“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza

I wanted to write this week about how I created my future using mind movies and meditation.

As you may know, I have been attending workshops given by Dr. Joe Dispenza.  About six months ago, he incorporated mind movies into our teachings for the Advanced Workshop in May of this year.

Mind Movies are really digital vision boards.  With mind movies, you can create a video with pictures and affirmations to create what you want in the future.

I am happy to say that it works.  In six months, everything I created is manifesting.

For example, I created a picture of a key with the affirmation “My business helps thousands of people.”

The result is that I am getting more followers on social media every week, selling more books, and have much more media exposure than I did six months ago.

So I am making good progress to helping thousands of people with my business.

The next frame of the video is a picture of a fit young woman with the affirmation “I am the perfect weight for me.”

I’ve since lost five pounds without dieting.   I am well along the way to being at the perfect weight.

The next scene of the video is “I attract money with my abundant thoughts.”

I have since felt much better about my finances, and I am meeting my financial obligations with no problems.  And I have had some major expenses this year!!

The next affirmation is “I choose to exercise regularly” with a picture of a fit woman exercising.

I was not exercising at all six months ago.  Now I am exercising at least four times per week, sometimes more.  Check!

The next frame was “I am a divine conduit for healing others.”

I have not only experienced healing for myself, but other people have been healed as a result.  A member of my church had cancer, and ended up getting positive medical reports and is recovering nicely!

So, I have manifested every one of my goals.  Mind movies, especially combined with meditation, work very well in manifesting what you want in life.  I highly recommend mind movies along with meditation – you can create anything you want.  The sky’s the limit!

Here is a letter I wrote to lupus a few months ago.  After receiving positive news with my lab work, I thought I would be appropriate to post it this week.  Have a great week!

Dear Lupus,

You’ve been hanging around for a long time now, and I wanted to write a letter to let you know how I feel about you.

Frankly, I don’t have much to say to you.

When you first came into my life, I didn’t know what to do with you.  I did not find you all that interesting, because I never researched your many symptoms online.

I didn’t obsess about you night and day.  All of the information I got about you I learned from my very supportive rheumatologist.

In other words, I let him worry about you.

I didn’t pay any attention to the tests they ran on you.

Instead, I focused on health and wellness.  I cleaned up my diet.  I got a personal trainer.  I exercised 5-6 times a week.  I even gave up refined sugar for a period of time.  Finally, I meditated every morning, and I made sure I got enough rest.

Most importantly, I affirmed, “I stand up for myself freely and easily.  I claim my power.  I love and approve of myself.  I am free and safe.”

Finally, my doctor confirmed that you had been put to rest.  I had no active disease and had been that way for quite some time.

My doctor told me, “Whatever you’re doing, keep on doing it.”  So I did.

I never “battled” you, “conquered” you, or “fought” you.  You’re just not interesting enough to engage in battle!

What is interesting to me is waking up in the morning with no pain or swelling.  I also can move my body with ease because I have the energy.

I can work at a job that is right for me, and write about my experiences at night and share them with others.

I can go out at night because I feel good.  I also expect to live a long time, loving life.

Finally, I’ve made peace with you, and I thank you.  Without you in my life, I never would have learned to stand up for myself.  I am grateful to you for teaching me that valuable lesson.

My desire is that others who hear about me can apply what I’ve learned about coping with lupus and finally recover to a live a fuller, more active life.

Again, thank you, and I’m glad I was able to put you to bed.

I thought I would repost a blog that tells a story of what I have learned about so-called negative experiences.  Enjoy!

I once had a friend who, when I met her, was looking for a job within our company.  She was being laid off, and wanted to switch to another department.  I told her they were hiring in my department, and she agreed to have lunch with me to talk about this opportunity.

When we sat down, I told her that I liked my job, and that I appreciated the people I worked with.  The managers were helpful with any questions I had, and most of the people were nice.

In short, I liked where I was, and did not see the job ending anytime soon.  There were too many issues to be resolved, and there was too much work to be done.

So, she interviewed for the job, and because of her vast, relevant experience, she got the job.

However, she realized that she did not like the job at all.

She felt the environment was very negative, and even got assigned to a task that was grueling, tedious and hard work.

She had to meet a quota every week, and was having trouble meeting that quota.

Later we found out that her old job ended up being more secure, and that it never would go away thanks to increased funding.

I asked her if she regretted leaving the old job just to come to this new department with the tedious assigned work.

She actually said she did not regret coming over at all.

I thought she was nuts.

Then the worst happened, to both of us.  We both got laid off from our jobs (remember, this was a job I thought was very secure – you just never know).

I was struggling to find a job for months, since it was during the Recession.  My friend found a great job in a new field that she was very good at, and that job gave her experience where she was very much in demand.

She went on to obtain her PMP (Project Management Professional) certification, and even ended up with a nice bonus for getting certified!

I realized that if she had stayed in that safe, old job, she would have never discovered this exciting new field, and would have never gotten the PMP certification.

She would not have gotten paid as much, and would never have received that nice bonus.

Her experience taught me something:  there is a blessing in every experience, even when it appears to be very negative.

I invite you to look for the positive aspects in the so-called negative experiences you have had in life.  I promise you will find the blessings in that situation.

Remember that life is full of both positive and negative experiences, and it is your job to find the jewels amongst the so-called garbage in life.

I wanted to write this week and clarify my position on affirmations and their efficacy in healing lupus.

Many people state that affirmations don’t work.  They say you cannot just babble affirmations day and night and suddenly cure yourself of disease.

Actually, affirmations are only a small part in the process of healing.

They are a beginning point of change.  They are a way to put into words what you want in your life.

However, they are not enough.  It is not enough to repeat affirmations to achieve a state of health and well-being.

You must change from the inside out.  You need to change your state of being.

When I was diagnosed with lupus at 30 years of age, I was very uncertain of what the future would bring.

I knew people had died from this disease.  I knew people could get very sick and their lives would be altered forever.

And I was sick for a few years.  Then I discovered You Can Heal Your Life, by Louise Hay.

I looked up SLE, or lupus, in the list in the back of the book.  She stated the probable cause of the dis-ease was “A giving up.  Better to die than to stand up for oneself.  Anger and Punishment.”

Then the new thought pattern stated:  “I speak up for myself freely and easily.  I claim my power.  I love and approve of myself.  I am free and safe.”

I realized I had not stood up for myself, ever.  I never defended myself when attacked or criticized.

Even when I disagreed with someone, I kept quiet.

I did start by repeating that affirmation often.

However, I knew intuitively that I had to start doing and being that assertive person who consistently stood up for herself.

Then I started to speak up for myself at work.  When that “bully” at work attacked me, I defended myself (in a positive way).

I became that assertive person.  I changed my state of being.

Then I meditated every day.  I knew that meditation not only helped with stress, but also increased brain wave coherence.

I learned later on at Dr. Joe Dispenza’s workshops that when brain waves are coherent, disease cannot exist in the body.

Soon, my rheumatologist confirmed I had no active disease.  Later, after attending Dr. Joe’s workshops, even the laboratory confirmed I had no lupus in my body.

In August of this year, my ANA test was negative, and all of the other tests for lupus were normal!

It’s like I never had lupus.  It had left my body.

So don’t completely discount affirmations.  Though they do not heal illness, they are a good start on your pathway to wellness.

Money is such a sensitive but important subject for many of us.  I thought I would write this week about how we repel money without realizing it.

I have learned this over the years when studying Abraham, Morgana Rae and others and thought they bear repeating here.

Here are some ways we can repel money:

1. Criticize others for how they handle their money. How people handle money really has nothing to do with you, except when you hold critical thoughts about them.  It’s the negative thinking about others and their money that stop the flow of your good.
2. Resent, or be jealous of, what others have. Again, this stops the flow of your good.  As Abraham has said, “When the success of another makes your heart sing, your resistance is gone, and your own success soars.”
3. Keeping up with the Joneses. This is another form of resistance that I have seen in my personal experience with co-workers.  This only causes you to spend money you don’t have, leaving you with a mountain of debt.  This is not true abundance.  True abundance is being very content and appreciating what you do have.
4. Not charging enough for what you offer to the world. I got this tip from Morgana Rae, the famous money relationship expert.   This demonstrates a lack of respect for yourself and for money.  It’s like you are saying to money, “I want less and less of you in my life!” Who would want to be around that?
5. Not paying your bills on time, or being generally disorganized about your finances. Again, this shows a lack of respect for money.  If you are not paying attention to someone, they are not going to hang around you for very long.  If you ignore money, it will leave, and you’ll continue to have problems paying your bills.
6. Thinking money isn’t important or it does not matter. Some people think they are being “good” if they state that money is not important.  While it’s good to not be obsessed or greedy with money, the opposite is also problematic.  If you lend someone money, for instance, and they don’t pay you back, it’s better to ask for the money directly instead of seeing it as unimportant and forgetting about it.  This also shows respect for money.

These are just a few ways people repel money that I have learned over the years.  I would love to hear your comments about other ways people can repel money.  Let me know what you think!