If it's really dark, it can be hard to find the lightswitch..

Counting the blessings. notice the good - let go and let it grow!!

I never can get enough of Abraham, I'm so grateful for these teachings that are so alive and so inspiring. every time I listen to my audio CD's I get a little shift in the right direction. Yesterday went a bit shonky, and today is back on track, partly due to listening to Abraham. Ooh I am so waiting for the goodies today lol. It's a beautiful day, so going to go out in the garden for a while and focus on all the good in my life.

Life is like a garden, what you give attention to will grow. Not only that, when you raise your vibration, the good that you are not even focussing on will grow as well. Any good that you've asked for ever becomes accessible to you when your vibration is in alignment with it. So work that vibration!! in whatever way you can.

Sometimes really tough things happen in our lives. In those times, to go "everything is wonderful right now" is too big a leap from where we are. At those times, the little shifts we make are important. It's about drawing our attention to the little bits of good everywhere, for the bigger picture to grow. Anything at all that feels better than the overwhelming bad feelings is a good place to start.

For example...you have money worries, you're losing your house, and have lost you job. try some thoughts like

"I have an opportunity to explore new possibilities" that voice will start screaming "but i lost my house, my job, I'm a failure !! etc

"well I can learn from this" you'll never learn, look how often you've messed up says the voice

"well right now the postman smiled at me, that was nice :-)"

change your vibration, look for any excuse however pitiful to make a shift.

What has gone wrong in your life, was partially a result of focusing attention on what wasn't working instead of hope.

It's hard to be hopeful when "reality" is slapping you in the face with bad stuff. But there is always something you can find to be positive about. And just shifting your attention from the bad stuff for a while will create a window where light can shine in.

If you can't find anything good in your situation, find something good anywhere. "that kitten is full of life" "my car is going well" The guys at the service station are always helpful"

there is no point when something really upsetting has gone down, denying it, it hurts too much in that moment. But you can say to yourself "I don't know how I'm going to get over this, but while I'm struggling with it, I'm going to take some time to notice good every day"

then if you read something uplifting, repeat that story to yourself.

If your house is a mess, and needs major repairs that you can't help noticing, find anything positive. For example "that shelf in the kitchen where my teaset sits looks lovely"

I'm serious when I say, if you haven't got a house, notice that you are dry and warm in your car...if need be. I have been there, I had to live in my car once, and I had friends who didn't have a car.

Start thinking now that there is a possibility of something good, and then notice the smallest little things that reflect that.

If you're whole body is a mess....find that one point that is ok...well my toes feel great! My fingernails are awesome. When you are right at the bottom, is hard to imagine the way out, but you have to do it, and you have to start with the really small stuff and build up. Unless of course you have a great imagination, and really get this. Then start huge if you want!. For confidence you may need to start really small if you've been in a bad situation for a while.

Forget just for a few seconds if you can, all the things that are going wrong, and focus on what is right, even if you have to make it up!!

Abraham says that 17 seconds of focus is all that is needed to create a shift and begin to manifest what you want.

He also says that is your life is 90% bad, and 10% good, and you start to focus on that 10% the other 90% will come into alignment and improve.

Use your imagination and be creative in finding good in your life. Become a treasure hunter that digs for those nuggets of gold, and knows that even a small amount is extremely valuable.

Anything you can find that is good, that you can believe in , will help to create a shift.(you may not believe it when you say to yourself "I look like a supermodel" but you can believe when you shift your attention from "I'm so ugly no one would ever want me" to " have really straight teeth, my hair is thick and strong")

Find things to appreciate about yourself, your body, your situation and your life...and you will be well on your way to manifesting a better life for yourself.

It starts with your feelings, so shift them first whatever way you can. A shift from extremely negative to slightly better is worth noticing. Anything positive is worth noticing "I haven't felt like killing him for 20 minutes now"? take it!! notice it !! Any improvement in your situation or feelings, should be pinned up on the wall with stars on it! at least in your mind.

Don't wait for the great big thing you've been wanting to happen to congratulate yourself. Any tiny little thing will get you there, if you can shift your focus long enough .

I'm looking forward to sharing our stories of improvements in our lives.

Remember, the circumstances change when our feelings about them change. If you don't like what you're seeing, change the picture of the wall. Move your attention to anything you do like, and it's all up from there!

prayer and meditation

Did a very powerful mediation/prayer session with my friend Suzanna. If that doesn't create miracles, I don't know what will..Asked for help in a lot of areas, and will wait and see what happens. I know my painting is flowing more. I've asked for $700 a week again, as that was a good amount for us, can always ask for more later.

Might ask for help with sleep too next time. We were just mediating but now we're combining it with prayer and visualization, where we pray for each other as well as our selves. Felt really good, and a strong connection to source happening. Feel that if we keep it up, big shifts are on the way.

Changing vibrations.

I've really been noticing a shift in my vibrations. If I feel fear or anxiety, I playfully challenge it. Playfully - being the key to successfully redirecting my energy.

Abraham gives examples of this, and I'm finding it really works for me.

Saying things to myself like "what if there was a way right now that I could be bring in money in a way I love? I'm sure it's possible, I can really feel it's true! It makes sense to me that the perfect opportunites are available to me now".

The more I do this in an attitude of play, the less resistence I feel. I can really feel that I am allowing myself to have what I want

I grew up with a religion that told me I wasn't allowed to have what I want, I should focus on helping others to get what they want...but me?? No that was selfish.

I feel with Abrahams help I am finally moving into a state of allowing and its great.

I would encourage anyone to study Abraham..it's the best Law of attraction material I've found.
It's an empowering, invigorating view of the universe that sets me free.

Plus I want to get rich doing what I love...not selling someone elses law of attraction product, not even selling the law of attraction. I give everything I know about the LOA away for free. It frees me and I hope it will free you to live the way you really want to, doing what you love.

Selfish as it may be lol, I want to get rich being ME. I love art/ music/ writing/ gardening.

I love blogging, and social networking. It's ALL good :-)

goals for today

July 15th

Chop firewood Done first thing :-)

Install Band in a box on my computer, Done :-)

find a chord chart for Autumn Leave on the internet Done :-)

Prepare chords on Band in a box Done :-)

Make a new video of Autumn Leaves with the chord backing. Done :-)

Upload the video to Youtube and anjisfiddle blog. Done :-)

Finish painting "crazywild 1" Yes

Put "crazywild 1" on trademe auction site Yes

Post "crazywild 1" on my art blog Done :-)

start working on my next painting, once the background is dry. Done :-)
woo hoo what a day, I love it! this is my dream life.

gardening and outdoor work if I feel like it. Done :-)

planting daffodils? would be good. Done :-)

Long term and short term goals.

A few years back, I moved with my son to a tiny little town on the Taranaki coast. Before we moved here I was gigging regularly in a duo with my partner, but we broke up and I was left hours away from the nearest city, and financially it doesn't make sense to travel so far for gigging. I had decided anyway that the music lifestyle wasn't compatable with the lifestyle I wanted for my son so have made a commitment to make the most of living here until he's old enough to stand on his own feet...then mum's leaving home lol!

Being here enable me to live out another dream, which is to have a huge fruit and vege garden and lots of animals. We definitely have the animals - 1 dog, 2 goats, 5 cats, 7 chooks, and 10 guinea pigs! and the garden is just being etablished now. I had a large vege garden before, but put the goats in the back, and am moving the garden to the front section, so it's just started happening again now as we prepare for spring. I was getting all our veges from the garden before , and in a few months, should be at least getting all our greens from the garden again.

Living in such an isolated location has it's challenges. Mostly how to make money. If I was I the city I'd be gigging, but I'm really glad to have this time with my son, and to give up the gigging for a while, he's been really blossoming since we settled here. Music involves lots of travelling and it's hard to find the balance sometimes.

So I've turned to the internet to connect me to the world, with my music and art, and find inspiration from other creative people - something my home town wasn't offering a lot of lol
Not only that, it's given me opportunities to make money that fit the lifestyle we're living now.

For a while I worked for a large company that processes milk not far from where I live. The main decently paid employment around here. It was only seasonal, very long hours, but very well paid. However I felt my dreams were put on hold while I was there, and thankfully they have set me free this season, as it was never a great match for an artistic person like myself.

It's so exciting to think that I really can have my dream lifestyle, without leaving home. I feel the internet is giving me that possibility.

What I want to do is share that possibility with others through my blogs.

How I make money from my blogs

I've been exploring all kinds of ways to make money, but I keep coming back to art and music.
These are my first loves, and will prob be my last. Been with me all my life.

So the plan is to build my fiddle website traffic. (as well as the traffic on my other blogs) I have google ads on my site which are related to the content. The more people I get to my blog, the more ads get clicked on and the more money I make.

The idea is to have good content on my site, and for the google ads to be a bonus. I want the content to attract people to my sites, so I need to keep updating it regularly and developing my own fiddle playing so that I can post my progress and hopefully have something to offer other players.

I want my blog to be a resource for other players and to attract a regular audience for my blog.

Another way I get traffic to my blog is by posting on you tube, with a link to my blog, and having links to my blogs on twitter and facebook. I also put a link to my art blog on trademe when I use it to sell my paintings, and link my blogs to each other.

A friend offered for me to share her cleaning job, but I have decided to concentrate and my music/art and the internet for my income. Being at home, working on my art, music, garden and my blogs, really is my dream lifestyle, and if I can make it happen for myself, then that's perfect. So I've decided to put all my energy into my dream, I'm basically living it now, but would like to generate ALL my income from my interests, as I still work part time, so that's my main goal now :-)

I've noticed an increase in my adsense revenue since I started putting my links out there.

On twitter, if I tweet about gardening I put my gardening link there. If I tweet about art, a link to my art site, music, a link to my music blog etc.

I've realised that I want to focus on selling my own content, rather than products or money making plans for other people. All though I make money from ads on my websites, I attract people to my sites by my own content first, and that's basically what I'm selling, the ads sell themselves. Of course my content is free, and people "buy" it just by valuing it enough to go to my sites.

The ads work because they are so well linked to my content...in fact I often want to click on the ads myself because they have content that really interests me- as, being linked to my keywords - they all relate to my interests!

Of course it doesn't pay to click on your own ads because this may mean google suspends your payments dues to own site clicking.

Goals for today.

To write my goals for each day !

Today I want to:

Chop firewood Was raining so put firewood on hold.
Light the fire & make the house nice and warm Did that :-)
Create a video for my fiddle blog Picked up the violin for the first time in about 3 mths and yes, made a vid for you tube , looking forward to my fingers loosening up with practise, and getting back into the kind of playing I know I can do. :-)
Paint yes I nearly completed a painting, had to stop to allow the paint to dry
Clean the house. No...as usual lol
Add new content to my blogs. Added content, uploaded a video, and even started a new poker blog
Take photo's of my garden for my garden blog. was too wet , so another day.
to tick off the thing I achieve on my list each day. Done :-)

Clarity of asking....

What Do I want?

to be financially independant

self sufficient

all my needs are met while I live a pleasureable fulfilling life of freedom.

connected to source

A bit of history

In the past I've been successful at creating great money. I've made a killing with property and attracted jobs with a good income. However my financial life has been a drama of highs and lows and my clear intent now is to create a dream lifestyle that is consistent, and to allow a continuation of the flow of all that I desire.

I've learnt that I CAN create large sums of money, but sometimes there has been a big cost in terms of time, energy and lifestyle. I realised that although I could create a burst, or a bubble of wealth, that my underlying self image was still less than ideal. So invariably I would return to a more comfortable (as in familiar and fitting my feeling of worthiness) state of neediness.

I've just finished a seasonal job that was highly paid but had high costs in terms of family life and fulfilment. I've come away from that determined to create a life in harmony with my desire for quality family life and fulfilment on many levels.

In the time I've had since then I've been searching the net for inspiration and information. I feel that, more than anything else I've come across, the teachings of Abraham Hick resonate with exactly where I want to be. It's as though he says what I've always known and felt unconsciouly.

His teachings represent my highest desires of the way the world could and should be. In fact it's the most positive vision of the universe that I've come across so far.

It's the first time I've come across a philosophy that is a perfect fit with "me".

The Importance of Relaxation in Manifestation

I'm grateful to Abraham for bringing the importance of vibration to my awareness. Looking back I've always sensed vibrations and intuitively responded to vibrations, in fact often peoples vibrational messages speak louder to me than the actual words they say.

What Abraham did for me was give me a language for and an understanding of a vibrational world. Which brings me to the main topic for this post. The importance of relaxation in manifestation and the creation of your desires.

Basically for anything you desire to manifest in your life, your vibration has to be aligned to or resonating with, a similar frequency to that which you seek. The closer the vibrational match, the more in harmony you are with your desires and the more easily they will manifest.

That's why there is never a good reason not to relax.

When there is a gap between what is happening in our lives, or those arround us, the best way in which we can affect positive changes in an undesireable situation, is to align our emotions with that which we truly desire.

So if for example bills are piling up and you are not sure where the money is coming from to pay them, a vibration of anxiety beckons more anxiety causing experiences.

While practical steps may need to be taken, the first and most practical action that can be made is to consciously choose an emotional response that resonates with financial security.

Ask yourself how would I be feeling if I was truly financially and emotionally secure?

Imagine the kind of relaxation you will feel if you knew beyond doubt that all your needs were taken care of and all you had to do is lie back and let ithappen?

That is the state that manifestation happens from. Complete and utter trust and relaxation.

At a basic level, security is the complete absense of fear and anxiety.

The truth is that if you can't relax and let go now, in your current situation,as it is, you are unlikely to attract the kind of financial freedom you desire in the future. This is because financial freedom and security resonate with a relaxed state of mind.

Think about it...why do we want financial security? so that we can be relaxed about the future, free from worries, and enjoy the freedom that wealth brings.

So turn it around and you will see that the emotions required to attract financial freedom , are the ones that resonate with that state. RELAXATION and PEACE.

Now for those of you who want excitement and adventure with your financial freedom, bring those emotions into your current state of being.

As you consciously choose the emotions that resonate with where you want to be, you will find that you receive insights and guidance, synchronicity and events that aligned to that emotion, and which lead you towards that which you truly desire :-)

Clothes that go with my flow.

Before I cast my reputation instone as the queen of laziness, the main criteria for my clothes, as a former gymnast and yoga practitioner, is that I can comfortably perform a handstand or the splits. So my relaxation clothing must be loose & comfortable or made of a slim fitting stretch fabric.

I like to be able to move with ease from the bed to the home gym, and in my dream lifestyle, my clothes are the perfect fit to a comfortable lifestyle.

Then when I go outdoors, which is where I happily spend my time when I'm not lounging around on the computer, I like to take the same sense of ease and comfort with me, plus a few more layers when the weather is chilly, or minus a few when it's warm.

So the next item on my wish list is a complete wardrobe of indoor/outdoor clothes that are perfectly suited to a life of complete relaxation.

In my next post I'll talk about the importance of relaxation in the law of attraction, & about how the more pressure you feel under, the more important it is to relax.

dreamwear for a dream lifestyle

In my dream lifestyle, I'd live and work in the most comfortable and luxurious loungewear I could find. My bed would be my office :-) and the whole house would be designed around comfort and pleasure.

When I like to relax, I like to REALLY relax. Nothing beats pyjamas, especially when they are made from silk, satin or for winter comfort, even the old fashioned but lately refunked flannelette, or for more sophisticated indulgence, try the pure luxury of cashmere

The accessory of choice would be a gorgeous robe like the one above from lazeme.

Alignment

Abraham talks about how our emotions give us clues as to how aligned we are to our goals and desires. So being fraught with anxiety and fear doesn't resonate well with financial security.
I've noticed in the last few days that, although my exterior situation appears the same as before, I feel calm and secure and relaxed. I hope this is a sign of a vibration that is resonate with the abundance I seek to create.

We can have wealth in the form of money and assets and not feel secure. Real security radiates from within and fills our lives.

laptop free days

Have been experiencing life without my laptop for a few days now. Have to admit I am missing my best friend on cold winter nights like this one.I like nothing better than to be tucked up in bed with listening to an audio tape while I attempt to do four or five things at once on my lappy, blogging, tweeting, exploring, learning and playing...

Now I'm using my sons computer, a desktop that doesn't allow the luxury of wallowing in the comfort of my bed in my PJ's :-) . But the potbellies been lit, and it's warm in here. the office chairI'm sitting on now is comfortable enough without being decadent. If I could live in my bed I would I think...

Of course when I'm out in the garden bed is the last place I'm thinking of, but being on a computer requires stillness and comfort...

Anyway...some good things have come from the space the laptop has left. a bit more house work has happened. And some great conversations with my son. The garden's taken a few more steps forward, and the dream of producing an abundance of organic produce's come closer to "fruition" :-)

every door that closes opens a "window of opportunity" .