This is a VERY interesting question! My ego first jumped in with, “Oh! And just how will I know who I will have to become?!” My reply to it was, “Use our intuition!”

I think we all know deep down who we need to be – and WANT to be – but sometimes fear and doubt rear their ugly heads. Ego, too, wants to know, “Who do you think you are, anyway!?” There is too much temptation to stay with the devil we know, instead of venturing out into the wild and wonderful yonder.

So, here’s to an adventurous new year!!! And to being significantly less dense! (Good one, David!)

Blessings,
Keena
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How do we phrase the intention?

Which one is best?

#1. I am athletic, toned and fit and wear a size 8 dress.
#2. I am thankful that I am athletic, toned and fit and wear a size 8 dress.
#3. I want to be athletic, toned and fit and wear a size 8 dress.

I know #3 isn’t the best answer and I’m stuck between framing intentions using the first two examples.

Superhero Andrea to the rescue please!

Once you are ready for something, it’ll automatically happen. No effort.

Productivity junkies may vehemently disagree & claim that you should fight your blocks & resistances if you really want to achieve something but what you fight, you only give more power to. Plus I’ve never seen anyone win a ‘fight’ for happiness.

But still, one will continue to make resolutions until one decides one no longer needs to. So, more power to anyone who has made good use of them & with the understanding that everyone has his or her own path of discovery to tread, a happy 2009 to all.

Coulda’ woulda’ shoulda’ are three of the sorriest words in the English language. The use of them sets us up to do battle with what is. I would like to add the word “doing” to that list. Ego just loves that word. It makes us busy with something… with striving to be something or accomplish something and again we are at war with what is. The present moment becomes a means to an end, an enemy standing between us and our goal, as though some non-existent future were preferable to the present moment.

“Doing” is all about content and is ultimately meaningless. Ecclesiastes 1:14 reads, “I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and striving after wind.” Do whatever you want because 50 years from now it won’t matter. Or, do nothing because 50 years from now it won’t matter. Impermanence is the nature of the Universe.

I absolutely agree that no amount of doing will create what we want if we aren’t energetically aligned with it. What I find wonderfully interesting is how often it turns out that once I’ve raised my energetic vibration to align with a desired outcome, I find myself somewhere totally unexpected and much more fascinating than my original intention. Every moment is a new adventure. Life always has a much more interesting plan for me than I could ever imagine with my three dimensional brain if I just pay attention, constantly die to the past and fall in love with what is.

If I think my body needs to lose 50 pounds the journey starts with loving and accepting unconditionally my body as it is now. From that loving place I am better equipped to determine what action, if any, is needed. The thought, “I need to lose 50 pounds,” may turn out to not be true at all. Perhaps I have recently gone through a substantial healing phase that has caused me to become significantly less dense and my body is balancing that out. In that case the weight is helping to ground me and serves a useful purpose at this point in linear time.

As I’ve repeated ad-nauseam, “I am a human being not a human doing.” Anything I “do” I do for amusement, playing with form, because in the long run it is meaningless and “striving after wind.” Love is the only thing I need to “be” and that’s as easy and natural as falling off a log.

A very happy 2009 to you Andrea and all who read this comment.

And it’s about my personal life. It’s not like I don’t have a goal for my business for 2009. I do. But somehow, I feel everything will fall into place when I focus on this one goal in my life that is so close to my heart.

Thank you for reminding me about the Being. That’s what it is — to fully align in one energy flow and others will follow the alignment naturally.

Andrea, thank you for all your help and friendship. Wishing you and all your readers increasing joy and prosperity.

I have been thinking recently of the concept of “uploading” talents from “past lives” into this life and actually becoming a different person by changing my personality – discarding, adding to, enhancing traits, beliefs, etc. It is all there and all available NOW! All I have to do is choose.

Today was the day I set aside to do this in order to enter into the new year as a new person complete with a change of personality and a new state of Being. There is truly no end to states of Being we can create or choose.

Thanks for the wink and the nod, for confirming what I already suspected, and for helping me believe in my own intuition.