Creative Inspiration

March 1, 2013 by Donna Thornton Leave a Comment

Robyn Lindsey | Creative Inspiration

Hello Onederous Ones! I want to introduce you to Robyn Lindsey… she is an awesome example of creative inspiration at work! I hope you’ll take a little time to get to know her. – Blessings! Donna

Hi there! My name is Robyn Lindsey and I am an author, photographer, and certified life coach. You can find me on the web at www.robynlindsey.com as well as on Amazon, Goodreads, and a number of other places.

My life has been about service to others, whether it is through bringing beauty into their lives through photography, coaching them to be more empowered, or writing books that will both empower and inspire them.

My most recent book is called Snapshots in Time and is a poetry compilation. This poetry has been written by me throughout my life. I was an introverted child and teen who needed an outlet. Poetry saved me. Each time I found injustice in the world, I worked through it with poetry. I have used poems to scream the thoughts in my head, declare my love, or offer support.

I would appreciate you checking out my writing, poke around my site, read my blog. If you feel moved, let’s connect!! ~~Robyn

If you want to get some of Robyn’s creative inspiration for yourself, catch her at Amazon.com!

February 10, 2013 by Donna Thornton Leave a Comment

Our Mission | Inspired Action

Our mission, here at Onederous Tribe, is to create inspired people… in other words, to INSPIRE YOU!

We do this by providing you with great inspirational quotes, sayings and images… as well as giving you great content that shares real information you can use to inspire you in all areas of your life… we have examples that will provide business inspiration, divine inspiration, creative inspiration and we share inspired action that you can use to create what you want in your life.

We have many professionals that share their inspiration on these pages… and if you want to find someone great that you can work with, personally, to inspire you and create the life you want for yourself, you can find them here, too! Welcome and thanks for stopping by! We’re happy to have you with us, and we sincerely hope you find something (or many things) here that INSPIRES YOU to create something amazing in your own life!

February 10, 2013 by Donna Thornton Leave a Comment

Delusional Realism: The Delicate Balance of Magical Manifesting | Inspired Action

(Visionary Brand business consultant, law of attraction enthusiast, and proud manifester of a mighty fine set of porch furniture)

Greetings to all you Onederous Ones of the Tribe!

As the Awakened Masters you are, in all aspects of your lives, I’m going to go ahead and assume that all your intentions are unfolding perfectly, interrupted only by your increasingly blissed-out states of gratitude as you contemplate the absolute perfection of your experience, the ludicrous abundance of your many delightful possessions.

In other words, your chakras are cleansed, your auras beautiful, your kharmic record clean as the proverbial whistle. The intuitive grace of your Yin is equaled only by the fierce determination of your Yang. Wherever you go, surely Goodness and Mercy not only follow you all of your days, but they show up ahead of time to make sure your favorite M&Ms are waiting on the pillow. In short, you are a vibrating vortex of perfectly aligned energy, and woe to all those who ever hinted otherwise.

“But Ellen, “ you say, “no doubt such things are absolutely true on the spiritual plane, but the fact is that in my actual day to day life. . . well, there’s actually quite a few things I want that don’t seem any closer to showing up. As a matter of fact I fully intended to be a beloved inspirational guru and ridiculously generous millionaire by now. But actually what is happening is that I hosted a workshop attended by three people and two of them were related to me. Also, my abundant wealth is currently evidenced by the $2.87 I’m keeping in a plastic cup.”

Actually, to be perfectly fair, I shouldn’t put that speech in your mouth, Onederous reader. To be perfectly honest, those details belong to my own experience of a couple of years back.

Let’s just say that I was one of those who, based entirely on one visit to Mile Hi Church and one viewing of The Secret, was so immediately sold on miracles, manifesting, and Law of Attraction that I was extremely, nay, pathologically Ready To Believe.

I was, in fact, the ideal candidate for a prompt conversion, seeing as at the time I had backed myself into such a grim and dismal corner that any improvement, even of the fantastical variety, was bound to be a big step up. At that point, I didn’t even own the plastic cup, much less the $2.87 in change.

Many of you, more savvy and sophisticated than I was in the ways of both the Universe and the people who inhabit it “consciously” (especially the beginners) will be able to predict more or less exactly what happened over the next couple of years.

All the situations in my life began to improve rapidly—but I mostly didn’t notice because I was too busy concentrating on the two or three things I just had to have and Couldn’t Live Without.

Never mind that I had actually lived without these things for a number of years without bodily harm. The point is, I didn’t know before this awakening that I had any hope whatsoever of ever having my luxury vehicle, ludicrously sexy boyfriend, and hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the boutiques, Botox, and nonprofits of my choice. Okay, maybe not the Botox. But sometimes I’m tempted.

Now that I was informed otherwise, I was damn well intent on having it all and having it quickly. So intent that I mostly neglected to do one or two very important things. The balance of these two things proved so very significant to my own eventual success as a Master Manifester (or Fester the Manifester, as my friend Toby calls me) that I wanted to share a bit of my technique with you.

Again, as you sophisticated Awakened Ones know, on the one hand, there’s nothing new under the sun—I doubt that in actual substance, my positive manifesting is any different than anyone else who plays with the delicate balance between desire and belief. Basically it’s all a matter of talking yourself into allowing More Good and Less Effort (which is a big deal for us Westerners, because after all, Effort is our cultural God. And a fine thing it is too, in small doses!)

And, on the other hand, as you also know, there’s always a new window from which to consider the view of the room. My own little window is a technique I call Delusional Realism. When it comes to ever-improving Law of Attraction success, it’s important to give equal air time to What Has Not Happened (that’s the “Delusional” part) and What Is Happening (the “Realism”). But for this second part, it helps to pay attention to “reality” in a very specific way.

First, in this post, let us consider the Delusion. As you all know, if you want to see some exciting changes in your life, you either need to A) visualize, imagine, affirm—somehow get yourself in a state of appreciating the future you want to see as if it is already occurring. Or B) just do your best not to be such a victim, or a jerk, or a vaguely psychotic narcissist, and carry on as if you actually do have some purpose in the world and some love for the planet. This can be difficult if you have extensive training in one of these modes (I myself am an expert and long-suffering martyr), but is always worth the effort.

In any event, for the first part of your manifesting equation, you’ll want to think, feel, talk, and act like something that is currently Not True is true. In other words, according to contemporary psychological conventions, you will be thinking, feeling, and acting in a delusional manner. When you first begin your visualizing or affirming or vision-boarding or quantum-leaping (whatever your preferred method), a large part of your brain and being will rebel. It usually looks something like this.

YOU: “I am now in perfect health, fitness, and beauty. My body is functioning perfectly in radiant harmony, I weigh 122 pounds, and I see myself moving effortlessly and attractively through my day.”

YOUR BRAIN: “Are you freakin’ kidding me? You weigh 122 all right, but those numbers in the exact reverse order. Also, your blood pressure and cholesterol level would suggest that perhaps you are not in, in fact, functioning ‘in radiant harmony.’”

Sound vaguely familiar? You dialogues with your brain/ego/mind/Bitchy Voice will have their own unique flavor, of course, but the nice thing about this stuff is just how predictable the Voice of Reason always is. Basically, as you go further and further out into The Delusional, fantasizing about all you want to experience, you can always count on the Voice of Reason to remind you that you are basically an annoying loser who will never amount to anything.

Fair enough. Find comfort in knowing that there is nary a human being alive who hasn’t gone through some considerable angst in the process of imagining and becoming something he or she currently isn’t. In this, you are not unique; you are not special. And in this context, that’s a damn good thing, because what others have healed and transformed, so can you.

You don’t have to spend all day long imagining and visualizing what isn’t yet in your life. I fantasize a lot, but generally only in bursts of 5 minutes here and there throughout the day. If you enjoy sitting down for 30 hardcore minutes of meditation/visualization of an outcome, by all means, be my guest. The trick is, you want to push yourself a little bit on this (once you begin you may discover—much to your surprise—that it’s been quite a long time since you used your imagination for anything intensely pleasurable), but not so much that you get all serious and “Trying Hard” to attract or manifest.

The question I always ask myself and my clients is this: “How much time are you spending enjoying what hasn’t happened yet?”

That’s the key. And of course, the exact amount of time doesn’t matter. What matters is that this question points your attention to where it needs to be: “How much of my life am I spending in enjoyment of what is coming? How much of my time am I enjoying where I am because I am also looking forward to where I’m going? How much am I enjoying and appreciating my own ability to direct my attention wherever I choose? How much am I loving myself for being the kind of person who can transform any condition or circumstance through my friendly focus on an improved future?”

Try any of those questions on for size and see what comes up for you. Please feel free to contact me on email, Facebook, or Twitter if you have any questions, observations, or complaints!

Take some time to embrace and experiment with the Delusional with a Wonder and Curiosity you may have left behind a few years back. But no matter. Your buddies Wonder and Curiosity are always waiting shyly in the corner, hoping you will come out to play.

You can read more Ellen and/or contact her through her blog:

www.secret-lawofattraction.com

February 10, 2013 by Donna Thornton Leave a Comment

Common Blocks in Manifestation | Inspired Action

As a professional intuitive and tarot card reader, I work with a wide variety of clients. Some show up on a regular basis looking for guidance. Some live their lives in a “tuned in” state but periodically request a reading for clarity. Lately, I have seen more clients just come wandering in with a rather dazed look on their face explaining that they are not sure why they are in a metaphysical shop – they have never had any interest in it but inexplicably walked in the door. As would be expected, each client has very different guidance come through in readings. What I find the most intriguing, however, is what similarities they have. Common threads seem to weave through our collective unconsciousness. When I see these surface it always feels profound, a connection to unity and in need of examining what role these commonalities play in our lives. I also feel guided to share this information with others.

One of the themes that has been coming through lately identifies some common blocks in manifesting what we want in our lives. When I do readings I feel my spirit guides send information through to me at different “volumes” when the volume goes up it indicates either urgency or a block where the client is resisting something in their lives. This message has repeatedly been loud, clear and unmistakable! When experts talk about manifestation, the suggestion to be specific and clear about what one desires is one of the main pieces of advice offered. My spirit guides are telling me that this is of utmost importance but can also be a trap that makes us feel stuck and does not allow our manifestation to come to fruition.

In addition to being a tarot card reader I am also a school teacher and throughout the year we place a great importance on setting goals for ourselves – teachers and students alike. Each time we set goals I talk about what makes for an appropriate goal and how to work your goal from the initial idea to a final draft. I often work with middle school students and a common initial idea for a goal is “make new friends,” which is a great initial idea but an unacceptable goal. We need to look deeper, what is blocking you from making new friends? Are you shy? Do your current friends get jealous? Have you been acting like a jerk? If you are shy, where did that originate? Have you been picked on in the past? Do you place too much emphasis on what a few people have said? If so, then your goal might be: “Take more risks in sharing who I am with others and work hard to ignore those few people that try to put me down.” This is a great goal to start us on our journey towards making new friends.

This goal-setting gives us a strong framework, a starting point, some internal work to focus on and an ultimate outcome we are heading to. What would you say to a 13-year-old if they came to you with this goal and explained how it was all going to play out. “I see how my shyness has held me back. I am now going to not care what others say about me, and I will be hanging out with the popular crowd.” You know the “popular crowd” this student is referring to are three students that are seldom nice to anyone else and are into some self-destructive behavior. I imagine you are thinking this is not a good idea. This does however meet the criteria of the student’s very worthy goal. If we went back to the goal we can fix this problem quite easily by just adding in the statement “for my highest good.” But, what if the 13 year old thinks their plan is for their highest good. As an adult you might say you have a better vantage point, a higher perspective from which to see the situation. The question is clear to you: why would anybody want to hang out with a clique that is nasty to others and don’t even treat themselves well? Wouldn’t it be nice if this teenager upon being offered your advice said, “Thank you. I know that you can see my life more clearly than I can myself and you know what is for my highest good. If I followed this idea I had, I would have been straying from my life purpose, following my ego and would have needed the lessons it provided to redirect me. I’m so happy I can just trust and listen to you all-knowing and all-seeing adult. You can guide me towards my life purpose, all I need to do is listen.” Often as adults we do feel like we can see how a situation will play out for teenagers. Teenagers often don’t want to listen to adults even if they recognize deep down that adults do know in a lot of cases what is good for them. A teenager’s ego is a powerful thing. It drives them to ignore advice and make mistakes, ones they ultimately learn and mature from. Their egos won’t have it any other way and when we were teenagers our egos ran our lives as well. That is a major contributor to what makes the teenage years so difficult and often filled with frustrations and disappointments.

As adults we have finally made it! We know what is for our highest good; we don’t need to keep straying from our life path and learning those very important and often painful lessons that redirect us back on track, right?

Yes, that was sarcasm and yes that was a rhetorical question. I am suggesting that we have not evolved quite as much as our egos would have us believe. In fact, if we were to compare how much we have evolved from birth through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood with the vantage point and higher perspective of our Spirit Guides, Angels and Ascended Masters, our Egos might not seem like such big players in the whole game.

This is where our block to manifesting our dreams comes in. Let’s say a woman named Beth has a lifelong passion for animals and a dream of working to help them and keep them safe. She decides to manifest this dream by creating a shelter where no animals will be euthanized and to do her part to help any animals that are suffering and homeless. She lists out all her ideas for the project and creates a board with pictures of the animals and shelter. She sees the perfect building for her shelter on her way to a friend’s house. It needs work she can’t do, but, she knows she can manifest somebody to come into her life that can do the work. She envisions the building all fixed up with a new sign on the front. She sees it full of animals, all healthy and safe. Beth feels how impressed people will be and how good she will feel. Her Ego is swelling with pride. A few weeks go by and she starts to get worried, a few months and she can’t figure out why this isn’t happening. Beth started out by setting intention with The Creator. She was specific and clear about what she wanted but all she has so far is a bunch of ideas in her head, fantasies she has been telling herself, fantasies she has become attached to. “This makes no sense” she says “all I want to do is help animals and keep them safe. Why would Spirit not help me with this?”

To help animals and keep them safe is ultimately her overall goal, a divinely inspired goal, her ego wants it to manifest in the form of a shelter. Her ego has been telling her how this should manifest, not The Creator. A realization is coming over Beth, in hindsight she is seeing so many missed opportunities, so many times Spirit tried to redirect her, so many times her ego kept her from seeing and listening. The first day she set her intentions for the shelter she received an e-mail from a group looking for volunteers to take a training to help educate others on spaying and neutering pets. She received a phone call from a similar group a few days later asking for a donation. That same week, after looking at the building she planned to use for her shelter, Beth had a flyer on her car windshield with an invitation to an informational meeting on how to help with feral cats in the neighborhood. Beth’s ego thought, oh no, competition, I really need to get this shelter moving before somebody else steals my idea. How human of her. She thought she was following divine guidance, and initially she was but then her ego stole the project and tried to dictate just how it should be. What if The Creator was calling on her to help animals through educating humans, the place where the problem is originating. She was trying to treat the symptoms. This story is a combination of similar themes, situations and ideas I have heard from various clients. While the story itself is not real it is a reflection and compilation of other real stories.

How can we tell if our ego is taking over a divine idea and blocking manifestation? You can ask yourself, have I lost touch with the ultimate goal? Am I ignoring opportunities that would help me reach my goal because they are not how I imagined they would manifest? Am I seeing myself as the most important factor in the success or failure of the venture? Do I have faith that this idea is originating from Spirit?

Faith and trust are silly things! From a spiritual perspective we say they are of utmost importance. Our behavior often does not reflect this. In fact, we have a bad habit of placing our trust in our ego. Then, when things don’t work out we say, no wonder this didn’t work, my ego got involved. Not once have I heard somebody say, I can’t believe I let my trust in Spirit guide me again, no wonder it didn’t work! Maybe, humans are silly things and faith and trust are divine!

My Spirit Guides are telling me that so often an idea that originates from the Divine is hijacked by the ego. The ego tells us stories about how we should manifest the idea. Stories we become attached to, while losing track of the divine goal. We start locking in details that must happen for the manifestation to fulfill rather than allowing spirit to guide us into details. Each time we do this we limit possibilities. Eventually we block so many possibilities that manifestation is also blocked, and a divine idea is kept from manifesting through us.

So, what is the solution? Faith and trust in Spirit. Recognizing that we often don’t know what is for our highest good. We don’t have the vantage point and higher perspective of our Spirit Guides, Angels and Ascended Masters. When we truly believe and trust in this, we can listen and receive guidance (guidance from a higher vantage point.)