2009 is the Great Reconfiguration

In the year 2009, there will be an accelerated momentum of the transformational shifting that has been underway for a very long time. It will be both global and personal. This shifting will eventually lead to a radical reshaping of many worn-out structures and ways of being in your world.

In the future, when you look back on these times, you will understand how 2009 and the several years that follow are a time of reconfiguration. The year 2009 is to be pivotal in this regard, for many pieces in the foundation of the new Earth will be initiated for assembly. This won't be like any foundation you have seen before, for it will have global connections and linkups with every element of society.

On a grand scale, this relates to human society rearranging itself. Humanity has not seen such a rapid rearranging of this magnitude in any earlier timeframe. There is no template for it, for the way it is being carried out is brand new.

With no roadmap to follow and so many uncertain variables, the unfolding of the reconfiguration is quite fluid. Likewise, the challenges being faced are too complex and wide reaching to be resolved with yesterday's methods. This is true for both individuals and society as a whole.

Those at the leading edge of change are now in the process of discovering new more enlightened approaches and ways of viewing the growing list of dilemmas. Where is this movement headed and what will it look like?

Changes Reconfiguring Your World

Institutions based on old paradigm approaches will either fade away or be reconfigured to match the new energies. Outmoded codes of human behavior, elite power bases, and allocation of resources will be challenged and changed by those who carry an awakening consciousness.

Every aspect of life and living as you now know it will be impacted. The changes will reconfigure your outer world. More importantly, they will reshape your inner world and how you experience the human condition. It is happening, and will happen, in phases-each one building upon the last and setting the stage for future ones.

Earth changes will be felt in some of the familiar places, and in some new locations not before touched by erratic weather patterns. Over the coming years, this means that many people who moved to other locations to escape the effects of weather changes will find their new location also beset with unusual climate-related alterations. As increasing numbers of people feel the effects of climate change, new paradigm trailblazers will create new thought forms of compassion, caring, connectedness, and helpfulness.

Solutions for many of the world's imbalances can come from these more enlightened viewpoints, to be seeded during some of humanity's darkest times. The new thought forms will become a part of humanity's mass consciousness, helping to shift long-established views involving fear, competition, and dominance.

The trailblazers of new paradigm thought will fuel a revolution in how life is lived. They will model this new way of being, showing other people and the world the fruits of an awakened life.

As part of that, these pioneers will challenge and change the dream of success. People have learned over many generations to associate success with linear concepts involving climbing ladders, rigid goal setting, and advancing beyond where others are to feel important. This old-fashioned view is based on the illusion of lack and insufficiency. These reference points have kept people enslaved in lifetimes of endlessly seeking more. The greed fostered in such an approach can never be satisfied.

Changing Your Dream of Success

Changing the dream of success will happen first on an individual level, as increasing numbers of people begin to question what it really means to be powerful in the world. The questioning may come after a job loss or other career setback. It may come from the exhaustion or ill health that can accompany climbing to the top.

To be sure, changing the dream of success will require more than simply asking the basic questions that have been asked in recent years by a growing number of unsatisfied people. These questions include things like: "why don't I have what others have?" and "what is holding me back?" and "why has all of my hard work not paid off?"

These questions typically come from a reference point of competition, doubt, insufficiency, and lack of clarity about one's real purpose and spiritual path. This reference point can be hidden from conscious awareness, of course, for it's rooted in subconscious belief systems that impact how people view and respond to life.

People asking these ill-founded questions oftentimes don't have the larger view of why they have incarnated on Earth during these pivotal times. For those who do understand this bigger picture view, there can still be lack of clarity about the truth of their life's progression and what is really in the way of the more fortunate circumstances they desire.

What are some productive questions to ask so that you can understand your path of success? And what is the way to most appropriately ask these questions?

First, keep in mind your state of mind and energy flow when inquiring about your success. Asking such questions when you are tired, hungry, or depressed will not give you the same level of clarity you will have when feeling energetically balanced and in positive spirits.

Second, you want to invoke your intuitively guided reason and the messages from your heart when asking questions. A whole-brain and spirit-based approach is what will lead you to the greatest understanding of life's questions.

Third, keep in mind Divine timing. Asking the same question over and over, simply because you want to know, is not the most productive approach. It is a universal principle that truths are revealed at the appropriate time, and not a moment sooner. Also, remember that Divine timing is fluid and not linear.

Here is an example. Just because you earlier intuitively sensed that a certain success would come by next year, when that date arrives and the success hasn't materialized, it doesn't mean your information was incorrect. When this happens, it can mean many things.

For one, the thing that was to have happened may have been pushed further into the future because of a host of factors, some of which may have little or nothing to do with you.

For another thing, what you wanted may no longer be in your highest good in the way it was to have been configured. Perhaps it will still manifest, but look differently. Or maybe it will not happen at all, because something much more wonderful is coming your way down the road.

Fourth, remember when asking your questions to follow up any unclear or unsatisfactory answers with additional inquiry. So much of how you will progress this lifetime is in your questions. Skillful means are needed to get the clarity you seek. If, for example, you ask a "yes-no" type of question and the response confuses or disappoints you, ask other types of questions to go deeper. The more beneath the surface you investigate, the closer to the truth you will be.

Fifth, consider these examples of questions to understand your path of success:

1. What about my self-image prevents me from acknowledging the success I already am?
2. What are some of my gifts that are a natural part of my success in this life?
3. What belief systems do I subconsciously hold that block my success?
4. How can I make better use of the Divine timing and other opportunities in my life?
5. Who are the people in my life who have helped mold my ideas of success?
6. Who in my current life is a positive influence on my being successful in the new paradigm world?
7. Who in my current life is a negative influence on that success?
8. What habits could I change to be more successful?
9. What skills could I develop to be more successful?
10. How does my attitude of gratitude impact my forward movement?
11. Who or what in my outside world have I given my power to, blocking my success?
12. What am I not seeing about myself, others or the world that gets in my way?

Birthing of the New

When find yourself questioning your progress, step back for a moment and remind yourself that you are on Earth at this time to birth a revolution on both personal and global levels in how life is lived.

Success is but one of countless concepts and structures up for a radical overhaul. As you and others like you personally address and reconfigure these things, you help to create a ripple effect of transformation in your outer world.

When you have moments of doubting, know that much is shifting. That's what these times are about.

Progress in 2008

Despite appearances to the contrary, a brand new paradigm of enlightened consciousness is in the process of being born! Much progress has been made, including in 2008 when the playing out of opposites amplified in every corner of the planet.

Oppositional thinking, power mongering, and lies of many stripes showed up in political campaigns, country power plays, and international global warming talks.

On a personal scale, increased stress levels took many people to the edge, fueling ego-based responses to a host of situations. Sometimes even those usually able to respond to life sanely and kindly became reactionary.

With the volume of stress and uncertainty turned up significantly, people from all walks of life increasingly found they had a lower boiling point than before.

To be sure, hot buttons for many were the economy, personal finances, and the "what if" fears generated with each exposure to the news.

Some of the changes being made now-considered separately and measured against utopian goals-may seem minor or insufficient. However, when you look at the big picture and the overall reconfiguration process, each of these seemingly miniscule shifts is quite potent and vital to the big picture of where humanity is headed.

Consciousness is changing, not due to legislation or other forceful means, but within the hearts of people on every continent.

Checklist for Personal Transformation in 2009

In 2009, consider the following checklist for personal transformation, using it as a guide to stay on track, in the moment with life, and connected with your heart.

1. Set your intention at the start of each day to utilize any obstacles as opportunities for growth. Learning the most from each obstacle will help you to avoid the need of repeating painful situations and toxic relationship patterns.

2. Remember that you are really a spiritual being living in a physical form. Connect with that knowing and allow it to fuel your next thoughts, words and actions.

3. Decide you will approach your world of physicality as a sacred home. When you consider your body and your planet as sacred containers for life, it is easier to be patient and loving.

4. Make every effort to become sane about the past. This includes a letting go of how life used to be-whether you like it now or not-so you can be in the moment and more accepting of how things are. It also means becoming aware of the limiting belief systems you brought with you from your past. These beliefs, hidden out of your view in your subconscious, stem from your family's lineage going back numerous generations. They also come from your past lives and ideas you have taken on from the mass consciousness. Focus your energy on clearing these limiting belief systems from your DNA so that you can more quickly move into new paradigm consciousness. Also, keep in mind that as long as you define yourself by your past, you cannot fully embody your light in this life.

5. Do your best to become wise about the present. Set your intention to become more truthful with yourself about what's happening, when it happens, and with your need to learn more about topics you thought you had mastered. The ego can play tricks on you at any stage of awakening, putting you into illusion. No one is exempt. It's helpful, therefore, to remain humble. Be willing to cover what seems like "old ground," learning on a deeper level than before.

Refuse to go into judgment with yourself or others when things aren't to your liking. You may have a different timetable than others for learning specific things, or for developing positive qualities. Trust, though, that when you express kindness and compassion with others who are unable to value these qualities, your efforts are not lost. Your kindheartedness uplifts you as a being, while planting very useful seeds within others. Let go of how and when these seeds germinate, allowing the universal laws of cause and effect to run their course.

Decide that you will be loving to yourself and others, even when the world tells you to be harsh and critical. Remember that those types of messages from your world, or outer conditioning, are connected to the old paradigm views you are in the process of revamping.

Set your intention to become more awake to your limiting thoughts so that you can accelerate your shifting into the new vibrational energies. The more conscious you can become of what's negatively impacting your present, the more power you will have to alter your future.

Tell yourself daily that you are creating your future by how you respond to life today.

6. Strive to be open-minded about the future. Do not allow gloom-and-doom thinking or fantasy to color how you approach the future. The path to finding inner peace involves connecting with balance and truth. You will not find truth in the gloom-and-doom approach. You will not discover truth when in fantasy. You find it when traveling the middle path, connected with your heart and intuitively guided reason.

As you continue the journey of rediscovering your Divine nature, we surround you with our love and blessings. We are The Council of 12.

Note from Selacia

"This is The Council of 12's annual predictions message for the new year. In their message about 2009, they give us a big-picture view of what is ahead. This relates to us on a personal level as well as our global experience. They speak about the many changes coming up, while also helping us to make sense of what has occurred during 2008. They give us specifics of how we can change our own dream of success to match the new paradigm world. And they give us a checklist for personal transformation in 2009. I suggest using these ideas as a guide, not only in understanding and navigating the energies of this last part of 2008, but as a refresher when 2009 begins. Time certainly seems to be whizzing by this past year, and before we know it, we will be welcoming in a brand new year! It can be helpful, therefore, to print out this message and refer to it in January when you are contemplating how to begin 2009 with the most potency, balance, and connection with your path of Light. I welcome your feedback and suggestions for other related topics The Council can address in future messages."

Copyright 2008 by Selacia, Channel for The Council of 12 * All Rights Reserved * www.Selacia.com

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World Success Day - 8th August 2008

I've decided to invent a new holiday - World Success Day.

This came about because in the UK at the moment, the negativity and moaning about EVERYTHING is just off the wall now.

It's reached a point where folk in the street are getting fed up with it!

So I was at an art shop, buying some paints, when I asked the proprietor, who I know quite well, how business was.

She said, "Oh, not too bad. It's never exactly storming in August, the art students are away and people aren't indoors much painting at this time of year. Although if you believe what they say on the TV - honestly, I'm really fed up with it every time I switch it on! Credit crunch, credit crunch, credit crunch!"

I was about to reply, go into a diatribe about negative thinking and how BAD that is for EVERYONE and EVERYTHING when another customer beat me to it, a retired guy with a big canvas under his arm.

"All that moaning makes me sick!" he exclaimed. "For God's sake! I've been through a war, I tell you, and that was difficult. They should be glad of what they got!"

Before long, the entire shop was debating, heatedly at that, how they were simply sick to death of the constant barrage of terror, global warming, more terror, more credit crunch, EVEN more terror and basically just wanted to be left alone to get on with life!

I thought, wow, it's not just me and my fellow personal developers! There is an actual groundswell in the population, business people, retired folk, moms with kids - NOBODY likes this endless moaning and whining.

Cool!

So the next day, I find out that this year, we have a day whose date is 08.08.08 - week on Friday, actually.

Triple 8 for prosperity tri-fold - and that date won't come again for another hundred years!

Smack in the middle of the "credit crunch"!

I thought, right, let's do something. Let's catch on to that auspicious breeze that's existing there AND TURN OUR FORTUNES AROUND, set our fortunes in the opposite direction where this endless negativity is leading the way to doom, gloom, meltdown and disaster, namely towards success, enjoyment, personal triumph over adversity, and having a damn good time whilst you're at it!

Let's have ....

... a drumroll please ...

WORLD SUCCESS DAY!


I have an internet ezine with subscribers from every single country in the world.

Our subscribers know ALL ABOUT how bad negativity is for your energy system, for your body, for your mind, and for all the actions you take.

I won't have to preach to them, or convince them that this is not just a sterling idea, but even something someone needs to do, really, to inject a bit of forward momentum and lightness into the ether of the world.

They'll get it right away!

And because every single person who gets our ezine actually WANTS a better life for themselves, for those they love, and for all of humanity at large, AND is proactive in working towards achieving that in their own ways, I know for a fact that they're going to do this, all around the world, namely to

CELEBRATE SUCCESS

on Friday,
the eighth day
in the eighth month
in the eigth year
of the THIRD Millennium

(can it get any better? LOL!)

And it's easy. All you have to do to take part is to take five minutes to have a think on successes past, then present, and then make your success goals for the future and toast your success with a glass of wine or water.

It's as easy as that.

Everyone can do that, and I know everyone will!

It's short notice because I only just thought of it, but if you have friends, family, colleagues, do it with them and make an entire success party out of it. Or a success dinner, a success barbeque, a success toast in a pub - wherever you are, you can do it on the day.

And next year, who knows?

It's going to be the eighth of the eight again, and a real success celebration of all good things that have happened, all the good things that are here and then those still to come definitely has a place in *any calender*.

The beauty of this date is that it's completely clean, no religious festivals tied into it, no middle age meanings, no stone age nothin', no tradition of tribe X - it's fresh and new for us fresh new people who want to live well and experience joy, reward, personal triumph and everything that each one of us defines as SUCCESS in life, love, business to celebrate, and call more of the same into our lives, big time.

This is a celebration where EVERYONE can join in. If you have a family and loads of friends, cool, make a big party out of it. If you're completely alone, cool! Do it with yourself and the Universe at large. If you're too weak to raise a glass, do it in Sanctuary.

EVERYONE can join in.

Every human being wants to be happy.

The Creative Order DESIGNED US THAT WAY.

We set our course towards that, keep focused on that, put our energies into that each one, and the individual begins to lift those around them, and eventually, even society must follow suit.

I'm totally into getting some more positive energies into the ether of this planet and I'm actually really looking forward to MY success celebration on the very first "World Success Day" week on Friday.

Join it, let's do this thing and let's do something good, for ourselves, and for each other.

Glasses raised high!

Silvia

(c) Dr Silvia Hartmann
http://SilviaHartmann.com




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Make Way for Success

A few months back, I was really struggling - mentally, physically and spiritually - to get to grips with life. I wanted to move forward but every single step I took forward somehow ended up in 6 steps back!

This article from renowned conscious thought-leader makes perfect sense ... so if you are stuck and can't seem to find a way to move forward, then read on!


The Cycle of Completion: Making Way for Success
by Jack Canfield

Do you live in a state of mental and physical clutter? Do you have a bunch of unfinished business lurking around every corner?

Incomplete projects, unfinished business, and piles of cluttered messes can weigh you down and take away from the energy you have to move forward toward your goals.

When you don't complete tasks, you can't be fully prepared to move into the present, let alone your new future. When your brain is keeping track of all the unfinished business you still have at hand, you simply can't be effective in embracing new tasks that are in line with your vision.

Old incompletes can show up in your life in lots of different ways... like not having clarity, procrastination, emotional energy blocks and even illness. Blocked energy is wasted, and a build up of that energy can really leave you stymied!

Throw out all the clutter and feel how much easier it is to think! Make a list of areas in your life (both personal and professional) where you have incompletes and messes, then develop a plan to deal with them once and for all. Fix and organize the things that annoy you. Take your final steps in bringing closure to outstanding projects. Make that difficult phone call. Delegate time-wasting tasks that you've let build up.

When you free yourself from the mental burden of incompletes and messes, you'll be AMAZED at how quickly the things you do want in life arrive.

Another area where you'll find incompletes in your life is in your emotions. Are you holding on to old hurts, resentments, and pain? Just like the physical clutter and incompletes, your energy is being drained by holding on to and reliving past pain and anger.

Remember, you'll attract whatever feelings you're experiencing. So, if you're stuck in revengeful thinking and angered in muck, you can't possibly be directing energy toward a positive future. You need to let go of the past in order to embrace the future. Letting go involves forgiveness and moving on.

By forgiving you aren't releasing the other person from their transgression as much as you're freeing yourself from their transgression. You don't have to condone their behavior, trust them, or even maintain a relationship with them. However, you DO have to free yourself from the anger, from the pain, and from the resentment once and for all!

When learning to forgive, make sure to complete the cycle. Acknowledge your anger, your pain, and your fear. But also own up to any part you've played in allowing it to happen or continue. Make sure to express whatever it was that you wanted from that person, and then see the whole event from the other's point of view. Allow yourself to wonder what that person was going through and what kind of needs he/she was trying to fulfill at the time.

Finally, let go and move on. Every time you go through this process you're learning how to avoid letting it happen again!

Jack Canfield, America's Success Coach, is the founder and co-creator of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul and a leading authority on Peak Performance. If you're ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at: www.FreeSuccessStrategies.com

The Ten Invitations - Gill Edwards

1. You are invited to love yourself, others and life without condition - trusting that, in an evolving Universe, everything is unfolding perfectly.
2. You are invited to do whatever makes your heart sing and your spirit dance. Only that.
3. You are invited to live fearlessly and passionately - to step into your divinity, while embracing your humanity.
4. You are invited to treat yourself and others with extraordinary respect and kindness - reaching out with love towards all beings, and seeing the Light within everyone.
5. You are invited to honour everyone else's beliefs, feelings, values and choices - knowing these add to the variety of life, and that everyone's path or guidance is unique.
6. You are invited to honour the earth, your body and all creation as sacred and divine - and to celebrate life in all its richness.
7. You are invited to choose your own mission or purpose, expressing your creative gifts, talents and vision in whatever way feels most joyful.
8. You are invited to listen to the inner voice of Love, which always sets you free - knowing that your goodness and worthiness are never in question, and that you can do no wrong.
9. You are invited to trust in a loving and abundant Universe. Ask and it is given. Seek and ye shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened.
10. You are invited to follow your dreams and desires - trusting your feelings, and using your imagine, to create your own heaven and earth.

From Life is a Gift (c) 2007 by Gill Edwards, Piatkus
Author of Wild Love

Make the Secret work for you ...

Daily Disciplines for Effortless Success:
Six Steps for Activating "The Secret" in Your Life
by Jack Canfield

The first step to using Law of Attraction as presented in the movie The Secret is to clarify exactly what you want.

Remember-determine, write down and talk about what you do want, not what you don't want. Be as specific as possible. Once you have clarified what you want, do the following each and every day.

1. Morning Intention, Visualization and Releasing

As soon as you wake up in the morning, take about 5 minutes to focus your mind on your desires, goals and intentions. Start by sitting in a comfortable position, closing your eyes and visualizing your desires and goals as already being fulfilled. Spend 30 seconds to a minute on each of your core desires and goals. You can also take a few moments to visualize your day going exactly as you would like it to.

When you do this, you will often find negative limiting beliefs that are the result of negative programming from your childhood will come up. You may hear thoughts like "I could never afford that," "there's no way I'll ever get that," or "who am I kidding?" coming up. If you do, use one of the many releasing techniques that are available (see the list below) to release the negative thought. Don't fight or argue with the thought; just release it.

Remember to also spend several moments feeling the feelings you would feel if you had already manifested your desire in your life. The intensity of the feeling is what fuels the intensity of the attraction.

Powerful releasing techniques:

· The Sedona Method

· The Work by Byron Katie

· The Emotional Freedom Technique

2. Use External Images to Keep you Focused on Your Desires and Goals

To keep yourself focused on what you want to manifest surround yourself with visual images of the things and experiences you want to attract into your life. There are many techniques you can use for this.

1.) Cut out pictures of the things you wish to own (like your ideal car or home) and pictures that represent the experiences you want to have (like the perfect relationship, your ideal job, perfect health, being at your ideal weight, more joy, inner peace or balance in your life)to remind yourself of how you want it to be. Tape them up where you will see them every day-on the mirror, the refrigerator, or your bulletin board. You can also scan them into your computer and make them into a screen saver or a continuously running PowerPoint program.

2.) Combine your pictures and words that you cut out into a collage on a large piece of poster board.

3.) Make a Dream Book by putting the pictures into a 3-ring binder pasted onto the pages or slid into plastic page protectors.

When you look at any of these pictures, do what Bob Doyle, who is featured in The Secret teaches- think the thought, "THIS IS MINE NOW! THIS IS WHO I AM!"

3. Think a Better Feeling Thought

Start paying attention to the many times during the day that you have emotional responses (to other people, experiences, or your own thoughts) that are not in alignment with having or producing your desires. Pay special attention to when you feel disappointment, resentment, frustration or anger about your experiences and circumstances.

Remember, it's your feelings (which are created by your thoughts, opinions, and beliefs) that are attracting your current circumstances. You must make a vibrational shift by changing your thoughts to ones that make you feel better (i.e., raise your vibration). Remember that you must become a vibrational match for the things and experiences that you want to attract into your life.

It is especially important to focus your thoughts and behaviors on things that cause you to feel joy. Focus your thoughts on thoughts that bring you joy (your lover, your best friend, your grandchildren, your favorite vacation spot) and your actions on doing the things you love to do (pet your cat, work in your garden, listen to your favorite music).

4. Have an Attitude of Gratitude

It is critical to take time each and every day to focus on what you are grateful for. Some people do this in the morning before or after they visualize their desires; others prefer to do it in the evening. Focus on all of the things in your life (most of which you take for granted) that you are grateful for-your health, your children, your job, the nice weather, electricity, running water, a nice stereo system, your flower garden, your pets, your friends).

No matter what your situation, there are always things to be grateful for. The more you focus on what you are grateful for, the more things and experiences you will attract to be grateful for. You may wish to carry a "gratitude rock" like the one Lee Brower talks about in "The Secret."

5. Take Action

There are two kinds of actions you can take. Obvious actions are things like, if you want a better car, going to test drive all of the models you are interested in and choosing the exact car you want to have, and saving 10% of your income in a "car account." If you want to be a doctor, apply to medical school.

There are also what I call "inspired actions." Once you begin to do the things described above, the universe will start responding by sending people, resources and opportunities you need to manifest your desired result. You are going to find that you have inspired ideas; you must act on them. You must follow those gentle proddings from the universe. Often these intuitive impulses will have no seeming connection to achieving your goal, but if you follow them, they will lead you down a path of wonderful fulfillment.

Here's a quick way to know if the actions you're taking are taking you closer to the fulfillment of your dreams and desires. If you are feeling joy while you are doing them, then you are on the right path. Remember, joy is your internal guidance system, just like the GPS system in a car, telling you are taking the right actions. Follow your joy.

6. Acknowledge That it is Working

If you start to see something change for the better, acknowledge that it is happening. Appreciate it. When you find the perfect parking space, acknowledge it. When you get the table you want in the restaurant, acknowledge it. When you receive unexpected income, acknowledge it. When you meet someone who can help you achieve your goal, acknowledge that Law of Attraction is working. The more you acknowledge that it's working, the more it will work. It's that simple.

If you are attracting things into your life that you don't want, remember the Law of Attraction is still working. Instead of thinking or saying, "It's not working," ask your self, "What am I focusing on, thinking about, talking about, feeling or doing that is attracting this into my life?" If you want to know what you are thinking about, notice the results you are producing in your life. To change those results, you will first have to change your vibration by changing your thoughts and feelings.

While there are many techniques that are variations on these themes that you can apply, there's nothing else you have to do.

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