Monday 13 October 2014
Friday 11 July 2014
Wednesday 21 May 2014
What is Enlightenment?
There are so many teacher around today all wanting to enlighten us with their philosophy, dogma and spiritual practice.
Recently I attended a meditation evening, which stated it was for relaxation, with some lovely people who were intending to do just this. What I encountered was their special brand of spiritual processes to bring in the light and clean up the dark so we can be at peace and more relaxed in our lives. As I arrived they told me they were cleaning up the negative energy in my suburb. They said they had been looking into the area and found some really BAD energy that needed to be dealt with.
But like many well meaning healers, teachers and guru's of the light, their practice entailed looking for the so called dark or negative energy in order to clear or heal it..
This is the mistake so many of us make, we think in order to rid ourselves of unwanted negative energy, people or situations we have to find it, see it, focus on it and talk about it in order to clear ourselves of it.
Haven't you notice, the unwanted get's our attention?
Be it pain in our body, stress, sadness or any perceived negative energy, we are usually aware that it is around .. We don't have to go looking for it.
When we remember the law of attraction says, 'that which we give our attention to grows,' we come to an understanding that in order to change or transform anything we have to find the desire birth from the contract.
Meaning; we have to shift our focus from what is unwanted to was is WANTED, what is appreciated, what is desired and put our powerful attention on that which we wish to create.
So clearing anything means to evoke good feeling, or positive energy. It means to Appreciate what is GREAT about it, what is beautiful what IS wanted. See the gift, focus on what you appreciate, and if you can't find something to appreciate, change the subject so you can.
There is going to be negative energy in every suburb, person and situation. This IS a contrasting environment we live in, Good and Bad is all part of the plan. But we do not have to invite more of what we do not want into our live by looking for it so we can heal or clear it.
I find many people who like to think they're enlightened because they have been seated at the foot of the guru or spiritual practice, are still fighting the good fight. The light over the dark, good over evil.
As as much fun as this can be, its really not necessary and a very slow way to create what we want to manifest, or transformation and change in our lives.
Many well meaning healers or spiritual people seem to seek out the bad in you in order to fix you or heal you.
They focus on the differences between you and them, because you don't know what they know about consciousness, or their enlightenment and spiritual practice. They'll call you unenlightened, asleep, ignorant, not conscious or unaware.
Any limiting judgement of another being is just another way of pinching off our alignment to the pure positive energy which is available to everyone from source, and in fact keeps us from receiving the benefits from the spiritual practice we're engaging in. I have seen many newagers pass these judgements on me and others.
Enlightenment is about seeing our sameness and appreciating our differences.
It is about finding our common ground and knowing you are in my space because Law of Attraction has brought us together as there is something you want, that I want too.
It is not about fighting or pushing against anyone or anything.
It's a knowing that everything in life happens for our benefit and not to us, to overcome.
It is about taking responsibility for the energy and the people we attract into our lives.
It is about Loving what is, because we have attracted it with our powerful focus, and if we don't like it, we can change it at the speed of a thought.
Enlightenment is not just giving lip service to, but knowing and living the knowledge that WE ARE ONE.. and ALL IS WELL..
KAren Swain
www.karenswain.com
Monday 24 March 2014
John of God “ The Miracle Man from Brazil.”
John of God “ The Miracle Man from Brazil.”
June 2001
June 2001
In our daily search for certainty and reassurance that the Universe or God is taking unconditional care of us. We look for proof in uncertain times that we can truly TRUST every need is provided for and that we are Loved and will receive our desires.
In a remote village in Brazil, I found one of the most astounding example of this with a world renowned Healer known as John of God. Home to the Casa Dom Inacio. (House of St Ignacious). This is a place where hundred sometimes thousand gather to see and receive the healing powers of God.
João Teixeira, as he is known in his native tong of Portuguese, has been treating and healing the sick there for over thirty years. An extraordinary medium from childhood, he had only two years schooling, yet he has treated over 20 million people. Many of whom have been cured instantly of chronic and terminal diseases. A humble man, João makes no pretence that it is his personality doing the healing. “It is your faith in a higher Power that cures all.” he says
During a healing sessions João will incorporate entities. These are the spirit guides working with him that take over his body in order to perform physical operations. There are over 30 guides that, one at a time, incorporate João’s body. Many more create the experiences of the Casa. Most of the sprits working with João have been Healers, Doctors, surgeons or men of God, such as Dom Inacio, in lives lived before. It is a silent process. One when experienced, seems very normal. There is no fan fare, no lighting bolts, the experience here is the silent serene power of Love.
In July 2002 I travelled to Brazil with two girl friends, Maree and Karen, to see for myself the work being performed there. Through my practice as a Healer I have spoken to many people who had returned from JOG with tales of wonder and amazement. But it was when my friend Maree came back from her first trip two years ago, healed of a thyroid condition and shinning like the sun, I knew I had to go and experience this for myself.
Although I had no real health issues my experience was profound. In this tiny remote village in the centre of Brazil I met people from all over the world, from all religions with many different reasons to be there from curiosity to terminal illness. As I sat in a quaint little cafe in the street of the Casa (house of JOG), surrounded by different faces, languages, health conditions and ages, I experienced a profound unity, one of unconditional oneness and Love. We came together with the one focus, to remember Love and receive Healing. How wonderful I thought, this is how the world could be. What an extraordinary reminder of the power of Love.
The stories of healing’s are enormous. Terminal cancers disappearing before your eyes. The blind see, the cripple walk. There is a whole room dedicated to discarded wheel chairs and crutches. I saw people stand on the viewing platform being cut open with no pain, little blood and no anaesthetic. Wounds were sometimes sealed over with the wipe of a finger. João, when he incorporates a doctor entity, plunges his unsterilised knife into the body of people who have requested a physical operation, and pulls out large tumorous masses with his hands. He will scrape their eyeballs with a sharp knife, Inserts scissors, with cotton buds on the end, into the nostrils and propels them into their head. Everyone who receives these visible operations is awake and have said after, they experience very little, to no pain.
These and many more are the stories of the visible physical operations João in entity performs in front of the waiting crowed. They gather morning and afternoon Wednesday to Friday to receive a healing and to watch the miracles. João performs these visible operations not to heal, but to show us the power of God and the power of our faith. Most people, in need of an operation, choose to have an invisible operation, sitting for hours in a room filled with other meditators, while they are operated on silently and unseen by spirit.
In entity João will receive everyone who comes to the Casa. No judgment is placed on who you are or what you have done with your life. He receives everyone as an equal and sees our blue print, which is the sum total of our life, our past lives and our entire being. Thus knowing everything there is to know about who we are as a Human and what our soul is wishing to experience. It is with this information, João, in entity, issues instructions for our treatment. Many receive Herbs, some are asked to have Operations, with a choice of visible or invisible, and some are instructed to sit in the Current room.
What is the Current?
The power of the casa is” The Current Rooms.” These are rooms filled with mediums and people receiving Healing. They sit with eyes closed in a silent meditation. João says, the energy generated by the presents of us sitting with in meditation is what enables the many Healing’s to take place. It provides and energy field for the spirit doctors to operate and nourishes João’s physical body while he operates, enabling him to see up to three thousand people in one day. It is in one of these rooms, João in entity sits to receive the people who have come for the miracles. The beauty of the current room is the spiritual law of life. As you give service, in being a part of the current, so you receive. As you receive healing, so you serve the greater good of all.
As a healer I have seen the power of the body, or infinite intelligence, heal in an instant, but still I have asked. What dose it take to fulfil our desires, whether it is healing, security, love, money or enlightenment.
Now I understand, it is Unwavering Faith.
Faith that the Universe knows what it’s doing and has our best interest at heart. Faith that the Universe grants our every wish, when we believe and allow it to be.
Faith that we can enjoy life and relax because we will always get what we want, although it may look a little different to what we expected.
What dose it take to know this faith?
It is the knowing that we are the power of the Creator, we hold the key to all possible realities. Through the power of our thoughts and beliefs, words and actions we create our world.
The thought that the universe is on your side, is a powerful one. It’s only when we forget we are LOVED, that it may take an illness, or sometimes even death, to remind us.
One of the most amazing conversations I had in Brazil was with a New Zealand nurse named Simmone. She had come to Brazil, not to see João, but on an assignment as the carer for a little quadriplegic boy who was injured in a foot ball accident four years earlier. Simmone was not a believer in anything spiritual, until it came to her turn to go before João when he was with entity.
As she stood in the line that shuffles through the current rooms, she saw sitting in the corner meditating, her young sister who was tragically killed in a car accident a year earlier. In tears she came before João in entity and asked,” why have you shown me this”
“I needed to show you something so you would believe in my House.” He said.
João says that the Casa Dom Inacio was created not to Heal the sick but to show humanity the existence of God. To experience this for yourself, faith is the unseen power.
My experience showed me that the people who heal totally are the believers. The ones with no doubt that the power of God can cure them. It is the doubters asking questions such as, can this be real, will I really be healed and dose God really Love ME, who take the time to heal, or leave and go home to die.
When the doubt stops, the Healing is done.
João always maintains… “There are no miracles that occur at my House of Dom Inacio. I do NOT Heal anyone. The only thing that happens here, is YOUR faith in God. I do not do the physical operations to heal people, I do them because you need something to see, to believe.”
João Teixeira built the Casa Dom Inacio to demonstrate the Love of God.
Monday 24 February 2014
Charlotte Dawson and Why do they kill themselves?
KAren Swain; Teacher of Deliberate Creation, Mentor, Radio Host, Author, Film Maker
Tragedy and speculation seems to be sweeping mainstream media with news of the suicide of Charlotte Dawson.
Why do you think people kill themselves?
I guess only they can tell you that, and I suspect if you asked them they would say, I wanted to end my suffering.
When we feel bad, we always look for ways to feel better, and sometimes death can seems like the only way we can put an end to our suffering. We think we must get rid of the apparatus that seems to hold it... Our physical body.
I knew Charlotte, many years ago when I was young and drop dead gorgeous. We used to go to the same parties, fashion parades and night clubs. Once, I was at a big fashion event in Melbourne, I had on a spray on velvet little black dress and a long blonde hair piece, ohhh did I look hot, and I guess Charlotte must of thought so too, as the next night she turned up in the same outfit, even with the blonde hair piece. They say imitation is the best form of flattery.
Like many people in the fashion industry, Charlotte spent a lot of time thinking about her looks and feeling identified by her appearance. I did too in those days. I spent many sad moments judging myself for not being good enough based on my own critical thoughts about my appearance and how I didn't measure up to the way fashion magazines portrayed beauty. Ever seeking more ways in which to look better and so feel better about myself.. It was exhausting!
Today I am middle aged, fat and ageing gracefully and I feel better about myself today than I have ever felt before, and yet I look nothing like the beauty we as supposed to conform to.
Life is more exciting for me today than I think it has ever been, and yet I do not have the trappings that society and the style magazines say we need to be happy.
I don't have a loving partner, my own house, a fit beautiful body, lots of money or even a family that surrounds and supports me. But I am having a ball discovering new people, places and adventures, I'm all fired up about my bright future, and Love the people who are in my life.
I may not have all of life's trappings at the moment, but I have my blissful thoughts, and Live my values, which are in alignment with WHO we are as human beings.
Where do you put your value?
I value people, service, empowerment, spiritual connection, knowing I am a co- creator in this life with an unseen source of Love and Joy. I value my ability to choose how I think and feel. I value my self-empowerment and I value helping others know theirs too. I value this over all else and because I value this, I have created it in my life, and it feels really great.
I do sometimes get really sad that I haven't yet manifested the beautiful home I want, the beautiful body I want or another beautiful husband I want, and then I REMEMBER these things are Not the source of my happiness.... I AM!
This is what I want everyone to know. Our happiness is not based on our material world, it is based on what we give value to and how we live our values.
What I want to know is, did anyone tell Charlotte, ' it is NOT IMPORTANT what you LOOK like of what other people say about you. If others are criticising or judging you. Their cruel rants are a statement about their negative state of mind and Not about WHO YOU ARE!!!!' Where are you putting your values?
Only people in pain want to cause pain to others, they are not be to shamed or abused or to be beaten down... they are screaming for help and need to be helped and taught more empowering points of views about life and what is possible for them.
People only want to hurt others because they feel they can not have what they want and we get sad because we believe this lie too.
I wonder if Charlotte saw her twitter attackers in a compassionate light and felt she could help them, or others who feel disempowered too, instead of feeling she had to defend herself from them, she may have felt less abused and victimised.
It's our thoughts we need to change, not the people who abuse or hurt us, because as we change the way we treat ourselves inside with our thinking, we change the vibrations we put out into life. And when we have loving, compassionate, kind and empowering thoughts about ourselves and others, it feels really good and we receive them back.
This is SO important and I want everyone to remember; Love is who we are and what we could value most.
LOVE is what I value most, Being Love, Giving Love and Spreading Love & Joy and judging the way mainstream media is portraying these tragic suicide stories, I've got my work cut out for me in this life time.
Suicide is not tragic for the ones who do it, for they do put an end to their suffering and reemerge back to the Infinite, Blissful, Unconditional Love and Joy of our true nature. It is only tragic to those who are left behind asking the question... 'How can we stop the suffering that leads to such a permanent act?'
LOVE IS YOU... Remember to feel it
KAren Swain
http://karenswain.com/
KAren Swain; Teacher of Deliberate Creation, Mentor, Radio Host, Author, Film Maker
Why do you think people kill themselves?
I guess only they can tell you that, and I suspect if you asked them they would say, I wanted to end my suffering.
When we feel bad, we always look for ways to feel better, and sometimes death can seems like the only way we can put an end to our suffering. We think we must get rid of the apparatus that seems to hold it... Our physical body.
I knew Charlotte, many years ago when I was young and drop dead gorgeous. We used to go to the same parties, fashion parades and night clubs. Once, I was at a big fashion event in Melbourne, I had on a spray on velvet little black dress and a long blonde hair piece, ohhh did I look hot, and I guess Charlotte must of thought so too, as the next night she turned up in the same outfit, even with the blonde hair piece. They say imitation is the best form of flattery.
Like many people in the fashion industry, Charlotte spent a lot of time thinking about her looks and feeling identified by her appearance. I did too in those days. I spent many sad moments judging myself for not being good enough based on my own critical thoughts about my appearance and how I didn't measure up to the way fashion magazines portrayed beauty. Ever seeking more ways in which to look better and so feel better about myself.. It was exhausting!
Today I am middle aged, fat and ageing gracefully and I feel better about myself today than I have ever felt before, and yet I look nothing like the beauty we as supposed to conform to.
Life is more exciting for me today than I think it has ever been, and yet I do not have the trappings that society and the style magazines say we need to be happy.
I don't have a loving partner, my own house, a fit beautiful body, lots of money or even a family that surrounds and supports me. But I am having a ball discovering new people, places and adventures, I'm all fired up about my bright future, and Love the people who are in my life.
I may not have all of life's trappings at the moment, but I have my blissful thoughts, and Live my values, which are in alignment with WHO we are as human beings.
Where do you put your value?
I value people, service, empowerment, spiritual connection, knowing I am a co- creator in this life with an unseen source of Love and Joy. I value my ability to choose how I think and feel. I value my self-empowerment and I value helping others know theirs too. I value this over all else and because I value this, I have created it in my life, and it feels really great.
I do sometimes get really sad that I haven't yet manifested the beautiful home I want, the beautiful body I want or another beautiful husband I want, and then I REMEMBER these things are Not the source of my happiness.... I AM!
This is what I want everyone to know. Our happiness is not based on our material world, it is based on what we give value to and how we live our values.
What I want to know is, did anyone tell Charlotte, ' it is NOT IMPORTANT what you LOOK like of what other people say about you. If others are criticising or judging you. Their cruel rants are a statement about their negative state of mind and Not about WHO YOU ARE!!!!' Where are you putting your values?
Only people in pain want to cause pain to others, they are not be to shamed or abused or to be beaten down... they are screaming for help and need to be helped and taught more empowering points of views about life and what is possible for them.
People only want to hurt others because they feel they can not have what they want and we get sad because we believe this lie too.
I wonder if Charlotte saw her twitter attackers in a compassionate light and felt she could help them, or others who feel disempowered too, instead of feeling she had to defend herself from them, she may have felt less abused and victimised.
It's our thoughts we need to change, not the people who abuse or hurt us, because as we change the way we treat ourselves inside with our thinking, we change the vibrations we put out into life. And when we have loving, compassionate, kind and empowering thoughts about ourselves and others, it feels really good and we receive them back.
This is SO important and I want everyone to remember; Love is who we are and what we could value most.
LOVE is what I value most, Being Love, Giving Love and Spreading Love & Joy and judging the way mainstream media is portraying these tragic suicide stories, I've got my work cut out for me in this life time.
Suicide is not tragic for the ones who do it, for they do put an end to their suffering and reemerge back to the Infinite, Blissful, Unconditional Love and Joy of our true nature. It is only tragic to those who are left behind asking the question... 'How can we stop the suffering that leads to such a permanent act?'
LOVE IS YOU... Remember to feel it
KAren Swain
http://karenswain.com/
KAren Swain; Teacher of Deliberate Creation, Mentor, Radio Host, Author, Film Maker
Wednesday 15 January 2014
Secret Weapon
Oh Boy do I LOVE what I do!
But what's really interesting to me is, three of the women who came to see me recently said, I am a secret to their partner, or husband.
"Oh they would never understand what you do" one said to me.
Another said.
"He wouldn't understand why I came to see you because he lives what you teach and does not understand why someone would need to be reminded to live the way he lives naturally.
Lucky guy I thought!
Another said..
"I told him I was going to see a old friend I hadn't seen for ages who lives in your suburb, as he would never get what it is your do!"
I am their Secret Weapon against the stressful and life threatening mental stories they had been believing as real.
If I was to ever meet their incredible partners, all of them would kiss the ground I walk on because I have given back to them the woman they feel in love with.
One said to me when she arrived home after work, she had a lunch session with me, her husband said to her.
"What happened to you today?"
She said, "nothing why?"
"You look COMPLETELY different, he said, you have changed in some way, kinder, more relaxed. Where have you been today and what have you been doing," he insisted.
Oh how these men would thank me if they knew what had been going on, but for some reason, the fact that I call myself a teacher of Deliberate Creation who connects with nonphysical energy and channels exactly what my client needs to remember at the time, is way too way-out for them.
But hey! It is working and FAST!!!
One woman hadn't made love with her husband in years, she had left him many times with a huge story of mistrust, betrayal and money problems under her belt. Even her kids said to her, "Go mum, get out while you can."
But after a conversation with me, she went home and practised what she had been reminded of, and had the BEST sex they'd had in years.
I remember she said to me during our time together.. Do you mean to say if I Change my story about him, I will live with a better husband?" And that's EXACTLY what happened!!
They began the honeymoon period all over again, and the grumpy spiteful man she used to live with became a beautiful, generous, loving and caring partner again. They even went on a second honeymoon weekend together, that he paid for.
"I just want to feel good again, I'm sick of feeling so stressed all the time." one woman said to me.
It is AMAZING the miracles that happen when we change the way we think and feel.
I never counsel people about their relationships with their significant other, it's none of my business.
I only repair the relationship they're having with themselves, and the rest falls into place.
Can I just say it again.... Oh boy DO I LOVE my JOB!!
Just can't get enough of watching people transform, redesign and improve the way they live, love and feel...
Until next time Remember... "Love is you, Remember to feel it"
KS xx
http://karenswain.com/home/
Monday 13 January 2014
Beach Days
Yesterday was my first day at the beach this summer! Crazy really, as I live three block from it and have been travelling down the coast over the holiday season and seen some of the most spectacular beaches in the world. But life, people and events got in the way of relaxing and spending precious time with the earth, sun and sea.
OMG how beautiful it is. We are really just so lucky and blessed in this country, especially if we live on the coast. The sight of the ocean is one of the most beautiful sights I can gaze upon.
So I made a date with myself and I walked down the road, dove into the incredibly blue water, which was like a lake, no waves, and then headed up to the women pool to bask in the sun.
Behind me were a couple of young english girls talking about how they had been dreaming about coming to Australia to sit in the sun and bask at the beach. And it dawned on me, what I take for granted, people overseas dream about and save and save to get here.
What an eye opener this was for me, putting off what people dream about doing. My excuses had been, too hot, too crowded, tomorrow, next time, more work to finish and on and on.
How many times do I do this, when I know if I just made a small effort it would be soooo worth it.
And again it's so crazy to think for me, it is a small effort, but for others it is a HUGE effort to save the money for the airfare, get on a plane for 100 hours, find somewhere to live, buy towels, swimmers etc, and get themselves to the beach..
I will never take it for grated again!
And I feel so much better for being in the ocean and look a thousand times better with a one day old tan.
I think I might just take myself off to do the same thing right now.
My blogging hasn't been going too well lately, I guess I will have to get into the habit of it, but this will take more than a couple of entries I suspect.
I was all fired up about this at the beginning of the year, how easily we can forget our new years intentions, maybe instead of challenging myself to do it every day, I could have been a little easier on myself and made a commitment to every week...
Off for a swim now, until next time keep basking
ks xx :D
And again it's so crazy to think for me, it is a small effort, but for others it is a HUGE effort to save the money for the airfare, get on a plane for 100 hours, find somewhere to live, buy towels, swimmers etc, and get themselves to the beach..
I will never take it for grated again!
And I feel so much better for being in the ocean and look a thousand times better with a one day old tan.
I think I might just take myself off to do the same thing right now.
My blogging hasn't been going too well lately, I guess I will have to get into the habit of it, but this will take more than a couple of entries I suspect.
I was all fired up about this at the beginning of the year, how easily we can forget our new years intentions, maybe instead of challenging myself to do it every day, I could have been a little easier on myself and made a commitment to every week...
Off for a swim now, until next time keep basking
ks xx :D
Saturday 4 January 2014
Put your Power where your Mounth is
5 Jan 2014
Oops didn't get to blog yesterday, was having too much fun doing my radio show, in which we celebrated our vulnerabilities and then I caught up with old friends I love.
It just wouldn't be the Christmas season if I didn't spend some time with my beloved and beautiful friends.
Jan was a friend of my Mothers, they met each other in the heady days of there youth. Jan was, and still is in her 70's, a professional model and mum was a show girl. Two of the most beautiful women you could lay your eyes on, although Jan was 10 years younger than mum, they partied together, went to each others weddings, cried on each other shoulders when their marriages broke down and supported each other when they were single parent bringing up children. Jan was there for mum when she became sick and watch her vibrant life fall into a world of pain and depression during the chemo years.
My two brothers and I grew up with Jan and her children, Cassie and Luke. Luke left the planet far too young 8 years ago, I loved him so he was so full of life and wonder and Cassie is one of my dearest friends. We have known each other for so long, we've seen each others lives change, stay the same, evolve, be marred with tragedy and celebration and expand. As young girls we lived together and partied together. Boy have we partied together! I was recently partying with Cassie and her fabulous friends for her 50 birthday in Byron Bay. Never let the troubles of life get in the way of an opportunity to bring people together to party and celebrate, would be one of her mottos.
A celebrated makeup artist, Cassie's life is never dull. She is one of those people everyone wants to know. A lover to the core, she adores life, her son, her family and friends. She finds so much joy of life through knowing, loving and connecting with people. Her mobile is constantly buzzing with another eager fan and friend wanting to talk to her.
She was told me, "putting make up on people and styling their hair is like being a therapist, everyone pours out their heart to you." And Cassie is a listener. She hears you, truly hears you and I think this is why so many want to know her. It's just so wonderful to be heard in this life were everyone is screaming out something.
I know I get in trouble from my daughter who believes I never listen to her. She tell me this all the time. "You never listen to be mum," she says.. And to a point she is right..
I am not someone to hear how victimised you feel or to indulge you in your limiting stories about yourself. Oh boy do people LOVE to tell them, people love to go on and on about how unfair life can be, how hurt they get and how other people are responsible for their pain.
I believe we are responsible for all of it, and therefore we can change all of it.
We can change the way people respond to us, we can have people eating out of our hands, if we want them to. We can change any situation because we can change the way we look at it.
We can Change our Vibration, which determines everything we live, in the change of a thought and when we do, EVERYTHING CHANGES!!!
Really, we have no control over anything BUT our vibration, so when we change the way we think and feel about things, we bring about all we are screaming for...
So if someone is telling me about how limited they feel and how bad things are, I don't hear it. Instead I HEAR want they are screaming for.
I hear the desire birthed within the problem, and I listen to THAT!!
I believe we are all infinite potential... we have the ability to be, do and have anything we want, so I will not buy into your story of blame, victimisation or limitation.
I Will Listen to you speak about what you Love, what you are good at, what you want, dream about and wish to create, because I know when we put our FOCUS on something, good or bad, we bring it into reality.
I Know how powerful our thoughts and focus is, and I also know you do NOT want what you are complaining about. You WANT the opposite of it...
So PUT your focus there, because when you do you put your Power to have it there too.
I will not hear your limiting story but I WILL hear your potential. This gives me selective hearing and may not win me many fans, but oh boy does it change people lives... And that's what I'm all about!
Until tomorrow
ks xx
www.karenswain.com
Oops didn't get to blog yesterday, was having too much fun doing my radio show, in which we celebrated our vulnerabilities and then I caught up with old friends I love.
It just wouldn't be the Christmas season if I didn't spend some time with my beloved and beautiful friends.
Jan was a friend of my Mothers, they met each other in the heady days of there youth. Jan was, and still is in her 70's, a professional model and mum was a show girl. Two of the most beautiful women you could lay your eyes on, although Jan was 10 years younger than mum, they partied together, went to each others weddings, cried on each other shoulders when their marriages broke down and supported each other when they were single parent bringing up children. Jan was there for mum when she became sick and watch her vibrant life fall into a world of pain and depression during the chemo years.
My two brothers and I grew up with Jan and her children, Cassie and Luke. Luke left the planet far too young 8 years ago, I loved him so he was so full of life and wonder and Cassie is one of my dearest friends. We have known each other for so long, we've seen each others lives change, stay the same, evolve, be marred with tragedy and celebration and expand. As young girls we lived together and partied together. Boy have we partied together! I was recently partying with Cassie and her fabulous friends for her 50 birthday in Byron Bay. Never let the troubles of life get in the way of an opportunity to bring people together to party and celebrate, would be one of her mottos.
A celebrated makeup artist, Cassie's life is never dull. She is one of those people everyone wants to know. A lover to the core, she adores life, her son, her family and friends. She finds so much joy of life through knowing, loving and connecting with people. Her mobile is constantly buzzing with another eager fan and friend wanting to talk to her.
She was told me, "putting make up on people and styling their hair is like being a therapist, everyone pours out their heart to you." And Cassie is a listener. She hears you, truly hears you and I think this is why so many want to know her. It's just so wonderful to be heard in this life were everyone is screaming out something.
I know I get in trouble from my daughter who believes I never listen to her. She tell me this all the time. "You never listen to be mum," she says.. And to a point she is right..
I am not someone to hear how victimised you feel or to indulge you in your limiting stories about yourself. Oh boy do people LOVE to tell them, people love to go on and on about how unfair life can be, how hurt they get and how other people are responsible for their pain.
I believe we are responsible for all of it, and therefore we can change all of it.
We can change the way people respond to us, we can have people eating out of our hands, if we want them to. We can change any situation because we can change the way we look at it.
We can Change our Vibration, which determines everything we live, in the change of a thought and when we do, EVERYTHING CHANGES!!!
Really, we have no control over anything BUT our vibration, so when we change the way we think and feel about things, we bring about all we are screaming for...
So if someone is telling me about how limited they feel and how bad things are, I don't hear it. Instead I HEAR want they are screaming for.
I hear the desire birthed within the problem, and I listen to THAT!!
I believe we are all infinite potential... we have the ability to be, do and have anything we want, so I will not buy into your story of blame, victimisation or limitation.
I Will Listen to you speak about what you Love, what you are good at, what you want, dream about and wish to create, because I know when we put our FOCUS on something, good or bad, we bring it into reality.
I Know how powerful our thoughts and focus is, and I also know you do NOT want what you are complaining about. You WANT the opposite of it...
So PUT your focus there, because when you do you put your Power to have it there too.
I will not hear your limiting story but I WILL hear your potential. This gives me selective hearing and may not win me many fans, but oh boy does it change people lives... And that's what I'm all about!
Until tomorrow
ks xx
www.karenswain.com
Thursday 2 January 2014
WOW this blogging thing is really a GAS
At Home and at work, getting back into the swing of things and excited about the year ahead.
Here I sit at my laptop working on tomorrows radio show and I remembered I have to write my blog!!
I promised myself I would do this each day for at least 30 days. It's not something I am used to so I will have to discipline myself to do it and change my habit of always talking about other peoples stories and share more of mine.
How do I work out what I will talk about on radio you may wonder? I always talk about what's happening in my life. It is the best way to do it because I don't have to come up with a theme I just talk about what people are talking about around me. Or I have a few shows all lined up as I pre-record other peoples stories.
But you know what I find so amazing, as I present other peoples life stories each week on radio, their message is alway so pertinent to my life at the time. The synchronicity of life always blows me away.
I LOVE the way life shows up these days. One synchronistic event after the other, always something for me to learn, remember or share with others. Being in the flow of life as it takes me down stream is just about the best fun I can have.
But then the dreaded habitual limiting thoughts hit me and BANG, it throws me right out of the flow and scrambling to climb back into the boat, which is beings pushed down stream at the rate of knots towards my desires.
The bank account is bare again. How did I spend all that money that seemed to be there just a short time ago. Where does it go and why can't I get a handle on this money storey which says to me, one day abundant the next day broke...
I will have to FIX that this year, I think to myself, until my inner being reminds me I can NOT fix anything I am focusing on in a negative way, for the very act of my focus on the problem exaggerates the vibration which created it.
Oh Right I forget... NO FIXING this year. More enjoying and knowing all is well and NOT believing my negative thoughts about my limits.
WOW this blogging thing is really a GAS!
Im lovin it, getting my thoughts on the page each day, it's a nice reminder to listen to my common sense and my inner being.
You should try it, or is our internet already too clogged with people using it like a diary?
Until tomorrow back to organising tomorrows radio show, we will play some of the chats I've had with amazing people in 2013, and of course the fabulous Dr Brene Brown who talks so eloquently about connection, begin out there in the arena exposed for all to see and Darling GREATLY.
Check them out
http://karenswain.com/listen/
KS XX
:D
www.karenswain.com.au
Here I sit at my laptop working on tomorrows radio show and I remembered I have to write my blog!!
I promised myself I would do this each day for at least 30 days. It's not something I am used to so I will have to discipline myself to do it and change my habit of always talking about other peoples stories and share more of mine.
How do I work out what I will talk about on radio you may wonder? I always talk about what's happening in my life. It is the best way to do it because I don't have to come up with a theme I just talk about what people are talking about around me. Or I have a few shows all lined up as I pre-record other peoples stories.
But you know what I find so amazing, as I present other peoples life stories each week on radio, their message is alway so pertinent to my life at the time. The synchronicity of life always blows me away.
I LOVE the way life shows up these days. One synchronistic event after the other, always something for me to learn, remember or share with others. Being in the flow of life as it takes me down stream is just about the best fun I can have.
But then the dreaded habitual limiting thoughts hit me and BANG, it throws me right out of the flow and scrambling to climb back into the boat, which is beings pushed down stream at the rate of knots towards my desires.
The bank account is bare again. How did I spend all that money that seemed to be there just a short time ago. Where does it go and why can't I get a handle on this money storey which says to me, one day abundant the next day broke...
I will have to FIX that this year, I think to myself, until my inner being reminds me I can NOT fix anything I am focusing on in a negative way, for the very act of my focus on the problem exaggerates the vibration which created it.
Oh Right I forget... NO FIXING this year. More enjoying and knowing all is well and NOT believing my negative thoughts about my limits.
WOW this blogging thing is really a GAS!
Im lovin it, getting my thoughts on the page each day, it's a nice reminder to listen to my common sense and my inner being.
You should try it, or is our internet already too clogged with people using it like a diary?
Until tomorrow back to organising tomorrows radio show, we will play some of the chats I've had with amazing people in 2013, and of course the fabulous Dr Brene Brown who talks so eloquently about connection, begin out there in the arena exposed for all to see and Darling GREATLY.
Check them out
http://karenswain.com/listen/
KS XX
:D
www.karenswain.com.au
Setting in the stage for 2014 sharing my stories.
As we explode into another year many of us feel we have to make this year better than the last. Why? Wasn't last year good? Maybe it was and maybe it wasn't but the urge to move forward and to improve our lives in some way keeps us reaching for more and moving in a direction of self-improvement.
So what do you want this year? Do you have a new years wish or resolution? Maybe you had something you wanted and didn't achieve last year, so this year seems like the perfect platform in which to achieve it.
For me, my intention is to be more exposed, vulnerable, I want to to speak more about myself, my life and share my thoughts with others in a forum such as this, a blog or on facebook.
WHY??
I lead a pretty amazing existence and meet some of the most fascinating people and have a very rich inner world of communion with my higher-self or inner-being, but it's so much more my nature to find out and talk about others. I never really speak about myself, even when people ask me about my life, I find myself saying , "Oh life is great, but tell me about you."
I am not sure what keeps me quite when it come to talking about myself, I have found over the years when interviewing people or guiding people to a healthier and happier life, that it is our personal stories which help us feel more connected and drive us forward on this journey we call our life.
We LOVE to hear other peoples stories and how they live. This is why TV soaps or movies and biographies are so popular, even when we make it all up, we still strive to know about other people.
I was once told by a researcher friend, the reason most people love to talk endlessly about themselves is because when we do we produce more dopamine, a neurotransmitter hormone which is responsible for good feelings in our body, and again I wondered why I don't do it more, but instead always seek and speak of other peoples adventures.
I guess I just love to know about who we are and what makes us tick.
So this blog is part of my new years resolution. 'Im gonna yak more about me and share my thoughts and chats with my inner-being and some of the amazing things that happen to me on a daily basis in the hope that my stories will help you love your story more.'
When I mentioned my new years intent to my family, I had a huge backlash about how dangerous facebook is, ( it's big brother watching us and exposing our every move) and how no one wants to hear about who we are and what we do with our lives. They said "Why do people post photos of themselves on the Internet anyway?.."
I guess it really hit a nerve with them about feeling exposed and the right to live a private life. It must have brought up fears about being vulnerable, people would see who we really are when we are not being fabulous, all-together or perfect. But the truth is, we all see each others achilles heal because it is just too hard to hide.
Many people feel too vulnerable putting their thoughts out into the world, or sharing their hopes, dreams and fears. It can be really scary to think when we lay it out there for all to witness we may be judged harshly by others.
But I truly believe sharing our stories and our inner most selves with each other is what makes the world go around, it helps us all feel more connected and alive. And I am all for that!
So here's to a juicy, vulnerable, exposed and delicious 2014
More to come... KS xx
www.karenswain.com
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