Our Soul & Spirit magazine ‘Cosmic Ordering’ article Aug 09 issue

Did you catch our three page spread in the August 09 issue of Soul and Spirit magazine?

If not then you can download and view a PDF of the Cosmic Ordering article by clicking on the image to the right:

Find out what journalist AnneMarie Flanagan learned on our Cosmic Ordering/Law of Attraction 2 day workshop; plus read the amazing results that Lynne Edwards has achieved with her life, in only 12-15 months, since attending our workshops.

Law of Attraction – the Key to Corporate Success

As an experienced strategic marketing consultant of 17 years, some 5 years ago I got into personal development and then discovered the Law of Attraction (LoA). After learning about and playing with the LoA, cutting through the hype and using my science and research background to study it, I came to realise a few things:

• The Law of Attraction is surrounded by mystery and hype
• Whilst the exact scientific explanations are not conclusive, there is plenty of observable evidence to back up the phenomenon. Although the meta-physics gets over-hyped…  it does open our mind to many amazing possibilities
• We are all, already masters of the Law of Attraction – we just need to recognise, harness and focus this on what we truly and authentically desire
• Authenticity and alignment to core values is a key factor
• Demolishing hidden limiting beliefs is another key factor
• The Law of Attraction works by energetic connection – like the poles of a magnet can attract or repel – learning how not to be in repel mode is a key factor.
• Success in using the Law of Attraction and Cosmic Ordering is about experiencing these energetic connections and the feelings behind them -

So what does this have to do with corporate success? EVERYTHING

These energetic connections underpin all aspects of corporate performance.

Organisations are made up of people connecting and doing. The quality of those connections determines the effectiveness of all leadership, sales, marketing, communication  and human resources activity.

These Law of Attraction tools and principals can be used to inspire a corporate culture of efficiency and effectiveness, achieving alignment and authenticity, creating flow, success and abundance. From this single initiative comes: employee engagement, emotional intelligence, improved teamwork, lasting successful partnerships with customers and suppliers, imparting brand values, increased trust and rapport (with everyone), staff retention…this list goes on and on.

As with most initiatives, top level buy-in, with leaders walking the talk is important. A huge difference is the level of empowerment and personal responsibility everyone can experience from the bottom up. Most/all aspects of everyone’s lives will be enhanced, not just the corporate bottom line and organisational performance metrics. So it is a win:win all round. Not only that, the often dramatic increases in positivity, responsibility, empowerment, respect, co-operation and rapport make the workplace fun and fulfilling.

Click the link below to find out how to implement this in your organisation, check out our new collaboration with Cambridge Professional Academy and our Connect To Your Potential workshops:

http://connecttoyourpotential.professionalacademy.com/

Does Cosmic Ordering Work?

Obviously we firmly believe that it does and experience this every day in our lives. Yet, we know it is a contentious subject and not everyone believes it can or does work for them.  These very beliefs are in fact the crux of the issue, for what you believe has a huge hand in creating your experience of reality.

We all very much manifest and create our realities – it is like they are virtual realities, not hard wired destiny or set in stone. If you look at the word belief… be[LIE]f you see inside every belief is a lie – there are no absolute truths.

So does Cosmic Ordering work? Journalist AnneMarie Flannagan attended our Cosmic Ordering workshop earlier this year and was able to manifest more work, an unexpected holiday, feeling calmer and improved relationships. You can read about her experinces in the August issues of Soul & Spirit magazine, out now in newsagents.

Mind, Body & Spirit Festival

Andy & Di are appearing as guest speakers and have a stand at the Mind, Body & Spirit Festival in Moseley, Birmingham on Saturday 4th April, 10am to 5pm. We are talking about how to Develop Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence As Path To Enlightenment.

Click on the following to download the festival Speaker Programme and flyer:

Mind, Body & Spirit Festival Programme

Mind, Body & Spirit Festival flyer

Di’s Journey – The Lessons…..

Hello fellow bloggers!  Di here…. I trust this finds you well and happy in this rather snowy weather…

I’m deeply inspired to write today, it’s been just over a year since I took the biggest leap of faith in my life.  I packed my car with my most treasured belongings, which when it came down to it, were one suitcase of clothes, my personal development books, my motivational CD’s and my Border Collie….. and drove 500 miles south to start again at the age of 40.

Did I feel the fear and do it anyway….. absolutely…in fact, I felt pretty terrified!  I left behind a home I’d built and designed overlooking mountains and sea, a well established business, 20 years worth of personal possessions, the treasured piano my Dad had built for me, all my friends, a large Egyptology collection…. literally ‘lifting’ myself out of my life of 20 years in the Highlands and plonking myself firmly into a brand new life in Warwickshire with a brand new partner.  I had no idea whether we would work or not…. It really was a leap of faith, a following of instincts, a trusting in life….. so I stepped through my fears and took that leap into the unknown……

My journey into personal development actually began 6 years ago when I reached what felt like the lowest place I could reach emotionally. I had the word ‘Victim’ clearly tattooed across my forehead.  I remember one Sunday, my mother saying to me “Right, you need to buy this new book!”, and so I went out and bought it, along with a 30 minute hypnotherapy CD.  After listening to the CD just once and reading a few pages, my body and mind felt different…. Was this exciting? You Bet!  And so my journey began…

Within one year of starting to read personal development books, instilling positive affirmations and investing time in myself to learn and grow, I fell deeply in love with myself as a person, the kind of love where you trust your own instincts and know that you can handle anything life throws at you. I remember getting out of bed one morning, glancing at myself in a mirror and catching my own eyes.  I said out loud, and it came from nowhere! “Oh my God, you can achieve anything you want with your life!”…the difference here, is that this was the first time in my life that I believed it 100%… that day I booked a hotel conference room to hold my first ever workshop…there was no going back.  My positive thinking had become part of my identity….. so, was it worth it?  YES, YES, YES!!!  It certainly changed my life!  My life’s purpose had suddenly been lit like a flame inside me that could not be extinguished…

Over the years I set up a very successful practise, which quickly developed into motivational speaking, evening classes, support group and workshops.  I felt so alive, so on fire, when I worked that the thought of not doing this full time was utterly ludicrous to me….. My enthusiasm must have come through in abundance in my work, because it took a relatively short period of time before I was able to live my dream full time….

The difference here was that I truly stepped into my future, claiming it as my own.  I believed absolutely and utterly ….nothing could stop me from living my life’s purpose…
 
I handed my notice in at my full time post of 14 years with the local government on 6 August 2007 – exactly one month before my 40th birthday.  Inside me was the belief that life begins at 40, and so it did.  My last day of being an employee and working for anyone other than myself, was 18 months ago on my 40th birthday.  I went out into the big wide world, I mean REALLY went out into the real world with the belief that no matter what happened, I could succeed with the love and enthusiasm that was living and breathing inside me …..

To me now, the only fear I have in life is the thought of lying on my deathbed many years from now, looking back and wondering why I hadn’t given myself the chance to be everything I could be…. there is simply no failure in my experience of life, even on those occasions when I have fallen…. They are only opportunities to learn, feedback to help us improve, the Universe guiding us in a different direction instead, one which we’re not quite aware of yet….If something doesn’t work for me, then I simply trust that this is the way it is meant to be… somewhere hidden within it, will be the lesson I have to learn.

Over those 6 years, I learned so much and my journey will never end – I am so excited by the thought of continually expanding my mind and challenging my own beliefs until my last breath….so far, each step of my journey has been the logical next step, overcoming fear, followed by learning all about beliefs, the law of attraction, studying the science behind our thoughts, how they effect our biological state and health as well as our mind…then how our energy connects to everything and everyone around us …WOW!  I now sense, feel and see energy around me, and can understand perfectly within just a few minutes of speaking with someone, how and why their lives are exactly the way they are.  I see wonderful things flow towards me when I’m feeling great, and I see everything come to a standstill when I feel low… Thank you Universe, for this incredible gift…

If I had planned the unfolding of my journey this way, I simply couldn’t have done it…. the story just seemed to magically open up as I gave myself to it.

The realisation that I create the outcomes in my life depending on my beliefs and how I choose to respond to any situation is so empowering to me…. no longer does life simply happen to me, it is mine to create.  I can’t always choose what will happen in my life, but I can certainly choose how I allow it to effect me, I can choose the moments where I can respond with love instead of fear or anger, and watch in amazement as to how that changes what comes back into my life.  Learning the power of forgiveness, learning how to give love in the face of hate and anger and how to learn from every situation in life, are the biggest blessings imaginable.  I no longer carry the burden of blaming anyone else for how I feel… it is literally like having a weight lifted.  When this change first occurred, my energy lifted, my head felt light, and I began to have an uncontrollable urge to extend love and give wherever I could…

The realisation that my beliefs formed the entire experience of my life, in other words, what I choose to focus became my reality, well, this is so exciting to me that I find it difficult to put into words. For instance, take 5 people, all with different beliefs, ask them to walk down any high street together, then ask them what they saw – they will all have a completely different experience of exactly the same thing depending on what they are focusing on and what their beliefs are. WOW! Focus and beliefs = reality!  The journey over these 6 years has been inspirational to me, to the point of living in awe some days, I have cried with joy on countless occasions…

And so, over this last year, my journey has stepped up a gear and gone into overdrive!  Take a very independent and positive young lady (me of course!), remove her from absolutely everything she knows….put her in a home that doesn’t belong to her, in a place surrounded by cities as opposed to mountains, no well-acquainted friends, very few personal possessions of her own, living and working with her new partner 24/7, a complete change in diet incorporating raw food and veggie juicing, all chemical-free products…..

Along with that, a wonderful little brother who is undergoing treatment for cancer, a fantastic Mum who also had to overcome cancer, and a not at all well 14 year old Border Collie who is rapidly going downhill….. all of this in one year….

So, what did I learn?. Well truthfully, it’s more a case of what didn’t I learn!…. I’m still learning and always will be, but here are a few snippets of the key points which have affected me most…

• Happiness truly is inside of you…. you can take everything you know out of your life, and you can still feel happiness…. this was a gift that I treasure, and has helped me to instil so much trust in myself.  It is all inside of me…… ‘home’ is inside of me……
• Not knowing whether I would lose my brother, Mum and little dog all in one year was something I had to handle, so the Universe provided me with the ultimate lesson in acceptance.  I learned that going into victim mode over these things was focusing the attention on me and not giving the love inside me to those who needed it most…. So I learned to give an abundance of love, rather than curl up in grief… people who need our love during these times can feel our energy, so it is kinder to give love while they are alive and to grieve after they have gone….
• I learned how to share myself with a new partner, to adapt to new ways of doing things and new ways of being…. I learned how to teach him and how to be taught by him.  I learned how to argue too!  It wasn’t an easy journey for either of us, but we gained more knowledge and understanding in our relationship than we could ever gain from any book ….we become wiser through our experiences and how we chose to handle them. It has been one amazing journey! 
• I’ve learned to stand back and observe… I now understand that when my ego is removed from a situation, I can listen, hear and respond clearly and with love….
• I remember a period when I felt particularly low for a couple of weeks and I’m horrified to say that I actually fell out of love with myself.  I learned how shocking it felt to me, how painful my body and mind felt during those couple of weeks, how difficult and undeserving I found it to accept love from anyone, yet at the same time how needy I became for my lack of love in myself to be filled by others.  Andy was quite horrified by the change in me to be completely honest! It was such a clear reminder of not only how I used to feel every day 6 years ago, but how most of my clients feel when they come for help.  Thank you Universe for that invaluable lesson…. I shan’t forget it in a hurry!
• I have learned to look at any situation and connect only with what I can learn from it…. for instance, Andy and I had an argument one night several months ago, it was a tough one!  We actually agreed to go our separate ways that night (until morning, when we made up!)…. However, I will always remember sitting in the living room with a cuppa, thinking to myself “Well, I’m 40 and homeless”, and here’s the thing…. I was unafraid.  Realising that I felt no fear about the situation was a gift that I treasure beyond words.  I truly realised how far I had come in that one moment….

There are gifts in life no matter where we look….no matter what we are going through, the gift is inside us…. it is always there, it is simply a matter of finding it and connecting with it….

Over this last year, so many amazing things have come into our lives that there are days I stand back in amazement.  With a sense of trust and no fear about the future, without any attachment to particular outcomes, I have finally learned how to truly give myself to life….

One of our close friends said to me recently “If you had set out to achieve so much over the course of the year it would have felt like a daunting task!” He was right!  I guess I’d never actually taken the time to sit down and realise how much had come to us in 12 short months…..isn’t it incredible what opens up when we give ourselves and life the chance? I could never have achieved any of this without having had the courage to step out of my comfort zone first.

Thank you Universe, for the way in which you have unfolded my incredible journey in life….

For always knowing what page needed to be turned next…..

For giving me the wisdom to learn from life, rather than to be a victim of it….

For helping me to understand the part I play in every experience of my life, and for accepting responsibility for them without blaming myself or others..

For helping me understand that my journey will never end…

Thank you for the magic and miracles, and for the wonderful people you have brought into my life… 

Thank you for teaching me how to love…

Mind, Body & Spirit Festival April 09

We are appearing at the Tree of Life Birmingham Mind Body & Spirit Festival - 4th April 2009 in Moseley, Birmingham

As well as having a stand at the event, we are giving a one hour talk entitled: Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence – The Path to Enlightenment

Andy and Di explain how to truly awaken to yourself, others and the Universe. Understanding and mastering your range of energy vibration and energetic connection to all things is the key to life mastery. This Path to Enlightenment cultivates emotional intelligence, spirit and creative inspiration for a life without limits.

We are in good company amongst several acclaimed speakers, including one of Di’s favourites: Dr David Hamilton.

See you there. For a flyer on the event, click here

The Dangers of Office Romances and One-Night Flings

Loving Intimate Connections occur on multiple levels:

1. Physical – visual appeal, tactile, sexual, lust
2. Intellectual – admiration for an/or mutual appreciation of wit, intelligence, knowledge
3. Sense of Humour
4. Emotional – (love or fear based) from the heart, romantic, from a place of self-love
. . . . . vs.
. . . . . co-dependent, fear of being alone, validation
5. Financial – a desire or requirement for equity, contribution or provision/being needed/relied upon.
Can result in a ‘convenient’ relationship, more friends than passionate lovers
6. Passionate – shared hobbies/interests/culture, giving and sharing love and/or intimacy
7. Cultural – shared rules, expectations and beliefs around life and relationships
8. Trust and Respect – can be a healthy mutual respect, or can be an unhealthy ‘on a pedestal’ kind
of respect that is expected and not necessarily deserved or a trust that has been earned.
9. Purpose – shared passion for a vocation/contribution/charitable work. In some couples, the sense
of purpose can become focused on bringing up the children, or a sense of ‘us against the world’.
10. Spiritual – peaceful connection, energetic connection, similar level of emotional maturity and
personal growth

Other less helpful factors that tend to result in unhealthy/temporary attraction and connection include:
A. Proximity
B. Flirtation
C. ‘Forbidden fruit’, risk of being caught spices things up
D. An attraction to power and status

A great lasting relationship will be based on several of the first 10 levels of connection and more than just the physical, which often forms the initial lustful attraction. Too many people, especially women, allow themselves to fall in love (or pretend to) based on an initial attraction that won’t stand the test of time and before establishing the scope for much deeper, lasting attraction on many levels.

The positive and healthy aspects of these 10 levels are often confused with either the less positive aspects, resulting in neediness, co-dependence and unhealthy attachments.

At the office, the other factors A, B, C and D become powerful attractors in the absence of more healthy connections. Seemingly uncomplicated office flirtations and the proximity, are oiled at the office party by alcohol and exuberance.

Wishing you multiple levels of lasting love and connection. Andy

So what does an Incantation look and sound like?

Here’s Andy with a quick demonstration…..

Incantations are one of the most, if not the most powerful ways to manifest and attract the life of your dreams. I have had and regularly used my incantation for 3 years. In that time, I have completely changed my life, got out of ‘the rut’ I was in – and am now living my purpose, with my soul-mate, Diane, who I attracted 16 months ago. INCANTATIONS WORK. Three years ago I was too embarrassed to give my incantation my all… my limiting beliefs were holding me back. Now I have shared it with thousands of people and I am living it. An incantation harnesses the power of ‘feelingisation’ which is one of the real secrets to The Law of Attraction.

For more on incantations, click here….

Raw Energy!

Here is a short article that we have been asked to write for ‘Taste Shropshire‘ magazine.

Want to boost your energy levels, feel fantastic, need less sleep and be far more alert and productive? Then increasing the amount of Raw Food that you eat is the best way.

Raw food is tasty, energising, hydrating and alkalising. It is essentially a vegetarian diet, ideally organic, encompassing a wide variety of dishes and snacks, including salads, smoothies, pizzas, cakes, sushi, sauces and full gourmet meals.

Cooking food greatly reduces its nutritional value, killing off vital digestive enzymes which otherwise help your body to process food efficiently taking on its valuable nutrients. Starting your day with a fresh veggie juice, followed by a raw food salad for lunch and whatever you fancy for dinner, avoiding fast food of course, is easy to do and makes an incredible difference to how you feel.

The raw food experts typically encourage us to progress towards an 80% raw food diet– that’s a tall order for most people. Eating around 50% raw food is easy, fun and you will feel wonderful. At the end of the day, you have to find what works for you and be open to the possibility that you can feel a great deal better and more energised than you probably do right now.

Andrew Nicholson and Diane MacDowall, life coaches and trainers, teach about managing and improving energy. They have developed many tools to help us improve our energy; Raw Food gives some of the quickest and biggest results.

Your Cosmic Identity

I absolutely love this quote from Marianne Williamson, which I came across in Susan Jeffers‘ brilliant book: ‘The Feel The Fear Guide To Lasting Love‘. Marianne’s quote comes from a lecture entitled ‘All I Give Is Given To Myself’.

“If you live your life on the basis of a trashy novel, the Universe will follow suit. But if you live life as a cosmic identity, like someone who matters, then the universe will take you seriously”.

This is totally what the Law of Attraction is all about. You have to take yourself seriously before the universe will. You have to be authentic and find your true cosmic identity in order to he in alignment with the universal laws and flow of abundance.

Read more about how to take yourself seriously and manage your energy and your state here.

Learn more about finding your ‘cosmic identity’ and your authentic self here.

MANAGING YOUR ENERGY

Managing your energy is a major factor in what and who you attract into your life. Along with managing your thoughts (and therefore your beliefs, habits and your whole identity….), what you eat/drink, your environment and your lifestyle are other key areas you can control.

So managing and improving your energy falls into three key areas:

• What you put past your lips (eat, drink, breathe in and absorb)
• What you think (and also learning not to think too much)
• Your lifestyle and environment (more of what you absorb, friends, balance etc)

These are some of the key areas that you can easily work on.

Click here for a checklist of all the related changes you can make to your life to improve your energy.

Shhhh! The Real Secret to ‘The Secret’

There is a lot of hype around at the moment on this subject and lots of myths about ‘The Secret’ to mastering Attraction. THERE IS NO SECRET !

We are all masters of the Law of Attraction AND the trouble is we mainly focus on what we don’t want – this proves to be a very poor strategy for life for most of us!

Andrew says: “The greatest lesson that I was ever taught by my coach, is that for the first 40 years of my life, I attracted everything – all my results and outcomes… good, bad and indifferent. I am indeed a master of the Law of Attraction. Now, there was not a lot of bad stuff, a heck of a lot of mediocrity and not enough of the good and amazing stuff. Once I understood this, in a language that I could relate to and in a way that my logic could not refute – I realised that only I had responsibility for my life and my outcomes, no-one and no-thing else, just me. This can seem a little daunting – it is also incredibly liberating, especially when you learn how you have manifested until now… And how by changing what you focus on and utilising tools such as incantations, visionboards, visualisation and feelingisation, you can have more of what you want in life“

Since 2005, Andrew has completely transformed his life, left a dead-end career, manifested an incredible job working at one of the foremost personal development and relationship retreats, attracted his soul mate and returned to the UK to start a new business with Diane, said soul mate.

Andrew continues… “in my twenties, my strategy for life was based on knowing what I did not want. I thought I was quite clever to know this. I thought it gave me a good direction in life. I perceived that it put me ahead of some of my peers who did not seem to know what they wanted. I realise now, looking back, that this strategy got me increasingly mediocre results. Now I understand that my ‘away from’ motivations lacked conviction, authenticity and alignment to my true self.“

So the first key to mastering the Law of Attraction is to:

KNOW YOURSELF AND WHAT YOU WANT

How do you achieve that? There is no quick and simple answer. Knowing yourself comprises knowing your values and their underlying motivations (including towards and away from motivations). These underlying motivations are closely associated with your beliefs (both limiting and empowering, plus associated rules). Then there is understanding how you meet your basic human needs (of which there are four) and to what extent you associate to the two other ‘higher needs’.

Your values, needs, beliefs/rules and abilities make up your internal identity. There are three levels to identity:

(i) who you truly are (which is hidden from most of us).
(ii) how we and our ego like to portray ‘us’ to ourselves – internally.
(iii) how we and our ego portray ourselves to the outside world.

So to manifest what you truly desire in life using a pure Power of Intention, you need to cut through the layers of falsehood and find the real you.

This important first step takes time and also requires you to truly LOVE YOURSELF, ACCEPT YOURSELF and let go of emotional baggage.

From this place of authenticity you can start to attract abundance in all its richness of form.

Then the second key to mastering the Law of Attraction is to:

FIND YOUR TRUE SENSE OF DIRECTION AND PURPOSE

Through finding and aligning to your core values, you can develop a powerful purpose in life and a sense of direction that steers you towards success rather than away from fear or limiting beliefs. You can create a magical vision for your life, framed by gradtitude, joy and appreciation.

The third and final key to mastering the Law of Attraction is to:

MASTER THE TOOLS OF ATTRACTION AND INTENTION

This goes way beyond simply asking for and visualising your outcomes.

It is about feeling-isation. The Power of Intention comes from the intensity, accuracy and consistency of your focus/attention multiplied by the level of desire that you have multiplied by the amount energy that you give to the intention.

Power of Intention = Desire x Attention x Energy

Your Power of Intention, your level of desire and your energy will all be massively increased by using tools like:

• Values Elicitation – our own tool to help you to identify your core values and to work on making them all positive towards values turning around any limiting beliefs and disempowering rules.
• On-Purpose’ our own service to help you to determine your authentic purpose and direction in life.
  Incantations (powerful statements that you chant) encapsulating your values, vision and purpose, plus any specific goals, desires and outcomes.
• Visionboards – your dreams captured as inspiring images.
• Incantations
• Guided-visualisation – hypnotherapy CDs produced for you by Diane, to listen to time and again, re-wiring your subconscious to totally align it with your conscious desires and intentions.

Andy & Di’s VisionBoards

Examples of many of these Cosmic Attraction tools are freely available as downloads from our publications storefront: http://www.lulu.com/cosmicattraction

There are many things that you can do to raise your energy and lift your emotions, so that you start to eminate and attract better experiences and opportunities in to your life. Click here for a checklist of the many things that you can easily incorporate into a daily/weekly routine in order to keep your energy high. Although there are lots of recommendations on this list, many of them are either simple changes or ommissions that you can make from your routine.

What other help is available? We also provide:

• Law of Attraction Coaching
• Workshops
  • Overcoming fear and limiting beliefs
  • Cosmic Ordering
  • Manifesting your ultimate relationship
• Relationship Coaching and Mentoring, 1:1 and 2:2 for couples
• Guidance on creating your own Visionboard and Incantation
• Personalised hypnotherapy CDs/MP3s
• Values & Needs coaching and tools
• Purpose coaching

For more information on Cosmic Attraction, go to our web site http://www.cosmic-attraction.com

For more information on enjoying Success in Love and Relationships, go to our web site: http://www.executive-relationship-coaching.co.uk