Seven powerful ways to flourish in your life
May 21st, 2008 by spaceagesage
Time to rev up with seven kick-butt ways to flourish in our lives. I found them in Dr. Wayne Dyer’s seven faces of intention, but I added my own juicy kickers to make them hit home. This post is an overview of them, and I will turbo-charge them for you in a series of posts to follow.
Dyer sees Intention or God as pretty indescribable and subtle, so he explains his view of The Creator and Source of All Things through seven “faces.” They are Creativity, Kindness, Love, Beauty, Expansiveness, Abundance, and Receptivity.
Here’s the overview:
Creativity
If I look anywhere — right now — I see the fruits of creativity. The smile from a person love, the sunset out the window, the wonder of a new baby, and the purr of a lovable cat — these didn’t just appear magically. The computer in front of me, the software and hardware, and the keyboard I am using — magic didn’t bring them into exist either. Whether it was a Creator or creators (little “c”) something stirred in the heart and mind and out flowed something unique. Wouldn’t you like to tap into this power yourself?
Kindness
It doesn’t matter if I give it, receive it, or watch it from the sidelines, kindness has a power of its own to positively change me. Studies reveal kindness is healthy for us all. More than feel good feelings, it taps into love, light, and liberty in a way that heals. Don’t you love to receive the gift of kindness, especially when you don’t deserve it? When you demonstrate kindness to others in selfless ways, doesn’t it just make your day? Don’t you want to know how to manifest this potent power?
Love
Nothing transcends pain, fear, doubt, or loss like love. Nothing uplifts, encourages, supports, or nurtures like love. You see it in the heart of a mother fighting a flood to save her child. You see it in the courage of a soldier braving bullets to save a friend. You see it in the dedication of a firefighter running into another burning building to rescue survivors. Love is more than action, though. Love is comes from the motivations of the heart. Are your ready to be motivated?
Beauty
Awakening to real beauty is hard in a society where Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt hold the glamour and beauty prizes. Models, movie stars, and money moguls all try to present their best face forward to fit the beauty mold of the day. But this is the beauty I am talking about. An older woman I once knew, who could best be described as “homely” because of bad teeth and years of tough living, had something special within her. When she smiled, the missing teeth and wrinkles didn’t matter because her look embraced you with loving warmth, with eyes that soothed the soul, and with an energy that made the world a nicer place. Now that’s beauty! Wouldn’t we all like to find such treasure?
Expansiveness
As humans, we begin small with an egg and a sperm. Flowers, forests, and food plants all begin small, too. But things don’t stay small! Life is about expanding into our potential. Wounds, issues, and doubts may try to limit us, but we were not meant to be limited within prison walls of our own creation. We were meant to dream, to boldy go, to flourish. Aren’t you ready to fly unhindered this way?
Abundance
Tapping into abundance means tapping into the wellspring of life, creation, and God. Have you ever felt that perfect flow where everything falls into place, answers come easily, relationships build up, life seems more fulfilling, and even life’s downers seem more like empowering obstacles? That is the realm of abundance. Want to go there?
Receptivity
Muscles, might, and mental power can save the day and be very useful, but another part of life is about embracing, flowing, yielding, surrendering, and finding the power of peace and gentleness. It may seem easy to push and shove your way through life, but when you are like water, you can flow around obstacles with ease. Wouldn’t you like to flow rather than fight?
In the next post, we will dive into Creativity and how to tap into it.
Fantastic. I eagerly await further posts on this.
I did want to add something though. When someone is kind to me and I feel I don’t deserve it, I feel sick. It doesn’t make me feel good because I know I am not worthy of that kindness…
DICWGravy — Unworthiness is blockage — to creativity, to great relationships, to success. Think how much this holds you back, and I think you will find yourself motivated to follow your heart to healing this in you. You know me, I have dabbled in lots of healing arts stuff and taken the best (for me) from each. I have had a lot of success with NLP.
BTW — you are worthy. You are worthy of kindness. You are worthy of success. You are worthy of fulfillment. The feelings that say you aren’t worthy are constructs, not reality.
I see the “soul-deep” beauty in action in you…in the relationship of which you speak in your blog and your sharing that gift with others.
Thank You
Anty M
Anty M — As I see it in you! Thanks for commenting.