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New Perspectives: You Attract What You Have Faith In

There are so many messages out there for us when it comes to the law of attraction. And in most cases, the clearest message is that every thought you think is attracting to you an experience in your life. Some have even stepped out further to say that your beliefs are the cause, guiding your thoughts to attract things into your life. For me, as somehow who espouses a daily intention to co-create my life with source and the universe through the law of attraction, these two elements of thought and belief alone have mostly come up short. In other words, I've been able to witness to some small degree many things finding their way into my life as the result of a thought or belief. For instance, I've had thoughts that I'm sure you all have experienced...thoughts such as I haven't talked to so or so in a while, or man I'm really craving a night out with the girls...and low and behold within mere seconds or days so and so will give you a call and your best friends will organize a girls only dinner party. It happens time and time again, even with the things you don't necessarily find pleasant. I see this happen to me most often with traffic..man, I hope I don't hit that traffic on the way to visit family, or I better leave early so I don't hit that traffic...and low and behold, the traffic appears. But the intentional co-creation of big beautiful miraculous changes and dreams for my life has never seemed to work. It's felt almost like battling against a rip tide...pushing and pushing and forcing my way into the creation to no avail.

Today, however, I had the biggest ah ha I've had in years, and the reality of the words and the reaction I had from realizing how very true they were in my life was ridiculous to the point of silly. And the concept is this: You Attract What You Have Faith In. Here's the thing...we can practice appreciation for the things we have in our life, and we can ask God till we're blue in the face for that home or that love or that career or that health...but if we don't have faith that it's taken care of, and if we don't take action from a place of faith....the message we send is one of disbelief. And as we know, and I've come to practice in my life, what we believe is what we experience. So when you dis-believe, the universe brings to you the experience of disbelief. In essence, the kingpin for co-creating the life of your dreams is in fact Faith. Attraction is Faith. And if you take all cues from this place, all action and thought from this place, life can be nothing short of miraculous.

This is my new intention. To have appreciation for the beautiful things in my life, to ask for the desires and dreams of my life to appear, and then live in a place of faith by only being and doing from a place of knowing that it's already done and the details have already been handled. 

Thank you Ali Brown for this simple shift. I can't wait to see what God and I can co-create together from this place. #blessed

Co Creation: The Pivot Process In Action

Today was unbearably hot.

Simple, to the point, hot.

One of the reasons I moved to Santa Barbara was a desire of living in a slightly cooler climate than the often crippling heat of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. Dreams of ocean breezes and cool fogged in mornings had me hooked from day one. But today... today (and yesterday, and the day before yesterday) became stagnant with miserable warmth, and as a result, my MOOD was teetering on the edge of stagnant and miserable. Life truly presented a real opportunity to test my desire for joy and love, as well as my level of ease in pivoting my life from one styled in angst, to one styled in love.  

Here's a bit how the process went:

First, I honored my angst. It is, afterall, a reminder that I am more than just this body and this world, but that I am a spirit being part of something much greater than myself. That, and, it was a warning sign that my thoughts and emotions and beliefs were veering off course from love. 

After a simple thank you under my breath, I turned to to my inner self and asked the simple question, what do I desire? Cold air, kind weather, cool breezes, ease in sleeping, walking breathing.

Next, I counted my blessings: 1) Wow...i'm so lucky that warm weather is all I'm dealing with right now, since so many of my friends and friends of friends are having to evacuate their homes from fires, or stay inside for fear of flash flood warnings and tornadoes. 2) I am healthy enough to find comfort from the heat by taking a walk, sitting in the cooler grass at the park, and driving my nicely air conditioned car around town to cool down. 3) I have easy access to cold water at my disposal with my nice refreshing shower, whereby I can easily cool down and get some sleep. 

Finally, I said a quick prayer. Thank you God for my life, my blessings, and the choice to experience this world how I desire. Thank you for cold air, cool breezes, and cold water. Thank you for love, and for working with me to style my life in it.

The simplicity of the pivot process is that, really...the heat doesn't necessarily instantly go away. But its power over my emotions does. And in any situation, no matter what it is, you have a choice. And for me, I choose a love styled life every time. Some days are easier than others, some pivot opportunities easier than others...but in the end, the choice is ours. And that in and of itself is a beautiful thing. 

New Perspectives: The Importance Of The Dress Rehearsal In The Manifesting Process

In today's New Perspectives post, I talk a lot about that common phrase we often hear in the Law of Attraction circles...Fake It Until You Make It. This phrase has always felt a bit in-authentic to me, and has often stopped me from truly engaging with my dream. Find out how a simple shift in the language we can use, enabled my heart to better align with feeling the life we dream to live.

For the full message and beautiful reminder, listen to Danielle's audio below: