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Archive for January, 2012

Do You Make A Difference?

January 30th, 2012 by Sara Pencil Blumenfeld

In my coaching practice I sometimes get this question from clients: Have I made a difference in the world? When you’re feeling really good, you’re probably pretty sure you have made a difference for at least a few people. When you’re feeling low, it’s easy to doubt the positive impact you have made in the world.

So here’s a little process for you. Get out a piece of paper and write out a list of each person in your lifetime that you know you have touched in some positive way, even in what you consider to be a small way. When you think you have run out of names, start searching your mind by categories (go job by job, city by city, school, church, etc.). I bet you end up with a much bigger list than you imagined. Now count the names on the list and write that number at the bottom.

Next, close your eyes and picture a stone being tossed into a clear pond—see the ripples go out and out and out. It’s the same with the number of people you have touched. Open your eyes and add 10 zeros to the number you wrote down. When you make a difference to one, you make a difference to thousands you will never directly know about.

And when you add to that the groups you send up a prayer for (all the starving children in Africa) or all the situations where you send compassionate thoughts (people you see on the news experiencing some natural disaster), then the number you have made a difference for grows even larger.

You are special, valuable and precious, and you have a light that shines like no one else on the planet. Who can you make a difference to today?

New Beginnings Magnified

January 24th, 2012 by Sara Pencil Blumenfeld

Wow, I just got home from a holographic sound meditation by Paul Hubbert (www.holographicsound.com) that was truly amazing. He does these in Austin twice a month, and if you can get to one I highly recommend it. It was especially powerful tonight because today is the first new moon of 2012, as well as the Chinese New Year of the Water Dragon, as well as some other more woo-woo stuff you can ask me about if you want to. Bottom line, it’s a day to magnify intentions, especially of new beginnings.

This morning when I got up I was prompted to write a list that began with this statement: I acknowledge and declare that, with God as my Source, money is constantly flowing to me in unlimited supply. With this unlimited money…and then I followed it with present tense statements of things I am already doing with unlimited money is some quantum field of possibility (otherwise I would be unable to imagine it). For example, With this unlimited money I have a space where I see healing clients that is serene and beautiful.

I encourage you to write such a list, from your heart, and then read it out loud every day, anchoring it in the physical plane. That’s certainly what I’m going to do.

You Are Only Responsible for You

January 12th, 2012 by Sara Pencil Blumenfeld

What I am led to share with you today came through me during a coaching session with a client recently. Although the words below are directed to healers, the concept applies to everyone. In any contact you have with others, personal or business, you are only responsible for you. You are responsible for the energy you allow to flow through you to that other person, but you are not responsible for how they receive it. If you send out information in love, such as giving a compliment, and it is rebuffed by the other person, it is their choice to block that loving energy. As long as you are sending out your energy—in conversation, in coaching, in healing, in any action—in love you are doing all you are asked to do. Blaming yourself and making yourself responsible for the other person’s choices serves no one.

Even though the paragraph below is directed to healers, think about the many ways it can be relevant to you.

You are a gifted healer and the energy flows through you to whatever the client is calling through. Whether you feel it or they feel it in the moment is really irrelevant. We’ve come to expect certain feelings or signs during a healing session, and if XYZ didn’t happen then we think it didn’t work. Let’s let go of that. Say to the client at the start of the session: “ In this session I am just an open channel. I am opening to Spirit and allowing whatever YOU are calling through to flow through me. So whether we feel something or we don’t , we just trust the process that Spirit is doing exactly what your Higher Self is asking for. We will just be blessed and grateful for the experience and let go of any expectations from past experience. Understanding and accepting this is how you will get the most out of your session with me.” This frees the energy up Spirit to work through and for both of you.