Recently I asked on Twitter where I can receive daily affirmation emails and I was pleasantly surprised by an instant reply to a link to “Notes from the Universe.”

These Notes are brief passages written by “The Universe,” personalized with your name (and occasionally your personal goals and dreams), designed to remind you that you have, indeed, been given dominion over all things.

I have the emails sent to work and they usually arrive around 6pm at night. Red light flashing on my Blackberry and I open the email that is from the sender The Universe, and a little note addressed to me to make me stop, ponder and remind myself daily of my dreams and goals. These little notes are slightly different from daily affirmations of positive self talk: I am strong, I love and approve myself, I am healthy. These little notes are directional and remind you to ask, believe and the Universe will provide.

I recommend trying it and tell me your story.

L

xox

“Life is Difficult.” is the first sentence in Dr M. Scott Peck’s famous novel, The Road Less Travelled.The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition : A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (See all Self-Help Books)

At the moment my life is difficult but I have accepted it and true to Dr Peck’s wisdom it seems less difficult to manage. One strategy that is helping me get through this next chapter of my life is recording 3 items I am thankful for every day. I picked up a beautiful book from Kikki.K self titled, Gratitude and before I go to bed, I select a coloured felt pen and pause for a moment to record 3 Things that I am Grateful for Today. It is not always easy when they days feel like mud but surprisingly even if it it is something simple like:

• I have a place to live
• I have a job I enjoy
• Peace and quiet
• My health
• Two walking Toddlers
• Chocolate cake
• Walk on the Beach

I start to feel better and I start to believe again that life is beautiful and everything is going to be ok.

“If you realised how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought” ~ Peace Pilgrim.

Lisa

I have started a new Vision Board to create abundance back into my life and my focus is a new house deposit. It is daunting to start all over again but I believe that all goals are achievable once you divide them up into little steps. The frustrating thing is, is that I saved up for a house deposit years ago and bought a house with my brother. Although there were advantages for this, now it just means I am unable to access any equity hence I am starting all over again.

This Vision Board has a ruler down the centre in $500 intervals. “But its only $30,000″ they say. YES I know I need 3 times as much but I want my Vision Board to be achievable right? I actually want to see I am achieving something. I can always do another one for the $31,000 plus!!. So I have had another look at the budget and set up an automatic debit of $250 a week into the house deposit account. In the next few weeks I will be transferring $1000 from my tax return so that is a good start anyway. With this in place and focusing on it 100% I believe I can double and triple my weekly savings to $750 a week.

Wish me luck and send me any saving and budget tips. I would love to hear from you.
I will post my Money Vision Board next month.
L

 Focus on Abundance

Abundance,Wealth, Prosperity, Financial Freedom– we all crave it, not just for what the money will do, but for the choices it will give us, for the fun we can create with it, for the life we can live with it. Why is it that some people seem to attract money and riches so easily, and others live their entire lives struggling to make ends meet?

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Why does it often seem that the rich just get richer and the poor just get poorer? Well guess what – it’s not about how MUCH money you make, but how you THINK about money and what you DO with that money that will make all the difference between whether you will live a life of Prosperity or one of continual money challenges. But no matter what your situation – it CAN be changed. If you desire MORE Abundance in your life – then read on!

Living the life of your dreams instead of just dreaming about it is all about creating a Millionaire Mindset. And that’s my specialty! I have been a Prosperity Mentor for over 4 years with clients from all over the world. I love to share different strategies, skills, exercises and ideas on how to keep your mind focused on raising the levels of Wealth in your life. Because the more you focus on something, the FASTER you will attract it into your life.

Take a moment to think about where your focus or predominant mental attitude is. And if it’s more on your bills, debts and lack of money, then you MUST begin to focus on wealth, riches and prosperity – or you will never be able to attract it into your life. A surprisingly simple but amazingly powerful exercise to attract prosperity to you takes less than a minute a day, and if you do this daily, you’ll be amazed at what you begin to attract into your life. This exercise is called Abundance Breaths and basically all you need to do is breathe. Well, actually, it’s a little more than that…

As already stated, you become what you focus on. Too often, it can be challenging to know exactly what you do want. You get caught up in trying to make up your mind – “Do I want this or that? What if I get that and I really would have preferred this?” “I thought I wanted this, but now I think I want that”.

Sometimes it’s easier if you can just focus on the feeling of abundance, rather than the specifics of what that abundance will be. It is the feeling that has the attraction power anyway. You can get specific when all the money comes in!

What you should do before this exercise to create avalanches of abundance and prosperity is find a comfy chair and sit down with your feet flat on the floor, back straight and hands resting in your lap with palms facing up. Gently close your eyes and keep them closed. Before you get started just imagine that you are now surrounded by tiny, minute particles of abundance; that you are immersed in a sea of prosperity and you can reach out and touch it and bring it into your life whenever you desire (which you can!).

When you’re ready, take a long, slow, deep Abundance Breath in to the count of three, totally expanding and filling your lungs. Imagine all the while that you are breathing in those particles of prosperity and they are filling every fibre of your being. Feel that feeling of being flooded with abundance. Hold your breath for the count of nine and feelevery atom, every cell in your entire body being plumped up with prosperity, filled with abundance, vibrating with riches. And then slowly, to the count of six, breathe out that Abundance to circulate throughout the Universe – really force all that air out.

Once again, take another long, slow, deep Abundance Breath in, and this time, see your body light up from the inside out, glowing with prosperity, sparkling with riches, dazzling with wealth. I like to imagine that my body is glowing from the inside out with that same golden glow that radiates from Scrooge McDuck’s millions, or the gold in Aladdin’s cave! Once again, hold for the count of nine, seeing that glow, feeling that glow, then on the out breath, once again breathe out the abundance to circulate throughout the Universe.

One last time, slowly breathe in a huge big Abundance Breath for the count of three, and while you hold that breath for the count of nine, imagine and feel what it’s like to be totally abundant, amazingly wealthy, to have achieved financial freedom and be rich beyond your wildest dreams.

Feel how that feels; feel how light and free and good that feels. Expand that feeling; feel it flood through your body. Embrace that amazing feeling throughout your body, mind and spirit. And for the last time, slowly breathe that abundance and prosperity out to circulate throughout the Universe.

And when you’re ready, slowly open your eyes, feeling prosperous, feeling wealthy, feeling rich, rich, rich! As I said, this is a very easy, very powerful little trick you can do daily or many times, if you want to attract MORE into your life. It only takes a couple of minutes, but has amazing money-magnetizing powers. Once you get really good at your Abundance Breaths, you won’t even need to close your eyes – you will be able to feel those feelings, see your body glowing with prosperity and really feel you are beginning to attract money anytime, anywhere – what fun! Remember, the idea is to focus on what you DO want – and that’s a life filled with prosperity, abundance, riches, wealth and happiness!

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It is true. Focusing on what you don t want and it’s just as likely to happen. In the last two weeks I have 3 examples.

1. “Where is the closest hospital?” we discussed casually in the car one afternoon. “Just in case we ever need it.” Two days later with Moana sick with a rising fever and on the recommendation of the Health hotline we made our semi-urgent dash to the emergency department.

2. My biggest fear is choking. I have said it repeatedly. I found a very sad blog about identical twins with one now severaly disabled from a choking incident. Not long after, Moana again started choking on a fridge magnet, in panic we did dislodge it but once again we were off the emergency department for x-rays as at the time we had though she had swallow it.

3. And today the girls are 19 months and still-not-walking. The physio, local doctor and the pediatrician have given the girls a clean bill of health (25% weight and about 90% height – tall and slim) and not to worry about the walking. They cruise around well enough. But still I can’t stop focusing on it.  So as I love the idea of re framing or using other words to describe the same thing for now on instead of “not walking” I will try:

My girls are mobile, active, cruising, excellent fine motor control, love pushing their toy carts/bikes, love standing by the easel and drawing, happy and healthy, intuitive and social and beautiful and happy.

Moana in the waiting room waiting for an x-ray

I have decided to take the Og Mandino challenge. I have a collection of books listed under the “self-help”, “inspirational”, “motivational” category and as much as I mostly enjoy reading them they are soon forgotten and left on the shelf. Honestly to be in the now (The Power of Now) and constantly thinking positive (Law of Attraction) can sound like a broken record after awhile and exhausting to practice when you need a break from the kids to have a shower, tackle the traffic to work or stare at your empty bank account mentally calculating those bills.

So I have the Mandino  trilogy which included the short story, The Greatest Salesman in the World. You can buy it from Amazon here: Og Mandino’s Great Trilogy
I have had these books for a little while and they were not a favourite of mine due to the language being a little old and the intertwined god references. However I have renewed motivation to do the hard work due to the support of millions of others who have followed the steps of the ten scrolls.

The process is – read one scroll, three times a day for a month. The theory is by consistently reading and applying each scroll new habits will form which will transform your life. So here goes – I jump straight to Scroll Marked 2.

Scroll II – I will greet this day with love in my heart.

I am jumping to the second scroll as the second book in his trilogy, The Greatest Secret in the World starts a Success Recorder journals to track your journey.

Most people give up, Og says and already I am behind (you are supposed to start it on a Monday) but here we go. The scroll in my pocket to read every day for a month.

Have you ever followed the direction of a self-help book?

Lisa

If you see me madly cutting around my head with imaginary scissors, not to worry, I don’t intent to look crazy, I am just cutting the cords of attachment from all the negative and rude people I meet in the day to day of my life. I learnt this technique at one of the meditation classes many years ago. It is called “Cutting the Cords of Attachment” and now it has turned into a little habit that both N and I share.

Just quickly if you have no idea what I am talking about, cord cutting is a term to describe the energetic threads that link people together. Energy cords are invisible cords of energy going from you to other people and from them to you.

Some of these cords are positive (partner, family and friendships) complimenting positive relationships but most often they can be harmful and negative (ex-partners,unhealthy relationships ) and unless you use techniques like meditation to sever them, you have energy cords attached to you that you do not need. However a quick and easy technique in case you do not have time to meditate (like me) is visualizing and cutting with your fingers. Simple.

Perhaps I have taken it to the extreme because as soon as I feel angry or feel negative about someone (friend or foe) I get out those scissors and start cutting away.

Some of my most memorable cutters include:

• To the Community Health Nurse who I called at work to reschedule an appointment because A) I was home alone with twin newborns, B) It was pouring with rain and C) did not think I could cope packing up the babies, three trips to the car, driving across town in the rain, unpack the car for an appointment on my own. To my disbelief the lady was unkind and the appointment was cancelled. Cut.

• To the Manager at the Ella Bache store. I had a gift certificate given to me on my baby shower. The certificate was saved within the valid date. I selected a beauty treatment. I organized a babysitter weeks in advanced. I went to the salon for a luxury that I no longer take for some relaxation. After the consultation my gift card was not accepted. No money was on the card (mistake from the purchasing store). The company would not honour the card and quote, “I don’t care you have just had twins, it is $80.” Cut Cut

• To that person at work who stood at my office door after returning to work two weeks early when my twins were only 4 months old because I believed my work was valued and important but was “too busy” to see me for a few more week and often asks if I A) can attach a document to an email, B)convert a document into PDF and C) Do Track changes. CUT CUT CUT

Feel better now.

Try it.

Lisa

Forget the Vision Board. I am going to create a Vision Wall. Perhaps a bit ambitious but on the third level of this house is a room where we have set up my office. The computer faces french doors that lead out to the backyard and to the left of the French Doors are some blank bricks. Perfect to design a wall to wall Vision Board. I have asked N to find me a huge pin board where I will try to cover it with fabric before positioning it. Then picture by picture we are going to create it together.

The first image I think I will place is a map of Australia. Lately we have been talking about taking a year off and travelling around Australia. I was inspired by a colleague at work who did just that with her husband and two dogs. They put their jobs on hold and rented out their house and off they went. They met many families also on the road. I was told to budget for about $150 a day so over ten months equals a lot of savings. Nether-the-less, I have asked the Universe and now I just need to believe and wait for it to provide.

On Friday night I attended the book launch, by spiritual healers and Clairvoyants, K and Dr Michael Taylor, for their first book, “Dating the Messenger, The Untold Story of a Clairvoyant.” I met K and Michael back in June 2008 when they were holding psychic parties on weekends. Who would believe a short 20 minute reading for $35 would change my life. K invited the party to the weekly meditations they held at their home in Waterford. I was a little lost, sad and lonely at the time and I had been thinking that I would enjoy the benefits of meditation but I only thought it was something very religious people did while chanting. But the universe must have heard, as this opportunity arrived as I requested so without being able to negotiate with any family or friends to come with me, I went on my own.  I remember arriving at the unassuming brick suburban house for my first meditation. That night it was only myself and another lady who I have met many time since. A still have my journal with the first entry of that meditation which is now filled to the end with stories, drawings, numbers and interpretations of what I have seen since. Meditation has transformed my life as over the next two years I laughed and cried, learnt how to silence my busy brain, and made new friends as we travelled through the universe meeting Angels and Spirit Guides, ET’s, met ourselves in past and future lives, had magical healings, met with spiritual animals, and was just part of all the magic created and facilitated through K and Michael.

Like the book, I loved returning to these meditations as I was intrigued by K and Michael’s storytelling, the stories of the clients they meet, the odd and inspirational conversations with spirit, never ending work with the community and just being part of their business as it grew. Plus I was doing my own soul searching in my own life and meditation and meeting a community of people all on the same journey just seemed to fit.  A meditation these days is no longer the intimate group of four but has grown into two rooms with barely a seat spare and I expect it to grow to many more. I have only had one reading by K as I knew I had homework to do to sort out my life and I was comforted to know that this was also a theme in the book, Dating the Messenger. Everyone wants a quick fix to their relationships, financial, career and health problems but what differentiates these people are the ones who will do the yard yards to work on themselves.

I met Tawna (@tawna6988) on Twitter and invited her to contribute to my Law of Attraction in Action stories after reading her blog “My Secret Experiment”. After watching “The Secret,” Tawna decided to test the theory with action by blogging her journey with the Law of Attraction. She sent me two stories, one on losing weight and the second one on spending money to receive money which we could all benefit from. Today I have posted how positive reframing can help you drop those kilos and I think I will apply her Positive Thinking tips as soon as possible. Another way to lose my post pregnancy weight.

You can find her latest post titled Positive thinking = 2 1/4 in weight loss in 6 days!

Tawna with her Secret Experiment.

I am absolutely loving this!  Changing my frame of mind and losing weight = perfect!  I have always struggled at both in the past but am not struggling anymore, especially with the weight loss.  I don’t want to rewrite my big long post with my measurement chart here so if you would like to see what I have done and my exact inches then click over to my weight loss blog.

I still have ups and downs with myself but it is coming along nicely.  You know what I am gong to do today, seriously?  I have not changed my summer for winter clothes yet and need to start that today.  Instead of keeping the “fat” clothes around I am going to donate them.  Seriously!  What good is it to keep them around because with the way I am changing I will NOT need them again?  So long clothes.  I truly believe that if we hang onto them then we are telling our subconscious we will need them again and I refuse to go down that road again!

You can follow Tawna at http://tawnasplan.blogspot.com and http://tawnassecret.blogspot.com/