Tina Lifford

Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUAluDvuU4&mode=related&search=

After watching the clips you will feel inspired and want to join the MILLIONS of people that will gather in spirit on Tuesday July 17, 2007 at 11:11 Greenwich. Meantime, for more information, go to her website at www.firethegrid.org

Hi Totally Fabulous Woman,
The opportunity before all of us is to reclaim our identity as spiritual beings having a human experience. This paradigm shift has been talked about in the past. However daily I hear more and more reference being made to this. This is not coincidence.

The planet is changing. We really are on the precipice of an evolutionary shift. When we dare jump, what we will experience is flight, not danger. We each can take active part in the change that is taking root in the most joyful and simplest of ways: By giving thanks for your life or by giving thanks for things in your life. When you express gratitude your open heart and acknowledgment adds healing life energy to the planet.

Create an experiment for yourself. Over the next 30 days give heart felt gratitude for something in your life. Do this as often as you can. Do this with regards to little things and big things alike. As you can, day by day increase the number of things you give thanks for and the amount of time you spend feeling grateful. At the end of the 30 days assess your "basic" internal state or energy, see what changes if any have occurred for you. (I highly recommend you go to www.firethegrid.org and read about how your gratitude shared from the comfort of your own home on July 17th will change life as we know it! Maybe not over night, but your participation will make a difference. Check it out.)

Your gratitude is a gift of healing given to you by God. It is yours to use first in your own life so that by simply being you, your joy gets extended to all who you come in contact with.

If you are still living your life from the paradigm of pain, this is NO LONGER NECESSARY. You are asleep. Do not worry or beat yourself up. However tell yourself, "It is time to wake up".
Waking up FABULOUS does take effort. But it is so much more rewarding than recycling your pain and passing your pain on to others. If you but stand in the mirror and say to yourself I am willing to see and hear more of the truth, your life will change in magnificent ways. Write this commitment in your journal. Date it. Then you can look back on it a year, 5-years, 10-years from now and see the LIGHT it has brought into your life.

Fabulous me to Fabulous you,
Tina

A Mind Movie is your very own design of your future. It is the pictures, expectations and related good feelings that you choose to imagine regarding any goal or desire; then, consciously, you let those pictures and feelings run in the background of your mind, like a movie! It is a great starting point for getting what you want.

This is my starting place with every goal—small or large. I convert my goals into pictures and feelings that resonate in me; then, I “play” in those images and feelings and allow them to wash over me and engage my attention as often as possible—while remaining relaxed without any stress, desperation or straining of any kind. I pretend I am in my plush home theatre, surrounded by Grace, ease and beauty, sitting in a comfortable chair, with the lighting just the way I like it. I allow myself to run my Mind Movie and I ENJOY it, just like I would enjoy my favorite feature film. I allow it to engage me emotionally. I might smile. Sometimes I talk back to the screen, or laugh out loud. Once my Movie Mind is made, I leave it “on”—running all the time so that at any point throughout the day I can just shift my attention to it and enjoy a portion of it or watch the whole thing. I consciously turn to my encouraging and invigorating Mind Movie when I catch myself dwelling in worry, doubt or fear, or when I am feeling I need more inspiration or focus with regards to a goal or desire.

I started my successful Hollywood acting career with a vivid Mind Movie. I saw myself pulling up to 20th Century Fox and having the guards greet me by name. A number of years later this was my exact experience at 20th Century Fox studios as we filmed 13 episodes of the series South Central on which actor Larenz Tate and I were the leads.

Most recently, I sat down and captured on paper my desires for my business, Waking Up Fabulous (WUF), the parent entity of Totally Fabulous Woman (TFW). To begin this process, I first tapped into my desires for WUF and allowed myself to become filled with sweet yearning. From this emotional place, I wrote out my goals. I wrote them like an unfolding story. I used words and descriptions to create pictures in my mind and evoke good feelings throughout my body.

In December I received a call from a Division of a Fortune 500 Company (The Company). We talked about what WUF might offer to their co-ed general employee population. We agreed upon an experimental alliance and set the date of January 10th for our workshop debut.

Of course, I sat down and created a detailed Mind Movie for success with The Company. I always start with a Mind Movie. Every opportunity that presents itself from the outside is an opportunity for me to go within and create a Mind Movie that seizes the opportunity vividly with imagined details of excellence, Grace and ease.

At any rate, to wrap up this story regarding facilitating a workshop for The Company, at the beginning of my talks with them they expected 20-25 employees to respond. The course filled within 24 hours of being announced in their newsletter and expanded to 46 enrolled and 48 on their wait list.

The day went just as I had detailed in my Mind Movie.

The Company sent out a survey to the attendees to assess our course. The results: outstanding numbers. Most of the feedback was in the 95% range.

The Company has invited WUF back on Feb. 5th to facilitate the same course for the other 48 people left on our wait list. I am in the process of creating a new Mind Movie for this new opportunity.

There is much that goes into creating the life you most desire to live. The Mind Movie is just one technique. Most importantly, putting yourself in supportive, growing and learning situations is the best strategy for developing and practicing the art of SAYING YES TO YOU!

Remember: Living the life you want is not about magical thinking, it’s about MANAGING your thinking. We each can learn to manage both our past and our future by managing our habitual negative or toxic thinking today.

Next blog: I will share some tips about the power and freedom awaiting you in the simple art of becoming more aware of how you respond to your circumstances.

May JOY storm your life and bowl you over with GOODNESS.

Fabulous Me to Fabulous You,
Tina