Resilience

My garden is my pride and joy and it broke my heart to see the beautiful plants being cooked in place in the extreme heat over summer. Combined with the drought conditions, many of these plants appeared to die completely. Then the miracle happened. The inner Resilience of these plants refused to let them die and with the first decent rainfall they seemed to be reborn as green leaves appeared and the grass regenerated. All those plants that would normally have flowered over summer, but had been struggling to just exist, suddenly burst forth into bud. Now the garden is filled with flowers, such as magnolias, flowering completely out of season. It is as if the plants are saying to me, "Look at me. I am beautiful. I'm a survivor!"

Our greatest challenges in life are usually our greatest teachers, whether it be through a difficult relationship, serious illness, caring for terminally ill loved ones, an unexpected job loss, addictive behaviour, being bullied or anything that pushes us well out of our comfort zone. Something I have noticed many times over the years is the difference between people in their ability to cope with challenging life circumstances. The key is their level of Resilience -their ability to pick themselves up again after being knocked down, dust themselves off and get on with life versus getting energetically stuck in the experience, which stops them from moving forward and stunts the opportunity for emotional growth.

This Resilience, or lack thereof, is likely to be the result of genetic predispositions involved, the available repertoire of coping skills and other people's responses to the person. Often that person will soon realize there are secondary gains by getting stuck in 'poor me' victim mentality, such as getting extra care from others and being able to avoid certain responsibilities. Unfortunately these perceived secondary gains deny the opportunity to develop Resilience and to fully participate in a joyful, high vibration life of the present.

If you are stuck in the past, blaming all your current misery on events that happened long ago, isn't about time you gave yourself the gift of letting all those heavy vibrations go and allowing yourself to see the beauty that is all around you now? After all, the Law of Attraction states that we get what we focus on, so why not make it something pleasurable? Walk in a park, watch a beautiful sunrise or sunset, stroll along the beach, treat yourself to a soul-nurturing activity. Just because things were really bad for you for a while and you may have experienced a whole range of emotions like anger, frustration, sadness, grief, depression, despair and helplessness, that doesn't mean that you have to hold onto those emotions and allow them to manifest in the body as disease (dis-ease) and disharmony. Have you ever watched a child go from crying in frustration to happily playing within a few seconds, just because a child feels the e-motion (energy in motion), expresses it and then lets it go?

Even if you are currently undergoing major life challenges now, search deep within yourself to find that inner power, that Resilience, those coping skills that will help you to find the meaning to the experience and to learn any lessons it has to offer.

Just remember the plants in my garden - when they were so battered by the extreme conditions over summer that it looked as if they had given up, they still held onto the thread of life force deep within that allowed them once again to burst forth into their magnificence. No matter what challenges life throws at you, stand tall and proud and let your true beauty bloom.

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How To Find Inner Stillness

For many people the most difficult thing to master in their self-development journey is the ability to find Inner Stillness, that pure place within you that is your divine spark, your connection to all that is and the source of inspirational and transformational ideas.

I would like to share with you a relatively simple technique I have developed that most people interested in self-development will be able to master with a little practice.

First, find yourself a quiet, comfortable place where you can lie undisturbed for about 20 minutes. As a "fascinated observer" focus on your right hand and become aware of the tingling sensations in your right hand. This may take a couple of minutes to develop, but please persevere, as getting this part right makes the rest much easier. Then notice this tingly feeling spread over the whole right hand and arm and notice how you are beginning to lose awareness of the physical arm and just feel its expanded energy field.

While still maintaining the feelings above, now do the same thing with the left hand and arm until you just feel them as a mass of energy.

Continue the same process individually with the right foot, the right leg, the left foot, the left leg, then the trunk of the body - all tingling as you lose the physical sense of them one by one.

Then, be a fascinated observer to the mind chatter in the head and as you observe it in a neutral manner, it will switch off fairly quickly.

Focus gently on observing your breathing and feel inside where the breath is going. At a certain point shortly after that you will feel a definite energetic shift as you lose all sense of your physical body, becoming a mass of tingling energy instead - pure consciousness.

Stay in this wonderful space for as long as desired. It is from this place of pure Inner Stillness that you really feel yourself as Soul, with opportunities for the most amazing synchronicities and 'coincidences' in your life, helping you to move forward in ways you would never have imagined possible.

This makes a wonderfully rewarding daily meditation practice.

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(Copyright 2010 Michelle Mayur)
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How to Expand Your Energy

Notice how you feel when you are depressed, disappointed, feeling hopeless, grieving or broken-hearted. Hopefully these feelings don't occur too often for you, but when they do you will become aware of how contracted and constricted you feel in your heart and overall energy field. It is almost as it you shrink into yourself and withdraw from the world. A contracted energy field equals lowered physical energy and overall vitality.
Just at a point in time when you could really do with some love and support, your contracting energy field is likely to get the opposite result - a feeling of intense loneliness.
Don't get me wrong, it is normal and healthy to experience a full range of emotions as they arise, good and bad. The difference is that, unlike children who can be angry one minute and then playing happily the next, many adults tend to get stuck in their emotions and subconsciously struggle to expand their constricted energy field again.
Now just stop and think of something really beautiful or that makes you happy and notice how instantly you feel your heart, chest and overall energy field expanding.
If you are not sure what your energy field is, it is the electromagnetic field around your body, popularly termed the aura. Certain sensitive people may be able to see the shimmering energy field around someone, just by looking at that person with 'sleepy' slightly defocused eyes. Most of us can't actually see our energy field, yet we sense it is there and we intuitively know whether it is expanded or contracted by how we feel.

Try this interesting exercise:
•Find a quiet place to meditate
•Close your eyes and tune in to how far away from your body you sense the boundary of your energy field (a bit like an invisible wall, commonly up to about 1 metre from your physical body)
•Have the intention to consciously expand your energy field and its boundary to fill the room, as you breathe deeply.
•Continue consciously expanding your energy field in sequential steps in the following order: throughout the building you are in; across 1 km or mile; around the suburb / town; across the state; across the country and around the world.
•You will have a wonderfully expanded sense of awareness and are now a vibrational match for that which you seek
•Have the intention to now draw to you vibrationally those people and events that will help you reach your full potential.
•Stay in this wonderfully empowering expanded energy state for as long as you want as you go about your daily activities
•Ideally, with practice, holding this expanded energy field will become your natural way of being.

Just being aware of and participating in some of the following things that naturally expand your energy field will assist in this process:
•Spending time in nature
•Playing with animals and children
•Letting go of emotional baggage
•Reclaiming your power
•Forgiving yourself and/or others
•Honouring and nurturing yourself
•Making playtime a regular part of your life
•Laughing out loud
•Listening to beautiful music
•Having prosperity consciousness
•Making lifestyle changes to address stresses and frustrations
•Being content with what you already have materially
•Working in whatever nourishes you at a soul level

Of course, if you avoid doing most of the above, you are likely to feel devitalised with a constricted, contracted energy field, cut off from reaching your full potential either personally or professionally.
Take these first steps today to living in expanded energy and awareness.

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FORGIVENESS

'Many researchers think forgiveness - a virtue embraced by almost every religious tradition as a balm for the soul - may be medicine for the body. They have shown that "forgiveness interventions" - often just a couple of short sessions in which the wounded are guided towards positive feelings for an offender - can improve cardiovascular function, diminish chronic pain, relieve depression and boost quality of life among the very ill.

While much of the early work on forgiveness has focused on forgiveness of others, academic psychologists and clinicians are turning up evidence that forgiving oneself may have a more powerful effect on overall health and wellbeing.'

(Above is an extract from Los Angeles Times article published in the Sydney Morning Herald 22 Feb. 2008)

- By Forgiving we are not doing the person who wronged us a
favour.
- The gift of Forgiveness is for ourselves.
- By Forgiving we reclaim our power from the person who has
hurt us.
- Forgive and free yourself from the energy of crippling, corrosive
emotions like anger and bitterness
- Forgiving does not mean forgetting, only that we are now willing to detach from the emotional impact of the memory, while keeping the learning.
- Forgiveness does not need to be instant and may mean forgiving in incremental steps.
- Forgiving others is the necessary step before forgiving ourselves.
- Unforgiveness of self leads to our own disapproval with dire effects on our own self-esteem, confidence and health.
- By Forgiving we mark the end of an era and can start moving towards a new future of our choice.

Affirmation of Forgiveness and Atonement
In a quiet space, preferably with your hands on your heart, try saying the affirmation below out loud to heal a damaged relationship, family issues or to make peace in your mind with anyone who has hurt you.
I don’t know why you did what you did,
And I don’t know why you said what you said,
And I don’t know why you are the way you are,
But I accept that’s where you need to be now,
And I forgive you and I forgive myself.
I release all anger, bitterness and resentment,
Past or present,
And I release us both in my love.
And so be it.

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