Living From Spirit

4 Daily Practices For Emotional Energy Mastery

Just what is Emotional Energy Mastery?  Simply put, energy
management is feeling management.  It's the system of building new beliefs that
are so powerful and empowering that, no matter what happens to you,
you have the power to be, do and have whatever it is you want!

Like many people, you may have listened to talks and read books
about the power of the mind to create what is is you want.  Things like
Napoleon Hill's famous words: "Whatever a man can conceive and
believe he can achieve."

Perhaps you have had some success, but couldn't sustain it.  Perhaps
you haven't had any success, and you think you are just not one of
the lucky ones who is meant to be successful.

Take heart.  The focus and belief in one's self to succeed and to
live abundantly and joyfully in this life is not something for just
a chosen few.  It is available for all of us.  It's available for
YOU!

The missing ingredient to creating sustainable change in your belief
system is your emotional energy system.  I'm going to give you 4
ways you can begin to use immediately to gently build for yourself a
new, empowering belief system.  As you do, you will begin to see and
feel subtle changes in not only how you feel, but in how you
perceive your daily life. 

1. Gratitude.  An attitude of gratitude is one of your best life
changing tools in your life skills toolkit!  Remember to begin and
end each day giving thanks for all that you are and have.  One of
my favorite authors, Sarah Ban Breathnach, reminds us that "all that I
have is all that I need.  And all that I need is all that I have." 
Gratitude moves you into the energy of fullness and abundance,
which in turn, attracts more abundance, which keeps moving you into more
of the "feel good" state you are wanting.

2. Scripting Your Day.  Before a movie is produced, there is a
script.  They would never consider moving forward without an outline of who
is doing what and when they are doing it.  Your life deserves as
much focus and intentional direction, don't you think?  This particular
script is going to be more of an "energy" diary than an event diary.
You are going to write about how you are wanting to feel each day.
You are going to write about any support you may be needing from
Spirit and your inner guidance.  Use this scripting process as a way
to amp up your intentions and connection to Spirit each day.
Remember, you are learning the process of building an empowering belief
system.  Scripting will gently focus you on what you want and how you want to
feel.

3. Building Progressive Beliefs.  Through gratitude and scripting
you have prepared the ground for the seeds of the new beliefs you are
wanting to plant in your subconcious mind.  But we are not going to
try to convince your mind of the reality of a new belief in one
giant leap of thought.  It just doesn't work.  If you have used
affirmations in this way and failed, it's not because affirmations don't work,
it's because what you affirmed was too much of a stretch for your
mind to accept.  Look at a belief you currently hold that doesn't
serve you very well.  Then shift that belief just a little bit
towards the ultimate empowering belief you want to have.  Write this
down and include it in your scripting.  As you do, you will find
that it becomes easy to believe, and the old belief no longer holds you.
 
Now do it again.  Each time moving yourself progressively closer to
the new belief you are wanting for yourself.

4. Affirmations.  As I mentioned above, affirmations are a
wonderful tool, when used in the right way.  We actually are using
affirmations every day, often unconsciously, and often to affirm
lots of the things we are not wanting.  The task is to become more
conscious about your affirmations and to shift them to what you do
want!  Keep in mind what you learned about progressive beliefs. 
Make your affirmations believable, and make them just a bit of a
stretch emotionally.  This gentle approach allows your mind to
accept the affirmation as true for you right now.  It may be something as
simple as "I'm doing the best I can, and I'm figuring it out as I
go."

You have heard that the Universe always gives us what we ask for. 
But it only understands the vibrational energy of the request, not
the words.  It is the underlying feeling, the belief, that Spirit
is responding to.  Learning how to manage your emotional energy
system will give you the missing ingredient to aligning your beliefs
with your desires. 

And as you do, you will feel yourself moving out of the energy of
"wanting" and into the joyful feeling of anticipation that whatever
it is you have asked for, it is absolutely on its way!

5 Reasons to Give Thanks For Transition

There are all kinds of transiton in life - some we think of as positive and some we think of as negative.  The positive kind - like getting married, having a baby, moving into our dream house - can be a mixture of delight and dread, stress-inducing and thrilling at the same time.  And usually, we don't have to be too coerced to jump onto those rollercoasters because the ride is just so darn appealing!

There are other kinds of transition in life.  The kind we usually think of as negative - like getting a divorce, getting laid off from a job, the death of a loved one.  With these kinds of transition, there is no thrill, no real delight, no anticipation of a wild and wonderful ride.  There's usually a lot of anxiety, struggle, and fear.  Sometimes, even though we are supposed to be moving from one chapter of our life into another, there is even the overwhelming feeling of being stuck.

All transitions are life's way of moving us along in our journey.  And I want to give you 5 reasons to be thankful for the transition you are experiencing or have experienced.  Think about how you evaluate what is happening in your life.  When you become open to re-evaluating a situation, you become open to giving it new meaning and open to new beliefs.

1. Transition helps us know what we don't want.  It's a lot easier to get clarity around the things we don't want to experience, or feel , or be around, than it is to get clarity about the things we really do want.  And, life's less-than-joyful transitions are full of reminders of how we don't want to be feeling.  Pay attention!  Write it down.  Get it all out.  And then, take each thing on your list and ask yourself, "What DO I want?".  Some of the answers will flow easily and some will take a little while to come.  That's OK.  This is a work in progress and the results will be worth it.

2. Transition is Movement.  By its definition transition is supposed to be the segue from one chapter of life to the next.  Then why, you ask, does it so often feel like being stuck?.  It's because we resist what is happening.  We dig in our heels and hold onto the familiar surroundings for all we're worth.  But, you say, I can't let go!  It'll hurt.  It will be too hard.  Nothing will be as painful and difficult as the resistance you are holding onto.  Take a deep breath in and as you release it out, surrender to moving one small step at a time.  Then do it again.  Keep breathing and keep taking one step at a time.  See?  You're moving!  And the little bit of relief that you feel will help you to keep on moving.

3.  Transition is opportunity.  The Chinese word for "crisis", a combination of the two symbols "wei" and "ji", has been loosely intrepreted in the West to represent "danger" and "opportunity".  The idea is that within the seed of crisis is not only peril and danger, but also opportunity.  If you go to Wikipedia, you'll see that this is actually a little bit fact and a lot of folklore.  But what you'll also see is that "ji" has numerous other meanings which include "crucial point", "pivot", and "chance".  And this is where transition really becomes opportunity.  It may feel like a crisis.  It may feel like danger.  In reality, it is a chance, an opportunity, and a pivotal, crucial point when we have the chance to be, do and have more of our better selves.

4.  Transition is the catalyst for Transformation.  When we decide to allow transition to move us and we take the time to begin to define more clearly what it is we want to experience, we become open to the possibilities of powerful transformation.  We start to move with the stream.  We start to connect with more of what we want more easily.  Our actions become inspired.  Our channel to Spirit becomes clearer.

5.  Transition is the call to Consciousness.  Everyday you are creating your reality.  Whether you do it on purpose or by default is up to you.  Transition can be your wake up call to living more intentionally.  It can be your moment to decide you are going to discover your soul's purpose, your time to express your authentic calling in life.  When we decide to live with intention and purpose we are saying to Spirit that we are going to listen and act in alignment with our highest self.  That becomes our offering to the world everyday.

So if you are finding yourself in the midst of one of life's BIG Transitions (or maybe more than one!), think about how transition can be your portal to transformation.  Think about how you can use your experience to become a better version of YOU.  Let me know how you do!