The component parts are to establish your goal, locate the improvement needed to your present moment state of being and then energize your findings with the contemplation affirmation cards.   ENJOY!  COMMENTS WELCOMED!

First Set An Overall Big Intention – like the one for that book you would like to write, finding a special someone, starting new career, or maybe retiring with ease, getting that  new business off the ground or embarking on a spiritual journey etc.  

What is your Overall Intention? It’s empowering to write it out in the present tense (as though manifested).  Shorter is better than longer.

Do you consistently have the present moment energy to manifest this intention?   Take a quick look… 

Step 1 – On a scale ranging from -12 to +12 with 0 as the mid point how unconditionally loving and forgiving a person are you?  Not at all unconditionally loving and forgiving is minus 12 and totally unconditionally loving and forgiving rates a plus 12 .  Record your answer.

Step 2 – On a scale ranging from minus 12 to plus 12 with 0 as the mid point guesstimate the degree that you are free of non-coherent patterns – ways of being that are de-energizing and block you from being fully yourself and in the moment accomplishing your big intention.  Record your answer

Step 3 – with your 2 numbers in hand click here for the map  and find your first number on the horizontal axis and your second number on the vertical axis to locate your present moment energy available for your project.   You can adjust your numbers at this point if you wish.

If your energy co-ordinates are at +12/+12 chances are you are well on the way to manifesting your intention.  However, if like most people you are somewhere not squarely in the upper right quadrant, you could use some help!  

Mini-Repatterning Do It Yourself – Affirmations can help you get in touch with the patterns that need to clear and to support your resolve.  Use this express set of Mastering MY Present Moment Project cards to tune-up or repattern your big intention.

Download your sample of Contemplation Cards  that we use in the Mastering MY Present Moment Project.  On the blank Journey Transforms card record your really big vision, intention or goal – something you may name as  your project.   Just naming it will move your energy. 

Print the cards on light card stock and cut into cards OR print on regular paper and paste the cards on index cards.   Energize your overall intention with chakra energy by reading  your own intention first and then each of the chakra cards following it in the order of Begins, Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether, Brow, Crown and Continues

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The fire  chakra energy center is located in the solar plexus or stomach area of the body, and governs life themes such as self-image, self-esteem, intuitive knowing (literally – a gut sense), time and money management, willpower and being in right action.  The key word for this chakra is ACTION.  When it is in balance you easily take action otherwise you are procrastinating or feeling sluggish.

Each chakra has unique associations such as color, sound, body ailments, etc. resulting from the match in frequency.

Here are some simple ways to boost the fire chakra:

1. Use the color yellow  in the way that you are most drawn to use.  Wear yellow T-shirts or other garments especially covering the midriff. Sit for a minute or two and imagine your body absorbing the frequency of the color yellow.  

Notice how you feel when you are in a room painted yellow.  It’s a great color for the kitchen where you’d like to get things done.

Stare at the color yellow found in some object you have handy – perhaps a real lemon, a yellow  folder, or piece of paper. Again, just imagine that as you stare at the color yellow you are absorbing its frequency. Your fire chakra will thank you.

2. Use aroma oils to balance or enhance your fire chakra.  I have one for the Young Living company called “Motivation” that I find works for procrastination, lemon works as does  carnation or rosemary.  Imagine  yourself in right action working on your goals or plans while inhaling these scents.

3. Use sound particularly the note of “E ” and/or chanting the word RAM.  If you have a piano or musical instrument, just pluck the sound of E and let it linger.  Spend a minute or two just absorbing the sound.  Chant LAM, LAM, LAM in the shower to any other favorite tune you may have or just play with your voice and the chant.

4. Do a movement exercises  like dancing  to music to help propel action. Dance to 40’s style swing music, or do some work on a rebounder.  If you are a yoga student or with the help of a yoga teacher –try inversion postures.  Also, find any excuse to move. Park at the back of the parking lot at the mall, use the stairs,  take your bike or walk instead of using the car – your fire chakra will benefit. 

5. Watch a movie with fire chakra energy elements something that is action oriented  – “Chariots of Fire” is an old standby, or the recent “Julie & Julia” demonstrates outcomes from being in right action.  Any favorite action adventure movie will also do but notice the difference in your physical system between watching outright violence versus movies with a theme of family entertainment.

Use any of the modalities above to improve your fire chakra energy and energize any intentions you may have for the related life themes.  Do these actions with conscious awareness, and you will be doing your own resonance repatterning of sorts.

I’m at a point where I’m seeing how my life is being guided by the divine and how I cannot be satisfied or truly abundant until I follow the natural authority in my own heart. I am calmer. I feel more connected with a sense of guidance and trust in God.  My heart still feels like old shadows grip it against my will, but I have an awareness that is holding me in an easier momentum and sense of the future.

Today a friend brought me a box of my favorite foods and a gift certificate for more food, during the same week that I’m working to barely make back rent. I was moved by how abundant it felt. It sounds so tragically touching, yet I’m situated for growth like never before. I really am feeling my voice and trusting that I can provide for myself after years of strange terrors around money. I’m finally embracing a knowing that it is all within me.

At the same time,  I’m realizing and finally seeing that what I have to share has context in the world. I’m less angry and more anchored in being directly connected with other people. I feel like I can be myself without having to defend myself from inside a fortress. It is a beautiful place to be arriving. I only want to keep forging forward.

Thank you, Carolyn. If you only knew the stew I’ve been in.  I have felt through the repatternings like Humpty Dumpty being put back together again, only I’m so much less fragile than before. It’s like I’m feeling my body and soul come together again and then feeling a coherent path within the world that before seemed like a blurry nightmare when I knew it should be a place of joy. I feel more whole.

My goal for Mastering My Present Moment has been to find my voice and to use it productively in work and art. I have spent a great deal of energy in these past months trying to collaborate with two different people through creative marketing ventures. Despite my best efforts, those collaborations have fallen apart and at the core has been the lesson that I need to trust my own path.

I suddenly cannot waste my breath with unproductive communication. I’m more astute in recognizing unproductive communication. Tuning into your senses is a whole different way of living and seeing with clarity. 

So much of this journey for me has been about shedding old patterns–about knowing which way Not to go and about knowing where Not to focus my voice. The wonderful thing is I’m seeing a better place to focus. Last night I found myself talking to God as I lay in bed, asking for advice and help in reviewing my day and the course of my life. I haven’t been seeing my life. Confiding in this way felt so natural and whole, I wondered how I could ever have gotten along with doing it. For so long I’ve been out of touch with that connection.

In Carolyn’s wonderful audio discussion of the Ether chakra, she talks about showing the world who we are. At this juncture of our journey, I realize this is the crux of what I’ve been trying to face. Showing myself is my fear and my urge. I need to speak my voice as a whole person and I have not felt whole. But I’m feeling “more whole” than I’ve felt in a long time.

I have felt energetic layers fall off of me as if they were old hard skins. This past week, the same week we’ve dealt with the throat chakra, old layers of chronic pain seemed to crack and peel from my neck area giving me profound relief.  I’m standing more upright and standing up for myself, without feeling defensive. It makes me think that what I’m after is integrity.

I just need to keep that conversation going with God. I need to keep tuning in and hearing the message(s). I’ve been too conditioned to seek the wrong counsels, which of course  leads to the wrong relationships. God, you mean I can have healthy, fulfilling relationships?!

I have known I hold fear in the form of physical illness. There is fear of being thrust back into old patterns of doing work that doesn’t honor my soul. There is fear in grief I hold from old losses. But somehow I sense an expanding awareness of just how smothered my voice has been in my aloneness.

The other night I was compelled to ask my mother for help. She has been gone many years now, and though I’ve felt her presence, I haven’t been able to ask for her help like an insistent daughter as I once could when she was alive. I was finally asserting myself beyond stuck grief. I’ve known how grief is held in the lungs. I struggle all the time with releasing old grief and receiving new air. From the air of my lungs, so near the heart chakra, I was speaking old grief up to the heavens. I also asked my angel(s) for help, which has also been difficult for me despite my constant awareness of them. It’s not like I haven’t been trying for years through journaling, healing, and every way I could to connect. But suddenly, I was able to ask for help.  After asking, I had a healing dream in which my mother and my grandmother came to me in a dark room where I was sickly and sleeping, and I felt solid maternal support I have so needed and that nothing else can give.

I have been buried alive with fear so long, to the point of chronic anxiety and compression in my chest—as if my throat where my voice comes from was backed up. Over and over I see how the physical cannot be separated from the emotional and spiritual. In being able to ask for help, I became aware of the accompanying faith—which is another part of the ether theme. How elegantly and mysteriously it all fits. It’s like I’m seeing how spark plugs of life can connect.

Also, several days ago I discovered a solution that had been eluding me for my technical challenges with the Internet, which frees me up to focus more on writing and makes me realize how those obstacles were hiding my fears to speak the voice that has been raging inside me for years.

For all these breakthroughs, I need this time for integration. I’m poorer than I’ve ever been and I’m trying to use what I’ve learned to cultivate money and security, themes of the lower chakras I was hoping to have better handled by now.  I’ve observed this deep resistance in me to produce and thrive, yet the way has been cleared to do so. Do others feel themselves both growing and resisting at the same time?  

 Part of me knew I was foreshadowing. Around the time of the repatternings with Solar plexus (self esteem) and Heart chakras I sensed incoherent patterns emerging between us. I sensed it was the ancient struggle between men and women around money and power. My father resisted producing money, though he had every talent. He resented my mother needing or spending money. Money was power and freedom.

I have not felt financially free, either alone or with men, in my life. I thought this working collaboration could be an opportunity to overcome an old pattern, to claim my true power and independence. But I could not ignore the signs of codependence. I felt conditions around how my behavior might or might not influence how he might or might not produce or whether he would be forthcoming or not.

My theme for this series has been around speaking my authentic voice in my work. Tonight I read the notes from the Heart chakra session. One of the issues addressed was: “I speak my truest voice in matters of love and romance.” This collaboration with this man was not a romantic relationship, but it was taking on the dynamic and tensions of a codependent one—where I needed to be a good girl and available according to his wishes if I wanted to see results. Almost overnight I become more cognizant at what was evolving and filled with defiance. I spoke with bluntness about being unable to work with the strange imbalance. Of course, he is a painfully sensitive soul, so it would be tempting for me to rationalize the benefits of working with him. But I’ve had enough of a history that I’m not moved by it.

Now, the challenge is to move more deeply into the parts of my heart I’ve neglected while being caught up in the wrong parts of other people’s hearts. 

 But it was so strange. In the mid-afternoon as I was hacking away on a repetitive writing assignment trying to get a grip on my purpose–(inner purpose happens to be the theme of the heart chakra coming up today)—I suddenly felt compelled to listen to Metallica on the computer, which I did with full enthusiasm  for about eight solid hours. As I write this, I’m listening to them again. I always loved Metallica, but I found myself studying the lyrics and details of the music and being riveted by the artistry and singing out with contented commitment the same way I used to do with music as a girl. I hadn’t done that in so long and I’ve missed that communion. I have accessed something that ‘s been missing from my center a very long time. It is about being in the flow with what I love. Like their music, it felt solid and unshakable.

What appropriate music for me as I try and burn away the energy of years to get back to my heart. Talk about instrumental. Thank you Metallica and Carolyn Winter. ( Should I put one of those smiley faces here?)

 Ironically, my intent for this series has been to speak my true voice in my work.

This past week has also been big for my self-esteem and for relaxing my soul because I finally found a way to make some reliable income by writing from home on my schedule. For the first time since I can remember—and that’s a looong time, I’m not afraid. I’m not afraid that I have to crawl and grovel to pay my bills. It’s a start and on top of it, I found myself willing to risk losing my collaboration with my marketing partner who has helped me so remarkably much.

 The signs seemed that we were moving in different directions. But what happened is that in conversation it became clearer than ever that our different approaches complement, and need, one another. He is the technical one who needs someone to give him purpose in order to see a project through. I am the stubborn artistic, activist type who wants to change the world by marketing and networking things that will make a difference. I had not been voicing how primary my passions were. I thought it was because on some level I felt too dependent on his technical expertise and that I should just focus on some less consequential projects for now until I learned the process better and since I didn’t believe he would support my bigger visions. But I got to see how the real issue for me was me was in not owning up to my true self. I was not being crystal clear about what I needed to be and do in the world. But what I found was that we found direction all over again when I was clear about how I must focus on representing only things I fully resonate with and that I know in my heart will truly help people. 

I thought two days ago my connection with my marketing partner had reached some typical end. But I was willing to let it burn away because I thought it was more important to choose self esteem even if it meant losing such a strong collaboration.

 It was like I was testing my own self- esteem. And now I feel a breaking through to the next level toward wholeness. I feel like I can stand up for what I believe in. Fire. How unpredictably and elegantly things can change. 

I also find it interesting that one of my stumbling blocks with marketing and blogging on the Internet is in trying to find a comfort level with identity. Why did I choose to use a pen name for this blog? Is it a question of self esteem? I will be eager to see how shifts happen with the coming repatterning for the fire chakra.

Now, I need the will power to make things happen—the fire to keep it going. I’m interested to observe that I have a determination I didn’t have weeks ago. I draw from an inner source I didn’t have access to before. I feel more sure about my action, less dispersed. I’m always amazed at the shifts that are so subtle, yet so significant in retrospect. I’m a more confident creature right now. I don’t feel as delicate as I did weeks ago. But I’m aware that finding the balance in the  movement forward remains necessary.

It remains so crucial to me that I make money through using my authentic voice, and even more so, as I see the layers of deceit in business and communications on the Internet. Ironically, my newfound marketing partner who came into my life, coincidentally at the beginning of Mastering My Present Moment, consistently makes a point to ask me if I feel heard in our process of working together. He also shares the same urgent need to make money, but with the same desire for quality–so we have become fast collaborators. He keeps helping me on so many levels I can’t even keep track. He suggested the other day out of the blue to help me with my time management just as a project manager had once done for him—almost at the same time we are working on that theme in Mastering My Present Moment. But it seems the course of our relationship has been full of coincidences like that. I’ve actually had to work to contain how much he helps me.

As we are moving into the fire chakra, I’m making bigger choices about defining my work and how I present myself—and I see how I need that fire of intuition to guide me. I’ve been moving a long time out of old trauma  toward the deep need to express so much. I’m feeling a new courage. I’m holding on and maybe at some point I’ll see a great place to try flying and I won’t need the carpet for a while.