greetings beautiful people!!

Hello!

Phew! I'm back! So sorry it's been so long since I've been here to visit with all of you and share in this community. I've been off on other adventures… transformative adventures that are truly bringing about glorious change in my life. As Abe says, contrast helps us focus our desire. And that's truly what's been happening with me. As Abe says, we do not have to have extremes in contrast in order to focus our desires, to create and manifest our dreams, but it is true oftentimes that the more powerful the contrast, the more powerful a desire is created, and the more specifically the  desire is focused. AND, the more powerful the manifestation expands in our “vibrational escrow.” Well, I've made it thru some big contrast, and now, looking back, I can see that it truly HAS helped me to focus my desire in a way like never before. I have a new direction, a new plan … that has not necessarily strayed from where I was all along, but it's given me a more definite knowing of the path I now desire to take. And I'm on that path, baby!

I hope my absence hasn't made you lose your connection to being here at least now and then, to share your thoughts.

Namaste to all of you!

:)
P

Re: greetings beautiful people!!

Pieter - welcome back–

Glad to hear all is well with you.

Keep flowing that energy!!! We can all feel ya, dude!!

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Appreciating the positive aspects just keeps lifting us higher and higher. I have found that I can find the positive aspects of every situation, and find myself happy, childlike and high as a kite more and more of the time. It’s as much fun as it was when i was chasing butterflies and marveling at the magic of the world at the age of 2…I think we weren’t supposed to ever lose that sense of wonder and fun and freedom.

We all have our moments of contrast but I’m getting the knack of using each contrasting moment as a springboard and jumping headlong into the essence of what I do want…my visualizations and virtual realities are more vivid than ever (hey that;’s a lot of v-action, there, very very LOA) and every time I pause to appreciate beauty or love, I find it juices me up each time i return to the thought. These thoughts become more and more powerful the more you think them, and you feel freer and clearer and more powerful. I love it!

I’m also high cause it’s Friday and the weekends beckons. I am attending Pridefest in Lake Worth Florida tomorrow, and will also attend the Lauderdale Pridefest in a couple of weeks. I know I will meet some goodlooking dudes there, maybe almost as hot as you, dude!!

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Keep appreciating the beauty all around you!
Peace/love/happiness
-Chris

Re: greetings beautiful people!!

Hey there, Chris! Thanks for your great and inspiring note! Very fun to read … and I love all the V's!! The pridefests you're going to sound like tons of fun. Fantastic!

And here it is Friday again… I hope to go skiing again this weekend. One of my latest favorite past times.

Have a wonderful weekend.

With love,
Pieter

Re: greetings beautiful people!!

Why not tell us more about your journey?

T

Re: greetings beautiful people!!

Hi Tom - Thanks for your note and your interest in my journey. Well, I'll try not to make this too long,… but I do have a tendency to write a lot (!)… because I find the writing process is often a way for me to more deeply figure out the things I'm writing about.

For the last 8 months or so, I've been living in California, working for my brother's and father's company. I had accepted this job last summer and decided to move here (from my home in Seattle) when I was in a temporary state of panic about income and about my direction in life. This job offer popped up “unexpectedly” and I saw it as an answer to the state I was in … it was the perfect solution, and I had created it. So, after a short period of waffling on the decision about whether or not to take the job, I got into a good feeling place of alignment with it, even did some amazing “automatic writing” about it, and ultimately decided to just go for it.

Then, after the initial excitement of being in a new place and trying something new, these last  8 months have been quite a ride of contrasts for me: experiencing being in a job that turned out to be not what I expected, being required to work such long hours that it often feels like I have no other life, working with my brother which has often put a severe strain on our personal relationship, and feeling isolated and secluded from my friends back home and from “civilization” (the job is in the mountains at Lake Tahoe, which is an indescribably beautiful place, and there is certainly nothing “wrong” with it, yet while it's an ideal vacation spot or place for a second home, from my perspective, it feels rather isolated from what I'm used to in the way of metropolitan living, diversity, people, things to do, opportunities, etc).

In retrospect, I see now, on one hand, that I created this whole experience directly out of the state of mind I was in at the time it “popped” into my experience. I was in a state where I felt out of control of my own experience, I was feeling lacking, I was feeling needy like I wanted someone to take the reigns, ….. and so that's exactly the kind of experience I created for myself. And I created it powerfully and quickly. What a creator! Prior to the job being offered to me, it was not even a small possibility … it just manifested - bam! - like that. And, I also remember thinking at the time, “how could I possibly say no to an opportunity that seems like it could be the answer to everything?”

One of the very interesting points for me is recalling the state of alignment I was in when I did make the decision to take this job and make this move. It felt so right, and perhaps it was - but not in the way that I thought it was at the time. After all, “right” and “wrong” are always relative, right?! Perhaps it's simply that I didn't realize exactly what I was creating at the time; I wasn't creating an immediate answer to everything I desired as far as “solutions” to the state I was in at the time, rather I was creating a more long-term plan that would be a very rich and powerful experience so full of contrast that it would allow me to more purposefully and directly focus my desire about what I now want to do.
 
So, the ultimate way to look at this whole experience for me is to be able to appreciate it as a facilitator for creating a new direction that I didn't have before. I'm now preparing to move back to Seattle (as I didn't end up selling my home there – thankfully!) in May, and I know I will appreciate it and my home there more than ever before. Also, I already have some exciting new things in the works  – a new home-based business that is already taking off, a book I've been wanting to write for years is now in the works, and a creative art project that I've been thinking about for some time is also underway. I'm also starting to put my “feelers” out to get involved in singing and performing again, which is very exciting.

I only have a few weeks left before I leave Tahoe and leave this job here behind. In some ways, it hardly seems real that it's coming to an end! But I know that it is going to happen, and that it is going to be wonderful. And, I know that in the very near future, I'll be able to look back on this whole experience from an even broader perspective, and really appreciate the contrast for what it inspired in me. Thank goodness I made through in one piece!

Thanks for “listening.” And thanks for being here.

:)

Pieter