Follow your bliss!

Well, I just finnished watching one of my favorite movies, The Secret. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it as it truly contains The Secret to getting everything you want in life. Follow your bliss!

I've kind of forgotten to do that lately. I've allowed myself to get so caught up in day to day stuff that I haven't taken time to do the things I love most. So, I've just started some sourdough. "What?!" Yep, sourdough! I truly do love making bread and then eating it too! It's been ages since I've made any and I decided that today is the day. Well this weekend actually since I have to start a new sponge. It has been that long since I've made any. Lucky for me I live where it's easy to get new San Francisco starter, which is my favorite. I can hardly wait 'till Sunday when the first loaf is ready. Hot from the oven, melting butter all over it, yah! I'll have a bite for you too.

YOU are magical,
Dianne

The power of meditation

Paul and I went kyaking yesterday on the delta. This is the first time we've gone to the delta. We set off from Brannan Is. and went nearly 4 miles, at least that's what it looks like we did from looking at the map after we got back home.

It was very windy! It took us about an hour going out. On the way back the tide changed and it took us 4 1/2 hours to get back. The tide and the wind were incredible. No stopping for a rest or taking a break either. It was all we could do with both of us paddling to make any headway against the combined tide and wind.

We have never paddled that long without a break before. But this time we couldn't take a break or we would have been sweept back out on the tide. For me I used this as an opportunity to meditate. I focused on finding the saddles in the waves, kind of like looking for mountain passes. The waves were up to 4 feet high and our kyak is only 22 inches tall. I also imagined that every time I dipped my paddle into the water that the current was helping to push it back and there by speed us onward. As long as I held my meditation I didn't tire. When my meditation was finally broken I went into muscle spasms in my right arm and shoulder and I stopped having fun.

It is amazing to me how much work we did, how much effort we put into getting back to the marina, how sustained an effort we made, and yet how much energy I have today. I do feel as though I went kyaking yesterday, my arms and shoulders and back are tired, but I don't feel as tired as I would have expected after the massive effort I put into it. It just goes to show that strugle is opptional. I didn't strugle I just put energy into getting where I wanted to be. I stayed focused on my goal and maintained a constant effort towards achieving it.

Hmmm, guess I need to put that lesson to work in other areas of my life.

YOU are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!

Spinning as meditation

Not the Whirling Dervish kind but the Gandhi kind, you know, fiber into yarn. Gandhi was of the belief that if every one in India would devote just a half an hour per day to spinning, that the country’s poverty would be alleviated and her people would be spiritually uplifted.

While I don’t use my spinning time exclusively for meditation, I have found that it does make for a wonderful meditation experience. When I meditate at the spinning wheel, I direct my mind prayerfully towards my friends, family and neighbors or world situations and send them love, peace and light.

I don’t know if it helps those I direct my thoughts to or not, but I have found that it makes a huge difference in me. When I get up from one of those spinning meditations I am calm, relaxed and filled with joy. My body and my mind are both at peace and ready for new activities. I am more creative and stronger.

I still enjoy spinning with a group or chatting with Paul while I spin, but when I spin alone I find more and more that I go into the meditative spinning. It just plain feels good. And, I can see the difference in the quality of the yarn I produce while meditating.

YOU are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!
You can have every thing you want.

Spiritual transformation…

Heal my self, heal my world. The world out there is a creation/reflection of the world inside me. So when I want the world I’ve created to change, I must change me. Change happens from inside of me.

I just learned a wonderful new technique for changing those things in my world that I do not like. It starts off with the realization that I am fully responsible for everything in my world, not just the usual things that it looks like I have control over, but all aspects of my world. If there is war in my world then it is my responsibility, if there is terrorism in my world then it is my responsibility, if my health is poor it is my responsibility, if I don’t like my looks it is my responsibility and if I don’t get along with my boss, spouse, parents or children it is my responsibility. I created my world and I can change it.

The Hawaiian method of changing each and every one of these things and any others that I can find is to forgive and love. That’s it! While focusing on the things I don’t like I say to my self “I’m sorry. Please forgive me for what ever is going on inside of me that is manifesting as this problem. I forgive you, I love you.” I just take the time to do this regularly every time I become aware of something in my world that I do not want here. “I forgive you, I love you.” I also spend some time each day focusing on one or two things in particular and repeating those statements to my self until I have released them from my creation. “I am sorry. I forgive you. I love you.”

YOU are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!

I've been busy

Alexa rankings for my article directories today are:
437,492 AIDS Articles
2,512,165 Articles on Business
593,025 Articles on Cancer (also now has a Google page rank of 1)
3,609,244 Health Articles
1,472,367 Health and Wellness Articles

Interestingly the Articles on Cancer site is the only one that I submitted to the search engines and it is also the only one that has made it into Google as of right now. So, guess what, time to submit the other sites to the search engines also. I also noticed that my primary website, Magical YOU!, has a Google PR of 3. Woo Hoo!

YOU are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!
You can have everything you want!

Update on the article dierctory marketing

So far I have seen a marked improvement in the Alexa ratings for my article directories. They all started off at over 6,500,000 with Alexa and 0 ranking with Google. None of them have yet been ranked by Google. However they have made some major progress with Alexa. Here is how they stand today:
889,649 www.aidsarticles.info
4,979,743 www.articlesonbusiness.info
1,085,824 www.articlesoncancer.info
5,094,222 www.healtharticles.info
5,094,192 www.healthandwellnessarticles.info

I don't yet know what I will do to get into Google, but that is the next project.

You are Magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!
You can have everything you want!

What you say is what you get

Yesterday was an amazing day. I learned to take the Law of Attraction to a whole new level. I know that my words create my reality. I know that what I put out there is what I get back. So what did I just realize?When I make a judgement about anything, I am creating that in my reality. Lets look at a specific.

Perci is my collie. He grumbles and dodges being groomed and I had made the judgement thet Perci hated being brushed. I always had to chase him down and hold him still so that I could groom him. Well, yesterday after realizing that my judgement of Perci hating to be groomed was making it so I choose to say that Perci loves to be brushed. Now Perci didn't get all excited about it and come running when I got out the brush, but he did stand quietly while I brushed him. Yes! Instant change in his behaviour based on my change in my language.

Wow, what else can I change just by changing my language? Guess it's time for me to find out.

YOU are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!
You can have everything you want!

Beginings of the article directory marketing

I have started intensive marketing of my Articles on Cancer site by submitting it to surch engines and sending out advertisements. I will now also start listing it in my blog regularly so that it will get some links back to it. It will be interesting to see how quickly this will improve its rankings.

YOU are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!
You CAN have everything you want!

I'm back...

I've been so busy running my online businesses that I've not been doing any blogging. I'd no idea how easy it is to get sucked into all of the various minutiae of starting and running a business. And of course, if you're new to the business like I am, much of what you do you later find out was not necessary or could have been done more efficiently some other way.

So, what have I done? Well I’ve started a few article websites. They are: http://www.articlesoncancer.info; http://www.aidsarticles.info; http://www.healthandwellnessarticles.info and http://www.healtharticles.info. There will be another one coming soon on business, but it is not quite yet ready to go.

I chose those article sites for several reasons. First I want sites that are on topics of interest to me. Second I want sites that relate to my MLM business which are in the health and nutrition niches. And Third I want sites that I can put adsense on.

Remeber that one of the best ways to become an acknowledged expert is through the publication of your own articles. So if you have writen articles on any of these topics be sure to stop by my article directories and submit your informative articles.

YOU are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!
You can have EVERYTHING you want!