A little video of the day in the life of a Fairy Godmother…

 Start with one positive thought.

If you repeat that thought over and over again and focus on it enough, the mind will latch onto it and do its smart work of looking around the physical world for other thoughts to match it. It creates a thread of thought that becomes a story as more thoughts corroborate the first.

Many teachers have written about this technique over many years – it is called affirmation. An affirmation is a made-up, empowering thought. Repeat out loud to yourself as you get ready in the morning.  Write it on post-it notes and stick these wherever you will come across them in your daily life – on your fridge, your desk, your bathroom mirror. In a few days, weeks or months your mind will take the sentence and create a story out of it with other thoughts that it finds in the world. You will find you are living in a new story and have thus created a new reality of the mind, which in turn creates a new reality in the physical world.

Affirmations should be constructed and repeated in the present tense. Here are some examples of affirmations:
•    I deserve to be wealthy.
•    I am a being of light and whoever I touch feels inspired.
•    I attract loving, caring men into my life.
•    I take excellent care of my body and crave only healthy food and beverages.
•    I am young and successful earning at least R30 000 a month.

When you begin the first tentative mumblings of affirmations, you may feel silly, and some of these affirmations may conflict with existing stories suspended somewhere in the sky of your mind. When you say an affirmation, it may conflict with a ‘bigger, stronger story’ (i.e. one that has more thoughts attached to it). The bigger, stronger story doesn’t like this pesky new-thought-on-the-block and will try to quickly punch it out of existence as it fights to maintain its place in the mind. This is because the mind does not like to encounter contradictory thoughts; it wants to be ‘right’, and how can it be right if two contradictory stories are both true?

As you repeat the words, ‘I am now and always will be responsible with my money,’ the contradictory story may chatter in your mind. The bigger, disempowering story will try to squash this new thought by bringing up evidence, examples and thoughts about why this new thought is not the truth.  ‘Don’t be ridiculous! You, responsible with money? Why do you have R40 000 worth of credit card debt if you are so responsible, huh?’

The trick at this stage of the affirmation game is twofold:

1.    Become the observer of your thoughts and realise both thoughts are stories and neither is the truth. The disempowering story is in a fight for its survival.

2.    Keep repeating the new affirmation – as often as possible. Have it around you as much as possible. Write it often. Repeating the affirmation or thought will create the sticky glue that it needs to attach itself to other thoughts and thus form the chain that creates a new story.

If you continue to do this, at some stage you will notice the old story simply disappears because the new story has enough corroborating thoughts to make it grow bigger and become ‘the truth’.   And that beautiful thing about creating empowering ‘truths’ is that your reality will begin to match whatever your mind believes to be true.

Create an affirmation now.

Get out those post-it notes, write it down.  Repeat it out loud while driving, in the shower or before you go to sleep at night and watch as your life magically transforms in that area.

Yes – the magic is that simple!

 Have you ever sat on a beach and watched surfers frolicking in the waves?

The effortless beauty of surfers mesmerizes me and I can watch them for hours.

Watching surfers will teach you a huge amount about “being in the flow of life” and about how to manifest your dreams and goals effortlessly (or at least make it look effortless from the shoreline.)

“Go with the flow, dude,” is typical surfer lingo and may be construed to be a little silly or naïve but it is the KEY truth in living an effortless life.

Life works in cycles and patterns and what connects one event to the next in these cycles is energy FLOW. Consider the seasons; night and day; birth and death – these are cycles.  Consider the patterns in nature, your fingerprint, in your body, in your behaviour, in music, in the universe – these beautiful patterns that mathematics is able to eloquently capture as numbers.

And between these cycles and patterns there is flow.  Flow is the way that energy moves between these cycles and patterns.

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I am so excited that I have just witnessed the first blossoms appearing on the trees outside my bedroom window.   Seeing those first blossoms are always a joyous occassion for me, because it means that Spring is creeping and ready to pounce – bringing warmer days and a sense of blissful renewal. So while Mother Nature begins to paint her canvas with delicate blossoms, warmer days and a tinge of crisp freshness and new beginnings,  inspired by the magic of Spring over the next two weeks I will be doing 5 blog posts in homage to the new energy that is blooming for all of us.

Our energy is naturally in rhythm with the waxing and waning of the seasons and now after the cozy-up, hibernating feeling of winter, the beginning of Spring brings with it excitement and energy, a time for reflection and a sense of new life, a FRESH START.

So how can you use the natural energy of the Spring season to get your body, mind and spirit back into shape?

Here is the first of 5 tips and tricks from the Fairy Godmother to use this Spring-time energy to its full advantage.

1.    Clean Up Your Space

By this I mean all space that you are in and that you take up – clean up space within yourself spiritually, mentally, emotionally and clean up space that you use on a physical day to day basis, at home, work, in the car and in the traffic.

It may seem fairly obvious to “Spring Clean” by cleaning and tidying up space – but apart from getting out your feather duster and clearing out your wardrobe – there are a few less obvious parts of your life that may need a spring clean too.

The concept of Spring cleaning is to get rid of the things in your life that are “weighing you down”, the dead-clutter from winter (or the past) that needs to be swept away to make space for the new feeling that Spring brings.

You will be amazed at how much of your energy is invested in the stuff that is “lying” around in your life and when you get to clean out all those things, there’s a sense of release, relief and a notable shift in your energy.

So make a commitment to yourself to clean out the places in your life that are clogged up with things – it may be your wardrobe, your office desk, your car, a shelf in your garage, your e mail inbox.

The key rule for a Spring Clean is: “When in Doubt, Throw it away”

The things that you think you should keep for a “I might need this at sometime” moment are things that actually need to be thrown away.  Be ruthless, clutter just complicates life.  If you haven’t used it in the last 4 months, throw it away.

Don’t be fearful of throwing office work and papers etc away, because in reality, we can source, research and find anything again with the Internet, the Google era is upon us and is very useful indeed.

Tip 2 – Cut out the “Deadwood”

Last night as I was sitting at a 27 dinner at a Primi Piatti, a wonderful wizard that I know pointed out some words on the menu which said – “Work is Love made Visible” and gleefully asked – “hey, do you know where that’s from?”

It turns out that it is from “The Prophet” by Khalil Gibran (and if you have never read it go out and buy it immediately!).

So before jumping into bed last night, I raided my bookshelf and found the little green book filled with Infinite Wisdom and I read the part on Work and about “Work being Love made Visible” – here is an excerpt…

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We all know how fun a party can be! Add to that some great South African Bands, free beer and a PURPOSE and some real magic happens

On Saturday I waved my wand by MC’ing the Pinkie Fest 2008 with Kevin Fine from 5fm. The Pinkie Organisers had teamed up with Heart of Healing and Concerts for A Cause to put on one of their fabulous Pinkie Festivals. This time however, instead of all the profits going into the organisers’ pockets they have donated all of the party profits to a specific cause. So not only did the ‘kick-ass’ Bands rock the crowds – Evolver, Plush, Flat Stanley, Voodoo Child and Prime Circle;

not only did the revellers get dressed to the nines in PINK;

but the party furthered the cause of The Power of One.
The Power of One is a phenomenal initiative and campaign to spread awareness amongst all South Africans that there is something that each individual can do to ensure that South Africa has a continuous supply of electricity. During the electricity crisis in January – most people threw up their hands in despair, mumbled and grumbled and blamed Eskom, the Government and apart from a lot of complaining and sending around some Eskom joke mails, did very little else. The Power of One is about taking responsibility for what YOU can do….

So what can you do?

SWITCH OFF

• Switch off unnecessary lights,
• Unplug your cellphone charger when your cellphone is charged
• Switch off your Geyser during the day
• Switch off plugs at the wall

You get the message…. Switch off

We all know how irritating the loadsheds are so go to the website www.powerofone.org.za and plug in by signing up and see more ways you can help South Africa to avoid more costly load-shedding exercises and save yourself some of your hard earned cash at the same time.