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Posted: October 11th, 2007 at 1:16am By: Joyce Shafer
I did my daily practice of walking to the waterfront to sit on a bench and let go of thinking, as much as possible. My mind (like many others) is usually a-whirl with thought, so deliberately letting go for a period of time is beneficial.
Then I decided to add something I never thought of before: Focused receiving. Again, like many, I was taught, "It's better to give than to receive." Let's be frank: Something key about that got lost in the translation, and our attempt to follow the letter and not the spirit of it has messed a lot of us up. The Universe offers plenty of examples that giving and receiving is a loop. Block one, you block the other. Oops! We didn't mean to do that, did we? When we receive, that is a gift we give to the giver. Doing so with grace is a blessing we bestow on each person involved, including ourselves.
During the week, a few stressful challenges had entered my life experience. I did what I could about them on the physical plane, then went to the waterfront. On the way there, I thought about how good it would feel to sit serenely and relatively quietly at water's edge and feel my connection to the energy in all things. When I got to my destination, I discovered a walkathon was in progress, and it was comprised of teenage girls. They were laughing and yelling; they were anything but quiet. I chuckled and thought, "I wanted to connect with energy? Here it is, in multitudes."
I found a bench and sat facing the water, and remembered I'd decided that one symbol of the Universe's transmission to me of loving energy and reassurance was when I saw pink. The moment I had that thought, 90 percent of the people who passed in front of me had some form of pink in their possession. I couldn't help but note that had the walkathon been all teenage boys, I probably would not have had that outcome. No accidents. On a day I needed my own version of color therapy, I really got it. Even on the walk home, people were wearing pink.
Pink is not my color choice because I'm female. Pink is the color of love. Its hues come in delicate whispers and fuchsia jolts and everything in between, just as love does. Maybe you'd like to pick a color or a symbol and state that, every time you see it, represents some form of encouragement, affirmation or endorsement you would like to receive and expand into your life.
If you do, you may wish to be discerning about who you share this with. A person whose mindset is locked into "tick-tock," as Stuart Wilde puts it, is going to tell you it's a lot of hooey. You have the right to create and implement anything that makes you feel more the way you wish to feel, which is better and stronger. Anything that empowers your spirit, go for it. I'm trusting you to know the difference between a strong spirit and a strong ego.
When your spirit feels strong, which can only happen from within, you feel secure and others feel secure in your presence. Everything changes, so it's important to realize the feeling of security is an inner process, one only you can nurture. You owe it to yourself to do so.
If you decide to do this color therapy, what might your color be?
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Joyce Shafer is a life empowerment coach and author of "I Don't Want to be Your Guru, but I Have Something to Say," as well as "How to Have What You Really Want," and contributor of articles to various publications. She has an eclectic background and focuses on learning, growing, and sharing information at every opportunity. She can be emailed at {email jls1422@yahoo.com}jls1422@yahoo.com{/email}. © Copyright 2007 by Joyce Shafer.
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I did my daily practice of walking to the waterfront to sit on a bench and let go of thinking, as much as possible. My mind (like many others) is usually a-whirl with thought, so deliberately letting go for a period of time is beneficial.
Then I decided to add something I never thought of before: Focused receiving. Again, like many, I was taught, "It's better to give than to receive." Let's be frank: Something key about that got lost in the translation, and our attempt to follow the letter and not the spirit of it has messed a lot of us up. The Universe offers plenty of examples that giving and receiving is a loop. Block one, you block the other. Oops! We didn't mean to do that, did we? When we receive, that is a gift we give to the giver. Doing so with grace is a blessing we bestow on each person involved, including ourselves.
During the week, a few stressful challenges had entered my life experience. I did what I could about them on the physical plane, then went to the waterfront. On the way there, I thought about how good it would feel to sit serenely and relatively quietly at water's edge and feel my connection to the energy in all things. When I got to my destination, I discovered a walkathon was in progress, and it was comprised of teenage girls. They were laughing and yelling; they were anything but quiet. I chuckled and thought, "I wanted to connect with energy? Here it is, in multitudes."
I found a bench and sat facing the water, and remembered I'd decided that one symbol of the Universe's transmission to me of loving energy and reassurance was when I saw pink. The moment I had that thought, 90 percent of the people who passed in front of me had some form of pink in their possession. I couldn't help but note that had the walkathon been all teenage boys, I probably would not have had that outcome. No accidents. On a day I needed my own version of color therapy, I really got it. Even on the walk home, people were wearing pink.
Pink is not my color choice because I'm female. Pink is the color of love. Its hues come in delicate whispers and fuchsia jolts and everything in between, just as love does. Maybe you'd like to pick a color or a symbol and state that, every time you see it, represents some form of encouragement, affirmation or endorsement you would like to receive and expand into your life.
If you do, you may wish to be discerning about who you share this with. A person whose mindset is locked into "tick-tock," as Stuart Wilde puts it, is going to tell you it's a lot of hooey. You have the right to create and implement anything that makes you feel more the way you wish to feel, which is better and stronger. Anything that empowers your spirit, go for it. I'm trusting you to know the difference between a strong spirit and a strong ego.
When your spirit feels strong, which can only happen from within, you feel secure and others feel secure in your presence. Everything changes, so it's important to realize the feeling of security is an inner process, one only you can nurture. You owe it to yourself to do so.
If you decide to do this color therapy, what might your color be?
— — —
Joyce Shafer is a life empowerment coach and author of "I Don't Want to be Your Guru, but I Have Something to Say," as well as "How to Have What You Really Want," and contributor of articles to various publications. She has an eclectic background and focuses on learning, growing, and sharing information at every opportunity. She can be emailed at {email jls1422@yahoo.com}jls1422@yahoo.com{/email}. © Copyright 2007 by Joyce Shafer.
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