Motivational Quote of
the Day from Nightingale.com
"Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in
debt."
—Benjamin Franklin: Founding Father of the United States
Abraham-Hicks
Publications
Appreciation and love, and alignment to that which is
Source, is the ultimate "giving back," so to speak, for in your pain or struggle,
you have nothing to give back. What you are living is always an exact replication
of your vibrational patterns of thought. Nothing could be more fair than life
as you are living it, for as you are thinking, you are vibrating, and as you
are vibrating, you are attracting—and so you are always getting back the
essence of what you are giving.--- Abraham
Excerpted from the
book "Money and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Health, Wealth
and Happiness" # 656
Find thoughts that feel good, because it is inevitable that you are going to
always be moving toward something. So why not be moving toward something that
is pleasing? You can't cease to vibrate, and Law
of Attraction will not stop responding to the vibration that you are
offering. So, expansion is inevitable. You provide it, whether you know you do,
or not. The only question is, what is the standard of joy that you are
demanding for yourself? From your Nonphysical perspective, it's a high, high
standard. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the
workshop in Seattle , WA
Inspiration comes forth from within. It's what the light burning within you
is about, as opposed to motivation, which is doing it because if you don't do
it, there will be negative repercussions. Motivation is making myself do
something that I don't really want to do. Inspiration is having the clear
picture of what I am wanting — and letting Universal forces come into play to
get the outcome. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the
workshop in Spokane , WA
Our Love, Esther (and Abraham and Jerry)
Daily Feng Shui Tip
from Astrology.com
On 'Wright Brothers
Day' you might think that I would advise putting an image of an airplane in the
'Fame' area of your main floor or office if you want reputation and rewards to
take flight. But I am more inspired to share another kind of airplane Shui
today. Feng Shui says that using color, sound and scent can greatly influence
the environment you're in, even if it's at thirty thousand feet. The next time
you're traveling by plane be sure to take along something soothing and green (a
small pillow or a scarf) as well as something that is music to your ears. Keep
a few cotton balls drizzled with chamomile oil in a plastic baggie and sniff it
whenever the need arises. Lavender acts as an antiviral and antibacterial while
the chamomile calms. Up, up and Feng Shui!
Daily Dream Decoder
from Astrology.com
Money
Money
can be lost, gained, or spent in dreaming. Dreams about money are often really about
power, control, and competency. Consequently, the larger perspective of who is
interacting with you around money and what your role in the transaction is are
important features of the dream.
Many people who dream
about money are controlled by it-the desire for it, the lack of it, or the
inability to control themselves with it. This last category is seen most
clearly in money dreams experienced by people who re drowning in debt.
If you gain money in a
dream, note from whom and under what circumstances. This may be a dream about
blessing. The gain of money in this instance is more a gain of emotional power
and renewal through a completed relationship that no longer depletes the soul.
You may see yourself as
having great wealth to dole out to others. This is often a symbol of needing to
convey blessing onto others. The true need is rarely financial, but a need to
help others.
Losing money for no
apparent reason is the picture of being unable to control oneself. The lack of
control may actually be in the area of money, but it may also be the inability
to restrain oneself from over-committing resources emotionally or otherwise.
In your waking life,
how do you perceive and value money? In some families, money is an object taken
for granted, in others it is a powerful symbol of control, influence, or
status. Whether or not you have money problems, money dreams could reveal
feelings about your relationship with power.
Moving
Through the Challenges of Life
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By Gregg Braden
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2012 Nightingale-Conant Corporation
Sometimes the events
of life seem to push us to the very edge of who we believe we are. Sometimes we may even feel as though life has pushed us
right over the edge. Many people describe this as a feeling of being tested, as
though life is testing something within them. While that certainly may be
possible, I'd like to offer another perspective. We live in a world where we've
been conditioned to believe that our achievements in life may be measured. And
in those measurements we're either successful or we've failed. The belief that
life tests us falls right in line with that either/or kind of thinking and
allows us to succeed and fail many, many times in our lives.
What if the
challenges of life are not tests at all? What if our greatest challenges are
simply opportunities to demonstrate our mastery of a particular skill or
relationship? In an opportunity, it is impossible to fail, or to succeed, for
that matter. In an opportunity, all that we can do is to meet our challenge and
become the best people that we can be in the presence of that challenge. To
meet our challenge while honoring our personal principles of integrity and
trust and in those around us.
So an opportunity
from this perspective can feel very different from a test that we can pass or
fail. There's a mirror that shows us our greatest levels of personal mastery by
presenting us with our deepest experience of personal fear. When we find
ourselves in such a fear, the ancients called our experience "the dark
night of the soul." And this mirror is a mirror that helps us to
understand the mystery of the dark night of the soul and how it plays out in our
lives.
Referencing from the
lost gospel of Thomas, we're reminded, "That all are born and must walk in
the two spirits that the one has created in humankind, spirit of light and
spirit of darkness." A second part of this quote goes on to say that "if
you bring forth that which you have within you, it will save you. If, however,
you do not bring forth that which you have within you, it can destroy
you." And this is a reference to the power that lives within us, the power
that must be expressed in some way in our lives.
If we reach into the
deepest access of who we are and what we have available to us as people, it
will carry us through what we see as the darkest experiences of our lives. And
if we choose to retreat from that and we shy away from finding those portions
of ourselves, many people have found in very direct ways that it destroys us,
it destroys our trust and our ability to move forward in the process of life.
This parable suggests that we each harbor within us a power, a force, if you
will, that seeks to be shared and expressed. That's a power that cannot be
denied. To allow this force to be expressed is a life-affirming experience. And
to stifle this power and deny its expression can be life-denying.
So what is this
mysterious power? How does it show up in our lives? Well, through the story
that follows we'll answer those questions, and in doing so, we'll lay the
foundation this mirror of the dark night of our soul.
I had a client, as
well as a friend, who is an engineer whom I worked with. We'll call him
Charles, although that's not his real name. And Charles described his
experience of working very long hours in a corporate environment, and he became
very, very good at what he was doing. He was an engineer, a software developer.
He knew his craft very well. He moved through the ranks within the corporation,
and soon he found himself on the road showing others what it is that he had
learned and developed. He found himself at tradeshows and conferences all over
the world. He saw his family very little during this time. And what he began to
find was that he actually knew the people that he worked with and the people
that he traveled with better than he knew his own family. He spent long travel
hours with them, they had meals together, and they talked about the events
unfolding in the world around them.
And it wasn't long before the inevitable happened, and
he believed that he was in love with a female co-worker who was traveling the
circuit and attending the conferences with him. And in this belief, he left his
family, he left his home, he left his friends, and he was able to get a
transfer in the same career to the city where this woman lived. Everything
looked like it was really good in Charles' life.
Not long after that,
however, something began to happen, and everything began to unravel. And this
is when I had my conversation with Charles. I hadn't seen him for a while. We
met and I asked him how things were going, and the story that he shared—after
he had given everything away that he loved and held dear, after he had given
away his family, his home, his friends, and a career, to move to a city with
this woman and the new love of his life, and everything seemed just right—was
that he came home one day and the woman simply said to him, "This is not
what I thought it would be," and she left him. He was absolutely
devastated.
He began to perform poorly in his job, and it wasn't
long after that, within just a couple of weeks, that he had a pink slip, and he
was without a job, and consequently without family, without friends, and
without a relationship. And this is the point where Charles called me and he
said, "What just happened in my life? Everything looked so good and now it
looks so bad." This is the red flag that comes up in our life and it seems
that everything looks like it's absolutely perfect, we've found balance in our lives
and that balance is what promises that we will have the opportunity to
demonstrate our mastery and what that balance is saying. But for Charles, he
just entered what the ancients called the dark night of the soul.
In the dark night of
the soul, we find ourselves in the position where we lose the things that we
hold onto the tightest, the things that we cling to for fear of losing them.
Our fear of losing them is the promise that we will find ourselves without them
at some point in our lives. The distinction I'm making here and the key to this
story and this mirror is to cherish what life has given us by appreciating
those things without clinging onto them for fear of losing them. And whether
we're talking about financial security or our relationships to others, our
husbands, wives, children, our job security, or our health, the principle is
the same. I'm going to repeat this, the key is to find a way to appreciate and
cherish the blessings that life has given to us without clinging onto them for
fear of losing them.
The flip side of the kind of loss that Charles
described—and I'm sure that we've all had experiences similar to this in our
lives where we lost the things that we hold most dear—the flip side of this is
that nature has a built-in safety mechanism; it's a valve if you will, that
promises we will never be given more hurt or more pain or more disappointment
or loss in our lives than we can deal with at any given moment in time.
We know this through
the words of every mother on the planet. Very simply in a single sentence,
we've all heard, "God will never put more on your plate than you can
handle." And I believe that is what this portion of the mirror is saying
to us.
Kahlil Gibran, in his
book The Prophet, simply said to
us that "No man can reveal to you that which already lies half asleep in
the dawning of your knowledge." I invite you to think about that
statement. "No man can reveal to you that which already lies half asleep
in the dawning of your knowledge."
I believe in this
statement. Kahlil Gibran is speaking to us about this power in our lives. He's
saying that whatever happens in our life, nobody can give us the tools to find
our way through the great challenges of life because they're already there. No
one can teach us something that we already know.
There is something
very interesting I find when I'm discussing nature's balance with live
audiences. Everyone says he or she is seeking balance in life, but the truth
is, in absolute balance, absolutely nothing happens. In absolute balance, there
is no imbalance to trigger the system and move it forward. In balance, there is
no movement. It is the striving toward balance that drives us forward in life.
So when we see this
in mathematical equations, for example, there are mathematics that can be
brilliantly, beautifully represented on the screen of a computer, as powerful
patterns and symbols that are the result of the mathematic equation. And what
we find is that when those patterns find their perfect balance, that is the
signal for the pattern to begin to evolve and move on once again.
And in the same way
it appears that that's what happens in our lives. When we find ourselves in
what we believe is that perfect balance, when everything looks as if it is just
right, just where we want it, just as we had placed it, that appears to be the
signal to nature that says, "Bring it on." Bring on the change
because the balance has signaled the opportunity for change to come into our
lives once again.
Many people find that
when they go through a dark night of the soul, the first one is the most
difficult. I know we've all experienced at some point in our lives a moment
where we lost the things that we held most dear. The encouraging element of
this mirror is the confidence that comes from surviving that first dark night of
the soul; the confidence is immense. I know people who doubted their ability to
come out of the other side of a tremendous challenge of health and a condition
that may take their lives, or something devastatingly similar to that. And when
they do, the confidence that is instilled within them is immeasurable. And I
know some people who've actually said, "You know, I've survived my first
dark night of the soul; I'm ready for the next ones. Bring them on." And
they no longer fear those dark nights of the soul.
So the mirror of our
dark night of the soul, the mirror shows us what we truly value in this world
and leads us to understand that the deep appreciation for what we cherish is
the way to continue experiencing it in our lives.
So I'll ask you to
look into your life at the things that you cherish and you hold most dear, your
children, your family, your career, your health, whatever it is in your life,
and ask yourself how you would feel if for some reason these things were to
suddenly disappear from your life. Your answer to this is the signpost pointing
to where your next dark night of the soul may come from.
At the same time,
however, it's also your personal guide to how you may honor the things that you
cherish by appreciating them with gratitude rather than clinging to them for
fear of losing them. By doing so, you've also honored the wisdom of this
mirror. And without ever having to experience the loss and the suffering of the
dark night of the soul, the mirror serves you and leads you to the last and what
is perhaps the most subtle mirror of all, the mirror of self-acceptance.
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