Week Two: Your Personal Trainers

Day 13 Centering Thought:

[highlight]I appreciate the blessing of the contrasting choices in my life.[/highlight]

The contrasting relationships provide the very basis of your personal expansion, as well as the very basis of your enormous contribution to Eternal expansion. ~  Abraham

I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~  Emily Dickinson

Week Two Processes:

• Meditate: In your daily fifteen minute meditation you might try silently saying “I am” on the inhale and “love” on the exhale.
• Appreciation Journal: Each day list at least three things you appreciate about someone that is easy to appreciate.  This assists you to feel good. Then list at least three things you appreciate about someone not so easy to appreciate.  Even if you have to go to the far ends of the galaxy, find something that rings true to appreciate.
• What Do You Want?  Consider each encounter with others through out the day as a training session.  You are training in the fine art of unconditional love.  If the conversation is uplifting, you’ve got it easy.  If the other is bent on talking about a problem, to help yourself stay or get back to clear alignment ask, “What is it that you want to happen?”  You might say, “It is clear what you don’t want. What is the solution, what do you want to happen?  Or articulate what you see as a possible solution.  “That certainly clarifies what you don’t want.  It sounds like you want…….”

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Week Two: Your Personal Trainers

Day 12 Centering Thought:

[highlight]Others are always doing their job of training me to be a powerful creator.[/highlight]

If you remember that you are a powerful creator who wanted to experience contrast in order to help you decide the things that you now want, it will help you to feel more patient about others’ not remembering.  ~  Abraham

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. ~  Confucius

Week Two Processes:

• Meditate: In your daily fifteen minute meditation you might try silently saying “I am” on the inhale and “love” on the exhale.
• Appreciation Journal: Each day list at least three things you appreciate about someone that is easy to appreciate.  This assists you to feel good. Then list at least three things you appreciate about someone not so easy to appreciate.  Even if you have to go to the far ends of the galaxy, find something that rings true to appreciate.
• What Do You Want?  Consider each encounter with others through out the day as a training session.  You are training in the fine art of unconditional love.  If the conversation is uplifting, you’ve got it easy.  If the other is bent on talking about a problem, to help yourself stay or get back to clear alignment ask, “What is it that you want to happen?”  You might say, “It is clear what you don’t want. What is the solution, what do you want to happen?  Or articulate what you see as a possible solution.  “That certainly clarifies what you don’t want.  It sounds like you want…….”

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Week Two: Your Personal Trainers

Day 11 Centering Thought:

[highlight]What others think about me is none of my business.[/highlight]

If you are willing to let others think whatever they want to think – about anything, even about you – then you will be able to hold your thoughts steady with who-you-really-are. ~  Abraham

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. ~  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Week Two Processes:

• Meditate: In your daily fifteen minute meditation you might try silently saying “I am” on the inhale and “love” on the exhale.
• Appreciation Journal: Each day list at least three things you appreciate about someone that is easy to appreciate.  This assists you to feel good. Then list at least three things you appreciate about someone not so easy to appreciate.  Even if you have to go to the far ends of the galaxy, find something that rings true to appreciate.
• What Do You Want?  Consider each encounter with others through out the day as a training session.  You are training in the fine art of unconditional love.  If the conversation is uplifting, you’ve got it easy.  If the other is bent on talking about a problem, to help yourself stay or get back to clear alignment ask, “What is it that you want to happen?”  You might say, “It is clear what you don’t want. What is the solution, what do you want to happen?  Or articulate what you see as a possible solution.  “That certainly clarifies what you don’t want.  It sounds like you want…….”

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Week Two: Your Personal Trainers

Day 10 Centering Thought:

[highlight]I don’t take what others say or do personally.[/highlight]

It does not matter what anyone else thinks about you, it only matters what you think. ~  Abraham

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.  ~ Anais Nin

Week Two Processes:

• Meditate: In your daily fifteen minute meditation you might try silently saying “I am” on the inhale and “love” on the exhale.
• Appreciation Journal: Each day list at least three things you appreciate about someone that is easy to appreciate.  This assists you to feel good. Then list at least three things you appreciate about someone not so easy to appreciate.  Even if you have to go to the far ends of the galaxy, find something that rings true to appreciate.
• What Do You Want?  Consider each encounter with others through out the day as a training session.  You are training in the fine art of unconditional love.  If the conversation is uplifting, you’ve got it easy.  If the other is bent on talking about a problem, to help yourself stay or get back to clear alignment ask, “What is it that you want to happen?”  You might say, “It is clear what you don’t want. What is the solution, what do you want to happen?  Or articulate what you see as a possible solution.  “That certainly clarifies what you don’t want.  It sounds like you want…….”

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Week Two: Your Personal Trainers

Day Nine Centering Thought:

[highlight]Each person that is in my life, I have invited.[/highlight]

Everyone who turns up in your life – from the people you call friends to lovers, to the people you call enemies or strangers – comes in response to your Vibrational asking. ~  Abraham

Fear is a call for love,  an unconscious recognition of what has been denied. ~  A Course in Miracles

Week Two Processes:

• Meditate: In your daily fifteen minute meditation you might try silently saying “I am” on the inhale and “love” on the exhale.
• Appreciation Journal: Each day list at least three things you appreciate about someone that is easy to appreciate.  This assists you to feel good. Then list at least three things you appreciate about someone not so easy to appreciate.  Even if you have to go to the far ends of the galaxy, find something that rings true to appreciate.
• What Do You Want?  Consider each encounter with others through out the day as a training session.  You are training in the fine art of unconditional love.  If the conversation is uplifting, you’ve got it easy.  If the other is bent on talking about a problem, to help yourself stay or get back to clear alignment ask, “What is it that you want to happen?”  You might say, “It is clear what you don’t want. What is the solution, what do you want to happen?  Or articulate what you see as a possible solution.  “That certainly clarifies what you don’t want.  It sounds like you want…….”

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Week Two: Your Personal Trainers

Day Eight Centering Thought:

[highlight]I eagerly welcome my interaction with all those in my life.[/highlight]

When you remember that everything is responding to you and the way you feel, and you then gain control of how you are feeling, you will find tremendous cooperation from many different people and places helping you gain control of your own experience. ~  Abraham

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities.  It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend . . . When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present – love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring pleasure – the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.  ~  Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Seek YOU

From the teachings of Jesus we get the guidance to seek first the kingdom of heaven within and all else will be given.  In Attraction Based Consciousness we relate that kingdom within to the love we are.  Thus being the love we are becomes our primary purpose. Seek clear alignment between you and YOU, your physical and nonphysical perspectives and all you desire will be attracted.

With clear alignment as our purpose we designate all those in your life as PERSONAL TRAINERS. They constantly assist you to be the love you are.  The lovable ones make it easy to be the love we are.  It is the not so easy to love ones who help us to “gain control of your own experience” and love unconditionally.  Even the loveable ones can do less than lovable things at times. So, opportunities to practice being love abound.

Alignment GPS

Key is the understanding that our feelings actually are not caused by what others are doing, they are caused by our perspective of what they are doing. It is neither the good feeling you find when you observe wanted behavior, nor the bad feeling you find when you observe unwanted behavior, that is actually the reason that you feel good or bad.  The way you feel is only ever about your clear alignment or misalignment between the Voice in your head and your Inner Being.

Our emotions are part of our internal guidance system, our Alignment GPS. This understanding gives us complete empowerment and freedom. This understanding turns all others into Personal Trainers of clear alignment.

Falling in love

Falling in love is actually being the love we are.  We meet someone who has enough characteristics, physical, mental or emotional, that we can easily focus on to bring us into clear alignment.  However, the person we have fallen in love with is complex and eventually we see some of their characteristics that are not so lovable to us.  Now they have become in-house, in your face Personal Trainers on your journey to mastering the energies of love.

 It is not about you anyway.

When you see others as Personal Trainers, if they lash out at you in anger, you realize their battle is not with you but with themselves.  Your job is to not take their behavior personally but be the love you are.

Sometimes you think it is important what others think of you and you will work to gain their approval.  However, there really is little that you can do to keep their approval coming for it is never about you, but about them. If you will release all concern about how others feel about you, and focus only upon how you feel about them, you will unearth your core understanding of who-you-really-are. They will have done their job of training you to be the love you are.

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Week Two Processes:

• Meditate: In your daily fifteen minute meditation you might try silently saying “I am” on the inhale and “love” on the exhale.
• Appreciation Journal: Each day list at least three things you appreciate about someone that is easy to appreciate.  This assists you to feel good. Then list at least three things you appreciate about someone not so easy to appreciate.  Even if you have to go to the far ends of the galaxy, find something that rings true to appreciate.
• What Do You Want?  Consider each encounter with others through out the day as a training session.  You are training in the fine art of unconditional love.  If the conversation is uplifting, you’ve got it easy.  If the other is bent on talking about a problem, to help yourself stay or get back to clear alignment ask, “What is it that you want to happen?”  You might say, “It is clear what you don’t want. What is the solution, what do you want to happen?  Or articulate what you see as a possible solution.  “That certainly clarifies what you don’t want.  It sounds like you want…….”

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Week One:  you & YOU

Day Seven Centering Thought:

[highlight]My heart is open. [/highlight]

Be easy about your life, and feel our appreciation for who-you-are as you allow wonderful things to flow naturally to you. ~  Abraham

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ~ George Moore

Week One Processes

• Meditate:  Through time this has been the most effective practice to experience your essence, your Inner Being.  In the quieting of your mind, you can actually experience the silent witness within. We suggest fifteen minutes a day.

To experience your silent witness or Inner Being try this awareness meditation from Sally Kempton’s book, Meditation for the Love of It.  Close your eyes and take three deep, slow breaths.  Then place your attention behind your own body, so that you can see your body from every angle – from above, from below, from behind, from the front.  Notice the shift in perspective that occurs.  See if you can station yourself as that observing witness of your body seen from all sides.

Now, still holding that perspective, ask yourself, “Who or what is witnessing my body?  Who or what is witnessing my thoughts?” Don’t try to answer the question in words.  Instead let your attention turn toward the felt experience that arises in response to the question.

• Savor Clearly Aligned Moments: More often than we realize, we have times throughout the day that we pop into clear alignment between our physical and nonphysical perspectives.  We see a dramatic cloud formation, a puppy, a garden in full bloom.  Or maybe the traffic clears, or a partner speaks of appreciation for you. And then we go straight into resonance with our Source Energy.

• Think or write about:

• How does it feel?
• What is it that makes this moment feel so good?
• Revel about the details that make it feel good.

For example, you might say to yourself the following:

• Question:  I feel so warm and cozy in this room. Why is that? What makes it feel that way?
• Answer:  The colors are soft and have a warm feel to them. They just make the room feel cozy and easy to be in yet spacious. They are luscious yet relaxing. And the southern facing windows let in this wonderful light that gives a glow to the room at this time of day. Even when I’m inside I can sit and feel the warmth of the suns rays wash over me filling me with a sense of ease and wellness.

  Photo Image Courtesy of Third Eye Photography

Week One:  you & YOU

Day Six Centering Thought:

[highlight]  The more I deliberately create my reality, the more I experience my worthiness.[/highlight]

You did not begin on the day you born into your physical body.  You are Eternal Consciousness, with an Eternal history of becoming and of worthiness. ~  Abraham

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise – then you will discover the fullness of your life. ~   Brother David Steindl-Rast

Week One Processes

• Meditate:  Through time this has been the most effective practice to experience your essence, your Inner Being.  In the quieting of your mind, you can actually experience the silent witness within. We suggest fifteen minutes a day.

To experience your silent witness or Inner Being try this awareness meditation from Sally Kempton’s book, Meditation for the Love of It.  Close your eyes and take three deep, slow breaths.  Then place your attention behind your own body, so that you can see your body from every angle – from above, from below, from behind, from the front.  Notice the shift in perspective that occurs.  See if you can station yourself as that observing witness of your body seen from all sides.

Now, still holding that perspective, ask yourself, “Who or what is witnessing my body?  Who or what is witnessing my thoughts?” Don’t try to answer the question in words.  Instead let your attention turn toward the felt experience that arises in response to the question.

• Savor Clearly Aligned Moments: More often than we realize, we have times throughout the day that we pop into clear alignment between our physical and nonphysical perspectives.  We see a dramatic cloud formation, a puppy, a garden in full bloom.  Or maybe the traffic clears, or a partner speaks of appreciation for you. And then we go straight into resonance with our Source Energy.

• Think or write about:

• How does it feel?
• What is it that makes this moment feel so good?
• Revel about the details that make it feel good.

For example, you might say to yourself the following:

• Question:  I feel so warm and cozy in this room. Why is that? What makes it feel that way?
• Answer:  The colors are soft and have a warm feel to them. They just make the room feel cozy and easy to be in yet spacious. They are luscious yet relaxing. And the southern facing windows let in this wonderful light that gives a glow to the room at this time of day. Even when I’m inside I can sit and feel the warmth of the suns rays wash over me filling me with a sense of ease and wellness.

  Photo Image Courtesy of Third Eye Photography

Week One:  you & YOU

Day Five Centering Thought:

[highlight]  My priority is to give my attention to what feels good to think about. [/highlight]

When you, in your physical body, give your attention to unwanted things, you cause a disparity in the Vibrational relationship between you and YOU. ~  Abraham

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’  Look what happens with a love like that!  It lights the whole sky. ~  Hafez

Week One Processes

• Meditate:  Through time this has been the most effective practice to experience your essence, your Inner Being.  In the quieting of your mind, you can actually experience the silent witness within. We suggest fifteen minutes a day.

To experience your silent witness or Inner Being try this awareness meditation from Sally Kempton’s book, Meditation for the Love of It.  Close your eyes and take three deep, slow breaths.  Then place your attention behind your own body, so that you can see your body from every angle – from above, from below, from behind, from the front.  Notice the shift in perspective that occurs.  See if you can station yourself as that observing witness of your body seen from all sides.

Now, still holding that perspective, ask yourself, “Who or what is witnessing my body?  Who or what is witnessing my thoughts?” Don’t try to answer the question in words.  Instead let your attention turn toward the felt experience that arises in response to the question.

• Savor Clearly Aligned Moments: More often than we realize, we have times throughout the day that we pop into clear alignment between our physical and nonphysical perspectives.  We see a dramatic cloud formation, a puppy, a garden in full bloom.  Or maybe the traffic clears, or a partner speaks of appreciation for you. And then we go straight into resonance with our Source Energy.

• Think or write about:

• How does it feel?
• What is it that makes this moment feel so good?
• Revel about the details that make it feel good.

For example, you might say to yourself the following:

• Question:  I feel so warm and cozy in this room. Why is that? What makes it feel that way?
• Answer:  The colors are soft and have a warm feel to them. They just make the room feel cozy and easy to be in yet spacious. They are luscious yet relaxing. And the southern facing windows let in this wonderful light that gives a glow to the room at this time of day. Even when I’m inside I can sit and feel the warmth of the suns rays wash over me filling me with a sense of ease and wellness.

  Photo Image Courtesy of Third Eye Photography

Week One:  you & YOU

Day Four Centering Thought:

[highlight] I give my attention to solutions. [/highlight]

From your Broader Perspective, you know that attention to unwanted things adds to them – and so, the Source part of you withdraws attention from all things that are unwanted. ~  Abraham

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~  Oliver Wendell Holmes

Week One Processes

• Meditate:  Through time this has been the most effective practice to experience your essence, your Inner Being.  In the quieting of your mind, you can actually experience the silent witness within. We suggest fifteen minutes a day.

To experience your silent witness or Inner Being try this awareness meditation from Sally Kempton’s book, Meditation for the Love of It.  Close your eyes and take three deep, slow breaths.  Then place your attention behind your own body, so that you can see your body from every angle – from above, from below, from behind, from the front.  Notice the shift in perspective that occurs.  See if you can station yourself as that observing witness of your body seen from all sides.

Now, still holding that perspective, ask yourself, “Who or what is witnessing my body?  Who or what is witnessing my thoughts?” Don’t try to answer the question in words.  Instead let your attention turn toward the felt experience that arises in response to the question.

• Savor Clearly Aligned Moments: More often than we realize, we have times throughout the day that we pop into clear alignment between our physical and nonphysical perspectives.  We see a dramatic cloud formation, a puppy, a garden in full bloom.  Or maybe the traffic clears, or a partner speaks of appreciation for you. And then we go straight into resonance with our Source Energy.

• Think or write about:

• How does it feel?
• What is it that makes this moment feel so good?
• Revel about the details that make it feel good.

For example, you might say to yourself the following:

• Question:  I feel so warm and cozy in this room. Why is that? What makes it feel that way?
• Answer:  The colors are soft and have a warm feel to them. They just make the room feel cozy and easy to be in yet spacious. They are luscious yet relaxing. And the southern facing windows let in this wonderful light that gives a glow to the room at this time of day. Even when I’m inside I can sit and feel the warmth of the suns rays wash over me filling me with a sense of ease and wellness.

  Photo Image Courtesy of Third Eye Photography