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Using Mantras

Hi Everyone!

Usually when you hear the word "mantra", we think of the word "Ohm" used in meditation, and therefore we associate that with Hindu or Buddhist Spirituality.

What I am talking about though, is a more modern approach to a one-word-version of an affirmation. As you know, affirmations are simple, short statements that describe a powerful, positive thought you are trying to have to increase overall positive thinking and self-talk.

Mantras can be used the same way.

For example the word - the Mantra - "Relax" repeated a few times during a tense situation, or just to ease the everyday stress, we can fall under, can ease your physical tension, especially if combined with deep, controlled breathing.

Try the following exercise:

1. Sit comfortably with both feet on the floor.

2. Relax your shoulders, sit upright, but leaning against the sturdy back of the chair.

3. Close your eyes.

4. Breathe in deeply.

5. Speak your mantra "Relax" as you exhale, loosening the muscles in your thighs.

6. Breathe in deeply.

7. Say "Relax" as you exhale, loosening your back muscles.

8. Breathe in deeply.

9. Say "Relax" as you exhale, loosening you your neck muscles

10. Breathe in deeply.

11. Say "Relax" as you exhale, smile softly.

12. Breathe in deeply

13. Say "Relax" as you exhale, open your eyes.

This exercise, can be used with the following words as well:

Gratitude

Acceptance

Love

Release

Have a wonderful day!

Your Motivational Life Coach

Claudia Blanton

For more information on how to use Mantra's and Affirmations to create a happier, more balanced life, contact me at 813 - 531 - 8379 for a free Motivational Life Coaching Session. Or write me at claudiablanton@lycos.com .

Motivational Quotes from the Secret

Hi Everyone!

Here are some quotes from the movie "The Secret". Enjoy!

"This is really fun. It's like having the Universe as your catalog. You flip through it and say,"I'd like to have this experience and I'd like to have that product, and I'd like to have a person like that." It is placing your order with the Universe. It's really that easy."

Dr. Joe Vitale

"Hold an image of talking to an old friend that you haven't seen for a long time. Somehow or another somebody's going to start talking to you about that person. That person's going to phone you or you'll get a letter from her."

Bob Proctor

"All that we are is a result of what we have thought."

Buddha

"When you're visualizing, when you've got that picture playing out in your mind, always and only dwell upon the end result."

Mike Dooley

Have a wonderful day!

Claudia Blanton

Motivational Life Coach, Fundraiser

www.create-your-life-dreams.com

The Art of Allowing - A Quote

Hi Everyone!

Here is a quote from Abraham-Hicks about Allowing and Taking Action, within the co-creation process:

"Allowing yourself to become what life has caused you to desire is not about action. It is about the aligning of thought Energies. It is about focusing your attention in the direction of your desire rather than looking back at the current conditions that have given birth to your desire. And while you may very well eventually become inspired to some action, it is the alignment of thought Energy (a vibrational alignment) that you are seeking.

When you achieve vibrational alignment, any inspired action will feel wonderful. Without the vibrational alignment, any action taken will feel difficult."

So, while taking action is important, it should come after getting yourself aligned vibrationally, and therefore be an inspired action.

What is a vibrational alignment?

Vibrational alignment is feeling good. Any feeling of well-being that you have, means, that you are aligned vibrationally with who you are, with your Source Energy.

Does that mean, that you need to be constantly happy, and euphoric?

No, actually any improvement in the direction of how you are feeling already points you into the right direction. For example:

From being angry at your job situation, you can turn yourself toward alignment, by thinking: I am looking for a solution to this problem, or I am opening myself toward new opportunities. 

As you can see, it is not a major switch, but a slight change in looking at the situation, that brings you closer to this alignment.

Source: "The Astonishing Power of Emotion" by Esther and Jerry Hicks

Have a wonderful day!

Claudia Blanton

www.create-your-life-dreams.com

For more information on the Process of Law of Attraction, and a free Motivational Coaching Session, call me at 813 - 531 - 8379, or contact me at claudiablanton@lycos.com to set up an appointment at your convenience.

Book Recommendations - Self Help Category

Hi Everyone!

Today, I want to recommend three books to you, that I think can assist profoundly in spiritual growth, as well as increasing your awareness.

1. "The Astonishing Power of Emotions" by Ester and Jerry Hicks. If you are familiar with the teaching of Abraham through Ester Hicks, this book will be a treat for you. If you are not, this is a great introduction as well as a wonderful guide toward how powerful your emotions are in the creative process of Law of Attraction
2. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne. Even if you have already watched the movie, the book, with some additional information is a great read, and a resource book as well as an inspirational motivator. This is a book which you should have on your shelf!
3. "A New Earth - Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" by Eckhart Tolle. Yes I know, Oprah things it is great, but I do have to agree with the woman. While it is a complex book, which is best read after having some idea of controlled thinking, metaphysics or the teachings in the books above, it is an amazingly powerful book, that can have a large impact in your life.

Have a wonderful day!

Claudia Blanton

www.create-your-life-dreams.com

Personal Responsibility - Or - It's not the Weather that made you do it!

Personal responsibility is getting away from blaming outside forces for the situations we are in.

McDonald's did not make you eat these super-sized fries, your neighbor did not make you angry, by having a party last night.

Personal responsibility is looking at a situation, without blame toward outside influences, other people, or even yourself. It means to take inventory of the situation and it's outcome, and to adjust your thoughts, words and actions according to your desired result.

Look at some areas in your life, where you can exercise your personal responsibility today. May it be:

1. Relationships
2. Job
3. Health - that includes weight issues
4. Financial situation
5. Self-Image

Take a moment today, to write in your journal or blog, about how your actions have influenced your life-sections.

Remember this is not to direct blame toward you, but to give you accountability and allow you to see your responsibility of your choices in the big picture, that is your life.

Have a wonderful day!

Claudia Blanton

For more information on Motivational Life Coaching, Taking Personal Responsibility and Living the Life of Your Dreams, contact me directly at 813 - 531 - 8379 for a FREE Life Coaching Session. You can also email me at claudiablanton@lycos.com for an appointment.

Is Staying Negative More Comfortable?

Hi Everyone!

"When you worry about problems, it can give you the feeling that you are doing something about them. And in fact you are. You're making them worse, giving them more power, compounding their negative influence by the force of your own thoughts. Is that really what you want to do?

Think of your biggest problem, your most challenging obstacle. Now find something positive about it. Envision a way in which you can transform it from a negative to a positive in your life. Maintaining a positive focus is easy to do. It doesn't cost any money. It simply involves an adjustment in your attitude. It is without question a precursor to success and achievement.

So why don't people do it? Because staying negative is too comfortable. Worrying and complaining don't oblique you to take action, to take control, to take responsibility. That can be scary. Yet is sure beats the alternative of making your problems worse, by worry and inactivity.

See the positive and then do something about it, make the effort to make it happen. That approach will get you where you want to go."

Ralph Marston

Have a great day!

Your Motivational Life Coach, Claudia Blanton.

www.create-your-life-dreams.com

Choices

"Every day gives us an opportunity to either open up, or shut down, and that the most precious opportunity presents itself when you think you can't handle whatever is happening. So if, in that moment, you can train yourself to open up instead of shutting down."

Pema Choedroen

Choice, it all boils down to the choices we make each moment. How to react to the challenge that  found its way into our lives because of past thinking, how we react from now on, is our choice and only ours.

Of course, there are moments to be angry, and I do not suggest that you pretend you never are, but use anger instead, as the signal, that change needs to be made, and adjustments need to be done.

Your choice to react by repressing, or compensating with food, or any other destructive behavior, is not constructive. I do not need to point that out to you. But instead, I want to give you an option, of taking any opportunity, may it be a loss of a job, or a struggle with weight, to change your view of how you would confront the issue.

Will you shut down and hide, or will you take deliberate action? Will you whine or will you ask specific questions on how to learn from that moment? If you choose the later, you will have the opportunity to grow, any even if you might encounter another time a similar situation, you will have new tools how to deal with them.

You have then learned, you have grown, and then, realizing that all moments are opportunities to learn from, situations will loose their power, and fear will melt away.

That is when you are ready to co-create your life.

Have a wonderful day!

Claudia Blanton

Motivational Life Coach, Self-Talk Expert

For more information on how to use the process of Law of Attraction in your life, visit www.create-your-life-dreams.com and contact me for a free Motivational Life Coaching Session, or call me directly at          813 - 531 - 8379 for an appointment.

The Power of Being Present

Okay, we all have heard by now about this new awakening, the Law of Attraction and the way we create through thinking - most of us have at least (judging by the book-sales reports - lots of people have!)

At the same time, we are in need to learn something profound, while we are asking for what we want in the future:

Being Present!

What I mean by that is, focusing on your current moment, where you are physically, and how you are feeling right now.

Eckhart Tolle writes in the book "The Power of Now", that all the stress and pain in the world is about not being present in the Now.

This is a certain truth, to at least most of the caused stress, as we are focused on tomorrows bills, and yesterdays conversations with whomever that made us mad, so that the opportunity to s eize and look at the Now, and experience the great pleasures, the abundance or at least the little lessons it has to offer is overlooked.

Practice paying attention to today, by using techniques that calm and silence you, such as

• meditation
• yoga
• deep breathing
• specific prayers
• writing in a Gratitude Journal
• taking a sensory walk

Become still. Pay attention to Now. Feel the stress melt away.

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As a Motivational Life Coach, and Self-Talk Expert, I am happy to answer your questions on any of the principles discussed in this blog, or related to motivation, Law of Attraction, goal-setting and balanced living.

For a free Motivational Telephone Coaching Session call me at 813 - 531 - 8379, or email me at claudiablanton@lycos.com

So, what should I do with a vision board?

Vision boards,vision wall, vision door, hey your choice, same result.

As it was seen on Oprah this week, vision boards are a wonderful, practical focus tool, and through that fact useful in getting what you want out of life.

But how do you create one?

How you create a vision board, or wall, or door, is relatively simple, and fun.

You will need the following materials:

• Poster-board or Cork-board, or simply the wall or a door
• several cutouts out of magazines, sales ads, any picture you get a hold off that describes what you want and how you want to feel.
• glue or tape
• pen or thick marker to make bold words, such as "healthy", "confidence" or anything similar you want to work on

Begin arranging the pictures and words! Make it fun! If you have kids, you can get them involved as well, or have them make their own board.

Extra tips!

1. If you have a picture of a person doing something you want to do, paste your face on it, and hang that on your board
2. Tape a picture of yourself next to someone that you want to meet, or work with (yes, you can tape yourself next to Oprah)
3. Look at your vision board often! See yourself as having what you imagined, then let go, and go about your day!
4. Get familiar with the principles of Law of Attraction. Learn what you can do, to actively create the life of your dreams, by focusing your thoughts deliberately toward a positive outlook. Read all you can get a hold on, about this subject, do not stop at "The Secret", that is just the beginning.

For more info contact me, your Motivational Life-Coach at

813 - 531 - 8379 or email me with any questions!

Giving

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."

Mother Theresa

Affirmation for Today:

I am extending kindness.

Do not ever underestimate the power of a minimal amount of time, a kind word, a hug, or the donation of a couple of dollars can do in the life of another person.

These short moments of your life, the small gift you were able to give, is always enlarged through the receiver. It's ripple effect can change lives, from the one that you touched directly, to the others that will be reached because of your inspiration.

So, never underestimate your power in the largeness of the Universe. Each thought you think, each kindness you sow, each gift you give is important.

Have a wonderful day!

Claudia

www.create-your-life-dreams.com