Day 43, Thankful Thursday, October 1, 2009

Hey all. Happy Thankful Thursday. I wonder if that is why Thanksgiving is on Thursday.

Anyway, I don't believe in accidents anymore. If I did, I might consider starting a blog called Happy Accidents.

And I would be thankful today for Happy Accidents.

I have been realizing more and more how much I love getting out with my HD Video Camera and filming stuff. It gets me out and outside my box to experience something new. So, how can I get paid for that?

In the meantime, I've been realizing from the opportunity I had to film Heaven on Earth LA's grand opening that I could use a better camera...so what would that be if I am serious and then how do I learn how to use it and what software do I use to edit with and how do I learn how to use that.

Let me back up a moment. For the $100 I paid for my current camera and the $100 I paid for the Sony Vegas Software for editing, it is a small investment for fairly good results for those who just want to be casual about it. I did find out a top of the line low-light technology Sony HD video camera for $1000 that would be just fine most likely if I still want to be more or less amateur. And in doing a bit of looking around, I found out that if you want to be a professional filmmaker, there is a $3000 Sony camera that takes everything to a new level.

What is cool is that I did want to know what that camera was and through a Happy Accident did find out? So, it helps me be thankful that when you ask, you are answered.

Still, I can't seem to find a book on working with these types of cameras to get the most out of them. No Dummies books etc. And no Dummy book on using Sony Vegas software and things to do to be more professional with your editing and also supposedly the software has the capability of allowing me to put together DVDs that can be played in a DVD player and I have no idea how to do that either.

Here's my Happy Accident. I need to find out more about using my editing software for the Heaven on Earth LA project. So, I figured of all the Barnes and Nobles I know of in LA, I'd go to the biggest one I could think of with the assumption they'd have a larger selection and just might have something I could use as a reference. Plus, I hadn't been to the Grove for a while and it is right next to the Farmers Market, which is celebrating its 75th Anniversary this year. The Grove is also a sort of celebrity hangout 'cuz it is also next to CBS Television City. Why not combine a fact finding expedition with an opportunity to get some video?

Looking through the books, which I didn't find any for Sony Vegas Software to help me, I found a book on Blogging as a profession.

About a week ago with all the ads all over for the new season of Californication coming up, it popped into my head that it would be cool to come up with something called Californivacation. I love my city. I love SoCal, as we call Southern California. I could so do a video/photo blog of different places to visit in SoCal.

One of the things I have talked about before with friends is that there truly is so much more to SoCal than I feel the stereotypical traffic and Hollywood and beaches.

And so today, I started my Californivacation: SoCal Style blog. Yesterday, I was a little down for reasons that really don't even matter now and today I am back. What brings me back faster and easier than ever before is knowing I am Divine.

What I loved yesterday when I visited Stahsha, the gal who owns Heaven on Earth LA, mentioned that was awesome is reminding me we are whole beings and to be as present as possible. We are Divine Beings having human experiences. Embrace it all. And I love the idea of Heaven on Earth. Do you think that those in Heaven worry about health or wealth? At least my idea of Heaven was that everything is right with me and now I get to make my rules. Like eating all the ice cream I could ever desire to eat and always being beautiful and perfect body shape. That's what I feel about well-being.

First, we are already well-being in truth. To think/feel we are not is lying. Now that we know that nothing is wrong us how do we want it to be?

So on this awesome Thankful Thursday, I am thankful for life, for me, for my divinity, for flowing and glowing well-being, for the internet, for blogging, for loving where I live and wanting to experience and share it, for our 100-day open-heart challenge and for all of you who read this and I share life with.

Thank you. I love you.

you know what they say about appreciation...

...especially if you are "feeling" it...you know, heart-felt, authentic, genuine.

So a shout out of appreciation to the three gals who co-created the co-creator social network, Sandy Grason, Lilou Mace and Laura. http://www.cocreatingourreality.com

Also, to Stahsha S. of Heaven on Earth LA and everyone who was present for the Grand Opening and made it the unique and wonderful experience it was. http://www.heavenonearthla.com

Okay, if I really got going I'd have to thank me and God and life and love and peace and the internet and digital cameras and blogspot and google and twitter and facebook and yahoo and being able to type and living so close to the ocean and well, I'm still on the internet over 3 hours after I thought I was going to finish doing what I wanted to do. So, I'll leave you with my stream of appreciation and perhaps it may inspire you to....

As long as I'm doing this...

I am sort of jokingly thinking that I may for the rest of this include a design a day compared to @BryanBrinkman #DesignAShirtAWeek. I mean if I can have google ads in my blog. And it won't really be about the designs, although if one inspires you to buy something. Whoo hoo!

So, here are three of the ones I created that are more spiritually inclined that I really love.

The first is my Imagine Peace. I love word play. I love how the word imagine instructs you what to do...imagINe...image IN.



The second and third are actually the same design. I simply thought there are those who would love the design plastered as big as possible on their shirt and those who would much rather have it smaller and placed over the heart.

Again with the word play. I noticed the words: earth and heart both have the same letters in them. That is the inspiration for the 1 earth, 1 heart design.





Feel free to share these with your friends.

Thanks.

Day 10, Saturday, August 29, 2009

This morning, despite being happily awakened by a phone call from my oldest son, well...let's just say I don't jump right out of bed feeling thrilled that anything great is going to happen today or...well...I'm not sure of the words to say.

Yesterday, I took a break from being on the computer. I had some wonderful moments, like filming the wonderful water show going on in my front yard. Children amaze me. It's been hot in our area (hotter than normal...hot enough for air conditioning). And while the kids weren't at a five star resort or at the beach or what most would have to feel is the place they need to be in order to feel like it is worthy of them, etc., these kids were having so much fun. There were many screams of delight. I can only assume that in their minds none of that mattered...only the pleasure and joy of the moment.

Anyway, what I didn't even intend to write the above paragraph. Interesting. What I felt inspired to write about today was how I can be. Getting an insight into my knee-jerk ways. I was on such a high Thursday feeling how great an idea I had been inspired and entrusted with. And then yesterday and even this morning before I faced my computer (I know it sounds funny as I write it) expecting there would be someone, somewhere who would ridicule me for having such an idea. And as I write that, I can see how sad if something like that runs me. For I'm sure every idea must have those who will ridicule it or tell you it's stupid or whatever. So one can see why I was in not the best, most aligned with divine love well-being place this morning.

So, I made the coffee and I gingerly powered up my laptop. First thing I do is check my msn email, which is pretty much dedicated to the daily messages from the universe, tut.com. They only come Monday through Friday, but I didn't see yesterdays. And I have to send out love and appreciation to Mike Dooley because Friday's message put me right back into love.

Remember, I'm on an open heart challenge. How much can I come from my open heart and love in each moment during these 100 days?

As I went through my sort of routine (although I am not a fan of routines and I do try to change it up), not one word of ridicule. And my mind started getting into peace and thinking more about my idea and if it truly came as inspiration, then it is a divine and sacred idea. It is important for me to remember that for starters.

And then I started to think about what our world might be like it I asked for help to spread the word and everyone had some sort of web presence that had a donate button on it. And everyone practiced giving 10% of the wealth that flows to them...just because...no expectations...to those who when asking their heart they felt inspired them that day. And they were able to do so because everyone had a donate button they could access. And as this progressed, maybe the donate button actually became the choice of having a "gift" button or inspired giving button or something like that. And that with the inspired giving button PayPal included the software so that the source of the gift was left anonymous to help ensure the gift was given from the heart with no expectation.

I started thinking about the well-being this would enhance in our globe...amping this vibration. And the well-being it added to our global fiscal fitness because it would encourage wealth circulation from a place of love and peace and giving...some of the highest vibrations definitely in harmony with love, an open heart and well-being.

That in truth, I should feel such immense from my open heart appreciation for being entrusted with such a divinely inspired, global enhancing idea. Even more importantly, I should feel humbled because I need the help of spreading the word and participation from others, etc., in order for the "big vision" to become manifest.

In closing, what I am really doing is asking for help. I am asking for those who read this to visit http://www.friendsofthelawofattraction.com. I am asking for those who read this to participate in the currency cleanse on 090909. I am asking for those who read this to check out the currency cleanse page and the appreciation and giving page. I am asking for help spreading this message. I am asking the universe to help me attract those who can help make this divine idea a manifested reality. You never know how the web of who knows who can help get the word into the hands of those who can help.

I thank the divine for entrusting me with this idea. Somehow, I figure I may not be the only one. And I thank all of you...anyone and everyone who was giving enough to help me spread the word or do whatever they feel motivated to do to help this vision manifest.

Namaste.

Day 7, Wednesday, August 26, 2009

So today would have been my dad's 76th birthday. Happy Birthday, Dad. Thank you for the blessings you helped my soul experience. I hope wherever you are in your soul's journey it is filled with love and blessings. My dad passed over ten years ago.

So, if you are reading this, where's day 1 through day 6? I had already set up a google account for blog spot under a business my son and I share, http://www.beerchillin.us. What's a so called spirituality fanatic doing with a business that more or less promotes beer? That's another story. And the real gist of our business is we sell beer steins and promote beer as a way to chill...not to get drunk. And the stein as a way of enjoying your sudsy beverage in a way that makes you feel rich as you drink whatever beer you enjoy. As a way to celebrate and toast to the good life.

Since the account is in my name, when I decided to do this blog Google wouldn't let me cancel this account to set up another. And try as I might to get them to and/or figure out how to add the blog I started be part of this account...I couldn't figure it out.

This seemed a great compromise since I was only five days into the old one and everything I've written I have also posted to my CCOR (co-creators of reality) page.

After today, this blog and my CCOR page will track again. Whoo hoo!

If you are interested in my CCOR page, you can click here.

If you are interested in the CCOR page for the 100 day open-heart challenge, click here.

Today, I was excited to see that Dr. Joe Vitale's book Attract Money Now is available to download in digital form for reading. If you would like to get your own copy, click here.

I read it. I loved it. And yet, to be honest, I was a little sad by it 'cuz he includes everything I've been feeling and sensing as truth but didn't have the confidence to write myself. And there is a part of me that feels like why try? Why reinvent the wheel when he has expressed it so wonderfully. And it sort of makes me rethink what it is I feel like I have been going for with the business I wished to start. And so there is some sadness.

And yet, part of me feels like in as much as it has derailed me a little, I still feel committed to living more from my heart. And that what Dr. Joe Vitale describes as Dr. Hew Len's philosophy of life where you actually get to the point of not even needing intention (except that I still must have to have the attention to follow what Dr. Hew Len teaches, eh?) is such an open heart place.

Also, as I was writing stuff (if I read a how-to type book, I like to write out things that sort of shout-out to me as something I want to remember from the book as a way of reinforcing the teaching), it occurred to me that while my time reading the book and spreading the word is well-spent, I am still in love with the whole ho'oponopono concept and how it applies to living with an open-heart.

Dr. Hew Len basically puts it out there that in every moment I should be silently saying the 10 ho'oponopono words (I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.) to myself and to the divine. This tracks with my intention to be 100% impeccable. And to be more like God consciousness in the sense that Dr. Hew Len doesn't limit what I see as divine as being simply other humans. It's all divine. It's all energy.

What occurred to me in the context with the Law of Attraction is that if in evey moment I simply practice as Dr. Hew Len describes and continue to repeat (or as much of every moment as I am able and think of it consciously until I get to every moment) the 10 words, well, when is the point of attraction? Right. The point of attraction is in the point of attention, which is in the present moment.

It stands to reason then that if in every moment I am continually reciting the 10 words (and maybe, I cheat a little, but don't think it can hurt 'cuz I like to repeat what Brad Yates says in his ho'oponopono video and you can see a lot of this and more if you, click here) and pepper in the "Thank you for the blessings I have. Thank you for the blessings I am receiving" then in every moment I am vibing more and more in harmony with divine love.

And as I vibe more in harmony with divine love, then what could there be to fear. What must show up...what I must then start attracting on a moment to moment basis is only going to be more and more in harmony with divine love. Sometimes I like to misspell harmony and spell it har-money, as harmony with the divine is harmony with all aspects of well-being, which include health, wealth, beauty, love, joy, peace, etc.

I mentioned too, that ho'oponopono is simple. It's easy to remember. It almost makes it easier to have me be told to just do it all the time 'cuz then I don't have to remember when to do it and when not to do it. And here's what seems like it will be the other benefit: it helps me let go of resistance. It is helping me let go of deciding if what is showing up is something I should like or not, instead it simply frees me to love it and then say next. Or as the prayer implies. By repeating it, it frees me up to either forgive myself for whatever was in my consciousness that I attracted it into my awareness. Then I appreciate it and love it and bless it and send it on its way for the next best, more in alignment with divine love and well-being experience to show up.

And I have to say that this sort of thing has opened the door for me to love a seeming virus threat and love it out of my life. And it opened the door from unexpected cash to start flowing in from places I so didn't expect.

Okay, so all in all, the book was worthy of the read. I would recommend it. And how can you go wrong with such wonderful information shared freely and requiring only an investment of your time.

It's going to be exciting to see how my life is different at the end of the 100 days. On day 83 I will turn 50 in earth years. I've always had a feeling I would live past 100 physical years in this lifetime and in a fabulous and fit and full of well-being way. This could be an awesome way to herald in the second half of this glorious incarnation.

And so it is.

P.S. Brad Yates has a wonderful (at least in my opinion) program he did in conjunction with Dr. Joe Vitale that incorporates EFT, called Money Beyond Belief. Probably the best $49 investment I've made in a long time. One of the things included in the program is a short audio to tap on embracing change. Had I known at how helpful just this short audio would be, well... If you are interested in finding out more about this program, please click here.

Welcome

This is my blog.

How original is that?

I know...so many blogs. Why bother?

I want to record my journey, the journey that tracks my decision to participate in the 100-day open heart challenge which started on August 20, 2009. So, I am really writing this for me. I promised myself I would not get hung up on whether what I was writing was good or perfect English or anything anyone cared about. Yet, I would still put it out there and mention it on Twitter (go #TwitterPower) and just let whoever seemed attracted to be attracted in whatever way they felt attracted.

And so it is!