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Archive for January, 2011

Today’s journal writing ideas and prompts are from a famous Buddha quote, “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

Here’s my take on this quote:

The Law of Attraction is suggesting the very same thing. No matter what it is that you think about, positive or negative, you are creating those thoughts into an experience in your life. So, pay attention to where you are spending your time. What are you consistently thinking about? How are you consistently feeling while you are thinking these thoughts?

Did you know that you are emitting a vibration while you are thinking and feeling these thoughts? So what are they? If you are in a state of negative emotion and negative thought patterns, you are negatively creating the experience of your life.

If you are predominantly oriented in thinking about life in a positive direction, you are creating positive experiences for your life. If you take the time to see what it is your life has been, many of us will see that we are a mixed bag of the two, so our experiences are mixed.

Therefore, if you don’t like what you’ve created, take responsibility for your life. Take responsibility for your thoughts. Take responsibility for your feelings….and turn them around! Become the deliberate creator of your own life! When you come to the realization that you get everything that you get because you have “asked” for it “vibrationally”, you become the powerful creator of your own life experience now. For more on this topic, click here.

So, today’s journal writing ideas are this:

• What aspects of your life do you tend to not take responsibility?
• Can you catch yourself blaming others for things and turn it around?
• Where do you want to start taking responsibility now in your life?
• How can you go about doing this? What new thought can you have about this?

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Written by:
Liz Gracia
Co-Founder
Seeds of Intentions

Liz Gracia is an up and coming self help author now residing in Colorado. Her first nonfiction self help book is based on her true story of a quantum spiritual awakening that took place on the enchanting Island of Nantucket.

She is currently a contestant in the “Next Top Self Help Author” Writing Contest (Feb 2011-May 2011) where the winner will be offered a publishing contract with Conari Press, a major player in the self help publishing arena. Visit her website www.aUniqueVoice.com where you can be the first to read chapters of her book as they become available, vote for a title for the book, vote for this book to get published, read a Teaser and more!

I love reading inspirational quotes because the one or two sentences seem to hold a power  that seems to expand my heart and bring awareness to me. It’s like God is talking through those individuals and giving me a personal message.

Do you ever find that just when you need it,  inspirational quotes pop up in your world? You run across them in a magazine or newspaper, or a television personality speaks them on the morning news. This happens to me quite often, and because I believe that Spirit communicates in many ways and through the Law of Attraction I am bringing the message to me, I listen deeply and often use the quote as a catalyst for journal writing.

Here is one of Thich Nhat Hanh quotes that spoke to me today:

“Our own life has to be our message.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh (The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology)

I reread these eight words many times thinking about what this means for me in my life right now….and here’s what I came up with in my writing journal.

The time has come for me to live each moment, live each breath, in a way that honors who I am.  I am not content to pretend so others are more comfortable.  I am not willing to set aside my heart’s desires until my early morning meditation.  No matter how I appear to the outside world, I must live my life from my place of knowing.  Then and only then can my life be my message to the world.  If I am not living authentically each moment, what I have to share with others will be veiled.  When I stand in my knowing, others will see to the very heart of my soul and my gifts will shine.

If you’re looking for a way to spice up your journal writing, try finding  inspirational quotes that are speaking to you and see what insights come.  You’ll be amazed at what surfaces!

Written by Amy Spradlin
Co-Founder
Seeds of Intentions
“Plant Yours Today”

Here’s a famous  Mark Twain Quote on Life, “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.”

For today’s journal writing prompts I encourage you to do the following:

• Make a list of people who belittle your ambitions
• Consider how you can stay away from them, if this is really what you want, or at least turn your subject matter with this person to something else. In fact make the belittler the focus of conversation  not you (as “small” people would tend to prefer themselves as the center of attention) and simply allow them to be without judgment.
• Then get rid of this list. It’s simply for comparison and contrast.
• Now make a list of all the people that support, love, encourage and honor you.
• What is it that they support, love and honor you for.
• Appreciate this and create a list of new things you want to be supported, loved, encouraged and honored for.

Now that you have your journal writing prompts, here’s my take on this quote on life from Mark Twain:

So, I do appreciate the message here, but I would make some modifications. The term “Small people” suggests superiority over another when I feel a more “evolved” or appropriate perspective on all of life is to appreciate that we are all at a different place in our conscious awareness. I would loosely define “small people” as those that do not appreciate our own level of perspective and awareness. They are not there yet and have a limited point of view….at this moment.

I love the analogy from “Conversations with God” books which says that if you appreciate that all of life is going through school at one level or another (and age has nothing to do with it), then you would not call someone “small” if you realized that they were still in nursery school on a subject while you were in high school on the same subject. You would simply appreciate and understand their perspective and allow them their way.

We all know who the “small people” are in our lives. It is best to keep your ambitions to yourself and share them only with those that support you. Vibrationally, those that support you are in alignment with your greatest potential and assist you in maintaining your alignment. “Small people” don’t help you and send your alignment “vibrationally” in the opposite direction.

Don’t give negative attention to those in your life that you would consider “small”. This is an invitation to only offer compassion and kindness and allow them to “be right”. This way of being is much more in alignment with who you really are and who you want to be. …again:

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.”—Einstein

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Written by:
Liz Gracia
Co-Founder
Seeds of Intentions

Liz Gracia is an up and coming self help author now residing in Colorado. Her first nonfiction self help book is based on her true story of a quantum spiritual awakening that took place on the enchanting Island of Nantucket.

She is currently a contestant in the “Next Top Self Help Author” Writing Contest (Feb 2011-May 2011) where the winner will be offered a publishing contract with Conari Press, a major player in the self help publishing arena. Visit her website www.aUniqueVoice.com where you can be the first to read chapters of her book as they become available, vote for a title for the book, vote for this book to get published, read a Teaser and more!

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Today we discuss the Joseph Campbell quote, “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”

At Seeds of Intentions’ blog we like to provide inspirational quotes as potential journal writing prompts for our readers. It is also a place to set intentions for your life…be deliberate about what you want. Be conscious of what you are asking for and where you give your attention.

Here’s my take on this Joseph Campbell quote about following your bliss:

I feel the “walls” in all of our lives are built with the bricks of “shoulds” we’ve imposed upon ourselves and the bricks of “shoulds” imposed upon us by others….of course I do not suggest that you bare a grudge upon anyone that “shoulds” all over you as it could not come to be if you have not asked for it “vibrationally” in one way or another.

You are the creator here remember.

Let’s start with not “shoulding all over ourselves” anymore. Yet allow others and ourselves to do and be exactly as they/we are in every moment.  No matter what.

Become The Master Allower of All that is.

This is a powerful way to be.

So today’s journal writing prompt is this:

• Where in your life do you “should” all over yourself?
• What can you do today to change that and simply allow yourself to be as you are.
• Who “shoulds” all over you and about what?
• How can you allow them to continue “shoulding” (because you’ve asked for it!) yet no longer react or respond as you are used to?

When you no longer react…this “shoulding” will disappear. The bomb, so to speak, will diffuse itself because you no longer provide resistance to another. There is no longer anything for the ego to hold on to. (not to demonize the ego or anyone, but that has been decades of my own experience and observations)

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Written by:
Liz Gracia
Co-Founder
Seeds of Intentions

Liz Gracia is an up and coming self help author now residing in Colorado. Her first nonfiction self help book is based on her true story of a quantum spiritual awakening that took place on the enchanting Island of Nantucket.

She is currently a contestant in the “Next Top Self Help Author” Writing Contest (Feb 2011-May 2011) where the winner will be offered a publishing contract with Conari Press, a major player in the self help publishing arena. Visit her website www.aUniqueVoice.com where you can be the first to read chapters of her book as they become available, vote for a title for the book, vote for this book to get published, read a Teaser and more!