DOG as Metaphor

Most people get up in the morning and decide to spend some time with Dog and so they decide to take a walk with Dog. They put on the leash and then they let Dog take them for a walk. Dog pulls this way and they follow, Dog heads off that way and again they fallow. Dog is clearly the one in control. Where ever Dog leads they follow. At the end of the walk they wonder why they didn’t get to see what they wanted, they didn’t get to do what they wanted, they are tired and unhappy and they complain that Dog just doesn’t listen to them. They put Dog away for the day and hope that tomorrow will be better. Surely Dog must have a different plan for their life and they must learn to surrender to Dog’s will.

The experienced dog person goes about it differently. They get up in the morning and decide to spend the day with Dog. They take a few minutes to decided where they want to go today and what they want to see and do. Then they call Dog over tell him where they are going and set out in that direction. They know that Dog has many more senses then they do and will smell and hear things of interest that they might miss, but they also know that it is really their decision as to where they will go. Will they stay on their chosen path or will they decide that Dog has found something even more interesting? At the end of the day they know that every where they went and every thing they did was by their own choice. They were in charge even when they chose to follow what Dog turned up. It was always their choice and they have had a wonderful and productive day. They have improved their relationship with Dog and are excited about walking with Dog again tomorrow.

Dog wants you to have fun, Dog wants you to do what gives you joy, but until you clearly direct Dog as to what brings you joy, fulfillment and happiness, Dog has no choice but to drag you all around waiting for you to decide to take charge. Dog is happiest when you are happy and he is fulfilling your requests. Try taking God for a walk today.

Have a magical day,

Dianne

Magical YOU!

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!

Heal your relationships as well as your body

Qigong is an ancient chinese healing method that I have recently started practicing. One of the very useful ways I have learned to use it is to focus the healing energy on an uncomfortable relationship. I traditionally start the qigong meditation with the thought, "I am in the universe, the universe is in me, the universe and I are one". When I am healing a relationship I add to that the name of the individual that I want to improve my relationship with like this, "I am in the universe and Jane, the universe and Jane are in me, the universe, Jane and I are one." I have had the most amazing rezults when I do this. I have found that disagreements are easily settled and hard feelings are disolved away. I have even found it to be effective in settling a court case.

How many relationships would you like to heal? What a difference would it make in your life learning to heal and create peaceful loving relationships?

I am grateful for my qigong practice which helps me to conect with others as well as improve my health, my tenant Norma, successfully negotiating the pay ment of rent, the live Veretekk marketing training and my light tools that help me to focus on the positive and bring in healing energy.

I acknowledge my self for having the tough discussions about paying the rent on time with my tenant, grocery shoping, inviting Mom and Dad to join me in the qigong healing meditation, showing Donna how I run my online business profitably and spinning.

Things that I know have the potential to affect my energy today are calling Leo, calling the city building inspector, writing a marketing email for Immunotec, meditating and taking the time to do something fun like spinning my purple wool.

YOU are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!
Create the life of your dreams.
You can have everything you want!

Speed up your growth

Part of what keeps many of us from growing is knowing that the stressors in life grow with us. Because of this we often avoid growing and progress out of fear. When what we really need is to learn how to manage our stress. One thing that most psychologists agree on is that stress is our own reaction to what is going on around us. In other words, stress is a story that we tell ourselves or what we focus our attention on rather than being a set thing. For example, one person may find performing in front of a crowd very stressful, while someone else, an actor say, may find it to be exciting and something they look forward to.

So it looks like one of the fastest ways to grow is by learning how to handle previously stressful things without getting stressed. How is that done? Well I'm not entirely sure. I will give you a couple of methods that I use, but I'm still learning and working on this one. One of the things that I've found that helps is to delegate some tasks. The more focused you can be the less stressed you will be. Identify the tasks that you don't have to personally handle and start delegating the ones you dislike the most. Find ways to afford it. It pays for itself quickly.

Start meditating or set aside some quiet time for yourself every day. This allows you to create/find answers to your pressing problems. Learn to see problems as opportunities to grow and improve. The best way I know of to do this is to start changing your language and call them opportunities. When you learn to call them opportunities rather than problems you learn to look forward to them rather than wanting to run away from them.

I am grateful for a fun safe trip to New York City, wonderful meditation CDs, a check from Immunotec for $284.79, my friend Auggie who is now a general contractor and sleeping in my own very comfortable bed.

I acknowledge my self for calling the Pittsburg, CA police, sending Auggie the list of things to look at the apartment building, taking a riding lesson, getting unpacked and working on my online business.

Things that may affect my energy today are looking for a housekeeper, doing laundry, writing letters for my autoresponder, contacting Immunotec to get permission to use articles from the Focus and meditating.

YOU are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!
Tips on creating the life of your dreams.
You CAN have everything you want!

The power of focus

What I learned today is when I get in a tough situation where I can't see things being resolved favorably, I need to focus. I need to focus on exactly what I want to have happen and focus only on that. I need to not worry about how it will happen or what the other people will do to make it happen. Just focus on the people that have to be involved and what I want as my outcome and focus on that to the exclusion of all else.

I am grateful for receiving a full months rents from all my tenants, finding Veretekk, a new resource for business promotion, the apartment building is at break even, Dad is letting me show him what I've learned about online marketing and he is thinking bigger.

I acknowledge my self for paying the bills, doing the banking, researching Veretekk, joining Veretekk silver and showing Dad how to get started marketing on line.

Things that may affect my energy today are doing more research on Veretekk, meditation, healing work for AJ,

YOU are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!
Tips on creating the life of your dreams.
You CAN have everything you want!

Connecting the dots

I was quite surprised today to find that I really do think about and approach things from a very different perspective than do other people. I start by getting clear about my objective. What do I want, what are the results that will bring me. How will I know when I have achieved that? Then I start looking at what I am doing to see if it is getting me closer to what I want. If it is I do more of that if it isn't then I change and do something different.

I am always looking to connect the dots. Remember those dot to dot pictures you did when you were a kid? You had a page full of dots that had numbers by them and you started at dot 1 and drew a line to dot 2 and then to dot 3 and so on, until you had revealed a picture. Then I got so that I could just look at the dots and where they were placed and see what the picture was going to be. That ability to see what the picture will be when all of the dots are connected is what empowers you to choose a more accurate and faster path to your goal.

So how do you learn the skill of connecting the dots? By asking yourself when you start a task will this action directly and immediately bring me the results I am looking for? Let's say your objective is to create an income of $5000/month from your online business. You sit down to add pages to your site and ask your self, "Will adding these pages to my site directly bring in more money?" If you don't have anything for sale on your site then the answer will be NO! It doesn't matter how much traffic your site generates if you don't have any products for sale there more traffic can not create more sales. In that case you need to look at doing something else. If you have products for sale on your website then the answer will be yes. Go ahead and add those pages unless you know of something else you could do that would make a bigger difference.

I am grateful for my Mastermind group, my coach Sandi, that my recurring online business expenses are all now paid for by recurring online sales, that in spite of technical issues I was able to get on the Mastermind call and greate new ideas for teaching.

I acknowledge my self for explaining to Sandy how to import and manipulate pictures on her computer over the phone, thinking differently than others do, having the patience to teach kinesthetic learners over the phone, understanding how things work and staying focused on doing those things that lead to my goal.

Things that may affect my energy today are my Mastermind call, talking with my coach Sandi, meditation, writing and spinning.

You are Magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!
Tips on creating the life of your dreams.
You CAN have everything you want!

See the best in every situation

Yesterday was a reminder for me to look for the best in every situation. I have a difficult situation with a tenant I have been working for some time to resolve. Yesterday the tenant took their problem to an attorney.

When I received the call from their attorney I could have chosen to see that as an escalation of the problem and become defensive. Instead, because I had meitated on a peaceful resolution and on opening our heart chakras, when the attorney called late yesterday, I was able to discuss the situation with her very calmly and tell her good things about my tenant and explain my desire to work things out.

It isn't yet settled but I know that my attitude made a huge impact on the sittuation. I will continue to meditate on a peaceful and fair resolution and on opening our heart chakras.

I am grateful for Lucy from comunity housing, Perla's attorney calling me, being able to help Sandy with her book, good reading skills and being good at learning my way through new situations.

I acknowledge my self for cleaning the kitchen, paying the bills, meditating, responding openly and freely with Perla's attorney and calling Leo.

Things that may affect my energy today are meditating, calling Sandy, working on my book, healing work and attending a marketing teleclass.

Remember YOU are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!

Planning pays off!

This tuff situation is not yet fully resolved, but I can feel the results of all of the planning and preperation that I put into it. The progress I made today is very good.

I put on my support and meditated on healing the rift between myself and the others involved and on opening my heart chakra before I made the calls. It realy paid off with me remaining calm, confident, friendly and supportive. I am celebrating the rapid conclusion of this situtaion.

YOU are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!

Planning for success

I am grateful for Leo my very helpful tenant, Paul's help in deciding strategies, friends to chear me up and chear me on and remembering to use my tools.

I acknowledge my self for meditating before making touchy phone calls, getting clear about the outcome I want, making no judgements about the situation, looking for win/win results and being willing to listen.

Things that may affect my energy today are phone calls to resolve a difficult situation, meitation, helping a friend, relaxing and spinning.

YOU are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!

Make the most of the tools you have

It is better to have a few tools that you use well then to have many tools that you never use. I just realized that I get my best ideas for writing in the shower. Now that may sound like a silly place to do my writing, but it works for me.

Today I realized it was because my bathroom is in the east, which is my relationship direction in feng shui, and one of the things that water represents is communications. So for me that combination stirs up all kinds of ideas to write about. Now that I have recognized this I can use it more intentionally to aid my work. Maybe I will put a fountain on the east side of my house with a gazebo where I could write. I don't know yet exactly how I will put this information to use yet, but I will be capitalizing on it.

I am grateful for my Mastermind group, recognizing new ways to use the tools that I have, growing my down line, my friend Sandy and sharing ideas with her.

I acknowledge my self for being prepared when I went to the apartments, using my tools today, meditating, picking up the meat for the year and doing more healing work.

Things that may affect my energy today are my Mastermind call, going back to the apartments, paying bills, doing the banking and writing.

You are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!

Use the tools that you have!

I have once again realized that I was not using all of the tools that I have at my disposal. I found when I girded myself with my support that the only tenant I have who speaks english well offered to come over and help me negotiate with the other tenants. I also found that when I directed my meditations towards negotiating a winning outcome for myself as well as all of the tenants that things went much easier today.

I am grateful for receiving my new space clearing and healing tools, receiving my merino wool for spinning, being able to get DSL at my house, making several sales and increasing my downline.

I acknowledge my self for negotiating a settlement with the tenants, meditating, doing healing work, blogging and emailing several customers.

Things that have the potential to affect my energy today are completing the agreement with the tenants, speaking with Rey, joining my spinning group, talking with my friend Sandy and journaling my gratitudes, acknowledgements and energy affectors.

YOU are magical,
Dianne

Magical YOU!