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September 14, 2009
Volume III Issue 9.2 |
Greetings!Welcome to Monday Morning Memos where you will receive tips, tools, suggestions and support to help YOU live your life out loud. 
If you haven't already, please visit my website to pick up a free copy of your ebook Om Freely: 30 Ways to Live Out Loud. Simply go to: www.omfreely.com.
And choose THIS day to Om Freely!
Be Big,
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A subscriber recently emailed me with this question. I thought I would post it here in case others shared the same concern or confusion.
. . . I guess what I'm getting at is if everyone had a choice, treating sewage would be the last thing one would want to do. Isn't it? Well yes I'm making that judgment. If everyone was Wayne Dyer or that money guru lady Suze Orman, we'd all be reaching fantasy levels of achievement. That is what they seem to be proposing is possible. But someone still has to take out the trash. If we're all living big then who's taking care of the land fills? I guess we could all be having wonderfully luxurious lives but chip in on the dirty stuff sometimes? Like volunteer, or Adopt-A-Highway kind of stuff. Then a boy in Iraq gets his arms and legs blown off and I'm supposed to be like "Yahoo, I'm living big???"..... uh? These are my resistors, aren't they?... Anyway, there is a topic there. Anything to help me feel better about living big while others suffer. . .
This is our topic today. |
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It's a big question: If there are others suffering in the world, what right do I have to think about myself or my lofty goals? What right do I have to be prosperous when others are living in poverty? What right do I have to consider more for myself when there are others who can't even feed themselves, literally or figuratively?
I'll begin with a quote from Marianne Williamson who talks in her book The Age of Miracles about the Butterfly Effect (based in Chaos Theory):
"When a butterfly flaps its wings near the tip of South America, it affects the wind patterns near the North Pole. And the same is true in the realm of consciousness: Every miracle you work in your life is a blessing on life itself."
There is only ONE life happening that we are all a part of. If we are each considered "Source Energy", an aspect of the divine, and we are all in fact one big interwoven tapestry, then we are all connected. There is no vibrational place where you end and I begin. Together, we make up the "collective consciousness" Carl Jung talks about.
That being said, however, we can only be responsible for how we conduct our own lives. Planetary transformation happens one consciousness at a time, and the only one we can be responsible for is our own. You've heard the saying, "Think Globally, Act Locally". I like this because it holds true for consciousness as well. Our responsibility is to live our full expression. Responsibility simply means - our Ability to Respond. By doing for ourselves, we come to a place where we are able to do for others and we change the consciousness of possibility on the planet.
At Obama's inauguration, there were a lot of people being interviewed on the Plaza. One that struck me was an African American father. When asked what Obama's presidency meant to him, he said, "It means I will no longer have to lie to my son. Now, I've seen it for myself and can say with honesty: He CAN be anything he wants when he grows up. Even the President of the United States."
This is how change happens. Someone first has to carry the torch of possibility.
No amount of suffering we do on our part will alleviate the suffering in another part of the world. However, every bit the amount of success we live can increase another's chances of success. We cannot hold a hand out to pull someone up without stable footing ourselves.
You've heard it from flight attendants: should their be a decrease in cabin pressure, place the oxygen mask over yourself first, and then secure that of your child's.
We must first bring ourselves to the level of success so that we can affect change for others. But we will never get there if we insist on using other people's lives as our excuse not to.
One person's elevation creates possibilities for the rest of us, if not by example, by influence. Oprah, in her response to the declining economy, called a Billionaires Summit. In a closed door meeting in NY, a few months ago, some of the richest men and Oprah (she was the only woman), met to talk about philanthropic foundations and which charities they would give to. She used her success to make a difference.
We all have that level of influence within us. It may not be the Billionaires Summit. It may be contributing our success or talents at the PTA meeting, or the Neighborhood Watch Group, or the Environmental Protection Agency, or the Commission for the Arts Council. Or it may be using our sphere of influence raising our children to be kind and tolerant and responsible.
I do not agree that everyone wants to be the next Wayne Dyer or Suze Orman. There is a female executive somewhere who's true desire is to give up the 60 hour work week to bake cookies with her children and participate in their Girl Scout meeting, host slumber parties in her home and watch her kids grow up. And her following this desire would be her warrior path and her example to let other parents know that they can be full time mothers and still be strong, powerful women.
Or there is the couple who wants to give up all their worldly possessions and travel by backpack around the world.
Or there is the environmentalist who wants to work at a landfill and discover new and more efficient ways of refuse disposal.
Our job, is not to judge one desire or goal as more or less important or worthy than another. Our job is to give life to the potential or seedling of desire we have within us and maximize it as best we can.
I am not going to say this is easy. It is much easier to throw ourselves into another persons cause, crusade or success than to take the steps towards our own. Resistance is strong when it comes to our own expression. I know. I'm guilty of succumbing to it, myself. But we always know when we're doing it. There is a niggling in our gut that says, "Excuse me! Um. What are you doing?!" And we have to come back to ourselves.
On the Actors Studio on the Bravo Channel, James Lipton at the end of his interviews asks the actors what he hopes God will say to them when they get to the "Pearly Gates of Heaven". When he asks Steven Spielberg this question Steven hopes God will say, "Thanks for listening".
We are always being whispered to, directed, and led to our next step on the path. The dream is lodged within us long before it takes form in our external world. The charge is: do we have the courage to follow it? Do we have the faith to believe in it? Do we have the tenacity to see it through?
Years ago, I placed an ad on craigslist seeking to interview successful business owners. I wanted to hear their strategy and in exchange I would buy them a cup of coffee or a meal. One business owner I met with owned 3 Jamba Juice franchises in the Oakland area. His advice was to follow your dreams and believe in yourself. To illustrate this, he told me a story about a woman who would come into his juice bar every day and talk to him about the book she was writing. She told him that one day she would be a very successful author and people would know who she was. The woman? Suze Orman.
Turns out, before Suze Orman was Suze Orman, she was just a woman in a juice bar who envisioned becoming Suze Orman.
As within, so without.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, do not squander the thing within you that is trying to emerge. Instead, fan the flame. Find out what it's all about. Discover yourself.
And do not use another persons suffering as your excuse not to thrive. There is enough lack, pain and limitation being covered on the news. We are all part of what I consider a cosmic teeter-totter - and we need to tip the scales, energetically, the other way. Even if that small way is simply living up to our full potential. Or forgiving our neighbor. Or spending time in our garden to listen to the birds sing. Giving thanks.
In an effort to keep these short (I really do try!), there is often, much I leave out in favor of brevity. If you would like to apply some of the work or readings to your own life, and you need help, feel free to contact me for a free 15 minute consultation. sonya@omfreely.com If you have comments or would like a topic addressed in a future Monday Morning Memo, feel free to share your thoughts: sonya@omfreely.com |
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JENNIFER MCLEAN & Healing with the Masters
My friend Jennifer McLean, Host of Healing with the Masters, is
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A couple months ago I co-produced a teleseminar on Secrets of Lasting Financial Wealth  and one of our speakers was Dr. Joe Vitale. I would think he needs no introduction, but in case you haven't heard of him, his many qualifications include being a certified metaphysical practitioner, a certified Chi Kung healer, a certified hypno-therapist as well as an ordained minister and a leading proponent of law of attraction which you may have heard him talk about in the movie "The Secret".
The reason why I mention him is because he is someone who has turned the art of creating into a science. And actually, after listening to him speak on our call, I was rather impressed by him.
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BRAD YATES
If you want to get rid of any emotional barriers that stand in the way between you and what you want, EFT is one of the quickest routes to "freedom".
Brad Yates, "Emotional Freedom Technique" Practitioner known as the EFT Wizard
As Brad says, "It's an abundant universe; a limitless universe and the extent to which we are not experiencing that which we say we want in our life is the extent to which we are resisting it. That resistance comes from our thoughts, or our limiting beliefs and they actually show up as blocks in our energy system. Through tapping on the meridian points, we can actually clear those blocks and experience freedom."
If you want to check out any of Brad's programs:
Click Here!If you struggle with beliefs around money and want to change them, he has a very powerful program he developed with Joe Vitale, from the movie The Secret. The program is called Money Beyond Belief
If you have struggled with weight loss or body image, he developed a program on this as well. It's called (not surprisingly) Body Beyond Belief
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I highly recommend any and all of Brad's programs. |
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