Dancing on the Edge of Gratitude

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Trish

A new piece of information came to me the other night regarding Resonant Creation. When I first introduced ‘my take’ on the concept of Resonant Creation last August, I knew I would continue to receive information about ‘how’ it works, I just didn’t realize it would take so long:) As a quick recap (you can read the full post here) the concept of Resonant Creation is that you come to a place in your personal and Spiritual development where you are ready to move beyond the concept of the Law of Attraction and into a state of being where you are walking hand-in-hand with Spirit (or, what I like to call your ‘Expanded Self’). It is a place where you can literally get out of your head and create your life consciously through a beautiful combination of the messages you receive from your heart and your intuition – where you let go of the illusion of control and ‘follow Spirit without hesitation’. This, to me, is the fastest path to your becoming – to stepping into who and what you really are – to owning your innate power and to consciously owning your Destiny.

So what does this have to do with Gratitude?

Well, I’ll warn you that I’m about to make myself very unpopular with some of the leading ‘experts’ in personal and spiritual development and perhaps with you too. However, somebody has to rock the boat, so it might as well be me!

We have been told by many ‘teachers’ that we should feel gratitude, that we should have a gratitude journal where we sit each day and write down all of the reasons why we’re grateful. We’re told that we should be grateful for so many things in our lives – the fact that we have food to eat and a roof over our heads, etc. While I’m not disputing that gratitude is a beautiful emotion and that there is some aspect of humility in truly feeling a state of gratitude that I believe is very healthy, the message that is coming to me right now is about owning our power and how our ‘belief’ that we have to be grateful is undermining our personal power.

Here’s what I’m getting:

Feeling gratitude is a choice. In fact, it is the only emotion that we ‘choose’ to feel versus the other range of emotions we typically experience that are very much ‘reactions’ to a stimulus (an event, a person, etc.)

When we choose to feel gratitude there are degrees to which we can do so, hence the concept of Dancing on the Edge of Gratitude. When we feel a deeply heartfelt sense of gratitude because someone has done something kind for us, that is what I consider to be a healthy form of gratitude. However, when something amazing happens to us and we ‘think’ we should feel grateful for it and we fall into this deep, almost unnatural, feeling of gratitude there is a danger of stepping into a state of disbelief. It is as if you can’t believe your life can truly be that incredible and so you, literally and/or figuratively, fall to your knees in gratitude for this wonderfully amazing thing that has just happened. This is where I’m getting the message that things are falling out of alignment.

The message I am receiving is this: “You (yes, that means Y-O-U!) are infinitely powerful. The more you choose to ‘follow Spirit without hesitation’, the more powerful you become because you are allowing your true, infinite essence to emerge and have a more conscious impact on your life. When amazingly beautiful things happen to you we want you to start accepting them as ‘normal’, as your due. When you respond to an amazing miracle in your life with such a deep sense of gratitude it is as if you are saying, “Oh my God, I can’t believe this has happened to me, I am not worthy of this – I am soooooo grateful this has happened” even as you sit in a conscious, or sometimes unconscious state of disbelief that it actually has. We are not saying to not be grateful, we are cautioning you that the energetic message you are sending with the kind of gratitude that is set on a foundation of disbelief is not serving you. Focus instead on being grateful to those ‘people’ who have done you a kindness rather than on those ‘events’ that are bringing you amazing amounts of joy. When you accept the miracles YOU are creating as being ‘normal’ they will continue to get bigger and bigger, almost as if they want to get your attention – and the true miracle is that as you learn to consider these amazingly brilliant miracles as normal, YOU become bigger and bigger – how could you not?”

Now, I will preface the above with this – I do not know ‘who’ I got this message from (i.e. I can’t name an Archangel or the Pleiadians or any other group that is commonly referenced regarding ‘downloads’ of this nature. I just know the message wouldn’t stop playing in my head until I physically sat down and wrote it out word for word. However, I did find it uncanny that I was working with a coaching client the other night and we were talking about ‘ease and flow and gratitude’ and she actually ‘got’ the idea of ‘accepting it as normal’ without my even saying so. So it’s apparently out there in the ether and we’re all just tapping into it!

Just to be clear, I personally think that gratitude is a beautiful emotion and it is one that I choose often. However, more and more I’m practicing choosing gratitude for the small things – seeing a beautiful hummingbird or a wolf on the side of the road or a flower starting to bloom – I simply allow the gratitude to be naturally infused with the gladness and joy I am feeling at the same time. What I am not doing is questioning all of the ridiculously amazing things that have been happening to me of late. I am accepting them as being my due. I am honouring that I am truly that powerful and that I have created my life through choice, and I am accepting what shows up as ‘expected’ rather than ‘unbelievable’. The shift is tremendous and it is opening the way for more and more amazing things to arrive – I encourage you to Dance on the Edge of Gratitude – but don’t go over it!

Enjoying the Journey! ~Trish

It’s Wonderful to be Weird! By a Special Guest Blogger!

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Trish

I am so honoured to share this blog post with you from a dear friend Michelle Casto (aka Bright Michelle). Michelle and I met via the virtual world of Social Media, I’m not even sure how – it doesn’t truly matter really, we met, we connected and I think she’s absolutely amazing with an energy that totally rocks – I love it! Michelle asked me to review and help edit her book for her while she was still in the draft stages and I have to share something with you on this (I’ll be brief…).

After I wrote The Question Journey I received a strong message from my guides not to read any more ‘spiritual or personal development’ books. The message I kept getting was that I needed to identify, learn and follow my own truth and by continuing to read what others were writing was affecting my ability to do so. That being said, I was also at a crossroads in trying to understand my own Destiny (where the heck was my life going…or more precisely, where did I want to take it?) so I decided to go for it. Ultimately I was the perfect test case, and boy, what a process. Michelle’s ability to take you through the process of discovering your Destiny was simple, straightforward and yet ridiculously powerful. I couldn’t believe the breakthroughs I had as a result of going through her book and the related processes (my ‘What is Your Why?’ blog posting came from reading Michelle’s book! If you feel you’re on the edge of something, but aren’t sure what, I HIGHLY recommend this book for you.

Now…on to this crazy, fun and weird blog from Michelle! Enjoy

In a world where we have all been taught to fit in and dim our light, something wonderful this way comes…..a shift in consciousness, a new way of being that embraces weirdness and deciding one’s fate.

The word fate comes from the latin word–fatum–a noun meaning fate, destiny, and weird.

Weird? That’s weird, right?

Well, it gets even more weird. You see, I have an interesting relationship with the word weird. When I was in 6th grade, I mis-spelled that word in a spelling bee. Now please understand that I was a very good speller, so a short word like that should not have thrown me, but more importantly, I often felt different growing up. Friends would often say how “weird” I was and that made me feel, well, weird, especially at 13.

In 2009, I learned that the original meaning for weird is from an old English noun meaning fate or destiny. To be weird was someone who knew their path of destiny.

What a relief! I could finally let my hair down, and be the real me.

Now, I fly my weird flag around and invite others like you to join me.

In fact, why are you trying to fit in when you were born to stand out?!

Destiny leaves us clues. As a little girl, I knew I was different and that I was destined for something great in life, I just kept following the bread crumbs until I finally felt I could articulate the process with you, in the form of my new book, The Destiny Discovery: Find Your Soul’s Path. There are countless clues everywhere for you when you’re paying attention.

One of my personal clues from the Universe comes from my very first astrological natal chart (circa 1992) “The planet Neptune in the third house means you are full of creative ideas and may excel in artistic and spiritual pursuits…..your insight into human nature is outstanding.”

Along my journey, I have consulted numerous psychics, coaches, and healers who have provided valuable insight into my psyche. I feel that I am spoken to on a daily basis by the Universe and now expect it to come in many different forms…weird, right?

Just today, I had a visit from a Blue Heron during a meditation, and the message was to “stand my ground and embrace my uniqueness.” This message came at the same time I was taking a bigger stand for my own Destiny and sharing my vision for a world of people living their destiny.

It was also weird how Trish and I worked together on the book. I had an intuition that the book needed the perfect editor, and so I reached out to Trish, to see if she had interest. She was actually in a process of redefining her direction, and so agreed to edit the manuscript.

Ever hear of the word serendipity? It means to have a “happy accident” when things come together as if my magic. That’s how life flows when you are walking the path of your true purpose, awake and aware, and yes, a little weird.

For me, it’s wonderful to be weird. It’s wonderful to trust my inner guidance. It’s wonderful to be living my destiny.

So, what clue have you recently been given that may lead to a bright new future for you in 2012?

How are you a fellow weird-o?

What is Your Why?

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Trish

I had a massively huge ‘awareness’ the other morning at 3am, actually, it was probably closer to 11pm that night, but the full realization of the immensity of it took a few hours to really hit home.

I realized I don’t have a ‘why’. It’s really that simple…and that complicated. So let’s work through this so you have a better sense of what I’m talking about.

I started working when I was 13 years old and my why at that time was to prove my parents wrong about pretty much everything. At 20 I was a single mom and my why became ensuring my son had every opportunity to have the best life possible. Fast forward a few years and my why became achievement in my career – I was focused on how high I could go, how much I could achieve and how many ways could I dominate my arena.

A few more years go by and I realize that an achievement-based driver is going to kill me…literally, so I back off and my why becomes my health because I’ve now been diagnosed with a dis-ease and the doctors are telling me I have 7 years to live (this was in 1998 in case you’re wondering). My daughter was also born at that time and she, too, was part of my why.

Well, fast forward to today and my son is 20 years old and on his own, I’m the healthiest I’ve ever been, my daughter is 13, and while not out on her own, is making her way in deciding who she’s going to be.

Through the process of my journey I’ve released my attachment to material possessions (we sold everything we owned before moving back to Halifax and arrived with 13 bags of luggage), so the new car, new house, new clothes just aren’t enough to do it for me.

Apparently I’m flat out of ‘external’ drivers to be my why. Oh.My.God – I’m going to have to look inside for one – CRAP! I hate that! Because now I need to look, let’s hear it…A-GAIN…at my own crap - geez Louise!

So I’m sitting there at 3am, and I start thinking about how this is also affecting so many other people I know, especially those who are ‘aware and awake’. Some are experiencing financial issues and have, through their journey, released their fears related to money – hence – even that is not a why for them. Others are struggling with relationships and have had to learn to be comfortable being alone – so even supporting or wanting things for another person has been stripped away as a potential why.

I know SOOOO many people (many of you who are now reading this) who have had the courage to step onto their journey of waking the frig up – who have faced incredible growth, misery and even despair as you’ve trudged through recognizing and resolving your own crap. Many of you have stepped out of the mainstream in search of something more – or even some way to share your gifts – again this takes HUGE courage.

But I’m also seeing many of us fumbling on our path, or at least that’s what it feels like based on the results we’re seeing. Because here’s the reality – most of us come from a corporate background or at least have a significant level of business sense/experience and we have wicked amazing gifts, products and services to offer the world. It’s not a matter of not knowing ‘what’ to do. We know WHAT we’re supposed to be doing – it’s the doing of it that seems to keep hitting a brick wall. Or sometimes we’re doing and doing and doing and the results are simply not showing up as an indicator that we’re on the right path – so we keep questioning ourselves, our direction, or products, services or gifts – when I’m starting to think that that is not where the issue lies.

We wonder if we’re intuitively sensing that the timing isn’t right, if it’s not the right market, if we have hidden fears about success or failure that are holding us back. For some of you that may actually be the case – but for those of you who have done the work – I disagree – I think you simply haven’t found your ‘why’ – and the worst part is, you didn’t even know you lost it.

Even when we work for someone else we have a ‘why’ – we want to do a good job, we feel responsible to our clients and co-workers to deliver on whatever we’re responsible to do. So when you’re sitting there with your own gift, service, product or offering – with nobody to report to – and when you’ve done your internal work and your why is no longer driven by the need or desire for material things, perhaps you don’t have kids or your kids are of an age that they’re no longer a primary driver for you – where does that leave you?

Take a moment to think back on when you had a solid why. It may have been a decision about something you wanted, or perhaps a decision about something you didn’t want. But when it happened and your why solidified it felt like it locked in, and when it did – EVERYTHING started to mobilize and move and created huge momentum to take you towards what you wanted or away from what you didn’t.

Could your why be the missing link?

You may also have come to the place where you believe your why may be about helping others – I know that’s what I believed for a long time. However, for me (and I can only speak for me), that why lost its lustre long ago, without my even being aware of it, because people can only choose to help themselves – trying to help them when they don’t want to be helped is like pushing ropes uphill – a collossal waste of time and a complete energy drain.

I’m going to ask you to take a minute, right now, and see if you can clearly and easily identify your why.

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My why is….
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So, as I sat at the table at 3am the other morning, finding it difficult to breathe because my chest was so full of whatever energy this particular issue was carrying for me, I decided that this is my why:

I want to know the full glory of who and what I was meant to be.

One other quick word of advice from my mentor Angela Gower-Johnson - Don’t allow this issue, or anything for that matter, to become more significant than you!!! That one helped me breathe a lot easier.

Enjoying the Journey! ~Trish

Wake Up People!!!

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Trish

Ok, this blog post is going to be a total rant. It started yesterday morning and I am so unbelievably flabergasted I couldn’t hold it in any longer. Here it goes:

I’m in the kitchen and the TV is on in the other room. Since I don’t watch TV, I usually just tune it out, however, this time, it just seemed to permeate my brain. It was a man on “The Mom Show” teaching moms how to not only keep their playrooms organized but how to ‘train’ their kids at the same time. The piece I caught went like this, “So, if your child wants a new toy, they must put back the current toy they’re playing with. This teaches your child limits.”

I busted a gasket right there on the spot. I’m sure everyone in the house thought I was a complete nuthouse (not that that’s unusual mind you!). LIMITS!!! Are you freaking kidding me. Why on God’s Green Earth would I want to teach my kids limits.

Do you know how many adults (you included I’d bet a year’s salary) suffer from self-imposed limitations? Guess what? Those self-imposed limitations weren’t self-imposed on purpose. They were imposed upon us when we were kids and constant conditioning ensured they were ingrained into our cellular memory.

Now, before we go off on how our parents wrecked our lives, let’s give them some leeway in that, for the most part, they really didn’t know any better. However, I believe, naive as it may be, that society is a little more with the program now than it was 40 years ago. We are now paying ’teachers’ like Tony Robbins, Robert Scheinfeld, T. Harv Eker and many, many others millions and millions of dollars to undo our self-imposed limitations. Now we have this guy on “The Mom Show” getting access to parents when they’re kids aren’t even old enough to sit up yet and showing them how to teach these toddlers limits!!! When I work with my clients I see the horrendous damage these ‘limits’ cause in people’s lives – it keeps people in poverty, in abusive relationships, in a state of unhappiness and discontent because they know they’re capable of more but can’t move past their ‘self-imposed limitations’ to see the way out of their current circumstances, it keeps them living their lives based on the expectations of others – parents, spouses and even their own kids and on and on and on it goes…

After I finally calmed down I decided this was obviously something I’m passionate about (ahem!), hence the Rock Star thing!

I DEFINITELY DO NOT believe I have ‘the solution’ or that I have some magic formula for how to raise children, or even that I’m right. But I do know I don’t want my kids to know any limits in what they’re able to achieve or be. I want the only thing that holds them back to be the limits of their own imaginations – not any beliefs that I’ve instilled. We’re teaching our children to colour outside the lines, to think outside the box, to be unique, to be OK with being different, to not be afraid to stand alone. We’re teaching them to take risks and to stand in their power.

Of course, the jury is still out on how this approach will work out – my son is now 20 and is a fabulous young man, while still finding his way. My daughter is only 13 and is definitely more strong-willed. We also know somehow, someway we’ll leave our kids emotionally scarred in some way because while we may have the best of intentions, we’re not truly in their heads and we don’t really know how they perceive our intentions, not to mention after working with as many people as I have, I’ve determined that no matter what, parents are going to screw their kids up somewhow – it is what it is. We’ve totally accepted that as being OK.

At some point we have to realize that there are other ways. We have to be willing to try something new – I know it sounds crazy to use your kids as guinea pigs, but I’m asking you to think about your own life, look at who and what you are as a result of the conditioning you’ve received throughout your own life. How has it manifested? How has it affected you? What has it held you back from? What has it given you? What has it kept you from? If you were raised without knowing you had limits – who would you be now? What would you be doing?

Whether or not you have kids, this idea still applies. It doesn’t matter how old you are or what your circumstances were growing up, any day you can simply choose something different. You can choose to be brave, to be quiet, to be different, to be unique, or even better, to simply be YOU!

Ok, I feel better – thanks for that!

Enjoying the Journey! ~Trish

Meet Your Money – My Gift to You

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Trish

WATCH VIDEO HERE

Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve posted a blog. I’ve been in the midst of transitions and shifts that are so huge, there really haven’t been words to describe them. I’ll be sharing more about these in the coming weeks. For today, however, I have a special gift for you. I want to introduce you to your money. I know, it sounds crazy, but bear with me for a minute.

The first thing you need to understand is that everything is energy. Whether you believe this or not, it is what it is. For example, when you meet someone for the first time and decide you’d love to spend more time with them, or decide you can’t stand them, you are, unconsciously, reading their energetic signature and matching it against your own to determine, in nanoseconds, how you will proceed with that person. What you may not understand is that everything around you is energy, the house you live in, your car, your community, your city, your country, etc. etc.

Most importantly, your money is also energy and you are, unconsciously, matching your energy to the energy of money. The problem with this is that the predominant energy of money is one of lack. Lack, or a poverty mentality, is currently one of the strongest energies around money in today’s society. This energy is reinforced daily as we’re told there is a recession, as we hear about people losing their jobs and homes, and as we see the effects of a ‘lack of money’ in our communities.

Are you open to the idea that you could shift this ‘poverty’ energy, and that the shift would affect not only you, but everyone who touches the money you’ve shifted as you do business with them, buy their products or services, or simply give it as a gift?

Depending on your perspectives on money, you’re either attracting, repelling, being apathetic or experiencing one of a million other emotions and/or reactions towards money, most of which you can’t even begin to understand or discern. You may even feel as if money controls you to a great degree. When you have it, you can do things, when you don’t…you can’t.

Money may also seem elusive, as if you’re missing some magic ingredient that keeps you from being ‘one of the lucky ones’. What if it’s not about luck?

What if understanding your money’s energy would allow you to embrace and welcome more money into your life?

Would you choose to embrace more money? If you had the opportunity, would you choose to get to know your money? Would you put effort into creating a relationship with it?

Are you open to changing your perspective?

Are you open to giving your money a personality? Maybe even a name?

Are you willing to experience the joy of sharing your money with others…even when it’s as mundane as paying a bill?

What if every time you gave your money to someone else, for any reason, you sent it off with an authentic wish for your money to experience an amazing adventure?

Imagine you are money for a moment. Would you rather spend time with someone who is constantly stressed, who sees you as a necessary evil, who hates paying bills, who feels like they’re being taken advantage of every time they pay for something as if they’re losing their money and will never get it back? OR, would you rather spend time with someone who loves money, someone who is grateful for the opportunity to be able to pay for the products and services they use, someone who is in absolute bliss when they get to spend money on the things they love to have and do? Who would you rather spend your time with? Can you see how your day-to-day engagements with your money are affecting your ability to have more of it?

Do you realize how much power you have to attract obscene amounts of money to you?

What are you willing to change?

Imagine every time you receive a cheque, your pay, or even a gift of money, that, in your mind, you warmly embrace it and welcome it like a long lost friend.

Imagine going out to dinner and when you’re paying your bill, sending your money off with gratitude for the wonderful meal you just had and sending your money off with a wish for an amazing adventure.

Imagine feeling joy every time you have the opportunity to send more of your money out into the world through paying bills and purchasing your day-to-day necessities.

Imagine using cash more often so you can physically start to feel more connected to your money. We’ve become desensitized to our money through the use of tools like credit cards and Interac – we’ve become completely detached from our money. I believe it’s time to reclaim your relationship with your money.

If you’re feeling like this is just a little weird, let me ask you this, “Is what you’re doing now working for you?” If it’s not, then what’s holding you back? Are you willing to act a little strange if it means attracting ridiculous amounts of money into your life?

Finally, I know that many people in personal development will tell you that all you need to do is shift your perspective. My issue with that approach is that if you don’t know what other perspectives are available to you, then how can you change it? For that reason, I’ve provided a new perspective for you in this short video. You may need to watch it a few times, as the first time through it may throw you for a loop (I think you’ll see some interesting correlations in this video) – but once you start to really wrap your head around it, you’ll start to notice the shift in how you see your money, and more specifically, your relationship it.

WATCH VIDEO HERE

NOTE: this video is in Flash format, so you may not be able to view it on all Smartphones.

Enjoying the Journey!

Mustard and Banana Splits – Embracing the Journey

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Trish

The other day I opened up the fridge to grab the mustard and as I stood there I thought, “I don’t want to buy mustard again!” And that was the trigger, the visceral decision that I don’t want to remain in this house, in this town, on this Island long enough to buy more ‘staples’ at the grocery store!!

So let me back up for a moment. When our family moved to Vancouver Island 6 years ago, from Nova Scotia, we committed to staying here until our son graduated from High School. Almost immediately after his graduation (almost 2 years ago now) we started saying, “Ok, next adventure please…” and have been talking about leaving the Island ever since. Last year we sold a lot of our belongings and started to rent so we could be more mobile. Now we’re coming on to a year of renting and we’re still here – ACK!!!

So, when I opened that fridge and saw the mustard, it was a declaration. It was a statement to the Universe (and anyone else who’s listening) that I’m done.

That very day of the mustard episode I sat in meditation. I know that the last 2 years have been a process of stripping away everything that defines me. I’ve been pushed, prodded and kicked right in the ass by the Universe. I’ve been in a state of wondering, “How many hidden fears, self-limiting beliefs and judgments can I have left, I mean come on!!!” And BOOM, no sooner would I ask the question and the next one was right there – stripping more of my ego-defined self away. I can’t tell you how many times over the course of the last year, in particular, I said, “I’m done, I literally can’t take any more of this, I have nothing left”, only to discover – WRONG – yeah, there was still more crap and goop yet to be uncovered for me to face, acknowledge and release. How naive could I have been to think that I could accumulate 39 years of traumas, hurts and conditioning and get rid of it in mere months?! I mean, I did a 1-year detox of my physical body and I know better – I know you can’t get rid of that much crap overnight. But, naive I was.

So as I continued to meditate on this – to look at it objectively, I realized that I did ask for this. I chose a path that would allow me to be in service to others. I chose the path of a healer. I chose to want to share my gifts with the world in a big way. So why am I fighting this process of stripping away? Because that is how I saw it – a stripping away – a process by which my very self was being taken from me and feeling helpless to stop it. I decided that if I asked for this (and I did) maybe it isn’t a stripping away so much as a cleansing, a preparation for what I am here to do. And if so, then it came to me that if I was going to create the ultimate Banana Split, would I put it in the dirty bowl on the counter that I used last night or would I put it in a clean bowl from the cupboard? Is this not the same thing…I mean, even in the dirty bowl the Banana Split would still taste good, but there would be this niggling icky feeling that it’s not quite everything it could be. Doesn’t it make perfect sense that if I asked the Universe for this role that the Universe would want to manifest that creation in a clean vessel – that it would want to help me to rid myself of all the dirty, icky crap before bringing me to the place where I will step fully into who I am – so there would be no niggling icky feeling that it’s not quite everything it could be?

In that moment I decided to stop fighting and railing against this cleansing (aka stripping) process and to embrace it fully – I mean, helloooo, I did ask for it. So, I’m going with it – facilitating it, opening myself up to it fully. Putting it all on the line – a show of trust in the process that will either bring me to into everything I was meant to be…or to the looney bin (I’ll keep you posted!)

It reminds me of a brilliant line from the movie Revolver, “If you knew how painful and difficult the process was going to be, you would have never come with us.”

The very next morning (after the mustard / Banana Split revelation) we’ve decided to sell everything we own. Furniture, beds, EVERYTHING!!! Getting in a car and heading back to Nova Scotia to see what shifts, what shows up, what changes…to embrace the journey instead of fighting it every step of the way.

Enjoying the Journey! ~Trish

Resonant Creation – The Evolution of the Law of Attraction

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Trish

I have been alluding to this idea of Resonant Creation for quite some time now, yet, there is a readiness that is required for people to get to this place of being able to create through Resonance. From what I can ascertain, you cannot simply ‘choose’ to get there, you must first do the work. Many of my blogs to date have shared with you the work I have done, where I’ve laid myself and my struggles bare before you in the hopes that my journey resonates with you at some level, and that you will, in turn, feel supported should you decide to do the work for yourself. That being said, as always, this is not gospel, fact or even truth. This is MY TRUTH. The intent of what I share with you is always about allowing you to take whatever resonates and to leave everything else behind, never has that intention been any more pertinent than for this posting.

Last summer was the first time I saw any mention of the term Resonant Creation, it was in a blog posting by Lauren Gorgo. There was no description of it, or what it meant, however, as soon as I saw it I knew exactly what it was and that it was HUGE; that it would change everything. And it has.

What ‘Work’ Do I Need to Do?

The work I am referring to is the process of deconstructing who you believed you were, to allow who you really are to emerge. This work is often frustrating, heart-wrenching, painful and lonely and there are many, many ways to accomplish it. However, as you come out the other side of each ‘release’, you find that you’ve evolved – and more importantly, that the world around you has evolved to match who you are now – new friends, a new job, destructive family members or relationships have moved away from you, etc. If you’ve been doing your work, then you are in a position to begin to leverage the ease and power of Resonant Creation. You work will continue, but the process will be infinitely easier, faster and less damaging to your external environment. Issues you needed to release that may have taken months to reveal themselves to you in the past can now be identified and released in a matter of hours or days at most.

The Law of Attraction in a Nutshell

Here’s how we’ve been taught that the Law of Attraction works:

1. I identify what I desire.

2. I create an emotion that matches what it will feel like when that desire has been realized. For example, if I want a new car, I imagine how totally cool it will be to drive my new car, listen to music in my new car, how my new car will handle, how I’ll smile every time I see my new car when it’s shiny and clean. I’ll imagine how others will look at my new car longingly because they also think its totally cool. Essentially, I ‘manufacture’ an emotion that then becomes the engine to power the Universe to bring me what I desire.

3. I get out of the way, allowing the Universe to bring me what I desire.

Our self-imposed limitations on the Law of Attraction:

1. Our natural tendency is often to want to dictate or control ‘how’ our desire shows up. Because of this, we tend to limit the ability for our desire to show up in our lives because we’re expecting to see it show up in a certain way.

2. Our human mind is limited in its ability to truly appreciate the magic that goes into having our desire come to us. In fact, this is so much the case that often people who practice the Law of Attraction will tell you that it wasn’t until months after they actually received the object of their desire that they even realized it had already arrived. They wanted it, they followed the steps, but when it arrived, they didn’t even recognize it for what it was. Months later they looked back and realized, “Oh, wow, that’s cool, it did arrive, huh”!

3. One of the biggest barriers to this approach is that many of us don’t have a clue what we really want. The more we become comfortable with the Law of Attraction, the more we also become discerning in how we choose to use it. All of a sudden the new car, or the bigger house, etc. somehow doesn’t seem as important as it did before. We get to a place where we want more than material possessions – where we want to make a difference in the world, where we want to become everything we were meant to be.

I want to be clear that the issues I’m identifying here are not issues with the Law of Attraction, but rather with how we choose to leverage the power that is at our disposal.

How is Resonant Creation different from Law of Attraction?

At it’s essence, it’s not. It uses the exact same engine insofar as it is a Universal Law. However, HOW it is used is the difference between what you knew about Law of Attraction and what I’m about to share with you now.

With the Law of Attraction as you know it today, YOU must decide what it is that you want. Then you must manufacture the emotion to ‘power’ that manifestation. Again, two issues: 1. most of us don’t really know what we want, and 2. some of us have no idea what it really feels like to be a millionaire, so how do we create that emotion, for example.

In practicing the Law of Attraction you have been led to believe that you have to defer to a power that you believe is greater than you to bring to you the things that you believe you want.

Me giving my intention to the Universe using Law of Attraction:

What if…
…you had the ability to allow your Expanded Self to guide you to the people, places and events that are aligned not only with who you really are, but why you are really here?
…you understood that you are not meant to defer to the Universe as a separate entity that is more powerful than you, but that your Expanded Self holds within it all of the power of the Universe, and therefore, the power of the Law of Attraction?
…you didn’t have to try to figure out what you really want, but were able to discover what you really want through experiences that resonate with you and show you what you most want to know?
…you didn’t have to put so much energy into figuring out, using and waiting on the Law of Attraction to work?
…you had the ability to leverage huge power, that resides within you, to enable the power of the Law of Attraction easier and faster than ever before?
…you could get out of your head and stop driving yourself crazy trying to figure it out at all?

This is Resonant Creation.

Me owning my power through Resonant Creation:

I met with a client last week on this very topic. Before we started I asked him what he thought Resonant Creation was. This was his answer:

“It’s when I can get out of the monkey-mind and get into a place where I know, with absolute certainty, that what feels right is what I should be doing or creating. Where I will feel within me who or what is in alignment with my path and I can become clear about what I’m here to do.”

It was amazing. With very little information, he intuitively knew what Resonant Creation was, just as I did when I first read the term in Lauren’s post last summer. Because it RESONATES!

With the Law of Attraction as we know it today, we are effectively pushing our will or desire onto the Universe to create what we think we want.

With Resonant Creation, we are surrendering to our Spirit (Expanded Self, Highest Good, Guides, whatever you want to call it) and allowing the feeling of resonance to guide us to what we really want.

More to come…this one’s a biggie!

This video from Abraham-Hicks talks about ‘The Vortex’, this is another name for living in Resonant Creation. Near the end, you will hear the man speaking about how much energy he used to put into ‘creating through Law of Attraction’, yet you will hear Esther Hicks talk about how the Law of Attraction is still in effect, it’s how you’re accessing it that makes all the difference between being in or out of The Vortex.

Enjoying the Journey! ~Trish

The Money Gap

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Trish

This blog is intended for anyone who is currently struggling with how to align their Spirituality with the Desire for Money. I’ve seen many iterations of this issue over the years, here are just a few…

The “I’m Spiritual I Don’t Need Money” Belief:
For some, the underlying belief is that ‘The Universe will provide for me’, and while it does, in fact, do exactly that, it’s too often a hand to mouth existence, for which the person is grateful, because they have ‘let go’ of their materialism through their personal journey to enlightenment. I too have been in this place, and while it definitely was a validation of my belief that I would be taken care of, it frankly wasn’t much fun.

The “I’d Rather be Happy than Rich” Belief:
Then there are those who have deep rooted beliefs pertaining to money as they have seen it portrayed in their own lives. Again, I have also experienced this, where I saw people who had a lot of money and along with it, a ton of misery. I decided, I’d rather live in a trailer and be happy than live like that. I’ve heard MANY people repeating this same belief – to the point where it even reinforced my own because I respected the opinion of those who were saying it!

There are many other ‘beliefs’ out there about money, however, I want to focus specifically on those people who are taking a Spiritual approach to life and finding that the money always seems to be out of reach. Enough shows up to get them by, and they are confident in their path, but man, it would be A LOT easier if money would just flow. I mean, we’re all practicing the Law of Attraction, aren’t we? Why can we attract a book, a trip, the perfect connection, a car, etc. but not the money? What gives?

I think I’ve finally figured it out. It is a small part of the theory of Resonant Creation I keep alluding to (and will write more about soon!), but this explanation draws on the very teachings of the Spiritual journey, hence the reason this is who I’m focusing on for this information.

Each of us has a certain level of vibration. Some call them radio waves of energy that we emit, where we can ‘tune in’ to different waves of energy, but ultimately it seems to work such that the vibration we give out ‘resonates’ with others of a like vibration. Essentially, it will ‘attract’ to us people who are vibrating just below, at, or just above us, providing for us a range of people to connect with, some of whom we will teach, some of whom we will simply connect with and others who will teach us. If you take a look at the people around you right now, you will notice that they are not the same people, nor even the same ‘type’ of people who were around you before your journey began.

Now, money is also an energy. However, the energy of money is determined by the mass consciousness. And the mass consciousness is creating an energy for money that is based primarily on greed and lack. What this means is that the energy of money as a whole is dense and heavy. Since you are vibrating at a very high level, your energy is light and moving very quickly. Kind of like the difference in how molecules move in water versus a rock. The molecules in water are vibrating at a much higher frequency than the molecules in a rock. Hence the gap. You don’t see rocks floating in and on top of the water, the water simply can’t hold them. They float to the bottom and stay there and if you chose to bring them physically to the surface, they’d be difficult to move.

This is the gap that we are experiencing with our ability to manifest or attract money to us. The vibrations don’t match. Now, before you get frustrated and decide you’ll never have money and you’re fine with that, think again. The key is perception. We currently perceive money as something ‘out there’ that is just beyond our reach. Something that is just beyond us and we can’t understand why. The process of trying to figure it out actually undermines our self-belief, as we start to believe we are somehow not worthy, or we weren’t meant to have money in this life, or else we start to justify that our life of ‘service’ is perfect and money wouldn’t change it anyway. I say bullshit! Money would totally change it. Money would allow you to share your gifts with hundreds, thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people that you would have never had the opportunity to help otherwise. Money would allow you to feel secure and comfortable in the physical world so you can focus on the amazing work you do in the Spiritual world. There are people out there, right now, who are waiting for YOU, and you’re not showing up for them because you’re not out there, and you’re not out there because you don’t have the money that will facilitate getting you there! Don’t kid yourself that you’re fine with how things are right now, if you are, then you are either living in the ether and have pretty much completely disconnected with actually living in this physical realm or you are holding yourself back from stepping fully into who and what you were meant to be. No, I’m not saying that you can’t be everything you were meant to be without money, what I am saying is that with the money you will be able to SHARE yourself in many more ways, and the world is waiting to see what that looks like.

So, back to the gap and the perception. What you need to understand and KNOW is that YOU are the one who is vibrating at the higher level than money. Money is your slave, not the other way around. As an energy, you can choose to command that lower, denser energy as you choose rather than being at its command. Take control of your power and command the energy of money, don’t wish for it, try to manifest it, create false feelings around it trying to employ the Law of Attraction to make it real. Know that YOU are its master and bring it to heal (intentional misspelling!). See the money as being the unfortunate victim of a collective consciousness that has maligned it. Bring it to you, and heal it as you do. When you use the money that comes to you to secure yourself first, you are setting yourself up for being able to share with others and the money is in service to you in that way. When you are confident in your financial being-ness, then the money will be further cleansed as you use it to put yourself in service to others. The money is an energy of exchange, it allows us to connect with others. But WE get to choose the form of exchange and WE get to choose the method of connection and the money will bend to our will, because we are the higher vibrational energy. We can literally infuse the money with a higher vibration, and in that, we will start to change the world.

The days of the Spiritual Healers and Guides and Coaches and Leaders living in borderline poverty for the love of what they do are over. It is time that we take back control of the energies that will allow us to step onto the world stage, in whatever that looks like, and stand fully in our power. I’ll see you there!

Enjoying the Journey! ~Trish

The Path to Power

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Trish

Power is something each of us gathers around us for any number of reasons. Some of us do it to feel powerful, confident, sure of who and what we are. Others use power to manipulate others or to acquire things. And still others source power to simply increase the feeling they get from feeling powerful. There are many reasons why we each seek power, but there are also just as many forms of power as there are reasons to seek it. The form of power you wield will determine whether you feel fulfilled and complete or empty, angry or lost.

There are two (generalized) places from which we can source power. To keep things simple, I’ll call them the Dark and the Light. Regardless of the source you choose to draw from, both are equally powerful. However, the energy required to sustain that power, depending on the source you choose, is dramatically different. Let me explain.

When you source your power from the Dark, I liken it to a gas tank. Just like your car, this gas tank constantly needs refueling. The fuel for this particular gas tank is sourced from others. More specifically, it is when you take away another’s power, through cruelty, manipulation, jealousy, hatred, etc. that you are able to fuel your gas tank. When you stop doing this, you feel as if you are losing the sensation you have come to know as power, and in effect, you are. It takes huge amounts of your energy to constantly source this type of power.

On the other hand, when you source your power from the Light, it is like Solar Power. As long as there is sun there is power and there is nothing ‘extra’ you need to do to get it, other than to choose to use it. It is always there, and it is available to you in infinite supplies. Few of us have even started to scratch the surface of understanding the enormity of this power, we simply have not been conditioned to understand that we could have it, let alone that it could be that easy and that infinite.

So, each time a situation arises, you can choose the Light or the Dark. There is no right or wrong in either, both will give you power, but you need to check with your internal guidance system to determine which one resonates with you. If sourcing from the Light resonates with you, you will find that upon first taking steps in that direction, that it is not always the easiest option. However, you will also find that, over time, it becomes easier and that your ‘internal guidance system’ will start to help you navigate your decisions without the emotional drama that may have been attached to them in the past.

Now that we’ve set the framework from where you can choose to source your power, I want to share with you a very simple (not necessarily easy, but simple) process should you choose to source your power from the Light and should you decide that you want to own that personal power and become complete as the brilliant and amazing being you were born to be.

The steps are quite simple, as I’ve said. I’ll share them here, but you can also watch this presentation for additional information. The process is cyclical in nature and you will go through the cycle more than once, in fact, you can count on going through it many times. However, each time you go through it you will find that it is easier, that you will see the indicators faster, that you can start to separate yourself from the emotions of it, becoming the observer, and that each time you complete a cycle, you become more powerful. Even more interesting, is that the more powerful you become via this process, the more you will choose to empower others through service. It’s an interesting outcome, and not one we’ve been conditioned to understand or even accept as being ‘normal’, maybe that’s why I like it so much

Access the presentation here.

So, as you can see, the process has four very simple steps:

1. Forgive

2. Surrender

3. Embrace

4. Serve

Be conscious of where you source your power. For each time you take away from another, you actually make yourself weaker. We often do kinesthetic testing in my workshops. When someone things something negative about another, the person they are thinking the negative thought about becomes physically weaker. However, what is more interesting is that the person having the negative thought is even weaker still. Release yourself from the conditioned definition of power and embrace the power of who you really are.

Enjoying the Journey! ~Trish

Releasing ‘Hope’, ‘Faith’ and ‘Belief’ to Find Your Power

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Trish

Yes, I know, this is a radical concept. I mean, whether we believe in a religion or consider ourselves ‘spiritual’ or both (or neither), we generally have faith in something or we have hopes for our future, and we definitely have beliefs we’ve created as a result of our journey, experiences and conditioning.

I know many of you have found this last year to be exceptionally difficult. You’ve been forced to look at yourself, your issues, your choices and anything and everything else that may be holding you back. Oftentimes the same thing kept coming up for you again and again (re-read A Spiral Theory on Why The Same ‘Stuff’ Keeps Showing up in our Lives! if you’re not sure what I’m talking about here!). This process is getting us to a state of readiness. It has been preparing us to be able to shift from the ‘old’ into the ‘new’. The ‘old’ being a state of separation, the ‘new’ being a state of unification. It was necessary, but it wasn’t even remotely fun, and the games are continuing even now. Ask yourself how many times you’ve felt, said or believed that things were shifting, that you were leaving the crap behind and moving forward, only to be taken down yet again. And you’re shaking your head wondering, WHAT!? What am I missing? I understand the Law of Attraction, so what gives? I believe, I believe, COME ON UNIVERSE, I mean really! Is this some kind of cosmic joke?

A new day is upon us and we can choose to embrace it…or not. The choice is always ours. I want you to think about this for a moment. When we ‘believe’, or ‘hope’ or have ‘faith’, we are putting not only our trust, but much of our personal power into something that is completely intangible, into the ethereal as it were. What if that ‘source’ (God, the Universe, Spirit, etc.) was a person. Would we give that much power to another person. NO WAY (not consciously anyway!). So, as I sat down the other night after being knocked down a peg…yet again, I decided I’m done with this. I’m finished with asking, “why?” and I’m sick of having ‘faith’ that everything will turn out. I’m frankly sick and tired. Then something magical happened.

I was talking about this (whining and bitching frankly) to my dear friend Kony Dengel. As I was talking to her I realized that this ‘hope’, ‘faith’, and ‘belief’ that I have that the Universe will take care of everything is feeling more and more as if I’m giving my power to someone or something else. I was feeling power-less. Is not the very state of ‘hope’ a belief that I don’t have what it is I want, hence I ‘hope’ I’ll get it someday. Is not the very state of ‘faith’ a belief that someday things will be as I want to them to be, but that they’re not that way right now? Is not ‘belief’ saying that it’s not real now but it will be, hence I ‘believe’ it to be the case, rather than ‘knowing’ it is.

That night I decided to let go of my hope, faith and beliefs. All of them. I often encourage my coaching clients to do this as well. Not that you have to forever release your beliefs, but you should always be willing to question them, for they are simply a construct based on what you ‘know’ at this moment, which changes every moment, hence you should allow your beliefs to change as well.

When I went through this process I let go of my beliefs as a Shaman and as a healer, I let go of my belief that I’m ‘supposed’ to be an author and a speaker, I let go of the hope that someday I will be financially free, I let go of my faith in the Universe, and on and on and on it went. I felt a huge release through this process, not as if something was being ripped away, but more like a weight was being lifted.

The next morning I was curious to see how I would feel. Interestingly enough, I was still a Shaman, still a healer, still an author and speaker. However, it was not through my ‘hope’ or ‘belief’ or ‘faith’, but through a knowing. I had taken back my power from the land of the intangible and made it real through owning it right here on the earth plane, right now. I felt totally empowered and almost immediately things began to shift.

I want to be clear that I still see Source as the core of all that is, whether that is God, the Universe, etc. But I no longer see it as something separate from myself. I’m not putting the responsibility for my reality ‘out there sure to happen at some future date’, I’m owning it ‘in here…right now’, and it’s pretty cool.

The Law of Attraction is about creation through intent. I believe the ‘new’ power of creation will be through ‘resonance’ – alignment with who and what you were meant to be. But more on that in my next post. Until then…

the journey! ~Trish