Gratitude & Appreciation for an Empowered Woman

“That man (or Empowered Woman) is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men (and Empowered Women) and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Can appreciation really be the ONE SINGLE, TANGIBLE, REPEATABLE, ANSWER TO EVOLVE BEYOND EVERY SINGLE LIFE CHALLENGE?
Transcending OUR EMOTIONAL PATTERNS is the key to APPRECIATION (from family problems to financial stress).

Think about every "problem" as your own personal emotional reaction to a PERCEIVED "Problem".

But the amazing thing is that once we transcend the emotions of a "problem", we experience APPRECIATION and our whole life miraculously changes.

We will experience emotions in every moment of our lives!

Yet, there is a SCIENCE to balancing your emotions and in turn mastering the Art of Appreciation.

Think about APPRECIATING YOUR MONEY... When you do this, does it then not grow?

"Appreciation" is the key to:
- Mastering Relationships
- Mastering Worth
- Mastering Wealth
- Mastering Wisdom

True APPRECIATION...True GRATITUDE is about:
*finding the perfection in our circumstances
*a state of “being”
*having a presence of inspiration and non-judgment
*getting beyond the lies of “good” and “evil”
*finding God in every word, thought and deed
*being in Spirit, with Spirit
*loving what we don't like as much as what we do like, and
*EQUAL LOVE for all that is, as it is, was, or ever shall become.

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Living Inspirationally,
Alison

Did you know that everything that happens in this universe and everything that exists is exactly as it's supposed to be at this time? The Universe is whole and we cannot be separated from our Creator Source. Therefore, in Source, we are perfect - just as we are, just as we have always been, just as we will always be.
Our feelings have been called the language of the soul. Our emotional highs and lows are an opportunity for us to experience soul-full language and gratitude.

How is this possible?

Especially since sometimes our emotions are at times painful and uncomfortable...

It is through this realization that our feelings of pain and discomfort serve us in some higher purpose that we are able to connect with our emotional highs and our emotional lows. In this realization we can choose....we can choose...to balance those highs and lows with gratitude and connect to our deeper self.

Being an Empowered Woman is embracing this deeper concept.

St. Augustine once said, "This is the very perfection of man (or woman!), to find out his (or her) own imperfections."

As we begin to master, as Empowered Women... Empowered Beings... our understanding of equilibrating our emotional charges we will have an increased ability to live in harmony with those emotions.

What is the benefit of this?
1. We stand, as women, EMPOWERED in our strong and beautiful light.
2. We, as Empowered Women, live on purpose with Inspiration.
3. We radiate, we glow, and bask in living vibrantly!
4. We, as Empowered Women, live every moment Inspirationally Aligned with our Creator Source.

Stay present to this blog to find out more key steps to Empowering yourself to the Perfect Solution!

Living Inspirationally,
Alison

EMPOWERMENT DECLARATION!

Every year millions of people write down, speak about, cry about, meditate on, set intentions on their "New Year's Resolutions”. It was even posh, for a minute, to say, "Oh, I don't make New Year's Resolutions," or "I resolve to make everyday like a New Year's Resolution." And, well, all of these things are great and have worked perfectly the way it's supposed to ~

and

boring!

We are entering a new decade within a new millennium!

It's about time for something different!

Something that truly expemlifies who we are ~ collectively, consciously, cohesively!
Maybe it's just me and my Universe, but everyday I see more and more people wiping the "sleepy" out of their eyes and they see something new. They feel something new; wondering and thinking something new ~ but they have no title to it, they don't have this juicy, concrete meaning of what they are yearning for and there's no label and there isn't this 'same as it ever was' process anymore.

And yet..what is this purpose of waking up? Well, Rise and Shine Love-lies ~ It's time to design and devise your 'EMPOWERMENT DECLARATION'!

What is so antethic about an 'EMPOWERMENT DECLARATION!'?

It is about presently co-creating in the art of inspiration and full gratitude living!It is about synchronizing harmonic balance in relationships, financial abundance, self fulfillment, and expansion with connection to others. Here is a movement building the foundation of community, commitment and genius.

The 'EMPOWERMENT DECLARATION!' is a symposium of your words sanctioning you in your strength, talents, goals, and defined dreams. The 'EMPOWERMENT DECLARATION!' is your melodic heartbeat stating to the Universe who YOU are.

So what are your words? What is the music streaming live from your mind and heart to the Universe?

Here's mine!

Alison's 'EMPOWERMENT DECLARATION!' for 2010:

1. I know that I have a definitive life purpose. I have the persistent and consistent nature that achieves each goal I've written down and declared.

2. I am a triumphant success and all of the challenges in front of me are the tools to refine my character, voice and tenacity.

3. My lifestyle is rich with abundance that expresses itself with an avalanche of love, inspiration, gratitude, and juicy experiences.

4. I deserve the prosperity, acknowledgment, and success that is presently in my path. I honor and am fulfilled by what I bring to this Universe and how the Universe reciprocates to me.

5. I am One with Spirit and Mother Earth and that Divine Love that embraces ALL of me!

Take action! Write now! Right now!

Asking Empowering Questions

What excites me about today?

What do I want?

How do I feel?

How can I share my gifts now?

What can I learn here?

How can I realize more meaning in my life?

What is worthy of my attention?

Who can I connect with here?

What can I contribute to this situation?

What can I give today?

...and what else?

What's funny about this?

What am I grateful for?

What brings me joy in that experience?

How did I make a difference today?

How can I leave this place more beautiful than I found it?

Can I laugh now?

What is my Truth about this issue?

What's next?

What now?

What is the question?

How can I/we be empowered?

Am I ready to receive the gifts of the Universe?

How does God/Source see this?

Who am I?

What is Your Gift of Gratitude in the Moment?

What is your gift of gratitude in the moment?

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Have you ever had a "magic day" when everything worked? Where you felt everything is as it should be; you accomplished everything you set out to do seemingly without any effort and you achieved exactly what you went after?

"Magic days" and a feeling of prosperity and gratitude go hand in hand. We live life, in that moment, from a center of inspiration. We experience an inner knowingness that everything we experienced, up until that moment, served us perfectly and generously.

This true sense of peace is inspiration and gratefulness.

We have all experienced a perceived sense of loss, sadness, despair, emptiness, fear, judgment, and/or depression. You are not alone there ~ the beauty of this is there is nothing new or different about this at all ~ you are One with Others on this Journey.

Our perceptions of mistakes, tragedies or "bad" events are just that ~ our perceived vision of the present moment. Nothing has value except for the value we place on "it"; therefore, those events or things in our lives that seem "bad" really are Gifts of Gratitude and Love in that moment.

We can experience an open heart of gratitude in any situation.

Your situation may seem like a jumbled mess and there is Inspirational Beauty in that "Mess".

How is that possible?

Let me give a real life example ~

At the age of 32, I was diagnosed with Cervical Cancer.

At the time, I couldn't hear the doctor tell me that there is a high probability that women are cured of this cancer. I chose not to hear my doctor.

What I chose for a period of time was death, doom, and despair. Wow ~ I really wallowed in it! I mean, who else could possibly understand or even know the depths of sadness and drama that I would have to face in "curing" my cancer? I created such a nightmare around this perceived tragic, tragic event. Believe me ~ it was such a great story! One that I was sure anyone bound to hear my story would feel so sorry for me! (Plus, I had been struggling financially as well at this time. Just more "bad luck", right?)

Ha! I really owned my story!

As the Universe would have it, something brilliant happened.

One evening, I returned home late from work. I lived in a Senior Citizens Community ~ I am still not clear how exactly that happened, and I know it was in Divine Order that God placed me there as my residence.

I drudgingly climbed the metal stairs up to my apartment floor. My elderly neighbor heard my lethargic feet dragging as she flew open her door, grabbed my shoulders ~ well... shook my shoulders and looked at me square in the eyes and said, " Young lady, there was a nice looking man at your door earlier today. Of course, as the designated neighborhood watch-woman, I saw to it, quickly, to find out why he was here. Do you know why he was here, Alison?"

"No.", I said with a very sad face.

"He took the shut-off notice from your door and paid your bill. He told us you were having a hard time and had received some bad news. So then all of us in our building pitched in and bought you this.", she grinned as she handed me a beautifully wrapped package of gold and purple.

She placed the package in my hands. I carefully unwrapped the delicately, decorated box.

I looked inside.

It was a pink book.

The book's title ~ "100 ways to Express Gratitude"

She clapped her little, wrinkly hands rapidly. "Please, please read this to me. I have been so anxious to know what it says inside!"

So we sat down on the top stair. I read the book to her, through thick tears and a quivering lip.

The greatest gift of all ~ gratitude.

At the end of the book, she placed her hand on my shoulder and looked at me with her loving, dark eyes and whispered, "Alison, always be grateful for the love that is shown to you daily. Sometimes it will feel like it's your darkest hour, but love is always there."

She got up slowly, entered her apartment and closed her door.

I decided in that moment, I was grateful.

I was and am grateful for a cancer that turned my life around. I am grateful that through alternative therapies, prayer and meditation and full expression of how cancer served me in seeing the greatest gift of all ~ Love, Gratitude and lead me to an expression of Inspiration.

Expressing Gratitude leads to Inspiration ~

Ask yourself ~ How does "this" serve me? Find the equal amount of what seems to be "negative" and what are the positives.

In this balance ~ you will find the Gift.

Remember you are Perfection ~

"Addo" ~

Alison

Your Perfect Dream Come True

Every challenge in your life is a story of Gratitude and Blessing. There is such beauty in learning to love your imperfections, owning your truth and true voice, and discovering that you are your own dream come true through these challenges. The greatest guru is whispering at you in the mirror.

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I am a perfect woman. I am perfect in my eyes. I am perfect in my creator’s heart.

As I sit in this wooden high-top chair in a small, crowded coffee-shop, I am observing the kaleidoscope of humanity before me, I see the perfection in them ~ the blue-eyed girl, with a shaved head, sweating to make the perfect cup of coffee; the grayed-hair man embracing his pen and pad of paper sitting under the umbrella’d table; the young mother, with a turned down grin, pushing her baby across the cobblestone sidewalk; and the gently sun-kissed homeless man and his box of secrets ~ such perfection in their story.

What is your perfect story?

Mine started at the age of 5. I remember being wildly attracted to yellow flowers and men with strong personalities; for my own father, in my perspective, was not. Through out my life, I manifested not only many bouquets of yellow flowers, but also many men who fit the profile: strong and abusive. (Disclaimer: not all of the men my life were abusive.)

I learned, at a young age, that seemingly my worth was based solely on how to make the man in my life happy. That man could have been a teacher, an uncle, my father, a boyfriend, a boss. I believed this so deeply as I continued to experience this type of relating a good portion of my life.

I experienced different forms of abuse, however…

the greatest abuse I experienced was the abuse I did to myself.

I did not take the time to look in the mirror and see the beauty of my soul gleaming out to the world.

I did not observe the uniquely, crooked smile that only I can give.

I did not hear the beating of my own unconditional, loving heart.

What I saw, for so long, was a woman who believed that she deserved to be hit, to be told she is worth nothing and fat, stupid and ugly.


How does a woman become empowered after many years of such an embedded belief-system?

Interesting that you should ask!

Three years ago, I met a beautiful woman who I had an instant sisterly connection with one night. She and I began to share our stories of a past we believed shaped us into this being sitting before each other.

My friend then asked me the strangest question.

“Alison, would you be open to the possibility that these stories you tell are perfect in design?”

Huh?

She then proceeded to introduce me to a man (yes, a man) who pushed me further in asking the question,

“Alison, what are you grateful for in these experiences?”

Again….HUH?

He asked me to make a list. On one side write everything that I could think of that seemed to be “negative” about my experiences with men. Write until I exhausted every thought and emotion. This task took about 3 days.

Once I finished that list, he instructed me to write on the other side an equal amount of positives from these experiences. I definitely had to have help; at the time, I just couldn’t see the benefit of these encounters. He encouraged me to look deeper ~

“Negative” – Felt alone
“Positive” – Stronger determination to manifest my own destiny

“Negative” – Sense of loosing my innocence
“Positive” – Encouraged me to mentor young kids to play and learn life skills

“Negative” – Physical Pain
“Positive” – Took a self defense class which in turn began to raise my confidence

I think you can see what began to happen.

Writing the positives took longer as I had bombarded myself with messages that did not embrace love and forgiveness.

It wasn’t easy at first. Quite frankly, sometimes it still isn’t easy. And there is such beauty in that discovery process of perfection. The men in my life ~ are perfect as they are. The challenges and beliefs I held and have ~ are perfect as they appear.

Me = Perfection.

Period.

The concept itself may sound easy. When you really begin to tackle true heart issues to find equilibrating traits (equal positives and negatives) it can feel daunting. Once you do this, beautiful soul…once you take the courage to face the equal positives and negative, you find the perfection in that event, that circumstance, that belief.

That perfection establishes the playing ground of no longer having a charge in your life.
You experience gratitude. You experience love for the perfection in you.

Today, I look in the mirror and see a beautiful, sexy, strong, loving woman worthy of all the Universe delivers to me. I know the perfection in each soul I see. I know I am the dream I have been waiting for and my voice is bold and strong!

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“Addo”,

Alison

Your Voice and Prosperity ~ Part 2

It has purposely taken me awhile to write the second part of "Your Voice and Prosperity".

Why?

Well, this is still an area that I continue to grow by leaps and bounds. When I ask the Universe (God) for the ability to see more clearly in my growth so that I may share with others...well...the Universe delivers!

Over the course of two weeks, since writing Part 1, I have been challenged deeply by my thought processes in the area of Prosperity. The "Mind" has a unique way of 'butting-in; and convincing me that "it's hard"; that "it's beyond my control because of the economy"; that "if I prosper than my friends and family will think this or that of me"; and the infamous "Am I really worthy of this?"

Prosperity is a natural condition. What I feel is a natural process. I can change my process to understand and have thoughts of choosing to move in to the natural condition of prosperity.

Yes. I can hear some of you saying or thinking, “Alison, I've used principals of the Law of Attraction. It just doesn't work for me.” I've said the same thing too. I've even said, “I read/hear/see all of these steps and practices and yet it still does not work for me.

Perseverance = Prosperity

Prosperity = harmony in all areas of my life

Specifically, though, I have been focusing a lot of my thoughts and energy in one area – financial.

What I am seeing right now, in my bank account, is the result of my past thoughts and behaviors. It is not who I am today. The quality of my thoughts that I hold in my mind right now is attracting the quality of life I am heading towards.

The attracting of energy and the life I am choosing is expressed through my thoughts.
Feeling prosperous comes from an inner glow – a sense that all is well in the Universe, that everything is the way it should be.

So what if it feels that it isn't?

Perseverance = Prosperity

Remember that at the core of your being, you are already perfect. Feeling prosperous is enjoying fully what you already have. The secret to experiencing joy in life is loving what you have while you're working towards what you want.

There is nothing missing and everything is present. Everything you are inspired to have in your life is right there. Money, wealth, success, prosperity, love, and wisdom are all here for you, in your life, right now.

If you are presently not satisfied at the form of life which you created you must change what you focus on today. Focus on loving and honoring who you are right now. Be grateful for choosing this new life of yours. This is a daily practice ~ it can take awhile and believe once you allow your "mind" to percieve what it feels like to be prosperous ~ the Universe delivers.

This journey of prosperity is not about FINISHING. Its about growing in quantum leaps to a greater degree of love, understanding and creating the life we are inspired to live ~ financially, with relationships, and within yourself.

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“Addo”~
Alison