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Posted on February 18, 2010
Do you know your way to attracting all kinds of good fortune into your life? No, it’s really not about your marketing, although good marketing is important. It absolutely has something to do with your mindset, although that’s not the full answer either. What’s MORE powerful than marketing and mindset? Your instincts. Are your trusting yours?
It’s important that you do because your gut instincts are always giving you directions regarding your next steps. In fact, if you hit the pause button right now and got really still within yourself and asked to be guided to your next steps you would get an answer. I’m sure of it.
But sometimes I know it feels like you’re not getting nudges, answers, information or any other form of divine intelligence that shows you the way. Why does this happen and what can you do?
Here’s a look at gut instincts and tips for hearing yours.
Gut Instincts: What are they?
I think of gut instincts as your intuition and how you sense yours is unique to you. Some of us feel things, others know things. Some of you may even see or hear things. However your instincts “speak” to you is perfect for you!
The key to remember is your intuition or gut speaks to you through your body. Your intuition is something you feel inside yourself. It may come as a voice that feels like it’s whispering in your ear, or it may even be similar to a thought you’re thinking but with one distinct difference: that thought is often quick, simple and rather quiet. In other words, your intuition does not make your mind race.
I access my intuition through my body and it rises through me as a “knowing”. Other times I may hear things and know immediately it’s my gut speaking to me.
How do you access your gut instincts?
A great way is to ask questions! For example, if you’re curious about the next step you could take in your business all you have to do is ask for the next steps to be revealed to you!
Once you ask your job is to listen or feel for the answer. That means you’ve got to get quiet.
Your gut speaks to you in whispers so you’ve got to pay attention! If you’re busy running around, always doing, doing, doing, you’re going to have a hard time picking up on what your instincts are trying to tell you.
So, take a time out, get quiet within yourself and listen. You can also journal, if that helps.
Then what?
So, you asked the question and now you’re ready to hear and receive an answer. But are you?
Often times when we ask for guidance we don’t hear the message right away. I personally don’t think this is because it isn’t given, I think it’s because we’re not able to hear it or we’re not trusting what we hear.
In a perfect situation (and I know that’s a stretch) you would ask your question, get quiet and listen and receive your answer. If that actually occurs your next step would be to take action on what your gut is nudging you to do!
And that’s where it gets challenging!
Here’s why:
Your gut instincts/intuition is your direct link to divine intelligence/The Universe/God…
And because of that this information you’re receiving is always…ALWAYS…for your highest good.
But that doesn’t mean it’s going to be EASY and that is why it is so often hard for us to hear our gut instincts because we know when we hear what our gut’s been trying to tell us we’re going to have to make some changes…and that’s something many of us don’t want to do.
This works in many different ways. Here are a few examples to help you understand what I’m saying.
• You want to grow your business so you ask your intuition for your next steps and the answer is “get your food under control”. (This really happened to a good friend of mine!)
• You declare you’re ready to thrive and ask to be shown what steps support that and immediately get a nudge to hire a new coach, even though you have no idea how you’re going to afford it.
• You want to land a big account and keep asking for the way to be revealed to you and you keep hearing you need to leave your spouse.
OK, I know these are all very dramatic examples but they illustrate why it can be so hard to listen to and trust your instincts! After all, what does getting food under control have to do with growing your business?
You see, logically these answers may not make sense, but on a much deeper level they make perfect sense. But in order to see why they make so much sense you’ve got to be willing to take action on them and this is hard for a lot of us.
(BTW, my friend who got the nudge to get his food under control listened, lost 97 pounds and is now thriving in his business! Magical, don’t you think?)
The road to abundance:
Why listen to your instincts? Because they are always pointing you toward your highest good and away from things that no longer serve you. Your instincts will lead the way to more life, more abundance, more fun, more happiness.
But here’s the thing: it’s not always easy to listen to and trust your own instincts so be sure to surround yourself with people that will acknowledge your wisdom for being sound, or provide a sounding board for you to sort through the information you’re receiving.
Trusting your own instincts is the ultimate way for you to take personal responsibility for your success.
Posted on February 11, 2010
If you’re like me you’ve probably read a lot about the power of setting clear intentions. Doing so is an important step in the creation process because your intention is your opportunity to declare what you want.
Another important aspect of intention setting is how you word your intention. For example, let’s say you want to create (manifest) $10,000 each month in your business. You could write/recite your intention like this: I am so happy and grateful I am now earning $10,000 per month in my business.
I don’t know about you but that way of writing an intention has always felt a little flat to me so I got curious about it and then I had my a-ha. Creating the money is nice but what I really want to create is the experience of earning that much money, each month.
Keyword: experience.
After all, isn’t that what we’re really longing for…experiences that enrich our lives?
So I started wording my intentions in this way: I am so happy and grateful I get to experience what earning $10,000 per month feels like.
Do you see/feel the difference?
The latter takes you right into what it is you really want: the experience.
When I use the word “experience” in my intentions I instantly feel much more engaged in the creation process. I can see and feel myself having received that which I asked for.
Do you know why? Because when it comes down to it, money and things are just money and things. They are NOT experiences in and of themselves. They may play a role in an overall experience you desire, but the thing itself is not the experience.
Here’s another example.
Let’s say you’d love a bright red Ferrari. You could write your intention like this: I am so happy and grateful I am now the proud owner of a bright red Ferrari. Or, you could write this:
I am so happy and grateful that I’m experiencing what it feels like to own and drive a bright red Ferrari. I love how it takes tight corners and how fast I can go from 0 to 60!
(Because really, do you really want the Ferrari simply to own it or do you want the Ferrari to have the experience it brings while driving it?)
Can you see what a fun game this is? Let’s think of something else.
Let’s say you desire your dream house so you set an intention to manifest your dream house. You could write: I am so happy and grateful I now own and live in my dream house.
Or, you could write this: I am so happy and grateful I am now experiencing what it feels like to live in the home of my dreams.
This may simply be a case of semantics and I’m certainly not suggesting this is the best way to write an intention.
Here’s what I am suggesting: when you write your intentions get into the experience having that thing will give you. Allow yourself to feel what it would feel like. Imagine having the experience! Doing that will set the creation wheels in motion and allow you to start receiving “the way” to make it happen!
(c) 2010 Cari Vollmer Life On Track, LLC
Posted on January 9, 2010
Building Your Receiving Muscle
I recently received an article by Enoch Tan from my mentor on The Law of Circulation. Here is the first paragraph:
“The law of circulation states that all things in the universe are always flowing in circulation but at an ever expanding rate. What you give to one person, you will receive from a different source. So you don’t have to give with the expectation of receiving back from the same person you give to, but knowing that it will definitely come back to you multiplied from other sources. It works according to the law of cause and effect where the universe always mirrors back to you whatever you do.”
In other words what you give comes back to you…always. If you give love, love will come back to you. If you give money, money will find its way back to you. You can count on this. So what’s going on when you’re not feeling the love or receiving the money, or clients, or other good fortune in your life?
There’s a glitch in your receiving system.
To really “get” this you must first ask yourself if you believe in The Law of Circulation. If you have any doubt this universal law does what it says it does you’re going to have trouble accepting you should be receiving, in expanding amounts, for all that you give. Therefore, if you have doubts this is how things like love and money find their way back to you you’ll have to explore your belief system around how receiving actually works.
For now let’s say you do believe in “The Law”. Your next step is to acknowledge yourself for all that you do GIVE, every day, in the form of love, encouragement, money, friendship, etc. As you ponder this question I want you to feel your heart open and imagine what it feels like when you are giving your SELF, time and resources to the people and things you care about most. Imagine all of this yummy energy flowing out to the object of your focus.
Now, ask yourself, have you felt that same abundance of energy flowing back TO YOU? Have you felt what it feels like to RECEIVE back all this yummy energy you share with others?
If you’re having a hard time saying YES, you’re not the only one. For some reason we’re taught TO GIVE is divine but to RECEIVE is selfish. I think for so many of us we also have old, old beliefs locked inside of us that we’re really not worthy of receiving.
Here’s the thing: Receiving is something you were born knowing how to do, but as life unfolded for you all sorts of gunk got between you and your natural ability to receive.
Like what?
That answer will be different for all of us, but many times the gunk getting in the way are some life experiences you had when you were a kid that made you believe you couldn’t get what you wanted, when you wanted it. It makes sense, right? As kids we are taken care of by our parents and they determine the amount we RECEIVE. Parents tend to be RECEIVING filters for their kids. And those filters are made up of their own beliefs around receiving.
Where this gets tricky is that when we’re kids we have very real DESIRES. When our desires aren’t fulfilled because our parents (or other well-meaning adults) stopped the flow of abundance, it’s easy to see how we might have developed a belief that we CAN’T get what we want. And sometimes this develops into another abundance stopping belief, we’re not good enough.
BAM! That’s how a glitch in our receiving system starts. And this glitch is absolutely contrary to the universal truth that what we give will come back to us in ever expanding amounts!
It takes awareness and focus to heal this glitch. The first step is to acknowledge there is a glitch in your receiving system. Next you can do the following things:
1. Start practicing receiving. Whenever someone gives you anything (that doesn’t make you feel used or manipulated) receive it with a big, enthusiastic THANK YOU! A compliment, a bite of a cookie, a gift… receive it all as if it was the greatest gift you’ve ever received.
2. See all GIFTS as GOOD FORTUNE coming your way as a result of The Law of Circulation. Acknowledge this law is active and working in your life.
3. Also GIVE consciously. That means, as you give anything realize that you are setting in motion The Law of Circulation and that you can trust what you’ve just given will come back to you, again and again.
4. Recite this mantra to yourself daily: Universe, please give me many opportunities to RECEIVE. Then pay attention and SAY YES when opportunities come your way. Again, only say YES to things that don’t come with strings attached or make you feel manipulated. If someone is giving to you from the goodness of their heart, please receive it from there.
5. Talk to your small kid still inside of you that doesn’t really understand she can have anything her heart desires and remind her that even if her parents won’t let her have it, someday she can have whatever she wants. Remind her she will develop the wisdom and capacity to make her own decisions about what’s right or not right for her. Mostly remind her she deserves all the good fortune the world has to offer.
6. Imagine everything you GIVE and RECEIVE as ENERGY. Also imagine any blocks you have around receiving are energy blocks. To start receiving you need to remove the energy block, which often times is created by an old story/belief that STOPS the flow of energy coming back to you. You keep the energy flowing by saying YES and KNOWING you deserve good fortune. Stories and beliefs that are anchored in our subconscious have an energy about them that says NO to good fortune. Think about that.
7. Make it a point to become a GOOD RECEIVER. Say YES as opportunities come your way!
In 2010 set the intention you’ll start receiving all the good fortune you can possibly handle. Make a commitment to build your receiving muscle. You already have one, vow to get it back in shape!
(c) 2009 Cari Vollmer Life On Track, LLC
Posted on November 16, 2009
Have you ever heard the expression to attract what you want on the outside you have to BE that on the INSIDE? Honestly, that expression always stumped me because I thought I’m me, and not something else, so how can I be IT on the inside?
And then I had an “A-HA”. If you think of this question in terms of PROSPERITY, in other words to attract prosperity you must BE prosperous within, it makes much more sense…here’s why.
You see, YOUR prosperity (all the richness that is you) comes down to one beautifully golden thing and that is… Your Brilliance.
That’s right… your brilliance, or your gift, is your ultimate form of prosperity and when you begin aligning with and valuing what makes you brilliant and then start sharing your brilliance with others you will receive so much more in return. (That is if you’re open to receiving…but that’s another topic for another day.)
That’s because your brilliance is the divine gift you are here on earth to express. In other words, it really doesn’t get much better than that AND you could never GIVE more than that! It’s really THE THING you have to offer the world! And the good news is you already possess your brilliance! Even if you can’t put it clearly into words, it’s still there; all you have to do is peel back the layers and bring it to the light. (And yes, I can show you how to do that!)
Isn’t that great news? If your ultimate source of prosperity is YOUR GIFT that means that you don’t have do or be anything you’re not…you are perfect, as is, to attract more prosperity into your life!
Your INNER prosperity remains intact and untouched by the world. It is DIVINE and that trumps anything that could happen to you on a human level that your human self might think makes you “less than” or unworthy to receive prosperity. For sure your fears and outdated, ill fitting beliefs keep you separate from your brilliance, but here we have more good news…you can heal ALL of that. Every “block” you heal allows your Brilliance to shine through even more.
I know writing about this is much different and much easier than living it and really KNOWING it. So I want you to sit with this…soak in it…and believe in your brilliance and the power it has to attract to you all the good fortune your could ever imagine.
Awaken your brilliance…get to know it…and then share it with others. THAT is your path to good fortune.
Posted on November 15, 2009
Question for you:
In this moment how alive do you feel? And by alive I mean, how joy-filled/blissful/happy do you feel?
Why do I ask?
Because…
How alive you feel in any given moment is a good indicator of how on track you really are.
You may have heard this said many times but it’s worth repeating, your emotions are always a sign as to whether you are on track or off track. Feelings like joy, despair, sadness, peace, happy, angry, held-back, inspired, etc. indicate immediately how aligned you are with the core of who you really are. These feelings mean something and what they mean has absolutely nothing to do with what’s happening outside yourself!
For example:
A woman is spending a day with friends when one of them announces her plans to quit her job and start her own business. Suddenly, in her mind, she starts judging her friend for her choice and she notices herself feeling very uneasy. At first thoughts like “who does she think she is” and “that’s the most ridiculous idea I’ve ever heard” run through her mind. She thinks her friend must be the most foolish person she’s ever met.
Then she starts noticing how uncomfortable her body is feeling. She feels agitated and notices she starts to withdraw from her group of friends.
So what’s really going on? Well for sure her inner judge came to the surface, and along with the judge came a deep feeling of envy.
You see, secretly this woman has dreamt many times of starting her own business. She knows exactly what she’d do and how she’d do it. But she doesn’t see HOW she could do such a thing! Isn’t it irresponsible? Selfish? Naïve?
But instead of turning her attention inward, she focuses her attention outward. She puts her focus on what her friend is doing because that’s the only way she has of not putting her attention on where it should be…herself.
She’s not giving herself something she really wants at a deep, core level of her being…the experience of leading and creating her own life by following what makes her feel deliciously alive! Because she hasn’t said YES to what she really wants she feels uncomfortable and even envious of people who DO give themselves what they want. Her inner being…her spirit…knows how it wants to be expressed, but because she’s not allowing herself the experience she wants she is out of alignment with the core of who she really is and that makes her unhappy.
We’ve all known someone like that…and at some point in our own lives we have been like this.
When have you felt angry, jealous, frustrated, sad, worried, etc. etc. but instead of taking ownership of how you’re feeling you’ve blamed someONE or someTHING else for your feelings? How have your judge and critic defense mechanisms jumped in to stop you from feeling your true feelings?
I guess you could say it’s human nature to do so but doing so too much will keep you from living the life you were born to live.
So what’s the answer?
To start you can ask yourself a simple question whenever you feel a negative emotion arise:
What, in this moment, am I not giving myself?
You see, negative emotions are always an indicator you aren’t giving to yourself something your heart and soul needs and wants to feel the most alive. And as hard as you try to get it from something or someone outside yourself you’ll always be left wanting more because getting anything anywhere but within yourself is simply a band aid.
If you ever wonder how on track your life and business really are just check in with yourself. How alive, in this moment, do you really feel? If you feel good deep inside, great, you’re being, doing or having something in this moment that is aligned with your authentic self and your deepest burning desires. But if you feel “bad” then ask yourself what needs to change, and then give yourself the gift of changing what’s not working for you.
