Gratitude – Thanksgiving Day – Fun

If you’ve ever heard your parents or yourself say, “don’t play with your food” here is something that just might change your mind :)
As today is Thanksgiving here in the US and many families gather around to enjoy a Thanksgiving feast (aka a lot of food) I thought that this might be a fun look at food with a totally different perspective!
Paul sent these out this morning to members of his “How To Draw Online” course and they made me smile – I hope they do the same for you!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Love,
Kira Wagner, Your Freedom Guide

I hope these pictures inspire you for the holiday. Amazing what some artists can do with food.

In some of these the foods used are obvious, in others you have to think about them a little. For instance in the 1st photo – water is probably smoked salmon, rocks are potatoes, islands are bread, trees look to be dill or fennel fronds, shore rocks are coffee beans, sand is rock salt, etc. It’s amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it.|All the scenes have been created entirely with food!
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Who are you to deliver your product or service?

I was in a conversation yesterday with a friend who asked the question, "Who am I to deliver this (their)message?"

I have to admit that I have asked that question of myself, some days more than others. The simple answer is "Who am I to refuse to deliver a message that I have been given?" Especially when I believe that this is my path, my purpose in life.

As we talked, I realized that there are many people who are out there talking about the Law of Attraction, Love and Fear, Freedom, Choice, I’ve even seen Freedom Formula (as opposed to Freedom’s Formula) and the list goes on.

A few of the notables that I have since come in contact with, or become aware of, since starting my own company Freedom’s Formula include;

  1. Don Miguel Ruiz with The Four Agreements
  2. Byron Katie with The Work
  3. Neale Donald Walsh with Conversations With God
  4. Esther Hicks with The Teaching’s of Abraham
  5. Dan Millman with The Peaceful Warrior’s Way
  6. Joe Vitale – Mr. Fire
  7. Chellie Campbell with The Wealthy Spirit
  8. Laurie Beth Jones and the Jesus series
  9. Louise Hay and the healing work
  10. Suzanne Falter Barns with her Joy work
  11. Tony McGee with the Destiny on Demand
  12. Royce Morales with Perfect Love Awakening
  13. T. Harv Eker with Peak Potentials
  14. Melanie Strick with Success Connections
  15. Wayne Dyer with Motivation and Intention

and the list goes on – thank goodness!!!

There are people out there who will only be able to hear YOU. The way you talk, they way you interact – the same message but only through your voice.

Why is it that we find ourselves in the doubt about our message and/or the fear that there isn’t enough if there are others "doing what I do"?

I’ve listed 15 other individuals who have put the message of freedom, love, joy, abundance, happiness and peace out their in their own way.

I currently live in Southern California and there are well over 21,000,000 (million) people who share this part of the state with me. If anyone bothers to do the math, that STILL is over 1,000,000 potential clients for each one of us. Now each of our business’s are not limited to just one geographic location as speakers, authors and seminar leaders. Therefore, that number is only a small fraction of the possible clientele available to each one of us. The big plus is that this particular song is so important that the more of us that are singing it together – the more in harmony the world will experience.

The goal is to keep the eyes focused on the the abundance not the lack.

Regardless of your profession, if you are passionate about your calling, then make the choice today to have the abundant life of your dreams.

For an overview of activities in Freedom’s Formula that will teach you how to uncover the road blocks of self-defeat and enjoy the view from the top of the mountain, Handbook for Freedom click here.

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Whose language are you using anyway?

Last night I went with my husband and several friends to see Conversations with God, based on the book of the same name by Neale Donald Walsh. It was interesting to notice the parallels and see that he was saying the same things that I do in conversations. To recognize that it’s all about fear or love and the feelings. Something that is, at the same time, so simple yet so profound.

Some of the other parallels were;

  • The broken neck and the sensation that came up when he tried to remove the neck brace the night in the tent–I could feel the nausea, the pain as the weeks and months after my own posterior cervical laminectomy came flooding back to me.
  • Seeing his reaction to the homeless on the street and the transformation that came about when he was so destitute that he found himself eating leftover food in a dumpster and to know what it felt like to be hungry and have only bread and water to eat for several days in a row.
  • To see him as the aggressor in a relationship because he was so starved for love even though it was all around him but he just couldn’t feel it.
  • And last – but most important in this post – to hear him say that, "God speaks to us in our own language so we can hear" and having come to realize just recently that I must put my ideas, my formula for freedom, in words that others can understand but only as a function of "moral duty".

It’s this last item that I’d like to spend a few minutes on. As I heard that in the theater I knew one of my largest obstacles was my own language, my need to make it duty. If God sees fit to talk to me in my language out of love, what ego based fear is prompting me to come at this from a moral, self-righteous "duty" platform?

If I, or anyone reading this, have a message to deliver, how much more powerful is it when I put it in words that others can hear and understand? I see it everyday around me with people being in a button because someone is speaking in a language other than English. Why, because it feels like they think they’re better than us? Maybe they are saying something "about us". Maybe they are even hatching some "evil" plot to overthrow the government. Isn’t it ridiculous how far we’ll let our imaginations go as a result of fear?

If we have a message to get across, to business partners, associates, clients, family, friends it’s just possible that "putting it in terms so simple as to ensure that all within the hearing of our voices will feel the power of the words", is tantamount to ultimate success and moreover – just as Neal Walsh said, it is done from a place of love. From that magnificent place of power in each of us.

What voice will you choose to speak with today?

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True Purpose

  • PLAYING POKER; I’m sitting around a card table playing poker with 5 guys, I think it’s poker since I’m not really a card player. I’m dealing and for a while it’s just cards as usual, then there is something about the types or significance of the cards and betting that one person has an unusual card. It’s not betting on the hand. One or two of the guys fold their hands and for some reason one of the other guys gets up from the table to go look at something. That is when I notice that the guy on my right is tossing cards under the table and one hits my ankle. We keep playing cards. I’m watching him to see if he does it again and how he does it without anyone catching on then there is another card on the floor. I look at him and bend down to pick them up. No one is upset that he did that – it’s more of a curiosity as to why he wanted to do it. He’s talking about wanting to keep those particular cards. There is something about the deck that we’re playing with the value of certain individual cards. I don’t think he is telling the truth but one of the other guys shows me a card that the face of it is printed over – I think it was the 10 of spades. There are two columns of “white space” on the right hand side of the card. In one of the columns he’s written some kind of reference number and says that he knows this guy is telling the truth. Then we’re looking at the cards that have been on the ground – one of them has – “$1,000,000″ written on it in TINY print. There are others with similar oddities on them. These particular cards are worth a lot of money.
  • THE LOVE OF SINGING; The next thing I know is that I’m at some kind of singing competition. All of these individuals are auditioning for some production, maybe it’s a commercial but it’s a public production. There is a conveyor belt that people are standing on and as they approach the mic it’s their turn to perform. Some of them are OK singers, some could benefit from a few months of voice lessons while others are good. No one is really over the top. My sister Gloria, who is about 30 something in the dream, is the judge of who will go on to do this project and I’m sitting there beside her. I’m afraid to tell her that I really want to audition. I’m thinking how it’s not like Sweet Adelines where the timing of everyones performance has to be exact to “win”- I know I can do this. I believe that if I ask her it will put pressure on her and there is something else bothering me but I don’t know what it is. It isn’t until I DO say something that it becomes clear that I believe she doesn’t want me to be there because she wants to be able to do this on her own. There is something in the project that is about “her” and her capabilities and if I’m there I’ll just dominate the scene. Part of me understands and is trying to support her and the other part of me is struggling because I know that I can do this then I realize that it isn’t about her. It’s about just doing it and taking the chance. (My sister passed away just before her 16th birthday in 1981)
  • DRIVING THROUGH THE RAIN; Then I’m at some place where it’s raining and we’re in a building talking about driving. We have to leave the place, maybe it’s a hotel, and as I look out the window the water is rising everywhere. I don’t know if it’s such a good idea but I know we have to leave. As I’m watching I am aware that there is only one road to leave town. As people are driving they go through an area where it’s below water level. I watch as a white mini-van drives and the water is almost over the roof. It is only a short distance when it comes out the other side. Then I’m in some kind of school bus, we realize that several of the window are down and we have to close them before we get to that low spot in the road. I’m concerned because one of the windows closes from the top down because it’s not really sealed. I’m looking at the air space between the bottom of the window and the frame and the scene changes.
  • REMEMBER TO CALL YOUR MOM; The next thing I know is that I’m somewhere and I have a long coat on and in the pocket is my mom’s cell phone. We (all I know is that I’m not alone) are trying to figure out where she might be and finally I drive up to…somewhere and she is there. Somehow we had gone different ways and I had her phone in my pocket so she couldn’t call me. (My mom passed away the end of May this year)
  • PASSING THE TEST; Then I’m BACK at the building where the card game was and standing in some kind of hallway while there is one person standing at a big chalkboard writing answers to questions they are being asked. It’s a multiple choice series of questions. As each person finishes they are told how they did then they erase the board and call the next person into the room. I’m walking around still in the hall/foyer. There is a door that leads to a garage that is standing open. I see a small black convertible drive in and the car has some pink flame like decals on the sides. I go out to see whose car it is but by the time I get through the doorway the owner has parked the car and is gone. In the meantime another person I know, JN is parking her car; she gets out and uses some kind of remote control to drive it into some kind of storage area. The wall of the parking space in front of her rises and the car drives inside. She’s concerned that it will hit the front bumper so she goes in to check on it and it’s fine. I’m thinking that it’s pretty cool to have a remote control to park your car so one doesn’t have to worry about being able to get out of the car AFTER it is parked in some tight spot. I go back in the hallway because it’s going to be my turn directly. I’m standing in front of some kind of counter and looking at a decanter – actually looking through the decanter to the glowing tiles on the wall. I’m semi caught up in how the different colors and glass make patterns of light and texture as well as being aware that I can see through the door to the chalkboard where the person going before me is writing the answers to the test. I’m afraid that I won’t pass. I find myself trying to memorize their answer sequence feeling guilty because it’s cheating while at the same time knowing that it won’t help because I know their questions and mine will be different. As I walk into the room I know that the questions will be about what I owned from the movie, Peaceful Warrior, things that I’ve learned in studying Authentic Reiki (R) aka The Radiance Technique, what I’ve understood from the Bible as well as what I believe. I’m supposed to know all of these answers and I am afraid that I won’t pass the test.

So one of the reasons that it’s been so long since I’ve posted anything – I realized that since I’ve started putting these up – I believe that I’m “supposed” to have something to contribute every day. I will be letting people down if I don’t. The two nights prior to this dream have netted me a total of two pictures.

  • First one three nights ago is that I’m looking at myself crawling around on the floor with some big, thick soled shoes on and thinking about how uncomfortable those would be to walk in.
  • The second night I am sitting talking to a man in clown face make-up.

All of this after more than a week of dreams where I would wake up and not be able to come up with one word.

I’m not sure what all of this is saying yet. I know it has to do with one path – I just don’t see the whole picture right now.

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Who says it’s impossible?

The world is full of zanies and fools – who don’t believe in sensible rules and don’t believe what sensible people say – and just be cause the dewy eyed dopes keep building up impossible hopes …
"Impossible" things are happening every day!
Compliments of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella

It seems to me that the words "impossible", "can’t" and "inconceivable" ought to be stricken from the English language. Or to quote another notable :) "I do not think it means what you think it means." So said Inigo Montoya to Vizzini in The Princess Bride.

We have example after example of walls being torn down, boundaries being expanded and knowledge being challenged and changed every day. There are programs out there by the score that dare us to challenge our belief system – look deeply into what is "true" and as more and more of us do that – what was "true" yesterday – isn’t today.

Even the Bible tells us that… "with God all things are possible". There may be those reading this that would say that it’s a figure of speech – I say it means exactly what it says. When I have the power of God on my side (I’m acting from Love) then I can do anything. It’s my belief that keeps me from doing — whatever it is that I’m challenged to do. And yes, many of the beliefs that I carry are rooted in traditional acceptance of what I’ve been taught.

I would hope that today you all begin to believe that anything is possible – in a most glorious, loving way!

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A Scream in the Night

Well so much for not having a nightmare in such a long time! Please feel free to let me know if you come across other posts on dreaming that you enjoy!

  • In this dream there were a lot of people and a circus tent of sorts. The reason for the difference is that there was always another room (warehouse size) or another attic area. PW was there and someone wanted to kill him and I’m in another room eating an ice cream cone and trying to distract them. He’s flying to get away – and I’m … him in a sense. I am seeing everything as if I’m the one flying but I also know that I’m standing on the ground keeping an eye out to see if he can escape. At some point he manages to get out in the open and again it’s like we’re the same person. 
    There is some small glass figure, like a heart, that is filled with blue sparkling dust and we’re trying to keep some door open but the heart is all that is holding the door open and I don’t know if it’s strong enough. Then "he" realizes that "I’m" still inside and that he has to get me out of there so he flies back in.
    It’s almost like a chase seen out of a James Bond movie with dodging bullets and flying around this massive place. There are a lot of portholes that look like they can be used to fly out of the areas – to escape if you will – and yet when he/I gets close they are sealed with some kind of heavy vinyl that would take to long to cut open (by the time we could get through we’d be dead). 
    This seems to go on for ever and I’m watching from the ground as the sniper is shooting. The "near misses" are too close and too frequent and there is a sense that they are getting closer. All of a sudden there is a bright flash of light as the bullets hit him and I’m screaming and that is when I wake up.

So at this point the same person/separate people piece is that there are a lot of similarities going on in both of our businesses and what can be said to one can be said to the other. The heart is all that is keeping the door open, the glass is that there is an awareness that it can break and the door could close, though why the blue glittering dust at this point I don’t see.

The fact that it’s inside is that things are still confined – not in a place to "bust free" as it were and the sniper is a feeling that there are still challenges that have the potential for stopping everything in it’s tracks if we let it.

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Come Saturday Morning

Today it’s foggy. I actually don’t mind how cool it is – and I LOVE hot weather. Today I could write in a dozen different directions and I don’t think I’d get anything else done.

I love to laugh – actually that is one of my favorite songs from Mary Poppins.

“I love to laugh, loud and long and clear; I love to laugh, so everybody can hear.”

I’ve been know to laugh so hard that I’ll be on the floor. As the saying goes there’s a time and a place for everything…

It’s Saturday, I’m going to go play and find things that make me giggle and gaffaw :) If you’d like to read something a little more in depth – check out the dream blog and the reflections on nightmares that I wrote this morning. It would be redundant to put the same thing in here but it really is in keeping with finding freedom to “be” here in this world.

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Positive? Negative? Where are we?

In the movie “What the Bleep” one of the keys that struck me is the comment that “what we do is disguise the negative thinking with a layer of positive thinking. In essence we don’t own the positive. It’s more of “moving away from what we don’t want” than “moving toward what we do want.”

The question I continue to ask myself is why? Why am I afraid to move through certain things to get to the Freedom – and yes there are still parts of me that are stuck. The blessing is that as I choose to see each one I can process and let go of it.

It’s exactly what happened the other day doing an excercise for business. I was at a workshop and having a difficult time articulating my brand/business purpose. Given 60 seconds I would freeze knowing that I could talk about it if I didn’t feel the pressure of time (and by now I had already asked about that issue too).  In the excercise my task was to say – “I am powerful” and just before it was my turn I was getting ready – essentially saying it with each person before me – and as I said the statement I followed it with “that’s obnoxious”. A little while later I had some time to look at that and when I put all of the pieces together and saw where it had come from it was gone – the rest of the workshop was completely different and today I feel like I own who I am and the power that I have to “be”. I know that there are a lot of programs and premises out there that advocate just “saying something differently” or simply saying the power statement over and over again but that’s “overwriting” and I KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that it will simply show up somewhere else. I like the freedom to continually drop these fears away and be more of who I am meant to be. To live in a state of becoming. To be able to own all the beauty of life. That’s what the formula is all about.

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