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		<title>Celebration as a Path to Manifestion</title>
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<p>Every Friday, Kalyn and I celebrate. We have a group of students and friends who are actively improving their lives who come and celebrate with us, either at our home or we choose a restaurant in Santa Fe. Since doing so, we have not only seen the manifestation of our dreams and desires accelerate in incredible ways, but we have witnessed wonderful things our students and friends are bringing into their lives.</p>
<p><em><strong>Why is Celebration a Powerful Path to Manifestation?</strong></em></p>
<p>There are several reasons why celebrating accelerates your creating process. Here are a few;</p>
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<li>Celebrating lifts the spirits of all those participating. It raises your emotional tone. As you live from a happier place, you can’t help but to attract higher vibrating things into your life.</li>
<li>Celebrating is a form of gratitude. As part of our celebrating process, Kalyn asks each person what they are grateful for in their lives. Everyone then toasts that person and celebrates what they are grateful for, acknowledging what they have received or created. Gratitude is one of the most powerful energies to strengthen manifestation.</li>
<li>Celebrating what you have manifested or are thankful for gives you more of what you are celebrating. As you celebrate what you are celebrating, you increase the energy, the thoughts, and feelings around it, attracting even more of it. It is also a personal marker for you giving you a reference point to just how much you are actually manifesting. When doing this people are often surprised at just how many of their dreams are coming true.</li>
<li>Celebration is a form of ritual. A ritual, as I am using it here, is something you repeat over time. When you repeat something often for a long period of time, especially when you do it at the same time (such as every Friday), you create energetic pathways for the energy of celebration and manifestation to come through. This empowers your manifestation process.</li>
<li>When a group of people with a common Intent come together, such as celebrating what they have manifested or what they are grateful for, it amplifies and strengthens everyone’s power of manifestation. The group synergy is powerful. Plus, having others celebrate your manifestations is a great affirmation.</li>
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<p>A celebration is different than a party. A party is for having fun, or meeting people. A celebration is also for fun (we dance, feast, and play games), but also has Intent behind it that everyone shares. In this case the Intent is to celebrate what you have manifested or those things for which you are thankful. Even if your manifestation hasn’t yet taken form, by celebrating something you are grateful for, you will accelerate your manifestation process.</p>
<p>I highly recommend you take on the celebration habit. Not only will you empower your manifestation process but you will have a wonderful time doing so.</p>
<p>Kristopher</p>

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		<description><![CDATA[Life Doesn&#8217;t Need to be so Hard“When the persona (personality self) is disconnected from the bigger Self you are, it loses its compass. It is like a ship adrift at sea without a sail. It has no direction. Choose for Self and you will reconnect with Self. Take your power back and you&#8230; will connect [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href='http://kristopher-raphael.com/not-difficult' class='retweet ' startCount = '0' target='_blank' >Life Doesn&#8217;t Need to be so Hard</a><div id="attachment_480" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 249px"><a href="http://kristopher-raphael.com/wp-content/uploads/SM-Lost-at-Sea-72.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-480  " title="SM - Lost at Sea  72" src="http://kristopher-raphael.com/wp-content/uploads/SM-Lost-at-Sea-72.jpg" alt="Sally Moore, Lost at Sea" width="239" height="175" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Sally Moore - Lost at Sea</p></div>
<p><cite title="quote">“When the persona (personality self) is disconnected from the bigger Self you are, it loses its compass. It is like a ship adrift at sea without a sail. It has no direction. Choose for Self and you will reconnect with Self. Take your power back and you&#8230; will connect to Who you are, which is a powerful being of light. Life looks very different in this light.” </cite>Kristopher Raphael</p>
<p>So many people try so hard to make life work, simply because they have forgotten one simple thing. They try to create the life of their dreams over and over again, but their dreams always seem to be out of their reach. They become frustrated and disillusioned. They keep pushing and pushing but a part of them feels like giving up.</p>
<p>Are you one of these people?</p>
<p>It doesn’t need to be like this. In fact, life was never meant to be this way.</p>
<p>So what is missing? What have you forgotten?</p>
<p>Did you know that there is a bigger part of you that is, at least from the personality’s standpoint, all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving, all-abundant? This part of you is so much bigger, wiser, and more powerful than you the personality. But, what is most important is that this part of you is here to serve you. It is here to serve you because it is you.</p>
<p>This bigger part of you goes by many names – Higher Self, True Self, Core Self, Soul, Source Energy…the Toltecs call it your Dreamer. It is Who you are before, during, and after you come into body. It contains your Life Purpose and all the tools you need in this lifetime to fulfill it. <br />
 You the personality self are a piece of this bigger Self (with a capital S). You the personality self are necessary for your bigger Self to function and experience physicality. You are a piece of It and It is you.</p>
<p>The bigger Self that you are has the power to create in ways the personality self can hardly imagine. If we were to put a ratio to it, you could say that 80% of the power to manifest lies in your bigger Self. The personality self has only 20%. Most people, unaware or having forgot Who they are, only use the 20%. This is why life is so challenging and often frustrating for them.</p>
<p>To exacerbate this even more, most people only use a small percentage of the 20%. You have probably heard that people only use a small part of the potential their ‘mind’ has. This is true. But what is even more impactful than this is that their ‘mind’ is the 20%. Their ‘mind’ is only a small percentage of their total Self, their total potential. If you use only 5% of your 20%, you are really only using 1% (100% x 20% x 5% = 1%) of your total potential, of the bigger Self that you are.</p>
<p>Just think, if you could tap into your 100% potential, you could create in one year what normally takes you 100 years to create (1% x 100years = 1 year).</p>
<p>So the question is, how do you tap into your Source Energy, your Higher Self, Who you truly are?</p>
<p>And I will speak to that in my next article.</p>
<p><strong><em>Click here for a video on  making life easy <a href="http://golden-flow-system.com/member/74/not-so-difficult/">Golden Flow</a></em></strong></p>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a question that if you sincerely ask, and honestly answer yourself, will propel you onto to personal growth and spiritual faster than you can imagine. It will also powerfully activate The Law of Attraction. It is a question you should ask yourself every day. It is a question you should ask whenever you [...]]]></description>
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<p>There is a question that if you sincerely ask, and honestly answer yourself, will propel you onto to personal growth and spiritual faster than you can imagine. It will also powerfully activate The Law of Attraction. It is a question you should ask yourself every day. It is a question you should ask whenever you have a life challenge. Ask it and you will find that you already have the solution to any of life’s problems. Best of all, you will empower yourself to create the life of your dreams.</p>
<p>Before I give you the question, let me ask you a couple of other questions. When you dream at night, who is dreaming? Who creates your dreams? The answer is, of course, you do. You, or an aspect of the bigger self that you are creates your dreams, and you dream them.</p>
<p>Along the same lines, who creates your life? Who lives your life? The answer is the same. You do. You create your life and you are the person living it, no one else. When you are ready and willing to accept this truth, your entire life dramatically changes.</p>
<p>This first thing that changes is that suddenly you are empowered. If you are creating your life, life no longer happens to you. You make it happen. Perhaps you are not happy with everything in your life now. Knowing you are creating even those things you are not happy with, gives you the power to change what you create, and create something you will be happy with. After all, if life just happens to you, how can you change it? You can only change it if you create it. And, you do.</p>
<p>The second thing that happens when you realize that, just as you create your dreams you create your life, is you take responsibility for what you are creating. So often, people blame their life on other people, on circumstances out of their control. As soon as you do this, you have just given away your power to create the life you desire.</p>
<p>Blame is always self-destructive as is the anger that comes out of blame. In its extreme form, blame turns to rebellion which always harms self. Many people have more or less ruined their lives by blaming their parents and going into rebellion. They then project the blame onto bigger authorities such as society and/or government and ultimately end up dropping out of life and dis-empowering themselves.</p>
<p>This does not mean that you should not strive to improve the world you live in. You should. And, the best way to do this is to honor self and take responsibility for the world you are creating.</p>
<p>The third thing that happens is, because you are taking responsibility for the life you are creating, and because you are empowering yourself to more powerfully create that life, you begin to create the life of your dreams – a life full of love, abundance, well-being, with your deepest desires fulfilled.</p>
<p>So what is the most important question you must ask yourself every day? It is this. Ask yourself “Why am I creating this?” If you ask yourself this question, and honestly look at self, you will know. You will not only know why you are creating the situation or attracting the person or that kind of relationship, you will know what it is you need to shift in self to attract something better. You will have just empowered yourself to create the life of your dreams.</p>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is wrong with its seeking the pleasant and shirking the unpleasant? Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. By flowing with life I mean acceptance &#8212; letting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><cite>What is wrong with its seeking the pleasant and shirking the unpleasant? Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. By flowing with life I mean acceptance &#8212; letting come what comes and go what goes.</cite> Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That</p>
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<p>If you push someone what happens? Chances are they will push back. If you grab someone&#8217;s hand and pull them, what happens? They pull away from you. If someone is needy and is grasping at you for your love and attention, what do you do? Most people pull away. Grasping at something you want can actually stop you from having it. Repelling something you don&#8217;t want, can make it push at you even harder.</p>
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<p>People grasp and repel in many arenas in life. They grasp at things they want. They grasp at receiving pleasure. They repel people and things they don&#8217;t like. What they don&#8217;t realize is that the constant grasping and repelling, not only creates the outcome they don&#8217;t want, but puts them in a lot of stress and drains their energy.</p>
<p>In personal development, grasping and repelling will stop you in your tracks. You can&#8217; heal something you avoid looking at. If you avoid and deny that you have an alcohol problem, for example, the problem will persist, or get worse. It is only through shining the transformative light of awareness on something that it can heal and be integrated.</p>
<p>If you wish to manifest your hopes, dreams and desires and activate the Law of Attraction, the best state to do this in is being in the flow of life. You must allow what you desire to be, not grasp at it. Grasping at something implies that you don&#8217;t have it. If you don&#8217;t energetically have it first, you won&#8217;t have it in form.</p>
<p>When you allow both the good and the bad without grasping and repelling, you enter into the the powerful flow of the now moment that flows through self and all of life. You naturally move into a state of well being that is more aligned with your desires manifest, activating the Law of Attraction.</p>
<p>There is a powerful Japanese martial art form called Aikido. Ai means harmony. Ki means spirit. Do means &#8216;the way of&#8217; or &#8216;the road to&#8217;. In other words, Aikido means &#8216;the way of harmonized spirit&#8217;. The key difference between Aikido and other martial arts is that you don&#8217;t repel or block a person attacking you, you flow with punch or kick, using the energy of their momentum for yourself.</p>
<p>Do this in your life and you will have more energy to manifest what you wish to manifest. Instead of resisting things you don&#8217;t like and pushing them away, simply allow them to flow through you and dissapate. This puts you in the universal flow of life as you move into living in the now moment.</p>
<p>Be aware of where you are grasping at things in life. Imagine having your desires manifest. Grow the sensation of your desires manifest in your inner world. Do this without grasping at them and you allow them to move from being to having. Grasping prevents the having. For example, if you wish more abundance in your life, imagine yourself being abundant. Imagine what you will buy, what you will do, and most importantly how good you will feel with your abundance. If you are grasping at it, it means you don&#8217;t yet have it. Let the grasping go and have it in your inner world (your thoughts, feelings and imagination). As you do this you open the door to having it in your outer world as well.</p>
<p>Living in the Flow has other advantages. One obvious one is that when you are not repelling or grasping at things in life, you have more energy, and less stress. You are more relaxed and because of this are able to get more done in less time. One can only surmise that living a relaxed, stress free life with more energy would be better for your health and longevity.</p>
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<p>Want to increase your well-being and more powerfully activate the Law of Attraction in your life? Be aware of where you grasp and repel in your life. Consciously let the grasping and repelling go. Allow whatever is to be. As you do so, you begin to live in the Flow where all good things reside.</p>
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