Every day we’re barraged with what doesn’t work. With what is going wrong. Or threatening to go wrong.

Once upon a cave, noticing “the negative” was an important proclivity, but now that we’ve moved out of ‘fight or flight’ survival, we are relying on our attitudes more to create our lives. To do that, we need to constantly modulate our attitudes so we keep our energy flowing and positive.

Here is a short video by Martin Seligman, the author of many books on Optimism and happiness, that describes a great new energy modulating habit that will help you keep your energy vibrant and alive.

ENERGY OFFER!

But just before we get to the video, I want to tell you about something that might interest you. As most of you know, I just finished the “Manage Your Energy, Master Your Life” Telesummit which was fantastic. At the end of it, I offered an hour long individual coaching session that I titled, “Your Ultimate Energy” at a reduced price for those that wanted to do more individual work with me. .

During this 1-to-1 session, I used a process called “Inner Relationship Focusing” to help people attune deeply to their own energy centres and overall energy field. It was exciting to me to guide people to experience for themselves the strengths and weaknesses of each of their energy centres or chakras, as well as explore areas that were stagnant, blocked or leaking energy. Once we had a deeper sense of what was going on, I gave them tools for deeply listening and healing their own energy.

The sessions were awesome to do and I got GREAT feedback about them! Now I want to give you, my faithful readers, the same opportunity to experience this, at the same reduced offer,  if you want to. So, here’s the deal: One hour long 1-to-1 session for what I think is an incredible rate–$55. You can take me up on this offer even if you’re currently one of my clients, BUT, I’m only making this offer to 10 people so if you’re interested, don’t sit on your hands!

That’s it! Master YOUR energy so you can create what YOU want in 2012~ Here’s a video that will help you do that!

Or, does it not do these things. If it doesn’t, you’re in luck, because tonight, at the “Manage Your Energy, Master Your Life” TeleSummit, Alison Marks is s presenting “How to Energize Your Space to Optimize your Health, Wealth and Relationships!”

Alison is THE De-clutter Queen, so if you’d like to create spaces that support your wellbeing more fully, join us. When it comes to this topic, she’s the best!

It’s tonight at 5 Pacific, 8 EST and you can join by webcast:

http://InstantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=24207339

Or, you can phone in: 206-402-0100 Pin: 908763#

See you there!

Karen

Low Self-Esteem means low energy!

But he couldn’t live with it. He said that even if he’d known how to change his life, he had no energy to do that and the little energy he did have was negative. That’s what happens when you have low self-esteem–it makes your energy weak and grey.

That’s why self-esteem and the amount of energy we have are so related and why I wanted to have Joe in the Telesummit series.  I can’t think of ANYTHING more detrimental to a person’s ability to create their lives than a lack of self-esteem! It affects everything.

Raising Your Self-Esteem Creates a Happier Life!

Nonetheless, slowly Joe began to make changes. Now he’s is a world expert in creating high self esteem and he travels all over the world with his programs. And, he loves his life. In fact, he calls it a “12 out of 10″ life and challenges others to go for their best life too.

 Listening to Joe’s Talk on Self-Esteem!

I was totally inspired by Joe’s talk last night. Not only did he share personally about his own life, but he gave a ton of tips on how to increase your self-belief and raise your esteem. It was a moving and inspiring talk. To listen to it anytime in the next 48 hours, click HERE!

Lastly, mark your calendar for Wednesday night (5 Pacific, 8 EST) when Elyse Killoran is going to talk about higher dimensions of energy and demonstrate tools that will profoundly impact your experiences of money, business-building and self-worth! For more information, go to: http://www.ManageYourEnergyMasterYourLife.com

SELF-LOVE

I interviewed Christine Arylo, the ‘Queen of Self-Love’ on the “Manage Your Energy, Master Your Life” TeleSummit last night. Wow–she was INSPIRING!

She said that when she started her journey, she knew nothing about self-love. But she did know she wanted to live a more self-loving life than the one she was currently leading (in the corporate world), so she made a vow. That’s how it all started. A vow. That she would love herself no matter what. From there, she figured it out.

FEAR & SELF-LOVE!

One of the things she figured out was the way fear can warp our energy and make loving ourselves more difficult. (To listen to the call, here is the replay information It’s only available until 8 pm this Wednesday so go get it! Or, to get info about the rest of the series, go HERE!)

For most of us, nothing can make us feel smaller, more constricted and unworthy as quickly as fear. So Christine has come up with the 40 Day Fear Cleanse. It looks like a great program, one I’m going to do myself. Check it out to see if its for you. 40 Day Fear Cleanse!

“VOWING” SELF-LOVE

Meanwhile, however, since Christine loves to make what she calls “Love dares”, she tossed one out. The dare is to make this vow: “I will love myself for the rest of my life no matter what.”

I like dares too! So I’m going to up her dare so now it’s a double dare. And since my two dogs are beside me, I’ll add them into the mix too, so now it’s a double dog dare to make that vow!!!

Can you?

Of course you can! If it’s challenging, give me a call!

That’s it for this week. For those of you who subscribe to HA!, my HappinessAnyway.com newsletter, I’m going to be repeating the same content while the TeleSummmit is on! Self-Love abounds!

It’s done! It’s now a living breathing thing!!!! Check it out! http://www.ManageYourEnergyMasterYourLife.com

I designed it because of my personal commitment to giving people tools to change their energy and feel great even when other things (like relationships, $, work, health etc), aren’t so great. My goal is to provide real value and what’s more valuable than our energy!

Energy is the “money” of life!

If you want to know more about energy and how to have better energy and more of it, check out this Teleseminar: http://www.ManageYourEnergyMasterYourLife.com and consider participating. And, please email the people in your world who you think might like to know about it.

It’s starting October 24^th (1 week!!!) and involves presentations by 14 Experts (2 each week) who will give specific tools and information about how people can manage/master their personal energy better! It’s all accessible by phone or webcast and whether you listen to 1 or many –they’re all free. Replays will be available for 48 hours at no cost.

During the 7 weeks, these 14 highly-focused “Energy” Experts will:

• Explain how energy is the “money” of life and teach you how to have more of it.
• Demonstrate tools to change negative energy states to positive states at will.

• Offer skills to stop energy drains.

• Show strategies to master your energy and feel great even when other things in your life aren’t great.
• Discuss why learning to master energy is VITAL at this point in history!

If you feel inspired to help “birth this baby”, sign up yourself and send it to anyone in your address book that you think might like to know about it. And if you’re on Facebook, mention it there.

Thanks! Blessings to you and your ENERGY!Here’s the link one more time: http://www.ManageYourEnergyMasterYourLife.com

Karen

Quantum Physics/Quantum Jumping!

Those of you who’ve studied Napoleon Hill. of “Think and Grow Rich” fame,  know he regularly did a visualization where he talked to people in other era’s to help him solve problems he was experiencing and get inspiration.  Some new thinkers are calling this Quantum Jumping.

Even though many other creative geniuses, like Thomas Edison, didn’t call it Quantum Jumping, they have reported using this technique to great benefit. The idea is to create a kind of support team using people who you think could give you helpful advice, even if those people are from other periods of time.

A Video On Quantum Jumping!

To explain it further, here is a really interesting video that describes the process of quantum jumping.  At the end, it alludes to someone who’s doing something similar just now, but doesn’t tell you the name. That person is Burt Goldman and his process is actually called Quantum Jumping. You can check him out on the Internet. He’s hot right now.

Quantum Jumping is definitely on the ‘edge’ and may be too “woo-woo” for some of you, but I’ve been experimenting with it for a few months now and I’m not only enjoying it, I’m getting some great results.  See if it’s for you. As always, I want to offer you some of the cutting edge material to consider for your happiness and growth!!!

Here’s the video link for the Quantum Jumping Video:

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Not Being A Victim!

Here is a great story about NOT being a victim. Enjoy!

One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s amazement he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.

As the farmer’s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

Being a Victim is Always a Choice!

I love this story because it’s such a great example of refusing to be a victim. It’s about turning every shovelful of harsh stuff that comes your way into something positive.

We all know that life is going to shovel dirt on us from time to time. The question is how to use that dirt to climb out of the mess we’re in. What usually stops us is the blame we’re busy putting on others or on the Universe itself.

Next time your find yourself being a victim

Next time you find yourself in a mess and acting like a victim, remember the donkey. Don’t spend any time at all blaming others or the Universe for why you’re in the situation you’re in, just use it all to climb out. Sometimes that means using your anger to climb out, or your sense of injustice or indignation, it doesn’t matter.

Just use it all to get where you want to go.

This story is by Hormuzd J Dadinath Check him out.

We tend to think happiness is found in the BIG things, the right job, the wonderful relationship, ect, but in my experience, this isn’t true. For the most part, happiness is a very momentary thing and can often be found in the small, almost inconsequential minutia of life. If we understand this, we can make small behaviour changes and bring lovely feelings of happiness into our lives on a far more regular basis.

Where Does Happiness Come From?

Most of our happiness and well being comes through our senses, so that’s the place to start. Usually, there are all kinds of things that are pleasing to our senses at any given time. See if that’s true for you right now. Take a moment to sniff the air,  or feel it on your skin. Or look out the window and notice the colours or the beauty of some natural object.  Or, think of someone you love and feel the swell of your heart.

Look for What’s Pleasing!

If you take the time to look for small things that make you happy, you’ll find the need to pursue the bigger pleasures becomes less important. This is good for the bigger pleasures can take more time to create and meanwhile, there is such a plethora of deliciousness that life offers us each and every moment, why wouldn’t you want to take advantage of that?

A Happiness Challenge!

Take a moment to look around you right now. Find one or two things that are really pleasing. Now focus on those things. Really take in whatever is wonderful about them. Imagine yourself filling up your body with the happiness these pleasures bring.

Now notice if you feel different!

Thought so!

Here’s a lovely video to watch. Lots of wisdom here!
Also, please pass this newsletter on to anyone you think would benefit! Thanks!

Fostering the spirit was the last thing I was thinking about as I sat at my computer. I had been working for a few hours and thought I really should stay at it for a while and get my newsletter done. Problem was, part of me yearned to go outside. It was a beautiful morning and I hadn’t been out to enjoy it yet and I wanted to.

Nonetheless, the part that was ‘should-ing’ me was giving me it’s opinion very loudly.

I went outside anyway.Why? Because I’ve learned that fostering the spirit is vital for happiness.

Is Fostering the Spirit Selfish?

As I was walking, the loveliness of the day breezed through me and I thought how good it was that I’d left my desk. As a child, I’d often been told that doing things that made me feel good was selfish. Perhaps it was–in childhood most of us are awfully self-centered.

Unfortunately, that belief got installed as a truth, a truth I have to challenge from time to time. One of the ways I do that is by differentiating between doing things that are me-centered, as in the personality of me and doing things that are soul centered.

When I do something from ‘me’-centeredness, I’m usually focussed on some sort of outcome that I believe is important (rightly or wrongly).Even if I get what I believe I want or need, there is usually a resulting feeling of constriction and/or smallness. However, when I put my soul first, I feel large, expansive and what results are feelings of wanting to give more.

For example, if I’d stayed at my desk, I would have attended to my worldly ‘me’ goal and gotten my newsletter done, but I would have felt tense. As it was, I honoured my beingness and went outside. I noticed right away how my energy went up and I felt really good and then wanted to write a really great newsletter rather than just get it done)

What Happens When We Aren’t Fostering The Spirit!

When we fail in fostering the spirit, we often resort to other behaviours that we think will make us happy: we buy stuff, work at getting acclaim, etc, but often happiness still does not come. How can it? Happiness IS the result of attunement to who we really are. That means listening to ourselves at a really deep level and then doing everything we can to live a life that is aligned with that attunement. When you are fostering the spirit in that way, true happiness just flows.

Fostering the Spirit Creates Happiness!

I like to encourage you to foster YOUR spirit. You can tell that you’re doing it when you feel light, airy and expansive. You’re not needy of other things to happen. When you hit the bull’s eye like this and meet a ‘core’ need, your soul will simply smile And nothing else will need to happen!

And speaking of core needs, I want to tell you about a resource for your health and well-being. A colleague of mine, Rachel Assuncao, has developed a 14 day e-course that’s designed to help you make simple and manageable changes to improve your health.  I’ve just done it myself and loved it. Although some of the material was familiar, the repetition was good and some of the material was new to me. I really liked that.

The course, called 14 Days to a Healthier New You, offers a daily practical tip or recipe to help you improve your health and wellbeing. The course is free and I highly recommend it.

To learn more, or sign up, click HERE:

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Top communication skills: Taking 100% responsibility for your relationships!

When I help people with their relationships, I try to upgrade their communication skills. One of the best ways I know to do that is to help them stop pointing their finger at someone else (even if that someone else deserves it) and to take more responsibility for how the relationship is going themselves.

If I hear a conversation that goes like this: “He/She should….” Or, “He/she never . . . ” I know their index finger is straight as an arrow and targeted at the bull’s eye of the other person. That means that person’s communication skills are probably low.

Not Taking Responsibility shows a lock of communication skills:

When people don’t show communications skills like taking full responsibility, it’s often because they feel frustrated and powerless. If we make the other person the problem, we feel better. But it’s counterproductive. The only person we can change in a relationship is ourselves.  So, how about we set about doing that: changing ourselves.

What Communication Skills like Taking 100% Responsibility Looks Like:

What that means is that if we want there to be more kindness in the relationship, we crank up our own kindness to 100%. If we want there to be more communication skills, we take 100% for creating communicating skills ourselves. Whatever we want in the relationship, we take full responsibility for creating!

First of all, that puts what we want in the field, which is great. Secondly, it stimulates our partners to reciprocate. And lastly, it just feels good to both parties.

Here’s a lovely video on this concept by a company called Simple Truths. It’s short and sweet! Enjoy.

A Video on The 100 % Rule for Communication Skills:

100% rule