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Meditation & 2012 by Astrologer Yasmin Boland:

Meditation is one of the best things we can do for ourselves, because it slows us down for long enough so that we can actually hear the wheels of our minds ticking over.  Through meditation, we receive insights into the world around us that we might otherwise miss. Meditation also sends our intuition off the scale - and intuition is one of the most wonderful abilities we humans can foster in ourselves.  Intuition makes life so much easier to manage, personally and professionally! 

Neptune is moving from Aquarius into Pisces, which is already a super-spiritual sign.  In fact, many would argue that Pisces is the most spiritual and most intuitive sign of the zodiac (and we all have Pisces somewhere in our chart).  This move by Neptune makes you wonder if perhaps - as we head closer to 2012 - we humans are going to go up a notch spiritually?  For my money, at least at the time of writing, that's my theory on 2012. 

A lot of people are predicting doom and gloom and "the end of days" for 2012.  Personally, I believe 2012 is about us all realizing that we create our lives with our thoughts and emotions. 

Yoga In Gahanna - New Albany 

My daughters & I are starting a yoga class *together*!   We took yoga together for the first time two years ago on spring break in North Carolina and I've since loved the idea of doing yoga with my daughters.  Zodiac occasionally publishes a list of yoga opportunities & resources in the Gahanna - New Albany area.  If you own or visit a yoga studio nearby and would like for us to share its contact information, please reply to this email with its name, location & website.    

 The following article - long I know - is from yoga enthusiast Claudia and I love it . . .

32 Unusual Ways To Attract Abundance Into Our Lives

(Number 18:  Do Yoga)

By Claudia / Earth Yogi at http://earthyogi.blogspot.com/

A few days ago I woke up to the Marianne Williamson's quote that Govinda Kay had posted on his Facebook wall:

"A revolution of love is sweeping the planet. Fear has material resources, but love has cosmic support.  Ultimately, love will prevail because only love is real"

I believe that love also has material resources.

Think about Warren Buffett donating virtually all of his immense fortune (50 billion) to Bill Gates who is doing work  to help all over the world to, among other things: eradicate malaria in Africa, promote small farming, saving kids from diarrhea in India, etc.  (Picture from here )

Abundance, when well channeled, works for good.  It requires an opening and it requires trust and proper channeling.  It demands mindfulness so that we can all make this a better world.

Whenever I get caught in the scarcity complex I always think of the story of when Deepak Chopra realized in his early years as a doctor that he had to go back to India to learn about his country's ways of healing but his wife complained that they would not be able to pay the mortgage and raise their daughter.  Deepak, or maybe it was Rita, his wife,  asked their guru:  "From where will we get the money?" and the guru responded:

That is of course, once aligned with spirit!   Here are 32 suggestions to attract abundance into your lives:

1. Take all steps necessary to find out what your passion is, feeling stuck or non-motivated is a big sign that we are not passionate about what we are doing. There are countless books and workshops and seminars that help with the basic steps to uncover what is it we like.  Short of that you could also try to write down 10 things you love to do, never mind the money part.  Just find out and start including the things you love into your daily life, even if for a few minutes, because it is a well known fact that where attention goes energy flows.
2. Trust.  A phrase like the one up there, centered and bolded,  is easy to take at face value.  It is a different story to make it a visceral belief.  It might take time and mostly trust.  It does require an opening and a different way of seeing things, or the miracle of a change in attitude.  
3. Learn to receive.  For example:  How many times do you receive a compliment and deflect it with "oh this old thing?"  Catch yourself, because you are blocking the flow of giving and receiving which are both sides of the same coin.
4. There is a Hawaiian saying: "Bless that which you want."  So, some yoga teacher is famous and makes lots of money, bless that.  Someone is enlightened?  bless that.  Someone gets to travel and see the world, and you would like that, bless them!  When I learned about this Hawaiian tradition it took me by surprise because for all the years I had been living up until that moment I had always thought that rich people were inherently bad.
5. Prayer is perhaps the closest way to connect with spirit, especially when it is true prayer, as in a direct conversation with God.  I like what Oprah said:  "If all you pray is "Thank you," that is enough."
6. Say what you want about visualization, and I will say that when combined with down-to-earth reality-awareness, it works.  I have made many collages in my life with images of things I wanted (lots of yoga pictures), kept it cool, but did them anyway.  A collage of what you want brings about two things, 1- a clear picture of the things you want and 2- a clarification of where the energy should flow. 
7. Wayne Dyer has a special CD dedicated to help manifestations come into life.  In its most basic form it consists of a morning practice of chanting "Aum" while visualizing that which you want to attract, and chanting "Om" at night while being grateful for all the well being already present in our lives. 
8. The Gayatri Mantra is the most powerful japa  (mantra repetition) meditation know to the Indian world.  It is said to contain all the mantras in the Vedas (cream of Indian philosophy) and to bring about 33 specific benefits, including abundance, and cows.  I know, that one, which is #33 left me scratching my head.  Wonder how that symbolism would translate into the Western world.
9. Say yes.  Adopting an attitude of non-resistance is the best way to let things in and to aid the universe as it folds itself into new shapes to create the realities we would like to attract.  Even if confused it is best to say "yes" first (using common sense of course), and see what happens.
10. Learn to give.  On the other side of #3 there is always a #10, of course.  Learning to give is key, and not just in money but in energy, time, space, dedication, gratitude.
11. Know that there is a reason for everything, and trust universal intelligence.
12. Be generous with your time and energy.
13. Meditate.  I have found this method very effective.
14. Use your resources effectively.  This means that we use what we already have in an efficient way, trusting that more or better is on the way (if that is what you want), but posting to the universe in capital letters that we are happy as it is, right now.
15. Learn the value of money.  There is no easy way to go around this one, I suppose it applies more to teenagers or people who never had a job, but it could also apply to me, in every day situations.  I guess most readers of this blog somewhat know that money is valuable, and needs to be honored and respected, and of course, used efficiently.
16. Bless money.  Bless it because just like any other it is an energy that is very much a provider of our well being.
17. Be grateful for at least 32 things you have each day, including a roof over your head, food, light, eyes, books, hands, blog reading.
18. Do yoga.  OK this one comes from the lineage, "do your practice, all is coming."
19. Connect with spirit daily.  Make sure that the divinity is connected throughout your activities;  especially when difficulties arise, it is good to dedicate and surrender to a higher power prior to acting - it enlists the help of the Gods - why not?
20. Dedicate everything you do to the divine.
21. Know your self worth.  I even have some trouble with this one but can recognize that when we add value to the lives of others, when we enrich and help then we do have value.  Putting a number on that may be a bit more complicated and it might need help, consulting with others, checking with general guidelines of the planet we live in, etc., but there is a number, and it is good to know it.
22. Add value to others.  Always strive to offer help, to solve a problem, to find out where there is a need and fill it.
23. Offer valuable stuff for free.  Think about Google for example - did you know that when they started, and apparently even to this day, the first thing they ask before doing anything is:  Will it be cool?  Will people like it?  Will it add value?
24. Learn to charge for services too.  Even Google makes money;  as long as supermarkets accept only money it is fair game to accept money in return for services.  Having no self worth or expecting to live under the archetype of the starving artist is very 1990s...  and not even real in this world, at least in the Western world which is the one I write from.
25. Promote your work, hey! Krishnamacharya did!
26. Clean up your vocabulary.  I know, this one seems to make it into every one of my lists, and there is a reason why - a clean vocabulary means mastery over verbal communication, and when we speak with elegance we are more effective, and can add more value to others.
27. Create spaces and silences in conversations.  This allows for new things to come in.  Once the intention to create something new is out,  it is through blank spaces that the universe gets to fill in.
28. Listen more than you talk.
29. See what it is that people need, keep in tune.
30. Compile lists of things that can help 10 people you know, and send them to them.  Make sure the lists are indeed useful.
31. Use this beautiful visualization from the wonderful book by Shakti Gawain "Creative Visualization" (I am paraphrasing):   Imagine exactly what you want and put it in an imaginary pink bubble, then release it to the universe, see the pink bubble fly into space and affirm: "Thank you Universe because this or something better is now manifesting for me, in totally harmonious and satisfying ways for the highest good of all concerned. So be it, so it is."
32. Surrender.  The Gita teaches us that we offer everything we do, including our own "being human" to the Divine.  The Gita also teaches us the way of action;  we live in the world and it is OK to have desires, we can't block them otherwise we create new problems.  So, there is nothing wrong with desires, but we must remember that a higher intelligence is at work, so if we do not get something specific that we thought we wanted we will notice down the line why and learn, or we may never find out, but in the end we release all outcomes and let the will of our Higher Power direct our lives.  Whatever will be, will be and it will contribute to our spiritual development.

What are other ways you use to attract and receive abundance into your life?

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