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A Miracle - Text from Great-Great-Great Grandma!Three years ago, my dead great-great-grandmother sent me a text message. Let me tell you the story… Back in January of 2010, I was resting at home after a whirlwind trip teaching and leading workshops. I was finally home and grounding out, ready for some do-nothing time. That's when I received a text message on my phone, from my DAD's phone. It said: "You is da one we love." What a strange text to get from my dad! I wrote back, feeling a little weirded out, saying "Hi Dad, I love you too." But he didn't respond. I called him. No answer. I felt funny about it. The next day, I got a second text: "Do you know who dis is?" When I saw this second text, I felt shivers run all over my body. I suddenly could sense who was texting me. This was my great great great grandmother, Berta Potter. She was the mother of William J Creque, my Caribbean great-grandfather. They lived on a small island in the British Virgin Islands called Anegada. I doubted myself. I called around, and confirmed that my Dad was in Mexico, WITHOUT HIS PHONE. He had left his phone, turned off, on his desk in San Diego. He was nowhere near his phone. And no one else had access to it either. Now, I'm psychic and all, but the fact that my ancestor was TEXTING me was pretty amazing and kinda creepy - even for ME! Shaking, and feeling FULL of inspiration, I went to my laptop, and opened my fingers for her to type. I do this "automatic writing" sometimes as a way to channel messages straight through.
When I wrote for her, my Grandma Berta asked me to come back to Anegada. She said that it was time for me to "harvest" the power that is there for me - a power that comes through my ancestry. I told her I accepted, and would come. I planted a seed then to return to Anegada as my grandmother suggested. But those were intense times for me, and the timing was not right then. Through these last 3 years, I have stayed open to receiving a clear RESONANT YES opportunity to go back to Anegada. In the past two months, my two remaining grandparents from the other side of my family passed away. Three days ago, I eulogized my Grandma Lue, my last remaining grandparent. I thanked her for instilling in our family a culture of playful creativity, affectionate love, and joyful service. I could feel a shift in our family and in my own self. Suddenly, I can feel that I have moved up a generation. Now I'M the mom, and my mom is the grandma. I felt a calling to step into my own leadership even more. Yesterday, a dear friend called me to invite me to step in to fill a vacated spot on a trip in the Caribbean. The first destination on this pre-planned trip was… you got it… the tiny and rarely-visited island of ANEGADA. Of course I knew this was a gift and a major sign. I booked the tickets immediately, and committed to going. Boom. Just like that. I'm packing after I write this for you! What an unexpected miracle! How could it be that I had the time in my schedule to jump on this? More miracles. An engagement in the Bay Area was canceled, and my clients were set up for the following week. An unexpected infusion of funds gave me the resources I needed to make it happen. At the right time, and with the RESONANT YES, all the details fell into place. Now, I am celebrating with joyful gratitude, and saying YES to the whole procession. I'm doing this, because I KNOW that my GRATITUDE and celebration are what keeps this kind of flow moving in my life. So, NOW - I invite you to plant your own seed in this Springtime, and KNOW it will sprout. In my case, the prophesy took 3 years to come to fruition. But my confidence and openness to receive, along with the generosity and connection of my dear friends, have made it all possible. Enjoy your own miracles - small and large. And know that the more you CELEBRATE them, the more will come to you!
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Passion and Purpose
What is your passion?
Is it scary to ask yourself this question? Do you fear the answer? Does the answer fail to fit your current lifestyle choices?
What is your passion?
When I ask, does your brain immediately kick in with reasons not to listen to the answer? Reasons to discredit your first impulse, your fantasy, your dream?
What is your passion? When I ask, does your inner child perk up his or her ears, curious to see if the adult-in-charge (that's you) is brave enough to reveal the answer to the world without withholds, without compromise, and without expectation?
It might be less scary to answer the questions the world is constantly asking, like "What do you want?" or "What's your plan?" I imagine your brain has the answers to these ready at-hand.
What does it feel like to sink into your Wanting - the Raw Energy of Wanting - using the stories of what you want simply to fuel the flames of passion. What is it like to build this passionate desire, without believing the stories and conditions your mind has about what it needs or wants to satisfy this longing and desire? What if the feeling of this desire is already its own answer?
Passion is the raw juice that fuels Purpose. It is the motivation for Devotion. It is our Creative Force and Strength.
When we can manage to embrace and ride our raging Passion while allowing the Spirit to guide through Intuition, and the Mind to choose wisely, we have found our Path and our Purpose.
Lots of people who come to me for a session report that they feel disconnected from their Passion, and they feel without Direction or Purpose. I notice that when they give themselves permission to feel their Passion, wild and unreasonable, like a fire in the belly, the clouds begin to clear. The Path begins to form - just the first step, and then the next. The Way opens. If you have a trained mind, and an open connection with Spirit, but the Way is not yet clear, you might try basking in the flames of your Passion, and watch the Path emerge. (c) Mellissa Seaman 2013 *** Want some help clearing the BLOCKS to feeling your passion, or clearing the SELF-SABOTAGE that prevents your passion from blossoming into motivation and ACTION? That's my specialty. Schedule your Shamanic Clearing Session with me now. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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From EMOTIONAL MUCK to INSPIRED CONFIDENCEIt's time to make your SEETHING EMOTIONS fuel your confidence, not your craziness!
Many folks are feeling emotionally turbulent, with the old muck at the bottom of the pond being stirred up fervently. That pond muck doesn't smell very pleasing. But it sure is full of composting fertilizer for your creative expression in the world.
The challenge at this time is to actually step out of the murky pond of emotions, carry the muck into the light, and churn it into your creative projects without procrastinating, escaping, or just lazing around.
What's your muck? It may be coming through your dreams...
By pond muck, I mean those old emotions you didn't have time or energy to feel when they were triggered in the past. Well, with the stars and cycles aligned as they are, you are either FEELING them or at least DREAMING them. Yes, the dreams right now are intense. Whether you remember your dreams or not, you may be waking up more tired than rested.
Here are the THREE BEST WAYS to harvest the muck, and then I'll show you how to let it fertilize your creativity... 1.Meditate (don't roll your eyes...you know, just sitting quietly and breathing totally counts) to give time for the pond muck to rise while you are conscious, and able to breathe through the feelings so they can move;
2. Go to bed earlier, sleep longer - to give yourself to dream AND rest. Yep, that dream thing does take extra energy when you're processing emotions from the past. You noticed, but you are so stingy with your sleep! Give more time to dream, and you'll have an easier time when awake.
3. Cry if you feel like it - Growl if you feel like it - Throw a fit if you feel like it - just don't try to make sense of any of it because it's old material. Express it with open jaw, open breath, and it will move. Remember, artists often appear nuts. That's cause they're not stifling their emotional expression. And neither should you!
How to apply aforementioned fertilizing muck to your creative projects...Don't believe your thoughts when you're feeling blue. Instead, breathe through and express (as mentioned above) and then get artsy in your own way. Dance, move, draw, write - doodling counts. And then get quiet again, and let inspiration flow. The emergent inspiration is the sign that your fertilizer is working - sprouting clarity, new ideas, and the palpable feeling of connection to inspiration.
Another way to look at it - You are cultivating a FEMININE form of CONFIDENCE. This is the sensual experience of confidence that leaves you KNOWING you are an ARTISAN of LIFE. Read this article to get a deeper understanding of Feminine Confidence, how it is different from Masculine Confidence, and how to cultivate it...
New Moon Ritual to Manifest your BUSINESS
Want to take full advantage of New Moon energies to create your successful, inspiring, fulfilling business in this world?
Here's an idea for a ritual to do just that. The 20-Minute Business Plan Ritual 1. Pretend you are in 8th grade. This is important. I don't want you holding yourself to a grown-ups professional standards. Got it? Okay. 2. You have a pop-quiz essay to write. You have 20 minutes to write a business plan for changing the world using your own special gifts. 3. Set the timer for 20 minutes. Don't plan it out beforehand. 4. Write your essay, following these headings: "My gifts - What I'm good at", "My fantasy day at work", and "Here's what happens to the people I help" Write for 20 minutes, and just make sure you get something under each header. Fortunately, this does NOT have to make any sense or inspire potential investors. It just opens your creative channel and tunes you towards manifesting a dream life. 5. Now that it's over, don't fix it. Whatever you wrote is fine. You can, however, get extra credit for drawing pictures to go along with it, preferably in crayon. 6. If you email me a picture of it, I will give you a FREE 20-minute phone mini-session where I'll advise you as to how to make your dreams come true. Yep, that's right. Since you read to the bottom, you get a special treat if you follow through. Don't you feel great about being a good student? This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and I'll contact you to set up your session!
Community vs. Business: What's the difference?by Mellissa Seaman Intro: This article was written in 2011, when I was fully involved as an active member of two intentional communities that also had strong business components (Harbin Hot Springs and Avalon Springs). I was honored to attend an international gathering of retreat center leaders from around the world. All retreat centers share both a community aspect and a business aspect. Balancing the two is an ongoing challenge, as it is in any profit-making endeavor... *** I was shocked, but a deep validating calm seeped into my bones as I found my face nodding in affirmation. “It’s pervasive,” I thought, “it’s not just us.” As I looked around the circle, I saw heads nodding with the same flush of recognition in the faces of leaders from 15 other community-based holistic retreat centers including Harbin, Esalen, Spirit Rock, Mount Madonna, Findhorn, Kalani Honua, and Breitenbush Hot Springs. Leaders of Breitenbush Retreat Center had just shared that despite their fully democratic, accessible, and inclusive decision-making structure, one of the biggest cultural issues was an “Us vs. Them” mentality among the community members toward management. And those who complained the most about their feelings of powerlessness in the process were those LEAST likely to share specific ideas, to participate in the many open meetings, or to step up for a turn in a leadership position in this worker-owned cooperative. “They say it’s ‘Us vs. Them,’” explains one of Breitenbush’s leaders for over 20 years, “when actually it’s ‘Us vs. Us!’” This statement was followed by nervous giggles and then silence in the room. Community Vs Business. Us vs. Them. Management Vs. Residents. This dichotomy is played out in the exploration of decision-making processes in many community-based retreat centers. From Findhorn’s full-consensus model to Breitenbush Hot Springs’ representative democracy to Esalen’s conscious hierarchical model to others who have an either spoken (or often un-spoken) Guru/Founder-has-veto-power rule, it seems that all systems have one thing in common. No matter how the decisions are being made, the decision-making structure is often attacked for serving private interests OR for being ineffectual – or both. What is it that draws us to the “intentional community plus retreat center” lifestyle? We come to live the dream. We come for community. We come to live connected, respected, and in harmony. And yet, we long for the same sense of purpose, of right relationship, of security and respect that we strive for in the greater culture, and in the realm of business. We are looking for the balance of Community and Business. And we expect to find the perfect balance within retreat centers devoted to consciousness, relationship, and human potential. Should retreat centers and intentional communities be expected to solve this deep personal and cultural divide? Or are we really just responsible for bringing it into consciousness - tracing it back into the personal and cultural belief structure that Community and Business are irreconcilable to one another? My realization, and the topic we spent much of the rest of the afternoon discussing at the Holistic Centers Gathering hosted by Harbin Hot Springs on that beautiful day in May was: Community vs. Business… this is just an outward projection of the argument that continues to plague us as individuals and a society at a far deeper and more personal (and invisible) level. We learned that no matter how great your decision-making system is, this underlying friction will create tension, conflict, and occasionally painful splits even in the most “conscious” community. And the only “cure” is open conversation – not to solve the problem – but to release the charge, to engage awareness, and to empower collaborative wisdom. Is there really a dichotomy between Business and Community? I have been thinking a lot about it since helping to vision, found, and create structures for Avalon Springs (a developing community-based eco-resort down the road from Harbin). And as a Stanford educated lawyer-turned-shamanic healer (no I’m not kidding), I have a business foundation as a spiritual person that gives me a different perspective about value-based community. As a businesswoman, I value letting the most talented leaders lead, and the most talented gardeners garden, the most talented teachers teach. I am shocked by the common “community-minded” view that everyone should take a turn at management or leadership, when not everyone is suited for that role or even wants it! I imagine that this view is founded on an underlying assumption that leaders are “worth” more than the talented gardener or home-maker. I see this as an insidious piece of outdated old paradigm worldview that has infiltrated the “community” mindset. Why not value the talent and gifts of each person according to how much they can actually contribute to the whole, and not based on old ideas that management is harder/more valuable? Why not let the natural leaders lead? Why is leadership seen as a reward given to those with seniority, even if it is not their forte’? Where are the young natural leaders with the new fresh ideas? From what I’ve seen visiting and living in communities, we are a bit behind in holding plans, structures, and ways to “get-er done.” Show me a community that doesn’t have at least one unfinished eye-sore project sitting around because no one is stepping up to make it happen. So why aren’t we communities utilizing the best that the business world has to offer? We hesitate to even speak in business terms for fear of being seen as “corporate.” Honestly, every time I say the word “Business” out loud, I feel many of my community-minded friends flinch! Is the flinch coming from wisdom or is it the relic of long-held wounds? We’re missing out. Business models have roles and structures that help to get stuff done, and modern businesses support this with lots of collaborative processes and open input systems. This is the direction that mainstream businesses are moving in (though the movement is slower than some of us would like). For example, Open Space Technology and World Café are collaborative work-space models that are becoming more and more valued for their help in creating collaborative creative space that moves businesses forward both in the “get-er-done” sense and also in creating a positive creative culture that supports humans as the key resource of every business or any organization. The business world is realizing that community, collaboration, and honoring all workers as human beings is the only way to be successful. So, I’ll ask again: why do we “community” people poo-poo the tools the business world has to offer? Have we become our own version of the arrogant clique that we came here to avoid or transcend? Are we unconsciously in some sort of competition with the Business World to show them that we can change the world through existential means, and we’ll do it better than them with their logic, their expertise, and their money? I feel strongly that “Business” and “Community,” when done right, are the SAME - a collaborative group of individuals who share a common purpose (mission statement), offer something of value to the world (product/offering), and have structures that support right relationship, equal exchange and respect, and an underlying intentional culture that creates a beneficial lifestyle for participants and the greater community. But right now, it seems the folks who like the structure and money part tend toward “business,” and the folks who value the social cultural aspects tend toward “community,” and both sides are left incomplete and unwittingly lonely for the other. It is as if we had a painful divorce years ago, and we don’t even remember that we could be in love. *** Postscript: When I am deep in shamanic journey, working for a client, looking at her blocks to be released, NONE of them are labeled "blocks to business" and "blocks to relationship." Blocks to connecting, to receiving, to manifestation - these affect ALL connections in our lives equally. Relationships, connecting, creating... this is the BUSINESS of LIFE. If you'd like to free yourself from the BLOCKS to making this easy, I can help in just ONE session. Click here NOW and set yourself FREE from the blocks that hold you back in all areas of your life. *** (c) 2011 Mellissa Seaman Share with link-back to this page. :)
The POWER of the Resonant Yes!How to ALWAYS make the RIGHT CHOICEby Mellissa Seaman
When it’s hard to choose, it’s just not time to choose yet. Here’s a way to make sure you ALWAYS make the right choice. It’s called the RESONANT YES.
You know how sometimes, your feeling of YES is so huge, so clear, and so obvious that you realize you never even made a “choice?” You are walking in a new direction, confident, aware, awake, and overjoyed, knowing you will succeed. It’s great when it happens spontaneously, but how does it work? Imagine that you are not just one person. You are more like a council of selves. (You already know this, right?) Your personality has a lot of different aspects, and they aren’t always easy to map, define, or hear. But they are in there. I’d like to propose a map to play with, just to help navigate the process of discerning internally which parts want what. Let’s use the map of the body and it’s energy centers or chakras. Let's imagine there is a different version of you at each energy center. Here we go:
When ALL of these SELVES agree on a choice, you might experience each of these energy centers LIGHTING UP together. You might feel a RIVER OF ENERGY move up your body, creating enthusiasm, hope, and delight. Your perspective may suddenly feel clear, undeniable, and incredibly motivating. You literally LIGHT UP. This, my friends, is the RESONANT YES. But it does not stop here. When a person is LIT UP with the RESONANT YES, they seem to become SuperHuman. Whatever they turn that light towards, is likely to SUCCEED. You have seen this happen, both with yourself and with others. When it does, you are amazed at the power and luck that surges through your life. You wonder how you came upon this level of support and serendipity.
When we LIGHT UP with all of our energy centers in a full YES state, we literally become power plants, generating energy, enthusiasm, and joy that is palpable to those around us. The RESONANT YES fuels the BEST businesses, organizations, relationships, and projects. This RESONANT YES power is the most sought-after stuff on earth. It is what we are looking for when we go to church, when we fall in love, when we join a community or movement to make things better. It's what we want MOST. It is not a response to outer circumstance or the environment. It is an inner response to the right alignment of a choice. For me, becoming SuperHuman is how we become MASTERS of the RESONANT YES.
Here are 8 steps to WELCOME the RESONANT YES:
The RESONANT YES is your birthright. But fear-based cultural and even professional training can rob you of your intuitive power and the resultant MAGIC in creating your own life. Time to re-claim your ability to KNOW what is RIGHT for you FULLY. Time to feel PASSIONATE and CLEAR about what is right for you, leading you to SUCCESS. You are invited to cultivate, embrace, and celebrate your own RESONANT YES!
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