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Last year, I attended a training program unlike anything you’ve probably heard of. A program where I pledged, “in the face of adversity, uncertainty and conflicting sensory information, to remain ever mindful of the magical, infinite, loving reality in which we live.” (Per ~Mike Dooley)

I anticipated this event like I always anticipate uplifting, spiritually-based programs; I would float in a sea of like-minded individuals for a couple of days, hear inspiring words, feel encouraged and supported (which is fantastic), but I really got more from this one. Not only did I feel moved to establish an immediate action plan, not only did I learn how to inspire others in a magnificent way, but I came away with a sense of magic and wonder that supersedes my previous experiences.

I have been receiving Mike Dooley’s “Notes from the Universe” for years now, and love them. (Sign up on http://tut.com) I’ve heard Mike talk many times and read his books; so, when Mike offered this training to teach Infinite Possibilities, the Art of Changing Your Life, I jumped with a resounding Yes, Yes!

As the weekend unfolded, I heard Mike talk about the prisoners he presented this training to, I heard many others talk about the teenagers, the people in addiction programs, and other individuals suffering because they’ve not been shown life’s magic or how they were meant to thrive with infinite possibilities. I heard women like myself giving the training in their living rooms and their classrooms.

And we heard the difference it made in these people’s lives; how they went off with new goals before unsought, how they woke up to the fact that they are highly worthy and they could achieve. Wonderful, heart-warming stories.

You see, all these other events that I went to focused on our own lives, even though my other certifications did, indeed, allow me to spread wellbeing far and wide.
Therefore, I am continuing to offer Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams Course to anyone who can come. The course will meet weekly for 3 Saturday mornings, beginning July 13th culminating in a glorious graduation celebration.

“It is never too early or too late to begin learning the truth about who you are and all that you’re capable of doing, being, and having.” ~ Mike Dooley, the Infinite Possibilities workbook in a letter to students.

Join me for this fun and fantastical journey, where we will take these lessons to our magical lives.

When someone comes to me with concerns, be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual, the first strategy I recommend for coping and healing is to learn to meditate. When the body is sending stress signals of discomfort, when the mind is bouncing from worries to regrets and back again, when a person never finds the time look inward and discover the peace that is there, then the first thing to do is begin to learn to quiet the mind. It makes everything else easier, enabling you to stand back and observe your life, your relationships and events from a new perspective, not shadowed by emotions and drama. The clarity one begins to see with makes solutions to problems more apparent. Our normal operating mode is through our ego, which stores all of our memories and past emotions since birth. (Also functions of the left hemisphere of the brain.)  If we operate solely from our ego, we find ourselves getting attached to positions, roles and ‘stuff’. Then, if anyone or anything threatens our relationship, role or ‘stuff’ we react emotionally without realizing we have a choice. Have you ever been in the middle of an argument or unhappy thoughts when suddenly you ‘woke up’ and realized how silly you were being? What you have done is stepped out of your ego for the moment; you’ve awoken to your real self, the source of your consciousness. The expansive joyful self we were meant to be. (Some would say the right hemisphere.) When you have the ability to move out of your ego, you won’t be tripped up so often into feeling offended, angry, hateful, jealous, etc. And even if you do, you know that isn’t the real you, so it doesn’t hold as much weight for you. Your awareness is enhanced. With this enhanced awareness you can begin to address the other issues in your life that you want to change. What once seemed like a ‘big deal’ is reduced to a more manageable size. You know you are more; you are greater than the small ego that used to be your entire awareness. One day, after meditating for a month or a year or two years you wake up and KNOW you can achieve what you want, you can heal, create, be, do and have your hearts desire. You begin realizing you have a choice on how you react to events and situations instead of reacting with the learned response of your family of origin, (your default behavior). As you notice people around you, you grasp on a deep level what is motivating them, and naturally have more compassion towards them. That is not to say all your challenges drift away and you are forever blissfully lounging on a  hammock on some tropical island. One thing I have observed, as the students go through this process, is their the next challenge: that of discerning what in the world they do want and what their true purpose is! This will be your next quest.

“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”—    Deepak Chopra, M.D

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USING THE TIMELESS PRACTICE OF
PRIMORDIAL SOUND MEDITATION

Practiced for thousands of years, meditation is a tool for rediscovering the body’s own inner intelligence. Primordial Sound Meditation uses individually selected sounds of nature called mantras, to disconnect us from the activity of life. These primordial sounds are based on the vibration the universe was creating at the moment of your birth. Practicing Primordial Sound Meditation on a daily basis will help you:

•  Manage stress & reduce anxiety  •   Enhance your sleep patterns•  Improve your relationships   Lower your blood pressure  •  Create inner peace                                         Connect more deeply to spirit

Learn Primordial Sound Meditation as developed by DEEPAK CHOPRA, M.D. and DAVID SIMON, M.D.Co-founders of THE CHOPRA CENTER FOR WELLBEING

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We all have secrets that we believe, if exposed, would cause harm, others would judge us harshly perhaps, or we would lose standing in our group. So we keep these secrets, even for many years, but at what cost?

The first time I had a really, really good job, I lived in dread that an unbalanced, unpredictable relative would find out where I worked and come into the office. I imagined that I would be mortified, humiliated and embarrassed. I imagined it so many times that now, almost 30 years later, it seems as though it actually happened. I think I even dreamed it. But it never came to pass.

We all have other secrets, things in our past that we are ashamed of. Every one of us. And it does take energy to hold these inside. As we age, they pile on; and, when something happens that reminds us of one of our indiscretions, one of our secrets, that pain is touched and brought up into our awareness again.

If we continue to hold these in, they can make us sick. That tightness in your belly, that sadness in your heart, that pressure in your chest, habitually pushed back down causes anxiety, stress, and the ensuing harmful hormones that course through your body.

But the fix is so very easy— tell someone. Someone you can trust even if it needs to be a professional. The immediate relief will be a powerful healing. Just in the telling, just in the releasing, just in the act of letting it go.

It finally occurred to me that this relative, if indeed she walked into our office, wasn’t me and telling this truth of her existence would be healing for myself. So I opened up and freely shared the facts of this relative when the conversation fit. So many others had a common situation,  a relative with mental illness, alcoholism, or other affliction.  I was free. Let her come in now, I was prepared, no big deal!

Of course, other secrets are about us and not flattering. But we all have them! No one is perfect and we bury these secrets that make us sick! It is hard to forgive ourselves while these past indiscretions lie inside, taking up residence while waiting to be dealt with and brought into the light. We all make mistakes, we’ve all done things we may see as awful, but we are always doing the best we can at the time. Now you’ve learned more, now you can let the guilt go and do better.

You are perfect just the way you are. Your secrets taught you what you needed to know. You’ve grown.  You’ve gained insight and maturity. You can even laugh about most of those old bits of information now.

When you are reminded, and they come into your awareness, don’t press them back down. Look at them and let them flow on out of you. Be done with them. Share them and feel the clearing. You are a complex, multifaceted being that cannot be defined by a few silly errant actions, or even a bunch of them! Forgive yourself.

Live in a two story home

Go up and down often. Forget things. Forget things upstairs so you have to keep running up there. Forget things downstairs for the same reason! You’ll need to keep getting up to find what you forgot!

Change the way you move up and down the stairs; sideways, toes in, toes out, skipping steps etc.

If you live in a one story home, run or skip from room to room.

Get a dog but don’t fence your yard! Then you must go outside with him several times a day and walk him at least once a day down the street. It’s very good for you to be outside.

If you have a desk job set your smart phone to go off at least once an hour. Then get up and walk, stretch and squat.

Get down on the floor often, playing with your pets or kids, or crawling around looking for lost items or foreign objects. Great for flexibility.

Do yoga stretches on the floor while watching TV

Play music you love so much you want to move! Then chair dance or better yet get up and move! (Make sure you aren’t driving!)

Keep items you use in inconvenient places. Place that often used spice in that high cupboard.

Shaving in the shower while balancing on one leg develops good core muscles. But Be Careful!

Give yourself a good brisk massage while drying off. Move toward your heart. This will get your lymphatic system stimulated.

When drying hair, (for women) hang forward from the hips for a good forward bend and volume!

Bounce around and dance while you make the bed.

Have a routine in the morning even if you are retired or have the day off…up, move and out of the house.

Getting moving will lead to more and more physical activity. It’s all good!!

Always first and most important, create a sense of wellbeing within yourself. Make yourself happy, do what gives you energy, give yourself loving kindness, and make it easier on yourself.

The affliction is feeling offended. We choose to be offended. It clearly is a choice. Let me explain:

When someone on television, in your family, at work, says something you do not agree with, a belief, a ‘fact’, a description of someone or a group, something that you have thought about and makes you feel either protective about self or others, upon hearing it you take offense. Taking offense includes judgment, anger, a sense of superiority, irritation, indignation, criticism, and self-righteousness. Why would we want to feel that way?

Let’s look at a few examples:

Your favorite political candidate is being criticized by a bias news channel. You’re incensed; you believe she isn’t being treated fairly. You think this for a few minutes and your anger grows. You tell your friends, and as you do your blood pressure rises, and as you continue with this line of thinking you find you are building a whole case against this newscaster’s opinion and keep seeing more examples that are similar. You find more and more newscasters that are doing the same thing. It is snowballing; now you are just looking for the offense.

Or:

Someone makes an offhanded comment about your clothing, or the way you worded something, or the choices you’ve made, or even a rejection of the product or service you are offering. You wince. You have a choice about how to react, right at this point. Often our emotions rise and feelings of resentment begin to take hold. We may get stuck in this way over and over again. (Who doesn’t?)

One way out of this and anchor ourselves more firmly in our wellbeing is to realize that the thoughts, opinions and beliefs of others are entirely their business. If someone doesn’t like your attitude, clothes, or words, it really has nothing to do with you! This is their perception, of which you have no control.

I remember when I made a huge career change years ago, leaving the corporate world to begin my own company. It was pretty scary, and one of the challenges was worrying about what other people (co-workers and clients) would think.  I vacillated between worrying about this and becoming angry and offended at the prospect of others judging my decisions! (And boy, some did!)

If it weren’t for the following conscious inner dialog I copied out of a *Chopra Newsletter, I would have felt great stress over it.  While I ran every morning I repeated this as a mantra. (*Find a link at the end of this article to the whole publication)

• I am totally independent of the good or bad opinion of others
• I am beneath no one, and no one is beneath me.
• I am fearless in the face of any and all challenges.

It worked. Those who didn’t understand my choice and who were critical of it, in the end had no impact on me. I made a choice not to be offended.

The next time this feeling pops up, and you feel that offense, remember that whatever others are thinking and believing, it is their dynamics, their perception and reality, and it probably has nothing to do with you!

Your job is to bring your full essence out into the world the way you were created.

Find the whole article here

First, begin with recapitulation.

What is recapitulation? For this exercise it is playing your year from beginning to end in fast forward without any judgment. Simply walk through the big moments of your year like you were viewing it through a video camera. Don’t linger on a particular moment and don’t begin evaluating it. Just keep moving through each moment. By performing this ritual right at the end of any year, you can gain a greater understanding of who you are and what you do. Recapitulation can help you process all the words, thoughts, and deeds you experienced over the course of the last year. It is a good nightly practice, too. And after practicing recapitulation, as you become a bit lighter, you will begin to become aware of those behaviors that are nourishing and those that no longer serve you. You will also become more aware of your ripple . . . all the faces, conversations, and interactions you have experienced throughout the day.

When you are doing the exercises, be gentle with yourself.

Build a safe container here of self acceptance, with no judgment.

Only share if it is comfortable.

Write down positive and negative aspects of last year.  Share some of your regrets, accomplishments and goals. Decide what to do with them going forward.

For the negative ones, forgive and release them, within body and without. As you do a body scan, sense where there might be tightness or an ache associated with that memory. Then relax into that space and watch it lift out of the body.  Afterwards you can do some type of final act such as burning the list when you get home, or have a ceremonial burial.

Celebrate accomplishments by making a certificate, giving yourself a fine dinner, awarding yourself a gift, etc.

Goal setting

Create some accountability through partnership and the importance of stating out loud and in front of others who are supportive. Do not share with anyone who you feel would be dampening, unsupportive, or critical. If it happens, realize that they have no power over you. Use your image of your archetype, mentor, or role model.

Exercise: Who are you to be at the end of 2013?

Describe in detail YOU at the end of 2013.

How are you different?

What are you doing?

How do others see you now?

What is your environment like?

Who are you surrounded by?

Use all of your senses and emotion.

When you are done with this exercise, have a group meditation with everyone to seal this intention. Then have some fun! We watched an inspiring movie.

The consumer society that we were born into has presented us with the widely-unquestioned beliefs that if we don’t have a certain amount of money we cannot be happy. We think this doesn’t affect us but beneath the thinking mind simmers longings for more. If we don’t have the car, house, clothes, jewelry, toys, tech stuff, etc., we think we have failed.

Studies have repeatedly shown that no matter what net worth someone has, whether it is one million, 5 million, 10 million, or 100 million, when asked how much they think is the ideal amount that would enable them to feel totally secure, almost everyone picks some amount higher than they currently have.

For 30 years, I’ve worked with people with varying degrees of what I call Money Consciousness, and it really has more to do with how much one trusts life itself, faith that life will sustain them, than any number. As someone grows in their wellbeing and money consciousness, so does their faith that things will work out, coupled with a gradual shift from me and mine to serving others (which ultimately has you receiving the fulfillment you seek and all you’ve desired).

That is why I tell people to take the focus off the money.  I’ve continually maintained that seeking and experiencing wellbeing will allow everything to fall into place, and that includes financial health.

Who knows what amount of money you need to be happy. There may be no correlation. The biggest hidden truth of all is that none of us needs 90% of what we have, but we have bought into the consumerism of the modern Western lifestyle. Possessions, like money, aren’t good or bad; but, if it takes us away from our authentic selves and transports us to an artificial reality, it insures dissatisfaction.

The Rules for Prosperity are the same as rules for wellbeing. One does not happen without the other. Follow your heart, observe yourself and discover your purpose. Your purpose shows up in how you express your individual life. Wellbeing includes health, happiness and financial security. My wish for you is that you will find true prosperity and wellbeing in 2013.

For specifics concerning financial life:

1) Make sure you aren’t working for your money. Money is a poor master. Money doesn’t know how to lead or how to care for you. Money is only a tool and your task is to learn how to make money work for you.  The most essential part of this is attitude, then understanding, next knowledge.  Find a good coach, one who has personally been in an effective coaching community and who possesses a resources and tools to inspire and move you forward.

2)  If you are out of work, your current career is finding a vocation, a job or profession.  Every morning, get up and dressed for your ideal work. Get out of the house and move into that world. Talk to people, find people doing what you want to do and hang out with them. The more you imagine this new reality, the more doors will open up to you.

3)  If you cannot find anyone to hire you, hire yourself. Earnestly. I’ve seen many people ‘play’ with their calling in their spare time, doing it off and on, but not really believing it could bring in enough money to support them.  Yet, those who don’t give up, who keep at it day after day, month after month, year after year, consistently and earnestly, are the ones who do find fulfillment and purpose.

4) Money, as well as a career, is best used to improve lives. Being one of service and love to one’s self and others is the highest calling. The penultimate use of your money is creating more time. Time to serve, heal and help, and time to cherish your own body and emotional needs as well.

5)  If your job is making you stressed or unhappy, you need to change things. If you are working long hours and it is expending you, leaving you depleted, it just isn’t worth your loss of wellbeing. If it is physically too taxing, wearing on your body or too taxing emotionally, what you are losing doesn’t warrant the rewards. On the other hand, if your long hours are spent doing what you love and actually filling you with energy and purpose, there is no loss of wellbeing  –   instead, there is an increase in wellbeing. If you feel you cannot leave your current job, notice and focus on those parts of it that are rewarding while keeping your eyes open for doorways to other possibilities.

6) Money isn’t the only bartering system. Bartering has existed since the dawn of civilization. I’ve bartered several times in my life when I didn’t have cash. I painted murals on the walls of a karate studio in exchange for classes, I cut the neighborhood children’s hair for dinners, as a kid I babysat for movie tickets; what you need doesn’t necessarily have to be bought with money. What do you like to do that you could barter with?

7) Lastly, don’t undercut yourself. If you are selling your services or creations, do your research and see what comparable goods are going for in your area. Charge accordingly. That is a fair price.

Remember:

“Financial Success is a by-product of a well-lived and well-expressed life.”

Copyright © 2013 Kasey Claytor

We all do it. Whether brought about by a traumatic event or some other reason, we all feel like hiding sometimes. I’ve been thinking about this lately because when I heard Jean Houston, Ph.D., scholar, philosopher and visionary, discussing the times we move inward and away from others, it really struck a bell. While hibernating, we connect more deeply to our own energy; and we can purposely connect to the archetypal energy that we want to possess, i.e. the warrior for courage, or the Buddha for compassion.

Then, yesterday, someone came into my office whom I hadn’t seen in almost 20 years. He experienced a deeply-disturbing tragedy shortly before he ‘dropped out’ of our community’s circle. He said he had passed by my office often in the last few years and thought about coming in. Here he finally was. I asked him if he’d been hibernating and he said yes, he had. He withdrew from social life and work life; he closed down and shut down. This is extreme, wildly out of balance, showing us an example of how far hibernating can go.

Lest you think it’s always unhealthy to hibernate, that is far from the truth. The truth is that it is normal, usually. If we stand back from our lives and look for cycles of hibernation, action, achievement, and creativity, we will likely find them. I suspect those of us who are introverts will find more periods of  solitary hibernation, and perhaps extraverts may find more periods of going from large groups to small groups of people around them. But it is the same.

So what is going on in the normal course of ‘hibernating’? It could be started by an disturbing event, a sense of being overwhelmed or just plain weariness. Many reasons may cause one to go into hibernation.  Some artists and writers purposely seek these periods knowing it is necessary for them to find inspiration and creative energy. It can be an even more productive time if we focus on the qualities we want to possess.

Use this time to fill your environment with symbols of an archetypal entity you wish to emulate, whether ancient mythological beings, real people, or other symbols. Wear jewelry that reminds you of your desire, place statues or pictures on an altar, invite this energetic consciousness in.

Meditation is a withdrawing from active life as a sort of mini-hibernation. These periods of withdrawing, going within, can be part of a healthy cycle to balance our busy lives and make them more full, more expressive, more varied and colorful. If we continue to meet our responsibilities, while satisfying this need to have time alone in contemplation and solitude, then it can be a healthy thing, just what one needs. If you return to a high level of accomplishment and creative expression afterwards, then you have proven to yourself that you did just what you needed at the time.

We are offering the Chopra Center Meditation program next March.This practice has deeply changed my life. Up until I went to the Chopra Center 10 years ago, I led a ‘regular’ life; I had my family and work, and I loved both. I read spiritual books and inspirational books that gave me insights and good thoughts; but I was putting off experiencing a large portion of life that I wanted.

After learning the Chopra meditation technique, my life began to change dramatically. This new path led me to where my fulfillment lies. Looking back, it is astonishing what I’ve accomplished. Other people probably didn’t notice much, but my inner-life and self-expression burst forth in the following ways:

I wrote the novel that had been roaming around in my head for years

I went on to write more books, blogs and created new websites and formed new companies

I continued taking courses with the Chopra Center became a certified instructor and since 2005 I have taught many others this process and watched it work in their lives. Each class has taught me something new too.

I completely reorganized my business; studied and passed the test to open a Registered Investment Firm. I went fee-based and converted all of my clients into a new program in time to protect them from the ’08 meltdown. I broke associations from the brokerage firms that were later doomed.

The guidance I’ve received is no less than miraculous.

Meditation has allowed me to free myself from the drama around me, to calmly observe so that I can see clear solutions. Origins of the viewpoints of others are revealed enabling me to have a better understanding of them. Relationships are deeper and more meaningful.

I want to encourage those of you who have thought about coming but, for some reason, haven’t yet, to seriously consider taking this course. I think it will prepare you for anything and assist you in exploring all you can be.

Also, since we’ve been teaching here, we have added lots of great extras to the class. It is given over two Saturdays, includes optional yoga with Ruby Saunders (another Chopra Certified Teacher), celebration lunch, great short movies and much more.

This Saturday course will be given on March 9, 2013 and March 16th, 2013. The one week apart gives you time to practice and, when you return, have your potential questions answered.

Don’t let the tuition stop you if you are having financial difficulty. We do provide some scholarships. And, if you have already taken this course from us, feel free to audit, no charge. We would love to have you as long as there is room.

I have spent my whole adult life trying different forms of meditation. This is not guided meditation–it is much deeper. This just may change your life.