Change Your Story
Posted by Jana Groscost Matthews | Filed under Manifesting, Transformation
Manifesting or creating what we want requires that we change our story. Stop telling yourself and others lies about your perception of reality. People put their faith in their own stories, which keeps them from getting what they really want. Being vested in your story keeps you from connecting with God. When you’re vested in your story what are you looking for? Sympathy? Support?
In the books The Four Agreements and The Voice of Knowledge Don Miguel Ruiz talks about the power of changing your story. He says, “How are you going to change your story? Well, now you know that you are creating your story according to what you believe about yourself. The way to transform what you believe about yourself is to unlearn what you have already learned. When you unlearn, your faith returns to you, your personal power increases, and you can invest your faith in new beliefs.”
How does your story shape your life? If you stopped telling your story – to both yourself and others – how would your life change? People put their heart into their stories, which is not who they are, it’s situations they have experienced, lessons to be learned, and knowledge/wisdom to be embraced.
Ruiz goes on to say that to stop the stories we must follow the First Agreement in his book:
“Be impeccable with your word” – to both yourself and others.
Your entire world changes when you are honest with yourself and others. As Ruiz says, “Your personal power increases” when you are honest with your words! Creating new thoughts builds a new foundation in truth by changing the chemistry in your brain and body. You now vibrate from a place of truth! Manifesting becomes instant when your personal power increases and creating what you want is a snap.
Tags: Be impeccable with your word, change, creating, don miguel ruiz, faith, Manifesting
Health Tip: Meditation
Posted by Jana Groscost Matthews | Filed under Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Tips, Manifesting, Transformation
Meditation isn’t only for Tibetan monks or spiritual gurus. Meditation is something everyone benefits from. We get so caught up in our busy lives and the busy voices in our head, we often forget or neglect to take time for ourselves to relax. Scientific study shows that calming the mind, soothing the emotions, relaxing the body, literally frees the soul. The mind, body, and environment benefit from daily meditation.
There are many benefits to quieting the mind. On a physical level, meditation helps release stress, reduces anxiety, and improves sleep patterns. It deceases to heart-rate and slows blood flow. It decreases muscle tension and headaches. Helps reduce chronic physical ailments, pre-menstrual symptoms, enhances post-operative healing, and enhances the immune system. It also boosts serotonin levels which influences our moods and behavior.
When you have a particular physical issue, as you begin meditation you can focus on energy being released from the area and infusing it with positive loving energy. This process can be done for yourself and others you want to help in their healing process. You can use affirmation such as “My body is healthy and strong,” “I have healed my physical body,” “My immune system is healthy.”
Meditation stimulates creativity and insight into solving problems. By setting the intention prior to meditation on providing new insight into resolving a specific problem, new information or alternative approaches to resolving it will come to light. It helps with the way we approach other people or enhances our approach to our work. You can add affirmations before your during your meditation such as “I easily resolve this problem,” or “I easily work with __________.”
Many people have learned the benefits of quieting the mind when used before a big meeting, sales presentation, interview, or audition. It provides focus and sets the intention of the desired result. Meditation is a powerful and simple way to improve the results in your life. Before an event you can slow your breathing and focus on the result you want by using affirmations such as “I present a powerful meeting,” “I confidently present my product/service and people purchase this from me,” “I perform beautifully,” or “I get the part.”
The focus of meditation is to slow down the breathing and the brain activity. By quieting the mind, closing the eyes, and removing distractions, we reduce stimulation that distracts us from getting the results we really want.
To experience the power of meditation:
– Click on the BlogTalk radio button on the right of the blog to hear past New Moon events
– Join us for a live version of New Moon Manifesting (see the Schedule for the next event) held each month around the New Moon
– Purchase my NEW meditation CD – it’s around $8 including shipping to US destinations! Simply click on the CD widget on the right of this blog. The CD contains four different meditations.
Improve your mind, body, and soul by incorporating the power of meditation into your daily routine. You’ll be amazed at how much more productive and peaceful you will be.
Tags: benefits, calming, free the soul, Manifesting, meditation, peace
Full Moon in Aquarius
Posted by Jana Groscost Matthews | Filed under Manifesting, Transformation
The full moon on Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 9:38pm EDT is a time for breakthrough moments. Prepare yourself for surprises and be ready to respond and adapt quickly to new situations.
Open your heart during this time and allow feelings to flow. Wash your heart free from old emotional wounds making room for expansion and growth. You may be surprised how your heart awakens when the old stuff is removed.
You are the director of your life, with the capacity to change the characters, scene, and outcome of your production. By letting go of the past and embracing your strength and ability, you have the power to create a masterpiece!
Open your heart to the magical possibilities that surround you at this time!
Tags: change, emotional wounding, full moon in aquarius, healing, heart, Manifesting
Beliefs
Posted by Jana Groscost Matthews | Filed under Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Tips, Manifesting, Transformation
We humans are powerful because we have strong faith. Where is that faith vested? Our faith supports “our story” and what we believe about ourselves. This is why change cannot happen by “wishing” for it. Our beliefs are strong.
You may say, “I am successful… or healthy… or whatever.” But your belief is “I am not successful… or healthy…. or whatever.” The belief overrides your wish to become your desire. Until the belief is changed to be aligned with the wish, failure is inevitable.
Changing a belief is possible. You must challenge every belief that is used to judge yourself, reject yourself, and make yourself small. Whenever the voices in your head put you down, stop them! This breaks the chains that bind your progress, releases the limitations that hold you back from greater love, more success, peace, happiness, and joy!
You are worthy and deserve to receive everything you want. Squash the beliefs that are hindering your success.
Tags: beliefs, healthy, joy, love, Manifesting, peace, success
There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk by Portia Nelson
Posted by Jana Groscost Matthews | Filed under Manifesting, Transformation
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost …. I am helpless.
It isn’t my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend that I don’t see it.
I fall in again.
I can’t believe I am in this same place.
But, it isn’t my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in … it’s a habit … but, my eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.
I walk down another street.
We are habitual creatures, often following the same patterns. Several great philosophers have said, “Insanity is doing the same thing expecting different results.” We all face challenges in life, often feeling stuck, or feeling uncomfortable with options. But, approaching these challenges from the state of mind that created them only causes frustration. Growth and transition occurs when we “think outside the box,” brainstorming new ideas and consciously open to many possibilities. Fear of “walking down another street” is often the culprit to stuffing us back into the old pattern’s box. And only you can choose to walk down another path or continue with the familiar one.
There are simple solutions to the challenges we face, we humans tend to complicate them thinking, “The simple solution must not be the right one.” What would happen if you picked the simplist solution to every situation you face?
Tags: helplessness, Manifesting, Portia Nelson, problems, results, simple solutions, solutions, Transformation
Making Sense
Posted by Jana Groscost Matthews | Filed under Manifesting, Transformation
“What you call thinking is the voice of knowledge making up stories, telling you what you know, and trying to make sense out of everything you don’t know. The problem is that the voice makes you do many things that go against yourself.”
“The solution to taming the liar in your head is to stop believing what it tells you. If you follow two rules – stop believing yourself, and stop believing anybody else – all of the lies you believe won’t survive your skeptism and will simply disappear.”
don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
Tags: don miguel ruiz, knowledge, Manifesting, voice of knowledge
Changes and Challenges
Posted by Jana Groscost Matthews | Filed under Manifesting, Transformation
Change isn’t an option, it’s necessary at this time. The crumbling old foundation is causing many to embrace fear. But the evolution in our energy is causing us to move out of a state of greed and survival and into a place of love. Our new foundation is based in the heart chakra instead of the lower three survival chakras. The push and pull you may be feeling is part of this transition helping you eliminate old survival skills and resolving emotional wounding.
Keep in mind that everyone that you’re in conflict with has contracted with you to help you grow and heal. Our Divine Intelligence gave us crutches to help us overcome our challenges in life. Unfortunately these crutches turned into addictions. It’s easy to get caught in the drama and support yourself through your addictions. Addictions come in many forms: drugs, alcohol, work, exercise, some people are even addicted to drama and create it constantly. These behaviors are rooted in survival instead of growth. They keep us tied to our stories and emotional wounding instead of healing them.
The cosmos is shaking all that up right now. The message is to “stop embracing addictions and emotional wounds, and heal yourself.” The more we resist change the more change is forced upon us. There are some simple steps you can do to manage change instead of feeling victimized by it.
1) Face drama: View drama in your life without attachment to emotions around it. Typically the first response is to emotionally lashing out, but take a step back and ask yourself “Why you are reacting this way?” As soon as you bring awareness to the situation instead of more drama to it you’ll begin to resolve and dissolve it.
2) Release Fear: When you feel the survival skills of the lower three chakras, recite affirmations to shift the energy away from fear and into love. For example, perhaps you are struggling financially. Instead of marinating in the fear and lack of your perceived financial distress say, “The Universe is my supply. I’m so grateful the Universe provides a continuous stream of prosperity and abundance (or whatever the lesson).” Find something you can be grateful related to that person or situation so you shift your vibration. Only you can choose to shift your lower vibrating emotions to higher ones.
3) Remove assumptions and expectations: By making assumptions or having expectations we actually limit possible outcomes. Making assumptions is a breakdown in communication because you assume everyone thinks the way you do. Making assumptions causes misunderstandings because the assumptions fill in the gaps of communication. Drama and sadness is based on our assumptions. Instead of making assumptions find the courage to ask questions until you feel clear about the situation. Find your voice!
An expectation is anticipation of a particular outcome. When we have expectations we may shut down or don’t see other possibilities because we are so focused on a specific result. When things don’t turn out the way we expect it creates frustration, anger, sadness, doubt, and disbelief.
4) Gratitude: Each day make a list of what you’re grateful for. The list includes both things from the past, present and intentions in progress. Expressing gratitude is a big way to shift your energy and vibration. Write out a daily list of gratitudes for a month and see how your life transitions. Make your statement in the form of an affirmation such as “IAM so grateful ….” Even if you don’t initially FEEL grateful for the lesson, situation, or person, writing down a statement of gratitude shifts your perceptions and emotions, so you resolve it.
Tags: addictions, challenges, change, emotional wounding, gratitude, injustices, Manifesting
E.G.O.
Posted by Jana Groscost Matthews | Filed under Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Tips, Manifesting, Transformation
Edging
God
Out
When I am vengeful or hold a grudge I Edge God Out
When I forgive I walk with GOD
When I am fearful I Edge God Out
When I have faith I walk with God
When I rationalize and justify I Edge God Out
When I meditate and pray for guidance I walk with GOD
When I lie I Edge God Out
When I live in truth I walk with GOD
When I criticize or judge I Edge God Out
When I am supportive I walk with God
When I am controlling I Edge God Out
When I go with the flow I walk with God
When I am greedy I Edge God Out
When I am giving I walk with God
When I manipulate others into my way of thinking I Edge God Out
When I allow others to find their path I walk with GOD
When I am arrogant I Edge God Out
When I am humble I walk with GOD
When I only think with my head I Edge God Out
When I feel with my heart I walk with God
When I live in doubt I Edge God Out
When I embrace uncertainty I walk with GOD
In every moment we have a choice to be caught in EGO and Edge God Out or co-create our perfect life.
Tags: ego, God, Manifesting, Transformation, transition
Wise Tip: The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Posted by Jana Groscost Matthews | Filed under Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Tips, Manifesting, Transformation
“Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. One of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection. It’s just a story, but we believe it, and we use the story to judge ourselves, to punish ourselves, and to justify our mistakes.”
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
“The Voice of Knowledge”
Questions to Ponder:
What lies do you tell yourself?
If you stop believing in your story, how will your life change?
Tags: change, Lies, Transformation, truth
Full Moon – Eclipse
Posted by Jana Groscost Matthews | Filed under Manifesting, Transformation
The intensity of the Full Moon combined with a lunar eclipse grace us today June 26, 2010 at 6:30am PST. Look for big changes, shake-ups, and news as the full moon/eclipse is impacted by its close proximaty to Pluto – the Lord of the Underworld. Pluto reveals what has been hidden and creates a space for destruction, creation, transformation, regeneration, power struggles, and upheal.
Now is the time to decide what you want in your life. Take some time today to review what is important and acknowledge what is happening without worrying too much about how it’s going to shape up. Spend time with people you love. Our focus is on “feeling secure” in the world. Ask yourself, “How can I be more present in every aspect of my life?” What seeds you plant now will manifest in all areas of your life.
Blessings!
Tags: eclipse, full moon, Manifesting, Pluto, security
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To prepare for the manifesting, write down a list of goals or intentions you want to attract or issues you want to release during the lunar cycle. After the cycle is over, review your old list crossing off goals achieved and file it, then begin a new list for the new cycle. To maintain balance in your life, look at goals on several different levels including financial, spiritual, mental, emotional, and physically.