I mentioned in a previous Morsel how my Dad wanted to know how best to pray for me and I told him to always just pray for my highest good. To receive your highest good accept that everything you are experiencing is for your highest good at that point on your path. Each day, and even many times during the day, ask for situations to be worked out for your highest good, and express appreciation.

If you sometimes wonder how something that feels awful could possibly be in your highest good, ask yourself, “How can I add more love to this situation?” Here’s a quick exercise I’ve encountered several times and was reminded of today. Imagine the situation that is bothering you is in a ball floating in front of you at chest height. Breathe in deeply, imagining strength and love coming up from Mother Earth into your feet, up your legs and into your heart. Hold your breath for a moment and visualize the love expanding in your heart. Then blow the love on your exhale into the situation hovering in front of you. Now breathe in deeply, imagining wisdom and love from God/Spirit/Source coming in the top of your head and down into your heart. Hold your breath for a moment and visualize the love expanding in your heart. Then blow the love on your exhale into the situation hovering in front of you. Repeat two more times. Then, if you like, say “Angels, please handle this situation for my highest good. Thank you.” I guarantee you will feel better.

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?

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.

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.

“After battling cancer for 3 years my husband Steve died today at 4:10 pm. I am grateful that he is out of the pain and struggle. I am grateful for our almost 9 years together and for all we shared and learned from each other. I am grateful that he had his mental faculties to the end, and I am grateful for the good care he received at the VA Hospital in Houston. I am grateful that we had plenty of time to say how much we loved and appreciated each other, and I am grateful that, when he decided to go, it was obvious what was happening and I was able to hold his hand and speak loving words to him as he gently slipped into a better place.”

The outpouring of love, support and prayers I received as a response, both directly and on Facebook, was both a comfort and an honor.  How uplifting to know so many people care!  I encourage anyone reading this to take the few minutes to support your friends and family, even in little things, knowing that it means a lot.

Give some focused attention to the pulling power of desire by writing out a list of things you desire. Start the list with things you desire that are already in your physical experience (I desire a safe, comfortable place to live. I desire loving and supportive friendships). This helps you notice that many things you desire are already part of your reality. Then add things that already exist in the realm of possibilities (otherwise you could not be aware of them) for which you choose to summon the energy through you to bring them into physical manifestation. Examples: I desire a prosperous and steady flow of income that is always at least 3 times my expenses. I desire for Spirit to inspire many empowering books through me.

Another thing you can do to activate the pulling power of desire is to make a list of all the things you would like to buy, without limitation, writing the amount by each ($5000 for private coaching, $400 for Lisa Turner’s class, $500 for new clothes, etc).

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They tell you, and you believe, that it (whatever they are advising you to do) worked for them, so it will work for you.  Or maybe it doesn’t work for them but they are teaching it because they heard it should work. So you try to implement something that is not authentically you, and when it doesn’t work the way they promised, or when you can’t even bring yourself to finish it, you blame yourself.

Consider that these may actually be the reasons it didn’t work:

• The person recommending it is not you. Everyone has a different personality, background, patterns and vibrations, and all those things and more figure in to the mix.
• Their business is not your business. Even if it seems similar, each business is unique.
• You fumble forward without identifying your WHY behind this new task.

On my Awakening in Austin Fabulous Friday show last week I shared a simple process to overcome failure to implement, including a detailed example.  Go to the Awakening in Austin show page (www.AwakeninginAustin.com) and, in the On Demand section, click on “Fabulous Friday: How to Overcome Failure to Implement.”

As I neared my starting place my attention was drawn to a beautiful yellow daisy, growing all by itself, amongst all the dead grass, under the shade of a big tree.  I lingered a few moments, thanking the daisy for reminding me that there is beauty present, even in the midst of what doesn’t look so beautiful, under the protection and guidance of Mother/Father God.  And now that I felt more open from the unwinding exercise, I set a new intention to fill up with love and hope and light and possibilities and sure knowing that it’s gonna be alright, and I walked around the pond clockwise.

So when you’re feeling tense, fearful, contracted, sometimes just thinking is not enough to bring you out of it.  Get up and go outside, or someplace where you can walk counterclockwise with the intention of unwinding whatever it is you want to release, and then walk around it clockwise imagining yourself filling up with all good things!

As you go about your day, notice when you slip into moments of self hypnosis, worry and overwhelm.  Look around, and ask yourself, “What blissful life experience can I enjoy right now?”  And then, enjoy it!