Four Miracle Tools

To Let Your Life Sing!

by David Smith

Have you ever experienced a miracle?  What was it like?  Close your eyes for a moment, and try to vividly picture a specific miracle, whether it happened to you or someone you know, or someone you heard or read about.  It's likely that there are two parts to the miracle you are thinking about:

Part 1:   Someone put themselves in the right place at the right time, physically, mentally or spiritually.

Part 2:  Some kind of intervention or manifestation that goes beyond anything we can explain logically or scientifically occurred. 

Are you ready for a miracle?    When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, physically, mentally and spiritually, you can influence, or invite a miracle that will lift your life.

We invite you to get started right now:

Begin using  Four Miracle Tools

1. Meditation
2. Insight:  Creative Visualization
3. Dream Awareness and Interpretation
4. Writing from Your Heart:  Journaling

We invite you to begin using these tools right now.  Experience the life transforming power that comes when you focus on your growth: Spirit, Mind, Body, in that priority. 

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More specifically, would you like to spend a week or two at a unique, life transforming, spiritual retreat?  This series is just a small token of the value you will receive at the retreat.  Your life will truly sing!  Follow this link to find out more, and to register for this very limited opportunity. 

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  Four Miracle Tools

1. Meditation
2. Insight: Creative Visualization
3. Dream Awareness and Interpretation
4. Writing from Your Heart: Journaling

1) Core Principles of Meditation

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Please print this and set it aside for a quiet, uninterrupted moment in your day.  If there is no such moment...perhaps that fact, in itself, is an important self-discovery that could lead to some significant change!

Now, in the quiet of this uninterrupted moment, please read each of the following words, one by one, in turn, and pass them through your mind until a thought or image appears:

Remembrance...

Conversation...

Guide...

Miracle...

Release...

Begin...

Trust...

Go back now, and write down the image or thought that appeared to you as you focused on each word.  In a moment, we will treat you to an audio session where Sharon Wilson and Ruth Lee will show how each of these words indicates a benefit of meditation.

We are going to help you start right now to experience a deeper, more satisfying, life changing meditation experience than you have ever had before.  You will begin here, and then we will give you an opportunity to go even further at a special retreat this June.  But first, let's lay some groundwork.  If you're a beginner in meditation, it's good to start on the foundation of some basic principles.  If meditation is not new to you, it may still be good to go back to the basics.

We find there are six basic techniques that help pave the way for the most satisfying meditation experience.   These are repeated by most teachers no matter what their background or perspective.

1. Be intentional about the place you choose to meditate.   Let it be comfortable, quiet, consistently the same place and time...and every day.
2. Become aware of your breathing, and begin slow, rhythmic breathing.
3. Let there be "awareness".   Begin with self-awareness.  Discover, explore like you are passing through a window to a universe within.
4. Find a point of focus.
5. Experience duality--opposites (We'll explain).
6. Transcend duality to experience a state of superconsciousness.

Admittedly, #5 and #6 may seem a bit "way out" for many.  We'll explain these in a moment, but for now, we invite you to promise yourself to begin setting aside a time each day for meditation.  Begin today, and you will be prepared to experience a true miracle in a time of meditation at the upcoming Let Your Life Sing Spiritual Retreat .   

I want to invite a few of you who have the time and the curiosity now, to explore meditation techniques #5 and #6 (above) with me.  I am David Smith, Sharon Wilson's copywriter and author of many editions of Activating Your Possibilities and other works you see at www.coachingfromspirit.com. 

Begin by picturing yourself for a moment so tense that you don't remember what it is like to relax.   That may not be hard, depending on how your life is going at the moment!  I discovered a great method of relaxing once.  Take the muscles that are tense, and tighten them as hard as you can, holding that tightness for a few moments, then relax.  Somehow, the experience of relaxing is only rediscovered in its fullness through the act of tightening, exaggerating, and becoming aware of tenseness.  That is a kind of duality, or discovery of something through awareness of its opposite.

It gets better.  A primary meditation technique the Dalai Lama teaches is based upon simple opposites.   Remember those cartoons where a devil is pictured on one shoulder and an angel  upon the other--one encouraging doing "bad" and the other one doing "good"?  As you meditate, visualize on your left shoulder, yourself as "impatient" to the extreme.  What does your impatient self look like?  Really see this inner vision.  Then, on your right shoulder, visualize yourself as "patient" to the opposite extreme.  What does your patient self look like?  

Now, move through some other emotions and feelings:  Depression on the left...joy on the right; jealousy of another on the left, glad of their success on the right; bigoted, then all-embracing; stupid, then brilliant; clumsy, then graceful; unsatisfied, then content.

Become familiar with the "you" on the left, and the "opposite you" on the right.   Then, see the total "you" who would be there on the left, if none of the characteristics on the right were present--a kind of really "messed up" you.

Finally, see the total "you" who would be there on the right, if none of the characteristics on the left were present.

Its similar to discovering relaxation through its opposite, tensing your muscles to the extreme.  It is a discovery through opposites.  Eventually, you will become the right-side you exclusively.  Eventually you will have peace, compassion, wisdom, good health, patience, and all the other glorious aspects of life.

Meditation is a wonderful experience, and it can open up a whole new life--a new you.  This is just one of the gifts you will give yourself by joining us at Let Your Life Sing Spiritual Retreat. 

2) Insight

Activating the Power of Creative Visualization

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Recently I had the pleasure and honor of conversation with a woman who rides race horses, and has participated in equestrian events at the competitive level.  She described the art of guiding a horse through a complex turn.  "Even as you approach the turn", she said, "you need to visualize in your mind the complete turn with all the direction and the movement you and the horse are about to make.  You need to feel the turn happening before it happens.  When you do this, somehow both you and the horse will align yourselves as one, to accomplish the most complex turning maneuvers for trail riding, jumping or racing events."

Before my friend had finished speaking about guiding horses through turns, I knew she was talking about something larger and far more significant.  She was talking about the power to influence people and factors outside of yourself by your insight, or creative visualization, and it works way beyond the realm of horse riding.

When you creatively visualize your future, you draw from the Source to align the Universe toward the fulfillment of your intention.

We are going to help you start right now to experience a more satisfying, life-changing ability to to gracefully move into your new and better future through the art of Creative Visualization.  You will align yourself and the universe around you to move into that better future. 

But first, let's lay some groundwork.  If you're a beginner, it's good to start on the foundation of some basic principles.  Even if Creative Visualization is not new to you, it may still be good to go back to the basics.

The following statement beautifully sums up the art of Creative Visualization:

Whatever you ardently desire,

Sincerely believe in,

Vividly imagine, and

Enthusiastically act upon,

Must inevitably come to pass.

--Sybil Leek

Creative Visualization is the technique of using your imagination to create what you want in your life.

We're going to begin guiding you in the technique of Creative Visualization, and offer you an opportunity to grow this life-changing skill to the point of mastery at the upcoming Let Your Life Sing Spiritual Retreat.   

There are four basic steps for effective Creative Visualization, and there is a universe of technique behind each step.  Yet, the art at its core is very simple, and you can easily begin at any time:

1. Set your goal
2. Create a clear idea or picture
3. Focus on it often
4. Give it positive energy

Continue to work with this process until you achieve your goal, or no longer have the desire to do so.  Life's "turns" can cause you to unexpectedly change your intentions and goals, and that is very natural.

There are three Necessary Elements for effective Creative Visualization.

1. Desire:  A clear, strong sense of purpose
2. Belief:  That it can exist, and that it can exist for you
3. Acceptance:  Are you willing to have it completely (pro and con)?

So begin now by selecting a goal you desire.  Be aware that the purpose of Creative Visualization is not to "control" the behavior or actions of others or cause them to do something against their will.  Creative Visualization is not creative manipulation.  Whatever you try to create for another will always boomerang back to you.  That includes both loving, helpful, or healing actions and negative, destructive ones.  So the nature of your goal and its impact on others is important.  Have this in mind as your clarify your intention and identify your goal.

Have you identified your goal?  Is it a goal that captivates you and gives you positive energy?  This is crucial.  I'd like to become a rocket scientist and create a world transforming invention, but I hate math.  See any problem here?  I won't be focusing my Creative Visualization in the direction of "rocket scientist" today!  Select a goal that "fits".  You'll know.  You will be excited and filled with positive energy not only for the result, but also for every step in the journey along the way.  And it will likely be something that involves the things you most enjoy and find most natural in your present life.

Now that you have identified your intention, create a clear mental image of it happening, even as the rider I mentioned above creates a mental image of the turn she and her faithful steed are approaching.  Put yourself in a specific physical location.  What are the surroundings?  See the colors.  Who are you with?  What are they saying?  What are the sounds you hear?  What are you feeling?  Create it as the vivid scene of a movie being played in your mind.  Make it crystal clear. 

Play the movie often.  Begin and end each day, and pause at least once in-between to play your inner movie.

Fill your Creative Visualization with positive energy.  You must believe that it not only will happen, but that it is happening.  How would it affect horse and rider going into a turn and picturing disaster?  There would be a huge misalignment problem, and it very likely would lead to the disaster envisioned.  In Creative Visualization, you are aligning people and factors beyond yourself to bring about a result.  Fill your visualization with positive energy.

In an article on Creative Visualization, Shakti Gawain from the Children of Ra Temple says, "Affirmations are one of the most important elements of creative visualization.  An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.  It is a way of "making firm" that which you are imagining."

The practice of doing affirmations allows us to begin replacing some of our stale, worn out, or negative mind chatter with more positive ideas and concepts.  It is a powerful technique, one that can in a short time completely transform our attitudes and expectations about life, and thereby totally change what we create for ourselves.

An affirmation can be any positive statement:

1. Everything I need is already within me.
2. The universe is unfolding perfectly.
3. All things are now working together for good in my life.
4. I love and appreciate myself.

Here are some important things to remember:

1. Always phrase affirmations in the present tense.
2. Always phrase affirmations in the most positive way you can.
3. In general, the shorter and simpler the better.
4. Always use affirmations that feel totally right for you.
5. Always remember that you are creating something new, not trying to redo or change what already exists, which would create conflict.
6. Affirmations are not meant to contradict or try to change your feelings or emotions, even the so-called "negative" ones.

Temporarily suspend your doubts and hesitations, and put your full mental and emotional energy into your affirmations.

Affirm and Allow!

Shakti Gawain remarks, "Often people try to live their lives backwards:  They try to have more things in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier.

The way it actually works is the reverse.  You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do in order to have what you want.  The only effective way to use creative visualization is "going with the flow."  That means that you don't have to "effort" to get where you want to go; you simply put it out clearly to the universe where you would like to go, and then patiently and harmoniously follow the flow of the river of life until it takes you there."

We invite you to begin practicing some specific act of Creative Visualization today, and then join us at the exotic Rio Caliente Hot Springs Spa and Nature Resort in Primevara Mexico this June at Let Your Life Sing Spiritual Retreat  and let us help guide you to mastery of this life-changing art!

Find out more about Let Your Life Sing Spiritual Retreat , and how you may qualify for one of only ten scholarships by calling Sharon Wilson now!

(724) 360-0051

3) Dreamweaving

Tapping the Treasure Chest of Wisdom in Your Dreams

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Have you ever suddenly discovered that you had far more resources at your fingertips than you had been using?  I remember the first time I discovered just how many new options there were in the drop-down menus at the top of my computer word processing program.  I'd been using a small fraction of what was available!  And then, there was the time I discovered that when you are jogging in a large park, you don't need to follow a straight line around the edge, but you can create your own course and turn each run into a unique adventure.  I suddenly transformed a boring 5-block square park into an adventure run, limited only by the universe of my imagination.

There's a universe of thought and wisdom and guidance locked away in your mind.  We commonly use only one tenth of our mind's capacity in our conscious thinking, leaving a huge untapped resource.  You can activate that resource by tapping into your dreams--a vast, undiscovered frontier. 

Whether you're awake or asleep, you're dreaming all the time.  There is a constant conversation taking place, a movie being played out, an adventure happening as your mind subconsciously attempts to comprehend you life experiences.  If you can tap into this rich resource, it is like discovering buried treasure of wisdom and guidance!  Many things can be gained from your dreams:  Better health (mental and physical), entertainment and even financial gain.  Your dreams are a communication of body, mind and spirit through powerful themes and symbols.

In the following message you will learn what you need to do to unlock the treasure chest of your dreams.   This will prepare you to take the next step in harnessing the full wealth of your dreams at the upcoming Let Your Life Sing Spiritual Retreat.   

Receive the full benefit of what Dreamweaver Ruth Lee has to offer you at the retreat.  

Unlocking the treasure of your dreams is not rocket science, and you can begin right now where you are by doing three things:

I)  Prepare yourself to dream, and to recall your dreams:

1. Give yourself enough sleep.  When you are in sleep deprivation mode, the limited sleep you get is too deep to capture the full benefit of your dream state.  Find out how many hours of sleep you need, and give your body the regular habit and expectation that good sleep will happen.  Do this daily, and within the next seven days you will begin to see results.
2. Take care of your health.  Proper nutrition and exercise will measurably aid your ability to recall dreams.
3. Give yourself the expectation that you will dream and that you will become aware of your dreams.
4. Establish your own Dream Journal.  Have a notebook at your bedside.  There is no way around this.  Dreams, and the details of your dreams that are not captured immediately are lost.
5. Identify two or three issues that have been on your mind.  As you fall to sleep, take 60 seconds to mentally review your day and become consciously aware of these issues.  These issues may form a connection between your conscious thinking and your dreams.

II)  Capture the content of your dreams:

1. Awaken from your dream-state in a relaxed, natural way.  Bright lights and alarms can significantly hurt your recall.  Have a small reading light by the Dream Journal at your bedside.
2. Record everything about your dream that you can recall:
   • Look at the nature of the dream and if it was sharp or dull; light or dark.
   • Remember any smells or sounds, music and colors.
   • Count how many things are arranged for you to see--numbers can have special meaning.

III)  Unpack the meaning of your dreams:

Consider the following dream:

You are in a beautiful hall with shinny marble floors and walls lined with incredible works of art.  The pictures are framed in solid gold.  You get the distinct impression that you are alone, and in charge of its upkeep.  You hear a faint scratching sound from the other end of the hall.  You hurry down there and discover, to your horror, a mouse is chewing on the corner of a magnificent painting!  You realize if you do nothing at all, the work will be ruined.  But you know if you catch the mouse you can save the painting since little damage has been done.  You are uncertain you can get the mouse in time.  You wake up feeling disappointed and a sense of loss.  You do not want to see something so important destroyed. 

1. Name the "dream theme".  What is the main concept of your dream?  Take away the details:  names, things, and places, and leave only the action.  Now look at your dream as a whole.  In the above dream, someone sees something precious being senselessly destroyed.  There is a chance you can put an end to it, if you act quickly.  This possible theme emerges when you remove the details.  When you identify the overall theme of your dream, its meaning begins to make sense.  As you practice the skill of naming the dream theme, you will find that you quickly become good at it, because the main ability you need is simple common sense.
2. Match the theme to a specific area of your life.  You can do this, because 90% of your dreams will be about you.  Ask yourself, "What specific area of my life is this dream about?"  For the above dream, you might ask yourself, "What element in my life seems very precious to me?  Is there a possibility that it could be damaged or hurt in some way?  Your sleeping mind is searching for a solution to this problem, and may well have found one.
3. Pay attention to the emotions you experience in your dream.  How might the meaning of the above dream change if, during that dream you experienced fear...happiness...anger...sadness...apathy?  See how your emotions can indicate an entirely different meaning?
4. Analyze the details--unpack the meaning of the symbols.  In the dream above, the paintings, the marble floors, and even the mouse, are all dream symbols.  Some dream symbols are universal, and you may consult glossaries of dream symbols:  Death is a universal symbol of change; animals symbolize our own traits, good and bad; a vehicle can symbolize direction and movement in your life.  But realize that symbols also have personal meanings unique to each individual.  A police car can symbolize protection or punishment depending on your personal life experience, and can change throughout your life based on new experiences.

Each day between today and Let Your Life Sing Spiritual Retreat , do three things: 

1. Before bedtime, prepare yourself to dream and to recall your dreams.
2. During the night, capture the content of your dreams.
3. In the morning, practice unpacking the meaning of your dreams.

4) Writing From Your Heart

Activate Your Own Personal Guide

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Wouldn't it be great to have a guide with you at all times to test your ideas, help you through challenges, direct your decision-making, keep you on track and focused on the most important things, calm you when you are agitated, help you heal after a traumatic experience, counsel you to gracefully navigate your relationships, teach you and stretch you?

This may sound like a fantasy, but you already have such a guide.  All it takes is activating the guide within, and a primary tool for this is the art of Writing from your Heart, or journaling.  Journaling helps you to get in touch with your inner guidance system, to listen more attentively.  Journaling helps you to build the confidence you will need in your inner voice...confidence that will lead you to accomplish your dreams.

This comes to you compliments of the upcoming Let Your Life Sing Spiritual Retreat.   

In the message below we are going to show you how to turn your good idea into a magnetic vision through the art of journaling.  We are going to give some homework to help you begin to activate your own personal guide through journaling.  And finally, we invite you to let Master Spiritual Scribe Ruth Lee help you master the art at Let Your Life Sing Spiritual Retreat atRio Caliente Hot Springs Spa and Nature Resort in Primevara Mexico this June.  You can begin preparing yourself now to realize the greatest personal benefit from the retreat.  Please register now while there is still time!!! 

Between today and Let Your Life Sing Spiritual Retreat, do three things: 

1. Focus on a personal vision and visualize it as clearly as possible.
2. Put your vision into the most descriptive writing you can muster.
3. Read your vision daily, add any of the days thoughts or experiences that pertain your vision, and then rewrite your vision.  Try to keep it brief, clear and direct--about five sentences.

Did you know you could turn your good idea into a magnetic vision through the art of journaling?  There are four basic ways journaling will help you do this, but first, what is journaling?  It is far more than keeping a daily diary where you simply record events in your life, and perhaps your reactions and feelings to those events, though this in itself can provide a great benefit.

The element that sets journaling apart is the element of intention.  Journaling involves writing with a purpose.  It involves activating your ability to understand the significance of events in your life and guide their direction.

Take a moment and consider a vision or a dream that you have for your life.  Using the art of meditation we presented three issues ago (another focus feature of Let Your Life Sing Spiritual Retreat), what is the vision you vividly pictured?  You may want to take a moment and go through the exercise again.  The first thing you will do, is put you vision to writing.  Do this now, then ask yourself the following questions:

1)  In what way did putting your vision to writing give it more reality?  This is the first primary benefit of the art of journaling.  Journaling will give your vision a greater sense of reality.  This may be a welcome benefit as you begin to see how your vision may come about.  On the other hand, putting your vision to words may lead you to discover it is not realistic or even desirable.

2)  In what way did putting your vision to writing help you grow your vision to the next level?  This is the second great benefit of the art of journaling.  It's common to have a great vision, but then get hung up on the "next steps".  Journaling activates advanced thinking processes both analytical and spiritual that lead to further light, understanding and direction.  Often as a climber I have reached what I thought was a dead end.  But after I stop my forward motion, sit down, and observe the wall I face, most of the time a way begins to emerge.  Journaling is a way of slowing down our activity long enough to listen and to reflect and to find an answer.

3)  In what way did putting your vision to writing help you describe it more clearly to others?  For a vision to be magnetic, you need to describe it with clear words.  And as you describe your vision to others, you will benefit from their reaction.  That will go into your next journal entry.  This will help you refine your message until it becomes magnetic.

4)  In what way did putting your vision to writing help you remember it, return to it, and keep focused?  One of the greatest enemies of a magnetic vision is lack of focus.  When you put your vision to writing through the art of journaling, and develop it over time, returning to it daily, you maintain the clarity of focus over time that will enable you to realize your vision.  History has been shaped by visionaries who had the ability to maintain a consistent vision, magnetically attracting the people and the resources to fulfill that vision, and standing their ground against the tide until the tide finally changed.

Journaling is a tool that activates that kind of power and inner guidance.  Begin practicing the art of intentional journaling, and come to Let Your Life Sing Spiritual Retreat where Ruth Lee will show you how to develop the art to mastery to your benefit and the benefit of the lives you touch.

Love and Joy!

David Smith for Sharon Wilson

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