Soulful Meditiation: Bloom Where You Re Planted

Ralph Waldo Emerson said: For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. I love this quote and imagine this idea synonymous with my mother s favorite saying, Bloom where you re planted. This has become her token saying and usual answer to my constant query: How will I know if I am following the perfect path for me. I guess I ve often wondered why, if I could live anywhere in the world London, Singapore, Manhattan I continue to have a romance with my small upstate hometown. The answer, after contemplating both motherly and transcendental wisdom, is simple: it holds me at the roots. No, I don t believe that it s necessarily your bloodline that forms your roots. Nor do I believe that it s a particular place or community. It is a place in your heart that speaks to you, and when you are there you know you re home. In my case, it is my genealogy I think of, however. Simply stated: It s the reason I stand where I am, right now. To be here, my great-grandmother lived for days in the bottom of a rickety old wooden boat. She left behind her family, her loving community in the...

Father, Son Bring Hope To Spinal Cord Research

The Spinal Cord Injury happened in an instant, and doctors said it would last a lifetime - but not if Lou Sengheiser has anything to say about it. Sengheiser, founder of the nonprofit organization Gateway to a Cure, is working to fund Spinal Cord Injury research in hopes of finding a cure - not only for his son Jason, but also for hundreds of thousands of Americans. Launched in 1996, when doctors told Jason that the main barrier to progress was a lack of funding, today Gateway to a Cure is spearheading the largest national raffle ever. Net proceeds from the raffle will fund research. He survived but became a quadriplegic. Yet he wouldn t let that stop him from achieving his dreams. Living in depression wasn t an option, says Jason, who graduated on time with his high school class in 1995. The only option was and still is to be positive. Now 28, he completed college with honors, finished law school and is one of three Americans pursuing his Masters of Law in a Columbia University graduate program. He interns with a judge and aspires to work for an international organization like the...

Improve Your Focus By Asking Why

A question, whether you are asking yourself or someone else is asking, causes you to direct your thoughts toward that subject. These directed thoughts are what is known as focus. Your focus directs your feelings and your feelings direct the actions that you take. Your actions will cause you to have certain results and your results ultimately direct your destiny. What this means is you can create your destiny by properly defining your questions. Let s look at some examples of this. Many of us want to manifest wealth or at least large sums of money. Why does it seem to fall short for so many people. What questions do you suppose they are asking. I ve studied the manifesting techniques but what am I doing wrong. When am I going to have more money. Why am I not more successful. What if it all comes down to the fact that we are asking the wrong questions. All these questions assume that something is wrong with us. Let s consider that nothing is wrong with us, that the universe loves us, and is willing to give us the object of our desires. Let s try to modify our question. We desire a larger...

One Simple Step Toward Manifesting Your Heart S Desire

This single step can catapult you toward the fulfillment of your dreams. It is not an action step. It is neither an affirmation nor a visualization. It is a swap. In this step, you swap one question that you are asking for another. You may not even be aware that you are asking this question. Whether you are aware of it or not, you can trade it in for a new question. In the process you move yourself forward. You also gain momentum toward your joy. When we want something and it is not manifesting, we tend to ask this question, Is it possible for me. We may ask ourselves, we may ask our friends, or we may ask our advisors. We may ask out loud or it may just flutter around us as an unspoken air of uncertainty. We vibrate to the wavelength of Is it possible. This question is like a fork in the road. It simultaneously and equivalently points to yes and to no. It activates both answers and sets up a mixed signal. This question also reveals a lack of awareness of the way the universe works. Since your attention is molding your soon to be created reality, what is possible for you is always...