Jan Masters - Transform with What If

Here we are in the midst of the December holidays once again and I hope you are enJOYing the season! I went to a Channukah party last weekend at my daughter and son-in-law and little grandson's and it was beautiful and warm and wonderful. And they announced that our second grandchild, due in April is a GIRL!! So my little grandbaby will be a big brother! I'm thrilled with this gift!

The Christmas tree is up and decorated at my house, Christmas music in on and I'm ready to start some baking and cooking to prepare traditional favorites for the holidays. My son will arrive home from college on Sunday and be here for a good long break. We are all looking forward to being together at this special time of year.

The article this month is a holiday reprint of popular one of mine. I felt it was time to dust it off for a reprise. I hope you enjoy it.

I have some great programs starting in January and I hope you'll jump on board with one of them! And then spring will hold more exciting things, like a TeleSummit, and Membership sites. More to come on all of this......

EVERYDAY JOY--- What are you using this month to remind you to claim your JOY? Will you make that choice every time you look at your watch or a clock? Maybe you will make a short list of your favorite happy memories and read it over a few times a day. How about making a CD of the music that is guaranteed to raise your spirits? (Try Ziggy Marley's new tune "I Love You Too") Sitting outside in nature, or if weather doesn't permit, sitting by a window and observing what's going on out there will connect you to yourself and to your innate JOY. Laugh out loud for a full minute for no apparent reason and see how your vibration skyrockets! INTEND JOY and it will be yours. Joy is the energetic fuel which supports your manifesting what you desire. Claim your JOY now and Everyday!

MAKE THE DECISION ~ TAKE THE ACTION ~ GIVE YOURSELF THE GIFT: Your sense of self-worth and unconditional self-love is based on a decision. There is nothing you need to DO to be worthy---you simply are. Every change in direction, whether inner or outer, starts with a decision. Make the decision today that you are worthy of love, blessings, abundance, all good things. Having a daily spiritual practice, and taking intentional action steps will help to embed your sense of worthiness, but first you must decide and then match your words and your behaviors to your vision of worthiness for yourself. This is a fundamental belief that will become the springboard for intending, allowing and manifesting what you desire. You are worthy! Find the feeling place of this belief and access it often. Complete 2009 and enter 2010 with a renewed attitude about the most important person in your life---YOU!!

My Quantum WHAT IF...? Questioning process is just the thing to create an energy shift in this area.
What follows is a simple yet powerful process for you to use the Quantum Question WHAT IF...? to transform your thoughts, beliefs, feelings, reality.

Listen to and tune into the voice of your ego as it expresses fear-based thoughts and beliefs that cause you to contract, protect and defend yourself.
Identify the specific thoughts and beliefs that cause you to suffer, get angry, irritated, judge, misunderstand, etc
Write these thoughts and beliefs down on paper.
Now "flip them over", that is, turn the thought around 180 degrees.
Turn the new thought into a Quantum Question by adding WHAT IF…? to the beginning of it.
Ask yourself the new Quantum Question
Say "Wouldn't THAT be something!"
Then say, "Well, it's just a thought."
Relax into the presented possibility that this new Quantum Question offers.
Sit with it and let is rest in you.
See what happens when you entertain the possibility offered by the new Quantum Question.
Allow for, and even invite, personal transformation to peace, compassion, acceptance, softening and joy.
Accept and live the new multi-dimensional reality you have just created by shifting your thoughts
enJOY!!

Use your imagination and creativity to tap into multi-dimensional reality and make your Quantum Questions ring with possibility and optimism. And to make this even more powerful, use energy tapping along with it. The simplest procedure for this is TATtm.

Here's what you will do:
With your thumb and ring finger, hold the bridge of your nose. Position your middle finger at your third eye (about 1.5 inches above the bridge of your nose). Feel free to switch hands at any time.
Hold this pose while saying aloud both the limiting statement AND the Quantum WHAT IF…? Question. Repeat the Quantum Question twice more and then say it as a statement. Repeat the statement if you intuitively feel to do this. Take a couple of deep breaths in and out when you've completed the process. Say "Thank you".

If you would like to check out my exciting, Multi-media Online Thought Transformation Course click here Transform with WHAT IF...?
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HOLIDAY SPECIALS
*Everything in the EVERYDAY JOY STORE is on sale. If you're looking for inspirational, transformative gifts that keep on giving check out my beautiful, energy shifting WHAT IF...? Book Series and my Online Courses on a variety of spiritual topics.

*I have also discounted Private Coaching packages for those of you who want to work with me one-on-one. The packages are priced below and require a three month minimum commitment. Payment plans are available. This is a time-limited offer. You may sign-up now to take advantage of this offer and not begin coaching sessions until after January 1st if you prefer.

Contact me to make arrangements for private coaching. Jan at EverydayJoy. com
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At this darkest time of the year, light is what we yearn for most, consciously or unconsciously. That desire seems to be hardwired into us as human beings, which is to say, it is instinctive. Christmas, Channukah, Kwanzaa, and other spiritual observances at this time of the year center on the importance of light---the necessity for it. We light candles, burn lamps, light fires, and we feel comforted, and quietly joyful and grateful for the light they offer us.

Light is what we seek, what we ask for, on our paths to higher consciousness--it illuminates our next step, and without it we are lost. In truth, we are looking for, longing for, transformation into the purity of our true nature. How are you inviting light into your life right now? Are you aware of the shared light in you, and in others, which is the only light there is? Or is ego/small self obscuring not only your light, but your awareness of it? And are you looking for it outside of yourself?

The path to come home to your True Self is presents many challenges, and it is only your struggling with and resisting those challenges that causes your suffering. Did you know that? So often, the ego would love to blame other people, circumstances, events for your suffering, but that suffering really comes only with your personal resistance to, and struggle against, 'what is'. The ego wants to be right, wants to have what it wants, when it wants it, and how it wants it, and does not care one little bit about your tight solar plexus, your aching heart, your tense neck, your sore back, your high blood pressure, your tears, and your ceaseless ruminating. Your ego wants to change reality in order to have its needs met in the only way ego can imagine they WILL be met. This causes all kinds of havoc with your body, mind and heart. Emotional pain is the result of ego interfering, stopping the flow of energy from going where it wants to go, and trying to direct it somewhere else. How crazy is that? You might as well try to direct an avalanche with a snow shovel. Not gonna happen.

A Course In Miracles asks 'Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?' Your soul waits patiently until you have had enough of suffering, and begin to put two plus two together to equal four. It eventually begins to dawn on you that what happens TO you is a small matter compared to what you DO inside yourself with what happens to you. So, let's say someone is treating you poorly and you don't like it. Do you stay in denial and hold onto false expectations, or stay angry, blaming, and self-righteous, waiting for that person to change so that you can have a peaceful heart again? Or do you take responsibility for choosing that peaceful heart yourself, and begin to work on changing your thoughts, challenging your beliefs, and shifting your vibration to create not only relief, but ultimately, deeper, genuine inner peace? The only effort truly worth making is the one that focuses on where you actually have the power to change things within yourself.

I'm not going to tell you that this is easy work. It's not. Usually, you will be uncovering and challenging both conscious and unconscious beliefs that you have bought into for a long time---and which resist being released and replaced. But it's a heck of a lot easier than continuing to suffer and banging your head against the wall of 'others need to change for me to be happy!' Honestly. The rewards for inquiring into your thoughts, questioning your long-held beliefs, and shifting your energy are nothing short of amazing! You can change the way you FEEL in a heartbeat without anyone else changing a hair on their heads. You can transform the way you experience yourself, life and others. The ego will push against this process again and again and again, ad infinitum. That is the nature of ego, of the small self….and so what? You will begin to observe this process as you would notice a child having a temper tantrum, ignore it, turning your attention elsewhere until it finally subsides. What else do you have to do? Is there something more important, more pressing than this work of spiritual evolution toward inner peace and awakening to genuine happiness?

This path of spiritual awakening requires commitment, persistence, and faith. And you can choose these things for yourself. Then, the minute-to-minute ongoing process of inquiring and shifting and changing simply becomes the way you walk through your life. I am in constant gratitude for my personal make-up which consists of very high levels of sensitivity, empathy, and feeling in general, and a very strong physical and emotional constitution which permits me to go on in the face of deep, sometimes wrenching and even agonizing, ego-driven pain, and find my way out of it, again and again and again and again. Some days it feels like an uphill battle, and other days my joy is right there waiting for me to experience it. Either way, I keep on keeping on. Not a chance I will stop. And you can't go back either--once you know what you know, you can't 'unknow' it, as a friend of mine says.

So, each time you encounter something that the small self resists and you begin to suffer, you will recognize the workings of your ego-mind sooner, you will be able to observe your thoughts in a more detached manner, and it will become easier for you to return to the path to a more peaceful heart, a lighter spirit. These things are your true nature, so you don't have to reach far...there they are---living in the center of your own heart.

So rather than making New Years' resolutions again about your life, your relationships, your well-being, your business, just stay on the path you have chosen; and let's face it-- if you have read this far, then you have already made your choice about a path. Use all the resources and reminders you need every day, to keep your light shining and your footing secure, and every now and then, turn around and look at where you came from, acknowledge and be grateful for the progress you have made, for all the ways you have already evolved. A new way of experiencing life awaits you, and in truth, most of your energetic vibration is already there---and the rest of you is quickly catching up!

If support for these changes is something you would like to explore, please contact me. I'd be honored to serve and help you.

Thank you for being in my life!. It is for you and your JOY and success that I do what I do.

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