Activate is a verb that means to make active, set in motion, set off, turn on, trigger, start, get going, stimulate, galvanize, initiate, motivate. These descriptive in the Word Thesaurus, are perhaps the best I’ve seen. This word is about an action that helps to release another action.

Here’s How You Can Tell You’re Activating the Power of YES

• You have a sense of mounting excitement for the unknown, coming right around the corner
• Your eyes get brighter and wider; and you start nodding your head
• You feel like you’re walking on air, being propelled in a certain direction
• You are ready and willing to make a U-turn, turn on your heel, take another route, open another door
• Or you are just going with the flow…not fighting anything…just letting it be

You Can Use Anything to Activate the Power of YES

• A decision we make, like leaving your hometown on a Greyhound bus with a big suitcase — heading for the big city
• A decision made for us, like coldly getting divorce papers in the mail
• Flunking a college course and deciding to change to a more suitable major
• Breaking up or making up with the long time partner
• Breaking off friendships that drain you and bring you down
• Meeting your soulmate; making new friends
• Getting a new job; adopting a child, inviting in a foster kid
• Saying, “I’m not gonna take it no more” (what first looks like NO is really YES)

This is a spiritual (and scientific) Law.  What we put in motion stays in motion.  What we put to rest stays at rest.

How many ways can you Activate the Power of YES?

Listen to my radio show, schedule a counseling appointment (Atlanta or via Skype/phone) or sign up for a workshop.  I’ll show you how to activate your power!

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Falling Apart

“Sometimes when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.” That’s something I saw on Facebook and it is resonating with me in a big way. I have been working on a project that was so inclusive, exciting, and a win for everyone, that I spent hours and days building consensus for it. While potential participants were interested in the idea, they didn’t jump into it with both feet like I did. As I looked at approaching deadlines, I realized the hoops I would have to jump through to make this work. After sleeping fitfully for a few nights, I awakened at 6 a.m. on the dot, sat up with a jolt, and said to myself, “I’m going to STOP the project.

Up until that time I had almost felt like a stone, standing alone. As soon as I decided to let go of “pushing strings” to make it work, I felt like a helium balloon, lifting myself above it all to see myself from a broader perspective.

Kanta Bosniak (www.kantabosniak.com), was my April 16 guest on Affirmative Prayer – Activating the Power of YES on www.unity.fm. She said, “Every challenge we have is our soul’s call to change.” I had an opportunity to look at myself – was I giving up on this challenge (not working hard enough?); or was this project taking me off track. Since I felt derailed, I could see where the project had strayed from the direction I had wanted to go.

Last week was the falling apart, and this week things are starting to fall together. I am getting a sense of humor about it, looking at all the unrelated metaphors and similes I have used in this blog to describe my state of mind!

I’ll throw in one more for good measure – I grew up on the east coast of Florida and have built many sandcastles in my time. This project reminded me of plopping wet sand higher and higher to make a tall castle, only to have the tide sneak in a carry a little bit of my masterpiece away at a time. I’d keep building and it would keep slipping away.

If you ever feel like you’re building sandcastles without a good foundation, you might want to Activate the Power of YES by saying No. There’s an ocean of possibility coming up from behind.

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Going Exactly Your Way

Do you remember the last time things seemed to be going exactly your way?  That’s the way I’m feeling right now.  Every thought I think seems to manifest into something bigger than I would have imagined. The contacts I am making are breathtaking, and as Dr. Jack Bass said, “The future is unpredictable.  One thing leads to another and everything connects.”  One contact leads to another.  One big idea leads to another.  One song that resonates reminds me of another song that resonates even more.  I feel fearless, like I can do no wrong.  If I contact someone by phone or email and don’t hear back, it doesn’t deter me, because in the meantime I have found an even better contact.  I’m putting together programs and getting ideas from other people; and I am simply not alone in my endeavor.  It reminds, once again, of a quote by Johann von Goethe that has been a mainstay in my adult life:

There is but one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless plans and splendid ideas…that the moment one definitely commits, then Providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. So whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

It’s breathtaking to watch this unfold – a spiritual connection with the universe.  A stream of events, unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance – “coincidences”, meeting of the right people, gatherings, and opportunities are presenting themselves to me in rapid succession.

I am in the flow.  I am Activating the Power of Yes.

Dear Reader,

Will you please share a time when you felt Yes activating under your feet and at your fingertips like I am experiencing right now?  Your story might be interesting to share with the listeners on my radio show (I would ask your permission first!).  Please contact me through http://beverlymolander.net/contact/ or beverly@beverlymolander.net.  Thank you!