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Stop Stepping on Your Own Hose

Posted on: February 22nd, 2012 by Linda Ferguson No Comments

I frequently write and speak about removing self-limiting beliefs. This is an enormously important step to creating abundance and experiencing what your heart desires.

Over the next week practice paying attention to all the times you’ve said ‘no’ to people who have offered help or assistance.

Pay attention to when you say to yourself – ‘I’ll never be able to do that’ or ‘They’ll never let me have that’ or ‘There’s no way that will happen’.

Stop Stepping on Your Own Hose! Get out of your own way so that the Universe can fill you with love, joy, beauty, and compassion.

Stop saying ‘no’ to gifts when they are offered.

Start saying “YES!” to the wonderful flow of energy and abundance that is constantly available for you. Embrace it, Claim it, Receive it.

If you truly want to shift your life- to change jobs, to improve your health, to create more meaningful work, you need to accept, welcome, and receive resources in all the ways they show up. When you practice receiving the small gifts, you prepare yourself to receive the bigger ones!

I created a short video clip as part of a longer program, ‘Invite the Shift’, to explain my process of Transformational Empowerment for Personal Mastery.

Enjoy the video clip below and leave a comment about stepping on your own hose. Please share your stories as well about how you’ve learned to say “Yes!” to life.

Live with Integrity, Purpose, and Passion.

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Experience Your Bright, Beautiful Essence

Posted on: February 16th, 2012 by Linda Ferguson 1 Comment

This is a video clip of a presentation I gave Oct. 2011. In this program I talked about ways to share your gifts in loving service for others. This clip is a short description of how you can experience the bright, beautiful essence of who you are. Enjoy!

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Linda J. Ferguson, Ph.D. is a Job/ Life Coach guiding people in their desire to live and work with passion and purpose.

Live your life by design not default!

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Expand Your Horizons

Posted on: February 6th, 2012 by Linda Ferguson No Comments

I am trying several new things this year to expand myself professionally and get my messages out to a wider audience. One way I’m going to do that is to develop and deliver videos. Stay tuned for more news of things to come!

I’m using my process of learning video production here as a teaching tool for you.

Steps to Expand Your Horizons

Step 1: Find something that excites you, that gives you energy

Step 2: Research or learn what is needed to do this new thing

Step 3: Give it a try. Practice what you want to do. Keep trying until you are happy with what you’ve done.

Step 4: It doesn’t have to be perfect the first time. In fact, you don’t want perfection. You want it completed.

Step 5: Build up a network of people who will support your new growth and learning.

Step 6: Celebrate your new learning and accomplishment. Tell your friends and others who can share in your success.

Here’s my fun video to watch

And now, for your enjoyment, a video I took while on holiday vacation in South Carolina. I saw these beautiful sails on the horizon so grabbed my video camera to take pictures. I had no idea what was going on since I couldn’t see that far. I put the video on zoom and was pleasantly surprised I got such good images of the wind surfers. This past weekend I played around with Movie Maker to add captions and Voila!

Enjoy the sunlight, the waves, the surfers and the music. Use this video as a reminder that you can do what you set your mind and heart on doing!

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Perfect Piece of the Puzzle

Posted on: February 3rd, 2012 by Linda Ferguson No Comments

Everyone has gifts to offer. We each hold a piece to the larger picture puzzle of work, friendships, relationships, and family. Each of us holds a piece that is needed for the whole of those we work with, are friends with, and whom we love deeply.

Sharing our gifts we support others with their puzzle.

Perhaps a colleague needs a compassionate co-worker to share certain feelings; you might be just the person who’s listening supports them.
Perhaps someone needs help with their computer or cell phone; you may have the experience or skills they need.
Perhaps a friend is struggling to find meaning in their life; if you have been through similar experiences you offer share some perspective.
Perhaps a family member is feeling loss from a relationship; you can be available to comfort them.

Similarly by allowing others to share their gifts with you, staying open to receive their gifts, you gain a piece to complete your life puzzle.

You do not play the game of life alone. Your game is much bigger than you can imagine. It involves sharing your gifts freely and receiving the gifts of others freely. You never know when your gift will provide guidance, healing, wholeness to someone in need.

Sharing your gifts allows you to be a greater source of renewal and inspiration for others. In this way you show up more fully present, a more potent Divine Expression.

Linda J. Ferguson is a Motivational Speaker and Job/ Life Coach. You’ll achieve your goals and create the life and work you desire using her successful 7 Step Transformational Empowerment_TM process. Work with passion and Purpose. Live your life by design not default! Visit www.lindajferguson.com

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Winter Feast for the Soul 2012

Posted on: January 25th, 2012 by Linda Ferguson No Comments

Last week I wrote about a program called Winter Feast for the Soul. It is a program to help you focus on your inner journey, connecting you to your soul, your true nature, your deep wisdom. If you care to participate, there are many meditations from various faith traditions on the Winter Feast for the Soul 2012 website. Consider joining a world-wide community of practice, a sangha of followers for inner harmony and global peace.

Here’s a nicevideo for the Winter Feast 2012.

Peace in your mind creates peace in your body

Peace in your body creates peace in your life

Peace in your life creates peace in your relationships

Peace in your relationships brings peace to your family and community

Peace in your family and community brings peace to the planet

Peace is inside you

Peace is around you

Peace is possible now- be still and discover its beauty

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Moving Inward

Posted on: January 25th, 2012 by Linda Ferguson No Comments

I like to use this time of colder, darker days to move inward, to connect more intentionally with the Source of my being. Something about cold winter months lends itself to silent reflection to center and focus. Moving inward allows for more contemplation about life’s bigger picture.

Set up some time to journal, light some candles, soak in a warm bath, anything that helps you be still and listen. When I lived in the woods and got snowed in, I loved walking around my house looking for deer tracks. At night I liked to walk up my drive seeing the stars shine brightly. In the morning I would look at the snow hanging on the trees with the morning light dancing off the limbs. I found joy sitting and listening to the birds or watching them gather berries near my window. Winter sometimes forced me inward, even when I didn’t want to be stuck home. Yet this time allowed me to slow down, to breathe deeper, to focus on the simple things that were showing up as beauty, joy, life.

I invite you to find some time during your day to turn off your iphone, ipod, ipad and laptop and just be with yourself. Do something intentionally to tap into your Source for guidance, inspiration, support, and clarity on your larger purpose- the reason you are here now, in this time, in your particular life.

As you sit with yourself listen for what calls you at this time. What rumblings are stirring your soul? Notice, pay attention, move inward, explore.

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Creative Actions Heal

Posted on: January 24th, 2012 by Linda Ferguson No Comments

I participated in an angel circle with Rev. Beth Evason for several years and often use her ideas and messages to support my work. I love her approach of working with the angels. If you want to join the circle of Angelwalkers to share prayer requests and add your energy to the healing prayers of others, please let Beth know. In this way, we create a wide circle of prayers to support the healing of the planet and one another.

Beth has a blog and will offer her posts from time to time on my blog site. Here’s one she wrote last year that I wanted to share.

Enjoy!

Creative Actions Heal

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Beth www.insideofzero.com

Okay just to let you in on a little secret of mine that I use when things seem to be going into the dumpster and everyone around seems to be flummoxed as to what to do.

Instead of deciding the situation is hopeless and predetermined I kick into Creative Action. Some times this takes longer than at other times but it works just the same. The old saying is “to get my head on straight.” And my heart open.

Staying in hopelessness and belief in a predetermined outcome is fear-based. It is the kids driving the bus. It is not coming from your Happy Place of Spirit attached to adult, self-love, trust in Infinite Creative Intelligence of which I am one as well as all the other people involved are one even if they are unaware of it.

Creative Action’s purpose is growth and healing which often looks like gathering information from yourself and the situation to determine what can be done to alter the outcome of the situation from dumpster to Divine… to rearrange the parts of the whole for a difference outcome while still not throwing anything (or anyone) away except bad attitudes and judgments.

Here is my not-in -concrete list of Guidance … you will get the hang of it when you do it and can make your own list!

1. Gather information, even if other people or you have looked at this same information a hundred times, do it with new eyes while open to guidance. Take yourself OUT of the equation and your Mind will get clearer information. Pretend it is happening to someone else.

2. List suggestion that pop into your Mind which seem to be directly attached to the situation solution. Stay in your Adult attached to Spirit. GET CREATIVE>> NOT DONE BEFORE BY YOU ACTIONS.

3. Enlist others to assist you in the process, if possible, allowing all ideas to be entertained. And Listen as well as share. Group effort.

4. Listen to your heart and allow yourself to feel a solution.

5. Know that it will take cooperation for all to benefit. The Thing ITSELF is in charge (you may call it God).

6. Write up, draw up your Creative Action and try it out… if amendments are needed, then make them all while holding that this situation is Divinely Guided for the betterment of all.

There is always a Creative Action you can apply instead of running away, shutting down, blaming others, blaming yourself, etc.

Creative Action moves you from disappointment and victim-hood into Victor and Good.

There is always a workable solution. There is always personal growth and releasing some of the familiar in Creative Action. It is the expansion into Divine Order.

Change is what Life is all about or we would all still be in diapers babbling nonsensical sounds!

Hope this helps…HUGS

~Thanks for tuning in~

Blessings,
Beth

Life is GOOD… All the Time!

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The Valley of Love and Delight

Posted on: January 19th, 2012 by Linda Ferguson 1 Comment

You probably have heard the song somewhere as a child or at summer camp:

“Tis the gift to be simple, tis the gift to be free

Tis the gift to come round where we ought to be

And when we find ourselves in that place just right,

‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight”

Aaaaaahhh, to be in the valley of love and delight.

How great it would be if we could find that place just right. Well guess what? You can. That place just right is in our own heart. Yes it is, and you can go there anytime you want.

The valley of love and delight is just a thought away, a good feeling away. It rests in your heart when you reconnect to your Source of Love and Delight.

Do you want to play there together today? Close your eyes after you read each part of this visualization to get a clear image and feel the presence of this valley in your heart.

Imagine your valley contains the river of love….. see it flowing peacefully, gleaming in the sunlight……

Imagine there is a tree of generosity…… giving freely its many gifts and sharing its bounty….

Imagine a walkway of kindness….. everyone offering a smile, a kind gesture, a helpful hand….

Imagine a well of compassion…. a well so deep there’s no end to it, a well that offers compassion to whomever dips their cup into it……

Imagine a porch swing of graciousness…. rocking back and forth effortlessly, joyfully, tenderly….

Imagine a courtyard of mindfulness…. quiet, still, peaceful, serene….

Imagine a sidewalk of patience…..you move slowly with each step, allowing your feet to rock gently, easefully, not hurried or rushed.

Travel to this valley of love and delight whenever you are stressed, need to slow down, feeling overwhelmed. Go there to renew your spirit, re-connect with your heart, fill your cup with the simple sweet things in life.

Blessed Be

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Buddhist Meditation for Compassion- The Great Bell Chant

Posted on: January 17th, 2012 by Linda Ferguson 2 Comments

Winter is a time to journey inward, to reflect on your inner world, to deepen your Inner Wisdom. My friend Eleni shared with me the wonderful video meditation below. I invite you to view it and take in the rich scenery and sounds. The venerable Thich Nhat Hanh narrates the video and offers his prayers for peace, compassion, and stillness. Watch the video and take in the rich colors and images, let it fill you with peace to bring out into the world.

Let the clarity of the bells call you home.
Allow the words to sink deep into your being.
Soak up the beauty of the images.
Open up to the energy and vibration of the message.
Send the vibration of compassion and peace to those who are in need.

Before you watch the video, take a deep breath. Allow the in-breath and the out-breath to move fully through your body.

Relax your face….. your neck….. your shoulders.

Open up your chest….. your abdomen……your collar bone……

Breathe deeply into your hips… your legs….your toes……

Allow your mind to be still…..

Enjoy the peace and beauty of this video.

The Great Bell Chant

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Helping Each Other – Lessons from the Turtles

Posted on: January 11th, 2012 by Linda Ferguson No Comments

I just got sent this video from my sister, a true blue friend of mine for sure.

Watching this video, I’m reminded of a lyric by the singer- song writer Chuck Brodsky – “We are each other’s angels and we meet when it is time. Go answer the calling, go and fill some body’s cup. When you see an angel falling won’t you stop to help them up.”

Enjoy this wonderful video reminder of what we are all here to do for one another.

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