Monthly Archives: February 2017
Something Good
Today we are going to work on a new list. I’m calling it the “Something Good About Me” list. Let’s take some time today to write a nice long list of everything we can think of about ourselves that we perceive to be good. All of our positive qualities, our talents, our strengths.
Don’t be tempted to skimp on this list. Make it as long and as detailed as you possibly can. Include sentences that begin with the following:
- I have …
- I can …
- I do …
- I am …
- I know …
- I understand …
- I make …
Imagine That!
Today lets imagine what our lives would be like, how different we would be, how different our situations and circumstances would be if that most uncomfortable “I am …” statement was, in fact NOT TRUE.
Take a few minutes to just sit with it… and if you can’t visualize it, if you can’t “feel” the difference, try substituting a better or different word for the one that triggers those negative feelings. The substitution should be something that directly addresses the original statement.
Here are some examples:
- Change “I am ugly” into “I am unusual and interesting” or “I am beautiful.”
- “I am incompetent” could become “I am a DIY guru” or “I am an expert.”
- “I am fat” could be changed into “I am strong and fit” or “I love my curvy new body.”
Think about how you would act, how you would walk. Who would you talk to? What would you do? Would you wear different clothes? Look for a different job? Would you hold your head high? Would you smile a lot? Imagine all the ways your life would be changed.
Keep working with the phrase until you come up with something that puts a smile on your face, and feels really good to think or say. You’re looking for an image or a phrase that would feel like freedom and happiness IF you could say it about yourself and KNOW it to be true.
Don’t worry too much if you don’t believe it could ever be true. All we’re trying to accomplish here is to have a look at how it would feel if that negative “I am…” statement from yesterday did not apply to you at all. Focus in on that feel good feeling, and enjoy it.
Writing It Down
Today we are going to revisit yesterday’s list of “I am…” statements. I hope you wrote them down, and if you didn’t take some time right now to revisit yesterday’s post and make a list of at least 5 statements.
As you look over the I am statements from yesterday, take a little bit of time to read each one and think about how does it make you feel to say that?
- Good? Bad? Happy? Sad? Embarrassed? Ashamed?
- Maybe it just feels true… and neither good nor bad.
Today, I want us to take a look at the statement that we like the least. The one that makes us feel the worst when we think it. It might even be something that you wouldn’t even be comfortable saying out loud. Take that statement and write it in big bold letters on a new page of your notebook.
- Are you avoiding it?
- Hiding from it?
- Fighting with it?
- Overwhelmed by it?
- At a loss as to what to do about it?
- All of the above?
- None of the above?
- Something else is going on with it?
While you are contemplating this statement about yourself, make a circle around it. Any kind of a circle, a big fat circle, a raggedy jaggedy circle, a complicated spiral, a simple bubble… doesn’t matter. Just make a circle around your statement.
Once your circle is complete, on the OUTSIDE of that circle, write, draw, or doodle whatever it is that you’d like to do to it. Maybe you want to decorate it… maybe you want to poke holes in it… maybe you want to yell at it… drop bombs on it… You’ll know when you’re done.
Now, underneath what you’ve just done, write (and finish) the following sentences.
- I am … AND …
- I am … BUT …
- I am … BECAUSE …
- I am … and that’s OK because …
- I am … and that’s NOT OK because …
- I am NOT … when …
The intention here is to begin to think about our deeper motivations, to begin to pay attention to ourselves, to take a look behind the scenes and really get clear about our perceived faults and flaws. Sometimes a fault or flaw is also a survival mechanism. Sometimes our “shit” gets us what we want, it might be attention, or comfort, or a way to control our environment or the people around us. Sometimes we use cruel words to force ourselves into action.
If this exercise gives you an insight into yourself, your behavior, your patterns… or anything else in your life. I’d love to hear about it.
You Are …
Hello and welcome to the Laying the Groundwork Project.
I thought we’d start by introducing ourselves..
to ourselves.
As we discovered in the Violet Flame Project: “Every spoken sentence beginning with ‘I Am’ is a powerful spell exhaled into action.”
For our first exercise, you’ll need to have a pen and paper ready. I’m going to have you finish a sentence with the very first word that pops into your mind. Don’t worry, you won’t have to share that word with anyone except for yourself.
So… are you ready? Finish the following sentence with the first word that pops into your mind:
I am …..
Now, how many other things can you think of to finish that sentence with? Make a list. Write them down. Write as many as you can think of. It’s important to actually write them down because we’ll be revisiting our lists tomorrow. As the day goes by, pay attention if you find yourself saying or thinking “I am…”
Jumping In
If you are interested in jumping into the upcoming project, Laying The Groundwork, you are on the right page. All that’s needed is a short comment about what it is that you’d like to accomplish with this 30 day experimental exercise, what you’re interested in working on, and what your expectations are.
When our project is complete, we’ll use these comments to determine whether or not the project was successful. It will also help me to know what direction to take us as we navigate the next 30 days.
All that is necessary for the project itself is a spiral notebook, a pen, and a willingness to be clear and honest with yourself about yourself. I’d love it if you’d share your ideas, experiences, questions, conundrums, and insights as we go along.
I will be posting something new every day, and each post will be shared on our Facebook page. If you’d like to be notified via email, you can do that through the Feed Burner form in the sidebar. My hope is that we will have a lively dialogue and lots of new insights and revelations.
The project begins on Feb 15. See you soon!
Laying The Groundwork
This spectacular garden didn’t just pop out of the ground, awesome and amazing and ready to be enjoyed. It was planned and plotted out in advance. The location, climate, soil, budget, and purpose were analyzed and research was done.
My first garden was a spectacular success and an equally spectacular failure because I planned nothing in advance. And while some of my plants did really well, many others died, and by the time August rolled around, the weeds were chin high and I waved the white flag of defeat. And now, as I’m writing this, I realize that this could be a story about my life, because when I look around, I see the chin high weeds. and I wonder when I waved my own white flag and agreed to be defeated.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, it occurred to me that we just spent 30 days saying with complete confidence and absolute certainty that “I AM a being of Violet Fire.” And I don’t know about you, but if that was all that I was, if I am only that, my life would be way different that it is… there would be no white flags, no chin high weeds, no petty irritations, no deep regrets.
So I wanted to do a project to help us to define who we really are, what it is that we really want, what do we have to work with, what are our strengths, our weaknesses, the challenges and obstacles, and I’m hoping that in the process of this self exploration, each of us will begin to create a plan for our lives that actually works. A plan that works because it’s based on the reality of who we really are, and what we really want.
I’ve decided to call it, Laying The Groundwork. And over the next 30 days, I thought it would be interesting to explore some of the following questions:
- Who are we really?
- What are our raw materials?
- What does prosperity actually look like?
- What are our strengths?
- When and why do we choose not to use them?
- What are our weaknesses?
- How do they serve us?
- Our fatal flaws?
- Our greatest assets?
- How and when do we create roadblocks to our success?
- And why?
I would really love it if you would join me on this journey. We will begin on February 15th. All that is required is a notebook, a pen, and a commitment to participate. And of course, if you’d like to follow along without a commitment, that’s fine too.
Project Update
Hi guys. I’m about halfway through with the migration of our Gypsy Magic project from blogger to its new home here. It’s been really fun and interesting to revisit the comments and the posts from 10 + years ago.
Our countdown timer says we have only a week until the next project begins. It occurred to me that we just spent 30 days saying “I AM.” And I can say with complete confidence and absolute certainty that “I AM a being of Violet Fire.” But I am also a number of other things as well. And some of those other things… Well… you know. They’re not so great, actually.
So I wanted to do a project to help me to define who I really am, what it is that I really want, what do I have to work with, what are my strengths, my weaknesses, the challenges and obstacles, and I’m hoping that in the process of this self exploration, I will begin to create a plan for my life that actually works. A plan that works because it’s based on the reality of who I really am.
I think I’m going to call it, Laying The Groundwork. The idea will be to create a foundation; to explore the basics or fundamentals of who we are, what we want, and what it is that we have to work with.
I thought it would be interesting to explore some of the following questions:
- Who are we really?
- What are our raw materials?
- What does prosperity actually look like?
- What are our strengths?
- Our weaknesses?
- Our fatal flaws?
- Our greatest assets?
- How do we create roadblocks to our success?
- And why?
If anyone has any thoughts, ideas, insights, revelations, questions, or comments. Please, I’d love to hear them. This next project is still feeling very nebulous.
So Now What?
We’ve finished our Violet Flame project, and I’d like to take a few days to migrate the Gypsy Magick, Does it work? project from its original home on blogger, to its new home here at shirleytwofeathers.com. I will be back dating the posts to match the original dates of the project. We practiced Gypsy Magick way back in November of 2006… can you believe it was that long ago?
In the interim, I’ll be sharing the Gypsy Magick posts on the Facebook page, just in case anyone is interested in trying one or two of them. Because I’m trying to get this done in a hurry, I will be uploading way more than one post a day. Not sure if I’ll share all of them on the Facebook page or just a few. What do you guys think?
Our next project is due to begin on Feb 15th. I’ll be posting about it in a day or two… so stay tuned. In the mean time, I’ll leave you with an old Gypsy saying:
Go with God!
Stay with God!
Go, for God’s sake!
Stay, for God’s sake!
By God!
Or as a Transylvanian Gypsy would say:
Ja Develehi!
Az Develehi!
Ja Develeskey!
Az Develeskey!
Heri Devlis!
Violet Flame Project Overview
This post provides links to pertinent aspects of The Violet Flame project, so that you won’t have to sift through the archives to find out what you want to know.
The original idea, basic concept, and statement of intent is here:
- Why the Violet Flame?
- Getting Ready For Our Newest Project
- Hello and Welcome – Intro to the Violet Flame Project
- Working With the Violet Flame
If you would like to try this project for yourself, you can start on Day One:Working With the Violet Flame, and come back daily to continue on thru Day Thirty: My Violet Flame Journey. Or, you can pick through the posts, finding what seems interesting and useful. The important thing is to commit to a daily practice.
As you work with the Violet Flame, we encourage you to post your thoughts, ideas, results, joys and disappointments as you go. This is an active blog, and if you post, we will notice and reply, and give you the benefit of our own experience and support if it seems pertinent or appropriate.
The basic summary of our results is posted here: Feedback on the Violet Flame. A gallery of all the images used in this project can be found here: We Did It! For this project, we also have T Shirts and stuff available at Cafe Press. At this moment there is only one design, but I might be inspired to make a few more if anyone is interested.
Here is the complete listing of the daily posts for the Violet Flame project:
- Day 1: Working With the Violet Flame
- Day 2: Visualizing the Violet Flame
- Day 3: My Magic I Am Presence
- Day 4: More About the Violet Flame
- Day 5: Seven Fundamental Principles
- Day 6: Violet Flame From the Central Sun
- Day 7: Seventh Day Update
- Day 8: El Morya’s I Am Affirmations
- Day 9: Getting Things Done
- Day 10: Silver Violet Fire
- Day 11: My Heart is God’s Heart
- Day 12: Something Nice
- Day 13: The Seventh Ray
- Day 14: Why Does It Work?
- Day 15: Transform Anything
- Day 16: Breath of God and Violet Flame Guided Meditation
- Day 17: Make Your Own Violet Fire
- Day 18: Every Spoken Sentence
- Day 19: Decree For Harmony
- Day 20: I Demand and I AM
- Day 21: … so then I said…
- Day 22: How The Violet Flame Effects Change
- Day 23: Feel The Energy
- Day 24: Some Prosperity Decrees
- Day 25: The Violet Consuming Flame
- Day 26: A Nice Violet Flame Meditation
- Day 27: Violet Flame Healing
- Day 28: Radiant Spiral Violet Flame
- Day 29: Coming To The End and We’ve Got Stuff
- Day 30: My Violet Flame Journey
Feedback on The Violet Flame
So here we have the results and the comments on the Violet Flame Project. These are taken directly from comments left on the website, and from the Facebook page. Based on the results posted, it looks like the Violet Flame Decrees do really work.
Melissa J
- Did you feel that it worked for you? Yes, maybe, not sure, but my heart feels very full so I’d say yes.
- Were any of your goals met? I don’t think I set any super-specific goals at the beginning of the month, but I did receive some unexpected income which was a plus, so I’d say yes.
- Did you enjoy this project? Or did you lose interest along the way? I very much enjoyed this project! However, I never did sit down to do a daily silent meditation on it, I just incorporated the visualization and feeling and decrees into my normal day. You gotta do what works for you! I never did lose interest per se, but had a family member pass away in the middle of the month so I had a week where I wasn’t really doing the project, but it feels like it’s something that you can step away from and come right back to and pick up right where you were.
- What was your favorite I AM Decree? I used the Light Set Me Free decree almost every day. It was the easiest one for me to remember and resonated with me.
- Did you make up any of your own? No…
- Has your life changed in any way because of, or as a result of, the Violet Flame Decrees? The unexpected income I mentioned earlier, and in spite of the death in the family, my heart still feels very full and connected to God.
- Is this something you would recommend to a friend? Yes.
- Will you continue to use the Violet Flame even after the project is over? Yes! I printed out some of the decrees and mantras to continue to use later.
- Did you have any insights, any experiences, or any thoughts you’d like to share? I would really like for everyone who participated to check back in with us all in 6 months. (Even if we are doing different Prosperity Projects every month between now and then.) Sometimes it takes a while to recognize the results in our lives.
Note to Melissa: I think that #9 is an excellent idea, and I have scheduled a post for six months from now so that we can all weigh in on it again.
James
- Did you feel that it worked for you? Yes.
- Were any of your goals met? Yes.
- Did you enjoy this project? Or did you lose interest along the way? I enjoyed it.
- What was your favorite I AM Decree? I’m calling for an ocean of Violet Flame to transmute fear and error, and all sense of shame.
- Did you make up any of your own? No.
- Has your life changed in any way because of, or as a result of, the Violet Flame Decrees? Yes.
- Is this something you would recommend to a friend? Yes.
- Will you continue to use the Violet Flame even after the project is over? Yes.
- Did you have any insights, any experiences, or any thoughts you’d like to share? I finally got a good job opportunity.
Saskia
My overall experience was a really good one! It really made me feel good and helped me access and use my personal power. I will continue to use the I am decrees when ever I feel I need them.
- Did you feel that it worked for you? Yes I think it did work
- Were any of your goals met? Yes, I really feel like I have increased my personal power, although I don’t think it actually increased. I think the violet flame decrees allowed me to tap into it and become more comfortable with it.
- Did you enjoy this project? Yes very much! Or did you lose interest along the way? Sometimes it did get daunting and I would change it up or something would happen that would show me it was working so it would reignite that beginning enthusiasm again.
- What was your favorite I AM Decree? I AM a being of Violet fire, I AM the purity the gods desire. I did change purity half way through the project to power and I think that suited me better for my goal.
- Did you make up any of your own? Yes, I would add bits and pieces from other decrees to suit what I needed and felt.
- Has your life changed in any way because of, or as a result of, the Violet Flame Decrees? Yes, but on a inner level
- Is this something you would recommend to a friend? Yes I would!
- Will you continue to use the Violet Flame even after the project is over? Yes I will, maybe not every day though.
- Did you have any insights, any experiences, or any thoughts you’d like to share? Over all it was a good experience and I would do it again.
Sydney
- Yes, I feel it worked for me!
- Yes, My goal was met!
- I enjoyed it. I kinda lost interest in the mantra I was doing, so I changed it, but overall, I enjoyed it.
- I used the Light set me free one first, But then I changed it to I Demand and I Am!
- I didn’t make one of my own!
- Yes, my life has changed in a big way because of the Violet Flame even after the project is over!
- Yes, this is something I would recommend to a friend!
- I will continue to use the Violet Flame even after the project is over!
- I finally am able to be myself more!
Daniel
I did enjoy this project. I used the same statement for the month. I will say that the energy high and cool visions I experienced in the first couple weeks tapered off to more of a mellow ‘buzz’ kind of feeling by the third week. Thanks for all the hard work Shirley Twofeathers
Shirley
Of all the projects we’ve done over the years, and there have been a lot of them, this is one of my favorites. It was an effortless flow for me, getting the posts up, finding the content and the images. Everything went so smoothly. I even got a bunch of extra days off work, which really helped me get a good head start. My feedback is as follows:
- Yes, I did feel it worked for me.
- Almost from the beginning… my goals were met and continue to be met, although, if I slack on the decrees for more than a day or two, I feel that old “what’s the point” thinking creeping in.
- I did enjoy the project, although I did feel that the energy seemed to wane towards the end… like I got used to it or something, and I had to change things up to find that huge flow of energy again.
- I had several favorites. What I liked best was “I am a being of violet fire… I am the (insert whatever word I was needing for the day) I am the… the Gods desire”
- Yes, I made several decrees of my own. I even made one of them into T Shirts and other cool stuff at Cafe Press.
- My life changed only in a very subtle way, in that I didn’t fall into despair nearly as often… outwardly, not much seems different. Like I said, it was very subtle.
- Definitely something I would recommend to a friend.
- I will continue to use the decrees… I hope every day… but probably I will let them slide periodically.
- I found it very interesting that I could say “I Am a Being of Violet Fire” with conviction and know the absolute truth of it, but I cannot say, “I am beautiful” with any conviction at all… …. also I really spent a lot of time thinking about the I AM and what are the other I AM’s that I say to my self… and how does that make me feel, and how does it impact my life.
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