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Welcome to this week’s edition of Tuesday Tips, a collection of the best-feeling ideas in the world. You don’t have to actually do anything to apply these suggestions to your own life, you only have to consider them with an open mind. Then whenever you need a little nudge in the right direction, the most resonant thoughts will be there to help you.
1. Sit up straight.
Push your shoulders back, tighten your core and be the boss that you are. The flow can’t get through very easily when you’re hunched over.
2. Fill your tank.
Pay attention. When you start noticing your vibration drop, you’ll notice it reflected in all of your reality. Your gas tank will be low. You’ll need to go grocery shopping. Your home will be messy. You’ll be tired. Even if you don’t want to deal with all the lack, even if you start getting nervous about how to pay for everything, just FILL YOUR TANK. Buy the groceries. Clean the house. Keep the momentum going. Don’t wait to run out of gas before you tend to your mood.
3. Stop trying too hard.
Let it come to you. Give up. Let go. If there is something you want to happen in this moment, stop thinking about it by counting in your head.
4. Tell a different story.
Listen to what you’re saying, in your thoughts or out loud. Are you telling it how it is, or how you want it to be?
5. Say yes.
Then look for evidence that saying yes will pay off. Try it as a game. Say yes to something you wouldn’t normally say yes to, then be on the lookout for surprisingly awesome situations. For more inspiration, watch Yes Man!
6. Get life design tips from other people.
Emma Wilson asks the SoLD group, “what is the most valuable lesson you have learned this week?”
7. Program your thoughts.
Make it easier to think the thoughts you want to think by taking time each day to write down the thoughts you want to be thinking. I like to think of lifestreaming as my programming language. It’s my source code—the code I use to talk to source energy.
8. Think of the best praise and highest compliment you’ve ever received.
Alyssa reminds us in the School of Life Design group that praise is especially important when we have trouble believing in ourselves.
9. What’s the most memorable piece of advice you’ve ever received?
If it’s still with you, it’s probably still relevant. I always remember my dad telling me “pay attention!” which I now realize to be integral to maintaining my mood. And every time I get stressed out, I hear him saying “relax!” What words have always stayed with you?
10. Aim to count to 10,000 every day.
Your ability to focus on counting is a litmus test of how much your thoughts are controlling you. If you can count to 10,000 in a day, I promise it will be the best day of your life! Apparently the founder of Second Life tries to count to 10,000 every day too.
11. Don’t make a decision if you’re feeling bad.
Often people will ask you to do things when you aren’t in the best mood. Instead of answering “no” on the spot, just tell them you’ll think about it. Then go get in a good mood and the right decision will come to you.
12. Don’t feel bad for wanting what you want.
Let yourself have it. Don’t deny your Self. Even if you don’t think you should have it, go for it. Saying yes to your most exciting desires is how to walk your optimal path.
13. Project certainty and others will listen.
When you know what you want with 100% certainty, don’t ask someone if it’s a good idea or if they want to do it. TELL THEM what you are doing and they’ll be more likely to join. When you ask someone “do you want to do this?” you’re saying, “am I sure I want to do this?”
14. Stop feeling paranoid by understanding that you can change the past.
You never have to worry if you blew out the candle or turned off the stove if you can change the past by changing your present.
15. Be impulsive.
Take risks and trust your gut. If you’re nervous or scared, remember anxiety is excitement with the brakes on! As Bashar says, “If you always act on the thing that contains the most excitement at every given moment to the best of your ability with zero expectation as to what the outcome ought to be, you will be walking the optimal path no matter how it looks.”
16. Lighten up.
None of this is serious. We’re just here to have fun. Smile, take a deep breath and say “fuck it!”
17. Know that everything is working out for everyone.
Love actually is all around!
Welcome to Tuesday Tips, the most fabulous collection of conscious ideas in all of Internetlandia. I have a stellar lineup of thoughts to provoke, inspire and move you to the next level. Align your actions, thoughts, emotions and being with the vibration of your true Self and enjoy the current of ecstatic energy flowing through you!
1. Collect every compliment you receive on the work that matters to you most.
I started printing out the positive feedback I get on my lifestream and taping it to my desk, right at eye level. The more I allow myself to accept compliments, the more I receive. It’s becoming easy to visualize my whole work area covered in kind words! Every day it gets easier to have faith in my work. I am so grateful for the support. Thank you.
2. Check out the School of Life Design Facebook group.
With 117 dazzling members, the SoLD group is bustling with love, advice, and fun! Get feedback on your web presence, discuss the place of drugs in your life, ask questions about specific problems, or just sit back and let the positive vibrations soak in.
3. Give your work away for free!
Then when you need something for free, you’ll get it! I always label my photos on Flickr as “Attribution Creative Commons” on my licensing preference page so anyone can use them. Now my photos are used all the time to illustrate various articles and blogs around the web. I not only get to see my photos actually IN USE, but I get tons of traffic from them too.
4. Make money off your music, movie and iPhone app recommendations.
I signed up with Linkshare to become an Apple affiliate. With Linkshare, I can generate links to apps, music, movies and more through the iTunes store, and every time someone makes a purchase using my link, I get a 5% cut. You can also generate links for other products and advertisers. Passive income FTW!
5. Focus your attention with lifestreaming.
Guide your life experience by publishing your photos, videos, music, writing, everything! Your attention is a constantly flowing stream of creative power. Lifestreaming is a way to consciously direct that power. It doesn’t matter one bit what you’re focusing on, all that matters is how you feel when you’re doing it. If you’re focusing your attention on negative thoughts, you’re creating more negative thoughts for your future self to deal with. If you’re focusing your attention on all the great things going on around you (even if they seem boring because you take them for granted), at LEAST you’re creating more great things to go on around you in the future!
6. Focus your attention with writing.
Writing is a particularly powerful form of lifestreaming, especially at night when you’re tired and losing focus. Just write. The more you practice, especially when you’re not tired, the faster and easier it becomes to get your focus back. It’s like a cure for insomnia and every other disorder in the world. Just direct your thoughts. Just smile, breathe, relax your shoulders and write about what you’re grateful for. If you’re in the habit of feeling good when you write, eventually the association becomes stronger and you start feeling good faster. (Want to start your lifestream today?!)
7. Write your job description.
You can have any job you want. But do you know what you want? Start creating the position of your dreams by filling out the following: Company, Location, Field, Job Functions, Job Level, Job Description, Specific Skills, and Rate.
8. Write your commandments.
Make up your own rules to life. Write your personal commandments, your creative commandments, and your relationship commandments.
9. Stop feeling guilty about buying media and not consuming all of it.
When you buy books, movies or music, don’t feel bad if you don’t read, watch or listen to the whole thing. You’ll still get whatever you need out of it—perhaps an idea, a new direction, or a pivot thought. It only takes a single moment to become inspired!
10. Take a placebo trip.
Practice the feeling of enlightenment. Block off 8-12 hours where you don’t have any responsibilities, your phone is in airplane mode, and you’re extremely comfortable. Consume something symbolic—a vitamin, a special brew of tea, or even a sugar cube. Then sit down and wait patiently for 30-45 minutes, looking for signs of altered consciousness. You will amaze yourself.
11. Feel better instantly with silent counting.
I’ve talked about it many times before, and I bring it up again because it always works. If you feel trapped in a negative thought pattern, just start counting in your head. Focus all of your attention on the numbers. You’ll feel better long before reaching 100.
12. Meditate every day.
Meditation is how I manage anxiety and racing thoughts. Even if I keep thinking during it, my thoughts still slow and 15 minutes of stillness always gives me a new perspective. It stops me from feeling rushed and always gives me more time. If you don’t feel like doing it one day, try doing it lying down in bed. 15 minutes of quiet a day is a small price to pay for peace in the rest of your life.
13. Be open and have faith.
The flow is always trying to get through. Just say yes to whatever your current reality is. Just say yes. Be open to the gifts the universe is trying to give you. It won’t come in a form you expect! You’ll be feeling bad, and you won’t want anything to do with the opportunity just presented. Maybe your friend will ask you to do something, or your partner will suggest going somewhere. Say yes! That’s the flow trying to give you a gift, trying to help you feel better! Trust that whatever just showed up, showed up at the perfect time, just when you needed it.
Ask your Self, “What’s the most fun thing I can do right now?” Even if it seems silly, even if it sounds weird, even if it scares you, DO IT! Everything you want is waiting for you!
Traditionally, Tuesday Tips is a collection of ideas that make living life easier and more fun. But that makes a pretty silly assumption—that we need to think or work at all to make life easy and fun. Let’s go straight to the truth: life already is easy and fun. Now what? What do Tuesday Tips look like when we’re already enjoying our lives to the hilt? We celebrate them!
1. Celebrate yourself.
You’re already perfect. You’re already doing everything right. You’re right on time. You’re so loved. You are connected to everyone and you have infinite power. You’re a glorious individual perspective who won the lottery the day you were born. Put that shit online! Take pictures of yourself! Go hard! Express yourself! Let it all out! Be loud and be proud! Start a lifestream! Write a book! Make some art! Show the world your perfection. It flows out of you effortlessly!
2. Give yourself positive feedback.
Write yourself a love letter. Give yourself the positive feedback you crave. Once you do, it will start pouring from everywhere.
3. Pay yourself.
Don’t feel like thinking? Make money in your head. Practice silently counting as high as you can go, and then imagine you just effortlessly made that much money. How does that change your day? Do you approach your job and errands the same way, knowing you made that much money so easily? It really can come that easily with a little practice. Be it, see it!
4. Feel the way you want to feel.
Danielle Laporte’s post on “how do you want it all to feel?” really made an impact on me last week. It’s the most effective way I’ve found to attract experiences that make me feel the way I want to feel. I want today to feel like a sunny camping trip in southern Illinois with all my best friends!
5. Breathe.
If you ever get caught up in thoughts and forget about your inherent perfection, you can instantly tether yourself back into the Now by breathing consciously. (Try practicing with Pranayama.) Observe the flow of your breath and allow yourself to return to the present moment. Life really is easy. Let go of everything and let life love you. We all love you! Happy Valentine’s Day!
Tuesday Tips is a weekly strategy guide to the game of life. Strengthen your character by doing things that make you feel good, gain manifestation powers by directing your thoughts, attract the experiences you want by projecting the emotions you want to feel, and level up by just being you. Let’s play!
1. Support art and your art will support you.
If you want people to patronize your work, patronize theirs. Look for the value in what everyone’s creating around you. When you invest in someone else’s work, you encourage them to make more and do better, which in turn will inspire you to do the same.
2. Lifestream.
Documenting my experiences as often as I can has become the easiest access point to the Now that I’ve found this week. I release my thoughts and experiences as they come and don’t think about them much, because I’m always in the Now looking for new things to stream. It’s like literally streaming my head off—my mind is something I continually shed. Weird, and awesome.
3. Get what you want in real time.
Think about what you want, then stop thinking until you get it or forget it. Try it. It works. 100% guaranteed.
4. Win an argument.
If you want to win an argument, stop talking and stop thinking until you either win or forget. Also 100% guaranteed.
5. Stop reminiscing.
Even if memories of an experience make you feel good, they’re still pulling you outside of the Now. If you make a decision to stop thinking about the past, when you’re in the moment you’ll make a lot more effort to enjoy it because you know you won’t be thinking about it later.
6. Feel inspired.
When you can’t feel inspiration, meet it halfway. Take any sort of deliberate action to shake things up. Go for a walk, buy a book, or start a new hobby. As soon as you get caught up in the moment long enough to forget you’re not inspired, you’ll be inspired.
7. Go to bed feeling good.
You’ll have good dreams and you’ll wake up feeling as good as you did when you went to sleep. It makes it so much easier to get in an increasingly better mood every day, instead of having to start over every morning.
8. Trust your gut.
It’s always right. If you can’t make a decision, quiet your mind by counting or breathing and ask for the answer. You’ll hear it every time.
9. Feel the way you want to feel.
Danielle Laporte wrote this amazing article about choosing how you want your experiences to feel. Take the time to think about each segment of your day, then set an emotional intention. It WORKS! Here are some of her examples:
I want my money-making to feel like walking though a vineyard, surveying ripeness, a production of sun and earth for craft and pleasure.
I want my word to feel like gold bullion.
I want my laughter to feel like electric pineapple children.
I want the end of the day to feel like a happy quiet baby.
10. Effortlessly lift your mood.
Combine this mantra with deep breathing: “Breathe in and raise your vibration. Breathe out and release your resistance.”
11. Look pretty and be pretty.
Get a photo-timer app for your phone (I use this one) and photograph yourself doing mundane tasks. Smile while you do it. You’ll be instantly transported to the Now, where you’ll enjoy your task and create lifestream content while you’re at it.
12. Let life take the driver’s seat.
The more you let go, the more it flows. Make feeling good your only job and let life take care of the rest! It’s easy if you allow it to be.
Tuesday Tips is a weekly roundup of portals to the fun part of life—the Now. Whether you allow yourself into the current moment via doing, thinking, feeling or being, the end result is always the same: joy.
1. Lifestream your ass off.
Sharing little moments from my day helps me get used to not caring about what other people think. It also inspires me to look for fun moments and constantly check in on my mood. If I don’t feel like documenting my life, I could probably use a little mood boost. Often looking for something to photograph or write about will give me a jolt up the emotional scale.
2. Play “Now That’s What I Call… Now!”
Try this game: only talk about things that are in your Now. Nothing about people who aren’t there, no planning events in the future, no reminiscing about the past. If you never talk about anything outside of the Now, you never have to deal with anything outside of the Now.
3. Just laugh, dude.
When I have persistent negative thoughts that I can’t seem to shake, I try laughing at them. Nothing dark can withstand the power of laughter.
4. Think of yourself as valuable.
Imagine your favorite heroes coming to you for advice or services. What do you have to offer that you know they need, that no one else can provide? Focus on developing that part of your work.
5. Remember you are always creating with your thoughts.
When you want something, realize you are creating your lack of it. Change your thought of want to the feeling of having it. Say to yourself, “Isn’t it nice I have this now?” Picture it happening for a moment, then never think of it again.
6. Try the mantra “I don’t want anything.”
Your mind will always react with, “But I want lots of things!” And then you get to say, “Well, it’s your awareness of lack that’s creating it, so STFU.” Treated!
7. Silent counting always works.
Kelly is a master of silent counting, which is a method for quieting the mind. The other day she taught me that when she loses count, she just goes to the nearest 100 she can remember. Not getting frustrated when she loses her focus helps her not sweat the small stuff in daily life.
8. Count for money!
In need of a tidy thousand dollars or so? Direct all your focus to counting to 1000 and imagine each number being a dollar amount. When you get to 1000, consider the money on the way. Kelly actually did this on Sunday! The amount she received was actually $1021, but close enough…
9. Practice the feeling of getting a headrub.
It might not feel quite as delicious as the real thing, but it will still soothe headaches and worries. It’s just another way to prove to yourself that everything you want is within.
10. Associate feeling good with breathing and voila, you’ve pwned the emotional scale.
All that matters in life is that you’re still breathing, right? So any time you want to feel better, focus on your breath. Feel it go in and out of your lungs. Picture the patterns it makes. Observe the rhythm closely. Your thoughts will slow (maybe even cease!) and you will feel better within seconds. Your breath is your most basic access point to the Now.
11. Everything is perfect in the Now.
No matter where you want to go, you couldn’t get there if you weren’t where you are right now. Accept the gift of the Now by saying yes to it. Embrace it, look for all the things you love about it. Love this Now so much that you don’t want anything else. Whatever it takes to enjoy your present moment, do it! Then suddenly you’ll be where you wanted to go without ever moving a muscle.
Tuesday Tips is a weekly collection of ideas that make living life more fun. Explore ways to channel your energy, gain power over your mind, feel like a million trillion bucks, and be the perfect badass you know you are.
1. Look for evidence of your power.
If you haven’t had a lot of practice with manifestation, now’s the time to start! The easiest way to begin noticing the power of your focus is by looking for synchronous times on clocks. Look for 11:11, 12:34, 3:33, etc, then watch as every glance at the clock becomes synchronous. Then try cars! Pick a few of your favorite cars and intend to see them on the road. (I love seeing Hummers!) As soon as you start looking for them, your favorite cars will show up at the most serendipitous times.
2. Write!
On page 50 of Design Writing Research by Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller, there’s an essay on the idea that writing is an extension of the body. “It is a physical by-product, a material trace of human activity [...] It is also akin to hair, finger nails, and the surface of the skin—each is a part of the body that is continually regenerated yet biologically dead, detachable, disposable.” In essence, writing is another form of bodily excrement, like blood, sweat, semen, and saliva. Get it out of you!
3. I made it!
Try using the mantra “I made it.” Think about what that implies. On one hand, it means succeeding at a goal or endeavor. On the other, it means “I created this.” Same thing, right?
4. See your mind and body as one.
If your body is tense, it’s a physical manifestation of your mind resisting. Margo in the School of Life Design group helped me understand that “since the mind and body are one, you can always tell how you are mentally by how you feel physically.” If you’re tense, you’re resisting. If you’re relaxed, you’re allowing. Margo also reminded me that silent counting is an immediate way to go from resisting to allowing.
5. Stop resisting.
There were lots of other great ideas on releasing resistance in the above thread. Jenny’s is spot on!
Sometimes when I am walking or in the car and I am getting worked up and resisting and not in the present… I stop and pretend that the whole world is a movie set just for me. I look for all the awesome details like the quirky old guy walking with huge headphones on and the precious little purple flower sticking up from a crack in the concrete. I think to myself ‘Yes!! This is awesome! This I all here for ME! This world is full of beautiful things for me to enjoy!’
6. Find the best feeling you can feel.
Danielle Laporte has a great advice-tweet: “What would feel really, really, good to feel? Intend to feel that way.” Essentially, picture feeling the best you can feel, and choose that feeling now.
7. Practice the feeling of freedom on your bike.
Kelly and I started commuting to work via bicycle last week. The 16-mile round trip joy ride through Austin reminds me of how much freedom I have. I can go anywhere, see anything, do whatever I want! And on a bicycle, I get to luxuriate in the scenery and people-watching, and I feel so much more willing to make stops along the adventure because I don’t have to worry about parking. Six months later, I am so happy to call myself a cyclist again!
8. What does 100% certainty feel like?
In a lucid dream, you can only “make things happen” if you have 100% certainty that you can. The same goes for waking life. Practice that feeling of knowing and you’ll find yourself feeling that same certainty about more and more things you want to manifest.
9. Listen to Halcyon’s morning blessing as soon as you wake up.
I find it hardest to direct my thoughts first thing in the morning. Often, I’ve forgotten all the good-feeling thoughts I collected the day before. Halcyon’s 12-minute morning blessing meditation has made my mornings so much easier and more blissful, I can’t recommend it enough. Don’t judge it in the afternoon or evening, because it won’t have the same effect. Just try it one morning when you’re not feeling as good as you want to, and listen the whole way through. By the end you’ll have tears of joy streaming down your face, I guarantee it!
10. Sleep more.
It’s ok. The world will wait. Everything feels better when you’re getting enough sleep, and nothing matters more than how you feel.
11. Surrender to the ability to receive.
In Halcyon’s morning blessing, he reminds us to “let go of the drive to achieve, and surrender to the ability to receive.” The things you want will come effortlessly if you allow them to. Let them come to you. Know that they’re all coming. Relax and bask in the Now. There is nothing you can do to get the things you want. It is an emotional journey every single time. Choose to feel good and enjoy this moment right now, and you will open yourself up to the gifts from the universe.
12. See your life through the eyes of god.
Tell yourself “I love you, you’re doing great.” And tell everyone around you the same thing.
Tuesday Tips: 15 Ways to Listen to What Life is Telling You
2012 January 17
Tuesday Tips is a weekly roundup of ideas that feel good. Each week, it gets a little easier to work with the flow of life instead of struggling against it. Give yourself a push downstream by realigning your actions, thoughts, feelings and being with the person you know you are.
1. If you don’t want to do it right now, don’t do it.
Listen to your Self. When you feel a strong aversion to doing things, it’s ok to not do them. Take the time to ponder what you would rather be doing instead, and if at all possible, do that!
2. When the option is to pay-what-you-can, genuinely PAY WHAT YOU CAN.
You will only receive the value you invest. If you think something is worth $1, you’ll get $1 of quality. If you think it’s worth $100, you’ll get that much quality. It’s whatever you want to perceive. So give big and receive big!
3. If you feel bad, exercise.
If you’re bored, exercise. If you want to get high, exercise. If you don’t know how to feel good, exercise. Often we simply have stagnant energy trapped in our bodies that a little movement can shake right out. For an easy but intense at-home workout, try jump rope. It’s just like a flow toy—you can see it illustrate your thoughts. When you stop thinking, the flow will do the jumping for you and it will seem effortless.
4. Set your universal alarm clock.
Set your alarm for the latest you can wake up, but then ask the universe to wake you early, feeling rested. Then you aren’t forcing yourself awake before you’re ready with an alarm, and the perfect timing of life gets a chance to wake you when you’re ready. Or, you’ll get up at the last possible moment, getting plenty of sleep.
5. The flow will lead you to the substance, don’t look to the substance for the flow.
Learn how to feel good without external help. Then when you’re feeling really good and you have the opportunity to partake, you’ll know it’s the right time. You’ll be doing it for fun, not to make yourself feel better.
6. When writing for an audience, write as little as possible.
Condense, distill and clarify your ideas. People want to hear what you have to say, but they simply don’t have time to read five pages of text in one blog post. Good design is what you take away, not what you add.
7. That being said, rewrite your About page!
Crafting an About page for the person you want to be is one of the best ways to become that person. You don’t have to be certain what you want there, you just have to start. Write anything. It will help you know what you want better. Write things the best you can imagine them and then keep going deeper. It can be a total lie in terms of your current reality. Just write it for fun, as if you had what you wanted. “I’m a famous Hollywood actress and I spend my time traveling the world to promote contact juggling” or whatever comes to you. See this article or this one for more details and examples.
8. Say yes.
When you say yes to the things bothering you, you allow them to pass by in the flow. For example: feeling like you ate too much. You can say “No, I ate too much,” essentially focusing on the food in you, making a big deal of it, keeping it in one place, holding onto it like a tree branch while you’re in a raft on a raging river. When you say “Yes, I love food. Yes, I wanted that. Yes, I’m happy to be fed and nourished,” the food can move along in the flow, and say “Well, my job here is done.” It doesn’t bother you, it doesn’t stagnate in your body, it isn’t trapped by your resistant “no.” Just say yes. To everything. It’s all a gift. All of it.
9. Practice the feeling of being recognized.
If you want to be recognized for your work, recognize yourself. Recognize all that you do every day. Recognize the miracle of your life. Recognize the miracle of breath. Recognize all you’ve done so far, how far you’ve come. Recognize what you know: that you are already perfect and you don’t have to do anything to become more whole.
10. Tell yourself “I love you” in the mirror, over and over until you cry.
It’ll feel so good, I promise.
11. Appreciate your job.
If you didn’t have someone else telling you what to do and when to do it, you would have no desire to do anything else. The value of someone else giving you a timeline and schedule is that it forces you to experience contrast, which causes you to have new desires. Use the pressure of time to keep your creative focus.
12. Focus on your breathing.
Like Astrojax, your breath is a flow toy. It is an active illustration of your thoughts. When you focus on your breathing, you are stopping thought, and your breath will make you feel good. When you focus on negativity, your breath will illustrate this by becoming short, rapid, or uncomfortable. You can either change your thoughts (difficult to do!) and watch your breath follow, or you can change your breath (easy to do!) and your thoughts will follow.
13. Let go of your expectations.
Your expectations are what you think is going to happen. But when you let go of your expectations and allow the universe to surprise you, much bigger things than you could ever imagine will occur. Give up the need to know the outcome, and enjoy the Now. Danielle Laporte has a useful prayer for expectation addicts, and a later post wherein she confirms the strategy with “This ‘giving up expectations’ shit really works.” She’s 100% right. Success will come when you least expect it, because it means you’ve released the thought pattern of “I am not successful.”
14. When you are in pain, or overwhelmed with negative thoughts, ask your Self for guidance.
If you are attempting to make a decision to try to feel better (“Will coffee make me feel better? A drink? A smoke? A nap?”), just ask your Self. If you can actually listen to the answer (you will hear it), just say yes. Do whatever your Self says. Your Self always knows what you should do. Just listen and you’ll be on the ride to feeling good again. Whatever your Self tells you to do, your mind will resist. Say yes anyway. Keep saying yes.
15. You can have whatever you want, just listen.
What you project into the world (thoughts, feelings, words and actions) is your vibration, and what you experience as your reality is a physical interpretation of your vibration. When you change the vibration you project, your reality will change to reflect that. Listen to what your reality is telling you. Your reality is reflecting the signal you are projecting, and when you pay attention, you can access the clues life is giving you. Once you learn to read your own vibration by observing your thoughts, emotions and physical world, you can change your vibration, and change your reality. Eventually you’ll be able to play your vibration like a musical instrument, creating your reality in flow just like playing a solo on the guitar.
Tuesday Tips is an assortment of ideas to help us all embrace life a little more each week. Create new habits with the “Doing” section, align your thoughts with love in the “Thinking” portion, explore and control your emotions through “Feeling” and allow yourself to go deeper into “Being”.
1. Spend cash, not credit!
If you rely on credit, you’ll never have to focus enough to pull the cash money through you! Make the jump, cut up your cards and let the universe provide! (GULP!)
2. Share your life.
Online and off, show other people that it’s ok to live like this! It’s ok to be you! It’s ok to be free! It’s ok to feel good! TELL THE WORLD ABOUT HOW AMAZING YOU ARE! The more you do it, the more we all are inspired to do it! Help people see “no one tells her what to do!” The constant positivity accumulates, even if no one ever tells you it does! (Thanks for this one Todd!)
3. Let go of the past.
The School of Life Design group has lots of ideas about how to do it. One of my favorites is Katja‘s suggestion:
I tried hypnotherapy a few years ago, and one of the exercises was one where I met all of my past selves, from age 0 to my age then (23?). Each year was a different me, and I went around to each and every one and looked them in the eye and told them I loved them. Some years didn’t listen, some of them spewed hate at me. But i kept going until all years accepted what I was telling them. It was a really powerful exercise, and I think it could be used to let go of the past in other ways as well…there was another one where I picked a moment when i was little and afraid, and as my present self took myself into my arms and held myself, told her/me it was okay. Sounds weird, maybe, but it was wonderful, too.
4. Picture yourself as the person you will be 50 years from now.
What advice would that person give you?
5. Listen.
Everything in your reality is trying to help you. When people suggest things, or give you feedback, don’t immediately start to poke holes in what they’re saying. Listen, acknowledge their input, and let the idea grow. Don’t kill the idea before it has a chance to see the light of day. Just because you listen, doesn’t mean you’re agreeing! When someone tells you an idea of hers, encourage her in any way you can instead of poking holes. Ideas are like babies, they need love to grow!
6. Practice loving yourself. Never stop.
There are a bunch of ideas in the group, but my favorite is Matthew’s: “Go to a mirror and say, ‘I’m awesome.’ 1000 times straight. After 100, it becomes a trance of its own. The association of the word awesome creates [connection]. Add in any word you like.”
7. Feel good no matter what!
Practice “feeling” yourself into alignment instead of thinking. Thinking about what you want or what you’re grateful for helps you get started, but begin to imagine how you would elevate your mood without thinking about it. At first, it may feel like pushing a boulder uphill with the top of your head. But it works, and I’m looking for ways to make it easier!
8. Visualize yourself allowing.
Whenever I say “I’m allowing,” I picture being in the center of a torus-shaped field of energy entering through the crown of my head and passing out through the bottom of my spine, flowing endlessly. Every time I take the time to visualize this, I instantly feel myself loosen up and the flow of life takes over again. Whatever energy I was blocking with thought begins to move easily. I see that things really are good. Life really is taking care of me.
9. Be in the Now.
As consciousness expands further and further, it’s getting easier to be in the Now. Entheogens and hallucinogens are access points to the Now. Meditation is an access point. Play is an access point. Love is an access point. The most in demand skill of 2012 is the ability to be in the Now. Allow yourself to experience the joy of connection. It’s crazy and weird and deep but most of all it’s just fun. And it feels so good. It’s like becoming lucid in a dream, except it’s real life. We really are this lucky, and life really is this deep.
10. Release your fear of power.
You aren’t alone. We’re all powerful, and we all get to do this together. Hop on over to that (free!) School of Life Design group right now and see how others are releasing their fear and embracing their own power. There is nothing to be afraid of. We all love you.
Tuesday Tips: 13 Ways to Stay Caught Up in the Flow of 2012
2012 January 3
Tuesday Tips is a weekly collection of shortcuts to feeling good. Explore ways to harness your creative power by taking action, directing your thoughts, practicing feeling the way you want to feel, and stopping thought altogether to let your natural state of well being shine.
1. Rearrange the energy in your home for major manifestations.
Bring about big change by optimizing your living area. Donate or sell as many possessions as you can, clean up all the dust bunnies, and clear out big spaces to move in. Kelly and I finally cleared out our living room to be a gallery space and play room, which at long last gave us an excuse to record another Astrojax video.
2. Take as many photos as possible to find the gems.
Great photographers aren’t great because they take the perfect shot every time; they succeed because they take so many photos. Next time you take your digital camera out for a stroll, resolve to fill your memory card. The more photos you take, the more diamonds you find. On Christmas Kelly and I took 378 photos but only 16 made the cut.
3. Just start saying things are how you want them to be.
Eventually, I promise you, they will be. But you have to start telling the story now. If you want something, just say you have it already. Your mind is easily fooled.
4. Does anything else in your life feel like…?
I’ve mentioned this before, and it’s worth discussing again. Whenever you hear someone complaining of a malady or circumstance, ask her if anything else in her life feels the same way. She may be surprised at your question, but it will definitely get her thinking. Whatever emotion we feel is reflected back to us in every area of our lives, so when you feel irritation, you are likely thinking irritating thoughts about other things.
5. Don’t second guess your decisions.
After you make a decision (for example, a Facebook status update), don’t overthink it. Instead of thinking “should I have posted that?” think “I am so happy I did that.” Put your mind at ease!
6. Write a bucket list.
I made a list of things I want to do before I die. It really helped me figure out exactly what I want. You can only get what you want if you know what you want!
7. Create your Master Mind Group.
In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill suggests creating a Master Mind Group, a committee of advisors to consult on business and life decisions. The group can be people you already know, celebrities, or dead people. Whenever you make a business decision, picture asking your committee their opinion. What would your mentors, muses and inspirations tell you to do? It can often help you gain confidence in decision-making. My committee? Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, and Drake!
8. Practice the feeling of strength.
We have one of those pull up bars that goes over a door frame, and Kelly started adding one pull up each day to her routine. She must be on 10 or so right now, and it inspired me to try pull ups myself. I’m still working on managing one, but I try to do one more “attempt” every day. The feeling of aching muscles reminds your mind of your strength, which carries over into other areas of your life.
9. Be your own #1 fan.
When I was feeling rather critical of myself, I asked Kelly what I should do. She suggested “being my own #1 fan.” She said to picture all the people who love and admire me, and imagine what they would say. No one else would ever be so harsh on me! Keep your perspective of the bigger picture by remembering that you truly are perfect the way you are. You can’t scrutinize every brush stroke in a painting as it’s being painted; often the strokes that look the most awkward turn out to be the happiest accidents. Try not to criticize tiny details, because the bigger picture of you is already perfect. You’re doing the best you can, and that’s all you can do.
10. Send your thank you cards!
Feel the feeling of getting the gift again, practice the feeling of gratitude, ensure future gifts!
11. Pretend you’re in Vegas.
When Kelly and I visited Vegas, we allowed ourselves to completely follow our intuition. We abandoned all plans and notions of what we should do, and let our feelings guide us. Every decision had to be a “fuck yeah!!” or it was a “hell no!” I want to live my whole life that way!
12. Meditate, don’t medicate.
The other day, I had a freaky asthma flare up that had me in a bit of a panic. I had no inhaler or other medication, and it was the middle of the night. Kelly had us meditate and after a few minutes of focused breathing, my symptoms began to subside. I know in my heart the breathing difficulties are just me feeling like I can’t catch my breath in general—2012 is moving so fast! The more I let my mind rest, the easier it is to stay in the flow.
13. Allow.
Stop resisting and begin allowing. At any point say “I’m allowing this,” or “I allow myself to feel good.” Anything you want, just say you allow it. I allow well being. I allow myself to feel the way I want to feel. I allow myself to nap. I allow myself to rest. I allow myself to feel good anyway. I allow that person to live their life the way they want. I allow myself to relax. I allow this moment to feel good. I allow myself to receive the gifts the universe is trying to give me. I allow myself to have what I want. It feels so much better to allow than resist, and when you say yes to the life around you, the life around you says yes to you.
