MASHUPS and
EXPECTANCY
Nathen’s Newsletter
May ’17)
Warm greetings and blessings to you, dear Friend!
May you be filled with lovingkindness.
May you be safe and protected from all inner and outer dangers.
May you be well in body and mind.
May you be at ease and happy.
THIS MONTH’S TOPIC
For a while now, it’s been clear to me that the name of the game, the purpose of this existence, is to remember who and what we truly are – sparks of God – and to forgive ourselves when we forget. A big part of being human is forgetting, AND I’m always trying to “improve my batting average” and remember more often.
My latest trick is to create MASHUPS of inspiring words/ideas to create even more powerful ways to remember.
Allow me to demonstrate.
I take these 3 ideas…
1) ”What if upping” – asking positive “what if” questions (from “What If It All Goes Right?”, by Mendhi Audlin)
2) “You are doing extremely well.
The Well-Being that you seek is flowing to you.
Relax and enjoy the unfolding and feel appreciation for what is,
and eagerness for what is coming.”
(from “Getting Into The Vortex”, by Esther and Jerry Hicks)
3) The “square of life” – perfect health, perfect wealth, perfect love, perfect self-expression (from Florence Scovel Shinn’s book, “The Game Of Life [And How To Play It”])
… and then I put them all together, saying:
“What if, with appreciation for what is and eagerness for what’s coming,
I were to claim perfect health, perfect wealth, perfect love and perfect self-expression?
What would that feel like? What DOES that feel like (how is all of this showing up in my life right now)?”
What I’m discovering is that doing this allows me to stay open and curious, and that things then manifest in a more natural and organic way.
The answer to How is indeed YES.
(Some powerful examples from my own life:
– On April 5th, a fire in my apartment building necessitated me looking for a new home… AND, within three weeks, I found myself sharing a big, beautiful house with a friend only five minutes east of where I used to live.
– For the last few years, I’ve been dealing with a minor health issue, and my new housemate is a healer with powerful knowledge and expertise with my issue.
– As I remember that it’s ALL good and it’s ALL God, much more money is flowing into my life from several sources.)
AND – in the spirit of continuing expansion and ever greater self-expression – I want to “up the ante” with one more idea:
“Expectancy speeds progress. Therefore, live in a continual state of expectancy. No matter how much good you are experiencing today, expect greater good tomorrow. Expect to meet new friends. Expect to meet new and wonderful experiences. Try this magic of expectancy and you will soon discover a dramatic side to your work which gives full vent to constructive feeling. It makes life a game that is a joy to play. It enables you to enter into the spirit of things and of people.”
(from “This Thing Called You”, by Ernest Holmes.)
Incorporating this idea with the previous three, the new mashup would be:
“What if, with appreciation for what is and eagerness for what’s coming,
I were to EXPECT perfect health, perfect wealth, perfect love and perfect self-expression?
What would that feel like? What DOES that feel like (how is all of this showing up in my life right now)?”
wooHOO!
YES, YAY and AMEN!
So – with gratitude and curiosity – I “up the ante” of my powerful mashups with EXPECTANCY.
In honour of Mashups, I offer you a fun musical mashup (you can easily find MANY of these on youtube).
I also offer you links to all four of the inspiring books that I mentioned above:
What If It All Goes Right?
Getting Into The Vortex
(“Getting Into The Vortex” is also available as an app for your phone)
The Game Of Life And How To Play It
This Thing Called You
How about YOU, dear Friend? What’s most resonating in YOU this month?
WHEREVER you are on your journey, I’d love to hear from you.
Please e-mail me; we’re all in this together, and we have much to learn from each other.
(BIG THANKS to all of the kind souls who respond to my newsletters; reading your comments is always a highlight of my month.)
APPRECIATION
Every Monday on my Facebook business page, I post messages of gratitude.
Please have a look, join the conversation, and SHARE the posts with your friends.
UPCOMING AND ONGOING EVENTS
– PERFORMANCES
(For the most up-to-date information, please click on any date in my online calendar)
– VIDEOS
May I be of service to you and your organization or community with my words and music?
My KEYNOTE CONCERT presentation can be seen here, and my PERFORMANCE VIDEOS, including my LATEST ONE (“Learn, Share, Grow and Belong”) can be seen here.
– MUSIC
My very dear friend and song co-writer Becca Palm has created “Community Songs”, a songbook/CD package of 23 songs which includes 4 chants that she and I co-wrote (“Ho-oponopono”, “Listen”, “Small Steps” and “Turning Within”). To get your copy, please click here. (You can also listen to and/or download the songs here.)
As a very dear and wise friend in Montreal once said to me, “All I can offer you is my experience”.
My sincere desire, in every one of my newsletters, is to encourage us all to live our Big Lives one Small Step at a time.
Much love to you, dear Friend. May you “up the ante” in the MASHUPS of your inspired thinking with EXPECTANCY, and may you go with LOVE.
– Nathen
