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Reality Rampage of Power

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I’ve been doing Izabella Siodmak – http://www.izabellasiodmak.com – The Pages of Power for Him for the past month. As I wrote in a previous blog I met Izabella on line via her ex lover I did a retreat with in the beautiful Byron shire in the Australian hinterlands, we both kept liking his posts so why not befriend each other. After a few months of doing this I thought I would check out what Izabella did so I went to her website, all good thought leaders have one, I’ve got one http://www.about.me/rodwill1707.com.

Discovered that she ran a retreat centre and produced these awesome workbooks. I ordered it and it was so pretty I couldn’t write in it so reproduced the pages and am now up to my second sheet. I do them every day and am proud to say I am creating a powerful new me through this practice. Here’s a few of the questions Izabella get you to ponder and write an empowering answer to.

– I am empowered whenever I ….

– I feel strong in my body when …, we all have body image stuff.

– I stand in my clarity and certainty when ….

– I experience my power when I am around…. looking at this one I have done a bit of a clean out.

– I now embrace the power of …… create your new life

– The strengths other see in me include….. Acknowledgement is a great thing to have as part of your daily practice.

– I see the power in others when……. As is Acknowledgement of Others

and I deserve…. create an empowering wish list, not a to do list.

Thats enough, don’t want to give it all away. Theres one for her as well as him and several other goodies. Check it out, its nearly time for Chrissie presents.

The workbook ends with the aptly titled Reality Rampage of Power.

I know what I want.

Everything works out well for me.

It’s just perfect.

Life is filled with ease, grace, knowing, clarity and my alignment in my power.

I accept only the best in Myself.

It’s easy to accept only the best.

I feel my power. I am the Power.

I am the power of the Youniverse.

I trust myself in each moment.

I am immeasurably divine and I know it in every particle of my being.

And So It Is.

I wrote this blog after doing todays answers, I am buzzing, Thanks Izabella – you rock, my Northern sister.

Should You Ask?

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I have changed my attitude to asking questions since watching this TED talk by Amanda Palmer on asking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMj_P_6H69g, I came across peoples fear of asking at work recently where I am Social media Manager. We have 500 FB friends and I asked them  to tell there Friends about us, the repercussions of this where not what I expected. I only work two days a week and received a call at home that I had to remove the request immediately.

My way I treat people who link with you on Facebook  or any social media was transformed after reading a book called Think Like a Rock Star, Rockstars have fans who love them and other people have customers, here is a link to  a talk Mark Collier the author gave http://www.marketingprofs.com/podcasts/2013/11394/think-like-a-rock-star-author-mack-collier-talks-to-marketing-smarts-podcast, He gives five examples of bands/artists who have given power to their fans including Lady Gaga, go figure. So we have fans at work, not customers.

I could have got uppity about being told to take it off but did not, Its just another step in the process of asking becoming a valued commodity again. So a question, LOL – where do you just assume the answer and not bother asking,And a request that will transform your  life, ask 5 more questions a day and flourish.

My CD’s cost me $1.00

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Do you op shop, go to thrift stores, to recycle stores? My sister Ruth and I have been taking my 87 year old mum op shopping in Australia every Tuesday for the past 5 years. Edna taught us to opshop and volunteered in her local church op shop from an early age. Over this time we have come to know really well the specialties of each op shop in Melbourne’s northern suburbs and some of our favourite suburbs in the south and south east.

The mental illness store in High Street Northcote has a fantastic range of mens brand shirts for the outrageous price of $8.00. I brought a Tommy Hillfigger shirt there and when I told my work mate Luciano he said they sell for $120, bargain. There are some stores that are selling at label  prices in the last few years and that is why I love Brotherhood of St. Laurence stores, they live by the ethos that you charge by item, shirts $5.00, trousers $6.00, jackets $7.00 not by label. I brought a London Fog jacket at their Watsonia store last winter for $7.00. i was interested in the retail price as I had heard of the label. I had just saved $343.00, another bargain.

A great place to source information is on the speciality blogs that are proliferating on line about this sacred practice on of my favourites is http://ilovetoopshop.blogspot.com.au/, they also have a Facebook link where you get to share your special purchases of the week. Another site I got onto recently is http://nevereverpayretail.com.au/, a spunky young thing who knows her labels and does great pictures, there are heaps of them just google op shops or thrift stores for your state, county or country and you can access the passion of many like minded souls who love a bargain.

There are many large super stores like Savers in Melbourne, an idea that was imported from Canada I believe . Just checked their site, they started in 1954, same age as me, 60 years of providing quality bargains. Both my nephews have worked in Savers in Brunswick. I think that is one of the joys of Op shopping, the staff are  mainly volunteers and genuinely love being there. I have had many a great conversation with staff at the Salvo’s, Vinnies and other like minded stores and they have always been passionate. Here’s the link for Savers: http://www.savers.com.au/

I also found one in High Street that sells CD’s for $1.00, CD’s range for this price to the outrageous price of $3.25. As I keep my music on my computer and iPhone these days I buy them and recycle them next week. I recently found Crowded Houses greatest hits and my all time favourite disco era band, Chic’s greatest hits. $2.00 for 2 hours of quality music. I will always love my mother Edna May Williams for passing on the gift of loving an Op Shop and my sisters Ruth and jann for being huge Op shoppers as well, thats how I started my wooden horse collection. My Chinese star sign is that of the Wooden horse and my sister from Tasmania Jann lobbed one birthday with about 15 horses in different shape and form informing me everybody needs to collect at least one thing. Have added a few to the collection since then, Its amazing how they seem to appear in your opshop after you need them when you didn’t notice them before.

So take an oath today: I ………… will willingly and lovingly buy from Op Shops/ Thrift stores from today on and donate to worthwhile causes and save shitloads of money. Yay!!!!!

4.15 a.m. , Wide awake for 3 hours

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I had an amazing weekend, attended two inspirational events. The first was a Kundalini empowerment in Carnegie. heres an article that gives you a sense of what opening your Kundalini channels offers you http://simonarich.com/kundalini-awakening-symptoms. During the night an unexplained flash went through the room, powerful stuff. When they started talking about the gurus involved I was a bit apprehensive as I have had a past experience of my guru having affairs with his students. I got over this and settled into the evening, Miroslav, Charmaine and Zoorian were wonderful facilitators. Simple techniques that were respectful of everybody in the room.

The second was Own Your Fuck, a sexuality exploration. it was take two for me as I had attended the first one six weeks ago. i got so much out of the first one I simply had to attend again. No sex involved , no touching , just awesome heart felt processes. A sound shower for 40 minutes where you accessed your body and made the sound that was necessary to clear your blockages. An interview with your penis/Vagina using the name you call it. My name is tripod, different to last time when it was The Lovehammer. In this interview you ask what is your relationship with your Tripod and then you reverse the situation and you interview your Tripod and how it feels about the relationship.

Lots of dancing and great vegan food down the road at Friends of the Earth, ten bucks for lots of healthy food. its interesting the people who attended, quite a few men which is unusual as it is women who are leading the transformation of sexuality movement in Australia. Miroslav and Belinda have the ability to attract all sorts of people.

Here are their links, Belinda https://www.facebook.com/pages/Holistic-Moon/142744245786346 and Miroslav https://www.tribeheart.com.au.  This how I am writing this at 4.30 after having been awake for three hours. I got home well sated and went to bed at 9.40, 4 hours later I woke up, wide awake. I only sleep four hours a night now since starting using Body Balance but thats another story. Thanks to all the beautiful people I shared these experiences with, you have allowed me to get closer to my soul. Namaste, all.