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In this installment of my video blog, I clear up some misconceptions about Easy World...
Entry 2 in my video blog...
I've decided to start video blogging (vlogging) and this is my first! This was made in the wee hours of the morning of December 31 after we returned from a party the evening of Dec. 30. Happy, prosperous New Year, everybody! (((((((((Love))))))))))
Ahhh, the holidays! A time of peace, joy and
harmony...right? Well, that's the ideal, but for most of us, the reality
has not historically been completely consistent with that. But it can
be. The key to shifting your experience to be what you want it to be--I
know you're going to be shocked to hear me say this (wink)--is to choose
to be in Easy World!
Easy World is the world that Love creates. Difficult World is the world that fear creates. So if you want to experience the qualities you can only experience in Easy World, like peace, joy and harmony, instead of the turmoil, pain and disharmony of Difficult World, you need to let Love be in charge instead of fear. This will come into play in every aspect of the holidays, but especially in the interpersonal-relationship department since family and social interaction are primary features of most of our holiday experiences.
I firmly believe that the person operating from the greatest conscious awareness is the one most responsible in any interaction. (Of course, it's impossible to truly know, but for the purposes of this conversation, let's make the assumption that in your family, that's YOU.) By virtue of your spiritual growth, you are the designated "adult" in your interactions, no matter where you are in the birth order or pecking order. Even if it's with your big brother or 80-year-old mother, since you are the one who knows how to choose Easy World, it's up to you to lead the way back there. You do that through being there yourself and by behaving as Love does.
You've seen those WWJD bracelets that some Christians wear to help them with their choices, haven't you? Well, you're going to be wearing an invisible "WWLD" ("What would Love do?") bracelet. That will be the question to ask yourSelf all throughout this holiday season. What would Love do?
So what would Love do? Love accepts (fear rejects). Love allows (fear resists). Love embraces (fear pushes away). Love includes (fear excludes). Love lets go (fear hangs on). Love forgives (fear holds a grudge). Love responds (fear reacts). Love elevates (fear depresses). Love enlightens (fear obscures the light). Love heals (fear harms). Remember these as you decide how you're going to respond to whatever arises during your holiday interactions, be it with your family, with strangers in your travels, or whomever or whatever else you encounter.
What a blessing you are and what a gift you give your loved ones and, indeed, all of humanity--and yourself most of all--when you make being in the world that Love creates your mission this holiday season! The rewards of it are the joyful heart, peaceful mind, and warm feeling of well-being that only being at Home--your true Home--provides. So strap on your invisible bracelet and go forth and radiate Love in Easy World!
Easy World is the world that Love creates. Difficult World is the world that fear creates. So if you want to experience the qualities you can only experience in Easy World, like peace, joy and harmony, instead of the turmoil, pain and disharmony of Difficult World, you need to let Love be in charge instead of fear. This will come into play in every aspect of the holidays, but especially in the interpersonal-relationship department since family and social interaction are primary features of most of our holiday experiences.
I firmly believe that the person operating from the greatest conscious awareness is the one most responsible in any interaction. (Of course, it's impossible to truly know, but for the purposes of this conversation, let's make the assumption that in your family, that's YOU.) By virtue of your spiritual growth, you are the designated "adult" in your interactions, no matter where you are in the birth order or pecking order. Even if it's with your big brother or 80-year-old mother, since you are the one who knows how to choose Easy World, it's up to you to lead the way back there. You do that through being there yourself and by behaving as Love does.
You've seen those WWJD bracelets that some Christians wear to help them with their choices, haven't you? Well, you're going to be wearing an invisible "WWLD" ("What would Love do?") bracelet. That will be the question to ask yourSelf all throughout this holiday season. What would Love do?
So what would Love do? Love accepts (fear rejects). Love allows (fear resists). Love embraces (fear pushes away). Love includes (fear excludes). Love lets go (fear hangs on). Love forgives (fear holds a grudge). Love responds (fear reacts). Love elevates (fear depresses). Love enlightens (fear obscures the light). Love heals (fear harms). Remember these as you decide how you're going to respond to whatever arises during your holiday interactions, be it with your family, with strangers in your travels, or whomever or whatever else you encounter.
What a blessing you are and what a gift you give your loved ones and, indeed, all of humanity--and yourself most of all--when you make being in the world that Love creates your mission this holiday season! The rewards of it are the joyful heart, peaceful mind, and warm feeling of well-being that only being at Home--your true Home--provides. So strap on your invisible bracelet and go forth and radiate Love in Easy World!
I've got a new
best friend! If I've been largely absent from the blogosphere lately, it's at
least in part because I've been in high gear with creating a new
product. It's a "power tool" to help those of us who are devoted to
living in Easy World to have an easier time being there. I'm so excited
about it! It's a simple tool but it packs quite a punch in
my experience.
It's My Easy World Daybook and it's a daily journal with prompts you respond to that put you in Easy World. I've been using it for weeks now and I really love how it causes me to commune with my Self--the real me--and raise my vibration up to where Easy World is my reality. Starting my day in Easy World really sets me up to spend more of my day in EW.
I was strongly inspired to create this and have found the process to be deeply fulfilling. I must confess that as much as I love it and have benefited from using the prototype of it, I wondered if other people would "get it" and be excited about it and see the value in it. Well, they sure seem to!
I sent out a mailing to my Love Letters From Easy World subscribers last week, thinking that because they're already committed to starting their day in Easy World that they would really like this. I was definitely right! We've had a tremendous response and people are not only buying one journal at the discounted advance-order price, more folks than I had expected are taking advantage of the 5 daybooks for the price of 4 deal we're offering! (Each daybook has daily pages for 90 days plus extra pages for recording other inspirations so if you use yours every day, 4 daybooks is a year's worth--the 5th one can be a gift or a start on the next year!)
Here's a quick, fun video Rick and I made today of me and my new best friend...
I'm really inspired to think about all the Easy World focus and time spent in EW (and out of Difficult World!) the daybooks are going to support. If people get as into using theirs as I do mine, there will be some serious vibration-raising going on!
Please check out the daybook page and let me know what you think! http://www.iliveineasyworld.com/easy-world-daybook/
It's My Easy World Daybook and it's a daily journal with prompts you respond to that put you in Easy World. I've been using it for weeks now and I really love how it causes me to commune with my Self--the real me--and raise my vibration up to where Easy World is my reality. Starting my day in Easy World really sets me up to spend more of my day in EW.
I was strongly inspired to create this and have found the process to be deeply fulfilling. I must confess that as much as I love it and have benefited from using the prototype of it, I wondered if other people would "get it" and be excited about it and see the value in it. Well, they sure seem to!
I sent out a mailing to my Love Letters From Easy World subscribers last week, thinking that because they're already committed to starting their day in Easy World that they would really like this. I was definitely right! We've had a tremendous response and people are not only buying one journal at the discounted advance-order price, more folks than I had expected are taking advantage of the 5 daybooks for the price of 4 deal we're offering! (Each daybook has daily pages for 90 days plus extra pages for recording other inspirations so if you use yours every day, 4 daybooks is a year's worth--the 5th one can be a gift or a start on the next year!)
Here's a quick, fun video Rick and I made today of me and my new best friend...
I'm really inspired to think about all the Easy World focus and time spent in EW (and out of Difficult World!) the daybooks are going to support. If people get as into using theirs as I do mine, there will be some serious vibration-raising going on!
Please check out the daybook page and let me know what you think! http://www.iliveineasyworld.com/easy-world-daybook/
This afternoon,
I was sitting in contemplation of a situation that pretty much anyone
who has been indoctrinated into Difficult World (and that's anyone who
was reared on Planet Earth lately) would find scary. I don't really
want to discuss the details, but I'm guessing there are few folks who
wouldn't have their Difficult World Dictator jumping up and down,
frantically waving on a constant basis, trying to hijack their energy
and focus into fear in light of such circumstances. In fact, I'm quite
sure there are millions of people experiencing this right now.
So, as I was saying, I was relaxing and thinking about the (potentially) scary thing and I was in total peace about it. No fear. No apprehension. No passion about it whatever. I even felt hopeful about it with no concrete reason to. And the DWD couldn't stand that! It shouted, "Hey, wait a minute! You're CRAZY if you're not afraid. You HAVE to be afraid or you don't get to be a bona fide member of the human race. You have to DO SOMETHING PRACTICAL TO CHANGE THIS!!! NOW!!! I don't care if you're inspired to or not! Something, ANYTHING!!! It's IRRESPONSIBLE OF YOU TO NOT BE AFRAID!!!"
Really?
And my spontaneous (this is progress!), Easy World response was a smile, a calm, deep breath, and
So, as I was saying, I was relaxing and thinking about the (potentially) scary thing and I was in total peace about it. No fear. No apprehension. No passion about it whatever. I even felt hopeful about it with no concrete reason to. And the DWD couldn't stand that! It shouted, "Hey, wait a minute! You're CRAZY if you're not afraid. You HAVE to be afraid or you don't get to be a bona fide member of the human race. You have to DO SOMETHING PRACTICAL TO CHANGE THIS!!! NOW!!! I don't care if you're inspired to or not! Something, ANYTHING!!! It's IRRESPONSIBLE OF YOU TO NOT BE AFRAID!!!"
Really?
And my spontaneous (this is progress!), Easy World response was a smile, a calm, deep breath, and
Today I posted
on my Facebook page that when you're in Easy World, perfect resources
of all kinds just start showing up. Well, I was in Easy World
today--really started feeling it while I was outside, on the deck,
eating my brunch in the sunshine--and not only did a marvelous mood
show up, but so did some great resources!
No surprise, the resources that turn up when you're in Easy World are ones that are totally aligned with Easy World and support you in being there when you use them!
Years ago, I had an email exchange with a guy named Noah St. John. I don't even remember why we were in touch, but he had an idea he was starting to put out to the world. At the time, I thought it was pretty cool, but didn't follow up on it--knew I'd do it later, when the time was right. Well, today, however many years later, the time was right!
Before I tell you the rest, check out this video of him on YouTube, talking about his idea, "afformations":
For some reason, my high vibrational state today had me suddenly, spontaneously, coming up with afformations! I looked up the video only after I'd written a whole bunch of them--Easy World just stimulated my memory of them and inspired me and energized me to come up with the ones that I needed.
One of the ones I think you'll like, too, is "Why is money flowing so freely for us now?" Rick loved that one, too, and we've been asking each other that (and several other ones) with lots of feeling in our voices. Fun!
Afform away! It's soooooooooooo Easy World!!!
No surprise, the resources that turn up when you're in Easy World are ones that are totally aligned with Easy World and support you in being there when you use them!
Years ago, I had an email exchange with a guy named Noah St. John. I don't even remember why we were in touch, but he had an idea he was starting to put out to the world. At the time, I thought it was pretty cool, but didn't follow up on it--knew I'd do it later, when the time was right. Well, today, however many years later, the time was right!
Before I tell you the rest, check out this video of him on YouTube, talking about his idea, "afformations":
For some reason, my high vibrational state today had me suddenly, spontaneously, coming up with afformations! I looked up the video only after I'd written a whole bunch of them--Easy World just stimulated my memory of them and inspired me and energized me to come up with the ones that I needed.
One of the ones I think you'll like, too, is "Why is money flowing so freely for us now?" Rick loved that one, too, and we've been asking each other that (and several other ones) with lots of feeling in our voices. Fun!
Afform away! It's soooooooooooo Easy World!!!
Just a couple
weeks shy of one year ago, I was in my nephew's adorable
then-7-year-old daughter Maggie's bedroom in their home in Raleigh, NC,
looking at her rock collection. I had traveled from Colorado to North
Carolina for my dad's birthday, which is, conveniently, in early
April--arguably, the prettiest time of year in NC. After so long in
Denver (12 years at that point), and with Rick's and my agreement that
we'd move once the youngest of his children was out of the nest, I
could feel a quickening of the energy and a strengthening of the
powerful magnet of "home."
It was utterly gorgeous during that trip--most days that week were warm, but not too warm, and sunny, and the azaleas were just at their peak. If you've never been to the Southeast during Spring, suffice to say that there is an almost-overwhelming amount of beauty with much of the lush landscape in bloom--flowers everywhere you look--and the trees freshly leafed--or leafing--out. Aside from my family and friends, Spring in North Carolina is what I missed most and I missed it with the passion of a separated lover. So, one afternoon as I drove through Raleigh, which was my home during much of my 20s and 30s, and home to my sister's family and many of my dearest friends, it hit me: I want to live here again--not just somewhere in North Carolina, but here, in Raleigh.
The very evening that realization struck, I was invited to dinner at my nephewTyler's and his wife Carrie's lovely home in Northwest Raleigh, which is heavily wooded and hilly--just gorgeous and just my kind of place. As Maggie showed off her collection, she handed me a little stone and declared, "This is my wishing rock. Whatever you wish on it will come true." I believed her and made my wish.
Today, I was sitting on our deck in our gorgeous yard in our heavily wooded, hilly, Northwest Raleigh neighborhood, soaking in the sunshine on a warm and glorious Spring afternoon, in utter bliss to be where I had wished to be. And I was marveling at the power of Easy World to provide whatever you deeply desire, in magical ways with utter ease and without plotting and manipulating and struggling.
I'll save further telling of the magic of finding our home here for another day...
This photo of Spring in NC from several years ago gives you a feel for the powerful beauty to be found here in early April...
It was utterly gorgeous during that trip--most days that week were warm, but not too warm, and sunny, and the azaleas were just at their peak. If you've never been to the Southeast during Spring, suffice to say that there is an almost-overwhelming amount of beauty with much of the lush landscape in bloom--flowers everywhere you look--and the trees freshly leafed--or leafing--out. Aside from my family and friends, Spring in North Carolina is what I missed most and I missed it with the passion of a separated lover. So, one afternoon as I drove through Raleigh, which was my home during much of my 20s and 30s, and home to my sister's family and many of my dearest friends, it hit me: I want to live here again--not just somewhere in North Carolina, but here, in Raleigh.
The very evening that realization struck, I was invited to dinner at my nephewTyler's and his wife Carrie's lovely home in Northwest Raleigh, which is heavily wooded and hilly--just gorgeous and just my kind of place. As Maggie showed off her collection, she handed me a little stone and declared, "This is my wishing rock. Whatever you wish on it will come true." I believed her and made my wish.
Today, I was sitting on our deck in our gorgeous yard in our heavily wooded, hilly, Northwest Raleigh neighborhood, soaking in the sunshine on a warm and glorious Spring afternoon, in utter bliss to be where I had wished to be. And I was marveling at the power of Easy World to provide whatever you deeply desire, in magical ways with utter ease and without plotting and manipulating and struggling.
I'll save further telling of the magic of finding our home here for another day...
This photo of Spring in NC from several years ago gives you a feel for the powerful beauty to be found here in early April...
It has been
longer than I meant for it to be since you've heard from me, but if I'd
written something sooner, I'd have been violating an Easy World
guideline for action--you know--the one that says you only act when
you're inspired and energized to! And I've done quite enough violating
of that rule lately...
It's been an exhausting (but also exhilarating) time in my life. Till now, I don't think I really realized just how much of the 2 years between signing the publishing contract for Choosing Easy World and the actual launch of the book back in August that I'd spent in Difficult World, trying to do everything "right" according to what I'd been told I should do to have a best seller (and failing as much as succeeding) in that endeavor.
Then, I underestimated how much oomph it took to pack a household, prepare a house for leasing out (renovations, etc.), and move across the country, which we did this fall. And there have been some other unrelenting invitations back to DW that I won't go into. Suffice it to say, the stress of DW--and of dealing with the Difficult World Dictator--will wear you slam out!
So when we got to our new home in North Carolina and I didn't heed the subtler messages that I needed to chill out and rest, I (unconsciously, of course) created a scenario where I'd have to: I fell down and broke my hip.
Two days before Thanksgiving, I was walking the dogs on their leashes in the back yard when a neighbor cat jumped out of the bushes, startled the dogs, they bolted, and it threw me off balance. While trying to regain my balance, I kicked a landscaping tie, which threw me even further off balance, and I ended up falling with a direct hit to my right hip. I couldn't get up and Rick was afraid to move me, so I had my first-ever ambulance ride to the ER. We spent 6+ hours there and I came very close to being prepped for surgery after a CAT scan indicated a crack in the top of my femur, but the ortho doc came in, checked my range of motion, etc., and said he was pretty sure I didn't need it and sent me home with orders to see him in his office a.s.a.p.
After an MRI, it was determined that I had a non-displaced fracture. My first (and hopefully, last) major broken bone of my life. The good news is, I broke it in the only way that doesn't require surgery to repair. (Hallelujah!) It's also not very painful except in certain positions which are not ones required for getting around. I'm restricted to using a walker for 6 weeks and then it should be healed.
You can bet I have let go of every unnecessary thing--no holiday busyness for me--and am following not only doctor's orders, but, more importantly, my own inner guidance, to chill out, rest, and heal! I'm thanking my lucky stars for Rick, who is doing pretty much EVERYTHING to keep the household running and me, comfortable and cared for.
Moral of the story: If you don't heed the whispers of your inner guidance, and listen instead to the Difficult World Dictator, who is always telling you to push, push, push, you'll eventually be forced to hear your Spirit's message in a way that's not quite so subtle! My wish for you is that you'll use my experience as a cautionary tale and back off some of the busyness to be quiet enough to hear the still, small voice of your Spirit that is always guiding you to greater well-being and joy.
It's been an exhausting (but also exhilarating) time in my life. Till now, I don't think I really realized just how much of the 2 years between signing the publishing contract for Choosing Easy World and the actual launch of the book back in August that I'd spent in Difficult World, trying to do everything "right" according to what I'd been told I should do to have a best seller (and failing as much as succeeding) in that endeavor.
Then, I underestimated how much oomph it took to pack a household, prepare a house for leasing out (renovations, etc.), and move across the country, which we did this fall. And there have been some other unrelenting invitations back to DW that I won't go into. Suffice it to say, the stress of DW--and of dealing with the Difficult World Dictator--will wear you slam out!
So when we got to our new home in North Carolina and I didn't heed the subtler messages that I needed to chill out and rest, I (unconsciously, of course) created a scenario where I'd have to: I fell down and broke my hip.
Two days before Thanksgiving, I was walking the dogs on their leashes in the back yard when a neighbor cat jumped out of the bushes, startled the dogs, they bolted, and it threw me off balance. While trying to regain my balance, I kicked a landscaping tie, which threw me even further off balance, and I ended up falling with a direct hit to my right hip. I couldn't get up and Rick was afraid to move me, so I had my first-ever ambulance ride to the ER. We spent 6+ hours there and I came very close to being prepped for surgery after a CAT scan indicated a crack in the top of my femur, but the ortho doc came in, checked my range of motion, etc., and said he was pretty sure I didn't need it and sent me home with orders to see him in his office a.s.a.p.
After an MRI, it was determined that I had a non-displaced fracture. My first (and hopefully, last) major broken bone of my life. The good news is, I broke it in the only way that doesn't require surgery to repair. (Hallelujah!) It's also not very painful except in certain positions which are not ones required for getting around. I'm restricted to using a walker for 6 weeks and then it should be healed.
You can bet I have let go of every unnecessary thing--no holiday busyness for me--and am following not only doctor's orders, but, more importantly, my own inner guidance, to chill out, rest, and heal! I'm thanking my lucky stars for Rick, who is doing pretty much EVERYTHING to keep the household running and me, comfortable and cared for.
Moral of the story: If you don't heed the whispers of your inner guidance, and listen instead to the Difficult World Dictator, who is always telling you to push, push, push, you'll eventually be forced to hear your Spirit's message in a way that's not quite so subtle! My wish for you is that you'll use my experience as a cautionary tale and back off some of the busyness to be quiet enough to hear the still, small voice of your Spirit that is always guiding you to greater well-being and joy.
