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Meditation into Visualization 1

michellecraft — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:04:00 +0000

Getting Down to Focusing

michellecraft — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:51:00 +0000

Good Day to all from my Skycastle in Germany where the weather is absolutely georgous and I need an assistant. I am busy, busy busy and It’s better than being board.

I have been thinking about this aspect of being focused to achieve balance and it’s all coming together. Like I said on the last article to maintain balance in Yoga poses you must keep your focus on a point, if you let your mind wander you will loose your balance. It is the same for the Gymist or Ballet dancer who needs to Spot or they loose their balance and become dizzy. The runner focuses on a point to acheive a steady focused rhythm, the tennis player focuses on a point (the ball) to hit it. The Photographer needs to focus the lens, lest she take a photo that is out of focus. And focusing on your central message when writing.

Which brings me to my central message; staying focused on one thing at a time brings balance thus making visualizing much easier.

The following are six steps to the process of focusing for you to practice. We must learn to focus, to gain balance, thus to visualize with greater focus and clarity.

Clearing a Space

What I will ask you to do will be silent, just to yourself. Take a moment just to relax . . . All right – now, inside you, I would like you to pay attention inwardly, in your body, perhaps in your stomach or chest. Now see what comes there when you ask, “What do I want? What is the main thing for me right now?” Sense within your body. Let the answers come slowly from this sensing. When some concern comes, DO NOT GO INSIDE IT. Stand back, say “Yes, that’s there. I can feel that, there.” Let there be a little space between you and that. Then ask what else you feel. Wait again, and sense. Usually there are several things.

Felt Sense

From among what came, select one personal desire to focus on. DO NOT GO INSIDE IT. Stand back from it. Of course, there are many parts to that one thing you are thinking about – too many to think of each one alone. But you can feel all of these things together. Pay attention there where you usually feel things, and in there you can get a sense of what all of the desire feels like. Let yourself feel the unclear sense of all of that.

Handle

What is the quality of this unclear felt sense? Let a word, a phrase, or an image come up from the felt sense itself. It might be a quality-word, like light, joyous, scary, exciting, magical, fulfilling or a phrase, or an image. Stay with the quality of the felt sense till something fits it just right.

Resonating

Go back and forth between the felt sense and the word (phrase, or image). Check how they resonate with each other. See if there is a little bodily signal that lets you know there is a fit. To do it, you have to have the felt sense there again, as well as the word. Let the felt sense change, if it does, and also the word or picture, until they feel just right in capturing the quality of the felt sense.

Asking

Now ask: what is it, about this whole desire, that makes it something you want. Make sure the quality is sensed again, freshly, vividly (not just remembered from before). When it is here again, tap it, touch it, be with it, asking, “What makes the whole desire so ______?” Or you ask, “What is in this sense?”

If you get a quick answer without a shift in the felt sense, just let that kind of answer go by. Return your attention to your body and freshly find the felt sense again. Then ask it again.

Be with the felt sense till something comes along with a shift, a slight “give” or release.

Receiving

Receive whatever comes with a shift in a friendly way. Stay with it a while, even if it is only a slight release. Whatever comes, this is only one shift; there will be others. You will probably continue after a little while, but stay here for a few moments.

Practice these steps to help you get in touch with the desire with the most priority; to discover what is most important to you, right now, to focus on. Then begin visualizing it.

Be Well

Love Michelle

What follows is a largely edited excerpt from The Focusing Manual, chapter four of Focusing.

Visualization and Focus

michellecraft — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:58:00 +0000

Good Day from my Skycastle in Germany. I hope that all of you are doing well and visualizing your desires. I got out of alignment a few weeks back and it took some refocusing to bring myself back into alignment. Somehow we have this tendency to revert to old ways, thinking they are easier. However, its not so much that old ways are easier it’s that it’s easier to fall back to old ways. Adjusting or changing our way of thinking/believing takes some time to become instilled within us or become our habit. When new and better ways of thinking finally become our habit then old habits are not turned to; as in the past. My trip to the States knocked me out of the routine that I had been practicing, therefore my body responded with becoming ill. Our bodies tell us whats going on with our thoughts. I am well and back into my routine of meditating, doing yoga and taking care of my body. More importantly I am taking care of my thoughts.

One of the things that has occurred over the last month or two is that I got into the habit of chasing several rabbits. An ancient proverb says; If you chase two rabbits you catch none. Meaning if you are trying to focus on to many things at once you get so split that you get out of alignment and you do not manifest anything specific. You are telling the Universe you want this, that, this and that. You put something out there, snatch it back and then put another thing out there and again snatch it back. Focus is an important factor. When I was doing Yoga this morning I was reminded that Yoga tells you that you must focus on a point, in front of you, to remain balanced. It says that if your mind or focus is wandering you become out of balance. To hold a Yoga pose you must focus on a point in order to balance. As soon as your focus leaves the point you fall out of balance.

I realized that my original focus or intention was to teach and practice visualization. To guide other’s in learning Visualization to manifest a desired experience. I had gotten off into many other areas of Law of Attraction and was focusing on too many things. Not that what I have done so far, in my work, was pointless or worthless. It has served well. However, the rabbit I desire to chase is Visualization.

Something that came to me on the treadmill this morning was that fear is within us because we believe something or someone else is in control of what happens to us. Therefore we fear the possibility of that something or someone will harm our sense of well-being in some way. When we realize that we are the master of our Universe then we will no longer feel fear. Knowing that you are the one that manifests your experience can be soothing because you know you are the one in control. You are the one making the decisions. With your thoughts/focus you manifest your experience.

In my focusing on so many things I began to feel fearful. There was so much going on and I lost sight that I was in control, I manifest what I desire and all of these projects are attended to by choice. I have decided to come back to my original focus of specializing in visualization.

So, for the most part, I am going to be talking about visualizing what we desire. Seeing in our mind, or third eye, what we desire as our life experience.

To bring a vibrant image into your mind you must think about all the aspects of the experience you desire and bring them together.

Collect the ingredients that make up the experience you desire; such as the colors, the smells, the sounds, the textures, and the feelings. How does your body feel in the condition you desire? How does your heart feel in the relationship you desire? How does your nervous system feel in the abundant condition you desire.

When you read a book and get completely drawn into the story and you feel the character and the surroundings you are visualizing. When you are sure you can smell the meal the character, in a story, lays down on the table you are visualizing. When you feel yourself relating the character so deeply that you almost believe it is you that is having the character’s experience. And when someone, in the real world, speaks to you while you are so involved in a story you are reading and you don’t hear them it’s because you are completely involved in the visualization of the moment the author is describing. This is visualization!

So when you are designing your visualization you are writing the story of the experience you wish to have.

Write your story, with every single detail that you can think of, as if it were already your experience.

I.E. As Michelle stood in the front yard taking in the red, gold and bronze fall leaves on the tree, she turned towards the house in response to the delicious smell of the catfish frying in the kitchen and the wind blew her hair into her face tickling her nose and she sneezed.

In this description, Michelle, at this very moment saw the colors of the fall leaves, smelled the catfish in the air, felt the wind on her skin and the hair on her nose and had a response; the sneeze.

This is how you write your story for your visualization. Write it as present tense, include all the senses and describe responses until you can feel yourself having the experience. It’s call Make Believe.

Get your head in the clouds and dream. Dream of all the joyous experiences you wish to have and allow yourself to soar into the dreaminess of the clouds

Spend time every day dreaming. At least 20 minutes a day and then write down what you dreamed about.

Until next time, Happy Dreaming

Be Well

Love Michelle

Re-Construction

michellecraft — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:11:00 +0000

Hello to all from my Skycastle in Germany.

I’m sure you have noticed that I’ve been AWOL. I am in the middle of re-vamping my blog and focus. Please be patient, next week we will be up and back at it.

Be Well

Love Michelle

The Prime Directive of the Universe and Limiting Thoughts

michellecraft — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:40:00 +0000

Good day to all from my Skycastle in Germany where I have just recovered from a wicked cold. I am feeling fantastic today and have missed writing articles. If you missed the Uvisualeyes Radio Show, with my guest host Michael Losier you can hear it on my blog, just click the Blogtalkradio Icon.

It is said that we are our own worst enemy! Why? Because we have so many limiting beliefs or thoughts. After

interviewing Michael Losier on my Uvisualeyes Radio Show I began to think more about how our limiting beliefs

are one of the major issues in our attempt to manifest the life experience we desire. I have manifested amazing

things in my life. As I look back at both the manifested and un-manifested things I noticed that those things I manifested all had something in common. That something was; I had visualized, emotionalized and asked (sometimes made a list) and then, without thinking about it, went about my daily routine. I did not revisit the request, except to think now and again of the joy of having said thing. In turn I did not entertain the limiting beliefs or thoughts.

I believe strongly in visualization. I know that it works, is enhanced by visualizing videos and it its much more effective than affirmations because your belief is raised by seeing yourself having, doing and being what you desire. Affirmations can work, however, not in the common way they have been written. It is highly important, because of our limiting thoughts/beliefs, to write or use affirmations that, at this moment, are believable. The problem with affirmation, for a long time now, is that they too often state what we want to believe but are usually so far away from what we actually believe that we discount them quickly, most of the time without realizing that we have.

So often we get frustrated with how our desires are so slow in coming, or that they just are showing up at all, that we question Law of Attraction. We have done all they things the great teachers have suggested, we have visualized, raised our vibration, focused, affirmed and requested; over and over again. Then we stand back and wonder why we are not seeing results; thus bringing on an onslaught of limiting thoughts.

The limiting beliefs or thoughts that we entertain, after making our request to the Universe, cancels our order. We present our desires, then list in our minds why they won’t show up, couldn’t show up, have never showed up before and convince ourselves and more poignantly convince the Universe of it’s impossibility.

The Universe has only one Prime Directive and that is; to match your vibration. It knows nothing, does not think or distinguish who or what is feasible, deserved, right or wrong nor does it care. It’s only job is to match your vibration and this is it’s Prime Directive. Our vibration is created by our thoughts. Every thought has a vibration and you can tell whether the thought comes from a place of love or fear by how you feel when you think a particular thought. If it comes from a place of love; it feels good and is of a higher vibration. If it comes from a place of fear; it feels bad and is of lower vibration. Your vibration is affected by your limiting thoughts or beliefs.

Limiting thoughts come from a place of fear and is a lower vibration in which the Universe matches and brings you more things of lower vibration. The good news is that this is also true of unlimited thoughts or beliefs.

The Universe is the limit. When you allow yourself to expand out into the Universe, entertain just how unlimited the Universe is and merge with that energy you will realize that there is nothing that is impossible.

When you realize that you deserve everything you want then your limiting thoughts will dissipate.

When you are able to allow what you desire to come to you, then it will. Our limiting thoughts or beliefs are what cancels our order, it is what stops the allowing.

The simplest way to dissolve limiting thoughts, as is stated in the book, Law of Attraction, is to start entertaining in your mind all the people who have attracted what you desire. This takes it away from being so personal and begins to change your limiting beliefs. Start making other affirmative statements.

Make statements like;

Yesterday someone became a millionaire, found their perfect mate, started a successful business, got their perfect job, healed from a debilitating illness, lost the weight they desired, bought their dream home, etc.

Every day someone; becomes wealthier, finds love, heals, etc.

Do some research on the statistics of what you desire. Find the people who have attracted what you desire.

Write down all the things and desires that you have attracted and put behind each one of them; Someone, me, attracted (fill in the blank) and it happens all the time.

People receive what the desire, every minute of every day all over the world. You can allow you, to be one of them.

Be Well

Love Michelle

Maintaining High Vibration

michellecraft — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:04:00 +0000

Good day to all from my Skycastle in Germany. I am happy to be back from my trip to the U.S. where I enjoyed my time with my children and my grandchildren. What a delight it was to see my son’s joyous tears over the birth of his first child.

I was pleased during my visit that, unlike in the past, I was able to maintain a high vibration while being in the presence, of some peoples lower vibration.

This has been my struggle in the past. I have always, in the past, offered my energy to others, who were vibrating at a low level, bringing them up to a higher vibration. My husband calls me their cheerleader. It is draining and I was in conflict because I felt that if I didn’t offer them a boost up that I would be unable to be in the presence of many of my family members. The problem with this is that they would begin to vibrate at a higher level and my vibration, from pure exhaustion, would lower.

I struggled with feeling anxiety and dread, every time, just before I left to visit family members who I knew were vibrating at a lower level. I didn’t really want to make the long trip to visit them because it was so much work and not a lot of fun for me.

However, after practicing keeping my vibration at a high level, for so long now and realizing, finally, that it is not my job to make other’s happy nor was I able to make them happy; at least for any great length of time I was able to maintain a high vibration. I noticed while I was in the presence of people vibrating at a low level, that I no longer felt compelled to fix them in anyway. I noticed that it no longer mattered to me where they were vibrating and I knew that it was up to them to raise their own vibration. I also knew, now, that they have the right to manifest what ever they choose, and it’s none of my concern. I also noticed that because I was vibrating at a high level that only those who were also vibrating at a high level were drawn to me; Law of Attraction in Action.

Focusing on raising your vibration level is of the utmost importance. Spending as much time as possible focusing only on what you want is the key. The more you focus on what you want and the longer you spend time doing this the stronger your ability to do so becomes.

It took me a year, being away from the States, American T.V. and low vibration people, to come to this point where I am able to maintain a high vibration no matter what. I spent much time re-focusing my thoughts, constantly, before I came to a point that it mattered not what was going on around me or who was around me.

In the past, specifically around my family, I allowed myself to be sucked into their low vibration. I used to be sure that it was their fault that I was unhappy. It had seemed like that every time I just got up and running, well ,on some project, life direction or goal, that one of them would turn up ill, in crisis or need and these events would seize my intended direction; and I was resentful. I accused them, privately, of being focused on ruining my life. I was sure that they were aware of my intentions, or that I was happy, and they were out to destroy my happiness. After all, I had proof, because they would turn up in crisis every time I was on a roll. It was easy to site this. I had the real stories to prove it and no one, except my husband, refuted my sitings. My husband continually said, “Why do you let them effect you like this?” I would just repeat my findings. Being the strong personality that I am, he would just comfort me the best way he knew.

However, after studying the Law of Attraction for several years I finally realized that what was occurring outside of me was due to what was occurring inside me. It was a matter of two things; one, keeping my vibration high no matter what and two, I had to stop focusing on my families behavior. In focusing on my families behavior, what i was sure they were going to do, they certainly did. I expected the same old behavior and received the same behavior. I had to realize that my thoughts were the problem not them. How I felt about their behavior, what I expected they would do and blaming them was the problem.

How you think, feel and see a situation or people creates or manifests your reality. I had to change how I thought, thus changing how I felt and saw the situation or people. I decided to focus on what I wanted and did. I focused on how much I appreciated my life, with my husband, in Europe. I focused on my newly founded work. I focused on my writing, art and designing. I focused on what I wanted in my life.

Eventually, without the other people changing their behavior, I was no longer effected by anything anyone else did or didn’t do. It’s not a matter of changing anyone else’s behavior, it’s a matter of changing how I think. No ones life or behavior ever need seep into my experience. It is their experience. I focus on my experience and what I want as my experience.

It seems like more of a struggle, to focus on your own life, when it comes to family. I had to let go of my guilt, of feeling like it was my responsibility to make my family happy. For a long time I received slack from distant relatives for having abandon my family, in need, and caring more about myself. However, in caring more about myself I changed how I thought and felt, raised my vibration and teach by example.

If everyone focused on their own lives, raising their vibration, and became happy then no one would ever be in crisis. No one would need anyone else to make them feel good. I have discarded my guilt because I discarded the idea that I was responsible for anyone else’s happiness. No one else is responsible for your life experience. No one else is responsible for making you feel good, happy or feel love for yourself.

Someones behavior or what they think about you need affect how you feel about yourself or your life.

I feel such joy now that I know that all I have to do is focus on what I want. I feel joy because I keep my focus on joy and thus my vibration is of joy. I am able to inspire others to do the same by being able to maintain my high vibration and receive all that I desire.

I am so pleased that, on my trip to see my family, that I was able to maintain my high vibration. It has shown my my great progress and I appreciate this experience. What is occurring inside of you creates what is occurring outside of you.

I know now that no matter what is occurring in my world that I can remain in a high vibration, remain happy and I alway’s have the power to manifest the life experience I prefer.

Be Well

Love Michelle

Maintaining a High Vibration

michellecraft — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:12:00 +0000

I was pleased during my visit that, unlike in the past, I was able to maintain a high vibration while being in the presence, of some peoples lower vibration.

Someones behavior or what they think about you need affect how you feel about yourself or your life.

I know now that no matter what is occurring in my world that I can remain in a high vibration, remain happy and I alway’s have the power to manifest the life experience I prefer.

Be Well

Love Michelle

michellecraft — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:20:00 +0000

Good Day to all, from my Skycastle in Germany. A good friend emailed this list of ten ways to raise your good feeling vibration, oddly I found that I had written a blog very similar to this, but it never hurts to review.

10 Steps To Raising Your Vibration

Raising your vibration is the only effective way to get to the life you
truly want to live. While you are emitting a low vibration or frequency your
life will never really be in harmony and you will constantly live with an
inner feeling of discontent. It is this life of discontent that you put up
with and accept that keeps you in a state of low vibration. When you find
the courage to do something about your low quality of life and choose to make
things better you are on the right track to raising your vibration.
Raising your vibration comes down to many factors and listed below are 10 key
steps that will definitely help towards raising your vibration immediately.

1. Be mindful of your thoughts, when raising your vibration. It is
imperative to keep a close eye on the habitual thoughts that enter your head. It
can be difficult at first to be aware of the many thoughts that constantly
bombard your mind all day long but by beginning to notice unwelcome or
negative thoughts you can start to replace them with a positive thought you
already have preprogrammed in your mind, this works wonders towards raising
your vibration.. When I say preprogrammed I mean you have a positive thought
in your mind, a thought that you know makes you happy, that you substitute
in place of any negative thought that comes into your mind. The key to this
thought substitution is to spend as much time thinking positive thoughts
and less time thinking negative thoughts. By spending more mental time in the
positive, this will help raise your vibration.

2. Only talk about what you want, not what you do not want when looking to
raise your vibration. If you are looking for a new relationship, don¢t say
things like, I can never find the right person for me. If you talk like
this, this is exactly what you will get and you will make your quest towards
raising your vibration that much harder. You get what you say and think.
Even if you haven¢t been too successful in finding the right person
previously, it does not matter. Change your words and you will change your life and what you get in your life. Instead say something like, I intend to find the
perfect person for me. Have a confident expectancy that at any time you
could meet this person and you will exponentially increase your chances of
finding them. The same thing goes for money, do not talk about not having
enough money, either do not talk about it at all or only talk positively about
having money and as what you want comes to you, this will help with
raising your vibration as you feel better about yourself.

3. Stay away from negative or pessimistic people. These types of people
are running a very low vibration and their low vibration can have a negative
impact on your vibration level. Instead of raising your vibration you will
lower it and this will bring about more events residing on a low vibration,
like problems, stress and worry.

4. Spend some time not thinking. Yes that is right, _stop thinking_
(http://www.universeofsuccess.com/how-to-stop-thinking.html) so much. To do this I like to take a walk through the bush or away from the city and the
noise. Go to a place in the country if you can and take a long walk,
concentrating on your surroundings, keeping your mind off your usual thoughts. This is a great way to clear your head and also help in raising your vibration. If
you cannot get away, try listening to some soothing music and avoid
thinking by concentrating on the sounds.

5. Join groups of like minded people. Spend time with people interested in
the same things you like and learn at the same time. Before I started
writing for my website I took a 3 months community college course in Writing.
Not only did I improve my writing I also got to spend time with other people
who shared a similar interest with me. I always walked away from each
class feeling positive about being a writer and this had a positive effect on
my vibration as it made me feel good about myself.. Being around like minded
and positive people seriously helps towards raising your vibration and the
vibration of those around you.

6. Give away something you can afford each week. Give away your time, some
money to a charity you believe in or give away something you don¢t use
anymore but may be useful to someone else. What you give is what you get in
life, so by giving you will receive in one way or another. Help others and
you will be helped. You have a profound effect on raising your vibration when
you help others as it makes you feel good from the inside.

7. Be aware of your actions. Everything you do comes back to you in some
way so always be wary of how you treat others and how you act in all
situations. How you treat others is how you will be treated, by doing the right
thing by everyone you come into contact with will help towards raising your
vibration as others continue to do the right thing by you.. Treating
everyone well will have a positive effect on _attracting people_
(http://www.attractingpeople.com/attracting-people.html) and opportunities into your life.

8. Avoid the television, radio and media in general. It is especially
important to avoid all news programs as they do much more harm to your
vibration level than they do good. By watching TV you end up taking in so much
negative energy it becomes confusing to your subconscious mind and some of that negative imagery and energy gets absorbed by your subconscious and
elevates a feeling of fear from within. Most of the media works by fear mongering, they want to shock you into a state of fear so you keep on watching and
the more you watch the more addicted you become. This has a disastrous impact on your vibration level and will never have a positive effect on raising
your vibration.

9. Stay optimistic at all times if your goal is to raise your vibration.
This can be difficult to do especially when you are in a crisis but when
you are in a crisis situation, this is when it is most important to stay
positive. By remaining positive you keep your vibration high and when you are
vibrating at a higher rate your problems will dissipate so much quicker or
you may find it was not really a problem at all. Positive things and events
are attracted to positive people. Surrounding yourself with positive people
is a great way to remain in a positive state of mind.

10. Stay in touch with your feelings. This is the most important factor in
keeping your vibration level high. Your feelings are the cosmic glue in
regards to your entire life. When you are feeling good about yourself only
other things residing on the same good frequency will be attracted into your
life. Your level of vibration runs parallel with your feelings, meaning you
are in control of your life and the events that come into your life at any
given moment. If there was one most important point in relation to raising
your vibration it would be to stay on top of your feelings and do not
allow yourself to feel negative or pessimistic. The better you feel about
yourself and your life the higher you will raise your vibration.

(http://www.universeofsuccess.com/10-steps-to-raising-your-vibration..html)

A Great Affirmation Video

michellecraft — Wed, 26 May 2010 09:58:00 +0000

I will be out of pocket for sometime as I am going to the States welcome my newest grandchild. I will still be on the radio on June 8th and I will attempt a few articles for my blog while I’m away.

Meanwhile, if you ever wondered how to affirm and appreciate your life, check out this video

I Looked Good when I Left the House!

michellecraft — Mon, 24 May 2010 08:51:00 +0000

Have you ever prepared yourself to go somewhere, styled your hair just right, put on your favorite best looking outfit, applied your make-up perfectly, adorned yourself with jewels and walked out of the house feeling like you really really looked good, that you were on top of the world and you were really hot, but then….; you stepped out into the public eye and instantly you felt as if you had done nothing with your appearance and you now look like crap!

What happened? You looked great when you left the house but then you noticed someone that you believed looked better. You began to judge yourself as ugly, fat, old, well basically unattractive. And this occurs even more rapidly when your significant other shoots a pleasurable glance at someone else you believe is more attractive than you. What’s with him/her, you really spent time making yourself look great and he/she is checking someone else out. You become certain that he/she is measuring you against or comparing you with this more attractive person. You may be certain that the real issue is your significant other is looking for someone better looking than you and you may be entertaining thoughts that he/she is on the way out.

Even worse you scan the people and begin calculating who is more or less attractive than you. You notice someone you are sure is more attractive than you and you watch who looks their way and even worse you watch your significant other to see if he/she is lusting after this person. And then you become certain that other’s opinions of you are highly negative. You are certain that they are thinking that you are unattractive.

Is the problem that you are just an unattractive person and you need to do something about it? Is the problem that your significant other is looking for someone else more attractive and you are painfully aware of this?

Neither of these things are the problem. The problem is your self-esteem, you self-view and your self-judgment. You were fine when the only opinion that mattered, at home alone, was yours. But as soon as you entered the public eye you began to judge yourself and compare yourself with others. You then aloud, what you believed others were thinking about you, to infiltrate your thoughts and then tore yourself down. And you don’t even know if they had an opinion in the first place.

How you view yourself, without the opinion of others, is very important. You think that others opinions of you, matter when they don’t. Why should any ones opinion, but your own, matter? We believe societies ideas, beliefs and opinions of what is attractive and then begin comparing ourselves with this ideal.

I was surfing the Internet the other day and noticed that there were good many articles, along with photos, online about a Pierce Brosnan’s wife, Keely Shaye-Smith. The critical focus; Keely’s weight. I was annoyed at this focus and thought about how often this occurs, how often that people are focused on what they believe are flaws and what they believe is unattractive. It was stated that she is fighting the battle of the bulge; really, how do they know. How do they know that she even worries about it or is fighting against her weight. And if she decided her weight was a personal issue, she may manifest being thin.

Never mind that Keely has a great talent for working with people and causes, never mind that she is happily married to a gorgeous hunk, never mind that she is a great mother, has a beautiful delightful smile and spirit. She has obviously manifested an amazing life. Considering her interviews, opinions and views it is apparent that Keely has great self-esteem, is happy and centered. I was impressed that she sported a bikini, in public, with dignity.

When people read these postings about Keely and others, it only perpetuates the fear of being judged and compared. This kind of media just assures us that other peoples opinions matter. Furthermore there is more important things to focus on other than what we believe others are struggling with. And I reiterate, limit your viewing of media or you will find many negative thoughts launched.

Self-esteem comes from never entertaining another opinions and holding our opinion, of our self, as nothing less than divine. It comes from thinking or believing that we are nothing less than a beautiful

powerful, creative energy in physical form. It comes from knowing, without a doubt, that no ones opinion matters, about us, more than our own. Someones opinion of what kind of food tastes good, which is usually unimportant to you, is no different than someones opinion about how you look or who you are. It’s just an opinion!

We never feel bad about ourselves because someone else is thinking negative things about us. We feel bad about ourselves because our opinion of our self is negative, because we are judging ourselves and comparing ourselves with others. And if we continue down this path we manifest ourselves in the view we have in our minds and we manifest thing like our significant other stepping out.

What we think on or believe is manifested.

It’s time to realize that who we are was manifested out of how we think. So now it’s time focus on how amazing, powerful, beautiful, and divine we are. A good place to start; think about what you would tell a child about themselves then tell yourself the same thing. Find a role model that exudes self-confidence, regardless of the public opinion on them, and focus on this. Write your list of things you appreciate about yourself, after all you write the negative list, in your head, of what you loath about yourself. And usually what you loath about yourself is something you believed someone else believed about you.

Stop comparing yourself with someone else you think is better. Compare yourself with yourself. Realize there is no one better than you only different and different is good. If there is something about someone else you admire and wish to be your experience then focus on the desired experience and manifest this. Pick and choose, from people you admire, the parts of their lives that you admire and desire to be your experience. There is a banquet of unlimited experiences that you can manifest as yours.

And when you leave the house looking and feeling good hold this feeling, regardless of the conditions and opinions around you, throughout your public experience.

Look at your reflection in a window and say, “Damn I look Good!”

Be Well

Love Michelle