March 2009: The Medellin Miracle
I love it when life surprises us with unexpected turns and information. Throughout our travels in South America we have consistently encountered people who have just come from Colombia, highly recommending it as a safe, friendly, beautiful country. This was far from the image of Colombia we had heard about over the years: a dangerous country to travel in due to the heavy drug trade, paramilitary squads and mafia hitmen. Yet when even a friends' mother-in-law from Lima said how much she loved it, we decided to give it a go.
Medellin, Colombia, where I have just spent some time, was known as the most violent city in the world with up to 500 people killed a month thanks to the local war waged by Pablo Escobar (1949-1993). Escobar’s Medellin cartel once controlled 80% of the global cocaine market, and the 1989 Forbes Rich List named Escobar as the seventh richest man in the world. He is infamous for everything from being a ‘Robin Hood’ for the people, responsible for building churches, sports fields and housing projects, to the extreme violence he used to send a message, along with being the reason thousands of people were left to grieve family members who didn’t survive the daily shoot-outs, unable to sleep at night because of the gunfire.
A government negotiation offering a reduced sentence and preferential treatment in exchange for Escobar’s surrender, his murder in 1993 and the positive social and cultural impact of the Metro train lines which started in the years following all played a part in what has become known as ‘the Medellin Miracle’. Today Medellin is unrecognisable to what it must have been like at the height of Escobar’s power, and during the years that followed.
An article in last month’s Cornell Chronicle talks about the most recent changes saying: In 2003 Sergio Fajardo was elected mayor seeking to ‘destroy the walls that separate us.” He vowed to reduce violence and restore hope to the city. He was convinced that education was the key to social transformation, and placed 4000 young people in training programs. He hired architects to build library parks, entrepreneurship centres and science museums. He increased the education budget to build new schools and refurbish old ones. Fajardo left office in 2007 with an 89% reduction in the annual murder rate, and is now a presidential hopeful. (McCoy) A new slogan they have started using to attract tourists is: “The only risk with Colombia is that you’ll never want to leave.”
Medellin happened to be featured in my inflight magazine on the way there and I was intrigued to read about one of its poorest areas, Santo Domingo. It used to be a former popular recruiting ground for guerrilla groups and hired hitmen targeting those desperate for daily survival money. It now has a weapons exchange program, where people receive a musical instrument for every weapon they hand in, programs for reintegration education and job creation, and a new public library and park, transforming Santo Domingo into a clean, safe, friendly neighbourhood. (Cuevas) A stroll through the Carabobo, a wide, clean corso in down town Medellin, filled with amazing bronze sculptures, features striking posters stating: “Violence will not return to my city.” The people have had enough, and you can literally feel the zero tolerance energy held in the air by the majority of citizens for any drugs or violence.
Why have I shared this story here today? The story of the ‘Medellin Miracle’ is living proof of the beliefs I have always held. That change is possible, when enough people demand it. That where there is hope there is potential for the creation of a new reality, entirely different to the one previously experienced. We are living in difficult times, yes. The economy, climate change, wars, we all know about the situations we are facing. Yet, in answer to anyone who believes we are on a downhill slope with no way of saving ourselves I offer this story of Medellin as a source of not only inspiration, but real life physical evidence that a complete turnaround is possible. Walking through the streets I could have been in any cosmopolitan European city. Interacting with locals you could imagine they had never seen anything more violent than a speck of road rage. I wondered how many loved ones each of them had lost, in one way or another. I wondered how you move on from a past like that?
As I felt into their energy during my days there I realised that they must have had a choice; To stay bonded to their past, wrapping themselves up in anger, grief and feeling isolated from a world afraid to come anywhere near them, or to move forward with a fresh start and try completely new ways of living. Educating their children, using the Metro to get outside their former worlds and opening to new jobs and social centres, uniting as a community, all of these things have helped perform the ‘miracle’.
So too, our whole world right now needs a miracle. Yet this miracle won’t just fall out of the sky, we the people need to create it. We all have our part to play, and if the only thing you do is believe that a miracle is possible then that’s your contribution right there. Next time you catch yourself thinking that the world, or your finances, or your job situation, or the wars, or poverty or anything else you are worried about, is in too much of a mess to change for the positive, then think about Medellin. ‘Mess’ is simply a sign that whatever we were doing before isn’t working. So, it’s time to get out our brooms and start sweeping. It’s time to get out our ideals, hopes and visions and start dreaming. If the people of Medellin can move forward, so can you. If a whole city can change, then many cities can change. If many cities can change, then the world can too. Everything is possible.
(c) Dana Mrkich 2009
Sources:
Cuevas, Monica, February 2009, LAN Inflight Magazine Viajes Travel ‘Resucitada/Born Again’
McCoy, Jill, Feb 23 2009, Cornell Chronicle ‘Former Colombian mayor, now presidential hopeful, cites Medellín reform as proof that education is engine of change’
Wikipedia: Pablo Escobar; Metro de Medellin
Dana Mrkich is a spiritual intuitive, inspirational writer, radio host, author of A New Chapter (Zeus Publications), and creator/teacher of Walking the Rainbow Path, an online chakra course. She offers Soul Sessions via email and Skype to clients all around the world, containing the guidance and healing insights you most need at this time as you step further into your true self and new reality. Subscribe to Dana's Monthly Newsletter Visioning the Dream Awake for Monthly Visions, articles, interviews, courses and more or please visit: http://www.danamrkich.com/
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
February 2009 - Visioning the Dream Awake
February 2009
What's New this Month!
February 2009 Message: The Physical (Dis) Allowance of Higher Energies
This Month the guides wanted me to talk about the Physical Allowance (or Dis-Allowance) of our Higher Energies. The energies are there, but we are the ones that have to let them in, and we are the ones that keep them out. To be more accurate, they showed me that we are either facing Source (and thus letting it all in) or turning away from Source with our fear, worry and doubt (and thus blocking ourselves from Source energy/our higher energies). To bring the point home, (thanks guides - not) I found myself in Bolivia at an altitude of 5000m unable to breathe properly....Read rest of Message here:
http://danamrkich.blogspot.com/2009/02/february-2009-physical-allowance-of.html
Upcoming Radio Interviews
This month I'm being interviewed on a couple of great radio shows. I'll be talking about my book A New Chapter, the transitional times we are in, and maybe even do some live mini Soul Sessions on air!! So tune in if you can or listen later in their archives section. Mark your diaries and check www.timeanddate.com for your local times!
Law of Attraction Talk Radio with Jewels Johnson: Sun Feb 15, 5pm PST (Los Angeles time) - that's Mon Feb 16, Noon AEST (Sydney time) http://www.lawofattracttalkradio.com/jewels.html
Inspirations Expressed with Tina Bueno: Thurs Feb 26, 3pm PST (Los Angeles time) - that's Fri Feb 27, 10am AEST (Sydney time) www.blogtalkradio.com/InspirationsExpressed
Soul Sessions
Book a Soul Session now via Email and I'll be doing it while in the high vibration energies of Peru! Book now if you need any guidance or inspiration to get 2009 moving in the best possible direction!: http://www.danamrkich.com/readings/index.html
Special Request and Offer from Inspired Parenting Magazine
Sandie Sedgbeer is an extraordinary woman and friend of mine. She is the editor of PlanetLightworker Magazine who first started publishing my articles many years ago, and the editor of Children of the New Earth Magazine. Recently Sandie and her business partner Judy Julin started a fabulous new print magazine 'Inspired Parenting' for conscious parents raising conscious children. This magazine is avant-garde, ethical and full of integrity, much needed in these times. Unfortunately the economic climate is part of these times and they are needing more subscribers to keep the magazine running as some advertisers have had to pull out due to their own financial situations. It is so important to keep this cutting edge publication in circulation and so I am gladly passing on their invitation to you: if you take out a 12 month subscription to Inspired Parenting by the end of February you will receive free a 6 month subscription to Children of the New Earth online magazine. This is a fabulous offer for parents, or a wonderful gift to give to a friend that is a parent. For more info, please go to: www.inspiredparenting.com
Complimentary Subscription to emPOWER's new eMag expires Feb 28!
Current issue with Tara Moss on the cover includes my article about finding the balance between attachment and detachment!
Last month as a special gift to you, emPOWER, the wonderful Australian magazine I write for, allowed me to offer you a free 12 month subscription to their new eMag! The free offer expires soon so act now if you would like to receive it, no strings attached, they are just testing out a new medium to see if people enjoy reading online. It includes all the pages and articles from the printed version of emPOWER in an easy-to-read online format. The print version is available in all Australian newsagencies.
Here are the instructions to receive your gift:
1. Visit www.empoweronline.com.au
2. Sign in to access the eMag if you are already a member
OR click 'Become a Member' & enter your details and promotional code MRK001
3. Select 'em eMag' in the menu
4. Enjoy six issues over the next 12 months!
Many blessings for a wonderful February!
Dana
Dana Mrkich
Author A New Chapter
Spiritual Intuitive, Writer, New Reality Visionary
BA Communications (Social Inquiry/Media)
Email: dana@danamrkich.com
Online: www.danamrkich.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/danamrkich
Please forward this newsletter to anyone you feel would enjoy it!
What's New this Month!
February 2009 Message: The Physical (Dis) Allowance of Higher Energies
This Month the guides wanted me to talk about the Physical Allowance (or Dis-Allowance) of our Higher Energies. The energies are there, but we are the ones that have to let them in, and we are the ones that keep them out. To be more accurate, they showed me that we are either facing Source (and thus letting it all in) or turning away from Source with our fear, worry and doubt (and thus blocking ourselves from Source energy/our higher energies). To bring the point home, (thanks guides - not) I found myself in Bolivia at an altitude of 5000m unable to breathe properly....Read rest of Message here:
http://danamrkich.blogspot.com/2009/02/february-2009-physical-allowance-of.html
Upcoming Radio Interviews
This month I'm being interviewed on a couple of great radio shows. I'll be talking about my book A New Chapter, the transitional times we are in, and maybe even do some live mini Soul Sessions on air!! So tune in if you can or listen later in their archives section. Mark your diaries and check www.timeanddate.com for your local times!
Law of Attraction Talk Radio with Jewels Johnson: Sun Feb 15, 5pm PST (Los Angeles time) - that's Mon Feb 16, Noon AEST (Sydney time) http://www.lawofattracttalkradio.com/jewels.html
Inspirations Expressed with Tina Bueno: Thurs Feb 26, 3pm PST (Los Angeles time) - that's Fri Feb 27, 10am AEST (Sydney time) www.blogtalkradio.com/InspirationsExpressed
Soul Sessions
Book a Soul Session now via Email and I'll be doing it while in the high vibration energies of Peru! Book now if you need any guidance or inspiration to get 2009 moving in the best possible direction!: http://www.danamrkich.com/readings/index.html
Special Request and Offer from Inspired Parenting Magazine
Sandie Sedgbeer is an extraordinary woman and friend of mine. She is the editor of PlanetLightworker Magazine who first started publishing my articles many years ago, and the editor of Children of the New Earth Magazine. Recently Sandie and her business partner Judy Julin started a fabulous new print magazine 'Inspired Parenting' for conscious parents raising conscious children. This magazine is avant-garde, ethical and full of integrity, much needed in these times. Unfortunately the economic climate is part of these times and they are needing more subscribers to keep the magazine running as some advertisers have had to pull out due to their own financial situations. It is so important to keep this cutting edge publication in circulation and so I am gladly passing on their invitation to you: if you take out a 12 month subscription to Inspired Parenting by the end of February you will receive free a 6 month subscription to Children of the New Earth online magazine. This is a fabulous offer for parents, or a wonderful gift to give to a friend that is a parent. For more info, please go to: www.inspiredparenting.com
Complimentary Subscription to emPOWER's new eMag expires Feb 28!
Current issue with Tara Moss on the cover includes my article about finding the balance between attachment and detachment!
Last month as a special gift to you, emPOWER, the wonderful Australian magazine I write for, allowed me to offer you a free 12 month subscription to their new eMag! The free offer expires soon so act now if you would like to receive it, no strings attached, they are just testing out a new medium to see if people enjoy reading online. It includes all the pages and articles from the printed version of emPOWER in an easy-to-read online format. The print version is available in all Australian newsagencies.
Here are the instructions to receive your gift:
1. Visit www.empoweronline.com.au
2. Sign in to access the eMag if you are already a member
OR click 'Become a Member' & enter your details and promotional code MRK001
3. Select 'em eMag' in the menu
4. Enjoy six issues over the next 12 months!
Many blessings for a wonderful February!
Dana
Dana Mrkich
Author A New Chapter
Spiritual Intuitive, Writer, New Reality Visionary
BA Communications (Social Inquiry/Media)
Email: dana@danamrkich.com
Online: www.danamrkich.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/danamrkich
Please forward this newsletter to anyone you feel would enjoy it!
February 2009 - The Physical Allowance of Higher Energies
February 2009: The Physical (Dis) Allowance of Higher Energies
I am loving how I get to physically live out all the messages and insights of these Monthly Visions before I get to share them with you. Rather than receive a download of information, it seems that lately I’m thrust in the middle of an action-packed movie scene just to get the full throttle experience of whatever it is I’m about to write about. I’m reminded of that movie Enchanted where the fairytale character comes to life and finds herself in the streets of New York. The contents of her storybook – all about jumping into the unknown, trusting that she will always be safe and provided for, following her heart, making magic happen, continuing to be her true self and believing in happily ever after – spill out from the pages into real life. The question within the movie is: can the two realities truly overlap?
Can the world of fairytales and ideals still exist in the ‘real’ world where money and jobs and bushfires and the economy and love and feelings and fears and dreams and health all exist too? Can the law of attraction and trusting in the unknown and manifesting all you need truly exist outside the pages of self-help books and workshops and vision boards? Can these things become a part of our daily life, and not just temporary inspirational sparks to get us through a tough time? A lot of people are asking these questions now. We are in such an intense time with two extremes of realities overlapping. On the one hand the economy is going through a nervous breakdown and the weather has gone completely crazy. To those observing with only their 3D eyes it would seem that the world is on the brink of collapse. On the other hand we have never before (in our lifetime) been exposed to so much information that insists we are the creators of our reality, and that we have the choice, the power, to decide the future direction of our personal and global world. Total empowerment is butting heads with total helplessness. It’s an interesting crossroads. To those observing with multi-dimensional ‘fairytale’ eyes, it would seem that the world is on the brink of transformation.
The key to this transformation has to lie in the merging of our two realities. We cannot any longer live in the old 3D world. Our economic foundation turns out to have rotting floorboards. Our Mother Earth is sick and tired of our abuse of her body. Unplugged from our Source energy we cannot last too much longer. So, Source energy has been calling us home to re-connect to our higher energies via this influx of spiritual and conscious information we have been receiving. Yet we cannot rely on information alone for our sustenance. To do so would be to spend life with our head in a book, our body in a workshop, our mind in meditation. The words on the page would be perfect, but a separation would remain between our ‘fairytale’ life and our ‘real’ life. And so, for those most comfortable in the fairytale realms, it is time to come out and bring this energy into your daily life. Walk your talk. BELIEVE in what you believe, not as theory but as truths that you live by. For those accustomed to the daily grind of the 3D, don’t be scared to follow the yellow brick road when it opens up before you and promises to lead you to a much more colourful landscape.
This Month the guides wanted me to talk about the Physical Allowance (or Dis-Allowance) of our Higher Energies. The energies are there, but we are the ones that have to let them in, and we are the ones that keep them out. To be more accurate, they showed me that we are either facing Source (and thus letting it all in) or turning away from Source with our fear, worry and doubt (and thus blocking ourselves from Source energy/our higher energies). To bring the point home, (thanks guides – not) I found myself in Bolivia at an altitude of 5000m unable to breathe properly. After a few days of this happening on and off, then culminating in an intense moment where I thought my chest was about to explode, the room was spinning around me, my heart rate was going a thousand miles an hour and I thought I was about to die, I asked my guides “What is this about? What are you trying to show me” They said: “This is what happens when people cut themselves off from Source energy. It is like cutting off your very life source. You are in a higher altitude now and you feel like you can’t breathe because you think there is less oxygen available to you. Likewise, when getting closer to the higher energies people start thinking that there is only so much available to them (abundance, love, success, joy). Their beliefs around lack and limitations move them into fear and doubt and worry, and bang, one minute they were heading for Source energy where all that they need is available to them, the next they have turned away from it. Their thoughts cut them off from that which they desire and just like you now feel you can’t breathe, they feel they can’t access all that they desire. And in that moment it is true. They cannot. You cannot access what you desire while turned away from Source energy, which happens when you think thoughts of lack and limitation. Yet if you refuse the thoughts of lack and limitation, if you believe that YES there is enough in the higher energies for me and for all of us (enough oxygen, enough abundance, enough love, enough everything), then straight away you are turned toward it again and can breathe it in, let it in, allow it to come to you. It is as simple as that.
So, there I was in my bed in La Paz thinking “You couldn’t have just told me this??” But no, they wanted to show me, as they are wanting to show me these days all things, what our thoughts do to us physically: be it our jobs, relationships, bank accounts, health or anything else. In any given moment we are either letting Source energy in and expanding into more of who we are, or turning our back to Source and restricting ourselves, literally right down to our cellular physiological level.
I am in Peru now and happy to say am back to being able to breathe properly, but what an intense experience that was. So, this month, face Source and your higher energies. Let them in, breathe them in. Take a moment to literally feel the physical sensation of restriction in your body (and you will feel it) anytime you think thoughts that are lack or limitation oriented. Re-orient your compass toward Source and your higher energies by visualising eternal limitlessness in front of you, knowing there is enough of all you need, and you can let it in.
Have an oxygen full February!
Blessings,
Dana
(c) Dana Mrkich 2009
Dana Mrkich is a spiritual intuitive, inspirational writer, radio host, author of A New Chapter (Zeus Publications), and creator/teacher of Walking the Rainbow Path, an online chakra course. She offers Soul Sessions via email and Skype to clients all around the world, containing the guidance and healing insights you most need at this time as you step further into your true self and new reality. Subscribe to Dana's Monthly Newsletter Visioning the Dream Awake for Monthly Visions, articles, interviews, courses and more or please visit: www.danamrkich.com
I am loving how I get to physically live out all the messages and insights of these Monthly Visions before I get to share them with you. Rather than receive a download of information, it seems that lately I’m thrust in the middle of an action-packed movie scene just to get the full throttle experience of whatever it is I’m about to write about. I’m reminded of that movie Enchanted where the fairytale character comes to life and finds herself in the streets of New York. The contents of her storybook – all about jumping into the unknown, trusting that she will always be safe and provided for, following her heart, making magic happen, continuing to be her true self and believing in happily ever after – spill out from the pages into real life. The question within the movie is: can the two realities truly overlap?
Can the world of fairytales and ideals still exist in the ‘real’ world where money and jobs and bushfires and the economy and love and feelings and fears and dreams and health all exist too? Can the law of attraction and trusting in the unknown and manifesting all you need truly exist outside the pages of self-help books and workshops and vision boards? Can these things become a part of our daily life, and not just temporary inspirational sparks to get us through a tough time? A lot of people are asking these questions now. We are in such an intense time with two extremes of realities overlapping. On the one hand the economy is going through a nervous breakdown and the weather has gone completely crazy. To those observing with only their 3D eyes it would seem that the world is on the brink of collapse. On the other hand we have never before (in our lifetime) been exposed to so much information that insists we are the creators of our reality, and that we have the choice, the power, to decide the future direction of our personal and global world. Total empowerment is butting heads with total helplessness. It’s an interesting crossroads. To those observing with multi-dimensional ‘fairytale’ eyes, it would seem that the world is on the brink of transformation.
The key to this transformation has to lie in the merging of our two realities. We cannot any longer live in the old 3D world. Our economic foundation turns out to have rotting floorboards. Our Mother Earth is sick and tired of our abuse of her body. Unplugged from our Source energy we cannot last too much longer. So, Source energy has been calling us home to re-connect to our higher energies via this influx of spiritual and conscious information we have been receiving. Yet we cannot rely on information alone for our sustenance. To do so would be to spend life with our head in a book, our body in a workshop, our mind in meditation. The words on the page would be perfect, but a separation would remain between our ‘fairytale’ life and our ‘real’ life. And so, for those most comfortable in the fairytale realms, it is time to come out and bring this energy into your daily life. Walk your talk. BELIEVE in what you believe, not as theory but as truths that you live by. For those accustomed to the daily grind of the 3D, don’t be scared to follow the yellow brick road when it opens up before you and promises to lead you to a much more colourful landscape.
This Month the guides wanted me to talk about the Physical Allowance (or Dis-Allowance) of our Higher Energies. The energies are there, but we are the ones that have to let them in, and we are the ones that keep them out. To be more accurate, they showed me that we are either facing Source (and thus letting it all in) or turning away from Source with our fear, worry and doubt (and thus blocking ourselves from Source energy/our higher energies). To bring the point home, (thanks guides – not) I found myself in Bolivia at an altitude of 5000m unable to breathe properly. After a few days of this happening on and off, then culminating in an intense moment where I thought my chest was about to explode, the room was spinning around me, my heart rate was going a thousand miles an hour and I thought I was about to die, I asked my guides “What is this about? What are you trying to show me” They said: “This is what happens when people cut themselves off from Source energy. It is like cutting off your very life source. You are in a higher altitude now and you feel like you can’t breathe because you think there is less oxygen available to you. Likewise, when getting closer to the higher energies people start thinking that there is only so much available to them (abundance, love, success, joy). Their beliefs around lack and limitations move them into fear and doubt and worry, and bang, one minute they were heading for Source energy where all that they need is available to them, the next they have turned away from it. Their thoughts cut them off from that which they desire and just like you now feel you can’t breathe, they feel they can’t access all that they desire. And in that moment it is true. They cannot. You cannot access what you desire while turned away from Source energy, which happens when you think thoughts of lack and limitation. Yet if you refuse the thoughts of lack and limitation, if you believe that YES there is enough in the higher energies for me and for all of us (enough oxygen, enough abundance, enough love, enough everything), then straight away you are turned toward it again and can breathe it in, let it in, allow it to come to you. It is as simple as that.
So, there I was in my bed in La Paz thinking “You couldn’t have just told me this??” But no, they wanted to show me, as they are wanting to show me these days all things, what our thoughts do to us physically: be it our jobs, relationships, bank accounts, health or anything else. In any given moment we are either letting Source energy in and expanding into more of who we are, or turning our back to Source and restricting ourselves, literally right down to our cellular physiological level.
I am in Peru now and happy to say am back to being able to breathe properly, but what an intense experience that was. So, this month, face Source and your higher energies. Let them in, breathe them in. Take a moment to literally feel the physical sensation of restriction in your body (and you will feel it) anytime you think thoughts that are lack or limitation oriented. Re-orient your compass toward Source and your higher energies by visualising eternal limitlessness in front of you, knowing there is enough of all you need, and you can let it in.
Have an oxygen full February!
Blessings,
Dana
(c) Dana Mrkich 2009
Dana Mrkich is a spiritual intuitive, inspirational writer, radio host, author of A New Chapter (Zeus Publications), and creator/teacher of Walking the Rainbow Path, an online chakra course. She offers Soul Sessions via email and Skype to clients all around the world, containing the guidance and healing insights you most need at this time as you step further into your true self and new reality. Subscribe to Dana's Monthly Newsletter Visioning the Dream Awake for Monthly Visions, articles, interviews, courses and more or please visit: www.danamrkich.com
Friday, January 16, 2009
January 2009 Message: So Who do you Think You are?
January 2009 Message: So Who do you Think You are?
Welcome to the first message and newsletter of 2009! I am only just now writing it as I’m in Chile and have spent the beginning of the New Year re-charging my inner batteries. We spent the first week of the year camping in beautiful Pucon, and last week we camped out in a remote place in the mountains with no access to internet, computers or electricity surrounded by forest and hot springs. I mentioned to the owner of the site that it was great to be switched off for a while, and he quite accurately corrected me saying “I think being here makes you more switched on: to nature and to who you really are.” Too true.
Which brings me to what is shaping up to be the theme of the year: being switched on to who you really are. I was wondering the other night what would be the topic for this month’s Monthly Visions as usually I don’t get to find out until I start typing. I suddenly got the message that it would be called “So who do you think you are?” That’s quite an abrupt question, isn’t it? I thought. Then I looked at what they meant by that. This is the year of truly knowing we are the creators of our own reality. It is the year of really getting that our thoughts create our reality.
So, who we think we are (or aren’t) is totally and completely influencing the life we find ourselves living. What we believe is possible, will be possible, and what we believe is not, will not, until we change our thoughts around it. It is the year to ask yourself: Does who you think you are match who you really are, or is it making you live a self and life that is less than who you are?
Henry Ford was once quoted as saying: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you will always be right.” That pretty much sums it up, and is proving true daily on this travelling adventure we are on. The swiftness of the physical manifestation to our thoughts is increasing rapidly. So much so that it is becoming a literal health hazard to start worrying about anything because I instantly get the same uncomfortable physical symptom. Whenever I go into resistance about anything I get another particular symptom. Tension on the mental plane creates tension on the physical plane, and the more conscious you are of this, the faster it manifests!! It is like you start squeezing a hose tightly, the hose that contains the flow from you to your greater self, to your own Source energy. No wonder so many symptoms feel like literal tension and restriction: headaches, neck pain, digestive issues etc. These symptoms are our friends because they are alerting us to the fact that we have been thinking thoughts that are not in alignment with who we really are, and that we need to shift gears immediately. It is showing us that this ‘thoughts create your reality’ concept is as real as can be, and if the same kind of thoughts produce the same kind of physical symptoms over and over again, then those thoughts are ALSO producing the same kind of results and manifestations in our physical life too.
I have to admit that it can be really challenging to have this instant manifestation at times, because it doesn’t seem to matter if 99% of the time we are thinking in alignment, if we drop to worry or fear even for a few minutes it seems to create some physical issue straight away! I feel like shouting to the universe, give us a break!!! I sometimes feel like we are on a very strict training program, and they won’t let us get away with anything except pure high vibrational thought even for a moment. Well I guess we are on a training program– we all are. This is new territory for us, to be living like this 100% of the time, and going into something new takes you out of your old comfort zones which is always challenging!
On a more wonderful note, positive instant manifestation is happening constantly. Whenever we manage to keep our thoughts aligned, and thus our vibration high (simply, our hose connection is flowing easily and so we feel our connection to our higher self and Source energy more) everything works out well. We receive abundance when we need it, we feel safe and protected, we are guided to our next destination easily. Yet, I have realised that being aligned is really not about the receiving of these things, because truly we are all looked after and at the end of the day we will all always receive at least the basics of that we truly need regardless of our degree of alignment. It is about feeling good. It is about feeling good on the way there, instead of feeling stressed, or worried, or working yourself up into a frenzy for nothing. It is about allowing things to come to you more easefully, rather than feeling like you have to offer some mammoth Herculean effort in order to get things to happen. It can sometimes even feel like constantly being in alignment is a Herculean effort, but that in itself is just an indicator of how much we are used to thinking out of alignment. We are so used to worrying and stressing out that not to feels ‘hard’ sometimes. It is like when you are used to slouching on the couch. Your stomach muscles have convinced you that they feel better all loose and relaxed. Starting to do 100 sit ups a day feels hard and at first it hurts. But, eventually, you start to feel your inner core get stronger. Your back feels straighter, and your breathing improves along with your posture. Slouching on the couch and never exercising in theory feels like a good idea, but actually doing it no longer feels good once you have moved into a fitter, healthier lifestyle.
So it is with a life more in alignment with who you are. Once you start moving into it, you can’t go back. Nor would you want to really. Yes it takes constant 'vibrational' effort, just like going to the gym. But in time it gets easier and just like that wonderful feeling you get from working out that lasts the whole day, so it is with thinking thoughts aligned with who you really are. It feels good, it physically feels better, it feels just like the rush of endorphins you get from working out. And just like going to the gym creates a better feeling, better looking, healthier body, being aligned creates a better feeling, better looking, healthier life, on every level.
So, what you look like and what your life looks like, totally depends on what you think. Who you are (and who you become) depends on who you think you are. Now the great thing is, you can change your thoughts about who you think you are at any time, even right now, and it will start shifting you straight away. Who you think you are is not written in stone, and even if you’ve been thinking that way your whole life, you now don’t need months or years to ‘undo’ that thinking. You can undo it right now. Yes it’s a process, yes you’ll keep wanting to revert to the old thoughts. Oh yes it can frustrate you no end, but just keep persevering.
Your life looks the way it looks because of your thoughts. If something isn’t as you want it to be, change your thoughts. Don’t blame life’s circumstances, your childhood, your parents, your ex-partner, your current partner, your age, your financial situation, the economy or anything or anyone outside of you. Don’t give excuses or justify how or why you got where you got. Don’t tell me ‘but I can’t because...’ because I am going to tell you ‘oh but you can’. You can do it, whatever it is. You can be it, whatever it is. You can have it, whatever it is. There is nothing ever stopping you except your own thoughts. Likewise there is nothing ever creating your life except your own thoughts. So how wonderful and liberating is that! You are the creator of your life and your world. What are you creating? What are you going to create for yourself in 2009? Think better feeling thoughts and you will live a better feeling life. You can do it.
(c) Dana Mrkich 2009
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Welcome to the first message and newsletter of 2009! I am only just now writing it as I’m in Chile and have spent the beginning of the New Year re-charging my inner batteries. We spent the first week of the year camping in beautiful Pucon, and last week we camped out in a remote place in the mountains with no access to internet, computers or electricity surrounded by forest and hot springs. I mentioned to the owner of the site that it was great to be switched off for a while, and he quite accurately corrected me saying “I think being here makes you more switched on: to nature and to who you really are.” Too true.
Which brings me to what is shaping up to be the theme of the year: being switched on to who you really are. I was wondering the other night what would be the topic for this month’s Monthly Visions as usually I don’t get to find out until I start typing. I suddenly got the message that it would be called “So who do you think you are?” That’s quite an abrupt question, isn’t it? I thought. Then I looked at what they meant by that. This is the year of truly knowing we are the creators of our own reality. It is the year of really getting that our thoughts create our reality.
So, who we think we are (or aren’t) is totally and completely influencing the life we find ourselves living. What we believe is possible, will be possible, and what we believe is not, will not, until we change our thoughts around it. It is the year to ask yourself: Does who you think you are match who you really are, or is it making you live a self and life that is less than who you are?
Henry Ford was once quoted as saying: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you will always be right.” That pretty much sums it up, and is proving true daily on this travelling adventure we are on. The swiftness of the physical manifestation to our thoughts is increasing rapidly. So much so that it is becoming a literal health hazard to start worrying about anything because I instantly get the same uncomfortable physical symptom. Whenever I go into resistance about anything I get another particular symptom. Tension on the mental plane creates tension on the physical plane, and the more conscious you are of this, the faster it manifests!! It is like you start squeezing a hose tightly, the hose that contains the flow from you to your greater self, to your own Source energy. No wonder so many symptoms feel like literal tension and restriction: headaches, neck pain, digestive issues etc. These symptoms are our friends because they are alerting us to the fact that we have been thinking thoughts that are not in alignment with who we really are, and that we need to shift gears immediately. It is showing us that this ‘thoughts create your reality’ concept is as real as can be, and if the same kind of thoughts produce the same kind of physical symptoms over and over again, then those thoughts are ALSO producing the same kind of results and manifestations in our physical life too.
I have to admit that it can be really challenging to have this instant manifestation at times, because it doesn’t seem to matter if 99% of the time we are thinking in alignment, if we drop to worry or fear even for a few minutes it seems to create some physical issue straight away! I feel like shouting to the universe, give us a break!!! I sometimes feel like we are on a very strict training program, and they won’t let us get away with anything except pure high vibrational thought even for a moment. Well I guess we are on a training program– we all are. This is new territory for us, to be living like this 100% of the time, and going into something new takes you out of your old comfort zones which is always challenging!
On a more wonderful note, positive instant manifestation is happening constantly. Whenever we manage to keep our thoughts aligned, and thus our vibration high (simply, our hose connection is flowing easily and so we feel our connection to our higher self and Source energy more) everything works out well. We receive abundance when we need it, we feel safe and protected, we are guided to our next destination easily. Yet, I have realised that being aligned is really not about the receiving of these things, because truly we are all looked after and at the end of the day we will all always receive at least the basics of that we truly need regardless of our degree of alignment. It is about feeling good. It is about feeling good on the way there, instead of feeling stressed, or worried, or working yourself up into a frenzy for nothing. It is about allowing things to come to you more easefully, rather than feeling like you have to offer some mammoth Herculean effort in order to get things to happen. It can sometimes even feel like constantly being in alignment is a Herculean effort, but that in itself is just an indicator of how much we are used to thinking out of alignment. We are so used to worrying and stressing out that not to feels ‘hard’ sometimes. It is like when you are used to slouching on the couch. Your stomach muscles have convinced you that they feel better all loose and relaxed. Starting to do 100 sit ups a day feels hard and at first it hurts. But, eventually, you start to feel your inner core get stronger. Your back feels straighter, and your breathing improves along with your posture. Slouching on the couch and never exercising in theory feels like a good idea, but actually doing it no longer feels good once you have moved into a fitter, healthier lifestyle.
So it is with a life more in alignment with who you are. Once you start moving into it, you can’t go back. Nor would you want to really. Yes it takes constant 'vibrational' effort, just like going to the gym. But in time it gets easier and just like that wonderful feeling you get from working out that lasts the whole day, so it is with thinking thoughts aligned with who you really are. It feels good, it physically feels better, it feels just like the rush of endorphins you get from working out. And just like going to the gym creates a better feeling, better looking, healthier body, being aligned creates a better feeling, better looking, healthier life, on every level.
So, what you look like and what your life looks like, totally depends on what you think. Who you are (and who you become) depends on who you think you are. Now the great thing is, you can change your thoughts about who you think you are at any time, even right now, and it will start shifting you straight away. Who you think you are is not written in stone, and even if you’ve been thinking that way your whole life, you now don’t need months or years to ‘undo’ that thinking. You can undo it right now. Yes it’s a process, yes you’ll keep wanting to revert to the old thoughts. Oh yes it can frustrate you no end, but just keep persevering.
Your life looks the way it looks because of your thoughts. If something isn’t as you want it to be, change your thoughts. Don’t blame life’s circumstances, your childhood, your parents, your ex-partner, your current partner, your age, your financial situation, the economy or anything or anyone outside of you. Don’t give excuses or justify how or why you got where you got. Don’t tell me ‘but I can’t because...’ because I am going to tell you ‘oh but you can’. You can do it, whatever it is. You can be it, whatever it is. You can have it, whatever it is. There is nothing ever stopping you except your own thoughts. Likewise there is nothing ever creating your life except your own thoughts. So how wonderful and liberating is that! You are the creator of your life and your world. What are you creating? What are you going to create for yourself in 2009? Think better feeling thoughts and you will live a better feeling life. You can do it.
(c) Dana Mrkich 2009
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Dec 2008 Newsletter
Hello everyone!
It was so wonderful writing the Monthly Vision for December. It nicely wrapped up so much of what 2008 has been about, and gives an exciting taste of what is to come in 2009!
"As 2008 draws to a close many of us will look back on it as the Year that Was. The year that was a turning point from our old reality to the new. The year that we finally let go of so many old beliefs and patterns that we'd been chipping away at for years (or lifetimes). The year that we stepped out from our fears and jumped into the beckoning unknown, because not jumping was becoming more uncomfortable than jumping." Read full Monthly Vision here: http://danamrkich.blogspot.com/2008/12/december-2008-year-that-was.html
I am off to Chile for Christmas, and very excited about it! It has been a dream of mine to get to South America for many years. I will still be doing Soul Sessions via Email, with about a 2 week wait over the festive season. Please book here if you'd like some guidance for the new year!: http://www.danamrkich.com/readings/index.html I am also still running my promotional campaign for A New Chapter over the holidays, which includes a 20% discount on my Soul Sessions, so you can access that offer here: http://www.danamrkich.com/promo/amazon/
For Australian readers, the new issue of Empower Magazine (in which I'm a regular contributer) is now out. My article this month is about the Chakras! This magazine is filled with empowering articles and I read it from cover to cover. I especially recommend the one where you write in your journal as if it's 2 months from now, describing the improvements that have happened in a couple of life areas. It is truly magical and it works!! Pick up the latest issue in your local newsagency (with Natalie Bassingthwaite on the cover). More info here: www.empoweronline.com.au
I wish you all a very happy festive season, and wonderful New Year. Thank you for all of your support this year!
Many blessings,
Dana
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Dana Mrkich
Author A New Chapter
Spiritual Intuitive, Writer, New Reality Visionary
BA Communications (Social Inquiry/Media)
Email: dana@danamrkich.com
Online: www.danamrkich.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/danamrkich
It was so wonderful writing the Monthly Vision for December. It nicely wrapped up so much of what 2008 has been about, and gives an exciting taste of what is to come in 2009!
"As 2008 draws to a close many of us will look back on it as the Year that Was. The year that was a turning point from our old reality to the new. The year that we finally let go of so many old beliefs and patterns that we'd been chipping away at for years (or lifetimes). The year that we stepped out from our fears and jumped into the beckoning unknown, because not jumping was becoming more uncomfortable than jumping." Read full Monthly Vision here: http://danamrkich.blogspot.com/2008/12/december-2008-year-that-was.html
I am off to Chile for Christmas, and very excited about it! It has been a dream of mine to get to South America for many years. I will still be doing Soul Sessions via Email, with about a 2 week wait over the festive season. Please book here if you'd like some guidance for the new year!: http://www.danamrkich.com/readings/index.html I am also still running my promotional campaign for A New Chapter over the holidays, which includes a 20% discount on my Soul Sessions, so you can access that offer here: http://www.danamrkich.com/promo/amazon/
For Australian readers, the new issue of Empower Magazine (in which I'm a regular contributer) is now out. My article this month is about the Chakras! This magazine is filled with empowering articles and I read it from cover to cover. I especially recommend the one where you write in your journal as if it's 2 months from now, describing the improvements that have happened in a couple of life areas. It is truly magical and it works!! Pick up the latest issue in your local newsagency (with Natalie Bassingthwaite on the cover). More info here: www.empoweronline.com.au
I wish you all a very happy festive season, and wonderful New Year. Thank you for all of your support this year!
Many blessings,
Dana
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Australia's Dana Mrkich, author of A New Chapter, offers Soul Sessions to clients all around the world to help people step into their true self and best possible reality. She is a passionate advocate for empowering, inspiring media and was the host of Visioning the Dream Awake on Voice America's 7th Wave Network.
Dana Mrkich
Author A New Chapter
Spiritual Intuitive, Writer, New Reality Visionary
BA Communications (Social Inquiry/Media)
Email: dana@danamrkich.com
Online: www.danamrkich.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/danamrkich
December 2008 - The Year that Was
December 2008 - The Year that Was
Dana Mrkich Monthly Visions
As 2008 draws to a close many of us will look back on it as the Year that Was. The year that was a turning point from our old reality to the new. The year that we finally let go of so many old beliefs and patterns that we’d been chipping away at for years (or lifetimes). The year that we stepped out from our fears and jumped into the beckoning unknown, because not jumping was becoming more uncomfortable than jumping.
It was the year that many of us finally realised that our higher self was not just a concept, but the higher version of who we really are, already existing right now in the higher dimensions, guiding us in every single moment, calling us constantly ‘this way this way’, holding the vision for us of our best possible selves and lives, and not giving one iota of notice to anything other than that. Our higher self WANTS us to be our best possible self, and live our best possible life, and it was the year to say “Enough! I am going to stop fighting my own best self and go with the flow already!!”
It was the year many of us decided to vote our ‘other self’ off the island, the part of us that voiced constant doubt, fear, ‘but how’, ‘what if’, ‘i can’t’, and other self-sabotaging concepts that will soon sound like the most crazy, foreign concepts ever to indulge in. Why would you indulge in thoughts and feelings that don’t FEEL good? Why did we? It doesn’t matter anymore, those days are falling fast behind us.
For many of us our faith in everything we have believed in was put to the test. So you think you create your own reality? You truly believe in the Law of Attraction? You really believe everything you need will come to you? Okay, then. Do you believe these things only when you have lots of money in the bank, a great job, a wonderful relationship and a beautiful home, or do you start panicking when things start going a little pear-shaped? Do you really believe in these things or do you still have old subconscious fears lurking that ask “What if the money runs out? What if I lose this great job/relationship?” This was the year to clear all the cobwebs to ensure that a) we always have all that we need and b) we know that we will always have everything we need and there is truly no such thing as abundance running out or losing anything you truly need.
A lot of people I know, myself included, have lived with the knowing for many, many years that the universe will always provide for us. We have visions about things we want to manifest and create and for the most part they eventually come to be. We may not always have a large amount of direct income from our work, but we are always financially supported usually in such generous ways, with unexpected sums of money coming to us when we most need it, or other forms of abundance coming in other ways, again when we need it. However, something unusual happened this year to a lot of people I know, myself included. The bank account went down, and it kept going down! Now usually this is no cause for concern because eventually once it hits a certain point something miraculous happens and up it goes again. But this time, it just kept plummeting!
Now, as many of you know, my partner Christian and I have decided to be nomads for a while. Technology has made it possible to live and work unattached to any one geographical location, so we are living the life of our dreams wherever we feel like. We have placed our trust and faith in our higher selves, knowing that they will never guide us astray. Financially we started with a healthy amount, but all of a sudden several things happened at once. The economy buckled, the Australian dollar and stock market crashed, and all of a sudden here we were in the US, with a one way ticket to Chile planning to travel through South America for a while with a bank account going south fast. We had a night of feeling like crap, before we picked ourselves up and made a decision. We either believe in what we believe in, all the way, or we might as well go home and say to everyone well we tried, but hey the law of attraction just didn’t work for us, at some point the luck’s gotta run out! Well there was no way we were going to do that, because we just didn’t believe that it does run out! (Although in our deep subconscious recesses maybe parts of us did fear this, and here was an opportunity to clear that out!!)
Sure, it may seem crazy to some people, to have a few hundred dollars in your account and a one way ticket to Chile, to just keep going, but that’s exactly what we decided to do! How could I ever write about this or speak about it or give sessions to people asking them to take leaps of faith unless I myself lived it and breathed it 100%? I have always lived it and breathed it, and to stop now, just because of a mere financial number in my bank account, just didn’t feel right. What is more real to me, a number in an account, or Spirit and the Universe and my higher self and guides? I had to keep going.
First thing, we had to make a total renewed commitment to high vibrating, postitive thoughts only! No more snippets of fear, doubt, worry or ‘but how, or ‘what if’s’. We had to make a total commitment to our higher selves and did a beautiful exercise on the California Coast, writing a send off to our old selves thanking them for serving us, but it was now time for us to align with our new, higher selves, fully and truly and wholly. We made promises to our higher selves, that we would no longer fight them, and instead surrender to them, allowing them to take us to all that we needed and deserved. It felt liberating!
From that moment there was a very real shift in the air. We just kept holding the picture of what we wanted – specifically to keep travelling, and we didn’t waver from that. Magic and miracles continued to unfold, just as they have been this whole trip, yet in an ever more amazing way. We came across the most luxurious hotel rooms for half the price we would usually pay for a standard one. We were invited to beautiful and inspiring events and places that helped keep our vibration high. Our bank account was still a little what the, but strangely looking at the number $100 felt like looking at $1000 or $100 000, the number was iirelevant, it was this overwhelming feeling of faith in abundance that prevailed. One day we went for a walk and saw the word Believe on someone’s roof, all decked out in Christmas lights. Later that day I opened a card in a gift shop, it lit up with coloured lights inside and said Believe. We walked through the mall a few minutes later and passed a woman with a huge red bag that said Believe. We got the message.
I got further messages during meditation and journalling, about the spiritual bank account that ALL of us have access to. It is limitless and will always provide you with all you need. It is real. I wrote a list of upcoming bills and expenses that would be coming up in the next week, and was very specific with what I needed money for and the amount needed. I didn’t come from a place of lack, I wrote the list as if it was a done deal eg I now withdraw $125 from my account for the internet, thank you Verizon so much for making it possible for us to have access to the world every day. I attached a feeling of deep gratitude and appreciation for everything I would be paying, as that’s how I truly feel about everything I give out money for. Once I’d written my list, it added up to quite a large amount, that we needed within the week. Something inside me just knew it would be okay, I had a sense of complete faith and calm and had done a very clear meditation giving myself to the keys to my spiritual bank. I recommend you do the same.
The day before we needed the money, we just affirmed that the money was coming. To do anything else would be to say ‘we don’t really believe’ and did we need any more signs that believing was the way to go! That evening we got an unexpected gift deposited into our bank account, a very generous ‘early’ Christmas present that was for the exact amount we needed. We hadn’t told anyone that we needed it, so it was truly for us a sign (yes another one) that Ask, Believe, Receive, is true is true is true. We continue to say thank you every morning and night (and countless times during the day) for all we have and all we desire for our future and I can't recommend this enough. We always ask that all things come in a good way, and I suggest you do too. (You have probably heard of stories like the man who asked for money and got a retrenchment pay out or the woman who asked for freedom and her husband left her - SO ask that what you ask for comes in a GOOD way!)
It is easy to believe in abundance when you have it, but it is truly a vibrational challenge to believe in it when physically your bank account is saying other things! I know that many people are in this ‘challenging’ situation this Christmas, but I invite you to take this challenge and turn it into an opportunity. Decide that you believe in Spirit and the Universe and your guides and higher self (and whoever else you believe in) MORE than you believe in numbers in an account. Visualise what you need. See yourself wrapping and giving presents. Feel yourself into joy and happiness, knowing everything will be okay. For the miracle can’t happen from a place of lack and fear, it just can’t. (In fact these kind of 'not feeling good' emotions are a good sign that you are not in that moment connected to what your higher self wants for you). Give yourself the keys to your spiritual bank account and align completely and wholly with your higher self. Say goodbye to your old self and old thoughts and fears, because they can’t work anymore with what you want in your new reality.
Many people have told us that we are lucky to be on this travelling adventure, and we are truly blessed. Yet we are not doing anything that you can’t be doing too. It is not everyone’s dream to live life in this nomadic way, but everyone does have a dream, so your job is to work out what yours is. Because 2009 is truly going to be the year where all our dreams can and will start coming true, and the only thing stopping anyone now will be their own old self. So leave your old self behind in 2008 (farewell them with much love) and give yourself permission to have a great life. To live your dreams, and be happy and prosperous and abundant and anything else you truly want.
Christian and I wish you all a very merry and happy festive season, and spectacular New Year! I am so looking forward to 2009, the freshness of the energy I am already starting to feel is amazing!
Until then,
Many blessings,
Dana
(c) 2008 Dana Mrkich
Visioning the Dream Awake
www.danamrkich.com
Dana Mrkich Monthly Visions
As 2008 draws to a close many of us will look back on it as the Year that Was. The year that was a turning point from our old reality to the new. The year that we finally let go of so many old beliefs and patterns that we’d been chipping away at for years (or lifetimes). The year that we stepped out from our fears and jumped into the beckoning unknown, because not jumping was becoming more uncomfortable than jumping.
It was the year that many of us finally realised that our higher self was not just a concept, but the higher version of who we really are, already existing right now in the higher dimensions, guiding us in every single moment, calling us constantly ‘this way this way’, holding the vision for us of our best possible selves and lives, and not giving one iota of notice to anything other than that. Our higher self WANTS us to be our best possible self, and live our best possible life, and it was the year to say “Enough! I am going to stop fighting my own best self and go with the flow already!!”
It was the year many of us decided to vote our ‘other self’ off the island, the part of us that voiced constant doubt, fear, ‘but how’, ‘what if’, ‘i can’t’, and other self-sabotaging concepts that will soon sound like the most crazy, foreign concepts ever to indulge in. Why would you indulge in thoughts and feelings that don’t FEEL good? Why did we? It doesn’t matter anymore, those days are falling fast behind us.
For many of us our faith in everything we have believed in was put to the test. So you think you create your own reality? You truly believe in the Law of Attraction? You really believe everything you need will come to you? Okay, then. Do you believe these things only when you have lots of money in the bank, a great job, a wonderful relationship and a beautiful home, or do you start panicking when things start going a little pear-shaped? Do you really believe in these things or do you still have old subconscious fears lurking that ask “What if the money runs out? What if I lose this great job/relationship?” This was the year to clear all the cobwebs to ensure that a) we always have all that we need and b) we know that we will always have everything we need and there is truly no such thing as abundance running out or losing anything you truly need.
A lot of people I know, myself included, have lived with the knowing for many, many years that the universe will always provide for us. We have visions about things we want to manifest and create and for the most part they eventually come to be. We may not always have a large amount of direct income from our work, but we are always financially supported usually in such generous ways, with unexpected sums of money coming to us when we most need it, or other forms of abundance coming in other ways, again when we need it. However, something unusual happened this year to a lot of people I know, myself included. The bank account went down, and it kept going down! Now usually this is no cause for concern because eventually once it hits a certain point something miraculous happens and up it goes again. But this time, it just kept plummeting!
Now, as many of you know, my partner Christian and I have decided to be nomads for a while. Technology has made it possible to live and work unattached to any one geographical location, so we are living the life of our dreams wherever we feel like. We have placed our trust and faith in our higher selves, knowing that they will never guide us astray. Financially we started with a healthy amount, but all of a sudden several things happened at once. The economy buckled, the Australian dollar and stock market crashed, and all of a sudden here we were in the US, with a one way ticket to Chile planning to travel through South America for a while with a bank account going south fast. We had a night of feeling like crap, before we picked ourselves up and made a decision. We either believe in what we believe in, all the way, or we might as well go home and say to everyone well we tried, but hey the law of attraction just didn’t work for us, at some point the luck’s gotta run out! Well there was no way we were going to do that, because we just didn’t believe that it does run out! (Although in our deep subconscious recesses maybe parts of us did fear this, and here was an opportunity to clear that out!!)
Sure, it may seem crazy to some people, to have a few hundred dollars in your account and a one way ticket to Chile, to just keep going, but that’s exactly what we decided to do! How could I ever write about this or speak about it or give sessions to people asking them to take leaps of faith unless I myself lived it and breathed it 100%? I have always lived it and breathed it, and to stop now, just because of a mere financial number in my bank account, just didn’t feel right. What is more real to me, a number in an account, or Spirit and the Universe and my higher self and guides? I had to keep going.
First thing, we had to make a total renewed commitment to high vibrating, postitive thoughts only! No more snippets of fear, doubt, worry or ‘but how, or ‘what if’s’. We had to make a total commitment to our higher selves and did a beautiful exercise on the California Coast, writing a send off to our old selves thanking them for serving us, but it was now time for us to align with our new, higher selves, fully and truly and wholly. We made promises to our higher selves, that we would no longer fight them, and instead surrender to them, allowing them to take us to all that we needed and deserved. It felt liberating!
From that moment there was a very real shift in the air. We just kept holding the picture of what we wanted – specifically to keep travelling, and we didn’t waver from that. Magic and miracles continued to unfold, just as they have been this whole trip, yet in an ever more amazing way. We came across the most luxurious hotel rooms for half the price we would usually pay for a standard one. We were invited to beautiful and inspiring events and places that helped keep our vibration high. Our bank account was still a little what the, but strangely looking at the number $100 felt like looking at $1000 or $100 000, the number was iirelevant, it was this overwhelming feeling of faith in abundance that prevailed. One day we went for a walk and saw the word Believe on someone’s roof, all decked out in Christmas lights. Later that day I opened a card in a gift shop, it lit up with coloured lights inside and said Believe. We walked through the mall a few minutes later and passed a woman with a huge red bag that said Believe. We got the message.
I got further messages during meditation and journalling, about the spiritual bank account that ALL of us have access to. It is limitless and will always provide you with all you need. It is real. I wrote a list of upcoming bills and expenses that would be coming up in the next week, and was very specific with what I needed money for and the amount needed. I didn’t come from a place of lack, I wrote the list as if it was a done deal eg I now withdraw $125 from my account for the internet, thank you Verizon so much for making it possible for us to have access to the world every day. I attached a feeling of deep gratitude and appreciation for everything I would be paying, as that’s how I truly feel about everything I give out money for. Once I’d written my list, it added up to quite a large amount, that we needed within the week. Something inside me just knew it would be okay, I had a sense of complete faith and calm and had done a very clear meditation giving myself to the keys to my spiritual bank. I recommend you do the same.
The day before we needed the money, we just affirmed that the money was coming. To do anything else would be to say ‘we don’t really believe’ and did we need any more signs that believing was the way to go! That evening we got an unexpected gift deposited into our bank account, a very generous ‘early’ Christmas present that was for the exact amount we needed. We hadn’t told anyone that we needed it, so it was truly for us a sign (yes another one) that Ask, Believe, Receive, is true is true is true. We continue to say thank you every morning and night (and countless times during the day) for all we have and all we desire for our future and I can't recommend this enough. We always ask that all things come in a good way, and I suggest you do too. (You have probably heard of stories like the man who asked for money and got a retrenchment pay out or the woman who asked for freedom and her husband left her - SO ask that what you ask for comes in a GOOD way!)
It is easy to believe in abundance when you have it, but it is truly a vibrational challenge to believe in it when physically your bank account is saying other things! I know that many people are in this ‘challenging’ situation this Christmas, but I invite you to take this challenge and turn it into an opportunity. Decide that you believe in Spirit and the Universe and your guides and higher self (and whoever else you believe in) MORE than you believe in numbers in an account. Visualise what you need. See yourself wrapping and giving presents. Feel yourself into joy and happiness, knowing everything will be okay. For the miracle can’t happen from a place of lack and fear, it just can’t. (In fact these kind of 'not feeling good' emotions are a good sign that you are not in that moment connected to what your higher self wants for you). Give yourself the keys to your spiritual bank account and align completely and wholly with your higher self. Say goodbye to your old self and old thoughts and fears, because they can’t work anymore with what you want in your new reality.
Many people have told us that we are lucky to be on this travelling adventure, and we are truly blessed. Yet we are not doing anything that you can’t be doing too. It is not everyone’s dream to live life in this nomadic way, but everyone does have a dream, so your job is to work out what yours is. Because 2009 is truly going to be the year where all our dreams can and will start coming true, and the only thing stopping anyone now will be their own old self. So leave your old self behind in 2008 (farewell them with much love) and give yourself permission to have a great life. To live your dreams, and be happy and prosperous and abundant and anything else you truly want.
Christian and I wish you all a very merry and happy festive season, and spectacular New Year! I am so looking forward to 2009, the freshness of the energy I am already starting to feel is amazing!
Until then,
Many blessings,
Dana
(c) 2008 Dana Mrkich
Visioning the Dream Awake
www.danamrkich.com
Thursday, November 27, 2008
A New Chapter Promo - Receive Free Inspirational Gifts!
Hi Everyone,
Today is an exciting day! I am launching a promotion for A New Chapter to help get it out there in the world. As a special thank you for everyone who purchases the book today you will RECEIVE INSTANTLY over $3000 worth of empowering gifts for FREE from over 20 Best Selling Inspirational Authors, Motivational Speakers, Life Coaches and Intuitives! The gifts include a 20% discount off one of my Soul Session’s, and an audio download I have recorded to help you meet and connect with who you really are.
Just go here now: http://www.danamrkich.com/promo/amazon/
If you have already purchased the book, thank you for your support! You can still benefit from this offer by purchasing the book as a gift for a friend or family member who needs it (great Christmas present!) and give yourself the gift of all these inspirational bonuses.
So many of us are experiencing profound, intense shifts in our lives and wondering what is going on as we look around at the major changes going on all around the world. Humanity is right now at a crossroads. A new chapter in our evolution lies before us. Every one of us is a page in this new chapter. Each of us has a part to play in determining what this new chapter looks like. All you have to do to make your page the best it can be is: be your true self! A New Chapter is your own personal guidebook showing you the way. It will inspire and empower you to listen to your instincts, feel your feelings and speak your truth. One by one we can do this. The planet and humanity need you!
“A New Chapter is a vision of hope in a world gone mad.” – David Rippe, Co-Author of The Flip, Turn your World Around
Go here now to purchase this great book and receive some wonderful free gifts: http://www.danamrkich.com/promo/amazon/
Please forward this offer to those in your circle who you feel would appreciate it!
Many thanks for your support!
Dana
Dana Mrkich
Author A New Chapter
Spiritual Intuitive, Writer, New Reality Visionary
BA Communications (Social Inquiry/Media)
Email: dana@danamrkich.com
Online: http://www.danamrkich.com/
MySpace: www.myspace.com/danamrkich
Today is an exciting day! I am launching a promotion for A New Chapter to help get it out there in the world. As a special thank you for everyone who purchases the book today you will RECEIVE INSTANTLY over $3000 worth of empowering gifts for FREE from over 20 Best Selling Inspirational Authors, Motivational Speakers, Life Coaches and Intuitives! The gifts include a 20% discount off one of my Soul Session’s, and an audio download I have recorded to help you meet and connect with who you really are.
Just go here now: http://www.danamrkich.com/promo/amazon/
If you have already purchased the book, thank you for your support! You can still benefit from this offer by purchasing the book as a gift for a friend or family member who needs it (great Christmas present!) and give yourself the gift of all these inspirational bonuses.
So many of us are experiencing profound, intense shifts in our lives and wondering what is going on as we look around at the major changes going on all around the world. Humanity is right now at a crossroads. A new chapter in our evolution lies before us. Every one of us is a page in this new chapter. Each of us has a part to play in determining what this new chapter looks like. All you have to do to make your page the best it can be is: be your true self! A New Chapter is your own personal guidebook showing you the way. It will inspire and empower you to listen to your instincts, feel your feelings and speak your truth. One by one we can do this. The planet and humanity need you!
“A New Chapter is a vision of hope in a world gone mad.” – David Rippe, Co-Author of The Flip, Turn your World Around
Go here now to purchase this great book and receive some wonderful free gifts: http://www.danamrkich.com/promo/amazon/
Please forward this offer to those in your circle who you feel would appreciate it!
Many thanks for your support!
Dana
Dana Mrkich
Author A New Chapter
Spiritual Intuitive, Writer, New Reality Visionary
BA Communications (Social Inquiry/Media)
Email: dana@danamrkich.com
Online: http://www.danamrkich.com/
MySpace: www.myspace.com/danamrkich
Thursday, November 06, 2008
November Newsletter
November 2008
What’s New this Month!
November Monthly Visions: Anything is Possible, Yes We Can!
I am here in Seattle, USA and what a time to be here! I can hardly believe what is happening, even though I have imagined it, dreamt it, visioned it, been told by my inner knowing for my whole life that it would happen, still I feel I have woken up in the middle of my dream, only to find it is real after all. All I – and we – have ever imagined, visioned, felt to be true, hoped will be – is and will be, and in one night Obama with his win and his words has truly created a global energetic shift in consciousness, with everyone thinking the same thing: anything is possible!!!...Read more here: http://danamrkich.blogspot.com/2008/11/anything-is-possible-yes-we-can.html
Visioning the Dream Awake Radio Show
My 13 week series of Visioning the Dream Awake on Voice America’s 7th Wave Network is complete, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I will be back on the airwaves in 2009 I’m sure, and once I confirm where and when I will let you know! For now, here is the link to the show if you want to download any archived shows, but be quick as the page may not be up for much longer. If you don’t get there in time I will have all shows archived and available free on my website eventually:
http://www.modavox.com/voiceamericacms/WebModules/HostModaview.aspx?HostId=535&ChannelId=4&Flag=1
Soul Sessions
As always Soul Sessions are available via Email, so if you need any guidance as we move from one year to another, the link to book is below. Skype is also increasingly being used around the world, so if you would prefer a ‘phone’ session just let me know on the booking form and we can make it happen via Skype!
http://www.danamrkich.com/readings/index.html
A New Chapter
Toward the end of the month, around Nov 26, I will be emailing you with a very special offer. A special selection of my colleagues will be offering a bunch of fabulous free gifts for all copies of A New Chapter sold on Amazon that day. If you haven’t already bought a copy, that would be a good day to do so. If you have, then perhaps you might like to buy a copy for a friend and still get the benefit of the free gifts, or simply forward the offer on to your circle. We are truly now in our New Chapter, so it is such an exciting time to be getting this book out there!
Have a wonderful November!
Blessings,
Dana
Australia’s Dana Mrkich, author of A New Chapter, offers Soul Sessions to clients all around the world to help people step into their true self and best possible reality. She is a passionate advocate for empowering, inspiring media and is the host of Visioning the Dream Awake on Voice America’s 7th Wave Network. To subscribe to Dana’s newsletter please email: subscribe@danamrkich.com
Dana Mrkich
Host Visioning the Dream Awake
Author A New Chapter
Spiritual Intuitive, Writer, New Reality Visionary
BA Communications (Social Inquiry/Media)
Email: dana@danamrkich.com
Online: www.danamrkich.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/danamrkich
What’s New this Month!
November Monthly Visions: Anything is Possible, Yes We Can!
I am here in Seattle, USA and what a time to be here! I can hardly believe what is happening, even though I have imagined it, dreamt it, visioned it, been told by my inner knowing for my whole life that it would happen, still I feel I have woken up in the middle of my dream, only to find it is real after all. All I – and we – have ever imagined, visioned, felt to be true, hoped will be – is and will be, and in one night Obama with his win and his words has truly created a global energetic shift in consciousness, with everyone thinking the same thing: anything is possible!!!...Read more here: http://danamrkich.blogspot.com/2008/11/anything-is-possible-yes-we-can.html
Visioning the Dream Awake Radio Show
My 13 week series of Visioning the Dream Awake on Voice America’s 7th Wave Network is complete, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I will be back on the airwaves in 2009 I’m sure, and once I confirm where and when I will let you know! For now, here is the link to the show if you want to download any archived shows, but be quick as the page may not be up for much longer. If you don’t get there in time I will have all shows archived and available free on my website eventually:
http://www.modavox.com/voiceamericacms/WebModules/HostModaview.aspx?HostId=535&ChannelId=4&Flag=1
Soul Sessions
As always Soul Sessions are available via Email, so if you need any guidance as we move from one year to another, the link to book is below. Skype is also increasingly being used around the world, so if you would prefer a ‘phone’ session just let me know on the booking form and we can make it happen via Skype!
http://www.danamrkich.com/readings/index.html
A New Chapter
Toward the end of the month, around Nov 26, I will be emailing you with a very special offer. A special selection of my colleagues will be offering a bunch of fabulous free gifts for all copies of A New Chapter sold on Amazon that day. If you haven’t already bought a copy, that would be a good day to do so. If you have, then perhaps you might like to buy a copy for a friend and still get the benefit of the free gifts, or simply forward the offer on to your circle. We are truly now in our New Chapter, so it is such an exciting time to be getting this book out there!
Have a wonderful November!
Blessings,
Dana
Australia’s Dana Mrkich, author of A New Chapter, offers Soul Sessions to clients all around the world to help people step into their true self and best possible reality. She is a passionate advocate for empowering, inspiring media and is the host of Visioning the Dream Awake on Voice America’s 7th Wave Network. To subscribe to Dana’s newsletter please email: subscribe@danamrkich.com
Dana Mrkich
Host Visioning the Dream Awake
Author A New Chapter
Spiritual Intuitive, Writer, New Reality Visionary
BA Communications (Social Inquiry/Media)
Email: dana@danamrkich.com
Online: www.danamrkich.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/danamrkich
Anything is Possible - Yes We Can!
Anything is Possible – Yes We Can!
I am here in Seattle, USA and what a time to be here! I can hardly believe what is happening, even though I have imagined it, dreamt it, visioned it, been told by my inner knowing for my whole life that it would happen, still I feel I have woken up in the middle of my dream, only to find it is real after all. All I – and we – have ever imagined, visioned, felt to be true, hoped will be – is and will be, and in one night Obama with his win and his words has truly created a global energetic shift in consciousness, with everyone thinking the same thing: anything is possible!!!
All of us who have been awake and conscious of all that is going on around the world, knowing the unique potential and opportunity we have at this time to create a new world, have felt despair at times. Many have asked: will things ever shift in a positive direction on a mass, mainstream level? We have been told over and over again: not in our lifetime. I refused to believe this, and not just because of an inner knowing, but because the Earth and our old dysfunctional economic, environmental, social, political and health structures literally could not be sustained for much longer. We have been watching things collapse and crumble right before our eyes, and so it has not been a matter of whether things will shift, things are shifting, the question became, in which way will they shift? Which path will we as a people choose? The path of Destruction or Transformation? I believed the latter, I felt the latter, but I also knew it all depended on the outcome of last night’s election. After all, we as a humanity always have free will and choice, and the final decision would be made by the energy of the collective majority. What do the collective majority want? Are enough of us awake and conscious and ready for change? We dared to hope....but we couldn’t be sure....until now. Obama’s win last night answered our questions. If you have nearly given up, if you have been in any doubt, if you have let yourself slip into apathy – it is understandable. But it is time to get up! We have been given a second wind and new energy, and it’s time to get to work!
There is a wave of hope moving through the US today, and the world. Obama has instilled hope in all those who believed there was no hope left. He has given fresh energy to all those who have worked tirelessly for change for many years and were getting weary. He has shifted the global collective consciousness from fear, doubt and despair, to hope, faith and the feeling we have just entered the birth of a new world as we unite in the words: Anything Is Possible.
Yes it will take work. No it won't happen overnight. But it will happen. The people have spoken! They want change, they are ready for change, and they stood in the rain for three hours yesterday to say enough is enough! Yesterday as I watched them through the television screen, lining up in city after city, so determined to play their part in making a difference, knowing that this time it was different, knowing that the President they chose now will determine which way we go as a world over the next four years, I said thank you, and my heart was full of gratitude. Thank you to all those people, because the future of the world was quite literally in the hands of the US people yesterday. Climate change, the war in Iraq, global diplomacy and world peace, the economy, all of these issues that affect all humanity, regardless of the political party, race or country you belong to, can now be addressed in a positive way guided by an intelligent, visionary leader.
The media was on top of things this time. CNN had a voting hotline set up to call immediately if you encountered problems while trying to cast your vote. Nothing was going to stop the course of justice and the democratic process this time. Nothing will stop the will of the people this time. I wrote in my book A New Chapter that the only reason those in power have taken the world in a direction that isn’t serving us, is because on some level we let them. I wrote that it is time now to take our power back, and play our part in taking this world in a new direction, one based on unity and what is good for all, not good for some. Today we the people have taken back our power. We have said yes to playing our part in creating this new world, writing our page in our new chapter, making sure it is a fabulous new chapter, knowing your page counts! It is a good day.
Thank you Obama, you have come just in time.
“So today, I ask you to write our nation’s next great chapter. I ask you to believe – not just in my ability to bring about change, but in yours. ...You can choose hope over fear, unity over division, the promise of change over the status quo. If you give me your vote, we won’t just win this election – together, we will change this country and change the world.”
- Barack Obama, USA Today, November 4 2008
I am here in Seattle, USA and what a time to be here! I can hardly believe what is happening, even though I have imagined it, dreamt it, visioned it, been told by my inner knowing for my whole life that it would happen, still I feel I have woken up in the middle of my dream, only to find it is real after all. All I – and we – have ever imagined, visioned, felt to be true, hoped will be – is and will be, and in one night Obama with his win and his words has truly created a global energetic shift in consciousness, with everyone thinking the same thing: anything is possible!!!
All of us who have been awake and conscious of all that is going on around the world, knowing the unique potential and opportunity we have at this time to create a new world, have felt despair at times. Many have asked: will things ever shift in a positive direction on a mass, mainstream level? We have been told over and over again: not in our lifetime. I refused to believe this, and not just because of an inner knowing, but because the Earth and our old dysfunctional economic, environmental, social, political and health structures literally could not be sustained for much longer. We have been watching things collapse and crumble right before our eyes, and so it has not been a matter of whether things will shift, things are shifting, the question became, in which way will they shift? Which path will we as a people choose? The path of Destruction or Transformation? I believed the latter, I felt the latter, but I also knew it all depended on the outcome of last night’s election. After all, we as a humanity always have free will and choice, and the final decision would be made by the energy of the collective majority. What do the collective majority want? Are enough of us awake and conscious and ready for change? We dared to hope....but we couldn’t be sure....until now. Obama’s win last night answered our questions. If you have nearly given up, if you have been in any doubt, if you have let yourself slip into apathy – it is understandable. But it is time to get up! We have been given a second wind and new energy, and it’s time to get to work!
There is a wave of hope moving through the US today, and the world. Obama has instilled hope in all those who believed there was no hope left. He has given fresh energy to all those who have worked tirelessly for change for many years and were getting weary. He has shifted the global collective consciousness from fear, doubt and despair, to hope, faith and the feeling we have just entered the birth of a new world as we unite in the words: Anything Is Possible.
Yes it will take work. No it won't happen overnight. But it will happen. The people have spoken! They want change, they are ready for change, and they stood in the rain for three hours yesterday to say enough is enough! Yesterday as I watched them through the television screen, lining up in city after city, so determined to play their part in making a difference, knowing that this time it was different, knowing that the President they chose now will determine which way we go as a world over the next four years, I said thank you, and my heart was full of gratitude. Thank you to all those people, because the future of the world was quite literally in the hands of the US people yesterday. Climate change, the war in Iraq, global diplomacy and world peace, the economy, all of these issues that affect all humanity, regardless of the political party, race or country you belong to, can now be addressed in a positive way guided by an intelligent, visionary leader.
The media was on top of things this time. CNN had a voting hotline set up to call immediately if you encountered problems while trying to cast your vote. Nothing was going to stop the course of justice and the democratic process this time. Nothing will stop the will of the people this time. I wrote in my book A New Chapter that the only reason those in power have taken the world in a direction that isn’t serving us, is because on some level we let them. I wrote that it is time now to take our power back, and play our part in taking this world in a new direction, one based on unity and what is good for all, not good for some. Today we the people have taken back our power. We have said yes to playing our part in creating this new world, writing our page in our new chapter, making sure it is a fabulous new chapter, knowing your page counts! It is a good day.
Thank you Obama, you have come just in time.
“So today, I ask you to write our nation’s next great chapter. I ask you to believe – not just in my ability to bring about change, but in yours. ...You can choose hope over fear, unity over division, the promise of change over the status quo. If you give me your vote, we won’t just win this election – together, we will change this country and change the world.”
- Barack Obama, USA Today, November 4 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
October Monthly Visions - Out with the Old..Thanks for the New
October Monthly Visions
Out with the Old...Thanks for the New
If you have felt like the world is on the brink of major collapse over the last couple of weeks, watching as the economy slides down faster than a building demolition with similar chaotic aftermath, you would be right. The good news is, just like any demolition, it is happening for a good reason, there is a great divine plan guiding the fall, and the construction crew for the new world being built in its place has already been hard at work for years.
Why do we demolish buildings? Safety is often a factor. The structure and foundation of the building can no longer support or sustain itself, putting all those people living or working inside it at risk. Outdated design is another factor. The old has to fall to make way for a more modern version, one that is more eco-friendly, with greater consideration to the health and wellbeing of its occupants.
So too, this is what’s happening to our world and right now we are well and truly living with two worlds overlapping – the old and the new. Some people are still stuck in the Old, scrambling to hold on to what has always been to them solid reality, even while it comes crashing down around them. Others have undergone their share of trials and tribulations and are safely in the New, setting up communities, businesses, schools, relationships, media and other systems that are in alignment with the higher vibration our Earth is rapidly moving into. Many have one foot in one reality, and one foot in the other, and this is the hardest place of all to be. They see the New in front of them, but keep glancing back at the Old, wondering which one is truly the ‘real’ world, wondering which will offer them the shelter and support they need with both worlds making promises of safe harbour. They are drawn to the New but are scared to take the leap into it as it requires letting go of so much that is known and familiar. Others desperately want the New but can’t quite work out the logistics of how to make the leap. Yet the leap will come, it has to. The bridge between worlds is getting shaky and we can all feel that we need to make a choice, fast.
If you need helping taking the leap, here’s mainly what you need: Trust that there are engineers of the highest calibre helping you through this transition. Know you will be okay even with no evidence. Have a vision of what you want your life and world to look like and believe it is there waiting for you, even if you have no idea how it will happen. Sounds too much like living in lala land? Well of course it does. We have been led to believe that reality is reality, and our dreams are just dreams. Guess what. Our reality has been a cloudy, foggy dream, and our dreams are like beacons of light guiding the way to our true reality. The ‘awakening’ that people refer to is the awakening from the foggy dream, awakening to who we really are, awakening to a greater reality than the one we have previously known.
Triggering this awakening is Earth’s shift into a higher vibration, and just like our move from analogue to digital television we can either shift with her or get left behind. Anything built on a non-sustainable foundation, out of harmony with the higher vibrations, will no longer work. The plugs are being pulled out of the walls and there is less and less energy every day available for them on this planet. Oil and water can’t mix, and we are quickly discovering which is which. What does this mean? The economic disaster we are currently seeing is a good example. Greed and corruption have been holding up our global economy, with giant financial institutions growing at the expense of the ordinary person and their family. The collapse of these institutions will increasingly expose all that has been hidden underneath their bulging carpets, and this is ultimately a good thing. Not great is the fact that millions of people are now facing losses of their homes, jobs and often relationships and health as the domino effect spirals into all life areas.
So does this mean the divine plan forgot to account for all the people who’d end up suffering as a result of this demolition process? No. It is simply a time when we all have to re-consider and re-view that which is important to us, and what we were having to do to get what we thought we needed. Is working 16 hours a day just to pay the interest on your mortgage really the best use of your time here on Earth? Is the excessive consumerism we in the Western world are accustomed to really worth the stress it is causing emotionally, socially and environmentally? These are the kinds of questions we are going to have to start asking ourselves.
I am all for abundance, but I don’t agree with some of the ideas being sprouted among some of the supposedly conscious community that suggest we are all meant to be driving Ferrari’s and sleeping on a bed of money. Abundance, as I feel it and live it, is knowing we are always taken care of and provided for. Abundance can come in the form of money, but it also comes in the form of a helping hand when you need it, kind words, a generous gift, a wonderful relationship, great health, living a life that feels good for you.
Appreciation creates Abundance. When you look at the world with new eyes and a new perspective, you automatically shift into the higher vibrations of the new reality, regardless of the figure in your bank account. When you say thank you for whatever you do have, be it a warm bed to sleep in at night, good friends, or a view of the sunshine, you instantly shift your energy into an abundance vibration, and truly everything you need comes to you. Someone recently said to me “You may not get all you want, but you will always get all you need” and it is true.
A couple of weeks ago the indicator lights on our rental car stopped working. It turned out to be this huge electrical problem and so we had to drive the car back from Phoenix to South Dakota, completely re-routing our trip (indicator lights not working, change of direction needed, yes yes I got it). Well, as it turns out my uncle in Phoenix had a car in his garage that he hadn’t driven for a year so he has lent that to us for the rest of our trip. My friend in Canada is flying back to Australia earlier than expected so instead of missing her as we would have, had we stuck to our original route, we are on the way to visit her this coming week. Weather wise we will now be driving down the west coast in November, rather than up, going into warmer weather rather than colder. The ‘problem’ was a huge blessing in disguise. We give thanks nightly for the right guidance and this is one example where our angels stepped in to turn us in a direction more perfect for us. Now is the time when we need to remember to appreciate the little things – which are actually big things. Love. Family. Connection. Helping out your neighbours and friends. Thank you are two of the most powerful words in the universe for helping you through these times, out of the old and into the new.
(c) Dana Mrkich 2008
Visioning the Dream Awake
http://www.danamrkich.com/
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Out with the Old...Thanks for the New
If you have felt like the world is on the brink of major collapse over the last couple of weeks, watching as the economy slides down faster than a building demolition with similar chaotic aftermath, you would be right. The good news is, just like any demolition, it is happening for a good reason, there is a great divine plan guiding the fall, and the construction crew for the new world being built in its place has already been hard at work for years.
Why do we demolish buildings? Safety is often a factor. The structure and foundation of the building can no longer support or sustain itself, putting all those people living or working inside it at risk. Outdated design is another factor. The old has to fall to make way for a more modern version, one that is more eco-friendly, with greater consideration to the health and wellbeing of its occupants.
So too, this is what’s happening to our world and right now we are well and truly living with two worlds overlapping – the old and the new. Some people are still stuck in the Old, scrambling to hold on to what has always been to them solid reality, even while it comes crashing down around them. Others have undergone their share of trials and tribulations and are safely in the New, setting up communities, businesses, schools, relationships, media and other systems that are in alignment with the higher vibration our Earth is rapidly moving into. Many have one foot in one reality, and one foot in the other, and this is the hardest place of all to be. They see the New in front of them, but keep glancing back at the Old, wondering which one is truly the ‘real’ world, wondering which will offer them the shelter and support they need with both worlds making promises of safe harbour. They are drawn to the New but are scared to take the leap into it as it requires letting go of so much that is known and familiar. Others desperately want the New but can’t quite work out the logistics of how to make the leap. Yet the leap will come, it has to. The bridge between worlds is getting shaky and we can all feel that we need to make a choice, fast.
If you need helping taking the leap, here’s mainly what you need: Trust that there are engineers of the highest calibre helping you through this transition. Know you will be okay even with no evidence. Have a vision of what you want your life and world to look like and believe it is there waiting for you, even if you have no idea how it will happen. Sounds too much like living in lala land? Well of course it does. We have been led to believe that reality is reality, and our dreams are just dreams. Guess what. Our reality has been a cloudy, foggy dream, and our dreams are like beacons of light guiding the way to our true reality. The ‘awakening’ that people refer to is the awakening from the foggy dream, awakening to who we really are, awakening to a greater reality than the one we have previously known.
Triggering this awakening is Earth’s shift into a higher vibration, and just like our move from analogue to digital television we can either shift with her or get left behind. Anything built on a non-sustainable foundation, out of harmony with the higher vibrations, will no longer work. The plugs are being pulled out of the walls and there is less and less energy every day available for them on this planet. Oil and water can’t mix, and we are quickly discovering which is which. What does this mean? The economic disaster we are currently seeing is a good example. Greed and corruption have been holding up our global economy, with giant financial institutions growing at the expense of the ordinary person and their family. The collapse of these institutions will increasingly expose all that has been hidden underneath their bulging carpets, and this is ultimately a good thing. Not great is the fact that millions of people are now facing losses of their homes, jobs and often relationships and health as the domino effect spirals into all life areas.
So does this mean the divine plan forgot to account for all the people who’d end up suffering as a result of this demolition process? No. It is simply a time when we all have to re-consider and re-view that which is important to us, and what we were having to do to get what we thought we needed. Is working 16 hours a day just to pay the interest on your mortgage really the best use of your time here on Earth? Is the excessive consumerism we in the Western world are accustomed to really worth the stress it is causing emotionally, socially and environmentally? These are the kinds of questions we are going to have to start asking ourselves.
I am all for abundance, but I don’t agree with some of the ideas being sprouted among some of the supposedly conscious community that suggest we are all meant to be driving Ferrari’s and sleeping on a bed of money. Abundance, as I feel it and live it, is knowing we are always taken care of and provided for. Abundance can come in the form of money, but it also comes in the form of a helping hand when you need it, kind words, a generous gift, a wonderful relationship, great health, living a life that feels good for you.
Appreciation creates Abundance. When you look at the world with new eyes and a new perspective, you automatically shift into the higher vibrations of the new reality, regardless of the figure in your bank account. When you say thank you for whatever you do have, be it a warm bed to sleep in at night, good friends, or a view of the sunshine, you instantly shift your energy into an abundance vibration, and truly everything you need comes to you. Someone recently said to me “You may not get all you want, but you will always get all you need” and it is true.
A couple of weeks ago the indicator lights on our rental car stopped working. It turned out to be this huge electrical problem and so we had to drive the car back from Phoenix to South Dakota, completely re-routing our trip (indicator lights not working, change of direction needed, yes yes I got it). Well, as it turns out my uncle in Phoenix had a car in his garage that he hadn’t driven for a year so he has lent that to us for the rest of our trip. My friend in Canada is flying back to Australia earlier than expected so instead of missing her as we would have, had we stuck to our original route, we are on the way to visit her this coming week. Weather wise we will now be driving down the west coast in November, rather than up, going into warmer weather rather than colder. The ‘problem’ was a huge blessing in disguise. We give thanks nightly for the right guidance and this is one example where our angels stepped in to turn us in a direction more perfect for us. Now is the time when we need to remember to appreciate the little things – which are actually big things. Love. Family. Connection. Helping out your neighbours and friends. Thank you are two of the most powerful words in the universe for helping you through these times, out of the old and into the new.
(c) Dana Mrkich 2008
Visioning the Dream Awake
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