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Every year around this time, I do a little life coaching exercise that’s featured in Give Your Life Direction. The idea is to make a list of things I wish I could say but, for whatever reason, can’t. Maybe because the other person is dead. Maybe because it would be too dangerous to confront them. Maybe because the other person lives far away. Or maybe because I just don’t feel I can be honest with my emotions, whether they are jealous, angry, or wounded. My fifth chakra, the throat chakra, has often been rather weak, but I’ve been actively strengthening it.
The first year I tried this exercise, I had a list as long as my arm. It was only “supposed” to be ten things, but I kept going, shocked at how much I’d kept bottled up. A few years later, the list was down to the five to eight range. Last year, I had to dig a little harder and still ended up in the five to eight range, thanks mostly to some secrets I was keeping for someone else. Every year of this exercise, the burden gets a little lighter.
I sat down a few days ago to make my list for the year…and nothing. Absolutely nothing.
The closest I could come was a conversation I’d like to have with one particular man in my life who has been out of town, but I’ve held off only because it would be nicer to have the conversation face-to-face, alone. It’s nothing bad–no anger, no jealousy, no I’m-hurt, no why-did-you-do-this?, no nothing of that sort. Instead, it’s just a nice talk about something personal and lovely.
Right now, there’s little to nothing that I have bottled up, no emotion I’m swallowing because I’m afraid to say it or fear the ramifications if I do.
I kinda like it this way.
Tags: anger, emotions, fifth chakra, jealousy, life coaching, throat chakra, wishes
Sitting in the cemetery at sunset, 8 months into a year with Solar Return Sun in the dreaded Eighth House; Photo copyright by Aislinn Bailey, AisPortraits, Niceville, Florida
My birthday’s coming up in just a few weeks, and you know what that means? I’m finishing up a year when my Solar Return Sun was in my Eighth House. Yeah….
I admit, I’d been really dreading this past year for a long time now. I have heard dire warnings from astrologers to consider traveling just to make certain that my Solar Return Sun was either in the Seventh House of relationships and partnerships or in the Ninth House of education and travel. Any place but in the Eighth House! The idea was that I might be at some other spot on the planet at that exact moment and by traveling on my Solar Return birthday to somewhere else, it would change the position of the houses within my Solar Return Chart. Lost yet?
A Solar Return Chart is a special chart for your birthday year based on where you are on the day that the Sun is in the exact place that it was on the day you were born. Though my birthday is March 3rd, my solar return usually takes place on Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: eighth house, solar return, Sun
I know a lot of you come here for info on what I called “applied astrology.” I am NO EXPERT but enjoy astrology as a hobby because I love looking at patterns and personalities, and I’ve learned the most about it by looking specifically at what’s going on in my chart and the charts of friends. I have a lot of older material at this site, which I’m still cleaning up but you’re welcome to look at under the Astrology category to the right.
Meanwhile, because my birthday is coming up (solar return time!) AND I have Jupiter crossing significant points in my chart right now, I’ll probably focus a bit more on astrology over the next month. Hmmm, no, I’ll probably talk more about applied astrology this year than usual–lots of interesting things happening in my chart right now with my vertex, Juno, Solar Return Sun in the Eighth House, Jupiter Return, changes in signs in my progressed chart….yes, a dynamic time for me, and that means that maybe I’ll be able to share something from my own chart that’s useful to you.
Tags: applied astrology, Astrology, eighth house, juno, Jupiter Return, progressed chart, solar return, Vertex
My dearest, darling Lorna:
We are about to send you someone who will tell you some great and useful things, many of which you already know but need a new way of thinking about them… but the real gift will be more in what this man shows you than in what he tells you.
Love you muchly,
All the Hosts of Heaven
I was getting messages from the “Universe” long before I signed up for Mike Dooley’s Notes from the Universe mailing list. Since the mid-90’s, I have frequently referred to Deity—God, Goddess, The Trinity, The Higher Power, That Which Is Greater, The All, The Source—as the “Universe.” Though some people (surprising to me) consider it a disrespectful term, my use of it is to convey the vastness and magnitude of Deity, whether I’m talking to a Christian, Wiccan, or occasionally an atheist who can find commonality in more scientific approaches. In any case, I often ask for insight and the Universe doth provide!
Last year, I was trying to figure out how to pull all my projects together to get them out to the people who need them. I’d come up with a solution—put it all in one place—but didn’t have the right processes in place at the time, so I spun my wheels a lot. The vision began to develop but I had qualms, and those stopped me from pushing forward toward fulfilling my vision. There just weren’t many role models for what I was doing. So I asked the Universe to send me some guidance.
Enter Mike Dooley of TUT.com and his famous Notes from the Universe that landed him a part on Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret, the hype-friendly movie about the Law of Attraction.
Okay, well, I did ask the Universe for help—and what happens? The Universe sends me notes. I’m still amused by the irony of that. If the Universe had sent me textbooks, I probably wouldn’t have paid attention, given my sometimes short attention span. I mean, who wants to read Textbooks from the Universe? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Books, Law of Attraction, Mike Dooley, Notes from the Universe, Tut.com, Universe
The eyes are the windows of the soul, indeed! Yes, her eyes really are that color and those are lichens on the ground in this beautiful natural setting.
Photo copyright by Aislinn Bailey, AisPortraits.com, Niceville, Florida
Some cultures believe (or did initially) that a photographer could steal your soul if he took pictures of you. I’m not sure about “stealing,” but I now believe that it is entirely possible to capture a soul in a photograph—or if not the soul, then certainly the “energy” of the person. After observing a few experiments with energy work, courtesy of an interview subject I’ll call “Ruby,” I will never look at Facebook or MySpace profile pics in quite the same way. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Chakras, eyes, highly sensitive person, Niceville, personality, photography, portrait, professional photographer, psionics, radionics, soul, vitality, window, zero-field theory
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From the upcoming book, 23 Ways I Screwed Up My Life with the Law of Attraction—and How I Fixed It
I’ve really been screwing myself at work. The day job, that is. Once I realized what I was doing, I put an immediate stop to it. I’d let it get out of hand, and it was causing me some serious issues here and there—increased blood pressure, lack of daylight, some missed romantic opportunities, and that general feeling of being overworked, overtired, and out of balance.
In my career with the Department of Defense, it’s usually August and especially September—the end of the fiscal year—that are ludicrous with extra work. I’ve been through many years where my supervisor refused to allow me to take a day off during September for a 1-day trip to see a medical specialist, even though I was already working 12 hours a day and weekends. Last August, I decided to just take a deep breath and press forward, assuming that all my projects with a drop-dead date of 30 September would be done by then and life would free up in October when the new fiscal year began.
It didn’t happen that way.
Looking back, I realize how overly focused I was on Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: balance, career, Law of Attraction, screw ups
Brace yourself. This is going to be controversial. It may make you cry, or it may make you angry, or–if you don’t believe in anything you can’t see–you may roll your eyes. In fact, if you’re not an open-minded person, just go ahead and click away from here now because there’s nothing in what I say that you will find helpful for your own wounds or worries. These are things I’ve never written about or talked about before, mainly because talking about a miscarriage at any stage of pregnancy is uncomfortable at best, but I’m being led to discuss these things now, to help someone else.
Hold the bashing. This is not a pro-abortion article or an anti-abortion article. If you think it is, you’ve missed my point because you’re looking to bolster an opinion you’ve already made. This is something altogether different that almost no one talks about.
First, a little of my own history:
I have two beautiful, intelligent, compassionate daughters who are everything I could ever wish for. The older daughter was almost miscarried at 10 weeks, and the younger one sent me thrice to emergency Labor and Delivery over the three months before she was born. I’ve gotten pregnant more than once while on birth control pills, which my newest gynecologist believes is because Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: abortion, anti-abortion, chakra, miscarriage, pro-life, sacred contract, shaman, spontaneous abortion
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Who doesn’t love a good story of a comeuppance? There’s justice in that, and balance. What goes around comes around, as you sow so shall you reap, what we send out returns to us three-fold, the Law of Attraction–it’s all the same. Karma, justice, balance, completion.
Every day, we “send out,” usually without conscious thought of what will come back to us. If you live your life by walking in truth, then there’s really not a lot to worry about. If you send out truth, compassion, and love, then having those things come back to you is simply a multiple blessing. If you live your life that way, then you probably already recognize the process of getting back what you send out–even if you don’t call it that–and you probably have a sense of serenity, comfort, and gratitude for much of what’s in the life you’ve created for yourself.
That’s because what you are “sending out” is what creates your life. I doubt anyone’s done a scientific analysis of the Threefold-Law to see if what is received after being broadcast or sent out is an exact multiple of three, but Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: comeuppance, karma, Law of Attraction, threefold law
A few favorite cards from Raven Grimassi and Stephanie Taylor Grimassi’s The Well-Worn Path deck
I have a lot of friends who read Tarot cards–and every last one of them is pretty good at it! Invariably, when we get together, we somehow end up drooling over the beautiful artwork of the newest deck among us and “throwing cards” for each other. Whether we do this separately or in groups, it always turns into a brainstorming session where there are new insights to be discovered in how we’re approaching our own peculiar situations. I’ve noticed that no matter how many different groups and how many different readings, certain trends tend to emerge.
An extremely talented psychic who uses multiple decks of cards in his readings once told me that almost every reading he does falls into one of two categories and rarely does he see anything remotely differently. They’re either about romance/relationships or they’re about–to a lesser degree–job/money/career situations. These seem to be the two most important questions on seekers’ minds, and I can attest to that, based on Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: abraham-hick, Astrology, juno, Law of Attraction, long distance relationships, Psychic, reading, rockets of desire, Romance, Tarot, tarot cards, Vertex
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Decluttering your home, your mind, and your life can help you find serenity. Meditation and clearing out clutter are two paths to peace of mind, more time, and less stress—and that means more happiness.
If someone says “peace of mind” and “inner peace,” you know exactly what they mean, even though the words themselves have little impact anymore. The phrases have become trite and overused, but that’s only because so many people have sought that feeling of serenity. Seeking that contented state of emotional and mental tranquility is a fundamental trait of us weary humans.
We live in complicated, complex times when our world is busy every second and our minds seldom shut down long enough to get a good night’s sleep. It’s nearly impossible to finish a small task without the distraction of an email, phone call, text message, or instant message to pull our attention away. How many of us remember all our passwords, especially if we have to change them frequently to intricate codes of letters, numbers, and symbols in nonsensical patterns? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: clutter, decluttering, hypnosis, Meditation, Serene Living, uncluttering
The dreaded 3 of Swords Tarot card, usually signifying grief, betrayal, loss, and/or sorrow. Photo credit by Raelene G; attribution license
I sat in the conference room and sobbed hard enough that my shoulders shook. Of the 75 people in the room with me, most of them backed away, not knowing what to make of my very public breakdown. We were all there for a 2-hour training session on the new Justification and Approval Guide from Part 7 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and yet I was on my knees with my face in my hands. Nothing had ever gotten to me at work quite like what had happened a few mornings before, and nothing has shaken me like that since. At least not at work.
Luna sat down next to me and shooed away the only people curious enough to come near. “Lorna,” she said, “what is WRONG with you? I’ve never seen you cry at work. Well, except for that one time.”
The one time she referred to was when my dying mentor had spoken to me for the last time, describing in detail the kind of casket he was to be buried in. I had sat at my desk with tears in my eyes, wiped them away, and then had marched off to negotiate a $40M deal with as much professionalism as I could muster. A woman may occasionally rage in my kind of career, but crying is generally taken as an overt sign of weakness. But on this day in the conference room? I didn’t care.
I told Luna what had brought me to my knees.
“Lorna,” she said, “that was a week ago. Why haven’t you been able to shake it off by now?”
I didn’t know. I’d been through a fair number of tragedies in my life and kept right on moving without a glitch in my stride. I’d Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3 of swords, Alday family, betrayal, closure, Death Row, Donalsonville, Georgia, Grief, injustice, murders
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Time management techniques improve both your productivity and—if you’re willing to change your point of view—your quality of life. It’s not really about finding time to do all the things you must do, but finding time to be all the things you want to be.
I still recall standing in the public library one evening after work when I was a busy, chaos-wrestling 25-year-old career woman (“career woman” was the term we used back then). I set my briefcase aside as I handed the librarian my choices—at least 3 sets of time management courses on cassette tape and probably 40 hours’ worth of listening. Time management had become an obsession for me because I had so much to do and so much I wanted to do—I was working 80 hours a week and I barely made a dent in either my weekend chore list or my job assignments—and I was constantly taking on more. You’re heard of The 4-Hour Work Week?
Not for me! I felt lucky to get four hours’ of sleep a night.
I listened to the tapes while I commuted, while I gardened, and while I cleaned house, but I was disappointed. I was looking for the secret treasure trove of tips. Most of it, I’d heard before. Some of the productivity techniques were good, but most were either about delegating your work to someone lower on the corporate ladder when I was the lowest or how to Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: checklists, delegate, Four Hour Work Week, outsource, productivity, techniques, Time Management, tips
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Healing old wounds of childhood trauma and self-esteem doesn’t come easily, but when it does come, it’s unexpected.
Thinking back on my childhood, I might just as easily have been a child suicide. I remember thinking about it when I was nine years old, right after being humiliated in front of several hundred kids at school–by a faculty member–for following my religious convictions, which were then devout Christian. Even in the third grade, I had strong beliefs and a different way of thinking from what everyone around me in my small Southern town had. How I saw life made me different, and in many circles, an outcast.
Healing old wounds means understanding the universality of childhood traumas and how they affect us for the rest of our lives. As I’ve discovered through counseling numerous people, even the most outwardly confident of us has or have had those horrible buried issues of low self-esteem where our parents instilled into us their worst darknesses, for which we in turn instill our own fears and inadequacies into our own children. For me, it went far deeper than that–I spent most of my childhood and half my adulthood feeling that my spaceship had crashed on this strange planet where I never had and never would belong.
How do you go about healing old wounds when the traumas were commonplace for many years? I remember far too many times when I was publicly ridiculed for the way my mind worked. I was called weird, bizarre, and later, more euphemistically, different. And when I say “publicly ridiculed,” I don’t mean simply by bratty kids my age but also by teachers and adults with the kids applauding. I grew up in the “I’m-OK-You’re-OK” 70’s…but the message was always that I wasn’t OK because I had different ideas about life. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: child suicide, Grief, healing, old wounds, trauma
To everyone placing orders through our onsite store (thank you!), please keep in mind that this site is still in transition. The order buttons and downloads work but may re-route you to our old site before you get back to here. Don’t let that scare you–we’re combining several websites into one for your convenience, and we’re simply not done yet.
If you get lost or have a problem, just post a comment. We follow a less crazy-making practice of answering messages/comments only twice a day so we’ll answer within the day but probably not instantaneously.
We made a conscious decision to make the new site public while we work on it, and decided not to over-stress ourselves on having everything perfect before you showed up. Life is always in transition, isn’t it? Don’t stress…because we’re not. (See photo!)
That’s our lessons–
1. we’re not waiting around anymore and…
2. we’re not going to stress.
We hope you feel the same about YOUR lives!
–Lorna and crew
Photo credit: Ais Portraits
The Majestic Sombrero Galaxy (M104); Photo credit by NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Get in the vortex if you want to manifest your desires through the Law of Attraction. Per Abraham-Hicks, find that perfect place of feeling and you’ll find that perfect place of knowing that you already have what you want.
Late July, 2009–
Sharyn and I have been talking about “getting in the Vortex.” These conversations refer to her Tahiti cruise with the Abraham Hicks Law of Attraction educational vacation and their new metaphor rather than the old one I was familiar with–the one where you’re trying frantically to swim upstream, fighting your way, instead of floating downstream easily with the current. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: abraham-hicks, Law of Attraction, vortex
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The seven Chakra Energy Centers embody the life force of the human body from root to third eye to crown. Each correlates to specific energy centers vertically along the spinal column as well as a specific meaning and color.
Several years ago, I was dating a young physician who was open-minded enough to attend some of my spiritual gatherings in my home. At one of these gatherings, an energy healer in my group demonstrated her healing techniques on him as well as on another attendee whom he could observe. Even with 11 years of schooling and a burgeoning medical practice, he’d never been introduced to the system of energy centers, except in passing as some kind of New Age concept.
That night, he saw first hand how each energy vortex could be opened and closed and the effects of the life force of each. We were able to feel open heart centers that extended like a palpable force field all the way to the ceiling and beyond. We could feel open root vortex and third eye as high as six feet above the person on the massage table that we were using for our “experiments” in energy work. It was as definitive as a physical ball of goo–this “aura” would bounce a little under our outstretched palms as we found the top of this field of life force energy.
My friendly physician left that night bubbling about how he planned to go back and tell all his doctor friends what he’d experienced and how he suspected they might ridicule him but he could explain the correlation between Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: brow chakra, chakra, closed chakras, color correspondences, correlations, crown chakra, fifth chakra, first chakra, fourth chakra, gemstones, heart chakra, imbalance, open chakras, overstimulation, root chakra, sacral chakra, second chakra, seventh chakra, sixth chakra, solar plexus, third chakra, third eye, throat chakra, understimulation
I still keep several pair of reading glasses on hand, but now they’re for friends who attend my monthly spiritual gatherings in my home. Photo by Lorna Tedder.
I discovered multi-focus contact lenses by accident but began wearing them with great purpose. You’d think that as a professional in my 40’s, I’d be a good demographic for Bausch and Lomb advertising but I’m not, which is why it’s amazing to me that I found them, and found something that really works for me…after a little tweaking. So here’s the good and the bad of what I discovered for myself and how I traded in my reading glasses for a new vision of Me.
I don’t watch TV because I like to avoid all the fear-mongering of the news, so if there are TV commercials about multi-focus contact lenses, I’ve missed it. If there are radio ads, I’ve missed those, too, because I’m usually listening to an audiobook on quantum physics—not beauty tips or how to fight aging un-gracefully. I don’t read women’s magazines either, mainly because they’re filled with the type of marketing that ruins self-esteem. I had no idea that multi-focus contact lenses existed so that I could search the Internet far and wide for reviews on the contacts or even personal stories (like this one) of what made the process work and where I hit some bumps in the road. But multi-focus contact lenses found me, anyway…exactly 2 years after I finally gave in and started wearing reading glasses.
Why I wanted multi-focus contact lenses:
I’ve worn glasses and contacts since I was 13. I’m not afraid of either but I’ve always preferred the convenience factors of contacts. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: multi-focus contact lenses, personal review, readers, reading glasses, review
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Know your vibration? Just summarize the qualities of your friends and relationships, and you’ll find your vibrational match.
One of the basic tenets of the Law of Attraction is that we attract to us that which is similar in “frequency.” The problem is, how do you figure out what your frequency is so you can clean it up and attract something better.
Actually, this is one of the easier Law of Attraction questions to answer. Remember the old saying about how to figure out what “George” is really like, just look at his friends? The reasoning is-and I’ve found this to be true-each friend has some quality that either reflects where George is or where he wants to be. If a cherished friend (or more than one, especially) tends to be a little rebellious and likes to discuss radical ideas, then George is probably a bit of a freethinker, too, and secretly-or not so secretly-enjoys challenging The System. If George’s friends are rather diverse and seem to be left of center in their personalities, then there’s probably a part of George that is that way, too, even if it’s not obvious from the start or he tries to hide it. That’s truly the Law of Attraction at work, gathering like together.
So to figure out what your vibration is right now, Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: frequency, friends, Law of Attraction, Relationships, vibration
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Can you feel psychic connections across time and space?
As in, can I connect with someone from 2 years ago or from 2 years from now? I don’t know.
I haven’t been able to, at least not much. Or have I just never really thought about what’s also known as energetic connections, empathic connections, and quantum entanglement?
I’ve connected with people in the future–their feelings, at least, and some in the past, particularly with past life work. I’ve seen intuitives do this at least 5 years in advance. So it should be a yes to this question since time isn’t really linear.
As for space, Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: empathic connections, Empathy, energetic connections, psychic connections, quantum entanglement
The unseen world around us is like this web except made of energy. Photo credit: Automania; creative commons license.
Empathy, empathic abilities, and what I call “energetic connections” (or emotional connections) between people are all about feeling what someone else is feeling. Some of us empaths, or “highly sensitive people,” have these abilities more than others, to the extent where it seems like a curse. If you’ve formed an emotional, empathy-type connection to someone who is terminally sick, mentally ill, or overstressed, the emotions can be debilitating. On the other hand, merging with a lover takes biological to chemical to alchemical thrills.
Examples of such connections:
- A mother’s intuition where she feels her baby’s pinched finger as if it were her own flesh.
- Suddenly feeling something is horribly wrong and getting a call 10 minutes later that a loved one has died.
- A High Priestess who forms a strong bond with the Initiates of her coven and can sense when one of them is in trouble—or doing quite well.
For more information on empathy and “highly sensitive people,” and for the most extensive article archive online concerning “energetic connections,” we recommend the empathy, energy, and psychic categories of this website.
Tags: emotional connections, Empathy, energetic connections, Energy, highly sensitive people, Psychic
I am totally in love with this artist’s work. Please check it out. Photo Copyright: alicepopkorn; creative commons license.
Psychic Spying can backfire in the worst sort of way—you can not only alert the person you’re snooping on, but divulge your own deepest, darkest secrets.
Several years ago, I was at a metaphysical festival in Florida where I met various healers, intuitives, and vendors of all sorts of New Age items and services. While waiting for my daughter to return from a booth hawking fairy designs, one of the less busy psychics handed me Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: clairvoyant, empath, energetic connections, intuitive, metaphysical festival, Psychic, psychic spying, shaman
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Whether you call it psychic abilities, clairvoyance, or intuition, most of us have it—a least to some degree. A former circle-mate of mine used to call it “the gift of knowing.” She wasn’t what I would call a gifted psychic, but she did have what she described as “flashes of knowing.”
Later, as I began to open myself up to the possibility of possessing clairvoyant talents, I also began to trust my intuition, that little voice inside that told me something was right or wrong, or that something was coming or something was leaving my life. Ironically, though I never considered myself to be psychic, I became much more so after leaving to trust my own judgment and intuition on personal matters.
I’ve been blessed to have personally known some really accurate psychics who could call up answers and insights within seconds – some of which I wanted to hear and some that I didn’t. Read the rest of this entry »
Book cover for Working through Grief: Tips for Coping with the Pain of Loss
Traumatic experiences, grief, and loss can take a heavy toll. Death, dying, divorce, sexual abuse, and suicide aren’t things you just “get over.” You have to heal them from the inside out.
Forget everything you’ve heard about “getting over it” and coming out of mourning on a specific time table. Time does not heal all wounds—it merely gives you perspective. What does heal the wounds of traumatic experiences is being able to look hard at what happened, slowly reaching a point of being able to honor your experiences or what you lost, and release the weight of your mourning. Not that the scars left behind won’t be sensitive to the touch, but you can get back on your feet and walk again and, yes, eventually dance again.
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Cindy Lu’s The Four Man Plan: A Romantic Science dating guide offers advice that may help you attract back the love of your life—or at least attract a social life in the meanwhile.
The most difficult thing for people looking to “attract back” lost lovers is to stop fixating on them. With Cindy Lu’s “scientific-based” dating guide, a girl doesn’t have time to brood.
For someone trying to reconnect with a romantic interest who’s out of the picture, at least for a while, the real nuggets in Lu’s entertaining book are in the new game it’ll force you to play while you’re also playing the waiting game for the guy you want back in your life. The last thing you need, according to the Law of Attraction, is to spend your days and nights—and weekends—pining away, feeling the gaping the loss in your heart and bed, and focusing on the lack of that guy in your life right now. Much better if you can shift your focus to being your normal fun self with lots of fun stuff to do, right? That’s where the Four Man Plan’s best ideas come into play.
Cindy Lu suggests building a mantis graph. In this case, it looks like Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Cindy Lu, Four Man Plan, Law of Attraction, mantis graph, Relationships
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Since when has Let Go and Let God become a synonym for Give Up?
Several years ago, I was facing an extremely shaky time when I was leaving a long-term marriage and starting a brand-new life. It was the first step in building a new me and all the confidence that comes with reclaiming your independence after really losing yourself for a while. I had compromised a lot of my true self over the years in order to meet the expectations of other people as well as my belief system that required me to be “selfless” to the point of giving away self. It was not an easy time. I’d lost my ability to trust and I desperately wanted to trust again, so I jumped out there and put my heart on the line and it got stomped on all over again. I fought to regain control of my life, and much of it seemed to be an uphill battle.
A member of the clergy told me I should handle a particular difficulty in my life by giving it a “spiritual surrender.” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Christianity, Law of Attraction, let go and let god, religion, spirituality, Wicca
