JANUARY 2019
EMPOWER HOUR The Miracle of Thank You!
Founder and CEO of Think Miracle Organisation Shares the Secret To Success – Gratitude! How to Say Thank you and change your world. The practice of thankfulness is very simple – it requires minimal effort, is easy to build into your day and soon becomes a good habit. Saying thank you everyday for all we have is one of the most transformative steps you can make. It’s so simple and the effects so positive. Perhaps it’s time you gave it a try? Every morning, while I’m still in bed, I say thank you. What do I say thank you for? This is what I say, but of course its personal to me, your words will be different, but I expect there will be some crossover and I hope this will be a guide for you: “ Thank you God, Thank you Universe , Thank you Spirit, Thank you for my children, for my Mum and Dad, for my friends, for my family, for my business, my partner, and for my health. Thank you for my experiences, my opportunities and my gifts. Thank you for My beautiful homes in Portugal and France, for my cars and my boat, Thank you for Thinkmiracle, Thank you for it all Thank you , thank you , thank you I am grateful” Sometimes I also say thank you for the recovery of a friend, or family member. When I focus on this thankfulness, I feel a wave of joy and happiness sweep through me, and a smile will spread across my face. Scientific research shows practising gratitude for the small things makes us appreciate so much more about our life, and consequently increases our level of happiness. As well as saying thank you, I also talk to God. I used to call this speaking to the universe; some call it talking to spirit, but for me, it’s God. I believe God is inside me, but of course, that’s my personal choice. This is what I go on to say “ Please God, watch over and protect, my children, my Mum and dad, my friends and family, my partner, everyone I know, all souls on this earth and me, Please guide us all to act with grace and goodness and love, To be kind and giving and to live long and prosper, Please help us all to find happiness and inner peace, and please help thinkmiracle grow to help millions around the world, Thank you God.” Again sometimes I ask for someone in particular to be watched over or guided , or helped in a specific way. Imagine if we all wished ourselves and everyone well every morning. Imagine us
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all feeling happy, and wishing the same for all souls. Wouldn’t our world be a better place? Spend two minutes each morning, while still lying in bed saying thank you for all the things you are grateful for. Why not give it a go for the next five days and see how you feel afterwards. What have you got to lose? Are you worth two minutes? Funny thing is when I first started saying thank you I had a £500,000 debt, yet I still had so much to be thankful for. And by concentrating on the positives, I got more of them, that’s how our minds, and our world works. Nowadays I look with wonder and awe at the beauty all around and pinch myself at the heaven on earth I inhabit. Gratitude is the key to the door. We have all met glass half-empty people. Those who say “that won’t work’’ or “this isn’t going well”, and usually that is how their life pans out. Negativity becomes their predominant thought, and their lives are a reflection of those ideas. If you live with an inherent enthusiasm, passion and gratefulness, those things will combine to make you feel glad and happy. I wonder, is that not the goal of life?’ This short practice is so easy, and has such a profound effect when you make it a daily habit. Really, why not?
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Empower Hour Archive – The best of 2018 – Lloyd Chambers on the Power of Visualisation They say we all have a book in us and post de facto I have realised that this is information that the world is crying out for. In the words of Alfred Alder, I am grateful for the idea that has used me. Life just like our book is a journey. Simple beginnings, nurturing, conditioning, awareness, loss, recovery, wonder, adventure and above all a relationship with love and fear where ultimately there can only be one winner. I made a decision to do 2 things. Live in love and learn to make better decisions in life. This is not taught in school for whatever reason but I would like to go on the record to say I think it should. Here is my first excerpt from the book. This one is on ‘The Importance of Decision Making.’
____________________________ There are 2 Universal Truths I feel young people should know:
1) The Law of Diminishing Intent: The longer we take to act on information the less likely we are to act at all. 2) The Paradox of Choice: The more choices we have the less likely we are to make a decision at all, let alone the right choice (whatever that is). Decision making is the most important skill we can learn. And it is a skill!
Most of us make Conditional choices. For example: » If it’s not raining I’ll go for that run. » If I can afford it I will go to that event. » If I pass the exam I will decide what to do next.
Success in life depends on our ability to make Unconditional choices. For example: » Regardless of any circumstances, obstacles, or unforeseen eventuality I will succeed in my endeavour. » My goal will never move and I will move forward until it is achieved. » I will not allow my dreams to be compromised. My choices in life took me to the ends of the earth and back again. I witnessed culture after culture on an endless quest to understand what unites all of us. I wanted to know how did I fit into this grand story we are all a part of?
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I am realizing more recently that when we get to the depth of our intention in life in all circumstances it comes down to whether we are choosing out of FEAR or choosing out of LOVE. I have chosen LOVE. But in order to make choices and send my intention out in LOVE I must be the embodiment of LOVE. And of course deep down we know this but it doesn’t get talked about a lot: we must love ourselves and commune with that feeling, that vibration, if we expect to send love to others, those around us, our communities and the wider world. You cannot send what you do not possess. Increasingly, it is becoming clear that THOUGHTS become THINGS. This book is a great example. What you hold on the screen of your mind with your will, feed with your emotions must manifest in its physical form. Why? Because it is based on Universal Laws. You must get emotionally attached to your VISION and you must be grateful for it as if it has already happened. To quote Neville Goddard, ‘Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the path your attention follows’ In our book, we go into the mechanisms of how this is done. Carefully read the excerpt below. Please keep in mind, reading something and applying the principles are 2 very different things. It is important to read this below more than once. Repetition is the key to effective change. I would read this below twice a day, once first thing in the am before you eat or do anything else, the second the very last thing you do before you sleep. This will set up a very particular vibration in your thoughts and of course your thoughts determine your actions.
How to Use Future Gratitude There is a 3-step process: 1. Paint a picture in your mind in exact detail as you want it to happen 2. Focus on this picture first thing in the morning and last thing at night, getting those details as clear as day 3. Connect emotionally with that reality using gratitude as if it has already happened “Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.” - Neville Goddard Gratitude is the fuel that governs your ability to manifest. It is the juice to your passion and is what ties you emotionally to your VISION and your LIFE PURPOSE. Giving gratitude and developing strong self-beliefs are the starting points of discovering your unique life purpose, the BIG why for all you desire to BE, DO and HAVE in this lifetime.
Gratitude, like the universal laws of this universe, is not confined to a timeline. What this means is that it is not confined to feeling gratitude for what you have right now. You can also feel grateful for things that have happened in the future just as you can feel grateful for things that have happened in the past. Let’s examine this idea. Life is full of ups and downs and none of us have had a singular upwards trajectory. Most have had high and low points in personal lives and our careers. So when you look back at past events and feel gratitude for how amazing it was and how proud and full of contentment and gratitude you felt, even if you’re not in that situation any longer you can still connect emotionally to it every time you remember. You can do exactly the same thing with facts and situations in the future. This lesson above gives you a huge feeling of possibility and potential. Optimism doesn’t cover the feeling. When you go from the feeling of mere hope to the expectation that your goal will happen, you set up a vibration that will drive you in action and then just watch out, abundance is coming your way. I am eternally grateful to Bob Proctor for opening my eyes to this and for writing the foreword to our book. If anyone would like to contact me, you can find me at www. facebook.com/MrLloydChambers Naturally if you would like to grab a copy for yourself, we have it on amazon and kindle. See links below. http://bit.ly/VisualisationToRealisationKindle http://bit.ly/VisualisationToRealisationPaperback
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– Drum Dance Ireland – Drumming for Life!
It’s no great secret that drumming in unison with others creates feelings of both happiness and unity. When the focus in a drumming session is relaxed and just about letting it happen; everybody in this type of session is a winner. There is no need to perform or to compete with anyone or do anything that would cause any feeling of stress. We just simply drop down into the rhythm of our bodies and enjoy creating something magic with other people. Within a group there can be such beautiful dynamics, some people you may have never met before, others could be much younger or older, There could be firsttimers and more experienced drummers! All of this is completely irrelevant in a community drum circle where the facilitator’s intention is to include each and everyone participating equally, to promote self expression, to empower but to most importantly work on an energy that is building throughout the session. Drumming is the living energy of contribution! Each person within the circle has a contribution to the whole, that’s what makes it so special. When the drum circle is over everyone should be leaving with a feeling of joy, connectedness and that the thinking mind has been switched off for a while. Some call drumming therapeutic others may call it destressing. Such are the effects when you let go of ego and of being too conscious of yourself. I am very happy and thankful to have this job and to let this happen in my every day life. I am delighted to be part of any form of community building: big or small. The intention is to bring joy, rhythm, connection and love to the hearts of others.
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The Natural Connection E-motion. Sometimes called energy in motion is the main reason we react to anything. We think, we feel, we react! Energy in motion. The minute we think we drop into reaction, as each thought sets off a neurolinguistic communication in one’s mind that triggers the memory banks of feeling and response. The deeper we learn to breath into ourselves the more this internal mind process is diminished. The mind takes everything seriously that’s why reaction takes place. Deeper breathing alters the response system and the automatic response within the body. Not unlike deep sea diver training. The more it’s practiced the less reaction. Now in saying that we are only human and we lead busy lives so striving for this nature within oneself is an ultimate quest through out our lives, but breathing deeper activates the natural connection pathway. The earth has a frequency called ‘the pulse’ or the earth pulse, this is the deeper more centred connection that human beings have with all sentient life as this frequency or wave is the base line in all natural life. When we are babies we have this automatically. Babies are breathing naturally into their lower bellies. It is the nature of our mind and the thinking patterns within our mind to absorb cognitively through childhood. These patterns are ancestral and the living patterns of conditioned behaviour. These reactions and habits become intermeshed with our autoimmune response over time, in how we manipulate our environment to have our needs met. Collectively, this is energy in motion: the emotional behaviour patterns of families, society and individuals. Emotion is the mind of a people. To drop down into the truth of ourselves, one needs to connect with the natural within one’s true nature, that is why connection with natural life and nature are elementary needs. Our bodies feel release and relief in
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this awareness and connection. When we breath deeply we realise we are breathing with the whole of life, we are settled in the earth pulse and this connection grounds us to our non thinking nature, the truest version of ourselves. It goes without saying that our minds are the biggest problem in the world. All ideas, concepts, paradigms, thinking structures are merely just the anthropology of thought. Every thought takes one further and further away from themselves and their truest comfort and nature. It is possible though to become a modern yogi with no great need for mind boggling body poses or pushing the body to its physical limits. All one has to do is breath deeply into themselves and the change will naturally happen. The body will naturally harmonize and thinking patterns will change. It’s what the Tibetans call the settling of the muddy waters of mind. Life harmony balance focuses completely on addressing the imbalances within the breath, because the whole solution to the emotional trigger system is here. Think about it, but not too much now mind!! EMPOWER HOUR – Saralee Cassidy
Six Strategies for Better Living as a Solo Parent There are about as many different types of single parents as there are flavours of ice cream. We all have arrived at single parenthood through many different routes. Some may have arrived by choice and others through circumstance. But the one thing we all have in common is that solo parenting makes for a pretty busy life, fraught with challenges but also abundant with wonderful opportunities for both ourselves and our children. Below are six ways to help you navigate the journey with more ease.
You don’t have to go it alone! Making connections and building your social support network will not only give you company, opportunity for new friendships for both yourself and your children, but will also gift you social connection which is proven to strengthen resilience. Find groups you resonate with. It could be a parenting support group such as Empower Hour or the parent/toddler groups held in many public libraries. Be sure to join groups both for you as a parent and also for you as a sovereign being with interests and passions of your own.
Fill up your own cup first! Do something that you love. Carve out the time to join a class or an interest group. If it’s hard to get out, make the time to practice your music, art, yoga (insert your mojo here) at home. Make it a special time, just for you. When we make the space to do what we love, we become so much happier in ourselves. We are more fulfilled. And then we naturally become good mothers, fathers, daughters, brothers or friends. It is not as hard work any more. We are coming to it from a different place with a different energy. We are no longer as drained or resentful. Instead we are filled up and coming to be in tune with our selves, which means we can care for others more easily.
It’s okay to say NO! The novelist Paulo Coelho wisely said, ‘When you say yes to others, make sure you are not saying no to yourself.’ Recognise that your time, energy and emotional reserves are valuable. Become aware of people, activities or responsibilities that no longer serve you. By establishing healthy boundaries, you nourish both your self-esteem and your relationships. You do things because you want to, not because you feel obliged to.
Have Fun with your Kids! The practice of mindful presence was the beginning of my own journey to selfawareness, healing and growth. During my divorce, it began with a decision to try to become present with my daughter during the bedtime story. I had up to that point, been racing through reading it in order that I could get downstairs to worry about my divorce some more in peace! Ironic huh? It wasn’t easy in the beginning, but gradually with practice I became present and I enjoyed that time so much. My relationship with my little girl was better. I was no longer absent. This practice has become a huge part of my life now and it means that I get to have much more fun with my daughter! I talk more about this journey in my book. Only the Best is Good enough for you! Motivational speaker Jim Rohn famously said, ‘You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.’ Become aware of the conversations that happen in the different groups in your life: family, work, or friends, both online and offline. Are these conversations uplifting and positive, or are they complaining, negative and gossipy? Be discerning. If you find yourself amid negative groups, try to gently change the topic of conversation and if this does not work, cut down on your time in this company.
While you want to be aware of what is happening in the world, relentlessly watching, listening to or reading news or negative information can really bring us down. Keep news to a minimum. You are constantly being brainwashed by what is around you, so why not make a conscious choice on what you want to watch, read and listen to? And also what you want your children to be surrounded with? There is so much positive, educational, enlightening and inspiring content out there. TED talks are a great place to start. www.TED.com. Consume only the best.
Set Yourself Free! ‘To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.’ Lewis B. Smedes. For many of us, forgiveness can be one of the most difficult things to do. Forgiveness is a mechanism that frees you from and internal cycle of selfimposed suffering and is a way to gain freedom for yourself. As we expand our ideas on what forgiveness is, we begin to experience that forgiveness and healing are one and the same. Each time we release ourselves from grudges, hurts, guilt or fear, we are forgiving and healing ourselves from the adverse effects of our thoughts. Patricia Fitzgerald is a divorced single mum to Rebecca who is now thirteen years old. Since her divorce, she has embarked on an incredible journey of healing and growth. She has since changed her career from senior librarian to becoming a full time artist and healer and is the author of two books. Her latest book ‘Who Would You Be If… How to reclaim your life and become a happy authentic and stressfree woman.’ (Red Stag Books 2018) and accompanying meditations are available at www.healingcreations.ie or in all good book shops nationwide.
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Stephanie Sorensen shares on the inner GPS always guiding us
Often during a storm at sea, the command of a ship’s captain to his helmsman is “steady as she goes,” which is to say, “stay the course.” Our Inner GPS (God Positioning System) is set in the direction of our soul, and if we quiet our mind and become aware of how we feel in each moment, we intuitively know which decisions will move us in the “right” direction in our life. We are the helmsman of our Individual life journey. It’s up to us to stay the course. Nothing—no condition, situation, or challenge— can take us off course unless we let it. It’s been said “Our faith can move mountains. Our doubt can create them.”
A good question for us to ask our self may be: “How big is my faith and where do I place it? Do I place my faith in the Invisible Spirit or the visible world; in my Inner GPS or in my doubt; in Love or in fear?”
Do we have faith, for instance, that our Inner GPS can help us find where we left our keys, but can’t help us find peace of mind in the middle of night? Do we trust the Spiritual Power within us can heal the body of the flu (in 24 hours or less), but that it is too difficult to heal a seemingly life-threatening disease? Are we certain that the God of our soul can be found in the middle of a quiet forest, but not in the middle of a noisy crowd? If we want to experience the Power of our Inner Guidance, it is important for us to use every moment, and every experience within it, as an opportunity to feel our feelings, whether they are subtle or shout a command so loud we can’t ignore them. And, then follow that intuitive push, with full trust that as we do we will awaken the passion and forgiveness of our heart, the inspiration and creativity of our soul, and the awesome power of our mind.
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Empower Hour offers affordable wellness initiatives and events from a cooperative of therapists in Limerick and further afield. Wellness and personal development were never so easy!
EMPOWER Hour hosts an ‘unconditional self love’ workshop on the second Thursday in February at Angel Times Limerick from 7-9. Empower Hour offers affordable wellness initiatives so that everyone has access to family support and well being in the community at affordable prices.
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Unconditional self love is a game changer because once we begin to love ourselves the world we live in changes around us. EMPOWER hour radio has just launched on Limerick community radio, 99.9fm. Our first show fearured ‘The Stented Papa’, Ross Good Ireland’s No. 1 daddy blogger. Empower Hour Radio runs every Sunday morning from 10.30 to 11.00. Empowering the family voice in the community. The extraordinary voice of ordinary people. EMPOWER hour would like to thank its sponsors and friends: Alan Tynan of Pinch Design, Angel Times Limerick and Limerick Community Radio without which none of this is possible.