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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<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>
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		<description><![CDATA[If You Don&#8217;t Make The Choice, The Choice Makes You The above is a great line from the Movie Ghost Rider. One of the beautiful things about living in the Flow, is that you become aware that, at any given now moment you have a choice. You can choose who you wish to be. The [...]]]></description>
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<p>The above is a great line from the Movie Ghost Rider. One of the beautiful things about living in the Flow, is that you become aware that, at any given now moment you have a choice. You can choose who you wish to be. The now moment contains all there is. If you wish abundance, you can always find it somewhere in the now moment. If you wish to feel enthusiasm and excitement about life, you can always find it in the now moment. Living life on purpose, with intention, means consistantly choose who and what you are in any moment or in any given situation. The more you choose who you wish to be, the more you are empowered to be just that. As the line from the Ghost riders says, you have the power to choose Who and What you wish to be. Yes, it can take practise because so many of us have been conditioned not to choose. When we don&#8217;t choose, life happens to us.</p>
<p>Now choosing to be Who you wish to be doesn&#8217;t mean that you grasp at it. Nor does it mean that you repel what you don&#8217;t want to be. Grasping and repelling are one of the biggest stoppers in life. They keep you out of the flow, blocking off the natural support that life give&#8217;s you. One of our students, for example, has always felt like she is a victim. She doesn&#8217;t like feeling that way, so she repels it and tries to push the feeling away from her. If instead, she simply chooses to be an empowered woman in any given moment, empowerment will flow into her life. There is no need to repel the victim energy. The victim energy will have no place to be as she is already filled with the energy of empowerment.</p>
<p>If you wish more abundance in your life, be abundant. Don&#8217;t grasp at it. What happens if you grab a person by their arm and begin to pull at them? They naturally pull back. The same is true with the Universe. If you are pulling on the Universe&#8217;s arm for money, the Universe will naturally pull back. It matches your pulling with pulling. This is another aspect of <a href="http://golden-flow-system.com" target="_blank">The Law of Attraction</a>. If you pull at something, it pulls back. If you push something away, it pushes back. If instead you choose to welcome abundanc e into your life, abundance welcomes you.</p>
<p>We all have parts of self we like, and parts of self we don&#8217;t like. Instead of focusing on those parts of self you don&#8217;t like, and trying to push them away, focus on those parts of self you do like and feed them. Vickie Smith gives a wonderful story illustrating just this.</p>
<blockquote><p><cite title="Who Do You Feed">Grandfather said to the boy, &#8220;Let me tell you a story. It is as if there are two wolves inside me, one is white and one is black. The White Wolf is good and does no harm. He lives in harmony with all around him and does not take offense when no offense was intended. But will only fight when it is right to do so, and in the right way.</cite></p>
<p>&#8220;But, the Black Wolf, is full of anger. The littlest thing will set him into a fit of temper. He fights everyone, all the time, for no reason. He cannot think because his anger and hate are so great. It is helpless anger, for his anger will change nothing.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sometimes it is hard to live with these two wolves inside me, for both of them try to dominate my spirit.&#8221;</p>
<p>The boy, looked intently into his Grandfather&#8217;s eyes, and asked, &#8220;Which one wins Grandfather?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Grandfather, smiled and said, &#8220;The one I feed.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Who will you choose to feed? Consistently choose Who you wish to be and before you know it your life will be an extension of what you choose.</p>
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