Article Title: How to Move from Just Functioning to a "Wow" Awakening Author Name: Julie Jordan Scott Contact Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Word Count: 474 Category: Personal Development Copyright Date: 2006 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Publishing Guidelines: Thank you for publishing this article in its entirety including the resource box. When possible, please notify me of publication by sending either a website link or a copy of your ezine upon publication via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANKS! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How to Move from Just Functioning to a "Wow" Awakening © 2006 Julie Jordan Scott
I stood in the center of my dining room, perplexed. My first perfectionistic, strive-coated thought was "I don't know, I just don't know" and yet when I took a second to leap frog over the "what I don't possess", I discovered something very significant. I have a very strong opinion about "nots" - which is what "Don't" is. it is a "Do not". I never really thought about it before - what "not" means - so I paid a visit to my friend, Merriam Webster, and I found these definitions: First: "used as a function word to make negative a group of words or a word," and second: "used as a function word to stand for the negative of a preceding group of words." "Not" is a universal "abracadabra" for the negative. The anti-pixie dust. Something else tapped me on the shoulder. What is a function word? I have never heard that term before now. I asked jeeves and discovered a function word actually contains very little meaning standing on its own. Instead, it is placed in a sentence to be in relationship with the words that surround it. Perfection. Now I get it. The word "not" literally ties up the words around it in "knots". It is like the super glue of lack and scarcity. Wow. The first personal development book I ever read was "Awaken the Giant Within" by Tony Robbins. The most significant lesson I learned from that book is one I still carry with me today. I learned to change the words I use in order to cause a shift not only in my behavior, I use words to mold my environment to make it more suitable for me to grow. I cut out one simple phrase and replaced it with several different variations. The phrase I eliminated was "No problem," something I said with astonishing regularity. I replaced it with, "My pleasure." I still use it today. Look at that: when you hear the phrase "no problem" what word continues to vibrate after you, leaving its residue on your spirit? Yes, the word "problem." On the other hand, when you hear "my pleasure" what is the left over vibration? "Pleasure." Desirability. Goodness. Sweetness. Yes. So, instead of "Not" - or "Don't" which I just flashed on, is the active form of "Not". I will focus on awakening and awareness and opening. So instead of "I don't know" I will "awaken to knowing," and "Become aware of knowing" and "I am open to knowing." Yes. I feel a "Wow" awakening. I know I enjoy little better than discovering all of this in the presence of others. So, care to join me? I am open to knowing - I am awakening to.... My soul is open to..... Activate Your Passion. ====== Julie Jordan Scott is a Writer, Speaker, Success Coach, Actor, Workshop Facilitator and Mother Extraordinaire who created the DreamActivation program to ignite your dreams. http://www.5passions.com/dreamactivationnew.html Fre.e. audio coaching - immediate download: http://juliejordanscott.typepad.com/julie_unplugged/2006/09/coacharama.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND WHILE USING ARTICLES POSTED ON THE GROUP: 1. Print the article in its entirety. Don't make any changes in the article . 2. Print the resource box with all articles in their entirety. 3. Send the Author a copy of the reprinted article or the URL where the articles was posted. Anything short of following these three rules is a violation of the Authors Copyright. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReprintArticles-Paradise/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
