates. Billions of leaves, gazillions of flowers, millions of tulips & daffodils. Spring reminds us that life is a bounty of sounds, smells, and joys, all doing their thing whether we notice it or not.
   Interestingly enough, isn't this how life is? So much going on all the time, so many miracles crammed into a day, but do we notice? It is all there, the love and abundance, take a moment and notice. Breath it all in and enjoy!

Have you ever gotten so into a movie that you just felt like you were living the life of the lead character? Well that is what this tool is about, but the beauty is you get to star in your own movie. You get to create the whole thing exactly how you would like. Where does it take place, who is there (if anyone), what are you doing? What sights, sounds, smells, clothing, etc are you experiencing? And most importantly how are you feeling? Pick a day or an experience and have the experience flow (unfold) exactly the way you would love to feel. Take a moment and write out the script on paper – so you have it for reference. The more excited you are about this experience the more you are offering the feeling of what you would like to create. And how we feel is a magnet attracting to us a “match” of that feeling. Use the movie tool and feel what you would love to experience!
 

Tool you can use...PLAY
Intention - to play more, much more

     Play is the way to creation realization. When we are in a playful mood, we are in a place of open heartedness and positive expectation. So, play with what you intend to create, enjoy the day dreams you have, and imagine all the joy you will feel and experience. Use your imagination to create, beyond expected results of what is to what could be. The more playful you are, the less resistance you hold and the more you allow your creation to flow to you.

Tool you can use - Free Will
Intention: To know and use your “free will” choice making power.

     There is a quote – we are all probably very familiar with. I think it is from the Bible, “Before you have asked I have already answered.” I used to think this meant, before you ask I have already decided if the answer is yes or no. I think because when we are kids you ask all kinds of things and your parents say “yes or no” almost predetermined. I think we imbue that on God and Spirit.
     I have come to learn that…Before you have asked I have already answered, means that what you desire is already in the field of infinite possibilities – choose it. Free will is huge and really seems to stretch beyond comprehension. The only person deciding if your prayer (your creation) will come into being is you – it is already there – in the infinite field of possibilities – now it is up to you to know it is there for you and agree to have it, you are free to choose it.
 

Tool you can use… Your Heart
Intention: to create from the heart

     Creating from your heart ensures that your creations are in the highest and best good and that they will create peace, abundance and joy for all. Our hearts are the center of our deepest desires and greatest fulfillment. When we create from our hearts we create with the intention of bringing more love into the world. We cannot but create more love, because our hearts are the home of love. Going to your heart helps connect and transform all of our urges into a powerful love energy, that vibrates higher and with more intensity – the heart is our creative tool, the great transformer and energizer.
     Also when we move into our hearts, we are collaborating with our highest self. Because our highest selves are vibrating energetically in the love dimension – our heart is the doorway to our soul.
     So the next time you want to engage your heart - get playful, think of something that makes you joyful, sing your favorite song, play with your dog, watch a bit of a movie that makes you happy, read a passage from an inspiring book to move to that heart-full place of unlimited creating potential.

Tool you can use…feelin’ good
Intention... to choose to allow yourself to feel good

I think one of the best kept secrets of creating is allowing yourself to feel good…to choose things that make you feel good and stop choosing things that make you feel not so good. How many things do you do that you feel you have to or must do or should do but you do not feel good about? Take a scan over your day, your week, your month…how do you feel most of the time? What could be enhanced if you choose to feel good? How many experiences could be changed a bit to help you feel good? Which ones need to just be let go of because they don’t make you feel good? Feeling good is not hedonistic. Pay attention to how you feel. Because how you feel is a vibration that is attractive. How you feel is what you are sending out into the creative ethers and attracting more if its vibrational match. Why not send out good feeling vibrations instead of the many other vibrations we end up feeling, out of habit rather than out of conscious choice.
 

You need to get yourself a tool bag, a bag of techniques you can use or have used in the past that help you feel good and feel good about yourself. These tools get you in your heart and help lift you out of the times in life when you fall into a funk. Because when you are in a funk you do not feel good.

Write the tools down on a piece of paper and when you feel your energy is sad, fearful, doubtful, frustrated whatever – grab for your tool bag and do as many tools as you need to, to lift yourself out of the down, depressed, low energy. Right now my tool bag contains…

• Journaling and self reflection – so I can understand what got me in the funk and what I can intend in the future, so I don’t get pulled in again.
• Meditating and chanting
• Movies like…Wedding Date, Flashdance, Everafter, Moonstruck, Meet Joe Black, Under the Tuscan Sun,
• Music and dancing…mostly disco stuff and some John Denver, Barbara Streisand etc.
• Books…Conversations with God, Kryon, Yogananda,
• Body movement…yoga, running, walking, weights, gardening, dancing
• Miscellaneous stuff…quotes, singing, drumming, pictures of my dogs/vacations etc, chanting CDs. If I really need a big boost I will take a weekend vacation, or go to a seminar, or have dinner with friends.

You get it, right…stuff that makes you go ha-ha, he-he, ahhh, or aha!