By Terri Cole on July 13, 2010
Who Wants to Harness the Infinite Power of Coincidence? I Do I Do!
I recently had a truly transformative experience, spending five days in Taos, New Mexico with Dr. Deepak Chopra and the Chopra Center crew. Our seminar was aptly titled, Syncrodestiny – The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire/Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence. Now who doesn’t want that??
My husband, Vic, and I arrived at El Monte Sagrado Resort and were immediately impressed by the beauty and comfort that awaited us. Situated in the desert of Taos, New Mexico, everything had an earthy Pueblo feel and smelled of sandalwood. I was in desperate need of a long pause and felt great about being back with our pals from the Chopra Center. We started our days with the 5:45 am lawn meditation led by our favorite sage from Queens NY, Davidji. A gym workout followed, where we saw Dr. Chopra every morning, giving him the standard New York slight head nod. At 7:30 we did yoga led by the angelic Gabrielle and then grabbed a quick bite. Our official seminar start time was 9:15 with a 30-minute group meditation before content began. In our past seminar experience, Dr. Chopra would facilitate some workshops and his partner of twenty years and co-creator of the Chopra Center, Dr. David Simon, would handle others.
On the first morning I received an e-mail from Dr. Simon informing us that, as the mystery of the universe would have it, he had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and was having surgery that day. We were shocked and saddened by this news and then blown away by how Dr. Chopra and the rest of the crew handled themselves. They were pure grace in motion. Vic and I both sensed a difference in Dr. Chopra… he was on fire. He was so present and full of amazing energy. His urgency came through as a commitment for us to “get it” and become part of the global solution now. I was entranced.
The net is as follows:
1. The foundation for living our collective best life is based on a committed spiritual practice. Meditate for 30 minutes at the beginning of the day and immediately after work. Take care of your physical body with 30 minutes of cardio a day and yoga 2 to 3 times per week. Eat well and don’t use drugs or alcohol to mask imbalance.
2. It is not positive thinking that moves the organizing power of the universe to bend to your desire; it is “creative” thinking. Some people fear the unknown, but Dr. Chopra pointed out that everything is unknown because we create every moment. Why not create something mind-blowingly awesome? (Okay, I added that part J.)
3. Your intention and what you pay attention to is what you create. So if you put your attention on negative past feelings and experiences, you keep repeating them.
4. Create a mind map of your desires in all areas of your life; look at it after meditating and throughout your day. Dr. Chopra informed us that the iPhone has an application for this.
5. When you feel dis-ease (anger, jealousy, annoyance, etc.), stop and acknowledge the feeling without writing a script about it. Then keep your attention on the constriction and breathe into it. Just being with the feeling until it dissipates with your breath creates space to choose differently.
6. Invite your archetypes to incarnate through you, manifesting their desired qualities into your experience. I chose Ganesha, the remover of all obstacles, Buddha, Suze Orman, and Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas (for her mad skills and hot bod). When I suggested Oprah at the seminar, Dr. Chopra replied, “Yes indeed – Oprah. If she had married me she would be Oprah Chopra.” Brilliant and funny!
7. Remain in a state of centered awareness. Intention is much more powerful when it comes from a place of contentment rather than lack or need. Refuse to be influenced by other people’s doubt or criticisms. Your higher self knows that everything is and will be alright, even without knowing the details of what will happen.
8. Every night take the last five minutes before sleep to replay the events of your day. View it like a movie but with no judgment, and then release it. This increases awareness of how you are actually being in the world and informs you of any changes you may want to make.
I am changed, now integrating a new and winning formula into my life. I always believed that just doing anything longer and harder than anyone else would get me where I wanted to go. This plan has been adaptive and successful but not without cost. The concept of planting the subtle intention of what you desire and truly releasing the attachment to the end result resonated with me, filling me with relief. I now see that the illusion of control is just that. I am creating the life of my dreams with much less effort and stress. So can you. I highly recommend Dr. Chopra’s book, “The Happiness Prescription,” as a guidebook to creating your own syncrodestiny.
Here’s to the spontaneous fulfillment of your desire!
Love Love Love
Your Crazy Sexy Blissful Life Coach,
Terri
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By Arielle Ford on February 5, 2010
Here’s what I know for sure: finding true love is possible for anyone at any age if you’re willing to prepare yourself, on all levels, to become a magnet for love.
This wonderful Universe of ours is set up to deliver the people and things we draw to us that are consistent with our personal belief systems. If you don’t believe you will ever find the ONE, then, guess what? You get to be right …you probably won’t.
If, however, you learn to believe that the ONE is not only out there, but is ALSO LOOKING FOR YOU, then true love can be yours.
The basic Law of Attraction states that you will attract the things that match your state of belief. Believing that your soul mate is out there is critical to the preparation of manifestation.
I believe that the Universe is always mirroring back to us our beliefs about ourselves and the world. If we believe the world is a loving and friendly place, then most of the time that will be our experience. But, if we believe the world is a chaotic, stressful and fearful place, then that becomes our reality. So, believing and knowing that your soul mate is out there is the most important part of the formula.
What if I told you that it is not your job to know how your soul mate is going to appear? What if I told you that it is only your job to be ready, willing and open to love? Think about it this way: you really don’t know where air comes from, but you do believe that it’s always there for you, right?
The same is true for love. It is there for you. It has always been there for you. You just need to remember the love that you are, and once you do, the Universe will deliver the perfect soul mate to you.
Here is what worked for me, and I know it can work for you: When I was in my early forties,, I decided to manifest my soul mate using everything I had ever learned about manifestation, psychology, spirituality, and the Law of Attraction. My intentions became crystal clear while I simultaneously cleared out the clutter in my house and in my heart. I learned and invented techniques, rituals, visualizations and prayers that helped me prepare my body, mind, spirit and home for an amazing relationship. And they worked. I met my husband, Brian, who has exceeded all of my desires and expectations. He was and is everything I ever wished for.
Big love is possible for anyone of any age who is willing to become a magnet for love. Continue to live each day in the knowingness that you are in a loving, committed relationship as you savor the waiting for your beloved to arrive.
Top ten things to do and remember to manifest your soul mate:
1. Be the loving person that you are. Find ways to express more love to everyone in your life.
2. Live in the knowingness that you are in a loving, committed relationship.
3. Live that truth every day as you savor the waiting for your beloved to arrive.
4. Create a “vision map” of your romantic vision and look at it daily.
5. Write a list of the most important qualities your soul mate will possess.
6. Heal your heart of any past hurts that will prevent you from magnetizing big love.
7. Clear out the clutter in your home and create space for your beloved (especially in your closets).
8. Create an altar in the relationship corner of your home.
9. Listen to your intuition to take action when opportunities present themselves.
10. Fall in love with yourself. Know that you are loveable
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By Guest Blogger on February 2, 2010
Deepak Chopra
There is a long tradition, both East and West, about sacred words. We don’t resort to that kind of thing very much in modern life. If you are a devout Catholic you repeat the rosary, and in many sorts of Buddhist and Hindu meditations a mantra is repeated over and over. There are two reasons for this, usually. One is that the repeated words go directly to God, as prayers do. The other is that repetition fills the mind with a deeper intention that can create a good effect.
I wonder if it isn’t time to consider how words can help to heal. I’ve been fascinated for a long time about how to update traditional spiritual practices, and this one is especially promising.
What can a mere word do to heal?
In ordinary life words can be incredibly powerful, creating instantaneous, often dramatic changes in mind and body. Think of the difference between hearing the words “You’re hired” and “You’re fired.” How many lives have been changed by “I love you”? Yet we actually know very little about how to consciously employ the effect that a single word can have.
Let me make some suggestions for you to ponder:
Withhold harsh words: Being honest doesn’t mean being brutal. In the name of telling the truth, we’ve all heard — and said — things we’re sorry were ever uttered. It’s worth remembering that every cell in your body is eavesdropping on the brain, and when you feel hurt or shocked by what you hear, the same shock is occurring to hundreds of billions of cells.
I became a doctor just on the cusp of a big change in this regard. It used to be that physicians hardly ever told fatally ill patients that they were dying, often withholding even the diagnosis. (When the last emperor of Japan died, he was not told his diagnosis — the old practice still holds in other cultures.) It was thought that receiving bad news could hasten a person’s death and impair his chances of recovery. This effect is known as nocebo, the reverse of placebo. In essence, your body metabolized bad news and becomes sicker, or it metabolizes good news and starts to heal.
Today, we believe it is only ethical to give patients full disclosure about their illness, and on the whole that is the right thing to do. But it doesn’t erase the nocebo effect. Leaving medicine aside, consider withholding harsh, harmful truths in daily life. There is no reason to discourage a child, for example, by saying hurtful things.
It’s well known in psychology that descriptive statements (such as “you’re lazy, you can’t be trusted, you’ll never be as smart as your sister,” etc.) make a much deeper impression than prescriptive statements (such as “pick up your room, remember to come home on time, be nice to your sister” etc.). Sometimes a single derogatory sentence from a parent or close friend can remain stuck in the brain for life, serving as a toxic seed that grows into a belief that one will never be good enough, smart enough, or beautiful enough. It’s much harder to remove these seeds than not to plant them in the first place.
Words that heal: Besides holding back on harsh and derogatory words, saying words that heal really works. Offering reassurance in an anxious situation settles people. Reminding someone that they are loved, respected, and valued should be a habit. Such words serve to bond two people together at a deep level if the words are backed up with simple, sincere, believable emotion — not over-stated emotion but natural feeling. We tend to be shy about exposing ourselves emotionally, but only if you try can you gain the benefit.
Then there are words we say only to ourselves, silent words of healing. In the East there are thousands of such formulas, many gathered under the loose term of mantra, that are repeated in order to infuse the mind with their good effect. You can’t get much effect from repeating a word like love, compassion, kindness, and forgiveness when your mind is agitated or filled with the flotsam of everyday life. But if you deepen your awareness through meditation, which brings one’s attention to a level of silence beneath the surface static, then healing words can have quite a strong effect.
It is taught that healing words, when said at a subtle level of the mind, can do several things. They can purify the mind of negative thoughts by introducing a more positive effect (such as replacing “It’s my fault” with “Blame won’t help anybody”). A healing word can bring comfort; it can add a positive element to your surroundings. It can improve your mood and the overall tone of your demeanor, which others will notice and take heed of.
I’m suggesting that healing words need to play a more important role in our lives. This is a vast territory worth exploring. As a society, we’ve become experts at words that definitely don’t heal: gossip, cynicism, skepticism, accusation, partisan wrangling, smear campaigns, and character assassination. As a result, we know all about the bad effects of such words. Why not consider the positive effect of saying words that work in the opposite way?
Through his over two decades of work since leaving his medical practice, Deepak Chopra continues to revolutionize common wisdom about the crucial connection between body, mind, spirit, and healing. His mission of “bridging the technological miracles of the west with the wisdom of the east” remains his thrust and provides the basis for his recognition as one of India’s historically greatest ambassadors to the west. See this blog and more at www.Intent.com.
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