Monday, August 27, 2012

San Francisco Tourist

It's been a while since I posted anything to my blog.  That is not necessarily a bad thing since I am often inspired to write when I am confused by something and trying to work it out.  I feel blessed that everything is going my way!

Jeremy and I shared a beautiful day in San Francisco last week, August 23, 2012, and I ended up with some awesome photographs.  They made me feel happy as I was sorting through them, so I decided to share the joy.

So enjoy!

Bay Bridge

Coit Tower 

Alcatraz from Fisherman's Wharf

Painting purchased for $20
On Fisherman's Wharf we watched an amazing street artist create this painting with cans of spray paint in less than 15 minutes.  It was like watching magic as the picture emerged and the crowd cheered.

Saint Francis of Assisi beneath Coit Tower

Cheerful lanterns in Chinatown
We ate salt and pepper squid at Yuet Lee, always worth a hike across the city!

Transamerica Pyramid


I can't help but feel there is a point to this photographs...


San Francisco Ferry Building

Coit Tower above San Francisco Bay

Leaving the City

The water churned behind the ferry like a horizontal waterfall.  It was mesmerizing.

The fog rolls in to blanket Marin.

Red Rock and Richmond Bridge
(Also known in family parlance as Bekkie's rock.)

Richmond Bridge


This was my favorite shot of the day because I find it so calming.
Doesn't it just invite you to relax?  Hmmmm...





(runs into photoshop and waves her magic wand...)








:)


~ Cyndi 
Practicing Happiness Daily

You deserve to feel amazing and healthy and relaxed and happy and vibrant every day of your life.

Sunday, July 29, 2012

My Path


I saw Esther Hicks in San Francisco yesterday.  The experience was, as always, educational, inspiring and consistently presented with abundant and obvious unconditional love.

If you do not know Esther, or have never experienced her translations of the teachings of Source Energy, start at this link:  abraham-hickslawofattraction.com.

The teachings of Abraham are a course of study that make up my spiritual path.  It is beyond the scope of this blog to explain these teachings other than how I use them in my own life. 


I pay attention to my emotions. I focus on anything and everything that makes me happy or uplifts my spirit. I make an effort to take my attention away from anything that saddens me or makes me angry or hurts my feelings or causes any emotion that feels bad.

I meditate daily to sync up with the vibration of my Source.

I practice affirmations daily to retrain my mind from habitual negative thoughts into more positive beliefs.

Before I found this path I was plagued with self-doubt to the point of self-loathing on a regular basis.  Now I know daily that I am worthy of God's love and my own love as well.  My life is valuable beyond measure and I am a joy to my Creator.  I am transforming a life once filled with fear and negativity into a joyous life of faith where I have daily connection to the Source of all life.  

Nothing I can say will teach anyone because words do not teach.  Only experience can teach.  It is simply a matter of practice for anyone to experience great joy and prosperity and abundant love in this physical lifetime.  I believe it only because my own experience upholds it to be so. 

My writings here may inspire others to create their own practice in pursuit of joy, but that is not the purpose of my blog.  I write here to gain clarity, to remind myself of ancient truths that uplift my spirit and to amplify a joyful vibration that molds my point of attraction so that all the well-being of the Universe flows freely and abundantly into my life.

Since Esther/Abraham taught me that I am powerful enough to mold my own point of attraction, my life has become a joyous adventure!  I have conflict and challenges as all humans do.  But those challenges cannot kick me to the curb as long as I have faith that my connection to Source will sustain me, support me and flow love and abundance to me as often as I allow it to flow.



~ Cyndi 
Practicing Happiness Daily

I deserve to feel amazing and healthy and relaxed and happy and vibrant every day of my life.



Monday, July 16, 2012

Cultivate a Positive Point of Attraction


There is no death.  We are non-physical, eternal beings focused here in physical form for the purpose of finding joy and balance.

Ninety-nine percent of you is currently non-physical.  One tiny percent of "All that is You" is physically focused here on earth.  The other 99% is still non-physical: your Source, Source Energy or God energy.  

You are a physical extension of that which is God.  So is every person on the planet.  God energy or Source energy is flowing to you and through you all the time, a constant Source of wellness and abundance and love.  

So if abundant wellness is always flowing to you - why do you feel like it is not reaching you?

Patterns of negative thoughts impede the flow of abundant wellness.  It takes practice, but negative thought patterns can be changed to positive thought patterns and then your point of attraction shifts and you will begin to thrive as all the abundance of the Universe flows into your life.

Emotions are the guidance system that indicates the direction of our travel.

If you feel fear or worry or anger most of the time, your vibration (by the Law of Attraction) draws more things to you that make you feel fearful, worried or angry.  Negative or "bad-feeling" emotions indicate that you are calling unwanted things to yourself.

If you feel happy or calm most of the time, your vibration (by the Law of Attraction) draws more things to you that make you feel happy and calm.  Positive or "good-feeling" emotions indicate that you are calling wanted things to yourself.

So you say: I am calling unwanted things to myself.  Here they are and I am looking right at them.  HOW do I then feel happy and calm so I can start calling wanted things to myself!?

The answer is this:  Stop looking at the unwanted things!  Distract yourself in any way you can because nothing is more important than that you feel good!  

For example:  Let's say you have a day at the beach with very dear friends. Everything is lovely.  The scenery is gorgeous.  The weather is brisk.  The food and beverage selections are divine.  The company is delightful.  Then a stranger appears and interjects a negative experience - somewhat frightening for a moment, but the moment passes quickly along with the stranger.

What do you take away from this day?  

Do you nurse your anger at the stranger and tell others about it to justify your anger?  

You are justified, to be sure.  You have the right to be angry, but do you WANT to be angry?  

Do you want to vibrate angry thoughts that attract more angry thoughts and drive your blood pressure to the brink because you are RIGHT to be angry at the stranger?  Or would you just as soon let it go?  

How do you let go?  Remove your attention from the unwanted and place it firmly back on the wanted - or the appreciated aspects of your day.

Enjoy the scenery and the crash of the surf.  Enjoy the taste of your freshly brewed iced tea.  Sing a song with your companions and lift everyone's spirits.  When people ask you how the beach was, extol the virtues of the scenery and the great fun you had watching your dog swim in the surf!

Life is all about choices.  But we've been trained into habits of choosing negative thinking.  We need to practice new habits so we can begin to choose better feeling thoughts and regain our balance.

If you want to thrive and not just survive, you must change your point of attraction, or your vibration.  

Changing your vibration is no different from controlling diabetes for a diabetic person.  If someone is living with diabetes, they need to monitor their blood suger levels.  When the levels are out of balance, the diabetic takes steps to bring it back into balance.  If the imbalance is allowed to go unchecked, serious health problems will arise and the diabetic makes the transition back to 100% non-physical.  (100% non-physical is not dead, just not physical.)

To change your point of attraction, you must monitor your emotions.  When they are out of balance to the negative end of the spectrum, you must take steps to bring it back into balance.  If the imbalance is allowed to go unchecked, seriously unwanted situations are attracted to your vibration.  Health (or financial or relationship) problems will arise as the person cuts themselves off from the flow of abundant well-being.

It is important to remember that your current circumstances, whatever they may be, are temporary and that your future circumstances are controlled by your point of attraction.

The keys to rewiring my own point of attraction are meditation and affirmations; a powerful combination.  

Meditation trains us to focus our mind: the most powerful tool available to us.  Meditation is not as complicated as most people want to make it.  It simply means putting your focus in one place.  The ticking of a clock, the babbling of a brook, the hum of an air conditioner are wonderful places to put your focus.  Ten to fifteen minutes a day are enough.  Just quiet your mind and allow it some peace for a few minutes.  Like anything, it takes practice.  

Affirmations are an effective way to retrain our vibration.  Beliefs are simply thoughts that we have practiced repeatedly.  Affirmations are positive thoughts that uplift our spirits and help us train our vibration into a positive place.  Practice them repeatedly and see how your beliefs and your life change for the better!

Allow yourself space each day to practice.  You deserve it!



~ Cyndi 
Practicing Happiness Daily

You deserve to feel amazing and healthy and relaxed and happy and vibrant every day of your life.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

June Blooms

Spending time in my garden ALWAYS lifts my spirits.  Right now it is feeling particularly gorgeous and I wanted to share.  Hope you enjoy!







Fantasia dancers!

Future BLTs.    Promises of happy days in August...

Rainbow petunias and ten-year-old begonias.



I was born in June, so for many years roses have been favorites.


I have lots of pretty colors!





Above and below: Betty Boop Roses








I discovered begonias about a dozen years ago.



They LOVE me!



Begonias are now as much a favorite as my roses!


A bowl of Grandma's favorites.


Have a beautiful day!

~ Cyndi 
Practicing Happiness Daily

You deserve to feel amazing and healthy and relaxed and happy and vibrant every day of your life.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Practice Makes Progress


I love my life!  It's perfect just the way it is with all its complications and challenges and joys and abundant opportunities.  I wouldn't have it any other way.  

Last night I experienced a huge letdown.  For a week I had been excited about a trip to Cancun that was in the early planning stages.  Early stages.  It had only been announced June 18.  I thought about it all week.  I was delighted each time it came to mind.  I savored it until it felt already real to me.  Thinking about it made me so happy that I decided to make the financial commitment - a really big decision that I made even more quickly than I had anticipated.  But when I called to book the trip, I found they had sold out!  In a week!  An entire resort for next April!  

I felt like the wind had been kicked out of me.  I never dreamed it would sell so fast.

Now, the six-day trip in question includes a four-day seminar with Esther Hicks on the art of enjoying life more by practicing the art of positive thinking.  Since I started practicing the art of positive thinking two and a half years ago, I do enjoy my life more.  More all the time.  I enjoy life exponentially more now than I did before I heard of Esther.  A source of great joy for me suddenly felt a source of great disappointment.  

But I didn't feel that way for long.  I distracted myself by watching some mindless and mildly entertaining TV.  I consoled myself with the fact that I could call and put myself on the wait list.  Most importantly I reminded myself that everything is working out for my highest good.  If I don't go to Cancun, it's because the Universe knows I'll like something else much more!

Practicing positive thinking doesn't mean I'll get happy and stay happy and live happy forevermore.  All lives have challenges and disappointments and uncomfortable experiences.  I used to let these things knock the wind out of my sails and make me unhappy for days on end.  

The important thing is knowing how to navigate myself back to happy from life's little detours in a fairly short amount of time.  

And that's just what I did.  The more I practice, the better I get at this.  I'm on the wait list for Cancun.  I have no doubt that next April, Jeremy and I will be spending an amazing, uplifting week in Mexico with Esther and Abraham and a whole bunch of happy people enjoying divine weather, enchanted evenings, stunning beaches and magnificent rendezvous.  


Oh!  I better get a passport...

~ Cyndi 
Practicing Happiness Daily

You deserve to feel amazing and healthy and relaxed and happy and vibrant every day of your life.

P.S. ~ Update on June 30 - I saw Esther Hicks' streaming broadcast this morning and she said the Cancun trip sold out in 4 days!  BUT - they are currently in negotiations to rent out a second and possibly a third resort hotel for the event!  I am going to Cancun!!