Live Independence in a BIG way

July 6, 2009 in Healthy Living, Ramblings and Wisdom, Spirit Speaks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Today on the radio show, 1150AM, KKNW 8-9AM 1st Monday of the month, I took callers for the first on the show.  It was wonderful to hear from viewers who really want to embrace their independence of the outside influences in their lives.

I understand that it is not easy to shut the outside out, it is constantly in our faces screaming for our attention, it takes diligence to keep yourself on your track and not on everyone else’s.

What works for me is to;

Shut off the news or even TV all together.

Read books take inspire and uplift you.

If you have friends that are constantly trying to bring you down, maybe it is time to find new friends!

Let family members that do not believe your way have their thoughts and you keep yours.

Let family members know that you are no listening to the news or the doom and gloom and ask them to keep any negativity to themselves

Make choices that support you and uplift you. In every moment.

Be willing to make changes that are uncomfortable but in  the long run are beneficial.

Start with this moment right NOW.  Make a choice.

You are probably saying “easy for you”  but I too had to stat somewhere, I have just been doing this longer.  This is not easy work but it is the most important work you will ever do on your own behalf.  How important do you think you are in your life, if not you then who?  If you do not put you first in your life no one else will!  Take a stand, make a choice, live in passion for YOU!  You are worth the effort and your life is worth the effort, be willing to live a life of magic.

Be the role model for your children, your community, your country and the world.  The more of usthat are willing to shift our perspectives and live lives of our own choosing, the more we gicve others permission to do the same.

Take the challenge and live your Truth!

Experiment and have fun.

Women of Wisdom Virtual Book Tour!

June 22, 2009 in Classes and Courses, Ramblings and Wisdom, Spirit Speaks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 1 comment

Dear friends,

I want to let you know of a wonderful insightful book that I know you will want to own and revisit time and time again.  This book is a resource of wonderful stories by incredible Women of Wisdom.  I highly recommend it!

Every person who purchases a book on June 23rd will have the benefit of choosing as many  special gifts as you like from a wide variety of truly gifted healers, teachers, film makers, musicians and artists, I want each and ever one of them.

You will also find an offering there from Lilian Mavridara and myself, the Mini-Shift workshop.  A 3 and a half hour workshop that helps you to get clearer on what it is you really want to be doing with your life and identify a key pattern that is holding you back from realizing it in your life NOW!

Whichever gifts you choose I know you will enjoy them as well as the book “Women of Wisdom”.  Let’s make this virtual book tour a huge success.

Here is the tour and book information:

Women of Wisdom by Kris Steinnes, is being offered beginning on June 23rd, 2009 at 12:01 am. I invite you to go to this page – www.wisewomanpublishing.com/womenofwisdom.html – to access the order page and then go back to this page to access the bonus page. On the Exclusive Private Invite page, enter your order confirmation code. That will allow you to gain entry to the bonus gifts that are available to people who buy the book on June 23rd.

Women of Wisdom: Empowering the Dreams and Spirit of Women

2008 Award winning finalist for Best New Non-Fiction from USA Book News

2009 Bronze award winner for Body-Mind-Spirit from Independent Publishers.

This is a unique book with inspiring stories, art and poetry combined with strong voices of best selling women authors and leaders in their fields. Throughout the book they share thought provoking ideas that explore the hidden potentials and gifts that reside in the depths of the feminine spirit. Women who are seeking for meaning in their lives will find this book a powerful tool to guide and inspire them.
For seventeen years women have been attending the Women of Wisdom gatherings to uncover and celebrate the power of feminine spirit. In this compilation of spiritual, academic, and artistic contributions from professionals and lay people, poetry mixes with history, visual art with the inner spirit, and the intellect with soulful longing, creating an inspiring kaleidoscope of feminine reverence. This book offers practical and moving guidance that speaks to the divine within us all.
Key aspects of the book:
• Thought provoking essays from some of the greatest women thinkers and writers of our time from the Women of Wisdom Conference.
• Exercises to explore the topics in each chapter gives the reader an experience of their own personal journey towards self-awareness.
• Personal stories sharing life changes from their WOW experience
• Women of Wisdom’s story and development of key aspects of the conference – art, music, ritual theater, and circle leadership.
• The reader is taken on a journey through the conference with empowering presentations, workshops, ceremonies, art, poetry, stories, and circles.
• Art and poetry displayed throughout the book add a visual element that moves the reader to experience the creative feminine. Many of the poems are songs from well-known musicians from the women’s music movement such as Holly Near, Rhiannon, Cris Williamson, Ferron and Libby Roderick.
• Diversity of more than sixty contributors sharing their experience of the power of the feminine voice.

The ten key women presenters discuss many current problems facing women and our society today and offer words of hope and wisdom to help women tackle these problems that relate to their personal life.

I know that this will be a fun and interesting virtual tour, if you have not yet ordered your copy of Women of Wisdom, be sure to order it tomorrow and receive your choice of fantastic gifts! Thanks for letting me share it with you!

Light

Lorayne

Discovering JOY

May 16, 2009 in Ramblings and Wisdom, Spirit Speaks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

This month I have been talking about Joy, how Joy shows up in your life.  How are you using Joy to move you out of pain, frustration and sadness? Let’s look at ways you have shared with me the simple ways you have played with JOY.

Rena in Bothell, WA  “I have been struggling with changes in my family.  My father was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer and I have been finding it difficult to feel happy or joy, all I feel is sad. This news is not what we expected.  My mother is having a particularly difficult time.  I heard you on the radio talking about joy and decided to give it a try.  I wanted to feel joy bubbling up inside of me, it took me a while, I really wanted to feel better and change how I was looking at the situation.  After a minute or two of focusing on times in my family when we were all together and happy, I really did feel better.  I am going to get my family talking about the good times and see if that does not help.  Thank you.”

Rena, I know what you are going through, my mother was recently diagnosed with uterine cancer and when I heard the news I felt like I had been kicked in the stomach.
I recently sat with my mother during her recovery from surgery and looked through old photographs of times when both my mother and I were children it was really fun to take that walk down memory lane.  I know that I always say live in the now, but sometimes it is valuable to remember those really happy times so that you can remember the feelings. Taking that walk down memory lane was a very special time and one that I know lifted our spirits.

Karen in Seattle “I was recently laid off from work and this is a scary time.  I have three children and all of us have become accustomed to living on two incomes.  It is really hard to feel joy when everything around me says it is all falling apart.”

Karen, I hear what you are saying and I tell you, this is the most important time to feel joy!  Have you ever heard the statement “What you focus on you get?”  Well it is true, I know many of us have had times when we are really sad or upset or scared, everything around us seems to be falling apart and then it just keeps on snowballing.  So, how do you feel joy in the midst of chaos?  Change your focus, look at what you do have, a healthy family, a loving husband, beautiful things to surround you, friends.  The trick is to focus on what you are grateful for, the more you focus on gratitude the more you will move out of fear and into joy!

Sometimes we are given challenges in life to help us focus on what is really important, the simple joys of being with those you love and sharing a smile, a cup of tea and remembering the love.

The joys in life are most often those simple little unexpected moments when you can let the worries of the day wash off of you and be present in your life.

Let us all allow space for more joy in our lives!

When is it Time?

May 11, 2009 in Classes and Courses, Ramblings and Wisdom | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

I have been thinking lately that there are a lot of us that for some reason or other, hold back, relinquish our power and literally hand it over to others.

Now I do not mean that we consciously say “Hey, take my power, make me feel small and insignificant” I mean that out of our beliefs that we have about ourselves and our right to choose, we hold back, make no choice (which by the not doing, is a choice), sit and let others tell us what we should or should not do.

When is it enough?  When things come to the for-front of your mind, that is the time.  That is when you have the ability to choose. To no longer be controlled by the unseen voices that say “you are not good enough, who do you think you are, what right do you have” YOU have every right.  This is your life, not another single person on this planet of 6 billion people is uniquely you.  YOU are the only one that has your gifts, talents or viewpoint that maybe, just maybe is exactly what the planet needs right now.

When you have the conscious awareness that “this is not who I am” That is your que to really stop and take stock of how you are living your life.

So, I ask you, when is it your time to show up in your life and play your game?  When is it your time to grow up and be all that your heart wants you to be? When will you put you first and make time for YOU to discover YOU in a whole new way?  When will you create the life You were always meant to LIVE?

Check out my courses and workshops that facilitate you discovering YOU!  www.in-lighten.net

Are you Living Your Life?

April 21, 2009 in Ramblings and Wisdom | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Many of us focus on the end results of our life and not on what is happening right now in this moment,  I wondered what it was that kept us focusing on the future with little or no thought or focus on today.  Really, you do not know what the future holds for you and even if you did you would have no control over it anyway.  The only thing you have control over is you in this moment, so why waste the opportunity?  Being a control freak myself, I like to have control or at least the illusion of control, so if I know that right now in this moment I can truly have control over my life, then I say let me at it!  I have control over what I think, what I say, how I feel and what I do about it, What Power, I am giddy with it.  Right now in this moment I choose to live my life to the fullest and really enjoy the control I do have and give up that illusion of control over anything else in my life.  In fact, I no longer want to have control over those things I really never had control over, way too much work.  I choose to enjoy the freedom that comes with letting go.  I choose to live my life to the fullest, in this moment.  I wish you the same!

Heart Felt

April 16, 2009 in Ramblings and Wisdom, Spirit Speaks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

I love the words, Heart Felt, it means feeling deeply.  My heart felt desire is that we can all feel what is in our hearts all of the time.

To know what you are feeling at any given moment and really feel it.

I have many clients who have a heart felt longing to know who they are and what it is they are here to do.  We are given longing or desire to know, as a means to move us forward.

People are waking up in droves right now and they are all seeking to find what they are meant to do what is in their hearts.

I think we are meant to find ourselves and the truth of who we are, the truth that we are all one, that we are all spirit experiencing the subtle and not so subtle nuances that life has to offer, to revel, to rejoice, to wallow, to celebrate, to cry, to really experience every moment to their depths.  Once we have done that we can come from choice and decide if that felt good and if we want to do more of it.  If not, make the choice to see if from a different perspective and rise above it, make the choice to not react to it, to not do it again, not give it power.

Be that master of your life and celebrate you in it.  Come from your heart. Be the joy or not… it has always been your choice!

Do you sit in the Director’s chair?

April 14, 2009 in Ramblings and Wisdom | Comments closed

Perspective is fun! Play with it.  Make a choice to see what happeens when you play with perspective.  Let’s practice; Practice feeling pure joy, I mean deep in your gut, bubbling over with pure unabashed joy. Now, check how things around you are responding to your joy. Life will take on a whole new perspective. This is what creating your life is all about. Do you want to be the one directing the play, the one in the DIRECTOR”S chair, or do you want to hand over the direction to someone else? Neither decision is wrong, it is all a matter of perspective. Play with perspective and see what shows up in your life!.

Happy playing!

Little Joys

April 14, 2009 in Ramblings and Wisdom | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Today as I was working, I received a call from an dear friend of the family.  She was a close friend to my grandmother.  Hearing her voice and the sadness that still lingers there for the loss of my grandmother (it has been 3 years) but for this lovely women it as if it were yesterday, I realized that for her time has stopped.  It made me think about how precious our time is with people we love and know.  How our time here in this lifetime really is just a flash in the cosmic time.  I want to make change, make a difference, to effect global reawakening, and yet…..Am I really taking the moments with people that I meet on the street, at my door, in my daily life, in my business or even my close personal friends and family, am I taking the time I need to get to know who they are, what makes them live in the reality they do?  Am I taking the time to discover the precious moments the precious gifts that they have to offer me and am I offering them my gifts.  Am I helping to raise them up to the light?

All of these precious moments are the little joys that truly give our life meaning.

Find some joy today!

Light it up!

What thoughts are thinking you – NOW!

April 13, 2009 in Healthy Living, Ramblings and Wisdom, Spirit Speaks | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Are you thinking your thoughts or Are your thoughts thinking you?  A question you may want to be asking yourself any time that little pesky voice rears up and starts telling the truth, as it sees it, not the Truth you know.

Taking stock of your thoughts is a good way to know what is going on in your life; are you thinking..I do not have enough time,  I am always late, I am too fat,  too thin, too.. too…too!  Here is a good one, I do not know what I want or I am so stupid!  Listen to the words you say (or the voice says) to yourself.  They are very telling.

Are you fed up with giving your attention to the little voice?  Are you ready to take back control of your thoughts and take back control of your life?

Be the MASTER of your own Universe, start with your thoughts.

Have a positivity day.

Deserve it

April 11, 2009 in Classes and Courses | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Ever wonder why some people seem to just breeze through life with seeing not a care in the world, why some people have all the luck?
Well…. I can tell you it is all a matter of perspective.

What you see as a limitation, block barrier to you having your good, does not even exist in their world.  The energy they are projecting out into the world is “I deserve all the best that life has to offer” and that is exactly what they get.  They do not even understand why some people do not get what they want because their perspective says “I deserve”.
Due to genetics, patterning, self talk… all of the things that are running around in our thoughts and beliefs that tell us we do not deserve are the very things that we need to remove so that we can say “I deserve” and mean it.

This is the work I do every day with my clients because we all DESERVE.

The fact that so many people are running around with the confusion of how to move beyond these patterns is exactly why I created “SHIFT”

“SHIFT” is a 6 week course that really helps the attendees look at what it is they want and exactly what is getting in the way of achieving it in their lives.

Currently I have two new courses starting May 13th at 6:30 pm and May 17th at 9:30 am.

Check out my website at www.in-lighten.net for more information.

I hope you have a  positivity day!