Let Go of Your Inner Critic

Others real or perceived judgments can only affect you if you are already judging yourself. It is only if you are afraid there is some truth in it that it can break you or shake you. Usually the judgments we think are happening are created in our minds because of our insecurities and others mirroring that. Let go of your inner critic and all the other critics, real or imagined, will disappear from your reality. ~  Sierra Goodman  ~ from Oceans of Inspiration

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Working on My Money & Abundance Beliefs Creates $50,000 (temporarily, but not for long!)

This past week, I have been consciously working on my money vibration...I always have just enough, money shows up in the nick of time when I really need it, but I am tired of playing that game. I want MORE!! So for the past several days I have been doing some conscious work on my money vibe and asking to be shown my sub and not so sub conscious thoughts so I can break free about money.


Thursday, I had a wild experience with a bee that I saved. Bees represent ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE to me. Bees should not be able to fly as their body weight is much more than their thin little wings can support. But yet, they fly. Why? Because they believe they can!! After saving the bee and he flew off, I felt a very profound shift in my reality. I saw the energy around the trees, in the sky, around everything. My vision was very focused but yet unfocused. It’s hard to explain, but anyway, for me it felt weird and wobbly and wonderful. Something was noticeably and deliciously different.


Anyway, a few hours later, I go to the ATM machine to deposit 2 checks. The machine scans the first check, an image of the check shows up on the screen, I verify the amount. I put in the second check. It starts to scan the check, I wait for the image to come up but instead, the screen flashes and blips and a screen comes up that says Verify Deposit Amount of $51,975.00. The ATM had added $50,000 to my deposit!!


I blinked, I quickly processed what the screen was saying and hit OK. Then it asked if I wanted a receipt with copies of the images of the checks. HELL NO! Just give me my card back!


I drive home, check online. Yup, the money is there. My mind races with all kinds of interesting thoughts. "They will catch it" is a prominent one but I also realized that there are no mistakes, only parallel realities and infinite possibilities. Did I just step into the one where I deposited $50,000? There is no one "out there" I make up the tellers, the bank, all of it. Money is energy; transactions of billions of dollars are just flowing right through the air, right through me as they are passed from bank to bank.


I found it very interesting to note some of my thoughts about the money, and some surprising resistance. It was VERY interesting to see my belief systems and thoughts through it all.


I purposely did not check my account again for over 24 hours. Whatever it would be, I was collecting data on my thoughts, feelings and vibration around money. Either way, this was helping me IMMENSELY to note my true vibrations around abundance.


I was practicing stepping into the parallel universe where I HAD deposited $50,000 and it WASN'T a bank error. I was FEELING my way through the whole thing, and as I mentioned above, noticing interesting resistance and other thoughts that came up. I practiced telling myself that there was nothing to "catch", that no bank tellers exist outside of myself, that I was the creator of all of it.


I knew I still had work to do when I heard sirens and my heart skipped a beat when police cars pulled over a car two houses away from me. Of course I had done nothing wrong, I had not spent a cent of it, but I obviously was not convinced that it was "mine" free and clear. LOL


I checked last night. They found it. Minus $50,000. But the value of discovering some hidden beliefs was priceless. I had asked to clean up my money vibration. The U delivered big time in a way I couldn't have imagined. Or was it Jeeves (as in Ask Jeeves, lol), the name I gave the doorman to my sub-conscious thoughts? Whoever it was, my sub conscious B.S. (belief systems) were quickly and easily revealed to me because of my asking and deliberate focus on my money vibration.


It was an amazing experience, I love the exciting, heart thumping game that I set up for myself to check in with my money vibration and bring my limiting belief systems to the very top where they could be exposed and de-bunked.


Next time it will be for reals, that I can promise!


Of course, as always, the Universe continues to play with me with sychronicities. This was the daily message from the Abraham-Hicks Facebook page today:


The question that we would put to you is, "Where is your dominant vibration relative to the subject of allowing money into your experience?"


In other words, when you think about money does it feel more like shortage or not enoughness?'


Here's a better way of putting it. When you think about money does it feel more like insecurity? Or does it feel more like security? Does it feel more like a little fluttering fearful feeling? Or does it feel more like exhilaration?


Every one of you with no exception can answer that question easily. And as you answer the question, you know whether the dominant vibration within you is about your desire -- or is about whatever contrasting experience caused you to formulate that desire.


Abraham-Hicks, San Francisco, CA - 3/16/02

The Wisdom of Will Smith

Send in the Army ~ The Amazing Power of Bee-Lief

(I wrote this back in July of 2008 and just stumbled upon it again due to another bee experience yesterday. It's worth repeating!)

Living in the rainforest in commune with nature can sometimes be a challenge.

I have a big colony of wasps living inside my bedroom wall. They enter from a crack in the wood on the outside. They have been there for at least a year, probably more. We have lived together in harmony. My workers told me to get them out, but I just let them bee (ha ha). As long as I left them alone, they left me alone.


Well, four days ago, I broke our deal, forgot they were there and pounded a shoe on the wall to get the sand out. One came flying at me and stung me right on the face. My face swelled up to monstrous proportions. I was not a happy jungle girl. But it was my fault. I broke the deal.

The next day I was merely raising the plastic window from the rain and wind the night before, and they came flying at me. I got stung eight times. These guys inject a sort of poison, and actually leave small burn holes where they sting. It hurts!!! Bad!!!

Now I had to do something. They attacked me from just getting near. If the entire swarm came at me, they could probably kill me, or at least send me to the hospital. It would seem that we were now at war.

I am one of those “reverence for all life” kind of people and hate to kill anything. When I was a small kid I ran over snails with my tricycle, but when I realized I had actually killed them, I started to cry and since then have tried not to kill anything. Unless my life and wellbeing is at stake! I even refuse to use bug spray, I don’t like to invite poisonous chemicals into my space and kill anything.

But I had to do something. My hand shook as I wrote bug spray on the grocery list (not really, but that sounded more dramatic!) I then got quiet and connected with the wasps. I told them that they would have to go, we were no longer living in harmony and if they didn’t leave, I would have to kill them. I then asked the U to please take care of this problem for me, to somehow remove these wasps so I didn’t have to kill them myself. I decided to let it go for a few days and let the wasps and the U think about it before I took any action.

This morning I was working on the computer and looked over and saw all the wasps swarming outside. I thought that was very strange. But then I looked onto the ledge and there were hundreds of ARMY ANTS entering their home and taking out the eggs and the queen. A constant stream of Army Ants removing the wasps!!!


THE UNIVERSE SENT THE ARMY IN TO HELP ME!!!

I am truly amazed at the way the U delivered on my asking. Even I wouldn’t have thought of army ants!!! I was completely blown away at the way this was handled by the U and nature without me having to kill anything. And not one wasp flew into my room, it was like there was an invisible shield, and they only stayed outside even though my room is open with half walls.

Ask and it is Given in ways that you cannot even imagine. The U can deliver ANYTHING, even an entire army!!!

HOW COOL IS THAT?????

AND today was the real test for me. Where the wasps started to build a new nest after being kicked out of their home in my wall was a bush still way to near my room for me. I said to them, "Okay guys, this is still too close. I need you to move further away, after all, you have the whole rainforest to choose from! Go to your highest good ELSEWHERE!"


And to my amazement, (well, not really at this point) within ONE HOUR I saw them swarming again and they MOVED!!! Far away, to the other side of the property. OMG!! I am the creator of my reality!!!

LIFE WICKED ROCKS, BABY!!!

Defining Your Desires

WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT? Getting clear on what you truly desire is essential because in order to get what you want, you need to know what that is. How can the magical Universe give it to you if even you don’t know what you want? You gotta tell em’! You want to be thin, you say? Well, of course, but what else? This is not just about “I want to be thin.” How will you feel in your thin body? How will your clothes feel? How will you interact with people and how will they interact with you? How do you want to walk, feel, relate to others? How will your life feel to you with the body that you desire? We want the nitty gritty details that create the Attractor Factor!


By defining what you truly desire, you start feeling how it would be to have these things in your life, and this brings more of what you want to you. It also begins to take your mind off that which you don’t want, because when you talk and think about what you don’t want, you are bringing those things into your vibration also. You are focusing on it, thinking about it and therefore attracting it to you. Focus and think only about what you do want! It’s a Law of Attraction thing.


Also, by getting really clear on what you desire, you just might find that you have resistance and deservabiltiy issues to actually having them, and then you can deal with those one by one as they come up. You have to really want it, feel that you deserve it and be it for this to be an easy journey.


For me, writing down all my desires let’s me feel that it is done, that I have handed over to the Universe and I can let it go, not worry about the how's and when's and details. But many people feel it and then go through the thought process of, “that will never happen, how can it happen, when will it happen”, and they negate all their good work and intentions. Let the Universe work for you. Tell your new story and stick with it! The more you tell it, the more you believe it. The more you believe it, the more it becomes reality.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Wayne Dyer

I have found that putting true passion behind your desires brings them closer to you faster. Passion is a major Attractor Factor. Defining your desires and getting excited about them is what creates the passion and inspiration that makes them manifest easily and quickly. It gets you into that feeling place of already having them and that’s where you want to be.When you get clear on your desires and know what you truly want, you feel inspired. And when you are truly inspired, ideas and connections and opportunities come to you that you couldn't have even imagined. Let the magic begin!

The Law of Attraction is Always Working...Even When We Wish it Wasn't!

My bedroom in Costa Rica is up on the point, with a panoramic view of the ocean. When I still had the eco lodge we put up signs around the property that pointed and guided people to the public areas and away from my room. When I closed the lodge, I left the signs up as people still often came to the property and wandered around.

One of the reasons I closed the lodge was because of the lack of respect for privacy some of the guests had, walking right into my bedroom as if it was part of the "jungle show". Because I lived on site, people thought I was available 24/7 and even at night, while I was in my bedroom with the door closed. People would come to my door, and sometimes, like mentioned above, just walk right in, even though I have "private" signs on BOTH sides of my door. One guest even sat down and started watching TV!!! This was my private bedroom!!

One day a woman arrived who had been at the lodge several years ago to film a program called "Quiet Places". She is very nice and came with a friend of hers. She asked if they could stay. I said sure.

After about an hour, she comes walking right into my room to ask me something. I was very nice to her as I backed her out as I spoke to her. I hadn't cleaned my room yet (living with 3 macaws, 4 dogs and a cat, besides it being a totally open space with only half walls, it gets dirty REALLY FAST), and I was annoyed that she would walk right in without knocking.

A little later I was talking to my friend Jerry who was visiting and I went on and on about how people don't have respect for other's privacy, how I would NEVER EVER just walk into someone's bedroom like that, etc. etc. etc. bla bla bla....

So, guess what I attracted by putting my attention onto what I don't want?

About an hour later after my rampage about privacy, or rather the lack thereof, I had just gotten out of the shower, and I had the music blasting. My bedroom door is split, I can just close the top, or just close the bottom or both. I had closed the top half knowing that my friend might walk in again and that would slow her down and I had left the bottom open so the dogs could get in and out.

I am brushing out my hair and this lady I had never seen before in my life actually peeks her head under my door and starts to walk in, under the closed door with two privacy signs on either side! I must have looked horrified, well, because I was!! She said, "if this is not a good time..." I didn't even know what to say.. She goes on to explain that she is a friend of someone that I knew in the Bahamas when I was doing dolphin swims there that I haven't had contact with for years. She and her boyfriend were looking for a place to stay. I explained as nicely as I could, considering that I was in shock, that I do not have a hotel anymore and to please go to the tent camp next door and that if she wanted to talk to me, she could return the following day.

She and her boyfriend left and I just had to laugh because I knew that by my putting attention to what I didn't want, people not respecting my privacy, AND especially by going on and on about it, I had MADE IT EVEN BIGGER!!! Oh, bless the Law of Attraction! It always keeps us in check and this was a great and obvious reminder.

Don't focus on what you don't want. Don't complain about it, don't blog about it, don't join groups against it, don't hold yourself in the vibration of what you don't want by focusing on it! I focused on lack of privacy and that was EXACTLY what I got a lot more of.

I have learned to only focus on what I DO want. I have learned that the Law of Attraction is ALWAYS at work, and so it only makes sense to keep my wants and desires and how I want things to be in my range of focus. I love this because it means it is up to ME what I create in my reality. It's my choice. It's the law!

Send in the Clouds

Most of us know that our persistant thoughts create our reality. And most of us know that when we think negative thoughts, we bring more of those negative things to us. But what do you do when you have persistant negative thoughts that you don't want, but you just can't seem to get them out of your mind?

I asked that same question one day. I had a situation that had upset me. I went through the whole emotional scale, from crying, to being mad, to being frustrated and on up as I slowly worked my thoughts to broad perspective, positive thoughts. One thought at a time. By noon I was out in the sun and happy again.

But after a while, the "why" thoughts returned to me. I kept going over the situation and analyzing it.

I wanted the thoughts to go away. I wanted to just move on. All is Well! Why do I keep thinking these thoughts? They do not serve me. They bring negativity to me. They will bring more events like this to me.

I said, "Universe, please take these thoughts away, please tell me how to stop these persistant thoughts!!!" And the answer came to me.

I heard a familiar voice that came from no where and every where say, "Imagine that you are putting those thoughts that you don't want into a cloud and let it drift away. You might need to do it a few times and the thought might still come sometimes, but just put the thought into a fluffy white cloud and let it drift away with the wind."

It just seemed too simple, but I tried it. And guess what? IT WORKED!!! I gave my thoughts over to the clouds and let them drift away. The thoughts returned a couple of times and as soon as they did, I sent them off with the floating clouds. Negative, destructive thoughts gone!!!

I don't know how this will work for others, but it has worked great for me.

Another wonderful tool for my toolbox, given to me by my blessed higher self, always watching out for me. I even gained an understanding into the present situation and insight into how it would benefit me now and in the future. Oh how I love my divine guidance!

I also seem to get some of my signs and messages from the clouds. I'll have a question that I am pondering and the clouds will form into images that answer me.

I have long seen shapes in the clouds. When on dolphin tours, the clouds tell me where to go with an arrow or a dolphin fin and I’ll never forget swimming with dolphins in the Bahamas with a giant dolphin cloud above us. So many amazing experiences have happened with clouds that I can’t ignore the messages that I get from them.

I was sitting on my bed working on my computer one day and got a very strong message to go look at the clouds towards the bay. I did this, and it was beautiful, the sun was setting pink so the waves crashing on the rocks were light pink, and the color of everything had such a beautiful tint to it. I didn’t see anything unusual in the clouds so I went back to the computer. Ah, this was just to get me off the computer and into appreciation, I thought, okay, great! This happened two more times, I kept hearing GO LOOK AT THE CLOUDS.

So on the third time I saw a cloud that looked just like two dolphins and above it was the exact shape of a large bird soaring over them, wings spread. The bird immediately represented freedom to me. The dolphins, well, I see dolphins a lot and didn’t think much until these two dolphins started splitting up and multiplying…. The clouds were quickly changing into more and more dolphins, all swimming in the same direction, each dolphin splitting into two, and so on, until there was a pod of 12 dolphins all swimming together in the same direction. The bird cloud stayed perfectly intact the whole time, and flew just slightly behind the dolphins.

Then I looked above that cloud formation and there was a hand in the sky, in a fist, and with a finger pointing in the direction the dolphins were swimming. It was very, very clear, I did not have to try to figure out what it was, it was like a drawing, the whole thing!!!

Then came the mermaid, she was swimming towards the hand (opposite direction as the dolphins), with her arm outstretched and touching the finger with hers. The mermaid represented me (like, duh) and had long hair, the whole bit. Quite amazing, actually, it was soooo clear. The pointed finger was telling me to swim in the direction of the dolphins (and I heard, “go with the dolphins”) but the mermaid, even though the “current of the wind” was taking her in the direction of the dolphins, kept her arm stretched out to the hand, as if not wanting to let go of something, as if resisting the dolphins and the natural current and flow of things.

I looked back down at the dolphin pod… they were swimming out of my view now and left a fluffy wake of water in the clouds… then a perfect Ram head appeared on top of the “water” and I said out loud “Aries”. Not sure what that one meant besides that I am an Aries, but a perfect Ram head it was….

This cloud experience gave me the exact message I needed to hear at the time. I love cloud watching, and now I love cloud thought releasing too!