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Continuing our discussion of The Power of Celebration, we now turn our attention to the third and fourth keys to increasing the sense of joy in your life…
Key #3 – Give Of Yourself
This key arises naturally out of the last one. When we stop and realize just how much we have and how blessed we have been in life, it is natural for us to want to share our joy and prosperity with those less fortunate than ourselves.
If you want to give money to charities and individuals, then do so, but do not think that money is all you have to give. You could give a ride to someone without transport. You could give a food hamper to a family you know who are struggling financially. You could give a toy to the local hospital or orphanage. You could give some time to anyone you know who is lonely and needs a friend.
When you think about it, there are an infinite number of ways in which you can contribute to the lives of other people. There are an infinite number of ways in which you can give more love, light, peace and joy to those around you. All you have to do is think for a few moments about the people you know and then decide how you would like to give of yourself to help these people celebrate and create good things in their own lives.
In giving, we receive. We may not receive like-for-like, but at the very least we experience the joy of being able to help others, and if we truly have a spirit of giving then no other reward is ever really necessary.
Key #4 – Appreciate Your Loved Ones
All too often, we get so wrapped up in helping obviously needy people that we fail to express our appreciation to those who are closest to us. The fourth key to celebrating life is therefore to deliberately appreciate your loved ones.
Think of the people you love and who love you, and think of how rich and satisfying your life is because of these people. They could be friends, parents, siblings, cousins, children or grandchildren. No matter who they are, express thanks for these people and then express appreciation to these people for bringing such joy and love into your life.
How you express your appreciation to these people will obviously depend on the people themselves. You may give gifts to some, share a thoughtful word with another, give practical help to yet another and so on. All that matters is that you let your loved ones know how much they mean to you.
Every individual has a soul mate. This is a person with whom you share a connection on the level of soul – a connection which was usually made in a previous lifetime. Although you may not yet have physically met your soul mate in your current incarnation, you do in fact already know a great deal about this person.
Think about what the term ‘ideal partner’ means to you. The qualities which you feel your ideal partner has are the very same qualities which your true soul mate has in this current incarnation. So you see that you really do know quite a lot about your soul mate already! All you have to do now is deliberately begin to attract your soul mate into your current life.
To attract your soul mate, you need to perform two exercises each day – one in the morning and one in the evening, as follows:
Each morning, close your eyes and visualize a figure in the distance. This figure symbolizes your true soul mate. When you can see the figure, use your mind to try and ‘pull’ your soul mate towards you, much like a magnet pulls a metal object. As you do this, chant the following words to deepen the experience: ‘I call you now into my life so that we may at last be one.’
Practice this exercise for five minutes each morning. Its purpose is to guide your soul mate into your current life. Remember, your true soul mate wants to find you just as much as you want to find them! This exercise serves as a ‘homing beacon’ so that you are as easy as possible to find.
Each evening, before going to bed, close your eyes and visualize the figure of your soul mate in the distance. This time, when you try and pull your soul mate towards you, see the figure rapidly approach. Then embrace each other and enjoy the feeling of being with your true soul mate. As you do this, chant the following words: ‘We are one, both now and forever. This is how it is destined to be.’
Again, this exercise should be practiced for five minutes. The purpose of this evening exercise is to strengthen the spiritual connection which already exists between you and your soul mate.
As you use this technique to attract your soul mate, be sure to look your best, and be on the lookout for your soul mate entering your life. It probably won’t happen immediately, but it will happen. Of that you can be sure.
Now that you know how to use Power Mantras you may wish to continue using one of the ready-made mantras that I presented in Using Power Mantras. However, you might also like to create your own power mantras, in which case the following information will be of use…
Creating a power mantra is actually a very simple process which can be summarised as follows:
- Know what quality or event you want to take place in your life.
- Select between one and seven words which symbolize this quality or event.
- If these words flow for you and are easy to chant then your power mantra is ready for use.
Remember that spoken words are merely verbal symbols which are used to bring a specific non-verbal image or emotion into your stream of consciousness. For example, the word, ‘cat’ consists of just three letters, but when the word is used your consciousness automatically receives a specific image or emotion which transcends those three letters. In other words, the word cat is just a symbol designed to invoke a specific reaction in your stream of consciousness.
The words of a power mantra are therefore less important than the reaction that they create within you. As long as you select words which symbolize your goal for you, and they are easy to chant, they will serve you well as a mantra of your own.
Let us imagine that you want to develop a greater sense of power in your life and that you want to feel more ‘in control’ of your circumstances. You might decide to select words such as POWER, CONTROL, INFINITE, TOTAL and so on. A suitable power mantra in this case might be, ‘INFINITE POWER, TOTAL CONTROL’.
Remember, the words themselves are unimportant. What is important is that they create in your consciousness an accurate image or feeling of what you truly want to create in your life. Keep this fact in mind and you will have no problem whatsoever in creating power mantras which work for you.
However you decide to use Power Mantras, I am confident that you will find them to be invaluable in helping you to attract whatever you want into your personal reality. But as with all methods, you first have to use them. So start right now!
The first phase of a power mantra program is to determine the one quality that you would most like to have in your life. For some of you, this could be abundance. For others it could be health. For still others, it could be a new level of higher spiritual awareness.
Once you have determined the quality that you seek to create in your life, the next thing you must do is select a suitable power mantra from the selection provided at the end of this article. If there is no power mantra listed which you feel is suitable for your needs, you may create your own, and I will discuss how to do this in my next article.
For now, I will assume that you have determined a quality that you want to create in your life and that have found a suitable power mantra from the selection provided at the end of this article. In this case, you are ready to start using your power mantra. All you need to do is follow two simple steps:
Step #1 - Stabilize Your Energy Field
Because the entire purpose of using Power Mantras is to change the state of your personal energy field, the first step is to ensure that this energy field is stabilized to begin with. To do this, go to a quiet place where you will not be disturbed and sit comfortably with your back straight.
Now close your eyes and concentrate your attention on the solar plexus (roughly where your two lowest ribs meet in the centre of your chest). Recognize this space as your ‘personal energy core’ – the place from which your personal energy field radiates. If it helps, you can visualize this energy core (some may prefer the term chakra) as a glowing ball of bright white energy. Focus on this core until you find that your mind has become calm and tranquil.
At this point, your personal energy field is deemed to have been stabilized. You may feel more centred than perhaps you normally do, and this is because you have brought your attention back to its own origin – the core of your being.
Step #2 - Repeat The Mantra
Once you have stabilized your personal energy field, you should begin chanting the Power Mantra that you selected earlier. Obviously, the words you chant will depend on the specific mantra that you have selected, but a few general rules should be adhered to for any mantra, and these are:
Aim to develop a natural rhythm when chanting the mantra. At no point should your chanting make you feel out of breath. Instead, the mantra should be chanted in such a way that it fits in perfectly with a steady and relaxed breathing pattern.
If you have selected a mantra which consists of two or more individual words, do not worry about having to chant them separately. If you so desire, a two or three word mantra can be chanted as though it were one long word of roughly equal syllable lengths. For example, the mantra, ‘ABUNDANT PROSPERITY WEALTH IS FOR ME’ could be chanted as, ‘AB-UND-ANT-PROS-PER-IT-Y-WEALTH-IS-FOR-ME’ as if it were one long, flowing word.
As you chant your Power Mantra, imagine bands of pure energy radiating from your energy core, extending outwards in all directions to form a ‘bubble’ around your physical body. Every time you chant your mantra, a new band of energy strengthens the bubble of energy around you.
As you chant, begin to feel the emotion of what you want your Power Mantra to bring you. If you have selected a mantra for prosperity, begin to imagine how you will feel to be wealthy. Similarly, if you have selected a mantra for spiritual enlightenment, being to imagine how it will feel to have a higher spiritual awareness. If you can visualize these improvements in your life, then feel free to do so. What is most important, however, is to develop the emotion of having what you desire as you chant.
Spend at least ten minutes each day chanting your Power Mantra in this way. The ideal would be to chant in the manner described for fifteen minutes in the morning and for another fifteen minutes in the evening. Do this and you will begin to feel a subtle change in your outlook within a couple of days. Then, within a week or two, you should begin to notice at least a few signs of your desires manifesting in your reality. When this happens, get excited, for you are proving to yourself in your own life that you truly have the power to create good things!
When many people begin using Power Mantras for the first time, they often find that at some point during their mantra sessions the mantra they are chanting seems to lose all sense of meaning. It feels as if one is speaking gibberish which makes no sense.
This is nothing to worry about. All it suggests is that your mind is no longer processing the mantra as mere words, but as verbal ‘energy packets’ or vibrations which it integrates automatically. The words of the mantra will still work regardless of whether or not they seem to lose their meaning, so relax and go with the flow.
At this point, many of you will be wondering exactly how mantras work. What gives them their power? How do these verbal sounds help to change your life?
There is no easy answer to this question. Some believe that mantras enable you to by-pass the critical conscious mind and program your uncritical subconscious mind with blueprints of wealth, success, health or whatever else it is that your mantra was designed to attract. Others believe that the words of the mantra themselves contain positive energy which re-program your personal energy field to attract specific events or qualities into your life.
To be frank, we may never truly understand how mantras work from a purely scientific standpoint, but that isn’t really the object of the exercise. The objective is to get results regardless of whether or not we understand how those results are obtained. I would therefore encourage you to focus on using your power mantra on a regular basis, and allow the results you see in your life to speak for themselves.
POWER MANTRAS FOR YOU TO USE
Here are power mantras for a number of events or qualities that you may like to attract into your life. Smply select the quality you want (in bold) and use the corresponding Power Mantra that appears underneath. And happy chanting!
ENLIGHTENMENT
AUM
HEALTH
STRENGTH AND HEALTH BOTH INSIDE AND OUT
HIGHER AWARENESS
AWAKE WITHIN THIS DREAM OF LIFE
HIGHER AWARENESS
ALL IS ONE
JOY
I HAVE LIFE AND LIFE IS GOOD
LUCK
ATTRACTING GOOD THINGS EVERY DAY
PEACE OF MIND
TRANQUIL HEART AND PEACE OF MIND
PROSPERITY
ABUNDANT PROSPERITY WEALTH IS FOR ME
PROSPERITY
GOLDEN HARVEST SILVER RAIN
ROMANTIC LOVE
FULFILLING PASSION COMES TO ME
SUCCESS
BELIEVE TO ACHIEVE AND RECEIVE
VITALITY
ENERGY VITALITY
