Believe There’s a reason this word is used so much during the holiday season.  The ability to believe is a practiced and honed talent.  The more you do it, the better you get at it.  Believe with all the gusto you can muster then watch as the world opens up for you.

Find Certainty  This is an offshoot of believing.  Certainty puts you in a position of authority over your destiny.  The destiny you have designed and planned.  Certainty says, “I know it,” and provides a powerful shift mentally, intellectually, emotionally, and professionally.

Surround Yourself with Support  This is where co-creators come in so nicely.  People who believe in you and support your vision are worthwhile to keep close.  Your intentions become magnified when others share the vision with you. Business coaches, networking groups, close friends, family, and neighbors as well as those you happen upon the coffee shop are all strategically placed so that you may feel the camaraderie.

Gratitude for Others’ Good Fortunes  Whenever Ben saw a Mercedes Benz on the road with him, he thought to himself, “I’m so happy for you!”  Being in a state of gratitude even on behalf of others speeds up your very own process and allows synchronicity to bring its own brand of magic.  Ben knew this, so whenever he saw his dream car on the street, he felt the gratitude and invited in his own Mercedes.

Holiday magic sure does feel good as it permeates the landscape and infiltrates most of our daily lives.  The good-times-high can last throughout the year.  Just remember, you create it with a mere setting of intention.

Virginia’s acceleration ride began shortly after her lights turned on for Pilates.  Soon after her first Pilates session, Virginia realized it was her calling.  She made a plan to leave the corporate world and open her own studio after obtaining her instructor certification.   Today, she successful runs her business filled with like-minded lovers of Pilates.

Virginia kept her eye on the vision and didn’t allow worry to overtake the journey.  Her success came from living in the present moment, while keeping a clear intention for the end result.

Unwavering Thought Now is not the time to change your mind with every little whim.  Fine tuning should be completed.  Know you’ve designed and offered up a great vision.  Avoid being wishy-washy as it sends out mixed messages and confuses the synchronistic process.

Certain Thought Doubt and shaky confidence may creep up.  Look at your vision board or read your mantra.  Know.  Be certain.  Chase out doubtful thoughts.

Positive Thought Always open yourself to daydreams.  As long as these thoughts have you successfully achieving your vision, then spend hours spacing out!

Remaining steadfast to our thoughts amplifies their power.  As we learned with above the line language, words have vibration.  We measure that vibration in megahertz.   Keep high vibration words and phrases in close proximity: written in your date book, hanging from the bottom of your monitor, plastered on your bathroom mirror, and hidden on cabinet doors when you reach for the coffee mugs.  Literally surround yourself with positive reinforcements and your thoughts will hold space for synchronicity to support your vision.

While he found eye contact with his reflection in the mirror, viewers detected a mildly desperate man placing all his hopes of self esteem into this one technique.  His self affirmations ultimately served as easy targets for our jeers.    Those who practice affirmations as a way of creating a vision fulfilled life, know much more than self esteem can be realized and desperation has no place in the practice.   If we want to enhance affirmation skills, unfortunately, Mr. Smalley should not be the model we look to.  Instead, look to the marketing industry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best, “We become what we think about all day long.”  If you need proof of Emerson’s insights, just peek at marketing.   Advertisers have long known the secret.  The more people are surrounded with an idea or a product, the more likely they are buy into it.  Need more proof?    A 30 second Super Bowl commercial can bring in over a million dollars.  Companies won’t waste a cool million on tactics that don’t work.  Advertising is still around and still interrupting our television shows because it works! In some form, we do become what we think about, which is why successful vision oriented people surround themselves with the positive outcomes they’d like to attract.

Businesses know advertising is an investment.  So too are affirmations.  Positive self talk allows an individual to invest in their vision, their dream.  Play around with these sentence starters as a way to focus the investment in yourself.

• I am _____________.

-abundant, happy, certain, successful, prosperous, intelligent

• Today, I intend to ____________.

-celebrate two successes, come up with a brilliant idea, laugh at myself

• I  always find ___________.

-loyal clients, supportive colleagues, a new idea when I need it

Should SNL ever bring back Stuart Smalley, we’ll laugh at his self esteem boosting antics, all the while knowing we should do the opposite.  He’ll be our reminder to think big and be open.

If you’re wondering how the remote field is influencing you, simply turn on the news.  What percent of the news is above the line and what percent is below the line?  You know the answer without even thinking.  Somehow, devastation, sorrow, scandal, and harm make the headlines at a much higher rate than celebrations, joyfulness, acts of kindness, and laughter.  In the distant field, it’s not so much what is going on in the world as much as how we react to it.   Events merely unravel, our collective emotional response to these events is what fills the planetary field.  What in the national or world news is utmost in your thoughts?  In which news item do you find yourself continually engaged conversationally?  Most importantly, how are your reactions or emotional responses?  It is the feeling surrounding the event that sticks to your personal field more than the actual event.

There are many ways to separate the distant energy field from your personal field.  Limiting the time you spend saturated in news is a great start.  Try taking a one-day news fast.  Substitute relaxing music in lieu of news as background noise.  Or if that’s not feasible, do one internet search for the day’s headlines, rather than having a news program on all day.  Also consider the wavelengths of information as it enters your ears.  Are you listening to sensationalized chatter of DJs with busy commercials in between?  Sound waves produced by sensationalism are choppy and unsettling.  Instead consider listening to commercial free radio with DJs who maintain more even, neutral vocal intonations.

Or even better, take a more proactive approach.  Since the more attention something is given, the larger it grows, give your attention to what you’d like in your personal field.   Gandhi said it best, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”  Let’s personalize his statement.  Every morning before you get out of bed, fill in the blank:  “Be The ________ You Wish To See In The World.”  What would you like your day filled with?   Contentment?  Gratitude? Happiness?  Abundance?  Fill in Gandhi’s statement.  “Be the Peace you wish to see in the world.”  You can make it even more personal by saying, “I am the Peace I wish to see in the world.”   Go back to Gandhi’s tailored statement a few times throughout the day knowing your personal field is being affected as well as the remote field.

1. Lessons are learned through repeated patterns. When an eddy appears, the opportunity to learn the lesson also appears. Through simple awareness of the pattern, you will have a new opportunity to examine and learn in a new way.
2. Practice gratitude when an eddy appears. If you are in an eddy, you have not yet learned the lesson that it is trying to teach. Be grateful because this time through the eddy may be the last time you will need to learn this lesson. You now can recognize the pattern, stop the pattern and increase your momentum forward.
3. As you begin to kick out of the eddy, you will be stronger and wiser for your experience. You will have learned to hold your vision even in the face of adversity.
4. As you release the patterns that have held you within the eddy, you will find the patterns are no longer of service to you. Recognizing the pattern (discovery) and then shifting your attention (recovery) to your true path will give you freedom to follow your vision.

Individual experiences with these weather patterns vary, but in general, people have a strong idea of how they feel during any given season.  There are only four seasons per year, yet we humans run the gamut of emotional charges day by day.  Have you noticed your own personal cycle of seasons as you live through your day?   Unlike the seasons brought on by earth’s tilt and location in orbit, our personal seasons can be managed.  Using archetypal emotions in each season, let’s look at what we can learn about ourselves during emotional flare-ups and how we can move through the colder moments.

Winter The use of a shovel during those cold, dark, snowy winter months is quite metaphorical.  Winter can plunge us into depths we’d rather not voyage.  The cold can truly chill the bone leaving behind a feeling of loneliness, fear, and yearning.  Winter is adept at bringing out our shadow.  Shadow behavior is good friends with those winter blues.  Just like shoveling snow out of the way, use an above-the-line shovel to find your way back.  Whenever winter emotions pull you under, grab a shovel and pave your way back to the lighter, more positive aspects of living.  Snow tends to fall repeatedly throughout the winter months and the need to shovel can happen many times a day, many days in a row. Above the line thinking is close and gets closer every time you shovel.  Forgive yourself, refocus, and keep shoveling!

Spring Spring cleaning comes to mind.  Those winter emotions have built up a residue.  You’ve shoveled out the loose ends, now it’s time to scrub it until it shines!  Spring emotions offer us the opportunity to take inventory and clean out the unnecessary.  What emotional baggage are you ready to let go of?  Say good-bye to it for good.  Shedding the unwanted is a great way to loosen shadow behavior.

Summer That shiny, bright sun always knows how to lighten the load.  It encourages growth, brings depth to our skin tone, and clears the way for summer fun.  Feeling good just makes sense.  It’s contagious and sparks our creative endeavors.  Summertime emotions are a call to action.   Move around and soak it up.  Remember though, too much sun can burn.  It’s good to step inside now and then. Taking a break gives your skin respite and helps rebuild your energy level. Let those high, excited emotions run their course, be thankful for them, but always come back to center.

Autumn During autumn we look at the chill coming our way, while remaining hopeful.  Autumn offers a nice balance to our emotional playground.  School kicks in and even if we’re not following the school calendar, our bodies know it’s time to settle down.  There is a magical balance between calm and playfulness to which the fall season lends itself.  As the abundant harvest comes in, reflect on all that is good.  Being grateful and giving thanks amplifies your manifestation abilities.

Wherever you are playing in the emotional landscape of life, stay curious and forgive yourself.  If it feels as if you’re tilted and flying through orbit, then you’re going the right way!

Generally, our mind is set to develop strategies before seeing the bigger vision.  It is this vision that paves the way for strategies to evolve; the “what.”  Vision boards act as a lights-on reminder, attracting all strategies to show up naturally.  What do you want to create in your life?  Build it first in a vision board, then watch the means to your dream show up.

As life progresses, so do our ideas and goals.  These ideas and goals propel new lights-on experiences.  Take time to reevaluate where you stand.  Is it time to add to your vision board or design a new one?    Proactively creating the rest of your life invites in more success and excellence.

Our magnificent brains house a few glands instrumental in how our reality manifests.  If we roll a thought over in our heads for a length of time, these glands get interested.  The pituitary gland gathers information allowing us to ponder a thought.  Additionally, it secretes hormones, which are then sent to the pineal gland.  The pineal gland amplifies this information making it real on a body level.  Imagining that sundae activates the pituitary gland.  When it communicates with the pineal gland, you may salivate as a result.  You’re not actually eating the delightful sundae, but your brain supported by the pituitary and pineal, sure reacts as if you are.

Knowing the science behind this chain of events can help us understand how the Clarity International process works.  Using lights-on clues, we help clients give the pituitary gland new, exciting information.  The brain is then rewired to accept this new information as fact.  Remember, when studied, the brain waves react the same whether information is reality or imagined.  Your manifestations can come quickly and easily when this system is harnessed and focused.

At Clarity, we ask clients to suspend disbelief and trust the process knowing all of them will achieve a level of success.  Sometimes it’s good to know there’s science behind the method.

Live Lights On!

Cathy & Gary Hawk

Three types of basic energetic exchanges come to play during personal communications; neutral, energizing, and draining.  When we’re neutral, we are able to look at, feel, and respond to others without a ripple in our energy field.  During a draining exchange, a subtle or not so subtle level of aggression may emerge in the form of resistance, conflict, and/or rigidity.  At energizing, we remain curious, authentic, and engaged.

During your next conversation, it may be fun to see where you are.  Does your end of the exchange leave you feeling neutral, energized, or drained?  Pay attention to the words you use, the actions you take, and your own feelings as the interaction progresses.  If the other person’s energy field is draining, are you able to maintain your field at energized?  Stay curious and notice yourself without judgment.  Then smile and say, “That was fun!”

Live Lights On!

Cathy & Gary Hawk