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Articles The following articles were written by Future, Inc. staff members.
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Gift For You Give yourself a perfect day. Do what makes you
happiest. Look upon what gives you joy. Speak to those who warm your
heart. Listen to that which lifts your spirit. Surround yourself
with sights and sounds and people who give you pleasure. For all the
happiness you give to others all year long, give yourself a perfect
day. Author Unknown Is this all there is to
life? There is a lot more to life than most of us are realizing on a daily basis. Do you ever find yourself wondering Is this all there is to life? Somewhere deep within your being, do you ever feel like there's a missing piece, a longing a seeking to be satisfied? Many people feel as if they are searching for their Life's Purpose, a place where they belong, a feeling of contentment and peace. What would you do if you had a place where you could go and say anything. A place where you could release the things you think about when you are alone and wish you could say aloud. Can you imagine the luxury of taking your life back? A place where your dreams are alive and so are you. A place has been prepared for you. Come Life can be effortless and profoundly meaningful when you have the freedom, love and acceptance you desire. So, take the risk, let the tiger out of the cage, climb the mountain and scream at the top of your lungs just because it feels good. You have the stamina, you have the power, you can make it happen. I look forward to assisting you in creating the
life you truly desire. So take the first step and give me a call. Simply do it. Spend one hour with me and I will show you how you can free yourself from the years of living under layers of stress and struggles. Go ahead, kick it up a notch... Life just got better. Printer-Friendly Version Back to the Top Real Estate News Printer-Friendly Version Back to the Top The World Is As You Are Dr. Harold Bloomfield was on the right track when
he wrote How To Enjoy The Love Of Your Life. When you are in love,
the world is a happy place. 4) As you become more loving, you will find the world to be a friendly, loving place that is designed to give you all that you may need. The Good Life is waiting to be rediscovered. Printer-Friendly Version Back to the Top A
Spiritual Pilgrimage: Part 1 Notre Dame For centuries in every tradition and culture mankind has sought to enhance their spiritual being through journeys to places of spiritual power. This fall, Diane Forestell and Tom May joined a group of spiritual seekers to travel to sacred sites in France. Many of these sites have greeted pilgrims for hundreds of years. The cathedrals at Chartres and Notre Dame were once sacred places for the Druids. The combination of the focused spiritual energies of centuries of prayer, with the powerful natural earth energies that have attracted people for longer than we know, creates a unique experience for meditation and inner growth. The intention of this trip was to feel the inspiration of the Virgin Mary. Although many sites were visited, there were three sites that Diane felt the presence and guidance of Mary: Notre Dame, Chartres and Lourdes. The energy field at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris gives a sense of inner quiet as one approaches. Inside, as Diane was beginning her meditation, she sensed the presence, in spirit, of a shy, quiet woman dressed in a simple robe. Thinking that many different people would be attracted to this inspiring place, Diane nodded to her and continued with her meditation. When finished meditating she noticed that the woman was still there sitting beside her. With a sideways glance from her gentle face the woman said, “People do not know that I am a simple person.” The shock of recognition was replaced by the warmth and love of the woman whom Diane then understood to be Mary. Mary said, “Jesus taught me profound love. As a child when he slept there was light around him. He felt peoples’ pain and anger and was distressed as a small child. I learned to soothe him with love. I took Jesus to the mountains to see the wholeness of life; how one thing feeds the other. Many things came to him to give meaning to what we saw. He showed me that we are each individual with goals and dreams for our own purpose.” “When I left Saarn to help Mary, he created the movement of Divine Worship that connected all to the Godhead. I could not influence this. On my return he told me that he would be speaking to all who would listen. My children have my heart.” Mary said “the Divine Heart is where the messages come from.” A beacon had been lit for Diane’s path on the pilgrimage. Printer-Friendly Version Back to the Top A Spiritual Pilgrimage:
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3 Lourdes, France September 15, 2000 Three ‘pilgrims’ from the traveling group approached the entrance to the grounds of the grotto and church of Lourdes. The group walked down the broad sidewalk giggling and enjoying the beautiful evening, recounting theirs day’s events exploring the grotto and community around the site where Mary had visited the children many years ago. Mary appeared, walking in front of them. Her countenance was very solemn and she said, “I want you to show deep reverence here.” Diane related Mary’s message to the others and turned back to find that Mary was not still walking with them. They continued toward the church and decided to watch the evening’s candlelight processional from atop the great staircase of the church, overlooking the plaza. It was a spectacular sight to see thousands of people carrying candles, walking around the long promenade as they sang Ave Maria and prayed. When the service ended, the group walked toward the exit. Mary started walking in front of them again, adjusting her veil. She said that she wanted them to have that experience. Then as she walked along she turned to them and said: ”Children of my Blessed Heart, you have experienced the power of love and devotion, the purity of love, the devotion of the faithful to their higher beliefs. Give what you’ve learned to others. Share you love. Share your devotion. Share your faith. Children of my heart, may it be with you always.” She looked over at Diane and said, “Are you OK?” Just moved beyond words. Printer-Friendly Version Back to the Top Intuitive Ability Often we, at Future, Inc. are asked, "How do you do it?" There are many things yet to understand about the workings of the mind and the intellect. Intuitive ability is an aspect of the intellect in much the same way one’s access of memory is. The ability to see, feel, hear, know a memory is very similar in awareness as "tuning in" to future events. Try it yourself. Envision Thanksgiving dinner last year. Do you see where you are, the food on the table, and the people that are there? Can you feel, smell, hear it? Now shift quickly into Thanksgiving dinner this year. Can you see where you are and who is there and what is happening? Accessing different aspects of the mind will open many new possibilities. As John Travolta’s character in the movie "Phenomenon" portrayed, there is still much to learn about the brain. Through many years of practice and fine tuning the utilization of this part of the mind’s workings, one can access information, it seems, at will. Most intuitives would agree that it requires very intense concentration, focused thought and intention. Intuitive ability is at the forefront of man’s pioneering into the mind. Printer-Friendly Version Back to the Top Message from Buddha Diane Forestell May has received messages from the Buddha since 1995. One
of his many messages on finding one's joy is shared here. "The cause of joy for each of you is different; as is the cause of sorrow. To know your sorrow, you usually look to your childhood. To know your joy, you do not think of this same technique. As a child your joy was natural. It was not qualified in any manner. To re-experience this joy is a state of being. It does not require you to be child-like. It requires you to have an understanding of joy. "Each day I wish for you to see how it is that can create joy in your life. An exercise, if you will, that will show you what you enjoy, what brings happiness into your life. To say that to understand your suffering brings joy is to emphasize that you can only be happy if you have been unhappy. Scientists may say that, on balance, this is a true statement. But does a child know unhappiness to experience his joy? I feel that joy is a natural state and sorrow is when we have disconnected from the true state of joy." Future, Inc. offers monthly sessions with the Buddha. Printer-Friendly Version Back to the Top
Equation For Success:
Having the End in Mind The new year always brings us the promise of self-correction or the generation of change. As human beings we are always looking toward improvement in our lives, but we often fail to truly envision the end result with clarity and with the absolute knowingness that we can achieve these results. Are you ready to turn your outdate resolutions that seldom make it through the month of January into a framework for long-term excellence? Can you imagine the end, what it is you wish to achieve with detail and conviction? If the answer is “yes” you are more than halfway there. The second half is doing something you do everyday of your life without even knowing it, accessing your subconscious mind. All the knowledge and thinking you do gets stored in the subconscious and you pull it out when you need to use it automatically. When you get in a car, drive to work, do you stop and think about every move you make? Or for the most part, do you arrive at your destination with little thought about how it happened? Would it surprise you to know you were in a state of self-induced hypnosis that had the end in mind and diverted from conscious to unconscious action? Yet how often we think of hypnosis as a mysterious state of trance where we lose our sense of reality and are under the control of the hypno-therapist. It is simply a misconception and could not be further from the truth. Any area of your life where you seek improvement, direction or motivation can be greatly influenced by this process. Most individuals can work with a hypno-therapist and, generally, in four one-hour sessions can dramatically improve their life and learn to implement this self-changing technique themselves. The following is an abbreviated list of the areas where hypnosis can bring about change.
Want a serious outcome for the year 2001, one that will serve you for years to come? Plan your future with the success you deserve. Printer-Friendly Version Back to the Top
Coaching
For Life: The Hog Who Wore Pantyhose Poor Harriet the Hog needed all the help she could get to cover up her well-endowed thighs. One day while she was hiding behind the fence wallowing in her misery a fine-looking bull glanced over in her direction. "Why are you over there where no one can see you?" he bellowed. "No reason at all," she replied, fully aware she was embarrassed to be seen. Being the wise old bull that he was, he knew what the problem might be. "Say," he said, "have you seen the farmer's wife? Why, her two legs could be mistaken for tree trunks; and you could set up a picnic for ten on her rear end. But because she wears these things called pantyhose you would never know it. After she wears them she throws them in the bin at the back of the barn. They could be yours for the taking!" Harriet concealed her delight and headed straight for the trash. She put on those pantyhose and strutted around the other hogs. Her pork was compacted like it was shrink-wrapped, and she was proud of it. A few days later a neighboring goat wandered over to see what was new in "Hogsville." As soon as he saw Harriet he threw back his head with laughter and contempt. "You got a problem?" she squealed. He could hardly contain himself as he snickered back, "They won't send you off to the packing plant; your bacon has already been fried in those pantyhose." Trying to appear composed and unruffled she shrieked, "In case you haven't noticed, I am cloaked in the most beautiful sheer nylon, and I would never associate with the likes of you!" He then replied in the most sarcastic of tones, "Why, Miss Harriet, I do declare What pantyhose are you wearing in your life that cover up, but will never change, who you are? Why are you stuck wearing your old beliefs when they do not serve you? Who are the bulls in your life that co-conspire to conceal what needs to change? What happens when the cruel goat comes along and blows your cover? In my experience as a motivational and life-transitional coach, I often find that the greatest barrier to success is the cover-up we wear. So much of our energy is dissipated by obscuring what does not work, rather than changing it. We live in constant fear, keeping up our guard so that we will not be found out -- so that no one will see that we are like everyone else: fallible human beings. It is ingrained in us from early childhood that unless we look a certain way, are the best at what we do and score the most points, we had better run for cover, because second best is "less than." We have zero tolerance for failure: a wrong move could cost us the game. Who is willing these days to be seen as "the loser"? Yet true winners know that unless they take a chance and see failure as learning, they will not grow. When was the last time you were encouraged to parade your flaws? Or, like Harriet the Hog, do you cover them up, strutting around as if no one sees through them? We all marvel at such accomplishments as Thomas Edison discovering the light bulb. Does anyone ever talk about the some 10,000 attempts he made before discovering the carbon filament to carry the light? What keeps us stuck like Harriet is our own faulty vision of who we are. No pantyhose could alter the fact that she was a hog. But what could be changed? How she viewed herself. This is what takes us out of our comfort zone to that uneasy space of apprehension and a feeling of unworthiness, which is followed by the wish to go undercover for safety. This is when we tend to feel inadequate and helpless; but it is also in this state that we have the capacity for greatness. You cannot step in the same river twice, as it has moved on. So instead of resisting the change, evolve with the natural flow that keeps on moving with or without you. H.G. Wells once said, "Our darkest secrets lie deep within our past, but we must know that every past is a beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the Dawn." If today you hide behind a dream because of what others might see as failure, or because it exposes who you are, I invite you to chuckle once again at Harriet in her ridiculous see-through pantyhose exposing what already could be seen. I find in my work that those who open to transformation learn to honor who they are, every bit as much as those they are willing to become. Jeri Costa offers an effective life-time approach to success that will jump-start your life. Her one-on-one program of coaching will offer you consistent results in all areas of our life while maintaining a sense of well-being. Creating this balance will challenge you to rid yourself of unproductive beliefs, find your true life purpose, and achieve specific goals once and for all. She will DARE YOU to follow your bliss. Call 703-630-3544 today to inspire change in your life. Introductory session at a reduced rate of $100 for a 1 1/2 hour appointment. Jeri is affiliated with Success Unlimited Network® accredited by the International Federation of Coaches. |
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