Awareness Eradicates Suffering

In the May edition of my SpiritAlive enewsletter, I said: Awareness is the very foundation that your life sits upon. Life mirrors what you hold possible and true in your mind.

AWARENESS IS ....

a vehicle for thriving.

AWARENESS IS....

• paying attention
• consciousness
• being awake
• presence
• noticing
• being real about what is
  

AWARENESS IS....

A tool for the Law of Attraction.

So what does awareness have to do with the law of attraction? The power of your mind... to decide, to choose, to focus. All these qualities and abilities of the mind influence your ability to harness the law of attraction to work for you, for what you desire.

As far as harnessing the law of attraction, most people want to learn how to harness it to increase their joy.

First, let me explain how most people live.

They have an experience. The experience is the stimulus. Then they respond.

Stimulus----->Response

In this way of being, one is at the mercy of default responses. This can include stories, defenses, and reactions. These do not come from who one is... they come from the past, what one has been "trained" to do, and survival.

When you cultivate awareness, you create, among other things, choice.

You have an experience (stimulus). You breath. You feel. You stay present. You draw forth your innate knowing. You pay attention to what you want. You are awake to the moment.

Thus, you create:

Stimulus------> CHOICE----->Response

We create our suffering.* I know that is a big reality to consider. But I truly want you to live in your power. To do this, you need to get real about the power you have to create your reality. Suffering can be mild or dramatic. You know what suffering means to you.

I believe you can eradicate suffering with awareness. In turn, you welcome a state of being that includes ongoing joy.

*I saw Iylana Vanzant speak the other night and she said that we have to stop glorifying our suffering.

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TIP: Pay attention to your stimulus-----> response patterns. When you have experiences, what do you notice about how you respond? Do you react automatically? Do you think? Do you lash out? Do you stifle your voice? Do you stay present? Do you choose?

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Kendra E Thornbury, MA, inspires and guides people to be fully alive through coaching, training, teleseminars, workshops, writing, and resources. http://www.spiritalive.net/http://www.lessonsinlawofattraction.com/

Awareness and the Law of Attraction

There is a relationship between awareness and the Law of Attraction.

You see, your consciousness creates your reality. You may be aware of your consciousness, or you may not. When you are, you are able to see things for what they are, be with them, and evaluate them. You are able to do this with ease and clarity. Once you are able to be with what is (which is another way of describing acceptance) you can evaluate and discern whether what is occurring is a reflection of the reality you want to experience.

If it is not, you then can change your reality.

What you are aware of you can change.

Any thing or experience that you want to have
is available to you. You can become it. You just have to
get into the consciousness that allows that to occur.

When your consciousness dominates your awareness to
such an extent that you can't conceive of any other state
of mind other than the state of mind that you're in,
turn your attention to the power of mind, make a choice,
and learn to create an awarneness that will allow you
to expand your consciosness to be the consciousness
that will attract what you desire.

Whew!

Isn't this stuff fun?!

Abraham-Hicks Video Explains Law of Attraction, Resistance, Your Frequency and more!

A great video on the Law of Attraction...


Some highlights:

Law of Attraction= That which is likened to itself is drawn.

Ask for what you want and then find a way to bring your self into vibrational frequency of what you are asking for.

If you want more money, you must not continue to tell the story that you don't have enough money. You cannot continue to point out the absence of something you want without holding your self in resistance to something you want.

As you tell the story, you activate the vibration within you.

Tell your self...

"If I let go of resistance and doubt,
If I let go of unworthiness, unfairness and injustice.
If I focus upon the brightest spots that I can find in my physical time space reality or beyond,
I will let loose of resistance and the stream will carry me to the exalted expression of who I truly am."

Act As If

"Act as if it were impossible to fail."

-Dorothea Brande

Are you waiting to act successful until you are successful? Are you waiting to feel joy until you are in joy? Are you waiting to feel abundant until you are abundant?

Can you detect the strangeness of such an approach? Or perhaps that it is self-defeating?

If you wait until something happens to feel what you want to feel, then they will not. You will just keep waiting. You will end up in the illusion of "life will happen when....", which never arrives!

Here's another approach:

1) Identify what you think it will feel like when you are experiencing the things you desire in life
2) Reflect on the consciousness/way of being that you think a person has when they are successful, feeling joy and abundance. What do they think? How do they act?
3) Choose to feel and act how you think you will "when you are successful"
4) Act as if it is so!

Soon you will find that reality will reflect what you want. Because you are being that which will create it!!!!

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Kendra E Thornbury, MA, inspires and guides people to be fully alive through coaching, training, teleseminars, workshops, writing, and resources. http://www.spiritalive.net/
http://www.lessonsinlawofattraction.com/

A Kiss from the Universe

Synchronicity is a kiss from the universe!

Synchronicity closely connected to the workings of the Law of Attraction.

I refer to the universe as the larger cosmos of all things. The nature of the universe for you is different from the person next to you. Your state of being, your attitude, your beliefs, your choices-all influence your experience of the universe.

So let's "try on" that the universe wants you to succeed, that it rejoices in your joy and delights in the fulfillment of who you are. Let's say that the universe actually is designed to help you succeed and that queues, signals, resources, and connections are always present for you to partake in.

Your soul is connected to the universe. Your soul is where your purpose and authentic power reside. I believe true success results when you live from this place. The universe wants this for you.

The universe, in collaboration with your soul, creates synchronicities, which are played out in the physical realm. If you pay attention, you will find that your soul attracts people, occurences, events, etc. into your life to help you evolve into what you want and/or to place emphasis on something meant to support you.

I invite you to play with this a while. Allow yourself to open to the wonders of synchronicity, and watch how your ability to attract what you want increases.

Come on, allow your self to be kissed by the universe! :)

Do You Resist What You Want?

I know, it's actually kind of ridiculous.

But it's true.

We all resist the very things we want at some point and time.

Why is that?

Well, I'm not going to go too far into that today. But I will say we live in a society saturated with paradigms that:

1) Tell us it is not OK to want what we want
2) Tell us it is not really possible to have what we want

In addition, we have this fear of actually being in our joy. Say what? Yes, we fear being in our joy. Marianne Williamson puts this another way, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us."

A key to attracting what you want in life is to follow a path of least resistance. To do this, you need to know what resistance is and how it shows up in you. If you want to know less resistance, and attract what you desire, you need to learn how resistance shows up for you. By recognizing it, you are able to transcend living in automatic and fear mode, and with awareness make new choices.

When you follow the path of least resistance, you learn how to use resistance as a queue for shifting your attention and direction, therefore allowing yourself to be in the flow.

SUGGESTION: For those of you that like exercises/want to explore this further... you can write down any or all of the following:

1) How do you know when you are resisting? i.e. What do you feel? What happens?
2) What do you do when you are resisting? i.e. What choices and actions do you take?
3) Identify what resistance feels like in you. What does it feels like in your body?
4) Create a list of things that you think you resist. This can include people, beliefs, circumstances, places, actions.

Another idea: Start paying more attention to how resistance shows up in your life. Take time to notice how and when it comes up. Does it occur daily? Does it happen around certain people or circumstances?

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Kendra E Thornbury, MA, inspires and guides people to be fully alive through coaching, training, teleseminars, workshops, writing, resources and more. http://www.spiritalive.net
http://www.lessonsinlawofattraction.com/

I'm On The Cover of Fortune Magazine!!

WAHOOOOO! Check this out! :)

The possibilities swirl inside my mind, infuse my emotions with fire and prompt my being to align with the consciousness that makes it so. My clarity, drive and focus keep me on the path to what I desire.

What do you desire? What is your vision? What do you want? Are you able to clearly claim it? If I asked you right now what you want, could you answer? Or, even more meaningful... What does life want from you? What does life want for you?

Do you want wealth? Abundance? Fortune?

Define it. What do the things you say you want (when you get to the point of allowing your self to say it) mean? How will they look in your life? What will you be doing? How will you spend your time?

Once you define it, claim it. Then, act as if it is so.

One way to do this is to create daily practices that put you in sync with what you want. Being in sync includes creating the consciousness that reflects the reality. There is a consciousness that goes with every experience. Experiences begin in your mind. So, with your mind you can purposefully create experiences (rather than from habit or reaction).

My daily practices include using the power of imagery. There are many ways you can do this. Guided visualization, meditation, collages.... or a magazine cover with your picture on it. Have fun with it. :)

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Kendra E Thornbury, MA, inspires and guides people to be fully alive through coaching, training, teleseminars, workshops, writing, resources and more. http://www.spiritalive.net/
http://www.lessonsinlawofattraction.com/