You are Soul Source of your abundance, supply, and prosperity – not your job, investments, spouse, or parents. What you have on the outer is determined by your consciousness-your beliefs, thoughts and feelings about yourself on any subject, and not by the economy, anything or anyone else. You can realize yourself as the infinite supply that is your birthright; you can live an abundant and fulfilling life.

Having money, things, ideal relationships and health comes from understanding how to create them by developing a manifested consciousness of yourself as Source, Soul or your higher-self. As you become a master of manifesting through deepening your relationship to yourself as Soul and Soul as You, your ability to be prosperous will not be determined by other people or outside conditions. It will directly reflect the quality of your relationship to yourself as Soul.

Building your relationship to your Soul Consciousness and learning how to manifest from that connection can be compared to playing a musical instrument. When you first learn to play a few notes, you can only play simple music, usually with some mistakes and some drop-outs in the notes of the song. As you gain more skill, the music you play becomes increasingly beautiful, more intricate, with more subtleties and aspects to it.

It is the same with manifesting. Every skill you learn and practice, from linking with your Source Connection to Soul through meditation, contemplation, practicing affirmations, reprogramming your subconscious, and aligning with Divine timing allows what you create and manifest to be even more beautiful. You more fully express the Divine excellence within you.

The most important step you can take to develop a manifesting consciousness and open to infinite supply is to deepen your contact with your Source Connection and relationship with Soul. The Divine within you is always guiding you to an abundant life through the still, small voice. Ask this Self what manifesting skill is next for you to learn and practice. Know that every single step you take to develop a manifesting consciousness builds one on the other, until you are able to create whatever you need in every moment.

See how our Your Source Connection meditation sessions are the perfect way to connect with your Source Connection and Soul Energies of health, wealth and happiness. http://yoursourceconnection.com/services/

One way I connect and grow with my spiritual self is through focused awareness of my breath.  The breath is vital to your life. The Creator inhaled – exhaled you into creation on your birth day. This energy of creation continues to circulate through every cycle of inhale-exhale in all living things.

We are Creators in the breath of life and have the talent to be able to create our experiences. Whether we know it or not, our mind is constantly creating for us what we think.  If we recognize our oneness with our Source and the connectedness we have with that Spirit, we realize that we are co-creators with Source in the breath of life.

Knowing this, we realize that we create just the same as Spirit has created. Maybe it’s on a smaller scale because we are awakening consciousness to this new idea in the creation process.  Realizing that we are able to create is the first step in visualizing our own reality.

Every time we take a breath, we are creating our world around us. You must look at and appreciate your life experiences because if you don’t, you are just denying your own existence — your own creation! Knowing you are the creator and taking responsibility is a turning point in your ability to be a deliberate creator of your desired outcomes.

Every time there is a problem or challenge in life, we have an opportunity to change it. It is my experience that it can be as simple as changing your mind.

Although that seems too simplistic, it really is quite powerful. After recognizing the challenge, we have a moment, when we breathe, to change our energy and align with our Spirit’s perspective.

There is always a chance to change – to make a different choice. By taking a breath, it gives the mind a moment to refresh. This concept can be used in all areas of your life. You can create harmony and peaceful vibrations in situations in your life. There is no limit to the manifestations available. Use it for deepening meditation, expanding consciousness into your Spirit’s perspective, increasing intuition, creating harmonious environments, loving relationships and a healthy body and mind.

Take a moment right now to notice…your body has been breathing life into and through you, with no effort on your part, the whole time you have been reading this blog post.  Now that you have your attention on it you can begin to participate in its flow.

Try this one minute focusing breath and feel how quickly you can feel better, shift perspective, or receive inspiration!

Sit back and relax, close your eyes and bring all of your attention to your breath. Breathe, now start participating – inhale filling your abdomen and chest completely – hold your breath at the top for 5 counts- then exhale emptying your chest and abdomen completely – hold your breath at the bottom for 5 seconds- do this for 5 full cycles – and drop back into your regular pattern of breathing. Open your eyes and note for yourself how you feel.

You can do this exercise any time you feel stressed, low on energy, unfocused, anxious or just want to feel better overall, more grounded or receive inspiration!

2011….phew!  Does anyone else wonder what happened to the last 11 and half months?  For me, this time of year presents so many competing pressures – planning for 2012 with my business, desiring to acknowledge those who supported me in 2011 in a meaningful way, wanting to spend time with loved ones (both four- legged or two-legged) and, oh yeah…the holidays.  It would be easy to walk around and intermittently let out a solid “Ahhhhhh!” and then continue on with the next thing on my list.

Fortunately, and especially, it’s during this time period when having tools and resources to provide me with a broader, wiser, perspective becomes critical – if not sanity saving.  One such tool perfect for this time of year is a process we use at YSC called “taking stock.”  Taking stock is a reflective activity which allows you to gain a more holistic perspective on your year, learn from your accomplishments, and take accountability and action for areas in which you would like to see improvement in the New Year.  Unlike setting New Year resolutions which always, for me, seem as improbable and desirable as getting on the scale the first day after the holidays, “taking stock” offers a way to already be clear and in action before the clock strikes 12 on 2012.

See how it works for you.  Remember, a more expansive, sane, compassionate, and grace filled perspective is waiting for you just around the corner and the next deep breath!

Taking Stock:

Find a quiet, private space where you will be undisturbed for 30-45 minutes.  Try creating some ambience that feels good to you (e.g. lighting a candle, maybe burning some of your favorite incense).  Using your preferred writing tools and note your answers to the following questions.

1. Reviewing accomplishments and what worked

a) What happened this year that you feel really good about?  Be specific, listing all the accomplishments that make you feel proud. Consider a holistic view, including progress in your relationships with family, friends, colleagues, partners, bosses, peers, etc., your professional successes, your health and well-being, and any others areas in your life important to you.

b)  What did you do, by yourself or with others, supporting those results? For example, what did you do that worked well in your communication with others, the way you made decisions, how you asked for support, how you built relationships, and or how you talked to yourself?

c)  Before continuing with step 2, allow yourself time to sit with what you wrote for a couple of days, adding to the list, being present and accepting of any emotions that emerge.

2. Letting yourself off the hook

a)  Reviewing your list of accomplishments from step 1. Notice any feelings and/or physical sensations in your body that arise.  Accept whatever emotions emerge as you engage in this activity.  For some people, taking stock in accomplishments can foster emotions of regret regarding the other side of the coin – our perceptions of what we did not do well, enough of, or at all.  This side of the coin lines most of our “mental bank accounts.”

b) Putting your notes aside, move into a comfortable seated position, supporting your spine.  Closing your eyes, take a deep breath in through your nose – expanding your abdomen, hold the breath, and then exhale all the air out with a sigh.  Repeat this process, taking 5 more deep inhales and exhales into your abdomen.

c)  Direct your next exhale into the center of your heart, taking a few deep breaths in this area of your body.  Ask yourself, “What do I need to let myself off the hook for this year? “

d) When you’re ready, open your eyes and write down the ideas that came to mind.  Once again, allow any emotions to flow without judgment.

3.  Setting Direction for the New Year

a)  Write down one key thing you would like to feel better about in 2012.

b)  Ask yourself, “How would I benefit personally if this area in my life were improved?

c)   Sit quietly and ask yourself, “Am I willing to take action or make changes in this area to better my life?  Really?”  Notice your feelings and physical responses.  If the answer is a clear, “YES!” – continue on to the next step.  If not, ask yourself what you are willing to take action on.  With this clarity of commitment, amend your answer on what you would like to feel better about in 2012.

4. Stepping into your preferred New Year

a) Imagine it’s a few months from now…early in 2012, and you’re noticing this area in your life is indeed better.   What signs are you seeing indicating improvement? Who else notices these changes?  What are they saying about the changes?  What are they noticing different about you? How are you feeling?  What else are you noticing?

b)  Be specific and detailed in noting the changes.  For example, rather than “my relationship with my partner is better,” describe what’s happening that is evidence the relationship is better (e.g. We laugh more often.)  It is important to use the future perfect tense as if you’re actually experiencing the future now.

5. Taking action – making progress!

a) Revisit your list of what worked in 2011 to accomplish results. Consider what you may want to apply in 2012 to support your preferred new year.

b) What are 1-2 small action steps you can take in the next 2 weeks to move things forward?  Who is someone you can reach out to for your accountability and sharing.

6. Review and Revise

a)  This is one of the most important steps in the process! Often we get discouraged when we did not do what we set out to do in step 5. We get frustrated and want to quit. This line of thought is what derails the best set of intentions and resolutions. An alternative thought process is to focus on and list what’s better or has worked for you.  As small as the progress might be, it is still an achievement.  (e.g. I held a conversation with my friend or boss and it did not result in a perfect resolution. What worked, however, is that unlike previous discussions, I allowed her to do most of the talking and asked more questions.) Doing this allows us to maintain accountability, build momentum and learn more about what’s working.  Most of all, it keeps us focused on our goal.

b) Review your list of successes. Decide what you would like to continue and/or do more of or differently based on your review.  (e.g. I will listen even more intently during conversations and spend time before discussions challenging assumptions I may have about the other person.)

c)  Decide on 1-2 small steps you can take in the next week that will support your momentum.

d) Repeat this process as often as you like, allowing yourself to learn, revise, experiment and grow!

We here at YSC are very excited about inviting you to our “Becoming Your Own Leader” retreat. This intensive program is designed to be a small, intimate group of ten participants ready to recreate their lives from passion and purpose. During this three-day retreat you will be supported in accessing, building partnership with, and learning to trust in your own Personal Source of Guidance.

We believe, with certainty, that people have the ability to effectively connect with their own personal source of guidance. We also believe that actively building a relationship with and listening to this source of guidance is what leads to powerful action steps towards change.

As coaches, over the past 20 years, Tina and I have worked with hundreds of people, globally, at creating positive changes in their personal and professional lives. We’ve continuously heard people express a desire or need of finding a connection to something deeper and more meaningful in their lives. Rather than a religious pursuit, this tends to be a search for a spiritual belief system at creating greater purpose and, ultimately, support in living a more joyful and satisfying life.

To address this need, we explored and experimented with a variety of philosophies and teachings on spirituality, adult learning and change in order to enrich and expand our coaching acumen and our own spiritual belief systems. This learning process, ultimately, led to the creation of a holistic coaching approach that focuses on supporting people at defining and building their own spiritual belief system that we call “Your Source Connection.”

Our experience of observing so many people create amazing positive change in their lives through their Source Connection has led us to view our own relationship with Source as our primary resource for guidance, inspiration and support. We’ve found that helping people develop this relationship to their Source Connection, (which some call God, Goddess, Higher Self, Spirit, Universe, etc.) enables them to experience an increased sense of empowerment and security in making critical business and personal decisions. As a result, people expressed feeling more satisfied and energized with their lives!

At the “Becoming Your Own Leader” retreat, we’ll support you in building your relationship with Your Source Connection by sharing a variety of methods and resources for listening more deeply when discerning insights and inspiration. We also support you at setting clear goals about what you want to experience in your life and offer suggestions on how to express these requests to your Source Connection.

Beyond developing strong communication skills, “Becoming Your Own Leader” will support you in developing the mindset necessary to leverage the laws of attraction at supporting you in aligning more powerfully with your desires. In this way, you will be better able to experience the life you desire, both personally and professionally.

We hope you will join us on this amazing journey of self-discovery and growth. Click here for more information about our “Becoming Your Own Leader“ retreat.

Aligning your vibration is essential to satisfying your manifesting desires. Most folks rely on techniques like journaling and visualization to get what they want, overlooking the significance of an aligned vibration through choosing good feeling activities. Once your thoughts are clear and aligned with your source, your manifested experiences arrive with grace and ease.

So how do you redirect your vibration on any subject? It is simple. Choose to feel good by playing with the ten “aligning activities” below every day, for weeks on end.

1. Filter your thoughts by consciously entertaining thoughts that feel good. Although it may feel impossible to eliminate all negative thoughts, you can give them less airtime and emotion. Practice consistently holding thoughts that lighten your heart and shift your perspective. (Call me 480-518-3660 or email me Cheryl@yoursourceconnection.com and I will teach you a conscious energy technique that will assist in getting to your better feeling thoughts quickly!!)

2. Hang out with animals. Spend time with a four-legged, feathered or scaly companion. If you don’t already have an animal companion, visit a neighbor’s horse or cat, take a dog for a walk or set up a bird feeder. You may even consider adopting an animal from a rescue organization. Animals are natural energy! (I draw energy from the burrow, mule and twelve horses living next door. I, also, love hanging out and nurturing my canine companions, for that matter anyone’s canine companions!)

3. Be selective with your time. Look at your current to-do list. Decide to do those things you enjoy. Which are you not looking forward to doing? Decide to hold off on those things until you are lined up and excited about them. If possible, delegate or hire those items out. You may even decide they do not need to be done after all. Then, most important of all, add to your list activities that bring you joy and enrichment. (I, for example, love to cook.)

4. Spending time in nature is very yummy to your energy. Nature, like animals, is another natural energy enhancer. Take a walk in the park. Go for a hike. Sit in the sun and bathe in its warmth. Lean against a tree to feel and hear the breeze. Lay on the grass and watch the clouds float by. Walk the beach and feel the sand under your toes while the sound of the ocean breaking on the shore surrounds you. Even raking leaves or reseeding your grass can be inspiring this time of year. (I just reseeded my grass and in the process freed up a lot of resistant energy!)

5. Listen to and follow your own guidance. No one else knows what’s best for you than you. Listen for your intuitive nudges and respect them.

6. Intentionally seek out positive people. Seek out those who are fun to be around and whose presence feels good to you. Your vibration is uplifted when you share fun experiences and laughter with like vibrations. Allow yourself to “recharge and redirect” with people you feel most aligned to. (I love hiking or enjoying a “feel good” movie with a “feel good” friend!)

7. Filtering your media is one of the best ways to align your vibe. Feed yourself books that turn you on and connect with your inner-being and broader perspective. Stop reading what doesn’t feel good – tabloids, trade journals, daily newspapers. If there is news you really need, someone will tell you. If there’s a TV show you truly enjoy, tune in, watch it… and then turn the TV off! Listen to music you enjoy. Avoid unpleasant sounds. (I love listening to orindaben.com meditations or abraham-hicks.com workshop material. I mix this up with my honey’s cover band music and I am rocking in the free world!!)

8. Regularly experiencing love and appreciation will align your vibe quickly and easily. Practice random acts of kindness. Intentionally send out love and appreciation to everyone and everything around you, including yourself. (I invite clients to share 3-5 things they are grateful for before beginning sessions. I love to make gratitude deposits in my meditation at night before going to sleep.)

9. Schedule time to quiet your mind through meditation and breathe deeply! This will help give you a new perspective in the middle or end of a busy day! (I love visiting orindaben.com to experience the 5-7 minute desktop meditations.)

10. Rewrite your life story as you wish it to be. Include practical achievements and emotional states of being. Then, record and listen to it during a meditation session. Memorize it as if you were going to tell your inspiring story to a room full of people! (I love to do this in front of my mirror in appreciation of what is already done!)

Play with one or two suggestions at a time, every day, for many weeks to come. As you recharge your vibration you will begin to see evidence of change in all areas of your life! Have fun and be easy! Remember…We never get it done, and still it gets better and better!

I would love to hear ideas on how you recharge your vibration. Let me know in the comment section below!

The quality of humor is one of the greatest doorways to Self-Love. It is, also, a powerful tool for connecting to your Source and allowing deep, satisfying change.

There are many ways to Love yourself. Everything that happens to you is an opportunity for a loving experience. When things seem to be going against you, they are only happening to guide you towards your usable power. Seen in the right perspective, anything can provide an occasion for Self- Love.

Loving “you” means accepting yourself right now! Laugh and play. Don’t take yourself so seriously! It’s not the end of the world if some things do not go the way you wish. The quality of humor is perhaps one of the greatest doorways to Self-Love and tweaking your perspective.

Our ability to laugh, to smile at others, and to put our challenges into perspective is an evolved skill. Those who come from a high level of Self-Love are often humorous, have great wit, and Love to bring out the childlike playfulness in others. They are willing to be spontaneous, often find reasons to smile and are able to make others feel at ease and happy with themselves.

In addition, learning to use humor for managing resistance and tension in all areas of life can result in greater overall well-being. As we shift our perspectives and soften with laughter, we relax and open, allowing our well-being to creatively flow into whatever area is pinched off by tension and not receiving inspiration from our Spirit. 

Laughter:  

·   Stimulates physical healing

·   Enhances our creativity

·   Is rejuvenating and regenerating

·   Is sensual

·   Is uplifting for relationships

·   Opens the heart

Laughter is one of the easiest ways to achieve freedom from the mind’s constant thought process and attain inner peace. The next time you find yourself taking things too seriously, try practicing intentional laughter.

Intentional Laughter Play Exercises: Get into a comfortable position and relax. Think of something funny. Draw from your experiences, a funny scene in a movie you love, or something someone said that made you laugh. Allow yourself to laugh aloud; just start laughing. Roll with it and notice how you feel.

What? You have nothing to draw from to get the laugh rolling? Try forcing it a little by saying, “Ha, Ha, Ha,” or “Ho, Ho, Ho,” to get the laughter energy moving. Soon, a spontaneous laughter will arise at the sound of your attempts at laughing. Try it for five minutes. Just laugh for no reason at all. Laugh for the sake of laughing.

Try it again for five minutes when you go to bed, just before you go to sleep. Try it in the shower or while driving in traffic. “Ha, Ha, Ha.” Even saying those words aloud will start a transformation in your energy, in your mood.

At the beginning, it will take some effort. After a little while, it will start to happen naturally. Your body will get use to it and will start to expect it. Simply relax into the enjoyment and allow change! You’ll soon find it easy to laugh, play and not take yourself so seriously.

Do you want to create an easier daily life of patience, a clear mind and an open heart?

Guided Meditation is used by many people, not only to relax from a busy day, but also to tune into their own bodies, minds and spirit’s connection. Days have become more stressful, the world more crowded, and problems more abundant. As a result, many people are finding daily comfort, safety and bliss in a few minutes of guided meditation and connection to their own Spirit’s Energy and Source Of Inspiration. With the help of a guiding voice, those new to meditation have found it easy to achieve a much-needed quiet moment to relax and recharge.

Guided meditation can help the listener focus thoughts and block out distractions in order to experience the pleasure of stillness and relaxation, even if just for a few moments each day. The voice assists the user at maintaining focus. Guided meditation helps people follow the stages of meditation, allowing them to go as deep into the process as they would like to go.

Benefits of well-guided meditation can span from relieving migraine headaches, to relaxing cramped muscles, to simple moments of pleasure, satisfaction and quiet. Over-stimulation and stress are both problems many people deal with on a daily basis. Daily stressful situations and over-exposure to stimulating activities and thoughts may even be taken for granted as normal conditions. Most people deal with these situations on a regular basis and endure the resulting stress and tension on the body, mind and spirit connection.

There are many who may feel stressed and hopeless about a current relationship, financial, or work situation. Most people think a vacation or a break from daily life is the way to relieve this stress. A retreat from basic stresses, however, is only a temporary fix. Many people are turning to guided meditation and their Spirits Inspiration in order to deal with the tensions that life can place on the body, mind and spirit connection. Guided meditation teaches how to create an easier daily life of patience, a clear mind and an open heart.

By scheduling time in the day to connect the mind, body and spirit in a calm and focused manner, many people are finding stressful days don’t seem as stressful anymore. Guided meditation can help a person realize the many options available when dealing with the daily tensions of relationship, workplace, home environment or physical challenges. By possessing the foundations of guided meditations, situations that usually seem impossible to bear can now seem easy to think through and figure out.

Guided meditation is a great way to help a person just beginning the process to better concentrate and more easily achieve the full benefits of a meditative experience. Guided meditation can also help advanced meditation practitioners hold their concentration and learn new and more developed techniques for sending their minds and bodies deeper into the meditative state and connection to their own Source Of Inspiration and Creation.

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We are Creators in the breath of life and have the talent to be able to create our experiences. Whether we know it or not, our mind is constantly creating for us what we think.   If we recognize our oneness with our Source, and the connectedness we have with that Spirit, we realize that we are co-creators wit Source in the breath of life.

Knowing this, we realize that we create just the same as Spirit has created.  Maybe it’s on a smaller scale, because we are awakening consciousness to this new idea in the creation process.   Realizing that we are able to create is the first step in visualizing our own reality.

Every time we take a breath, we are creating our world around us. You must look at and appreciate your life experiences, because if you don’t, you are just denying your own existence — your own creation!  Knowing you are the creator and taking responsibility is a turning point in your ability to be a deliberate creator of your desired outcomes.

Every time there is a problem or challenge in life, we have an opportunity to change it.  It is my experience that it can be as simple as changing your mind.

Although that seems too simplistic, it really is quite powerful. After recognizing the challenge, we have a moment, when we breathe, to change our energy and align with our Spirit’s perspective.

There is always a chance to change – to make a different choice. By taking a breath, it gives the mind a moment to refresh. This concept can be used in all areas of your life. You can create harmony and peaceful vibrations in situations in your life. There is no limit to the manifestations available.  Use it for deepening meditation, expanding consciousness into your Spirit’s perspective, increasing intuition, creating harmonious environments, loving relations globally and a healthy body and mind.

Take a moment right now to notice, your body has been breathing life into and through you, with no effort on your part, the whole time you have been reading this blog post.   Now that you have your attention on it you can begin to participate in its flow.  

Try this one minute focusing breath and feel how quickly you can feel better, shift perspective, or receive inspiration! 

Sit back and relax, close your eyes and bring all of your attention to your breath.  Breathe, now start participating – inhale filling your abdomen and chest completely – hold your breath at the top for 5 counts- then exhale emptying your chest and abdomen completely – hold your breath at the bottom for 5 seconds- do this for 5 full cycles – and drop back into your regular pattern of breathing.  Open your eyes and note for yourself how you feel.

You can do this exercise any time you feel stressed, low on energy, unfocused, anxious or just want to feel better overall, more grounded or receive inspiration!

Also check out www.orindaben.com  for more breathing meditation downloads.